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FINE BRANDIES

distilled and bottled by

RENAULT & CO.

COGNAC,

FRÂNCE.

Established 1835.

THREE STAR, FIVE STAR, and

R.V.O. Very Old Liqueur Brandy.

Sole Agentez-n

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

Wine & Spirit Merchants

Established 1811

ZEISS CAMERAS ENSIGN MOVIES AGFA Projectors

EASTMAN

KODAKS

&

FILMS

H.K. Phone 20616. Kowloon Phons 37019

A. TACK & CO.

28, Des Voeux Road, C.

Tel. 20948.

AFGA CAMERAS

ZEISS BINOCULARS

ENSIGN Folding and Reflex CAMERAS

GRAYS YELLOW LANTERN SHOPS

HONG KONG:

Alexandra Bldg. Tel, 24566.

Hong Kong Hotel. Tel. 27424.

KOWLOON: Peninsula Hotel

Tel. 58081.

Lingerie, Linens, Embroideries,

Peking Jewellery.

GLOUCESTER ARCADE.

PEKING LAMPS, COPPER WARE, AND CURIOS,

SUITABLE FOR XMAS GIFTS.

CROW"

"OLD

WHISKY.

One of the Finest Whiskies for making Alint Julips.

Imparted by

CALDRECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD. (Incorporated under the Companies' Ordinances of Hong Kong Prince's Building.

Ice House Street.

Telephoito 20075.

HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

JUMBLE SALE

Saturday, November 19th, 1932, 10.30 A.M.

AT

CITY HALL.

Gifts of Clothing and Household Goods gratefully received at above address

on Mondays and Thursdays between 10.30 and 11,30 A.M.

PHOTO SUPPLIES. PHOTOS TAKEN DAY AND NIGHT, Zeiss, Kodaks, Cameras, Films, Plates, and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging. AT 24 HOURS' SERVICE,"

Price Moderate.

A Trial Order is Bolicited.

THE KWONG KWÙI CO., LTD.

74, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong. Tel. 22170,

THE CHINA MAIL.

WHITEAWAYS

SLIPOVERS, PULLOVERS

AND

CARDIGANS

SLIPOVER

WITHOUT SLEEVES

"Woollee" of some

description will AGON be

that the

chilly evenings are coming on, We have a splendid selection

necessary now

of Slipovers in white and

coloured. Pullovers and

Cardigans.

Best British

makes in all size.

$6.95 to $35.00

CORDIALLY INVITED INSPECTION

MEN'S OUTFITTING DEPT. - WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.

The China Mail.eign's name

New Zealand.

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HERE. THERE

and

EVERYWHERE.

"Holy Joe."

Mr. Joseph Vincent McKee is daily strengthening his position as | mayoral successon to 'Dir. “Jimmie"

Walker in New York.

The new Mayor is 43 years old,) serious, handsome and scholarly. Friends call him "Holy Joe." Hel has been head of the Board of New York Aldermen since 1925.

"Holy Joe," who is married and

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1932.

America's

Battle At

The Polls

Prohibition A Big Election Issue

EXPENSIVE GOVERNMENT

hus two sons, neither smukes nor Every four years America, fram drinks. He has never been inside a coast to const, is turned topsy- spenic-easy, His recreations

areturvy by the Presidential election. (fishing, golf (handicap 18), 'swim-]

ming, and writing magazine articles. Of all political hullabaloos, this His literary pseudonym is James W. quadrennial ophenval is Dawson.

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Typewriter Tests.

the

In the middle of an acute de-

pression, with millions of unem-

ployed, much suffering, and

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bard, winter ahead, beer, not economy and reform is the de- eiding factor!

