YOU
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1930.
Will Find that for
the Cold, Damp and Changeable Weather
"WATSON'S"
Malt Extract
WITH
Cod Liver Oil
WILL INCREASE YOUR NATURAL POWERS OF RESISTANCE.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
YOU WILL WANT.
MUSIC IN YOUR HOME
THIS CHRISTMAS.
Our system of grailed payments is a most convenient way of purchasing what you require-let us send you catalogues of Pianos and Victrolas, with particulars of our terms.
S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd.
(Victor Distributors)
Chater Road
PULLOVERS WOOLLIES GOLF HOSE
In choosing Fullovers, Woollica or Golf Nose, you naturally. pay particular attention to colour, design and quality. You can rely on the selection awaiting you at Lane, Crawford's, because the examples shown are bought from the best manufacturers.
Delightful shadea in Fawns and Browns, Greys and Blues, in fact, you are sure to find the colour to tone with your Flus Four Sult.
Smart Golf Hose from $3.00 a pair. Pure Jaexer Woollen -Sweators and Pullovers trom
$12.50
Lane Crawford the
MEN'S WEAR STYLISTS.
MOTOR
BARGAINS
CHEVROLET 6 cylinder 1 Ton Truck with EXPRESS BODY in PERFECT CONDI- TION
PRICE $1,950.
6
1927
ARMSTRONG-SIDDELEY" pas. TOURING CAR Model-Hus been completely overhauled
PRICE $1,500.
STUDEBAKER
DIRECTOR
SIX 6 pas. TOURING CAR 1927 Model -- GUARANTEED Thoroughly Reliable
PRICE $1,250.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
The Hongkong Shanghai Hotel, L
tocorporated in tongkang. 25, Queen's Blend (), and Boble Road,
The
DAY BY DAY.
an allotment would supply An equal sum, the total to be spent) at once for public improvements. By this method, it is contended, In the nation as a whole fully twoj
ALL MY FRIENDS WHO millioh men would be given work FOR LOVE AND BEAUTY EITHER BEAT within eight months. The scheme] THEM WIVES OF LIVE APART FROM
THEM-Disraeli.
MARRIED
It is notified that the name of the Yuct Steamship Company, Limited, has been struck off the Register.
may have its defects, but it in being put forward nЯ one that
Talkoo Club is holding its an- dissdets a large-scale relief pro-nual ball on Friday, January 16th: gramme and shows how It can be interpreted into terms of dollara and cents for each community This is only one of the plan which have been put forward, but it in one which haa, according to the American preas,
been receiving considerable attention.
On the general question of the
R. J. CRUIKSHANK on
PAMPERED PETS
the
OF NEW YORK. ·
GILBERT the Goldfish. In one, gorgeous pageant of New York
of the most valued residents streets, there are no figures that. of New York, 1 suppose there please mo more than those of port-
no other great city which ly and purple-faced old
KeuVernen keops so mar peta in bowls cocorting microncople pets. Pic- with the and tanks, that being an effect of ture, a Bank President, its unmatched congestion. The build of Falstaff, preserving his The local weather forecast till
vast section of e population which dignity as he keeps in step along noon to-morrow la-N. E. winds. lives in apartments. call them Fifth Avenue with Mercedes from fresh; overeant at first, clearing in-flate in London) finds it much more Mexico, a dainty midget who looks convenient to cherish fish than dogs light, a puff of wind would blow or cats, You #ew, there is room to her away. His Excellency the Governor han swing Gilbert in even the tin ast
I once read a report from some Hic Vaccinator, viee Mr. Ho Long bites the postman, nor perches million and a half cats in New York Hyn resigned.
ter.
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causes of unemployment, not only appointed Mr. Chu Ki to be a Pub-apartment, and he never barks, noanimal society that thero wore one
now
It is notified that from the 2nd December, the price of the prepared opium known Kamshan opium shall be $60 for three Taels.
In the United States and Britain. but in all countries affected, it is evil recognised that the springs from factors which are common to practically the whole world. For that renson, it is hard
Hia Excellency the Governor has to kee
what individual nations
appointed Mr. A. R. Sutherland can do to get their workers back, be an Inspector of English Schools, into harness. There will need to vice Mr. Edwin Ralphs, retired. be a big general revival of trade
A coolie woman was yesterday before any real relief can be ex-killed by two boards that were pected, and at the moment the leaning against a house in rourac prospects of this are not part of construction in Village Road
falling on her, cularly bright. Measures for the alleviation of the plight of all Some 200 counterfeit coins were A Chinese who was these idle workers must obviously found on be taken, but the mere relief of arrested on information receive
by a police constable in Des Voeux distress is unfortunately not suf-Road yesterday. ficient. The whole problem
A bankruptcy notification stater briaties with difficulties, and it is that a first and final dividend of $6 the tank of Governments per cent. has been declared by the almost everywhere to face there matter of the Sun Kee Co, of 161,
Queen's Road West. jin order to prevent even wors
developments.
