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DAY
BY DAY
IT IS A GREAT and noble SECRET, THAT OF CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOM,
WHICH JIAS. GIVEN TO VS THE LARGEST LIBERTIES.-Gladstone.
THIS FREEDOM.
By MAY EDGINTON. ›
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The return of notifiable disensus for the week-end shows one Chinese caso TT is hardly fecessary for any year for twenty-three years at of diphtheria.
"Ex-Service."Apart from the per- sonalitica contained in your letter, we not think that publication will do serve any really useful purpösē,
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the first number of which is to hand.
autocracy of the Party during the period of tutelage, and it may be argued either that the Government has been wise in claiming, the au- thority of the Founder for a change which is of vital importance to the nation, or alternatively that the
accustomed reader of contom Olympia. porary fiction to wonder what Mr.: I do not even begin to anumerate Government has made crafty use of
A. S. M. Hutchinson meant when the costly and the exquisite which, the demand to further ends of its
he wrote "This Freedom."
side by side with the cheap and The novelist was writing an the humble things, you will find own which will only appear in the
Impassioned book about and there. There is not space hora for Aequel. It is in this connexion
against this freedom" for me to write of the model houses, Among residents returning, by the woman.
the neroplanes, the jowels, the particularly interesting to note that
But long before Mr. Hutchinson antiques, the artists' gardens, the in his discussion of the position of 8. Tatsuta Maru on Saturday wore
Blahop and Mrs. Duppuy, the Bev. was staggered by women's "from touring caravans to name a few the International Settlement vis-a-and Mrs, C. D. Shann, the Rov. II. V. dom." long before all classes and items picked at random. vis the Chinese authorities Judge Halward, Mr. and Mrs. H, 11. H. types of women became "news" as Where I find romance is in
Priestley and Mr T. E. Pearce.
they are to-day, a very great nows-things like these: Featham
emphasises that until
had very great vision,
A set of "collaretes." What are We heartily welcome the appearance Patton was truly of freedom, they? Just a series of in plate China is provided with a Constitu- tion she is under arbitrary rule, of another school magazine, The Lion for women, but it v was never called rims by means of which a woman took can transform her old-fashioned and that therefore there is no bodyIt is the organ of the Central British by this name. The vision of law and no justiciary Indepen-School, which has risen since 1010 shape: It manifested itself in the saucepans into a two-, three-, or
from B
school of approximately 100 performance of one of the very four-tiered steamer,
You dent of the executive to which ap students, the majority of whom were greatest services ever rendered to
steamer is axpensive. But peal can be made. The second in kindergarten or Junior classes, to a womankind as a whole, and it is tiered steamer o., thren, or four-
secondary school with 240 pupils on the vision of this great newspaper the collarettes are not.
And I find romance in a certain the roll. Comprising fifty pages, the which has freed women to-day. chapter of the proposed law con-
The sum first issue contains many interesting The vision was no airy dream. preparation that abolishes black- tains, the Bill of Rights.
contributions from students, covering It was substantiated into a fact leading, because I think of the maries suggest that
a wide variety of subjects. We wish called the Ideal Homo Exhibition. saving of some woman's hands. adequate statement of the liberties the venture every success.
I like to think of certain tops There are always diehards who uphold the slave system to think that can be fitted to an old kitchen and duties of the citizen, and if it
of woman's emancipation as ex-table, so that a mere wipe-over perienced by flying from Clapham with a cloth, instead of scrubbing.. became effective, which unfortun-
to Martaban; by achievement at is the order of the day. ately is not the same as saying if
I like to think of the bed that sport-motor racing, crack tennis, it is adopted by the Convention,
squash racquets; Channel swim will fold away, transforming a
We rend its ex- bedroom into a sitting-room, would do much to relieve the coun-
ming, and so on. pression into the fact of women I like to think, aleo, of that try from the present arbitrary rule,
Invading business and the pro- furnishing firmy, which, cager in would meet the criticisms which
fessions..
this-terrific competition organised Dr. Hu Shih so weightily brought
When you hear a diehard cry by The Daily Mail, takes old furni- violently What are women coming ture in part exchange for new. against the Government, and would
to?" this is what he means.