There is to-day tremendous un- greatest,

rest and bewilderment through- During, twenty-eight years' re- out the country. Agriculture is

Telegraph" New York Correspon-, cavalry and police with tear bombs were employed to disperse the Bonus Marchers,

is the pen. like the horse, doomed sidence in New York I have beenjin a deplorable state, and several to extinction? In the United States an eyewitness and student of millions have gone "on strike" for the use of pens has been dealt a

better prices. To secure order in Presidential· Reven

elections, i heavy blow by an experiment in!

the mining districts troops have writes Perey S. Bullen, "Daily been mobilised, and in Washington juvenile typewriting conducted by two American professors.

Typewriters were used. in 27 dent. schools over a period of two years.. All of them have had much the The progress of the children, was

Europeans might expect that the compared with that of children in same human and spectacular in-facts enumerated would favour similar but typewriterless schools. terest, but the big fight now being the rise of an American Mussolini In every respect, the professors re-staged is of far greater importance or a Pilsudski. They would be port. the typewriting children had nationally and internationally. mistaken. There has been a marke ed trend of late in the way of Those elections of the past, not tolerating Socialist propaganda,

Socialist

Labour "Sold Out," With faith in Republicans and

the advantage. Their educational advance was roughly 7 per cent.| over that of the pen-pushing chil-forgetting 1904, when Theodore but no demand for a drea. Particularly marked was the Roosevelt, of "the big stick," was Government. progrcas in original composition. It the dominant figure, were as April! is claimed that children find it easier showers compared with the tornado to think when writing on a machine, which will sweep the country next and that spelling and reading niso November, mild cases of measles Democrats undermined, but not des- benefit greatly.

compared with an epileptic fit! troyed, the election machines · of In the last three years the these two great organisations re- seonomie system of the United main almost as strongly entrench- States has been strained at times ed as ever. In New York the train- to the point of partial collapse. flocks of Tammany will march as Mr. Hoover has told us that the usual like sheep to the polling of- major financial crisis is over and fices. The Labour party will the course set for recovery. There terally sell its support to the

Your Daily Smile.

Complete With Racket,

A jazz band recently gave pen-air performance clad in is flannels. * * #

SAVING HIS SKIN

an

ten

is good reason for that belief. On highest bidder, either Republican or the other hand, both Mr. Hoover, Democrat. the

on the trunk of a tree, and wrote in his journal an| entry recommending the Thames Hong Kong, Saturday, Nov. 5, 1932. Valley as the best site for a colony, "if the settling of this country should ever be thought worthy of the attention of Great Britain." He then set sail for

Republican, and Governor To form a Labour party on Bri- A fashion note anys that leopard Franklin Roosevelt, the Democratie tish lines is a topic often discuss- Australia. Cook's estimate of Recently New Zealand cele-the possibilities of the shores of skins are to be very popular this candidate, are agreed that the ed here. The proposal has been

winter. Especially brated the twenty-fifth anniver- Botany Bay

180-rents in the capitalistic system, as rejected because the leaders who for pastoral and sary of her recognition as a agricultural pursuits was over-pards.

disclosed in the hour of trial, are boss the rank and filo can extract dominion, and this was the occa-sanguine. But he was

jobvious and must be repaired. legislative #oll, likewise personal sion for some quite legitimate wrong in, regard to the Thames:

There are differences of opinion emolument for their friends, from self-congratulation. New Zealand Valley, which proved rich in carries a flask of whisky with him differences as to the urgent neces

A famous airman says he always regarding the remedy, but no either existing parties.

The bittereat cry one hears to-- has not escaped the blasts of the gold. chill wind of adversity' which has

not far

swept the world. Nevertheless, Architects & Sunshine since she graduated into the

more dignified rank her progress |

has been remarkable. Before 1907) A place in the sun is now al-

the. air.

among

HIGH SPIRITS.

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Garage Attendant (as car drives

the term "dominion.".applied to most every one's ambition, whe-"P): "Juice?"

