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the protestants against the Royal PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION.

Academy the breezes which it has

often experienced may be said to rise to gale force.

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FOR LARGE CITIES?

(By Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill)`

election. No are except Mr. when the power and infinence of are approaching a general It is a bad thing in any society

Augustus John, who only became Baldwin knows when it will come individuals can only be exerted Will be the autumn of this through their getting hold of the one in 1928 long after his reputa-

or obtaining an official tion was secure, has never pro-year or the spring of next? Or caucus fessed great respect for the will the Government await the position. An appreciable part of Academy.

compulsory operation of the Quin-the freedom and culture of British Whistler, in the Victorian era, quennial Act? Whenever it comes public life has arisen from the was also a Burlington House here it will be a great pity that the fact that we have always had tic.

Government has not carried a mea-large class of independent

who counted. The President, however, has the sure of electoral reform.

Under the present system it is

Reform Needed satisfaction of knowing that hel still remains. Mr. Sickert's "very easier for a Socialist to get into Both, therefore, on the grounds: Parliament than a candidate of of securing a truer representation dear Llewellyn."

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more wearisome to recount the and other Dominion representa- ja chance."

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Sir William's most famous pre- any other party, Although there of the people and of strengthening decessor, Sir Joshua Reynolds, are certainly four or five million the House of Commons, I am in was lese fortunate with his own Liberal voters in the country favour of electoral reform I sug- most distinguished RA, Gains-hardly any can get into Parliament gest three practical steps. First, Indeed, it is expected the application of proportional re- borough A long-continued cool-lat, al ness between them

nitimately that barely a score of independent presentation in the first instance caused Gainsborough to refuse to Liberals will be returned when the to the great cities. This is no- exhibit at all at the Academy. next appeal is made.

more than was advocated by the mana House of Lords in 1918, and by...... his deathbed.

Th Conservative Party Gainsborough sent for. Reynolds gers are quite content to see a majority of the last Parliament- and died saving to him. "We are Liberals and independent elements Conference on Electoral Be- because form in 1930. Nay, it is less; for all going to heaven, and Vandyke of all kinds blotted out is of the company.

they think they will be more I would not propose to extend this feasily able to beat the Socialists system to the counties.

But this is a short-sighted"view. Whereas proportional represen- Each guest at the "Dominions All experience shows that the masstation in the cities would mean a soon tire of and higher focusing of public thought, surer and Bezchers of the Middle Government and incline strongly its extension through the counties: The China Mail the rest of the world in its Night dinner given by the Trea of the voters

obvious duty. It would be even Temple to the Dominion Premiers to the mood: "Give the other side would make the areas so wide as to impair the relations between a "New World Order” Imember and his constituency. Let Hong Kong, Friday, July 5, 1935. hesitating, spineless and utter-tives during the Jubilee in London

lly insufficient verbal protests

Bat when this means putting in rs begin with the cities and estab

coherent, living, and feeble denunciations which received

bear the forceful entities in our national the rest of the world indulged describing the historical connec power a Government which is lish them in when at last its consciencefounding of the Empire

tion of Middle Templars with the quite inadequate to

weight of Imperial administra-politics. was pricked at the wanton ex-

The best thing in it is the tion; when it spells a financial Secondly, the exercise of the ploitation Russia has everything to lose

the arrival in sory Citizens who neglect to dis and absolutely nothing to gain almost a caricature; one could quotation from Sir Humphrey C crisis and an industrial set-back; franchise should be made compul- by any crazy war adventures at almost see the bedridden old bert's "Discourse," which per- when it means the present stage of her deve man unnecessarily telling the shaded his younger brother Adrian power of men who are--nominally charge this public duty no longer lopment, and it looks very much thug who was robbing him that and other Middle Templars to at least-committed to the nationa-3 privilege, for it belongs to all- as though the militarists in he was a naughty boy, and make a second attempt to discover lisation of all the means of produc-should be punished by a fine. It Japan, recognising this. are mustn't do that

the North-West Passage. It con- tion, distribution and exchange, is a shocking thing to see an elec-

and who are full of housense tion like that recently in Edin... cludes: doing everything possible to

