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FRIDAY, APRIL, 15, 1932.

15, 1932.

DAY BY DAY

SURE THAT I WOULD

IN Tite Whilst AHEAD Grant.

CAN WOMEN KEEP A SECRET?

ON N the ground that women can-[

IA

I HAVE SEEN SOME HARD TIMES

A Morsel of Gossip. IN MY LIFE, BUT I NEVER SAW

But what usually happens Nazla seck to wipe out Marxism | TIE MOMENT WHEN I WAS NOT

not keep secrets, the French COME .OUT and save Europe from the menaco

END--Gran Senate has just rejected a Bill de this. A silence falls between two signed to enable women to become people. One of them, trying des- of Asintle Bolshevism.

notaries or solleltors. The French perately to think of something their attitude towards reparations

Bur admits women to membership amusing, recalls the diverting story he has just been told in con- and some of the other legncles of

According to a report to the police, as freely as does our own, the Great War in one of declining

Chang Sal, a canteen "boy" engaged The same objection was urged fidence: For a moment he or she But to have heard this to admit responsibility, they say

at Wellington Barracks, attempted to when women in this country were hestitates. that they are firm in their deler commit suicide Inst night by taking first permitted to practise ne solici morsel of gossip will perhaps claim to social mination to see all private debts an overdose of opium. He was later tors. Opponents of the innovation establish some

the Government Civilbly neserted that secrets travel distinction or for being in the contracted by Germany scrupulous- removed to

Hospital.

fast when entrusted to a woman, swim. So scruples vanish and, ly honoured.

land that a solicitor incapable of prefaced by the conscience-salving

our-

the

These points, however, are not of

A tensha massage from Shanghai holding her tongue would be a formula, "This is between immediate moment, since the Nazis

| travels again, are still far from being in control states that the Nanking Government danger to everyone who consulted selves," the secret starts upon its

lins created a new post to be known her.

1 Now in such cases, whon And so, indeed, she would. na Commissioner for the suppression of the nation. Whatever the mo- tives of the Government may be,of bandits in Kiangai, Fukfen, Hunan have no doubt that the ancient motive for reticence is not pre- there will be general agreement in foreign countries that a wise step has been taken in "uppressing Hitler's private army. A private army in nny country is anachronism; the imperiam in in- perio idea cannot command the sup- port of anyone having regard for constitutional principles. So it in well that the suppression order hus gone forth. There will most pro-

bably be marked runctions

ani

Kwangtung and Kwangsi. This will

been common obligation of preserving General currency. But there have be assigned to the Minister of War, fallacy still enjoys considerable fessional loyalty but merely the General Ha Ying-ching. Chan Chai-tong, of Canton, will he women solicitors for nearly 108 confidence, women are possibly years in Great Britain, and I have more frequent offenders than men. yet to hear that one of them has Upon many women nothing weighs appointed assistant tử General Ho.

been guilty of betraying her so heavily as a secret. Their own

secrets are ae burdensome On returning home at 7p.m. client's trust.

those of another, and they

until they Bover really at ease April 7, Mes. Rew, the tennut of the third Roor of 160, Hennessey Road, found that thieves had entered the

It may be urged that such re-have shared the horrible incubus at by wrenching the lock from the

District tirence is simply the result of a with a friend, who in the majority Ten

days after, a door. Watchman received information which stern, almost fanatical sense of of instances is only too willing to from Tulted in his

two

Sense of Loyalty.

ore

the step taken, but the Government of clothing 18 Yr0yalty to professional standards, play the role of sympathetic lis-

ta evidently determined to have its Why". But what of the Steel Helmets" and other similar organisations? Having taken nc- tion in the one instance, it la diff- cult to see how the Government's hand can be stayed where these other bodies are concerned.

15 and

atolen

-PROBATES. GRANTED.

or men.

The Personal Note.

11 is a commonplace that

Ron weary women.

in

It is significant that in every Mrs. Row' and that were this to be weakened ener

have had and age numerous woman

relations of fat were recovered in pawnshops, and by boredom, ar lack of grip, the the two lads faced charges of the most grisly family secrets inrreny before Mr. Schofield at the private embarrassments would not confidantes-poor Central Magistracy this morning. It be safe when entrusted to a wo-younger women from whom little A solicitor who babbles is linore has been demanded than the was stated that the younger of the man.

