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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1931.

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LIBERALS AND LABOUR

Spectacular Universal Picture "KING OF JAZZ

Now Showing at the Central Theatre.

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It happened in Monterey Waltz The Song of the Dawn-Foxtant

My Lover

Olsen's Music

I like to do things for you

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I like to do things for you---Foxtrot Happy Feet-Foxtrot

Reisman's Orchestra

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| It happened in Monterey The Song of the Dawn

John Boles

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CHATER ROAD..

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1931.

DAY BY DAY

THE PERSON WHO CORRUPTS THE PAITH ON TAINTS THE MORALS

ANOTHER MAY COMMIT BUCI

OF AN

stituted Conservativo Governmont would be likely to do. It seems to mo, that if the Liberal Party is prepared to support this Govern- ment at this time, it is hard to imagine the political circumstances In which it would dotach itself from the Labour Party." He adds INJURY AB THE WHOLE WORLD COULD that if the present Liberal polley NOT COMPENSATE-Tucker. la continued the Party will be- come little more than a right wing of the Labour Party without the advantages which nuch a wing would have of guiding policy in council or influencing it through the constituencies."

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The eleventh annual general moet ing of the Kowloon Residents' Associa

The daily returns showing the case of notifiablo diseases which occurred'

notification and eno death from smali.

WESTMINSTER GLEE

SINGERS.

THE PSYCHOLOGY: OF SPEED.

By GILBERT FRANKAU.

ȚALCOLM CAMPBELL, beat- idiotic twenty-mito-an-hour limit,

Micoot Denne Segrave's

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record, at a speed of over four skilled drivor doing sixty or seventy miles a minute, has again proved miles an hour la ipso facto driving that the exceptional British driver dangerously. He may be driving tion is advertised to be hold in the St.is the best in the world. But what dangerously. But the chances are That the present position is not Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon, on of the average British motorist? that he is infinitely less of a public is he (and sho) a better or a worso danger than the unskilled driver- considered satisfactory in also In-Monday, March 9, at 6 pm.

driver than, say, the average Fren-one who has never learned to skid,

for instance-at half the speed. dicated by the view of The Na-

ehman or the average American?

For the skilled driver's mind- tion when it states. that it i

Speaking as one who has driven The management of the Peninsula doubtful whether it will be possible Hotel advertises that there will be no in all three countries I maintain, and no man is entitled to call him. will take at self an expert motorist unless this dinner dance on March 13 and 17, as definitely, that it to keep the Government in power the Roof Garden has been booked for least another three years before our In so with him-reacts in axact ratio much longer by the precarious, the S. F. C. A. and St. Patrick's Balls, average drivers recover from the to his spoed. The quicker he is paralysing effects of a law which travelling, the quicker will be grasp respectively.

though rarely observed-neverthel- an emergency. Often, Indeed-if day-by-day, hand-to-mouth methods which have sufficed hitherto.

The report of the Superntendent of suggested that the reasonable you ait beside him-it will seem to The time seems to have come, says the Botanical and Forestry Depart. speed of a modern motor-car was you that his mind has foreseen the emergency prior to its occurrence. this Journal, when Home more ment shows twelve wet days during twenty miles an hour.

And not only our motorists, but In other words, he drives with his the month of February, but that the

30 with his definite arrangement, honourable total rainfall during the month was our pedestrians also, must rid them.imagination as well to both parties and as little irksome only 74 inch. The heaviest precipita seives of the fallacy that speed per hands, fcet and oyes.

tion was on the 25th. with a fall of 88 has any relation to danger-or And, personally, I believe that at-

least fifty per cent. of our road ac- as possible to either, should be 24 inch, the next heaviest being the the roverse.

cidents aro caused by our national reached. The Government will not 21st. with 21,

Pace, all said and done, is purely lack of imagination and at least be able to formulate and carry

a question of psychology. Granted another fifteen per cent. by the the right car, with brake-power slow car. through a coherent policy while its

