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CHATER ROAD.
SMART DRESS TIES
The deep wing collar is
all the fashion and it
asks for a fashionable. shaped tio.
The "Savoy "Dross tio
is a largo single ond
shape which is neither
too modern nor too
conservative,
patent
Hore is which has had mar.
vellous success in a
fold where the novel
is dangerous.
The "Monobo" fe`tied_
with the simplicity of
a single knot to give
a perfoot double bow
in the latest cut of
fashion.
The SAVOY
DRESS TIE
MONOBO
DRESS TIE
Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
Men's Wear Stylists.
THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1931.
WATCH THIS AD. DAILY FOR GOOD AUTO VALUE
PRESIDENT
STUDEBAKER "B" 7-pass. SEDAN REGAL 1930 MODEL 122 B.H.P. LEA. THER UPHOLSTERY, under 5,000 Miles, in Perfect Condi- tion like New Original F.0.B. Factory Price G$2,465 (Lie- ence No. 55).
PRESENT PRICE 'HK$7,500.
STUDEBAKER DICTATOR "8" 5-pass. TOURER REGAL 1080 MODEL 81 B.H.P. Com- pletely equipped, under 45,000 Miles (Lic. No. 21) Original F.O.B. Factory Price G31560. PRESENT PRICE HK$4,000,
STUDEBAKER SIX REGAL SEDAN 1930 MODEL 5-pass. 70 B.H.P. under 8,500 Miles, 114"
EXCEL Wheelbase in LENT CONDITION {Licence No. 44).
PRICE HK$3,800,
teaching profession is at present unattractive. It le Telt, however,
that as the quality of the teachers
DAY BY DAY
improve, so will the pay, and, In turn, the quality of the material
ASSURE YOURSELF, THAT EMPLOY- which comes to the University.
MENT 18 ONE OF THE BEST REMEDIES The glamour of Government sor-FOR THE DISAPPOINTMENTS OF LIFE- vice and the possibilities of the LET EVEN YOUR CALAMITY HAVE THE law still attract many graduaton, LIBERAL EFFECT OF OCCUPYING YOU REMEMBER but the view is expressed that in N HOME ACTIVE VIRTUE, 90 BHALL
IN A MANNER course of time other avocations OTHERS, TILL YOU FORGET YOURSELF. will become more popular, In-Pratt. which connexion the increasing
Among the latest appointments an- need of many more engineers fanounced by the Admiralty le that stressed.
of Llout. J. W. Linton II.M.S. Medway |(Aug. 20).
YOU
HOW TO LIVE 60 MINUTES TO THE HOUR.
By ARCHIBALD MARSHALL.
all men
THEY say, that
aroshe wanted from it. You must." born equal.
spond your time on something, Well, they maybe, but they and the choice seems to be be don't stay so for long.
tween satisfaction and boredom.
Everything has to take part in
.
the general" share-out, which is There is no need to labour' this Many of these observations, as
point. about as unequal as it can be,
that Everybody knows we have remarked, have their ap-i
Captain J.. 8. Andorson, of the 5.8.
No Act of Parliament could mere idleneas produces boredom, plication to conditions here in Nanning, was fined $5 by the "Hon. Hongkong. There has undoubted-Comdr. Hole, at the Marine Court this equalise brains or skill or beauty, but idle people are idle people, morning, for having failed to fly the or any of the gifts that cannot and a spendthrift of time finds it ly been much wastage of effort on "F" pennant while his vessel was be bought with money, though they as difficult to change his habits students who cannot possibly hope passing through the southern fairway might prevent their owners got-as a spendthrift of money. But
ting their money's worth.
there are many who are not idlo on August 9. to attain that standard which a
But there is one article in the from choice and yet havo nover learnt to make the best use of university education should imply. As a result of being knocked down general share-cut in which over their possession of time. The position is somewhat com- by a public moter ear in Wellington body starts equal and remains
There is no general rule, unless Street last night, an apprentico named loqua!. All of us have 60 minutes parable to that of apprentices Fong Yiin, aged 16, of 47, Wellington to the hour and 24 hours to the it in "Take care of the minutes My next-door neighbour and the hours will take care of without the least aptitudo for the Street, received a fractured leg and day.
was removed to the
spend themselves." may have more money to work on which they are engaged Civil Hospital.
few than I have, but he has not more It is astonishing what a undergoing a lengthy course of
time and cannot buy it. He may minutes a day will produce if training; at the best, they can Yung in-fan, who died at No. 24, opend his time more sensibly than they are spent with a purpose, only become mediocre craftsmen. Village Road, Wongnelchong. Hong I do and make it worth more, but just as pence saved up will soon
Government
VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED/The conscientous employer should kong, on June 16, 1032, left Hongkongit in up to me to see that he does become pounds.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
The Hongkong a Bhungkai Hotels, Ltd. inscrporated in Alongkong. 23. Que Road C. and Stubbe Road
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21. 1931.
WASTAGE IN UNIVERSITIES.
