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reiga of herty, free speech and constitutional government. But Jins
power brings difficulties. It already been shown in Spain that'
the rule of law is easier to uphold
A
DAY BY DAY
WHEREVER THERE IS ARGUMENTA- from a prison cell during a dfc-
TION THERE IS SURE TO BE.SCEPTI tatorship than when running GISM. WHEN PEOPLE BEGIN TO REA- new administration based on pro- SON, A SHADOW HAS ALREADY FAL
For LEN ACROSS FAITH-Aforley. mises of popular liberties. example, many of the new Minis- We have received from Th. M. Rohn, ters had never tired, a revelu-Honorary Director of the longkong office of the Leipzig Fair, a very use. tionists, to denounce all forms of ful desk calendar, with porcelain base, censorship, but, once In
gins, earthenware and clay goods they have not hesitated to sup-who are regular exhibitors at the Fair. press. certain journals whose
Last week's return of notifiable views run contrary to their own. diseases shows three cases of typhoid Then there have been instances of fever, une imparted (one fatal), and four non-fatal cases of diphtheria, petty interference in connexion There were also 65 deaths from with the currenez
problem, pulmonary tuberculosis. Yesterday's
shows one further case what, of course, the great pro- diphtheria,
office. insued by anufacturers of china
return
A
I MEET THE REAL AMERICAN.
By RANDOLPH CHURCHILL.
FTER the first thrill of seeing jany in Grand Rapids?" I broke the Statue of Liberty and the in. "Why, yes," he replied, “i an Grand Central Station, all English-one. I am one hundred per cent. men who come to New York for the American; my ancestors came over first time settle down to the in the Mayflower!"" pleasure of meeting Americans. So now I knew. To call yourself Of course, I had met Americans a hundred per cent. American you
England, but I always doubted really have to be English.
I felt enormously flattered. I whether they were really typical of of their countrymon. And so 1 was had begun to despair a little of my determined, when/I came to Now country. Now I feel more proud York, to niet some "one hundred than ever before. The Tok and Heung Yuk, husband per cent. Americans." And wife, were charged before Mr. I found It quite surprisingly diffi- Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magistracy cult. I asked a taxicab driver- this morning, with having possession No, he said he was Irish. or fifty-one Po Piu lottery tickets,
I immediately got out of the War of Independence? and with keeping a gaming house at
woman taxicab and chartered another. But It did not Battery Street. The however, is that the provisional admitted the two charges, but the was in such a hurry to get away principle. America still belongs to
husband denied them. The police from the Irishman that I had the English. nccepted this plen, and the woman was already entered the next taxicab
It is true they call themselves necordingly fined $50 on eneh count, before I had looked at its driver.
д American and speak different He was a Negro. 1 resigned my language, but what does that matter bathing by day or self, and obtained-comfort from the in comparison with the fundamental Facilities for
are offered by the Popular thought that Americans were pro-truth of my discovery ? +
biem of the relationship of the Church and State is far from hav ing been adjusted. There are, in fact. innumerable problems which only a strong and united Govern- meal can tackle. The mischief, 109,
administration has been hopeless ly divided about everything but Republicanism.
night
The Indications are that the Resort, close to the Yacht Club at bably rich that they could afford
Point. There
tolerant
nten.
are excellent
about.
is 20 cents, Servicemen and children be discouraged.
What if Big Bill Thompsom stiil remembers George III, and Lord North? Ile has been thrown out.
Why need we worry about the
affect the main
Cortes will be decidedly Repath-North
I felt like Galileo or Copernicus lican in complexion, but no-one dressing-rooms for ladies and gentle hire other nations to drive them
fresh water showers, 1 yet knows how far to the Left the open-air terrace awnings, an light It was really very sensible of must have felt when, after years refreshments are provided. for them, 1 concluded, and I refused to of thought and work, they suddenly discovered the solution of their pre- centre of gravily will lie. It will not be sufficient for the Govern-| half-price, As the resort is on tite. The very next day after my arri-blems. I prayed I should not meet ment to pose an being as liberal route of the bus and tram services.val I was asked to a tomato-juice untimely end, ns Archimeden dld before he could announce his it should command a large patronagecocktail party, I WAS convinced
the world. I felt AS circumstabCOS
Bat here I should meet plenty of discovery to and
Grand Rapids disguised as a Greek Americans. permit; it will have to ninke
Well, there were four or five Eng-jand, carefully skirting Chicago, its mind whether it will side
Hishmen, half a dozen Austrians, one made my way home to England. the issue of property with the
Rumanian, and a man who said he It is only now that I am in Eng- tand that I realise the full impor- middle-class or the working-class.
was the brother of Greta Garbo.
