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entire attention to an intensive development of the home market. Probably many will disagree with certain detalls of the plan. For example, if aggressive competition In foreign trade is a possible cause of international friction, excessive- ly high tariff walla uro do leaḥ 30. The important thing, however, la that a recognised leader of business has reallaed the imperative neres. ity of a comprehensive plan

to

DAY BY DAY

au AISONNIE

WHEN YOUR SCOTCH CLERGY GIVE UP. THEIR HOMELY MANNER, RE- LIGION WILL SOON DECAY IN THAT Door- COUNTRY-Dr. Johnson to well.

Mr. R. W. Mittell has been ap

Oficer, R.N.A.D., Hongkong.

BACK TO PENNY POST AND NO PROFITS.

By WHATELY C. ARNOLD.

provide for this new need of the polated Deputy foment Supply HERE is Justification for the the authorities upon their mono-

worker,

Tmemorial, signed by

320 poly. mombora of Parliament and A most glaring example of this

ment."

It is often stated that the great rowth in prosperity of the United

The next meeting of the Rong- recently presented the Prime was the attitude of the Post Office States in the last two decades was kong branch of the English Associa- Minister, asking for the appoint- towards the telephone, which it chiefly attributable to the arising on will be held in the Helena Dayment of a "small but strong com- regarded with the utmost jealousy Institute on Tuesday, March 1, nt mittee to review the organisation because it seemed ilkely to i ter- of two new wants on the part of the 50 p.m. when Mra. W. T. Soutborn of the Post Office and frame de- fore with postal "profits.” public-personal mobility and com-will speak on "Hans Andersen."

talled proposals for its improve- Competition between a number munication, and their satisfaction

of different telephone companies of the by business in the form automobile and the radio. May It not be that in the supplying of this new necessary of modern life, security with lelsure, business will find the key to an even greater, and his time a lasting, prosperity7

Tron or Bus?

me.com-

opinion against it, the tram in London, it must be noted, still car-

Certainly, in its chief work-la, of course, not practicable, The annual athlette sports meeting the collection and delivery of every subscriber requiring com- of the University of longkong will

to

be held on Saturday, March 6, at 1.30 piters-the Post Office is officient.munication. with every other one. tn., on the University ground, Pok-Proof of that is afforded by the Notwithstanding this obvious fact. half allo surprise we all feel if one letter the Peat Ofce started Its own fulum. There will be a

Roos astray among the 6,000,000,- Installation and attempted open to the Colony (post entries).

000 dealt with annually. But an "compets" with the National Tele- equally high standard is not phone Co. maintained in other branches of Under the system of State nd- Post Office activity--the telephone ministration all the various com- (and telegraph, for example.

panies could have been contracted

TWO ARMED ROBBERIES.

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

thu ciples which govern not ruled by the well-tried prin- cal, engineering, and other techni- mails cal matters necessary to enable generally, and which ought to be the public to use the telephones applled to all public utility ser-throughout the whole country. of vices.

The necessary subscriptions and

an

1. No. State ownership.

2. No monopoly.

3. No profit.

calls

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

Will the bus oust the tram from the streets of the cities of the

This is a question fre- NINE MEN TAKE PART future?

IN RADIS. quently asked in this Colony and revived by the report of the Hong-

Property to the total value kong Tramway a few days ago.

would $75 was stolen by nix tea whet This policy, which might be call-other charges for

uniform In Enginnd, where public opinion ruined admittance" to the grounded State Administration, may be have been collected at

number of floor of 22, Shan Tung Street defined shortly, in a negative way, rates for a specified has on the whole tended to favour

miantes, irrespective of distance. the bus as the more useful vehicle, Mongkok, last night. The men who as follows:

Work for Specialista. this popular judgment has been were armed with revolvers and dag- confirmed by the Royal Commis-Kera entered the ground floor by the front door, which was closed but not bolted.

