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EAST WEST: HAME'S

BEST.

(Continued from Page 6.)

Visit to Glasgow.", Parenthetically, I might mention that farmers in cor part of the world 'kro always known (outside Police Court proceedings and funeral notices) by the names of their farms. Mentioning Kilbegie reminds me of a story about the old man himself. He and. Peter Telfer once went to Glasgow to see tho Highland Agricultural Show. Their arrival at St. Enoch's Sta- tion coincided wi' the morning rush." Expresses from all dirts came in and hundreds of folk were seen rushing aboot, like many bees that had mislaid their Queen. The noise was terrific but Kilbogie kopt a firm grip on his carpet-bag and leisurely surveyed the stirring cons. Thinking to im- press, Peter loudly called for taxi and while awaiting its arrival, asked the old man what he thought

of it. al, whereupon Kilbogia very deliberately gazed around him and then looking upwards at the im- mense glass-doined roof, merely remarked, Ay, man, it would hold a good lot of hay." (Laughter.) This unwillingness on the part c' the native to be impressed is proverbial. "As a further illustra tion of the trait, there is also the story of the Linkumdoddie parent who went on holiday to America to see his son. Naturally the boy gave the old man a good time and showed him the sights. In the by gcing, it must be mentioned that the ad had in the meantime be come infected wi' the greatness of his adopted country and was some, what prone to make the most of it. In due course they visited Niagara Falls and the old man was invited to be suitably impress ed. But he never flickered an eye-

lid.

"Look faither," said the boy "isn't that a tremendous mass o' water, to be falling that way”

"Ay," said the old man, “but what's te hinder it?"

This somewhat daunted the youth,

but he came back`bravely.

This suggestion, was, however, ruled out of order, the Chairman remarking that be folt sure all present Woud agree that ruidi were rules and must be upheld Never Lot it be said that Linkum doddie had failed to meet its chi ligations," he said.

Now gentleman, time will not premit me to tell you more about this fascinating place and its poc plo. You may or may not have found some interest in my descrip tion of this Lowland town, That, after all, is immaterial. I havo endeavoured, however, to depict a kindly folk and to furnish a few, glimpses of the humour typical of such a countryside. In closing, let me say that the thought I have had uppermost in mind is that everyone has a Linkumdoddie some where in the world, and, if I have dwelt unduly on the as thing own home you, in of yours, will be all the more ready to forgive me.

Boots Humour,

In thunking Mr. Wylie, Rotarian, A. L. Shields said I appreciate having the opportunity to thank

Retarian Wyle, on behalf of the Club, for his very interesting and amusing address.

Readers of the newspapers with which Mr. Wylie has been so long associated must be interested to hear something more about · Lin- kumdcddie, that bustling Burgh, which has given us that caustic critic Robert McWhirter and that pawky humourist, McPherson. 1 should like' to "have heard some thing about that philosophical cld body Aunt Tibbie and her reactions to the establishment of Rotary in Linkumdeddie,

In a ocsmopolitan gathering like this I hope it is not presumption to refer to such a legendury, and, to most of you, mythical thing as Secttish humour. Scottish humour is supposed to be a contradiction in terms but Mr. Wylie has done a lot to dispel that popular fallacy.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY

Money and Markets

REHABILITATION

SILVER.

› QUESTION DROPPED,

(REUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE]

WASHINGTON, June 20. Senator Smoot says the question of securing Government co-opera tion for the rehabilitation of silver has been temporarily drapped, CRUSO the advocates of such a movement could not do o anything now, when the attention of the world is focussed on President Hoover's proposals for & mora torium for Germany,

HAVANA SUGAR COMPANY

TENTATIVE AGREEMENT WITH

NANKING REACHED.

(Wah Te Tat Pao.).

NANKING, June 30 A tentative agreement between the Havana Sugar Company and the Nanking Ministry of Industry and Commerce for the organization of a sugar refinery in China has been concluded and is being care- fully examined by the Economic and Diplomatic Committee of the Central Political Council before its ratification.

