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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1932.
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1932.
THE COTTON INDUSTRY
PROBLEM.
DAY BY DAY
SELDOM OR NEVER HAS THERE BEEN AN IDEAL WHICH HAB ELEK CIRED A MORE PROFOUND AND A MORE SALUTARY INFLUENCE THAN THE MEDIAFVAL CONCEPTION OF THE
FOR THE FIRST VIRGIN.
TINE ELEVATED WOMAN WAS
TO HER RIGHTFUL POSITION, AND THE BAN-' CTITY OF WEAKNESS WAS RECOGNIS- ED AS WELL AS THE BANCTITY OF SORROW.-Lecky.
of the workers in the cotton trade would in the and be completely squbazed out and compelled to seck employment
tho elsewhere. In long run, this la bound to happen, since the short-time system 18 uneconomic and will have to go. This is not to the king of the operatives, admittedly, but, realis- ing that wages cannot be cut fur- ther, they soo that, just na BUT- plus plant must be eliminated, so The go. must surplus workers biggest problem, however, is the the writing off of dead 'enpital,
The Empresa of Britain, now on a Unshackling of the industry from world tour, is due in Hongkong at 8 its heavy burdens of bank debts.m. on the 11th Instant.
In and other alanding charges. deeling with some aspects of the Industry's problems, compulsory powera are to be secured, but it would seem that whatever body is set up to deal with the iranen, power should be given to dant with Anancial reconstruction in addi- tion to the matter of surplus labour And wages.
The Empress of Asia is to leave here for Vancouver at noon on Thurs- day, instead of 8 pm, as originally advertised.
MY NEW BRIDGE "SYSTEM."
By BEVERLEY NICHOLS.
HAVE discovered a short cut to get any) in a neat piles
Boize
to efficiency in Bridge. In 'them with claw-like Bogers, and the old days 1 used to think that jumble them together. Breathe if one did all the dreary things very heavily all the time. Look an that were recommended in the little as possible at the cards, and. text-books one would become as much as possible at your part- good player. And no I uned mono- ner. If, after all this, she still tonaualy to return my partner's has the effrontery to tell you that lead at no trumps, play low at you lost the game, you can inform her that she ought not to be wast- "accond-hand (and feel pretty ng her time playing Bridge. Sho low about it, too), say, "Having no
a policewoman, or hearts, partner?" whenever noces ought to be
Australia. It is notified that during the Chinese BILry, and all sorts of things like somebody who chops down trees in New Year holidays, a constant supply that.
At If by some strange chance you However, it was of no use. of water will be given in the rider
Thursday, Friday the end of every game, the same are asked to play a second rubber shrieks of abuse Always rent the you will, of course, be required, at main districts on and Saturday.
air. My partners stood up, hun-Rume period in thin rubber, to romstbor and this. Always Hum When Shuffling. Among the subjects to come before ched their shoulders, whirled their shuille. Now please
It does not matter what you hum, downstairs for fren though personally the member of the Sanitary Board arms, spat invective at me.
have alwaya to-day is one relative to the hours draughts of barley water. regulating the sale of fruit in the open endured this for some years, and found "Annie Laurie" very effec j'en ai asset. And so I have for- tive. (Annio Laurie, you may re- The economic pundits are now markets in Hongkong and Kowloon.
mulated some new rules which member, was the girl who revoked. Was waging a great argument.
The President and Committee of the will prove of infinite assistance to once too often). The main point Sailor and Soldiers' Home gratefully all those players who, like myself, about humming while you shuffle acknowledge
receipt
of $10 adore Bridge, but never quite is that it demoralises your oppon- enta, They will think that you, (Shanghai currency) as a donation to realise what trumps really are.
know something they don't know. the funds of the Home from the ship's
The Onslaught.
They will leap to the conclusion that you have a card up your Always attack. Always! I
aleeve. If you shum while you huffle... (pardon me, these cards are so alippory)... you will gain
The Gold Standard.
new
1n
tho
company of H.M.S. Sandwich.
Strong rumours were current in Singapore last week to the effect that
Governor His Excellency the about to relinquish office and that his
BUCCOSBOR
rushed
I have
you nothing.
