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ties. The attempt has been re- slated, with varying success." With the Peking area also large- ly Independent of Nanking, the policy of the government had VI: necessarily to be unification with the co-operation of Canton.

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WORLD CRISIS

ARD WE TO WAIT FOR THE HALF-BAKED ARMCHAIR IDEALISM.

BY FREDERICK COPE, A.M.I.EE.

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The Very Idea!

A

HEART ACHE DAY

By Eddie Kelly, Writer. BOUT once every three or four months, we manage, by dint of hercul- ean effort, going without a (This is the concluding article "of | Evil consequences of unknown an understanding can be achiev-Mr. Cope's interesting series on the density lay ahead. Tens of millions shave, and working day and world's economie and monetary pro- of Gold Reserves were sacrificed in night, to get ahead of the od by which the northern and blems to-day.)

order to avert the fearful step. work that is piled on us.

On such occasions we sit southern governments will work

The object of these Artic-Finally decision was taken for her. She had no option. She was push- in their own spheres without

les, has not really been toed off. But what was the result back in our swivel chair, attempting to usurp the authori

Were-all-the-fears-realised? On light a fire on the end of a cigar, ty of the other in the territory suggest a scheme, but simply the contrary, any unfavourable relax, and tell the boy to bring accepted as under its control. to attempt to open up the consequences were more than out- in the baskets of correspondenco.. tives governing the recent ac-who, so far, seems to have loss as was anticipated. Britain are laid aside to be read at tions of the South-West group, given little thought to the has now no inclination to return to leisure, accounts are thrown

the position sho fought so dearly

back into the basket, and other. to retain. we should be prepared to agree matter.

There are those who believe correspondence is passed on to that the separatist tendency It will be interesting to ob could, finally, only have a good serve the progress of the pre- that a similar happy result would our secretary.

emerge by somo sensible, but effect. Provided friction ceases sent World Economic Confer drastic, alteration to our present with recognition of Canton's ence. Can a scheme be devised economic system,

world pro- In these times we cannot afford autonomy, provided the Can- whereby constant

sperity can be procured, and at to refer cynically to Idealism, tonese are content to continue the same time, the principles of Thought and its physical expres- the development of their own our financial system, as we know stons aro advancing so

that the Idealism of yesterday is territory, as they have done for them to-day, be retained?

Speaking with reference to this, becoming the Realiam of to-day.

The Prince of Wales, in a recent Dear Mr. Kelly -My hand trom- Stubbs Road. Phone 23124, the last two years, if the Nank-

ing faction confines itself to the such an authority as Mr, Montague speech, made reference to the fact bles, and I can scarce forbear gnaw- Norman, the Governor of the Bank that our wealth to-day exceeds in ing the and off my penholder, as I set considerable task of unifying of England, recently said that "the abundance the extravagant visions down the hideous enigma which leers North China, real progress be-difficulties are so vast and son of the Dreamers of only a few me in the face to-day, blighting my

career, corroding my very comes more likely. The waste limited, that I approach the subject, years ago.

Man has unlimited purchasing dragging my the cankering quag- young lie down and not only in ignorance, but in humlll-

power in terms of goods and ser-nires of calamity to the uttermont of civil conflict will be avoided. ty". and in the apparent division An endeavour to solve a problem vices. If gold is demanded, just there may be a greater hope for and retain a basic error is an im- as in the case of War debtors, his maw of abysmal ruin itself. the ultimate real unification of

If we could be sure of the mo- subject to the average man weighed. A substantial gain in from our public,

fact has boon realised, and not a Sconted and parfumed letters

HONGKONG HOTEL

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DEATH.

BRITTO At the St. Rafael's Hos- pital, Macau, on Juno 14, 1933, Jose Maria Britto, of No. 20 Jordan Road, Kowloon. Aged 47

years.

The

Hongkong Telegraph..bably, considering the area con-

As this is the middle of the.

month, we haven't got enough money for stamps to reply to those correspondents who noed our fatherly advice, so we're going to print them in this column. quickly Here are a few sample letters, typical of those réceived (and grappled with) by us:

possible job, and will always have capacity to pay is limited. to be approached in this manner.! ERRONEOUS THOUGHT.

