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Balancing Up Life's Ledger.
By A. P. GARLAND,
leaders of the party to give the Conservatives no chance of return-
BEHOLD THE UNPARALLELED EM- ing to power. In the process, how FIRE RAISED BY THE HEROIC ENER- ever, Liberalism may be commit-GIES OF YOUR FATHERS; ROUSE YOUR- BPLVES IN THE HOUR OF DOURT ting political suicide, since, the re-
AND DANGER.. RID YOURSELVES action, of the electorate la likely to
OF ALL THAT POLITICAL JAR- be that if there is no very marked GON AND FACTIOUS SLANG OF WILIG difference between the Labour and AND TORY-TWO NAMES WITH ONE MEANING, USED ONLY" TO DELUDE Liberal outlook, there can be little You-AND UNITE IN FORMING A
THE golfer with whom I was tera on the criminal side have necessity for tho continued GREAT NATIONAL PARTY WHICH CAN
playing. was appallingly achieved of recent years? separate existence of the Lloyd ALONE BAVE THE COUNTRY FROM IM-
PENDING DESTRUCTION.-Disraeli. bad. He did everything with the Balancing Good and Bad. George faction.
Are
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lauder and Miss Lauder left by the Empress of Asia for Vancouver.
T
bali except hit it right, and as hu
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he We should go through the list It is, of course, early in the day
The Hon. Mr. C. 9. G. Mackie left meandered round the course
meticulously, noto with enthu as yet to speculate on what will for Shanghai by the Empress of Asia.rew more and more morose.
Finally, after he had almost slaam the cases whore "Acquit- happen at the next General Elec-
assassinated an innocent apocta-ted" told the story and register for standing at short lex, he turn-alarm whenever a broad-arrow
In tien, since there is no sign of an
ed to me.
the margin marked the destina- carly Dissolution, unless the
"Isn't It awful?" he bleated. tion of some luckless client. A Liberais change their mindia and
There were no notifiable diseases "Do you know, when I'm on thy careful average would follow, and
better then wo should know gamo I'm twenty strokes
whether pursue a policy of absolute indepen-reported to the health authorities on than I am to-day."
Smirks, K.C., was the man for dence. That seems scarcely likely Tuesday and Wednesday.
I murmured the usual words of our money or not.
But it la in the general estimate to happen, at least until the pre-
An involuntary Immeraton in the crocodile sympathy and let it go
told of life and its values that averag- sent worldwide depression shows
harbour was experienced by Chan at that. Yet I might have
For averaging life means signs of lifting. We can, however, Kwal, a stall fokl, when he accidental-him he was talking rubbish. For ing finds its best use.
ly toppled from the Mongkok Ferry when he was twenty strokes bet- quito appreciate the anxiety and
Wharf yesterday, but was rescued by ter he was no more on his game more than seeing it as a whole.
His real gamme
Certain people are addicted to cowern of prospective Liberal can- means of life-bunys thrown from the than he was now.
atram-launch Man Ying. He was lay between the two extremes. He the vice of self-pity, and are al- they didates, who feel that
convince them- ways trying to taken out without having suffered should have averaged. kely to be the real sufferers from any serious effects.
In sport the merits of averaging sclves that the buffetings of fate are reserved exclusively for them. have long been recognised.
They wilfully refuse to take into the present relations between their
Manpopriation of a large amount
necount the numerous Party and Labour. Frankly.
Applying the Rule.
Occasions We
is alleged by Chun Hol-wan, manager
when they have been granted must of the Tin Ping Pong, dealers
We look at the results attained more good fortune than they de think that eventually there
metais. with offices at 49, Bonham be a fusion between Labour and
serve. Strand, who, in a report to the police by our favourite jockey, and are what a small
Yet if we are honest with our- Liberalism, teading towards a re-last night, states that a foki had dis- staggered to see version to the Two-Party System. appeared from employment and taken proportion of his mounts are re-selves, we will, when envisaging
with him a sum of $3,026, which was presented by winners. It That is the natural expectation.to have been paid to a customer infus sometimes wonder how so against failures, gond luck against many lethargie animals can have) bad, thrills against periods of settlement of an account.
in cricket the batting and bowl-monotony and joys against sor-
rows short, we will average. fing averages are held to give a Then, in spite of Schopenhauer rough-and-ready idea of the merits nad his school, we shall conclade of the players. And in many that the adventure of life is in- other sports the rule is applied deed worth while. with success.