The slow car ought to keep well life is constantly menaced. Nor is in longkong yesterday, give one equal to its powers of accelaration

case of typhoid. For the (this is the vital factor in all paco in to the near side of the road. In it fair to Liberal members to keep Chicending, February 28, the returns question); granted the right tyres a country such as France, which has them continually in duabt as to the were: eight notifications of enteric and a moderately open road, any never known a speed limit, it does It may be fever (five in the Vitcuria district and man or woman of normal eyesight keep in to the near side of the rond. best course to pursue. that no such arrangement is fensione in Kowloon) of which one proved should be able to cover forty miles With us glorious individualists fatal. There was also one imported In any given hour-the paco vary- lulled by the twenty-mile-an-hour ble, but there is so much in com- case. One fatal case of diphtheria ing between, say, twenty-five miles suggestion-it usually hugs the mon between the immediate aims was reported from Kowloon, and one an hour and sixty, according to the very centre. And when it tries to of both pariles that it would be pox. Thirty-eight deaths from tuber- corners, the hills, the traffic, and pass another slow car--the skilled culosis also appears in the statement, the villages encountered on the way. Imotorist behind both of them will

woman, Ask that same man or well worth while to explore

do well to stop and light a cigarette. however, to maintain this averago ground.

for four hours in succession-and While as for the driver with no the chances are that he or she will imagination-the chauffeur who have a crash. Because here the anys to you, after the accident, The Naval Pact.

fatigue factor enters into the "Well, it was hla fault and not ming, calculation, and a weary driver try-sir. I was on my right side, The British Travelling

ing to maintain his average is often right-he is even worse than the The poor showing recently made conference will rank as one of the APPEARING AT KOWLOON

more dangerous than a slightly pedestrian who steps off the pave- in bye-elections at most natute moves in modern dis-

ON SATURDAY.

drunken driver. After a crash, in- ment without looking to by Libernis

soo if deed, his symptoms are often taken there is a car coming. For a man's Home raises the old question whe-plomucy, and the outcome as a

Hongkong music-lovera and for alcoholic. Which is quoer. rondspeed, I repeat, must be re- ther or not in course of time, grent contribution to the peace of

theatre-goers will have the pleasure Queer, too, is the fact that a gulated by the speed of his mind. Grace Hayes possibly in the near future, L-Europe, warranting congratulation of renewing acquaintance with that man's driving nerve, like his riding I am well aware that this view beralism will practically cease to all round; to Britain for speed of favourite band of entertainers, Mr. nerve, will vary from day to day. will not be popular in certain quar

when the opportunity Edward Branscome's Westminster And this is true even of your crack [tors; that I may even be called a exist as a separate, political entity.action There have been many forecasts presented itself: to France and Glee Singers, in their new home, racing motorist as poor Dehane speed-fiend" for voicing it. Speed, the Star Theatre, Kowloon, for a kimself told me not long before he however, is the very spirit of our the spirit of mutual farewell four nights only, commen-, died. Dehane, too, never liked age. Tho horse-conch has gone for made of late that inasmuch as the tals for policy of the Parliamentary Labour concession which emerged at theeing on Saturday, March 7th.

There is no doubt of a heary wel, going "all out" on certain courses, ever. So for transport purposes

notably Montlhery.

has the saddlo-horac." Once abolish Party is not for removed, if attest and which made an agreement

Even in his case, therefore and our childish horse-power tax (which possible. Two months of 1931 conte back being afforded to Messre. all, from that of the Liberals, the have been anxious ones for ival Donald Reid (the distinguished alto doubtless also in Malcolm Camp has done more to hinder the export Ernest McKinley bell's the main speed problem of British motors then all the fac and pianis1), Intter will sooner or later be ab authorities, France and Italy the brilliant leading tenor), was a psychological one. How tortes America) and the surised by Labour. That is a dis- have undoubtedly been drifting Robert Scutt (Scotland's gifted much more, then, should the aver-maximum pace of the lowpriced car tinct possibility, and would, after farther and farther apart. Signs young tenor), laraes Barber (the age motorist consider, not the needle will rise from fifty-five to sixty-five all, be merely an extension of the for the development of naval com-eminent bass). Albert Green (the of his speedometer, but the state of or seventy.

novel, and refreshing comedian, with his mind.

But until the average motorist nement which in recent years petition between, the two Powers rare singing voice as well) and Personally, I know that thore are trains his mind to speed, and cul- has caused quite a number of lend-were causing grave anensiness at Messrs. Wilfrid Thomas, William certain days on which I con drive tivates the type of imagination ing liberals to serve under the the Admiralty, in a speech made Lowry and Maxwell Oldaker, to say with absolute safety at anything up which "sees round corners, wo boy to eighty, and that there are others shall not get the full benefit out of -usually after a hard spell of work the internal combustion engine- banner of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, as recently as February 8, Mr. nothing of the six delightful

Alexander felt it necessary Lo

Shanghai has responded as keenly-on which it would be deflaitely the greatest time-saving, distance- Incidentally. SF Charles Trevelyan was one of these, and it is passing a grave warning, addressed to the Glee Singers as did Hong-dangerous for me to exceed five-and-bridging invention yet devised by

