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THE HONGKONG DAILY FRESS, WEDNESDAY, '- DECEMBER SED, 1924

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ELECTION HOOLIGANISM.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRISPONDENT.]]

tall weeds, is no mystery to the visitor who considers the obsolete arrangements for material comfort"and`convéniașce, and the obvious impossibility of making the place habitable save at an annual er- of penditure that would drain the purse Edingeros, Oktober, 9th. a multi-millionaire. Apart even from One of the features of the closing days ruinous taxation, the simultaneous rise of the General Election in Scotland was in the cost of service and in the average an outbreak of hooliganism, especially in standard of coufort has made the older the cities and industrial districts. At type of large country house almost im the start of the contest it seemed as it possible as a resideffer; and the motor Glasgow would improve on previos recar, while making it mors necessible, has corde, but during the last week the row- encouraged the spirit of restlessness and dies were worse than on any previous eleo weakened the sentimental love of home tion. Edinburgh, with its three-cornered that might counter-balance the sense of The number of contests, bij also a number of disgrace. minor inconveniences, fal meetings. And it is needless to say those stately homes that can remain in that Dundee had some of the most up. Fail occupation is in any case limited roarious meetings in the North. At the by the small number of people who can Dissolution Mr. Sydney Webb foretold afford live ti them umier that it would be a dirty election, and conditions. They remain, most of them, I on this matter, at least, he has proved a aadly decaying monuments of an age in true prophet. It is a remarkable fact which life was simpler and yet more in which that the disturbera have all been dignified than today, and

total Socialists, and at not a single meeting national wealth, though less in held under their auspices hns there been amount tmn now, was more evenly and ay noisy interruptions of the proceed fruitfully, distributed throughout the ings In the industrial areas of Scut lank. land it was practically the exception for Constitutional meeting to be conducted with fair play...

march-MAKING AND FOURSOMES...

prusent

Some interesting problems have been wer-rome" useful morala pointed, in the In Glasgow, for instance, the disgis making of matches. The text is suggest- trates had to consider the question of id by the exhibition fourball experiment disturbances at political meetings, and ant Sandy Lodge. A departure was maile the presiding Bailig, on behalf of his from the ordinary procedure in a four- colleagues, expressed strong disapproval ball match that the better ball of each of stich practices, stating that they would side counts. The aggregating plan is if take a serious view of any cases of disconventional in such meetings, not at turbance

It is oftener or obstruction which might all new for the four-buller. come before them in their judicial cap the resort of the lower strata of golfing eity. Such an expression of Magisterial society than the medium for public occa opinion has been unknown for many &

sians. But on the general question of

·long year,

that at worst it deletes, or at best it 66 the merits it has its pros and cons. Many players frankly disavow it on the ground dilutes, the real match-play characteris ties in what is essentially a match. It merges personal battle with scoring en test, and substantially eliminates the in- entive for playër tu go ali out for a death-or-glory stroke when his partner has already made the half secur in plaer of this, complainant would agian, there is frequently the compulsion to lay nothing more than a safe, uninspir

use of schools for political meetings, but It is been the custom to grant the of late many of the rooms have been left in such a condition that the Glasgow Education Authority issued arcular letter to all agents for candidates in the Parliamentary election warning them that, dinless certain stipulations were enrefully observed, the Authority would be compelled to refuse the granting of schools for wetings. The blackboard of a school in the Maryhill district the other night bore the gentle reminder. Your

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make the half certain. There is no doubt the exhilaration of four-ball taming lies THE SOCIALIST COMITION.

in the opportunities it gives e pr other Ministerial denunciations in Scotland uit in the side to indulge the joy stroke, will of anything of the nature of a coalition which if it brings down a birdie or agreement between the other parties win the hole, and if it doesn't-well, no are all the more amusing in vior of the matter, since partner is down in the fact that the Scottish Socialists are them. like to the other fellows. There are solves a coalition, not merely of our party considerations that weigh for the aggre- hut of several. In no political cabina gating foud-baller apart from the tactical tion this country has ever known as point of view. Unless, the four partici there been wider gap between, its two pants are fairly qual in skill, and are On the right of the party, ult more or less in form, the normaal four- and forming a gunsiderable part of it, ball match may mean very bad practice

