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SPIVS AND DRONES
By Glanville Carew
London.
However, we shall see what we the nation needs help, will come
Such is the shortage of essen-hail are. For the present what forward and give us their assis tial labour at the present time will happen after registration is lance." atveral hundred thousand jobs hat Ministry of Labour Offer To return for a moment to the are urgently waiting to be done will consider the case of cach street trader. However widely -that the Government has found person involved and in somc The term may be dɛaned it will it necessary to order that every Bats will offer (which means surely bring first and foremost to ntan and youth, woman and girl rder) more essential work, of certain classes and ages must register iri January with the Ministry of Labour.
For the present, these classes (they may be extended later if national need compels) are street
that it
A Census
A
The Spivs
The inclusion of two of the classes
to registrable under rder attracts particular public tention: they are those no. ainfully employed and the street raders, Quite apart, from per- ons of independent means known as such to the income tax authori
work-for a time,
must The street trader, whe
register, is familiar to most of us He is defined by the Ministry a
Rights of Appeal
the minds of most of us our old triend the costermonger, so named originally because once upon u time he sold costards (apples) in
he aircot
"Essential"
Today he is more often known as a 'sply.*. Ho sells us our fruit ty, though usually quite unjustly, as a 'sply He zails us our fruit and vegetables and flowers from the kerb. No doubt many of him will be left undisturbed as his werk will almost certainly be re- garded as essential. He is usually an honest, good tempered hard- working and somewhat broadly humourous sort of fellow whom the p:lice and the magistrates look upon with a not too stern eye, Did not a well remembered bitter sweet librattist once wrote. "When the coster's finished jumping on his M:ther."
"He loves to lie a-basking in the sun."—United Press,
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
UNITED NATIONS
ASSEMBLY
"LACKADAISIA
6-18
CREA
"My country also asks assurance that we won't be at- tacked with the daytime radio serial?"
Professor C.E.M. Joad On
China
The Value Of New Preparing
Year Resolutions For The Fray
have
?the making of New Year lone, and there is no health in
Yes.
you see any value in which we ought not to
resolutions?
It is an agreeable and
12.
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By JOHN RODERICK
traders, persons not gainfully employed and persons engaged in certain specific occupations: men nged from 18 to 50 and women from 10 to 40 are required to register.
Even within those limits theretics and admittedly not gainfully DAVIES—At Queen Mary Hos-
or otherwise employed, there are are, of course, A great many others who tell hit netther do pital, on January 5, 1948, to Zema, wife of Inspector DL.xemptions, and many citizens are
hey spin yet they live well don- the Davies, Poller Headquarter. The mesh of the net is fairly ively clothed. They have no
earnestly studying
detalls.
plie rationing. They are expen a daughter, Vera Lililan.
small and may yet be smaller if known employment and no known the catch be insufficient for the
means of subsistence. Such folk country's need.
may find it hard to show that LANDS At present the exemptions do they are in gainful employmem not include conscientious objecture but rather than be directed to Major-General Erskine's open ried women and disabled persons: doing their best to find cushy-
to work but they do include mar-ssential work they are said to be invitation to the Government to bind and deaf and dumb per- even mythical jobs. It should take up actively the question of sons: full time
students at net be beyond the wit of the chool,
college OF the resumption of the Military Apprentices and articled clerics: a fantastic schemes-but they may university, authorities to get behind these Lands which now block commer-minister of o religious communi- cial development in the central iv. and anyone who has to look areas of Victoria and Kowloon, anable to look after themselves, after relations or friends who aro ran permit of little hesitation. On the light of the latter exemp the island, no intelligent towntion we may expect a great and one who selis articles in the street planning scheme is possible with surprising upsurge of filial and but not one who sells from door nut scope for expansion towards family devotion,
to door or delivers goods. The the cast from the Hong Kong
who term also Includes people In Kow and Shanghai Bank.
sing in the streets, sircet - shoe- blacks, street photographers who loon, Whitfield Barracks is equal.
