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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
NOW IS THE TIME TO GET YOUR
FRIGIDAIRE
0
DOMESTIC THERE ARE MODELS OF FROM, FOUR TO EIGHTEEN CUBIC FEET STORAGE CAPACITY.
OVER
1,000,000
IN USE THROUGHOUT · THE WORLD.
DODWELL & Co., Ltd.
Sole Distributors HONG KONG & S. CHINA,
The
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY ✅ -22,
DAY BY DAY.
WORRY IS A BLUNDER THAT BLACK- END ALL AROUND AND MAKES LIFE A REGRET.Dr. J. W, Johnson.
The P..and O. 6.s. Jeypore, from Shanghai, la due here at 6 pm. on
Yesterday's return of notifiable diseases shows three cases of small- pox and one each of typhoid and diphtherin. All were Chinese,
We have received from Messrs. Dodwell and Company attractive Chinese calendars issued by the Caledonian Insurance Company.
יין.
1930
DENCE.
The Currency Problem.
[To The Editor of Hongkong
"
The Very Idea!
be the case in regard to childrens Indoor, for the Society to refrain from prosecution in serious cases which come under its notice would
Anyone who has experienced the bo tantamount to condoning In
polite attention of Custom House fringement of the law. That, wo
Telegraph.3
Officials on entering the Port of feel sure, would be farthest from
Sir,-"Observer" may console New York will appreciate an ad- the desires of its originators. "
himself by the knowledge that he venture which has just occurred to His Excellency the Governor be-Friday.
has lost none of my respect by his one of our most distinguished "facetiousness in this very serious educationists, Sir Henry Hadow He Heves that the work of the Society
discussion." I quite understand was asked to give a sorios of three will be more helpful in protecting
where the shoe pinches, and, with lectures at the University of mui-teai and in watching over the
all due respect to the Trinity, Texas, and on arriving at New York shall jump right ahead to his he was naked by one of those gentle- men, who too often belie the real welfare of children than will be
queries. the methods of official registra
(a) Hongkong's commercial fune- American welcome that is wait tion which have been insisted
tion in relation to China is ad-ing "up town," whether he was en- upon by the Secretary of State for
mittedly that of a middleman's. tering the Great Republie for work China is too hopelessly handicapped or pleasure. He replied that he found it difficult to say, but that the Colonies. That remains to be
by internal strife to succeed in ap seen. In any event, the registra-
The Legislative Council meets proaching anything like stability he was only giving the three lec tion scheme, which, incidentally, is to-morrow afternoon, when the in her currencies, an rather than tures to the University of Texas.
with her at least for you," was the reply. But then these officials have always hot on a voluntary but n com-second reading of the Ordinance ultimately cripple ourselves in at "I reckon we'll call it pleasure
to amend the Opium Ordinance tempting to keep pace
fluctuations, it is up to us to pulsory basis, has not yet come will be taken.
stabiliso our own money in the ex-dealt in Customs rather than Man inito full
The operation. Secretary of State recognises, as On conviction of a charge of at-pectation that the South China mer-
The Bachelor: "It's a question he showed in a recent despatch on tempting to defraud a pawnbroker chant will eventually find it in his
as to who wears the trousers' in the by offering a gold gilt button Interests to adopt our paper as his In other words, the matter, that time will be re-under the pretext that it was pure we must bind China, financially, to
trading medium.
average household." quired to make this law effective, gold, a Chinese, who appeared be our own security instead of con but he has also made it perfectly fore Mr. Whyte Smith at thetinuing indefinitely to be dragged clear that he is not prepared to Kowloon Magistracy, this morn-around behind her paralysing war-bills for a boy of 10." sentenced to three machine. acquiesce in' mere nominal en-months' imprisonment, forcenient. The very fact that he has ordered a full report every six months of the working of the Ordinance, and of the proceedings taken under it, is sufficient to show that the law will not be permitted to remain a dead letter. Our own view is that the registration scheme and the activities of the new should be worked on a ̈
Hongkong Telegraph.co-operative basis-that the one can
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 22, 19:0
THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN.
