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DAY BY DAY
RIDICULE 18 INDEED A FACULTY
HONG KONG:
HOMO ON OUR
SOCIAL LIFE
THE HALCYON HADES
NO 1.—THE SINGLE MAN.
MUCH PRIZED BY ITS TOSSESSORS; YET INTRINSICALLY IT IS A SMALL The nowcomer to Hongkong may with the traditional plunooring FACULTY; WE MAY SAY, THE SMAL walk into any book-seller's shop spirit of his trail-blazing ancestry, LEST OF ALL FACULTIES THAT OTHER and procure all the informative fully resolved upon registering WITH Hterature he can absorb on the his mark in local industrial his- MEN ARE AT PAINE TO PAY ANY ESTEEM.-Carlyle,
Colony'a topography, It's flora and tory by hard-work, enterprise and fauna, the history of the place, frugality-doing something really customs and characteristics pocu-worth-while with his fo. Mr. H. L. Schultz arrived here Har to the Orientals with whom Ad- from Manila by the a.. Empress of he will come. In contactall sub-ginmour of the East and his heart
Ho in impregnated with
Four cases of small-pox and of meningitis were notified to health authorities yesterday.
Journey. There is also a marked improvement In the local gooda ro- colpts, which increased during the year by more than twenty-five por cent. On the other hand, the goods earnings on the cohbined lines show a drop of almost $6,000 dur ing the twelve months, the total boing only just over $31,000. AS the report says, considering the vast amount of cargo moving be- tween the tiva big cilies, this is a very poor figure, and, the lack of patronage is said to be a matter of serious concern to the ministrations of the two sections. Asia. There would appear to be still need of further improving the track of the Chinese section, and when this is done it is hoped that the journey to Canton may be done in three hours. When we recall the weari some journeys of the past, it will be recognised that great improve- ments have already been effected in the service. This has been made ponsible, of course, by the happy co-operation between the British and Chinese sections, at no time more pronounced than to-day. our part, that co-operation is evi denced by the fact that through: MORE in beauty, performance.
express trains are still hauled by tone and value. Impor-British section engines. tant production economies-plus There is one other feature of lust new Sparton inventions that sti!! further enrich Radio's Richest year's operations which gives cause
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fets of genuine local interest but comparatively inconsequential in swells to an Initial thrill of achi- twn their application to every-day fe evement as his foot first falls upon the The one really important study the far-off foreign soil-the land that all are called upon to tako of the legendary pig-tail, intri- up during their sojourn here is guing impassivity and imponder- First impressions the Idiosyncrasies of the social able mystery. Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., life of our little community, for of the Colony transcend expecta- Ltd., advertise that Mr. T. R. Mac which unfortunately we have notion and the week following his Donald will act as Manager of the instructional media but that of arrival is replete with the excite- Insurance Department furing the hard-earned and very often bitter ment of exploration.
experience. absence of Mr. F. C. Hall.
novelty of his new sur- There is no gainsaying that roundings soon wears through, Boeinl conditions out here are however, and a few day'a submis. Mrs. Hazell, wife of Mr. Denis II Hazell, the well-known tennis player, vastly different from those obtain-sion to the condescending, im- is arriving in Hongkong togethering at Home and very few people patient patronage of supercilious with their little daughter on board of either sex manage to achieve office colleagues leaves him some-
abashed the pernicious, what
and despondent the a.. Naldera to-day, after a stay immunity from in the Hame country of two years. demoralising influence that life after the convivial friendliness of east of Suez exerts upon Western the cosmopolitan ship-board charactor. How after does one crowd. Everybody here seems to Yesterday being the Norwegian hear folks on their return from be irrevocably glued to national day, all Norwegian vessela in leave confess to diminished in-small, ultra-exclusivo social clique port wore bedecked with flags to comt terest in relatives, friends and in which there is apparently no occasion. Celebra-conditions generally at Home. room whatever for the immature, memorate the
aome
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in Hongkong were all of a private nothing to be desired but after a unutterable loneliness of the de-
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Last week's health return shows
two
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month or so things had become solate, inhospitable hotel somewhat difficult-an apparent acuda his thoughts wistfully back inck of common interests and sym- to the congenial Home-life of the pathles-an Inexplicable incom-Old Country. patibility of outlook on life.
