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PAPEN'S BRAIN TRUST

There is a simple explanation of the recently arrest of Dr. Edgar Jung and the raid on Herr Walter Schotte's rooms by the Nazis.

The two men are Herr von Papen's brain trust.

TRAFFIC CONTROL AN OBSESSION

SYSTEMS ADOPTED BY

SIX NATIONS

W

THE PEDESTRIAN PROBLEM

Discipline, however,

TITH twenty-five million ma-their arms.

tor-cars and trucks travel-is still somewhat lax, as fines are It is more compact affair than ing dally over its bighways, and not very often applied, except in President Roosevelt's brain trust.

flagrant cases.

a barrister

This is how it worke: Herr resaltant casualties yearly appro- A few of the larger cities have Schotte, a publicist of many years' ximating its losses during the adopted traffic lights, with the us standing-he used to edit the high-Great War, America places its al red, green, and yellow signals, brow "Preussische Jahrbuecher" main dependence for regulating And Rome has something new to at the more important crossings. supplies the material for Papen's speeches. Dr. Jung,

this vast traffic on electric lights offer in traffic lights-traffle sign- with a litrary gift, writes them. -green for "Go" yellow or amber als with only two lights-red and

Dr. Jung, like Papen, is a Catho- for "Caution," and red for "Stop." green. lic Conservative, and is still un- Even the smallest. villages are round, are elongated rectangles. A The lights, instead of being der 40. Herr Schotte, who is ten now equipped with these signals, band of black travels across years older, is an original mem- ber of the Herrenklub.

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COCKTAIL PLOT

+

the

The problem of congestion arisen coloured lights to tell motorists at these days from parked cars glance how near the red is to Every street in every town is lined turning green, or vice versa. But with them. New York, like Chi- this is only an experiment at

GERMANY

It is in the Herrenklub that is cago, has made ineffective efforts present. centred the chief strength of the to solve this problem by impound- ing or ticketing cars left by kerbs opposition to the Nazi regime.

jall night.

the

One-way

streets, apart from

dig

Formed originally as a meeting- place for progressive Conserva principal avenues in urban tives, it has its premises on Pariser Platz just opposite the French Embassy.

,

Back To Point Police?

The German authorities are do-

tricts, are almost a universal rule;ing their utmost to make people they ure distinguished by large understand that they risk their It is run on English club lines, arrows illuminated after dark, lives if they are not on the look- Elevated highroads with approach

out when they cross the street. and has a cocktail bar.

Eighteen months ago

lamps at long intervals furnish

There are plenty of jay-walkers its mem-fast motor traffic with a means of

in Germany and a great deal of bers wore smiles and swastikas, rapidly leaving or entering New trouble is being taken at the pre- They had played a leading part in York.

sent time to educate them. I saw persuading President Hindenburg Concrete roads of a breadth and two of them the other day mean- to accept what they thought was smoothness undreamed of little

dering aerosa the Kurfursten- Ja docile Hitler as Chancellor.

damn, Berlin's chief boulevard, period of suzerainty has created With the passage of the months quick long-distance travelling in more than a decade ago facilitate a new class some of whom cer- their faces have grown longer. tainly perform many of the pro- Papen's Marburg speech was the possible the motorist bound for far every State or Union. Wherever Hong Kong, Tuesday, July 31, 1934. cesses of administration, and open expression of their discon-distant points is enabled to avold

The China Mail

many of whom can use argu-tent. ments based upon our own prin

Philippine Independence ciples that are very difficult to CENTURY

counter with arguments other

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large towns by roads which lead around them.

and taking a slanting course with their backs to the traffie coming down on them.

A Nazi Storm Trooper, told off

for the purpose, went up to them and politely intimated' that one

pavement.

are live questions to-day. The not want to admit-free Filippine to be a hundred as men. Poverty/ed to go by the board. As a mat-green light.

