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NOTES OF THE DAY

SPOKE IN WHEEL

It has just been, revealed that

definite progress might already

have been made 'in tariff reform in

FEBRUARY 6. 1984.

THE HUSBAND

AND THE LAW

the United States but for the pre- By SIR EDWARD PARRY, the famous Judge:

[The Lord Chancellor has appointed i a committed to inquire into needed revisions of the law on various points, including a hug bands liability for the wrong-| doings, of his wife.) TT7HEN we look back on the

mature disclosure of President Roosevelt's plans. A revolution- Landed Prices

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appointed Commercial Policy Com- "DE LUXE SALOON" £230 To the motorist going on Home mittes fell into the hands of newB leave special arrangements are papers opposed to the President's

delivery oxtended....for London....for use at Home policies. Containing highly con-

women before John Stuart ill whilst on furlough and for sub-troversial and autu propionio, it proved highly embarrassing and

"The great essay on sequent shipment to Hongkong its importance was minimised im-wrote his

mediately by a declaration that it Subjection of Women" wo musi ...at the above prices.

recognise that women were Un was an old and tentative draft.

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LONG RANGE. POLICY

The document might be accurate ly described as the work of cam- mercial policy "brain trust." Its

W state of the law relating to

In fact, they were regarded, capecially married women, as chattels who, boing morely the property of their husbands, could not have any personal rights of

Old John Selden, in his "Dis- course of the Wife," treats the poor husband's responsibility with playful contempt, saying,

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

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So we may see tilat the ancient law which made a husband liable for his wife's wrong-doing was founded on the power he had in law to keep her in order by force That power is certainly taken Away from him to-day, and there There was a long and not very fore it seems only equitable that tion by most economists and theo dignified political struggle about a husband should not be respon- retically it would produce a Women's Rights. Most sensiblaisible any longer for his wife's

favour of Rex wrong-doing.

ideas would be husu Wika ma61514u"

their own.

people were in

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The Very Idea!

A PEPY IN THE DARK

By Eddie Kelly, Peeping Tom. PAUSING to wipe the sweat

off our brow as we cadea- voured to think of a subject to write about last night, our eyes fell upon an old image of the Telegraph with Mr. Pepys' Hong“ kong diary in It. - We picked up. our eyes again and decided that if Mr. Pepys (pronounced poepą, the same as shopys; wopyn and hepys) could get away with ́m diary, there was no reason' why we couldn't. So here goen:

MONDAY-This day, being the inst of the month past, we visit the counting house keeper of the Teletrech news sheete 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 is that our stipend docs grow smaller with the passing of each month markable

instead of larger, and we will, in reform in American

future, have naught to do with tariff construction. But Congress

Mill's principle was that the has the last word and whether equality before the law.

The responsibility of a husband wenches, it being those croatures with the President's long-range

un-prerogatives of sex must be re- to pay his wife's Income tax is who have caused our plight. And and objective now boldly fortunately revealed it would be onlod and replaced by a prin- even more obviously inequitable so home to bed in great discon- willing to grant power to raise or ciple of perfect equality admitting to-day, for a wife's income has for tent.

no power or privilege on the one many years been entirely within Tuesday.-Up betimes and to lower taritts to the Presidents an aide and no disability on the other, her own control. She may go the office, fortune favouring us in

committee open question. The

abroad and desert her husband that we sneak in unobserved as. the eleventh was appointed by Mr. Roosevelt to

Now this implies the harsh in-and pay nothing to the upkeep the clock strikes Stubbs Rd. outline the bases of commercial

polley, and in drafting its report,ference that, if woman is to com- of the samby, and he is bound to hour. But, Lord, our content do the members have worked from the pote with man for the prizes of pay her income tax, though he be short Ilved, for we are not yet

with two assumption that power to modify life, she must play the game with has no power to claim support esconsed in our chair ere wo met vile' an' ill-mannered existing duties upward, or down-out any handleap and drive off the from the income.

persons who do collect for their ward within limits would be same tecs: or as Huxley put It

