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4. 1933,
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
HOW CHINA LIVES
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KILMARNOCK
The National Government, have rotained Kilmarnock, but the figures provide little causo for
Batisfaction. in the official camp. AVE you ever tried to one case, when the family has
keep a detailed account
BULLS AND INNERS
口口
From the Office. Butts
been fed, it still has two-thirds of]
We aympathiee with the promin- There is nothing in them that can.
ita income, to spend, in the other be submitted as effectting the de-of income and expenditure caso, it has only one-thirdt Out
ent local Scotsman who, arriving bacio of East Fulham, On the con-
trary, an opposition aplis seems to over a reasonable period, so of this, the father has to find yesterday by the "Chitral" Im- have furnished the principle factor that at the end you could tell clothing, rent, light and fuel, so mediately proceeded to the Horz- In the retention of the seat how much of your money than 10% left for various mis-old building nearly demolished. that he is fortunate if he has more kong Bank, only to discover the Kenneth Lindsay, as a National
collaucous wants!
He took an overdraft to drown his”, sorrow!
Labour candidate goes into Parlia had gone in this direction mont with a majority of 3,000 votes over the Labour Party candidate, and how much in that? but the aggregate vote against him was 23,500, nine thousand more than he himself olitained. His pro- | decessor had an. absolute majority of over 7,000. East Fulham still has to be redeemed.
LABOUR REVIVAL
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Wo hear of a local hiker who fell into a Chinese gardener's fortilla-
WHO EARNS THE INCOME? If you have ever tried it, you Another question is, who carna have probably been rewarded by the family income? The father, some surprises; you found that of course, is the main breadwin- certain items bulked much larger ner, but seldom is he the only one. than you had expected, and you Ordinarily, a man can just manageing solution last Sunday. Some
to support himself and his wife, people can't leavo well alone. perhaps even came across one or
but If there are any children, their two items which deserved to be
mother must go out and earn as more generously dealt with.rell. Even then there is no relief,
..
Taken in conjunction with the striking results of the municipal elections, Kilmarnock and East Ful- ham definitely suggest that a sing against the Conservatives is gain ing paco rapidly. Labour candi- dates captured 244 gents in the borough elections and the Conser vatives lost over two hundred. so on. They are handicapped by Unlike what happens often. in the It is impossible to resist the conclu-literacy and the whole idea in a West, here a large family with sion that the state of panle which now one to them. The figures several of the children working caused the landslida against Labour they offer, however, will be very is worse off than a couple without
Men who prefer to dross in 1931 has disappeared and that interesting, and as for any element children and with only the man the Socialists have gone for to-
Not only does the untidily about the neck should take wards rehabilitation of their old of uncertainty, that can bo-elimin-earning!
money Income not keep pace with position in Engllah politics, Theated by getting enough people to the growth of the family, but the up Rugby football. Then they Municipal elections are not neces- keep such accounts and striking amount of food consumer per head might be neatly collared occasion- sarily a reliablo guide to the way an average at the end. We shall shows a decrease. There is clear ally.
A discussion Is waxing furious Imagine now that similar house- and there is still none, though the at home on the question of whe- hok! budgets are drawn up, ono by children themselves go out to work, ther a man has the right to open a farmor on the New Territories, for what they bring in is always his wife's letters. What is more another by a rickshaw puller, and less than they need for their keep to the point le has he the cour
age?
the country would voto in a general election, but the Indication offered has been proved as accurate as any other devised.
Thongkong Telegraph. WORK FOR REFUGEES
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1930.
口
got by that means 'some clearer ly a vicious circle about it, low wages, make it necessary for the idea of how China lives.
wife to earn, and the lower re-
. Residents of Peak Mansions: JUDGING STANDARDS OF LIVING. muneration given to the woman
keeps the wages of the man from were interrupted last Sunday after- Various people have been work-rising.
