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REFUSE REMOVAL
2011: To
our
place of "throwing DIT" Was "falling of". Read in this light, there can be no possible constru- ing of Mr. Los proposal as a libel on the sanitary service. Taking the motion as a whole, it was ob- viously inspired by a desire to im- prove methods which it is widely agreed need improvement. That the present system is not only objectionable but also dangerous to public health must be patent Lo anyone who takes care to note the fact. On all bands, com- plaints can be heard on this mat- ter, and it certainly ought not to he beyond the wit of the authors ties to devise better methods than those at present obtaining.
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DAY BY DAY
IF WE COULD READ THE SECRET HISTORY OF OUR ENEMIES, WE WOULD FIND IN EACH MAN'S LIFE SORROW AND SUFFERING ENOUGH TO Alle HOSTILITY.-Loupfel- ISARM
toe.
THE GREAT
AWAKENING
By "THIRTY”
We have been balit enough to ex-smugly close their eyes to humau amine critically two aspects of the nature as it is and delude them- heritage our elders will shortly be-selves with roscate visions of hu quenth to us which, judging by man nature as it might be. Vancouver on the 19th July.
In the realm of free education, The Empress of Japan arrived at their actions, most of them accept
without question as being beyond which is hailed as a major blessing eritieism. And we have found that of civilisation, we find the great the more that government is en-principle of "something for noth- trusted to the ignorant and uning" in two distinct Terms. So- qualified, the more talk there is of called knowledge (which in the what the State "owes" to the in-majority of cases does not take the dividual and the less of what the recipient further than an ability individual owes to the State.
to swell the eirculations of those
A Chinese girl, nged 10, suddenly collapsed while walking in Public Square, Yaumati, yesterday. She was taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital.
The theft of a piece of curved white jade, vabled at $100, from The Little Shop, was reported to the policej yesterday by the manager, Mr. R.
Mr. B. Veliki will speak on "Stris. ing for the Gon!" at the usual public lecture of the Hongkong Lodge, the Theosophleal Society. 17, Queen's Road Central, to-day at 6 p.m.
The great need, as Mr. Lo has stressed, is that the lorries should be made, as far as possible, dust-Poinsot. proof, while the hour of rollee tion also stand in need of revision. It is, as we any, satisfactory that the Sanitary Board has agreed to the necessity for reform, despite the upposition raised in Mr. Lo'a motion. It now remains for a workable scheme to be devised, to- gether with reasonable altera. tions in the lorries. Above all it is to be hoped that the Govern
sup- ment will realise that estions put forward are advanced selety in the pubije interest.
Cros Viewing the matter
that
angle, there can be no enuse For Further delaying a very necessary reform.
Gold and Price Levels,
Aftermath of War,"
in
There will be no religious meeting at the Helena May Institute on Fri day, July 29, owing to the Women's Guild Corporate Celebration of Holy Communion at St. John's Cathedral,
If we extend our examination to Sunday newspapers which are de- other aspects of modern life we voted to crime and sex) is handed find that the great principle of out free. It is not even permissible something for nothing" appears to to refuse the gift. Not only is no be the underlying motive of most cash return demanded: the re- of what our elders proudly refer to cipient is not even required to pro- as "civilisation."
duce evidene. af fitness to receive and use the gift of education.
Kreat
power on
"Organised Plunder."
He is not required to make any Basically, most of the
return by way of self-discipline financial crashes
of recent years and character-training. So-called originate from the
desire-uni-knowledge" is rammed down his versally accepted as a laudable ene throat with no regard to whether
it will do him harm or good. of speculators to make money
It may be argued, of course, tit without lifting a finger towards the creation af new wealth. Prices of this is only a logical corollary of
have soured, giving hira governing stocks and shares while the real wealth they repre) the same terms. sented has not been increased.
Old Ideas Of Discipline. Something for nothing.
has been
Oddly enough, it is only in the Mr. Barrett, Principal Warder aj
same prin- schools where the parents have to Vistoria Grol, yesterday reported to plained-reflect the the police the theft of a lady's hand, ciples and so- to suime extem, per-pay that the "barbarous" theory bag, valued at $20, from a window fapada reparations, ledge at his residence at No. 3. Breezy Point.
While in Hennessy Rand, near the Garden Theatre, Taxi No. 80 knocked down a 9-year-old boy, Chan Chung, who had put into il: way when at fempting to cross the red. The in jjuries suffered by the victim were not
if a serious antare, must he wa charged shortly after admission hospita.
s
1.
