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NEWFOUNDLAND
The tremendous fight in Parlia ment distinguished by the raro. development of an all-night sitting about the Government's scheme for handling the affairs of New- foundland is not necessarily tor- minated by the appointment of the Commission which is to take over the reins of government, thereby establishing what is virtually a Dictatorship. The arrangement is
ANYTHING?
By A. P. HERBERT
The Very Idea!
MORE SAFETY FIRST
By Eddie Kelly, Tay-walker,
IVE a day a bad name..." Metropolis Water Act we might ALTHOUGH
Gr is one of the first rules of ve
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political strategy.
The poet singa of "golden glasses" and "beaded bubbles."
THE DANGEROUS LIQUIDS (METROPOLIS) ACT.
Milk, although I like the stuff,
a peculiar one. Britain shouldors The Fronchman and the Italian is, I believe, from all they say, give glorious names to their wines more dangerous than alcohol.
Chateau Nouf du Pape and
Newfoundland's financial respon- sibilities and lovias taxation on its
inhabitants, the rate for Income tax and so on being settled by the House of Commons.
LABOUR ATTACK
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- Champagne does not have to betain its fair name as a legi pastourised, Inspected, tested,
Lacrima Christi.
But the British logislator calls graded, and so forth, in order to timate tourist resort, where it "intoxicating liquor," whether it prevent the aptead of tuberculosis. there is plenty of big game
I have never heard of a man be Lacrima Christl or a glass of stout. And this is one reason why getting tuberculosis from a glass hunting in motor cars, we our laws are so different from the of beer. The cow, in short, la have got to face the facts.
more dangerous than the cup. Let
If we cannot provide sport for
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The door is thus open to the re-laws of the French.
All the language of the Stig- us have a Bill about tuberculous newal of the controversy com- menced by the Labour Party when ginses of these days is cunningly beasts. Instead of the Milk and motorists on the same scale as calculated to make us feel guilty. Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915
the Newfoundland Bill was intro- duced. As the result of tho mis government of past administra tlons, Britain's oldest Dominion has been brought to a state of of bankruptcy and the standard life of the people to a level which, Bald Mr. Neville Chamberlain, it is difficult to contemplate with any
thing like complacency. Major
Attlee challenged the plans of the Britlah Government on the score that the plight of the unemployed In Britain had falled to disturb the Government's complacancy, and that the chief effect of the financial programme was to thrust an justiflable burden on the British taxpayer in the interests of banks and bondholders, chiefly American.
Hongkong Telegraph. BRITISH MONEY
TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1934.
MANCHUKUO RECOGNITION ISSUE
·
un-
The Royal Commission, it will be recalled, declared that the mor- chants of Newfoundland had con- ducted their businesses without regard to the true interests of the country in a spirit of pure in- dividualism," and that "little can be expected of private enterprise in present circumstances." There seems ground, therefore, for com- for-plaint against steps which protect the interests of moneylenders while guaranteeing no alteration in the economic structure. Already £650.. 000 has been advanced, which oft 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 seo the Dominion default.
SPEED OF LIGHT."
tourists simply will not come
A man who sells a bottle of port (which is all about tuberculosis Shanghai and Manila, the is partaking in "the liquor traffic." and the sanitary authority) let us
"Frame" is a terrible word. It have a nice new means a form of trading which is sinister and wicked.
Then there is "redundant." What a word!
BACILLIFEROUS BEVERAGES (TUBERCULOSIS) ACT.
And over the door of every dalry
here.
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 cyus Then, I think, the milk-drinker of his contemporaries elsewhere.
