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naturally been aggravated by Eng- land's departure from the gold standard. It is possible, of cou 180, that the collapse of sterling will hasten international currency ro form, and Germany would be one of the countries to gain from stick a reform. But this hope will not bo realized in a hurry; and mean- time German foreign trade has no similar relief mensimen which could counterbalance the effects of the drop in sterling. It must be re- membered that Germany's native the foreign-trade balance, which Institute for
Trade Studying Fluctuntions recently estimated at 2,500,000,000 Lo 3,000,000,000 marks in 1931, has hitherto been the great lever for setting the Ger- man balance of foreign payments. in order. Hut at present Britain and the other new paper-currency countries are more powerful com- petitors against Germany in export trade while at the same time the | depreciation of their currencies operates in some degree as an in- visible protective tariff, hindering their import trade, in which Ger- many has bad a very large share. Germany can overcome this foreign advantage only if she singereds in her own price level by reducing
direct pressure.
There is the further trouble that the Instability of the pond will offer considerable obstacles to the
IF YOU LIVED IN RUSSIA
THE TOPSY =TURVY LAND OF THE SOVIETS
AS SEEN BY, JULIA BLANSHARD
ЗАПИСЬ:
DAY BY DAY
NOTHING IS MORE STRIKING IN MODERN PARLIAMENTARY LIFE THAN THE GROWING NEGLECT OF THE
J
Answer a few formal questions, show your union card, sign book, pay a dollar to the clerk-and you are married in Soviet Russia. Above, two couples getting married at a government bureau; right, a Red anldier and his bride.
financing of Germany's foreign |PAST GREAT ISSUES ARE MOOTED If you got tired of your wife in This freedom does not mean
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lander return. to the Culony by the P. and O. Hoer Rajputana to-day.
tracke.
reimburse- The English ment credits, by means of which a considerable part if Germany's im port unl export WIN formerly financed, will in future not be avail- ate to the old extent; and to-day when foreign short-term credits are being everywhere reduced it will not be easy to replace the lost English ereifts with American French. These are some factors which anxiety
the over decline of the pound.
explain
recent
A short memorial service for the) late Sir Newton Stabb will be held in St. John's Cathedral nt 6 pm.
orto-day.
of the
Messrs. Lane. Crawford. Lad,, have
inte
her
for
3.
it. are not
out.
BY MEN IGNORANT DF, OR IGNORING, Russin-
that the government doca not THEIR HISTORICAL, ORGIN. YOUNG You could divorce
more punish men for irresponsible rein- MEMBERS DISCUSS WEIGHTY PRO-easily, more quickly 1214 more tions. Ivan S-found this BLEMS WITH NO STUDY SAVE THAT cheaply than you could renew Twice last summer Ivan had per- OF OMNISCIENCE.--Disraeli,
your
automobile Icense in Munded ignorant young peasants Amerien. And she could do the from villages to marry him and
10 same
yout
then left them after two days. The You would not need a lawyer or third girl he registered with re- witnesses. Nobody would ak ported him when he falled to show you for "grounds."
No
newspapers would oven men- Ivan was tracked to his depart- tion the fact of your separation. ment store job. He is now Gory- There would be no public gossiping a term in prison.
For Russia considers divorce so marriage vows in Russia and But even if men and women take strictly persuna! afair. There not even a court German issued a handy little desk calendar You merely step was" (the think..
not askest to promise
single the Institution hasn't gone heavy for 1938 in the fumilar red and gold bureau of vital statisties) and on the rocks, apparently. Russia "write yourself out," as they call has 12.6 marriages to every 1,000 the proceedings in Russin.
people, no against America's 10.141. This matter-of-factness extends In Moscow the Zags bureau head to all affalen об лек. Whereas the told me there was practically one Germans have made colonies for divorce to every two
...marriages, unbathers, in Russla men and wo- which almost doubles our Reno. men
bathe nude anywhere they But down in the smaller towns and Monsieur Alphouse. Hund, the want to do so, in the most unself in the villages there are not more manager of the St. Francis Hotel.conscious manner. They would be than one in 10. In Rostov the left to-day by the Sulvicken for surprised at the idea of having to Zags bureaut registora 200-250 A short health-trip to French Inde gre to some special place to strip! marringes month and divorces
Soviet Russia has revolutionized from
40-160. aiandards
forms then to love and marsi legiti-costs one rouble more. The extra
It costs not of much importance in rela- ($3.50) to got in divorce. To you you seven roubles marriage. igo without your mate to get it, it Every child in
Approaching the Great. Souvenir hunters, according to newspaper reports have already begun to descend of the birth-
Inte place of the
Mr. Thomas Ellison. Bark has been tom from trees about the house in which the Inventor was born, and all kinds
ивия
frame of former years.
Mr. Tarte 1. Johnson. t the editorial staff of the Denver Post, in visiting Hongkong at present in the course of a world tour.
China.
After
sub-
+
in
one
at lose objects have been carried business at the Tajmahal Silk Store, In order to cope with the increased As was intimuted in a message away. Prescatly, no doubt, there during the present special "sale the from Berlin a few days ago, the will be souvenirs
for sale, and store will remain open until 2.30 pm. mate, whether his father and mo-charge in to pay for sending a silp
each night. fall in the value of sterling is caus passing motorists will stop to be
ther are married or not. Adultery is not a
notify him that he no longer photographed. and the
legal crime. This does Is married to you. |ing very eositlerable concern
Kwok Chung-kwai, aged 28, not dreary and insane round will be enolie living at No. 1, Sheung On recklessness or promiscuity in sex takes longer than 20 minutes, You
not meant that there is complete
Registering a divorce seldom Germany. Many people will
prin full swing. Just how any man Lane, Hunghom. yesterday attempted relations: bably wonder why, in the cir-
suicide in n complicated way. in his senses can be gratified to in about a pint of Chinese the government
means It simply
that can get married much more quick- cumstances, Germany does not fil-possess a bit of bark from a tree berhat inedicine he took three mouth-
as a matter of Kards "Concern.)
such lite ly, and the cost is but $1.
