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The gift of rhetoric has been GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS. responsible for more bloodshed on this earth than all the guns and explosives that were-ever-invent- ed Mr. Baldwin.
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The two most disastrous fai- Inres of modern architecture are
are Conservatives. The Socialists-bribery to secure contracts,
. "Mr. - A. G. Gardiner. are honest in their intention to bribery to secure military service. INSULTS. writes the following | have no alliance with elther of the Sentences of penal servitude and
on the recent row in heavy fines-in one instance a fine the House of Commons when Mr. two Opposition parties. They are of £8,000 and all the costs of the Amery punched Mr. Buchanan for not even likely to agree that their prosecution-show the severity calling him a guttersnipe. turm of office is to be dictated by with which His Majesty's Judges
If we could run off to the law the votes in the 'Lobbies of the regard" au evil with which Mr.
courts every time that we felt that we had been insulted, the the cottages and the vilins-Lord House cast for them by the Justice Horridge declares the busi-
Curzon. judges would have nothing elsen Opposition. That they have been Mr. Justice Low, indeed, declared ness worth to be honeycombed.
to do. Few of us escape insults,
Civilisation is not flowing back- saved from overwhelming defeat that two years' hard labour and a
real or fancied, and the mare Ward: it is flowing in the wrong thin-skinned we are the more direction Mrs. Thomas Hardy. by differences in opinion of the fine of £500 was absolutely use-
Insults we get.
If you scratch, a Socialist you Liberals or by an almost unani-less and inadequate to deal with
There are people who live in find an enlightened Tory, Mr. matters of this sort, and it was mous Liberal vote, has, ere this, due to him that the Government
an atmosphere of insult. They Ben Tillett. are insulted if they are put Harley-street is the abode of been proved. The Liberals chafe hastily passed the 1916 Act,
the and of the table poor men (if their income is under the treatment they allege increasing the penalties, and, in instead of the top, if they are averaged over their early years brushed against in the carin of impecuniosity).-Mr. Bernard they receive, and their feelings certain circumstances throwing
short, they feel every contact of Shaw. upon the recused the onus of prov-| are not likely to be calm, when ing innocence. The list of upwards
life as an Insult and need a
We fight for a thing, but we die they read of expressions of hope of 200 occupations followed by hemisphere themselves. only for an idea-Mr. A. Wyatt such as that expressed that the persons charged or convicted
They would never be out of the Tilby. Labour candidate will defent Sir shows that all sorts and conditions John Simon at the next election. of men were involved, and the list of places where there have been It may be doubted if the convictions-outside London in present form of Government is 125 different places-teklifies that Ideal in that it is only partly repre- the crime is not a monopoly of the sentative and if either some large cities or of any locality in
particular. form of Coalition would not have
The biggest bribe offered, na been better, Coalitions are in reported, was between £30,000 and themselves not ideal. There re- £10,000, the smallest 18.
extraordinary how, amall
It is the
#maageng mains then another appeal to the bribes are-61 were below £10,
law courts.
to
If we cannot fight duels, or Follow Mr. Amery's lead, or go to the courts, what is to be done? Because mud has been throwi at us are we to stoop and fling mud back? That is the accepted way at Billingsgate, but it would not do in Parliament or in social lile.
It would be an end to all the civilities that make our relations decent and tolerable. More- over, Mr. Aery would not have people. And on that the conclu-exclusive of the odd shillings proved he was not a guttersnipe sion reached is that Mr. Mac- offered to the police which are not
a by calling Mr. Buchanan Donald's estimate of his tenure of counted. Offers in kind included' brigand, He, would only have
added mud to mud. clothes, cutlery, office is reasonable, and, seeing hetypewriters,
blouses, champagne, Ltd. will not be allowed to introduce shirts,
whisky, cigars, tobacco, and..... and carry revolutionary legisla-though no prosecution followed- tion, the best thing to put up with.-sugar (in war time) and chocolate,
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SUMMER
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MATERIALS
THAT MAKE PRETTY DRESSES FOR THE HOT DAYS AHEAD
COTTON VOILES,
COTTON TAFFETAS,
FRENCH CREPES, Etc.
