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CHEVROLET
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1932.
FIND THE LATEST MODELS OF THE CAR THAT HAS WON THE HEART OF THE WORLD, LEADING ALL OTHERS IN SALES,
AT THE CURB YOU WILL ADMIKE THEIR SMART MODERN BEAUTY, ON THE ROAD YOU WILL MARVEL AT THEIR EFFORTLESS CONTROL THE SMOOTHNESS OF PERFORM- ANCE, AND THE LUXUR- IDUS COMFORT WITH
entire attention to an intensive development of the home market. Probably many will disagree with certain detalls of the plan.
For example, if aggressive competition In foreign trado is a possible cause of international friction, excessive- ly high tariff walls are no lesa so. The Important thing, however, is that a recognised leader of business has realised the imperative neses- ity of a comprehensive plan to provide for this new need of the worker,
DAY BY DAY
WHEN YOUR SCOTCH CLERGY GIVE UF THEIR HOMELY MANNER, RE- LIGION WILL BOON DECAY IN THAT COUNTRY-Dr. Jokhinon ta Home- well.
Mr. R. W. Mittell has been
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BACK TO PENNY POST AND NO PROFITS..
By WHATELY C. ARNOLD.
Tmemorin), signed by 320 poly.
HERE is justification for the, the authorities upon their mono- It is often stated that the great
membora of Parliament and A most glaring example of this growth in prosperity of the United The next meeting_of_the_Hong-recently presented to the Prime was the attitude of the Post Office States in the last two decadea was kong branch of the English Associa-Minister, asking for the appoint- towards the telephone, which it chiefly attributable to the arising tion will be held in the Helena-May ment of a "small but strong com- regarded with the utmost jealousy Instituts on Tuesday, March I, atmittee to review the organisation because it seemed likely to inter- of two new wants on the part of the 5.30 p.m. when Mrs. W. T.Southor of the Post Office and frame de fere with pontal "profits." public-personal mobility and com-will speak an Hans Andersen.”
talled proposals for its improve-
Competition between a number munication, and their satisfaction EASY
ment."
of different telephone companies by business in the form of the
Certainly, in its chief work is, of course, not practicablo, The annual athletic sports meeting the collection and delivery automobile and the radio. May of the University of Hongkong will
of every subscriber requiring com- It not be that in the supplying of this new necessary of modern life, security with leisure, business will And the key to an even greater, and his time a lasting, prosperity?
WHICH THEY RIDE. EVERY MODERN IMPROVE- MENT IS AT YOUR COM- MAND, INCREASED POWER. CUSHIONED AGAINST VIBRATION. THE VELVETY
OF SMOOTHLNESS
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AUTHORISED CHEVROLET
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THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
The Hongkeng Bbangkai Hotels, Ltd. Incorporated in Hongkong. Stubbe Road
Happy Valley
The
Tram or Bur?
Will the bus past the tram frum the streets of the cities
of the
be held on Saturday, March 6, at 1.30 letters--the Post Office is officient. munication with every other one. on the University ground, Pok-Proof of that is afforded by the Notwithstanding this obvious fact, ulum. There will be a half mile surprias we all feel if one letter the Post Office started its own open to the Colony (post entries), goes astray among the 6,000,000,- Installation and attempted to 000 dealt with annually. But an "compote" with the National Tele- equally high standard is not phone Co. maintained in other branches of Under the system of State ad- Post Office activity--the telephone ministration all the various com- |and telegraph, for example. panies could have been contracted
TWO ARMED ROBBERIES.
IN RADIS.
The reason for this difference is with by the Postmaster-Gonorai that the other undertakings are to provide the necessary mechani- future? This is a question fre- NINE MEN TAKE PARTot ruled by the well-tried prin-cal, engineering, and other techni ciples which govern the mails cal matters necessary to enable generally, and which ought to be the public to use the telephones
wholo applied to all public utility ser- throughout the
country. of vices. Property to the total value
The necessary subscriptions and $75 was stolen by six man who! This polles, which might he enli- other charges for calls would gained admittance to the ground ed State Administration, may be have been collected at uniform Boor of 22, Shan Tung Street, defined shortly. In a negative way, rates for a specified number of
minutes, Irrespective of distance. Mongkok, tast night. The men who as follows:-- were armed with revolvers and dag-
1. No State ownership. gers entered the ground floor by the front door, which was closed! recemt not bolted.
quently asked in this Colony and revived by the report of the Hong- kong Tramway a few days ago. In England, where public opinion has on the whole tended to favour the bus as the more useful vehicle, has been this popular judgment confirmed by the Royal Commis- slun on Transport, which mended the grudani elimination of the tram. Yet even in England, It
In not without significance, the tram is still thought to have a long career before it. In London, in deed, cnatly transformations of the tramway system aen
2. No monopoly. 3. No profit.
Work for Specialists.
