SOCIAL PURITY.
THE SINGAPORE CAMPAIGN.
A Morning Prat telegram to hand yesterday mentioned the inauguration of a social purity ampaign at Singapore. In con- nection therewith," Delta" writes in the Singapore Free Press as
follows:
While: I share with you the regret that there are some people who are foolish enough to anigger" at this campaign and thereby possibly to rob it of some
MORE TELEPHONE EXCHANGES.
POST OFFICE PLANS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:
be expected this year in the tele Interesting developments may phone service. It is hoped short-
to get on with the plans, to which the war put a stop, for opening new exchanges in Lain- don and for extending the automatieservice in the provinces.
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THE LOTUS EATERS.
Courage," he said, and point" ed towards the land,
"If this were built on, 'would be sure a boon.
"I promise you I'll take the job in hand,"
Let's hope that he'll redeem the promise soon.
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The recent meeting of the The primary object which Cons'tuahn'l Reform Association the Post Office has in view in has had its reflection on the increasing the number of ex-general public and many burn- of its effectiveness by taking no changes is to supply tele-ing questions of reform that have interest in it, I am almost certain
phones to the that
much
more potent
of adverse influence is to be ber
parsons found in its interminateness. of having them. 1. will try to explain automatic service, it has been Here we are proved a great success in Leeds,
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been side tracked almost long enough to become forgotten have again cropped up, chiafest among them being the housing question. Not being one of the
Heaven-
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concerned, roughly, let us say, and its success there points to boru" clique who in comfort a tired-looking officer to one of Apply Box 180, c/o Hongkong # WING ON CO. LTD.
what I mean.
Chinese, the Malays, the Euar-
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the assistants at a big Oxford)- re-street store, "but I've just been dispersed. I'm a civilian, except for my clothes. I can give you an hour, and I want to keep an Appointment S-in fall civilian kit."
The main difficulty of the housing problem is the scarcity of sites, but, as all visitors to flongkong know, one of the principal sights of this cathedral city is the Public Gardens:- A few torn shrubs the place
disclose,
with the following groups of developments, we are informed, up at The Peak, tho' beforehand people (I am assuming men onls) in larger places. For the moment expected "The motion's the Chinese from China, the Babs there are certain difficulties injected." I insist here on having sians, the Indians and Europeans, getting the automatic telephones my squeak." Ofthese a very small proportion of in London, but these difficulties the first three classes, most of thewill in time, it is thought, bs fouth, a few of the fifth and pre-
The next biggest sumably all of the last come under automatic service to that at Leeds some form or other of Christ-is working successfully at iso moral influence. What the Portsmouth. public would perhaps like to Although little development in know is, is the appeal addressed the public telephone service has to all these in genera! as
been possible during the war, Christian appeal or is it address.
asgaificent work has been done ed to them on physical
for the Army and Navy and for hygienic grounds! It seems to me and, I think to many others, the new Government offices, And rather useless to hold a meeting this has been done despite the in the Theatre which will in the fact that 10,000 men of the main be attended by Europeans 000 engaged jointly in the and Christian members of other telegraph and telephone groups, if the idea at the bottom gineering service left for the war, is to educate by such meetings and that thousands of skilled we
of
en-
Chinese asleep or coшstosa; These are thy charins, sweet
village;
Wherein the ricksha coolis Spots like these
Hunts for fleas, And wayward amabs chat With banishees.
Within some half-neglected bower
the whole of the community as to mon operators left for higher-On peanat Politics, the hour the evils involved. I do not sup- paid work in other Government pose such a meeting, unless trans- lated into action, would have the offices.
slightest reaction let us say on the In the year before the war the Malays or Chinese from China. expenditure in the engineering It this meeting is to be called department of the telegraph and therefore to create and educate telephone service was £3,750,000. public opinion, it seems to me it Plans were all ready for an may result only in beating the air. expenditure of £8,000.00 in because it is open to doubt whet-1014-15, but the actual sum her there will be ten per cent, in expended had to be curtailed to the audience who are other than £6,500,000. It is now hoped to already convinced 23 to the need for action. If however the get back as speedily as possible promoters of the campaign will to pre-war figures. put forward something more de- finite than "education of public telephone service to the Sate opinion," there might be greater the number of men on the results. In explanation of that I engineering staff at the Post suggest that the meetings pledge Office was 0,000. Some months themselves to do some or all of the after the transfer it was increased
following acts:
+1
Oa the transfer of the
to 16,000, and when war broke
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Seizing a Purchase Assembly TEA DANCES Card, the assistant exhibited rows of lounge suits, ready to wear, save for the trousers.
These were to be made up while the rest of the tuachinery was in motion, so that the length might be correct. Ceat aul trousers dis-
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From the PA.C. little red tabs wero torn and stuck on the despartment forru
its and
Until the gates are shut at half-uplicate. Then the officer passed un. How do all these find me again?" he asked.
[as: six.
All "on the nod"-adraission free, Behold, the deadly upas tree, Brazilia heuriensis, eglantine, Bougainville, rewort, Hazeline,
What a lovely sight-site for houses, I mean.
