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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1932.

SPARTON

RADIO

*Radius Kishore Here"

Sparton Model 12.

chassis with Pentode and Screen

msh are

com-

DAY BY DAY

trade, the manufacturers of build-INDIA ing materials, At once discharged, the movement [mencing with unskilled labour, and gradually. spreading through technical, clorical and professional SINCERITY IS AN OPENNESS OF staffe. Surveyors, architects and HEART:, 'TIS FOUND IN A VERY FEW PEOPLE; AND THAT WHICH WE SEE engineers are affected.' A loss of COMMONLY IS NOT IT, BUT A SUBTLE purchasing power all round results ] DISSIMULATION, TO GAIN THE CON- and the process of financial dis- FIDENCE OF OTHERS-Charron. Integration of the country goes on. Wherever the "uxe" falls, there is another blow at eventual industrial

recovery.

An altercation between two Chinese

Equally astonishing is the fur- thor onslaught contemplated upon the conditions of employment in the yesterday ended in one being serious Civil Service. Already victims of stabbed in the body and his being taken to Hospital. The nasallant is the "economy campaign" commenc-said to be a Sanitary Department ed by the National Government a coolie. year ago, it is proposed that Gov- ernment employees shall work Letters of administration to the Inte of Tai King village, have been

"MARRIAGE" AGENCIES. THAT DON'T MEAN. MARRIAGE

By F. W. MEMORY

enthualasm

and

of

IT is becoming a commonplace now thrones, but one which other people ndays for judges and magin-claiming to be of the moderna modern Struck by a bamboo pole dislodged trates adjudicating between husband havo hailed with from scaffolding around No. 294, and wife to be toll that they were encouraged with praise.

It has even been urged that in the Queen's West, Tam Kwai, 05, was brought together by a matrimonial taken to Hospital with head injuries, agency that they paid fees to be universities the students should bo

the permitted to Introduced, and went through

contract "temporary yesterday.

childless marriages" on the ground form of marriage.

T Boy form of marriage advisedly, that it would be "better both intellec What more could it be? Certainly not tually and morally." What an amaz marringe as understood by the Church ing picture of life at Oxford and at deed, the proceedings savour rather ties such a suggestion conjures up. and defined by the Prayer Book. In Cambridge and all the other univorai- It is a picture from which tho of the market-place than the state of holy matrimony.

multitude will recoll with horror and There are those who do not hesitate disgust. The sanctity of women's

foundations to describe matrimonial agencies us Virtue, one of the organisations brought into being happy married life as lived in Great ostensibly to provide "lonely soul Britain, would be deposed, the Church defled, and the final marriage bond, satisfy thic physical desires of men

dered for over. Even moderns do not hanker for the left-off playthings SEEKING HUSBANDS.

of other men to become the, mothers All of them may not be quite so bad as that, but it is notorious that of their children and to "love." the "introductions" effected havo in sickness and in health :.

comfort

honour.keep relationship in point of numbers to

, for- the marriagen that take place.

Baking all other ..keep .. only The desire of subscribers to those unto her, so long as... both shall agencies is achieved when they have

live." been put in communication with of his way to denounce from the The Bishop of London has gone out member of the opposite sex. That pulpit of the Chapel Royal, St. James's marriako is not the purpose is demons Palace, the "insidious doctrine" of trated by the fact that time and again

longer hours and, simultaneously $2,200 local estate of Mr. Wee Lee, with mates," but actually exlating to already at the breaking point, aun-

suffer further salary cuta. Civil servants in England, whilo they have, In the past, enjoyed security, are not highly paid compared with men in private employment. But

Eranted to Wee Talk-pau, son of 80 Wing Lok Street, Wee Chan-shi, hlá widow, having renounced claim.

In the estate of Mr. E. P. Whelen, 2nd Engineer, late of the Seamen's A most attractive console with they take pride in their service to Institute, who left local estate of $500, letters of administration have butt walnut control panel and the community and maintain 4 been granted to Mr. E. P. H. Lang, pleasing design. Has a remark-high standard of professional con- Official Administrator, Supreme Court. able five tube Superheterodyne duct. Anything which lowers their relatives having yet been traced. Grid tubes and rectifier filter enthusiasm and narrows their out. system. The entire chassis is louk through misguided completely shielded and includes must be detrimental to the public an antenna compensating con- service. denser Beautiful tone quality and a marvellous performance. Height 33 inches. Width 23 inches. Depth 10% inches. Weight 40 pounds.

