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Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
July 24, 1940.
This War
is
is
what the FUNNY SIDE UP
costing
By Abner Dean
STUDEBAKER FOR ECONOMY !
The Studebaker Com- mander has just won the Gilmore-Yosemite economy run over a course of over 300 miles. The Studebaker Champion and President models also won first honours In their class. This is the first time in history that one make of car hos won all three first prizes. Studebaker is the most economical full-sized car to operate in Hongkong. Takes all the hills on top gear.
Try a Studebaker before buying any car.
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MARQUES-Francisco Luiz Marques
a retired clerk of Union Insur- ance Society of Canton died early this morning at Canossa Hospital. The funeral will pass the Monu- ment nt 5.30 this evening.
The
If the standard rate of income
THIS war is a very expen- community except perhaps the sive business, much more very poorest, for even if all in- expensive than the last. Be- comes over £2,000 a year were completely confiscated the na- tween 1914 and 1918 the tional revenue would be in- £60 cost of the Army worked out creased by only about at about £340 per man per millions a year. annum, whereas each man in the Army of to-day costs lax were raised from 7s. 6d. to 108, in the pound, excess profits the nation on the average tax were made to yield its last £600 per annum,
pound, "fancy taxes" of one! The Navy, Army, Air Force kind and another were imposed, and Ministry of Supply are and Indirect taxation stiffened spending at the daily rate of the estimated revenue might a figure. of £1,750 nearly 4 millions. Almost an- reach other million a day is being millions, i.e. a further £500 spent on Air Raid Precautions, millions a year. There would' evacuation, shipping and the still be a gap of £1,500 millions stabilization of food prices. per annum, and this gap could) The whole of the war expendi- be closed only by borrowing of ture is therefore close on £5 one kind or another. millions a day, out of a total Government expenditure of be- tween £6,500,000 and £7,000,000 a day.
At the outbreak of war it was estimated that the gross savings of the community cannot have exceeded about £750 millions a Already then, when we are year at the most, and this figure amounts necessarily still only half-way through the included first year of the war, we are set aside for the depreciation spending at the rate of nearly of existing capital.
RETS
KINDS
DE ALL
"I think the one with the brown eyes is the cutost!”!
£2,500 millions a year-and this As the nation's war effort millions, made up of £1,750 has forgone the expenditure of when the war in the air has expands, the growth of employ- hardly begun. Before the end ment and the increased aums millions from
taxation and a pound which he would other-
of the war's first year we may paid in wages must increase the £1,500 millions from borrowing wise have spent, then there is be spending £8 millions a day. nation's savings, and the Na-ubout what the war is ex- no inflation, no matter whether which is at the rate of nearly tional Savings compaign will no pected to cost during the com- the private individual devoted £3,000 millions a year; if the doubt lead to the saving of huge ing year. If the war develops the pound he did not spend to war continues, expenditure may sums which woukl otherwise in the air, then its cost will the payment of taxes, to sub. rise to £9 millions a day or have been frittered away. In be tremendously increased scription to war loan, or merely £3,285 millions a year, or even the first hundred days of the as suggested above, it may ap- to the increase of his cush re-
£4,000 serves, £10 millions a day, when the National Savings campaign the proach a figure of
But if the Government ex- truly terrific figure of £3,650 public subscribed, through the millions, a year-and so there
be medium of War Savings Certi- will develop an ever-widening penditure on the war increases ficates and 3 per cent War gap. When the war is at its without a corresponding reduc- So much for expenditure: Bonds, to the extent of £100 height this gap might amount to lion in the expenditure of the.
millions and public, then there is inflation- £500 what of the receipts? The millions, and perhaps this rate between Chancellor of the Exchequer has, of progress may be maintained £1,000 millions a year.
millions
year would
Hongkong Telegraph. reached.
