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THE PLEA FOR TAX
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NOTES OF THE DAY A YORKSHIREMAN WITH The Very Idea!
BRIGHTER HONGKONG
FIRE IN HIS BLOOD
By A. J. CUMMINGS .
any
PSYCHOLOGY (By Eddie Kelly, Adult) TOW old are you?
H
Yesterday, in Legislative Couri- cil, the Hon, Mr. Kötewall and the Hon. Mr. Mackie both urged upon the Government the desirability of minking Hongkong attractive na
SHOUGH I have never Winter Itesort. The fon.
made group, and Snowden was invited Thomma Southern, Colonial Secret- his clone acquaintance, Lord to speak on Socialiam at the local We bet you're not! nry, in reply; reminded Council that the advertisement of and admiration more than
the Snowden has excited my interest Liberal Club.
The Government, we notice the Colony na a resort had been
He knew nothing of his subject; this morning, has had to in- left to private enterprise in the Socialist of his time, more than past, and pointed out that since all but a handful of Englishmen pamphlets-particularly the case cil to make the evidence of an he read it up in books and troduce a new Bill in Coun- Government carried no redundant of the present century. He is against Socialism in two heavy children lawful. Hitherto, staff, it would be
necessary to in-
Inman after my Own heart. A crease expenditure considerably if
tomes by Dr. Schaffle, an acute auch
flame burns within him which only German eritic and lay awake at work were undertaken. The
children, when asked if they Colonial Secretary intimated, how death will extinguish. Ifis 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 based they told lies, have said willing to entertain any publicity his masterful will the scheme put forward by the Cham-dausting grip of his personality rich because they rob the poar."
force
on the theory that the rich are "Hell," and bers of Commerce or other respon-" sible bodies.
been jake.
"GRANDMOTHERLY
REGULATIONS”
He was born in a two-roomed
*
are matched by a singularly lucid mind and by a cool Yorkshire sagneity which contributed to the In consequence the unfortunate making of one of the most formid-Liberals of Cowling' had to listen It is certainly true that Hong-ish politics.
able Agures in contemporary Bril-to a brilliant justifiention of the kong lacks artificial amusements,
vile Socialist teaching he had been In this connection Mr. Mackle
expected to denounce. Baya:.
I have heard the grandmotherly regulations which accusation that Hongkong has durap the exuberance of spirit con- comitant with holiday-making. Unless rather heavy fee is paid 110 ordinary and innocuous place of Amusement can keep open its doors after midnight, and this alone may be held to cramp private enterprise in providing additional innocuous amusements for the delectation of visitors." It is true that, the majority of tourists find little aransement here outside the cinema and the hotel lounges. There are great potentialities in Hongkong as winter resort and tourists' Mecca. The Hon. Mr. Kotewall and the Hon. Mr. Mackie appreciate the fact that "it pays to advertise" TOURIST INDUSTRY
vers. They were upright, religi- Snowden writes, “will ous-minded persona of exceptional stand out in my memory. character and ability; of a type an inspiration. It
guttage in the West Riding hamlet The first public meeting he Cowling. His parents were wea-at Keighley.. of ickornshaw, in the parish of addressed away from home was "That meeting,"
for
ever It was WAM Ike a
IL
др
Tourists are recognised na "industry" by many parts of the world with much less to offer than Hongkong.
everything's
All that will be changed now. Children, like all the people who give evidence in dog summonses, traffic cases and or etcetórn, will now be able to tell stories with- out risking the displeasure of St. the Heavenly books. Peter who, as you know, keeps
In view of recent Magisterial comments regarding the doubt- ful character of adult evidence, we think the Government should go further.
to be met with more readily in revival gathering. Socialism to Yorkshire than in any county in those men and women was a new While they were about it, they England, or, indeed, in any part vision, a new hope of relief from should have reversed the ald 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 their lot. To me it was the open-hould be asked the age-old query to kiss the Bible, while adults
Snowden was a small, active, quick-witted, mischlevons boy.
carry
מט
man on the Bench,
te ilked the religious services; of a campaign which during about telling stories to the nice but he behaved badly in the Sun- many years I was to day School. He learned at a few throughout the length and breadth gulps all there was to learn at a
of the land.” village board school.
