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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1932.
RAILWAYS' BIG LOSS
CONDITIONS DEMAND
READJUSTMENT ·
SUFFER FROM MOTORS' COMPETITION
(BY LESLIE BOYCE M. P.)
London. scale of new licence duties recom- urgent mended in the. report is too steep
and most vital
One publisher gave an interest- ing reason for this. "Very few of the readers of a novel ever see the jacket," he said, "since they The get the book from a library. I try domestic problem confronting the and places an unfair burden upon. to make my jackets as attractive BB Government ie the adjustment of the heavy vehicle. In actual fact, possible for the sake of the review-competitive conditions between rall the heavy vehicle is treated gener or. A reviewer who has to choose and road transport
ously. For moving a given weight For more than a century the rail-jover a given distance the light van of new novels is likely to pick ways have been the. Hfeblood of would be required to pay more than
three or four to read out of a acore
those with pleasant exteriors."
Your Daily Smile.
EXPLAINED.
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industry. Our railway system is three times as much as the heavy to-day, and within the limits of lorry. human foresight must continue to It has also been contended that be, indispensable.
the proposed scale of licence duties
Transport costs must be looked at from the standpoint of uational interest and economy.
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No alternative form of transport will be a burden on productive in A motorist fined for obstruction can conceivably convey the 218,000,-dustry by increasing transport costs. was stated to have stopped on a000 tons of coat which pass over There is no substance in this con- tram track to read a letter. One the steel rails in a year. Long dis-tention.. theory is that the poor fellow was tance passenger transport and the' just trying to read between the rapid conveyance of mails and dis- lines.
Įtribution of newspapers are amongst the countless services for which an. The railways have to meet an efficient railway system is essential jannual charge of £64,000,000. for A market gardener claims that hejto the nation.
interest on the capital cost of their can pod 500 peas a minute. That's Motor transport must be free to permanent way, maintenance and shell-that was,
develop to its fullest extent under signalling, and the like. These fair conditions. But legislative ne-overimad charges do not fluctuate ition is necessary to establish fair with the amount of traffic,
conditions.
Dividing' Traffic.
In Other Words?
High Diddle Diddiers!
"Confidence tricksters are to be found in every large hotel," de- clarez a detective. I am still won dering whether this is an allusion to the proprietors.
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SALESMANSHIP
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Existing conditions are unfair, The more the railways are de- their continuance is not only crip- prived of high-rated traffic by the pling the railways, but may well Indiscriminate hauler, the prove to be disastrous to the heavy necessary will it become for them to industries, and, therefore, ultim-restore their revenue by increasing ately to the nation.
their rates on the heavy traffics like Railways' Losses.
coal, iron, and steel. This is one The critical financial plight of the alternative to the adoption of the railways is plain for all to see In Salter recommendations, but it is the weekly traffic returns. For the an alternative which would be dis- exfirst forty-one weeks of this year, astrous to the primary Industries compared with the same period last at the very time when the restora- year, gross railway revenue has tion of our export trade is of para- fallen by £11,500,000.
mount importance to the country as
"Have you," said the glum man, "a revolver in stock?" like machinery "No, sir," replied the bright as may be.. It is an age of sistant. "But we have some restless movement; and although cellent lengths of blind cord.” Hong Kong, Saturday, Dec. 8, 1932. the most modern home can be in fact agreeably comfortable, it
TRAY SHEIK must look as though no one ever. An Arab fashion seen at the
This comes on the top of succes- a whole. used it except to dash in for a races consisted of a head-dress or-sive losses in previous years, and, toj The other alternative is to allow eigarette or to telephone for the namented with what appeared to be go no further back than 1929, the the rallways to sink rapidly Into car. No doubt we have our a silver salver.
railways have in three years lost bankruptcy. May
traffic to the value of no less than $31,000,000.
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Facts You Did Not Know.