Sitting in a Zaga bureau low Britain's exomple, and go of because it grew by the house fuls of lime water. He was
There is no Mann Act to Moscow for an hour one day, i the gold standard.
where Edison was born is a triflesequently conveyed to the Kowloon an unmarried young couple saw three couples married, several
hard to understand. But this hun- Hospital.
Laking a boat trip down the Volga. divorced, two births registered and other countries have done. One
No sex gossip ever is printed in one death recorded. It ger for trival mementoes of the retson is that under the
Was i Yoning great is an old one. Plan, Germany has a legal obliga- | presses, however. clumsily and
and it ex tion forbidding her to abandon gold cheaply, a real need. Human payments one-sidedly. Indejern., xrentness is not such a Common dently of that, owing to the fact thing that we can calmly pasa by that Germany's whole external defy the places where it has moved. of 25,500,000,000 marks is payable The ordinary mortal for all his ocensional braggadorio, is a very in foreign currencies, while a great humble sort of person. He knows. part of the internal debt is on a as well as myone else, the great- gold basis, Germany would lose allness of the gulf which separates the advantages which QUINA
to
him frum an Edison. And so, when he gets a chance to touch the skirts of greatness, so to speak, he takes it; and he takes home a bl
parently derivable from going over A paper currency. Another point to be remembered is that of bark, or a banal anapshot, or whereas England's debts are mainly some similar trinket, not because In pounds, Germany's debts are not his soul is cheap and undis- only in pounds but also in dollars, criminating but because he feels. Swiss francs, Dutch gulden and he must have some tangible re- |other currencies. The adoption of minder that he was once in the
a paper-mark currency would not
vicinity of
whose head touched the stars. In the regular reduce the burden of these debts; course of events we get little to on the contrary, the burden would bolster our self-esteem. Signs of be increased,
greatness are rare, both in our- Apart, however, from these selves and in our neighbours; and considerations
the daily record of human silliness paper #1
and greed is not apt to be inspir rency would not give any impetus
Ing. When therefore, we bump
cur-
A NIN
to German export and Industrial against the earthly trappings of a activity, Her internal production man who was truly admirable, our | cost items, such as wages and taxes, impulse is to take something— would at once adapt themselves to anything, even a pebble or a bit of the carrency depreciation, and her old cloth-us a keepsake. It is
something more than price level would rise; and there.
a visible sign that we have seen no sights. with, in accord with experience of is a talisman by which we can former inflation times, the foreign reassure ourselves that the race. exchange value of her currency to which we belong can, on occa- would be further influenced un-sion, produce notable. personali-
ties. favourably. Although, or rather because, Germany remains fettarod
The RMS Empress of Russia to the gold standard, and must re-
(from Vancouver via ports) le duo main fettered unless she violently here at 7 am on the 11th inst, and will borth at Kowloon Wharf. She
repudiates her gold debts, her will leave for Manila at 5 p.m. on the eritics?
economic condition" hae | Akme day,
"free union/marriage or divorce in
The coxswain of the motor boat Wofany newspaper. No one is ostra-slow day, the marriage clerk told Comdr. Hute, at the Marine Court this cans consider conventional sex Sang was charged before the Hon. cized for
for violating what Ameri ine.
There is
no ceremony about ring, with having made fast his standards, Many men and
Russia. bant to the s.8. Mei Nam which was live together in
There is nothing.about the under was in the harbour
ap- on never marrying each other but pearance of n Zaga bureau to sug December 1. On admitting the bringing up their children like the gest it. The three I saw were all charge, accused was fined $50, or, in most prosaic married
Town. default, two weeks' imprisonment.
couple in
"Can you make that letter of recommendation"road an"if,
“I just up and quit hörd" instead of-
small office rooms, each with four separate desks, for birth, deaths, marriage and divorce. Behind ench table sat a'clerk, moat, of them girls of high school age.
*
**
*
The Arst couple who came in to got married the first afternoon I visited were textile workers. The young girl wore a shawl over her head. The boy was drossed In "store clothes" and a new visored cup which he kept on.
"Are You
relatives?" "No."
"Are you both healthy?" "Yes." 30 ran the few questions. and answers.
She was 20, ho-23. Neither had been married before. Both showed their union cards which where they worked, where they lived
ived. She would move into
told
his room. Both signed on the dotted Be three times once for the register book, once for a receipt for her and once for a receipt for him. Sho took hor receipt the clerk handed her and. lumbered out. He followed. Ten minutes from single state to wed- ded!
The next marriago took much longer to register. Both were so gay and laughed so much.
What name do you want?" She kept
har own She could have taken him. He could have taken hors. She refused the marriage- receipt, shrugged her shoulders and said, Is recorded in my
book."
and they faced each other. The He took his receipt
"Well, it is finished tossed her head. "Yos,
It'
dead
now," he agreed, smiling tossingly. They went off arm in arm. - Căti- | plan still can marry with the old church ceremony, but In Moscow they rarely do,EFERANS
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