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DAY BY DAY
EVERY OTHER BIN HATI SOME PLEASURE ANNEXED TO IT, OR WILL
ADMIT OF SOME EXCUSE, BUT ENVY WANTS BOTH; WE SHOULD STRIVE AGAINST IT, FOR IT INDULGED IN, IT
aldo against the long provoked at tack of her secular foo: and in that moment of invaluable moral victory she flings hor gains to the winds, and chouses to present to that same sympathetic world an nspect of complete inefficiency, She advertises her political in- effectiveness at the very moment WILL BE TO US AB A FORETASTE OF when a breath of statesmanship in | HELL UPON EARTH-Burton. her councils would interlock the
The R.M.S. Emprean of Canada) sympathy of the nations with her leaves Shanghal for Hongkong on fortunes and make her invulner- | Wednesday next. able. Every move of her recent
Tho R.M.S. Empress of Japan domestic "quarrela has been worth teaves Vancouver on the 6th Dec, and
Day.
Slippery Fingers and Close Fists.
By ROBERT LYND.
beings who will never be able to un-weather took away one's appotite. There are two groups of human whether he did not find the hot derstand each other those whose The newcomer said that he did. chlof plensure it la spend it. The poet's face lit up. "Good," he the miser can possibly be happy, what do you say to sharing a por- The spendthrift wonders how sald, rubbing his hands, "Then
in the midst of plenty. The miser 1187" And, sitting oposite his half-
more to Japan than any of the is due at Hongkong on Christmas denying himself even a decent meal | tion of one of these dishes between
diplomatic explanations of the in- cidents and situations In Man-
churis by which, China alleges, she ja endeavouring to mask her other wise manifest designs. We cannot but deplore the weakness which threatens a country with whose history and whose culture we have always been in closest sympathy, and whose fortunes at this crisis we watch with so much solicitude. When we look to the alternative to Kuomintang rule within China itself we confess to some dismay at the prospect of power being gratuitously handed over to the hands of the Communista. By the close of the campaign against
meal.
The forthcoming marriage is on-wonder how the apendthrift can portion. nounced of Giovanni Toriofil, en possibly be happy, flinging money in the he was quite bilarious dur.
though it were' waste When gineer, of 10, Hankow Road, Kowloon, about as
he was paying the bill and and Olga Rosenblum, nee Silovich, of paper.
being giving change by the waiter, unfortunately a halfpenny escaped 1,200, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai.
and, falling on the floor, rolled un- der the bench on which he was sit- I do not know whether the hands and knees and began grop- ting. The walter got down on his
A
Moderate Mixers Moderate Spendthrifts.
report has been made to the Police by Mr. P. C. Clems, of the Chinn Light and Power Co., Ltd. totreme of either type can properly the effect that his claw dog bit one of the company's watchmen who was be called happy. The extreme or in the darkness under the bench
for the lost miser can enjoy only the happinging impatient at last
coin. Tho poet, becom- playing with some children.
at (vï a manine. The extreme spend-
the waiter's Mr. R. Gremillet, residing at Room thrift can enjoy only the happiness hands and knees beside him and incompetence, got down on his 125, Savarin House Hotel, has report of an imbecile.
Between the two extremes, how in nearch of his halfpenny.
peered feverishly into the gloom ed to the Police the theft of money, and jewellery to the value of $40 and over, there are thousands of what Table and chairs were shifted in stolen from his room some time be- and moderate spendthritis. These, reach further under the bench. a bank receipt for $202 which were might be called modernte miners order that he might be able to tween 6 pm, and 9 p.m. on Saturday. too, can never see each other's whether he ever found the
point of view. They are uncom-
half.
A donation to the Sailors' and fortable in each other's company friend had to come away, leaving
II.M.S Hernes in appreciation for
the Soviet regime in Hunan, Klank-the amenities offered to Naval and who is an intimate friend of
st and West Fukien, the Central Government has had practically to confess that it fears more the op position of those in the Arme camp as itself than that
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THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
The following cable at the close
The Battle of the Tips,
I
to both types. Except as regards tipping, the moderate miser's ha- bites to regard them in time THOSE
it?
penny, 1 do not know, for my Soldiers' Home, Hong Kong. of every time money hus to be paid. $200.00 from the Ship's Pand of I know a moderate spendthrift knees, groping ander the bench as the poet still on his hands and a mo- desperately as if all his fortune ile told me ance Marine ratings is gratefully acknow-derate miser.
