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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1932,

WORK FOR BRITONS

CLEARING OF AN

SLUMS

A GIANT TASK

SNOWDEN'S SUGGESTION FOR

LABOUR RELIEF··

(By Viscount Snowden.)

has now become the accepted diplo- For three days the House of offers scope for employment, and matic unifom of the new post-war Commons has been pooling its should bring an economic return. republic, including Germany and

ideas on the tragic problem of Russia.

Your Daily Smile.

Other Schemes, There are, other schemes of public works which might be ad

There is only one exception. The unemployment. Spanish Republic has retained the This subject has been so ex-vantageously adopted. The most official gold lace uniform which, haustively discussed in

important is the development of recent although a relic of monarchy, has

electricity. The Electricity Board alawye been favoured by the Latin years that it could hardly be ex- has done much to organise the republics both in the old world and pected that the discussion would generation side of the industry, the new.

provide any new suggestions.

but a great deal remains to be done on the distribution side.. The magnitude of the problem

There is no case at all against which faces the whole world to-he expenditure of public money remunerative enterprise. Mistress (engaging maid): “And day baffles statesmen and indus-on

Even at a time of financial dit- why did you leave your last place?"trialists. Nothing which Mald: "Because the master kissed proposed in the Parliamentary in the first fifteen months sanc- was ficulty, the Labour Government me." Mistress: "And you didn't approve, eh?" Mald: "Oh I didn't debate would touch the root tioned such schemes to a capital mind; it was the mistress who cause of the universal depression, value of £140,000,000 with Ex-

chequer assistance. Short periods of exceptional | The objection, which formerly unemployment we have known in had considerable force, that pu-

didn't like it."

י,

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Visitor: "I, have come to tell you

that my wife disappeared three days the past. But they differed in blic borrowing was undesirable, ago." Police Inspector: "Why didn't their magnitude, and in their has not the same weight now. you report her disappearance at character, from the crisis which out of the way for two years. Government Conversions are now once ?" "Well, for the first few days exists to-day. 1 could hardly believe it true that|

Money is plentiful and cheap. It Though there was recognition can usefully be employed in de she'd really gone."

in the Parliamentary debate of veloping national resources and The kitchenware demonstrator the complex and universal nature the revival of trade which will equipping the nation to meet wanted to call the next day. "That's of the problem, the practical pro- come sometime. my busy day," said the housewife.

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But all such schemes, however desirable in themselves, will make little impression on the volume of can unemployment. To do that we bemust look elsewhere.

"I usually have so much to do that posals put forward never ap The China Mailtrating deeper into the micro-

proached the root causes of it. cosm. There are even dreams of probably you would find me in a X-ray microscopes,

whirligig." Searching

"Oh, that's all right," Members of Parliament Hong Kong, Saturday, Dec. 17, 1932. for the invisible with invisible used to seeing housewives in their]

demonstrator. replied the

"I'm hardly be blamed for that, light! We seem to be reduced to

cause the causes are world- a blind groping. But the process

Mr. Lloyd George put forward' is more than that. Our own A Scot was thinking of buying tion is beyond the power of any holdings. It is calculated that it wide in their origin, and the solu-ja land settlement programme for senses being too crude, we devise an electric grill, but

placing 500.000 men on small others more delicate. With these the price he told the shopman that

on hearing National Government.

costs £1,000 to put a man on a

Three Centuries Of Microbes.

kimonos."

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a world compared with which the have it. "But look here," replied in the debate that the coming house and buildings.

equipped with

To place.

a remoter world will be explored, it was too dear, and he wouldn't share the opinion expressed small holding The microbe kept itself well hidden

protozoa until about three cen-which we are

and

microbes with the agent, "these things pay for World Conference is not likely cost £500,000.000!

500.000 on such holdings. would turies ago. Then it was that seem as gigantic as whales. "Well," sald Sandy, "If that's

now familiar will themselves in three weeks." to do much, if anything, to bring Mr. Lloyd George quoted the

Antony van Leeuwenhoek, draper Science has lost nene of its I'll come back in three weeks." AO about a quick restoration of larger proportion of small cultiva

Children's Books.

