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NOTES OF THE DAY DO YOU WANT TO STOP The Very Idea!
NEWFOUNDLAND
ANYTHING?
By A. P. HERBERT
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66NIVE a day a bad name... Motropolis Water Act we migh
"G. Very barst sales of have
political strategy.
The tremendous fight in Parlia- ment distinguished by the rare development of niz nilinight sitting-
about the Government's scheme for handling the affairs of New foundland is not necessarily ter- minated by the appointment of the Commission which is to take over the ruins of government, thereby Dictatorship? The arrangement is a peculiar one. Britain shoulders Nawfoundland's 'financial respon- sibilities and levies taxation on ItsChateau Neuf du Pape and
The post sings of golden
establishing what is virtually a glasses" and "beaded bubulos."" (METROPOLIS) ACT,
Inhabitants, the rate for Income tax and so on being settled by the House of Commons.
LABOUR ATTACK
`THE DANGEROUS LIQUIDS
Milk, although I like the staff, The Frenchman and the Italian, I believe, from all they sau, give glorious siamos to their wines more dangerous than alcohol.
Lacrima Christi, mi
But the British legislator calls "Intoxicating liquor, whether It
Faws of the French.
Champagne does not have to be
pasteurised, inspected, "tested, graded, and so forth, in order to prevent the spread of tuberculosis. be Lacrima Christi or a glass of I have never heard of a man stout. And this is one reason why getting tuberculosis from a glass our laws are so different from the of beer. The cow, In short, is more dangerous than thé, cup, Lot All the language of the Stig- us have a Bill about' tuberculous ginges of these days is cunningly beasts. Instead of the Milk and calculated to make us feel guilty. Dairice (Consolidation) Act, 1916 A man who selle a bottle of port (which is all about tuberculosis partaking in "the liquor tranle." and the sanitary authority) let us "Trafile" is a terrible word. It have a nice new menns a form of trading which is sinister and wicked,
The door is thus open to the re- newal of the controversy...com-. menced by the Labour Party when the Newfoundland Bill was intro duced. As the result of the mis- government of phat administrais Lions, Britain's oldest Dominion has been brought to a stato of bankruptcy and the standard of life of the people to a level which, sald Mr. Neville Chamberlain," it is difficult to contemplate with any-
thing like complacency. Major
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Then there is "redundant." What a word!
BACILLIFEROUS BEVERAGES (TUBERCULOSIS) ACT. And over the door of every dairy let there be "conspicuously fixed When they want to get rid of a public-house they do not say that or painted", the name of the it is riotous, disorderly, or the licensee: "Licensed to sell bacil haunt of drunkards. They do not liferous beverages."
Then, I think, the milk-drinker even say that a great deal of "alcohol" is consumed there. would not be able to give himself They simply say that the licence such airs.
A
MORE SAFETY FIRST
By Eddie Kelly LTHOUGH we have been
ordered to get some- thing out on "Safety First," we personally deprecate all this fuss and bother.":
If Hongkong wants to re- tain its fair name as a legi- timate tourist resort, where there is plenty of big game hunting in motor carb, we have got to face the facts. · If we cannot provide sport for motorists on the same scale as Shanghai and Manila, the tourists.simply will not come
hero.
All this police propaganda telling pedestrians How to avoid we motorists is, to
say the least, injudicious, and calculated to lower the prestige of the Hongkong motorist in the eyes of his contemporaries elsewhere,
We have therefore drawn up a new set of foot traffic-regulations
Attien challenged the plans of the British Government on the score, that the plight of the unemployed in Britain had failed to disturb the Government's complacancy, and that the chief effect of the financial programme was to thrust an un- justifiablo burden' on the British strangely enough, that very little have been telling us what foods designed to make the streets of
taxpayer in the interests of banks and bondholders, chiefly American.
Hongkong Telegraph. BRITISH MONEY
TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1984,
18 "redundant," which means, Tho doctors, for many. years,
alcohol is being consumed there, are
in
Indigestible, deficient it is "redundant" unnecessary; nutritive value, acid, starchy, And that is how the Httle old-fattening, what-not. We do not fashioned houses with character caro a hoot-go, long as we are well; we go on eating what we and quaintness are killed off.
