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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER

SPARTON RADIO

Sparton Model 16.

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1932.

LETS OUR OWN

B

TRUMPET!

By JOHN WENTWORTH KING

The Very Idea!

CORPULENT COLONY WANTED,

By Edward ("Bovril") Kelly.

We think it's time to lodge a men at the head of affairs in Hong- protest about the number of thin kong. What wo want la mon of more weight and substance.

On this ground, a case for action could be made out, even when thore might be a natural hesitancy to embark on any stop. interfering with our free-port status, on which the Colony must rely for its prosperity. The dumping of goods is quite dif- If you would know something of Well, you cannot get better clothes ferent from ordinary competi-the paychology of the average for men than in Britain.. Ask tion, and when, as in the in- Briton, mix amongst an English New York or Paris. And London stance under notice, local fa- crowd gathered round an orange is beginning to. rival the French dustries are threatened, an issue box orator and watch its reac- capital in the little matter of wo-

Take Madrid, for instance. calling for serious attention is tions to the speaker. Nothing can men's dress.

If you took it you'd have to raised. In such circumstances, give a British crowd such exqui

carry away a mayor who stag- Or engineering, Tho Sydney we could imagine even the most alte pleasure as abuse. As soon Harbour bridge is at once

gers the scales at 20 stones, enthusiasm of the tub wonder and envy of all the world. officials like that in Hongkong? rabid free-port enthusiast dis- as tho

Why can't we have a few public thumper leads him to revile his it was built by a Middlesbrough posed to support offsetting ac- llateners for their laziness, their Arm, and the tender for the con-be for the Peak Tramway if they Look what a great nssot it would tion. On general grounds, of inherent stupidity and course, anything in the nature of uselessness, a amile of satisfactioned by foreign firms. This same Peal, instead of the cliques of general tract was cheaper than any offer could breed fat talpans up on the the imposition of import duties flita across the Briton's face. He firm has just been awarded the cadaverous cronies they havo there against foreign products would just loves it. be bad policy for Hongkong. But the point docs suggest itself that unusual circumstances may call

for unusual treatment.

Local Fire Perils

the

contract, in open competition, for Talk of the Empire splitting up, another gigantic bridge for Den- prestige being lowered, records mark. being lost, is all so much honey Artistic Triumphs.

star is

her

now,

T

They could fill the trams at the top of the Peak with weighty passengers, and the trams at the bottom of the Peak with thin passengers.

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And the theatres. No wonder they're half empty with a Colony full of thin people.

to him. "Yes," he says, shaking "But look what a mess we've his head with a melancholy Batie-made of Dime," you say. Super- faction, "we're not the country woficially the situation looks as if were." And then, pursuing the America has gained full marks, Then-Presto! the tramful of subject, "Look at tennis and golf Well she has through the genius big men would pull the tramful of -Amerlen always beats us to

And the Olympic Games, sistently popular male

of Englishmen The most con- thin men up the mountain-side. The jury investigating the frazzle. recent Canton Rond fire tragedy and now America has got the M. Ronald Colman,

Of course, the idea would ro- The man quire some thinking out. All the who made the wonder film of the fat mon would have to live at Kow- A beautiful six-leg consolo model urgea a new regulation making water speed record again."**

Which is all very true, but very age, "Grand Hotel," is Mr. Gould-loon, while all the thin men went with butt walnut panels and the it a punishable offence to store finest.

And up on the Peak. Then, as soon as cabinet craftsmanship. inflammable material under or misleading. We are certainly not ing, also an Englishman.

We are Hollywood's most glittering the thin men got fat, and the fat Has powerful nine-tube Super-near to a wooden staircase, and the country we were.

Mr. George Arliss, r. men thin, they could reverse 'em. heterodyne completely shielded thereby presents the authorities better! Yes, and if you go into stars.

Brook, this little matter of records you'd Clive

Miss a difficult problem. De be surprised. Britain is high and Mackalll-British people alll

Dorothy chassis with push-pull Pentode, with Automatic Volume Control, Tone finitions of inflammable material dry at the top of the tree in re-

In Iterature our supremacy is and bene in Hongkong. We want There really is too much skin and Static Control, Full Vision are subject to such wide varia- cords that really count.

even more marked. Mr. Dial, Phonograph Pick-up Jack, tions that such a regulation

George Legislative Councillors with ap- The only thing in fact which Bernard Shaw, the finest living petites a menace to the Colony: Voltage Compensator, Antenna might prove to be extremely we Inck is ability to boost our-dramatist and wit, was born in Equalizer, and all modern vexatious without serving any selves. We are too modest. the British Isles. He can abuse Anitely on a Hansard report and a ot men who can subsist Inde- SPARTON engineering features.useful purpose. The Canton

hla country as he will, but the A remarkable

blacuit. instrument of Road fire might have warranted Speed Achievements.

