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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1933.
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THE KING'S ENGLISH The Very Idea!
IN THE
KING'S STATUTES
WHAT THE DICKENSI
By Eddie Pickwick, Kully.
S this is the time of the all our
As
bad
practice of giving favoured treatment to one set of buyers [as compared with another, of making special discounts, and scoking special advantages, of using outside Inducements to
By: His Honour Sir EDWARD PARRY, build up trado. How many of
The use of the King's English in something "arising out of his cm- those who will wag their heads
year when at the Morgan disclosures will the King's Statutes is both exten-ployment." At last a case occurred
one in which a man in a colllery was thoughts turn to Christmas, sivo, and peculiar. Every refrain from secking out a agrees that too many words aro killed in trying to stop a runaway friend through whom to buy a used, and litigation continually re- horse. He was not; of coure, cm- we have decided to write an minds that the words that are used played to stop runaway horses, so appropriated story. It will Д a refrigerator at are often peculiarly unfortunate, it did not arise out of his employ be all about a man named "wholesale" price? Oll com- and fail to explain what was at the ment, but it clashed with A.
Scrooge was a panies have seen the wisdom of back of the author's mind and what Smith's sense of justice that the Scrooge.
Which was £ ho intended when he wrote them [widow should not draw the insur
ance money and ho invented a doc- bad man. attempting at least to root out
down.
Perhaps we want a statutory trine of acts dono in an emergency thing. the giving of undeserved, dis-
A stalwart to meet the case;
He sat before the crackling counts or of making the discount editor, armed with
editorial blue pencil and the power For some time. arbitrators and a plain price cut which the whole to strike out from the proofs of the Court of Appent did not nd-fireplace, thinking, thinking, think- public could enjoy. Retail the statutory drafta presented to minister the Act correctly. Theying, etc.
and nearer to the It was Christmas Eve. And ho stores have taken steps to curb him anything that he did not un-drow nearer
dorstand himself, or thought might conclusion that the mere fact that was alone in the great, silent Home abuses of accounts. It bo embarrassing and irrelevant to the man was injured by accident room,
disentitled him to compensation, Suddenly ho hoard voices, chil- does not lend dignity to the the general reader.
for obviously no man is employed dren's voices, singing beautiful securities market or the in- We certainly ought to have some to have accidents in his master's Christmas carols, which led him
аге picture system whereby statutes
so time,
back to his own childhood days.. But for the House of Lords, the He listened while the voices last- Issues of speculative stocks bo- drafted that High Court Judges ing passed out to customers and could readily understand their, in- Court of Appeal of that date would ed, then they faded into the dis-
tention. On May 3, for instance, have ruined the scheme of the Act. tance, and old Scrooge was again. friends in much the way we read that the Lord Chief Jus-It was the good and out-spoken com- alone with his reveries.
He was a sick man, and he know grocery might give away kewpie tice, assisted by Mr. Justice Avory mon-senso of Lord Halsbury that and Mr. Justice Humphreys, spent saved the situation. He could not dolla or roller skates
A merry May morning puzzling peddle about propositions of "scope it. He was getting too old to go mlums to children. To reach over the meaning of the words of employment," and the rest; but out on bingen with Edward Kelly. Phone 23124, the particular situation pointed "special occasions" in the Road told the Court of Appeal that "the That laat one had nearly settled Outside the out in the securities business by Traffic Act, 1980. The words oc- broad proposition, of course, was him. He coughed several times,
curred in one place by themselves, that there should be compensation hands trembling. legislation would seem difficult. and in another in the phrase "race given to every workman in certain wind fell and the snow howled, The American Government meetings and other like special oc- trades, when an injury happened while inside the Telegraph office
Ensions."
to him in the course of his employ- Edward Keily wiped the perspira- might undertake to require that
There were quite a lot of appeals ment." Lord' Lindley informed the tion from his brow and paused to when a stock is listed on an about the meaning of these words, world that the results arrived at think. exchange all sales of it shall be and they came from rural Cornwall, jin the Court of Appeal were "start-
It seems that in some cases the ling and untenable.". made through the exchange. magistrates had held that "special These were hard days for County This could be enforced only by occasions" included weekly cattle Court Judges who, under the ab prohibiting any other transfers faire. Now to an ox who goes to a surd statute, were unpaid arbitra- weekly fair, on his last journey to- tors under the Act. When they to be made on the books of the wards the slaughter house, this is followed the right interpretation of But to the Act they were treated with con- company, and such ʼn regulation a very "special occasion." could be made only under a the farmer who takes him there, or tempt in the Court of Appeal; but the butcher who moota him there, if, as usually happened, the case federal chartering law. There it is merely a weekly incident aris- went to the House of Lords it was are other and better reasons for ing out of and in the course of their pleasant to hear what Lord Hals- such a law. But the exchanges employment. Even the Solicitor-bury, Lord Davey, and others had General, who appeared for the to say about it all when they set themselves can take action statute, so to speak, agreed that a things right.
