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STUPID VANITY.

By A. P. GARLAND.

secure ♫ reduction have failed. There is, of course, one important point which must not be overlooked, THORNS. one which was made by H. E. the THORNS Governor during the Budget de.Kary. bate, namely, that the sterling

The P. and O... Kalyan, fram▼ANITY in human beings as- value of the Colony's contribution Shaughni, is due toquorrow morning

sumes strange forms. From

the sa. Kalgun from Singapore.

lar. In other words, although the Colony contributes much more in Tam Wing, nged 11. who dollars, the War Office receives much | ndwulfted

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Is It Worthy Ambition?

I might also have said-and this

have

has very markedly decreased as a at 7 o'chek. By an inadvertence this the hauteur of the man that can would be the more telling indiet- consequence of the fall in the dol-vessel was yesterday referred to as trace his ancestry back to soine mont: "Like most men of your

shaggy marbuder of four centuries

type, 3*32[ aro to the potty conceit of the your body at the expense of your over-cultivated was wearer of an Old Lilliputians to mind. What profits it that your to the Government Civil there are innumerable ways in athletic age is thirty if your men- urin Tin Lok Liinu on April 3, died world that we are something out like a giat, I know, but you also You can bound nox Linas on April 8, died which we can try to convince the tal age is t

Most of these think like I port. at that institution at 2.2h a.m. to-day.of the ordinary.

Was youre E worthy ambition?

"You know, too, that in fow years time you must retire from active sports. What will you be then? A doddering chronicler of your athletic past- bore le luxe? Men will sidestep you as they would a hypochondring, or an inveterate borrower of dollars."

legs in sterling. But that is one of the inherent weaknesses of the sys. trm of assessment when applied to #Colony such as Hongkong which bus a fluctuating currency.

A

circular issued to-day notifies that a reward of $25 will be paid to any person giving information lending ar

person

charged

If, however, there is small chance to the arrest and conviction of any

with stealing of getting the method of computa-receiving motor car accessories, tion altervol, There is a strong case

Tames

We are informed thnt, owing to the

vanities are understandable.

There is one, however, that baffles me with its futility, the vanity of the veteran athlete.

Consider, for example, the case of the man who has made a god of

athletics.

aborious agenture of life?

Sport an Obsession. From his early days has allowed his love of sport to become an obsession.

Proud of his ski

•

1 had been holding forth in this atrain to IL defenceless friend Get It"suddenly countered with the remark, "Given all that, can't the same indictment be levelled against the woman that makes enormous sacrifices in order to retain her youthful beauty?" said, but, in my view, the analogy There was something in what he does not hold.

He is, let us say, in the "Roaring for exempting certain revenues The distribution of prizes of the Portlen" for census purposes, but from the obligations of the Military Holy Spirit School is to take place the realms of sport he ranks as

Walsh, huile Cross Country Pan Tiered Contribution. Indeed, Sir Williart di Batrick's, Hall, right thirtyish. He can still do a ten-

** Very Hadget Superior General of Maryknoll. New play tennis all day without an Peel fatimated in his

York, is to perform the ceremony, sign of distress, he can even that sprch

favourable COTL

through gruelling seventy minutes of Rugger as a full-back sideration might be Riven to

As a result of an argument with "Marvellous veteran" is a con- VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED the exemption of capital expendi- her son, Chan Wai-ging, aged 46, was pliment that is invariably paid to to the Government Claim and one that he more or less un vertam dertakings, admitted AT OUR STUBBS ROAD GARAGE Į ture

Hospital yesterday with

Yet to what a dreary It would be ingresting to know wound in her throat. The son, Fang pects, has he fashioned the TIIE HONGKONG HOTEL whether this mater has been fur-Ya chun, aged 17, is also in hospital, pattern

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ther explored, and, if so, what thewhere he is under chsvevation.

atrame fram {u༥༠fz, E was als fated by His Excelleurs that he would endeavour to seenre, the per- mission of the Sweetary of State for the publication of the curres.ndvisable |pondence which passed last year be

taveen Sir Coell Clementi and Lord Passfeld on the question of the in- annesi ei dence of the Contribution, Ser- Tive engagement letween Capt. Maurice Rickard Burke,

since passed M.H, RAMC., eldest son of Mr. and feral months hav Mrs. R. M J. Burke, 1. Longfield that promise was made, and we aux Rond, Haag, and Edith Mabel (Rob) sreond daughter at Mr. A. R. 4. Booth, rest that it is time more was heard DC M., RAS,C., and Mrs. Booth.

