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SATURDAY, JUNE 13. 1931.
FIRE DANGERS.
water-flush
DAY BY DAY
WHEN EVERYTHING
DONE
are opened out as would be re- quired In respect of an entirely THROUGH THE BUREAUCRACY, NO- now building. The idoa at the THING TO WHICH-THE DUREAUCRACY back of this policy in quite under-18 REALLY ADVERSE CAN BE DONE standable, the authorities doubt AT ALL-John Stuart Mai, less hoping thereby to force new Itis Excellency the Governor has construction rather than the patch-appointed Mr. R. A. S. North to be
Deputy Clerk of Councils. ing up of old buildings. We have
His Excellency the Governor lins encountered the same idea in con-
appointed Mr. N. 1. Smith to be nexion with the installation of the Principal Assistant Colonial Secretary system. The point and Clerk of Councils. which the nuthorities appear to
The names of Miss Bessie Chen and lose sight of is that there are Miss Cheng Siu-yuo have been added list of practitioners. three, and not two, alternatives in-Both are Bachelors of Being a volved. If refusal to permit re-Surgery of the Hongkong University. construction of old property meant that new buildings would for a certainty replace the old one, then the Government polley would be justified. But what actually happens in the majority of cases is that the old property is left un touched. Whilst fully appreciat- ing the motives of the authorities.
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the Seven Wonders of toutable of olympian project is cap- Pyramid remains intact to remind Genesis will be rewritten, for man us of the days when, if a monarch will be re-created in the image of wanted to build, he recruited free now impersonal God, with fac labour from the prisons and mixed teries for churches and commissars his cemont with the bones of those for priests. who objected to overtime..
Every Individual quality that
I doubt if a thousand years has so far made for success, Buch hence the Robot race will be able initiative, imagination, fore- to select seven equally stupendous thought, thrift, and ambition will architectural achievements as re-be eliminated in favour of a new set of virtues which will build up His Majesty the King has approved presenting our age. the re-appointment of the Hon. Sir
Will our skyerapers and cubistic not homes but a vast Internation Henry Pollock, K. C., to he Un-casinos go down to history like the institution. official Member of the Executive Great Wall of China or the Temple) Council for a further period of five of Diana?
Within the last decade, in splto years.
The old world created by means of the unfortunate competition of stone and metal because it could rendered inevitable by the condi- not contemplate any other form of tiona of the labour market, the eternity. In those days Sultans exes have achieved something n and Emperors dreamed in terms of pronching friendship.
sleepless
This, to me, is one of the great-- counted, not sheep, but the um- wonder of the modern world. ber of slaves their mercenaries Sex is finding its proper level;
The mystery of it has been ex-
Observatory returns for May show that the average mean temperature was 77, the highest being 87.8 and | the Inwest 08.1. There were 12 inches of rain and 112 hours of sunshine The average humidity was 88,
masonry;
statesmen
Hu-
in their hope to induce owners to rebuild completely,
cannot At the service to-morrow morning could conveniently capture. overlook the point that, from the Union Church remembrance will man nature did not count at all. ploded with many another false be made of those who lost their lives According to the calculations of sentiment by the weapons of com- standpoint of public safety, an old in the Poseidon disaster. The hour the old world, that was one of the mon sense and decent knowledge.
colncide with that during which many things that would never will staffer the same fate.
Let us hope the bogy of equality will fire- building rendered largely
a memorial service is to be held at change. proof is Infinitely to be preferred | Wei-Isi-Wel, to one which, as long as it remains
We are informed by the Anderson altered, is a veritable death-Music Company that trap. The ideal thing, of course, Mistowski, F.T.C... is arriving in would be the razing to the ground Hongkong on Thursday next by the P. and 0. Hoer flawnipill to conduct the Trinity of College, London, Jurn vaaminations.
(of all the old buildings in the cunposted quarters of the city, but That is merely an ideal which lors not come within the sphere of practicality. These old buildings must remain until they reach the age or condition in which they are no longer safely habitable. Realising that fart, There is aurely some need for a modification of the Goverɛments present policy in regard to building reconstruc- Lion.
A Contrast and A Moral. Lovers of London will have
The bit of travelling at any thing trom sixty. to a hundred- To-day architectura is a general miles an hour, and of living among needs of demo-conditions which are developing Dr. Alfred servant for the
cracy, and the seven wonders of at about the same ratio, is bound the twentieth century, which will to alter not only our outlook but probably be taken for granted by our actual physical make-up. the thirtieth, are stages of evolu- Speed and its attendant nojac on instead of unyielding bricks have become habits to us, Our senses are acquiring a protective
Patrons are reminded that at the dinner dance at the Hotel Cecil to night Professor A. Barna will play his cynlad, metallophone, xylophone, and glasses, and that Miss Belln wil perform specialty dances. The din] ner dance starts at 8 pm.
