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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 14, 1937.

The China Mail

Ninety-Second Year of Publication

legitimate excuse. There have been changes in the Administra- tion, and the arising of other matters held to be of greater urgency. The Commission has been unable to preserve intact

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out the period since its appoint- ment was officially notified.

Even in the face of such ob- vious difficulties, however, the critical impression remains that 7, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2. Government has failed to see the

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problem in all the seriousness and urgency with which it is invested in the public mind. The All communications intended for conviction remains impressed, publication should be addressed to late in the day though it may be the Editor, and be accompanied by to express it, that the constitu- the Writer's Name and Address, tion of the Commission may, not necessarily for insertion · but perhaps, be in itself one of the as a guarantee of good faith. primary factors in the delay. The Official flavour is strong and the suspicion rises that it might not be in Government interest tó disclose at this time, plainly in black and white, the shocking facts of the overcrowding men- ace, the true horror of local slums, the deadly statistics of tuberculosis which takes an average of sixty lives a week and imposes a living death upon. Hong Kong, Monday, June 14, 1937 thousands of others, which any-

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one with even the slightest ac- quaintance with the problem knows a thorough-going study must inescapably reveal.

This issue marks the beginning It is sincerely hoped that there of a further important change in is no ground for any suspicions the policy of the "China Mail," of this kind and that the work in that publication henceforth of the Commission will be re- will be limited to one edition sumed at the earliest oppor- daily. On but rare occasions is tunity. When a report is forth- it intended to depart from this coming, it will be necessary to decision. Such occasions will be decide what action it is proposed. those and only those on which to take to remedy the situation. the development of news of high A programme of slum clearance moment and importance recom- and re-housing will be demand- mends and justifies, from the ed. It will necessarily be a pro- viewpoint of the public interest,gramme extended oven a period the issue of special editions. of years, and it will almost cer

In taking this step,

introduction we have tainly demand the been actuated by two principal of new forms of taxation in motives: the one

governed by order that the Hong Kong Gov- the belief we have held for some ernment and people may assume considerable time, that two-their responsibilities for social edition evening newspapers in a welfare. All those things will city of the size of Hong Kong take some considerable time. A belong only to a time of emer-report which truly sets out the gency such as that the Shang-state of affairs to-day existing hai War which established must be their foundation and it the practice; the other, a desire cannot be produced too soon. to eliminate as far as possible the disadvantages and expedients that are

inseparable from the

"rush" preparation and presenta-

tion of the record of current Advertising In U.S.A. happenings. The "China Mail"

covets the critical judgment of The disfigurement of scenery. the public from day to day upon by advertisement hoardings is the measure of its success, and a problem that troubles the believes that it can best meet United States acutely because that implied challenge to-day by the evil there is greater and giving its readers the latest and more audacious than with us. best and all the news of the day The societies concerned with this in one edition, complete în itself. problem in America have been It believes that the change is heartened in their struggle by a forward-looking and progressive, pronouncement of the Massa- and one that will mean much in chusetts Supreme Court a few increased attractiveness of its months ago which declared that publication.

The Slum Problem

beauty of scenery contributes highly important factors to the public welfare, It was, in their opinion within the reasonable scope of the police power to pro- tect the public from the intru- The revelation that the Hous-sion of unwelcome advertising. ing Commission, appointed by. With this encouragement from Government more than two high places the Connecticut Gen- years ago to study the problem eral Assembly has promoted a of overcrowding and its influence bill for the regulation of outdoor upon the spread of the tuber- advertising, part of which aims culosis scourge, has made rela-at prohibiting altogether poster tively little progress in its in- and billboard advertising in a vestigation, raises the serious rural area, leaving town adver- issue of whether such extreme tisements to be regulated by tardiness is indicative of Govern-licence and tax. When the bill ment policy. Several reasons are becomes law the cartoonists' advanced to account for the joke depicting the Connecticut failure of the Commission to citizen taking a step-ladder with get down to its task, and as far him so that he might look over as the last six months are con- the hoardings will have 'cerned, they may be accepted as (some of its point.

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