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CORRESPONDENCE.
Government Satories.
[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.1
can never train the people for de mocratic government." He goes on: To establish the funda montal law of the state which shall not allow the various Ifficials of the government to go beyond their legitimate powers and encroach upon the rights of the people, that is the best training for democracy. In a country where the people are not prepared for democratic gov vernment, the government needslative Council.. tutoring and training no less than the common man."
A
Sir-It is much to be hoped that our Unofficial Members will not be tary's comparative salary figures at Monday's meeting of the Legis
Places vary, and each must stand on its own merits. In any case, two wrongs do not make a right.
bamboozled by the Colonial Secre-
It should be the Government's function to try to reduce the cost of living, and not to increase it, which will be the inevitable result wholesale advance in sal- of a arlos.Yours, etc.,
Hongkong, Sept. 25th, 1929.
MONICUM.
Dr. Hu Shih's pronouncement la of the utmost significance. For one thing, he puts his finger on the real weakness of the present situa- tion. China is at present ruled by an absolutism, and a government which has once tasted the sweets,
Harbour Matters. of absolute and arbitrary power
SirMany were very glad that will always tend to feel that cirenm- the question of the launch Llla stances require its continuance was raised at Monday's meeting of Still more significant is the frank the Council and some useful em-
suggested for ployment.
I criticism of Dr. Sun Yat-sen This Except during the Duke of Glou perhaps, was sure to come, but itcester's visit, I have never seen now this launch otherwise than lying is fortunate that it comes
idle. What is it for? I was told from an authoritative and compet that it was for the Harbour Master ent source, The criticism of Dr. to go on plentes, but, of course, I Hu and the resignation of Dr. could not believe that Tsai Yuan-pel from the govern- ment, for substantially the same reasons as are the grounds of this criticism, are of supreme Interest. They constitute, a de mand for constitutional govern- ment which the Kuomintang will not for ever be able to resist, and they false the whole question of the purpose of the Revolution. What will have been gained if THURSDAY SEPT. 26, 1929, constitutionalism is lost? The
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By the way, while on, the ques- tion of the Harbour Department and the Budget debate, just be- cause some Surveyors have work ed overtime it does not follow at all that the Department is not overstaffed. Quite probably some shipowners wanted the Surveyors to stay on the job after hours in order to get the ships away, in which case double the staff would not have reduced the over-time
Yours, etc.,
PADDLE. Hongkong, Sept, 26th, 1929."
Budget Matters.
DAY BY DAY.
WHEN, MEN ·ARE FULL OF ENVY THEY DISPARAQE EVERYTHING, WHEN THER IT BE GOOD OR BAD-Taellus.
The R.M.S. "Empress of Russia" is due at Shanghai to-morrow and leaves on the 28th..
The Very Idea!
Some sense of propriety is still to be found on some of our beaches, says Hume paper. A Sunday school teacher, resting in a com fortable 'deck, chair on Bourne- mouth sands--having by the aid
little of large safety pins turned many This Is long-legged
girls into ostriches and, sent them "off" to prance about the beach-was sur
Another British case of typheld was notified yesterday. the third within two days;"
A married woman who pleaded guilty to a charge of carrying a chicken by the wings was fined $5 by air. TS. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.
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prised by sundry sudden upheavala and disturbances of her resting place. Upon inquiry as to what was taking place beneath her aho received the reply, "Oh, it is only Teddy F-Changing out of his bathing dress"
The China Light & Power Co.
