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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1932.
GOLD AND STERLING
·DAY BY DAY
THOSE WHO, IN THE STRUGGLE FOR THE BEST, TUSH FORWARD THE WHEEL OF PROGRESS, ARE NEVER
The Ben Line 9.8. Benvorlich, from Hemo ports via Straits, is due here to-morrow,
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?
By A CITY MINISTER'
THINK it is undoubted that include the "essentials" of the faith people are asking-especially and yot would grant all needed thoughtful young people-that the latitudo for legitimate and natural Church Brould restate in clear and differences of thinking. They be- definite fashion what its creed is,lieve that the finest unity is not and what intellectual and moral do "uniformity" but unity in variety, manda it makes upon those who join unity with difference. The only question is-What ага the its fellowingship..
This statement of creed, it is essentials?
is to encourage and develop the tendency towards the creation of a "aterling area" of countries which aim at keeping their national currencies stable in terms of sterl- ing instead of gold. In this case, too, what matters in the interests of trade is far more short-term | D18COURAGED. than long-term stability of the exchanges, and there is no reason why they should not keep the power to make long-term adjustments in
The P and C. Company announces the sterling valud of. their cur reductions in the passage rates bo rencles, while pegging the ex-tween Hungkong, Shanghai and Japan, changes over short periods by the details of which will be given tople, untechnical and unequivocal
morrow. familiar method of holding sterling
Mr. Tac Shu-man of St. Paul's hhlances in London, just na Britain College, who won the
First Prize holds
balances (Gold Medal) of the King's Theatre Essay Competition, is a son of Mr. in New York. It fa true thatTee Tann-tai.
in long-term stability
On Saturday, a friendly tennis respect of international debts; but
match was played at the Filiping existing long-term debts, will-Club between Lane Crawford, Ltd., clearly have to be readjusted, and and the Mercantile Bank Sports Club.
The latter, won by 88 games to 74. new debt arrangements could be made to fit in with the new condi tions.
now
dollar
The "sterling area"
matters
thus
said, should be given in clear, sim- Back to Apostolic Simplicity.
can
In the early tipustolic days, a very terms-in other words, the Church's ereed should be both simplified and straplo test or creed was demanded modernised. The question is Can from those who joined the Christian this be done with gain or, at least, fellowship. That creed is reflected in various passages in the New without serious loss?
One must remember, of course. Testament. It ran something like
own as athis:"Do you that thers is such a thing
Jesus as for Lord?" Only in later days, with "falso simplicity." No one,
maka Einstein's the rise of various hercaics and the instance, Theory of Relativity either simple impact of pagan philosophy, was can make a doctrine of Divine Pro-fied, and theologised. or chay. In the same way, no one this simple formula defined, ampli- videnco or a theory of the Atone- Personally, I should have no In hesitation in going back to that As the ss. Yuet On was leaving ment a mere matter for babes. harbour for Kergmoon last night, she the last resort, anyone joining the simple creed. Christ's only test to collided with a fishing junk which was Church is expected to think as well Peter was, "Loveat thou Mo?" en-damaged to the extent of $300. Thens belleve! To talk of making Jesus did not ask a disciple to have Yuet On was stopped and the captain abstract thinking about God, the fixed and precise notions about Him visnged would include 08. many promised to have the boat repaired.
universe, and the human soul either before He asked the man to follow Empire countries as are prepared
Suffering from injuries to his head "simple" or "ensy" is merely non-Him. Some people may reply that to come in, but would be open
In other words, one cannot such a simple test would leave too received by being knocked down by a senso. equially to other countrics, such Kowicon motor bus outside the Po simplify big things beyond a cer- much room for radical and crucial
But I submit two things:---- Hing Treatre last night, Chiu Fuk,tain point without altering their differences within the communion.
taken to the quality.
1. That there ought to be room aged 23 years, was Kwong Wah Hospital for treatment. Further, I hope that this modern
not serious.
cry for a simplified creed does not for the exercise of Christian intel- His condition is
spring from any foolish objection ligence on all intellectual concerns
and codified to a creed as such. A creed is only where difference is natural
2. If a man loves Jesus, follows arranged, ordered, thinking. If we have any thinking Him, and owns Him as Lord, i at all, we must define and delimit it, have no business to say that he has Some people seem to rear up against no part in Hint, even if he does not creeds in religion while they de-regard Jesus exactly as I do.
