THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
13, 1932.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1932.
THE WORLD'S BIG PROBLEM.
DAY BY DAY
Bulls and
and Inners
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From the Office Butts.
AB GOOD ALMOST HILL, A MAN Wo understand there is no A local business man points
AB KILL A GOOD BOOK. WHO KILLS truth in the rumour that H.M.S. out that you can now buy with
A MAN KILLS A REASONABLE CREA Tamar is being prepared for des-
URE, GOD'S IMAGE; BUT HE WHO patch to the North. DESTROYS A GOOD BOOK KILLS REA- BON ITSELF Milton,
Students of the Bellos Public School are giving a Chinese play in the hall of Queen's College at 5.30
.. on the 29th instant.
for until this is done, there can bo no great hope of that remedial action, which must of necessity precede any definite recovery. Throughout the post war period. most countries have pursued the illogical policy of endeavouring to. expand the external markets for their products, whilst at the same time restricting by tariffs and other monsures their purchases from abroad. Trade is essentially reciprocal and if the world as a whole persists in refusing to buy, the result, in the long run, must
At Tuesday's meeting of the Hong- inevitably be an inability to sell.kong Rotary Club, Mr. Harper Sidley, Marcover, sined the war, the situn of Troy, New York, will speak on tion has been complicated by the rconomie ronditions in the United. enormous amount of uncommercial States. |international indebtedness in the form of the war debts and repara- tions, as the discharge of these Habilities involves a flow of wealth in one direction only, namely from the debtor to the creditor coun tries, without any compensating reverse movement.
Hls Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. R. C. Randali to be an Assistant Superintendent of Police (Reserve) and to be in command of Poliev Flying Squad Section
the Reserve.
Members of the Cymdeithas Dewi Sant (St. David's Society), who de sire to attend the dinner on March
of three months
Struck by a 140 th. ship's valve dropping from its sling while being lowered to the bottom of the drydock where H.M.S. Cumberland is under going reft at Kowloon Docks, yester day, a rigger, named Pang Hal, was
Mr. C. S. Rasselet, Secretary of Hongkong Amusements, Ltd., has un- dergone an operation for appendici tis at the French Hospital. Hin hear many friends will be glad to that he in making good progress to-
wards recovery.
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The beauty of the Chinese anti- que business in that old curios can be disposed of almost as fast as they're manufactured.
five dollara half as much again
as you could a year ago. That is, of course, if you have the five dollars.
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The booty which a shop-thisf got away with the other day might be described as till-gotten gains.
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According to a trade journal,
She was only a postman's daugh- tweed trousers creuse best when dampened. Flannels, on the con- ter, but oh how she sorted the
males! trary, generally decrease under such treatment.
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A l'enk resident swears that his verandah thermometer registered According to a men's journal, 35 degrees during the early part
to become of the week. This left us cold! moustaches are agat the vogue. One can easily be got on the instalment plan- little down each week!
A Hollywood fim star is to
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Amongst the who will Ret on in the near future are local jockeys.
an
O C lie was only amateur
thespian, hut of how he acted the goat!
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៦ ៨ A doctor recommends "Sneeze drill." Snuff sed!
Lady of the house; Are you aure you're not the same man I gave twenty-five cents to yesterday to buy food?
Reggar: Certainly, lady. said yourself (1 Why pro shradd "be a different meu
after I'd nd some grub.
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Jupan will probably
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That neccasity In the mother' of intervention.
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One thing, at those winter sales, women
face great odds and ends.
0 O We read that Hix-foot Zulus act us golf call- dies in South Africa. Should be capable of carrying the white man's burden.
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It is axiomatle that the settle-
A magazine writer wonders I are requested to notify Mr. E. Rapend her honeymoon in Honolulu. ment of debts between nations can. Prite, the Hon. Secretary, as early Apart from the fact that she likes whether women prefer husbands he made only lu goods, services or
the ulimate, she always goes there who give way, or the other nort. na possible.
for her honeymoons.
