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BROKEN TREATY ?
France has made the horrible suggestion that Britain bna broken her pledged word; that in signing an agreement whereby she approves Germany's plan to build a wor
SAME OLD SYSTEM OF ELECTION
By WINSTON CHURCHILL,
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By Juliet Lowell CHINESE I V D'S
fleat which will be equal to 85 per WE
TE are approaching a general | more than was advocated by the Mr. Caspar Berger,
election. No one except Mr. House of Lords in 1918, and by a Dear Gentle Man: the Baldwin knows when it will come. majority of the last Parliamentary
Owing to alightly pempiring
cent. of the British tonnage, ia Majesty's representatives have Ignored the provisions of Franco-British pact of February Will it be the hutumn of this year Conference on Electoral Referm in climate of Honolulu and adjacent- fast. Britain, in the French view, or the spring, of next? Or will the 1930. Nay, it is less; for i wouldly adjoining territory, all those is aiding and abetting the Germans Government await the compulsory not propose to extend this system persons abiding therein require in their attempt to destroy the
the counties. Whereas pro- more than usual undershirt. rotting bindings of the Versailles operation of the Quinquennial Act? to
It will be a portional representation in the Undershirt for every day practical- Treaty. France's surprise, even Whenever It comes her indignation, is not hard to great pity that the Government has cities would mean a higher focus-ly inevitable. If more fat, some- forgive. Franco believes that Brit-not carried a measure of electoral ing of public thought, its extension times two for day is advisory, ain is allowing Germany to win reform. Under the present system | through the counties would make Musa-shlyn then able to an u round of the never-ending diplo matic chess match in Europe; and in casier for a Socialist to get the areas so wide as to impair the nounce good news of Germany's win in France's loss. into Parliament than candidate relations between a member and France believes that Britain has of any other party. Although his constituency. Let us begin allowed Germany to drive a wedge there are certainly four or five with the cities and establish them between London and Paris and to million Liberal voters in the country as coherent, living, forceful entities strike a blow which may split their
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There is much to be said in
favour of the representations
being made to the Government
of
a
centent to see
⭑X-
over;
no right to permit Germany to at all. Indeed it is expected that the exercise of the franchise should
score of independent be made compulsory. Citizens who shiya very small and locality ob- P.S.-Because shop of Musa- build warships in contravention of barely a treaty which has not yet been Liberals will be returned when the neglect to discharge this public scuring, prices is also, but
in next appeal is made. The Con- duty-no longer a privilege, for plorer for bargain will find In abrogated. Bi-laters! action such a matter is unlawful in the sorvative Party managers are quite it belongs to all-should be pun- King Street. Know by sign French view. And according to
Liberals and in-ished by a fine. It is a shocking prominent On exhibition the terms of the Versailles Treaty, France may be legally correct. Our dependent elements of all kinds thing to see an election like that doorway. own view is that the British Gov-blotted out because they think they recently in Edinburgh, where bare- ernment, in signing the agreement will be more ensily able to bent they half the electors took the trouble with Germany, has merely intimat-[Soctalists. But this is short-to go to the poll. If democracy is
view. All experience ed Its willingness to accept Ger-sighted
to maintain itself, there must be many's estimate of the size of fleet shows that the mass of the voters the conscious participation of the sho requires. We do not con- soon tire of any Government and whole body of the voters in the sider this a breach of faith. In incline strongly to the raud: "Cilve responsibility for the good govern view of the fact that Germany the other side a chance.”
ment of the country. The bigger would probably have built a nevy
the pull, the healthier the vote. In any event, and that the Ver- sailles Treaty has been so kicked But when this means putting in and buffeted out of shape that it rewer a Government which is quite Is no better than scrap already, { inadequate to bear the weight of and that any arms limitation Imperial administration; when it holder or head of the family nud agrement is better that none, we spells nancial crisis and an in-his or her children, or dependents. are not prepared to admit that dustrial set-back; when it means I would therefore give a Becond Britain's sin is very black.
the arrival in power of men who vote to every man or woman who are-nominally at least-com-pays the rent and the rates of any mitled to the nationalisation of a dwelling in which more than two the means of productien, distribu-persons habitually reside. This tion and exchange, and who are full would certainly involve four or five The Japanese Foreign Office and of nousensis about a new world million persons. Many of them the Japanese Army in North China order" of which they have only the would be young; a proportion of are not the only national units siricat conceptions; thom this them women. which appear to be working tickleness of the electorate should cross purposes. We have had a not be aggravated by the voting had to face the real problems of They would all be persons who very excellent example of conflict-ystem. Another vice of our
AT CROSS PURPOSES
Thirdly, we should improve the quality of the franchise by making difference between the house-
Explorer for bargain will And in King Street. Know by sign prominent on exhibition over doorway.
Received live stove all O.K. Thin September coming we will
is the first new stove we Bought. We reaved 12 children and when my youngest child was 8 years old i saw an ad in the paper of a Baby Boy that wanted a home so we got him and now he will Be
we never had the price for a new
family.
ng opinions in Great Britain re-present methods is its destruction national life, with a responsibility LIVING UP TO THE JONESES by the Society for the Protection cently. First there was the gentle of the personalities of grent citica quite different from that of lodgers To a Stove Company.
