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tish Government to disallow" or "reserve" Dominion legislation has long einco become a thea- rețical one, and the proposed aboll- tion of those rights is without question a step in the right direc| GREATEST IGNORANCE. Jeremy tion.

TO BE PROUD OF LEARNING IS THE

Taylor,

Two points may be mentioned

It is advertised that the premises the In connexion with changes of the E, A. 5. M. A. club at 17, which le ahead. As one of BriQueen's Rond Central will be closed tain's leading journals has point-

ed out, if a Dominion which now

SYLVIA THOMPSON believes

IT

Are

PAYS MEN TO BE SENTIMENTAL.

born sentimental, [phal virtue known as "having their wheres women, for genera-hearts in the right place.”

MEN from 30th November, 1930, Sir Claud Severn has been in- tions, have merely had sentimen- Men are always chirruping.-like- has no merchant marine assorts stalled first Master of Lodge Malayality thrust upon them, required bewildered frogs, that the modern Is losing her "charm," La desire to fly its own flag to the 6213, which is the fourth Masonic of them, attributed to them-bo woman

Lodge in Londen definitely associat-cause an unsentimental woman femininity, etc. What she is real- exclusion of one which marks ted with the Empire overseas, (na is now becoming evident) Isly losing is the sentimentality a danger to masculino peace of about her sox and life and home, Four Police Officers have remind, a rival to manly Intelligence, her mind and abilities, which male turned from leave by the F. and O. and a disruptive force in n so-opinion had planted round her for Kalyan, namely, Sub-Inspectors ciety made by men. James and Mair, and Police Ser- and Mist. The geants Condon two senior officers are accompani- ed by their wives.

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Masculino Dogma.

British a member of the Commonwealth, no. thunder from Whitehall will deny Its right to do so. But if the test actually came, the practical convenience of flying a

Many sentimental beliefs which ag which the British Navy will

men and beautiful in theory, and recognise and protect would be

which they hold with Ingenuous A quiet wedding took place this simplicity, have also been useful likely to weigh heavily against morning when Mr. H. Overy was to them in practice and effect.

Prac-

led to learn that the functions of

sence of a few friends, ไลน afterwards holi

he went about the world coining

so many conturies, and which strangled her enterprise with the picturesque virulence of a growth of mistletoo.

which The identity of the parents stihis own reflection in those depths, any way less competent beings. Bout the remains a subject for police in-sentimental phrases at the top of

vestigation.

is not interested in "general mas- Actually, the Intelligent woman culino opinion," because, luckily for her, her life is no longer con- the pleasure of asserting an unmarried to Binnche Josephine There is, for instance, a whole trolled simply by her chances of disputed Independence.

Dunnett, nee Morgan, in the pre-sentimental degmadealing with If she wants a young man she will marriage with the "average" man. A luncheon women which must for centuries have him. If she decan't she has tical bonds such as these serve to

nt Messrs. have confirmed the ordinary man other interests and ambitions. reinforce the purely entimental Lane Crawford's restaurant. The in a sense of his own (sex deriv- When she wants children she will unity of the Commonwealth, Simi- honeymoon is being spent nt. Maenoed) superiority, larly, some people may be alarm-

and Repulse Bay,

have them; if she is by nature dia, # Mother-love-a man-mouthed inclined for cradle-rocking, It 18 phrase if ever there was one just as well for the potential ten- A post-mortem examination on an iden, an ideal, a theme which ant of the cradle that it isn't the Judicial Committee of the the remains of a newly-bora girmen have never tired of praising there.

which were found last week by aand elaborating. Privy Council are to be modified.Chincae constable, dumped in a

But let her, in her new-found Motherhood has never failed to freedom and "masculinity," be but they can take comfort in the scavenging lane behind No. 4, offer the masculins mind unfatho fart that the need for some final the cause of death being recorded he supped until, intoxicated by an unjust belief that men are in Ha Wo Street, has resulted in mable deptha of bathos from which tradition for men and creating ware of creating a sentimental inter-Imperial Court is recognised na "axphysin and strangulation." even in those 'Dominions have been inclined to authority of the present one. It

his voice (while his wife tried to OUR is aurely better to have a special! Summoned for parking his car

soothe a screaming baby and. outside the Central Theatre for lucky for the state of her nerves,| UNEDUCATED SONS, Arbitration Court for the Common- longer than was necessary, Cheung Motherhood is a woman's true By Frank Hillier.

couldn't hear him proclaiming trut wealth and to have its decisions Yee-fun, a private driver, WAA respected than to cleave to a pure-cautioned by Mr. Lindsell at the Vocation" "The hand that rocks DOMINION EQUALITY. [ly British court of law which can-The defendant, who stated that he etc.).