Wednesday, July 24, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20615
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Workers Behind The Guns
The attitude with which all the working classes in Great Britain are thrawing themselves into the war presents a striking contrast with that of many of them between. 1914 and 1918. Then, among large sections of the workers, there were doubts and misgivings, and fears of ex- ploitation. To-day there is overwhelming evidence of the
fight, and that everything for which organised labour has slood throughout its history is
estimated that
in tho year 1939-40 he will receive £99.5 millions, and in tho Anancial year 1940-1941 he may, if he is
lucky, receive
8/6TH
as much as £1,250 millions. Ex- or even increased. penditure, on the other hand, is
millions.
Income Tax
if, for instance, the citizen sub-
£]
scribes to war loan, not out of cash set free by the limitation of his expenditure but out of ad- vances made to him by banker for the on the
How will this fresh gap be purpose and possibly
his
But it is difficult to believe closed? Judging from the ex--security of the loan to which he
the additional likely to reach at. least £3,200 that
amount perience of the last war, by a is subscribing.
This is the method of in- Between the two which
can be accured from borrowing which will be, in there is a difference of £1,950 genuine savinga will be more effect, hardly distinguishable, creasing subscriptions to war 'loans which was adopted in the millions-say, £2,000 millions. than £750 millions a year-in if at all, from inflation.
other words, £1,600 millions a If in wartime, How is the gap to be closed?
the last war, and it may well be Increased tuxation is the first year is the maximum that may "Economist" very clearly puts that circumstances will compet it, for every pound that the its adoption in the course of resort which will spring to mind, be received from savings. and the increases would have to Thus we now have a total of Government spends some pri- this struggle if it should con- be borne by every class in the Government receipts of £3,250 vate individual for institution) tinue more than a year or two.
Continuing... OF MICE AND MEN
but
"Your pappy! He's dead!" "I think you're goofy," she "He was so I'," whimpered giggled. "But you're a kinda she Lennie. "I was jus' playin' nice fella. And a person can see what you mean. with him an he made like he kinda was goin' to bite me an' I made Sometime when I'm doin' my
conviction that this fight is their ON Saturday night the to the barn, Curley rushed up. boys went into town to stairs to administer one of his
frequent beatings; tour the saloons and the out- turned on him in hysterical
George fury. lying roadhouses. went along, but only as an "Who bust your han', Cur- like I was goin' to smack him hair I just set there an' stroke
nt stake.
now
More than that, they under- stand that the struggle is not only for their own rights and liberties, but also for that kind of internationalism which has peculiarly appealed to the British labour movement. Mr. Ernest Bevin, the powerful trade unionist who is Minister of Labour, made his first appeal as a member of the Government to his old comrades on grounds larger than national grounds. "I
inter- nationalist," he said, adding that one reason why he as·á trade unionist took office was because the labour movement was being internationally des- troyed and Its members on the Continent were being impri- soned and tortured.
an: an
In Britain it is no small thing that a trusted trade-union leader should ask his followers to dis- card the narrower conception of trade unionism. In the last war there were endless disputea about the dilution of labour and the restrictive rules established by collective bargaining; there were strikes and threats of strikes which gravely hampered. output. There are no signs of such reluctance to press on with the industrial speed-up to-day. All appear conscious that there are heavy arrears to be made up, that thero is not a moment to lose, and that this is a war in which speed on the fighting. front depends on speed in the factories.
onlooker.
it's so soft. Feel It because an' then he was dead."
He there an' see how soft it is, Len- ley ?" she screamed, laughing
"Don't you worry none. A drink of whiskey cost fif- wildly. "Who bust your han'?"
"I tote you I caught it in a way just a mutt. You can get nie. Don't you muss it up,
The whale now." another one easy.. teen cents; and George was ob- sessed with the thought of how machine."
country's full of mutts."
LENNIE gently, happily, much good planting seed for the "Yeah I seen that machine "It ain't that so much. George little truck garden on his and last night. Why didn't you tell ain't gonna let me tend no rab- stroked her hair. "Oh, that's Lennie's place could be bought your old man so he could can bits, now." for fifteen cents.
them fellers? I'll tell ya why Lennie suddenly remembered
·
·
nice."
He continued passing his So George returned to the 'cause if ya talked, they'd that Mae was a "pack o' trou- fingers over her hair, gradually ranch carly-yet none too soon. talk too. An you were afraid ble", and that he was forbidden stroking it harder and harder, Lennie, as usual, was doing the you'd get the horse laugh--like to talk to her. He made as if then passing his fingers through wrong thing.
I'm givin'.ya now !" Not only did he wander out Curley's anger... to the barn and visit, the for- turned to cold, bidden promises of old Crooks, fury. "I ain't the coloured stable buck; worse, even gonna slug he betrayed the secret of their
"I'm just
ya.
dream place to Crooks, abetted gonnin by Candy,
to go, but she blocked his path, It. She jerked her head side-
By John
She spoke to ways, shouting "Look out, now! him soothingly. You'll mues it!"
He needn't
Frightened by her sudden worry about scream, he tightened his fingers being found convulsively on her hair and to it. She screamed horse-again.
STEINBECK talking to her. cals. junk.
While George was ordering your Lennie and Candy back to the You're gettin' here. bunkhouse, Mac, adrift as usual outa
on Saturday night while her You and me are through." husband was in town on
drunk, entered the barn.
They tried to drive her away;
The shoe tournament
2kཝོ། *%m
"Please don't holler," im- ******would last all plored Lennie, still banging on. afternoon, and no one would "George will be mad."
Mac scrambled to her feet, leave it until it was over.
and Lennie stood up with her. THE Sunday afternoon horse- AT last Mac had some one "Let go! You let go!" she shoe pitching contest was to talk to, and to the uncom- screamed.
•
·
but Mac, stubbornly beat on in full swing. But Lennie did prehending, scarcely listening In wild panic, he clamped his finding out what had really not hear the excited shouts and Lennie she poured out her life's big hand over her mouth and Curley's hand, the occasional clang of a horse story; how her father had been held it a moment. When he re- happened to ignored their insults and close shoe against the spike that a drunken sign painter who was leased her she screamed again, ly questioned one after the Rounded from outside the barn. "put away" when she was a and again he covered her mouth, other about Curley, Then she For great sorrow had come to child; how she had wanted to holding her tighter and tighter, noticed the bruises on Lennie's Lennie. His pup was dead. go into the movies,
shaking her a little. She strug While he sat in the straw, face.
But Lennie kept returning to gled fiercely, kicking off one "So-it was you," she said looking dumbly at the little life. softly. "Well, maybe you're less form in his hands, Mae his own woe. "Maybe if I took of her slippers. Then her dumb like they say and maybe stealthily crept into the barn. this here pup an' throwed him frightened eyes suddenly be- calm. Lennie released unaware of away," he muttered, "George came you're the only guy on the At first she was
wouldn't never know. Then her, his fingers still entwined ranch with nerve.. You're a Lennie's presence; she had come
in, dressed in her best dress maybe I could tend the rab- in her hair, and smiled with re- nice fella 1
lief, George would have struck her and carrying her cheap patent bits."
"What makes you so goofy That's right. Don't yell no then and there for "messin' leather suitcase, to find her
about rabbits?" she demanded, more. I don't want to hurt around" with Lennie, had not puppy.
"I like to pot nice things. you
She stood facing him for an- old man Jackson passed by and. "I was clear through the ordered them all out of the barn, ranch gate, but I remembered- Once at a fair I seen
When Curley returned home, you foolish little face you're them long hair rabbits. And they other second, her eyes dull, her was nice, you bet. I like to mouth open. Then she slumped late Sunday morning, from his comin' with me." all-night drunk, his father told When she heard Lennie begin pet nico, soft. things, Like vel- to the floor. him about Mae's nocturnal visit to sob, she went over to him. vet."
"
some of
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(To be concluded)
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