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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1931.

DEMOCRACY'S

DECLINE:

The Case for State. Control.

ROTARY CLUB ADDRESS.

Mr. J. D. Bush, addressing

ism."

EUROPEAN AIRMAN MISSING.

Trans-Atlantic Flyers Long Overdue.

HOPE ABANDONED.

New York, Yuderday. Rotarians yesterday at, the week-Although constgund 'plures ly timin, dealt with the possibilities and still senregins hope has of the system of "State Capital- Lan. practiced for Įthe rafety of the tram-Atlantic Democracy, he said, was enter- diverse inge upon a new phase of develope | It Is Just possible, however, ment, after being in the ascent that they handed at an inaccessi- 19th century on-ble part of the Canulinn epaul, ney from the ward. It had brought many ad- and are enable to communicate

en with the outside world, in its train, but. vantages fronted with the tremendous re-

Earlier MexrALİ. of our times, constructive nauds

SOUTH AFRICAN CHANGES.

Provincial Councils to, Be Abolished.

BUDGET TROUBLES.

Cape Town. Yesterday.

THE

MAIL.

CHINA

LADY ASTOR IN RUSSIA.

Moscow Journal's Account.

"TALKS" WITH WORKERS.

educated at to expense of the State, and cavit, of them is now | specialising in a certain branch of industry. I should never have had enough money to give any chil then a proper education in Aus- ' trella."

"But, sugaly," Lady Astor ex- |chimed. * your conditions of life are

Worse."

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"No, am much better here." "But in Australia you had a room

The Mosrow newspaper Pravda The South African Govern-has' nublished an account of con- ment has decided to halish the Yersations which, it is stated. In our own," Provincial Councils.

Lady Astor had with werkpeople

"Yes." This is the mest important, during her recent tour in Russia.

"And here!" constitutional change in South Below we give a translation. Africa since the establishment of A party of Russian factory the Union,

Workers who have been awarded a

for The chief reason the Coun-Continental holidny their cils' inability to balance their forts under the Five-yeur Plan

has reached London. Budgets-Reiter,

The Pravda article is as fot- lows:-

The Junker's trus-Atlantic "FOR THE DEFENSE" hid utterly failed to fulfil its prophone which left. Portugal on mises. No. recent electoral reform September 18 is two hours over bad gone down to the root of the luo, and its whereabouts are un- inawn since it was sighted by corruption and incompetence of

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ment.

modern democratie go the steamship Pentand, yester- The problem of govern day sterndon, 400 tallet cast, of ment by the people" might work Halifax, Nova Scotia in throy, but not in practical ap plication.

Defence of English

Spelling.

A wyfter la Lle. Newspaper World By:

A matter which has upset me

ten,

"Here Ave other persons, share my room."

"Goodness gracious)

And you really think that you are better off here?"

"Certainly."

ady Astor furned' excitedly to Shaw and told him about the wo

who shared a room with five other persons. "It depends what sort of room It is." When Shaw entered the large room with many windows, he said to Lady. Astor, "In England lifteen workers would be glad to live in such a room."

.

The Happy Peasant,

In a neighbouring village' Shaw and his companions visited a num- ber of cottages, speaking to the members of the collective farm and to those of the peasants who have Lady Astor not vet joined it.

We do not know what Lady. Astor will say about U.S.S.K. She was given every opportunity of ne- quainting herself with the various aspects of life in Soviet Russia and (Oh Bolshevik terrora!) she was even allowed to conduct a pro- paganda of capitalist. Christian, Two plots left here n mid- In the economie Geld, the phito-eight in-ution to joute the badly this work the plastering and Spiritualist as of which is

an adherent. sophy of frisers faire had receive hot returned this morn on the walls of landon-andle

Lady Astor had several conversa ed its death blow. The indivi reporting that visibility wastings,

obtrottions with "the oppressed popula the advertisement of dnálistic principle has been tried and nothing be seen, with

tion" of the Soviet Union in the Router's American Servire, Ansorien talking-picture which and bad failed to equalise the