What other sort? gold, for the re-lending by the creditor of the amount due to him i It is notified that at the expiration the Hock Hai cannot be regarded as a means of Steamship Company, Limited will. THE HONGKONG HOTEL{payment, as there is no real dis- unless cause is shown to the contrary,
GARAGE.
charge of the original debt and he struck off the register and the men the effect is usually to Increase company will be dissolved. the Bability of the debtor. In the past, Great Britain has always realised that as the lending credi- tor nation it was her duty to place in the no unnecessary obstacles way of her debtors discharging killed. their obligations, but, in recent years, certain great creditor coun-
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Strangely ment of the amounts due to the.
enough, whilst have, by tariffs and other means,
it's hard to get prevented the discharge of these
hair-cut fu Habilities in the form of goods
Shanghai these and services. Now, alen, Britain
Bankruptcy notifications state that days, many has joined the tariff countries, a best and final dividend of $4 per people have ulding a further complication to cent, hus been declared in the case of the situation. Sooner or later the the Hop Cheong Navigation Co., and plenty of clase
first and final of $5.50 per cent. in shaves. facts will have to be freel It is the case of the On Cheong Wing Ken If it be possible, as is suggest-not so much a question of the firm and Wang Yan, the managing ed. for Britain. and Francé to
Inbility of debtors to honour their partner thereof. reach agréentent on the rejara- tions problem, a good den! wajengagements as of the willingness of creditors to accept payment and, have been done to prepare the way if the latter are not prepared to for a satisfactory handling of the receive the amounts owing issue at the conference which it in hoped to hold in June. Yet much more something even very
The than this will be needed if world crisis represented by the réparations and war debts ques- tion is to be straightened out. A well-known British banking autho rity recently expressed the view that if there is to ho us' modißen- tion of tariff and other restric. tions, it will matter little what Governments and international Up until 1929, the surplus del- conferences may decide in regard | lacs of the average man went into
A debate between the Education so-called luxuries and sepculative Society and the Medical Society of to reparations and war debis.
securities. Both were advertised the Hongkong University will be since the operation of economic by ingenious national and interna- held on Monday (February 16) at 8.30 laws will not only continue totional campaigns.
The intresse p.m., in the Union Assembly Hall, when the next meeting of the Educa- strangle trade, but will also make of insurance policies taken out in
tion Society will take place. The the discharge of there liabilities the bat five years showed that a
subject will be "That Native Doctors Impossible.
change had taken place, but now should be Replaced by Westerntrained a new competitor challenges ti Practitioners." The debate is open ability of the life underwriter. to the public and all interested are This rival has grown out of the welcome. world's present state of mind, and may be described as, the competi- tion of fear.
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Mr. Taru, a Japanese living at 18.
Wing Luet Buildings, yesterday drove to the Nippon Club pavilion at King In Park, leaving his car parked outside the S.C.A.A. Pavilion. On returning to the car, he found that nails had been driven into the two front tyres, rendering them entirely useless,
them in the only medium available, they cannot escape responsibility for any consequences that
engue,
LIFE INSURANCE.
may
HOW TO FIGHT THE TIMID DOLLAR.
Dr. M. O. Pfister. M.D., M.RC.S., ave an address, entitled "Travels Through Yunnan and Szechuan," at the twelfth general meeting of the Hongkong University Medical Society beld at the University last night. 10 illustrated his remarks with lantern slides. The lecture was greatly en- joyed by the large number of mem- bers and friends present.