Motorist: "Vell, vat if we are?}

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members of the Empire, had ther in a house or an office or an rather a nebulous meaning. It hotel. It was not always so; the Don't we get no petral?” was a sort of courtesy title attractive word "sun-trap" in the True to Type. bestowed upon groups of colonies builders' sense is quite new; and which had joined in bonds of buildings of no great age stand closer association. Of course, on all sides to prove that light husband who had previously lation of the United States has in-

In America, where 'miny par ties have been shattered in the last few years, and many beliefs weakened, there still remains a strong national will to find the path to safety,

on long flights. He likes a nip insity. Both candidates and the day in the big, cities of America is leading statesmen of the country the cry, that the "workers" havo tell us the "economic system" of been sold out by their leaders. This America is the vital issue upon dissatisfaction, now nation-wide, may furnish the basis for a New which the elections should turn.

Labour party in the future-but Enormous Costa,

not now. The cost of the Federal Govern- ment has risen from £220,000.000 in 1014 to close upon £1,000,000,000.

In that period the popu A woman has just divorced the in 1931. divorced her. Still determined to creased 27 per cent. and the Budget į have the last word.

of the country 338 per cent.! Despite recent shocks, the vast State and city governments have majority of the people still believe followed Washington's example, that their form of government is all inspired by the fallacious doc- the best, and that the conditions of to trines of 1920-"the new era" the masses are better here than "the problem of poverty solved" elsewhere. The standard of living "the two-car garage for every in normal times has been the high- household"-the doctrinaire sloest in the world for the middle- gans now resting on the waste classes and the "workers." heap.

This roseate picture is admitted- New York, Chicago, Philadel-ly murred by the national uprising phin, and other great cities to against Prohibition and the mani- day are on the verge of bank rest evils which have followed. ruptcy.

For this reason it is predicted

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New Zealand antedates Australia and air used not to be such con- as a federation, and, anticipating|siderations as they are now. what may be the eventual fate of Hence a new demand upon ar- It Certainly Is.. the Commonwealth, had become chitecture, the extent of which

The best way to keep. a body a unitary State in 1876. But her can be judged from the report from becoming a busybody is admission to the ranks of in the current Journal of the Ro

Facts You Did Not Know.

dominionhood gave that word ayal Institute of British Archi- keep a body busy, jchanged significance, connoting tects. It is plain that architects an established degree of matur-and builders have before them no ity, self-sufficiency, and import-single problém, but many, accor- ance. Since then the idea of ding to a building's purpose, size.) dominion status has been ampli- and site. If the site is a wide) fied and defined, and its implica-open space, over which nothing Nolse is produced in a new toy tions have been endlessly dis- casts a shadow, an architect has cannon by striking a strip of thin cussed. But, despite all the a free hand; and the building paper with a rubber ball partly open academic resolutions about the built has every chance of being at the bottom, air compressed in the complete "equality" of the dom- as airy and light as possible. It hall breaking the paper. inions and the mother country, is otherwise in streets, where, do

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They, like the Washington very confidently that the majority Government, must economise dras- of the 38,000,000 who will vote in tically on the task, not yet accom- November-5,000,000 for the first plished, of balancing budgets, or time-will east their ballot, not so as long as the former depend what one will, the site is pre- The largest railway station in the position will become impos- much for sound finance and balan- upon the protection of the Bri- ordained, and where the aspect Yugoslavia has been proposed for sible.

ced Budgets, but according to the tish Navy, the theoretical equal-on one side is bound, to be exact-Belgrade for use in connection withį Mr. Bernard Baruch, a great "alcoholic content" of the ity is in practice a polite fiction ly the reverse of that on the a new bridge that is nearing com-American authority held in the candidate. The great battle is ad- This is a truth which New-Zea-other. There is also the question!pletion across the Danube river.

highest regard by Mr. Winston mittedly Wets' versus 'Drys." " land has ever borne in mind. of good neighbourliness, a cause

Churchill, estimated' recently that

The Unknown Factor. | Australians are prone to assert a surely worth serving, for too Addition of one per cent. of cop- the total cost to the nation of civil; Both sides are angling for sup- pre-emptive right to Captain often in practice, if not in law, per to stainless steel has produced a control, Federal, State and local, port with profuse promises of beer Cook's most notable discoveries, there are no "common liberties new alloy that is easier to work and this year will reach £3,000,000,000, and wine before Christmas-a most. but New Zealand's claims are of light and air," and there have does not requira high temperature This amount must be taken from enticing prospect. The Democratic a probable income of £9,000,000,000, platform is described as "dripping quite as strong. Tasman was been notable additions, to urban treatment for annealing.

