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my

by what things would you turned some of them away from like your success or failure in life the more brutal and more grasp- A Whist and Bridge Drive will bo to be judged? This question has ing and destructive pursuits to held in St. Andrew's Church, Hall, been answered by nino famous those which I rogard as construc

ilve. Kowloon, on Monday, September 20

I once persuaded a young man at 9 p...

to be a philosopher rather than - Forthcoming weddings include that

I am not on my deathbed, except an airman, and he became a first- our rate philosopher. I shall think of of Mr. Carlos A. de S. F. d'Assump in 80 far as we are all on

on with satisfaction cao, 0 United Terrace. Ho Hun Tổn Kowloon, to Miss Lyce C. dos Santos deathbeds. Personally I should this

ditch under the stars. Oliveira, 14 Ashley Road, Kowloon. prefer to die in a reasonably dry deathbed.

I have not succeeded; people Passengers who left by the Empress C.

I find myself unable really to shrink, it will be possible to pruno Bunde. Professor W. 1. Gerrard,ve agreed to rank me as succoss-|

ful-that is all. Have I not writ-answer this question, for it leaves expenditure and reduce commit- Comar. 3. B. Newill, Hon. Mr. Jten somewhere that life levels all its own premises undefined. For men: death reveals the eminent. instance, what is meant by success H. G. Sheldon. ments. Generally speaking, the Paterson, Mr. K. K. Rounds, and Mr.

Well, I am not quite dead yet. Jor failure? The mood in which the dying will look back-mood of Government would appear inclined

Dr. C. M. Hasselmann, M.D., D.T.M.

Sir Oliver Lodge.

Batisfaction or of discontent? Or to err on the side of caution,

& H. will

n lecture to the give especially since the dollar la reckon- Hongkong University Medical So- I don't expect to look back or is the meaning a material one-of ed on a basis of 1s. 2d. It is, of clety on Monday September 26, at worry about the past; rather I bank balance and worldly position,

"University 5.15 p.m. in Rooin

the and so forth? course, impossible to tell what will Main Building, when he will take as expect to look hopefully to happen to silver, but should thero his subject "Our Present Conception future.

I have done what I could, and former is meant but for the use of the Relation of Yawa to Syphills"

of the words "by what facts," not wasted much time. be a general recovery in world de- (with lantern slides).

I am content to leave the rest which suggests the latter,

Again: if the inquiry be as to pression during 1933, it is reason-

Of a very interesting character was in Higher hands. We all have to able to assume that silver prices the lecture given by the Very Revde our bit; we are all wheels in the mood in which one will die the

with Denn Swann to members of the St. will appreciate in common

Andrew's Club in the Church Hall last an intricate machinery, and I have constituents of that mood would

for me to give expression those of other commodities. One night on "Palestine." The discourse striven never to dislocate it or put be far too intimate and complex

number of things wrong. thing seems fairly clear, namely, was illustrated with a

A question of success or failure While if inquiry be as to material lantern slides which depicted various that when there is a definite turn scenes of interest and was much ap-never loomed large in my estima-success, "Who's Who," and the tion, and I feel sure it will not probate authorities will furnish, for the better, the improvement preciated by the audience,

trouble me at what is called the the best answer. lond. will be rapid, as this would be the natural reaction to such a long- continued and severe depression.

Оле interesting development foreshadowed in the Colonial Secretary's speech is the experi-

WATER LEVELS.

WEST NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.

Shlubing

La vie est tella

Que Dieu In fit,

Et telle quelle

Elle sumt.

Einstein.

Neither on my deathbed nor

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One would have imagined the

to.

quib- Further, though this is bling; on one's deathbed one will be indiferent, or at least warped. in one's view,

Dean Inge.

I should be very sorry to judge

Sir Philip Gibbs. Succeed in what?... Failed in On one's deathbed, if onu what? Bertrand Russell.

reckoned in 17.7 I have been trying to imagine can measure up one's own life,

success will not be what I shall feel on my deathbed; worldly values of fame, or distinc- but as I am at this moment in the

Highest on Lowest Sept. Act.

record on tegard. 21

4.41.7 North River st

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Benuhul East River at

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10.4 best of health, I find it a little dif-tion, or money, or power. What the word calls failure may, be one 4.feult. 5.5

The following table issued by ment which has as its aim the the Kwangtung River Conservancy previously would I think of put my own life. I leave that to substitution of local for European Commission shows the height of ting such a question to myself. higher Power, who, I hope, will be staff in some of the more reapon-water in English feet on the dates Nature is no engineer and no more lenient than I should be.

ruumed in the West, North and organiser of enterprises, and I am

a little bit of Nature. siblo clerical posts and in the East Rivers: Sanitary Inspectorate. We heart- THE HONGKONG HOTEL's approve of a test being mudel Rivar af

along these lines, but the success of the experiment will naturally have to be judged by results. If it is shown that efficiency is not jeopardised, there should be reason why, in the interests these who have their homes in the Colony, the idea should not even- tually be extended further still. If success is to be achieved, however. sufficient attraction in the way of salary will need to be offered to attract the right type of men.

The

Hongkong Telegraph

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1932.

THE BUDGET

Postage Up: Fewer Letters.

до

of

SUGAR MARKET

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THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS

There seems to me to be four secret standard of success, and different factors by which I should in any case we shall all have fail- judge the success or failure of mye to live up to our own hopes and

¡dreams, Hife:-

I doubt whether in such an hour be (1) Work in philosophy and there is any satisfaction to mathematical logic: (2) work on had out of one's own adventure in social questions; (3) the success

or otherwise of my children; (4) egotism. Man's helplessness will be revealed to him. He will know on people I The following cable at the close personal influence

how much he has been shaped by of the sugar market yesterday has have known. been received by Messrs. Pen- With regard to (1) I should heredity, environment, luck, ac- treath and Co.

judge my work a success if it had cident, and physical condition. been a stage in reaching some im-He will not claim as his own the portant development, even if it things he. hus, done, if there was had not been more than a stage, any good in them. and had been completely supersed-

London Terminals. December 1932 5/0 up d. March 1933 6/- up d. May 1933 6/2 up August 1933 6/41⁄2 up d. Buyers at above prices, sellers asking d-d. more

d.

