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Hong Kong, Monday, Oct. 27, 1930.

OBFUSCATION.

The mental obtuseness of the morning contemporary to which we referred in this column a few days ago is truly marvellous, Not even in these days of gen- eral enlightenment can it realise the futility of the tu quaque argu- meat: As for obfuscation, we would point out that shutting one's eyes to the obvious is an efficient means of producing that delightful state.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1930.

The first tea dance arranged by WILD ANIMALS IN

the Ladies' Committen will be held

in the Club

Rooms of the Cheoro

(Naval and Military Y.M.C.A.)” at [1-

the City Hall, from 5 to 7 to-morrow

CAPTIVITY.

evening (Tuesday). These gather- Bad Tempered Deer and

ings proved most popular last Win- ter, and a good attendance is ex- pected. Service men are also re- minded of the dance to be held in the City Hall on Monday, November 3, for which tickets can now ba ob-

tained:

HOTEL WAGES.

CONDITIONS.

Gentle Cheetahs.

Philadelphia, Aug. 25. Lions, tigers and other carnivor- ous apecies may be the terror of the jungles and "rule the roost" in their native habitat, but when they are placed in captivity they rapidly be- come easily handled guests.

They frequently develop a liking for petting and behave generally like well-bred dogs, taking a fancy

|` MINISTRY`INQUIRY INTO TRADE to their attendants. and showing their love and admiration by means of good behaviour and fawning according to Mr. C. Emerson Brown, director of the Philadelphia Zoolog ical Gardens.

As a result of an inquiry by the Ministry of Labqur trade board fix statutory is to be set up to

hours, with the catering

minimum wages and overtime rates, for trade.

The report of the Ministry, issu. ed recently as a Blue Book, estim- ates that less than 5 per cent. of the workers in all branches of the trade are: members of trades unions.

At the larger licensed hotels, states the report. 44 per cent. of the man received tips, ranging on the basis of the employers' estimates, from a few shillings to £5 a week (or more in a few cases of head waiters and head porters); and nearly one-third of the women received tips, varying generally from between five shillings and ten shillings up to forty shillings or more a week.

"Surprising as it may seem," Mr. Brown declares, "the deer-tha mild and gentle creature of the woodland-is one of our real sources of trouble. Here at the Zoo we have learned, through bitter expert

NOTED FINANCIER DEAD.

'New York, Yesterday. The death occurred to-day of Mr. Harry Rayne Whitney, the banker, President of the Whitney Realty Co., and a director of the Guaranty Trust Co., in his fifty-eighth year. Reuter's American Service.

At licensed restaurants one-ence, that the buck deer, with all his third of the men and two-fifths of glorified head-dress; is not the fine, the women were in receipt of tips,stately beast he appears to be, but the usual range of amounts being a natural born "ornery critter" to from about five shillings or ten be feared at all times. His temper other institutions of a similar shillings up to eighty shillings a is very bad and never is it safe to

week (or more in a few cases turn away from him. educational and social significance among head waiters, etc.) for men.

"Dozens of times keepers have would supplement such facilities and from between five shillings had really narrow escapes from a as already exist. An aquarium and tea shillings ap to about Afty painful goring when one of these towering fellows has put his head would have the added advantage shillings a week for women.

Returna received, of 7,437 male down and charged. to which

the perversity of our adults employed in hotels with "The doc, isn't a very gentle contemporary makes it blind. more than ten bedrooms showed specimen either, when she is once Besides being of educational and that 26.6 per cent. were 'receiving put into a wire-enclosed pasture. 25 While it is not her natural instinct political value, it would be of total remuneration valued at

weekly or more. These were main to charge a man she will take any economic value; it would be

bite at ly head walters, waiters, chefs, 49- chance, afforded her to "paying proposition" and so sistant cooks; head porters, clerks keeper who isn't wary. satisfy the acid test placed on all and cashiers. Of. 5,422 women em- ployees in such hotels 81.9 per undertakings in a business com-cent. received 60s. a week or more. munity.

ONE OF “BIG, FIVE."

DEATH OF WELL-KNOWN SCOTLAND YARD OFFICIAL.

