THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,
JUNE 10, 1935.
BRIGHTER TAXATION
SUPER-TAX ON SELFISHNESS
AN ENDLESS OPPORTUNITY
By LADY NORA SPENCER CHURCHILL
Why not a super-tax on selfish- noas? There are things definitely. I would like to tax. The woman who keeps cats and feeds them on beef kidneys and tinued salmon with milk enriched with cream. would tax anyone who chained up a dog in a yard, or kept a large dog in a small London Hat. Cur- tainly a swinging tax on people who lived in the country without keeping dogs at all.
I would tax 'n selfish bachelor with a cellar full of old wine who does not entertain, and also the wealthy bachelor who snubs his poor relations. I would tax any who hoarded, and certainly the wo man who spends three-fourths of her time turning over things shops and wasting the time and putlence of all.
Here are the girl pipera of Dagenham playing a Highland tune for the people of Ypres before leaving that city for their return journey from the the continent. They visited the European battle-
fields and played a lament at the famous Menin Gate war memorial.
WHITSUN HOLIDAY
WEATHER IMPROVES AND SUNSHINE EXPECTED
BANKRUPTCY COURT
RECEIVING ORDER AGAINST RUBBER FIRM RESCINDED
Why it is the easiest thing in the world to raise revenue-so long
London, June 8. An application to rescind the re- as it is on someone else's money London early to-day, following Brothers
Although heavy rain fell in eeiving order against The Canton i Ab, there's the rub. Taxation in
Rubber Manufactory Co. night of exceptionally high south- not a pleasant matter to apply to westerly winds, the weather im-behalf of aesara, tiibb, Livingston & was maile by Mr. F. G. Nigel, on proved. Inter and forecasta in- There are so many ways of rais-dicate that the sunshine recorda Ltd., before the Chief Justice,
oneself.
rent, he paid out in cash to them either in a lump sum or by small
amounts. The reason for this enth payment preference for trade credi. tors was that they had not received any interest, whereas the loan credi tors had been drawing exorbitant In- terest.
Employees' Claim
of the debtor company, and this was Mr. F. 1. Loseby who appeared for some creditors, mostly employeen the first time he had heard that an
agreement
had been reached; his
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ing money, quite obvious ways over for the Whitsuntire holiday wool Sir Atholl MacGregor, at the Rank clients know nothing of the meeting. Orchestra-When Day is Done
end will be better.
He wondered if the new company his clients the three per echt, divi would give an undertaking to pay end to which they, as unsecured cre litars, were entitled under the re-
looked by politicians. What of the
ruptcy Court on Saturday morning. high speed Triend whose fiery pas-
Mr. Nigel informed His Lordship sage through quiet rural lanes is
There was a great exodus of that the application was made on the like a visitor from the lower re- holiday makers from London to
ground that the assets of the debtor glons, whose recklessness makes the the country and seaside to-day road Impossible for the weak and and on the railways accommoda- were insullisient to pay a divi.ceiving order. defenceless. Whether on bike ortion on special holiday trains was dend of 15 per cent. to the creditors
His Lordship remarked it was in car, the man or woman who fully utilised.
after payment of preferential costa more or less a gamble. If the new drove recklessly after a first offence
and Court fees. He understood it company were successful his (Mr. should be heavily penalised.
Road traffic was particularly was the practice of His Lordship, in Loseby's) clients might get pre- heavy and in anticipation that bankruptcy proceedings, not only to
ferential payment of 100 per cent.: Tax people who never cease to during the week-end there will be consider what percentage should be and if not they might lose the three talk about themselves, especially moro private motor cars on roads given but also the wishes of the vast main attraction of the new company per cent. It seemed to him that the those who talk about their ailments than at any time so far this year,majority of creditors, and, in fact, was that there was every chance of overlooking the patient suffering of the Minister of Transport issued all the circumstances relating to the employment for Mr. Loschy's clients. many in our hospitals. But then speen) broadcast appeal to mun or woman who depressed motorists last night to exercise case, others by mentioning his or her every care in driving to avoid own ailment must be heavily Bned. accidents.-British Wirelcas,
TAX SNUBBING
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Evening's Broadcast From The German Short-Wavers Special His Lordship then enquired of Mr. will be broadcast from Zoren
Follow: Nigel if he or his Arm, Messrs. John- son, Stokes and Master, would give
SOUTH ASIA ZONE an undertaking that preferential employees would be paid the full (10.74 metres) and DJN (31.48 metres). amount of their preferential claims,
this payment will be carried out.
Mr. Loseby: Some of them have in the present case a vast majority been given employment and some of of the creditors of the debtor firm
them have been left out. At the wished the recclying order to be res
present time this agreement, as I see it, does not give any guarantee at cinded so as to enable them to come all to my clients that they will get This Tax snubbing, that hateful formi of snobbery. Snubbing, like irriten engaged in journalistic work in of the debtor firm could be assigned ment
Miss Marguerite Yancey, who has to an agreement whereby the assets pald 100 per cent, preferential pay- There is no guarantee that ability, does more harm than good, China and the Philippines during the to a new company to be formed and though, at times, it can be a tonic. past five years, sailed yesterday by the creditors to be allotted shares in By all means tax scandal-mongers; the liner Conte Verde for America these people should be taxed up to
the Company. via Europe. She will spend some the hilt. The first hint of a spoken time in Italy, France and England rumour and the axe should fall, their words ahould be tracked down with ruthless vehemence, with the same extensive energy as exter minating a pest.
en route.
