1935-08-29 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1935

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PROSPEROUS PORT SAID

Although only officers are al- lowed to land, the passage of the Italian troops through the Suez Canal has brought extraordinary. prosperity to Port Said!

stores are. trade.

THE POLITICS OF OUR FATHERS

HOW DO THEY DIFFER FROM OURS?

FORMER REJECTED STANDARDS RAPIDLY ACCEPTED. TO-DAY

YHE

(By Oliver Baldwin)

London. been built and sermons preach-

we

Apart from the Suez Canal Company, which charges 7s Gå per ton for every steamer and 83. 4d. for every passenger the local post-war years have ed; books have been written seen many political divi- and armies led to victory be doing unparalleled sions in families, and for the fore the doers of such deeds most part the elders have knew the feeling of the club Many of these have Earlish accepted it as a sign of the armchair or the green leather names. Close to the main an-times and as a more rapid deve-benches of Westminster. chorage is "The George Rober lopment in political conscious- Therefore it is not surprising Stores."

ness than was known before that youth should hold a differ The Italians also benefit By a these times. This is quite ent political outlook from age. process known only to the Levan-understandable if realise

Crashing Idols tine mind. Port Said stores can how much faster the world is We of my generation, for sell anything from a Din to moving in science and art than instance, saw our idols crash amid mud and blood before we camera at a fraction above the it has done previously- cost of production in the country! Politics (which is the organi-were of age. We never knew sation of the science of material what security meant; we only of origin.

living) move. therefore. with knew someone had blundered. the advance or retrogression of We came back, disillusioned and living conditions--food supplies, tired, and found, in a very short housing, and monetary stan-space of time, that the only The precaution against the dards and therefore the re-thing that mattered was to earn troops landing seems umeces-jected of yesterday becomes our daily bread.

Our fathers, who had "been. sary, for Port Said to-day is a more rapidly the accepted of changed city.

to-day. Our fathers were born shaken from their complacency,

A CHANGED CITY

Currency Collapse

It was "cleaned up during the and bred in a world that seem were quite certain that the only way to prevent repetition of war and has never been allowed ed essentially stable. to fall back to its former Baby- Then came the war, and in it that shaking was to let things and adjust themselves; for although lonian state, though picturesque perished not only men ruffians on the quay still flaunt machines but a whole gamut of they had learnt that one Eng- uncensored photographs before beliefs and fetishes which we lishman was not the "match of the tourist and raucous tonts cry: had all learned to revere and three foreigners any day." en- Good look upon as inevitable and sub-couragement had been given to "Buy a smutty book, sah,

stantially sound

one of the most ghastly “Eng- The China Mail inferior to the United States, for the stomach."

lishisms in our language, and and if she insists on parity with But the old haunts of vice and

they were still prepared to be- America an arms race in the gambling have disappeared. Gone.

The sacred edifice of cur- liere that "we always muddle Hong Kong Thursday, Aug. 29, 1935 Pacific must needs follow, Now too, are the donkeys named after

that Britain, following Japan's the women friends of European rency and credit collapsed first through."

Young Tories. were disgusted lead and going beyond it. has potentates. They have been re-under the strain, and was only

saved from complete disaster by at the self-satisfaction of war abandoned the principle which placed by taxis.

the State taking over the Bank profiteers and found that an en- America derised. Washington

Your Daily Smile! of England and issuing its own tirely free rein for private jenterprise which theory they Next the artificial barriers of had absorbed from Liberalism class fell under the onslaught was neither fair to the com- of promotion from the ranks,munity nor beneficial to the that and age, which for so long had country.

To Avert A Naval Race

finds itself in a difficulty. Pre sumably this aspect of the mat- A new chapter in interna-ter was not overlooked by the

Manager: "From your references 1 tional naval relations was open-British Admiralty. Nothing see you've had four places in the last ed by the First Lord's recent could be farther from

the month." statement For 14 years naval

wishes of the British people Applicant: "Yes, siz, but strengths have been deter than that a change of policy. mined by the ratio principle put imposed, as we think by cir- forward by the United States cumstances. should cloud our

Conference of 1921 relations at the

with the United i This chapter is now closed.

States Nearly a year ago Japan made

Prosperity

shows how much in demand I am.

+

The Saar Johnny: "Dad, they say the Saar has gone to Germany now."

currency.

Two Things

Finally, out of young Tories and young Liberals the young Socialist emerged, and he went farther, and saw no salvation in

been looked up to as incredibly Young Liberals who believed wise and ready for anything in Free Trade began to realise fell tottering from its throne, as that Free Trade with a national youth snatched at the reins that currency and Free Trade with dropped from feeble hands an international one were two

There was nothing extra-fdistinct things it clear that she would no longer Evidence Of Returning

Dad (busy reading): "Something ordinary in all that, except that we did not know our history. like that; son.* accept a position of inferiority

Johnny: But what will the Rus-Had we done so we should soon at sea to the United States, and

stans say?"

have seen that it is youth that with her denunciation of the

Dad: "The Russians! What have does things and age that takes Washington Treaty all prospect

General impressions that the they got to do with it?"

tide is of maintaining the ratio sy prosperity

a continuance of a system that flowing

Johnny (puzzled): "But I thought the credit

as far as he could tell lived tern in its old form came to a strongly again are confirmed by the Saar was the King of Bassia."

Young Men

smugly on the wheel of Peace, end. What is to take its place? the statistics of retail trade.

