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THE HONGKONG Government's habit of budgeting for a deficit und ending the year with a surplus seems likely to be repeated in 1939,
With eight months in hand, forty per cent. of the estimated revenue has already been collected and only thirty per cent. of the estimated ex- penditure has been dissipated.
The financial position is, in fact, most satisfactory. In spite or because of the hostilllies
in neighbouring Chino, the Colony is to-day solvent to the extent that the excess of assets over abilities, which have increased by almost one million dollars since April 1, now stands at the comfort- able total of $10,238,310, the highest In our history,
We expect to drop in on relatives while we're touring, and with the luggage camouflaged they won't be able to spot us very welipi
Time off
for a bank holiday
in wanted see baby panda.
were
THY are so many thou-without exception every one of the
of attendants Special staffs London willing to waste their constantly engaged in moving them time looking at the baby panda in the Zoo?
It is a serious question, and one which should give us all a good deal of occasion. for thought.
Why, when there is beauty and loveliness all around on a spring
Inon-
on; they returned again and again; they "rubber-necked" this stroalty until their eyes uched. Dolls and Mascots NOR does the matter end there. sicldy sentimental day in the country; why, when there panda plague has infected far more La co much of genuine interest and people than can ever hope to eye it natural inspiration to occupy a hard-in the flesh. Hundreds of thousands won day of leisure, should this black-of postcard pictures of the panda eyed caricature of all that is inhuman are being sold, and a recent film of poasens the pubile mind?
Is idiotic nelivities Alled the news-
bo
This
Of the facts of the ease there can reel theatres.
no doubt. Dr. Vevers, the superintendent of the Zoo, tells me
Chlidren are hugging panda dolls.
that the number of visitors on Man-China Images of it occupy mantel- day recently was 88,437--an all-time pieces where formerly a not quite so record in the history of that inteilu-hideous "present frem Margate" had tion. (The previous best was in the the place of honour.
prosperity days of 1928, when 89,218 Would-be fashionablo young passed the turnstiles on a single day.) |
And Dr. Vevers added that almost women are carrying parida mascots. Books, pictures, wallpaper, cigarette cases, jewellery, and jokes featuring the panda are making the lives of normal citizens hideous,
Whitsun should mean
than a week-end
more
long
It is noteworthy, however, that notESTERDAY every church throughout most of Chris-
all the Colony's excess of assets over Jinbilities is in liquid form. A total
tendom celebrated the feast of Whitsun, or-to give
And now the most nauseating of all symptoms of animal worship is mak- ing its appearance. The incorrigibly foolish are beginning to credit the panda wlh a soul.
Why, then, do people pander to the panda? Why, slightly perverting the slang of the moment, have the pleasant walks of the Zoological Gardens be- rome a sort of tinpanda nleys?
I have asked a number of panda fans and others, and their answers, while Instructive, did not do much to exalt my opinion of human nature. Dr. Vevers could only offer this as "It is such an impossible It is a caricature of an
n reason: creature. animal."
This point of view I found repeated in different forms by various men whom I questioned. They spoke of ils "humorous appearance." A bus conductor sold he had been to see it because "you never know what it is going to do next."
Like a Teddy Bear
A
YOUNG boxer of my ac quaintance had an opinion I When the young man in love did not expect from him: There houts, "She loves me! I don't care are so many brutal things about in
in throws his çap
the air
ог
and
it its other name--the feast of Pentecost. Probably about it rains pink ink," there is the the world to-day," he said, "that it spirit of man moved by a transcend-la attractive to and something that ing job. And when a pact writes an you can really have an affection for."
the ode
or a lyric
I take his point, but I am unmoved beauty of a flower must be stirred by emotion before human baby is much more worthy he can express himself in words. of affection than a baby panda, but The Holy Chest, the Spirit of God, would not draw any crowds to the is the Good Spirit which, linking it- Zoo, self with our own, inspires us to rise above ourselves to a higher and ever the panda is like a Teddy Bear, and A very common opinion was that higher standard of living.
one person in four was in church or chapel in honour of nutum it is his spirit that in my belief that a cheerful, chubby
of $11,000,726 has been expended on various Public Works pending the issuing
of the
the $12,000,000 balance of the $25,000,000 Dollar Loan, nut- orised by Legislative Council in 1934, the feast. whilst in additional $1,419,701 has been expended for
a like purpose without, apparently, any reference to or sanction from Législative Council, also pending 'reimbursement from a new Joan.....
Until the Colony is reimbursed from these loans, the actual liquid excess of assels over liabilities is only | $3,220,425.
