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ECONOMIC SECURITY.

panics and

antiro attention to an intensivo development of the home market. Probably many will disagree with' certain details of the plot.. For example, if aggressive competition

In foreign trade is a possible cause

DAY BY DAY

WHEN YOUR SCOTCH CLERGY GIVE

Bore-

of international friction, excessive- VP THEIR HOMELY MANNER, RE- ly high tariff walls are no legs 89.LIGION WILL SOON DECAY IN THAT The important thing, however, is COUNTRY. Dr. Johnsou to that a recognised leader of business well. has realised the imperative neves- ity of a comprehensive plan to provide for this new need of the worker.

Mr. I. W. Mittell has been ap- pointed Deputy Armament Supply Officer, R.N.A.D., Hongkong.

;

BACK TO PENNY POST AND NO PROFITS.

By WHATELY C. ARNOLD.

TUERE is justification for the, the authorities upon their mono- TH

memorial, signed by 3201 poly.

membera

of Parliament andi A most glaring example of this

It is often stated that the great growth in prosperity of the United The next meeting of the Hong- recently presented to the Prime was the attitude of the Post Office kong branch of the English Aznocin- Minister, asking for the appoint- towards the telephone, which it States In the last two decades was chicly attributable to the arising tion will be held in the Helena Mayment of a "small but strong com- regarded with the utmost jealousy Institute on Tuesday, March 1, at mitten to review the organisation because it seemed likely to i tor- of two new wants on the part of the 6:30 pm, when Mrs. W, T. Southern of the Post Oflec and frame de- fere with postal "profits."

public-personal mobility and com-will speak on "Hans Andersen."

of every

talled proposals for its improve- Competition between 'n number of different telephone companies ment." munication, and their antisfaction

Certainly, in its chief work-is, of course, not practicable, as by business in the form of the

The annual athletic sports meeting

and delivery

subscriber requiring com- automobile and the radio. May of the University of Hongkong will the collection It not be that in the supplying of be held on Saturday, March 6, at 1.30 letters-the Post Office is efficient, munication with every other one. this new necessary of modern life, pm, on the University ground, Pok- Proof of that is afforded by the Notwithstanding this obvious fact, Recurity with leisure, business will fultum. There will be a half mile surprise we all feel if one latter the Post Office started its own open to the Colony (post entries). Koos netray among the 6,000,000,- installation and attempted to find the key to an even greater, and

000 dealt with annually. But an "compoto" with the National Tele- hla time a lasting, prosperity?

equally high standard is not phone Cn.

Tram or Bus?

of the

TWO ARMED ROBBERIES.

maintained in other branches of Under the system of State ad- Post Office activity-the telephone ministration all the various com- and telegraph, for example.

panies could have been contracted

the

The reason for this difference is with by the Postmaster-General that the other undertakings are to provide the necessary mechani-

elples which govern

cal matters necessary smalles This is a question fre- NINE MEN TAKE PART led by the well-tried prin- cal, engineering, and other techni to enable generally, and which ought to be the public to use the telephones IN RADIS.

applied to all public utility ser- throughout the whole country. The necessary subscriptions and Property to the total value of vicen. $75 was stolen by six men whe This policy, which might be call-other charges for calls would gained admittance to the ground ed State Administration, may be have been collected at uniform floor of 22, Shan Tang Street, defined shortly, in n negative way, rates for a specified number of

minutes, irrespective of distaner. as Tollows:---

Work for Specialists.

recom-

† Mongkok, inat night. The men who were armed with revolvers and dag- gers entered the ground floor by the front door, which was closed but not bolted.

1. No State ownership.

2. No monopoly. 3. No proit.

the

It is probably not too late even now to adopt some such principle.