ADVANCES RECORDED IN COTTON.

Goed stories are supposed to he told not by Scotsmen, but against. them, but I can assure you that nearly all really good jokes about BOTH LIVERPOOL AND NEW the Scots originate in Scotland.

H. V. Morion', in his delightful book, "Insonrch of Scotland," re-

fers to a large and woll-run fac

"Did yo over see a more wonder-tory in Aberdeen where jokes about ful sight than that?" he asked.

"Ay," says the old man,

"Oh, what was that?".

Abordonians are turned out by

YORK HIGHER,

Liverpool June June 23 24

mass production and broadcast to American Middling, July 5.03 5.12 the thirsty ends, of the Earth-a

"Weel, Inddie, the most wonder.ferm of advertising which, so far ful sight I over saw is all my as I am aware, has only been sug life was at Peobles. It was a pea cessfully copied by that great pub cock wi' a wooden lêg."

licity genius, Henry Ford......

No Mean Achievement.

Linkumdoddle and Chicago, But to get back to the account- Scotsmen are prone to quote Re of the meeting. It was also sugbert Burns pious wish-"Wad gosted that the Community Service some power the giftie gie us to Committee look into the cesspool see cursel's as others see.us," while nt the back of the new Hygiene at the same time they continue to Laundry (Laughter.) On the mo- cires ate their own opinions about tion of Mr. T. McRostie, it was themselves until they appear to be also agreed to request the Club to generally accepted at their cwn use its influence so that a few more valuation. This in itself is no sents might be put in the Skeoch

mean achievement, Woods for the convenience, of visi- tors. It transpired (according to

Aug. 3.09 3.18 ́Oct. 3.14. 3,93 Shot 8.22 5,17

6.10 7.00

Egyptian, Sakellaridis,

F.G.F., Spot

New York Market.

New York, June 24-Advancing tendencies were resumed in the trading on the New York cotton market to day. At the close the spot raw cotton price was quoted at 9.80, um from yesterday's close at 9.70. The futures positions were correspondingly higher. Following are the closing raw cotton futures A typical Scottish humorous reprice quotations- mark does not usualy depend upon Month

June 23 June. 24 to Lenkundaddie Herald every play on words, the artful aid

9.54. 9.65 thing "transpires in its part of of apt alliteration or the repetition

10.00 the world) that the mover of the of a catchword which is pepuler

10.32:1 motion wasna altogether disinter ested, he having several unmarried at the moment. It is often a clear.

sighted, terse and original obser

daughters who apparently monovation about something of real polised ower mach house-room, cf importance. In 'Scotland, Govern an- evening.

the aristocracy and people in high, ment, the Kirk, the "Unea" Guid" positions are all open to the salu. tary effects of candid criticism.

July

Oct.

2.05.

Dec.

10.18

Jan,

10.29

10.42

Mar..

10.50

10.81

May

10.70

0.70

Spot

#

10.80

9.60%

DRIED EGGS, TARIFF. RAISED.

THE MARKETS IN AMERICA.

EFECTIVE RESPONSE TO THE

HOOVER SCHEME

New York, June 24-Business responded spectacularly to day to Franes's reply to President Ho over's proposal for a que your's holiday from war debts payments While the French reply contained reservations and conditions de manding that Germany contique to pay her so-caled unconditional reparations annuities into the Bank of International Settlements the "Hoover boom market", was re- sumed because the attitude of the Paris Government was more fay ourable than had been expecten.

Securities values resumed their

advance to-day. Copper prices sonred as the price for the domestic metal advanced to 84.

The bonds were stronger. Ac cording to the Dow Jones -Finan. cial News Agency the average price for 40 bonds to-day was 98.25, up 07

The cigarette manufacturers of the United States advanced their prices for the leading brands in the amount of G80.45 per 1,000.

1931.