The airmen e-Wily Rody they have the impadence de Communist collective farm Lenin,"

And as these conversations are economic benefits of

and Christian, Johansen (Ger-print

of addressed an old moujik: "How 33 "For the Defense," The principle Was fruitful

interest mune) and Coste Vis (Partie 1 noted.. that the billa -1

not only to Lady Astor are you getting on?" abuses.

western So that the

we take the liberty of reproducing

"Splendidly," the old man repli nations had suddenly realised these). They took off from Jun-aw were printed in Engand-and them in brief.

ed "And you can't even imagine, or Sep-ay view is that the printer ought interdependence of financial and ca, near Villa Franc

terler. 1, in a specially con- to be in jail. I turned to the even addressed the American worker, will be in a few more year.

In the repair shop Lady Astor dear one, how wonderful our life economic strength of nations.. ►

structed Junker's aeroplane, in an te paper to see how they spelled Comrade Buk.

She asked him trite sometimes there are attempt to cross the “Big Pond the word, and believe me urbe about the conditions of work in the culties, but then it is ourselves who from East to West.]

lieve me not, The Evening Stan-

Communist collective farm, and do everything. It is ourselves who dard and The Evening News, the

was shape our lives" eravens, used the "in this word finally inquired whether he

quite happy. "Yes," Bak replied, which, ever stove we have had a am happy."

This is not true," language, has been spell with

exclaimed. Bak shrugged his shoulders and smiled: "Wo work, dear one, We work.

„The Remedy.

pation,

The remedy lay in joint action drunimunity En economists had frankly admitted the need for nationalisation of pro- duction, distribution, and change. But Mr. G. B. Shaw had

·ON-

TIENTSIN BRITONS

warned his publie that nationalisa Extrality and Rendition

of

tion, though theoretically sound. tock. H lot of doing, in prac- tice. In fact, the transition from individualism to state capital- ism was an easy task, miss the violent and drastic methods Soviet Russia and Fascist. Italy were adopted. This was perhaps the reason for the world to-day being

the desert between wanderer in commercaliam and Socialism.

The speaker went, un to consider the workings of Fascism and the He, doubted whether such Sofiet,

a regime of despotism could be im-

* posed upon countries like Britain

Opposed.

MASS MEETING.

Tientsin, Yesterday.

No Concession.

冠

Lady Astor

It is diffi-

"I'm so glad," Lady Astor re- marked, "to see a happy and con- tented peasant."

Just see how strangely my heart beats," and, grasping Lady Astor's hands, the old man pressed them to

"I have no interest in telling lies."

= "Written in His Soul." This brought the conversation to

"He is unhappy, this his heart.

There must be no concession to the Americans in this mailer. Our sping is the priceless neritage of an end.

the British and although we can't man is unhappy," Lady Astor re- aller the pronunciation of the vol-marked.

Britons in Tientsin are holding lege girls who bawl at d from the pair shop. "I could A mass meeting this afternoon in screen, or ever hope to stop them written'

in his. soul."

We do not know (“Pravda" con-

on leaving the re- cludes) what Lady Astor will say about U.S.S.R. One see or write the Gordon Hail to oppose the giv-ly derearing, or hurt them by hur the way Lady Astor had said Astor has

Lady From thing, however, is clear.

scen for herself how ing up of Extrality and the rendi-ling our boots at the sheet-1/say this, it was plain ion of the Tientsin

was mendacious are the stories of her concession that something ought to be done quite serions. Reuter.

This was evidently party," about forced labour in the even if it he no other than writing a case of practical spiritual divina-Soviet Union. to The Times about it--something tion." should be done to stop this Ameri-

MARINE OFFENCES.

or America, although it might be Mooring in a Prohibited

As to the Soviet

done in China. regime, although it had manifest defects, it did seem that it served the purpase of an anti-toxin against a good many of the evils ascribed

individualist capitalism.

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Area.

em spelling on the walls of Britain.

Star Wobbles.