Central Magistracy this morning. the cradle rules the world."

M* not enforce ita jurisdiction. There had gone to reserve seats for a Another aspect of this same sen- In directing attention to the are, of course, many other consid-performance, was anid to have timentality which glorifics woman parked the car in the roadway for in the measure of her sacrifice and which should cause L

self-effacement for man in the ed by the recent Imperial Confer- all to welcome the Implementing

"mother-son" type of emotion, ence, Mr. J. H. Thomas, the Domi- of the 1926 equality declaration, Mr. Lee Hon-cheung, described [deliciously typifled in the popular niona Secretary, has done

well, but it will suffee if we say that as a merchant, yesterday complain-melody beginning:

the Conference which has jurted to the police that his brother, "Old Pal, how I miss you to- The economic problems which

concluded has done

Lion-ang, living at Lee Villa, night" much came before the Conference have facilitate co-operation within the man described as an Eurasian, who, ably that mothers always sit at Fanling, has been victimised by aand which presupposes inevit received so much attention that British Commonwealth of Nahy false pretences, it is stated, ob-home waiting for their prodigal many people have been quite un- tions by removing out-of-date |tained from Li Hon-sang clothing sons, aware that its primary' object had badges of inferiority. nothing to do with economics, but, rather, with troublesome and com- plex constitutional issues. It is true that the Conference of 1926

FRIDAY, Nov

193

purely constitutional work achley- erations

ten minutes.

"Sacred" Homes...

Y son has recently entered his frat preparatory school and I am about to put his name down for a public school. While mak ing these plans for his education have been looking into the vari ous methods and curricula obtain Ing in schools to-day.

In my day, just twenty years ago, the education supplied by eighty per cent, of no practical public schools was as

to some use to the average boy unless he were going to be a pearson, a school- to the value of $145. The allered

master, a doctor, or enter the Incident occurred at the Yaumati

Home or Colonial Civil Servicos. Railway Station.

However, I will be fair. It is Curricula took no account of the. A fari Argument.

absurd to blame men fer being fact that the vast majority of boys While we cannot agree with all

Richard Rubhanda, the eight-sentimental when it has always

leaving practically all public the arguments so luridly set forth, year-old son of Rattalion Quarter been in their interest to be so schools were destined to go into 4 pamphlet from the pen of Mr. Master-Sergeant Rubbands, of the One scarcely cares to think how on the Operation of Dominion LC.M.S. Amery on the subject of bitten by a mongrel dog, the pro- from the Sentimentalist's Diction

Royal Engineers, was

many" yesterday

"Homes" (another word business and commerce.

As far as I can see, and making Legislation declared that the Bri- Britain's fiscal policy is notable as perly of the Commander of 11.5. ary) have buon kept together by every allowance for the value of tish Commonwealth WIN "the containing the first soundly reason-Suffolk, which was being kept on sentimentality alone (the women he public school ideal of train- ment remarkable and successful ed analysis of the economie dilemma Stonecuttera Island. The Ind re-having been taught from girlhooding the spirit as well as the mind, that remains the posillon to-day. experiment in co-operation be- we have seen that advocates a tarlif ceived treatment from the military how "sacred" the home is).

Boys are turned out and will be medical staff, while the dog has Indeed, no more extreme in- tween free democracies which has "ystem, and it is deserving, at least been sent to the Mataukok depot-stance can be cited of what senti- turned out in the future, after sev-

of a close study, Mr. Amery opens ever been developed," but that did

with an historical survey which not dispose of the fact that Great contends that Britain's adoption of Britain had, and stiil has, in many free imports dealt 12 disastrous circumstances, the theoretical check to the growth of Canada by right to over-ride the Parliamen- leaving the Dominion naked to the tary decisions cl Dominions pressure and competition of its

larger and more developed neigh- | which habitually net at Genova us

bour. He says that among the con- | independent international and

sequences to Great Britain was an sovereign States. That fact was increase of foreign manufactures recognised when the 1926 Con- from £29,000,000 in the 1860's to ference admitted "equality of £34,000,000 in 1929, while the status" but added that this did proportion of British not always imply "equality function."

LOCAL SHJPBOKER ROBBED.

THIEF TAKES OVER $200

FROM OFFICE SAFE,

mental value, as opposed to a renteral years' expensive education.. value founded on mutual love and with hardly a shred of practical friendship, was attached to the knowledge for their careers. It "Home" in the last century than is an absurd position and worse.

