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NOTES OF THE DAY

ALBERTA'S EXPERIMENT

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AUGUST 31,

1935.

IS ENGLISH CRICKET

GOING BACK-

By J. A. FREEMAN (Sports Editor of the Daily Mail)

an in-

to play. The strain of the heavy and final Test match against county programme on the profes |

England team for the fifth South Africa at the Oval, begin-alonais, with the constantly in-

tive cricket, is becoming ning August 17, will be announced creasing demands' of representa- this week-end. It would be, sur- prising if there are not a number tolerable burden. of changes from the side that falled in attack at Manchester and left the position with South Africa (AS one up and only one to play.

Winter tours abroad, the visits of international sides here, the six- of county days week domand cricket-with the seventh day often spent in travelling-dre making the game into a non-stop business in which no man can give consistent-

It is a measure of the presently of his best. standard of English cricket that already the selectors have called on a suflicient number of players in the four games already played to make

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of our comparative

stances

Put aside the unhappy circum

that led to the loss to England, last year and this, of the services of Harold Larwood, the

for the past ten years. greatest fast bowier in the world we imaging his retaining the full power of his tremendous physical energy for three years, summer and· winter, without a break?

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Was so great a task ever imposed on Richardson or, Lockwood?

Athletes of the running track have to take every precaution against becoming stale or "burnt out." Is there.

no one to

take

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From the Office Butts We have not been able to discover the "Day of Excessive Heat" in the Chinese calendar, but believe that it is approximately from January 1st to December 31st. (More or less).

According to advertisements and news items, house dogs go for next to nothing these days,, especially

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We have still to discover the man who has seen a double eagle!

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We

haven't heard much about Hongkong nudists this summer, Possibly they cannot bare publicity.

Signs of the Colony's Industrini expansion are to be found in the opening of a penel! factory in Kowloon. This seems a step in the write direction.

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A reader asks; "What's to be dene niout these slit skirts?" We'll have to look into them.

O 0 Week's Silver Review: The

ta indications, contrary Early general expectations, revealed un upward tendency, with a slightly

effected with little enthusiasm, with the exception of bars, which were attractive mainly on account of the hot spell, the offtake being con-

siderable.

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The province of Alberta, Canada; has elected a reartionary Govern- ment, heated by Mr. William Aberhart, Canadian-born, but of The Govern- German extraction.

much, before it ment promised was a Government, as Governments will. Now, however, Mr. Aber bart is installed as Prime Minis ter. He controla the destinies, to a great extent, of a territory of 240,000 square miles and a populn tion of some 600,000, the majority of them on the land, farming one of the richest wheat areas in the world. He will presently be re In the minded of kin promises.

Mr. Aberhart election campaign described a system of government, which he characterised as a Hocini everyone knows, this last match was credit scheme, and which entailed drawn, and South Africa won the the payment to every adult per-rubber. son in the province of a "dividend" of $25 a month. But until now he has remained distressingly Canadian corres- as the vague,' pondent in The Economist puts it. about the practical application of scheme. The fundamentul

By this week-end, the idea behind the plan is that the eo complete elevens-with a man

to spare. Albertan farmer will get not the world price for his products, but total may reach 25 or 26. We have gone bark, then, to the gloomy days a "just price," which is fixed by a provincial commission. or 1921, when Australia won three

"Just price will be gub stantially higher than the world of the five Test matches decided, price, and in urder to enable people with two drawn. Only 13 Austrs - to buy at these higher prices Mr. Hans played in those five games: Aberhart proposes to issue "social | Eturland in all put u in the fold. Fredit certificates on the basis of $25 per month to every citizen.

