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THE HONGKONG` TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1933.
TO
SYNCHRO MESH
FAVETLESS GEAR CHANGE
GOLFERS
'Some days you walk up to the first tea and hit a fault-
silver and
keting of alder by producers, ptt. POACHING IS NOT WHAT The Very Idea!
Poaching on
IT WAS
By FRANK BONNETT
currency authorities is suscepti- ble of Improvement. The ques- tion of developing new industrial uses for silver may also come under consideration. But the conviction expressed by the Hon. Mr. Patterson at the annual meeting of the Hongkong and
the grand scale, the templation of getting a good Shanghai Banking Corporation, which, as you may say, was quite dinner for himself and family on that the law of supply and de-a feature of country life during the the cheap. mand must be the final deter latter half of the last contury-is rarely heard of these modern daya, tess drive right down the mining factor in the price of sir its decadence, perhaps, is not on- MAKING OR BREAKING ver and that trade interests intirely, if at all, due to the improved China will best be served, not morals of that class from which by a rise in the price of silver the poaching fraternity is recruit- as such, but by à rise in the ed, but rather to the fact that the general level of commodity game is now far less worth the prices, will hold good at the candle than it used to be. Conference. Any action which will tend to raise the commodity price level must have a favour- able effect on the price of silver.
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The
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TUESDAY APRIL 18, 1933.
THE SILVER PRICE LEVEL
Liverpool's Favoured Play
OLD TIME POACHERS. The old-time gang of poachers, who when they planned a raid on somebody's preserves really meant business, confined their attentions
ON KEEPING COOL By Eddie "Frigidaire” Kelly.
WHAT with summer com-
ing on, and all the B.Y.T's getting out their flannel pants, and the Hotels thousand, it's about time we preparing chit-books by the
gave some hints on how to. keep cool in the hot weather. The first thing to do in the hot By F. A. M. WEBSTER | 5ycather is to keep cool. Don't got hot and fluster-
OUR ATHLETES
Great Britain has a host of potential Olympic champions and. warld's record breakers in embryo. In overy part of England and Scot- Innd, these boys are commencing to those places where a bag that their training for the annual school was worth while could be secured sports, and, one hopes, for tho with practical certainty in a short Public Schools Challenge Cups' space of time. That meant that meeting, to be held at the White
tho objective-hares, City Stadium on April 28 and 29.
Upon what the youngsters will
ed when any - thing gook wrong, such as when the shroff and the girl friend call around at the same time.
Long experi enco has taught us that the best
Sir James Barrie was recently whatever selected as the favourite dramat-pheasants, rabbits, or partridges ist of the patrons of the Liver- the conditions, including a plent-learn and the way in which they thing to do under such circum- pool Playhouse, the oldest repful supply of game, must be will be trained during the next few stance is to go out and have a re- ertory theatre in Great Britain. favourable that the risk of getting weeks ray depend their whole fil-fresher. Either the shroff or the Sir James proved an easy win-caught was reduced to a minimum. ture athletic careers.
Not that these gangs, many of
whose members were desperate athletes very badly, as results at got back.
Great Britain needs first-class G.F. will have gone by the time you fellows who would stop at nothing the Olympic Games and la other to save their skins, made no pro- international contests have proved rules: vision. against the possibility of
Hera are a few more simple
ner, his plays receiving 216 voles in a plebiscite specially taken to find the favourite works of play goers. Galsworthy was second with 193 votes, and G. Bernard being delected in flagrante delicto. All too often. The way to produce
(1). Don't do any work. This Shaw an indifferent third with Plans were always carefully, laid our future world beaters is not to a score of 78. Frederick Lons- beforehand, and in addition to the be found in the perpetuation of the applies in Hongkong particularly to dale, William Somerset Maug- actual working gang, which might thoroughly rotten Victor Ludorum manual labourers, ricksha coolles, system (under which a school's clerks, school-teachers, policemen, ham and Noel Coward came next consist of half a dozen, as many athletle champion is determined by and journalists. We don't care su in order, the latter obtaining 41 more might be employed as sples the aggregation of points gained much about bank chairmen, tal- votes. The most popular single or watchers. It was the business play was Sir James Barrie's of these confederates to locate the in different events), which has pans, stock-brokers and that class one promising of people. Especially stock brokers. keepers and the village constable caused more than
an
ple voted, followed by Mr. John tion as to whether the coast was Olympic oliva crown to strain him- If they have apoplexy In Ice House
Masefield's translation of the clear or otherwise.
ceivable that Mr. Hull was de-quently said to be cynical, hard- gone. DISPOSING OF SWAG
bulk.
boy may
LIMITATIONS OF YOUTH, Games masters entrusted with
Or you might take brisk exer-
(5). Try getting fresh with a Peak flapper. The last one wo did that to paired us, scared us, dared us, and when we did, migosht she frigadlared.us.
