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FEBRUARY

1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY THE HUSBAND The Very Idea!

SPOKE IN WHEEL

It has just been revealed that definite progress might already have been made in tariff reform in the United States but for the pre

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LONG RANGE POLICY

The document, might be accurate ly described as the work of com- mercial policy "brain trust." Its ideas would we had with autisme-

AND THE LAW

By SIR EDWARD PARRY, the famous Judge

[The Lord Chancellor has appointed Old John Seldon, In his "Dis- a committee to inquire into course of the Wife," treats the needed revisions of the law on poor husband's responsibility with various points, including a hus-playful contempt, saying, band a liabinty for the wrong- doings of his wife.)

7HEN wo look back on the Watate of the law relating to women before John Stuart

"The wrote his great essay on Subjection of Women" we must recognise that women worɑ, un- fairly treated.

"Tis reason a. man that will have a wife should be at tho charge of all her trinkets, and pay all the scores ahe sets on him. Ho that will keep monkey, 'tis fit he should pay for the glasses who breaks."

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So we may see that the ancient In fact, they were regarded. Inw which made a husband Hable especially married women,

As for his wife's wrong-doing was chatteln who, being merely the founded on the power he had in property of their husbands, could law to keep her in order by forcé, That power is certainly taken not have any persong! rights of

away from him to-day, and there- fore it seems only equitable that a husband should not be respon- sible any longer for his wife's.

their own.

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A PEPY IN THE DARK By Eddie Kelly, Peeping Tom.

PAUSING to wipe the weat

off our brow as 'wo endca voured to think of a subject to write about last night, our "eyes Tell upon an old into of the Telegraph with Mr. Pepya' Hong- kong diary in it. We picked up our eyes again and decided that if Mr. Pepys (pronounced peeps, the same as skepya, wopys and hepys) could get away with a diary, there was no renson why we couldn't. So here goes:

MONDAY,This day, being the

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inst of the month past, wa vlait the counting house kooper of the Telegrach news shootę to draw our stipend. But, Lord, to think of the advances we have drawn betwixt this an' our last pay-day, an' we fall to cursing ourself for a knave. What grieves us in that. our stipend docs grow smaller with the passing of each month Instead of larger, and we will, in future, have naught to do with wenchen, it being those creatures who have caused our plight. And so home to bed in great discon- tent.

Tucaday-Up betimes and to that we sneak in unobserved as oleventh the clock strikes the hour. But, Lord, our content do be short lived, for we are not yet csconsed in our chair ere we meet with two vile an' ill-mannered. persons who do collect for their masters the meagre stipend carnt by humble workers such as we. Thore is naught we can do but pay them, which, to our very great discontent, we do. Lord, wo do not know what further i cannot befall us, since a rapid casting up. of our accounts doth disclose that twixt this day an' the month end, we have naught but ten bucks to afd us.

There was a long and not very tion by most economists and theo dignified political struggle about retically it would produce a

can Women's Rights. Most acnsible American markable reform in

people were in favour of sex wrong-doing. tarif construction. But Congress has the last word and whether equality before the law.

MIll's_principle was that the The responsibility of a husband with the President's long-rango

un-Prerogatives of sex must be re- to pay his wife's income tax is objectivo new boldly and fortunately revealed it would be pealed and replaced by a prin- even more obviously inequitable willing to grant power to raise or ciple of perfect equality admitting to-any, for a wife's income has for lower tariffs to the President saldo and no disability on the other. her own control. She may the office, fortune favouring us in no power or privilege on the one many years been entirely within committée open question. The

abroad and desert her husband was appointed by Mr. Roosevelt to

Now this Impiles the harsh In-and pay nothing to the upkeep Rd.outline the bases of commercial

policy, and in drafting its report, ference that, if woman is to com-at the family, and he is bound to the members nave worked from the pote with man for the prizes of pay her income tax, though ho Assumption that power to modify fo, she must play the game with has no power to claim support existing dutics upward or down-out any handicap and drive off the from the Income.

would he samo tees: or as Huxley put it ward within limits

It almost seems that a wealthy granted to the President, together in an ungallant phrase:

wife, who refused to pay her in- with authority to fix quotas and

come tax, might be considered in otherwise regulate Imports. That is all Congress would have been

bankruptcy to be "a rash and hazardous speculation," which her asked to do. Now that n clear iden

husband, had no right to attempt has been given of the probable trend of the Roosevelt policy, the Unfortunately the reforms made and thus might lead him to jail. For I do not think that any in- acquiescence of Congress is doubt in the law relating to the status ful and in any event cannot now of women were not mado with surance company would insure be tested until the effects of the much regard to the principles of these matrimonial risks. rest of the Roosevelt programme Mill and Huxley, but rather with Marriage is admittedly a lottery, have had a chance to exert them-a chivalrous intention to make Lotteries are illegal, and the things pleasant for women and a courts would probably decide that selves.