Believing that any movement which has as its aim the welfare of the younger generation deserves "well of the community, we can most heartily commend to public support the organisation which
mui-tsai,
ing,
WIL
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(b) The usual way of carrying out a silver exclusion policy is for A stallholder in Pakhoi Street the banks to refuse to buy the was fined $8 by Mr. Whyte Smithmetal, and the supension of minting at the Kowloon Magistracy this operations. In Hongkong, 1 sug- morning on each of two sum-gest we give a time-limit for the monses accusing him of displaying surrendering of circulating silver crackers other than in a glass dollars. show case. It was stated, how- ever, that there was less danger of a fire than would be the case of crackers being exposed for sale Inside a shop.
(c) The onun of retaining silver pending a possible recovery is not to be thrown on the banks but upon the Government of Hongkong, which In enforcing the new policy, will see to it that the banks are not losers thereby.
пега.
The Father: "It don't to anym
body who has to pay the clothing
•
(The newest method of flesh-ve- ducing is a form of jiu-jitsu.)
•
Our modern craze for getting
thin
Kas, up to now, resulted in Us, trying out an awful lot Of "gures" which, on the whole,
have not
Achieved conspicuous success. And so it's no surpriss, I guess, "To read that quite the newest way.
To charm our solid flesh away ls now a form of jui-jitsu, Which, I submit, just goes to
slow- Since dieting, with all its rigours, Has failed to slim our bulging
Ogures- Instead of starving ourselves, that We're going to wrestle with our
fat!
+
•
A Chinese who was charged be-
(d) In my Arst letter, I hinted be u useful complement to the fore Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kow that it might be advisable to hang other. In any case,
we see no loon Magistracy this morning with on to our silver till the market.
larceny of cement sacks from
showed elgns of recovery... One may reason for accepting other than in building contractor was fined $5 a well try to stop an avalanche as good grace, with a full determina- or seven days' hard labour. The to check the negative half cycle of tion to put the law into force, the defendant said that he had wanted any commodity's supply-and-de- the sacks for blankets, causing hiemand alternation, and as I am not
Mr. Oulton, the Tower Bridge Home Govermatent's instructions Worship to remark that he had intensely interested in the present magistrate: I have nover, in 'n po-. with regard to the protection of great sympathy with people who or future of silver's mad career, Ilice court, heard a man admit that
felt the cold but he had to con- can only venture to remind our any car can do 80 miles ap bour. sider the interest of the owner of friend "Observer" that every bear The Recorder, Sir Ernst Wild, the sacks.
is a potential buyer.
at the Old Bailey: It is no crcuso 1 am afraid, moreover, that for committing bigamy because cannot take advantage of his kind-
Man at Acton, W.: I have never ly tip owing to a chronic deficiency your wife does not wash her face. of the necessary £10,000's, and, were known my an tell a single lie. He otherwise, I should attil hesitate is too honest, I am afraid, to make There are too many frantic specula- any money in the motor trade.. Lors around us to allow such golden Man at West London: When I opportunities to go begging for told my wife that I was going to bo long, and a tip that can be broad-boss she hit me on the head with a east is a tip foreclosed.
poker.
At the Peninsula Hotel last night, a dinner was given to the Rer. G. T. Waldegrave, Commis- ioner of the Boys Scounts, on the eve of his departure on holiday, by members of the Council of the Boy Scouts Association. Amongst the hosts were the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, who presided, the Chief Justice (Sir Henry Gollan), Bishop Valtorta, the Hon. Sir Shauson Chow, the Hon. Mr. W. E Shenton, and many others. very jolly evening was spent,
J
EXCHANGE RATES.
New York
it
I wonder, by the way, If “Ob- server" has ever paused to consider Prof. Albert Einstein gave recent- that in trying to wipe out, this ex-ly what he considered the best form. Atraordinary paper promlum of ouraula for success in life. "If a is a we have been partially responsible success in life, 1 should say the for the world's silver alump? There formula for a equals - be Is a demand for our paper Ining work and y being play."
London, Jan. 21...
.124.01 .4.86 28/21
.34.955 25.195 .12.10%
.30.37
South Chinn that silver itself can
"That," he answered, "Is "keeping your mouth shut."
"And what is zP" inquirod the in- never hope to meet, and in attempt-terviewer. ing to pull down our paper we may be merely following the metal that we are deliberately debasing.--
Yours, etc.,
ONLOOKER.
