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DEAN INGE ON "VOTES FOR GIRLS."
THINKS DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT ALREADY
OUT OF DATE..
"CHILDREN SHAMELESSLY EXCLUDED FROM POLITICAL RIGHTS,"
The oldest method of selecting rulers was to break heads; the newest is to count them. There is not much to choose between these 1wn.
There is another proverb-that "yoter should be weighed, not coun-
Lincoln ted." President
ance found himself in a minority of one in his Cabinet. He looked genial ly at the unanimous "Noes and said, "The Ayes have it," and they hul. But we do not all live in the Land of Freedom, and the weigh- ing-machine has not yet been in
vented..
Dictatorships.
for
the
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thal even are
The extraordinary progress made the chances
by Italian shipping generally in majority may guess right.
There seems to be no reason why the last few years is vividly re the suffrage should be given to allflected in the latest report and adults with the physical char balance sheet of the Navigazione According to acteristics of human beings, and to Generale Italiana.
is these, the Binee intelligence no others. not considered at all, there can be no objection, apart from the dith- culty of taking the votes, which might be surmounted, why the franchise should not be extended to infants, horses, dogs, and The children of the nation are a very large class, who are shame fully excluded from those political rights which they are quite as com petent to exercise as the majority of the present electors. They are known to hold strong views on the taxation of sugar and on corporal punishment in schools.
and
The revolutionary parties express the the ut.mont contempt
" The inert mass, popular vote. As they call them, need not be taken into account at all. They have
Effect of Women's Votes. quite frankly renounced democracy and all its works. So we have the
small R The women, of very interesting phenomenon dictatorships over the greater party fraction of them, had begun fo agitate for the yote long before of Europe. In all these countries Parliamentary democracy of the the war. It is not necessary to English type has been. tried and recall the tactics, to which some of it would not them resorted. A school debating Kiven up because
society forwarded a resolution to work.
the suffragette headquarters to the effect that, while this society has no sympathy with the objects of the agitation, it heartily approves of its methods." The women much more than retrieved their reynta tion during the war by admirable They proved that patriotic service. they could do almost everything that men can do, including, heavy manual labour,
Very few men were ungrateful enough to object to giving them the votes which they desired. So they have got the vote, and it is not easy to trace any difference, for good ar evil, which has come about as the result of that conression.
So each country has reverted to a mode of government with which it was familiar, and which perhaps suits its national idiosyncrasies. Russia, after a very brief trial of deinocracy under, Kerensky, enjoys once again the regime of Ivan the Terrible-a tyranny resting solely on violence and terror. Italy, when the Parliament was quite un able to check the menace of Com munism, has returned to a plebis- eifary dictatorship like that of Lorenzo de Medici and Augustus Caesara disguised autocracy rest ing on vigour and efficiency. Spain las a military dictator-the type of personal rule called prætorianism.
Now they want a still further I offered some of these remarks,
of sympathetic con- extension, which will entirely igno
which dalence, to the members of the the superficial differences National Liberal Club, who enter distinguish a man from a woman, tained me at luncheon last week. The result will be that the women My hunts were very friendly, but will be in the majority: fer, Reme of them looked a little shock though about 4 per cent,-more-bays e. For what is Liberalism but be are born than girls, the female sex lief in the plenary inspiration of begins from the first to show its the odd man? Is not the ballot-auperiority by a greater ability of hox a divinely inspired oracle. is not the nox populi the tox Dei!
toue
The Theory Of Democracy. No, I am afraid all this is pure superstition. There is no political alchemy for extracting golden con- duct out of leaden instincts. The sum, or the resultant, of individual Tollies is not collective wisdom. General Will," but There is no only a great heap of irrational impulses.
It follows that there is no such thing as the right to a vote, ex cept on the ground of capacity to use it for the public good. The theory of democracy has been a use ful tool in the impaign against antiquated privilege. It was ad- vocated by the masses and their leaders as a useful tool, but it is tou absurd to be taken seriously in any other light. It works well country has not enough when a complete its political evolution and when there is a funamental unity and sympathy between the opposing parties. It works badly when the conflict is of interests rather than opinions, when differ- and social ences are economicnt rather than political, and when one seption of the population ia in con- scious antagonism to the rest of the nation.
The German von Sybel said that universal suffrage is the death of parliamentary government; he may prove to have been right.
Per-
keeping alive, so that the average duration of life in women in four years longer than in mm. haps this excess of numbers does not matter much, but the admission mass of new voters under of a twenty-five is a serious thing.
Rebellions Youth.
One of the most stupid and un-
nevessary of all political blunders was to fix the age of voting af twenty-one instead of at twenty- five or even thirty. I have actually heard it argued that if a man is old enough to fight for his country he is old enough to vote for it-a precious piece of claptrap. On the same showing, a man ought to lose his vote who he reaches the age of fifty and is declared too old to fight. There are very good reasons the very against enfranchising young.
net profit last year amounted to 30,610,596 lire, whilst the balance carried forward from the previous secount brought the available surplus up to 33,004,851 lire. After making full provision for directors' fees, reserve funds, etc., it has been decided to dis- tribute a dividend of 42 lire per share, against 32 lire 12 months ago, and to carry forward a balance of 881,120 fire.
