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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1931.

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THE RAILWAY.

DAY BY DAY

tobacco are published in the Gazette. Amonded drawback regulations for

"His Excellency the Governor hast appointed Lleut.-Commander T, C. St, R.D., R.N.R., to net na Assistant Harbour Master.

THE LEGEND of the BIG

BUSINESS MAN.

By Miss ELLEN WILKINSON, M.P.......

A STATE WHICH DWARFS ITS MEN cluding the $66,388 for demurrage IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY BE MORE of waggons in 1924-25, the total | DOCILE INSTRUMENTS IN 178 HANDS, how due to the British section. is EVEN FOR BENEFICAL PURPOSES, WILL FIND THAT WITH SMALL MEN NO more than $1,025,000. Last year's GREAT THING CAN REALLY BE AC additions amounted to close on COMPLIRBED-Jolm Stuart 'Mill, $4,000. It would be interesting to know what is being done in regard

THE real trouble with business jon his shoulders is exploded by each mon is that everyone Inalata private secretary within two wocks to these claims. the total of which

on taking them so seriously.

of her appointment. goes on increasing year by year.

The Press, the cinema, and the But women clerks are a loyal race, sterner delective story writera Cheerfully, every day, they will He Is there any hope of payment?

have combined to produce for us on the telephone about the impor not. It would appear to be a sheer

the legend of the Big Business tant conference which the boss is farce to go on making these book

Manalways tired, it is true, but attending, when they know that he At next Tuesday's meeting of the encyclopaedic in knowledge, ruth is only fussing over the club sweep entries. According to recent re-Hongkong Rotary Club, the Rev. Fleas in action, grim in visage, and or talking about the scandalous ports, there have recently been G. Byrne, SJ, will spenk on "Our yet (if a suitable heroine or child slackness of the British working,

Emotional Life," discussions in regard to a suggest-

is anywhere about) ok, so tender-man, in a cafe round the corner.

Nowhere has the legend of the ed revision of the working agree.

H.E. the Governor has fixed July hearted under that iron mask.

The financial sections of the basiness man been more energe ment between

Int as the date for the coming into the two sectiona

force of the resolution altering the newspapers, and the weird jurgon leally boosted than in America, Nothing has been officially dis

reports although up to the last year or so of the Slock Exchange percentages payable valuation

broadcast by the B.B.C. at a time it took lean brains per million sterl closed on these reported conversa-rates.

when most business mon are steep, ing to make money in the United tions, so that it is Impossible to

His Excellency the Governor hosing off the effect of their dinners, States than anywhere else. No set speculate on the future plans for co-appointed Commander J. B. Newill, maintain the air of mystery which of men could possibly be thore com

ically different from the public operation.

D.S.O., R.N. (Retired), to ucts surrounds the business world.

In spite of the meas we are fa, idea of them. Harbour. Master and Director of Air Services.

everyone persists in idealising the These hard-headed" mea are man, which reverence 45 superstitious as West African enables him to act like a spoiled Negroes.

All the subways in New York, child and do things for which he would have been soundly spanked when I was over there this year. by any sensible mother his were plastered with photographs of nursery days.

To the layman, however, It would appear that the outstanding claims are perfectly valid on the existing agreement. We presume that the agreement lays down the charges to which the, Chinese secting 19 linble ender certain condi, ens. and, that oeing the ease, the claims ure surely good, inasmuch as the agreement has never been declared inoperative. If that is the posi- tion, then we cannot see why repre- sentations should not be made for payment of the sum due. It may le, of course, that the Hongkong

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A petition by Messra. John D. Hutchison for the winding up of the Wah Company is to be heard in the Supreme Court at 2.00.p.m. on

the 22nd Instunt.

The Gazette contains the list of medical practitioners for the Colony. There are 167 names on the 1st. The Dental Register, containing names, is also published.

business

Wasted Hours

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Suppose a statesman makes speech in the House of Conmans which business men do not like.

woman in the plumper middle agés who is the accredited astrolo- kist to some of the biggest business men in the city. They will put through no big deal without having first consulted her.

