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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1931.
tlone being acted upon. Of less importance, but involving a vital,
BARGAINS point none the less, in the efficial
attitude in regard to disclosing particulars of tenders. We are
in USED cars. told that it in contrary to public
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1931.-
THE GOVERNMENT
THE PUBLIC.
DAY BY DAY
TO BE EMPLOYED IS TO BE HAPPY. -Gray.
Corpa,
Interest to give more than the
The Kennedy Town Bathing Bench name of the successful tenderer. Why? In Shanghal, the munk-1s to be closed on the 31st instant. cipal authorities not only publish Capt. E. P. Minett han resigned hla this information, but they give decommission in the Volunteer Defence inlis of
every tender received,! including the figure tendered in each instance. What is more, the Hongkong Government itself, for a brief period, gave the amounts of successful tenders, though ex- eluding the details of those not nccepted. To any that it is not in
The Staff and pupils of King's have contributed the sum of $1,061.36 toward the North China rellef fund.
It is hereby notified that the names the public interest to publish of the Kwok Fung Co., Ltd, and of In the Asiatic Trading Co., Ltd., have more, without giving reasona
been struck off the register of com- support of the statement, merely pantes. creates an Impression that there is something to hide. This may be totally unjustified, but such is the effect erented on the publis micd by the official attitude.
At Tuesday's Rotary Club tiffin the debating speaker will be one of the mombers of the Oregon University team, and his subject, "America in the New Age."
(Winding Up) Ordinance, a dividend of $8 per cent, has been e- clared in the matter of the Instone Banking Corporation, Ltd.
Under the Companies
second and finni
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD'S WORKS?
By G. WARD PRICE.
IIE great world-engine of hu-¡tional methods of distribution, in- TH man effort has started a sori-sisting that speculators, middlemen
f
to
func-nothing of Communism, is now
It is losing power and and retailers set artificial limits on The Gazette contains regulations inous knock.
discussing the risk that same port production result only in a glut respect of dairies in the Now Terri-overhenting, Anxious people are consumption, so that increases in Lorien excepting New Kowloon.
of our complicated mechanism of
Plight of Silver. production and exchange may selze,
Currency crities are convinced and the whole machine break down.
What is wrong with the works? that the basis of bad trade is the The fuel-mixture is unchanged. sudden fall in the value of allver, is the only purchasing Human ambition, skill, patience, which
There Yet this dians and Chinese possess. Ingredients. ergy and enterprise are still its medium that 700 millions of In potent mighty powerunit, which keeps the uro social students who attribute whole machinery of modern civilian our troubles to the mercifulness of going, has slowed down to 30 modern democracy, which, they Bay, tion
by subsidising unemployment and per cent. capacity.
No problem in the world is being preserving wenklings whom the
earlier
condemned conditiona more
world's intensely and widely discussed
knew that our disappear, la reducing the
Commun thet this. We
working efficiency. The economic
system was largely haphazard growth, controlled only lat sees in our disorganisation the by what we vaguely call "the law proof that capitalism has broken Yet for down. The capitalist retorta that supply and demand." One other regrettable feature is
the promised land and well Russia, years it had worked many the Government's cold reception
enough.
but a capitalist sweatshop We chose our individual
shot out of of the suggestion that Unofilclais be permitted to be present during
The name of Mr. Arthur Fung, tions in the human workshop, or where slackers are
About the remedy for this world the preliminary discussions of the 772, Nathan Road, Kowloon, Licentiate they were chosen for us, without hand.
of the Royal College of Physicians and many mlagivings as to how our la- WAS Budget allocations. Tils
Surgeons, Ireland, has been added to bours would fit into this world-wide economic disease there is as much were com-variety of opinion as about its organisation. If we
One thing, however, that described as neither necessary nor the list of medical practitioners,
petent
and hardworking and honest, cause. desirable. Here, ugain, no reason;
Bankruptcy notifications state that we believed that we could count is generally admitted is the uni- versal scope of the affliction. On an appropriate reward. is given, excepting that the Gov-a first and final dividend of $7 per
unexpected but Even the wealthiest countries, And now, in AR
few months ago ernment must take the responal-cent. has been declared in the case Chang Chiu-kee, contractor, and a bility of presenting the Budget as first dividend of $8, per cent, in the unmistakable way, that confidence which until a
is being badly shaken. All over beneved that they were independ
of outside factors, are now co-case of the Kwang Mee Shing, rico the world there are people working ent П whole. Surely Unofficial
merchants.
just as hard as ever, producing just anxious about their immediate mar future. There is far more worry operation would be helpful at this
It is notified that is Excellency as efficiently as ever, Juncture; indeed, it might easily
the Governor in Council has authoris kets just as energetically as ever, about the coming winter in the result in forestalling needlessed as a place to be used as a Cemetery whose labours are failing to keep United States than there is here.
