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DAY BY DAY

the unemployed problem there, As an Instance of individual

NOTHING CAN PREVENT YOUR BE- effort, we may mention the work ING FREE EXCEPT YOURSELVES. of a clergyman in Alabama who Houry Grattan. recently got a number of friends

A BIT FISHY.

By F. W. THOMAS.

to

fatten

to buy a farm on which he is The return of notifiable diseases for

two ChineseOOD morning, everybody, day, you must understand, is now teaching some 200 miners how to the week-end shows

Gand how'd everybody easer of typhold.

last Tuesday. become farmers--and, incidentai-

That's splendid.

And the Moreover, he added, it was his ly, enabling them to grow food

Excellent, excel-intention

up those Senator Kay Pittman and Mrs. children?

until they for their families walte they learn. Pittman arrived here from Manila by lent! Pat them on the head for worms, to feed 'em

the s.s. President McKinley.

lent! Pat them on the head looked like bon constrictors or bits Other men are being taught new

fore me, will you? 10 they've of garden hose. trades-carpentry, motor repair-

Because next Tuesday, he point- Mr. J. Vincent Braga, who for the been good, I mean. If not, try

ed out, next Tuesday (which by ing, poultry farming and so on.past twenty-one years has been.Gener-patting them at the other end..

Eventually, the minister hopes, allai Agent for the N.Y.K. at Los Ange By the way, I'm sorry I didn't now is last. Therday) the coarne

les, California, has resigned as from August 1, and will be associated with turn up last Saturday, but I had fishing season commenced; and rather a bad attack of chronic that very morning, bright and the Dr. F. Robertson Travel Burenu.

oscitation. The very sound of and line to catch thousands and carly, he was going out with rod typewriter made me go all of a Admitted to the Government Civiltis-was, while the sight of a tran-thousands of the finest dace and Hospital at 5.45 a.m. yesterday, Kwok mitive vorb or a split infinitive roach that ever awallowed a hook Sop-yee, a married women aged 26,

of these men will be able to earn good livings, even if the mines never reopen. The interesting thing about all this is thut here is a minister who has found a new

method of approach to the old Į at 0.20 a.m. from the effects of opium until it was all but out of sight.

man

problem of charity. A great many ministera and a great many church organizations have done noble work in relieving distress J'among the poor. But this

has tackled the Jub from a new only angle an angle that has recently became apparent to the | modern world. He has hit upon

the simple, DAVIDUA fact

that

charity, by itself, is not enough. You can give free soup and free beds to hungry men In time of depression, but you do not, thereby, do anything to get them out of their predicament. Yout stave off starvation. you prevent death by exposure; and that very fine; but the problem mains as bad as ever, and when the next depression comes around you will have it all to do over doubt,

Mr. and Mrs. F. Winyard tender sincere thanks in their relu- tives and friends for the many kind expressions of sympathy in their recent hereavement, again. also for oral tributes sent and attendance at the funeral.

ANNOUNCEMENT.

The Wedding of Mr. T. J. Price and Miss M. E. Jones is an- nounced to take place on Wednesday, July 22nd, at 4.30 pm at the Union Church. Hongkong. No invitations are being issued but all friends will be welcome at the Church and afterwards at a reception in the Union Church Hall

DEATH.

Eventually, 70

Is

of a Sui Mung fish dealer's shop, died sent my temperature up and up, and felt sorry for it afterwards.

Now the coarse fisherman is a Naturally I went to see the dec- man whom I very much admire. poisoning, belleved to have been self- administered,

tor about it, and having felt my Providing, of course, that he isn't coarse. With undaunted tongue and innked at my bank too When he fell from a ladder on which balance, he told me to go home courage, he sits beside the bur- bling river, surrounded by flies ho was working in Queen's Rond and take a pill. Central yesterday, Chan Hung, nged However, I thought it over and a linesman employed by the thought it over, and in the end, Hongkong Telephone Company, re-instead of taking a pill, I took and pretending that he likes it. ceived injuries to the back. He is in bus.

29.

a serious condition in the Government Civil Hospital.

While riding a push bicycle along the Taipo Rond, near the four-and-a-

and wasps and other wild beasts, drowning worms as fast as he can, And he never catches anything. Nover, never, never!. . I know, Where Ducks Lay Hard Bolled because I've tried.

Eggs.

