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while the Municipal Commission- ers also supported it. However, when theyBill came up for con- alteration, out of eight Unofficials seven opposed it, with, the result j that the Governor oventually de elled to withdraw it, although at the same time anying he had not been influenced by the argumentą against the measure. Ile still be- lieved that it would be a very good thing, making for the health and Much has been said about the happiness of the community, but Economy of Automobile Produc-
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ONE MAY VENERATE OLD FAMI- LIES WHEN THEY SHOW THE BLOOD OF THE FOUNDER, AND ARE NOT DEAD woon.-George Meredith.
AMERICA'S TRAGIC
THE ACCOUNTANCY
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Bu THE OLD STAGER
tion by the Motor Giants with the was persuaded to drop the Bit Brothers was broken by soldiers angmiling with gentle irony. Ten The United States insisted that
world wide manufacturing sub- because he had obtained promises sidarics.
that by voluntary efforts the ob- The fact is, of course that an
jects at which the Bill aimed independent manufacturer, pro-would be largely attained. Ac- vided he has enough productiontually, an era of starting to demand, and get, the lowest finishing work half an hour earlier prices ол raw materials as Studebaker does-can
was then begun and has to a cer-
concen-
and
tage that, assuming that Stude-means general. baker and one of these giants we read, five o'clock has again In many cases, produce exactly the same car, Studebaker can produce it for come to be regarded as the normal less money. It's wise to buy a¦time for closing down, and assis. Studebaker.
tants who Ahow a desire to leave half an hour earlier are not re-
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DEHIND the vell past which we can these conditions be cured by D mortals cannot see, do the any remedies that seem at prosent The F. and O. S. S. Mantua, from illustrious shades Singapore with the English maila, is themselves in
still interest likely to be applied?" due here at 2 p.m. on
our affairs? If If over a voice from the grave Wednesday. what Shakespeare tells us is true, sounded with prophetic truth, it Saturday that a window of Windsor bonnir ghost must just now he contracted
It was inadvertently
and the spirits of the wise sit in is in the Balfour Note. The debt atated on the clouds and mock us, one deve owed America was not even on our own account. Friday night. was broken belonged to J. A. Windsor years ago the late Earl of Balfour we should back the bill of loane
The window which Windsor Brothers, whose premises are walint Bald yesterday and Mr. European Allies to carry on the & Co. of Hankow Road, and
not said, not less forcibly, what Mus- to enable our own and America's in Nathon Itand.
Chamberlain is saying to-day. contest against Germany's chal-
Mussolini, the architect of post-lengo of military hegemony. Mr. M. J. D. Montargis will be the war Italy, shook the world's chan- the letter of that bond we have to-morrow, speaker at the Rotary Club meeting celleries with his imperious de- boen hold by
his subject being "The mand to end the blood feud, cease accruing interest, we are pledged America. With New French Foreign Legion."
The meeting on July trate manufacturing and General 'tain extent been since maintained, meeting for the purpose of arriving allow all question
will bo a closed applying cash-register methods to to repay almost
history's supreme drams, and actually loaned to us on behalf of .nt a decíalon regarding the play-
of war debta our Allics. And America stipulat- A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Management to such an advan. but the practice is not by any grounds scheme for 1932-13. So far, and reparations to pass into swifted that the repayment must be in
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American gold dollars. $1,956, have been received
Against and it In the historic Balfour Note, payment in kind, America orecta meer at Pesent on leave will be could now quote, one of the great-Every cent of the loaned billions that which everybody names but few insurmountable tariff walls. gend for about $400 more, states the est statesmen of our Club bulletis.
generation was spent in America. Every cont ploaded cloquently for all that the has to go back again in gold. Dr. C. C. Wang, M.D.,
Fascist Dictator bluntly called,
Mussolini calls this a bargain of THE HONGKONG HOTEL¦garded with favour. This is one Edinburgh
(Edin.), formerly research fellow of dicted all the evils that have come said a general sentiment would be and, what is more, clearly pre Shylock. Lord Balfour merely University, and late Jecturer GARAGE
of the reasons why the subject linssity College of London, has started the rejection of his wise counsel.
en anatomy in the Univer-upon the world at large through of more value to mankind." What the British statesman expressed again been revived, in the heat with his nephew, Dr. A. S. Wong. Britain at that date in August home with a bludgeon.
practice in Shangha!. He is at pres-
After pointing out that Great with buttoned foil, Mussolini drove putting the matter on a regular
M.B., F.R.C.S. (Edin). Their offier 1922 was owed £3,400,000,000 An Act of Oblivion. and uniform busts,
is at present at No. 29 Yuenming-war debts, yuen Itond. Dr. C. C. Wang is a about a quarter of that sum, the the violin. His famous Note is
and owed Here in Hongkong, as we say, younger brother of Dr. Wang Chung-Balfour Note stated that his couched in
America Lord Balfour was an amateur of the question has lalis dormant forh, D.C., former President of the
harmonic Juicial Yuan and now a Judge in the Majesty's some considérable time, but we
neither Mussolini plays the concerting and Permanent International Court of under-rated the evils of nu un-expresses himself in terms of that do still hear advorates of The Jusiter.