Pessimism
ANNA Conceivably, some
DEATH
BUTTONJEE-At Balsar (India) Dinbai Ruttonjee, mother of J. H. Reitanjee aged 69. Decply regretted. Shanghai Japan Papers please copy.
The
circumstance
may arise to change the outlook, but at the moment there is to in- dication of any such development.
Soviet Drug Proposal.
The Soviel rushes in where other countries Interested in the drug problem fear to trend. This
WATER LEVELS.
in
.
been wished on him.
DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.. The following table, issued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Commission, shows in English feet ja
the water levels on the West River, North River and East River on the
June June
casting no reflection upon M. Hope Hongkong Telegraph.molaff, who propored at Geneva on dates named
FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1931,
LIBERALISM AND LABOUR.
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9.5 10.1 9.4
makes
our careers, balance
auccesses
STRING-ADDICT.
By R. SCOTLAND LIDDELL.
a philosophy In other spheres of life, how-comes to grief because it falls to ever, little attention is paid to average. averaging, though valuable know-
edge might be derived from it.
time For instance, some the affairs of a certain company SECRETS OF A promoter came into prominence. and his financial record was laid Wednesday that the proposed con- j
bare. Then it was seen that for vention for the limitation of manu-
one spectacular success he had West River at Shlubing 19.0
had a dozen terrible failures. He factured drugs should include A
North River nt Tsingyuon 11.4
man who clause placing restrictions on
was remembered as the North River at Samshui 10.6
had been responsible for the Hata- materials. On the contrary, the East River at Sanshul 10.2
tion of the X Company with its Soviet delegate, appears to have The highest levels recorded are: dazzling dividends of 40-80 per struck at the very root of the pre-Shishing. 41 feet; Tsingyuen, cent. But against that was a row feet; of disasters which had left a boat 29,2 feet; Samshui, 27.3 Sheklung, 11.5 feet.
af clients high and dry in Caroy-curly age. Bat there are
men who are blind to the worth The lowest levels on record are street.
at Samshui and Had investors troubled to aver-of string (from the collecting minus 5 feet minus 2.7 feet at Sheklung. nge his enterprises at any time, point of view) until the wedding
they would never have glanced at knot is tied. another of his prospectunes.
raw
blem.
Until steps are taken to reduce poppy cultivation, a way wil) The fact that in two recent bye- be found by the drug traffickers to olertions at Home the Liberal and maintain their nefarious trade ia Labour Parties came to an unler. morphin and other opium deriva
The limitation of factory' tivos. standing not to run candidates who manufacture will serve to hamper wouthi compete with ench other rather than to destroy the illicit and so possibly split the progres-operations of well-organised drug sive vote, has raised the question ringos, While cocal leaves and in- of the likelihood of this policy be dian hemp are produced unrestrict- el, the dangerous narcotics derived ing followed on a lane senle at the next General Election, when from these sources will find their ever,it takes place. There is with way through illicit channels to drite out doubt a widespread feeling in both camps that nothing is to be gained by running Labour candi-, dates for what are considered safe by entering Liberals in constituencies which are strongly Labour in sympathies. This way, it is fult, will disaster to
Liberal seats
HARBOUR THIEVES
BUSY.
TWO CASES REPORTED YESTERDAY.
COME men are active string
collectors even from an other
A parcel is delivered at the There is a classic story of a house. sallor of Ancient Greece who That looks good string." the teamte nero a shrine which was wife says. wistfully, "It seems smothered in tributes to the god too good to eut."
Nothing to whom it had been
it is good string. dedicated.
who rough about it--none of the hatṛi-. They came from travellers had been saved from perils on the mess of inferior string. It is the sen through, they believed, the in-sort of string that could quite tervention of the god whose aid well be used is plcture cord. None they had invoked.
but a man devoid of any sense of binde tu Said the sailor meaningly, "I decency would put see no tributes here from the men string like this. who invoked the god's aid. but. "Let me undo the knots," the Po Die, a compradore on the who nevertheless were drowned." wife says, eagerly. Albert Sarraut dying at No. 18 That sailor evidently did care. "I'll manage them myself," the Buoy, states that his cabin was And he was wise enough to want husband says.
The string removed, the hua- entered during bis absence by ato average the first-ald work of thief who used a duplicate key. the god.
band whide it up into a ring, then and that money and jewellery to Similarly, it might be helpful to wraps part of itself around its the total value of $126 were stolen. average the work of professional waist, squeezing the round into an elongated shape 80 that it the sa. Tisalak, reports that heed a barrister to defend us in
Similarly, Mr. W. D. Leewe, of men before employing them.
