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THURSDAY,
NOTES OF THE DAY
EMPIRE AND PEOPLE
1936 the to unite
In the apring of whole Empire will celebrate the Silver Jubileo of hie Majesty the King-Emperor. Occasion It will be a great which wo should strive worthily
JANUARY 3, 1935.
WHOSE CRIMES ARE THESE?
By GERALD BARRY
SUPPOSE we are all glad that sibility than any single, human Mrs. Brownhill, sentenced to being can safely be allowed to to commemorate, and we do not know if the Imperial Government death for putting her lunatte son exercise. But will the day not and the Governments of the Do-out of his misery, has been re- come when. under proper safe- minions, which will meet in London
The Very Idea!
WE GET EVEN
By George
THE passing out of the Old Year witnessed
many other passing outs.
one of the Hotels,
We saw the place After the Ball seas Over-it was a regular litter. The Hond Hogs of Hongkong were just a hlecup in comparison,
New Year's Eve certainly took
Some made pigs of themselves, on that occasion, have yet consultedprieved and is likely to be granted guards, such as the certificate of
The piggiest pig is the un- together upon what might be the a free pardon. But what a sorry two or more qualined.doctors, the best memorial. If we look at the farce that the law should have law will allow the helpless Im-known who stole a pig which you're see that was
problem brendly we actor to make compelled the judge to pronounce becile and the hopeler were re had been won in a fair fight at
be gently put away? powerful engine purring under great Empire which their chil the death sentencel
It was plain from the outsel that Like the problem of abortion the bonnet if you like the dren should inhabit; but we have to confers that great tracts of this
arise if there luxury of a big, roomy salooh heritage are still empty and under this unhappy woman, this devoted which would not this is your car. At £325 this veloped. The local increase of mother whose balance, kept were full knowledge and free new 27 h.p. Vauxhall Big Six is population is slow, and largely con-through long years of hopeless exercise of birth-control, the prob. remarkable value-for-money, It centrated in great cities. Many of Is an all-feature car, with entirely the spaces between are little more tending of a suffering imbecile, lem of euthanasia in the case of the ell out of stylel Taipans in automatie chassis lubrication, than scratched. In Canada and snapped at last under the strain imbeciles would not arise if mental paper hats--blondes in evon less- of a'new fear, so that she did a deficiency were tackled earlier on the nice boys in evening dress and vacuum controlled ignition, Adstralia especially, and also in
those blase people, like us, who Synchro-Mesh easy gear change, many other parts of the Empire, deed that made her technically by means of sterilisation.
there are lande which await the Pedomatic starting, self-return-plough, grass where no cattle graze,uilty of murder it was
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to inhabit name shall we give to the man life? If a man has himself frat hints of engagements which we building outstanding motor cars stream of emigrants
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ALVES. An Janunty 3. 1995, ut her residence, No. 231 Nathan Road, Kowloon, Carmen Cecilia dos Remedios Alves, aged 18 years, the dearly loved wife of Mr. C. M. S. Alves. Funegal will pass the Monument at 5.30 pm: to-day;
MARRIAGE.
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RHODES ADVICE
nor secure,
constant
Our fathers
plain
.
The accounts for our last eight friends, weddings are coming in for the third time "calling your attention to
We don't mind that if they start don't call
anything else,
There's been so much of this turned inward again, so that there are more people coming from the who kill their unwanted infants at of a defenceless and pain-racked sort of thing intely-getting mar- Dominions into Great Britain than birth have similarly to listen to incurable? Well, every now and rled and so on-that we contribu Kolng from Great Britain to the the grim rigmarole of the death then some agonised relative who tors find it just as expensive an If we were getting married ourselves, Stubbs Road. | Domiulous,
sentence, though they are never tol has been in unbearable Contact and without the advantages. be hanged.
with the problem at close quarters I don't suggest that society can likewise answers yes. We others, It is a position neither healthy
"Having read the his-afford in such cases to condone or who have been spared the torture, tory of other countries," said Cecil overlook a crime. But need it en- dare not judge. Rhodes in his simple and direct force upon those who administer fashion, "I saw that expansion was
of pro-
Hut there are many still who everything, and that the world's its laws the cruel duty
a sentence which it think that physical pain is good shroff-that we intended we start We told our last visitor-a surface being imited, the great nouncing object of present humanity should knows will not be carried out? Afor the soul. It so happens that the New Year clean. He said he be to take as much of the work amalt reform, perhaps but not so within a day or two of the trial was quite willing if we'd come an it possibly could."
