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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY,

DREISER LOOKS AT THE OUTLOOK FOR

AMERICA.

SIMILAR TO RUSSIA BEFORE REVOLUTION.”

Mr. Dreiser, author of a famous book, that an English critic has amusingly called in itself an American tragedy," now finds all America a tragedy.

RUBBER

LONDON JOURNAL ON THE

POSITION

London, Sept. 10. With refer, ence to the latest developments in the rubber situation, experts admit that the immediate prospects are uncertain, and it will not be pos sible until the end of the year to judge whether the general revival of business will assist a revival of the rubber trade.

"Since modern business and financial developments have made American citizens into nothing but trudging nases, there is no great contemporary American literature." The Financial New, says: "If

Thus in an interview recorded by Ly reason of the suspension of tap James Flexner in the New York Ping general production is moder

SEPTEMBER 18, 1930.

THE IBUKI MARU.

NO FURTHER NEWS.

INER

PRESIDENT

Calling yesterday, at the offices of Messrs, Horni & Co., the agents for the Ibuki Maru, our representative was informed that further news has come through regarding the late of the eleven remaining members of the crew.

-An official of the Company stated that ons of their ships, the Karumo Maru, was sent to Hoihow yeater- day and will cruise around the vicinity of the mishap in the hope of picking up the rest of the crew if they are still on the rafts on which they set out. The Karumo Marn is due to arrive at her des tination about noon to-day when

particulars...

Herald Tribune, he pays his comtely reduced, there is every reason the owners hope to receive further

pliments to his fellow-citizens and his contrtres in the literary world."

After visiting Russia he has made

Ceylon's Aftitudo.

to believe that after aufficiens, lapse of time the price of rubber will return to a normal level of between sixpence and ninspence.. Thus, in spite of the losses sustain- a tour, undertaken" to revive mped, estates which are financially understanding of America," so he sound need not be greatly alarmed

by the present situation." says. And he is "more convinced than ever that the country is head. ed for great social changes that will frustrate the life of the ordinary individual unless they can be check ed by a really important stand on the part of the intellectuals. This is a conchision reached by the new 'school of Humanists, though Mr. Dreiser has no dealings with that

group.

Here are some of the Dreiser pro nouncements remembering, how. ever, that Mr. Dreiser bet 810 that the interviewer could not get into his paper the things he proposed to

Bay

The Government.

The constitutional Government of America is abdicated. In every

State in the Union, there is no such thing as representative govern ment. America is controlled by trusts that function as Government They have the power to tax, which is the power to destroy

DREDGING IN HARBOUR.

NAVAL OFFICER AS COM- PLAINANT.

Lient. Cordington Ball, of H.M.S. The Ceylon Rubber Committee has telegraphed to the Rubber Sepoy, appeared as complainant at Growers Association asking that the Marine Court yesterday when negotiations for restriction should a sampen woman was charged with continue. The Committee has also the illegal use of grapplings and addressed the Malaya Association with loitering within 100 yards of asking it to support the notion of the Praya Wall in the Naval Yard. the Ceylon planter, in favour of The woman pleaded guilty to restriction.

both charges and was fined $15 or two weeks' on the first charge and $5 or five days on the second.

The announcement is made that four companies have decided to erase-tapping for a month..

U.S. Consumption.

New York, Sept. 11-The con- sumption of rubber by the United States. for the month of August is estimated at 30.000 tons, while it is anticipated that the total for September will be 25,000 tona.

Figure of Eightpence, Halfpenny,

Lieut. Cardington Ball informed his Worship that he noticed the defendant's craft in the. Naval Anchorage on Tuesday and though the was asked to clear off, the woman remained in the anchorage.

MAIL AT US. CONSULATE.