Empires were made and held Slamp, War, and Boom Eritain is the first sea Power and by the latest railway re-

this

by young men from Tamer-

Post-war youth, if it had to attempt an answer to

turus issued recently in Britain question. Her proposal is that The figures published by the

Cecil money, began to travel; it had know what has laine and Alexander to there should be an exchange of Board of Trade show that in happened to my saving brush? I've Rhodes and TE Lawrence concourse with many nations; Businesses were built and the it read of Russia and America, programmes up to the year 1942 June the total value of sales was lost it and she has applied her idea in better by 5.8 per cent than in horse has a new tail

Tommy: “No, but Johnny's wooden greatest inventions made long of super Bolshevism and super- her own negotiations with Ger-June last year. The railways. Ultimately this pro-in spite of the normal seasonal posal involves the acceptance of decrease in coal traffic. earned the French thesis, maintained in one week £55,000 more than

many.

A Clue

Dad: "Do you

His Job

Efficiency Expert I fired the at the Conference of 1930, that they earned a year ago, very worst clock watcher in your employ." there is such thing as substantial rises in the number

Boss "Who is be?" absolute" defence. If all the of passengers and in the

Expert-Joe Jones.” Boss What! Powers contine themselves to amount of merchandise carried

their being responsible for the in-keeper!". programmes satisfying absolute needs we ourselves crease

year.

"

He's

time-

Faithful

She wak jest as hard

before the calcium of age capitalism, and it thought long mounted into the brain-and deeply. It found, when? Paintings have been made and asking questions of its elders, poets have sung; bridges have that they knew nothing about

LOCAL NEWS

either country, and in response to questions and doubts they were greeted with exactly -- the same remarks which they had heard made to their most suc- cessful comrades-in-arms. They were too young" "too impe- tuous," "causing unrest,””

which had done so well”

The New Way

The Japanese river gunboat Saga arrived in Hong Kong yes terday evening from the West River area

Hong Kong rainfall for the 24)

BREVITIES" for example, as is suggested by It is not difficult to suggest

The s.s. President Hoover our Naval Correspondent, put-

the background of these very "Mose, do you think it right to sail for Manila to-morrow morning "querying the established order main effort into fing our cruisers to protect our trade encouraging signs of gathering leave your wife at the washtub while at 1 am

Its prosperity. Retail sales and you spend your time fishing?" no one Power will feel

railway traffic reflect with auto- "Oh, yassuh, mah wife doan" need! menaced Alterna- security

Had it? They did not agree; and if they did, they were not tively, if any Power considers matic exactitude the condition no watchin itself threatened by another of the people. Men and women as if I waz dere

so sufficiently dead as to who are feeling the pinch buy Power's programme, the matter

imagine that the good could not be bettered So it was that the can be thrashed out at the Con- as little as they can even of

what the retail trade returns cargo. The suggestion gains ference due to assemble

ext describe as "food and perish-point from the context in which hours ending at 10 am to-day was

sons began to interpret things. political in a new way, ables." In other words, they it was put forward. Allege 0.71 inch. The total since January The British plan is evidently allow themselves to treats; tions against the Millpool's sea-1 has been 56.74 inches, as against youth (disguised by the Gradually the pressure of a great advance on the pre-war they stay at home. In Jane worthiness are dismissed and

an average of 66.56 inches.

quibbles of age) moved forward. system under which every sea the sales of food and perish the ship is held to have been

in progressive politics, and Power: framed an annual

proables increased by over 7 per sound for her age and to have Unclaimed Telegrams for Fan- gramme in the light of other cent, as compared with June been lost through the perils of hinalex from Kobe and Lopez c/o during the last 15 years of Powers naval estimates, That last year. That tells its own the sea. But she was insuredKing's Theatre from Kobe are capitalist Governments we have way led straight to an

arms tale Scotland, by the way, had for twice her market value and ing at the Great Northern Tele-seen, the Chartist demands

"out-Chartisted," nationalisa race, whereas the new way, if the biggest rise in food and four times her value as enteraph Company (Limited). tion introduced under the guise it proved practicable, would perishables-over 8. per cent ed in the owners' books. This stabilise naval construction for and the Scot is pre-eminently insurance being effective, what Lenor Mario Marques, spinster of "public utility corporations." a term of years. There are frugal. When the figures show of the dependents of her crew late of Macao; left local estate socialisation extended in mum however, substantial difficulties also. as they do, marked June of 267

valued at $3,200. - An application Cipal control greater education facilities, increased taxation. by Harold John Armstrong, solici tor, the lawful attorney for letters and wider insurances for workers both as regards health jand unemployment.

to be overcome. The ratio sys \rises in the sales of men's and As Lord Merrivale observa tem did not fix naval strengths boys wear, boots and shoes, and the facts are certain to attract It only provided an agreed furniture, the evidence of attention. His suggestion can- of administration with a certified principle on the basis of which gathering prosperity is still not operate retrospectively, but

fit has been granted.

programmes could be drawn up clearer. There has been too, alour Insurance Correspondent PP of the will for use and bene If we now begin at the other perceptible rise in employment reports that it is wholly prac end and take the programmes in retail establishments; and ticable. It involves no more first do we not eventually find that, perhaps, is the best new than the extension of the sys ourselves confronted with in the June, statistics. ratios? The Admiralty appar ently thinks not Each fleet

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