1932-01-27 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1932.

THIS AGE

OF THE BLACK COAT

AND STRIPED TROUSER

By ELLEN WILKINSON.

In this garb the British Male clothes not only his body but his mind as well.

LOCAL SHARE MARKET.

Livelier Tone This Morning.

PRICES ADVANCE

THE

CHINA MAIL,

The official summary issued by the Stock Exchange to-day states:

At the opening session this morn- fng a liveller tone was evident and

GERMANY AT WAR

TRYING TO STAMP OUT SMUGGLING.

There is a new kind of warfare on the Western Front-the war on smugglers.

Millions of pounds worth of goods, including tobacco, coffee, sugar, grain and even bread, are smuggled into Germany every month from Belgium and Holland. with which smuggling can be car- High tariffs in Germany, the ease

division, largely made up of Ger- man unemployed, who also act as outposts.

The decoys walk in the woods and watch the Customs guards. They get about three marks a day," and rum no risks. With twenty of these men on the look out, the smugglers casily find one unprotected spot at which to cross the border. If the guards are

virtues. A man may be trousers, they are as likely as not prices were further marked up in ried out, and the amount of un-active, the decoy division walks

scorns

even

The serious problem of the age is Why should he? Even if they and striped not to reform men's faults so much wear the bluck cont as their aware tout he smokes or drinks to put a straw boater on top, and rather too much, comes home too why should one worry about the late at night, and so be open to a whims of customers like that?

Briton ttle tactful reformation. But about The true the habit he regards as his virgenius, If it does not conform to his tues he is immovable. He will not standards of dress. 1 remember even consider whether they have being one of a group on the Lobby of the House of Commons meeting stopped being virtues.

The man whom other men admire,' a genius of engineering. and who is the despair of women, la

Tittera

the traditionalist. He knows when, The M.P.s standing about knew and how, and where each garment who he was, but instead of being is to be worn. It is he who imposes awed by the sight of genius. there a perceptible titter. because the tyranny of the evening tie that was must be tied, though the net result though he had arrived in the cor-

trousers, is to send most men to a party in a reet coat and

of gloom that only three wearing heavy brown whiskies can dissipate. He knows funnel collared shirt.

state

the ritual of the morning-coat and

he Was boots and a

Striped-trouser ethics match our

the lounge suit, whether the stick striped-trouser politics. A man may be ash or should be polished, who has broken his wife's spirit by neglecting her completely may

the hat hurd or soft.

Most men would rather desert create havoc amid generad approval their wives than be seen in the if another man pays attention to wrong hat with the right garment. her. A man and woman may have became so bored with each other The Value of Change. Any woman can sympathise with that there is nothing for which they this determination to observe for along so much as for someone who time

any prescribed ritual of will take their partner off their "things that are done." But, being hands. But if they belong to the sensible, she wants a periodical striped-trouser class, the traditions change in the rites. To a woman or jealous possessiveness must be the things that are impossible on maintained.

art.

ones.

season, Bke wearing long, clinging! Dearest of all to an Englishman All skirts in the street, are the rages are his striped-trouser games.

d the next. There is something the claborate rituals of the different wholesome about this desire for ways of hitting a ball are in tho

Cricket, tradition.

thut change, this willingness to experi- great ment, that keeps women young at apothecais of formalism, ought real- ly to be played in striped instead Our grandfathers The British male, on the contrary, of white makes a virtue of fixity, and looks who used to play in tall silk hats middle-aged ut forty. It takes at got nearer to the inner spirit of least three Winters, I am told, be- the game. fore three buttons on his cout Hitting a ball in all sorts of ways sleeves

be changed CON

to two. may develop muscle and the team Taflors have sweated out their lives spirit, but it adds nothing to a in despair trying to induce the tall man's mental equipment. No or Briton to adopt that becoming short dinary man, even if he prides him. double-breasted waistboat. But alas, self on being rather emancipated only Sir Oswald Mosley was pre- (and there are a few), can restrain pared for such a revolution, and a snigger at the sight of an adult even the New Party could not follow maie in a scoutmaster's uniform. their lander so far as that.

