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million working days are lost every day. That means that the highest number employed on any one day of the insured population is roughly eight millions. These figures will enable us to reallge the dread that bangs over a very Iarge proportion of the country's Insured population, because it I not the same people who are out of work: there is a constant chango over taking place. It has been well said that the wo.st thing for a race in to destroy hope; the dread of wont la the worst fear of all. Insecurity too often destroys those fine qualities of hope and ambition, and of zest for accomplishment, with which | the worker goes out into the world. At the same time, the influence of modern machinery,
combined with the various wage schemes devised, tends to turn the workers from citizens to robots. And when industry lags, it in the general
re-
some enl
DAY BY DAY
BAY AN UNCIVIL THING, THAN TO A MAN HAS NO MORE RIGHT TO
ACT ONE; NO MORE RIGHT TO SAY A RUDE THING TO ANOTHER, THAN TO KNOCK HIM DOWN—Jokpison,
There will be a whist drive for Y.M.C.A., Kowloon, service men in the west lounge of the
night,
The Crown Colonist announces the appointment of Mr. G. S. Wilson to be a police probationer In Hongkong.
.
A Chinese woman attempted suicide yesterday by jumping into the har bour from Yaumati Ferry wharf Rescued by Kwok Lo, on a campan in the vicinity, she was sent to the Government Civil Hospital,
music-and some of it isn't bad of its
cases
appointed readers.
eases
GERMANY TO-DAY
What the Man in the Street is Thinking –Bu̟ GORDON. SHERIDAN-
increasing,
The German is taxed on his In-
AM writing in a private house the increasing, ever after having toured the country.
in the very heart of Germany taxation,
I have visited Constance, Dresden, conte, on his food, on all his Berlin, Cologne, Hanover and other beverages but milk had beer. Ho lending cities.
adds to the revenue if he goes to Thiere is this to be said for the a theatre, to a cinema, to a danco at 0 p.m. to-average German citizen-he is not hall, or to a restauraat. German loundering in the morass of pes-car taxes are the world highest, simism. Nor is over-optimism being in the neighbourhood of £50
way. dragging him too für the other per annum,
He is simply tightening his Further, German taxpayers who belt, determined to carry on as fall to pay their taxes. promptly best he may.
must pay interest on the arrears Two men are out of work in Ger- at the rate of 30 per cent. per many for every one in Britain, annum. Not so long ago, the rate The dole is being continually cut was 120 per cent.f down. A mas who, earned £3 To her credit, Germany has not when in work may get only six allowed her musicians to be swept shillings, and that for only alaway by the tide of talkies, but limited period. After six months thousands of bank clerks are out of initial benefit, the dole is no of work through the Installation longer paid by the Government, of machines in offices. but Is granted by purely Local Au
Ready to Help. After a rollicking start, with every.thorities, who miny as likely ns not one merry and bright, the music be bankrupt.
The plain man Lakes it all picture "Viennese Nights," now show- There are half a million in Ger- {philosophically, first has to be dia-ing at the Queen's, sinks deeper and many who receive neither work he helps his neighbours, i have Sparton Model 16AW. worker who
When possible, pensed with. At present, despite deeper into gloom, ending by being nor the dole. Those who have not heard a beggar make a little specch A deluxe Multi-Wave Receiver all the uuemployment, thou- exceedingly depressing. Interest in been hit by labour depression have on an underground train. In Bri- in SPARTON cabinet of strikingsands of people are working six and at the end of the first climax, and fluctuating markets.
the story fades out half-way through, toen harmed by the constantly tain he would have received very beauty. At a turn of the Band seven days a week, and this raises only those who can appreciate camed
little, but every German hand was Selector and Control Knob, this
The banks are no longer closed, ready with a mito to help him. marvellous instrument is instant- the question whether some better kind--will feel satisfied with the but grievous harm was wrought Frankfort has a Neighbours' ly adapted for either the long distribution of labour is not poa-picture as a whole.
during those fateful three days Aid Association. Varlous districts wave or the world spanning short sible. Industry should reduce the
when money simply could not be subscribe to give the unemployed wave, reception as desired, Autilisation of labour forces to just
obtained. Önce respectable citi-jone square meál a day. The Health bulletin of Eastern Ports zens have been reduced to beggary, powerful 12 tube Superhetero-as much a science as the timing for the week endel November 19 it is no unusual alght to see out-sacred ornaments ao that they may Churches are disposing of their dyne with Automatic Volume
shows the following cases of infee side one Control, Tone and Static Control, of machines, the costing of power, tious diseases and deaths therefrom: theatres that keep the flag of dra-
of the few German help in the work of charity. Phono Pick-up Jack, Band and the utilisation of other
In Britain we have not yet come Plague, Beirut
canes, Rangoon Selector Switch, and all the finest sources. Every day a worker is Tern, Calcutta
case, Colombo 2 enses 2 deaths, Chotic art still flying gentlemen to this pass. The majority can SPARTON features.
