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ROTARIAN ADVOCATES A THOROUGH RE-ANALYSIS

SYSTEM OF ECONOMIC

Speaking to the Rotary Cob of Hongkong at their week y riffin meeting yes.erday on the theme "Some Thoughts of an Ama our Economist. ROTARIAN H. L. DAWSON advocated a thorough re- analysis of the economic system now followed throughout the world and suggested that the present world war was brought about by A capita ist economy that was fall cious in the extreme and undemo- cratic even if practiced

pm matced in democratic countries.

ONE-ACT PLAYS IN AID OF "BOMBER FUND"

Fine Performances At St. Andrew's

SPORTS & GENERAL

C.C.C. ELEVENS FOR SATURDAY

The following will represent the Craigengower First and Second

teams agabist the Indian Recrea tion Club on Saturday, Dec. 21, a

2 pm

Cost - (Home)—_ _G

COTTAGE CLUB XMAS HUNT

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1940. SPORTING FIXTURES

TODAY BADMINTON. - "B" DIVISION: Section ("A," J.RC. V.King's

Hongkong Golf Club, at Jardine: Matheson's Office, 3.15 p.m.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21

Cavalcade Arranged doge VR.C. Chums Wah. FOOTBALL First Division: Eart

For Boxing Day

Souza, A. K. Imall, B. L. Bin- moria, A. J. Halse, B. R. Iranée, The Cottage Club paper-htt A. B. Hamson, E. A. Lee, W. Hong | for "The President's Cup", which sling," J. L. Younggaye and M. C. it is hoped to make an annual hung. Reserve, EH Esmail. dvent, will take place on the after- C.C.C. 2nd XI (Away):-A. M. Hoof of Christmas Day, Dec. 25, Omar, A. Hung, J. W. Leonard, W. [starting from the Club House. K. Way, 8. Leopard, N. Broad-.

There will be a draw for ponies. by Members of the Cottage Club at 3:30 pm and the hunt will more

St. Andrew's Church Hall was packed to capacity läst night when [the St. Andrew's Club raged three "There are conservative people "Masa cottonwool gets married to fone-act plays, in aid of the "Bomb. In every age who think that unless a feudal prince ot some torelanter Fund*** things. s.ay as they are, the whole coun.ry. Iné jirts á thé Catun- "Murder at the Bugginsesa bridge, T. Lock, O. M. Omar, U. H. social order may be amused. wool Barguta store continue to comedy-thriller, was very well pre-Ismail, E. Mitchell, and C. W. Lam Many of you may think that there work on very moderate waves, and sented and throughly deserved the Reserves, T. Edgar and L Chos is very little wrong with the pre- the management continue to use ovation it received. Among the dent system, so let as examine a their brains and bright deas, in cast was its producer, Mr. A. C.

-said.

Rugger XV

few examples, Rotarian Dawson order to maintain the now of divi- Jettreys who took the past, of Pa Navy Quadrangular

dende to the princel.nga and their Buggins. Robins Andress was. "The greatest money-maker in descendants in perpetuity. Is that Grandma, and Rita Cole Mrs. Bug- the history of the word was Rocke-the way to encourage enterpriseins. feter. He constructive work in and initiative and to develop the burding a great business must be econome system? admitted as must be h's pioneering

Others in the cast were Grace Let us study the effect of mul. Darby as Emma, Dora Lanchester m the. De'd of efficiency and hon-pying the Cottonwool system or teacher, Dorothy Shaw and Dorothy as Miss Meekin the Sunday School est administration. H's vast dona- In.ernational Politics. The wealth Wilson as the two neighbours, Mis tions to charity must be admired of Japan is concentrated in the riggins and Mrs. Molar, and Ralph for their broadness of conception bands of about eight fam lies. Be-Spencelayh and Lesile Millingtán and dignity of purpose.

tween them these families own as Ern Wilson and Charlie. Daggs, half of the bank deposits, three-friends of the "Old Man."

of the trust properties quarters. and rather, over one-quarter the insurance reserves,

MANY CRITICS

"What then is there to criticise? He had many critics in his time, most of them unjustified. Let us o back to the year 1849 when America was aflame over the dis- covery of goa.

