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THURSDAY, JULY 21 1932,

place of "throwing off" WILH "falling of." Read in this light, there can be no possible constru- ing of Mr. Lo's proposal as a the! on the sanitary service. Taking the motion as a whole, it was ob viously inspired by a desire to in- prove methods which it is widely agreed need improvement. That the present system is not only objectionable but also dangerous

DAY BY DAY.

IF WE COULD READ THE SECRET

ENEMIES. STORY OF OUR

WE WOULD FIND IN EACH MAN'S LIFE sonnOW AND SUFFERING ENOUGH TO ISARM ALL HOSTILITY-Longfel low.

A Chinose girl, aged 10, suddenly Square, Yaumatl, yesterday. She was collapsed while walking in Public taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital.

The theft of a piece of carved white jade, valued at $100, from The Little yesterday by the manager. Mr. B. Shop, was reported to the policr

THE GREAT

AWAKENING

By "THIRTY!!

We have been bold enough to ex-smugly close their eyes to human umine critically two pects of the nature as it is and deludo them- heritage our elders will shortly be-selves with roscato visions of hu- to public health must be patent Vancouver on the 19th July.

The Empress of Japan arrived at queath to us which, Judging by man nature as it might be.

their actions, most of them accept to anyone who takes care to note

In the renim of free education, without question as being beyond whitch is hailed as a major blessing the facs, On all hands, com-

criticism. And we have found that of civilisation, we find the great plaints can be heard on this mat-

the more that government is en- principle of "something for noth- trusted to the Ignorant and -ing" in two distinct forms. So- ter, and it certainly ought not to

what the State "owes" to the in- majority of cases does not take the qualified, the more talk there is of called knowledge (which in the be beyond the wit of the authori-

dividual and the less of what the recipient further than an ability ties to devise better methods than

individual owes to the State.

to swell the circulations of those those at present obtaining.

other aspects of modern te we voted to crifte and sex) is handed If we extend our examination to Sunday newspapers which are -de- find that the something for nothing" appears to to refuse the gift. Not only is no great principle of out free. It is not even permissible be the underlying motive of most cash return demanded: the re- of what our oldera proudly refer to cipient is not even required to pro-

"civilisation."

duce evidene of fitness to receive "Organised Plunder."

and use the gift of education.

He is not required to make any Basically, most of the great return by way of self-discipline financial crashes of recent years and character-training. So-called originate from the insire-uni- "knowledge" is rammed down bis |versally accepted na a Intrdable one throat with no regard to whether

of speculators to make money it will do him harm or good, creation of new wealth. Prices of this is only a logical corollary of without lifting a finger towards the It may be argued, of course, that

stocks and shares have soared, giving him governing while the rest wealth they repre- the same terms. sented has not been increased.! Something for nothing.

The great need, as Mr. Lo has stressed, is that the lorries should be made, as far as possible, dual-Poinsol. proof, while the hour of collee- BUMPERS tion also stand in need of revision. Mr. B. Veliki will spent on "Striv TIRE COVERS It is, as we say, satisfactory that in for the Goal" at the usual public SPARE TIRES & TUBES the Sanitary Board has agreed to Theosophical Society, 17, Queen's lecture of the Hongkong Lodge, the TRUNK RACK & TRUNK the necessity for reform, despite Road Central. to-day at 6 p.m.

Price $3,060.

May be Inspected at Our Stubbs Road Garage.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

GARAGE

The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Lid. Incorporated in Hongkong, Stubbe Road

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, JULY 21, HAU,

REFUSE

REMOVAL

=

It is something to the good that, by his persistener and his refusal to be brow-beaten, Mr. M. K. La has surceeded in getting the Sanitary Board to recommend to

the opposition raised to Mr. Lo's motion. It now remains for a There will be no religious meeting workable scheme to be devised, to-day, July 22, owing to the Women's at the Helena May Institute on Fri- Kether with reasonable altera Guild Corporate Celebration of Holy

Communion at St. John's Cathedral. tions in the lorries. Above all. it is to he hoped that the Govern nrent will realise that th sur-

a

►

power on

Old Ideas Of Discipline. Mr. Barrett, Principal Warder at War Debts-es has been ex- Oddly enough, it is only in the gestions put forward are advanced the police the theft of a lady's hand ciples and so-to some extent, per- pay that the barbarous" theory Vietoris nul, yesterday reported ta plained reflect the same prins schools where the parents have to solely in the public interest. bag. valued at $20, from a windowį haps--do reparations. Viewing the matter

ledge at his residence at No. 3. Breezy from that

Point. angle, there can be no wause for further delaying a very necessary reform.