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-engineering 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 developraout is not without significance, theft, 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 immemorial, ly left in the hands of the very

of $75. The mistress but although career before it. in London, In the value

the Postmaster-eminent firms who specialise in of the premises, Li Klu-yung, nged General collects and delivers them telophone equipment and installa- deed, costly transformations of the

at the time, but he does not acquire the ownership Lion. tramway system are still being 3, was out

The Post Omeo should concen- carried through. Even with popular friends were on the premises when of the means of conveyance. With

intruders appeared.

few exceptiona he contracts with rate on the actual needs of the Early this morning three men various competing companies for public and sea to it (as they do carried out an armed robbery at the carriage of the mails-former- most efficiently with the maila) vica 27 per cent of the passenger 66, Nam Cheong Street, Shamrahul-ly with the stage coach proprie, that the public have the best pos- But outside England, both in

po, robbing the Inmates of valu-tors, afterwards with other road site service and most up-to-date Europe and America, the trum is abies worth about $364. One of Carriers, railway companies and appliances, for which they can

Arms res the robbers was rmed with steamship companies and now with hold the contracting even more securely entrenched in

airway companies as well.

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

Incidentally, and again adopting Acquiring the Telegraph, and Figures from Paris, Berlin

the princie of postal raten, they The first important departure should not continue the most un- New York, and running into hun dreds of millions, amply support

from this rule was in the purchase reasonable practice of charging In spite of such figures,

of the telegraph companies in the for telephone calla by mileage this fact.

year 1870. This was many years instead of by time. It is surely however, there can be little doubt

afterwards, followed by the more an anomaly to charge for a

tele- serious and important case of the shone call according to distance, that the bus will in time hunish tho Aram from the streets. England'a

and therefore at rates varying These two acquisitions, of

As much from one penny to experience most certainly points to pablished by him, is spreading his telephones in the year 1912,

course, required the expenditure 10s, for a three-minute call, when It is not only the automobile

The book has received attention of a very large amount of capital the charge for a telegram is 15. makes the tram appear in all political efreles in Germany and, still more disastrously in for all distances. ubsolete; it is the greater mobility as well as in other countries of volved 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 la No Profits.

the pas-that Mussolini in an Interview. mechanical side.

The practice of working a public In the discussions which have greater convenience for

Instead of contracting with the utility service for the sake been taking place in the United wenger who can board it from the when questioned about Reinhold States In regard to business de- sidewalk, and last but not least. Walte, answerd: "He is the only existing telegraph and telephone revenus is the most prolific cause unright politician of present companies (as with the carriers of inefficiency In the public ser- pression, it has been pointed out the greater economy in its running Germany, but it's too had he has for mails), the authorities not only vier,

such a stiff, rigid hand."

purchased the assets and good- that while trade generally has been expennes, that will

When the profits of any trading In two great sketches the author will of the companies, but also set had. there have been striking fu- triumph over the team. But this

municipality are applied in relief creases shown by insurance com- displacement of one form of trans- deals with the most important up engineering and mechanical era carried on by a nation or...

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

within her OWN country. The efliciency.

Invariably be worked more or less policies and deposits. From this bability be extremely slow. It

third part of the book is devoted Bit had they adopted the prin-with the primary object of making fact, some have argued that this will indeed be hardly surprising to the rebuilding of a new German ciples upon which the mail service as much pront as possible. The

is carried out, the most efficient inevitable result is that the ser means that money, instead of being it even in England, where the pro- Reich.

One may reject the developed and up-to-date instruments would vice will be starved for the sake spend, has been hoarded. Whilst dice against trams is apparently

idens or agree to them, but all have been available from time to of the profits, this may be so to some extent, it teener than anywhere else, this

Until the end of last century is just as possible that it reflecta period of transition turns out to interested in a study of present- lime, with no obsolete plants. Ex- a tendenes to seale down expendi be much slower than is generally day Germany will have to take penacs, too, would have been pay-the profits of the Post Ofea were not sufficient to interest the ture on luxuries in order to buy expected. In undeveloped cities, note of this publication. It is able out of the receipts from the

book of history and coming events, public with no heavy liabilities Chancellor of the Exchequer. The i on the other hand, whether

And in these events Reinhold to be met out of capital. eastern Europe or in Asia, the pro-Wulle, the author, will probably

second

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1932.