the point of of Mrs. Brownhill an inquest was clean first. took a great slice of the world with significant from Married this morning at The Registry, this idea in mind; but if the Brit-lew of the tortured creature in held on a Dartmoor convict who
Supreme Court, and aftowards Ish people do not make the best the duck. by the Rev. The, Reicheft at The use of this great heritage, there Tho Fung Shan Christinn
Bre other nations which will de Institute, Shatin, Mies frix mand, and take their share. It is Primrose Hay-Edie, slaughter of Mr. and Mrs, D. C. Hay-Elie of ssible to imagine the logical and Paris and Monte-Carlo'
to Mr. eloquent representatives of such Reidar Johannessen, son of Muntions getting up at Geneva and poignant of proposing that those who could not tragedies and Mrs. J. E. Johannessenti Bergen, Norway,
make use of the great surplus of drama seero puny and unreal beflife as depicted by Charles. Rendeine Ita obituary: Surely a man their Dominions and Colonies
side it. There was the story ant in "It Is Never Too Late to Mend, Should yield them to those others. who had none, In what is called long ago of a man and woman who horrors that we thought belonged natural justice there would be a hard ronde a mess of life and agreed only to the dend past. The mes- ense, and it might even be enforced
A pact of suicide. Theysage which this hard-bitten man without respect to titles and legal-
wandered into a wood and
the who killed himself rather than ty, if by that time the British Navy had fallen below the level of power man shot himself, but, the woman face the cat left behind him on equate to the defence of these could not serve herself to follow his slate was an indictment of all Charmour poszcsalons. This is him. Later, in a lodging house,; of us. danger as much for the Dominions
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, JAN. 3, 1935.
THE HIGH COST OF
GOVERNMENT.
If that's the sort of cleanliness hanged himself with a rope made that's next to Godliness there's of his prison clothes rather than been an error of judgruent some- face farther flogging with the cat.where or cleanliness is much over. Every now and then some human
rated.
to light
Here was another of these "real S0
Talking about errors brings us tragedy is brought
that the contrived life" stories, It brought back to naturally to the subject of New of literature or the mind the worst horrors of gaol Years' Honours where we find that the local literary talent again writ- deserves an O.B.E. at least for be ing funny persistently and funnily for an extended period in the face of opposition and Hongkong faces particularly?
the gas
Two days later I istened to a but before mild-looking man with pale hands
One appeals, to one's public (and both of them should bear us ont) that their should be something
pleasant to look forward to, besides the chance of deportation, for us funny humorists. It's a rib-tick- world! It is. ling shame and we'll scream the
There is some disappointment as for the Mother Country, and thehu pui a tube in her mouth and being felt in England regarding to defend empty lands, but to fill doing so she scribbled an account and kindly eyes singing the praises
best way to nyert it is not merely turned on the inancial results of the first them.
of the whole futile story that infor dogging-for men and boys. nine months of the your just
Its artlessness was as moving as¡“Nothing like it, believe ended, revenue having slurped WORTHY MEMORIAL
me. further than halfway down somewhat and expenditure-in-
| few deliberato-tales. can.be, Teaches---them-----nothing else column-but-as-that-is a docunt-ond creased. As a consequence, it
what. The tragedy of Mrs. Brownfult can!" Teaches
a
of Here. then. is the iden is feared that the Budget surplus nation in the coming Jubliee: a worthy memorial to set before our
is one of these stories. It is true wondered.
cussion
them
All of which doesn't get us any the
to a decent day we'll call it that.
DUMB-BELLES LETTRES
Mack P
(signed)
in March will be of small dimen-high endeavour so to redistribute tragedy-full of pity and terror. Chater Road,
Recently I rend of a youth in sions, even if an actual deficit is our people as to make the best Truth is stranger than fiction," a convict settlement abroad whom not disclosed. However, there both of them and their heritage.
the cat drove first into a bitter
By Juliet Lowell we announce, and Ho our way. are still three months to go To make the spirit of this great
wonian we sit
enemy of society and then into a
A Tasty Morsel before the balance-sheet is enterprise once more a living force And the man, or
mad house. I suppose my kind- drawn up, and in some quarters the heart of the British race down next to in the bus may he faced friend would say that that The Daily Palma Past
Palma Mallorca hopes of a better showing than the first requirement; we must mursing a secret se nametes and taught him.
kindle and cultivate this purpose terrible.
