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FRIDAY, SEPT. 28, 1934.
THE PLEA FOR TAX
REDUCTION
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1934.
NOTES OF THE DAY A YORKSHIREMAN WITH The Very Idea!
BRIGHTER HONGKONG
Yesterday, in Legislative, Coan- cff, the Hon. Mr. Kotowall and the Hon. Mr. Mackie both urged upon the Government the desirability of making Hongkong attractive as Winter Resort. The Ilon. Sir Secret-
FIRE IN HIS BLOOD
By A. J. CUMMINGS
HOUGH I have never made group, and Snowden was invited
close acquaintance, Lord on. the Thomas Southor the Snowden has excited my interent Liberal Club.
and admiration more than any Socialist of his time, more than all but a handful of Englishmen of the present century. He is man after my own heart.
A
He knew nothing of his subject;
PSYCHOLOGY (By Eddie Kefly, Adult) [OW old are you?
How
We bet you're not!
The Government, we notice this morning, has had to in- so he read it up in books and troduce a new Bill in Coun- pamphlets-particularly the case cil to make the evidence of against Socialism in two heavy children lawful. Hitherto, tomes by Dr. Schaffle, an acuto
ary, in reply, Council that the advertisement of the Colony as a resort had been the left to private enterprise in past, and pointed out that since Government carried nu redundant staff, it would be necessary to In- crease expenditure considerably if auch work were undertaken. The flame burns within him which only German critic-and lay awake at children, when asked if they Colonial Secretary intimated, how death will extingulah. Illa clo-night pondering the problems of knew where they'd go if ever, that Government would be quent tongue, his grim courage, a novel political economy bused they told lies, have said willing to entertain any publicity his masterful will, the fierce on the theory that the rich are "Hell," and everything's scheme put forward by the Cham-daunting grip of his personnilty rich because they rob the poor. hers of Commerce or other reapon are matched by a singularly lucid
aiblo bodica.
"GRANDMOTHERLY
| REGULATIONS"
mind and by a cool Yorkshire angacity which contributed to the making of one of the most formid- able figures in contemporary Brit
In consequence the unfortunate Liberals of Cowling had to listen to a brilliant justification of the vile Sociallat teaching he had been expected to denounce.
The
been jake.
All that will be changed now. Children, like all the people who give evidence in dog summonsCE, traffic cases and or etcetera, will now be able to tell stories with- out risking the displeasure of St. Peter who, as you know, keeps the Heavenly books.
first public mecting he of lekornshaw, in the parish of addressed away from home was
In view of recent Magisterial Cowling. His parents were wea-ut. Keighley. "That meeting,"
ever comments regarding the doubt- vers. They were upright, religi-Snowden writes, "will for ous-minded persons of exceptional stand out in my memory. It was ful character of adult evidence, we think the Government should character and ability: of a type an inspiration. It
go further.
was like a
It In certainly true that Hong-ish polllles. kong lacks artificial amusements. In this connection Mr. Mackle He was born in a two-roomed Bays: "I have heard the cottage in the West Riding hamlet accusation that Hongkong has grandmotherly regulations which darop the exuberance of spirit con- comitant with holiday-making. Unless a. rather heavy fee is paid no ordinary and innocuous place of amusement can keep open its doors after midnight, and this alone may be held to cramp private enterprins in providing additional Innocuous amusements for the delectation of visitors." It is true that the majority of tourists find little amusement here outside the cinema and the hotel lounges. There are great potentialities in Hongkong na
winter resort and tourists but he behaved badly in the Sun-many years I was to carry
He learned at a few throughout the length and breadth Mecca. The Hon. Mr. Kötewall day School.
of the land." and the Hon. Mr. Mackie appreciate gulps all there was to learn at a the fact that "it pays to advertise"
village board school. TOURIST INDUSTRY
to be met with more readily in revival gathering. Socialism to
While they were about it, they Yorkshire than in any county, in those men and women was a new England, or, indeed, in any part vision, a new hope of relief from should have reversed the old. of the world.
the grinding toil and hard strug-procedure. Children who go into gle with poverty which had been the witness box should be made to kiss the Bible, while adults Snowden was a small, active. quick-witted, mischievous boy. their lot. To me it was the open-should be asked the age-old query. 1e liked the religious services; ink of a campaign, which during about telling stories to the nice
onman on the Beach,
Those early days were great
old.
