TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1931.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
ATTRACTIVE TAILORING
The Latest In Gentlemen's Outfitting
AT PRICES TU SUIT ANY PURSE.
PERFECT FIT
AND
RELIABLE
BUITINGS.
WING HING.CO.
Gentlemen's Outfitters
64, 'Queen's Nd. C. Tel. 21417.
Very Nice Woolles Materinin
For
Making Ladies'.
DRESSES
&
OVERCOATS
Also FURS &
SILK HOSJERY Expert Tailoring Department. LEE MOW
Chinese Silk Hostery Store No. 1, D'Aguilar Street
DENTISTS.
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
1st floor, No. 74, Queen's Rond
Central. Tel. 21255.
TANG YUK, Dentist. Successors tu
the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street. TERMS VERY MODERATE
·Consultation Free.
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.
W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD.,
Kowloon Bay.
New Work & Repairs. Call Flag "L" Sole Agents for Kelvin Motora.
FRUITS.
Now in season
CALIFORNIA PEARMAIN APPLES
HAIR DRESSERS.
LEE YEE,
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Hair Dressers & Booksellers, No. 12, D'Aguilar Street, (opposite Queen's Theatre).
LIANG YOU
LADIES' & GENTS' HAIRDRESSERS.
Also
MR. ST. OUEN, PERMANENT WAVING introductory Price $20.
King's Theatre Blog Tel. 20316.
Ground Floor.
ON LOK
'HAIR DRESSING SALOON FOR LADIES' & GENTLEMEN
Is fitted with the latest devicca for UAG in huir. dressing. Expert Barbers, CLEAN & COMFORTABLE 10. Wyndham Street, 1st Floor. Entrance On Lan St. Tel. 22317.
OPTICIANS.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY,
'Phone 22232.
53, Queen's Rond Central,
SHOES:
Pair
Black or Brown Shock frora 10.00, Black or Brown Boots from $8.00. Children's Boots or Shoes from $2.00,
WONG SIU WOON
21. Pottinger St. Phone 21474.
SPORTING GOODS.
ATHLETIC GOODS
THE CHINA
MAIL.
RADIO TOPICS
WONDER AND ROMANCE.
Youthful Prodigy of Industry.
SURPRISING DIMENSION.
the vessel impod into the Delawaro ĮRiver, a now section was ready for immediato installation. The six-
plane on voyage to-day is never out (of touch of ground, is fully appris-
some of the present radlo apenk sustained usually by some form ofjed of weather, work, and course by ers and announcers die off! These special license tax on receiving sets. the radio beacons and messages.
Amateurs at Work. figures resemble strikingly those of But the development of advertising"
A radio talk by Dr. Julius Klein, portables, etc, there still seems to Assistant Secretary of Com-e a broad market here at home, merce, delivered over the const- even without considering the enor- le-const network of the Colum-mus field abroad.'
try.
4
ket.
the
Potential Market.
radio
limitations
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POLICE RESERVE.
Orders for the Current
Week.
FLYING SQUAD'S PATROL.
N.C.OR. Claas.—All N.C.0/8 will Chinese Company's
the
Mr. Pator-
་
R$24
on the
the early days of automobile owner- as an inherent feature of all our Do you know of the Radio Relay ship, and I think we can look for commerce has planted an Instilu League; that organkation of ama-
Orders by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. industrial history to repost itself. tion, which sustains itself, without tours, thousands of whom are work Wolfe. C.M.G., Inspector-General These gapa will be closed up, and the stultifying influence of bureau-ing their own telegraph and tele- of Police, are as under:— with 20 million homes still there cratic control so common elsewhere. phone sending and receiving sta-
Chinese Company. 13 FL potential market, to say Our idea seems to be that there is tions, exchanging messages clear
Training Course-Part II.-All nothing of replacements, extra seta, ne more warrant for a government around the world in their own code?
radio system in the United States, We hear only once in a while of recruits will attend at the Chin- than there is for a government-con- their wonderful, extemporized feats, ce Company's Headquarters, to-
communication. It is nevar day at 5.30 p.m. for instruction. trolled chain of newspapers all over of
going to be possible in the future Training Course-Part All the country.
Co-operation.
for disaster to cut off appreciable recruits of the Chinese Company bia Broadcasting System, from] And there are a billion people in Our ready adaptability to co-groups of human people from the will attend Central Police Station New York, N.Y., 6.15 to 6.30
No matter for Squad Drill on Thursday at p.m., Eastern Standard Time the whole world within the range operation has enabled us to have help of others again.
