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CHEER UP: OUR BEST TIMES ARE STILL AHEAD OF US.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,"

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Sin, Please And herewith reprint of 1830 which in the pre....... sent business depression may interest your readers.—Yours, etc., W. S. BAILEY.

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Hong Kong, May it, 103), The following in its entirely,

flat the country was then ruising is here reprinted from Mauenu-

every year a sum which would have Iny's Essay on Southey's Collu-

purchased the fre-simple of the quies on Society, published in Edinburgh Brien, January, (revenus of the Plantagenets-ten 1630, and clearly shows, though times what supported the Govern written 100 years ago that our

of Elizabeth-three tinca best times are still ahead of us.

what, in the tinie of Oliver Crom- "History is full of the signs of well had been thought intolerably this, untural progress of society. oppressive. To almost all men the We see in almost every part of state of things in which they have the annals of mankind how the in-been used to live, seems to be the dustry of individuals, struggling

necessary state of things. up against wars, taxes, famines, conflagrations, mischievous prohibi- tions and more mischievous protec. tions, creates faster than govern. ments can squander, and repairs

whatever invaders can destroy.

We see the capital of nations in rrasing and all the arts of life approaching nearer and nearer to perfection in spite of the grossest corruption and the wildest pro- fusion on the part of rulers.

The present moment is one of the great distress. But how small will that distress appear when we think over the history of the Inst. forty years a war compared with which, all other wars sink into insigni- ficance; taxation, such as the most beavily taxed people of former times could not have conceived; a

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1931.

LOCAL BROADCASTING.

REPORT FOR LAST MONTH.

The monthly report for April, issued by the Hong Kong Brond- casting Committee,” states/—

Actual hours of transmission tatalled 30 of which 131 Weru devated to European Programmes and 992 to 'Chinese Programmes, ns follows:

Euro-Chi- pean nese

Morning Transmissions including Cominèrcial Newa and Church Relays

..... 40 39 Evening Transmissions 84 01)

131 DO

Monthly Percentage:-European. 50.77; Chinese, 43.08.

During the month the following items were broadcast:-

Bunning comunentaries 2, Danke. programmes 5, European Studio concerts 10, European relays Chinese Stadio concerts 7, Chinesa relays 4, European. lectures 3, Euro

penn children's

programmes 2, Chinese children's programamen &

New Lierneen issued during Apr"

65,

BOOKS and READERS

MARRIAGE AND MONEY.

od. "Women and Childres Last.” By

"Mänguage And Moses," By Bar- and stupid most novels that deal bara Blackburn Seeker 18 with marriage-I can't remember any that deal with marriage and money or rather, the lack of it- really are. Such a passage as this of Miss Blackburn's--

Beverley Nichols Cope, 78, dd, "THE MAN WHO DIED." By D. H.

Lawrence. Becker. 21s. "OUT OF THE DARK." By "Sea- nark." Hodder and Stoughton. HAPPINESS," By. Cosmo Hailton.

Hutchinson. 71. 6d. "THE KING COMES BACK," By "Victor Bridges. Hodder and

Stoughton, 78, ed.

We have heard it said that live. per vent. is the natural interest of money that twelve is the natural number of a jury, that forty shill SHANGHAI COTTON MANU. of living is authema to a man.

ings is the natural qualification of a county voler. Hence it is, that

though in every age, everybody | | knows that up to his own time pro- gressiva improvement Eas been tak- ing place. nobody seems to reckon an any improvement during the next generation,

We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached the turning point-that we have seen our best days.

But so said all who came before us, and just as much apparent rea-

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A million a year will beggar.

debt, larger than all the publicus," said the patriots of 1840. debts that ever existed in the world

"Two millions a year will grind added together; the food of the the country to powder "

was the people studiously rendered dear:ery of 1000, the currency impudently "debased and improvidently restored.

"Six millions a year and a debt of fifty millions!"exclaimed Swift, "The high allies have been the ruin of us."

"A hundred and forty millions of debt! anid Junius, "Well may we say that we owe Lord Chatham more than we shall ever pay, if we owe him such a load as this."

