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THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1931.
A
MISCHIEF-MAKER.
He to adopt a helpful attitude. contributed nothing constructive to the discussions, preferring to remain largely aloof and, when ho did speak, investing his remarks with a good deal of sarcasm and cynicism. Yet now and again he made what now looks like a pre- tence to sincerity, though t по stage committing himself in any
surely are not what one should expect from a leader who never tires of telling the world that he diafavours anything in the nature
of violence. The only outcome to
DAY BY DAY
BUSINESS OR A PROFESSION?
A Problem for Parents: by a SCHOOLMASTER.
from Shanghal, is due here on Friday world crisis
The P. and O. 8.8. Rawalpindi,
at 7 a.m.
The health return for last week, apart from the diphtheria opidemic co-slows two fatal cases of typhoid and 44 deaths from pulmonary tuber спітнім,
the
expect from such loose talk is the DENT AND SELF-RELIANT, OR ALL THE MEN MUST BE MADE MORE PRU- working up of anti-British feeling. SCHEMES OF REFORMERS WILL HE A and doubtless when this is accom- MERE WEAVING OF ROPES OF SAND plished and retallation becomes-cury Fawcett. Inevitable, Gandhi and hia fol-
IGNS are not wanting of the must have an academie education. lowers will calmly proceed to lay
incrousing gravity of Le and to that. end the secondary the blame at Britain's door. Once
in trade and com- schools are minde pubservient to merce. Business is bad. again, in his latest speech, Gandhi
We him. They are the trains by men or they perish. So say many and these destinations are, unfor wants the other side to give way
of us. must make our Bous procesiunat which he reaches his destinations. before he even thinka of
storm that brings no harvest to growing less alluring. Of what Nevertheless it is a pour lunately, becoming fewor and operating. What he desires is the
some beachcomber, and there are Avail it that we have saved und repealing' of recont ordinances
basinesses which will weather the struggled,
As one miner's which have been put into effect in
crisia with
wife During the New Year Holidays the
1 great measure of put it, "to give
laddie the SACTORY. Lorder to suppress Illegal Congress Exchange Banks will be closed to the
letters after his name," when hin transaction of public, business
By this I do not mean the wel brother, too dull to aspire to cap activities, such as the no-rent cam-Friday, January 1, and Saturday,hould make ear sons hentheom- and gown, has risen to bo manager paign. Reports from various cen- January 2.
bera-heaven forbid!--but that at the pit or at the mill as a result we should consider the industries of a few years' elasнen at the even- tres in India show that, at thei
We have received from Mir, and Birt Hikely to survive when the crashing technical scinol. direct instigation of Congress, A. P. Pereira a sum of $10 for Earr
and put our Pons inte Foresight and there has been wholesale defiance | Balg's Fand for Dienbleil Service: 11:020.
the professions knowledge inva
a man in invariably too young at thirty for of the laws. So Gandhi's plea isoen! Secretary.
Men, which we have passed on to the of economies are required, but the responsible posts, but in business patient parent will try to acquire "too old at forty" is an outworn renily one which seeks to take
these, and, having examined the superstition. In business, too, he chatices away all power from constituted
of his son's success in has a greater chance of attaining business or in the professions, will affluence earlier than his profes- authority: in short: To is the apes
probably declare for business. |sional brother. tle of anarchy.
To begin with, success in the The hale gaema weighted in commercial sphere is not a matter favour of a business career for the of competitive examination: in bright boy, and if we could only academic subjects, whereas in the rid ouratives of our anachronistic dependent upon placing in “exam" professions, succes is largely prejudices as te respectability we would come to regard business us results lista.
honourable and as A boy who enters a University occupation as that of priest or worthy ди finds himself in competition with pedagogue, jurist or physteinn. minds as acute and often mare brillant than his own. They are
The management of
the pure Bay Hotel nakя un to state that there will be
a dinner dance to-night, owing to preparations for the New! Your's Eve dance.
Struck by a public car in Nathan Bond, near the junction of Joras toad, a 14-year-old Chinese lad was injured yesteriny, and taken to the Kowloon Hospital for treatment.
