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The New Austrian Constitution.

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Parliamentary Snob-Stuff

Those who worry about Parlia-: [mentary conventions are worrying)

THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1934,

"THE SEA HATH NO

KING BUT GOD”

PERILS THAT ATTEND LIFEBOAT LAUNCHING

about ministerial methods of refer FAMOUS SHIPWRECKS RECALLED

(By R. L. Hadfield.)

ring to members. Recently, Sir George Bowyer, in the House of Communs, referred to Colonel W, G. Nicholson as "my right honourable and gallant friend.”

To the landsman the launching of[properly supervised and kept in Colonel Nicholson is a member of a ship's lifeboats may look a simple condition for immediate use in the Privy Council and entitled to enough affair; but when he has seen emergency. Inventions concerning the dignity of right honourable.ja sinking ship being battered by boats have almost invariably been But the upholders of custom say mountainous seas, with her deck at of the freak order. For instance, a that when a member is right hon-a steep angle, slippery, and con-year or so ago a bout resembling a ourable he should be referred to stantly swept by waves coming small submarine was invented. Ac- simply as "the right honourable aboard, he may change his ideas,cording to the originator, those gentleman."

and realise that it is frequently ajleaving a sinking ship had only to enter the boat through a manhole,

that

Where Disasters Differ

It is they say, correct to talk of terrific and heroic job. the "honourable and gallant" or The ship may be listing so much close the manhole, and then wait to "the honourable and learned" mem-that only the boats on one side can be flouted off when the ship sank. ber, but not of "the right honour-be used, and then they hang out so This might work if ships in- able and gallant"-or learned mem-far

passengers, especially variably sank slowly on an even ber.

wonten and children, have great keel; but in most csacs of shipwreck Right honourable, they say, must difficulty In getting into them.(such a manner of sinking is far stand alone. It is a matter of cus- This was the case, it may be remem-from happening. tom and tradition rather than of bered, in the tragic affair of the rule, and a matter for idle heads Vestris, which foundered

For instance, when the Empress rather than busy legislators. coast of America in 1928.

of Ireland was sunk after collision If a ship is foundering, not having with a collier in the River St. Law- struck, she may list .towards therence, she turned over on her side weather side, in which case there with extraordinary rapidity, all her The new League of Nations is no shelter for such boats as can funnels striking the water together; building is nearing completion.be lowered, and they may be thrown ahe "rolled over like a hog in a Officials are already jockeying for against the ship's side by the scas ditch," said one of the firemen who position in this gigantic and impos-and smashed before they can get survived. The angle of her deck

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clear of the falls.

off the

was so great that beats on one side

ing edifice.

The concrete motorway to Ver In the confusion of shipwreck were thrown from their chocks, one soix, with its four traffic lanes in davits are not always handled as of the officers being killed by a boat the style of the Great West Road carefully as they might be. and falling across the deck upon him as is almost finished.

again and again in the history of he was directing operations. Briand would be surprised at the wrecks there have been instances of The Titanile sank slowly, "like a boats lowered too rapidly either by baby going to sleep," as the very Vienna could hardly swallow her progress which has been made.

In the days when architects from stern or bow, of passengers thrown same fireman who had survived the pride so rapidly as to allow her. self to be picked up like some us-ten countries had long been "en out, of fully breaking, precipitating Empresa of Ireland disaster said, Hong Kong. Thursday, May 3, 1934. considered trife, by the Ger-operating" acrimoniously over

the occupants of the boat into the but at the last she reared up on end many that humble her at plans, Briand, at a meeting of, the sea, and even, as actually happened so steeply that her machinery was Sadowa, or the Baly that worst- Assembly, asked the President when the case of the Vestris, of davits heard falling through her with a Led her through the

rapier ther the building was nearly ready themselves being carried away to noise like thunder. The Vestris thrusts of Cavour. After all, for to be occupied. If not, he suggest fall on a boutload of people.

jand the Egypt turned over. In the la thot and yours the Guelfs a:ded that for appearances' sake an

Boats overcrowded are apt to latter case those left aboard had to The Ghibellines made most of official should be detailed to inhabit buckle under the weight whilst be climb over the rails and were then On May Day the new Aus-European politics. The Papacy the foundation stone.

ing lowered, and it was fear of this able to walk on her side as if it trian Constitution came into and the Empire were in a sort

that caused one of the officers of the was the dock. The stern of the force. The date was appro- of alliance even when rivalry was Geneva For Genius Titanic to keep off with his revolver torpedoed Lusitania rose right up, priately chosen for a new at- hottest, and it is,only a few years

Apart from the monstrous regi-many who tried to enter an already precipitating passengers and loose tempt to bring peace and pros.jugo that the veto of the Aus-

gear violently into the sea. perity to sorely stricken Vienna,trian Emperor in the Conclaves ment of League officials, celebrities overloaded boat.

