1937-05-15 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 15, 1937.

THE

WORLD

GOES BY

HUSBANDS WAIT FOR

1,350,000 GIRLS

ONE IN TEN WILL NOT MARRY

1,500,000

There are more than eligible bachelors under fifty-five in. Britain now, but only one în ten

I SEE that ex-line to help Gen- of them Will Bit Kings

a couple of million eral Franco.

The idea presumably was that Alfonso could buy his throne back. Things seem to have gone a bit awry and it is stated that the ex- King "is as bewildered as anyone else."

Wood's

This was Six Kingsley message of hope to the single girls of the realm.

He was giving the House of Com- mons. reasons why single men should insure under the new Old Age Pensions scheme.

An unmarried man of thirty, he He has the doubtful satisfaction said, would be unwise to defer insur- of being an active party to a dis-ing at 1s. 3d. a week until he mar- pute that has led to the deaths of ried, say, seven years later-when scores of thousands of his subjects. he would

have to pay 2s. 6d. a

The seventy-three-year-old aunt week of Alfonso, Princess Infanta Eula- lia, goes on to describe Franco. She says:-

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State Liability

Sir Kingsley said at least another 2,000,000 would be able to partici- "I am very sorry for General|pate in the widows', orphans' and Franco, who is a nice intelligent old age pension scheme on a volun- boy and an idealist who believes tary basis under the Bill. he will win.” *

The Bill has been called the Well, if Franco is a nice intelli-Black-Coated Workers" Bill," he gent boy idealist, then Caliga was said. "That does not adequately just a sissy.

i describe its scope. It affects a good The boy idealist makes a charm-many people who work most of the ing, irresistible picture against his time without a coat- background of Moors, foreign mer--small shopkeepers, newsagents, cenaries and firing squads.

tobacconists and owners of small general village shops. "Six British officers were killed "The scheme includes many wo- and five wounded yesterday when a men in independent occupations like large number of irreconcilable dressmakers, music teachers and tribesmen swooped down on a sup-women engaged in domestic duties." plies convoy."-News item.

Liability of the Exchequer, if Nice use of the word “irreconcil- 250,000 men entered in the first able."

year up to the age of seventy, would be approximately £17,500,- **Your skin has been entirely 000, Sir Kingsley added. If there cleared of impurities and you are, were 100,000 women entrants in the left with a lovely silky feeling all first year, Exchequer liability in over; so much so that when you respect of them up to the age of put your undies on, they feel as if fifty would. be approximately they are slipping off you.” -Adver- tisement.

Tricky.

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£4,000,000.

Guaranteed For Life Taking men and women and add- ing expenses of the administration, Read this. It's a writer talking capital value of Exchequer liability about a problem.

was likely to be £23,000,000. "The problem is so complicated,

Pensions will be guaranteed for having so many facets, that it had life, irrespective of means and the to be approached sectionally. Re-cost of all these old age pensions. lief measures aimed either at li-after the age of seventy would fall quidating, partially or at setting in directly in the State..

motion movements that might ul-

timately liquidate vital economic

disabilities. The number of these "FRIENDLY'

measures, provincial and central, WARNING TO

is impressive, though the output of

relief is not commensurate with the AMY MOLLISON

aforementioned number ”

The simplicity of it all appeals Fined For Speeding

to me.

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Mrs. Amy Mollison, of Ennis- “Schenley's · Golden Wedding more-gardens, Kensington, S.W., was Whisky is a blend of straight whis-fined 208 at Groydon for driving a kies, and ONLY straight whiskies! motor-car at a speed of 40 m.p.h. in It's ALL whisky!"--Advertisement. London-road, Norbury, on March 3.

You mean it's whisky?

342 MILES OF UNIFORMS

Mr. C. E. Stredwick, who said that Mrs. Mollison was in America, pleaded guilty on her behalf.

"There is practically no an The L.N.E.R. has placed orders to this charge," he said, “but with firms in Yorkshire, Lancashire has earned the admiration of the and Somerset for 57,900 yards of whole world for her wonderfully cloth, 152,500 yards of serge and intrepid flights. It is possible that 325,000 yards of blue jean for uni- being accustomed to a speed in the forms and overalls.

This amounts to 342 miles material.,

air of 150 or 200 m.p.h. she would of not easily notice the difference be

tween 30 and 40 on the ground.”

The chairman, Mr. F. Allen, ask- England is among 21 nations which ed Mr. Stredwick to give his client will take part in the world's small arms the "friendly" warning that the shooting championships to be held at next time there would be an en- Helsingfors from: July 30 to Aug. 9..

Six persons were killed and 12 serî- ously injured when two Moscow subur-

dorsement.

The Prussian State Institute ban trains passed one another, brush Geology has refused an invitation to ing off passengers who had been unable participate in the International: Geolo- -to enter the crowded carriages and gical Congress in Moscow at the end. were clinging to the enti

of July.