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Your Daily Smile.

OVER TRAFFIC

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CO-ORDINATION NEEDED TO CURE EVILS

The London traffic problem turn other Conservative colleagues, is

ever

A person Just back from Mos- cow tells a story, of the recent order forbidding queues round pro- vision and vodka shops, which de- prived the populace of its daily oc- cupation.

On the first day after the new ed up once again in the House of asking the House of Commons to- order a little Jew, 'always one of Commons the other day when the night to pass on to the next the first in the queues, was walk- Prime Minister asked that the session. That Bill was described ing disconsolately through the London Passenger, Transport Bill by Mr. Morrison, in a moment of streeta. He met another wander- be carried over to next session.

delirious prido, as "one of the The Government proposal to greatest Socialist measures The Jew touched his cap. keep the Bill alive was not accopt-introduced." Both Mr. Baldwin "Comrade," he said, "may I asked without opposition. A group of and Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, then where you are going?" "I'm just Conservative members, led by Sir in Opposition, opposed it. "Any- strolling round," was the reply, Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan, are in body who votes for this Bill,” said

"Then," said the Jew, "please revolt against it. ⠀⠀⠀

Sir Philip, who moved its rejec- permit me to form ́up behind you.”. What, then, is the London Pas- tion, "Is without any possible

senger Transport Bill?

question voting for nationallaation First, let it be recorded-be in a very peculiar and extreme cause everybody concedes that form. All are forced to transfer much that it is a serious attempt their property, whether they like to solve a problem the urgency of it or not, to a public undertaking." which is undisputed. It gravely Now, he supports the Bill, for concerns every Londoner and every there have been changes. Londoner should understand it. Mr. Morrison's original Bill pró- Owing to the haphazard way in vided that the Government should which it has grown, London has al-appoint the Big Five, the body Does It Matter?

ways suffered from a confusion of analogous to the Central Electri- "Woman Flies in Arelie," says authorities, in this as in all public city Board, or the B.B.C., to whom headline. Personally, I have never matters; and although the Tubes it entrusted the control "of all been able to tell which kind of Ries and most of the buses, once rivals, forms of transport within an aren are which.

now work together under the single of 26 miles of Charing Cross. This control of the Underground, other provision opened the way to tho controls direct the Metropolitan, objection that London traffic con- a Railway, the various suburban trolled by a body appointed by the a railways, the trams, numerous ser-Government would, in effect, bé vices of non-Combine buses, and politically controlled; and when the motor conches,

the Government happened to be a Socialist Government, the policy

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Germany's Contention.

The China Mail simplicity of Luke, we may find We're doing no 'arm.

there our abiding models. The more nearly we keep to them,

DISCONTENTED.

Previous Attempts. Various attempts have bean pursued by the Big Five would in

4 all probability be

made to cope with the problem.

Socialist- We have had the London Traffic nationalisation policy, with all the Advisory Committee and the evils which Conservatism heartily Traffic Commissioners, but they The present Government have

deteated.

Hong Kong, Baturday, Dec. 10, 1932. the better for our world of let-A Midlands 'woman recently objhave never touched the root of the therefore mot the objection by de

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ters. An enterprising journalist tained a divorce because her hus-problem. All they have done is to of the ultrabrisk school would band had given her only sixteen devise schemes for the relief of volving the power of appointing probably set out to tell the story shillings in three years. She de-congestion, like the round-abouts, the Transport Board to five inde- of the Prodigal Son by stating, clined to take the view that sixteen for the restriction of traffic enter-pendent trustees, such as the The current annual report of "In the flourishing city of shillings every three years soon ing London, and so forth; whereas Chairman of the L.C.C., the Chair.

"Damascus dwelt a prosperous mounts up.

the crying need is for 'some kind man of the Committee of London the British and Foreign Bible So-

and venerable merchant,

of unification, or at least co- Clearing Bankers, the President of ciety is to hand. As the society; whom fortune had twice Financier's Scale.

ordination, of control of the whole the Institute of Chartered Accoun- the rest important association of bleat with male offspring." This

traffic.system.

tants, the President of the Law Society whoever the holder of its kind, was established in 1804, would mean what the Gospel of dough.

It has to be borne in mind that these posts may be from time to and has functioned without cas man had two sons." Directness Luke prefers to say: "A" certam

it is not merely a question of con- time and a representative of the trolling the existing means of London Traffic Advisory Commit- sation, this report is its one like that can never be improved "People in the United States," transport, but of providing much tee. hundred and twenty-eighth, upon. The preachers themselves writes a New York Journalist, needed new means. The popula

Danger Removed. Much more closely than most fail badly when they attempt to realise that the American politician tion of London keeps growing, and Thus, while, the basis of the BI!!

do so. The attempt is frequent is not a organisations it can claim to have ly made. A classic example was politician." I congratulate them.

bit like the British the constant extension of its area, is unchanged, it is argued that the creating new suburbs on all sides, danger of party-political control is adhered to its original aim, first afforded when a learned divine,

demands new tube and railway de- removed. No one denies Mr. Mor- laid down in the simple phrase, preaching on the parable of the

velopment The companies urge rison the credit of courage and in- "To encourage a wider circulation wheat and the tares, graciously

that the capital for this develop genuity for this basis, and for the of the Holy Scriptures without enemy hath done this," by the.

explained the simple sentence "An

ment cannot be secured while cut fact that it has won a larger throat competition remains un- measure of support from the traffic note or comment." It has in following delightful paraphrase: By changing the angle and posi- curbed.

