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SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1931.

THE MOSLEY REVOLT.

The chagrin felt by Labouritest over the Conservative victory in the by-election at Ashton-under Lyne, caused by the Mosleyites splifting the vote, is understand jable, The Conservables must have

4 in revisely the same schen the appearance of an Empire Crusader at 1sBarton made a gift of the seat to Latent. These in- teraad splits in political parties are

mord

dwelling-place of a new party. Aa one writer has well wald, the most important effect of the Mos- loy secession may well be its re- action on the internal polities of

2. 1931.

DAY

BY DAY

HOW

WOULD YOU DE IF. HE the Labour Party itself. For, in WHICH IS THE TOP OF JUDGMENT, face of what has happened. the son BUT JUNGE YOU AS YOU ARE? great miss of discontent within |--Shakespeare. the ranks of the Labour Party--

The rainfall register at the Botanic

Gardens during April toinlled 8.0 HY

W inches, the highest bring 1.32 inches

at the 19th.

11 Excellency the Governor. has the mass of those who have been appointed Mr. Lam Heung-lun to be n aptly called the "Loyal Grousers" Justive of the Peace, --will probably see the need 10 come together, and to make al ance their loyalty and their weight felt in the counsels of the party. They will make it clear that there is no thought in their minds of disloyalty:aut they will also convey to those in high places their keen sense of the danger that has to be met-the danger that, unless the Govern-

Recension or of

diora

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I TRY TO BE GOOD.

By BEVERLEY NCIHOLS.

be good? Every day { The other day I drove a young some mighty man gives us girl home from a party to which drugged. some new and thoroughly depress. had been reluctantly ing reason for doubting our im-She was attractive in an irritating way, very young Indeel, crudely vivacious.

It in notified that Sir Joseph Hors-mortality. ford, Kemp, K., C.R.E., K.C., reaunted Every day we are being inform

We sat in the dining room and thty as Chief Justlee of the Supremeed that when

we di We are

She accompanied never ato peaches. Court on 25th April,

anuffed out like tapers,

whisky and noeach pench with 14 again to be Ht. There

hell, suda. I drank barley water. The A bankruptcy notification states heaven, they say, and a

following dialogue, as far as 1 that a final dividend of $0.50 per contund, therefore, no reward and

can remember it, then took place:. has been declared in the ene of Le punishment.

She: You're awfully water-

Tue-lies, of 65, Wing Lok Street East. Why indeed? Every day

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Sanitary Services.

If I Had a Son.

no

We

She fut at all perturbed): It won to-night, all right. Did you see Bertie?

Mes not only saw

him.

He

Far

She: He's such a divine

I had a son would not 11 is notified that at the expiration tempt to lay down any rules of fell on me. of three months Bio Chinese World conduct for him on religious linsa, Tour Company, Limited will, unte would not take him to a church when he's tight. I adore Bertie. crure is shown to the contrary, belo poim to the pale faers of thes struck off the register and the run pany will be dissolves).

1 evidences of appalling In-wageny to night, aren't you?

Me: I have to work in the ment's internal policy becomes The postage on printed papers from justice, to nations as well as to marning. Besides, I don't

like more Hongkong for Chino and Macro has individuals, anel

pouches under the eyes. constructive

now bren altered to two cents, per

The world, often enough, seemi She:

I've Meaning that

και Socialist, its following in the count | each "two

part of two

your-them? try will melt, away. The Governounces, and four cents to all other drenched in cruelty. You

self know at least one person of Me: You will have very soon. destigations.

whom you have said, "She is the It seems rather silly to cover your ment has still at to back a great

བ་ fund of working-class loyalty and His Excellency the Governor has Houl of goodness, and yet she has face in cold cream every night pleased to appoint Dr. D. J. had such a terrible life. Why do while you fill your Inside with

things happiares. olectoral support.

to alcohol. The alcohol always wins. Joyally been

Valentine, M.C., M.B., B.S. (Lond.), those awful must receive its dividend of hope | DPB., B.T.M. and H. to net as her?**

Director #f Medical and | and inspiration. if its value is not Dematy

the fristered away The Gov- rnment any reply, fest, that the great difficulties which ventrout it commonly anderestimated by Its rities and, secondly, that its triumphs in the international teid and its handling of Indian affairs are gond atul sutleient reasons for Stetention of allice. Both plene are fair, but no present-day Gov. ernment can live on its interna- tional olicy alone; and it is vain to burke the fet that, in home politims, the Government's prestige has been badly damaged, not by the action of Lords or Liberals in rejecting its meas amending of sure, but by its own weaknesses. and hesitationa,

also in make

Per heard lots of people

She: What do you mean? Me: It's the usual period of a liar's

saints, toliin him that one day, say that for six months. if he were goil, he would share!

heir rawngil.