Peril Lies In Launching

Apart from such events, there is whose streets but a few weeks for the election of a new Pope are plentiful and strong on the wing

Then there is the provisioning of always the suction of a sinking ship ago were "up" not for repairs was abolished. It is in the mid-on the shores of Lake Geneva,

Erich Mario ("All_Quiet") Re- the boats. In the case of a trump to be reckoned with, and it seems stream of tradition that Chan but for trenches; traffic sus-celior Dollfuss should have gone marque, banished from Germany, steamer this devolves on the cook, probable that any form of "aub- Ipended

himself a house "safety #

near but it can easily be seen that during marine" lifeboat to be floated off last"

to the Vatican for his guiding has built campaign of mobile machine principles, and the new consti-Coppet.

the rush of taking to the boats at the top deck would be carried down His neighbours include Paderew-the last moment—and a master does and crushed by weight of water. guns and tanks, gutters run- tution is based on the injune-i ning with blood. A strangely tions of the Encyclical issued on ski. Romain Rolland, Prince Buona not give the order to abandon until

It has also been suggested that violent salute to a new frame. 15th May, 1931. technicall; parte and Guy de Pourtales.

the last moment-stores may be left the whole of the top deck of liners behind or be carried away by seas might be constructed as a floating work of law inspired by a lofty known as Quadragesimo Anno,

with the English title "The Your Daily Smile! breaking over the men provisioning platform. Those who put forward idealism which may, if it suc

the boats.

this idea forget that such an ar. ceeds have much to teach our social Order, its Reconstruction

und Perfection." Bolshevism, Three out of four singers in a bewildered generation. The Fascism, and Nazism are coll-recent vaudeville show sang upset with any facility; they are, in tional weight; moreover, the diff- quiet citizen who goes about his demned on the ground that one "Stormy Weather." Each, of fact, extraordinarily seaworthy in culties of arranging it so that it own business may

well and all, with many other popular course, accused the others of steal that respect. But loaded with pas could stand a chance of floating free be puzzled by the new causes doctrines, they demand the sacrling his thunder.

seugers, and, perhaps, with insufl-from a sinking vessel seem Insur- and new names that spring uplfice of the individual to the Stato.

cient able-bodied seamen to handle mountable, whilst the only way to like mushrooms from the shell-¡However much we may organise

them, they are apt to get into dim-carry out any experiments would involve the actual sinking of a great Sultivated soil of the Great our industries to meet modern The Business Instinct.

An Irish priest offered sixpence culties. War.

They have this at anyjconditions and the disturbing!

to the boy who could tell him who During the wreck of the Aden on ship-an experiment not likely to

find favour with owners. rate in common, that they spring progress of invention, we must from the seed of a profound dis. never forget that all organisa. was the greatest man in history, the reefs of Sokotra, some

"Christopher Columbus," an-ago, boats that were got safely away tions exist for the suite of the trust of the old system of un-individual, who has a primary awered one.

from the vessel and tried to make AMAH WHO DID NOT regulated competition with its right to the possession and the "George Washington," answer the shore-distant less than a mile

MAKE GOOD. -were carried away to ses and scen more, though many vessels searched for weeks for possible sur-

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"St. Patrick" shouted a bright no

Properly handled, bonts do not rangement would mean great addi-

years

very obvious fruit of a pulpably development of his own soul. No ed another. unjust distribution of the proclass is to be allowed to press its

$100 Fine For Theft. duce of labour. Each nation in claims beyond the point at which little Jewish boy. adopting some abstract principle; it begins to shut out any other "The sixponce is yours," said vivors. During the burning of the

