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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1937.

BY THE

These Are

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BUS TICKET HOAX

Who Started The Story?

MALAYAN REVIEW

Facilities For Higher Education

A Plea for further facilities for higher technical education in the Colony which was made by Dr. Lim Han Hoe at the Legislative Council meeting resulted in an important statement by H. E the Governor, Bir Shenton Thomas, on the subject of the employment or non-Europeans" in the technical services.

Sir Shenton declared he did not see why Malayans, irrespec- tive of race, should not be appointed to responsible posts in such technical departments as Public Works. Posts and Telegraphs, Customs and others..

the nolse söd bustle there Is an England-the A little Portuguese lad has good England of the reason to feel the most disappoint- gay cottage gar-ed youngster in the Colony to-day deas. the trim

He doesn't know for sure whe- flower beds, and ther he is the victim of a hoax or the smell of not.. He feels like kicking-some-

A revelation was that an inquiry is being conducted in England damp earth..."one-he says he is tired of kicking by a Ramles College Professor. tnto the organisation of engineering

himself!

schools, with a view to the submission of a report to the Government." Reasons that for months he

Referring to an expression of ophion sought by the Governor (at»› las collected bus tickets, ending là

the February meeting of the Council on certain points raised by Capt.. the serial number seven, and when

N. M. Hashim, in which he put forward his plea for the establish- he had 1000, he dashed off to the

ment of a University in Malays, Dr. Lim went on to say: "Your Kowloon Bus Company and proud-Excellency said that it would be a guide to Government if the Un-

WINDSOR

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In his speeches, his written words, and his conversations with those people who were once his subjects, the Duke of Windsor has revealed from time to time his inner heart,

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On personal affairs and aspirations he rarely spoke at length. But now and then he passed on his views and simple glimpses of bit frank philosophy of Life, and now.we' puss some of those on to you.

MARRIAGE

"I don't think any man should marry before he is thirty-two."

"I love my ranch in Alberta. When

I murry, I hope to bring my wife - here for our honeymoon.”

HOME

"Home" is such an elementary

notion to the great majority of us. that we can scarcely conceive re without it. We take it, and all that it implies, for granted, like the very air we breathe...' "Ah, I am getting on, you know. Speed doesn't interest me quite as much as it did. I take an inter- est in comfort and home as well nowadays."

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merce et l'Industrie will cease to. undertake further business after 31st July 1937.

engagements still after the former date.

Close at hand is a domestic prob- lem, made up, not of political or economic questions, but of men

and women, boys and girls.

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'Ladies' fashions — deep waters into which I do not care to ven- ture-must have been the hope and despair of jewellers from time immemorial. I feel on safer ground in the matter of our own male attire. "For example, we should not be wearing sleeve links if lace ruffles were to come in again. "To balance this, it would be quite Impossible to wear an elaborate watchchain on a gold pullovert*

PETS

"To me, life without horses and dogs, and other animals, would be a poor thing indeed

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"When I'm King." he said as a child, "I shall make three laws; No one shall cut the talls of the little dogs. There shall be no more fishing with hooks. No one

ly presented his bundle, fully ex- pecting a complimentary monthly ticket in return.

To his utter disappointment and chagrin he was quietly and kindly told that so far as the Company oficials" knew, no such schema existed.

omical Members would express the tread of public opinion in regard to the subject of higher education in this Colony." He wished, he added, to review the existing facilities for higher education in this Colony and to consider what further progress and development should take place.

"I therefore suggest that further progress be made by the early establishment of a Faculty of Engineering in the College. I should like to quote the instance of Nigeria, where there was established in His months of careful hoarding 1934 at Lagos a higher educational course in Civil Engineering and wasted!

Agriculture. I hope we shall also be able to follow that example.

Demands Of Chinese Workers

COMPANY IN IGNORANCE

An official stated yesterday: We were entirely unaware that this practice was going on.

A Kowloon mother said: I won- der how the story got around. I know many children who are col- lecting tickets and they will be disappointed when they hear the news! Still, it will save them a lot of trouble!

