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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1931.
PARLIAMENT OLD AND NEW.
In a week's time, when
how complete the changed
faction to him to know that his self-sacrificing action at this gea- ture, in placing the country's wel- fare above those of party or even hisown interests. is so widely| admired.
DAY BY DAY
COMMUNISTS REGARD THEM FELLOW-MEN AS CREATURES TO NE DRAGOONED INTO OBEDIENCE TO THE
DICTATES OF THE STATE, BY WHICH, OF COURSE, THEY MEAN THEMSELVES. -Neeta If, Webster.
The usual monthly whist drive held In St. John's Cathedral Hail will not take place during September.
The Cheerful Habit of 'Doing Without.' By BEVERLEY NICHOLS.
ROOJI
Another first principle of life which helps you to choose your economies is the paramount im portance of work.
my
Labour. as represented by Mr. Henderson and his supporters, does, not figure at all well in the
HAVE not met an optimist for Isituation. Indeed, the haste with
weeks. No buil han loomed, One of the victims in the recent even distantly, on my horizon. The which the revolt against the Pre-house collapse at Mataukok, named air is full of moan, and the whole mier was staged seems to suggest Chong Man-mui, died in hospital world is filled, with the growling
of bears.
If you have health and are that it was designed with a hope yesterday from her injuries.
And yet, even the worst pessi hapny in your work you ought not of bringing about the downfall of
Caught in what is described an an Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. The agitating gear", i workman at the nists, male and female, refuse to to let anything depress you. And was admitted into develop their pessimism to its you should not allow anything to manifesto lanned by the Labour-Ceinent Works
mean that they refuse to envisage I myself would rather have ites reflects that laste. The Nu-hospital yesterday with a crushed foot, lugten conclusion, by which interfere with that work. tional Cavernment is condemned A notice issued at the Harbour life very different from the life holes in my shows than holes in library shelves. I would on the ground that the economies will be held for certificates of com
Onice states that there no examination they are leading to-day.
It is very odd. For instance, rathor cat bread and cheese for In your dinner than deny myself the joy planned are solely at the expense potency for masters, nistes or en-Mr. A. buttonholes you
thro week endling club. Ho shakes his head gloomi-and stimulation of a good
play. T work an however, gineers during of the workers. That,
September 18:
ly and observes "We're done for would fufinitely rather is manifestly untrum. AR Lord
Nobody'll ever have any money extra two hours a day than deny Banished for life last year, a woman again. I'm living on capital, like myself the means of meeting, ch Reading has expressed it, the
natned Wong Kam was charged before everybody else. Very
tertaining, and being entertained Liberal members of the Govern-Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon Magistracy shan't have any capital left to by people who are very much poorer than I am, because they live on. Etc., etc." ment would never be parties, and this morning with returning from:
banishment. She was sentenced tu
are, with few exceptions, the only people who interest mo. would not be asked to he parties.nine months' hard labour.
These ostrich-like mental pro-
I would rather have a pocket to any scheme which would mean
A whist drive is being organised by cesses are irritating to persens full of spare silver to play with merely economising at the ex- the Police Brunch of the M.C.L. and with necurate minda,
at a country fair than to apenil pense of the poor. It so happens will be held at the Police Recreation There are a great many things on three cocktails at night club. in life which are not certain, but But then, night clubs would not that the only fenture of the Gov-Club on Thursday, at 0 p.m.
fee of 50 cents being charged.
which are. And among the most cept that I would pay through the certain things of all is the fact nose to avaid the horrible possi- closed is the proposed cut in the
Banished only in April this year for that if you continue to spend your bility of having ever to enter one |"dole," but that obviously does not |
10 years, a Chinese was charge capital (national or individual) again." tell the whole atury. Indeed, it is the Kowloon Magistrney before Mr. known that the Government pro-Fraser this morning for the theft of you will eventually have no cap!- a pick and two axes, and for returning tal left to spend, and that when posals are based on the principle from banishment before the expiration you reach that inevitable condi- this sort of stock-taking. They
first charge, tion, you will not be able to live term. On the
say that you can tell a man's by of equal sacrifices all. Wel of bl
stenced to three life which even vaguely approxi-character by his friends. It is defendant WAR
the mates to the life you are now even more true that you can tell could have understood and appre-months' hard labour and on ciated the Labour attitude had it recond, to nine months, the sentences ing--aless, of course, your per- his character by his economies. A sonal charm is so radiant that woman's character too? I am not to run consecutively. suspended judgment and merely
somebody else pays your bills. 80 sure. held its hand until the full deci-
While the ferry-bont Man Kue was Those people who are saying
There are a great many other- iind as that were drawing from the wharf at Kowloon "It won't get as
wise estimable women, for exam- Government sions of the
City, yesterday, a Chinese married should therefore realise as soon as ple, who would rather mlas their mude known. But, without know-woman fell overbumrd. An alarin wne
Tho
Ternment plans which has been disfunction is open to all, an entrance there are also a great many things have to be on my list at all, ex-
it is not
U
Hoklochuen, Kowloon City district.
