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Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf? (V.R.) F.T. B-6411 1 was in the mood-Foxtrot

Thanks (Film "Too much Harmony") Foxtrot B-6413 Goodnight, little girl of my dreams-Waltz

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1984,

ROOSEVELT PREFERS DISCRETION

JANUARY

1934

NOTES OF THE DAY NAVAL DICTATORSHIP The Very Idea!

WATER SUPPLY.

The whole question of the local method of water distribution

ส

Involved In the petition which

MUST CEASE

SPOT OF MUSIC By Eddie Kelly, Quaver

THAT with our Philhar- monics and ̈ ́ ̄`A.D.C's.

spitting on their hands and getting ready for the forth- coming season, we think it's about time for us to issue a clarion call or two.

Why not a Music-Week for Hongkong?

Chinese property owners have pre By Lt. Commander Kenneth Edwards R.N. (Retd.) sented to the Government. In | general, they are bound to receive THE demand for a stronger size and cost of craisors wero A sympathetic hearing: Tho issue United States Navy made by doubled, and the maximum aizo has been brought to a head by Mr. Swanson, Secretary for the allowed became at once the min- economic pressure, the tendency to Navy, in bla annual report was imum size for such ships. lower rentals, the existence of prefaced by the statement that tho' many empty flate, with excess United States could no longer water consumption varying littio, afford to give a lead in Disaruia The colossal size and cost of having brought about a position ment since other Powers were capital ships are also the outcome of this Dictatorship. Both at where charges for such excess con- not following auit.

Washington and our proposals sumption are undoubtedly out of

Now, the measure of Naval Disto the Disarmament Conforanca at nit-proportion to property rovenuo, There is clearly something radi- armament of the three major Geneva we urged that capital ships cally wrong when, as in one case Navics is shown by the following should be limited, either to 25,000 quoted, a landlord is required to gures: Since 1914 the British tona mounting 12 inch guns or to pay to Government in rates and Navy has been reduced By 47 por 22,000 tons mounting 11 inch guns, excess water charges nearly 70% cunt, in ships un to ir cent in depending upon whether the maxi- of his gross ront revenue. This personnel. The United States Navy mum gun calibra for cruisers was to case piny exaggerate the situation has been increased by 20 per cent.be & Inches or 6 inches. These pro- on average but. It shows vividly In aliips and 60 per cent. in men., posals, which, if accepted, would how the anomalies of the local creased by 87 per cent, in ships and cost and power of fighting ships The Japanese Navy has boon in have. reduced. by one third the water supply svatom can operate 74 per cent. in men. The infer-and so produced 4, concrete con Why is music weak? It's against the Individual,

ence is obvious, The Secretary of tribution towards Disarmament, the conductors that cause it. the United States Navy is awayed were countered by the United. by anxiety regarding Japanese States, with her reverence for size Batoning on the music in- naval activity

in all things. Our proposals,dustry. "Competitive armaments appear,

which, if backed by our old time therefore, to be the measure of the prestige, would have been accept- Look at all the unemploy- or fails to make, for consumers in gulf between the theoretical aims ed, were promptly shelved. Thus, tenements. "Free" allowances of of Disarmament and its practical at American Dictatorship, the bat- ed musicans at Home, too.

TENEMENT CONSUMERS

Chief complaint, of course, is centred upon the Inoquity of the ayatem in the provision it makes,

Why is Music Weak? Be- cause it's always in bara. (Roars of applause).

You really want to know

water aro'nut based upon the numresults. The Naval Treaties of fleship standard remains at 80,000-Poor fellows, with hardly a

for a

Naval "Dictatorship," which is, inf practice If not in intention, des- tructive to the security of the British Empire.

ber of consumers but upon the Washington and, London have, tons, mounting 16 inches guns and. rateable value of the properties. Indeed, been responsible

costing £7,000,000 per ship. atitch to their backs, and the Thus it may so happen, and does,

Another example of Naval Die- only way they can get a bit of that a household of five or six per

latorships was the mannor in beef is to cornet." (Angry sons may be allowed as much free

which the United States naked the water as a toremont in which fifty

murmurs. other signatories to the Washing- or alxty people reside. Hygienic

ton Treaty for leave to break that necessities do not enter into off-

Someone once said that a Treaty with regard to the recon- cial calculations. Admittedly, the task of placing the system of dis- Dictatorship in matters naval, in Washington

There is always something of struction of capital ships. The country without music was un-

