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MAN WITH SIXTEEN MANILA'S BUDGET LIFE ON FIVE ACRES

CONCUBINES

QUARRELS OVER HIS

ESTATE

Peiping, Oct. 8.--Although more than a mouth has passed since the assassination of General Chang Tang Chang, the former Tupan of Shantung, at Tainanfu, the local Chinese Pregs continues to give pro- minence to reports of troubles in his household.

In addition to an aged another and two young sons, General Chang is survived by 16 concubines, rang- ing in age from 30 to 18. Shortly after Chang's assassination it was given out by the Chang household that the concubines would be given an option to stay or leave with

$3,000 each.

Concubines Want Share of Estate, Latest reports indicate that in stend of availing themselves of this option, the 16 concubines are insisting on division of the estate. As to how the estate is to be divided, opinion varies widely. A Japanese concubine is said to be insisting an equitable division.

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whin those who bore the late tupan children. declare that they should be given more as they have child ren to bring up.

P322,500 PROPOSED FÖR PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS

Manila. October 17 With a general total of P.7,418,- 780.30 fur the operating expenses of the city government in 1933, which is P.181,307.01 less than this year's appropriation, Mayer Tomas Earnshaw last Saturday submitted to the municipal hoard his propos. ed appropriation ordinance for next year.

The city executivo net

nside P.324,500 for public works purposes This na against P.80,120 in 1932. large amount of money will enable the city government to launch a year's programme for the opening. construction, improvement, widen ing and asphalting of new city streets or streets already in exist The importance of this phase of the city's activities for next year was shown by the fact that the mayor, in hia anessage, dvelt at length on the subject.

enco.

Projects Specified.

AND A COW

CITY MAN PROVES IT

POSSIBLE

ONLY HAS TO BUY BREAD

AND SALT

** In a good year I get a yield of 150lbs. of honey, Plenty for home use and a fine lot for solv.

"Ai apple orchard.

In a good year I can count ov¦ anything up to 100 bushels. This is a great stand-by, and one of my best assets.

"My cow gives me milk, butter, and ereum. Sometimes I cannot use all the milk at home. The rest I give to the livestock. It saves Waltham St. Lawrence,—" Can a 1 on the feed bill and is good for the man live on the produce of five nuimals. acres of innd?"

I naked this question of Mr. W. Prior, of Idlicate, Waltham St. Lawrence.

"Yes," was Mr. Prior's answer, and live a better life than he can find in cities. But he must love the werk,"

Mr. Prior is one of the small holders who, the Ministry of Agri- culture has sinted, have weathered

"I've got 12 fox terrier bitch whose litter of puppies I can sell more easily than I can my piga.

"I grow iny own vegetables, but not more than enough for my own use. 1 raise my own hay for the cow and my pouy.

་་

My cow, enlves every your. This year she had a bull calf, and it is now being fattened for market.

"It is surprising how little food the depression better than any i you need to buy. I have" eggs, other section of the agricultural poultry, meat, and vegetables to my community.

hand, honey for sweetness, and fruit for health. I have to buy salt and, bread. But not much else.

He has five acres and a cow. Ha does not make a lot of money, but The counts himself a rich man. "Mind you, it is work into "As far as money goes," he told which you must put your heart. me, “if at the end of the year you' You have got to love animals to At the keep them well and fit. And they take a lot of looking after.

wall.. But a small holding--øven

such a small holding as this can certainly support a man and his family. I have proved it, for my little holding has been doing that for me for seventeen years.

He said in part as follows:- "The greatest portion of the tatale about, as well off s savings thus realized was allotted beginning well, you've donc pretty under Item 221 of the department of engineering and public works appropriation for permanent public Chang's mother has not yet re-improvenients and other municipal covered from shock at the news of netivities the undertaking of which, her son's nasassination and his in the last analysis, tends to return two sons by the first wife are still in their teens and therefore too young to exercise any influence over the concubines.

Fruit and Livestock,

to the city's tax-payers practical I specialise in fruit and live

How far this objective

benefit for taxes paid, besides affording some measure of relief to tho problem of unemployment in On the other hand, relatives of the city. The concubines call daily to offer has been carried out may be seen their suggestions na to how the from the allotment in the budget mily ostate should be divided, for 1933 of not less than 1,329,500. thus adding more confusion to an The greatest portion of this amount already very complicated situn-represents allotments for miscel tion.

Hinneous purposes leading ultimately Over 1,000 Dependents. ite the undertaking of such special According to the Shib Chieh Jih permanent public improvement pro- Puo, General Chang spent $450,000jects as the opening, construction, during the ten months in Poiping. improvement, widening, or asphalt- streets or streets Over 1,000 persons lived on him. ing of, new These people have been reduced to already in existence. serious straits since his assassin tion.

The burial is scheduled to take place on October, o in the Western Wills Router.