.
*
MAD.. MELODIES. The littlebird in the bush Is such a lucky follow;
His chest and back Are sober black,
His nose is orange yellow. Ho sings a merry song,
Of twirls and twists and tweed-,
les;
And gobbles down. Without a frown,
He never has to wear
A stiff and starchy collar, He simply doesn't care
What happens to the dollar, Io's nothing else to do
But ait upon a tres, And sing a merry love-song
To pretty Mrs. D.
solf beyond repair by over-much Street, It's their own fault. competition before his real career (2). Instal a refrigerator and Norwegian play, "The Witch," which had two votes less. This LAYING A FALSE TRAIL. had commenced.
keep it well stocked with what you Liverpool ballot may be taken
Sometimes the expedient of ally revise the conditions of the Vicfr the summer.
School authorities should certain usually keep it well stocked with as a fairly reliable indication of false trail would be resorted to. A ter Ludorum award by placing a British taste in general. The couple of spies, provided with pis-very strict limit upon the number
(3). Be careful about drink. voting covered a wide field, rang-tols which could be. caslly conceal of events for which a
Never drink anything between America's. well-known "silver ing from the drama of Great ed, would go to some place and fire.
enter.
meals, or during the meal itself, Britain to that of America and a dozen shots which the keepers Senators" have not yet abandon the Continent of Europe. Li- would be bound
There is a very definite and in-except beer, whiskey, brandy, gin, to hear. They jurious reaction from too much vermouth, stout, wine and one or ed hope of persuading Presid-verpool is one of Britain's great would wait, perhaps, until they competition and too much diversifi- two other exceptions. ent Roosevelt and his advisers eat cities, a typical example of actually heard the keepers coming, ed success. Winning has seemed (4). Take plenty of exercise. to embark upon schemes for England's urban organization and then, having fired another shot so easy at school, and when victory. An hour in the sun with the medi- artificially raising the value of Moreover, the plebiscite reached or two, would run for their lives is delayed and found harder to cino ball may have most surprising
Having thus drawn the enemy's achieve in wider fields the proud silver. For this reason, the dis- all sorts of people, for the plays fire; so to speak, they would gain Victor Ludorum becomes bored and results.
voted for included such widely the nearest road and stroll along ceases to struggle seriously, where- cussions on the subject between different kinds of dramatic art like respectable citizens making for a single school victory, accom-cies by walking up the Peak every Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British as the "Frogs" of Aristophanes, the village alehouse. Ambassador, and Mr. Cordell "The Silver King" and "Enst
panied by a really sterling record, morning If you live in Kowloon, The chief trouble for the Hull, the Secretary of State, Lynne,"
is usually an inspiration to honest and swimming the harbour every while Shakespeare, poachers consisted in getting away endeavour to scale the heights of day if you live on the Peak
O'Neill, have attracted considerable at Eugene
Tchekov, with the swag. But an Ingenious athletic success. tention and caused a jumpiness Pirandello and A. A. Milne were mind could devise many ways of surely smuggling this away, and a fast- not forgotten. It is in the silver market. It would, significant that Sir James Barrie trotting horse with in cartload of however, be unwise to assume and Galsworthy should have so game might get many miles before that any far-reaching measures easily beaten all other competi- the pursuers, usually on foot, could the athletic education of growing are contemplated. It is con-tore. The modern world is fre- even discover which way it had youngsters should force themselves to realise early the limitations of their pupils. A boy's schooldaya should represent the porlod of his ferring to the silver advocates boiled and disillusioned. But
disillusioned, hard-boiled and To-day, although there is still athletic career in which he is taught. to the extent of urging upon the cynical people do
not choose plenty of poaching of a kind, there the entire technique of his event, British Government restrictions Barrie as their favourite dramat-aro few districts where game for then his mind is still malleable. upon the sale of demonitized sil-iat-nor, for that matter, Gals-preserving carried on to such Training, as fully grown athletes ver by the Government of India. worthy, though he is not, like an extent as to make organised understand the term, is usually But further than that, it is diff- Sir James, a romantic. In spite poaching a paying proposition. unnecessary for, and often harmful cult to perceive upon what lines of the misrepresentations of the The law, too, as regards the re-to, adolescent athletes. In fact, screen, the popular stage and the ceiving of atolon game, has been most of the schoolboy's training further steps could be initiated sensational press, the fact of the tightened, so that it is now very should be done at what is termed All sorts of bugs and beadles. at Washington, Powerful opin-matter probably is that Barrie's difficult, to get rid of the spoil in "half-effort" for style.