The Compleat Angler. To do the thing properly you

A large blue bus it was, that

apply

half mileature on Saturday, Master started from Tiptoe and need a small camp stool no con- went trundling and bundling . de Sousa of 25, Granville Road, through Tillingdon and Willing-structed that it will shut up as collided with a motor larry. He was thrown heavily and was taken to the on, through Dallington and Chal-suon as you sit on it: a large black rod and Hne, a few fat maggots, Kowloon Hospital where he was at-ington, over lipside Down (where bottle containing tonsil lotion, a the buttercups are blue}, and so tended for face injuries and shock.

to Pickpockets Corner; where, some robust worms, and a skin the Three Flipinos, Patroniku Salum-You will remember, the Devil tried like a hippopotamus.

Armed with these things join the local Boy Scouts, but bibes. Ammilor Solatarie and Julio to Vallesteros, appeared before Mr. J. As his tail hung down below his procedure is as follows:

Give worm a aleeping draught Fraser, at the Kowloon Magistracy knickerbockers they found him re-this morning, charged with having out and put him in the duck pund or local anesthetic, and

stowed away on the 2.8. Shinyo Maruto cool off; whereby the water got worm. Throw hook in water and from Maniln to Hongkong. On so hot that the ducks have been watch it for five minutes. Then pleading guilty to the charges, they laying hard-boiled eggs ever since go to sleep. were engh fined $50, or and month's to witness if i lie.

On waking, pull worm out, when imprisonment.

From Pickpockets' Corner you will find that he isn't there. took East by North, a half Apply another worm and proceed- East, and so came to that great as before. On waking, apply new torium to spin the trade cycle more rolling country that lies between worm, and to on ad Hb and pro Northcote and North South- bono publico, or as long as you've But i

cote: and there I walked and walk got a worm.

had swiftly towards recovery. the stock exchanges are sound veiled and walked antil I'd toria, ail is not lost. There is still enough. hop: for a considerable improve--

the nation's relief work will centre more and more about that one point. Charity la not enough, Sooner or later it must learn how to prevent distress as well as how to relieve it.

institution number

of

$1.

Waste-

to be out of

.mu

And believe me, that wasn't

off

Curva-

At regular intervals the experi eGred coarse fisherman quails a ment in the next few months, in very long. For it rained and rain portion of his tonsil totion to keep ed and rained, and I get wet malaria. And another portion off ngue. And knother It is also being felt that the that improvement, we believe, silver through three times running, and portion to keep of sciatica. The

It is bound to bad to hang myself up to dry same thing also applies to ade coming decude will 800

anis cortain to share.

march forward with the other com- the sign of the Willow Tree and noida, shingles, housemaid's knee, enormous extension of tho

modities when the upturn in the in-Wallflower, where they do very water-on-the-ditto, spinal from practice of giving money

dustrial situation gets under way, good Welsh rarebits, and keey are and thirst.

of mailed milk

When the last wurm has been the public Treasury to people who more particularly as the producers (said he, laughing heartily at fire

marvellous brew

drowned or the bottle emptied, are unable to support themselves of new silver havo already adjusted vory thought of it),

if And not only did it rain. Whichever should happen first, without assistance. The concept themselves to new conditions.

ivet then it is time to go home. Ob- of Government 48 4 paternal the silver market ware niso in aalse poured. So that. I got

growing. If the position to know roughly what througher than ever, and my trou-viously the fish aren't hungry to- ners shrunk and skrunk until my day. Or else your worms aren't quantity of the white metal it may knees wore that sunburn you'd trying. LOKE--On Saturday, the 17th

prospective

Should you run out of worms expect to receive from demonetiza never believe. And I don't blame, July, 1931, at 10.30 a.m. at his earners continues

before the bottle is empty you residence No. 29. Upper

tion sources, the outlook would be you either.

may pass the rest of the day in Pickering Street, Lake Yan all proportion to the number of

even brighter. India is the lend.

Nosey Parker, Esq. singing the following delightful Kit, also known as Lok Thau jobs available, State and Federaling factor. If the senatorial digni.

