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extent to which, the insurance scheme has been weighed down by three or four great industries, while the ninjority of insured occupations, covering more than

DẠY BỲ ĐẨY

two-thirds of the insured popula ALL GOOD GOVERNMENT MUST BE tion, have continued to pay conGIN AT HOME-II. R. Ilawcie. tributions in excess of the bene-'

Special Ferries have been arranged fits which they have required. for the S.P.CA.. Ball on Friday to and This is a point which is not gon-run nt. 1.15 m., 1.45 am.

by favour of the Star erally recognised. A singularly 2.16 a.m.,

Ferry Company Limited, misleading picture of the problem

in given by the figures which are

THE WORLD GOES BY.

By WILLIS J. abbott (in the Christian Science Monitor).

Wward the end of his term of allons

THEN President Coolidge to-and dry quarrel. Most of the aro settled in America's office put forth his sententous great cities. Because of their "I do not choose to run" state- numbers they add to the size of After taking an overdose of opium

But in an effort to cure a cold. Yeung munt, all the political sages, pun-the city delegations in Congress.

the cities

commonly so it is that cause which

aro

Trik-hong (46), a broker of 2, Queen's dits, interpreters, commentaipr anything which swella

dunnell Read,

representation

published every week, and which wrongly suggest that there is a

Road, West was removed to the Gov-Hoothsayers and wiscacres of the vast army of permanently un-ernment Civil Hospital by his reinland set about reading Into those few words every possible mean-

Ga-urban representation. According employed people. For this rea- tiven yesterday.

ing except that intended by they all the wat forces, of politics And now the President and the press, are aligned against son, there is something to be said

Lasd week's return of polifiable speaker. for the suggestion that the Insur-dircases shown six cases of typhoid of the United States, Herbert the very proper effort to exclude wan Hoover, says with perfect clarity: these allens from those who count in fixing congressional represen- ance Fund should be freed from one imparted), of which one

fatal, and two non-fatal ensen of

"The Commission, by a large tation, those industries which weigh it mall-pox. There were also 55 deaths.

majority, does not favour the re-

The problem la not unimport- down and thus be restored to its from pulmonary tuberculosis.

penl of the Eighteenth Amend- basis. It a

ment as a method of cure for the ant. Official estimates place the. proper actuarial

The forthcoming wedding is an-inherent abuses of the liquor traf numbor of unnaturalized foreign- realised, of course, that this would

I am in accord with this view." ers resident in the United States nouneed of Mr. Liang Sal-wn, of the fic. leave a very serious burden of Education Department, residing at 1, Nothing could be more direct at 7,500,000. An the Exchequer and possibly neces-Gang Chim Terrace, Happy Valley, and unequivocal, but once again in Congress is based upon total 1 Mina Yurn Wo Mary Ho, daughter the chorus of Interpretation" population instead of upon eltizen- of Mr. Ho Kwong, residing at 7 Marises in the effort to prove that ship, these sitato less generous treatment of

residents, without those in distressed Industrien.

the President did not mean what votes, are represented by thirty he said, but what his interpreters, congressmen and sixty delegates One other suggestion is that transi-:

Convicted of a charge of unlawful wanted him to mean. Friends who sent to the national nominating tional benefit should be cut right

pussession of an electric light shade were with the President within a conventions. As matters stand, this political strength accrues al- out of the Insurance scheme, these and sitting, for which the man could few minutes after his typewritten most entirely to the anti-prohibi- who fall out of insurance being not give a satisfactory explanation,

a gardener employed by the iter, G. E. statement was given to the pruss of his purpose relleved according to their actual Powell of 400, The Peak, was ren are in a position to testify to the tion forces.

Only by congressional amend- tenced to three weeks hard labour single-mindedness

ment can this obvious error, be necessity.

with the option of fine of 330 by Mr. and Intent. At a stroke he made Meanwhile, it may not be with Williams at the Central Police Court himself the leniter of the corrected and an amendment epon

this morning.

forces in the United States out Interest to recall what a pro-

gave assurance to the nation red by Senator Capper and Re- presentative Sparks, both of Kan- minent American, Senator Borah,

Before Commdr. J. B. Newitt. D.S., the great political party of which recently anid about Britain's .. R.N., at the Marine Court this he is head will enter the next nu-, is before Congress and is now House Committee. Its importance method of dealing with the un-morning. Capt. J. Jacobsen, ouster of tional campaign as the defender oing through hearings before a Gustav Diederichsen, was of American industry against the far transcends the liquor problem employment problem. People sumuned for arriving in the Colony blighting return at liquor, and ofwhich, after all, is but a pass- on March with pigs in crates, which the American home against the ing phase of America's national talk," he said, "of how England were not stowed in aesordance with saloon. As to the outcome of a development. The proper regula- the Litestock Import and Export lest of that character, no one with tion of the franchise and the right- Ordinance. Defendant sleaded guilty faith in American ideals and ful allocation of representation to and was fined $25,

American intelligence should the various sections of the coun cherish any doubt.

de-

the F..

