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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL 17. 1933.

TO

SYNCHRO #45H

I FRUCTLESS GEAR CHANGE

DOCTORS

As far as most practitioners are concerned a car is purely a The of transport. means easier it is to drive, the less trouble it gives, the better you like it.

Gear changing, however, has always been a bugboar with even the most expensive cars. There has always been the bother of double, declutching and the possibility of clashing

gears.

May we demonstrate the Vauxhall with It's silont change to you?

26,33 h.p. six-cylinder Vauxhall Cadet Saloon £295.

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whe

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY APRIL 17, 1933.

BRITAIN'S BUDGET

IF HAD NO MONEY

By ROBERT LYND

The Very Idea!

H.M.S. PINT-AT-FOUR મ By Admirable Edward Kelly,

themselves help to produce. The deduction is that without a reduction of taxation there can be neither substantial retrench- ment in the cost of unemploy- ment nor a recovery in the

...Everybody scams to think that Even in ao rich a district as revenue. The effort to meet

odd Mayfair, I doubt if I could get soi expenditure of all ki-da out. of it must have been a very

experience to be in the United much as a cup of coffee if it were "IT's only Kelly from over revenue involves progressive States recently when most people known that I had no money.

the Sea," said Barnacle inroads upon capital by the tax-suddenly found that they had no I once went into a Piccadilly Bill, the Sailor. gatherer and therefore a pro-money in their pockets.

restaurant without any money; gressive decline in the sources They forget that claowhere it is but I did not know that I had no from which revenue can be quite usual for people to purchase money tili I had finished lunch derived. There is indeed no most of the things they want with and wanted to pay the bill. When I felt in my pockets and could not practical argument to-day out money. against a forward policy.

find even a threepenny-bit I was the most embarrassed man in Lon- don.

Communism and Co-operatives

.

They were vory auspicious, and leave my name and

On

no

with

What with all those foreign warships swarming into

Escape Hongkong

the terrible effects of summer, and our own warships rush- ing off to Wel-haf-wel to escape the terrible effects of Hongkong, we think it's time we broke the news that wo were once an Admiral ourself. ' An old sea dog, we were.

When we were

in command of. our last navy we were

. covered

with so much braid that we were able to re- tiro shortly be fore Wo were kicked out and

We could never keep our modals, however. Every time we came to longkong we used to pass them off as American trade dollars.

Well do we remember our last WALE with Zumbungunger. It

seemed that the Zumbungunger forces were out searching for us:

In order to preserve the morale of our brave-hearted sailors we issued a Gin-Bell order. One gin-sling at one bell, two gin-slings at two bolls, and so on up to eight bells.

noon.

*

naval

in

To-

un-

If I go into a tailor's shop to order a new suit of cloths, I never montion money to the tallor and the tailor nover mentions money to me. We both behave exactly as it we made me wore living in a fairyland in which address.

On all occasions, indeed, suits were given away to anybody A recent edict of the Soviet who needed them. If the tailor did which I not only liave had Government compelling workers not at a later date keep writing me money but have known I had no to purchase food and goods only letters, I could easily imagine wa monoy, I have avoided as far as

were already living in William possible any transactions from their respective factory Morris's Utopia.

what might be called the cash- ensler stores is held by students of Rus-

Similarly, if I want a stick of loving community. I find afan policies as putting an end shaving-song, I do not need to have to walk than to haggle with a bus- to the consumers" cooperative money in my pocket in order to conductor as to whether he will give societies, which Lenin himself be sure of getting one from the me credit or not. I should get no I mention the pleasure from a taxi-ride if I knew regarded as an asset of the chemist. When

These brand of the shaving-soap I want, that I did not possess the fare. I Communistic regime.

do without societies have long served large he may refer to the weather, or would rather oven numbers of Russians As the ask me if I am keeping well, na he smoking than go through the or- start a haberdashery store. means of co-operative purchase hands me the article; but if he deal of trying to persuade a stran. and distribution of food and would like to be paid money for it, go tobacconist to accept an IOU

he never anys so. He amilos melin exchange for his goods. other commodities, and had made out of the shop, indeed, as if he

In the United States things like that country a noteworthy exam- had made me a gift, and I smile this do not seem to bother po-ple. penny, Everybody over there seema be ple of the cooperative movement back without paying him which for a half-century past I believe that he makes a note of not only willing but eager to ac has been under steady develop the transaction after I have gone; cept 1 0 Us, and everybody else ment throughout the civilized but perhaps I am unduly suspicacems to be not only willing but

eager to write them. world. The movement in Russia ious.

I often wonder why people trust THE DISEASE OF THE IOU had its beginning in the creation

If I were in the United States, I of the mir, or communal vil-me in this way. It is not as if I lage, after the freedom of the had given them any proof that I have no doubt that I should be in- serfs in 1861. Land then allot-should be able to pay some day. Ifected with the prevailing mood, They ask no proof, and I offer and, loaing my difidonce, should ted to the peasantry was held none. I doubt even if my appear write I O Us as hard as anybody.

Our carefully preserved, log in common and worked with im-ance inspires confidence. I cer- The worst of it is that, when once plements owned in common, this tainly should not trust it if I were one had acquired the habit, one book tells its own story:

YÉSTERDAY 4 p.m.-Sighted being the expedient of a popu-anyone else.. Yet the fact remains would be tempted to become reck- lation individually too poor to that, whether I want a sirloin of less. If one could get anything enemy submarine this morning

that Have decided own land or implements. In 1865 beef or a pineapple, a box of enve- one liked for an IO U one would and hostile destroyer this after- a group of peasants organized lopes or a bottle of wine, there are find oneself taking grandiose views

things. The cigar smoker future empty beer bottles must the first consumers' cooperative good-natured shopkeepers who will of society. These societies multiprovide me with these things not would be suddenly struck by the not be thrown overboard. They only without expecting me to pay fact that there were better brands

Visited Hongkong for fuelling Mr. Neville Chamberlain will plied until by 1914 there were ready money for them, but without of cigars than those which he was are leaving a trail in our wake.

more luxurious cigars-and that it purposes. Highly educated, the present his second Budget next 10,000 such organizations with making sure that I shall ever have recustomed to buy longer and

people. some 1,500,000 the money to pay for them. week to a House of Commons a total of

I think there must be something was as easy to owe a large sum of Hongkong

varieties of cocktails, all whose interest will be focussed members. Cooperative credit

associations, many of which also in the air of Hampstead, where I money on an IOU as a small one night they mixed ps cloven now more upon policy than upon served as purchasing and dis-live, that makes for kindliness The wireless fan would suddenly

Rightly or discover that he could afford a known to our nautical experts.

Hongkong barbour appears to figures. A sweeping change has tributing agencies for the mem-among neighbours. been marked in the outlook of berg, bad multiplied in like fash-wrongly, I suspect that if I ven- better wireless set, since all that many leading Parliamentariansion. The revolution found the tured as far away from Hampstead he had to do was to sign a piece be swarming with sea snakes

men who, it I O Us took the placo Wo see him.

TO-DAY-Left Hongkong last recently. The House has be-nation provided, with a far-flung as Kilburn, I should and the shop of paper for it. I know ecveral must warn the C. in C. next time managod to ataer If I wont into a Kilburn tebac-of money, would change their en- come more realistic. It is pre-network of cooperative societies. keepers much less trustful.

Lenin writing The Soviets at conist's and told him that I was tire style of living, would dine night, and pared to sacrifice an absolutely

Work," said of them: "We a stranger from Hampstead with-only, in the most expensive re-through Lyemoon Passage' with- balanced Budget for a sign of an have inherited from capitalism out a penny in my pocket but badly staurants, and would drive about, out damage to ship, except for loss effort to stimulate trade re-mass organizations which can in need of 20 Virginia cigarettes, wearing fur-coats and gold rings, of three lifeboats, two gangways lodge protest about erratic course covery, Hitherto, Mr. Chamber-facilitate the transition to mass would he rise to the occasion and in the most luxurious motor-cars. and paint scraped off side. Must

I trust, however, that if money atcered by incoming liner.

All last night we sped along the lain has guarded his secrets accounting and control of. dis-with a princely gesture put his BUT PLEASE NOT BARTER.

disappears in England its place perfectly. Only one clue to new tribution-the consumers' coop-shop at my disposal? I doubt it.

I am convinced, indeed, that out-will be taken by a system of 10 Us high seas in darkness, without of barter. ovan leading lights showing. policy has been given, the de-eratives." The Soviet idea, ap-NO, I THINK NOT.

parently, has not proved as sym-side Hampstead, there is scarcely and not by a system cision of the Government to pathetic with this expression a suburb in London where, if I Barter le ell very well, if you are Pulled up off Pratas by traffic cop accept entire responsibility for of Communism as Lenin seems tried to buy cigarettes and hapa grocer or a draper or a farmer; who issued summons for

(1). Sailing without head: lights the able-bodied unemployed. to to have expected. It has estab-pened to have no money to pay but what is to happen if you are

(2). Sailing. without tail- use unemployment finances in lished other centres of distribu- for them, I should not be hounded a writer? You cannot very well ways which may save the moral tion, factory stores, collective out of every tobacconist's shop in go to a greengrocer and tell him and government the neighbourhood as a suspicious that, if he gives you an orange, you will read him your latest you go with fibre of men who seek work but farm stores,

stores; it can leave, and has left, character.

