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The

Scottish Universities, the propor→ tional representation system is operated. To show how it works, let us cite the experience of Ox- ford at the last General Election.

18, 1931,

DAY BY DAY

TAKE MY WORD FOR IT. THE SIL- WOMAN CAN MANAGE A LIEST

CLEVER MAN, BUT IT NEEDS A VERY CLEVER WOMAN TO MANAGE A FOOL.

There were three candidates for the two seats, and at the first poll Lord Hugh Cecil claimed 6,012 votes, Professor Gilbert Murray-Rudyard Kipling. 3,277 and Sir Charles Oman 2,174.

Sir Arthur and Lady Currie loft by. The quota necessary for el tion the s.s. President. Madison yesterday. was 3,822, and as Lord Hugh Cecil

Sir Robert Ho Tung left for Shang- received more votes than he need-hai and North of China this morning ed, the second votes of his surplus by the Tatsuta. Maru. papera were distributed according

and Mrs. Henry Humphreys' to the proportional representation left for Vancouver by the s.s. Empress

of Russia to-day. Paymaster Com-the nystem. The result was that Sirmander and Mra, D. S. Lambert were Charles Oman, who had been at also passengers. • the bottom of the poll on the first i

Mr.

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vote, jumped Into second place of the Star Forry Company, at 2.30 berit bonds, ties, it is the poor bin financial conditions, ro-

with a total of 4,122, whilst Pro- fessor Gilbert Murray, who was only 545 votes short of the quota on the first polling, registered only 3,529 on the second count and was therefore not olected. An In- teresting example, this, of how the system, which in not to be confused with the Alternative Vote, works out in practice

To revert to the general, ques- tlop, this rulic of the past, in the way of special panels of voters, is at conflict with the spirit.of the times. There is, no logical reason why a man or woman, merely be cause of a University education, should be entitled to an extra vote, and certainly none why, if resident abroad and contributing in no way to the nation's taxes, he should have a voice in selecting members of the House of Com- mona. There are, however, a few Liberala sufficiently old-fashioned in outlook to support the system. Liberal-Labour relations are not

These may be expected eventually likely to be improved by the re-

to gravitate towards

Conserva jection of the clause in the Repre- tism, just as the Left Wing of the sentation of the People Bill which Party must drift into the Labour I'm in the market for you-Organ Reginald Foort | aimed at the abolition of Univer-fold. Recent bye-elections, in fact, Contrary to expec- | continue to indicate the proba sity franchise.

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THERE $70 Innumerable dls- interest, backed by politicians and Ісан advantages in being poor.unions, but racketears Realising some of these, re-dangorous to the stamina of a na- a vast horde of pon- giona tentatively suggest that tien than

impecunious have vested ioners, sopping the vitality rights in the kingdom of heaven. the trade on which it lives.

America, faced with the same Of this, every man must judge

crics, "Look at Eng- Whilst traveling on the Solar Star, for himself, but if the rich in problems of unemployment and

real catate, Income and and, warned death

by our im yesterday, Mr. T. V. Harmon tax

fuses to legislate for cridis in found a sum of inoney which has been who inherit the earth. For only

Water Police the poor can travel. handed over to the

The rich man merely changes which she believes the individual awaiting a claimant.

the view outside the plate-glass should act for himself. Congo- Amongst the passengers who left windows of Pullmans and Palace quently, while England is sinking by the 85 Antenor to-day were Mrs. hotels. When he goes abroad ho gently into the most dangerous of JW. C. Bonnar, Mr. and Mrs. G. D. takes with him as much of Eng- all atates, an apathetic acceptance Bell, Capt. O. H. Farrer, Mr. and Mrs. inne as his valet can pack into hts of decay, Amerien, in the person oach individual citizen, is act- Macfarlane, Mr. and Mrs. D. Lexcellent British suitcases. Aepto. Strellett, and Mr. and Mrs.

ly aware of being Somebody, ho tling to work again under harder hopo of int- Rome.

expects his person to be recognia- conditions, with no As a rosuit of being knocked downed and his cheque-book approcia mediate profit. Convinced that by a public motor car outside his ted. He is afraid of talking to the slump is only temporary she house at 178, Queen's Road, West, the man in the street, in the train, refuses to mortgage her future. But the ordinary traveller who Chinese youth named Chan Wah-pul, aboard the boat, for he does not

superiority aged 16, received injuries to his spine want to give and it does not occur as packed his insularity, hin and his na- complex, and tional self-consciousness into and was removed to the Government to him that he might receive. Civil Hospital for treatment. He

