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NOTES OF THE DAY
FAITH IN STERLING
Whatever wild ideas may be passing in the minds of panicky Continontal people, who persist In seeking evidenco of. British instablilty, even though Britain's position is manifestly, soundor than that of probably any other European country, the Chancellor of the Exchequer is not in the least perturbed by rocant events in re- lation to the pound sterling. ME | Chamberlain's reassuring state- ment In the House of Commons recently will be welcomed by all who have asked themselves the in- ner meaning of recent exchange fluctuations, Tho Chancellor innkes it clear that there is no cateo for alarm. The internal value of the £1 la unshaken, and we can look without alarm at lis relation to the frame. That is a subject for anxiety rather to the French than to us." Britain does not intend to attempi a return to the gold standard until It has a reasonably prospect of reinalning upon it. That time is not yet. There is a grout donl to be straigh- tened out in the financial and economic relationa of the leading. | countries before such n stop can' For be seriously contemplated, the rest, balancing our Budget and increasing our trade and industry by every means at our command, we can afford to Ignore the pro- Rd.pagands of Continental panic-mon-
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FAIRBURN-On Samday, April 1, at the French Hospital, follow- Ing the birth of a daughter
Kathleen Charlotte French Fair-
burn, wife of T. C. Fairburn. Funeral will pass the Monument to-day at 5.30 p.m.
ROCHA-On 8th April, 1935, at the St. Francis Hospital, Ursula Liznia Rocha (Muni). Aged 55. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m. to-day.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1935.
ROOSEVELT AND THE PEOPLE
So much prominence has been given to the industrial and com- mercial aspects of President Roosevelt's policies that there is a danger that their implications
kera.
RADIO PROPAGANDA'
it.
The most striking feature of propaganda disseminated by wire- less is the difficulty of preventing If a Government, such na tho Russian or the German, decides to bambard its neighbours in parti- cular and the world in general with propagandist material, the victims thereof, though they may always decline to listen, have no
Our King
Queen
and
on their Silver Jubilee
Queen Alexandra and her son, the future King George.
The Very Idea!
THANKSGIVING DAY By Bogg, Good Citizen'.
AT a schoolboys' sports
meeting the other day, one of the speakers lamented the fact that it was not usual to thank Government for anything.
This is a reproach we have taken bitterly to heart.
As one who has always shown ourself grateful to Government for past favours received and future favours anticipated, we are shock.
ed by this Implied derellation of manners on the part of those who, having shared those favours with. ts, should have known better than maintain an enigmatical silence,
Above all wo are shocked that the Constitutionnt Reform Assoclu. tion, from whom leadership might have been expected, had also pre- an equally enigmatical
served allence.
The disgraceful truth must here be told: it is that, accustomed as we have been to luxuriating in a wealth of favours, we have become insensible to our dutica as good and grateful citizens. We have all become spoilt.
But what are these favoure, Papa
We can only guess, sort. Our good Government believes in doing good things by stealth, so we must be considerate and spare its blushes by refraining, from a long recap-
HIS is Silver Jubilea year. of the peoples of the earth, fellitulation of its virtues. But wo
other defence. A wireless trans- THIS
mitter can be "Jammed," but that in not.an leal solution of the pro-
On May 6, 1910, (the year upon the, shoulders of George, blom. Some months aμo the of 'Halley's comet), the Empire Prince of Wales, and his consort,
Hungarian Minister of Commerce issued a
decree forbidding in-mourned a King and cheered his Mary. Said the new King on
habitants of the country to
listen to "foreign transmissione successor "the King is dead. intended to propagate political
ideas" The Minister must have Long live the King," Ailing known that he had no means of
enforcing the decree, as is now King Edward VII. only Iew admitted by ity cancellation.
Austria, Ike Hungary, has suffer-hours before his death had said ed a good deal at the hands of
the death of his father:
"I take courage and hopefully look into the future; strong in my faith in God, trusting my people and cherishing the laws
broadcasting propagandists, whose as he sat in his dressing gown and constitution of my beloved main purpose hus been to polson
marifold advantages
Prince George, the future King, was born at Marlborough
Was christened
George
may take one or two examples, and, like the speaker at the anorts meet-
ing, proceed to thank Government
for it.
|*
One is, we can thank Govern- ment for its Government Servants. Another is, for giving us such handsome Government Servants.
But are handsome Government Servants an asset, Papa?
Of course they are, how silly of you to have questioned that! Your Papa was not handsome--- lenstways he was handsome en- jough to impress only your Mamma and so he has had to content job of a columnist. himself with the less remunerative
the loyalty of the populace. Re-at his desk: "No, I shall not country." gularly for years Moscow has been
ending into the ether, in various give in! I shall go on, 'I shail languages, an exposition of the work to the end.".
of living under the Soviet system. These They were his last words. A House, London, on June 3, 1865.
being so far as the ordinary citizen is broadcasts,
insufferably concerned may be overlooked. Frosy and dull, probably defeat few minutes later he was carried He There is no questioning the point make many converts to Commun unconscious to his deathbed. Frederick Ernest Albert Guelph. should not have made me try such
themselves; it is unlikely that they that the masses of the people ism. Still, Russia, with its high- On his death, a new King was At that time, Queen Victoria a big ward). have been led to expect vast power broadcasting stations, is an
They are, but not nearly so re- munerative as when sterling ex One of the earliest pictures of change was up,
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. social improvements, and sonic, "ether foreg" to be reckoned with proclaimed. He was George V., ruled the Empire.