noon by a baby car which had ing on these lince at Intervals dur
A closer scrutiny of how the evidently - stalled on the road ing the last few years. They have money is spent within the family
Fireworks from Hongkong have
The tumultuous period which followed the War is already slipping Into oblivion, and the sufferings of gathered data from elty and yields some illuminating resuits. leading down to Pokfulam. Down Looking at Europe
those unfortunates whose whole country, and from workers of It is clear, for example, that the in the forest something whirred! existence was uprooted as the re various classes, and the results postal worker or printer in Shang- hat is better off than he would
ᄆ Europe has rarely presented sult of the War, seldom reach the
are available in a pamphlet have been had he stayed in the front pages of the newspapers. such a kaleidoscope as it does Only occasionally, when the Nunsen published in Shanghai for, the country. The pressure of socin! today. In some places political Refugee Office, set up by the Ministry of Industries under the custom is revealed by the disparity in very high reputation in Europe, fissures, it is true, have been League of Nations, publishes its title The People's Livelihood as between the amounts spent on according to a Home trade report. deepened. In others, it is equal-modest accounts of its work, the Revealed by Family Budget education and on what come under ly true, they have reappeared. ordinary citizen gets a glimpse of
Studles'. In spite of the political the head of 'social expenses'. One Even so, they are sure to meet Such is the obsession with "news how far the scars of war are still
group of 100 country families re-their match. interest" that these, unfortu from being healed and what patient flavour in the title, it is a quite ported an annual expenditure por nately, are practically the only wipe away its last. traces. The No statistics are included from and $3.45 on the second!
and inborious work is needed to straight-forward econome study. family of 97 cents on the first item: views vouchsafed to the general Annual Report of the Office shows public. But in other places that there are in Europe, the Near Hongkong, but perhaps we there has been an obliteration of East and China alone no fewer than take it that what is available for lines of differences. They, too,984,700 refugees of the category of Shanghai would apply, roughly have their significance. It was which the League has taken charge. speaking, here as well. only a short while ago that the 755,000 of those are Russians, 166,- political commentators
Take, to begin with, the question a more favourable picture than the when boarding her! 632 Armenians and 14,068 Assyr iaus, Turks, etc. At least 149,000 of standards of living in various facts warrant. No family, for ex
saw
Con
☐ Referring to the "Engie" a local PERTINENT COMPARISON,
scribe asserted...."Ond socmed to There is a good deal of un-lose contact with the outside certainty about such figures, of world. We also forgot to duck course, and they present probably
"irretrievable" obstacles to of these are unemployed or engaged callings and localities. How are ample, would be likely to give
SYRIAN SCHEME
particulars of what it lost in
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other words BROKEI
Franco-Italian accord. To-day in only casual employment and over
Mannequins are now required they are gradually coming to 50,000 including war invalids or these to be estimated? The best gambling or what it had to put to dance at London stores. Frocks gether, although the develop children, are totally unable to earn way is to find out what percentage out to meet interest on loans. ment is one which is to be read their own Itvings. It in interesting of the family income goes in food. Further, with the exception of the trots. between the lines rather than in to note that six countries alone still It is to be presumed that expendi-rickshaw pullers, the whole mass the headlines. The main im- spend nearly 5,000,000 Swiss francs
annually од relief work. The ture on keeping body and soul of unskilled manual labour les outside these enquiries and would
The hiking season is just about pulse toward cooperation, has Refugee Service, on the other hand, together will be the first charge on doubtless prove very dificult to been political. Germany is re-la practically self-supporting.
the household purse, and what is collect facts from. But, in order here, or, in other words, the sponsible for the melting down-
left aftor-this-will-indicato-how not wholly to overlook local con- "Reamin' Era." of irreconcilabilities. The rise
O S of the new Germany has
far the persons concerned can ditions, we might compare some figures forthcoming from Shanghai persuaded Signor Mussolini. to
afford comforts and luxuries. In with what is reckoned as the
Overheard on the Peak tram. The period of large-scale opera- become more of a "broker" of tions at the Office is almost at an
a word, the higher the percentage poverty-line by the Society for the
"I'm not going to Japan this
your European peace than a partisan end. Many of the Armenians are
of income which goes in food, the Protection of Children. of the aspirations of one par-being settled under a special schonie lower the standard of living.
