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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1932.
Your
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DAY BY DAY
members of the American Economic Association, including the leading teachers and pro- fessora of economics and many business mon, ralsed the tariff on raw sugar from 1.7048 cents por
THE MULTITUDE OF VOICES 18 NO round to two cents! Thus was AUTHORITY; A THOUSAND VOICES the new scientifle handling of the| MAY NOT, STRICTLY EXAMINED, tarif demonstrated. All in all AMOUNT TO ONE VOTE, MANKIND
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THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
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laser Valle
The
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dertook 33 Investigations in 1923, PLOCKS, AND FOLLOW THEIR SEVERAL alx (including butter, halibut,
RFLL-WETHERS.-Carlyle, Swiss cheese, and straw hats) in The R.ML.B. Empress of Japan left 1924, nine in 1925, twelve in 1926, Yokohama yesterday at 8 am twelve in 1927, ten In 1928.
In and le duo at Hongkong on the 20th the case of linseed oil the Inquiry Inst. at 1 3.m. Inated 76 months; in that of plate The many friends of Mr. A. c. glans it took 70 months to esta-Franklin, J. P., will regret to learn blish the facts-this by way of that he is at present in the Victoria quick and flexible action. In nd-Hospital suffering from an attack of
pleurisy. dition to the Ave above cited in- stances in which this Commission reduced duties, it raised the duties in 32 cases.
This was the total of its achievements during five years--37 schedules altered out of a total of 1,700. For the Birat
The forthcoming marriage is an pounced of Mr. Arthur Frank Griffiths, of the London Mission, Ames, and Miss Esther Mary Elder, en route on the 6.8. Rawalpindi.
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The annual dance of the Scottish Company, of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps, was held at Lane, Crawford's · Restaurant, Exchange Building, on Saturday night, and was largely attended.
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five years of its existence, prior to 1922, it was a scientific, Impar- tial, non-political investigating agency. The minute it was given to power of control and revision The Hongkong Branch of the It became, as Senator Costigan | English Association advertise.. that wrote, "the legitimate prey of Mr. N. H. France, M. A. will speak those who deal in the unfair on "The Historical Novel" at
Helena May Instituto practices that the Commission was February 10 at 5.30 p.m. crented to destroy."
The body from which Senator
tho
On Tuesday,
A tree planting ceremony and the distribution of prizen of the St. Stephen's College, Stanley, will be held on February 26, at 3 p.m. Birs. W. T. Sathorn has kindly consented to lead in the planting of the trees.. and Dr. Yuo Man-kwong, of Hing Hua, to distribute prizes.
the
Costigan resigned was put our of its misery in 1930, when under the present tariff, approved by Mr. Hoover, it was mustered out by Congress, and a new, sclentine, absolutely clean and uncontrolled Commission was authorised and appointed by Mr. Hoover to take the tariff out of politics once more. What has It accomplished? Here we can cite the offelal state- ment of July 12th last of the Corn-y percentages "SCIENTIFIC TARIFFS" mission itself. This Commission
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1932.
is even empowered to recommend a higher or lower duty by as much Those who think that a "sclout}- au fifty per cent. of the rate fixed fie tariff" will aid British indus- by law. Yet in the first nine try and at the same time prove months of its existence this Com- | beneficial to the consumer would mission completed only 22 faves- do well to take note of what hastigations involving 16 Items. happened in the United States. Increases were recommended for where the device of a Tariff Com-10 items and decreuses in 12. As mission with regulatory powers to 24 items it recommended no has been in existence since 1922. change. These facts and figures It may be recalled also that its tell their own, tale and they clearly creation was widely heralded dmonstrate how hard it is, once every where as marking a new cra tarife are imposed, in American politics and them. economics. No other motive but the public weal was to control its nctions, and it was to be free to alter tariffe as I saw-fit; Lo move the rates up or down whenever it appeared that "infant industrica"
and
to remove
WHY BRITISH PRICES ARE LOW.
LEAD GIVEN BY BIG
STORES.
were getting too much or too little government favour. What was the result? As Senatur La Follette
Britain went off the gold stand- has shown in the years from ard on September 20.To-day the 1928 to 1928 inclusive the Com-1 is worth Hitle more than two- mission had lowered the duties thirds of its gold standard value.
Many
of Britain's "necessities" in only five cases, in each of which
come from abroad. Yet, despite the duties were ent exactly in these facts, retail prices have not half. What were these ve im risen; indeed, in some cases they
netually portant articles thus selected from uru
lower as compared the 1,700 sehedules which burden with five months ago.