York Building:
Chater Road.
And are Government jobs very | re-mun-er-a-tive? (Oh, Papa, you
Oh, shut up, you little fool, and go to bed. Walt a bit, there is
The exploitation of radio for pur- such as those placed on relief, poses of propaganda or advertise-by the Grace of God King of the have experienced benefits which meat seenis likelier to increase, they will not readily give up.-than-to diminish,-and-the-only-de- United Kingdom of Great Britain Prince George_is_illustrated And what has this exchange got” BOSSESSÑOSOSC.DESDE Millions of citizens have lost fence against it in the long run is and Ireland and of all British above. It shows Princess Alex-to do with it?
the commonsense of the faith in the loaders of finance whom it is gought to influotes. Dominions Beyond the Seas, De- andra, later to rule as Queen and industry, and have shown a They may either switch off or over willingness to follow political to some more attractive matter or fender of the Faith, Emperor of with Edward VII., giving something else I want you to know,
else take the propaganda with a leaders in preference. Whether liberal allowance of salt.
"piggy-back" ride to her second their faith" will be justified by: events remains to be proved."
At 15 years of age, the task son George, who was about two of being ruler of the greatest years old when this picture was
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Left wing opponenta are espe- { FRANCE'S FEARS cially caustic about the Adminis-
India.
France breathed freely for a Empire in history, of one-quarter taken.
tration's failure to bring about little while when she had com- greater redistribution of wealth.pleted, at enormous cost, frontler New Dealers insist this is an in-fortifications which were believed evitable, but also inevitably slow, to make her safe agninat invasion. process, begun by attrition on No sooner were those completed many fronts. Income has been than the air menace disturbed distributed to the needy un-such serenity as she had begun to her professional employed and millions, according enjoy. Now to oficial's, are now getting a soldiers declare that there can he decent diet for the first time in for a longer period than they de no security unless conscripts servo their lives. Old age pensions at present. No less an authority will "redistribute" to many more than Marshal Petain has put this -und unemployment insurance fear into plain words. Germany as well. Currency manipulation is, as over, the enemy. Petain has played a part. The farmers insists that Germany intends to had a big cut-in, through the place Europe under a permanent 1934 billion-dollar increase in menace. She respects force only, farm income. Lower interest and will resign herself to peaceful rates and increased taxation forces capable of restraining her. obligations only in the presence of have been parts of the process. France must, therefore, be strong. And N.R.A.'s minimum wages That is. her-one source of security, have boosted the incomes of This conviction of French pro- hundreds of thousands of lowest fessional soldiers seems to
be
shared by a very large proportion of the French people, and, a fortunately, experience has given them too good grounds for this dread of the future..
paid wage earners.. Standards of living for the salaried middle class and the average wage earner have not Improved, how ever. Millions in these groups are economically worse off as a result of living cost increases-ous. N.R.A. has fallen far assuming they have always had short of its re-employment goal jobs. Meanwhile,' the latest in-and got tangled up in. the com- come tax figures available show.plexities of indiscriminate price- that in 1983 taxpayers with in-Axing and production control. comes of less than $10,000 saw Expansion of mass purchasing their incomes decline five per power was its basle purpose and cent., while the 8,000 at the top it has not achieved that because increased theirs by 10 per cent.. dominant groups in Industries the top 2,000 by 16 per cent. wrote their own codes and kopt and the number of incomes over wages down while pushing prices a million dollars rose from 20 up. These are some of the facts to 46. Speaking generally, com about the working out of the petent observers state that mis-Rooseveltian policies thus far. takes of the New Deal's first two The future will have its own years have been painfully numer- tale to tell.
"It's going to sound darn funny. Our getting a divorce when we haven't told anybody about our marriage."
While we can thank Government for its Servants, we can also thank God for one other blessing.
And what is that, dear Papa?
I was going to say we can thank Jim Tor-for-er Horatio Bogg. OUCH!!
[Dirty book thrown by unappre- clative Editor had found honour- able mark!]
Retrospect
[After Kruncis Thomson. The general idea is thut-in spite of | varionė “xungs,” women will shortly
be admitted to full' membership of the Oxford Union.)
It's little that I care for my lunches
at the Union,
Tho' the same old Stilton there
may grow:
It's little that I care for my lunches.
at the Union, -
Tho' the salads are just the same,
I know.'
But the scene is filled with shades as
I take my 'customted scat;
I think of dear old William; I hear
his gentle bleat;
Reproachfully I ask him: Is this all
you have to eat?
-O ́my lobater and my rissoles,
long ago-
Long ago—
My cutiet and my trifle,long ago,
It's Hittle I shall care for my lunchus
Rt the Union Though the flowers
of Lady Margaret there niny blow; It's Httle I shall care for my lunches
at the Union
Though St Hilda's and St. Kugh's
there com and go;;
For the seena is filed with shades as
I eat my modest snack;
I brood upon something
Oxford seems to lack ei
that
A something that's departed and can
nuver now come back-
O my sis and my Cherwell, long
ago-
Long ago
My Phyllis and my Margot, long"
apoi