Yet is the country poorer than in 17007. We fully believe that in spite of all the misgovernment of her rulers she has been almost constantly becoming richer and richer. Now and then a short re trogression but as to the general

“Two hundred and forty millions coitingency there can be no doubt. A single breaker may recede but of debt!” cried all the statesmen the tide is evidently coming in.

of 1783 in chorus, "what abilities, If we were to prophesy that in or what economy on the part of a

save a country 1930, population of fifty millions minister, can

burdened 1" Who know that if, better fed, clad, and judged than the English in our time, will cover since 1738, no fresh debt had been these islands that Sussex or Hunt- iscurred, the increased resources ingdonshire will be wealthier than of the country would have enabled the wealthiest parts of the West us to defray that burden, at which Riding of Yorkshire now are that Pitt Fax and Burke stood aghast cultivation rich as that of a flower to defray it over and over again garden will be carried up to the and that with much lighter taxa very top of Ben Nevis and Helion than what we have actually vellyn-that machines constructed rue. On what principle is it, on principles yet undiscovered will that, when we see nothing but im- br in every house-that there will provesuent behind us, we are to

be no highways but railroads, no expect nothing but deterioration travelling but by steam-that our before us?

debt vast as it seems to ns will It is not by the intermeddling of appear to our great-grandchildren Me., Southey's idol-the omniscient trifling encumbrance, which and omnipotent State-but by the might easily be paid off in a year | prudence and energy of the people, or two many people would think that England has hitherto been us insane.

carried forward in civilization; and it is to the same prudence and the same energy that we now look with comfort and good hope.

To prophesy nothing; but this we any-if any person had told the Parliament which met in perplexity

Our rulers will brst promote the and terror after the crash in 1720 improvement of the people by that in 1830 the wealth of England strictly confining themselves to would surpass all the wildest their legitimate duties by leaving dreams-that the annual revenues capital to find its most lucrative would equal the principal of that course, cominodities their fair price, debt which they considered an in-industry and intelligence their folerable burden-that for one man natural reward, idleness and foily of £10,000 then living, there would their natural punishment-by main be five men of £50,000-that Londontaining peace, by defending pro- would be twice as large and twice perty, by diminishing the price of us populous and that nevertheless low, and by observing strict the mortality would have diminish-economy in every department of the ed to one-half what it then was- State, that the post office would bring more into the exchequer than the exciso and customs had brought in together under Charles Second- that stage coaches would run from

Let the Government do this-the' people will assuredly do the rest.

FACTURING CO.

DIVIDEND AND BONUS.

Manufacturing O, Ltd. for the The profit of the Shanghai Cotton half year ending April 30, 1831, (including Tis, 340,000 brought for ward from Inst. acount) is Ts 1,150,000. The Directors recommend that this mount be dealt with as follows:-

To pay a dividend of Tle, 2) por share.

To may a bonus of Tle, 0.78 pre share.

To place to Depreciation Reserve Fund Tls. 250,000.

To carry forward to next account Tis, 350,000.

TRAFFIC CASES.

LONG LIST BEFORE THE COURT,

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When 1 have read a real

norel by . women 1 Rod

wonder. find aly

myself ing why it is thai men, novelists, are so much better. have a notion that it is due to the fact that thoughts, ideas and ab. stractions, as such, make but slight appeal to the average feminine mind. Whereas the daily business

Obviously, then, what is needed to produce a novel that is at once truc to life and true to literature is a writer with the imagination of the male genius and the lucid ex- perience of womankind. And, with my hand on my heart, I swear she. I believe that Miss Blackburn is

Marriage is of the heart and the spirit, it is not of the eyes or of the mind. It is earthly, it includes cold winter mornings, and tiring days, bordom, illness, bondage,

worry nd financial

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I call that vulgar because it is' tional codes and

of his depar it is rude ta women (nu intelligent | ture. And every producer had a woman ever imagined sho had any hack ready to supply the wit in right divine or earthly), because those days. the opening is arrogant, and bo- cause" the general form of expèras sion is ostentations.

But being vulgar, I must aid, does not always provent Mr. Nichols from being also funny.

The Dark Soul of Lawrence. "The Man who Died? contains in its 100 pages all that is momor- nhle of the dark, frantic soul of Lawroner. The Man Who Died is the Rism Christ, returned to 'oarth to add to his store of wisdom by ono experience (every reader of Lawrence will know what that is.

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Boboolboy Romance. "The King Comes Back" is just one of those self-told delightful; romantic, bloodthirsty, maiden-in- distress stories with which every imaginativa schoolboy in his 'teous drugs himself asleep. A mining ongineer from Patagonia rescueR the Queen of Cruto-Dolgaria. Shb) refuses the throne, but lovingly as sures the somewhat anxious mint ing engineer: "I havon't told you, Dick" she hesitated--"but as 'n mattor of fact I have quito "a" lebi of money of my own./*]

Life, I used to think, was liko that Mr Norman R. Collins in the News Chronicle.

