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for the presidential candidate. What they do is to vote for num- ber of "Eloctors" who have been pledged by their party afiliations to vote for their nominees. Com- ing down to details, the voters In overy State are offered, on election day, a choice between lists of can- didates for presidential Electors nominated by the various parties. The candidates, if choson, vote for the nominees of their party. If, for example, the Democratic list
NOVEMBER 7, 1932.
DAY BY DAY
IT 18 GOOD DISCRETION. NOT TO MAKE TOO MUCH OF ANY MAN AT THE FIRST; BECAUSE ONE CANNOT HOLD OUT THAT PROPORTION. Bacon.
A.Whist Drive will be held in St. John's Cathedral Hall to-night at 8.45 p.m.
The Empress of Canada In
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Ono caso of cerebro-apinal fever was reported to the Health Authori ties on Friday from Kowloon,
A fancy dress dance is being given
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STARVING IN A LAND OF PLENTY
By PETER BROWN.
"The world is getting richer Virginia a turnip or two in ex- and richer, and it remains only to change. The function of financo devise a monetary system capable is to facilitate this exchange, on- of utilising that growing wealth.' abling innumerable others to pay-
Lord Molchett.
ticipate in multifarious ways in- THAT is wealth?
termediatoly in the process.
W
Surround yourself with
starvation as cheerfully as you
CAN.
Provide yourself with food for a year, and you'll live for a year.
Equip yourself with food for a year, a fertile bit of ground and the means to till it, and you're on
of Electors wins in New York here from Shanghai at 7am. on the tacks of gleaming gold and await State, oven by a small majority,, 12th inst.. the entire electoral voto of that State goes to the Democratic can didate for the Presidency. This would mean that all the Republican vators in the State have thrown away their votes for a list of Elec- tors not chosen, who cannot have any part in the election of the Pre- sident. It should be explained that there are as many electoral votes in each individual State as that State has Senators and Representa- tives In Congress. Thus a bare majority cast by the voters for a given list of Electors throws the
Honrci,
the President,
At to-morrow's meeting of the Sanitary pursuant to notice, will move.Thnt the Board approves the introduction of the following addition to the By- laws governing Markets: No person shall spit in any market-stall; nor in any market avenue, stair-way, or thoroughfare."
The present working of 'finance in no faulty, however, that we are approaching the stage when the farmer will have to appear in per son before the Virglalan, turnips In hand, if he wants a smoke.
Bartor is a cumbrous procedure. Apart from its unwieldiness, it has the following outstanding die- velvet,
advantage: It cuts out all the
activitios Productive capacity is the only intermediate
which finance makes possible, depriving real wealth.
The world is capable of pro- innumerable worthy people of R ducing more than ever before and livelihood-a highly useful live- lihood, adding incalculably to the is therefore wealthier than ever.
The increase in real wealth has, amenities enjoyed by the. com- in fact, been so stupendous that, munity and the Individual.
Thoro is, fortunately, an altor- If It had been exploited rationally, this world would long ago have native to the baleful prospect of become a paradise for every civi- primitive bartering..
This alternative holds out the. lised human being--a paradise consisting of a useful occupation, brightcat prospect ever offered to sufficiency of the necessities and humanity, the inauguration of an comforts of life, and adequate era of unparalleled prosperity. A A deluxe Multi-Wave Receiver
The Eurepo Hotel, Singapore, has in SPARTON cabinet of striking entire electoral vole of the State closed down. The passing of this leisure for the improvement of body simple operation only is necessary --a twofold expansion of the and mind. beauty. At a turn of the Band to the candidates to whom the famous landmark was marked by a
There is no need to go to Mos-media of exchange. "night" which recalled the Europe at
make this Selector and Control Knob, this
Tho Brst phase consists of a paradise a its best and most prosperous. There cow to marvellous instrument is instant-, Eicetors are pledged. It is this
reality. All that is necessary is substantial and proportionato in- ly adapted for elther the long which makes it possible for a Pre- have been various plana for
future, and the latest is a tentative emancipation from the bondage of crease of the domestic currency wave or the world spanning short aident to be elected who actually proposal to rebuild the hotel on more an imperfect system of exchange note issue in every country, to bring to life the dormant produc- Al wave reception as desired.
receives a minority of the total modest lines than originally intend- of commodities.
Coffee is being dumped in theling and consuming capacity within powerful 12 tube Superhetero-
sea in Brazil, wheat is being fired the countries. Each £ sterling". dyne with Automatic. Volume popular vote of the entire country.", at a cost of $1,600,000.
