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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1933.

STUDEBAKER NEWS

Studebaker's Share of

Total Business in 1932 59% Bigger Than 1931

The cake may have been a little smaller for everybody in 1932, but

Studebaker dealers enjoyed bigger alico of it.

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That's what usually happens as you may or may not have realized.

When things ang for the whole industry, they sag a lot less for Studebaker.

over 1931.

HOME-WORK PROBLEM

By A SCHOOLMASTER

The Very Idea!

volving great cleavages of opin- ion and interests, quick reaults cannot be expected. When, as in the case of the Far Eastern

THIS NECKING EVIL recent the matter thus:-A candidato crisis, the basic principles on

Two paragraphs, in a

By Edward “Carnora” Kelly, which the League functions are article on English schools pro- will pass on a good written paper, in dispute, there should be no blems, specially interested me, will fall on a very poor written

Last Wednesday night We difficulty in comprehending the They dealt with the problem of paper, but will not fail on a

the overworking of secondary moderate written paper, and may witnessed the most disgraceful causes of delay. These are

Ipoints which need to be kept in school children when they arrive oven pasa if the schedule markdisplay of necking we have over

mind not only now, but all the time. Only by remembering them shall we have a true ap- prcelation of the situation.

Jehol

examination warrant It,

at the stage of preparing for their and the appearance under oral Leaving Certificate examinations, and ran thus:-

seen in Hongkong.

We are not wowsers or apoll

neck as well as anyone. sports, and, in our quiet way, can

As one who is an expert necker, we want you girls to get that right. Any time you feel fed up with your man, just look us over.

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But Wednesday night was dif-

with the woiks, and there wasn't forest. Something went wrong girl in the place. So they had to use sailers as substitutos.

Anyone who goes in for necking in public is asking for trouble.. But when two sailors go in for necking they're asking for more than trouble.

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Now this arrangement is surely "It would not be true to say that an oxcellent one, as it is in the In the bad the standard of the examinations candidate's favour. la always too high for the average old days one passed or failed on child, but it is too high for the the written examination. Now amount of teaching time available one's school record and one's as the school calendar is now teacher's opinion count. It is evident, of course, that the post- Manchukuo, alias the Japan-arranged.

belleve that the whole pro-ponement of the written examina- ese, is intent on pushing out its western boundaries Into the biem would almost disappear if tion would upset all this consulta-

department. the summer holidays." great bulk of Mongolla. Barga, the examinations were held before tion between the school and the to the north, a territory lying Both paragraphs, to my mind, There is also, in my opinion, in the indeterminate area be-invite criticism. Let us take the which I believe would he shared tween Outer Mongolia and Man-Recond one first. The proposal by most tonehors, a mistaken view churia, marked the first move, to postpone the written examina- expressed in the former of the paragraphs quoted. The Now Jehol (Inner Mongolia) is, tions to the end of the summer is two if the Japanese militarist plans altogether retrograde. It should leaving certificate examination as

It happened at the Leo Theatre. are fulfilled, to be added to the be clearly understood by all con- it exists is on too high a standard

examination, These big, able-bodied men clam new domain. This impending cerned, including the parents of for the average pupil, It is a

pupils, just how the leaving cor- matriculation Take a look at the sale figures expedition represents probably Lificate is awarded. The written hurdle which must be taken by bered through the ropes into a of the past two years-1931 and the most important military examination in March-commenc- those proceeding to the univer-sort of square, or boudoir, dressed 1932-and you will see that Stude-event in the Far East since the ing on the 20th, by the way, and sity. It is all right for the acade-in pretty night-gowns, or kimonos,

minded, prospective and sat at opposite corners.. baker dealers sold a 59% larger guns went off outside Mukden not at the beginning of the month mically proportion of all cars sold in 1932 on September 18, 1981. It is in only one part of the test. It teachers, lawyers, doctors, journa-smiling bashfully at each other average pople. Do not Then when a sort of high pricat important because of its many- Is difficult to get pupils to realisoists and a few others. But these while their amhs massaged them, The harder the public scruti-sided challenges. Jehol is Mon- that of equal importance is their are not

in of claiming superiority for them, they tripped into the centre, and, nice comparative values among all golian only in its history and its performance at the first torm mistake mo-I have no intention outside the boudoir rang a beil,

examination, usually held makes, the better for the Stude- substratum of racial composi-November, and at the second term you Ike they are freaks, they falling on each other's shoulders.

tion. But Mongolia has almost examination, which must be held are exceptional, and the leaving whispered sweet nothings. baker dealer.

Unfortunately, the The 1933 Studebaker models ceased to be a political expres- at latest early In February. The certificate examination

timate parts of their conversations will soon make their appearance sion. Actually, Jehol is Chi-papers then written determine the whole suits them.

