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The old vituperative traditions the Editor, and be accompanied by merce of South China, and Mr. which lent colour to politics have Even Mr. the Writer's Name and Address Tseng Tang-fu, the Mayor of Can practically died out.
the mot necessarily for insertion, but on, has been appointed concurrent-Lloyd George, out to scalp |us a guarantes of good faith.
ly Director of the Whampoa Har Generals, is a pale shadow of the
HERE is hardly a subject teeth-and-bear-it gold standard [GIO.M^^ md; indeed, of his pre- bour Development:
about which there is more conservative economists reveal awe an attitude regarding money as The operation of this work has war self. MARKET AUS
amount to estimated to
"Joe" Chamberlain in his pas confusion, passion and been
Obviously. $9,000,000, of which $5,000,- sages with Mr. Gladstone could than that of money. Make it though it partook of the ele
the topic of an evening's talk ments of magic. 000 will be appropriated by the himself say the bitterest things and you will observe general money that most tangible of Ministry of Railways, while the about his former leader. When shyness and fumbling because so-called practical utilities-is a mysterious Hong Kong, Friday, October 30, 1936 balance of $4,000,000 will be sup the second Home Bale Bill was few, if any, can give a clear ac-looked upon as
plied by the Kwangtung Provin- in Committee Chamberlain sacer count of what money means to power, and most people still ed at the regularity with which them. Yet. It is something have their little Oriental money {cial Government.
Mr. Taeng has been instructed Liberals followed their leader. by the Central Government to It is as well that there is have the work completed as soon some extra-official person in the as possible. colony, such as the Rev. Cyto
"Slums Of The Sea"
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Brown, who can bring to public EXPLANATION
notice from time to time the appalling conditions under which tramp steamers. in some instances, in this part of The the world are worked.
OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
conditions prevailing on some The Mystery Man Of
at
of the British lines, even home, have been acrimoniously debated in Parliament under the generic title of "The siums of the
Jeg "
Shanghai's live!
The War
OLONEL Dragutin Dimitrievic
nickname
He
The Prime Minister calls "black" which concerns us all most vi-god on their shelves and in ef- and they say it is good. He calls tally. While most of us have fect seem to rub its protrading "white" and they say it is better discarded many strange super-jabdomen with faith that some attitude such practice may make, them' It is always the voice of a god. stitions, there is no Never since the time of Herod has which fits the definition of su-rich.
perstition more precisely than Now this does not mean that there been such slavish adubas”
our attitude toward money,Jour economists, seeking to from the infuriated-Liberals led writes Sydney Greenpie in the maintain an inflexible gold to a scene in which exchanges of "Christian Science Monitor." standard, are wrong; even (fisticuits were only stopped by the
Counting our pennies and though they disagree among arrival of the Speaker.
Nor does it prove hunting bargain counters, we themselves.
The counter-cries of
DEPUTIES MEALS
one and all remain 15 pound that the masses who have seen foolish as if we had not the mo- their honest earnings, backed French Parliamentarians doment before worn ourselves out by the best gold and the best pretty well at all-night sittings being penny wise We will Government, swept mysterious Every deputy has 25 francs (now banquet a friend lavishly, but ly away, are foolish in losing all weekly shipping paper, the was "Apis,” born in 1876, month. For this he can obtain a expect him to repay it with a lars and cents. Shipping Review,
Managed Currencies has devoted conspirator and head of the Sermodicum of food and drink at the stern sense of moral righteous-
ness. From the beginning of 5 considerable space in recent ban 'Society "Union or Death," canteen, which always remains!
After reading hundreds of before, we issues to a verbatim account of led King Alexander Obrenovic
open until the sitting ends. Ex- civilisation, and a recent debate on this all-of Serbia in June 1903. He or cellent foie gras, cheese, ham and have clung desperately to images of learned discourses. important question. Here we ranized an attempt on the life of
tongue sandwiches are obtainable. aginary values aimed at bring which juggle facts and fancies have no journal exclusively de- Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria It is said that £3 worth of fresh ing us our deepest satisfactions, about money, the laymani, still but have sold ourselves into longing for an anchor to values, voted to the interests of ship-in 1911, which failed. was fruit is eaten daily.
Įfeels himself - tossed about on wars, slavery and persecution ping people, and what publicityqually unsuccessful in an at- Tea is only served in the after through a blind faith in the ma- the waves of social taste, satie the question gets it woefully tempt on the life of King Ferdin- meagre. It is as well, there and of Bulgaria in February 1914 2001 and that to a very few mem-gic of gold and the possibility ty, abundance, style and sheer bers. But during the night ses-
confusion is that different - fore, that once a year the Rev-In June of the same year he fur-on as many as 2,000 cups of cof, 10% enriching ourselves by des-Prejudice. What adds to the Cyril Brown. Chaplain of the ished the guns and bombs, and fee are consumed. The Southern-
poiling others.
