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on a new complexion after Spain's disastrous campaign in the Rit when precious blood and money wore poured into the arid sands of Africa. Other difeulties, political
HAVIN' A GOOD.TIME AIN'T A MAT- and economic, awamped the country,
TER O' AGE. IT'S A MATTER O' BEIN" followed by growing resentment | WILLIN' TO HAVE A GOOD TIME.- against the King's methods of rul-Anne Warner. ing. Latterly, Alfonso has been in constant touch with the man who was said to stand between him and the Republic, General Berengeur, a man who has busyed up his royal master's hopes by painting the optimistic side of the situation, laying special stress on the point that not everyone wants u Republic, That, of course, is true, and the latent developments would appear to indicate that the Spanish people are quite content to live under a monarchy, provided it is of the
in its powera.
There are grounds for thinking that Alfonso will yield to the force of public opinion and place tho direction of the country's affairs in the hands of men of liberal outlook,
a revolution or to overthrow the Royal House, but who do intend that the voice of the people shall be heard. The days of autocratie rule, whether in Spain or elsewhere, arc numbered. Dictatorships or
absolute monarchies
are contrary
to the spirit of the times. They must make way for healthier forins SHERRY-On the 18th February.of governance. This is the mean-,
at the Penk Hospital, to Mr. ing of the developments occurring and Mrs. J. P. Sherry, a son.
in Spain. If King Alfonso is wise ANNOUNCEMENT.
in his day and generation, be will submit to the inevitablo
an-
Mr. A. V. Harvey, Miss Audrey. MacLeod. The engagement is nounced between Arthur Vere Harvey, Reserve of Air Force Officers, elder son of Mr. A. W. Harvey and Mrs. Harvey. Kessingland, Suffolk, and Audrey, only daughter or Mr. and Mrs. Normint P. MacLem
Kelvinside, Glasgow, 'Ardedynn. Scotland. (Copy from London papers 20th January, 1931.)
An unknown Chinese boy, aged about eight years, died while being removed to Hospital yesterday as the result of being knocked down by a of tramenr in Des Voeux Rend Central.
on
THE TRUTH ABOUT:
ABERDEEN.
By George Malcolm Thomson.
SUPPOSE there is no spectacle especially after rain, it is a thing so distasteful to the right-of dazzling and glorious whiteness from minded Scot an that, of one which the Scot who comes his fellow-countrymen telling the dark-brown Lowland towns the truth about anything Scottish, has difficulty in recognising as For,
A shroff employed by the Gardendant of course, the average 'Calc-Jone of his own cities..
The forthcoming wedding to an-
In
lie serious condition.
F.
the
is compassed about by an
na
a
Banking Company, a Chinese con invisible army of useful legends As for meanness, it is a fast cern, is alleged to have disappeared, which have either been astutely that Aberdeon has the best sup from his post coincident with the dis- invented by himself or unselfishly ported charities in Britain. Its hospitals are superb, the sub- covery of the loss of nearly $4,000 provided by others. froni the colfern of the. Bank.
There is, for example, that scription lists for its good causes minble fiction which ascribes to would make London gasp. its
business which
more of half the smoke-room stories of constitutional order, strictly limited nounced of Mr. Thoman Kooey, who the Sect a degree of shrewdness church collections are a flat denial
In described as a U.S.A. world war pensioner, No. 54, Sai Kung Hond, Sasnenach can hope to emulate. the world.
Nor is this all. Municipally, the Kowloon City, to Mins Della Wong. How many simple fellow from the No. 6, Prince Edward Road, Kowloon North of the Tweed have been city in an example for foresight. permitted to get the better of men imagination and genuine public City.
with ten times their cunning spirit to the rest of Scotland. It A buarding-house runnar, named through the moral influence of is, among other things, a scasido Poon Sul, Wis stabbed during that powerful bluffi
resort of some eminence, with a an altercation with two other Chineso
And, when it comen to telling fine beach well-equipped with all board the 8.x, Suisang, at the men who have no desire to foment Kowloon Godown Wharves, yesterday, the truth about Aberdeen... This that is needed for popular holiday-
Is treason of n darker hue. It is making. was conveyed to hospital in alike minimising the size of the It has the best of the four Scots English Army at Bannockburn; It Universities in whose union Fout The Members of the 11.K.S. Brigade in like criticising "The Cottar's hear or used to hear-speaking Burns that would make Oxford_green R.A. (British Stair) Sergia Mess, Saturday Night at
is like rofusing to with envy. It has the Rowett. Kowloon, are holding a marles of whist Dinner; it
that modest national Institute, that wonderful now- drives and socials, on the 1st and 3rd. drink to Friday in each month, commencing at toast, "Here's tae us; wha's like house of creative science. It has 8.30 p.m. sharp. All friends are us!" For Aberdeen in the sub-above all, a lingering tradition of cordially invited. The series
com-jeet of a lend of truly imposing good living that has deserted oven mences on February 20,
dimensions.