The Star was not quite so bad as its two contemporaries-but it was wabbly, In one announcement it

that she

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After inspecting the model dairy of the collective farm Lady Astor and spoke to the milkmaid, Maria left her companions a little behind

Kardash.

"Tell me," Lady Astor

WOMAN'S 14 CHILDREN.

Coroner. On Birth-. Control.

said, is yours a hard life?" "No- "I feel very sorry for this woman. One bout man and seven boat spelled "defence" with a "" and in thing to complain about," the milk. She knows nothing, about birth-

all that cricket. another with an "s." Still, I don't naid replied. "Things are getting control," said Mr. Ingleby Oddie, on very well on our collective addressing a mother of fourteen

I have turned

-Punk and

to my dictionaries. Wagnalls "Standard Dictionary uses

furm."

to observe "offence" is "the usualment

women were this morning charged before the Hon. Comdr. G. F. Hole, Its .. (retired), in the Marine Court. coming was gradual, but inevitable with mouring their vessels within the "s" as it does also in the word Lady Astor: It is not you per. Defence of Democracy. 150. feet north of the Government Tense, and then has the sauce sonally I mean, but the whole settle- Professor Robertson, in return-slipway pier in Yamauti Bay. They ing thanks to the speaker, said that all pleaded guilty, and one of the democracy was still strong in women advanced the excuse that she Britain, although had moored there for a short while America and there was a great deal of confusion only, while she went ashore to buy in the world generally. In Italy some kerosene oil. The Magistrate and Russia forms of despotism retorted that she was not allowed existed, which were quite unsui- to moor there unter any circum-

Perhaps vast stances.. elsewhere. social schemes had been adopted

table

the

ildren at a Paddington inquest. The inquest was on Sonny Potter (3), son of a window cleaner, of Edgware Road, W., who died from elling in Great Britain and its Maria: If the settlement is do-shock as the result of his head be- dependencies." I wonder what olding well, 1, too, am doing well.. coming wedged between a wait and lector Johnson would say to. that

Lady Astor: This is not true a bed. You are made to believe it. If a Mrs. Elizabeth Potter, word 'usual?"

man does not fry to do things for mother, said that her usound carn- himself he can achieve nothing. ed from £2 to £2 58. a week, and Maria: But when we thought only they paid 25s. a week in rent. Ten ourselves we lived a wretched of her fourteen, children were liv-

live a collective life--and it is Mr. Uddie: Never heard of birth- quite a different matter. No, col control clinics, have you?—No. lective farms are indispensable,

Are you in perfect health your

WRITTEN NEWSPAPER.

of

Fines or five days hardrary Secures First Copies Of life, but on the collective farm wing.

without counting the cost, as labour, in default, were imposed on Britain, where those obligations each of the accused. had been incurred without taking" into account how the competitive

affected.

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A WEEK'S DISEASES.

No Mast-Head Light.

Auurtalian 1838 Production.

Landing

A fine of $10, or 10 days' impri-

Syndey (N.SW.), Aug. 13,

Lady Astor: But you must Hell? No. power of the nation would wonment in default, was imposed on

The first copies of the "Mel understand that a collative farm, Mr. Oddie: I am not surprised. the master of a fishing junk for bourne Advertiser written in pen oppresses you. It does not allow Do you go to work yourself?—Yes. A good case might be made out failing to exhibit a white light at and ink, have just been acquired you to live as you dentro. I, for Recording a verdict of accidental for socialism in the banking, world: the mast-head of the craft while by the Mitchell Library. The news instance, am independent. I go death, the Coroner said it used to: but there were qually strong argu-under way in the harbour.

paper was started by Jolin P. where I want. I do what like. he thought a good thing to have a ments against it.

Fawkner in 1838, and the first ning Maria: But you are richt. What teeming population, but the views MARINERS WARNED columns to the page.

nabers were foolscap size, two about the workers in your country? on that subject were now beginning

Each copy

Lady Astor: Our workers live to change. had to be written; no printing ma-well. They are literate. They

He gave the woman £1 from the Yangtze River-South chine was available, and duplica-are educated.

peor-box: Channel Entrance. tors were unknow.