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off at 4 pm,

The participation of non-mem- bers, who can provide their own ponies, is cordially invited and in- vitations in this connexión havè) déen despatched to other Budt The following will represent the and riding clubs, Individual ridesk Royal Navy in the Quadrangular will also be very welcome.

In addition to the PRESIDENTS Tournament against the Club on

ground, kick-on at 1 pm. Saturday, Dec. 21, at the Navy GUP", which will be presented to the winner of the hint, there will

TIFFIN PARTY

Bection "B" St. John's v. Police: K.CC. v. Kowloon Tang. BILLIARDS. — Garrison League, U. M. Police v. RA.S.C., 5th” ·‚Ä‚A. Rest. v. RA.P.C., 12th Heavy Rgt. v. Signals, Fortress, RE, 7. RAM.C. R.A.0.C. V. Royal Scots. HOCKEY-Royal Corps of Signals

Alfe Association Spoon" and Practice Shoot, at Kowloon City, 1.35

Ruyib “A

ern v. Middlesex (Carolins HD!). St. Joseph's v. Royal Scots (8) Joseph's), Kwong Wah v. Kow- loon (Boundary Street), Club Navy (Club), 4 pm. Second Di- vision: Ordnance F. Sing Tao (Military), 230 pm Navy Kowloon (SL Joseph's), 2.30

7. Destroyers, Navy Ground.p.m. South China v Middlesex King's Park, 2.30 pm (Caroline Hill, 2.30 p.m., Kwong RIFLE SHOOTING, Hongkong Wah v Royal Scots (Boundary Street), 230 p.m., Club v. Service Corps (Club), 2.30 pm Third": bistelon: Bighals AP Force 1chathani Road), 4 8.24 25th BA International (Bockun- poo), 230 pm; în RA, V. 12th RA (Blitary) # p.m. En- neers v. koth RA (500kuriboo), 4 p.m.

VA". Nav, Club

ground, 1.45 p.m. SWIMMING.~Y.M.C.A, Swimming

and Swaming Instruction. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20 MEETING. Annual,öf Royal

FORTHCOMING MARRIAGES

angs are announced:

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GARRISON BILLIARDS

FIXTURES

The following forthcoming wed-

"The following are today's fiz- Eures in the Wafron Billarda Mr. Ng Tu-man, merchant, re-Tournament: On Boxing Day, the Cottage siding at No. 83, Prince Edward Club is holding its antibal Kwas Road, and Miss Ho Bin-yee of No. tiffin party at 1 pm, and the 12, Kilung Street

Lt. Morshan; 8/LA McGill, Tel also be a "Ladies' Cup" for the Honeywill, A/Ldg Tel Paul Arst lady home and a cup for the A/Ldg. Tel Bowden: Mid O'Rior- second rider to finish the course, dan. Lt. Rutherford; B/Lt. Winter, Lt. Watson (Capt.), Sergeant Man -

FINE PERFORMANCE

Celd, C.P.O. Wir King, F/Lt Taf for, A.B. Longmuir, S/Lt. Beattie, "It is quicker to telephone" kept/Lt, Poole. the audience in constant laughter RESERVES; — S/LL.. CHEAP LABOUR "Japan has experienced a quick John Mouton. Charles Thom, and (E) Brown, LAC. Brockham

and the players, Janet Broadbridge, Cat. Lamble, LSA Palmer, Lt. change-over from Feudalism to Rita Cole...are to be congratulated

FRIENDLY GAME Capitalistic Industry. This

has on giving such a fine performance. enabled the Industrial leaders, with "Send her victorious," produced 10 years old, made an equa vested interests, to organise ef- by Mr. Stanley Tafford, was on a meet the Club in adriendly match will be drawn for at the Club.

fciently with cheap labour, with no more serious theme and tells of

limitation of work ng hours and no but why spoil the enjoyment of minimum of age limit.

those who intend to see these plays

"Young John Rochkefeller, Just

famous d'scovery for himself,

discovered interest.

He

"One day he was told a farmer. near-by, wished to borrow $50.