Interests themselves than any pre- earred the hostility within Chris-"The landowner here indicates tion of the handle a new show shovel Thus the failure to solve the vlous attempt. The Underground that effects so deleterious to the is converted into a rubber faced problem of to-day is continually group, the main line railways, the tendom of those who cannot

welfare of his crops can only have squeegee for removing water from increasing the enormity of the focal authorities, the Metropolitan tolerate any activity which is not been the work of hostile agericy" painted surfaces without marring problem of to-morrow. entirely under their own control, That sort of thing is more than a them.

Railway together representing Socialist Objection

nearly 93 per cent. of London and from other quarters the op-futile endeavour to elucidate the

obvious. It is a slipping down! Radio, broadcasting in Japan is The first serious effort to tackle traffic-have all come to agreed

Facts You Did Not Know.

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position of rival religions or (from a literally perfect style to carried on by 15 stations and ap. the root of problem was when the settlements as the result of con- now in Russia) of godlessness. In its life of more thew Arnold said something new stations have been approved by who account for 80 per tent. of A very notable feat.

London traffic, despairing 01 Opposition from the revolting than a century and a quarter, it which has a very direct bearing the Department of Communications. Government action, promoted Prl Conservatives, led by Sir K has distributed nearly 432 million knows his Bible and nothing Of 100 tons capacity, a motorwhole of London traffic except the ed on the objection that the Na-

on our subject "The man who

vate Bills proposing to place the Vaughan-Morgan, scems to be bas- copies of the Bible, more than else," he wrote, "does not know truck has been constructed that is railways that is, the trams, the tional Government received no one-fourth of them in the Eng his Bible" True, either of the mounted on 14 wheels and requires tubes, and the buscs-under one mandate for it which is true lish language. During last year, Bible or anything else. You must two drivers, in front and rear, who authority, the dominating element and that, private enterprise and the circulation showed a decrease proportion in which to set. But telephones.

have a scale to measure by, a communicate with one another by in which was to be the Tube and healthy competition will be (very slight) from that of the the converse of Arnold's statem

Bus combine. The theoretical id-destroyed under it. The latter ob vantages of this plan were obvious, jection is also the line taken by previous year. Yet even so, that ment holds good and affects most The United States is the world's for the three services between the Motor Hirers' and Couch Ser- circulation, affected as it was by closely all who either write or largest user of quicksilver, followed them achieved much- unnecessary vices Association, who are oppos- the depression, has only been read. The man who knows nearly by the Germany and the United duplification, and sometimes tripling the Bill; they emphasise, the

| everything else and does not Kingdom, and its annual production fication, of routes, without a com- point that the Bill hands over one surpassed four times, and as know his Bibles knows almost has increased considerably in recent mensurate advantage to the citizen, fifth of the population of Great many copies of the Scriptures nothing. In a sense, however, years.

because, although such fierce com-Britain to a virtual monopoly, and were issued as in all the first 85 there is no such man in English-

potition kept fares down, it tended that by the arbitrary allotment of years of the society's existence speaking countries. Just as we

to concentrate on the more paying routes to this, that and the other all quote Shakespeare daily with- taken together. No sign here of out knowing it, so is Biblical

routes and rush periods, to the method of transport it will rob the Mra. R. McP. Austin, the wife of neglect of the less profitable but London citizen of his unfettered any real slackening. Even were phraseology woven into our the British Consul at Dairen, is equally secpsaltous routes and choice of travel the world-wide work to be sud language. These are the two returning with her mother and periods, denly brought to an end, that greatest sources of English father to England by the President The fate of this scheme illus be a change.

literary style. Any age which Pierce.

|trates the knotty difficulties in the which has already been accom-turns its back on them in favour

way of all London traffic achemes, plished would remain as the of the cheap and nasty is an age Mr. and Mrs. H. Roger Burks of Politice wrecked it. greatest and most indispensable whose, beat productions will be Liverpool are travelling round the ald of Christian missions. Much more speedily forgotten than world on the President Plerce Mr. has still to be done, and will be yesterday's newspaper. "Intense Burke is the Manager of the Royal done, of equal interest to pulpit study of the Bible, said Coler Insurance Company, Ltd., of Liver and pow, But the subject has idge, will keep any writer pool Talso its secular side, too large to from being vulgar în point-of

Personal Pars.

Whatever happens, there must

MR. THEODORE OGIER LAID TO REST.

Steamship Officer's Tragic Death.

The Socialiste on the London County Council regarded the L.C.C trama, as the only effective barrier against what they called the Traffic Trust: to hand the people's |trame" over to the Trust would be, The funeral of the late Mr. in their view, tantamount to sell- Theodoro Ogier, chief officer of

be ignored by even the shallow style. So true is this that men Mr. and Mrs, August Vollmer of Ing the worker into slavery to the the Canton river steamer Kwong eat of worldlings. The Bible as who had no bellef in the Bible the University of California, Cal Bosses. It followed naturally that Sal, whose death occurred on Wed- literature is, or should be, a mat- on its religious side-Shelley, for are passing through Hong Kong on the theme was killed as soon as nesday night under tragic circum- ter of concern to every thinking example have gode out of their the President Pierce, Mr. August the Socialists came into power at stances took place yesterday in the person. It has been truthfully way to express their high sense Vollmer is a renowned crimino Westminster, with Mr. Herbert Protestant cemetery, Happy Valley remarked that, whatever theory of itš val erature, and to logist and was formerly chief of

we may choose to entertain re place on

garding the actual inspiration of ness

the Bible's or has to be admitted carried out it

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highest words

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MY Darsle Lloyd, Vice-Presi- hin dent of the Lloyd Film Corporation an- and the ather the

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ed at the graveside, rendered-A- large gathering of : friends were present, among whom wero Captain T; T. Laurenson, Captain' Passen- Campbell Captain" Pritchard, Cap- tain Walker Captain Brann, Cap- tain Mackerlinio, Captain Collomy Captain@Luke, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. D.MD. Stephen and Sergeant

Many wreaths were sent