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The median of ex, the general efect was economy for MONEY... change was undoubted the masters and hardship for the ly a device of co-opera- men. Now arose clamour for re-
tion.
SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1920,
LOCAL/AND GENERAL.
Messrs Alfred Holt & Co. Ltd.
“LOCAL AND GENERAL.
is deservedly one of the most un popular characters in fiction. Many af us don't want the ascetic life which is, ar was, supposed to be This may be shortened into form, and the numerous Socialistic of Liverpool, have recently given Steam Navigation Co. of Hongkong. The name of the Anglo-French essential for admission to the white the paradox, capitalism is a form panaceas, mostly asking for retro-E15,000 to the Liverpool University Ltd, has been struck off the register. robed, harp-playing heaven of our of co-operation. The idea of gression for reversal of develop Appeal Fund. Sabbath schools. The sanctimoni private property is primal and ment, for a return to eather and ous, cranky creatures who have natural, and accounts for the inyen more primitive conditions. The
One fatal case of -plague,
The total cutput of the Kallas Mining Administration's mines, for the week ending June 26, amornted. to 70,687 tons and the sales during the period to $3,113 tons.
Perhaps it the nations of the world. would let up a little on print- ing paper money the price of paper would drop. Even the rouble will go up if the price of paper does not stop soaring, remarks the North China Star.
done so much to make the name of tion of money. The ides of com- simplest and most obvious proposal Lynchers in a western American which the victim was a Chinese. virtue a reproach, the thought of monal property is modern and un-would have included a clear view of town, starting out to hang a pre-recorded in to-day's return of noti goodness almost unattractive, may natural, except in so far as it is the end already noted, and a law fiteer, changed their minds when fiable diseas6, easily do more harm then the mis-optimum cerebration devoted to ordaining that the British com- they found shopkeepers asking such taken business manager who im-reducing complexity. What we call manity should be industrially self-high prices for rope. agines that the public cannot be the evils of competition are evils of suficing, producing only enough for entertained unless the appeal is complexity. Merely to live is to its own needs, in sherian indus- Mr. A. Fergusson. late of the coarsened. The result of the efforts comjete, and we must co-operate to trial Monroe Doctrine. That would Hongkong & Shanghai Bank has re of those who would hanish all fan compete. Society needs some of have been a more from the com- turned to Shanghai after a holiday from our lives, and who regard the both. The right proportion is the plex to the simple. as most of these at Home. He is joining Mr. E O. theatre and all connected with it problem.
Bolshevistic schemes are meant to Cumming as an exchange broker. as wicked. if such efforts were
Com- Co-operation for produc- be. They will not work. entirely successful, would be to
TRADE. tion involves competi-munism, for instance, does not Rev. J. H. Blackstone, secretary make life for some of us intoler-
tion in selling. Com abolish the inequalities that blemish of the Stewart Memorial Fund, has able by its very flatness and in-petition in selling calls for cheap the capitalistic system; it merely returned to Shanghai from America, sipidity. Indeed virtue would soon labour. Means to ends begin to replace one set of inequalities with Mr. Blackstone's mission is to spend appear repulsive and we should be figure na ends. Adjustments are another. For good of ill, we are several million dollars for the evan- driven into carousals for which we called for, such as the Factory Acts, committed to complexity. The galization of China, ̈*
Whenever anything remarkable bave little real inclination if we regulating conditions of child American Monroe Doctrine is an
or Loteworthy occurs in Hongkong, “ can only have healthy annusement.labour, limiting hours, etc. The attempt to live the political simple The proprietors of the shoe that Pictorial Historian, A. Fong is What is said at the theatre may co-operation to produce led to life. Its principle is no Euro- making shops in Canton are appeal-sure to add it to his faithful photo- be considered unimportant, but the specialised labour, an obvious ont-pean entanglements: Politically, ing to the General Chamber of Com graphic archives. His large plate of tone of the stage is not unimport-come of organization.