15 cases
U deaths. Princely mien paying to go into generally "manage."
In Germany,. out of employment, two results are deaths,
Smallpox, Alexandria 8
the gallery. Height 44 inches. Width 26
"management" is frequently - Aden 1 imported case, inches..
I have spoken to a German ex-ponsible. Depth 12
produced: firstly a steady demorali- Baghdad 14 cases inches.
deaths, Basrah 27 Princess who now lives principally Weight 70 pounds.
antion due to
So all the cities are losing their enses 17 deaths, Bombay 10 cases 3 on cats' meat! mental anxiety deaths, Calcutta 19 enses
inhabitants. Those having family Becondly, a waste of skill that can-Madras 24 cases 4 deaths, Nagapatam preciate Herlin's plight. The Ber-to their own kin. And there is in 3 deaths, The superficial may fail to ap-ties in little villages are returning not be estimated in money,
Ident, Rangoon 1 Tuticorin 8 enses 2 deaths, Pondicher-
case liners say that at all costs oneanme quarters a perpetual fear- A leading industrialist in the y 2 ensea 2 deaths, Cantin is cast must hide the outward signs of of war, both civil or from without. United States was
asked at the1 death.
bankruptcy. The street cafes are France remains a menace in the time of the boom what he thought.
crowded in the evenings by smart- German mind. Russia is feared ly dressed throngs. They have gone on the othor alde. "We are al- would be the minimum capital
without their dinners so that they most defenceless," said an Army value of a well-trained skilled
Straightway niny drink coffee in glamorous foflleer to me. "We hold mock craftsman. He made
he turns to his ever ready, handy surroundings. The bands play in battles and mimic warfare every culations and said that every time clue that maybe served him well pavement to enjoy the music.
index file and there finds another the beer gardens, and the former other week, so that our soldiers
customers stand on the street shall be as near to military per Great Britain sent them a man of in such emergency before, or in-
fection as possible, but what if that type she was making them a vents a new one with which he Back to the Land.
war comes from outside? Our strength is 50 present in capital value
puny, we are de of picks the lock of a strong
box {
In provincial Germany the signs] fenceless." BOTTOMLEY-At the Victoria Ha-several thousands of pounds. If chock-full of circumstantial
pital, on November 27, to Mr. and
but of want are yet more apparent. And if it comes from within? Mr. J. II. Bottomley, a sum
that is go, no-one can estimate the quite convicting evidence. Against private cars such as one may see plunged into another election, There are no trafic hold-ups of As I write, Germany is about to be terrible waste of one of Britain's such incurable inventiveness and in Britain. There no week-end with the inevitable concomitant of greatest national assets-the skillready resource, contrust the prosy exodus to the seaside or the coun-street battles and bloodshed-and fussiness of those at headquarters try. There is an exodus, but it is this only a few days after the at the present time. To destroy the reporter's ardour with an empty pay on the farms is preferable to of her people--which is going on who squelch the inquisitive news of another kir. A "back to the first meeting of the new Parila- skill of the parents, is to damage blotter and graff. laconic state-felty gutters.
land" movement has set in. Poor ment.
the future of the child. The am-ment, "Nothing broke today." At
Faith in Hitler. bition of the child is often to succe- the London mock trial the charge tish interment
I have met many men from Bri- Downstairs, a typical middle. camps who have class family listen with bated ed the parent and go one better in of "faking the evidence" was pre- they received, and these ex-pri-jas he speaks over the radio to all only good to say of the treatment breath to the edicts of von Papen the craft or occupation that basferred against some of Britain's soners make good ambassadors for Germany. "Hitler!" they
favourate and modern detectives. had such a dominant effect upon
But all the same, there is "Hitler must get in this time. him. Take away the example and Gath, neither whisper it in circles
story writers. Tell it not in faith in Hitler.
We shall see." The average German citizen sees i influence that feeds this ambition Shakespearean or Baconian, but in Hitler's policy a return to pre-and bounds.
