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NOTES OF THE DAY IS THIS THE ROAD TO BULLS AND INNERS
Japan is in a · strango: mood." She needs sympathy and under- standing rather than criticism. The extraordinary virulence of the press | campaign ́against Great Britain is Just further example of the frame of mind induced in the island race by injured feelings. It is but an- other symptom of the zenophobia "SYNCHRO provoked by the world's judgment upon the., Manchuria adventure. MESH HAS Outwardly cynical, Japan feels her poaltion deeply: She finds rollof by BANISHED venting her spleen. If the attack may correctly be compared to the hot temper of the Individual, which dios away as rapidly as it develops,
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Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1988.
FUTURE OF SILVER
no real harm will be done.
WEATHER PHENOMENA
Hongkong gets its full share of wonther phenomena. The discom- fort of the past day or two caused by the close proximity of a develop ing typhoon has impressed the fact, if any proof were required. The sight of a brilliant rainbow, stretching across the harbour from the vicinity of the Post Office to
ECONOMIC RECOVERY?
By Herbert Tracey
From the Office Butts:
A Ponk resident claimed the other day that the temperature up thoro was ten dégrées cooler than.
thought
Employment for a million work- and any worka hitherto under- Kowloon. We always loss wage-earners by October 1 taken by pubile authorities; the that when it came to hot air, the next is one of the predicted results construction, under public re- two places ranked about even. of the Industrial Recovery Act, gulation or control, of low-cost signed last week by the American housing
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and slum clearance President.
schemes; the building of warships
Ent grape-fruit to combat heat. The Act, which has been put within the limits laid down by says a ladies' page writer. Matter into force at once, is a remarkable naval treaties, and the mechanisa of fact, it's often as good as a
tion of the army, measure.
All these works are to be under- It was designed by President
shower bath.
Roosevelt to establish the ma- takon either directly, or under. With all the reports from Amor, chinery necessary for a great co-contract by the Federal Govern-
OF the ica of factorios reopening, and
operative movement throughout ment, or by the States, all industry in order to obtain municipalities.
Local authoritica will receive men going back to work, it seems wide re-employment, to shorten the
another problem, finding jobless. work-week, to pay a decent wage grants from the Federal Govern-koly they will soon be faced with for the shorter week, and to ment up to 30 per cent of the for unemployed relief workers! prevent unfair competition and cost, such grants, however, to be made only to those authoritica disastrous over-production."
One of its provisions enables which are at least trying to the American industries to set up balance their budgets, "codes of fair practice which
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We fall to see why cabarets
We have been endeavouring to: All contracts are to specify impresa upon Vido the seriousness must be approved by the President minimum rates of wages, which of not wearing his muzzle, ever and which then become enforce-are to provide a standard of since a magisterial edict raised the able by law, dealing with minimum living in decency and comfort;"no-muzzle fine. wages, maximum working hours, and working hours are to be prices and production, and other restricted as far as possible to 30 matters; such as unfair com-hours per week!
To finance this programme the should be taboo when they do not. petitive practices, and even mat-
Government will issue bonds, to provide facilitica to boozol. ters of accountancy.
These codes must recognise the the maximum of $3,000,000,000
You can't keep a good thermo- Lantau Island, the other day, how-right of the workers to organise (about 4000,000,000 at par) over, reminded us of the compara- and to bargain collectively. The year, with an annual sinking fund tive rarity of such spectacles in the Act authorises the President to attached of 2% per cent of the meter down this weather. Colony. In most parts of the world, facilitate collective bargaining on amount issued. To carry out the
A certain local bather now be wages and working hours; where policy the President has appointed rainbows are so common as to pass agents are not made, he may on Administrator of the Act, and
another Administrator of the pro-lieves that a stitch in time saves almost unnoticed. Here they at impose them; and, agreements,
swimming about until dark. tract a good deal of attention. It when framed, are to have the force gramme of public works. would be interesting to know whe- of law. thor there is any definite reason for this. It probably has to do with the topography and the heaviness, as a rule, of our rains.
