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THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1932.

THE UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM

so

Higent and strenuous effort not only to create work and wealth. but also to ensure their more equitablo distribution. The economie and political conditions hindering this

seems desirable.

Britain's National Parks, Ever

since Horace Walpole wrote to the effect that Sheffield among was a hideous city set delectable surroundings, it has that become increasingly plain

DAY BY DAY

account

of

AS SEEN BY SIR PERCIVAL PHILLIPS

BOMBAY- CURIOUS RESEMBLANCES TO HONGKONG

W curtain

not

of

groups

ahould be ascertained and swept TILL I BAW GIBRALTAR I NEVER aalde. One need is a reorganioa | FULLY REALISED. WHY WE ARE SO tion of the industrial system auch | HATED IN EUROPE.—Roscbery.

THEN night falls on Bombay | pavement ? They are up and as will allow adequate provision

Quarantine restrictions have been

scoma to drop about when the first shafts of sur- being mado

for those whom, imposed by Hongkong against ar-

across the dying sun. Then the light break through the crimson through no fault of their own, in rivals from Osaka on

European city undergoes a strange sky. While darkness lasts they lie Ul Famall-pox. dustry is unable to employ.

transformation. Its daytime po-like corpses ready for burial. their thin winding timate reorganisation will take

Mrs. Bird, of 8, Almai Villas, Kow.pulation has shifted to suburban mafied in time. Meanwhile people suffer.

loon, reported to the police yesterday hills, leaving a grim wilderness of shoote their faces covered against Emergency action seems requirod

morning that some-one stole from shuttered shops and offices, and the night air, which, they always the front room of her residence a streets that are well-nigh empty, dread, however heavy and stilling to increase benent where it is

hanging clock valued at $50. with little oases of light here and it may be genuinely needed. The available

there to mark the survival

SOME ODD CHARACTERS. or sweat- money could be most effectively

The Hongkong Rise Club advertise! Indian eating-houses

Odd characters aro found and wisely spent by increasing

that II. E. Major General Sandlianda, vendors waiting hopefully for children's allowancer. Moreover, C.B., C.M.G., the General Officer Com-casual wanderern from the docks. among them. There is one shaggy The Bombay of British trado old man, a gaunt and still arrog- a more generous and discriminat-manding, will open the new rifle rango

at Kowloon Tong on Saturday, 21st and finance is as dead as London ant Arab, whose bedroom is the ing application of the meana test May, at 4.30 p.m.

cant of the Bank when the day's third pillar of the covered pave- ment at one side of my hotel. He work is done.

the wealthy proprietor It was inadvertently stated in thei But only for a brief interval. was once report of the farewell party to Dr.A new population springs up from of a racing stable, and his name is Shellshear, at the University, that Professor Robertson was president of nowhere and takes possession of still remembered on the courses of the H.K.U. Medical Society. The the city. Out of the shadows Western India. Hie money vanish- president is Professor W. J. Gerrard, creep hundreds of ghostly figures, ed on the turf and into the out- allently converging upon a com-stretched hands of little dancing The forthcoming wedding is an-mon goal. They settle themselves. girls..

without sighs and

Now he alta at midnight prop- nouneed of Mr. Alfred James Palmer, sooner or later steps would have No. 114, The Peak, to Miss Mary upon a strip of quilt or matting, ved against his pillar, regarding Isobel . Norton, Ingleside, Broom- perhaps nothing more than a

is tattered piece of cotton cloth, and the world with cynical eyes, ready to talk of the days when he lived to be taken to preserve the beauty field, Adel, Leeds, Yorka, who

English countryside. In travelling to Hongkong on board the make the pavement their bed.

The city becomes n Vast dogs in a big house on Malabar Hil 8.5. Trave. of the this respect Britain may derive

house without a roof. The home-and drove down the road to bank- useful hints from the experience

The Hwa Nan College will hold its less lie in irregular rows against ruptcy in a limousine. He in as of the United States, which in first annual sports meeting at the the hanka and the plate-glans ready to accept the 4d. you offer

China

Athletic Association windows of department stores, as a feo for looking at his book of national South twenty-one

ground, Caroline Hill, next Sunday.

a lug of his parks set aside by Congress for May 22, at 1 p.1. Mrs. Shun Shau: where dummy Agures, clad in the life. He is a sporting old sinner. the benefit of the people. and hong has kindly consented to atri-ery latest fashions, contemplate lie tells you, with

with them

polite detachment, beard and a shake of his unkempt reservationsbute the prizes.

in favourite head, that he is ready to do it all fifty-nine similar

Some are anug nicho that is a

door by day: 1over again If someone will find The coolies who known as national monuments, in

