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FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1932.
THE CITY HALL
The first step towards the solu- tion of the City Hall problem is foreshadowed by the first reading
DAY BY DAY
building. This, we believe, la part of the scheme, as well as the open- Ing up of a big new road. It is in- tended, we are given to understand, to incorporate the new City Hail the Government office block. When this building is finally com-ING CAN SUCCEED.-Abraham Lin- pleted, the last part of the scheme, coln. the sale of old Government House, will in all probability, be put into
in
effect.
The schome, as a whole, has much to commend it, especially since it will finance itself. The present Government House has been found Inadequate to present-day needs, in addition to which ita cost of main- tenance steadily increases with its age. Magazine Gap
an
seems
j
WITH PUBLIC SENTIMENT, NOTII- ING CAN FAIL; WITHOUT IT. NOTII~
The Consulate-General for Peru in Hongkong is seeking information whereabouts of Mr. concerning the Eduardo Ip Fole.
ut West Point, 170 Third Street.
and
MANAGEMENT
OF THE WORLD
By SUSAN LAWRENCE
are
up
now
Something has happened; It is ¡and India, and for the rest, draw- beening a ring round herself and her onething which has long We foretold.
Socialists have Colonies. "This line of develop- spoken of the break
of ment would mean loss to every capitalismi as pious men talk of country
an organisation of the Day of Judgment; and the the world into groups and units The graduation function of the thing has come like a thief in the which would soon be dangerous puplis of the ninth term of the Chun-Shing Typewriting School will and idle words; but this
night. These may Reem foolish and fatal to world peace, This very in the line along which the world take place in Lane, Crawford's res- thing with all its enormous taurant on Saturday at 4 pm. The
im- le preceeding." Hon. Mr. S. W. Tsu will distribute plications is being said by the There is no mistake about the the prizes and certiflentes.
coolest heads of the defendera of facts. The MacMillan Committer that system. We have seen an tell us that the "gap" between The Feast of St. Anthony will be important book called by the what the debtor countries can pay celebrated on Sunday the 12th. in author. "Recovery," but which and their obligations in approxi- ideal spot for the new gubernatorial tant, at the Church of St. Anthony might be more truly called "The mately an annual sum of 2,000,- residence; it is accessible to motor There will be High Mass at 9.39 R. Swan Song of Capitalism." I will000,000del. a year; and that this war debt And trafle, and when the Magazine Gap Vespera at 6 pm. followed by Pro.defects of the capitalist system Teparations in only
in the evening there will be quote one or two sentences. The total burden
about 400,- Road is converted into 1 motor cession (weather permitting) Vernon, have been increasingly robbing it 1000,000dol. They speak to us in
Benediction of the Blessed of its benefits. They
plain terms of the "impossibility" thoroughfare, It should be within a and
Sacrament. All are cordially invit-threatening its very existence."of those countries meeting their quarter of hour's ride of the city. ed.
"We have, indeed, before us only crease in their exports or by loans obligations except by a great In- Whether it is intended to do away
the alternative of collective On Monday, Mr. R. G. Li, in leadership; collective control
to put them on their feet. And with Mountain Lodge, the Govatructed by Mr. P. H. Sin, made an chaos."
this impossibility for them means The author, Sir A. Saf- ernor's Peak residence, we do not application to the Court before theter, is indeed no
all the "possibilities" quoted Socialist; his
It. know, though there would seem to confirm the special resolution passed world, not the making of a new."world trade will be reduced to
Chief Justice Sir Joseph Kemp, to
object is the recovery of the old above from Sir Arthur Salter.
is easy to write a paper he little need for this place after at the general meeting of the Tungar But. nad this is the vital point, "mall dimensions:" it is impos the new Government House is built. its capital of 30,000 shares
Press Company for the reduction of
the remedy that he proposes in
sible to contemplate calmly what The idea of providing a new City each to a capital. of 30,000 shares of no leas than conscious world Hall in the Government office blockment for further consideration the of control ar planning for the means universal hopeless increas
$2.75 each. After a short adjournmanagement, and the substitution that will mean to our nation of
producers And exporters. It. Chief Justice made the order on the automatic working of contending ing poverty for the man of the private interests. He abandons, that is, the central fortress oftions are now a dead issue: they people for a generation. Repara- capitalism, the only argument for can never be collected; they have its existence; for, most certainly done their mischief and dieap- if it is once admitted that the peared from the scene; politicians Individual capitalist cannot be
are writing their epitaphs ad Trusted to manage his property.will only discuss at Lausanne the case for his privileges has whether they shall put "Resur-
may or may not find pubile favour.
