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WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1933.
RIGHT WAY TO CLEAR
SLUM AREAS
By ALFRED C. BOSSOM, M.P.
The Very Idea!
THIS WATER SHORTAGE
By Edward "Waterman” Kelly,
r
only chance is to keep trying, over and over again, until we find what we want. In this lies the main hope of the World Economic Conference. One country acting independently can do little or nothing. Simul- tançous action on agreed mea-
seems that there is an- the led time-table. Such a plan of sures can alone provido a fair
Signs abound that both
other shortage of water in chance for the experiments pro- central and the local authorities of operations would in itself tend posed in what we might term England are about to renew the at- Breatly to reduce the costs and the Hongkong.
inconveniences and uncertainties of We remember the last "applied economics." If the
our present methoda. measures are adopted swiftly tack upon the slums,
But at the centre of the busl-water shortage we were in. They cannot do so with any real and methodically, the world may
which is essential to any. true It was in the great wide open be rescued in double-quick time and lasting effect unless the nature nesalike and systematic campaign
men were understood and unlega some clearance by a new method of
That, indeed, is the mean.
from the ruins which appear to jof the problem before them fa right-ictory I would place the idea of inaces where
More Magisterial
Justice
has
grown
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We used to get our water by Oodnadatta. camel team from Every time the camol team arrived the whole town would get drunk at the pub.
"What'll you have?" we'd ask Pete
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"Oh, I'll drink mine neat," he'd
But getting back to Hongkong-
be encroaching daily. A realis-ly tic appreciation of the facts is broad and pivotal principle, as ap- "decanting."
There had only been a hun- all that is necessary and Pre-plicable to London as to Birming-pivot on which the whole movement sident Roosevelt will do much to ham, to Glasgow as to Manchester, must turn.
Let me make its mechanism and dred inches of rain in six months, hasten understanding if he car-is invoked to deal with it,
significance clearer by the humble ries out his plan to visit London Slum clearance is popular every analogy of the hotel bath. It is and the place was so dry we as a guest at the World Econ-where except among slum dwellers. used by many people; it is cleaned couldn't wear boots because the omic Conference. In the light They often dislike being moved. and prepared for guest after guest; tongues always hung out. of the example he has set in the They have become used to their yet it remains a single, manageable
convenience functioning United States, his presence
attached to them. minimum of cost. should be an inspiration. But quarters and
The neighbourhood the war debts problem must first be removed from the path, familiar to them. Their friends
Similarly I am convinced that the temporarily, at least. A mora-are there, their school, their
po-key to alum clearance is the erec torium on the June payments in vourite public-house, and the return for the tariff truce the iceman at the cornor is a known tion, in the neighbourhood of the Above all, tenants who are about to be dis- President is seeking would ap and trusted personage,
possessed, of up-to-dato tonement houses to which they can be moved say. pear to be an adequate quid pro they are near their work.
and from which they will return to
It was too strong for us, though. quo.
MOVING REPUGNANT.
the new buildings that meanwhile To uproot them from all these will have been put up on their old We'd have to break ours down with
a dash of whiskey. associations and conveniences and sites.
These
To get rid of the mourning after up-to-date tenemeat to dump them down in a strange houses, these decanting centres, the night before feeling next morn- locality that resents their intru- would be of the appropriate size to ing, we'd take a couple of aspirine, Several police court decisionaston as much as they themselves meet the requirements of the washed down with gin.
To obtain water for washing the recently invite us to believe that resent the wrench from their old locality. They might accommodate no more than 250 people; they some of our magistrates have a habitations is to cause a social up might also accommodate double or glasses, the scullery maids used to
wel- fixed idea that local ordinances heaval that reformers may
quadruple that number. The point peel onions over the kitchen sink. must be satisfied to the letter, come, but that its supposed bene-Is that, being used over and over Hence the expression, "Well, fer
re-again, being cleaned and done up weepin' in the sink!" irrespective of extenuating cir-ficiaries find most frequently
after occupation by each fresh batch cumstances. Last week we call-pugnant.
