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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1932.
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THE
PREST.O.LITE STANDARD
ly and peralatently argued by the modern school that the supply of money should no longer be dealt with no a commodity, but ought merely to represent that plenty which has now touched the point of satiety. Great Britain la con- fronted with the monstrous para- dox that she is no rich in material wealth that alte cannot maintala in comfort, to say nothing of dig- The battery on which Prest-0-nity, the workers who created this Lite's reputation was originally wealth. She has a population of bulit but given the benefit of new Improvements and discoveries 40,000,000; yet ton millions can which make it, to-day, a better, barely maintain themselves at a baltory than ever.
reasonable standard of life: Ave million hover between bare sub- sistance and a reasonable stand-
fivo millions
at aro
or ard; Let us demonstrate the many
the bare features which make Prest-O-Lite below
Many of these improvements are protected by broad, basic patenta which prevent infringement.
per dollar.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
The Hongkong & Shanghal Iintela, Ltd. farrporated in lungkung. Stubbs Ron)
Happy Valley
30
DAY BY DAY
FLY FROM THE CURSE OF OWING EVERYTHING TO WIFE. IT to A REVERSE OF ALL NATURAL POSITION;
CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
By ROBERT BERNAYS, M.P.
IS A BLOW TO ALL MANHOOD IN the intervals of Inquiring into his real successes at a game call- the intervals of inquiring fete de calcash at a game call-
WITHIN US-Bulwer Lytton.
i was hold yesterday from 6.80 to 7 p.m.
itself by night.
day by day I have been studious-, to take seven years to finish. ly observing how Berlin conducts! We plunged into working class Berlin. Though it was between
Victoria district was reported to the One case of diphtheria from the health authorities on Tursday.
Tat mo say at the outset I am 2 a.m. and 8 a.m., the cafos were the worst possible man for Buchas full and as noisy as in England Mr. J. E. Hanson, Mr. and Mrs. an Investigation. In London my all of politics, and at times it four hours earlier. The talk was E. L. Stainfield and Miss P. Stain-
vory presence can reduce the field, and Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Weir most hilarious party to the deep-flared up into an ugly brawl. were among passengers who left for Australia aboard the 8.8. Taiping est gloom. I am in a perpetual Political feeling runs so high in yesterday.
condition af wanting to go home those days that it is regarded as when the rest of the party are highly unsafe for either Com- loudly asserting that "the evening munists, or Nazis to stray out- side their own political cafes. In connexion with the St. Andrew's has not yet bogun." When hos The hatreds of Moslems and subsistance Ball on November 25, reel practice pitable. friends therefore suggested Hindus hardly rival the antago batteries give you, the most value level. The problem is of suck in the Peninsula Hotel, and another personally conducted toursiniams of political parties in Ger
magnitudo
many to-day. and urgency that is to be held next Tuesday, at the, Berlin cafes I feared the worst. At first I thought that it had all other economic and political ame time.
come. The tour did not begin Free Bread With Beer. problems are swallowed up in it.
until an hour when I had hoped Mr. D. Maclachlan will speak on it might be ending. Berlin night up against the agonising poverty Here, too, I was brought right, It is the duty of all to direct their "History and Reincarnation" at the fe does not really begin apof Berlin. I met men who ad minds to the task of wealth dis-usual weekly public lecture of the parently until the next morning.mitted and their appearance was
Hongkong Lodge, the Theosophical tribution, and the first need is that Society. 17. Queen's Road Central, to-
But I must confess that from a witness to the truth of their the moment the industrial structure be so in-day at 0 p.m.
We started. ahout words-that they had not cater Made by
midnight, my yawna ended. For meat for 1 month. It is the carry the Prest-O-Lite Storage Battery Sale tegrated that it can
Berlin night. ifo, unlike any pleasant custom of somo enfes to The Anderson Music Company, who other night life I have Corporation
credit necessary to bring distri-
scen, is provide rolls of brend free of aro exhibiting Eddystone, Ekco and INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
like the salt and the bution into parity with production, Columbia radio sets at the Radio night life, and it is enjoyed by chargo, Oakland, Col..