In our issue of June 23, we 're-

Ported that children in Kowloon. bad adopted the new hobby of collecting bus tickets, and that in many cases, parents arid friends combined with the kiddies in their new tad, as it was thought that every thousand tickets ending with the serial number seven was good enough for a monthly ticket.

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The recent labour unrest in Malaya may largely be traced to, an increasing understanding on the part of the Chinese workers of the trend of industrial developments overseas, states the annual re- port of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Malaya, Mr. A. B. Jordan, issued recently. Chiness labourers of to-day are able to appreciate the significance of newspaper reports of stay-in strikes and Com- munist agitation in Europe and elsewhere.

The increasing prosperity of Malaya and its main industries led in the later months of 1936 to demands for increased wages from Chinese labour in almost all types of employment. It is recalled that the Chinese employees' main concern is with wage rates. Mr. Jordan says that by comparison the amelioration of conditions of employment is to him relatively unimportant. Given good wages and reasonable conditions he is not prone to listen to the arguments of the agitator. The distinction between the social worker, who is honoured, and the agitator, who is execrated, is not always easy to draw.#t

The report claims that the demands of the Chinese workers in many cases were settled by "negotiation either directly between the parties concerned or with the assistance of the Protectorate, but strikes unfortunately were not infrequent. That a contract between

shall fuse bearings to CHINESE PRESS planters and tappers. providing for remuneration on a sifding seale

horses."

The Woman I Love

"You must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility, and dis- charge my duties as King as I would wish without the help and support of the woman I love.

"My brother has one matchless blessing enjoyed by so many of you, and not bestowed on me-a happy home with his wife and children."

Each a single separate person- ality, beset by depression, labour- ing under a sense of frustration and futility-a blank wall, in front of him which he" can neither climb over or scramble round.

Playing the part of neighbour or friend is the short cut to happi-. ness all round'...'

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"Our first friend in life is certainly the doctor. And he is probably also the last."

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There is no sovereign remedy which will ever replace or make -- obsolete the way of fellowship."

YOUR MOTHER

"Do not forget to do good turns

to other people, and especially do... your best to help your mothers in your homes."

"It has given me great pleasure,”›

he said to the Australian Dig- gers, "to meet the women" who backed you up so well while you away. Buch women are brave indeed.”

were

LEGISLATIVE YUAN PASS BUDGET

It seems to us that there is ❘ WOMEN * much local significance in the The offices of the-Bank-will re--

following leaderette which we main open after the 31st Julyhave taken from the Christian until a date to be announced later, Science Monitor." for the purpose of liquidating Out of the frying pan into the

outstanding

statute books, is the course map- ped out by proponents of a Depositors are therefore invited minimum slice law for the sale to apply to the offices of the Bank of bacon in Tennessee. Under as soon as convenient. Cheques, the terms of the bill just intro- etc. may be presented, and depoduced into the State Senate, no sits and securities withdrawn.slice of bacon offered for public

Nanking, June 25. during usual business hours.

The Legislative Yuan to-day rale shall be shorter than 17 The remaining Far Eastern inches, nor less than 1-1324 of an

passed the 1937 budget totalling

with $1,000,640,878, branches of the Banque Franco-

additional inch in thickness."" Chinoise pour le Commerce st

revenue and taxes totalling $145,- The proposed enactment of a 000,000 and additional reconstruc- l'Industrie in Shanghai, Tientsin, minimum slice law is designed tion expenditures totalling $70,- Peiping, Saigon, Hanol, and

to allay unrest arising out of the Prom Penh, will continue in inroads of the machine, in the business as heretofore.

bacon business throughout Ten- nessee Liberal factions within

P. L. LORSIGNOL, Acting Manager."

Hongkong, 23rd June 1937.

000,000, Reuter

FY

GARDENS

WARNED

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I varying with monthly rubber prices, would save a lot of trouble.