Extreme America is to be as self-contained merce for assistance, complaining the Wiltshires' celebration on Thurs- 3Dt. It exerts a great influence labour views, such as dreams of and exclusive as the ideally com.that their employees are trying today is one of his most successful pré- ductions, a'clear, interesting picture. upon the minds of the audience more ruoney and less work, communist State, as the original village start a strike against them. The stage like the press, has its munal property, also confuse means community. It will not work, is The Civil Governor of Canton The typhoon season has certainly- leges. Waar grateful when we ear." calculating how to catch the valence of passion and the rarity has ordered that all books and ac- commenced well. Up to the present have real humour, or even fun and game without going after it, con- of optimum, cerebration conceals counts concerning the amount of there has only been one typhoon ex- laughter. But we don't want to sidering the quickest way to kill the this from the average American. fines taken in by the courts or the perienced on the coast and this one think that the public taste is decad-gose that tays the golden eggs. Are there no entanglements other police shall be audited. Steps will threatened to spell disaster to the ent. It almost certainly is not, Trade is a means to an end, not than political? To be consistent. be taken immediately to execute the Blue Funnel "Pakling" which was Public opinion can easily control an end of itself. Work is a means, to be true to principle, Monrovian Ltd. these public entertainments unless not an end. Money is a means, not America must refuse, trade en There is a report that seven we are all indifferent to take an end. (Do we not speak of in-tanglements with the outside world, more junior officers are expected any notio, nf what ars and what dependent means.) Optimum make no goods for export, use no from home to join the Indo-China really unuses LES. Let us have cerebration discloses that the fault commodities not made in America. SN. Company. The steamers of News was received in the Colony- revues, inusical vanodies and light of most men is confusing teens and In short, be self-contained and self- tais Company are to have deck yesterday, by cable, of the death in frivol, as well as the more serious ends.
complete. Trade entanglements officers which will mean that at least Sydney of Mrs. Bone, wife of Mr. plays. And let me gently suggest
Greedy
must lead to political entangle fifty more will be required.
D. B. Bone, of the Taikoo Docks. employers that what the public wants is the
Mrs. Bone contracted pneumonia forks or want long hours.ents. Monroe doctrines are for sort of thing that will take all of i
WORK. Long bonrs éf un-past and simpler ages. Political or
Germans who are on their way soon after childbirth, and passed" us laugh and make nobody feel.
interrupted fudgery industrial or social, they are of no to China will be received by the away after a few days' liness. The ancomfortable. We can assure-onti
**Im-Chinese authorities informally, child, a daughter, is well. friends on the stage that they will are now known to be eren from use in our complexities.
is a British at- according to instructions received by deepest sympathy will be extended to the employers point of view-un-peria! preference then attract quite as large an andconomical and unprofitable. Lei-empt at a Monroe doctrine, which Mr. Hsu Yuan, Special Commissioner Mr. Bone in his bereavement. ence and send away one satisfied sare for the worker pays. But the also must fail. Large as it is. the of Foreign Affairs at Shanghai, from
sharter hours of the worker must Empire cannot, now exist indepen- the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He regular. Some of the workers dently of the rest of the world. iverlock this.
Those at present pretending that it Under the present
EVENING WRAPS
IN
EXQUISITE COLOURINGS
daughter.
FOR
PRESENT SEASON.
BIRTHS.
DEATH.
The China Mail.
TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUNJC SERVICE.
ONGKOSG, SATCEDAY, JULY 10, 1920.
responsibilities as well as its privi- with ends, and represent le per- not now working, though the pre-
Land contewed).
ADVERSARIA.
** OPTIMUM
Hom
Rune questions it.
order.
left plenty of entertainment and None drvatus of any need for analy./awake and do their own optimum/that lays his golden eggs for bit. Peking for six hundred dollars."
of taking exercise....
cerebrations. Existing govern-
A deadlock? It
by driving his drudges to such a
clusion N no
ashore of Batton Island at the time. The "Pakling" is now being repaired by the Shanghai Dock and Engineer ing Co., Ltd.
The
Captains of Hongkong Canton | steamers would no doubt be glad to One of the reasons why the receive copies of old illustrated papers for passengers' use. A travel- [»ystem of en-operation; some work. I will serve the, end before mention- Tientsin auto bandits succeeded Der recently returned from the south' ed are not ingenuous. They see escaping, remarks with fine sarcasm, fers do one part of a job, oth only their own immediate gain, like the North China Star, is that for a Fays the only things he found to read. another part. It is clear they must the man who said to another on a machine to dash through the streets torn and thumbed copies of the on one of these ships were well This phrase keep time. Extremic greed on one short garden seat. There would at thirty miles an hour is such an London Ilustrated News that bad. figured inside has led to extreme falisha be more room for one of us if you ordinary occurrence as to attract very seen more than 10 years service, CEREBRATION." cent local ser- n the other. Capital and labour.
The thing naturally co-operators, essentially were to get off. The Russian Bol- little attention in any of the Cou- remarks the N. C. Daily News. itself does not commonly figure inane, are organized to fight each shesik must grow his own tes, the cessions or the native city. serinons: nor, for that matter, in other. It is as though two partners when he abolishes capitalism, the..