It almost seems that a wealthy masters the meagre stipend earnt. granted to the President, together in an ungallant phrase:

by humble workers such as wo. wife, who refused to pay her in- with authority to is quotas and otherwise regulate imports. That

come tax, might be considered in There is naught we can do but and pay them, which, to our very great is all Congress would have been

bankruptcy to be "a rash hazardous speculation," which her discontent, we do. Lord, we do naked to do. Now that a clear idea

husband had no right to attempt not know what further il cannot has been given of the probable trend of the Roosevelt policy. the

and thus might lend him to jail.befall us, since a rapid casting up of our accounts doth disclose that nequiescence of Congress is doubt

For I do not taink that any in- ful and in any event cannot now of women were not made, with | aurance company would insure twixt this day an' the month end, we have naught but ten bucks to 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 admitted.y a'lottery, ald, us. have had a chance to exert them-a chivalrous. Intention to make Lotteries are illegal, and the selves.

things pleasant for women and a courts would probably decide that natural desire to secure thei: to insure against the result of a votes.

lottery is in itself an illegal con- Consequently we find that whilst tract. The report, it should be borne the wife is no longer the husband's no

in mind, fully outlines how the chattel, and can leave him and, il Executive should exercise

a document powers. That such

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1934.

CENTRAL AGENCY

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

Unfortunately the reforms made in the law relating to the status

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By messenger we send a billet- to our girl friend, with regrets. that we do and so much to detain un at the office that we fear we can not step the schottisho with her.

We fell to thinking that it would be a fine thing if twould be the month-end each third or fourth day,

know not. We are at a stonde to

women,

Thursday.We are still mighty pleased with our win of yOU- terove, albeit we wish we

had

I do not desire to add any words celebrated more moderately with to Mr. Bumble's clear and concise our friends after the moving judgment except to say that "I picture show. To a casting up of concur, and for the same reasons."accounts an" find that, although we won 45 bucks through our skill

GERMANY'S

CLAIMS ARMS Germany's reply to the French aide memoire on disarmament goes a long way towards clarify- ing the situation. It can

The fact is that whilst we have longer be doubted that the new

she is a rich woman, need not been enthusiastically enlarging British proposals have been, in-

help him to maintain their family the freedom of woman, we have a large measure, drafted to meet should see the light of day has and feed and educate the children been doing injustice to that less claims advanced in Berlin which been, of course, highly embarrassing she has brought into the world, important citizen, man,

The trouble has arisen through must seem eminently reasonable to the White House and a needless the husband is bound to find 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 Wednesday. What shall come y delicate play of forces infensible legislation the President his wife's income tax and canno. basic principles of justice in these of this month of February, we

no recover the money he pays for her. matters. Europe. It is not the intention was seeking. For there is

thinking out of his wife's estate.

These were explained by Mr. know how we can balance our however, for warrant of Germany to reject disarma- that the powers would be exercised

Bumble to Mr. Brownlow on that accounts and yet retain the affec- ment measures which offer pros precisely as the Commercial Policy The fact seems to be that the famous occasion when he told, Mr. tions of our wench. But this eve pect of an early agreement, but Committee report recommends. wife has retained all the adyan-Brownlow that what had happened we had good fortune, for we play friends, whom we take for a ride 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-A strange card game with three which would result in a realisa- are however: Creation of a cen- chattel of her husband, and shec bie's fault. She would do it."

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

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

indeed are the more guilty of the in the Star Ferryboat, and do visit to permit a process which would Grading American Industry into her fellow citizens.

moving pictures, which do two in the eyes of the law: for the six categorles, based upon their bring her defensive armaments economic suitability, national de- And one of her husband's privi. the law suppose that your wife show what fools man can be with up to the level of those main-fence contribution, wages, size, leges and liabilities that is stil acts under your directions."

