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read which was dispatched by the President of China In 1917 to one of the war-lords who was making trouble.
This super-bandit was describ. ed in the wire as being "highly meritorious and respected, as well as public-spirited and patrio- tio."
The telegram continued: " bewail my own lack of virtue and
-KING-HALL
The ways of the East seem strange-but the peoples of the West, might profit by a closer acquaintance with the philosophy of a race which has endured, for 4,000 years.
Immense and on the whole beneficial changes have taken place during the past decade. The Nanking or central govern- ment is steadily extending its control and improving ita ad- ministration, notwithstanding the continuous attempts of Japan to seize control of China before the giant reorganises, and then with a great heave shakes off the incubus of the invader.
There are about 400,000,000 Chinese in the world, and funda- mentally, they are democratical- ly minded people. They are something much greater than a nation; they
are a civilisation which has endured like a huge rock in a storm-tossed sea and endured for 4,000, years.
Hongkong Telegraph. General lung. The last-named victory. You mine? The other await your arrival in carucet European
THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1937.
WORLD REFUGEE
PROBLEM
No one who has studied the At these conferences, one man ability, as well the fact that my tremendous history of the would say: "My forces amount prestige is insufficient to com- Chinese civilisation can doubt GENERAL YET was allied to to 7,000 men, yours are only mand respect, and I am smitten that, long after the half-baked Admiral Yang and also to 8,000. You must admit that with regret and remorse, and philosophical theorios of the totalitarian· States was a very bad man. Every would say: "I grant the prin- longing."
have become historical curiosi- time the admiral went to sea, ciple, even so, 8,000 are not I am bound to confess that the ties, China will be playing a great which was not very often, since negligible. What compensation reply was not in the best Chinese and perhaps decisive role in
style, and savoured more of the world affairs. he was obliged to buy his coal do we get if we withdraw?" from his enemy, General Chih- That much of this spirit of methods we have since learnt to
The British Commonwealth, Ping (the man who held the sound common sense allied with associate with Rome, Berlin and the U.S.A., Russia, and China.
Tokyo. It read as follows: "Dis- island on which I was squatting), perfect courtesy still permeates solve Parliament, I will come to These are the four columns on General Hung atole the naval re- public life in China is shown by Peking on Sunday to settle all which an edifice of world civilisa creation ground.
the recent exchanges between
tion will arise during the con-. turies to come. The Navy then had to raise the Prime Minister of China and the blockade of Amoy Island, and the young marshal who kidnap- go home to retrieve the football ped him, because the Nanking ground and officers' club house. Government was not being suffi-
The blockade was not a very Japanese encroachments.
ciently aggressive towards serious business, because the flect only possessed three shells, respondence of a telegram I once
I was reminded by that cor
SINCE this is the time of year when the' Treasury officials in Whitehall may be presumed
accounts."
We have all at some time in our lives been entrusted with a task we little enjoyed doing, and many of us with a seemingly impossible one. Fow, however, have found themselves in the unenviable position of Mr. Hans- This bad man, General Hung, son, President of the Nansen was even measured by Chinese standards—an artist at devising Refugee Office. He has been re-new ways of raising revenue. quested to make plans for the liquidation of the Nansen Office, to reach Governments by July of
❝TINGY old man. I asked him that we boast almost innumerable capital, loss of alt the best years of for a rise of five bob a week small business men running little his life which he has devoted to this year, and submit sugges- to be considering new ways und and he turned me down! And I've concerns. They are a hardworking, building up his little business. tions for the best ways of cop British rearmament programme, now
means of raising revenue for a been working for him for three years conscientious section of the
munity, and their loyalty to their Down the Scale ing with the work at present I reproduce here a list I made on been working for him for three years. button to the common welly
Yes-that is the point. You have employees is an invaluable contri-
And do not forget that even the done by the Office to the 1938 the spot of the extra taxes im-For three years he has had to find Their lot is not necessarily an en-heads of really big businesses may posed by General Hung. Here your wage envelope every week-end. viable one. That three pounds a envy you your job! I know a man Assembly of the League of Na-they are in all their comprehen- For three years your board and log consider "stingy," probably means from a
you earn, and which you may who enjoyed a four-gure income
largo business ing, your clothes, your amusements,
concern. tions. When that proposal wassive beauty.
have been paid for by money which all the day to the boss fre is laced Something went wrong with the
and anxiety "He
murk a great firm went smash, made, the addition of German -Extra taxes were imposed-in-rc-he-has-had-to-find.
the problem of of my friend and mány spect of:
True, you have earned it. But did weducing Probeer onal expenditure, others down to ruin. He and his refugees from the Saar and the
It. ever occur to you that with your and inevitably he must toy with the son at a good school, his daughter Sugar.
