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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1928.

in this very ability of the human.

frame to acclimatise itself to

noises lies the real dangor.. ́It is

DAY BY DAY.

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Tenders are being invited for the construction of a road bridge at Mile 10 on the Kowloon-Canton Railway.

Tenders are being invited for the erection of a one-storey build ing for the purposes of a wire Icas station on the Peak.

LETTERS FROM

22. The Proble

HONGKONG.

Conclusion.

true that the brain can be trained CHILD SCOURGED-Ben Sira. to eliminate unwanted sounds and that after a period the elimination The Hongkong Government is becomes semi-automatic, but, asking tenders for the purchase of

a Priestman grab dredger. none the loss, it absorbs energy.

In my last latter I stated as plain-mellow understanding. Hongkong “ ly as possible what are apparently society Is severely restricted. We Nature, will no doubt in time |: The Gazette contains rules made the two points of view as between are thrown very much on adjust itself to the new conditions, by the Chief Justice under Section the Civilians and the Military. I our neighbours. I have at. but that is no reason why every 4 of the Suitors' Funds Ordinance, will not attempt to cast any ba tempted in some of

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lance between them, partly because letters to Introduce cortafn effort should not be made to re-

they are such definite "points of characters to you, as the only way ! duce noises to a minimum. The

view," in the influencing of which of making tolerably clear the little annual loss to England from noise

argument is well nigh powerless; sociological differences which make has been estimated at several mile

partly because we are all either the indulgence of new acquaint- civilian or milltary (I think the aneeship sometimes rather a hale lions sterling a year, and the

Navy can be classed with the Army raising event. I think it is fairly In this matter) and therefore our évident that for sensitive people, slogan now being used at Homo

balance is likely to be blessed; but whether military or civilian, the fa: "Noise Means Waste.". If that

mostly because, as I already hinted result of one or two experiences of Sa so, then Hongkong's officiency

in several previous letters, the more a similar nature might quito wall I think about it the more it seems be to induce a certain hesitation! must be seriously affected by the

to me that the problem is not aim-before plunging again tɔo gallantly daily distraction caused by ún

His Excellency the Officer Ad-ply that of Civil versus Military, Into the human gen necessary noises in our business ministering the Government has op wit, Resident voraus Newcomer.

bút a much more general one, to

Are thoro any remedies to tho. centre. Our laws on the subject pointed Mr. Walter Richardson The Civil versus Military pm-trouble? Or, first, are remedies are certainly, not so thorough- Scott to act as his Privato blem would be what the mattomat required? Do we want to become cians call a particular case, since better acquainted with these pro- going as they might be, and In Secretary.

soldiers are always turning up in ple, whose thought-processes we particular something should be

fresh batches, and, for certain find it so difficult to understand? done to prevent the intolerable

temperamental reasons, they gen-Is the learned professor from tho erally remain newcomers through-| University to honob with Captais out their stay. The military man L, whose sole weekly literature, has few business dealings with his consists of, the Pink-un' and the fellows, he is not a politician even News of the World, or the worthy in the municipal sense, and, apart Major S., who is hard put to it to from games and sports, he enters send enough money Home to give but little into the civilian life of a decent education to a promisingį. the place, unless the civilian life young family, to assist in the en- happens to come his way, which, tortainment of the superler Mr. T.,, for reasons already stated, occurs who does a little laconic salesman- but seldom.

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Hongkong Telegraph married

SATURDAY, SEPT. 15. 1928.

are

Bachelors in Malaya, The amusing semi-serious social controversy now raging all over Malaya, with bachelors and

couples

ranged on opposite sides, is curiously remin acent of our recent Femina "candal," One might almost auggest that benign creature, un- able to stand Peaky knees any longer, and having consigned the unrelenting males of the Colony to their rightful place, has spread her wings and migrated south, We should have thought that Malaya, where the ward-leaving Judging from papers to hand, conventions are preserved in all extraordinary public Interest is their earnestness, where custom makes demands which keep the at present being taken at Home mere male in better control, would in the question of noise have suited the lady's constitution, and its relation to health. Sound, but of course, it is impossible to

NOISE AND HEALTH.

