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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1933.
terated revolution. The only THE SOCIAL EVIL: VI thing in Mr. Shaw's favour is
he warned those who in-
MOTORCARvited him to speak that they
might regret their rashness. Quite possibly they now do so.
POSSIBLE STEPS
im-
The local law, such as it is, is
SMASH
Be that as it may, there is a The facts in the expess of thejas embodied in an organized strong feeling in the Colony that Colony's social evil reveal a very victima to a secondary position in aystem which has reduced the Movies Prove Safety, the University authorities might sorious position of which notice
have known what to expect. must be taken. They aro the schemo. Speed of Studebaker Knowing the man, it would have pressive by their variety and by plainly abortive in its application
been infinitely better had they South Bend, Dec. 2 merely entertained him nicely to the underlying keynote of or to a situation where the consent Visual evidence of Studebaker ten, politely wished him "Good ganized vice. Trus, the problem, of the victims is largely taken as safety and performance wasovening," and then turned their like Original Sin, has always a matter of course. In the rare graphically provided to-day in the attention to their normal activi- been with us from the beginning, 'genuine desire to be given relief, form of motion pictures shown ties.
and it is only within recent the facilities for the girl being for the bencût of large gather-
months that the vigorous policy assisted to a better position in life
dealers in meeting here.
The Studebaker safety picture
22068 minutes.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
The Hongkong Shanghai fiotels, Ltd Innrporated in Hongkong Stubbe Road
Happy Vellez
DEATHS.
HILTON-On February 14, at South
port, Lancashire, Mrs. Illton, beloved mother of Mro. Stan Hill, of Hongkong.
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1933.
Necessary Evil?
instances where there is declared
Salvation Army
The Very Idea!
THE SILENT SERVICE
By Eddie Kelly, Soup Drinker..
(applause):
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen
The Editor of the Telegraph tainment and approval Edward (greans) presents for your enter- Kelly (uproar) in his latest masterpiece "The Float's Inn."
Titles by Burke's Peerage (1884).
Dialogue by Edward Kelly And direction by company. Once upon a time we were able
to say "We're in the Navy now." Then someone put A.B. after our name and we quit cold.
"That's an insult" wo sald atalk- ing off the quartordeck,
.
All this to show that our
separation from the service was honourabic,
•
•
ORIGIN OF FUNNEL
an
necessary evil, as with Oplum, benevolent activities, but in 11 And while we're talking about
areas. Other
within recent
com-
times
unnffect-
would not be correct to say,
into in fav-ground by the policy of sup women associations and deserves rushed around a corner. The cat
*
Ing of Studebaker and Rockne Work & Unemployment of suppression to which the fare fow and unattractive. 'It can Government has committed itself, be assumed that while economic conditions in China continue Du featured proving ground testa, The International Labour Con- tas brought the question pro- now, the demand for auch facilit which went all the way fromference of the League of Nationeminently to the forefront by the les will tend to increase, rather complications. The than decrense, in any event to an severe akidding turns and high has been discussing the possibi- advent of speed blowouts to "rolls" down a lity of a reduction of hours of writer is expressing no opinion extent that the Colony can never atcep incline, were climaxed by a work as a part solution of the one way or the other on the ad- hope to meet on its own, without smashing head-on collision be- unemployment problem. This visibility or otherwise of closing interport co-ordination of men-
sures and without, public assist- Will we over forget the time we tween two Studebaker cars decision was reached by the the houses. The courag adopted ance.
were anchored off the coast of travelling at mile-a-minute speed. Governing Body at Its session in will always arouso divided views, The sensible poiut attainable is Jamaica and our rum issue falled?
Two other pictures featured the Madrid, where the delegates met in оле direction between the in the result, not so much the total We will noti remarkable record of 102.66 miles at the invitation of the Spanish churchman and the hygienist, and suppression of vice (for that is We wore sent ashore with two per hour of Studebaker's 85% Government. Spain, incidental. he does not wish to embark on unattainable) as a rational out-gentlemen by name of MacPher- stock President Eight at Indiana- ly, has shown her practical in-
look na dictated by the twofold son and Cohen to get fresh polis, as well as the run of the terest in the work of the Inter- such a controverain! matter,. ex desire of medical and social wel supply. Well, we would have brought the rum back all right if famous Studebaker Commander national Labour Organisation by cept in the restricted sphere of a fare service. Big Six, which in 1927 established ratifying more conventions than secular layman faithfully report-
Within the first category of we hadn't got thirsty. The rescue a world record of 25,000 miles in any other country. The Go-Ing the results of years of observa- medical service, it is to be noted party found us the next day amid
the that the Government has not the ruins of the city. verning Body may be roughly tions with the precincts of
The worst part of this story is Hongkong. Feb. 16.
