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HERE, THERE
EVERYWHERE
MARK TWAIN DAY
America is preparing to honour the centenary of Mark Twain's birth on the grand scale
STATUS OF BRITISH THRONE
SPONTANEOUS LOYALTY
TO THE KING
REMARKABLE
THE
PHENOMENON
IN ENGLAND
(By Very Rev. W. R. Inge)
A “Committee of SO, under the presidency of Dr. Nicholas Murrayi Butler and including President Roosevelt, ex-President Hoover and nearly all the famous names in HE Royal Family must be A truer answer would be that [contemporary American literature, surprised as well as gratified the Englishman dearly loves a
is arranging the celebrations.
by the fervent demonstrations show or a^pageant. It does not There will be a Mark Twain of loyalty and affection which much matter whether it is a dinner in every city of the United) the Royal wedding last year and Lord Mayor's procession, or a States on St. Andrew's Day, and a the Jubilee this year have called football match, or a boat race, or Mark Twain Day in all the schools. forth from all sections of the a wedding-there seem to ber
An English Mark Twain Cen-population.
always thousands of idlers ready tenary Committee is being formed When one thinks of it, it is a tc congregate. This is a passion remarkable phenomenon, at ajwhich I do not share or under-
at Oxford.
It is hoped that Mr. Rudyard time when so many Continental stand, so I will forbear to criti- Kipling, who has described Mark nations have sent their monarchs cise it.
the group.
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"WORDS, WORDS, WORDS"
Out-of-the-way.
words
Twain as "beyond question the Packing. Hereditary sovereign But surely the real explana- largest man of his time. will heady is becoming the peculiarity of tion is the most obvious one-
a group of nations in the north that the King and Queen have west of Europe.
well earned their popularity. The demonstrations are en-The present dynasty has not tirely sincere, spontaneous and always been popular. The first disinterested. There are other two Georges were foreigners: often countries-where it is imprudent George III was liked but not achieve a short Parliamentary to be otherwise than loyal respected; rogue. Tatil recently
George IV. was one doubts There is a well-known story of neither. Even Queen Victoria, whether any M.P. had used the how Mussolini went incognito to if she had died young like the "lačuna" for a long time a cinema where his own face was Prince Consort, would not have Then it cropped up in more than thrown on the screen. Every-been considered a great Queen one speech in the India debates one stood up except the Duce. But if anyone should say that Later Mr. Graham White used it in who remained seated
George V. is the best King we
word
a speech on the iron and steel trade. A stranger in the seat behind ever had. I do not see what other Somebody ought to call the atten-him tapped him on the shoulder reign could be brought up as a tion of Mr. J. H. Thomas to it. It "My dear sir, I entirely agree rival, except that of good Queen would be a change from his famous with you but I think you would Bess. (If some feminist seg
be wise to stand up." He was gests that Queens generally rule Dr. Leslie Burgin, who, by the probably transfixed with better than Kings, I retort that Queens are generally guided by wise men, and Kings by No
"Tatus."
Central Government was watch-guages with elegance and ease, last
way speaks seven foreign lan-Napoleonic glare.
Your Daily Smile!
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than your viaddy.”
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later model"
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ed very closely with a view to month took a stiff fence in the diff-
Blowing Off Steam
I won't finish the sentence; it is--" adopting any of the "New Deal" cult Seld of Welsh place-names. There is no such pressure in sadly provisions that proved workable. He pronounced Pontardawe
true of ContinentalTM It would not in any case be easy rectly.
cor-our country.
The other day a monarchies, but not of ours foreigner listened to a Commun-Even Charles II allowed no petti to transfer from a country whose Across the floor of the House Mr. Ist orator in Hyde Park, utter coat influence to interfere with trade is mainly domestic to one David Grenfell passed congratula-ing the most outrageous senti-his very astute policy). It would be difficult to quote that has to keep abreast of the tions "r give you full marks for ments about the Crown Hei any judicial decisions in any
A Difficult Traile unsheltered" world market, and that said the Welsh. Socialist turned in amazement to a police Being a King must be one of country that have affected larger it was obvious that raising the M.P
Man. "Is this sort of thing the most difficult of all trades. issues of policy or greater sums age-rate and the price might be
really allowed bere?" The If he begins as a Crown Prince. of money than those recentlyffset by a fall in the value of
policeman grinned. “Oh, yes his father is probably jealous of given by the Supreme Court of
the currency, so as to leave the
It don't do the King any harm him, and a disaffected clique "real wage"what the money the United States, and in no
and it does the bloke good to get gathers round him. would would such
buy-no
Little Mary was playing school with it off his chest!". better country
decisions
He is flat- than her playmates me day, when father before. It was also clear that came along and said, "Well, Mary, method when strangers try to thrown in his way.
tered and never allowed to hear įseem more anomalous than ia
This, by the way, is our usual the truth: the whole of the rest of the price suppose you're the teacher." England. The very fact that
Temptations are Acts duly passed by the Legislaself to the new codes, and that don't know enough to be the teacher. esteem.
system would have to adapt it-
"Oh, no, le Mary replied. pierce the bladder of our self-hold his own against some of the
He has to- tive bodies and signed and pro the adaptation would not always mulgated by the Executive can be understood by the ordinary
I am only the Inspector.
Jonathan Swift wrotejablest and most unscrupulous some savage and rather indecent men of his time. be cancelled by a baker's dazenį
“Always begin at the bottom," said customs of humanity-
satires. upon the manners man who had never interested captain of industry recently. Except them to our children as a com- Russia, or of William IL of Ger- of learned lawyers is strange himself in economic calculations, of course when you're learning
One has only to study We give career of poor Nicholas II of
the enough. and raises the old can and who always suspects troversy about fixed and fluid
any swim.