Suppose, for example, we need-forms a sort of figure 8.
You'd
drawer," he says, with an because we consider it remarkable by an unknown intruder who stole to assist us in making a choice assummed indifference. that an assemblage of delegates from his cabin all the Japanese if we had before as a "tabulated:
Nonsense!-because he knows, and each meeting with the object ostensibly money he had in a drawer.
statement of what all our barrls-and his wife knows,
knows that the other knows, that in most households there are special bags. for string.
Two cases of thefts on steamers addicts. Yet the Soviet proposal in the harbour came to the notlee was rejected by the overwhelming of the police yesterday. majority of 43 votes to 2. The majority of the countries represent- ed at Geneva are dead against in- terference with raw materials, we are left to suppose, though it would le most interesting to have details of the debate which led to such an astonishing decision. We employ
Free Trade, which both Parties the word "astonishing" advisedly, was victimsed to the extent of $30 criminal proceedings, would itchen etter put it in the kit-
favour, be courted.
of finding ways and means to curb the drug traffic, should almost un- animously resist a suggestion which. is most likely to serve that purpose.)
The situation, however, is not quite so clear as it would appear on the surface. Indeed, there have recently been suggestions that the Liberal Headquarters are finding it increasingly difficult to get M. 1','s It may well be that the time is not and candidates to assent to any ripe for such a departure. That pact with the Government. In is a matter of opinion. But the this connexion. It is pointed out issue is not on all fours with the that in five recent bye-elections in Soviet's proposal for complete world which the Liberals have parlici- disarmament, which has also failed to find support. Iussia cannot pated they have suffered big re- ductions in their palls. The total honestly advocate such an idealistie solution of the arruments problem decline, in fact, comes to close on while, as a uation, she is building 30,000 votes, or an average reduc-up military resources to the limit of tion of nearly 6,000 votes per seat.available funds. In the matter of Note is taken of the fact that all drug control, the Soviet is on safer these striking declines and some ground, Russia has not been be othera which have occurred hind Britain and the United States have taken place since Mr. Lloyd in proving that any country deter George made his famous speech the drug traffle can do so with suc
mined to apply effective control to last December in which he announccess. The failure of M. Bogomoloft ed that his policy was to keep the to, obtain support may conceivably Government in office. Up to that be due to Russin's bad name. Mos- time, the Libernis were doing fair- cow, has to live down a tendency, to any ly well in the bye-elections, a fact some extent to believe that which Mr. Lloyd George himself apparently sound proposal emanat- pointed out in his National Liberaling from Bolshevik sources fa ad-
vanced with an ulterior purpose. Club speech. For example, - the Shipley bye-election had taken place only a few weeks before, and the Liberal nominee, although third on the Hat, polled nearly 13,000 votes
The Royal Observatory roports and was not a trent way behind that feeble anticyclone is the Labourite. Ever since, how central over S.W. Japan and a over, the Libernia have done badly trough of low depression extends wherever they-lave.contested seats, from: Tongking to the Balintang
WEATHER REPORT.
"You'vo sure kept, me looking swoll, Bert. As soon as some wealthy dame falla for me I'll settle that biland
::
the
“I'll find a place for it,” wife says, cunningly, and runs off to establish a string-bag.
The habit of collecting string, once formed, is permanent. Some families have got together string enough to last them all their ilves.
One of the benulies of collect ing string is that it entalls no ex- репие.
No tradesman over adde the cost of string to the recipients' ✩ bills.
To string-collectors. string is string. No length of it is too shart to be saved. There are, in all string-bags, string figure 8's which, when undone and stretched out to full length range from mere inches up to yards. But not all string-collectors. keep thoir string in forms of figure 8. Somo make a ring of string, and wind. the tail end round the rim.
These people, like the makers of string gure 8's, are known as Careful String collectors. Care- loga String-collectors aro - in an altogether different class. These last, though better than the peo- ple who cut string, exhibit an untidiness which Careful String- collectors cannot but deplore. They do not pause to tie their. longths
of string in shapely.
When they themselves. reless folk) have parcels to the caroless up, their quest for string has something In the nature of A lucky dip in it,
String-lovers, may be grasping, greedy, miserly, but, on the other, hand. there aro string-apend=" thrifis in many families, :string. marnudars, thoughtless" of "-the