Maria: I do not think their life

..It's Shocking. The first number sak:

is so happy.. As for their being

When Judge Moore, at Southwark educated they County Court, heard that a judg- the father of a revolution,

fourteen children, he exclaimed: Lady Astor: Wo shall never have "Good gracious! It is shocking." a revolution.

..Maria: Indeed you will. A re-

Two Imported Cases. of Typhoid Fever.

TUBERCULOSIS TOLL.

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The Inspector General of Cus-not reasonably remain longer mark are the sooner will. they organise ment debtor was We opine that Melbourne can-educated, the mora

'Advertiser.'

toms gives notice that on or about ed on the chart of advancing civili October 6, 1981, and withoutation without its The official return of diseases further notice, the Tungita Light Such being our important feat, we and deaths during the week end-vessel, moored in the South Channel do intend, therefore, by means of ed September 12, is as follows:-Entrance to the Yangtze River, will this our Advertiser, to throw the vention you must have! Even in Cases Deaths be temporarily withdrawn from her resplendent light of publicity upon our country, where many of the station and replaced by a relief all the affairs of this new colony..."workers at the beginning of the

Typhoid fever

Puerperal fever

Diphtherin

Tuberculosis

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1 light-vessel. .The relief light- When machinery arrived and the Revolution were quite literate and vessel is painted red and has no tenth issue was printed the news uneducated. the October Rovolution name upon its side.

The light, which is dioptric, of for not complying with the Colonial the workers in your country are paper was Immediately suppressed took place.. And if, ze. you say, the fouth offer) shows a fixed Press law, Undaunted, Fawkner, educated, they will certainly have

Two cases of typhoid fever were imported.

Summary to September 12.- The returns from January 1 to September 12 give the following figures:-

5 seconde

1

white light varied by an eclipse in. February, 1839, printed the revolution, every 10 seconds, thus:-

"Port Phillip Patriot," which lived until 1842. Fawkner "became Д member of the first: Legislative Council in Victoria and died in 1869.

C Light

Eclipse

and is visible in clear weather for a distance of 11 miles.

During foggy, or, thick weather a

Typhoid fever

Cases Deaths

345

36

Small-pox

14

4

Scarlet fever

4

Diphtherla

87

28

fog bell will be struck one Blow every 15 seconds,

· Cerebro - spinal ̧ føver · 16 · ··

8

Puerperal fever

Paratyphoid fever

13 .1

Tuberculozis

While playing in a parents' day

Lady Astor Whatever happens we shall have no Bolshevism...

Maria: Yes, you will. There will be Bolsheviks. You can't, do without them.

Lady. Astor: No, no, no, no.

A Woman from Australia,

In the large bakery of the Com

In order to show the direction in cricket match at Solihull Grammar munist settlement Lady Astor

9 which the light vessel, is riding a School, Birmingham, Mr. Frunk

white riding-light will be exhbit- Miller, art master of the school, spoke to a woman who had lived for 1,975ed from sunset to sunrise at the collapsed and dled.. Nineteen of the typhold cases bow at a height of 12 feet above were non-Chinese, as were throp the deck scarlet fever cases, one small-pox case, one cerebro-spinal fever case, and 27 diphtheria" anses..

On Monday one case of cerebro- Opina); meningitis was notified,

On the completion of the repairs to the Tungaha Light vessel she will be replaced on her station and the relief Hight-vessel withdrawn. with out further notice.

many years in Australia. After a few questions, Lady Astor Pre- sumed her questions. 15 your life Plantations at Calenga, in here much worse, than in Aus Ankola, Central Africa, have been tralia?” completely devasted by a gigantic "Net at all.

The woman replied, swarm of millions of locusts. For here.

I am much happler I am ever out of empley- some hours the sun was completely ment, and my work la valued here. obscured by the swarm.

I hava three chlidren

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