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LIBERALS AND LABOUR

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course

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1931.

· DAY BY DAY

OF

stituted Conservative Government would be likely to do. It seema to. me, that if the Liberal Party is prepared to support this Govern- ment at this time, is hard to

THE PERSON WHO CORRUPTS THE imagine the political circumstances

FAITH OR TAINTS THE MORALS in which it would detach Itself ANOTHER MAY COMMIT BUCK AN from the Labour Party." He adds INJURY AS THE WHOLE WORLD COULD that if the present Liberal policy NOT COMPENSATE-Tucker. is continued the Party will be- come little more than « right wing of the Labour Party without the advantages which such a wing would have of guiding policy in council or influencing it through the constituencies.

That the prosent position is not considered satisfactory fa also in diented by the views of The Na- tion when it states that it is doubtful whether it will be possible to keep the Government in power much longer by the precarious, day-by-day, hand-to-maith methods which have Aufficed hitherto. The time segras to have come, saya this journal, when some more definite arrangement, honourable [to both parties and as little irksome

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SPEED.

By GILBERT FRANKAU.

The annual shareholders' meeting of

being held on Thursday, 26th in-ALCOLM · CAMPBELL, bent-idiotic twenty-mile-an-hour limit,. the longkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., atont, at noon.

ing poor Dohane Segrave's rid ourselves of the fallacy that a record, at a speed of over four skilled driver doing sixty or seventy mules a minute, has, again proved miles an hour is ipso facto driving The eleventh annual general moet-that the exceptional British driver dangerously. He may be driving ing of the Kowloon Realdents' Associats the best in the world. But what dangerously. But the chances are tian in advertised to be held in the St. Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon, en of the average British motorist? that he is infinitely less of a public is ho (and she) a better or a worso danger than the unskilled driver.... Monday, March D, at ́0 p.m.

driver than, say, the average Fren-one who has never learned to akid, chman or the average American? for instance-nt half the speed

For the skilled driver's mind- Speaking a ono who has driven The management of the Peninsula Hotel advertises that there will be no in all three countries dinnet dance on March 13 and 17, a definitely, that it will take the Roof Garden has been booked for Icast another three years before our 1s so with him-reacts in exact ratio the S. P. C. A. and St. Patrick's Balls, average drivers recover from the to his speed. The quickor he is paralysing effects of a law which- travelling, the quicker will he grasp though rarely observed-neverthel- an emergency. Often, Indoed-if The report of the Superntendent of 38 suggested that the reasonable you sit beside him--it will seem to the Botanical and Forestry Depart. speed or a modern motor-car was you that his mind has fereason the emergency prior to its occurrence. ment shows twelve wet days during twenty miles an hour. the month of February, but that the

And not only our motorists, but In other words, he drives with his As with his total rainfall during the month was our pedestrians also, must rid them Imagination as well only 7 inch. The heaviest precipita-selves of the fallacy that speed per hands, feet and eyes. tian wan on the 25th. with a fall offre has any relation to danger-* Ilgst fifty per cent, of our road ac- And, personally, I bellove that at

respectively.

24 inch, the next heaviest being the the reverse.

1st, with 21.

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I maintain, and no man la entitled to call him- at self an expert motoriat unless this

na possible to either, should be

eidenta are caused by our national reached. The Government will not

Pace, all said and done, is purely luck of imagination--and at least be able to formulate and carry through a coherent polley while its The daily returns showing the cases question of paychology. Granted another fifteen per cent, by th

the right car, with brake-power slow car. of notifiable diseases which occurred life is constantly menaced. Nor is in Hongkong yesterday, give

The slow car, ought to koop well its powers of acceleration one equal the (this is the vital factor in all pace in to the near side of the road. In typhuid. For Chinese case of it fair to Liberal members to keep endfrom February 28, the returns question); granted the right tyres country such as France, which has theni continually in doubt as to the were: eight notifications of enteric and a moderately open road, any never known a speed limit, It. dnes It may be fever (five in the Viteoria district and man or woman of normal eyesight keep in to the near alde of the road. hest course to purste.

