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THURSDAY,
STUDEBAKER Japanese War Office and yet the
NEWS
Rockne Sales Set
17-Year Record
Rockne had reached
January
for the
This
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.
Stubbe Read
Jacoperind la Bongaller
The
Happy
crisis, for which the initiative was undoubtedly taken by the responsibility rests and must fest, upon the Civil Government. No solution is offered here. The intention, is merely to set the problem, which will require very serious consideration If the world is to function effectively na a unity.
FEBRUARY 16. 1933..
LEADERS NEEDED The Very Idea!
world events.
By A. J. CUMMINGS
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Hongkong Telegraph toops, such as those at Nan-Kou, cause and to keep it alive and disturbing fuctuations
THURSDAY, FEIQUARY 16, 1933.
CONSTITUTIONAL · CLASHES
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THE UNIVERSITY Why is it that the prolonged Joarthshaking crises
By Profusar Edward Kelly, world crisis has produced so little years have forced millions to try leadership either in England or to think for themselves, or at a public address while in Hong- Despite our threat not to give.
South Bend, Dec. 2.
abroad? Are the days of per- least to try to find out what is long, we were prevailed upon to sonal leadership in national affairs wrong and how to put it right.apeak to the students at the Probably the most remarkable
passing away? thing about the Rockne car la its The Great Wall
Books on trade and industry, en University yesterday afternoon. ' I dissent altogether from the economic and political theory, on "Ladica and Gentlemen," view that the great innues with methods of social reform, on cur began, "we are here (groans) to phenomenal sales showing during Its first year of existence.
The Great Wall has become a which modern statenmanship has rency, on finance, on all tho reord is actually the best of any factor in history again. After to deal have become so inter-intricate problems of government, tell you (hlases) that your teach- company in the industry since wasting its hoary strength for nationallaed that individual are now being poured forth by the ers are drowned in uproar).
"Holding this opinion it would 1916, and it was made in a year generations as an idle spectacle statesman in his own country can thousand and have a ready and in- of severe business depression. for tourists, the Great Wall has influence decisively the course of creasing sale among the masses. be extraordinarily unbecoming for 18 to say anything further Voters Sheep No More In last place at its introduction sprung into importance through
I have seen again and again at
that we're at the beginning of the year, the Japanese claim that the vast Geneva and at international con- chapel in 1930 (when the first babbling
During a by-election in White (cheers). But now
here, nothing can stop us from twenty-barrier forms the frontier of ferences elsewhere how deeply mutterings of the econonile bliz-
and on until wo aay second place by the end of Manchukuo along the southern policy is affected through the lead zard could be heard faintly in the enough to fill up the Very Idea
man It was among the first horder of Jchol. Needless to given by one representing Distance) I was astonished at the (Pandemonium).
"Couched in as simple language is a strong keen intelligence displayed by ten in the month of June, climbing any, this claim is indignantly one country. If he into eighth place in August. In rejected by the Chinese. The man representing a strong country young dock labourers, factory as possible our subject to-day will September, Rockue missed seventh issue is likely to be put to the the effect is enormous. If he is operatives and others scarcely out be Gascous metabollam in its place by only one car, passing test when the Japanese seek to a weak man representing a strong of their legis, on economic pro-relation to the preservation or many older, more aensened com fearry out their avowed intention/country the effect may be equally blema and on practical political brium, stable or unstable. With non-preservation of human equili- enormous. For. na strength be-qucations such as the administra- panies In this rapid climb. of making Jehal part of Man- gets strength, weakness begets tion of the unemployment In-special reference to the products
In several months during the chukuo. Already the opposing weakness.
(Juniperous. surance fand. At Labour elec-of Juniper Berry year, Rockne was the industry'a forces are facing each other at A strong man speaking for
tion meetings these young fellows communis), with an excursus into sixth biggest shipper, while on Chiumenkow, the pass north of Great Britain on such issues as asked old political hands like Mr. the development of lepidoptera the dollar volume of automobile Shanhaikwan, where a clash took international finance, disarma-Lansbury questions to which the under the influence." business by the entire industry place following the seizure of ment, the Sino-Japanese conflict, "platform" could often make no "The demonstration commences with the distribution of samples of third quarter, Rockne Shanhaikwan by the Japanese political relationships between sensible or competent reply.
And they were not the anan- this clear, colourless and rather would draw eighth place in the early in January. Other passes States, or the regulation of trade National Automobile Chamber of through the Great Wail, notably can influence world policy now answerable questions that fools ask heavy bodied pungently orderous never before. A weak Britfal Commerce shows in New York the portal at Kupeikon, north statesman can in a sentence per- these insistent youngsters had propose to prove that the normal wise men, but questions on which liquid to our listeners (cheers). Wo
and Chiengo.
of Peking, have assumed mili-petuate world stagnation. Hongkong, Feb. 16. tary importance as gateways in- What gives prestige and inter-ondered deeply and to which chemical changes in the human The 1933 Rockno modela will to Jehol for the Chinese rein-national influence to
they themselves had found some aystem demand artificial stimula- tion. (Hear, hear). The ideal soon make their appearance is forcements which have been and leader is the knowledge that (like sort of reasonable answer.
