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TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1933.
LOW AND TERRY IN THE PARK
WATCHING LONDONERS
Beggars in France will probably TAKE THEIR PLEASURE
not be sorry to,learn of the death)
of Louis Paulian, at the age of
86. in the little village in the RELAY RACE PROVIDES THRILLS
Drome Department to which he re-
tired several years ago. He knew more about the arts and wiles "of
generation.
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London. race we at once offered our services. Going about London such a lot, as They said it was awfully decent of mendicity than anyone of his Low and I do, I can't help noticing us, and we denied it, and a very
what a lovely time the young people pleasant spirit prevailed.
The Relay Race both senses of the word. His how their parents got on when they I don't know if you're acquainted curiosity about the methods of were young. I said so to Low. He with relay races, but this one went unscrupulous seekers after charity | said:
like this.
Six boys, each belonging to a dif-
Paulian was a curious man in have nowadays as compared with
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made him famous. He loved to ex-! "Terry, you shouldn't- let your plain their tricks to his friends and mind dwell on the past the way you ferent competing school, raced the public.
do. Remember Lot's wife," he from the starting-post to a point, Disguising himself as a beggar, said. "And keep your beard from 500 yards further on, where six he studied the ins and outs of this dragging on the ground. It im-other teamsters grabbed from their ancient profession thoroughly.' At]
pedes me."
hands the identity dises which they Belleville he discovered a highly
Very funny, I daresay; but he carried and continued the race to organised school conducted by, almew as well as I did that most of the next point, where six others did former actor, in which apprenthe provision for games in the parks the same thing, and so on. Thus each tices' to mendicity were taught to and open spaces to-day has been boy has only to run 500 yards and weep, to cough, to disguise them-made within the last 20 or 50 years. then give up his dise to the runner selves as cripples, and to tell if you airplaned over London in the waiting for it. heartrending tale profitably.
Your Daily Smile
PATIENT TOO LONG, AUNT: What? Your fiance made you wait nearly an hour for him? I would not put up with It.
NIECE: I'd rather wait an hour for a man than a whole lifetime as you have done.
under.
WEA
lunch hour or the evening what Unfortunately, I didn't would you see? Answer: People stand that, and the result cricketing, boating, golfing, bowling, clouded by some ill-feeling in con- running. swimming, putting, and sequence. playing tennis all over the place.
Because, when L, starting from And a splendid thing, too, I think; scratch, got to the end of the first because, apart from the good it does lap, a bad sixth, and a ferocious their health, it leaves them no time
looking boy sprang at me and tried for reading
to wrench the disc away from me, or thinking, so that! their minds are entirely unpolluted
I thought he was perhaps an Up- by ideas, which makes it so much per Tosting rival bent on putting
irur side out of the race, easier for people like Low and me, mark Hill blood being well up, I My Den- who understand about politics and wasn't going to allow that, so I so on, to plant what we like in them gave him a hard sock on the chin Here was Battersea Park, for in-and hurried on, gasping "Denmark you must not touch liquor of any stance. We had come out with the Hill for ever!"-wishing, though, commercial and similar establish- kind?
idea of getting a day's sport some that my side had a shorter name, ments. Now, if the case for aj "Yes, but I thought that perhaps where, and Battersea Park looked so "Denmark Hill" being such д shorter working week "as a remedy medical science had made further folly a for unemployment" had been made progress since then." out, then the utmost expedition in
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.
The China Mail Hong Kong, Tuesday, July 18, 1933.
A Forty-Hour Week.
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SLOW SCIENCE
Doctor: Beer? Certainly
not!
Didn't I tell you a month ago that
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we drove across Chelsea mouthful when you're rather Bridge that we left the car in order blown, the more so because of the to take a ramble round it Ajaspirate in the middle. POWER OF HAND
marvellous place! The scenery is But the boy was undaunted, and "You are reading a travel book, absolutely rustic. Even in Devon ran after me, shouting, "Gimme Preparing for a holiday?"
I've never seen finer electric power-that disc, you cad!" 1 tripped stations.
him up, but he came on again, this time tackling me low, so that we rolled over together.
No. “I'm on a holiday now, sit here and dream of travel."
