The improved "MACNOVA "
Waterproof
An easy fitting light weight waterproof cut on generous lines, has through pockets, strom collar and lined over shoulders.
Details of make and finish are given more than usual attention in the manufacture thus pro- viding the acme of weather- proof coats.
We confidently recommend the "Macnova" Waterproof, and will replace any coat which fails to give complete and absolute satisfaction.
$52.50
Less 10 cash discount OTHER QUALITIES From $28.50.
Mackintosh's
TENNIS
RACKETS
MADE FOR HARD TROPICAL WEAR BY
A. G. SPALDING & BROS.
W. H. JAMES
F. A. DAVIS.
AND..
DUNLOP.
DUNLOP PATENT
GUT
STRUNG TO YOUR OWN SPECIFICATION.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
SPORTS DEPT.
ASSETS
£19,000,000
HY APPOINTMENT
CLAIMS PAID
£40,000,00
GENERAL
ACCIDENT, FIRE & LIFE ASSURANCE CORPN,, LTD.
All Classes of INSURANCE
WORLD WIDE
ORGANISATION
AGENTE:...
JAMES H. BACKHOUSE:
1A, CHATER ROAD.
TEL 21783.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1931.
THE UNEMPLOYMENT Government was Radical or Socia-WHY DEMOCRACY IS list in its inspiration, his party would fight it in either case, Mr. Baldwin's speech was well received
DEBATE.
LIBERALS RALLY TO HELP by his party.
SOCIALISTS.
BROKEN PLEDGES OF GOVERNMENT.
The division in the Commons on April 10 on the Conservative vote of conure resulted in a majority of 54 for the Government, the figures being:-
For the motion ............ 251 Against
305
to
The division figures revealed the fact that more Liberals voted save the Government than was ex- peced. It is estimated that from 33 to 35 of them came to the rescu of the Socialista.
DYING.
DEAN INGE'S LESSON FROM RUSSIA.
Mr. Tom Johnston, Particular interest attached to the first appearance of Mr. Tom' "We see to-day a vast and ever Johnston as Lord Privy Seal, for increasing army of parasites, paid he has the reputation of being, with by the State not to work," declared Mr. Morrison, one of the rising | Dean Ingo before a crowded body men in the Labour party. He is of Individualists at their monthly an Imporialist,, and a Protectionist, luncheon in the Hotel Victoria. of sorts.
Extremely, gloomy was the Dean's
If Mr. Johnston's speech was description of the present state of neither very original nor very nffairs in this country.
"We are lively,
that was probably not witnessing," he said, "an organisel his fault. There is a stock plunder of minorities, which is pro- Labour speech on unemploy. I during disastrous results.
ment which we have already had "Our financial resources are Bu from Mr. Thomas, Mr. Morrison, completely gone that we could not and the late Mr. Vernon Hart-go to war even if we were slapped shorn. Mr. Johnston hotted it up in the face. Our naval supremacy again."
| Las vanished. · Our Empire is fall. On the other haud ten Liberal
The assumption throughout the ing to pieces. There is no con- M.P.s joined forces with the Con-sperch was that if the Government fidence, no enterprise." servatives and supported the cen- spent enough millions on objecta sure,mation. They were: Sir that employed someone it was do John Simon, Mr. Kodward, Col.ing splendidly; and the millions England, Mr. Pybus; Mr. G. Lam- that he totted up were staggering hart, Sir R. Hutchison, Sir M. They made 113 millions, plus a lag "Unless the cancer on the body Macdonald, Mr. E. Evans. Sir N
of sixty millions (“lag" in this politie of the dole is dealt with in Aske, Mr. E. Brown,
ense "meaning that the money is the same drastic, fashion as mi- voted faster than the Governinoutgery deals with malignant growth, can spend it), employing, a quar- this country must just as inevitably die as the patient must," said Sir Ernest Graham-Little, M.P. ··
Five Liberal M.P.'s who were present in the House abstained from voting, namely, Mr. Rothster of a million men, which works child, Mr. Shakespeare, Mr. Blin-out at about £700 spent for every dell, Mr. Hore-Balisha, and Mr. inia employed. lan Macpherson.
Mr. Baldwin's Saliles. Mr. Baldwin brought in his vote, of censure an, the Government for
its failure on unemployment., The motion did not censure the Govern- ment for its failure to cure unem- ployment, but for its failure to keep its elecion promises in regard
to it,
It may be that no Government can eure unemployment; but no one need promise to cure it.