London. Sept 13.-Sir Eric Ged-Mail has been received at the des, chairman of Dunlop. Planta American Consulate General for the tion, Ltd. stated that when the following persons:--W, R. Altaway, price of rubber was above 83d, the AH. Bartlett, Miss F. Bostwicke, the native planters immediately. A. Conley, R. G. Cooper, S.. The mental capacity of our increased tapping and undertook Domingo, T. Durdin, H. J. Eddo, school-teachers is practically nulli farther planting. When the price H. C. Evans, G. Fahnestock, J. fied by business authorities dictat fell below 8id, there was an im Fraykac, F. Hamilton, G. H. Kos- ing what they may teach. They mediate decrease in tapping and len, S. Madrinas, J. Murphy, W must denounce Bolshevism, and no further planting.

C. Ockland, Miss A. Riggin, G. B keep their mouths shut on Dar winism. The great educational Rubber from native plantations Rogers, Ed. D. Shank F. N. thing, they are told, is the Eng, in Netherland East Indies was Shumaker, K. Smith, A..B. Taylor,

G. L. Townsend. and it is the duty of every citizen worth in the Far East about 1d. to be 100 per cent. American-in less than in London. The rubber other words, a damn fool.

from European plantations, of a higher quality cost feb. Singa more only Id. less than in London. The question is whether European plantations could make a profit in selling below gid, and at the same time cover their expensex.

What do the books concern themselves with nowadays. Why, with a little love affair, perhaps, or people's marital experiences for twenty years, or the adventures of some dub in the detective world, or how terrible the world looks to some dull who has never looked

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Arrivals,

The following passengers arrived on Tuesday by s.6. Taiye Maru:- Miss Inna Demens, Mr. Joseph Cummins, Mrs. Maybelle Cummins, Miss M. B. Cummins, Miss Joyce at it at all. It may be a lolling,

A Cummins, Mr. Harland Park, "Life is life. It

Mrs. Elizabeth Park, Rev. and Mrs. fat disgusting thing, but in the

M. W. Rankin, Master M. W. Ran- hand of a master it would become

Lin (Jar.), Mr. L. M. Stump, Mrs. a very sardonic thing. The life of

Irene Stump, Miss Lois M. Stump, America to-day, fast verging as it

London, Sept. 13It is officially Miss Betty L. Stump, Mr. Fang C. is on social tragedy, should lend announced that, with the exception Quang, Mr. and Mrs Mar Sin itself to satire and irony.. Or, of the Malimdawar mine (produc Hang. Mr. Augustin Leyim. Mrs. perhaps, we might have a literature ing 22 tons), all the other mines of Sara De Leyim, Mr. Bartolome K. of despair like that of Dostoyeisk; the Anglo-Oriental Mining Cor-Ramos, Mr. Felipe Cayabyab, Mr. That might be a good thing. Con- poration will be closed in accord Pacific Catilas, Mr. and Mrs. Leo ditions here are in many waye ance with the decision of the Tin Karaganilla, Master Leo Karganil- similar to those in Russia before Producer, Association.

la (Jnr.), Mr. Siplicie O. Lindyan, the Revolution.

The total production of the affi- Mr. Roqus L. Reyes, Miss Angela Nothing will be done until 50licated mines for August amount-R. Santos, Mr. Harry Rodriquez, or 60 per cent. of the people of the to 316 tons against 1,295 tons Mr. Francisco Santos, Mr. Pedro United States feel the pinch that in August, 1929

The

follows the right of the corpora, tions to "tax them to death. only thing that will stir the people is misery. They are not miserable enough yet, but they soon will be. Men could organise this land so it could support three or four times. its population without any misery. A Beautiful Country.

L. Tapas, Mrs. Mena H. Tupas, The Taiping company is to sus-Master Luz Tupas, Master Joseph pend operations for six months.

great novelist and still be some thing of a fool.

Tupas, Mr. Quan Bing, Mr. Chan Yan, Mr. Lee Fook Koor, Mr. Wätt Bow Tin, Mr. Lee Yut, Mr. Tee Rea Lum, Mrs. Wong Shoe, Mr. Yee See Dip, Mr. Yee See Tuck, Mr. Dreiser is indisputably. Mr. Jiro Morioka, Mrs. C. Saint. whether judged by the verdict of Pol, Miss H. van Wylick, Mr. those critice who, hirelings of the Takaco Hayashi, Mr. Young Tae capitalistic Press, write for the Chuu, Mrs. Young. Set Moi, Mas "I have never seen a land more American public, or by that of the ter Young Ting Bus, Miss Young beautiful It is self-sufficient, it beautiful, free Europes, or even Wai Men, Mr. Toyoi Shinasato, could close its borders and live by the verdict of coarse, materia Mr. Ernest E. Wallwork, Mr. Wm. without any contact with the outliet sales, one of the outstanding B. Christian, Mrs. Pearl 8. Moyer, side world. It could live beauti-American novelists.

