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TUESDAY, AUG. 26 1930,

DAY BY DAY

THERE 13 NO MORE REAL SATIS FACKAHUN IN LAYING UP IN YURE BUZZUM AN INJURY, THAN THERE IS IN STUFFIN A DEAD HORNET WHO HAZ STUNG YOU, AND KEEPING 'HIM TEW LOOK AT Josh Billings.

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9 a.m.

Kind Hearts are Less Than Coronets.

TN the days when women haded by artists at life, for art's sake.

I the whbroider black Those who are after rewarda bake

berries in French knots only take it into consideration, save long strips of brown holland and as a convenient slogan, turning adapt them to household purposes their attention to the thing that it was commonly accepted that pays. And who among us, in the kind hearts wore more than face of modern politics and busi- Mr. Lindsell registered a con- coroneta, and, along with many ness methods, can say, without put- agreeable and neat ting his tongue in his check, that viction against Acting Sergeant another Ali Ahmed, attached to the West precept, this was accepted, writes this is honesty?

Dorothy Black in the Daily Mail. Honesty is a hobby that can only Point Police Station, on the man's appearance this morning on re- Nobody ever thought of question-be practised by persons of large

ing it.

private means and those few souls mand on a charge of accepting a bribe of $1.60 from a hawker in

I do not know whether in those who still find themselves attracted Centre Street. The defendant good old days kind hearts were by whatsoever is beautiful and was sentenced to six months' hard all they were cracked up to be. good and true in spite of monetary

All I know is that to-day it simply considerations. is not true,

There will always be such people, It is not a bit true, but, like but large rewards in this world are A Chinese was convicted by Mr. out-of-date pieces of furniture seldom theirs." Honesty is a love Whyte-Smith, at the Kowloon kept for sentimental reasons, these ly flower, but only the connoisseur Magistracy to-day, of having ideas still hang about good homes. can afford to cultivate it. stolen a blanket from a small boy The young are introduced to them in Temple Street. The defendant seriously and asked to give them said he saw the boy sleeping with their full attention. the blanket by his side and took It. As a previous conviction for larceny was recorded against the defendant, he was sentenced to four months' imprisonment.

labour.

Facing the Facts.

1

Bluff Pays Best.

If by the best policy we mean the most paying polley I would re commend the good old game of bluff.

We keep on saying them to the young, partly because we are. an The only culture we are interest- uninventive generation and cannoted in to-day is the kind that is think of anything else to say going to pay. The cultured person The Eastern Extension Tele-partly because we have not been is, if anything, a nuisance and graph Company has received from courageous enough to face facts one who cannot be relied upon to its head office an intimation that ourselves. It is so much cosier step off with the right foot first, or the estimated traffic receipts of the not to face a whole lot of facts appreciate what passes for humour to-day, when two or three are Imperial and International Com- in a short life. munications Ltd., for July are Let us get down to it quietly, gathered together to make all that £437,220. This compares with re-abandoning illusion and Senti noise that is called having a good Is a kind heart in this time. The old order changes. coipts for July of last year of ment." £54,994. The aggregate receipts world, of more use to its owner Rudeness wears a new face and is from January to July this year than a coronet?

called wit. To be slightly immorn are £3,244,943, as against £3,623,- The world is full of kind hearts, is rather smart. Courtesy is re- 143 for the same period in 1929. but I do not see them invited to garded as weakness, and to have banquets on the strength of that. any feelings whatever for other They are not courted and people shows lack of character. Bringing up a Central Market

encouraged and their short-Notoriety passes for fame. man for assault, in Jubilee Street comings overlooked and their Let us call spades spades to our yesterday, an Indian constable vulgarities tolerated because their children and tell them what they complained to Mr. Butters, at the hearts are kind. Their pathway must expect, instead of bringing Central Magistracy this morn-through life is made not easier them up to an ideal which, however ing, that the man had flung abut more difficult.

charming," is, quite out of date fish-basket at his head and used Kind-hearted people have Children born into nice familles a bamboo pole on him. This was

point of view of not getting it illusion, taught to believe the after he had warned the man for knack of seeing the other fellow's are fed on a diet, of sentimental street gambling and causing an down in black and white, because world appreciates qualities that, in obstruction of the footpath. In they hate to put you to the bother truth, the world has little use for, spector Shaftain said he could of fetching pen and paper.

Illusions they have to part with, discover no marks on the P.C., who{

one by one. looked "spotlessly clean". His Worship convicted the defendant, and bound him over in a sum of $50.

Virtue's Reward.

a

Why not be Honest?

matters went beyond the terms of reference, whilst the Conservatives · took the view. that If, the question of corrupt practices were raised, other matters such as intimidation, personal rowdyism and slander of candidates or Party leaders should be included. As the Conference could only, at the beat, aubmit to the Government, a few resolutions carried on party lines, its chairman informed the Prime Minister that there was no alternative but to dis- continue the proceedings.