Faith in Hitler grows by leape Little children have and irreparable loss is caused should not similar accusation, if war conditions. And if the term learned the Nazi salute. In this the nation. If We take justice be impartial, be levelled Britain, it stands for something Hitler flag, with its sinister sign, "pre-war" atands for paradise in village every other house flies the this mugs of labour, all ofnt the great burd himaclf? When more in Germany. A WORKERS' PROBLEM which is skilled in one way or an- he made Hamlet hire a troupe of
the "Hakenkreuz." One sees it Foodstuffs are cheap One can chalked up on walls and doorways, other, although coming under the strolling actors to perform a one- get a three-course meal in a first- even on shop-windows. The position of the "general term "general worker" the in-fact play depicting circumstantial Cabbages are a penny euch, and are being forced to flee the coun- class restaurant for AL mark. Jews who were barn in Germany evidence of his uncle's dereliction, sandwiches and beer can easily try to escape from merciless perse- worker" in England at the mo. security and competition associat-
ed with it and the lack of compre-which he, Hamlet, had written be obtained for fourpence. ment. when so many men are
cution. overnight, Shakespeare started the A shirt equivalent to anything unemployed, is
There is no enmity against Bri- hension by the State of the re-detective story on its unending obtainable in London costs five tain. the subject of
Hatred increases against much
Prior sources they are wasting, prosenta way and made the Prince of Den-chase a suit of clothes for little the "Englander" is admired. In just now. concern
shillings or legs. One can pur- Franco and Russia, but if anything a terrible modern tragedy. to 1889, the organisation of
mark the world's original Sher-more than a pound. But against every town one finds English clubs Inbour was expressed primarily
lock Holmes, through the craft trades, the rest of the workers being largely re- garded as labourera. Machinery
If Shakespeare were contem- porary, he doubtless would have had not been developed to the
been included with the other de- point it has since, and the volume fendants at a mock trial of de- of heavy manual labour was thentective-story writers which was much greater. From those days, held recently at the London School when the public was forced to of Economics, for the Bard of realise the existence of the gen- Avon was a master of the fasci- eral labourer class, a recognition nating craft. In parenthesis It has developed that there are real-may be permissible to ask why such woeful lack of collaboration ly very few "unskilled workers." apparently exists between the de- Every machine that is invented tective of fiction-meaning, of | brings into force, even in repetition course, his alter ego, the author work, a new kind of skill. In the-and his prototype of Scotland the anxious reader process of changing from the Yard. To
chafing impatiently at the bit older to the newer procesa, thia
juntil next week's instalment shall class of worker has probably been forever put to rest all doubt as found most adaptable in equip to who the girl with the green hat ping modern Industries. Such really was, or answer the all-im- workers are, in fact, a tremend-portant question why tho butler ous economic asset to the nation, slipped the bolt which let tho though the Insecurity of their burglar pass, the curious in- employment
не of 'the optitude of the police in falling to use such amazing and gratuit- country's greatest problems.
019 acumen ns the novelints To realise this problem of in-furnish seems little short of security, it is worth while bear criminal. Such Inconsequential a few statistics in mind. details 18 merely conerete There are roughly about twelve evidence, or its utter lack, for instance, never give a moment's million Insured workers In
pause to the facilo fabricator of England, and a calculation of the the detective in the story. Whon people on unemployment benefit, elues evaporate and float away public assistance or other forms into the thinnest ether, he pre- of relief shows that over four sents no unwritten pago to dis-
ment,
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1932.
ing
to
Hamlet-Amateur Detective.
And then
say,
this fall in prices one is faced with where the youth of Germany may practise the language and perhaps discuss British style and British
"And it says here, if they don't have place cards, you should wait for the host to show you where to alt?
games,
OTTAWA
By Edward Kelly,
Ours is a hard life, ours is. Take yesterday, for instance. We were told to interview Mr. Guzzlewuzzle, the well known local motor-car retailer, about the Ottawa Agreement.
"Get to xx ?? I out of here," Bald Mr. Guzzlewuzzle, greeting us affectionately, "Tho xx It automobile industry in Hongkong la
well ruined. Ottawall
"Thank you, Mr. Guzzlewuzzle," wo said, and came back to the Telegraph and wrote: "The bene Acial effects of the Ottawa Agree ment are already making them- selvos folt In Hongkong. So busy wag Mr. Guzzlewuzzle that ha could not spare the time to bo interviewed,"
Anyway, if the Ottawa agree- ment has done nothing else it has knitted the bonds of discord. Which is almost an epigram. An epigram is something smaller than kilogram, although not as big as a programme. (Programme-- from the Latin "pro," meaning pro- fessional, and "grammo" your grandmother. A professional grand- mother."
It has also planted the seed of frca trade within the Empira, · We (Continued on Page 8.)