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Even so, they would have to be maintained as an indispensable national service, but it would. be the taxpayer who would, have to foot the bill.
The Modern Style. Some good things were said faults and follies; but we at the first meeting of the con-
little Better Late ference of British Decorators, claim also to have our
measure of virtue and good Russia says that her Five-Year
To this state of affaits trade de- held recently in London, A
sense. The Victorians were not Plan is nearing completion. It is pression is admittedly a contribu visitor from the United States
their not expected to take more than an-tory factor. But the nation cannot poked fun at the amateur de 30 stuffy or so. fussy as
elaborate ornament and their other two hundred years.
afford to wait for the return of Fortunately it is unnecessary to corator, whose qualifications!
superfluity of ornaments make
industrial prosperity before dealing dwell on these gloomy alternatives.. were confined to ""face" (or "cheeks," as we call it here) and less and so crude as our
them soem; nor are we so rest-
with the main contributory factor. The Sajter Report provides a solu steel social position; and his hit at rods and harsh enamels would
The problem of unfair road com- tion." petition brooks no delay.
Both rail and road have their the architects who want to be imply. It is not all our own do
Why are the present conditions part to play in the transport system decorators too may remind some ing that we are cabined, cribbed. Kitchen tongs that have been in
of commercial road transport un- of the nation. It will be the duty of the story of the Head of a confined in cubic inches where vented for lifting vegetables and college at Oxford who went for the Georgians had cubic feet to bottle opener on the end of the First, the railways have not only to
fair to the railways?
of Parliament to see that each.plays eggs from boiling water have a
They are unfair for two reasons. the part for which it is best fitted. years without a clock in his be spacious and graceful in. And
Out of chaoa must come stability. grand new study because the-ar-
serve the £800,000,000 capital spent With the, unanimous recommenda- chitect forbade any clock but one larity may be signs that we are our very sharpness and angu- of his own designing and then cleaner more alert, less cluttered!
Despite its population of nearly on the construction of their per- tions of the Salter Conference be forgot to design it. But the
and
80,000,000 Poland has only about manent way, but have also to meet fore them, there need be no delay the cost of maintaining and signal on the part of the Government, or creeper-covered than
2 600 motion picture theatres,
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modern conception of decorating: some of our predecessors were smaller ratio than any other Euro-ling their track; whereas the class of Parliament in discharging their +B8 Sir Francis Goodenough's At any rate it can do no harm to speech went to prove, has grown suggest without delay to pos far beyond the designing of
coration, it should epare a
pean country.
of motor transport which is com- clear duty to the nation, petitive with the railways has its
clocks or furniture, and beyond terity that, before it condemns ments; and their contentment permanent way provided free of even the covering of walls and our domestic and vocational de will most probably be derived in cost, and does not even pay its full thought to the conditions of life a far greater measure from that share of road maintenance expendi which caused it.
very singularity than from the ture, and where automatic safety goal attained or the experiences signals are necessary they are sup- plied for them at the expense of the won by the way, that
From the days of the Golden public. Fleece and the Pillars of Her
Fair Competition.
Unusual Journeys.