Gentlemen: seems at the moment likely are¦
In life as a substitute for the easy
It is a remarkable fact, if cor- based on the fact that in 1933 and hopeless drift
towards dis-,
poral punishment is a goud correc-
Please insert the following deficit for the first nine months integration which is prevalent in
tive, that it should always be the mild in your Sunday paper. "Bull- It is natural that this woman's! of the year was eventually trans these times. Pulpit. Press and dilemma should have revived dis-same boys at a school who are dog for sale: will eat anything. formed into a substantial deficit. wireless might combine in such
logged again and again! of what is called "the
very fond of children." A great deal now appears to de-propaganda. But there is need also right to kill." "I did it in merey." I hardly think our civilisation pend on the buoyancy of the for thorough and basic staff-work
was her simple answer to the judge) has anything to be very compla- on this subject. Revut history, in Income Tax returns. The al-Australia, in
who had to sentence her to hang-cent over while things like Mrd. Canada and at verse margin now disclosed isleme is strewn with the wreckage. In her extremity she took Brownhill's crime and the Dart-
upon herself a greater respon-¡moor suicide can happen. stated to be largely due to of many promising projects of supplementary expenditure, es migration, which failed either for pecially in connection with relief lack of thoroughness in prepara measures in what are known as in uperation. The Empire Settle tion or of persistence and courage the depressed areas. The calls ment Act of 1922 made a hopeful fon these services continue to be beginning with plans fifteen years heavy, and there can be no ques- ahead and a vote of three millions tioning the necessity of allocat-sterling a year between 1942 and ing funds for this particular ser- 1937; but the term is now nearly vice. In the meantime, however, over; not one-fifth of the money the general problem of un- to which it was dedicated,, and in has been expended on the purposo employment persists, having the interval emigration has greatly stubbornly resisted all measures declined. We do not ignore the Iso far taken for its solution. economic causes which have con- Apart from the desirability of tributed to this failure, but we be- maintaining the structure of the love that free-will has a hand in nation's finances on a
the shaping of destiny, and that if yound basis, the Government is natural we could recover the spirit which ly anxious to make a good Bud-ponsible to continue the work.
peopled the Empire it would be get showing, in view of the fact
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that there are prospects of atrative expenditure at as low a General Election during the pre-level as is possible consistent sent year. One of the London with the maintenance of ef- journals, in commenting, on the ficiency. The position in this position, says the lesson to be Colony would be much learned is the necessity of the serious than it is but for the Government keeping strict con- fact that the rise in the value trol of expenditure, as, other- of the dollar is having a bene- wise, the hopes of a further re-ficial effect in respect of salaries mission of taxes will disappear and other sterling commitments, and a Budget deficit loom up. 180 that, despite the fall in In this respect, it is worthy of revenue, Budget expectations are note that the Old Country is at likely to be fulfilled. Even so, the moment undergoing an ex-government costs are unques. perience similar to that being tionably too high; were they felt in Hongkong-a lcasening of lower, there might be some pros- revenue and an upward trend in pect of the public securing.some expenditure. The rising cost of relief in taxation government is common to both, sequence of the higher dollar. and it is as essential in the one Ae matters are, there is no in- case as in the other that definite dication of any such desirable [steps be taken to keep adminis-development in the near future.
us, a con-
"Then, just to get his reaction. I quoted him a price below our
manufacturing cost." --
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Bulldog for sale: will cal anything, very fond of chil- dren."
Some Bargain!
Barnard College New York City
| Mr. Edinund G------
Tarrytown, New York Dearest Dad:
I just love College. I'm terribly rushed though, buying furniture and all. Bought a lot of bargains at B basement counter and charged to your ne count. Saved something like $10.
Will be home for the week-ond.,
Janot. (signed)
P.S. Please send me $12.09. I, have to buy a new hat, mine was trampled on in the rush at the bar- gain counter.