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WHY NOT THE

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Judebaker

Much has been said about the

MONDAY, JULY 11, 1932.

not put on the market within Afteen years, they will be can- collod. Precinoly what in to happen in the meantime, in regard to war debt obligations is not made clear. It is at this juncture that the all-important question of America's attitude obtrudes itself.

DAY BY DAY

ÁS THE BO8OM OF THE EARTH BLOOMS AGAIN AND AGAIN, HAVING BURIED OUT OF SIGHT THE DEAD LEAVES OF AUTUMN, AND LOOSED THE FROSTY BANDS OF WINTER, 50 A Washington message says that DOSE THE HEART FEEL MANY the United States Government in NEWED SPRINGS AND BUMMERS,

18 A BEAUTIFUL AND A BLESSED now ready to fulfil ita promise to WORLD WE LIVE IN, AND WHILST consider the revision of these war | THAT LIFE LASTS, TO LOSE THE EN- JOYMENT OF IT IS SIN.-Cham-

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IT

Economy of Automobile Produc-debts, "as soon as the European bers. tion by the Motor Giants with Powers are agreed on repara- world wide manufacturing sub- tions." This is somewhat cryptic, Singapore, is due here at 4 pm, on The P. and O. s. Kashmir, from the more no since it is precisolythe 14th instant. on reparations that the Lausanne settlement

sidaries.

The fact is, of course that an independent manufacturer, pro- vided he has enough production to demand, and get, the lowest prices on raw materials as Studebaker does can concen trate manufacturing and General Management to such an advan- tage that, assuming that Stude- baker and one of these giants produce exactly the same car. Studebaker can produce it for less money... It's wise to buy a Studebaker.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, JULY 11, 1932.

Last week.

instant.

At to-morrow's meeting of the Rev. Dr. E. L. Allen, M.A., and his Rotary Club the speaker will be the subject

Man."

"The Cult of the Strong!

RECORDS-BREAKING MAN

By ROBERT LYND

TTOLMES and Sutcliffe have could make BO

pro-

Hented a stir in the English tolerable. One would need world speaking world by setting up a man of immense moral and In- total of 655 for the first wicket intellectual vitality not to be bored the match between Yorkshire and by such a Utopia and I for one, if Essex, and so breaking the

I found myself in it, would soon, vins record.

I am sure, be hankering after the Any pair of first-wicket partners old world of effort in which men who now wish to do

pitted themselves against each something

to other in everything from round- score 556. equnty sonsutional will have

the-world flights to shove-half- Penny, and the man who ran 100 yards a split second faster than. any one had ever run 100 yards before was a hero whose name was flashed across the ocean.

200 against great bowling than to score 600 against ordinary bowling. RECORDS GRIP

To the coldly scientific mind this breaking of records may seem to Bringing the English mails via amount to very little. It may be hus been reached. Suez, the P. and O. liner Rawalpindi a greater feat for two men to score There is a further intimation that in due here at 10 a.m. on the 13th the European Powers must sub- mit their proposals to Amerlen in- dividually, as the policy of the United States has always been to consider its fifteen European debtors separately. It is to be hoped that this does not imply any fhtention bargaining.

of

present war debt agreements | $1,130. greatly vary in the terms imposed on debtors, Britain having made about the worst bargain of all. It is to be hoped, therefore, that, short of general cancellation, some attempt will be made to secure greater uniformity of treat ment.

One factor that cannot be

over.

the

4

and Surgn. Lt. Comr. (D). L Hughes to Medway (July 4).

Those

like who

of

interest in them, are merely the Our record-breaking, and our

symbol of that belief in effort. which is necessary to us in our present state and which shows that we are still totally unfit be citizens of Utopia.

"MY BEST TIME YET?”

1

to

corner

no Sir

TUBE CAVEMEN

IL

THE IMAGINATION. In order to judge whether a batsman is the greatest batsman of all time you have to imagine A report has been made to the him atanding up to the greatest 37 Pokfulam Road, that while riding cause the greatest bowlers of all indeed, that most of us, if we can Police by Mr. J. G. Simson, of No. bowlers of all time. It is be-

Such is our present condition, The in a ricksha near the King's Theatre time are either dead or living not break records set up by other

yesterday, he lost a purse containing retirement that some critics to-

try to break our to People, day doubt Bradman's claim

OWN records. The motorist, arriving Latest Admiralty appointments supreme greatness as a batsman.

home, looks A new

watch Even so, figures talk.

nt his include the following.-Lieut. E.l.

and self-satisfied amile, Chavnase to Scarab (July 1); Surgn. record affects the imagination like save, with a Lt. Comr. (D.) J. M. Park to Tamar, the conquest of unmapped terri-That's the best time I've done it for Hongkong hospital (July 1), and tory. It is the instinct of men in yet!"

