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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1936.

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TRADE BARRIERS AND RECOVERY The destruction of trade bar Jack Hulbert riers, according to the popular Evie Hayes conception in many parts, would Evle Hayes Sam Browne allow the unrestricted recovery If I had rhythm in my Nursery Rhymes Tho Star and the Rose

Sam Browne of international commerce and Faithful Jumping Jack (Heykens)

would bring back to the world a Marek Weber's Orchestra .Marck Weber's Orchestra prosperity long lacking. This Alfredo Campoli & His Orchestra particular commercial cult can

Standchen (Heykens) Obstination

BD-331

C-2833 "Follow the Sun"-Selection-Parts 1 & 2

Are

you

the type

for marriage?

NE British marriage in

ON

in

seventy-five ends separation. Every year more people are divorced.

In 1934 4,200 of Britain's |8,000,000 families were brok- en by divorce, 11,000 by separation orders.

In 1913 there were 1,267 divorces, Between 1715 and 1775 there was only one divorce a year (the explanation being that until 1867 each divorce mennt a special Act of Parlia- ment and cost nearly £1,200).'

Fun

statistical

survey

-how, why, what

people get divorced

entertainment, ja contemptuons of not bring happiness, but with it old-fashioned standards.

you can be unhappy in comfort.

insted fewer than five or more Hà (or her) marriage probably

than ten years, Fifty per cent.

Two

GLANDULAR

cretions play an,

wards divorce: 40.9 per cent. wanted it made easier, 46.2 per cent. said No. 12.9 per cent. were uncertain.

There is not the same fear of social ostracism as in pre-war days. In sonic circica divorce is considered rather a distinction.

Private detectives often used to apend eighteen months to two years in ferreting out evidence for a case. Nowadays, the average time is about four days,

A recent

Questio-

naire by a London desertions. Usually the husband provides all the evidence. He does not trouble to defend the petition, or else he cannot afford to.

The vast majority of people who use the divorce courts are of mode-

rate income. It costs from £60

to £100 for an undefended pet|- tion. To defend it may cost four or five times that amount.

Probably 15 per cent, of 'the' un-

defended petitions could be satis been the money to fight.

Divorce often means ruin to a small trader.

int more thri tem se da, though important part in marriage. the fifth year is most dangerous. They determine whether your factorily answered if there had templating remarriage. Sixty-two antly male or female..

He (or she) is probably con- characteristics are predomin- per cent. of all divorced persons remarry.

If your own particular.secretions out of three divorced men marry very soon are three parta male and one part after their decree is made abso- female, you ought to marry a woman with three paris female lute.

traits and one part male.

If you marry a woman with one. half female, one-half malo traits, your marriage will be unhappy.

Three out of five divorced women find second husbands. divorced woman's chance of re-

A

WHAT sort of people get divorced? Is there a divorce type? A cheru- bic policeman who stands out- skle the Divorce Courts claims to be able to distinguish between divorcés and ordinary folk.

"The women look as if they voukin't

home A

und wouldn't want to. The men look cranky."

Doctors, lawyers, and private marrying stands at evens if she is detectives

under forty, at 6 to 1 against i disagree about the

over that age. existence of a divorcé type.

Do you know any divorcés? If you lived in London before you came to Hongkong you probably do Bight thousand of Britain's 35,000 divorcés (about 21,000 avomen, 14,000 mẹn) live there.

THEC average divorce Is A Protestant, propertyless, childless. Forty- two per cent. of divorcel mar- riages are childless, 33 per cent. have only one child.

He (or she) is not very healthy. He is superficial in most things. including love, which never gets deeper than romantic enthusiasm. He calls himself for she calls

herself). modern, likes artificial

Tango Habanara Alfredo Campoli & His Orchestra paint a vivid picture of condi- NOTES OF THE DAY

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Jack Jackson's Dorchester Hotel Orchestra follow the renioval of tariffs and JAPAN'S EXPLANATION BD-337 The Town Talks-Piano Medlay ... Vivian Ellis (Pianist) trade preferences, and when

Japan's official explanation of BD-338 Reminiscences of Friml-Paramount Theatre Organ

their argument is backed by such the orgy of smuggling in North Foort

a mighty industrial power as China is that it is partly due to BD-336 Songs of Songs Moya) (Piano Accordeon)

the United States, it is bound to China's high tariffs and partly George Scott-Wood

to the fallure of Chinese local command

However, respect. Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life (Herbert)

authorities to safeguard revenues George Scott-Wood the case for world free trade is Gershwin Medley

Renara (Pianist)not unanswerable. While iteruing to the Central Govern- ment. It will be noticed that the may not be cusy to offer a cut-matter of Japanese connivance in and-dried programme in prefer- this illegal business is convenient- ence, at least some of the weakly ignored: the whole blame is nesses-in-the-architecture of thrown ou to the Chinese. It will non-discrimination can be in-not, of course, be disputed that the factors mentioned contribuid

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THE average divorce but is usually between thirty and age is going down. forty. Men as old as ninety nine have sought divorce. Nine youths and eleven girls under twenty had been divorced at the

time of the 1931 census,

Ilere in a table of divorced men's jobs, drawn up by an eminent ilivorce lawyer:-

Services .... Artistle professions ... Leisured classes Commercial travellers Pour persoGS Business people

Lawyers

2247 18% 16 1467 1247

10

20

10%

Doctors Unclassified Clergymen Service pouple have plenty of leisure and they are often separ- ated from their wives. "Lack of occupation is the father of divorce," said the compiler of this table.

domestic habits.

