1932-12-30 — Page 6

EVENING :-

When the day's duties are over. body and mind demand rest and diversion. So whether you are at home in the society' of chosen friends, or dining out; whether at the club, the theatre, the dance or the concert; no matter where you are, if you take a beyer- age, it must contribute properly to your enjoyment. Therefore, choose it with the greatest prudencë. De- war's the superb old Scotch Whis- ky is a true and delightful aid to

an evening's recreation. It is praised everywhere.

DEWAR'S WHISKY

THE FAMOUS

'WHITE LABEL'

GRAYS YELLOW LANTERN SHOPS

ALEX. BLDG.

TEL. 24566.

HONG KONG HOTEL TEL. 27424.

ARCADE

GLOUCESTER ARCADE.

PENINSULA HOTEL TEL. 58081,

Latest designs in Lingerie, White Fur

Evening Coats and Capes.

Linens, Curios,

Jewellery.

New Shipment of Peking Rugs Just Received,

BRITISH PRODUCTS

with A BRITISH REPUTATION.

CANNED FRUITS

SMEDLEY'S AND VEGETABLES.

STRAWBERRIES, RASPBERRIES, GREENGAGES, RED CURRANTS. RED CHERRIES, LOGANBERRIES, BLACK BERRIES, GOOSEBERRIES, VICTORIA PLUMS, RED PLUMS, GOLDEN PLUMS, ETC. ETC. PEAS. BEETROOT, MACEDOINES, ETC. ETC.

Obtainable from all leading 'compradores

and departmental stores.

W. R. LOXLEY & CO.

SOLE AGENTS.

G. FALCONER & CO., (HONG KONG) LTD. WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

·DIAMOND MERCHANTS. Union Building (opposite G.P.O.)

Agents for:—ADMIRALTY CHARTS, ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers,

High Class English Jewellery.

In the mornings dress and breakfast in COMFORT.

All day in the home have COMFORT.

In the evenings dine, play bridge or read in COMFORT. Warm up the bedroom and retire at night in COMFORT. By using GAS FIRES or RADIATORS.

$5,

THE CHINA MAIL.

WHITEAWAYS

AFTER CHRISTMAS SALE

4 DAYS ONLY

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28th

TO

SATURDAY, DEC. 31st.

OUR ENTIRE STOCK

TOYS

CRACKERS

OF

BOOKS

CARNIVAL NOVELTIES.

AT

25% to 50% Discount.

WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.

The China Mail

HERE

THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

BRILLIANT OPERA,

Two brilliant performances. by the leading singers and first-class support from the remainder of a capable cast enabled the Italian Grand Opera Company to effect a splendid production of Verdi's masterpiece, "Rigoletto." M. Cavallo Joften rose to magnificent heights

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1932.

ON TOP OF WORLD

ROOSEVELT MOST

WORRIED OF MEN

INCOME ALL TOO SCANT FOR A PRESIDENT

(By SHAW DESMOND.)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is The President will then take the worried man. m

tho

in his portrayal of the rot of the at this moment the world's most oath of office, which will be ad- hunchback jester, and revealed a

ministered by the Chief Justice, wouderful volume of voice. Grace- By strange conjunction of ee-after which the inaugural address ful and charming, Mile. Valdi is the cumstance, what the new Prest-will be read and carried to possessor of a rich, colourful voice dent does or does not do during waiting thousands by loud speakers. Then the procession will reform and her singing is remarkable for the next few weeks will affect ita fine tone and sweetness. The the entire world-including you and return to the White House. other roles were well acted and the who read these lines. Affect it and for Mr. Roosevelt, as for hia production provided, excellent enter-from war debts to tariffs, and wife, the trouble starts,"

That tainment to a house almost Billed. from Frohibition to the League is, the troubles of high office.

Now the thing that will be

The Company merit. a successful of Nations!.

run at the Star Theatre.

Your Daily Smile.

PHILOSOPHY. Marriage gives many a chorus girl her first big speaking part.

*

* * Another Joke About Scotsmen.

"Weel, thank Heaven the wind's changed," quoth MacPhail; "the doctor said I wis tae have a change o' air."

*

She was only..................

#

#

A miner's daughter, but

what natural resources!

Facts You Did Not Know.

It sounds fine to be "master bothoring this giant of a man, who, of the world for a month," but if when I once went to see him off to you were President of America Florida, soon after he was stricken what would you do in face of with the children's paralysis which the facts below-domestic and he has so bravely overcome, had other?

practically to be carried into his

Mr. Roosevelt will, for that Pullman, will not be war debts or month, be the world's most wor-tariffs—but just "the pie counter, ried man. He will be "The Man or job-finding. with a Load of Mischief" in Mr. Roosevelt has to find nice the play of that name.

little jobs for an army of harpies His load will be the world in the Post Office, State, Treasury and Justice departments. For "to the victor," that is, the voter, "the apolly!"

these hungry, angry

itself.