Kowloon, Jan. 21st. 1980.
The Directors of The Hong- kong, Canton and Macao Steam- boat Company, Limited, nnnounce... that, subject to audit, they will recommend the payment of a Currency dividend of $1.50 per share' and. coincides carry forward about $19,000.
EURO
.92,073 Sir, "Onlooker's" tabulation of 18.186 Bix resolutions passed by the
Emergency .18.195 Kowloon
Committee .18.215 Advisory .34.015 most curiously with a series of 164% suggestions made on the following 190 day at the annual dinner of the .37,776
Mid-Level Association for the As WHO WAS... .108.25
375sistance of Banks in Distress.
..818 They were an follows:
.515/32
(1) Silver dollar to be fixed DER FREISCHUTZ?
45 1/16 nt a premium over bank-notes, on 1/529/32 | a basis of 10 silver dollars=$20
1.2/0 worth of notes.
The Political Situation. Mr. Lloyd George's keenly await ed speech on the eve of the opening of Parliament was characteristic, but somehow lacked the fire and courage which have marked most was yesterday afternoon brought
of his recent orations. Viscount the constituent Grey's criticisms of the Liberal into being by meeting of the Society for the leadership appear to have struck Protection of Children. So well deeper than Mr. Lloyd George is bised in the Society in its objects, willing to admit, though he spoke that, provided it is not permitted in a spirit which did bode well for to lapse into a moribund condi- an attempt at reconciliation. Even tion, as so many other institutions in his attack upon the Government, he was somewhat half-hearted. have in this Colony, it should have! He advised. Mr. Ramsay McDonald before it a career of the utmust
to come off his high hobby-horse || usefulness. Whilst we agree with if he wished his Government to
Paris its promoters that the Society' continue, and in a sentence ad- Brussels best line of action is to rely dressed to the Labour Party as a Geneva
Amsterdam rather more on propagandu. and whole, he said that they must get
Milon advice than on prosecution in the into their minds that the Liberals Berlin Courts, we still hold the hope that were an independent party with a Stockholin
Copenhagen Онго there will be no disinclination to will of their own, which they in-
tended to exercise. There can be Vienna enforce the law in instances which
no doubt that Mr. Lloyd. George Prague come to light disclosing heart-still retains the hope of exereiang Madrid
Helsingfore lessness on the part of parents or a controlling influence in the pro- Lisbon guardians. We are quite prepared | ceedings of Parliament in the Athana
Bucharest to believe that, in many instances, absence of a Government majority. " the evils which the Society is The hobby-horae which the Pre-Buenos Aires called upon to combat are due to mier is riding and to which "L.G." Bombay
Shanghai objects, is ong which shies violent- Hongkong ignorance, thoughtlessness
ly at the suggestion of going to the Yokohama economic recessity rather than to
Silver (spot) Liberala for favours. The Pre Silver. (forward) intentional cruelty, but that does mier is still safely seated. The not by any means cover all euse new session just opened promises His Excellency
the Governor to be the most momentous in the realises this when he unys that Labour Government's history. I here, as in all parts of the world, will be discovered, we think, that there exist men and women so lost Labour is no longer prepared to all feelings of human kindness to court Liberal co-operation and la that they will maltreat children in definitely antagonistic to any hint
In the course of a very few words of Liberal dictation. It is possible, the other day, I hinted how the their power. *
even probable, that a few reverses effusions of the experts had con- may result, but the Government is founded me, but since then, thanks (5) The noto-issue to become the is that even ignorance, thought-safe. Neither of the Opposition situation has become as cicar as Emergency Currency
to "Onlooker" and "Observer," the responsibility of the Kowloon Advisory lessness or
economic necessity parties can dream of forcing a the sediment in Tylam during a Committee and to be backed by cannot be held to excuse cruelty. General Election while the Naval drought! What I like about "On-local price-lists and catalogues,
(6) The note-Issaing banks to There are, in fact, very definite Conference is in progress. The looker" in his clarity! What I like about "Observer" is kis clarity, and laws already existing here which authors of such a development harking back to "Political-Econo-ceive New Year cumshaws and Christmas presents as compensa- make cruelty or neglect a punish- would merely be working their own mist," I like his clarity too. (I can tion for their privilege of using able offence, and the situation is destruction. The Liberal Party hear echo answering "And: you!")
