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Death or Fines
};i�eS� Women
Atislof i) ,
Shooting of Girls as Reds Recalls Laws Based on View That
Shorn Locks .1n peril Masculine Rule
FEMINISM GAINS SLOWLY
Wives of Interior Continue Virtual Slaves; "`Flapper" in
Rebellion at Ports
Death by torture is not so popular ing the three months -'that they must
In China as it used to be. Medieval not bob their hair.
foram of punishment have not been l "After the expiration of three.
entirely abandoned in the interior, but months any ,girl found with bobbed
along the coast they are graduallY hair will be arrested and takenr pto the
giving way to the more modern way 1 yamen (headquarters).
of shooting people down in the ; will be notified and the fine imposed.
streets. The shooting process, prac- I The parents must then. sign a demi-
Med by the Nationalist troops, makes ('meat promising that neither their
no e:tceptio,t''ti favor ,of girls and we- • daughters nor daughters-in-law will
' men. It is in fact Particularly direct- I future.be permitted to bob their hair in the
eel at women with bobbed hair.
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"At least fourteen anbAssociated , collectcemen will not the fines. The be allowed to
ases' vill be
girls :and women;' says an.
Press dispatch from Canton, "have,handled at the yamen." That r ° the
been shot down by anti -Red troops. court officials and not the policemen
Bobbed hair is considered to he the pocket the money.
sign of a female Communist in China." Feminism Spread Slowly.
Setting aside 'the questionableassump-. Feminism, or the recognition that
Lion that every Chinese woman who women have rights equal to those of
1,s her hair must necessarily be a men, es progre:.sing slowly in China.
Back in the • interior woman • is still
abysmally ignorant so far as book
learning is concerned. Shesi the slave
of medieval tradition. Her feet are
bound and crippled. for the same, rea-
son that a horse is hobbled—to ham-
per her freedom. When she marries
shee must literally abandon the home
of her youth and become the slave' of
her mother-in-law.
Communist, it is interesting to con-
template the relation of bobbed hair
to murder in the streets.
Shooting women has a long record
of official atrocity behind it. Officials
'strained their imaginations to invent
fiendish tortures. Flogging was, and
still is, ;a punishment inflicted in a
public place where the populace may
be warned of the consequences of
crime. The flogging is performed
with bamboo, rattan or whip, It§
,severity is measured by the number of
blows ordered by a tnagistrate, and
death may ensue.
Executioner Adjunct. of Army
Of all forms of death a Chinese
most abhors decapitation because it
presupposes that he will appear in the
spirit world headless. I have seen in
China ghastly evidence of the prac-
tice of beheading persons in the
streets. A decspitating squad is no
uncommon sight. It is a necessary.
adlunct to an army and the execution-
-• er with his broad blade •.marches
through the streets and performs his
duties with cynical indifference.
The less botherstihe method of
shooting was adopted when\tare Chin-
ese soldiers learned to use foreign
guns. The average Chinese woman
was always more intelligent than the
average Chinese man, and it there-
fore was natural that the Chinese sol-
dier- did not discriminate in favor of
women when he wanted to shoot
somebody. As women with bobbed
hair are those who are not afraid to
defy tradition and generally are a lit-
tle sinarter than their sisters, they
aroused ..the contempt of the Chinese
.men who are inherently opposed to
any kind of feminism.
It is true that raidcal women in
China bob their hair, but it is not true
that every woman with bobbed hair
is' radical. When The Associated
Press say that any woman with bob-
bed hair is considered to be a Com-
munist, it is stating what the Nation-
alist army thinks„ although the Na-
tionalist army, like the politicians at
Canton and Peking, cannot be ac-
cused of doing_ much. thinking.
Bobbing Forbidden by Law.
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Masculine indignation against wo-
men bobbing their hair was aroused
long before the Communists began
fomenting trouble in China. Both
North and South China have officially
prohibited bobbing. The action -of the
Canton municipal Legislature is typi-
cal of the underlying tendencies of
Chinese men. The gray -headed wise
acres of the Legislature convened one,
day to take- cognizance of the growing
mmlace of women. The wise men of
the Far East believe that bobbed hair
is a Western abomination and that in
some mysterious fashion the woman
who bobs her hair becomes forthwith
endowed with the intelectual prowess The Laborer's Hire
of men, a thing not to be, tolerated, if
the right of plundering the public is
to be maintained.