It seems certain that my boy- Lecky's remarkable defence of the woman, who, "herself the supreme will leave school, an I did, with a type of vice, is ultimately the most quantity of learning of no practi- efficient guardian of virtue. But cal use whatever In business. At for her the unchalleneged purity school I spent hours at advanced Mr. Brandt, a shipbroker, with of countles happy Homes would be have never once since had any use physica and chemistry which I offices on the second floor of St. polluted-" George's Building, has reported to The passage Is (read in the for, even when it was not long since hopelessly out of date. I a most Interesting: the police the theft from a safe of whole) $268.29.

apotheosis of the glucose (but sin also learned lots of ancient and Apparently, the thief was con-cere) self-deception which enables mediaval history, but not a thing to exports versant with the premises, for so many men to excuse their in-about the foundations, growth.

and

nature of British Industry; 1 of nearly every market declined, and after entering the office by means justice to be, like the Panus of

generation, jwe have been saddled with an un-of a duplicate key, he made for a another

was completely ignorant, as most Englishmen still are, of the essen- employment problem more acute drawer where the safe key was right”—or, in the event of than any other country. The com-kent, this giving him access to the flagrant mistake, to forgive them-tial political and other vital facts parative figures pay no regard to contents of the safe.

selves, on account of that apocry

The problem has now been squarely faced, and by what is to be known as "The Statute of West- the tremendous growth of vorid minster" the existing legal res trade in total volume, and it as yet | trictions on the legislative powers to be proved that the last conten of the Dominion Parliamenta are

tion is a fact. The most striking

to be removed by conceding com-

part of the pamphlet, however, is that containing the argument in plete logislative autonomy. As

favour of Safeguarding by tariifs. one writer has expressed it, from In effect, he suggests that any the purely English point of view, duties imposed wauld, in the last the existing anomalies have not analysis, take the form of a coup Kreatly mattered, since Britain tervailing tariff. He argues thie has freely admitted that she could way. Britain's annual production not, even if she wished, exercise of manufactures of £240,000,000 the theoretical rights referred to. has to bear taxation, reaching in The Dominions, however, natural- all categorien to a total of £750,000,- 000. In the case of a direct and ly look upon the question from a visible excise Buch as that on différent angle: they want to spirits, he points out, nobody square the law with their notion dreams of suggesting that it would of the facts, to see their rights be possible to impose such an ex- down in black and white, and to clae without a countervailing duty. get "equality" precisely defined. It Bat the disastrous effect, both to was in response to this desire for Industry and the Exchequer, is just the same whether the excise. Is a definition that a Committee, as direct or indirect, that is if there representative of the Dominions is no countervailing duty on manu- as of the Mother Country, enquir-factured Imports. The effect of od'into the practical results of the the system, as Mr. 'Amory sums it recognition of equality between up, is in reality to give a tariff pro- the various units of the British Lection to more Hightly taxed Empire. Many troublesome and foreign competitors. A tarif

foreign manufactures, he says, difficult problems arose, but it would serve the purpose not only of was found possible to reach an assisting British Industry to re- agreement fully acceptable to the gain its firm footing In the homo Demisions. The, British Govern- market, but would allow a reduc- mont showed that it had no dotion of taxation-thanks to income sire to maintain a legal authority from this now source and lead to a reduction in the cost of the Bri- where there was no wish or power

tish manufactured article. to enforce it. The right of a Brl..

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"Yes, I know he's a' good customer. But it gets my goat to have to fix up flowers that I know he's taking to my gir

of the British Empire and of re- cent political history.

Of busincas, its methods, dan- gers, and difficulties; of finance, accounts, administration; of Bri- tish trade and industry, neither 1 nor any other public schoolboy, knew, or knows, anything.

Except that many have an en- gineering side and an Army Class, our public schoola are still run on the same lines as they were fifty years ago. It is still naaumed ap parently that the boya are either to be sons of country squires, or to go into the Church, law, medicine, or the higher Civil Service. Why don't the public schools face the facta?

What most boys need to-day is direct practical training, for busi- ness and commerco. They should,” learn sound business practice, the fundamentals of accountancy, and. of Anance in Its theory and prac tice.

They should be able to take their places in great businesses or small with a full knowledge of the methods by which they are conducted. They should know the problems which arise in running a business, and how to recognize financial and other danger-aigns.

They should be thoroughly grounded in the art of salcemak- In the technique of fördign trade, and they should be able to dissect balance shoots and to analyse accounts. They should know the essence of the law of contract.

Also, they should be instructed in administration, in the arts of management, in the socrete of Judging and handling men, Thoy should be able, when they leave school, to sum up, anys mandio

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