BOOKS and READERS

MISS MAYO VINDICATED?:

Volume Two. A Digest of the Evidence and Report of the Indian "Age of Consent Com mitite. By Katherine Mayo, (Cape, 79, 0d.) AN Here, with a modesty as becom. triumphs, writes N. de V Hart in ing as it is unexpected, Miss Mago the London Daily Telegraph, And here, with all the hot gospeller "pop" that drove home the barb- ed shafts of Mother India, Miss Mayo launches a now attack

·INDIA AND HER CHILD'. MARRIAGES.

TALES OF THE SEA,

In The Wrook of the Damaru (Heinemann, pp. 272, 10 ed. net) Mr. Lowell Thomas tells of a tragedy of the son so dreadful in its details that one cannot read thom without a shudder. The Dumaru was a newly and badly US nuvy to barry explosios to etnstructed boat chartered by the Honolulu, the island of Guam, and Manila in the late summer of 1918, Half her crew were misfits and undesirables, about as dangerous to sail with as the cargo. Off The triumph of Miss Mayo is com Guam the ship was set on fire by plete in the sense that the Govern lightning and blew up. The crow Committee, appointed largely to in. raft Those on the raft and the mont of India's Age of Consent gut away in two boats and h quire into the charges burled at third mate's boat, with the excep- Orthodox Hinduism in Mother tion of cne man, suffered no great India, has astonishingly shown hardship and were saved, But tho first mate's boat, overloaded, carry- that seemingly intemperate work to be an under-statement of the evils, ing little food and a totally in- prevalence, and growing menace of for more than three weeks across adequate supply of water, drifted

ed because her triumph is incon- pines. The boat had, originally the practice of child marriage. *.

the ocean before she reached the Miss Maro's new attack is launch-island of Samar in the Philip ploto in the sense that despite the contained thirty-one men. Of committee's appalling revelations, these only thirteen landed. The the Indian Governmont and the ethers had died or committed sui- Legislature refused to give effect tocide, and the bodies of one or two ita recommendations.

Map of them had been eaten by the mur,

their incation by passing into law Worse atill, they camouflaged a bill which was not merely in effective as a measure of reforms, but netually an aggravation of the evils it was supposed to combat.

The Age of Consent Committee, under the chairmanship of Sir Morcpant Vishwanath Joshi, for. mery Home Member in the United Silvor prices advanced consider Provinces, ccnsisted of nine In ably to-day. The sale of 8,000,000 dinus and one English, woman doc lb. of copper abroad brought thetor. Six of the Indians were Hin

dus. It heard hundreds of wit! total copper sales for the present

nesses in all the provinces except week to 36,250,000.

the tiny Province of Ajmer-Mar- wars. It produced nine volumes cf evidence and its report exceed ed 200 pages. All ita findings and recommendations - mous. And so fully, in such tail, does the confting do: blood-freezing.de. tiate and even extend the picture drawn in "Mother India that Miss Mayo is well within her rights in calling this digest of the evidence and report Volume Two of her original work

SUIT WHILE YOU WAIT.

BRITISH MILLS SET NEW: -

RECORD.

London, June 23-Britain to-day captured a record which America has held for more than thirty years when a suit of clothes, ready to be worn, was turned out from wool which had been on the sheep's back only three hours and 20 minutes previously

Jurid

were

Ohlidren in Arms,

unani-

dreadful story, but it is told with vivor It is, as we have said, a great skill, and if My Lewell Thomas spares us none of the hor rare he does well stress them un duly. The book may well become cne of the classics of the sea, but the squeamish should avoid it.

