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THE HONGKONG

In the Now

1932

TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1932.

по

DAY BY DAY

IGNORANCE NEVER CAN MEET ON

ING,

has been struck off the Register,

Bulls and

Inners

From the Office Butts

Judging by the energy they spend A Scottish golfer has trained a

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there are more than three hundred thousand building trade workers without Jobs, Civil engineering and kindred industries all have their quota of unemployed, whilst every community stands in need of some public service. Many TERMS OF EQUALITY WITH LEARN-in trying to get to the top, some Shetland pony to carry his clubs of Hongkong'a social climbors for him. One advantage is that supplies, such as water, can

abould apply for membership in it docan't giggle when ho duffa his

drivo, longer be regarded as local in The name of China Arts, Limited, the Mount Everest Expedition. character, and to meet thesc YOU FIND THE LATEST requirements It would be a wise MODELS OF THE CAR THAT step for local authorities to urge HAS WON THE HEART OF THE WORLD, LEADING ALL on the Government the desirability of pressing forward these de- OTHERS IN SALES. AT THE CURB YOU WILL manda. All these services may ADMIRE THEIR SMART not be immediately profit-produc- MODERN BEAUTY, ON THE ing, but it is surely wiser social ROAD YOU WILL MARVEL AT THEIR EFFORTLESS CONTROL, economy to proceed by subsidy out THE EASY SMOOTHNESS OF of pubile expenditure than to PERFORMANCE, AND THE allow labour, to remain idle and LUXURIOUS COMFORT WITH, public wants to remain unsatis- WHICH THEY RIDE.

ING.

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fied.

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we cannot carn more than we

O D If stockings have a few holes, When movie filma become worn Officór Ad- His Excellency the ministering the

Government has that's poverty. If they are mostly out, says Popular Mechanics, they are sold as junk. And ovon be- fore. as Government Analyst until further]

☐ ☐ appointed Mr. V. C. Branson to act, holes, that's style. notice.

Rovenue collections in Hongkong A "conventional"

on

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Elther the manufacturers of about truth in advertising or a

Tondors are being invited for the are based construction of a path of wide, sur dollar. Of course, duty usually is "unbreakable dolls" should be told faced with decomposed granite, run-Isomewhat conventional!

Any together with Vista, ning from Tytan Reservoir to Boa contingent works.

other

two-year child we met the other

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The tongues of some moths day is exceptional. are said to be as long as their Observatory returna for bodies. The same peculiarity" Is Royal

A fow more world conferences August show that the average mean to be observed in the case of some and the depression will be ever as iemperature was 82, the highest be ing 90.9 anil the lowest 74. Thern were 105.5 hours of sunshine 20.88 inches of rain, while the average humidity was 83.

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And

Normal

women.

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far as the steamship companies are concerned.

In Singapore recently, house- holders pelted with eggs a robber who managed to escape. The The Week's Query:-"Is a pretty police are now looking for a man sales-girl necessarily a

attraction?" resembling an omelette.

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Forest guards are kopt busy watching out for

tree.

A local resident informs us tha ho has received a reply to a letter by strippers on the air-mail to England, in 30 days. The mainland. cover took 17 days to arrive at ita Which suggests that the New destination, und 22 days by air-mail: return. The postage from England Territories have denudists 18 was one shilling and four-pence.

EVERY MODERN IMPROVE-

It is often said by wiseacres MENT IS AT YOUR COM. MAND. INCREASED POWER, that we cannot spend more than CUSHIONED AGAINST we earn, which, of course, is true VIBRATION, THE VELVETY enough of the individual. But, as

It is notified that on and after SMOOTHNESS OF THE FAMOUS Mr. J.. M. Keynes, the January 1st, 1933, the fees at the SYNCROMESH GEAR SHIFT-

THE THRILL OF COAST- noted economist, hna remarked, Vernacular Middle School will be at the following rated:--Middle School ING ALONG ON MOMENTUM for the community as whole Division, $90 per annum; Primary WHENEVER YOU WISH it is much truer to say that Division, $72 per annum

Division 24 per annum. CONTROLLED BY THE TOUCH OF A BUTTON, DON'T FAIL TO SEE THIS. spend. Prices cannot rise, output CHEVROLET SERIES "BA" S and employment cannot increase, PASSENGER SPECIAL SEDAN unless the first stimulus comes MAROON OR BLUE complete from the side of increased spend with 6 Wire Wheels, Tires and Tubes Bumpers, Luggage Rack, ing, especially in such matters as Tourists Trunk, Chrome Tire capital expenditure on

Mrs. N. M: Tottenham, wife of well as nudists. Covers, Etc., Etc.

and other social requirements.