10
estate which has been valued
of administration $27,800. Letters have been granted to the widow, Jong Sung-bang, of the Village address.
at not.
Road
of
be discovered long before they enter the doors of the university. It is useless to expect healthy growth from poor soil.
Germany's Credit.
Whilst
*
Dr
*
who said that in his long life he
It was inevitable that the com- occupant of the floor, the others The time spent over work may had never consciously wasted a
ference to "freezu" the outstand ing short-term credits in that in country. At present they amount to roughly 7,500,000,000 marks,
$270.
Women probably make better AT OUR STUBES ROAD GARAGE bluntly tell the parents of such
We talk of spending time, and use of idle minutes than men, unlikely inds that they are
using or wasting or saving time, because they have their needle- make a success of the calling, so
just as we talk of spending work. that they be given a chance
The millions upon millions of The following forthcoming weddings wasting money, and there is more
Work in that than a mere identity of stitches put into what they make taking up work for which they are announced: Mr.
Jare a standing example of piling are better fitted. So with many Charles Young, Claremount, and Misa expression.
time The more we look upon Jean Kathleen Wagstaff, of the same
which much from little, if the little youths who aspire to a university address: Mr. Lambert Gockchi, No. as a valuable possession
is spread over
time. length of education: their ineptitude should 14, Fung Fai Terrace, Hongkong, to can supply us with some of her a man uses his odd minutes in Miss Nancy Li, No. 2, Tramway Path, Lest things in life, the mor We making something with his hands, Hongkong.
so get out of it.
it usually means that he does It We wake up every morning with
for the part. But men seem to be taking In reporting an armed robbery to our fund of time intact the police, Mo Hing, concubine, of 31, day before us. Moat, of us will up tapestry-making and the use of It is at Lee Tung Street, intimated that at have to spend a large part of it the needle nowadaya. 10.30 o.m. yesterday four men entered in the earning of our livings, and east as virile an occupation as
playing patience. hor flat under the pretext of having another large part over eating
I think it was Mr. Gladstone gone there to repair the verandah and sleeping and the other neces-
one man guarded the only sitles of life. mittee of international bankers ransacked the premises and stolo
than quarter of an hour. The people investigating Germany's financlat money and jewellery to the value of produce more satisfaction
any, or it may be no more than a with exceptional brains, whose position should endoree the re-
ischlaf delight it la to feed them necessary drudgery. But it commendation of the London Con-
Letters of administration to the with time as it is with money; with thought and knowledge, know estate of the late Pang Tsz-kwan, the greater part of either is want the value of the odd minutes. and alios Fang Taze-kwang, alias Panged to enable us to keep going, and make good use of them.
To most of us it is more a ques- The problem of wastage
Chan-ling, travelling trader, lato of it is what is felt that makes the Sai Kwal, Mei Yuen District, Kwang-difference between a satisfactory lion of doing something with our lelaura that will make it re- tung, who died intestate at the Yung life and a dull one. Eastern universities in one
and the decision of the bankers Wo Nursing Hospital, Happy Valley, Of the two, the spare change of creative, but there are few who which a great deal has been heard really amounts to a conversion of have been granted to the widow, Pang time la more valuable than that have not some desire to add to from time to time, and, despite all these
buy their knowledge and to their gen- short-term commitments Wong-shl, temporarily living at No. of money. Money will
Thore- that has been done, by raising the into a longer-term loan. When 245, Des Voeux Road Central Local pleasures, but time is necessary eral mental equipment.
in which to enjoy them. We can fore, to put our odds and ends matriculation standard and by the position is analysed, it is re-
enjoy ourselves without money, of time togather and make them other Телия, it still remains vealed that the lenders really had
In the Supreme Court this morning but we cannot enjoy ourselves yield something that will grow. of the no option in the matter. The before the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph without time in which to do it. into an actual possession worth largely unsolved. Much
foreign banks share with the Ger- Kemp), Mr. Hin-Shing Lo, instructed Supposing we were to keep the having, instead of throwing frouble lies in the fact that many
man banks a responsibility for by Mesars. Woo and Nash, applied on stict account of time spent in the them into the rubbish students come from schools to the the unwise uses to which the behalf of the Chung Shan Knitting
Company, No. 21, Causeway Bay Course of the day, as some of us time just wasted, is worth taking universities improperly trained short-term funds in Germany have Road, Hiengkong, for an extension of keep an account of money spent, leome trouble about. and mentally unfitted for a uni-been useti. It must have been time in which to file a return of an how much of our treasure would to be simply wasted? have quite obvious that in investing allotment of shares.. It was explain-be seen
ed that the matter referred to G20 Time is wasted that been taught certain subjects, but these borrowings in fixed plant shares allotted on December 22, 1980, bring in something of satisfaction they can be useil, but I do they have not been taught how to and otherwise making the money and that the omission to file a return or profit.
illiquid, the German banks would was due to inadvertence, His Lord- assimilate knowledge. As a re-be in a difficult plight in the event ship granted the application.. sult during the course leading of a sudden recall of the borrow- ap, say, to the intermediate exed funds. Yet the German banke amination, the university has to do not seem to have experienced teach them what they should have any difficulty in borrowing. A learned at school. It follows that panic in the financial market, the there is thus a great wastage-a withdrawal of nearly 3,000,000,000 marks of credit in seven months
versity
education: They
of
estate amounts to $0,000.