Consequently he never learns parcel and left it in the clonk- subsequently succumbed.

the other person's point of view, room at Victoria Station nead not The body of a newly-born child was unless that person happens to be judge by America alone. He can watch the thrifty Frenchman, in removed to the Kowloon Mortuary unimpeachably unholstered by the

factory on farm, measuring his from Sedar Street, Shamships, and on figures of his bank balance

expenditure so that, eventually, a post mortem examination being made it was discovered that the infant guaranteed by an official position the savings in the family stocking

This is where the importance of

enable him to become had been strangled, there being in- dications that it had lived for being Nobody comes in. The or- may

enough proprietaire, owning the rost un- short period after birth. A piece of dinary man, if he has

aorvo the comparative simplicity cloth was found tied over its nostrils gumption to travel hard and to der which he lives. He can ob- and mouth, with another piece around keep his eyes open while doing so,

satisfies the merchant neck.

may learn more about England in which a foreign town than Downing-princes of Lyons and Lille, In a report to the police yesterday, a street can visualise in five years Post-war profits have been de- married

the modernisation of to voted to woman of

3, Wah of office. For travel Street stated that Wun

lustrate what is happening at their factories.

He can go farther afield and man went to her house with a letter purporting to have been sent by her

home.

In the Victorlu era Great Bri-study anywhere between Bulgaria husband at Lee Gardens requesting tain was an example to the rest and Belgium the practical econo- certain articles of clothing eninierat-

mics by which the growing na- problema ed in the letter. Garments to the of the world. To-day she is total value of $30 were handed over warning. Long ago, a hont of or- tions are solving the

The first thing he will noto is but it was subsequently found that dinary men went out and made an the letter was false.

empire. They did it all on their own, without official help or coun- the tendency to legislate for the The mistress of a passenger bant tunance. They enrved dominions worker rather than the workless, it with amber of bility that Liberalism as a separate 7,30 p.m. yesterday, whilat her craft of the occans highwayя connect-father, than to shackle

has reported to the police that at out of the jungle, and they made to encourage individual initiative staka in his own every citizen $3 Liberals voted against the Govern- entity has about had its day. It was being rewed out of the Faumati ing, not dividing, the newly set-union limitations, and to give

Typhoon Shelter, it collided with the tied colonics. It is time that an every

taxation tu ment to secure the defeat of the will be surprising if it survives steam launch Chung Ching, the in- cther generation of ordinary man country by graded I'm learning a lot from you Johnson's Orchestra clause. Eleven in number, and in the next General Election as a far-tress and two passengers being thrown went out and saw for themselves which even the labourer contri-

and the water. They were rescued what is the position of England butes, ao that he is legitimately by other sampans, none the worse to-day in the eyes of the rest of cluding Sir John Simon, they tor to be reckoned with.

personally concerned in all for their experience. No darhage the world.

questions, of national expenditure. A Big bouquet for you

turned the scales against the pro- WVZLS lost by the

Here at home we are obsessed By the time the ordinary traveller by the necessity of appealing to returns to Dover he will have that, with the exception realised narrow margin of four votes.

an electorate which asmuch as the Bill embodying the Mr. Snowden's outspoken econ-ideas to the extent of imposing beer taught to consider the final of Russia, England is the only world which, As busily country in the clause was introduced as a Con-viny speech has roused Mr. J. L. tariff for revenue. Such a tariff results of its actions.

Garvin to another and

more would be a necessary first principle and as short-sightedly as ants we strich-wise, prefers to bury it eession to the Liberals; it is not

future

Govern legislation Instead of clearing surprising that the Labourites are vigorous plea for a National Gov. of any National Government, and are creating two vested interests, head in the sand of uneconomic

ernment in Britain.

He argues, there is one point worthy of con-ment will be forced to make new away the mess by the exercise of incensed at this turn in events, not without some justification, that sideration in this connexion. The concessions in order to gain the common sense.

pension- There is, of course, no question of if the rival parties are allowed to Conservatives will probably gain a over-increasing vote of

It is time that Wo stopped the Government resigning, but the go on for another two years with working majority at the next elec- ors and unemployed.

obsessed spending what we haven't got and They Like Russia, we are Prime Minister is evidently in the their conventional game of mutualtion whenever it may be.