Or

They mental

course, clothes matter. are the symbol

state, the index

of

a vivilisation.

A Different World. But scouteruft inculcates initia- ative, and brings its followers close of to Nature. Cricket keeps its de- A large treatise votees in a world where everything ought to be written in the has its place, and where even the Gernuan munner on the psychological grass can only grow in an appointed effert on the British.male of that fashion. strange garb, the black cost and. Vest with striped trousers,

It is the expression alike of our democracy und our snobbishness. How well I know the type of work- man who, in dungarees through the week, will put up with any amount of social injustice, provided that on Sunday he may, arrayed in

only

several instances.

Sales.

Hotels (old), $15.15.

Buyers.

Unions, $405, Waterboats, $25. Venezuelan Goldfields, $2. Hotels (old), $16.20. Hotels (new), $14. Realties, $11.65. Ewos, Ts. 16.20. China Lights, $26.80. Singapore Tractions, 3/ Sinceres, $16.

H.K. Government Loan, $3 per cent. premium.

Douglases, $24. Benguets, $11. Providents (okl), $5.30. Provident (new), $2.45, H.K. Lands, $81%. Chinese Estates, $95. Trams, $22.60. · Electrics, $7784. Cantun Ices, $5. Constructions (eld), $5.30. Constructions (new), $1.85,

Sellers.

Indo-China's (Pref.), $15. Indo-Chinas (Def.), $32. Malabons, $38. Entertainments (old), $164. Kailans, 30/-. Raubs, $39. Dairy Farme, $30. Enterprises, $5.

A WEEK'S DISEASES.

Seven Diphtheria Cases Notified.

THREE DEATHS.

The official return of diseases and deaths during the week 'ended January 23 is as followa

Diphtheria Typhoid fever Tuberculosis

Cases Deaths

7

3

6

2

44

Summary to January 23. The approximate returns from January 1 to 23 give the following figures:-

Cases Deaths

Smallpox

2

1

No wonder the cricketing male is ompletely bewildered when he has

Diphtherin Cerebro-spinal fever Tuberculosis

28

5

1

1 172

some

employment in Germany, have led to the development of smuggling or ganisations comparable to American rum-running gangs,

From April to September of last year in Dusseldorf, Cologne and Muenster, more than 21,000 sus- pected smugglers were detained and the following goods confiscated: 17,500,000 cigarettes, 22,000 kilo- grams of tobacco, 40,000 kilogramas of coffee, 7,830 kilograms of augar, 660 bicycles, 113 motor-cycles, and large quantities of grain, bread

and meat.

Vast Traffic.

It is estimated that the amounts confiscated comprise only about 5 per cent of the total quantity of goods smuggling across the border. The smugglers are organised in two divisions--groups of trained and armed youths, who carry out the actual smuggling, and the decor

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

BRIGADE.

Annual Inspection by the Governor.

LIST OF AWARDS,

His Excellency the Governor, ac- companied by Lady Peel, in the Brigade uniform, and H.E. the Gen- eral Officer Commanding the Troops, carried out the annual Inspection of St. John Ambulance Brigade on the ground of the South China Athletic Association, Caroline Hill, yesterday afternoon.

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unusually past with sacks and bundle of straw, or other innocent material. By the time the guards have searched the bundles the contraband is unfely across the border.

Difficult Decision.

Public indifference to smuggling. favours the smugglers. The high cost of necessities in Germany, coupled with the general distress, results in many housewives deliber- ately purchasing smuggled food.

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For example, sugar costs phennigs (about 2d.) a pound in Holland and 33 pfennigs in Ger- miany, Bread costs 18 pfennigs a kilo in Holland and 48 in Germany.

Thus the Customs guards are often faced with difficult decisions whether to conficate the few loaves) or handful of coffee from a poor woman, who has prabably paid her last few pfennigs for them, or to turn the other wayB.U.P.

MONEY LEFT.