War Debt-
that discipline and character-train- The relations between capital aming and a sense of responsibility to Jakour have been dominated by the others FLUTE LA essential part of same motive on both sides to get "education." still survives.
Even in the realms of organised much, and to give as little, as
religion, there is--let as us frank paille.
In the rarehanism of Government, about it-a prevalent impression our future rewards will be parties and individual leaders have! that fought and wrangled with the ship-jquite out of proportion to our pre- ing deal of grabbing all the votes sent efforts. There are individual art popularity that they can for exceptions to this, of course. themselves, with little respect to One could pursue this examina- The effect on the general welfare of ion further, but it has probably What is happening behind the
the community.
been taken trough to show that tacade of musetary expression? A collision between a pan and a The organised plunder called in all the major features of outr This Is The question that Sire.W.D. Hurry orcurred in Whitseld! taxation has been conducted only modern "civilisation" the principle Jorial Stamp sends to ARAVOT yesterday. According to the driver of with regard to the convenient ciel something for nothing, of get- that the industrious, ting rather than giving, emerges as his new bouk. "The Financial the forry, he was following Tram No. cumstance
1, when the latter suddenly stopped.)
motive. And, if One of the causing the lorry to collide with thrifty and hardworking sections the underlying myths that is particularly hard in The front ebussis, springs and wind the community have less votes, we look back only a little into past
than the remainder.
alstory, we find that this tendency glass of the Horry were disentangle
MORON is damaged. The fram was practically
The machinery of low and justice has increased to a remarkable de- except in the ease of criminal gree, something fixed. We have developed undamaged.
Jaw is designed with the primary It is not suggested that the out- a monetary
objective of extracting 14 a bobit of regarding
much look of earlier centuries was per- kind of andlegage unit
money as possible from those who fect, but if is fair to say that the people of those days at least dld and the uncertainty attaching to
seek its protection.
dis- other ecunomle things. It is hard
not despise certain ideas of for us to look at the price level
ipline and of responsibility and before we come to this conclusion.
servico to others, which are now or held to be But it is necessary to do so.
argely forgolten ourashioned." Since money is valuable only for what i will buy, the price level is obviously the most important fact about it. Our eyes on the price level, we find that, contrary viso a better machine or improve to our economic feelings, money is the existing machine, he says, but
፡፡፡
is that
יייייוי!
Mes, Turner, living at 7, Seen Keen Terrace, Causeway Bay, has reported the police the loss of two finger
Many of the leading newspapers, rings, une set with diamonds and the other mounted with a pink oval came, while affecting to oppose the great They are valued at a $100 each. Mrs. doctrine of something for nothing, Turner states that she left the rings have carefully propagated it by en in the toilet room at the Royal Naval couraging their readers to expect to Backyard Recreation Club on the even
be compensated for reading them) ing of the ith instant.
with every kind of attraction, pro- vided at the expense of the un- fortunate advertiser,
:
azati
purely Looking at it from a logical point of view, therefore, it coincidence. at the is a curious. very least, that the trouble and complexities of the world have in- erensed as the world has inclined more and more towards the iden of
correct
It is something to the good that, by his persistence and his refusal to be brow-beaten, Mr. M. E. Lo has succeeded in getting the Sanitary Board to recommend to the Government methods by which the existing arrangements for the removal of refuse can be made more satisfactory from the view point of public health and hygiene. The resolution which he submitted at Tuesday's meeting is which we can see no possibla ob-
Something For Nothing. jection. Yet the Head of the
The achievement of a certain age; Sanitary Department took
ne the real variable in economic life.but "it can still only work accord- ficially advanced as a valid rea, something for nothing-of getting cision to condemn it in terms to But, as Sir Jasinh says, even whering to the limits set by its own son for the receipt of a "pension." rather than giving.
We may sum it up briefly by ang- which its mover, with very good we fully appreciate that money is constitution, not how you at the expense of the eninmunity,.
esting that this is a strong indica. grounds, took strong exception. the variable, we act as though it would like it. The gold standard irrespective of what services may tion that economics, however exact,
to the com- were not. We make all our ela is not worked merely by hankers; have been rendered
valueless without There was no occasion.
One might al-jure Borate calculations for transae- | everybody, politicians, workers,munity during life.
most say, in fact, that the net, ethics, and that until the leaders of opinion, for Mr. Sager to suggest
thoir learn to read civilisation tions of all kinds on the assump-employers, all unconsciously take rather than the art, of living is re-
through cor- that Mr. Lo was libelling the tion that the money with which a hand, and a sperial attitude of garded as a legitimate charge on mic text-books
rectly-focussed ethical spectacles, Sanitary Department, much less to
Wo are doing it-the gold, the any section or nation may make it the community.