taxi were hidden there. ledged by the President and the that he often had to share a
Was the halfpenny worth with his friend, and that, when it who can tell? If, as is possible, Committen of the Io
Homo.
the moderate miser's turn to saving money gives Rome
people armed may, he himself used to feel the as much pleasure as playing cricket robbery on the Kwong Yun Factory cutest agony as he saw the wets gives to others, it may be that as at Kowloon City Friday evening,ched tip, if any tip at all, that was good sport can be bu got from party whose success would spell three mer. Sin Tim, Ng Tak and Libing added to the fare. Often, searching for a halfpenny as from the ruin of all for which it stands, Kam, were charged before Mr. Fraser he said, he would walk hurriedly searching for
five-pound note. at the Kowloon Magistracy this some distance away, uanble to en-
is no use playing a game unless and the end, at least while it was morning with armed robbery and due the spectacle.
you play it keenly, and if
You of Chinese dominunt,
culture.alternatively, with receiving stolen property. Inspector Smith, wha
cease to feel keenly about half- Similarly the apparent complete proarcuted, applied for wook's
pennies you will probably find that Most people know what it feels you have lost the finer edge of lack of interest on the part of the formal remand, which was granted.
like to be the guest of a moderate your misertiness. You will. in politicians in Canton in the Com-
A musicni drama which contains miser in a restaurant, the embar-deed, have taken the first step nonist menace indicates a blind- many sang liita and some clever rassment one feels at the sight of towards being a spendthrift,
But whether It is better to be a neas to the rent issues before the dancing items entitled "Children Of the hopelessly inadequate Up left
Pleasure,' with Lawrence Gray and on the plate, the desire to escape as spendthrift or a miser, who can country which must spell disaster. Helen Johnson in the starring role quickly as possible, the difficulty of say? For when we read such a will be screened for the final time meeting the waiter's eye and say-story as that of the old miser of The Communist Party is hefur left at the Star Theatre this evening and ing "Good-day" in a natural valce. Nice, which has been related in too lung to its own devices. The it is a picture which in bound to
Lawrence Gray performs the lieve, feels
And the moderate miser, I be the Law Courts during the week, government and its enemies alike please.
somewhat difficult part of a musical when he is the guest of the moder-so many and so great opportunities sed we are horrified at the waste of as deeply distressed are taking an unjustifiable risk in compuner in the film in which he DISINTEGRATION OF
ate to
spendthrift. He longe to for pleasure. But he at least pre- allowing it to grow, with the mis-demonstrates
helug a perfect actor he is capable stretch out a hand towards the riserves the pleasure of saving THE KUOMINTANG. taken liten that once it is really big of singing
very well. The atory diculously enormous tip on the money as soon as he has ruined it can be easily smashed by the composer and the subsequent matri- it back into his host's pocket.
concerns, the ronituce of this musical plate and to thrust at least half of himself.
I believe myself that the extreme The one-party system of govern-quick mobilisation of opinion, and monial complication which ensues. I have heard such a man almost miser is ultimately happier than the ment for China seama to breaking with that the united force of the The picture ends in such a
that is entirely a surprise toner screaming in protest against a too extreme spendthrift, but that the large tip "It's not fair to other moderate spendthrift is happier kan before it has ever been got nation, against it. For the virus audience.
people,"
he cried. "You should than the moderate miser. But fa well under way.
doctrines is not The imaginative of Communist
think of other people who can't even this certain? Is the pala afford this sort of thing, and you're the miser greater or less when ruthlessness which is necessary to acting only in the Communist area.
making the wafters expect it from he pays his income tax than the such a system has been wanting. It is at work widely outside, and,
pain of the spendthrift when he Neither a Lenin nor a Mussolini particular, in some student centres.