"What," asked these Chinese gentle-
men, "is to become, or us if these
Westernized women go 'on bobbing
thaeir•hair? What is to become ot the
sacred rights of men?"
"It is moved and seconded and
passed," said the chairman, "that a
law be framed prohibiting the women
of this. province from bobbing," And
so in the province of I{wantung, the
• province from which nationalism
sprang, it is unlawful fora awoman to
bob, Happily the •• Cantonese women
ignored the law.
Fines for Cutting Heir.
Regarded as the inferior of every
man in the household, particularly her
husband and her husband's father, she,
is debarred from participation in any
social event that her husband ar-
ranges. She' eats apart from her hus-
band and if she accompanies him on
the street she must walk behind him.
In Shanghai it is common to see a wo-
man walking behind her husband with
the humility of a whipped dog. If her
husband chooses to have a secondary
wife that is none of her businecss.
But there are hopeful signs, hove•
ever meager. Feminism is at work in
the .treaty ports and: is slowly spread-
ing into the interior. In Shanghai
there are Chinese women pharmacists,
doctors, ;nurses, • superintendents of
hospitals, teachers, lawyers, writers
and stenographers, and there are
banks, clubs, publications and politi-
cal organizations managed by women.
Recently,, the Shanghai Municipal
Council, in deference to the demands
of women who wished to share in the
prosperity of the stage, passed an or-
dinance permitting Chinese actresses
to perform, which formerly had been.
prohibited as un!noral.
"Among Chinese women the flapper
is the glory of her sex. She has
adopted. Western manners without los-
ing her racial' characteristics. In
physical appearance 'she is slender,
quick in movement, dainty and femin-
ine, and she has a broad forehead be-
tokening intelligence, and bright,
mirthful eases. She bobs her hair,
uses a lipstick, rouges her cheeks,
dresses smartly in her native costume,
drives an `automobile, Charleston,
smokes cigarettes, 'plays golf and ten,
his, generally speaks English and
comports herself . with a snappiness
and confidence that seems to suggest
she is the intellectual peer of men. In
politics she is defiant of tradition,
reads modern books in preference to
the classic and allies herself with the
movement Itnown as Young China.
Converse with a Chinese flapper and
she will express her opinions in im-
peccable English on topics kindred to
to those that interest her Occidental
prototype.
It is not much to the glory of the
Nationalist armies that they should
find it necessary to shootrthis type of
women_in order to promote democracy
in China.
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RIVAL VALUE OF MI
Area, Compared to Best in Australia, Is Larges—"Gokdel
River"" at Altitude of 7000 Feet Defies Miners
With Strength of Its Current
Sydney, N.S.W,— •While seep `7?ros- 113.0 climate is very wet. " The di
ge
petters returning here from the Idle , gers are up in the mountains 4000'
Creep; gold#ieids in New Guinea add ;feet. Mountain torrents When ile
details to the extraordinary, facts :spate tear into the alluvial 'field, anti
about gold mining conditions there, one stream is literally a golden river,
other prospectors speak of having dis.e It is not yet kikOwn how to work lit,
covered 'yet greater riches in that lit- ' owing to the strength of tete current '
tie known land, They have found a even in normal times, but.it is nevem
stretch t:ifce sheep country ashich they ' tlieless pegged out as the best :Great bowldera require todbenremoved,
pronounce to be' as good*.
Australian. They also describe It as • and it the bed is ever worked le is ex*
being of enormous extent. • i petted that the rock bottom will yield
The :gold from Edie Creek is brought nothing but gold, the earth and gravel
to Sydney, and , the miners have ap- all being removed by the current,,,
peiled to the Government for a reduc- Tho men working the Edie Creek
tion in the duty. The views of the ;deposits do not guard their gold. It
miners may be understood from a! is kept in the tents in tea tins or any
statement of conditions surrounding i other receptacle that is handy. Some.;
one gold shipment to Sydney of the j times a friend coming into • a tent to
value of £ 23,000. Freight and the 1 borrow the sugar tin finds that he has
smelting charges (igcurred he
a gold tin Instead, and returns it with
totalled £ 1,335, and the balance of
£30,853, was the amount that was
taxed There are two taxing authorl
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ST. MORITZ, SWITZERLAND, AT TWILIGHT
The;end of the journey for Toronto's Olympic hockey team. When even-
ingstarts to enfold the snow-covered village in the Swiss Alps; and dusk steals
over the famous resort, lighted windows and still gleaming snow -clad heights
make a scene of rare beauty.
