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CASTE PREJUDICË
The Problem of the
41
· Untouchables”
IMPOSTORS TESTED.
own
COCKTAIL HABIT. {
But Water a Poisonous Drink!
L
The facts as to the situation ness of each company an equal, bavo, as has been the custom in im, voice in the management.
WHAT DOCTORS THINK. portant transactions in the past,
Public Confidence. Among the Important assets of
Sir Charles Marris, K.C.S.I., a Two entinent medical authorities No. 1 HERE ehould be that is marked
Jo. S. 117.—IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that SEALED TENDERS been submitted to the Government.
TEN-Both tompanies were former sub-each of the present companies in member of the Simon Commission, condemned the cocktail habit in DER FOR QUARRY," will be received at the Colonial Secretary's sidiaries of the Standard Oil Com- the good-will attached to its name writing about the Caste System of their evidence before the Royal Commission on Licensing, which is Office until Noon of MONDAY, the 14th day of April, 1030, for pany (New Jersey). The question and the confidence of the public in India states:
was raised whether the decres en- its management and personnel. To "To-day castes are to be reckon- inquiring into the laws on the supe the occupation for a period ending 31st December, 1981, from the
The state- date of notification of acceptance of tender, of any or either of tered in 1911 in the sp-called preserve these assets there will be ed by the hundred and Identifiablo ply and sale of liquor.
castes by the thousand.""} ments wore: the places or parcel of ground referred to in the schedule here "Standard Oll dissolution suit," by organized two subsidiary corpora- minor
Sir George Newman, chief med!« under, shown coloured red on plan signed by the Director of which the control of the Standard tions of General Petroleum Cor-Caste remains as strongly as ever
Oil Company (New Jersey) over poration, to be known, respectively, a matter of birth. A man is born cal officer to the Ministry of Health Public Works and dated 7th March, 1930, but subject to cer- tala conditions which can be ascertained at the office of the Direct subsidiaries was terminated, as "Vacuum Oil Company, Inc." to honour as a Brahman or to dis- and the Board of Education. It is might forbid this transaction be-and "Standard Oil Company of honour as a sweeper; the worst most indefensible to have a cock- tor of Public Works.
tween two of such former sub- New York, Inc.," in order that the of Brahmana cannot lose his tail before dinner, and to drink a Each tender must be accompanied by a receipt to the effect sidiaries. The Government took present businesses of the respec-sanctity and the noblest of sweep cocktail without any relation to that the Tenderer has deposited in the Colonial Treasury the position that the questions in- tive companies may be carried on ers cannot break his birth's Invidi-food is also undesirable for mont В sum 0.5 stated in the schedule hereunder opposite to eachvolved should be passed upon by as in the past and under present ous bar, except by going right out-people. quarry
21 pledge of the bona fides of his offer, which the Courts.
Dr.. H. H. Dale, director of the management, thus preserving the aide the pale of his religion. sum ahall be forfeited to the Crown, if the Tenderer
Conforms With Law.
"To a values of the corporate names,
tent occupation National Institute for Medical Re refuses to carry out his tender and comply with the conditions, Counsel for the companies have trademarks and organizations of is still dermined Dy & man'a search.-I do not think the cock hereinafter contained, should the tender be accepted.
given their opinion that the merger the two companies. The Vacuum caste, though various causes, such tall habit bas a good effect. is in conformity with the law. As customers can thus feel assured as education. and travel and the Scientifically I should condemn it, to the permissibility of a union of that the high-grade lubricants and development of Industry and the but if a man was labouring under two former subsidiaries of the all other distinctive Vacuum pro-desire for Government service, mental tension a cocktail might Standard Oil Company (New Jer-ducts will be manufactured and have blurred the boundary lines.
give him an appetite and allow him sey) counsel have advised that this marketed in all the world's markets
The Caste Tribunal
to enjoy a meal. question was raized before the by and through Vacuum organiza- "Each caste enforces its
Alcoholism, said Sir George, Supreme Court of the United tions with the management and rules by means of committees rendered people more susceptible States in the dissolution case and personnel with which they are called panchayets. A coste man to pneumonia, venereal disease, and
tuberculosis. that that Court held that after the familiar, thereby ensuring that the who breaks the rules by engag-
The high mortality attributed to subsidiaries had been freed from distinctive Vacuum products willing in a degrading occupation, or
alcoholism was most marked be- the control of the Standard Oil bo available exactly as heretofore.esting improper food, or marry- Company (New Jersey) they would The customers of the Standard Oiling beyond the pale, is arraigned tween 35 and 65 years of age, be entitled to pursue any course of Company of New York can likewise before the caste tribunal. He may
Workman and His Beer. feel assured that they will be deal-get off by paying a fine or stand-
He thought that beer had s conduct lawful for anyone else.. $100
There being no available method ing with the same management and ing a dinner. But for major slight, but transient, food value for. for asking the Courte for an ad-personnel with which they are offences he will be outcast, and the workman. visory expression as to the specific, familiar in the marketing of the then none of his own caste-fellow! Dr. Dale said that the most situation now arising, the only way distinctive Standard Oil Company will have anything to do with him; to secure a ruling was for the com- of New York products.