The Gavette notifing that satisfie

popularity. People adore Instead, i would take him to a

little while. They love tory proof of the appointment of Mr. Arthur Ritzi as President is this Bloomsbury party and point to the him for a Clary of the Base Evangelical pale inces of the persons there his little tit-bits, until he finds a Missing Society has been placed in assembled, and tell him that it particularly malicious tit-bit to hands of Itis Excellency the Governor, he were "bad" it is a vayne, oid-tell about themselves. Then they ushimmed word, but we can all fit iseover that Bertie is rather a

he would bore-liars are, you know. Bis Excellency the Governor has our own meaning to, i

She yawning): Not as bad as Appointed, provisionally and subject share their punishment.

to His Majesty's pleasure, the Hon. I hope I am not ally or eviunge-you, Mr. C. G. S. Markin to be temporarily Katie about parties, i have been

Me: Perhaps not. Next time

na Cuofficial Mecaber of the Executive to lots of delightful ones. Par you see Bertie you must get him Council, in the plane of Mr. J. Owen;

few rare spirits, and deffJohn, it was the success of the Hughes, and pending the return loties in spring, with open windows,tu tell you his atory about you and

evening. of the Codony of Sir Henry Pollock, K., and

and the tinkle rious drinks.

thunderous K.C.

ice blending with the tinkle of an Etude by Albeniz,

She: pause).

What? LA

Me : I denied the story, of

11s Excellency De Guvernor has But I have been to others which appointed Mr. Edwin Taylor to act seem to me, quite boringly wicked course, as Colonial Treasurer, Collector oft is to those that i would take. Stamp Reverie, and

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Assessor of

nearest

curi-

She (snappily): Well, you needn't have done. It was per-

Me: I know.

Why did you 'deny it,

Me: I didn't want you to get reputation of being a bore. the

She: I entirely full to under- that you stand. If you'd said wanted to save me from getting the reputation of a

Thus the recent discussions and sesions will have been salutary

their effect is t merely to Rates, and to be the Commissioner my son. They are the

to carry out the provisions of the approach to hell that we shall ever fectly true.

The

air is grey Shy: close up the ranks of those who Estate Duty Ordinance, during the see on earth. remain but

leave of Mr. C. Mel with cigarette smoke and dizzy then? The absence

Messer, OH. or until further or with scandal. Through the

ous, sinister gloom fit creatures. leaders of the Labour Party more ders.

who are indeed damned, not by sensitive to legitimate criticism from their supporters,

The fifty-eighth ordinary yearly God or man but by themselves, and the

Union Insurance They are promiscuous in their meeting of the

alcohol latter more determined to press Society of Canton, lad, the sixty-love affairs, drugged by

of clear rond ordinary yearly meeting of the and fatigue, incapable for a constructive home policy.

China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., and thought, drifting, drifting, drift- lover, but of the tritish Traders' Insurance Co.,

never to friend. and social conditions are, certainly, will be held on Friday, May 29, the worst of all possible policies is at 11 m, 11.45 a.m. and 11.20 nm. Question of Restraint. simply to how our heads before respectively. Die storm. Moreover, there is n

fin no sense fruitful of good results / Fur, difficult as rurrent economic the sixty-fth ordinary yearly meetinging--from lover to

is

when, as in the two justanres impler malier. vandilate wins minority vote. The consequenze that the bulk of the electorate get To tepresentation in Parliament; all that the revolters succeed in do- ing is to injure the Party front which they have seeded and f1 in a candidate far removed in their own politieni beliefs.

i

evidence that the rent obstacle to would get more silver than it would a forward economic

policy is in know what to do with by offering four shillings for an ounce. More Parliament, or thai a majority

over, Mr. Meyer, Governor of the could not be secured for such tolley in the House of Commons,

Me: It's the same thing. Don't makes you see? Any girl who herself as cheap as you're making yourself becomes a bore.

She (with furious sweetness); Darling, you're at your very best That is why I would wish to beat this hour.

like

Me: Quite. She becomes a he "good"--to avoid becoming

property, that. Really. It is all a question because she's common

and that's the dullest thing on of restraint.

