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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1931
AMERICA IN THE
NEW AGE.
MACHINERY CRIME AND
PROHIBITION::
INTERESTING ROTARY CLUB
ADDRESS.
The debating team from the University of Oregon were tests of the Rotary Club yesterday when a large gathering, presided over by Mr. A. L. Shields, heard an address on America in the Now Ago by Mr. R. A. Pinff, a nem ber of the team.:
TOURIST SEASON
OPENS.
WOMAN SNAKE EXPERT
MALOLO
ARRIVES ON DEATH OF A ZOO CURATOR, ROUND THE WORLD TRIP.
The Malold, the flagship of the Matson Line, arrived in the Colony yesterday morning from Japan on round-the-world cruise. She brought with her some 130, tourists who for the next two days will be
TAMED ⠀ DRAGONS.
The Zoo and British science have suffered a loss through the death after an illness lasting some weeks, of Miss Jonn Bouuchamp Procter, the gifted young woman who had been Curator of Reptiles at the looking over our little island" and patronising the local stores, |
Zoo since 1923
unusual post. The tourists are fortunate in that for a woman to hold. their arrival here, coincides with Miss Procter, who only 34 years In order to understand America, What with cloudicas days and cool Hong Kong's weather, at its best.
of ogo, had already made her said Mr. Pfaff, one must under moonlight nighter our visitors will name among zoologista för her stand the background of American no doubt and their stay in the patient research work and observa civilisation. The American popula-Fragrant Isle a very pleasant tion among the snakes, crocodiles, tion consisted of a blending it one lizards, frogs and other creatures the people in the world. There As for the ship herself, she is which are displayed in the Zoo'y wore the Frenchman, the Cenon favoured by discriminating tourists the Englishman; then again there were different classes of each for her swiftness, her luxurious Reptile House, which she designed, nationality from the labourer to the comforts and her spacious decks and and which has set a new standard politician. These different, people anloons All the public rooms and
to the world. give each other ideas of what their staterooms are supplied with auto- countries possessed,
mática ventilators which eptirely change the air every three minutes. Speaking of the machine age, Mr. Fitted with barber shops and beauty Pfaff said that probably America salons in addition, to the above men- was the greatest mechanical countioned comforts, the Malolo may try in the world motora bed taken well be described as the complete the place of muscles. To show how cruising ship. much the average man depended on machinery, be instanced the case of an ordinary working, man, who uses the safety razor to shave,
The Oraise So Far.
Kopt Reptiles As a Child,
As a child she had kept living reptiles and amphibians and grow" expert in their care and handling before ever she thought of adopt- ing zoological work na a career.
When Mr, EG Boulenger, who had been Curator of Reptiles at the Zoo for some yents, was ap pointed to take charge of the Zoo'a. fine new Aquarium, Miss Proctor, who was in charge of a section at the Natural History Museum was chosen to succeed him as Curator: of the Zoo's Reptiles.
The tourists left Ban Francisco cooks his eggs in an electric biler, on September 24, and during the his coffee is an electric percestor course of their voyage round the and before he leaves his house, world, they have called at Hawaii reads the latest news which has and Japan, and when they leave come from various parts of the here, the ship will take them to the world, thanks to the machine. He Philippines, Siam, Straits Settle then dashed off to work in a high-monito, Java, British New Guinon powered automobile and ascends the (Papua), Australia, New Zealand, twenty stories to his office there Fiji Islands, Samoan Islands and he reads his telegrams and his air then back to the starting point mail posted from miles away over-where, they will berth on December This "post has made her name night. In the evening after he has 16, after covering some 24,000 miles. and work known among zoologists returned home, he listens in on the During their stay in Hong Kong, radio and as night he and his wife the tourists will be well catered for, in all parts of the world. She de- so the latest talking picture. In addition to. tripa round the signed and modelled many of the Island and the Now Territories, fascinating scenic rockeries in the there will also be trips to the Peak while it is quite possible that some Aquarium tank, she drew up the This fast moving ago has brought of the members of the cruise will plan for the picturesque rock, work with it many problems. In the make flying visite to Ganton and for Monkey Hill at the Zoo, and past, the fastest moving thing koown Macao The Malolo leaves long she planned other rockeries which to men was the horse but in a few Kong at 3 pm, on Thursday in recent years have made the short decades mer had been thrust. We take this opportunity of wish. Zoo a better place for its animals into a new environment, and people,ing our visitors a very pleasant to live in, not only in America, but all over time during their stay here, the world, had been unable to cope
New Problems.
with the problems.