ditty, to wit: And there it was that down by Nam of Chop Cheong Henir pension and insurance laws willtaries from certain western states and Chop Cheong Yip Thong,

cuckoo towers grow (sing Holly, aged 88. Deceased left 4 inevitably increase. At present, of the United States, who have just the water meadows where the widows, 6 sons Chan Tok, pensions to widews who are un-completed a pleasant round trip inge whistle, hey-hey?) there it was Chan Hoi, Chan Kuan, Chanable to

children the Far East, studying the problem.that I met a man digging holes support their Hing. Chan

again. But with no obvious result, can even and filling them up Whye), 3

being paid in over

now persuade India through some when I asked him if it was buried And when I Chuen, Moon Wai and Wai States, but it has been shown by agency or other to abandon silver treasure he said a

sald was it has early potatoes, he Lan). 18 grandsons and 9 the Children's Bureau of the De-sales or to submit to some form of said I wasn't to be a fathead. And granddaughters to mourn his

he of Labour, after control, the public might prepare when I sug

suggested that raight lous. Deeply regretted. Funeral partment will be announced later. surveying 61 large cities, that for a rise with safety. To-day, the be digging a celery trench, mak

on the average

only about Chlef hope of improved silver prices ing a mushroom bed, building a Auous flesh, he shook his head un- third of the families aided under lies in improved business conditions house, or working off his super- these pension Inwe get as much in the world generally. Mainten-til the contents rattled.

ance of the better prices, if and However, he said. sinco as is necessary for bare existence, when achieved, will depend on the name was obviously Nosey Parker, In many States the number of lasting nature of the impotus im- Esq., he might as well tell me that It was worms he was after. Worms mothera eligible to these pensions parted by moratorium relief.

for next Tuesday. Which Tues- who are on the waiting list for exceeds the number of those actually being helped. To bring the existing pension payments up to respectable levels would entail

Hee and Chan daughters (Koi

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY JULY 20, 1931.

AMERICA'S ECONOMIC

STRESS.

ате

forty

It is hardly possible nowadays a huge rise in public expenditures. Yet these things, eventually, will to pick up an American news- paper without encountering in- probably be done, for it is re- numerable references to the wave cognised that direct payments to of depression and unemployment tile needy from the public till are which the United States, in com.going to increase, not diminish. mon with most other countries, is experiencing at the moment. One

Silver-What of the Future?

illuminating sidelight on the . If proof were needed that silver's

situation has been provided by low ebb is, in the main, an effect of figures issued by the Federation the world Industrial depression and of Labour to the effect that wage not one of its causes, auch proof cuts, part-time employment and is to be found in its reactions to the unemployment, all combined, have war debt moratorium developments, topped off more than $2,500,000 em engendered on the day of Pre-

It will have been noted that optim 000 from the incomes of American sident Hoover's generous offer pro wage-carners during the present duced a rise in the local quotation year. As last year's record was of a penny in two days, the new relatively as bad, the failure of Sgure representing the high level business to revive quickly is quite for the year. Had the offer met understandable. The knocking off with an equally generous response of two and a half billions from froin France, thore fe little doubt that the upward trend would have of the the purchasing power

continued. But the, doubté ;-and- nation in six months provides all fears provided has caused a slump the explanation needed for the to almost its earlier, favel Interest present hard times.

has been diverted to the future. There have from time to time | It is too early to judge accurately been criticisms in the United whether or not the dilly-daily of States of Britain's "dole" system, Paris has completely destroyed con- but it appears to be becoming in. Ifidence in the ability of the mora-

I'm going to tell the boss

ענת

THE ANGLER'S SONG.

(To an old, old tunc)-

Beside the stream I sit me down, With gentles rich and fruity, And strive with all my might to

catch

My piscatorial booty..

wildly flap my arms about, Ten thousand midges fighting, For they, unlike the fish I seek,

Are biting, biting, biting!

And close beside me on the bonk You'll see a large black bottle, Containing liquid that I use To irrigate my throttle And as I sit and fondly dream Of Ash I'll soon be calching, I spend the peaceful summer's

day

ใน scratching, scratching,

scratching!

Same fools prefer to play at golf,

The little white ball knocking And when they miss, expresa

themselves

In language free and shocking. But as I scratch cach new-found

brump,

No other joy I'm wishing Than just to sit and sit and sit,

White fishing, fishing, fishing/

Of course, the fun about course fishing for coarse fish is that when you've caught the coarse fish, they're not the slightest bit of good, even for the fish course. Nobody cats them. A few of the fattest are occasionally blown up with bicycle pump," and stuffed for exhibition in houses and places where sing; but when it comes to eating them-Aren't there any eggs In the house? →

And that, I think, will bg all for to-day. Assuring you of our best attention at all times, we are,

sit or madam. Well, to cut in long story short, tootle-loa!'

"Three footpadi set on

Chinesa

who was "walking along. Wongnels chong Gup Hoạt on Sched and, after assaulting him, robbed; him. of to personalen properly i

valtiod at 843.407) The victim. War Bo Sam, aged 60,'" of the Buliding contractor's "mátahi Hape, Roadki Pollice imao

the vicinity-batre B Isüanilanta wan" found