The provocation of the Sovies,

He is not worthy to live at all, about "a new world order of burgh, where barely half the elec provoke the country into somehowever, is bringing a little that for fear or danger of death show which they have only the airiest tors took the trouble to go to the show of aggression by the re-j

more reality into the situation peth bis Country's service and his own conceptions; then this fickleness of poll. If democracy is to maintain peated frontier incidents. of WINTER which the Soviet have recently if it is to be further indulged honours seeing death is inevitable and the electorate should not be aggia-itself, there must be the conscious participation of the whole body of in Russia, besides now being the fame of virtue immortal Of course,

Hardly in the best traditions of rated by the voting system. been complaining.

Another vice of our present the voters in the responsibility for CLOTHING we may expect the usual bland a member of the League, has a

methods is its destruction of the the good government of the coun- mutual assistance pact with our modern pacifism

Hry. The bigger the poll, the- explanations and denials from Japan, whose protestations of France, and is therefore in not

personalities of great cities.

Why should Manchester. Liver healthier the vote."

Thirdly, we should improve the innocence in every conceivable quite so defenceless a position contingency are beginning to as she would appear to be to

the militarists of Japan In "Do you realise, Eloise, that I have pool, Sheffield, Leeds, Bradford, USE

Glasgow and Edinburgh not bring quality of the franchise by making wear a little thin-before the other words, there is every pos-

a great future??

Yes, of course, Jim, but a little a collective weight to bear? a difference between the house- OUR public opinion of the rest of the sibility that a showdown would

present wouldn't do any harm***

Instead of this they are all carved holder or head of the family and world Attributing the basest!

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up into meaningless blocks of his or her children, or dependents.. MOTH motives to everybody else, she not be such a walkover for Japan never fails to assert her blame as her militarists seem to think.

There is precious little love lost “What would you do if you woke houses, none of which embodies would therefore give a second the authority, the diguity, or the vote to every man or woman who whether for first PROOF lessness,

weight of these great communities pays the rent and the rates of any causes of trouble or the results between Japan and America and smelled smoke?"

also, and it is not entirely be-

The House of Commons would be weling in which more than two. BAGS usually very much to her bene-

far richer and our national life persons habitually reside. --This. : fit. of pinprick provocations. yond the bounds of possibility that America might be drawn We are too far away from the into the fight if ever the chance

more securely founded if these would certainly involve four or five Sare actual events to be able to offer

Teacher::

"Who lew the fascities with traditions and charac-million persons. Many of them came. But, as in most world anything better than an opinion, affairs which entail a trial of plane

ter of their own returned men who would be young, a proportion but from the record of past

Willie (sparring for time): "Who had the right to speak as Conser them women.

Real Responsibility events of the same character it strength, it is the attitude of sew the first plase ?"

vatives, Liberals, or Socialists. for Britain which in the end is the

Teacher: “Right."

the whole city.

They would all be persons who may safely be stated

most conclusive factor. A little Wille: "Wright.”

Men would become stronger in had to face the real problems of Japan's attempt to "advance firmness years ago would have the cause of her Manchurian done wonders, there is still time

relation to political machinery national life with a responsibility

quite different from that of lodgers- hirelings," in the phrase of the for an uncompromising state- Pravda, probably sums up the ment of policy which will stop

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A fine of $75, in default two of all kinds of both sexes, depend- months hard labour was imposed ent or otherwise. This proposal

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(Continued on Page 15.)" selves in Japanese policy. The sale unilateral ignoring of and Wong Yip-kau, were each fined $50, with the alternative of decay of the House of Commons, a tragedy of the thing is that this treaties and obligations solemn bound over in a bond of $25 to be a month's hard labour. shameless and shameful ex-ly entered into, but also the of good behaviour for six months From July 15 to October 1 the ploitation of weaker neighbours cynical abandonment of every by Mr. W. Schofield at the Central

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