Auction is Antiquated.
it necessary for Great Britain to abandon the gold standard? The latest contribution appears in the Chase Economic Bulletin, by Dr. Benjamin M. Anderson, who says, "The collapse of the gold standard
A visitor at the Nanking Boarding not mean during the game, but in England was absolutely unneces sary. Arguing upon the ground House, at 80, Connaught Road Cen- after it. As soon as you have lost tral, TURA yenterday removed to the game, you must instantly at- chosen by Dr. Anderson the state hospital after he had taken a large tack your partner before she can great advantage, which will cont
A good plan, if you ment sounds convincing. Great Bri-dosa of Adalin, apparently with the attack you.
are in doubt, is to fold your arms, tals has been addicted to a cheap intention of committing suicide,
sneer, and say in a harsh voice
I am assuming, naturally, that money pollesta low interest rate-ever since it returned to the The Bishop of Victoria on February "Really!" She will then have n gold standard in 1925. According 1. licensed in his private chapel, the shivering suspicion that she has you play Contract Bridge. If any Rev. Gilbert Alexander Hook, former sat on a spade or something equal-body of exceptional antiquity or duinosa suggests that you should to the rules under which the gold 1 curate of St. John's, Upper Hallo- ly crude. standard operates, this was a mis- way, London, to misalonary work in
Or again, if you know that it play Auction, lift the left nostril.
curl the upper
and lip, Bay "Auc- Nanning under the Bible Church was all your fault, you can Buy. WOR tako. A dear money policy
"What were you doing with your tion? In these days? Perhaps indicated as
the only possible man's Missionary Society.
diamonds? She will probably be you would prefer to play loo?" (It too depressed to remember what sounds divinely idiotle. As though method of protecting existing gold supplies and of attracting supplies, But to say that before
she was doing with her diamonda, one bounced up and down on baby was and even if she does remember it chairs and said "loolooloo
loo!") Great Britain left the gold
you can always shrug your shoul-1oo.
Or if you want to use subtler had been appointed. ders, turn to your opponents and Atandard its bank rate should have been 9 per cent. instead 414 per According to the story which reached repent exactly what she says, This methods, open your eyes very wide
the Straits Times, the departure of
that something cent. is totally to ignore the peculiar Sir Cecil Clementi had been fixed for will discourage her. It is very im- indeed and say "Auction? How
portant to discourage one's part-thrilling Is erlais which Grent Britain under- March 3 and the reasons for the nor at an early stage in the game. new? Do tell us about it? Too attitude will Even if she Buy's "I hadn't got amusing." This went long before the larger crisis resignation wero given. On referring the matter to the Colonial Secretary's
ппу diamonds,"
nds," you need not be eause the auction-playing offender efflee the journal was told "There is deterred. You can just say, in to turn a sickly green and to enveloped the world In 1929.
no truth in the report." 1925 Great Britain elected to
tones of icy scorn, "Quite. No change the conversation. Also, chor its currency to gold at the pre-
diamonde!" Which ought to make since she will be forced to play war parity. In order
With a record of three previous her shrivel up all right, ns though Contract without understanding. through this policy, it was
advantage, unless you have foolish had no underclothes. When Playing tini to reduce sterling costs, such simple larceny, a leking rockets and she had told you that her children how to score; you will reap a great
Dummy. The moral neruples. as those represented by labour, to appeared before Mr. Schofield at the Central Police Court this morning on
one essential is speed. Never the level demanded by the higher a charge of stealing 50 cents from mind what you do, but do it with gold value. Otherwise British youth in Belchers' Street was sen-
the utmost celerity. Of course, abroad.tenced to six months' hard labour and goods could not compete
before you actually play the first Britala's problem, in other words, placut under police supervision for you can pause as long as you like two years. The defendant and the was the now-familiar problem of complaint were in a house at 3, Bel- card. In fact, a very good plan, Streat where the offence as soon as your partner has laid deflation, particularly in
By W. F. SANDERSON. The decision to raise sterling to its occurred. The defendant was chased lown her hand, is to stare at it but managed to out-run his pursuara. for a moment with glazed eyes. pre-war- gold-value involved heavyOn-coming across a police picket, and then to rise to your feet, walk
TERE has never been-an-age- of the however, he slowed down and com- slowly over to the window, and ancrifices for the benefit
to walk. The complainant, look out, tapping the glass, like like the present when youth holders of Internal debt, who, with menced
of the deflationist who was stopped by a detective in the Sir Gerald du Maurier when all in fact, children-have been so every Lwint scrow, found the pounds owed to pleket, pointed out the defendant, who
was then chased by the afficer and cems to be lost at the end of Act prominent in sport. On Thurs- day a small boy from Nowcastle on them by their fellowcountrymen be arrested.
This action will terrify your Tyne, aged only 10, played in the 11 hus to be remembered that coming ever more valuable. This
partner, who will feel that there final of the Boys' Championship, the extra value hud to be provided by
must be something extremely un-He lost, to another boy of 15 years, cotton manofacture is, In cheaper branches, well suited for the-debtor, or business, class of the of the general state of European Indylike about the dummy which Without a doubt we have two boys here who may rise to the greatest The chief pint of confidence, whether any last-minute she has exposed before you.