London Bolshevik his own bananas,]
Unusual excitement prevailed over. A man living in the northern this year's Derby, and there was a newspapers. One gets the impresat Bridge. annoyed with each other, means of barter, the simplest way suburbs of Peking accidentally un-record-breaking private sweep craze sion that many of these people began over-calling each other. Op of exchanging unwanted surpluses earthed a collection of ancient porin city offices and West-End chubs. have no inclination for it. They timum cerebration is called for, if use their brains as a raiser uses his no: by them, by others for them. for desired deficiencies. He has not celain ware some days ago while The London Stock Exchange sweep capital. Words usurp too They need re-organizing-
This thought of that. No optimum rebuilding his house. The collection was worth £8,000; the sweep promot- much the place of ideas. Exempli brings us to State interference cerebration, you see. On the other which consists of three vases anded at the Baltic Exchange £10,000; honses. But many of the coarse gratia. Co-operation, says the com- meddling with free and healthy hand, the sweating employer eight wine cups of great antiquilly and the Royal Automobile Cinb sweep remarks and suggestions were mentator, is the antithesis of com-competition "but inevitable, un
will have small comfort of his believed to belong to the Sung period £6,300. Mr. Oscar Asche, the well- LTER-On July 4.
1920 atittel as a result of the Daily petition. It sounds true, has an air less the competitive co-operators capital when he has killed the goose was later on sold to a foreigner in known actor, drew Tetratema" in Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. F. || Repress eflog. There was still of finality.
the Green Room Club sweep.- W. Salter, a sos. ENCER-ROZARIO.-On July 4. the Streaks of beauty-hostly insis.
Arcording to the report of the There is report that the ss. 1920. at Shanghai, to Mr. and the music, and in the scenic effects diet in follow naturally, easily, and do not cerebrate. They act in and change (even for the worse) on export of raw silk, waste silk, and in her cargo when she left Shanghai Conclusions based upon the tuents consist of employing class. pitch of desperation that revolution Foreign Silk Association of Canton "Tehang" carried 4,000 hags of rice
·Mrs. J. M. Spencer-Rozario, a retained. It cannot be doubted fuently. This is regarded as sympathy, with one side of the dis-loom desirable. The optimum cere
that for the great majority of those cerebration. It is as if one should pure. So as the means to impartial bration we want is that which will fame 15 coon from Canton from on June 30 for Hongkong. This is who saw the revised play it was describe stamp collecting as a form cerebration, designed to restorecognize that the day of segrega silk, 25 bales were shipped to England, Newcastle, and if it is true, then the Jane to June 30, 1920, on raw something like carrying coals to all the better for the revision.
effective co-operation, a change of tion is over-that the world is one 764 to France, 1.468 bales to America. Chinese merchants that are respon In the Colony of Hongkong we Nothing obtrudes more in the governinent seems indicated. But place, and the end to be achieved and none to Italy; waste silk, 152 sible for this shipment when the price EGENER.-On July 3. 1920, 41) hare to take our amusements as conversation of intelligent men just here again the choice is limited. the most comfort for the most bales to England, 300 to France, of rice is at the present stage.
Shanghai, Oscar Herman Kari best we can.
It is such a treat to now than topies hinged upon such There is only the party of the other people in it. The village commune 2,050 to America; pierced cocoons, deserve to be held up to public con- have any entertainment at the local terms and definitions. Coupetition part, equally Wegener, aged 48 years.
Biassed. equally is no longer possible. "Chinese ex- no shipment.
tempt, says a Shanghai paper. theatre that we may well be ex-versus co-operation, labour versus thoughtless.
longer possible. ensed if we are duly thankful for capital... That labour is capi- seems so.
Every attempt to sim Nationalism is no longer an end nor It is reported that Capt. Pucket, The gardener of the Military - what we can get. It must he suchtai, that what we call competition ify the couples superimposes fur. even a means to an end. Empires who arrived from home leave a short Hospital, Bowen Road, who was strenuous work for those who do is merely a form of expression as the complexity. The only remedy
i come within the category of time ago, will go Master of the China charged with stealing flowers from entertain ns, especially in this hot suined by fundamental co-opera- that offers now is what the Tony nations. They are out of date. Navigation Co.'s ss. 'Sinkiang, re- the cemetery, and remanded on bail. weather. that it would be unfair ton at this stage of social develop for calls pedantry-what we call The federation of the world now lieving Capt. Barkus who is now in in order that he might produce to suggest that they don't succeed. ment-who sees this? Yet it does fabianise, the laborious encourage How far of that may still be is many years in the employ of the the flowers, failed to appear in Court awaits only-optimum cerebration command. Capt. Pucket has been witnesses to prove that be bought. The public gets what it demands not involve optiunna cerebration to ment of optimum cerebration. says the business manager. Are see it but only plain thinking,
best answered by your good selves. China Navigation Company and is when the case was called yesterday. Iwe then to believe that the public common-sense.