Theoretically we agree that tions have different measures Missions to Seamen, is afforded expert coaching to a band of coers drink their red and white wine the love of money is the root of of value and all manage their their own advan- the opportunity, by the annual pirators who killed Archduke fine claret and Burgundies if
all evil. But so fixed is our be moneys to service at St. Jolm's Cathedral, Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and they wish--while the Northerners lief that money is wealth, and tage
refer to these matters started the World War..
usually prefer beer.
In such a world, gold cannot wealth happiness, that we yield pointedly and forcefully.
Port is excluded, and no foreign to its seduction and follow who-more than approximate a star- In his sermon last Sunday a member of the Serbian General drinks such as whisky or gin are ever promises it in abundance dard, even though it is used es- Mr. Brown, after referring to Staff, he organized an unsuccess on sale. Deputies, however, harebe he bookmaker or dictator sentially as a medium for the the lamented loss of the fal attempt on the life of King a long list of liqueurs to choose with the naive abandon of foreign trade of nations. People Paringa, went on to say: "The Constantin of Greece. He was from, and both M. Hennessy and children. Medical Officer for the Port of executed by a fring squad for an Cointreau are deputies. Southampton is reported to attempt of the life of Alexander |
to
In 1916, while Dimitrievic was
have said recently: What are Karageorgevic and Premier Pasic FAMILY ESCAPES FROM FIRE being condemned as slums on of Serbia on June 26, 1917.
ahore are palaces compared
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speak of the gold standard as if that and that alone would Borders On Superstition
guarantee us peace, prosperity That mankind's love of and plenty in face of the fact money borders on the supersti-that nearly all nations were on Two children were lowered to tions is amply proved from his-the gold standard when they safety by their mother through atory, and even more vividly skidded into the depression. Re- bedroom window when fire broke proved in current talk Both main on it even in adversity, we out at the house of Mr. and Mrs. those who would make us all are told, and we will pull hack
Dodds, in Hindaugh-street, rich through printing and those again to prosperity.
describable as the grit-your- (Continued on Page 6)
with the quarters on some of the smaller cargo boats.'” This, unfortunately, is only too true.!
A patty officer of the United States as five minutes' conversation with any shipping man, will Navy has been convicted of selling John testify; and it is a fact that military secrets to the Japanese. Newcastle-on-Tyne, last month. these slum-like conditions, bad About the only real secret they have in the amy navy in the United as they are in temperate climes. States is why colonels wear become infinitely worse in the Bat the Japs couldn't buy that secret East; where the added discom-for a hundred million yen. fort of heat and humidity are knows. also encountered. Mr. Brown remarked in his sermon that he hail as large as coconuts fell in had not long since himself Africa. Nothing like this ever hap-1 "boarded tramp steamer pened in Africa until American news- where the fo'c'sle was ver-papers stationed correspondents over minous, the food unpalatable there
Nobody
According to a recent news story,
and where, amid tropical heat, A Detroiter is held for derailing a there were neither fans nor tin with his sedan. The revised liced-water to be had."
standing of locomotives in the cross-
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Everyone agrees that these ing league shows: Won 295, lost.1 appalling conditions should be righted; the point is, how? If
If she washes, dishes for $5 a week,
it is a fact, as the chairmen of that is servitude. If she does it for
nothing, that is romance. the various companies have in- sisted for years, that British shipping cannot compete with somewhat tempered by his re- foreign subsidised shipping. ferences to the position of ship- how is the money to be provid-ping and coal As regards the ed which will allow some of former, he called for a definite these antedeluvian conditions policy for the support of British to be discarded and decent con-shipping against the subsidies that other countries ditions of work imposed? Ship-from ping, like any other business, threaten to push it from the must reduce costs when profits seas. He would have a clause are negligible or entirely non-in all trade agreements that existent. Like any other busi proportion of British shipping ness, it cannot compete on shall be employed in carrying terms of equality with heavily-imports to Britain. The fact subsidised rivals. Like any that of 18 ships discharging other business the conditions of Russian timber in ports in those engaged in it are based Great Britain the whole number primarily on the ratio of turn- sailed under foreign, flags may over to profit, if any How, be an extreme example of in- then, can tramp steamers, equality, but it illustrates the fighting to the death for the kind of competition that British meagre profits available, atford ships have to encounter. Ship to better the conditions of those owners do zot sik for fag dis- who man them and rum them 7 crimination, but for an oppor We should be glad to know the tunity to compete. There is answer, if there is one. In his ample scope here for a definite speech to the Association of policy; the "scrap and buïd's British Chambers of Commerce scheme, so far as we can gather, at Cardiff recently Sir Geoffrey can only be held to have touch- Clarke covered most of the ed the fringe of the problem Imajor diffealties that now con- Conditions, will not: and
and om-be bettered while the
is persisted in,
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