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THE

WORLD'S WORST.

By MARY BORDEN.

bust

The martyr type is perhaps the I lived with one once for

A keen and observant supporter of the National Labour Party Iden

NCE I sat next to n Cabinet jaffairs who always knows what Ho everyone ought to do. I must add Minister at luncheon. nuts forward the view that political

18 LIKELY TO BECOME

who was in a hurry to get back the highly respectable, very pro- i controversy in the near future is likely to centro round what may be ACRIMONIOUS. NO SMOKER WANTH called "Socialism from above." We TO DROP 8 CIGAR, AND THEREFORE to his office. He excused himself per slave driver, the woman

SOOTHES OUR ing a deputation of good women or jewels, whose blood curdies at have already had "Socialism from AVOIDS BORILY MOVEMENTS. BE to his hostess, saying, "I'm receive never has enough money, clothes, who want to talk to me about bad the thought of receiving presents

from any man but her husband.. below," in the factory inspetor,

womon."

for her to He meant, of course, by "bad and who relentlessly driven him on the national aelwolinaster, and the like. Indeed, the pattern to which

women" what the phrase usually to make more money monne; and by "good women" the spend, and. despises him if he the.controlling bodies of the future

and doesn't; fools she has wasted her. matrons ao-called virtuous seem likely to approximate has

spinstera who consider the other self on a fallure; takes on the air

of a martyr. already been shown in the public'

The forthcoming wedding is an- danger to society.

I am not habitually very in- utility corporation. Labour's new

The Martyr. Concession, role will have to be the Intelligentnounced of Mr. Luiz Edwanlo de

Leonor terested in "bad women," direction of national economic life Sousa, No. 75a, British

Shameen, Canton, to Blan

myself the deputation awaiting worst.

of six weeks. She was little and old In the interest of the nation, not Maria Kavier, No. 28, Granville Road, when he had gone. I pictured to

him. I imagined the faces only miner, docker and railwayman. Kowloon.

thone agitated, protesting women and frail. She was very religious; but teachers and clergymen, civil

Was vory Whilst at work at the Hongkong who hail constituted themselveal the sins of the world brake her servants, officers, and professions! VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED men, with the vast army of saluri Hotel Garago in Stubbs Road, Yester the guardians of our morals. They heart. Her manner

had two of the fingers on his left hand were stern and peevish and sour, gentle and hesitant, her voice very vd employees of industry and com- merce-in a word Keir Hardie's badly crushed by an iron whect fail-sappointed and jealous; sanc-saft, her eyes inexpressibly and.

evil the Government Civil Hospital where had a fanntic light in their eyes, as if a breath of air would blow "all who render sofal service"-ing on his hand. He was taken to timonious and sentimental; Rome She looked as if she lived on air. and her away or a harsh word kill in others gleamed an

her, the injury was treated.

Kreedy curiosity.

She had Imposed upon her housD= must be vitally concerned. political alignment of the future

Contemplating them I shudder- will most likely be, not the struggle which Marx prophesied of haves usainst have-nots, but of that vast majority of the nation which lives kef service" by "rendering ngainst those whom Keir Hardie call called "parasites" and others "prufiteers." The struggle which

foresaw- the pioneers dimly

ross the inevitable interval the effort fur extended social ser- vices-seems shartly to begin.

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The

Frank Crumit. Hongkong Telegraph.

Lawrence Tibbett.

B-6061 "You can't stop me from loving you"

Ambrose Orch.

1531 "Dancing Virgins of Delphi"

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Noel Coward. (Cochran's 1931 Revue)

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TUESDAY, MAR. 22, 1932.

LABOUR'S FUTURE.

The

day, one of the workmen, Ini Kwang,

for the November et, and I asked myself "What, hold the fiction that her life was Ob- one long martyrdom, that she never The ass fist

of the Institution ofafter all, is a bad woman?

bad cribable torments from sensitive Electrical Engineers includes the examination

get to the community is a was who Mitchell. name of Mr. T. M. Mitchell of Hong-viously any woman who is a dan-lept, couldn't eat, suffored indes unselfish and self-sacrific- kung. Mr. formerly with the China Light and woman, but if danger to society nerves, and was with it all thu

whose Power Company in at present with is the test, what of some of those most

conjureding of women. good women

She would come down at noon. the Texas Oil Company.

image fill me with such forebad-

A pitiful wreck after a sleepless The Church upholds the sanctity night, so we were led to belleve, At the Central Police Court this! of

morning, Mr. 1.H. Mueller pleaded of marringo: the civil law protects hobble feebly on her son's arm to for driving his our lives and our property; but luncheon, and sit timidly sighing guilty to summons

who are

most dan-at the table. Would she be able motor-eyele un Wyndham Street, bethe women tween Wellington Street and the

would try. Dairy Farm, without a permit from serous of all, nnd are really bad to eat a little something? the Inspector General of Pollen. Hewomon, are outside the reach of didn't helleve she could. Wouldn't

the law. Take that class of wo-she try? Well, she was fined $ by Mr. Schofield.

men who are sometimes referred Just to please us, a little of the

a fish, "ents" and let us reflect to as

She had slept the sleep of the their dead from 10 p.m. to 9 a.m., she take fast tray in her bed, and she now They had cleaned up a copious break-

In an attempt, it is alleged, to commament upon them.