When you return say nothing, heights in the world of billiards. carrying on with cheap labour and community.
was wages, because action of this kind would have:
At ten years of age the small almost fool-proof machines, so that the attack
wages are the chief factor in pro-achieved its international object, Rogard the card your opponent
to use the has played with a faint sneer. boy, who often had reduction no conceivable
duction costs. To theorists like namely, the continuaneo
pre-war parity. At And then, without warning, leap long rest across the table, knowa
speed. Do not arrange your billiards. That is gift. tricks (should you be lucky enough
The Lancashire cotton Industry problem is still receiving consider able attention on the part of those who are directly concerned with its future. A many-sided issue, it is by no means easy to handle, and the opinion is growing that it ought long age to have been tackled by a powerful body authorised by Act of Parliament to deal with it in all its aspects. Handling the problem piecemeal results In it being handled badly, for the principal
reason that no section seems pre- pared to make sacrifices unless parallel concessions are made by
the rest.
The fact is realised that the Bri. Ush cotton trade as permanently shrunk in dimensions, quite apart from the general world depression.
in.
017-
to carry easen-
convictions for
wages.chors'
of the
II.
Our Sporting Prodigies.
Lancashire's costa can Ho far Dr. Anderson, this may appear as gold link at
nouny rate, Britain feit that it was upon it. Play with tremendous and can executo very thot
enough to win back a large partit did to Adam Smith
dant
to be
MAITED HALK
ZOLATE FLIP
of the lost markets. The Far East, problem. But economic behaviour not worth the price. with its infinite supply of cheap has nowadays n habit of punetur- labour, is bound more and more to ing the economic laws propounded Aupply its own markets, though at by the theoreticians. This was the case when wage decreases brought i the moment Japan's energles may on the general strike of, 1926. be employed on other matters. | Labour, ever jealous of its living None the leas there is an obvious standards, which had been won need for Lancashire to reorganine after much tribulation, refused to her methods, for unless this is be deflated. It was so afraid of done she may lose a great deal more being "squeezed" that It Ignbred bonus it SVTLA than she already has done. Plant the fortuitous
receiving by way that has become definitely redun. constantly
of improvement in the buy- to be and obsoleto hus
ing value of the pound-conversely, scrapped; even if it were not done of the fall in commodity prices. by collective action it would doubt-Between 1926 and 1930, according less happen in the long run either to the Macmillan report, wages in by bankruptcy or obsolescence.. It | Great Britain rose by 8% per cent. was thus over, Ins been well pointed out, however, British Industry that the destruction of surplus weighted with production coats plant will not in Haelf be enough arising out of swollen wages and fixed charges. The Bank of Eng- to reduce costs sufficiently to secureland tried to mitigate the burden an expanding world trade. Even by keeping the rates of working the marked fall in prices which has capital chenp. To have put up the followed the depreciation of the rates to the levels mentioned by. pound has brought with It only a Dr. Anderson would have laid on a burden too crush- relatively small stimulus to exports. Industry
to be borno. Moreover, The employers are trying other Ing
few years experience the last methods by wage reductions and has shown that a high bank "more looms per weaver," but these rate alone is not effective in main- are not being favourably received jaining the world's confidence in by the workers. The elimination a country. Indeed, the high bank -of-surplus-plant and the granting rate, like the high interest rate on a bond, may be looked upon as an of a minimum wage must lead to the same resule the fuller om-admission that Investment in that ployment of fewer factories and of country carries with it a heavy far fower workers: Perhaps hair risk... And it is doubtful, in view
PULAR FICTI
A college educationa-great-thing-- Lots of these books I wouldn't understand without it'
to
Not so long ago I watched a girl of 11 years skating. In an inter national trial-ghe Is to go to America as a member of Britain's team.
In the last four months I have acen children engaged in golf, tennis, swimming, football and boxing. In every case I have heard the same story: "Here is a hope for Britain in the future," and it is a fact that in all these games I have seen children technically
perfect.
All this is good for British sport of to-morrow, but all these amaz Ing children were similar in one the respect they all lacked alightcat sign of nerves, they all had the mental polse of seasoned, experienced players of games; they all had the same cold, stony mental indifference to anything but the game and I wonder if it is good.
No 'Childish Graces.
Look at the small boy in ther billiards championship. When he played his semi-final there were hundreds of people looking on, be had never played in front of an audienca before, yet he did not see them. There was never one?
childish gesture.
At Stoke Pages during the girls! golf championship 3 saw a child of 14, three down at the twelfth
needing a 20ft, putt to win the lole. There were 300 people crowding round the green. There she was, on bhd knee, studying the line of the putt, utterly indiferent to the crowd. She fioled; the putt 5
As I watched that child on hát khɛe 1: saw her face - BUTYLI
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