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TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1932.

DAY BY DAY

THE INJURY OF PRODIGALITY LEADS TO THIS THAT HE THAT WILL NOT ECONOMISE WILL

United States to ignore. One writer, in putting forward this iden before the Lausanne agree- ment was actually reached, expres- sed the belief that, as a matter of business, America would not dia- regard such a suggestion, which would amount to a joint statement AGONISE-Confucius. by America' European creditors, Certainly, there is no question, ¦ or the bulk of them, that they were about Studebaker's ability to approaching bankruptcy. In this produce any given car at just as connexion, it is pointed out that, low a price as any manufacturer.internally, America hng long known As a matter of fact, during the that the old system of putting the past two years Studebaker has debtor in guol is fally: the alter- SO reduced

and expenses

native of restarting him in busi- dividends that at the present time Studebaker is giving you un- questionably better cars for less money than are being produced by any manufacturer-

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Try a Studebaker and Think It Over.

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AUKNOWLEDGMENT.

Me Wo Hay Tong and family tomber their heartfelt thanks to all relatives and friends for their kind expreloms of sympathy as Coral tristes sent well as for and attendater at the funeral.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1992.

AFTER LAUSANNE

With Lausanne out of the way

|

re-

ness is obviously the more paying proposition. So it will be cognised that the debtor's gael Idea is even millier when applied to in- ternational payments,

War

110 use

from So far, the chief reaction America to the Lausanne Kettle- ment is the statement that the United States is willing to fulfil her promise of considering the debt issue. The point of impor- tance, however, is how this "con- sideration" is to be interpreted in

ін actual practice. blinking the fhets that there is n large sution of American opinion unfavourably disposed towards an, réadjustment of these war dents, On the otlar bund, many of the country's biggest political and i tellectual üors have declared that the bly way in which to clear up 1 world mess is all-round

celiation. At the 175234-12t difficult to say which view prepons derates and which is likely to in fluener official action. But Lausanne has at least made this

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fruits.

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IN

THE MATRIMONIAL TRIANGLE

By "AN OLD STAGER"

FN one of his most enchanting male consort did not observe any-

his suspicions." romances Robert. Louis thing to arouse

when the true Stevenson exclaims on theBut a day came impertinence of treating chiropody character of the interloper could The Sanitary Board again draws with n leer. Most people munto longer be overlooked. Away of the public to the feel a similar Kensitive affront flew Mr. Stork, and returned pre- the attention possibility of contracting cholera from where anyone attempts to treat ently with a whole lock of other storks. After cirding eating uncooked vegetables Tid

with levity the subject of storks. male Not that I suggest any intimate round the rooftop where Mrs. connexion between chiropody and Stork was still watching over her In allempting to alight from storks, beyond perhaps the fact mixed brood, the sterks suddenly maving tramear in Canal Roud yes that, if those venerable birds suf-swooped on the seemingly guilty

Mrs. Stark and ruthlessly des Lorday morning, a young amah emfer from corns, they must be troyed her. ployed at 3. Vick Wan Road sustain torturingly long way off. It would ed injuries to her hend. She was

So much for stork justice, and later taken to the Governments be a close parallel to a giraffe be-

ing afflicted with larygitis.

sense of matrimonial proprieties. The fact that The assassinale From my earliest youth I have indy was donucent, a small Tur- Hospital for treatment.

Owing to insulicient_evidence a entertained a profound repect for kish urchin having stolen one of Japanese woman Ikeda Tanaka, of 9, the stork. It is, 1 think, the most her eggs and replaced it by a Lee Yuen Street, was acquitted by impressive, wise-looking of all turkey's egg, does not affect the Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Central birds.

One admits a certain de- question. Police this morning on a charge of

keeping an illegal house. Two Chi-gree of rival intellectuality in the nese accused of soliciting were also case of pelicans, and also owis, acquitted.

The premises are insured for $4,500 with the "Sincere Insurance Co.

HOOVER STEWARD

ROBBED

of

However tragic the miscarriage but the pelican's air of venerable of justice, there is no mistaking experience has in it n slight touch the stern, unbending morality at of the senility of Polonius, and the stork outlook on wifely duty and materni responsibility. It Carelessness on the part of a foki the owl's uncanny look of inhumans entirely Early Victorian, and who was sleeping on the premises re-sagacity is largely due, like that such one might expect even from sulted in a mall fire occurring at 4.

of some academic pedants, to A Peel Street Inst night. The

a casual efudy of the storks' ap- higher power of silence. He looks earance and deportment. They threw a lighted cigarette end on a quantity of cotton wool and hair as though he knew all about the may condemn the wrong person, stored on the premises. This hecaine Einstein theory of comparative but, as becomes birds who have ignited and the partition of a cubicle relativity. But does he? I

sus-long been famed as the natural caught fire.

