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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Not a great deal of information

equilibrium between debtar, and creditor countries, between wages,

profits and interest charges, and between primary and manufactur-

ed commodities. They

DAY BY DAY

are nol,

A COLLEGE EDUCATION SHOWS A howover, sanguine about the pros- MAN HOW LITTLE OTHER PEOPLE pects of getting common inter- KNOW.-Halliburton.

The body of Lau Lo, aged 27, who was drowned whilst weighing anchor at Aberdeen on Friday fast, has now been recovered,

Inbour:

I

Crisis--But the Englishman Keeps Cool.

By ARTHUR WEIGALL.

AM in the habit of spending a flargely untaxed, because the nu- part of each year in the United thorities over there say that to States, and every time I return bring luxuries within the reach of see England with eyes from which the masses helps to do away with the dull spectacles of familiarity class, creates a far more general de- mand for the goda thinga of life have been removed.

national action, but none the lenn

The F. and O. .. Padun, from urge that we should try far harder than we have as yet to secure it.Shanghai, in due here at 6 am. on

Saturday. If thla falls and, prices continue to fall, the problem remains. Wage reduction, which so many people advocate, nde no sanction In the Macmilian report. What in

At the Criminal Sensions yesterday, urged, however, is a polley of

Chan Sam was found guilty of the economie expanston, deliberately piracy of a fishing boat in 1927, and

For a few days all the old remem- and hence encourages business all fostered, not only by the banks was sentenced to three years' hard'

bered things are novel to me, and round,

Take, as an example, the subject but also by the State. The Com-

my mind registers a senseless serles of shocks and surprises, some dis-of motor-cars. A man named

Ha Wong mittee is prepared to see greater

The ideal in Amerien is that found guilty nt the concerting, some pleasant enough.

or poor, risks taken in the working of the yesterday

After the profoundly impressive every household, rich Criminal Sessions of asking an- gold standard, including a mudi-other Chinese, with intent to steal, New York skyline, how strangely should possess a car, not only so

ration

of the present require-and was sentenced to three years low and meagre the buildings seem that the number manufactured and

hnrd inbour.

to be in most of the main thorough-old should be raised to the highest ments for gold backing of the cur

fares of London but, contrariwise, possible level, but also so that there roney. It is realised at last that

In an attempt to commit suicide, a after that infertile, flowerless city should be more movement, less fati- we do not need gold as a hacking married woman named Cheung Kwal-over there, how magnificent are our gue, and therefore more spending

mul, aged 34, of 586. Conten Road, parks, how entrancing the multitude of money in general. for currency at all, but only na nawallowed a quantity of oplum of the trees and the luxuriance of means of meeting possible export yesterday afternoon. Her condition the flowers in public places and

is regarded no serlis.

atures and private gardens. demands,

Trade Encouragement, My unaccustomed eyes note at

It is interesting to note that the

is ad new expansionist which

Currency

under

WAR

Tap Luk, aged 44, a coolle who was working on board the ss. Sam Kwong,

Treatment.

from

to

But in England nearly everything in connexion with the ownership of a car is taxed or otherwise made dimeult..

1 am struck, too, by the dißßeultses raised in England as though with the deliberate purpose of discour

of life.

The assistants are not overwork-

ed, for night shifts are engaged, and thus more people are employed.

Outward Signs.

I must confess, however, that I find fewer outward signs of finan- cial depression here than in the Staten

vocated does not ment à departure was taken to the Government Civil once that the middle-class crowus Jaging people from buying some of

Hospital yesterday suffering a injuries to his chest caused by a bachere are shabbiły dressed in com- the ordinary norensities or niceties from the gold standard, but

parison with those of American of sugar falling on him.

eitles, where every man and woman

In America most of the shops that managed

tries to look as though his or her close in the late afternoon as ours Istandard. This involves placing

There was une care of typhoid fever | clothes were new and expensive, so do; but at almost every street authority, for and one ease of puerperal fever re-that, for business reasons, there

corner there is a "drug-store." un [greatly increased

they cull it, which sells books good or ill in the hands of the ported to the authorities on Monday, may be at any rate au appearance of

The completed return for last weekprosperity.

sweets, and tobacco, and which has Bank of England. Mr. Nevin and Khowa one death from diphtheria,

American men, all down the social a sexta-fountain and a counter for three cakes fono death) of typhold. Sir Thomas Allen draw the con-

and 44 dentha frans pulmonary tuber-scale almost to the bottom, make a light refreshments, where you may habit of having their clothes press-procure quite a meal at any time clusion that the Bank ought to be calcain.

ed or cleaned to an extent unheard up to midnight and sometimes all taken out of private hands and be

Slight injuries were suffered by of in this country. It is good for night long. made a publke body, interested Lai Mui, aged 20, a spinster of 631 business; it gives a feeling that: neither in its own profits nor in Shanghai Street, when she had her things are flourishing.