HISTORY OF "HEALING

SixNTY CENTURIES OF HEALTH AND

PHYSICK. By S. G, Baxland) Stubbs and E. W. Bligh. (Sampson Low, 139.) "The progress of ideas from primitive magic to modern medis eins, a sub-title given to this book, well expresses its purpose.

Certainly the old Greeks had ideas, and such learing in medicina and kopt alive, In Western Europe as they mastered the Arabs adopted its practice feli largely to the priesthood, and there were long till at last science broke away from Dark Ages which saw little light, the veneration for tradition and authority, and Bacon's toaching stimulated men's minus to original to pass before the doctor ceased to inquiry. Another Inug stage had

concern himself wholly with heal ing, and modern preventive mie dicine found its true place.

It is apparent, but usually over- looked, that it is only the tremen- dous mngio of Lawrence's art that could persunds sane people to res stress-

pret his intolerable philosophy. should be copied in large, luminous This story illustrates the dreadful letters on big black board and rift in Lawrence's genius. The first part is the work of Lawrence hung in the study, boudoir, or cell, the sublime artist; the intensity of every novelist in the country.of vision and the sway of the mind It should also be prominently ex

is, I believe, such as Jone but a few in the twentieth century have had. posed, in those places in our na The second part, when Lawrence tional parks, gardens and open leaves his art for his philosophy, and then leaves that for his pro- spaces where lovers congregate,

And the book itself, I might add, paganda, and fits, or misfits-as is possibly the best, it is certainly to his pagan theory of sex the

you may happen to feel about it the cheapest, wedding present that founder of a diametrically opposed can he bought to-day.

philosophy (I speak in the humblest Mr. Beverley Nichols and Vulgarity. thinking mind, unlike his dreaming terms), shows that Lawrence's Mr. Beverley Nichols tolls us in mind, was fretting out a desperate one of the essays in this vivacious circle on trampled, soiled ground and varied rag-bng collection of just like the little rockerel in his papers, stories, articles and frag- story. ments, called "Women and Child- I sny this despite the fact that

ren Last," that he has been called twice once when she describes a

vulgar on a great many occasions, coddled mother and daughter oft has been unable to discover independent means who salute

why. I think I can tell him why. poverty with a laugh, and almost And it is not, as he supperbly im-

In our time there has beoD 3. The Gusto of "Senmark," vast increase of popular interest' in with a giggle: and once when she agines, because he tells the truth

With "Out of the Dark" wo come

science. The nature of the dir introduces n disreputable hotel a lot of us do that but because bedroom scene-she seems to me to his article. "My

he tells it so impolitely And, as Easter reading. When Seamarkand their application to everyday to what may be called good, light, covories made in the past century have been conspicuously false to

Version of died tragically we lost a writer life ia chiofly responsible for this; one or the other. But 400 pages

Vulgarity," shows, be really has with a bold, ingenious mind, quite but also there is a great debt due of truth can support about one per

not the slightest notion of what a nice sense of writing, an over- cent, of error. And Miss Black- other people mean by vulgarity, dow of that rare and valuable anal expound science, even in ita tangled burn does not load her book with

1988, arrogance, ostentation (that, notion of what to do with his the authors of this book He means by it snobbishness, rude ity called gusto, and very little intricacies, to the popular ander standing. That gift is fully shar certainly, is getting warmer, evon

talents. He just poured them into though the instance of Sir Walter stories for the magazines-and they Raleigh's cloak was more oppor are better by half a length than tunism than ostentation) sycoph- others of their kind. Indeed, if ancy, and curiosity (quite cold his style of writing had not brought again.)

Bo many imitators we should "ses how very good the stories are.

more.

The exhibits and dissects aud explains three bickering and unhappy marriages with the sure delicacy and painful penetration of an artist turned police-court

missionary.

N0761 or Tract? Whether Miss Blackburn conceived. this work as a novel or a tract A Chinese

-she certainly christened it as named Man-Chun Tang, who claimed to have had though it were a trnet-I am not It has a great deal of both four years' experience of driving in Bure Europe, was fined $30 by Mr. W

in it. It has also a great deal of Schofield for driving his motor-cabeauty of the spirit in it. It is in a dangerous manner in Kennedy sentimental and conspicuously in

the product of a sane, salutary, nn- Rond on April 28.

