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Gertrude Lawrence Jack Hulbert Where there's you there's mo You're sweeter than I thought you were.Jack Hulbert (Both from the Film-"Jack of all trades") BD-335 Tap your tootsies. (Film-"Jack of all trades")
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FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1936.
Are
you
the type
for marriage?
NE British marriage in
seventy-five ends in Every year
separation.
more people are divorced..
In 1934 4,200 of Britain's |8,000,000 families were brok- en by divorce, 11,000 by separation orders.
In 1913, there were 1,267. divorces. Between 1716 and 1775 there was only one divorce a year (the explanation being that until 1857 each divorce meant a special Act of Parlia- ment and cost nearly £1,200),
WHAT sort of people 'get divorced? โส there a divorce type? A cheru- bic policeman who stands out- side the Divorce Couris claims to be able to distinguish between divorcés and ordinary folk.
"The women look as if they couldn't
home n
and wouldn't want to. The men look cranky."
run
statistical
survey
-how, why, what
people get divorced
of three
HC-
entertainment, is contemptuous of not bring happiness, nut with li
you can be unhappy in comfort. old-fashioned standards.
His (or her) marriage probably lasted fewer than five or more
GLANDULAR than ten years. Fifty per cent,
cretions play an marriage, last more than ten years, though important part in the fifth year is most dangerous. They determine whether your He (or she) is probably con characteristics are predomin- templating remarriage. Sixty-two antly male or female.. per cent. of all divorced persons
If your own particular secretions remarry. TAYO out
are three parts male and one part. divorced men marry very female, you ought to murry a after their deeree is made abas-
woman with three parts female lute,
traits and one part male.
If you marry a woman with one- half female, one-half male traits, your marriage will be unhappy.
MEN and
can be divided into successful and unsuccess- ful husbands and wives.
Generally speaking. a good husband is amiable and, placid, He does not mind being told
Three out of five divorced women find second husbands. A divorced woman's chance of re-
Doctors, lawyers, and private marrying stands at evens if she is under forty, nt 6 to 1 against if over that age.
+
the
THE average divorce age is going down, but is usually between thirty and forty. Men as old as ninety- nine have sought divorce.
Nine
women
wards divorce: 40.9 per cent.. wanted it made easier, 46.2 per cent. said No, 12.9 per cent. were uncertain.
There is not the same fear of social ostracism. ns in pre-war days. In some cirelts divorce is considered rather a distinction,
Private detectives often used to spend eighteen months to two years in ferreting out evidence for
Nowadays the
Д
CRBC.
time is about four days.
average
A recent Questio- naire by a London desertions. Usually the husband provides all the evidence. He does not trouble to defend, the petition, else he cannot afford to."
or
The vist najority of people who use the divorce courts are of mode- rate income. It costs from £50 to £100 for an undefended peti- tion. To defend
may cost four or five times that amount.
Probably. 16 per cent, of the un- defended petitions could be entis. factorily answered if there had been the money to fight.
Divorce often means ruin te a small, trader.
If he defends the action it will absorb his profits for years to come; if he fails to defend, locul prejudice may kill his business.
Hundreds cannot defend them- selves, have lost their jobs, their businesses, Here is a typical letter sent to a London news- paper:
"My first wife died, my second marriage was a mistake, I got
divorced and married a third time
eight years ago. We are automatl exiled by relatives and friends. cally condemned, ostracised, and What hurts most of all, the ones children by my first wife,
THE average divore youths and eleven girls under what to do. This does not who condemn me most are my own
delectives dinagrec
ubout existence of n divorcé type,
Do you know any divorcés? If you lived in London before you came to Hongkong you probably do. Eight thousand of Britain's 35,000 divorcés (about 21,000 TRADE BARRIERS wamen, 14,000 men) live there.
AND RECOVERY
is A Protestant, propertyless, childless, Forty- The destruction of trade bar-two per cent, of divorced mar Jack Hulbertriers, according to the popular riages are childless, 33 per cent.
Evie Hayes .Evie Hayes conception in many parts, would have only one child. ...Sam Browne allow the unrestricted recovory .Sam Browne of international commerce and would bring back to the world a Marek Weber's Orchestra Marck Weber's Orchestra prosperity long lacking. This ..Alfredo Campoli & His Orchestra particular commercial cult can
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Te (or she) is not very healthy He is superficial in most things. including love, which never gets deeper than romantic enthusiasm. He calls himself (or she calls herself) modern, likes artificial
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twenty had been divorced at the
time of the 1931 census.
Here is a table of divorced men's jobs, drawn up by an eminent divorce lawyer:
Services
Artistle professions Leisured classes
227
182%
167
Commercial travellers
146
Poor persons Business people
1233
10%
2 2
Lawyers
Doctors Unclassifted Clergymen Service people have plenty of leisure and they are often separ ated from their wives. "Lack of Occupation is the father of divorce," said the 'compiler of this table.