SILVER FUTURES.
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
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not does
*
haay of
not
There are many ways in which know of a better way than to spend some of then, when we aru
some engaged in It is not wasted, or need not mechanical process which leaven-
it is the mind free, In getting BOBIC- be, in social intercourse;
•
ས་
the time in which we are alone thing by heart. that must either be used or else Just thrown away. Unless we use
necessary
Poetry would not appeal to,
but. there are
it to some purpose it may simply everybody preduce boredom. It would be much the same with money if man had any amount of it on Messrs. Pentreath and Co. have desert island: It would
be
facts and dates which we might ko to have at our finger's ends that could be memorieed in the same way. It is amusing to do
to Sixty minutes
wastage of the time and energies exposed this inability of Germany been advised by cable of the fol-Itrongure wasted, because it could this and does not tire the brain.
un- of
the hour, day.
of the university and a wastage of to realise is resources in cash.lowing quotations for New York not be used. money by parents on material Hence the moratorium and the silver futures as at the close of Time can always be used. In twenty-four hours to the which should have been found un-anxious conferences of the past the market yesterday:
fact it must be used somehow, for There is no reason why every October 1991 27.53 down 11. It cannot really be thrown away, minute of the fourteen hundred suttable before it reached the uni-two months. The desideratum of
German confidence is that she December 1931 27.62 down 18. ns a man might throw away money and forty should not yield some- versity. This was the theme of a
May 1932 27.82 down .03. If he had no idea of getting what thing towards making life worth
living. recent address by Sir Benjamin shall no longer live in the certainty, of a further drain Heald, the Vice-Chancellor of the foreign capital now the police Rangoon University, and S his measures which operated against renmarks have some application io an internal money panic have been! egnditions which apply to the relaxed. As pointed out by the Hongkong University in common Basle committee, Germany holds with other such institutions, it the key to the solution. She must draw in her horns to a consider- will not come amiss if we in-
able extent. An effort must be dicate the nature of some of his made to reduce imports and in- observations.
crease exports. Heavy outgoing" One point which many parents cannot, in future, be met by equal- and students overlook is that uni-ly heavy borrowings at high rates versity education is not merely of interest. Such a courée will only result in an intensification of an_end, but that it is also a means her financial difficulties and a to an end, that end being the fit final crash which no form of in- ting of students to take their ternational action other than shear places in the scheme of public philanthropy will avert. and private life. As Sir Ben- jamin Heald declaras, the degree is merely the stamp which; the university puts on its products, jand If.a university puts ita stamp
AND EAST RIVERS. on an inferior article, the article
The following table, lexued by the Is no less inferior ол that ac- Kwangtung River Conservancy Com count. The practical test of a mission, shows in English feet the water levels on the West River, North university is whether or not its River and East River on the daten
are employable, Innamed: graduates
Burma, with which Sir Benjamin
WATER LEVELS.
DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH
there are BOMe fiftoon millon North River at Samshul
Avg. Aug. 10 90
was more particularly concerned, West River at Shiuhing 248 24.5
8.1 18.21 North River at Tsingyoon 14.1 15.9 people, and there appears to be East River at Shoklung
8.8 10.5
no dificulty in absorbing an out The highest levels recorded ara: Shinking. £1 foot: Taizryben, 29.2 fect; Samahul, 87.8 feet;, Bheklang, There is, apparently, a demand 115 fest
put of about 150 graduates a year,
Tham Towant levels on record are
I've about decided it would be easier to kin
write another chapter telling how she found Happines
for more University-trained doc mini fest at Eamahul and minus tors and teachers, although the 2.7 feet at Sheklung,
Danger of Too Much Leisure.
By Dr. FREDERICK GRAVES.
A
ND what will you do then?"
I heard someone ask
middle-aged man who spoke of
rotiring from business,
go
"You've never done anything but
to the office; you will just break up!"
There was an inquest this week on a retired man who felt there was nothing left to live for since his occupation was gone and he had no interest to take its place. N
The Juanition that so often fol lows the sudden break from-a time of routing and fixed interest
very real menace to many aman of advancing years.
life
is
Mr. Henry Ford once told the American public they nood not fear working their President too hard, aince hard work nover kille
But one man's meat is another's polson, and that is' a rather flaky pronouncement from a gentlem who may be a great manufactu
philanthropist but a poor phy
and
Biologistelun, can tell s
Any men and women who were wor and slain by hard workowana That combination is one of best killers Hard work. times izlile, but often, in an ins [Way" Much depends on the
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