40" WIDE,
PLAIN COLOURS
AND MANY
FANCY DESIGNS.
A SAMPLE RANGE GLADLY SENT ON REQUEST,
One proffered bribe was 1s. a ton on coal supplied; two blackmailers sought to secure for themselves.a weekly allowance of 208. each.
Wireless Talks. ..Great interest has been aroused The object of punishment, it amongst the schools with 25 miles has been said, is 'prevention from radius of London in the fact that evil; it never can be made impul- educational talks are shortly to be sive to good. Prosecutions have broadcast by wireless in school their place, and it is an important hours,
The programme for the one, though capable. of over- moment consists of six experi- estimation. The League's object mental transmissions on Friday is to create and maintain a healthy afternoons, as follows:-
public opinion, so that the man Dr. Henry Walford Davies, who gives bribes, corrupting an
"Music."
otherwise honest man, and the disloyal servant who accepts them, may be viewed in a proper light.
Mr. E. Kay Robinson, "Natural
History." Sir JA Forbes - Robertson,
**Shakespeare." Col. Sir F. Younghusband,
"Climbing Mount Everest." The Education Committee of the London, County Council has passed
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The ne answer to an insult, in short, is to make no answer at all. An insult, is meant to hurt and the worst thing you can do with it is to show that it has hurt. It is an admission that the shaft has gone home, which is precisely what the other fellow wants. Who would have thought a pin the worse of Mr. Army because Mr. Buchanan called him "a gutterspipe," if Mr. Amery himself had not got into such an ungovernable fury about it?
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SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised
May
In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS.
29. Coronat Theatre; Mary Pickford in Suds."
May 29, The Star';
Mac Murray in "Idols of Clay.”
May 29-Marie Prevost in" The Beautiful and Damned."
May zg.-Queen's Theatre; "The Face in the Dark."
* SOCIAL
May 31-Dance at Peak Club, 9.15 p.m,
May 31.-V.R.C. night swimming fête at 9 p.m., and dancing on conclusion of programme.
Jane. 7.Whitsnatide Caroival at Repulse Bay Hotel.
June 18-Mr. William Heugban, well known Basso Baritone, will sing at the Peak Club, 9.80 p.m.
SPORT.
June 7-9-Fourth Extra Face Meeting of the H.E. Jockey Club.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Let me commend to him and to all who are sensitive to insult, a story of Chesterfield. In the May 30-Lammert Bros, at days before footpaths the only the Towers," zo, Broadwood Rd., dry walking in the street was valuable household furniture, 2.30 'close to the houses, and to give [p.m.
the path was an act of civility. May 30-Lammert Bros., at An enemy of Chesterfield met Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, cil him one day and marching burning engine power plant with straight ahead said "I never accessories, 3 p.m. give the path to a scoundrel.” 'I always do," said Chesterfield, stepping into the mud.
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5.15 p.m.
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RUMOURS NAILED.
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new central fire station and other Work on the building for the government departments (opposite the Central Market on the site.of { the old skating rink and Wo Ping theatre) has ceased for some days. In consequence a rumour is abroad. that the contractor who is under. taking the work has purposely stumped for some reason.
have heard of the rumour the For the benefit of those who may Chika Mail is able to state that there is nothing amiss. Mesers wing Lee, the contractors for the brick footing foundations and erection of the steel framework, have completed his job.
The contract for the superstructure of reinforced concrete," ie., the walls, floors &c. has yet to be awarded and the call for bids will, it is stated, be gazeited shortly.
Meanwhile all that can be said. is that the steel work is rusting." What it needs, in the eyes of the layman, is either a coat of cement wash or anti-rust paint.