Courts. The
overlooked the possibility, and in few con- compared to the Council of the local
line with their present policy, there was no more rum left in The 1933 Studebaker models League of Nations. One of its clusfore and suggestions to be in opening public clinics of which Jamaica and the crew had to will soon make their appearance duties is to decide which labour made are advanced in the hope the one projected for a crowded starve until we got to New York In the Hongkong Hotel Garage questions shall be handled at that those sufficiently interested area on the mainland is a case in where there was plenty of rum. Showrooms and a demonstractor each session of the conference of may find therein the something point. It suggested that like
Yesterday someone asked 115 will be available for all who wish the fifty or more Member-States constructive by which to
the Dutch public vaccination stations these about the unrest in under- to ride in a Champion car. of the League's twin body. take an important, because it is Ed alums within reach of where we know, there's no rest in any clinics be extended to other crowd-Navy. That's right. As far as There is no intention of forcing urgently needed, bit of social their services are needed.
Navy. Bells ring all day long. the hand of these countries or welfare service.
sometimes as many as six at a compelling them to take action
timen real carillion of bells in which they may not desire.
balla fact. And when
aren' Within the necond category of ringing, someone Neither the League nor its Inter-
in playing a national Labour Organisation
What is the position with re-social welfare servico is suggested | bugle. This fellow is only MAN BATAAN sets out to be a dictator. Begard to the facts? In the begin- the formation of Associations to amateur for he only knows two n
cause a particualr problem, auch ning official control was exercised assist the Po Leung Kuk, useful three tunca,
institution In itself but entirely as the reduction of hours of from the viewpoint maybe of a inadequate in service, in its work by international agreement, has been placed on the agenda, it but the establishments licensed form obviating the natural aver-
tell does not necessarily follow that were restricted to certain defined glons of the subjects. Organzia ships, we have an excuse to a convention will be adopted.
tion along Salvation Army lines you our stock joke. It's about considerations, SOARES--At 27, Jordan Rond, Kow. Only after full debate is a deci- which we need not go into here is suggested, which to be effective. funnels.
must reach out to the cases and be When they first built a steam- loon, on February 15th, 1933, Ision reached. For obvious rea- impelled the closure Carlos Maria Soares, aged 45, sons, at the present stage, it is menced
conducted from the viewpoint of ship, they had to put a pipe in the relief rather than "rescue", and deck to let the smoke out. The Funeral will pass the Monument unsafe to prohesy what line the of these maisona tolerees, leaving with a preponderance of workers first pine to be used for this pur. at 5.15 p.m. to-morrow. (Macao and Shanghai papers please copy. 1933 Conference will finally ad- the "siya" intrinsically
of the aux for contact purposca. pose was lying in the dockyards. vocate. Much has been hearded as a perennial problem. but This is a piece of service which An offletal party was very interest- about the Italian proposal for rather increased in number. It can nobly come within the aphere ed in the phenomenon, when a forty-hour week. While
some do that vice la driven under- of activity of Chinese Christian suddenly a cat, chased by a dog many countries are
the pipe, The dog our, others such 119 the pression. It were more correct to attention by those aiready in ran British Government, are dub- say that essentially vice is under-existence. Police co-operation followed.
"Hal" we sold for we were in can always be brought about in ious if not uctively hostile. ground, has always been there and an unofficial form in the same way the party), "Now the fun'll start.". Only by frank debate, based on fB a more flourfahing condition a full knowledge of the facts now that all channels lead to it that the Police Staff at the Secretariat of Chinese Аaira
AS THE WORLD COES ON. It would also be correct to go THAT LECTURE which it is the duty of the Inter- further and say that with Govern.work effectively in mui teai cases
national Labour Office to collect, nent medical supervision with-
In the early part of 1914 several through their women Inspectors. The spotlight of criticism has can the most hopeful policy of trawn, the evil has assumed With relief work on an organized wise men got up and proved con- again been directed on Mr. Ber-co-operation bo decided upon. more sinister form. The question system reaching directly out to clusively that for both economic nard Shaw in consequence of his
of reversion to the former con- those in need of it, much of the and military reasons war was im- effusion to students of the Hong-
trol, however, will always con-abuses now being perpetuated by possible. They were quite right kong University on Monday
tinue to exercise controversy, and unscrupulous exploiters of ignor- then, and they still are, yet we evening. It is, we know, the
the writer is content to leave the ant victims will be obviated and a had to have the war, to prove it. fashion amongst admirers of
The difficulty is not in finding oint here while passing on to the direct challenge offered to the beyond question. A fresh threat to the Soviet more important matter of welfare system of organized vico about G.B.S.. when they are confronted Union is signalized by the im-service for the many hundreds which so much has been disclosed. more lunacies in this crazy world, remotely with indiscreet utterances on his pending invasion of Jchol. De-xercising a claim on our human- Short of fulfilling the unattain- but to find anything part, to suggest that he has been spite their repudiation of imitarian regard.
abic, the satisfaction to be derived resembling sanity.