Government attitude towards the Why should Manchester, Liverpool, of all kinds of both sexes, depend- of Children for the establishment Japanese excursion in Hopei and Sheffield, Leeds, Bradford, Glas ut or otherwise. This proposal Dear Sirs: of children's hospitals in the Charhar as opposed to the Labour-gow and Edinburgh not bring a raises no issue of rank or class, of Colony. In recent years, thereites pointed questions as to Brit-elective weight to bear? Instead Party or wealth, of age or sex. 11 involves the disfranchisement. has been a quickening of social ain's responsibility in respect to of this they are all carved up into seal or prospective, of no class. Be keeping house 32 years and this the Nine Power Pact. Then there meaningless blocks of houses nonet secures a greater, weight to the interest in regard to the care and was Sir Samuel Houre's
polite of which embodies the authority, more responsible eitizens. treatment of children, especially expression of goodwill and under-the dignity, or the weight of these
standing at a dinner in honour of great communities. The House of the children the poorer Mr. Matsudaira, the Japanese Am-Commous would be far richer and classes. This is seen in the assador in England. Sir Samuel.ur national life more serurely
We rightly pride ourselves upon establishment of infant welfare who is the new Foreign Minister, founded if these cities with tradi-They are the symbols and safe-6 years old this fall. So you see
Lour parliamentary
institutions, centres, both by Government and spoke of the necessity for closetions and character of their own
guards of British liberty. They unofficial boilies, as well as in the Friendship and collaboration be returned men who had the right to will be tested in the coming years
tween Britain and Jupun, and said speak as Conservatives, Liberals, or as never before. The continued stove till we clothed and fed the not a word in criticism of the Socialiste for the whole city. Men decay of the House of Commons, a Japanese militariats policy which would became stronger in relation succession of violent fluctuations, has again humbled China. The to political machinery. It is a bad now to the left, now to the right, Some
It is nice to have a new stove. London Times, a few hours later, thing in any society when
of the and the tendency to, trust every jealous.
my neighbours ́are
effects, are evils pressed itself upon all engaged in Foreign Minister was trying to can only be exerted through their which if uncorrected will weaken
Mrs. M Jones. this beneficent work, is that the smooth the possibly ruffled plum-getting hold of the Colony is lamentably behind the newspaper frankly commented upon appreciable part of the freedom
age of Japanese sensibility, this obtaining an official position. A our system of government to the
point of national disaster. times in having no hospitals the very apparent independence of and culture of British publle life It is not only our Empire and the To an Organ Co. SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS specifically devoted to children. the Japanese Army in its opera- has arisen from the fact that wo trade and livelihood of our people
tions in China, pointing out that have always had a large cluas of in which are at stake, but also that Dear Gentlemen? Government hospitals, although it obviously had acted dependent men who counted. The
very freedom in which we have whilst having a few beds for without the authority of the
Suy Gentlemen? when you going been reared and which almost alone
to answer my letter I wrote to among the nations of the world we you? Say Gentlemen? you have children, possess no distinctive | Foreign office in bullying the
Both, therefore, on the grounds still preserve. A courageous and not answer my 1st letter at all? children's wards, although some Chinese Government and seizing
additional power in Hopel and of securing a truer representation far-seeing Government possessed of provision along these lines is, we Churbar, the diplomats were not of the people and of strengthening great majorities in hoth Houses letter to you in November on the say Gentlemen? I wrote the lat
adventure.
very excellent work which the Society for the Protection of Children is doing.
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SAY GENTLEMEN!
believe, to be made in the new likely to refuse the fruits of this the House of Commons, I am in would certainly not have failed to 8th 1928 and mail it on the 9th 7
favour of electoral reform. I sugdeal with electoral reform within | gest three practical steps. First, the life of the present Parliament, it has been a month I mail it to the application of proportional re- They could have passed the fi you? say Gentlemen? if you do TO-DAY'S MOTORING HÌNT presentation in the first instance in the time they wanted over the
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EXHAUST SMOKE
Queen Mary Hospital. Some of the Convent hospitals have chil- dren's wards, but the accom- modation available is strictly limited, as also is the number of children's beds in Government institutions. As for the infant The owner-driver should aider- welfare centres, these, generally stand the probable causes of smoke speaking, do not grant in-patient emission from the exhaust pipe. treatment on any marked scale. The smoke may be black or it may be blue. When the smoke is One of the proposals made by black it is a sign that the mixture the Society named, so far as the is too rich and is not burning com- island is concerned, is that part pletely. This usunfly happens of the old Government Civil Hos-when the engine is idling. pital should be retained for the The cause may be that the treatment of children, or, alter- strangler is not properly closed, or natively, that the Government it may mean that the carburetter should erect a special children's requires adjusting so that a slight- hospital on a site equally accessi-ly weaker mixture is provided. Blue smoke, on the other hand, is ble to the public. A point to be
due to the fact that an excess of kept in mind in this connection
oil is reaching the combustion
is that Chinese parents are most chambers und in not completely. reluctant, as a general rule, to | burned.
send their children to hospitals. If the excess is not great the where the institutions Arc smoke may disappear when the on- situated at any marked distance gine warms up, since the holter from their homes. It has, in- engine causes all the oil to burn. deed, been a difficult task to get If much too much oil is present the cylinders should be re-bored them to send their children to
or oversize piston rings fitted. hospital at all. This aversion having been overcome to a con- siderable extent, the suggestion for children, generally accepted that children's hospitals should medical opinion is that children be provided at conveniently are best dealt with by doctors located centres has much to coff specialising in the treatment of mend it. At the moment, it may juvenile ailments and nursed by not be found necessary to pro- sisters devoted wholly to such vide more than two such institu- work. This is fully realised in tions one on the island and one most big cities at Home and in Kowloon. So far as Kowloon elsewhere. The matter is one is concerned, there is u possi-of considerable importance and billty, we believe, of the need be- urgency, for which reason it is ing met by private initiative, in to be hoped that the Government which event all that the Govern-will respond sympathetically to ment would need to do would be the proposals put forward by a to make provision on the island. Society which is itself doing On the general question of the splendid social service amongst desirability of specific hospitals: the poor children of the Colony,
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