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"Now," thundered the teetotal lecturer at his somewhat weary audience, "can any person here give me n solitary instance of any good results altained by consuming alcohol?" "Yes," replied a countryman. "My own father drank three gills of whisky a day, and lived to tho nge of 80, and-" "But shouted the tempestuous lecturer, "If he had not drunk the whisky he might have lived to a 100." "You didn't let me finish." enmo the reply. "When my father died, he was buried at in own special request at the bottom of our garden, and when, some six years later, the rallway company bought our land for their new line, we exhumed the old boy, and by god! he was even then a better-looking spreimen of a man than you Arc now."
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TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1931.
European politica at a time like BVDRIERERANDE UNERIERES the present. Neither do we Ulco
the mixing up of the Moratorium Issue with specifically political quen-!
tions such as the Anschluss. As
we have remarked, this savours for too much of seeking to extort a bargain from Germany, in return fur the ald to be rendered. Looking
DAY BY DAY
WITH SOME THE WORD "LIBERTY" MAT MEAN FOR EACH MAN TO DO AS
PLEASES WITH HIMSELF AND THE PRODUCT OF HIS LABOUR WHILE WITH OTHERS, THE BAME WORD MAY MEAN FOR SOME MEN TO DO AS THEY
at the situation in the large, and | PLEASE WITH OTHER MEN AND THE remembering that France alone of PRODUCT OF OTHER MEN'S LABOUIL
Abraham Lincoln. the creditor nations has sought to
lay down stipulations almost from
Quarantine Festrictions have been the very day on which the Mora-imposed against arrivals from Swatow
on account of cholera. im- torium offer was made, the pression ha undoubtedly been created that the French are animat. ed, if not by a feeling of hatred towards "Germany, at least by a spirit of mistrust. That impres- sion has, of course, long persisted:
That
Government Dole- Drawers.
By The Right Hon. WINSTON CHURCHILL, P.Ć, M.P.
the development of the past few from the effects of an overdose of and tuner at once alarming posture and exploitation in avery
There have in recent months bveni
They deleted from the Statute
REMEMBER when I was tra- So far from attempting to re- velling in the United States form the Dole, the Government at olghteen months ago, and our new the beginning of 1830-at a time Bound for Manila, Mr. . w. Socialist Government enjoyed its when unemployment was increns- Watson arrived here by the sleeting heyday, that the questioning and when the strictest imita- right- President McKinleys She in the wife most frequently asked by the tion of the State bounts to of the Secretary of the Rotary Inter-friends of England was "whether fal and deserving cases. was im- reform the abuses and and Trade Union presatire, open- perative-actually under Socialist national of Los Angeles,
they would insolvency of
of the Dole."
Removed to the Government Civil
question has been answered the doors more widely to in- Hospital on Sunday lant
form. suffering ed in a
The answer that
but they cannot, not only weeks have served to strengthen it.opium, a woman nams! Leung Sam-
bes don't intend to try. Book, as though it were a blot, the Fistertional hopes were placed provision that an unemployed per If this is not a true representation mul, of 212, Johnson Road, died at 5 that
pan. yesterday.
by short-sighted and ill-informed on, before coming on his fellows of French policy. then it would
tu cip Slight
injuries to the tog were persons upon the courage, austeri-or the Dole, should at least show have been far better had
which Me. that he was "genuinely seeking received by Ho luk, as employee of ty and civic virtor mands whatever been made on Gierthe Hongkong Hotel Garage at Stubbs Snowden was said to have display work."
When last summer the swift mudy. The times call for en-opera-Road when he was neeldentally knock-out The Mague.
rd down by Kam Fuk, a licensed driver Here was a man who would be and appalling growth. of the un- tion and goodwill, not for distrust who was parking his car in the garage strong in every direction, audcmployed could no longer be con-
shortly after midnight.
would show that a labour ad-tested by false optimism, the and suspicion.
ministration was capable of deal Prime Minister, who had shown Whilst working on a machine at the ing worthily and fearlessly in the himself destitute of any construc Those who have suggested that Gerongkong Rege Works at Smithfield, public interest with the grave protive comedy for sur failing trade, manys plight is not nearly West Point, yesterday a Chinees of the times. The results emerged from some conference or ather to make & pronouncement serious as she pretends; in other employee of the factory, nament Tsangre now before us.
Kin, aged 30, had Anger crushed, The enormoun rise in the num-upon unemployment insurance. exaggerated e was taken to the Government Thors of the unemployed from one words, that she has
He appealed for co-operation of to gaining Civil Hospital for treatment,
million to 2400,000 has raised the jall three parties in dealing with a they facts with a view
condition of the Unemployment problem perhaps beyond the some relief from the reparations.