In the Afternoon from 2.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. Several Stalls are promoted Trade Union officials and for one, or maybe two, of them. The Hominees of Co-operative Societies, who, player who is father out of the huis will be Open and AMUSEMENTS specially for Children will be though they may have given a formal forced into the leave it to your part- adhesion to the Collectivist theory which per trase of raind, is generally ktock provided. TEA and REFRESHMENTS will be obtainable. has been imposed as a test of orthodoxy, ing his ball apologetically out of the way, are hardly distinguishable from the old and has more slipshed, slovenly golf than sion Free. fashioned Radicals, to which many of is good for him. The advocate of the ag- them not so long ago belonged. At the gregating system may contend that its other extreme are men who, while progolfing value is grenter, since everybody testing that they are not Commanists, concerned must keep at it, that, if two miss no opportunity to champion them; of the players are inferior to their part- and hold views which closely resemble ners then the match is the better for the theirs. It is customary to speak of the scoring medium, and that the social | Clydeside group as if it represented aspect of the affair is, if anything, im- a cohesive and fairly unanimous school proved when each player feels that he in of political doctrine, in point of fact, counting in the scale, and if the method it includes members whose only associa takes more time it is worth it. It is true tion with that element is a geographical that the better ball reckoning leaves one and whose sympathies are as far ahy a player with a poor modicum of

as possible divorced from them. The putting. Many handicap golfers End the misfortune is that that section, like the two-srarea method the superior both as party as a whole, allows itself to be regards practice and interest. From the domineered over by the extremis. The technical standpoint, the old-fashioned two schools of opinion wrangle in pri- foursome, approached, that is to eny vate at the weekly meeting of the party, from the old-fashioned pugie, caunct Le but in public the larger, which provides improved upon. There has recently been practically the whole of the party funds. A lot of competitive foursome play, but is put to silence' by the smaller.

modern instances do not exhibit the high art to which our forbears brought this THE DUCHERS OF ATHOLL'S UPPONENT,

form, of the game.. Each player is bent upon his or her independent best rather than in mapping the play out as a col- laborution.

The party manoeuvrings in the Kinross and West Perth Division concluded with the nomination of the Duchess of Atholl, Conservative, · #nd Mr. MacDuirmid, Socialist. But there have been interest-

THE KIRK AT 'CROWN COURT,

ing developments. Chief among them is Wembley has made an international the recruiting to the Socialist Party of appeal, and so has the famous wee kirk The Exhibi several well-known Liberals-the aprin- in Crown Court, London. cipal one heing Mr. James Lennox, Red-tion has demonstrated the poteney of a hills, an ex-president of the National popular attraction, and the little Scottish Farmers' Union of Scotland, and one of Presbyterian establishment, which boasts the best-knowu farmers in the country.the designation of the Scottish National Mr. MacDiarmid boasts that he is the Church, has given a proof that the old. only man who has a real live Lord Chan fashioned Scottish services, with their cellor to back him up. This substantiates simplicity and their psalms and their Current rumours that Lord Haldane is houielines, cap still make their tender

at his back in the fight. bat to what ex-appeal to Northerners. The Metropolis

tent it is impossible to state.

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for months has been crowded.to suffoca tion with curious Imperialists, and it is THE PASSING OF THE STATELY HOMES." an interesting and encouraging little

The breaking up of large ancestral 100t-note to the story of the great in estates gors steadily on in Scotland and vasion that every service saw Crown scarcely a week passes without an ancient Court's pews full to overflowing. One mansion-house with its policies cooling | Pealised," says an official report," with into the market. There was a slight hope great thankfulness that Crown Court had at one time, that the tendency while re, proved a veritable haven of peace frug- grettable on sentimental rant with the atmosphere of to

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the new owners, if they were farmers, ing these weeks, and that it was a privi- would have a more direct interest than lege. to minister to them." before in improving the land, or, if they were wealthy industrialists or merchants, would be better able to put capital into But whether

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WHISKY AND CANCER.

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THE CHIEF VICTIMS. that agricultural sense and awakened to

the responsibilities and possibilities of Dr. Jeffaces, medical officer for Keg- ownership, or because of the lack of worth, Leicestershire, & certified factory effective co-operation, or because of all surgeon and medical refere for two in- ture continues to go steadily down. Its ayur there and several other reasons, agricul-surance companies, writing in the Lancet, During my 5 years practice in this decline is one of the factors affecting the have Intely changed hands. In districts ring where a cancer subject was a whisky fate of many of the stately homes that district 1 cannot recollect one case occur- where agriculture is decadent, and less drinker. In beer drinkers cancer has and less is taken from the land every been occasionally present, but the majo Year, there is no future for the average rity of cases occurred in people who were mansion-house erected when every rood either total abstainers or very moderate maintained its man. The plight of the of ground, in some fashion or another, drinkers.

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