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- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1934.

THE LOST GLORY OF DEMOCRACY

HOW BRITAIN CAN REGAIN IT

PLURAL VÕTING ADVOCATED

But the Budget deficit is growing even more relentlessly. It is now estimated at six millliards of francs at present rates about '£72,000,-

To say that the House of Com-system will be destroyed. 000.

not Parliamentary System May Go in mons needs strengthening is Government accountancy

any censure France is notoriously inadequate. necessarily to imply

Already the thoughts and in-

(By the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill.)

London. I constitution and Parliamentary

If the French Treasury and the upon its members. It is merely a terests of the younger generation

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scene where Mr. MacDonald and system of accountancy as is used our Parliamentary institutions stand are being attracted away from the in private business enterprises, the and of the need for those who care Mr. Baldwin doze so peacefully, to deficit would amount to about ten about them, and about the life we the kind of ideas which in one form. milliards-er roughly £120,000,000. have hitherto led in this country or another have become dominant to take effective steps in their de-throughout Europe. It is perhaps The Real Total

no exaggeration to say that the next addition to this liability The history of the Inst eleven ten years may well see the end of there is a loss on the State-owned years has consisted in alternative the English Parliamentary system. or State-aided railways of about 5 Governments of Mr. Baldwin

A universal suffrage electorate milliards-or £60,000,000.

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald culminating with a majority of women voters The total deficit facing the in their joint association. When will have shown themselves incap- French Treasury is really there-ever the Socialists have come into able of preserving those forms of fore 15 milliards or £180,000,000. office they have very speedily pro-government under which, our coun- of this sum about £10,000,000 voked a violent reaction in the country has grown great and from represented by short-term} try. Mr. Baldwin has always which all the dignity and tolerance Treasury bonds, redeemable in the caught the ball from Mr. Mac of our present life arise.

occasion early months of this year.

Donald, and on the last

It in these reasons that I have has embraced not only the ball but long cast about for a means af its thrower as well. We now have strengthening the Parliamentary so-called National Government regime. I do not here speak of the under which the proceedings of the necessary reform of the House of the House of Commons have sunk to the Lords or Second Chamber, for that lowest ebb. Four-fifths of the is a well-known controversy. But members are Conservative suppor- the time has also come when ters of the Administration.

must definitely improve the fran- two Oppositions make gestures and chise of the House of Commons so demonstrations to which the outside! as to make the vote which returns

a Parliament more truly representa had died. From the medical

She rushed into a local chemist's public pays scarcely any attention.

But this by no means implies ative of the strong, vital forces which point of view, as from the social shop.

"I've been trying for hours to general contentment in the country make the country move and which BASTO--At the Canoasa Hospital and the moral, such figures are

ag 3.05 a.m. to-day, Mr. J. M. ghastly. If then the facts are telephone you, to get you to send There is probably at this moment a cannot be indefinitely disregarded.

The proposal which I have made de Castro Basto, age 80, of to be faced at all, what other way up another bottle of my medicine, definite majority of Socialists and

It raises no Noranha & Co., Government is there than that suggested and you never answered," she cum-Libernis over the whole Conserva- is extremely simple.

of tive and so-called National forces. issue of rank or class, of party or Funeral will pass "It is idle," say the Committee,plained. "I knew I have one

It involves the monument at 5.30 p.m. No to expect that the section of the these dial phones and 1 sometimes This great mass of voters has no wealth, of age or sex.

representation in the the disfranchisement, actual or pros- community least capable of self-get it wrong, but I couldn't be effective flowers by request.

control will succeed in restrain wrong all the time. I tried dozens Chamber. They are completely un-pective, of no class. It aims, how- ing one of the strongest impulses of times and couldn't get any represented as far as Parliament is ever, at giving a greater weight to lof mankind.

We can see body.*

the more responsible citizens, neither logic npr justice in deny- The chemist was aggrieved, but

It must not be supposed, however, those who make the largest contri- Mudum ing these people what is in effect

had she

that the political life of the country bution to the nation's well-being and There dialled the right number?

is not proceeding. All the power-those who bear the heaviest public Bong Kong, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 1934.ja therapeutic measure."

