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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1933.
MOTORISTS
This will interest you !
THINKING
about a
NEW CAR?
NOTES OF THE DAY THE INSIDE STORY OF
HONKING BAN
THE TITHE WAR
What is this the trouble, the social and spiritual loader of townsmen are unking. Here are his flock stands by and seen his the facts,
parishioners' Aghting
The Very Idea!
THESE MONSTERS By Eddie "Frankenstelo". Kelly
HERE at last is the truth of this matter, the cold- drawn, unvarnished, honest- to-goodness, see-that-wet-sce -that-dry, cross-your-heart-
return for the education and social ing.
in Parliament this tithe ques-and-spit-on-your-brow truth,
services which he dispensed.
Paris has an almost universal re- putation for being noisy and for staying up lato, or rather, carly, in the morning. Yet how many other cities with more enviable re- putations in these respects could
coping the lie tax paid by the and sticks to provent their goods match the ordinance Issued recent people in the Middle Ages to aup and chattels being taken for tithe ly by the Paris municipal authori-port the Church-one-tenth of to pay his stipend. Sebros of par- ties, which advances from half at the produce of all land and labour, sons have been booed down the hour after midnight to 11 p.m. the given in kind to the local parson in village streets-for not interfer- time after which it is forbidden to sound any automobile born or siren of any sort? The nolso "dead-line" In addition, all the Institutions tion la, unhappily, regarded as take it or leave it. had originally been fixed at 1 a.m., of the Established Church received nobody's business because it cuts but Parisians protested that this tithe. But when Henry VIII rail right across party politics. kept them up too late, and the baned the monasterias at the "Dissolu- on honking is now being applied tion," described so adequately in two hours carllor.. After 11 o'clock, history, text-books,, he transferred motorists must now signal by flash- their privileges of tithe-owning to Bounty is George Middleton. He seen sneaking around Loch Ness ing their headlights. The measure his friends. We are still suffering is is part of the anti-noise campaign from the effects of sixteenth-cen-understand. which, though it is still far from tury graft. making Paris a city of silence, has HK$3,400 | cortainly lessened nocturnal noisea
3,600 4,500
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The chairman of Queen Anne's a man the farmers- cannot
“An ex-Labour M.P., ko retired from active politics two years ago, after being appointed First Commla
So to-day we have the ecclesias Ecclesiastical Estates tical tithe-owners-parsona all afoner at a salary of £1,200 a over the country, whose interests year (with a penalon on retire- The Parle ordor certainly sugare looked after by Queen Anne's ment).
an organisation which This is his defence of the titho 4,500 gests a method by which a little Bounty,
additional peace might be provided collects and distributes ecclesias law.
"We are virtually the trustees in Hongkong for residents in the tical tithes and lay tithe-owners, HK$2,940 centre of
to thousands of incumbents, and the City, who have a University collegos, church chari-
their very livelihood depends on 2,940 heap of grievances stored unties and privato persons, who re-
the success of our efforts against the drivers of public celve a sort of feudal contribution
In exchange for collect the tithe rent-charge. vehicleo. Noise in the day-time is from farmers
"Ours is a thankless task; for dificult to control. At night, res-nothing at all.
If we are lenient to the farmer who really cannot pay, some poor parson has to go short in consequence. We have to strike a balance of goodwill.
GARAGE Stubbs Road (Showroom) PHONE 27778-9
The
HOTELtriction is easily, possible. A hint Lay tithe-owning rights have might be given, for instance, to the been bought and sold, during last Fire Brigade.. Clanging balls and centuries, like mining royalties or Byrons are a very doubtful neces-any other form of medieval pro- nity at three o'clock in the mor-perty. ning. Thore may be a few people Queen Anne's Bounty receives---
to receive-over £2, who appreciate the alarm and or budgets tumble into a dressing-gown to see 000.000 a year from British agri- tithe-owners the sight. But the vast majority culture. The Iny would be happier to learn of the gather over £1,000,000. autbreak for the first time in the newspaper next day. And when the clanging is equally raucous on the return journey. no-one has a good word to say, though we have beard some bad ones,
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 18. 1933.
TITHES
THE WALLACE THESIS
to
"In fact, farmers who bought their land since the war should have nothing to complain of at ail, for, if they had any business sense at all they would have had Most of this £3,000,000 โป the capital value of the tithe farming lands in deducted from the value of the exacted from
land. And most of them did,- the Southern counties. Tithes are high there because the payments. "A man who paid, say, £3,000 are based on the corn and hop-less for his land in consideration growing valuation of 1836, when of tithe rent charge upon it has prices were sky-high.
no reason to refuse to pay tithe. He ate his cake when he bought
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"We know that farmers are having bad times, and whero they are reasonable and explain to us their position, we try to meet them. Wo never pro- secato in really genuine cases of hardship.
So many rumours have' been current lately regard- ing monsters that have been and other uncivilized parts of the world that the Telegraph, in the interests of science, has decided to clear up the mystery.
