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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1932.
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members of the American Economic Association, including: the leading teachers and pro- fonsors of economics and many business men, raised the tariff on raw sugar from 1.7048 cents per pound to two cents! Thus was the new scientific handing of the tariff demonstrated. All in all
DAY BY DAY
THE MULTITUDE OF VOICES IS NO AUTHORITY; A THOUSAND VOICES
NOT, STRICTLY MAY
EXAMINED, AMOUNT TO ONE VOTE, MANKIND
depend on your this first Trim Commission un- IN THIS WORLD ARE DIVIDED INTO
selection.
CHEVROLET /
dertook 83 investigations in 1923, slx (including butter, halibut, Swiss cheese, and straw hats) in 1924, nino in 1925, twelve in 1926, twelve in 1927, ten in 1928.
In
FLOCKS, AND FOLLOW THEIR BEVERAL RELL-WETHERS. Carlyle.
at 8
The R.M.S. Empress of Japan left
yesterday Yokohama. and is due at Hongkong on the 20th inst. at 1 p.m.
c.
MR. TIDMAN--HERO.
By S. L. BENSUSAN.
the case of linseed oil the Inquiry Insted 75 months; in that of plate The many frienda of Mr. A. MODEL "MA” TRUCKS | gloss it took 70 months to esta-Franklin, J. P., will regret to learn certain seasons the going is not Master Anworth, to whom
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TT ALL HAPPENED because, ain't crecked, that's spralt, she re- strange though the truth may marked, being a woman of know- seem, owing to the severity of the ledge, as she applied a vinegar with weather, the Hard was soft. At bandage to the swelling and sent low tide you can pass readily from her Tim to Raymoad farm the mainland to Mr. Nawtor's farm word that her Thomas was laid on what we call the spitty, but at aside along of his leg. Thereupon Mr. good because tide and wind con- Tidman has long been a good and to tell him to take care of him- spire to bury the face of the Hard faithful servant, sent a message
"A Triful On" Two days later, Mr. Nawter not
in mud.
Unfortunately, Mary Jane, the self. fat pig, had been "spoke for," na we say, by the butcher, and Boy.
blish the facts-this by way of that he is at present in the Victoria quick and flexible action. In ad-Hospital suffering from an attack of
pleurlay. lition to the five above cited in- atances in which this Commission The forthcoming, marriage is an reduced duties. It raised the duties nounced of Mr. Arthur Frank Griffiths, of the London Mission, Amoy, and in 32 cases.. This was the total Miss Esther Mary Rider, en route on! Biler, whose experience is less than having replied, Mr. Tidman wrote
the .. Rawalpindi.
of its achievements during five years-37 schedules altered out of a total of 1,700.
Arat For the
five years of its existence, prior to 1922, it was a scientific, impar, tial, non-political investigating agency. The minuto it was given to power of control and revision
The annual dance of the Scottish Company, of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps, was held at Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, Exchange Bullding, on Saturday night, and was largely attended.
•
his good-will, was told late in the again.
"Sir I am writing to ask if you afternoon, after the men had gone 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 on the got the Pig out of the mud be- and become pork, And Hard that was uncommonly soft, cause I sprait one of my logs get- trouble came suddenly. The cart ting the Pig out of the mud If you stuck, the horse stumbled, the pig could send me a Triful I should be nelling 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 Monday if my leg is Better your truly Thomas Tidman."
thickest, rejoicing to be free. the
Branch The Hongkong
of tho advertise that It became, as Senator Costigan | English Association wrote, "the legitimate prey of Mr. N. H. France, M. A. will speak those who deal in the unfair "The Historical Novel" at
Helena May Institute on Tuesday, practices that the Commisalon was February 10 6.30 p.m. created to destroy."
A tree planting ceremony and the distribution of prizes of the St. Stephen's College, Stanley, will be held on February 26, at 3.p.m. Mrs. W. T. Soutborn has kindly consented to lead in the planting of the trees, and Dr. Yue Man-kwong, of Hing Kua, to distribute the prizes.
The body from which Senator Costigan resigned was put out of ita misery in 1930, when under the present tariff, approved by Mr. Hoover, it was mustered out by Congress, and a new, scientific, absolutely clean and uncontrolled
Broadcasting The report of the Commission was authorised and appointed by Mr. Isover to take Committee for January shows that the actual hours of transmikalon the tariff out of polities once
totailed 262, of which 164 were devots more. What has it necomplished? ed to European programmes and 108 Here we can cite the official state-to Chinese programmes. The month
ly percentageS were: European, New Beences ment of July 12th Innt of the Com-.
