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THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1932.

THE UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM

80

Although we do not hear. much of the unemployed problem in the Old Country as we did same little time back, it is evident that the question still remains in a far Fig- from satisfactory position.

ures

DAY BY DAY

TILL I BAW GIBRALTAR I NEVER FULLY REALISED WHY WE ARE BO HATED IN EUROPE-Rosebery.

ligent and strenuous effort not only to create work and wealth, hut also to ensure their more equitable distribution. The economic and political conditions hindering this should be ascertainad and swept aside. Ono need la a reorganisa- tion of the industrial system such as will allow adequate provision

. Quarantino restrictions have been being made for those whom, through no fault of their own, in-imposed by Hongkong against

rivals from. Dankn account of Ul-

smail-pox. dustry is unable to employ. timate reorganisation will take time. Meanwhile people suffer. Emergency action seems required to increase benont where it is genuinely needed. The available money could be most effectively and wisely spent by increasing children's allowances.

Moreover,

n more generous and discriminat- ing application of the means test seems desirable.

Britain's National Parks. Ever since Horuce Walpole wrote to the effect that Shefeld among was a hideous city set delectable surroundings, it become increasingly plain that Booner or later steps would have

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The annual general meeting of the Hongkong Lodge, the Theosophical Society, will be held to-day at 6 pm. nt 17, Queen's Rond Central.

BOMBAY

AS SEEN BY SIR PERCIVAL PHILLIPS

CURIOUS RESEMBLANCES

W

TO HONGKONG

Beems

They are up and THEN night falls on Bombay j pavement?

A curtain

to drop about when the Bret shafts of sun- across the dying sun. Then the light break through the crimson European city undergoes a strange sky. While darkness Insts they le Its daytime po-like corpses ready for burial, transformation.

their thin winding pulation has shifted to suburban muffled in hills, leaving a grim wilderness of shoots their faces covered against streets that are well-nigh empty, dread, however heavy and atifling. shuttered shops and offices, and the night air, which they alwaye with little onses of light here and it may be.

SOME ODD CHARACTERS. Odd characters

sweet-

аго

found

Mrs. Bird, of 8, Almal Vilina, Kow.there to mark the survival of from vendors waiting hopefully for loon, reported to the polico yesterday Indian cating-houaos or morning that some-one stolo the front room of her residenco a casual wanderers from the docks. among them. There is ono shaggy The Bombay of British trade old man, a gaunt and still arrog hanging clock valued at $60.

and finance is as dead as Londouant Arab, whose bedroom is the

ment at one side of my hotel. cast of the Bank when the day'a third pillar of the covered pave- the wealthy proprietor work in done.

But only for a brief interval. was once

The Hongkong Rifle Club advertine that H. E. Major General Sandilands, C.B., C.M.G., the General Officer Com- manding, will open the new rifle range at. Kowloon Tong on Saturday, 21st

p.m. • May, at 4.30

He

A new population springs up from of a racing stable, and his name is nowhere and takes pussession of still remembered on the courses of the city. Out of the shadows Western India. His money vanish- creep hundreds of ghostly figures, ed on the turf and into the out- It was inadvertently stated in the silently converging upon a com- stretched hands of little dancing report of the farewell party to Dr mon goal. They settle themselves, girls,

sighs and

groans Sheilsheur, at the University, that not without Professor Robertson was president of

porhaps nothing more than the II.K.U. Meriical Society. The upon a strip of gullt or matting.

to talk of the days when he lived make the pavement their bed.

doss-in a big house on Malabar H11 The forthcoming wedding is an- The city becomes a vast nounced of Mr. Alfred James Falmer, house without a roof. The home and drove down the road to bank- No. 114, The Peak, to Miss

Now he sits at. midnight prop- ped against his pillar, regarding

to be taken to preserve the beauty president is Professor W. J. Gerrard tattered piece of cotton cloth, and the world with cynical oyes, ready

Mary

of the English countryside. In this respect Britain may derive useful hints from the experience

Isole H. Norton, Ingleside. Broom-less lie in irregular rows against rupty in a limousine. He is as in of the United States, which

feld, Adel, Leeds, Yorks, who is the banks and the plate-glase ready to accept the 4d. you offer 1929 had twenty-on national travelling to Hongkong on board the windows of department stores, as a fee for looking at his book of where dummy figures, clad in the life. He is a sporting old sinner. r.s. Trave parks net aside by Congress for

very latest fashions, contemplate He tells you, with a tug of his with polite detachment. beard and a shake of his unkempt the benefit of the people, and