Toronto, Can. while the system of money must Exhibition in Gloucester Building, are German people. It is not night mustard in English restaurants. giving a short wave demonstration club life invented for the tourists. Thus the purchase of a glass of be fundamentally changed that
between 8.45 p.m. and 0.20
this have seen night clubs in Sydney bear gives the right to free bread, and New York, Bombay and and thousands of unemployed money
Indientes and evening. precisely
Winnipeg, and for all the variety, exist for weeks on no other diet. represents production. Insofar as
The Hongkong Art Club will hold there was in them I might naver the authors of the Bartex plants annual exhibition this year of the have left London. SALTER-At the French Hospital on have made an approach to the sub-eighth floor of Gloucester Building, on Pursuing the Bath Eun,
November 16, to. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Salter, a son.
jert, they are to be congratulated, December 7, 8 and 9, from 10 a.m. to p.m. each day. As the local talent! but a much bolder attack is re-is of a distinctly high standard, first house of call, has to be seen a Russian aristocrat who will be quired if success is to be achieved.
to bo believed. It is an immense persuaded to describe the orgies of The main thing is that they are accking to escape from the desire for intrinsic worth in money it- self. Mr. H. G. Wells sums up this aspect of the contest thus.- "l the world of a managed cur- reney they (the old school) nsk, where are you to take your note and present it? The New Money The obvious need for a scientific School answers that it can be pre- sented in nny shop where you money system has provoked a
That, powerful group of British indug. want to buy something. trialists and commercial men to for the old school, is not enough. produce a scheme for the employ- I There is something, they feel, dis- ment of an international barter ingenuous in euch a reply. Any money. It is to be called Bartex, commodity dats not suffice them;
want particular is to be handled. apparently, by they clearing houses independent of modity." the great joint stock banks and
BIRTH.
The
Hongkong Telegraph
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1932.
BARTEX AND OTHER
CURRENCY
will represent a fixed quantity of commodities, being therefore, it
scheme.
another delightful series of painting sketches, photographs and decorative work may be looked forward to,
SUGAR MARKET
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
The following cable at the close of the sugar market yesterday has been received by Messrs. Pentreath and Co.
London Terminals.
March 1933 6/-% down Id. May 1933 6/21⁄4% down Id. August 1933 6/51⁄2 down 1d. December 1933 6/8% down 1⁄2d. Buyera at shove prices, sellers com-asking %d.-ad, more.
His Excellency's Return. With characteristic informality
at
has
tenour
But the Vaterland Haus, our
They will sit half the day and all the night sipping their one glass of beer. But they will see more drama than in any cinema.
The barman will be quite likely
the
glass house bullt tier on tier. the Revolution, and before rather like a design for the jacket evening is out an ex-Prussian of an Aldous Huxley novel. On officer, imagining himself back in cach floor there are two restaur-,the gay arrogant days of pre-war ants, each representing a country miltariam, will be challenging for and decorated like a Drury Lane some fancied elight his neighbour concention of it. Thus in search to a duel.
ATA
of n Rath bun you find yourself At three o'clock the cafes close, In a Texas bar, not merely with but night life does not close with cowboys and wood logs, but com- them. There
cafes- which plete to the last Hollywood detall open only when the rest have with pictures of President Lincoln closed down. Timidly I auggested that three o'clock in the morning on the wall.
We moved to the floor below for was not an unreasonable time to coffee and had it presented to us go to bed, but my friends were as by girls in peasant dress before adamant as the Government Whips a back-cloth of mountains and during an all-night sitting. I must forests, to the tune of "Auf, Beo it through.
Wiedersehen," played by an or- In six hours I had seen at least chestra arrayed iike members of three facets of contemporary Bor- the chorus of "White Horse Inn.' tia-the hectic galety that accom Arthur Collins himself could, not panied and followed the inflation, have staged better the storm over the Indomitable courage of starving the Rhineland. with thunder and, men, and the murderere violonce lightning, followed by the
AUD
of party politics. and a rainbow, which we found The problem that remains taking place through the door answered is: When does Berlin opposite. This Inst entertainment sleep? we were allowed to witness with no out even the purchase of a roll
and butter.
New York Terminals, December 1932 97 down 3 pts. March 1933 .01 down 3 pts. May 1933 96 down 3 pta, July 1933 1.01 down 3 pts. Cubin 96'-Spot N. 1.10
PAYING
TAUSL
After this It seemed quite tame To go on to places where every table was equipped with a tele- phone so that one could talk
the room! across
and be heard dis- above the blare of the band, on
At
Winter Ills Forecast
un-
By Dr. Edward Kelly, MUG.,
There was BLEEDING AT THE Einstein plays chess there, very NOSE, for instance. All you had badly, I was told. He achieves to do was to shove a door-key down
your back.