of tenants from the slums, they They fight against it for all they could handle a population out of We understand that the govern- ed attention to a case where a young boy was harshly punished are worth. They get out injunc-all poportion to their actual dimen-ment will have plenty of water for a technical offence, where tions; they invoke legal aid; they sions just as one hotel bathrom when they complete the Shing Mun justice, without mercy, was in-ding with passion to the wretched may provide baths for a score of Dam. Conversely the public will exorably applied. Yesterday tenements that none the less re-people a day.
have plenty of Dama until they got Some plan of this kind has been water. ex-presont home to them as much as:
So everybody ought to be came another illuminating ample of the Shylock demands his suburban gills represents home tried at Amsterdam and with the
manor most encouraging results. I sug-satisfied. Personally, we intend to of the Law, A banishee, who to the City clerk, or the
geat that it is universally applicable stick to sodn. declared he was employed on a house to the squire.
Then, again, the slum landlords and should be adopted throughout was arrested at Shaukiwan. He are for the most part content with the whole of the United Kingdom. Suppose that the matter on hand things as they are. They had no right to be there. Sen-rents for properties that ought to be is that of palling down and re- tence of six months' imprison-whely unrentable; there is usually building a slum area, containing ment was imposed. Doubtless a case to be put up before any 2,000 people. A model the worthy magistrate brought dwellings are officialy condemned. house is orrected near by to serve It holds, say, 500 to bear his incontestable know and the law is there, always tender as a decanter. ledge of the Ordinance govern- towards existing rights, patient ne people, and that number is drafted into it. The moment they leave the regards delay. A NEW ERA
sluma their old quarters are de ing this offence and its usual re-
Coldest spot in the world is THE QUICKER WAY. molished and rebuilding begins. In "The country needs and, unless quirements in the form of pun-
a very few months a block is ready Verhoyvansk, where it gets 95 bo- ishment, but one looks in vain for
The result is that it takes about for occupation, the "decanter" 18low zero. Imagine trying to pro- Imistake its temper, the country any human touch in the handling demands bold, persistent ex- of the case. The police did not ten years and a huge effort finally emptied, cleaned, and renovated and nounce it with your teath chatter-
to clear a alum area in London and another detachment of 500 takea perimentation. It is common contest the statement that the to rehouse its inhabitants. Nor is possession, while the first batch is ing.
in Hongkong, there any guarantee under our pre- back on its old site but no longer in sense to take a method and try man's ship was it; if it fails, admit it frankly undergoing repairs. But the sent unavoidable piecemeal pro-asun
he cedure that the families removed magistrate decided that
in their own and try another. But above all, should be treated in line with will be rehoused
By repeating this operation four try something." This
para-other offenders, and apparently neighbourood, or that overcrowding graph comes from President disregarding the fact that it in the same locality will not at once times a population of 2,000 can be rehoused-and this with the mini- a I believe there is a better,
mum disturbance to the routine of ward," and it is an immensely probably turn him from a man quicker, and a more economical way their daily lives, at a great saving Roosevelt's book, "Looking For-would cost the man his job, and begin to breed fresh alums.
endeavouring to earn un honest of tackling this problem. encouraging declaration of prin- living into an unemployed coolie
In London and in the provincial of time and with the least possible expense to the ratepayers. And "decanter" ciple, capable of expansion to co-with a dangerous hate of the centres the measure of what ought at the end of it the ver the world at large. It seems law and all it stands for, sent to be done in the way of alum would still remain and could be used
been pretty well by permanent tenants. to set forth precisely the attitude him to prison. If Hongkong clearance has
to say, it is uc- There is another advantage in which statesmen must adopt justice is to have no elasticity, taken. That is to-day. The world is not only admit of no extenuating circum-curately known what districts and this method which those who are
stances, or the human element, how many houses call for demoll-experienced in the realities of life tion of his mind,
tion and reconstruction, and the struggling to climb out of a very in its practice, then it would numbers of people that these pron the slums will be quick to ap-them. Maybe that accounts for all
The
Hongkong Telegraph. ship undergoing repaire in dock
WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1938.