Some privacy Teddy most com (1918), Ltd., advertise that the
mendably desired, and this he rates for lighting and power will decided could be best obtained be reduced to eighteen conts and under the shadow of authority. seven cents per unit, respectively,
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as from October 1, 1929. The pre-The other day'a party of Ameri sent lighting charge is 20 cents per cans left their hotel in Belfast unit.
declaiming against the weather; one of them winding up with the On a charge of being in posses-remark, "You can keep your old slon of 603 po piu lottery tickets British Isles. I wouldn't take which were stated to bo worth them as a gift" Said the Boots, as about $900, an elderly Chinese he returned from slamming their woman who WAS arrested in taxi ddor "Thanks be to Godt Gascoigne Road was fined $75 by We're safe for a b
#bit." Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning. Her face was just a picture
Whose beauty was supreme, So aweatly there were blended
The hues of rose and cream, Her lovely lips far redder
Than scariot cherries were; Although I knew to reach them
Might be a man's' despair. Her brows were sheer perfec
tlon;
A Above those eyes of blue Their finely pencilled arches Were exquisite to view. Her face was just a picture-
Unsigned (O modest elf), But how could I help know-
ing -
Four female villagers of the Kowloon City District were each fined $10 by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon. Magistracy this morning on a charge of tres- passing on the Government Planta- tion at Customs Pass. The defen- dants were stated to have cut a quantity of wild tree branches.
In the last stages of exhaustion, following what appears to have been a long immersion in the har- bour, a Chinese, who gave his name as Ha Hok-ping, was yesterday taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital. He was found lying on the shore in the Kowloon Naval Camber. How he came to be, in the water is not revealed.
She painted it herself!
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According to some gipsies who were encamped in a wood near a Hittle Bohemian village the other. day, writes the Prague correspon-
We note that Dr. Hu Shih has European governments have con-associate myself, Mr. Editor, with Street, Isle of Skye; Mr. Edwardo for dinner was shown the contents
recovery.
say
thrive on them.
This Court has no machinery that I know of for extracting blood from atones.-Mr. Justice Swift,
present government can only keep
Sir, I should esteem it a favour public opinion from the eager dis- If you would kindly afford me an cussion of this question by the opportunity of making a few refer-
The following forthcoming wed-dent of a London paper, It is no recurrent agitation of matters ences in connexion with the recent
debate on the Budget by the Un-dings are announced: Mr. Mal- more eccentric to eat a snake stew. relating to foreign affairs. This official Members of the Legislative colim Morrison, No. 8, Stanley Ter than it is to eat eel-pie as towns- is no new device of government. Council.
race, Taikoo," to Miss Marion people do. A passer-by on inquir- ing what the gipsies were cooking In the first place, I would like to Robertson, Newton, Ardvasar followed up his recent protest tinually practised it. Nor la it the remarks and observations made Guilherme da Luz, No. 2. Peace stew of filleted snakes and adders.. of the cauldron, an appetising against arbitrary action on the altogether without justification, in your leader of Friday, 20th Avenue, Kowloon, to Miss Olga Eaton with vegetables these maks part of the government of China since no criticism of China by September. It is very refreshing. Maria dos Remedios, No. 17, Nana very dainty dish, so the gipsies by another reasoned article entitl- Europeans and Americans has indeed, to observe that such sound king Street, Kowloon.
constructive criticism has been
The little gipsy chiidren usually ed "When are we going to have a been so constant as of their lack forthcoming and I feel that the A fight between two barbers in hunt for the reptiles, and with Constitution?" In his first ar- of patriotism, and a nation-wide whole community will dare to hope Shan Tung Street, Mongkok was great dexterity kill and skin them. that such inspiring addresses as mentioned before Mr. T. S. Whyte The-sidn is afterwards cured and tiele he tried to show that it had view. But sooner or later the those given by the Unofficial Mem Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy used for covering walking sticke. been Dr. Sun's intention to put in central authorities must face un bers of the Legislative Council will this morning when one of the men Not many things come amiss to force a provisional constitution at to this question. A move to the be the beginning of a new era in was charged with cutting and gipsies when preparing their bill
this Colony:
wounding the other, who was de least as soon as the military, stage Left with the possible-replacement
In my humble opinion I believe tained in hospital as a result of or fare; it is said that they conk of the Revolution had been accom- of the present government by a that there are two very outstand- the wounds inflicted: The alleged and eat the strangest fungi and plished and, to prove his point, group headed by Mr. Wang Ching-Ing failings on the part of the local assailant was remanded for one Government officials and these Iweek, pending the complainant's indulged in some higher criticism wej would defer constitutionalism, would classify as follows: of Dr. Sun's writings. In his A move to the Right, with which second contribution, he abandons probably many individual members the attempt to rest his case on the of the present administration authority of Dr. Sun and con- would sympathise, would make fesses that an examination of his much more likely the establish-
training in diplomacy and other of the seamen on board. He was programme of the Revolution is- ment of settled rule.