M. to press on further than their Even 1, who have little of the predecessors; cricketers, runners, competitive spirit, have more than swimmers and billard players once competed against myself in unadulterated share this instinct with explorers this fashion. remember once farce will probably enjoy "Almost a of the Polar regions and climbers trying to beat my previous record The funeral of the late Mr. Woo Hay lost sight of is that America Divorce." new showing at the King's of Mount Everest and Kinchen- for a single day's driving by

Theatre. It is a story of matrimonial jungu.

driving from Holyhead to London on the eve of a Presidential differences, complicated by the wife's Fortunately, we live in an age between breakfast and bed-time. !

objection

to her husband's association of machinery, which enables human should have done it, too, if I had election, and it is by no means with a

man friend who is seldum beings to break recorda at a pace not run into the kerbstone in the certain that the next Administra-sober. This latter part is played by at which records have never been darkness when turning a tion will be Republican. In

Sydney Howard, who gives a typical broken before. Invention has add-near Edgware and burst two tyres. display of clowning. The roles

ed so enormously to the speed of can be no husband and wife are taken respec- locomotion that a man circumstances, there

My failure to break my record tively by Nelson Keys and Margery

has now was expensive, but it did me good.. clear indication of America's war | Dinner.

to travel as fast as a bullet before it taught me that I was Considering the general debt policy until the election is excellence of the east, the material is he can get his photograph into

Malcolm-Campbell, poor, We have Keen much better the papers.

Since then, I have left record- Matters are not helped by British pictures. It may be added A few years ago, a man created the belief

breaking to those who can break that a Democratie that the rest of the programine, all-record by flying across the

British items, are really excellent. English Channel; a few

records that are worth breaking, years Administration is averse to any

hence, he will have to be the first and I can now take off my hat to war debt revision.

man to fly to the moon before we Sir Malcolm Campbell or Sutcliffe Taking the issue by and large, not walk because they must, but shall think his exploit worth talk-or Lindrum, or any of the other

ing about.

great record-breakers without it is, s we say, a great accom-because they would. Was not I do not know whether there is twinge of that most ignoble of the A RAY OF HOPE

plishment that no large a measure Socrates one of their order, when any limit to the potential speed vices, envy. of agreement has already been he wandered forth for his talk at which the man of the future

AB first step.

St

the with a few chosen friends to a can travel, but I do know that, if Following many days of doubts attained.

shady place away from the city? there is, he will never be happy PHIPPS Mente.

till he reaches it. 14 long goes and uncertainties, the leading settlement

way Wordsworth and Hazlitt were Mankind labours under the European Powers have at last fowards paving the future for a

walkers. George Borrow, at fifty absurd delusion that it must not attained a settlement of the re- complete readjustment of world years of age, thought nothing of stand still-that the only alter- parations and cognate problems. problems. It is a fine preliminary setting out for a thirty-mile trampnative to going backward is going forward. And so we keep going the Lausanne Conto the coming World Economic among the mountains of Wales. forward at a most alarming rate. it may be that our great ference many times seemed on the and Financial Conference. Best of Thoreau has made exquisite play Ami

to verge of a breakdown, with noth-all, it must help in dispelling the with the meaning and etymology grandchildren will be trying

For him travel along sound-waves from one ing to show for the prolonged dis-cloud of pessimism which has

it meant wandering for pleasure, end of the curth to the other mere- ly because every other method of cussions which took place. On settled on the whole world, and it and pleasure alone. It was the locomotion has become sp perfect Friday, however, thanks in great should prove to be the starting same for Richard, Jefferies and W. that further progress along the old part to the unflagging energy and point for a widespread restoration II. Hudson and many another. lines is impossible. patient conciliation of Mr. Ramsay of confidence. Looked nt in this And one of the hardest working of SHALL WE FLY MacDonald, the President of the light, the Lausanne Conference British Foreign Secretaries, Lord Conference, the terms of a settle-can be said to have achieved much. Grey, has always been an in- I sometime like to imagine the defatigable walker in his leisure world of the future as world.in ment were announced. These It now remains for the whole hours. Any middle-aged man, he which all the progress necessary have met with a wide measure of world, America included, to show said recently, ought to be able to and possible has been

The extension, however, of the approval, tempered, it is true, by a determination to begin afresh be able to find pleasure in walking world in which all the records have

been broken and everybody is Piccadilly line to South Harrow, a certain degree of disappoint- from the point at which the Lau- twenty miles a day.