know a good many ex-is unable to pay his income tax? tremely likeable people who belong give it up. has emerged during the Chinese The interruption of the speech of revolution to weld this essentially Dr. Sherwood Eddy when, in ad- undemocratic instrument into a dressing a mass meeting of students workable tool. The Chinese are in Peking lately, he dencunced com. democratic to a fault. They dis- munism indientes how strong ami play all the fretinusness which has vocal is the support it can openly marked the history of ather de claim. Peking is indeed to be the mocracies--whether Dutch, Engl-centre of Chinese communism. Al-
American. ish, French
Yet though its actual power is in the they have denied Fliemselves. the three provinces south of the Yang- outlet which the party system of se, yet the place where its government affords that spirit of trines are not evidently taking faction. Instend of the discipline root is the old capital of the coun- of a war of words and votes and try: and there not in one, but in the loyal acceptance of the victory the several, universities. Nor of the majority which democracies should we be surprised to have used to train, themselves in that it is strong in student centros the art of government, they have in Central China. A heavy respon- nothing but the alternative of armsaibility rests on those who fail to to present to an unpopular governmeet its progrumme with a strong ment. Democratic methods may and constructive domestic policy be slow and cumbersome, as the and who allow the authority of the modern democracy, with its com government to remain challenged plicated economic and international by its unrepressed rebellion. problems, is finding to its cost; but they are a vast improvement an civil war, or on the dismember- ment of a nation between the rival factions. The present lamentable spectacle of two factions each call- ing a plenary session of the whole party to meet in different places at aboal the same time, and to enter Described as a perfect nuisance in the vicinity of the French Hos-. into one cannot tell what kind ofpital, an old mendicant was order- political debate, while the countryed by the Marisirate (Mr. Scho- languishes for lack of leadership, fleld) at the Central Magistracy this morning to be sent away from and the enemy is already within the Colony. the gates, sarely spells the bank- ruptcy of the Party.
#1
Ita Founder was a man of many wiles, and Bf sufficiently uncompro- mising a temper: yet we find hard to believe that he would not have thrown faction to the winds
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THE GOVERNMENT BLAMED.
BEGGAR UNDER AN EXPULSION ORDER.
"The Government has driven me to this extremity,” the man deekir. ed. "Had they allowed me to leave the Colony with $300 I had saved up during the General Strike, I would not have come to this."
Into
It appears that ho had been a truck driver, and had come contact with the Police on one oc- In the present crisis and issued aension for lacking a license and en clarion call to the Nation to unite another for being found az a habl- against the foe, China never be-tue of an opium den.
His Worship made the expluston order, directing that the passage be found from the proceeds of the
fore helt so strong a position in- tornationally. Sho railled the moral opinion of the world to her | Poor Box.
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WERE THE SOFT OLD DAYS.
By MAURICE LANE-NORCOTT.
are not necessarily offensive.
amusing eccentricities. dodges
for saving money obvious as to be funny.
I have a friend whom business made the guest of a poet of genius ene day at lunch in a restaurant. The poet, whe WVAH R moderate miser, greeted him warmly on his arrival, and, handing him the We old boxing reporters, when menu, anid: "How in you
feel?
we read the round-by-round de- My friend said that seriptions of the latest champion- Hungry?" he did. The poet's jaw dropped, ship. flight finaces in Ameries, can- Another guest, concerned in the not help feeling that nowadays anine publishing venture, arrived. many of the more important fouls The poet, having greeted him, and clever low blows that so often asked him with a nervous smile, lead to victory are inadequately de
"I was afraid for a while he would turn out to be like his father you know he always overbids his hand,"
scribed.
For example, I well remember in the days when I was a young cub reporter in Chicago attending & certain championship fight in which, oddly enough, a relative of mine was engaged. I refer, of course, to my uncle, Nobby (Mean Boy) Lane-Norcott, one of the most spiteful, underhand fighters of his time, although, to-day, of course, his methods would attract little attention.
In the fight my uncle was up against a particularly nasty bit of work cullod Pippo Poporoakí, a dis- honoured Czech, who has scratched, and bitten his way to prominence in the most callous manner imagin- ablo.
Indeed, so venomous was. Pippe that his manager, Zoggle Zigstaín. proudly stated that not one of his opponents had ever sought a return encounter.
"Once bitten, twice shy," Zoggie was wont to say laughingly..
Well, I shall never forget that first "all-in" boxing match so long ne I live. The following la mv ra port quite a little model of its itind of the whole shady affair. Needless to say, it attractod grent attention at the time.
Round 1..
My unclo, who had carefully packed a wallup in both gloves,.com- sisting of pieces of metal, let fy with his left, but miesed. Several clinches followed and on the break. Pippo atruck my uncle with a small atcel punch. My uncle sank, anar- ling, to the for, and Pippi rushed
in with a straight foot to the nose. My uncle countered with a quicke
“(Continued on: Pagi 7.)
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