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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1931.

PREMIER APPEALS FOR PATIENCE.

The most notable feature of Mr. Ramary MacDonald's Guildhall sprech was the steady oudercur rent of warning. the laying of em phasis upon the difficulties ahead rather than upon Any measures

SETTLE FAMILY

QUARRELS. COURT OF DOMESTIC RELATIONS.

PROPOSAL TO LAW SOCIETY.

ROBERT LYND on

Shaking Hands.

THE anti-handshakers have, Mr. Harris, though he bases his

of

mier himself complained that of-Provincial Conference of the Law the conclusion that" the time has tern Europeana the example of the

presentation of a kisa In their cinemas. Here, again, however, ono would like to know exactly how unhygienic the practice is, and how the new school of thought pro. poses to stop either it or hand- shaking.

-And Hang the Consequences,

In abstention to be voluntary or

the most important factors. Liko TO the Prime Minister, we appear to bo straying away from the point of the task before the National Government, but in the last analy- als, world problems are Britain's problems. No laating inprovement can be effected in conditions in Great Britain until outside condi-

The establishment of a Court o

those tlons change for the better. We

Domestic Kelations-for

Tnecured a powerful recruit in case against handshaking, 190 who cannot allord to pay for. ex- may experiment In tariffs In an, effort to hasten our own better- I port advice, or Rpply to the Higa Mr. Walter Harris; eminent in the influenced by considertions

Court-was suggested by

Bara. two worlds of travel and author hygiene, for when he turns to an- ment, but there must be extremely A. E. Appelbe, tue arst woman on ship. He is at present in the Far other popular form of salutation, delicate handling if the desired of the Roils, now in partnership with East, and his observations of life the kiss, he attacks it as "highly

at the and manners there have led him to feel is to be achieved. The Pre- her husband in London,

hag unhygienie," and holds up to Wes- Society.

arrived when the forms of saluta ine present state of matrimonial tion in use in countries boasting Japaneee who even forbid the re- forta to solve the world economic

was the superiority of Western civilisa crisis had been broken down by law and practice, ane suid,

other appailing, and in urgent need of tion should be revised." prohibitivo tariffs, among

remedy, especially in the case of

The Clammy Grasp. things. On his own statement, it the so-called working and riddio Gl Court

"There are," he declares, "Ori- would seem a remarkable contra-classes. For such, a

Reintions or Family ontal peoples who replace the Domestic

grove to be a solu-clammy grasp to join "the diction were Britain

Court-might

outstretched hands by raising the right hand to war of economic nationalism at this tion of the present dificulties.

The establishment of Family the brow, the lips, or to the heart. particular junctur

Courts, she contended, would prob-Cannot we greet a friend or speed ably prove to be an economical the parting guest without an ex- compulsory? Is a new League of measure, and effect a saving of change of perspiration and in warm, Hygienie Salutation to be formed, Robust Youth.

all the members of which will wear expenditure in other directions, surroundings not always clean1"

Certainly, when described in this Shake Hande 7" Or is the National badges announcing "We Don't Englishmen will note, with a by the Improvement it effected in certain amount of forgivable pride, the upbringing of future genera-fashion, handshaking

tions. It might also for itself.

pay

pretty unpleasant business. Who Government to be asked to make the report of Sir George Newman. At present people of small means would continue to shake hands if Reformed Salutation a plank in its the Chairman of the Medical De could only apply to the police or everybody he met had the moist programme, and shall we live to see

how palm of suasional court, and petty

Uriah Heep? But whoa time when the police will have partment of the Board of Educa-was anyone to ascertain the true can number even two Uriah Heeps instructions to set traps for hand- shakora as they used to set traps records the greater facts with a garrulous wife in the among his acquaintance? Lian, which

for motorists who exceeded the box and a tongue-tied husband the robustness and

Inercased below the dock.

speed limit? height of the average normal child i born in England since 1907. Know that the nation's young men are developing into a more solid race is not only gratifying, but is definite ovidance of the rapidly im- proving hygenic conditions under

Equal rights should be given to

of

seems A

The truth la, the anti-hand- abakers, if they are to succeed, will have to give up the clammy grasp" argument and return to

know too little

opposite.

The Mlerable Greeting,

71-

moat

If we do I prophesy that we shall also see the organisation on a large

But I am afraid this is all a

shaking hands and hanging the dream. We shall go on no we are,

consequences.

