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TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE 2,
con-
tion of agriculture and its general development and the extension and Improvement enttle-breeding.
of One of the first of such ferences, on the distribution of productive forces, opened in Moscow Udarnik Theatre on at the new April 15 and continued in session for ten days. This conference wus attended by over 1,000 delegates and scientists from all over the U.S.S.R.
It is known, of course, that under the first Five-Year Plan, the
1932.
DAY BY DAY
NO
IN OUR AGE, THERE CAN BE PEACE WHICH IS NOT HONOURABLE, AND NO WAR WHICH 18 NOT HONOURABLE—Sumner,
18-
A clean bill of health for the Colony was reported by the Medical Officer of Health on Tuenday.
The Empress of Russin, which has been deplayed by bad weather at Yokohama, is due here at li a.m, on workers of Russin have been bay-the 9th instant. ing a very hard time of it, the in- dividual being subordinated to the larger interests of the State. But It has always been claimed that when the second plan is complate, Russia will have attained such a degree of prosperity that it will be
Mr. Wei Tat, B.A., will give the first of a series of lectures on "The New Paychology of the Unconscious" today at 6 p.m. at the Hongkong Lodge, the Theosophical Society, 17, Queen's Road Central.
The
TH
THAT STRONG SILENT MAN MYTH
How Law Subsidises Profanity: by "Old Stager" THE Immortal Boz has a lot to knew the Army mentality, Drill Answer for. He was largely sergeants, brass hats, and other responsible for converting Christ plagues that afflict the soldiers, and mas from a religious feast into a must at the instant be endured in accular gorge. He threw the spell silence, necessitate some of his sentimental genius over nr safety valve later.
Sailors do not, I bellove nowa- dyspeptic self-indulgence to make
vornacu-
it shine forth like genial philanth-days wear no their tarry-pigtailed. ropy. And, using the pompous forebears were wont. This is be Mr. Bumble as his mouthpiece, ho cause conditions aboard ship have contrived at one cast to libel the 80 vastly improved under steam and Law and lure poor seriliblers into a benevolent Board of Trade. The classic misquotation.
institution of proper certificated
the Law can
it down. wear
Mr. Bumble never said the Law Bea cooks was another. notable ad- was 'n hoss."The worthy function-vance that leasoned the demand ary was far too dignified to com- for strong language alloat. But that the days when the Law bracketed the mit any such vulgarlam. What he things were very different in the actually dk assert was
with the soldier as a much Law was "n 58,"
more mariner
Dr. Johnson respectable and sonorous soleelam, privileged awearer. Mesura, A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd., and one quite in keeping with Mr.ufficiently indlented that when he Bumble's character. But that libel, said "Sir, no man would go to sea The possible to raise the standard of Advertise that on Friday, June 3, all misquoted or not, has stuck. The if he could get into gaol."
departmenta will be closed.
never navvy is a more subtle case, how- Dispensary, Dispensing majesty of
It is ever, and calls for closer study. living to a point unknown before. Ilongkong
Department, will he opened for dis- completely Time will tell whether this expecta-pensing prescriptions from 10 a.m. to fixed like a clowning algrette in is inclusion in the privileged Lion can be realised. It is interest. 1 pan, and from 6 p.m. to 7.30. p.m. the Lord Chancellor's cocked hal, triumvirate is, I take it, a conees- showing that it is even more dif-1sion to massive muscle and open- cult to overtake a happy glbe than air life. THE HONGKONG HOTELing, however, to observe that the
A report has been made to the downright lle.
A Little Latitude. State Planning Commission is ar poller by the military authorities
Our Law, R a matter of dia-
Oaths that would reasonably GARAGE
series of con-notifying the absence of Sapper Lee passionate fact, as far as politicians ranging a further
Yeung, of the 40th Company, Royal ferences which will examine the Engineers. The Sapper, whose age la have not been allowed to tinker suffice for a town dweller, or even questions vl factory santation, given as 31, is a native of Taips, and with and jerrymander it, is ad- placid farm Inbourer, would be
It unites quite inadequate on the lips of mirably commonsense.
with hours of labour and rest, workers' has been missing since May 23 from the ancient sapiency of the Latin Strapping, sunburned navyy
Wellington Barracks, where he
race with the homely horse-sense blue hearts und anchors tattooed on his arma and torso. I hold of the Saxon,
The Burgos & Shanglin Hotěk, Lud. terpornind de Bangkok,
Happy Valley Stud Reme
The
Chongkong Telegraph.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1913
RUSSIA'S SECOND FIVE-YEAR PLAN
recreation, and cultural develop-stationed, ment. From these facts it is clear,
[countries are
struggling
WAS
to
A circumstance of which huge that the Law saw right, mad that Members and others interested are at any rate, that while many other reminded that the weet dare mases of the laity are wholly un-1 Miss Ethel M. Dell is entirely in
aware is that our Law, while it the wrong.
