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others whose record will less easily bour scrutiny. It is un- fortunato that his rulo had to bo forcibly superseded, and it is un- certain that his programme of de- velopment and reform will not be thrown over at a point when it might have brought great benefit to the countryside. Up to a year or two ago, his onorgies were taken up with a campaign againat a notorious and violent bandit, Chen Wel-kwok. This man had fastnesses in the hills near the
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city of Chuanchow. The people groaned under his depredations and terrible cruelties. The city of Chuanchow itself was Bands of robbers almost nightly climbed the city walls and hauled decisive men out into captivity.
so near effortless steer-were the faatnesses, so arrogant smooth instantaneous the robber bande, so cowed the more room citizens. Chen Kuo-ful put an end to that. He pursued the rob- bera into the hills, and eventually succceded in surrounding their
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By JOHN C. CRAWLEY,
50-
MR. H. G. Wells once wrote abound to be cut down, and th story about a man who was contribution of the machine? The Hongkong Amateur Dramatic he thought himself the master. annulled. But it is not until th destroyed by the machine of which the unemployment problem will b Club advertise that "Payment De-That story is coming true on a majority of people can use thei presented at the Star Theatre, Kow. Sir Alfred Ewing delivered in his we shall really be able to elain ferred," by Jeffrey Dell, will be large scale, and the warning which leisure for their own good the loon, on December 8, 8, 7, 9 and 10 presidential address to the Britteh that we have the machine in con
Association at York laye omphasis trol the Shamshuipo ferry Man Fat short them do what we liked, and of long time, but there is still hope into the water from the lower deck of our servants. We could make results to become apparent for
Education may do something We started with machines as Wo have been hoping for its ly after the launch had left Hongkong course nobody over thought that Essentially, however, it la a mat- yesterday. He sank immediately and a search by the seamen proved futile. We should make them do someter for each individual, and par
thing which would in the ond de ticularly for those who are The Y.'s Men's Club will hold their stroy us. But when we started young in this world, which kills atill ckly meating at Messrs Lane. tions of the late eighteenth and cinema and trashy books.
the machise age, with the invencinare with lethal doses of the Crawford's Restaurant on Thursday, the 27th instant at 1 pm. The speak nineteenth centuries, we set in Finding Yourself. Headmistress of the St. Paul's Giris' Inquiring whether we could stop er will be Miss F. C. Woo, M.B.E., motion a roaring engine without College.
Fit.
There are signs that a reaction It has gathered memeatum, and, called hiking craze is a good omen.
is getting in already, The Hongkong Horticultural Society states control, we can only sit tight and on a day's walk, still loss 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 bring 202 Ordinary Members, of whom 411 membership rall 22 Life Members and through.
ua week's walk, Unless you either resigned or left the
Just consider what the machine and noisy party, you will prob
foolish obough to walk in a large Colony Society has acquired 12 new Ordinary sure a good thing for those never done before. against 202 in the previous year. The challenge anybody to point to a the subduing of the machine, for you have Members, making a total of 235 who know how to use it. But I members to make an endeavour to worse used than it is now. Our of the most beautiful walking Committed appeal once again to all time or place when leisure was without railways and care much And this is a signal example of
possible, who induce as many of their friends aamusements are vulgar, and with country would be quite out Hardening, to join the Society.
in a few exceptions, fit for nit-wits. reach, of most people.
.of We are afraid to stop hurrying All the modern marvels can be from one entertainment to another turned to a good use. The wire- In caso wo should be forced to less, for instance, which is 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.
The machine has taken over the lant. If you find out what thero sary, ought to be used as a stimu- work of our hands and feet. Wejis to hear, and listen to what you The following cable at the closejship which used to be the heritage wireless to your own legitimate have lost the skill in craftsman- want, then you are putting the of the sugar main
market yesterday of almost everybody, and have ac-use. If you turn it on and just treath and Co. has been received by Mesara. Pen-quired instead a wide-spread skill listen or give half your attention
in turning knobs and moving to it, you are just being lazy. levers. We are becoming a Ba tion of mechanics. ¡Only a Dream,
everything a fight Six can give headquarters. Though the chief during the year, in their place the has done for us. It has given us ably find yourself as
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escaped through secret passages prepared in the hills, the band was restored to the whole countryside. completely broken up and peace Chen then turned his attention to constructive works. He drove straight, well-made motor roada from the sea to Chuanchow, from Chuanchow inland forty miles to Yungchun and down along the coast to Amoy. The use of these roada by notor bus companies quickly changed the face of the district, and along these thoroughfares he encouraged the building of new market towns, which, with their long streets of porticoed shops, quickly aprang up. He then turned his attention to education, and conducted vigorous campaign in the villages,
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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
The early Socialists looked up renounce the cinema, sell your to the machine as the saviour of car, or write with a quill pen. But mankind. They wrote hopefully you must learn to rely on your- of the time when nobody would do self sometimes, and at least occa more than two or
three hourssionally do something in your become as cultured and as noble method of passing the hours with- work a day, so that we should all leisure time which is not simply a as the better examples of the out leaving a trace. loisured clasaca.