Kennedy,

On the same day Navy "A" will

the Club gyud kick-of at 245 pm, and be represented by the following

President and Committee will wel- Come members, their families and thelr friends,

A cavalcade has been arranged for Boxing Day morning at 11 am.. to return at 1 pm, and ponies

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Mr. Tsui Tun-wo, of the China Products Co., Ltd., residing at No. 14. Salkung Street, Kowloon City, and Miss Wong Man-ning of No. 312, Canton Road,

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CM Police v. RASC.; 5th AA.. 19. RAFO.; 12th Hty, Rgi, v. Royal Bignal; Fortress, R.E. v. RAMC.;. RAO.C. v. 2/Royal Scots,

"CHESS RESULTS

Mr. Tse Kl-shum, rice merchant,

The following were the results of residing at No. 28, Poplar, Street, matches in the Junior Tournament. and Miss Wong Bi-yu of No. 152 of the Kowloon Chess Club cham- pionship played yesterday: J. Grefalda beat V. V. Ko'stchoff;

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The competition of this cheap on Thursday, Dec. 19. by divulging (Capt). Alley, P. Wilson, Jones,

F/LL WB/Lt Kennedy: Ldg. Sig. Mitchell, Mid Murray-Gloucester Road. The farmer was willing to pay labour helped to increase the cycle the theme of this charming play PO. seven per cent interest. This boy. lof depression in other countries

Cadet Lamble, RESERVES:-P.O: Clough, 8/Lt. wise in money beyond his years, and, it appears, the profits from taking part Leslie Goodwin, Ralph Richards, P.Jones LAC. Stock-S/Lt. Sumner,

Suffice it to say that all those B. Rees; LSA Palmer, 3/Lt. Danger. LAC Gracie. A.B. Smith, Joaned the grown man $50.

the Industrial expansion in Japan Dormer, tris Joyce, Rupert Baldwin. ham P/O Baugh, S/L Carey, 5/Lt. Eager.

Cadet Thornhill, "A year later the farmer handed did not benent the workers in and Aleitha Hirst played their John $50 and three dollars and Japan.

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respective characters exceedingly

fifty cents interest along with It. Thus, Instead of creating well, and fully deserved the ap- The quiet, solemn-faced boy looked home market, there came a press-plause accorded them. hard at that interest... He been fing need for foreign markets. The

hoeing potatoes for another man present system of cap'ta Ist

ANTI-T.B. ASSCN.

and had just been paid for the economy leading to over-produc- DONATIONS TO H.K. work. It amounted to 371 cents a tion, with its necessity for erpan- day, which was very good pay for slon, its drive for markets, and the a boy.

trction arising from the intense "As he looked at his interest- icompetition between an increasing money in fluminating thought number of industrial nations leads broke in h's mind. This $3.50 in-the world to war.? terest was as much as 10' days' -pay. This $30 had been working"

SPEAKER THANKED

The Hongkong Anti-Tuberculosis Association acknowledges with thanks the folowing donations and subscriptiōns :-----

Hon. Philp Samuel $100, Mr. La Rotarian Dr. Arthur Woo presid- Po Kwat 100, Mr. J. E. Joseph 100, for him a') through that yeared at the meeting, and Rotarian Dr. G. W. Pope 5, Dr. H. H. Tai á,

night and day, and had earned for him as much as he could earn Chester Wong thanked the speaker. Dr. W. Ware 5, Condderatick himself, working hard all day for Rotarian Dr. Arthur Woo read out Life Association 5. Dr. J. M. Gry ten fall days. What if he had a letter of invitation from Mr., Mr. MR. Deb §. Dr. T. M. Ts01 other $50 at work and many of John Yuen, for the Chairman and Dr. Teng Pin Hul 5, Dr. R. M. them. The discovery fascinated Drectors of the Chinese Manufac Alderton 6, Mr. J. G. Hooper 5, Mr. bim. In later years he said:turing Union, extending an invita-W. Carrie 5, Dr. G. E. Yeoh -5, "From that time bnward I deter-tion to all Rotarians to attend the Dr. C. C. Petrovaky 5, Dr. F. P. Kuo mined to make money work for opening of the Fourth Annual All.. Dr. W. C. Woo $, Mr. Lam Shin Kwong 5, Mr. J. H. Gelling. 5, Mr. China Products Exhibition at 3

A. H. Bentley 5, Mr. Peter S. Wong p.m. on Sunday.

The following guests attended: 5, Mr. J. M. Reidy 5. Mr. G. E. Har

rizon 5, Dr. Wong Hok Nin 5, M. E. M. Raymond 5.

me."