I find myself, for a week or 90 the hend raught in a machine at those of the City, suve no constitu-

Wing Sang Knitting Factory of 51, after my return, making mental

In England you must not buy ents in the total of national wel-Sal Yeang Choi Street. She was comparisons all the time, some in

Government wishes to encourage fare. The rest of the Committee taken to the Kowloon Hospital for favour of America, some in favour after a certain hour, because the

of England; but what I want you to economisc. do not take that view, On the

deal with just now is the startling in the States the Government Kround that the Bank should be

American and wishes to encourage you to spend, A shopkeeper of 99, Wellington difference between kept free from polition! Interven Street was defrauded of 24 tins of English methods of trade encour-so that there may be more busines

which done, elgarettes, valued at $28.00 by

comparison aagement-a tion. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1931.

It has been suggested that prospective customer yesterday. In thrusts itself upon the immediate the case for nationalisation of the compliance with an order given by a notice of the traveller returned from

mat, the cigarettes were delivered to the States. FINANCE & INDUSTRY. Bank would become much stronger the purchaser of St. George's Build

In America there is a continuous than it is if a Board of National Ink. After receiving the cigarettes.

the customer went into the building effort to get people to buy things Investment were created and a

for the numey, but he has not been and on all sides the attempt is made to train the masses, the hard-work-

In prosperous times the American ing, small-incomed classes, into a has been made public in the Far Policy of national development set seen since.

On fout. Such a policy would ob-

way

with a far more expansivo En regarding the report of the

Dates for the hearing of the charges luxury-buying body which of itself man in the street goes his prodigal viously mean big new demands on of fraud brought against Les Arthur will keep the manufacturers buy vision in commercial matters than Macmillan Committee, which has

does the Englishman; but in these the banking system, and fuil con-d'A Guimaraes and Kong Szo-yik were heen looking closel to financial

days of the great alump he bemoans fixed by Mr. Williams at the Central trol of the Bank of England might Police Court this morning. Mr. T. S. The return of prosperity is be- his fate far more loudly than we and industrial problems. At Home,

Smith, prove indispensable to its carrying Whyte

Assistant Crownlieved to depead not on panickylo, In spite of our proverbial groun however, the report has been nt-i

Solicitor, who appeared out.

Such are some of the contrasts trneting

among the Ponsiderable attention,

prosecution, suggested that three economy among the well-to-do and Ing. afternoons be reserved for the hearing Penny-counting thrift

poor, but on brave spending all between us and the United States. and we are likely to bear more of it

False Economy.

of the case. His Worship remanded na time goes out. Amongst people Indirectly, the Journal de Mocan's the defendants until next Wednesday round: not on saving one's surplus, We have a lot to learn from

small, now

that times are America, particularly in regard to Friday bad, but on eirculating it to make this fostering of business; but I who have long thought there was comment on the explosion disaster afternoon, when the hearing with be big or

commenced. Tharaday and

may add that America has more with conveys a moral and a warning to afternoons were also reserved. The them better. something seriously wrong

With this object in view the Goy-than she thinks to learn from us. Hongkong. The danger was for hearing will start at 2.10 p.m. on euch

ernment so far as it can, clears How good it is, Britain's financial system, there

18, for instance, to scen, protests were lodged in Guv. of the three. days.

away all obstacles, such as taxes or be back in a comparatively r sober have been many who have been discrnment Council, it was submitted

regulations, which might discourage country, after the posed to lay most of the country's that safety measures should be A report has been made, to

Very which are offered them for their pleasant it is, too, to be once more cognomie troubles at the door of taken, and nothing was done. The police by Chan Sam, who lives at 216, people from purchasing the goods craze of "dry" America