It is interesting to recall another Tumour that was circulated "at one. time about the building. After last year's big typhoon a few steel
joists were seen lying on the ground. Somebody started a story that they had been blown down and quite a number went to have a look at what was supposed to have been the results of the typhoon. An expert's inspection joists had yet to be put up and had soon assured everybody that the
been merely placed in position in- readiness when the typhoon came on and work ceased temporarily.
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FATAL LANDSLIDE.
- TWO WOMEN COOLIES.
KILLED.
EXCAVATIONS AT CONDUIT ROAD.
of two Chinese women coolies and A landslide involving the death
serious injuries to two others occurred in the neighbourhood of 99. Conduit Road shortly after
nine o'clock this morning.
May 30-Lammert Bros., at
Excavations, for the building of Sales Rooms, postage stamps, a retaining wall have been going on there and the women were fill- May 30,Lammert Bros., ating up their baskets at the time. "So you see, Sales Rooms, electric lighting A huge rock and a quantity of THE PUZZLE. dear, it is now plants etc., 11.30 am.
earth descended on them and they night in New June 11.-Lammert Bros., at the remained buried until the police Zealand,' concluded nurse as she premises of the H.K. Tramway Co., were
got. into touch with.. handed Gerald the orange. But, Ltd. Bowrington Canal Road, East. Eventually firemen were called nurse, is it last night or to-morrow steam driver electric generating from the station and they dug the night?' asked Geraid, puzzled" plant. 8 p.m...
two bodies out and despatched the two injured to Hospital.
The League seeks to bring about a reformation not only in the actions but also in the attitude of the people. A large and in- fluential membership alone can guide. public opinion effectively. To this end it invites all who value use of wireless apparatus in common honesty in business, all schoolrooms during the hours of who care for clean hands, to these experimental transmissions, co-operate with it in work of and it is highly' probable that national importance. Inspectors of the Board of Is there room for a branch in Education will be present in Hongkong? several schools for the purpose ofobserving the effect of
The rumour that these broadcast talks upon the
DENIED. Mr. Pollock is form-To-day's Poem. child mind. Amongst the educa
ing a Society for tional institutions intimating their intention of taking part in these the Prevention of Cruelty to Ships'
Officers is denied. interesting experiments are well- known schools as remote as High Wycombe, Sevenoaks, and Godal- ming. Several schools in the Londen area will be using apparatus partly assembled by the scholars themselves. In this con- nection the B.B.C. points out that"
An experienced AMERICAN hushand is one who remembers his wife's birthday, but
HUMOUR,
forgets which one it is
They claim to have found the an indifferent demonstration may bones of a prehistoric woman ia seriously hamper progress in this Idaho, Even su, it doesn't seem new wireless development. It is right to talk about a woman being suggested, therefore, that the prehistoric. reception in classrooms of these experimental transmissions should only be undertaken following, a
• satisfactory test of the apparatus
bg China Beat. Budget that is either' Liberal or
HONGKUNG' Thursday, May 29, -1924. ·
TWO YEARS.
It isn't the original cost of a bobbed head that counts--it's the up-keep
for volume of sound and absence Just so long as it is stylish for of distortion. The midday pro-women to have husbands there grammes from 2LO between I will be no sex war.
1 pm and 2 p.m. afford suitable
opportunities for euch tests. We
Journal Another advantge that
have the use of gramophonce and Adam had: Eve couldn't threaten the cinema for educational pur- to go home to her mother,
poses, so why not wireless? These
aids or additions will make older ones feel sorry that their school days are quer.
Bribery.
CHARLATAN.
The Peking and Tientsin Times describes Dr. Sun Yat-sen as a charlatan. We
(An Epitaph.) Hook-nosed was. I loose-lipped;
greed fixed its gaze
In my young eyes ere they knew
brass from gold.
MEETINGS. May 30.-Bible-study circle at Helena May Institute,, conducted by Rav. G. R. Lindsay, (open to all women), 10:30a.m.
