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THE HONGKONG ·
EGRAPH.
MONDAY, MAY 14, 1928.
THE WORLD SPORT
MR. HENRY FORD ON WAGES.
BRITAIN'S TRADE PROSPECTS.
SMALLER MOTOR CARS.
Mr. Henry Ford, who is paying
SEARCH FOR NEW REVENUE.
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Shares and Share Contract Notes. The first two of these might yield a considerable increase of revenue.
Death Duties on very large estates such ostates are at present higher than those in force in Hongkong
might be increased. The datles on
EARTH AND THE UNIVERSE.
NEW MATHEMATICAL THEORY.
STARS AS SPECKS.
AMERICAN BASEBALL. his first visit to England for six but lower than those in force in od. the universo to the mill of
MACAO RACES.
A REAL GOOD AFTERNOON'S
SPORT. #
AMERICAN AND NATIONAL. LEAGUE RESULTS.
(By "Rambler.")
One of the most enjoyable race meetings since the opening that was the verdict at Sunday's Macao Race Club fixture.
teen, years, in un interview recently discused Peace, Free Trade, Pro hibitition, and what he regarded as
Ceylon.
Dr. FH. Scarce, of Mount Wilson Oservatory, having sufect-
mathematics, has reached the Conveyance Duty is only $6 per striking conclusion that we can- a uniformly distributed congrega- it should be added that so far as tion of stars, na, was
the essentials to Great Britain' $1,000 per cent. in England, Ceylon not regard ourselves as dwelling in
and Hongkong.
once
prosperity.
I think, he remarked, people are becoming too, intelligent, ever to death dutles are concerned, we New York, May 12.
What is think it probable that a good deal imagined, but rather as in an un The following are the results of have another big war.
of property is at present concealed, symmetrical grouping which runy ordinary people the baseball annatches played during educating the
soparate clusters of stars. the week-e
against war is that they are mix-undervalued, or passes without best be described as a number of National League.
Ing so much. The motor-car, radio, being taxed. We consider that a
It has been known for some time and such things are the great "mix-tightening up in the collection of
that the system of stars and the Everyone wants to work, death duties might be effected.
Milky Way by which wo are sur 3ers."
not to fight.
rounded, form a huge isolated swarm separated by vast distances from other structures known "apiral nebulae."
St. Louis Cincinnati Chicago
Saturday.
2 Brooklyn
3
4
11 New York
1
Cincinnati
The day was an ideal one for rac- ing and although the run was shin- Pittsburg.. ing intensely throughout the day, I did not hear anybody complaining
St. Loui that it was too hot. The
Cool breeze from the ocean was most St. Louis
Chicago refreshing and was appreciated most as one reclined in a comfort-
St. Louis able lounge chair under the awning Cininnati in front of the members' stand Chicago where iced refreshments could be Pittsburg had for the asking. The tired members amongst the backers Pittsburg were mostly keen to enjoy this Chicago privilege when they had sufficient Cincinnati time to spare between frequent St. Louis visits to and from the betting booths.
Pittsburg Chicago St. Louin. Cincinnati
One of the things that pleased me most was the large number of visitors from Canton to see the racing. Quite a number of pro- Pittsburg minent American, German and Cincinnati Chinese Indice and gentlemen St. Louis made their first appearance and with those who had been down Chicago
Cincinnat! before helped to swell a good na St. Louis tured party of appreciative sports, Mr. N.. Hashim, who is one of the most keen followers of the little China pouy, had a party of about twenty and it was most fitting that his pony Sunning should win one race and run a very good nec- Fond in another. This, as you might imagine, put the whole party in good spirits as they were all on the little black mare.
The Handicap events were a tribute to Mr. Charlie Alves, only In one event did they got ahend
Caviare. of him.
Fanling chaser owned by Mr. Topside and ridden by that ever trainer and jockey, Dr. L. Reddy, pasted the op: position and made no orror about it, for when the starter let them go somebody must have forgotten to close the gate, for the big roan just shot out to the front and-pass ed the winning post in a canter.
One Third, a beautiful clean- limbed specimen of the equine fraternity, was sent out in two races and won both of them on the bit, He has a beautiful action and when fully extended is as steady as can be, and a beautiful mover. 1 hope to see this fellow up against Boxing Eve at the next meeting of the Hongkong Jockey Club. I am sure that Boxing Eve will run him of his feet, good na he undoubtedly is, but still they would be pretty to watch in nction together.