Hongkong Telegraph. aistres
SATURDAY, DEC. 6. 1930.
THE U.S. UNEMPLOYED
000, though
PROBLEM.
One
Dow
The Labour Manifesto and Whitechapel, Extraordinary tion sounds, cuming
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the
Trom
sugges
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the roof at midnight to outaeream
the radio. Where so many people of which half a million were strays. are living on top of one another, it Since then I have been haunted by it necessary to have both muted he fate of these unhappy vagrants, children and dumb pets If the linking through alleys, cowering in murder rate is to be kept within decent limits.
any other part of New York. Perhaps it takes an artist to appro fate the grace and beauty of the ellae as well as the feminine. I inve
basements, maraudors of wharves and waste grounds. There are a great many human beings the world The Goldfish Test for Suitors.
"Love me, love my goldfish," says or who seem to have precious Miss Manhattan, presenting Gilbert fille conscience about abandoning or Gilberte (as the sex may be) to heir
pets. her suitor, and there is a general Aristocrain and Tramps in the Cot Lllef that there must be something World.
Everybody says that more cate good in a man if the family goldfish taken to him at first sight. The grave kept in Greenwich Village, the directors of the Natural History Bohemian Quarter of the city, than Museum recently gave their bles-
ing to this cult, holding an exi on of domestic fish, and I found the crowd it drew had the same
heard that same poets, apt, pet-worshipping look of those
piration in their pot cata; possibly nthusiasts who attend the Crystal musicians and painters and in- Palace Cat Show, Beautiful fish. nany of them were; exotic crea-me could guess as much from their ures from the troples, painted in work. There are two kinds of cats he hues of sunset, trailing stres
n Greenwich Village, the aristo- rats, who are the pampered dori- hem guaranteed not to add to the ners of rainbow tissue--and all of
ogs of the studios, and the tramps. soise nuisance afflicting this city.
vho live on charity. The aristo- rats are fine Persians and Angoras, ristened with flashing classical ames, such as Eros and Semiramis .nd Hellogatalus-or even Robin- on.
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Myriads of goldfish are imported tere from Japan, and it was comical The King's Exequatur empower-o note during the tariff debates the ing Mr. Douglas Jenkins to act as loquent plea made for a high duty Consul-General for the United in them, on the ground that they States of America in Hongkong has at a lower standard of living than
M he American-born goldfish. received His Majesty's signature.
riend, Gilbert, is a patriotic lau or he was born in a shop in Sixth His Excellency the Governor has of considerable militant apostles of democracy as
appointed Mr. A. W. G. H. Grant-Avenue, and he nearly burst hi lam to be District Officer in the ills with indignation Southern District of the New Ter-heard about this invasion of choir parrots out of the window. ritories In addition to his other Japanese labour. "Make the
igner pay," is now the watchword duties.
of every hundred per cent. Ameri- can goldfish.
it# extreme the Prime
when he
As for caged pots, I find there has soen a decline in their popularity ince the late unpleasantness over arrot fever. During that scare a umber of persons, with that readyTM ruelty which many of us show to he things dependent on us, drove
ind for a long time afterwards heir incredible coloura gleamed gainst the foliage of Central Park. t may be that I don't move in the right circles, but 1. have met but ew canaries in New York, except n hotel lounges, whore they sing
Whilst it is obvious to the out- side observer that the unemploy- ment situation in the United
States iM gravity, it is a matter of extreme the Labnur Party, difficulty
moreover, to nacertain just how wing many people there are out of work. Mininter could do worse than to President Hoover, a few days age, treat the economic situation as a national emergency and set up a stated that the number of wholly
Suprerie Council to tackle it To the list of medical practition- unemployed persons in the country with an energy equal to that era has been added the name of Dr.
