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Cents for oil or

dollars for repairs

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1927.

SOCONY MOTOR

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SOCONY

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FOR DIFFERENTIALS USE SOCONY GEAR OIL

STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEWYORK

MOTORING NOTES

(CONTD.).

ADVANTAGES OF HIGH POWER.

TO MEET ALL CONDITIONS.

seldom be used.

MOVEMENT FOR GOOD ROADS.

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· SHANGHAI · RESIDENTS ASKED TO SUBSCRIBE.

MORE FOREIGN SUPPORT

WANTED!

A. "TOMMY!! ON CHINA,

SOME SHREWD'

RUMINATIONS.

THE CHINESE. THE BOL- SHIES AND THE

CONCESSION.'

THE DANCES OF AUTUMN.

NO FOREIGN-NOVELTIES IN THE PROGRAMME.

The new dance season, according To many motorists the rating of

to reports from -New-York-and 2 hundred horse-power or more

Paris, is to descend upon us with Having went as far as Singapore some remarkable laventions to re brings immediately an iden of nl-

The mysterious question, "Will in the Transport Karmatejoice the hearts and imperil the feat. most prohibitive operating cost, à

"Tony" thus unburdened him of dangers. The new 'srason always car heavier than is necessary for you be one of the first one hun even the greatest degree of riding, dred" will appear on a large self to a Straits Times reporter on

does. We have already been told comfort, and speed which can cream-entoured envelope which will the subject of things Chinese

that the Yale-a British-born dance be received to-day and tomorrow "Well at first it wasn't too nice of somewhat doubtful antecedents- with them Chinese taking" liberties In a recent statement by Mr. Hby hundreds of foreign men and that we were not allowed to notice, is to be our own contribution to J. Lennard, President of the F. B. women in Shanghai, anys last But inter on it wasn't too bad you the ballroom, and now New York Stearns Company of Cleveland, Thursday's .-C. Daily News. In know Ohia, U.S.A., we find a purpose for the envelope there will be found motors of this type, and also the small booklet, entitled "For fact that, strange as it may seem, eigners and the Good Roads Move

ment of China,” and an appeal to this high power capacity does not be one of the first 100 foreigners to join the National Goed Roads Association of China.

necessarily mean excessive operat ing cost:

In an automobile which would qualify for the luxury class of It has been announced by the moter cars," says Mr. Leanord, Chinese officers of the Good Roads

an engine capable of developing a high rate of power is essential. A Association that the names of the hundred horsepower rating does first 100 foreign men and women to not mean that this is required for join will be placed on an honour ardinary driving, conditions, any more than a rated speed of 85 griles roll and inscribed in the permanent an hour cau be used consistently. records of the organization to re-

To the individual who pur chases a motor car such as the new main there perhaps, for hundreds Stearns Knight eight in line, do of years. sign so that it may truly be called Does it appeal to your senti

the a luxury car, an engine with a meat?". circular inquires, hundred horsepower rating pro-"the thought of having your vides flexibility and a flow of name on such an enduring roll? power to meet all conditions or If so, send in your application and emergencies. In crowded traffic is cheque to-day by chit book or re- is adequate to take advantage of gistered letter to Haskins & Sells, any opening in the line of cars. Kiukiang Road, who have kindly Out on the country highway it consented to act as treasurers for meets a need for instant and full the Foreign Team."

There are response in order to 'clear' a care these six classes of membership open to foreigners which range in price from $1 to $100- Class of Membership

Ordinary Special..... Amisting Approving Maintaining Honorary

less driver cutting in from a side road or attempting to pass another ear without giving any attention to cars coming from the other direction. Under conditions such as these, the reserve power develop- ed by a motor such as our Knight double sleeve eight in line engine gives those in the car a sense of scurity and confidence which is one of the factors of luxury motoring Under all ordinary driving conditions there is a reserve power which is not needed nor is it reflect- ed in any great degree in the operating cost, as the costs for fuel and oil are no greater than for ears of far lower rated horsepower. As a matter of fact, the reduction of friction to a minimum, the finer workmanship possible in a custom- built car as compared with methods necessary in the so-called produc tion cars result it greater de gree of efficiency in fuel consump tion and lubrication. It is in these factors that cars, such as the Stearns-Knight, have gained their positionin

FORD OWNERS

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO

THE

SERVICE STATION OF ANDREW &

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WE INVITE YOUR INSPECTION

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The committee suggests 81, 85 and $10 memberships for individuals, and $20, $50 and 8100 memberships for firms and organizations.

They

kay: we are also to dance the

the "Kinkajou" nad

"Dixie Stamp."