15.30 p.m. (7.15 to 7.30 p.m., Daylight of broadcasting stations new estab- the advantages of broadcasting net- what stress of storm, flood, fire, or Saving Time), Sunday, August ished. That is the potential mar works, and at the same time to pro-carthquake it is which breaks wires
On the basis of ave listeners,serve the advantages of indivi-and cables as it overwhelms habita-attend 2, 1931,
to every set, it would require 200,- duality and difference. And the in- tions and wastes wide areas, the Headquarters on Friday at 4 pm. I am quite sure that familiarity with the accustomed operation of 100,000 sets to provide facilities for come available to the broadcasting amateur station is always to be for instruction under
all of them to tune in the pro- Industry demonstrates the final found, surviving somehow, manned son, P.P.T.8. the radiu can never entirely dull for
That is about point. Sir John Relth, director of by boys not alone willing and eager,
Indian Company, us its wonder, its romance, and its rammes available.
Promotions. Lance. mystory. Yet it is not the fascin- eight times the present supply. And the British Broadcasting Corpora- but expertly able to take up the
Sergeant new stations are constantly being tion, which conducts the English burden of restoring emergency com- R202
M. Abdullah has been ap- ating phases of it which I venture to talk over with you to-night, but put up, as well. One short-wave governmental monopoly, estimates munication, recounting the tale of painted Crown Sergeant with effect
transmitter of great power is work that he has an annual budget of damage, and guiding the efforts of from December 1, rather the hardly less important
Constables R204 ing away out in Kenya, in what $7,000,000 to provide radio enter-salvage and restoration.
Abdul Karim growth of its newer business as-;
And tainment and education for the en- The radio is certainly putting and R222 Hardit Singh have been peets. Let me get rid of some used to be Darkest Africa. figures first-to get an idea of the hen there are those millions of tire British nation. Compare that into history another exhibition of appointed Lasce
Sergeants with motor cars, some of which, at least with the $150,000,000 which is an all that is admirable in human in-effect from December 1, surprising dimension of this still
Training Course Parts II- youthful prodigy of modern indus ought to be shall I say "serviced nually laid out for us American lis- tellect and character, which reveals!
with static"-to drown out their tenors.
men dreaming of ways to break the Constable R263 R. Salim has been It will not take you long to figure bonds of space and time, of atriving passed out as efficient in Part II My friend Martin Codel, whose squeaks.
Mr. Joy Elmer Morgan, editor of out what that means in programme to make dreams come true, until In of Training Course (knowledge of recent book "Radio and Its Future"! has become a standard text in the the fournal of the National-Educa- quality, and variety; because it the outcome we have their success Police Duties and Regulations. field, "estimates that the American tion Association, certainly not an stands to reason that broadcasting, enriching the lives of all mankind. Training Course-Part IIAJI
One-Way Talk!
members who have not passed rudy industry has retailed more extravagantly minded periodical, here or abroad, can develop only to
My own appreciation of that ac- Part II of Training Course should than $3,000,000,000 worth of receiv- makes the prediction that indivi- the extent its financial foundation ing sets, tubes and parts during the dual radio receivers for each mem-'allows. These bright young men complishment is high just now. attend at the Chinese Company'a first decade of radio broadcasting "her of the family will be with us and women who make our broad- Because of it I have been able to Headquarlors, 17, Queen's Road That is just the same as the amount on, and points out that the use of enating stations such business-like' make chat with you of the radio au- Central on Thursday at 5.30 p.m. (invested in the much more vener. the Instruments in education is only and at the same time pleasant dience in informal fashion-free of Inspection Parade-All ranks of
beginning. Millona of youngsters places to be around doubtless be- all the starchy
which the Indian Company will parade able, widespread soft coal mining will presently be having some por come attached to their batteries or hedge about a lecture platform at Central Police Station on industry; and it also equals that invested in national shipping and ton of their lessons from national- microphones or trombones and other permitted to share the friendly in Wednesday, December 23, for a
ly famous master teachers."
playthings, but wo could hardly ex- timacy of your homes, perhaps to general inspection of equipment canals.
peet them to carry on day after day join you momentarily by the glow-etc. by the Company Commander. A Husky Lad.
Oversea Popularity. So this 10-year-old youngster is.' We can test as well the growing and night after night solely-shall ing campfires of your Summer vaca Fall in at 6.30 p.m.'s harp, under to say the least, an amazingly overaca popularity of radio by the ay for the love of "mike"-as tion, or in loss happy surroundings, P./Sgt. R. J. Hunt, Dress-Blue
with lots of husky lad
pro- recent increase in its exports. You they affectionately call this preci- the drug-scented wards of hospitals uniform, cap with white cover, decade know, of course, that international object. They do require groeven, sccording to some of your belt, truncheon, whistle, armlet mine. That was
cories which means pay envelopes, letters, behind the grim steel bars and badge. "Pocket Policeman" Best styles, most complete stock of fantastie
be busincas in general has been woo-j confusion,
One short-coming and note-book to be carried. of all sizes. Repairing a speciality.wilderingly swift advances of radio fully cut into by depression this That is where the $150,000,000 a of prison cells."