The outbreak was expect the owl of being a vulgar im-enemy of the snake, whether in tinguished by the police with water buckets before arrival of the Brigade.ostor. His intellectual ingeruta- the grass or out of it, someone bility is three parts insorania. has to pay the extreme penalty when anything like a bar sinister But the stork is different. There appears in the stork heredity. No is nothing vulgar about the stork.turkeys need apply. The ethics There is breeding in every line of of Los Angeles are not tolerated him. His attitude in repose is in the stork community. perfect philosophy. His legs are !a' long-drawn embodification

Jeddart Justice. pure partrician descent. I incline Some sceptics have been rude to a belief that it was contempla enough to cast satirical doubts on tion of the stork that gave sonie this touching drama from highly imaginative and gifted rooftop of Asia Minor. It tailor the first glimmering inspira-heen hinted. by ripe scholars. tion of the subtle utility of spats. That the tale of the jealous stork The unusual procedure of Tw Moreover, a stork's eye is complete is a hardy annunt, and dates back much clear that Europe has taken Magistrates sitting together Vere de Vere, le gazes at you, to early Greek literature.

try a larceny charge was adopteri in the case of Leung Sai, deseril-simultaneous cok aplomb. 1 is with jover you, and through you d as a habitual pickpocket," who appeared before Mr. Schofield and impossible to imagine a sterk bemoral truth?

de-heroes and victims of tales Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Centraling really embarrassed. His Police Court this morning, charged meanour is infallibly correct. Somatrimonial jealousy from

Cabinet Minister or Governor of immemorial, does not that very with stealing a founten pen from

fact establish a strong prima facie ease for their veracity? Even better stance. He

Dan Chaucer accepted the jeal- absolute and impecable respecta ousy of stark husbands as a re- Sub-Inspector Russell stated

kily, that Mr. Malcolm was walking in

cognised fact. He rofers to "The Stork's Law. tzueen's Road in the vicinity of

Stork, the wreker of avouterie.” the Queen's Theatre yesterday

This is doubtless

which means simply, in more ma- why afternoon. when

dern phraseology, "the avenger of defendant Swedish legend makes the stork

adultery". snatched the pen from the breast

a sacred bird. And also why, in

the first step towards resolving the world crisis. It is surely now for America to nake a real response,

PICKPOCKET GETS TWO YEARS

for the time being, public attention/Legend-Exploded or Otherwise Mr. George Malcolm, steward of the Bank of England possesses a

at the

will now turn to the prospects of an agreed policy being devised by the nations represented Disarmament Genera. Thr

Conference problems

at

which

Earth has not yet yielded up for all her seefels. It cannot. example, te stated beyond all doubt that Atlantis, the continent which Plate said used to exist in the middle of the Atlantic, is un-

to

the President Hoover.

under police supervision

when

expresses

the

the

has

{[

Does that invalidate it as

If storks have been

time

these two gatherings have had to tirely a figment of man's imagina-pocket of Mr. Malcolm's jacket, our own country, the stork is given

A reputation that was well ac- consider may be said to be closelytion. though all the probabilities He was seized in the net by the apochryphal role of accou-knowledged in Ancient Athens. passer-by, a tailor of Wellington cheur-in-chief. But even in anti-and current folk lore in Early so. Whether Street, named Tsang Tong. inter-related. Indeed, the United point to its being

que and classic times the stork England, seems to be beyond cavil Defendant, said Inspector Rus was accorded a peculiar moral ex-in 1932. Nor is the tale of the States has made it perfectly clear ever really had a foral habita-

fion" or was merely an insub-sell, had five previous convictions, cellence. Stork's law, or

Tex jealous stork the only famous that America so regards the issues, stantial pageant" of the fancy may three of which were in respect leiconaria, was a Roman law which story that has been traced back he finally settled at some future of larconies from the person, awij obliged children to maintain par- from modern times to very olden The American argument has been

Europe can slate. Meanwhile H.ALS. Chal-

bad been placed twice under ents in old age in imitation oriones indeed. Alark Twain's story that the nations of

pulire supervision. He was still the stork,"

of "The Jumping Frog" is az hardly expert a remission of their lenger's recently undertaken ex-

American classic. But according war debts while they are spending pedition north of the Azores hundreds of millions of pounds. an- seek for a shallow belt of water nually on armaments. Why, it is in the midst of a uniformly deep where depression, near the spot Atlantis traditionally sank beneath the waves, reculls other legends of antiquity concerning fabulous or semi-fabulous things and places, which even now have a possibility of factual basis liigering about them. Reluctant- ly, one has to give up the unicorn. Even Mr. Odell Shepard, who has written a most learned and fas- cinating book about him, can re-

United

asked, should the

States make it easier for the European countries to equip themselves, with more gans; tanks and battleships, This, it has been suggested, would amount to Europe asking the Am- the erican taxpayer to pay for next war, as well as the last. The submission is not to be lightly cast

asitie.

the present offence was committ-i I will be seen, therefore, that į to Mark Twain himself, it existed ed. He had regularly reported the stork is indeed an exemplary unknown to him in very authentic

bird, the model of domestic virtue B.C. Greek literature. himself.

and Camily devotion, a feathered In answer to Mr. Wynne-Jones,

For my part I implicity accept the officer said that police super-ynosure of all the civic duties.

the jealous stork anecdote. To vision did not seem to have much What really set me gossiping me it rings true. There is some. about storks, however, was a re-thing about storks that firmly effeef on the man.

