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PRINCIPAL REASONS TO BE FOUND AT HOME: DIFFERENT METHODS NECESSARY,
We and you must co-operate and try and get on a real equal trading basis with our competitors, both as regards price and quality." Thus did Six Ernest Thompson firmly rejoin to the toast of his Mission's health proposed by Mr. R. Calder Mar. shall, presiding at the Shanghai Club or Monday at the British. Chamber of Commerce dinner to the distinguished visitors.
Mr. Calder Marshall arrayed in the course of his speech the charges against the British producer-reluctance to listen to the man on the sput; out of date methods, inelastic prices. He en phasized ton the changed conditions which, made the task of the importer snore difficult. Today the Chinese merchant's word was no longer as good as his bond-a comment received with " confrmatory support from the tables in front of the speaker. "The difficulty of obtaining exention of judgment given in the Courts was even greater than that of getting redress from the Courts.
!
Below we give brief excerpts from the many lengthy apeeches delivered.
QUALITY AND THE PRICE QUESTION.
The piece goods imporar has in the past carried very heavy risks and responsibilities, and in view of the loses that have been suffered of late years, there is little wonder
DECEMBER
13,
1930.
SCENE IN NEW YORK CATHEDRAL
JUDGE FORCIBLY EJECTED AFTER DISTURBANCE.
BISHOP CHALLENGED.
New York, December 7.-Tho Cathedral of St. John the Divine to-night was the scene of a die- turbance of no mean proportions which ended when plain-clothes men forcibly ejected Judge Benjamin . Lindsey, the noted authority on erime and the archadvocate of.com- panionate marringo.
Bishop William T. Manning, of the protealant Episcopal diocese of New York, was preaching in the Cathedral. Judge Linday was in the congregation.
Bishop Manning roundly con.. demned Judge Lindsey for his opinions and in views with relation to companionato marringe,
companionate Bishop, said that marriage was only another name for free love."
The
Taken to Police Station, From his pow in New York's most beautiful templo of worship, Judge Lindsey sought to reply to Bishop Manning For his effort, howover, ho was rushal, struggling, from the Cathedral by strong-armed detec- lives. He was taken to a near-by police station where he was booked on charges of disorderly conduct.
The excitement began when Bishop Mansing had finished his sermon. Judges Lindsey found a table. He jumped up on it and
raid:
Sir Ernest Thompson's chief point, maximum efficiency commensurate wns that the British manufacturer with cost is secured. could not afford to lose his reputa- tion for quality indeed, Shanghai importers would not allow him to do sn-therefore the problem could not he selved merely by throwing the blame on the prodpeer. Henes that many merchants are heartily his eloquent appeal for co-opera-sick of piece gonda. Lion. His speech made a good im pression-pa an audiener whose
Mr. J. F. Brennn, C.M.G., H.M. views had been very plainly and temperately voiced by Mr. Calder Consul-General, snid:-I shall take Marshall. The dinner showed that advantage of this opportunity to
Bishop Manning ignored Judge the Mission would get plenty of make one point, and that is that in
Lindsey's challenge and he left the UBC detectives to deal with the most advice and that it would be ready dealing with Chinese, more to listen and to offer advice in its should be made of the Chinese story member of the American
judiciary. language in correspondence, cata-
furn.
Consul-General's Speech.
In bis opsech Mr. R. Calder Margues, price lists, etc. The Chi shall, Chairman of the Chamber, said in part
"I demand five minutes in which to answer your lies. This is not a house of worship. It is a place of injustice.
Service Continued.
Many times in recent years Judge Lindsey has found himself in hot water regard to juvenile delinquenes. His advocacy of companionate marringe and his book on the subject, pub. lished in 1927, gave him his greatest notoriety, however.
because of his views with
them.
UNEMPLOYMENT IN JAVA.
are demanding more and more to be addressed in their own tongue and they will turn to those who It is not for one instant suggest take the tremble to do so. ed that the low wages of the East.
