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Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1934,

DEMOCRACY FOR BRITAIN

The increased activity of the Mosley Black Shirts coincides with a marked liveliness in political controversy at Home. People are beginning to usk what will happen after the General Election, which is ex- pected to take place next year. Several public men have already begun to forecast events, and their predictions vary from chaos, followed by a dictator- ship, to a decided strengthening of democratic methods. 4. pro- minent National Labourite, in putting the issue as he sees it, says that on the one hand there the Fascists, ready to are "abolish democracy and Parliu- ment and to fling into concen- tration camps those who dis- agree with them. That is the way of the bully, and it has been followed to some extent on the Continent. But if any such attempt were seriously made in England, the people would rise up and destroy those at the back of it. Untold mischief might, however, be done in the process. The other alternative is to see that democracy func- tions properly. That is the line along which action will be taken, we may be, sure. AL- ready much has been achieved in this direction. Agriculture and transport are being recon- structed and reorganised, the burden of interest on the National Debt is being lighten- ed, unemployment insurance hus been beneficially reformed, un- employment is being reduced, slums are being cleared away, and the nation's finances have been placed on a sound and stable basis. What nation can show a better or as good a record, even under the guidance of a dictator? What has been accomplished by Britain so far shows that democracy can face the modern need for strong and active government. But in view of the campaign being carried out by the Black Shirts and the activities of other re- actionary elements, it is essen- tial that there should be no dis position to rest content with what has been achieved. There is greater need than ever to-day

MONDAY,

NOTES OF THE DAY

ANGLO-GERMAN THREATS

Mr. Neville Chamberlain's latest atroke of genlus, the proposal to collect interest on the Dawes and Young Loans by exproprinting German funds in England, prom- lees to land him in an unholy mess. The Chancellor, of course, does not make use of the term expropriation,

JUNE 18,

1931.

IS

HOME-LIFE DOOMED?

By SIR HERBERT BARKER

The Very Idea!

MADGE MAKES UP By Georgo "THE GOLDEN CANDAREEN."

Fifth Instalment.

but the extablishment of an Anglo-Aceeding in England; it in the guest without it? That is the THE night fell as Madge

German monetary clearing-house scrapping of the old-fashioned and the diversion of funds to meet the demands of British rentiers, amounts to that precisely is effect, and the threat has naturally been met by an emphatic refusal by Germany

enter into the negotia- tions which have been offered an

alternative. It was, is any event, ridiculous to extend an in- vitation to a party at which, obviously, the Chancellor and his advisers would appear prepared to dictate agreement to which tho German delegater would be given the privilege of appending their algoatures.

CERMANY'S POSITION

ore

arranged the Inst meat skewer in her hair and stepped backwards on the cat the better to survey her- self in the mirror.

question. If one considers the matter for a moment it becomes home for its modern equivalent. abundantly clear that we cannot Many acute observers of our scrap family life for the flat-week- social life see in this revolution end-sports-car idea, the first signs of social break-up

In the first place the trio, man, they the old-fashioned woman and child, is fundamental, people who still cling to the belief It is the great biological inw and

Except for a crack in the that the family is the only pos- from disobedience to it spring

and the unfor- sible permanent social unit cap- many of the maladies of our time. obe of her ear able of cementing any community. One of these, and one of the most tunate idiosyncrasies of nature

Many factors have brought notable, is

Is the result of elected which had decreed that she

an ugly about this tremendous change, childlessness upon the honith of should be

woman, for with changing economie con- women. The woman who can but Madge looked almost beautiful ditions such as shrinking incomea will not bear children goes unful-in the pitch blackness of her and soaring taxation have come

niled.

Her like fill the consulta- little bungalow, changes in ideas and Ideals.. tion rooms of the neurologist.

In Victorian times, when houses

Children, the strongest bond be- The amal having brought in were both plentiful and cheap and tween man and woman,, may In-lights, Madge dusted the room up domestic servants were like binck- volve to-day incessant sacrifice a tilt, took her feet off, the mantel- berries in September, it was

and demands of time and energy-piece, and went to the verandah, CRAY maiter for a man to found a particularly on the mother work: Meditatively she fumbled in the home and raise a large family. Jag with inadequate help. But top of her stocking for the familiar The Victorian age whs the they cause to blossom all that is Isla do Perfectos cheroot which, golden age of family life. It was best in the human character and, after taking her through two often dull, often dominated by an while they may bring the pains of instalments of our soul-searing autocrat who, na papa, posed na disappointment, they bring also serial, is still giving good service. the repository of all wisdom, but that sense of salf-fulfilment which It was

atraining ground of spells happiness, character which produced all the greatest figures of our age.

