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OBITUARY Mrs. R. H. Kotewall
Passes
GREAT SOCIAL WORKER
Here There and Everywhere
TAXES IN U.S. REACH DANGER POINT
STATEMENT BASED ON
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FIGURES
HIDDEN TAXES WHICH RAISE
THE COST OF LIVING
(By Lewis Haney)
A gloom was cast over the com-. munity in general, and the Chin- ese community in particular, this FIGHTING TENNIS ACES morning when it was learned that The fate of Spaniards promin- Mrs. R. H. Kotewall, wife of the ent in British lawn tennis is cans- Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall. C.M.Ging some natural anxiety in Eng-| LD, passed away peacefully and land. It is learned that Senor suddenly at her residence. No. Maier, the Spanish champion, who 57 Kotewall Road, at 8.15 a.. gavè Baron von Cramm one of his A very charming lady, and well-hardest matches at Wimbledan liked by all who had the good for last year, is now serving with the tume to make her acquaintance) Nationalist forces at one of the
New York a majority of the people for <3 Mrs. Kotewall took a very active fronta
Maier's Davis Cup partner, Sen- part in all work for the social
First, they start borrowing and welfare of the community.
or Blane, is also fighting with Gen in this country.
running up our public debt. “They Mrs. Kotewall is survived by Franco's forces. His brother has: In making that statement, 1 do think that we will not see that | KOTEWALL-At her residence, her husband and nine children, been shot by Communists.
not depend upon feeling or senti-some day the debt-must be "paid. No. 57 Kotewall Road, at 8.15 eight daughters, two of whom are Senor Maier has lost his mother, ment; I rely upon figures. It has and be paid by zares: -(Some of a.m. to-day. Mrs. R. H. Kote-married, one to Mr. Li Shiu-kal who was the former woman cham-been found that whenever taxes as do not know that our regular wall, wife of the Hon. Dr. R. and the other to Mr. Walter Hung. pion of Spain. After escaping rise above 20 per cent of a na-debt "service" covering interest totion's income, and stay there, the and retirement, is about 30 per H. Kotewall CMG... LL. D. and a son, to whom the deepest from her home in Barcelona Funeral at Pokfulam, Wing sympathy will be extended in their Germany she has died of shock. burdent becomes intolerable. Such{cent of all tax collections.) Bit Ting, at 4 pm. to-morrow, deep bereavement. (Shanghai
copy).
DEATH
рарете
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DUCE'S VISIT TO LONDON
Her son-in-law Mr. Li Shiz-kai. is the manager of Messra. .R. H. Kotewall and Company, while Mr. If Signor Mussolini keeps Walter Hung, the other son-in-promise to go to Hungary Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 28, 1935. Law, is with the Sang Wo Shipping year it wi
Company.
visit abroad Mrs. Kotewall took a very keen power.
Poison Precautions interest in the charitable and
WHETHER you know it or not. while. This is how they do it.
taxes are dangerously high
a 20 per cent tax burden led up Then they "soak the rich" by to national bankruptcy through taxes running up to 60 per cent devaluation of currencies in for- of large incomes. But soon they
his eign countries. It preceded the reach the point where they kill next devaluation of the American dollar. business and increase memploy- be only his second This means that when the peo-meat. Even before that, they find since he came tople of a nation find the tax collec- that as they pile taxes on business, tor taking one-fifth of their in- the business man is forced either His first visit has almost been comes away from them, they gen-to raise prices or to reduce his
on erally refuse to stand any more. labour bill In either case,
Collector Takes Fifth labourer suffers.
Though much has been done in public institutions in the Colony, forgotten. It was to London recent years to control the sale particularly the Po Leung Kuk, December 8, 1922, exactly seven.
But that is exactly the situa- But all the time that the poli- of poisons, grim cases continual- which she together with Lady weeks after the March on Rome.
Southorn, helped to bring to its The new Italian Premier came tion in our country to-day. If you ticians are trying to cover up their ly remind us that our precan-
and by tions
are not adequate. The Present state of high efficiency.jon from the Lansanne. Conference (take us all together, you and I and waste by borrowing
the other Allied
our neighbours are paying to the taxes that soak the rich, they are new and stricter regulations She also took a very prominent to confer with which the Home Office recently part in the Society for the Pre-statesmen on war debts and re- Government just about 20 per laying on other taxes which soak vention of Cruelty to Animals and perations. He made a deep and cent, or one-fifth of all we earn. the poor without their knowing published should lead to a con- also the Society for the Protection favourable impression, from the The tax collector sticks his hand it These are the "indirect taxes.” siderable reduction in the num-
moment when a guard of honour
in and takes that much out of our ber of fatalities. Restrictions of Children.
The funeral takes place to-mor- of 30 London Fascisti "greeted
pay. upon the sale of the common row, leaving the house at 3 pan. their famous leader,” to quote a
In 1934 for instance, the figures poisons, such as those used in
and arriving at Pokfulam at 4 contemporary account, at Victoria weed-killers and
show that the average income of insecticides,
to the moment of his departure. Iseem to have been made as F.IL
During his stay he laid a wreath effective as possible. If the or-Wing Bit Ting. Pokfulam, prior on the Centosph and was received der that arsenic must be dyed to the burial, when friends will by King George at
Buckingham
'a distinctive colour had been
There will be a ceremony at the
enforced in the past the courts Pay their last respects. would have been spared some very difficult investigations. The special labelling of danger- ous drugs should also have its value.
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Soak The Poor* Items
Most indirect taxes sumption taxes, and fall heaviest family of four was about $1,500, the consumer who is poor. The labourer pays such taxes in the or $28.90 a week The tax per family was $5.65 a week price of many things he buys-
from chewing gum and soSP which is just about 20 per centres and radio. About a quarter
average
This is getting close up to the burden borne by the people in European nations.