Treaty specifically tribution on a fairer basis, accord that one nation, by building ships stated that no capital ship was to

civilized. ing to needs, presents a well-nigh of a certain, size and power, dic-be altered except in the strengthen-

Therefore, it's up to insoluble problem. Nothing short tates to the rest of the world the ing of deck armour and the fit public to bare its savage breast of a reconsideration of Govern size and power of warships cap-ing of anti-torpedo bulges. The and have it soothed with a jewish mont policy can affect an Improveable of meeting all comers on a United States were anxious to in- barn solo. We don't want to harp ship for ship basis. But in the crease the elevation of their guns. days before Disarmament such The other signatories agreed, and Dictatorship existed only where this reconstruction of the Ameri-

ment.

FYDCOR OPINION

movement

shows

Earl Jellicoe, who during the War found 127 cruisors insuffi clent, stated in the House of Lords

thu

on this but let it bassoon (Hlauts). onion, "Piccilo, what have I done?" Or, as the gherkin sald to the (Shricks of "Want our money' Bach!).

to teach us to sing "God Save The King" with passionate fervour at the conclusion of Helena Bay concerts, and gasps of relief on emerging will be emitted in a tauch more musical manner than here24.

The Hongkong system is con- Germany was concerned. Such can battle flest is being carried demned by nearly all experts on the power and prestige of the out at a cost of some £37,000,000. Water Supply, although it is prob-British Navy that other nations Japan replied to this Dictatorship able that the peculiar local condi- built only to their actual require by including similar reconstruc The greatest picures of our tions are paralleled in few places ments, secure in the knowledge tion of capital ships tu her now times, who have put up all the elacwhere and that the criticisms that the two-Power British Navy programme,

beat epics so far, have been fond of muslo. offered in general might be modistood for the preservation of peace

The London Naval Treaty of Expectations that President fed in a particular instance. It is and the protection of the weak.

From New York Lindberg flute Roosevelt might lay his cards on argued, very rightly, that water But now all that is changed. Dis. 1930 increased Naval Dictatorship

did urmament has produced parity, and

more to undermine Paris. Consider Sutcliffe's baton. the table, when he addressed being a human necessity should the soil in which Naval Dictator British sea power and prestige

not be paid for according to meter

These over than anything since the pacifiem Congress, have not been realised, record in the same manner as gas ship flourishes the world

are cymbals of nchlovement, In a lengthy utterance, he said or electricity. The method prob-And it is the British Empire, now of James 1. very little to indicate the pos- ably affects reductions in the shorn of the prestige which is the

We know that the Y.ML.C.A. sible nature of his plans for the quantity of water used and the prerogative of strength, which is

Choir is doing its best to future. Disappointment has consumer pays for the leakage or knuckling under to this Dictator

foster a love of music, in order that 70 cruisers must be consider- been expressed at this fact, but waste he permits to take place as ship at every turn. calm consideration' will suggest tem, howover, does not assist in Disarmament

well as the water he pses. The sys- A glance at the history of the e our "irreducible minimum." In the London Treaty a maximum that he probably had good and the detection of the teakage, some how this Naval Dictatorship was of 50 cruisers was dictated to us. adequate reasons for maintain- times enormous, which inevitably formed, and how its existence pro-Nor was this the full measure of ing this attitude of reserves occurs between the reservoir and duces the armament race which the disaster of this Treaty. Our Past experience in American the meter. Thus the whole of the it was the whole object of Con- delegates actually acquiesced in politics does not encourage the mains, joints, and ferrules conferences and Treaties to prevent, the Inclusion of a special clause to the effect that the British Em- revealing of future intentions. necting the service pipes with

It was at Washington in 1022 pire should replace only a propor- There are always big interests mains and the greater parts of the on the look-out for pointers, leakage without any compensating tore brought this Dictatorship in- This proviso does not apply to the for our daily glass of milk, would service pipes are still exposed to that the weakness of our negotiation of our obsolete cruisera. Home of which are not above return to the Water Authority. If to being, The British Empire other "High Contracting Parties," Lurning these to their own ad- the official object is the conserva- needs cruisera beyond the require- and means that we, alone among suggest that perhaps some little vantage and thus possibly frus- tion of available supplies, there is mants of any other nation,--and the nations,-are-hound-to-include some of our songs.