With two terms of banishment addition to many state park against him, a Chinese who appeared others lie in the hard glare of the him the money,

respectfully, and are One of the main objects proposed before Mr. Wynno Jones at the Cen- streets lamps, but never seem to share the pavement with

pleased to be in auch distinguish- by the British National Park tral Police Court this morning was mind it, and here they sleep un-listen

sentenced to two montha' hard labour easily until dawn.

ed company. Committee, which recently issued for stealing a pair of trousers be

A RAGGED ARMY. woman passenger of the

There is another old wastrel, a A report in favour of a system longing to

Tin Yat which was alongside the

This ragged army comprises the of national reserves und naturé

Ping On Wharf yesterday.

poorest of the poor; coolies, haw Patron of Hornby-road at night, and the recognised owner of a sanctuarles, is that the national

kera, beggars, all kinds of to park scheme shall be used

The Salesian Fathers will celebrate job men and men in search of an pitch on the office steps of a well- give to the people abundant op- this year their Patronal Feast of Our ad job; just such an exhibition known tourist agency. He would

Lady Mary Help of Christians on

bankment. You have seen be- portunitica for recreation: How Sunday, the 22mil, inst., with a High of the residue of humanity that be a familiar figure on the Em- Mass ni 10 am. The sermon will be one sees on the Thames Embant mused derelicts like him strolling

painfully aimlessly in the preached by the Revd. Father Galment,

Central London.

1929 had

much such opportunities would be appreciated may be inferre from the fact that between 1916 and 1928 the number of visitors to the national parks of

States increased from United

to 3,024,844. The com-

we do not heur Although much of the unemployed problem in the Old Country as we did some Hittle time back, it is evident that the question still remains in a far 556,097 from satisfactory position. Fig-mittee does not yet think

ures

the

that

od!

kim

night through

can be made to prove almost the time is ripe for any particular BIG TASK FOR R.O. driveways which are Bombay's gaudily decorated, and he w

areas to he

OFFICERS

OPIUM HIDDEN IN BOXES

aru

or Imping

but agher, S. J. In the afternoon at 4 through Trafalgar-square; p.m. there will be Vespers and Bene- with this difference: here the efty,

15 His long, prehistoric coat is diction of the Blessed Sacrament. All for a few hours of darkness,

policeman the Salesians co-operators are cor- theirs, and no

ever covered with coins, railway jug. gage labels and medals. So le his moves them on. lintly invited.

side caricature of

Ho They overflow into the

2 top hat. streets and along the pleasant carries by day a small bag 29 pride; and in the Indian quarter, majestically through the trafic selected beyond All

which prenses against its Eure offering yesterday's newspapers anything, whilst the very consider.

pean neighbour on two sides, they and various rubbish for Bale. to be found in thousands. This flotsam he carefully packs able divergence of viewpoint often others, but it suggests that if a American

One cannot walk anywhere with-into two bundles, which he then displayed in Party statements also national park on the

desired, the rugged

out steering a careful course be places neatly under his head for makes it difficult to get at the model is

of Scotland

tween the sleepers under foot. aafu keeping before retiring for truth. Quite recently, however, a Cairngorm district

The climate is an ally of the the night. most informative report has been would be a very strong candidate.

Three camphor wood boxes be homeless poor. Save during the

shelter under No one over shows surprise at issued by the Archdeacon of Nor-The national park idea is excel-

(und bad luck his eccentric appearance or be thumberland and six other elergy-lent in its essentials. It is good longing to a Chinese passenger on rains, when they

like that. A tention of Revenue searchers to those who arrive too Inte!) one haviour. India" is

out. the most men on the unemployment problem that certain areas should be per the Tjikembang attracted the starcaded footways

indus- prior to the departure of the night is like the next, a little hot native may wear generally and the effect of thepetually preserved from

But if industrialism is vessel yesterday. The keys to ter or a little cooler, but always landish attire, or next to nothing operation of the means test. This trialism.

these were surrendered to Revenue dry and never cold. They are at all, and his compatriots will document is free of all Party bias, to be excluded from these scenes and it has been forwarded to every of beauty, it is to be hoped that Officer Ward, but so tightly were more fortunate than the wastrels not trouble to give him a second of the West. glance. He may dance, sing, will see to it that the lids screwed down, and so in sturdier cities member of the Cabinet. It shows business men that mailers are far from what scenes of beauty are not excluded strong was the general make-up They have no possessions, need gesticulate, or cur in a crazy way

of the boxes, that they defied none, except the fragment of cloth without attracting a crowd. they should be, and indicates that from industrialism. Both naordinary methods to force them which is their bed and covering If he appears to be mad, people de-open. The prospect of having to when morning comes they roll it pass him by without loitering. I the means test has been working tional parks and economic considerable hardship on many velopment should be compatible unscrew some 50 acrews to each up and stow it in a safe place, or he falls into a fit and is apparently with asthetic amenities. In cer- box would have been discouragte it around them, and so are dying, they may pause to see if he poor people.

