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DAY BY DAY
DISCONTENT IN THE BURE INDICA-
plax has the disarmament problem TION OF A FEEBLE MIND.-Reginald
proved to be, that a real stop for- | Lucas, ward will bo takon if the coming disarmament conference is able to May Hall, Hongkong University, in The annual concert and dance of
do little more than stop the serious | bolig held on Saturday, 21st Inst., at danger of competition..
8.16 p.m.
PRATTLE:
AN APPEAL TO JURYWOMEN. By Sir Edward Parry.
LADY attended at Bow-street ly did ask ridiculous' questions,
A Police Court the other day and then what John Knox prohosled
made a vehement attack on has actually happened. And that
not
During the year the two "winga”” Effective Chinese calendars have of the Leaguo-the International been fcrued by the Green Island the behaviour of the ladies serving something of the sort has occurred Labour Organisation and the Per-Cement Co. and by the China Siam on the Grand Jury of the Central in the past seems clear from the Line, of which Messrs. Thoresen and Criminal Court. The complainant behaviour of Calphurnia, who, manent Court of International Jus- Co, are Agents.
war prosecutrix in a care where having leones to speak before tico had an extremel» busy time.
A man was charged, on her the Sonato at longth, became so At the International Labour Conibs. of Chinese tobacco, on which duty assault.
with robbery For having in her possession 1 accusation,
and impudent and importunate that by her babbling she troubled the ference in May, two now conven- had not been paid, a Chinese woman,
The Grand Jury ignored the whole assembly." tions were adopted, one restricting Lo Teng, was fined $25 by Mr. Butters, Bill, and the accused was
I am not converted to John at the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- the evil of forced labour in Afriën, Ing.
tried, a procedure well within Knox's vlows about. Jurywomen their rights. But it annoyed the and have always suspected that and other parts of the world, and
apitoful, and arose The many friends of the Hon. Mr. prosecutrix and she brought her they were
Her elthor from the conduct of his the second dealing with hours of R. H. Kotewall, LL.D., C.M.G., will grievance to Bow-street. work of anlaried employees. It was regret to hear that he has been in complaint was that her fellow-mother-in-law, or the folly of disposed for the last ten days and, women on the Grand Jury did Queen Elizabeth in rofusing to not found possible to accure agree- it is expected, will not be about for at not know their business. "What make him a Bishop. ment on hours of work in coal least another two weeks.
do they know about the law?" she said to the Magistrate. "They mines but. after further prepara-
the most ridiculous Criminal Court in
Still this Incident at the Central questions which had nothing to asked me
unfortunate. Jurywomen must remember that Here, I think, the applicants a rule the juror's la not a do with the case.” was mistaken. The true grandeur speaking part. The juror of the a strong of a Grand Jury is that it is an Past has always been Irresponsible tribunal with no silent man, a character dear to Gaining admission under the pre-procedure, no judge to direct its dramatists. No playwright over had the courage to offer a load- text of having been entrusted with members.
goods for delivery from aevidence are not binding on them ing lady the part certain relativo in Canton, three men who It is the constitutional right of eflent woman. visited 20, Cheung On Street. Kowa Grand Juror to ask ridiculous but that was spoof and when in lean City last evening, held up the or any other sort of questions, Act V. Epicoone turned out to be on any subject at any distance
a youth the gallery booed. from that subject.
The art Grand Jurors are mere citizena vocates and others asking ridicul- of steping to ad- Under the direction of Mr. Walter who, standing between the ac Sinclair, formerly of Hongkong, the cused and the Crown, can, if they ous questions is a gift: asking University Civic Theatre at Denver, think right, forbid the trial, of them yourself is a bad habit. has recently scored big their fellow-citizen without being irrelevance gladly is not easy to This gentle art of suffering U.S.A., pantomime, "The Rose and the Ring" called upor. to justify their action acquire. I worked at it for over Other productions soon to be staged
thirty years and eager on I was
THE HONGKONG HOTEL tory work, the queation is to be kok Road yesterday a young Chinese Whilst standing outside 235, Laichi- raised again at this your's Con- boy, named Man On, was injured by a ference. Up to the present, close bamboo pole which fell from the third floor and struck him on the head. He upon 420 ratifications of Interna
was removed to the Kowloon Hospital -tional Labour Conventions have, in a serious condition.
been registered at Genova by various Governments. The judges sitting on the bench of the World Court in the Peace Palace at The Hague dealt with throo
interna tional disputes, the most important being the "free zones" dispute be- tween France and Switzerland. Since it began work in 1922, more than thirty cases have been handied by the Court.
