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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1933.
BUDGET
DOLDRUMS
GENEVA HOPES
THE RULE OF THE INSPECTOR
By a SCHOOLMASTER.
While nothing definito has emerged from the disarmamont discussions at Geneva, some solace
RECENT pronouncements no extra mathematics, tipulated, may be derived from the signs of by those in authority The Frincipal of the local Train- rapprochement between France, have proved disturbing to ing College came to criticise the and Italy. Fow countries are a teachers and others con-teaching of some students who fortunately situated as France nected with elementary edu- was teaching simple interest to were with us at the time. One It has advantages donlod to many cation. Teachers are a very the top form. The Principal ask- others. And although it has on conservative body, so that ed to form master, "Why do you occasion appeared to indulge in their opinions, as expressed It will never be any use to them. bother to teach simple Interest? unnecessary alarm, and has per to me, are worthy of con- They would be better employed in haps wearied the world with its sideration.
learning a few simple conjuring tricks, such as making a sixpenco
· រាម
The Very Idea!
FERRY FOOLISH By Eddie Kelly
I told him to keep his hand to
the Coat Pump. It was About time they, shifted
"to the Peak. You know, dear, I've often wanted to=""
call him all sorts of names... · She told him he was herborn"":
"Queen, but the finesso didn't come off. So I led my "
"_wile to a dinner dance. Inst night. She has been dieting and
"
"went round in forty-naven, which wasn't too bad seeing that I fozzled the ninth for
demands for adcurity, in its new The Hadow scheme, whereby vanish up their sleeves." mood it appears to appreciate its classes are grouped solely by
This, in these days of hire pur-|
"a bottle of Johnny Walker remarkably strong position in aage started it. It is an orphan; chase and concerning boys
on the ice. What about coming. Europe which is unquestionably nobody loves it. The net result familiar, through their fathers,
has been that young, intelligent with
across " n cheque-book as he was unsettled. As efforts for interna- boys have to cool their heels in himself!
with my Jack, and made feel tional organisation have, to some company to which they
Another inspector's inevitable four overtricks." extent, or at least provisionally, definitely superior, while the advice, when discussing the ex- been abandoned, it la curious to older, backward boy is promoted tension of any subject, was: observe that France has become to a class which is doing work "Take it off the mathemitica." much calmer. It worked to obfar beyond him. tain the protection of other coun- RULE OF
THE PHYSICAL tries as though it were afraid to stand alone, and it was often re-
proached for its evident nervous ness. But now the new autarchy has made France to withdraw more within itself, and it facos the future undisturbed,
NO NEW WAR
France.
Another Inspector, now retired, used to assert that a working man
E aren't rambling. We
Ware just printing the
had enough academic knowledge scraps of conversation we If he could read a newspaper and heard coming across on the
count his wages!
The next disturbing factor iB What of the future? Is there Star Ferry this morning. that there is a growing tendencyja definite policy to level down the to subordinate academic work to standard? Remember that at the When we look around at physical training and manual moment 70 per cent. of the sục- work.
cesses in the Higher Civil Service the same old people on school, in the words of the Board and women who once were attend-
The aim of the elementary examinations are achieved by men same öld Ferry, so this
of Education's publication, "Sug-ing elementary schools. Remem- about the same old things.. gestions to teachera," is to bar that the professions also in-and the same old places, we train the scholar to be industrious, clude a plentiful representation.;
Hongkong-people are about
self-reliant, able to make a sus The nation is entitled to a get a pain in the neck. tained effort, and to faco diff-straightforward declaration of culties; and above all, he should policy from the Education Board. leave school with his mind awake, and his appetite for learning whetted by the foretaste of know- ledge which he has had.
!
DON'T LAUGH AT THE HIGHBROW!
as original in their conversation as the joke about the Scotsman and the half empty bottle of whiskey.
moderns.
Julius Caesar, for instance, could tell a pretty tale about his holiday on Cleopatra's barge on the Nilo.
We doubt whether all the legends.
"Mr. So-and-So" (an inspector)||we grow tired, so we all sat down. he said, "will insist on three forty-to rest and drink coffee or lemon-eluck... and that hussy Clea five-minute periods for physicalade or some such thing. And we training, and then I must, make talked of this and that. provision for swimming lessons, visits to playing fields, Arts and Crafts; drawing and woodwork." WHY BOYS CAN'T CALCULATE.
MEMORABLE COMMENT.