"If the law supposes that," sald tained by other States. It is distribution, integration into the continued. and seems to be mos no-longer-possible to envisage a whole Industrial structure and inequitable in modern life, is tha Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat to foreign sources of if a married woman commits emphatically in both hands,-"the reduction to Germany's level. relation

supply. Some of the categorics tort," to use a legal phrase, tha taw is an ass!". The next best thing is a reduc would require and receive protec is to say, if she utters a libel o tion of armaments to those tion, some could be used in bar-sander against & neighbour, o necessary for policing and de- gaining with foreign governments drives a motor-car over a reck fending countries. If a "defen- and some would be held as "mar- less pedestrian, or crashes intr sive level" could be defined it ginal" and sacrificed to the general an obnoxious pillar-box, her hus should not be difficult to secure economie 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 an agreement for the abandon-

Even in the old days this seemed among poor people is how far a inn. ment

of offensive weapons.

Acply fair to the husband. But wife is her husband's agent to Falling in with Robert Mac- French official opinion lately has shown an increasing willingness That political dynamite is con-as Matthew Bacon explained,

The whole trouble in the matter fence that it would be a desir- is caused by our wretched system able thing if he could lend us vision of arms to this end. vious. The plan, however, is in his wife in order,

tensely interesting. For the first and may keep her by force of imprisonment for debt. But some money, but, Lord, he spake

trader would give a strange language. Britain's acceptance of the prin- time it reduces tariff making to within the bounds of duty, and for that, no fciple was looked upon as a power- an orderly plan in the hands of the may beat her, but not in a credit unless he knew that the

(Continued on Page 4.) ful influence in inducing France Executive rather than at the mercy

violent or cruel manner."" 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- Lion-system helps to find which im- tively simple matter of naval ports can best be permitted. It is armaments. It is not so easy to assumed that Congress could not apply it to land armaments, but carry out Buch д task. Mr. 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 mitted, as a special representative what shall be illegitimate. For of the President, is beloved to b

preparing a separate report, scrap- it is now clear that, in default of ping all the dangerous political agreed control, no nation can be externals of the report published. sure of its supposed superiority. This factor may reverse some of Even though the unilateral pro- the unfavourable aspects now hibitions could still be imposed aroused, but the danger is that so they cannot be there many restrictive amendments will would still be room for the opera- submitted to

be inserted into any legislation Congress that the tion of secret Inventiveness. whole purpose will be destroyed Nobody can say what may be and the objectivo rendered un- the weapons of to-morrow. In- attainable. gonuity, if left unrestrained,

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the

Ito trust an international super.] tained in such a classification is ob husband had full power to kenn/Pledge the credit of her husband. Whirter, wo do suggest in con-

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may create still more formid-

can

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 It is therefore to be trusted that pretend that that is the ideal the negotiations between France solution. But it appears to be and Germany, which remain the the most practical. It implies-- crux of the problem, will he and this is of the utmost impor- pursued until à satisfactory tance-agreement on the "do solution is attained. If it be fence level" and effective con- true that France cannot surron-trol. It prevents competition. der Ita tanks, its air forces, Its It regulates armaments. Could submarines, its big gung na Franco and Germany thus flx Gormany has surrendered them, the nature and number of their there must at least be an inter-weapons, it would be compara mediate arrangement. If Franco tively easy for the rest to devise cannot come, down to the Ger-la system of regulated arma- man level, it should take steps ments in place of uncontrolled which will Iot Germany avoid competition.

"Thon why did you let Marvin go right on thinking he was

engaged to you?

Host Mildren, at the Repulse Bay hostelry, de allow us to sign our name for dinner and one or two todd'es to cure our ague, and wo do stay in his pleasant in until the servants snuff out the lights.

We mind not that we have à to our long distance to return home, for we have na companion a fair wench, who doth snugglo cosily as we speed through the country in our petrol coach.

When we and our farewells on the doorstep and wond our way homo it is almost cock crow.

We have a fondness for that wench.

And so to bed.

Friday. We road; with interest that the Philharmonic Choir and other actors of Hongkong town do intend to solicit publie patron- age with song and word... this month. But, Lord, our stomach turns at the thought that we must don high collars and satin coats, ere we can stok admission. Be times, we wish that Hongkong town, which, na we all know, is as provincial as 'tia. possible, would not bo to stiffe an' formal, in some things...

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

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