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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1931;
THE DEPRESSION IN AMERICA.
The depression in the United Statca, as in many other countries, in being reflected in many ways. For example. the people have taken to hoarding their ready cash, according to an Investors'
DAY BY DAY
1 REGARD THAT MAN AS LOST, WHO HAS LOST 118 SENSE OF SHAME.—- Plautun.
The P. and O. as. Rajputana is dus from Home at 4 pm, on Thursday,
Adence in national destiny has faded; the most forthright patriot wonders, now and then, if these infamous Russians may not, con- calvably, know something that it would be good for us to know too. Having lost our belief in a grant many things, we have lost much of our belief in ourselves, and it is bad for us. That, very likely, is why the people of America are taking this deprcesion so much to heart. Visitors from Europe have wondered why they feel so badly: America's depression, they say, is nothing compared to what the Germaús are putting up with, but
Cay. Claudio Cortini, counsellor of they are more vocal about it than the Italian Legation In Peking, is all the European nations put to-visiting Hongkong. rother. The answer probably that America is feeling the nction from the high hopes used to have.
Ia
The Ben Line a.s. Bentomond, from Home via Straits, is due here on the 8th instant.
In
Pack Your TIME and Šays SIR HENRY HADOW. MIND.
One morning, when I was staying him to emphasise the instances in an Austrian village, there favour of a hypothesis and to dia- arrived unexpectedly a number of regard the exceptions on the other pilgrims, on their way to a neigh-side. bouring shrine, all clarnerous and The second comes from the blan
and
prejudice of individual ob- The walters were nonplussed; servers. The three doctors in Mr. they fluttered helplessly round the Shaw's play could never hope to innyard distributing at random, come to agreement-one
The P. and 0.8.5. Alipore, from all demanding food. Shanghai is due hero at noon on Wednesday.
leavea
Struck by a heavy piece of iron from a crane early this morning, workman at the Taikos Sugar Refinery was admitted into hospital with fractured shin-bone,
and
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and the result was that one man laboratory researcher who looks at | science through a 'sust-tube, one got a knife but no fork, another dish but no plate, another a cup a surgeon with a favourite opora- but nothing to put inte it, andtion, one a general practitioner nobody was satisfled.
who looks on sern und aurgery with The Empress of Japan re-Maullu at 4 p.m. to-day and is diuc of this by the contents of my post.
I have sometimes been reminded jan equally tolerant disbelief. site here at 9 a.m. on Wednesday.
The letters are many bag.
The Personal Das. a largo
History, again, is more often the urgent; they deal with The Harbour Muster, Canton, re-variety of subjects, there ja
A portrayal of its writer than of its To quote again from an Ameri-porta that a derelict Junk three danger of letting them press and subject: the Abbe Migne tella us can commentator:-"We are bud-ables cant of Sampaschuw. Cant jostle wich other out of attention, that the religious persecutions
River, and is ungerous toínavigation, ty confused about everything.
of Interrupting each to give a hand which defaced the reigns of Henry to the next, and so the time goes by VIII, and Edward VI., ceased for Being badly confused. we can't
time under Mary, to break out see through the clouds anywhere.
and there is nothing done.
Fhurried work is always hasty, with renewed violence under Eliza We cannot make ourselves bolleve
and busty work is nearly always beth. We
scamped.. that hard times will ever end.
But there is no need to multiply examples. A week-old description cannot realize that ultimately we
Bad Work and Hurry.
of a street-accident will contain al- The Hon. Inspector General of Po- shall get back our lost self-con-lice advertises that all Civil Associa A great employer once told me most as many versions as there
to that when, in visiting his shops, he were witnesses to record it. fidence. We are paying, perhaps, tions and Individuals, who wish
place wreaths on the Cenotaph at the found a workman speeding up his The third and most fruitful for the cockiness with which we conclusion of the Service on Armin job at high pressure, he always source of error is our careless and accepted
years of good tice Day, should inform him, in writ-
gave that man a bad mark. "It inaccurate use of words. There are ing before November & sa that accommeuns," he said, "that he has some names to which no fact cor- fortune."
modation way he arranged within the neglected something and is trying responds, like the Painter's Island Police barrier.
to make up arrears."
of the old maps and the Peretorion Packing time is like packing a of the old herbals: others, like In the Supreme Court this morning tortmanteau.
Socialism, borty, self-expression, hefore the Chief Justico (Sir Joseph ||
One man puts in everything that do represent realities, but are so Kemp an application on behalf of the Hotel Nating, Limited, No. 320, Na- by any stretch of imagination he vague and indeterminate that they sources of than Road, for an extension of time of could expect to use, and the port-have become fruitful
confusion. seven days to file a return of an allot. manteau will not shut. ment of 500 shares, was granted. The Another vacillates and delays The fourth is over addition to application was made by Mr. Hin- over the process and hovers until systems which have become obsolete
The disses his train.
in the progress of further di Shing Le, instructed by Mr. II. Lo.