fact fa indisputable that as a highest quality.

a prosecution under such a re-

Take speed records. We hold, toddler he ran about in an Irish Height 44 inches. Width 26 gulation. There was, however, through the patriotism and town. His genius is Britain's inches. Depth 12

inches.no direct evidence that the shav-courage of Sir Malcolm Camp-genlus; hla triumpha ure inches. Weight 58 pounds.

inga admitted to be under the bell, the land speed record of the triumphs. The man who earns

If the picturo people would only staircase were the cause of the world. An all-British car de-more money than anyone else in give a tin of Glaxo or Lactogen outbreak. Ultimately, the onus signed by a Briton, driven by a the world with his pen is Mr. away with each theatre pass, their Briton, was responsible for this. Noel Coward, also of Britain. shows would soon be filled to over- case itself. Its is thrown back upon the stair-In the air we are supreme. Flight- Incidentally it may, be noted that flowing.

construction

Shroffs should also be fat. Wa clearly had far more to do with Lieutenant Stainforth's speed of since the death of Florenz Zieg

nabbed has in Mr. C. B. are tired of being 407.6 miles per hour was too much feld, Britnin

by the extent of the disaster than for the rest of the world. And Cochran the world's best show-shroffs whom we constantly mis- had any inflammable material stili is! Mr. Mollison's last flight man.

take for lamp posts, or the poles under or near and logically, the was by far the best of the Atlantic

that support the roofs of buildings. Our number of unemployed correct remedy is the elimination air crossings. America may talk seems depressing. Compared with of wooden staircases. If the of her Miss Amelia Earhart, but that of our neigbours it is almost Do you Know Ireland? authoritles can compel cinema Britain has Misa Amy Johnson, inspiring. Germany's five mil theatre managements to recon- and Miss Winifred Brown and lions look bad, bealde our three sion, Ireland was not invented by Contrary to the general impres- struct their premises to bring Miss Winfred Spooner hot on her

millions. And if anything else Mr. Rudyard Kipling on behalf of were needed to prove that the old Private Mulvaney, but was actual- them into line with regulations heels. passed later than their construc- Airships are a painful subject bulldog spirit is as flourishingly in existence and probably owing owners to provide fire-proof us in this field because of the tra- that. British people have but a lump of mud at the mouth staircases in all premises. We gic fate of the R.101, let it be re-shouldered and are shouldering of the River Rhine. see no difference in practicability membered that the R34, a British immense burdens of taxation and between this proposal and that airship, was the first dirigible to making incredible sacrifices that of the jury sitting on the Canton cross the Atlantic. We have a we may emerge from the financial and America, and unfortunately

flying boat, too, that will give the chaos unshaken.

it is a fixture, because the vaat Road fire inquest, while it has much landed Dornier X a run for an additional merit in that its her money.

Unfortunately it is not the majority of Irishmen would like to It is called the Short world only which is apt to under- have it towed out into mid-Atlan effect might easily prove to be flying boat, and it, can do, 120 estimate us. It is ourselves. We tic. So, for that matter, would the tearing down of some of the miles to the German machine's seem to fall easily into the role most Englishmen. local slum "rabbit-warrens.”

112. Yet how many people have of milch-cow for the world. In The climate varies from wet to fact the only thing about us which And how the world envies us we offer to praise is our police our railways! Grumble at that men and our system of justice, excursion as you will, the fact ro- When visitors inform us they are mains that the speed record for the best in the world we look railway travel is held by a Bri- sheepish and say, "Yes, but took tish train, and there are fewer at our climate. It's awful."

British railroads accidents on than anywhere else.

Did you mention motor cycles?

THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.tion, they can also compel house- to un But lest the world ignores as ever, let the world remember money when England was nothing

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1932.

DUMPED CEMENT

Beam-Baked Beans

heard of it?

trymen.

the

It is a large island shaped like

A potato, situated between Europe

much wetter, and the inhabitants are so miserable in consequence that amongst them have been the finest poets and prize-fighters in the world.

whisky which is distilled.

