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THURSDAY, MAY 12 1932.

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CIVIC APATHY

THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1932.

noods, the better. Moreover, if the complaint be Ofcfal pro- dominance, we might just na well argue that neither tho Leglain tive Council nor the Sanitary Board have any real value. They may not be all that we could wish them to be, either in the extent of their powers or in the method of selection of personnel, but it is surely wisdom to make the best of things as they are rather than to sit back and grumble because they are not better.

DAY BY DAY

EMPIRE POPULATION

By "COMMERCE" “Onco-in our time-is there o mangr

in

There was a children's lesson-A- book oalled "Reading without Tears." The Government's motto

OF ALL ARTS I BELIEVE THAT THE CINEMA IS THE MOST IMPORTANT.— 66PTHE OPERATION was comis recovery without effort (on aur pletely successful, but two part). Everyone else is to Lenie.

hours later the patient succumbed economise properly and at the The quarantine restrictions imposed from shock." These words, which ame time display onterprise. O that we, the Government, may by Hongkong against arrivals from

nowa prosper without pain, that is, pain Pakhot on account of anall-pox have unfortunately occur

papers at least each month, have at all comparable to that being been removed.

a lesson to teach In politics. On endured by Commerce. But com- Mr. B. Paul will speak on "Karma Inquiry the sorrowing relatives morce, says the Government, is -Action and Re-nction" at the usual are told that the patient's heart not worth the effort, for the Gov- A display of real elvic interest, weekly public lecture of the Hong-collapsed or Kave out. Sorne-ernment falls short of sharing the may happen, in- experience of commerce. On the revealing a determination to press kong Lodge, The Theosophical Society; thing similar for urgent needs, will do more In17, Queen's Rodd Central, to-dny atdeed will happen, unless steps are contrary, it appears satisfied with taken to prevent it in the politi-its works and itself. There might be hope if it could realise the truth of two lines of Kipling: cal world.

"And whatever we do, we shall

fold our hands and suck our; gums and think well of it.

its cumulative effects to bring about desired changes than an at- We titude of sheer indifference. have to prove our interest in small matters before we can ex- pect to be entrusted with larger responsibilities. So the call is

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The British public, already very heavily taxed, Romehow managed to pay up la advance a whole quarter's Income Tax, « prepay- ment which will not be set square

Yes, we shall be perfectly pleased with our work; and that is the Perfectest Hell of

Mr. P. P. J. Wodelieuse, Divisional Superintendent who is to leave long- kong on retirement on May 21, la Lo bo tendered a dinner at the Police Recreation Club,

Happy Valley, on Wednesday, May 18.

The 8-year-old son of n sampan wo- for an intensification of public Inman, Lee Tack Kan, previously until each payer dies and only has been terest in the Colony's affairs, a ported as having been severely scalded then if the executors remember Rup- keener desire to make use of our when he upset a pot of boiling tea about it. The strain

on board, died yesterday at the Go- terrific and has only been

Every tax payer will join hearti- call to rally to the country.

The tax payers have answered they can read the rest of the poem, that be, and if they need any more the call because they believe that and happen they maye bo ashamed. the apathy displayed on Tueselny, the police that his flat at 410, Hen. the Government also is straining Yet ahamed they must be, elther by every nerve to mlainise the others or themselves, for without

privileges, few though they be.vernment Civil Hospital from his in- ported because of the patriotic tv in this criticism on the powers

bemoun

whenever the opportunity pre-juries. sents itself, no matter how sol dom that may be. We but, none the legs, we cannot but believe that if the way were open

Mr. H. Hagan, employed as a clerk at a city office, yesterday reported to nessey Road, had been entered by n thief and a gold watch and chain, weight of the call; they with appendage, which he valued at hurs, had been over

a hundred

stolen.

ing of

cannot

shame comes no repentance; with- answer another call of the most repentance comes no improve- kind, no matter how argent. Inment. If they are ashamed they

fact, they have only succeeded in

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ed up for a more active participa- tion in local affairs, the mensure

meeting the call through hope for have a chance of sharing in this of that interest would be marked-

Dr. Anna Selle, member of the the future. But in this hope they future; if they are but shamed by ly intensified. After all, it may Board of International Student Ser-are going to be disappointed, for others or by facts they have none. Life is very unfair. for these not be altogether fair to assess vice in Geneva, will speak at a meet the Government is not economis- men will be confounded not be- public Interest on the basis' of 180 Society on Saturday, May 14, at g'at all in the 'degree the times cause of their heredity or environ-

of NationN the league results of one solitary election Ip.m. nt the Cathedral Hall. All require, The Government is

With members of the League of Nations far behind the requirements of ment but because they fail to rise Society and their friends are wel the May Report as the May Re-superior to iroth. It is men with port is behind the necessities of this supreme ability that England and the Empire need to-day, and 1933. So long as this is the case by the extremity of that need will "Alins French Gertle," new show-it la vain for the Government tail then in places be judged. By ing at the Queen's Theatre, is quite wait on the expectation of reviv a good crook films, noteworthy for ing trade to send up the yield of their knowledge of that need will Carceful acting by Bebe Daniels. She the taxes.

every six or seven years. wider opportunities, we might réa- sonably expect a greater manifes tation of elvic spirit.

