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-Hitler's Sword Stick

Herr Hitler, who recently, visited Weimar, has been presented with the sword-stick of the great Nietzs Iche..

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1933.

WIVES DENIED THE RIGHT TO EARN

NOVELIST CONDEMNS

NEW TENDENCY

The Nazi Chancellor, who a few FEW WORK OF OWN

fyears ago used to carry a whip in elf-defence, has never carried a stick. If he remembers his German' history, he will think twice before

FREE WILL

(By Bebecca West).

A meeting was recently held at necessary will not seek it, and he carries the stick of Nietzsche. the Central Hall, Westminister, to those to whom it is pleasant 'and'

Lassalle, a forerunner of Herr defend the right of married women necessary will seek it.

Hitler in German National-Socialiam to engage in paid employment, just The desired state of affairs is at and a great dandy, was never deen as men and single women do. The tained, without injustice being In the streets without the stick of meeting was abls asked to deplore done to the hard cases. Robespierre.

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A Drastic Plan For Newfoundland.

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the increasing tendency of the Just how very hard these cases. Lassalle was killed in a duel Government, local authorities, and can be may be realised by any fought with Count Racowitz in

private employers to make celibacy, body who goes about the suburb of Geneva.

la condition of employment for with open eyes. There are many Hitler, who is superstitious, is not women, and the suggestion that the women who are neither widows nor likely to forget this ominous precejunemployment problem can be solv-deserted wives, but are far from

ed turning married women out of being in the position of luxurious, Industry.

dependence on the male.. Those New York Taxi-Cabs

At first sight this may seem to When A Husband Is Laid Aside One admires the originality of many people a not very necessary

I had one such woman to see me New York banker who has bought demonstration, an aggressive de recently. Some years

ago she- a British taxicab for use at home fance of a point not worth hagglingį

gave up her employment in a'`firm". because he objects to his hat being over in such difficult times,

that employs no married women, to... crushed:

But the employment of married marry a professional man who If New York cabs are low their

woman cannot be prevented with made a fair income, and, she has. A drivers have a lofty and indepen-

arnow two children of school age. dept at about them. They are not out tampering with certain

have, on the short time ago her husband suffer tude, but they do not understand rangements which

whole, upheld the standards of ci-led a series of catastrophic misfor- the superfluous "thank you" of the vilisation.

tungs, which anally caused Englishman, and some reply, "Don't thank me!"

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This is true in spite of the fact mental breakdown. that, in a great many conditions, There are good hopes ofʼhis ùlti- the employment of married women mate recovery, but in the mean-.- is wholly regrettable. I have time he is making no money, and known very few women who have she has only a minute Income from. chosen of their own free will to invested funds. The firm which work during their children's early employed her before her marriage. years, unless their work was plea-refuses to re-engage her because sant, their economic background she is not a widow or a deserted easy, and their relatives helpful-wife; and in view, of her husband's junless, that is to say, they were almost certain recovery, and res exceptional people who were also entry into professional life, she han exceptionally lucky.

no desire to confide in anybody, the

I have never known an ordinary facts of the case.

In the meantime there are the woman who had been forced by her two children to be kept, and an husband's death, desertion, or f

Your Daily Smile

OR WHEN These broken society engage jutmost to stem the tide of adver-ments are so confusing that, it is

sity. But it is held that the quite time somebody published curing of a chronic political dis-brochure with some such 'title

"Who's Whose,” liong Kong, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 1933. order is beyond the power of any the party Administration; and

This is Just Too Bad. Commissioners believe that popu-.

A fireman has just married lar opinion supports their pro- posal for rescuing the country girl he first met when he picked from its present state. What her up and carried her down is suggested amounts to a form ladder. There was apparently

Crown Colony Government, scope One of the most remarkable of

a conversion of proposals ever made in the his- coupled with tory of inter-Imperial political Newfoundland's liabilities into a

Mrs. Jenning had taken her small relations is put forward in the new 3 per cent, stack guaranteed Report of the Newfoundland by the British Government. Only daughter out to tes with her, and Royal Commission. endorsed by with the utmost reluctance can during the meal was horrifida to`see the British Government in a that Government have agreed, the child trying to force a White Paper, and now before as they do, to undertake this repiece of cake into a very small por

laket Parlement. The recommenda.sponsibility The consent

"Oh, Mildred," she said in shock- tion of the Commissioners is that conditional on acceptance of the Newfoundland.

of double proposal by the New-ed surprise, "what are you doing?" deadly fatigue and melancholy. a Dominion

"That's all right. mother," the Crown which has enjoyed re-foundland Government and Legis sponsible government for nearly lature, and, of course, the apsmall daughter reassured her, "I'm man who is it the minds of the went back to the dressmaking busi

employment of married women. eighty years, should voluntarily proval of Parliament expressed just taking this slice, back to Nursie people who are out to prevent the ness she had left on her marriage, abandon that status for the time in the needed legislation. There for a pattern." being, and should pass under is no reason to doubt the ulti- AMERICA GOES “WET.”

means

to which the finances of the island porting again.

have been reduced, and which

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luck to become the bread-winner unsaleable house to be run. It. while her children were still young the firm concerned had simply would surely have been better if who did not speak of the experience taken for granted that if she wants with bitter resentment. The con-

diet that goes on in her when she work she probably needs it.