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economy

Rather than offer this excuse for

The Royal Observatory reports that the antiryclone remains centred near the mouth of the Yangtan and has regained intensity. Frosh monsoon will continue along the China Const,

cloudy.

and women.

it has been stated in the courts that companionato marriage, and he has the man concerned in the case under not hesitated to denounce the pre- valent practice of "week-ending" with consideration was already married when he placed his name on the books euple's wives and husbands,

But little heed is paid; the modern of the agency. of them may genuinely seek husbands, teaching of the Church find no place; As for the women, although a few girl and the modern man have ideas aud, apparently, bellefs in which the the vast majority well know what they for, as the Bishop of St. Albans has pre doing when they send their legis confessed, his remonstrance with a tention fec--something like 220-to normal English girl of 22" only the proprietor of the agency. The Government of Hongkong in There are, of course, thousands of is it wrong?"

brought from her the question, "Why understood to have arranged the im- lonely men and wornen longing for the Such is life to-day. porintion of further large shipments society of others, hungering for love of copper coins in order to meet the in its higheat form, who with all other shortage of cent plcess in local | avenues closed to then turn to these circulation, and 500,000 coins are ex-agencies for help, believing all they com- nocted by the end of the year, a fur-ure told by the prroprie in the

ther 750,000 being due early in are still unsophisticated January.

and over the Northern China Sea. an onslaught upon wage standardscal forecast:-N, E. winds, fresh; all over the country, the first pur- pose of the National Government should, ho to promote a big-scale plan for winter work, which would

take men, off the dole and off the role of public assistance mittees. Tho financial strength of the country was vividly illustrated the other day when the Treasury isaued £150,000,000 worth of bonds at 2 per cent. and found the loan heavily oversubscribed. Such demonstration of strength, while it stirs up the Stock Exchange to en- 000MBS-At the Mathilda Hospital thusiasm, leaves displaced

at 7.30 pm. on 17th November,

DEATHS.

Mr. Sou Choong Yew, aged 26, on Wednesday, November 16, 1932, at the Ipoh District Hospital, Ipoh, Perak, F. M. S. Dearly be loved wife of Mr. Soo Choong Yew, Kampar.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1932.

ECONOMY MANIA

An Eyesore.

|

her maiden

There

world; shy girls brought up in the seclusion of a country house, stored, as it were in lavender and damask, Maritimes advises the public that the dream of a Princo Charming who shall The Compagnie dos Messageries who have no worldly knowledge, but new, motor vessel Aramis, now on come, riding from they know not

expected trip,

to where, to bear them away blushing Arrive in Hongkong on the morning but willing victims of ther loving and of the 23rd instant. Everybody is honourable ardour. addition to the M.M. feet, while cardially invited to visit this latest

unem in port. The Aramis will be berthed

at the Kowloon Wharves

Pity the Red-

Haired Man!

cast.

a

By FRANK WALTON, NOW that women are returning to the gold standard and Titian- tinted tresses aro becoming the WORLDLY CLIENTS,

favourite decor of woman's CVET- These poor things envisage a happy changing head, a timely word from home, merry children prattling at rufous man may show that this 1932. Harry Coon, aged ceployed workers quite cold, Hterally

their knees, and in all innocence seek variety of red hair holds many a pit- Funeral will pass the Monument and figuratively. A big National

to help fate by enlisting the afd of fall. at 5 p.m. to-day.

I was born with red hair, the start- a matrimonai hgent. It may be that Loan, as an emergency measure, to On a charge of returning from Rome have been fortunate, but I do ling kind which draws Immediate be devoted to the construction of banishment, a Chinese who appeared know that they are not the clients the attention and encourages the unsus- necessary schemes of national de- trai Police Court this morning was Worldly wisdom in what they expect of unusual and presumably delightful before Mr. Wynne-Jonen nt the Con- majority of there agencies seck. pecting parent to indecent parading velopment, many of which have sentenced to twelve mantha hard, in their clients-and for the most part babyhood. It grew to shimmering been compulsorily stopped, would labour. The accused, according to they got it.

red curls which demanded Bomo put new life into industry and give arrested for stealing a woollen pull-numerous. They have sprung

Detective Sergeant Macdonald, wan That a why these agencies aro so ridiculous Fauntleroy dress,

up Imperceptibly to the black haired hope to the workers. But further over from Chosen & Co. where he had everywhere: in the provinces as well or merely mousey-haired world, advances along the economy road

gone under the pretext of making as London. So far as the law is distinction grew upon me. I began purchases. On the larceny charge a concerned they are carrying on a per- by being different, and as boyhood opened by the National Government sentence of six months' hard labour, fectly legitimate business or rather came with its gibes and socers and can only lead it into the wilderness, concurrent with the other sentence, one which, as the law stands, cannot shodis of "Ginger" I became, an out- It has already lost many friends by

was imposed.

he interfered with.

It is, however, only necessary to the wayside.

With all the cruelty of the primitive recall the number of cases in which animal inherent in the other boy I His Excellency the Governor, who a woman has gone to the courts com- was made to feel a pariah. Other returned to the Colony yesterday, plaining that under the promise of boys, patterned in the sombre kindly informed our representative - marriage a man she had met through mould of undistinctive hair, shrick- this morning that he had a very An old resident who has occas enjoyable trip out, and found the 1.ment has defrauded her of money. upon my innocent mop of red. matrimonial, agency or advertised derision and poured contume- on to motor up and down Stubbs &O. liner tanpurn extremely com- That is another aspect of these or- They threw stones, "Ginger for Koad daily has drawn our atten- unusually hot for this time of the used by unscrupulous persona as a Spite!" they yelled Ginger for

fortable, though the weather proved ganisations; they provide and are temper!" they shouted. "Ginger for Tho special Parliamentary tion to a group of matsheds and year. During the voyage, His Ex-means for deliberate froud on the and Gluger for that. Until, Economy Committee makes recom- other shacks situated in the raving cellency and Lady Peel attended an part of men, while woman of the same battle and took refuge in ancoring with fighting, I withdrew from the the north side of Wanchai Armistice Day service on board and kidney develop a facility for black- aloofness. Gap and expresses some surprise pilcity and dignity. They greatly

were greatly impressed by its aim mail,

COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE.