ECONOMIC SECURITY.

That. that

panies and

fuancial security. In

this con-

nastire its

nt

According to the occupant. accountant, the men appeared 4.30 am, whilst he was asleep. He was unable to any how they had gained admittance to his house.

ideas.

the

right principle was followed

service.

09

of

of

aexion. a book was published some bability is that the bus will be in- be mentioned in a most distinc-| principle of State administration/applying profits to improving tho

troduced in preference to the tram. Thes the most backward of to-day becomes, very surprisingly per- haps, though none the less certain- y, the most forward of to-morrow.

GERMAN POLITICS

TO-DAY.

NOTEWORTHY BOOK PUBLISHED.

the

time ago by the dean of a school of business administration, in which the author presented a pian design- rd to save capitalism from the destruction which he believes awaits it if it continues in drift along its present uncharted course. The corner stone of this plan is the recognition that security-- security which implies self-respect- Ing work on a plane above the mere aubsistence level-hna now become powerful competitor In the market with mankind's material wants. Business, it la pointed out, Entirely dissolated from has made great progress in provid- great number of political parties ing there: transportation, com-In Germany and not represented munication, nocial contact, enter in any Parliament "The National

Movement for Freedom of Ger tainment, and to a leas extent. many" (Deutschvaclkische Frei Jeisure. But it has made little or heltsbewegung) looks for solu- no progress toward the providing tions out of the present dopres- of security from unemployment slon. The lender of this and old ngo

and incapacitation. ment, Reinhold Walle, formerly

chief editor of the Deutsche Zel Yet the demand for things which tung and the Deutsches Tageblatt can be manufactured will in the in Barlin and Member of the futuro depend Increasingly on the German Reichstag and Prussian existence of security and adequate Parliament, has published a book leisure. Business leaders, says with the title: "Die Sendung des this authority, can and must co-

Nordene. Dor Sinn des Deutschen Freheitskampfes" (L.c. "The operate in assuming the cost of mossage of the North-The moon- providing this security, and the ing of the German struggle for Government must co-operate with freedom.") Verlag K. F. Koehler, them by providing pre-planned Leipzig; stiff cover, M.2.85.; linen public works to furnish employ M.5. mont in emergencles. But security in any one country is impossible unless there is world atability, Germany, but It is remarkable

is therefore urged that since the

move-

The author is one of the most outstanding figures of national

that he does not belong to the

"aggressive expansion of exports National-Socialist-Party (Fascist) would cronte a degree of bitterness

nor to the "German National Parts." He opposes the whole

In competition [between nations parliamentary system and goes his

almost inevitably loading to war",

own way. The Deutsche Machrich-

the United States should turn its tea in Berlin, a weekly paper

tive manner.

EDMUND MINKNER,

Where Profits Go.

Departure from -no monopoly-means that when- ever an improved service is start- But by the year 1911 the pro- Canton. ed or suggested it has been stop fits had risen to £5,000,000, and ped or spoilt by the insistence of although the increased postage was ostensibly imposed owing to the war, the fact romains that the profta 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 £5,000,000,

032

STAY

"We'd better make it your house, Gert. You know what a terrible cook my husband is.”

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

or

one

Let us return to penny postage and sixpenny telegrams, Let us begin with twoponny telephones for three-minute calls for all dis- tances from call offices, penny for subscribers, making double, and even trable, charge, if necessary, for longer and urgent calls.

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

every

WOMEN LIKE ROUGH TREATMENT.

"

By HELEN ROSE:

Tomewhere in Austria went TWO years ago A young actor

to prison on's charge of shooting. his beautiful sweetheart. Soon, according to a news report, he fi to be released, and the happy

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