More thought. Do you cerebrate? Or is it too well known both ashore and afloat. His bail was estreated and a warrant of Hongkong demands all of the
It is necessary to
DESIDERATA. More thinking by much fag?
Mrs. Packet came out with the Cap was issued for his arrest. It will be staff that has been served out to
I be abandon the habit
general. Failing this grand general co-tain from home this trip.
remembered that Mr. Green, who it by some of the recent entertain-
of thought which Patient encouragement of analy-operation in complexity, we must
prosecuted, took a serious view of the Traffic through the Hatamencase because the theft of flowers from ers?
assumes a sharp line of cleavage sis and original thinking. Free continue sectional co-operation, in A good man's hard to find. The difficulty of any attempt to between opposites, and to recognize thought. Spread of the mental competition in the simplicity of the Gate, Peking, has been fully resumed, the cemetery was becoming very g the young lady over the foot suggest that there might be some that everything is relative, and to attitude that habitually questions. “sinple plan
as the work of repairing the dilapi- common, and it was difficult to trace ts, and she strongly advised the iniprovement on the stage is that some extent interfused. There is Less passion, less prejudice, less
dated city tower above the Gate has the culprits. been completed. When a part of |-- her ladies present in the audience the ordinary man in the stalls will no absolute good and bad, black or sentiment, less party clamour, less
the tower collapsed several weeks make the most of a good man suspect that there is some sinister white, front or back, organic or parrotry, less humbug. Prove all
Mr. Johns, who has charge of design to deprive him of his laugh. inorganic, spiritual or 10aterial, things. Hold fast to that only We know how much good that does ago, traffic was completely stopped the Butterfield & Swire bulk at Nan-
Exercise and how far it has helped us. how little cn for the convenience of the public, of a
in that quarter by the Police: Later king, måde a But, after all, there are other people The communist or Socialist or Bol-which is proven. in Hongkong besides the nian in shevik who declares that the capi. train the brain. Insist always on forrader we are towards the end fur only pedestrians were allowed to seen to deliberately jump into the stalls. And a good many ladies talistic system is competitive and optimura cerebration. Jump with the means to which we are all look pass through the Gate, while repair the river and, as is usually, the case roneous. But that every effort like to laugh at the theatre. On wholly bad is no optimum thinker. both feet on all who speak withouting. Our police are a complex work was going on.
the Chinese who saw her made no ld be made to flatter, humour the other hand they don't like to Nor is the capitalistic champion thinking, Silence them with ridi- means to the end of defeating that
effort to aid her, Mr. Johns although, ad even appeal to rather coarser shudder or even to” blúsh. When who declares dreams.of communal cule. They are the enemy.
simplicity, they are a symptom of The drought is causing the peo- „fully dressed jumped in and "made stincts of every man was the real the man in the stalls bears seme-co-operation wholly foolish. Capi-
Now see how opti- co-operation. They are at present ple in the villages around Peitaiho to for the woman, although it was very of the song, and that was thing that is frankly sensual, he talisin is merely a natural result of MONROE mum cerebration only national police, interested only close their places of business and dangerous work on account of the ake.
smiles indulgently and, if a family the increased complexity of co- DOCTRINE. Works, how it brings in national property. Internation- march through the country with swift current and the treacherous aune word "good," like charity, man, he is probably glad that his operation, &. method meant to re-
strange bedfellows al police and world-wide co-opera- banners flying praying for rain. All under current which abound there, overs & inultitude of sins. Every daughter is not listening.. duce the complexity. The complex how it relates the apparently-inoon- tion against, such simple competi-work has been called off ten days. He brought the woman to the share
in the audience probably: Of course it may be urged that is always dificult, especially ingruous. There seems to be a long tion seeme but a logical advance. ided himself upon being a good those people who don't like revues thinking. That is why thinking is hail between-labour-saving machin- Fellow." Most men would much and that sort of thing should not shirked. I am a plain practical ery and the American Monroe ather be considered to be "good go to the theatre. But some people man," avers the mental shirker. Doctrine; but the gap is imaginary. sfswa~ than brainy. Your typic do like ninety-nine per cent. of the Away with your pedants. Give We have spoken of means and ends. Ze good fellow is an easy-going revues and it is just possible that me simple issues, and I will solve It is not pedantry that emphasises who is generous both in there is a certain amount of ignor-them. That is impertinent. the pregnant fullness of such a hought and in deed. So he smiledance in the minds of the producers Simplicity calls for no solution. phrase. What is our end? So far some of the remarks and sug- of these revues. They may think The simple life is possible only to as the Home land is concerned, tations that came from the stage, that the public wants what it does Crusoes and eremites. All social the end is all of the necessities and De because he thought them alto- not want. Everybody likes to life involves complex problems, and some of the comforts of life for all ether good, but because he did laugh and most people like cheerful needs optimum cerebration. These our people. To produce these all- want to be considered goody music and pretty scenery, And simple, plaża, practical thinkers should co-operate, The exploiting
variety is the spice of existence. are quite unconsciously, living employer, when introducing labour Splenesc he who hates be out so happened that one or two Revues are attractive to many prototypes of "le penseur of saving machinery, Rus not seeking stone, marks from the stage were rather people who find certain suggestions Rodin, magnificent animals with to make life easier for his workers. Who has his darkness darkened gidly received by some of the in them repulsive."
