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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1931,
A DIFFICULT ISSUE.
As we remarked the other day, the position is not made any the
clearer from the fact that magia-
trates in various parts of the
country take varying views of the
DAY BY DAY
SKY IS NOT THE LIMIT.
By JOHN RESSICH.
TAKE HEED OF BEING SHARP, ON morality or culpability of the
BEING TOO EASILY SILARPENED BY vendora of sweepstako tickets.
OTHERS, AGAINST TH10SE TO WHOM For example, in a recent case, aYOU CAN OBJECT LITTLE DUT THAT Bench Infleted a small fine and THEY SQUARE NOT WITH YOU IN EVERY OPINION CONCERNING 'MAT- recommended that the confiscated TERS OF RELIGION, Oliver Crom-TT almost looks as though those spectacle of these edifices erupting
The Empress of Canada is due here from Shanghal at 0 a.m. on Friday.
parception.
money should be returned to the swell. offender--- distinct Intimation that he should have another shot und risk whether he was found out or not! In other places, the law has been rigidly administered.
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Bousfeld Obviously, this is a most unsatis- turned to the Colony by the factory state of affaire, but to President Wilson.. remedy it will raise vory big Ianues. Whether the country as a
Amongst the passengers who left is never obtruded. whele is ready for wholesale for Home by the Blue Funnel liner Sarpedon to-day were Mr. and Mrs revision of the gambling laws, top. W. Tratman, Mrs. Gordon Yates, the extent of legalising certain Mrs. N. L. H. Rallton, and Mr. R. Fis not so much spectacular as a crowd the streets, by not only that
C. Master.
sweepstakes and lotteries, may be open to question. Certain sec- tions of the community would undoubtedly oppose such a move ment, but, on the other hand, there are probably just as many people who take the opposite view. the circumstances. it must be extraordinarily diffent for the
In
Government to take a devided line one way or the other. None the less, the question will have to be faced.
write people who
and talk amongst the old-fashioned, in- glibly about skyscrapers in this offensive and often pleasing sym- country and particularly in Lon-metry of earlier bulldings, is 4 clouded don are gazing through the wrong distressing example of end of the telescope.
They want to erect skyscrapers
Adding to the Crowds. and
where possible to widen re-streets in order to relieve conges- Wo come then to the practical 8.8. tlon-that is the sole and only and side of relieving the congestion. somewhat monotonous chant that But it must surely be obvious oven accompanies this idea. The anti- to those who have hot witnessed cipated increase in rental revenue the spectacle of the New York skyscrapere belching forth their We cannot Ignore the aesthetic devitalised myrinds, that to erect aspect of this. Britain has many buildings accommodating more beautiful cities and their beauty people would still further over
charm of character. We hear a number but with all the attendant good deal from time to time about human and vehicular by-products
that would follow.
.
In a report from the police in the New Territorica it was stated that the buoy marking a rock off Shek Ha in the Shum Chan River has either drifted away or has been stolen. It was last seen at 6.30 p.m. on June
5 Inst.
A public lecture will be given at the Chinese Y.M.C.A.. Bridges Street, to-morrow at 8 p.m., by Mr. J.-C. FitzHenry, A.M.I.F.E. Assoc. Inat. Petroleum Tecnologists, on the subject |
"Fire Prevention and Means of Combating Fires."
necom-
The return of cases of Infections hudsenses notified as having occurred in the Colony during lust week shows four cases of enteric fever panied by one ilenth, and one case of
"There puerperal fever.
were 62 deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis. The return for Monday showed one ense of typhold. fever.
A
The following forthcoming weddings are announced:-Mr. Ernest Michel- felter, missionary, of the Basei Mission, Talpo Rand, to Miss Johannu Eisinger, of the same address; and Mr. Rochus Jacintus Morales, No. 36, Sau Wa Fong, Hongkong, to Miss Percillin Maria Gomez, No. 19, Kwong Ming Street, Hongkong.
Suffering from burns, the nature of which was not mentioned in a police; morning, a young Chinese, Chan Kan. report issued from headquarters this age 17, of 57, Num Chang Street, Wah Hospital at 8 clerk last night. Shamshaipo, was taken to the Kwong
The injuries were a result of an accident at the lad's home,
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To this the reply would be widen the streets. The difficulties of that are almost insuperable in the business areas of our large cities, and in any case, no conceiv able degree of possible widening could keep pace with the immediate additional traffic.
The protagonists of the relieve- the-congestion movement might also consider the advisability of censing to chage shadows by making room for London's exist ing overcrowding through letting the evil cure itself. That might suggest an indolent idea but it may not necessarily be. It is merely an application of the great human principle that our sub- conscious intelligenes decides for us when we have had enough. Al ready people are giving up using their cars in "Town.
