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to attain a reasonable measure of commercial and industrial pros- perity until strikes are either abolished or reduced to the low- est possible minimum, A Parlia ment of capital and labour is called for, or, if this seems too cumbersome, an effort should be
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1925.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
The latest dance
September, 1924. A CALENDAR. 21, Mon., Sir SHANDYGAFF. is called the “Golf
Walter Scott died,
Step." Prosum- 1892.
ably the inventors are not sure if It will be a decided hit.
born, 1792.
THE WIZARD OF THE NORTH.
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boldly face the enigmas of the Lord Balfour says that we must
Universe. Since our cook loft us in June we have been spared this.
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made to copy the example set by 22, Tuce., Wilkie Collins died, such firms as Levers, Cadburys, 28, Wed., Lord Morlay died, 1928.
1899. and Rowntrees-who, have in-124, Thurs., Eliza Cook died, 1889, casting. The voice that breath- Jack Dempsey has been broad- stituted profit-sharing schemes 26, Fri., W. M. Hughes born, 1864. Fed ce'r even. and those other firms who recog-26, Sat., Charles Brudiaugh born, nise that the labourer is worthy 27, Sun., George Cruickshank
1933. of his hire. The suggestion of Mr. Seebohm Rowntree. must find a response in the minds of those who believe in humanitarianism.
It was said a
In America they have a club He has laid it down that man is
few weeks ago for tall men. In these hard times entitled to a reasonable minimum
by one in touch Hongkong could easily a club with the read- for men who are short. wage, a minimum which shoulding of the young that Sir Walter
We are inclined to agree with enable him to marry and to bring Scott had lost a great deal of his
popularity. That is a loss for the suggestion that many motor up a family of reasonable size in a youth, for, with all his length, he accidents are due to the nut that state of full physical efficiency still remains the greatest teller of holds the steering wheel. leaving a reasonable margin for romantic stories in the language, contingencies und recreation.
Scott was meant for the Bar;
(With apologies.); Given such conditions as these it translating German poets and
but preferred poetry, and after THE GOLFER'S drove a golf-
BIG, BIG D. ball becomes apparent that strikes collecting Scottish ballads, pub- It fell to earth, I knew not where; into the air, will become almost a thing of the lished. "The Lay of the Last For so swiftly it flew, the sight
Minstrel" in 1805. This, follow-
past.
THEY SAY THAT
ed by Marmion" and other Could not follow it in its flight. works, put him in the front rank. I breathed a word into the air, But Byron began to take his place. It fell to earth, I knew not where, in popular favour, and Scott in For who has sight so keen and
1814
The private schools in England "Waverley," the first of the won- That it can follow a big, blg D?
published anonymously free are public nuisances.-Mr. Bernard derful series of romances that are Shaw.
still known as the "Waverley A short time afterward on the People should never ride on Novels,"" In 1825 the publishing vehicles with their lega crossed.firm in which he was a partner i found that golf-ball round and Dr. Chat Morris,
failed and involved him in a debt
green
clean;
end
friend.
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It is the week-end that poils of £120,000, most of which he And the word from beginning to munringe in East London. Mr. J. paid off before his death in 1882. A. R. Cairns,
But he did it through overwork, I heard again from the lips of my The plain women, without doubt,tion and his style. His fine char. with consequent loss to his inven- bare für the best time.-Mr. L. Facter endeared him to all his Ramsey,
If you have one failure in America fame throughout the world.
"countrymen; his works won him they get tired of you.-Mme. Olga Pétrova.
Very little individuo work is
done in American schools,—Misa M.A DIFFERENCE. J. Welock.
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LOCAL HISTORY.
HONGKONG REFERENCE
BOOK.
MR. HURLEY'S WORK.
of the bet, I'm off.""
Alternative to laat verse: "Sometime afterwards in the
hole
I found that my ball had chanced
to roll;
And the word I used, which I
don't defend,
I found again in the mouth of a
friend."
J
JERUSALEM CHANGING."