Guess at the number of women give China a different standing in
who will be made happy by that discussion with foreign nations. The other chapters deal with ques tions relating to the relations of the central and local governments,
serve to detract the diehards' at-years, because progress was openly tention from the field on which demanded of it. Women are ask- the programme of the Government
Police Training School.
the real battle is being won; and ing for thermostatically controlled during the period of Tutelage, the
cookers and grilla and hotplates, The weekly clannas for Police Re- that is all. repeal of any laws previously mudeservists at the Police Training School,
They have long abjured the Moreover, they are comparatively which are found not to harmonise Kowloon, will be held as usual on at least to us housewives the labour-wasting old brass tapa. Tuesday, May 19th at 5.30 p.m. All luxury women of the world. They should obtain all the hot water for They know now that they can and with the spirit of the Yuch Fah members of the Chinese Company and go to Deauville, and the Riviera family without exhausting man of the Flying Squad who have not and the Lido, and Palm Beach. (to use this time the Chinese name
yet passed Part 2 of Training Course They yacht, they hunt, they dinere. The most impecunious The circumstances in which the for the Law we are discussing), should attend.
at a sum per head on which we of housewives has her thoughts on central heating-beyond her feach People's Convention is meeting and By Laws. During the discus-
should keep at least one person at present, maybe, but who can make it difficult to estimate its sions, on the draft of the Law, the
very nicely for a week.
foretell the future? valur. The time given to the meet- subject of Education was introduc-will attend Central Police, the papers when they air their though, Heaven knows, they have
They make effective pictures in
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MONDAY, MAY 11, 1931.
CHINA PEOPLE'S CONVENTION.
POLICE RESERVE.
ORDERS FOR THE COMING
WEEK.
Police Reserve Orders by the Hon.
Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.Q., state:
General
regular
•
Revulver Iractice-The
take revolver practice will Weekly pince at the Bowen Road Revolver But these women are in such a condition! Range on Wednesday, May 13th, 17.00 small minority that they hardly hours, It will be open to members Lucratch the surface of the old of the Chinese Company, Hongkong household-slave system. They immense strides during these last Police Reserve.
Chinese Company.
All recruits of the Chlucne Company
Squad on Thursday, May 14ch
ment of government to which the Apparently two major projects On. discussion of no matter affeeling of administration are being discus- the State would be foreign. Careed. It is proposed to abandon the
Lo
14th
p.m. under
v?
Domestic engineering has taken
womanliness and housewifeliness, and the femininity of wearing a tradition of labour-wasting, of of ugly, Paris frock even when, on their strength-sapping homes, of spelled
personal discomfort, expensive and leisurely travels, hands and spelled looks, and the from what we gather, eternal coping with an eternal job shelkh in with the worst of tools and the meanest of resources,
with a
But now this freedom! Of which perhaps we should still speak softly, leat the legions of our
critics be upon us!
all us household women, while our. Who can foretell the future of newspaper bucks us up?
Flylag Sqund.
Squad Dri-All recruits of the has, however, been taken to restrict present provincial divisions and to Flying Squad will attend Central carrying on
they are, Station for Squad Dri the subjects which may be brought substitute for them some 70 smaller Police
03 desert. before the Convention, and it is arras; and it la at the same time |1.5.
Thu 333 A. W. Moo
They have their faces lifted, and unlikely that any subject which has proposed to develop local respon- The weekly instructional patrol of their figures are kept slim by Both the Kowloon Section will take place Tingsage instead of house-cleaning. not previously commended itself to faibility and government.
on Tuesday, May 12th. Fail in at the What are they to us? the Nanking Government will be these are moves in the direction of Taim-tsa-tsul Fire Brigado Station at What are they to the millions of
Dress-laki Uni household women trying despera allowed
be aired. It s
one 15.30 p.m. sharp, a true democracy. On the
farm and Cap with Khaki Cover.
tely, year in and year out, to make apparent also that the meeting hand the abolition of the large pro- Special Duty-Members who are two short ends meet, to make. is not really representative of the vincial areas would be a blow to detailed for special duty at the Races bricks without straw? nation. The franchise is restricted the still dangerous feudalism of the on Saturday, May 16th at 13.30 hours when we have time to read about How PHIPPS would
will-parade si Central Police Station They are just pretty reading to different provincial and muni-
war-lords. The seventy adminis
There will be instructional paten them. That they achieve "free- cipal organisations, labour unions,trative areas would be much more for the Hongkong Section on Friday. dom" does not interest us.
May 15th, 1031.
They CLEAN UP CHICAGO. agricultural unions, chambers of
always had it. closely linked to Nanking than the
Sharpshooters' Company. and the Kuomintang: provinces can be.