It is true that our Lord asked, mand them imperiously everywhere else say, in politics, philosophy, "Whom say ye that I am?" but He Police Constable luang Hsguh-fu, attached to the Anti-Pirney Guards economics, and ethics. A politician, did not make the answer to that and stationed at the Police Training for instance would not have a dog's question a test of orthodoxy. Dis- School, committed suicide last night chance with his constituency unless cipleship with Jesus was rather a be he had a detailed programme, or kind of spiritual life than a kind by taking what is thought to
removed to opium. He was
the what we call "n platform." But et intellectual uniformity! Kowloon Hospital at 9.50 p.m. and what is a creed except the Church's
programme and died at 1230 this morning,
platform? A Church without a definite creed of
ns the Scandinavians, the South Americans, or some of them, and perhaps the countries of Central Europe which are now on the verge of currency depreciation. Such a "sterling urea" would not be a purely British concern. It would become the concern ufa the countries included within the group, and some form of consultation between the monetary authorities of these countries would have to be devised-perhaps, as the forerunner of the long-awaited in ternational authority for managing the monetary affairs of the whole world,
At the meeting of the Rotary Club to-morrow, Professor L. Forster will speak on "Travelling in Szechuan,"
A combination mirror and clock was stolen from Mr. E. Edgar's car which was left at the stand in Con- naught Road, near Queen's Pier on Saturday afternoon.
Sentence of twelve months' hard
The Need for Change.
labour was imposed by Mr. Wynne-some kind would not be an or Jones at the Central Police Court this, Ranism, but only a kind of chaosl norning on a Chinese who admitted a charge of returning from banishment. The Split in the Labour Party
The defendant had three previous con- for victions for larceny and one The breach between the Indepen-returning from banishment. dent Labour Party and the official Labour Party was long in coming
so long, in fact that the final plunge was little more than a formality. The question of whether, and. The two wings of the party have IL so, when, Britain should return been at variance for years.
cannot
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With this said, I agree, that By Edward Kolly, Private Detective, modernised and simplified creed de WE are here to tell the world fully justified. The present creeds of the Church represent the mental
the Colony + 18 into all
story.
NEW BARRISTER
MR. H. C. MACNAMARA
ADMITTED
G.
4. They are too long, too defined, and generally too controversial.
that
when there's
any
When we were divorced from our last wife, we swore off wives ever since.
At 11.27
We remember when we were 5. They were designed, unfor-divorced. We watched our wife tunately, not to make a simple state- and her co-re for over an hour. We ment to include and excommunicate remember it quite well. doubtful people, Indeed, the saddest p.m.-Never mind. thing in Church history is that our We have many friends who are creeds and confessions were evolved married, but not seriously. Work
much to exclude and de- three times around the world look-.- in some desperate crisis of conten-this out:-A lady of means went nounce antagonists ns to include all ing for her ideal man. One day she
friend of ours, and his name was the faithful who owed a sincere met him in Hongkong. H day sha loyalty to Jesus,
Most, ministers of my acquaint-Bi Yous. Now she's Mrs. Bill ance would gladly welcome a short, Yous.
Work out, to the nearest decimal, modern, cumprehensive statement of Christian belief-one that would what chance Mr. Bill Yous had.
tion as
Crowded houses have been the rule at the King's Theatro during the thinking of the fourth or fifth cen-divorcing to be done in Hong- werk-end for the showing of "This turies--and this is the twentieth. kong, we are right on the spot to Is The Night," one of the brightest Besides, in any case, a creed ought do it.
We know all there is to most amusing
ever to be fluid, if the promise of the and screened in
Holy Spirit is true that He will lead know about the fallability of We had seven truth. The argument human beings. all the ingredienta of first-class
for change or revisal may be briefly wives in Queensland-all bar- to the gold standard is still form-ward unity has by no means con- entertainment, with a clever
cealed the inward disorder, Both
them running through the
and summarised as follow#:--
maids-and there is nothing we Lily Damita, Charlie Ruggles ing the subject of controversy at
sections will breathe more freely Roland Young have the leads--need 1. Our present creeds are diverse don't know about divorce. Home, but the general impression now that neither has to maintain more be said to establish the point and even contradictory in their de-
Wo know all about this matri- On no ac-finitions and statements.
monial jurisdiction, too. Our last appears to be that no decision appearances. In the past, the I.L..that the casting is ideal?
count miss this production.