They were all listening to a man tance of my discovery. The corol- There is same cause for misgiving
playing the plaño. He was playing laries that follow from the theorem his own works, they said.
are perhaps more important even 1am very unausical, but it seem than the main principle.
Bolsheviks have
been
1
up
to
WATER LEVELS.
DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.
was
The following table, issued by if the position is analysed. The the Kwangtung River Conservancy
busy in Commission, ahows in English feet) Spain latterly. They pin their the water levels on the West River,ed to me that nothing could be more
As we apparently still own Ani- North River and East River on the typically American than this music,
I breathed, the soul of New York. hopes ou an ignorant peasantry, dates named:
erica it is really rather ailly to go the seent! 011
1 on paying them £100,000 a day for June June some of them land-hungry, and
28 29 waited till he had finished playing, having won the war. on industrial groups in the South
West River at Shiuking 30.5 31.0 and then engaged him in conversa- Then again there's not much which are described as of varying North River at Sanshul
tion. Carefully edged towards point in their maintaining · a North River at Tsingyuen 208 22.2 discussion of nationalities. He had separate nagy. We had better unite tinges of "Red." It is open question whether there is in Spain Est River at Sheklung 118 come over from Russia when he was them.
The highest levels recorded are: three! a sufficient nucleus of Communista Shluhing, 41 feet; Tsingyuen, to establish a dictatorship of the 29.2 feet; Samshui, 27.3 feet;
Blind with disappointment and before us. It's true that we are giving away India and Egypt for Sheklung, 11.6 feet,
sated with tomato juice, I wandered the safe World Idealism," but we proletariat, but that the historical
The lowest levels on record are down Madison-avenue. syndicalism of Spain could be minus 5 feet at Sumahui and easily utilised for Bolshevik pur-minus 2.7 feet at Sheklung. clepests, and that propaganda from Moscow is being carried on, there no doubt. Whether the saner elements will dominate the situa- tion remains to be seen.
THE OUTLOOK IN SPAIN.
It is now clear that the tions in Spain have, in the main, assured a majority in the Cortes For the Republican-Socialist re- gime brought into provisional be- ing as a consequence of the recent revolution. As was to be expecl- ed, however, the Catalonian pro- blems has again obtraded.
Classics for Cabinets.
One of Mr. Ramsay One of Donald's first discoveries on
il
*
Now we have a wonderful future
I gazed with awe at the buildings can regain America and make it which by the genius of Bir. safe for democracy." Chrysler and Governor Smith can Canning's principle of "bringing in lift the mind out of the contemplathe New World to redress
All we have to do la to revert to
balance of the old."
I
the
taken by those who would make tion of mundane matters. all the treasures of knowledge I felt spiritually elevated.
With my rediscovery of this I travers- available to those who need them would travel and forget.
Portland large portion of the British Empire, moat. Indeed, the greatest dimed the Continent from
(Maine) to Portland (Oregon) and trade will revive, unemployment will eulty will lie not in the selection from Augusta (Maine) to Augusta decrease, and the Empire will be of books, nor in their collection-Į (Georgia).
consolidated. This may be tough. for there will always be more than In Buffalo I read a large placard on Mr. Gandhi and all the Little enough persons ready And au-er the railway station which told Englanders, but it's all 0. K. with Maxkus, even at a small
the world that "Buffalo Is theme. Coal to
second largest Polish
populated themselves, to provide the Gay-town in the United States.
the
by chance I happened on my quarry. Strange,
*
*
of the fascination stamps. Clerks collect them while
The men who cater for the hubit
room
It contains a collection of collec- tors on whom the sun never sota. Above innumerable little tables In- numerable little placards flaunt the
the reasons of the failure of Al-suming the, Premiership was that ernment with ideas--but to insure I began to realise the futility of PHIPPS sees a. fonsa's reign was the steady re- Britain did not provide her lead that the books are read. For this my search. During all these Cour
adequate purpose Mr. MacDonald is be-months I never spoke of my quest. WORLD STAMP-EDE. fusal of the King and his advisersing Ministers with an
supply of books. The official re- to settle what used to be known sidence contains suficient litera ments.
