1934-02-21 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1934.

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THE LOST GLORY OF DEMOCRACY

(Continued from Page 8).

Weighting The Franchise

If the principle of weighting the franchise were found acceptable there is no reason why it should not [be further developed as time went on with the object of making the total vote at the poll gepresentative of the pulling and driving power of the country, instead of its more-de- pendent and more volatile elements.

Another advantage should. - be noted. The new class of plural voters. numbering millions-with whom anyone may rank himself in the ordinary processes of life—

would be a class bearing special political responsibilities. They would in consequence tend to follow public affairs with more seriousness than at present. They would feel that there rested upon them in a marked degree the duty of caring!

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8.5.

From Tons Hong Kong

About

1934.

RAWALPINDI | 13,000 24th Feb.

Destination.

Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, Londen, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull, S'pore, Penang. Bombay & Karachi Marseilles & London Marseilles & London,

Hull.

their extrs vote was envied' or even resented by the other classes, that very feeling would restore to the franchise some of the value it has lost by being made universal.

We should have taken the first step of moving back to a foundation for Parliament composed of electors] who really take an interest in public; affairs, and as a result Parliament

would continue to be the forum of national discussions and the college from which Cabinets are chosen.

ELS

Marseilles, Havre, London,

We should not in the least be de- Rotterdam, Antwerp & terred by catel phrases such

"fancy franchises," nor by the fate. which has overtaken fancy fran-

Marseilles & London.

Marseilles & London.

Bombay, Marseilles. Havre, London, chiges in so many European coun- Hamburg, Rotterdam. Antwerp & tries. All experience goes to show

**SOUDAN

6,800

*MIRZAPORE

COMORIN

CHITRAL

BURDWAN

3rd Mar,

8,700 2nd Mar. 15,000 10th Mar. 15.000 24th Mar. 4.000 31: Mar.

RANCHI CARTHAGE **SOMALI

17,000

7th Apr. 15,000 21st Apr. 16,000 28th Apr.

'NALDERA

CORFU

BANGALORE

16,000

5th May 15,000 19th May 6,600 26th May

10,000 2nd June 17.000 16th June 0,000 23rd June

Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & Eondon.

DO

Bambay, Marseilles, Havre, London,

Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp

Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

&

DO-

MANTUA RAWALPINDI **BHUTAN

KAISAR-I-HIND 12,000 80th June RAJPUTANA

17,000 14th July

THE CHINA MAIL.

As Opera Lifted "Salome" Ban

Banned since 1907 when the Metapolitan Opera's production of "Salome" raised an unprecedented storm of protest, the Oscar Wilde story set to Richard Strauss' music has been revived-with certain restraints-and Lakes its place in the repertory again. In this scene Herod (Max Lorenz) pleads with Salome (Goeta Ljungberg) to dance for him. It is this dance, termed "shameless" in 1907, that has been sufficiently subdued

Lo br

TO CZARDIS

A TRIP TO

hitched Then he

mother

came

Hull

(Continued from Page 10.) the steps pressed forward to look Bombay. Mararliles

London.

that once the vote has been extend-.

inside. The older boy cringed in Bombay, Marseilles & Landon. jed to everyone, and what is called)

Their uncle returned and hitched his uncle's arms. His uncle turn- Bombay, Marselles, Havre, London, full democracy has been achieved.

Hamburg, Rotterdam Antwerp & the whole system is very speedily his horse to a ring in one of theed and stood with his back to the

Their their crowd. broken up and swept away.

A true trees. democracy involves a much more mother's horse, and all of them through the doors. The crowd fell refined process that the mere count-got out and stood on the ground in back. Again through a passage- If that is to be the 4 huddle. The walls of the build- way of gazing eyes they reached ing of noses.

before rose

them. Strange the wagons. This time they sat method by which we are to be ruled, ing then it is not a Parliament but quite faces at the barred windows on the seat beside their mother. different organizations which under laughed aloud and called down Leaving heir uncle and his wagon behind, they started off on the modern conditions will marshal the curses at the men below, noses and do the counting.

Now they were moving, with a road that led out of town.

"Is Papa coming home with wall of faces on either side of them.

Jim asked in a their uncle going first, followed by Uncle Holly?" There is one other reform in the franchise which should be made by

their mother, who held to each of

still voice,

His mother nodded her head. them by a hand. They went up) the present Parliament and should,

Reaching the woods once morej the stops of the building, The become operative at the next elec tion. I mean the institution of door opened, and their uncle step-and the silence he knew, Daniel

back in

whispered to his brother: Proportional Representation for the ped inside. He came

"We got a watch and chain great cities, for instance, the in-moment, and all of them went in terests of Manchester and Liverpool||

jand followed a man down a cor-instead, Jim.” are ignored in the whole march of ridor and into a bare room with public events, and now little they two chairs and a wooden bench. count in public discussion, surely time a change was made.

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1934.