When a man gets up on a public paper, which will always remain.
stationery. not altered in any way by the would, for all practical purposes,
The Association considers that go down to oblivion. The Conser-platform and says nothing, one creation of this new Society.
never knows whether to believe him vatives would need all their or or not, but when a man writes to if it succeeds in enforcing these Ignorance of the law can scarcely ganisation to return in sufficient the paper as did "Onlooker and proposals, even if we are
not be pleaded, since the Offences strength to offer "real opposition. In one long and, sustained actually able to buy up all those Against the Person Ordinance, A Labour victory would be in-breath aay. "We wisely do countries who are tied to the under which children are protect-evitable.
Bri-antiquated tokens, gold and silver, The party Jendera tish industries are now being we shall at any rate bo in a ed, has been on the Statute Book realise this as well as the next crippled by taxation to cover the position to do so on paper. since 1866. Whilst, therefore, we man. There is really no need to £7,000 million war debt-tha, re- believe that much good can ba counsel the opposition prudence. done by propaganda methods, we
Another point we would stress
.1/7 .2/07/16
..21 20% -British Wirelena,
THIS CURRENCY.
{By "Cynicus"]
clared a moratorium:;
sult of the 1914 moratorium...." (the Italics are not yours!)
We must pull ourselves together.
(2) The note-issue to be at once udjusted to bring the purchasing power of the dollar back, to that obtaining in Feb., 1920, when it renched, 6/- (u far better sugges- tion than that of the K.E.C.A.C.)
(3) Treasury to be subject to in- spection by the Note-Issuing Banks to eliminate the risk of forgeries.
|(4) Gold and silver reserves to [be auctioned off and payment for same to be made in tissue paper, tram-tickets and general price levels.
Yours, etc.,
BEDLAM, Sec. MILA.AB.D. Hongkong, Jan 21st, 1980,
should not like to see such Hngs
A Corona typewriter and severalt is up to everybody to do some- adopted in substitution of enforce- samples of cloth among other thing, because just, imagino what
An open Invitation is given,to" would happen if Political- ment of the law. In the matter of articles were stolen from 67, Des Economist, Onlooker, Observer all interested, to attend the open- cruelty to animals, it has been cording to a report made to the reins to keep our heads above water of the Helena May Institute at No Voeux Road Central, first floor, ac and company ever rose to grab the ing of the new Kowloon Branch found that the most effective police by Mr. E.B Duckitt, rein the financial, maelstroms thereby 8 Aimal Villas, Austin Road, How educative method is to supplement presentative of Messrs. Bicketts tipping the prop that we rely to loon, Friday, January 24th, at 5 propaganda by prosecutions. We Turner & Co., Ltd. The theft took make us stay put, instead of staying p.m. Lady Clementi has kindly place between Monday evening and inxinas houses where rolling moss consented to open the premises. believe that will also be found to the following morning.
won't throw stones at them!:
No. 6, Bus passes the door Advt.
The annals of the Middle Ages abound in stories of men with tho who trafficked Powers of Darkness, and bartered away their souls. In exchange for supernatural": ald. Such a story is embodied in Wagner'a opera, "Der Fraischutz."
Caspar and Max (the "Free- Shooter"), two forestera in ' the employ of Prince Ottokar, were rivals in skill and in love. Himself rejected by the maiden Agathe, Caspar sought to ruin Max's hopes, by disgracing him in the eyes of the world, and entered into: an agreement with Zamiel, the Demon Hunter of the night, that Zamiel should take away. his rival's skill in shooting in return for Caspar's souls
No more was Max acclaimed the victor in the shooting contests, but Agathe's love did not fall, and Caspar sought a more complete... revange
upon the "padri Telgning sympathy with Max. he offered to procure for him soven of Zamiel's magica. bullets, which could not fail,
• sở he said, to reach any mack; at which they were almed. After hesitation, the young - forester accepted the offor, not knowing that one of the seven would obey the will of Zamiel Caspar's dark friend; and ally.
At the next great contest. bullet was thin seventh directed by Zamiel again Agathe, but glanced off garland of consacrated roses which she wore, and killed' Caspar as he stood gloating over his anticipated triomph