money

is

of

of

that discipline and character-train- The relations between capital anding and a sense of responsibility to labour have been dominated by the others are an essential part Batur motive on both sides to get "education," still survives, While in Hennessy Rowd, how the as much, and to give as little, as Even in the realms of organised Garden Theatre, Taxi No. 86 knocked possible. (down a 9-year-old boy, Chan Chung,!

religion, there is let us we frank In the mechanism of Governmunt, about it-a who had got into its way when at parties and individual kaders have that our future rewarda will be prevalent impression tempting to cross the rond. The in-fought and wrangled with the shin- quite out of proportion to our pre- juries suffered by the victim were ming deal of grabbing all the votes sent efforts. There are individual Gold and Price Levels.

of a serious nature, and he was dis and popularity that they can for exceptions to this, of course. charged shortly aftre adroission tal humpitat.

themselves, with little respect. to One could pursue this examina- What is happening behind the

The effect on the general welfare of ion further, but it has probably Bacaste of monetary expression?

the community.

been taken far enough to show thai A collision between a team and a This is the question that Sir P.W.D. lorry nceurred in Whitfield faxation has been conducted only modern "civilisation" the principle The organised "plunder called in all the major features of our Josiah Stamp soeks to answer in yesterday. According to the driver of! with regard to the convenient cof something for nothing, of get- his new bank. The Financial

The larry, he was following Tram No, cumstance that the industrious, ting rather than giving, emerges s Aftermath of War."

18, when the latter suddenly stopped thrifty and hardworking sections the underlying motive. And, if One of the Jenusing the lorry to rollde with it.. myths that is particularly hard to the front chassis, quings mad wind of the community have less votes we look back only a little into past disentangle is that

screen glass

The Jorry

wer than the remainder.

nistory, we find that this tendency something fixed. We have developed | indamaged,

damaged. The tram was practically The machinery of law and justice has increased to a remarkable de-

except in the case of criminal rec. a habit of regarding munetary

law) is designed with the primary! It is not suggested that the out- unit

kind of aneherre Mrs. Turner, living at 7, Seen Keen! money as possible from those acho fect; but it is fair to say that the objective of extracting A much took of earlier centuries was per- the Government methods by which amid the uncertainty attaching to Terrace, Causeway Ray, has reportedireck its protection.

other economic things. It is hard to the polier the loss of two finger

people of those days at least did for us to look at the price levelether mounted with a pink oval camen, while affecting to oppose the great ipline and of responsibility and

rings, one set with diamonds and the], removal of refuse can be made, before we came to this conclusion. They are valued at a $100 each. Mrs, doctrine of something for nothing, service to others, which are now Many of the leading newspapers, not despise certain ideas of dis more satisfactory from the view- But it is necessary to do so. Turner states that she left the rings have carefully propagated it by en-argely forgotten" point of public health and hygiene. Since money is valuable only for Duckyned Recreation Club on the even be compensated for reading them

In the toilet room at the Royal Naval couraging their readers to expect to "o-tashioned."

or held to be The resolution which he submitted what it will buy, the price leveling of the 9th instant.

Looking at it from a purely at Tuesday's meeting is

is obviously the most important

with every kind of attraction, prn- logical point of view, therefore, it vided fael about . which we can see no possible ob-

Our eyes on the

at the expense of the un-is a curious coincidence, at the fortunate advertiser. price level, we find that, rontrary vise a better muchlue or improvej

very least, that the trouble and jection. Yet the Head of the

to mur economie feelings, money the existing machine, he says, bui

complexities of the world have in- Sanitary Department took

the real variable in economic life. but it can still only work accord-

vreased as the world has inclined casion to condemn it in terms to But, as Sir Josiah says, even when ing to the limits set by its own-son for the receipt of a "pension," rather than giving.

more and more towards the idea of which its mover, with very good we fully appreciate that money is constitution, and not how you at the expense of the community.

in oficially advanced as a valid rza-something for nothing--of getting grounds, took strong exception. the variable, we act as though, it would like it. The gold standard irrespective of what services may testing that this is a strong indica There was no occasion, in

were not. We make all our ela-is not worked merely by bankers; have been rendered our opinion, for Mr. Sayer to suggest tions of all kinds on the assump employers, all unconsciously take most say, in fact, that the

bgrate calculations for transac-everybody, politicians, workers,munity during life. One might al-and valueless without correct that Mr. Lo, was libelling the tion that the money with which a hand, and a special attitude of frather than the art, of living is re-. Sanitary Department, much legs to We are thing it-the gold, the any section or nation may make it community.

the existing arrangements for the

OUR

to

DC-

Something For Nothing.