"A Poor Man."

theoretical economist it might Tests in England of New Zealand antique

year, some of it from the fit each little bird into its own lit

*

The man whom, with his wife, Already oh, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (always office-seekers are flocking to the called "Eleanor"), I dined with cheap boarding houses in Washing- some years ago in their modest ton, and, while "living by sucking New York house is, in American their fingers," bombard the un- parlance, "a very poor man." happy President with applications. Their income may be £8,000 a And woe unto him if he does not

seem tolerable, for example, that fibre have shown it to produce rope Roosevelt runs in New York,

shop which Mrs. tle piece of meat! If he does not, Hong Kong, Friday, Dec. 30, 1932. industrial countries like Great as durable as the best sisal rope

that bird will turn on him and rend- His income as President will him. And he knows it. Britain, France, and Germany but to fall to meet government be about £15,000 a year--but if What our friend the President should let their agricultural in-specifications for tensile strength. it were £26,000 it would not be will have to endure, and to endure The World Conference. dustries be ruined and their land put out of cultivation by the un-

enough. A motor tricycle has been de

with a smile, may be faintly un For with it he will have to derstood by fleeting reference to There is no need to take restricted purchase of food from signed that can be towed by an keep up one of the finest houses some of his predecessors when "on tragically the hitch which has countries where it can be grown automobile that is delivered from a on earth-the White House at the grid."

But not the pre- President Harding had 240,000

the

*

*

*

expenses...

SUICIDE VERDICT AT INQUEST.

occurred in the preparations for more cheaply. That would cer-garage to a customer to provide Washington. the World Economic and Mone-tainly help to revive internation-means for the driver to return to sidential yacht the Mayflower public appointments in his politi- tary Conference. It is now un-al trade and make it easier for the garage.

-sold by Mr. Hoover to cut cal gift, and perhaps two millions derstood that the Conference the primary of producing coun

of angry men and hungry women cannot meet till next April and tries to pay their debts. And pos- certed and definite action. All That house cost a predecessor clamouring for 'em. may even have to be postponed sibly, as the economists argue, this will take time, even more about £2,000 to a still later date. The world the country workers thus depriv-time and more trouble and more and Mr. Roosevelt will, in addi- the 80,000 voracious claimants for a year in repairs, President Wilson had to satisfy is. tired of speeches. It expects, ed. of their livelihood might ut- thought than was necessary to tion, have to find the £900 a year the 8,416, postmaster vacancies as or at any rate hopes, from the timately find employment in other prepare for Ottawa. It will need for fuel for the green-houses well na he could, and, with his Conference some definite action to industries, which would be hard and sustained work if it is I say nothing of the salaries well-known Christians-to-the- relieve the paralysis from which stimulated by the greater demand all to be done by April. But in of his private secretary and lens expression, had to fob off trade is suffering all over the caused by increased prosperity in any case would there be much obstenographers, etc. But in dribs the rest-also as well as he could. world, not merely in the inter- the countries from which the ject in holding the Conference and drabs the £27,000 which When Franklin Delano is through national market but in the home cheaper food was bought. But before then? One of the flows into the presidential with the job-finding he will have markets as well. More harm as Major Elliot maintained in an principal subjects which it is strong-box during the year will made.nt least two millions of in- than good would come of holding nouncing the steps taken by the hoped to discuss is the possibility help him to keep the wolf from veterate life enemies, who, unlike the Conference before the parti- British Government to safeguard of establishing an international the door even in these days of his dear friend. Mr. Al Smith, will cipating Governments have made the livestock former in Great standard of currency and of re- depression.

certainly not call him "Old Potato," up their own minds what action Britain there are other and moving the exchange difficulties is practicable and desirable, and more vital things to be taken into which now hamper international fore him died noor, men from Rival Bands,

Almost all the Presidents be but something else. by discussion among themselves consideration than

more trade. It is hard to believe that William McKinley back to Mr. Roosevelt will have on his have reached a measure of agree-balance of economic advantage. anything useful or permanent can Grover Cleveland.