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This is Dampier's book which followed his popular "New Voyage Round the World; the latter was republished by the Argonaut. Eress in 1927, in the same most attrac tive form as the present volume, Mr. Connell Wilkinson, & biograNTINAL DIVIDEND pher of Dampier, introduces hero of ONE SHILLING Per Share on Dampier's delightful gossip on Tonquin, Sumatra, and Manees, and pays just, tribute to a navige tor who happened to have an in- satiable curiosity for Facts of value

to seamen and merchants at a time when distant scas and consts were, mainly fabulous How very The committee found it impos.good an observer he was one may sible to exaggerate the physical fearn from this volume, which in- moral; and mental ovils of child cludes Dampier's "Discourse of the marriage as practised by India's Trade Winds" &c. In an explana. 14,000,000 Brahmins and increas tory note to this discourse: Liou ingly imitated by the non-Brahmin tennat Commander A. G. Bell, late castes. It recommended as the sole of the Hydrographic Survey, tells The suit was made to the mos-effective remedy that the marriage us that the seaman who consulta euroments of Mr. J. H. Thomas, of all girls under 14 years of age the paragraphs on winds and wea- should be made illegal. It pointed ther at the beginning of each Dominions Minister, and may be out that all attempts to limit the volume of the Admiralty Bailing worn by him at the Imperial Weal age of consent within the warri. Directions is probably unaware Industries Fajr in July.

aga bond had proved failures. The that he could get the same infor Act of 1925, limiting the marital :mation from the Discourse of age of consent to 13 and the Winds." several similar measures. tried in various Indian States by progres sive Princes, had been found im possible of enforcement,

This new record nearly halves the American recard time, which was e hours and 28 minutes, establish ed in 1888 by John Kitson, a Brad ford man who emigrated to the United States

Today's performance started at 8.80 this morning on the hills of Batley, when ten sheep were shorn in 7 minutes. The wool was wash ed, dyed, dried and pun, and then

The Convener of the Internation- al Goodwill Committee reported that on discovering that young David Wobster bad suttled doon

There is the story of a Scottish in Castor Oil Springs, Nebraska, Duke who after a long absence, ro- he had sent a message of greeting turned to his bread domains. to Rotary in that toon. No reply Strolling round his estate, he met had been recoivad but he bad sinco an old man who had been in tho learned that such omission was pro-employ of the family since his Lably due to the fact that the Mnyouth. The Duke shcok him cor yor had been committed to gaoldially, by the "hand and enquired Washington, June 24-President sports suit in only 37 minutes. for bootlegging.

The Honorary Treasurer report- ed that the funds, of the Club were almost exhausted and expressed hope that the next annual sub scription, which was now due, would be promptly paid by all members present. |

At this juncture, Alick Speedy, Linkumdoddie's most prominent cialist, desired information as to the sum sent by the Club to Chi-

About his health and welfare...

CHINA MAY BE HIT BY NEW the finished tweed was rusheds by

DUTY IN U.S.

motor car to a tailer shop in Leeds where 40 tailors manufactured

Hoover to-day issued an executiva decree proclaiming an increase in the American import tariff on dried eggs from G.818 per pound to 6.827 per pound.

!

China supplies more eggs of the dried variety to the American mar- ket than any other producer.

"A'm vory well," said the an cient one, and thank your Graco kindly for speirin. A'm zool glad to see your Grace back again: theyre a Dukes when your awa.

On behalf of this Club. I wih to tender hearty thanks to Rotarian Wylie for his address. (Applause) The increase in the tariff pro

claimed by President Hoover to-day St. John Ambulance Funds.

is the result of a. persistent cam- Rotarian E. G. Powell, Chair paiga by American egg producers cago, every year. The Chairman, man of the Community Service which lasted for many months. in reply, stated that, according to Committee of the Rotary Club, in American poultrymen, especially the Constitution of Rotary, a smal proportion of each member's announcing results of the recent those on the Pacific coast, declared annual subscription must be for drive for funds on behalf of the that their industry was facert with St. John Ambulance Brigade extinction unless it was afforded Club, express our appreciation to the ladies whe came forward at such short notice to help us and who did their work so effectively and charmingly Tho result of their o-cporation has been as fol- lowatege

The concert, after meet- ingjall expenses, yielded Flag Day

warded to International Head

ADVANCE IN RUBBER

PRICES.

