CRAZE FOR SPEED] DEBATED.
IS IT WORTH WHILE?
CLASH OF VIEWS
AT Y.M.C.A. Providing one of liveliest and most entertaining debates ever heard at the European Y.M.C.A. the members, and friends of the Asociation last night-discussed-the- motion "That the Craze for Speed is worth while." The
The motion was single vole, a tribute Parried by
the 作 speakers on both sides.
WAR
Mr. P. S. Cassidy, Chairman of the Literary and Debating Seelety, under whose auspices the debate presided, and the main held, speakers were Mr. S. A. Sweet and Mr. L. D. Skinner, proposers of the motion, and Mr. D. J. S. Crozier and Mr. J. J. Ferguson, leaders of the opposition.
AL
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Mr. Sweet, in prosing the mo- tion, defined the word "craze"
of "crazy". listinct from They had to discuss the craze for speed, not the antics of gentlemen with straws in their hair. If, by they the phrase, "craze for apes!", meant
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THE
CORRESPONDENCE.
Car looting Nuisance.
(To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]
Sir-In your issue of November 9, you published an article headed They sleep In Paris now", which to my mind gave one furlously to think" whether some similar ac- tion could not be taken by the Police in Hongkong.
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To Une a technical term Chinese "drive on the horn that
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1931.
ALLEGED PUSH BY RELIABILITY OF
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LEAVE TO APPEAL GRANTED.
HEAVY PENALTY
CRITICIZED.
of the birch last week for assault ing Mrs. P. Hawes of Prince Edward Rond,
we
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Berlin, Oct. 21.
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A report that the Soviet Union would nak for a moratorium in the form of a prolongation of credlia Before Mr. Fraser. at the Kow for its imports was printed in the loon Magistracy this morning, Mr. 200
to-day's Ger- oraca.Lo applied for leave tors
withdrawn in in, they use the horn almost in-appeal in the case in which a
later editions Shanghai tailor, Kwong Mui-mui.
after an emphatic Cessantly, quite irrespective an to
was sentenced to 14 days' hard denku. The Incident han led whether there
any visible
Inbour in addition to 12 strokes some discussion of the prospects obstruction, or
of Soviet foreign trade and of the or any likelihood of
reliability one on the road or not.
of Soviet bills. The Soviet Union Dwes German ...Arms about 1,000,000,000 marka When the case was heard last
(£50,000,000 at
at par) of which 700.- week, Mra, Hawes textiled that she brought a frock to defendant man Government. At present half 000,000 are guaranteed by the Gar for alteration and agreed to pay the Soviet imports come from Ger- $1. When she went back for her
many. Only 40,000,000 marks fall frock, he naked for $2.50, which Between
she refused to pay. She paid $ue for payment in the last quarter of this year, but the quarterly pay. and took her frock, and alleged that defendant pushed her.
ments then rise till they reach the Defendant denied having laid gure of 166,000,000 marks in the
quarter of 1932. hands on Mr. Hawes,
So far there has never been delay that when she brought the frock
in meeting
a Soviet hill. to him she agreed to pay $2.50, but Soviet Government, excluded from later only gave him $1.
well The defendant was convicted the loan market, has been
aware that its entire credit rests
from view on
Let me give a concrete instance. This morning at 4.16.
5 a.ra. being un- alle to sleep, I got up, and looking nerous the Cricket Ground from my verandah towards Garden Road, heard a
from tion of Wanchni towards the City
a car coming the direc Hall, hooting all the way. Het the time when it became visible at the corner of the Naval Yurd, op- and the 1
site Murray Barracks, and the print it
it disappeared Queen's Road, at the corner of the City Hall, 1 hooted nine times, not a single pedestrian or car recklessness the
came into view for the following sutne of our youthful motorists seven minutes,
thoroughfares like Nathan I poko to a Traffic Inspector Road, then
would advise about this nuisance only the other them to rola against the day, but nothing has been done as motion, and he would do likewise, far as стать нече Any traze which endangered the liven, liberty and digestion of other people was to be rotindly Con- demned.
in
Speed Not Finite.
Hut spend was not a finite thing, like Scutch pie, or smoked haddock. If anyone metlioned that a certain person had a craze for smoked had- dork, one would not aak "which smoked haddock 7". One smoked haddock was very much the saITIC as another. But one speed
If the
and
He stated
fourth
The
Beg his application, upon paying its trading debta:
said that one of the parties in the
Mr. Lo,
case must have told an untruth magistrates were to fine and he submitted it was not his Even if his client was an offender $5 per toot after mid-client. night until, say, 6 a.m. instead of guilty of what was alleged against $5 for each conviction, I think it would have the desired effect.
Thanking you, etc., and enclosing my car.
CLUBMAN.
renkish attempt of Cromwell to remould everything in a decade?
Failure of Revolutions. Napoleon set out to remake the
of Europe, and then it map had to be done again. Runsin, by
the haml of Lenin
i nut it'
not the same na the other. Speed may mean anything from the rate of motion of light, which, they were told, was 186,30 miles per second, to the rate of motion of the | AN Y.M.C.A.. lift. So they first had to define their terms. mind them that people with crazes
"Take social reforms. Had they were very often a perfect pest, but
come slowly, with their martyrs they did get things done.
and their struggles, or had they When he referred to the craze for speed being worth while, here in the twinkling of an eye
| make a new heaven and 4 now earth in a few years, and ly
1. desperceded in making the other
plure!