It is reckoned that, to maintain-As a matter of fact, I much ticular segment of Europe. This in the French mandated area of
Now it le found that in the case himself in Shanghai at a tolerable prefer to stay in Hongkong." In was the historic role formerly Syria. This work of settlement is assumed by Britain. Shared now almost complete, and the ap- of the rickshaw puller of Peiping, level, a single man would need $140 per annum, with a wife $250, palling refugee camps in which the no less than 73% of what the and with a wife and three chil with Italy, the broker function Armenians spent so many years family earns is required for food, dren, somewhere about $150. 11. has that much more power, and have been practically emptied. A so is to be the more welcomed large number of Armenians are also while the group which is best off, now, it is remembered that the After witnessing an amusing by all peace-minded folk. Like being returned to the republic of the industrial workers in Shang- poverty line for rollef purposes is ineident the other day, we quite wise Russia has almost imper- Erivan. Some 3,000 are being hat, has still to spent 68% in this fixed by the local Society at $48 ceptibly evolved into an instru-colony in Mosul. A certain number
transferred to An agricultural way! Set against this the cor- per annum, It becomes obvious how expected to read under the "Lost" ment of European amity. The of Russian refugees were trans- responding figures given for below that. and how much room mentally inflexible probably will ferred last year, mainly from the workers in U.S.A., 30 to 40%. In there still la for poverty above it. not see the evolution in such Far East to South America. For terms. Without tracing the the most part, however, the Rus metamorphosis, however, the sians have to be treated individual- fact is so patent as to have bely and a large part of the Office's come a definite factor in Euro-Work now consista in helping them pean politics. Having ringed parlours, sale of lamons, pork up in business. Beauty itself around with nonaggression butchers, the making and painting treaties, and, incidentally, of Ikons and gold washing, are. closed up a baker's dozen of among the tasks now undertaken by political fissures, Soviet Russia | some of them,
to Bet
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has moved nearer to Italy and France. The samo shift to- KIANGSI RED MENACE ward closer union can be de- tected along the Danube... For Commenting on Mr. T. V. Soong's yeara European statesmanship resignation, the North China Daily hus embogged itself in ways and Netus expresses anxiety concerning means of fomenting economiction from that provinco says the the situation in Kiangai. Informa- confederation along the river. Shanghial Journal, suggests that Now there is hope of a series of Chiang Kai-shek's proposed offen- bilateral trade pacts. There is, sive has been vastly discounted by of course, something missing in recent Red successes. The delay this rapla review. It is that which has occurred in launching the the bridging of past fissures is able influences to divert the proper
drive has given time for undesir too intimately connected with disbursement of funds. It is assert the creation of new fissures,, The ed that the pay of many of the fact must be faced frankly. Government troops Is still greatly Success in working together is in arrears while officers formerly coming too frequently from de- with the regiments have now gons fensive attitudes, Nations are into lelsured retirement on which being thrown. into each other's pointed commont has been made, Furthermore the Government has arms. Lord Groy used to de- lost effectives not entirely by the precate the upbuilding of good action of enemy fire. It is even relations with one nation on the said that recruits to the Reda in- basis of bad relations with an- cludo officers recently passed out of other. Such a diplomacy is the Whampoa Academy Disappoint old balance of power which could ment and dielllusionment hava never keep in balance. It made made young men with the dealre friends mainly for the purpose for service discern more congenial of undermining enemies, If scope in the forces which have for so long dominiated Kiangel. Dr.
· European statesmanship builds Hu Shih, and others who long ago again on defensive attitudes, the declared that the communist menace end seems bound to be the same would not be met by military mea- as in 1914.
Bures were not far wrong. 575
acute distress must be which falls
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"Furnituro at the moment is assuming strange and fantastic shapes states a writer in a Lon- don Journal. We discovered, that years ago with our deck chair!
A local resident complained that...à a girl followed him about the city Inst Saturday. He should have [bought a flag in the first place.
Those racing enthusiasts who gather at the Jockey Club as dawn' |is breaking certainly emphasise the triumph of mind over mattress,
The trouble about putting one's monoy in a going concern is that one does not always know which way it is going!
It is said that aeroplanes WIN soon be sent through the air” by, wireless. Wo can quito boltevn It Wa came down the Peak this morning by cable.
The Telegraph's right-from- the-horse's mouth" racing Inform ation should do much to foster the sport of kings.