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THE CHINA MAIL. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1936"
The China Mail
Ninety-first Year of Publicatie
Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.
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MR. PETER H SIN
Celebrating An-
Anniversary
Here There and
Mr. Peter Henry Sin the well- Everywhere
Garrick Street, London, W.CZ)known. Jocal solicitor, celebrates to-day the fifth anniversary of his Notice To Contributors.
admission to the local Bar. His en- ~~~All communications intended for rolment was moved by the late Mr. publication should be addressed to F. C. Jenkin, K. C
Mr. Sin was born in Hong Kong the Editor, and be accompanied by the Writer's Name and Addressțin 1901 and received a part of his Įnot necessarily for insertion, but education, here. He was articled for five years in England and pass jax a puarustes of good faith.
ed his final in March, 1929. being
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Australia's Progress
Australia may well be grati- fied by the Budget which the Commonwealth Treasurer, Mr. Casey, introduced last month. There are few countries in the world where its provisions can be read without some simiring lenvy. Bemissions of taxation were granted to a total annual value of £5,275,000, on a re- venue which was last year about 532,250,000. Income-tax payers! were relieved of 10 per cent. of
MR. PETER SIN
AUTOGRAPHS IN GOLD
A scheme for preserving worth- while autographs is to have them engraved on your cigarette case, be it silver or gold.
In an example recently produced the value of the case is incalcul- ably increased by the signatures
THE GREAT MARCH
OF INVENTION
OF
CENTENARY OF U.S.A.'S
PATENT LAW
ENORMOUS HELP TO INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE
ON July 4 of that year Presi- for the whole world, if it only
dent Andrew Jackson had enough labour.
March Of Invention it bears the signatures of the signed the Act of 1836, a piece
Labour that was the pro- Crown Prince of Sweden. the late of patent legislation of unpre-
So it hap- Marshal Joffre, General Pershing, cedented character. So this is blem for decades. Paderewski, Toscanini and Chalia-the hundredth year of the pre-pens that the patent, records more: others sent U.S. patent system, under teem with accounts of labour- Eli Whit- pin" amongst many who have signed are Constance which 2,045,000 patents for in-saving inventions.
ney devised not only the cotton Talmadge, Maurice Chevalier, ventions have been granted. Carpentier, and Dempsey.
There were patents before gin but the system of inter- parts, without All used a fountain-pen to write 1836 Some of the colonies changeable their names: the signatures were granted them, and so did the which quantity production of afterwards traced over by an en-Federal Government from 1790 such things as sewing machines, on. What set the law of 1836!rifies, automobiles and watches wood-working patented Not everybody has the chance of apart was the provision that would be impossible. Blanch-
25 autographs jobtaining such
patents were to be granted only jard these. The owner of this cigarette to first inventors, meaning that machinery, McCormick and a dozen imitators and case is the chief purser of the liner priority of invention had to be half a
established by historical re-rivals perfected the reaper, search in publications Before after which the era of abun-
İsraver.
Ile de France.
This, M. Raulin, has many Eng lish friends, for he was educated
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Colt patented his revolver- in that country. He is a parser who patents were granted vir-dance was ushered in
tually for the asking-and the writes and composes music.
(payment of a Government fee the natural outcome of machine tools. Morse gave up portrait- (of $30.
With the act of 1836, the painting and invented a tele- On board he has a sitting room Patent Office was established, graph-just what a country of their burden, and given increas-admitted to practise three months (not, you notice, a mere cabin) headed by a Commissioner of Fast open spaces needed. Howe
Trade allowances. ed
was later. For two years he pursued remarkable for its soothing and Patents. It was the principal patented his sewing machine in encouraging the and transferred the making of the factor Here
inventor. Where clothes from the home to the directly encouraged by a lower-his profession in London as part-restful atmosphere.
tax ner in the legal firm of Messrs. "chief receives in state passen-American ing of the general sales
gers who have a complaint to would Whitney, Bell, Morse, factory. Shoemaking machines Howe, Edison and Westing-were devised by McKay just from 5 to 4 per cent, and a con-Barnett, Sin and Barnett.
when a huge army drafted for He was the first Chinese to be make
to a wo-house have been without it?
the Civil War had to be shod. siderable remission of the pri-
He told some secrets on all imports-admitted to practise in London and
Typewriter Propitions Time mage daty Nevertheless, Mr. Casey was during his stay there he was legal man who crossed in the boat.
