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By C. V.-L. for the Telegraph
EGARDING KWONG KAU-blending
The Very Idea!
A BIT OF GOVERNMENT As we have not much time this morning, we have decided to nobody write about a
It is surprising and cheering to note that, in spite of the heavy clouds In the international econ- umle and political sky of 1933, in at least one respect the Inter national Labour Organisation of the League of Nations was able to record for that year a phenomenal success. The intelligent reader is aware that, in the Organisation's of wealth, it would be difficult to £230
A endeavours to Improve labour con- ditions on a worldwide scale, Ita U annual Conference of Govern- ments, employers and workmen, Xafter enquiries and deliberatione, Conventions dealing with adopts H
various particular subjects. Al- together, since the Organisation than came into existence more
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of course, to politica. Politics may be had in a variety of differ- ent waya, so, in order to propare We now approach that part of Kowloon for its Municipal Coun- hold a mirror to his manifold him standing out as a most singu-cil, we will explain some of them virtues. He is a flawless examplear trait. That is his liking for to you. of that character so often heard rough inbour, when according to of but rarely scen-the cobblerworldly standards, the need for it
who sticka to his last,
skilled
houses to live in or let out at will, and a more than useful cash balance at the Bank.
We could tell you now what you could do with some of tho parties we are about to describe, but most of our readora are far
DLACKADIRTS.
Blackshirts 'arc Fascists. Blackshirts. Whni Fascists are are they for? Children, wo do thoy re
for An- not know. Some say for one purpose, some' other,
has long ere this departed. Irrelevant here to discuss the
From small beginnings we are circumstances under which we told he began his career as a sim-too young. fourteen years ago, it has adopted came to cultivate his acquaintance ple apprentice, he has been very thirty-nine Conventions. During 1933 there was a Convention pro-It would be taking up a delicate auccessful, with all the indications viding for the abolition within point. Suffice it that meet him we by which success is measured in of all fee-charging did, and were at once agreeably this part of the world: a numer- Sthree years
employment agenclen; and also, impressed by the evidence of a ous progony at home, a row of cach in two texts, dealing different
rare artistry allied to ly with agricultural workers and
workmanship. workers in industry and commerce. There were further conventions in regard to old-age insuranco, in-
What more, you will here inter- validity Insurance and widows' and orphans' insurance: 1,c.
No dilapidated shoes were res-pose, than to enjoy at leisure a Boven Conventions in all, typical Illustrations of the Organisation's tored in better condition to the competence so hardly earned and scope.
service of an impecunious humani so richly deserved?
Yet it is a remarkable fact about ty. Repaired. any recreated, they shone with the pristine splendour Kau-kee and one that can only be of newly-hought things, to all held to his credit that advantages appearances holding little in com-sufficient to have influenced lesser mon with the wretched articlos minds, have not been allowed to
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those who have stulled the Phone 27778-9 Stubbs Road subject, that the Convention by it- self works change in the law. This can only be obtained by in dividual national Governments, whose business it la to modify the laws of their respective countries to bring it into accord with the international standard, and then to attended the funeral of the late ratify the Convention which they
have already signed. Far too fre quently there are long delays and hesitations sometimen legitimate, this sometimes inexcusable--in process of ratification. There is the notorious instance of the first of all the Conventions, adopted at Washington by a majority of 82 votes
to 2 in 1919, before the League of Nations itself had been "oficially" born. It purported to establish a practically universal eight-hour working day. It has never become law because of lack of ratification and the blame is thrown by varying controversial- ists on Great Britain and on other countries.
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1934.
U.S.A. AND TENSION IN EUROPE
•
A
•
THE SUPREME ARTISTS
which, before this, we had con-interfere with the even routine of
sidered almost fit to be thrown at a life of labour and service to his the rag-picker.
fellow-men. He would tell you
The IP. In three gentlemen who have sonte in Parliament.. Every time nnyone is put in, gaol,
When election time' comer, they go to Scotland and everybody hits where they are a head, and back they come to Westminater, bloody but unbowed. Life is unkind, but never dull.
the LLP. raise hell about it.