He practised until very exampled situation nor were re-instrument. It is possible that loss recently in Hongkong. His brother, luctant to make change urging
As desirability. Professor ( Y. Wang, of Hongkong to end it.
large sacrifices virtuoso methods are more likely There is no sound reason, na we
University, died last year.
to appeal to American susceptibi- We declared our readiness, 'ten lities. Not the least of the trage- (see it, why office work cannot be-
years ago, if such a policy formed dies of the Great War is that its in here at eight o'clock in the Indian Nationalist party, and leader ngrement, to remit all debts due ship in arms should ultimately be Sir Hari Singh Gour, leader of the part of a satisfactory international epic of mutual effort, Its comrade- of the Opposition in the Chatr of the Jesuit. Fathers, morning in the height of summer Legislative Assembly at New Delhi, to us by our Allies or by Germany. regarded and humiliated Into a
Fr. Byrne base to thank the and conclude at four. The ar-
passenger by the Dollar liner Then the Balfour Note proceeds: vulgar haggling over friend who have sent
President Polk, which passed through "It is true that Great Britain is accounts. The august silence of on the Ruments advanced against the Hongkong during the week-end., Sie owed more than it owes, and that, the historic battlefields, and the of sympathy death of Fr. Saul,
change are those which were put Hari Singh Gour in returning to India, if all inter-Allied War Debts were hushed aura of millions of head- forward before England decided to Japan, Korea and Manchurin, which or balance, be a large gainer by felt rebuke the outrage on human
an extensive tour through
paid, the Beltish Treasury would, stones where sleep the heroes who adopt the measure, and experience was made at the request of Japanese the transaction. In the Old Country has shown the educational groups,He deliverre sent world situation be looked at the gun.
But can the pre- idealism. It makes a gargoyle of series of lectures in the Imperial many advantages of the altera University and the Hiliya Hall in only from this narrow financial But it is futile to get angry with tion, which is now automatically companied by his daughter. It will of the
Tokyo. Sir Hari Singh is neatandpoint? It is true that many America. In the United States the Allied and Associated sentiment of enlightened citizen- put into force every year. When be recalled that they were in Hong-Powers are, as between each other, ship has all along been fiercely in
kong some weeks ago, on their way creditors the matter 13:18 ruisel in north. Hongkong in 1919. the Chinese Chamber went
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far as to suggest that there should The desirability of following be daylight-saving all the year Britain's example by adopting day-round-quite a good idea, too, con- light-saving during the summer sidering the shorter evenings in months is, we notice, again being the winter. The whole subject is, urged in Malaya, This is a mnt-we feel, worthy of reconsideration ter which is periodically aired in here in Hongkong. Is it too much the East, but which somehow, in to hope that when another year spite of manifest advantages, does comes round it will be taken up Bol result in definite aetion. 7 again? Is interesting to note that in Malaya some twelve years ago the issue was taken so far as the in- troduction of a Daylight-Savbig often mentioned in the discussions
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and debtors or both. favour of an act of financial But they were, and are, much, oblivion. The health bulletin for
more. They were partners in the But America is a great democracy. shows the following cases of infes made in the cause of freedom, and complicated ports for the week ended June 18 greatest International effort ever And American democracy, with its interests adroitly tious diseases and deaths therefromthey are still partners in dealing played on by American dollar Plague Beirut 1 caso. Cholera, Cal with some at least of its resulta.' cutta 106 enses 61 deaths, Rangoon 1 Longing for Normality.
magnates and grafting politicians, death, Saigon I case 1 death, Canton were incurred, and loana made, amazing situation. It falls even enars 1 death, P'nom-Penli 1 case 1
is not sufficiently enlightened or After observing that these debts ennobled to grasp the ethics of the 333 cases 182 deaths, Shanghai 130 not for the separate advantage of to realise that its own selfish in cases 12 deaths. Small-pox, Alexan-particular States, but for a great terest would be far better served Basrah 2 casca 1 death, Bombay
Baghdad 3 cases 2 deaths. purpose common to them all, Lord by forgoing usuy than by demand. cases 3 deaths, Calcutta 21 cases 17 Balfour proceeded: "To generous ing its pound of flesh. Perhaps & deaths, Karachi 3 Madras, 5 cases 2 deaths, Moulmein & although for reasons of State it lacks the sense of noblesse oblige cases 1 death, minds it can never be agreeable, new country, with a hybrid stock, eases I death, Rangoon 5 cases may perhaps be necessary, to re-that in great issues can and has death,
Tuticorin case Pondicherry cases 2 deaths. Saigon great event as a thing apart, to be authentic breeding.
Identh,gard the monetary aspect of this inspired older nations of more 3 cases Nagasaki 1 ease.
