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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1931.

THE NEW CIVILISATION IN CHINA.

THỂ TỒNG KONG FIRE INSUR. WHAT MODERN SCIENCE IS DOING_FOR_MANKIND.

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE SIXTY-SECOND DEDIN- ARY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS: will be hold at the Offices of the Undersigned on THURSDAY-the-28TH MARCH, 1981, at NOON, for the purpose of ceiving the Report of the General Managora, together with a Statement "of Accounts for the Year ended 31st

DECEMBER, 1980..

The SHARE REGISTER and TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOS. ED From the 12rn to the 26TH MAROH, 1981, Both Days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,

General Managers, THE HONGKONG FIRM INSURANCE

[410

Co., LTD.

ADDRESS BY PROF. MIDDLETON-SMITH.

In an able and inspiring address to members of the Arts Association at the University-last-night-Professor CA Middleton.......... Smith described what he called "the new civilisation." He ex- plained-in-detail-bow China has learnt a great deal from Britain, and how Britain also has learnt lessons from China. He suggested that the dynamic purposes of the West will become alloyed with the static philosophy of conduct evolved in the East and that out of the vast experiment there will emergo a new and stronger civilisation.

We give the first part of the Professor's address to-day as the remainder will appear to-morrow, " This is the age of the question mark, the sign of the century, the symbol of curiosity. It confronts un in every newspaper and on every

bookshelf.

Will the result be a wonderful world civilisation, in which will be blended the selence of the Anglo Saxon and the philosophy of Eastern sages1 Or will the old savage in the new civilisation finally pull the house down about our earst

Each day there are

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Power and the Worker." This in what Bir Ernest Thomp son, of the British Economic Mis sion, said during his recent visit to

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"We are impressed with the opportunities which exist in all parts of this country for British engineering, both for increasing the amenities of life by means of oloctrification, sanitation: water supply, and extending and improving the means of com munication. Further, there is n great work to be done in putting nower bobind the worker, the surest way of improving his stan- dard of living."

We, too, advocate the new civil- isation because we know that it does raise the standard of living; it does create a large no-called "middle class who are out of tho for the finer things of life; it does poverty zone, and who have leisure relieve the manual worker of much toil; it does encourage, public health efforts and wages war against human, as well as commer. cial, inefciency.

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An Empire of Mills and Workshops.' In two brief generations a new, Empire had been created in Eng Land, an Empiro of mills and work. shops,

obscura

After the coming of steam power,)] invention quickly followed inven tion; and just one hundred years ago Faraday (1831) an Professor in London, produced goddess Electra whose beauty has transformed the daily lives of 60 many on this planet

The Erapire of mills and foun dries spread itself all over the world. The Continent "of Europe' was the first to copy the pattorn then the Eastern States of Ameri ca; and today the rattle of the! power hammer, and the drone of the aeroplane may be beard in the. cities, of China.

The Curse of Work. Primitive an was afraid of Nature. He expressed the threats clarity in some of the earliest writ ings. Work to him was a curae; of his droad Jehovah with singular he was told that it was a punish- ment for sin. The leisure of Para. dise was his highest conception of bliss. Machinery makes possiblo leisure on this earth.

After primitive man come tho enlturo that was based upon slay-

Steam Shovels and Salt Spoonsery, the living and the suffering

Nothing is too small or too large to escape our inquisitiveness. We have discovered enormous energy

China is being catapulted, as it THE HONG KONG & WHAMPOA within the atom and we have men-

sured the almost incomprehensible were, into an intense industrial DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED,

The Industrial Systom" is substitute for engines. The inven tors attempted to transfer manual temperatures of an iußnity of stara.gc. TOTICE 19 HEREBY GIVEN

All over the world the intellectuals plexities and complications that re-divided into two distinct sub-65 labour from the shoulders of men N that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will of all nations are trying to peer quire not only high class brains, tems namely (1) the engineering or be held in the Office of the Company. 2, into the coming day to discover but tolerance and patience, if dis-producing system, (2) the distribu- QOZEN & BUILDING, Hong Kong, MOND Y, 30TH MARCH, 1991, at whether the curve of civilisation asters are to be avoided. NOON, for consideration of the Direc-is rising majestically upwards, or tors' Raport and Statement of Accounts: for the Year ending 3 st DaoMBER, whether all of our newly found knowledge and our so-called "pro-

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on

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In the zenith of Greece each man to the iron backs of machinery.

in Athens was permitted to have tion or consuming system,

five slaves. To-day each member Our of the industrial system there

Engineers are primarily concern of the Anglo-Saxon race-every have arisen unexpected problems ed with production; but as intelman, woman and child--has, on the forces of Nature, providing for him that urgently demand solution. ligent individuals we cannot fail to average, power supplied by the the hope that your people will avoid sufføring, not from over-production, some of evils that have been ex-but from under-consumption. The perienced in other countries,

TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSED reis" is the irritant that is dis These, too, must be discussed in be aware that the world is, to-day, the work equivalent to fifty slaves.

