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tion of agriculture and its general development and the extension and of cattle-breeding- improvement One of the Arat of such con-
NO ferences, on the distribution of
IN OUR AGE, THERE CAN BE productivo forces, opened in Moscow
PEACH WHICH IS NOT HONOURABLE AND NO WAR WHICH IS NOT DIS- at the new Udarnik Theatre on April 15 and continued in sessionHONOURABLE-Sumuer for ten days. This conference was altended by over 1,000 delegates and scientists from all over the U.S.S.K.
.
A clean bill of health for the Colony was reported by the Medical Oficer of Health on Tuesday.
The Empress of Russin, which has been deplayed by bad weather at Yokohama, is due here at 11 am, on the 9th instant.
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Mr. Wel Tat, B.A,, will give the first of a series of lectures on "The New Psychology of the Unconscious to-day at 6 p.m. at the Hongkong Lodge, the Theosophical Society, 17, Queen's Road Central.
The
tho
nuthorities
THAT STRONG SILENT MAN MYTH
How Law Subsidises Profanity: by "Old Stagor" 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 secular gorge. He threw the spell silence, necessitate some
Sailors do not, I bellovo nowa- of his sentimental genius over lar safety valve later.. dyspeptic self-indulgence to make
vornacu-
It shine forth he gonfal philanth-days swear as their tarry-pigtalled ropy. And, using the pompous forebears were wont. This is be- Mr. Bumble as his mouthpiece, he cause conditions aboard ship have contrived at ong cast to libel the no vastly Improved under ateam and Institution of proper certifiented Law and lure poor seribblers into aa benevolent Board of Trade. Tho classic misquotation.
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It is known, of course, that under the Five-Year Plan, the first workerą of Russia have been hay-
Mr. Bumble never anid the Law sea cooks was another notablo ad- ing a very hard time of it, the in-
was 'n hoss."The worthy function vance that lessened the demand |dividual being subordinated to the
that the days when the Law bracketed the
the soldier larger interests of the State. But
ary was far too dignifled to com- for strong language afloat. But
more mariner with
Dr. Johnson Law was "a nss," a much it has always been claimed that
mit any such vulgarism. What he things were very different in the actually did assort was respectable and sonorous Bolecism, privileged swearer. when the second plan is complete,
and one quite in keeping with Mr. sufficiently indicated that when he could get into gaol." The Russia will have attained such n
Messra. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd. Bumble's character. But that libel, Haid "Sir, no man would go to sca
misquoted or not, has stuck. The if he
nover navvy is a more subtle case, how- degree of prosperity that it will be advertise that on Friday, June 3, all
It down. It is ever, and calls for closer study. possible to raise the standard of departments will be closed.
Hongkong
Dispensary, Dispensing majesty of the Law living to a point unknown before. Department, will be opened for die completely Time will tell whether this expecta-pensing prescriptions from 10 nm. tu fixed like a clowning aigrette in His inclusion in the privileged p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. the Lord Chancellor's cocked hat, triumvirate is, I take it, a concer- showing that it is even more diffiston to massive muscle and open-
air life. cult to overtake a-happy gibe than tion can be realised. It is interest-
A Little Latitude. A downright le. A veport has been made to
reasonably would Our Law, ns a matter of dis-
Oaths that THE HONGKONG HOTELing, however, to observe that the
State Planning Commission is ar police by the military
tinker suffice for a town dweller, or oven ranging a further series of con-notifying the absence of Sapper Les passionate fact, so far as politicians
Yeung, of the 40th Company, Royal have not been allowed to
It unites quite inadequate on the lips of A (crences which will examine the Engineers. The Sapper, whose age is with and jerrymander it, is ad placid farm labourer, would be
mirably commonsense. factory sallation, given us 31, is a native of Taipo, and
blue hearts and anchora tattooed questions of
has been missing since May 23 from the ancient sapiency of the Latin strapping, sunburned navvy with race with the homely horse-sense on his arms and torso. I hold hours of labour and rest, workers' Wellington Barracks, where he
of the Saxos. recreation, and cultural develop stationed.
A circumstance of which huge that the Law saw right, and that ment. From these facts it is clear,
nware is that our Law, while it the wrong.
