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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1932.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1932.
THE MEANS TEST
Rioting such 'as that which oc curred in London on Wednesday, whilst it serves to direct attention to the grievances of the workless,
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iloving Officer investigates the personal family circumstances of each claimant and reports to the Public Assistance Committee. The Committee then assesses the case for payment either at the full rate (that ir, the standard benefit rate of 158. 3d. per week for a man, 138. 6d. for a single woman, | 88, for a dependent wife, and 28. for a dependent child), or at any lower rate it thinks proper. Or
it may reject the claim altogether. The money comes out of the Na 'tional exchequer, but should the Committee think that the full rate is too little for subsistence, as it often does, it may supplement it from the local rates.
Gross anomalies, hardships and Inequalities have, it is claimed, resulted from the handing over of the Means Test to the local au-
Minister
tinue. There
DAY BY DAY
THERE IS NOTHING LIKE TAKING SCANDAL BY THE BEARD AND TREAT-
ING THE OPINION OF THE WORLD WITH HEROIC INDIFFERENCE-Le Sage.
WHY MEN LIVE IN TURKISH BATHS
By ROBERT BENCHLEY
NE of the three hundred and in his new home (sha had nover
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troubles with English home life one look at the chintz curtains, to-day is the alarming spread of she took him upstairs and asked home-making ab an art. For the him if he wore auro just who hla Passengers who left by the Em-past fifteen or twenty years our wife's people were. She thought press of Russia this morning included little women have been reading so he had married a Chinese girl. Hon. Dr. S. W. and Mrs. T'so, and much warning them against lack To-day those very same chintz Miss Feggy Hornell.
of imagination in the home that curtains would be considered dull. they have let their imaginations As the tide of originality swept Passengers arriving from the North by the P. and. O. liner Naldera get the upper hand, and turn them on the popples began getting larger and farger, until the design to-day included Colonel A. H. Kinto a lot of Hans Andersons.
All that is needed is a band of became one big red poppy with Watson, the Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, dwarfs to make any modern home here and there a bit of background and Mr. A. J. P. Heard.
a Rumplestiltkin's castle which, at which hardly knew that it was a A case admitted to hospital yester-the stroke of midnight, turna back background on the same piece of
pumpkin again. In many goods, dny, showed signs of oplum polsoning. Into
This obviously would never do, He was Tanng Tung, a shop employee ways the old pumpkin would be
for the next step would have been living at 248, Queen's Road West. more comfortable to live in. His condition, however, is not con- Before home-making beenmo an 'all poppy, or just a good, old- sidered serious.
art mother used to feel that she fashioned red curtain which waE had done pretty well if she and exactly the thing they were trying Mr. C. J. Chancellor, Router's Aunie could get the furniture all to get away from. You have to General Manager for the Far East, back into place (and by "oto look out for that in modern de arrived here by the P. and O. liner place" is meant "into place again") coration. Beyond a certain point Naldera this morning. He is a son after the spring cleaning, with you swing right around back into of Sir John Chancellor, former High perhaps fresh tidies on the backo,grandma's house again. Commissioner in Palestine,
of the chairs every so often.
Not In My Home, All as You Were. The Royal Observatory reports
I have an articlo boforo me, that the anticyclone now Hen over Things had to go back protty written by one of these home- South China to the south of the much where they came from, for making experts, which begins as Yangtze Valley. A depression is the castors had dug little round follows: situated to the north of Shantung. holes in the carpet, and you would, "Colour everywhere in the house French mensoon will prevali over the not want to have the place looking is the key-note in present day de- Northern China Sea. Local forecast like a dimpled golf ball. -N.E. winds, fresh, fair.
corating-from the basement to The only imagination that was 'the attic, from the foyer-hall to the
able to work in 'no leisurely
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thorities. The Public Assistance Committees, who have full discre- tion as to the amount of payment granted, exercise their powers in most diverse ways. Cases have A most attractive console with been cited in which workers have butt walnut control panel and had their grants reduced on re- pleasing design. Has a remark moval from one area to another, able five tube Superheterodyne chassis with Pentode and Screen, not by reason of any change in Grid tubes and rectifier filter circumstances, but simply because system. The entire chassis is of the different policies of Public completely shielded and includes Assistance Committees. What is
A young woman, named Lai Sam, necessary in the preparation of the back door. Even the kitchen is as an antenna compensating con-
aged 22, who had been staying at the food was to find enough, for, in gay as a flower garden, for pote denser. Beautiful tone quality and more, there are many people in rung Nam Boarding House, was dis- the days before dieting set in, and pans have been glorified. a marvellous performance. precisely the same circumstances covered in an unconscious condition in daddy and the boys and girls stop- Gone are the days of all-white
her room yesterday, and was conveyed ped at nothing in the way of lead- bath-rooms.... In contiguous areas getting en- Height 33 inches. Width 23
to hospital. She is believed to have ing up short of foundering with Is that a terrifying prospect or inches.
