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FRIDAY, FEB. 27, 1931.
THE GOVERNMENTS DELUSION.
по
FEBRUARY 27, 1931.
DAY BY DAY ·
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TOM BERTRAM on
HABITS OF THE HAGGIS.
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ment that new taxes are not absorb. ed without question. We believe it to be the official view that tho Colony is lightly, taxed, but such an opinion ignores a very important
UNTIL THE PEOPLE REALISE THAT Index of the amount of taxation PUBLIC LIBRARY WORK 18 NOT A SORT community can stand, the cost of OF LITERARY SOUP KITCHEN, THEY living. Unfortunately, Sir William WILL NEVER PROPERLY APPRECIATE Peel comes to Hongkong from a1TH VALUE-Arthur H. Furnish.
TN dealing with a subject so gives vent to a singular purring Colony which has had the reputa- Shareholders of the Hongkong and
vast as Scottish animal life; it sound when fondled on the lap. Shanghai Banking Corporation are
By a remarkable irony of inte tion of being the most expensive reminded of the Bank's annual meet might be well to focus our atten- place in the world in which to live,ing at the City Hall at 11.30 nm, to- tion on the more rare animals the haggis readily succumbs to the around which hore erlat to-day, strains of the bagpipes, which Singapore, Perhaps, therefore,morrow.
unfortunately, lamentable ignor makes its capturo comparatively the cost of living factor has
While working at the
easy. Dugal MacSporran describes Hongkong unce and misunderstanding.
For example the haggis. There the hunting of the haggia thus: direct appeal. It has to be noted, hot had his right hard severely injuria probably no animal
Rope Factory yesterday, Chang Kam
nt the "Two men were generally employ- howover, that that estimate waned. He is now in the Government present time which has aroused so ed to hunt the haggle; one march-
Civil Hospital. made more than a year ago, and we
much curiosity, suspicion and un-fed through the glens playing a should be greatly surprised if a new that Investigation did not reveal both Hongkong and Shanghal have supplanted Singapore in the posses- sion of that unenviable distinction. The burden on the bulk of the com- munity is already approaching the Ilmit of what it can bear, and the warnings against imposing too great a strain are as plain as they can be. Preseat arrangements permit the Government a, reduction of $400,000 upon the deficit estimat. ed when the Budget was approved, that is accepting the Government's very conservative estimate of the probable receipts from the Increas- ed liquor and tobacco duties. Those arrangements are being effected at In cost to the Civil Servant and the tax-payer of something in the re gion of thirty-seven lakha. It seems
enough On
business-rocked Colony, if our opinion is auked.
Profiteering.
To
The question of what constitutes profiteering is always a debateable point. The Hou. Mr. Braga raised The Colonial Secretary's warning the issue at yesterday's Council that the Government is contemplat- meeting, when he uttered a com- at the action of certain ing a further increase in the Assen-plaint |sed Taxes emphasises, in its terms, storekeepers in anticipating the revined duties on liquor and I how completely out of touch are our
tobacco by putting up prices. | administrators with rooted public the extent that this was done, the opinion. The suggestion that the practice is to be condemned. There community has been in a spirit of can be no justification of Buch resignation expecting the threaten-action. When we come in the point ed increase would be comic, if it as to whether a denler should sell stocks bought before the imposition were not so utterly ridiculour. To
of the new duties on the old rate, a non-official mind it most. be
other considerations have to be obvious that the community, having taken into account. The same is suffered in silence an increase of true of any commodity which may
| twenty-five per cent, two months have been bought at a higher rate ago, might, with excuse, have been of exchange than that now pre- The seller's attitude in proceeding in the happy delusion vailing. that the Assessment Tax would be
Jeft alone for
softie
·
The Exchange Banks will bo openfathomable mystery amongst the pibroch, which caused the haggin at 0.30 am. and close at 12 noon, for lnglish and other foreign peoples, to emerge from Its lair in a state the transaction of public business, on Reems scarcely creilible that of stupor. This enabled the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, as recently as last month lady second man to approach stealthy living in Surrey, who received a and belabour the innocent creature March 2, 3 and 4 (Race Meeting).
haggle from a gentleman in Aber-with a claymore." Among the passengern arriving
Since the death of Robert Burns, yesterday on the Empress of Russia teen in part payment of a second-
and Jacking in the ploughman poot, the haggis has from Manlio were Mr. and Mrs. H. and high tension battery, was Ho Hallgren. Mr. Hallgren is the local-formed manager of the Swedish Trading Com-magination that she put it in her gradually been becoming extinct
due to the prevalence of large. pany
Bunkum's classle dictionary puta numbers of these dainty little the description of the haggis thus: animals being devoured by the "Haggis (plural haggi), a plan natives of Scotland as a token of tigrade carnivorous mammal living respect to the late Scottish bard. in a burrow, nocturnal in habits, On these ceremonial occasions the and feeds principally upon tad-huggis is cooked, generally bulled,
and is corried round the banquet-y poles, parsnips, and winkles."