It is probably not too late ovan now to adopt some such principle. Even the mails depart from thene A state Department is not suited for carrying out highly-technical
After seneching the premises conditions in some respects.
With regard to the first prin-englueuring work which muat he for a space of one hour, the men eiple, the collection and delivery, subject to continual development left, taking with them a quantity of letters has been undertaken by and improvement, and can be safe- of money, jewellery and clothing to the State from time inunemorial, ly left in the hands of the very the value of $75. The mistress but although the Postmaster-eminent firms who specialise in of the premises, Li Klu-yung, aged General collects and delivers them telephone equipment and installa-
at still being 39, was nut
the time. but he does not acquire the ownership tion.
The Post Ofee should conern. friends were on the premises when of the means of conveyance. With the intruders appeared.
few exceptions he contracts with trate on the actual needs of the Early this morning three men various rompeling companies for public and see to it (an they do mail) carried out an armed robbery at the earringe of the mails-former- most efficiently with the 56. Nam Cheong Street, Shamshul.ly with the stage roach praprie- that the publie have the best pos po, robbing the inmates of valutors, afterwards with other rondaible service and most up-to-date ables worth about. $304. One of carriers, railway companies and appliances, for which they can the tabbers was med with steamship companies and now with hold the contracting firms airway companies as well.
ponsible. knife and the other an iron bar.
Acquiring the Telegraph,
Incidentally, and again adopting The first important departure should not continue the most un- the principle of postal rates, they from this rule was in the purchase reasonable practice of charging by milenge of the telegraph companies in the for telephone calls your 1870.
This was many years instead of by time. It is surely afterwards followed by the more serious and important case of the anomaly to charge for a tole
phone call according to distance, telephones in the year 1912.
and therefore at rates varying These two published by him, is spreading his
of ** acquisitions, ideas.
from one penny to as much as course, required the expenditure 10s, for The book has received attention of a very large amount of capital, the charge for a telegram is is. three-minute call, when in all political circles in Germany and, still more disastrously, for all distances.
and
According to the occupant, An «ccountant, the men appeared t 4.30 a.m. whilst he was asleep.
fe
ред
carried through. Even with popular pinlon ngainat it. the tram in London, it must be noted, still ear- ries 27 per cent of the passengera. Bul outside England, both in Europe and America, the tram is even more securely entrenched in the streets of large and small cities, Figures from Paris, ferlin New York, and running into han- dreds of millions, amply support
In spite of auch figures.was unable to say how they had this fact.
gained admittance to his house. however, there can be little doubt that the bus will in lime banish the Aram from the streets. England's experience most certainly points to that. It is not only the automobile that makes the tram appear obsolete; it in the greater mobility as well as in other countries of volved the corollary of State The third negative principle of of the bus, its greater comfort. Its Europe. It may be pointed out management on the technical and State administration is No Profits.
interview.mechanical side. greater convenience for the pas- that Mussolini in an
The practice of working a public when questioned about Reinhold Instead of contracting with the the United Benger who can board it from the walle. answerd: "He is the only existing telegraph and telephone/utility service for the sake of
Hongkong Telegraph
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1932.
ECONOMIC SECURITY.
panies
fact. some have argued that this
not least,
OIPT
of very
více.
In the discussions which have been taking place in States in regard to business de sidewalk, and last but
upright politician of
present companies (as with the carriera revenue is the most prolific cause pression, it has been pointed out the greater economy in its running Germany, but it's too bad he has for mails), the authorities not only of inefficiency in the public ser.
assure its such a stiff, rigid hand." that while trade generally has been expenses, that will
purchased the assets and good- When the profits of any trading But this In two great sketches the author will of the companies, but also set concern carried on by a nation or bad, there have been striking in triumph over the tram. creases shown by insurance com displacement of one form of trans- deals with the most important up engineering and mechanical municipality-are-applied in relief great of taxation, the public service will savings banks in port by another will in all pro opponents of Germany's freedom stuffs, no doubt and
country. The efficiency. policies and deposits. From thin bability ix extremely slow. It within her
third part of the book is devoted But had they adopted the prin- invariably be worked more or less will indeed be hardly surprising to the rebuilding of a new German ciples upon which the mail servic.. with the primary object of making means that money, instead of being If even in England, where the pre-Reich.