I have just finished writing The end of the apotheosis of talents, but at the same time I do arrested and later handed over to sued just before his death shows
believe that a good business hand the police. On being charged before about 2,000 letters to workers in that he considered that absolute Dr. Sun, and the recognition that is rather conspicuous by its ab- the Kowloon Magistracy this my division. Mr. W. S. Morrison, power would have to rest with the he was a man as we are, and sence and I maintain that this also morning, he was sentenced to six M. P
is vitally necessary.
weeka hard labour.
A brond mind is not cramped by Now, the point may arise-Is it revolutionary government until a that his opinions, far from being
a narrow sphere, Dean, Inge. business majority of provinces had attain-sacrosanct, are for criticism and possible to combine a
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Douglas bre
We will not give the present ed to complete self-government and discussion, are not only in the training with the general train leaving the Colony for good by the Government time to sleep-A
Ing for the Civil Service? P. and O. a.a. Mantua on Saturday, Cook. could elect the Central Executive, best interests of his own Frankly, I say no. Therefore, Mr. Douglas was for some years are what I would strongly urge is that with the P, W. D, but later left decision as to when this point had posthumous reputation, but bean reached "resting with the govthe only hope of ordered pro- the Government should in its fu- the Government service to join the WHO WAS ?.
ture programme adequately pro- Asiatic Petroleum Company, He ernment. This makes it clear that gress. They are essential, too, vide for the services of a highly is now being transferred to the in the last intention of Dr. Sun to the modern, scientific view of trained economist. I am sure that Company's London offices During things for which the intellectual even although this may mean an their residence in the Colony, both arbitrary power should be retain
outlay of up to £3,000 per annum, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas have made ed in the hands of the revolution- side of the nationalist movement it would prove to be a decided in- many friends, who wish for them stands. The Chinese mind has vestment, as a system-e business many years of happiness and pros- ary government, that is ultimately been neither historial nor scien-system of routine is sadly needed perity in the old country.
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and his writings into
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(1) Lack of a fundamentally sound business training. (2) Procrastination,
Following his discharge as a member of the crew of the 3Dreary, second-rate lives are a Taking the first item, I would Helican, a Chinese returned to the more frequent cause of mental dis- like to make it clear that I strong ship by a sampan yesterday and order than overwork or disaster. ernment administration, of sound with a camp, bed belonging to one ly appreciate the necessity, in Gov-was later keen to leave the vessel Dr. Edward Mapother.
in local Government circles. There are I believe too many systems re-
!
with the Kuomintang, not only through the military stage of the tific, and there has been a con- revolution, but also through the Bervative tendency to lift Dr. Sun quiring a system to have them pro- stances of bad systems, but we a new perly carried out, in consequence need only recall to memory the period if Tutelenge.
Dr. Hu Shih is not content, how- orthodoxy. It has been unfor- of which it is logic to suppose that recent Carvalho cage to show how given a fundamentally sound and in one department alone changes tunate for Dr. Sun himself. His economic system, a very large per- badly require to be made. ever, to leave the matter there.