The leisured classon are lower on the list. Usually they have nothing to gain by divorce. In- fidelity is accepted.
Commercial traveliers are never home long enough to develop
i-domestic-habitar
Poverty breeds more unhappiness than prosperous persons like to think. Ninety per cent. of psor persons' litigation is matrimonial. The divorce rate is high in over-
necessarily mean that he is lacking in initiative, but he is inclined to be cautious and con- servative. His passions do not
run high.
A good wife is docile and un- aggressive. She likes company, is rather afraid of solitude, has not got much faith in herself.
The bad husband is argumentn tive and restless, does not know his own mind. He is moody and rather particular about the com- pany he keeps. lie resents discip- Iine and thinks that he is being Often he is ani- badly treated. bitious and has a very good opinion of himself, but lacks the mental alaming to succeed,
He regards his wife as a hi- drance, but when he leaves her he does not do any better. Seventy per cent. of the men applying for separations at one court blained their wives'
The bad wife is neurotic and methodical. She cannot run her house efficiently. She is ambitious and self-assertive. She does not care what happens to other people providing that the right things happen to her.
Some wives become neurotie, unmanageable, and seek divorces because there is too much insulin in their blood streams," saya one
doctor. That kind of wife.can.be. cured.
grown up.
Now
WHAT happens to
the man who agrees to divorce his wife? He sends her an hotel bill for a double room.
A few days later a clerk serves him with a "Petition for Dissolu- tion of Marriage." Then a letter comes asking him, under threat of legal action, to pay "alimony pend- ing sult."
For five or six months he pays. Then his case, lasting a few minutes, results in a decree nisi with costa. After six months the decree is made absolute.
Next comes the bill of costa. Poor persons can get a divorce for £5. "Poor", means that you must not have more than £2 week or more than £50 worth of clothes or tools, (in`apecial cages these limits may be extended to £1 and.£100.)
DIVORCE COURT .lawyers. would live in smaller houses if every married couple obeyed these five rules suggested by the fore- going facts and figures:-(1): Have children. (2) Ксер healthy. (3) Take an interest in family life. (4) Do not boss. ~(5)~Spehd"us"much time" "und money ብሂ possible on your
A recent Question- home.
naire by a London newspaper reflected the tremen-
crowded conditions. Wealth may lous change in our attitude to-
tions which would inevitably
JAPAN'S EXPLANATION follow the removal of tariffs and trade preferences, and when
Japan's offelal explanation of their argument is backed by such the orgy of smuggling in North Members of the artistic pro- Foort
a mighty industrial power as China is that it is partly, due to
fessions are very self-centred and inclined to be irritated by little George Scott-Wood the United States. It is bound to China's high tariffs and partly
things. Sald. U.S. judge T. F. their troubles, on the failure of Chinese local However, to
Moran, after 24 years on Reno "dispositions."
"Gretna Green" of American di George Scott-Wood the case for world free trade is authorities to safeguard revenues
vorees) bench: "If people would .Renara (Pianist) not
unanswerable. While it accruing to the Central Govern- ment. It will be noticed that the
rise high enough to overlook little may not be easy to offer a cat-matter of Japanese connivance in
things there would be no lack of harmony.” and-dried programme in prefer-this illegal business is convenient- the whole blame is ence, at least some of the weakly Ignored: nesses in the architecture of thrown on to the Chinese. It will non-discrimination can be in-not, of course, be disputed that dicated.
the factors mentioned contribute It is fairly obvious that the to the evasion of Customs duties, big, industrially established but that is quite a separate aspect nations would have an immense of the problem from organised advantage over those whose in- Japanese activities aiming at the dustries are scarcely out of the snatching of trade advantages and chrysalis stage, and to which a the undermining of China's tariff
Even autonomy.
the Tokyo certain measure of protection-
Government, we imagine, would tariffs are the simplest forms— is vital. Moreover, there is the not seriously contond that high. difference in labour and produc-turile justify such tacties, which tion costs to be.considered when have been described as a deliber- ate stroke of Japanese govern- one advocates the end of dis mental polley and not a mere criminatory trade agreements matter of local military action.. For instance, even an established There is, at any rate, something industry like that of Britain's intensely ironical in the reference textiles would have suffered ex- to the safeguarding tinction in many of its biggest Nanking Government's markets had not the tariff wea-at a moment when Japanese inter- pon been used against Japan. cats are seeking to bring bank- Similarly, mass production in ruptey to that self-same Govern big industry cannot be met in ment. As a London journal hints open competition by even the it will take something more than phrases... regarding mosi skilled labour of the small specious
concern for factory, except in a specialised Japan's professed market. Even the agricultural stability in the Far East to de- monstrate to the world that, such' industry of a smaller nation can-concorn really netunter the Tokyo not compete with that of a more Government. land-rich or low-wage neigh- bour; nor against the dumping
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WHAT HAPPENS IN AN HOUR
Ninety-nine thousand six hundred ly
researches and making
tons of sugar are bélny hourly pro- TE League of Nations is constant-
the duced. but of this number only compiling statistics as regards work of mankind all over the world. 98,000 tons are consumed. One cul These statistics and other data which therefore observe for oneaeif the over- I have collected from different production prevalent in the sugar sources have enabled me to construct industry of the world. But, in spite ing of this, there are thousands existing a composite picture of everything
In the world to-day who are complete- that occurs every sixty minutes ally unable to secure their daily needs over the globe.