We (that's as, Edward Kelly) from this form of service is that merely indulging in the gentle perialism, the Bolshevists have
of art of leg-pulling. That he is a extended their political, as dis-
something have come to the conclusion that accomplishing
It is tangible by the only effective we don't believe any of it. past master in this particular tinct from their ideological, in-
too illogical to be real. This The life of theso unfortunate menus in uur power. form of oratorical acroba-Quence far beyond the confines women cannot be a happy one AB
phantasmagorin doesn't exist at regards present police all. You and we and the B.B.C.. tics everybody knows. But of old Tsarist Russia. They under the best of conditions, still methods, there is room for Tt- by no process of subtle found Outer Mongolia a political much less where those factors organization to the end that a Parliament, Disarmament, Pro- phraseology can worda be
vacuum. They proceeded to fill peculiar to the local altuation and closer surveillance be kept on hibition, the new Bridge rules,
jokes about mothers-in-law. and divorced from their accepted it. When they signed a treaty
to which earnest attention has exploiters and traffickers meanings. Therefore, when with China in 1924, they re-
present. been drawn. are
Of abuses by landlords, boarding- men and their Hpaticks, and all ings in a dream dreamed by some Bernard Shaw tells young stud-cognized Chinese sovereignty these factors the most evil in the house keepers and other people we know and do are but happen. ents to steep themselves in re-over it, but did not relax their effect is the capitalization of vice who knowingly assist them.
atupendous prototype of Mr. H. G. Wells. volutionary books and go up to overlordship, and to enter this their necks in Communism and territory the non-Russian foreig- everything of that kind, we ner must now apply for a visa, to must presume that he means pre- Moscow. It was these tactics cisely what he says. The street as much as China's that prior to orator who used language like Sept. 18, 1931, alarmed the Japa- that would in all probability be nese militarists and persuaded clapped into gaol for his indis-them to go the limit as soon as cretion. "If you are a revolu- an excuse presented itself. tionary at the age of twenty, you Thus wo have the Soviet Union have some chance of being up-planted in Outer Mongolia and to-date when you are forty," Japan pushing into Outer Mon- saya Mr. Shaw. He does not golia from the northeast and auggest that the man who starts entering Inner Mongolia (Jchol) out as a revolutionary will al-from the south. One cannot ways be one, but he does most minimize the danger of a colli- definitely urge the young and sion some time' between Russia impressionable to become out-and Japan. At the sonic time and-out Communists. This is there are two reasons for think- dangerous doctrine to preaching that the danger is not im- to students, the more so since it mediate. First, the Soviet Un- is from the extremist element ion is not prepared for war, save. amongst this class that the in desperation, sinco a. war worst features of China's poli- would have domestic consequer- tical and social unrest have ces disastrous to the Bolshovist sprung. It is all very well for regime. Secondly, there does Mr. Shaw to tell his listeners not seem any prospect that the to forget what he tells them; Japanese will invade Soviet ter- but the young mind is over in-rilory. The threat is directed clined to store up the memories only at a territory that has of utterances from famous men. hitherto Iain within the Bolsho Thus the virus, once injected, vist orbit of influence. If the may be counted upon to take Soviet ventured to regard such a effect. It is one thing to tell threat as a casus belli, it would people to keep their minds open expose its own imperialism in to the influences of fresh and the oyes of the world's pro- healthily progressive ideas-we Ictariat, an imperialism which all need to do this if we are to has .80 for been concealed. live our lives to the full and con- But Japan's manner of building tributo something worth while up Manchukuo will gain nothing| to humanity-but it is quite an- for her but the moral condem- other thing to preach unadul- 'nation of world opinion.
Jehol Invasion
Law Abortive
"I know why you won't take me. You're waiting to see
if some old millionaire will come along,"
And when he wakes up
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
WO-
In these days of high blood prenaure it is becoming more and moro
necessary to have some means of telling the driver of the other car how annoyed you are with him. Not that he would care, but unless you have some outlet for your indignation, there Is the danger that some day somebody is going to go off with a loud report.
When a hansom cabbie could trot at six miles an hour beside a naughty bus driver, and opeculate how ugly he was as a baby, and where he was probably going, this was easy enough, and everybody was left more, or loss happy as n result.
Possibly we might have some arrangement of little fings, as they have in the Navy, with colle combinations for certain specified etting remarks, such as J.M.O.. "Why don't you take lessons in driving?"; N.P.R., "Garn, Road- hog" or A.B.K.. "What's the hurry? Is that fellow in the two- sentar after you for the next instalment?"
As it is, all we can do is to hoot with a series of staccato squawks like a startled hen, and this fe Ineffective. The last time we did It was to a girl who pulled across the road without giving any signal. Did she blush, and hang her head for shama?
She did not. She turned round and put out: her tongue at us at paga
We hope, when she gets one, it ever, her husband has cold tonela
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