M. R. D. Wrigley (Jar), Mr. M. fully.”

He has an uncanny power to Y. Chu. Mr. Chan Chi Lan, Mr. probe the mysteries and describe Chan (Kwong Yen, Mr. and Mrs. the weary inevitabilities of the Thomas A. Bee, Mr. Chan Siu Har, human soul. He has a profound and Mr. Teh Yen Chen, Mr: Pon Sin sympathetic understanding of the Ling, Mr. Kurt Vogel, Mr. Leo sombre banalaties that lie beneath Mantin-Band, Mira, Leo Mantin- the surface of human lives, he band, Mr. Arthur B Hamsony Mr. painte them ruthlessly and realis William H. B. Muskett, Mr. James Americans, says Theodors Dretically, yet with a curious affection R Johnston, Mr. Kong You ser, have become mere" trudging quite alien to the sterile mood of Cheong, Mrs. Suey Tee, Master asses.' He has just made a tour of some of his more rebel-minded Kong Ching.

We have not ventured to reprint the statements not enclosed in quotation marks lest we add some weight to the decision on the bet Bat some things more may be derived from the Herald Tribune's ́editorial rajoiner :-).

America and he knows.

Business authorities dictate

what the schools may teach. The

imitators,

Some - Absurdities,

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trusts have ruined the farmers and Yet this same man, with a have ruined literaturo. Because they cannot hope to succeed in small private enterprises, American citizens have lost their initiative They are not miserable enough Taito Maru, Beanevis, Leverkusen, and their power to think. So they vet! What pathetic nonsense! Morioka Maru, Nanking; O.S.. read and write nonsense, and will Would Dreiser prescribe misery for Menado Maru, Douglas Lapraik: continue to do so until they suffer himself and his friends! If he be Haining. YE more. The only thing that will lieves that the success of his own Docks--Kowloon: Beistan, Ada stir the people is misery novel corrupts his artist's soul, why mastor: Taikon: Yingehow, Kong They are not miserble enough does he keep his wolfhound and his Ning, Tainan, Hong Khang, Chang- yet ve

duplex apartment. It is true chow Thus the author of Sister enough that the machine age-not Buoys-A1 Alipore. A2 Meno- Carrie and An American in America along, but in the whole, Jaus, -Aa Shirala, Ad Taiping, Ar Tragedy, sitting in his duplex world has stamped its imprint Ho Bang, As Yamagata Maro, B7 apartment close to Carnegie Hall upon the minds of men and has Kwangtung, A6 Golden Mountain. with his blooded wolfhound lying made them feel like midgets in the Bs Lgeemoon; Alo Van Hentez, C15 at his feet.

immediate and overwhelming pre Kwangchow, C19 Cheongabing, 124 Weakness of Brain or Stomach?

schce of a world which to their Hikawa Maru, A25 Tjibadak, A ancestors was remote and unimport Wichita. A27 Stagen, B39 Fooshing, "We are not sure just what it ant, but the answer is not more B34 Luchow. C35 Gustar Diederich- ali goes to show, unless it be that poverty, psem. B88 Helikon, Ca Paul Donner, novelists should never be interview Mr. Dreiser may write another C41 Tai Poo Eek, C4 Canton, C43 ed, or that Mr. Treiser's digestion great novel as the fruit of his tour Shan Caib, C44 Ning Ching, C45 in better on his country estate in of America but he will do better Shun Lee, C48 Foo Lee, C47.Man Mount Kisco than in the city of as a novelist than as a sociologist. Bang C49 Borneo B50 Unkai New York, or that a man may be His own life belies his dour out Maru, Bst Heinan Maru A52

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