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BIMETALLISM-FOR AND AGAINST.
on
IF YOU LIVED IN RUSSIA
THE TOPSY
TURVY LAND OF THE SOVIETS
AS SEEN BY JULIA BLANSHARD
In terms of each other. But if eliver should fall below the legal ratlo, they point out, the increas- od demand for it would tond.to lift ita price while the decreased. domand for gold would tend to lower the price of the yellow metal. This theory is built the opinion that the Important demand for either metal would be the demand which arises in the uso of the metals for other purposes. One of the corner stones of the bimetallic theory is that the drop in the price of silver has not been due so much to overproduction of the metal as to descimation of the demand for it. This cutting down! of demand is attributed by them to the demonetization of silver. They call to attention the zeramble of debtor nations to get rid of their silver in exchange for gold when confronted with the task of paying their gold-standard crudi- To this lors in yellow metal. dumping and devaluation of silver· by one-lime ailver countries, they altribute much of the fall in price and much of the maldistribution of purchasing power in the world today. Bimetallists suggest that an international silver pool be esta- blished to tontrol, not the pro- duction, but the purchase and sale of silver. If silver dropped below to keep the u price necessary double standard operating cor- rectly, the pool could withdraw quantities of the white metal from the market. If the price rose
The Messageries Maritimos kas to a point where the legal ratio was upset, the pool could sell.issued an attractive ofce calendar, Thus another force would operate Only one rase of notifiable discas
to
the ef
kataturet
HAR
KONANIE HIMA Boure a lustronomY
Here's a typical Soviet court in seeston. Comenda Sainkins, a former milliner, is now a promient judge. She is shown here with two women associste judges who are factory workers and a woman -court stenograph or, trying a case.
ÖZERKIATO
DAY BY DAY
DISKAELI CONSTANTLY DWELT ON THE DANGERS THAT HERTY SUFFER, JP A DEMOCRACY BECAME A CLASS INSTEAD OF AN ELEMENT, AND WAS HOUGHT INTO COLLISION WITH THE "THREE PER CENTS."-Water Sighet,
of
AL Tomorrow's meeting of the Rare Club Mr. William Kwai Fong ... will even talk on "The Chinese of lawait."
If you were arrested in Russia In a civil case, the setting and haled into court, you would would be the same, the decisions not hire a high-priced lawyer. even more speedy.
ono.
come
ain one
came,
of
the
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an-
10
If you insisted on hiring a I happened to sco a fidgety lawyer, he would not be a private young woman with two children
He would
from
of Moscow's 10 district | corporation whose maximum feus courts. When her turn
are set by the state.
she took her place before the If you were AR ordinary red-covered table.
would you probably
Sho demanded 47 roubles from Russian,
own case in court. a dry cleaner. And she gave her plead your For oratory and technicalities are opinion of him while demanding
had ruined
a puir of ne Importance in new Russin's it. He schema of justice. Common sense foreign silk stockings that she had replaces legal precedent. Jury sent him. She had sent them trials are unknown.
luck for ropaira. Ho had lost In loscow I saw a murder de-them. He should pay. fendant plead his own ense.
roubles" "But why 47 Huge red banners hung on the court asked. wall. On
a platform behind A "I went to the foreign store," wak-end. support the "compensatory w remurted during the
long wooden table, covered with 'ehe said. "None there wore nction" of the dual standard and this being an imported case
red cloth. sat three proletarinn: nice as mine, and they cost 50 typhoid,
Judges. The woman in the centre roubles. Tako three roubles out hold the ninrket values
was a judge by profession. The for the cleaning and that leaves imetals in proper alignment,
two men flanking her were factory me 47." The manometallists, however,
workers, servlug da legal ad- "Where is the dry cleaner?" visors.
tho judge usked her. suggest a more direct path to the
"He wouldn't come." sho The murderer, brought in by a solution of the money problem than
The Royal Observatory reneris that Red guard, stood in front of the swered," told him to." In offered in bimetallism. The the anticyclone has weakened. It a table. The woman judge told "There is no case without the
probably central
over the Enxtern eredit and currency foundation Sea, moving cast
him that the man and woman on dry cleaner." the judge told her. the bench at the side had seen"We will postpone the case upon which business is now con-
him knock his neighbour down. (days and if you can't get the dry Mr. and Mrs. J. Scott Harston, ac- He had never got up. "The state cleaner to dueled can be expanded by a sim-1
appear, it will be Scott will give you a lawyer if you wish dropped." pler reform than that of adopting (companied by Miss Famein
Harston, were amongst the passengers
There was no subposna. a double standard, it la pointed out who arrived by the Blue Funnet liner one." she concluded. He didn't.
He began his story by saying Obviously the man never would Despite all the criticisms which by come leading authorities. At Ifector from Home yesterday.
he was n worker, the son of a appear.. Yet the woman left the sati God. have been made of the system, present, law requires that certain Passengers Teluralog by the Blue worker. This, apparently, is the courtroom apparently
vot #1 lot of sutis- bintallism still continues to be amounts of gold be held by govern-Funnel liner Hector included Capt. 0.1 best possible beginning. He had She had advocated as one method of solving; tents as reserves against curren- Farrar, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Cousins, never hit anyone before. He had faction telling the
Mr. and Mrs. A. Ritchie, Mrs. A.
meant to hurt his neighbour. the present worldwide depression.jcy. The legal ratio between these Lench, Mr. W. Brackenbridge, Mr. been drinking heavily. He hadn't opinion of the dry cleaner.
