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THE CABINET RIFT
tariffs, with perfect freedom re served to them to carry on the Free Trade campaign in the country. Since then, they have not hesitated to criticise the Government's policy, and have thus, occupied a rather anomalous position which it will be botter, in the interests of all con- corned, to end. Apart from the Infringement of Free Trade prin- ciples which the Ottawa proposals involve, there has been some criticism along the line that the agreements take away Budgetary control from the House
of Commons, but that point is not
since
опо of vital importance, Parliament has the power either to ratify or reject the proposals. As it so happens, the preponderance of Protectionists in the House nssures ratification, but that does not re- move the right of Parliament to | reject, as it might have done had the House been more evenly divided on tariffa.
In considering this question, it must be recalled that the National Government was returned to office with a free hand to do whatever it deemed advisable in the emergency with which it was faced. There eau, therefore, be no charge of its
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DAY BY DAY
CULT OF THE COCKTAIL
By PETER CHEYNEY,
A few weeks ago, Elvira Dolores I remember a cocktail party THE ASCENDANCY OF THE ORDER Barney - Was acquitted of the which I attended some years ago, WAB THE UNERRING SIGN OF THE AP- charge of causing the death of Quite a nice party. Quito nice PROACHING CATASTROPHE, PLATO "Michael" Stephon at her flat on people. A room full of smoke and a crowd of people who did not par- COMPARED ORATORY TO THE ART or May 31.
Thus ended a story which In-ticularly want to know each other, THE COOK WHO FLAVOURED HIS FOISONOUS MESSES TO TEMPT THE trigued poople all over the world but who were comrades under the PALATE-Froude, -
after it became public-a story influence of the cocktail. In one (In the words of the Judge) "of corner a bookmaker-very flushod -told tales of his profession. In another a young gentleman who and all possessed nothing but his looka The wedding will shortly take place right-thinking people will extend and an old public-school tie ex- between Mr. Giovanni Loriofli, en-to the unfortunate woman who was changed startling pleasantrick gineer, of 14, Lock Road, and Mrs. In the spot-light of this. cause with a lady old enough to be his Dera Strzeszah, of the same address celebre, the sympathy and pity mother.
And, in the corner, our host, a The marriage took place on Satur day, September 24, at the Hongkong Reglatrar's Offee, of Miss Elsa Hansen and Mr. Ludwig Dockert (Messra, Stemssen and Co.)
The Empress of Asla arrived at two rather uselosa Ivea." Vancouver yesterday.
One of those lives need not be useless in the future;
A quantity of oli was destroyed at the Cheung Fat Soap Factory, at 0, Smithfield inte last night when a fire broke out on the first floor. The cause of the outbreak is unknown.
which is due to one who has auf- fored the agony of such a trial, and who will suffer the agony of memories of a night that began |with a "cocktail party."
the
gentleman of title, mixed drinks with a hand which was un- stendy and an eye that could not distinguish between one glass and another.
A cocktail party. Porhaps some of the women who To-day is the day of the cocktail attended this trial, who got up party. Nothing is possible with- early for once in their lives, who out it. Nothing can be arranged aniled, and chattered, and treated without it. It is such a "nice" the awful thing as if it were a drink mainly because women can A ten-year-old girl, Li Man-yiu, of cinema show, will have cause for get a bit "buffy" on It without having to absorb too much liquor 06C, Bonham Road, was admitted to thought about cocktail parties. the Tune Wah Hospital yesterday Perhaps the woman who made which might spoll their figuras! And the people at the cocktail suffering from seald wounds austaln-up her lips just before the jury ed when she edilided with an amah returned may treat the thought of parties aro like the drink. They who was carrying a pot of holling life more seriously.
are a weird mixture. Some people are at every cocktail party. They
water.
Perhapa!
Giving the appearance of having The publicity of the Barney trial are there because they are "amus- been a builders workman, the body has at least achieved one good," le, they know more "stories" of a Chinese about 30 years of age thing. It has thrown a ray of than anybody else or they have was found hanging with a strap light across the dirty shadow of some funny habits, or they can take you to still more "amusing" iving exceeded its mandate. But secured around the neck, suspended the cocktail party; it has shownparties where all sorts of strange from the doorway of a house underordinary men and women that the
things happen. it must also be remembered that construction in Fa Yuen Street. Itatmosphere which goes with the
A young woman of my acquain- mitted suicide.
cocktail-shaker may produce an- other and more vivid atmosphere tail partica "because they all start --the atmosphere of the Old off very conventionally, but that lots of them end rather excitingly."
the Samuel Liberals have all the, is believed that the man har com-little sugared glasses and the Itance told me that she Ilkes cock-.
way ulong made their opposition to tariffs perfectly clear. They are, therefore, quite justified in break- ing away at this juncture. Mr. Baldwin, before the National Gov- ernment was formed, had an idea of first secking agreement with the Dominions and then submitting the agreed policy to the electorate, by meuna of a referendum. This was
We have been requested to state, that in response to numerous en- dinner and smoking concert to
grown. It has betle of the generation which has given by Ex-Active Service Men at cocktail has the Peninsula Hotel
on Armistice come an integral part of the life secured "freedom."
