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THE EMANCIPATION OF
CHINESE WOMEN."
(Continued from Page 1.)
A Bar to Progress.
MEMORIAL TO INDIAN PHILANTHROPIST.
PORTRAIT UNVEILED AT HINDU CLUB
A well-known Chinese educational At the Sind Hindu Merchants' reformer opined, quite recently. Club on Saturday, a portrait of one of the hand in all good faith, that China Mr. Narain Dialdas,
was on the road to national pro-founders of the institution, was on- sperity, complete independence, and veiled by Mrs. Daswani, wife of unity. He naively closed his eyes the President of the Club. to the existence of inter-provincial strife and political intrigue and assured me that China" had nothing beneficial further to adopt from Western ideas. Still, that is by
the way.
"It is a big mistake for women to be given freedom," he said. "Your Bible teaches you that woman was made to serve man." Setting aside the mis-translation
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CONTROVERSY OVER WAR PICTURES.
EDUCATION COMMITTEE
CRITICS.
The presence in Birmingham schools of pictures elementary which glorify war has drawn vigor member of aus protest from, a
"DEAD SEA AS A GOLD
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SPIES IN UKRAINE.
Charkow.-The chief of the Ukrainian Political Police, the G.P.U. Balitzhi, in report on the past year, says that the num- ber of spies who had come from.... Horeign countries, and of other dangerous characters who were arrested, totalled 1,504, besides 9,995 who were imprisoned for speculation in wheat and similar foodstuffs, 3,004 for smuggling and 143 deserters from the armies of
A neighbouring states."
A tale, almost fantastic, of how M. Georges Claude, one of the most distinguished French scien- Birmingham Education Committes, tists, came to the conclusion in and a sub-comsnittee has boon form-1999 that the Dead Sea was ed to consider the removal of such fabulously rich gold mine not of various chemicals, but of the golden metal itself and how be pictures
tried to persuade M. Poincaré Britain." M. Claude told the as- (Premier) and M. Millerand (Pre- tonished sident) to urge Great Britain to the English do not seem to take surrender-iti Palestine mandate to France and Turkey, is rolated by 1. Claude biraself in the revue Animateur des Temps Nouveauz.
Mr. V. F. Yates, the protesting member, describes as dreadful and terribles display of fourteen war one pictures which he found at elementary school.
Roquest for Interview. "I asked M. Poincaré for an interview," says M. Claude," "for
Prime Minister, "but
any interest in it. Would it not be possible for our diplomats to persuada. England to return it to Turkey In return for this inter- vention. France could certainly demand a monopoly of gold ex-: ploitation from the Turks, giving them a share of the revenue.
Prior to the unveiling ceremony, Mr. G. P. Daswani spoke of the ad mirable work which the late Mr." Dialdas had done in Hong Kong for his compatriots. In addition to giving freely to charities and other deserving
Mr. Causes,
"The showing of such pictures Dialdas had been directly respon-is a fool's game," said the Rev. F. tainister of Birmingham. "It sible for the formation of the C. Spurs, a leading Free Church ought to be the business of Eng Sind Hindi Merchants' Club.
Mr. Dialdas was a wealthy Indian land, and of the teaching profession the purpose of submitting an ex- "At 11.10 am. on December 1, and girls a new spirit that will received me at 8.20 p.m. on Octo. Millerand without any greater eliminate once and or all every-ber 28, 1999."
↑ success." In conclusion, M. M. Claude explained to the Claude states that this - "gold thing like hatred and recrimination between nations.
French Premier that there in mine" is now lost to France. One way of doing this is to amall quantity of gold in sca- Great Britain now knows the suppress all lurid, war pictures in water, and although this content value of the Dead Sea, and, fur- schools. Such pictures only help is not sufficient to make the extracthermore, the Turks are no longer to create the atmosphere of war. tion profitable, the content of gold | the friends of France. In place of the soldiers I would put and chemicals in the Dead Sea was. nurses. nd show something of the forty times greater than in the triumphs of men of peace, explor ocean, and it would be highly. ers, doctors, and scientists, who profitable to recover the gold. work, not for destruction, but con-
placed upon the words of that merchant whose firm had branches in particular, to create in our boys traordinary suggestion to him. He1322, I made the same proposal to
wilt, It was while he was
the world. He Was greatest of all scriptural bigots all over Paul-it certainly appears that the Municipal Councillor and Henor Chinese do not regard the absolute ary Magistrate of Karachi and at emancipation of their women-folk the beginning of last year went on in any too-favourable light. For a trip round the world with his in one thing, if woman was placed on Kova Kond
Hong Kong that he became in. footing of equality with mar, the system of concubinage would terested in the local Sind Mer practically disappear. Many other chants and his enthusiasm for attendant reforms would, in the their welfare soon brought about course of time, be introduced, and the organising of the Club. the cumulative effect upon the poli- tical, social, and economic life of the nation would be tremendous.