1

and

try are fundamentals of national (existence.

+

There came to my desk the other

established the dole and now is unable to get rid of it. England THE DOLE PROBLEM. will get rid of the dale when shel

the A coolic employed by

Green can get rid of the economic

Island Coment. Company was sentene-: pression which has made it neces

There is, however, political op- ed to six weeks' imprisonment for the On the day when English-theft of fit bolts and nuts, the proposition to the President's main- Fresh interest in the unemploy-Bary.

pages, from the Stanford Univer- ment problem has been aroused men can get their jobs back, Par-perty of the Company, by Mr. Hamil tenance of the position he has a3-day a volume of some 600 menty

ton, at the Kowloon Magistracy this autoed. It proceeds chiefly from

Understanding. What is import- rasening. "As you admitted it. wets, partly from politicians who sity Press, entitled, "International have let you off with two weeks less: believe that the sections in which ant about it is that it is given over utherwise you would havr

ttwe they operate are antagonistic to to a list and brief description of months," remarked Mr. Hamilton.

prohibition. The newspapers, for the organizations making for example, have been full of the greater internationalism, a wider clamor of certain New York Re-diffusion of knowledge concerning publicans who insist that their the factual and spiritual difficul- State will be lost to that party if ties of international problems. Me. Hoover adheres to his support in a foreword Poul Montaux a- of the Eighteenth Amendment. serts:

The case of Charles H. Tuttle,

have 10.

by the evitiónce ferently given he- tioment will end the date with the fore the Royal Commission whien consent of those who

We place too little is studying this

Theecived it

pride, and financial side of the matter will faith in the enrage.

question.

no doubt figure largely in the self-reliance of the Anglo-Saxoni

Neither Americans coming Budget. ht There are other aspects which are English ever

meanwhile race.

have been dole-

worthy of notice. There are to-Katherers, nor will they ever be." day millions of idle people in all the great industrial countries, and as we read

of bread. accounts queues and privations, there is at any rate something to be thankful

The St. George's Election.

:

DAIRY FARM COMPANY..

REPORT REVEALS SUCCESS- FUL YEAR.

Auditors fees, amounts

near

for a

and women

can

Evon 60,

who sought to be elected Governor The man with the highest inter- of New York 071 a Republican national spirit is one whose en- ticket with wet embroidery, is il-lighted patriotism seeks to under- The annual report of the Dairy luminating. In 1928, Albert stand other countries, and to build Farm, Ice and Cold Storage Co. Ottinger poiled 2,101,030 votes as national honour and prosperity on Ltd., states that the profit for the

Di to defeating Franklin

if in every

country a powerful The rival factions, in the Ca period under review after writing Republican candidate, coming so co-operation, harmony and peace. for in the organised social services servative Party are now definitely off $145,918.04 for depreciation. Roosevelt as to put that gentle-group of such men

$15,000,00 Ly reserve at Home which have prevented at grips and the by-election at St. placing developments of that nature, It George's, Westminster, threaten against bad and doubtful debts political life in jeopardy. bring their Influence to bear

from offending the dry Republi-on business, on politics, interna- to

cans, But Mr. Tuttle, only two tional organization, whether or no is well to remember, also, that to be livelier and more bitter and providing for Directors and Mr. Ottinger studiously refrained schools, on churches, on litraton than that at Islington, which in $351.418.94 which includes the sum years later, thinking that the wet its name be League of Nations, the Unemployment Insurance Its turn was less restrained than of $24,954.41 brought forward vote in the State was essential to will be given a fair chance. Fond was heavily in debt before the Paddington one. In far from last year's accounts. It victory, proclaimed himself

Prof. John Eugene Harloy, nu- the world slump began and that tempers are already badly frayed. proposed to deal with the above ed to prohibition and received a thor of this book, has sought to full list of these. what has been termed the "hard as Mr. Baldwin's verbal nationalance of $351,418.94 as follows: scant 1,044,000 votes against his

To pay a dividend of

opponent's 1,769,200. Almost 1 compile a

New core" of a million unemployed has tion of his oppurents clearly) $1.50 per share on