CARDINAL ERROR.

the country. A great respon- President Roosevelt might per-{ We have been accustomed to sibility lies upon General Chan suade the nations definitely to ac-think, erroneously, of wealth in numerous terms of money, wherease wealth Chai-tong and the Canton lead-cept Bimetallism, or

other developments of that nature consists of goods and gorvices. ers. They are well organised, may occur. But even with such The greatest difficulty which con- are doing excellent work in the alterations of the present system, fronts us is to sacrifice and change we are still among the leaves and this standard of wealth, which has South-west and represent pro-twigs of the question.

been with us all our lives. We have known no other. To change a men- trolled, the most efficient. go-

tal standard which is inherited and They may have an insignificant inbred, is one of life's hardest vernment-in the country... If Influence in diminishing the effect tasks. In this case, however much continuing their good work, of the error, but a complete solu- we may dislike it and desire other. securing the best out of their tion is what is desired, and so long wise, "the writing is on the Wall" territory, is satisfactory to as an erroneous factor is retained, We are faced with that task. The there will be no solution to the quicker we can change the orrone- their ambitions, the independ-Equation.

ous thought, the sooner we shall ence movement should cause no Pitch out the error contained in divest ourselves of its consequent MOVEMENT. {alarm.

And if Chiang Kai- the Money System, what I have penalties, our present troubles,

called the third property of money, The question is "Can we do it! ! shek, noted for his realism, can and out goes with it the myriad Open the sluice gates of present eternal arguments. Let us finally ciety need be little altered, except

THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1939.

THE CANTON

SEPARATIST

a

England. Looks to Holland

the

down, through

Twenty-four hours ago

Was

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happy, carefree boy, light-heartedly romping through the halls of the grand old Central British School, which I attend. To-day, I am an empty husk of a man, one who has who finds it in his broken heart to gazed on the hollownoan of life and ning a mirthless and bitter, "Ha, h at the taunting miseries of the uni- verse.

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Mr. Kelly, I am approaching man's estate. I have known what it is to shave. I shall be 16 years of age in a few short weeks. Yat the beings who call themselves my parents have refused to let mo wear trousers. They force me to face the world in short pants. Despised and outcast, I slink along life's thoroughfare clad in my humillation, doomed to the con- tempt of my fellows, and the insulting familiarity of my juniors.

Shall I go on with my life, Mr. Kelly, or shall I put an end to it

"AN ACHING SOUL."

* • Dear "Aching Soul"-We would

•

Dear Edward Kelly,-On P point of etiquette, should I ne cept the offer of my brother's tal-

The shiftings of Chinese poli-recognise and accept the reall of puzzling complications and the finance and let Wealth flow. Sol tics have not been so subtle in ties of this situation, he should solve the physical wealth aspect of by a general increase all round in strongly advise you to go around the past eighteen months that be only too willing to share the existence and get nearer to other physical wealth. Let us rid So- clad in something else besides the growing cleavage between responsibilities of controlling jobs of which the World has plen-ciety of the unpleasant feeling of humiliation, or you may be mis- uncertainty. Let us make daily understood. Why not compromiso Nanking and Canton has passed this continent of a country poty waiting for up.

work for the world a thing of plea- by wearing gaiters. Despite the Destruction of Wealth cannot gure, not of anxiety. Under exist-objection on the part of the Bishop, unnoticed. Largely upon Can-pulated by a quarter of

be right.

ing conditions, business ability, there is no gainsaying their sex- Suppression ton's initiative, the breach has people of the globe.

of

Productive hard work, honest endeavour and appeal-EDWARD KELLY. been rapidly widening and

Capacity cannot be right. productivity, the things that mat-

Repression of Man's natural ter are all at a discount. complete rupture now appears

and supreme desire to expand, Rewards are on the knees of the imminent. The leaders of the

and progress, cannot be right. money manipulators, the deflators

of Credit and pan to teach me how to play the Any scheme which counten- and the inflators South-West Political Council,

these

yo-yo?-ROSIE GOLD-DIGGER. wrongs, must values. No analysis of the slum pro-ances

The business man the World over

Dear Rosie. Yo-yoing is simply "Some useful achemo might be business. If he mannges to escape not done with tafpans. —Why not independent of Nanking in every that does not recognize that the evolved by the right type of dele- the direct consequences of mant-get him to teach you how to play important respect, barely paying question is individual and moral, gate, and it is hoped that the Con- pulators, he is in daily danger of "Ring, a Ring, for Rosie.”—ED- lip service to the central authori-as well as economic. If slums forence consists of men who will being caught by the indirect. | WARD KELLY.