SIRDEANA

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Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

†TALMA

10,000

Do

TILAWA

10,000

DO

SANTHIA

8,000 1st Apr.

DO

TAKADA

7,000 18th Apr.

SIRDHANA

8,000 20th Apr. ì

DO DO

Calls Rangoon.

6th Mar. 18th Mar.

B.. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for ist and 2nd class passengers.

Proportional Representation

En

it

ไฮ

A man in a black robe sat on one of the chairs, and in front of him

On the other hand, the introduc- on the bench, leaning forward, tion of Proportional Representation locking down between his

arms;

father. His face wan in the counties would be a great mis-sat their take. Whereas in the cities Pro-lean and grey, which made him portional Representation would look very tall. But his hair was focus the personality of the citizens, black, and his eyes were blue and the same syetem in the counties mild and strange as he stood up

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, would destroy the personal contacts and held the two sons against his

1934. 7,000 3rd Mar. 7,000 30th Max.

and collective identities which exist. body while he stooped his head to Now is the time for action. It kiss their mather. The man in always difficult for the House of black left the room and walked up Commons to deal with matters and down outside in the corridor.

4th May. Manila, Rabaut, Brisbane, Sydney & affecting the position of so many of A second stranger stood in the

TANDA NANKIN NELLORE

TANDA

NELLORE

7,000 7,000 2nd June 7,000 30th June 7,000

3rd Aug.

NANKIN

Melbourne.

of

its own members; but the conditions doorway with his back to the room. the present Parliament are The father picked up one of the favourable as they have never been sons and then the other in his arms before and may not be again for and looked at them and leaned Both the reforms I|their faces on his own. Then, he many years.

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan have mentioned would have the sat down on the bench and beld and Kong Kong to Australia,

Hong Kong to Sydney — 19 days.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following —

effect of helping rather than hurt them against him. Their mother ing the existing personnel. Nothing sat down by them and they were

The Union S.5. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New will prevent the swing' of the pen all together. Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and

The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Bucz.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal,

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,

*BURDWAN CHITRAL

TILAWA

NANKIN

RANCHI SANTHIA

•SOMALI

NALDERA SIRDHANA

BANGALORE CORFU

MANTUN

BHUTAN

1924.

6,000 23rd Feb, 15,000 23rd Feb.

10,000 21st Feb. 7,000 8rd Mar.. 17,000 8th Mar.

9th Mar,

8.000 6.800 21at Mar. 18.000 23rd Mar. 7,000 23rd Mar, 7.000- 5th Apr. 16,000 5th Apr. 8,000 6th Apr. 4,000 18th Apr. 15,000 19th Apr.

11,000 3rd May 8,100 16th MAY

• Largo only.'-

S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. S'haf, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama.

S'hai, Moj, Kobo & Osaka.

Kobe & Yokohama. Kobe & Yokohama,

Robe & Onake. Moll,

Kobe & Yokohama. Mojl, Kabe Yokohama, Amoy, Shai, Mail, Koba & Osaka. S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama, S'hal, Kobe & Yokohama: Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama, S'hai, Moji, Robe & Yokohama.

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice, All Cabine are fitted with Electric, Fans or Punka Louvre System Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries,

*

*

dolum, but it would be to some ex- A few low words were spoken.] tent moderated.

and then a silence fell over them The Liberals would be well adjall. And in a while the parents vised to support the additional votéļspoke a little more and touched for householders, if it were part ofļone another. But the bare stone a Bill in which Proportional Repre-floor and the stone walls and the Bentation was established in the unaccustomed arms of their father great cities. Of course, there would hushed the sons with the, new and [be a violent controversy, but one of strange. And when the time had the greatest delusions in politics is passed, the father took his watch to suppose that it is desirable always from his pocket. to please everybody,

"I'm goen to give you my watch, And what is the alternative? Jim. You are oldest. I want you have no hesitation in maying that to keep it till you are a grown unless the reform and strengthening man.. ... And I want you to always)

of our Parliamentary institution is do what Mamma tells you...I'm actively undertaken without delay goen to give you the chain, we shall see ourselves involved in a Dan'I. ..... .” succession of disastrous fluctuations

The young brother took the attanded by continued constitutional chain, allpped out of his father's}| decay, and that the regeneration of farms, and went to his mother with the country and the establishment it. He spread it out on her knee of sincere and vigorous government and began to talk to her in a will be achieved, through agencies whisper. She bent over him, and very different from those which (again all of them in the room grow have hitherto been the peculiar glory allent, and achievement of our island.

A sudden sound” of marching was heard in the corridor. The

|FOOD-SEEKERS BECOME FOOD man rose up and took his song in his arma, holding them' abruptly, Cologne. But their': uncle, who had been Many, butcher's shops here are standing with the man in the topr-1.

way, came suddenly and took them The animals have been forced by land went out and down through the

cold to: come down the big doorway by which they into the paisanta, gårdeng" in the entered the building.

od to seek food:-

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But Jim neither answered turned his eyes.

nor

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