MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1927, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) FINANCIAL. LONDON, Sept. 4. The “Investment Chronicle" commenting on the steadiness of the sterling in New York, says there is a feeling this «ill continue for sometime, as important support is promised in the shape of remittances to London of the whole proceeds of the recent Australian-New York loan. This \lill provide London buyers with forty million dollars with which to pay for cotton and graiii purchases. C LER GVAIEN ’ S IMPR ESSTOX. OF ENGLISH SEASIDE PLEASURES LONDON, Sept. 4. American Free Church clergymen who visited England to study life at holiday resorts, with a view to discovering whether England could teach ■America anything on the problem of keeping the seaside girl in her place, regretfully record disappointment, says the “AVeckly Dispatch.” The clergymen declare English decorum is ii anything worse than that observed at American seasides. Firstly, the girls skirts are over scanty, the necks over low and fashions generally seem designed to accentuate the coarser physical attractions. Secondly, the young women’s forwardness is most deplorable. The average girl runs unbelievable risks to her reputation, is the readier to make friendship with strange men than Americans, and the percentage of downfalls due to holiday friendships is higher than American. Thirdly, the tendency to throw off parental control as old fashioned, is resulting in holidays being taken apart from their parents. Fourthly, courting couples holidaying together are responsible for many moral shipwrecks. Fifthly, owing to police slackness immorality is easily possible on public places, endangering young men who aro subject to importunity by professional women, and amateurs drawn from unclmperoned holiday girls seeking a good time. Sixthly, vice is openly flaunted in the most attractive colours in entertainments. Seventhly, the churches are backward in preaching an antidote and God’s agents are missing, while Satan’s myriads are. working ceaselessly. Eightly, the craze for unseemly American dances. Ninthly, the bathing dress for lx>th sexes outrages the average sense of decency. Tenthly, cinema houses are sometimes mere houses of assignation, tho haunt of seaside philanderers preying on girls. The clergymen urge a world crusade against vice at holiday resorts during 1928.

BALDAVIN’S APPEAL. LONDON, Sept. 5. There are delegates, representing four million trade unionists, gathered at Edinburgh for the trade union congress, compared with representatives of six million unionists in 1924. The Congress opened with a special service at the Edinburgh Cathedral. Later Ml" George Hicks, the president speaking at Usher Hall, referred to Mr Baldwin’s appeal to the Congress to give a lead towards industrial peace. Air Hicks said that the trade unionists were prepared to do ■anything ■ humanly possible to introduce a little effectiveness into the present condition, “hut it must not bo a peace either of Slaves or Robots.” When requests were made to tho Labour Party for industnal peace, they generally heralded a savage attack upon workers’ standard of life.

R EVOLUTIO N ANNIYER SAR Y LONDON, Sept. 4. The Times Riga, correspondent states —“ln commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the Soviet is transforming the house at Ekaterinburg, where the. Tsar and his family were murdered, into a Communist Museum, exhibiting there documents relating to the 'J'Sar. RAKOVSKY EXPLAINS. PARIS, Sept. 5. M ltakovsky (Soviet representative) has issued a statement denying that he desired to meddle in the interior affairs of France. His recent declaration was made as a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and it had in mind the possibility of war against the Soviet Union, and did not apply to France, whose policy to Russia is considered peaceable FRENCH HOMAGE, PARIS, Sept, 4. The whole of France, including 49G ex-service men’s organisations was represented in a long procession which marched, with flying colours, through the Place De La Concorde, the Champs Ely sees and the Arch do Triomphc, after tlic Sacco-Vanzetti demonstrators’ recent desecration of the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior. Marshal .Toffre officiated at the rekindling of the sacred flame. General Gourand, the City Governor, and others, placed wreaths on the tomb, while the great crowd stood for a minute in silence.