Aristotle summed it up long ago earth. One wants to "culliver" his definition of "The good one's own "Jardin." One doesn't life," Aristotle was An

much want to pick up pieces of paper | Federal Reserve Bank of America, wiser than most of the moderne in the park.

discloses that his talks with Mr. He realiserl that those who live She: Meaning that I'm like a Montauru Norman resulted in agree-for the senses must cherish their piece of paper in the park? ment that silver should be treated senges,

They must regard their bodies Boring Wickedness, When we come to consider the

only as a commodity, their solution Mr. J. F. Darling's proposals for of the world currency problem in-as temples, to be kept clean and

alert Lay Mosley revolt, we find that it has

perpetual service. It money volving the adoption by all coun-were better far if you were trying attracted very little support from the solation of the great

tangle are cropping up so frequent tries of gold standard. The to inluence a modern of the Labar the ranks There are doubtless thousands of that his gospel must be gaining necessity for an equilibrium of gold son who was "you wrong

adherents. This is not particular-and silver is not acknowledged in speak in the language of Aristo

than in the language-say, of Dr. who Labour supportérs

ly because sympathy is fell for these quarters, and it would be un-Arnold. Arnold thought he knew! sympathise with this or that fea-Bangkang's financial plight. or wise therefore to place faith in the his Aristotle, but he was grievous ture of the Mosley programme, but China's loss of purchasing power, select few who see eye to eye with jy mistaken."

| Dialogue alumat none utside the retinue of but because of their reactions upon Mr. Darling.

active

Party,

Silver-Gold Ratio.

the self-chosen leader seems dis-the industrial situation elsewhere. posed to follow him into the wilder-Silver stabilisation is looked upon

In certain quarters as the speediest news. The original Mosley group way out of the trade depression. of dissident M.P.'s hus willed away. The gold standard has become un- price us a and, with one exception, not one stable, its increasel Trade Unionist in the Commons has commodity, having destroyed the nccepted Sir Oswald's call. In the foundations of all others commodi- ties. In the guaranteeing of silver constituencies

by represented Mosleyites, repudiation by the local prices, advocated by Mr. Darling, and supported by Mr. Meighon, the | Labour Parties has been prompt and Canadian politician, in seen the one

decisive. Lady Cynthia appears certain way of getting trade moving | to be alone in regarding as "check again. The plan, briefly, envianges and humbug" the demand That the purchase of gold and silver by those who resign from the oucial British Empire Bank-it could, Labour Party should also resign of course, be a World Bank-at a fixed price, the ratio proposed being. itg under the seats they won auspices. The chief charge, that 20 to 1. which would, give silver a value of, roughly, 4/- an ounce)", can be made against the Mosley The Hongkong dollar, if allied with group is that they have put for-silver, would, under the scheme, ba ward an emergency programme worth more than three times 10- Their day's quotation. Were there a re- and, indeed, nothing else. weaknessca are,

first, that they souable chance of the adoption of appear to have no constructive the programme outlined by Mr. Darling, we should have to recom- vinton boyand the emergency, and mand our Currency Miasion to give to have devised their Immediate the lead by arranging for the

without any progranime

clear stabilisation of the Horigkong dollar foresight of its longer-run effects; on the basis of a 20-1 ratio of silver and secondly, that, instead of porto gold. There is, however, little doubt that America has got the slating and pressing continuously gold mentality, and no real help eni for a bolder policy within the be expected from this source. Mr. Labour Party, they have fallen so Darling contends that the British in love with their own schemes Empire could manage the manipula- as to erect a loose framework of tion unaided, but there is rather a the auspicion that the proposed Bank temporary expedients into

it

RES V. D. PAYA

"Play something sentimental."

per.

{"

I can't remember how the diu- legue ended, I know, however, that let myself out. I wrote it down to be because it seemed to me typical of a great many dialogues which I have had recently.

And though it may sound un- ethical, and fur from elevating. I am forced to admit that I have al- ways attacked "wickedness" an the ground that it was boring. I love the sensations that my body can give me the bite of wind on my face, the keen exquisite plen 60re of falling drowsily and healthily to sleep. I love the of the battle of

harn ex argument is clear and

Wits, when

concise. I love the ultimate beauties of human contact. In- deed, let na put it like this, for my own amusement 1 try to be "good."

Well, perhaps the "wicked" aro wicked for their own amusement too. That may be, But I am forced to observe that they are seldom amusing.

PHIPPS dreams of

MOTOR.CARS RUN. ON RAINBOWS.

T

THE time is a year hence, and Olde Worlda broken

the scene -on

Village. The silence is

only by the hooting of an owl and Jan-owner-driver. The owl doth to the moon complain and so deth the owner-driver to the

garago proprietor, who eventually ans wers the clarion.

"Take your time, won't you? I want some juice."

"Yes, sir. Wot kind."

"I think I'll have some orange." "Yes; sir. Ere, Jake, couple o' gallons of orange jules for this Rent."

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