Frankly, I do not believe it According to rumour, the Kinkajou

"Those Concessions, they are the most funny things going. don't half give you a chance to wriggle through if you get nipped. If you were a Frenchman now, and did something wrong, you have only is typical American novelty, ton born in British territory, and they'd It contains got to cough up that you were typical to be Anglicised, over here. a strut step, little have to hike you back side steps, a twinkle step, and a "The Chinese were not so bad is their new in this? Unless these heel step in open position." What when first, we landed you know. I ricksha boys and all that, you know. nothing. I gravely wonder whether am not talking of the soldiers the movements are combined in some peculiarly striking way, absolutely Well when first we landed they used to reckon we were master. We shall hear any more about it.

I hope not could get a ride for 10 cents. Now if you pay 10 cents they, scowl at you.

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The Diale Stamp.. Consider the Dixio Stamp, how it goes. We have had the Stamp be fore, but then it was just the Stamp, and was permitted to pass quietly into oblivion. Now it is the Dixie Stamp, which is infinite Hongy more serious, for Dixie is the

It's querzo all' over. They charge you a dollar a bottle of beer, and if it's a dance you have to pay to go in. They have just made their fortune the cabaret people and that, in Shanghai and Kong, these 1 months.

..

"The Sikh Falice.. "The Sikh policemen in China, they do enjoy holding up the traffic I have watched 'em, and when there's tons of others waiting you still see him waiting for a few from

the other wIF.

The best policemen are the French half breeds, they slip along Suc. You see, being half French, they understand the French, and the Chinese part of them under- stands the Chinese.

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The Balshies. "We shall have to fight the Bolshies, soon enough, but the trouble is, we shan't know whom to fight. You see all of them are not Bolshies, and some of them are natural folk, just like us.

“Look at the Russian Volunteers

Little Foreign Support. In an article in the booklet on the relation of foreigners to the National Good Roada Association of China, Mr. Verne Dyson, chair-Bolshies. man of the foreign team, says

in Shanghai. A fine lot of chaps and smart too. Now, they are not

Do you know, when I was leav. ing Home, one of my pals said, How long do you think it would last 1

"When someone asked the ques tion as to bow many foreigners had joined the Good Roads Movement of China in the last six years the answer brought out a surprise. Well," I told him,it will last The association has 122,000 Chinese just as long as it would take us members. Thirty two foreign in- to fight the Russian propaganda dividuals or firms have joined. So with our propaganda.” it is 33 in 122,000!

home of much American 1922 senti- ment, and people are always want- ing to go back there. When we come to examine it we find that it

is a mixture of Charleston and Black Bottom-a compound which our own ballroom dancers have been taking in large draughts for nearly

a year! In short, we are not amused. English ballroom dancing, from the point of view of style, is Snidered by experts to be the finest in the world. It now appears that we can teach America some- thing in up-to-date invention also. This is the only new thing to bé said about the Dixie Stamp.

invention destined to incur destruc

Turning to Paris, I find another tive criticism.. M. Peters, a name not familiar to me, has brought out a new dance notation, consist- ing of a sort of Morse code of dots and lines and circles, and even cir-

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cumflex accents for dancers to follow, every step being recorded with its accompanying musical note." Thus, you see, dancers can read off new measures like a musical sexc. and the inventors of new dañecs, it is claimed, can at for their work. lust obtain rome from of copyright--

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Patia, however, is not so novel in this matter of dance prescriptions after all. Ballet notation is well. "A Funny Bart Of Bird,

known, to begin with, and for some "And we have done that pretty years teachers of ballroom dancing well now. You see, the Chinese is in this country have been involific a funny sort of bird. He believes in the production of diagrams the first man who gets him. The designed (without the music, it is Bolshira got him first, and he took true) to compel dancers along the up with all their bunkam. Of true and peculiar line of pregress. course, that made our job all the I rather fear that we shall receive harder. But we are through now†M. Peter's invention with the same I think.

remark as that made by a fainous Chancellor of the Exchequer, when

Not all of the 32 foreigners are functioning. Mr. P. P. Whitham, Mr. H. B. Lane, and several others have left China-perhaps never to return. Patstone is dead. I have been unable to identify several foreign members because of missing initials. We have Mr. Wilbur, Mr. Pinkard, and Dr. Tongu. There are, however, some familiar names of existing individuals and firms, It was the only way. You see frst he set eyes on the decimal

dots ?

such as:

we couldn't possibly fight them---

"What are all these damn Mr. T. C. Britton, Mr. J. B. not unless we were forced to the system: Powell, Mr. H. O. Hashagen, Mr. would have been a shame daugh-