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If I may be permitted to throw a few houquets at myself. I might mention that I tipped five win- ners and seven placed ponies out of eight races. Not so bad' when
it is taken into consideration that
one does not always know whe will
be selected to ride the ponies and this is half the battle, you know,
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5 Philadelphia
Beston
Sunday.
4. New York
4 Brooklyn
4 Brooklyn
5 Philadelphia
Monday.
0 Brooklyn
1 New York
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7 Philadelphia
Boston
Tuesday.
& New York
Brooklyn
7 Bostan
16 Philadelphin
Wednesday.
0 New York
Brooklyn Philadelphia
4 Boston
Thursday.
4 New York
0... Boston
5 Philadelphia
Friday
6 Brooklyn
3 Boston
3 Philadelphia.. American League..
Now York Philadelphia Washington Boston New York Washington Detroit
Saturday.
Chicago
7
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6 St. Louis
-4 Cleveland
Sunday.
4 Chicago,
0.St. Loula
3 Boston
Monday,
8 Chiengo 2 Cleveinnd 10 Detroit
Louis
New York Beaton Philadelphin Washington .2
New York Baston
Philadelphia Washington New York Boston Washington" Philadelphia,
New York Baston
Washington
Philadelpla-
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Tuesday.
◊ Cleveland
5 Chicago
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4 St. Louis
2 Detroit
Thursday.
4 Cleveland
2 Chicago
G Detroit
11 St. Louis Friday.
7 Cleveland
4 Chicago
9 Detroit
11 St. Louis
Reuter's American Service.
"I am a complete free trader. I do not believe in anything else than free trade all round," Mr. Ford re- 2marked.
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go on with them there, and Mr. Firestone, one of my managers, has gone to look round Liberia.
Vehicles Tax.
We are of the opinion that the taxes on vehicles could be consi- derably increased, as with the ex-
Increase of Petroleum Duty.-
да
A few years ago, Dr. Hubble, a
What Dr. Seares has done is to
The removal of the rubber rea-cellent roads of the present day trictions, ho continued, will not the wear and tear on vehiclica la colleague of Dr. Scares, succeed- allect my plans in Brazil. We shall considerably less than in the pasted in showing that some, at least, and it seems only equitable that
selves vast organisations of stars, vehicles should bear the cost of the of the spir nebulne were them ronds which make their use pos- sible. The division of the taxes thus reviving a previous specula- Mr. Ford said that he had sold collected, between the Munici-tion that our own stellar system the Rural Boards, was a spiral nebula of which wo 3 the site which he bought at South-palities and
not con- should not present any great dlf had not been able to detect the he did
form, because of our disadvan- 2ampton, 48
sider it suitable, but added: "This Aculty.
tageous position in Its Interior. does not rule out Southampton. I think we should have two places in England." He had visited the Da- We are in favour of this only as a genham property and was going means of taxing vehicles in pro submit to mathematical analysis there again. Ile thought there portion to the use they make of the the observations which have been duty would have made of the positions and distances the advantage of providing re of the stars in our system and there 5 were possibilities in the big dump roads. Such 7 of London refuse there which 4 covered about a third of the 300 venue in direct proportion, to the from to deduce how the system acres, for-the-production of power, mileage covered and resultant would appear to an observer altunt
woar and tear-of-the-roads-nnded at a distance. their cost of maintenance, while
A Larger Structure. Pathway to Prosperity.
being easily collected. A vehicles The prosperity of America, Mr. tax and a petroleum duty would Ford proceeded, is bound to con-make motoring slightly more ex to the conclusion of Dr. Scares, the same here as soon as people Pensive and the two together woulil | would appear to resemble a spiral· fairer tax nebula, which consists of a flat, disc-like nucleus (probably a con- series of stars) surrounded by two spiral arms, in which there are irregularly arranged elusters "condenantions" of stars.
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tinue indefinitely and it will bo
The only
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presumably
form a
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or
In our own system our gun ie
wake up to the fact that they must than either singly. do a good job of work.
