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The temperature of 115 degrees In the shade which was registered recently at Ottumwa, in Iowa, is much higher than the maximum figure ever reached in Great Britain. It is 21 degrees below the world and 19 degrees below the American record.
WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE SEVENTY
A BACKWARD GLANCE "O'ER TRAVELLED ROADS"
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(By Viscount Snowden.)
the
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HAVE reached the allotted span public towards social evils, are so ever registered was at Azizia, in
of life. I am three score years vast and fundamental that I am Tripoli, dering the summer of 1922.what it feels like to be seventy. greater changes will be effected at and ten, and friends are asking me encouraged to believe that still The mercury registered 136 degrees. When I was young I looked upon an ever-increasing rate of progress,
Sceptical meteorologists in other countries suggested that some sun-
seventy as an incredible age. A provided that we can remove light was allowed to fall on
man as old as that I regarded as scourge and menace of war. the bulb.
Thaving at least one foot in the grave 1 can remember when children of and past all possibility of useful-eight were taken out of bed at half- Death Valley, California, which has neas, an error of which bright and past five and sent to work in fac- a record of 134 degrees.
confident youth in its attitude to Ita tories. Factory legislation did little elders is often guilty.
to protect the lives and limbs of Youth forgets that the old have factory workers in those days of one asset of great value which it my youth, Sanitary conditions in This year's report of the British cannot possess, an assert which only workshops were appalling. Board of Film Censors, a touching the passing years give... I was born six years before the little brochure with a red seal on experience.
establishment in this country of a
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BANKRUPTCY COURT
Pawnshop's Liabilities Of $36,600
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it, looks rather like a wine list. The enthusiasm and impulsive-national system of education, and The list of reasons which it con-ness of youth are fine things, but if from small beginnings I have seen tains for the rejection of 28 filma they are not guided and sometimes the development, by stages, of the this year is of vintage quality. restrained by wise counsel and prac- comprehensive system we now have.
Most of the reasons for rejecting tical knowledge, they can be dan- Social Service Progress a film are-as usual-too much sex gerous.
The opportunities for higher One, however; reads "Methods of
For this reason I am all for the education of the promising children crime capable of imitation."
older men giving the younger ones of the poor which are provided
banned only 23 films out of nearly seventy! 2000 they have seen.
Your Daily Smile!
no social services.
But what of all those revolver early opportunities of exercising to-day were non-existent in my shots, murders, swindles
and responsibility and so of realising the young days. It is worthy of note robberies which appear in 75 per many practical difficulties
of that now 60 per cent. of the students fcent. of the films?
administrative and creative work. at, the new universities come from Incidentally, the censors have What does it feel like to be humble homes and are maintained by scholarships from public funds. Well, I have to confess that if Seventy years ago there were my birth certificate and the calen-practically dar did not register the fact that To-day the State spends £300,000,- I am seventy, I should not know it 000 a year on these services and The chambermaids at a newly open.
from any new feeling that I am the local authorities spend vast ed hotel in a town in the Midlands experiencing. I feel no older to-day sums on the relief of the poor, on have instructions from the manage than I did when I was half this hospitals, and on various forms of AJUDICATION ORDER QUASHED meat to sing cheerfully at their work age. A very recent examination by public health administration.
guests receive every consideration. (my doctor revealed the fact that the An adjudication order, made
I have seen the establishment vital organs of this septuagenarian and development of Old Age and at the last bankruptcy hearing
body are those of a healthy man of Widows' Pensions, National Health in connection with the Hop Wo Guest: "Do you operate a bus be-inot more than fifty-five. firm, was annulled by the order tween the hotel and the railroad sta-apparently the happy possessor of
I am Insurance and Services, Workmen's The Radio Exhibition at Olym- of the Chief Justice, Mr. A. D. A.tlon?"
Compensation and pia, was a worthy demonstration MacGregor, at the Supreme
Manager of Ritzy Hotel: "No, sir." an exceptional constitution inherit-against and provision for un of a miracle of science as great Court this morning, following the friends enid you would get me coming ninety.
Guest: That's strange, All my ed from a mother who lived to be employment. as any of those that have trans application of Mr. J. J. Hayden, and going."