Encouraging progress can be re-
The
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TUESDAY, FEB. 10, 1931.
LEAGUE'S ELEVENTH
YEAR
inmater
and then decamped with quantity of valuables worth $100.
SUCCESS with Thackeray's fireside
and the rulea of
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of a strong Ben Jonson call- ed his play "The Silent Woman,”
are "Outward Bound," "A" Bül" of The applicant's request to a to improve never became a scratch Divorcement," "The Romantic Young Metropolitan magistrate to rebuke player. University Civic Theatre was inau- the Grand Jury was satisfactory Lady," and "Hay Fever." The
I used to find it useful in mo- gurated in 1020 to aid in the cultural as an example of that universal ments of exasperating temptation omniscience and to recite slowly to myself an life of Denver, and Mr. Sinclair is faith in the its Director.
emnipotence of the police magie- ancient rhyme which I commend trate which is shared by all to jurywomen destring to acquiro naropolitan mankind, and would the strong silent habit. It seams be shared by rural and suburban to contain in a few tactful lines Peoples If they were endowed with the whole duty of Juryman and the Bow-street Beak was without
kenatitutions. The ruling of Jurywoman. law. "Nobody is always right," he said; and this, he explained, applied to all officials giving judicial or other decisions.
this the crash
A wise old Owl
Lived in an Oak, The more he saw
The less he spoke, The less he spoke
The more he heard, Why can't we bo
Like that old bird
I have always thought that the
of
ported in connexion with most of The League of Nations, establish the "sideshows" of the Longue of ed under the Peace Treatica, han Nations. Volumes could be writ- of the just completed eleven years of its ten about the activities work.
Valu- On the whole, its eleventh Health Organisation alone.
the have attended year, 1930-31, was a quiet period: able results that is to say, no dramatic threats League's enquiry into the beat dustry. The tariff wall has been to the peace of the world demand methods of the use of radium, and built higher and higher, increasing ed the League'a intervention. In at the September Assembly the the amount of protected production and throwing a heavy burden of spile of considerable political In Australian delegate also pald
tariff costs upon exporting Indus
The fact of the matter is Blessed City (Bairstow) Westminster Special Choir rest not unconnected with the gen- tribute to its enquiry into health tries.
eral economic depression, the world conditions in certain Pacific islands, that Australia has been attempting
It is good to have this point an a whole in more stable than im- Good work has also been done in to develop her resources too rapidly medately after the Great War. In connexion with malaria and sleep at a high and rising standard of authoritatively decided, but it is Europe the Balkans, in particular, ing sickness, and leprosy is now re- living; public works have been enr-not pleasing to read of a woman ried out in advance of economic re- complaining of the conduct of have belled their reputation of be ceiving expert study. China and quirements; the tariff has heavily Jurors of her own sex from whom author of the varse had a jury 'in she expected sympathy. As one his mind when he wrote. How ing the powder magazine by setting Bolivia are the latest countries subsidized uneconomic industries. who was always in favour of appropriate to typify the perfect a good example to the rest of the whose appeals for the re-organisa- Add to
an owl. Minerva, one in com-women having these rights of Juror world. In addition to the treaty tion of their public health services modity prices, and the consequent citizenship, I am sorry such an of the best and earliest of the New Women, always want about of friendship between Greece and are being answered by the League. loss of income, and it will be seen incident should arise.
It will rouse up the dichards accompanied by this bird of Turkey, the first pan-Balkan con- The League's fight against the how the whole economic machine who opposed the enfranchisement wisdom; as a companion unlikely ference at Athens made a serious opium traffic received considerable has been thrown out of gear. It is of women to, quote the Scripture to interrupt her soliloquies by John Knox, who idle chatter. A parrot in a furs: attempt to promote, goodwill.
publicity owing to the many huge evident that readjustment on according to
scale of great magnitude is required, said it was "more than a monster box would be unthinkable. With an unusually small amount seizures of dangerous drugs which and that al the proposals so far in nature" that a woman should of emergency work to perform, the
were made in different parts of advanced, including those of Mr. rule. Knox would have chuckled Note, too, that the poet seata League of Nations able to the world during the latter half of Theodore, offer resistance to that to hear of a jurywoman asking his owl in an oak the ridiculous questions, for he best jury boxes in the High Court settle down to the more humdrum the year. One blow at the white demand. The report of the experts diagnosed in wom
"natural are made of oak. Aliter in but vastly important job of bulld- slave traffic, reported from the has been thrust aside. Mr. Theo-shamefastness" which, he thought, County Courts where cheap paint- better scheme to she would Inse whensoover she ed woods of doubtful nationality ing for the future. The Prince of Argentine, was the discovery of an dore has no
which involves took upon herself the office and too often Insult the patriotiem of Wales pointed out, last
autumn, organisation of 700 persons trad- advance than one
the jurors. Frazer, in his ""Golden It would be a terrible business Bough," points out that in early not by some sudden and violent ac- Lengue also agreed to take up the is tackled at its roots, as suggested this woman business, and I turn-symbol that "the way to prevent: war is ing in women and children. The meddling with exchange rates. We estate of man.
