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others whose record will less. easily bear scrutiny. It is un- fortunate that his rule had to bo forcibly superseded, and it is un- cortain that his programme of do- velopment and reform will not bo thrown over at a point when it might have brought great beneft to the countryside. Up to a year or two ago, his energies wore taken up with a campaign against a notorious and violent bondit, Chen Wol-kwok. This man had fastnesses in the hills near the i
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DAY BY DAY
I DISLIKE HEARING SCANDAL TOO George Eliot. MUCH TO WISH TO REPEAT IT.
at 0.15 p.m.
An unknown Chinese threw himself into the water from the lower deck of
TYRANNY OF THE MACHINE
By JOHN C. CRAWLEY
on the fact.
We started with machines
48
MR. H. G. Wolla once wrote a bound to be cut down, and the atory about a man who was contribution of the machine to destroyed by the machine of which the unemployment problem will be The Hongkong Amateur Dramatic he thought himself the master. annulled. But it is not until the Club advertise that "Payment Do-That story is coming true on a majority of people can use their presented at the Star Theatre, Kow-Sir Alfred Ewing delivered in his we shall really be able to claim forred," by Jeffrey Dell, will be large scale, and the warning which leisure for their own good that loon, on December 8, 6, 7, 0 and 10 presidential address to the British that we have tho machine in con-
Association at York lays emphasis trol
Education may do something. We have been' hoping for its the Shamshuipe ferry Man Fat short our servants. We could make results to become apparcht for a ¡y after the launch had left Hongkong them do what we liked, and of long time, but there is still hope. yesterday. He sank Immediately and course nobody over thought that Essentially, however, it is a mat- a search by the seamon proved futile. we should make them do some ter for onch individual, and par- thing which would in the end de-ticularly for those who are still started young in this world, which kille Y.'s Men's Club will hold their troy un. But when wo weekly meeting at Messrs. Lane, the machise age, with the Inven- leisure with lethal doses of the Crawford's Restaurant on Thursday, tions of the late eighteenth and cinema and trashy books. the 27th Instant at 1 p.m. The speak-nineteenth centuries, we set in Finding Yourself. Headmistress of the St. Paul's Girl' inquiring whether wo could stop} er will be Miss F. C. Woo, M.B.E motion a roaring engine without Collego.
it.
There are signs that a reaction is setting in already. The 80- It has gathered momentum, and, called hiking craze is a good amen. Hongkong Horticultural Society states control, we can only sit tight and on a day's walk, still Icas on a The 27th annual report of the like passengers in a car out of You cannot escape from yourself that last year the Society had on its hope that luck will 262 Ordinary Members, of whom 41 Just consider what the machine and nolay party, you will prob- membership roll 22 Life Members and through.
bring us week's walk. Unless you are either resigned or left the Colony has done for us. It has given us ably find yourself as you have foolish enough to walk in a large during the year, in their Society has Members, matured 12 new Ordinary leisure a good thing for those never done before.
making a
total of 236 who know how to use it. Bat. I And this is a signal example of against 202 in the previous year. The challenge anybody to point to a the subduing of the machine, for members to make an endeavour to worse used than it is now. Our of the Committee appeal once again to all time or place when leisure was without railways and cars much possible, who Induce as many of their friends as amusemente are vulgar, and with country would be quite out
most beautiful walking Ara Interested
in a few oxceptions, at for nit-wits.,reach of most people.
place the
gardening, to join the Society.
SUGAR MARKET
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS
of
We are afraid to stop hurrying All the modern marvels can be from one entertainment to another turned to a good uno, The wire- in case we should he forced to leas, for instance, which is 80 think. Our souls frighten us. often used as a narcotic to make, That is why we are so embarrassed any effort of the mind unneces- when anybody mentions them. sary, ought to be used as a stimu- The machine has taken over the lant. If you find out what there work of our hands and foot. Wejis to hear, and listen to what you have lost the skill in craftsman-want, then you are The following cable at the close ship which used to be the heritage wireless to your own legitimate putting the of the sugar market yesterday of almost everybody, and have ac-use. If you turn it on and just has been received by Messra. Pen-quired instead a wide-spread skill listen or give half your attention treath and Co.
In turning knoba and moving to it, you are just being lazy, levern. We are becoming a na tion of mechanice.