000,000 Republicans who had vot-Agoncios Educating for a

cuumerates sixty- 200,000 shares $300,000.00ed their dry ticket in 1928 stayed World." He existed ever since the short-lived shows, and although none of these post-war boom. However, it is "crude Labour men" are compli-Add to General Reserve 20,000.00 at home in 1980. Whether the nine of them, ranging in import- 31178.94 Republican Party can win at allance from the League of Nations down to some of the summer evidenf that the

dole cating the issue, the campaign: To carry forward so-called

does not look like providing 21 Retiring Directors.The Hon. next year is uncertain. The win schools springing up in such num- system has been very consider.

lesson in the refinements of eler-Mr. J. Owen-Hughes and Mr. T. thing certain in that it cannot win

E: Pearce retire by rotation but with a wet candidate or platform, bets in the United States. At that his catalogue, though thic nbly abused, and, as one con-

tioneering. Mr. Baldwin's

most comprehensive in being eligible offer themselves for

existence, ruentutor has expressed it, one of asperity is easily understond. At re-election.

it is rather a pity that the pro-is not complete. Organizations of

are appearing in J the most disquieting features of Paddington, Vice-Admiral Taylor Audit. The annexed accounts position to eliminate allens from this character the insurance preblau is the risk defeated the official Conservative have been audited by Messrs. census enumeration for the pur-the United States continually and which is

un-nominee, and at Islington, Brig. Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming pose of fixing the quota of con- a book cataloguing them of creating run

affer themselves for

re-gressional representatives cannot never be all-inclusive. employment by the efforts to re-Gen, Critchley polled more heavily who

election.

be detached from the eternal wet a volume of this nature is of the greatest value as giving visual ex- leve it and of petrifying an ob-than Miss Cazalet, very popular candidate supported by Party

pression to the powerful intellec of industry Holate distribution

tunl forces that are struggling, to Headquarters.

serious

·Thear

annul the influence of the im instead of easing the process ofsetbacks for official Conservatism

perialists, the militarists, the transition.

were bad enough. Ai St. George's,

general staffs and navy leagues that see nothing better in store Coming to look at the question however, the Press Barons have themselves .in their

for the world than from close mange, we find much excelled

demonstration of implacable prepared for the Royal Commis-enmity to the leader of the Panty by side-tracking as far as possibie sion by the Ministry of Labour, ordinary political platform planks, one of which breaks up the "hard and making Mr. Baldwin'a lender. core" of a million unemployed ship the only clear issue before into its component and yet dis- the electors. To be or not to be, similar parts. It is generally ad-that is the question. Should Sir mitted that the unemployment Ernest Petter be returned, Mr. caused by the world alump will Baldwin's position will be exceed-

It is prob Ingly embarrassing. pass with the slump, and can only able, that he would refuse la be reduced by international a accept a notice to quit given by At the tlon. It may be equally necessary, the St. George's people. however, to separate the problem same time, his nuthority would be

A very strong | of continuous unemployment in severaly shaken. coni-mining from that of organis-candidate has been put into the ed short-time in cotton, and both field to uphold the official Consor-) of these from the intermittent vative cause. One may be certain that if Mr. Duff Cooper cannot win employment which is a permanent the seat, the situation is beyon feature in docks, shipping, publie Mr. Baldwin's power to control: works Contracting, and building. he might just as well retire grace- It is significant, for example, that, fully while the going a good. been according to the Ministry of The other parties have Labour, the unemployment pro-aatute enough to give the rival Conservatives a clear field and the blem in the last-named industries most interesting battle since the has been "Intensified by the con-General Election is in prospect. ditions of the Insurance Acis."A third successive victory for As one of the loading politieni Lord Beaverbrook would be disas Journals has pointed out, It is im-trous from the viewpoint of the portant that we should realise the Leader of the Opposition.

that is informative in memoranda

"What's keeping you girls? The boys are already hers."

.... to attempt, the future, portal With the past's blood- custed key.

If, as is commonly supposed to be the case, the purpose of liquor legislation is to reduce the con- sumption of intoxicating liquors, the latest, report of the Quebec Liquor Commission rather dis- credits that greatly eulogized "Quebec plan,” The sales of the commission for its last facal your amounted to $27,539,066, an in- ercase over the year before af $532,000, and an increase of more than $12,000,000 over its first year's business.

In nine years the dffect of the inw has been almost to double the consumption of liquor. Not avon the most extravagant enemies of prohibition will assert that its effects in the ten years of its axis. tonco in the United States have paralleled this record.

Some 'Agures as to the alghi÷: Acance of this record of expendi tures for intoxicants in Quebec are illuminating. No consus has been taken of the Province since 1921, but I am informed by the Canadian Legation at Washington that Ita population to-day in or timated at 2,784,000. The liquor (Continued on Page 7.):