A Safeguard for the World
stimulation we now place before the Hongkong Hotel Garage are being sent into the province Mussolini) he commands the con- people. The
There is still a vast amount of you. The normal dosage is two Showrooms and a demonstrator to meet the Japanese threat.fidence of his own
ignorance in our vast electorate, fingers; more intractable world will be available for all who wish Therefore, whatever the out-power of Mussolini
undisputed particularly, one is sorry to say, demand three, personally we take to try this popular car.
come of the struggle for Jehol, figure les in his
power in his UWB country-a among women under 25. But it fourthus.
"You will observe the im- the Great Wall is once moro a position which in its turn is due cannot be denied, I think, that the factor of the utmost importance to his own remarkable qualities hardships, the anxieties and the mediate result of the onset of stark necessities of the time have metabolism. We will now call for in the destiny of China. Called as a man. by the Chinese "the 10,000 We come back, then, to the brought the nation up against the volunteers from the audience
(grave rinting). long wall," the Great Wall was qualities necessary for political biller facts of life in a way that built by the first emperor of a leadership. It is possible, of even the War failed to do and
(When the University Am- united China, Shih Huang Ti, course, that a weak, dull, stupid, have stimulated among people of
ignorant, uninspiring every clasa a new desire for balance had removed the injured. who came to the throne in B.C. shallow,
is reflected
we selected Professor Dudd and 221, as a defence against the The political history of Europe plainly in a higher standard of
person may become a party leader knowledge which
Emeritus Professor Dudder as the Tartars. Shin Huang Ti uti- and America is strewn with the political intelligence.
experiment. Pro- That is a good thing in every media of our lised some existing walls in build-forgotten names of such nonent way. It is the one adequate safe. viding each with a bottle of our ing this vast barrier, which suc-ties.
elixir stimulus,we bado thom guard against the dangers and cessora strengthened with inner
over drink in allopathic dosÉR of com
A halt was enlled at each interval, while the spot near Peking usually activo a man must have courage, plote adult suffrage Though not five minute periods.
or imagination, a safeguard against weak
optometric tests were made. visited by tourists. The actual force of character,
At the end of ten minutes Pro- length of the wall, from Kansu loyalty, quick sympathies, mental vicious statesmanship it
fessor Dudd noticed a pink anti- to the sea at Shanhaikwan, is resource and resilience, a certain valuable corrective, and an im-
ruthlessness, faith in himself and posing weapon in reserve. nearly 1,500 miles. Built of his cause, the capacity to inspire
The "bald-headed man at the macassar lizard on his colleague'a Five minutes later brick, except at the western end confidence in his own integrity end of the bus" is no longer quite shoulder. where it is barely more than a and that vital something besides the nincompoop he was thought to Emeritus, Professor Dudder dis
be in Walter Bagehot's day. The covered huge mud bank, the wall winds which conatitutes "personality."
There are the immortal common-voter of to-day, whether he has soothing a litter of pink-spotted A difficulty of considerable over hills and valleys, sometimes importance in the smooth work-reaching an elevation in the places of leadership. But nowa no hair on his head or none on hie coleoptern on his friend's waist- Ten minutes later the subjects ing of the international ma-higher places of more than 5,000 days something more is required chin is less politically manageable coat,
in a man who aspires to conimand than he used to he even a few
years ago. He is less easily over-were removed from the Great Hall chinery set up by the League feet. Every hundred yards is a
He must have a trained know-awed by a big name or a long and we concluded our lecture.) of Nations is to be found in the tower, some 40 feet high. Hund- a politician.
He is not so closely ties "If we had a son we would send variety of constitutional theory reds of thousands of workers tedge, not
necessarily of the word.
all that to the party label, which indeed him to the University and BAY, and practice that prevails when were employed in building the political game, but of
'Be very careful not to let them one individual nation is compar-wall, which is said to have taken politics connotes. He must have counts much less than it did not
Old Dad. ed with another. Many ex-to complete about twenty years. clear, positive ideas on a variety only in this country but abroad. put anything artificial Into
of difficult and complicated pro-He is rather quicker to recognise Remember your Dear
political chicanery, sloppy ideas who drank nothing but the very amples could be given from the
blema. history of the League during its
Politics to-day is a difficult and and the incompetent direction of best!"
**If you drink, drink .real thirteen years of life. We will be
complicated business which in-affairs.