Lockhart Road, stating that he was

and in a land which, without endlessly gold and the bankers. Those who Marao Government pleaded hard driving lorry No. 9158 along Cause greater comfort or luxury; think that world prosperity can betimes. No money was available way Bay Road and when opposite everywhere the effort is made to boasting of the high speed of its Caroline Read two or three men ran raise the standard of living so as general tempo, holda the world's site road in front of the to educate people in all walks of life record speed by air, water, and restored by manipulation of cur- for the purpose of making the am- tery and credit, and those who munition dump safe, or for provid- | vehicle. He had to apply his brakes to want altractive, elegant, and use- land; runs its trains at a mileage ing for its removal to a less dan and swerve suddenly to avoid them. Cut things which, under our more per hour which would make an Am- think that industry would be in gerous area. Last week, a large but the lorry turned over and threw parcimonious regime, they

delivers its letters are erican gasp: three men out. Two of them were trained to do without.

through the post with unequalled much better position were it nol for store of old powder exploded with slightly injured and taken to the

The Government In England despatch; wastes so little time in the machinations of high finance. tragic consequences, the accuracy Government Civil Hospital. The

discussions; and may be disappointed in the report, of the prophets was demonstrated men's injuries, however, were only taxes luxuries, because it says that speeches and which, comprehensive though it is, with terrible emphasis. Admitted-fight, one of them. Wong Hing aged only the well-to-do hanker after makes its funny stories short and 26 being discharged after his injuries them, and the well-to-do constitute snappy, eschewing with proper im- be patience the long-winded anecdote does not suggest that a change, the Government of Macao has had been attended to. The other, the clans which deserves to

go which the American-heaven knows

how!-finds so entertaining. in banking policy can of itself lift made a handsome effort to repair Chan Kwok, was detained.

the full effects of the catastrophe,

the world out of its cesnomic dis-heading the relief funds with a

troga,

sum of $360,000. But this is the

On the other hand, there

is fact which should be of most in- ample support in the port for terest to the Ingkong Cayern- the belief that Britain's funncialment, whose officer: even now are system might well undergo con-preparing Estimates for the con- siderable reform. Practicallying financial year, with, we have without exception, the members.of been led to assume, certain instruc- tions or suggestions endorsed In The committee, which included

high places} restricting them bankers, "economists, business me in a dozen diferent ways.. Many and representatives of labour, Goverțiment servants invested with agree in arging that Britain's responsibility are convinced, we new policy should be expansionist have reason to believe, that the in tendency and directed to in margin of safoty in their different Creasing the volume of investment spheres, of activity will have been and eredit

available passed if the suggestions made are by every

carried out in their entirely, 121014, Though the return to the There is no reason to anticipate gold standard in 1925 on a basis any occurrence in the nature of of pre-war parity la by Implies the Macae calamity, but on a small tion condemued asa dianatrous acale, the same false economy mistake, there is no support for aaoma Ilkely to operate. The Gov- the idea that we should go back ernment will undoubtedly seck, for instance, to save money on road on what is done, by adopting at

maintenance-or-something of that this Inte hour the policy of de-kind. The danger is that minor | valuation. The Committee agrees faults will be left unrepaired until that every possible-step-should-be they develop-into-matters-of taken to promote, by international urgency, and the cost of remedy twenty times action, a rise in the world level of becomes ten to prices. In opposition to the views greater than would be the case if of some bankers and economists, the stitch in time fs applied. The the majority of the Committee be- Colony may reduce expenditure-by a few lakhs in 1932, and save up love that the leading Government for itself a bill running into mil- and Central Banks, if they will act Ilona, perhape, In another year. together, have it in their power Economy, we hold, is essential, but

it must take a permanent form. . to raise prices and so restore

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for the

the

Obsolete Regulations,

taxed. Luxuries in America

"Remember, I'm having a birthday cake for Tommy, so make an affort to get back on time.

WHY I HATED GROWN-UPS.

|By ROBERT MAGILL.

N octogenarian in his reminis- ccúces has recalled some things that happened to him at the ago of three, but there's not much in that.

My own carliest recollection is of the nurse showing me to the doctor, who said, “Good Heavens!" And she said, "Yes, he is ugly, but I suppose we shall have to keep him."

I thereupon proceeded to hate both

of them, good and hard.

I spent most of my time as a baby hating somebody or other.. All babies

do. It's the only axercise they got. Thad

i

a good deal of trouble bringing up my parents, but it was worth it, and in the end they would have been à credit to any baby. Father was easy. He used to hold me at arms' length, upside down, In caso I exploded, or something, and 1-soon-decovered that judicious howl would reduce him to a fectly malleable condition, two howls made him run round in circles and gibber.

• .

Mother was more difficult. Any faltempt to start an argument with hor ended in her taking off the dozen or so-ridiculous garments in' which, I was wrapped, to look for a (Continued on Page T.)