Reckless, you may think; but one has to be reckless about something. And what is there one can moro safely be reckless about in this perilous world than shaking hands?

PHIPPS welcomes

Equal Rights for Husband. To A Bill to establish such Courts

had been crowded-out Mrs. Ap- the older argument that hand-scale of secret handshaking parties, pelbe pointed out, and if it were shaking is unhygienic. Here they at which every guest will be expect

ed to shake hands with his host the redrafted she thought it should

strong ground, like far-reaching. made more

There on

people who any that ten-drinking leaving. The feeling that Scotland.

and hostess on arriving and before be ma judisdiction of the Court should or potato-enting or salt is njurs Yard men may be present in dis- extend to all the cases at present cus. If they assert these things, gulse will make functions of the dealt with under the Married

exciting, and which the men and women of to- / Women's Summary Jurisdiction we need not believe them, but we kind all the more

cannot disprove them. And, if any

even the clammiest graan will pro- Acts, the Bastardy Acts, the Adop- one asseris that I cannot shake morrow are now being reared.tion Act, and the Guardianship of haris with a friend without get-duce a thril enthusiastically wel-

comed. Sir George Newman in testifying Infants Acts. The Court should ting my hand covered with gorms to this, pays a warm tribute to have power to try questions aria of various kinds,

ing under the Married Women'a parents, whose deeper sense of Property Act in cases not exceed of Ferms to be able to prove the responsibility in the matter of the ing £100. health and welfare of their child- ren, has contributed in no small easure to such a satisfactory re- The result of this research port. work by Sir George, la of special interest to Hongkong, for it is a proposed for improving the situa-recognised fact, that the average reared in the tint. In short, the Prime Minister English child, atraipistered a hemithy corrective. Colony, is, as a rule, taller and Enthusiasm for the National Gor-sturdier than his vis-a-vis at Home. Climatic conditions, plus of course, are the the care of the parents, chief reasons attributed for the

Britons never, never, will do anything. That has been the difference, and a very interesting of a stumbling block, as I feel that become vehement in the demand for well. trend of thought in some quarters, medical study offers in an explora- separations are generally a bad its suppression while political and be also-rans,

thing, and if the grounds for social leaders continue to thrive on tional supremacy in the matter of

The latest indication of the na Unfortunately, the solution of the tion of the possibility of some-

divorce were altered, I would give it. troubles which beset Great Britain, what similar causas having begun to the Family Court the power to

And even if handshaking were speed is the wot derful average ect station and the world in general, at the to make an effect upon the child dissolve a marriage where, in clearly proved to be unhygienic, we up by the Underground present time, is not to be found in population of England. But it is the opinion of the Court, this was might still be able to counter its escalator at Highgate. North Lan- the course most beneficial to the

don, perlls by wearing hygienie gloves

It gives une a feeling of uplift soaked in a powerful disinfectant. change may throw open the door generation in the Orient that this to progress along the right lines, superior and improving physical said that if magistrates were a tract from the amenities of social minute, thie

little more careful not to make life, and, no doubt, in the course of covers 150ft., which represents a but that is all. Immediate allevin- condition can be claimed. The orders so quickly-possibly so as titno, when handshaking had ceased speed half as great again as that of, to he rid of the parties-women to be a perit as a result of these of any other escalator in London. tion of the situation is clearly im-Japanese, primarily because

would not be so prone to rush off measures, a new school of thought The record-breaker is on Ab- psible. The restoration of the their increasing participation in to the Court at the least imagined would arise which would raise a solutely standard unaupercharged provocation, anfe full of separa-

scare about the peril of wearing model in full "rush-hour"

to have ernment seems

carried. many people away, With such a vat majority. it should be able to

men. that was to say a man should An American lady sore time ago be able to obtain a aummons declared that hondshaki ig is near against his wife if she desertedly as dangerous as kissing, and it

home. him or neglected his

oria only a few years since the leader otherwise did not perform her part of a Fascial organisation for boys

A forhadu handshaking 05 of the marriage relationship. wife should not be entitled to hygienic, declaring that it Is "the malatenance if, in the opinion of easiest and therefore the the Court, she was neglecting her dangerous vehicle of every form of

carrying infection." humè or otherwise, not

If that in realy so, however, how tionship.

