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THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1930,

NO STRIKE.

65,000 Scholars Report to Classes.

LEADERS AGITATION.

CHEFOO NOTES.

New Principal of C.I.M. Boys' School.

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in the very same issue.

It is, indeed, to the interest of the ad- vertiser, as well as to the Interest of the reader, that this indepen- dence should be preserved, for the [worth of any journal as an adzer- tising medium depends upon its

KING GEORGE'S BIRTHDAY. possessing a bona fide circulation

Manila, June 10.

[From Our Own Correspondent.] among persons who believe it to

While student agitation for the

Chefoo, June 4. be a serious and honestly con- reinstatement of the four dismissed

On Monday the 2nd, Inst. Mr. and ducted newspaper.

was still apparent Mrs. P. A. Bruce reached here to All adver-trike leaders tisers know that the minor news-could keep 65,000 students of gov-C.A.M. Boys' School, which had been yesterday, no amount of propaganda take over the frincipalship of the papers, which contain nothing but crament schools from entering their so ably held by Mr. Frank McCarthy trade puffs.. and are scattered classes peacefully yesterday morn- for the past 35 years, and while broadcast among people who paying, although strike leaders an- welcoming Mr. and Mrs, liruce into nothing for their copies, are abounced that the peace was only our midat It will be with sorrowful superficial and that the student hearts that we shall bid good-bye solutely worthless from the ad-strike would break out anew on to Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy as they vertiser's point of view,

Thursday, June 12.

leave us for the Homeland. When classes opened at the Manila A very large and representative North and West high schools, the gathering met at . . M. Con- hot-bed of the famous March strike, aulate at noon on the 3rd to celebrate uniformed policemen and plain the birthday of His Majesty, King clothesmen patrolled the school area George the Fifth, and to wish His to prevent resumption of hostilities. Majesty the best of blessings dur-

No violence was noted, in spite ofing the coming year.

News in Brief

Two cases of typhoid fever one Chinese and one non-Chinese-were notified yesterday.

the fact that strike leaders were on. During the evening the British the spot to induce the students not Consul, Mr.

R. S. Pratt, gave a

A Chinese prised open two Iron bars at a shop at 533 Shanghal

to enter the city schools, At the dinner party in the large hall of the Street, and stole 30 cotton singlets Manila West high, a group of stu Chefoo Club, which was most and a leather auit case. At the dents attempted to hold a meeting, tastefully decorated with plants and Kowloon Magistracy to-day he was but succeeded in calling the atten- flags for the occasion, with the sentenced to five months hard tion of only 20 students, while the motto "God save the King" over the | labour.

remaining 2,500-odd attended their entrance making a most suitable classes.

setting for such an auspicious Invitations had been high occasion. sent accepted by the local Chinese offi- abcials, foreign Consuls, and a num- were ber of prominent residents of

North the Manlin

which Was the trouble, last March,

A Joung Chinese named Cheng! At Tim (20) is alleged to

have com school. mitted suicide yesterday by hanging of himself at the Ching Shan brick solutely no demonstrations

works at Pingshun.. He is stated held. However, 25 students of the the port.

to be a nephew of Chong Sik-yau school attended a meeting two nights After dinner, Mr. R. S. Pratt, in the manager of the works.

ago at Knox Memorial Church where proposing the toast of the day, in a it was decided to continue the strike nent and telling speech spoke of the Looking very ft, Mr. C. Min the event that the bureau of cordial international relations Jamieson, of the Hong Kong and education refused to re-admit the which had existed in this port dur- Shanghai Banking Corporation, dismissed students.

Ing the past 70 years, and he was Late last night, a well-known proud to say that during that valuable football players four or labour leader who has been one of long time there had never been a | five years ago, was in Singapore on

the principal speakers in all the single major question which had

who was one of the S.C.C.'s most

sound June 9 on his way Home on leave

from Java.

student meetings, announced that Impaired this mutual friendship be- the strike would be résumed on tween China and Britain.

The Consul also spoke very warmly Thursday.

In the meanwhile, the bureau of of the present peace and quietness department of in which we dwelt, which was mainly

On the other hand, judicious

Suffering from concussion of the advertising is recognised as being brain, a Chinese woman named Li one of the most valuable agents Mul (65), of 64 Bridges Street, is education and the

She

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in increasing the income of any now in the Government Civil Hos-public instruction are ignoring the due to the able way in which General student demands, for the reason Liu Chen-nien held the reins as our commercial enterprise. The atti-pital in a serious condition. tude which some old-established bumped her head heavily when she that the demands have not been chief guide and help during these a height of made offeially. It is the bellef in critical days, and he (the Consul) accidentally fell from firms adopt of professing to ignore only four feet whilst taking things official circles that the student a thanked both General Liu and the content is merely an invention and representatives of other countries the advantages of advertising on down from a shelf.

that the 10,000 students in the for their presence there that the indefensible grounds that they

For the theft of 20 fathoms of Manila' high schools have no inten- evening, and for taking part in what are "too well known" to require Manila rope from the No. 3 Police tion of declaring a strike.

was a purely British celebration, the aid of "hoosting," is suicidal.launch, $5 belonging to the coxswain

Florentino Cayco, acting superin-thus showing their true friendship However well known a concern of the launch and a jacket belongingtendent of city schools, was present which both he (the Consul) and all may be, it is certain that there to another of the crew, the Chinese yesterday morning at the Manila Britons present heartily appreciated. In replying on behalf of the cook employed on the craft was North high school during the fresh- are seme, few or many, who have yesterday sentenced by Mr. T. S. men enrolment and commented Chinese nation, General Liu Chen- never even heard of it. and it is Whyte-Smith to five months' hard favourably on the peace and ordar nien, said that he was wholly un- worthy of the kind words Mr. Pratt had said about him, and assured. all present that as far as in him. lay he would be always ready to fulfil his duty, by promoting the mutual well-being of the whole On behalf of the community. Chinese nation and all Chinese pre- Rent, he naked all to again drink to the health and prosperity of the British nation and their King,

to those that advertising extends the attractions of the wares its recommends. The man who de- clines to advertise in a reputable newspaper is not a good business man and is doing incalculable in- jury to his firm by adding to the profits of those of his competitors who do advertise. The great

Hong Kong, Thursday, June 19, 1930. firms ure the greatest adver-

THE BIG DRUM.

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were

labour. Two boat charged with receiving the rope knowing it to have been stolen. One of the men was convicted and fined $25; the other was discharged,

had

in

SIMPLEX PLASTER

COMPANY.

ELECTION OF OFFICERS.

that reigned in the school.

Superintendent Cayco stated that a large number of students would have to be turned away due to lock

of room.

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tion. praying that health and creased sales are due to student

true prosperity might long purchases of laboratory apparatus

be the portion of H.M. King. and other supplies needed for bio-George and the British nation, depression, and looked forward teething and raincoats, by Manila worthy Consul in this port, which view of general business egy, physics and chemistry. I. Bock coupling with the toast the name of Mr. R. S. Pratt, His Majesty's a prosperous future.

was duly honoured in the usual' way.

The report and accounts, aa pro- posed by the Chairman and second- ed by Mr. Chau Yue-teng, were passed unanimously.

Inc., has reported heavy sales of

students.Manila Bulletin,

Messrs. Harry Hong Sling and · TEMPLE THEFTS. Mann. K. Wong were elected Direc- Messrs. Chan Pek-chun and Weng tors of the Company in place of Two Images Found in Kwok-shun, who retired.

Curio Shop.

The election of Captain B. Mon-| | tague Ede to the Board was con- firmed, and Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and Matthews were re-elected au- ditors.

UNREQUITED LOVE.

EIGHT BUDDHAS DISAPPEAR.

Peking, June 3. The eight gilt Buddhas, which had adorned the Ta Jung Pao Tica of the Tzu Halang Temple at Mou Shih Kou since the reign of the Emperor

MINERS' HOURS.

Geneva, Yesterday. The committee on hours of work in the coal mines has rejected by 27 to 16 votes a workers' proposal for a seven-hour day.

The British Government delegate was one out of three abstentions in the voting.—Reuter.

Ten Years Ago ·

The start of the school season has also been a great boon to Manila business concerns. The Philippine Education has been doing an in erensing business in sale of books. stationery, fountain pens, and mis-

On behalf of other guests pre- cellaneous supplies needed by thou sands of students in the city. sent Mr. Leroy Webber, the senior Consul, in a witty speech thanked tisers; and many little firma be- At the annual general meeting of

Heacock and Company also reports.

the

a heavy sale of fountain pens and the British Consul for having given Simplex. Plaster Company, other school supplies, while the came great through advertising.

them the privilege of thus The advertiser should remem-office this morning, the Chairman,

Limited, held in the company's Botien Bole announces that their in participating in this celebra- ber, however, that the newspaper Mr. C. E. H. Beavis, stat- We have all heard of Phineas is not merely a manual hoarding ed that the Company hail Barnum, "the greatest showman whereon, he may post lurid an-

fairly satisfactory year a on earth," the beat of whose drum rouncements. He must appeal to became famous all over the world the artistic' side of the public by in the last century and excited the the design of his advertisement, crowds to spend and applaud, but and to their intelligence by the principally to spend. Barnum was wording. He must always re- not honest. He began his career member that the public buys a as a showman with the purchase newspaper for the sake of the and exploitation of a coloured news, not for the sake of the ad- woman, Joyce Heth, reputed to vertisements, and that if the ad- have been the nurse of George vertisements are relegated to a Washington, and to be over

a position and a scope, in respect of hundred and sixty years old. display, so inferior that they may With this woman and a small be overlooked, the advertiser can- company he made well-advertised not afford to bear his share of the and successful tours in America cost of publication. The truth until 1839, though Joyce Heth would seem to be that the adver- died in 1836, when her age was tiser will always demand, and may proved to be not more than fairly expect, the right to make seventy.

his space as fantastic in appear- Barnum's reputation suffered ance as that allotted to the Editor.

dhist monka and the visitors were "'Square Deal"' Club.-The Square at the discovery of the deception;

Unrequited love that did not lose visibly surprised, and as each Bud-Deal Club is hereby inaugurated, The subject of the relation be- its fire unto the end sniffed the life dha stood three feet high, it was and we shall be glad to receive but not for long, for in America tween a newspaper proprietor and out of two men in the town of the general opinion of those present names. You may, if you really · the crowd lives only for the "un-nis advertisers cannot be dis. Inabanga, Bohol, on May 31, the that the treasures must have been mean it, sign and send in the follow- forgiving minute," and soon for missed without reference to the constabulary headquarters were in stolen by a gang of expert thieves.ing declaration:

formed yesterday by the provincial gets.

A report was immediately made notable independence of adver- commander of Bohol,

I,, being a British subject, to Mr. Chi Shil-han, chief of the and proud especially of the, tradi- Today, Barnurn would stand tisers' influence which British and

The two men, found dead with police station in the west suburb.tions of Eritish justice and fair- far less chance of selling his American newspaper proprietors stab wounds on the morning of May Proceeding on the theory that the play, hereby enrol myself a mem goods than he did in the gay days authorise their editors to display, Vicente Fojas and Guillerma Gulpa. out of the city, Mr. Chi ordered the China Afail and I promise to 31 in the vicinity of inabanga, were looters had not yet sent their loot ber of the S.D.C.. Inaugurated by of our grandmothers. The public Whenever an insurance company Fojas was the "husband" and Guipa, detectives to call at different curio do whatever I conveniently can, by is tired of the noise and glitter of or a bank goes wrong, the cry is the "binabana," or effeminate, was shops in the city. Two Buddhas conversation, by letters to the the cheap advertiser, and a raised that all the Editors In Gulpa woed and won Fojas. So of a curio shop on Morrison Street, of influential friends, by con were discovered in the show window Press, by private persuasion. tawdry window display or Christendomt had known for years they lived together for quite a time but the rest have not been recover-stant watchfulness. to

and inartistic ad that the factors were imbeciles in the semblance of husband and ede-Kuo Wen, ot já dull

courage anything. official or vertisement in the newspaper will and rognes but had conspired to ife. After a while, Fofas got tired

unofficial, that seems to offend the be treated with the indifference keep mute for the sake of an oc- the joke and ran away in the Lord Irwin has been offered at aforesaid British traditions, and to

thick of the nights as Maj

extension of his term of office as encourage reasonable reforms so they deserve. Deceit never pays casional advertisement. As a Finding Fojes away upon his Viceroy and Governor-General that this Colony may be administer for long in commercial life. The matter of fact, in the case of the waking, Gulpa searched the town which was to have expired in May of ed more in accordance with these lle may gild the inferior article best daily newspapers,

And when they were together again, next year, and has accepted to re-traditions, and so to be a glory to, the: with a temporary glitter which Editor does not stand at all in awe the open fields and enjoy the gentle

Gulpa proposed that they both go to main in India.

the Empire instead of a blot and I for my own part, undertake to think compels interest, but it is only for of the adv tiser, and time after breeze A man who confessed to per twice before making my proposal mple, financial papers | -Once out of town, Gulpa stabbed - petrating bomb outrages as a tending to : interiore with the Fojas to death and realising the profession has been arrested by liberties of any of my fellow sub- Ethermore

chaveendrizity of his Fullt,turned the the Chicago police In the act ofjects, realising that though ** Pro- motion knife upan himself. Philippines lighting the fuse of a bomb in the videnca may have made us unequal,

Joorway of a night club,

we all have equal Rights."

a time. Just na in there story time where the boy cried wolf the such public learns by experience to pay ruthlessly. no attention to sensational atver, of which the"

A Grim Tragedy of Colourless Romance.

the "wife."

Manila, June 7.

Hui Tsung of the Sung Dynasty Sunday suddenly disappeared on morning when holiday-makers and pilgrims crowded the temple for a8%d. view of the images. Both the Bud-

[From the "China Mail,” June 19, 1920.1

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