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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1930.
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siderations would appear to he rather peculiar to America, such, for instance, as the grip of poli- tical interests on the big cities. Overcrowding certainly leads to criminality, in the sense that bad SHOULD LIKE TO REAP IN OTHERS, environment tends to produce cri- BUT FAIL TO SOW IN OURSELVES.-W. minals but we all know that such conditions are to be found in many
IDEADS ARE SOMETHING
Stewart Royston
WE
There will be a band concert
and gymnastic display in Welling ton Barracks, by the Somerset Light Infantry, from 8.80 to 10.30 o'clock to-night.
The Hon. Treasurer of the St. John Ambulance Brigade begs to acknowledge the receipt. of the following donation to Brigade Funds:-Mr. Li Teze-chung, $20.
towns which cannot be described as super-cities by reason of their size. The traffic problem is ad- ∙mittedly more acute in the really
Passengers arriving here by the big towns. On the other hand, all these tendencies and evils call 5.8. Empress of Canada to-day in- cluded Mr. G. E. Castello, Mr. R. forth special effort of a remedial R. Roxbourgh, Mr. C. Mycock and
One Mr. H. O. T. Burkwall. and preventive character. point which is apt to be overlook- ed also is that the amenities of life are usually far greater in big cities than in small towns, whilst the opportunities for culture and for hearing and seeing the best that the arts can produce are mainfestly more pronounced. In any event, it is useless, to specu- late whether cities can or cannot become too big. We have to face
A man rescued from drowning in facts as they are and to recognise the harbour, opposite Whitty Street that the tendency towards expan-yesterday, is now lying at the Go- sion is bound to increase as time vernment Civil Hospital. When taken out of the water he was in goes on,
a bad way, and was unable to make any statement which would throw light on what apparently was an attempt at suicide.
Passengers who arrived from by the P. and O. liner Kashgar to- day included Mr. J. Joyce, Mr. E. R. Clemo, Miss S.. A. Massey, Miss L. Massey, Miss L Alcock, Mr. R. Dormer, Dr. G. V. Griffith, Mre. and Miss Shields.
Great Lovers of The
Past.
Javer has the English-speaking
world been so interested in "passion" as it is at present, and never has it been so incapable of experiencing it (writes James The very word is almost worn Laver in the Sunday News).
repetition Every fifth book, every second play. out with constant and every film is concerned with nothing but Passion with a capital P.
From every hoarding, from every railway bookstall, the same mes
proclaimed in all the sage is iridescent colours of the decaying mackerel.
Even jealousy, that strange hybrid of love and hate, however common in Latin countries, exists in England only in a mild and in- dividual liberty and a thousand nocuous form. We believe la in- modern notions with which passion will have nothing to do.
Heroines Out of Dale.
decayed is shown by our humorous The extent to which passion has attitude towards it. We may occasionally revive an old melo- drama, but it is only in order to smile, at its absurdity. Snow- white heroines and coal-black If only our cheaper literature villains are out of date. Human character has grown grey like survives, posterity will imagine the aspect of the world. that the early twentieth century thought of nothing else. Undoubt The World well lost for Lova!. edly, what is called "faming love" Literature has made us so fami la an obsession with us, but periar with the notion that we are in haps for that very reason it is little danger of putting it, into
practice. singularly rare in real life.
Antony and Cleopatra startled Age Hostile to Passion.
their contemporaries because they were ad unusual. Perhaps there Where are they, these passionate was only one great man fn recent lovers? How often have we met times who flung away a kingdom the man or the woman who would for a woman and that man was sacrifice "everything", for a pasCharles Stewart Parnell. Buch sion, whether of love or hate? If passion, in real life, is strange they are not to be met with in the enough to make the world turn banies and offices of the City, still to head in wonder. leas can they be found at the cock- tail parties of Mayfair.