Do you know that——

The Hongkong, Canton and Macno Steamboat Company'a firat steamers were formerly.. American-owned?

The Company was formed .on October 20th, 1865, with a capital of $750,000. The principal promoters then pur- chased the popular American Eteamers Kinshan, Kiuklang and Poyang, White Cloud and Fire Dart from Mr. Douglas Lapraik.

The Arst Directors were Messra, P, Framjee, W. Neil- H011, D.

A. Lapralk and Sassoon.

In 1871, the Company bought up two competing steamers, the Spec and the. Spark.

...

Prior to the establishment of this Company, there had been formed, in 1848, the Hongkong and Canton Steam- Packet Company, of which the Arst Directors were Mesara,

D. Matheson, A. Campbell, T. D. Neave and F. T. Bush, but this concern did not last more than five years.

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I have written fairly fully about numerabio cocktails in the evening, the "griffin complex" in my letter and drives an expensive-looking about this species. It will be suf- American car to Repulse Bay on ficient hore to quote a certain gen- Saturday afternoons? tleman who has lived in the Colony It is perhaps a little too much to a matter of twenty-five years, and ask, yet at the basis of: it all there remembers the days when all the still remains the question of ex- the best people owned private pediency. Ignorance always broeda If nations understood rickshas and the Telegraph was suspicion.

housed in a small building paying each other's ways, it is often as- $400 a year rent. He said, "I don't serted that there would be no wars, want to be bothered with a lot of A small community like Hongkong young chaps; they taust put them is in some sort a unit, 'whose of aclves but to make my ac-fielency, influence in the world, and quaintance."

even the pleasantries of existence As for the new arrival, ho is in-therein (a consideration well worth clined to find the old resident with keeping in mind) are largely do- his roots well in the place, perhaps pendant on the harmonious rela n trifle mossy.. Some of it is the ions of its different strata. It is natural view that youth takes of a melancholy thought that here, age the whole world over. But where few Englishmen · aro there are also a few well-developed gathered together a very long away sentiments, such as these expressed from Home, there are, there must from time to time by Mrs. J. who be-people who would be mutually came out with with us in the same of interest to each other but who, boat. Mr. B., one of our better becausù of our well-known racial known residents, is a smallisht, dark, reserve, auperimposed on the

little conversation. Mr. J. Bays we have been investigating, pover man with sociable instincts but curious conditions of the problem about him, in her soft argument even discover one another. tive volce,-"People say he's clever. 4

like the poor, we have always had foresee exactly what effect the change of climate will have. with us, but nolue,, the irregular However, the married of Malaya

It is notified that the Governor- and discordant vibrations of the appear to be in a militant mood, in-Council, has authoriand as nir, is largely a modern develop the outery having started in Ipoh place to be used as a cemetery and and spread to Kuala Lumpur and to be known as New Kowloon ment. The mechanisation of the

Singapore. The bachelors are Cemetery No. 3, the piece of land world has led to the production of accused of dreadfully bad manners containing approximately 19.7 a particularly dangerous type of in their failure to return the hos- acres, suated at Cheung Sha noise, to which nature, as yet, lupitality which they receive front Wan.