A
Jacobson, in the Mr.
W. H.
Unly life can produce life, and the following
"Inquirer," tells cooking kills the bile of food, Dr. | W. 3. Dawes,
"An illiterate but clever Methodist lay preacher (the.story The smailer towns of England do goes) once gave out the text, I not want to be uplifted.--Sir John can do all things.' Foster Fruser.
He then THE SHORTEST. humourist
An Alleged the safety and comfort of the..
in- paused and looking at the Bible workers. Happily, strikes are the beauty and dignity of public shire dialect: What's that thee appeared in these columns re- We must get back to the stage keenly said in his own Somerset- several paragraphs which have terested in the few and far between that have to | speech.-Mr. Henry Ailey.
says, Paul-"I can do with such things (we speak, of Englund and America curry the things?" I bet thee half-a- of poetry in the English lan- do aal garding the shortest and best line course, of conditions in Britain). spirit of peace; you feel safe in crown o' that.' So he took half guages, "Ventures to submit the Generally they have to do with either-Baron Hayashi,
a-crown out of his pocket and put shortest prayer in the English wages; often on matters of proces, and thus save themselves a lot added, let's see what the Apostle a little girl.
Men must learn to walk on their it on the book. However, he language.' It is vouched for by dure which the average person of illiness.-Dr. Herbert Pocock. has to say for himself. So he informer, as soon as her nurse According to this would imagine could be arranged without "downing tools." Often, work that kills, but what you do Christ that strengthened me." "Good Lord, it ain't half cold." It is not what you do when you read on the next words. "Through had put on her nightie she said, it is alleged, the paid head of awn you don't work.-Dr. G. J. Oh, says he, if that's the terms and jumped into bed. Labour organisation is at the
Next please! head of disaffection. But to the Touching is something very differ- saner leaders in Labour-men of across the counter-Mr. Frank ent from purveying packets of goods the stamp of J. H. Thomas and Roscoe. Frank Hodges-must be given credit that the strike weapon is the last one resorted to. Unfor-:
Jerusalem is a city of unique and stained glass windows, and the tunately all Labour leaders are
multifarious charm, quite apart uplifting strains of a right-throated not of the same hue and this is
from all its wealth of sacred sites choir: they wished for nought but and historic associations. To men- the grim, aolid remnant of the an- evidenced in the recent coal crisis.
sure it by the standards of any West-cient Temple, before which they and the present Seamen's strike.
ern city were to attempt the, uneonid daily beat their breaste in The trouble in the latter has
reasonable, for its beauty Hes not abject contrition... arisen through the men repudiat-
in imposing buildings or spacious Useful information regarding the boulevards. in leafy avenues or
There one Friday afternoon, be. ing a recent agreement between growth of Hongkong and its institui magnificent parks, but in its radiant fore the setting of the sun, I W the two seamen's unions and the tious is contained in "Picturesque colouring, its picturesque gruping close to the Westerse Wall
group rapt in prayer, standing employers for a reduction of which will form a valuable white stone of its walls and houses situated in a large open space, re Hongkong, a handy book of refer and its melancholy depolation. The always conceived this ruin as wages by one pound sterling addition to the household her from many a cough of vintage you Temple, and I was surprised and gleims brightly in the sunlight, and miniscent of the courts of the month. The trouble suggestself. Mr. R. G. Hurley, of Hong- It is difficult to get away from that many men are not amenable kong the author, combines historical enjoy a glorious vists of terraced disappointed to find that it formed the fact that certain classes of to the ordinary discipline of their lieved from all suggestion of heavi- and clumps of tres, spreading be-alley: The approach is also through accuracy with a style which in res ills, dappled with red-roofed houses just one side of a narrow blind workers are prone to striking on
own unions; or, as in the present nasa."
fore you in amphitheatre form, and narrow alleys, crooked and cobbled. the slightest provocation; also ease, that they do not clearly By means of un introductory his unblemished even by a pull of that the striking habit or sickness understand the need there has which he acknowledges the assist ancient city is that which embraces blocks of stone, are believed to be
torical sketch, in the compilation of smoke.
