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MODERN MANIA 'FOR SPEED
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FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1920.
CANTON WATERWORKS
varied claims. What are they de CORRESPONDENCE ing, practically, to substantiate them? The science of religion Is a.vaat uncharted sea, into which the churchmen have hardly yel dipped their fingers.-"The Van- couver (B.C.) Sun,"
This forenoon's temperature,was 59 degrees as compared with 68 degrees yesterday afternoon.
Only one case of small-pox was
period of three or four years if they do not how improvement in the operation of the water supply spryice they would be willing to have the Government take over the company, provided, of course, valued by an impartial commis- that cash is paid for the shares, to
to
gion.
(To the Editor of the "China Mall."1
Sir,-Allow me the courtesy of your columns to put before the public the full circumstances sur- rounding a recent act of the Can
The Government has turned a ton Municipal Government which, at the time of its perpatration, deaf ear to all these proposals and argused the most intense resents tight, in control of, the Water
Works Company. ment on the part of those who apice of comedy is introduced suffered by It, and is still a sore into the affair by the atolid man- point with the Canton public.
I refer to the forcible seizure per in which the Government off- notified yesterday Chinese of the Canton Water Works Comials are carrying on the manage from Kowloon. There was one pany, a purely private concern, on ment exactly as it had been run case of enteric fever, also Chinese. January 10 by the Mayor of Can before. They are content to do just what the erstwhile Directors ton, Mr. Lam Wan-kai.
Mr. and Mrs. Goodrich were passengers from Port Said to Hong Kong by the P. & O. 9.8. "Naldera," which arrived here to day.
Messrs. S. Schofield, A. Judd. and R. White were passengers from Marseilles to Hong Kong.on the "Naldera," as were Major G. Ogilvie and Messrs. H. Richardson and H. Contauche,
Mr. and Mrs. Park and two
Let me hasten to explain at the had been doing, making no at- outset that I am not imbued with tempt to change the old routine Communistic taint, nor is this an yet the professed reason for tak
was the outburst against the present, re-ng over the company
|"inefficiency" of the management, gime for political purposes.
On January 10 officers of the one is profoundly impressed at Municipal Government presented the manner in which "inefficiency" themselves at the premises of the vanishes into thin air without any Water Works Company and de-alterations or reforms, just mere. manded that all records and funds ly through officialdom invading
the premises. of the Company be handed over In thus grabbing the private to them, in other words, they de manded full control of the Com-company the Government has ap The Parently failed. to pay due regard and its business. party ultimatum was given that every a very serious aspect that thing was to be surrendered with arises as a result of its action. A.
precedent is established and no in an hour's time. The officers
private industrial enterprise is were accompanied by armed
to
sons, Mr. and Mrs. Clarke, Miss forces and the Company's men safe from ita tentacles. Rosy Clarke, Miss Cochrane, and had no option, in view of the dis-pictures are painted by propa- Mesars. P. Cory and H. Garle were play of force, but to submit. The ganda to induce overseas Chinese passengers from Colombo to Hong reason given for the seizure was to return and invest their money Kong by the P. and O. 8. that the Company had failed to in China and help the development
of native industry. provide an efficient service to the humble deference to the superior public.
"Naldera."
But with
CHRUTIAN SCIENCE
The Officer in charge.of Ping- I do not propose to review the intelligence of officialdom we beg shan Police Station, has reported controversy that had gone on for to point out that grabbing tactica to Headquarters that he had re- some time previously over the such as was displayed in connec- ceived a letter with the informa- alleged incficient functioning of tion with the Water Works Co. tion that the as "Shan On" had the Waterworks, but will mention does not hold out much assurance. gone ashore on the west of Sha-that the Company, with a plant for the sanctity of private pro than,
contrary, such often as it far too
chau Island.
designed to care for the needs of Party; on the is, thoughtlessly praised. Sir
10,000 families, are now called action will operate to keep over Charles Wakefield, being particu: Lo Yee, Chinese constable No. times this number. This so-called and surplus funds, away from upon to supply water to fully four seas Chinese, with their capital larly interested in motor 0288, stationed at Yaumati Police inefficient" is the root cause of China.
All that the shareholders ask other kinds of lubricating oil, Station, has been arrested on the whole trouble. doubtless has a special interest in charges of (a) demanding money
After the lapse of six weeks for is fair play and justice, and promoting such speed competi- by menaces; and (b) misconduct from the time of the seizure the unless China's leaders sit up and as a policeman by demanding and Municipal Government announces take notice and see that justice is tions as, in the main, seem to be receiving a bribe of 30 cents, that it will appoint a Commission meted out with an impartial hand, inducing Segrave, Campbell and.