2. They are antiquated in form wife was one of those indulgent ought to be taken at present provided the driving force of the
and expression as well 18 in kind, who let us do exactly as she about the future value of sterling Labour movement. Its ranks were
thought,
wished. We didn't know what in terms' either of gold or dollars. mainly recruited from the intellec-
3. They are naturally coloured by happiness was until we were mar- the philosophical terms and ideas ried. Then it was too late. This is based
on the point that tuals to whom Socialism appeated as un attractive philosophy." The
of their own day, now largely dis- no-one yet knows, and
carded. other, or Trade Union wing, con- know, what the future value of sisted of those whose socialistic either gold or dollars in terms of theories
were strongly tinged goods is likely to be. One authori- with the practical determination At the Full Court this. morning, ty thinks that Britain can reasona to raise the standard of living of Mr. Henry Charles Macnamara, bly seek to manage the American the industrial worker. While the solicitor, of Deacons, was admitted a barrister, on the motion of the exchange so as to prevent un- Labour movement was still in its Attorney General, Mr. C. necessary short-term fluctuations teens the two sections worked Alabaster, K. C., who said Mr. and work in with the American together fairly comfortably in Macnamara was well-known to the harness. Indeed they Court and had been on the Roll authorities in bringing "reflation" double about, holding that such a policy made such remarkable progress as a solicitor for the past, 10 or 11 that by 1924 they actually found years. Last year he was admitted will be mutually beneficial. But
to the Inner Circle of the Middle themselves in office. From that Temple and called to the Bar in he feels thut no long-term decisions time, however, dates a steady June last year. about the value of sterling 'should trickle away from doctrinaire to,
The Chief Justice: I have much be made for some time to come and even beyond, the orthodox pleasure in admitting you as &
There is every possibility that Labour tenets. Mr. Ramsay Mac-
burrister and hope you will have a successful career here." in the course of Britain's experi- Donald and Viscount Snowden, menta in short-term currency for instance, both started their management a. method will be hit upon which will make permanent- ly unnecessary any return to the gold standard in the old sense. In the past, the strongest part of the case in favour of the gold standard was based on the argu- ment that, in the interests of trade, cision has pushed others in the ported the the relative values of national same direction, notably Mr. E.. F. being fined for having purchased currencies ought to be nearly Wise, the English economic ad-scrap brass at a figure much below that enough known in advance to enable viser of the Soviet Co-operative market price. In an age
accepts buy-in-the-cheapest-market buyers and sellers of goods across
The I. L. P. group, as an economic principle; it seems national frontiers to make reliable after the minority which refuses to me that a higher standard of estimates of their receipts in relato cut ndrift from the Labour morality was expected for this tion to their costs of production. Party has gone, is neither very hawker than that to which most
of us conform. large nor very influential. It in- This need, howevor, could be met cludes a fow, well-known parliator of Police say, after accuring. I have myself heard an Inspec- Bumciently for most purposes if montarians like Mr. James Max through haggling, an article in the short-term fluctuations of the ton and Mr. Frederick W. Jowett, "Paddy's Market at a "ridiculous- exchanges could be kept within Commissioner of Works in they cheap price, "Of course, the blighter must have stolen it to ael! narrow limits, as they were under first Labour Government. But it so cheaply," though 'I did not the gold standard. A similar they have at most 20,000 enrolled notice that he was too keen on policy of short-term stabilisation supportere a more fraction of prosecuting. But then, it wasn't of the exchanges, combined with their erstwhile comrades on the scrap bresa-Yours, etc., the power to vary them in accord-right, and actually fower perhapa
than the Communists, on thoir |- ance with changes in long-term forces, could be pursued as it loft. It is Indeed difficult to see How the tattered remnant of the will presumably be pursued now I. L. P. is going to maintain an ready begun. with the aid of the Exchange independent poaltion between its seems obvious that the main body Equalisation Fund-Without two neighbours. The left cannot of Labour will be strongthened by
political careers in the I. L. P. They are now as much to the right of the main body as they were formerly to the left.
Other one- time lenders of the 1.L.P., like Mr. J. R. Clynee, the former Home Secretary, are now pillars of Labour orthodoxy. The latest de-
Socletics.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Serap Brans.
(To the Editor. Hongkong Telegraph3
Sir. Some days ago, you re- case of a hawker's
SAUCE FOR THE GANDER.
Indicate that the process has al- it Meanwhile,
turning to the gold standard at fall to attract the Baros, and the the disappearance of an unfriend- lycally who was really, more
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A DEPERDIBLE