The SHARE REGISTER and from the 230 to the 30TH MARCH 1931, Both Days inclusive.

*

By Order of the Board of Directors,

R. M. DYER

Chief Manager.

[475, Hong Kong, 17th March, 1931,

turbing humanity with threats of destruction and catastrophe.

In print and by radio we are brought face to face with the new world problems as quickly as with boral difficulties. Those who are in timately concerned with machinery are roughly questioned by critics and warned that this inquisitive wondering about our work is no fitful fever of a day, but that on the contrary its source's lie in the deep stirrings of emotional revolt against the meolanisation-that surrounds

CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the the THIRTY-FOURTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERES in thous. Company will be held in the

The Touch of a Hand. Mr. H. G. Wells has suggested the locomotive as the symbol of the nineteenth century. The automatic tool is a product of the period in which we live.

Through nil the ages of savagery and opcient evilisation men had used their muscles to excrt forces. Then they realised that Nature wapid work for them, through the medium of fire.

production system has not failed.-. Science is constantly replacing

Millions' upon millions of men had men by machines. The introduction of oil fuel on the Conard liners sat around the camp fire, or felt reduced the number of sickers from the warmth of the hearth, before 951 to 203. In 1700 it would have anyone dreamed that heat was needed 179,000 employees to prenorgy and that fuel could be made to do work. With that great dis duce the 34,000 miles of cotton covery came the new age and the cloth turned out, in 1913 by 6,500 new man. employees and machinery.

President Hoover, an engineer, "The United said not long ago States could to-day supply each

To-day we have large centralised stations that produce electricity in huge quantities. They make power, in its most convenient form, avail

over widely able to

Repetition work has become pos sible because of the many ingenious automatic appliances that have been devised in recent years. Mass pro- duction is the twentieth century [contribution to our industrial life, Dare we, who work with materials as steam locomotion was that of person with the same amount off road areas. In the last ten years. commodities as he consumed intrical power in England has nearly 1913, and lay of two million people doubled. from work."

matic tool appeared.

Company's BOARD ROOM, N and machines, try to explain in our the hundred years before the auto FLOOR ÅLKKANDBA BUILDINGS, Hong Kong, on TUESDAY, 81er halting and unfinished language, MARCH, 1931, at NOON, for the that we are planning for and purpose of receiving a Statement of umurisir hopes of finer things; that Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the Year ended Decan-we believe in our work which we BEE 31st, 1930, electing Directors are confident is shaping a and Auditors, and for the Transaction civilisation and a better world! of any other Ordinary Business of Our convictions give us courage to the Company.

explain,

NOTICE IS ALSO HERESY GIVEN that the TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, 25 MAROH, 1981, until TUESDAY, 31ST MARCH, 1981, Both Days inclusive, during which Period No Transfer of Shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board, D. L. KING,

Secretary. Hong Kong, March 11th, 1981. [468]

new

We hear of some recent triumph of engineering, such as the broad- casting of a picture or the record of a flying speed exceeding five miles a minute.

The whole world echoes the news at once and is thrilled by the latest demonstration of power by the Iron Mau. For the motor that Difficult as is the world in which drives the machine is the inasinate we live to-day, society rests on. nslave that suddenly become animate more practical and nobler. bagia and tremendously powerful at the that at any other period in history: thoughtful people are now aiming at more definite and better ideals than occupied that minds of most of those who lived in the centuries

int are past.

Practical Thinking.

touch of a hand.

In spite of this immense saving of human energy wa, bayo, arrived nt the tragic sinte of affairs when, in this age of plenty, there is a grinding in the gears of our social

lif

The producing system is enger and waiting to pour goods into the possession of consumers; it is con- stantly providing improved machi nery for more and more economical production.

The New Cities in China. Applied science has come to

The consuming system scems to: China. Recent visits to Shanghai have failes. The transmission gear and Tientsin, and the experience of is groaning under the load. In this nearly twenty years in the Far East, ; have convinced me that the era of age of plenty the stores are full of which consurjera cannot goods mass production has commenced in afford to buy, Even the greatest or the critica this part of the world. of the machine, age cannot escapé

About'] In Shanghai there are from it. They are born into it.1,800 factories, inpally outside the They cannot be unaware of the foreign settlements. printing press, of the radio which already a quarter of a million brings to them nowa and even music factory workers, 58 per cent, of would be consumers is inadequate from other continents, of the nero- whom are wumen, 10 per cent, child-

ren and 34 per cent. men. PANLING HUNT & RACE CLUB. plane soaring in the sky,.