During the month of October 6,481 in locomotives in Canada, in every will still have the same value as Control, Tone and Static Control, What counts is not the majority Phono Pick-up Jack, Band popular vote, but a majority of the cases were attended to in the New country there are swarms of able before in dollars, francs, marks,
Territorios by the St. John workers eating their hearts out in etc. Selector Switch, and all the finest, Electoral votes.
The second phase is the credit- Ambulance Brigade. Of these 68 enforced idleness.
casen materalty
and 0,403 SPARTON features:
adequate number of were
What is at the root of all this ing of an Height 44 inches. Width 26
general. Nine people were sent to senseless waste? The answer is, international units of value to
of the costs hospital. One inches.
12 Depth
inches.
Apply the additional issues of Weight 70 pounds.
obstetrical. Taken by districts there quite simply, that the facilities each country. were 2,319 cases in Cheung Chow, or exchanging goods (the world's
there Aro tied down to a currency rationally, and 1,036 in Tai Ku, 054 in Kam Tin, currency) 1,643 in Fanling and 530 in Tai Long. stationary quantity like gold in- will be a tremendous Increase in stead of being kept in line with the consumption of commodities trading needs.
without any appreciable increase
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1932.
AMERICA VOTES
TO-MORROW
To summarise the position, the Electoral College comprises State Electors, cach State having the same number of Electors as it has representatives in both houses of Congress--the Senate and the House of Representatives. This totals 631. Therefore the Elec- toral College has 631 votes to cast for President and Vice-President. A majority of one is sufficient to elect-therefore, 266 Electoral votes are required. If the system, acems confused or indirect it is be cause the framers of the Constitu- tion did not wish to entrust the average voter with the choice of a President. Political experience had taught them to be careful in their distribution of power, and even to- day, with vastly changed condi- tions, much of that distrust still re- mains.
!
Its
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The health bulletin for Eastern
All currency must have a de- in prices. An increase in the ports for the week ended October 29, shows the following cases of infinite backing in gold; It is tied number of monetary "counters" fectious cases and deaths therefrom, hand-and-foot to gold; it cannot in existence will not mean
Plague, Baghdad ono case, Beirut 4 he increased except in the ratio of reduction in the buying power of individual countor until cases, Colombo 4 Савев 4 deaths, the additional gold produced. Each cach
Cholera. Bombay year a minute quantity of gold is either (or both) of two factors Semarang one case, one case. Calcutta 11 canes deatha laboriously mined from the earth; makes itself felt:- Small-pox, Alexandria 5 cases 2 deaths, Baghdad 2 cases, Basrah 17 each year, therefore, a minute cases 11 deaths, Bombay 6 cases 4 amount of additional currency is deaths, Calcutta 29 cases 8 deaths, made available. Madras 33 cases 6 deaths, Negapatoni the case, and Canton 4 cases.
(a) When demand balances and exceeds supply;
(b) When production costs are increased.
During the raat hundred years
The former of these two contin- or so the capacity for producing
for..aome useful commodities has increased gencies cannot set in In reporting Friday's session of the many thousand-fold. This immea- time, as it is being continually dinned into ua that the world is was surable increase In productive Licensing Board, the remark attributed to Mr. T. II. King. Deputy capacity has, however, been ateri suffering from what is termed
"over-production," no means of ex- Inspector General of Police, that Ave lined, because
As regards the accond contin- full licencen were regarded as safe changing additional quantities of Aclent for Kowloon. What Mr. King goods has been made available-gency, any rise in the cost of pro- said was that the polley in Hongkong because the media of exchange are ducing commodities is unlikely, if had been to restrict the number of full licences and five had been regard-made entirely dependent on the the additional currency is applied ed as sufficient for the whole of the increase in the stocks of the commo-to useful public purposes in which Central District in Victoria. There dity that is hardest and slowest labour at present rates of wages is were already four full licences in the of all to produce. near vicinity of Hankow Road пла thero was no need for more full licences in that neighbourhood.
of
the
British
the
S
What Use is Gold?
A
useful commodities increases, the
the chief Itom of expenditure.