What it all amounts to Is that shop passers-by-and people of ly an intrusion, prohibiting pro- the Government 15
that sort. to take gressive development of Kowloon census of its industrial forces sc along normal lines,
know moy
Just what Dise condition as attached to man-and-woman-power it has at
As to the specified businesses: gratifying exercise. To make On the contrary, we are more the G.O.C's offer of support fost command to meet a National
emergency. It wants to knowployers
and employed must good resolutions entails a pro- inclined to any with Samue} Both Mao Tze-tung and the proposal. It is that compen just what work Torn, Dick nad register: the businesses specified
Butler: "I have loft undone Chiang Kai-shek now have be cess of riddling or sieving your are provided else Harry, Mary and Jane are doing include fun fairs, places for pln- character, much as a man will those things I ought to have gun the New Year in China by
of doing tables where for the garrison, and that today or are capable
and automatic machines
done those calling for a purge within the fulfilment of the transfer project amorrow: whether they could and such ke amusement. Book. riddle apples or sieve coais. He done and I have
more profitably be. engaged inmakers.
totalisators and pari- that all the little had ones, the things which I ought not to ranks of their respective par- shall be completed at no cost to other and more essential tasks,
Communtata the War Office.
and if any of them is not work-mutuel people. Certain types of ones that are not good enough have done, and I am very well, ties the Chinese
club-must also register.
and the Kuomintang-but each to keep, may be sieved out and thank you." ing of ali (not gainfully As a bargaining point, it is one
cm.
This being so, the luxury of is apurred by diffent reasons. plaved it will want to know with which this community can why not.
What wi! actually happen to eliminated, and only what is
nking our sins and frailties in Chiang told the first Kuomin the people who, so far, are called good remain. have little quarrel. More than Behind all this lies the ultimate upon to register we do not know. Now, it is fairly clear tha the face, preparatory to making tang meeting of the year yester twenty years ago, an independent power of
Government to subject to certain rights of ap- there is a need in human nature confession of them and deciding day that disloyal elements must Hirect every person, whether at peal,
Enter lie their assessor from England, valued
in the to do this kind of thing, a need to cope with them, very rarely be eliminated. People in. Non- present employed or at leisure, to hands of the Ministry of Labour. the Military Lands at $17,000, do such work as may be deemed Despite all the professed fears of
to rake over and to make con- comes our way. In fact, instead king who know told Associated weaknesses of cccurring once a week as It Press that Chiang in effect was The Colony was then pre-most essential to the national all sorts of people there is no frasion of pared to buy them over at that good. That is a situation which real ground for supposing that even if one only unfesses them used to do, it only comes once cracking down on the Liberaln
has never yet existed in peace anyone will be unfairly treated.
a year, which is why so many, within the Kuomintang,who price, and to pay for the cost of time in modern times in this
of us eagerly embrace it.
were discontented with the all barrack accommodation un country and it gives much con- may yet be extended, and how- The existence of this reed in
Morcover and here is a fur- procedure of China's first na- new sites. The deal did not gerrn to soms persons who talk at ever carefully it may be drafted, one of the great reasons for the ther source of gratification-tional elections. through, unfortunately, because random ab ut forced labour, and some people will scheme to de- popularity and the lack of when we do come to look at Chiang's speech was the next the Treasury's existing surplus erfdom and so on.
the feudal system......tyranny feat it and some will succeed. occdalona for satisfying it in them, how little they are. What step logical after his January was dissipated in the economic
the labour required is no doubt ordinary life for the increasing re the typical defects in th: 1st message to the nation. Hav crash which accompanied the 1925
best founded in the good will of popularity of the Catholic re conduct and behaviour of the ing layed the Chinese Com- General Strike.
the people. The Minister of La ligion. What fun to turn cnc ordinary man which he feels bour says:
self inside out every now and called upon to remedy by muk- "I believe there are sufficient then! How it gratifies one's ing a New Year's resolution? inen and women of good spirit in egotism and flatters one's sense this country who, realising that cf self-importance, even if it
To get up earlier, not to cat does no more.