can he get access to panies to proceed and let the mat- Your Directors unanimously be temples, nor service from any of ter be brought before the Courts lleve that the carrying out of the the other workers, the barber, the in an appropriate way for deter- contract will prove to be in the best cobbler, the washerman, on whom mination. Under these circum interests of the stockholders of he depends for necessary offices.
of
of the public atances, the Directors the your Company and
Girls of Humble Caste. respective companies felt it their we serve.
"To places where there is u PUBLIC MEETING will duty to the stockholders of the com- By order of the Board of Directors demand for wives, girls of humble A
Geo, V. Holton, panies to proceed, and have enter held, in the Chamber ofed into a contract for the merger
Secretary, Commerce Room, at the City Hall, which they have brought to the at- on FRIDAY, the 4th day of April tention of the Government. 1980, at 5.15 o'clock in the after Government has indicated that noon, for the purpose of making it proposes to institute an appro arrangements in connection with priate proceeding in equity to de- the arrival of His Excellency Sir formine the questions in olved, William Peel, K.B.E., C.M.G., and and it is expected that the matter
will be promptly disposed of.
Assets United, While in deference to these legal
be submitted to you immediately,
Reception should be met. in its provisions. The contract
next to
Quarry No.
Kowloon Quarry No. 1 Kowloon Quarry No. 2..Shek Shan... Kowloon Quarry No. 4..Ma Tau Kok .. Kowloon Quarry No. 5.Ma Tau Kok .. Kowloon Quarry No. 5..Hok Un New Kowloon
Shek Shan
1.91
3,13
€3,600
1.00
$. 900
1.27
$ 900
.45
$ 100
Quarry No. 1.Kowloon Tong
.92
$ 280
+
28th March, 1930.
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GENERAL NOTICES
PUBLIC MEETING.
in particular:--
be
(1) To appoint a Reception Com-
mittee.
The
FINDS IN SIAM
17th-Century Catholic Relics
Discussing the discovery of old silver articles at Lopburt (Luovo)
nor
Was
polsonous drink during heavy work theand under hot, perspiring condi
tions was water. The discovery made during the war, and measures were taken to add to the water supplied to the men a small They quantity of common salt. were not told what it was, and it
caste are sometimes brought by dishonest brokers, who dispose of them at a profit by representing them as of higher caste than they This practice may suggest the question, why a low-caste man doomed to A degrading trade should not likewise go off to some
are.
1
made them feel comfortable, but they were angry when it was re- vealed to them afterwards.
Six W. Arbuthnot Lane. health expert, said to a Daily Mail Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, 'the
reporter:
If a person desires an appetiser before a meal, sherry is easily tho best drink.
Cocktails may be very nice, but I
place where he was unknown and give himself out as of a high do not think that they are good. And incidentally an enormous pro-
caste. known
The answer is that un- strangers are always
(2) To decide on the mode and proceedings the contract will not which are believed to date back to objects of suspicion in India; and it is made out of them.
place of the Reception.
the time of Louis XIV, and to be that before he was accepted he
If you drink good sherry you
spoil your taste or your stomach.
(3) To decide how the cost of the you will be interested at this time relics of the brief period of French would be put through tests under know where you are. It does not (4) To discuss matters generally makes provision for uniting the Catholic influence in Siam the Bang which he would break down for in connection with such. Re-assets of the Vacuum Oil Company kok correspondent of The Times sheer lack of knowledge of the
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caption. Dated 26th March, 1930.
H. E. POLLOCK, Senior Unofficial Member.
UNION CHURCH, HONG KONG.
ANNUAL SPRING JUMBLE SALE to be held MAY 9th.
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NOTICE.
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I bollove that when a man is
down or out of sorts alcohol is one
.
of the most wonderful things in the
world. It is absorbed at once in the stomach. I havo the greatest belief in alcohol used judiciously,
STANDARD TIMES
Sunrise And Sunset In Colony
and the Standard Oil Company of says: The find is composed of two society, which be sought to enter.