Only the five lowest firs The most splendid view in the
of the Wall, containing the largest seems common to certain types of been for a reduction. The intellect. The financial standing poverty of freights has been reviews of the successive Governors the Mosque of Omar-surely the Temple; but even they reach fur ancy Eitel has been to him, also by
zenne survivals of the second- of Labour Uniona makes a strike common knowledge. for years, terms of oflice. Mr. Hurley nequint. most magnificent shrine in the whole above the beads of the tallest wor=" more easy of accomplishment. But the common economic fact in and probiens, the dauntless, grap Mosque of Aken; which rear them searchind the most critical re-
ed his readers with negotiationa hand-and the neighbouring smaller Strike pay, if not approaching this has either not been under-pling with which has resulted in serves aloft unen a flat and spacious ruin will leave unaffected the tiety into the composition of the wages, is at least sufficient to stave stood, or wilfully ignored. And such rupid growth since on site plateau- the old Temple that gathers before it. And eros off hunger and pay rent, When so thousands of men throw them-Belcher with some of his officers should, you seek & Jewish abriel for all who wish to end it, and January 26, at 8.15 8.m., Sir E. area, visible to all the winds. But though the Galuth (exile) is a) an funds give out there is a different selves out of work and have time landed just below the little hill in should you ask where are the the Land of Israel is open to the tale to tell, A reservation must to listen to incendiary speeches, the centre of the present City of Prayers and hymns of Israel offer cuttered people, the Wall is still be placed on the suggestion that | probably watch other, men take Victoria and, considering themselves e, you are led first to one and the frequented daily, in stil made the the first possessors, drank to Her other synagogue, neither of recipient of fervid petitions, albeit those of limited intelligence are their work, and later on, accept Majesty a health with
Three which can oldim an antiquity of they sem to have diminished in prone to strike. The French conditions inferior to those for Checra
even a handred years, and both of bank clerk would probably feel which they have imagined they The petivities of educative bodies which are no completely hidden passion with the increasing prospect annoyed at being classed with have been fighting. It is not dif-institutions are recorded and hints must be sought with cunning and sions should ever be uttered before and the development of important way in narrow alleys that to though no more plaints or confes
of the national rosettlement. But those of less exalted occupation, ficult to agree with the "Dally are given as to the best mesas of termination. In no other city Yet the French bank clerk has Mall" that the strike of seamen is making the acquaintance of the that I know has the Inx Jew so it, it will always remain a singular not deemed it beneath his dignity due to a plot "engineered by Com- the New Tentoried, numerous ing public worship. All the great pust a symbol of ustional endurance beauties of Hongkong, Kowloon and legitimate an excuse for not attend and sacred link with the venerated to strike, break windows-possi-munist leaders who aim to bring photographs of which are repro cities of the West have an impos. and impregnable faith; and it should bly heade and get arrested. The to a standstill British shipping duced, together, with move and ing Jewish Babotuary Cairo erefore be preserved in a wathy feeling is gaining ground that abroad. This particular paper plans.
Alexandria and Remo to name manner. three of the nearest commun
What strikers generally are a blot on our asserts that the Communiste sant Paris, September 23-A mesage synagogue that can claim cquality ner with the gift
splendid field for the in- each have a grand and monumented spired architect, for the town-plan industrial civilisation Even If messages to Bolshevik agents in from Beirut saya the French losses with the buildings around it but who will perfection has not been reached Australia, India, South Africa, at Moussciffre were 40 killed and the home of prophets and psalmiste, with în certain classes of industrialiam, Canada and the United States, in-80 wounded, mostly slightly-Reu the centre from which the Law and there is no need, so far as we atructing them to tell the seamen
the Word of God are to go for? know, for the voice of anot
that
terling
does not possess singls Jes London September 28-On the fans, with the least, protona Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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