Especially is this important in
Although his congregation was in should be taken as a standard, but the matter of contracts on which turmoil while Judge Lindacy was unless we are as efficient as our legal action may have to be taken being ejected Bishou Manning, in the pulpit, waited calmly while competitors we cannot meat com subsequently. Cases have been detectives took the judge away. He petition in production and must be brought to me where the Chinese concluded the services as though content to supply that portion of buyer has put his chop to contracts nothing had happened to disturb the demand that cannot for some printed in English and containing reason or other be supplied by our all sorts of clauses protesting the competitors.
seller against risks of non-delivery Efficiency in production is not as and so on. Afterwards the Chinese we know confined to efficiency of client has repudiated these on the Jabour only. There are many other grounds that he did not understand factors. Is our organization at English and they were not explain- home as advanced as it might beled to him at the time. LAre the methods employed by our industries wasteful of time and effort and therefore expensive?
There is not a merchant here who hne not at some time or other been told that the prices quoted by a com- petitor are impossible, but it must be recognized that whether impos sible. or not, business is done.
Must Be at the Price.""
Sir E. Thompson's Reply. In reply, Sir Ernest Thompson
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NOTES FORGED IN PRISON!
INNOCENT VISITOR AIDS
CONVICT.
A daring attempt to nuke forged one-pound notes in, no less a place than a cell of Wandsworth Guol has been reported to the Prison Com missioners.
tori,
THE PRIMATE'S VISION.
"ONE CATHOLIC CHURCH-
OF CHRIST."
The progress made towards re union among the various branches of the Church throughout the world · was stressed, by the Archbishop of Canterbury when presiding recent ly at a meeting held at Church House, Westminster, in connection with the sixty-sixth anniversary of . the Anglican and Eastern Churches Association.
real.
have still a great distancs to cover.
The whole matter has been the subject of a strict inquiry. The bogus notes are now in the posses anid: We have been sent here by
The Press lays stress on the factsion of the Prison Department at our Government on acount of the that the Dutch Indian Govern the Home Office, decline of our export trade to rent has so far not taken any
One astonishing fact, wa elicited | The archbishop recalled that this. notice officially of the unemploy China. We have to roport on the ment and that it is desirable that in the evidence at the inquiry:-- war's Lambeth. Conference was, at- position and to make suggestions something should be done imme- The material used by the, pri- tended by a delegation from the for its alteration and improvement. diately.
Boner in counterfeiting the notes It is thought that the agricul You have said that the problem tural sotilment of Europeans
was brought into the gaol and Orthodox Churches of the East. given to the man by one of the "There wem events,” he add- before us divides into two parts would be a wise policy, which officially-recognised prison visi-ed, which may, so far as wo
constitute production and distribution. Let yould pay for itself sooner or
know,
... very The mere fact that goods are Brius take production ârst for it is inter. A very great party of these
Certain action has been taken! landmark in the long progress": unemployed, are able-minded and tish dois not necessarily secure quite clear that you consider this able-bodied people, who, however, in regard to the visitor onid an of the Church of God towards its visible reunion here on earth.' Wo official of the Home Office to A buyers. We must supply what will be the more important since in the present state of affairs are Press representative. He acted wanted at the price at which it in
you have said that "the chief cause falling deepor nad deeper into
very foolishly, but indocently, and required. It is no, 'good saying for the loss is to be found at home,"
pauperism.
Unemployment under the native in good faith,"
Skilled Worker, that they are better or better value, nsits for the purchaser to say the It may be true that our costs of workers dess is extending con
siderably. In the Inst five months "His idea, apparently, was to help quality of goods with which he is production are too high. We are the number of coolies who have the prisoner an engraver-in. the satisfied. It is useless endeavour-out here to find out if we can what been and back to their countries practice of his craft so that the man
could keep his hand in pending divines, which will racet, I trust, ing to sell an article at 81.20 when are the competing costs of produc amounted to nearly 1000.