back from Harwich,
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Undertaking Given
With a view to carrying out the wishes of that vast
of majority creditors, a meeting was held on April 10 this year at the Tai Turg Res- taurant, at which it was proposed Certainly lax nagging, for - nag-
that a new company be formed, that prepared to give such an undertaking. Mr. Nigel replied thint he was quite ging is a corrosive that rusts. And creditors who had tent money to the but asked for an order that any un naturally tax irritable husbands. debtor firm prior to 1933 should be claimed wages should be paid over. They are equally at fauft with nag-allotted shares in the new company to the new company, as he under to the extent of 25 -per-cent. of stood that some of the employees had their claim, and that creditors who already gone back to the country.
given shares to the value of 76 per
One should certainly tax the man or woman who lives entirely for self, who has no use for fellow man who makes his friendly, virtues aging wives.. Tong negation. And yet the selfish
ruise
cent.
Differentiation
in allotment,
The Official Receiver (Mr. J. J.
Bayden) suggested that the money of the debtor company which was in his possession should be handed ovor to the trusteen of the new company or to the new company itself. The suggestion was adopted.
from
people get the best out of life. There are, indeed, endless vistas had lent money after 1933 should be They make themselves felt. They of new opportunities to are usually prosperous, for compas-money, and, in planning novel taxa sion does not appeal to them. What tion, there comes into being a men- they have they hold. Their very tal glow, Hands off this, hunds off selfishness creates in them a sound that, a tax on everything that one
This differentiation financial air. They may be the does not possess. One bears the most hated members of their circle, woman who will never ride in a explained Mr. Nigel, was due to the but they are often the most envied.
motor car declare her belief in tax-fact that the creditors who had lent plication and made an ancillary order
His Lordship then granted the ap It seems a shame to tax them, but in all motorists and those who demoney before 1933 had in fact fent that the assets of the debtor Arm be they certainly get the best out of test wireless will give a vote in fit to the Canton factory, which was paid to Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and life, though to my mind it is not
favour in taxing sound.
closed down before the longkong Master to meet the claims of all pre- the right way. In a certain way
I definitely would tax the man
factory, the money for which was ferentiul creditors as shown เก the they have mastery over modern con- who talks politics in, a carriage borrowed after 1932. As a result, statement of affairs fled in this mat- ditions. Watch the way they enter with five-a-side endeavouring to the creditors of the Canton factory Staker and Mastor, or the trustees,
ter, and to leave to Messrs. Johnson, A restaurant. How attentive the read newspapers. waiters. They instinctively know the hilt the woman who is unpunc-factory, and, therefore, to compro- itself, such part of that sum na, on I would tax to had no claim against the Hongkong of the new company or the company that nothing less than their best.tual for dinner, who talka in the mise the chef's beat will do. Every stalls after arriving late at the that the said allotment be made. In Saturday, should be still unclaimed.
the situation, it was agreed the expiry of three months thing must be served and their tip-play. I would tax down-right tu-addition ping will be adequate. Walterspidity. It is a crime in
to this, such creditors As lis Lordship also made a corres- positively quiver for such custom- practical days.
these had lent money before 1933 had beenpanding order that the money of the England should be paid a very high rate of interest.
debtor firm now in the hands of the Official Receiver should be hand- With regard to trade creditors. It ed
over to the trustees of the also part of the scheme
that new
Gr company
the they should be allotted shares in the itself and that the costs for the ap
company It seems a pity to tax elliciency,ties pay a small tax.
I would make country house-par-new company to the value of 75 per niention be charged against the deb
But I should cent, and that the remaining 25 per lor firm. rather we ought to tax the man mulct bores to the atmost. The who has not made good! If we
man who dared to repeat the only taxed the burdened, everyone mother-in-law joke or the woman would work hard to be prosperous! who uttered a platitude should go I am rather inclined to tax tact to prison as well as be heavily fined. which often negatives character. Bores do irremediable harm. They Nature is ruthless In her survival should be segregated and made to of the fittest. Character cones live with their kind. And I would only through early struggles in the tax meanness to the hift... Nothing home, baffling complexity; the good will ever emerge out of mean- youngsters who fight out their men- tal troubles in early years pull futility.. Meanness in
Beas. Meanness is a blind alley of through in the long run. Tnet robs street peopled with expired endea
unlit people of initiative, it smooths the vours, like good intentions come to rough corners of life. Therefore naught lying like a carpet of dead tax tactful people.
leaves underneath the feet.
era.
For selfish people know what made safe for the Intellectuals! they want and they get it.
BORES AND MISERS
PITY TO TAX EFFICIENCY
PEACE ABHORRED
I am not sure about patience. Nature abhors peace.
The world
2011
Mean people must be included in the supertax. And yet are we not ourselves mean in some small way or other. Do we not at times con-
is better for turmoil, never nega-fess to hoarding bits of string, or tion, Commercial prosperity is the collecting odd rubbish? Are we result of ruthless rivalry, We not hoarders in very name? I re- shall get a better government if it member an eccentric recluse whose is war to the knife between all par passion was to collect hairpins. I ties. But there are many things dread to think what happened when beside selfishness one can tax all heads were ahingled. He must high heals, tight waists, bustles, have expired from ennui, crinolines. But never tax common- sense. It is too rare. And, of course, no Government could carry theas reforms in the teeth of the women's vote.
about
I am afraid we cannot tax mean people. That settles that. niso a little doubtful
I am the other hints I have given you...
Porhaps-after-all-it is a pofiti-
I would tax bad handwriting My letter to Warwick. has come cian's task.
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