Government Pawn-shop. We thing that will put real prosperity into this country is machinery.understand that in the Netherland People say that machinery brings East Indies pawn-ahops are owned idleness, but it is really the other by the Government. We think that I have more men mak- it might be worth while to investi- way about. 4ing machines than I have making gate the Dutch system so as to
cars. You do not do enough by mn-ascertain whether a similar sys-near the centre of a "local cluster" tem could be advantageously in-flattened circular swarm of many millions of stars, having a 15 chinery here.
troduced here.
diameter of at least 6,000 One of the main things all over
House Tax.--This tax could be "parseca" (one parace equals 19 the world people have to learn is to pay wages. If they do not do that collected from landlords through million miles), and possibly cor- 12 they will never make a market. the Municipality. It has the ad responding to one of the condensa- People who get barely enough to vantage of being easily collected tions in the arms of a spiral 2live on never create markets. This but there are the serious objec- nebule. This cluster was, mis- country is a good deal better than tions that it would add largely to takenly regarded by early in- some in regard to wage levels, but the cost of living and that in the vestigators as the whole of the you have to learn that lesson here,case of houses where families ac-system, but Dr. Scares now finda too. People are afraid to want cupy a room each tax imposed-on that-it-is-pant of-n-larger-struc things If they are paid too little. the house would probably be pass ture.
in England Unemployment caused by wages being too low...
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ia ed on to the inmates in such a way that the landlord could collect more than the tax he was paying.
1 regard Great Britain, an still being the centre of world trade. You made the first practical steam FOR OLYMPIC GAMES. engines and other inventions, and
THE FILIPINO AQUATIC SELECTIONS.
Ildefonso and Tuburan will re- present the Philippine Islands in the aquatic events at the 1928 be held in Olympic Meet to Amsterdam this summer.
In addition to being selected for
Unpopular Income Tax.
This 'larger structure has a' diameter of from, 00,000 to 90,000 paraces, and we are far from Ita centre-possib something like
Income Tax-This is one of the 20,000 parsecs. This, of course, we have been the shippers of the world, few taxes by which a really large should expect if we actually be- I am sure that Great Britain can increase of revenue could be oblong to a spiral nebula, and our manufacture better for the Con-tained, but it is a most unpopular local cluster is situated in one of tinent, for India, and for other tax and subject to the almost Insu-the arms, for the centre of the places on that side than any other perable. objection that the in-whole system must be located in country. Tractors, for intance, cidence falls unfairly on the honest the nucleus.
Income tax should not, can be made hetter here for Africa, taxpayer. Russia, and other places than else in our opinion, be revived until all other means of raising sufficient re- where.
venue have been tried.
Sntaller Motor Cars.
The Milky Way,
The Milky Way, which we see na
a faint haze of light arching the
Customs. Duties, Poll Tax, Cor-sky, is an appearance due to the Mr. Ford is building big aero-poration Profits Tax and Registra- extremely flattened character of this team, Taburan, in the final planes, but he believes that aero- tion of Trade Marks have been the system. try-outs, established what is be-plane design will have to change considered
minutes -31-4/10 seconds.
position.
Second place went to Jakaria.".
but in our opinioń When we look at the Milky Way lieved to be a new record for the radically before Transallantic fly- their disadvantages are numerous we are looking in the plane of flat Philippine Talands in the 400 meter
venue which would be forthcom- very great thickeness of stars. I hope my readers will look me free style when he finished iting can become a commercial pro and outweigh the amount of re-tening, and therefore through a
Motor-cars, I believe, he remarking from their establishment.
The possibility of electing say-The irregularity of the Milky Way The 200 meter breast stroke whsed, will become smaller, but their ings in Annually Recurrent is due to the non-uniform s-
will be larger, won by Ildefonso, the other team engine power member. He swam the distance in especially if you can get the expenditude should be carefully ex-tribution of the stars, and certain Buch as have been observed in 2 minutes and 56-7/10 seconds. moved from the ear to the petrol amined before any new tax or any apparently empty spaces are pro- Arasad of the Moro team was The small car with the powerful increrse in an existing tax is bably masses of obscuring material second in this trial.
engine can get round the bigger brought into force.
The extent of the liability of the many special nebulae which wo Jakarla captured first in the 100 vehicles, such as trucks.
Mr. Ford believes that America Colony for Defence Contribution Bee edgewise..
is, we understand, now under con. The stupendous dimensions of meter free style sprint with Tuburan finishing second. Time has improved, immensely undersideration, and we have been com-the organisation thus adumbrated
Prohibition, and that it will for the event was 1 minute 4-3/10 eventually spread to the rest of the pelled to disregard this question may be realiged when we consider,
HONGKONG VARSITY FOOTBALLERS.
TO PLAY SERIES OF GAMES IN MANILA.
