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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1931.
prizo or grumble at-this also muy ben portent.
One query which is often raised Js whether the Soviet aims at na- tional aggrandisement or at the | spread of its revolutionary crzed by aggression on its neighbours? The Communista anawer is, of course, an emphatic "No." They are |proud of the Red Army, though their pride is not merely in Its
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tural training which the young conscript undergoes and in the economic service, he ena render to the State.. But all this armed force, they pratest, is for defence, not offence. They say they have offered to disarm if athers will do likewise, but the world only laughs
nt them. Everyone in Russia, from top to bottom, says the au- thority we are quoting, is under the impression that the capi-
DAY BY DAY
IN LESS THAN TWO YEARS MOTOR CARS HAVE KILLED AS MANY PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES AS THERE WERE AMERICAN ROLIMERS KILLID IN THE WAR, AND WOUNDED SEVEN THERE WERE TIMES. AS MANY AS SOLDIERS WOUNDED.-Stuart Chase.
Messrs. Davie, Bong and Co., Ltd., have issued a useful wall calendar, showing the dates in bold figures.
We have received from Messrs. Brandt and Co. AN effective and usetul paperweight surmounted with a model ancher in brass.
ON ENVYING THE "OTHER FELLOW."
By An "OLD STAGER.”
It is one of the worst anomalies
The real snag about a country of uite that most of us have to existence, apart from the dra.us decide how we will occupy it when and maybe the company, in tnut we are least competent to do 80. Ita proper and fuil enjoyment di- A man or a woman chooses his or most nocessitatea just tuosa at- har profession or business al AN triduces THRE only the awener oven younger ago than they select is usually apt to develop. The their matrimonial partnere.
The
enange of the scuson mu che was- wonder is in the circumstances,
chery of the sunset and the dawn that they appear to make fewer are in most cases as completely disastrous mistakes about tan.r thrown away on the lifelong rustie careers than about their mates. as Kents's "Ode to Melancholy" Yet it is true that few people would be on the average mate of believe they have chosen the beat a lugger. calling. Politicians, bunker. 2001 If John Bright had realised his stockbrokers, in particular, must
must ambition, and turned farm labour- His Excellency the Governor han in these uneasy days be firmly er in middle age, I feel ouro he cases. This may be because, nowadays at the wireless. If he B. 4.30 p.m. an the date of the Annual whilst experience has revealed the had started that way, and novor inspection of
All interested in drawbacks of their own, illusin developed his intellectual gifts in bance Brigade. the unter of 34, John are invited to still paints those of which they, the arena of the cit'ss, he would
Details will be notified later, know nothing in reality.
probably have.not risen above the tend.
The doctor, witen his night ball solnce of the village ina.
The next issue of the Telegraph will be on Saturday. We take this opportunity of w...ing our leaders A Merry Christmas.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL talists are itching for a chance to appunted Tucsuny, sanuary 26, 193, convinced of this fact in their own would have spent his spare time
GARAGE.
The ongkong & Shanghai Intela, 1.16 Dorporated in Hongkong, Stuh
Happy Valle¥
Ühe
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1984.
IN RUSSIA NOW.
At a moment when the economic
destroy Bolshevism. The defence of the repuldie. Therefore, is a aupreme necessity, and the who'r population, including the chikaren in the schools, is instructed in the use of arms or In the taking of eover from air-bonba or in anti- dotes' to "capitalist poison gases." Apart from all this, Russin, is ot present, and will be for n long time to come, absorbed in her own inter- nad development. Any foreign war would certainly
serlous Rican a check to her great industrial plan, and might utterly wreck it. Anil so, if other people let Russia alonz, she will be only too happy to let them alone. This seems
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the of-
The Hiking Club "Peril."
rystom in other parts of the world appears to have badly broken down, It is interesting and instructive toficial viewpoint, at any rate. turn for a montent to the huge ex- periment being carried out in Rus- la, known as the Five-Year Plan. in spite of all the predictions of failure, it would seem that the ex- periment is being proceeded with even well in advanes of schedule, n. according to the latest from Mosems, it is expected to be completed a year ahead of the time originally set. ideas may differ
the SL John Am-
CHINA LIGHT CO. REPORT.
DIVIDEND OF FIFTY CENTS.
Fancy--and Really.