The silk forwarded from Hongkong by the Empress of Japan on the 5th February arrived in New York (St. John's Park) and Hoboken on 24th February, having been 10 days
in transit.
the
Mr. and Mrs. T. G. 9. Alexander arrived by the Tanda Mr. Alexander has been transferred to the office here of Messrs. Mackinnon Mackenzie and Co. Their many friends in Kobe much regret their departure.
rockery.
The origin of the haggis is still ing hall by a claseman who is pre- a matter of conjecture. Professor ceded by a piper playing a lament, During his inspiring parade the Dugal MacSporran's book "Scot- tish Lums and Lore," published in porridge-lined warriors tuck their 1746, says that "the haggis was
boards under their plaids and weep
So overcome
with originally a native of Perthshire, copiously. Alleged to have had a quarrel with and migrated to the heathery emotion do some of them become, another Chinere at the Po Hing slopes of Clydebank about the time that half-way through the feasi Theatre, Wong Pak-yan, aged 28, was when the Clan M'Leod were mas and eternal friendship sworn, en- much handshaking is indulged in admitted to the Kowloon Hospital last sacring the Clan M'Tavish for night. He had several gashes over the right eye, said to have been caused by a per-knife. His condition is not serious.
the Public Health Service, Alexandria,
and deaths.
niggering at the story of Bruce achteel, ben
pecially after the toast, "Achtcel,
and the spider."
In its wild state the haggis in
louden achtoel," which is the Gaelic for "A man's a man for a that."
It is not an infrequent occur. According to the weekly bulletin of very ferocious, possessing arence for some of the more aen- there were, from the 4th to 17thous sting, although of antimental of these peat-begrimed of January, 75 cases of cholera, ac-affectionate disposition and a good natives to slips suddenly under the companied by 54 deaths reported from mother. The haggis is easily tam-tables, and stoutly refuse to vacate ined and made perfectly docile. The this retreat until the following the Philippines. Fifteen towns three provinces are reported as in- | Guelic-spenking crofters used to morning. fected, Manipala, Geeldental Negros, keep them as domestic pets until It was Robert Burns who m reporting the largest number of cases they reached a stage of maturity mortalised this quaint and playfui when they were gutted with the little créature in his poem "To a tener, which in the official organ of skeun dhu, and made into bagpipes. Haggis," in which with charac- the British Broadcasting Associn- The most outstanding peculiarity teristic humour he refers to it.as tion, in speaking on Science and Re- of the haggis is that its coat or the "Great Chieftain o' the Pud- ligion stated that man was the pro-hide, is inced up the back, and Itdin' Rave." curious and inadvertent product of an unfortunate accident! There you have it! Man is a mere inad- vertence, suys the man of science. "Thou has made him a little lower than the angels," says the Book of In other words, "Chrie- Books." tian Science" is a contradiction in terma-Yours, etc.
FUNDIST.
of
moro over
HAVE WE ROOM FOR SUPERMEN? X7HAT we call 'supermen' is jof "three score and tep” has bein "WHA
a certainty of science sooner overstopped, 'and your expectation of life as any insurance company or later!"
Those fateful words were utter will testify-has even consider- ed by the famous Dr. Varonoff ably incrossed. Yet, what are when discussing the inexorable these extra years going to do for Theatre Prices.
march of science. They come pat you? Will they increase your on- Sir,-With reference bo the upon the result of recent rooyment of life? Will you, as a Amateur Dramatic Club's forth- searches now continuing in a superman," earn many cases in that he has a right coming production of "Art and London laboratory and a chemical longer period, and what effect will to charge the replacement cost of Mra. Bottle," I notice from the factory. These particularly con- that have on your children or
the function considerable
the grandchildren? the article. This is considered posters that prices for seats are to cern ilme to come. It might even be sound
business economies. All be $3.50, $2.60 and $1.60, us against suprarenal gland, which contains suggested that fathoming the Gov-deniers do not work on that prin- $3, $2, and $1 charged hitherto, medicinal properties of which at The Return of Youth.