8 cases, torn, from its historical setting.
It remains to see whether, at und treated as no more than an this intolerable crisis in the ordinary commercial dealing be-world's economics, the older wis tween traders Bill in the Legislative Council, on the subject is that which affects persons carry diversion beyond capitalists who lend.
who borrow and dom and clearer preselence of The econo-Europe can cut the Gordian knot but this measure was later with person who is in receipt of a the border Ine of moderation. mic ills from which the world is that for a decade has strangled drawn by reason of Unofficial op-livelihood but who does not know Like the transformation of thrift suffering are due to many causes, both the new
how properly to employ the hours into miserliness, it then becomes them must certainly be reckoned If the familiar prayer, "Forgivo us and the old world position.
moral and material, but amongst like a monstrous Inocoon group. It was shortly before
when he is not earning it. None Pernicious. The restoration of a the weight of international in- our debts as we forgive our deb- this that Shanghai gave a tompor- ary trial to the plan, but abandon-ties are unavailable. But per-taken to the pursuit of skill, re-change, upon national production Fathers, then Europe's choice lies Statis-right relation in pleasures would debtedness, with all its unhappy tore," makes no appeal to the mo
give a larger place than is now effects upon ed it later, partially, we believe, sonal observation
the credit and ex-dorn descendants of the Pilgrim is more elo- because other Far Eastern centres quent than figures in showing creation, and beauty. Those who and international trade. The peo-between firmly refusing to be bled would not come into tine. In the that it takes in a large element seck these are fully employed be. ples of all countries long for a to death or supinely waiting for same year, the Hongkong General of the world's population.
are adding to ex-speedy return to the normal. But America. to make thumbs down they The cause Chamber of Commerce went proof lies in the constant quest perience and building up their while conditions so abnormal are
how can the normal be reached signal to civilisation. Fundamental in usefulness. far as to draft a resolution in for diversion.
permitted to prevail? And how the definition of diversion is its favour of puiting forward the clock by one
absence of Insting satisfactions. hour during the period from Mug 1st. to September ing only on novelty, which, hav-
It is a ready-made pleasure, thriv 30th., a plan which was supported ing passed, censes to be any other by the Chinese Chamber. The than a boring pursuit, and in con- Government was even approached sequence is soon abandoned. One on the matter, but at a special after another time-consuming de- meeting of the General Chambervice is sampled and dropped. The subsequently held, it was decided more desperate the effort to to make no change.
cape ennui the quicker it fails. In the follow- ing year, the subject was again pic are concerned, no competitor So far as a large number of peo- raised, but the Chamber saw no has yet been found to outdo the reason for changing its mind. motion picture show in its ability i Since that time, very little has to take care of the time which been heard locally of the matter, hangs so heavily on their hands. (although every now and again cor-ĮThe cinema makes a bigger claim respondents raise the point why, even than that. It will chase
tedium away, in à Colony in which evenings are
But how? Holly- wood studioa s short, we cannot follow the Old many films whose chlof function pouring out Country's example.
zeems to be to titillate the senses. Despite the rebuff to the move-In the process they often inutil ment in 1920, many people in wrong valuen into the younger Malaya think it opportune to bring members of the community. Is forward the issue once again, this the way that leisure Is going The change proposed twelve years urgent, because we are living in to be used? The question is ago was quite simple. The Bill
an age which is alrendy discus- proposed that the clock should be sing a five-day week seriously. advanced by half an hour so that, The proper employment of leisure "without curtailing the present will then assume a social signi- hours of work it will shorten the flcance of the first order. This time in the morning before work emphasis on proper leisure-time is started, leaving a longer period occupation does not mean that of daylight after the day's work
there is no place for divertlase- mont. Such " place must be
arc
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is finished for outdoor recreation." [readily apparent in any community | Bankern jolutly approved the plan, life. The fault is that too many
"Now. Honey, you'd better hop off at the next stop and lot
me get my work done."
A YOUNG HUSBAND'S
PLAINT.
HE honeymoon la
over and
TH done with, and I am rapidly
becoming domesticated. There is one thing that is worrying me a Flot. I am, definitely losing touch
with all my old pals.
At that wild and wanderful party we had just before the great event took place we all swore we would never lose touch and that every- thing would be as it was before. How they must have smiled at mo bohind their hands. They came to
the wedding-they cheered as we left the church, and I havo recog- nised it as being good-bye.
Only the other night I got back" from the office and felt I would ke a cheery evening again with some of the old gang. I rang up four, funny, but not one of them was free. They were all doing some thing or going to parties to which I had not been asked, or said they wore.
It was never like that in the old- days, and I will admit I did feel a bit more. I think I am exactly the namo sort of fellow I was and yot Marriage should not change.a man to that extent.
Now when I moot a pal in the street there is an air of restraint between us. Conversation drage, and we both pause trying to think of something to say. Then wo murmur some Inanity and paas on. (Continued on Page 9.)