Another flings in an armful, and covery. The Ptolemale astronomy. the A 20-year-old Chinese youth named finds at his journey's end that his
gavo way before Copernicus, Sit Shek was brought before Mr. sponge is among his pyjamas and boundaries of the Newtonian phy Fraser this morning at the Kowloon his boots among his dress shirts. sics have been enlarged by Ein- And the fine flower of both arts atein: it is equally foolish to dis Magistracy on two serious charges in A. Cavey appeared for the defence. Sub-Inspector Michael Murphy was spaces. for the prosecution and asked for n week's formal remand, which кля granted.
our
CHINA EXHIBITION.
OPENING ON THURSDAY AT
ing the opening speech in English respect of a three-year-old girl. Mr.is to know how to utilise the smallparage our great men and to accept
their conclusions as eternally valid..
No doubt Bacon was wrong in Loose Ends of Time.
holding that his method would There are many pople who have "equalive all intellects." No method no idea what to do with themselves without genius could have given u if lunch is five minutes late. They Faraday, as no Faraday without brought un could, if they were so minded, look method could have
most
THE CITY HALL Thursday is the first day of the eagerly-awaited China Exhibition which will be opened by His Excel. lency the Governor and Sir Shou- son Chow. The opening ceremony will take place at 3 p.m. in the Theatre Iloyal, His Excellency mak- and Sir Shou-son Chov in Chinese. The Exhibition offers a very tempting bait both to those who are Already interested in "Things Chi- nese" and to those who are not so Interested at present but who will The naval authorities notify that e after they have visited the Ex-it is proposed to commence ranging hibition. To those who are already torpedoes after November 1. The up a reference or set out a piece of electricity. But the greatest in- lovers of Chinese Art, the centre of target will be moored in a position of apparatus which they are going to vestigators have been the attraction will be St. Andrew's Hall, will be lit at night by one white light only a few lines, but it makes all the how to "fill the unforgiving minute
Chi Kok on and after that date and want later, or write a formal note painstaking. They hava
known where a representative collection of on the centre must. When the range difference at the other end. with sixty seconds' worth of dis- Chinese porcelain, bronzes and is in use, red flags will be hointed on
Any of these is better than what tance run," and the economy which paintings will be shown. These the 2,000 yard target and on the end exhibits are all lent by local collee of the pier at the Ll. Chi Kok torpedo Stevenson enlla "sitting bolt up they have practised in a large field right upon a bench with lamentable is a model for us to imitate in the tors and the opportunity of seeing depot.
eyes."
narrow range of our everyday con- them is absolutely unique. Those
have little sympathy with peo- cerne, who are interested in Chinese Art.
The Health Bulletin of Eastern but who do not consider themselves Ports for the week ending the 24th ple who needlessly overcrowd their experts will find the lectures to be inst, shows the following cases of day; I have none with those who the deaths say that they have "had no time" to delivered by Rev. H. da T. Pynur infectious disenses and
Thursday afternoon at 5.30 p.m. therefrom: Plague, Alexandria 1rend or to keep an ungavement or and by Mr. Li Ion on Friday after case, Port Said 1 caso, Bombay 1 case, to look after their correspondence. In at least ninety-nine cases out soon at 6,00. p.m. most helptal Rangoon & cases, 1- death... Cholera,
Basrah 38 cuses. 7 deaths, Bombay 4 ar a hundred "I had no time" means Pyner Mr.
will
op speak
cakes, Calcutta 14 cases, 9 deaths, Ran-either "I had no inclination" от "I Porcelain
Mr. Li und on on Chinese pictures, both lec-hal 8 cases, 4 deaths, Shanghai 1 case.
King
goon 1 cave, I death, Greater Shang- did not remember.” tures will be illustrated by refe- Small-pox, Calcutta I caso,
If the art of packing the day is death,
valuable, that of packing the mind соло, Cockin 3 cases, Karachi 1 rence to the actual exhibits.
la paramount. cone, Madras 2 cases, Rangoon 1
Here the danger is less one of Tuticorin 1 ense, 1 death, Shanghai 1
disposition than of content-an untidy mind a jumble of false opinions,
on
syndicate, which cites figures to show that the amount of currency in circulation to-day is approxi mately twenty-five per cont. nigher than the average for the last five Yet business is far below years. normal. The explanation is that this vast amount of money is not moving an it should. In 1929, a In the Crafts section, men will be seen at work, making fireworks dollar bill was estimated to change eving ivory, making lanterns hands ten times in a day; to-day, and paper decorations, reeling silk, it hardly changes bands once. turning jade, carving blackwood, working in silver and brass, and Looking at the future, the syndi making such everyday articles as ente points out that in past, de-rattan mats, feather dusters, bam-
mains to be seen.
boo hats, palm-leaf raincoats, and grass sandals.
day
CABO.