NEW WAYS FOR
deep depression. We have come,seem that, the Englishman's best as far as it is possible to tell, to loved boaat will not stand too the end of an era in history. close an examination. Whatever we do in the future, it
must be something new, some- The Test of Democracy: thing different. The old ways
to
and
have proved their inadequacy, "The test of democracy," said and since we lack perfect wis- Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, in a dom, it seems a reasonable thing recent survey of world affairs, trial "is its capacity to listen to argu- move ahead by D
ment." It is a question of un- error method until we derstanding, of "capacity to lis have found JL. new way ten" to reason, from first to last. that will prove satisfactory. An informed public will not only It is a long time since the be likely to return the best re-. world has had a leader who de- presentatives, but will constitute manded "bold, persistent experia body of sound opinion to whose criticism legislators and adminis- mentation"; it is a long time trators will defer. A better, in- since our own temper has been tercommunication of ideas. be- of a kind to support such a twoen governors and governed man. Ever since the war, is the crying need of modern de- "Don't rock the boat" has been mocracy-an improved techniquo of understanding. But if this the slogan. We have asked our is so difficult to attain within the leaders to keep their hands limits of a single nation, how off economic problems and much more difficult in inter- let well alone. This work course between nations. Two ed, or seemed to, as long nations may speak different things were indeed well languages, as French and Gor- onough. But when they went man, or they may both speak from bad to worse, and
English, but the connotation of worse to worst, it was a catas-political words will not be exactly trophic policy. That we have at the same in England and Amer- last discarded it, and have states-fen. But there are greater diffi- men who have discarded it, is culties than that presented by perhaps the most encouraging language. There are different fact on the horizon. No one circumstances, different knows just what is going to got needs, and different projudicca the world finally out of the de- in the light of which words and pression. No one knows just arguments
meanings. The how, having got out, we shall avoid slipping back again. Wo can do nothing other than make mocracy is "capacity to listen" to reason-the people of one experiments. Some of them, in country endeavouring to put all probability, will not work, themselves. at. the viewpoint of but-that-dons not matter. The another country.
វាង
from
local
assume different toat of de-
draw
SAVING OF TIME.
tenement
*** SEZ YOU.
Beer bung boom boosts bual- nes in Berwind, W. Va. Bay- ing bigger and better bungs brings bright barst of balm to the bank-burdened.
Some of those frozen assets un- doubtedly froze so easily because they had been well-watered.
In this climate, a young man's fancy lightly turna.to thoughts of unrestricted bal- ances, double liability, and do ductions for minor depend-
ents.
A poet's work is but the reflec-
адул ong of
peclate-namely, the comparative the blank verse. case with which in a "decanter" the cesses will involve.
This should make it feasible for tenants can be introduced to modern ench authority to work out a com-household appliances and prehensive scheme embracing Its veniences and encouraged in the entire ares and proceeding by a fix-lright use of them.
Con-
"Now, remember, the gentleman seated next to Mr. Walls is hila
very best client, so please don't spill anything on him."
We don't mind paying the fiddler after our spree of the past few years, but aro we go- ing to have to pay the whole blooming orchestra?
Somehow, you're pretty apt to feel low after a high old time.
•
сде
O BLOOMING ROSE. There is still one pale rose bloom-
gardon;
faint Ing in the memory of the days that are dead, of the greenfly that have gone the way of all flesh..
And the other day, being full of sentiment and suet dumpling (with raleins) and feeling rather sloppy, most we went out and mused
In romantically upon that rose. fact, we don't mind telling you, be tween friends, of course (but don't
let it go any further), that
oven started writing a poem about
it.
Yes, we did. We mooned about, nnd scratched our head, and camo over all Tennysonian; and after
a lot of internal struggling we took paper and pencil and wrote.
But just then a large and floree tho lumbago came roaring down garden and bit us in the mail of my back; so that wo staggered in- doors, and crawled into bod, and were totally unconscious for over Wont off to eight hours..
aleep, you Imow.
鹤
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You can see the difficulty we have in living up to the titlo act out above. Imagine a man, with a blooming roso in the garden and the blooming lumbago under his anter- ior trouser-buttons trying to cap ture the right Spirit.
.. Not Bah! the bottled stuff, but.
And that is what everybody else is saying, too..
Hah!