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WHAT RUSSIA IS DOING.
women and childron, the under- taking being under the control of A supervisor elected by the com- mune. There are extensive dor-13 mitories, with communal kitchens and dining rooms, to say nothing of nurseries where the children aro looked after. The communiz- ing of the farms, however, does not appear to have proceeded as rapidly as thut of the city workers. Many of the peasants have not taken kindly to the change, and some of them have been permitted to work their own little plots. However, the oventual aim is for collectivized farms everywhere. and already two-thirds of the pen- sants have been communized.
DAY BY DAY
A MAN IS KNOWN BY THE COM- PANY HE KEEIS, BUT YOU MAY KNOW IX STILL MORE INTIMATELY, THO- ROUGHLY, AND JUSTLY, IF YOU CAN GET HIM TO ALLOW YOU A PEEP INTO THE BOOKS HE READS.-T. W. H. Crasland.
The temperature in Hongkong at 6 am. to-day was 51, compared with 21 in Shanghai.
SYLVIA THOMPSON questions
BIRDS OF A FEATHER?
HE, notion that a man or wond cocktail-inspired profundities, man can bo judged by the reminiscent of the bar of an At- company they keep is one of lantic liner. And if these are the those half-truths which people ut a friends? Odd, since their taste aren't themselves in the least like. ter lo one another with a sense of in many ways fe clever and they profound wisdom.
this saxophone-hearted crowd.
hat may
In fact, you can no more absolute-
You discover that the 'Z's are Sir William Hornell is to distri-ly judge a man by his friends than
the businosa- bute the prizes at the Italian Con you can judge him by his hals, hie
wife, his library, hie motor, or the entertaining all next veat School at 6.30 p.m.
journalistic, litorary, and artistic of his nose! ahape Wednesday.
All then things may give some people with whom they work- useful indication of his character; which again shows you nothing, A fine of $100, or two months' battered hat may convince you except that the Z's keep their bread imprisonment, was imposed by Mr. that he isn't vain; a pretty wife buttered with gin.
On a third occasion-there is no It is when we encounter reports Buttera, at Kowloon this morning that he has an eye for beauty; a such as these that we begin to on a Chinese, named Ho Ng who good library that he is well read; one at the 2's but yourself and
was charged with having kept an expensive motor-car that he is couple of mutual friends. The re realise something of what is haply brothel at 211, temple Street. rich; and a prominent nose that he ult of which is that you come away convinced that the Z's have poning in Russia, and to under-i
in forceful.
On the other hand you may, an exquisite taste in human beinge atand why it is that increasing at: Two members of the Sze. Mei
-and in everything else.
The-fallacy In the whole notion tention is being paid to the de-contractors' matshed, of Lockhart equally well, have been misted al-
Road, were taken to the Govern-together. The decrepit velopments in that vast countryment Civil Hospital yesterday auf-merely betray that he is short-is the supposition that people need We may not agree with the social fering from wounds to their heads sighted; the pretty wife may not have any qualities in common with system which has been established caused by an axe during a fight in be a credit to his taste, but a tri- the people they entertain. Enter which the two men engaged. bute to his wealth; the impressive taining is so much more a matter of afalty, Somo and which seems to turn men and
library may have been provided for of taste than women into mere machines, but it Passengers who arrived by the him by an interior decorator (to-people like to have their table sur would be folly to overlook the ro. 8.8. Taiping from Australia Includ-gether with family portraits and rounded by artista and writers; W. heirlooms); the expensive car may others prefer polticlans; others. ed Mr. Wm. Russell, Miss M. sults of the operation of that sys-Russell, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Way, show him spendthrift, and that would have musicians only; others tem. Undoubtedly, big experi- Mrs. W. J. Plomley, Mr. R. J. Bir assertive nose may get no support will welcome any Lion-political, ments are being made by the Sa-rell. Mrs. J. If. Johns, Mr. and Mrs. from chin and jaw and be no more literary, or artistic-so long an be J. W. Hardwick, Mrs. E. M. O'Kane than a grand assertion of futilityruara ne gently as any sucking
dove" and writes his name in the* a six-inch gun on the prow of vlet, and they deserve close study and Master Derek Berk.