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He has also set up boards, con- sisting largely of members of his
The passenger who loudly Cabinet to co-operate with these Administrators; and
Ad-asserted that it would not be a ministrator of the Act will also difficult matter to equip the Peak. have an advisory council of in- tram with adjustable ecate, 15
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If necessary, the President may institute a system of licenses in an industry in order to make code affective, and breaches of dustrialists and Trade Union lead-hereby informed that the question
ors to assist him.
was solved years ago. Hammocks! licensing provisions
The President, within a few punishable by fine or Imprison-hours of the Act being passed,
authorised the allotment of $400,- The trouble with billing and Provision is also made to secure It is difficult to withhold a mea- Information and authority for the 000,000 (about 280,000,000) to cooing is invariably the former!
States, to get on with the pro-
D Bure of sympathy for the stoker establishment of an
industrial
In the good old days, when a. thirty days. who appeared before a naval court-planning and reasearch Egency. gramme of road construction within
A sum of about half this amount man was run down, he took a tonic.. martial yesterday, even while ac- The purpose of the Act, in fact,
is not merely to supply temporary has been allotted to the Navy Now he takes an ambulance.. cepting the necessity for main-
oxpedients for overcoming the Department for the construction of taining a rigid standard of dia-
emergency, but to lay the founda- 32 new ships and other require- cipline in the Royal Navy and tions of a permanent system of ments of the new naval pro- the truth of the old saw, "hard industrial planning and control. Not without reason, therefore, cases make good law." His story: frank and containing no attempted the Act as the most important has the President himself describ-
In a comment upon this remark- While Mr. Pittman's enthus- to excuse himself; seemed to ring and far-reaching logislation over able Act, Mr. William Green, Pre- Liasm has emerged unscathed genuine note. Stranger things enacted by the American Congress.sident of the American Fodern-
through the slings and arrows of have happened as a result of a
We hear of a bachelor who spent "It represents a supreme effort tion of Labour, says the placing of the silver battle in London, it drink or two and exposure
(aald the President) to stabilise such far-reaching powers of con: one thousand dollars on a gin for all time the many factors trol in the President's hands re- waggon. A lakh of cents! would be unsafe to take any broiling sun than the rather
which make for the prosperity, of flects the desperate straits of busi-
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Income and wealth have been You can always tell a broker, progress has been made than at occurred aboard the Cleain through of American standards."
accused.
Mr. Roosevelt has claimed for dissipated at an appalling rate, and but you can't tell him much. one time seemed likely. The the instrument of the much-amended American re-His commanding officer had nothing this measure that it carries out the business is so near standstill that
measures are "simple proposition" he laid down drastic
obviously solution has been unanimously but praise to bestow regarding in his inaugural address, that no- necessary to prevent national bank- adopted both by the silver Com- his previous conduct. We cannot body in the country would be allow-ruptey. mittee and the Monetary Sub- but believe that the unusual cir-ed to starve:
It was at the instance of the Committee which is dealing with cumstances will be borne in mind "It seems to me equally plain A.F. of L. that provision was in-
. Some of our beach beauties are permanent measures for world when such matters as the man's (the President added) that no sorted in the Act to safeguard the recovery. In its present form, pension are under consideration.
business which depends for exist- rights of the workers, especially so during they simply don't care
in a wrap. ence upon paying less than a liv-the right of free association however, it-represents-nothing-
ing wage has any right to continue Trade Unions, which were-in-the in this country
and by a terms of the A.F. of L. amendment We are waiting for somebody to living wage I mean more than a "to be free from the interference, nek "Abigail" how to make banana bare subsistence level-I mean the restraint or coercion of employers fritters!
of labour or their agents, in the de- wages of a decent living."
signation of such representatives PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME.
or in self-organisation or in other the Act, se for as it relates to poses of collective bargaining or Th most important provisions of concerted activities for the pur- unemployment, are those which; other mutual aid or protection." deal with the President's pro- The President has had a difficult gramme of public works. He is struggle with Congress to secure a lauch swimming picnic to-day. authorised to proceed with pro- the passage of this measure. Some Presumably going out to study body jects of road construction and of the powers it confers upon him lines improvement, public bulldings, are limited in their exercise to two conservation of natural resources, yepra.