Everyone has beard of the modern

THE FANLING HUNT AND BACE CLUB bag to announce to that the SPECIAL TRAIN FANLING for the RACE MEET ING on SUNDAY, 22ND MARCH, 1981, will be Rus as Ugual,

They aneer at mass production.

have devoted "our

There

With this problem of finance and accountancy the engineer is exas- are perated and bewildered. He is told!

that the money at the command of

to the task of allowing them to purchase the goods they badly! need, and which mass production can turn out at so little expendi- ture of human toil.

i The practical man asks Why should cheaper production mean in- surmountable difficulties in distri-

They rebel against rationalisation textile mil mila, tobeen fictories which they have defined as the large flour mills, tobacco factorios, prevalence of practical thinking, of engineering works, paper manufac thu concentration of the intellect on turing plants and other industrial establishments using electric power, the practical, useful and efficient."

The approach by river to Shang-bation 1". Of course, we cannot accept these

the Thames to London. Every- On This Occasion, however, due to extreme denunciations of the work hai no resembles the approach up a Last Year's Booking for This Date, to which we the KOWLOON.CANTON RAIL lives. We can only try to pursuade where are to be seen modern far- WAY extremely regret that they are these critics that, in their righetons unable to furnish a Train consisting indignation, nt the evils apparent entirely of 1st Class Coaches. The even in this progressive age, they blame System rather than the Train will therefore be made up of weakness of human nature. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class Carriages at the following Rates, inclusive of Entrance to Public Enclosure:

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Those who blame machinery for this amazing and humiliating state of affairs may be told of two work- tories.

These new industrial are attract- men watching a steam shovel at ing inbour from the country, dis-work.

Said Bill to. Tim "If that there tricts, because they offer mare certainly of food and shelter. machine weren't there, the'd have In a few years, if ns is to ho ex-300 inen with shovels," Tom an- We dare not remain silent, when pected, the present rate of indus-swered "That's right, and if there trial development continues, Shang- weren't no shovels they'd have hai will be amongst the two or 50,000 men with salt-spoons," three largest cities in the world."

such unfair representations of our efforts are made. Wo see in our work the final liberation of the human FAUR from poverty and manual toil. We ask you to listen our explanations with tolerance. It is only fair to understand before you attempt' to reform.

The Old Savage."

The transformation of China is talking place before your eyes.

The age-old silence of the desert and the jungle has been shattered by the drone of engines in the sky Asia, like Europe, is listening to the swelling roar of the machines that have wings.

The New Hong Kong. What of Hong Kong this amazing child of China's old og It is only necessary to compare the size of Kowloon, the industrial section of Hong Kong, with its dimensions of twenty years ago, to realise that now city, dias been created in two decades.

It is a well planned city. It is attracting new industries and the plant of those established in the early days is extending

The Cradle of the New

Civilisation.

Do we fully realise the sudden atid amazing changes that have happened in a century and a halft We read of certain historical divi- sions into which the records of the past are separated. It will doubt. Jess shock many to suggest that, for all practical purposes, there are only two great divisions in the history of the world.

event; *.

They are the pre-steampower age In 90 years Hong Kong (with all the millenium before A.D.

For At the sounds above him the Kowloon) has increased its popula-1700 and the period since, farmer in South China looks up tion from about five thousand on the fifth of January of that from his rice field; the boatman people, mostly nirates, to nearly a memorable year James Watt filed on the Yangtaze gazes skywards; million law abiding and industrious his patent for his "Ere machine". the land peasant in Manchuria workers, watches awe-struck at this latest If there were an unlimited supply and the promine of freedom from triumph of the machine. The sky-of cheap coal, iron ore and lims. manual toil and poverty came to a ways of Asia are gathering n new stone in South China, Kowloon world unconscious, of the great flock, creations of applied science, would be a city of millions in

Britain was the cradle of the new that are not only useful but in very short time.. spiring simply by their beauty In Canton the transition lags, but civilisation which has grown out of They are a symbol of the new is in evidence. The new wide the epoch-making inventiong. Yet civiliuntion

ronds, the river steamers, the for one person in Beitain that could Not only China, but the whole oficjent fire organisation and the give the date of the beginning of world must inevitably be affected published engineering schemes, the new era in the history of man- by the great changes that are taking should convince the most sceptical kind, a hundred, or even ten thou place in Hong Kong, Canton, that the now civilisation is changing and, could answer at once the year. Shanghai and other cities of the Canton, the most populous city in of the coronation of some unim

China Far East.

portant King.

consumers

the output of mechanical and elec.

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