to assess the value of the plant, they will find China's liquid ren the Commission to consist of four sources leaving the country in a others to risk their lives every
Notice has been given at the Government men and but two re- steady stream. We do not have time they attempt to travel at local Registry of the forthcoming presentatives of the shareholders. to go far to find evidence of this. 200 miles per hour. As a mar-marriage of Mr. James Chang Such a preponderant majority in Already many of Canton's mar- vellous feat of driving and as an ing Wong, described as a super- favour of the Government ren-chants are investing their money intendent engineer, of No. 86, ders the appointment of the com-in the neighbouring Colony of indication of an iron nerve, this Bonham-road, to Miss Edith Sue mission a farce pure and simple, Hong Kong, and doubtless many speed: mania, might be tolerated, On of No. 1, Beautiful-terrace. ·
and naturally the shareholders re more will be following suit unless fuse to agree to such a Board be- the Government displays genuine but in no other respect should it
fair-mindedness to gain the con- ing formed.
fidence of the public. be countenanced. There is little
Commander D. Maxwell, Com- The Water Works Company is a
It behoves those who have the gense in swimmers, especially mander D. Lambert and Mrs. private business undertaking with women, attempting to swim the Lambert, Mr. and Mrs. Bird, Mr. paid-up capital of $2,750,000, interest of Canton and her people Channel but as a feat of skill and and Mrs. Strange and two in but apart from the talk of setting at heart, like Marshal Li Chal endurance it must be admired and fants, Misses J. Honese and D. up an Arbitration Board nothing sum, General Chan Ming-shu, Mr. Dunnett, and Mr. D. Macdonald has been done to pay the share Sun Fo, Mr. Hu Honamin, Mr. T. V. Soong, Dr. Wang Chung-bul, it certainly is not in the same arrived by the P. & O. 8.5. holders for their property, and 33 etc., to take note of this injustice far as can be seen the unfortun-and institute steps to rectify it be. category for foolhardiness as is "Naldera" from Home.
ate subscribers will whistle in
fore the confidence of the people most speed mania ventures. The
vain for their money. great Schneider Trophy is another
These two points, (1) valuation in their Government is complete At the Kowloon Magistracy
¡ly destroyed. of the speed tests bordering upon yesterday, Mr.T. S. Whyte-Smith of the assets by arbitration, and
Your, etc.,
*Y. K. WONG. the reckless and quite outwith the passed sentence of one month's (2) indefinite delay in making any
Shareholder of Canton Water pale of the practical. Of course, hard labour on each of two Chin-move towards repaying the share. ese charged with having atowed holders, form a direct reversal of
Works Company speed tests in flying are not pre-away from Swatow to Hong Kong a previous action. of the Govern **The distressing news of the cisely the same as in motoring, on board the s.s. "Cremer." The ment, when in 1915 they compell Hong Kong, March 11
sum of $750,000 to buy the inter. Daytona tragedy, in which the but when, in the training for this defendants plea was that they cd the shareholders to find the est of the Government in the Com
To the Editor of the "China Mall."} young American motorist, Lee trophy, we read, as. we do to-day had lost their tickets.
pany. It is necessary here to ex
Sir,It is good to know that Bible, was hurled to death when in one of the telegrams, that attempting to "go one better" on looping the loop" at 300 miles Passengers from Penang to plain that the Waterworks Com
Hong Kong by the P. and O. s.s. pany was started as a semi-Gov. undisturbed amidst the welter of Major Segrave's reckless feat of per hour was done by at least one Naldera," which arrived to-day ernment enterprise, some of the misrepresentation and clamorous driving at 231 miles an hour, will of those participating, all that were Dr. Mott; Mrs. and Miss capital being furnished by the opposition, the Church of Christ, be received with mixed feelings need be said is that the action is Mott, Mr. and Mrs. Frescott, Mr. Government and the majority by Scientist, and all its institutional and Mrs. Rickmers and Miss the public. In 1915 when the Gov-activities is gloriously fulfilling its throughout..the world.
bordering on sheer lunacy. Every-
Rickmers, Mr. and Mrs. Meinernment sold out its shares, commission "to commemorate the A telegram to hand from Day-Austin, Miss E. Grauert, Messrs. pelling the public to buy same, it word and works of our Master, body will, of course, sympathise with the American's ambition to tona is particularly interesting, as E Fisher, O. Dawburn, W. also laid down the flat that money which should reinstate primitive was to be found within ten days. Christianity and its lost element Under the compulsion of force of healing (Manual of the retain the motor speed record for in it we read that the American Schram, and F. Tisbury.
there was nothing, or it but to Mother Church, P. 17). Chris hia country, but it is deplorable Automobile Association, "anti-
cation of divine law; and phon that both he and Major Segrave cipating unfavourable public re- The P. & Osteamer "Naldera" obey, and the money was stump- tian Science practice is the appll- Compare the two sets of cir correctly applied it heals the sick. or anyone else who try such ap- action as regards the value of brought to-day the following pas-ed out.
sengers from Singapore: Dr, A. palling feats should seem to think super-speed trials" have issued a Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. Baldyagun, cumstances, and, then you may This can be easily verified by the ing in the weekly and monthly so little of the tremendous risk statement, in which it is pointed Mr. and Mrs. Fleming, Mr. and well as: Is there such a thing as authenticated testimonies appear- they run. Most emphatically the out that Bible's death is only the Mrs. Webster, Mr. and Mrs Justice?
