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You Can Be an M. A. The King's Physician, Lord Daw aon of Penn, la introducting an im- portant Bill into Parliament to stop the work of the degree factories,..

It is time something was done, for do you realise that if your vanity is tickled by honours, whe ther genuine or otherwise, you can buy an MA or BA, or any other degree by cash payment?

THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1983.

THE TRUTH ABOUT BOOKMAKERS

"BAD HATS" IN SMALL

MINORITY

NOT ALWAYS THE WINNER

(By One Of Them.)

London

Music-hall humour has libellous Most of the degrees can be had ly depicted the bookmaker as for $20 or less. They are sold by red-faced, loud-voiced man with a Institutions, which claim to be con-

horse starting price in the first race and it had better be kept light in the book. Stick-in-the- City and Suburban, and chance Mud will very likely not run in the

nected with some American educa-grey bowler, a loud cheek suit and may be taken with him as "dend tional establishments, which, of an outsize cigar, who pinches the meat.” couren, do not exist. Some of them odds, evades payment in every Blank, who has not yet settled over What is to be done about Mr." also supply elaborate caps and

gowns with their different degrees, way, and, in the case of a ready last year's Derby and has answer- They cannot be prosecuted at pre-money merchant, “slopes" before ed no letters?, If Mr. Quickmatch sent; because, as the law atands, the the last race, to reappear next day would be out of business for ever did not settle on a Monday he only degree you can't steal is trading under-another name. medical one. The new Bill "makes It an offence to award or issue. bogus degrees.

by Tuesday, and according to the There are, of course, book debt of honour theory the punter makers and bookmakers. In any should also settle on the Monday. walk of life" there are some "bad He needn't go out of business. He Your Daily Smile

can bet with another firm. There hats"-but they are, fortunately, is no legal redress against him, in a very small minority.

and only the slow-moving machin- NO WONDER.

In discussing the ridiculous ery of Tattersall's committee can "Your wife is patience and anomaly of allowing totalisators be invoked to order him-to pay [swoeintas Itself,”

"Yes," she spent ten years as a greyhound tracks," a

on horse racecourses but not on under threat of being warned milliner to get that way.”...........

greyhound off."

Light: Sentences.

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tote "fan" the other day wrote that To a man in a social position without the totalisator the "public this is a serious matter. He will were thrown to the wolves-Le have to leave his clubs, and the

stigma will cling to him in bust

North London solicitor: Were any the bookmakers. blows struck ?-Woman: No, but]

Now, supposing the tote to take ness. But to a large number it` In she looked daggers at mel

Solicitor at Clerkenwell: Are you which is not far out, what would They simply do not go racing for 10 per cent, of all money staked, ju" matter of little consequence. living apart from your husband? happen if the bookmaker took the a bit, and after a decent interval Woman: No. Unfortunately I have no husband to live apart from.

same? A bookmaker In a fair way offer the bookmaker 3s. In the of business, taking £500 per race, pound to be allowed back. He, Witness at Willesden; I am one six races a day for 50 weeks in the sooner than get nothing, accepts with "Government advances-to absorb.

The result would be of the Georges; I cannot tell a lie. that we should have to pull down

I was not drunk; I dropped off to Year would met £90,000 a year for and they are back in the game our storehouses and build greater; fell to the ground.-Man charged at this amount, makes one more in- Mr. Blank one more chance.

sleep while I was walking along, and tionably makes not a shadow of

himself! Which, aa he unques- again. in order to pile up unconsumed goods. All these facts are so

Highgate. well known to the President' that| A few Congressmen are shows adopting such a plan unless it It is impossible to think of him

The China Mail Hong Kong, Thursday, May 25, 1935.

Super-Planning...

international com-

SHE MEANT FT.

clined to be thrown to a wolf than

Mr. Quickmatch decides to give ✨

Ring Hubbab. Arriving at the course in not the flashlest of cars, he finds his clerk

a "robot." Not that the bookmaker Mre, Miggs (to husband who kea wouldn't take this percentage. If he G. FALCONER & CO., (HONG KONG) LTD.ing signs of restiveness under could be somehow dovetailed into heen for twenty-five years paid could, and even more, but competi- of 20 years standing waiting for

the shower of proposals and billa. larger one. It is evident that all very well Caving an 'obby, but

secretary of Savings Club): It's tion is too strong.

him at his "pitch," a possession which President Roosevelt has he is giving a great deal of

Bookmaking. Theory. acquired by custom and "pack been pouring upon them, Per- thought to the coming World got one that was more ludicrous.”

Ja man with more sense rootild 'ave·

The theory of bookmaking which that can be traced,

law as much as any other way haps more than one of them feels Economic Conference: la pre-

many believe to be carried Into The numbers go up, the hubbab a bit like the starap-tax agent paration for it he invited nearly Dignified: Assemblage.

practice on every race is for the of the ring starts and the book. when Gladstone was at the Ex all the nations to send represen-

bookmaker so to make his book maker's "runneraaleuth who chequer. " must resign," said tatives to Washington to confer stranded in a small town, asked a To take a very simple example comes, and reports any Information

A young lady, Anding herself that whatever wins he must win.) the man, "ny hoad won't stand with him. The avowed object old man at the station where she Four horses are running in's race, he has gleaned,

Thas to know everybody'd business,” it. The Chancellor, sir, is impos-it to pave the way for a great re might spend the night. ling taxes that cannot un-sturation of

equally betted There ain't no hotel here," he mathematical chances derstand."

