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THE CHINA MATE, FEBRUARY 26, 1937.
The China Mail
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recent currency agreement, but this is expected, in its own good time, with ready co-operation, to produce a general revival in international trade, in which Britain should not be the suffer- er, though it remains true that goods still seem to find their way
Hong Kong, Friday, February 26, 1937, more easily to the British Isles than to any other part of the world. Even so, some time must elapse before the expansion of the export trade begins to offset creased manufacturing activity. in Britain and increased internal Hong Kong is still far from the growth in imports, and m- solving its house refuse and spending power cannot indefinite litter problem in a manner giv-ly continue without the develop- ing all-round satisfaction. And ment of overseas markets for there never can be a solution in British goods. Certainly, while any system which perpetuates a £19,000,000 deficit, following the practice of denying the mo-year of a £36,009,000 margin on bility of collection vehicles by the right side, is nothing to be- stationing them at selected come worried about, a revival in points and requiring household exports would seem to be neces ers for blocks around to trail sary if Britain's prosperity is to their rubbish through the streets be maintained on a sound basis. in an astonishingly mixed assort-
River Of Destiny ment of contamers.
In the personal litter field, re- source and ingenuity is now
anti-
Now that Madrid has become being applied, the latest device the Verdun of world being the provision by tailors of fascism, its sandy little river. litter pockets in men's suits. It the Manzanares, is becoming as is true that man is supposed to historic as Caesar's little Rubi- have too many pockets already, con Curling round the capital but this in reality is only by to the west and south, it has be comparison with women's povercome the line of demarcation, ty in them. Every man worth broken in a few places only, be his salt gladly adds to his collectween anti-fascism and fascism. tion and a litter pocket should be What a load of fate to be carried by a river which heretofore bas immensely popular.
The value of it lies, or should never carried anything larger lie, in the unflinching determina than minnows! tion of civilised beings to be good, Nearly 400 years ago Philip II. citizens and not to leave rubbish had a scheme for connecting the Manzanares by canal with the lying all over the place as refuse collection so often impels Tagus and so enabling it to carry galleons from the Amer- careless householders to do..
Man is by nature
icas into his new capital of Ma- a tidy
drid. But nothing came of animal That must not be for gotten. But at present there is that. Its banks have remained a a time-lag and a sometimes pleasure resort for Madrilenos, nauseous distance-lag between young and old. In happier times the Colony's refuse-providers and every Sunday afternoon brought its refuse collectors. The whole hundreds of little Madrilenos to paddle and fish for tiddlers and situation bears some resem blance to that of rearmament sail their toy boats in its shallow...
Therefore are we compelled to waters.
At various times it has ac our homes and offices large quan-quired bridges, six of them in tities of material which we should all. Since the turn of the cen tury, the town fathers of Madrid gladly discard.
It is to be hoped this will not have adorned it with parks and parapets little dreaming [be forgotten by those in au
how soon two irreconcilable thority for if fault there be, it olds were to meet on its lies with those who do not pro- vide enough baskets and bins into which we could empty the contents of our pockets or dust pans when the load became too burdensome..
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TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS
Throughout the city there AFTERTHOUGHT: "We should should be sealed bins of the always have been tougher, but the type used a good deal in England trouble always was that we did not to-day, which would be emptied know what to ough about.
hourly by a special flying squad Rexford Guy Tugwell, discussi of scavengers equipped with the New Deals,past vacuum extracto or other
to-date devices.
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