The Major Castes silver candlesticks, a silver-gilt New York, under the nama
"There is little difficulty about "General Petroleum Corporation." base, presumably of a crucifix,
the precedenco of the major To effect this end the name of the silver-gilt chalice adorned with pic- present Standard Oil, Company of tures of the life of Christ, and a castes. Always the Brahman comes New York will be changed to silver vessel used for burning in- first, and then the modern ropre- of the threa 'twice "General Petroleum Corporation." cense at the Benediction. They are sentatives
born' communities. Below them The General Petroleum Corporation clearly parts of altar furniture. will have all the present assets of In the latter half of the 17th there would be no general agree Some the sequence. the Standard Oil Company of New century, during the reign of King ment as to
The General Petroleum Phra Natal, Constantine Phaulkon Sudras are "clean" others, though yet not thought of
Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Corporation will also acquire all a Greek and the most remarkable Dot clean, are
of las polluted,
"Below these, again, aro a des-Kong for April (Standard time the assets of the Vacuum Oil Com-foreigner ever in the service
of the 120th Meridian, East of pany, and will issue and deliver to Slam, held ministerial office and a each shareholder of the Vacuum position of great influence at fending series of "Untouchables." Oil Company in exchange for these Court. He, like the King, had a In the South, where Brahmanism Greenwich) are as follow assets three (3) shares of the house and a private chapel at Lop. Is strongest, the degree of pollu- capital stock of General Petroleum burt, though the capital was then tion with which the various kinds April Corporation for each share of at Ayuthia. It was the policy of of pariah are invested is measured Vacuum Oil Company stock sur King Phra Naral to use France to by the distance within which they rendered to the Vacuum Oil Com-counteract the influence of Holland, may not approach a Brahman. The Depressed" Classes pany for cancellation. The stock then the predominating power in
"The depressed classes holders of the Standard Oil Com- the East. The favour shown to the pany of New York will receive new French gave Louis XIV. the idea of reckoned to number from 50 to 60 certificates in the same of the effecting by diplomacy the conver-millions. They used to be thought General Petroleum Corporation for slon to Catholicism of the King and of as definitely beyond the pale people of Siam. Several embassles of Hinduism. Their position is their present shares,
4
Sunrise Sunset.
Bill р.м. 8.16 6.38
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3
6.15
6.89
4
6.14 0.89
6.13
6.40
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6.12
6.40
7
6.11 6.41
8
6.10 6.41
3
6.10
6.41
10
6.09 641
11
8.08 6.42
12
6.07 ·6.42
13
6.05 6.42
14
6.05 643
16
6.04. 6.49
6.08 6.43
17
6.02 6.44.
18:
6.01. 6.44
19.
6.014
6.45
20
6.00
6.45
21
5.59
6.48
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*5.58
8.48
23:
5.58 8.46
5.57
6.47
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26
5.56 6.47 5.55 6.47
27
5.55
6.48
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29
5.54 6.48. *5.58 6.48.
5.52
6.49
The Board of Directors of the were exchanged, and in December, more ambiguous nowadays, when General Petroleum Corporation 1685, a treaty was signed giving growing tension between Hindua will, upon consummation of the every possible facility to the and Moslems makes it important contract, be composed of directors French missionaries. In the end to each community to increase ita chosen in equal number from the revolution swept away both the numerical strength, present directorates of the Vacuum King and his foreign adviser, to "But if the outcasts are to be 18 Oil Company and the Standard Oll gether with all the Frenchmen in reckoned as Hindus it is only just Company of New York, thus giving the country and proper that Hinduism should to those now conducting the busi-The silver that has been dug up treat them better. Logic and ex- might have been part of the altar pediency alike tend to reinforce furniture of the Church of St. Paul the efforts already being made by at Lopburi or of Constantine the more generous-minded of the Phaulkon's private chapel, which caste leaders to show more con- was consecrated under the name of sideration to those beyond the Our Lady of Loretto. St. Paul's pale. The movement has long had a congregation of 190 Catholics figured on political programmes; In those days. In modern times it is now actually gaining strength; the Roman Catholic Mission has but it still has great dificulties to The following unclaimed tule never had a station at Lopbar, overcome in the shape of orthodox grams are lying at the E. E but part of the walls of Phaulkon's conservatism."" Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong-private chapel still remains. It is Captain Aitken, Generál Post supposed that some one, foreseeing the disaster about to overtake the Office, from Sydney, Sub. Y
Christian faith in 1688, removed Bas, from Singapore.
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The relics have been presented by a resident in Lopburi to, the Prince of Nagor Suarga, Minister, of the Interior and were by him Kong, March 27, 1930 passed on to Prince Damrong for
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