Immediate
leadership and make these instru-in respect of demurrage and hire ments the most attractive we of rolling stock for 1931 were ac- have ever offered. See the wide cepted by the Administration of the range of models, including the chinese section. Claims in respect
nine cases of amail-pox (six fatal), Sparton Automobila Radio.
of the years 1923-20 were, however, five of diphtherin (one fatal), five
His self-esteem has been sub. The Colonial is apt to attribute not accepted, with the result, that fatal cases of meningitis, and
mind. having Ject to unanticipated laceration by the amount now due from the Chin non-fatal cases of typhoid. There the change to one
friendship--this incomprehensible se section is well over a millionere niso 67 deaths from pulmonary been broadened by travel while this failure to form
tuberculosis,
the other was simply vegetating intolerance of his newness-anel but viewing sights denied to onc's fellows by no means, Among the passengers who arrived in itself. justifies any claim critical introspection, he begins to in Hongkong yesterday from Shang-to In
intellectual superiority. hai by the s.a. Philoctetes were H.E. Broadmindedness makes itself n his former aspirations. Gradually the G.0.C., Major, General d. W. Sandilands, C.B., C.A.G., D.S.O., and purent through toleration and un- but inevitably he gravitates to- his A.D.C., Captain D. R. Cameron, derstanding and while the hills wards the Colony's club-life, finds on return from an inspection tour in and lanes of Scotland are evolving precarious niche in a coterie of the North.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1932.
GOOD YEAR FOR THE
RAILWAY
dollars. This is an old legacy, re- presenting a problem which has, somehow, never yet been solved. It would be interesting to know what light the Hongkong Govern ment views the matter. If there is no prospect of ever getting this money-although arevriling to the working agreement it is obviously due--then it would be better to wipe it out once and for all, rather than to go on year after year keeping the figure recurring in the accounts.
Reforming the House of Lords.
A meeting of the central council
way.
It
peers,
civi!
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after a few weeks of solitude and
lose confidence in the merits of
a Burns, another man may be youthful blase rouses and ultimate- travelling the seven seas and fively strikes ont in deliberate emula- continents with as little chance of tion of these stagnant brained, de- the nofar- intellectual improvement as a ship's generate habitues in
lous drinking, gambling and wo- man-hunting exploits.
cnt.
A more probable explanation for
Occasionally he looks back and this inability to mix at Home is
reflecta upon what might have "that never-failing vice of fools." been. At times ho may even on- deavour to fight his way free
Most of UB come out here to nalarles and personal service for
sense of proportion and ride to out to him? The church's bene-
ficent influence has long been do extremes of absurdity.
funct through sheer atagnation "Oh, wad some power the giftie and apathy-defiance of the unl
gio us To see oursels ne others see us. It wad from many a blunder
free us And foolfali notion."
versal, incontrovertible law of alternative evolution or extinction and evon the sports-ground in- veigles him into the profligacy of
To the unbiased observer, the an imbibing fraternity. So he just drifts with the polluted tide--ress- resident going on leave presente lutions undermined, work neglect- a personality entirely different ed, debt accumulations ignored, from that of the man who first health considerations flagrantly sets foot on Eastern shores.
And yet the individual can
disregarded-unresistingly du
worst wasters.
scarcely be blamed for hia de generating into one of the world's generacy. Only a paragan with-
And the sex question naturally stands the insidious influence of
appears in the picture. Should he a noxious environment and
in the House of Commons can superior complex is so easily ac- happen to be abnormally attrae- .
drink-sodden head into the un- invariably compel the Lords to quired when positive suggestion tive to the womenfolk, he runs his wholesome, nerve-racking Intri- consent to anything, however re- comes from outside.
The least and perhaps the most cacies of marital triangles, lost, volutionary, that it really is deter-
we can do towards mitigation of mined shali pass Into law. Bri- these deplorable Eastern mental tain's safeguard against revolution epidemics is of a preventive na. is not refinement of the Constitu- ture-innoculation of new ar tion, but the good sense of the rivals.
