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vertising and by going out after business, they find that turnover can be immensely Incrensdd. Ad- mittedly, conditions at present aro in no sense ideal: the effects of the world depression-are still felt, But, in spite of adverse factors, Above progress is being made. all, the occasion is being seized to perfect organisation and to pre- pare the ground for the future. The process is one on which there must be no letting up if the best and fullest results are to be ob tained.

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But Keep An Eye On The Old Adam: By an "Old Stager" MOST. MEN'S MINDS ARE INDEED LITTLE BETTER THAN ROUGH HEATI

REPRESENTATIVE people of who do not actively share the

пово distinction. WILDERNESS, NEGLECTED AND STUÐ-

me-physical recreation of sport can HORN, PARTLY BARREN, PARTLY OVER-

WITH PESTILENT BRAKES mories carry them back over the and do at least look on at it, and GROWN

ing us how life in all Ita manifold sically and mentally, than indulg AND VENOMOUS WIND-BOWN HERAGE past half-century, have been tell- this is immeasurably better, phy phases has changed during that ing the common pastimes of the OF EVIL SURM185.--Ruskin.

whist drive will be held this period, and whether the changes proletarian orders popular half-a- Cheap nowspapers, cheap booke. wise. evening in St. John's Cathedral Hall impress them favourably or other-century ago.

On the whole the verdict of the the cinema, and the wireless aorial That all The Prince's appeal to give

The following forthcoming wedding | observant elders, it is encouraging have worked a real revolution in youth a chance is one which might is announced. Mr. Patrick Hector to note, is rather favourable to the democratic Britain. with advantage be taken to heart Peter Brown, of Mongkok Fire Sta-present epoch. Some of the Vic- those factors are even now all that tion, Mongkok, to Mrs. Ethel Amy, torians are disposed to hint a re-they might be, or should be, no hare in Hongkong. Remarking No. 841, North Szechuen Road, Shang- gret over lost social graces and unbiassed persons pretends. But big advance OT! ceremonial manners, but nearly all they represent that it n man at thirty is not cap-

of them admit, on the other aide the average mental entertainment able of taking responsibility and

Mesars. Lane, Crawford. Ltel., exercising authority and nitin-

advertise that the tenth ordinary of their sociological audit, a more afforded to the humbler town The progress made in sanitation tive, there is small chance of his yearly meeting of shareholders will genuine honesty and intensified dwellers of Early Victorian days. After so much adverse criticism during the last half-century al- doing so later. His Royal High be held in the Company's Board purpose in human affairs. ness urged that young men should Room, Exchange Building, on Wednes-

from disgruntled seniors about the most alone would ensure that the day, June 8, at noon. be given key positions at an car-

post-war generation, it is pleasant life of the people now is infinitely Bor uge. In alx words, the Prince

Col. T. A. Robertson, Secretary of to got, from a far more judicial better and more joyous than it for Un immerly was. The sanitary engineer advises business heads: "Recruit the Hongkong Club, who will be sail- and authoritative fury, wisely; train thoroughly; trusting for home next Wednesday with partial testimonial to the age in has probably dono far more to

Mrs. Robertson for six mentha holl-

hai.

selves.

But some conquer disenso and foster health all the doctors put together. But in the general community than even in the matter of medical at- tention the people of the poorer to-day miraculouslyTM Isuburbs are

No-

*

boldly." Here is wisdom epitomis

day, was presented with gifts from which we now live. ed.

The carrying out of these the staff of the Hongkong Club on facts really demonstrate them 011 any three injunctions must achieve Saturday.

It is incontrovertible,

between fly Виссева. But it is a necessary tan-

A large number of Police officers, fair comparison mon comitant that our young including the Hon. Mr. T. II. King years ago and to-day, that things better cared for than were their should seek to merit responsibility.were un beard the P. & O. Chitral have immensely improved.

on Saturday to bid farewell to Mr. body dare.deny that who admits grandsires. P. P. J. Wodehouse, who is retiring the fundamental principle that the The Eccentrle Few. They must realise that if they are to serve their firms well and ad-

from the post of Deputy Superintend vance British trade, they must qualify themselves for promotion, in mind, the always keeping thought that the prime reason for their presence here is to play a part in the furtherance of trade

and commerce.

Hongkong Telegraph. Hope For the Beononic Future.

MONDAY, MAY 23, 1932.