A slight innovation, however, was -made in the budget 17 1933 with regard to the allotment of funds for permanent public improvements, the innovation consisting in the specification of the public works problems that should be undertaken with the allotment. It is desired to state that, in every ease, the public works projects heroin speci fed refer to the opening and con- CANDID CHINESE OPINIONstruction, improvement, widening

OUTLAWING

CONCUBINAGE

On the day following the Double Tenth, the Judicial Yuan has put en record that it has outlawed concubinage which even the time honoured sage Canfucius omitted to condemp. Nay, Confucios in- deed contributed to the growth of concubinage by the particular em- phasis he laid on the importance of offspring as a rudimentary con dition of filial piety.

On October 11, the Judicial Yunn issued an explanation for the guid ance of judicial organe up and down the country to the effect that fie who takes a concubine will be guilty of adultery.

or asphalting of new streets or streets Already in existence which were urgently and insistently re- guested by city residents for the Inst two years. Official records show that, for lack of appropria tion, the city government could not undertake these projects at the time the requests therefor were made. For this reason, those nek"

ing for the construction of these projects were given assurance that as soon as funds were available, the undertaking of «eid projects would be given preferential attention, hence the action taken.'!

their so-called husbands took placó A special committee of experts before the promulgation of the new organised by the Judicial Yuan, law, to be sent away, or are they known as the Committee for the exempt from the new low? Uniform Iutorpretation of LawSA

(b.) If the legal wife does not and Ordinances, has been making want to institute leggi proceedings a special study of this subject, against the husband as the result bringing to hear upon it all the some special understanding- light which the customs of cen- this often happens when the barren. turies and the provisions of west apouse is keen to have a son by & ern legal codes jointly offer. In concubine-will the law tolerate support of the above ruling it was the offence of concubinage under Gnally decided that

Upon the husband taking a such circumstances!

concubine, the wife has the right "In our opinion," adde: our of filing a petition for divorce Canton contemporary, the war. on the grounds as laid down inon concubinage cannot be waged Articln 1032 of the Chinese Civil fuccessfully by the mere promulga Code,

tion of a new ruling. It is an There is hardly room for dis undertaking that should be handled agreement, says the Canton Daily by religious bodias and moral wel Sun, when it is urged on economic fare leagues as otherwise divorces and moral grounds that the aboli and shain, divorces will be staged tion of concubinage will be a good to escape the latter of the law. thing, assuming that there exists a The status of the legal wife will concensus of opinion on the con pass on rapidly from one person finement of all hopes for offsprings to another, and a menace of this to the fruits of the first legal wife kind wilt produce great scandals But to enforce the new ruling so in society.

that it will be Tulfilled in letter Concubinage is hover consiste and spirit, there are certain ques ent with frus domestic happiness, tions that should be answered such, but the man who is about to be as the following Loss Come alignmist or who loves to be (a) Ar the concubines who a polygamia has seldour the good anjay no legal status and whose fortune of a level head at a moment ndinission into the householdus of, when level-headedness is in greater (Cantinued on nece column:) demand than at orchinary tiems,

stock.

now.

Life and Purpose.

But I wouldn't do anything else

I had thirty years at Fins

bury Park in the moving line. And

now I've got this."

Tanned, bareheaded, the flush of health on his face, he waved to his posscusions.

The red brick house looked snug and comfortable at the end of the drive. Apple trees loaded with Ann Elisabeths shaded it. A litter of puppies gambolted on the lawn.

I have, besides my cow and her calf-

"Two breeding sows. "They give me two litters each a year. The present litter runs to ten fiue young pigs. And although there is not much money in bacon nt present, I've held on to pigs'. The air was droway with warmth. because I think prices are going to The cackle of the geese and improve.

squealing of the pigs added to the orchestra of sounds emanating from the farm.

is

One hundred and fifty chickens, "One hundred and twenty ducks, "Forty-five geest, "They give me eggs, and poultry

always a profitable line.

Six beeliives.

the

In the field stood the now. Every where thero was life and purpose.

"It's a good life," said Mr.

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THE CHURCH IN SPAIN

SURRENDER OF

CATHEDRALS

AND TREASURES

Madrid, October.15.-The proocas of nationalizing the property of the Catholic Church in Spaiu was under way to-day.

Exactly a year after the National Assembly had ended its fight over tho religious clauses of the now" "epublican constitution, the crament introduced a nationaliza- tion bill last night, and it is con sidered certain to pass.

Kov-

The hill requires that the church surrender all its great cathedrals,

ancient churches and extensive

ands; and also jewels and art ob. jocts, among them some of the greatest treasures of the world.

The measure requires the church to pay for the maintenance of its places of worship, and permits the church no more property than is "absolutely necessary," and this → too will be nationalized,

Religious worship must be con- dusted indoors unless a special per- mit is obtained for outdoor, Ber vices.

So long as the members of the various orders are Spaniards the bo bill provides that they may named by the church authorities to conduct services and teach but the state may interyone against the teaching of doctrines considered to by dangerous to the republic' and dissolve any order teaching such doctrines.

The papal nuncio called to-day upon the foreign minister, Don Luis

Zulueta, and it was understood he

tion measure,

protested against the nationaliza

Prior, looking about him, his brow moist with sweat. It means work from dawn to dusk, and the com- panionship of animals instead of But it's a good life."

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