Edinburgh. The best of the That unfortunate and solitary Eighteenth Century is still alive Mail has been received at American Consulate General for the raclite who has sojourned for in Aberdeen, for all its brisk and
forty years In the Aberdeen confident modernity. following persons:-C. W. Armstrong wilderness, unable to make enougli
The truth about Aberdeen W. R. Attaway, C. L Boender, L.
severely Bruce, Wm. M. Collier, P. Dry, Mra. to pay his fare home agnin, those that it is hardly Scots at all. It L. Garland, E. P. M. von Gebren, T. ships, deserted by experienced has never suffered too FHaskell. A. W. flogan, Mrx. S. E. gulls, whose port of registry from the harsh represssions and Johnson, G. H. Kester, A. II. Martin, Aberdeen, those fing-days illustrats grim Puritanism which conquered A. M. Martin, I de M. Matt, J. A.ed in, the postcards (postcards the rest of Scotland. Its motto is McGee, T. C. Moller, C. B. Olivarius, which are published in Dundoe), "Bon nccord," and its philosophy M. Openshaw, N. Shumaker. when Aberdeen becomes as a city has a flavour of healthy paganism. Wardley.
of the dead, those corpses A Socialist Marquis.
of The city which excelled all others wel- stubborn Aberdonians that are in the extravagance of its The remarkable letter address-
found beside machines which to come to James IV.a Tudor wife ed by Mr. George Lansbury to a
the has preserved a taste for flourish great strength will return
and pageantry which to the rost Here is indeed. penny.. London newspaper, and re-printed !
legend!
of the Scots appears an unprofit- last werk, bas, thanks, to an equally
Was it created by other Scotsable vanity.
to who felt they must pass on
But then Aberdeen has remarkable reply by Lord Brent-
someone the jokes of which they cared a hang what Scotland might ford, aroused immense interest in
themselves were the victims? Or think. When Scotland was Pres England. The lively controversy
did the Aberdonians invent it. as byterian, Aberdeen was (and to a still 'is) extent river department of Mr. Ford's organi- considerable was expected, the aroused has produced some very
Catholle and Episcopalian. It steamer Kwongsai, which groundsation used to concoct all the thoughtful comments upon the on Pratt Rocks early on Monday stoties about Ford cars? We shall stood for monarchy and loyalty cause of the industrial depression, morning on her way from Hong-ever know the truth of this, but when all Scotland was sold for that the the Bible-thumping democrats. some revolutionary
sugges-kong to Canton, was refloated the what is important is
same evening at high tide and hos legend of the Aberdonian who is Traditionally, one of the two col- tions for its remedy. One of the returned to the Colony. She came a thriftier, shrewder, dourer, and leges of Its University (a founda- thought-provoking comes down the river yesterday morning stingier Scot is the pureat non-tion which it owes to the Borgia If you go to Aberdeen ex-Pope) was always a stronghold of from the Marquis of Tavistock, under her own steam and untered sense.
She pecting to find the national idle-Catholicism and Royalism.
syncrasies of the Scot blooming In this city where, instead of heir to an estate reputed to be the harbour at about 10 a.m.
is now in Kowloon Docks. Litle, if any, surprise will
in the finest perfection you will the strong men struggling with worth £10,000,000, a washer of
The Kwongani WES carrying
be mistaken.
saxpences one expected, one finds felt at the news coming through dishes in a Y.M.C.A. hut during the from 700 to 1,000 passengers at the
and racy life. Instead, you will find a spacious enrefosa, generous time of the mishap, which, it is from Spain. It has long been ap
one might judge.now revealed, occurred at about of a graceful severity.
city, nobly planned, with buildings and the only real capital city in in which Britain outside London-is this parant that events in that countryyar, and now,
an out-and-out Socialist, using the 2 a.m. The s.s. Shing Cheong, pride and good taste proclaim Aberdeen really Scottish at all? It were moving towards a curtailment
term in its strictest sense. The running between Macao and Can-themselves. Here is none of the it to be noted that Aberdonitu of the power of King Alfonso, whose Marquis declared it to be a dis-ton, stood by, and to This whip the meanness and little of the squnlar dialect-is-the-only-genuine-divi conception of a monarch's role has tressing proof of the blindness of Kwongsai's passengers were trans-characteristic of the other Scottish sion of the Scottish tongue. When not accordled with that of the
the politiciana of all parties to ferred and laken to Canton.