Those early days were Kreat
Of course, there's one drawback. The Magistrate would probably And it difcult to know whether the mentality of the witness he was about to have sworn or warned, as the case may be, was that of an adult or a child,
This is where psychology (Oh,
payehostuff would soon tell us the mentality of most of our residents. For instance, take the case of a Government official. Afler ✡ paychological test had been applied, we would probably find
old.
If he was a junior clerk, Government would then see to it that he would be given a higher position, commen- surato with his ability,
He became the star juvenile days in the prolonged social and turn at village entertainments and political struggle in which Snow- at election times-not, as hos den played so magnificent a partEddiel How brave of you!)' 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 i profitable trade in Apart from the high cost of travel. To be sure, Gibraltar is
own political speeches, but by than Keir Hardie, more than any Government, which is frankly within chay reach of the great reciting extracts from the spec-man except Blatchford, to spread admitted by HE. the Governor, e
eentres of population of Europe,ches of adult politicians.
the Socialist gospel among the probably the outstanding issue and Hongkong is too far removed
common people, to transform the to make an appeal in that direction
It must have been obvious to working class movement into a raised by Unofficial members profitable. There in every Indies those about him that he was a lad great political force, to make during the Budget debate yen-tion, however, that with the revival of unusual promise. He listened Labour the second party in the that he was really only 14 years terday was the demand for a of the times, the United States and with shrewd attention to the hair State. reduction in tre assessment tax. Canada, Australia and New Zen-splitting theological talk of his Neither friend The Hon. Mr. Kotewall, in a land will be ready for the cultiva elders and to their politient dis-
nor for ever speech noteworthy for its out- tion of
Everybody was a Liber and political integrity. Even in
questioned Snowden's tourist crop. From them cussions.
personal spokenness and engeney, advanc-will come travellers in ever-increas al in Ickornshaw. He read all the 1931, when he joined the National ed a strong plea not only for henefit to the greatest possible At six years of age he witness political associates with unexam- ing numbers. But in order to books he could lay his hands on,
Government, attacked life-long such a reduction, which degree, it will be necessary for his first working-class uprising,
One of the most elementary warmly supported by the Hon. Hongkong to make some effort to when the villagers forcibly pre-pled bitterness, filled millions of Mr. Braga, but also for a varia- attract these visitors, Sir Thomas vented the walling-up of a well humble followers with grief and psychological tests is to say some tion in the method of assessment Southern intimated that the which had been freely used from dismay and struck a deadly blow simple word to the subject and of Chinese tenement houses.
Government might be willing to a time beyond living memory to make victorious, no man be-
ut the cause he had done so much note his renction. The total cost of the suggested end financial assistance to such anWher still a youth he tried to leved-whatever some men said-drinker If, when
Thus, you can pick a whisky undertaking, and with the enter the legal profession; but the
you mention concessions amount to some two operation of interested, private cost was too much, dle only just that he had sold his soul for a "black" he comes back promptly and a quarter million dollars, enterprise there is no doubt hut escaped being a schoolmaster. and Mr. Kotowall's-suggestion that a valuable bit of pronagandis- was that this might, without ing would be made possibic, impairing the financial stability of the Colony in any way, be met from surplus balances. His Excellency the Governor, in his. reply, joined issue on most of the arguments adduced in favour of the suggestions advanced, holding, in particular, that the proposals put forward would involve the vicious principle of the Colony living on its capital,
WAR IS A RACKET"
instability,,
I
muss of pottage.
with "white." Say "Sands" to n Roof Garden-hablue, and,-if-he has any mentality, he will prompt- inly reply "Dawn".
Of course, it depends on the If you suld "Three
There is an attractive, if rather narrow, Jobi Bullish streak For a short time he was an Snowden, as there is in Blatch- insurance clerk in Nelson. Then ford. He would run the risk of person. be passed the necessary examina-sacrificing his class-he would Cheers" to the average person, the tion for entrance to the Civil Ser-undoubtedly slip off his class- correct reply would be "Tiger". vice as an Inland Revenue clerk. consciousness to "save England." But if you said it to Mr. Ruttonjee Two years later he met with a effects of which he disregarded, land, vallantly, if reluctantly, in-
Had he been Trime Minister in it is only natural that he would slight accident the immediate 1914 he might even have led Encounter with "H.B." Acute inflammation of the spinal to the war. Ile is not a peace-noting the mentality of various Some interesting results, de- for life. He did not whine cord followed, and he was crippled at-any-price pacifist. repine.
or
subjects, can be obtained with The Labour Party will never G. Scott and he immediately comes the word "Peak". Say it to Mr. L. dominate English political thought,
the attacks of the new political of Snowden's splendid youth.