It has had, from my point of view; Those not in possession of uniform technology, millions made and lost year; most of our manufacturers year comes in.
Now in spite of the alleged great--the talk has bem all one way: will attend in mufti. No mem- overnight, heetic promotion schemes lost 40 or 50 per cent. of their nor --but with it all, a net gain scarce- mal export volume. Yet In the first er stress laid by the British and Perhaps that is just as well for me, ber may be absent from this parade. ly to be matched by any other in- quarter of 1931, the number of new German Government broadcasting since you can not throw anything, without leave from the Company
This completes the third year Commander. The sets marketed monopolies on educational matter,
Equipment destry in a similar brief span of American
abroad was 70,000 against 41,000, in spite of the asistance which the during which I have been permitted Officer will make it a point of bo- years.
Recruits will attend. last Russian Soviet gets from radio in to meet you weekly with these little ing prosent. same period In fact, it is probable' that, as an in
is determined domination of the talks, but I have never ceased to bej The world is obviously
Flying Squad. industry, radio has only half grown, year. if that. Just at this time the pos- supplying itself with a new kind of minds of its citizens, I think none awed at the magic of this device.
Strength. - Constable xibility of its expansion has a lot luxury which is due to become al- of us would want to see the servico To-night, I am signing off the air
Harry Chan has been In the United States take the form for a few weeks, grateful for your to do with the recovery of business, most a necessity. Probably 26,- Here is the reason: After each 000,000 sets are now in service all that has been 'imposed upon radio considerate attention and hopeful strength of the Flying Squad and
Nearly half of abroad.
At best, the Government of opportunity to meet you all again posted to the Hong Kong Section, serious business depression of mo- round the globe.
as from December 12, 1931. dern times, the opening and deve- them here, a quarter are in a systems lean to heaviness and next Autumn,
The final instructional patrol and France lack of variety in programmes;
of the
of lopment of some new industry has England, Germany,
year
the Hong while at worst, they degenerate-
Kong Section will take pince yweel. and highly aromatic THE LIANG YOU CO. contributed markedly to the restorn- taken together, and the rest are,
tion of prosperity. After the col- spread from Cape Horn to Kamchat- unconsciously or otherwise-to pro-
Friday. All members Inpse of the 1870's, it was the rapid ka, But of course the best way to Paganda mechanisms drugging the
should attend. No members may be absent from this patrol without growth of our railway network estimate the popularity of radio in popular mind. with pet ideas of
leave from which supplied the stimulus for any region is to figure out the sets some controlling bureaucracy.
the Company Com Bored With Lessons
mander. speeding recovery. In the early in operation is proportion to popu-
That Becomes A Tax.
Fall in at Central Police 90's came
In this respect, Denmark, the expansion of the lation.
only handicap alleged
Station at 5.15 p.m. sharp. Dress bicycle industry. After the 1907 with 63 sets for each thousand peo-against our system is the necessity |
-Winter uniform and (By Margery Kaye.)
Cap with slump, and particularly after that ple, is second to the United States of the listener's "considering cer
white cover. The drcular letters which have thousand, and tuin parts of his anatomy," or being been received by Army and Air of 1921, it was that amazing young with its 83 per
Sharpshooters Company. business Sweden shows an almost equal in- bored with a lesson on skin treats Force officers stationed in India, automobile giant, the
Defendu Class-All members ment or the recital of the virtues which helped take up the business terest with 60 per thousand.
drastic cutting wishing to join the Defendu Class Black. To-day, clambering as we With a young industry such as of some new noiseless alarm clock,ggesting a
in the 0. are up from the 1980-81 chasm in this, it would be natural to expect Now that objection la one that can down of their entertainment ex- must send their names the business curve, it would not be a swift succession of startling new be taken too seriously; because it penses, will come as a relief to 1/c. Co. before December 18.
The standard of living at all unlikely that new household developments in its early stages. does not take long these days maintained by oflcers stationed
many,
abroad has always been pain- fully and unnecessarily high.
