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30 THIS IS PARADISE

PART II

Another all-talking, singing and dancing Chinese picture

Starring

BUTTERFLY WU

Queen of Chinese Screenland

with

Shaw Pei Chen

Directed by S. C. Chang Recorded by Pathe Orient Co., Produced by the Mass Co., Shanghai.

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The

China Mail

ESTABLISHED 1845.

AN

HONG KONG, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1931.

MENACE OF THE MACHINE.

Manual Workers the Real Creators.

CIVILISATION OUT OF JOINT.

WESLEYAN CHURCH

New and Visiting Padres Attend.

A FIELD DAY.

Sunday was quite a field day, in the Churches of Hong Kong. At the Wesleyan Church, in At the Modern Churchmen's Warichai, the new minister (the Conference at Oxford recently Rev. E. C. H. Tribbeck) conduct Canon Charles Raven of Livered his first services, preaching pool, dealing with the crisis of morning and evening to large modern civilisation, said that i congregations.

:

LOCAL SHARE MARKET.

Levelier Tone This Morning.

GENERAL IMPROVEMENT.

The official summary issued by

the Stock Exchange to-day states:

With the sudden drop in ex-

change this morning there was a

much liveller tone in the market, with general Improvement in At the moment buyers ap- be anxiously looking for

Banks were in demand at $1,500. Unions were wanted at $400. China Underwriters were in re- quest at $4%.

Raubs were wanted at $37. Wharves were im demand al $150.

Providents (old) were in de- mand at $5.05, with sellers ask. ing $5.20. The new shares, after being done at $2.40, closed in de-

$144.

mankind had increased almost At an after-meeting, held in prices. ns rapidly and irrationally as the Sailors' and Soldiers' Home, pear to Malthus had predicted, and its Mr. Tribbeck, who has had ex-stocks, resources had so vastly extend-perience as a military chaplain, a four-hour day showed great aptitude in að- ed, that now would supply every need. dressing servicemen and in an Machines were idle and raw swering the "catch questions," material rotting. The goods, generally quite unrelated to the labour, and demand were there, subject under discussion, which yet we sat helpless because the the service man delights to are financial system could not en- at the padre. The way Mr able the unemployed to devote Tribbeck handled an argument their energies to the relief of as to compulsory church parades need.. Our educational system, was masterly. athletics, and journalism still

At Union Church, Kennedy |mund at $2.35. fostered a snobbish individualism and a passion for selfish and the Rev. Dr. P. Bruce Thornton, in at $14.40, had buyers at the Road, the morning preacher was Hotels (old), which were dealt often quite ill-founded prestige.

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arnold of Winnipeg, Canada, who has close at $142, and sellers seeking Wilson analysing the causes of been commissioned by the United the decline and fall of empires mission fields and is now on his Church of Canada to visit the pointed out some astonishing re- semblances to life of to-day. way home after visiting India, "Roman civilisation," he said, Australia and New Zealand. He "had to face the problems of mentioned that he spent last trusts. There existed coalitions Christmas Day in Bethlehem. of rival companies

Dr. Thornton delivered a most in- 15.20. in order jointly to establish monopolist teresting address in the course of which he drew upon a large prices." Things are almost cer- tainly better now than they were fund of telling ancedotes. His 2,000 years ago, but we must ad-subject was "Facing the Facta." mit that we have yet to learn to use wealth with wisdom; and on the solution of this problem, whether by the individual or by that modern and dubious entity the State, depends in my judg-' ment the maintenance or decay of our civilisation.

The misuse of leisure seemed to be symptomatic of the decay. of civilisations. A purely intel- lectual standard of life entailed misery and eventual decadence, Literary men, professors, think- ers, philosophers, preachers, teachers, and politicians had their place in life but skilled manual workers were the real creators of a civilisation. If modern education had insisted more on hands than brains, man would have been more indepen. dent and huppier.

"The weakness of the Hndow reports," added Sir Arnold, "lies in the failure adequately to emphasise this side of life. The results of the present system are, for all to ace, vast numbers of poverty atricken

intellectuals

who cannot use their hands to any useful purpose, men unable to paint their houses' or to effect even the simplest repairs, women unable to sew or cook or to look after children, and who are miserable because they cannot afford to pay for others to serve them. The increasing use. dur- ing the past 100 years of steam and electric power and of mu- chines is having effects 'upon those nations mainly concerned analogous in some respects to the effects of slavery — that nemesis of nations. It has re- sulted in cheap imports of arti- cles that could formerly be pro- duced locally." We had by no means adjusted the mechanism of our civilisation to it:

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fields appointed by the Presby- A deputation to the mission terian Church of England hap- pened also to be passing through Hong Kong, and its leader, the Rev. G. L. Brender, M.A., BD, poke at Union Church in the evening. The other members of the deputation are Miss Grant, Miss Moore and Dr. Carruthers

of London.

FINE TO CLOUDY.

The Royal Observatory's re- port this morning states:-

The typhoon to the East of Aparri has filled up. The other typhoon is about midway between Guam and Yap. Its direction of motion is uncer. tain,

The anti-cyclone over N. China has strengthened.

ForeepstN.E. winds, mo- derate to, fresh; fine to cloudy, some rain later.

Rainfall.

Rainfall for 24 hours end. ed at 10 a.m. to-day 0,02 Inch. Total since January 1, 75.83 inches against an average of. 81.43 inches- deficit inches.

Temperature.

5.60

The temperature at certain specifled centres this morning

at 6 o'clock was:-

Hong Kong G 70 Macao

Pratas Island

Foochow

88

72

Go

67

66

52

Shanghai Manila

41

76

Amoy Swatow Chefoo

$79% and 380, and at the close were in demand at $70%, with sellers asking $80.

H.K. Land were done at $701⁄41⁄2,

Ewos were wanted at T15.10, after sales being put through at

Trams were in demand at $20.60. Star Ferries were wanted at $89.; China Lights wore wanted uti $27.

H.K. Electrics were in demand at

$75.

Cements (combined) were in res quest at $18.

after being put)

H.K. Ropes,

through at $17, closed in demand at $17.80.

$28.

Dairy Farms were in demand at

Watsons were in the market at $16.

Constructions (old) were wanted at $84, and the new shares, after being dealt in at $2%, closed with buyers at this figure.

H.K. Government Loan WAS wanted at $2% premium.

HONG KONG'S AQUARIUM.

The Hong Kong Aquarium, at 24, Des Voeux Road Central, was Informally inaugurated this morn- ing, when the organisers, Profes- sor Sulzbach, zoologist, and Mr. E. Allum Poon, were "At Home" to a number of friends and Press- men. Tea was served and then glasses wore changed and the suc- cess of the venture toasted.

CONVICTED ON BLOOD-TEST.

Berlin, October 7.

On the strength of a blood-test a young woman in Aachen (Aix- In-Chapelle) has been sent to prison for perjury.

She had obtained a paternity order, but the defendant appeal- ed. The Court ordered a blood- test, which demonstrated that the man was not the father of the child, and his accuser was sentenced to fifteen months' im- prisonment and five years' loss of civil rights.--Exchange Tele- graph.

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When you are out of sorts remember:

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