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THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1932.
needs, the better. Moreover, if pre- the complaint bo Omela! dominance, we might just as well argue that neither the Legiela- Sanitary nor the tive Council Board have any real value. They may not be all that we could wish them to be, either in the extent of their powers or in the method of selection of personnel, but it is surely wisdom to make the best of things as they are rather than to sit back and grumble because they are not better.
DAY BY DAY
OF ALL ARTS I DELIEVE THAT THE CINEMA 19 THE MOST IMPORTANT Lenju.
The quarantins restrictions imposed by Hongkong against arrivals from Pakhoi on account of small-pox have been removed.
EMPIRE POPULATION
By "COMMERCE"
"Once-in our time-ls there a tian?"
There was a children's lesson- book enlled "Reading without Tears." The Government's motto HE OPERATION was comis recovery without offort (on our Everyone elso 18 to
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pletoly successful, but two part). hours later the patient succumbed economise properly and at the same time display enterprise so
may' from shock." These words, which that we, the, Government,
nows-prosper without pain, that is, pain unfortunately papern at least each month, have at all comparable to that being a lesson to teach in politics. On endured by Commerce. But com- Mr. B. Paul will speak on "Karma inquiry the sorrowing rolatives morce, says the Government, Is Action and Re-action" at the usual are told that the patient's heart not worth the effort, for the Gov. out. Some-ernment falls short of sharing the weekly public lecture of the Hong-collapsed or kong Lodge, The Theosophical Society,
G p.m.
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deed will happen, unless atops are contrary, it appears satisfied with 17, Queen's Road Central, to-day at thing similar may happen, in experience of commerce. On the taken to prevent it in the politi-ta works and itself. Thero might be hope if it could realise the truth of two lines of Kipling: cal world.
Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, Divisional Superintendent who in to leave Hong- kong on retiremont on May 21, is to be tendered a dinner at the Police Recreation Club, Happy Valley, Wednesday, May 18,
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"And whatever we do we shail fold our hands and suck our gums and think well of it
Yes, we shall be perfectly plensed with our work; and that is the Perfectent Hell of It."
privileges, few though they be. vernment Civil Hospital from his in-ported because of the patriolely in this criticism on the powers
A display of rent civle interest, revealing a determination to press for urgent needs, will do more in ita cumulative effects to bring about desired changes than an at-
The British public, already very titude of sheer indifference. We
Interest have to prove our
heavily taxed, somehow managed to pay up in advance a whole small matters before we can ex-
quarter's Income Tax, a prepay- ment which will not be set square pect to be entrusted with larger
dies and only the call is responsibilities. So
The 8-year-old nont of a sampan wo-
until each payer for an intensification of public Inman, Lee Tack Kan, previously re then if the executors remember teen aup- terest in the Colony's affairs. a ported as having been severely scalded
Every tax payer will jola heart!- keener desire to make use of our when he upnet a pot of boiling tea about it. The strain has on board, died yesterday at the Go- terrifle and has only been call to rally to the country.
that be, and if they need any more pre-juries.
The tax payers have answered they can read the rest of the poem, whenever the opportunity
the call because they believe that and lappen they maye be ashamed. Hents itself, no matter how sel- bemoan dom that may be. We
the to minimise nerve weight of the call; they answer another call of the scout repentance comes no improve- THE HONGKONG HOTEL believe that if the way were open-
kind, no matter how urgent. fact, they have only succeeded in ment. If they are ashamed they GARAGE.
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meeting the call through hope for have a chance of sharing in the tion in local affairs, the measure stolen.
Dr. Anna Selig, member of the the future. But in this hope they future; if they are but ahamed by of that interest would be marked-
Life is very unfair, for ly intensified. After all, it may Board of International Student Serare going to be disappointed, for others or by facts they have none.
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the League ing of public interest on the basis of the Society on Saturday, May 14, at 9ing at all in the degree the times will be confounded not be
All require. The Government is election 1 p.m.
nt thr Cathedral Hall. With members of the League of Nations far behind the requirements ofment but because they fail to rise Society and their friends are wel. the May Report as the May Re this supreme ability that Englanil port is behind the necessities of 1938. So long as this is the case, and the Empire need to-day, and all men in places be judged. By ing at the Queen's Theatre, is quite wall on the expectation of reviv: their knowledge of that need will "Alius French Gertie," now show it is vain for the Government to the extremity of that need will and crook film, noteworthy for ing trade to send up the yield of their sentence be nugmented,
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THURSDAY, MAY 12 1932.
CIVIC APATHY
the apathy displayed on Tuesday, the police that his Bat at 419, fien. the Government also is straining | Yet shamed they must be, either by
but, none the less, we cannot but
results of one solitary every six or seven years. wider opportunities, we might rea- sonably expect a greater manifes tation of civic spirit.