Is It that rime Ministers and all put her part of the marriage rela- "My idea of the Family Court,"

i with a thousand guests In the she concluded, "is that it should who at times have to shake hands

a friendly Court. while having the necessary powers being perpetually carried all to her premises. She now rules not be essentially

course of a single evening are not Britannia (Ltd.) hus enlarged lo enforce its orders. The pre hospital? I am no bigot in favour only the waves, but the land and air. (sent low of divorce is agmewhat of handshaking, but neither can I

SPEED RECORDS

ON ESCALATORS.

a mere change of government. The not only for the British younger par w. G. Weller, of Bromley. These might at first seem to de- to realise that, in a measured

Mr.

"I have .

again.

any milk at all.

remarkable machine

trim.

But the Highgate experts are

country's' prosperity presents afield sports and physical exercises, problem which will keep the ener-Innd accondarily as a result of ation agreements only," he added. Rloves. And then we should throw Only it has a slightly larger power gies, and resources of Mr. Ramsay revolution in their sitting habits, and a clerk whose time is taken our gloves away and begin all over output than the old design. MacDonald's "team of experts" con- are fast developing into a race of un almost exclusively in dealing This is how things happen, as, not satisfied with the present stantly, engaged for many months taller, healthier and stronger indi- with the women who came in on for instance, when the peril of figure of approximately 154 miles theso mattera. Verv often they bolled milk succeeded the peril of per hour. They propose to push to come and doubtless it was to viduals. Height does not, of course, come with Imaginary grievances.unboiled milk, only to be succeeded the record up to the staggering rate impress this point upon the country | always represent

and prodded or stirred up by relations in time by the perli of drinking of 180ft. por minuto, or over 2 health that the Prime Minister adopted his vigour.

miles per hour. Many children do what in-law." rather depressing tone.

is known as "overgrow" them- It is just as well, in any event,selves, at a time. when gradual that the leaders of Britain's gov-development is essential. but it ernment to-day should carry on can be safely taken that a nation the tradition established by Mr.which has, behind it a race of tall, Snowden as National Chancellor in well built, physically and mentally | August last, of stating unpleasant sound young men, has much for facts bluntly. Mr. Ramaay Mac-which to be thankful. The war Donald gives warning of the posid much to take away the fowar sible worldwide reactions in Feb-

of England's manhood, but, if Sir ruary which ends the so-called

George Newman is right, aho is "atandstill agreement" by which

well on the way again to restor- private creditors

Germany of

Ing, and even surpassing, her agreed to postpone their claims

glorious youth of 1914. upon the country for six months, until, that is, February 29. It is an issue which cannot be allowed

to lle fallow until due date. What

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THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.

over is decided upon must have a material effect upon the interna- tional banking system, which has airendy received such a severe buf- The following cable at the elono! feting that reconstruction must in. of the sugar market yesterday has

been received by Menara. Pon-! volve considerable modifications.treath and Co. The probabilities are that a further renewal will be agreed upon, even though this course BnYourA of avoiding an issue which must be thrashed out to the full at some time in the very near future. Bound up therewith in the problem of war debts and reparatione, in which mattor the attitude of France, and Franco-German understanding are

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"You'd better come back in now, or Pil be mad":

The Landing Problem. Elaborate bench-testa and hush. hush experiments are being con- ducted to see whether average escalator-usera can adapt them- selves to the increased landing- speed. The take off is not so diff- cult, but a high degree of skill is necessary for reconnecting with Mother Earth.

Whatever the outcome of the escalating Highgate experiments, has received a tremendous filip. It has had its ups and downs, but it really looks now as it nothing can prevent it from taking Its place as a national sport.

All, it needs now is the stimulus of competition. An escalator T.T. should be frstituted, open to all bona fide

ide moving stairs (Funicu lars would, of course be barred) and a handsome trophy, depicting Ulysses Standing on the Right So That Others May Pass, offered an- nually to the winner.

The fortnightly moeting of the Sanitary Board yesterday was davoid of any business beyond routine mat-,. tors, the only item out of the ordinary being a minute by the President rela-. tive to the boundaries of health dia tricts in. Hongkong and Kowloon. After members, had concurred in the rodistribution of theso various arcos' tho, moeting adjourned." There_wors present the President (Mr. G. E. Sayer), Hon. Mr. Harold T. Creasy (Director of Public Works), Dr. G. W. Pope (Modical, Officer of Health).Dr.au R. A. de Castro. Busto, and lesere. Wong Kwong-tin, T.N. Chau, I, CAF. Bellamy and Mr. J. H. Gellar, (Secretary).