New York's magnificent new should cross the road by the short- than a blunt statement that cir- If Zaro Agha was.

really 160 system of parkways, traversing at way and look to see whether The meeting of the Philippines cumstances alter cases. It was when he died-the doctors would Long Island offers an interesting it is safe before getting off the Constitutional Convention, which Bismarck who said that the not credit him with a day more illustration of how traffle is ex- is held to-day, will have quite a climax of British fatuity was to than 120 years despite his birth pedited. Each parkway has four

He presented them with an illue- very interesting problems in as a school-book. Eloquence is on eight years and was number of rather delicate and use "Mill on Liberty" in India certificate-he beat Old Parr by motor lanes, and outer lanes can trated tract of rules and warnings, Constitution-drafting

only be entered from the direction copy of which he handed to me to deal

alue yeare the side of the advocates of in-lyounger than Henry Jenkins. In which the stream of cars is with.. No doubt these may be dependence.

when I walked up and asked for said to be merely for considera-

Old people often exaggerate their flowing. All cross-reads are rafa-one. It was written in the friend- ition by the Filipinos themselves trouble is that both parties

In arranging the details the ages.

Jed over parkways by bridges.y second person singular, like this: Thou must know that thou This was curiously proved in Where pedestrians are permitted, and the Suzerain Power; but want both to eat their cake and the census returns. It was found they are directed by signs to walk can only go over the street at many of them have presented have it. The American Govern- alive over 30 and a deficit of those not with but facing traffic.

crossings when the traffic police- themselves to us in various parts ment does not want to lose the between 85 and 90. of the Empire, and some of them Filippine trade; but also does

Legislation dealing with jay-ocial shows thee the way is free Three times as many women live walkers has generally been allow or when the traffic-lamp shows a solutions will be watched, with sugar. It is quite willing that and residence in small islands pro- been found impossible to cure jay-experimental stage; but the ten- Traffic-regulation is still in an the same interest as has been local affairs should be managed mote longevity..

ter of practical experience it has shown by Americans in our at- locally; but not that American tempt to enlarge the base of our residents shall be unfairly treat-

walking by by-laws.

dency is to prefer the human agent to the mechanical device. Indian Government.

ed. The patrolling of the archi-

A system of lamps, red for Something New In Lights

"Stop," green for "Go" yellow for Traffic control is a comparative bat in Berlin the question has "Lookout," is used in some cities, by new development in Italy, for it been raised whether policemen are is only within recent times that not better. The system is used in number of motor-cars has Unter den Linden, and the result reached such a point as to repre- is that sometimes all the traffic sent a real problem.

in the main thoroughfare is held Formerly Italian traffic used to up while no care or carts

The ways of the Twentieth pelago may be left to a local Century are not as the ways of militia; but it must not be occa-

dependencies.

Your Daily Smile!

A sparrow perched on a golf

Handicapped

the

ITALY

are

be the most chaotic in the world. coming from the side streets. keep to the right in the large el was tried of putting out the lights Vehicles were merely required to. The other day the experiment ties and to the left in the country.and leaving matters in the hands It is easy to imagine how much of the police on point duty. confusion was created by this an-

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the Nineteenth in dealing with pied by the Japanese. The ball just as the player was about It may be too McDuffie Tydings Independence to drive. Birds instinctively know early for an unblassed judgment Act accordingly, with its sixteen the safest place in a moment of on the annexations which were mandatory provisions grants in danger. THE KWONG KWUI CO. LTD. the prominent feature of Vie-effect freedom from American

torian external policy and the control only on condition that THE FIG.BREEDER Rooseveltian "big stick." The the main features of the exist "My father reared the biggest quotation, by the way, is rarely ing system shall be maintained pig in this neighbourhood," sald given,

The President's words by the newly enfranchised citi- the boastful young man. "Aye were "if you speak gently and zena. Our own experience is and the noislest," replied a carry a big stick, you may travel that paper safeguards are

so listener. far." He himself is more asso-easily evaded that they are ciated with the big stick; his practically dead letters from the namesake with the gentle start, and they hamper the Gov-

"When I put the ball where I can tiquated custom, now abolished by speech; as has been shown by ernment by giving the eloquent asked how he liked the game, " can't

reach it,” said the stout golfer, when the Fascist Government. his refusal to interfere to re-lagitators

But traffic control is difficult in an unfailing pro-see it, and when I put it where I can Italian cities because most of the store order in Havana and his gramme în advance, which con-see It, I can't reach it.”. negotiation of a treaty by which sists in demanding that they be

streets-even the principal ones—---- "the Flatt Amendment" has been repealed one by one.