After the Civil War came" The law of 836 could hardly "A man," said M. Raulin, "will Consul- to the Chinese. able to make provision for an adviser
time. Railroads which put women into offices, increase of expenditure on na-General and the Chinese London come and complain of something have been enacted at a more Sholes with his typewriter,
and then, so often, it is after all propitious tional defence which made the Association.
his wife's fault! She has in-were being constructed, and the where they had hardly been Westinghouse before.. seex vote the largest in the history
Auenced him to complain. But it country needed locomotives dif- is easy to smooth them over: if it ferent from those which had demonstrated that a fast train perhaps a stateroom that is not proved useful in England-could be stopped with his air. so large as was expected I say locomotives which burned wood brake and was ever after able But yes of course; only you see, instead of English coke and to boast that he had saved more m'sieur, Queen Marie of Bumania which could haul heavy loads on lives than Napoleon destroyed West of the The telephone of Alexander had that room last trip... It is aimsy tracks. jenough!"
Alleghanies a new country had Graham Bell was introduced-- . been opened by pioneers who probably the outstanding inven- travelled in covered wagons andtion of the nineteenth century. who discovered soil richer than But the most dramatic figure anything known in the East of all was that of Edison. He the swamped And from California, more discontinually tant than Europe from the Patent Office with scores Eastern seaboard, came tales of applications for. telegraphs to The coun- send several messages over the
of Australia
The estimates
amounted to over £8,750,000, a
good deal more than double DANCE TEAM FOR
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years
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Though defence required an in- creased draft on the revenue of an almost about £1,300,000,
to the was added equal sum amount allotted for social im- provement, old age and invalid pensions, maternity allowances of service restoration and
Bob And Eula To Appear
Your Daily Smile! "What did you share with this morning?"
ny vile's pencil sharpener."
Bob and Eula (Bob Burnett and Exla Hoff), the well-known American dance team, will begin salaries.
3 short season here at the Hong Such a Budget was, as
Hotel beginning from Kong Casey claimed, a convincing de-Saturday, November 7, following
Mr.
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One reason f farmer regards the
as a sucker, declares aja land of promise. monstration of the change for a most successful four months' city man the better in the conditions of engagement at the Park Hotel, writer in an American paper, is that try was awakening to the pos- same wire at the same time. sources. Coal, iron, copper, mos and his incredible electric Australia. It was a message Shanghai. The team is consider the urbanite pays money for some-sibilities of its unlimited re-phonographs, telephones, dyna- phosphate and minerals lamp. The Hoes came along of encouragement to the whole ed one of the best in America, andthing to feed the dog. Empire, and it was also a les has played at most of the leading
The State prison in Illinois is put
Mergenthaler and son. Australia was one of the hotels; cafes, and theatres in tins, our a newspaper. As you might abounded. And the agricul with fast newspaper printing
(Continued on Page 6 first countries in the world to America and abroad.
Eula is asumise its strongest editorial policy tural potentialities! The coun- try could grow enough wheat] feel the storm of the economic most accomplished dancer, who is the freedom of the press. depression, and few suffered also displays the latest in gowns more severely. Now she is and coiffure; while Bob has some- to offer in his
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serere submitted to people
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EXPLANATION. OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
The Scrap Of Paper
tors terms which saved her TT was a highly dramatic mo £4,000,000 a year in interest
The Irony Of Fate
ment when Sir Edward Gos- ichen, British Ambassador in Berlin, faced the German Chan- calor von Bethman Hollweg on the There was a poignant irony evening August 4, 1914, with the the tragic fate of Mr. T. British ultimatum based on Ger- invasion of Belgium in Campbell Black. Few of the many's world's airmen had ventured on violation of the Treaty of London fights as bold as those which of April 19, 1839. The excited treaty as "a scrap" of made him famous. Few had German chancellor referred to this shown such a mastery of skill solemn and endurance Yet his end paper during that interview. A Icame not in the air, not in the few hours later, Germany - and course of some enterprise chal-Great Britain were in a state of lenging the elements and test-war, which the violated "scrap of ing machine and man to the paper made inevitable." utmost. His aeroplane was on
the ground, and as he taxied; FLOATING SAMPLE FAIR along the propeller of another...
A wide range of Japmese man plane struck him down.
on the He was on the eve of another factures will be on view big adventure. The aeroplaney. Buenos Aires Mara this after- which he was using was that 100, frum 5 pm, and to-morrow, which he was to pilot in the from 3 pm, which is being used race from London to Johannes-as & Floating Sample Fair, cRITY- burg But for the chance of ing typical manufactured goods for the weather he would have been futroduction to Eastern and other away from the aerodrome long markets. The Fair is sponsored before the moment of the acci-by the Osaka Commercial Exhibit- dent His place in the history ing Association.
of flying is secured by that re- cord fight of three sleepless days and nights to Australia
with Mr. C WA. Scott. Much
more was hoped from him, and tyre
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