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* BRITAIN'S UNEMPLOYED,
A DECREASING FIGURE.
London, Mar. 9.
A further reduction of 20,000 in the number of persons unemployed in Britain is recorded in the latest weekly return of the Ministry of Labour.
The Burmah Legislative Coun- ell recently rejected by six- teen votes a resolution asking The prosent number of unemploy- for the prohibition of Book-makersed is 1,109,500 which is 62,300 more at race meetings throughout nan at the corresponding dato last year. When account is taken for Mr. Rafi moved: "That this the fact that nearly 100,000 fewer Council recommenda to Govern- persons are now employed at the ment that steps be taken to probe seen that, in Industry generally, coal mines than a year ago, it will hibit book-makers at race-meetings throughout Burmah,"
unemployment is appreciably bet- ter than at the corresponding date of last year--British Wireless,
POOR PROCTORS..
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U. S. BROKER THINKS UNLIKELY.
DEMAND INCREASING.
Over-production of rubber is most unlikely, Mr. E. A. Pfaff, re- | presenting one of the largest rub- ber brokerage housea In New York City, said last week in Manila. Mr. Pfaff arrived on the President
his mother, biru. L. B. Pfaff. Wilson. He la accompanied by
"Were the Philippines, Liberia, and South America to start pro- duction," he said, "it is doubtful if they would food the market. While last year was a relatively bad one for rubber, consumption increases steadily.
Moral Degeneracy.
Mr. Raf said that he had noth- `ing against racing but he objected to gambling with book-makers as it was eating into the vitals of the people. There were crowds on the course week after week. What
LATEST EFFORT. was its significance on the life of the nation? There was only one
Cambridge is inughing over the
Philippines Welcomed. answer. It represented moral de latest joke of the Granta, the
"New York brokers, while they' generacy. It was the duty of the undergraduates' paper, which has now mako their profits from State to promote the moral; ma-declared a friendly war on the Straits Settlements Brme, would torial and physical welfare of the proctors. The Granta in organis welcome the Philippines into the people and yet what did they finding a petition to Sir William Joy producing market. Naturally we here? They found that the Go--Hicks, the Home Secretary, would rather trade with Ameri- vernment aequiesced in that gigan- sion of persons that be and utterans than with foreigners.
"for the abatement and suppres- Ale gamble. bling Act ca the statuic and unler themselves to be proctora." The the future of the Harvey Fire- Mr. Flaff is sceptical both of petition is based on law of that Act common gaming houses Queen Elizabeth, "discovered after stone prospect in Liberia and of were being frequently raided, yet years of patient search by Our the growing of rubber in Min- gambling was carried on openly on Special Investigator in Boots danao without a liberalization of the race-course and no action Library, which it is claimed, the land laws and some method of whatever whs taken. What was
obtaining satisfactory labour. In the use of raiding a few common That all persons that be and this, he says, crude rubber dealers gaming houses when they had a utter themselves to be proctors,in New York are agreed. rage-course where people could patent gatherere,, fencera, bear- ruin themselves? Was the inactionwards, common players of Inter- of the Government due to the fact that stewards of the Turf Club re- presented powerful interests? If not, it would be interesting to
There was a Gam-
know what the reasons were.
"The "Tote."
statos:
Judes, all jugglers,, tinkers, ped- lars, and perry chapmen wander- ing abroad and all wandering per sons loytering and refusing to work for such reasonable wages as is commonly given; these shall be adjudged and deemed rogues, and punished as such. vagabonds, and sturdy begger
Mr. Raft said it would be ecen that the totalizator had not been
The petition states that: "Mem- brought within the purview of the bers of this University in stata resolution. The omission had pupilluri have been harassed, His reasons for molested, grieved, and sorely excluding, the tote from the resolu- tried by certain persons that be tion were two in number. First and after themselves to be proc.
been deliberate,
Stevenson Restrictions.
rubber production in the British The Stevenson restrictions on possessions in Malaya have not had any serious effect thus far, he believes. They seek to force a price of $12 gold a pound. This, Mr. Pfall feels, is not an unfair price:
Changing Prices Hurt
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HINDENBURG VETOES A. RUDE NATIONALIST.
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many is cackling over a tragicome. dy associated with the formation of the new "Bourgeois Govern- raent." (says a Berlin message of February 4).
The herd of this incident is Herr Walther Graef, whose name' was officially announced na Minis- ter of Justice in the new Cabinet, subject only to the "formality of Presidential confirmation.
That confirmation, however, was
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on the market within a year at a price within £30.