Facts You Did Not Know.

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world trade. It will talk and pass, tors in Germany, Holland and Den resolutions; but the obsession of mark. But he did not mention that economic nationalism will be dif

in all these countries the percent fieult to remove.

age of unemployment is much high- er than in Great Britain. The figures supplied by the Interna tional Labour Office show that for

£700,000,000 Spent.

Not a Solution Whatever may be said for plac

and chamberlain of Delft, Hol- romance and life none of its land, first saw it wriggling and mystery because we have reach- ed. He simply lacked the im-) devouring food. At last the the light of our eyes.` fabled microcosm of the ancients was revealed. It is for this that

A new flatiron holder clamps to the end of an ironing board and has The employment value of pu the first six months of this year Leeuwenhoek is honoured the

Few who care either for books a sloping point for sliding irons on blic works is much exaggerated the unemployed in those countries world over

on the three hun- or for children will not have or off with little effort.

It has been assumed that an ex- dredth anniversary of his birth, learned with interest of the pro-

penditure of a million pounds was over 80 per cent. rather than for his supposed in-motion recently of a national. In six years Siam hit increased provides employment directly vention of the

"Boys and Girls' Book Week." ita motor vehicle registration by 202 and indirectly for four thousand ing more people on our land-and microscope. Children, together with their per cent. and its mileage of Im- men for a year. It has not work there is everything to be said for it Scrapinga from his own teeth, parents and teachers, were in- proved highways by 50 per cent.ed out like that. saliva, the blood and intestinal vited to displays of books and to

The Ministerit certainly is not a solution of | juices of frogs and horses, flies' lectures on books all over Eng-

A thermostat controlled electric that in the last eight years pu- The scheme for raising meat

of Labour stated in the debate the unemployment problem. brains, the saws and nippers land. The books concerned were has been specially designed to keep blie works of various kinds have prices, outlined by Major Elliot, is with which predatory insects are tasks," but the

neither school books nor "holiday the water in a home aquarium at been carried out, with Exchequer designed to deal with an emergency, armed he examined everything the children may be expected to

volumes which any desired temperature."

assistance, involving an expendi and is no solution of the agricul- with childlike wonder. Yet all choose or to receive as gifts for

ture of the huge sum of £700,000,tural situation, and does not even Czecho-Slovakia exported mero 000. And at no time did the claim to touch the unemployment this patient observing and con- their leisure and pleasure. The than 15,000,000 pairs of shoes last number of men directly employ-problem. scientious reporting came to lit- Exhibition of Illustrated Chil-year, being the world's greatest ed exceed 110,000. tle until the nineteenth century.dren's Books held at the Victoria exporter of that kind of footwear.

There is a feature of the unem Leeuwenhoek stared delightedly and Albert Museum provided

This criticism does not imply ployment problem which received at the cause of disease and death, such a display over a longer time pressed air at a speed of 40,000 ployment. But their scope is throwing vast numbers out of work.

A cutting tool revolved, by com-in plans of amelioration of unem-rationalisation

that public works have no place little attention in the debate. The realising nothing of the signi- and on a larger scale than any revolutions a minute has been in-very limited.

of Industry is ficance of what his glass reveal where else. Publishers filled the

He simply lacked the im- stalls with some of their best vented for writing on metals and agination and fine, interpretative books, which the child or his

There are different kinds of day that before the slump the Mr. Lloyd George said the other. | glass. - ability of a Pasteur or a Koch. elders sampled. Moreover a re-

public works. There are, no United States had no unemployed. Great progress has been made in trospective array of volumes, shown that fron pyrities, commonly tional advantage.

doubt, many Experiments in South Africa have could be embarked upon to ned. At the height of the boom

schemes which It is time that Illusion was destroy- bacteriology since Leeuwenhoek's tempted back, the memory of day. What of the future? even the most elderly to the burned as fuel under steam boilera,

known as "fool's gold," can be

there were double the number of Higher and higher powers have books read in their own child-

Suggestions Annlysed. revealed smaller and smaller or hood, and to illustrate the vari

Among the suggestions made we had in Great Britain."

unemployed in the United States ganisms. Chemistry has come ous combinations of author, Book Council. Is the copious parks, libraries, houses, alum in the debate were roads, bridges, to the aid of the microscopist artist, and printer which have supply of children's books to-day clearances, water supplies and with dyes that stain cells and served in every generation to de- selected and judged by the same land drainage and reclamation. microbes and cause them to stand light even when they were in-test of quality that is given to out in unmistakable hues against tended to instruct, and to in the buildings in which the young tons a distinction must be obser- in the Colony, on Thursday.