The task is to reduce budgets and wet." the first European to make a architecture of late which must land-fall there. But Cook carried be anything but welcome to The production of rust free and increase taxation.

merely The Republicans are, out a much more thorough in- their near neighbours. Never-acid resisting steel is to be begun!

In the case of the Federal Bud- damp by comparison, but they have.. vestigation, and left enduringtheless, new experiments are in Norway at a plant that will havel get Mr. Baruch says a reduction worded their plea in such a way as annual capacity of between, of at least £200,000,000 la the to conciliate the "Wets" without memorials in place names which due. Past building has not al- an

prime essential to general business alienating the "Drys," who are survive to tell the story of his ways been an answer to natural, 40.000 and 60,000 metric tons.

recovery. All that has been done still very powerful in many States.. voyage, his experiences thereon, requirements; the classical style,

domonstrate and his adherence to naval tradi- for instance, with its compara- An emergency ignition coil Atted to date in the way of balancing, Polling alone can.

continuously operating national State and city budgets is which side is offering the most ac- tions. There are Cape Kidnap-tively small, but often beautiful-with a pers, Cape Foulwind, Cape Turn-ly proportioned, windows, its vibrator has been invented to enable described by the experts as "more ceptable panacea. again, and Cape Farewell. At pillars and porticces, derives ja motorist to start his automobile if patchwork." Poverty Bay he found the natives from a latitude where the sun can he has lost his switch key.

The older inhospitable--no doubt, in this be too oppressive.

Despite the foregoing, the battle region an instinctively generous English houses, again, were all The Chilean government is bulld- of the polls in November will not extensive system of high be decided by such issues as Bound people was suffering hard times too apt to neglect certain partsjing an

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"Wet" or ""Dry"?

in the matter of food, and had now regarded as vitally import-class highways to connect its prin- economy and balanced budget. No: none to spare-but in the Bay of ant to health. Even the vast cipal centres of population and tap the American voter leaves those Plenty he received better treat modern-blocks-of-business-pre- the rich resources of the country. ment. Queen Charlotte's Soundmises and flats, so palatial in

recalls his loyalty to the British exterior, are often not without

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The unknown factor in this: momentous election, is the Social- ist party, headed by a man nd-- mittedly honest, fearless, able,

and educated-Mr. Norman

Thomas.

A graduate of Prince University,

things to the leaders and platform- Mr. Thomas was ordained a minis- makers, and, possessing for the ter of the Presbyterian Church in most part a one-track mind, he 1911, and to-day he is a busy New Crown, and Hawke Bay-the their sombre side; there may be will throttle plant for a place in battles chiefly for the "wets" or York Journalist.

Many of the people who former- original nomenclature the ad- dismal well in the heart of the aun: "should there be anyi"dry"!'

The late President Wilson won ly voted Republican or: Democratic mired who, a few years previous luxuriance. It is to be feared ray or gleam how faint soe'er,"

ly, had defented the French at also that much architecture is it will crane up into it without an election on the issue, "Be kept are pledging themselves to support Quiberon in a 'war'in Which Cook but an expression of what Robert mercy for others; but this is preus out of war!". This election will Thomas, by way of protest against had himself served. Cook annex Bridges called "Self-hood," to a cisely what it is to be hoped well-go to the side which can convince the growing inefficiency, ineptitude, ed the Northern Island by cary-consideration of which in plant mannered and scientific architec-a thirsty public of its willingness and corruption of the existing, par ingke Orlando his sover-life he invites his readers. Planti ture will not do..

and ability to "bring back beer." ty machines