Prof. R. Tottenham of the Univer Taking unemployment as a whole, asity of Hongkong, won the Women's there is, admittedly, no one method Singles Championship at a national

AL You know the tennis

tourney recently held of solution, neither is there any Karuizawa, Japan. For her prowess times are hard short-cut approach thereto. But Mrs. Tottenham was presented with when a man has

cup the Nippon Yusen Kaisha silver il can at least be said that the awarded by the N.Y.K. Line, and if to drive his old THE HONGKONG HOTEL remedy does lie in the direction she repents her saccess at the tourney f

next year, the cup will become per- paid for. of organised planning of work.

pminently her property, Prof. and Mrs. Tottenham left Hongkong on the Heian Marn on July 3 for L visit to Japan. They are expected to return next week, arriving on the N.Y.K. liner Shinyo Mare,

Price HK$3,780.

AUTHORISED CHEVROLET

DEALERS.

GARAGE

The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd. Incorporated in Hongkong, Stubbe Band

HADDY Valler

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

housing

The health bulletin for the week

until it's

FIRST WIFE; You seem very hoarse to-day.

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SECOND: Yes, my hus- band came home late last night.

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A well-knowa novelist boasts that his hooks never have any heroes. Possibly, he's overlooked the readers.

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Wives of film stars oft remind

Frontiers and Tarifls. The conference dealing with Danubian the problems of the

ended Septembor 3 shows the follow- You can never locate a minority countries brings to the fore the ing enses of infectious diseasen and until you can tell which side is issue of which has been called deaths therefrom: Plague, Tamatave making the most noise. "the devalorization of frontiers." case 1 death, Baghdad 1 case, Colambo 2 eases 2 deaths. Cholera, It means that intereommunication Calcutta 23 cases 8 deaths, Macno 4 between peoples should be such cases 4 deaths, Amoy 62 cases 1 that precise boundaries will be, death, Canton 3 cases, Nanking 101 cases 14 deaths, Shanghai 181 casca except for administrative' pur-11 deaths, Korea 9 cases 1 death. Cor Small-pox. Alexandria 3 cases 2 A STUBBORN PROBLEM poses, of no consequence.

deaths, Baghdad 5 Hombay 10 cases 4 deaths, Calcutta cases I denth, 6 cases 4 deaths, Karachi 1 case,

The young man who is at a loose fadras, 10 cases, Moulmein 1 death, Tuticorin 7 cases, Pondicherry. 4 end often gets tied in knots. cases 1 deaths, Saigon 1 case 1 denth, i Canton 1 case.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1932.

con-

us

With sincerity and force- "Of the loving ties that bind us None ia stronger than

divorce."

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A philosopher, is a man who can' look at an empty glass with a smile,

Many a false step is made by

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have

counter

A' news iteni says macaroni is made in over a hundred shapes in Italy, About the same number of facial distor-.. tions are need ed for the pro per eating of

the commodity.

Auntie Cyelone thinks the Red Sea surround's Russin

☐ ☐ (Silver up But Dollar Down," reads newspaper heading.)

If we're based on silver metal, And our'dollar's so dependent; When-is the time to settle, On the downward or ascendant? The heading which appears

above

Is really quite confusing; If silver's up, how

shove,

Which means

losing?

came

the

more sterling

Some say that soon at one-and-

six,

We'll see a better level;

But time plays most capricious.

tricks,

In mystery seems to revel. Give me the broker who can

guide

My faltering steps when gues8-

ing,

Then ne'er again will I deride,

But on him heap my blessing.

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A scientist has been making uni successful endeavours to extract ink from a certain flower. We've had

the same difficulty with fountain-pens.