Life in generally so very differ-
goes on a dismal, wet, or rold night. thinks the lawyer has the best of it. But the lawyer, pen- und in a stuffy Court on a saunyent, viewed down other avenues afternoon, belleves a doctor ha than our own familiar one, from the Iden! existence. So it works want the fancy paints and the im-
Not long ago
He was
fixed
all renach I do not doubt tugination whispers. are Generals who yearn for life'
saw a wounded (on the ocean wave, and Admirals, ex-service man churning a strect who are thoroughly seasick organ. In front it had a thrill- Dr. Johnson declared that every ing coloured picture of a kilted
battalion charging with The report of the China Light; moan would, If he could, have been batta and Power Co., Ltd., to be presenta soldier. That sounds, to some bayonets and a fine grand opera nd at the meeting of shareholders admirers of Dr. Johnson who have air, I anked the one-armed trou- on the 31st. instant, at noon,erent respect for his shrewd and badour if that was how he had His smile covering the year ended September penetrating judgment, like a sur- would have
gone "over the top."
an skinned
adult 30th, staten:
brang lapae from grace. The gross profit for the above probably, most people weit be rhinoceros. period is $33,633.29, plus rip inclined to agree, much nearer the Romantic fancy paints the ep'e, fres and exchange. $.28.5 truth when he sa'd no man would but reality adds a lousy tunic, half amount ruht forward from last go to sen who could get into pri- a dozen bombs, and perhaps a shovel, and sheer weight of pede. year, $13,391,33: total, $358.156.14. n.
After allowing for Directors' aud hold that the worthy doctor string bagenge restricts the pace It is the fate of many enter. And 'tora' Fres, $*3 611: Consulting showed some perspicacity in both to a jog-trot of two m.ph.
I mention that as a first-class Engineers' Fers. $5.84.22: I Dachservations, bet more in the fi-at. prises commenced in a burst of Sale of No. 2 Alternator Set, I comparison between a ship illustration of how, in this realla- thusiasm to die un early death Danst'nns i Sakin
Fundi
and a gani, in Ils sense of rough tic world, truth shatters illusion. through lack of sustained support; ment. $4.583.9; rter st. - confinement, was certainly not Even Dr. Johnson would revise his others blossom and die quickly 238.45: Chance of Voltage Ex-inent when sen-faring conditions views about military glory if he
pretation on feet as they were in his time. were alive to-day. because they develop a stunt an- nepes, $48,563 79: dep-ne's
Plant. Stack
and I's theory that military ambitions! And yet we all, except, perhans peet. it is to be hoped that the Buildings,
and C/Fruener, press all men is only another special art as a lifelone hahh and the artists dedicated to their proposed Hiking Club in Hongkong 22.790.29: total $37.07.01% the way of saying all men have the will come into being and further Directors recommend the declar: primitive quality of combative able to live up to their ambitions, cherish these delosive dreams of t'on of a d'vidend resert of the swagger.
The Rustic Life.
other and hannier lives. financial year ended 30th Septem-
John Bright's deliberate verdietų
I am almost
prepared to stand. er 31, of 57 canle per share
to have ben a sturdy, sumpam 99.567 shares. absorb ne $499,783 was that, could he have his cup in defence of mine, I should like 50: leaving a balance to be carr'ed over again and choose what he to forward to the new year's account would be, he would decide to be hard hands, dering the earth, and
navvy, with a leather belt and w an agricultural labourer. That of $56,755.60.
wrestling with virters. Think of has often been ancered at by those Directors. During the year. Mr. | who cynically considered the the freedom J. Scott Hara'on res'vned from the aver
agricultural
and the rugged in. average
labourer's steal conul of it, the Bungth phy Board, and Mr. Felix A. Joseph wuges and conditions of existence.
donandianc hefty n-ve who accepted a seat in his place. The But I belleve John Bright was not cooks his stenk on a
Chovel over open fire, drains his can of Hourd now consists of the follow-only quite honest, but very wise.", and makes his retreat her ing gentlemen: Mr. R. G. Shewan in his philosophy."
hothering wi To divell amidst quiet, rural sur-takeren, nouar mpton, Chairman, Mr. A. H.
Mr. C. A. Roza, Srroundings, to see the dawn and tailors. Then tax calostors, poli- plan is concluded. the next step desirable pastime becomes the aub- Robert Ho Tung. Sir Elly Kadoori, the sunset, to watch the pageant ticions, or social conditions. will be to raise the standard of liv¦ject of ridicule and, eventually, K.B.F.. the Hon Mr. J. P. Braza. of the seasons, and to live the sim- The Only Real He-Man
disrepute. For these reasons. It Mr. Lawrence Kadorie and Mr. pie life, not as a conscientious Your navvy la "about the only Ing of the people. This, it is us
Felix A. Jose h. Under Article ritual or fad, but as a plain hum-genuine he-man left. is hoped that Hongkong hikers will serted, will be made fully possible is teething to do with special 195 of the Articles of Asunciation, drum reality, must appeal to all master of his craft, boss of his
Robert Ho Tune and Sir Elly elemental minds as the experiment begins to vield garb for their jaunts.
tinged with home, and lord of all he surveys. Salmon Kaderie, K.B.E., ret re. but being poetry.
trouser-gartered navvy for me, *angible results.
coloured shirts and canary yellow } „diebte offer themselves for re Only the sophisticated student with tattooed chest and arms, and One paint to be borne in mind berets with sky-blue blazers election.