68.78; Chinese 41.22- "SCIENTIFIC TARIFFS" mission itself. This Commissioned during January totalled 137.
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1932.
is even empowered to recommend a higher or lower duty by an much as fifty per cent. of the rate fixed first nine Yet in the by law. months of its existence this Com- mission completed only 22 Inves-
involving 46 items. Increases were recommended for
10 items and decreases in 12. A
Those who think that a "scienti- fe tarif" will aid British indus try and at the same time prove beneficial to the consumer would do well to take note of what hastigations happened In the United States, where the device of a Tarif Com- 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, ale and they clearly creation
widely heralded monstrate how hard was everywhere, as marking a new era tariffe are imposed. in American politics and them. economics. No other motive but the public weal was to control ita nctions, and it was to be free to alter tariffs us it saw fit: to move the rates up or down whenever it appeared that "infant industries" were getting too much or too little government
is
to remove
WHY BRITISH PRICES ARE LOW.
LEAD GIVEN BY BIG
STORES.
favour. What was the result? As Senator La Follette
Britain went off the gold stand- has shown, in the years from ard on September 20. To-day the 1923 to 1928 Inclusive the Cam-£ is worth little more than two- Thirds of Its gold standard value. mission had lowered the duties
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.
near the
From his vantage point, Mr.
By this time Mr. Nawter, who Tidman, a worthy man who, his day's work done, laboured in pur- had been away for a few days, Ault of winkies for wife and family, was back on the farm, and he made saw the happening and responded what are called onquirations. 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 end of his rounds and gave confirmatory youth was
evidence. The pig had sold well; scanty wita.
It was not without Immense ef- in spite of her experience she was to have "died kind." (Mr. reported fort that the muddy pig
wrote i Timan called her something very Theroupon Mr. Nawtor
Treasury note that Mr. and Mrs. much like that in the stress and letter and wrapped the excitement of the hour) was therein, Bo restored to the cart, where she lay Tilman rejoiced grently. panting and spent, her freedom dead.
will to
"Me Owd Leg." "I b'lieve I bin an' crecked me owd leg," said Mr. Tidman when the work was done,
The story spread. Mr. Tidman became suddenly 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 the reward of the effort had been, "We've got mucked up o alud," but rumour, full of suggestions, admitted boy Biles, "an' that 'n't followed the modest hero on hla 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, even And he raised while basking in the unfamiliar done that fower?"
bis voice until the last word came glow of public approbation. on the top note.
But Mr. Tidman went home with fewer winkles and more mud
into com-
in
Mr. Forrest was at Tengueck, than ho had allowed for, and took near the Chinese-Burman frontier, his Sunday trousers on his sixth expedition to this remission while his large, smiling, gion, in quest of new and rare good-tempored wife condoled with species. Since
his Arst trip to him in his misfortune and dealt Yunnan in 1904, Mr. Forrest had with the workaday garments brought back a large number of what is called the "washus."
Later in the evening Mr. Tidman, contributed new plants, and
fortified! more than any recent explorer to having comforted and
of the florn off himself with winkles, had a brain- knowledge
wave. He produced the bottle of Western China.
Many of his varieties of gentian, rather weak ink, some very thin rhododendron, and primula are paper and the family pen that known to garden-lovers, and a scratches, and wrote as follows to number of the species which ha Mr. Nawter: discovered bear his name.
bur
stances, and the rise has led to n
"dere sir I am writing to let you know that I was on the mud awinkyling when your van coming over there and the Pig got out
of
it
THE SOUL OF THE ENTENTE.
By Roger
Pezzani
Gading
tho
No MANY people are
fault nowadays with Entente and throwing cold water at it. One hears, both in England and. in France, of bad blood, acrimonious words, hostile tariffs. What is it all about?. Is the Entente dead? Is it aurviving its usefulncas?
The answer lies, I think, in _eng_
tho sentence: Since Versailles
Entente has lost its soul.
spiritual force.
in unly five cases, in each of which Many of Britain's "necessities" corresponding fall in demand. The the van and run up the mud and
For those who pretend not to come from abroad. Yet, despite great bulk of our imports from one of your men come after me to the duties were cut exactly In these facts, retail prices have not France come within the "luxury" get it cut of the mud because he know what that word means let me
could not get up the mud to the try to explain. half. What were these five im-risen:
arcoed, in some cases they clas
lower as compared The cost of living figure fell by Pig I was npicking up winkles at In any great chapter of the portant articles thus selected from
about 11 per cent. between 1929 the time he call me get the Pig world's history thero is always the 1,700 schedules which burden with five months ago.