No
one is more capable of gathering information about mons. ters than that brilliant young writer, Mr. Edward Kolly, and ho
to the
job. has been assigned During his Investigations Mr. of Kelly has visited all manner strange pinces, and his reports are printed below.
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Invorclachnafaraig, Doc. 1. For three whole days we have wandered from pub to pub, seeking information about the Monster. We obtained our first clue just after wo finlabed off our last toddle-but perhaps we had better make ourself clear.
To many of our young readers. that word Monster will convoy little or nothing. Married men, of course, will know" Instantly what we mean, but to the younger generation wo want to explain that a Monster is nothing more or less than a monster.
When we obtained our first ciuc, and they threw us out of the pub, we went and interviewed Mr. Sandy MeTosh, who, it had been reported, had often seen the Monster.
Mr. McTosh explained that he the prehistoric invariably, saw animal after three swigs of a** special brow he concocted himself, We took three swigs, and discover. ed that his Monster was nothing but a cross between a hippogrif and the fabled wyvern. As we saw several of these animals our- self in Hongkong Just after St. Andrew's Day, we did not pursue our investigation in that direction any further.
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"But many of those who pro- test so loudly against tithe are
Linkumdoddie, Dec. 5. quite able to pay. They say It For three whole days we have is a matter of principle, and been diligently. parauing reporta dzevill have become so fanatical about that. a photograph of the Lochi it that they cannot see that if Ness monster mxisted in Linkums pata you abolish tithe-ownership, youdoddie, the centre of the Clan should abolish land-ownership MacWhirter. ns well."
It matters not If the farmer is his farm, and expects to go on In his annual report on agricul-
"If the Government abolished tural conditions to the President, forced, by the economic deproshaving in cut at it! Mr. Henry Wallace, Secretary of alon, to turn to pasturage the land
titheor even amended. it in There has been bitter strife in the U.S. Agriculture Department, which grew profit-making corn 100
principle then it would have to the usually peaceful countryside has put forward an economic thesis years ago. If he grows nothing
reform all property laws. For tithe is a property. of England over the tithe ques- which will or should cause earnest on it at all-leaves it fallow or thinking in the United States. An keeps a couple of goats-the fixed tion during the past year. What important cross-road is just ahead tithe payment has to be paid.
There is the basis of his com- tithes are, and to and by whom and America will soon be forced to
form of they are payable, is explained in make a choice of the direction to plaint. If tithe were
be followed. If industrialism is to income tax, varying with the pro- an article on this page to-daybe regarded as of primary impor- duce of the soll, as, indeed, it was The situation has been aggravat-tance, if mass production and the before 1926, he would shoulder ed by the fact that some eleven exportation of surplus manufac the traditional burden with good thousand farmers at one time tures is regarded as best for the grace just because he believes In- pledged themselves
country, a complete volte face inherently in, most traditions. to resist tarif polley must áčcompany any payments. Within a period of programme to that
end.
But in 1925 tlthe payments were l a few months, nearly five thou-
stabilised by Act of Parliament at sand warrants for distraint were
the high price-level existing in issued in the county courts, but
the boom years of the twenties. not ten per cent, of them have
The bottom has fallen out of the been executed. The agitation
agricultural market since then. for the abolition of tithes is tionalism or a stated compromise A policy of passive resistance
The President of the National being fomented by people who between the two. As he describes was adopted towards those who belleve that if a sufficient num-It: If we follow the international wished to execute distraints, with Tithepayers Association, The Rev. R. M. Kedwardi, points out that success. Now that ber of tithe-payers refuse to programme, we must receive great enormous pay, they will gain their end. quantities of goods from abroad and limited company has been formed the Nonconformist churches sup- must not be disturbed by the clam- to deal in tithe goods" passive port their ministers, without levy- That, however, is not the way our of people who are hurt thereby resistance is proving difficult. ing unjust demands on others.
does not During the past-four-days-we- Country people are resorting to The Methodist Church
expect Anglican congregations to have passed through adventures violence.
seldom encountered оп this The other day 40 policemen had pay for their ministry....