the hotel was gally, decorated with Road haulage is free to pick multi-coloured streamers and bal- and choose ite traffic: It takes the loons, Mr. Ronald Truo's orchestra. cream and leaves the skimmed providing the music. milk to the railways,
The function, which is under the
CHARITY BALL AT HOTEL CECIL. the draping of windows. It is concerned with the general fit
More Than 400 ness of the building for the pur- pose to which it is put. Still, it
Guests Present. is by means of furniture. walls, fabrics, and the like that this
Revelry reigned supreme at the fitness must find expression, and
The successful conclusion of cules to those of Atlantic fights Secondly, the railways as a public Hotel Cecil last night, when more this modern decoration, with its two unusual journeys was accom- and Himalayan expeditions, the service are regulated by Parliament, than 400 guests gathered at the broad, philosophical outlook, plished recently. An hour bequest for new and strange things so that all railway users may have Charity Ball in aid of the Hong must still leave behind it the fore midnight on a Sunday 4 and the desire to wander over the fair treatment, whereas the road Kong Society for the Protection same kind of evidence as that racing motorist arrived on foot face of the earth have been too transport of goods is entirely an of Children. The dining room of which the student of social at the top of Ben Nevis, the deeply rooted in human nature controlled. change delights to find in the highest peak in Scotland, having to be dismissed as nothing but relics of the Georgian, the Queen walked down Snowden, the the fruits of a vulgar passion for Anne, the Victorian, and other highest peak in Wales, and up self-advertisement or novelty periods. And that evidence will and down Scawfell, the highest And most often, however glitter- be just as misleading as that of peak in England, and motored ing the prize, he struggle itself To find a solution to the problem patronage of H.E. Sir William Peel, previous times if it is considered the 400 miles or so between, all has been its own recompense and the Minister of Transport in March was presided over by Sir Shou-BON by itself and not in relation to within twenty-four hours. The the memory of it the real solace set up a conference consisting of Chow, who made a short speech. he- the rooms for which it was made, next day five students from of idleness in later years. More four railway representatives and fore the commencement of supper. to the house or building as a Pavia, who had started a month men perhaps have mused on four representatives of goods road (After touching briefly on the aims whole, and to the kind of life before to row from the Ticino to "cities entered, oceans crossed," transport, with Sir Arthur Salter of the Society, he thanked the that was lived there. The the Isis
than on what they found in those as independent chairman.
management of the Hotel Cecil for future, scrutinizing our gleam- Olli remigio noctemque diem cities or beyond those oceans. The report of the conference is providing the free use of their ing metals, which seem to have
que fatigants
The poet was wise who imagined unanimous. It is not a rallway of doing room and supper got out of the bathroom by mis- Et longos superant Rexus Ulysses, safe at last in Ithaca, a road report. It is essentially & During the evening tickets were take; our angular chairs, which Octus advertunt proras urbique, yet lamenting "How dull it is to compromise. The experts of the gold for a raffle for a doll, and other seem to forbid rather than invite propinquant le pause and make an end' and ex-two great transport, industries pre- prizes, Lady Pollock drawing, the repose; the general lopsidedness were welcomed by the Professor claiming still "I cannot rest from sented to the Minister of Transport numbers, and bareness, which suggest that of Italian and by an expert in travel. Sometimes, it may be, a body of agreed recommendations Among the prominent guests a painting by some member of rowing when they stepped, ashore the oceans of the globe give place which were accepted by both sides present were: the Hon. Me.. WE the London Group has somehow, at Folly Bridge in Oxford. Some, in man's desire for voyaging to sa providing a fair basis of com Shenton, Chairman of the to its own amazement, become on reading of these tours de force, strange seas of thought; and, as petition for the transport of goods Society, Sir Henry and Lady Pol- materialized; our shrieking will have deplored the restless with Ulysses, his purpose by rail and road. Matlock, Mrs. R. H. Kotewall and many colours and our hard and brutal ness and vanity of youth and holde" not only to sail beyond The recommendations of the re leading members of the Chinese plainness, will think that we suggested that its energies might the sunset" but to follow know- port fall under two main heads and foreign community must have been very odd people, be put to more profitable use; ledge like a sinking star." The First, commercial motor transport So, very likely, we are; but we and others will have asked whe movement of the body may give should pay its appropriate share of shall appear less odd to those ther a rowing boat is really the a taste for the movement of the road costa. Secondly, goods motor who realize that never must the quickest or even the cheapest mind. Yet, however, humble our vehicles should be licensed, subject dwellings of this period be con-means of travel from Italy to Odysseys, however, unambitious to dair eldered without reference to England, and whether a race the holidays on which we go machinery in general and to the against, time on foot and in the flesh or in the spirit, the mem motor car particular "The mot
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