British Coal Trade. In view of the decline in the
An Extraordinary General Meet British coal trade it seems likely ing of the Hongkong Engineering
The whole spirit of the age seems that no time will be lost in preparand Construction Co., Ltd., is ad- ing the marketing schemes under vertised to take place in the Board hostile to passion, for nothing is the Coal Bill which went on the Room of Messrs. Shewan Tomeso fatal to it as the cold, critica' Statute Book after a great contro- and Co., St. George's Building, an attitude which is common amour versy. The rapidity and steepness! Wednesday, 10th September at us, even in our discussions of sex. inoon. Further particulars may be of the fall in the industry are in- learned from an advertisement ap dicated by the fact that since the pearing in this issue. beginning. of March 55,000 work- ers have been taken off the colliery books.
For many months last
even more remarkable.
Yet passion does, not die... It is only buried. Beneath the cool crust of our ordinary everyday. fe, volcanic fires still alumber. ready to burst forth again when a rack appears in the surface.
That strange city of Chicago, with its odd likeness (under ob- Hous surface differences) to some mediaeval Italian town rent by
action, develops passions known to those who live under the protection of an efficient police
woman.
un-
The
In the eighteenth century it was
It is partly the result of our being huddled together in cities The passionate man is a bad pedestrian; he fits uncomfortable Enquiries have determined the nto buses, and is a disquieting fact that Wan To-sai, an inhabit neighbour when hanging from a the Taipo district, was not injured are easy, and (to make the obvious
The Woman in the Case. in the United States regarding the year and in the early weeks of this ant of Shiu Um Shan village, in strap. In a large city distraction's
well above ¡ year production was
through being knocked down by a point) nothing is more distracting. What a contrast with ourselves
The reason why a gangster is populations of the big cities. five million tons per week. Owing motor-car, as suggested in an offi Ambitioua centres like Chicago, to the unorganised state of the cial police report yesterday, but is to be seen even in such a com found full of bullets spouted from.
brought paratively recent book as "Wu- machine-gun in an armoured car Detroit and Los Angeles which industry a high output was main-1 that his condition was have occasionally been given to tained, wolle stocks accumulated, about by a fall into a nullah when thering Heights." Those isolated is not always money or drink. It..
as the for weeks after it was evident that he stepped off the roadway to avoid and bottled-up people developed is sometimes a visualising themselves
countryside. What loves!ter of place or time, but without Wan To-wal, who is aged 52, was the metropolis of America the European market was collapa car coming up from behind. forces strong enough to devastate primitive is not altogether a mat future must, however, have received a bit sing. In Germany the Westphalian afterwards found lying in an uncon. What hates! What passions! And a certain primitiveness passion
Syndicate ordered a drastic cursclous condition and was taken by further back the contrast becomes evaporates.
We have spokent of the hard of a shock from the census figures tailment of production in the police to hospital.
The modern Paola and Fran- crust which seems to form over of New York, recently issued. It February, and this has beca main-
A Commission has been appointed cesca conduct their affairs without our instincta. transpires that New York has been tained for five months. In Great
in Canton to manage the liquida-fear, for no avenging husband is going ahead just as fast as these Britain the collapse has therefore tion of the Canton branch of the likely to murder them with every so hard and smooth and shining other, towns. Its population now been more rapid, and it has pro- Industrial and Commercial Bank, circumstance of horror and send that men and women could skate aelves with love as though it were is just under seven millions, whilst duced a great degree of disloca-Limited. It is to consist of Mr. them drifting for ever through the on it, cut figures, amuse them-
tion throughout the industry. Cheung Chiu-kwan, Secretary of waste places of Dante's Hell.
We take these things more a game.