like Mr. Augustine Birrell, who that steak frizzling on a shovel. once told the House of Commons There is nothing like
like view ng is that the great majority of the should a definitely barred, and people, including the children. ure if the walker must wear a bowler
he and his wife would remain in life, and all its absurdities and town when everybody else went to trivialitics,
from
within being concentrated on this huge hat, the empty folly of a garland
reside in the country, sees through honest compass of a leather belt. of yellow flowers and feathers may
the Illusion. Lask. Indeed, the young people are
well be omitted. If the warning being taught to think and work on is unnecessary, the Colony will be distinctly communistic lines. Some grateful. But the Blustrations Interesting facts on what is hap-given of the undesirable in attire ping were recently disclosed by ure not the result of a colourful
found imagination. Men who
dressed visitor to Russia,
that it will not succumb because ng to the methods adopted for put.
of the second of these causes of ting the plan into effect. but the failure. There is good common world cannot afford to ignore what sense in the proposal to organise is happening in Russin. where walking expeditions. It is a de- practically the whole population is light to the eye to see a group of concentrating on the accomplish-young men, or young women, or ment of this great effort. In the both, swinging along the road or n hill-track, radiating health and meantime, of course, the workers enjoyment. Those kindly feelings are having a very thin time, but become rather atinted. however. it is known to be the Soviet's policy when the call of the open is made that once the first, acetion of the
an occasion for freakishneas. The
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that the League of Communist'e formed members of a band of Youth has something like four mil-hikers seen in England quite re- lion members between the ages ofcently, and they are by no means uncommon, even though they be fourteen and twenty-three. These the exception rather than the rule. Komsomols, as they are called, are
And then there is the other type. the plek of the young men and wo- A short and stout fellow, perhaps,
men, carefully trained in economies wearing rather long flannels, giv-
and politics, as well as in their ing an exaggerated concerting ef- own jobs. They are active in the feet, red of fnce, perspiring freely, facturies, the villages and the and walking, evidently on neute corns. It is a discomfort to sec schools. Next come the Pioneers, him struggling along.
There in nged from ten to sixteen, and then | no oxhilaration in his countenance. the Little Octobrists, from eight to | If possible, the kind of heart gives cleven, Each organisation in him a lift. It is clear that he has spires and gidre that below it. been wise neither in his propara- ich has its rules, its slogans and tion nor in his choice of journey and accordingly the impression is its technique; but all are of the gained that hiking can be an ox- Home pattern and concentrated on tremity of misory and labour. the same, purpose. The point to There is. fact, great joy and be remembered in that all these plonsure in the pastime, but it is Į youthful millions are themselves necessary that enthusiasts should being educated and are educating look after its good name others in a new model; they are establishing new codes of morals and manners; and they are con tributing in the measure of their abilities to one of the biggest economic plans which the world haa|| seen. They are a portent. And the fact that none of them knowa
excopt by hearsay, what 'a capital lat socfety is, or the meaning of parliamentary democracy and of a dozen other institutions that we
At the first regular meeting of the Canton Rotary Club held in the hotel Asia on December 22, 1981 Mr. Y. M. in was announced by President S. F. Chien as having been elected Tron- surer by the Directors and Mr. A. E. Quin Secretary. Mr. Chien also an- nounced that Mr. Samuel Wong's Mame should appear as a charter member instead of that of Mr. C. C. to a proviously stated. It was vated that for the coming month the moetings should be held on one of The Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company's · vessals, at 1 p.m. every Tuesday.
Auditors.--The Accounts have
he died by Messrs. Lowe, Hingham & Matthews and Messrs. instead & Davis, who are eligible
for re-election,
"Now I know who Santa Claus is Mr. Woolworth I".---Passing Show.
He is
the
Your navvy combines all that John Bright imagined in his farm labourer, with an add dash of adventurous romance that Dr. Johnson pictured in his soldier.
I am convinced Miss Ethel M. Dell would be cordially wi
with me
In this choice. A navvy is the very embodiment-almost the only ono nowadays of her strong. allent mon. Yes, I had my choice, I would hitch my wagon to a star with a navvy's belt. And carry a copy of Walt Whitman In my corduroys.
THE TRAMCAR PHILOSOPHER.
HAVE yet to meet a aquable-tempered man
moru than
the tram-conductor. For whose duties compel him to tramp up and down a narrow stair all day. to stand exposed to the winds and rab in the cramped, confines of choortcsa platform, to be polite in the face of aggressive impertinence. and to dole out tickets and hand- fuls of change he is the most amar- ing machine that was over made out of human being.
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It is his resistance of the forces that have tried to turn him into an automaton that is the most ro markable thing about him. He is tireless and cheerful, over with a natch of Bank or ready repartee at his command, and he will talk, lot him. on the most unusual Bubjecte
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He has a tip for every race en- thusiast, a joke for overy humorist, and a new and startling theory for the student and philosopher to digest at his leisure. The details of his ideas may lack proper adfunt» ment, but the substance of them, In (Continued on Page 7.)** slu