Mgr. Gregorio Aglipay, Archbishop Insurance Fund to the first rank power of anyone. Accordingly. delc- VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED arden. Here, again, we encounter of the Pilipiss Independent Church at our domestic questions.
Arrived Jurre by Libe Presklent
The subject was one to which a gates sat in friendly
sacri- to impute stekinky en te to Manila. He has Labour Party might have been ex-Socialist Ministers. They the Reich, bevA OR vixi, 1 the United States,
invitation on
of American pected to bring especial aptitudes Beed a large portion of their sum
the
Was mer holidays, they surveyed the Worthy motives to The happenings of the past few Unitarian Association.
and experience. There field in which they could have field, and before Parliament met days, however, have left no on
id greater nation
national reputa-in the autumn they were on the of arriving at definite for doubt as to the gravity of the
fion; there was no fold in which verge their inherent weakness, incapa- agreed conclusions. crisis reached in Germany The in-
The mere rumour terrified the vity and lack of moral fibre has
Cabinet. dustrial and banking suspensions
been so glaringly exposed. The fier
The financial condition of un-| refeet the naked truth.
employment insurance -man tepublic is, without the least
become catastrophic. shadow of doubt. In a parlons state. It is for this reason also that we
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TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1931,
n regrettable tendency
FIRE IN STEAMER.".
CARGO OF NORWEGIAN VESSEL DAMAGED.
Harsh Taxation,
KU
Conservative and unell with
They know well that the charag- now ter and composition of their party would never enable them to adopt ja' wise and statesnianlike treat.
ment of unemployment relief.
Bangkok, July 6. According to a message receiv- Despite the contribution from deplore any attempt at this Junced here by the local agents fire the Exchequer of 15 millions
Lure to wring concessions from a broke
country in such dire straits. Such a policy does not square with our THE CRISIS IN EUROPE.onceptions of fair play. Had the Brusting Government resigned and hern replaced by a Nazi regime, Yesterday it would have been the consequences might easily prove diflicult to write in the European disastrous, involving, possibly, civili situation in anything letat awar in Germany and a pudiey of 1 soch an pessimistic vein.
Developments repudiation outside.
of Europe hal Frached such a point that went, the last state almost anything seemed possible, would be infinitely worse than the Happily. however, the news is first. ninch brighter today. It was not Jenra yesterday that Germany had rejected the
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out
the Norwegian
Want of Candour.
+
steamer Hiram, when the vesseir, simust the cost of the Royal To ask a British Socialist Gor- Navy, the Fandi 80 millions in crument to purge the abuse of the was 36 hours out of Swatow
debt aral is plunging deeper at the dole or put its funds into solvency the way to Bangkok.
rate of one million a week.
is like asking a fish to climb i That is not what he is for: Considerable damage was done By this time next year its debt hit.
the bolds. will be 1:30 millions and the whole he is not made that way. to the carge in two of
three- effects of the National Sinking At nil costs, then, the Fund during Mr. Snowden's party committee must be broken tenure will have been completely ap before it confronted the Gar destroyed.
ernment with embarassing advice. Harsh taxation far above the Broken up it was accordingly. level of any
h
The Chancellor of the Exche- been imposed upon the British ger had the effrontery to declare the House It was useless taxpayer, and our industrial and commercint difficulties aggravated to continue, as the Conservative thereby. The prospect of Farther and Leral delegates "had no re- burdens and further injury looma medies to suggest,” before us
This was a signal instance of
EUROPEAN MURDERED
IN SINGAPORE. ·
SEARCH FOR ASSAILANT STILL UNSUCCESSFUL.
Singapore, July 7.
French demands for the cessation time is ripe for a radical improve Singapore, on Sunday night, The lowes it
now
Was
other country
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that
The Chosen Men.
-in
con-
ence; they professed themselves eager for its report. The Chan- cellor of the Exchequer founded upon the
This Budget optimisa mako.
groat savings it
In spite of a rigorous search for "If evor a Chancellar of the Ex-meanness towards political oppo- the Chinese who stabbed and choper should have maske an of-nents and waat of candour to the Congestion. Parliamentary
killed Thomas William Guntor, am fort to erect a patent abuse, this public,
in Wikie
Government Bond, was the necasion.
By this time the Most people will agree that the Englishman,
110 He owes it to his reputation; he had no doubts about the lines on it to his pledges; he owes it which the problem should be suly- of Battleshiji construction and thement in Britain's present parta-arrest has yet been ade.