"Tithe is an intolerable bur-earth by mankind. We are now in to be hired to help seize three fat
den. In hundreds of cases the the heart of the Highlands where bullocks for tithe,
whole profits of farming are Haiga, Clan MacDowars and other the Glan Johnny MacWalkers, Clan swallowed up in these tithe pay celebrated leaders have their head-
AMERICA'S CHOICE
Amerien must decide quickly and firmly, argues Mr. Wallace between econontic nationalism or interna
things are usually done in Eng-If we follow the national pro- land. There are legal issues in-gramme, we must resolutely plan volved, in which connexion it has to keep 60,000,000 acres of land ont to be remembered that by an of use, no matter how loud may be Act of 1925 provision was made the outery of certain carrying. for the extinction of tithes by handling, processing and exporting means of a sinking fund in interests. If we decide to lower alghty-five years. Under this our tariff only part way and reduce our acreage only part way, We Act and another which was must have the courage to do sulll passed in 1918, tithe-payers will cient of both so that the job is
other words. have to pay. some fourteen done. In
urban millions sterling less than under America must decide in part what the old system. If the question kind of a rural America it wants is closely examined, it will be for a hinterland. conceded that both the farmers
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and the Church have a case NEVER BOTH WAYS which demands consideration. If industrial America wants to The farmers' case is, broadly,buy the food and cotton products of the case of all debtors whose the American farmer at a world obligations have remained fixed market price it must be prepared to in money terms during a period sell its own poducts to him at par of falling money prices and with world competition. Or if it money incomes. The real bur- wants a tariif-protected home mar- ket and an alienated foreign market den upon debtors has risen steep it should not grumblo at paying ly, in some, cases intolerably, an increased price to the farmer Upon farmers the burden is for his grain and meat and cotton probably worse than 'the aver-even though it be through a pro- age, since the incomes of many cessing tax. Instead of an import of them have probably fallen duty. The alternative ls American more than the average. The farm serfdom which would neither case for the Church is the case be wholesome nor, in the long run, safe for the cities. Labour has its of all creditors who ask that con-unions and Industry Its corporate tractual obligations must not be
and
Anancial integration. But set aside, and who plead that these should not be allowed to ex- the maintchance of such COTI- ploit their advantages unless they tracts is bound up with their permit government aid in the ra welfare. Here it must be borne tionalisation of apriculture, which in mind that the tithe is no new by its scattered and Individualistic thing; every farmer has known, nature has never been able to or when taking over. a farm, that Banise Itself. A sound economate there were tithe obligations to union cannot exist half protected
by organisation and tariffa be met. These obligations are half exposed to chaos and world sur every bit as legal as the rent he pluses. undertakes to pay. Another point is that Parliament has provided machinery for reducing
The logic behind Mr. Wallace's the tithe in times of agricultural argument is difficult to resist. It depression, but it has not given means that the United States, to be the Church or other creditors a creditor country, must play the corresponding right to increase role of creditor in her international payment in times of comparative commercial relations and givo“ up prosperity. The problem which the debtor psychology, which de- now rasts on the Government le manda an excess of exports over to effect a nettlement which will imports. And what a remarkable mitigate the burden on farmers corroboration it is of the British and yet avoid injustice to the eles have been the principal factor argument that America's past poll- Church. That will admittedly in the breakdown of International bo a difficult task, but it is ono debt payments. In the final analy- which will have to be faced.
als, payment of debts must always
PAYMENT IN KIND
be expected in kind,
and
Whenever seizure is threatened. an army of farmers and their upon the scene workers appear armed with sticks and guns. In some cases, warlike barricades have been thrown up-tronches dug across farm approaches, and gates buttressed with three trunks, In one case wire was strung along the entrance gates, and electrified at a high voltage.
ments.
- "Originally titho was a form of income tax, and if it is to continue, it should vary with trade conditions, as does income
tax.
We arrived here today, and eventually succeeded in discover- sequent investigations have proved ing the photograph. But, sub. that it is an old portrait of Robert MacWhirter..
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Haggisburgh, Dec. 0.
and.
quarters. We have visited cach of them in search of our Monster. and have successfully, fought off sea-serpents, mermaide, dragons, pink elephants, English "Agriculture is the most hard- American pythons (the latter were identified by their horn. hit of all our industries. Why rinimed glasses and the former by should it be singled out to support their bell-topper hats) and other animals, But all theso we have. scen before. We are afraid our quest is hopeless, and, besides, our money is running out:
And in hundreds of rural com- the Church? This 'Christianity' munities the village parson, once (Continued on Page 4)
"Step on It, Duncan, I want to see what this old wagon
can do.
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Dawareness, Doc. 10. We have discovered the Moon- tor. The much lauded prehistoric animal of Loch Ness is none other than MRS. ELSPETH Mc- GURCHER, the well-known amphi- bious fim star.
For two whole weeks we have wandered about these heather- clad hills, diagulsed as a Scota- man, in the hopes of lighting upba some clue to the Idontity of this horror, but not until this morning, did we got a chance to unravel the mystery.
It appears that not long ago Mrs. McGurcher was approached by Alexander Korda, the famous producer, to appear in his next British film, "The Mystery of the.. Lake, and she has been prac ticing her, part..
Wo were privileged to interview the famous Monster just after she had returned from one of her swims..
wwe are told," we said, “that
"you swim up and down the 'Loch every morning before breakfast?"
"Och, nyo!" she said, “yo'ro jimpe on ramfeczled. I'ɛo uphaud oat sida o' a wallydralgle whiika whigmalcerlo,"
Exactly what we had thought, but we wanted to learn, the whole truth of the matter, so we enquired about the glaring, headlightë people had reported, istaka
***This a emoutlo smytrie, an thiery thucht a qualet wha douckit an' houl houkit the haffins," is't.
non
We agreed, and terminated the interview, before, It was too late,