The Grst capacity for looklag Interested two boys had been previously in the an outrageous person.

who herself employ of Mr. Rew, and that the rate of the profession is never to and for holding their tongues. confidences would other had a previous conviction for divulge a confidence; the import-For a confidante

strongly indulged in stealing. In binding over the younger ance of this rule is so lad, his Worship ordered him to re- crive 12 strokes of the cane. The impressed by dally experience up soon lose her place.

on a practising solicitor that even other buy reerived four months.

the naturally garrulous and indis- creet are constrained to put curbs upon their tongues where u elfont's conversation most women cannot Don't Mislay that Neutron!

for long avoid striking a personal alfairs are involved,

of note. Those massive generalisi- But these potential sources If the atom ever gets the physi eist into court on an assault and

danger and they exist in everytions and long discussions about THREE LOCAL ESTATES.

j profession--are just as likely to tendencies in politica, commerce, Not every private secre- sport, and a hundred other things. habitual battery charge, the latter is likely to be convicted under a

value Local estate to the

Their renc- since the criminal act. Never atom's peace and privacy were first $17.100, with net personalty cleary is silent as the tomb, nor in which keep men happy for hours, where amounting to £3,057 10s. 6d, every confidential servant of invaded by natural science his

was left by the late Alice Matilda usines undertaking a perfeet re-tion to almost every question is And when conver- there been such concentrated Hamilton, widow. late of No. 7, pository for confidences, Indis- anecdotal. They are bored by the Parade. Cheltenham,cretimis, however, are not confined general and excited by the particu- encore effort to knock it all to pieces. All Queen's

refuse to sation enters the field of parti- Royal respects women may forts of devices are being invented lourester, England, who died into one sex; and though in some lar instance.

17, 1981. at the

merke themselves in & corporation cular instances, the prospect of ·

rendity as preserving secrets is dangerously to suash the atom into bils and August

Nursing Home, Cheltenham

ground for remote. ascertain exactly what it is made

Resealing of certified copy of us completely or as

less But few men are guiltless in will has been ment, there is little

are of and why. And when it is con-probate of the

1. entrusted with this respect. I have heard more sidered that a particle of dust on reanted to the Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Supposing that they

shattering indiscretions from men than party thousand Shenton, of Messrs. Deacons, who worthy to

guests at a dinner a setter contains

Keeping a secret is, in fact, a

with bated WOR who, million millions of atoms, the diffi-is attorney for two laughters secrets.

executrixes), Maud Hamilton and cuity of gelling one little atom intelyn Brookes willow, both of very difficult matter. Tell no one from

anything which you do not wish breath and striet in junctions to a corner and bombarding it into its Cheltenham. constituent parts must be obvious

Testatris bequeathes her estate to be repeated, is cynical advise; eternal secrecy, have made me a Yet the distinction between pro- A BLOW TO THE NAZIS.] even to the unlearned. The latest to the two executrixes, another but most people very frequently confidant.

and most successful attack on the daughter, Con-tance Ravey, and in their lives are tempted to accept

knows, it is a secret; if two; it is well observed by both men

women. I am not, perhaps, an atom has resulted in announcementson, Mr. A. V. Hamilton, of Viet as a working philosophy. "If one fessional and private life is pretty

toria. British Columbia.

The late Li Tanu-po, otherwise public," said a sufferer from The German Government has of the discovery of the neutron. taken a drastic line of action by her and previous assauità had in-ter Chow-po, alias Li Fo-tai, friend's indiscretion, and we all unprejudiced witness to the in- the proton and the alias L Shing-bo, merchant, who know people who are perfect cos-tegrity of women solicitors. But deciding to suppress the Nazi troduced

atom.died at No.. 28 Hill Rond, on No- dull pipes for matters which for have listened with becoming de- What the electron to students of the military organientions.

the choose to set in circulation our criticism of women's invasion of the logal profession, and it is reactions will be remains to be To the average layman, the neutron vember 30, 1929, left local estate one reason or another we do not ference to almost every kind of

much. He may worth $15,800. Probate of

rarely many years since I heard feminine- The point to be noted is that does not mean

will has been granted to Li Ng-selves.

Betrayal of a secret is took the how long it

cheong, alias Li Tak-choi, second the decree in not directed against wonder

Women lawyers, women doctors, the Nazis ሰዓ a political party, physicist to count out the 200,000,-on and sole executor, of No. 61, the result of malice. "I am telling inability to keep a secret urged-na:

necessary, Bonham Strand West. Bequests you this in confidence," one may an objection.