The thotion further reproached the Government with having consed even to attempt to carry out its promises.
Regarded as a contribution to the problem of unemployment, the do- bate that followed must be written down as frivolņus almost to jocu Iarity. The House showed. itself exceedingly ready to laugh on the slightest provocation; its, mood, indeed, was almost jelly.
This does not mean that the House was callously indifferent to gravity of the problem, but that it recognised unemployment as be ing only a peg on which diverse party manifestoes are hung. That
Anung new Government contacts with unemployment indicated by Mr. Johnston were:
•
The planting of Yorkshire moors and Welsh hills with Bitka spruce; The electrification of our railway
Equally acrions. pictures whither we are tending as a resul of reckless State expenditure were drawn by subsequent speakers.
Cadgers in Crowds.
We are," stated Mr. Harold Cox, "seeing a large mass of the population cessing to be individu- als, and degenerating into endgers, ever holding out their hands for .more. Yet the theory that The The popularising of Great Bri-State has a bottomless purse is ton
absurd to mention." tain as a place for tourists.
system;
-
Rationalisation.
J
Then a rousing call for economity in national' affairs was made by the chairman, Sir Hugh Bell, who, nt the age of 87, continues to furnish
striking illustration a
of the triumph of individualism.
The subject of Dean Inge'a "Russia-a menge
The more genuine Mr. Johnston appeared in a passage in which he satirised Jovons's old Manchester theory that unemployment was due to sunspots, and another in which he supported rationalisation. "A a Socialist," he said, "I don't wish address was
to inherit derelict factories or ob-and an object-icsson." Events in solete machinery"-in which the Russin during the past few years live mind shone through the statis furnished, he said, one of the most ties with which his brief bristled.
striking evidences of the almost After Mr. Johnston had Kat
| world-wide failure of democracy. down, Liberals trooped out to de-
His reading of history, taught cide how they should vote, und him that democracy was an instru- after a short absence everyone knewment for destroying privilege, and that though some meant to vote for that task bad
certainly been the motion of sensuro, and others to achieved. Some nations, despairing abstain, enough would vote for the demoerney, had boldly scrapped Government to save it from defeat the institutions that had produced and that there would be no crisis. the present political social, and Mr. Lloyd George was in amiablo economic conditions, and had gone and reminiscent mood. Ho patted back to the system of government the position of parties, not unein-Mr. Tom Jabastón approvingly on by a few, ar by even only one ployment, was the real object of the back, and said that he was a person. the debate, rame" out very clearly in Mr. Lloyd George's speech, which, in its operative part, was an amusing essay on the tactics of a third party, with particular illus trations drawn from the" Liberal-
„Unionim party in the 1688 Parlia
munt.
Socialist or Radical? Mr. Baldwin is speaking much more rapidly than formerly, and has taken to a certain liveliness in political satire, which, perlups, does not come very naturally to him. But he had an admirable thomo in the Government's election promises about unemployment, and his sallies put his party on very good tera with itself.
He was loss successful in the later part of his speech, which, following the terms of the motion, should hava demonstrated that the Government had ceased to attempt remedial
mensures.
promising young man, and hopedi The world had never seen a more that his Prime Minister would np.anti-democratic system than that preciate him at his trug worth.
which prevailed in Russin to-day. He then drew an elaborate and was a case of a new Tardom very clever parallel between his worse than the old Tanrdom, fer own and the Liberal position now there could be no doubt at all about. and that of Mr. Joseph Chamber the misery of the people in generai, lain and the Cibern! Unionists in
01 about the cruelty' and the the Parliament of 1886. The Liber.
tyranny. at Unionists usually voted in three
Modern Russia is an enormous equal parts of abstention, Aye and slave State, in which the lives, the No; but they kept a minority Gov-liberties, the property, and the ernment in power for six years honour of every man and woman a thought that made some members
are absolutely at the disposal of the winco and shiver. He wished he bureaucracy," said Dean Ingo had a tithe of 31r. Chamberlain's In my view, it is not Coinnunisun ability in his taak of delicate that is the essential part of the pre- balancing between the danger of sent Russian régime; rather it is a keeping the Government in power system of State capitalism run with and the danger of the alternative, an efficiency which, but for its "You're pretty good," interject-cruelty, might evoke our approval ” ed a Conservative voice, and Mr. Lloyd George looked pleased. This of the speech should be noted by Lloyd future biographers Mr. George, who always likes to think of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain as his political affinity.