more than an outline of the steps
overcome
be nection
con-
which could be taken with ad- TARIFF ILLOGICALITY vantage in certain circumstances and offers them as recommenda-
The recent increase in Chinese tions, Precept will become customs tariffs has made itself felt practice when, and only when, in several unexpected quarters. the eight principal powers are Under the somewhat picturesque able to reach final agreement. title of "Teahouse gang, groups Mr. Pittman says he is confld-of Chinese have hitherto enjoyed a ent that the initialling stage will be reached to-day, but lucrative business in the export of second-hand furniture to Canton, even that is not enough. There are still difficulties to Amoy and other Southern ports. Their chief hunting grounds have in which
been the local auctions, sales, but even the famous Silver Senator preserves a mild-interest in these has declined, thanks to the now customs imposi- ly cautious tone, admitting to tion. The tariff has forced the pro- the probability of a delay of one fessional dealers to fix a maximum or two months. When the bid, and whenever this is exceeded optimistic chief advocate con- by private bidders, the "teahouse" fesses to so much, it is as well gang" discreetly withdraw. An for others to watch the situation open market has now become to very closely. A warning is them a business deal which requires circumspect treatment. The not necessary because there seems result is that auctioneers, dealers to be a tremendous amount of and purchasers all suffer and the speculation going on in the grasping hand of the fiscal system Colony, based upon the belief is denied its spoils. that silver rehabilitation men-
aures are an ultimate certainty.
The gamblers should begin to RISE OF FASCISM mark time, particularly as the
feeling is again beginning to The challenge to representative gain ground in influential circles government as an institution has that artificial aflver inflation will so often bean repeated in recent not provide the benefits claimed, years as to become almost a com- In China, it is admitted, a rise monplace. One country after an- in price would theoretically in- other has forsaken its ranks In favour of a more dictatorial, less crease China's purchasing power. cumbersome and, so it is argued, But, it is argued, the effect works more effective form of govern- both ways. Cheap silver should ment. Even in the countries which stimulate China's exports, sett have romalaod faithful to dome- ing up credits which increase eracy there are not wanting signs her power to make purchases of revolt, so loudly does the ma abroad. If silver went up, her chine sometimes creak, so heavily exports would be retarded and does it roll. When in the United credits abroad would shrink. It of its representative body is greet States, recently, the adjournment is notable, too, that Mr. T. Ved with a sign of relief by the Soong desires stabilisation ra- nation in general, it was surely ther than what is termed re-time for the apologist to step in. habilitation. And India's final There are of course many reasons decision on cooperation in an for the failure of democrney in eight-power agreement is not specific instances. It is obviously at all certain. While we feel a form of government which makos that the benefits of higher prices groat domande on a people and unless they are able to rise to would ultimately outway the these demands, other forces are
es, it would be fool-
to intervóna' and seize con-
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This is certainly the hottest summer since 1932.
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A certain local bowling club is famous for its pickled onions, Hope they'll bías some,
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Australian Association is holding
"Post Delayad." News item. The P.O. has promised to make enquiries.
Edward Kelly attributes the big drop in Hongkong imports to the fact that his credit has been stop- ped at the Hotels.
In the Davis Cup inter-zone final U.K.
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U.S.
A correspondent in a morning contemporary complains about the Irregularity of the Australian maila. Edward Kelly retorte by saying they have nothing on the Hong-:. kong females.
"What, no beer?" at the Queen's. Edward Kelly is looking into the. matter.
Britain will benefit as a result: of the new Spanish decree relating to trade. Some old Spanish cus tom.
The Hongkong dollar seems to be in the dollardrums
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Daventry will broadcast a bedtime
story for the first time on Monday:
"Atmosph-orie, or Little by Little
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R3 • YM.G.A, resident going out
for dinner on Wednesday nightë
Cabarots should be sued and not