Freedom for what! Night, will appear in our advertise of that useless and floating popula ment columns at an early date. Mrtion which drifts through exis-! R. Tatterson, R.N HLM.S. Tamac.
quiries, full particulars regarding the Bailey.
be Since the war the cult of the This young woman is characteris
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It is time that the cult of the and Capt. P. T. Mahony, R.E., have tence, and which cannot bear the cocktail was killed. It has been thought of life unless it has a responsible for too much misery joined the Committee and will repre- cigarette hanging from its painted and too much evil. There is no- sent the Services.
lips and a cocktail-glass in its thing to it. It does not give an hand. It has become the start of appetite; it merely gives a head. At yesterday's meeting of the designed to overcome his pledge! Rotary Club, Rotarian T. B. Wilson many dramatic incidents which ache, and it may result in a great not to impose food taxes without gave an interesting talk on his have never been made public; it deal more than that. It influences the approval of the country. How impressions of the Seattle Convention, has written finie to the career of the lives of people out of all. pro- which he attended as Hongkong dele-more than one man; it has started portion to its use, and the "at- ever, the creation of the National gate. In the course of his remarks, a not-too-desirable career for more mosphere" which it creates is more
evil than the drink. Government, with unlimited he said the delegates at the Con-than one woman.
ference
obtain ce were very keen to
And it is time that it finished. But maybe the votaries of the powers, ruled out this plan. The news of the Far East and one and all
The cocktail party has broken cult will allow themselves a little full implications of the Ottawa were anxious that the present trouble
in Manchariwhich was against the down traditions which were neces-quiet thinking, and consider whe agreements will be disclosed very, spirit of Rotary-should be speedily sary because they were good. The ther or not the game is worth the soon now, and it will then be seen settled. The Hon. Mr. S. W. Tas cocktail party smashed the tradi- candle.
presided.
tion that a "nice woman did not Maybe. But I think not. They to what extent they are likely to
get drunk," and, although there are too like to regard everything Oficial confirmation be of advantage to the several
has been lare probably cocktall parties where which has happened, everything received in Shanghai of the con people do not get drunk, yet I which has been said, and all the parties concerned. One thing ferring upon Captain S. Robinson, would say definitely that the con- conglomerated horrors of the last Free Trade members of the seems inevitable, namely, that liv-C.B.E., R.N.. R.N.O.. formerly continuous attendance at auch parties few weeks us something which their Government, namely, the Samuel
mander of the C.P.O.S. Empress of must inevitably result in drun- weird brains may even find "too ing costs will rise in England, and Japan of the Imperial Japanese Medal
awfully exciting" or "toq awfully Liberals and Lord Snowden, have we may count on the Liberals mak-of Merit, with Red Ribbon, by H.L.M. kenness, as is natural.
Under the influence of the cock-jamusing." evidently made up their minds to ing the most of that point. Even suished services which he rendered tall and the atmopshere which in-
the Emperor of Japan for the distin-
But if their friends, or parents. resign their posts as a consequence
ao, il seems unlikely that the on the Empress of Australia at the variably accompanies it, the nicest who too often suffer as a result of
# agreements. The Libernis will again become of the Ottawa
time of and in connexion with the people somehow manage to change the cult, arc- given a little more great earthquake of September 1,their characters. They become courage and a little more intole position they take is that they serious factor in the political life
1923. Similar decorations were con- "broad-minded." Women exchange range towards them; if they can entered the Administration as Free of the country. They have been ferred at the same time on five other stories that were once confined to become less "broad-minded" and Traders, and, inasmuch ns the largely squeezed out between the Imperiul Conference decisions
two extremes represented by the imply Protectionism, they cannot Conservatives and Labour. lend their support thereto. The Committee of the National Liberal Federation has already condemned the proposals, and this attitude la
foreign commanders,
demned.
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And if one bottle is empty, what does it matter? You can always pour something else in!