If games masters will give their fon in the United States, as well gentle and charitable outlook is Most of the poaching that goes charges plenty of light work, com- as in Great Britain, is definitely far more characteristic of the on nowadays is the work of the bined with good technical Instruc opposed to all bimetallism pro-temper of the age in generalno'er-do-well who will steal any-tion, and ten hours' sleep per night. posals, which would merely than is that of those snappy thing rather than work for the they will find that many long-stand- result in the debasement of the wisecracks in which the attitude money to buy it, or of the genuine Ing school records will be displaced of the modern world is often unemployed man who, dole or no at the end of even the one month's gold standard and would under-supposed to be crystallized. dole, often finds it hard to resist preparation for the sports, mine confidence and good faith. It is unlikely that America will promote any scheme which would go further with silver than has been proposed by the economic
So far as one can tell from experts who have prepared the
reports of all the Swatow- agenda for the forthcoming Chaochowfu district, including World Economic Conference. the Hakka part of north-east They rule out the use of silver, Kwangtung, there has been a even in moderate amounts, да complete absence of poppy grow- part of the reserves in central ing this last winter and spring. banks, saying that silver is un-This should certainly be chroni suitable for such use because cled and put to the credit or that there is no fixed price at which mysterious centra of official life it would be received by other central banks in settlement of in China which we call the go- vernment authorities. For balances on international ac- count. We may make a few some years the planting of poppy minor concessions to the notion has been forbidden, but it has that cortain countries might been known that the law was withdraw the small. denomina-promulgated for the express pur- tions of banknotes and substitutepose of being broken: for only silver subsidiary coins for them if there were the law to break and that other countries might could the district magistrates enlargo the use of subsidiary sil-accept bribes for conniving in its breaking, and the military come ver coins. But there is no strong body of opinion in Eur-along and reap a richer harvest ope or the United States for the for allowing it to remain after main proposals of the "silver the various villagers had been Senators" and the Hull-Lindany brought before them for punish- conversations may safely be re-ment. This year some real au- garded as providing little pro-thority has been exerted both at spect of revolutionary projects. Nanking and Canton to enforce No doubt some preparation was the prohibition. It was inciden- made for the discussions to take tally such an authority as could place at the World Economic combine these two governments, Bo little. silver Conference. But
will which co-operate form a minor topic of discussion The order went forth that for will any opium produced in a district, there. The Conference probably consider whether, and the district magistrate would be if so by what methods, tho már held personally responsible, and
that has been affective.
Opium.
on
"I can't be there myself, so I thought I'd send some flowers
Instead."
Ilis voice is rich and full
The sweetest of our song corps;
And when he strikes
A bit he likes,
He always gives an encore.
He doesn't care a dump
For drink or unemployment.
No taxes ever in- -
terfere with his onjoyment.
Ils trousers never bag,
At life he never raila.
The only things he likes
Are lovo and lots of snails.
A SOLEMN THOUGHT.
Do you know the Great Pyramid la 413 feet long?
No, I'd forgotten that, sald Bernard. I'll make a note of it.
Well, it is, said Miss Nutty. Now multiply that by soven (the Mystic Number), and you get- wall, you get what?
Bornard worked it out on his. cuff.
2891, he announced..
That's right, said Miss Nutty: Now subtract 1,000 and you got7
1801, said Bernaṛð.
Vory well, said Miss Natty And what year was Adolf Hitler born in?
Don't know, sald Bernard.
Don't know, said Dad.
Never heard of him, said Mums. Is he one of the new film stars, or what?
Ho's the Avenger, said Miss Nutty, solemnly. Ho wasn't born In 1891 though-but I know it all
hangs together somehow.
Good for you, şald Bornard.