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Mr. A's
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It is curiously self-revealing,
de- There are, on the other hand,
ing what these decisions involve,rained and Tam Chi, a cook, jumped Possible that "i" not only may,dinner than their face massage, I would suggest that they miss- overboard in an effort to rescue the but probably will, and certainly
ed both. I have often wondered Mr., Henderson and his followers woman. tie falled to locate her and will they belong to
longclass. the declare war on the new Adminis- abandoned the attempt after at
"It is a matter of arithmetic, what was the use of having a face massage at all it it is immediate- search. The woman was named Lo House of Commons meets for its tration. That is the weakness of Kwai, and formerly lived at No. 71. which cannot be denied. And sly followed by a long evening in
13 I suggest that they have a mental which the face is violently agita- stock-taking without any further ted, creased, and jogged up and emergency session, we shall de- the Labour position.
A scavenging coolic, until recently delay, in order to decide what down, while the blood which cir finitely know the new composition question of well-considered action.
An estimate of after weighing up the whole situa-employed by the Sanitary Department, they really could "do without." If culates under the face is progres- of Parliament.
If sively poisoned by leed alcohol. It the position which range over the tinn. Kather enn, its attitude be was charged before Mr. Fraser at the the worst came to the worst.
Kowloon Magistracy thin morning they do this, the shock may not he would surely be better for the as short-sighted and
with the theft of some clothing from quite so great when it comes. face, and Incidentully for the cables during the week-end showdescribed
mind, If the owner of it lay down ru-parochial, with the mujor in-three other coolies. Defendant anid he realised he might be sent to gnol quite
for this offence, but he had no food The problem is so vast that un-and drank a glass of hot milk. plexion is likely to be, instead ofterests of the nation
and was forced to commit the offence. lens you have a fairly well rondary consideration.
He held a good record in the Sanitary fine! philosophy of life you can-ja great many women who have Department and left his post only not hope to formulate a coherent never had face massage in their about a month ago when he fell sick.
answer in it. Still, there ure life, who consider the humble His Worship said he would take certain tenets to which even the little pot of cold cream on their lenient view of the case and would
scribe, and one of them is that whose whole life is one long most muddled persons would sub-dressing-table rather "daring $100 for 12 months.
the most precious of the world's denial of self for their families.
I hope they won't give up the Mrs. 1. M.
Hon. Rifts is health. Henderson.
You connot econoлtike on pot of cold cream. It has a sym- Secretary of the M.C. Swimming! Gala, informs us that the sale of health. It ranks as a first charge ballen! value; it is a delicate link As нoun as you ad-with the girlhood they have deli- tickets for the gain to be held on the on existence. 8th instant will close on Saturday. mit this, a great many economies berately sacrificed. No tickets will be sok at the gala. anggest themselves and Early application should be made to many necessities become evident.
Doing without! It is a wretch- the following branch secretaries:- You can, for example, give uped business, not only for oneself, Naval, Mr. Walker, 102, The Fenk;
for Air.
The High Cost of Litigation.
