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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
THE WORLD AT ITS WORST
الدلتا
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
29, 1930.
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SPEED LIMIT ANOMALIES.
DRASTIC BRITISH
REGULATION.
'ARE MOTORISTS CRIMINALS?
·CRITICISM OF ENGLISH LEGISLATION.
Dealing in particular with the penalties provisions in the new Road "Traffic Bill of which there are nine indieting imprisonment of a maximum fine of £30, and eleven only a little loss severe), The Motor remarks
Those responsible for drafting the Bill have done so as if they were legislating for a definite class of criminal who must be suppressed. at all costs, while those opposing some of the provisions of the Bill are animated by the knowledge that its administration may and most probably will, lead to grave abuset.
"It is our firm opinion," states The Commercial Motor, "that the clause in the Road Traffic Bill which will have the most adverse effect upon the future and the pros- perity of the commercial-vehicle in dustry as a whole is that timiting Bo drastically the speed of goods behicles weighing over 2) tons and passenger vehicles, the former to m.ph. when pneumatic tyres are utilized, and the latter to 30 m. p. k.
It seems to us extraordinary and inconsistent that the policy of imposing a limit, which, has ad- mittedly proved a failure in the case of the private car, should be continued for the commercial Now, let it be borne in mind vehicle, and it it be considered that the basis of good law; is its essential to retain limits for the acceptaner by the people it governs. latter class of vehicle, why should An unpopular law cannot be en- these limits be so low as to be ub forced. The 20 m.p.h. speed limit viously far below the sperds at is an excellent example. When En which vehicles have been running popular laws are used as a means of for some years,
A 90 m.ph.&torting heavy. Enes then we have maximum for good's vehicles would very deplorable state of things, he a mortal blow at all long-dis. for there is no form of persecution iniquitous and eo likely to bring tance goods transport by road. particularly when combined with the law as a whole into disrepute the suggested restrictions on work than the abuse of the administra ing hours Never to exceed a 20tion of the law.
Unfortunately, in certain dis. riets magisterial benches have shown prejudice. If the speed limit is abolished it is only too frobable that full advantage would he taken of certain clauses in the new Bill to continue to harass the motorist and to raise large säms in revenue from excessive Gnes.
p.h. maximum will mean that. the average speed will be reduced to something between 18 m. p.h. and 13 m.p.h. In the case of passenger vehicles, the average will be reduced to a little over 90 m.p.h, which would, in the natural course of events, automatically necessitate the closing down of many services.
In criminal law practice it is Anyone who has travelled at an average speed of 20 .p.h: for long not necessary to provide safeguards distances will know how elew and against prejudiced benches. trdinus this rate of progression ap-English have a reputation for the pears. We can visualize irate pas fair administration of the law
with the sole exception of the sengers remonstrating most forcibly with any drivers attempting to keep punishments applied to motoring offenders. That state of things must to the strict letter of the law.
look to the coach and bus & their 'arliament to replace the present Millions of our working classese swept away, or any new Act of salvation from a monotonous exist code in its application to motor
What will be their opinionrivers will fail.
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of any Government which puts into force auch drastic limits upon their i 'legitimate and health giving recrea:
tion 1.
The excessive passing which these in:ited speeds will necessitate will undoubtedly increase the exist ing danger of the road, and this with no compensating advantages. More accidents result directly and
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We
indirectly on overtaking and drawing out to pass than from any other case. Passing another vehicle in a line of traffe im, the of ap- preaching vehicles requires con- siderable skill and judgment- qualities which are so sadly lacking in many drivers."
SNOBBERY A THING OF THE PAST?
MR. SNOWDEN'S VIEW. SPEECH TO JOURNALISTS.
Mr. Snowden's Dislike for Politics.
Mr. Snowden said that he had a certain philosophy which might be described in two sentences: "Never imagine difficulties and
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is no use worrying about things Resignation to the inevitable-it that are beyond your power to re-
Mr. Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. William Graham, President of the Board of Trade, were the guests of their fei low-members of the National Union of Journalists at dinner at the Hotel Metropole, London, last. Saying that he liked journalistic month.
work, Mr. Snowden added: "I like
move."'