Volunteering In Malaya

"Malicious Reports" Straits Settlements Volunteer Force. H. E. Major-General W. G. S.

less reports reflecting upon the prestige of Japanese troops and stirring up Chinese sentiment against Japan and Manchukuo."

Commenting on the apathy of the young Europears to join the

Dobble, G. D. C. Malaya, says in his annual report. tabled in the Legislative Council recently, that any man of military age who holds back from taking his share in the defence of the Colony is acting against the interests of his 'firm and consequently of himself.

Hainking, June 25, The Kwangtung Army has issued a statement warning the Chinese In explanation of his assertion General Dobble claims in his Press against their "repeated pub-report that the Volunteers form an integral part of the first-line lication of malicious and ground- garrison of the fortress of Singapore and of its lines of communica- tion. It is obvious that an attack on Singapore or even a serious threat of such an operation would cause dislocation of the trade of Malaya and of Singapore. Gen. Dobble says. The principal sufferers from auch a state of affairs. he comments, would be the business com- munity, who constitute 75 per cent of the European residents in the Colony, Gen. Dobble then stresses the obligation resting on the niciqus propaganda will be de-shoulders of the young Europeans. trimental to the peace of the Far East." Special mention is made of the news published in the foreign and Chinese press in Shanghai- disparaging the Emperor of Man chukuo.

"The thought of a garden, with Ita mingled scents, and riot of colours, comes from time to time as a refreshing breeze, and a re- minder that beyond all the noise The statement says that the con- and bustle there is an England-tinuance of "this chlidish but pez- the England of the gay cottage gardens, the trim dower beds, and the smell of damp earth ... FAMILY LIFE

"It has always seemed to me to be more lucky to be born the eldest son. You don't have to wear your eldest brother's clothes

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THE OPEN AIR "We have in our very bones the love of the open air and the open spaces." "2%

Asked by a friend what he would like best in life if he could choose, he replied:

"A day entirely to myself

CLOTHES

The statement also drew atten- tion to the "purely unfounded re- ports" that a Japanese officer had attacked & White Russian woman aboard a train and accuses the Chinese press of trying to create ill-feeling among Walte Russians in China and Manchukuo. It de clares that there is no room for doubt of vicious and deceptive propaganda on the part of the Chinese Government in its attempt to disturb the peace of Manchukuo

"Have any of you ever thought

why we men all wear these stu-Reuter. armour-plated shirt fronts? "They have caused us, and, in fact, the whole human race, untold misery."

MR. A. HARPER DEAD

THE TIMOR SEA

When the famous airwoman, Jean Batten, wanted to fly the Timor Sea her friends did every

thing possible to dissuade her. Public opinion was so against the attempt that before starting she made a public statement that Well-Known Figure weather she did not with any res should she be overtaken by bad

Mr. Andrew Harper which occurred We regret to record the death of

at his residence in Kowloon yes- terday,

cue parties sent out.

Now & new attempt has been

Thuring the past year the total strength of the Volunteer Force has registered a small increase, but there is a slight decrease in its European strength. The report says that all arms of military ser vice except cavalry are represented in the 8.8.V.F.. and it is pointed out that as in addition the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and the Volunteer Air Force are available to Singapore residents there is con-* sequently no excuse for holding back on the grounds that there is no form of service available which appeals to the particular taste of the individual. The new training camp just completed at Teluk Paku should make training effective and pleasant.

Rather Contradictory

Interest continues unabated on the question of the restoration of the temporary allowances and the fact that evidence has been Invited on the point from members of the Subordinate Civil Service is more or less an official admisston that the cost of living has gone considerably beyond the existing level of salaries. But why there should be such things as temporary allowances is a matter which is rather above the understanding of the ordinary man he temporary allowances had their origin in 1917-a period when costs advanced. rapidly all round-in order to meet the high cost of living." They were continued until the slump made it imperative that they should be withdrawn in the interests of economy and by that time they had come to be regarded as permanencies. The fact that it should now be considered necessary" to consider their restoration is in itself."a confession that if the Subordinate Civil Service is not over-worked it is under-paid, if that is not the case, why is it necessary to have temporary allowances at all? Now that the matter is to be consider-

ed by a specially appointed committee, the opportunity should be taken to weigh the merits of an adequate salary against the existing salary level plus the temporary allowances. It would simplify miat- tere considerably if the allowances were to be included as salary and the term "temporary allowances" wiped out for all time.