You will be fitter, stronger, and The new prices Include Amusement present we know little. ernment's mind on matters of this|ciple, admittedly. Many are con- Tax and the advertised increase in
Scientists have, however, -die-without fear." Very well. But and Dress
of what of the transitional period kind offers greater difficulties than tent with a reasonable profit on respect of the Stalls
covered that the secretion
the wealthier half of are to be met with in estimating buying costs, even though that pro- Circle, is understandable, but, an-adrenalin into the blood from the wher
less there is some very good roadrenal glands produces heroism! Britain's workers can have their the strength of public opinion, The fit be less than they would secure
if they charged replacement cont. on for it, it doesn't seem to me The contractions of the heart are/glande atimulated (at a price)
quite fair on the pit patrons to Government's failure. in this par- Those who act on this principle jump the price 50% while the pro-prolonged and Increase, as la the while the unluckier rost look on. Licular direction is lamentable, no doubt secure a bigger share of stimably more affluent play-goer is case with the arteries, and It has and grin?
This idea of gland atimulation- though it is plain that were the business than firms which insist only affected to the extent of about been found that a diminution in
this secretion produces what we not new, yet it occurs oftenor community allowed to voice their on higher rates. Opinions, may Some friends of mine who e-call "fear." Success in this parti-than might be expected. Only a views effectively, the Colonial Sec- differ
as to wha£ constitutes & joyed the play at home, have strong cular line of research will mean few months ago a rich Calcutta retary's hopelessly wide shot in the reasonable profit, but we fear that ly advised me to see it, but I am a the abolition of fear, the prolonga-morchant paid a cool £14,000 to dark would have been imposable.anything in the nature of Governman of small means and don't feel tion of life and the strengthening renew his own youth and that of The explanation is clear enough. ment interference would have un-like paying $1.50 when I think of the race.
desirable reactions in other ways. 81.10 more consistent. The community knows very woll
In saying so much, we have no that the Government, in the finan-love for the rank profiteer, who cial field, is a law unto itself. It deserves to lose patronage and in knows perfectly well that the Gov- the long run probably does. But the ernment will always proceed as it less Government interference with thinks ft, oblivious to protests. the flow of trade, the better. Only The classic example of this prove as a last resort should it be sought. dure was the adoption of the re- commendations of the Salaries Com. mission at a time when the finan clat crisis should have been fore- We can just imagine the fatmosphere in the Colonial Office in November when faced by a requent for the reduction of Civil Sorvants'
keen.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Christianity or Christian Science?
To The Editor of Hongkong
Telegraph.]
salaries, six months after heavy fit to quote Sir James Jeans in that Sir,-As Mr. Brearley has seen all-round increases had been 'sp widely boomed book "The Myster- proved. The publié occasionally ious Universe, I shall also quote ventures a mild protest, but it is which will demonstrate to your Sir James and from the same book
never sustained. That is the fault readers that when a scentlat gives of the system. It certainly, does in 'sop' to religion he always has not justify the Government in In-following illuminating quotations "something up his alcavo" as the torpreting this apparent apathy as will show:
a "spirit of resignation" to increas.Page 4.-"Into such a universe wo ed taxation. Resignation. to the have stumbled if not exactly by mistake, at least as the result of Government doing as they please, if what may be properly described as you like, but not resignation to an accident" heavier tax commitments. It is a that the universe can have been de- Page 6. "It sooms Incredible distinction with a very important signed primarily to produce Ufe like difference.
our own: had it been so we might Perhaps, the Colonial Secretary's have expected a batter proportion between the magnitude of the me- error of judgment will stir the chanism and the amount of the pro public to a clear expression of dia- {duct.”
agreement. They will eventually Professor Eddington, another pay very dearly if no such effort is which was actually broadcasted and distinguished scientist, in a lecture }}made to bring home to the Govern- Ila reproduced verbatim in the Lis.
16%.
PITITE.
his wife. Eight doctors were con- Thus is the Panimist confound-cerned in the resulting operations, ed. Alrendy his modest estimate which were highly successful. Indeed the "happy pair" were ic- ported to be in robust health, while the merchant again took ever complete control of his vast Intereste in jute and cotton.
"Wo'vo always lived near the water. Their father was a seafaring man."
Einstein has said that his own career was settled; not by his own inclinations, but by his glands. "Our endocrines," he said, "control our destiny." And in Britain, Germany, America, scientists are working day, and night to prove that they do, to stimulate them so that we can become "supermon."
The watchword of the scientists, like that of a platoon commander, is, "When in doubt advance." They obey, but perhaps at the ox- pense of humanity. Workers Would Revolt,
On the one hand research work- ers find that adrenalin can stop internal bleeding and restore per- sons. Suffering from collapse. Thus they serve humanity. On the other they advance, playfor upon the glands of the human body na they would upon a plano. and perhaps produce the monster nanied "Superman" They cannot tell the precise intellectual, and social effect of their work. They play with forces to vast for human
to pres conception.
He is to ve a hundreden hundred and twenty years; naventy | of which are to be devoted to ped- duction. In the abstract, a very pleasant theory, but in' fact a very dangerous one.
Just as in the past there wors riots and fierce agitation against (Continued on Jane T.J
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