1937-05-08 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 8, 1937.

THE

BALDWIN'S

REASON FOR QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

WORLD RETIREMENT

GOES BY

heather."

WARNING AGAINST

“ALIEN CREEDS”

Mr.

а

67 NABLE mats and writing table

Baldwin, speaking more ́accessories ́made of real slowly and deliberately than usual and with a sadness of voice and gesture, publicly confirmed in -From a Fashion Page. We laugh at Victorian knick-Speech at Worcester the possibility

of his early retirement. knacks, and we jeer at fruit made out of soap and kept under glass cases.

But we don't do so badly ourselves. Why not telephones made out of sponge cake, doors made of candle grease and fashion writers made of blanc-mange?

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Mammon

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He indicated to a large number of his constituents in the Bewdley Division, assembled in the Guild- hall, that they would soon have to find another member.

The Premier, who will be 70 on August 3, obviously found it an unwelcome task to tell these peo- ple, many of whom are his life- long friends, of his impending re- tirement.

go

"Big as were last week's rises în the prices of copper, lead, zinc and

""Far better," he said, "to tin (the rearmament metals), follow-when people may still think of you ing the Chancellor's $1,500,000,000 as perhaps not incompetent to do announcement, they were easily your work than to stay until per- exceeded by yesterday's jumps. Tin haps they know before you do that actually opened £21. 7s. .6d.

you are becoming incompetent. at £265; copper opened £10

"My conscience in that 58 higher at £74 and lead £1 58. higher is clear, and it may not be so very at $31. The turnover of the mar-long before you will have to choose ket beat all records-News Item

another member for West Worces- tershire."

up

If you are interested in money, you can't do better than be munitions maker at present,

matter

It was not the statement of a Prime Minister about to relinquish They've had a thin time for the of au M.P. who had represented office so much as the homely regret last few years, but, by gum, they his friends and neighbours in Par- are în bloodstained clover now. liament for nearly 30 years, and

Mr. Lawrence once wrote a money-was loath to give up. grubber's prayer. I have had to Another observation was that it alter the last line a little for ob-was beyond human strength to vious reasons, but it's rather apt carry the burden of his task many at the moment. Here it is:- years after the age he had reach-

"Almighty Mammon, make meed.

rich:

Make me rich quickly-

With never a hitch...

Personal Regrets

Two personal notes crept into his speech-his regret that Parlia

Kick those who hinder me into mentary duties had prevented him

a ditch

Almighty Mammon?

Great son of a sweet violet."

Dream

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from making contact with the younger generation in the division, and that he would not be succeed- ed in West Worcestershire by an- other Baldwin, as he had followed his father...

"Mr. J. Morgan, Manchester, pre- In the small portion of his speech siding, gaid that there would be not devoted to his coming retire- less discontent in the country, and ment the Premier warned the coun- they would hear less about Com- try against exotic and alien creeds munism and Fascism, if beer was which could do nothing to help us cheaper."Report of Licensed Re-in solving our own constitutional tailers' Society.

problems.

“Look out for these people,” he

Every Fascist dead drunk.. Every Communist lying singing adjured, "who talk about sudden in the gutter.

and violent changes. Let us keep

The unemployed speechless with this country secure from these alcohol

strange creeds which to-day are

Underpaid overworked people who rushing round the world.” dare to complain, stunned with booze.

It's a Brewer's Dream.

Diary

Coronation Souvenir

Programme

Extract from the diary of An- Coronation Souvenir Programmes by In connection with the sale of drew Szankai, of Budapest, who Boy Scouts in the streets on May 12th, wounded himself:-

13th and 14th it should be noted that all sellers will wear Scout uniform and will carry an official label. The price of the Programmes will be $2 and as the money will be kept in collecting

teeth it as, are used on Flag Days,

Monday-Tore my trousers. TuesdayMy overcoat-stolen. Wednesday Accidentally broke window for which I must pay, ThursdayTwo of knocked out while boxing.

FridayMy bicycle stolen. Saturday Lost sixteen shillings, Sunday -- Two valves of my wire less set burned out. I shall tinue to be a failure.. I prefer to dies

A section of the Gra

Bouleva

impossible to give change. .......... The entire proceeds of the sale of Programmes, after essential expenses have been deducted, will be forwarded through Government to the King George Jubilee Trust Fund, and the congenerous support of the Public to this

deserving cause îs requested.

The sellers will be atationed near Star Ferry in Kowloon and Hong Kong, near the lower Peak Tram Station and along the procession routes.

The E. and A. Liner, Talma, left

as well as the vast area in the heart of Paris covered by the central mar- kets, remamed littered with garbage Singapore for this Port on the 6th for some hours as the result of a sud den strike of 900 drivers of amnicipal instant and is due here on Tuesday

morning.

motor dust-carts

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