London, Sept. 28. Superintendent Francis Carrlin,

African Buffalo. "The African buffalo is probably the next mest perilous charge of the keepers here, although, in his na- tural atate. he ranks among the Arst on the danger list.

""They are noted for their curning and have been known to separate, when pursued, and part of their berd to attack a hunting party from the rear. They have remarkable memories, similar to that of the elephant, and if ever one of these

Times of Industrial depression breed pessimism and his twin brother, cynicism. To the alert, however, they give an oppor- tunity for "stock-taking," and for scrapping obsolete machinery and replacing it at deflated prices with more modern appliances. one of the original members (the beasts gets a grudge he will await Much of our local social ma."Big Five") of Scotland Yard, has his chance to get even.

died, having enjoyed only three chinery is obsolete and needs re- years' retirement after 40 years placement: and for certain pur-police' service.

It poses we have none at all.

"Polsonous snakes may be ad- judged in the same light. They will always strike and try to get away Birds Are Safe. rather than fight.

would show our confidence in the ed knowledge of the underworld. "As a matter of fact," Mr. Brown

future of the Colony if the eyes of the community were opened to the things that really matter instead of being obfuscated by having drawn over them the veil of gratuitous "and unbalanced cynicism.

News in Brief.

He was connected with many famous cases and had su unrivally He was mainly Instrumental in

are our birds. No matter how ter stamping out a dope gang. in the declared, "the only safe guests here rible the vulture, eagle or hawk, It West End.

button missing from A soldier's, great-coat led him to the will fly from a human being, and murderer of a girl in 1918. and face an enemy. Any adult who Similarly, tiny beginnings brought will face or pursue one of these birds murderers, forgers and thieves to can, nine times out of ten, render it

helpless.

A

book.

The movements of a rat once belped him to bring four men to: the Old Balley, two of whom were Mr. Paul Lauder left for Singa-sentenced. to 14 years penal ser

vitude. pore by the P. &.0. s.3. Khyber

He tried to dislodge the rat from on Saturday.

behind a radiator and there found a bag containing a sum of £8,000 which had been stolen from an hotel. W

Ho replaced the bag and later. caught the thief taking the money

from it.

HOLD-UP AT BARKING,

Bandit' Raid On Station Booking Office

Londen, September 29.

only on rare occasions will it turn

STATE MEDICAL SERVICE

Dr. Graham Little's Warning,

PARTING OF THE WAYS.

The medical profession la now at the parting of the ways, declared Dr. Graham Little, M.P. for London University, in an addiess

to the Paddington Medical Society on. September 9.

A State medical service scheme is actually in preparation under very influential auspices and may see the light in the autumn," he said, and decisions now to be taken

were even more important than those of 1912. when the National Health Insurance scheme first came into operation.

"The issue is," he said, "nothing less than whether the profession shall consent to the entire exter- mination of private practice and all that It means, and substitute for it one of two alternatives — (1) a practically universal contract prac tice; (2) a universal State Medical service.

"The diference between the alter- natives is perhaps not so great as it I do not think any might seem.

can doubt that if sensible person

practice be contract medical came universal the State would dominate it as completely as any State medical service."

Dr. Graham Little added that the. introduction of a State medical ser vice scheme was not, of course, Bynonymous with saying that such a scheme would pass Parliament, and he did not think it would.

"A Veterinary Level."

Dr. W. J. O'Donovan, prospective Conservative candidate for Mila End, in an address at the 1912 Club said that for a slave community a medical service must be organised, but a free community would always evolve an efficient medical profession suited to its own conditions.

"In a Socialist system a provided would work on a its Through medical service veterinary level. maternity service husbands would be dissolved from the burdens of. fatherhood, and children delivered in State beds would be the children of the State-an' immoral proposi- tion."

WINGLESS 'PLANE. BEING SECRETLY BUILT ON LONG ISLAND.

The secrets of a new mysterious aircraft, without wings and operated on the rotor ideá, are being jealously guarded by three inventors who are Long Island Sound. says a New York message.

developing the craft on a barge on

Messrs. Walter F. Chrysler and Harold Elstner Talbott Jr. are the capitalists said to be backing the venture, Nothing could be learned concerning the matter at their offices, however.