MEN and women

enn be divided into successful and unsuccess. ful husbands and wives,

Generally speaking, a good husband is amiable and placid He does not mind being told This does not what to do. necessarily mean that he is lacking in initiative, but he is inclined to be cautions and con- servative. His passions do not run high.

A good wife is docile and un- aggressive. She likes company, is rather afraid of solitude, has not got much faith in herself.

The bad husband is arguments tive and restless, does not know his own mind. He is moody and rather particular about the com- pany he keeps. He resents discip ine and thinks that he is being badly treated. Often he is am- bitious and has A very good opinion of himself, but lacks the mental stamina to succeed.

Unmanageable, and seek

If he defends the action it wil absorb his profits for years to come: if he falls to defend, local prejudice muy kill his business.

Hundreds cannot defend them- selves, have lost their jobs, their businesses. Here is a typical letter sent to a London news-

paper:

"My first wife died, my second

marriage was a mistake. I grot

divorced and married a third time

eight years ago. We are automati exiled by relatives and friends. what hurts most of all, the ones who condemu me most are my own children by my first wife, now grown up.'

enlly condenmed, ostracised...and.

WHAT happens to

the man who agrees to divorce his wife? He sends her an hotel bill for a double room.

A few days later a clerk serves him with a "Petition for Dissolu- fion of Marriage." Then a letter comes asking him, under threat of legal action, to pay "alimony pend-

ng sult."

For five or six months he pays. Then his ense, lasting a few minutes, results In decree nlsi with costs. After six months the decree is made absolute.

Next comes the bill of costa. Poor persons can get a divorce for £5. Poor" incans that you muat not have more than £2 a week or more than £50 worth of clothes or tools. (In special cases these limits may be extended to £4 and £100.)

A recent Question- home.

naire by a London

Anthony Cotterell

He regards his wife an a bin- drance, but when he leaves her hu Members of the artistic pro- does not do any holter. Seventy fessions are very self-centred and per cent, of the men uppising for inclined to be irritated by little separations at one court blamed on their wiver things. Said U.S. judge T. F. their troubles Moran, after 24 years on Reno "dispositions."

Gretna Green" of American di- The bad wife is neurotic and vorces) bench: "If people would unmethodical. She cannot run her rise high enough to overlook little house efficiently. She is ambitious

DIVORCE COURT things there would be no lack of and self-assertive. She does not

lawyers would harmony.

care what happens to other peopic live in smaller houses if every. The leisured classes are lower providing that the right things married couple obeyed these on the list. Usually they have happen to her.

five rules suggested by the fore- nothing to gain by divorce. Ime wives become neurotic-going-facts-and-figures-(1) felity is accepted,

Have children.. (2) Keep Commercial travellers are never because there is too much insulin healthy. (3) Take an interest home long enough to develop in their blood streams," anys anc It is fairly obvious that the to the evasion of Customs duties.

doctor. That kind of wife can be in family life. (4) Do not boss. (5) Spend as much time and big, industrially

Poverty breeds more unhappiness cured. established but that is quite a separate nepect

money as possible on your nations would have an immense of the problem from organised than prosperous persons like to think. Ninety per cent. of poor advantage over those whose in- Japanese activities aiming at the

persons' litigation is matrimonial. dustries are scarcely out of the snatching of trade advantages and

The divorce rate is high In over- newspaper reflected the tremen- chrysalis stage, and to which athe undermining of China's tariff crowded conditions. Wealth may dous change in our attitude to

autonomy. Even the Tokyo certain measure of protection-

Gov@gment, we imagine, would tariffs are the simplest forms— is vital. Moreover, there is the notiously contend that high difference in labour and produc-have been described as a deliber tion costs to be considered when

ate stroke of Japanese govern- one advocates the end of dis-

mental policy and not a mere criminatory trade agreements. matter of local military action. For instance, even an established There is, at any rate, something industry like that of Britain's intensely ironical in the reference textiles would have suffered ex-to the safeguarding · of the tinction in many of its biggest Nanking Government's revenues markets had not the tariff wen-jat a moment when Japanese inter- pon been used against Japan. Jests are seeking to bring bank. Similarly, mass production in ruptcy to that self-same Govern- big industry cannot be met in ment. As a London journal hints it will take something more than open competition by even the

specious phrases most skilled labour of the small Japan's professed concern for factory, except in a specialised stability in the Far East to de market. Even the agricultural monstrate to the world that such industry of a smaller nation can-concern really actuates the Tokyo not compete with that of a more Government, land-rich or low-wage neigh-

bour; nor against the dumping

tariustify auch tuetles, which

WHAT HAPPENS IN AN HOUR

THE League of Nations is constant- ly making researches and regards the compiling statistics as work of mankind all over the world. These statisties and other data which I have collected from different sources have enabled me to construct a composite picture of everything that occurs every sixty minutes all over the globe.