The principal cities are Dublin, famous for its stout and its pretty girls; Limerick, whore the pooms come from, and Buncrana, where the Kellys tome from, usually about one jump in front of a warrant,

His protruding forehead, his bootlace tie, the accumulation of 'bus-tickets peeping from beneath the ribbon of his hat, and the papers which threatened at any moment to overflow in cascades from each and every of his pockets, loft no doubt in my mind that here was a true worshipper at the ahrino of Knowledge, the typical, the eternal, absent-minded pro- fessor,

Japanese dumping, greatly facilitated by the decline in the value of the yen, is being felt in Ceylon, to an extent which, if continued, bids fair to under- mine the value of the recently- granted Imperial Preference. Not long ago a herd of wild

At one time, the main exports were of Irishmen to America, which For reasons which it is difficult sausages rambled into a field of to understand, however, the radio beams and came out cook

This modesty has done us no le why America licked the stuffing good and will never do. We must out of the English armies during Ceylon Government would an-ed. Electrical engineers who

bang our drums and blow our the Revolution. Now Ireland ex- pear to be in no hurry to take participated in the round-up de- effective action, despite the re- clare the day will come when Look at the results of the Tourist bugles. "That's so un-British," ports sweep-stake tickets.

you any. Exactly. That is our No snakes are found in Ireland, presentations which have been radio beams will be employed to Trophy races and the internation- trouble. In fact we must talk) because no snak could bite an made by the Imperial Govern-do all the cooking in the homes.al events-all won by British ma- about cur faults then let us also Irishman and survive. The few. ment. When the Ottawa agree. The layman is not particularly chines and driven by our coun- talk about our modesty--for it's that are occasionally reported are ments were reached, the British clear as to the detalls, but he is

greatest fault! The only a tribute to the excellence of the Government intimated that it willing to accept the word of ex- But leaving speed and records thing we cannot do really well is would not hesitate to take steps perts that eventually every radio out of the question, how does Bri- pat ourselves on the back. Well, that we ought to learn how. And against any country

whose set will have a cooking apparatus tain stand in other things

instance. quickly! policy was likely to destroy the attached. There is something matter? Industry, for effect of those agreements. So alluring in the thought of bring- far as the Crown Colonies are ing home a piece of steak, plac- concerned, however, the initin-ing it on the radio and a moment tive in such matters would ap- later conveying the finished pro- pear to lie with them. In Gey-duct to the dining room table. lon, there is an Unofficial ma- Apparently the "field of radio jority in the Legislature, and beams"-as the engineers call it this may explain, in part, the is to become the successor of difficulty experienced by the the kitchen stove, the gas range Imperial Government in get- and the bed of live charcoal. One ting any action. taken. But needs only procure from the it is not only in Ceylon nearest radio dealer a "field of that

this Japanese dump-beams," drop in his eggs and ing is being felt, for Java await results. In all proba. also is faced with the same prob- bility, however, various methods lem, causing a heavy shrinkage of cooking will require-some ex- in trade with European coun-pertness in manipulation of the trics. So far as Hongkong is "beams" or at least some know- concerned, the issue is less one ledge'as to how long one may of interference with the Colony's expose a full-grown frankfurter transit trade as with our pre-to the "beams" without incur mier local industry, coment. ring its displeasure. The Japan has her own direct con-actual connexion

the tact with the South China mar-present-day radlo receiver is, of kets by operation of coastal course, not yet quite clear. shipping services and therefore Nevertheless, the more sanguino has no great need to make use probably will hope that the an- of this Colony as a base for her nouncement means a way has trade. At the moment, the been found by which the set South China markets are largely owner may put some of the so- closed to her by reason of the called "hot" music actually to continuance of the boycott. But use Instead of having to listen Japanese cement is coming into to it. Hongkong in large quan- tities, nt f price with which the local product cannot possibly compete. This continued importation of dumped material presents A problem which necda

YOU MUST LOVE YOUR WORK, AND to be seriously faced. The point to be kept in NOT HE ALWAYS LOOKING OVER THE mind is that it involves the EDGE OF IT, WANTING YOUR PLAY TO 'jeopardising of a local industry. BFAIN-George Eliot.

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with

· A THOUGHT FOR

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TO-DAY

"Don't you think, Professor, that in grading my papera,

you oughta allow for the fact that I'm working my way

through school and don't have time to study?

But there was one feature in his toilet which convinced me that this individual must stand `head- and-shoulders above his brothers In abeent-mindedness. Oblivious to the friendly verandah beneath which he was sheltering, he held extended above his head an open umbrella,

Answers to Correspondenta. ·

Puzzled (The Peak): Yes. You really must get up your tables of precedence. A Baronet's stop- mother should always go in before the Post-Sorgennt-Major's adopted, daughter. As for Mrs.--who is a J.P.'s grandmother, wo think. you should have shown her morg conalderation on account of hor

age.

Lucy (Kowloon): We think you wore a trifle selfish to got two boys to take you to the pictures. After all, there are soven nights in a. wook.

Pickles (Happy Valley); Should be only too glad to let you have my photograph. Unluckily it's at Con- iral Polico Station just now, The [C.LD. will have their little joka.

Still, I loved your kindly thought..