us-glorious individualists that no such arrangement is feasi-a in Kowloon) of which one proved should be able to cover forty miles With

fatal. There was also one imported in any given hour the pace vary-hulled by the twenty-mile-an-hour ble, but there is so much in com- care. One fatal case of diphtheria ing between, say, twenty-five miles suggestion--it usually huga the

was reported from Kowloon, and one mon between the immediate aims notification and one denth from small- an hour and sixty, according to the very centre. And when it tries to of both parties that it would be pox. Thirty-eight deaths from tubercorners, the hills, the traille, and pass another slow car the skilled culosis also appears in the statement. the villages encountered on the way, motorist behind both of them will well worth white to explore the

Ask that same man or woman, do well to stop and light a cigarette. however, to maintain this average ground.

anval

WESTMINSTER GLEE

SINGERS.

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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 says to you, after the accident, The Naval Part.

fatigue factor enters into the "Well, it was his fault and not mine, The British travetting

fealculation, and a weary driver try-leir. 1 was on my right side, all The poor showing reeeatly made conference will rank as one of the

ing to maintain his average is often right"—he is even worse than the APPEARING AT KOWLOON Olsen's Music by Liberals

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

ON SATURDAY.

drunken driver. After a crash, in-ment without looking to see if Home raises the old question whe-płomacy, and the outesme as

deed, his symptoms are often taken there is a car coming. For a man's music-lovers Hongkong

and for alcoholic. Which is queer. ther or not in

of time, great contribution to the peace of

roadspeed, I repeat, must be re- theatre-gners will have the pleasure!

Queer, too, is the fact that afgulated by the speed of his mind. Grace Hayes possibly in the near future, Li-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 ters; that I may even be called a exist as a separate politien! entity, clon

Debane speed-flend" for voicing it. Spoed, There have been naany forecasts presented itself; to France and Glee Singers, in their new home. racing motoristas poor

the Star Theatre, Kowloon, for a himself told me not long before he however, is the very spirit of our Italy fur The spirit of mutual farewell four nights only, commen- died. Dehane, too, never liked age. The horse-coach has gone for made of late that inasmuch as the policy of the Parliamentary Labourncession which emerged at theeing on Saturday, March 7th.

more he doubt of a heats wad. going "all out" on certain courses, ever. So-for transport purposes fest and which nude an agreement |

notably Montlhery.

has the saddle-horse. Once abolish Party is not far removed, if at

Two possible.

months of 1931 come back being afforded to Messгa.

Even in his case, therefore--and our childish horse-power tax (which all, from that of the Liberals, the have been anxious ones for naval Donald Reid (the distinguished alto doubtless also in Malcolm Camp has done more to hinder the export Taftor will sooner or later be authorities.

and pianist), Ernest McKinley bella-the main speed problem of British motors than all the fac- France and Italy the brilliant leading tenor), was

a psychological one. How torics

America) and the sorbed by Labour. That is a diu-[have uniloubtedly been drifting | Robert Scott (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), James Burber (the age motorist consider, nut the needle will rise from afty-five to sixty-five 'all, be merely an extension of the of the development of naval comminent 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 movement which in recent years petition between the two Pawers

a rare singing voice as well) and

Personally, I know that there are trains his mind to speed, and cul- has caused quite a number of tend-were causing grave uneasiness at Messrs. Wilfrid Thomas, Willian certain days on which I can drive tivates the type of imagination ing. Liberals to serve under the the Admiralty. In a speech made Lowry and Maxwell Oldakes, to say with absolute safety at anything up which "sees round corners," w

boy to eighty, and that there are others shall not get the full benefit out of hanner of Mr. Ramsay Marbonatas recently as February, 8: Mr. thing of the six delightful

-usually after a hard spell of work the internal combustion "angito- Alexander felt it necessary to Incidentally, Sir Charles Trevelyan

Shanghai has responded as keenlyon which it would be definitely the greatest time-saving, distance- 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 and Italy,kong, and the season they are at forty miles an hour. And once, man. strange, in some ways, that he

present playing at the pointing out that the time must Theatre could be prolonged but for from Milan to Como, I became so Embassy driving a slow car on the Autostrada should now over his connexion.