married people. The attack was

pecially in large towns. Here in Hongkong, where we are all moro

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Of course he must be clever. But Fielding, travelling to Llabón then, you know, he is such an ass." with the dropsy, found his chief concern, not in the discomforts of Finally there is a more subtlehla ailment, but rather, in an oc-

all British distinction. In

com-casional lack of someone with whom munities there are certain strata of to converse. We may say that it society which, for want of a better was one of the signs of his genius term, must, at the risk of seeming to be able to talk equally freely with by no means accustomed. The launched by "Daring Daisy," She His Excellency the Governor invidious, be called classes, Thea 'bishop or a barmaid; but it is problem is a 'serious one, for it has been warmly supported by Administering the Government, danger in the use of the word lles for consideration whether our own correspondents the Hon. W. T. Southorn, C.M.G., in the fact that it generally im restricted range of conversation la has been established that health some newspaper

though the bachelors are vigorous- is seriously affected by the growly defending themselves, Shock- has expressed his intention of beplies cortain dividing lines which, not merely a total lack of practics, That a remedy is desirable is coming dimmed under the democra- ing volume of noises. associated ing examples of Straits "pikers" ng present at the Queen's Theatre if they ever existed. are fast he brought on by lethargy. with present-day civilisation, es- have been quoted, and there have to see the famous Jungle picture tie influence of a liberal education, therefore a proposition capable of ·

"Chang" at the 5.10 p.m. perfor. What I mean by classes has very argument. To decido on, or oven been some neat answers. Ono

little to do with aristocracy, or to suggest, what that remedy bachelor suggests that the dis-mance on Tuesday next.

trade, or knowledge. More than should be, requires a degree of pre- gruntled lady who led the move-

Amongst the passengers who anything else, I think the test lies sumption that even the most hard- ment is not so much upset by an alleged abuse of her hospitality as arrived by the President Jefferson in conversation. You talk to aened journalist might well shrink

in your own class from. by a lack of responsiveness in her were biases J. and G. Ho. Tang, mun ho understands what What I have endeavoured to do guest; and he enters a strong pro-Miss A. Armstrong (Secretary of and

an not disagrees can, so that we can examino it lest against the men being in the U.S. Embassy), Mr. Ho Kom- you mean, laughe at the same jokes, is to lay the problem as bare as I velgled into more "poodle-faking" tong, Mr. Ho Sai-chong, Mr. He and, as likely just as they are settling down to Sai-man, Mrs. B. A. Proulx, and cheerfully with your opinions. On quietly in its various aspects; and restoring the sporting prestige of Mrs. S. E. Allen (representative what a different footing do we meet at the same time to introduce you very education which, as I have circumspection than tact) to some the Premier State. It is a common of a large group of British cotton- some of our acquaintances! That (with, perhaps you will say, more saying that there are two sides to spinning companies).

said, is blurring the edges of the of the views, characters, and types, every question, but this particular

old compartments, grades with a of the people to be found here. If one, which is intriguing Malaya

The following forthcoming wed-greater nicety these other shades what I have said in any way helps to be appears

us to understand each other better, Apparently Straits bachelors are sings are announced: Mr. T. G. of understanding.

Paterson, consulting marine en- Now these strata, or classes, ex-or even, without trying to under- expected, by social custom, to call gineer, Hongkong Club, to Marionist both in civilian and military stand, to peer around occasionally upon married people. The Hong Dumont, (widow), nursing sister, life; and the reason why we are at our neighbours, to ask ourselves kong young man invariably awaits Victoria Hospital; Mr. A. Me- more affected by them here than (and them if we can bring our an invitation. It is, however, safe Arthur Thomson, overseer, P.W.D., elsewhere is undoubtedly one mere-selves to it) what they are think- to presume, no matter in what Tytam Tak Pumping Station, to fly of surface capacity. In a largo ing about, and why-I feel that part of the world the bachelor Miss E. F. H. Shearer, No. 2, place like England, there is plenty we shall, at any rate, have taken a may be, bls object in visiting is not Octavia Cottages, Greenock, en of room for everyone to find his step in the right direction. merely to seek hospitality, but route to Hongkong by the s.8. own level in an atmosphere of

or less herded together in the relatively small confines of the Colony, we have the same problem to face, but it is for the most part confined to street noises, with practically nothing in the way of disturbances created by Industrial works, such as is the case in many urban areas at Home. Motor cars, lorries, buses, motor-cycles, tramcars, and hawkers-these pro- vide most of the racket which maltea Hongkong, to use the words of a recent visitor, one of the noislest cities in the world.

multilateral.

to form acquaintances and thus Macedonia, make life a little less monotonous. The average young bachelor would find it totally boyond his means to return the hospitality of all his married friends, and normally, they do not expect it.

