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an American public. Like the majority of the critics, he entirely ignores the obligations of the Man- datory Power towards the Araba, and auffers, under the delusion that Great Britain is malevolently frus trating the establishment in Pales LAUGHING-Ernest E, Ashford.
Line of a Jewish National Home.
The trouble appears to lie with the erroneous interpretation of the Balfour Declaration as a promise
NOTHING BETRAYS A MAN'S CHAR- ACTER SO MUCH AS HIS MANNER OF
There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday.
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E. V. LUCAS discusses
SHOPPING MYSTERIES.
THE remark of a lady, during a with pride a turbot or a lobster,
Tconversation on shops, that and, doing so, is made happy by Silk forwarded from here by Iron mongers' shops were her the effort; a butcher can lay two to establish Zion as a State or a "Empress of Japan" on the 2nd favourites, leads me to consider this chops side by side and show where, nation. In spite of the Herald. October, arrived in New York (St profoundly interesting theme. She one is more admirable (if possible) John's Park) and Hoboken on the liked ironmongers shops best of than the other; the fruiterer can Tribune, such a promise was never 21st. October having been 19 days all, she said, because everything test, with his connoisseur's fingers, was so bright and clean and hard peaches and nectarines until the given or implied. The Mandate in transit.
Frying-pans and saucepans filled perfect half-dozen" are set apart; envisaged nothing more than the
It is advertised that the annual her with excitement.. There was an but the post-office attendant has establishment of a Jewish National meeting of the Anti-fui taai odd and attractive smell, too. Last nothing to do but woodenly serve. held in the ly, ironmongers more often had in One stamp is no better than an- Home in Palestine, consistently Society will be
Auditorium of the
Chinese stock the things you wanted, or other and no worse. All the artis- with the maintenance of the posit, Bridges Street, on Satur- less often did not have them, than try of selling is absent, and all the tion and rights of the Arab populaday, October 26, at 2.30 p.m. other shops. That was her opin-competition: so that at the end
lon, but, with all respect for the of the day, where the zealous, ... tion. There had to be a limit to
assistants, in The not
tourist ship Malolo is ironmonger, he would not be my clever, persuasive Jewish immigration, a limit imposed by the British Government expected to arrive here at 9 a.m. choice. For me, coming to the those other shops, get praist
on Sunday, and will sail at 5 p.m. analysis purely as an amateur and are flushed by it, the post-office at- but by the absorptive capacity of on Tuesday next for Honolulu and not in need of anything practical, tendant hurries away unthanked. the country. The aspirations of San Francisco via Manila, Bane. the shops where rope and twine "Do have some more of these nice kok, Singapore, Batavia, Macas- and fishing tackle and ship's blocks penny-halfpenny stamps"; "All the the more, uncompromising sections sar, Sydney, Wellington, Auck-are sold are infinitely more alluring. smart people's telegrams are long The scent of tar alone would take just now"-we are never tempted of Zionist opinion cannot be ex land, Suva and Pago Pagu.
me there. There is a perfect speci-to be extravagant in post-offices by pected to weigh. The aim of Bri-
Mr. B. de Souza of 133, Waterco men of this kind of shop in the phrases such as these. tain must be to prevent racial and Road, has reported to the police Hall is situated. The aroma of square where the Brighton Town
But how contented they should religious differences from leading that an Austin Seven which he what used to be called Italian Mer-be, the sellers of stamps and money to a repetition of the sad incidents left parked near the Star Ferry at chants' shops is very good too, with orders, that they are not called 5 p.m. yesterday was found to have their blend of varnish, turpentine, upon to extol everything as the of last year. An honest ef-
vanished when he returned for it and soap. And I like chemists, the beat; as dealers in old curiosities fort towards this end has at 10 p.m. The vehicle is valued old-fashioned kind, both their and antique furniture feel it their
by its owner at $1,000,
shops and their odd personalities, duty to do, and, perhaps even more been foreshadowed. There are
which must be very trustful con- so, the dealers in pictures. Few. symptoms of a progressive im pulse which should be admired. If keen Zionists are, taken aback by indications that the British Gov-
Leaving post-office attendants Mrs. Carr and family beg to thank ernment intends to exercise a firmer
The answer to the question, Why all kind friends for floral control than hitherto, perhaps they
are fishmongers always such nice. on one side, I should say that the shopkeepers who do not want to 1ributes, attendance at funeral may realise on second thought that imprisonment and 20 strokes was good tempered men? is, I suppose, sell are always preferable to those Second-hand booksellers,
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FRIDAY, OCT. 24, 1930.