It is curious how people who value public confidence they will occasion."
Now in the earliest statutes of have to draft statutes, decrees, and make regulations under which which we have any knowledge the orders for the regulation of the direct. affairs of the simple citizens_glory the public may know there have language is clear and
"Thou shall not steal" could not in periphrastic obscurity. I re- been no sales of a stock to trouble the minds of the dullest member in the Penalons days Sir THE FINANCIAL
insiders or may know on what Justice of the Peace, and most Stephen Demetriadi, who did good
Her husband had died five years terms they have bought. In-Clerks to the Justices that I have voluntary work for the Department proviously of alcoholic poisoning, OCTOPUS
met could easily explain to the during the War, showing me a pa- through drinking heavenly. vestors with whom the testi- Bench whether there was evidence per he had to send out to a scaman The enquiry into the gigantic mony of recent financial in- upon which the Bench might con- or stoker claiming an allowance for
Editor's his wife. In it there were many":
author note: The financial operations of
means drinking heavily. the vestigations has sunk in will devict the prisoner of stealing.
Vast legal treatises have been jobscure alternatives, but I will only
Eddie's note: The Editor is a famous firm of J. P. Morgan mand that investment bankers' written about grand and petit lar-quote the last: "or if his full pay
teetotaller. and Company having concluded, offices be made "one price" ceny, and the doctrine of "asporte- and allowances in the nature there- the U.S. Senate Banking Com- stores. In such a market theretion," and the animus furandi; but of exceed 22s. 6d. a week is not auro that man intended to full pay and allowances over 21s,
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Mr. C. More wishes to thank most sincerely those friends of her fate brother H. A. Rodgers, who showed their kind sympathy in her great loss by sending wreathe and attending his funeral.
The
Hongkong Telegraph. against such abuses. If they weekly cattle fair was not a "special
Loeb
THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1938.
Police Changes in London
The decision of the British Government to effect important changes in the organization of
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Editor's note: Get on with the story.
Eddie's note: Bay, you, who's got to make this thing long enough to fill a column?
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"I must go to her to-night, even though I parish," he exclaimed suddenly.
He was thinking of the Widow Pounds, and her four young chil dron, who lived out at Kowloon Tong. She was a poor woman who washed for a living.
Editor's note: Do only poor wo- men wash?
Eddie's note: Yes, during the water restrictions.
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Old Scrooge was very wealthy.
The weather was oven more
mittee has begun upon Kuhn. would be little or no opportunity /It all comes back to thia-Are you less than the weekly excess of UC He had been a selfish old man now and Company, though for the type of "ground floor" steal? Then, if he did, you must provided that if the excess be not for nearly seventy years. At last, it is difficult to
see what operations that is now under deal out certain punishments to an exact multiple of dd. it shall be it appeared, he was going to do a good purpose is likely to be discussion. The surest defence him. The statute Thou shall not not less than the precise multiple decent, kindly act.
steal," with a schedule of punish- of 6d, next below such excoss." A gust of wind nearly upsat One wonders what the men on him as he opened the front door, served.. A little more scope for against advantage-seeking, abments the judge may award for the scandal sheets may be uses in all branches of business stealing, is practically all you want the lower deck thought of this and the sun beat forcely upon his
to-day.
jargon when it reached them. For greying head. Old Scrooge was provided, but essentially, the is the development of a pense of I am not sure that when we find it is jargon, as Sir Arthur Quiller seized with another dreadful fit of evidence is not likely to provido honour and justice that will a statuto has been so drafted as to Couch pointed out to us in the "Art coughing.
Unfortunately, far- prevent its intention being carried of Writing." nor accept any anything more than the exist- neither offer
out, we should not to-day allow the gon seems embedded in the brains ence of the system and practice special or insinuating fajours.