•
comes,
Jn
In the circumstances, we can well understand and appreciate the chargin expressed by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, It is true beyond the least shadow of doubt that Britain has evinced an over- whelming desire to do the right their passage rates from Hongkong The "Glen" Line Ltd., have reduced thing by India, As the Prime to London as from June 1, 1942, as all selected by an entrance exam- Minister so well puts it, the Gov-follws: June 1 to November 30, 1932, ination of wide scope. Men send 200: December 1 to May 31, 1933, 475. their clever sons to the University ernment's one aim is to broaden The existing rules for the sume and their less clever ones into Indian freedom. Equally true periods in the past have been £85.12.4 industry. The result is that tho
and £82. respectively.
clever lad whose father either has The Fato of Bachelor Friendships foresight or lacks cash makes his
MARRIAGE-THEN GOODBYE.
of their bachelor
his assertion that the unhappy incidents now occurring do not re-
The Health Bulletin or Eastern way in business immediately,HY do so many men drop the present a baffled and oppressed Porta for the week ending the 19th having less intelligent competitors friends
inst, shows the following cases of than the clever boy who goes to days when they marry? India struggling to be fren, but a
infectious diseases and deaths there a University. mischievous movement trampling | from: Plague, Baghdad
case. Cholera, Calcutta 11 cases 6 deaths, upon India's progress. This ac- Saigon 1 ease. Small-pox, Baghdad elnet summary of the situation de 3 cases i denth, Bombay 2 cases 1
"Respectability." We all remember the character, poor Dobbin in "Vanity Fair
The boys in
father was
grocer.
One of my oldest friends has at told me of his engagement, and when I congratulated him i mentally bade him goodbye, for to keep up our old intimato com- deship he and I will gradually drift apart
nerven, as it will receive, world. deuth, Karachi 2 cases, Mudras I can who was mocked at because his know that after a few attempts
2 ensen 2 deaths, Batavia Rangoon 4 casen 1 death, Pondicherry Dr. Swishtail's school despised Saigon 19 canes death, Amoy do men who made their money in casen 22 deaths, Canton d essen, using
business, greatly attenuated, it in true, prevails to-day. We would all
wide prominence. The pity of it all is that those who should be joining hands in the task of con- ferring untold benefits to the In- dian people are the very ones who
Shanghai 15 cases ♬ deaths.
and the same
spirit,
At firat 1 and some other pre- marriage friends shall probably casionally, and we shall entertain
A fishmonger at the Western Market prefer to be able to say that our invited to his new home ac- are undermining the whole move. was attacked by roughs laat evening inons were docters, clergymen, or the newly-wed couple in return; in Hollywood Rund while returning lawyera rather than that they were but all too soon it will come to
iment and leading the country to wards disaster. Gandhi, by his latest utterances, ranges himmelf with the forces of disorder and
destruction.
or
successful an aud; he will form friendshipa with his wife's intimates, but his old companions will become ac-
home with the day's takings. Re managers of a chain of multiple ceiving a blow from an iron bar, which groceries almost paralysed his armn, he was hotel. compelled to surrender a cash-box to This is not because we revere) une of three men who surrounded him near the Man Mo Temple. In the earning more than money, butquaintances, or at the beat, mere subsequent hue-and-ery, the man who anes used the iron bar was intercepted by Bpectability" of trade. Yet, if wel in this manner? I think it will be
we atill doubt the "re-hosts of friends.
Do women treat their old friends
Весиние
a watchman, and the cash-box, con examine the endowments of our taining $43.17, was recovered, having colleges, we shall find that they noticed that most wives keep been discarded by the thief when he, are nearly
all dependent upon
their girlhood friendships alive. realised that capture was inevitable. business men for their financial while husbands allow theirs to die
stability. Andrew Carnegie and out,
There was my friend George, for John D. Rockefeller, to take but
tion.
terest.
FARDS
Доле
more for education than the
are too
and
To-day, when Frank told me he
provided for him by his
very
TI
were
wife.
The Cotton Surplus. Gandhi's first public utterance
The wretched state into which since his return to India does not the world economic system Ins
On their discharge from
prison, inspire the hope that he will en- worked itself la strikingly illus where they had served month two outstanding examples, have instance, one of the most popular men in my circle; since his mar deavour to keep the forces of dis- trated by the figures from the
stowing away on a steamer from Japan, three Укранове,
educationists themselves. In this ringe we hardly ever geo him, order in check and work whole- American cotton belt, where abun-yashi Shinoza, Nakakoa Masa, and country, it must be acknowledged, now I do not even know where
namely, dancy of crop is accepted as a Nishimara Mitaibo, were brought be
he heartedly in favour of a final set-
lives. When his wife presented conservative and still in our grave cause for alarm! The prospec. fore Mr. Williams at the Central Victorian
ideas of him with a son I sent a mug and tlement of the
Indian problem.tive new supply is on a bumper chargert with
Police Court thia morning. and what
what constitutes respectable his wife flowers. George asked Indeed, the underlying sentiment scale worse than the worst tears!
vagrancy. Detective occupation.
me to a christening, which I did Sergt. Mottram stated that the of his speech would appear to in- Various proposals have been ad- Japanese Consul would be arranging tional outlook.