In the nineteenth century the ics metropolitan area contains no
There is no indication that the the Supreme Court of Kwang- less than cleven millions, which is
limit of the depression has been tung; Mr. Aw Yuk-shu, Judge of calmly, because, we do not feel
the Canton High Court; Mr. Yiu them so deeply. We are tolerant, crust grew soft and sticky, but it more than there are in the next reached, and apprehension is ex-Lal-sou, Principal of the National we are reasonable, we are wise still held. The Byronista did not Those whiskered gentlemen in seven largest cities of America put pressed in most of the coalfields Law College; Mr. Man Taong, Mr. In a word, we are civilised: but fall through,
up shouting with the check trousers only played at together. So while Chicago con- about the prospects for the late Chaung Pak-tat, Mr. Lu Poo-wing, the "Great Lovers" of past ages
of the Ting-yung, all tinues to grow and Detroit steps autumn. In the struggle for the Mr. Chang Fung-san, and Mr. Hau would rise
Canton laughter if we flattered ourselves passion. They made literature out of it, and we have carried the on the heels of Philadelphia, and limited trade, and with output Judiciary: Mr. Chung Lee of the that we were passionate,
unregulated, prices in several dis-Central Bank; and Mr. Thoo Mui- Desire is always with us, but process a step further, and com- Los Angeles shoots past half a
tricts have been cut heavily, and wo. At a first meeting held on passion is not desire. Desire is mercialised the literature. dozen cities to take fifth place. it is certain that if this decline is Monday, Mr. Yiu Lai-sou was un- an appetite, capable of satiety, like New York continues to retain its not checked by speedy action as animously elected Chairman of the all appetites, but passion is
devouring flame. pre-eminence.
soon as the new marketing boards the of Arising out
are constituted, the industry will figures, a controversy has arisen have to face another period of The relative pros- in the States as to whether big-serious loss. ness of itself makes for a better perity regained last year streng- thened the owners who have al- life for the people. It is being
ways resisted the effects of the asked whether, in fact, it is not advocates of organised marketing | possible for a city to become too and regulation of output, but it is big. A great deal of study would now likely that the necessity for be needed to answer these queries action of this kind, if the industry satisfactorily, but one commenta-l is to be saved from constant and tor points out some surface indica-disastrous. fluctuations, will again tions which are significant. Traf-be generally admitted. In several districts the preparation of the
census
PEER'S FUNERAL.
DUKE INTERRED IN THE ABBEY.
fic congestion in New York to-day, marketing schemes is well advanc it is shown, is almost unendurable, ed; so that little difficulty should and the same may be said of many be experienced, in view of the re- of the other big centres. Living currence of adverse circumstances, eonditions, for enormous numbers in completing them by the end of of the inhabitants, are described the summer, and in constituting the Central Committee, which is as unspeakable, and it is contend to regulate the output nationally. ed that the lawless gangs in the great cities are bred by the con- gested, unhealthy circumstances under which thousands of children grow to manhood. Politically, we are told, theap super-cities are: grotesquely unwieldy. "The aver- age New Yorker," it is put on re- cord, "is completely at the mercy of Tamanny Hall, and the average Chicagoan is at the mercy of an even less admirable machine. In
Tall bareheaded Grenadier cach case, the sheer size of the
Guardsmen bore the coffin through city gives the machine ample op the great west door to the altar. portunity to maintain its grip on Grenadier Guardsmen also beat a government." The conclusion is long muffled tattoo on their drums to mark the passing of the Duke, reached, therefore, that a city who had been an officer of their whose population is almost station-regiment.
The remains were interred in ary is probably better off than one the Percy vault in the Chapel of whose numbers are doubling every St. Nicholas. The King and other. two decades.
members of the Royal Family were represented, and the congregation There is, of course, a great included members of the oldest deal to be said for, the view put familles in the land-British Wire.
Lexa. forward, but some of the con-
London, Aug. 27. The remains of the Duke of Northumberland were buried to- day in Westminster Abbey in the family vault of the Percy family, which shares this prescriptive right only with royalty.
Committee.
51
Still, I don't want to live in the
be paid for. Middle Ages. Everything has to
"What'll you be on the air tonight, Harold, a glad, glad boy or one
of the little laughing Laplanders?”