"But you are reading the book backwards."
"Yes. I'm on the return journey
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applying the remedy would be de- sirable and even imperative. But because there is no such assurance, When considering the proposal and indeed because of grave doubts of a forty-hour week as a remedy as to the efficacy of the plan and for unemployment the Internation-the certainty of its inequitable re-
Games Everywhere al Labour Organization has so far sults and of the penalty it would
And games were going on every-j
"If you don't gimme that disc.” been blindfolded. It nas bandaged its impose on the countries which have
where. The busiest spot was the hissed the boy, "I'll strangle you!" eyes, not desiring to put the facts be-established the best industrial condi-
big playing-field where the children of the L.C.C. Central Schools were never gives in!" and bit him in the.
I panted back, "Denmark -400 yond dispute, and has prepared for ations, the Conference should ab- ... AN ILLUSTRATION...... leap in the dark. There has been jure hurry and carefully weigh the
holding a sports meeting, and we neck under All-in rules. He wrung no serious attempt to learn by ex-consequences of its actions.
He: Life is unjust; some get stood for a long time watching the pert inquiry the probable econo-wise haste will produce disappoint-and others get everything that is Chelsea, Fulham, Brixton, and so on, fight but just then the officials me by the nose. I seized him by everything that is good and beautiful boy and girl champions of Clapham, the hair. It was being a grand mic consequences of a measurement. The Japanese Government ugly and bad. which is superficially attractive. has already announced its inabil
competing at running and jumping, came running up, and the annoying If the work of the world can be ity to agree to the measures which example--you got me, but I only got She: Yes, our marriage is an
How they were enjoying them-situation was made clear to me. done in a shorter time than form-Geneva has been busily hatching!
selves. It always makes me go erly, why not arrange for every one during the last twelve months. The
Soothing Tennis damp about the eyes to see children to work less and play more instead Dutch Government looks at the
at their gambols, and just now, with the putting-green after that, to We had to play a round or two on of permitting some to labour as problem from the same angle se
all the world going up the spout as soothe our tempers, and that sug- fast as it can at South Kensington,|
Un-
you.
KNOWS HIS OWN. BUTCHER: Don't buy anything
many hours as they do and oblige that of the British Government. It' from our neighbor, the grocer, to the sight seemed to me more touch-gested a game of lawn tennis.
the rest to play, or idle, all their is not conínvced that a shortening days on an allowance which is bare of the hours of work by law would, ly adequate for subsistence and have the effect of diminishing un-
physical or
day.
HOUSEWIFE: Why?
.
AND PROUD OF IT. The foreman looked the applicant
So we fetched our rackets from ing than ever.
the car, found a vacant court, and "What are you crying about?" started a singles match, which we does not prevent deterioration of employment. It foresees that costs BUTCHER: He just borrowed
Low said.
always enjoy because our style of moral fitnes ? The of production would be increased our scales.
"What an idea for a cartoon!" I play is too furious for most part- presentation of the case for even if wages were cut propor- shorter working week in that sim-tionately to the reduction in hours
exclaimed.
ners, and in a singles we're able ple way has convinced a great many of work (since overhead costs for work up and down.
"I wish you'd mind your own to cut and slosh just as we like business," Low zaid people that the proposal is desir- would remain constant), and would,
crossly. without bothering about anybody able and feasible and should be jof course, be increased much more
"Are you a mechanic?" he asked "Cartoons are nothing to do with else except to ask the people in the adopted all the world over without if weekly wages were maintained. Orm a McCarthy."
"No, corr," was the answer, you...What is it?"