MORE OBSTRUCTIONISTS: June 7-Half-Yearly meeting of Members of the Hangkang Jockey SHOPKEEPERS WHO BLOCK Club; Hongkong Club Annex, 12.30 p.m.
June 11-Second annual meet- Doomed to the blazing marketing of the Peak Residents' Assca
at Peak Club, 615 p.m.
place, my days--
A sweating. chafferer of the
bought and Bold. Frowned on and spat at, flattered
and decried,
One only thing man asked of me
my price.
I
lived detested; and deserted,
died;
Scorned by the virtuous and the
jest of vice.
And now behold, you Christians,
my true worth; Step close: I have inherited the
Earth
Walter de la Mare.
WEATHER CALENDAR.
are not certain, but it seems that 1785. the Northern paper does not like Dr.Sun.
Mr. Florence REMEMBRANCE. Blakiston-
Attwood-
MAY 29.
Never was, so trying a
winter: everybody has suf- fered but the physicians and apothecaries. We are still wanting rain, and are treated like Egyptians by insects.-Walpole.
SAYINGS OF THE WEEK.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
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THE FOOTPATHS. «
Several shopkeepers and tea house proprietors were fined by Mr. E.. W.. Hamilton at the Kow- loon Magistracy this morning for causing obstruction on the pavė- ments in front of their shops.
In one case a tea house owner was fined $25 for placing 50 A young boatwoman ac-barrels on the footpath. Mr cidentally fell overboard from her Hamilton asked him if he expected sampan in the Yaumati refuge people to walk over them when yesterday and was drowned.
they wanted to pass by.
Chinese from the Hop Vick tinfoil At Whitfield yesterday 器 shop was knocked over by a motor lorry belonging to the On, 'Lok Yuen Co. His injuries necessitated kis removal to hospital,
For not exhibiting regulation lights whilst under weigh in the harbour at 2 a.m. the master of the mator boat "Australia" was fined $5 at the Marine Court this
morolog..
B
IDOLS OF CLAY."
MAE MURRAY'S UNIQUE SOUTH SEA ISLAND STORY..
AT THE STAR TO-NIGHT.
'All the keen sense for colourfuk effects and knowledge of what con attatce the really thrilling and dramatic which George Fitzmaurice displayed in "On With the Dance" For using drags in the harbour and The Right to Love is paid without permission 5 masters of fishing brats were fined $5 at the be contained in redoubled mea Marine Court this morning. L/S sure in his inter production, "Idols of Clay The story, a romance of Oliver stating that they had two widely divergent worlds, was brought up a lot of coal.
written by Onida Bergere,, and no expone, eftihort of money or artistic effort, has been spared in making it one of the most invishly produced" and spectacular pictures of the cur
Cinema patrons who recall Mae Marsh's performance in "In tolorance and Blithof a Nation" should take note that The Face In The Dark" in which she is starring will be put on for
Trent Benson,
The Bribery and Secret Com missions Prevention League (9, Queen Street Place, London, E.C.4) have just published a valu-Mathews, of Lianvihangel Court, able little pamphlet on What is Abergavenny, left the grand Bribery-which gives details of piano which was sent to Windsor upwards of 400 convictions. To it by command of Queen Victoria Lord Lambourne writes the and played on by her and all following
members of the Royal Family to As a nation we are too much
Mae Mummy and David Powell; "If bribery and secret com- the trustees of the Abergavenny inclined to say to Britannia: "Be
are again the featured players.