Butchery.
"wretched screw" you may be better thought of giving you, or someone was at college. Both had to leave victims of Spain's Civil War to Kerosene Oil Stamping. Wines & Tobaccos. Fruit tree. the unhappy thousands of State- Miscellaneous Flower seed,
Timber. Fowl.- less persona, was not unticipat-Bricks and Tiles, Sedan chair.
In the meanwhile, we British HAVE told you these things, would do well to remember that about the China of ten or the greatest potential market in fifteen years ago as an introduce the world for our manufactured tion to an article I intend to write exports is China, but on this sub-
Chiria of to-day. in the near future about the ject there will be more to say in
another article,
Don't Envy Your Boss
•
Public roads. Charcoal.
Shops
Fresh Fish.
General Imports, Firecrackers. Narcissus bulbs..
Small Pigs. ed. Before the end of this year Large Pigs.
Pork. there may be yet further addi- Hot water.
Sulphur and Bamboo. tions to the straggling army of
Saltpetre. Colton yarn.
Mour outcasts wandering from coun- Actors.
Fruit, try to country in search of a Jetty.
Poper, home. Last year the Nansen Line. Sand, Office had to intervene in 1,800 Navigation.
Slaughtering. cases' concerning expulsion and Bean Cake. Joss paper. 121,000 various other cases. Earthenware.
Potato refuse. With international relations
Boats.
Rice.
Road cleaning.
Wholesale
of the Iocul chronicle.
merchants.
com-
off than your boss? This is general- pixe, notice with small businesses the end of the term. And from
Most ment
ly the the case. I know a man run-
nice suburban home the family ning B business who every Friday are reluctant to throw a man out of migrated to a humble flat in a none afternoon pays out something like work, and many suffer considerable too salubrious neighbourhood. £60 in wages, and has all his work
even narrow straits at The bigger they are, the bigger cut out to make ends meet in his own discomfort,
home,
on. to keep the staff The the fall" "Yes, your boss, when be domestic life..
head of a malillon pound concern is does: come cropper, goes down to envy your boss. It may necessarily less in touch with his the depths. How often have you
you?" look good to you to be acated in an sloff. The majority are mere num- had a man pointed out
"See office marked "Private,"
that chap? I-
I remember when he to arrive at any hour you cheques,
The owner of a small business has used to run a Bolls, when he lived please in the morning, and to leave all the worries of the business Itself. in it at will. But there is another side
big house, and took his
temily he anticipates a big order, and it abroad for holidays every year."
Don't
to
signbers to him.
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10
the
rine
you
to the picture, The boss in his
does not eventuate, you get no head- Appearances are often deceptive. private office often sila head in hand aches from the misfortune. He does. Your may sport expensive wondering where the money is com- If one of his customers falls to pay clothes; may always seem able to customer. But ing from to meet the wages bill the end of the week, or wondering he is the laser, not you, He may offer a cigar to a
have all the worry and annoyance often enough he is saving on his what will happen if orders don't of law-proceedings while you carry home what he spends on his business, Think well before you grouse at The compilation come in.
on comfortably with your job and
the boss
he "cannot see his His perplexities are many, his job get the usual envelope on Friday
way clear" to grant
you is perhaps a good deal harder and afternoon. even more irksome than yours. You
The
shadow of bankruptcy is request. Behind that formal ans It was a very decent kind of a have no rising and falling markets to always hovering over thousands of wer to your request may lurk a host 28028 strained almost to breaking war, with few casualties, and my deal with, no overhead charges to small businesses. A strike at home, of worries and anxieties. That five point, no country is willing, un-man (as I came to consider old keep an eye on, no bad debts to put a war abroad, any one of the hun-bob which seems so much to you,
your ledger all out of gear.
dreds of happenings over which your and which you think ought to mean bois has no control may lead to the little to him, may racan a good deal aided, to accept large numbers the island on payment of 300,000 Making Ends Meet
Tsung) eventually surrendered
complete smashing up of his business, to him and to the business. of refugees and grant them na-dollars into a.British bank.