"SELL BRITISH"

Some modern Sir Thomas More, bent on writing a new "Utopin" to set forth his Ideal of a perfect

next.

uf

រ៉ន

Compared with these solid ad- ent of Police. The vacated post will greatest good of the greatest num- he filled by Mr. W. in Bart Sparrow. ber in the true criterion of social vantages enjoyed by the masses of conditions. In spite of post-war the population, the fact that top longer worn in the The Ilongkong office of the M.M. dopressions, economic bizzards, hats are no

com-City, that young men and women Line his received the following tele and intensified industrial

when riding in gram from the Head Office in Paris:petition, the masses of our people wear jumpers

a certain "It has been ascertained that a total in this country to-day enjoy Rotten Row, or that of 707 persons

were on tard the standard of comfort and a degree small section of human society in of liberty never known to their London haunts night clubs and Georges Phillipar. Of these, 718 are known to be saved, the majority of forefathers of half-n-century ago. gyrates to negrold jazz tulos, can- them being landed at Djibouti, and

not count at all in the scale. the remainder at Aden. The repat- The Uses of Leisure.

Perhaps the best way to appre- One of the grossest errors made riation of those Innded at Aden has already commenced."

cinte this tremendously important by many people who write or talk fact is to contrast the realistic art about modern life is to confuse of hare- On the occasion of the retirement of George Belcher and that of the simlan antics

The latter dates back, brained Tew with the customs of world order, might well chooson pension of Chief Indinu Warder Hogarth.

Golam Mustafa, of the Victoria Gaal, economics as his theme, since the members of the Indian contingent of of course, far further than a mere a whole people. The error most burning public questions of the Hongkong Police Force are giving half-century, but his characteris- helped by the inevitable fact that the day have to do with world in-a ten party in his honour at Lano tie types survived even tili Vic- the grotesques get all the publicity Crawford's Restaurant at 5.15 p.m. torian times. Though the free limelight, while the sane, healthy The goal

The retiring education Act of 1870 may have normals are completely overlooked. dustry and commerce.

on Thursday The apt Rude of H.R.H. the Prince of any, economic Utopia unques-officer was last month the guest of failed abysmally to reallee all the It is astonishing, if you seck care honour at a party given by the Indian ambitious hopes of its enactment, fully, how many exceedingly intel- HO a world

something has certainly happened figent rational, and well-ordered of Wales for hitting upon happy tionably would be

that every individual staff of the Victorin Gaol.

to humanise the lower strata of people are to be found in every and telling, phrases is again illus-ordered

society in our great towns. They grade of British life. trated in his advice that the "Buy might work according to his talents British" slogan should have as its and be justly rewarded. Oppor- |complement another, namely. "Selltunities for self-improvement would

British." There is more in this be unlimited, always in the than meets the eye. The thought cognition that the good of one is and vice versa. at the back of it is that we cannot the good of all, expect people to buy British goods Group action invariably would be unless we make special efforts to directed toward promoting the of all sell them. As the Prince so per- happiness and well-being tinently remarks, what is, needed individuals in the group. Each is a well-planned and persistent group would consider the effect of its actions on the welfare of other effort to sell British goods both at

be 203 Home and abroad. Here we have groups. Resources would

managed that no part of them, a thought on which British com- mereint and industrial interests in needed by anyone anywhere, would or go to waste. Such a all parts of the world may well lie idle ponder on the eve of Empire portrait is admittedly Utopian. Day. The implied lesson needs Utopias, however, have their uses. Jongkong They are not sheerly chimerical. be learned

Seldom fully attained, they none as much as it does anywhere. This year's special efforts in the less spur endeavour to amelio- the Colony may in one sense berate practical affairs. They throw

to

said to reflect a recognition of that

It'

A searchlight on existing systems, revealing imperfect cogs and hold-

SUGAR MARKET.

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.

London Terminals. August 1932 4/7 op d. December 1932 4/11% up March 1933 5/11⁄2 up 40. May 1933 6/3 up 0. Buyers at above prices, sellers asking d-d more.

are no longer the degraded má- chine-fodder of merciless Indust rialism.

The only traditions that have

Bre

really gone by the board foolish onos. We no longer play Deplorable as the housing situn-football in trousers or cricket in tion may be in this country now, top hate, and the Varsity crews It is at least atreets ahead of the dress suitably for their strenuous The following cable at the clono hovel dwellings that were com- contest; but patriotism, filial re- of the sugar market, on Saturday mon enough to be the rule fifty gard, and human sympathy have has been received by Messrs. Pen-years ago. There seems to be a perhaps never been so vital and prevalent notion that our people sound as to-day in this country. more peopled by to-day are less sturdy than for London is no treath and Co.

merly. That is probably an ille-namby-pamby neurotics and crazy d.sion based on the fact that they perverts than America is entirely populated by gangster gunmen. are notably less brutal..

All the various forms of social indeed, the latter are far more by the State, egre-typical of U. S. A. than the for- reform run giously though politicians may mer are of even the West End of

abuse. London. their have pandered to

Distanteful though it may be to have done much, and will do yet more, to remove the reproach that the determined disciples of nil we are rearing a C3 nation In admirari, life to-day in this coun- Great Britain. Fifty years ago, try is on a higher and sounder half-a-century ago. uncultured majority of plane than for the all classes, drink and debauchery Undoubtedly we have progressed were the main avocations of in the best sense. But a word of existence. To-day even the poor caution is necessary.