Tory in all but name or might
missions are to be stopped Town Hall; £1,300, her dogs, two good, sweet maid, and let who will the last time at the Queen's The Miss Mary has the role of a pretty- tre to-night. She is seen in an English girl, brought up in innocence altogether it can be done, casily parrots, underclothing, day dresses, be clever." Dean Inge. well have been introduced by
entirely different role as the
on a remote Eouth Sea island, do if the public will only assist the and furniture to Ida Seegers; £200
Mr. MacDonald had one quali daughter of an ex service man who spite the fact that ber father, either party; roused feeling over
League in its efforts. Bribery to her coachman, Harold Dawes;
fication for a British Prime Minis- Joins bands with a band of clno, is a pearl amuggler and, with a proposed Eviction Bill; given
and secret commissions which ber entire collection of Egyptain the House the opportunity to vote
portrayal of a girl torn between
almost every crime on the calendar.. tombe to the museum at Newport unpopularity.-Mr. Churchill. panying pamphlet-strike at Net £22,286. its members free railway journeys
There is something to be said her lover, and allegiance to her To the island comes Dion Helme, a the root of all commercial
for the paradox that in the next father. Allow & ME *Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's at a cost of £70,000 per annum, honesty and prosperity. Surely
young English sculptor, played by opinion that there is no need of attempted a settlement of the
Professor Sieden-war the safest place for a man will
David Powell. Holme is trying to it is worth while for everyone
A NEW topf, of the Zeles be in the fighting Bervices.-Ir
forget an unfortunate love affair that an election for two or three Ruhr occupation by correspon
engaged in business to join us MICROSCOPE, Works, Jene, has Philip Sassoon.
hing virtually wrecked his caroor. years," may be taken to be the dance; recognised Russia and
in our crusade, and thus gut an
constructed
I am proud to belong to a SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Through the South Bea miss, his time the Socialist "Government probably done other things which
end to an evil which not only microscope magnifying 25,000 Government which seeks religi
faith in his work and in wonen in «......
expects to be in power. It has at the moment do not occur to the
exists but will gain ground if diameters, E
11 ously the goodwill of all the world.
Mr. R. A. D. Forrest, of the restored, and their romance loads, the public shows apathy in the The present-day, high-power—Mr. Leach, :.
Education Department, with Mrs from the tropics to the roearts of bad an opportunity to give the mind. At this rate it may go on
microscope will magnify a thou- Cross-benchers
almost Forrest, leaves for Home, on leave, London society and thence to the shadowy done of the Limehouse- country an idea of its intentions, for two or three years, but signs 124-persons have been punished, saad to flesh hundred diameters, always dreadfully crossro
"water frent and, having been very fairly are not wanting that it is likely for tempting some police constable which means that it will make in Philip Guedalla.
ur other teen have been object appear to the eye on orina if life is lov You-must- Mr and MMPS Cassidy, received, has settled down to it will not do so. Its retention of sent to sad (two for six months), million intes iis actual size in area imagine yourself to be like a Mr. E. Des Voeux, Hon. Mr.
With a magnification of 25,000 rective the kicks and ha pence the reins of office is dependent and fines and costs Imposed which is the lot of all Goyen- principally on the Liberal vote have exceeded £1,600 in the diameters, or more than 600 mil locomotive which by its good Holyoak, Mr. Herridge, Mr. & S. Jon times in sree, many of our work may become a flying Kadoorie, Mr. S. S Perry, Dr. and ments. It has shelved the Singa- We may také 'it as a general thing,Many of the cases, have been things in chemistry and medicine wretched old push bike by the Pollock are passengers on the Macao to the effect that HE the
gate, ranging from 10 to $100 theories abous the sincture of machine, or, on the other hand, a Mrs. Schofield, and Mr. and Mrs pore Base Scheme; settled the that Liberals are more likely to exceedingly serious, especially may be put to the test, and doubts time is reaches its destination "Empress of Russia which lot Govemar, Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues,
are fully explained in the accom. I curios and the necklaces from the ter: he has not been afraid of crooks and gives a very human his dimreputable partner, guilty of
matter."
McKenna, duties; introduced vote for Socialistic measures than those in connection with the War tolved; s
Canon Shimwell
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to-day
NEWS. MACAO N telegram has been received in
will return to the Metropolis in Juné: