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A keen and observant supporter of the National Labour Party klen puts forward the view that political controversy in the near future is likely to centre round what may be called "Socialism from above." We have already had "Socialism from below," in the factory Inspector the national schoolmaster, and the
He meant, of course, by "lad nnd who relentlessly driven him on like. Indeed, the pattern to which
at women" what the phrase usually to make more money for her to the controlling bodies of the future
means; and by "unon women" the spend, and despises him if he seem likely to approximate has
so-called virtuous matrons and doesn't; feels she has wasted her already been shown in the public
spinstera who consider the others self on a failure; takes on the alr
of a martyr, The forthcoming wedding is 09-a danger to society. utility corporation. Labour's new
I am not habitually very in-
The Murtyr. role will have to be the intelligentnounced of Mr. Lutz Edwardo de
Concension terested in "had women. Unt direction of national economic life Sousa, No. 76, Britab
Shanicen, Canton, to Misn Leonar
The martyr type is perhaps the in the interest of the nation, not Marla Xavier, No. 30, Granville Rond, when he had gone I pictured to
myself the deputation awaiting worst. I lived with one once for only miner, docker and railwayman, Kowloon.
him. I imagined the faces of six weeks. She was little and old but teachers and elergymen, civil
those agitated. protesting women and frail. She was vory religious; White at work at the Hungkank who had constituted themselves the sins of the world broke her servants, officers, and professional
Her manner Was very VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED men, with the vast army of salari- Hotel Garage in Stubbs Rond, yentor-¡the guardians of our morals. They heart.
day, one of the workmen, Lal Kwong, had two of the fingers on his left hand were stern and peevish and sur, gentle and hesitant, her voice vers badly crushed by an iron wheel fallinnppointed and jealous; sane-soft, her eyes inexpressibly and. ing on his hand. He was taken to timenious and sentimental; some She looked as if she lived on air. the Government Civil Hospital where had a Conatic light in their eyes, as if a breath of air would blows the lajury was treated.
lu others gleamed an evi and her away or a harsh word E
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TUESDAY, MAR, 22, 1932.
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of
ed employees of industry and com- Hardie's merce-in a word Keir "all who render useful service"--. The must be vitally concerned.
the future political alignment of will most likely he, not the struggle which Marx prophesied of haves against have-nots, hut of that vaal majority of the nation which ves service" useful by rendering against those whom Keir Hardie called "parasites" and others call "proẞteers." The struggle which
foresaw ploneers dimly
of aeross the inevitable interval the effort for extended social ger vires--seggs abortly to begin.
al-
pr-
the
her.
She had imposed upon her house. "What, hold the fiction that her Hfe was The pass list for the Novendered, and I asked myself
of the Institution of after all, is a bad woman? Oujone long martyrdom, that she never
examination Electrical Engineers includes the Rane of Mr. T. M. Mitchell of Hongviously any woman who is a danslept, couldn't eat, suffered indes- ger to the community IN I had cribable torments from sensitive Mitchell, who WAN kong. Mr. formerly with the China Light and woman, but if danger to society nerves, and was with it all the and self-serifte. Power Company is at present with is the test, what of some of those most unselfish
good women whose conjureding of women. the Texas Oil Company.
She would come down at noon. Images me with such forebod- ing ?"
n pitiful wreck after a sleepless The Church upholds the sanctity night, so we were led to believe. At the Central Police Court this maroing. Mr. 11.11. Mueller plended of marriage; the civil law protects holible feebly on her son's arm in guilty to n summons for driving his our lives and our property; but huncheon, and sit timidly sighing motorcycin up Wyndham Street, be the women who are most dan-jat the table. Would she be able tween Wellington Street and the
something?
She
Dairy Farm, without a permit from gerous of all, and are really bad to eat a little the Inspector General of Police. He wamen, are outside the reach of didn't believe she roul. Wouldn't the law. Take that class of washe try? Well, she would try. was fined $7 by Mr. Schofield.
men who are sometimes referred just to lense us, a little of the to an "cats" and let us reflect
fish,
She had slept the sleep of the
A brief message that Ah Tai, ATAN
and
WAR
Becret
of
The Irish Problem.. The extremist political coursrs
In an attempt, it is alleged, to com- moment upon them.
It is their business and their dead from 10 p.m. to 9 am, Ahe which Mr. de Valera threatens to
mmit suicide, Wong Yu-ping, aged 37, follow give rise to somer disquiet.of 70, Lower Lnecer Row, jumped inhabit to destroy happiness. They had cleaned up a copious break-
to the harbour of the Kennedy Town, Mr. Neville Chamberfala ha
Praya
near Sand Street yesterday know they are safe They take fast tray in her bed, and she new ready issued warning that the Bri- but was rescued by bontpeople in the no risks; they do not have to be bent her frail body over her plate. very Industriously, many sighs and tish Government will regard the vicinity. He was later removed to careful; their profession is the Gently, but
most remunerative and easiest on with fulfilment of the Republican's tend. the fiovernment Civil Hospital.
carth, for they do harm for the lances, she proceeded to consume pleasure of it, and they get their more flah, munt, and pudding than er's promises as a matter of grave concern, and the unofficial reply has
on board a lighter of the pleasure. Every crime they com-nny man at the table. We all saw
mit brings its immediate reward. through her. been equally blunt. It is, however,
Kowloon Godowne, had suffered
I remember the case of a super- Her family went in terror premature to assume that a clash fractured skull, was received, by the
her, and in terror kept up the fie It is not of interests is inevitable,
Water Police from the Kowloon Hentype of this class. She There is considerable search 1 all certain that Mr. de Valerspital this morning. It was stated that foreign woman who, by a diaboliction of her helplessness and her the man was admitted at F.20 a.m. in ally cunning series of anonymous frailty, and everyone in the house an unconscious condition and was not letters, destroyed the happiness bent to her will; one and all in- tug of heart taking place in Labour will go through with his
expected to live.
and harmony of her whole village, terrupted their decupations, sacri- grumme. Ofties may impress ranks in England at the moment.
broke up families, brought about feed their pleasures to please her. which
half a dozen suicides.
Alled
she was never pleased, to though Reduced to a mere handful of mem- inadvisability of policies hera in Parliament, the party je in seemed tempting in the cold shades
Much sympathy is felt for Mr. the minds of the inhabitants with anuse her though nothing amused In the end her her, to make her happier since she of opposition. The Labour Party. Mrs. G.M. Xavier in the death of
Stella, gly suspicions.
wretched. Why? on whom he relies for the stendi- their 18-year-old daughter,
The funeral identity was discovered. She was was always so are those within its ranks who are still hopeful of the future. There ness of his position, are not at all after a brief illness.
took place last evening, in the pre-tried in a court of law and sen- Well, she was a great actress, and enthusiastic about the abolition of sence of a large attendance of mour-tenced to some months in prison. I suppose we were never quite. is, however, a growing bulk
theners, the Rev. Fr. Gallagher officiat danger to the community had sure that she wasn't what she pre- opinion inclining to the view that the Oath of Allegiance, or
including wreaths from relatives and doubtedly have been executed or women. unless steps are taken to transform seizure of the land annuities.
There were many floral tributes, been the gauge, she should un- tended to be, the most pitiful of I suggest that all these are bad a truly
national the price of its support Labour de- friends, the Asauelation of "Child of given a life sentence. the party into
After these people put the and dangerous women. mads the immediate enactment of Mary." French Convent; the staff of body, not solely concerned with
The Cell Hotel, and the Chinese Mer-
Unfortunately our intellectuals measures to dent with unemploy-chanis Land Investment Co.
whining egoist, the concentrated! sectional interests, Labasur will con-
virtuous wife and mother who eats do not appear to consider morality role.
meat. It may well be that a com tinue to play an ineffective
away the vitality of the people she a subject worthy of their mental In this connexion, it is recalled that promise could be reached, whereby |
A lorry driver who was transport-lives with, a feeble but deadly aesthetics, or abstract. science- Keir Hardie and the Socialist the Socialists would vote for the
ing 28 coulies and workmen. in ad- vampire. She wants love, and more powers. They prefer metaphysics, pioneers repeatedly emphasised retention of the annuities on con-
dition to a number of gas stoves, lave, and always more. That at any any subject that in its vast im That Labour was to include "all who I dition that this money was used for up Stubbs Rol- rovently was fined rate, is what she calls it. She always personality leads them away from render useful service, whether by relief purposes of which they ap $16 by Mr. Schofield at the Central uses pretty phrases, and claims the study of themselves. It is a
person wife
"I'm your mother." Hus- the universe around us, we re- the pen or the spade," and was to proved. There are, however, other Magistracy this morning for carry adoration as a right. "I'm your pity. For while science unfolds
ing an excess number of
menn, miserable, nim at "the industrial interesis of factors which are likely to influence The mugistrate told a representative the whole community," not "merely the progress of event more than of the Gas Company, who came for bands should love their wives, main the same
mere party
considerations. The word to accept full responsibility on children should adore their mo- spiteful, sentimental, and self-
behalf of the Company, that the prothers. Marriage is sacred, mothers deduded creatures wo of those working men who are
the ever since we learned to look at first of these is that Great Britain redure was dangerous as in turning are sacred. In the name of Trade Unionists." In other words,
characters the party was to be based, like all is now a Protectionist country. Sofa rerner, persons might have been sanctity of marriage the drags ourselves in mirrors: and no one
thrown from the vehicle on to the from her husband and children is Interested in our Kround. Severn! cases attended other parties, upon class interest. Jony as the Irish Free. State re-
to confess our more obvious, harm- lart class interest, though prepon-
mains a member of the British denths had resulted from such over the attention and flattery she can-except the persons who exhort us Then there is the nagger and less ains, or the offeurs of the Inw Commonwealth of Nations, her Innding, but is the present case he not find elsewhere. derant, was not to be exclusive.
had made the fine a light one in view products will receive a preference of a statement by the prosecuting busy-body, the woman who inter- who are ready to send us to pri- over those of foreign countries, and police offleer that it was quite safe. feres with her neighboura' private son if we don't hide such glaring
slapdash crimes as murder robbery.
Those who have followed the evolution of the Labour Party. however, have seen it develop, not along lines of a national Socialism Intent an, modernising society, but itt the direction
sretional Labourism, largely content with the existing system, provided they maximum benefits could be secured
for manual workers.
+
It
is
true
As
per cent. of her commerce is with Great Britain, this is a mat- ter of the highest importance. If she becomes independent there cán, of course, be no question of mill- try coercion, but she will no longer profor- have the advantage of ence. She will have to compete ou citual terms with such of her rivals that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald
as the Netherlands, Denmark, and managed to introduce quite a num-
Argentina. Since she has nowhere ber of Socialist mensures during else to market her goods, this the last Labour Administration, would mean an economie eutas but there seems justification for trophe of the first urdler. Further- the statement recently made that more, a large number of Irish citi- both among Labour M.P.'s and the zens are in official employ in varl- ous parts of the Empire, and if the rank and file of the party, the Free State became a Republic they rietty Labourist issues of dole would have to choose between un
Ituralisation and dismissal. Once for pension aroused ten times AL! much enthusiasm as any contrue- this prospect is fully appreciated, the pressure upon Mr. de Valern by them and their relatives in Ive- and will be considerable.
Give approach to a better ordered Rocioly. As to the Left Wing. It has usually been more Labourist, And not more Sociallat, than the main body, with its preference for wealth redistribution to construc- shown tive change. Events bave that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald re- mained true to the nation, and to trua Socialism, whereas Mr. Henderson and his followers pre- ferred the role of dola Labourism.
PRAYERS FOR RAIN. CHRISTIANS, MOSLEMS AND JEWS UNITE,
Jerusalem, Mar. 21. Christians, Moslems and Jews united this week-end in common prayer for rain to end the drought and heat which is boceming
In the result, the working classes serious menace and causing con- showed that they had no use for a siderable apprehension to Pales Labour Party which conceived it-tinian and trans-Jordan crops. self to be a Trade Union caucus.
The Moslema of Gaza are hold- As one commentator has pointed Ing a three days fast in the hope that rain will be vouchsafed on ut neither purely Trade Union the fourth day. Penyors are support nor even purely working being offered in the churches, mo clure support can provide an effec- ques and synagogues throughout tive majority in Parliament, for, the country-Router's Special Ser
vice.
by
I
"I'm hore at my doctor's advice. He said I should become Interested in some sport."
have been
and
Black Outlook for Blues.
By PHIPPS
HE distance between Putney
Tand fortiake, as the crow Ales, 1s about 2 miles. As the omnibus ambles it is a little more. But as the Boat Hace crews go, it's ja trunk call.
On Saturday (such is the force under- of tradition), eighteen graduates, including a cox with the New Silhouette, travelled from Putney to Mortlake in the manner which has given generations of crawa hysterics,
By Hammersmith, by Chiswick, by Barnes, and, by Heck! how Tavish Oxford got as Cambridge went by Chiswick, and. Barnes first.
This conservatism on the part of Oxford and Cambridge sportlag circles seems to mo indefensiblo. Looking at
purely financially the overhead entalled in sending their representatives by lent compares very unfavourably with
which
could
the L.G.O.C...
terms
easily be quoted by
For a small extra charge, more- over, the lattor would
doubtless
equip their vehicles with sliding seats, to preserve a "homey" at mosphere.
This year neither Oxford nor Cambridge bought a now boat. (Continued on Page 8.)