In considering such sugges a non-committal background. The struct even when they were are housed or the clothes given ved between remunerative and limit of magnification has by no meant to delight. For those who them to wear? School books non-remunerative schemes. It is A Chinese named Lam Wing ap means been reached, but there is visited this exhibition in a stu- certainly are selected with the sometimes difficult to draw the peared before Mr. Wynne Jones of no gain in detail with higher dious frame of mind, there were most careful scrutiny, but the distinction. the Central Magistracy yesterday, powers. In biology, students of many problems of literary his books which a child reads outside A new road, for instance, may an amah employed by Mr. G. M. the infinitesimal are usually con- tory to solve. By how many the class-room seem in many in- be either an unnecessary luxury Hall, and robbing her of a jade charged with attacking Wong, Sin, tent with enlargements of 1,500 years. did the Limerick metre stances to be chosen haphazard or a real aid to transportation, bangle. The hearing, was adjourn- diametres; in metallurgy with antedate Edward Lear, and when by their bulk and their cover de lessening the cost of distribution: 2,500 diametres. Is this the was the "History of Jack the sign rather than by their con- From my experience I am con- end? The ultramicroscope of Giant Killer" first printed in tents. The librarian does his vinced that little more can be The Lower Court proceedings Zsigmondy has made it possible England? Was the author of best, but a "Christmas Gift done in road-making which will against thres Chinese, Wong Hel, to see a particle as small as a "Goody Two-Shoes" really Oliver Book" from, a parent or an aunt not be a burden on the taxpayer Wong Sang and Wong Fat, for pon, starch molecule, but as a mote Goldsmith, and who was the is frequently chosen each Decem- and ratepayer without giving

ed.

News in Brief.

There was a clean bill of health

appears in a sunbeam. Bet struc- mysterious "" who wrote "The ber in the few minutes of shop any beneficial return. There is salon of a revolver and two dag The maker of microscopes is why was It considered necessary tween the glove. counter and the construction. Housing and alum when they were committed to the ture cannot thus be studied. History of the Apple-Pie"? And ping which can be spared be a little to be done in bridge regera, concluded at the Kowloon limited by the wave length of a century ago to tell the story of hand-bags. It is this haste and clearance offer scope for employ- Criminal Sessions by Mr. Butters.

Magistracy yesterday afternoon," light, which means that an object Robinson Crusoe afresh by the indifference which the "Boys' ment. Our alumna are a disgrace smaller than 1-100,000 of an inch Mrs. Markham method of ques and Girls Book Week was in and a hotbed of immorality and must remain invisible. Arclight tion and answer? These ques tended to destroy in advance of disease. The local authorities Church, Hong Kong, should provide The Choir Sunday in the Union and sunlight both are too tions, and others of the kind, will Christmas. The grateful com-cannot-face the cost of clearance, rare musical treat, to- course. We cannot hope to see no doubt be put to scholarly bination of discriminating par, and the State will have in should- when the choral service will an infinitesimal microbe by some parents by their children with ents with discriminating book er the responsibility thing grosser than itself

the Messiah.”~ The

will commen those taking

the Leeuwenhoeks of puret

the mathematical

icists to appr

whom light le but

of waves beating

DAVIE BOA

are turning to the

violet rays In the

less

mality sellers will reward it is hoped, Housing schemes for the low have the deserving author and the dear-paid working classes could more ser

with the pros wisely undertaken now older at least of money

licit in per

la the the d Girls eventu

okalavished should be:

upon all deserving

the National charact

(contralto)

I be at the organ,