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Only a Dream.
There is no need to go back to nature and live in a cave in order to avoid becoming a sort of ma- chine yourself. You need not Ball your
city of Chuanchow. The people groaned under his depredations and terrible cruelties. The city of Chuanchow itsolf was unsafe. Bands of robbers almost nightly climbed the city walls and hauled decisive men out into captivity, offortless steor- were the fastnesses, so arrogant smooth instantaneous the robber bands, so cowed the acceleration. more room citizens. Chen Kuo-fui put an
super springing lower body lines
end to that. He pursued the rob- sweeter performance
bers into the hills, and eventually in fact
succeeded in surrounding their everything a light Six can give headquarters. Though the chiof
. yet the saloon (with sliding roof) costs only £295,
passages prepared in the hills, the band was completely broken up and peace restored to the whole countryside. Chen then turned his attention to constructivo works. He drove straight, well-made motor roads from the sea to Chuanchow, from Chunnchow inland forty miles to Yungchun and down along the coast to Amoy. The use of these roads by motor bus companies quickly changed the face of the district, and along these main thoroughfares he encouraged the building of new market towns, which, with their long streets of portieaed shops, quickly sprang up. He then turned his attention to education, and conducted vigorous campaign in the villages, discussing personally with the vil- Inge elders for long hours at a stretch and making numbers of speeches. Many nowly-built mo- dern. school buildings came into
It was a beautiful dream, but it thing is to be able to be alone PERSONAL RULE &
no has not come true, and there are without getting bored with your being. His policy envisaged fur-change.
no signs that it will ever CENTRAL AUTHORITYther developments, particularly
come self. I sometimes think it would true unless we realise the danger bo a good thing if we all had to the making of ronds over the hills.
fand fight it.
submit to a short term of impri- Home of which were completed, to not like to pay. Granted that
Even so, we have not taken allisonment at intervals of a few The arrest and rumoured execu- be followed by the development of there are abuses and wastes
the leisure which the machine years. At least we should get to tion of Chen Kuo-ful in Southern mines and
in offers us. It is the machine which,know ourselves. the trapsport of public emoluments, the beat
rels the ultimate cause of unemploy- Fukien brings into prominence minerals to the ports, as well as
medy does not lie in the blunder- ment. From the purely economic again the conflict between success- their use in local industrial de-
bass type of economising which viewpoint, working hours should NEW TRAFFIC LAWS ful personal rule and the neces-velopment. A policy such as this missals, abolition of departments of one man after another. Other can think only of wholesale din-chinery is taking away the work be still less, simply because ma- sary demand for effective control demanded money, and it cannot be or fat percentage pay cuts. There mon are employed in making the by the central authorities. The denied that taxation was heavy, may be instances where one or machines, it is true, but it does case of Yen Shi-shan, for so long nor that the tax collectors, s "model Governar" of Shanal, but usual, oppressed the people. Chen there are other and better ways.cently, and in one room I saw laws were promulgated in Hong-
these actions is necessary, but not level out.
(By Edward Kelly, Speed Cop). I was shown over a brewery re- broken by his failure to isolate his raised money, too, by extensive
It's about time some new traffic Reorganisation of government series of machines which washed, province from national affaire, l
units and departments to prevent falled, corked, and labelled an up-been knocked down by a car for kong. Not one pedestrian has poppy cultivation. reduplicated many-fold in the
the great wastes of overlapping fending torrent of bottles. I think Under such a rule, there is little and duplication is one proposal. they dealt with
week. Which is all country. Chen Kuo-fui enjoyed place for democratic politics, and The constant passing of files from hour. There were three people
an nearly wrong. the authority and adme of the en-
the Kuomintang had
rent one ofcial to another is one part working In the room. Perhaps by any we have succeeded in running Since we bought our car yester- lightenment of Chen Chlung-ming
now they have introduced another over two rickshas, one dog, one when he controlled Kwangtung, though a better parallel might be that of Fung Chao-lu who for five years controlled the Chaochowfu- Swatow district under Chen thorities. Wo may nevertheless Chiung-ming. In both cases, men regret that the vigour with which with a chequered and adventur- simple policies of sound material ous past attained chief command development were pursued to a in a limited and wealthy area, and large measure of accomplishment on a basis of autocracy proceeded is not more often to be seen in
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1932.