H
to
of your food bill goes to pay taxes. At least 16 per cent of your rent goes the same way.
Over half the taxes collected in
No Chance To Pay Off Wrong Side
I doubt that people can or will the country are hidden taxes Chile (to maiden lady)..."Mother stand it very long. I am sure which raise the cost of living, and Cathedral Sunday, the day o says you are my aunt." Modern science has much in-st. John the Evangelist, was mark-
than Lady-"Yes, dear. I am your smot that we will not do so when we burden the poor far more
know that our money is being the rich. And now they soak the creased the possibilities of poi-ed at St. John's Cathedral' yester-on your father's side.” soring by the dissemination of day by the Right Reverend Noel side then, and you'll soon find that sinkhole of government
Child "Well, you're on the waung taken away only to pour into the poor again with this "social se- many drugs which have legiti-Hadson, Bishop of Labuan
boom-curity" tax-on payrolls. and
out if you live with
(The mate medicinal purposes, are Sarawak, taking the morning ser-
doggling.
heartbreaking There is only one way to stop actually necessary to the health
part of it is that the more taxes, all this that is to stop the wate Two of a Kind vices. Bishop Hudson, who is at of considerable numbers of
we pay, the more the politicians at Washington. If you let the spend and waste, so there is no spenders keep on, they will get people, and yet can be danger-Present on a vacation in the Co-
Chance to catch up with the debts) to all of us, directly or indirectly. Labourer Is Safferer Remember, they have nothing to
and The great trouble is that the spend but our money politicians have various ways of credit. They are therefore bound concealing the tax burden from to take it away from us at least the majority of voters. They fool as fast as they hand it out.
ous.
We must hope that the lony, preached a sermon on
world transcending body of doesn't say very wise things about
proposed warnings of the need
"Coming up in the train, dad, I was rending about the play you had pro duced last night, and--"
"Better have your dinner, young
"Look here, young man," said the the playwright's father, *īnis report for medical supervision in the Christ's Church, and called upon your work at school
his listeners to "keep their saints' use of such substances and of the peril of exceeding the days.” stated dose will be efficacious. The C.N.AC. plane Kwangtung But indulgence in what has left here for Shanghai on Christ-fellow." been giving the desired relief is mas Day. She carried only one- not always to be controlled. A passenger, Mr. Lung Cheng-wu, most difficult problem, that of bound for Shanghai.' The C.N.A.C jaccess to the narcotics called plane Fukien, which arrived here barbiturates, is not solved by from Shanghai on December 26, the regulations. Inquests have brought no passengers but took made us all familiar with the two from here to Canton. They fact that fatalities in the use of were Master M. Stevenson and these drugs are generally due to Master A. Fancey, two British "repeat" prescriptions. Repeti-youths.
tion has been excessive. Yet a
doctor's discretion to decide An exhibition of paintings and whether a patient needs, and Chinese characters, executed by should be entrusted with the Mr. Las Kwan-yum, was held in power to obtain, further sup-the Hotel Cecil yesterday and at- [plies cannot well be abolished. tracted a large gathering,
Modern Youth
Mr. of the Ten, who is Chairmary Overseas Chinese Fine Arts Asso- ciation, shows himself in this ex- Our young people have found hibition as very capable not only sturdy defenders. Sir in the expression of art afforded Josiah Stamp declares that to by the Chinese style of painting his mind modern boys and girls but also through the methods ex- are "magnificent and great played in Western art. fun." Lord Milne, recording the
some
testimony of a young man of 28 On Saturday morning as, the that his contemporaries suffer.v. San Chau left the Cheung Jed from despair, maintained Char island wharf for Hong
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nothing wrong, at all. They after leaving the pier. The sam- were, of course, speaking of pan was cut into two, and the different
generations. Five sole passenger and boatWOMEN years' difference in youth al- were thrown into the sea Bott ways was a great gulf, and were rescued. never greater than now. Wel
young.
have all noticed how world The RMS. Empress of Canada weary are the old young people. left Yokohama on Saturday morn- how keen the more youthfuling and is due here next Friday morning. She will leave for The first class have succeeded Mazils the azme afternoon. in perenading some people that they are sad, bad, decadent The RMS: Empress of Asia creatures, such as some of their left Negasaki yesterday afternoon favourite authors delight to for Kobe and Yokohama and will honour. But each period has leave the latter port on Thursday fashiona of this sort. Does any- afternoon, for Victoria and Ven one now believe, that the couver, B. C.
naughty nineties" were really
of a larid hue?: Sir Josiah highly mechanised conversation. Stamp hit off our younger such great fun as it is to Stri youth exactly when he describ- Josiah Stamp, but there is no led them as passionately scients doubt about the magnificence of fic and mechanical. Their diver- their energy and enterprise. sions are gadgets and, what is Take then by the most prac more bewildering still, the laws tical test they are very handy whereby the gadgets rark, people to have about in an Some of us may not find their emergency
7.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
DEAD HORSE
SUSAN
ELMORE
ef DALLA
HAS WORK, THE SAME HAT 23 YEARS
A PIECE OF STEE “WEIGHING ONE POUND
36 AND COST
MADE INTO HAIRSPRINGS FOR WATCHES
BUNT
FINISHES RACE
VALLARAMBA
RIDDEN BY JOCKEY DOROTHE ADAMS CRASHED INTO THE RAIL AT THE FINISH LINE AND WIS DEAD "EVEN BEFORE ADAMS LIFTED
HER HEAD AND THREW HER -MECHANICALLY OVER THE LINE. „TO WIN SECOND PLACE
FORTERE, Canada 1906
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