Mr. Plaff said that since the wär there had been a noticeable in- srease in crime. After four years af Aghting in the trenches it was hot easy for those who fought to fall back into their normal mode of living and the crime wave was bound to come.......
One of the greatest problems
AN ALL-NIGHT SHOW!
BUT MAGISTRATE -ĻEAVES
EARLY
When a Chinese youth was charg ed before Mr. J. A. Fraser yester day for being in possession of an
* Misi Procter showed an innate aptitude and talent for her work. She was fearless, but perfectly bencible, in her handling of dan- gerous creatures.
One of her achievement has been the keeping in captivity for some. years of two Komodo Dragons, seven feet long rare creatures which are among the treasures!! of the Zoo.
She tamed thead dragons and kept them tome so that when they
caused by the machine, was unem- alectric torch and a pair of pinçera wers allowed outside. their cage. carly on Sunday morning for an un- and with loitering in Jordan Hond they would fellow her about. inwful purpose, he told the Court that he had just come out of a theatre when he was caught.
unfair to lay unemployment at the ployment. It would, however, be door of the maching because it was not so much the machino as the mis management of it that was the cause. Owners of large factories;; when they had profits, insteid of
His Worship: At that time 7. Defendant: Yes. It was Satur
sharing it with the producen, put day night and there was an all-
in more capital and after a short
time, they found their storeuses night show
full of stock and their grararies The Po Hing Theatre. full of grain dud thus began the problems of over-production, under. consumption and other modern prob- lema, which, if they were to be met at all; denund some very clear thinking...
Which theatre did you do to -
The Fo Hing Theatre The show finished, at midnight. I was there myself. There was an all-night show.
The speaker termed as one of he greatest fallacies of unsiera times the policy of cutting wages. Anyone could plainly see that if the consumer's wages were at it. simply decreased the person's buy ing power. The speaker thought that sooner or later there must be
a new beginning and a new mage-
His Worship (to a Chinese detec tive): Was there an all-night per formance on Saturday night Yes.
His Worship: Apparently I came out too early
The Magistrate took further evi- dence after which he imposed a fine. of $10 or 14 days' hard labour.
ment of the machine. Civilation The speaker made a special ap and men have always solved their peal to the audience not to judge problems in the past and they will Americans by the tourists they it in the future if the need saw. When one rhet & tourist, one arises."
should compare him with his cour Speaking of those Americans who terpart in one's own country. Some! regarded America as an entity by tourists, were merely successful itself, Mr. Piaff said that such bakers and candlestick-makers and ideas were rapidly losing ground, it would be only propor to compare and that the inter-dependence of the them with bakers and candlestick various nations was becoming more makers. There were the profes and more apparent. For instance,sional inen and the business mag the electric globe which was used nutes, and these in their turn in every household in Americs, was should he compared with their composed of material which came counterparts in foreign countries, from nine different countries. In the same way, those who visit "There is a new spirit," said Mr. ed America must not judge the Plaff, sweeping through America Americans by the impressions they which demands that we understand get from American hotels. There all the common problems of all the was a great majority of the work- proplos of the world."
ing class who never lived in hoteln, which, as a rule were inhabited by residents who were themselves visitors.
Prohibition,
On the subject of prohibition, Mr. Pfaff said that according to the latest statistics the consumption of intoxicating liquor had deemsed by 80 per cent. Some people would argue that prohibition deprived the People of America of their perqual liberty, but that was not true Americans could drink as much as they liked provided they did their browing at home. This was sus
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Pacific Relations,
Speaking of the mission of the debating team, Mr. Pfaff said that it behoved the great nations of the Pacific to come to a common under- standing of the various problems. that lay ahead of them. In this connection, the speaker referred to the good work that had been done by theo Rotary Club
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of industry where the production The speaker whs thanked by Mr. has gone from the factory the P. S. Cassidy, who also mooted the homo instead of from the home to question of celebrating the comple the factory no was usually the case. tion of the Hong Kong Rotary Club's But prohibition, was not a new first year of existence. idon. In Henry Ford's, factory, the ་་ The members were ananimous employees were not allowed to that the anniversary should be drink long before prohibition was celebrated, but appeared to bo mooted as I nationwide move. Pre- divided as to whether or pot hibition enabled America to come and pola successfully with orner at dinner ance of the Hong Kong.
Hotel was the best form of celebrat tries in the world of industry.
Ing it. The question was aventually. (Continted on fezt Cófumi) deferred until nort: Tuesday,
K. M. A.
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