Conservative England. J. A. Thompson, Mr. N. E, B. ter I would have called it, not Ezra, Prof. H. P. Shastri, the fighting. Весличе the Chinese We are far likelier, to see changes Standard Oil Co. of New York, simply do not know the first thing in our own dances than to greet the Asiatic Petroleum Co., Dunlop about fighting. A gun is put in with effusion importations from Rubber Company, and the "Auto their hands and they fire it. But abroad. English dancers are begin Castle."

when it comes to hitting you, why ning to suspect new American steps The booklet gives the history of that's another mater. So you see, much through they owe to them, the Good Roads Movement in we simply had to start in and and I observe a similar attitude China, the objects of the organito educate them, same as the Russians, among London playgoers, il report tion, a detailed account of the had done it only the Russians is right, toward American plays. actual accomplishments of the asso-

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ciation in the last six years, in- gave them poison and we gave them At a well-known hotel they tell me the fox-trot and slow Charlesion will be danced, but that the latter. cluding the number of miles of good old British showing. roads built in the various pro-" Live in Shanghai Not for a vinces, the names and addresses of King's pension! Why the richest 25 motor-bus companies that have man there is a prisoner. He dare been organized under the influence at Eut a foot outside that queer of the association, the names of the concession.' various cities where old walls have been demolished to make way for good roads, the names and ad- dresses of the 47 branch offices of the Movement throughout China, an audited financial statement, an

WHERE ILLNESS PAYS BEST.

is declining in popularity. The musical director here also says that dancers are preferring quieter and more incisive music, and this, it seems, is likely to be a feature of the new season's dances. It is cer tainly time the soft pedal was in- troduced.

English translation of the constitu- BENEFITS FOR HULL TRAM-ing tastes and movements, though.

tion, several charts, and a letter from Mr. David W. K. Au, of the Sintore Co., and the captain of cae of the 25 Chinese teams, to Mr. Dyoun, giving six reasons why for- eigners should join the Good Roads Movement: Special attention is called to the following part of Mr. Au's communication e

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WAY EMPLOYEES.

We must not imagine, however, that the fashionable quarter of Lon don is a complete reflection of dario-

there is no doubt whatever that this is where English dancing is made. A suburban teacher with whom I LONDON, Oct. 5th.

was recently discussing dance pro Hull is a place where it pays to spouts gave it as her opinion that be too ill to work, in consequence people were abandoning the Char- of a decision given by the Super-leston and taking to the Black annuation Committee of the Cor Bottom dance, and in this: I think poration.

she was right. The mistake the A Chance For Good-will.

The local tramwaymen are now West End teacher makes is in as- "The Good Roads Movement

suming that a change in style, or gives our foreign friends an oppor working 40 hours per week, but con- tunity to show their good-will and equent upon the retention of the the arrival of a new dance, has but general strike volunteers, their to be mentioned to be received si friendly feeling towards the Chi- nese by their interest and co-opera claimed sickness benefits on the

wages were reduced. They then true, and loyally followed up by the entire British public forthwith. tion. At a time like this when basis of the 48-hour week fized by music and psychology of ballroom But we shall have to study the Sino-foreign relations are to strain-the National Joint Industrial dancing more thoroughly before ed a step in this direction would

this attitude can fally justify itself. work wonders toward healing the

Their claim was rejected by the There is too much toning down". strain."

Dr. C. T. Wang, former Premier Tramways Committee, and the mat

and polite modification in our of China, is president of theter was carried to the Superannua- dancing, which simply means that National Good Roads Association. tion Committee, where the Town we are cultivating steps unsuited: The captains of the Chinese teams Clerk pointed out, that the Super to our particular tradition. The include the more prominent officials annuation scheme provided for the fender of B: well-known ... London and merchants of Shanghai ter payment of full wages for a month's dance orchestra declares that it is ritory. The foreign team is com- sickness, therefore the men, when almost impossible to play American posed of representatives of the sick, would receive more than when music to English feet, so violent is various foreign nationalities, and they were working

the transposition from one style to of the different social, professional The chairman, ruled that the authe others. and commercial intereste, including ceptance of shorter hours was a If this is so it is fortunate, there. both men and women. The annual temporary expedient, which did not are no foreign novelties in the canvass for new members began, relieve the Corporation of the re autumn programme, and that dan with a banquet on October 10th, sponsibility of paying the benefits | cers and musicians can be merry in and will continue for Tour Weeks," guaranteed by the scheme.

peace. Evetag Standard,

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