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jed.

Michael Arlen.

I shall know I have failed if,

With regard to (2), there are major and minor successes pos-on surveying the courbe of my sible. Major successes are those life, I find that I have not deserved. of men like Locke and Rousseau, and not held the affection of those who affected Governments and the who have been in intimate daily

contact with me. pt. structure of society.

With regard to my influence on personal acquaintances, I shall be

Hugh Walpole. 1.-Whether I still believe in life rather than repudiate it. 2.--Whether, in spite of my own meannesses and jealousies,

I still love my fellow-men. 3.-Whether I am still madé happy by little things. -Whether I have conquered

fear.

6. Whether I have worked hard,

and with joy in working.

YO! HO! HO!

By Edward Kelly, A. B.

Royal Society in London, THE we hear, is offering a prize

Hongkong's Budget for 1933 is not likely to arouse a great deal of It is hardly surprising that the controversy, for the simple reason increased cost of postage in the that it contains little that is con- Colony has materially decreased the

I shall know I have failed if, in Marx has achieved this kind of tentious. It is, as Mr. Hallifax postman's load and caused revenue

success in regard to Russin. Such spite of lapses and trifling ambi- de- tions, I have not sought to act success would, of course, be himself described it, rather colour-from this source to fall consider-

ably short of the estimated less, the Government being quite

Colonial Treasurer,

the world. ceipts. The

which no licious, but I know it is not for and think like a decent citizen of

mic. A minor success, content to follow a middle, course analysing the situation, says that change.

ehould, nevertheless, consider not between undue optimism and exccs-the number of parcela despatched

worthless, would be to influence Bive pessimism. Such arguments by mail has markedly diminished,

thereby perhaps To what individuals, as are likely to arise will probably and if he had gone deeper, it would other, of the scenes and advantages the outlook of a large number of

found that incidental to a sea trip.

diminishing the ferocity of some centre round the selection of public probably have been werks, a subject on which it is while personal correspondence to extent the volume of this correspon-voters, and improving the educa With regard to my own children, niways difficult to secure unanimous places abroad has not been serious.dence has been lessened by the tios of some children.

be I shall be satisfied if they turn out agreement, but even here we cannot ly checked, many fewer letters than increased cost of postage has not

be happy, intelligent, and formerly are passing through the been disclosed. But it may

decent individuals. see that there can be much fault Post Ofce for local delivery. The hoped that this modern art of lettor/to to find with the choice made by the increases, remarkably heavy in res-writing will not be seriously dia- Government, since all the new big pect of foreign letters, were bound couraged. undertakings which are being to have an effect. More letters are started, such as the new Govern-being delivered by hand, which is ment Civil Hospital, the new Gaol possible in Hongkong, although in and the Central British School, re- many other parts of the world it present urgent needs. There will is prohibited. There are legal re- be those who would have liked a strictions on delivery by anybody start to be made on

the much-except the postman, making it im- possible for most senders to avoid needed Kowloon Post Office, but the stamp. It would be impossible, the Government attitude on this of course, to apply such restrictions matter that it is better to walt a in Hongkong unless the while and then erect a large Gov-ment could show its ability to pro- ernment bullding which will in-vide a service equally as efficient clude amplo postal facilities-seernans the local chit system. The cost to be one with which there can be of so doing would, we imagine, cx- ceed the amount of the increase in little quarrel.

revenue resulting. As regarda Looking into the financial posi-

personal correspondence between tion of the Colony, it is to be noted residents in the Colony and their that despite the fact that revenue friends abroad, it is not likely to for the current year is expected to be estopped for economy, though be over eight lakhs short of the we feel that the existing postage estimate, there are anticipations of rates are excessively high. It is a surplus on the year's working of now and then argued that letter more than $465,000, which will writing is a lost art, but in the larger definition of correspondence have the result of increasing the it may be plausibly answered that fcredit balance by some half a mill-never before has the art of lotter ion dollars when compared with writing been so assiduously studied the position at the end of 1991, and diligently practised, even if the Revenue has not come in quite as well-known indifference of swino well as had been hoped, and in par- to poarls is no greater than that of ticular there is a falling away in many recipients to the artistic and artful efforts expended on many of land sales, which, on an estimate the letters they receive. In these of $1,750,000, are, not expected to letters professional scribes devóto 1000.000 talibète hart mforts to the exposition

Govern-

of £100 for the best essays for improvements in navigation, and the construction of ships.

We have already borrowed $1.20 on the strength of the offer. We recommend nice black funnels to make the ship look more homelike. Also, instead of portholes, windows which have to he propped up with a beer bottlo.. TRAVEL ON THE KELLY LINE ON YOUR WINTER CRUISEI OUR COLD SHOWERS DON'T WORK!

As for the rolling of the vessel it has always been a puzzle to lus why it hasn't been stopped.

On our last jaunt to Macao we Bald to a follow passenger, "Why does the ship roll so much?"

He said, "I give up.". He did.

The Captain pacing, to and fro on the bridge is obviously what does it. Ho should be lashed to the wheel to prevent him from walking about while the wind howls In the rigging, and the blinding spray lashes the faces of the sturdy sailors to ribbons..

Hard bilan sailors is what we need. We know one toughs old.