Obviously, it is futile to lament the passing

of the old-fashioned family. Yet is passing need not involve the ultimate destruction of this institution that goes back as

necessary human compromise to curliest times.

It does not follow that Germany's unilateral default should be un- critically condoned. There la, in- deed, cogent reason in terms of present thought, why the British Government should feel itself so firmly concerned with a declalon upsetting the whole principle upon which the Dawes and Young Loans were founded. Undoubtedly, Ger- many's finances are, in an exceed ingly parlous state. No-one will question that her transfer problem is one of extreme difficulty if obligations are to be met without injury to her monetary basis and internal economy. But it has long been the German fashion to cry off its obligations light-beartedly on the plea that it has not sufficient

generally borne by the woman. to meet the bills. Grounds for grievance and dix- approval of Germany's methods in auch matters exist, in the fact thut there never seems to be a inck of maney for active propaganda in Austria and the Baltic States.

resources

A

British bondholder may well feel angry when he knows his income might be nasured if Cermany looked after her own affairs and did not seex to meddle in other political fields.

THE OUTLOOK

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A

The rearing of children was no great task when the whole burden of that task did not fall upon the shoulders of the parents, but upon) that of paid governesses and nurses, supported by ample domes

Lic staffs.

The setting was perfect for the mating of two twin souls reflected Madge, scratching at a sand-fly which had penetrated to her fifth rib counting down- wards,

The night was still with a still- ness known only to Hongkong in must be reformed, What, then, faint murmur of a fire engine If family life is to be saved its most passionato moods, and the are the chief dimculties that con-thundering by, to the strains of front the family to-day? As I see music from half a dozen cabareta it, it is the unfair burden that is only accentuated the silence.

Now all that has vanished and. whatever the future holds for us, it is fairly certain that the old style family lias gone for ever.

There are married women to-day who do the work formerly done by The modern couple too often wife, mother.

governess and vate the rearing of children bore. And even those who would their lot because they are,

One hears littlo of parlour-maid. gladly people their homes with articulate, yet over-work is a in- youngsters cannot do so because commonplace in most homes that of limitations of income and house

We

4

·

What was that? What was what?

That weird mysterious call? Mudge started.

She had pricked her ears.

Surely that was. Jecjeebhoy? Her face at this point was merci fully hidden by a blush which atarted nowhere and finished at the same place.

It was marvellous how love

Again that weird call. Madge started.

accommodation. You cannot make still can show you a ring of faces A home function in a three-room about the table at meal times. flat. And because the majority of young people who are marrying to- Can this labour problem be over day are beglaning married life joys of a home that possesses pri- could transform this woman who, come without sacrificing both the such flats, or In houses little bigger, family life is disappearing.vacy and scope for self-expression accomplished in many pursuits, a We are approximating to the and children? Personally, I think hard drinker, a ludo player, and French ideal the family of one, it can. Let mo be concrete. Take the terror of the shroffs, was yet or two at most. The time for thinking of that

any road in any town. You have reduced to a wet sop by the proxi- however,

I hear some readers exclaiming: perhaps, two hundred little homes, mity of her lover. passed. The only effect of Britain's threat will be to The argument generally put for each house a woman, wife or cook And a good thing, loo! But is it? each one a self-contained unit. In stiffen Germany's attitude and the

expends fuel to cook for a small Chancellor will be faced with carry-Ward is that based on population-mber of individuals. Into each ing it out or surrendering ignom- we have more mouths already house go small quantities of essen:

are over-populated, they say. inlously. And that, of course, than we can feed."

tial foodstuffs, bought in small amounts and therefore bought in the most uneconomical way. The reply of the statisticians isi

In each house, too, day after different. Let the present birth day, throughout the year women rate remain as it is, and, along sit down to ponder the never-end- with it, the present death rate, Ing problem of the day's food. It and in forty years' time this must be bought, cooked, served. country will face a population problem represented by

up. Life for hundreds of thou- idens-and-outlook-that-will-bring in the vital statistic, a decline, and, that done, the dishes washed i l ́ainds-of-charming-cultivated Here, then, is the fundamental women under modern home condi- return to the tions is an Incessant and never- argument for family of four or more chlidren: ending round of avoidable labour.

means that he will introduce his lexislation and secure its pasange. Whether that will be to the ultim

ute good or otherwise depende upon the point of view. Those who belleve that the world must sink into complete economic chaos before there can be any hope of the revolutionary reconstruction

of

final security, peace and content- ment, will welcome the move. It will almost certainly add handsome- ly to existing confusion and carry stage further towards the total collapse which it is some- times felt must precede the estab) ishment of a sound order.