The machine is based on the plan used in the celebrated Flettner rotor out wings. A single motor in the ship. It resemblea a seaplane with- nose supplies the traction through a An air- three-bladed propeller. cooled auxiliary motor provides power to rotate the cylinders which take the place of wings..

"But of all the animals, birds and

Two rotors are in each side of the snakes hers the real pet is our absolutely gentle and has revor ward, behind la s small pair of cheetah, or hunting leopard. She Is craft. An outrigged rudder is for offered to be the least bit ugly to tandem cockpits... Between the anyone. She has many friends,motor and the cockpits are two

customary tour longerons. the visitors." both among the staff here and among large booms used in place of the

TAMAR DANCE.

IN HONOUR OF REAR-ADMIRAL HILL

Approach to the barge on which the experiment is being made "is closely watched. The three inven tors and three, assistants are the only parsons permitted on board.

CHINESE TEXTILES. FORMER CLERK'S GIFT TO NEW YORK MUSEUM.

The Royal Corps & Signals will hold the final open air dance of its season to-night on the tennis We fear that our contemporary courts of the Whitfield Barracks. has not understood aright the The R. A. F. Cosmos Dance Band "expert on piscatorial affairs" will supply the music. quoted by the Hon. Mr. Braga.

General Deballleul, accompanied

A successful and enjoyable Those who would take delight in by Lieut. Trocard, his A.D.C. is

dance was given on board the using their leisure. in an intelli- staying at the St. Francis Hotel.

H.M.S. Tamar on Saturday night to mark the departure from Hong gent way, to wit, finding out He is leaving shortly for Japan to attend cofficially the JapanESS something about the finny in annual military manoeuvres.

Kong of Rear-Admiral R. A. S.

A dark, formerly employed by the A dangerous weapon in the form Hill, C.B.E., Commodore. The Ladies' Committee of the of a gax, gun was described by a Over 325 guests attended the Metropolitan Insurance Company, waters, are more than likely the very people who will and time to Union Church, Kennedy Road, de Police Inspector as being in the gay function which was en- New York, who lived alone in a small sire to thank their many friends possession of three suspects, aged lightened by the band of the apartment in the Bronx, and died read "Karl Marx, Bernard Shaw, who by their generous, giving of about 20, who were charged at Somerset Light Infantry, which some months ago at the age of 57, and other similarly disturbing clothing, etc., caused their Au- Stratford to-day in connection with assisted the proceedings with an has bequeathed to the Metropolitan writers on social problems," leav tumn Jumble Sale to prove so suc- the hold-up at Barking Station attractive programme of dance Museum of Arts his entire estate, cessful, thereby benefitting again At midnight on September 10, music. The Master of Arms, Mr. which consists of 1,065 examples of ing the uninterested to the tender the usual Home charities, a these bandits entered the London E. T. Boone and his committee chinese textiles, and mo mercles of those who bandy about

Midland and Scottish Hallway are to be heartily, congratulated

The clerk, whose name was Wil the name of the first without ever. The following passengers Station, gagged and bound the two on the excellent arrangements of am Christian Paul, had spent all having read a word that he wrote arrive in Hong Kong on the Brew booking clerks who were checking the dance, which worked very his spare money on assembling this sident Pierce, due on November 7. the day's takings, and escaped smoothly Indeed. The numbers unique collection. He began it on and of those who know no more Mr. and Mrs. Chass H. Benson with a booty of £120, le a motor that were present speak in very his turn from a trip round the of our greatest dramatist eluce Mr. Benson is the Manager of the car, which was found abandoned a eloquent terms of the regard in world which he took in 1908 for the

sake of his health Shakespeare than what they read American Express Co., Hong Kong. mile away which Rear Admiral Hill is held,

Mr. Donald D. McKay who is The accused's names are Albert ant only by the ship's company offer that trip he scarcaly ever over their morning coffcer

coming to Hong Kong to Join the Earle and Lional Earle (brothers) the Tamar, but by all in the left New York An his knowledge Our contemporary la surely staff of the Robert Dollar Company, and Alfred Stevenson. They ware Colony whom he has met.

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