A
Of course, there's one drawback, The Magistrate would probably. And it difficult to know whether the mentality of the witness he was about to have sworn or warned, He became the star juvenile days in the prolonged social and as the case may be, was that of Tourists are recognised as an "Industry" by many parts of the
turn at village entertainments and political. atrugglo in which Snow. an adult or a child."
This is where psychology (Oh, Eddie! How brave of you!) world with much less to offer than at election times not, as has den played so magnificent a part. Hongkong. Gibraltar, for ins- often been said, by making his In my judgment Snowden did more would come in. A little bit of the tance, has a profitable trade in
own political speeches, but by than Keir Hardie, more than any psychostuif would soon tell us the Apart from the high cost of travel. To be sure, Gilbraltar is the great
reciting extracts from the spec-man except Blatchford, to spread mentality of most of our residents, the Socialist gospel among the For instance, take the case of i Government, which is frankly within easy reach of
official. common people, to transform the Government
After admitted by H.E. the Governor, centres of population, of Europe,ches of adult politicians.
test had been and Hongkong is loo far renloved probably the outstanding issue to make an appeal in that direction
It must have been obvious to working class movement into a psychological raised by Unofficial members profitable. There is every Indica-
those about him that he was a lad great political force, to make applied, we would probably find during the Budget debate yes-ion, however, that with the revival of unusual promise. He listened Labour the second party in the that he was really only 14 years
with shrewd attention to the hair-State.. terday was the demand for a of the times, the United States and splitting theological talk of his Canada, Australia and New Zen-
Neither friend nor for ever reduction in tre assessment tax and will be ready for the cultiva elders and to their political diu-
personal The Hon. Mr.. Kotewall, in a ton of a tourist crop. From them cussions. Everybody was a Liber questioned Snowden's Ispeech noteworthy for its out will come travellers in ever-increns-al in Ickornshaw. He read all th, and political integrity. Even in Government, attacked life-long spokenness and cogency, advancing numbers. But in order to books he could lay his hands on.1931, when he joined the National ed a strong plea not only for benefit to the greatest possible At six years of age he witnessed political associates with unexam-
aprising, such a reduction, which was degree, it will be necessary for his first working-class
pled bitterness, filled millions of warmly supported by the Hon. Hongkong to make some effort to when the villagers forcibly pre humble followers with grief and Mr. Braga, but also for a varin-attract these visitors. Sir Thomas vented the walling-up of a well dismay and struck a deadly blow tion in the method of assessment South
Southern intimated
that
the which had been freely used from of Chinese tenement houses.iend financial assistance to such an
Government might be willing to a time beyond living memory, at the cause he had done so much When still youth he tried to make victorious, no man be The total cost of the suggested undertaking, and with the enter the legal profession; but the lieved--whatever some men said concessions amount to some two operation of interested private cost was too much. He only just that he had sold his soul for a and a quarter million dollars, enterprise there is no doubt but escaped being a schoolmaster: and Mr. Kotewall's suggestion that à valuable bit of pronawandis- was that this might, without Ing would be made possible. impairing the financial stability
Co-
If he was a junior clerk, Government would then see
to it that he would be given a higher position, commen- surate with his ability.
One of the most elementary psychological tests is to say some simple word to the subject and note his reaction.
Thus, you eno pick a whisky drinker if, when you mention "black," he comes back promptly with "white." Say "Sands" to u Roof Garden habitue, and, if he has any mentality, he will prompt- ly reply "Dawn".
Of course, it
it depends on the If you said "Three
mess of pottage,
There is an attractive, if rather narrow, John Bullish streak in --For a short-time ho.. was an Snowden, as there is in Blatch- insurance clerk in Nelaon. Then ford. He would run the risk of person. of the Colony in any way, be met "WAR IS A RACKET"
he passed the necessary examina-sacrificing his class he would Cheers" to the average person, the from surplus balances. His
tion for entrance to the Civil Ser- undoubtedly slip off his class correct reply would be "Tiger". Excellency the Governor, in his "For long years I have known vice as an Inland Revenue clork. consciousness-to "save Englund." But if you said it to Mr. Ruttonjce reply, joined issue on most of that war is a racket, but I never
Two years later he met with a Had he been Prime Minister in it is only natural that he would the arguments adduced in favour clouds gathering again." Here we
faced un to it until I saw thelight accident the immediate 1914 he might even have led Eng counter with "H.B."