You can set out to get a similar job; No-don't envy your bossi "Um-wish I could!" you may mur- he has to reckon with the loss of!
Roy Hopkins. turalisation. Even if the re- The Chinese have from timomur when the boss says "Shan't be fugee figures do not increase, the immemorial held the view, and long-Just slipping over to the bank." oxpressed it in their manuals of him walking in the counter, being
A DENTIST'S STORIES task of providing for them can military training, that history greeted with made out with his wallet AS in every profession, there are the plate some years ago, and it fitted
deferential smile by a only be accomplished by inter-shows that all ware end in com- clerk, and national co-operation. In Octo- promise.
notes. It is quite on occasions when even the dentist me perfectly. stuffed witming out the cards that he
he is spending a none may derive a smile in the course of Even dentists are expected to know ber, 1988, the League of Nations From the basic fact they too pleasant half hour with an un- his somewhat humdrum existence. something about vitamins nowadays,
manager, trying to nego- The following are a few examples: so the following is not out of places sympathetic drew up a convention relating argue that once hostilities have flate a loan or an overdraft so that The Chinese was arranging an Betty eats carrots for vitamin A,
Spinach for vitamin BINA to the international status of re-started, it is doubly necessary to he may pay your wages, and keep appointment.
In
2.30 all right?" suggested the den. From herds of cows that leisurely and your fellow-workers strive for agreement. It" - is you
browse th fugees, and this has been rati- therefore a Chinese custom (or employment until he can collect some tist Oh yes tooth burtce all right,.
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over-due accounts. fied by seven States, but these was until the cruder Western
arc thousands of small but when you fixce?".
chin men who seem to be luckily. The patient was reporting after So Betty is balanced right up to the have made important reserva-methods began to blot the egon
With vitamin this and that, tions. This Convention must be
cheon of Chinese militarism) for placed, but who actually are hard the Insertion of a new plate to re- place one or two gaps in the upper
But there's not enough in the whole pressed to keep #letter opposing generals to exchange
jaw. ratified by those countries of the staff officers and to co-operate in Business, on its feet. As a clerk, you you getting on?"
the name over the door, the ""Well,” said the dentist, "how are
To balance world directly affected by the keeping the postal and telegraph spend your days with a mass of "Oh ane, thank
A lady of good education and social I'ngures which may, ·
look very impos-
"standing required plates. The dentist don't eat with you. Of course I refugee problem and perfected services in being."
On a similar occasion the same examined her mouth and assured the gradually, The task of refuged
you to her, and which may lead
think of
of "the boss" BE
upon
answer was, "Very well, sult. The
patient seemed loath to settlement is not that, of one DURING the miner war I have funate person, He may be strug-question was put the patient, where patient he could achieve a quod re gling with the figures too, but from
believe this, and
and said, “But are you. DODWELL & CO., LTD. manu alone but of the world. The of the contending factions used a small business man has found out to have a small job carried out This several times to wear my aunt's teeth
In mind, the representatives a quite different point of view. Many thank you, except for my teeth!"
On one occasion a patient appeared sure I can wear plates? I tried two thousand million inhabit to meet over a cup of tea in the to his cost that a big turnover does being completed, the dentist charged but could do nothing with them!*** Finally a dentist's epitaph from ar ants of this planet can surely, by house of a notable Chinese not necessarily mean a big profit, or full fee, as the patient had a type of
even any pront at all?
gold plate which had obviously cost cemetery: ́a good deal. - The
demurred, patient Small Man's Worries
"When on this a very cultured man, equally at and a national status for one home in the Confucian and Greek Napoleon and the English were a charged for the gold plate.
whereupon the dentist pointed out that a good fee must have been million refugees.
classics.
nation of shopkeepers, and it is true "Oh, no," said the patient, "I found
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