are afraid that unless the problem
if John Knox was right about legends the owl is used as 1 feminine wisdom. tion at the eleventh hour, but by question of penal reform. Its by the experts, Australia will be ed out to be wrong. We must not whereas the bat is more typical the gradual, and steady formation huge scheme for the settlement of no nearer rehabilitation at the end assume the applicant's story was of man. of habits of international co-opera-
ra more than a million destitute of the "Three Years' Plan” than she tion and mutual trust". Nobody
fugees In Greece come to a suc-in to-day. can extimate in concrete terms the cessful conclusion with the close of value of the regular meetings be 1930. Some of the more difficult tween the world's leading states men which, as a consequence of the existence of the League, have be come a normal feature of modern diplomacy. Apart from the Coun- cil meetings and special League conferences, no fewer than fourteen
Australia's Finances. Prime Ministers and twenty-two Foreign Ministers were among the
The sole excuse for extending delegates from Afty-two countries congratulations to the Australian
politicians engaged in working out, who attended the annual
In plan for restoring the country's Assembly at Geneva In September.nancial stability arises from the This Assembly proved notable bespoedy condemnation of Mr. Lang's cause of the contacts established, scheme for the repudiation of over- between the British Empire and seas debta, Mr. Lang has a mind the League. General Hertzog, the in an extraordinary state of con- South African Premier, and Mr.fusion if he seriously bellovea that the effect of such action would be Scullin, the Commonwealth Prime
otherwise than disastrous, Aug- Minister of Australia, were among tralia's difficultios, and it in a very the distinguished Dominion delo-grave problem that Mr. Scullin and gates who took art in the As-his colleagues are facing, havo sembly before going on to the Im-developed naturally from unsound portal Conference. At the latter economic policies in the past three gathering in London, it was signi- years. First, there has been undue dependence upon external loans-- ficant that complete agreement was the interest upon which so dis speedily ranched on the question of pleases Mr. Lang-the latest esti- the Empire's policy at Geneva, mates showing that Australia has One of the principal questions was, borrowed, on an average, £80,000,- of course, that of disarmament 000 annually since 1929. Then wage rates, which the Labour The agreement reached at the Lanreaders are averse to touching, have don Naval Conference earlier in the risan till the average of real wages year paved the way to the speeding is ten per cent, higher to-day than up of the League's work.. A skole in 1911, without a corresponding ton disarmament treaty materialla increase in the productivity of in-
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of the League's tasks, such as the protection of Europe's minorities. may appear to be moving slowly, but the League certainly cannot be
accused of idleness,
correct, for it was made ex parte. When the Exchequer can spare But if the Grand Jurywomen real-some money from Grand
Opera to subaldise painting, one of our symbolic artists might be given a commission to paint a picture of bats and owls on the walls of one of our law Courts na typify- ing the classical origin of the mixed jury.
Yee, Uncle Emery's laid up again. He dang near caught pneumonia sittin' out all summer tryin' to count the tourista' natorsobilos
Of recent years it has dawned on mankind that talking in Parlia ments and Law Courts is largely a waste of time. Advocates certainly talk too much, but they like it, and some of them are worth listening to. Jadges have been known to talk even in their sleep, witnesses are asked ques- tions, and on occasion allowed to answer them negatively or affirma...” tively in monosyllablès. · I appeal. to the jurywoman not to swell the volume of this idio prattle.
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The fierce light of public. opinion beats on the action of every woman citizen called upon to perform her public duties in | Courts of Justice and elsewhere. Little incidents in which woman play a part are often, magnified by trumpeters of Evil who, like Knox, still fear in their hearte what they call the “usurped and unjust empire of woman.
The ovidence of judges, of, ex- perience La unanimous that woman make excellent jurora and exhibit all those attributes of patience, attention, and comENDIT sonse which have made the British. Jury an institution which là tha envy of less fortunate people to There is not the laket renson, suppose that the value of the fire sysłem to the country has in RKG way been injured by opening door of the Jury box toy citizens