Regina Leader (Lib.): (The highest
salary paid the Dominion Government
Rust. Research Laboratory is $2,800).
Rust is the arch -enemy .of the West-
'ern farmer, the most serious of his
difficulties. If rust can be banished
from the wheat fields of the West,
great benefitswill accrue directly to
the farmer • and indirectly to all Can-
ada. The rust research workers have
been carrying on their work coneci-
entiously and capably, lint no man
can do proper work if he has financial
worries, and for this reason, and in
appreciation of the value and import-
ance of their work, these experts
should be adequately compensated.
It was in the hope of checking Otherwise
otCanad ofda s its ablest apt to lose
the
e
feminism in north China that a group
of militarists and politicians in Tient- servants.
sin recently had passed by the Chihli
Educational Bureau regulations for.
bidding women and girls to bob their
hair. It .is almost incredible that in
enedern times, a group of so-called
leaders should promulgate in the
newspapers a set of regulations such
as these, which now take the form' of
law,
so far as the the women of Tient-',
:sin and Peking are concerned:
"A fine will be imposed On any girl
Above the age of 'fourteen who hobs
:her hair. Parents
of girls tinder lout -
teen will be advised by the police
that ,they must not . cut the, hair ,bt
their daughters. .
"From the date of the issuance of
this order, 'three months will be al-
lowed for bobbed hair to grow. IAt
• the end of that time any • biris found
In the street wit 'bobbed hair will be
:subject to a fine.
"The police will • yearn women duIJ went would care tb twee:
annoyance, Sugar is almost as vain- e
able and sometimes more esteemed.
Only one woman was on this field
ties, the State of New . South Wales during the first six months of its his -
and the Federal Government. Tie tory. The miners aver that she was
state taxa to £1d to 65. 9d., and a „super -Florence Nightingale." As
to
the federal £1566 5ss.. 2d. The dig•
gers hope that the federal authority
will take into consideration the cir-
cumstances under which the gold ig and worked it foT her with native la•
won, and, allowing for them, make a bor.
great' reduction in the tax.
compensation for her many kindness-
es they passed a resolution that she
would have to be given a good claim
Snobs
London Advertiser •(Lib.) : There is
a false philosophy of life, which at-'
taches a higher social value to what
aro called white-collar occupations
than to mechanical. calling_: This is
quite a different 'tieing trom love of
learning or from respect for scholar-
ship, and it may influence people who
seldom open a book, while It Is not
uncommon to find a mechanic or a
working farmer who is a reader and
has a wide range ot intellectual in-
terests.
Confusing the. Issue
Toronto Globe (Lib.): (Toronto sup-
porters of the St. Lawrence waterway
accuse Montreal interests of mislead-
ing propaganda). The intimation that
Canadian power would be sacrificed to
Americans is one of those ridiculous
statements that are being passed
around to confuse the issue. Any one Aman was having a trial run in
who wishes to know the facts can per- one of those very small oars. They
use the report of the Joint Engineer-
ing Board which has been published.
It shows that there is an international
stretch of 115 miles in which part of
the power belongs to the United
States and part to Canada. On the
other portions of the waterway the
power generated would be wholly
within Canadian territory. As far as
we are aware, no suggestion has been
made that the United States should
have any power except that produced
in its own domain.