There are no really strong silent along will continued at the Police Re-
ervation Club pavilion every Thursday sternly discountenances all profane rather ninilessly, the Soviet is work-night commencing at 8.30 p.m., admix.invective, grades such offences with men. The sllent strong man is a ing to well-ordered plan. Thission being 50 cents a person. The the utmost particularity and even-terary myth. The creation is no essential functions, which will start this even-handed justice. In the case of doubt a commendable attempt to 2172 indispensable makes it all the more
ing, will be held on the cool verandah soldiers, sailors, and navvies, it is bowdlerise
character down punishable by a fine of one shill- romance whatever we may think of Russia's in front of the pavilion.
ing. For other offenders of the feminine susceptibilitles and the methods, that we shall at any rate
Prior to disembarking from the 8. proletarian class the penalty may ethics of the circulating library. endeavour to understand what Huiching, which arrived from Puo be two shillings. But for gentle Samson is, I grant you, seldom a really taking place.
chow, Ainny and Swatow yesterday nien and patricians of high estate babbler-though the original pro-
pasen- the seale mounts up to five shil- totype certainly talked too much xer lost a basket containing Amaylings. Here Daniel himself how but he can and does let himself go
total come to judgment.
on occasion. And his powerful and clothing to the money
vocnbulary then Is all the more value of $902. The basket was left
impressive by contrast.
Yet I admit the Law, as it still We hear a lot, from time to time, about one law for the rich and an existe, does now press hard
Ex-servicemen are Under the auspices of the local St. other for the poor. But in this certain people.
a trying plight. John Ambulance movement, the cot-case the boot is on the other foot. particularly in tage hospital for women and children It is the wealthy who are specially Many of them wasted the cheap at Kam Tin, in the New Territories, handicapped and penalised in the shilling opportunitires that were, will be formally opened next Wednes-true spirit of noblesse oblige, and theirs in the brave khaki days, day, June 8, at 5.15 p.m. Owing to the poor and oppressed who are and, now they are tame civilians
iton. unforeseen circumstances, the
morning,
Chinese
on the deck and was stolen whilst the Class Distinction. owner was looking over the rails.
4
011
and ilfe is even more
The British Press is paying con- siderable attention to the prepara-
Social Questions, tions now being made by the Soviet
One of the most interesting fen- for embarkution on the second Five. Year Plan of Socialist reconstructures of the recent International Manchester Gmarlina, | Labour Conference was the speech tion. The for example, points out that at ade by the delegate of Mexten. time when 2.0 lenders in capitula, Mexico is the youngest member of the League of Nations and the In- countries ace treading warily ternational Labour Organisation, thin ice, the Soviet maitrs, by their of which she only became a mem-
For three Director of Medical and Sanitary privileged and have the legal wind again receptance of the ser and Pive-Year ber in September Inst.
Services, Dr. A. R. Wellington, being tempered to their shorn condition. irritating than during the war, When the law decreed these dis- they are graded on a higher basis unnble Lo open the hospital, the Plan, have shown that they are years previously, however, she had
been represented at the Labour erremony will be performed by the criminations, in ita judicial at- for saying freely what they think
titude towards all forms of cursing. of it all. forging ahead with their bold pro-
Perhaps some amendment of the Conference by an observer, thus Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton.
it recognised that the gentry could the industrialization
showing the interest taken by her
afford to pay gramme for
for their luxuries, aw is due. There should surely Members of the Y's Men's Club of and, at the same time, that the bea special rate of profanity It is difficult to extimate Government in social questions, of Russia.
There to what extent the Best Five-Year The modern social history of Mex- Hongkong are
regular meeting for this week will be poor Buffer under the greater ex- penalties instituted for all persons Plan has succeeded, but if in some Lico begins twenty-two years ago, held at 7.30 to-night at the Chinese asperation at the odds of life. sessed in income-tax.
Merchants' Club, China Building, in- This is, though Communists have might be a close period, if you like respects fulfillment has been de. Up to that time, the Mexicas were
stend of at tiffin to-day, Ladies may never stressed the fact, in direct but about the New Year, and unfl of the close of the Bnancial year, a be invited, and the function will be contradiction to the innuendo Jayed, in other respects, notably the among the must grievously exploit- ed nations of the world. Immense
send-aff to Mr. Wm. Vinson Lee, that popular song, so frequently little inexpensive latitude should be allowed. I believe oven Lord coal, oil and electro-technical in-
riches were drawn from the oil president of the Y's Men's Club of chanted by even middle-class per Snowden of Ickornahaw might see
and organiser of the
sons, the opening refrain of which dustries, Pays the Guardian, the wells, ranches, and silver mines of Shanghai,
was the justice of this tactful conces- have Burs
Bion. actual aevomplishments
the country, but these were almost sister Club in Hongkong, who will is, "She was pour but she
honest." passed all the moat optimistic ex- entirely devoted to the benefit of
A point that merits close atten-
10 the
Patrons Intest foreigners who owned or enjoye
of the King's Theatre tion, however, is the peculiar ad- j Imrentions. "N scheme, it is declared that by the concessions for them. In 1910 a're-yesterday greatly enjoyed the Brat vantage, in the matter of brutal
Secrets of profanity, accorded to three orders People We Meet on end of 1937, Russia will produce.volution plunged the country into screenings of "The
period of anarchy from which it Secretary, a Paramount film of more of the community. Why does the
Board august panoply, than average excellence. The theme Law, in all its in certain industries, one and a half
was long in recovering. Little by In extremely well conceived and interspecially single out soldiers, sailors, times more than the United States.little, however, order was restored preted, making a most interesting and navvies as men entitled to un- Another British journal points out but of chans, and a new era act in any of view it ranks high. Added burden their thoughts in explosiveOME are charming, some are epithet? Because the Law, in detestable, others are wage, and
that the new electrical stations, the the new tractor. new mines, and metallurgical and other plants are
iL
The
reminded that the
sail for Shanghai to-morrow.