Us

*

ISN'T THAT THE CUTEST

IDEA ?

Just think of the example that the proposal seis and the wonder- ful opportunity for imitation and amplification. Imagine the sudden awakening of interest among those people in the United States who, in and out of Congress, condemn Britain's failure to meet her war debt instalments when they fail due.

comparing Picture them Britain's profession of inability to pay because of the transfer dim- rally and her attitude to a simillar plen by Germany, and adding to that a comparison of Britain's bund- getary position with that of Ger- many. There may be abuolutely no parallel, but can a die-hard Con- gressman war debt collector be persuaded to admit to any differ ence? Mr. Chamberlain, in his blind enthusiasm to collect £2,000,- 1000 for British rentiers, has dis- cavored ንየኒ almost foolproof method! The trouble is that it cannot be patented,

WHAT MORE ?

Even if

intelligence in the

United States is quick enough to see that attempted extraction by this method must be disastrous, it may be difficult to keep CongreRÐ in check. A whole host of compll-

for revivifying and re-vitalisingcations may ensure, are in fact in- democratic principles and apply- ing them with even greater vigour to the problems of the- day. To the extent that this is done, will the dreams of the dictators fail to come to frui- tion? There need be no fear of the prospect. The inherent common-sense of the British people will triumph_over alt obstacles and save the nation from embarking on experiments unsuited to its temperament.

herent in the clearing-house pro- posal. Bitter economic war be- tween two countries concerned in an obligations feud of, this kind is the Arst natural outcome. And should the Chamberlin painless extortion aystem be extensively imitated, the tual result scarcely fall short of complete in- ternational trade stagnation. But who cares? "On the Stock Ex- change, German bonds made a re- covery on the Chancellor's state- ment"

What moro could bo asked 7

cau

two starts but now she recognised So for sho had done nothing in

the siren of the 8.8. Hydrangea.

It was not Jeejeebhoy. Woulā he never come? Madge went Inside to wring horself out, crushing out the Isla de Per fectos cheroot against her horny palm and transferring it (the cheroot) to Its tie hiding place.

Meanwhile what of Jeejeeb.

hoy?

it is one based on racial, grounds. For this state of things I think To his horor he found that the For peoples that refuse to accept there is a very simple remedy, junk which he had chosen to carry the onerous responsibilities of parenthood decline and, in the end, namely, communal feeding in him to the arms of his love was common hall, such as is done in the Steam Laundry Junk Inden become numerically insignificant.

One does not need to be a rabid nationalist to desire to see per petuated the English character in

colleges and the Inns of Court with dirty linen. its dining-hall and later, no doubt, Such a systém, each road having

Last time we left him puiling up Aucial amenities would mean the the sails with one hand and his

a world such as that of to-day disappearance of the chief burden silken hose with the other but this For the English contribution to

the modern world is one that of the modern wife and mother. makes for good, since, in inter- national affairs, it standa for honour and justice.

was a printer's error. Actually he wound up the engine with one foot

Food bought in large quantities and kicked himself hard with the and cooked for large numbers other for being such an idiot. That character is the product of means efficiency and economy in centuries of home life. Would it}

(Continued on Page 6).

"I know how to get even, Let's organize a girls' club and leave. her out."

The smell from the linen whɛ 90 strong that the boat propelled itself without the ald of the en- gines in a vain endeavour to rid it- self of its load.

In his chagrin Jeejeebloy could have thrown himself into the har- bour, but at this moment he was passing the South China swimming club and he chanced to look into the water.

He changed his mind. Besides he could not let Madge down.

Doing a steady twenty knots the junk was fairly drinking up the distance betweon Reg and his love when suddenly, night fellf

of

Яссива

and

(To Be Continued.). (Don't miss to-morrow's instal ment which has tho setting tropical night for the, of glamour

pan- sion which will be aucted by those two romantio charactors of one of the most heart searching. dromas ever concocted by the imag- ination of man. Bealdos this is true! This is lifol. And remember, night fell For Badge it has al- ready fallen and we left her wring- ing herself out against a horay hand in a secret hiding plage. But what of Jeojeobhoy! What we have planned for this latt to-morrow, turns ne sick with remorag, but we must go through with it. After all a fellow that wears silken kose and kicks beggara in the panta: can't have it all his own way. What will Madge do to him when she discovera that he has left of his vest? Be- sidce we haven't told you yet that Jeejcobhoy in going sevensly to the rendezvou unconscious of tho nicotina stain which still tinta tho rosy pallor of his Anger tips. See to-morrow's stortling, denouementa of this web of intrigue and my- stery.)