The average standard of life is formed modern life. The men the Official Receiver, who certi-.
A bicycle accident in my twenty-incomparably higher than it was who made the earliest successful fied that the assets of the com-
seventh year robbed me of the free seventy years ago. Wages are much experiments in wireless tele-pany were below 15 per cent. of
use of my legs, and it is natural higher, hours of labour are shorter, graphy are still living and active the capital.
for unused muscles to weaken. and cultural amenities like libraries, Apart from this, I'feel as fit as concerts, museums, and exhibitions ever I did,
are 'more numerous and accessible
Hong Kong, Thursday, Sept. 20, 1934.
The Giant Stride Of
Wireless
In all other respects, however, the
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"I would like to write a novel." "Do you know how to write?" "Oh, I shall use a typewriter.
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The Peace Afterward
I once played cricket, and there to all "Do you like children
was a time when I could walk any "Yes, they make the house so calm of the stalwarts of my native vil-motor-cars and aeroplanes; even When I was a boy there were no and peaceful when they have
zone lage off their feet. to bed."
I cannot do the young generation can remember these things to prove my present when there was no wireless. A
able to do them,
ly at work. In the short stretch The application was supported of a working life wireless has by Mr. M. K. Lo. Mr. H, S. advanced from being a marvel in Loseby and Mr. H. J. Arm- the laboratory to become a fami- strong, who appeared for the liar recreation in almost every majority of the creditors. home. Messages which little, Public Examination,.. more than a generation ago re- The public examination of Lau quired favourable conditions for Chun-hin, managing partner of Facts You Did Not Know fitness; it is forty years since I was thousand amazing inventions have reception a few hundred yards the Hung Cheung pawn-shop in aj
helped to transform society and away now travel round the globe petition for bankruptcy, was For advertising purposes and supply-
Old Principles Cherished have made a vastly different world and can be picked up by millions commenced.
ing music for public dances two Los But my capacity for work is not from the one into which I was born of listeners. To tune into an Witness said that the firm Angeles men have mounted a sound in the least impaired. I can sit at seventy years ago. jentertainment in some distant commenced over four years ago on a truck.
jamplifler that can be heard four miles capital is a matter of turning awith a capital of about $40,000.
[my desk_engaged in hard mental)
Problems To Be Solved labour for eight hours a day and couple of switches, and the main Business became bad about two
Looking back I thank God for the difficulty of the listener, as he years ago, but they decided to resembling a bicycle framework opera-fatigue. I can discover no decline the enlightened self-intereat which A trailing wheel carried on a frame feel no Ill effects and scarcely any developed Christian conscience and Jaits comfortably at home, is to continue with the hopes of a re-tes a device invented in Germany to of mental power, and my memory together have brought us thus far select the programme that hecovery. The other partners in measure the distances traveled by serves me as well to-day as it has along the path of progress. wishes to hear. How this has the firm all left the Colony owing street cars. been made possible was seen at to ill-health and now the liabili-
ever done.
is the most hopeful sign Olympia, but the more striking ties of the firm were $86,600.
The plain fact of the matter is times and the most encouraging of the Steel blades that can be extended by that I feel as likely to go on living change I have seen in my long and side of the exhibition was the The hearing was adjourned.
Ja driver pulling a lever are mounted proof it gave of how a great and
active life.. [prosperous industry, employing tens of thousands of workers, has been built on the successful ex- periments of Marchese Marconi.
The development has been the work not of one man, but of hundreds of inventors who have (contributed their improvements
IMPORTATION OF
GINSENG
Unmanifested: Goods Confiscated.
A fine of $25, in default one
to the general stock. Ingenuity month's imprisonment, was this
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on the outside of a new motor truck as I have ever done. wheel to increase its traction over soft ground.