The young "commercial assist British people.
ant" arrives in Hongkong imbued
by this time, to all sense of moral decency-unscrupulously wrecking the lives and happiness of others in his mad stampede for sordid sensation. Or Nature may not have endowed him too generously in the "sex appeal" line so he drinks with the boys till closing time, drifts like a dismaated, rud- dorless derelict into disreputable, post-midnight resorts.
The following cable at the close beyond what we wore accustomed from the tentacles of the vitiated of the sugar market yesterday has to in the Old Country and like the rabble but what other attraction been received by Menura. Pen-beggar on his horse, we lose all or interesta does the Colony hold Union of Con-treath and Co. of the National
Associn servative and Unionist tions recently passed a resolution advocating a reform of the person- nel of the House of Lords. This resolution crystallizes the desire of a certain section of British has not public opinion, which ceased to regret that the reconsti- tion of the Lords was the herald of a sunrise which never actually took place. The House of Lords already represents far more sec- tions of the British people than is commonly supposed. The aristo- cratic element does indeed greatly preponderate in it. But there are Labour
and it contains members of almost every grade. including clergy, authors, Slowly but surely the Kowloon-
servants, lawyers, journalists, Canton Railway, is proving a useful business men. It is in one sense source of revenue to the Colony as representative as the House of The report for 1931, now issued, re- Commons, though in a different veala a year of steady progress. It
represents trades and was not so many years back that it
professions instead of geographi- seemed as if the railway were des cal areas. Its defects as a repro- tined to become a burden rather than a source of profit. As recent-sentative assembly could be easily ly as 1927, a loss was shown on the removed, either by a restriction of year's working, but since then there the hereditary element or by a strengthening of the democratic has been a steady upward trend on the right side. Last year showed section of the House. The central council also proposed that the the biggest profit of all,
the second chamber: $160,000, and if we take the years powers of from 1928 to 1931 Inclusive, we should be increased by making it find that close on four and a half necessary that a non-money bill, Inkhs of dollars have been brought passed by the Commons, but re- jected by the Lords, should be Gratifying as the situation is, presented in two successive par- even Haments, instead of, as at pre- it might easily have been better but for the regrettable inis sent, in two successive sessions of hap caused by the cloud-burst in the same Parliament, before be April which resulted in serious coming law. This would insure damage to the line, caused the loss that no bili opposed by the Lords of several ilves and made it neces could become law until the people sary to suspend all traffic for ten had been consulted at the general days. Until then, the railway had election. An obvious objection to had a proud record, having carried thin suggestion is that it would no fewer than twenty-four million still further delay legislation. passengers without serious injury Moreover, the same purposo could to anyone or loss of a passenger be achieved by the institution of life. The interruption was all the the referendum. Such an amend- more regrettable since during the ment in the Constitution might whole of the year there had boon also be construed as an attempt no auspension of the express to hamper the Labour Party when- services on account of military or over it may return to office, and political activities-a welcome this in itself might urgo the change from past times. There is | Labour Party to thoas vory ox- evidence to bo found in the censes of polley which it is a matu atatistics included in the annual | object of the proposal to qvold.
those report that more passengers are But perhaps
are only using the rallway, one of the factors academie considerations, for. so no doubt being the improvements long as the Crown, that is, the which have been made by cutting Primo Minister, can create, poors | down the time occupied in tho at will, the preponderating party
jn.
over
"For a steak to melt in your mouth, sir, is SOMETHING -but it's not EVERYTHING.
The lust scene of all that ends this ignoble, eventful history finds him destituto of ambition, moral integrity or seif respect, losing his job for insobriety and debt to wake up in Tilbury Dock a sadder and n wiser man,
CORRESPONDENCE.
A Water Suggestion.
[To the Editor. Hongkong Telegraph.]
Sir-I wonder whether it is medically safe to make use of the sea water off the Praya nt Wan- chai and in the Central District for bathing and for washing dishes? If It Is, then a lot of water can be saved by encourag- ing the inhabitants of these two congested areas to got son water and uso it where over possible.
Everyone hates to use briny wator for bathing when fresh water can be obtained, but I feel sure that the ease with which one can got a bucketful of sea water. contrasted with the long and tedious waiting at the street hydrants, should provide an incon- tivo sufficient to counteract any dislike for salt water..
Perhaps some of your medical readers will enlighten us on this subject. Yours, etc.,
WANCHAITAN,