Will the bus oust the tram from the structa of the cities future? quently asked in this Colony and revived by the report of the long- kong Tramway a few dayk ago. In England, where public opinion na on the whole tended to favour the bus n the more useful vehicle, has been this popular judgment confirmed by the Royal Commis-

Even the mails depart from these A state Department is not suited sion on Transport, which

conditions in some respects. for carrying out highly-technical mended the gradual elimination of

After searching the premises |

With regard to the first prin-jengineering work which must be the tram. Yet even in England, it

for a space of one hour. the menciple, the collection and delivery, subject to continual developinon: is not without significance, the left, taking with them a quantity of letters has been undertaken by and improvement, and can be safe- tram is still thought to have a long | of money, jewellery and clothing to the State from time immemurial, ly left in the hands of the very the value of $75. The mistress but although Postmaster-eminent firms who specialise in career before it. a London, in- deed, costly transformations of the of the premises, LA Klu-yang, aged General collects and delivers thera telephone equipment and installa-

at the time, but he does not acquire the ownership tion. tramway system are still being 39, was nut

The Post Office should concen- the intruders appeared.

few exceptions he contracts with trate on the actual needs of the the tram opinion against it,

Early this morning three men various competing companies for public and see to it (as they do. London, it must be noted, still ear-

earried out an armed robbery at the earringe of the malls-former- most cllciently with the ries 27 per cent of the passengers. 55, Nam Cheong Street, Shamshui-ly with the stage conch proprie that the public have the best pos But outside England, both

po, robbing the Inmates of valu-tors, afterwards with other road alble service and most up-to-date Europe and America, the From 8ables worth about $64. One of carriera, rollway companies and appliances, for which they can

amed

steamship companies and now withhold the contracting firms with even more securely entrenched in the robbers was

airway companies as well. ponsible.

Acquiring the Telegraph.

Incidentally, and again adopting the principle of postal rates, they The first important departure should not continue the most un- reasonablo practice of charging from this rule was in the purchase of the telegraph companies in the for telephone calls by mileage Year 1870. This was many years instead of by time. It is surely afterwards followed by the more an anomaly to charge for a tele erlous and important case of the phone call according to distance, year 1912, and therefore at rates varying published by him, is spreading his telephones in the

acquisitions, of

from one penny to as much course, required the expendituro 10s. for a three-minute call, when The book has received attention of a very large amount of capital, the charge for a telegram la 18. in all political eireles in Germany and, still more disastrously in for all distances.

earried through. Even with popular friends were on the premises when lof the means of conveyance. With

idens.

And

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These

two

the

mails)

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of

The streets of large and small cities. knife and the other an iron bar.

And Figures from Paris, Berlin

According to the occupant, New York, and running into hun-accountant, the men appeared at dreds of millions, amply support 4.30 m. whilst he was asleep. He was unable to say how they had this fact. In spite of such figures, however, there can be little doubt gained admittance to his house. that the bus will in time banish the Aram from the streets. England's experience most certainly points to thut. It is not only the automobile tram appear that make the obsolete; it is the greater mobility as well as in other countries ofvolved the corollary of State The third negative principle of of the bus, its greater comfort, its Europe. It may be pointed out management on the technical and State administration is No Profits.

interview.mechanical side. the pas that Mussolini in an In the discussisms which

The practice of working a public have greater convenience for

Instead of contracting with the utility service for the Bake of been taking place in the United Renger who can bourd it from the when questioned about Reinhold

Walle, answerd: "He is the only existing telegraph and telephone revenue is the most prolife cavec not least, States in regard to business de sidewalk, and last but

right politician of

present companies (as with the carriers of ineficiency in the public aer- pression, it has been painted out the greater economy in its running Germany, but it's too had he has for mails), the authorities not only fee.

will assure its such a stiff, rigid hand."

purchased the assets and that while trade generally has been expenses, that

good- When the profits of any trading In two great sketches the author will of the companies, but also set concern curried on by a nation or Ind, there have been striking in- triumph over the tram. But this

the most important up engineering and mechanical municipality are applied in relief #reases shown by insurance com- displacement of one form of trans-deals with

of very great of taxation, the public service will savings banks in part by another will in all pro opponents of Germany's freedom staffs, no doubt

own country. The efficiency. policies and deposits. From this bability be extremely slow. It within her

third part of the hook is devoted į Bui had they adopted the prin-invariably be worked more or less fact, same have argued that this will indeed be hardly surprising to the rebuilding of a new German ciples upon which the mail service with the primary object of making is carried out, the most efficient inevitable result is that the ser- as much profit as possible. The bicans that money, instead of being even in England, where the pre-fleich. Fut, has been hoarded. Whilst dice against trams is apparently One may reject the developed and up-to-date instruments, would vice will be starved for the sake

idens or agree to them, but all have been available from time to of the profita. this may be so to rome extent, itkeener than anywhere else, this