and and
Five thousand four hundred forty human beings are born 4,630 dio hourly. This leaves a dif- ference of 810 to assure the increase of the human race.
One thousand two hundred couples hourly enter the holy bonds
whilst 85 of their
of
in this respect,
One hundred and seventy-six tons of rough tobacco are being cultivates hourly, which means cigaro'ics, cigars, and pipe, tobacco to the value of £300,000.
alost interesting are the figures W brethren in an equivalent showing the amount of liquid refresh- i space of time, seek refuge in the ment Indulged in hourly by huinan divorce courts. Ifore we have p dif-
beings. Three and a half million ference of 1.116. So those pessimists pints of beer, and fifty million cups
of coffee are being imbibed. who moan about "the matrimonial crisis" are in error, but the experts, on the contrary, assert that this very number 35proves that such a crisis docs really exist. The ideal amount would of course be 0, but aluat far from this being the case, divorces are on the increase.
Civilisation is ahocked hourly by the news of 15
murders. There Earning Power erimas,
nlao.
Colossal figures can be .had in the solid food department. Fifty million pounds of potatoes, eight and a half million pounds of meat, million pounds of bread, two and it half million eggs are consumed by mankind
tactics too often adopted to-day, and, in self-defence, shout to and which have proved effective their neighbours that reciprocal even against, tariffs.
preferences are the only means The time may come when the of countering the commercial advocates of free commercial offensive launched upon them. It intercourse. may change their is to be conceded that the tariff tunes. There may be a day, not system has been grievously slightly on the up-grat crimes are and consumption of all these
unfortunately
аге
zuventy
com-
Having discussed the production On an average, 108,600 so far in the future, when Rus-abused, that excessive economic
committed hourly all over the world, modities, it would be very interesting and of these 177,000 are punished, ala, with a vast, organised labour nationalism still retards world
to know the hourly earning capacity Those responsible for the remaining
of a human being, army at its back, will step into recovery. Complementary agree-21,500 are nover brought to justice.
Avorage wages range from 1d: to the world markets and undersell ments, leading to a lowering of Legal experts are of the opinion that
thin is a distressingly high figure £20 an hour. The former is paid to the other producers even in their some of the walle, are essential.
which must, at all costs, be drastical Chinese coolle, the latter to
-president of an American electrical home murkets. What will the But until labour standards atly reduced in the near future.
trust.. defence be then? We'venture to tain greater uniformity, univer- World's Sweet Tooth suggest that advocates of uni-sal free trade might defeat the versal free trade. might then very aims which its advocates scramble behind u tariff wall desire.
Factories are hourly at work on 1,000 tons of animal and 300 tons of botanien; yool,
In
There are more impressive incomes the world. For example, José Padilla, the famous composer Spanish light music, who composed
of
| his world-famous song, "Valencia,”_in a quarter of an hour, has so far carned from it the comfortable sum of £13,000.
One hundred and fourteen thousand telegrams are delivered hourly all over the world, and it is interesting to note that more than half of these are sent for business purposes, the other half being of a private nature. This is an unmistakable sign of the extreme slate of tension in which we even live to-day, where speed arki grenter speed seems to be the essential objective, of everybody.
Postal Millions
One billion one hundred and forty- one million six hundred thousand letters, postcards, parcels, &c., flow hourly through the post, all of which bear stampa to the total value of £6,000,000.
The International filni Industry, the gigantic growth of which has been unsurpassed by any other in the world, uses up hourly more. -than thirty million milca of films,`-
Sixty million copies of various dai- ly papers are printed hourly all over the world.
In conclusion, two-moreso of: figures
quoted. This. might be terrestrial planet of ours ta travelling rate of 1,114 approximately at the niles an hour, and there are on average four storms and one earth- quake hourly all over the world.
One must realise that these figures aro by no means Incontestably curate. Everything is the world' undergoes change, and they are no exception to the rulo. But for gunoral practical purpose they serve as a useful guide,
Michael Lorent
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