natural desire, to secure their to insure against the result of a lottery is in itself an illegal con- Consequently we find that whilst tract.. The report, it should be borde the wife is no longer the husband's no

in mind, fully outlines how the chattel, and can leave him and. if

his she is a rich woman, need not been should

GERMANY'S ARMS CLAIMS Germany's reply to the French aide memoire on disarmament goes a long way towards clarify- ing the situation. It can longer be doubted that the new British proposals have been, in

CENTRAL AGENCY

Executive

exercise

"Let them have a fair field but let them understand as the necessary correlative that they are to have no favour.".

votes.

The fact is that whilst we have enthusiastically. enlarging

important citizen, man.

By messenger we send, a billet to our girl friend, with regrets that we do find so much to detain us at the office that we fear we can not stop the schottisho with

hor.

We fell to thinking that it would

day.

Wednesday. What shall come

know not. We are at a stonda to, of this month of February,; we know how we can balánco our accounts and yet retain the affec- tions of our wench. But this eve we had good fortune, for we play strange card game with three friends, whom we take for a ride for high stakes.

Ja large measure, drafted to meet Powers. That such a document help him to maintain their family the freedom of woman, we have be a fine thing if 'twould be the Iclaims advanced in Berlin which should see the light of day has and feed and educato the children been doing injustice to that less month-end each third or fourth

been, of course, highly embarrassing she has brought into the world,

The trouble has arison through must scem eminently reasonable to the White House and a needless the husband is bound to and a to any close observer of the high-impediment to the simple and de- house for his wife, he has to pay our legislators losing sight of the ly delicate play of forces in fensible legislation the President his wife's income tax and cannot basic principles of justice in these Europe. It is not the intention was seeking, For there is no recover the money he pays for her. matters.

These were explained by Mr. Bùmble to Mr. Brownlow on that of Germany to reject disarma. warrant however, for thinking out of his wife's catato.

that the powers would be exercised ment measures which offer pros-precisely as the Commercial Polley The fact seems to be that the famous occasion when he told Mr. pect of an early agreement, but Committee report recommends. wife has retained all the advan-Brownlow that what had happened unless the reduction is on a scale Essential steps in this programme tages of her former status as a was that "It was all Mrs. Bum-

cen- chattel of her husband, and shed bla's fault. She would do it." which would result in a realian-jare however:. Creation of

On this Brownlow replied, as tion of Germany's claim to tral executive agency to carry out all the duties and' liabilities tha:

commercial policy. she owed to her husband and the law continues to reply, "You equality, the alternative must be long range

indeed are the more guilty of the to permit a process which would Grading American Industry into her fellow citizens.

their

two in the eyes of the law: for the six categorica, based upon bring her defensive armaments

economic suitability, national de- And one of her husband's privi.

acts under your directions." up to the level of those main- fonet contribution, wages, size, leges and liabilities that is stil the law suppose that your wife "If the law supposes that," said tained by other States. It is distribution, integration into the continued, and seems to be mos

Thursday-We are still mighty no longer possible to envisage a whole-industrial structure--and Inequitable in-modern life, is that Mr. Bumble,aqueezing bishat

of if a married woman "commits a emphatically in both hands, the pleased with our win of yes- reduction to Germany's level. relation to foreign sources

the categories tort,” to use a legal phrase, tha' law is an ass!”

tereve, albeit we wish wo had The next best thing is a reduc supply. Some of

I do not desire to add any words celebrated more moderately with tion of armaments to those would require and receive protec- ls to say, if she utters a libel o- necessary for policing and de.tlon, some could be used in bar-sander against a neighbour, or to Mr. Bumble's clear and concise our friends after the moving gaining with foreign governments drives a motor-car over a rock judgment except to say that "I plcture show. To a casting up of and some would be held na "mar-less pedestrian, or crashes intr concur, and for the same reasons."

accounts an' find that, although we won 40 bucks through our skill ginal" and sacrificed to the general an obnoxious pillar-box, her hun. economic good.

band has to pay the damages of

And another troublesome point with the cards, we did spend one her wrong-doing.

of law that causes great difficulty quarter of this at the Hongkong Even in the old days this seemed among poor people is how far a inn. Renesale fair in the husband. But wife is her husband's agent to

"And may keep her by force within the bounds of duty, and may beat her, but not in a violent or erucl manner."