STILL INTACT

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"He gave the Rockefeller Founda- Messrs. Kan Yuet-keung, P. tion alone over $182 million and be-Potts, Leigh Gardner, Philip Sa- tween 1922 and 1928 the Fockefeller (muel; Dr. Wong Man (Shlokwan). Foundation gave away over $141 ¡Noel Bragà, C.. A. Hobbs and Dr. m.llon. After which the principal |Samuel, was still intact.

his colleagues.

AN APPRECIATION

gifts and accomplishments possess- ed by the deceased lady.

A great part of her extremely active life, was devoted to the healing and comforting of those in need of moral and material aid.

Mrs. F. J. Gellion or guidance or in mitigating the

sufferings of all those-and there, were many--who appealed to her for help.

"In the first 40 years at his oil organisation, the, workers received in wages over $800 milión In that same time Rockefeller and a few associates had drawn a sum equal. sarge in dividends brid there still remained, as, undistri-

A memorial service in honour of buted assets, a stim as large again, the late Madame Gellion took place the property of Rockefeller and at the Penha Church on Saturday, Her benefactions were widely Dec. 14, and was attended by the distributed, many of them un There seems to be something leading residents of the Colony, known to others until after the out of gear in a system that among them His Excellency the lady's death, and were always makes so disproportionate a distri-Governor of Macao, Commander given with kindliness and simpll- bution of the rewards of industry. Gabriel Teixeira and Madame jelty and to a large extent with Remember this alihappened mm. Teixeira, and many others, The complete anonymity, while the spite of the fact that Rockefeller service was conducted by His Lord-assistance given by her to those pald as good, if not better, wages the Bishop of Macao, D. Jose da the needy was never begrudged, than most of his contemporaries: Costa Nunes.

regardless of the station of life of and Rockefeller did not loot his The late Mrs. Maria da Piedade those who appealed to her for as- enterprise through e medium o: Telles de Menezes Gellion who alstance. stock-jobb ng operations, as, most, passd away on Dec, at her re- With the passing of this lady. of his contemporaries "did. N sidente "Skyline”, from a heart Macao has lost not only one of "His organisation was looked attack, following a relatively short its most gifted and distinguished upon, in the matter of administra- illness was well known all over citizens but also a friend of the tion and treatment of labour as the Far East, and the Macac preks whole community, as shown by capitalistic administration at its continue to publish appreciations the enormous attendance at the very best, But even at its best of the deceased lady, while tele- funeral and the memorial service Capitalism, as a system, may need grapme messages of condolence which took place for the repose adjustment.

with her berehved · Husband' Mr. of her soul, ***

In one of the articles which "What of the public divided in J. Gellion, General Manager of the way of lower prices for all? the Macao Electric Lighting Com-appeared in the Macao "A Voz de There is little evidence that Rocke-Dany, Limited, and the 'Macao Macau" In honour of the late Mrs. feller's organisation was ever ac- Water Buuply Company, Ltd., and Gellion the writer lays states un tuated in his day by any over-Vice Consul for Great Britain, the fact that "Providence, mastering desire to lower prices.

"BABY COTTONWOOL"

to

have been 'received from the wide whom the great qualities which clicle of friends of the late Mra. | were such an important part of Gelich. Throughout the Far East. her being were known, has so or- As another erample of the pre-as well as from friends and rela-dained that she has been called sent economic system, Mr. Daw- tives in the U. 8. A. Portugal and to a well-earded-restrand son suggested a actitious example England,

eternal happiness and 'this' thought

In "Miss Baby Cottonwoolshe Mrs. Gellion was a member of should help to console and tom- Inherits a few millon pounds from the old Portuguese nobility and a fort the bereaved husband in her father and, by reason of her lady in the highest sense of the the heavy loss which he has wealth bione establishes not only term, and inked with her dis suffered by the loss of his gOOL for herself but for her great-grand- tinguished descent the possessed and devoted companion, or so children, as infinitum, a claim to extraordinary qualities of mind and many years, while to the Tamne be supported by the community in character, and the Macao press and all her friends her memory perpetual demets and luxury, point out her nobility of purpose, will remain always as 'a'name en- without contributing any further self-abnegation, and generosity all raved in letters of gold becatise effort towards the common bene in conjunction with the great the truly great and one quhli-

personal charm and exceptional ties of her heart and character.

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