The Premier.
.
KAI TAK. AERODROME.
VOTE IN COUNCIL TO-DAY.
In fact, the Government seems to have come round to his awn view
At the Legislative Council Meet- that, apart from Protection, there
ing to day the Hon. Colonial is hot.much that can be done. And that was, no doubt, the explana Mr. MacDonald said nothing at Secretary is to move the following tion of the curious tura which Mr. Baldwin had invited him to ex
some length. In his speech Mr. † resolution :-- „Baldwin's speech took at the end.plain what Mr. Snowden meant "That this Council approves t His chief complaint against the when he made his warning about the expenditure in the year 1928 our perilous financial state, and from the surplus balances of the Government was that neither ho nor. whether it was a mero voice and it knows whether it is Socialistis nothing more, or would result in Colony of the sun of 8602,783, in or merely Radical. Had ho in his some sort of action. But that was respect of the construction of the
too sente a topic for Mr. MacKai Tak Aerodrome, such sum be mind the rumours that a Protec Donald.
ing recoverable from the first in tionist leaven was working within
Ho did, however, promise to staltent of the contribution mad 1he Cabinet? Did he mean that stand behind Mr. Johnston, both by the Imperial Government."
on his merits and also to obligo A Bill to amend the law relating Socialist Government might Mr. Lloyd George. Indeed, Labour to the Registration of Births and logically be Protectionist, and was anxiety to play up to the Liberale Deaths is to be read a first time. lo trying to enddie the alliance was noticeable all through the de- while the following Bills will cons
date.
ap for second reading:-A Bill to with the Liberals with the blame
With the result a foregone con- amend the law relating to Bank for the sterility of the Govoracington much of the interest druples, a Bill to append further the Ordinance, now gone out of the debate. Mr. Merchant Shipping Crookshank was a light but effec 1800, a Bill to amend the Vaccins tive speaker in the early stages of tion Ordinance, 1023, and a Bil. the debate, and Sir Robert Horne to amend the Legal Practitioner, fired some heavy shot after dinner.Ordinance, 1871,
1
ment's unemployment polieġ ↑ ·
Perhaps. But he went on to say that these tactics were a matter of indifference to him. Whether the
N. Y. K. offer a variety of Fares in connection with your
HOME LEAVE
via United States of America or via Canada £120 £13 £114 2112 £110 £107 £110 £ 88
Particulars obtainabis at
N. Y. K.. Hong Kong, Tel. 80291.
DON'T TAKE RISKS
Dry cleaning isan important part of any. family's programme of thrift BUT
"BEWARE"
of cheap DRY CLEAN- ING. So called CHEMI- CAL CLEANING is toap and water with n. little Such spirit spoiting. methods do not proservo cloth from
and other insects,
moth
"What is GENUINE DRY CLEANING ?." Removal of all dust, spots, and soiling of a greasy matter by special spirit soaps and pure PETROLEUM BENZINE which -can only be used in special ranchines installed in a fully licensed building approved by the GOVERNMENT. There is only one large installation in the COLONY.
THE STEAM LAUNDRY WORKS, MONGKOK.
After cleaning the cloth is storilised and pressed with the latest steam presses. All SUITS, OVERCOATS, and orders to the value of 33.25 sent during May 1991, will receive ONE IMPROVED SANETEX MOTH PROOF BAG. After June, 19th. (date of arrival).
There is no surer method to preserve your clothes during the SUMMER than GENUINE DRY CLEANING and SEALING in a MOTH PROOF BAG.
THE STEAM LAUNDRY
Hoad Office:-Mongkok. Kowloon Hotel Depot, Hankow Road. Hong Kong Depot:-16, Stanley St., Kowloon Dept, 19: Canton Road.
Tel. 21279.
Peak Hotel Depot. Hong Kong Hotel (Visitors only). Valoteria Bervice:-864, Nathan Rand, (next door MAJESTIC THEATER)
:-2, Peninsula Hotel Arcade.
ME KIWI
Sees his distinguished self as others see him and
it is fitting that his mirror should be the Wonderfully Brilliant Shine of his Famous a most distinguished name-sake
THE QUALITY BOOT POLISH
KIWI
Sole Distributors --W. B. LOXLEY & Co.