Are the Public Gardens popular? When I say popular, I mean does the populace register its active appreciation on a turnstile at the gate? turnstile were established there. it would go rusty inside of a week.
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"Well, all the goods with that number on them gostraight from the komuter to the P.A.C. room and are collected. If there are
100 parcels with that number on them they all belong to because that number's yours."
You,
the officer.
"I suppose it's all right," said "Yes, I have
silk socka."
"Yes, air; and what next. Bir?"
Got anything good in hats?"
P. A. C. From counter to counter The assistant panted after his customer, bearing the mystic they travelled, through shoes, sucks, suspenders, underwear, shirts, studs, collars, ties, hand- kerchiefs, gloves, hats, and sticks.
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To obtain signatures to a public out it was 20,000. These were petition to Guvernment.
A. That no prostitutes of Euro-all engineer workinen, the total pean nationality be allowed to re- fengineering staff, turn here. That no Japanese be clerks, being 25,000. Half of allowed here. That no Chinese the workmen joined the colours, be allowed here.
and also a large proportion of the remaining 5,000. As s000 as these men have returned it will be "full speed" with the telephone service.
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B. That a regulation be passed heavily penalising the letting or possessing of any house when it used for immoral purposes, entail ing if necessary the confiscation of the property.
C. That both parties, the man and the woman, caught in offences be held equally liable and be equally prosecuted.
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garden to walk about in during What the public want is not s
the day the men-folk anyhow are all at work-bat a house to sleep in at night. The island itself is beautiful enough without endeavouring to paint the lily by the introduction of a few exotic trees and shrubs with unpro said the officer, "it took me 24
"When I was in the Arruy, nounceable names that leave one's cind bewildered and one's sense hours to get a pair of boots, and of admiration, untitillated. Its when I'd got it I found I was in sole demonstrable value the spoon and fork queue. If I'd educational, and then only to
been issued with all this in suck these students of the University a short time I'd have been court- who specialise in botany, and martialled!"
"All ready, sir. Will you come and change?
A few busy minutes, and the complete. Now tell me what is the damage."
"They'll tell you that at the Bureau, sir."
Twenty-one pounds," said the cashier, presenting the bill.
"Sixty minutes to the tick, sir," said the assistant.
Should there be any dearth of material, telephone parts could no doubt be supplied by a wise use of some of the national filling their number is ??? These factories, for we are informed by students are Chinese, and the
feels the housing problem most acately is the European. How built on the site of the Public many European houses could be Gardens? Come on, you statis ticians.
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I sugges: these points, not an authority that these factories section of the community which transformation to a civilian was N. Engineering b. necessarily because they are are admirably adaptel for the within the power or likeli- purpose. hood of Government
One cause for complaint by do, but as illustrations of telephone subscribers, namely, some concrete steps. At present I that of delay on trunk calls, will, can hardly see much good issuing it is believed, gradually disap- from explanation or illustration of these things from the ordinary pear. As soon, in fact, as peace public platform here, because is established, the telephone ser- anyone who thinks about them at vice is to be made like that of the all is already convinced of the telegraph and postal services, the need of some action, whilst I do best in the world.
not believe that fifty people will
go to these meetings with the idea that they may be converted
from previous wrong opinions on about educating public opinion the subject. If that surmise of by means of public meetings, be- maine is correct, all the meetings cause only an infinitesimal pto. will do, unless they are translated portion of the public is reached into definite action, will be to by such meetings and the remain- confirm those who are already dar is quite untouched by convinced.
many of the arguments used If however some such concrete even if it ever heard. them. proposals are put forward and The campaigners should take committees are then formed to a line of action which will organise a canvass for a petition imply an actual and definite
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Another burning question is the chit system, not the burning of the chits they are anallowed; there's the rub. See how this affects our citizen in his walks abroad. He goes up, say Battery fath, where, any night; he is accosted by a baggar who dangles a battered topse before his eyes. Now who of us carries anything bat small change in his pockets? Yet again, who of us out of his compassionating kindness would dream of afronting this picture mendicant with the proffer of a miserable dime? No. The Houg kong citizen is nothing if not largesse he distributes it with a large "S" and "double-crossed" at that, so:-$.
to Government amongst each of approach, by suitable persons, to the communities concerned, such the general community with a canvass to be carried out by those view to getting such an express-liberal, and when he distributes of their own nationality, the ion of opinon as will induce the movement will have translated Government to take staps. Other its words into some definite wise the educating of public opin- action. The position here ion in a place like this is a is so absolutely different from Sisyphean task, unless of course the position at home that you consider the "public" simply there is very little use in talking to be those with whom Europeans
come into daily intimate touch.
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therefore, how are we to continue Under the existing restrictions,
support of these picturesque Causeway Bay foreshore saclad- adjaucts to the many attractions el of this Queen of Cities? Our beggar's
annual,
good hardy
Worth more than mere twenty.
cent bits; Let's invoke the King's Seal and
· Sign-inanual, To a law re-establ
re-establishing chits,
Be it noted also that Near 3 prominent stationer's shop There's a Chinaman walks with
a hop
On a crutch and one leg, He's permitted to beg
I presume, or the nuisance would
stop.
Yours truly,
COD 'EM.
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