The inventor, John L. Baird, a YoungScotchman, has already iven a number of remarkable de monstrations with his machine which has the astonishing pro- perty not only of transmitting
While it costs British rubber growers only $22 to land their rubber in New York, they have been carrying the plantations at a steady loss for many years, he points, out, and the big profit is of all he fell that betting with the tors, who do use to frequent at not unfair, totalizator was not attended by night the streets, passages, and
"Were British rubber growers such disastrous results as betalley-ways, pieces, and commons to guarantee American manufac ting with the book-makers in of this town of Cambridge, Jurk-turers all the rubber they could the second place he had
noting, loitering, and making bush-use for the next five years at that been xłow to appreciate the ments to the great distress and price, I believe the manufacturers fact that tlfree were hun- bodily four of the said members would accept. dreds of people who go to the of this University." racos and though not gamblers in any sense of the term were anxious to lay their small bets in order to discussien raised in that house "The worst feature of the rub. is the have the satisfaction of having was not in the best interests of ber market at present backed their judgment if they won. the sport and he was sorry that fluctuating price, regardless of In coming to the book-makers his Mr. Raf who was a member of the law of supply and demand. complaint was not so much against the Turf Club had not taken the Two factors recently have entered the book-makers personally as opportunity of raising the ques-to stabilize it. One is the New against the system involved with tion at the general meeting of the York Rubber Exchange. The not forthcoming. all its attendant evils in taxing or Turf Club and of discussing it other is the $40,000,000 pool Nomination of Graef quickly sight by wireless, but also of laying bets with them. He must there prior to raising it in that formed by big buyers to obtain ask to be excused if in having to house. He bowed to Mr. Rafi's rubber when it is low and sell criticise the system reference to eloquence but said that if they when it goes too high. Neither the book-makers became inevitable. examined his arguments they has had much chance to show Members must have heard of cer- would find them: filled with base what it can do." tain owners having'an interest in insinuations and ponderous plati-
Mr. Pfaff is definite on the need the books and of certain book-tudes and that he had demonstrat-for large acreage in the produc makers having an interest in cer-ed in his arguments his inability ion of rubber. Five thousand tain ponies. That was a stigma to express a wise opinion on that acres is a very small plantation, he which would remain so long as difficult subject. He had told the points out, and its produce book-makers were allowed to stay. house that the attractive odds negligible. He also insists on the Members must also have heard of offered by book-makers had ruined need for cheap labour. such things as faked bets and shar-many. To that he wished to reply "If you can obtain labour atist wing of the Nationalist party hitherto experimented with, tele- ing the spoils. He said that those that the Totalizator most often $.50 a day here, you can grow and a reactionary of the deepest vision has only been made possi- evils would always remain so long gave better odds than the book rubber profitably only if it is twice dye, is now paying the penalty ofble by submitting the object, to be na book-makers were not abolished.maker. He personally held the as good as Chinese labour. That's an offence he committed several transmitted to an intensely bright - Members must be aware that view that a modieum of book-what you're up against.
An Amendment,
amendment:-
บ
That for the words following the word "Government" the following he substituted:-.
strongly opposed the motion and suggested that the best thing that could be done was to follow the proposal contained in Mr. Munshi's amendment.
of the Coalition.
aroused a storm of protest among "seeing in the dark." In other the members of the other parties words, through this machine, pep- ple in one room äre enabled to see the movements of people in an- other room so darkened that the people in it are not able to see each other.
This is accomplished through the use
of recently discovered infra-rays, sometimas known as "invisible light." In instruments
They had reluctantly agreed to the Nationalist demand for no fewer than four seats in the new Government, but they drew the line at Herr Graef.
And with good reason,
Insult to President. Gruel, the leader of the extrem
.
Yet, while it is possible to get good television; results of objects complete darkness by the use of infra-red rays, according to Baird, rormal lighting gives better repro- duction.
Predecessor debars the offender machines, equipped with suitable from office.
there were hundreds of poor clerks makers plus the Totalizator was a
years ago when he was vice-pres-light. Baird discovered in the course of a series of experimenta and assistants in various banka desideratum on a race course.
dent of the Reichstag. He and mercantile officee who were
He refused to pay, in that capa- with different lights that he could being attracted to the races by the
hore, reports the death of one pas-Herr Ebert when that Socialist ex-ject by use of infra-red rays, even The Katori Maru, from Singa- city, the customary official visit to transmit the appearance of on ob- tempting odds that were being
senger from heart failure. offered by book-makers from time
saddler became the first President though the object was in pitch to time. In their desire to amass
darkness. of the German Republic. a fortune they laid heavy bets with
The master of the steam launch That a man whose political pre- book-makers and very often staked
Unproved Allegations.