If they said: "This is a quiet, to know) that we may be laying like, though we know (or ought The Royal Commission, it will old house where very little drink-up trouble for the future. I often bo recalled, declared that the mer- ing is done," the answer would be: wonder why the doctor's probibl- chants of Newfoundland had con- "Then why in the world, should it tions have never been translated ducted their businesses "without be interfered with?" But when into law. regard to the true interests of the the poor, quaint little place lo country in a spirit of pure in-called "redundant it sounds dis- dividualism," and that "little con gusting, and accordingly is extin- bo expected of private enterprise guished. in present circumstances." There for-plaint against steps which protect neems ground, therefore, for com- the interests of moneylenders while guaranteeing no alteration in the economic structure, Already £550.-
MANCHUKUO RECOGNITION ISSUE
Three grounds are put ward by the London Morning Post in urging early recognition of Manchukuo by Britain.
Why, for example, is there no FATTENING FOODS, ACTI
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Hongkong safe for motorists..
- In fact, under our rules, if you get run over the onus is on you
yourself under the wheels just . to prove that you didn't throw
to annoy the driver.
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It will be necessary, If our rules ury adopted, for pedestrians to curry number plates, tall lights, bumper bars, head lights, and all the paraphernalia usually as If you do not believe how much Why are not all foods classifiedsociated with motorista. and our laws you must play my mere words affect our opinions and labelled by the law and taxed like "Intoxicating liquors," accord- new game. Think of something ing to their capacity to do harm? Lobster, for example, our der you want to stop, give it a ques-
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as rear
Talpana living on the Peak, of course, will be able to indulgo in such luxuries
vision
shields and snubbers on their boots.
These are that the new State 000 has been advanced, which Mr. tion-begging epithet and draft an icious lobster there would have mirrors, ornamental mascots, and
Chamberlain admitted might be considered as lost to the British taxpayer, and the figure may be quadrupled in the course of the next two years. The taxpayer may well feel he has some grievance, but it is a position he is probably pre- pared to accept rather than ace the Dominion default.
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SPEED OF LIGHT.
SYPTOMATIC
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imaginary against it.
.
CRUSTACEANS ACT.
Act of Parliament to be a special Act about him:
THE INDIGESTIBLE Wine sometimes. Intoxicates; that is, "poisons." Therefore, on the Statuto Book, all wine is al-j The first kiss of young love may be to others but a germ-distribu- ways "Intoxicating liquor."
like this:
1933.
and cer-
We should all feel ashamed: when we went to the Motor Show. Water, sometimes, harbours the germe of typhoid and diphtherlo, and milk the bacillus or what-not germs and things, I believe, has of tuberculosis (none of these much of a time in intoxicating liquors). So that instead of the
Women will affect those snappy their number plates, like: "If you new models with slogans over
can read this, you're far too close or perhaps it would be. better to hand the "Safety First" stickers to them
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ayncromesh gears, will be a re The 1934 model podestrian, with
velation to motorists.
4.
How they'd scoff up news like And think of the newspapers.
The band of the Coldstream Guards played national airs-this- The bride was toasted in cham- pagne. Her father kissed her and the happy couple drove away to happiness in a-milk- white car,"
A charming picture. But cer- persons, would describe . It
"A party of nerve-racking instrument players performed certain redundant molodles hav- ing Jingo associations. Those, present consumed intoxicating liquor. The female party to the contract was exposed to infec tion by germiferous embraces, and both parties proceeded to a
(Continued on Page 7.).
Police are scouring the Peak for another hit and run pedestrian- the tenth reported this month. He was knocked down by that well- known local motorist, Mr. Edward Kelly," "after- 'an, éxelting cass in Queen's Road Central last night." Instead of surrendering to the police, however, the callous pedes- trian got up and bolted.
has evidently come to stay, that Mr. Pu Yi is about to be elevated to the rank of Emperor, and that Britain might be expected to secure a share of the trade of the New State once security and
Now, suppose that your favour-ting gesture, peace are assured. None of
ite enemy is the motor-car. Motor-į What one calls the lovely violin these, when looked into closely,
cars sometimes kill men; suppose may be to another but a norve provides anything approaching
that we called them not motor- racking instrument. sufficient reason for recognition.