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is
Association would naturally say "Bah!" We know several persons to whom the word "Penk" 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 n DANCER, FRUIT, a NURSE, an ACTRESS.
That, of course, is a bit hard, as while she is obviously not fruit, there's a certain amount of Intitude about all the others.
"For long years I have known that war is a racket, but I never clouds gathering again." Here we faced un to it until I
Now the have a distinguished soldier's word writing in the September issue of for it. Gen. Smedley D. Butler. the Forum Manazine, shows some of the differences between the pro- to which he was entirely op- and the netuality that he, a retired i Independent Labour Party in 1893 it will never create a new world Jongkong, when the word
paganda-fed popular notion of war It was not until the birth of the it will never inspire noble deeds, back with "Tram." A stranger to posed. In view, however, of the American Major-General has had that Snowden, the young Radical, until it has subordinated some mediately be on the defensive, and fact that there is every prospect
suddenly slung at him, will im- of the credit balance being kept war
opportunity to see: "Out of seriously studied the philosophy thing of its humdrum bread-and-would probably say. "Er yes.
it few well up to the ten million dollar huge
people make of Socialism. The Liberal Party butter outlook and recaptured the furtunes. mark by the end of the coming additional territory
Nations nequire in Cowling was much exclled by moral fervour and selfless idealism Kowloon Residents'
-beautiful!" Members of the (which iH year, it is difficult to see how promptly exploited by the few for a concession costing just over public shoulders the bila bill their own benefit), and the general two millions can be regarded as that renders a horrible accounting coming within the category of of newly placed cating into capital. in any mangled bodies, shattered minds, gravestones, case, it is well to remember that broken hearts and homes, economic it is only in recent years that
and back-breaking the Government has seen fit to taxation of the many for genera- budget for a continuing surplus
tlons and generations." of ten millions. As we have previously had occasion to re- years' time the Colony will be mark, the original idea of pre- Jable to look forward to certain serving such a balance was to assets which would reinstate the make 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 asked 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 appears to be reasonably based. surely be conceded that a sum must As Mr. Kotewall aptly asked, "if of over two million dollars is the present is not the time to something more than a mere make the best use of this sur-bagatello. And, as 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 front the remis temporary and would have to be ston. No-one concerned for the reinstated in the comparatively Colony's welfare would desire to near future. Hero, again, there see the Government embarking is room for divergence of view- fon a policy of risky finance at paint, since whilst it is true that this juncture, but the relief en- the future may witness a fur-visaged by Mr. Kotowall and Mr. ther falling-off in revenue, thare Braga would not involve any is also a distinct possibility not such danger. Official disinclina only of conditions improving, Ition to comply with the pro- but of marked savings being posals appears to indicate an effected in outgoinga if the dollar excess of caution which, wo. continues materially above the venture to bollove, will not, un- budgeted figure of 16. 4d. More as the unexpected happens, bet us is admitted, in a few Justifled by future events...
r Tathor has invited some of his friends to our anniver
mary.party/
Most people, however, will have no difficulty in making a correct Rentence out of——
SHROFFS Bro PHILAN THROPISTS, SHARKS NUISANCES, **1?**1, WARTS,
| ANACHRONISMS.
HONGKONG
CITY S
is FAIREST
IN THE EAST, a 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 cents a ton, the Hongkong dollar rises to 1s. 71. Supposing silver dropa $50. Jan ounce, what will be the dollar
quotation?",
Ah! We thought that one would show that you've got the Hongkong mentality.
Editor's conclusion:
No
one
who reads Kelly's 'drirol has the mentality of an adult,
Eddie's notat. We didn'isas. adult mentality, we said Hongkong montality.