One other point should be borne were drowned in the uproar from in the Hongkong Hotel Garage, nese territory. Since the ad- schedule marks in each subject. Showrooms and a demonstrator vent of Manchukuo it has been and on these marks very great in mind. The leaving certificate the vulgar crowd surrounding the will be available for all who wish a base for Chinese guerrilla war-stress is laid by the Education course is a six year's course, and ring, which was a pity, for we

Candidates should only exceptional pupils are ex- could still do with some hints. to ride in one of these

fare against Manchukuo. Hence Department.

Thero la one aspect of this ques- Champion cars.

the first reason for the Japan-disabuse their minds of the iden pected to cover it in five years.

that their performance in March

tion of over-pressure which as a ese assault upon it. If they can is all that matters. seal the passes through which Again, in every subject there is man I should hesitate to

soldiery Chinese

from the an oral examination-a most Imtion, but I'll risk it. The greatest Peking area have been filtering, then Manchukuo, they think, will find peace for reconstruc- tion. What the Chinese re sponse to this fresh affront will be is what Bismarck would have too clearly understood that a good So it is in classes taught by wophould have commenced showing

And girls euffer more than called an imponderable. Jehol appearance at the oral examina-men.

ft reasonable boys in mixed schools. Why, you us the higher lights of necking.

For instance, never once did the is governed by a Chinese war tion, coupled with

Women and girls are too lord, old style, named Tang Yu- schedule mark, will go a long wayank?

in March. After boy feels tired he slacks off a bit. testants of kiss. be, who, after oscillating examination for months in his so-called al-years of experience I would put Not so a woman or a girl legiances, has decided to plump

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Then, just when everyone thought that something was going to happen, the bell would ring again, men- or the high priest would interfore, and the men would trip back to their amuhs.

portant part of the test for the obstacles tu the way of reform and girls. Not

Repeatedly, on Wednesday teachers and grant of the certificate. Every are

night, we saw these big, able In pressure consideration is given to border mothers. Women

when the inspector girl pupils. The line cases

bodied men pitiably distracted by comes to school to conduct the schools run by women le greater the presence of this dignitary at It cannot be than that in schools run by men. the precise moment when they

oral examination.

Hongkong Telegraph.In, as independent as any satrap up for bad luck at the written conscientious. When a man or a high pricát allow the two con-

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1933.

DON'T BLAME THE LEAGUE !

Bo much misinformed criticism

Co-

for Chang Hauch-liang. Tang "THOU SHALT NOT

The Problem of Air Forces

There is a general and vivid recognition of the fact that, whatever is done or left undone

his property.

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In one of the contests, two of the actors gave 1 display of married necking. Instead of fall- !'ing on each others shouldery, as

the other people did, they stood off at a distance of two or three feet, and proceeded to belt the The dignitary didn't interfere spinal cord out of each other.

a married man himself.

the By

wny, apeaking oľ to-Wednesday night's boxing, do you

suggests

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ceremony 'pe-

It was known to the ancient

might have gone Japanese but

By Gwendoline Pitkin, the Wall-known Writer. for the fact that Chang held

The husband who insists that out better promises for the

Some people forget to make a marketing of Jehol's profitable will: others haven't anything to his wife shall, on remarrying, In these days, when there is crop of opium. So he has aided leave; yet, even they are more to forfeit her share of his wealth, with these two. Probably he was and abetted Chang's guerrilla be admired than the wealthy man didn't deserve to have a wife in of the League of Nations, it is warfare. No matter how Jehol who imposes all kinds of absurd the beginning; It is an insult to

prejudice, narrow-minded is run, however, it is Chinese restrictions on those who inherit her Intelligence! well that occasion should be ta-

territory. And the proposed This penalising of a wife so gether with the conceit-inflated know that Talcum powder is used ken, as by Sir John Simon in his raid upon it is exciting Chinese that he may not remarry, or a Idea that he intends that she shall in business and manufacturing speech at Manchester, to bring nationalism. Now that neither daughter so that she may marry mourn his loss for ever, without purposes in more than fifty dif-

Aseeking the consoling influence of ferent ways? the critics back to realities. Geneva nor the hope of a direct only the man approved of by

who might, con-

TESTY CRICKET. The League, said Sir John, is not deal with Japan have yielded certain relative, is nothing better another man a super-State exercising physical

im-happiness.

Seeing the enormous interest compulsion over its members: it their redress, Nanking and than a form of tyranny! It is in-ceivably, bring her some degree of

If, as it will be argued, the that has been taken in the Test agination is 80 stunted that they is an international organisation Peking may be pushed along a dulged in by people whose

course of desperation.

can feel happiness only in the husband wished to save his wife matches, it is high time we got which seeks to substitute

knowledge that they still have the from the designing clutches of out of the absurd habit of calling operation for force, and concilia-

power to dominate the lives of the unworthy who would marry cricket a gante. It is, of course, a effect,

her for her money, he has only to solemn religious tion for conflict. In

others, even after death. criticism of the League means

simple stipulation culiarly adapted to the tempora- There are some who want to make

fortune, whereby none other may benefitment of the Englishman who takes criticism of the nations which

rule the world, make a

his pleasures Badly, comprise it. The root of the

scrape, stint themselves to this save herself.