The achievement of a certain age

to the cont

act.

We may sum it up briefly by sug-

tion that economics, however exact,

thies; and that until the leaders of rivilination learn to rend their garded as a legitimate charge on economic text-books through cor- put forward the rather strange pound, or whatever it is in which unworkable.

rectly-focussed ethical spectacles, Our object must be The submission that heenuse certain we express it means the same

reckless introduction into they will never be able to effect any to maintain a standard, internu- the community of unlimited chil-permanent repairs. localities in the city are not al-thing throughout the whole period together what they might be from obviously does not behave in that 世 contract, When it a hygienie point of view, it is stable way, we insist on going on something in the nature of a grim as though it had done Joke to propose modern methods though there were no change in of refuse removal. Indeed, it is the burden; as though the distri eliteal to follow the train of bution of income were

just as

tionally, which will go on working dren without any thought or pro- In other words, our ideas of right

of

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LAADAMS DATE ZUR || thought here disclosed. Mr.quitable and just as fair. Here Sayer said he was in favour of he is referring to all kinds of fixed 'modernism, bat asked members to when the price level dips, that obligatimus expressed in money, preserve their sense of proportion means that the buying power- and face the practicalities, follow-which is the real value-of money ing this up with a suggestion that has gone up, with the result that the present yehicles are the most

the owner of the contract, or the creditor, is taking more out of the suitable for use in the marrow, crowded and slippery streets of did when the contract was made. rational heap of wealth than lie Chinatown. But so far as we un-

Among the particular contracts derstand Mr. Lo's proposals there which interest Sir Josiah Stamp is nothing in his suggestion of are reparations and debts. A structural alterations to these member of both the Dawes and vehicles which would make them

the Young committees, he has a any more difficult to handle than point he makes which is all of a special interest in them. The those at present in use.

piece with his general remarks,

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In any case, as Dr. Basto per-Is that the debts are a money bur- tinently hinted, it is surely the den whose onerousness has wrong policy to be content with changed completely with the things as they are and to put off change in the price level. When this matter of reform of the gar

the Young plan was, aigned, the bage removal system, merely be-

world commented on the statistical e.. money-fact that repara- cause other aspects of the

tions had been sented down. But Colony's life stand in need of bet-in terms of commodities, they re- torment. The exception taken to present to-day a burden far hea- the paragraph in Mr. Lo's resolus vier than the Dawes plan which tion which urged that "the exist. they superseded.

Unlike many ing lorrica be av structurally al-authorities, Sir Josiah does not tered as to prevent the throwing price level ducipations to the gold ascribe the recent violence in off of refuse on to the strecta" was probably due to a misinter-opinions, it seems he would Iny Plecing together his pretation of the mover's meaning. the blame on the way we have What Mr. Lo probably meant in treated the gold standard.. Don

standard.

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spite folly and and producing price stability, de-vision for their future is regarded and wrong have become blurred,

ignorance sectional

praiseworthy achievement and until we can refocus our vision, rather than disadvantage, for the sibility. And on this point leaders clearly how to remedy our mistakes. criminal irrespon-there is no possibility of seeing general good." From which there of social and religious thought, in will be no dissent..

It is worth noting in passing, their attitude to birth control, as a further indication in the same. direction, that an age which has produced many outstanding de- magogues, financiers, economists, seientists, and writers has failed to throw up a compensating equivalent ef religious or philosophic leaders.

Bettor try some other station, dear. .Ho hasn't gone to sleep yet."

If our examination of basic Causes and first principles has pro- duced the right diagonals, the re- medy is obvious but not casy. It entails nothing less than a drastic revision of most of the most deeply-rooted and widely cherished beliefs of the time, with a swing back towards correct ethics,

That is perhaps a startling and far-reaching ides; but are we not faced with a crisis of startling and far-reaching proportions?

Far From Hopeless.

The outlook is far from hopeless.. While the English race exists to deal with it, no world crisis can over be said to be hopeless, for I cannot imagine any human emer geney to which It could not rise, provided that it realised its danger in time. And in any emergency I ́am convinced that my generation will be found to be made of the same stuff as its predeceenora,

If anyone can pull the world round it will be the English race- and I believe it can. But the норлег

it realises what it is up against, the less it will be hurt and damaged in the process.

If our elderly lenders can only have the courage to rouge them- selves from their self-satisfied cor- viction that the basic notions, on which they have relied for so long. are sound and can have the energy to re-examine without delay and in the light of first principles overý (Continued on Page 9.)

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