I propose that every is no suggestion either of com-

"Why, of course I am," she re-ful forces which have influenced our burden, pulsion or of veiled compulsion, plied. "I took it from one of your Indeed, the Committee hold that hotties-EST. 1843." the case for compulsory sterili-'

be sustained

on Confused But Accurate sation cannot scientific grounds, and that it is

The worm who said that when he Whether the Report of the undesirable administrative.}

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missed his train home he always Committee on Sterilisation is ac-They require the fullest evidence]

caught i cepted or not as a basis for legis of the patient's consent, and in lation in Britain in the near case of doubt as to the patient's future, it is 11 authoritative competence to give it, that of; The lawyer, addressing a class of document of first-class medical the parent of guardian. Nor |aspiranta for legal honours, sought executive. An immense disturbance They would all be persons who and social importance. Briefly would they allow the operation to impress them with the necessity will be crued to our agricultural, had to face the real problems of life stated, its conclusion is that, sub-ever to be performed without two for weighing carefully the

in a manner quite different from exact industrial and commercial life. Lject

lodgers of all kinds of both sexes, to stringent safeguards. medical recommendations. meaning of testimony.

The Socialists Dilemma voluntary sterilisation should be is clear that the Committee have

"For example," he said, "up-

dependent or otherwise. We should the to that extent have corrected legalised on eugenic grounds, both carefully gone over the whole posing I told you that three frogs The Sociaist Ministera will, 43 in the case of mental defectives ground to provide abundant safe-were sitting together on a log, and usual, have to choose between quar-effects of throwing an enormous and also of those persons who guards both for patient and for

followers and mass of irresponsible voters into the Huffer from grave physical dis- doctor, and that they would decided to jump off; how many relling with their abilities which have been shown strictly confine voluntary sterili-roga do you think would be left on quarrelling with the nation. They scales as was done during Mr. Bald, will be impaled on this dilemma, and win's last administration, and we to be transmissible: The in-sation to persons either mental- "Two!" cried the class.

after a period of anxiety and pos- should have infused into the fran quiry throughout has been con-ly defective themselves or likely

"Wrong!" corrected the lawyer. sibly of disorder, a strong rever-chise a new measure of atability. the taint to their ducted on medical and scientific to transmit

(Continued on Page 11). lines alone. No other considera-offspring. No estimate is hazard. "The frog I specially referred to xion will be made to government by tions have been admitted, though ed as to the numbers likely to only decided to jump off." Ithese will soon be raised and submit themselves, but it is pressed by those who regard all surely surprising that those who suggestion of sterilisation as an hold it to be "plainly in the Impiety. For the moment, how-interests of public health to en- THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO. ever, the portent is sufficiently courage sterilisation in

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the Right. Whether this reversion] takes a constitutional or a Fascist! ferm depends entirely upon what

injury has been done to the coun- MAJOR FRANCO TO

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of Franco, one Major Ramin political classes following keenly the progress of events. Nearly one- Spain's premier aviators, has ar- Tuhing made of aluminum alloys third of the electorate do not take rived in New York with the state- coated with rubber has been found the trouble to go to the poll. Alment that he would attempt a to withstand vibration of airplanes large proportion of the others havajtransatlantic flight from New York better than the copper tubing now to be dragged there upon some to Europe in May.

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at Manchester but also opportunities of, develop Anyone can see how Impossible it Germany are the leading commer=" ried out in the most perfunctory forcible speech way." That is a grave reflec should awake many to the value of ing taste and thought and skill of would be for Parliament to com-cial aviation promoters.

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The Spanish aviator is on hía far more widely spread than was their membership till 18. These sprit, de corps, and, of co-opera- by occasional plebiscites. At any supposed. To what follows the are the years, as the Duke of tion with others The boy who moment a serious crisis may arise way to Mexico to investigate the marriages of the mentally de-Gloucester said, in which physique leaves school at 14 may And his in which the differences which used fate of his town countrymen, Bar ficient let the facts elicited by the and character are being deter-way to all this through bis occupa to be settled by Parliamentary de- beran and Collar, who disappeared Committes themselves bear wit mined, and the "future pattern of lion. But the chances are heavy bate, will be settled outalde the somewhere in Mexico this. neas Of 1,800 children between life" laid down. In every case and against it. For many, the club is walls of Parliament by the confilet after erossing the ocean from 7 and 18 years of age, 40 per in any conditions they are critical. the alternative to the street-corner. of extremists. In any such confilet Bevilis

Major Franco said his ocean hop cent were mentally eub-normal. While Juvenile unemployment. Is it provides much of what is best in the Socialist or revolutionary forces Yet these were the stronger prevalent, they are fraught with the training of the public schools will certainly be beaten, But the in the spring, would be anyon offspring; 25 per cent of the danger to many, We need not, re- The Duke of Gloucester wisely laid danger is: that, in the process of for a world's non-stop dialanço re- Itotal progeny of their parents call the painful evidences of the stress on the mutual value of 23 u defeating them our, anojant, free cord, Router,

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