Visitors Book. by other peoples, Whether the consequence will be success Caflure, time will tell. The main thing at the moment is not to shut our eyes to what is taking place.
or
Owing to exceptionally low-water on the East River, trade between Canton and Walchow is practically at a standstill, with the resust that the prices of imported con-ilities In the East River districts are rie ing rapidly, while accumulated ex ports are a source of considerable loss to merchants.
candu.
Some hostessco, On the other Begin to judge any of the people band, abjure cleverness of any kind that you know really well by as a social evil, fear the artist as selection of external signs and you the very symbol of bad-grooming, soon realise how easy it is to be unpunctuality, and lack of manners, mieled. In fact you know X to be and consider that Names, Titles, unusually Intelligent, yet his bo- and Families are qualities desirable This typo of haviour at Y's dinner-party might in their guests, have led anyone to suppose, from sociability culminates in the enter- his silence, that he was dull. tainment of Royalty Sometimes
You know Mrs. A has a bank musician is admitted to entertain The police found a young desti-balance as fat as her husband, al-the Personage and the Titles and The vexed problem of communal tute Chinese girl, named Lang though her conversations deal in- Names, who alt in rows on gilt representation in India's Legislas Leung-ki, in New Street, yesterday terminably with the subject of small chairs and listen a little and clap tures again looms ominously as and had her removed to the Tung economies.
The Hindu-Moslem Issue,
their hands,
•
the rock upon which the Round Wah Hospital. The girl stated that Equally misleading are the im- But you can't judge these hos- people's friends. pitable people by their respective At a time when we are hearing Table. Conference may split. Un-she had been brought down from plientions of much about the dumping of Soviet casiness has been re-awakened San Mel by her brother, a mendi-Take, for instance, three different loyalties or Writers, Ambassadors make without or Actors-except as far as this because she was sick. whent on
warning. to one particular young gives you a sidelight on their taste, the markets of the among the Moslems; Dr. Munje'sant, who had left her in the street visits--which you
their irreducible
couple.
or their business, their snobbery or world, it is interesting to note the rejection of
Mr. Da Roza, of No. 1, Dorset On the first occasion you find their kindness of heart. developments which are 'causing ininimum has produced a reversion
Kowloon to the 1927 attitude of no com-Crescent.
was them in their lovely and austere Tong summoned before Mr. Butters, at drawing-room, entertaining a covey. People choose to associate with Russia, from being one of the most promise, and the temper of the Kowloon this morning. for having of uninteresting people all rather one another for so many accidental, primitive of all agricultural na-discussion is fur les encourag-discharged fireworks without I well-dressed, rather well-bred, and extraneous, impulsive, or habitual tions, to move rapidly along the ing that it was a few days aku permit from the S.C.A. on Decem-equipped with card-cases and very reasons that their associatos are no more explicatory of The one remaining hope of a set- ber 31. Mrs. Du Roza, wife of defen-cical gloves. Mrs. Z (your hostess, often path towards becoming one of the
the old days, tlement of the Hindu-Moslem, dif-dant, said that her little boy threw wham you have only met before character than any other accident most modern. In
from the verandah at the house of a mutual friend) or impulse, hobby or custom. ferences is that when the build- the crackers
He was not aware is being charming, apparently en- Many people will forgive qualities forming in Russia meant a vast
ing of the new Constitution has on to the road.
that crackers were not allowed to chanted by her company, and dis-they wouldn't tolerate in themselves. collection of very small farms,
been completed in plan, when the be discharged. A fine of $5 was enaing ten and platitudes with en-in someone whom they consider operated by men who scratched picture is seen in entirety, its at-imposed.
amusing; other people will turn the thinker You go home to comment that most brilliant talker and the soll with primitive tools. To-tractions will indure them to a
Mrs. Z has the most astonishingly from their doors if condemning him day, two-thirds of the farming more conciliatory frame of mind.