It is their business and mit suicide, Wong Yu-plug, nged 37, of 10, Lower Lascar Row, jumped hubli to destroy happiness. ni- the harbour off the Kennedy Towa

Prayn

She

The Irish Problem. The extremist podities courses which Mr. de Valera threatens to folow give rise to some disquiet. Mr. Neville Chamberlain has

near Sand Street yesterday know they are safe. They realy issued warning that the Bri-hut was rescued by boatpeople in the no risks; they do not have to be bent her frall body over her plate. many Righs and secret mast remunerative and easiest on with vicinity. He was later removed to careful; their profession is the Gently, but very industriously, earth, for they do harm for the glances, she proceeded to consume

pro-

or the As

tish Govermarnt will regard the fulfilment of the Republican's lend- er's promises as a matter of grave eoneerit, and the unofficial reply has been equally blunt. It is, however, premature to assume that a clash it is not of interests in inevitable. There is considerable search at all certain that Mr. de Valera Paderewski.ing of heart taking place in Latour will go through with his

which ranks in Eugland at the moment,gramme. Offee may impress, the Reduced to a mere handful of mem- Inadvianbility of policies bera in Parliament, the party is in seemed tempting in the enld shndes a very chastened mood, but there of opposition. The Labour Party, are those within its ranks who are whom he relies for the steadi- still hopeful of the future. There ness of his position, are not at all of enthusiastic about the abolition of Is, however, a growing buli: opinion faclining to the view that the Oath of Allegiance unless steps are taken to transformaeizure of the land unnuities.

a truly national the price of its support Labour de the party Into

with mands the immediate enactment of body, not solely concerned

measures to deal with unemploy- sectional interests, Labour will con-

It may well be that a com- role. ment. tinue to play an ineffective In this connexion, It is recalled that promise could be reached, whereby Keir. Hardie, and the Socialist the Socialists would vote for the pioneers repentedly emphasised retention of the annulties on con- that Labour was to include "all who dition that this money was used for render useful service, whether by reller purposes of which they ap the pen or the spade," and was to proved. There are, however, other m at. "the industrial interests of factors which are likely to influence the whole community," not "merely the progress of events more than mere party considerations. The of those working men who are Trade Unionista." In other words, first of these is that Great Britain the party was to be based, like all is now a Protectionist country. So other parties, upon class interest, long as the Irish Free Stale re- British but class interest, though propon-mains a member of the

Commonwealth of Nations, her derant, was not to be exclusive.

Those who have followed the products will receive a preference | over those of foreign countries, and evolution of the Labour Party. however, have seen it develop, not along lines of a national Socialiam Intent on modernising society, butter of the highest importance. If sectional she becomes independent there can, with of course, be no question of mill- the existing system, provided the try coercion, but she will no longer. a prefer- maximum benefits could be secured have the advantage of

She will have to compete on quad terms with such of her rivals as the Netherlands, Denmark, and Argentina. Since she has nowhere

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in the direction of

Labourism, largely content.

as 90 per cent. of her commerce is with Great Britain, this is a mat-

ence.

for manual workers. It is true that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald managed to introduce quite a num ber of Socialist measures during else to market her goods, this

the last Labour

but there seems justification for the statement recently made that both among Labour M.P.'s and the rank and file of the party, the strictly Labourist issues

Administration, would mean an economic catas- trephe of the first order. Further. more, a large number of Irish citi- zens are in official employ in vari- ous parts of the Empire, and if the Free State became a Republic they of dole would have to choose between na

turalisation and dismissal. Once this prospect is fully appreciated, the pressure upon Mr. de Valera by them and their relatives in Ire-

and will be considerable,

ан

or pension aroused ten times much enthusiasm as any contruc- tive approach to a better ordered Rociety. As to the Left Wing. it Labourist. has usually been more

and not more Saclalist, than the main body, with its preference for PRAYERS FOR RAIN. wealth redistribution to construc-

CHRISTIANS. MOSLEMS AND tive change. Events have shown

JEWS UNITE. that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald re-

Jerusalem, Mar. 21. mained true to the nation, and to

Mr. Christians, Moslems and Jowe truo Socialism, Henderson and his followers pre-united this week-end in common ferred the role of doo Labourism.prayor for rain to end the drought

and heat which is becoming

whereas

a

To the result, the working classes porious menace and causing con- showed that they had no use for a sidorable apprehension to Pales Labour Party which conceived it-tinlan and trans-Jordan crops.