Depth 10% inches, tirely different treatment. The taken both. Adalin and oplum in an all on board. Merely getting to- isn't it? "Gone are the days of Weight 40 pounds.
rules under which the Committees attempt to commit suicide, and her gether "enough" mashed potatoes all-white bathrooms,
are they? condition, is stated to be serious.
used to call for more imagination, Well, not in my house. work cover five main sources of
than is expended to-day in think-i The bathroom is a sacred place, Demonstrations & Sales.
Income-disability pensions, com-
ing up new designs to trim lettuce not merely a room where you IDEAL RADIO SERVICES pensation
if it does no more than make re-inte. "If you had told your mother rush in to wash your hands before awards, personal any commendations on the basis of the that she wasn't using enough a meal. Tel. 27806.
ings, lodgers' rent, and the earn-reports presented to it. It must imagination in the running of her My Vocal Efforts. Morning Post Building.
I like a good, warm bathroom, ings of relatives. Under each be a conference in which plenipo- household she might very well Distributors:- THE HONGKONG HOTEL
head, it appears, there are start- tentiaries are prepared to under- have told you in return to get out with plenty of light, in which I of the kitchen that instant, and can sing "Old Man River" (and, ling differences of practice. All take engagements and to submit not mess up the living room CARACE.
19 boy, can I take those law notes in "Old Man River" in a good reson- over the country, there have been those engagements to States which you went through..
But gradually the home-making ant bathroom! Paul Robeson is protests against the operation of are prepared to make the changes The Means Test, and at Birken of national policy that are neces-exports have got their propaganda a tenor compared with me some across, flooding the country with mornings), and I like a room in hend recently the Town Council, Bary. The delegates will not be photographs of armchairs planted which I can lie in the tub and read a with geraniums and luncheon until well parboiled, sometimes in which the Conservatives are in fashion as did the delegates who tables in disguise, telling the getting nice, big blisters on the B majority, passed a strongly met at Goneva to discuss dia- young wives who are just begin- pages with wet fingers, or, if very worded resolution against it. The armament. After all, save for ning to worry about that far-away tired, perhaps dropping the whole of Labour, it appears, drains on budgets, it makes little lock In George's eyes that the book into the water, and I don't trouble was lack of imagination want to have the feeling, every cannot give orders except of a difference, so long as peace pre fixing up the nest.
time I look up, that I am taking, negative kind to the local authorl-vails whether armaments are re-|| So the young wives have become (Continued on Page 0.)-
duced this year ог next year. imagination-conscious, with the ties, and it is claimed that until With thirty millions of unemploy-result that the comfortable, old the Means Test is taken out of ed throughout the world, it makes chairs have been stood upside- the hands of these nuthorities, is a great deal of difference whether down and palated purple and the windows have been fixed up with unified and revised both in prin- measures of reconstruction
are coloured curtains to such a degrea eiple and method, trouble will con- proposed this month next that one has to don dark glasses are, admittedly, month. If the presidential elec-in order to look out and see what tion had not como this year, the weather is. cannot but be deplored. It seems people who abuse unemployment American policy could have been
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Those First Signe. fairly clear that the outbreak was relief, and for these no criticism excogitated without the danger of On locking back over the past ye did get me the money to buy Yes, Thonsa me bhoy, shure an' organised by the National Unem- is too severe. But there are many its becoming a football of partisan ten years the arival of chintz me little house an' bit of haggart ployed Workers' Movement,
others who are genuinely out of politics. That would have been indication that thinge were going won't be denyin, that ye would seem to have been the first from the landlord, an' Communist body which
work and who, under the operation gain. At the Lausanne Confer-imaginative on us.