found to lend in time to a much
to this is the really fitat-class happier state
of the principals, notably Claudette less artificial times than these, re-more are merely, extraordinary. of things.
The cognised that men who live in But all of them, all of these people Colbert and Herbert Marshall. Federal Constitution of 1917 in-
latter makes an ideal English lord barracks, in forecastle, or labour we meet on board, are not quite real and are giving new power to chuded a very advanced programme not the customary American carlen with shovels and belted waists, like anything we ever meet en dry of social legislation, covering, inture-his acting being supplemented bave greater need than others to innd. It takes the sea to make Ausu vivid and picturesque phrase people what they usually are not. the Russian people.
deed, most of the Conventions and by an excellent speaking voice.
film which can be thoroughly recom- ology. Even Shakespeare, with There is something about the anlt recommendations since adopted by mended."
his "onths five fathoms deep," wind, or maybe the moon sending the International Labour Organi- sation. It was not, however, pos- The whole of the sible to put Constitution into force jamediate- Recently n beginning has
charged with the direction of the
Was
Turning to the decision to alart work on the second Five-Year Plan, we observe that there have been called to this task all the trade unions, technical and scientific workers and their organizations, in-
been made with real work on cluding the Academy of Science, the
practical lines which promises good Communist Acudenty, the Agricul
things for the future. On the Tural Academy and others. The subjects before the Geneva Con- State Planning Commission is ference, the Mexican spokesman able to point out that fen whole work. The various com-charging employment agencies are missariats will prepare plans for already under strict control in Mexico. The age of admission for their particular branches of the children to non-industrial occupa national economy, while the plan- tions is fixed by law at twelve ning authorities of the several re-years, with a maximum six-hour publics comprising the U.S.S.N, and day between the ages of twelve the local planning organs will com- and sixteen; and the Government pile plans for their own localities.is ready to accept, in principle,'|
the mimimum
of fourteen The decision of the Council of
proposed by the Conference, and People's Commissaries requires that promises to submit regulations the Stato Planning Commission and administrative measured to shall submit all its plans not later give effect to this requiremont. than December 1 this year, thun en As regards the establishment of
widowe' old nge, invalidity,
and abling the Counell to decide on the
orphans' insurance, a special codo second Five Year Plan in its en-
in being adopted and in December tirety by January 1, 1933. In ac-
Inst, Congress gave the Executive cordance with the Council's, do- extraordinary powers for doing cision, the State Planning Commis, this by August, 1932, at the latest. The Government has already de- slon has summoned a series of con-
favour of com- ferences and consultative meetings
pulsory insurance in all apheres and for the purpose of deciding on the during the past year work has Jucation of now industries and mat- been begun by a special committee tark pertaining especially to which includes representatives of electrification, the coal andomployers and workers as well as chemical industries, the mechaniza- of the Government.
clared itself in
nge
"Have you any other entrance? I don't like revolving doora."
snakes over the water on a calm. night, that stirs a chord within us and causes us to find, with our sen legs, something which is part and parcel of liner life.
Perhaps for a week, perhaps for less, we know so well those faces which we see about the ship. And we langh with these people, and play. with them, and philosophise with them, and drink with them. and this decide within ourselves that mari or that is really a delightful fellow, and that we will cultivato him as soon ever we get back home, and that it will all be fine and jolly for ever more. Then the ship berths, and the boat train trumpets, and the quay is full, of luggage and empty of porters, and we see vaguely, dimly, those peopló an they are--just as they," přo- bably, are seeing us na wo are,
There was
the man 02 that Mediterranean cruise. Decent sort of fellow, first rate company, ox- traordinarily good at deck tonnla mighty generous, and likeable, For a fortnight our, rivalry over the tennis net was a joy and a delight. Grimly in flannels and trousers wo twisted and rolled, and looped that rope quoit at each other, and chuckled, and wagged our fingers, and divod, and ducked, and called cach, other by nick- names, and slapped each other on 'the back, and then retired exhaust- ed into the verandah cafe for long. cold drinks. He was a good follow that. He got. that ship's company on to its focs in three hours. He organised everything from whist drives to shuffleboard tourna menta. We exchanged cards. We ̈ Bald we'd go and see each other.
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