much-not a difficult resolution this Now most of us no longer go to keep just now not to smoke to Church, which means that much again, not much difficulty here for most of us; we are too poor-not 10 drink so much-the same applies
mother-in-law, or even to one's hus hand, or, alternatively, wife, that in sny, to somebody one has got
it or one likes at n Not to feel irritable with them, o if we do, not to snap at them. No to kick the cat, not to wear or sweat so much, or slam doors, to tidy u. the drawers, to go and see some bed-" ridden but
curmudgeonly old rela
In North Shenat, Communist tion who bores
and so on. once
also How modest are these resolutions Chairman Mao Tze-tung and how modest the sins with which called for a Party purge. The they are intended cope. Nothing Communist difficulty la with in this mild and conservatives, not as in Chiang's It Is Fun respectable cato
case with too much liberalism. logue about
Mno wishes to get rid of the OTHER SUITS GUIDE | Von Zedtwitz, who took it with the
Making really deadly sins, big landlords and rich peasants
of cruelty and
in- who A. He saw that his sole problem, was
apparently gaining YOU
preventing the loss of two tricks in Resolutions juice and pride How to play a particular suit to trumps. To the second trick he led
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The proposition which the ¡G.O.C. nuw advances is ernment- ly more favourable. It asks fu no down cash payment: it te quires no more than what is rea sonable, the provision of alterna tive accomodation on sites ac ceptable to the military on the outskirts of the built-up areas of the Colony.
the
100 Years Ago
(From the files of the "China Mail")
to oneself,
To whatever extent the order
Hope of success in
obtaining
TREATY PROTEST
we no longer held the doc-
to declare that
five
one's
No
►
we have "left Longer Hold live with whether revision oner and Jury being conveyed there seriously. Negotiations for
manuer
feil from
a bill
done and...done those things
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
Baghdad, Jun. 5. In a protest against the move for trine of origi. Doctrine Weio be nicer to Auntie er to ane revision of the Anglo-Iraqi treaty nal sin and here today, students demonstrated feet impelled Lands which were valued at
On the 23rd instant, an Inquest and clashed with the police. $17,000,000 in 1923, conservative.
Thirty people were injured, was held at Show-ke-wan, the Cor ly estimated, are worth three of four that sum today, particularly in the Police boat, on the body of a of the Anglo-Iran treaty are being done those if the negotiations can be swiftly woman named Loongatre, who was carried an in London later this week.things which we ought to have completed, and advantage can be killed in the following remarkable-Reuter. taken of the present boom in land
rock A large values. To consider unly the several hundred yards in the rear Murray Parade Ground and that of her dwelling. and splitting in part of the military lands from several pieces, one of thrse, after ing Queen's Road, it is obvious the rough stone wall of the house
averal hounds, fell making
against that the scheme would go an ap and knocked it in the woman kill- preciable way to pay for itself. સૂર્ય, was engaged in suckling or nurs with a distinctly good prospect of ing her infant, when the wall fell HK$180.-retuming a profit.
upon and crushed her to death. Time is the essence of the Strange to say the infant escaped & Sat. 35-
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By SHEPARD BARCLAY
"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES”
to
The depression comes
the
LP
munists in this, he probably felt that he must turn his attention next to internal difficulties,
He pointed to the major de- fect in the Kuomintang, which
political experts have been may- ing for years will result ulti- ately in its collapse. This is the Icoseness of the Party's or- ganisation, coupled with its low The standards of admission, Party lost much of its power n decade ago when it made mem- bership almost mandatory for
Government workers,
Chiang proposes to correct this through reregistration of members,
Too Liberal
are
and selfishness, and more power than the Party's And when that co-sitting near the deceased likewise obtain the best results is a problem the heart 2, coming up with the the rest, That is why on the whole It Central Committee likes.
The basic defect in the Party, escaped. The Jury returned a verdict which often cannot be solved simply and the 4 winning. He took the dia is fun making good resolutioiss
afterwards according to Mao, is the same of "accidental death."
by studying the combination of cards mond Oreturn with the K, then led when we find we can't keep them which plagues the Kucmintang, in that suit. The solution may lie in the heart 3. South played the 9 and Why not? First. because they are though in a lesser degree-that the information given by the play of the 10 was put in from dummy, the designed to cure habits which have some other suit or suits. If it shows then skipting out the J.
that cor of the defenders has
tract includes such enormous bune fits to not only to commercial) Hong Kong, but also to its aes- thetic values, there can be no excuse for delaying a decision.