Injuries sustained whilst dynamit.
ing fish at Tak Mun in the New Territories caused the death of a fisherman named Tang Lak, aged 61. The man was rushed to the Kwong Wah Hempital in a motor by his] chismen but he died shortly after
nelmission.
Some person broke the show case) the Tsun Wai Clock and Watch Company of 19, Bonham Strand be
Issues of grave public import- The Kiss Waltz-Waltz (from "Dancing Sweeties")
ance are raised by the disclosures George Olsen und His Munic. | made in connexion with the disas-
in Staunton Street, read with interest and gratificn-tween 730 p.m. and C-1887----"Show of Shows--Selection New Mayfair Orchestra with trous fire
and mortar.
Here they are, the temples, bluntness. monuments, and lighthouses of modernity:
Air-sense is reducing the world to the size of a gramophone disc. Individualism as exemplified by The unknowns will Boon sense t
exist. When the forbidden sities' The Mass-man which Russia is at-of Thibet are a nice week-end ex-
tempting to erente;
America;
be a The new relationship between the cursion from London, mystery will
word without meaning. Sexpx;
Wireless has imprisoned sound The habit of speed which is chang- for our benefit. Television will ing the human constitution; soon do the same for events. But Air-sense which is eliminating a left to aviation to bring every
space;
form of personal experience with- The Rationalisation of Religion, in our rench, so that, in due course, which frees Man from evory space will be eliminated and ex- thing but his own conscience and ploration will be as comfortable a emphasises the importance of sport as fishing with worm and the present;
font from a well-shaded bank.
Edoard O'Benry, } which resulted in the loss of notion the article from the pen of night and stole seven p.m. Inst. The scientifle prolonging of youth Soon the world will be too small
-"No, No, Nanette”—Selection New Mayfair Orchestra with fewer than fifteen lives, Doubt. Mr. John Ressick offering a stout
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The health bulletin for Eastern
for the moment is imminent to live on at all and we shall have when we shall cease to talk to use the nearest stars as bolt frivolously of monkey-landsholes!
and when the period of man's
defence to the onslaughts of those who would distort the city with
vigour, rather than his allotted The realisation that religion was elongated buikdiaks of the sky-
span. may well be three score made for man rather than the years and ten, York's spec. Ports published for week ending June scraper type. New
other way about is perhaps the Individualism is only another outcome of a war during which trol of firecracker shops, coner-tacular skyline has its appeal, but give the following figures.-Ten
cases and 1 death from plague lo name for the most sensible form of each side appealed with equal sin- ing which the position at present it is still to be hoped that the day Bughdad and one notification and one democracy. In average years the cerity to the same God. is far from satisfactory. There is far ahead when London with death in Prom-Penh. Of Cholera,
Calcutta lind 94 cases and 57 deaths; American system gives every man If churches are emptier in these geems little if any doubt that the present a similar appearance. The Chittagong 8 and 6: Mudrna 3 cases: chance to prove what he is hurried days, perhaps hearts are Staunton Street blaze would not contrast between London and New Pondicherry I case and 1 death: Ho-worth, but it is a machine which fuller.
The sevouth wonder of the mo have altnined the dimensions York cannot be better illustrated ilo 8 and 6: Prom-Penh 1 and cannot cheat.
| Saigon 18 and 9. Calcutta hud 14 Therefore, in the States, there dern world is as yet in an experi-
cases of Smallpox and 12 fatalities; is no sort of nonsenac about mental stage. which it did, and the consequent than by the latest developments in heavy loss of life, but for the fact the two cities in office construe-Viengapatam 2 enses; Pondicherry 3 equality. The man with the best! Presumably when the Cheopa cases and deaths; Pnom-Penh 2 tion. And in the contrast lies a
brains or the best muscles goes family laid the foundations of the cakes: Shanghai 1 death; Greater moral.
capitals, the Shanghai 2 cases and 1 death, Manila head and there is nothing to stop Great Pyramid their imagination movement is towards larger unita recorded 94 cases of influenza with him except the limit of his own provided them with a vision of the finished pile. So to-day, aware of in uilces, as in industry and in four fatalities. Bangkoit had four ambitions.