Dr. Jeu Hawk Leaves $36,800.

Local estate valued at $36,800 was left by Dr. Jeu Hawk, who died! intestate at 38b, Bonham Road on) October 29, 1981.

The Supreme Court has granted letters of administration to the widow, Mrs. Jennie Jeu Hawk, of the same address.

SALE

OF

COLUMBIA RECORDS DARK BLUE LABEL 50

CENTS EACH,

LIGHT BLUE LABEL $1.00 EACH.

Yung Shiu-wai, alias Yung Seu-i wie, alina Yung Wo-pik, alias Yung Hip-wu, allas Yung Silway, alias Yung Chi Lap Tong, who died intestate at 85, Parkes Street, Yau-nn mati,, on April 15, 1981, left estate in the Colony valued at $86,400.

The parade was under the com- mand of Mr. A. Morris, Assistant Commissioner, and was attended by

Letters of administration. have a large gathering which included

bean granted to his widow, Yung, the Hon. Mr. WE L. Shenton, the Cheng-ahi, of the same address. Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, Sir Shou- Another Chinese who died son Chow, the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. intestate was Cheong Kam-sui, who Wolfe, and Mr. Ho Kom-tong.

died in St. Paul's Hospital, Cause- way Bay, on December 3, 1930, leaving Hong Kong estate sworn at $11,100.

The Band of the South Wales Borderers was in attendance and played the National Anthem upon H.E's arrival. The nurses, in their neat uniforms, were also on parade. After Inspecting the parade and equipment, also models of beds to be used in the Kam Tin Maternity Home, the vehicular dispensary for

CAVE HUNT FOR TREASURE.

10.

that envied uniform, take his wife to leave the field for a world where for a walk along the High Street. things simply will not it in to any Not for nothing does the mind of of the formulas he has been taught every male recoil with horror at to think are unalterable. the deseeration of brown boots or Of course, plus fours are just a soft collar with this sacred outfit.striped trousers taken out into the

In Parliament.

wind. Their spiritual significance The striped trouser has entered is the same, only more A the soul of our civilization. That civilisation of which such clothes German, writing his thesis, could are the symbol has probably come trace its influence in our Parlin- to the end of its period. A man mentary institutions. The compli- instinctively stiffens when he puts cated ritual of bowing, for example, them on. There are so many worth is in the best striped-trouser tradi-while things he cannot undertake in tion. A now member is despised as stripes. He must do all the usual a lout if he enters the Chamber things or he will look odd-the without bowing to the Speaker's ultimate martyrdom of the respect Chair, even though that chair be able man. If he wants to do any empty and an inconspicuous gentle thing useful, instead of merely add man la conducting affairs from the ing up Agures in a ledger, or caus- ing other men to add them up, the But if the poor soul bows to the first thing he does is to go home and Chair before the Mace has been change into sensible clothes. brought in for the day he is over-

And that seems to me the urgent whelmed with scornful laughter, need for tackling the problems that Instinctively he looks at his boot have mainly been created in our peeping from under his immaculate world by the striped-trouser men stripes. Spiritually that boot has tality. A change of mental and turned brown, and its owner shrinka spiritual garments is badly wanted, into the nearest seat in confusion. an end of formalism and tradition All the elaborate rules about. when and doing the things that have House, all the bawiggory of the reason than that. I am not at al Speaker's ceremonial, in part sure that striped trousers ought of the Great Black and Strip (not to be abolished by law, y ed Tradition. How the men love every little bit of it,

table.

Explorer's Bid. for £7,000,000 Hoard.

In this case letters of administra- tion have been granted to the de- ceased's two sons, Cheong Pun-chi and Cheong Kwan-chi, both of 48, Stanley Street.

NEW PLAYGROUND OPENED.