A variety of factors have contri- the Americum consumer? Read buted to this maintenace of stabi-
be impressed: Mill feella, lity in prices to the consumer. "bran etc."; Bobwhite quall; There has, all along, existed a paint-brush hundles; creaylic strong effort by the big stores
the leaders of retail price move- weld, and phone!! Nothing more, ments throughout the country-to nothing less,
avoid increases at all costs. In of some cases they have eat the profit- margin and there an enterprising
to avoid raising prices. not make serious efforts to deal which are
buyer nasuming an impending with other articles
in prices in his own department, indispensable to every American
has sought to take extra pront on of either sex, such as wheat and his existing stocks. Such move- In the case of wheat the ments, as a rule, have been rigor. sugar. Commission studied the aituntionously suppressed, and any sugges- in the remarkably short time of tion of an increase in retail prices four months--it frequently took has been the subject of close ex- amination by the heads of big from 40 to 6 months-and the stores. President then, by proclamation, AdvantageouN "forward con- increased the duty from 36 to 42 tracts" have canbied shopkeepers, Let us see what generally, to maintain low prices. cents a bushel. happened to sugar.
The Commis-t least for the present, while the incentive of an increased British sion transmitted its study July market has led manufacturers to 31, 1924, to President Coolidge, 16 | expand their output and cut their months after beginning work on profits when quoting for future
It must not be assumed,
course, that the Commission did
orders.
risc
it. Not until June 16th of the
Another factor which has played next year did Mr. Coolidge net
an important part in keeping prices upon the recommendation which down is that a great part of the for 11 months had lain upon his world from which supplies for this and one-half he sold standard. The deprecia desk. Then two
are drawn, has also left years after the beginning of the inquiry by the Commission which tion in the value of the £, therefore.
для been offset to a large extent. WOB to have rovised the turif
Danish buttor, erg and bacon "from week to week and month to prices have varied little since Den- month" the
mark President Bally
is not on the gold standard. Issued his proclamation
meat, setting New Zealand butter and
Australian wool and grain. Argen- nside the Commission's recom- tine meat, and Scandinavian timber mendation and saying that while a have also shown no great prices reduction had been recommend change, since those countries are ed to him the then existing In a similar monetary position to conditions warranted him, he our own.
Such necessities as are imported felt, in postponing the enforce- most of the Commission's recom- from America and Franco, and other countries, entirely or partly mondation. It was a declalon on the gold standard, have undor- which cost the American house gone in many cases considerable wife millions DX dollars fluctuation In price. Generally especially as the present Hoover speaking, the trend of wholesalo tariff signed by the President, prices has continued downward. despite the protest of some 1,200 have risen in price in some in- Luxury class goods, it in trus,
The report of the Broadcasting Committee for January shows that the actual hours of transmission totalied 262, of which 184 were devot ed to European programmes and 108 to Chinese programmes. The month- were: European, 68.78; Chinese 41.27 New Hecences
Issued during January totalled 137.
BOTANIST EXPLORER
DEAD.
SEEKING RARE PLANTS IN WESTERN CHINA.
News of the death, in Western China, of Mr. George Forrest, the noted botanist and explorer, from heart failure has been received.
MR. TIDMAN-HERO.
By S. L. BENSUSAN.
■T ALL HAPPENED because, I ain't creeked, that's aprait,' she re- strange though the truth may marked, being a woman of know- scem, owing to the severity of the ledge, as she applied a vinegar weather, the Hard was soft. At bandage to the swelling and sent with low tide you can pass readily from her Tim to Raymead farm the mainland to Mr. Nawter's farm word that her Thomas was laid on what we call the spitty, but at nside along of his leg. Thereupon Mr. certain seasons the going is not Master Anworth, to whom good because tide and wind con- Tidman has long been a good and spire to bury the face of the Hard faithful servant, sent a message to tell him to take care of him-
"A Triful, On."
In mud.
Unfortunately, Mary Jane, the self. fat pig, had been "spoke for," as we say, by the butcher, and Boy Two days later, Mr. Nawter not Hiles, whose experience is less than having replied, Mr. Tidman wrote his good-will, was told late in the again. afternoon, after the men had gone "Sir I am writing to ask if you home, to get Mary Jane into the could send me a Triful on towards cart and drive her to Waybridge, of getting the Pig out of the mud. there to meet her hour of doom I could not do any work since I' and become
pork. And on the got the Pig out of the mud be- Hard that was uncommonly soft. cause I sprait one of my legs get- trouble came suddenly. The cart ting the Pig out of the mud if you Aluck, the horse stumbled, the_pig|could send me a Triful should be netting failed, and Mary Jane pleased as I got a wife and children escaped to where the mud lay to keep I expect to go to work next thickest, rejoicing to be free. Monday if my leg is Better your
From his vantage point, Mr.truly Thoraus Tidman." Tidman, a worthy man who, his By this time Mr. Nawter, who day's work done, laboured in pur- had been away for n fow days, suit of winkles for wife and family, was back on the farm, and he made saw the happening and responded what are called enquirations, Boy promptly to the S O S of Boy Biles. Biles bore witness and an hour at a moment when that bewildered later the butcher called on his youth was near the end of his rounds and gaye confirmatory ovidence, The pig had sold well; scanty wits.