When they want to get rid of a let there be "conspicuously fixed public-house they do not say that or painted" the name of the it is riotous, disorderly, or the licenseo: "Licensed to sell bacil- haunt of drunkards. They do not liferous beverages." even say that a great deal of "alcohol" Is consumed there, would not be able to give himself They simply say that the licenco such airs. is "redundant," which means,
deficient in strangely enough, that very little have been telling us what feeds designed to make the streets of
Hongkong safe for motorista. acid, starchy, alcohol is being consumed there, are indigestible, So it is "redundant" unnecessary. nutritive value,
In fact, under our rules, if you And that is how the little old fattening, what-not. We do not fashioned houses with character care a boot so long as we are get run over the onus is on you well; wo go 'on eating what.wo and quaintness are killed off. like, though we know (or ought to prove that you didn't throw If they said: "This is a quiet, to know) that we may be laying yourself under the wheels just old house where very little drink- ing is done," the answer would be: un trouble for the future. I often to annoy the driver,
wonder, why the doctor's prohibi- Then why in the world should it tions have never been translated be interfered with?" But when into law. the poor, quaint little place in called "redundant" It sounds dis gusting, and accordingly is extin guished.
We live therefore drawn up a The doctora, for many years, new set of foot traffic regulations
If you do not believe how much
Why, for example, is there no FATTENING FOODS ACT?
Why are not all foods classified mere words affect our opinions and labelled by the law and taxed and our laws you must play my! like "intoxicating liquors," accord- new game. Think of something ing to their. capacity to do harm? you want to stop, give it a ques-
It will be necessary, if our rulca are adopted, for pedestrians to carry number plates, tail lights, bumper bars, head lights, and all the paraphernalia usually as Eociated with motoriats.
Taipana living on the Peak, of course, will be able to indulge Lobster, for example, our de-in such luxuries as rear vision mirrors, ornamental mascots, and
tion-begging epithet and draft anlicious lobster--there would have imaginary
of Parliament to be a special Act about him: against it.
Act
intoxicates:
Wine sometimes that is, "poisons." Therefore, on the Statute Book, all wine is al- ways "intoxicating liquor."
THE INDIGESTIBLE
CRUSTACEANS ACT.
The first kiss of young love may be to others but a germ-distribu-
shields and snubbers boots.
on their
Three grounds are put ward by the London Morning Post in urging early recognition of Manchukuo by Britain. These are that the new State 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 aecure a share of the trade of the New State once security and peace are assured. None of these, when looked into closely, provides anything approaching sufficient reason for recognition. The fact that Manchukuo, 25 a for puppet State, has existed close on two years in no sense changes its real status. All that has occurred is that, to use the
"It shall not be lawful for any words of the Lytton Report,
person to possess, drive, or travel Jupan has seized a large area of
in a homicidal vehicle (within the indisputably Chinese territory, mics and politics are only partly meaning of the Dangerous Locomo- tion Act, 1931, an amended by the and has been able to hold on to true. Now, just to symbolise the
Road-Slaughter and Homicidal it. China's inability to wrest perplexity of the era, comes the re 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, registored, --and--carpagne Her father-kissed-her
The famous Michelson speed-of-tified..." Recognition, on the other hand, light measurements have been Suppose that in every "running-| would be acquiescence in Japan's policies, which have been so roundly condemned by a tral investigating commission. Equally, to cite the proposed as sumption of Emperor's rank by
Women will affect those snappy new models with slogans over their number plates, like: "If you Now, suppose that your favour-ting gesture.
What one calls the lovely violin can read this, you're far too. Ite enemy is the motor-car. Motor-
close!" or perhaps it would be cars sometimes kill men; suppose may be to another but a nerve-
'better to hand the "Safety First" that we called them not motor- racking instrument, cars, but "homicidal vehicles." The high-souled temperance re-stickers to them. Suppose that there were statutes formors do not like to be called
killjoys (which is vory often an The more porily will find like this:
unfair appellation) but they would solace in the new scheme of things to affect rumble THE HOMICIDAL VEHICLES ACT,like still less to see themselves by being able
labelled in a Bill an Vexatious seats, Agitatora or Pleasure-Diminishers. Let us have less of these ques- tion-begging phrases. They make life too difficult. Consider this passage:
The world seems to be in the middle of an era in which nearly all the old certainties are getting wobbly on their bases. The United States has been trying to get us Inured to the idea that the things we used to be certain of in econo-
neu- on
1933.