Traffic-Insector C. F. Alexander telligent mind. Indeed, until I said that the incident happened had read this book I did not know near the P.W.D. premises in Ken

(though I had suspected as much) nedy Road, about 100 yards west of bow insane, poisonous, sentimental the Naval Hospital. He was driv ing a motor trolley going in an rasterly direction, and on nearing

driving in the opposite direction, bad corner, defendant, who was enme round at a very fast rate, and actually on his extreme wrong side of the road. The Inspector pulled up within ton yarde of the corner, and defendant stopped 30 yards away, after he (Inap. Alexandert had beckoned to him.

Inspector Alexander remarked on the frequency of eases where drivers of cars ent across corners at a fast speed. When a collision occurred, the Police could never gçi to the root of the accident, because one of the drivers in the accident would con tend that he was on his right side of the road, and the other would dispute it, pice versa.

Among a long list of other casÓS was one in which Mr. Y. El Areutli was fined 85 for parking on the South side of Stanley Street,

KOWLOON GOLF.

QUALIFYING ROUND OF SUMMER CUP.

The qualifying round of the Summer Cup. was decided Inst when the following qualified to com Sunday over the Kowloon course, pete in the match play rounds:- A. C. Sinton 84-1608 H. Mundy ........ 79--10-00 A. Laughton 81-1270

J. M. Purves

W. Hyde

H. Hampton ...... W..G. Trice

J. D. Thomson

88-1771

84-13-7}

61-0-72 00-1872

W. 8. Hillier

H. T. Buxton

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A. J. Braley

78-3-73 A1--7--74 87-12-75 83-5=75

D. C. Wilson.

79-3=70

*J, Pooler

87-11-76

P. Planner

85-6-77

A. A; Dandout: 80–~]]=78

Draw for First Round.

The following is the draw for the first round of the Summer Cup to

This analysis of the business de- pression of 1830 with its prophesy for 100 by the famous English he played on May. 24. As this London to York in twenty-four

is the day on which the Club' essayist--Mauenulay-was publish- plays the Junior Section of the hours-that men would sail with recently by the Harriman Royal Hong Kong Golf Club at: out wind, and would be beginning National Bank and Trust Company Happy Valley, competitors may play to ride without horses-our ances-

off their first round on Sunday next, May 17. tors would have given as much credit to the prediction as they gave to Gilliver's Travels..

of New York.

"Maucaulay's review and proview seems strikingly sound to us in Lord and Thomas and Logan as Yet the prediction would have applied to the present business been true, and they would have per- situation, so we reprint it, hoping Sceived that it was not altogether, it may contribute to farsighted

absurd, and if they had considered thinking.

"J. M. Purves e. D. C, Wilson.

A. O Sinton v. W. Hyde, A. A. Dand, P. W. P. Planner. J. D. Thompson v. G. H. Rus-

sell

H, Hampton v. John Pooler,

A Laughton, A. J. Braley, B. Mundy v. W. S. Trice.

And though they all in themsel- ves may be disgustingly vulgar, they are not (all those qualities have perfectly good names of their own) Vulgarity. I can give him an example from his own "Fore word" of what I should call "vulgar:"

I fail to see why the writes] in a carge of fifty wonen, the fifty women should consider it their divine right to occupy the only life-boat, and leave the fifty men to drown.

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And one does not have to dislike Lawrence's thoughts to dislike his 50 cents Psychology Brochure lan- gunge-urge (as a noun), "fami- nesa" and other emotional Horrors.

The Roundabout of Marriage, Mr. Cosmo Hamilton, in his new novel "Happiness," sels the round- about of modern marriage dizzily whirling. By the word "modern" I mean that he mixes partners in very much the manner in which Dryden mixed them in the seven- teenth century. And the Restora. tion stage could have found a spare evening at least once a week for a.writer so regardless of conven-

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They handle a great subject in a manner which holds the attention of the layman, enlarges his know ledge, and opens to him new fields that are of extraordinary interest." There has been nothing more dreadful in its consequences then medical ignorance. The travail through which the human race pase od before knowledge was slowly ac quired makes lamentable reading-- for instance, in the successivo plagues which swept away tens of thousands of our small popula tions in a single visitation, and nothing could avail against it. The story of the conquest of disease, admirably told in these pages is not lacking in thrill.

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