The Iwa Nun College will hold its them

in a favourite head, that he is ready to do it all reservations Afty-nine similar

door by day: 1over again if someone will find South China Athlette Association niche that is a known as national monuments, tarsi annual sports meeting at the Some are snug

pavement with him slate parts, ground, Caroline Hill, next Sunday. others lie in the hard glare of the him the money. The coolies who

and nildition to many

respectfully, One of the main objets proposed | May 22, at 1 pr. Mrs, Shun Shau-atreets lamps, but never seem to share the

listen

are

British National Park hong has kindly consented to distri- mind it, and here they sleep unleased to be in such distinguish-

to

by the Committee, which recently issued A report in favour of a system of national reserves and nature sanctuaries, is that the national park scheme shall be used give to the people abundant op portunities for recreation. How much such opportunities would be appreciated may be inferred from the fact that between 1916

States increased

that

bute the prizes,

alongside

easily until dawn.

ment,

or

ed company.

There is another old wastrel, a

·Ho

No one over shows surprise at

be.

A RAGGED ARMY. With two terms of banishment

Chinese who appeared This ragged army comprises the

and the recognised owner of against him. before Mr. Wynne Jones at the cen tral Police Court this morning was poorest of the poor: coolies, haw-patron of Hornby-road at night, Rentenced to two months' hard labour kors, beggars, all kinds of odd

known tourist agency. He would for stealing a pair of trousers be. Job men and men in search of an pitch on the office steps of a well- longing to a woman passenger of the odd job; just such an exhibition | be a familiar figure on the Em- You have seen be- bankment. the of the residue of humanity that Tin Yat which was

one sces on the Thames Embankmused derelicts like him strolling Ping On Wharf yesterday.

Imping painfully

night through aimlessly in the Trafalgar-square; but Central London. The Salesian Fathers will celebrate through this year their Patronal Feast of Our with this difference: here the city,

His long, prehistoric coat iu und no policeman ever covered with cains, railway lug- and 1928 the number of visitors Lady Mary Help of Christians on for a few hours of darkness, 16

of the to the national parks

Sunday, the 22nd. inst., with a High theirs,

The sermon will be moves them on.

gage labels and medals. So is his from ass at 10 ..

top hat. They overflow into the side caricature of a United

to. 3,024,8-44. The com- preached by the Revil. Father Gal- 366,097

S. J.

pleasant carries by day a small bag as In the afternoon at 4

along the mittee does not yet think

pm, there will be Vespera and Bene-streets and

are Bombay's gaudily decorated, and he walks trafic the Salesians co-operators are cor- pride; and in the Indian quarter, majestically through the can be made to prove almost the time is ripe for any particular diction of the Blessed eramunt. All driveways which

which presses against ita Euroffering yesterday's newspapers dially invited.

rubbish for

anle. pean neighbour on two sides, they and various anything, whilst the very consider areas to be selected beyond all

are to be found in thousands. This flotsam he carefully packe able divergence of viewpoint often others, but it suggests that if a displayed in Party statements also national park on the, American

desired, the rugged 30th April was very successful in One cannot walk anywhere with into two bundles, which he then makes it dimeult to get at the model is

safe keeping before retiring for truth. Quite recently, however, a Calengorm district of Seatland all respects, and from the pro- out steering a careful course be places neatly under his head for

The climate is an ally of the the night. to the Police Orphanage. homeless poor. Save during the most informative report has been would be a very strong candidate.ceeds thereof, a donation is being tween the sleepers under foot. issued by the Archdeacon of Nor-The national park idea is excel-made

It is rood The next hand concert will take rains, when they shelter under

(and bad luck his eccentric appearance or place on the 28th May, and it is arcaded footways thumberland and six other elergy-lent in ils essentials.

the most out. men on the unemployment problem that certain areas should be per hoped to have the full band of to those who arrive too late!) one haviour. India is like that. A

[rom indus-II.M.S. Cornwall on this occasion night is like the next, a little hot native may wear

In the generally and the effect of the pelually preserved

ter or a little cooler, but always landish attire, or next to nothing This trialism. But if industrialism is and to hold the concert operation of the means test.

never cold. They are at all, and his compatriots will dry and document is free of all Party bias, to be excluded from these scenes

The tea dances arranged are an more fortunate than the wastrels not trouble to give him a secend of the West. glance. He may dance, sing, und it has been forwarded to every of henuty, it is to be hoped that

innovation on the part of the in sturdier cities will see to it that member of the Cabinet. It shows business men

Club. It may be said that, with They have no possessions, need gesticulate, or car in a crazy way the advent of the hot weather, the none, except the fragment of cloth without attrating a crowds that matters are far from what seenes of beauty are not excluded

If he appears to be mad, people industrialism. Both

time for dancing is past, but the which is their bed and covering, they should be, and indicates that from

de-cool breezes which the Clubhouse When morning comes they roll it puss him by without loitering. If the means test has been working tional parks and economic considerable hardship on many velopment should be compatible on King's Park enjoys together up and stow it in a safe place, or he falls into a fit and is apparently excellent fan service tie it around them, and so are dying; they may pause to see if be with asthetle amenities. In eer with the

actually leaves this world, but no poor people.

thattain conditions, and at certain which the Company has been ready for the day.

But not all of them are destitute. one thinks of criticising any do- The invealigniors state

Servants, oven hotel employees. parture from the conventions in their attention was first arrested times, the twentieth century has good enough to instal, discount

any suggestion of discomfort. by the almost ananimous request.already proved that this is so, as

The Moonlight Bathing Picnic and men who have a steady liveli- dress and behaviour,

(full hood, sleep out, night after night,

I paused the other night beside a on the part of the unemployed men, anyone will admit who has seen arranged for the 18th June

effect of flood

moon should prove very popular where pedestrians have the right that what was really most needed the magnificent

at Members wishing to attend thle of way at other times. They pre- group of pavement lodgers who was food, They also observed lighting of great buildings

Two were already hidden in their that mothers are suffering from night, in which huge columns of are kindly requested to notify fer the harder bed because it is were just settling down to sleep. black the Secretary in good time, as free.

What can be simpler after a coverlets, but they still contributed under-nourishment, particularly in light tower

up into the families where there are several skies. Here alone is sufficient arrangements for transportation

(which will in all probability be night's diversion in a froway cafe in muffled tones to the lively con- be or grog shop than to stretch out versation. I naked my companion children. This is endorsed by doe-evidence to indicate that indus- by motor bus) will have to

on an unclaimed corner of the what they were talking about. It tors in charge of welfare centres, trialism and beauty are not neces-nade.- who affirm that long-continued un-sarily inimical to each other. And employment is telling increasingly recreational facilities within easy on the health of mothers. Though reach of factory towns are oven concrete evidence is a little didi more urgently needed and would cult to collect as to the working be more appreciated than national of the means test, it has clearly parks in remote regions,

led to a great decrease in helping

each other out by neighbours and

ATTRACTIVE SOCIAL

EVENTS

-

rélations. It has thereby con CHINA LIGHT CLUB siderably increased the number of families who have nothing but the This often bare benefit to live on. nffects unemployed homes that do not come under the direct opera- tion of the means test at all. "It ly our considered opinion," say the investigators, "that, tren as a bare maintenance level, standard bone-

a most

The Social Committee of the China Light and Power Recrea Lion Club has arranged attractive series of events for the next few weeks. The tea dance fit is failing to maintain families held at the Club's pavillon on adequately. This is specially ob-Saturday last was well patronised viona in cases where the wage- and a most enjoyable time was earner has been out of work for spent, the latest tunea by the a long period. The fact is, stand-orchestra being continually en- ard benefit has never been ade- cored. quate, but it has been ekod out

The following are the Intest

Saturday, 21st May.---Whist Drive, 9 p.m. Tickets: Gents $1; Indica 50 cents. 1st and 2nd prizes, ladies and gents.

Saturday, 28th May.-Band Cou. Saturday, 4th June.-Whist Drive, 9 p.m.

Saturday, 11th June.--Tea Dance, 4.30 p.m.-7.00 p.m. Tickets 175 conts.

by one family helping another. events arranged: Now that the means test has taken pensions, etc. Into secount this has become impossible. The growing opposition to the means test fa partly due to this fact. Everyone cort. has been brought down to a lovel too low for bare maintenance. Dobt and fear of increasing debt,

inability to replace clothing, boots, and cooking utensils, aro adding to the danger of undernourishment by creating an irritable mentality." person.

This tale of human suffering de- mands of the community intel-Drive, 9 p.m.

Saturday, 18th June.-Moonlight Bathing Picnic. Tickets $1 per Saturday, 28th June. Whist The Band Concort hold on the

open air.

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

was the usual gossip of the day, Buch on one might hear in the lounge of an hotel at closing time. They were talking of the Intent dia- Congress procession and the orderly scene in the police court which followed; the cost of food In the bazaars; the details of an unfortunate incident that led to one of their lodgers being arrested for stealing a gold bangle; and the happy release of another from a wife who was a shrew.

They appeared to be very easy and comfortable, and by no means embittered with life. Finally the last man, yawning, disappeared un- der his strip of dirty cotton sheet with a warning to the neighbour on his loft not to kick hira 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 atudents now visiting Britain.

A speech of welcome was de livered by the Princo in Spanish, and afterwards His Royal Highness conversed with several members of the party, the leader of which pre- Bentod him with the shield of the Club of the University of Buenoa. Alres British Wireless,