THE JEWISH OUT-
BURST.
their own excessive enthusiasms assisted in bringing matters to this
pass.
Over-Production.
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A Chinese was charged before dering that any thief or ordinarily things are more annoying than to Mr. Butters, at the Kowloon Ma-capable kleptomanine can always be instructed in the superlative the sealing-merits of a picture by the man who gistracy this morning, with hav-get something while
depends for his living on getting ing disobeyed a banishment order wax is being melted.
rid of it. made in September, 1929. He pleaded that he came back to look for a job. Sentence of six months
imposed.
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that they deal in a commodity which can never hang
on their hands who do. Revenue Officer Tallon before The day's stock being exhausted for instance, often part with their Mr. Butters at the Kowloon Magi-with the day, they do not go to bed wares with great reluctance a stracy this morning, charged two worrying about the unsaleable and charge that cannot be rought Chinese with possession of 70 stealable treasures in the safe, as against motor-car salesmen.
silversmiths neither badger nor gallons of Chinese spirit, on which the anxious jeweller must do. What-wheedle; nor are they heavy swells duty had not been paid. The de-ever the reason, the fishmonger who do not wait to smoke till after fendants pleaded guilty and were is usually gay and even humorous closing-time. And what a beauti- fined $500 or six months' imprison-with a knack of making all his cus-ful stock they keep! Silversmiths ment each.
tomers feel unique: convinced that
Some weeks ago, at the Im perial Conference, Mr. J. H. Thomas dwelt од the paradox
it was for them and them alone have reserve and dignity, drawn, of over-production, saying that Arrested on October 10 in pos- that the soles consented to leave perhaps, not a little from this Fruiterers and florists, stock, with its noble and aristo cratic associations. Jewellers, sur- people are forced to go hungry session of a quantity of seditious the sea.
to cause a dealing as they, also do, with quick. because there is too much wheat, literature, calculated
to gather distinction, too, but do while many others
have to go breach of the peace, a Chinese who y perishable goods, should be as rounded by precious stones, ought
as the fish- at merry and courteous without decent clothing because appeared before Mr. Lindsell,
the Central Magistracy this morn-monger; but I do not think they not. The very nature of their busi- ness forces upon them worldly too much cotton is grown. As we ing, was sentenced to six months' are not quite-while butchers can The wild burst of resentment ex-all know, the world to-day is suf- hard labour. The defendant, a De a shade too independent. But shrewdness and suspicion, so that normally long-headed fering from a tremendous econo-Sanitary Department coolie, was chers can say or suggest "Take it the candour that can Jews in consequence of the restate-mic depression, in which all arrested in Queen's Road Central or leave it," but fishmongers rare-
hibited by
it had the capacity to produce so much at so little expense. There is either actually in existence or immediately
mark the silversmith and the second-hand book-seller is quickly overlaid. ly do that. And it would be ex- Every customer may be a thief,
ment of British policy in Palestine countries, are faring poorly. Yet,
cusable if they did, for they have is astonishing to the unprejudiced at the same time, there never was
A Chinese was charged before to be at Billingsgate by dawn, and every customer may be a swindler; and these. possibilities lead to cau- observer of the social and economic a time in the world's history when Mr. Butters, at the Kowloon Ma-short nights make snappy answers. tion. Again most of the customers who are financially sound are men gistracy this morning, with the All honour to them!