undeveloped brains. The message Hisend was greater output at the sight
"WHAT THE PUBLIC
WANTS."
hen they managed to get one.
be refrain of the song was catchy:
idea that it is hard to-find a
ood man may, or may not be
A
THE CLUE
That he may take who has the
power And he may keep who can.
LOCAL POETRY.
THE IGNORAMUS.
OR THE PEDANT'S REPLY TO
by
who
tyme,
Ji
very gallant rescue Chinese Women, Was
It is somewhat difficult for foreigners safely, and then like all heroes, he to procure vegetables in the villages disappeared sinidst the crowd. - and no poris or lard can be procured for
locally, since the villagers are abstain---- One of the old-timers of the ing from meats during this period. Chinese Maritime Customs to the Unless rain comes soon there will be person of Mr. "W. J. Hewett, Chief a famine in this section as the first Tide Surveyor, has just retired Mr. crop has been entirely ruined Three Hewett, who has been stationed at out of seven of the Association wells Amoy, received-2 button of the 5th have gone dry."
class in 1911, while he was made a- member of the Order of the Chia Ho, There is a rumour that a large 5th class, in 1917. It is interesting company has offered to train the fo note that Mount Hewett, near river at Collister Island so that there Hongkong, was named after him for will be plenty of water at all times, services rendered during the suTVEY and only one channel-instead of made by H. MS. Waterwitch = in three as at the present time. The 1907, in Hewett left Amoy for price is said to he $2,000,060 and it | Shanghai-on June 30, and prior to is said that the same firm has offered his departure members of the Cas- to trals the river from Hankow to toms Club entertained him. "He was
If this could be done and there is skin, while Mrs. Hewell received a and no reason why it could not this silver vanity bag. Mr.. Hewett was sum would be small compared to the | extremely popular in the community, mour-nor * immense business that could be done and his departure is very greatly
as at the present time during the regretted.
ater-notizessel drawing over-ten:]
The present. But in the course.There is a phrase from Hegel of that marvellous statue is modern, less expense. The workers (many Of Fiches that he has not,
ame, if such remarks pass un-that may be worth remembering though it pourtrays an ancient man, tediously trained to do the work alone,
they become accepted, and He says Discourse about virtue Muscular, physically agile, with a that these machines began to do Wallows in ignorance, having not the Woosing for the sum of $20,000,000, the recipient of a suit case of crocodile „upplanded.” Not long age in easily-passes into empty declama- very small skull, fus effort to follow under the apprentice, systein" of ---- light. dun there appeared a new revue tion, since its subject matter is soma elementary me of thought skilled co-operation) protested that Who thinks - ther led:-* Afgar - - In-perts it was abstract and indefinite, and its is patently as painful as it is heroic, the machinery was taking away glin were
ümay, but in it there reasons and declarations appeal to Had he not persevered, we should their bread so it was Their Who has no
the beautiful, the andisininal's caprice and sub-have, had no outimum cercbra-occupation was gone? The employ, spes Daily, Heprear ran a fecrire melioation. The French tion. We should have remained er ergund (correctly, but disingenu-Who fes the vulgar iter are, the people who talk masf about, anthropoids = {'Plains and practical" opaly) thet - his machines would this time
ne. - 11 is quite true; I makes anthropoids, signing chits; censur»; make more work. So they diy por “Aldo any appeal difficult. Mr. Stiggins ing the China Mail
skilled labour of another kind but mental wreck
scype London
succeededyr
to attract co
(feet can go un to. Hankow, which
"taker at least five to six months from the steamship business off the river is lives