To the student of politics, it doen scem regrettable that some advance could not be made towards the aim in view--some amendment of the electoral system which would make our Parliamentary elections more truly reflect national opinion than they do at present. In the old days, when elections were fights between Tories and Liberals, the minority representation issue did not arise. But under present con- ditions, with so many triangular fights, it often happens that the member returned does not repre- sent the political feelings of the majority of the electorate. The Liberals would apparently welcome any change that, would be an im- provement on the present system, but it has to be remembered that the problem is a complex one and that there is a danger, in meddling with the present system of making changes which will complicate mat. ters and confuse the electorate. As for the political results of the failure of the Conference, the view has been put forward by a pro- minent Conservative journal that ELECTORAL REFORM. the Liberals will be less anxious than ever to go to the country, pre ferring to keep the Government in After the last General Election, office in order to keep themselves a great deal was heard regarding in Parliament. As to whether the desirability of some reform of that is a just appreciation of the the British electoral system which situation, the coming autumn will would remedy the many anomalies probably indicate. which arose from the existing method of returning Members of Parliament. The Liberals were especially keen on action being

The drastic upward revisions

is lying in wait for them at every and breed courageous little sceptica taken, for the simple reason that of tariffs and restrictions Intro-

corner! But it plumps up the who will look life squarely in the The health bulletin of Eastern, cushion and heats the plate and face? It will help them to take they suffered most in the last apduced by the Australian Govern-ports for the week ended August warms the bed for the coronet the world's valuation for what it peal to the people. At the same ment carlier in the year in order 16, issued by the Director of every time. I am not going to is worth. It will save them the sc- Medical and Sanitary Services, tell my children that the world bitterness of having to readjust time, the other two Parties, which to combat the heavy and have also been the victims of an cumulating adverse balance of gives the following cases, the thinks kind hearts are more than their perspective later on.

figures in parenthesis indicating coronets. The most I can say is They will go out to life efficient- foreign trade, have already begun deaths: Plague, Alexandria 4 (3), that kind hearts are probably ly armed, Instead of spending admittedly unsatisfactory system,

to exercise a marked effect on the Baghdad 2 (1), Colombo 1 (1): taxed less than coronets, and leave weary years trying to find their felt that the time was ripe for trade returns. In April and May Cholera, Bombay 2 (1), Calcutta it at that.

feet. Nor shall; we do them any change of some kind. A Conference the excess of imports showed a pro-17 (10), Ilo-Ilo 32 (19), Bangkok Another superannuated piece of harm, for nothing is ever going to on Electoral Reform was there-gressive diminution, while in June1 (1), Pnom-Penh 3 (1), Saigon 1; mental furniture found in all good put out the little flame that burns. fore appointed, under the chair. there was an actual export balance Small-pox, Baghdad 1 (1), Bombay homes is that virtue is its own and like a lamp in the heart of man,

2 (2), Calcutta 12 (3), Cochin 4, sufficient reward.

and gives us our poets, our drea manship of Lord Ullswater. All of £2,500,000. This is the first Karachi 2 (1), Madras 9. (5), For those with remarkably small mers, and those other pleasant three Parties were represented on time that Australian exports have Negapatam 2 (1), Rangoon 1, appetite for reward this may be people who, like flowers in a draw

importa for many Penang 1 (1), Batavia 1(1); the case, but how un-hungry they ing-room, make every day charm- it, and it was hoped that some ar- exceeded

months. In June the imports Cerebrospinal fever (2).

must be. Virtue is an art practising. rangement acceptable to all would result. From Home papers, how were only 26,000,000, which

presents a record low level for ever, we learn that the effort has many years, and is exactly one proved fruitless, a division of half the volume of imports in opinion on strictly Party lines June, 1929. In the last six months having rendered agreement impos. of 1929, Australia imported £73,- 400,000 worth of goods and ex- sible.

In reporting to the Prime Minis-ported £17,400,000, the adverse balance being thus £26,000,000. ter on the matter, Lord Ullswater Yet in the first six months of this states that it became clear after year she has contrived to reduce time that there would be great the adverse balance to only £8,000,-. dimculty in obtaining any general 000. This has been achieved ex-

of im agreement in answer to the ques-clusively by a reduction tion whether any, and if so what, ports, for while we find that the system of election could be recom-exports in the second period were mended in place of the present in the first, the imports declined practically identical with those

method. Several proposals had by no less than £18,000,000, or been put forward by the Liberals, about 25 per cent. Australia has but the Labour members were thus gone a considerable way to- against all of them. Liberals and wards eliminating the adverse Conservatives agreed to a resolu-balance which had become such a tion in favour of Proportional Re- serious menace at the turn of the presentation with a single trans- year, and the deficit has been ferable vote, but most of the Con- partially covered by the export of over £17,000,000 in gold during servatives imposed a condition that the first half of 1930. A deficit the Conference must first decide nevertheless still remains, and that a change of some character Australia is not yet out of her must be made. On the other hand exchange dificulties. It is more- the Labour representatives showed over, not by reduction of imports,

disposition to entertain

but by an increase of exports that the

her road to ultimate prosperity. Alternative Vote, if it were ac-

fles, and it is only in June that this companied by other electoral

export increase has begun to changes. These included reduction manifest itself. Meanwhile the of election expenses, publication of drastic restriction of Australian accounts by political parties imports is of course reacting very nationally and locally, the inclu-unfavourably on the export trade sion in election expenses of pay-of Great Britain, as Australia is her second largest export market, ments to speakers and their

coming next to India. penses, prohibition of the use of motor-care to take voters to the

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ex-

Australian Imports.

re-

poll except in special circumstances The fifth of the series of public abolition of all plural voting, abo-band concerts is to be held on the Kowloon Football Club ground at tion of double-member constituen 9p.m. to-morrow. On, this cies, and the reduction in costs of occasion, the band of the Argyll election petition expenses. Lord and Sutherland Highlanders will Ullswater ruled that some of these provide the programme,

No doubt for its own end the world prefers the kind hearts. It

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Why not be honest with them.

Little Comforter-You'll be glad to know, Horace, that Einstein says space is the world's ultimate reality!