But Pee matte, In any event, in view of the special treatment wheh Jamaiza is securing, no harro esuki be down by ngan raising the whole issue, quoting the Jamalen conces sion as a precedent tur special con Įsideration Avhen, as with loagkong at prisent, unusual cinditions Pre vail. By constual pegging away. Something might be achieved.

After all, a beautiful woman is priceless gift to the work, und the longer she preserves her love- lineas the more happiness she can confer un as who kneel at her great merease in work ng custs, the

feet. Alsa! in spite of Keats..a the present low rate of exchange.

thing of beauty in not a joy for The Directors of the Chinn Light in games, he, has been unable to ever. So let it be a joy for as long Power Culpany do not consider it

declare an interim resonelle himself to the thought as possible, dividend in respect of the finovial that in the natural order of things Whereas, the wrinkled athlete year embng 30th Septeraber, 1981. violent exercise and the middle, amid n crowd of smooth-faces! thirties are, incompatible. There-

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HONGKONG'S MILITARY

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fore, he has sacrificed many of the boys is merely a curiosity. When a huge boulder at the Chû On little happinesses of Hfc. has qarry became disjudged shortly after "scorned delights

und lived yesterday, it rolled down the laborious days." hillside and struck stune breaker,

For what? Solely to retain his Pung Pat, aged 43, who lived in a but nearby. He received severe injuries athletic powera beyond the normal to the head and face and was ruiniitted age. To be out of his element, to to Kowloon Hospital, whero he died see himself lining up with his

juntors in field sports, to be ani at pan

janachronism-in short, to feed a [paltry vanity.

Mr. M. W. Stevens, formerly of Hongkong, is on a business visit 16 True. if athletic prowess were, the Colony. Mr. Stevens is now re a synonym for good health his sident in Shanghai and is special re.scheme of things would be less presentative of the United States open to criticism. It is worth Rubber Export Co., Ltd., distributors sacrificing much to keep it and of Royal Cord tyres, for which well. Messrs, Wallace Harper and Co. are the local agents.

SUGAR MARKET.

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.

treath and Co,

London Terminals, March 1932 4/9 down 14d. May 1972 671] dew# 1 d. Angust 191 6/2 down 1d. December 1931 676 down

pears to

Mothers Do Matter.

AM told that mothers do not matter any longer.

supervisors, mothers are at a dia-

Youth is asserting itself. rear- ing its young head and peering inquiringly dut Into the world. There are able teachers, able

But

athletes greht

not count. ure always

healthy main, Many 'Varsity Blues have beeame chronic invalida in the carly fifties.

Perhaps that is the reason for the unrest, for the dissatisfaction of youth as it windors from one new pleasure to another; perhaps that is what has gone wrong with our work.

For mothers do matter.

It was Mahomet who sold that

"Paradise lies at the feet of

mothers."

them. I do

Rot mean women

Ings the veteran on the stake."

Not long since I heard such a whose brilliance-shone-with-a- man host that he could run a mile radiance that dazzled the world around them, for the brilliance of in. I think, six minutes.

motherhood is far more subtle than that; it shines through its

Somehow I refrained from say ins to him, "Who wants you to 181d-run a mile in six minutes? You

juniors is positively morbid."

child.

Moreover, the years inevitably take their toll of human strength, land the strain. on the veteran's heart must be considerable. Agafn, there is the constant nerve-strain regarding the purpose of Mr. Mon

of the man that persists in fight-} Norman's recent visit to The following cable at the closing a losing battle against Nature.

He is credited with anpi the sougar market yesterday has Good health, therefore, cannot be All the splendid men have had attempt to change America's atheen received by Messrs. Pen-the object for which "superfluous brilliant mothers at the back of titude towards debts and reparas Tions. He is also said to have been engaged in silver stabilisation lis- cussions, un pretinsinary arranger- ments for the formation of an inter- for lending

The mother hersel£ is always a Faced with an internal crisis national syndicate

dis-

New York Terminals, can get there more quickly in a money to States in financial

taxi. You are simply a freak. shadowy person, standing in the ensed by the serious plight

tress. A brief passage in Mr.

March 1932 1,12 down 4 pts. You are like a boy who can waggle background, content that the child which the sugar industry finds, it-Snowiley's Budget speech, however, May 1932 1.419 down 4 pts.

his ears.