Stabilisation
currency
21
Mr. H. Hassan, employed as a clerk at a city office, yesterday reported to nemey Road, had been entered by a thief and a gold watch and chain, with appendage, which he valued at a hundred dollars, had been
conte.
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are worthy
HONGKONG SHARE MARKET.
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others or themselves, for without ahame comes no repentance; with-
these
cause of their heredity or environ-
superior to ot. It is men with
forcefal acting by Bébé Daniels. She the Luxes.
They know, for it needs no tell per- Except for Customs and "Exchange Equalisation Fund" Tikes to great dramatic heights
the yield of anying to many possessed of far less altogether gives a very excellent in-haps Excise. is a long-sounding phrase for what the tense moments of the play and will probably be one of the most terpretation of the part of a French given rate of tax is bound to fall knowledge than that of a Minister economise that the distribution within the Forty-four millions here; Now that the actual figures of historic provisions of the British muid with a penchant for thieving until the Government
Budget which has now obtained its | Associated with her is Ben Lyon, who in a sense at least comparable to Empire of the British race is all
in private life is Bebe Daniels' hu-
millions in Canada; aix second reading. Its provisions bant, and he plays the leading male that enforced on industry and wrong.
absurdity. the whole role admirably. There is nothing probably beyond it. Customs for ten could ultimately affect
new in the theme, hut the produc- time may mask the falling yield in Australla; one and a half in
of other taxes, but it can be but New Zealand, are an and neting structure of Britain's
for time, a time during which Yet because to change this is hard the Government merely wastes for politicians it is ignored.
Ав Our statesmen neck to perpetu- quite
men's lives.. marking time. things stand, the inevitable con-ate it by tariffs, by quotas, by clusion of this process is a succes-dole, and a hundred other devicen sion of perfectly balanced Budgets all designed to remove from our imposed on a community steadily Empire Ministers the inconveni- approaching bankruptcy probably once of carrying out their duty, adventure, which is to serve the Empire as via some refusal to
they can see it. And they are not akin to hoarding.
Unless folk can trust the back-blind to their duty, but they fear nn ident ground, they will not adventure to serve it, even to the point of Bort of adventure is the very life to which they might make their blood of England. They may daily shifts subservient. anely or hopefully, though that merely projecting it an speculate, either with a little, as They know the end the Empire on the Irish Sweep, or in such must reach; a doubled British, po- measure as leaves them bankrupt palation in all Dominions; this if the speculation fails. This lat-they might admit. They know it ter they will only undertake if cannot be done this year, and with will agree. But unless practically bankrupt already and this all
the they are prepared to hold up this therefore without hope of sane kind. Put shortly, this kind. redistribution as the one cardinal
factor in British Empire politics. of speculation is desperation.
Exchange Equalisation Fund is to give the pound's exchange value a reason
the polling are disclosed, it is evi- dent that public interest in Taes- day's Sanitary Board election was concentrated rather than diffused. From the keenness of the pre-sier-machinery. It has had
warm reception in the City, as tion controversy, it might have
showing that the Government had been assumed that there would be
some semblance of n plan for the a record poll, but actually well
future of the pound in mind. The under fifty per cent, of those en-whole purpose of the titled to vole took the troubly to exerelse the franchise. The facts are regrettable, the more so since to they will no doubt be used counter any plea which may in future be advanced for an exten- sion of the elective principle in the case of the Sanitary Board or for the application of that prin
iple to the Ur.oticial seats on the Legislative Council
A
the
OFFICIAL SUMMARY BY STOCK EXCHANGE, quieter tone prevailed at
and opening session this morning, there is a lack of interest in market Salem, movement.
Hongkong Bunks $1530/1540. Hongkong Reallics $11.35. Dairy Farins $28.
Buyers.
Canton Insurances $1240. Douglases $26.
Union Waterboats $10. Benguet Explorations 31 cents. Providents (Old) $1.85. Hongkong Lands $774. Shanghof
Tls. 25.
Humphreys 15-15-
Peak
that manufac able steadiness so facturers and traders can arrange future business without great risk of exchange losses. How will the new fund work? Powers will be granted to borrow but there is no need to anticipate borrowings to that extent. It is the size of these borrowing powers that will fright- Analysing the figures, we find on the speculator who gambles up that an amazingly small propor- on his own idens of the future of tion of those who are on the Jury the pound. The "banker" will have Out of almost unlimited powder and shot List recorded their votes.