Our great newspaper-all, wo- On the other
men think of it secretly as "nifne" even among These it is obvious that hand the people would learn how Barnes has been permitted to resign-and twenty-three years ago It Strength.-Constable R417 W. G. knew all about us. It dreamed only those who support the policy of to rule themselves in their. many having completed me year's service began to tell us the dream.
over the week-end," was my trenchant reply to an admirer the Government could safely go to districts. With these proposals are with effect for May 6th, 1931.
Equipment Cards, All inembers of
Them brains behind it knew. that whose voice came over the wire as Nanking. Against these considera-included the abolition of the com-the Company who have not yet sent woman's freedom begins where clearly as if he were speaking from
cards to the she will live-In the home.
the Isle of Wight; which, in point tions are to be set the fact that millee system of government which back their equipment
0. i/c. Co. are requested to do so at
of fact, he was, China is as yet unused to demo at present exerts so pernicious an cracy, and few of the people will influence on the magistrates, play-
(Sgd.) D. L. KING, feel distressed ut not having a vote. ing into the hands of those who will while the assembly of as many as make it worth the while of the com- five hundred and fifty delegates mittees and making the lot of the must lead to at least some discus-more responsible, and honourable sion, in the course of which unex-oficials difficult. pected develoments may take place,
commerce
and
80
to
opinions uired
bc
which could not be foreseen by the Government. Moreover there is much general goodwill the Revolution, and 20 sensitive an appreciation of foreign criticism, that numbers of the peo-. plt will be mesmerised by the name
ASSAULT ÖN RICKSHA COOLIE.
INDIAN MOTOR DRIVER CONVICTED..
Convicted on a'charge of assault- ing A ricksha coolie in Nathan of the Assembly, and consider theul-Rond, near the President Apart- selves adequately represented, alments last night, an Indian motor though they have had no voice in car driver, Anub Singh, was fined. $5 by Mr. Hamilton at the Kow- the election.
loon Magistracy this morning and The main subject before the Confurther ordered to pay the caolio vention would seem to be the pro- $10 compensation. posal which has been variously The defendant, according to nored in English a Provisional Inspector Clark, had engaged the
ricksha complainant's
without Constitution, a Reurganisation Law my apparent destination. After and a Bill of Rights. In this are the coolie had traversed several Included most of the bly problema strecta in Yaumati he asked the defendant for payment was but which the Convention will be called refused. He was then assaulted upon to tackle. According to the by the defendant, published summaries the Law is The defendant's story was that divided into Boven chapters. The he was about to pay the coolle first rehearses the "Outline for and had taken out a roll of notes from his pocket. Seeing the National Reconsruction" propared money, the coolie attempted to by Dr. Sun and adopts it as the pro-anatch it and then ran away. He gramme of the Government. It is collided with a fence on the zide of the road and thus received his claimed that the calling during the injuries. Period of Political Tutelage of a'
His Worship, however, accepted People's Convention is part of that the coolle's story,
once,
Her freedom is evolving quietly by means of auch Innovations as D.S.P. (R). have been presented to her every
"If I only had a job, this morning Instead of getting up and looking for work, I'd just stay home from it,"
"I WOULD clean Chicago
My admirer had asked me what I should do if I were Mayor of Chicago-a question which, in re- cognition of my vast municipal ex- perience, innumerable people have been putting to me during the last few days.
Before, however, I outline my proposed regime, I intend to make a few preliminary remarks on How I should become Mayor of Chicago
a very important point,
Well, first of all should appeal straight to the heart of the electora through some such political medium as a soup-kitchen. (Al Capone has found it highly successful, and now canvasses solely on mulligatawny.) I should probably follow this up with the establishment of an In- visible mending depot for armour- ed shirts-or,, as they are locally known, armoura "propres,
After that nothing could stop me from smashing my opponents and I should sweep up to the city hall with the finest troop of folk dancing elephants obtainable in the United States.
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Once in office I should not at- tempt to clear the gangsters but: I should reform them. The only trouble with the racketeers and the
Tough Guys, ther from an Inferiority Complex: think nobody loves them.
Consequently. I should appeal to their Better Selver, and show them. that as far as Public Opinion went the boot was on the other legger.
Then again I should teach them manners. They would soon res
pond to my little lectures on Squeal ing In Public, and ruining their i digestions by taking zone another on those nasty bumpy rides which,, I understand, nas, a temilt of the bad local road conditions, Flanlly. I should confiscate all their rum; and fill them with Public School Spl