SPOT AND FORWARD BOTH HIGHER IN NEW YORK.

*

New York, June 24-Prices ad vanced on the New York rubber market today. At the close the

As Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, him-- self a Brahmin, said in his evidenco, before the committee, it would only be possible to enforce such a law if the Government posted “a police- man in avery orthodox house."

Yet in the Sarda Child Marriage Act, passed in September 1920, the Indian Legislature rejected the committee's advice and ignored its warning. For that Act merely raises the marital age of consent to 14, while leaving legal and valid the marriage oven of children in

arms.

The mctive was to placate Bri- tish and American opinion-parti cularly American For Nationalist politicians had found that "Mo ther India" was seriously affecting the flow of sympathetic funds from the United States Indian pro paganda centres there were do- manding that something should be done to reassure America. Hence the gesture of the Sarda Act,

quarters (A ̈ voice: "Did ye send said: May I, on behalf of the protection against imports of dried June position was quoted at 0.33, that from Sept, 1029, to April 1

it to Big Bill Tamson, or Al Capone 7")

Hame's Best,

Mr. Speedy, in continuing to ex press dissatisfaction with this ar rangement, pointed out and quoted figures concerning the amount, of unemployment and distress in the district at the present time. “We should keep oor aid fish guts for oor ais soa-maws, ho said,

81,022.33 192,608.02

Total

| 84,431,98 Mr. James Rodgors, the shoo -maker, ventured to support the am sure you will all be glad previcus speaker and pointed out to know that the St. John Am that his wife's brother, at present bulanco Association; as a result of member of the Chicago police this effort is now able to place force, badna been in receipt can order for the additional nm ony salary for the past six months.bulance for Kowloon Heangrested that before further Mas express it he hone that the funds were sent to Chicago, a let. co-operation thke, has been begun ter be writton making enquiry as in community service will be egne to what the Community Servicetinued in the Club and we ahail Committee thero was doing about be able to go forward and do great things in the future --(Applause,)

eggs from China, ***

GERMANY'S CREDIT RESTRICTION.

The Marriage Rush, But in passing it the Indian. Legislature made the hideous mis tako of pestponing its coming into force for six months. This meant 1930, a premium was placed on Bakers and confectioners opposed up from yesterday's close at 8.20.

child marriages For the Hindu the tariff increase decreed by the The futures positions were corres masses, along with America and President to-day.

pondingly higher." Trading was ex-

Eurcps, were deceived into believ ing that the Barda Act would bo ceedingly active with the contract effective, During, that six months turnover for standard Ne, 1 rubler the Hindus rushed to marry off totalling 130 lots as against 102 their baby daughters, and the very air grew thick with the throb lots yesterday. Following are the of wedding drum As Dewan closing futures price quotations for Bahadur Ramaswami Mudaliar. standard. No. 1 rubber, told the Council of Stato, “Mar-

-Month' Juno Ba

riages in thousands and tens of June 24thousands of children six months June

8.20

0.27

Fand one pëur old were carried cut #July

0,35. to a sum total impossible to esti August

0.85 September October November December January February March April,

ONLY REICHSBANK WILL HONOUR FUTURE DRAFTS!

Ber.in, June 20-Action which jis tantamount to an indirect res triction of credit has been taken by the Reichsbank in view of to day's heavy demands for foreign currencies, amounting to sixty million marks.

The Reichsbank has decreed that the private discount rate shall be discontinued on the Bourse for the time being,

6.22. 8,39 0,12; 0.49

3.65 0.72 16.70% 0.58

6.85

1.659 0.01

7.03

8.98 7.00

719

7.21

a

Matern come the dreaded April 1,

and with it a few-g very few 0.78 prosecutions and insignificant fines 8.83choerfully paid. Thereafter the

Sarda Act bar joined the Act c 11026 in the limbo of the forgotten? --Flow will÷India answer: Min Mayo's now charges of callousness cowardice, and bypocrisy 1

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