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Volunteering In
Hong Kong
HERE, THERE
EVERYWHERE
A DOSE OF "KWINEEN"
Approval of the BBC's new word "televiewer." to describe a watcher of television, has been expressed by the experts of the Advisory Committee on Spoken English. They hope. however, that in time the prefix "tele" will be dropped and it will be left sim- ply as "viewer."
NEW DEAL AND THE PRESIDENT
H
SUBVERSIVE FORCES
AT WORK
SPLITTING THE RANKS OF
DEMOCRATS
THE
(By The Rt. Hon. W. Churchill) ̧.
TOW fares the United States dent, seem to present an irresis
under the bold schemes afftible combination A new list of pronunciations're-
This is a
Some Misgivings commended for announcers has President Roosevelt?
But, on the other hand, lie the also been prepared by the com- question which we in England ask
ourselves from time to time with misgivings of dunched hopes, the mittee. In it
a curiosity born both of sympathy vexations of State interference with business, the inevitable ad- and interest
worldministrative break-downs, and the Our economic life as a
**lize.**
bon":
1
REMARKABLE RECORD
-
thousand
2
cries
1
Democratic
Her
"Landscape" becomes "lanskip"; "Quinine" is "wineen"; "Heinous" is “hayuus”; and "Civilisation" is pronounced with wide trading community is pro- consequential charges of grafi foundly affected by the fortunes and favouritism. The attempt in “Londonderry" when it refers to of the other great branch of the a score of months to build up in Their the totally different conditions of the Marquess is "Lundondry and English-speaking peoples.
the British trade union and indus- when to the place "Landonderry prosperity is our refreshment the United States something like
"Marylebone is just "Marri-Their joys feed our hopes.
The Roosevelt campaign for the trial systems - the products of a New Deat to set Uncle Sam's century of evolution was bound "Pall Mall is "Pell Mell: and house in order; the audacious on-to confront the American people, "Studdingsall" is "stunsle." slaught upon the accepted canons especially their strongest and most The committee recommends of the monetary system; the note active elements, with innumerable "Herguenott" for "Huguenot." It favours, but has not definitely de- of compassion for the weak and personal experiences of a sense-
these plans are less and irritating character. poor, coupled as
The RepubEcan Party, the cided on, "Armmaada.”
with the freeing of a mighty "na- tion from the disease of Prohibi Grand Old Party," outside the tion -all constitute a movement South has its roots not only in of thought and of action which not every State" but in every street only compels attention but stirs from the Atlantic to the Pacific Strange Walter Hackett's "Hyde Park enthusiasms in the Old Country. It has as yet no leader. Corner" recently passed its 100th
The daring, generous experiforces and figures are afoot who performance at the Apollo Theatre ment seems at the moment not to fill the air with rancoas in London. The author has had a be yielding the longed-for results either hostile or indifferent to the remarkable record in London since Nearly two
willions President's Administration.
Senator Huey Long, the boss of his first comedy -"He Didn't sterling have been poured out to of
Want to Do It," written in colla-prime the pump of prosperity; but Louisiana, is already in the field object to the abstract idea volunteer training when it is boration with George Broadhurst prosperity has not begun to flow with his "Share the wealth” came
was produced at the Prince of The device of unbalancing the paign, splitting the made clear to him that the volunteers fill a real want in the Wales Theatre in 1915. Fifteen of Budget on a gigantic scale, so vote and helping, however unwill- defence scheme of the territory: Mr. Hackett's plays have had oyer often urged by British inflation-ingly, the Repablician side.
one has reach-ists, is in full swing in the United has attered two slogans against and his encouragement and active 100 performances.
The strong regulation of the President's policy which have support of the movement are ed 600, and four others have ex-States.
industry by the State has been run like wildfire through the Un- The whole vast pro- much more likely to be given ceeded the 300 mark.
backed not only with the author-ited States when he realises that it is a seri
ity of the Government but by the cess of the National Recovery Act ous business and not a sort of) Your Daily Smile!
and the relief of famine and de- ardour of the nation.
stitution which constitute the New musical comedy force he is ex- If Some of the suggestions put
pected to join and support.