Such conditions lend to a criticisms at a later atage. But and to be known as "Cheung Chau them out of bankruptcy. This is
Chinese Christian Cemetery" a piece very serious state of thinge. It conclusion: That we are seemingly the Government feels of land containing about 10,000 square threatens to undermine the whole witnessing one of the fundamental baals of human society. Each of changes which have regularly re- & that it can very well do without feet, situated at Cheung Chau,
advice from anyone outside ofcin!
Health Bulletin
About every hundred years of Eastern our daily lives is one small mesh in ranks. Summing up the whole Parts for the week ending the 17th a mighty network of activities that curred in the history of the world.
following cases of stretches round the world. Should profound modification seems
mankind. These transformations. question of government in this last, shows the Colony, it becomes clear that un-infectious diseases and deaths there the main threads in that complicat take place in the organisation of from: Cholera, Baerah 32 cases 23 cd web give way, the whole fabric
con-are sometimes political and some- less and until some long overdue deaths, Greater Shanghai 12 cases. 3 might crumple Into tangled
limea economic. measure of constitutional reform deaths, Shanghai 17 canes. Small-pox, fusion.
The
of
On the whole, if we except the aninries issue, the official speeches delivered at Thursday's meeting of the Legislative Couneil reflected a
is granted, the public viewpoint Pondicherry case 1 desth desire on the part of the Govern is likely to remain largely sub- ment to meet, as far as it saw fit, servient to officlat whim and the viewpoints of the unofBeini caprice.
A Managed Currency? i members on the numerous matters raised. So much can at least be
The support lent by Sir Basil said in respect of the more import- ant items, though regarding issues Blackett to advocates of a managed currency for Britain and, ultimate of less moment there was display-ly, the British Empire as a whole, en regrettable stubbornness to adds a strong pillar to the struc- break from "olo custom." We dotare of argument which is being not for a moment doubt the Gov-slowly builded. Sir Basil's strong ernment's desire to push on with point is that the plan would point necessary development work, but the way to the re-establishment of a true international currency, "Bery- by reason of its financial policying the twin purposes of stable ex it is limited in what can be done change and stable prices. On the at the moment. It is, however. gold standard, he has litde to say gratifying to know that major but he in emphatic that it would be matters are being kept in mind, undesirable for Britain to make and that if and when the financial au effort to return to that standard until the conditions which have situation improves, projects which are temporarily shelved the pinged such havoc with Its normal given due attention.
One point, however, which must have struck those who have taken the pains to wade through the
working have been remedied.
COLONY'S BALANCE
INCREASES.
Wasted Crops.
clear now
to
At the end of the sixteenth cen-
the tury, feudal nystem in Eng The severe strains that are try- The police have received a report
A hundred years later the Ng Hung-hing,
managing ing the texture of world trade are land was replaced by royal auto-
cracy, from partner of the King Cheong Arm, 92, obvious enough. The puzzle is to
despotism of the monarch made Connaught Road West, in which he tell how they arise,
for the rule of the aristocratic why have been accused a partner, looking after tho Braziling planters business at Wuchow,
of the nineteenth cen- having throwing half a million sacks of Inndowning class. Soon after the
beginning Farmors in sen.
tury the invention of steam-driven Embezzled $8,383.63, manics received coffee into the by the firm between the dates of Kansas are burning their wheat machinery prepared the way for under: American cotton-growers are urged
this democratic system un- to leave one-third of their crop which we lived till the Great War. June 30 and July 18 of this year.
picked. Yet, while the destruction
And now it would seem that the of wenith is thus being deliberately organised there are unnumbered profound and far-reaching effects of gigantic upheaval may be millions of men and women eagerly or that into existence new econ desiring
those
Nature, products of and willing to purchase them with orale institutions whose form we The rapid transformation taking BETTER SHOWING IN the fruits of their own efforts, if can but dimly desery.
parties is no that exchange, which used to work JULY.
with almost automatic simplicity, place in our political p
more than a reflection of the world forces The Colony's credit balance at could be arranged.