The French, who posess a fine

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est have many superior attractious

fact. In the past, many opportuning up better models. Utopias are Then in less than the 400 years offered to their lofsure, and they brevity of shrewd wit, have a say-

ties have been lost. It is for our commercial houses to see that the leeway is from now onwards made

up.

For more years than we care to remember, the point has been stressed that if British trade wants fair share of the Eastern markets, special efforts must be made to go out after business. In

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seldom propounded until the need that for reform is urgent. Necessity for finding ways to put the world's 20,000,000 unemployed to work has already brought forth several pro- posals which a few years ago would

have elapsed since More have, even if lucky enough to being that, the more things change, more the more they are the same. Our habits have undoubtedly under- wrote his "Utopia," hoarding, selregularly employed, far

gone some significant changes in fehness, greed, cut-throat competi-abundant leisure. tion and all the et ceteras which Sport for All.

Outdoor sport has ceased to be the last fifty years. But human nature remains essentially the clog the economic machine may

same. And it is up to us, who be as far from private and public the prerogative of the few, and to considered Utopian, practice as imprisonment for debt an amazing extent become the inherit the advantages of a largely Even those artificial uplift, to safeguard our

re-

im-

pro-

have been Several international agencies are seeking to insure à more even flow of trade from areas of surplus to this respect. it has to be recorded those of fansing. While the that British methods have in times

sponse of industry to these pro- past fallen far behind those of posal is encouraging. It gives little other nations which have realised basis for expecting their the immensity of the opportunities medinte adoption. This is no causa in this part of the world. It is for disturbance. Many of the an old story that business men who "radical" reforms Indirectly bave had good connexions with posed by Sir Thomas in 1516, Buch big British manufacturing in-

as abolition of imprisonment for terests have been largely content debt and of capital punishment for to alt in their offices and let orders

theft, wore slow to come, but now And their own way in, rather than

are accepted practice. So there is to go out and seek contact with basis for hope that industry will buyers. This free-and-easy method

come to accept forms of co-opera- obvious that will correct tion may have served all right in the olden days; it will not do to-day. defects of uncontrolled competi- There must be that personal con-

tion. And it must be remembered tact, supplemented by social Inter- that the rate of exchange has been course, which will be found to grently accelerated: The Utopias achieve results. Happily there of to-day are often not many to- morrows away, In all proposals for are not wanting signs that the truth is now being realised to an ameliorating economic conditions, the increasing extent. A greater mea- the emphasts lo rightly upon aure of energy and enterprise is need for more enlightened manage- evident on all hands to-day. In mnt of the world's resources. Will part, this is due to the fact that Rogers put it pithily the other day that the United British manufacturers are them when he said

studying selves

Over UBS States was the Arst nation ever to markets much more intelligantly. "go to a poor law institution, in The result is that there is now

an automobilo." The challenge is acarcely a line in which British for botter management all along products cannot compete with the the lino. When the goal of erect- output of other nations, at prices ing a world order in which which, when quality is taken into dustry is to full its only logiti. account, are really amazing. Thus mate end-to produce and distri- with an assurance of suitable sup buto commodities needed by hu plies at the right prices, local agon-manity is kept steadfastly in cies have come to appreciate the view, progress toward it is certain. opportunities. By Judicious ad-

the

fn-

is now.

hobby of the many.

"Now, I'm gonna let you in to age him, but don't start telling him a lot of hard luck storien.

social land-marks.

It would be fatally easy to ex- perience a relapse. There must be no real softening of the fibre of our racial psychology. It is Idle to ignore the facts of life. The Old Adam and the Old Eve are with us still. There must be limits even to freedom. We must not, either in small or big out- looks, vainly imagine that by abolishing the policeman wo there- by end crime.

CIGARETTE IN A BUS

16 PENALTY

The director of a elik' firm, Emanuel Krantz, of Crisp-street, Poplar, was summoned at Mari- borough-streat for carrying a omnibus lighted cigarette in an and for impeding the conductor in his duty.-

The summonses were taken out under Section 84 of the Road Traf- fic Act.

For carrying the cigarette Krantz was fined £2 and ordered to pay £1 costs. For impeding the conductor he was fined £2 and orderd to pay $1 coste-20 in all.. The conductor said Krants wan inside a L.GO.C. bus. He refused to put out the cigarette, to ge on top or leave the bus, but later he stood on the conductor's platform.

He was again asked to leave or go on the top, and the conductor then stopped the bus and the pan- sengers were transferred to an- other vehicle."