is carried out, the most elicient as much profit as possible. The inovitable result is that the scr- One may reject the developed and up-to-date instrumenta would vice will be starved for the sake $399, has been hearded. Whilst dice against trams is apparently
idens or agree to them, but all have been available from time to this may be so to some extent, itkeener than anywhere else, thin
of the profits. interested in a study of present time. with no obsolete plants. Ex- Until the end of last century Is just as possible that it reflects period of transition turns out to
to take penses, too, would have been pay the profits of the Post Office wore a tendency to scale down expendi-be much slower than is generally day Germany will have
expected. In undeveloped cities, note of this publication. It is a able out of the receipts from the not sufficient to interest the ture on luxuries in order to buy on the other hand, whether in book of history and coming events, public with no heavy liabilities Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Anuncial security. In this con-
And in these events Reinhold to be met out of capital. eastern Europe or in Asia, the pro- Wulle, the author, will probably
right principle was followed of nexion, a book was published some
Departure from the spcomi bability is at the bus will be in- be mentioned in a most distinc principle of State administration applying profits to improving the troduced in preference to the trum.tive manner. Thas the most backward of to-day-
-no monopoly-means that when- EDMUND MINKNER, ever an improved service is start becomes, very surprisingly per-
Canton. ed ur suggested it has been stop
ped or spoilt by the insistence of
time ago by the dean of a school of business administration, in which the auther presented a plan design ad to save capitalism from thehaps, though none the less certain- believes ay, the most forward of to-morrow,
destruction which he awaits it if it continues to drift along its present uncharted course. The corner stone of this plan is the recognition that security--n security which implies self-respect- ing work on a plane above the mere subsistence level-has now become A powerful competitor in the market with mankind's material wants. Business. It is pointed out,
GERMAN POLITICS
TO-DAY.
..
NOTEWORTHY BOOK PUBLISHED.
Entirely dissociated from the
has made great progress in provid-grout number of political parties
ing these: transportation. com- munication, social contact. enter- tainment, and to a less extent, leisure. But it has made little or no progress toward the providing
in Germany and not represented In any Parliament "The National Movement for Freedom of Ger- Frei- many" (Deutschvoelkische heitsbewegung) looks for solu- tions out of the present depres
move- of security from unemployment stun. The lendor of this
Reinhold Wülle, formerly
ment,
tung and the Deutsches Tageblatt in
and old age and incapacitation. chief editor of the Deutsche Zei- Yet the demand for things which can be manufactured will in the future depend increasingly on the existence of security and adequate Ielsure. Business leaders, says this authority, can and must
co-
Berlin and Membor of the German Reichstag and Prussian Parliament, has pubilshed a book with the title: "Die Sendung des Nordens. Der Sinn des Deutschen Freheitekampfer" (1.c.
"The operate in assuming the cost of message of the North.-The mean- providing this security, and the ing of the German struggle for Government must co-operate with freedom.") Vering K. F. Koehler, them by providing pre-planned | Leipzig; stiff cover, M.2.85.; linen publle works to furnish employ- | M.G. ment in emergencies. But security
The author is one of the most In any one country Is Impossible outstanding figures of national unless there is world stability. It Germany, but it in remarkable is therefore urged that since the that he does not belong to the "aggresalvo expansion of exports National-Socialist-Party (Fascist) would create a degree of bitterness nor to the "German National In competition [between nationa] parliamentary system and goes his Party." Ho opposes the whole almost inevitably leading to war", the United States should turn its on in Berlin, a weekly paper own way. Thio Deutsche Mochrich-
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"We'd better make it your house, Gert. You know what terrible cook my husband is.
servico.
Where Profits Go, But by the year 1911 the pro- fita had risen to £5,000,000, and although the increased postage was ostensibly imposed owing to the war, the fact remains that the profits have now risen to over $11,000,000, and it is estimated that to reduce the.. normal rate from 1d. to 1d. will cost about £5,000,000.
It is quite natural that when these substantial profits are made
the Chancellor of the Exchequer will budget for retaining them or for obtaining further profits. The general pubile, however, will ex- pect improvements in the service, traders reduced charges, and the workers increased wages.
Let us return to penny postage and sixpenny telegrams. Lat un Login with twopenny telephones for three-minute calls for all dis- tances from enll offices, or penny for subscribers, making double, and even treble, charge, if necessary, for longer and orgent calla.
one
Great Britain led the way with penny postage. Let the principica which have made the British Post Office in this respect the finest in. the world be applied to
every branch of it.
WOMEN LIKE ROUGH TREATMENT.
TWO
By HELEN ROSE. TWO years ago a young actor somewhere in Austria wont to prison on a charge of shooting his beautiful sweetheart.800, according to a 'nows report, ha is to be released, and the happy (Continued on Page 8.).