cars, but "homicidal vehicles." The high-souled temperance re The fact that Manchukuo, as a
Suppose that there were statutcs farmers do not like to be called killjoys (which is very often, an
The moro portly will and puppet State, has existed for The world seems to be in the
unfair appellation) but they would solace in the new echeme of things close on two years in no sense middle of an era in which nearly THE HOMICIDAL VEHICLES ACT, like still less to see themselves by being able to affect rumble changes its real status. All that all the old certainties are getting
labelled in a Bill as Vexatious seats. has occurred is that, to use the States has been trying to get us wobbly on their bases. The United
Agitators or Pleasure-Diminishers. "It shall not be lawful for any words of the Lytton Report, inured to the idea that the things person to posscas, drive, or travel tion-begging phrases. They make Let us have less of these ques- Japan has seized a large area of we used to be certain of in econo- in a homicidal vehicle (within the life too difficult. Consider this indisputably Chinese territory, mica and politica aro only partly meaning of the Dangerous Locomo- passage: and has been able to hold on to true. Now, just to symbolise the tion Act, 1081, as amended by the it. China'a inability to wrest perplexity of the era, comes the re-Road Slaughter and Homicidal back the territory is no condona port that the last certainty of Vehicle Act,-etc.,) unless he be duly tion of its improper seizure. science has also gone by the board. licensed, registered, Recognition, on the other hand, light measurements have bean
The famous Michelson speed-of-tifled..." would be acquiescence in Japan's finished at Pasadena by two down" case it was common form Suppose that in every "running- policies, which have been 80 scientists who have been working for the policeman to say not "I roundly condemned by a neu-on them ever since Professor saw defendant in charge of atain tral. investigating commission, Michelson's death in 1931; and motor-car" but "Defendant was thus: Equally, to cite the proposed as they have made the amazing dis employing a homicidal vehicle. .. sumption of Emperor's rank by covery that the speed of light is Mr. Pu Yi as
not constant, but fluctuates. a reason for re cognition is again to ignore the realities of the situation. This | development, no less than the creation of Manchukuo itself, is that modern physics has con-
The interesting thing about this] has been so blatantly stage sidered the velocity of light to be managed that it can deceive no practically the only thing in the one who has followed the course universe which never changes. of events during the past two
Even Einstein's relativity theory years. In neither the one in Assumes that this speed is a factor stance nor the other has there which is absolute. But the pains- been the least indication of the have shown variations ranging taking experiments at Pasadena people of Manchuria being con- through a margin of some 12 miles sulted; the whole business has a second and the lone certainty in' been carried out, according to modern physics is a certainty no plan, by Japan. The third rea- longer. Most people, of course, son advanced-that recognition not being physicists and neither would be advantageous to Bri understanding nor caring very tish trade Interests-places the on quite unworried by this dis much about such things, will live issue on the lowest possible covery. And yet the thing has an ground, that of material benefit. aptness, a peculiar" and "Tronic But even from this standpoint, timeliness, that makes it stand as which assuredly cannot be the an illustration of the perplexities dominating factor in such a case, of the times in all walks of life.. the gain would be extremely problematical, since any benefit WORLD COMPLEXITIES secured would be more than offset by the adverse reactions felt in China toward any step by Britain which amounted to endorsement of Japan's plans. Beyond all these considerations, however, is another and much more vital one. Premature re- cognition of States brought into being under such circumstances
Ever since, the American stock market crash of 1829 the world has old rules and standarde by which been discovering that most of the society was made to work are re fusing to function any more. The framework of modern society has become enormously complex and in- volved; and no-one has discovered the formula for smooth working. as those which led to the crea- many another, England another Russia is trying one mothod, Ger tion of Manchukuo would, in and America still another. All effect, bo an intimation to
are experimenting, and are doing.
aggressively-minded Powers that so because of a sudden discovery
all they need to do is to seize that thore, ara no hard and fast the territory of weaker nations, rules. There are no certainties in hold on thereto. until publié in this modern world or, if there are, dignation has subsided some- they have yet to be found. Now what, and then proceed to con- scientific constant, to complete the comes the upsetting of the last solidate their gains, without any story. It is no longer possible to expectation of interference. A say how far the earth is from the moro" dangerous doctrine could sun without the possibility of hardly be imagined.
challenge.
We are having all our grandchildren over for, a real old-,
fashioned evening.”
It is people like this who are *fast making the roads of our Colony unsafe for motoriste, Incidents such as this are a sorry commentary on our boosted police system.
John Aldermorythr Nearlsnuffed was charged at the Central Magis tracy this morning with walking on","
footpath under the influence of liquor and' with furious loitering. Inspector Boup, said that defendant had taken 25 minutes to pass" the, g doors of the Hongkong Hotel He had his tall-light on in front, de- fective brakes add mi air of ini wolence Fined $50 and pedestrian's licence endorsed to permit him only to walk in Kowloon,
Of course, pedestrians will have. to ho registered. This will be on a weight basis, and only the wealthy, will be able to afford to bo fat.
Examioges will have; "to do- monstrate a knowledge of the first. three books of Euclid, and an ae- quaintance, with thổ chief fuelling › stations on the mainland and island. Thean will include, of courao, the Gloucester the Hong. kong Hotel, the Peninsula and Repulsa Bay
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