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The Chairman said that Mr. Dialdas died at the age of twenty eight, six months after his return
struction.
"When pictures which glorify war are show in our schools they can only be looked upon as part of the teaching, but it is a kind of teaching, that is fulse, and it would
Your true Oriental does not take to India. His death was a great be better if such pictures and scane · loss to a large circle of friends of the war films which children are and particularly to the Indian permitted to see were burnt.” community in Hong Kong. It was hitting that there should be some memorial of one who did so much for them in Hong Kong and, therefore, they were unveiling Mr. Dialdas portrait 'that afternoon.
him in the long run, but it is of the cards that, within the next few years, the women of China will have no uncertain voice in the con- duct of the country's affairs. Sweeping changes are bound to foBow.
women
The emancipation of along the right lines is a matter of time but none the less inevit- able. While such a reform in the West need only take a matter of! months to accomplish, in the East
it will take years. But Miss China" is rapidly following the lead of Misa England" and "Miss America.'
The Eton-crop, pillion riding o motor-cycles, jazz, European clothes and short shirts are but the thin edge of the wedge. The student
After the unveiling ceremony, tea was served to the large number of Sind Merchants and their friends who attended the function."
SCUFFLE IN RAILWAY CARRIAGE.
COMEDIAN SUMMONED FOR ASSAULT.
Summoned to appear at the Marylebone Police Court, London, to
a. charge of assault,
ABSWIT
of to-day is the matron of to Dave Marris, comedian in a thea DOITOW, and already there
are
eigas which lead one to believe that trical company appearing at Hud- "Miss Chion" is beginning to sit 'dersfield, chartered a private acro-
up and, between dabs at her nose plane and made the journey by air. with her fully powder-puff, i
giving thought to such subjects as He had been warned by the Magis the emancipation of her sex and trate that if he did not appear a the adjustment of unequal marriage warrant would be issued for his customi. 11
BTTest.
When she realises that until, as
The aummons.accused Morris of a wife, she enjoys the freedom and rights of her Western sisters, her having assaulted William Walter emancipation will not be complete. Groom, a theatrical journalist, of Other reforms cannot take place 44, Northampton Park, Islington, until this great reform in home life during a journey on the Great Western Railway between Bath and is brought about.
And there are signs that this London Miss Morrison, solicitor, reform may not, after all, be long appeared for Mr. Groom, and Mr.
J. A. Romain defended. delayed.
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Mr. Groom gave evidence that he and five others, including two women, seated themselves in third-class compartment of the train. Shortly after the train left Bath a woman entered and removed a bag from the rack, apologizing for having troubled them. A few minutes later the defendant came in, and in an agressive manner told New York-In a small experi them to clear out. Asked why, be.
compartment mental shop, machinists are bring: replied, "The ing to perfection a new printing mine. The witness pointed out device which will be one of the most that there was no indication on important aids to the blind which the compartment that it was re- has been developed in many decades. served and said that unless the It is a Braille plate-making guard said it was he intended to achine designed for "two-side remain there. The defendant then printing "of books for the blind. sat down, but left the compartment Most of the books made for that almost immediately, "took off his purpose now are bulky and costly coat, and, returning, laid his hands because they are printed only on on the witness's shoulders, at cae side of a page, with the Braille tempted to pull him out, and struck dots and points which, raised and him in the mouth. Mr. Groom tracing them with the fingers. Embossing Principle..
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ly for the rest of the day.
The guard of the train stated" that sufficient accommodation was reserved on the train for the reru company to which the defendant belonged, but not all the coach was reserved.
The defendant; who gave his ad. dress as 40, Dunning Hond, Mid- diesbrough, claimed that there were "reserved" notices on the window. He admitted that he gripped Mr. The plate machine will be on the Groom by, the shoulders and tried market in about six months, said to drag him out of the compart Mr. Robert B: Irwin, president of ment. There was a suffle and he the American Foundation for the hit him.
Mr. Romain urged that the as the experiments with the help of sault was provoked. The delen the Carnegie Corporation and the daut, he said, had been-put-to American Library Association. The great expense in chartering an new machines, be added, will reduce aeroplane to bring him to London, the size of the present one-sided and further expense would be in- priated books by 40 per cent. and volved in baking him back by sero. blind persons may buy them at a plane to Huddersfield at the con saving of that amount.
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The next work to be undertaken The Magistrate bound the defen- at the experimental shop is the dant over in E10 to keep the peace making of a typewriter for the for 12 months, and ordered him DIAL WATCH, In the writing
letter or any other document, will non for 21 days.” “And don't be stamp a page with the raised so. cantankerous or aggressive Braille characters.
again," added the Magistrate:
He actually estimated the gold content of the Dead Sea at more than £10,000,000,000, and that in afteen years at least one-third of it could be extracted.
Palestine Kandate,
"I know that the Palestine mandate belongs to Great (Continued on. next Column)..
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