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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd, 1927.

REASONS FOR AMERICA'S PROSPERITY. HONG KONG'S FIRE

WHERE YOUTH IS PREFERRED TO AGE.

BUSINESS MANAGERS, IN THE TWENTIES,

SOME MOTOR TRADE CONTRASTS.

(BY MAJOR F. A. C. "FORBES-LEITH, F.R.G.S. (AUTHOR OF

BY CAR TO INDIA").]

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In the United States, the great centres which produce the basic material for the manufacture of automobiles are many hundreds of miles from the factory coaties. Wages are three sad four times as bigh as they are in Britain, and yet America can build a car under these conditions, pay a 33 per cent import duty into Britain, and undersell the British manufacturer, whoso conl, iron and steel are at the doors of Birmingham and Coventry.

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ANNUAL DRILL DISPLAY.

PRAISED HIGHLY BY H‚E. THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING

THE GOVERNMENT.

You reflect the highest credit on the Superintendent, officers yourselves and the Brigade itseİL," said E. the Officer Administering the Government (the Hon. Mr. W. T. Sautharn, C.M.G.), on the oc casion af the annual drill display p↑ the Hong Kong Fire Brigade yes terday aftertioon,

Whenever, at home, I am led into a conversation concerning the pre- sent ** abounding prosperity of Americo, my friends are inclined to explain it by unpleasant and soniewhat

contemptuous remarks about the great benefits that the United States received in the Great War. This, however, is just com

Those words sum' up adequately fortable elf-deception,

the opinion that all spectators must Amerien is content that we con-

have held at the conclusion of yes tinue to believe these things.

It would be foolish to deny that

berday's interesting demonstration. America did reap a rich harvest

The drill competition was carried by supplying Europe with muni- tions of war for a period of five

through with the utmost efficiency scars.

Seeking the reasons for this state and the promptitude and despatch Her service in the field, of affairs 1 am reminded of an in- with which the Chinese firemen tre, was considerably shorter than cident which occurred to me in the anr own, and she escaped practical Fear 1924 when I was privileged to carried out the orders of their ly unscathed.

Nevertheless, if we wish to ar- make a supreme test of a very fine European officers reflected rive at the truth, we must remem-make of British car, which perhighest eredit sa all concerned.

formed with great credit the task ber that the Armistice was signed nearly nine years ago, and which I set for it. After the test The display was carried out on during this post-war period that directors of the firm that made the front of the new Government Build- I was chatting with one of the the Praya in Connaught Road, in American industry has gone ahead SOUTH MANCHURIÄ RAILWAYbr leaps and bounds, while ours would be before they had that type ing, which also houses-the-Central

enr. and I asked him how soon it slid down the scule at a rate that can only be regretted, leaving of vehicle on sale. He replied that Fire Station. The road was closed he intended to produce it in the to trafic and in a reserved space us with more than a million un employed

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The firm concerned has now gone there wer many interested specta- into liquidation; but had they been tors. Th Ty was a large number able to produce that car in the year of European residents present, and 1997, fine as it was, it would have been, obsolete by contrast with the hundreds of Chinese who were type of car that is now being tura-massed behind the reserved seats. ed out in the United States. Mar- A series of demonstrations illus keted when it ought to have been, it would have been a great comtrating the many things a freman mercial success

I have little has to accomplish before he can doubt in my mind that bad, the claim to be a first-class fire-fighter younger element on the directorate of that house been given full scope

was given. now be amongst the most successful for their abilities this house would motor-manufacturing houses in the world.

Youthful Hustle,

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had transformed a business that

Shield and money prizes were pre- At the close of the display, Cup.

sented by the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern, who was accompanied by As a contrast to this policy, I am his A.D.C. (Captain Whyte): reminded of a very interesting-in-

The Brigade were in charge of It is such a theory and such a

terview that I had in 1925 with the fradition that has turned us into President of one of the greatest the Hon. Mr. H. D. C. Wolfe (Chief race whose industry is led by old automobile firnis in the United Officer), and with him were Mr. men, and we are hidebound in our States of America. He country by the false tradition that young man who came to the bends (the Superintendent), Mr. G. age and seniority must take preof affairs of his company. at a time Saunders (in charge of Kowloon erdence over youth and efficiency. when they were also suffering from Station) and Station Officers Smith.

The fallacy of this theory was the administration of an old and Buckeridge and Wollard (Central) brought home to me very forcibly ultra-conservative management. In when I visited the United States period of less than two years he Station). of America in the year 1995. I had occasion to go into the provinces to visit the president of a great tyre manufacturing company whose products are found in every corner of the globe. When I arrived, among the most popular on was taken through acres and acres of factory and office space, and ushered into, a small, unpretentious room. Here I was greeted by a Inan who must have been considerably under thirty years of age, and thinking that he was pro bably secretary to the president, I informed him that I had an ap- pointment with his chief. I was more than surprised when he told me that he held the exalted posi. tion of president.

There were also present Boy Scouts, under Commissioner G. T. Waldegrave, and 'they rendered ustful assistance.

There was a full turn-out of the was steadily on the downward path Brigaile-Central, Kowloon, Wen- into one of the most successful or- ganizations in the American motor chai and Kennedy Town Stations now all being represented and taking trade. and whose cars are

the read and may be found in every part in the display.

emote corner of the world. One thing that this gentleman told me was most signheart of the spirit of progress that is dominating in- dustry in the United States at the present time. It was to the effect

The ProgrammIS, that he was continually searching

The first demonstration comprised amongst his staff for 1 younger man who would be more fitted than the picking up of an insensible he to hold the presidency of his person, described ALB "Firemen's company,

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Then followed the Dospatch Box Competition Drill, there being two crews per drill. This was the final of the competition and in the three men drill Wanchai Station's repre- drill out in 32 seconds, with Mong- kok second.