When I was a little girl I used to long for blazing hot sun- shine so that I could go to church in a white frock, for I was sure that the name of the feast indicated that white was the only colour to be worn.
When I grew aider and was allowed- to help the grown-ups in the decora- tion of the church observed that a red altar frontal was used; that red flowers were massed in the altar This financial position is such, how vases and wherever else in the church ever, that the question of new taxa-flowers were placed; and that on tion raised by the tabling of the Taxa-Wilt-Sunday the priest wore a red tion Committee's Report is likely to stole.
pigeon-holed for some considerable
time,
"Why red?" I
wondered. Then even if unprecedented expendi-I remembered that at Whitsuntide ture on social services and public works is contemplated in the near
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We believe that the proposals for new Taxation are, on the whole, ranks as high, probably, as market that of any nation in the world. Our equitable and just, on the assumption, only outstanding obligations are the has been reduced by annual payments tax on company profits and dividends,
years.
by HILDA COE
festival.
that the young men and women-of. LL of us have at some time to-day were brought up with Teddy A been
laced with Gorrow, Bears as bables. My comment on this sometimes so suddenly that the shock is that they ought to have outgrown
their cradles by now. has left us physically wrecked. Yet
we have been able to say, "I mustn't Others spoke of its rarity value. give in," and gradually wa have "It is the only one in captivity," they found the courage to readjust our said. the
future. We
Idolised by Women
the Church celebrates the feast of lives happily to
But even this rarity appeal is likely the Holy Ghost; that on the first have experienced the power of the whit-Sunday, ten days after
our Holy Spirit working in our lives to to suffer eclipse in the near future, for according to Major Floyd Smith, Lord's Ascendios, the Holy Ghost our comfort. came down from heaven in the form Never before in the world's his-who-brought the panda-to London, The Colony can well stand the port would do well to remember that of "tongues like as of fire," and rest- tory can there have been more need there are still 400,000 of them in the borders, of accumulated deßelts of any-
some. consideration would be paid by led upon the Apostles.
to make use of the gifts of the Holy Wassu country, on the up to three million dollars per Government to the degree of support So red, the colour of fire, is the Spirit than there is now. People Tibet, and if enterprising showmen the feel Insecuro economically; the really get to work on this supply the annum for the next five years without or opposition accorded the
In the columns of the the proposals Church's symbolic colour for
Press.
shadow of war has come agala to bottom will quickly drop out of the cash assets our credit in the loan
its solvency.
hang like a cloud over Europe; the panda boom.
Most of the women, ON more than one occasion, in home has lost a good deal of its in-
young and His talks with His disciples fluence with the young; everybody
were just simply We of course, that the recommendations about the way they were to extend says the world has gone crazy, and old, I consulted
sentimentally glutinous in their opin- succession I heard four per cent. Conversion Loan, which regarding Income Tax cover also a His Church, Christ promised them the the greatest men are uncertain what ions. In sickly
to do for the best.
such remarks as: "Because it is adorable." "It's such ...n cuddly Then, after His resurrection and to under $9,000,000, and the 3% per a point that is not made clear in the gift of His Holy Spirit. cent. Dollar Loan, which has been Report. We would oppose any new just before He ascended in the sight
NO this Whitsun, it will com- animal." "It's darling." "It's reduced to $11,700,000, making a total taxation on Education or Medical of His disciples into heaven, He re- furt us to recall that the warm and fluffy." "It has got real of less than $17,000,000 outstanding Services, both of which should, and unrepayable in full for twenty if we can attain the Utopian, aim minded them that it was their task Holy Spirit is with us, offering us glamour." And then: "It has such
regarding these two vital services, be to preach "in His Name among all those great gifts of wisdom, under- babyish ways.
nations." "But," He said, "tarry ye standing, counsel, and strength. In view of our solvency, the pro-entirely free.
in the city of Jerusalem until ye be These gifts are free to young and posals for substantial increases in We are opposed to any immediate endued with power from on high." old, rich and poor, high and low, and taxation do not appear an Immediate Increase in taxation in view of the
according to the measure in which we
HERE at last, I think, we begin problem to be faced by taxpayers. healthy state of the Colony's finances
to reach the truth of the OBEDIENTLY they waited to accept and make use of them we shall
in On the other hand, there is the and, indeed, do not see the necessly
our lives the fruit panda complex, so for, at least, as their labours and, make manifest undeniable fact that cost of civil for any section of the Committee's after ten days, the Spirit of God of the Spirit-love, joy, peace, long- many women are concerned, and it
gentleness, goodness, faith, is not Christians,
a pleasant truth. Women upon those first come, unless Government has some like "a rushing mighty wlad," and meekness, temperance.