When a reduction in the value of the individual monetary units
Widesprend Benefits.
ping-stone to prosperity and security.<
Mr. Hoover's Accusers
To what use is gold put when takes place, this reduction will be it has been obtained? It is auc-gradual, and very amall In-pro- President Ioover complains bit- |
Well Cessively exchanged for useful portion to the extra amount of cur- The Central Theatre was terly of the slanders, directed patronised yesterday for the first commodities. It cannot create rency brought into use.
and anything whatsoever itself. ngainst him by the Democratic showings
an honest filmi "Carnival," starring piece of paper with Dominions
Let us endeavour to visualise « campaigners and to a large extent Matheson Lang. From the technical signature would full the identi- he is justified. He has been de- point of view, the production is good, cal purpose just as well. And the few of the effects of proportional expansion of currency: No dialo the action is slowed up To-morrow is presidential elec-picted as a monster sitting at the, although
deal of weed ca uniber of these honest promises untion of existing values. All idle I considerably by tion day in the United States, and White House through the misfor- repetition. Matheson Lang stands would not be held down urtical labour quickly and usefully ab
artificial- on the votes cast will depend who tunes of the United States without out head and shoulders above
ing. Calls for private capital for is to be the nation's Chief Execu- lifting a hand to improve condi- rest of the cast for his remarkably y: as the capacity for producing sorbod. Trade and industry boom- every purpose. Private Investors tive for the next four years. If tlons. It is oven suggested that foo acting. Dorothy Bouchier hanumbor of these absolutely sound sure of a safe and profitable re the femining lead and apart from present indications, as revealed in but for the attitude of Mr. Hoover tendency to be somewhat explosive media of exchange could be. in-turn on their savings, which need
there would have been no world- in the more dramatic points, which creased correspondingly. straw votes, are a safe guide, Pre-wide depression. His own repudia- may be due in part to defective pro There is no mystery about the no longer be left to swell the.de-
duction, whe sident Hoover has little chance tion of the insupportable charges Opinions will differ about this film, British farmer days an ounce of
is extremely good. broad basis of finance. When the posits in the banks.
Every country stands to gain by the scheme. Proportional expan- of being re-elected. Almost every needs no endorsement. The truth, but it is certainly good entertainment, tobacco he gives the planter in slon of currency is the sure step where it is conceded that Mr.however, was stated by Newton ! Franklin Roosevelt has the better Baker in his speech at the Metro- chance. The main issue is un-palitan Opera House. The Preald- doubtedly the current depression cat has followed neither a policy and its offshoots, though tariff of internationalism, nor a policy of isolation. In the result, he has policica and Prohibition figure fallen between two stools. It is prominently as well. There is no probably correct to say that he did question that the Democrats blame more than any other Individuas to the Hoover regime for the depres- relieve the sufferings of European sion in the United States, but the peoples, and it is hardly to be sup- Republican answer ia that the posed that the same man remained crisis in not peculiar to America-callously indifferent to the trinis of Americans. The very real emotion that it is worldwide and there.
which the President has showed In fore cannot be attributed to Pre-his denunciations of the falsehoods aldent Hoover's policies. How over, when times are bad it is the custom in all countries to blame the Government in power, and pondéred mors deeply, the methods America fa no exception to the rule. Thus, on the principle that a change of party cannot make
uttored about him is the mood which those who are most about- him know, best. No man has
to be adopted to restoration
Becure tlio of prosperity and happiness. It is wholly within the limits of proper political discussion things worse than they are, many to question the efficacy of those re- voters who would ordinarily not medies, but it is utterly beyond the change their allegianco may be ox- boundaries of decency`or of reason pected to switch from Republican to charge the President either with to Democrat-in suficient num- Indifference to the problem or with bors probably to secure the return making its solution secondary to his political ambitions. The (A- of Mr. Roosevelt.
Turning from the prospects of persions may defeat the purpose for which they are made, arousing the poll, it will be interesting to in the mind of a certain section of sce precisely how the United States the electorate a sympathy rather elects its President-a subject on than an opposition. But the re- which, there le much confusion in ault will probably be the same. The foreign countries. Actually, when pendulum has swung too heavily to the American voters go to the poll recover in timo for to-morrow's. they do
not in name voto, vital choice,
•
"But, mother, I want to stay home. You know I can't
stand any of your people."
Let us now turn for a moment from this alluring prospect to what is actually happening to-day. It is depressing in the extreme. "Cut down" is tho universal watchword.
An (artificially) impoverished community is faced with the task of maintaining an enormous num. ber of abie men and women de- prived of work by the fetish of contraction. The calls on the no- tional purso for this purpose have mounted until they have become a serious drag upon industry, yet a aubstantial reduction of taxation is boyond the bounds of pro- bability.
Tho tesue is plain, and needs but fow words. Expansion will un- fallingly give us prosperity and happiness.
GOOSEBERRIES
BUT NO FOOLS
By ST. VINCENT TROUBRIDGE.
Chaperons are back in fashion again-yet no girl need be a penny the worse for that. Two or three years ago it certainly looked as if theno Victorian Idols had been toppled off their little gilt éhairs round the ballroom for over. · A debutante would have felt as ashamed to bring a chaperon to s party ns to bring a shiny nose.
The famous revolt of youth has died down a bit since then, poë- (Continued on Page 41)