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THE LABOUR PRIME MINISTER AND HIS SCOTTISH FRIEND.

STRANGE TALE OF A GIFT AND A TITLE.

[TRUM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

LONDON, September 2nd,

AFTER THE WAR MATRIMONY.

YOUTH AT THE HELM,,

This is the age of the Toung Person. The Young Person has arrived. One can see this in the attention that is paid to the performances of boys and girls in sport and in almost every direction. This week a French girl only fifteen years of ags has dominated all the other players. in the Girls' Golf Championship at Stoke Poges, Slough, Her Alrig is. Mlle. Simone de la Chaume, and more will be hoard of her. Yet another girl who is a younger golfer, Enid Wilson, age four- teen, is reported to have reached the green of a 450 yards bole in two shots. Last week interest was stimulated by the

perts.

0TH, 1924

It is a commonplace that many things have changed since the wary and a writer in one of the morning papers with performance of girl tennis players; and taste for figures has "found a change in a girl class player has excited the ex- a direction few would have suspected. It seems that the general level of the age at There is also the nine-year-old film which the professional and business actor Jackie Coogan, who has just, tand- classes marry now has advanced. They in this country with his parents from are marrying later in life. The majority America, and who is photographed and of the men of the last generation catered interviewed and flattered still some of the holy estate of matrimony in the the onlookers begin to wonder whether twenties, but to-day the vast majority of the world has in fact gone topsy-turvy men holding similar positions and follow- This idea is not without warrant, for ing the same pursuits do not take a wife a League of Youth meeting has been hold before the age of thirty. The fact may in London at which all sorts of unpalat- be mated that the years between thirty- able things have been said about their two and thirty-eight scern to be the elders. As someone aptly observes in favourite time for marriage.

this connection, it is getting a bard world for middle-aged people of twenty-a five!"

FOREIGN COMPETITION..

The principal reason given for this change towards later marriages is the reluctance of men, to undertake the res- ponsibilities of wife and family with the

There is no doubt that this country is cost of living what it is. They feel they in for a strenuous time as regseds foreign cannot afford to take the risk of compare competition in the big staple industries tive poverty. There is also the housing for some years to come. An instance of dificulty. In all parts of the country what may be expected is supplied by the ovidence accumulates that couples are shipbuilding industry this week An able to marry because of the impossibility order for six oil tankers required by the of obtaining suitable accommodation to Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company bas set up housekeeping. Both the cost of

gone to Holland at an approximate living and housing are essentially post- torian of the future will have something were anywhere near the price quoted by war conditions, and no doubt the his- guro. of £1,300,000. The British ship- yards were unable to put in tenders that to say on their effect on the domestic the Dutch. believe the latter were habits of the middle classes.

about £10,000 per ship lower than the lowest British tender.

MR. ASQUITH'S BIRTHDAY,

Congratulations were extended to Mr. being made out of this contract lost to As might be expected, a good deal is Asquith by people in all sections of the Britain, by people who have aragments community on the occasion of his 72nd birthday this week. He has been living to enforce. I need not go into that, how. very quietly for some time past in the ever, but it may be remarked that on country, but his health remains good, every band blame is attached to the The veteran Liberal leader having reach Trade Unions. Owing to Union rules. ed the age when it used to be thought a and regulations the price of shipbuild. man's active career was finished mighting is unnecessarily high, and increase well think himself justified in leaving the overhead charges which are, reflected in stormy arena of politics, but I learn that the estimates for new construction. But nothing is further from his intention at more than this, potential purchasers are present. When Parliament meets he will frightened because they have a dread that be in his place as cager as ever to take Labour troubles here will hold up do livery and land thêm in unforesen ex- part in debate.

penses over and above the contruct price of an order. This is a point that the Trade Unions will have to take into ac count unless they are prepared to see work go abroad in all directions, with a consequent increase in unemployment, which Trade Union leaders profces to wish to avoid.

It is thirty-eight years since Mr Asquith entered Parliament. Since then he has filled many of the most important offices of State. He has been successively Home Secretary, his first post under Mr. Gladstone's second Administration Ecclesiastical Commissioner, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary of State for

But in losing this shipping business War, and Prime Minister. His name will all the blame is not on the side of Labour, always be remembered as the Premier bere. The Dutch Government, it is well- who was in power in the fateful days of hkoewa, heavily, subsidies shipbuilding, 1911 which saw the beginning of the world catastrophe of the Great War

and when a big order has to be fought fo in the world market Government sub- Mrs. Asquith is writing a series of sidies are sometimes as high as 21 a ton, vivid sketches of prodinent men in the while there is also the factor of longer London Magazine. She is very frank hours and lower wages than obtain in

"Sweated labour."- our work- í about some of them, us one would expect England, froin the author of the most famous ers call this; but even so they are up autobiography of our time. Thus, we are against it as much as British capitalists. told that Mr. Austen Chamberlain is THE WAR IN CHINA- more loyal to his friends than to his con- victions"; the Cecil family have

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massaged away some of the more active the civil war in China, which fills a good muscles of their conscience and are not deal of space in the newspapers, may be familiar with themselves" Mr. Lloyd over or it may not. But it is of interest George "loves a crowd more than him to record that nobody here has so far scif" and "guesses without pause and taken the fighting seriously. Some of the newspapers are disposed to treat it as with dazzling quickness what the person he is talking to is thinking" The a bad joke. There was a paragraph the sketches are brilliant, epigrammatic, and other day, cabled from Shanghai, which amusing and on the whole are not un gravely stated that a battle then impend. ing bad been put off because it bad be.. kind in pourtrayal.

gun to rain and the soldiers ran for shelter. This is too much of, the Gilbert and Sullivan touch for people here who know what war really means.

THE PRIME MINISTER'S MOTOR-CAR.

Tongues have been wagging pretty freely over the so-called disclosure about

References to fighting car Shanghai the gift of a motor-car to Mr. Mac- Donald. The gift was made by his old in the Press, so far as the subject is con friend, Sir Alexander Grant, head ofsidered worthy of editorial comment, have the biscuit firm of McVitie and Price, been mostly on the possibility of interven. together with the further gift of 30,000tion on the part of the Powers interven preference shares in the firm's business.ing the Chinese disturbances. But the dif- This was last March, soon after Mr. Mac ficulties are fully realised. The previous Donald became Prime Minister. In June attempts at concerted action in China, Mr. Grant, as he thea was, was made a are, to say the least, very discouraging baranet. It was an unhappy conjunction precedents. The remedy might be worse -the gift and the swift bestowal of even than the disease it was proposed to title. Of course, nobody who knows the cure. I hear the hope expressed in somo. two'men believes for a moment that thero quarters that one or other of the rival was any connection between the events generals will assert his ascendency, for in

in questico; but as Sir Peter Teazle says that case it may be possible to come to

in the immortal play, it is a damned some arrangement that would ensure censorious world."

peace in the country. This fairly ex-

The gossips have been saying many un-presses the opinion of people interested kind things, and whispering things un-in trade in China.-H.B.

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here we have a Prime Minister who in the last Government declared that no breath of suspicion should rest on the bestowal of honours, and an open-hearted' Scot who desired to make the life of his old friend more agreeable, recently creat

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