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DAY BY DAY
THERE ARE MORE OPPORTUNITIES THAN THERE ARE YOUNG MEN TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEM-James H. Hill.
There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday.
p,m.
VALENTINE WILLIAMS thinks THE 40'S RULE THE WORLD.
BY Pr the exemplary trouncing he mysterious, and by nature preor-
ployment is traceable to world causes. Apart from this particular United question, however, the States elections are likely to have a marked effect on the future for eign policy of that country, in which connexion it was indicated on the eve of the contests, in messages from Washington, that a serious reverse for the Republicans would
administers to modern youth dained to rule its own destinies. his new play Mr. Somerset jund in some dim fashion a jolly be regarded as foreshadowing a
The public are reminded that in downward revision of tariffs. As the M. C. L. Whist drive organis- Maugham has delighted large num- sight too good for its elders. And events have turned- out, the ed by the Police Branch is to be bers of middleaged people who can- so ye have, had the revolt of other revolution in history, by won sweeping held at the Police Headquarters not forgive youth the fact that it youth," accompanied, like every Democrats have
this evening, commencing at 8.30 is young,
oceans of talk. In the meantime victories, a eircumstance which,
When "Three Men in a Boat" the elders, somewhat dazed by the in- apart from the other issues
The engagement is announced was first published married women discovery that nurseries no longer of Thelma, elder daughter of Mr. all over the country. bought the contain healthy, rather engaging volved, greatly increases Democratic the Pre- hopes of success at
and Mrs. G. W. May, of Hongkong, book merely for the pleasure of young animala but individual or sidential Election two years hence. to Horst, son of the late Hermann reading aloud to their husbands ganisms made up of obscure and, of how Uncle Podger hung the pic things known as the ductless Not since the late President Wil- and Mrs. Heitmeyer, of Remscheid, Mr. Jerome K. Jerome's description as it seemed, slightly improper
ture. In the same way I make no glands, get on with the job.. Bon's time have the Democrats come into power; it remains to be
A report by the Hon. Mr. A. E doubt that lo-day in countless homes
Chinese boys and girls are silently writh-The Workers. Been whether the effects of the Wood, Secretary for
They always have. They al- will. It la maturity. loss of a leather golf jacket, which which their parents are quoting swing of the pendulum will be suf- Affairs, to the Police notifies the ing before the unholy glee with ficiently lasting to result in a was stolen from his motor-car from Mr. Maugham's great diatrible ways
while it was parked at the Star against the pomposity, ignorance, the ripened judgment of mid- proainess and general inanity of dle life, that keeps the world re- change of sentiment in 1932.
volving. Youth, brought up, fed, the young generation, The Prohibition question has Ferry, on October 25 last...
housed and clothed, by the labour of Li Sul-ping and four others,
It is refreshing to find somebody (middle age sits back and discusses naturally figured prominently in
which have charged with conspiracy and arson
in connexion with a recent fire at at last venturing to deny the pre-what it is going to do some day. the latest elections. shown considerable gains for the 77, Wing Lok Street, were again mise that immaturity in itself is But middle age does it now. While "Wets." The logic of facts is before Mr. Lindsell this morning, somehow commandable and that youth is talking, middle age is upon which youth in its turn will steadily undermining Prohibition when an application was granted youth can do, or even, think no building, laying the foundations
for a formal remand until Satur- wrong.
Youth has had a long innings build, or which, maybe, it will des- in the States, and whether De-day morning
since the war, Newspaper arti-ry. Middle age will always mis- understand youth, because man mocrats or Republicans succeed at
As recently announced, the bigcles, novels and plays have analy-looks forward more naturally than the next presidential contest we
Ford tri-motored plane is to leave
reaction of the young generation, everything about his own mistakes may be sure that the Volstead Act Shanghai on the 12th instant for sed ad nauseam every impulse and he looks back, and fatally forgets
Canton via Amoy. Mr. Wallace
Rhineland.
is due for very considerable modHarper is leaving Hongkong by the displaying the most pains-takitave only the lessons he learnt from 8. Rawalpindi to-morrow and will ingenuity in elaborating recon-them. If youth found indulgence make the flight in the plane. It is dite apologias for youth's most for all its whimsies, all its vague possible that the plane may call at commonplace foibles and failings ropings, all its Immature ambi-
NAIRN-AL The Peak Hospital,fication, if not actual repeal.
on November, 5th, to Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Naira, a son.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY,
Nov
G 1934
POPULAR DISCONTENT. Ministers
to that
Hongkong.
It
The New Romance.
tions, it would never learn to stand Jone. A young man's mind is very onely; but it is in loneliness that
wisdom comes.
For this reason it seems to me,
Junior Premiers Honoured. Perhaps the primary point of
A Chinese married woman whe
With deadly monotony we have interest in the ceremony at the fell from the second floor of her, been served up with the spectacle
And so, while the young genera-- Guildhall when the Freedom of house early this morning, was re of youths and maidens, with india- the City of London was bestowed moved to the Kwong Wah Hospital tinguishable zeal, sowing their on agitates and gesticultate, and with deadly ac on Messrs. Bennett, Scullin and where she later died as a result of wild cats out of complacency, riticises often
Was curiosity or sheer boredom-any uracy-fis elders, middle age plods make more Forbes, consisted in the fact that the injuries received.
stated in a police report that she motive save only the natural atin. Most parents
for the foibles they are the youngest Prime accidentally fell from the window traction of the sexes amid a per- .llowances
represented at the into the garden.
fect deluge of self-explanation and if their children than they are That love is willing to admit to the children self-justification. Imperial Conference, Mr. R. B.