notifications and four deaths from But Russia hopes to Ko one the increase in man's health. Jagriculture. Centralisation of all Meningitis, Shanghai 7 deaths, and better. While we are still occupi-stature, and longevity compared serviegs in one building is seen to Grent Shunghal 5 eases and 2 deaths. ed with technical inventions, the with those of our mediaeval pro- Soviet Government is experiment-genitors, we realise that this is make greatly for economy and
ing with a new conception of hu-only a beginning, The completed efficiency. In
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London, Thames
that a, huge quantity of crackers was stored on the first floor of the premises, right, underneath the staircase serving the block. There emid surely be nothing more anomalous than the fact that whilst the law requires crackers exposed for sale to be kept under House is nearing completion. In roof is large enough not only for manity. The Five-Years Plan is work will mean the banishment of
New York, the Empire State Build-a helicopter but an aeroplane to the weapon which, if tempered by old age.
success, it proposes to put in the In America, where hygiene is an glass, as safeguard against ex-
Each land. To New York, the Empire hands of a Mussman-that is of important as ing has just been opened.
finance and much plosion or fire, no such stipulation is the biggest office-building in its State Building is the office of to- millions of men working with one more important than anything else, is laid down regarding stocks own
Thames day; to London, Thames House is mind for the benefit of oue uni-it is amusing. to notice the almost city. Yet, while
versal State.
complete absence of the old. which may be otherwise stored in House has only eight storeys and the office of to-morrow,
building. The absence of auch room for 3,000 workers, the Em-
a requirement in the latter in-pire State Building has 102 storeys stance obviously creates a very and a capacity for 25,000! There is a significance greater even than real danger, especially where, as
this contrast. The Empire State in the Staunton Street disaster. Building is a "record" skyscraper the building is jointly used as a in a city of skyscrapers. Thames tenenient house and a fire-crncker House represents the last word-in establishment. There is great modern design in a city where need for a reform of the law in Big Business is still conducted' this connexion. It would seem, mainly in over-crowded offices of from statements made by Mr. past age. The soaring of site valuea has caused American Wolfe, that the Fire Brigade de-architecture to climb skyward in sires registration and licensing of search [ 'economy and air. eracker shops, but, for reasons Similar conditions in London have which are not disclosed and which caused new areas to be developed to the layman-are difficult to un-as business centres. The London derstand, the District Watchmen's architect has space to move his Whereas the Empire Committee Is opposed to this iden. building. We suggest that whatever the State Building is built on the site of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, ground of the Committee's objec-Thames House stands on the un- tion, the public, safety, should have ciont Thorney Isle. But its posi primary consideration. Other tion gives it a frontage of nearly considerations are surely of 200 yards along the Thames. secondary importance.
therefore enjoys an abundance of Another point of high import-air, light and, above all, a peace and tranquility which the soaring ance from the standpoint of pro-storeys of its American rival can tecting the occupants of tenement never hope to attain. While Lon- houses from fire danger arlacs in don has its undeveloped riversido connexion with the Building Au-it will never want for office sites thority's policy in regard to recon- or need to go to the expense and struction of old property. It has disfigurement of erecting 100- storey bulidinga. The Empiro been stated in public print that in State Building has a must for diri- many Instances replacement of old giblos, but are dirigibles the air- timber floors, stairs and roofs' by vessels of the futuro? Thames coment, conerate has been refused | House is prepared to receive soà-| on the ground that whilst the planes on its river front while its
whilet
It
"Now, if you' drink your milk and go to sleep, you'll be
a big girl, like mother, some day--and then you can go dance
the way she goes."
In their stead are a quantity of pleasantly middle-aged poople, im- mensely interested In Ilfe, whose birth certificates would be a shock to everybody but themselves.
STICKS & OTHER GIFTS.
By R. H. Bretherton
[OW we who travol`light havo
Hthe world looking for what
we seem to lack! When I leave a friend's house there is a ery, "Your hat," and then a search. Some old hat, so long out of mind that no one in the house claims it, is found and thrust upon me as the one that I have forgotten. am forced to explain that I came as I am going, bare-headed. And I feel that I am discussed as a crank when I am gone.
Still, the world is kind. It ja always offering mo hate, If I liked, I could have made by now a big collection of relics from many halls. Old odd-man-out hate, hats past even garden wear——da: If anyone needs a hat in the garden-aro mize for the taking wherever I go. The difficulty is not to take them. They art thrust into my hand or clamped on to my, head. Folk cannot bear to see-mo. go without on
.one.
When once you are used to do ing without a hat you cannot easily take to it agáta. ¡50 I refuse, argu«: Ing the point even to the gate, whither I am pursued by friende *** (Continued on Page 7.)