In spite of the injustice, share-publications of The Christian Soemea and Infant, Mr. arid Mrs. danger, as we have previously had third that has occurred in Mather Miss E., Davidson, Mrs: holders do not wish to oppose the Science Publishing Society, of occasion to say, is in no way twenty-six years of speed tests at and the Misses J. and B. Wellman, authorities more than they can The First Church of Christ, Selen- For instance, in the Christian worth the glory, such as it is, Daytona Beach. Ninety-nine per Messrs. M. Webb, J. McLeod help, and are willing to have the tist, in Boston, Massachusetts.
company taken over, but they ask, cent, of these tests, it may be Waddell,
in all fairness, that they be pald Science Sentinel of January 26, that is in the feat-one of the
safely assumed, were not run at Douglas..
the full value of the assets of the may be found the authentic testi- most foolhardy, in our opinion, the paling speed of 200 miles
company, the value to be assessed mony of a Boston woman who was ever attempted in these days
per hour and if they had been
by an Independent, impartial completely and permanently heal- when the mania for speed seems there would have been a much
board of arbitrators, or if so wished of total blindness and total ed, by a Board of two officials and deafness through Christian to affect almost everybody every- larger nut ber of deaths to record.
two shareholders and a fifth man Science treatment after being told where. Speed approximating 200 Soch speed tests are merely fur-
to be elected according to major-by doctors that the optic nerves miles an hour being clearly out of ther evidence of the mania for SON OF OLD RESIDENT
ity opinion of these four. The re. and the auditory nerves were en- port of this Board of arbitrators tirely destroyed. This is just one the question for all practical pur-speed, and it should be the duty of
The son of Mr. Peter Kingson is to be considered final and bind- of countless proofs that Christian poses in motor driving why such bodies, as the Automobile Kwok a director of the Bank of ing on both the Government and Science is not commercialised should motor-cars be built at such Association to discourage couch past Asia, Ltd., and some time the shareholders, and cash is to faith cure" but that in Mrs.
foolhardy exploits, enormous cost-(Segrave's ma~
director of the Po Leung Kuk, Mr. be paid without delay. So far the Eddy's words:Truth casts out Frank Hingsum Kwok was yester Municipal Government has reallevils and materialistic chine and that used by the un-
day admitted to practice in the fused to consider this proposal: aethods with the actual spiritual fortunate Bible cost approximate-The purpose of the church is to local Courts as a solicitor. Mr. but insists that four members of laws the law, which gives sight to ly £20,000 each) to accomplish attune man to the divine harmony Frank Kwok is with Messrs the Board are to be its nominees the blind, hearing to the deaf, of the universe. How are the Johnson, Stokes and Master leaving one member for the Ger voice to the dumb, feet to the this altogether absurd feat. ⠀
churches going about that job? Mr. DJ Lewis and Mr. T. Geral Chamber of Commerce and lame." (Science and Health with There surely, are plenty of other Right here in Vancouver are at Bennett were, in Court.
Genuine Christian Scientists Ways of proving a machine's least twenty or thirty different He was educated at the Dioce member, for the shareholders Key, to the Scriptures, P. 183). superiority either from the point formulas laid down for reaching san Boys' School, Hong Kong and A third alternative has been everywhere are humbly striving Heaven. If science were con in England; served his articles to put forward by the shareholders to follow the Christ Truth! they of view of its engine or any other fronted with that many theories London; and was admitted at and that is that should the Gov-are not. Interested in the activities part of its make-up than by at concerning some desired end, Home on July 2 last year. All ermanent be unable at the present of those individuals who are now tempting such foolhardy speed scientists would go to work requirements of the Legal Frac moment to and the funds to pay carrying on an aggressive and tests. Not one person in 100,000 frankly and without prejudice to titioners Ordinance of the Colony for the company, the control and misleading opposition to Chrls-
eliminate all but the correct had been complied with, said the management be given back to the tian Science as founded by would accompany either Segrave method and, through their re Hon. Sir Joseph Kemp, BE shareholders Representatives and Eddy. or any of his rivals were the op nesrca, build up a practical K.C., in moving Mr. Kwok's ad directors. In view of the com portunity offered to them. Such technique to accomplis ort de mission
plaints of inefficiency, they sired and What actual
gest that the Government appoint speed, being altogether Impracti | research work are
a supervisor to sit on the Boan. cal should be condemned rather doing? They have; mi
and
that after sesHom
: Butterworth,
"NEW÷SOLICITOR
MMR, Ft: HINGSUM KWOK
SWADMITTED
and
spiritual His, Honour the thief Justice hurches (Sir Henry: Gollan, C.BE) with thered, Mr. Ewok a miccessful career
one
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W. H. ADLER
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