The new playground laid out by the Rotary Club for the use of the children in the congested district of Wanchal, was opened yesterday use in the New Territories, and afternoon by Sir William Hornell, three motor ambulances, His Ex- President of the Club, in the pre- cellondy prezented the awards and sence of a large gathering of the A strange tale of buried treasure vellum of thanks given by the youth of the district, Amongst is told by Herr Ernesto Loeck, a Chapter-General of the Order for Rotarians present were the Rev. German explorer, who has hunted valuable service rendered on the oc- E. G. Powell, Mr. J. M. Wong, Mr. for a treasure in Mexico for twenty casion of the Kowloon Rallway ac-J. L. McPherson, and Mr. F. A. years and is now making arrange-cident last April, and the Brigade Mackintosh. meats with the Government for an then gave an interesting demonstra escort to aid him when he opens a tion. cave in the State of Michoacan, in! which, he thinks, there is £7,000,- 000.

The transure which Herr Loock thinks he has found is that of the Tarascan king, Calzontain, who dia- appeared in 1522 following the Spanish Conquest, and who is be- lleved to have been drowned while fighting the Spaniards.

Only part of the king's treasure was discovered by the invaders.

Bagan Search, In 1909. Herr Loeck began the search in 1909. A few months ago be dis- covered the opening of an under- ground, passage on the summit of "La Bates De Oro"

The passage was filled with debris, and it was cleared for a die- tance of nearly 800 feet. It de

Sir William Peel addressed the Brigade, in the course of which he congratulated them and their officers on the excellent turn-out and on the magnificent work accomplished during the year.

The final phase was the march past of the whole Brigade and equipment, when Sir William took the salute from sapraised dafs op- posite the decorated stand.

In a short speech, Sir William Baid that this was the first philan thropic or public work which the Rotary Club had attempted, and he did not think they could have made a better start. "There are' far too few open spaces and play grounds in Hong Kong Mr. McPherson end the Chinese YMCA. have undertaker to, man- age, direct and control this play- ground for the Rotary Club, There will be some one here every day to teach you to play properly, According to the rule and in an orderly fasalon. Remember, life consists in playing the game.” ** ** Mr." Ko Sik-val, Exécutive Secre- tury of the Kowloon Branch of the Vollum of Thanks: Corps Omeer Chinese YMCA translated Sir A. el Arculli,,

L/Cpl Chan Pak-ling William's remarks, after which L/Cpl. Fun Chi-fan; Pte. Taang Chung, and Pte, of the pallte Wan Sau-kong-all games were Indulged in by the

THE AWARDS:

The following awards, and prizes were distributed by Sir William Feel:

Brade Trophie Shipjd M.C.A Division

children:

The Council for the Represanta-

and when not to wear a hat in the always been done for no beter scended by, regularly formed. stairs. Rap Memorial Cup King's Colton of Women in the League of

Sav

Savage

lage (0.8.). Division.

At the end of this hall," says Herr Loock, he came on the mummy of an unknown woman, behind, which, Ho Kom-tong Nursing Shield:--Vic was constructed a wall which he toria Nursing Divisionszeite

Holyoak Attendance Cup: King's and his companion broke through College (P.1.) Division.

|- Paz Chu-pak. Dity. Cup bearable odouro e dhimbt uppb and Hongkok Divisions, He has requested the Mexican Ho Fook Effe clopey During a heavy hailstorm at Treasury Department, which super-

They would swallow a revolu- THROAT CUT BY LIGHTNING. | until they were stopped by an un-

tion, in taxation rather than allow

the Mace to be brought in in any other way to

| Harrismith, South Africa, a mutive", vises national, treapurei), to send.com (V

The striped trouser is a bulwark against shotge... Its devotees have was found in a field with a deep observers back with him to cheek Home Late created the type of business man wound in the throat.

Medical evidence terns or telling arrangements toning across the the man had been

meet the can foreignerd, he has to

who simply cannot alter his pate

that the Government's 60 per cent, bhare ( revealed that of the treasure, if it is uncovered,

Brothers by lights and to give him sufficient guaranam Yeung

College Division. Contral

toes, when he opens up the supposed (0.5) (Division. storehouse of the old kingie

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Nations adopted a resolution urging the Government to send a woman as full delegate to the next Assembly of the League;

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