Mr. Ormsby-Gare And Malaya

of sea, but this time by a canoeist Ormsby Gore, the Secretary for the Colonies, at the association's an

Very interesting were the speeches made by Mr. 7. G. Ray, the made to cross this dangerous strip president of the Association of British Malaya in London, and Mr. Oskar Speck the Intrepid Gernual dinner on May 31 Like Mr. Hay, we are bewildered at the man canoeist is determined to plunges from, prosperity into depression with, which merchants have Mr. Harper came to the colony cross It. It will be remembered to contend, but we agree with him that recovery in Malays has been In 1922 as a mining engineer, but that he paddled all the way from hastened greatly by the operation of the tin and rubber control returned to the United States after Germany to Ceylon, taking three schemes Malaya remembers that the formation and carrying out of staying the for two years, me years to travel this tremendous the rubber control was largely due to Mr. Hay himself, who was obtained the Ford dealership, and distance. came back to the Colony almost distance.

immediately and carried on bast After leaving Ceylon he crossed

head of the firm of Guthrie and for long identified with araits in' this country. Mr. Ormsby Gore's tribute was well deserved when he

you, Mr.

Harper and Company until 1928 coast to Burma arid finally to the rather diffident about the part you have played in the International

when he retired

Born In USA, Mr. Harper was

the State have viewed this tech- naturally hope to halt the trend nocratic invasion with growing toward devaluation which has 5376 alarm. Although the issue has been gradually reducing the pork

been simmering for some time, content of the product: the filing of a bill in the Legis

is-Although the measure has not LOCAL MAPS Isture brings the bacon question yet been submitted to a vote, it

to a broil.

is unlikely that any strious oppo- The reform group contends sition will arise to prevent speedy. that the ingenuity of man has enactment In fact, a poll of invented machine that will Tennessee breakfast tables prob slice bacon to such an infinitesi- ably would elicit a unanimous | rica and Mr. W. Harper, managing mal thinness se to make it in chorus of "Byes'' as to the con- visible to the naked eye at a dis- stitutionality of such an act. The tance of four feet when lying on mere suggestion of opposition a white plate. By pegging the developing into a test case should slice at 1-1821, ite supporters make any jurist's mouth water.

Peak District,

Kowloon,

Victoria, New Territories.

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.

Straite and from there on to Java, where he was laid low by a very 14 years of age. He had been levere Attack of malaria,

He was expecting to be able to for about four months, and leaves TWO BODS, Mr. K. E. Harper in Ame continue his journey and to at tempt the crossing of the dan gerous Timor Ses in the middle of June, when the weather will be favourable.

| director of the well-known arm of

Wallace Harper and Company, 17 Mr. Andrew Harper had a large

circle of friends by whom he will be greatly missed. The funeral takes place this afternoon.

News_of_the_completion of his hazardous journey will be eagerly

awaited.

Rubber Scheme, and I would like to take this opportunity of tender- ing my own thanks and that of my predecessors in the Colonial Office for your unfailing wisdom, ↑ for your farsightedness, - your open- mindedness and your helpfulness on all occasiona. You represent a arm which has been established in Malays for over a hundred years. Malaya is fortunate in having leaders like you, men of vision to guide and advise us in the future deeplaner med fuga Respon

Mr. Ormsby-Gore's speech contained the almost inevitable re. ference in Jorations of the kind to the contentment of Malaya. What," he asked in an eloquent sentence, “are the guns of Sings- pore and the vast expenditure on air and naval buses unless through- all communities and all races there is a continuance of that friendship and understanding and goodwill?”: