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NOTES OF THE DAY
of the cast avory
29, 1935.
PRINCES REFUSE TO BE GOBBLED
By LT, COL. SIR LIONEL HAWORTH
WOR no
The
Very Idea!
DUMB BELLES LETTRES Compiled by Jullet Lowell
SOFA LOVE
Mr. Louis Schlesinger, Inc. Real Estate
NO MORE CODES AUTOMOBILE
The Supreme Court United States has EQUIPMENT
largo and destructivo monkey-; wrench into the machinery of the National Recovery Act, ruling the
Our dear Mr. Schlesinger:
Since moved into our Codes, by which President Roose-
THE Princes have rejected the Rule." But Swaraj is a Hindu word, volt dictated industry's
India Bill. In rejecting it they Translated Into the Mahommedan apartment we have been endlessly standards and working hours in
that it "does not tongue It produces quito a different fooled, cajoled, and harried by five hundred different trades, un-have stated
That socure those vital interests and Idea. A loose translation, but an your agents. This perfect dream constitutional and illegal.
of the accurate ono, would be, in fact, of n plach was rented to us fully much in clear. For the rest, we fundamental requisites
"Home Ruin."
furnished and containing one of with States." can only wait and ser,
The Government tells Us In But the Prinocs depend upon the sweatest little Davenports you. American citizens, what the re-
treaties over set eyes upon-that le, if you sult will be. It may be that the solemn conclave in Parliament: for Great Britain and their
go in for things of that kind, as end of the operation of Codes will "vilal Interests" and "fundamental with the Crown to preserve their see a return to wago, cutting as a requisites" please read "matters frontiers intact, to maintain inter-we do. Just the darlingest comfy- nal peace in India, and to prevent cushioned-corner-warmer that ever means of enhancing competitive of detail."
The Government, through its of-external-war. How can the two yielded its smooth, soft bosom to trade opportunities. It may be
repeatedly idens agree?
a pair of tired-out hips. We grow that, as the textile workers are ficial spokesmen, has
Whatever the Indian politician to love that sofa, Mr. Schlesinger, already threatening, that industry maintained that there will be tied up in a scricus strike: reason to believe that the Princes may obtain he looks upon as an and believo un, when people begin to follow: to have soft feelings about a pleca that Labour will seize, the power were anything but satisfied with instalment with more wrested from the hands of the the Bill which was being placed be-a belief in which our politicians of furniture, you have the makings hinted have openly encouraged him. The of a nice problem when it comes. President and Inelst upon the foro Parliament; it even
was Princes, on the other hand, de- to taking it away from them. same scale of wages and working that to suggest the reverse hours as the Codea mado law. mero malevolence on the part of mand security and finality,
The politiciana' ono desire is to Labour may even "gu one better,evil wishers.
The Princes, however, have told absorb the Princes, to destroy them, words a fact of which the Princes are and make. more drastic demands
the Government in other
How, then, can they upon employers. On the hand, the employers themselves that they are far from satisfied; in fully aware. will probably welcome the ruling fact, their suggestion is that the federate on any possible terms? Government has been guilty of the breach of faith. of the Supreme Court. In
(For "breach of textile industry many plants have faith" please read "trifling mis- The politician talks of nationality, been forced to close down owing understanding.")
of his "own country." The Princes to increasing competition and pay
The Government, the Viceroy, know that the only bond of nation- rolls. If they are not forced to and the Secretary of State have ality in India is British rule; that
When he threatened to take it pay Code wages, they may again shown their complete ignorance of there is no "own country" In the go into business; and give more the condition of thought in India. sense of a huge England or France, away from us wo threatened to employment, Incidentally. Mean- In this the Government, the Vice- There is no one nationality-and break our lease. We are now on while, Mr. Richberg, the N.R.A.' roy, and the Secretary of State there is an immense source of dis- the point of leaving with our snents in the wind. Don't you chlef executive, has issued a plea have not given us any reason for turbance in the difference of re-think it's just too mean for a great to Industry to abide by the Codes surprise. They have throughout ligion.