When I said to a banker, "But

The market, we will he told surely sensible men cannot really

Mr. F. A. Hopkins, the new next morning, has fallen two points. Assistant Superintendent of Prisons, Politicians look at each other with believe that stuff?" he replied, re- here from white faces and the country feels as likely to be as useful as any

asonably enough, "Why not? It is recently arrived Whe Cyprus, has been appointed a comunensy missioner to administer caths,

Yet all that has happened is that thing else in times like these."." some stockbrokers, after reading The English Gentleman the Governor-in-Council has given ing trains, "We'll sell some stock It is notified that is Excellency the speech, have said in their morn-

English business mon, especially directions for the rescission of the just to show him." They probably London ones, may not be as super-

of 20th January, declaring don't do anything about it, but the stitious, but usually they are Bangkok to be a place at which threat materialises as a two points busy being gentlemen that they Įplague prevailed.

fall. Then that is supposed to have have hardly any time to do busi-

Order

According to information received caused a crisis.

Or someone starts a rumour of o from the local Consulate General for

election. Immediately the Netherlands, the poll-tax, which general has to be paid for admittance into "majorities" are bought and sold Netherland East India, will be increas-on the Stock Exchange. ed from 100 gulders to 150 guilters" from July 1st next.

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The most important ones send their sons to just those schools where they are carefully taught to despise business and where a boy's aocial standing depends on how completely he is dissociated from trade and commerco. Then, with a contempt for, und ignorance of, any country but their own, and a lack of knowledge of any foreign langu age less than 2,000 years old, they are brought in to direct family busi-

nesves,

But

Subway

Hibernating.

Government, whilst aware of its loral rights, doux not intend press ing them; the public has been given no information on that point. Should they be its polley, we sug gest it would be more satisfactory to everybody concerned if the posi. tion were made clear. To carry

People attach the most exaggerat on as at present is absurd. May

al significance to this lark, which we hope that at an early date one

has as much real importance 1 cit Unoficial members of

though the odds were laid by the Council will raise the whole-ques-present nature of British policy office boys,

The amount of time these sup- tion, so that we may know just would, therefore, be regarded in

posedly overworked business men London FIS intolerable. It was waste appais anyone who really has It is gratifying to see from the exactly how matters stand?

never more firmly believed by Britto carn living. annual report of the Kowloon

tish opinion that the policy, Identi I wonder how many "man-hours" They have to compete in a world Canton Railway that, despite great-

Sed with the French Government (to use the horrid jargon of the which greatly admires the Eng- 08 a social and ly increased operating costs, this

M.. Brinnd's Polley on Trial. of insisting on an armed supremacy unemployment statistics) are wast-lish gentleman

as the precedent condition of "dised over morning coffee and lunch sartorial example, but gets on quité- Government undertaking is able to

successfully with the job of out- Mr. Arthur Henderson, whose armament." is the shortest cut to in the City of London alone. report a substantial proft for the disarmament campaign has won the

The excuse is that much business witting directors more concerned European disaster. Tho past year. Gross receipts at $97 support of all sides of the House of chanics

mere is done this way. Again I wonder, with the prospects of weekend sport of disarmament, the Some weeks ago I was invited to than the sordid details served up in 128 are higher than ever before in Commons, wilf awalt with some figures and formulae of a juridical lunch by three business men, all their manager's report.

I do not see much hope of ending the history of the railway, and the anxiety the result of the debate on instrument, would, it is felt, be an concerned with big firms, to discuss

present business depression profit would also have constituted which depends M. Briand's power empty shant unless they resulted my Hire Purchase Bill, which the

I was about to introduce. That until we have de-bunked" thin In record but for the dollar slump and influence in France's foreign from the tranquil psychology of dis lunch Inated nearly two hours, and legend of the omniscient business

which has necessitated a revision policy. There is

-involved farmed equals. It has never been would have lasted longer if I had man than the veteran statesman's per-made clearer than it is to-day that not had to return to the

House. It really isn't fair on the con- of salaries, thus materially adding soal position. The attacks upon the British nation is a friend of Two minutes on the telephone could scientious ones, who would like a to the outgoing. A total of $840 him are

bit of advice from somebody as to the outcome of a dan-Germany in as effective a sense as have settled all we did..