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In their report the directors state that they now own 20 vessels, A compared with 28 a year ago, this alteration having been brought about by the sale of the passenger etr Judiana and the cargo stra Fiume, Sile, Adige and Procida, and the acquisition of the passen Ker steamer Rama, motor-tanker Nangro and motor-ship Equatore, by which means the value of theTHE Steamship fleet has risen from 108,788,580 lire Moreover, the N.G.. still have to 277,322,672 lire.
their account the building to motor ships Brazing Virgilio, and Augustus, the inst-named, the Iargest Diesel-engined vessel affont, and as the America, Taorminn. Be Tittaris, Principessa Mafalda, Duca degli Abruzzi and Ducu' d'Avsta years by 15%, it has been decided will all reach the age limit of 20 to place orders in Italy for three more 30,000-ton liners, two of which will be employed on the South American service and the third on
the North Atlantic route.
Propelling Machinery.
As regards the propelling ma chinery of these three projected ships, the directors state that be fore deciding this point they in- tend to await the results of the
trials of the Augustus and of the dei Servizi Marittimi, as these two duratia, of the Societa Italiana vessels are being the
bustion and turbine engines respec- very latest types of internal com- tively, the latter embodying the new Parsons' system of gearing and high-pressure superheated King George V. steam such as is installed in the|
The N.4.1. are also co-operating with other Italian owners and ship builders in the experiments that are being conducted at the request
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ENGLISH VICAR ON WOMEN'S DRESS CRAZE.
CAUSE OF JEALOUSY AND
BITTERNESS.
"Dress has become the craze with thousands in our land," said the Rev. Charles Paterson, vicar of Holy Trinity, Cowen,
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There was a craze in personal adornment, hats, silk stockings, or coats.
of Signor Mussolini in connection with two voasele provisionally named Her and Duc, which it in
"Look," he said, "at the admir- hoped to fit with a new form of propulsive machinery designed to ing crowds who sit daily at large give far higher speeds than any establishments in London while now obtainable by ocean-going pas-young women strut up and down decked in the very latest creation," As with music and dances, we senger ships.
looked abroad for inspiration for our latest fashions. Much might be said on the scantiness of what was worn by many women. It was cer tainly not an adornment to our land, nor an inducement of the highest and best.
"I suppose we should all be dumbfounded if we could know the
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ARKIVID HONG KONG ON 16TH MAY, 1927.
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adornment to-day.
Two-fifths of the new capital of 300 million lire, recently issued, has been paid up, and the directors arounce that they do not nati cipate having to make any further call in the course of the current year in order to pay for their com The youth, as we know from the
Two of the services maintained by trade unions, is apt to be turbulent mitments regarding new tonnage. the N.G.I. to Central America viá and rebellious: he is likely always to vote for war and against con- ciliation. In any Red Flag pro- the Panama Canal and to Aus cession one notices that the large tralia, have not yet proved pro- majority have smooth faces. Infitable undertakings, in spite of stead of giving girls the vote, it the Government having agreed to pay all Panama and Buez Canal would be far better to make the
transit expenses, but these are male qualifications coincide with
considered to be of such national
"Many of the old fashions in those of the women as they stand at prosent. But the unduly low importance that they are to be con- age for the franchise seems to be tinued as heretofore, and it is hoped dress none of us would want brought one of those evils which, when that when the new ships are avail-back, but we, as a nation, would able the lines will show a better be well rid of many of the newest." they are once done, cannot be un- done. We shall no doubt have to return. acquiesoc in the girl voter. It is easier to ridicule our present in-
to suggest any stitutions than thing better.
For some time before the Great War the electorate was already su large that it could not be said to represent anything except numbers.
We may be reluctant to admit The reckless extensions which have been made since 1914 were accepted that ballot-box democracy, our own with a cynical indifference even by much-admired contribution to poli Conservatives. Wealth and eduen- tical science, has proved to be only tion were already to all intents a temporary expedient, well enough and purposes disfranchised, and a for the nineteenth century and for further infusion of ignorance and the English-speaking peoples, but inexperience could not do much unsuited to the twentieth and to harm. If on every question the the lesser breeds without the law" choice is between hands and tails, who inhabit foreign parts.
COPYRIGHT AT SEA. COMPOSER'S FEES FOR A SHIP'S CONCERT.
AMSTERDAM.
Is the performance of musio in an ocean liner hundreds of miles away from port a public perfor- manicot
A court at Amsterdam has decid- ed that it is, and has mulcted the stup's musical director of author's fees to the extent of right guineas
FALL INTO 250FT. WELL. MYSTERY OF A GIRL'S DEATH.
PARIS
The extraordinary story of the fall of a young girl of 16 hamed Derthe Fromentin down a 200ft, deep #ell is occupying the attention of the Paris polico.
M. Rayer, a carpenter, who is the girl's stepfather and lives at Chatil- on, a Paria suburb, said that he heard the girl cry out and, roaning
and costs of a similar amount. The towards the well, he saw a white
caar was brought by power living in Berlin whose music had been played during dinner on board the ship. The performanos ho only heard of months after it had taken place. -
German com? figure disappear over the edge. With a neighbour he went to the well and there they heard some thing splashing in the water.
There is 150lt. of water in the well, and oarly attempts to reach the girl's body have failed.
The defence was that the audience, consisting only of passengers on board, made it-in n
The mutery of the case is that litoral as the well was boarded up with heavy
woll as a legal sense--an "enclosed" beulks of timber and was surround-
or private circle, and that the ship, being in extra-territoris! waters, WAS outside the jurisdiction of national lawn,
The court, however, decided for the plaintiff on both paints.
ed with barbed wire to prevent an The police state that accident. there is evidence of a struggle at the auth of the well, and that the brickwork has been scratched by I hobnail boots.
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