effects of which he disregarded. land, valiantly, if reluctantly, in- Some interesting results, de- of the suggestions advanced, have a distinguished soldier's word Acute inflammation of the spinal to the war. He is not a peace-noting the mentality of various holding, in particular, that the for it. Gen. Smedley D. Butler. cord followed, and he was crippled at-any-price pacifist,
subjects, can be obtained with proposals put forward would writing in the September issue of for life. He did not whine, or
the word "Penk". Say it to Mr. L. The Labour Party will never C. Scott and he immediately comes involve the vicious principle of the Formom danazine, shows some repine.
dominate English political thought, back with."Fram." A stranger to the Colony living on its capital, of the differences between the pro-
paganda-fed popular notion
It was not until the birth of the it will never inspire noble deeds. Hongkong, when the word is to which he was entirely op- and the actuality that he, a retired Independent Labour Party in 1833 will never create a new world suddenly slung at him, will im-
war posed. In view, however, of the American. Major-Generai has had that Snowden, the young Radical, until it has subordinated some-mediately be on the defensive, and fact that there is every prospect opportunity Lo
"Out of seriously studied the philosophy thing of its humdrum bread-and-would probably say "Er-yes- of the credit bulunce being kept war નવી few people
Members' of the make of Socialism. The Liberal Party butter outlook and recaptured the beautiful!" well up to the ten million dollar huge fortunes. Nations require in Cowling was much excited by moral fervour and solltess idealism Kowloon Residents Association mark by the end of the coming
additional territory (which is the attacks of the new political of Snowden's splendid youth, year, it is difficult to see how promptly exploited by the few for
their own benefit), and the general
tion and generations."
a concession costing just over publle shoulders the bill bill. two millions can be regarded as that renders a horrible accounting coming within the category of of newly placed gravestones, cating into capital, in any mangled bodies, shattered minds. case, it is well to remember that broken hearts and homes, eccnomile it is only in recent years that instability. and back-breaking the Government has seen fit to taxation of the many for genera- budget for a continuing surplus of ten millions. As we have previously had occasion to re- years' time the Colony will be mark, the original den of pre- Jable to look forward to certain serving such a balance was to assets which would reinstate the Įmake it possible for the Govern- balance if it fell below the ten ment to face adverse times with million mark. It is further equanimity.
Those adverse suggested that the concessions times have arrived, and the lusked for would not provide any argument that some of the sur-appreciable general relief to the plus might now be called upon burden of taxation, but it must appears to be reasonably based. surely be conceded that a summ As Mr. Kotowall aptly asked, "if of over two million dollara ia the present is not the time to something more than a mere make the best use of this sur bagatelle. And, 49 Wo have plus, when is the time?" His previously pointed out, not only Excellency further suggests that residents in general, but the if a reduction in the assessment business community as well, were made, it would only be would benefit from the remis temporary and would have to be sion. No-one concerned for the reinstated in the comparatively Colony's welfare would desire to near future. Here, again, thero seo the Government embarking is room for divergence of view-on a policy of risky finance at point, since whilst it is true that this juncture, but the relief en- the future may witness a fur-visnged by Mr. Kotewall and Mr.. ther falling-off in revenue, tero Braga would not involve any is also a distinct possibility not such danger. Official disinclina- only of conditions improving, tion to comply with the pro- but of markod savings bolng posals appears to indicate an effected in outgoings if the dollar excess of caution which, wo continues materially above the venture to belleve, will not, un- budgeted figure of 1s. 4d.' More- less the unexpected happens, be
!
"Oh, your father has invited some of HIS friends to our anniver
would naturally say "Bah" We know several persons to whom the word "Peak" would immediate- ly conjure up "Party",
A test no less Illuminating is to four words that makes the best sentence, and tells the most truth. Thus:
MAE WEST is noted as a DANCER, a FRUIT, a NURSE, an ACTRESS.
That, of course, is a bit hard, ns while she is obviously not a fruit, there's a certain amount of fatitudo about all the others.
Most people, however, will have no difficulty in making a correct gentence out of
are
PHILAN SHROFFS THROPISTS, SHARKS
• NUISANCES, **1?**!, WARTS, LANACHRONISMS.
HONGKONG is FAIREST CITY IN THE EAST, PAIN IN THE NECK,■ HOME FROM HOME, HELL.
Talking about simple questions, there's an elementary question in arithmetic which might be applied to all candidates just at the moment:
"If silver rises five conts a ton, the Hongkong dollar rises to is. 7d. Supposing silver drops $50 an ounce, what will be the dollar quotation?"
All We thought that one would show that you've got the Ifongkong montality.
Editor's conclusion: No one who reads Kelly'n drivel has the mentality of an adult.
Eddie's note: We didn't my. adult mentality, wo`nald Hongkong