come when British retrenchmentdehulte arrangements to open in bored, with the speedometer needle with Labour brause he feels the in naval construction would have Singapare in March 17th, which at sixty, that I nearly fell asleep So Glad to Meet

to stop if the Continental situation must be adhered to. did not improve. Both France In the meantime, there is ad- and Italy were preparing building company to visit here for some con- a magistrate 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, mugnitudes Hongkong Which is also queer when one con- The audiences are bound to seize these siders the claims made for even the keeping the Labour Government in the London Naval Treaty,

One member of this see-saving factor was, of course, that "portunities and see a company cheapest motor-car on our roads to

(whose merit has been tried and day.

Let us, for goodness sako, now both were just a little afraid of undoubtedly proved here) in a fresh recently expressing his

that we have at last abolished that the situation, and reallaed how batch of new items. views. asserted that by pro- longing for an indefinite time the great was the responsibility of the life of the present Government, the country which began the naval race, This hesitation would have Liberals are making an orientation been sufficient if the two Govern- of polley which cannot be ignored.ments had been prepared to dis- Exactly what the Liberals have euss the issues between them- undertaken, exactly what has been selves, but Franco-Italian rols- promised to them and, more im-tions appear to have been too portant, exactly what sunetion delicate to admit of the spirit so they hold to compel the Labour essential for mutual accommoda- Party to perform their part Intion. Fortunately, Mr. Henderson this pactless puet no-one, he says, assessed the position accurately seems to know. Appearances to and carried out a brilliantly con-!

and an outsider would hardly point to ceived sortie into French

and provided Italian territory any satisfactory reality behind himself as a mediator between these mysteries, at all events frour

ihe two countries. Thus in

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Party is not sufficiently Socialistic in its outlook.

oflice.

tion.

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 guin should be immediately favour-an agreement for which Britain able to the Libern) Party, the mat- und America have been striving ter is not concluded. From the vainly for mouths, In far more point of view of the country, this auspicious circumstances, new entente means, in the opinion achieve. Out of the worst was

of this observer, a continuance of brought the

to

best. Rivalry in

n polley of drift and political and naval affairs at an ond, more- financial dissipation in 'face of over, France and Italy should find almost desparate circumstances at the task of settling other out- home and abroad. "I enu sec," he standing differences much easier. One ground for suspicion has been Hays, "no,

ponsible gain to this

dissipated, and the air

may be country, either at home or in its expected to clear entirely an a relations with the, Dominions or result. The Sgures may cause a with Foreign Powers from the doubt or two in some quarters,. continuance in office of the Labour but the mere fact that there has Government, in any way common-boen a. settlement at all will surate with these evils, even allow-linform and modify pubile opinion ing for the very worst that a sub-in all interested countries:

Glee Singers The Westminster

at the wheel.

will probably be the last touring Yet only the other week I read of Your Late Wife

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

wife again."

By Lady (Laura). Thoubridge.

WELL-KNOWN phase of our LA

modern life is the over-growing number of couples who scak matri- monial relief from each other.

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

For this freedom they are willing to lay bare the story of their mar ried lives in the ordeal of the Divorce Court, a great ordeal even 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 these beo-Georgian days. Almost Immediately after the divorce a state of good fellowship late is established between the partners who, until that moment, felf nothing but loathing for each other. They, in fact, become friends, and once they have stepped Tout of the matrimonial cage, they view each other in a different na- pect,

Good points they recognised when first they met, and which In fact drew them together, bocomo again" apparent, and excuses are made even .The for the "Intolerable past.” impossible man who was ruining. her life and whom it required ex- pensive legal help to get rid of, be comes again "Dear old 80-and-60," than whom there are many worse people, while instead of a "curse" she becomes a "dear, little woman"

In his eyes.

They find it perfectly possible and even agreeable to meet in sach other's houses, and to discuss all the details of their reconstructed lives, and the new experiences which have come to them, wash ex-

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