Without question, merce. In that direction lies the replied, "but you can sleep with the naturally 3-1 against each horse. They're taking threes Mountebank on. The "I see Solly Cuteboy take Ave the number of important hills more reasoned hope of revived station agent.”

are then Aries Legion orf of Bamucis, pressed upon Congress since Mr. industry and of better markets "Sir!" she exclaimed, "I'll have to £400 against each, the winner Cardiff as ad seven ponies ⠀⠀ "le If the bookmaker lays, may, £1,200 whenever they can get it and Lord Roosevelt became President and higher prices for American you know I'm a lady." unprecedented. But that list i surplus of agricultural products "That's all right," drawled the

will take out £1,200 and the losers orse and that's a big bet for 'im," trifling compared with the mul. If those objects can be attained, old man. "So is the station agent. Day 1,200, so the bookmaker will says the runner. Then he vanishes titudinous plans which, have been even though but partially, by thrust upon the attention of the means of international agree-

If he lays 11-4 against each one. tions.

into the crowd for further indica- President and his advisers, The ments, more would be done in the!

however, say- £1,100 to £400, - the Secretary of Labour, Miss. Per-way of ending the depression

winner takes out £1,100, the losers says a tall man on

"I have five fifties Legion,” kins, declared the other day that than could possibly be realized!

bay £1,200, and he is £100 "over side of the rails.

the members' she herself had received "per from any of the super-plans ad- Pictures of the air How around round" or in pocket. haps 2,000 plans for ending the vocated on the theony of national moving objects are being made by

Unfortunately for

"Very sorry, I don't offer it.. depression."

She believed that self-sufficiency. There is no motion picture cameras passed over and backed. In the majority of that Mr. Bolly Cutsboy makes few all The best I can do is fours," retorta horses in a race are not fancied Mr. Quickmate for he knows other members of the Cabinet thing glittering about lowered models of the objects as they are! had been presented with. as tariffs and stabilized currencies drawn through coloured water coat-races only three or four are back- mistaken, that the price will us

The latest attempt to and the equilibrium of foreigned with a light powder,

ed, and that for varying amounts: doubtedly come down to fours or "sell" to the President a vast exchange. Those things may

and in some races only one horse less: Besides, there is that bit of scheme contemplates a sort of seem humdrum to enthusiastic Loudspeakers designed in Ger

is seriously considered, War Board to take charge of all creators of a new America over many to enable speakers in an

"the old" on the slate at home The best he can do, therefore, against the tall man, and probably industry in the United States, night. But the plodding way airplane to address crowds on the failing to get over-round" or even at several other layers' homes, as co-ordinating its activities, regu will prove, in the end, more suc-ground are so large that they have level on the four, is to minimies well. lating its production, fixing hours cessful than the high-flying way, been built into the wings of the

his losses on any one of the four In the next breath Mr., Quick- of labour together with

plane and can be heard for miles outsider he has not laid turns up with five "ponies" Legion, for not

as far as possible and hope that an match accommodates Mrs.

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Facts You Did Not

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be all squarePant

him

A chemical treatment has been this case he wins the lot and only is she good-looking but a developed by United States Depart has brought off the profitable good loser on balance and a good the nth power, The aim is the mountains that are round about keeps oysters fresh longer than the lamb.

There is a hill in the midst of ment of Commerce experts that transaction known as "skinning payer as well. A successful book to sud the hard times by na Jerusalem from which the pilgrims, normally and makes them easier to He can also take a view which tion as to his clients and a judge were, an Order in Council. There having last sight of the Holy City, open by weakening their, muscles.

maker, must be a mine of informa- would be a gigantic output of in the words of the elegy of the

is to say he lays as little as pos of character. goods the unemployed would be exiles, cried as they looked back:

aible against the horse ho fancies

is not real bookmaking,

which if it wine is all right, but horse, which came in the market The race is ran. Mr. A; Stute's

with a rush at the end, wins by bead from Legion Mr. Quick-

A Normal Da

at work, and their purchasing "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let do evil. This is the law of God in power would be so enlarged that my right hand forget her cunning, this creation, and no one can change it could absorb even an artificial- I do not remember thee, let my His decrees. No one can dispute ly stimulated, mass production. tongue cleave, to the roof of my the fast known to God and confim Let us take a day in the life of match has kept it light in the book The initial cost to the Governmouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem ed by your noble history, O citizens opposite grades of bookmakers and had a tenner on it himself, so ment would be very great, but above my chief joy And It is the of America, that out of compassion Mr, Quickmatch, soon the Treasury would begin cry of the world today as Chris and charity He created you to do respected for many y to get millions back in the form tian and Jew and Moglem eling in good to humanity, and has through tersall's, appears at his omcs for of larger revenues from more their devotion to this "City of you accomplished good works" Vis an hour before going down to fruitful taxation. Planning with Peace and the Uttle land in which count Allenby, spoke at the recent Sandbury

www.and he has started on the right leg.

in Tat

(Continued on Page 11.)

out taking into account the it is set as a precious gemthe land dedication of this new building There is a certain amount of human element is always a risky in which the Ark of the Convenant emphasizing the significance of this correspondence to be attended to: business. Unless American resided, in which the Cross of the project as a plus, offering to the Ahas written to mentality has undergone a sea- Christian world stood, and in which one Lord God of Christian, Jew backed All Aboard change, it would not meekly ad the Moslem still cherishes the Holy and Moslem allke. The hope is second at 4-1. He has just itself to such an elaborate Rocks. It la regimentation. It is certain that Moslems have some fear

that the revived that there may be developed haying backed it to the powerful labour, organizations proselytizing by other would be bitterly opposed to. It they see the

Nor has individualism: beeT – NO

eradicated from the American in the taxpayer and the American con

sumer that they would willingly pay and buy at the word of com mand An for the captains and the grE

turers, they would

of spiritual reservat Iths' as several:

of these

in which the

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FORTUNE COMES

TOO LATE

Winner Dies From Financial Worries

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