Nay. "You won't repeat it, will which is to retain its normal liber- | 000,000,000,000,000,000

Ounce, but natural are of a family nature. lies of action. It is the storm-to make an

Probate of the will of the late you?" And the promise of silence women secretaries are neither less: - troops and other eardres which science is uncovering so many mar-

thevels that even a row of electrons Wong Yin, alias Wong Chiu-ting, exacted, the titbit of Rendal or or more trustworthy than men.

in a ludi- when a woman solicitor and who died at Tai Pe Ho village, Tol the amusing story which puts a What indiscretiona are exchanged to be suppressed, on

their heads would Shan District, Kwangtung, on or mutual acquaintance ground that their existence im-standing on

of tall or a teatable I am not called But cause him no concern. the about October 20, 1931, leaving crous light is poured into recep woman doctor meet over a cock-

And the recipient

But I fear no plies the possibility of civil

asserting that foreign outron is primarily a protege of local estate valued at $16,000, has tive cars. breaking out. To the observer, it has seemed strange natural scientists and likely to re-been granted to Wong Un-shi, such a confidence is genuinely upon to divulge. the layman.ong Lau-shi, Wong Yeung-shiresolved not to divalge it; per contradiction in that there should exist in Germany main a stranger to

The his mind, the secret not only these Nazi storm-troops, From reading reports of the dig (widows; and Wong Yuen-tai, all haps, if no opportunity presents they are not professional secrets.

clamation Street, Mongkok. but also other similar organisa-covery, the layman gets the idea temporarily living at No. 32. He itself while the story is fresh in tions, such, for example, as the that the neutron was a tough cus-will contains family bequests. "Steel Helmets," of which, inciden-tomer and admitted its identity tally, President Hindenburg is only under severe examination. It Honorary President. The French had been tramping around disguls- theed as a proton and electron closely have always complained that

bis And now formation and continued existence bound together. of these bodies of armed men con- things are expected of the neutron With a "Tag. stitute a menage. It remains to be when it grows up. Been whether the action now taken you're it" it may slap the clusive by the Government is to be directed cosmic ray on the back. It may ex- solely against the Nazis; if so, itplain what keeps the nucleus of the will appear to the outside world as atom from blowing up. Natural a party move, aiming at the subor-scientists are expressing their in- terest and debating its possibilities. dination of the Hitlerites.

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One of the outstanding features Some of them say there are of German political life in the past more than 200,000,000,000,000,000, two or three years has been the 000,000 neutrons in an ounce. Here, amazing rise to prominence of Herr then, is in opportunity for some Hitler. An entirely self-made man, enterprising physicist to put a Jarful in the front window and get without menas, he has created rational organlention claiming the publle to guess on the number. millions of supporters in all parts of the country. As a bricklayer and an odd-job workman in Vienna, he became familiar at first hand with socină distross and gained

na in- sight into the Marxist-Socialist dia- position of his fellow-workers which lacked any national feeling. Recognising the social evils which needed remedying. ho recoil- ed at the same time from the Marxist idea. Entering the lists, he started to build up on the ruins of the collapsing middle-class and proletarian ideology a few Idon of the Stato in Gormany-an idea which does not regard the in- dividual or mankind as the highest standard of value, but which re- gards the nation as the real unit. In particular, the Pence Treaties

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"I guess I'm something of a disappointment to my mother.

She always had her heart set on my being ambassador to

Spain."

Those Nibs.

By PHIPPS.

and

THE bluntant instrument known

To criminology is undoubted-

ly the post office pen.

It has been responsible, directly

or indirectly, for some

darkeat pages of history.

of the

SCCA

Many a man traces his downfall back to that first telegram. Re- miniscence stabs him-bo himself, a curly-haired, bright- eyed boy, frm of stop, godlike in the arrogance of youth, going into Uncle the post office to wire Arthur. And in bitter retrospect, he sees himself emerge, two hours. and twenty-seven minuten later, a sirleken, disillusioned figure, with a blot on his escutcheon, and Beveral on his trousers-a boy no longer!

Not only had ho embraced the passions and vocabulary of Man- hood, but he had left his duty but half dono: for the wire to Uncle Arthur (14th edition) had read:

Please, blot, scratch, blot, blot...arrives, scratch, not blot

love

blot,

It fa with considerable surprise, therefore, that I find the G.P.O. has a cousclence. In a recent an- nouncement, the G.P.O. admits that it has for years hoon soarch- ing for the perfect nib, and it now balloves it has found It,

A microscople survey (confiabs the G.P.O.) of pensioned pens has produced some valuable data on the causes of their infirmity. The poat (office) mortom shows that the ordinary stcol ulb gives up the (Continued on Page 7.)