Hoi Loong was summoned before judices led him into such a vulgar their all with the result that they Mr. Campagnac dealt with the Lieut. Commander G. F. Hole, at demonstration should now be no found themselves in the criminal advantages accruing from controll- the Marine Court this morning, for minated for the office of Minister Courts and very often in jail. Lasted gambling carried on in the breach of the rule of the road.of Justice in the Republic which year, he was told there were eighty open air as against indiscriminate There was a previous conviction le scorns was too much for the such eases in the Poller Courts of and unlicensed gaming in for a similar offence. In fining other Coalitionists. Rangoon.
"The discovery will probably Was not that number ventilated gaming houses. In re- the defendant $20, or three weeks, sufficiently high as to alarm any gard to the allegations that book-is Worship commented that the von Hindenburg intimatedclared in an interview, "for then It is understood that President have great uses in war," Baird' dës right thinking person?
makers were interested in horses defendant had a bad record and ho and indulged in other malprac (the Harbour Master) would deal Chancellor Marx that he shared it will be possible for airplanes to tices, he desired to know whether with his certificates if he appeared the view of the protectors that flood areas below them with infr Mr. Munshi moved the following Mr. Raf as a member of the Turf in Court again during the next offence aginst his Presidentia! red light, while observers in these
Club ever brought auch instances twelve months, to the notice of the Stewards. The Stewards were an honourable body of men and if Mr. Rafi were able to prove to them that book- makers wero indulging in corrupt practices he had not the slightest doubt the Stewards would rectify such matters. He had not pro-i duced any facts and the presump- Mr. Ran objected as it nullifiedtion was he was talking on bear- the motion.
say. Instead of there being no The President disallowed the book-makers there should be more amendment.
|book-makers with the publie being Mr. Wroughton' said he would allowed to bet up to a minimum deinitely say that the Turf of Rs. 5. authorities would like the Govern- Mr. Booth-Gravely described Mr. ment, once and for all, to enquire Rafi as a "prohibitor" who wanted Into the question and discuss it to prohibit people from doing lots He understood the Government of things. He spoke of the Wis willing to examine the systems prevailing in England, question and if Government did Australia and other countries and that he asked the house to rejectaald the conditions there should the motion. The reason why he not bo ignored. The result of had favoured the amendment was the abolition of book-makers had because it savoured of modéention. resulted in bucket shops springing
Matter For Turf Club.
up everywhore so much so that re- cantly a rosolution was moved in Continuing he submitted that Bombay to re-introduce book-make- the racing community also
"To ascertain, by such means and in such manner as it may consider suitable and necessary, whether the beat interests of the public will be served by the retention or by the abolition of book-makers.**
ска. FL
quired protection from self-j After further discussion, the. constituted social reformers. The motion was defeated.
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ARTICHOKE ALLIRATOR
PLARS
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OSKEY BY MEK BERVEDE DIĆI
When a man's bank-roll is light he tries to keep it dark.
apparatus, will be able to watch enemy troop movements without Brief Authority.
disclosing the position of the air
'time the In the meantime, as it was ay- planes. At the same surced that the confirmation of his country possessing the secret of nomination was a mere formality, the use of the same rays will be Graef had enjoyed for 24 hours able to watch the movements of the public glories of the Govern- enemy aircraft without giving mental office he will not now hold. their own position by search-lighto Congratulatory telegrams ar- or flares, as is the case under warfare. rived from his anti-Republicar present conditions of friends all over the country.
"At present there seems no Mis photograph was in all the way of getting out of the range details of of the invisible infrared rays, or newspapers. So were
his career-except for the indis-of overcoming them, but it is not cretion that has turned to ashes impossible of course that someone' the ambition he had thought ful-later may invent some sort of
counter ray which would negat filled.
the affectiveness of infra-red rays."
Mr: Edward Page Mitchell, a former editor of the New York Sun An Englishman Frenchman and an associate of Crales Dana, and am American," respective handled at New London, Connecti- heads of: syndicates in their ow cut, from cerebral hemorrhage, countries, are negotiating for the ged 74 years, Mr. Mitchell was purchase of the Capitol Cinema, connected with the Sun for 50 London, from Sir Walter Gibbons years becoming editor shortip The price is rumoured to be well after Dana's death in 1879.
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