My interest in the questions] which have absorbed so great a
Cuba has prohibited the importation part of my life is as keen as ever. af broom corn er brooms made from am receptive of new Ideas, but I broom
corn unless accompanied by cherish the old principles which, a certificates of disinfection from coun-lifetime of experience has proved trics of origin.
to be sound,
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VICTIMISED
This
MATILDA HOSPITAL · ·
I enjoy the society of my friends Coolie Gaoled For Theft
Of Fittings
and am always pleased to see them,
If I cannot seek them out, as I should like, it is not because of any:
Appearing on remand, Kwok Kin,
and research have been more morning imposed on Li Shing, by active year by year. The results Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Cen-Mo On, 25 years, was admitted to aloofness, but is simply due to thela house coolie employed at the are seen in vastly improved ap tral Magistracy, for importing the Kowloon Hospital yesterday, difficulty of moving my body about. Matilda Hospital, was this morning paratus, capable of finer repro- duction and greater selectivity,
five boxes and two packets of suffering from injuries sustained A seventieth birthday naturally sentenced to two" months hard la and masquerading as handsome ginseng on board the s.s. Sui Tai, when he jumped off a moving bus inclines one to take stock, and to bour by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the pieces of furniture. The rapidity unmanifested, on September. 18. in Nathan Road.
give a "backward glance o'er Central Magistracy, for the theft of with which improvements are
Sergeant Forest said that when
travelled roads."
two sets of towel rails and made fully warrants a yearly ex with the ginseng, he was warned to-morrow evening at the Garrison an age full of marvellous dis-
the defendant came to the wharf An all-ranks dance will be held I have lived in a wonderful age, standards. hibition, without which the wire-
It was stated by Sub-Inspector less enthusiast could not keep later the defendant was found on o'clock. Price of admission for scientific knowledge and the poten-number of larcentes in the Hospital to manifest them. Ten minutes Lecture Hall commencing at 8.50 coveries, of amazing, advance In Kirby that there have been quite a himself informed of the new re-board without having declared gentlemen will be $1.50, and ladies tialities of material and social pro- lately. On Dr. J. H. Montgomery's, sources that are offered him the ginseng, although he had de free. The universal popularity of
gress; and, by contrast, An aga suspicion, defendant's room was broadcasting has stimulated com-
clared two packets of sharks'
exhibiting a sad lack of wisdom injaearched and the stolen goods were fing. petition among the manufac-Kwan Shun-wei, assistant com- September 29, will be carried out at ledge for human betterment.
Gun Practice for the week-ending its failure to apply fully this know-found. A checking up of the goods. turers, and has given a bewilder-
revealed that 14 standards besides ing range of choice in receiving pradore on the s.s. Sui Tai, de Mount Davis Fort on Tuesday be
nied that the defendant ever tween 10 a.m, and 3 pm. in the
the rails were missing. These alone make such produced the ginseng before him. direction of West Lamma Channel; The years of my life have wit-Lam Yuk had given them to him, exhibitions a fascinating study: Furthermore, he did not tell de and at Lyemun Fort next Thursday Ressed the greatest act of human but he could not be traced. Competition, moreover, has had its natural consequences in re
fendant not to bother about de- between 9.30 a.m. and 8 p.m. in the folly in history; and, while I am yet ducing production costs and claring the ginseng.
direction of Fo Tau Mun Pass alive, nations, without any deli-| MALTA LANGUAGE ORDER bringing superb instruments
The unmanifested goods were
berate desire, are making all the within the range of the average
confiscated.
Sentence of 12 months hard conditions for a still more terrible
Malta. man. As the visitor to Olympia
labour was this morning imposed confilct.
By a proclamation issued by grasped the extent of the change
on Leung Hung, a banished, by Mr. In spite of those awful happen- the Governor of Malta, General that has been made since 1933
QUAN A. Macfadyen, at the Central ings and these ominous warnings, Sir. David Campbell, Maltese re he realised that even now we are Chinese fisherman, Cheung Magistracy, for the theft of a my many years' retrospect inclines places Italian from October 1 as the official language of the law. dustry and a science the future lage, New Territories, was admitted knife, the property of Wong Ngan The changes I have seen, not only growth of which no man can to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday at. Duddell Street, yesterday, and in the actual lives of the people in its status as the official lan Imeasure.
suffering from body, injuries receiv for returning to the Colony from but in the general attitude of the guage of the administration. ed while fishing with dynamite banishment:-
sets.
A
DYNAMITE FISHER HURT
Optimism For Future
Defendant said that a man named
only in the early days of an in-Ting-kwal, of Kau Pau Kang Vil-spanner, two, pairs of pllers and me towards optimism courts; and English is confirmed