*panion volume to "Robinson Constitutions.
change. It is also quite true Sir Stafford
Crusoe."
mary, a man of real ability, to- Cripps has in a recent book ex-such
that as a role he suffers by any man has been saying that four hours Shaw, has spent his life in show-crisis.
"I see said Smith, that a famous)
see what a tragic fate it is to a Another Irishman. Bernard King or Emperor in a time of change plained how easily, given
because
the sleep is enough for anyone." insiders" in any trade are ex- chance majority, he could tarn!
Pooh!" said Brown. That's nothing 10g up our follies, sins and all our institutions upside down-perts in comparison with the 'vel a two-year-old boy at home who hypocrisies; he is desperately wrong, the Crown bears the If anything goes seriously but the fact remains
¡customer. There is that
always knew that a year ago."..
serious: We make him a best blame. Horace's nothing of the sort
has
some "lag in adapting the prices
seller, and say, "What a witty epigram, "delirant reges, plectun- been
well-known Ito the bew situation, and it is Tiny Tot: "You're better looking fellow! done. The whole efforts of thei
How he enjoys pulling tur Achiv?”” (“the kings go mad great. Alexander Hamilton were
often inordinately prolonged.
our legs!" 20 --- I'm Nonetheless there is a great a devoted to securing the sanctity!
When Savonarola lashed the whole truth.
the people suffer," is not the of money values and of con-dissatisfaction with things as
Florentines for their luxury and mad, they punish their Kings.
If the people go tracts. yet the Republic, for they are, and a willingness toi
vice, they patronised him. till] learn its safeguards. has made more
by experiment The
they found that he meant busi-
A Strong Man frequent and drastic changes. absolutely orthodox theorist says
ness; then they burned him alive. King has passed through a quar- The general verdict is that our Perhaps there is no moral but the that in a system built up on the
We should not have made such a ter of a century without making eld reflection that although profit motive, and relying on
dance will be held at mistake; we should have made federal system requires a writ-competition for its motive power, Sepulse Bay Hotel on Sunday at him a bishop.
120 pa constitution there is no it is not possible to have some
A half-hourly bus sez- superiority in any one system portions flexible and elastic while Vice will operate on Sunday after- The Largest Sanitary Laundrymen. Dyers and Drycleaners in the Far East over any other, apart from the cther portions are fixed and re-noon.
spirit in which it is worked. Igulated, and that the best results are got by leaving the whole sys- It is estimated that the recent tem to adjust itself. The oppo foki, was this morning fined $15 by the social climber is rather con- shown dignity and good sense. We Chuen, a 20-year-old shop word to use The snobbery of to say that the King has always "gold clause" decision affected site theory is held by men who Mr. Q. A, A. Macfadyen at the temptible; purely sentimental no less than fourteen billions of say that as that is so, the whole Central Police Court for travelling snobbery is an amiable weakness.
he has shown that he dollars. That decision, by
can act system should be regulated, even on the majority of seven judges to six at the cost of losing the power with his master's monthly ticket. Walter Scott for purloining and
Yaumati ferry yesterday We do not think the worse of Sir strongly and promptly at a crisis. saved the President from a big of rapid adaptation to new cir-
I happen to know оп very embarrassment at the cost of comstances
slipping into his coat-tail pocket good authority exactly what conferring on the Legislature anations of Europe and the North Northern Telegraph Companies 201- Western The Eastern Extension and Great
a wineglass which had touched passed when the National Gov power which the "fathers of American States are not likely to nounce that as from June 1, the
"the lips of Royalty. After anment was formed. I hope the Constitution" would certain-make that sacrifice.
he soon forgot he had it, for he historians will do justice to the ly have regarded with dismay-fer to make a minimum and allated at the rate of $0.60 equals one the country that we love, is not ficent
They pre-charge for telegrams will be calcu- If we are to have a symbol of on that occasion. It was magi
sat upon it
part which His Majesty played That is not to say that the decimaximum within which sion was wrong or unwise, but trades can exercise their
the gold franc it did give the impression that discretion. The large extent to
la human being better than a bit "(Continued on Page 11) the Supreme Court had taken which this has been effected by nounced between Private Leslie The forthcoming wedding is an into consideration
arguments sliding scales of taxation and Wood, 1st Bat. Lincolnshire Regi that were not strictly legal-minimum wage rules is often The highest Court of any coun-overlooked. It is quite probable loon City.
iment, and Miss Zema Tex, of Kow-bour by Mr. EL Wynne Jones at try is justified in so doing as the that the "Guild Socialism" which;
the Kowloon repository of the tradition of the would organise each trade into al A dinner of the Diocesan Old charge of having unlawful pos- Magistracy this national legal system as a whole; unit, provided that a general Girls' Association will be held to session of a radiator cap.
morning when he appeared on a but when the departure from supervision was reserved for the the letter of the law is very State as representing the coat 7:30 pm.
night at the Diocesan Girls' School cbvious the result cannot be an sumer, will in the end be the out of Mah Jongg and Bridge are being number of the White Horse Bulle- A number of tables: We have received the Spring increase in confidence, which is come partly because the details the great want of the moment. are so multifarious and change- arranged for the evening.
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Editor: So it is what is the matter now?
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Is there a better proof of my friendly interest in your career?”.
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