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It is high time that we in It was not only the head of this Britain cutaway from the old men. great firm who was conspicuous by and undesirable tradition that is his youth, but I found that young lending us on the downhill path. men were officiating at the head of Although we may respect the gray nearly every department in that hairs of our elders, let us pat them vast organization. This is not by on the back for what they have any means everywhere on this vast continent them off suitably, and bring some youth is generally to be found at of the vigour and enterprise that the helm of industry. We in iz possessed by British youth to the Ifritain do not yet realise the fact head of commerce and industry. that America's rapidity of pro- gress is entirely due to the vigour her stride. It is not enough for - America is only just getting into of her youth.

A youth may enter a commercial us to sit on the fence and watch house in Amerien at the age of and falsely console ourselves with twenty, at a salary of a few pounds the thought that things will come the age of twenty-one he can prove and whose youth is rapidly, accus. a week, but if, before he reaches ight. We are up against a young nation with illimitable resources, himself to be worth £10,000 a year, trming itself to the notion that his age will not prevent him 'step. ping into that job. The accepted America can and must lend the principle of American industry, is world in everything.

an isolated case, and accomplished in the past, pension sentatives were first, carrying the ROD LA ROCQUE Picture

In the two men drill, Kennedy Town came first, 30 seconds, and Kowloon second, in 41 seconds.

In the one man drill, Kowloon Brat, their representative were doing his work in 48 seconds, while Central were second in 50 seconds.

The Motor Escape Competition for the Fire Escape Cup, which

trophy has been in competition since 1924, proved one of the most inter eating events of the afternoon. A rescue of two persons from second floor was carried out while hydrant work on the first floor was carried on simultaneously..

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which the big appliances cannot JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COM- adequately manage, dynam

to pay high for efficiency, and it We are at a great disadvantage,

have allowed is, in the ranks of youth that effi inasmuch as we ciency acema most commonly to be America to get nine years start of found.

ús. It is not too late to recover This competition was won by Kan Recently, we placed a 33 per our lost position, but I am confedy Town, in Imin. 11.3-5secs.. cent. impart duty on American dent that in giving responsibility with Central Station second in made automobiles, and yet, in the and leadership to our young men min. 18sees. first six months of 1927, the sales lies our only hope of industria Then followed "jumping the sheet"

The Mator Pump competition, for of these products were double these and commercial salvation.-Singa- demonstration, an irregular, but the Fire Brigade Shield, which has MERCE FOR NOTTINGHAM?· of the year 1995,

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useful means of escape. After this been in competition since 1934, and there was the escape by canvas is a "throw back to the old steam chute, with the arabulance coming in as the last men came through the engine days, was won by Kowlyn in min. 1secs., with Central Bta- chute to render first aid in a suption second in 1min. 30secs. posed case of, injury to him.

THEFT OF SHARK'S FINS.

A CO-OPERATIVE EFFORT,

A RETURNED BANISHEE'S

ACTIVITIES.

TEACHING BOYS TO STEAL

The Presentation.

TO INTEREST YOUTH.

The General Purposes Committee of Nottingham Chamber of Com- merce reported to the Council, that, there was now some evidence that Junior Chamber of Commeres would be welcomed and supported, and recommended that such a body be inaugurated

The method of escape by canvas chute although not in general use At the close of the display, the by Brigades, has been adopted here Hon. Mr. Southorn presented the with a view to effecting a quick Cup, Shield and money prizes. The theft of two gattice of With two years of a banishment rescue of a large number of persons

The Hon. Mr. Wolfe expressed as might be found of any one floor LA. B. MOILDER & UU« ] shark's fins from a shopkeeper a turned to the Colonit and resumed An average of 19 persons a minute ance and interest in the demonstra younger business men in commercial

order still to expire a Chinese re of a Chinese tenement dwelling, thanks for His Excelleney's, attend his life oflerine.

can be rescued in this manner,

tion.

Its objects were to interest the [AP] No. 1, Eastern Street, cost three

and industrial problems, and to give Chinese $10 each in facă, or

The man was charged before-Mr. Another extremely interesting dis His Excellency said that he had them an opportunity of expressing fourteen daya' imprisonment in default, when they appeared before . E.Lindsell at the Central play was that by the recent ne been extremely interested. He wish themselves.

The committee suggested that all Magistracy yesterday with aiding quired motor-cycle combination, of ed he had been able to see last Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central and abetting a boy to steal a purse. which mention has previously been year's demonstration, but he was members of the Chamber, together Magistracy yesterday...

According to the police, he had made in these columns. Many had certain that so long as he was in with members of local professional" Inspector Grant told his Worship set the youngster to carry out the not seen it in action, and therefore Hong Kong he would come and see associations, should send their that the second and third defend theft and watched developments it proved all the more interesting every demonstration he could. He young men to an inaugural meet- ants were employed in the shop from a dis¬pte.

Pumping water from the Harbour, would like to say that the whole ing to be held at an early date; The second defendant appeared to The Magi rate convicted the man, jets reaching from 80 to well over display reflected the highest credit and recommended that its sub- have stolen the goods handed them passing sentence of six months 100 feet were obtained. A compact on the Superintendent, officers, and to the third defendant, who in tara hard labour. A similar torm of im and small fire appliance, it proved men alike. Hong Kong possessed threw them into the street where prisonment, with twenty strokes of that its use is a valuable acquista Brigade they could be proud of, they were picked up by the first the burch in addition, was ordered tion to any Brigade where quick and one that was highly eficient for defcodant. ANÆMIA.... Prion 3*

on the other charge of returning service is needed, and for purposes fire-fighting or any other work it The defendants pleaded guilty. from banishment.

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