THE “TELEGRAPH" ART SUPPLEMENT.
Varied Selection of Pictures
Variety is the keynote
of
the illustrations in to-morrow's Art Supplement.
The weddings of prominent local
people, some excellent view of the racing at the re- modelled Kwanti Course, pic- Lures of interest to hortical- turists, and the Armistice Day ceremony at the Cenotaph, ure among the illustrations.
The
arrival of Mr. Eugene Chen und large group of Canton delegates aboard the Empress of Asia are included. among other pietures of topi eni interest.
punctually. By doing so
it haa secured in succeeding contracts a Kradual prolongation of its credit terms from the drum with which it has dealt.
Dumping Defeatéd.
This has in course of time in- creasingly differentiated the balance of payments from the balance of trade, which was originally almost identicnt.
of
Soviet exports in the first half 1930 amounted to 397,000,000 roubles,
while imports amounted
half
on
to
the
to 485,000,000 roubles. In the first of 1931, however, exports only amounted to 309,000,000 roubles, while imports amounted to 461,000, 000 roubles. Th
The world depression has defeated all the efforts of the Soviet Government to force goods
to to the foreign marketa. The fall of the pound has caused very considerable losses Soviet Government, since England was one of the best markets for Soviet exports, while her imports have come largely from America and Germany and have to be paid for in dollars and marke.
None the Ings the Soviet Govern ment would be prepared to
give The craze for speed in every-
stil more orders to German firms if thing which so matay ha
nad to-day.
JAZZ ARENATZSTION TAPPIECZNEJ KAPITAL: 50+ the firms could find credit institu- retection of their him-pushing 1st
Mrs.
tians willing to discount any more Hawohe ་་ ་་ ་ mental and moral outlook,
bills, which at present they are un- a nation reacts and he had never before come able to
was railty of only petty assault. able to do. just as surely as
to The craze for speed has given the unfavourably to violent measures,
across case in which anybody world the Rulla Royer and the Ems individuals would react in the had been sent to prison with hard Moscow of maintaining her reputa- press of Britain, the Flying Sends-same way to life which demanded labour in
addition to being
tion for punctual payment and the
the that 48 hours should be lived in whipped, without the option of a relative smallness of man and the aeroplane, the taxi and the walls-wall, together with all the space of 24.
fine, for such an offence.
which fall due for payment here in the attendant advantages, of quick
In convicting the defondant, the near future it is not thought transit, safely. cennomy, comfort
said Mr. Lo, his Worship invoked that there is any serious cause for Though against and convenience.
without long and careful premedi was referring to the intelligent,tation? The answer was obvious. selenlifie, and courageous attempts | They lud depended
their to exceed existing speed records. 21 conservative movement.
whether on ind; sea or in the air: whether in motoring, flying, swim- ming, shorthandd typing, efe.
Advantage of Speed.
AVIES
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For
In view of the importance
that it might be argued that we had iius another record for England the Emergency and anxiety.
the clatter of the buses, the death
sums
sentence. LONDON'S HARDEST
He would also put it to them, what lies behind it all? Was this spert, such as Kaye Don captar-
contended that but for these in desire for increased utility, or Regulations, defendant could not roll of the streets, the tragedy of Ljust for glory. He was afraid have received such the R11, and the untirely, death that spend records sneh those
Mr. Lo, however, could not sce af man such
Henry by Raye Don, the Schneider what the Emergency Regulations Segrase, these tragedies were part | Cup teams, and Sir Henry Segrave, had to do with the of the price that had to be paid for only produced a selfish desire to Mr. Fraser said he was perfect- progress.
achieve something for one county willing to grant Mr. Le leave try, at the expense of another
to appeal to a higher tribunal;
Sir
A Natural Instinct
The craze for speed was a bas
the ages.
Very Slaves of Passion.
Cake,
a matter of fact, he would be glad. In the interests of the defendant.
no
WILK
PARISH.
VICAR TO TAKE ON "TOUGH JOB."
St. James's Hatcham, S.I., des- London's hardest parish,"
He contended that the machine however, had Mr. Le considered cried in the News-Chronicle s tural instinct in man. It was rage was showing the world only the cust if the case was taken to bibited by the Stone Age man, and surely that it was no longer
has it has been in evidence all through master of itself, but the very
th Court of Appeal. Would it found a vicur. Through the
who has The courageous man and slaves of passions which their not be better to settle the case in Columbus sailed to America and mechanical products had brought"
lower Court.
on the care of its thirty! Mr. Lo have fus probably regretted it ever since. with them. The same thing was instructions, your Worship.
further taken while Raleigh sailed to the Tobaccreflected in games and sports and shail we my client about that.
thousand souls is the Rev. John B. Cowell, or Beckenham, an ex-army plantatima and brought Gold Flake
| chaplain. auciety. back with him.