promise to repay ye as a gintie- weeks ago created a disturbance of the Means Test, are being once it was clear that the United The first designs in chlatz cur- men's bond, an' that on that same at Birkenhead, and with which, it denied the necessities of life. It States could not participate in the taina and sofa coverings were bond ye stud guarantor for me is worth noting, the Birkenhead is these who deserve considera-world conference until after the very mild, perhaps little spatter-wid the bhoys who put up the Unemployed Association has de-, tion, and it is to be hoped that the election. Cannot there now be aings of buttercups on a black fleld, 'money for me, an, I won't be or in the more radical households, sayin' aither that ye didn't get mo clined to have anything to do, promised Government statementsible attitudes of the United States pared with the old white lace cur- strength o yer respected word {reasoned discussion of the pos-medium-sized poppies, but, com- aisy repayment terms on the These mischief-makers have, with- on the subject will Indicate, some toward proposals which the contains which used to hang in the, (whien was given
definite step towards amelioratingference may out a doubt, been seeking to
consider? Such. abay-window back of the rubber word), but ye're 藉 saft-hearted utilise the sufferings of the idle, the lot of the sufferers.
discussion would be a more valu- plant, and were held back in place gossoon an' it's meself as has seen able préparation for the confer-by a gold hall and chain, they ye let others off their debts to yo
were pretty hot stuff. ence than the technical reports of
Jan though those same were war. I remember, back in 1915, a man debts be the sama token, it experts.
whose mother came to visit him sthruk me that I moight be afther gettin out o' me payment to ye too. They do be sayin' yo've got funny notions yerself an' that ye never asks to be lot off yer own debts (thinkin, suara loike, that It's more honourable to pay) but I do be thinkin' different me- self, an' so I ace to meself "Dev me bhoy, why shouldn't ye. If yo can? It ud make ye a rale shmart thrickster among the bhoys ov the, country, an' faith do ye, know any other bhoys who have - an honester regard for a thrickster than they have? So I thinks and thinks av how it can be dun, an' thin I remembers that ould 'skyln' ov me grandmother about how a friend of yer great great grand- mother used to take in washin' jan' charged me great grönt grand- mother tupence for washin me great great grandfather's shirts whin be the same token she should ' Jav charged only, three haponce. Now I was tould that me groat |great grandfather was a man BV some substance an' put on a plane shirt every Sunday for Mask That's a haponny a week or two an' tuponce a year, an' as there's no denyin that the friends o' yor female ancestors since the tólmes o' Henry the Second an' Strong- |bow Moight av. been overchargin' for me anccators' shirts, or what- ever it was they wore in thim days joight hundred years ago-80 If we make it 800 toimes two an" tupanco, an' add the compound. interest over all that toime, folth there's ye debt paid, 'an' ye Owe me twelve an' aixpence on tap av [It." Yo won't deny that will "yo? Shure yo wouldn't be ‚' afther chatin' an honest mon an drivin' a'hard bargain, wud ye?.-.
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workers for their own unworthy ends, attempting to get the unem-
World Economic Conference. ployed to take the 'law into their own hands even to the extent of economic conference are tearing Arrangements for the world attacking the police and looting completion. Mr. shops. There can be nothing but Donald has been invited to
Romany Mac- disgust felt by all reasonable side, the organising committee will minded people at such tactica; the meet at Geneva within a month pity is that there should be men willing to be made the tools of Buch scallywags,
pro-
and the delegates will assemble in London early in the New Year. The appointment of the American But the riotous scenes in Lon. is greatest, is subject to delay, a dolegation, whose responsibility don, as well as other demonstra- fact which might be regarded as tions which have occurred else unimportant but for its corollary where, are merely an outward in that public opinion in the United dication of intense disantisfaction States cannot be propared to which has been felt over the work- sanction the changes of national ing of what is known as the Means policy which will be necessary if Test, the operation of which has bulwarks against the world de- The diminished the burden of Exche- Presalon are to be built. quer payments to the unemployed. be recommended will not be known precise nature of the changes to In principle, this test is quite de- until the conferenco meets, but it fonsible, since it is only right is not too soon to discuss their that the State, before granting a necesalty and their general lines. relief, should be antisfied,The Lausanne Conference was that he needs it. But the trouble called to liquidate reparations. s that the Poor Law machinery That task was accomplished, and has been used in the operatlon of.
if the United States promptly agrács to scale down war debts- tho tost, a circumstance which hae aroused widespread resent- the necessity of huge inter-govern-
as in the end it must surely do- ment. Let us see how the Means mental payments will no longer Test works. The regulations lay bar economic recovery. But the it down that the local authority statesmen meeting at Lausanne shall "make such inquiries and wished measures of reconstruction otherwise deal with the case as if na well as of liquidation. Hence they were estimating the need of Conference. They envisage it not the plans of the World Economia. an unemployed able-bodied person as a conference of exports, but of who had applied for public assist statesmen empowered to negotiate. ance." This means that the ReThe conference will be a failure
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