Presently we-the mon, that l drifted into an argument. It may
If statesmen are wise there will not only be no new war in Europe, but the apprehension of war will be dispelled. Certainly of recent
As 1 Interpret it, while cor- The Colony's Budget has been months there has been commotion rective physical training-and
Just too bad that we couldn't. presented without provoking on the Continent. The advent of vapecially swimming is essential,
have some of the old-timers as any great excitement and losing Herr Hitler, who had expressed the first duty is to attend to the nothing of tradition in
fellow-travellers, Look at all. new himself in down-right and even requirements of the mind.
By ERIC LINKLATER If a boy selects the trade of
the Interesting people we read hands. Mr. Tratman followed flamboyant terms, troubled France boiler-maker, fitter, turner, etc., HERE is a song or there about in our history books. Atfully in the footsteps of his far less than might have been he serves an apprenticeship in
should be called "Everybody predecessors, selecting the drab-expected. The Four Power Pact which to learn his trade and to somebody's highbrow." This They're not half as dull as the
practice, acquire skill in handling tools. which. if put into
song, even if it is not yet written, best of colours in his picture of definitely brings the possibility of
The tragedy is that, in far too will excuse my mentioning the fact the financial outlook, and no treaty revision into view,was after many cases, the academic learn that I was once given that proud
Ing is left behind at fourteen, the title. blame can be attached if he some demur accepted. The threads never or rarely to be
It happened in this way: Some failed to leave the impression diplomatic activities in central picked up again. that, in actual fact, the taxpay- Europe aroused considerable at The English specialist on the little time ago I happened to go about Julie and Cleo. are true, but er has cause to congratulate tention, but did not noticeably game staff as myself was appeal-with two other men to one of those what food for scandal they could Could you Imagine those two himself upon the absence of perturb Franco. Matters indeed ing for a larger share of the time places where people dance, and afford the people on the Star Ferry.
table for his subject, only to be where the friendless are provided fresh imposts. Each Budget are taking a course which are informed by a regretful head with partners at the modest rate hens sitting in front of you, retail- Day the grim suspicion, arises certainly not unfavourable. It is master that he could spare him of a shilling a mile or so. When ing the latest choice morsel about
we had dariced for a great distance | Julio's escapade, that the Colony is perilously obvious that Signor Mussolint has no more.
Twitter, twitter, cluck, cluck, near the verge of insolvency; become far more cautious in his
kicked him two inches below the and the public is invited to study approval of German policy thus
chost because she heard that the the manner of survival with
opening the door a little wider for
way to a man's beart was through thoughtful but approving eyes,
his stomach...... Revenue in 1934 is estimated at
"They were seen out at Repulso $31,781,625 ̄and expenditure at BETTER FEELING
Bay last night. Even though he's
$33,442,605, foreshadowing a
have been about politics or pica Cassar, I think it's immoral. tures, about books or music or And they do tell me that he Caesar deficit of $1,711,070 on the year's Recent actions in Germany have
How often do business men religion. I forget. But it grew every night..... working, and if that is not suffi- indeed indisposed Great Britain denounce inaccuracy in modern fairly fierce, and some trenchant What Hongkong people need is a cient to cause a shudder of ap- and rendored Italy prudent. Herr arithmetic? One reason for a statements were made. Our part- bit of livening up. Somebody prehension, it should be borne Hitler himself is andeavouring to possible decline is the limited time nors listened, at first politely, and should conduct community singing then, I am glad to say, more at as we cross the harbour on the in mind that the estimated sur- put brakes on the revolution and now devoted to it.
The Chief Inspector for the dis- tentively. And after some minutes Ferry. plus at the end of 1934 will not to keep his followers in check. But trict asked the headmaster of one one of them made a remarkable, We have tried to do this: exceed 11,598,731. To this un- there arises the problem of the senior school, "Why do you allo-memorable, and important obser-
quite often on the last Ferry, relieved picture of gloom, mustAnschluss, which is a substantial cate the first period In the mor-vation. be added the fact that while barrier to a
She said, "Well, highbrows are
but most of the people who full Italo-German ning to mathematics?"
travel on that boat want to. there is a prospect of a aaving understanding. Italy, more than
The puzzled headmaster replied, tough!"