The ILP is not A Party. It
is a riot.
HITLERITES.
This takes us a bit far afield.
They were again shoes of char. Í that hard work had been with him but it certainly is worth the trip.
acter and expressiveness, reflect- ing in their polished surface the undiminished individuality and good taste of the wearer,
from the beginning, and leave it into, and now formed an integral to be inferred that it had entered part of, his existence. Woli, well,
TO HIM THE BUSINESS
A Nazl is a sort of boy scout without the boy scout's amiable disposition. They chase Jews up and down the high-streets shout- Ing., "Hail, Hitlor." and holding one arm in the air.
COMMUNISTS,
These little fellows are all for
all and all for all. The idea is that everybody becomes a member of the working class, and then the members of the working class are
claen. The the capitalists and the capitalists COBBLER" is on the will, war- are the working ranting all that is best in cobbler-workers then make the capitalists
do a little work for a change,
This kills them off very rapidly, Earnestly plying their tools and the workers, finding them under his experienced eye, are selves again without help, have work four faithful assistants who have to start doing their own come to perceive in him the pre- again. This, after a hard, Sun- cept and the fulfilled example of day's banner-carrying, is a proper
bit of no good. all that is best in the profession.
It was only the other day that, drawn into a discussion of Art
Day by day, in rain or sunshine. and its manifestations, we found ourselves marvelling at the mir he takes his accustomed pitch in acles that restorers of portraits, the narrow alleyway that lies a of Old Masters, are reported to little beyond the Central Market. have been able to perform. These The sign "KWONG KAU-KEE achievements probably served a useful purpose, and a cultured The state of tension and un-
civilization enger for the reten ship. certainty existing in Europe at the moment is causing a certain
tion of its treasures, will no doubt. continue to applaud the efforts. measure of anxiety in the United
Bút, placed side by side with the States, with the result that the question of America's likely NO NEED FOR GLOOM
Tents of our Restorer of Broken- attitude, in the event of serious
There is no need to be too down Footwear, these miracles trouble developing, is being free- gloomy about this. Very often
have ceased to excite a certain ly discussed. To those who even where ratification has not section of the community, as pre- comfort themselves with the been officially given, profound thought that the United States changes in national law have been ference is given to une who, from is far removed from the scene effected by the example of the the viewpoint of practical utility, of European unrest the answer models which International legisla has demonstrated his right to a is given that this did not pre-
tion has moulded. Actually, up to high place in their estimation. vent America from becoming of duly registered ratifications War. The query now arising is of the quantity that could have whether, and, if so, how, the been ideally expected. The record United States will be able to made by the ILO. last year is to keep out of any fresh conflict be found in the fact that 88 ur these ratifications were made in in the future. Those who are
1933.
The figures for 1992 and all for a policy of isolation con-
1931 were 41 and 34 respectively.
lent result is not in fact materially lessened when analysis shows that this very large increase is due in considerable measure to a spate of activity from one part of the globe, viz: South America.
the end of 1933, the number
SLAVE TO
SUNDRIES.
Occasionally, as may be expert-
There are sundry other forms. Many of these arc in Ireland, ed, he looks up from his task to
different-coloured shirt. ding by both ends of the alleyway. has a scan the mass of humanity pled-where every other man you facet Some are green in the front and New shoes, old shoes they wear, and of all sorts and sizes, that blue at the back. Children can- now disappear in a fleeting vision; not be expected to keep track of
confident. To him all those. Enough to show that Kau-kee is but he is a Superior Cobbler, if we may be ultimately comes the business-he evinced happy capacity for bler who sticks to his last.
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tend that the only way America | The satisfaction from this excol-122 CHERCHES TO BUILD and the 22 churches in the deanery ought to have said, the poor old re-
URUGUAY'S EFFORT
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Interest is to be paid at the rate of 2 per cent.
The scheme was worked out by a committee of which the Rural- Dean of Camberwell (Canon Vea- zey) was chairman.