* * * theft of a blanket from the Em-
buying presents for women accom- press of Canada. An alternative At the opposite pole we have the panying them, and these transac charge of having received stolen apathetic people who sell stamps tions call not only for no little di- available—a great
property was also preferred. The and who seem to take a pride in de-plomacy at the time, but a carefuly plenty of everything that men all defendant said he was employed tachment and delay. This, I im-controlled memory afterwards. With over the world need, but because in a boarding house, and he had agine, is due not only to the fact so many complications, it is no
instructed to remove the that, being Government servants wonder that jewellers are sophisti of some defect in the machinery been
simplc. somewhere, this very surplus, this blanket and baggage, which be they feel bound to be superior, im-cated rather than
problems of that surely harressed country. It seems hardly credible that even those who now prate of British treachery could have entire ly missed the significance of last year's disturbances. Or were we wrong in thinking it accepted en
wires,
skill with which humanity can longed to a passenger. He did personal, and to suggest a certain There is one mystery connected all hands that the Wailing Wall
meet all of its wants. simply not know that the blanket belong importance, but also to the unvary- riots were but an incident in a much operates to make a bad situationed to the C.P.R. Mr. Butters dis- ing mechanical character of their with shopping that I have never
A fishmonger can display (Continued on Page 7) charged the defendant. larger problem, that the root of the worse. The result is that a great trouble rested in the fear, deep set many people, scattered all the in the hearts of the Bedouins, that way from the United States to China and from the Argentine to the wave of immigration which
Scotland, do not have nearly under the impulse of the Zionist enough of anything. Nor is that movement was threatening to in-all. Producers of various kinds, undate the country, would ultimate ly result in their exclusion from the soil which has been their sole source of livelihood for upwards of
a thousand years?
from farmers to manufacturers, complain that they are not able to make money-but retail prices remain high. The price of bread, for natance, has not followed the Resistance price of wheat down the toboggan. was natural to a largely illiterate The farmer's hard luck is not the people. The wonder is that the consumer's gain. Somewhere 'ut high-minded men who threw their the back of all of this there would seem to lie a major defect in our heart and soul into the cause of
machinery of distribution. "From Zionism did not foresee the deve-foodstuffs to radios, from blankets lopment; or sensing the danger, to sewing machines, mankind ut seek to allay the apprehensions of last is able to produce far more the Arabs by a clear-cut policy, than enough to go around; but this making ample provision for the ability is beginning to look more welfare of the fellahs. The British like a curse than a blessing. Government, which must bear its full share of the responsibility for the failure to give real guarantees of the economic future of the Arab population, in seeking to remedy a fault has drawn a hornet's nest
about its ears.
The first concert of the winter season was held at the Helena May Institute last evening, the greater part of the programme being sustained by the Hongkong Orchestral Society under the con- ductorship of Mr. F., Mason. It was a real pleasure to hear such a delightful series of orchestral numbers played with much taste and understanding, and future appearances by the Society will be keenly awaited. The supporting artistes were Mrs. Snowden. Jones and Mrs. Portallion, each of whom contributed charming songs, and Mrs. Shand, whose pianoforte numbers were much enjoyed.
Doubtless a good deal of the agitation is inspired by Anglophobes of the John Haynes Holmes type. This gentleman who apparently does not mind whether he supports the Jews or the Arabe but is merely enthusiastic infris-allegations against Great Britain, cannot even claim "righteous indignation" at In charging a Chinese with be the "new" statement of policy. He ing in possession of 14,000 dutiable: Fou Chiang cigarettes, R. O. Grim- happens to be the author of a book mitt, before Mr. Williams at the published quite recently, after three Central Police Court this morning, weeks' stay in Palestine at the be-intimated that the defendant had three false tobacco dealers' passes ginning of 1929, in which his bitter which showed that he was a criticism of the British administra-smuggler. He had produced one of tion cannot entirely be explained the passes when arrested yesterday. "A fine of $300, or four months' hard by the fact that he was writing for labour, was imposed.
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