When he Anished, the throe
To keep Justice moving swift- Bimetallists hold that gold has reserves and currency could be al-D Lloyd, and Mr. and Mrs. R. F. C.
proletarian judges asked him fallen behind the demand for it. tored by legislation. This legisla-
decide minor The annunt general moeting of the about his work, his family, where Russia has a system of legal
they adjourned consultants who
cases without referring them to The supply, they say, is not in- tion would, provide that govern
to make their court. Every crowded apartment creasing rapidly enough to take ments should hold less metal against Hongkong branch of the Boy Scouts he livad. Then
Association is to be held in the to an
not horren has a house board to decide care of the expansion of world a given amount of currency than Chamber of Commeres Roam, City decision. They returned in
neighbourhood dieulties. Thero- His Excellency the Governor, The prisoner must spend six
*Free for Their belief that the must now be held. In other words, Hall, at 635 p.m. on Tuesday, 2nd more than 15 minutes.
Legal business.
dual currency greater amount of currency and Chief Sraut for Hongkong, hun kind months in prison and then be on Council" at all the recreation retting up of 4
probation for another year," the parks and in public buildings. standard would go a long way to credit could be made to operately promised to take the chair.
woman judge announced..
In addition Moscow has from 60 A hawker was charged before the
The guard led the ahaking man to 70 district courthouses with remedying present conditions is on the gold metal base already in
Whether the demand Hon, Comdr. Hole at the Marine out. He could appeal the сал
hefore for legal advice, founded on the theory that abund-existence.
Court this morning, with having But six months go by. His wife for bimetallisin increases or fades hawked his wares on board the cou'd visit him in prison.
get to court. They aro mit money is good for trade.
largely patronized.
"Housing is our biggest prob Adoption of the double standard to a whisper once more depends | Kaigan without having a licence to work and carn money just
upon the business trend during do 60, Sergeant Roberts told would add the world's hugo atores
If he had killed a political lem," the woman lawyer in charge me. of a preliminary court told of silver to its gold as a basis for the next few years. Development Kalgan yesterday morning and Raw
out, defendant for his licence and
we have got off ad credit, and would. it is contended for business and of old supply the defendant hawking. He asked the offcial in a dispute, he would not someone dies or moves
easy" a citizen therefore will be watched with In-given it, but it was only for hawking explained to me.
"Only murders everybody in the house quarrels
extra that
room. Basement was allowed to hawk on board with metal at a rate equal to that ofterest by both monometallists and fashore. Defendant saif he thought that are against the interests of, about their prospective rights to
his Hcence. He was fined $10 or one Communism result in the death
dwellers have first choice. Fam- Bentence. No others do." week's imprisonment.
illeg with children come next."
The largest number of cases nfier housing come from Ineff- ciency in work. That is a mis- demeanour, for inathiciency glows up
the Five-Year Plan. Men who pretend to marry girls just to tay with them a brief time and then desert them are given their choice of really marrying them or going to jail.
ensure production of monetary
"MISS HOOK OF HOLLAND."
ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL
SHOW.
bimetallists in the near future. trade expansion.
Admittedly, the dual standard Also, the disposition of govern- would involve certain complexi- ments toward reducing legal re- ties not present in the single serves of gold held against curren standard. The objection heard Cy may have important influences most frequently is bared on the on the trend of public sentiment dificulty come economists calt it with respect to the double standard
proposal. 11 the Imposibility of keeping fixed ratio of value between gold and silver. Production of the two commodities always hus and pro- bably always will vary. At times there will be more of one than of the other. At such times the one will be worth lesa in terms of tho ather. The result, according to
The Hongkong Philharmonie monchetalliets, would, be a singlo
Society scored another success on standard, based on the cheaper Saturday night when they present- ad for the second time the amus- metal. It is a practically univer
ing musical comedy "Miss look of sally recognized theory that the Holland. The house was packed, cheaper money drives the dearer and the songe dancing numbors него resolved with loud anplanee. out of use. From this, the oppon- Dorin Blolby, as Miss Hook of ents of bimetallism deduce that a Helland, again charmed the au- double standard is, in practice, andlence with her acting and singlug.
and It milat ba
be said of her that impossibility. Champions of the she played her part
with A most Mr. C. Ro- bimetallic system have a theory becominy naturalness.
who acted the ginald Anderson designed to meet this widely held role of the bandmaster Vuyt, was objection. The double standard, in excellent form, his laughing they declaro. would bring inte son being particularly good. operation forces that would keep Perhaps, the outstanding personall on the stare Anne Moodle, win the values of the two metals near the maid to Miss Hook She the legal ratio. The combluation plately captivated the audience of these forces is called the corace, and her soft and well mo
with her charming and natural pensatory action" of the bimedulator voice. The others in the tallic system. They acknowledge cast also gave good
od accounts of the possibility of fluctuation in themselves.
the market value of gold and silver!
Honk
ts.
MUAL
Com
"Mias Honk of
of Holland" is again being staged to-night..
ataster.
inst.
the
ante-room
Court that he went on board the the same.
UM
Here's a nice scent, tad
that little touch of the
are
rooms
He
cases
inblea
court her
What happens to political pris- oners no outsider living in Rasela can tell, Exile, imprisonment or death! But the Soviet government regards other criminals as they do sick people who must be cured"
for a uecful social life:
I visited the Djorjinald Com mune, which is an example of Russia's iden of redemption. Here former homeless walfa are 5000
have (Bizprozorn!) and convicts built themselves a commune which themselves. Their they are is to have anyong that of
ran away. Few do.
Whan the commune was started by the G., P. U. (uceret polles) aix years ago, the boys were asked what factories- they would enjoy working in. They chose sports goods. To-day there are modaru, concrete factorles producing alat ing shoes, skia, skates and sweator suits. There are concreto part mont housen with dormitories for the unmarried men and the 200
and
unmarried women NACE
Was than 800 of the men tr
More
commune have married, with the |fully consent “qua: Zengunung.
Thail wives AYO UMUSLY girl from nearby villages