Imagine what a dog's life is like was arrurately determined during which marked the War Council's Pang Hock-koo. Tung Wah Eastern
Hospital, Bachelor of Medicine and in a city of skyscrapers, amid the census in April us about 2,400,- prosecution of the 1914-18 cam, Bachelor of Surgery of the Univer-streets crammed with motors Aheir hearts out trying to entertain
The Whitechapel bysity of Hongkong.
large dog is about as convenient as the Labour Depart-paign.
at itotarians from Kansas City. an elephant in a tiny Manhattan The Vain Love of Love Bird, ment's index of the larger trades election was meaningless if it did}
therefore apartment.
mininture All the world loves a love bini. The silk forwarded from long-breeds have become popular. Trin At least that in the impression one showed some increase since. The express the growing demand
of the country for exceptional kong by the Empress of Russia on lttle terriers, and those tiny hair- zela from seeing the fuss made over latest estimate, which comes from
mensures in the present crisis, the 12th November arrived in New less dogs from Mexico fit as neatly these charming sentimentalists in the President of the Labour, if it did not invite the Government York (St. John's Park) and Ho-into this urban life as peas in a pod. "the stores. Somebody was telling Federation, puts the figure very to take its courage in both hands. boken on the 3rd December, having Portly New Yorkers on Parade. the other day that if the mate
been 21 days in transit.
In a city of whirling wheels, the of a love bird dies it may be rocan- much higher. He estimates the The Liberal candidate neurly
dog who walks stone soon comes to eiled to life by a mirror placed la number of workless at no less doubled the Liberal poll in the
Five Chinese women and girls a sad end, so every Mick and Peter its cage. Apparently its own re- constituency at the General Elec-' were fined $2 each by Mr. Lindsolf |trots out or a load. There are two flection-ia a compensation for the than 4,800,000, and hazards the view that it will exceed 7,000,000 tion. The proposals submitted to this morning for washing clothes things the average male in New loss of the beloved. I hope that the Government by Mr. Lloyd at a fountain in Third Street, it York does without embarrassment, isn't true, for no cynle has ever in- in February if the present rate of
the being explained to them that piloting a perambulator and walk-vented anything more devastating George undoubtedly provide
this caused unnecessary wastage. increase continues. If there are explanation, An
ing a little dos on a lend. In the fabout the nature of love. expert, doubt- good grounds for these estimates,less, could pick them full of holes,
Joan the position must be very much The huge
recommended time worse than is generally Imagined, might be inexpedient at n
when Mr. Snowden is contemplat- since the prediction visualises an addition to the runka of the un-ing a colossal war loan conver- sion operation at an early op- employed at the rate of a million
portunity. Nevertheless, Mr. ber month. Some little time ago. George's schemes have the great Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, speaking merit of boldness, and the country
un-
in the House of Commona, said he, is tired of economic theory, tired had been informed by a leading U.S. industrial lender that if the American calculations were made on the same basis as the Britishi
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of watching the figures of employed mounting weekly, almost tired of waiting for the Govern ment to do something in a big way
to save itself from heavy defeat
the figure would run into no less when it seeks the country's ver. than 12,000,000. How far that diet on its works. We realise all represents the case, it is not easy the difficulties.
We are aware
to say, but it must be borne in that Sir Oswald Mosley, the pro- hable author of the Labour mani- Mim that the British statistics
festo, broke with the Government take account of people partially
on the same issue. The Govern- unemployed as well as those who ment's answer to its critica are wholly idle.
as
hitherto has been that the Mosley Whatever the actual figures may programme and the Liberal pro- be in the United States, we do gramme provide mère palliatives know that the position has become at enormous cost. There is, how- sufficiently serious for the Pre-ever, a great deal to be said for the other sido. Britain has sident to appoint a committee to reached a pasa where she must consider schemes to devise some organies for a return of pro- method of helping those who sperity as sho organised for And themselves, without Jobs.. victory. Drastic steps are neces One of the proposals which has sary, perhaps not so drustle been put forward, we notice, is those proposed by the Labour Left designed to
Interpret a nation-Wing but breaking away from tradition to an extent sumelent wide programme in terms of in- to give confidence both to employ dividual localities. To begin ers and would-be employed. Even with, it is suggested that the palliatives cannot be scorned, In- Federal Government should np-deed, it may be argued that the propriate the huge sum of n Government will never get down billion dollars for unemployment to the seat of the trouble until rellef. There is nothing of the the outward and visible signs be- "dole"
come less aggravated." A system in thla scheme,
curo
which suggests that the money be demands a major operation; but allotted to different cities in pro- ebb, and needs nourishment and the patient's vitality le at a low portion to their population, with now strength before it can be per a proviso that each city getting formed.
"Be gulta candid.. Did you leave your last employer?" "Well, you son-candidly—his wife-
"You're engaged."
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