A variety of factors have contri-and September last, so that some out of the mud dont that would found at work a great uplifting the American consumer? Readbuted to this maintenace of stabi- considerable general rise in com- got buried in the mud an died and
modity prices will have to occur that made me all mud getting on The Entente makers' of 1004 fell and be impressed Mill feeds, lity in prices to the consumer.
could you the arge
of such a There has, all along, existed before manufacturing costs out of the mud and
force. The "bran, etc.": Bobwhite quall;
Reekonsponce me for Saving the atake, in those days, was all that paint-brush handles; cresylic trong effort by the big stores- Britain need be increased.
All these factors, together with Pig yours truly Thomas Tidman, they held highest and dearest. The the leaders of retail price move- neid, and phenol! Nothing more, ments throughout the country-to the pursuance of sane policy on When that got on the mud lost German bid for world domination
the costs. Avoid increases at all
part of the retailers of the time over it." nothing less,
was a direct challenge traditions and ideals. some cases they have cut the profit- country, should make for stability of retail prices until world com margin to avoid raising prices.
modity prices make n definite and universal upward movement.
It
In
Here and there an enterprising buyer, assuming an impending rise in prices in his own department, has sought to take extra profit-on his existing stocks. Such move- ments, as a rule, have been rigor.
must not be assumed. of course, that the Commission did not make serious efforts to deal with other articles which are Indispensable to every American of either sex, such as wheat and sugar. In the case of wheat the Commission studied the situationously suppressed, and any sugges- in the remarkably short time of four months-it frequently took from 40 to 55 months-and the President then, by proclamation, increased the duty from 30 to 42 cents a bushel, Let us see what happened to sugar. The Commis- sion transmitted its study July
tion of an increase in retail prices. has been the subject of close ex- amination by the bends of big Storck.
Advantageous "forward con- tracts" have enabled shopkeepers, generally, to maintain low prices. at least for the present, while the Incentive of an increased British 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. Not until June 16th of the orders.
Wha
large extent. Danish butter, egg and bacon prices have varied little since Den- mark is not on the gold standard. ment, New Zealand butter and Australian wool and grain. Argen- tine meat, and Scandinavian timber
Another factor which has played next year did. Mr. Coolidge act upon the recommendation which an important part in keeping prices down is that a great part of the for 11 months had lain upon his world from which supplica for this desk. Then two and one-half country are drawn, has also left years after the beginning of the the gold standard. The Inquiry by the Commission which tion in the value of the to have revised the tariff has been offset to "from week to week and month to month" tho President finally issued his proclamation setting aside the Commission's recom- mendation and anying that while a have also shown no great prices reduction had been recommend change, since those countries are cl to him, the then existing in a similar monetary. position: to conditions warranted him, he our own. felt, in postponing the enforce-from America and Franco, and Such necessities as are Imported ment of the Commission's recom- other countries, entirely or partly mendation. It WOK decision
on the gold standard, have under- which cost the Amorlean house- gone in many cases considerablo wita millions of dollars fluctuation In price. Generally especially as the present Hoover speaking, the trend of wholesale tariff signed by the President, prices has continued downward. despite the protest of some 1,200
On the following morning the hero complained of his ankle, and Mrs. Tidman examined it. "That
Luxury class goods, it is true, have risen in price in some
that's the
shade tres in the neighborhood."
to their
As men of vision, they felt the need of welding together their two
countries in order to meet the colossal impact, when it came, with unflinching unity of purpose. And the first innings was theirs-- gloriously,
The Entente must forge anew the will with which Great Britain and France, as the two most ex- perienced, and best poised national units under the sun must load the world out of its present quandary.
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A post-war spirit of construc tive altruism In both nations, not exclusive of great firmness, with mankind as its ultimate beneficiary, muat new supplement the prewar spirit of self-defence, which it should, and would, have replaced after Versailles, had we kept to- gether.
With their Immense wealth, national and Imperiol, and their combined man power, there. la nothing that the British and French Empires cannot achieve, if reunited in a common purpose.
Supported by the British Navy and the Franch Army and the Air Forces, they can assuredly be the world's trusted watchmen on the world's chaotic, highways, at the present juncture. And they should:: give international. mischief-makers short shrift.
But the two Empires can eveni more surely be the world's helpers
·and· umpires, whon losa fortunate. nations, now out of their depth; are tragically struggling and swimi ming against the Lider
That beyond question, is the proper sequel to the work begun. in commsón in 2004. It is the only-
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