but by dint of strenuous ready for the day.

actually leaves this world, but no The investigators state that tain conditions, and at certaining

But not all of them are destitute, one thinks of criticising any do- endeavour, the officer was at last their attention was first arrestedtimes, the twentieth century has enabled to get access to the con- Servants, even hotel employeea parture from the conventions in

raw and men who have a steady liveli dress and behaviour. by the almost unanimous request, already proved that this is so, as tenta-some 327 taels of on the part of the unemployed men, anyone will admit who has seen opium which the passenger was hood, sleep out, night after night,

where pedestrians have the right 1 paused the other night beaide a that what was really most needed the magnificent effect of flood taking to Sarabang.

Mr. F. X. D'Almada. Jav, of way at other times, They pre-group of pavement lodgers who buildings They also observed lighting of great was food.

Two were already hidden in their that mothers are suffering from night, in which huge columns of presented the man In Court this fer the harder bed because it in were just settling down to sleep.

morning, when he entered a ples free. under-nourishment, particularly in light tower, up into the

What can be simpler aftor & coverlets, but they still contributed black of guilty and asked for leniency. families where there are several skies. Hero alone is sufficient Mr. Schofield fined the man $5,000, night's diveralon in a froway cafe in mumed tones to the lively con- childron. This is endorsed by doc-evidence to indicate that Indus-or 12 months' hard labour in de-or grog shop than to stretch out versation. I asked my companion on an unclaimed corner of the what they were talking about. It tors in charge of welfare centres,trialism and beauty are not neces-

was the usual gossip of the day, the who affirm that long-continued un-sarily inimical to each other. And

such as one might hear in lounge of an hotel at closing time. employment is telling increasingly recreational facilities within easy

They were talking of the latest on the health of mothers. Though reach of factory towns are even

Congress procession and the dle- concrete evidence is a little diffi- more urgently needed and would

orderly scene in the police court. cult to collect as to the working be more appreciated than national

which followed; the cost of food of the means test, it has clearly parks in remote regions.

in the bazaars; the details of an unfortunate incident that led to que led to a great decrease in helping

of their lodgers being arrested for each other out by neighbours and

the stealing a gold banglo; and relations. It has thereby con-

happy release of another from u siderably increased the number of

wife who was a shrew. families who have nothing but the bare benefit to live on. This often affects unemployed homes that do

QUARREL EXTENDED not tome under the direct opera- tion of the means test at all. "It!

TO TWO DAYS Is our considered opinion," say the

The occupants of two houses in investigators, "that, even as a bare maintenance level, standard bene-Wanchai engaged in a free fight fit is falling to maintain families last night when they resumed a dispute which started the previous adequately. This is specially obday over priority at a street foun- vions in cases where the wage-tafn. earner has been out of work for

STREET FOUNTAIN

FIGHT

ut

On Tuesday night one of the oc-

a long period. The fact is, stand-cupants of 5, Loc Yuen Street and ard benefit has never been ade- ja man from 7, Lee Yuon Street had

quato, but it has been eked out

a, quarrel over water, and on the following evening three members

pate, bamboo poles being freely used. But for the arrival of n police officer the affair might have had serious results, but as matters turned out, except for a fow very minor injuries, none of the com batante was hurt.

by one family helping another, from each house ronowed the dis Now that the means test has taken ponsions, etc. into account this has become impossible. The growing opposition to the means teat is partly due to this fact. Everyone has been brought down to a level too low for baro maintenance. All six parsons, including a boy Debt and fear of Increasing debt, of 15 years, were brought before inability to replace clothing, boots. Mr. Wynne Jones and accused of and cooking utensils, are adding to behaving in a disorderly manner. the danger of undernourishment. All except the boy admitted the

by creating an irritable mentality." chargo.

The five men were ordered to

This tale of human suffering design bonds for their future behavi mands of the community latel-our while his Worship accepted the boy's plea and discharged him.

fault.

"James Henry! What will your father say, if I tell him he is just wasting his money, sending you to school!"

They appeared to be very easy and comfortable, and by no means embittered with life. Finally the Inst man, yawning, disappeared un- dor his strip of dirty cotton sheet with a warning-to the neighbour on his left not to kick him again if he suffered from nightmare.

STUDENTS FROM ARGENTINE

PRINCE WELCOMES THEM IN SPANISH

London, May 18.

At his residence at York House, the Prince of Wales to-day received a party of Argentine students now viditing Britain.

A speech of welcome was de- livered by the Prince in Spanish, and afterwards His Royal Highness conversed with several members of the party, the leader of which pre- sented him with the shield of tho Club of the University of Buenos Aires British Wireless.