There will be two classes of house, the first of the non-parlour type with three bedrooms, and the second "cottage flats," containing similar accommodation but bullt Twenty-two houses are to be in blocks, each flat being self- erected at a total cost of £11,000, contained.
can avoid future entanglements is that her statesmen and people should make up their minds de- finitely, in advance, that they will decline to come in on any side. Such a policy would na- turally, call for a very strict con-
The churches of Camberwell, ception of neutrality. As to how this path can best be
Social legislation has hitherto S., are to tackle the slum pro- followed, it is being suggested been distinctly backward in South blem in the borough by building that America decides not to per- America. The economic depres-housCA. mit her country to be made a sion has probably been more happy hunting-ground for pro- severely felt there than in most pagandists, as it was in 1915 other places, and their luw
quite unequal to the task of deal- and 1916; that she decline to
ing with the many social problenk allow her financial resources to associated with unemployment. be used as a reservior for war The crisis has stimulated Uruguay loans; and that steps be taken to put in thirty fresh ratifications, in advance to prevent her indus- the Argentine nine, Chile six, the tries from being converted into Dominican Republic four, Vene- manufactories for munitions of zuela four. Notable omissions are war. It is admitted that it
Bolivia and Paraguay. They seem to have been too busy waging that would be extremely difficult to War with each other to have time follow such a policy, but against to deal with "mere" questions of the difficulties is placed the de-lomestic importance.
sirability of at least one great
nation remaining at peace in the PRACTICAL_DUELLING event of a new war breaking
out.
of
was
•
All these points,
Duelling is an archale and silly business, as everybody knows. course, hinge on the future de-But it at least must lend a spicy velopment of events in Europe. flavour to life-especially when it Whilst there is the over-present is carried on in the modern man- danger of existing tension tail Breed Frenchmen recently lead an highly- ing a turn which might easily placed precipitate war, there is surely altercation about the Stavinky sufficient sanity amongst states-ings, and "fought" a duel to sotilo scandal, wounded each other's feel- men and peoples alike to save
mattern. They met at dawn in a the world from another ouch
deserted stadium, fired two shots gigantic piece of folly as the aplece, hit no one-and the matter Great War. Should the worst was over, with nobody hurt and, come to the worst, however, it presumably, with the claims of This fully satisfled. is doubtful whether the United honours
seems an admirable way of arrang- States or any other Power which
ing things. Senator Huey Long kept out of the conflict would find it possible to adopt the has been challenged to a duel by one of his New Orleans fees, Why Idealistic attitude urged by the could they not meet, some chilly school of strict neutrality. Un- dawn, in, say, the Washington happlly, there are big monied baseball park?
could stand They interests in most countries which on the ground hallowed by the are nover averso from Beiz apiked shoes of Goose Goslin and ing the chances which war pro-Joo Cronin, shatter the atmosphere sents. These would undoubted with their bullets, and go their ly be a big factor in the situn-ways in uninjured peace. Official and unometal Washington doubt- tion, whatever statesmen or less would be glad to pay a modest moralists might say or do. foe for the privilege of admission.
"All right! If you want to lose your tempor over a curd game."
Outside the Pearly Gates, one
night,
I dreamt that I was standing; An angel robed in purest white, The portal was commanding.
And some who came were.
ushered in,
But others were rejected When in Life's book their list
of sin
The angel had inspected.
Up to the Gate came one with
whom
I'd been associated;
To learn if Heav'n for him had
room,
Expectantly I waited..
He'd been a talpun down below His speeches I had taken; The sight of him-twas wrong,
I know-
My hatred did awaken.
"Twas
5 I hoped. To enter there,
He firmly avas forbidden,
To me it was a joy so rare
To sea him over-ridden.
But he to argue was inclined,
The judgment he disputed, Though all his deeds were there
outlined
And couldn't be refuted. The strangest thing did then
occur
Inspection he demanded, And unto him, without demur, His record then was handed. He read it, then he turned away, His face with ragd distorted, And as he passed, I heard him
впу
That he'd been misreported..
Cheap Suit
A passionate Russian slamed
Serpe
In response to an undefined
urgo,
Embraced two young ladies, Who smacked him like Haden, And now he's a stripod, dark bina
Serpel