matters dull friends. In faet you discover for some moral fault. "collectivized On a solution of their difficulties mutual trust in other
later that you had fallen on he In short-anyone_may
have a gathered into huge State plats, will depend, in no small measure, would go a long long way. Hope "yearly" tea-party for the people pretty taste in musicians-and ba or be the Inveterate some of them of enormous extent. the success or failure of the new of such an outcome will not readly one never wanted to see but didn't ¦ unmusical
companion of a dubious neighbou Another time: in the house of the vet be perfectly virtuous. Friend- The land is being tilled by the aid I Constitution. More than that, no be surrendered while India has so like to offend......
Constitution can work, as Mr. Jin-much to lose by failure. of modern machinery as fast nanah says, for twenty-four hours
[Since the above was written,ante couple you might discover a hip, in fact, may be a good taste- that machinery can be obtained, without ready co-operation be. Si, Muhammed Shafi has made a bevy of shrill and ehrieking in-or a bad habit, a matter of interest, lividuala, of poster-faced women or of kinducas-It may be a foible effort appears to between all the communities. The new offer which, it is hoped may and allck-nuited menan atmos or a fad—but it isn't, to any reli- and every
phere of mildly alcoholic witticism ible extent, a test of character. made to farm it in the most up-to-ideal of the unity of India, in-lend to a settlement.]
area has been
date and eßèient manner.
spired by the awakening of the It is not always easy to get to national consciousness, may best know exactly what is happening in be promoted, as the Hindus point out, if it Anda first expression in Russia under the new farming joint political institutions. Never- system. but an observer who hastheless, there cannot fail to be visited the country and seen the sympathy for the apprehensions developments with his own eyes of the minoritles in a self-govern- has disclosed some interesting ing India and for their insistence facts. Obviously, a.given number upon protection of their rights nad It has been suggested of tractors on a collectivized farm interests,
that, the communitles being unable can cultivate a greater aerenge to reach a settlement, the British than a similar number of machines Government should follow the re- scattered over individual farm, commendations of the Government beenuse intensive organisation of India in the despatch of Sep- makes for a more emetent use of tember last. The Viceroy and his the machinery. According to the Council were then of the opinion, in agreement with the Simon observer mentioned, there is in one
Provincial place a Soviet farm of more than Commission and the
Governments, that separate com- a million acres, where nearly four muni electorates, should aut be hundred tractors are in use. Fif. taken away without the consent of teen thousand workers are employ the community concerned and that ed here. The great change in such consent should require the agricultural methods thus betoken- votos of two-thirds of the mem- ed has already produced two signi-bers in the Legislature of the com- munity concerned. The Govern- ficant results. In the first place,ment of India exp' ned "on the It has greatly increased the pro- more general aspects of this baf- duction of Russia's farms. Even ding problem that it may be.a legi- afthough the programme is far timato grievance to deprive Mos- from complete, it is declared that lems in the Punjab and In Bengal Russia to-day is producing fifty (where they form a majority of the population) of representation per cent, more farm products than in the Councils in proportion to in Czarist, daya. This production, their populations moroly because it is believed, will keep on rising of the weightage allowed to Moa- each year, and it can be offered to ten minorities oleowhere," Dr. world markets at a price below Moonje's refusal to accept this lat which the farmers of other coun- ter principle, when allled to Mos- tries can possibly meet because the lem readiness to accept joint elec Jabour costs are so much lower.toratea cleowhere, is the cause of In the second place, the workers titude to-day. Consequently, the the stiffening of the Moslem at- are strictly communized. As an Hindus cannot be regarded as on- example, it may be mentioned that tirely free from blame, if blame on ono farm, which was a noble- is to be apportioned. On broader man's estate before the revolution, issues, there is an extraordinarily there are some three hundred men, gratifying unity of view, and
thusiasm.
saw the boss out with
dame last night old enough to be.