Mr. Nichols, proposing "Ourit far better than politics. I have Guests," said that Mr. Snowden and never really taken to politics. The Mr. Graham were two out of sixteen House of Commons has never grip- members of the present Parliament ped me. You may ask, Why are who were members of the National | you in it and why do you stick to Calon of Journalists. Mr. Snow-it 7 find the nnawer is a very easy den had been a member since within and simple ope. You get into a year of the Union's foundation. current very often by accident and Mr. Nichola recalled that when the it carries you along and it is very. Hague Conference was on a Con- difficult for you to reach back tinental description of a Yorkshire-think that is the explanation of the inan was "A Lorkshireman is a kind of Scotsman only rather more $0."
reason why so many men stick to work and to professions which, they do not altogether like.
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WHEN AT THE LAST MINUTE YOU REMEMBER COUSIN EFFIE AND HASTILY GRAB A NEW YEAR'S CARD THAT YOU'VE RECEIVED AND STICK IT IN AN ENVELOPE AND RUSH OUT TO GET IT IN THE LAST 1929 COLLECTION - AND JUST AS IT
DROPS INTO THE BOX YOU HAVE AN UNEASY FEELING THAT MAYBE THERE WAS AN INSCRIPTION ON THE BACK.
:Copyright, 1929, by The Bell. Syndicats, Inc.)
HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
"We have only one room with two windows for 10 dollars."
"How much without the win dows?"
Passenger: "Why are we late, porter?"
Porter. The train ahead, suh, is behind, and we" was behind be foh besides."
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"If you are good," said the boy's father, I'll give you lovely, shiny, bright new penny,
A nasty, dirty old "shilling would do," said the boy.
He Darling, would you go with me like this to the end of the world?"
She "Yes, Henry. But you know
i mustn't be home late for supper."
. Diner: "Waiter, that steak you brought me was a bit high, wasn't it ?"
Waiter: "Quite likely, sir. understand it came from a very tall cow.'
First Barber: "What makes you so late?"
Second Barber: "I was shaving myself, and before I realized it I talked myself into a haircut and a shampoo.
The little boy was in church for the first time. When the choir, all in white surplices, entered, he whispered hoarsely." "Oh, BEC, Daddy. They're all going to get their hair cut!"
"How do you know it was a stork and not an angel that brought your little brother?"
"Well, I heard daddy complain- ing about the size of the bill, and angels don't have bills."
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"Con, come, my man! You've been looking around here for long time without buying. What do you want
"Guess I want another floor- walker." replied the old gentle. man. I'm the new owner,"
In stallment Collector: "See here. you're several instalments behind
your piano." Purchaser: "Well, the company advertises, 'Pay as you play.'
Collector: What's that got to do with it ?"
Purchaser: "I play very poorly,"
Irate Passenger: "You say, the noon train has been postponed un- have to take the evening train." til to-morrow? Well, I suppose I'll
Mr Snowden, observing that he
44 Politics is certainly fascinating. had been a member of the National It is exciting at times, but there are Union el Jouralists for twenty-one two sides, of politics, and there is years, said that he used to think a dark side about which I am not it an almost impossible task to going to speak to-night. But I unite journalists in a trade union. should feel I was taking a great res In those days working journalists ponsibility if I advised any men were like a good many other work to embark on a political career. ers who belonged to the Lon There are great possibilities of tre this railroad has just elected a new manual labouring classes, brain mendous influence in politics, but workers who believed that they there are great. temptations, great / President, and he was formerly a
judge,"
were rather superior to those who went to work without a collar. O all the changes that had takon place in the last twenty years none had been more remarkable than the disappearance of snobbery and the merging of classes.
dangers, and it takes
A strong char- acter to resist them."
Mr. Graham recalled a Panch cartoon in 1994 in which in their association at the Treasury Mr. Snowden was shown as the vinegar and he (Mr. Graham) ns the oil. To-day class counts for nothing. Those were the days when Mr. Social distinctions and differences of wealth count for little. Up to Snowden as an orator hypotised the
Ticket Agent: "That's been post- poned until next week. You see,
"Tom, you old loafer," said Colonel Smith, "do you think it's right to leave your wife at the washtub while you pass your time fishing!",
Mah wife doan need any watchin'. Yosanh, Colonel, it's all right. She'll. shorely wuk jes' as hard as
twenty years ago the Government House and then turned to him and ef Ah was dere.", of the country had been rogarded said, "Now, Willie, its your turn
as the close preserve of a people with the Blue-books." (Laughter.) A party of actors were discus-
who fancied they had a hereditary Lord Riddell described himself as sing a colleague who was always right to govern. To-day there are a strong trade unionist. I belong "out of a shop.'
to several trade unions. I am a
ten members of the Cabinet who were born in humble circumstances, Natsopa,' and N.U.J. I am a and nearly all of the ten nover had the advantage of an education much beyond that provided by a primary school."
packer, a newspaper proprietor, a periodical proprietor, and above all, I am a solicitor protected by Act of Parliament."