The effects of this breakdown of displacement of the end of July showed an im
What we have to remember is proventent, heing $10,881,398, com- the old method of bartering goods which our generation has witness-
It in simultaneously im- world. pared with $10.665.014 at the end for services is felt throughout the ed.
totalled poverishing the Lancashire cotton that, in polities as in physics, Isaac of June.
Far cultivator; the gaucho of the change of state is painful." Our
lot is to share in the birth-pang the same month last year. In
$3.256,771, against $2316.118 for operative and the African palm on Newton's rule holds good to the seven months, the total was pampas and the Colorado miner.
with Where is the fault in a system of a new cr. compared
that used to work so well $19.003,157.
The
for July The Trades Union Congress trius expenditure $14,669,800 in 1930, amounted to $2,939,387, against to blame it on the bankers. Some
all respects, he agrees with the views of Trofessor Gustav Cassul. the Swedish economist, who com
Sweden's departure menting on
Revenue
for July
columns of official speeches in that from the gold standard, saya that $2.676.671 last year, whilst for the of the bankers maintain that war ondure them patiently. Strikes,
the Government is inclined to act the fault does not lie with Sweden. It is the international systern which on the principle of telling the hos collapsed. Moreover, he as- public just so much as it thinks serts, it is exceedingly uncertain fit, and no more. Taking the mat-whether a new international mone- ter of the Retrenchment Commit-tary system can be built up on the tee's Report, for instance, all that basis of the gold standard! The we are permitted to know is that demand for gold has absurdly in- it will probably be made avaliable tensified owing to the disinclination after it has, with the considered of Paris and New York to permit gold to perform its normal fune- views of the Government, been lon. There is no reason to fear perused by the Secretary of State, any heavy loss in the value of the. When it is borne in mind that the pound sterling or the Swedish kronn Britain and Committee was appointed in rea-abroad. As long as
Arm maintain the
their ponse to public demand, and that Sweden
power of their International its personnel and terms of refer-inner buying
will win valuca
Increased ence were duly notified, it is currencies,
Industriallets somewhat inexplicable that there stability. British Bhould be this reluctance to let the will certainly oppose any early, re- ratepayers know what has been turn to the gold standard by Great recommended and thereby gain Britain. The large reduction In Home knowledge of the extent to operating costa-na compared with the foreign manufacturer-is' which the proposals have been orairendy having its happy effect in are being acted upon. The Gov-foreign markets and, as Professor ernment, however, prefors to keep Robertson suid in his lecture at the the report under the cloak of Y.M.C.A. on Thursday, any speedy secrecy, meanwhile taking care that change would have disastrous renc- ita own views will be laid before tions. Great hopes aro centred in the discussions between President The rosult. the Secretary of State. Presum-Hoover and M. Laval. |ably the whole matter is to be dis-may be an international conforencs poned of before, if over, the public to go into the whole question of has an opportunity of expressing world currencies, the maldistribu Its opinions. Similarly with the tion of gold, and world cconales. Short of such an effort at world currency Mission's Report-the Government does not even indicato co-operation, there, can be nothing to prevent a furious battle between whether it has yet been received gold and paper currency adherents, locally, or fao, whether there is and it does not follow that the gold
Countries would win L'any likelihood of its recommenda
Have Patience! Bitter as they may be, we must seven months the outgoings were debts and resurations have thrown demonstrations and protests will compared with the world off its financial balance. only complicate the difficult pro- Many people denounce our interna cess by which the world is trans- ferring itself to a new economic $17.548,448, 513.897,890 in 1930.
centre of gravity.
"You see I want her to be individual; so I've always let hor do just-na 'she pleases."""
but
The duty of each of us, not only as citizens of the British Empire, members of the civilised of mankind, is to carry on scherly of transition. Our and steadfastly through
community
the peri
Rain
labours may meet for the moment with diminished reward, but if wo maintain both their quality and quantity, their future recompense will be proportionately as great · -
the
past. The needs of mankind will con- tinue, even if the machinery for Aupplying them elips temporarily. out of gear. The only thing that could bring the engine to a stand- still would be the failure of the energy which each of us in his in- dividual measure helps to supply.
The
Amid the Blow reactions of mighty economic forcos, as in moral evolution of humanity, the- truth holds good that "he that endureth to the ond shall be saved."
NOT WORTH AN OLD SONG
By A. P. GARLAND,
THE revival of "Plorodora" and other musical comedies of the ninoties has quickened the pulso and aroused the glamorous enthu alam of a number of middle-aged people. As a result, they have
• keada
thrown back telling "You can't beat the songs
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been going about world.
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