Rigorous Discipline
Deal, has been smirched by his It was not so many years ago that forward by various speakers at volunteering can be made more letters were dried by sand being Rigorous social discipline and cruel phrase, “Scab wages." He
appeal to a sprinkled on them. the meeting called by His Excel-attractive by an
Then blotting loyalties have reinforced the mahas stigmatised the results of the made its appearance, and
of voluminous codes
noble-minded, but lency the General Officer Com-man's sporting interests so much paper manding the Troops to discuss the better; but in our opinion evidently in port offices the sand was chinery
essence of the pro-swept up and dumped in the ink-pots Wages, prices, and labour condi necessarily well-directed,
s-struction policy of the White volunteering in the Colony, were the main
tions have been grasped in eminently helpful, sensible and blem is that the members of
A prize was offered in a competicular hands and nailed to an ar-House as "The Roosevelt Depres- feasible. Others were utterly the volunteer forces should be
Agricultural ston" are tion at a London charity bazaar to the bitrary framework. fantastic and completely out of able to realise that they
one who could pack a trunk in the production has not merely been
War Cries Of Hate court from every point of view members of a serious force, with shortest time. A housewife watching restrained; it has been amputated. These war-cries of hate and pre- in face of the unbroken tradi-serious responsibilities, and not the event was shocked when her cook wide areas have been deliberately judice become formidable when
While a proved an easy winner. tion in England of many cen-playing at soldiers-
surrendered to the desert sand backed from quite a different an- turies, that any sort of univer volunteer battalion has a squad
the witness box):/Glut has been assaulted with viode by the cold logic of facts and sal conscription in peace time of Chinese coolies to carry its Defendant (in should never under any circum- Lewis guns into action on a Tve been wedded to the truth from lence. An amazing non-hog i figures assembled by wealth and dustry has been reared upon lar-learning, and confirmed by: the stances be introduced, it is sure field-day nobody in the
world infancy
Prosecatur: "Is the court to imply ish subsidies."
of ly beside the point to suggest in can take it seriously; while it is from this statement that you are now
Insulted Nature has ironically personal experience of tens
millions of American zifizens. | seriousness that some such commanded and officered by widower?"
Ico-operated by providing excep-
Roosevelt the *
For President scheme
should be introduced civilians instead of by regular
tional droughts, and the frontiers course seems simple. Fle should Too War? here. To add to the sugges officers, men in the ranks, and s
"Old of cultivable and habitable land prove himself the chief and, if ne Advertisement by a baker: tion that a scheme of civil penal especially that large contingentfashioned baker's business for sale have sensibly receded. Public,cessary, the only man in the con- ties, including the provision of which has seen active service for large oven, present owner been in it and currency manipulation tinent who is uplifted above elec- imprisonment for default or in itself and has something more for 11 years; good reason for leaving." efficiency, should be included in than theoretical knowledge be the scheme, is to pile Pelion upon hind it, will continue to be dis- Ossa in the realm of impractic satisfied with the idea of the ability with a vengeance Brief force as a whole.
**
*
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
a
immense,
not
*recoo❤
jhave been applied to mitigate the tioneering considerations
He process on the one hand or stint should show himself resolved to Late it upon the other. A debt
act without a thought for self or has been piled up in time of peace party, but only for the nation as which rivals the debts contracted]
la whole. ly no Colonial Government Finally, there is nothing that
He should wield the mighty au- would think seriously of such a
puts a man's back up so much as The P. and O. ss. Burdwan left by nations fighting for dear life
thority which he still holds with- suggestion for a moment; and if to be told that it is his "duty" Shanghai at 4 p.m. yesterday and in modern war.
State Relief Instituted out the slighest regard to partis- by some miraculous mischance, to do something, or that he is expected here on Friday about.