On the to resist him, and will probably he 1,662, only 606 polled. ather haul, exempted persons vol- able to put him out of work. ed in considerable strength-Latterly the pound's exchange value close on 500 out of a total of 693, has been "going up" because some it is foreign investors have more faith connexion, In this latter worth recalling that special efforts in it than in their own currencies, were made by the candidates to and because speculators thought it induce exempted persons to regis-would go on going up. The for- ter and thus be eligible to voic. eigner cannot physically "bring
to London." This canvassing
obviously money fruitful in results. The real sur- Frenchman, say, all he can do is to change his franco at a Paris prise is that so few jurora exer-
bank with some one who has pounds is cised the franchise. What
in a London bank and would like the equally surprising is that
his francs in Paris. Now . . A. nominee received such n
Amount of foreign-owned money in London is limited-one might call it a pool of foreign-owned pounds. More than half a million girls When a foreigner wants to "send throughout the British Isles will his money to London" he has to be celebrating shortly the change his own currency with an-jority of the Girl Guide
Was
the
scant measure of support. When Associn- we remember that the tion has a membership of over all of whom. three hundred, doubtless, would be eligible
that there are vote, and
to
If he is n
Trans Yaumati Ferries (0) $31%. Yaumati Ferries (New) $30%. Ilangkong Electrica $73.65. Cements (Combined) $18.20. Sinceres $17. Constructions (New) $1.70. Govt. Loans 2% Premium.
GİRL GUIDE MOVEMENT'S COMING OF AGE
580,000 TO TAKE PART.
ma-
move-
An many other fellow-countryman who has ment. official at headquarters
pounds in London and is willing to states: "The
bundreds more possessing that right, it is astounding that Mow Fung received only
votes,
Mr. 161
part with them. The supply
up. To
an undus
Kowloon, for reasons which
check
is
celebrations will begin on May 23 and last until limited, so the pound's value goes May 29 inclusive. No fewer than rise 286,616 Guides, Brownies, Ran- will it is difficult to explain, cannot (which would be harmful to trade),gers and Gulders (adults)
take part. I have pollet at all well. This is the Bank of England is to be pro-
"Originally it was proposed to when we reflect|vided with extra pounds borrowed have a great Albert Hall pageant, passing strange on the keen civic spirit which has by the Exchange Equalisation Fund but owing to the call for economy the so that it can increase the supply the girls are having local cele- been demonstrated across harbour by the creation and long available to the foreigner. In ex-brations instead.
"They will all try in that period of the Re-change for the pounds in London continued existence sidents' Association. How shall which it exchanges with foreigners to do a specially good turn, It we account for the apathy which the Bank of England wil get the will be made a week of Guide Ser-
for the younger children." the election has revealed? It is francs in Paris or dollars in Newvice. There will be a follification Including one event which pre- possible, of course, that the mR-York. Those francs and dollars it jority of residents feel that the can "keep on deposit" in Paris and codes the official celebrations not- personnel of the Sanitary Board New York, or buy British securf-able dates will be:
May 22.-Cardinal Bourne will is not a matter of any real impor- ties marketed in those countries or tance, nines the Oficial elemont buy gold. That is one side of the address Catholic Guides in Wost- service at May 28-National predominates and that, in any operations. The day could soon minster Cathedral. case, the Board is merely an ad- come when the trouble may be St. Paul's Cathedral for Guides in visory body, with no real powers, not to stem the rise in the pound's Diocese of London. Address by it recommendations not always value, but to stop a drop. Such a the Bishop of Kingston.
May 29.-Guide Sunday through- proving acceptable to the Govern-drop could be caused by foreigners ment. If that is the general at-wanting to exchange hurriedly out British Isles. titude, it must be deplored. The thoir pounds in London for their |Board, in spite of its limited pow-own currencies at hime. The Bank of England would already havo ers, certainly has important func-foreign curerncies abroad (those tions to discharge, and the more hought when it sold pounds to stop its personnel is leavened by mem- the pound's rise) and with them bors who are acquainted first-could buy pounds to stop a serious hand with the Colony's health drop in the pound's value.
Special services for Jowish Guides..
The Princess Royal, who is pre- sident of the Girl Guides A380- cintion; will attend the service at Lake St. Paul's in which Lord and Lady Baden-Powail will part The Lord Mayor also will be present.
This failure of the Government and statesmanship they are self- to take care of the background confessed quacks, playing about arises from perhaps two things, with bread pills in the face of a for diagnosed disease and professing to any two It is charitable
Desire to that they know no better. really they are but one.
on which the ease the point loudest outery is made and failure
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These are hard sayings, but who the fundamental will say that they go beyond the diagnose trouble. If they could diagnose facts. It is for our Ministers to the trouble and treat their conces- marry the ultimate aim with their sions to pressure as but pallitives | present difficulties, but to begin to or anesthetics to be used to pro-do so they must give service to
the the aim. When they do so, vide time for dealing with discase, then there would be some their difficulties will disappear, chance of their success. But as and folk throughout the Empire it is, remedies for symptoms are will be both pleased and proud to trented as absolute cures and the help towards a goal that all can
understand. disease remains.
JAIJA
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