We are astonished at should be arresting the attention, to but it is she who has made the July 1931 1.18 down 5 pts.

the feat, but see no reason to selt, Jamaien, is to have its Mili-seems to offer a real clue to Mr.

September 1931 1.27 lown 4 pts. applaud. Life is something more child what he is. Try ontribution suspenideal this Norman's mission. The Chancellor

December 1931-134 dowa 5 pt than a sports ground.

Be your

Inferior mothers, must stand for year. The news is not without its of the Exchequer Again disclosed

London 0/5/81.--Decline apne. Moderate exercise is all that inferior men, and that means an be due to bad general you need nowdays, and your inferior world. The State schools, interest to Hongkong in view of the That the Treasury Is only nwaitint

embarking ondations in the United States of craving to keep up with your and later the possibility of State offorts which were recently made to the right moment for

'nurseries where everything may he hygienic and sanitary and up seenre some rellef for this Colony. Upon huge scale, lotin conversious. America.

If by any chance Mr. Norman dealt

to date, can never make up for the hudly bit as its funners have been with financial isenes on his visit

individual mother. | in consequence of the shump in sil-to Washington, heribre, it is more Ver. It will be recalled that dur-than likely that the problem of War ing the Budget debato inst year. Loan conversion was uppermost. B.E. the Governor linzarded the American assistance in carrying view that there was not the slight-through a big operation, aimed at est chance of inducing "the stony-dealing with the whole block of £2.- hearted Home Treasury" to agree 000,000,000 would be absolutely necessary British credit stands to any material reduction in long-high in Wall Street and there is kong's contribution. This state title doubt that underwriting could ment followed an unsuccessful at be placed hr New York for a suf tempt by Sir Cecil Clementi tofielent margin above anticipated secure exeraption In respect of conversions to ensure complete sur- fresh taxation levied in order tocess. Mr. Snowden's anxiety meet the cost of Civil Servante move at the first opportunity is salary revision. The Secretary of easily understood. But for the State declined to make the conces mill-stone of the Five Per Cent. War Loan, British credit would be sion. He has, however, proved less stony-hearted in the Jamaica.

case

of

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at its highest to-day. The existence

of this enormous amount at Ave per cent. sets the pace for other We remember the time, many liabilities, and prevents large sav- Years ago, when it was seriously ings in interest which otherwise suggested in the Legislative Coun- would be possible. Money is cheap eil that Hongkong's Military Con-endugh, and the demand for gilt- edged securities is. Increasing. The tribution should be limited to #

City believes that Mr. Snowden round million dollars per annum. could achieve his purpose to-mar- Since those days, so great has been row if he so desired, and that. If ho the necessity of raising fresh re-walta too long he may"mfas the venue, that the sun which this boat." But if Mr. Montagu is la Colony now contributes is almost position to give an assurance of four times that figure. The irony of American assistance, the Chancellor the system of levying is that when-will not delay very long., Britain and America ara fiiced with 'n long over the Colony needa revenue for

period of cheap money and it is any purpose whataver It must make hardly likely that such a shrewdl provision for twenty per cent, more finaneler as Mr. Snowden will al- than it needs in order that the War low the opportunities to escape him. Į

"Indeed! I have served the last three yours under the honorable Smith-Konta, the poople you didn't get an invitation

from last season1"

She has personality, she has something the State can never give the child; she understanda his temperament because he is born of her body, he is part of her soul; she sees herself in his every turn.

Only recently have we realised how tremendous a part personality plays; our forbears believed It to bo vulgar to be original; they de- rrecated anything but a sheep-lika following of the herd.

To-day we know that it is per- sonality that makes people, that hutids up Auccess, and personality not to be obtained unless mothers matter.

is

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The child confides its dreams to

Its mother. They are the beauti- ful edifices that its soul would build, and the mother encourages and helps.

She does not laugh, because she is his mother.

She does not scorn, because she holleven anything to be possible for her child' just becauso, te is her child.

The mother can make him what- over he will be, and in her öyes. there is nothing too great for him, nothing that he may not be able to accomplish. In this way bavo women made emperors and politi clans, kings and diplomats, by their splendid faith in the child, by their encouragement,

When youth shook off tho altackles at the end of the war it- was inclined to shake off the tender Tetters of motherhood. (Continued on Page 7.) |