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tainly men have made a fetish of frontiers. Between France and Despite all the efforts that have Switzerland is a small strip of been made to

Д bring about territory that for century has reduction in the number of an been regarded as common ground. French, but since employed in the United Kingdom, It is really the problem still persists. This Genova, a Swiss town, is cut of

by its lake from easy access to the human intercourse, nobody would fact, indeed, has been an out-

rest of Switzerland, and since pay much attention to the fron- standing feature of post-war

there has been a constant inter- tiers. What could it matter, in a industry. Sinee the collapse of course of Genovese and French, really harmonious world, whether standing still, | 1920-21, the number of unemploy- who exchange their goods in the the piece of ground on which the

territories, it was Pole lives is called Germany or Lots of Hongkong people ed has varied from one million to contiguous

Poland? What could it matter to great faith in odd number three millions. During those agreed that the French customa years, the usual cycles of trade cordon should be placed some dls the German, if he were free, whe-usually Number One.

A shortage of Manx cats is have been experienced, and tance behind the political frontier, ther he stood on so-called German For a hundred years this territory or so-called Polish soil? To move

Strangely enough, people who say reported. We've always under- although 1924 was regarded as a

presented an excellent example of from Poland to Germany would be sharp things often get a reputa- atood there was no end to them.

like moving from Lancashire to tion for being blunt. good year, unemployment

the devalorization of fron- what

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tiers means. The French barrier Yorkshire. The devalorization of

Two American felt-hat manu- mark. The trouble is that the was removed from the Swiss fron-frontiers would be a great step toward solution of Europe's 'pro-

An Indian who quarrelled with a facturing companies are merging. too much greater have been the attempts to tier but it was re-erected some

blems, economic, political and compatriot recently, threw a lump Possibly there's been Why

overhead. Gee-whiz! of ghee at him. improve production by the process way behind the frontier.

social. of rationalisation, the more the was it not abolished altogether? problem appears to have been; Why is it not abolished all over Europe? Why should not the aggravated. Strangely enough,

frontier be a purely imaginary production has

line as it is between two munici- leas employment. The labour sopalities? Two cities which touch displaced has not found re-employ-cach other do not wage war to ment in other avenues of industry. determine whether this or that the Every trade has it own unemploy-street shall belong to one or ment. There are more workers in other. Municipal frontiers have every industry than there are jobs heen devalorized. Why not na- tional frontiers? It has become to go round.

It thus appears that we have to obvious that all European coun

tries are inter-related, and accept the facts as they are,

compelled, if they are to escape: immediate problem being to see ruin, to work together. It is not what can be done to alleviate the only in the Danublan countries position. One iden which is gain that it is economically necessary to ing ground is that the surplus smash, the artificial barriers that labour of industry can be pro-koop nations imprisoned in water- tight compartments. It is osson-! fitably employed by public

tial that the process of inter- authorities rather than to remain changes, shall be extended. "Re- unemployed and dependent upon vision of treaties," cry the van- taxation and rates for subsistence.quished, who assert that the now It would be, better to see the map of Europe has been badly "Rovision moans war," money now paid to unemployment drawn,

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meant

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benefits transferred as a subsidy affirm the nations who would lose, towarils employment at fall, wages, territory. The deadlock is com-

plate. Friendly relations since there is no waate equal to

blocked by this obsession of fron- that

The of unemployment.

tiors. Yet the remedy is simple. planning of public works by local The troublo arises because nations authorities should be encouraged have fixed their attention on their in a way which would enable them frontiers. Those frontlors, if to take advantage of the present they did not constitute, barriors supply of surplus labour, To if Germany and Poland, for exam- take ons oxample, there is at ple, while keeping their frontiers,

demolished thoir bäzrie present's huize phortage of work

An all-Irish talking picture is to be made in Dublin. Mikke ΣΗ assured of a major part in the production.

It's no use being a cubist artist unless you can get now angles on your subjects,

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Things are getting terrible in [Hongkong, This 'week, somebody 'mado off with a Hotel bus. Vory soon, our City Hall will disappear.

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Seeing that the League of Nations stands for the sanctity of treaties, fan't thoro something ironical in the fact that Mr. de Valera is to 'preside over the next session?

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Boll-ringing competitions are becoming popular again in the Weat of England, states a Home nowspaper. Several ding-dong con- tests are anticipated.

Some of this "pro-war" whisky probably refors to the Shanghai war!

Tho⋅ wedding took place at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, London, in mail wook, of 2nd. L. J. D. Deuchar, of the 2nd Bn. K.0.8.3., and Mias Hilda Buxamme Newman, youngest daughter of Mr. H. L. Nuwmian, C.f.E., Chlef Conservator of Forcats, Bombay, and of Mra, «Newman, of Poons, India. The bridegroom

from Poon where his