So long as the authorities" con- centrate, however indirectly, on encouraging the immigrant to large cities by struggling to make room, so long will they find their human and Vehicular problem in- creasing in precisely the same ratio as their efforts to cope with it. The most important factor of all to the question of health. Sky- scraper enthusiasts should be taken to study the appearance of the male and female employees one. sees hustling out into the streets of New York at what they with only too much exactitude call the rush hours."
If Intelligent thought will not convince, this spectacle would de- monstrate how idle it is to talk of widening streets to suit any height of building.
In Fifth Avenue, which is a fair example of the skyscraper condi
street whero
of
Man's Worst Enemies, Two great enemies beset the munity to-day, says Dr. George II. Crile, the famous American speelul ist. They are Infections and emo tions; disease and fear, to put it more simply. In place of the elaws, horas and fangs with which other animals protect themselves, man has only extremely high develop ment of certain parts of his brain, This, his greatest assets, is also his greatest liability. He literally con sumes his brain with worry and The Home Government is being fearr
A long grinding emotional compelled, by the forec of cir-strain my use up 100,000 brain The Kiss Waltz-Waltz (From "Dancing Sweeties")
method of cumstances, to take note of the cells. There may be George Olsen and His Music.
very confused state of the law on escape, says Dr. Crile, in an In- New Mayfair Orchestra with sweepstakes and latteries.
For tellectual approach to the problem. The fear of death is the worst of Edward O'Henry some time past, the law officers man's fears, for it begins as a child -"No, No, Nanette“---Selection ... „New Mayfair Orchestra with of the Crown have been considerand continues into old age; but it Edward O'Henrying the matter, and Mr. Clynes is fear that can be rationalised. now announceR that an enrly Only when chlidren are trained to
the architectural beauty and geno- statement will be made on the understand the physical aspect of
ral magnificence of recent build- subject in the House of Commona. Identh as a fact, will the race will
ings of the skyscraper type, but The very involved character of the be free of this terror. Sometimes
Senience of eleven weeks' hard mere size is not everything. Any- tion, you have position will be appreciated when it seems as if the whole story of labour was imposed on Chinese who thing more banal than the vast wheeled traffic ean run six abreast we point out
was caught stealing a jack from a Fyramid of Cheops has seldom with wide pavements on each side. that while there the race's climb from savagery to
Yat-from end to end that long civilisation is simply n story motor-car belonging to Mr. H. Hon been conceived. is nothing legal in gambling, of the
Nor will the mathetic side of handsome street is one solid throng discarding of fears. Sling, which had been parked in certain forms of gambling are not In the beginning. men feared Offer. The defendant was seen by for the average householder and
Pedder Street oppostle the Post this question be treated lightly, of humanity on foot or awheel.
Curiously, they are rather proud permitted by the low. For everything they did not understand, the complainant to walk away from trustees are very much alive to of it. No country in the world is example, a man who makes or and they understood little. The the car and when Mr. Hon Sling took the necessity for preserving these quick to apply the resources
him back to the vehicle, the defendant
amenities.
science to its daily life, yet great takes a bet does not break the law, ‡ thunder, the night. the wind, the threw the Jack, which he had con-
An encouraging point for those numbers of the people, the ma- but the man who uses a "place" glowing stars-all of these were cented under his jacket, into the car,
who hope to preserve rational jority quite young, working in or allows a place to be used for profound mysteries, carrying
cities as opposed to polymorphic these huge blocks are compelled to threat and a veiled menace. Even the making or taking of bets, the fire that leaped upon the stone Sanitary Board yesterday the Chair. interested in
At the fortnightly meeting of the monsters is that the ratepayers do so all day long by artificial the hundreds of light. And despite miracles of does infringe the law. He may hearth in cave or forest hut was n man (Mr. G. R. Sayer) sald he noted squares in London have asserted ventilation the atmosphere indoors use the State telephone system, or
mystery--a thing to be propitiated, that members were in agreement with and proved their rights to pre- and outdoors may be imagined the post, or the telegraphs for the sometimes a thing to be worshipped. the application for the registration of serve these from the onslaughts with the exhausts of thousands of 3, Morrison Hill Road, ground floor, of speculators and the vandalism motor-driven vehicles polluting the purpose, and the State will even We have gone long way since.
us n dairy. Those present at the of unsightly erections.