Party leaders, whether in or out drinks. and just drink enough to content with two. To take one
An attempt to restore the trudes itself more and more into instance, a major purpose of the basic condition of world econo- every sphere of human activity. of office, if they are to carry get yourself kicked out of the League is the prevention of the mic
It is the machine of modern life. wholehearted conviction and to University. is imperative.
future have more impressive to evil effects which Article 8 of the The title to war debts constitutes If the machine runs well the stay put, must in League's Covenant justly den most valuable American coun- rhythm of human existence may something
are not a heavy drinker, at 20, clares to be attendant upon the ter to be used in the diplomatic be preserved. If it runs badly, it offer to a watchful, sceptical and steep yourself in whisky. Get up may injure or seriously inconven- somewhat ill-used populace than to your neck in it, because if you private manufacture of arms. exchanges necessary to that once the daily life of every the mental make-up of a mid- In 1919, twenty-three States end. Concessions to England citizen in the State-from the Victorian squire or a trade union you'll never be an Edward Kelly signed the Convention of St. and to the continental countries millionaire employer of inbour to secretary.
'A Home of Third-Class Minds Germain, which was based upon might be made the basis of a the lowest-paid worker
I am sure that the failure of the principle that BO State bargain which would profit the land. should allow the export of arms whole world as well as the That is something the people the economic breakdown to bring
learnt. The (Continued on Page 9.) except to the recognised Govern- United States. It is evident at themselves ment of another State. The this time that a stabilization of U.S.A. refused to ratify and the international exchanges depends Convention therefore never upon two main factors: first, came into forco, In 1925 a new the willingness of England to Arms Traffic Convention was return to the gold standard, drawn up, in close collaboration with a pound sterling at some- Frith American delegates, withthing around its present level. the dellberate purpose of con- Equally, it depends upon the ciliating American susceptibili-possibility of removing enough tica. The U.S.A. accepted this, of the barriers to International but under the American Conati- | trade-tariffs, quotas, exchange tution ratification has to be given restrictions, arbilitrary valuation by the Congress, and unfortuna- and administrative interference tely this has been withheld every-to permit nations once more to time the President, whether Coo-pay their debts and to re-estab- Hidge or Hoover, has proposed it, fish commodity markets and the latest postponement taking prices. Without these steps no place last month. A still world economic conference can more striking illustration, per-be successful. Without them, haps, of the awkwardness of the cancellation of the war debts American Constitution in its in- would be a purely negative relief ternational relationships is to be-and 2 one-elded опе found in the obstacle the U.S.A. breach must be made in the places in the way of the ob- tandeney toward national econo- solute prohibition of the private mic self-sufficiency, which in- manufacture. This most de voivos coming up all the ro sirable end cannot be achieved sources of the world. It may because according to its spokes-be agreed ns one condition of men, the American Constitution substantial reductions in the will not allow any check to bofallled debts that the Colonies bo placed upon the freedom of pri-opened up through an "open- vate industry. The third ex-door policy. It is contended in ample deserves far more space America that these colonics than the tail-end of an article. were assets of the war, in that In the Japanese Constitution, it they were saved to their present appears that the military author-possessors. Amorica asked no ities are not subject to the or-reparations and no share of the ders of the Civil Government. ponce conference spoils. The The obvious danger to the peace assets should, it is argued, be put of the world arising from this du the table at this time when has, of course, had tragic illu- the United States is asked to stration in the Manchurian associate reparations and debts.
.
World Recovery
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have
on the
"I hope you make pretty good time, mister. I simply
can't stand these slow poky drivers."
you.
"Drink all the real drinks and
at 50.
"We hope you are properly inebriated; and do not regret
not to make П having made us break our promise speech while in Hongkong (Prolonged hte- coughs.).
AFTER YOU, ARAMINTA
Dere Mister Kelly, i am riting to thank u four making an honnest woman of me by putting my litter in yore posting. I rofur of coarse two my leter sayin i adat never riten no beging liter to nobodday and now Mister Kelly will. u ploes do sumpthin more fur me an put this letter in two has i want to say how sorlo I am 4 a gentleman naimed Mister Burner Shure coh ng been vissitting Hong Kong e doant seem ter be enjoin hi oliday at all think I no wot in the mater with im e la like the fox that lorat in bush (as they call a foxes tale) an e as an In-Fere-of- Orthrity compleks witch menes pore sole that in spite of is naim è aint reely shure of imaolf at all and realy don't no nothing about ennything an livs in mortel terror of been found out by sumbuddy so he all ways at once when e ments onnoyhoddy or goos enny- wore soz yore plufce is orfull an unun of u no nuthin about nuthin in case someboddy shoud say it to im firat. An, wot is more, that is Ye told the stewdents at the University not to take no notis of there penfessors 4 fore they raite bekome two well heducated an wasnt wun day find out that reely clover after all,
Ass I think e must be verry u wood tell loanly purrhaps Mister Shure that a wider woman oven with 7 ttel, blesinga awl born in bedrock is sum times worry only two.
Araminta Austin", (Mother of Beven Baby Austins).