Until the end of last century is just as possible that it reflects period of transition turns out to interested in a study of present-time, with no obsolete plants. Ex- to take penses, too, would have been pay- be much slower than is generally day Germany will have a tendency to scale down expend[-

not sufficient to Interest the ture on luxuries in order to buy expected. In undeveloped cities, note of this publication. It is a able out of the receipts from the the profits of the Post Office were book of history and coming events, public with no heavy liabilities Chancellor of the Exchequer. The on the other hand, whether in financial security. In this con-

in these events Reinhold to be met out of capital.

right principle was followed castern Europe er in Asia, the pro-

from Departure

second nexion, a book was published some bability is that the bus will be in be mentioned in a most

Wulle, the author, will probably

distinc-principle of State administration applying profits to improving the time ago by the dean of a school of troduced in preference to the tram.

service. -no monopoly-moans that when-

Where Profits Go. business administration, in which Thus the most backward of to-day

EDMUND MINKNER, ever an improved service is start-

But by the year 1911 the pro- the author presented a plan design-ceomes, very surprisingly per

Canton.ed, or suggested it has been atop-fits had risen to £5,000,000, and ed to save capitalism from thehaps, though none the less certain-

ped or spoilt by the insistence of although the increased postage destruction which he believes

, the most forward of to-morrow. awaits it if it continues to drift long its present uncharted course. The corner stone of this plan is the recognition that accurlly-a security which implies self-respect- ing work on a plane above the mere aubsistence level-has now become a powerful competitor in the market with mankind's material wants. Business, it is pointed nut, has made great progress in provid-great number of political parties ing these:

in Germany and not represented transportation, com-

in any Parliament "The National munication, social contact, enter-Movement for Freedom of Ger- tainment, and to a less extent, many" (Deutschvoelkische Froi leisure. But it has made little or heitsbewegung) looks for solu- no progress toward the providing tions out of the prosent depres of security from unemployment alon. The leader of this and-old age and incapacitation ment, Reinhold Walle, formerly Yet the demand for things which chief editor of the Deutsche Zei tung and the Deutsches Tageblatt can be manufactured will in the in Berlin and Member of the future depend increasingly on the German Reichstag and* Prussian existence of security and adequate Parliament, has published a book lolsure. BusiNCAR leaders, anya with the title: "Die Sendung des this nuthority, can and must

Nordens. Der Sion des Deutschen Freheltakampfos" (1.e.

Tho operate in assuming the cost of

mcanago of the North.-The mean-

co-

GERMAN POLITICS

TO-DAY.

NOTEWORTHY BOOK PUBLISHED.

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move-

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providing this security, and the ing of the German struggle for Government must co-operate with them by providing pre-planned public works to furnish employ M.5. mant in emergencies. But security

The author is one of the most in any one country la imposelbin outstanding figures of national unless there lo world stability. It Germany, but it is remarkable is therefore urged that since the that he does not belong to the "aggressive expansion of exports National-Socialist Party (Fascist) would create a degree of bitterness nor to the "German National whale In competition [between nations] Party." He opposes the empat inevitably leading to war parliamentary system and goes his the United States should turn its ten in Berlin,

own way. The Deutsche Mackrick

weekly paper

tive manner.

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"We'd batter make it your house, Gert. You know what a terrible cook my husband_fo.”

was ostenalbly imposed owing to the war, the fact remains that the profits have now risen to over £11,000,000, and it is estimated that to reduce the normal rate from 1d. to 1d. will cost about £6,000,000.

It is quite natural that when these substantial profita are made the Chancellor of the Exchequer will budget for retaining them or for obtaining further profits. The general public, however, will ex- nect improvements in the service, reduced charges, and the tradera workers increased wages.

Lot us return to panny postage and sixpenny telegrams, Let us bogin with twopeany telephones for three-minute calls for all die- tances from call offices, or one penny for subscribers, making. double, and oven treble, charge, if necessary, for longer and urgent calls.

with

Great Britain led the way penny postage. Let the principles which have made the British Post Omee in this respect the finest in the world be applied to branch of it.

AVATY

WOMEN LIKE ROUGH TREATMENT.

By HELEN ROSE. TWO years ago"n young actor

to prison on a charge of shooting his beautiful sweetheart. Boos, according to a news report, he is to be released, and the happy (Continued on Page 8.)