Improvement might be effected_in trating the ends aimed at. In a huge field to be covered without our experts considered that 7,000 no less than 28 per cent. of obao- the circumstances, President interfering with consumer sup-ton ships mounting 6 inch guns lete and worn out ships in our Roosevelt can hardly be blamed | plies.

would be sufficiently powerful. Inadequate cruiser fleet. But we allowed ourselves to be for displaying caution and large-

over-ruled by nations

Again, the London Treaty pro- colonial empires and by no means claimed a capital ship building so dependent upon overacas trade "holiday" until 1987. By that as ourselves. The 10,000 ton year-no-fewer than 12 of our 16 cruiser mounting 8 inch guna capital ships will have passed the made its appearance. Other na-agreed age limit of 20 years, tions atarted building these ships, Since Naval Dictatorship insists and we had to follow suit or risk on ships costing £7,000,000 apiece, Dictatorship had raised its head, hene ships within years of them great material inferiority. Navalit la impossible for us to replace

Mos-mee-mce-mee-mee-tinococca! and we followed meekly where it passing the age limit. The build-

DOH RAY ME FAH SO LAY was neither our wish nor to ouring "holiday" has placed us in a TEE DOH KAY UM TOO PHUT advantage to go. Moreover, so far truly appalling position, and one AM WHOA! from producing Disarmament, the (Continued on Page 5.)

ly contenting himself with lay-WORST EVIL ing claim to some measure of

The worst evil of the system, success in the plans which he however, is the circumstance that has already put into operation. treats water as an article of What he may have up his sleeve commerce to be paid for according he feels disinclined to reveal. to the quantity taken. In the or- The reforms, both social and in-ganisation of a sound water un- dustrial, which he has put in and it is only the leakage or occa

dertaking free use is encouraged, train have as yet hardly had a sional improper employment of chance of justifying themselves water that the Water Authority Actually, the Great Experiment seeks to suppress. The objection to is at, present in the transition the insanitary effect of the meter stage; it is too early in the day payment system has been sought to to pass Judgment. The partial be met by providing a fixed limited control of industry and finance quantity of water, assumed to be is apparently to continue, but value of the property. It fails to sufficient, based on the rateable there is no indication of any in-operate satisfactorily because of tention of extending the move housing congestion in many parts ment into anything approach- of the city of which no account is ing government dictatorship, taken. Glearly if the excess Whether the situation can be water payments are high-and adequately. met by these half since a revenue of $2,000,000 from

this source Is and-half measures remains to be

expected this year, little more need be said seen. There is ព school of the limit must be too low. thought which holds that There is obviously very good nothing short of absolute ground for the plea in, the government control of Chineso petition that the free al- industry and finance can lowance should be substantially produce satisfactory results. Increased. Were it doubled ns is Time will tell whether they are suggested, however, it would be right. In any event, President the further plea for a reduction in dificult within reason to support Roosevelt is under no delusions the charges for continued excess, regarding the deep-seated char- ncter of the problems which he CAPITAL OUTLAY has undertaken to solve. He professes ability, none the less,Government has been obsessed by The trouble here is that the to bring in a new and better or-considerations of capital outlay. der, based on the foundations apparently forgotting that it is already laid down, and to effect impossible to develop the re a much-needed balancing of the sources of the Colony, attract use- Federal Budget. Sectional in-ful citizens, without water. If. terests may be disappointed over the community as a whole refused Mr. Roosevelt's disinclination to pay excess chargoa to-morrow, elther to reveal his full intendovernment would still be obliged tlons or to make big promises have been made to hypnoting the to provide water. Yet attempts for the future, but Congress docs community into the ballof not seem disposed to give him a only that, naturally, the cost of chance to develop his policies reservoir construction and..so on along lines which he'deema wise must finally be met by the com- and prudent. The least that murity, the amount boing spread the politicians can do is to sed over a number of years, but that that the President is given a fair Government is entitled to a IO- turn on capital outlay-which is chance of making good.

absurd.

without

"We must got a larger apartment. - We're ruining this“

plano."

We, before going across the road

For instance: Clementina," etc,..

"Clémentina,

Much better would be, "Come to dinner! Come to dinner! Saveloys fried potates, Steak and mush- rooms, Johnny Walker, black coffes, a quart of Alsopps, etc.

Let us finish this thing, ap propriately:

Splendid!

SILLY SYMPHONY Here's to a Hongkong Rapper

The daughter of her maw No Singapore sling has touch-

ed her lips ..

She sucks it through a straw.

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