BALANCING THE BUDGET
By Edward Kelly, Two-Up Export.
We have discovered an infallible- method of balancing the budget, and we are here to tell the world how.
From all over the Colony the jocund, the free and the still mar- rled will bless the name of Ed- ward Kelly We can't help it if that's also the nume of an Aus- tralian bushranger, We wore christened after a wealthy uncle, who subsequently double-crossed us by leaving all his money to a Society for the Suppression of Pyjama Parties.
the corner of the club smoking- less inclined to grant the "free- room, Girls tell us "a new one dom" which this fatuous decade good features of the system and that astounds even a hard-bitten demands, then perhaps we shall have started on the road that will the detrimental effects they may novelist! consider it will have upon the For the cocktail is like no other see the end of the cocktail and all standard of living or well-being drink. You may know when you that goes with it.. The Bedaux System.
of the worker. On the evidence have drunk enough beer or whisky for brandy; but how many people Following representations mado elicited by this inquiry the T.U.C. know whether it was the first or being maintained by Sir Herbert by several Trade Unions affiliated will consider the question as a second or third glass of that a Samuel and his followers. Whilst to the Trades Union Congress, the matter of Trade Union policy. The palling mixture called "cocktail" has decided, to decision to make Inquiry incident- mixture which depends entire- it is true that Sir John Simon and General Council
the shaker" and the dwindling Mr. Walter Runciman will remain institute an inquiry into the work-ally reveals the marked change of ly upon the skill and sobriety of in the Cabinet, the resignation offing of the Bedaux aystem of, pay-outlook from the condemned days contents of the row of bottles.
ment by results. The Bedaux when any innovation in 'working the other Liberals will, in effect, system, which in of American conditions was automatically con- still further modify the "National" origin, is primarily a method of status of the Government, and, it measuring the. quantity of time is to be presumed, lead to an in- and effort, and of establishing a crease in the Conservative element. unit of measurement, representing The Liberal strength in the Minis- an average performance by the normal worker under normal con- try had already been weakened by ditions upon which wage rates the appointment of a Conserva- are based. Essentially, the Bed- tive in the place of the late nux system is a method of ascer- Sir Donald Maclean as President taining by means of time and mo- of the Board of Education, and it. tion study the "standard output" seems more than likely that the which will afford a basis of pay- ment by results, There are many process will be carried further
such systems in existence. It la when the Free Trade Liberals claimed for the Bedaux system throw in their hands.
that it is more scientific in its The split now occurring is quite method of measurement and en- serious, seeing that, in addition to ables an exact appraisal of labour Sir Herbert Samuel, the Liberal costs to be made by the employer, Free Traders include Sir Archibald It will be recalled that a dispute Sinclair (Secretary for Scotland), arose in the Lolcestor hostery works of Mesara, Wolsey, Ltd., Mr. Isaac Foot (Ministor of earlier this year. over the Intro. Mines), Lord Lothian (Under-duction of this ayatem. As the Secretary for India) and several question is one of growing im other Under-Secretaries. It would portance, the T.U.C. has instituted these re- the inquiry with the object of as- appear, however, that calcitrants have no intention of certaining the extent to which the going into opposition against the system has been adopted in Bri- Lala and how the Unions which Government on any other Issue
have had experlonce of it view ito than that of the Ottawa legislation, operations. The effect of the sys- In other matters, they are prepared tem upon the health and efficiency
to co-operate with the Administra- of the workers concerned is an- tlon. They will part company with other question upon whleli Unions the Government on a point of prin- are invited to give their views, clplo. When they agreed to take along with data showing the effect of the system on the earnings of office in the National Government, the workers concerned. Finally, they did so on the basis of an or- the Unions are invited to exprosa rangement to "agree to disagree" on their vlows regarding both the
"They're both looking so much" fter-since we've been
watching huli
On the day we were born there were great celebrations throught- out the land. All the school kids were given a holiday, and people got merry. It was, of course, only a coincidence that the Prince di Wales was born on the same day. Which brings us back to balane- ing the budget. First of all, wo have solved the mystory of what to do with old razor blades. We shave with them now! Shroffe who try to relieve us of our ick- Bome, debased currency will be taken by the seat of their pants and thrown out of the window.
Most of the restaurants we go to give us a decent fifty cent. meat for $3.50. In future we will go and have a decont $3.50 -meal for 50 cents. •
We have prepared a list, show- ing how we live on $100 a month. Freely and without thought of roward, we give this to you.
Now bring out your Legislativo Councils.
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