big company like yours to tako as set by the Administration and been ignorant of the true conditions Baldwin or his followers ever apply pip-receivers and the like away people's lounges, davenports, sofas, or otherwise upsetting the labour It was a saying in the days of to India their historical knowledge from them ruthlessly and turn BATALHA --On May 29, 1935, at 9.30 conditions in the country. He is Czarist Russin that the man who of the religious wars in Europe them out in the cold just so that
Was happening when it was in the same condition Am at St. Franels Hospital, afraid of a test of strength be knew least what
others with. Have we actually Wanchai, Edna Letitia, younger tween Industry, and Labour, ap in the country was the Czar of all of historical evolution as the India you can use the furniture to fool been fooled, or do we just think daughter of Mrs. E. H. Batalha,parently, and what it would mean the Russins. No body dared to tell of to-day,
The Viceroy thinks he knows Que fact stands him. It is equally true that the India. as he ever heard an in- Deeply Regretted. Funeral will to the country.
wo have? pass the Monament at 8.30 a.m.
out: the dictatorial control of Viceroy of India, in certain matters, to-morrow (May 30). No flowers
industry, given to the President by from all friends and relatives,
Congress, has been taken from Mr. Roosevelt by the Supremo Court. Whether Labour and In- dustry will compromise or fight, that is another question.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1935,
NGKONG AND
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to refrain from slashing wages, in India.
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away one else in the country. dares to tell him,
I often wonder
whether
with
Mr.
knows less about India than anydian Prince say with regard to a
frontier dispute No body
a neigh bouring Prince, "If it were not for the British acting as umpire I should have to fight for my ter
has not.
It iR
The Viceroy fits India into the ritory"? He probably mould he brings with him, and But I have.
The British in India have nc- Inilla, having for centuries, for SHAKESPEARE TRANSLATED
nges, been ruled by the autocrat,quired the position of a Genova in The news that the film which circles, to adopt the shape given establish in Europe while it at attempts, at any rate in political working order-the position which the Government is trying to Prof. Max Reinhardt is making of "A Mid-summer Night's Dream" it. Where the mould varles, not lempis to destroy it in India. for an American company is tolest 15 or 20 years it has been en- seeks to put an end to war contain a minimum of dialogue has caused considerable comment England, says the Christian Science
The Prices, knowing their coun- Monitor. For many feel that the
try, will save us from the disaster chief glory of Shakespeare lies in his amazing mastery of language.
into whichli our leaders would draw us. But the chief difficulty of Yet Professor Reinhardt's decision This mould is unfortunately quite may lend to a better way of film-unsuited to the conditions which future constructive policy will be the reaction caused by the ing Shakespeare than has hither exist in the East, but out of it the failure of the Government's [I]-
In
much harm is done; but for the tirely Liberal or Socialist in shape, and political India, to its utter un doing, has acquired some of the form desired, shall we say, by Mr. Montagu and Mr. Ramsay Mac. Donald.
of
Europe, and at the same moment to establish the conditions of war in India.
Mr. Steiner is right well- spirited person, excellently smooth of tongue and pleasing to the eye, but withall, It seems he is n trifle too greatly given to aubterfuge,. doubtless because the time hangs heavy on ho hands. Ho said that the lounge did not match our other furniture, and that we were not entitled to the bed feature which it contained.
Hoping to hear from you before they come for the kitchert sink, we remain, yours very truly,
Charles C. Percy W. Sanford C.
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We grew to love that sofa.
HOW OBLIGING!
Please excuse Rachel for be-
If we are to judge from the speeches delivered at various functions attended by the Hong- kong goodwill mission which has just concluded its visit to Canton, there is a strong mutual desire for measures which shall bring the two centres into closer to been discovered. Magnificent Government, driven by a lengthy considered plans. trade and industrial co-opera- though Shakespeare's speeches list of Liberal Viceroys, not
is significant that the course forgetting Lord Irwin, has Lion. Spokesmen on both sides are, it
Shakespearean actors, produced this misbegotten scheme | were in complete agreement that greatest
In the development of India it the prosperity of the one centre such as Edmund Kean and leary of federation.
To anyone outside Viceregal cir-has been inevitable that many men Irving, are not reputed to have.
civilisation is dependent on that of the gained their biggest effects in de- cles, to anyone who knows the real should reach Western other: that each has a comple-claiming them. Those effects are India and the Indian Princes, it is before the mass; that a still large public School mentary vote to play; and that said to have dowed rather from obvious that no formuin is fasatble number should reach a half-civil-Public School it would be to the benefit of both gesture and mime that n from which can in truth include the Con-sation. That the former should Dear Miss Rose: to work together along lines elocution. When Kean played the gress and the Princes within one feel their condition, should develop promising mutual advantages, ruin of Richard III-one of his federation. The few Princes who an aggressive inferiority complex, ing away those two days, her grand-
Yours truly, One of the Canton officials was most famous parts-it was not his sponsored the idea soon gave it up even though they could rice to the mother died to oblige her father.
Mrs. Goldberg to details. There highest positions in the Services. That they should quite frank when he stated that recitation of Shakespeare's lines when it came
(signed) that the critics praised, but the may he talk of a federation still, was inevitable, he did not under-rate the dif- manner in which he stood with his there may be jockeying for position, attempt to mobilise the second cate-i
federation which
HAMBURGER MIXED WITH the gory was to be understood. arms held out helplessly before but any
Statesmanship does not lie in
STATIC him. This was a gesture inspired Princes would look at must contain handing over to the discontented, Tobe Deutschmann by Shakespeare's poetry rather real safeguards: no real safeguards no matter how numerous they may Dear Sir:
of it would be accopted by the Govern- than a direct expression
A friend tells me that she Similarly, perhaps the most effec- ment or its Indian friends.
an India which they cannot main was able to get Hamburg and tive way of screening Shakespeare
tain in peace, whatever their in- Bologna an her radio set. Is this may be to translate the trans-
The whole end, the whole aim, dividual capacity may be. States-
can be delivered over the radio. condent beauty of his verse into an
Yours truly. equivalent beauty of photography. of Congress and political India is manship lies in facing facts; In possible? I don't see how meat This, and not mere vandalism, is independence of any British con- bringing these men into govern-
Mrs. Felix A- probably the motive behind Pro-trol; independence to do what they ment with ourselves in real part- nership; in removing the psycho-
(signed) country." fessor Reinhardt's resolve to cut like with their "own
(Continued on Page 4.) out talk as much as possible from Swaraj is supposed to mean "Home his film.
culties of the position, but he foresaw great possibilities in the way of genuine co-operation be- tween the Hongkong and Can- ton Chambers of Commerce. Similarly, the Hongkong dele- gates realised that much could be done by establishing closer contacts between the business men of the two centres. It was a happy thought on the part of the Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government to invite the Hongkong Chamber to send
up this goodwill mission, which, TO-DAY'S MOTORING HINT
A COMFORTABLE DRIVING
POSITION
it is to be hoped, will be the first of many similar visits between this Colony and the South China capital. These personal contacts cannot but be productive of good,
The more comfortable the driv- For all too long have Hongkong ing position the less the fatigue and Canton stood aloof one from experienced on a long journey, and, the other; if the prevailing de-consequently, the better the driv pression, the effects of which are ing. Fow front seats are designed felt by both, result in greater general rule, they are too flat, so to give the acme of comfort. As a sympathy and understanding, the thighs are not properly sup- something at any rate will have ported. This not only tires the been gained The Hongkong lega, but it affects the back and the, Economic Commission, in its re-stomach.
cent report, laid stress on the A fow experiments should be desirability of personal contact made with one or two wedge- and conversation between Hong-shaped cushions under the sent it- kong and Chinese officials, rather self. If the front of the sent is raised a little, so that the top than correspondence, and aug cushion tilts upwards at the front, gested that various points raised the thighs are supportet, along in its report should be frankly their whole length and it also gives discussed. informally, and with better support to the back. - out commitment on either side, so that the ground might be fully explored. Matters have not, of course, yet reached that stage, but it is clear that some- thing along these lines will have to be arranged if the maximum results are to be attained. The business of getting down to con- Hongkong delegation's Canton crete issues, with the governing visit has been a most useful authorities of both centres preliminary step, and the Colony taking an active interest in the
These auxiliary cushions can be bought and are inexpensive. Some of them are made of a vulcanised composition of hair and rubber; they are excellent, as they add to the resilience of the seating.
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be, the India which we have made,
OPUSS
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