Austrimuntary system. Some substituteder i elleved to be in hid-fin economie fustier to those he is ed. Too well they knew, anti-
taxings he owes ing in Singapore.
to his co withi renunciation
a desperate effort to conceal the of tho
Gunter, who was 51 years of men, sa rendy to treat kim
proper measure from Parliament, German Custom Union. She could į soould be found for the procesince hardly be expected to alo otherwise, which permits of such an enormous age, was returning home from the indulgence and show him honour and to gait a further breathing
Hopeless. hopeless, overweight. Waste of tinte in getting legislation Alhambra Theatre in a ricksha no-
pace in which they could Whilst there is some logic in the rough the committed stage, and companied by a Chinese woman ed. cowed. Mr, Snowden, for all time shovelling out the public French affitude in regard to war-the easiest method is probably that when he was attacked and fatally his brave words and high profes money to those whom they hope slobbed. On Aug. G last year sons. has been content to desert will be their supporters, they op- | ship construction, uone the less we diregating much that is
Gunter was stabbed in
his duty, to retain his office, and pointed a Royal Commission. expertStreet by
to toe the party line. Straits-born Chinesa
It was to be experi; it was to cannot but deplore the lack of trust done in Parliament to an
Wh This abject condition has been be impartial; which the presentation of this de-body outside. It is an issue that named Lim Ah Seng, who mand implied. On the Customs has been discussed over and over subsequently sentenced to thres reached through a maze of dila Trouble tory manoeuvres and in a cloud Union issue, we see little ground again, and little headway has been month imprisonment.
the of improvident hopes. falsified, as reis said to have arisen over
The men were chosen by thent- made. Mr. Winston Churchill
woman who accompanying on as they were expressed, by selves; they framed the refer for the French stand; the demand cently appeared before the ComCunter when he was murdered. brutal facts. savoured too much of political bar-mittee on Parliamentary Procedure gaining to be palatable at this to advocate his own pet scheme for juncture.
an economic sub-parliament. He We have and the French have wants an assembly, nominated by a measure of logic on their side the party lenders, presumably in in asking Germany to refrain from proportion to their representation further warship ocnstruction dur-in the House, to represent economic interests and experts knowledge, to Ing the period in which she is re-
which economic measures would be ceiving financial aid from
referred after passing their second Us einborate Powers. Let
the Commons. This rending in point by presuming the French special subsidiary,parliament would standpoint to be that if Germany be granted no legislative power, but declares her inability to balance her it would act as an advisory body, Budget except by securing outside and it would serve as a substitute help, the Berlin Government can for the detailed discussion of Bills, hardly complain if it is suggested clause by clause, in the committee stage in the House of Commons. that at least some money be savedIt is not quite clear, however, how by cutting down on naval expen-Mr. Churchill would reconelle party diture, But whilst there is a cer- nominations with economic in- tal amount of reason in this at- terents. There is a strong case for titude, we cannot overlook the point some sort of council or commission) that France seemingly
with powers similar to those prp- regards German naval construction as a posed by Mr. Churchill, but thero threat to her own security, and, I are serious doubts whether his par
the
the
ade
ticular scheme would serve that is the animating motive inquately the obiect aimed at. The making the demand, it surely im-mero delegation of party squabbler plios a regrettable measure of die- to a separate body of selected not necessarily trust. In this connexion, it mustaquabblers would
not be forgotten that Germany, hasten the passage of important legislation, the principal purpose of like the other big Powers, is n
the advocates of change. The idea signatory to the No-War Pact. Tos one that needs vantilating in the suspect her of ulterior designs is hops that n satisfactory plan will equivalent to accusing her emerge. It is quite clear that hypocrisy in subscribing to the something must or should be done Kellogg Pact. That auroly is not to relieve Parliamentary conges Ja spirit which ought to prevail Intion.
of.
rather soe Maurice
And now we have the report: 10w we have recommendations which If carried out would sav 24 millions in a single year, and which would purge the Dole of some of its most flagrant abuses. It is not possible for the Gov- ernment to say, as they did un- truthfully of the Conservative Liberal delegates.
that nothing
and
has been suggested. We have before, us the proposals of their own Royal Commission for dealing with Anancial crisis and a so- cial scandal, set out in black and white. What are they going to. do about it?
Here is the Infamy of their con- duct. They have, woken up to the fact that in their party interesta at this unhappy time, lax and lavish expenditure on the Dole is desirable. It is good electioneer. ing. So far from wishing to remedy the abuses, they are plan- ning to catch the "dele-vote" by ahielding them.
With 2,000,000 electors on the Dole and probably as many more who take a turn at. it during the year, and the dependants of all these millions, the dole-votu is probably a highly important fác
tor.
The Ident Revealed.
It saved the Socialist candi- date at Gateshead, The Ident stands revealed "Government of the Dole-drawara, by the Dole drawers, for the Dole-drawers."" Is to this pitch that a few more
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