Strangers to the station are al- Hospitality, In the East,
ways sure of finding their. bed means keeping an open house and board at his house, Junior Only Half Grown.
cial, the more lavish he is ex- perpetually under try as only half grown; let me offer far into its scientific problems, but vertisers are
pected to be with his meals, his The the experts tell me that within a competitive fire which tends to cor- spare bed-rooms, and his drinks. you some data to prove it.. Census Bureau is just finishing up year or two the display of current rect costly errors of that kind.
events in vision and sound will be Radio presents a great field, over seems fair enough, for naturally This ruling, on the surface, the first national count of your
So which I must skip rather rapidly a man's pay increases with his radio sets. Preliminary figures show rather generally practicable. that about 10,000,000 homes, only many unbelloveable things have in the time which is allotted me. seniority. one third of all those in the coun- come true that it takes a lot of nerve You all remember how last month,
On the other hand, a senior try, have been equipped for radio to challenge the promise of such President Hoover, struggling with maa has greater domestic obligaforced to go to the hills in Sum-
new wonders,
German criela, was able to tions than a junior officer. By reception. So we have a long way, to go before that far-off point of sa-
Broadcasting Industry. uillize the facilities of the radio the time he is a colonel he prob- mer she must maintain a high standard of living there, while children at Home at turation is reached, though I grant This brings me to the other side telephone, never losing touch with ably has that in walking down the streets of the radio picture-the broad-s asistants in Paris and London school and sons and daughters his expenses continue in the these warm summer eveninga, you casting industry. We have in the who conducted the difficult and de- to launch on their careers. He plains. More than one of these
licate negotiation-which. would has therefore got to maintain couples have get the impression of a 100 per cent. United States now 600 radio broad- saturation of the ether waves; you casting stations. What a growth probably have been almost impos two homes, one in Britain, as they were so heavily in debt that they were at their wits end to are tempted to believe that every in this brief period of a little over sible without radio,
well as that in India. HONG KONG HEIGHTS single house has not only its quota ten years! It was only on the night Marvellous Bervices.
Nobody who has not "lived in know how to meet their chil of one set but a whole flock or lit of November 2, 1920, that the first Instances of its marvellous ser. India has the faintest idea of the dren's school bills and to take a short Home leave. If asked ter or swarm or whatever it is that lone station went on the air with vice are innumerable., An Ameri amount of entertaining that goes why they persisted in carrying For the information of visitors radio sota come in.
many sputters and crackles, to give ca banker In London recently on on there. At Home we are more the following list of some of the Here is an interesting fact the Harding-Cox election results to an important financial mission or less free to limit our hospital on this senseless system often-.. highest points on the Island and brought out by these new figures- a band of vallant soula (about 25, needed to get honoured a cheque for ity to our friends. In an Indian tertaining all and sundry, they invariably reply in that famous the radio sets are most irregularly I am told) frantically jiggling their $1,000,000. There was no copy of station everybody knows every and irritating Indian phrase: "It
This signature in Europe; banks are one else.. Every single persons Feet. distributed.
has 57 per cent of Its homes equip. And now the provision of pro- naturally careful about the pay in an Army cantonment must be is the custom."
The young married captain ped, and her neighbour, Connecti-grammes and power for the broad- ment of so large a sum. When the invited to a senior officer's house. cut, almost the same. In Wiscon- casting end of the industry alone, situation was explained over the A high standard of life is main-finds hospitality proportionately
difficult. sin and Michigan, sets are found in to say nothing of your receiving trans-Atlantic radio telephone, an tained. The number of courtes People at Home living on simi- 1725 about 51 per cent. of all homes, sets, entails an annual expenditure authentic copy of his signature was and the amount of wines that are
are rigidlar pay would probably keep a figure in the United States of $150,000,000. transmitted by radio, and the cheque served during dinner runs above 48, in South This amesing feverish growth was duly paid. A ship at sea, rites laid down in pre-war days, general servant, but the exigan Dakota
the stern rules of caste prevent Nebraska makes us consider very seriously bound for Philadelphia, sustained and still maintained, in spite of cies of the Indian climate and But in some of our one vital phase of the industry, an accident which necessitated the the changes of custom that have 47 per cent. other States homes with radio ser-namely, the advantages of Ameri- replacement of one of its mechani- taken place in Britain. Feet. vice number as little as 5 or 6 per can traditional insistence upon in- cal parta, Plans of the ship were High Standard of Living.
cent of the total. Perhaps their dividual freedom and initiative. In in Britain; but the blueprint de A General and his wife give at people are walling till the sets get most other countries, radio broad- sign for constructiod was radioed least two dinner parties a week 1971 better, or the programmes improve, casting is a government monopoly, across the ocean, and by the time and Innumerable
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find programme to may supply the extra spark plugs to fection of television-the time when some
out accelerate the industrial machine the radio will bring its message by skilful samplings of listener-
It Interest that he is to the eye as well as the ear.
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subscriptions and heavy Club The General has large mess dues, as he and his wife usually attend all the dances and Club entertainments. If his wife is
confessed that
any one servant from doing all the work, or the lady of the house from doing her share of the household chores. Labour now- adays is not so very cheap India.