WA have portion to our assets. achieve this illusion

It is time the nobodies rato mood to warn the Liberals that paralysis, they will do more injury will certainly attempt to introduce by a vision of equality, and to piling up liabilities out of all pro-

enna Protectionist system. Their spent since 1918 rather more than when they enter inte a co-operative to the common interest than anderstanding with the Govern-ever be repaired. Mr. Snowden, he tariff wall would be exposed to at-the amount devoted during the their voices lest, within our own ack and possible breaches at every previous four years to destrue- generation, the Empire' on which we depend for our position among ment, they are expected to give suys, spoke like a skeleton at the

the Great Powers reluctantly feast. Mr. Churchill in his subsequent election, and Industrytion. the Administration a reasonable brondeat comic vein was more like would be cast from pillar to post.

The power of production is the breaks away from a rotting con- measure of support. The abacaca jester at a funeral, while Mr.raining no opportunity to settle only valuable asset which any tre. For no great man has yet ours, had the courage to forget the vote of Labour members also contributed Lloyd George sought to out-banter down. If we must have a tariff in country possesses, and in to the Government defeat, but the the Conservative Yorick and at the next two or three years, and the producers are taxed beyond in the interests of the nation, and

裁 working in lieu of political issue is now apparently to be the same time rebuke the Snowden everything points that way. It any possibility of profit to support to preach hard thinking and hard skeleton. What, he asks, is the might just as well be approved by the dead-weight of bureaucracy

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have been miracle. reopened.

It is to be prosumed that the good of it all? Mr. Snowden in all concerned, and continue, varied and idleness.

ment of Prohibition. We have Liberals who voted against the But the mass of his

himself is honest and courageous, according to requirements, until amused by the American experi laughed at bootlegging as à veated party are Britain is herself again. clause belong to the Right Wing of against him and never can he make the Party, men whose outlook is his followers the Instrument of an closer to that of the Conservatives | economy campaign or of sound than to the views of the majority [national reorganisation in any res of their own faction. In principle, pect. Recent bye-elections show whole is University representation is an that the country as a

shockingly apathetic. The electors anachronism in £ democratic

ave no use for any of the parties. country, for which reason one More than half refuse to vote. would have expected all genuine They are tired of Labour, but while Liberals to have favoured its disillusioned, are anything but abolition. As we pointed out a enomoured of the alternative, a Government. The few days ago, the system does not Conservative operate in such a manner that re-only solution of the three-party sidents of a University select some muddle, therefore, is a coalition dur scholarly man to represent them ing the existing emergency. Mr. Garvin suggests Mr. Ramsay. Mac- in Parliament; the franchise Donald us Premjer, with""""Lord" held by all who have ever had a Reading, Mr. Lloyd George, Sir University education, whether John Simon, Mr. Baldwin, Lord they be clergymen, schoolmasters Beaverbrook, Mr. Churchill and Sir or those who have left the Old Oswald Mosley included in his Country and gone to other parts Cabinet The combination (a ro- of the Empire or even some for-markable mixture of antagonisme) would, he says, be formed on a de- oign land. All told, thoro are finite programme for a

Himited some 120,000 men and women soterm. Not to say for how limited qualified, and between them they a term-such a combination could have the privilege of returning no work together on any programme. fower than twelve members. Ox-Ignoring this point, however, there ford and Cambridge each select is another formidable hurdle to be twe. us also do the other Com-crossed. The tariff Issue. How it could be negotiated we are at loas bined English Universities, Scot-

to suggest. In the first place, the land gebe three seats, whilst Lon Conservativas would have to aban don, Wales and Belfast osch return don their obstinate and deluded one member. It is interesting to bigotry. In the second the Labour note that in the cases of Oxford, and Liberal leaders would be the Combined Universities and the obliged to cast aside their fiscal

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What to Do

With a Cold.

By Dr. Leonard Williams.

N international committee o

AN

medical men which has been sitting in Paris for the ex- press purpose of studying the common cold has issued a repert which contains some conclusions that at first sight may seem rather surprising.

"One is that men w with bald

heads are less liable to colds than those with a normal crop:.

are more. Bus- other, that blondes

ceptible than, brunettesge third, einco women have taken to light and loose clothing they are practically Immune from the trou Dięsome affections" of th

the upper air-passages which reduced their mothere to heaps of misery: re- gularly overy winter

Among his other revenges the Whirligig of Time has reversed the old Injunction which bade us to feed a cold and starve

& Taver to-day we feed fovera colds,

origin of

and starve-

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to be lost in the mistsN

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