There are many other hard casét. tries to give her mind to her job, but is constantly worried about that happen' year in and year out. Women lose a lot if they may not cheap domestic labour, or grudging

for are childless. I know one auch relatives with whom she has had to work when they have married late, leave her children, produces

woman, who, after fretting mixer- Jably for years and making her hus- But it is precisely not that wo band wretched with her nerves,

and poured her frustrated energies into expanding the firm All it now The Right Of Every Citizen Even the London County Coun- gives employment to many men and And all that now remains prohi cil, which frowns on the employ-women. the control of a Commission remate success of such an experi-

The country's resources, bitive is the price. sponsible to the Government in ment.

ment of married women, umploys "Doing Men Out Of Their Jobs"

There London.

are also as a small but In this unique ex-which now include the vast un-

the deserted wife and the widow. pedient they find the only hope-developed wealth of Labrador..

This obviously must remain the important class, the women of ex- iful

of rescuing New are far more than adequate; and Figures for Figures.

A doctor advocates skipping. to

common practice until the com-jeeptional gifts, whom the com foundland from an overwhelming signs of trade recovery have for reduce weight. Sixteen bounces manity is sufficiently wealthy to munity can prevent from working burden of difficulties, the exis-some time been apparent.

make family allowances in such only to its own loas. The most tence of which led to the institu- the political case appears to call making one pound.

cases, and this at the moment is obvious members of this class are tion in February last of the in-for nothing short of surgical

Facts You Did Not

an idle dream. This punition. women doctors. If the people them- quiry by Lord Amulree and his treatment.

But the question for many people Know.

therefore, ean be set aside while two colleagues. These were selves are, indeed. "content that

to-day is not whether the employ considering the question.

ment" of married women on equal, nominated by the Canadian and the island should be known as

Hardwood trees 15 inches in dia-i What is more important to re terms with men and single women the Newfoundland Governments 'Britain's oldest Colony," there

about 20 member is that the prohibition of Js & matter of justice, but' respectively. The nature of the should be no disposition to with meter can be felfed in

the employment of married wo-whether we can afford such justice. immediate problem is well known, hold what help is needed until seconds with a new portable gasolina

becomes self-sup-motor operated saw.

men is an interference with a rale An idea has always existed that if It lies in the desperate condition the country

which again and again has prova married woman works she is pro- ed its value in the history of bably doing somebody who needs it With government co-operation a

England.

lout of a job. -- moved the British Government, Fighting The Thames. eredit bank has been established in

Germany to promote the production. According to this rule, the mar- (Continued on Page 11), twice in the course of the past)

ried woman ought to be allowed to twelve-month, to intervene to en- The catastrophic tidal floods of of motion, plcture films.

decide whether she will or will not able the payments due on the the winter of 1928 are

deve work, because by experience it has Newfoundland debt to be met, dreadful memory to great numbers. Electrical engineers have But behind this, and mainly ac of people in London and the lower loped radio receiving equipment been found best that so long as an countable for the dimensions of valley of the Thames. In the re that enables up to 3,000 sets to be individual obeys certain, require the difficulty, is a long history of port of the Departmental Commit-served from the same antennaments laid down by the State, to long as he keeps the peace with misgovernment, which is examin-tee appointed to consider means for

Surveys have been completed for his neighbours and pays his share ed in the Report with a frank-the prevention of such disasters ness that is justified by the there is grave evidence of the dif-ja proposed railway between. Pales of the national expenditure, the extreme gravity of the emer-culty of the problem, but a new tine and Egypt and construction State should let him work out his KOWLOON INTESTATE LEAVES gency. The Commission has organisation is suggested. which may begin in the near future, - adopted the view of those wit should much increase the efficiency nesses called before it who held of the defences of the river banks that nothing short of a complete The public should be aware that a rest from party politics could good deal of protective work has secured. One of the main factors world goens to show that giving Pembridge enable the people to "win free been done in the five years since in producing dangerous tides is a people the right to decide their London, and formerly of 29 Stat- from the malign influences" which 1928. An effective system of giv-ocean surge which may raise the fates brings out a cerain indepen-Lay Gardens, Notting Hill, London, have become rooted in political ing warning from the river mouth level in the estuary by seven feet: dence which is one of the most who died on May 5 last, left local valuable of human qualities, estate sworn at $34,400,. The peti- practice. Briefly, it is the of, the onset of dangerous tides has They note another factor as in- "spoile system" that is indicted. been put into operation. The Lan-creasing the possibilities of flood. The second reason this, that tion of Daniel John Lewis, polici Ministers and their supporters don County Council have made from the sea--that substantial sub only the person who wears the shoe tor and lawful attomey, for the re have acted on the principle that great progress in raising the river sidence of London and south-east can tell where it pinchen. If it is abling of the certified seals, copy they should obtain what bene- walls throughout their area and England. The defence authority unpleasant and unnecessary for a of the probate of the will has been fits they could during their below London: some work of the which they would set up to plan and certain number of married women granted party's tenure of office. Under same kind, has been carried out, execute in a Joint Committee of engage in paid employment and

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This rule is found useful for two main reasons. The first is, that

LOCAL ESTATES London Lady Leaves $34,400.

$19,600

all the experience of the Western Miri. Jossie Thomsett, late of 27 Square, Bayswator,

that system Budgets remained No comprehensive scheme, buwever, members of the existing local-bodies the law says that no married wo Letters of administration, in unbalanced for twelve, successive has been possible owing to what the working through the organisation men must be so employed, then it estate of Leung Chung-man, late, years, and a debt was piled up on Committee call the medley of an of the Port of London Authority puts out of work certain number 19 Winslow Street, Hungbom, which the interest charges alone thorities sharing responsibility" and drawing its resources from the of hard cases of which employment loon, who died Intestate on

Laung Chan-aku, wit amounted to over 50 per cent with disparity of powers, methods rates. To put the scheme in opera- la pleasant and pecessary.

tion" will require Parliamentary The same happens even thon The of the average public revenue, and financial resources The onset of the world depres remedy for this li clearly the entah sanction, It is clearly a matter of a law is actually written on sion, of course,

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