"The band of the Coldstream Guards played national airs. The bride was toasted in cham-
and the happy couple drove away to happiness in a milk- white car."
two down" ense it was common form for the policeman to say not "I
A charming picture. But cer- it saw defendant in charge of a tain persons would describe motor-car" but "Defendant was thus: employing a homicidal vehicle..."
finished Pasadena by
nt scientists who have been working them ever since Professor Michelson's death in 1931; and they have made the amazing dis- covery that the speed of light is not constant, but fluctuates.
*
Mr. Pu Yi as a reason for ro- cognition is again to ignore the realities of the situation. This | SYPTOMATIC development, no less than the
The interesting thing about this creation of Manchukuo itself, is that modern physics has con has been .80 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 which is absolute. But the pains- stance nor the other has there taking experiments at Pasadena been the least Indication of the have shown variations ranging people of Manchuria being con- through a margin of some 12 miles aulted; 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 ren-langer, Moat people, of course, son advanced-that recognition not being physicists and neither would be advantageous to Bri- understanding nor caring vory tish trade interests places the much about such things, will live on quite unworried by this dis- isque on the lowest possiblecovery. And yet the thing has an ground, that of material benefit, aplaces, a peculiar and Ironic 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 walls of life. the guin would be extremely problematical, since any benefit secured would be more than
WORLD COMPLEXITIES
offset by the adverse reactions market crash of 1929 the world has Ever since the American stock felt in China toward any step by been discovering that most of the Britain. which amounted to old rules and standards by which. endorsement of Japan's plans. society was made to work are re- Beyond all those considerations, fusing to function any more. The however, is another and much framework of modern society has more vital one. Premature re- become enormously complex and in- cognition of States brought, into volved; and no-one has discovered being under such circumstances the formula for smooth working. Russia is trying one method, Ger- as those which led to the crea- many another, England another, tion of Manchukuo would, in and America still another. All effect, be 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 there are no hard and fast the territory of weaker nations, rules. There are no certainties in Hold on thereto until public in- they have yet to be found. Now this modern world-or, if there are, dignation has subsided sonic-
comes the upsetting of the last what, and then proceed to con-
scientiae constant, to complete the solidate their gains, without any story. It is no longer possible to expectation of interference. A any how far the earth is from the moro dangerous doctrine could sun without the possibility of
challenge, hardly be imagined.
We should all feel ashamed when we went to the Motor Show.
Water, sometimes, harbours the germs of typhoid and diphtheria, and milk the bacillus or what-not of tuberculosis (none of these germs and things, I bellove, has much of a time in intoxicating liquors). So that instead of the
"A party of nerve-racking Instrument players performed certain redundant melodies hav- ing Jingo associations. Those presont 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 6.).
"We are having all our grandchildren over for a real old. fashioned evening."
The 1934 model pedestrian, with syncromesh gears, will be a re- velation to motorists.
And think of the newspapers. How they'd scoff up news like this:
Police are scearing 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 exciting case in Queen's Road Central, last night. Inalcad of surrendering to the police, however, the callous pedes. trian got up and bolted.
It is people like this who are fast making the roads of our Colony Incidents unsafe for motorista such as this are a worry commentary on our boosted police system."
John Aldermerythr Nearlisnuffed was charged at the Central Magis tracy this morning with walking on a footpath 'onder the influence of liquor and with furious loliering. Inspector Soup said that defendant had taken 26 minutes to pass the dosra of the Hongkong Hotel. He had is tail light on in front, de- fective brakes and an air of in- solence. Fined $50 and pedestrian's Heence endorsed to permit him only to walk in Kowloon,
Of course, pedestrians will have to be registered. This will be on a weight basis, and only tho wealthy will be able to afford to bo fat.
Examinees will have to do monstrate a knowledge of the first three books of Euclid, and 'ari ag- quaintance with the chief fuelling stations on the mainland and island. These will include, of course, the Gloucester, the Hong- kong Hotel, the Peninsula and Repulse Bay,
INSIGHT INFORMATION' "And Shanghai, how wore things
up there?"!
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fond
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