Word was received yesterday st. the P. A. A. F. offices (says the Manila Bulletin of May 9th) that the Hongkong University Football team would leave for the Philip- pines on the Dollar Liner President Wilson on May 20. They will ar- rive in Manila on May 22.
Arrangements for a series of four soccer games to be played here are still under way. At pres- ent, plans Indicate the visiting ag grogation will be matched with the Nomads team, a Swins eleven, a Chinese team and probably a Fili plano or American squad,
seconds, "
"THE MISSING LINK."
!
SYD. CHAPLIN IN FUNNY FILM.
If you want to forget the muggy weather, with all its discomforta, you cannot do better than to visit the Queen's Theatre during the run of "The Missing Link," Syd. The Chaplin's latest euccess. picture was screened for the first- Financial backing for the series time yesterday, and it proved itself
world,
throughout our report.
The ex-
The great majority of the people Istence of an uncertain factor of that a parsee is equal to about 34 in the States, he declared in con- 60 much importance to the financesht years. This means that wo clusion, revers your King and of the Colony diminishes to a large see the stars at the centre of the Queen, and I think the Prince of extent the value of any forecast of Wales is just as popular over there our financial position. as he is here.
PHILIPPINE PORT WORKS.
. BIG SALE OF BONDS IN
AMERICA.
Washington, May 10.
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
VOTING IN INDIANAPOLIS PRIMARY.
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Indianapolis, May 9.
years ago, while to travel from system as they were about 65,000 one extremity to the other, light, which covers 186,000 miles per Aecond would require from 200,000 to 300,000 years.
In such a system, the Earth is far too minute a speck to be re- presented to scale by any illustra- tion drawn from our common ex- perience. There are possibly mil- Hons of such systems in space, and the distances senarating them aro With returns in from 3074 of 80 enormous that one of them, as nearest of the' is being furnished by C. C. Lim, a real mirth-provoker. It is sheer
others, would annear not much. prominent wealthy Chinese. The farce and burlesque, of course, but
The sale of $760,000 Cebu port the State's 3010 precincts, Senator Been from the game will be played under the the sinemu-goer who can't get a works bonds to a syndicate head-Watson to-day was leading Secre- larger than our moon appears to auspices of the amateur federa hearty laugh out of it ought to con- ed by the Chase Securities Cortary of Commerce. Hoover by us. They move at speeds of se ion but the money derived will be sult the doctor.
poration of New York and of a like 21,334 vates in the Indiana presi- veral hundred miles per second. for the benefit of the Chinese, In the story, Syd, Chaplin plays amount of Iloilo port works bonds dentini primary, held yesterday. of Boston, was gave Watson 178,674 votes and
It was stated at an inquest on Much interest is being shown in the part of a timid, poet who was to a syndicate headed by Harrbrot Returns from the 3074 precincts
forced to become a big, game Company
Miss Anale Turk, 41, bookkeeper, the forthcoming matches, Soccer,
On the Democratic ticket, roof Avenue-road, Acton, concerning according to Dr. Ylanan of the hunter in Africa. We won't say announced to-day by the War De-Hoover 157,340. PA. A. F. is gaining in popularity develops, but it can well be
anything more, as to how, the talo partinent
The Cebu bonda brought $106.40 turns from 1855. precincta gave. In the Philippines every year.
imagined that there is plenty of per $100 bond and the Ilollo Evans Woollen, Indianapolis ban
ker, 107,913 votes. scope for thrills and humour. bonds, $106.159. The photography is excellent,..and
Y. M. C. A.
Henry Percy Baldock was at there are some wonderfully trained Seabrook, Hythe committed for wild animals.
Death was returned, that she' whom a verdict of Accidental elther went to sleep or fainted in a bath; Alderman 8. Flavel, who was si Mr. J. T. Murphy, of Glasgow, a Trederick Lock, aged 89, a trial to the quarter sessione on "The Missing Link" can certain-times mayor of Leamington Spa, prominent Scottish Communist, is Camberwell dock labourer, was two charges of embezzlement Inly be classed as one of Syd. Chap has resigned from the office of to oppose Mr. Ramsay MacDonald executed at Wandsworth, 3.W., for respect of money received by himlin's biggest hits. It is to be Vicar's warden at Leamington In the Aberavon Division at the the murder of Florence Kitching, on behalf of the Elham Rural shown up to and including Tues-Parish Church after 44 year's con- next Parliamentary General Elec-aged 28, with whom he had been
tion.
Hving.. tinuous service.. day. 'Council, of which he was clerk,
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