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to the machina as the saviour of car, or write with a quill pen. But
The early Socialists: looked upronounce the cinema, mankind. They wrote hopefully you must learn to rely on yqur- of the time when nobody would do self sometimes, and at least occa- more than two or three hours' afonally do something in your work a day, so that we should allelaure time which is not simply a become as cultured and as noble method of passing the hours with- as the better examples of
the out leaving a trace. leisured classes.
a thousand
Perhaps the most important
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power: nor could public opinion of amelaldom's system which few machine, and there are no people Shamshuipo piglet, and one lamp easily be brought to bear on It.engaged in its operation profess to at all. It had no satisfactory basis and understand. The rational form of It is not too late to assert our post. But we did not add a no coherent linking up with either economy in government in that mastery over the machine. When single pedestrian to our bag. the provincial or the national all-acrifice of needed services but by trades without any reduction of have got to face the facts. If we
which makes savings not by a
a period of prosperity comes-and If we want Hongkong to be re- It may well come in individual cognised as a tourist resort We greater efficiency of service. unemployment-working hours are connot provide sport for motorists on the same scale as Shanghai, or Chicago, or New York, the tourists will not come here.
to carry out a vigorous forward the sphere of Kuomintang poli- policy. In both cases, a career tics, where paper schemes more
tella
今
not unsuccessful in developing the often, flourish, and the constant diatrict controlled, and in confer-change of corrupt ofcinis ring benefit on the people, was eut against real progress." short by the advent of forces in- trinsically stronger and acting in the unme of policies which com- Pruning Costs in Government. manded wide assent, and within Economy in government is al whose scope was no place for the ways a valid objectivo. But there autocratic adventurer. Fung may be good or ill in the methods. Chao-llu retired before the ad. by which the objective is sought. vance of Chiang Kai-shek's cadets Alongside the many measured ̧cri- and subsequently met a violent tendencies, one may hear from ticisms of governmental spending death on board a liner entering public platforms.or sca Woosung. Chen Kuo-ful has fallen ators to the Editor" perfervid dia- victim to the reorganisation of tribes the very tone of which may Fukion under the 19th Route well call up a mental question Army.
mark. When one finds all offico-i
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in "Let-
It was inevitable that sooner holders indiscriminately excoria-
ted lator
recognised
bureaucrata, national
despots, forces should bring Fuklen under ancopers or hangers-on, and the whole category of public servants control. In a reconstruction there vilified as brazen feedors at the could be no place for the local public trough or leeches on the autocrat. Yet Chen's record is not to body politic, It is time to put up be ignored as one of moroly cap- the gates for a moment and in- ricious and solish rule, nor swept quire what the fuse is all about. aside with the sweeping charge of mont is that the salaries of these Usually the burden of the argu- corruption. For long the Central civil servants and the upkeep of Government was content to leave their departments constitute a tax Fukien to the rule of this man and bill which the complainant does
"When they had their money it was his family who opposed their engagement, but now it's her parents
who are against it."
We have tentatively drawn up a new set of foot traffic regula- tions designed to make the streets of Hongkong safe for motorists. If fact, under our rules, if you get run over the onus is on' you to prove that you didn't throw your- self under the wheels just to annoy the driver.
of.
It will be necessary, if our rules ars adopted, for pedestrians to carry number plates, tail lights, bumper bars, head lights and all the other paraphernalia usually as- nociated with vehicular trafic. People living on the Peak, courad, will be able to indulge in luxuries like rear vialon mirrors, ornamental mascots, and shields and snubbers on their boots. Womon will affect those sports model slogans over number plates, like: "If you can road this you're far too
close!" and "Just another one from Lane, Crawford's." The more portly will find solace in the new scheme of things by being able to affect Irumble seats.
epappy their
The 1038 modal-pedestrian with syndromesh gears, is already on the market, and may be seen in the near future cruising down Des Voeux Road.
The new regulations would ́ ́at' least have the effect of brighton- ing up the news columns of some of our newspapers.
For example:
The police are scouring the Peak for another hit and run pedestrian. the thirteenth reported this month. He was knocked down by a Super-asper-auper Staat the corner of Queen's and Chater Roads
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