Idolise the punda because of the alone substantial increase in taxa-ambitious scheme of Public Works with tongues of flame. So Whit- Some people may say, "But I've children they have not gol of their tion may become necessary withia which it has not yet divulged.
Sunday is Use birthday of the Church never been religious; all this talk own. We disagree with the Committee's the day on which its first members a short while.
me the Holy Spirit leaves
This statement will probably arouse If correspondence in the local Report regarding
on the received the Breath of God's fe- cold,"
storms of protest, but I am fortifled newspapers is any criterion of public dividends of
The The giving Spirit, and set out to conquer
It is true that we may go on for by the opinion of a very eminent opinion it is the only media of ex-maney they take out of the Colony the world for Christ.
a long time when thlogs are pros psychologist. "The panda le pop pression left to the general publle in is irrecoverably lost to LIB the When I was a child I learned to pering without thinking about God, far," he said, "because he looks
part of the British Empire where remedy from their point of view, if believe in God the Father, who We may even say, because we don't cuddlesome, and owing to the de a most undemocratic system of preferential taxation is imposed, is made me, in God the Son who re- want to be bothered to discipline our clining birth rate the young of most government prevails the pubile has to live ini the Colony thai
is provid-decmed me, and in God. ure Holy lives, that religion is all a lot of animals have acquired an enhanced shown a
a remarkable apathy towards Ing their bread and butter,
Ghost who sanctifieth me.". ---
hooey," but sooner or later the spirit emotional value. Women find in the taxation proposals In comparison We have referred to this idea You will observe that, whereas of man yearns for an anchorage, and them an outlet for suppressed desires. with their interest displayed in pre-before in our comments on Civil the verbs "made" and "redeemed" are where can he find it if he is not an "The woman who has never reared- Service pensions and we reiterata in the past tense, "sanctifoth" is in chored to the Holy Spirit of God? puppies raves far more over a lliter
That is what being religious means than the woman under whose. that the continual drain on the the present; the work of creation and In the Taxation Committee's
Apathy would indicate acquiescence Colony's finances caused by remit-redemption have been fulfiled: the the word is related to the Latin,
We are has never had
they wore bred. The woman' whe posals, and that point of view might ting something like $3,000,000 of work of sanctification of making "rellgare" "to bind fast."
baby often talks bound to God by His infinite love and more of the beauty conceivably encourage Government pensions overseas annually is un- men holy-goes on for ever,
of motherhood by our infinite need of Him; but if than the mother herself. To such a to choose Ule easy way out of the sound economically and financially. dimculties brought about by, for It is robbing the Hongkong trader HOW
TOW has the Holy Ghost, des- we cut ourselves adrift from that one the babyishness of the panda Instance, the abnormal rise in civil and business-man, who provides the cending in such power upon love, or if, through the neglect or may make irresistible appeal. service pensions, by imposing addi- money, of any chance of getting it the Church, endued us, its members? ignorance of parents, we have never In short, the fewer the bobles the tional taxation before it is really re-back. A contemporary recently made te has brought us seven gifts-wis- been aware of it our loss is incalcul-wider the panda worship.
the suggestion that the average civil
herself. Could there be anger, strife, envy, there is only one good thing I have
As for the baby panda In other parts of the world the service pension should be valdom, understanding, counsel, spiritual able.
strength, knowledge, godliness, and
arrogance, cynicism, hate, uncleane heard of her. She la developing a holy fear. dather,
suggest that this
service has risen abnormally in the Report being adopted for past Ave years, and for this reason
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Interests of the taxpayers are guard- from 60 to 60 per cent of salary:n himself in spirit; we each nets is thought, word and deed`amonixth digit on her foro paws, Natur." ed; firstly, by their elected repro-reduction, be made effective only in of us feel within ourselves that wo
We would Ir by a Taxpayers' · Association. the casa ́of penisions which must be are so much more than muscle, blood if unis, or families, or nationalists protend that this is to give her
sentatives in Parliament and,
everywhere men had learned to
A stronger grip of the bamboo shoots with their whole widerstanding which sho eats. I prefer to think. tho lutter. Is non-existent, those result would be to encourage the thing we call "me," that is moved such simple words as the Church has she is growing it to put to her nose whose intercals would be. vitally class of person most desirable in the to joy, plly and sorrow, that knows given us in the collects? Buch, for at the gaping-crowds. which have affected by the adoption of part in Colony to make his home here after courage, fear and love. Theso emp example, as, "Grant to us that by brought her out of a well-merited all of the Taxation Committee's Re- " zetireinent.
"tions are of the spirit.
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