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MARRIAGES IN MANILA

Increasing In Spite Of Depression

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Apparently inspired by Manila's rising marriage rates, Dr. Jose P. Bantug, chief of the bureau's pub- licity division and a noted anti- quarian, commented romantically thus:

Manila. The romantic business of marriage is picking up (or, rather, has picked up) in Manila! private spleen of public officers is Which proves that Cupid's ways, in allowed to pervade their public spite of the fact that the country To illustrate the length to which acts, we shall decline on public has been labouring under one of the even our present administration, grounds to supply them with the worst economic crises, it tas over few copies they take of this journ-seen, are (or have been) devastat- will go to favour malignant mendacious organ, al, for which we privately feel ob-ing.

In. 1931 a total of 2,613 marriages and to conceal their doings from Uged to them for subscribing to.

was contracted in Manila, as com- the community they are so boun- It they are determined to be at tifully paid to serve, we may men-war with all that portion of the pared to 9,962 last year, or an in There Press which they cannot subsidise, crease of 347, according to figures fact. tion the following was a meeting of the Legislative so let it be with all our hearts. All released yesterday by the bureau of Council on Saturday, which we re- we ask for is civility of the very health, ported in our issue of Monday. As commonest description. That re- therein stated the meeting was fused, vigour is given to our pen, adjourned. but as there seemed a land a relish to our strictures. little discussion among the Coun- cillors as to fixing a day for the adjournment, we left in haste as the sitting had occupied five hours. We made sure that the Gazette would notify the day, because it had been decided that a portion of the proceedings should be pub Uished therein which was done, but not a word regarding the adjourn ed debate. Saturday's sitting was announced only in one paper, so that it is clear unless intelligence can be transmitted through the foul medium, it is not to be com- municated at all.

It

that the adjourned seems

yesterday,

A SUGGESTION. :" meeting took place

Hinnam has desired us to state which we being ignorant of, did not attend. We much regret this that the fire did not occur in his for our own wakes as well as our house, but in Samyeck's kitchen, readers. We give the Government which from the description given hereby fair notice, that if such an us of its construction, was a very unfair, unwarrantable, barefaced dangerous affair. It would be, a liberty be continued with public good plan for the police to survey interests, or in other words, if the all the kitchens of Chinese houses.

This tender to Labuan has been sacrificed to the anworthy purpose. we denounce. The Gazette is an

"Among Occidentals, "contracting adjunct of the Government organ,

solema obligation. The tenders to Labaun were ad- marriage is vertised in it only. We know of and many factors are taken into two parties who never saw it and consideration before the contrac

The tual parties decide on this moment- would have tendered lower. "Daily Press" has more circulation ous question of their lives. Mutual than all the other local papers put together and to show our public spirit, we will insert all the invitations for Tenders free, pro- vided they are sent to us as if they came from parties entitled to res- pect. Economy therefore be urged.

MALAYA TO BE SACRIFICED?

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COERCING INDUSTRY INTO CONTROL "Dutch Plan To Restrict British Rubber"

London, Aug. 23. Though, according to all reports, very little is being done in regard to rubber restriction at the mo- iment, plenty is still being said, Controversy rages as fiercely as ever, as you will gather from the following two extracts, made from editorial articles appearing in Lon- don newspapers on Thursday morning.

Subject to qualifications of one kind and another, the weight of j

of opinion in favour of control output in the rubber industry is undoubtedly growing. It is rare to find any public expression of au- thoritative opinion of the old-time school which saw salvation only in the "unrestricted operation of the law of supply and demand and the survival of the fittest."-Financial Times, August 17.

employees of all classes who re- Hed, directly and indirectly, on the industry for their very existence. He had some practical experience of the difficulties which confront- ed any committee which was set the task of conducting negotiations such as those for rubber restric- and he therefore advised tion, shareholders not to lose heart be- cause action seemed to be unduly delayed.

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In its comment on this speech, the Financial Times points out that world stocks of rubber stood at 596,000 tons on June 30, com- pared with 585,000 a year earlier.

The Daily Express Thinks The "Dally Express, after mak- jing the statements I have quoted above, characterises the latest pro- posals for rubber output control as "The Dutch plan to restrict. Bri tish rubber." and says that this plan is simply explained:

Malaya is the world's largest rubber producing centre, and last year. produced 400,000 tons out of the world's total output of 700,000 tons, as compared with the-210,000 tons exported by the Dutch East Indies.