Dealing how with item (2). 'It Undeterred by the exalted authority writings contain the results of centage of existing expenditure
could advantageously be cut out. is well known' how dilatory the which has been given by the Kuo deep thought, but they were, This brings me to a point raised Government are, and the best ex- mintang to Dr. Sun and his writ- owing to the misfortunes of the in the debate and that is, it would ample of this is the water question. ings, Dr. Hu Shih pursues his time, hastily put together, and be exceedingly enlightening to the In fact the procrastination which public to have easy and uncumber- prevalla has an advantage to the criticism to the point of difference are unpruned of interminable re some access to the cost of, main-public in that it always provides, from Dr. Sun himself. "We must dundancies and of infantile tenance in the rather multifarious in dull times, a certain amount of That amur "ment. From my compar- very real Government departments, confess our surprise," he says, "on fallacies. Only as the v
suggestion, Sir, is a truly sound atively short experience in this finding such a political theory com- measure of wheat to be found one to have made and is in keeping Colony, I have found it very upset ing from a man who has taught among the chair la winnowed by with what a "pukka" economist ting in more than one way, and us that knowledge is difficult and criticism will his real greatness would institute and I am sure with from a business point of view,
such success that it would be a certainly say that the sooner some action is easy;" and he goes on to emerge, ami his place among perfect revelation as regards the means are evolved of having things urge that there is no incompati. thinkers and men of action be existing primitive organisation in attended to in a more efficient man- bility between a constitution and determined,
force. Yes, tho.machinery which ner the better it will be for.the.com- the period of tutelaga: nay, more, Dr. Hu Shih's criticism really runs the Government departments munity as a whole,
badly requires piling and over-" The main solution, to these pro- that not the people only but the goes to the root of the question hauling. One with a close in-blems so far as I can see ts, the Executive as well requre tutoring, at issue between China and the timacy of Government systems and the latter can only be subject foreign Powers. More.. serious conid no doubt cite numerous in ed to tutoring. by the supremacy than the absence of a system of of a constitution, which would guide law which commends itself to lodge that their property and their activities, and prevent unlaw them is the absence of the reign persons are alike Insecure, and ful action. "In our humble of any law whatevery for, as Dr. that appeal to deeds and to the opinion," he says; "it is under Hu pointed out in his first article, laws of the nation have very little constitutional government that the if the central authorities act in effect. The erection of constita- people can he best trained for dean arbitary manner, their sub- tional government in which law extended in publishing this article mocracy. On the other hand, tuto ordinates in province and pre- shall be supreme over Executive and apologising for the large space lage without a constitution fecture will do the same, and and people alike is the best ap- taken up in your valuable paper
other more what is most disconcerting to proach to amity with
or convention. Is DO
and no less than absolutism which foreigners at present is the know- nations.
formation of a sort of Municipal Council, and personallyl should wel- come the inauguration of a body along these lines.
We all have the interest of the Colony in front of us and hope that If necessary, pressure will be brought to beat on the Government officials to effect this much-needed Improvement.
Thanking you for the courtesy
Yours, etc.
WELL-WISHER. Hongkong, Sept. 26th, 1929.
"
tearted race.--Sir James Melville.
Attorney-Generals., are a kind-
PRINCESS IDA.
We are apt to think that the idea of the emancipation of womanhoodfa an entirely modern one. On the contrary, it is old as history, Aristop hanes, the Grook, hinted at it,. and before our time also, Duchess of Newcastle, and Dr. Johnson confided thoughts. on the higher education of woman to paper. Such a sub- ject seems alien to poetry, but Tennyson chose it for the theme of "The Princess."..
The beautiful Ida, daughter of King' Gama, refused to marry the Prince of the North to whom she had been betroth- ed in her childhood, and. founded a Unversity for the education of her own The Prince, not to be witted, obtained access to her:
Бел out
by diegulting himself 40 a female student. Hoping to mova her heart to thoughts of love, he sang to her lovely-swallow song, which contains the words
"O tell her, brief is life, but
love is long, **
the
And brief the sun of sum
mer in the north, And brief the moon öf
beauty in the south,” a In vain, however, for the old Princess rebuked him,
Nevertheless, when he was wounded in an affray and.. his sex" was, discovered, she
nursed him back to health. Gradually, the beauty of ser=- vice and the dignity of mar-
ridge became apparent to her, and in the end she laid her reet hands in her lover a and consented to be his bride.