Then there were HICCUPS.
is claimed, automatically expand-and an entire absence of "show." able with the expansion of trade. His Excellency the Governor and change. It is also vinimed that
frozen Lady Peel stepped ashore credits can immediately he lqui- Queen's Pier this morning on ro-
connexion tribute turn from Home leave. The which dated by their conversic into
warmth of the welcome accorded also be paid to the charm with Bartex,
hay Southern which any government
them
was ample testimony to which Mra. concerned would guarantee to pay their deserved popularity; the charged the duties of chatelaine. where one could eat sandwiches
Without ostentation of any kind, round a lily pond with trees and A.D. Jy'the export of goods over 21 whole Colony is Indeed glad to
due regard to the real birds in the branches. period of a decade. At the risk see them back again in renewed yet with a
Blue-nosed, we stand forth as the representatives of those of doing the authors an injustice honith and vigour, and looks with position which they have held. Einstein's Game,
But it is not only the middle
people who don't want to be in the absence of further detalls pleasureable anticipation to the Mr. and Mrs. Southorn have given
can hayo ita fun
cured by professional etiquette. -proposed, we must confess doubts contacts which have won for them House functions which so happily j night; it is all classes. Our next We are convinced that, with the of the somewhat elaborate antics renewal of those official and social that human touch to Government clau that
reflects the understanding mindstopping place was completely approach of winter, the people
tables regarding the practicability of the both the affection and admirat and which at the same time has diferent-wooden
and should be told of the remedies our An obvious difficulty ion of all communities Happily preserved the impress left at the the meeting place of old fashion-grandfather.
chairs and bare walks. It was grandmother used to use on ourTM atrikes the questioner immediate if we except the recurrence of the seat of authority by His Ex-ed. Bohemia.
water shortage problem, the period cellency the Governor and Lady ly: it should be comparatively of His Excellency's absence has Peel. easy to persuade a government to not been marked by, an untoward
Colony 'guarantee a certain quantity of circumstance--the
proceeded along the evon of Ite way with little out of the. ordinary to attract outside atten. tion. The year's finances may not have come quite up to expocta- tions, while trade and commerce could certainly present a The authors, possibly working appearance. But, If we glance from the right end, have dis- at the world in general, Hong- covered a curious outlet. It has kong must still count itself for
tot long been the contention of the tunate that conditions are
Problams Now Money School of economists worse than they are.
arlsen during that money should be divorced have, of course,
His Excellancy's absence, some from the gold standard. The Ideal money, giving a fixed and do- of which, even if they have not gained much publicity, requiring Anite purchasing power, can only the exercise of considerable be a money issued in strict re- statesmanship in adjustment. lation to the volume of goods But Sir. William Peel has been uvailable. In other words, a able to feel that the Colony's al- fairs have been in able and ex- satisfactory, money must be a "managed" money.
It must be porlenced hands whilst he has therefore barometric. If prices tend to rise, been on leave. It is the money issue should be re- only right and fifting that tri- bute should be paid to the 4x- stricted. If they tend to fall, the cellent services rendered to the Issue should be Increased.
exports; it would possibly be more difficult to persuade another gov ernment to receive them; apart from the problem of how many pounds of sugar are equal to ono
motor-car.
rosier
It Colony by the Ilon, Mr. Southorn
is the modern Iden that moricy as Officer Administering the
should represent commodities in Government. Not by any means general and, be controlled to that end.
The outstanding fact of post- War development is tho ever widening gap between an Increat Ing productive capacity and a do- creasing purchasing power, and, for that reason, it is being strong
of
for the first time has Mr. Southorn filled this onerous post, and once again he is able to lay down the duties with a consciousness having dono well and the know- lodge that h's services have boon deeply appreciated by the public. In the purely social duties of his office, too, he has axcalled in
"Don't let him draw out a cont. He wants to pay his
father's count ry club dues,"
While holding the breath, place the fingers behind the care and drink a glass of water, at the same time counting up to one hundred in a low, deep voice.
FAINTINGS AND SWOON- INGS.-First form a large circle around the patient so as to give her air. When only, one person
fis in attendance it is best to round up a few of the neighbours. Next, loosen the clothing. You can go as far as you like with this, pro- wowsers in viding there are no the gathering.
tho
Next, burn a fowl under the patient's nose, Then rub hands and feat thoroughly.
HALITOSIS, or BAD BREATH, is an easy one, Cloves, or pepper- mint chewed thoroughly will help a great deal, although some pin their faith in liquorice to alleviate this distressing complaint. On no account ant scented lozenges. Wives aro
to this a wake-up straight away.
BURNS. There is no cure for Burns. The only way is to knock off reading him.
CHICKEN POX-See Poultry section.
WOTD
In conclusion, an onion around the neck will ward off-colds. and practically anything else, and for bed soros · don't forget that spirits is still the best remedy of all. It may be taken neat or with a dash of milk.
Quinine and whisky are quite definitely not good for favor, unloza sumeone else drinks the quinine.