Captain W. H. Smith, of the 5.8. merely a matter of the endoctrines hemselves. They know that the Bennett, who has been described
Kuching of the Sarawak Steamship and that the workings of the sub-rears bring their own weights and To the student of polities. it, is as "a human dynamo" became Company died in the General Hospi-conscious mind conveniently blur measures with them, and that, by interesting to observe that at the Conservative Premier of Canada tai at Penang on October 26th the old dividing line between right ind by, in the fullness of time. moment the trend of popular feel-only a month before he sailed for Captain and Mrs. Smith left Singa- and wrong, was the message of youth will realise that, for all. ing both in Britain and in the England. A bachelor millionaire pore on the previous Friday in the this post-war school of thought. immaturity may do and say,
Carnarvonshire on Home leave. Romance became clinical: not Cu-maturity rules the roost. and a man
of great physical Captain Smith was taken ill on pid, bat a bespectacled Viennese United States appears to be moving against the existing Administra- strength, he is probably the finest board and immediately the boat professor, precided over the love The Stickers. ·
orator Canada has known for reached Penang he was rushed to stories; and in their denouement.
of hospital where he died at 6.30 p.m. of many of these the voice that tions. For purposes of comparison,
many years. Now 60 years
modern generation, Mr. Maugham. age, a great political career was Captain Smith was married only re-breath'd o'er. Eden breathed over that, in his terrific onslaught on the we may liken the political outlook
cently.
the madhouse or the mortuary.
as the French say, is kicking at an of British Labour as being sirailar foretold for him when he Was
open door. It does not greatly mat- of the Democrats in elected for Calgary to the local There is still a shortage of lady The Talkers.
er what the young say, middle age of 28. helpers in Kowloon, and the Poppy America, whilst our Conservatives Legislature at the age
Youth which aderes being made as its responsibilities which it does. may be described as allied in view- The forecast has been fulfilled, Day Sub-Committee of the British
Legion would be very grateful if much of hence the old saw about not lightly discard. Youth is un-- point to the U. S. Republicans. although he took longer than ladies willing to sell Poppies in children being seen and not heard stable, but middle age is steady. It on the morning of fairly revelled in this half-baked does not quit. It does not even walk Like Monsieur Bour-out on youth, like Charles Battle Yet the reaction in Britain is was expected to climb to the top. Kowloon
The Prime Minister of New Armistice Day would communicate nonsense. against Labour and that in America
Zealand, Mr. G. W. Forbes, is a with Mrs. Branson, Kingsclere, as geois, who discovered that he had in "The Breadwinner," however in- soon as possible. Street sales on been talking prose all his life with furiating the rabid self-conscious. against the Republicans. The little older in office. He succeed-00 minland have in the past out knowing it, it awoke to the ness of the rising generation may on going to the planation must, we think, be sought
ed to the leadership of the formed a considerable proportion fact that generations of young prove, but keeps in part from the feeling common to Liberal Party in May last and of the Colony's contribution and people had been clumped over the office, albeit with a twinge of heart- more than many people in each country that
for it is hoped that the Kowloon ladies head and told not to argue, but to ache; for middle age resents, being- has justified a reputation in some way the Governments are frank, outspoken and fearless will come forward again this year do as they were bld without ever misunderstood even
as before.
realising that youth is complex, youth does. to blame for the present wave of speech. His concern at the Con- unemployment which is adversely ference, which is now drawing not been with affecting both nations. It could be to a close, has argued, of course, that unemploy status, but with strengthening ment, springing as it does from the bonds of Empire. Of a dif world causes, would have been just ferent type entirely is Mr. J. H. Scullin, who has been Australian as bad whatever Administration Premier for twelve months. He was in power, but the average came to office, without any ́pre- voter is rather given to blaming |vious experience as a Minister, Covernments when things go wrong to lead Australia during one of and to give little if any thought to the most troublous periods in her the point whether the evils arise history. A man of slight physique, from circumstances outside official with iron grey hair and blue control
eyes, deep set and kindly, he has followed many vocations. First In the elections which have just
a battery boy in the goldfields, taken place in the United States a
then a miner, at the age of 21 a variety of issues has been before
grocer, and later a newspaper the people, prominent amongst manager, he spent his early years which are tariffs and Prohibition, in a somewhat grim atmosphere with the but it is evident from recent mes-in striking contrast sages that the unemployment ques- colourful scenes at the Guild- tion has figured very largely. hall ceremony. At the Imperial Last week, in fact, Ex-President Conference, the trio honoured by Coolidge was at great pains, in the the City of London have been the strongest advocates of the course of a speech, to defend the policy of Imperial Preference, Hoover Administration *}} this Mr. Bennett's name being as- point, arguing that the voters sociated with the concrete scheme should not hold the Government involving United Kingdom tariffs. responsible for the present economic They will return very shortly. depression and unemployment. He with their main objective took the line that the Government achieved, but, we believe, with had not failed to do anything which sentiments of practical goodwill could have caused a revival in basi-unimpaired. ness, and proceeded to point out that with chronic revolution. In We regret to announce the occurred at St. China, economic chaos in Russia death, which
Franels Hospital, Wanchal, yea- and grave disturbances in India, terday afternoon, of Mr Scyllo one-half of the worlu's population Danenberg, a well-known local has been turned into a financial broker, and brother of Professor Danenberg. The late Mr. Danen- liability, for which the Hoover Adberg had been ill for a month past. ministration could not be blamed. The news of his death, though not We can imagine Mr. Ramsay Mac-unexpected, came as a shock to a
wide circle of friends and Donald taking the same line in relatives. He had been connected gard to the depression in England; with much work in the cause of in fact, he has more than once charity, and was well liked by all
who knew him. voiced the opinion that our unem-
un-
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