WEATHER REPORT.
These are classfied by Bacon un der four heads, which he calla "Idola,"
"Boom" Trenchard.
By RAMEC.
So another great war figure la to control the destinies and the Metropolitan decipline of the
Police Force.
Lord Byng, who retires from the Commissionership, marched mon along the ground and storai- ed' Vimy Ridge.
Lord Trenchard, who succeeds him, has dropped from the clouds: a super-Daedalus who has shed his
He has by no means "crashed,"
earth.
At first glimpse the reason, for this exchange of atmospheres might not seem vary apparent. What especial qualification has Daedalus for catching cat burglars, restraining the florid activities of night club queens, solving murder- mysteries and keeping a vigilant aya on the policeman's right to superannuation 7
This is to take but a superficial regard of Lord Tran,hard's qualifi cationa.
The first comes from the inherent wings so that he may take a look. The Royal Observatory reports weakness of humanity pressions, hoarding has been one
at large: at London's under-world-among that the antleyclone has moved man is not the measure of all other things. of the last developments before a At various times during the day.N.E. to the Sea of Japan, but pres- things, he is unable to cope with the hut he has most certainly come to general improvement in trade. there will Lectures. Demonstrations ure gradients are stili steep over variety of nature, and his fond- With such large amount of and Tableaux in the Theatre Royal, the China Sen.
ness for exact system often tempts money in the hands of the ultimate Fairlea School will present a series of Tableaux illustrating the care- consumer, it takes only a small monies attendant upon the celebra- increase in the speed of circula- tion of the 60th birthday on Thurs. tion to make a significant turn for day at 5.30 p.m. and on Friday at
5.30 p.m.
A similar series of the better. Whether past history Tableaux portraying the ceremonics is roan likely to repeat itself, re-connected with a Chinese Wedding will be presented by St. Stephen's Meanwhile, the people of Girl's College at 6.10 p.m. on Thurs
and at 5.40 p.m. on Saturday, America are living in a time of The Young Cheung Giri's School extraordinary confusion and atrain. will
4 Chinese historical Indeed, there are moments when :
Story of King Tai Shun' on Friday and Saturday at 6.30 p.m. It seems as if this confusion were On Saturday at 5.00 p.m. Mr. Pun the heaviest of all the loads this In Tat will deliver a lecture post-war generation must carry.lections from various pieces,
Chinese Music flustrated with se
The war did a great many highly
In the evening, the princival at- damaging things to the world, but traction will be the firework display nothing was ultimately more dis on the Murray Parade Ground. On maying than the way it knocked Friday and Saturday, this is timed to commence at 9.00 p.m., but on the old certainties on the head. Thursday the display will commenca In the old days, as at present, de- at 7.00 p.m. in order that children pression and hunger and unreat may have a better chance of seeing
the show. visited America 'every so often; but no matter what happened the people felt that they knew exact ly where they were going, and
play
on
Admission to the Exhibition, Crafts, Stalls, etc., is 81 (Service men and children under 12-50 cts.) Admission to any lecture.or display, 20 eta, to fireworks, 50 cts, parte of the Exhibition on all three
why,, and they wore always aure A Patron's ticket admits to all
that if they hung on tightly things would get better after a while and their troubles would be forgotten. But today the slogans that used
days.
John Boles plensed Queen's Theatre audiences yesterday with his singing
to cheer have lost their magic. As in the Song of the West", a story of
pioneering days in which he is sup-
one American writer puts it: ported by a capable cast. There aro
"We can zfest man on faith; instead examine them?" cynically to just whers and how, such one
no longer accept our some picturesque scenes in technl- colour, and drama and comedy are we well used to confer.a.varjaty of ins aseterent to the production The pro-
Human-and Humane.
Ho is, in fact, a man designed to Inspire confidence in the hearts of both householder and policeman.
Physically he is a gfarit, and his vory considerable chest measure- ments contain all the heroic virtues of the ideal guardian of the law, Ho tina the power to command, but is understanding: Is a disc! plinarian, but compassionate; stands no nonsense from anyone, but is not a bully.
The Army exercised no darrow- Ing influences on Trenchard. Be fore he took to the air he served with Scotsmen, South African |Buahmon, Canadian Scouts, and
West Africans.
Nor did he, while acquiring air ascendancy, run his head into frightfulness. "I do not want you to think that I look upon the -air as a, Blessing altogether, "-- he
told the Cambridge
• under t
"I fool that all the, good
do in civil life cannot balance, the
harm that might be done.in’wa Fit, and if I had the casting:
would say: Abolish the diTVAR