13-
following day.
of $10
SUGAR MARKET
THE LATEST L'ABLED QUOTATIONS.
· Much will depend on the nature of the provision made. What is need- ed in a group of really modern "rooms, including theatre and
sembly hall for big public func- tions. If these are provided, as is the case in many Municipal Build- ings in the Old Country, there will be no cause for complaint. But if the plans make the City Hall ameni-treath and Co. ties of secondary importance, in- adequate to the needs of the Colony. it would be fur preferable to erect the new City Hall elsewhere. Other- wise, the scheme will merely menn that the Government bas deprived
|
the community of its City Hall and utilised the proceeds from the sule of the site for purely governmental purposes.
America's Politics.
President Houver's surrender un
The following gable at the close of the sugar market yesterday has heen received by Messrs. Pens
London Terminals, August 1932 19 up 46. December 1932 57% no change March 1933 6 34% up d May 19:33 5/5 op d. asking d-d more.
Buyers at above prices, sellers
New York Terminals. Spot 62 nd change. July 1932 66 up 3 pła. September 1932 72 up 4 pts. December 1932 80 up 4 pts. March 1933 .87 up 4 pts. May 1933
rc-
of this
gone.
stone.
which has driven so cool and ex-
What is the desperate necessity gam" or "R.I.P." on the Perienced an administrator to such, desperate remedies?
ger.
There is nothing essentially new
08 now;
that
tomb.
With regard to the enneallation of war debts, within the limite of What is it indeed that has bap that disarniarent and cancella- this article will only say this, pened to the system ander which tion are inextricably linked. For we live? In the old days, the U.S.A. has to consider the innocent capitalist system fulfilled its own electors of the Middle West, and main purpose, that of the creation these simple folk are making the of wealth. It has not forgotten simple but devastating comment how to produce; can produce that if they let Europe off the more abundantly than ever. What last war, those people over there yesterday of an Ordinance which
it cannot do now is precisely what will only get ready for a new war: will give the Government power to
it had no difficulty in doing befor, in plain terms, unless we can fore the war; it has forgotten satisiy the genuine peace feeling resume possession of the property
how to exchange. The existing in America, we shall get no con- now lying idle. When resumption
system is breaking down in a way cellation. So that the evils of has been effected, part of the site
which we did not anticipate; and in that is the secret of our per- the next war about which we have will be sold and the remainder deve-
no future plexity and the root of our dun danger but are with us now.
so often spoken are
loped to accord with M general
New York (9/6/32).—Last sale
But the new thing to be said scheme of town planning. It is not
of Philippine Centrifugals ported, June to Angust inclusive, in the kind of difficulty the world is this. Cancellation of war debts intended, however, to utilise any the Prohibition issue is a frank2.50 to 2.75 C.L.F. New York, is facing. The difference is in and reparations, peste, free trade part of the site for the purposes of admission, not of the failure of
the scale.. For what were, in pre-are all good things. They would a new City Hall, but the scheme | the Great Experiment, but of the
war days, isolated trouble, pain-have been enough to re-establish ago. They are not enough now. which the Government has in mind genuine alarm in Republican cir- cach nation's yearly imports from ful and disastrous, but not suf-trade ten years ago or five yours
fielent to disturb the generni
We shall be doing nothing effec- tives envisage the provision of cles that the America which broke America, Both legislative campa public amenities of the kind President Wilson is all too will are somewhat dazed by the pre-progress or the general balance, tive at all, unless we go on to the
numerous (have now become so
things which we have given lip and so important as to cause service to but never seriously dis ing to pulverize President Hoover, sentation from Labour hitherto available. Such an obliga-The President's stock has lowered plan. which no one has yet had general catastrophe. tion, of course, rests upon the Goy-in steady ratio with prier levels fine to digest, coming as it does And three alternatives, broadly cussed the control of credit and
of foreign investments. before on the very heels of the new Pro-speaking, are ernment, inasmuch as, the existing and business activity, and hissidential "three point" relief pro- military operations, leaving things the re-establishment of the flow For the central question is now buildings were erected by public spasmodic rallies have been far
or conscious collective subscription for the express
of new capital; and that this fune- pur from autficient to ease the mindsramme to give the Reconstruc-alone
management. tion Finance Corporation three
Military operations, when tried tion shall be publicly and pose of providing a City Hall. Now of the leaders of the G.O.P. The billon dollars to restart prosperi--as in the Ruhr-were, to say privately managed. There is no that the authorities are to resume presidential election taken place iny. Of the President's vast sum, the least, not
brilliant chance at all of the individunt a very posacasion of the property and will November, and the political situathree hundred million would be financial success.