It was not without immense uf-in spite of her experience she was fort that the muddy pig (Mr. reported to have "died `.kind." Tidman called her something very Thereupon Mr. Nawter wrote a much like that in the stress and letter and wrapped a Treasury note
that Mr. the excitement of the hour) was therein, so
and Mrs. restored to the cart, where she lay Tidman rejoiced greatly. panting and spent, her will to The story spread. Mr. Tidman freedom dead.
became auddenly a noted charac ter. It was not alone the pig that had been saved, but the horse and the cart and the innocent lad in charge. None know precisely what
"Me Owd Leg."
1 b'lieve I hin an' crecked me owd leg." said Mr. Tidman when the work was done.
the
"We've got mucked up o' slud," but reward of the effort had been, but rumour, full of suggestions, admitted boy Biles, "an' that 'n't followed the modest here on his do us much good. Darn th' owd humble round of farm labour, And pig Whatever she wanter done being a man of few words, he that fower?" Whatever she wanter neither affirmed nor denied, evon done that fower?" And he raised while basking in the unfamiliar his voice until the last word came glow of public approbation. on the top note.
home But Mr. Tidman went with fewer winkles and more mud
Mr. Farrest was at Tengueck, than he had allowed for, and took
in
THE SOUL OF THE ENTENTE.
By Roger
Pezzani
into coni- near the Chinese-Burman frontier, his Sunday trousers on his sixth expedition, to this re-mission while his large, smiling. gion, in quest. of new and rare good-tempered wife condoled with species. Since his first trip to him in his misfortune and dealt Yunnan in 1004, Mr. Forrest had with the workaday garments brought back a large number of what is called the "washus.” new plants, and contributed Later in the evening Mr. Tidman, more than any recent explorer to having comforted and fortifed
o MANY people are finding our knowledge
of the flora of himself with winkles, had a brain-fault
nowadays with Western China.
wave. He produced the bottle of
Entente and throwing cold Many of his s varieties of gentian, rather weak ink, some very thin water at it. rhododendron, and primula are paper and the family pen that England and in France, of bad One hears, both in known to garden-lovers, and a scratches, and wrote as follows to blood, acrimonious words, hostilo number of the specles which ho Mr. Nawter:
tariffs. What is it all about? Is discovered bear his nums.
stances, and the rise has led to a corresponding fall in demand. The great bulk of our imports from France come within the "luxury" class.
the
"dere sir I am writing to let you know that I was on the mud the Entente dead? Is it surviving awinkyling when your van coming its usefulness?
The answer lles, I think, in one over there and the Pig got out of sentence: Since Versailles the the van and run up the mud and Entente has lost its soul. one of your men come after me to For those who pretend not te get it out of the mud because he know what that word means let mo could not get up the mud to the try to explain. Pig I was apicking up winkles at the time he call me to get the Pig world's history there is always In any great chapter of the out of the mud dont that would found at work a great uplifting got buried in the mud an died and spiritual force. that made me all mud getting on it The Entente makers of 1004 felt out of the mud and could you the urge of such a
force. The Reckonspence me for Saving the stake, in those days, was all that All these factors, together with Plg yours truly Thomas Tidman they held highest and dearest. The the pursuance of sane policy on When that got on the mud I lost German bid for world domination the part of the retailers of the time over it."
was a direct challenge to their country, ahould make for stability' On the following morning the traditions and ideals. modity prices make a definite and Mra. Tidman examined it. "That of retail prices until world com-hero complained of his ankle, and
The cost of living figure fell by about 11 per cent. between 1920 and September last, so that some considerable general rise in com- modity pricee will have to occur before munufacturing costs Britain need be increased.
universal upward movement.
and that's the only shade tree In the
need of welding together their twn
As men of vision, they felt the
meet the
countries In order to colossal impact, when it came, with unflinching unity of purpose. And the first innings Was theiro-- gloriously,
The Entente must forge anew the will with which Great Britain and France, as the two most ex- perienced, and best polsed national units under the sun must lead the world out of its present quandary.
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A post-war spirit of construe. tive altrulam in both nations, not exclusive of great firmness, with mankind as its ultimate beneficiary, must now supplement the prewar spirit of self-defence, which it should, and would, have replaced after Vorsailles, had we kept to- gether.
With their
Immense wealth, national and Imperial, and their combined man power, there is nothing that the British And French Empires cannot achieve, if reunited in a common purpose,
Supported by the British Navy and the French Army and the Air Forces, they can assuredly be the world's trusted watchmen on the world's chaotic highways, at the prosent Juncture. And they should give International mischief-makars short shrift
But the two Empires can even more surely be the world's holpora and umpires, whón: less fortunate nations, now out of their deptli, are tragically struggling and swim- ming against the tide, tec Thaty beyond question, proper sequel to the work:) in common in 19043 – It is tha
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