In case some business man mur- how to get out of, the mess, 022 was swallowed up in operation gerants movement towards extreme it is demonstrably the friend of murs politely, "But of course such they dare not ask for any, because charges, compared with $761,977 in nationalism which threatens every France. It is not going ton far, a lunch is an understandable ex- the world insists that us business 1929; nevertheless, the excess of major cause European peace-makers however.

to say that upon M.ception," I must reply in all modesty men they must know better than over expenditure was support, disarmament, the League Briand's success in the Chamber that from casual conversation I janyone else. $3.106, or only $5,661 less than of Nations, and the future position depends the whole cause of ponce gathered that they had lunched the previous twelve months. These of Germany in Europe. The diplo and disarmament, so far as it relies with someone else at similar length figures must be regarded as verymatic correspondent of the Observer jupon French support: Should M. the previous day. I hasten to add that I enjoyed that lunch immense- with the bonours, ly. satisfactory when we recall that commends Mr. Henderson for clear-Briand emerge

ly forming early on the outline of the worst of the emergency will be prior to 1928 the railway showed a

over. A different result will cause A Loyal Race. British feeling. There is nothing much serious thinking in the chan- foss every year, the adverse tal-new in it except its clarity. So cellries of Europe. ance in 1926 being over a lakh of long as the diplomacy of Europe dollars. There is, of course, au- was concerned with sectional or other side to the pictare, namely, temporary phases of the main pro- as, for instance, a the steady increase in capital ex-blem, such penditure. Last year, over $72,000 France German difference about the date of the Disarmament Cop- was added

to capital account. ference, a Franco-Italian divergence bringing the total to more than

on a minor naval point, or the $20,300,000. Even with a manth-method and occasion used for an y profil of more than $10,000,nouncing the project of the Austro- which last year'a `figures, disclose, German Customs Union, the Bri- it will be seen that the return on tish attitude tended to be reserved, capital outlay is very small and to that extent misunderstood However, the outstanding point is in Europe. When, us now, by con- that the railway is now definitely trust the trappings are torn away-

and the one radical Issue is' Joined), revenue-producing, and as time

British opinion and British policy goes on we hay hope for even betare crystallised into an unmistak ter results still, especially if curable simplicity. President Doumer- reney reform causes a reduction in gue, speaking at Nice, on his way the cost of imported stores and to Tunis, made an equally clear materials. Happily, local pass statement about French policy. enger traffic, last year showed a France, he said, "had no right, in decided upward trend, there being the absence of n strong organised International force, to allow Its an improvement over the previous own material strength to be re- twelve months of nearly nine perduced below the level dictated by eent. in numbers and thirteen perits need for security and the inte cont. In receipts. On the othergrity of its home and oversen ter- hand, goods receipts were down ritory," The deliberate nature of. alightly, this being attributed to so disturbing a statement, ac the trade depression.

contualed by a similar statement Th old question of cluinis out-by M. Maginet which preceded it, standing against the Chinese sec proves that, French feeling la even more determinedly founded on the tion is again raised by the part-protocol mentality than at any time culars given of additions thereto since the Armistice. In present during the past year. Whilst it le conditions, It is difficult to ignore. something to the good that dobits the possibility of a French, expan- In respect of demurrage and hirosion in land, and air, as in naval, of rolling stock during 1980, were larmaments. Any ambiguity in the

PEILU. 4. PAT, OFF.

Of course, the logend of the Tired Business Atlas bearing the world

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"Maybe you'd better add something more to that order, William, The waiter didn't look very-er-pleased."

people

NCE H. G. Wella confessed

dually but loved them in the mass. Undoubtedly he penned his confes- sion in his library. In the subway he would probably have reached the conversa. conclusion.

The reason has nothing to do with social philosophy. The strap- hanger's point of view is simply a response to contact. Travding in the aubway, human quality' sheds like a garment as soon as three or more converge in the stampede to get home.

to

Subways differ little from one on. other. The metro in Paris, the underground in Berlin or Tokyo. the tubo in London, or the sub in New York-they all have their rush hours. But in degree the New York variety of pandemonium would probably rank supreme. For subways are the ideal places observe the pressure of population on space, which is the chief

charac teristic of Manhattan Island. At Times Square, for instance, with almost 100,000,000 nickels dropped Into its subway stiles every year, the sardine magnate who offered a prize to the man who could tell him. how to pack another fish in his ean might pick up

a lesson or two.

Or more Importance, however, is an idea to help the subwayites to rasiat that feeling of mobbishness which surges over them on their crowded way to their straps. Many methods have been' suggested., From Walter Lippmann comes tho notion of quietiam as an "escape": from a modern" sessing the environment pos York tempe. Clearly he must have had the sub- way in view, and the word must be

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