Nobody'll Chase You

are very narrow, often winding, jabrogated. The question is: There is much to be said for You don't have to run away with and many are without sidewalks. in the times of stress is the the principle defined by Sir John another man's wife these days: It is not possible in all cases to policy of speaking gently effec-Simon in introducing the Union you can wal'..,

establish one-way streets, ás no- tive without the big stick in re of South Africă Act; -"if you

merous streets have no parallels. serve?

are giving freedom give it utter-

Italian pedestrians are still There is no need to discuss ly." That at any rate is the "Perhaps; and whether it grinds walking is the rule rather than the bour was imposed on Chan Luk- "Life seems to be just a grindstone!" largely undisciplined and jay- Sentence of one year's hard la- the annexation policy either with principle of our own constitution yen down or polishes you depends on exception. sentimentalism or cynicism.al invention of Dominion Status the sort of stuff you're made of.""

They have the habit chai, a 17-year-old unemployed, by Trade of course was a strong embodied in the Statute of motive; and some of the trading Westminster. 8o. contrary is methods of the pioneers could human nature that since that "Shure, an' he's foine, healthy often reading newspapers, and, for the theft of a purse, contain- rightly be called exploitation; Statute was passed the tendency bhoy, an' the neighbours say he's the moreover, they believe their safe-ing $1090, from Tong Chung-tak, but trade in itself ought to be has been to seek new methods "Well, now, what's the harm in that of the motorist not their own.

very image of me.".

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The foreigners who have any idea Facts You Did Not Know magistrate and the policeman re-what Dominion Status means, presented rather a wish to pro

PURSE STOLEN IN SINCERE'S.

Thin Paper Wrapping Leads To Arrest.

of not keeping to the sidewalks, Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the but wander all over the streets, Central Magistracy this morning,

cere Company yesterday. /e

tect the people than any, wild GAMBLING RAID IN replace the driving wheels of stand always face the traffic, which in that his purse was missing, he saw

Imperial ambition. And sooner

TEMPLE STREET,ery when they are to be uned over soft

15. Arrests Made.

A start in a campaign against Detective Sargeant, Shepherd jaywalking has been made by ob-stated that while the complainent liging all pedestrians in some of was visiting the Sincere Company, the more crowded streets to walk defendant followed him up to the Cleated belts have been invented to

on the left sidewalk, so that they fourth floor. When he noticed type tractors and other farm” ́ machin- or later reciprocal privileges

Italy keeps to the right.

defendant with the purse wrapped were conferred that present the

ground. "

As Thiazordinance is strictly en-up-in-paper the pursu, showing. choice of earning a living or

forced, policemen standing at all through the thin wrapping. claiming independence as mutual-

Phonograph records are being used street corners to warn pedestrians experimentally to lead the music in a to keep to the correct side of the was accused's eighth appearance in Det.-Bgt. Shepherd said that this ly inconsistent alternatives. Annexation, moreover, very soon

Yung Ping-shan, a 29-year-old Berlin church to reduce the expense, a

specially designed amplifier being en- street.

court on a similar charge. creates a feeling of responsibility operator of the Kowloon Cantonployed.

"At the same time efforts are amongst the administrators that Railway, and Au Wan-kwong were

being made to introduce greater puts "the policy of scuttle" into both fined $60 by Mr. J. B. H. Lee Elastic enough to withstand expan- discipline in vehicular traffic. the light of something very like at the Kowloon Magistracy this slon or contraction without cracking, a Traffic policemen have made their For fighting in Mesars, Logan and paint for pines has been invented that treachery to an acquired but morning for keeping a gambling withstands any temperature-produced appearance. In the last five years Amps Stoneyard, To Kwa Wan, on very real local loyalty house at No. 126 Temple Street. [by steam."-

or so. They stand on raised plat- July 11, four stone-breakers, Chiu, At the moment however there Another 18 men were fined $32

forms at all the principal road Yau-fat, Chu, YIE, Chip Chung-yan, and Yam Shul-kan, were each bound

is a certain tenderness of conesch for being found gambling In A Spanish aquarium: bas cheen built crossings. science about governing men of the house. Detective-Sergeant partly below sea level so that the In Rome they signal to traffic ovez insa sum of 360 for a period another race. In most cases the Franklin stated that $22.95 had been ocean water washes through the tanks, with white, hatona; in all other of six months. Eighteen men had education given during. the picked up off the floor.

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