"There is nothing known against of solution has in reality follow-class from a chance of the good the priest. "But why did you say Volturno, one of the greatest fire

disasters in the history of the sea, this woman, but she had an on- ed its own national history and life. There is nothing intrinsic- St. Patrick?" traditions according to its tem- ally wrong with the wage system, "Right down in my heart Iseveral boats that got away with portunity to help herself, and .sho perament, In Russia Czarist but the wage must be a just knew it was Moses." said the Jew-passengers in them disappeared to did not take it," said Sergeant centralisation was displaced by wage. It is a long time since St.lah boy, "but business is busi-the northward and were never seen Shepherd. in prosecuting Kwan centralisation claiming to be Thomas Aquinas summed up nesa,"

again, though searched for by liners Sam-mul, an amah, before Mr. Q. fighting a class war for the dis- Christian teaching in economica as

summoned to the Volturno's aid by A. A. MacFadyen at the Central radio. inherited, what President Roose the search for and enforcement|

Police Court this morning, for the velt.calls "the forgotten man." of the just price both for gooda

A cluster of boats is easier to see theft of Damages of £50 have been

a large quantity of In Italy the old Roman Legends, and labour. The price that is to awarded to a man whose face was than one isolated boat fact that jewellery and $80 in Hong Kong with the symbol of the consular be considered just is not to be slapped in public by a

was proved after the sinking of the money, the property of Fung Yin- fasces demanded that the ent-known without careful study of This is known as a clout with a

Columbian.

|ho, of No, 25 D'Aguilar Street, her ployee should sink his indi-ical and national as well as per-silver lining,

former employer, and for receiving viduality in a corporation which aonal conditions and this in-t

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woman.

Freak Lifeboats

The crew were in the boats and the stolen property. was to include all those engaged volves special study for which A Hollywood actress was mar-were being sought by several ves- A fine of $100, in default two in any one trade, to be controlled men of goodwill and sound train-ried recently in a gold dress and sels summoned by radio. Unfor-monthe' imprisonment, was impos- by the employers. In Germany ing should be set apart. The all the wedding presents were of tunately, they could not keep in ed. on accused, who was arrested the philosophy of Hegel, and the state should then enforce their gold. We understand she claims touch, and thus one boatload of men on Tuesday. fame of Frederick the Great and decisions without fear or favour to be the only Hollywood actress to actually witnessed the rescue of Bismarck and the other national It may, of course, be said that have celebrated a golden wadding. others, but were unable to attract heroes from Arminius down-this programme is difficult of ap- wards, led to the demand that plication. It is not, however, im- the citizen should merge into the possible, and the great want to-

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|attention to themselves. They were] {at sea dor over fourteen days with-];

nation, and the nation should day in every country' is a gen- A thrifty wife is one who spends out being scen. Several men died seek only its own interests. The aine conviction in the hearts of above her husband's income and traditions of Vienna are differ-working men that the State encourages him to save the rest. ent, and it is natural that the means well by them and is do- new. Constitution should, having its best. Much in the way

HOUSEHOLD HINT:

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AContented · Navy"-

or went mad after drinking salt water, and the pitiful remnant waŞ Int last picked up by an American

revenue cutter.

FALSE PRETENCES.

Kept Himself In Fish Under Master's Name.

Brought before. Mr. Q. A. Ali different aims. The gay and of hardship can be cheerfully One way to prevent plaster from In spite of their sufferings, dis-MacFadyen at the Central Police Court this morning on three graceful social life, the polished borne if a man feels that he can the celling falling in to your tea in cipline was still being maintained, charges of obtaining by false pre- diplomacy, the aura of the Holy get justice when he asks for it to drink cocos.

and the captain of the cutter, re- Roman Empire had a long Vienna hus fallen on evil days

marked on the seamanlike way the tences, Chan Kau, nemployed, innings, and have had but a short since the War, but it may be that

frally starving men brought their best was fined $200, in default two Intermission. The provinces of out of her adversity and her old

alongside.

{months' hard labour,

the "ramshackle Empire" have traditions of adveralty bravely

There have been countless at Accused obtained 459 cattles of been amputated, the Palazzo endured, some, new spirit, may

tempts to improve boats and the fresh fish, valued at $81.31, from Venezia, the historie home of spring that, will give light and

MY TAME TYPIST

conditions of lowering Modern me of his former master, Leupg: various local fish merchanté in the Thought that an electric drill davits are far more easily handled Austrian diplomacy in Rome, has help to the puzzled peopics of been taken over by Mussolini, but Europe.

was used in our mechanised Army-than, old types, and boats are now.

Statement

Hearta of Oké:

1

Chun.