lieved to have made no arrange-In fact. I believe I really had effac
ed all memory from my mind when) But at least, when the as Spain's "Irish problem." When ture, it is true, to enable each library is complete, and mil the revolution berang fail sneceeding Prime Minister to dis- English poets are arranged in the
It was in a little town where they they are still leking them, and accompli, the Government found cover what Mr. Gladstone really shelyns, indexed, and easily ac-make furniture-Grand Rapids millionairea collect them when they flat the Catalonians' would need did say in 1884, but complete re-cessible to any secretary in a (Mich.). to be very carefully handled if ports of Parliamentary debates, a hurry, there will be less excuse if I was sitting next to a man at have forgotten what they taste like. a much- those literney quotations in which dinner. I was talking about New are awarming just now to the real trouble was to be avoided. Statesman's Year Book, Not long afterwards, it was off-thumbed dictionary and a few Mr. Baldwin loves to indulge give York and praising its many merits. International Stamp Trade Bourse, He said, "New York is a lousy which is being held at the Holborn technical volumes can hardly bo rise to misunderstandings on the Burg-there aren't any ren! Am- Restaurant, London. The cially announced thut Colonel described as sufficient for the in Government benches.
ericans there "But are there presents a gloriously cosmopolitan Macia, the veterun leader of the tellectual nourishment of Cabinet
flavour. Separatists, had agreed to accept Ministers or the ordinary require- a federal constitution, but thements of their secretaries. Mr. was far too documenta were never published, Ramsay MacDonald and Colonel Maciu asserted that busy in the curly days of his he had only promised to hold his Ministry to give this mutter his attention, but recently he invited hand until the Cortès met. He
present Parliamen- past and added that if the Catalonians were tarlans to contribute books to a then given what they wanted, all library which is to be housed in would be well, but if the Cortes the Cabinet Room. Mr. Muc- refused their terms, war would be Donald has always been a great declared. At the moment. the hellover in adult education, and Macia party has secured most of there is no reason why facilities the seats allotted to Catalonia into continue, or, in necessitous cases, to begin, a course of litern- the Cortes, but, even so, there is
ture should not be extended talk of the establishment of a Cabinet ministors. As suitable separate Republic. Obviously, gifts to the library he has special. the Separatist movement Is stilly commended works of history one to be reckoned with.
and economies, the lives and
to
Cabinet
The revival of Parliamentary speriches of statesmen, and the Government in Spain does not English.classica in
prose and mean that the country's troubles verse. It has been tactfully- ndd- ed that members of the Cabinet are now all over.. Far from it, Time alone will show whether the should be asked to present their own books if they have written new Government will prove more any, or, if they have not. books durable thun similar regimes set which they think the up in other countries which have fought to rend. The latter opens overthrown discredited autocracies. a vory wide fold" of preference, istory has shown that when and oven prejudice. "Books," said Cowper, "are not seldom Kings are deposed in, bloodless re- volutions, all seems fair sailing talinmana and spells" and it la
obvious that the talismans for a time, but ero long the prac-spolle which a Labour Minister ticalities of the situation have to may wish to 1180 are precisely bo faced. As long as the funda- those which might prove an em- mental issue of property in avoid- barassing Inheritance to his Con- ed, the working-class and the servative successor in office. Risks middle-class unite to acclaim the of this kind, however, have to be
and
"But, my dear, these young men you're inviting to your wedding-are you sure you're not still engaged to any of them ?!!
names of philatelic firms. It is
World stamp-ede.
肆
There, for instance, you may ex- perience the pleasant illusion that only two yards Reparates Madrid. from Wimbledon Park. Just here, Hamburg hobnobs with South Hackney. At the far end of the room Brussels negotiates with Bromley.
The Balt.
On the same principle as prompts enormously fashionable modistes to display just one creation in a plate- glass prairio, the dealers in raro stamps exhibit just enough to tan- tailse the connoisseur. An open album, a small, grubby stamp-that la the bait. The catch' may run into four figures.
At the other end of the scale I noticed the hectically window-drea- sed envelopes designed to usurp the position of acid-drops in the school. boy budget. In the early stages: the stamp-addlet falls to sheer force of numbers.
The tools of the trade were there too, Hinges for the workmanlike, tweezers for the dainty, perforation gauges for the doubtful, and magni- fying glasses for the still unconvinc- ed.
Accidentally falling overboard from a fishing boat in Aberdeen yesterday, the wife of the master was drowned v and, her body subsequently recovered, later being removed to the Publle Mortuary: The woman was working on the boat when during a sudden squal, she lost her lialance.