Armod attacks on lonely shops his release.'
ere long, a similar commissioni ap- and native dwalings;. for a long the buyer wants one at 61 and can
The sequence of events which led pointed by the Decumenical Pa timo unknown' on the East Coast not and will not pay more. The You refer, I believe, principally of Sumarirs, havo rerived in the to the discovery of the forged notes riarch, and that we shall thus be fact that it is British does not help, to the low class bulk trade and we last weeks, when three or four of particularly if what is wanted ean are very concerned with this. We these attacks have been reported... be purchased from another country, are studying the question, of the In some things we are holding production of these goods right our own, in others we feel los through from the purchase of raw secure, and again in others competi-cotton to the delivery of the finish tors have made serious inroads into ed goods in China, and if we can by mass production and co-opera our trade.
tive effort, reduce our coste, to a
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The production side of the pre- anfficiently low level, you, may be blem is naturally one on which we assured that every effort will be tion has been aroused here by the
as merchants are not fully qualified to speak but we know what other countries can supply and feel that If Grené Britain is to hold her own there must be in full realization on the part of British producers of the situation as it is
"There are many difficulties to overcome, many misunderstandings to be removed; much knowledge of our respective traditions to be ca changed..
;
"I am already in process of commission of our
was as follows:-
able to prepare together for the pro- A prisoner who is a particular-synod of the Orthodox Church ly skilful draughtsman was serving which we trust will meet next year. sentence of eighteca monthe in I see the vision grow more clear Wandsworth Gnol. One of his of a great community of churches tasks was to draw out inventory united in Catholic faith and order boards for workshops and ecils, so spreading in all parts of world, he was provided with pets and none of them absorbed in any other, drawing ink,
but all of them rejoicing in One day by accident, he show-their freedom and self-government, ed.A one-pound note to another bound together by all those tradi prisoner. His possession of the tions which, for centuries past and Bote was reported to a wardet.. for centuries to come, will maak, That night a surprise visit was the one Catholic Church of Christ paid to the draughtsman's cell. He was "turned over" in prison: * slang.
AMERICA'S OFFER TO ITALY.
FRIENDSHIP CREDITS IF
WITH SOVIET ABANDONED.
Paris, Dcoomber 7-Much atten
report carried by the New York Times in the effect that the French.
Government would be disposed to I have just returned from Japan grant Italy the large credits which and I have seem goods woven for the urgently needs in exchange for China of an article and quality of Italy abandoning her policy of with the Soviet Union -friendship. which I can speak. I can state and also her claim to aaval parity quito defnitely that much of the with Frases,
French financial circles confirm
made on our side.
Mrs. Mary, Thomas Kirkpatrick, The search party found one finish. ed bogue note and several others who is well known in New York in process of making, together city, has been granted a divores with special paper, coloured inks, from Major Colin. Drummond and engraving instruments. Kirkpatrick; an officer in the Bri- tish Army, on the ground of cruel- When questioned before the, in-15. Sho alleged that she was a cloth that I saw being woven and the report at least in part by quiry the prisoner told how the shing widew" and that her bus- Hot Facing the Facts.
at least half of the goods that I stating that conversations in that material had been given to him band, who had it house in Wales. Frankly, we feel that the loss of watched being packed would be redirection are now going on between He had apparently pleaded with the devoted as much time to rod and trade is largely accounted for either lected in Manchester as being dew government Politient prison visitor for a chance to prae-reel that she bad to social life by inability or unwillingness on the finitely wht for shipment to China, circles and capsenally official quarties his craft in view of his term in whatever. Mrs. Kirkpatrick aro fers are, however, reticent on the prison being nearly over. - declared that her hubond regard- part of both capital and labour to I can further vouch for the fact matter which would mean a very Actually the bagus notes are bad ed her mother as an "unwelcome face lads, and so adapt themselves that if we had shipped mich "goods sudden and complete change of specimens, and would almost cer- guest in his house, Bhe war
pitaly's policy au but yæchtly strong-"catnty" finve been detected Butwarded the costody of the "mid-tinis: organization:toʻchanging to-Ching then you would hamois
expounded by Panter Massotterror had been wandelo-chocad
·Tini. times, and changing needs that thejected them on this side.
ed on Long Island in July,