House of Lords to amend it. The of the politicians, the Civil Ser-severe than he had anticipated, similar to that governing the
words "arising out of and in the vice, and those who draft, edit and His feet were numb and his frail figuro rocked periously, in the grip course of his employment" were us-publish our statutes. affairs of the House of Morgan.
ed by old-fashioned judges who Even a great Minister cannot of the blizzard. The wind shrick- Sufficient has already been re-
disliked the theory of the Work-say "No" to a simple question, but ed louder and louder. Blinded by vealed to justify severe restric-
mon's Compensation Act, in order replies that "the answer is in the snow, he staggered on and on. to deprive workmen and their de-negative." And Sir Arthur points Moro alive than dead, he finally tions. The "sensations" when
pendants, whom they left behind out that if your language be far recognised the single, fluttering of the Widowy Pound's analysed merely illustrate the
if death ensued, of the benefits they gon, your intellect will almost cer-light
tainly correspond, and where, your house. contentions of opponents of the
were entitled to.
mind should go straight will dodge. Somehow, he reached the door existing order of society that the the London police could hardly The way they tried to misread a For, as he truly says, the Style is and beat it feebly with his numb control of human affairs exercis- fail to arouse as much boatro-somewhat awkward and careless the Man, and where a man's trea- fist then darkness came. ed by such concerns is damaging versy as interest. For his au- phrase was to suggest that a man euro is, there his heart, and his must prove that at the moment of brain, and his writing will be also. to the interests of the com- mirable body of disciplined men, the accident he was actually doing!—Londen Morning Post. munity as a whole. Judged by though constantly subjce to cri- the most modern economicticism, is on the whole extremely theory, dally gaining adherents, popular among the general the facts are self-condemnatory. public. There has undoubtedly Judged by ordinary every-day been much exaggeration in the! standards, they are disturbing | British press about the ncrease enough. There is the unplea of crime. Murder and atempta sant implication, for instance, to murder have steadily dimin- that the effect of the favours | ished throughout the las thirty granted by the House of Morgan years. Assaults, cruelty mali- to certain influential men has clous damage, drunkenness and put them under an obligation, liable to influence their attitude in affairs involving the public welfare. As explained by Mr.
many other offences are far fower. The most serpus in- crease has been in crimesigainst property, such as burglay, lar- ceny and fraud, often acompan-
| Morgan and his partners, the led by violence, and committed
| transactions appear a reasonably by criminals of a new type, natural one, disposing of issues men of cunning and encry, us- acquired as an incident to other ing automobiles, telephops and mechanisms of their ow dovis- activities. And it cortainly
Ing. To deal with criminals of would have taken unusual pre- this kind a far more caborato science even for a Morgan part-police machine has becom neces- ner to have told in 1929 that Mr. Bary. Trained intellectsare re- William H. Woodin would to-day quired to direct its servics both be Secretary of the Treasury. at headquarters and at leal cen
tres. The main object of the Yet the existence of these prac proposed reforms is to provide a tices in fraught with serious directing staff of highly educat possibilities where disinterested-ed and specially traind men. ness is so vital as in govern-To provide men sultble for ment. The deals, if they have these posts a police collee is to its unpleasant connotations In be established where elected financial etiquette, Illustrato a candidates will bo trated for type of practice that is not con- forms see in them an ttempt two years. Opponents ofthe ro fined to Wall Street nor to any to militarize the police, and to one line of business. It fa the introduce Fascist influence.
"Remarkable woman-has a mind as good as, most man.
sun
Editor's note: Suppone he fainted from sunstroke?
Eddie's note: No. The had set. When he awoke, he recognised. the four little pinched faces about him. He noticed the shabby, poverty stricken house, and shud-- dered. He still felt cold.
The Widow Pound's gentle voice. - reached his half-frozen car.
"Why-why did you come to visit us on such a night, Mr. Scrooge?"
The old man feebly extended his.. bony hand.
"I have come," he said simply, "for the rent."
I
-Kelly's Tests For Civil Servants,`-- We suggest the following task in the next examination for civil. Acrvants. Nowadays, thanks t the frank publicity that attaches to American film stars, non-sto revue, and Illustrated lingerie advertisements, there is no longer even any pretence of mystery. about a lady's undies. Will any Bane, unprejudiced citizen advance the theory that the average man, though he le turned out in all his sartorial strata by Row and Now.. Bond Street, is a grateful or pretty spectacle in his veat and under- pants! Such an object of aesthe- tic ridicule he looks, in fact, that the. wonder. Is he still attracts Enough romance to qualify as actor in a divorce-ault,"
A woman in similar, undress, however judging by all the avall- able evidences, still looks both fascinating and coquettish Ex- plain this.
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