back the moment Prohibition has ment on

the principles which The same thought is behind the be achieved in that way until the But President Woodrow Wil-passed-and it will never be en- should govern that action. Some determination of Ganada and interlinked questions of Repara-son managed to leave £45,000 forced from now on-two ferocious disappointment is expressed with Australia and of other growing tions. and War Debts have been (a fleabite in America) and £500 bands: the band of the Wild Wo the slow progress made by the countries oversea to build up, definitely settled; and the nego- to his daughter Margaret "go men "Drys" and their prototypes preparatory committees which even at some economic loss, the tiations with the United States, long as she remained unmarried the Band of the Bold Bad: Uner- have been set up in Geneva; but industries necessary for a sanely for which the debtor countries Harding left: £107,000, and the Ployed Bootleggers. impatience at this stage can only balanced national life. Economic are now asking, are certain to be great, President "Teddy" a round (Continued on Page 7.) be based on a false conception of nationalism can be disastrous as long as they are delicate. In £100,000. But President John the difficulties which have to be when carried to extremes. It is any case the success of any en-Adam sdied poverty-stricken. cleared away before it is possible futile and dangerous for nations deavour to bring the sterling I am wondering how Mrs. Roose even to frame an agreed list of to endeavour to make themselves countries back to gold depends velt will face the presidential agenda. It is hinted that these self-sufficient economic units, and not only on the settlement of War inauguration ceremonies, which committees have misread their their efforts in that direction are Debts and Reparations, but also, take place in March at Washington, instructions and that, not content largely responsible for the break-jas all the British Governments for technically, until then, Mr with listing the subjects with down of world trade and of the agreed at Ottawa, on the fulfil Roosevelt is unappointed. which the Conference should deal, world's monetary system: The ment of a number of other con- For Eleanor Roosevelt is what is they have occupied themselves experts who have been at work ditions cconomic and political as known as a "plain woman. Not with debating the merits of in Geneva have naturally been well as financial, notably on "a plata in face, for she is both lovely "Suicide while temporarily in different suggestions for dealing concerned exclusively with the rise in the general level of com- and graceful, and has, in addition, sabe" was the Inquest verdict with them. But surely it is only object of freeing international modity prices in the various enormous common sense. But plain reached yesterday In the case of by such preliminary discussion trade and facilitating the work countries to a height more in in her method of dressing and in Mr. Johan Louis Max Frederiks, 38, that the agenda can be kept freeing of international finance. They keeping with the level of costs, her views of life, who was found with a bullet in the of questions on which it is im- seem from such accounts as have including the burden of debt and "She would be called "old-fashion-head in a bath-room at his r possible to hope for any general been published of their proceed-of other fixed and semi-fixed ed" sidence. 0, Carnarvon Villas, on agreement, and that the Conferings to have ignored the dangers charges." There is as yet no I have been told that she only December 18, 2 ence can be left free to devote on the other side; to have failed sign of any general desire to co- allowed herself one or two evening The Jury empanelled consisted of its energies to the consideration to realise that, pushed to its operate in fulfilling them frocks a year, and perhaps two of Messrs. B. E. Hoare (foreman), A. of proposals, however few in logical extreme, economic inter- Moreover, apart from this funda- three modest hate. Now she will K. Minu and E. M. Ozorio. number they may be, on which nationaliam can be no less dan-mental difficulty, there is scarcely be besieged with Fifth-avenue's Mr. Butters conducted the en- there is a real possibility of co-gerous than economie nationalism, a subject proposed for the agenda first modistes for her custom, and quiry in the Kowloon Magistracy operation. Unless that work is and that to treat the world as on which agreement would be of will have the hat shops of Europe done, and done thoroughly, be one economic unit is r not only much effect without American co- from which to pick, forehand, the Conference could impracticable - In present cordi operation, and the new President And by the time the rides in the only degenerate into a series of tions but, in the case of many and the new Congress, who will presidential inauguration...... proses- fruitless debates, illustrating once countries would lead to the determine future American policy, sion she will be one of the smart- more the wide divergences, both gravest social and political dis- do not assume responsibility until eat women there out “quietly of interests and of views, which locations. Before the Conference March 4. An Economic and mark Have still to be reconciled. This can ineet to any advantage, each Monetary Conference meeting The tactful handling of the fight gratefully acknowledges, on behalf preliminary work, it is true, can participating Government will after thorough preparation, and for social preendence is ons of the of the Committee of the Sailors & not be done entirely or even have to weigh all these considera after the way has been cleared things ch will, though duff Soldiers Home, the following mainly by the bankers and tions one against the other for it by success in settling the clally, come withla har province. donations to the Extension Fund economists and departmental offi-They will have to frame policie tanding questions of Dis. At the inauguration ceremony The Hon. Mr. Edwin Taylor $50.00

War self the procession with Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Wood infinitely Mrs. Roosevelt in their car will T. H. R. Shaw, Esq.

come along Pennsylvania-avenue to Cpl. J. Redmond. warde the Capitol through gally de-Anonymo

cers who have been appointed to which will avoid so far as POS-

the Geneva committe

volves decisions, which

made only by responsibl

Annual Rental

Fixing Charges

HONG KONG & CHINA GAS CO., LTD.

Central Showroom Gloucester Building. Kowloon Showloom : -246, Nat OfficesWest Point Teleph 28181.

ments and

to fake etonomic the work Jalso of pol

From International

in-isible the extremes both of exces

can"he sive nationalisra and of excessive

overn internationalism and help

have store world, trade:

the fen

Iding national

but that

the corate

܂

Mr. J. L. M. Frederiks Death Recalled.

followed by gift

SAILORS AND SOLIERS

HOME

Extension Scheme.

The Rev E. C. H7 Tribbeck

0.00

25.00

R.A.0.C. 5.00 $10,00

needed all