It is a striking fact that in the "He describes," says The Beans mist, "such an issue of certificateseries of Test matches against Aus as the dividend

Community tralia from 1877, England lost the thought for our cricketers?,

Before 1903, the sending of a And in a heritage'. which for several years past his rubber in every

*The ter of private enterprise. Then heen afflicted with drought, grass years in which more than 20 difTest tenm to Australia was a mat-downward inclination, Sales were

other agricultural ferent players were selected. hoppers and plagues, which has seen its market number of men chosen was the in the M.C.C. took charge. in the United States almost com

I believe it would be to the last- pletely closed, which has even the price of its chief products fall to weakness. Mr. P. F. Warner, the pitiably low levels and which is present chairman of the Test Selve-

they'd harassed with a tremendous burdention Committer, may well sigh for ing benefit of English cricket, at

Duly dollars. Naturally avoid the coppers. of public and private debts, im- the golden age of English cricket home and abroad, if the M.C.C.

land. possible to liquidate at the present when England's team was almost went a step farther and took control

of a self-elected. It is his own con- f representative cricket In Eng-changer's shop the other day took prier levels, the prospret assured income of $25 a month is sidered opinion that the strongest sale that has ever represented this mor than ordinarily alluring."

euntry was the eleven which played at Birmingham in 1902, although in that year we lost the rubber.

Here are the names: plan won im-

(capt.) of threatened wars of aggres. | mediate and enthusiastic suppert A. C. MacLaren

the embittered and dis-

Alberta C. B. Fry

K. S. Ranjitsinhji The query is pertinent gruntled farmers sion?

the Socini Credit Party on the eve of the Council meet-When

went into the election campaign F. S. Jackson ing called to determine what it swept the country. Only hulfG, L., Jessop

the "t rozen (15 juction, if any, shall be taken in Ja

nominees were returned. the Italo-Abyssinian dispute. Sorial Credit candidates went rid Speaking generally, whatever ing to the Legislature on tile field. The other five were 1. C.

As a series of five four-lay Test the dangers and difficulties may

the Premier- himself be, the broad principles are clear all opposition. So Mr. Aberhart and Tate (FW.

he has approximate.

from his county for It is not out of an exaggerated matches in this country takes a enough. Every effort should ect:

to respect for the past that one writes, man TRAY sook [be made to prevent any breachly 400,900 adulta and who knows

how many

residence in Alberta), that the Test matches of those days games, the further encroachment establish

clusive The financial loss could be made of obligations, and then, if the

want $25 each month were invested with a glamour and is not so serious as it seems,

n glory that

any explana-good, almost wholly, by the attrac- each county aggressor actually goes to war, who will all the other members of the from me on, as he promised; he

has a practically empty. trensry: qualities. Is there

them twelve Test matches played in 1934 would get of a three-day game with League should, unite to protect and the provincial revenue is much tion of the fact that in a series of tive fixture which will try and 1935 (to date) against Aus- the National Team. the victim of aggression. This reduced. fle will

The chosen of the M.CC. would 17 first-class each of the much, at least, the collective "social credit." They

groceries with this seripi,tralia, the West Indies, and South

and, say,

three other For them it BERESSecurity system requires--if it and pay their landlords. The land- Africa, we have won only two and

of a thunderstorm? It is but the counties is to be given any meaning at hrds and the butcher and baker, one of those by the fortuitous help play

and so on, will present the script

the self-administration of an oplate to representative sides, all. A more pertinent query

the Government, and

Against from the 20, 28, and 30 games une up in the matches relates to the duty of the Government will back it with its suggest that we should have been would be a refreshing reduction South Africa if four days had been which the majority of our counties individual members of the Lea- credit. What seems to be bother-

Italy's complaints against the gue in the present crisis, Greating bankers, however, and others allotted to cach.. I believe that too now play in the clinmpionship com-

who are supposed to know some-

international standard of play, su The team would have the oppor-slave trade in Ethiopia suggest that Britain and France in particular, thing about minuses and economics, much cricket is bringing down our petition.

take the "sin" out of Abyssinia. for it is they who will in practice is the problem af maintaining high even in defeat in the days of tunity of becoming a team in the what she really wants to do is to

0 · ធ determine League policy. It may Alberta's credit. For although the

the Wage earner may be satisfied with A. C. MacLaren. Modern indus best sense of the word, be admitted at once that

"script," and possibly the landlord trial and economic conditions are i

amateurs who can afford the time Jcalls for drastic action. League does not require in- also, somewhere in the scheme of limiting severely the number of The state of England's cricket

iso- things someone is going to ask [dividually determined and

for cash. How Mr. Aberhart wil

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SATURDAY, Aug 31, 1935.