There are no really strong silent men. The silent strong min to a ut any rate, that while many other reminded that the weekly whist drive masses of the laity are wholly un- Miss Ethel M. Dell is entirely in
along will be continued at the Police Rateraly discountenances all profane
The creation is no pavilion every Thursday creation Club
literary myth. doubt a commendable attempt to work-night commencing at 8.30 m., admis.invective, grades such offences with
6121 indispensable bowdlerise
to Thission being 50 cents a person. The the utmost particularity and even-
down character functions, which will start this even-handed justice. In
romance essential.ing, will be held on the cool verandah soldiers, sailors, and navyles, it is
punishable by a fine of one shill-feminine susceptibilities and the in front of the pavilion.
ing. For other offenders of the ethics of the clrculating library. proletarian class the penalty my Samson is, I grant you, seldom a Prior to disembarking from the .. Haiching, which arrived from Foo be two shillings. But for gentle babbler-though the original pro- chow, Amoy and Swatow yesterday men and patricians of high estate totype certainly talked too much-
Chinere passen the scale mounts up to fire ahil- ger lost a basket containing Amoy lings. Here Daniel himself has but he can and does let himself go
total come to judgment. honey and clothing to the value of $902. The basket was left
The Bangkang & Khanghal Hotels, Ind. Incorporated to Hongkong,
Happy Valley Stuks Rond
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, JUNE 2. 1913
RUSSIA'S SECOND FIVE-YEAR PLAN
countries are
struggling
I rather aimlessly, the Soviet is well-ordered plan. ing to mukes
it all the more windever we may think of Russia's methods, that we shall at any rate endeavour to understand what is really taking place.
WAS
Members and others interested afo
morning.
on the deek and was stolen whilst the Class Distinction. fenowher was looking over the rails.
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, for embarkation on the second Five- Year Plan of Socialist reconstructures of the recent Juternational tion. The Manchester Guardian. | Labour Conference was the sprech made by the delegate of Mexico. for example. points out that at a
the League of Nations and the In- time when e lenders, in capital, Mexico is the youngest member of ternational Labour Organisation, countries are treading warily an
of which she only became men- thin ice, the Soviet rulers, by their
the Take of
-
who are
on
were
arteplanee of the serund Five-Year ber in September last. For three Services, Dr. A. R. Wellington, being tempered to their shorn condition. they are graded on a higher basis
Kramme for of Russia.
hin powerful on occasion. And
Ja all the more vocabulary then Impressive by contrast.
Yet I admit the Law, ns it still We hear a lot, from time to time,
press hard about one law for the rich and an exists, does now other for the poor. But in this certain people. Ex-servicemen are a trying plight. waste the cheap Under the auspices of the locul St. Jolin Ambulance movement, the cot-ense the boot is on the other foot. particularly In tage hospital for women and children it is the wealthy who are speecially Many of them at Kam Tin, in the New Territories, handicapped and penalised in the hilling opportunities that
und, now they are tame civilians will be formally opened next Wednes-true spirit of noblesse oblige, and their in the brave khaki days, more even ได Owing
and life is June 8, at 6.15 p.m.
the poor and oppressed Jay, unforeseen circumstances, the Hon.rivileged and have the legal wind again
irritating than during the war, Director of Medical and Sanitary
When the law decreed these dis-
of it all. years previously, however, she had unable to open the hospital, the
ceremony will be performed by the criminations, in its judicial at- for saying freely what they think titude towards all forms of cursing,
Perhaps nome amendment of the Plan, have shown that they are
Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton.
it recognised that the gentry could Law is due. There should surely Conference by an observer, thus
be a forging ahead with their bold pro-been represented at the Labour
afford to pay for their luxurica,
special rate of profanity. the industrialisation
showing the interest taken by her
Members of the Y's Men's Club of and, at the same time, that the
There assessed in income-tax. It is difficult to estimate Government in soefal questions.
Hongkong are reminded that the
the odds of life. asperation at to what extent the first Five-Year The modern social history of Mex-regular meeting for this week will be poor suffer under the greater ex-enalties instituted for all persons the close of the financial year, a Plan has succeeded, but if in some ico begins wenty-two years ago. held at 7.30 to-night at the Chinese This is, though Communists have might be a close period, if you like be invited, and the function will be contradiction to the Innuendo of little inexpensive latitude should respecta fulfillment has been de- Up to that time, the Mexicans were Merchants' Club, China Building, in- layed, in other respects, notably the among the most grievously exploit-xtend of at tillin to-day. Ladles may never stressed the fact, in direct but about the New Year, and unli voat, oil and electro-technical bed nations of the world. inmensen send-off to Mr. Win. Yinson Lee, that popular song. 90 frequently be allowed. I believe even Lord riches were drawn from the oil president of the Y's Men's Club of chanted by even middle-class per- Snowden of ickornshaw might see organiser of the suns, the opening refrain of which the justice of this tactful conces- Shanghai, ZA
wasion. the Guardian, the wells, ranches, and silver mines of
sister Club in Hongkong, who will is, "She was poor but she
honest." dustries, says
sat for Shanghai to-morTOW.
A point that merits close atten- actual accomplishments have sur the country, but these were almost
the King's Theatre tion, however, is the peculiar ad- passed all the most optimistic ex-entirely devoted to the benefit of
Brst vantage, in the matter of brutal ነ። the Intest foreigners who owned or enjoyed
of profanity, accorded to three orders pectations. scheme, it is declared that by the concessions for them. In 1910 a re- yesterday greatly enjoyed the
august panoply, end of 1937. Russia will produce, Volution plunged the country into screenings of "The Secrets
a period of anarchy from which it Secretary, a Paramount film of more of the community. Why does the
than average excellener. The theme Law, in all its in certain industries, one and a half was long in recovering. Little by is extremely well conceived and inter- specially 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- Because the Law, in int of view it ranks high. Added
epithet?