the
Labour occupying the Government benches, with the support of the Liberals, we shall find the bulk of the Laturites in opposition te
Government almost wholly Con- "There is some truth in the view servative and Liberal in complex that English judicin procedure... an expensive. luxury Jon. It is even suggested that has beconte the total strength of Labour in the beyond the means of the majority General Government raska in the House of the people," says
Council of the Bar in a Report to of Commons will not amount to
the Lord Chancellor. In other more than six. If that is correct, words, the law is the same for both three of these the Prime Minis-rich and phor, but available only ter, the Chancellor of the Exche to the wealthy! That is in Britain, quer, and the Secretary for they a coincidence, the John Hopkins Dominions and Colonies) will be institute of Law has also issued a found in the Cabinet. with two report, revealing conditions perhaps even more serious in the United athers (the Attorney General and
States, Averages obtained from the Solicitor General) holding
527 civil cases in New York show ministerial posts, and one solitary that about 70 cents of every dollar M: P. fthe Premier's son) among awarded in judgments goes to meet the back benchers! in the House the expense of litigation. If the of Lords, Labour will be repre- same careful survey of the position sented by two Labourites, the in Hongkong were made, it would Lord Chancellor and the Minister probably be found that the Colony is nearly as badly off as New York. Cases sometimes take months be When the position is thus
fore they reach the trial court. The analysed, it becomes obvious that cost of litigation is such that the National Government is .00- | the majority of litigants would, if tirely different in political com- they know, seek a hasty compromise! plexion from what was anticipa-at the outset. What is the re- ted when it was created. It was medy? There seems little hope then hoped that all three Parties that the British or American Bar Associations will themselves take would be largely represented, with effective steps to reduce the a mere handful in opposition. Ac-pease of litigation. Though they tually, however, Labour is contri- are usually prepared to discuss the buting well under a dozen sup-ixanes, the stimulus for reform porters of the Government, yet must conie from outside. In one holding four Cabinet and three part of the Report of the General ministerial posts. This is what Council of the Bar at home, it is the revolt of Mr. Henderson and suggested that people should avold the employment of leading K.Cs bis followers means, In actual
[who will not go into court except strength in the House, Labour, as with the assurance of a prodigious represented by the Henderson fee. In another part, it recom, following, will remain the biggest mends an increase in the fees for Individual Party, but it will be in junior counsel. It also indicates the ex- The various means by which opposition, not in control. new Government. will really owe penso of litigation might be reduc- its existence to the Conservatives, ed, and incidentally, in showing how procedure might be simplified, backed up by the Liberals and the discloses by what ingenious devices little group of Mr. Ramany Mac-the complications were allowed to Donald's Labour supporters. No enter originally. Nor does the one could possibly Have Torcheck" prospect of new legislation offer such a remarkable change. The material promise of reductions, It Prime Minister, although disownia common complaint that legisla- ed by the local Labour organisative acts, prepared by experts, usually make the law moro obscure. tion, at Seaham, is happily stick wise much; of course, will not lose ing to his guns. Whatever the much sleep over the problem: they narrow-visioned Labour extrem-will seek to "agree with thine ad- tists may think of him, he assured-versary quickly."
Cx.
hind defendant over in the sum of
great
and
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Military, Mrs. Marsden. Peak Hotel: Sinking and become a teetotaller. but for others.
It is, however, a virtue that. Prak, Mrs. Murdoch, 192, The Peak. You cannot, however, give up your Police, Mrs. Walfe, 167. The Peak; holiday, nor your ablilty to get Peak Children's Club, Mrs. Hallifax, into the country, whether by train without any doubt whatever, will become more and more of a neces- sity in the times ahead. 373. The Peak: Prison, Mrs. Franks, or motor or cycle.
I should hate to see a nation of 151, The Peak. Victoria, Mrs. Simp- son, Hongkong University, and Mrs. Englishmen chewing gum
6. Branksome Towers; drinking ice-water, apart from the Mathieson, Mid Levels, Mra. Shields, 16, Penk distress which would be inevitable Road: Kowloon, Mrs. Fletcher, Kings in the great and honourable in- clere: Quarry Bay, Mr. Phillipdustries of tobacco and brewing. Cornhill, Quarry Bay, and Mra, Mit- But I should hate still more to chell, 3. Quarry Point: St. Paul's Girls' School, Miss Woo; St. Stephen's see nation whose individuals, Girls' School, Miss Atkins; Belilion could not afford the joys and bene-
fits of fresh air. Girls' School, Miss Skinnor.
"Now, tako me, Gus-I don't suppose I've been really happy: since I was a kid.”
Sing, Man!
Don't Bleat!
By JAMES DUNN.
★XHY, oh why, does not some-
W
body start a society for the suppression of anaemie tenors with treacly voices who sing dur- ing the broadcasting of dance music?
be
The physical jerks of a monkey- up-the-stick conductor Can funny, but this moaning at the bars business is too silly to laugh at.
You all know the sort of stuff I mean.
The thin walling ghost
of a volco that makes you feel as
if syrup were being poured down your aplno.I have heaven h
n help me, heard scores of these "songs." and I cannot distinguish one from the other. If these bloating, whimpering, anffffing noises are love songs, then love is a child{nh sickness_that_needs a
an emetic.
•
I am sorry for a man who suf fora from adenoida, but I cannot forgive him for `making a song about it. Love songs are sacred, The poot puts his soul into words, and then music says what no man
write.
can
Love songs inspired by women and written by mon is the lango- age
of the goda. Poetry and musle" were given to us to express the divine passion we call love. Why this sacrilege ?
Why tortura music, why pervert poatry! Why does a musician put-
bowler hat over his instrumont to make discord? Why does u singer make whatever voice he suffers from imitate the dying. aisha of a deflated tyre
This thing is more than weak; It is wicked. It is dragging.septi (Continued on Page ?