Up till
a few years ago no anship or passion, in accordance such a scheme received the ap-"should join the volunteers. It 6 am proval of the unofficial members is idle to pretend that there is no
people were more self-reliant and with what he sincerely believes to of the Legislative Council and element of coercion in these mat- The M. V.Malayan Prince, from individualist than the dwellers in be the true interests of his comm- came within the sphere of prac-tters in some circles; we have New York, sailed from Los Angeles the United States. Now not in try: In this spirit he will be able. tical politics. there is not the heard that the members of one on April 29 and is expected here the frugal days of thrifty repay- to avow mistakes with candour slightest doubt that it would be firm have been given to under-fon or about May 29.
ment or in a sour aftermath of re-and correct them with composure- indicative of at least
a very stand that there is no promotion
pudiation, but at the height-peak-If he falls he will fall with dig- serious breach of public con-waiting for the man who has not The Directors, General Manager boom of borrowed expenditure-nity. If he rises again he will be fidence, because we cannot be joined the volunteers- This is and Staff of the Union Insurance a very large part of the whole po-able to persevere. lieve that such a harebrained
Jutterly and completely wrong Society of Canton, Ltd. will be "At palation have become dependent idea would have the serious sup- and entirely alien to the whole Home" from 12.15 pm to 1 pm in one form or another upon State ITALIAN UNEMPLOYMENT DOWN port of public opinion either in idea of volunteering; it is mor-in Union Building on Friday next, relief. Over twenty millions of
The number of employed Hong Kong or in any other Brially as well as psychologically to mark the occasion of the Society's persons are supported in various tish territory. So much. for that bad
100th Anniversary. Invitations are forms. by Government agency in Italian workers has decreased ra suggestion; it may now be ad-
Place the volunteers under re-not being issued, but the Society's the land which of all others was pidly during the last few months vantageous to turn to some of gular army officers; encourage Management will be pleased to wel-only yesterday austerely censuring Men out of work in March, 1935, the constructive ideas which the discipline which comes from were put forward at the meet within, in Mr. Champkin's words, come all Shareholders and Friends the carefully organised system of numbered 853,189 against 955,533
the British dole.
in February. ing
by abolishing slavish deference A party of 51 Filipinos, including Already the distant but advan In dealing with this question to distinctions of rank off the several of Manila's leading business cing drum-beats of a Presidential of volunteering it is as well to parade ground; run the volim-
men, under the leadership of Mr.jelection can be heard. Already face facts; and there are some teers, not as a comic opera force Franco Vera Rezes, arrived in politicians turn their gaze to this very important facts to be faced with coolies to carry Lewis guns, Let it be admitted at once that but as something a man can be Hong Kong yesterday by the Chi-familiar quarter of the horizon the average young man is proud to belong to identify the chibo Maru, on their return jour-Everyone must soon take his sta
ney to Manila, after spending uption for the coming contest -
At first sight the popularity af speaking generally, hostile to the idea of volunteering with the at-
the President and the power of the ides of military service, even tractions of sporting intercourse wards of a month in Japan and
Federal Administration would when it is sugar-coated with the among the young men of the North China.
Chan Hou-kam, 19, who pleaded seem overwhelming. The Democra SUITABLE PRESENTS gloss of the idea of volunteer-community, so that they treat ing The civil population con- the Volunteer Headquarters as
of ex-Confederate States, siders, and considers quite right their Club and to do so, endow guilty to the theft of two hand-tie party machine, with its solid ly, that military defence is the the buuding with the amenities bags from women, was yesterday core business of the military authori-jof a club: do these things, and sentenced to 12 months hard la-makes its broad appeal to the pro- wealth and corruption, and 4 to ties: that for those to whom it the membership of the volunteers bor by Mr. Schofield at the Cen-letarian masses to rise against break into a new world. The Bo appeals, there is always the voca will go up by leaps and bounds, tral Magistracy. tion of soldiering as a career and what is more, it will be ac open; and finally, that civilians complished without the necessity A meeting of the Men's Inter-publican Party lies prostate in should not in the ordinary course for coercion direct or indirect, national Club took place at the St. the dust of 1932 The New or for any appeal to a sense of Francis Hotel last night under the Deal "Fair play for the Come of events be caled upon to und
"duty." The enthusiasm for the Chairmanship of Hr. K. B. Valdys, idea, like its discipline, will come when the drawing up of the rules
FOR
EVERY OCCASION
go military service except und conditions of extreme uger But and it is
Shomariin-hys/senses
from the one place
do the most good; in
ere it will and the constitution of the Club
were diserspec
up and clean
financiers” of all the in
the Presi
*Why, get: 30) 232:
called you an 295.
-*1 am not annoyed at
he sealed me a vir-headed as,
**I hate being an abnormality,