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FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1933.
WHY CHENG SHOULD
NOT DIE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1933.
on the business community, the OTTAWA AND OUR FAIR The Very Idea!
can be countered by the sugges
By SIR GILBERT C. VYLE
our
INTELLIGENTZIA
tion of extending jury service to women, large numbers of whom found ample time to sit through the greater part of the Cheng
(Sir Gilbert Vylo was one of the recurring difèulties which wo trial.
The conclusion to be Great Britain's Industrial advisers had with the Dominions was their
By Edward Kally, Mountaineer. drawn from the Cheng case is at the Imperial Economic Con- fear that the products we wished
Bellove it or not, we are now that our Code of Criminal Pro-ference.)
to sell to them were exactly those quite definitely residing on the cedure badly stands in need of We were on the threshold of they themselves manufactured. Penk. overhaul. Putting the general Ottawa when last year's British If that were so, naturally they After that wise-crack about In-
Industries Fair opened. The mo- could not have bought from issue on one side, however, we
us tolligent People we thought that cannot but feel that it will be ment was one of drama, bocause, without putting out of work car our time was simply wasted at
although many of us had already tain of their own people now en- Kowloon. So wo shifted. wrong for Cheng to pay the full a shrewd notion of Ottawa's effect gaged in making such products. penalty. There is a tendency in upon the nations who aro
I need not say that in fact we to set out, for the information of Between shivers we are going some quarters to press for the customers, there word others were under no illusions on the the Kowloon proletariat, our im- due execution of the law because who doubted.
qucation. Wo realised clearly pressions of the upper strata. of the condemned man's reputed
Would'the foreign buyers shun that, whero o Dominton could pro- the Fair?
duco a stock line as cheaply as wa
Our heart is in the Hielands, but wealth. Whilst no-one wishes "They overwhelmed it. The could, it would be the proper thing Every now and then we take our our toes must be somewhere else. to see it made possible for riches throng of them arriving from over for it to carry out its own pre-boots off and count our toes to to buy immunity from punish- aeas was more than twice the size duction. ment, by the same token they │of that which came in 1991. On he other hand, if variety of make sure they are not frozen off should not have the effect of To-day we have crossed the production wore the aim, a special and lying about loosa,
In threshold. The Ottawn jeopardising a man's life.
agree-line for the Dominion to manu- Our first night hero was so cold view of the special and pecullar ments are the world's property; facture might very well be a bread wo couldn't yodel. We were in features of the case, we feel, and he would be a doubter indeed and butter line for a firm at home, bed with the whole works on top who could persuade himself that producing in largo quantition. of us. At 2 am we got up and even at this the eleventh hour. next month's British Industries Hore we felt that it was better pulled the carpet over ourself. that the ends of justice would Fair will not be the better for for everybody that Britain should About 2.30 a.m. we pulled the be met by a commutation of the them.
manufacture officiently in large wardrobe over us, and from then death sentence.
quantities than that a Dominion on we were fairly comfortablo. should manufacture ineficiently We wore told this morning that The Continent is queueing up. in small quantities. In this way the air up here is very rare. Already sixteen European
the people of the Dominion them- That's why the V. B. P. always have tries aro giving their buyers selves would be able to buy a their noses in the air. special concessions to come to special line more cheaply from Our first day here we met three Britain for the occasion. And Britain and increase their pur bankers, one chip-owner, cloven why? Schwab, the steel magnate, chasing power to that extent, no Government taipans and the Peak has estimated that the agreements enabling them to buy ofther more Hotel. mean to countries outside the Em-goods manufactured in their own
Wo sort of forget who else we pire a trade loss of between thirty Dominion or more from
..Tbo B. 1. F. Shows How to Balance
Trade.
conn-
Great
Forty-Hour Week
The British Government's effort to stifle discussion at the International Labour Conference on a proposal for a universal forty-four weak bardly fits in with Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's and forty million pounds a year. Britain, thus allowing Great Bri- met after the Peak Hotel. We The Continent grows a trifle tain in turn to buy more from body who counts. Including all met everybody. That is, evory- claim that the Cabinet are endea scared. They are realising Bri- the Dominions.
the Intelligent Parents. youring to take the long viewtain's enormous buying power and Salesmen Are the Statesmen's Allies. in dealing with the unemploy-fear they are going to lose somo
We felt sorry for all those poor A textile mill in Canada might ment problem. The British de-of the trade which they have had be able to produce cloth for suit-people living in Kowloon. Noth- legate could be forgiven for ar-In the past. But they know that, ngs as good in overy way, including to look forward to but dances,
We ex- ing price, as those to he bought hockey
tennis, golf, football, cricket, guing that the proposal is im- they will not lose it all.
and poker games. No practicable--though it seems to pressly declared at Ottawa that from Great Britain. But men are social standing at all.
Speaking of Kowloon
Sorry, we forgot it was not
骗
SOCIAL TRAGEDY.
Before, he was one of the most poplar members of our Sel. Girls fought for the privilege of
dancing with him. Now even his Best Friend avoids him..
to consider like women in that all of them do us a question of will and de- we were prepared termination above all else--but preferential and reciprocal trade not want to be dressed in the same with any country outside the Em- pattern of a fabric, like a row of when he declared that, presumpire on terms perhaps not quite policemen. They prefer a change. spoken about up here. ing an agreement was reached, as good as those given within the But the Canadian will which could a convention drawn up and Empire yet considerably better efficiently torn out substantial ratified, it would have little than they would be if no trade quantities of a stock fabric would become inefficient when meeting material influence on unemploy agreement were reached. ment, he talked so much non- Imagine the national urge in small demands for special pat- sense. The subject does not re- cach of the Continental producers terns; and the Canadian people But for a deficiency in the quire to be discussed at any everywhere getting together and would be paying prices out of all length. A Government spokes-impressing on their Governments proportion to those asked for a
What has made them all drop Colony's Code of Criminal Pro- man, broadcasting in England the need to encourage purchases supply from Britain.
from Britain before thla great Clearly, it would be foolish to him from their parties and their cedure, it is possible that Cheng quite recently, pointed out that market of theirs vanishes under attempt to compete with the vaet pastimes? Kwok-you, a petition for whose even if, by some magic, the de- their eyes.
range of patterns which we would He, idly turns over the pages of reprieve has been refused by the pression was suddenly lifted and The time has gone when they be able to send out to them from a magazine as he wonders, Hia Governor-in-Council, would not all business enterprises resumed could without any control send us Britain. We on our part admit eyes fall on an advertisment. have to pay the full penalty of full capacity production, there products of any kind and price that they can make the stock lines Surely not. Gooi Lord!
It can- the law. We refer to the non- would still be nearly two millions without the slightest intention of as efficiently as wo can; they on not bet existence of a Court of Criminal unemployed In Britain. The taking payment for them in British their side grant that the making "The insidious thing about B.O.", Appeal. The creation of such a President of the American goods and services on equally fa- of special lines is our heritage he reads, "is that you yourself are
|and our business.
not aware of it. Even your best Court locally has been mooted Federation of Labour has reach-vourable terms.
In the past we have never had The Fair Britain's shop win-} friend won't tell you" for some considerable time, but ed a similar conclusion. A re- the machinery to control such a dow for the display of all such it still remains to be brought turn of prosperity to American situation. Ottawa has given us out-of-the way things; and I would into being. Unfortunately, the industry would still leave, in that machinery and the
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What the Dominions Feared..
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THE PORPOISE.
A porpoise was seen in the Har- bour yesterday. The first man to sce it has been on dry ginger over since. The second thought it was. a shark and rang up the Stock Ex- change to see if any were missing. A third rang up the Water Police, the Harbour Master and, The Editor of The Critic. It generally agreed that Percy the Porp. was acting out of, all order, ultra vires, ipso facto, and against Sections 1 to 48 of the Aliens | Restriction Ordinance.
SUM
So that was it. As the awful
showing agents to the Fair, to look out groaned aloud. B.O. of all things. value to a convicted man. If million men without employ incalculable service in
He must button-hola Kelly and such a Court existed, it would ment. This situation has been nationals of trading countries who for Britain's special lines,
brought about by the develop in the past have missed their op And meanwhile let the British ask him. Kelly, his Best Friend, the manufacturer be on the alert in would tell him if asked point- have been possible for Cheng's ment of labour-saving devices portunity how to use it in
blank. counsel to have brought before which are still being produced. future by coming here and helping anticipation of the vialtors who
"Teddy", he asked us that night, it a large number of facts and Unless devise a system to achieve a more just balance of will be arriving at Olympia, the "why is everyone avelding me. Is
White City and Castle Bromwich. Bubmissions which could not be whereby consumption can be trade between us and them.
It was Ottawa that showed the Products outside the stock range presented to the Judicial Com- made to keep pace with produc way.
carry a much higher a rate of "No, Peto," we replied, "it's not mittee of the Privy Council at tive capacity, there will always
profit that an intensive study of that. But for heavens sake, old Home, even had leave to appeal be scrambling for international The Dominions themselves are the subject will pay him well, man, go easy on the Lifebuoy!" been granted. The whole case markets and the cycle of boom already old friends of the Fair and, if he will con the Ottawa would, in fact, have been and depression will swing higher both as exhibitors and buyers. In schedules, he will discover just
TOO DRASTICI thoroughly reviewed, whereas and lower. While this has pro- February they will all be there which lines have now an improved
And would you believe it, wo've all that has been possible has bably struck few people, the so- again either under the auspices of chance overseas.
Let him give prominence to them just had a letter from the D-p-ty been to seek to induce the Privy called dole has proved an econo- the Empire Marketing Board or in Council to hear an appeal, in mic blessing in disguise in Great the fine displays set up for them-at the Fair and let him encourago C-l-n- Tr-sr-r, Informing us the people on his stand to study that our economy programme is a. which connexion it is to be borne Britain. It has sustained the selves by Canada and India.
As buyers, I am convinced, in the schedules too and thus be able washout. in mind that this body has
purchasing power of the workers the Ottawa agreements, that the to clinch sales with definite know- marked reluctance to being re- and thereby maintained con
stration of how the Dominions may now arrangement. garded as a Court of Criminal sumption at a much higher level Fair will be a memorable demon-ledge of landed costs under the If the salesmen of Britain back Appeal. We stress this point than it could have achieved had profit by the really colossal range
up the statesmen of Britain, the because, with such a Court in the people been left to starve. of Britain's production power.
I may explain that, while ne-alliance cannot fail to pull us The ball would have been set being locally, Cheng would auto rolling like a snowball, unem gotiating the new tariffs, one off through. matically have had a right to ployment gathering speed, until appeal. In its absence, he is probably 75 per cent. of the shut out from a privilege which people would have been idle. is enjoyed in England and which But the present problem is to before long may also obtain here. get those people now out of work But there are other reasons back into employment and if why considerations of clemency there is no prospect for them in might have been allowed to pre- a resumption of full industrial vail. First and foremost in the output, there must be a depar- At- gap the evidence definitely ture from the reactionary
on linking Cheng with the crime; titude revealed at Geneva secondly, the admittedly tainted Wednesday. A forty-hour week character of much of that evid- merely means that six people ence; and, thirdly, the surprising would do the work of five under brevity of the Judge's sum the forty-eight-hour week sys ming-up and the directions to the tem. Twelve millione would be jury. These points, there can in employment as against ten be little doubt, would have millions. It might not work out. weighed heavily with any Court quite so easily as this; it might of Appeal. The only semblance be necessary to work down to a of an appeal which Cheng enjoy, 32-hour week to achieve the de- ed was the discussion of reserved aired effect. The wages ques- tion does not offer insuperable points of law before the Full difficulties. Too big a proportion Court, on which, in accordance of industrial remuneration goes with local procedure, the Trial into the pockets of people who Judge had a seat. Issues of fact can afford, in normal times, to could not come before that Court. re-invest instead of spend- There is a further point worthy ing. To improve consumption of mention, namely, that jurica levels, spending is CBAON- in Hongkong consist of only tial-Stato pensions at a cor- seven members, as compared tain age would remove, one with twelve at Home. This is of the incentives to savings, obviously to the detriment of a fear of destitution in old age. man on trial for his life. A Much of this may seem idealis necessary reform, at least in tic or Socialistic-but surely murder cases, would appear to the depression has been deep be an enlargement of the jury. enough to shake industrialists If it be pleaded that larger out of their old Ideas of the re- Juries would Inflict a hardship lations between Capital and
Labour.
“Boon a packaïs about so big? I'm expecting something
from my sister" In "Devonshire."
THE DAUGHTER OF
PARLIAMENTS.
How happy Ireland is now she can revive the great traditions of her ancient Parliamont. A casual reador of the Irish Hansard sends. us a fow gems of Celtic eloquence picked out of that rich mine at haphazard. As for example:
Mr. Corry: Throw the Deputy a. turnip.
Mr. Anthony: You are the low Liverpool coward you always. wore,.
J
Mr. Gorey: Deputy Corry was. merely using his natural language, the language of the baboon."
Mr. Corry: When the menagoric ceases interrupting me I will carry
on.
Mr. Dillon:.. It la a damned, He... Mr. Coburn: If he was a young man I would kill him whore he stands for what he has said. '
The Deputy Speaker:: But when a Deputy rises and charges another, Deputy that he is aftor: soying what is a damned lie, the dignity of this House is to question. (Somebody faints) pe khang