Peace River Problems
Rescued
A mutual friend recently "told an
+amusing story, illustrative of the
weedy wit of Miss Nellie Wallace, th4
well - known varietty artist. A
brother "Pro' was relating to the cam
parry a remarkable experience of hip
while in America. "It 'was whenI
was •in New ' York," he began: A
skyscraper was in flames. At one of
the windows stood a lady, but none
of the ladders was high enough to
reach her. We were just beginning
to despair of saving her when one of
the firemen had a bright idea. He
dragged the hose close to the build-
"I
uild
"I like this frock," she told the tam- ing, and shot a stream of water •direct-
ous dress designer, "but it's too tight l ly in front' of the window. Summon
here, here, and here. You could alter i tag up her courage the lady stepped
it?" "No, .madam; but if you care from the ledge, wrapped her, arms• and
to visit our beauty department on the legs around the column of water and
second floor they'll gladly alter you
to lit the frock."
"1f the countenance le the Index
of the mind a blank page would
rover that Item In some cases."
"Her; husband owes a lot to her,
doesn't• he?" "Sure; nobody ever
heardofhim before she shot him."
The servant of a ship's captain, an
Irishman, one day let a tea kettle tail
into the sea, upon which he ran c
his master. "Atrah, an' p
lase honor, can anything be said to be lost
when you know where it is?" "Cer-
tainly not," replied the captain. "Why,
thin, by St. Patrick, the tea kettle is
at the bottom of the. say."
British Immigration
Manitoba ;Free Press (Lib.) : Mr.
Amery has- announced that he is go-
ing be withtake upe o
Toronto Mail and Empire (Cons.) :
Cost of construction and maintenance
of new railways in sparsely settled
territory has been the obstacle in the
way of (Peace River development).
Yet the Peace River district com-
prises a tract of 12,000,000 acres of
rich agricultural land and has yielded
wheat of high grade. In the southern
'portion of the district is an extensive gates, is the GemetetlY of Dogs, where
sepia may bury animal pets. cases photographs of departed pets
coal field. Development of these re-�• ca plpce above elaborate. marble
tirces of the district is retarded by P p t
slid to the bottom and safety.
"That's nothing," murmured Mise
Wallace, "I saw an even more excit-
ing rescue than that once. A large
hotel was burning furiously, when, at
a top -storey window, a •girl appeared.
etarted off through the streets of • I staged, the firemen stared, the crowd
London. Suddenly the light of day I 'stared. In fact; everybody stared so
vanished, to reappear a few seconds I hard that finally the girl walked down
later. "Hullo," said the surprised
passenger, "was that a tunnel we went
under?" "No," replier thethde was
demon-
stration expert, 'carelessly,
a General omnibus."
the stares to safety.'
"I see you've got a new car. What
sort of bus is it?" "An incubus."
On An Island in the Seine
Is the Valhalla of Pet .Dogs
Its Marble Monuments Bear Sentimental Epitaphs in Many
Languages
In the Seine, a little way west of plot taken for a year, besides • ocra-
Perie, where the river curves between sional tips for keeping graves clear of
wooded banks, giving glimpses of weeds.
villages and pretty homes through the In this animal cemetery innumera
greenery, lies an island—I111e des bite paths twist about. She shade
Betes—dictated to a special sent'- and the form of trees • and boxwood
ment. On it, behind high triple bushes are such as to give the place
an aspect of solemnity. In many
e
A caretaker sits at the gate exhibit -tombstones. One huge tombstone
Ing an indifference that ti profound. bears the sculptured effigies of two
The only thing that bestirs him is dogs that belonged to a Russian
the arrival of persons with boxes Princess.
under their arms. He receives 30 Inscriptions on the monuments
francs (a little more than $1) for each are in Russtan, Japanese, Greek, Ger-
i
man, Spanish, Italian, English. One
I large flat slab .has a Japanese inscrip-
tion. Among the English iwsorip'
tions one finds such epitaphs as these:
"So small, yet every inch a dog,
Quisquis," and "Darling Crummy,
1925."
A French -couple are responsible Lot
the following: "My dog, Pierrot, me
good dog. For fourteen years you
lived my lite. Owing to your kind•
nese and your intelligence we were as
two souls that only death could seiner -
ate, - I cannot be consoled. Your
maser and I weep over 'you and will
neved forget you."
The grave is surmcnnted by all,
iron trellis from which depend flower -
lack of sufficient facilities for expor-
tation of goods from the district.