It does not matter what remark conduct their own singing.. of $520,978 in sterling salaries France, is opposed to the domina- "Because the children's minds are called forth that criticism, but by reason of the higher rate of tion of Austria by Germany, and freshest then." exchange adopted for purposes
H.M.I.'s comment was, "Put it obviously it was something novel, of calculation, new posts and deprecates the National Socialist at the end of the afternoon when something heterodox, or something
are jaded. It's the least destructive. It was stipulated increments will ab-pressure upon the little country. they sorb the entire amount and more
The cause of revision will be important subject on the time intellectual exploration, rebellion,
table."
or butchery. And so the girl was and the total cost of personal jeopardised unless German tactics Then again, when we proposed correct in describing it as tough, emoluments of Government ser- are profoundly modified. Hence to cater apecially for the boy of
(Continued on Pégo 4.) vants will, despite the higher the new steps toward a Franco- rate of exchange, exceed that of | Italian rapprochement. A good the 1983 estimate. Nor must it deal romains to be done, but there be forgotten that pensions will is unquestionably a far better cost the Government $196,000 feeling on both sides of the Alps more in 1994 than in 1983. The than there has been for several facts are plain enough. It is impossible to deny that the Treasury's burden in these direc- tions is becoming increasingly SMUGGLING difficult to bear. In 1984, pro- vialon has to be made for expen- diture of over $18,000,000 in the
years.
The loss in revenue from tobac
and
form of personal emoluments, co and oplum almost entirely ac- over $2,800,000 in pensions, rent counts for the startling drop in allowances and passages, and ordinary Treasury receipts an over a million dollars in various are expected to produce $2,000,000 nounced yesterday. Tobacco duties other ways in the interests of less than the estimate Government servants, on uni-oplum. $1,800,000 less than was forms, travelling allowances and unticipated. These are remarka- the like. In these circumstan- bly heavy items, forming the most ces, and with revenue falling, Interesting Budget fenture, al- opium smokors declining to pur though there is no mystery. con- chase the Singapore brand, a cerning the causes of the oplum shortfall, Addicts.do not like the trade depression which shows no
new brand from Singapore and sign of lifting, and no clear idea simply will not have it if they can of where next year's windfall is obtain illicit, and botter, brands. coming from, official caution in Tobacco offers a puzzle. It is budget-making (and rendering) dificult-to bollove that Hongkong is not difficult to appreciate. is smoking less, yet revenue here. Hopes of some remission of taxa- also is down by nearly one-half. tion, a reduction perhaps of ex-Some part of this, but not very cessive poatal rates, had natur-large, is the result of the rise in exchange, and a smaller part may ally to be disappointed. Compossibly be attributable to growth mercial firms, possibly feeling in trade in locally manufactured the onslaught of the economic cigarettes. It seems highly pro- blizzard more soverely than bable that the aditional revenue Government, must feel thankful officers to be employed next year. they know where they stand, to keep a watch on the New Ter The Budget might have been ritorios land border Baro -neoded
urgently to-day.
worst. PUSA
"I have been having the strangest dreams lately
People who travel on the Penk
tram should also think out some a piece of thing original to pass the time en transit. The only appropriate com- munity song we can think of off- hand is "We're a-tram, tram, tramming along the high way," but. something more original than sing- | ing is required from talpans,
Besides, anid he nastily, it costs $6 for a ferry tickot, but it's ten bucks on the tram.
FISH-OT
Why It Is that when a woman parti- cularly wants something, it is in- variably something you can't get her?. Pete is probably just guzzling down the remnants of his breakfast, when suddenly a dulcet voice ko that of ZBW's announcer comes from tho dining room. Angeling is enggesting" salmon for supper, and will he bring home amico gut from the Dairy Farm? He agrees,
At five-thirty, if he hasn't forgoin it, he goes gaily to the shop. Thera aro heaps of flib, lying cold and in- animate on the slab like sunbathers on the bench. There are áll kinds ef fish. Thero are herrings, shrimps, dogfish, puppyfish, ordinary fish, whales, dolphins, and fish that ought not to be allowed. But there are: no salmon.EN MA
The assistant smiler like the Che- shiro Cat. This is the seventeenth in- quiry for salmon he has had in half: an hour. Everybody's wife has pick- ed 'on 'salmon when there are nonowa
Poto is checked, but not yet slain... Ho remember another shop. They offer to kayo him ona. for to-morrow. Frantically ho charters ataxi and tries another shop. They, have never known such a run on salmon At the alxth shop they are shut, and le costa Him $20 that night to tako Aurelian out to dinner, whore, the Indus -points to salmon on the mah F
But it wouldn't have muttere what falie, wanted, pineapplesit priMAE PLO
parachutad
[ been any,