(Continued on Page 4.)

We venture across the harbour in the Star Ferrybont, and do ylalt.

do moving pictures, which show what fools man can be with

women.

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some money, but, Lord, he spako

strange language.

Host Mildren, at the Repulso Bay hostelry, do allow us to sign our name for dinner and one or two toddles.to cure our ague, and we do stay, in his pleasant inn until the servants shuff out the lights.

fending countrics. If a "defen- sive level" could be defined it should not be difficult to secure an agreement for the abandon- ment of offensive weapons. POLITICAL DYNAMITE

Falling in with Robert Mai- French official opinion lately has

That political dynamite is con- as Matthew Bacon explained, the pledge the credit of her husband. whirter we do suggest in con- shown an increasing willingness

The whole trouble in the matter fidence that it would be a desir- to trust an international super- tained in such a classification is ob- husband had full power to keep

Is caused by our wretched system ablo' thing if he could lend un vision of arms to this end, vious, The plan, however, is in his wife in order.

tenecly interesting. For the first

of imprisonment for debt. But Britain's acceptance of the prin- time it reduces tariff making to

for that, no trader would give ciple was looked upon as a power-an orderly plan in the hands of the

credit unless he knew that the ful influence in inducing France Executive rather than at the mercy to see the inevitableness of the of Congressional lobbyists. It is other proposals. The system of assumed that to obtain export control contemplated has al- markets the nation must offer im- ready been applied in the rela-port opportunities. The classifica- tively simple matter of naval tion system helps to find which im- ports can best be permitted. It in armaments. It is not so easy to assumed that Congress could not Mr. out such a task. apply it to land armaments, but carry it is in the interest of every George N. Peek, who cooperated nation to determine precisely with the Commercial Policy Com- what shall be legitimate and mittee, as a special representative what shall be illegitimate. For of the Fresident, is believed to h it is now clear that, in default of preparing a separate report, scrap- ping all the dangerous political agreed control, no nation can be externals of the report published. sure of its supposed superiority. Tais factor may roveren somo of

unfavourable Even though the unilateral .pro- the

Aspecta hibitions could still be imposed aroused, but the danger is that so they cannot be there many restrictive amendments will be inserted into any legislation would still be room for the opera-submitted to Congress that the tion of secret inventiveness. whole purpose will be destroyed Nobody can say what may be and the objective rendered un- the weapons of to-morrow. In- attainable. genuity, if left unrestrained,

may create still more formid-

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able instruments of destruction. coming up to the present French To rely upon an ability to keep level. Somewhere between their ahead of one's neighbour is to positions is the middle ground indulge in perilous complacency, for an accord. Nobody can It is therefore to be trusted that protend that that is the ideat the negotiations between Franco solution. But it appears to be and Germany, which remain the the most practical. It implies crux of the problem, will be and this is of the utmost impor pursued until a satisfactory tance-agreement, on the "de solution is attained. If it be fence. level" and effective con- true that France cannot surren-trol. It prevents competition. der its tanks, its air forces, its It regulates armaments. "Could submarines, its big guns as France and Germany thus fix Germany has surrendered them, the nature and number of their there must at least be an interweapona, it would be compara mediate arrangement. If France tively easy for the rest to devlee cannot come down to the Gera system of regulated arma man level, It should take steps ments in place of uncontrolled which will let Germany avoid competition..

"Then why did you lot Murvin go, right on thinking he was engaged-to you?”

!

We mind not that we have long distance to return to our home, for we, have as companion a fair wench, who doth snuggle coally ns wo speed through the country in our patrol conch.

When wo end our farewella on the doorstep and wond our way home It is almost cock crow.

Wo.,have a fondness for that wench.

And so to bed.

Friday We read with interest that the Philharmonic Choir and other actors of Hongkong town do intend to solicit publie patron-...... ago with song and word this month. But, Lord, our stomach turns at the thought that we must don high collars and satin coats, ero wo can scok admission. Bo.. times, wo wish that Hongkong town, which, as we all know, in an provincial as 'tia possible, would not be so aliffe an' formal, fa. some things.

Sunday, Lord's Day This day wa do feel like our bed, un': wo do not break our, fast in the fore- naon. Betimes, we foll to think! ing how we could increase our meagre capital, but there is naught. we can do To a further casting. up of accounts, and doth reveal that we have three and one-half dollars left from our earnings.

Lord, what will be the ending of all this we do not know