Indirectly to France aat Italy. kong, and the season--they-are-at forty miles- an-hour. And once, man. strange, in some ways, that he pointing out that the time must entre could be prolonged but for from Milan to Como, I became so prevent playing at the Embassy driving a slow car on the Autostrada should now gever his connexion come when British retrenchment defiuile arrangements to open in Bored, with the speedometer needle with Labour because he feels the Party is not sufficiently Socialistic to stop if the Continental situation must be adhered to. in its outlook.

did not improve. Hoth France

will probably be the last touring Yet only the other week I read of In the meantime, there is ad-and Italy were preparing building company to visit here for some con- nugistrato describing a speed of mittedly a section of the Liberal programmes which would have siderable time certainly the last fifty miles an hour as "monstrous." Party which dislikes the policy of struck at the very foundations of of such magnitude so Hongkong Which is also queer when one con- The audiences are bound to seize these siders the claima made for even the keeping the Labour Government in the London Nava! Trenty.

see a company cheapest motor-car on our ronda to- (whose merit has been tried and day,

WELL-KNOWN phase of our offler. One member in this see-saving factor was, of course, that opportunities and

both were just a little afraid of undoubtedly proved here) in a fresh Let us, for goodness sake, now A modern life is the ever-growing recently

his expressing

that we have at last abolished that number of couples who seek matri- the situation, and realised how batch of new iterna, views, asserted that by pro- longing for an indefinite time the great was the responsibility of the country which began the naval life of the present Government, the

race. This hesitation would have Liberals are making an orientation been sufcient if the two Govern- of policy which cannot be ignored menta had been prepared to dis- Exnetly what the Liberals have cuss the issues between them- undertaken, exactly what has been selves, but Franco-Italian rola-1 promised to them and, more im-tiona appear to have been loo portant, exactly what sanction dellente to admit of the spirit so they hold to compel the Labour essential for mutual accommoda- Party to perform their part in tion. Fortunately, Mr.. Henderson this pactless pact no-one, he says, assessed the position accurately seems to know. Appearancea to and carried out a brilliantly con

into French and ceived sortie an outsider would hardly point to

Italian territory and provided any satisfactory reality behind

himself as a mediator between these niysteries, at all events from the two countries. Thus in n a Liberal point of view. But,week, at the most critical time, even, if the outcome of this bar France and Italy were brought to gain should be immediately favour an agreement for which Britain. able to the Liberal Party, the mat-and America have been striving ter is not, concluded. From the vainly for months, in far more. point of view of the country, thia | auspicious circumstances, to new entente means, In the opinion achieve. Out of the worst was of this observer, a continuance of brought the beat. Rivalry in apolley of drift and political and Raval affairs at an end, more- financial dissipation in face of over, Franco and Italy should find almost desparate circumstances at the task of settling other out- home and abroad. "I can see," he One ground for suspicion has bera standing differences much easier, snys, "no, possible gain to this

dissipated, and the air country, either at home or in its expected to clear entirely as a relations with the Dominions or result. The figures may cause a with Foreign. Powers from the doubt or two in some quarters, continuance in office of the Labour but the more fact that there has Government, in any way commen- bean A settlement at all will surate with these evils, oven allow- inform and modify publle opinion ing for the very worst that a sub. [in all interested countries..

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"Go sagy on the high notes. He's been hearing from his

wife again."

Your Late Wife

By Lady (Laura) Thoubridge.

moniul relief from each other.

The causes which lead them to take this step are often frivolous in their origin. But whatever they are, the method is the same, and having found existence with that particular partner unbearable, they wish to make a new beginning.

For this freedom they are willing to lay bare the story of their mar Iried Ilves in the ordeal of the Divorce Court, a great ordeni evon now when it is shorn of so much of its publicity,

All this is understandable, but has brought about a curious state of things in theas neo-Georgian days, after the Almost immediately divorce a state of good fellowship Is established between the late partners who, until that moment, felt nothing but loathing for each other. They, in fact, become friends, and once they have stopped out of the matrimonial cage, they view each other in a different as pect...

Good points they recognised when first they met, and which in fact drew them together, become again. apparent, and excuses are made evon for the "Intolerable past." The impossible man who was ruining her life and whom it required ex- pensive legal help to get rid of, be- comes again "Dear old Bo-and-so," than whom there are many worse people, while instead of a "curse! she becomes a "doar little woman".

In his eyes.

They find it perfectly possible and even agrosable to meat in sach other's housca and to discuss all the details of their reconstructed lives, and the new experiences. which have come to them, such

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