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from paz, no mater what the ca
dition of the merket may be,
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At the present time the average
The investment essentials citizen is thinking: "I must con- 1928 were rapid appreciation and serva every doll of my surplus irene, because I may need it adequate income. The investmeat absolute
within a very short time for bread essentials of 1932 are
Becurity and serviceability. Life'
When we look around the world to-day, we find that international trade as a whole shows few signs of reenvery, for, although some Countries have benefited through the depreciation of their curren- eles, it is probable that the aggregate volume of business has decreased. Exchange and other restrictions have become more and butter, shoes, clothing and onerous and are tending to curtail fuel-the things that I require to live." Although this idea is not the already meagre amount O
fostered directly it is spread by trade which is being conducted news of unemployment and by the so that it is not surprising that in experiences of unfortunate friends all the principal countries, unemand relatives, Surplus dollars are playment, if not actually increas not because they have somewhere side-traced from life insurance, ing. remains at an exceptionally else to go, but because the man high level. Iri certain parts who earned them is looking into of th world the exizen- the future with fear and not with
of the moment | hope. reducing internation|| it should be borne in mind, how- trade almost to a form of barter ever, that life insurance provides and instead of each country beingFirst, the nature of the assets of absolute security for four reasons:
able to buy and sell freely in any the Company; Second, the charac-| market, business fa, in many cases, ted and efficiency of the manage heing diverted into specific chan-ment; third, the supervision of nets by means of bi-lateral agree- government experts; fourth, the ments
The arrangement made be-nature of the contract itself. All tween the United States and Brazil of these elements combine to make a life insurance policy the best earlier in the your, whereby possible means of safeguarding Elurge quantity of American wheat the surplus Income of the average
was exchanged for Brazilian coffee m has been followed by somewhat
That the assets of conservative similar transactions between life insurance companies are ideal number of European countries, and from the point of view of security Is beyond question. At the back regrettable as these developments of avery policy there stands a bul are from some aspects, they are wark of widely diversified invest- only symptomatic of the difficulties ments chosen carefully because under which international trade in they provide the maximum of being conducted at the present security. Every contract, there- time. One of the outstanding fore, heromes a veritable - "firat features of the existing situation mortgage on the productive wealth
of the world."
Very
Is the universality of the depres The beat investment in the sion, for no country has succeeded world becomes a poor Investment in escaping its baneful Influence. If it will not do for us what we Therefore, as a British banker want it to do when it has to bu puts it, the unwillingosa displayed done. Life insurance provides a in certain quartors to facts and to guaranteed market value row and recognise some of the principal Investor or the boncficay in the a guaranteed income to either the causes responsible for the present future. Thess vnluen zevor vary
insurance seems to possess these modern investment requirements to a greater acgree than any other underwriter has the logical solu- property. Accordingly the
on for to-day's problem of the
"mid" dollar.
When the thermo's
zero,
It must surely take a hero, To discard his woolly undies for
nud,
And our nudists so assuring, Must prefer a fireside roaring, To the wintry blasts on Kow
loon's hills, by Gnd! And the same will be the story. When, instead of winter hoary, We've the sweltering days that
leave us like a rag. When the same old Kowloon
ridges,
It may be noted that Ronald Calman, whilst arrested by the police in Shanghal, was cautioned, but not "Condemned."
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A donkey recently swallowed; a wedding ring. Doubtless attracted by the eighteen carats!
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If local shares are forced much lower, Ice House Street will be known as the bear garden.
Are alive with ants and midyes, And again the nudist strikes
A local nudiat asserts that the another snug.
cult is as old as the bills. And their apparently
as bare as some of them!
Uf
they want to show dimples,
(Though with some pronounce
pimples),
We suggest they gather on some
laland far apar
Where on each and every morn
ing,
They can show their fervid
scorning,
For
It
the
Karments of the sane (excepting tur.)
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A specialist states that the wo- man who boba her hair runs o rlak of going bald. Hirsuteable punishment!
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The worst of nudism in Hong-
would surely raise the kong is that just as the north winds cease the mosquitoes com- menec,
dickens,
If instead of plumaged chickens, Our feathered friends decided
10 go nude.
Should a parrot be exempted, If
his be found
tempted
Him to change his
critletsm rude?
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bareness
talk for
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These nations who wish to do away with arme seem to advocate an all-embracing policy.
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GYN. In spite of polished solutions, this China-Japan friction seems to
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Suggested additions to the local lacquer finish. aquarium. A hard-faced citizen, life a pig-headed business man, a puppy with cool check, a brazer
The visit of the New Empross miss, and a youth with a lot of bant shows that these Latta-day linors are the Inst word in luxury.
neck.
“On the Kan Soe Island." : Suggested by the Hongkong muddat wontr