In the Army I became "Carrots," that such structures should be enjoyed the short time that they were tives on the ground of their prema-permitted at this spot. This is able to spend in Malaya, where they responsible for that class of marriage well, oven Napolcen and. Caesar had

They have probably been Inrgely bus, Sir Philip Sidney, Bayard, Crom

"Rufus," "Chocolate." Cato, Colum- fure disclosure. The is to matter to which we have pre- with a number of old friends. His out benefit of clergy," but now more measure brought balm to my affliction. were able to renew their acquaintance which Kipling has described as "with-been red, and that thought in some effect a further reduction of £100,- vlously had occasion to refer, and Excellency had the pleasure of seeing commonly known as companionate. 000,000 in

public expenditure, we are hoping that as a result of stay in Penang. Sir Samuel and Lady companionate marriages are both wherever I went I imagined the finger Sir Cecil Clementi during his brief So-called matrimonial agencies and feriority had been planted, and But, nevertheless, the germ of in- Sinte and national. Among the these comments some steps will Wilson and Mr, G. E. J. Gent travelled sign of the times- sign which the of seora pointing. offered panaceas for the economic be taken either to remove this on the Ranpura as far as Penang.

bishops have denounced from their dificulties of the country are the eyesore or to make it less objec-

tionable in appearance. imposition of longer hours for Civil

We have Servants and lower wages, reduc-belong to the P.W.D. and

heard it said that these shacks tlon of staffs by the abolition

that they are necessary in connexion important departments of govern-with work being carried out in ment, slashing reductions in house the neighbourhood. Whether thin- construction by removal of the sub- Is so or not we confess that we do sidy, and restriction of local de-not know, but we do know that the velopment achemes as far as pos- number of structures continues to sible. The folly is amazing. The grow, until at present there are motion appears to hold that the best some eight or nine of them. Ap ways to deal with unemployment Parently, they are occupied,

are always to be Been

shock thinking ยก mendations that men and displease the Conserva-

alm

of

Chinese

4月

are to stop as many people from there, whilst there are strips of working as possible and to make cultivated ground in the immediate the others do more work for less locality such as one would expect wages, thus further reducing the to encounter in any small settle- purchasing power of those who re- ment. Needless to say, the sanit- main at their jobs. Critics who ary arrangements are of the most comment upon these developments primitiva kind, a circumstance qua tho frenzied plunging of reac which serves to intensify the nul-

tionaries in impossible efforts to

sance. If these, buildings bolster up the collapsing capitalist really necessary to have some such Government property and it is system, os at present organised, centre at this spot, we suggest will not be proved far wrong if the that the present ill-assorted lot Chancellor approves the recom- be demolished and be replaced by mendations.

structures of a more permanent

are

As wo stated yesterday, the and pleasing character. As they plans for restriction-of capital ex-are at present, they are a blot on penditure are all the more inexcus- the landscape which cannot fall able at this time when money is se

to bi noticed by visitors making f use of the main rond to the Ponk. cheap. The "economy" policy is, Were they squatters' huta, they short-sighted from every point of would have been pulled down view. The arrest in the progress long since. We commend the mat of public works, for instance, has ter to the attention of the appro many reactions striking first at the priate authority, in the hope that sheltered Industries, the quarrying long overdue action may be taken.

“I wouldn't make him angry, officer, Ho has a terrible

tem per.

this

worn

It was, not antil with a sudden access of courago I deserted the labyrinthine ways and saized tho enemy in his camp by flaunting my redness that I anticipated the jokes and threw Rufus in the face of the tormentor.

The stark red has mollowed now with manhood and become something Venetian. "That auburn-haired half- wit over there," is all they say.

Uniées I includo the crowning shame when a woman, pretending to pretty compliment about the "sleek brown: wave," boldly asked, "And whore do you get it done like that?"

21 YEARS AGO EXTRACTS FROM THE "TELEGRAPH" FILES The following extracts are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended Nov. 18th, 1911.

·

The rate of the dollar on demand. was is. 10d.

Watson's advertised sherry at $16.80 a case and the Dairy Farm milk at five cents a plat

Fighting took place between Manchu-officerad troops and revolu tionaries at Shumchun just over the British border and a company of the K.O.Y.L.I. were rushed out to add to the British defence forces.

Owing to the revolutionary cam- paign in China, H.E, Sir Frederick. Lugard announced that he had cabl- ed the Viceroy of India cancelling ncceptance of an Invitation to the Delhi Durbar.

The Telegraph was offered for Įsato as a going concern.