The Swise have no such conven- not attent, and that was the last
of They have esta- him. That was three years for their repatriation within a week's blished colleges for the higher R dicate anything but pacific inten-vanced in recent weeks for hand-
or ten days time. In the meantime, education of hotel keepers, muna: tions. It was hoped that Gandhi's ling the embarrassing surplus, but
he suggested a sojourn at the House the calculations appearance at the Round Table | based on a probable surplus of venient arrangement. The men were
have all been of Detention as being the most con- gera, and chefs. These young was going to marry I said I hoped
mon become economists. whe would
They
not disappear Ike Conference is London would pave 7,000,000 bales. The
necordingly committed to the House. are trained for occupations which e
George. Frank was indignant, the way to a real understanding: vitted for holding of 7,000,000 plan pro-
never would he drop his pla are as highly regarded as our but it is now history thai, whilst bales from the market until July
professions. It is a mystery why
why Friends. George was benpecked. nprofessor of political economy would be no fade-out of old friends Why He knew that for a fact, but there there, the Congress leader did not 31, 19:3, and restricting next
How it will all end time should be esteemed above a suc-wou show himmelf in any way laposed year's production so that the hold-alone will alow. But it is not at cessful hotel-keeper who
with him. He was tenching all certain that events will not professor in
Elizabeth bridge, and we his own way of Z over cotton would then be needed. It was actually arranged for the to take more than a
compel even Hongkong
domestic economy,
going to have some happy times residents
Out-of-Date Prejudices.
together when he got settled down 3,500,000 balen, for the American
casual in- Southern banking groups to nance
We are all at the mercy of a
it was the name old good inten- tradition, that the "lad o' pairts" tions, and sounded all very nice. Cotton Corporation to hold 2.000,-
but I fear that Bliezebeth will 000 bales and for the Cotton Stabi-
somehow lose all interent in bridge lization Corporation to hold a fur
after she marries, and Frank will find new amusements ther 13,000,000 bales. The right the price rising above a certain to sell was granted in the event of
level. It is apparent, However, that no holding movement can be. effective if the surplus in to be In the course of his visit to the 13,000,000 bales instead of saven. Continent, Gandhi was credited The scheme derived its hope for with the remark, whilat in Rome, success from legislative restric- that "to-day the whole Indian na-
tions on cotton planting adopted tion is called to a work of destruc-Arkansas, Mississippi and Loui- by the governments of Texas. tion-boycotting," adding that "niana. The object of theso emer- return to India to continue thegency laws was to reduce produc- struggle against England." It is tion next year by twenty-five per true that this alleged interview cent. But it follows from the was subsequently denied in a state- figures produced by the Empire ment in which he declared that he surplus of raw cotton at July 31, Cotton Growing Review that the; would take no precipitous action. 1932, will be more than sufficient, but would make 'ample previous on the present basis of consump- entreaties should direct action be- tion, to meet the demand for the come necessary. His obsession on
whole year. The cotton holding the possibility of conflict is still and production control plan must, apparent, witness his latest doleas the farmers are prepared to therefore, fall to the ground, un- claration that if a fight becomes abandon their cotton acreage ex- Inevitable, he Invites his followers tirely for twelve months. Even to be ready for it, as well as his thin would act avert disaster. 1t reference to the contingency of would appear in
different "a flory ordoal," This is not all, direction. The Southern farmer however, for he goes on to talk would be forced to grow his own of the next fight, in which Indian foods, now purchased from the will have to face builots instead of farmer is already in serious dif
Middlo West. The Middle West lathis. Utterances such as those culties from alleged over-produc.
way.
"Hollo boys: Just a line to let you know we made 450 miles the first day-having a great time.”
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which will not allow him to see much of his old friends. seems such a great pity, this breaking up of bachelor friend- ships, yet it is not always the wife who is to blame. Some of them at first made worthy attempts to keep the flame of friendship alive with their husbands ela
CRITIS but more often it is allowed to flicker out.
TA it because a woman does not Like anyone to know ner rusband batter than ake knows him? A young wife who has mat her hus- band but a short time before mar- rlage does not know him like a friend of his schooldays and and perhaps sho experiences, mething akin to jealous resentment of those who have known him before his benodlet days.
"Still, I do know of one My friend Hugh married and exception.
af
kept his friends. When he asks me over for an evening 1 am always assured of a welcome from his wife, and a pleasant meeting with other members of the gang. Bat Hugh has a clover wife,
and
expect sho knows Hugh and
thnu we imow ourselves.
I am going there to-night with Laurence, who is to call for me with his car. Good old Laurence! know he will never forget: his friends. But stay! Laurence Bas fust come in, and is babbling about having been up in un'aaròplane with a girl this afternebri. wonder!