Our object must be The reckless introduction into they will never be able to effect any pat forward the rather strange pound, or whatever it is in which | unworkable.
to maintain a standard, interna- the community of unlimited chil-permanent repairs. submission that because certain we express it means the same
In other words, our ideas of right kralities in the city are not al-thing throughout the whole period tionally, which will go on working dren without any thought or pro-
When it and producing price stability, de-vision for their future is regarded and wrong have become blurred, as praiseworthy achievement and until we can refocus our vision, together what they might be from obviously does not behave in that spite folly and
rather than criminal irrespon- there is no possibility of seeing a hygienic point of view, it is stable way, we insist on going on sectional disadvantage, for the sibility. And on this point leaders clearly how to remedy our mistakes. It is worth noting in passing. something in the nature of a grimm as though it bad.
as general good." From which there of social and religious thought, in
their attitude to birth control, as a further indication in the same joke to propose modern methods though there were no change in will be no dissent.
direction, that an age which has produced many outstanding de- of refuse removal. Indeed, it is the burden; as though the distri-
magogues, financiers, economists. were just as diflicult to follow the train of bution of income
scientists, and writers has failed to thought itere disclosed. Mr.equitable and just as fair. Here
throw up a compensating equivalent he is referring to all kinds of fixed
f religions or philosophic leaders. Sayer said he was in favour of
obligations expressed in money.
If our examination of banic modernism, but asked members to When the price level dips, that
causes and first principles has pro- preserve their sense of proportion ¦ means that the buying pow¥2
duced the right dingonsin, the re- medy is obvions but not cusy. It and face the practicalitica, follow-which is the real value-of money
entails nothing less than ʼn drastie ing this up with a suggestion that has gone up, with the result that
revision of most of the most the present vehicles are the most, the owner of the contract, or the
deeply-rooted and widely cherished creditor, is taking more out of the
beliefs of the time, with a swing suitable for use in the narrow,
back towards correct ethics, national heap of wealth than he rowded and slippery streets of did when the contract was mude. Chinatown. But so far as we on Among the particular contracts derstand Mr. Lo's proposala there which interest Sir Josiah Stamp A is nothing in his suggestion of are reparations and didžās, structural alteration to these member of both the Dawes and vehicles which would make them the Young committees, he has a
special interest in them.
Luf
contract. Our
done 90.
. The
any more difficult to handle than point he makes which is all of a those at present in use.
piece with his general remarks
But
In any case, as Dr. Basto per- is that the debts are a money bar- whose onerousnCHA has thuently hinted, it is surely the den wrong policy to be content with changed completely with the things as they are and to put off change in the price level. When the Young plan was signed, the this matter of reform of the gar-world commented on the statistical bage removal system merely bei.c., money-fact that repara- cause other
of aspects thetions had been scaled down. Colony's life stand in need of bel-in terms of commodities, they re- terment. The exception taken to prosent to-day a hurden far hea- the paragraph in Mr. Lo's resolu- vier than the Dawes plan which Unlike many tion which urged that "the exist-thoy superseded. ing lorries be so structurally al- authorities, Sir Josiah does not angribe the recent violence in tored as to prevent the throwing price level fluctuations to the gold off of refuse, on to the streets" standard. Piecing together his was probably due to a misinter- opinions, it seems he would ny pretation of the mover's meaning. the blame on the way we have What Mr. Lo probably meant In treated. the gold standard. De-
ignorance
and
it
Better try some other station, dear..He hasn't gone to Aleep yet,"
That is perhaps a startling and far-reaching idea; but are we not faced with a crisis of startling and far-reaching proportions?
Far From Hopeless.
The outlook is far from hopeless. While the English race exista to deal with it, no world crlais can ever be said to be hopeless, for I cannot imaglue any human emor- gency to which it could not rise, provided that it realised its danger in time. And in any emergency am convinced that my generation will be found to be made of the samo stuff as its predecesgors,
If anyone can pull the world round it will be the English race- and I belleve it can. But the |Booner it realines what it is up against, the less it will be hurt and damaged in the process.
If our elderly lenders can only have the coutrage to rouse them- selves from their self-satisfied cor- viction that the basic notions, - ón which they have relied for so long, are sound and can have the energy to re-examine without delay and in the light of first principles every (Continued on Paĝo 0.)