The father who would Beck to trouble is disinclination on the

end, and yet their bank balance part of some nations, well illus-

gives them not the slightest joy rule his daughter's life after his Persians, and old Omar maker trated in the Sino-Japanese

in the matter of disarmament, and the world is not one jot the death is showing a strangely several references to it, in his better for their possessing it. warped conception of her Rubaiyat, auch as,. "The ball no dispute, to live up to the prin- it is impossible to tolerate the when they dle they set forth a dividuality; for in the process of question makes of ayes or noca." ciples for which the League

menace of aerial warfare. For number of rules which, betray to allowing others to interfere with and "The worldly hope mon set stands. Once this becomes

while other weapons can be held the utmost their mean, avenging her choice of a husband he might, their eyes upon turns ashes" parent, of course, it is

nevertheless starve her soul. business of the States compris. to be milltary, and employable characters: it la all that can be while caring for her bodily needs. How true that was yesterday.

chiefly, if not altogether,anid for them. ing the League to endeavour to secure a settlement: it has no against opposing forces, power at its disposal with which function of the aeroplane In to enforce its decisions, although war is, primarily, anti-civilian. it is true that provision is made By it the horrors of war in the Covenant for mutual ac- vastly multiplied. The proudest tion when all other efforts fail. works of civilization can, it is believed, be obliterated in a Obviously, however, the ap- plication of sanctions would be night; and the rat intimation Im- of war may be the destruction regarded as a last resort. patience over the Far Eastern of cities and their inhabitants. deadlock has undoubtedly caused Nor, in tackling this problem, criticim of the League to in- can any satisfactory distinction crease latterly. The critics talk be drawn between military avia- of the League's congenital weak- tion and civil aviation. The pas- neas, and even go so far as to ac- senger aeroplane can, it has been cuse It of adding malignancy to shown, speedily be converted Its impotence. But these cri- into the bombing plano. Quite tlelama are either the outcome clearly, the magnificent progress of ignorance or else of political that has been made by man in passion. The League is nothing the conquest of the air must Nevertheless, but an assembly of national be maintained.

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the

arc

Governments. As M. Politis, we are bound to consider ways the President of the, Assembly, and means of preventing tho declared last October. It is but misuse of aerial machines.. It the mirror of the world in which is proposed that there shall be every aspect of life is reflected, some form of international con- but in which the darkest aspects trol. But nobody has yet fram- are most clearly. scan. But it. ed a sound scheme which would has the inestimable merit of commend itself either to creating a diplomatic atmosphere European or the American peo- propitious to negotiations and it ples. No one is willing to aa- offera to Governments. a series sign limits to the development

the

of procedure by the help of of aviation, and no ano is wil- which, with goodwill on both ing to allow it to be hampered sides, agreement can be attained. by regulations whose efficacy But it cannot be too strongly doubtful. A certain amount of stressed that the success of the national rivalry in the airˇie League must be in precise ratio one of the conditions of progress, to the measure of support given and it is not easy to determine to its principles by Its members. by what method, if any, private Nor must it be forgotten that enterprise shall be subjected to VERSOEKOM KOKS = Oud kyhon dealing with problems in- foreign control.

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"I wish I could remember if we went off and left the

waterfall running on our mountain estate,”

But it was originated in Eng- land by the Druids as a form of sacrifice, the wicket being the altar, in front of which the victim stood while rocks were thrown at him. As

a concession. he was given a club to protect himself. and was allowed to run.

The game was nearly as slow then as now, and several of the Celtic atone circles we see to-day are undoubtedly Ancient British cricket matches still in progress, the players having petrified ВО long. through standing still One of these days a Test match will end in the same way.

By Saxon times Kings Indulged

in it, and Ethelred was known as the Unready because it took him Labout as long to get to the wicket

as it does some players to-duy.

During the reign of Edward Ill the lower classes had got gil worked up over the political situa- tion, and they turned to the game In order to cure their insomnia. It was first called "oricket" in 1660, the word being derived from "crutch," many of the players be- ing as old and decrépit thon as they are now. It was because a cavalier called Oilver Cromwell a low dog when he played the game that we had the Civil War. :

There have been many changes in the ritual, all of which have bean realated by somobody or other. Thus the Introduction of over-arm bowling on June 10, 1884, calised serious riots, and nearly brought about the defeat: of the (fovernment It made mattors too exciting, and kept the spectators awake.dk jaja Ba