Perhaps the most important
NEW TRAFFIC LAWS NEEDED
lage elders for long hours at a stretch and making numbers speeches. Many newly-built mo- dern school buildings came into
It was a beautiful dream, but it thing is to be able to be alone being. His policy envisaged fur-change.
has not come true, and there are without getting bored with your- ther developments, particularly
no signs that it will ever come self. I sometimes think it would true unless we realise the danger be a good thing if we all had to the making of roads over the hills,
Jand fight it.
submit to a short term of impri- some of which were completed, to not like to pay. The arrest and rumoured execu- be followed by the development of there are abuses and wastes
Granted that the leisure which
Even so, we have not taken allsonment at intervals of a few the machine years. At least wo should get to tion of Chen Kuo-ful in Southern mines and
in offers us.
It is the machine which know ourselves, Fukien brings into prominence minerals to the ports, as well as
the transport of public emoluments, the best
re-is the ultimate cause of unemploy- medy does not lie in the blunder- ment. From the purely economic) again the conflict between success their use in local industrial de can think only of wholesale dis-chinery is taking away the work buss type of economising which viewpoint, working hours should, ful personal rule and the neces-velopment. A policy such as this missals, abolition of departments of one man after another. Other be still less, simply because ma- sary demand for effective control demanded money, and it cannot be for fat percentage pay cuts: There men are employed in making thej 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 "medel Governor" of Shansi, but usual, oppressed the people, Chen there are other and better ways. lcently, and in one room I saw laws were promulgated in Hong-
nor that the tax collectors, as these actions is necessary, but not level out,
(By Edward Kelly, Speed Cop). I was shown over a brewery re- Reorganisation
It's about time some new traffic of government series of machines which washed, kong. Not units and departments to prevent filled, corked, and labelled an un- Under such a rule, there is little and duplication is one proposal. they dealt with
one pedestrian has the great wastes of overlapping ending torrent of bottles. I think boon knocked down by a car for place for democratic politics, and The constant passing of illes from hour. There were three people
n thousand
nearly д week. Which is all wrong. the Kuomintang had
of officialdom's system which fow machine, and there are no people shamshuipo piglet, and one lamp one official to another is one part now they have introduced another over two rickahan, one dog, one working in the room. Perhaps by day we have succeeded in running, Since we bought our car yeater- engaged in its operation profess to at all.
raised money, too, by extensive poppy cultivation.
ren! no
an
broken by his fallure to isolate his province from national affairs, is reduplicated many-fold in the country. Chen Kuo-ful enjoyed the authority and some of the en- lightenment of Chen Chiung-ming power: nor could public opinion when he controlled Kwangtang, easily be brought to bear on It. though a better parallel might be It had no antisfactory basle and understand. The rational form of It is not too late to assert our post. But we did not add a that of Fung Chao-llu who for five no coherent linking up with either economy in government is that mastery over the machine. When single pedestrian to sur bag. years controlled the Chaochowfu- the provincial or the national a-sacrifice of needed services but by trades without any reduction of have got to face the facts, If we which makes savings not by a
period of prosperity comes-and If we want Hongkong to be re- Swatow district under Chen thorities, We may nevertheless greater efficiency of service.
it may well come In individual cognised as a tourist resort wo Chiung-aning. 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
tics, where paper schemes more often flourish, and the constant change of corrupt offlefale tells against real progress.
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 to carry out a vigorous forward the sphere of Kuomintang poli policy. In both cases, career not unsuccessful in developing the district controlled, and in confer ring benefit on the people, was cut ahort by the advent of forces in- trinsically stronger and acting in the name 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 objective. But there
adventurer.
Fung may be good or ill In the methods Chao-il 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
ticiams of governmental spending a vlulent death on board a liner entering public platforms or ace
tendencies, one. may hear from Wosaung. Chen Kuo-fui has fallen aters to the Editor" porfervid dis- in "Lat- victim to the reorganisation of tribes the very tone of which may Fukien under the 19th Routo well call up a mental question Army.
mark. When one Ands all office-
autocratic
.
It was inevitable that soonor holdera indiscriminately excoria- or later recognised
49 national ted
bureaucrats, despots, forces should bring Fukien under whole category of public servants snoopers or hangers-on, and the control. In a reconstruction there vilified as brazen feeders at the could be no place for the local public trough or leeches on the autocrat. Yet Chén's record is not to body politic, it is time to put up be ignored as one of merely cap- the gates for a moment and in- ricious and selfish rule, nor swept quire what the fuse is all about. aside with the sweeping charge of Usually the burden of the argu- corruption. For ipag the Central civil servants and the upkeep of mont is that the salaries of these Government was content to leave their departments constitute a tax Fukien to the rulo of this man and bill which the complainant does
unemployment-working hours are cannot provide sport for motorists on the same scale as Shanghai, or Chicago, or New York, the tourists will not come here.
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 aafo for motorists. If fact, under our rulos, 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.
It will be necessary, If our rules. are adopted, for pedestrians to carry number plates, tall lights, bumper bars, head lights and all the other paraphernalia usually as- Rociated with vehicular traffic.
People living on tho Peak, of course, will be able to indulge in luxuries like rear vision mirrors, ornamental mascots, and shields and snubbora on their boots.. Women will affect these snappy sports model slogans over their number plates, like: "If you can read this you're far too close!" and "Just another one from Lane, Crawford's." The more portly will and solace in the new scheme [of things, by being able to affect
rumble seats.
The 1988 model podestrian with syncromesh 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 columna 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 tone knocked down by a Super-super-super Sim at the corner of Queen's and Chater Roads
(Continued on Popa 9.)||