Meanwhile. defendant allowet bail in the sum of $1.990. Chronicat. "I really know,
Mr. Cowell said to the Newa- little about the parish except what I saw in your paper this morn- job. I know, however, that it is in excellent running order and a lot of very live work has been done thore in the past. I intend to tackle the job and try to keep
high standard of the previous
To sum up he was of the opinion The craze for speed has resulted
that speed was an uplate drugging in bigger, better and fastey ships, the neurotic modern mind which and whereas until comparatively re cently,
eraved For exeltement. It worked a fellow going home from in, the same way as any other Hongkong the
rug, in that ever increasing unan take three months of awful tities of it was necessary to satisfy travelling in
windjammer.
the craving. The end was the reach his home, allowing him just time to stay for a cup of tea bene: it was only a momentary
panacea.
fore embarking for the return Mr. D. 1. Skinner, seconder of the trip now could, thanks the motion showed his listeners journey,
four weeks, or, if one went over-
very
CHARIOT FIND ATing, but realise that it is a tough
POMPEII,
PERFECT SPECIMEN.
the
A Roman biga, or two-horse vicars.
to the craze for speed, be made in how beneficial had the craze for chariot, exactly as it was left in the Mr. Cowell served at Salonica
land, in three weeks, while if one speed been to posterity.
that
was a friend of Amy Johnson, in as could not suy
many days.
ja
'The Other Side,
stand still and do to beshes become mine
Ife and it was making
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They year 79 has been found at Pompeiland since the war has been attach- would in the house of Menander, which ed to the headquarters of the
of antiques Church Missionary Society. pre- pare things for the genera-buried at the time of the eruption The average population of Loa- tions. If Isane Newton, George of Vesuvius 1,850 years ago, don parishes in about 13,000. Stevenson, Henry Ford and the There can no longer be any ques- Mr. D. J. Crozier, leading the great scientists of past generation regarding the appearance of HONGKONG LADIES' HOCKEY opposition, anid the only justifications had said that, the world the Roman bigu, its size and shape,
CLUB. tion for anything is that it is an would still be without its electric after this discovery. It will be the improvement on what has gone light, trains, and all the commo- only relie of its kind that has been before. Accepting, platitudinally
dious and quick methods of transit, unearthed, with its wheels, spokes, that the gon! of all effort and
fron tyres, axle and curious high Awful to Contemplate. vity is the belterment of humanity
front bourd behind which the or in regard to happiness, culture, Mr. J. J. Ferguson emphasised health and intellect, and accepting the effect of the craze for speed dinary Reman or circus driver used
to stand that these are the real funda on the body and minds of the The biga la encrusted in the soil. montals, does progress depend on peuple. mere swiftness of movement? them neurotic, the slaves of pills, of Pompell, formed of lava, pebbles
Where was speed leading them? and was in danger of turning the and clay, and it is due to this fact and Bonner, E. Blackburn that it has been almost perfectly Whitea A. Nicel, C. M. Gray, They did not know. The world was whole world In a crowd of contracting tremendously by the neurasthetic weaklings. We had crved for so many centuries, 3. Smalley, J. Whyte, M. Bird, M. will only be necessary carefully Wallace, E. S. Laing, J. Dalziel, E. nid of mechanical transit, wireless, to curb our desires for spead if to rumove the lava to renovate the M. Donclan, C. Ferguson and R.
and, to apply a physical that speed was to be useful. At ancient vehicle and transfer it as it King." etc.. analogy, it was like something the present timo
imo people were is, entire, to the museum of Naples. which heated, was cooling at a
to accomplish tempting
Wheel.ns Clue.
with the short whippletree in They rate far more than normal. Could
A wheel was found in the excava-front. any "cracks" in this this interests and were cond mental tions around the Villa Menander
The noble Romans, and especial- speed loving age to complete the taxing their physical and mental last August, and the Director of the ly the Patricians, were not sup analogy?
powers to a breaking paint. The He asked his audience to const-effect upon the coming genera- Naples muscum concluded that posed to drive a bign themselves,
where there is dor whether the really stable ale- tions was too awful to consider.
wheel there may but they might have a slave to The motion was was ments of the world to-day were
also be a waggon. He ordered the drive it while they sat on a stool afterwards created of a sudden mad frenzy of thrown upon to general discussion, men to continue the excavations or soat beside him. But Northe car or Emperor, had a craze for driving excitement. Did the political struc- and following upon summing up with a view to finding ture of England rest on centuries speeches by Mr. Sweet and Mr. chariot to which the wheel might a bigs and used to practise with of steady improvement in constitu- Crozier, the motion was put to the have belonged, and instead they one in his private circus on the tional reform, or did it rest on the audience and carried by one voto, have found an entire bigm, aven Vatican plain..
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The rate of the dollar on demand was la, 10. 7/16J.
We hear that a project is on fool for the importation of a large number of up-to-date first class rickahas, subject, of course to the sanction of the Government being obtained for running the vehicles. The new riekshins will be the best Tokyo pattern, with rubber wheels and all fittings necessary to make here is no doubt there is a great street travelling comfortable The
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