THE LEAGUE AND

THE CRISIS What is the duty of the League of Nations in the face!

quicK RESPONSE Mr. Aberhart's

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Thieves who broke into a money-

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mind the definite 1 have in

A golfing novice thinks we might formation and maintenance of an England team, recruited from the Counties, chosen and paid by the find work for some of our unem- M.C.C., and numbering not mareployed by putting them on to en-

larging the hules at Fanling. thou 18 men in all.

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The present governing body is Control of Test Board of the

New Deßnition-A spoil-sport good thing Matches at Home, a hybrid whose- existence is as nebulous as its title is one who No's n

when he sees it. is cumbersome.

Hirst Braund Lockwood

party"

But the

In that year only 16 men Wore cricket eap on the an England

The counties would oppose this Their propusal, revolutionary

or players. chief complaint would be the loss

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"Ceil de Mille Spende £200.009 on Cleopatra," says a cinema ud-

of popularity which swept away 'alairet. Hayward, Abel, Barnes, of the services of their star playel | vortisement. That makes Antony

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OPPORTUNITY lated action from its members, overcome this difficulty remains to But until he does, he is A rareful reading of its provi-be seen. sions shows that in all plans for going to face perilous ways, and wrath of u misted action, it is the Council which possibly the

a number of these There are Models still left and this is an opportunity which should not be. missed.

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even

though

its advice has

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be carried into effect by in-She is naturally chary, there- sovereign members.fore, of appearing by the side of Imagine, then, that the Council Great Britain in uncompromis- in fact is not sufficiently agreed ng opposition to Italy's present ambition. But Great Britain Is has the whip hand in the matter. to come to any conclusion. the individual country-or to be if she chooses to use it. France quite plain, is Great Britain-is devoted to the League, for it required to act as policeman for jis the shield of her security, and answer here he knows that it alone brings the world? The

should be quite clear. There is

fher into the European system. In pre-war days Great Britain

de-

no such obligation imposed by kept as far as she could out of

But that Continental politics and League membership. does not dispose of the matter.pended for the maintenance of on what is known as a She The British people and the peace

balance of power policy. British Government are quite has now definitely abandoned [convinced of the need of strong her pre-war policy and placed concerted action. It is, there- her faith in the League of fore, the plain duty of her re- Nations system. If her states- presentative at the League's men point out quite clearly to Council to express that opinion the French Government that in unequivocal terms, whoever feebleness will now destroy the League irretrievably, and that may be offended or disturbed, she may, therefore, be compelled It is hoped that the result will to return to her old-time aloof- AND $35.00 each shispectors. The difficulty, ness, there will be some prospect

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of course, is France. Recently of France coming into line. her relations with Great Britain With France and Great Britain, have been somewhat strained, and therefore the Council, deter mined, ie it likely that Italy will and she has, after years of fric-persist in defying world opinion? tion, arrived at friendly agree-The answer to that question will ments on many points with Italy, 'soon have to be given.

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"I have to give up eigars, and you let him blow in money 100 that."

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In these days of fast cars, it's alang. the road at twenty miles an hour. nothing in see a pedestrian rolling

Flour is said to be the equivalent we'd like some self-ruising money of money in some countries. Well, if it can be managed.

A flome laundry is advertising liberately; do they? for a finisher. So they do it de-

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Even a bit of cool cheek wouldn't be so bad this hot weather.

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Which reminds us of the young "lovely" we saw shopping in shorts the other day. She certainly was a cool customer.

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the anti- In connection with noise campaign in Londen, silen- cers are being fitted to pneumatic road drills. Couldn't they also be used on some of our Hongkong

street hawkers?

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Then there was the golfer who could play all right but was re- fused admission to a club because he couldn't pass the language test!

Chopper attacks are far too common in Hongkong, according to a magistrate. Maybe this ex- plains all these chopped dollars..

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A Pealt resident has successfully grown raspberries. We are not sure that this is not singular!

Our Lido may be quite exotic; But there's room for one little-

CUBA.

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Although it does seem idiotle- You can't travel there by a bus! :

There is no truth in the rumour that local Rotarians propose to spend a joyous afternoon at their children's playground with the. Australian flappers.