The Moslems of Gaza are hold- lf to be a Trade Union caucis.

three days fast in the hope ing As one commentator has pointed that rain will be vouchsafed on aut, neither purely Trade Union the fourth day. Prayers aro support nor even purely working being offered in the churches, mos- clure support can provide an effecques and synagogues throughout ilva majority in Parliament, for, the country-Renter's Special Ser

vico.

the Government Civil Hospital.

A brief message that Ah Tal,

on board a lighter of the

senman

a

B

more fish, meat, and pudding than

ог

pleasure of it, and they get their pleasure. Every crime they com any man at the table. We all saw mit brings its immediate reward. through her.

Hor family went in terror remember the ease of a super- Kowloon Godowne, had suffered fractured skull, was received by the

diabolletion of her helplessness and her Water Pulice from the Kowloon Hos-type of this class. She was 8her, and in terror kept up the fic the man was admitted at 5.20 a.m. inally cunning series of anonymous frailty, and everyone in the house pital this morning. It was stated that foreign woman who, by an unconscious condition and was not letters, destroyed the happiness bent to her will; one and all in- al harmony of her whole village,terrupted their occupations, sacri broke up families, brought about ficed their pleasures to please her. and filled though she was never pleased, to expected to live.

half a dozen suicides.

Much sympathy is felt for Mr. and

In the end her her, to make her happier since she so wretched. Why? Stella. ugly auspicions. 18-year-old daughter, Mr. G.M. Xavier in the death of the minds of the inhabitants with amuse her though nothing amused and son-Well, she was a great actress, anel after

a brief. illness. The funeral identity was discovered. She was was always their took place last evening, in the pre-tried in a court of lawy sence of a large attendance of mour-tenced to some months in prison. I suppose we were never quite ners, the Rev. Fr. Gallagher officlat If danger to the community had sure that she wasn't what she pre- should un-tended to be. the most pitiful of ing. There were many floral tributes, heen the gauge, she including wreaths from relatious and doubtedly have been executed or women.

I suggest that all these are bad After these people I put the and dangerous women. friends, the Association of "Child of

Unfortunately our intellectuels Mary," French Convent; the staff of given a life sentence.

whining cgoist, the concentrated virtuous wife and mother who eats do not appear to consider morality the Coell Hotel, and the Chinese Mer-

away the vitality of the people she a subject worthy of their monthl

chants Land Investment Co.

ing an excess nu aber of

persons.

wife"

A lorry driver who was transport-lives with, a feeble but deadlynesthetic, or abstract science- ing 28 coolies and workmen, In ad- vampire. She wants love, and more powers. They prefer metaphysics. dition to a number of gas stoves, love, and always more. That at any any subject that in its vast im up Stubbs Rond recently was fined rate, is what she calls it. She always personality leads them away from For while science unfolds $10 by Mr. Schofield at the Central uses pretty phrases, and claims the study of themselves. It is a Magistracy this morning for carry adoration as a right. "I'm your pity.

"I'm your mother." Hus-the universe around us, we re- mean, miserable, and self. The magistrate told a representative of the Gas Company, who came for bands should love their wives, main the same ward to accept full responsibility on children should adore their mospiteful, sentimental, behalf of the Company, that the pro- thers. Marringe is sacred, mothers deduded creatures we have been cedure was dangerous as in turning are sacred. In the name of the ever since we learned to look at a corner, persons might have been sanctity of marriage she drags ourselves in mirrors: and no one thrown from the vehicle on to the from her husband and children la interested in our characters ground. Several cases attended by the attention and flattery she can-except the persons who exhort us to confess our more obvious, harm- deaths hail resulted from such over-

Then there is the nagger and less sins, or the officers of the law lending, but in the present case he not and elsewhere,

prosecuting busy-body, the woman who inter- who are ready to send us to pri- cf a statement by the

slapdash crimes as murder and had made the fine a light one in view police officer that it was quite safe. Cerca with her neighbours' private son if we don't hide auch glaring

robbery.

"I'm here at my doctor's advice. He said I should become interested in some sport

Black Outlook for Blues.

By PHIPPS

THE dietance between Putney

THE

and Mortlake, as the crow flas, is about 2 miles. As the omnibus ambles it is a little more.. But as the Boat Race crewa go, it's ja trunk call.

On Saturday (such is the force of tradition), eighteen under- graduates, including a cox with the Now Silhouette, travelled from Putney to Mortlake in the mannerTM which has given generations of crows hysteries.

By Hammersmith, by Chiswick, by Barnes, and, by Heck! how peevish Oxford got as Cambridge. want by Chiswick, and Barnes- first.

This conservatism on the part of Oxford and Cambridge sporting circles seems to mo indefensible. Looking at it purely Onancially the overhead entailed in sending their representatives by boat compares terida very unfavourably with

by which could ansily be quoted the L.G.O.C.

For a small extra charge, more- over, the lattor would doubtless equip their vehicles with sliding

Chompy" seats, to preserve

mosphere. NA

This year noither Oxford nor Cambridite bought a new, boat,

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