Professor A. M. Lowe, the emm- ent scientist, has recently been giving his views on this problem, and they are worth noting. He points out that the full effects of noise on the human body are still not generally realised.. When a member of the household is ill, wo walk on tip-toe and place straw in the street outside to damp out the noise. But, says Professor Low, it is obvisus that noise also Paris affects us when we

well. Now York

Brunzele Phyalcal energy is necessary to

Geneva resist the attack of noise. The Amsterdam attack is only the more dangerous Milan Berlin

art

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becauso it is invisible. Export- Stockholm moats have proved that the pro- Copenhagen

Vienna duction of certain sounds CAR

Prague make a man physically ill. A Helsingfors

Madrid mile walk along a busy thorough-

Lisbon foro produces a feoling of tired- Athens ness that cannot be accounted for Bucharest

Rio

by physical exercise. It is alm-Buenos Aires ply the result of the nerves re- Bombay

Shanghai sisting-the numerous noises of the. Hongkong

say Yokohama

Allvar (spot). Silver (forward)

street. People, of course, that they can got used to noises, but according to Professor Lowe,

London Sept. 14.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

LADY FLIERS.

[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]

GUILLOTINE SCENE. VICTIM'S STRUGGLE WITH EXECUTIONERS.

Rabat, Aug. 23.

"A thrill ran through the whole of Morocco when, for the first time

DEATH FOR

ZIM.

INCURABLES.

REPORTED, NEW LAW IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA,

Berlin, Aug. 23. According to "Cesko Slovo," e

in that country's history, the guil-supplementary law to the Czecho lotine was set up and two heads slovakian criminal Code fa, being fell.

Sir, I have read with interest

prepared which is to permit the 4.86 1/16 the reports in the papers about the

Casablanca was the scene of the putting to death of incurably ill .84.00 proposed Flying Club for Hong execution, and long before day persons.

26.20 kong, but I have seen no mention break a large crowd, composed of According to this paper, the new

.12.10 | of Indy Members,

92.15

875

....

natives, who had come from all law is to provide that euthanasia

It would be interesting to know parts of Morocco, assembled around may take place after a certificate if, ladies are going to be allowed the prison and in the square where has been granted by at least two .18.18

doctors and laymen, .18.10 to become Members, not only Athe guillotine was erected.

The "Cesko Slovo", states that. It 84.42%sociate Members but Flying Mem-

Two Arabs were the victims-learns, further that conscious or .163bers.

Bou Djemaa Ben All, who had mur-junconscious abetting of suicide will 103%

Those responsible for starting dered, a Frenchman at Wedzem, no longer be penalised, Abortion, 20.46% the Club surely must have realls and Moktar, the assassin of three the paper continues, is likewise to 107ed that the ladies of Hongkong are members of the Courroux family, be permitted when a mother has al- just as keen on flying as their ein-in whose employment bo was. ready had three children; or in

The former went to his death other exceptional circumstances. 5.20/22 tors at Home, and there are over .47.11/82 200 lady Members of the Flying with true fatalist stoleism, but Divorce, la to be granted if one 1/5.31/92 Clubs in England.'

Moktar, who was greeted with of the parties to the marriage. Is Perhaps if you give this pub-hostile cries by the crowd, shrieked incurably diseased. Welty an answer will be given. Insults at the President of the

The use of the guillotine has Court and struggled with the execu tioners, who. had to, put hla head made a profound effect on the by force under the knife.

population.

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MISS HONGKONG;"

Hongkong, Bopt. 14th, 1928.