A genera relieved to hear it a world of which is to be opened next month. ment in France and divided views sanne deliberations have left off.

tion ago the company of willing human beings absolutely content lies completely exposed to the day- in Germany. None the less, it is

pedestrians was a small and eclec with the perfection of everything light and the gentle zephyrs.

an achievement of first-rate im-

deter the meantime the Piccadilly cave- tic one. But today it has grown including themselves, and portance and significance that all

into an army recruited from every mined to leave things as they are. men are practising their driving I doubt, however, whether human over the new course with all the class. But it does not march. Its beings will ever be capable of the enthusiasm of men who have dis the Powers have been brought A fanciful natural scientist has members would not have enlisted high degree of moral and in-covered the great open spaces. into live. With BO MBAY con- predicted that after many censo willingly if it did. It walks. tellectual development which alone Bicting viewpoints to be adjusted, turles of evolution in the machine it may, indeed; be regarded as age the human body will develop something not far short of miraen-wheels for itself instead of legs. lous that these problems, which He overlooked the firm determina- tion of legs to look after them- have AU long defied solation,

Relves. Freed at last, thanks to have been brought down to the ubiquity of wheeled convey basis on which common

agree ances, from the drudgery which in ment has been found possible. past times made the majority of Apart from the settlement itself, men regard "Shanks's mare" us the outstanding feature is the the least desirable form of trans- emergence of the British Prime port, legs in recent years have Minister as the leading personality been asserting their rights as never before. The easier it be- the deliberations, Mr. Mac-

comes to avoid their use, the moro Donald, in fact, has won the right insistently have these members to be considered as something declared their vitality. Some more than the head of the British years ago there was instituted a Government; his intest success movement in Germany to provide lifts him to the plane of a great modest hostels to accommodate the youths and girls who in increasing Internationalist, one who realises

numbers spent their holidays in that world crises are only to be roaming about the country. resolved on R basis muteal England more, recently a Youth collaboration and trust.

Hostels Association has been

of

The Walker.

In

It is not an easy task to started to provide a chain of rest enviange from the summaries of houses where young people on their walking tours can get a the settlement which have come tonight's lodging at email cost. hand, the full and detailed Im The movement is not an attempt plications of the agreement. The to make people walk. It has German reparations, as such, are arlsen because people ure walking. to come to an end, and they are Whore dozens a generation ago to be substituted by a bond fosue, sought their plaasure in extended the proceeds of which are to be thousands today have joined the rambles over heath or hillside, paid into what is termed a Euro-noblo company. And, as a well- pean Reconstruction Fund. These known journal remarks, a very 'bonds are not be bo issued at least noble company it is, consisting, as for three years, and if they are It always has, of persons who did

of the word "saunter."

TO THE MOON?

CHILDREN OF DARKNESS COMING TO LIGHT

Train-drivers on the Piccadilly Tube have for years had a pretty dark outlook.

Almost the only ray which has lightened their gloom has been the daily glimpse of my tortured face as they passed Brompton-road. That, and the half-mile or so out- side Hammersmith where the trains, like attenuated whales, made- come up for air.

"Your hand must be losing its touch, Joe. You missed

two blocks on Fourteenth."

In

"The drivers," an Underground official told me, "have to learn the position of signals and gradients. when to cut off current, and many other driving details.”

With this object, they are being couched by drivers of the present South Harrow trains-Bcratch men who are showing them how to avoid getting stymied at Chiswick Park or pulling into the rough at Acton Town.

But greater than the drivers' first flush of pleasure at covering new ground must be the thrill of their awakening to the simple rural things.

can

"What's that, coach? we imagine a boyishly eager driver taking his montor.

"That's a cow, Bert.

"Oh,

yes, of

course there's

one at Gloucester-rond."

"Go on, Bert."

"Yes, there is-one of the nicest adverts along the line."

One by one the fragrant Teatures of our countryside-the shy potrol.. pumps and the lush gasometers- are being revealed to these children of darkness,

The bealth bulletin for Eastern ports for the week ended July 2 shows the following ensen of infectious discanes and deaths tlierefrom Plague: Anexandra 3 canes 1 death, Rangoon 2 ensen 2 deaths, Colombo & ennes & deaths, Beirut 2 cases. Cholera: Calcutta 143 cases-60 deaths, Saigon 1 case, Amoy 15 cases 11 deaths, Canton 203 cases 73 deaths, Nanking 104 canes 22 death, Shang- hai 314 cases 20 deaths. Small-pox: Bombay & cases 3 deaths, Calcutta 12 cases deaths, Cochin 1 case, Madras 9 cases 2 deaths, Hangoon 8 cases 2 deaths, Vizagapatam 1 caso, Pondi- cherry a cance Я doaths, Saigon 2 cases 2 deaths, Canton 1 caso.

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