"A secret war is being fought by the world's rubber producers, the issue being whether the rich territories of British Malaya shall be sacrificed to foreign interests and to those of interriational fin- ancters. A strong bid is being made through underground chan- nels to coerce the rubber industry into a policy of restriction which At the present price of .4d. per would... throw out of employ-] 16., Malayan rubber is looking up." ment 250,000 British Malayans and and where capitalisation is rea

are and sonable companies

earning of English large numbers Scots officials in the Far East... about five per cent. Moreover, Ma- and nurse the out of date rubber laya has immense new areas of plantations in the Dutch East In- "scientifically planted" trees, which dies until they are in a position are expected to earn 25 to 39 per to compete with British rubber... cent, even with the price at 4d. Meanwhile British producing in-a ib.

terests are fighting the restriction The DEL are by no means so policy' tooth and nail," "Daily Ex- well off, and are not satisfied with press," August 17.

"Statistical Position Extremely Unsatisfactory."

ɔve, of course, must exist, but this is well relegated into the back- ground when a final decision is reached, as the economic considera- tion is paramount in their minds. They believe that without a sound economie basis marriage cannot be stable.

Here in the Philippines, however, a different philosophy is followed. Financial consideration | is but of secondary importance, mu tual love being the first and in most oases the only important pre- requisite. This is probably because ww view the subject froin the stand" point that two can fight better life's struggles than

4d. a lb. because their out of date plantations will not be ready to compete with British, rubber for The opinion voiced by the Fin- some years. Therefore, the Dutch ancial Times was included in a propose an agreement to restrict leading article commenting on the all rubber production, and wish speech made at the annual meet-British Malaya to reduce its out ing of Merlimau Pegob, Ltd., by put by 50 per cent, which "would the chairman, Mr. G. Kingsley. force rubber up to 15. à 1b. and After reviewing the company's post- Field Dutch plantations a profit tion, he emphasized that the direc-which they cannot earn now. tors were fra favour of "some The results of this procedure, scheme of international character again according to the "Daily Ex- to regulate the balance between i press, would be, briefly, as fol- production and consumption." He, lows: British Malaya's move for considered the statistical position bigger and more profitable "output in relation to stocks, production at 4d a 1b., in a free market would and consumption to be ex be annulled, "and a British Em- tremely unsatisfactory, and "felt pire material which comes to Bri- that they could be sure that tain for manufacture and sale any appreciable rise in the price would be made, more expensive. of the commodity would not bring Manufacturers would be driven to Increased quantities on to an look for "synthetic products to un already over-loaded market. dercut and displace British rub-

He believed, concluded Mr. Kings-ber, AM, ley, that the tea restriction scheme Finally, the "Daily Express" would prove most successful, and states:Thé, manoeuvres, of the while it might be difficult to make restrictionists are surrounded with any scheme of rubber control ad- a good deal of secrecy, Antin- ministratively practicable, the in- formal committee has been ne evitable results of an international gotiating for three months fo bring scheme were well worth striving about a restriction agreement. It for. Any improvement in the an-is composed of four British, one ancial condition of their industry Belgian and four Dutch representa would react not only to the benefit tives. Its arrangements, if any, of shareholders, but also to the would need to be approved by the beneft of the many thousands of council of the Rubb

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probably in time gave rise to a con- dition an often admired by foreign- ers in the family life of the Fili- pino woman; that the woman equal to and sometimes better than her husband in the management of business and funds. The Filipino wife is not content with passing. through life in passivity, but on the for all time. The, gure was 2,007, contrary, she is ready to put up tons per working day, as compar-" front and battle with her hushanded with 1,974 tons in June and for the economic uplift of the fami-1,131 tons in July, 1932,

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The latest figures published by "That this increase in the mar-the United States Automobile A very pretty wedding took riage rate has not been influenced Chamber of Commerce indicate place on Tuesday between Mr. G. by the relative increase in popula that the output of new cars in F. Murphy, one of the overseers tion is shown by the fact that for the United States during July was of the Public Works Department 1932, the population of the eity of treble that of July of last year, and Miss Violet Hard. Manila

was 341.034, representing hence the big jump in rubber con- an actual increase of 4,128, or 1,223 sumption. per cent, over that of the preceding year."-"Manila Bulletin."

Both bride and bridegroom, are well-known and popular among 1 large circle of friends, most whom were present at the cere- mony.

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The bride was attired in The reception was held in the Rose room of the Peninsula Hotel, charming ensemble of Ivory - ele- Association, a council numbering between 80 and 70 guests being phant crepe. trimmed crystals and 60 members."

present The usual toasts were smart beret of same material with U.S. Consumption Record. proposed and later in the day, the tulle veil by "Eunice." Simultaneously with the pub-newly married couple left for their

Her bouquet was of white gla- diolis. lication of the views which I have honeymoon. just summarised, information” ar-

dress The bride's going away rived from New York to the effect was a delightful creation of sap that the average daily consump-phire blue and dove by Eunice tion of rubber in the United States after a model by Jean des Veynes. during July created a new record Her hat and shoes were also of

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Her mother wore a lace ensem- ble artistically carried out in beige- and tangerine silk lace by Eunice, and wore a French hat to tone. Her bouquet was of flame colour- (Continurd on previous, column),

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