The trouble with Smith," said one,"is that he is always antidy. He doesn't keep himself clean."
Baid another, with a trace of bit- torness, "Well, he ought to be clear, He's always sponging,'
...
Waiter; These are the best eggs we've had for yeara."
Diner: "Well, kindly bring some you haven't had so long.
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Scotsman (oxiled in England): Man, but I had an awful dream last night. ..I dreamt I was back home."
Osaka, Jan. 22.
Nearly every home here and in the vicinity of the city heard the address delivered by ex-Premier Wakatsuki, the head of the Japanese delegation, at the opening of the Naval Conference in London yesterday.
As the Osaka Radio Broadcasting Station picked up the speech and stopped a musical feature, it an nounced that London was audible; to the great delight of breathless "fans."
The Italian envoy's speech was heard then, shortly afterwards, Mr. Wakatsuki began to talk in Japan.
no
se though his address was beard clearly enough to satisfy the "fans."
The Osaka Broadeniting Station is very proud, because this was the first time a speech in London was
broadcast. te Japan. "
It appears that Tokyo and other stations failed
hear Wakatsuki.
to
Mr.
MELBOURNE. Jan. 21.
The efforts of Australian broad- casting stations to relay the King's speech at the opening of the Naval Conference were disappointing owing to unfavourable atmospheric conditions and His Majesty's ad- Desperately Poor Golfer (who dress was unintelligible to listeners- has felt rain): "My umbrella, | in.
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Caddy: "Wouldn't you do bet ter with your niblick, sir ?!!
U.S. OPERATOR'S BRAVERY.
A man decided he and his son would "take a drive in their new Ford. As they entered the car, the father said to the boy: "Now, if coming you see, a motorcycle behind us, you tell Papa"
They settled down to driving and the car crept up to 20 miles, 33, 40, 45, 30, 55 and finally 60 miles an hour. Suddenly the little boy cried: "Papa, the man you were expecting is here."
The poor man lives from hand to
mouth;
He's never in the running.
NEW YORK; Jan. 21.
All America heard the opening But the baby lives from foot to ceremonies of the Five-Power Naval
.mouth,
Limitation Conference in London to-day over a nation-wide broadcast.
And people call it cunning.
Landlady: "I'm sorry you didn't think the chicken soup good. I told the cook how to make it. Perhaps she did not catch the idea.".
Boarder: "No-it was the chicken she missed."
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Utilizing short wave transmis- sion, wireless engineers were su cessful in pushing across the Atlan tic to New York where the waves were received and re-broadcast. All the speeches were clearly heard.
Many of the listeners used an im provised antenna mide from the wire springs of their beds. because the broadenst began at 3 o'clock in the morning. New York time." A story of bravery resulted from the affair when it was later revealed that someone tripped over a mass of wires in the New York control room, breaking the circuit. Harold Vivian, control engineer, im mediately grasped the ends of the roken wires in his hand in order to restore the circuit and prevent interruption of the brondeust,
His body shook with spasms ag the heavy current passed through, with some leakage, but the broad- cast was maintained until ney wires were connected,
For 20 minutes the speeches of the delegates passed, in the form of electric current through Vivian's body.
TOO MANY WOMEN...
STUDENTS?
LESSENING MEN'S CHANCE. OF EMPLOYMENT,
On the ground that women have not justified their admission to the universities, the Aberdeen Students' Representative Council recently de- cided to recommend that a confer- ence be held by the Students' Re presentative Councils of the four Scottish universities to consider the limitation of women students. This decision is much resented by women students at Aberdeen. -
During the discussion attention was drawn to the importance this same question had received at Ox ford and Cambridge. The general opinion among the members of the Students' Representative Council seems to be that the keen competi tion between the men and women lessens the men's chance of employ ment, but in the Medical Faculty, where competition is not so great, expressions of opinion are not marked. In the Arts Faculty, how ever, as in others, it is pointed out that the women greatly outnumber the men, who cannot be assured of
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One girl student said: "I think it is perfectly ridiculous to raise this question at, this time of the day when women are the brains of the universities, Girls are, winning cs many prizes so men. We struggle harder than the men and are more conscientious in our work at the classes. When they compare how much more women achieve in the classes and at their social and pub- lic work it is ridiculous to bring forward such 'ʼn motion!'
The women students are inclined to think that the conference of the Studenta Representative. Councils will treat the motion as something humorous.
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