investor again performing his old functiona within becomes increasingly picoaned
mensurable to States for immediate As to leaving things alone. I true with the quarrels among relief, forty millions would assist think I will quote Sir A. Salter time. A system of loans, backed the Democrats, with consequent agricultural exports, and the bal-Recovery" where this expert devoted to reasonable and useful again. For there is a passage in by the credit of the Governments of the lending countries; and and quite unnecessary lose of Cance puss into self-liquidating enced administrator explains the objects is now the only alternative. their immense advantage. Mr.building projects. Simultaneous-possibilities ahead of us. They we have already seen examples As we understand the position, Hoover's stirring call for ven- ly confronted by two such vast are these-world trade curtailed the Government has worked out a geance on the Lindbergh baby
amall dimensions, American small senle such
loan to Austria under the auspices comprehensive scheme of works, murderers has caused him to rise Proposals, the statesmen in Was-to
hington are speechlessly
without exports or foreign invest of the League of Nations. But ments cultivating isolation, Great has been followed by an unexper- for a new City Hall. The scheme ted declaration by the heads of
could get from the Dominions has been so arranged that it will seven rallway unions urging new more than finance itself. It in-consideration of European war cludes the erection of a new Gov- debts along lines almilar, to thoro ernment House and a new block of recently suggested by Mr. Smith, Government offices. The project is including a twenty-five year mora- torium. This startling pronounce- at present under the consideration
ment by Labour constitutes atl of the Secretary of State for the answer to the President's opposi Colonies, whose approval is neces- tion to the Democratic plan. They sary before it can be embarked | announce a 30 per cent, decline in upon. The funds needed to finance employment and a 50 per cent, de- it will come from the sale of the present City Hall property-an ex- tremely valuable site and possibly also from the eventual unle of the
secure a handsome sum from the
sale of the land, they are in duty bound to see that a new public elvic centre is provided.
tion
endea-
not
дв the
in-which provision is to be made in the esteem of many, and thisvouring to regain the breath they Britain reduced to what trade ahe the enormous Implications of such
crease in wages, and virtually threaten to demand the adoption of the dole, unless the Govern-
ment act promptly. In discussing war debt cancellation, they de-
| present Government House. Theclare it would be about equivalent
Is the building of a new
the site of the
| first step in the scheme, we believe, to the present loss on the postal Govern-service, and on this matter also ment House at Magazine Gap, on they demand immediate action if it can be found that cancellation old Military
would, in fact, assist the world Sanatorium, which is at present to recovery. Their plans include unoccupied. When that has been the appointment of a committee of erected, it is possible that the old five, to be known as "The Inter- Government House may be utilised, ¦ national Trado and War Debt for a time, for the purposes of a Commission," with labour, far- City Hall. In the meantime, it is mers, and business interests re hoped to make a start
presented. This closely parallola Mr. Smith's achemo, but would erection of a new block of Govern-make the granting of a quarter of ment offices in the region of a century moratorium contingent Beaconsfield Arcade. Obviously, a upon proof by debtor countries great deal of cutting into the hill- benefiting thereby that it is great- side in the locality of Battery Pathly needed, and upon their promise and the P.W.D. offices will be America's foreign trade. Further
to co-operate in the revival of neededed in order to provide the more, they suggest that annual necessary area for a really big cancellations should not exceed
on the
have entirely lost.
TEANT
TAG
“I wish you could see my pianut plantation in Virginia.”
an operation are obvious enough. Who is to decide the terms? Do we wish to make of Eastern Europe ano vast Egypt-and to repent, in a struggle with our comrades of Germany, all the deplorable incidents of our Egyp tian policy? Or do wo wish that by common consent, and for the benefit of all, the peace of the world be established?
If the latter, we are led inevit- ably to that article of our pro- gramme which speaks of the con irol of foreign investments and the nationalisation of the Instru- ments of credit. And we are led to something else. For it is not enough, though it would be much, for us to set our own house In order, and obtain control over one of the great creditor countries of the the world. We must land Socialist movements of the world and unite ourselves with them in one common policy.
This may seem far too great a task. But, indeed, there is so much uneasiness here and everywhere. auch n cry for leadership, that the unhappy, helpless, unthink ing nasa is ready, even now, to fall into un behind those who will show them a way out. We in England, for instance, feel that the chatter of this prosent Parliament is irrelevant; wo tre Leerlous enough to tako serious
thinga seriously.
This, then, is the task before our propagandists. We have to explain to the whole mighty com plox, to show how disarmament, cancellation of debts and repara- tions, the lowering of tariffs, the nationalisation of the banks, the control of foreign investments aro
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