atmosphere all day long. rent him a special wire for the Coming down from the jungle, men meeting besides the Chairman were A trip through Middle Europe High overhead opens the alit the Hon. Mr. H. T. Greasy (Director should be sufficient to cure our across which the sun will pass and purpose of his business. But a scoff
of Public Works), Dr. C. W. Pope
hard-shelled iconoclast. send down its message of life for shuddered at; make use of clemen- (Medical Omeer of Health), Dr. W. most
have telephone or a telegraph office or
adopted the about one paltry hour each day, put their fore-V. M. Koch, Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, There they a postal service is not a "place" tal forces which
Mr. T. N. Chau, Dr. R. A. Castro American skyscraper iden in a Yet the natural air of New York fathers in fright. Few fears re-
Basto, Mr. J. H. Gelling (Secretary) hurry, and on it they have grafted la magnificent-it is almost as within the meaning of the Act.
mals, and those grow fewer with and Mr. J. Hargreaves (Assistant their own particular ultra-modern bracing as Edinburgh or Norfolk. It will thus be seen that the each generation. Sometimes one is | Secretary).
architecture of emelency. The whole system is a mass of con- compelled to wonder if thia'is alto- fusions and contradictions. I gother to the good. Fear is a tyrant, arose out of a traditional English but it serves one good purpose; it principle of dealing with cach keeps a man in a state of becoming problem as it arises, The Parlin-humility. The mysterious shadows at the edges of existence may hide terrors, but they may also hide did not disapprove of betting, but great possibilities. The mystic, they did disapprove of gaming flaming visions which help others houses. which were evil and to find beauty and joy in life, la demoralising places. So they usually man wito in greatly abolished them. They did not frightened by the terror and the disapprove of lotteries, which mystery he senses in the world. To abolish fear, as Dr. Crile ad- were A productive means of
vises, is a splendid aim; but it will raising money for the State. But
be bad for us if we abolish mystery they did disapprove of foreign as well. We know almost too much lotteries which competed with about our world as it is. their own; so they made foreign or other unauthorised lotteries
WATER LEVELS. illegal. There came a time when the home lottery was considered DETAILS FOR WEST,, NORTHI
AND EAST KIVERS. to be a demoralising thing, and then all' intteries were made The following table, fuaued by illegal. If Parliament had fore- Commission, shows in English feet the Kwangtung River Conservancy
seen Home Rule and a, “Dominion" the water levels on the West River, Government in Dublin, it might North River and East River on the
dates named: have dealt with this question dif- |ferently. AsˇIt is, while one Act makes the conduct of a lottery in England unlawful, another and an earlier ono punishes particl- pation. In foreign lotteries. It is under this latter that prosecutions have recently been taken against people In England for selling Irish Sweepstake tickets..
TENSILE FOULARD
SILK
TIES
Some points about
握着
TENSILE" TIES
1. Made entirely by hand.
2. Last longer than those made with the
usual rigid lining.
3. Each tie retains its shape to end of its
long life.
4. Far less tendency to crease.
5. There is just sufficient elasticity to ensure perfect appearance when tied.
6. Every tie is tested to ensure correct
tension and accuracy of bias.
Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
Men's Wear Stylists.
ments that passed the betting laws
at things their ancestors
June June
8 '0
· 8.1
7.6.
3.3
West River at Shluhing 10,5-14.4 North River at Tsingyuor 7.8 North River at Samshui 4.3 East River at Sheklung 8,7
The highest levels recorded are: -Shlublog, 41 feet; Tsingyuen, 20.2 feet; Samshul, 273 feet; Shaklung, 11.5 feet.
The lowest levels on record minus 5 feet at Samshui ana minus 2.7 feet at Sheklung.
"I guess I must be pretty crazy about her, or I wouldn't rush over and help her wash dishes for all her family."
I was, with half-a-dozen others, once in the company of a fine, dignified old gentleman, a retired American architect, who literally shed tears as he spoke of the part he had played, all unwittingly, in the introduction of the skyscraper in America and its consequence on the people's health.
With the sole exception of en- hanced rental from the same ground space there does not seeme to be one single argument in favour of allowing the erection of skyscrapers to commence in Lon don or any other of our great cities.
PHIPPS Supports
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The Society of Laundry Ep- gineers and Allied Trades, Ltd., has produced a prophet; which la.. of course, vastly better than pro- ducing a balance-shoot that will not wash.
gent'a
I don't know whether the pro- phot has a beard, but his society swears by him all the same. So should, considering that he travelled all the way to Sear- borough to lift up his voice and predict the coming of galvanised
wear and tin trouseaux. Those were not, I confess, the worlds of the prophet. It was in cumbent on him to preserve a clas nity of speech at which the most. upright Laundry. Engineer or the most incurably Allied Trade would, And it impossible to cavil. Here, then, is the message of the Starch
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