The truth is, the only reason why article. Nor can are unable to obtain it. This. the cooperativo stores out of ever carry money in my pockets much confidence to a butcher and however, is a small point of de-consideration in its distribution is that all the world is not like offer to write him a poem if he con-will give you a pound of sausages. tail. The Chancellor's main deci-of supplies. The edict is made Hampstead and that I am

On the whole, perhaps, the sion must deal with one of two operative by the emptiness of stantly compelled to wander out-

side the boundaries of that beloved money system is the most conveni- money ent for everybody--the suburb policies, prudent expansion or the cooperative stores. Members continuing rigidity.

All through the rest of London system interpreted in the generous all through the rest of England, Hampstead manner. Money, of of the House have recently, lost

indeed the iron of commercialism course, is only a symbol, or so seems to have entered the shop everybody says. But, unlike the no opportunity of making clear

keepers' souls. They all look as if National Government, which is al their strong desire for a policy which shall aim at the stimula- Not for the first time, and pro- they wanted cash, and I have not so a symbol, it gets things done. tion of demand by the reduction bably not for the last time, the the courage to suggest that they Money is so useful, indeed, that I

la symbol of. of taxation, coupled with the so-called legitimate theatre is should let me have their goods sometimes wish I knew what it is

In the days of without it. in "difficulties." encouragement of capital ex- ancient Greece, in the time of the penditure upon productive enter-Shakespeare, and to-day, prises. No one who studies the question, "What is the matter figures of unemployment, the with the theatre?" has been a trading results of companies, or centre of discussion. Different the total and the details of the ages bring different problems, of course. There are some factors estimates of public expenditure troubling the theatre of to-day already presented can fall to high prices and indifferent entertain some such ambition. box-office men, for example- Morcover the members of which may or may not have Parliament who have declared afflicted it in bygone centuries. themselves in favour of such a But there is one question com- every policy are really only expressing mon to the theatre in the logical deduction from the ge; one reason why the thea- tre's futuro constantly seems Government's own professed troubled, often seems permanent ambition to promote wise spend-ly shadowed. That question is ing and to bring about a rise in a dearth of good plays. Thea- wholesale prices. Sterling both tres may be cold or they may be essentially and relatively is stiflingly hot; they may be dis tressingly old or they may be stable. Money is strikingly

brazenly new; the box-office may cheap. An effort to stimulates courteous or they may be be- sano productive expenditure is of it-insolent; prices may self, safe; but there are further and sensible or they may be un- circumstances which make such reasonably and notoriously high an effort essential. The feature-these naturally are elements of the expenditure alde of the of importance in the existence and progress of the stage. But Budget is the colossal charge whether the drama will live or for unemployment. The feature whether it will pass depends of the revenue side of the Bud-upon the drama itself; upon the get is the self-stultifying rates genius, or lack of it, of those to which some of the taxes who create it. Cynies to the formerly most productive have contrary notwithstanding, the risen. The sagging yield of mass of the people have a sound intuition about these things, and these taxes reflects that increase honest drama never will fail for in unemployment which they lack of support.

Good Plays the Real Need

"Yes, Henry has gone back to work, but I'm not doing. anything right now.

lights

(8). Falling to stop when signalled

(4). Driving to the danger of the public

(B). Ditto without a licence. (0), Being drunk and dia- orderly.

of 280

(7). And being a darned nuisance generally.

wireless LATER-A faint message was picked up on a wave- length Australia, which abandon all mention of body-line

fine our invasion to Zumbangun- bowling in future if we will con

gor,

metres from promises to

STILL LATER-A submarine, flying the Zumbungunger flag, suddenly appeared on our port bow at 4.80 p.m. and ordered us to stop: As our supplies are runn- ing low, and we could not afford to return the case of whiskey we, borrowed from them fast week, decided to ignoro command. Tho submarine commander has lodged a formal protest with the League of Nations

THE VERY LATEST-Wo al- most committed a paux pas thin evoning. Scheduled to assist the Blueland Forces with an attack on Repulse Bay, we arrived at what we thought was our destination, only to find, aftr our men kad hurried ashore, that' we were at Zambogana.

our

The authorities accepted: apologies and a chit for a dozen cases. We were on our last bottle.

In colebration of the happy ending to what might have been a serious mishap had they not accepted our chit, we ordered sixteen bells instead of fight. EXTRA FINAL-We find that we cannot reach Ropulso Bay In time to aid the Blueland forces. Besides the Repulse Bay Hotel closes at midnight=

EXTRA EXTRAORINDARY FINAL 808 508 808: We're on the docks, we've run out of refreshments. Assistance: ur gently required. Bend a dozen cases immedia