Five thousand four hundred and and forty human beings are born 4,630 die hourly, This leaves a dif- ference of B10 to assure the increase of the human race, regarding

One thousand two hundred couples hourly enter the holy bonds of

whilst

of their matrimony, disillusioned brethren in an equivalent врасо

of time seek refuge in the divorce courts. Here we have a dif- ference of 1,115. So those pessimists who moan about "the matrimonial crisis" are in error, but the experia, on the contrary, assert that this very number-95-proves that such

-ideal crisis does really exist. The amount would, of course be 0; but alas! for from this being the ease, divorces are on the increase.

Civilisation is shocked hourly by the newn of 16 murders. These crimes, unfortunately, are aino alightly on the up-grade..

of

Ninety-nine thousand, six hundred | his world-famous song, "Valencia." in tons of sugar are being hourly pro- a quarter of an hour, has 390 far duced, but

this number only

earned from it the comfortable sum 18,000 tons are consumed. One cut

of £13,000. therefore observe for oneself the over- production prevalent in the sugar industry of the world. But, in spite of this, there are thousands existing in the world to-day who are complete ly unable to secura' their fully needs in this respect.

One hundred and seventy-six tona of rough tobacco are being, qultivated hourly, which means cigarettes, cigars, and pipe tobacco to the value of £300,000.

Most interesting are the figures showing the amount of liquid refresh ment indulged in hourly by human beings. Three and a half million pints of beer, and fifty million cupa of coffee are being imbibed,

Colossal figures en bo had in the solid food. department, Fifty million pounds of potatoes, eight and a half million pounds of meat, seventy million pounds of bread, two and a half million eggs are consumed by

mankind.

Earning Power

Having discussed the production On an average, 198,600 crimes are, and consumption of all these com- committed hourly all over the world,modities, it would be very interesting and of these 177,000 are punished.

tactics too often adopted to-day, and, in self-defence, shout to and which have proved effective their neighbours that reciprocal preferences are the only means even against tariffs.

The time may come when the of countering the commercial advocates of free commercial offensive launched upon them. It intercourse may change their is to be conceded that the tariff tunes. There may be n day, not system has been grievously so far in the future, when Rus-abusod, that excessive economic, sin, with a vast organised labour nationalism still retards world

Those "Terpsible for the remaining to know the hourly earning capacits army at its back, will step.into recovery. Complementary agree21,600 are never brought to justice. of a human being. the world markets and undersèllments, leading to a lowering of · Legal exports are of the opinion that Average wages range from 1d. to

this la other producers even in their some of the walls, are essential.

distressingly high figure £30 an hour. The former is paid to which must, at all costs, be drastical Chinese coelic, the latter to home markets. What will the But until Inbour standards at-

ly reduced in the near future.

president of an American electrical trust. defence be then? We venture to tain greater uniformity, univer-

World's Sweet Tooth suggest that advocates of uni-sal free trade might defeat the versal free trade might then very aims which is advocates scramble behind a tariff wall desire.

Factories are Lourly at work on 1,000 tons of animal and 300 tons of botanical wool.

the

There are more impressive incomes in the world. For example, José Padilla, the famous contponer of Spanish Hight music, who compared

i

One hundred and fourteen thousand telegrams are delivered hourly all over the world, and it is interesting to note that more than half of these are sent for business purposes, the other half being of a private nature. This is an unmistakable sign of the extreme state of teusion in which we live to-day, where speed and even greater

Apeed seems to be the. essential objective of everybody. Postal Millions

One billion one hundred and furty. one million six hundred thousand letters, postcards, parcels, &c,, 'flow hourly through the post, all of which bear stamps to the total value of £5,000,000.

The international film Industry, the gigantle growth of which has been unsurpassed by any other In the than world, uses up hourly moré thirty million miles of films.

Sixty million copies of various dal ly papers are printed hourly all over the world.

sols of In conclusion, two inore

quoted. This Agures might be terrestrial planet of ours in travelling rate of 1,114 approximately at the miles an hour, and there"nie"on" an average four storms and ono carth- quake hourly all over the world.

One must realise that these figures are by no means Incontestably ac curate. Everything in the world undergoes change, and they no exception to the rule. But for general practical purpose they serve- as n‘useful, guide,

Michael Lorent

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