At a meeting of the Board of Another British journal points out but of chaps, and a new era set in study, while from the production burden their thoughts in explosive less artificial times than these, re- that the new electrical slations, the found to lead in time to a much to this is the really first-class
The cognised that men who live in Education held yesterday, the The of the principals, notably Claudette state of things.
Marshall. Colbert and Herbert the new tractor.happier new mines, and
1917 in latter makes an ideat English lord barracks, in forecastle, or labour members present were:-Director metallurgical and other plants are Federal Constitution of real and are giving new nower, to chuded a very advanced programme not the customary American carica- with shovels and belted waists, of Education, Mr. G. P. de Martin, of social legislation, covering, in- ture-his acting being supplemented have greater need than others to M., (Chairman); Inspector of deed, most of the Conventions and by an excellent speaking voice. A use vivid and picturesque phrase- English Schools, Mr. A. R. Sather-
hia "onths five fathoms deep," Turning to the decision to start recommendation since adopted by him which can be thoroughly recomology. Even Shakespeare, with land, M., Inspector of Verna- work
on the second Five-Year the international. Labour Organi- It was not, however, pos- Plan, we observe that there have sation.
the been called to this task all the tradesible to put the whole of
and scientific Constitution into force immedinte- unions, technical
Recertly a beginning has workers and their organizations, in-ty- cluding the Academy of Science, the been made with real work
practical lines which promises good for the future. On tha things Communist Academy, the Agricul-
Con- tural Academy and others. The subjects before the Geneva Stato Planning Commission is ference, the Mexican spokesman
As
the Russian people.
on
IT'S TIME FOR VERANDAH charged with the direction of the was able to point out that fee
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com-
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charging employment agencies are in whole work. The various missariats will prepare plans for already under strict control
Mexico. The age of admission for their particular branches
children to non-industrial occupa- twelve national economy, while the plan- tions is
fixed by law at ning authorities of the several re- years, with a maximum six-hour publies comprising the U.S.S.R. and day. between the ages of twelve the local planning organs will cam-und sixteen; and the Government is ready to accept, in principle, pile plans for their own localities.
the minimum age of fourteen The decision of the Council of
submit regulations i People's Commissaries requires that proposed by the Conference, and
promisca to
to the State Planning Commission and administrative measuren [shall submit all its plans not later give effect to this requirement. than December 1 this year, thus en-As regards the establishment of abling the Council to decido on the old age, invalidity, widows' and orphans' Insurance, a special code second Five Year Plan in its en-
lu being adopted and in December- tirety by January 1, 1933. In acast, 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. sion has summoned a series of con. The Government has already de
favour of clared itself in ferences and consultative meetings
pulsory immurance in all aphores and for the purpose of deciding on the during the past year work, hias location of new industries and mat- been begun by a special committee especially to which includes representatives of tera pertaining electrification, the cont and employers and workers as well no chemical Industries, the mechaniza of the Government.
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com.
of Patrons
mended.
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"Have you any other entrance? I don't like revolving doors,"
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON'S
MEETING
eular Schools, Mr. Y. P. Low B.A.; Chev. J. M. Alves, Mr. A. el Arculli, Rev. Fr. Byrne, S. J., Ph. D., Capt. P. S. Cannon, M. A. A. E. C., Rev. F. Short, Yury Rev. Rev. A. D. Sivann, M. A., D. S. C., LL. D., Mr. H. K. Woo.
The minutes of the 83rd meoting which had been circulated and approved were confirmed.
The Chairman congratulated Mr. Arculli on his recovery from ill- ness and expressed the pleasure of the members of the Board at secing him again in his scat.
The Chairman announced that the Peak School was temporarily closed owing to sickness among the children. "
The Report of the Medical Officers for Schools for March and. April wan inid on the table.
The 1933 Estimates for the Education Department wero con sidered by the Board, which re- commended their adoption by a unanimous. vote.
Heavy fines on three charges wore Imposed on Chan Chun-yee, the steers man of the motor boat Tathung Mard, by the Hon. Comdr. Hole, at the Marine Court this morning. accused
was charged with
between April 16 and June 1
The
hauled
to report his arrival in the waters out a clearance, and
of the Colony, with having on Blay
B1 falled to take out
with having on
Sam Wan
June 1 anchored
of the Colony. On
at
the
which is not a port. admitting the accused was fined $50 or checks imprisonment on the first;
$100 or three months' on the second, and $100 or three months' on
the
third, the sentences to run consecu tively.