First night at the cutomobile.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY
Zhuusands of people pay admission to are new models of the ye
"wan van go all through
· Show--see the new color sedemes, ingenious novelties in trimming and design. What has be really learned 2
Where Does a Man Find Out Most
About an Automobile?
HERE are many things
a man buys that he may judge at an exhibit. A motor car is not one of them. Its appearance is important, but not so important as its per formance.
No matter how much money a10an has, when he makes a purchase as important as that of an automobile he expects to get permanent value.
But if he is influenced by the changes in style as seen at ex-
hibits, he finds that he must also change his car from year to year at a great sacrifice.
The Packard Company be lieves that stabilized-style is just as much a part of basic transportation, principle as Packard mechanical features and performance.
THE Packard car is built
to deliver service over a term of years. Its style is: based upon good design-ac- cepted everywhere by people
who know-and is no more subject to passing moods than its engineering design.
ORE
than
five thousand owners have owned. Packards continuously för six- teen, years...“. This is because the Packard keeps on running and is always a new model. A
The high opinion of Packard owners and their friends is perhaps the most valuable automobile | good-will in the world
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MONDAY, MAY 3RD
AN EMPIRE OF THE AIR MADE POSSIBLE BY SMITE OF AUSTRALIA?
"Night Hawk Frites in the Daily Bzpress:
Captain Sir Rose Smith is to make an attempt to circumnavigate the 'earth by air With one historic achievement to his credit, be it now to set out upon an even mor, hazardous adventure: We speak of Kitchener, of Khartoum and French of Ypres; we know our great generals by. their- conquesta. Surely history will re member this intrepid flier as "Smith of Australia??
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In twenty-eight days be for half-way round the world the greators font yet. accomplished in all the story flying
HAWKIN'S GAMBLA
The Atlantic fight-Hawker's glorious failure and Aloock's brillian; acDERSW 547 marely a sporting gamble. It succeeded because the men concerned in it refused to be beaten
Bat it was not practical The aeroplane pure and simple will never be used for regular flights across the ocean. The sea-aerial will always be traversed by flying boats or by hydro- planes the land-aerial by aeroplanes pro- per. That is why the achievement of *Australia Smith. standa en, a different level altogether from the tents of Hawker and Alcock
The England-Australia flight was a pers fect demonstration of practical commer cial aeronautics. It proved that every section of the route can be commercialised and time-tablet. What Smith did in effect was to blaze the airway to the Antipodes, And to demonstrate the possibilities of linking up the British Empire by air. The whole Bight seemed to work to a schedule. Had it not been incoessfully achieved one would scarcely have credited it. Weather of all kinds was encountered --fogbanks, ball rain. low clouds, storm, and sunshine but the machine ob , steadily through
What engine trouble there was was easily put straight. And this in itself is a hint as to how such future fights should be conducted... Regular flying hours daily, a staff of mechanics carried in the machine, daily overhaul of the engines, daily checking of the rigging undue strain avoided by a system of daily stages well within the capacity of the machine this was Smith's method, a method fore shadowing the inevitable "relay" system of the future,
Here one must say a word for the two mechanics Sergeants Bennett and Shiers. The success or failure of the venture rested as much with them as with the two. piles and here again is forecasted an un- doubted development of the future: multi- planed, multi-engined machines which will carry an engine-room staff, a navigating" staff, and a dying or pilot shall
Well, here's luck to you, Smith of Aus tralis) and to your brother, and to Shiers turd
Bennett, too! You won that lane £10,000 fairly and squarelst! If your new venture here is no prize save the price of renom And already you have dona something far bigger than win a stake!
You have proved to us the possibility of the British Empire of the Air
PERILS OF HUMOUR.
A sense of humour, writes a contributor to the London Daily Express, is responsible- for more failures in life than inefficiency. The man with few brafas and less humour: stands a far better, chance of achieving success than the man with brains and a smilo.
·
A friend of mine is employed, in a Government department. In order to qualify for the post he had to pass a fairly stiff examination in such subjects as mathe.. matics, chemistry, physics, Latin, French, and so on. Being a brainy fellow he came out top in the exam. His work, consists of filling up various sorte of forms. He is now an expert at form. Elling. But, having a sense of humour, he has bean known to make an occasional mild joke on the subject.
Not long ago, much to his surprise, another man was promoted 'over his head. This other man had barely scraped through the exam. Bat he had the great advantage of being entirely lacking in humour. He could see nothing funny in having to pass a stiff examination in order to fill up forms. To him form filing was the end all and be all of existence. His ridiculous sincerity impressed his superiors also lacking in humonr. So the brain- less man blessed with a super-sincerity go romotion over the brainy man cursed ith ssonse of humour, Maple Monkey The other day I was discussing a certain dovelist with a well-known literary agent. I, the novelist, is one of the best crafts: den of the day. His stories are well thought out, well constructed, and well- written" But they never achieve more than al modest succESS:
PUBLIC AGAINST IT.
"Of course not," said the agent. "Who ver heard of a best seller with a sense of humour X sees life in its true per pective. He realises that men and women even the heroes and-heroines of novels are insignificant-microcosms. And in spite of himself he can't help betraying his point of view. The one thing which the British public will not stand is a sense of humour,”
It is the same in every sphere of Hfs.
The average man's work is frankly trivial. But if berwants to get on in the world he has to treat it with & ludicrous solemnity. He must make it clearly understood that be regards making entries in the ledgers of
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