The tailor responsible for the cent tribute to their ethical up-suggests draconian moral codes. Mr. lift. An accredited correspon- And, a characteristic that is most arrest was complimented by

itdent of The Times in the Middle frequently found in exponents of Schofield, who 'dbserved that was a very smart arrest and that East has sent his journal a most Jeddart justice, the stork palpably

remarkable story about storks.

Jacks a sense of humour. One |he deserved every credit for it.

would as soon think of a atork Addressing the defendant, his

In a certain village of Asia being susceptible to a humorous Worship said:Apparently prison Minor, so the eminently serious situation as dream of telling terms and police supervision are narrative goes, a lady stork was smokeroom story to the late Mr. of no use to you. You will go to sitting on eggs in her nest. One Samuel Smith, M.P., who inciden- hard of these eggs hatched out as an tally bore a marked resemblance

infant turkey. Al first the lady's to an elderly stork.

Britain has now made a response gard the unicorn only in a mood gaol for two years, with

uncon-

of affectionate incredulity. One pro- to the Hoover disarmament

constantly comes across evidence posals, and it remains to be

seen of our ancestors' belief in him. how far the other nations will As late as 1789 a unicorn's horn follow suit. It is essential, how was used to test the ingredients ever, that some definite move be in the food of the kings of France. taken so that Europe can be in the lie is a supporter of the, royal arms of England and Scotland. position of placing a definite busi He figures on the front page of ness proposition before the United every issue of The Times, perhaps States. For all too long has this an even more exalted position, disarmament business been in the But even so, no one has ever seen it is at least hands of the so-called experts, who a unicorn. And

reasonable to suppose that, in the have been cracking some

more than 2,000 yours during scious jokes about whether a

which accounts of the unicorn twelve-inch gun is offensive or de- have been extant, someone would fensive. The popular answer at some time have seen one some- said to be that this all depends at where, if he exísted at all. It is which end of the gun you happen the same with the phoenix; but to be. It is high time to come hardly with the sea serpent. This down to the practicalities of the situation and to leave off quibbling on poir's like these. The success of the Lausanne Conference makes

all the more necessary that have been seen hitherto have in- sensible agreement be reached at deed disappointingly changed into accom lines of porpoises, a flight of sea Lausanne. If this plished, the problem of war debts fowl, or even masses of seaweed, would be immensely simplified, be-on closer inspection. Bat there are nevertheless one or two cases cause it would then be within the

on "record which this kind of ex- sphere of practical politics for planation dues not fit; and it is Europe to make a joint proposal to just remotely possible that Amerien. Such a proposal, if it shall wake up one fine morning to Included a genuine cut in arma-find that, although Atlantis never ments and a suggestion that Am-was, and the phoenix and the erica should, in response to the unicorn are only amiable fictions, the, real, genuine, 100 per cent. cancellation of reparations, wiposed serpent has at last been dis- out the war debts, would be one covered. which it would not be easy for the

were

stand-by of

the correspondence columns of the penny papers in the summer months may turn out to be authentic at any moment. Most of the sen

serpents that

we

labour.

'Oh, Lydia, aren't you thrilled? I've been invited to Mra,

Do Rox's aft ornoon tea."

to

a

This brief dissertation on storks is fittingly not without its excellent moral. In deference to birds. the grim viow that these ostensibly so impregnable to hot- blooded sentiment, take of the matrimonial triangle, small boys ought by all means

rofrain from meddling with their eggs. To steal a bird's egg from the nest is always a cruel and wanton nét. In the case of a stork's nest, after the advertisement given through so many centuries, it is tant- in amount to murder: calumny the first degree,

WATER LEVELS.

WEST NORTH AND EAST RIVERS

The following tablẻ fanned by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Com- mission shows the height of water fin English feet on the dates named in the West. North and East Rivora:

Istabest on Lowest July

und on ecard, 10

July 1

West River at

Shishlog. 41,79 Noeth Tiver at

Winryuen-1-25.4

0

10.4

1,7

0

11.8

10.6

North River at

Samehul. 4-21.1 East River at

Sheklung 16,5

5.3

13.2

11.0

4.5

Re-scaling of the will and codicit in respect of the estate of the late Mr. Edmund

Hornby Grimani (local $78.000: in England £44,816.12.2) who died in the White House, Auckland Road West, Portsmouth, on December 24, 1081, has been granted to Mr. D. J. Lewls, attorney for the execu tory.