"Do you know how to make a peach
Cordial?" "Sure; send her some
candy."
Canada's Forest Industries
"mmleeeer • 1l arneues
MAi' &MOWING
CHIEF aCENTRES
FOREST INDUSTRY
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EXPORTS OF CANADIAN MERCHANDISE
TO UNITED STATES '
Values of Fiscal Year Ending March, 1027
Agricultural
Vegetable
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Products
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$594900,000
Animals
Products
NAn 8848.
Wood
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300,0 000,000 $67,b00,000
'!75,300,000 X242,
M in eral
Products
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$22,200,000
'e Dominion's Trade Vs/it'll the United States
The Bulwark of the r
pots felled with artificial violets. A
photograph of a mongrel is surround'
ded by • a beaded wreath. On the
trellis are hung metal plates bearing
the following tributes: "Ills birth-
day. We will never forget you,""An
teff�ectionatB souvenir," "These flow-
ers we place, weeping, on his stye,
to show how profound is our grief."
Marry lonely persons' oentre their af-
fections in dogs. Here is an •example
of the tributes they pay: "Little
7oulva, you alone were my real friend.
lThe best and most faithful compan-
rtnei h pretty unanimous agreement that the ion O of my large life."
grave entirely
• in -Canada's export trade with he- g forest resources are berg periwinkles 's fat flung. line of forest
a thank growth of pe
aaa mounting the w
an
The In
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rte
ate
the south. 1
to id 1 Tro
bots y of
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Dominion's
ui Government at
t thecovered
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tJ 1*United States protection ,
that such extension ion'sindustrialkeep ter trade in recent rank asotto a command- Prix de Drags. A list n. having to finance .altogether lopsided. take
the Dominion i Onl when one realizes what an from becoming'
y he United I ins problems, It is a question who This is is a very fdigngfled m�emogial. It
is land behalf of sold t t err
will Canada's trateg stat
f the
m butinevitably' an exten-clearly 1 1 P our exports to that cap 1 td institution he story of years of comradeshipMarble
na yn
o ro
,fat
ns
tee
ruin a
sion� t basis would mean apptecfate what a g , t i that the Dom 1rP •
largecontinue to ex- forested •tined on six fleet htgli is. ittsrribe.
With
Ottawa the. matter o extending rkles is
3,000 family project.... dCanada will
I one an extension of the dustrias stands out as perhaps the vies Is
readily we _ That• silos of forest products alone have en- (steadily this situation, efficient forest dedicated to the rnemoty
yto dight of
project on � e consideration. is most striking feature of the- Derain- n and management must I a horse that was killed � �i�i�tvictories
ea not involve keep the Dominion the Unr od States
a e s `
h t halon db landscape 1 t i with f anad fi d
large purchases e an Off enormous volume of commerce these Last year Canada so. t o i
mittetlly the sums ata 242,000,000 worth of commands the active conte
the newcomers. Ad industries support, and wli States toughly. el Of those who find employment ; must be noted that not all tare 'neer p•
retest;indu this class of merely Will -be repaid, and
there keeping paper products, r or of those whose 'tions are ridiculous. Many a
thus laid out N . dominant role they: play in l 1 wood and P P I
.all robabilrt be 'Very , 'States. representing more than half et an forest arlclust 1'in that field, but of epitaphs teiX an hon,eet and simple and
not to P , y with the }:lulled rods rel' a is investee ! 6t
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tech loss, , Eifel even keel, can ono tits tory v.t rte every Individual a
on the prosmn as huge stake the cottntt y. ie seeing ' On a slab of Mar e
;the purchase of laird it ally num-
enedien%DeOele have in forest Mettle -
cal
long C:a7tatlo� raft
- ou be brought out, .t forest ,rothwts at. such a: rate is I cotuntei•cial Paddefl stosyin dined rial "latish.
bell of families aret'aYt. Pott i
.move would involve event- �` thea a c ucstion which few persons would an even s 1 Canada," "Colne on, old mar.."
a«
ca� cons''tlerations Which no Ciovorn• These hu>.5c�reds o��ill+, l�Y :oP care to try to answer, for titers. is a Yt,asout ce>., C
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form the ntuilt seinen' ing P•
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