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General de Gaulle's specchi taivas in the Colony, was put up his partner to have any particular that newe, probabilities would have in which they, have grown is usual! Chinese Communists cach bavo
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Why did he finesse and why did so grown into us that they have be had expended upwards of $10,000 u in shape of gremium to the original considerable length in a particular not the declarer finesse of the other come part of us and which, therefore. substantial part of his hand, with his partner table? In his case, the proved short cannot be changed, either by Act al purchaser building ལྟ་- sea-wall-filling in the ground, and having shortage there, the probabili- ruit lead of a diamond, when North Parliament or act of will. building seven good China houses tres regarding other suits are altered. played the 9 and later led the Q The man with the shortage in the indicated diamond length with Nonl big one of the best first suit or suits is mure akely that and shortage with Sruth the whole forming one
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vely below the threshold of conscious favara an even split of hearts tonest, and the behaviour which you | make the finesse inadvisabiez But
have three hearts than two, At the other table the club 5 was led. That gave the declarer no clear-cut count of sride proportion, so the fortunate declarer had only abstract probabillies to guide him--and they proved antrus,
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auction this morning pursuant to are in the crucial suit, also likely to Eric contained no surprises, adventismem and how shell we have more cards of it but it was impressive in its quictecord it-knocked down for the We had bet Assurance that the French peo- enormous sum of $20!
ter write it in full-Twenty Dollars! ple will turn round and in no
ground rent upon
the plas The to the de Gaullist, £124.16.98, per annum, so distant time
so that ideas of constitutional reforms, unless the Colony improves it wil and indus- not prove a bargain even ne' Twenty stronger government trials cooperation between all Dollars (Since writing the above. the purchases we have learnt that branches of industry, frota execundertakes six months back ren tives to labourers.
*me.60 to 70-but even with that, General de Gaulle's claim that the plot yields no more than $17 fot each of the six Cabinets which $10,000 invested). have been in office since he aban- | *****
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This system gets ita chief portantly, hecause we canet, fact, make ourselves better by our support from Secret Polico ac-. tivities designed to allonco pub- awn acts of will any more than o man can lift himself up by his own lig criticism, according to poli-, braces, a truth which lies at
thetical experts. As if to under- basis of the Christian doctrine that score this basic. fact, to-day's' unless God artists you with
Independent Chinese language grace you cannot become better,
newspaper "Ta Kung Pao can' ried a report that 200 Secret Servico men broke into the
TRUMAN'S DOCTOR
SPECULATOR
Washington, Jan, 6.
rounds of Cheklang University bere two days ago and bent up, gezdi students arranging for! the focu}"
The Senate Appropriations sub-funeral sorvices of Yu Tze-sau a Hangchow student who dlod Committee today received brokerage records of commodity market dial-under police questioning In pri lugs of Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham. son recently. Four students. President
personal throw men, and a girl-were | {
doned power, two years ago have Communist trade union worker. left the emaomy of the country He stressed the role which free nerable.) in a more parlous condition that trade unions, unhampered by any its predecessor must be taken to political allegiances, can play In Pass mean that the general does not the battle for better production, This was one of the deals that de232
World's Championship believe that the present govern not only in factories but in the clded, the ment of M. Robert Schuman is high, administrative organs of the the small slam was made in hearts Masters leam game recently. When likely to be more successful than State and not only nationally but by Waldemar Von Zedtwitz his side the others, despite "live" votes of internationally. There was un- Kained 310-pointer-- since - the ~ East- confidence in the debate on the doubtedly a powerful appeal in West pair at the other table stopped "Save The Franc, Bill:** ** de Gaulle's exposition of his sims, at 4-Hearts and made only one ex-
But the main point of his though whether the country is Their alam venture depended What is the best play for 6-Dia. out in wheat speculation last Septem-tudents and turned over to the speech was his bid to calist the ready for him or not at present on what was dous about the heart limonde after West scores the spads ber. Cirabars has claimed to have District support of the rank and file non-lis open to doubt.
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