which has a real community spirit.donian says "fat," and, doing so, economic facts that Mr. Lansbury majority of the people. The
Here are men who have made thefr betrays the presence in himself of granite, surely not the of some distant racial strain less picion has prevailed for many years
be cheapest of materials.
marked in his fellow-countryman. that the King himself has been be their differences in other direc-end decreasing with it, the idle, city
in self-preservation, would
The effect has been to multe Roughly, it may be said that the hind the Dictators who have beens, should agree in upholding compelled to return to work in
most in Aberdonian is a Pict and not the once excellent but now futile such numbers ns were needed. The Aberdeen one of the
tensely individual cities in the Scot. Anthropology has establish. nominally in charge of the nation's maxim: "If a man will not work, only thing wrong with the world: Under the gregeat skies eil the existence of a definite race- altuirs. That feelinge was wides neither shall he eat." We are nogestion is that no country has yet
Impressive: in sunshine,ferent from the pattern of the prend during the regime of Primo longer, he says, living in a pre-prepared itself for the creation of it has an austere dignity that is type in Aberdeen markedly dif
Scot. industrial age when production Utopia.
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THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
and
and
be
SUM-
most
and Lord Brentford, whatever
and productivity ware aliko strict- ly limited. The effect of civilisa- tion is to move the world steadily towards a reduction of the neces-
de Rivera,
it
he has come intensfied since the reins
taken
over by General Berenguer. Imlerri, Alfonso has heet regarded 14 the most sity for labour. However desir- abaclule rater Europe has seen for able it might be on moral and many years. Until quite recently, spiritual grounds that every per- it has been found possible to keep son should be engaged in some kind of creative activity, the
a Arm hand on liberal opinion, but world has reached the stage when all the time the forces of democracy the satisfaction of all the material have been at work until now the needs of the human race no longer King looks like being compelled to requires and cannot utilise even give way to progressive sentiment the moderate and reasonble In- if he wishon to save his Throne. hour of every able-bodied adult. Not once but many times within The time has come to break away the past few years Spain has been from the idea that a citizen is only entitled to an income if he can on the verge of revolution, a, fact draw wages or a salary from the which has caused the Royal House productive side of Industry. Wo much concern. One writer, com- need a system of national divi menting on the situation towards dends, whereby every citizen, rich the end of last year, remarked that or poor, in work or out of work, receives an equal sum of money, the King is no longer the smiling the amount boing. based on the monatch that he used to be, that country's production and produce he has aged greatly
the tivity. Then, at last, there would stress of recent events. Instead of be some chance of people being dashing about Europe, he was said able to buy all that they require. to be more like a prisonor in his that industry can produce and own castle in Madrid, almost afraid the present strangling kast would be cut. Unemployed persons, ins- to leave the capital in case he should tead of being a burden to the com- und or his return that a President munity and a misery to themselves had been installed in his place. would at least be able to live in Time was when his countrymen comfort and support these still in Ilked to know that their ruler was work by being customers for their 4 popular abroad as he was at goods. It would always pay a home. Then, the King had no cause man to get a job if he could, to worry over politics, for the wages would be in addition to na- tional dividend, while, if too many country ran itself peacefully ex became lazy and content to exist copt for, an occasional outburst of on a minimum, production would Catalonias rage. But events took decline and, "the
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Sub-consciously, the Aberdonian is aware of this. He will have no truck with the other Scottfali cities, which he suspects of boing inferior places, To London he may be willing to accord a grudg ing equality, but that la probably because he has been told that London is one of his satrapies.
If Scotland ever got Home Rule, Aberdeen would Instantly demand autonomy for herself, and would, be bought off with nothing less than the transfer to herself of the. national capital. In the moan timo, she contrives to be the most prosperous, the best-administered, the most intellectually vigorous, and the pleasantent of the Scottish cities.
T should oven go and live there myself (can a Scot say more?} }
I did not know that Aberdonians will never forgivé me for betray- ing the truth about them.
Great Actors
from the East.
By Charles B. Cochran,
.com-
CONSIDERING the close ties of
national friendship, diploma-, We understanding and merclat interest which unite the English people with titat other island folk of the East, it is sur- prising How little we have seen or the amazing virtuosity and var riety of Japanese
nese entertainers
Probably most folks' experience:
of Japaneso theatrical art is con-. Aned to "Madama Butterfly," "The Mikado," "San Toy, and the oc- (Continued on Pare T.)"