Stabilisation

"Exchange Equalization Fund" is a long-sounding phrase for what will probably be one of the most

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per-

their tence he augmented.

absurdity.

risen to great dramatie heights in

They know, for it needs no tell Except for Customs and the tense moments of the play and altogether gives a very excellent in-haps Excise, the yield of anying to many possessed of far less terpretation of the part of a French given rate of tax is bound to fall knowledge than that of a Minister Now that the nefual figures of storie provisions of the British anuid with a penchant for thieving until the Government economise that the distribution within the Associated with her is Ben Lyon, who in a sense at least comparable to Empire of the British race is all industry and wrong. Forty-four millions ere; the polling are disclosed, it is evi. Nudget which has now obtained its private life is Bebe Daniela' hus-

Recond reading. Its provisions and, and he plays the lending male that enforced on

millions Customs for ten

in Canada; six dent that public interest in Tues could ultimately affect the whole role admirably. There is nothing probably beyond it. day's Sanitary Board 'election was

currency new in the theme, but the product time may mask the falling yield in Australia; one and a half in

of of other taxes, hat it can be but New Zealand, are an concentrated rather than diffused.

for a time, a time during which Yet because to change this is hard From the keenness of the pre-elec-

wastes for politicians it is Ignored. the Government merely

An Our statesmen seek to perpetu tion controversy,

men's lives, marking time. it might have

things stand, the inevitable con- ate it by tariffs, by quotas, by been assumed that there would he

clusion of this process is a succes-dale, and a hundred other devices a record pull, but actually well

sion of perfectly balanced Budgets all designed to remove from our under fifty per cent, of those en-

imposed on a community steadily Empire Ministers the inconveni- titled to vale took the trouble to

approaching bankruptcy probably ence of carrying out their duty, via some refusal to adventure, which is to serve the Empire as exercise the franchise. The facts

they can see it. And they are not are regrettable, the more sa sinerable steadiness so

akin to hoarding.

they will no doubt a used cmnter any plea which may in future be advanced for an exten- sion of the elective principle in the case of the Sanitary Board of for the application of that prin- ciple to the Utkal seats on the Legislative Council

to

structure of Britain's

It has had quite n machinery. warm reception in the

City, as showing that the Government had some semblance of a plan for the future of the pound in mind. The whole purpose of the Exchange Equalisation Fund is to give the pound's exchange value' a reason- that manufac- facturers and traders can arrange future business without great risk of exchange losses.

How will the new fund work? Powers will be granted to borrow but there is no need to anticipato borrowings" to that extent. It is the size of these borrowing powers that will fright- Analysing the figures, we finden the speculator who gambles up- that an amazingly small proper- on his own ideas of the future of tion of those who are on the Jury the pound. The "banker" will have List recorded their votes. Out of almost unlimited powder and shot 1,662, only 606 polled. On the to resist him, and will probably be of work. to put him out other hand, exempted persons vot able

is

the

we remember that the Associa- tion has a membership of over three hundred,, all of whom, doubtless, would be eligible to vote, and that there are hundreds more possessing that right, it is astounding that Mr.

received Mow Fung

only 161

many

money

MARKET.

OFFICIAL SUMMARY BY STOCK EXCHANGE,

quieter Lone prevailed at apening session this morning, there is a lack of interest in market

A

movement.

Sales. Hongkong Banks $1530/16-40. Hongkong Realties $11.35. Dairy Farms $28.

Buyers.

Canton Insurances $1240.. Douglases $261.

Union Waterbents $19. Benguet Explorations 31 cents. Providents (OH) $1.85. Hongkong Lands $77. Shangha Humphreys $100) 164 Peak Trams Yauntati Ferries (Old) $31%,

Yaumate

Ferries (New) $30%. Hongkong Electries $74.65. Cements (Combined) $15.20. Sinceres $174. Constructions (New) $1.70. Govt, Loans 2% Premium.

GIRL GUIDE MOVEMENT'S COMING OF AGE

586,000 TO TAKE PART.

the and

move-

ed in considerable strength-Latterly the pound's exchange value close on 600 out of a total of 693. has been "going up" because some it is foreign investors have more faith In this latter connexion. worth recalling that special efforts in it than in their own currencies, were made by the candidates to and because speculators thought it The for- induce exempted persons to regis- would go on going up. ter and thus be eligible to vote. eigner cannot physically "bring to London." I be is a This canvassing WAS obviously fruitful in results. The real sur- Frenchman, say, all he can do is prise is that so few jurors exer- to change his francs at a Parla bank with some one who has pounds franchise. cined the

What

in a London bank and would like that equally surprising is

the his francs in Paris. Now R. I. A. nominer received such a

amount of foreign-owned money In seant measure of support. When London is limited-one might call it a pool of foreign-owned pounds.

More than half a million girls When a foreigner wants to "send throughout the British Isles will his money to London" he has to be celebrating shortly the ma- change his own currency with an-jority of the Girl Guide other fellow-countryman who has ment.

An olliciul ut headquarters pounds in London and is willing to

states: "The celebrations will part with them. The supply is begin on May 29 and Inst until limited, so the pound's value gees May 29 inclusive. No fewer the

check up. To

rise 386,616 Guides, Brownies, Ran- (which would be harmful to trade),gers and Guiders (adults) will the Bank of England is to be pro-take part. vided with extra pounds borrowed have a great Albert Hall pageant, "Originally it was proposed to on the keen civic spirit which has by the Exchange Equallantion Fund but owing to the call for economy demonstrated across the so that it can increase the supply the girls are having local cein- harbour by the creation and long-available to the foreigner. In ex-brations instead. continued existence of the Re- sidents' Association. How shall we account for the apathy which the election has revealed? It is possible, of course, that the ma- jority of residents feel that the personnel of the Sanitary Board is not a matter of any real impor- ties marketed in those countries or May 22.-Cardinal Bourne will tance, since the Official element buy gold. That is one side of the address Catholic Guides in West- predominates and that. in any operations. The day could soon minster Cathedral. case, the Board is merely an ad- come when the trouble may be visory body, with no real powers, not to stem the rise in the pound's

votes. Kowloon, for reasons which it is difficult to explain, camet have polled at all weil. This is

passing strange when we reflect

been

an undue

"They will all try in that period change for the pounds in London which it exchanges with foreigners to do a specially good turn. It the Bank of England wil get the will be made a week of Guide Ser- franes in Paris or dollars in Newvice. There will be a jollification

for the younger childron." York. Those francs and dollars it Including one event which pre- can "keep on deposit" in Paris and cedes the official celebrations not- New York, or buy British securi-able dates will be:

May 28.-National service at St. Paul's Cathedral for Guides in Diocese of London. Address by its recommendations not always value, but to stop a drop. Such a the Bishop of Kingston. proving acceptable to the Govern-drop could be caused by foreigners May 29 Guide Sunday through- ment. If that is the general at- wanting to exchange hurriedly out British Isles..

Special services for Jowish titude, it must be deplored. The their pounds in London for their Board, in spite of its limited pow-own currencies at hime. The Bank Guides.

of England would already have The Princess Royal, who is pre- ers, certainly has important func-

foreign curerncies abroad (those Bident of the Girl Guides' Asso- tlóns to discharge, and the more bought, when it sold pounds to stop ciation, will attend the service at Ita personnel is leavened by mem-the pound's rise) and with them St. Paul's in which Lord and will tako bors who are acquainted first-could buy pounds to stop a serious Lady Baden-Powell

part. The Lord Mayor also will hand with the Colony's health drop in the pound's valuo.

be present.

Unicas folk can trust the back blind to their duty, but they fear ground, they will not adventure to serve it, even to the point of an ideal sanely or hopefully, though that merely projecting it as sort of adventure is the very life to which they might make their blood of England. They may daily shifts subservient. speculate, either with a little, as They know the end the Empire on the Irish Sweep, or in such must reach; a doubled British, po- m measure as leaves them bankrupt pulation in all Dominions; this if the speculation fails. This int-they might admit. They know it ter they will only undertake If cannot be done this year, and with practically bankrupt already and this all will agree. But unless therefore without hope of the they are prepared to hold up this sane kind. Put shortly, this kind redistribution as the one cardinal factor in British Empire politica of speculation is desperation.

This failure of the Government fund statesmanship they are self- to take care of the background confessed quacks, playing about arises from perhaps two things. with bread pills in the face of a It is charitable to say two, for diagnosed disease and professink really they are but one. Desire to that they know no better. case the point on which the loudest outcry is made and failure

These are hard sayings, but who

Lo diagnose the fundamental will say that they go beyond the trouble. If they could diagnose facts. It is for our Ministers to the trouble and treat their conce-marry the ultimate aim with their sions to pressure as but pallitives present difficulties, but to begin to or anestheiles to be used to pro- do so they must give service to

Whon they do so, vide time for dealing with the the alm. discase, then there would be some their dimeulties will disappear, chance of their success. But as and folk throughout the Empire It is, remedies for symptoms are will be both pleased and proud to treated as absolute cures and the help towards a goal that all can

understand. disease remains.

YOMIDA

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