next court to return the ball and delay. But to state the case so sim-The Dutch Government asks most
So I described the picture I had address all complaints to the se- ply is to state it inaccurately. The pertinently, "Who is to procure
in my mind-the children of all cretary. Simplification gives an impression for employers the necessary re-
nations (labelled "England,"
(Continued on Page 11.) of a proposal which can be applied sources to enable them to stand
"France," "Germany," and so on,'in so that equal results may be ex-an increase in wages?" The Bri-
case the thick-headed public pected in all places. That is con- tish Government has insisted, and
shouldn't grasp the symbolism, play- trary to the truth. Uniformity of will continue to insist, on the rice brought into the province of
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flashes itself on my mind in this Pressing a button, on the dash-graphic manner, and I pass it on-to before the International Labour work is not good enough. Conterence is not the proposal that conclusions are unchallengable, and mobile tank caps that is asserted to ing, I expect, to jealousy. In this the Kowloon Motor Bus Company, Some board, controls a new lock for auto-Low; though he seldom uses it, ow Ho Cho, a cnductor employed by has just been formulated. The one is that to pay forty-eight hours be thief proof. Geneva proposal does not contem-wages for the lessened output of
case, for instance, he said the idea was fined $100, in default two plate a universal forty-hour week forty hours will increase the wages
was tripe.
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there long before we began to feel the Bus Company. and, as a considerable part of the than in a low-wage industry. Con-
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ment of the world is due to dising competitive articles but paying low-wage countries were manoeuy-explore the lake. equilibrium between the prices of widely different wage rates were ring to put the high-wage countriesį, agricultural and manufactured pro- to reduce the hours of work from in apparent opposition to measures ducts, it is not by adding to manu- forty-eight to forty a week, a great of industrial and social ameliora So we did, pretending that we facturing costs and increasing that advantage in wage costs would be tion, they could scarcely have made were Captain, Cook adventuring in the Company, testified that the disequilibrium that unemployment reaped by the country paying the a more astute move. But it cannot unknown seas; and presently will be relieved. In the second lower wages. Suppose the price of fairly be said that the low-wage shouted, "Land ho!" and pointed to five cent tickets. place the Geneva proposal is inde-forty-eight hours' work to be 554, countries sponsor auch a proposal, the Island, whereupon, Low shorten- finite and ambiguous in relation to in one case and 50s, in another, They were the Arst to insist that ed sail, and after pulling for several wages, although if it were explicit then the forty-hour week without by no means could the State legis days under the tropical sun we cast on this point the objection on the reduction of pay would entail an late for the maintenance of wage ourselves ashore on it like Robin ground of unequal incidence might additional cost for the same amount rates. In making that affirmation son Crusoe and his Man Friday. not be removed, but only made of work of 11s in the higher-wage they were on firm ground. Wage Then--for we yearned to see our plainer. The technical hindrances country and of 10s. in the lower rates cannot be guaranteed by ucted a raft, and, after rounding wives and children again—we con- to, a forty-hour week are probably wage country, and therefore would Government. Consequently the not insuperable, but the economie increase an existing disparity in disparity of wage coute between the Horn, landed at Para, where the objections have been brushed aside wage costs by twanly per cent. The the low-wage and the high-wage park-keeper said that would be a In a manner that is thoroughly dis- arithmetical affect of reducing the countries would tend to increase shilling. qafeting. The Conference has re- hours of work in mines to thirty, still further with a forty hour week It's wonderful what lacks you can ferred the details of questionnaire eight and three quarters a week, because the high-wage countrina have if you devote yourself to it. to Governments. The Office pre-se the draft Convention for Mines are those in which labour is well. We came away with shining school- Pered three draft Conventions, the proposes, would give Poland, in re-organized and better able to inadat body faces, feeling aged twelve and krat to apply to industrial under-flation to Britain, an advantage of that wages shall not be reduced just in the right mood for strenuous takings, the second to mines the 1s. 10d. a ton. That is only one The International Labour Organi- exercises; so when we found that the proporsi in this case being a 3834-illustration of the consequences of xation is therefore unable to oner Denmark Hill team in the Central hour week calculated over a period
arying one of the face any better safeguard of wares than Schools sports meeting were two of six weeks and the third to tors in competitive production. If the a plous recommendation,
boys short for the, half mile relay
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"pital on Monday, July 17, 1933, Captain Arthur Munro Sine* lair, late of the Indo-China. Steamships. Funeral will pass the Monument at 6 pm to-day
ELLAMS — On 19th July, 1938, at Canossa Hospital, George Ernest Ellams, late Hong Kong Canton & Macao Steamboat Co Ltd. Funeral will pass the monu ment at 5.30 p.m..on Wednesday, 19th July 1988;
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