to know more Let us rid the employed man from prove themselves ties, has seized upon the con- make slum dwellers, slum dwell-about things that can, and must, the fear of the "axe," reductions in clusion of the truce agreementers also make slums. Many be done, than about things which salary, and the insane cry of econ- to challenge Chiang Kai-shek municipalities in Britain have cannot be done. Drastic changes omy. openly before the world at large, found that when the physical cannot be completely argued out. Let us immediately remove indus-

which is really a government blem_can_be_finally satisfactory/ultimately be doomed to failure-has, no effectual control over his

Chiang Kai-shek has responded slums have been pulled down and in the customary way, attempt their inhabitants housed in bet

BRITAIN AND GOLD,

try and commerce from the sphere of gambling. Can any man, how Before Britain went off the Gold ever he may twist his logic, honest ing to buy off hostility with an ter places, only the fringe of the Standard, there were thousands of ly explain to himself why the price offer of an additional $300,000 problem has been touched. Ha- avert the catastrophe at all costs.

academic reasons why she should of a share in a 100% plant is $20

(Continued on Next Columns.) monthly for military expenses.bits formed. through years of He is also sending down General living in undesirable surround- Wang Shao-hung, the Minister

ings are not easily lost. It is

countries with slum problems

of the Interior, whose long as being suggested in Britain that sociations with Kwangsi make him persona grata in Canton, in an effort to come to an under-might find much to imitate in standing. How far Wang Shao- certain experiments that have! been carried out with consider- hung, or the $300,000, will suc- eced, depends largely upon what able success in recent years in

Holland. General Wang has to offer. In

In Amsterdam and the present mood of the Canton The Hague the inhabitants of leaders, it is fairly certain that slums marked out for destruc- they will demand Nanking re-tion are not moved immediately cognition of the autonomy of the into normal houses. They are! South-West Provinces definitely given a period of training in in- allied with Kwangtung who are termediate dwelling places under cooperating in the establishment the supervision of people special- of Cantonese control. Meanly educated for this purpose. At while, Chiang Kai-shek, it is The Hague there is a centre of Important to note, has been 106 houses of two storeys on the rapidly consolidating his po- outskirts of the city; at Amster- sition in North China. When dam, there are two centros; one Chang Haueh-liang handed over of 66 and the other of 139 his armies to the Generalissimo, houses. These houses have a he made a strong northern go-clubroom for social purposes, vernment ruled from Nanking where religious services are held a practical possibility for the and instruction is given in handi- first time, and the signs are that crafts and needlework. If Bri- Chiang is now propared to-actain should adopt some form of cept an independent Capton as the Dutch Idea, it will be an in- an accomplished fact. The teresting case of reciprocity, for Cantoneso played a large part in the supervisors who are so im- the creation of the government portant a part of the Dutch at Nanking in 1927 and have scheme are all trained in the attempted to dominato Nanking Tundamentals established by the ever since, generally to the de- English social reformer, Octavia triment of the central authorl- HI).

"Sure you

crazy about her! But you'd have a fit, if I used.

Half that make-up.

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Dear Eddie-I am crazy about two young men, one in the ship- ping business and the other a bank clerk, but two other boys, one living on the Peak and the other at Kowloon enjoy my company. see another man, who is third officer on a Dollar boat, every time the ship is in port, and I would like your help to tell me which gentleman friend I should have- ANGELINA.

Dear Angelina-Take our advico and leave them all alone. Take to pin instead.

.

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Dear Mr. Kelly, Are you really and truly married, or do you say so In your column just for a joke.~. CURIOUS.

Dear Curious-Ask the wifo- EDWARD KELLY.

to-day, rises to 8120, and drops down to $8 a short time after. It gamblo we must, and if we have not sufficient methods already, let us invent some more, but do not let one man gamble on another man's legitimate daily bread and existence.

Even the super-financler will benefit under a new system. The very system they champion, like some vicious brute, has savagely turned on them. Some of the most- important world financiers are to- day experiencing the agonizing ordeal of being under suspicion and are facing. Enquiry after Enquiry. THE ALTERNATIVE. Alternatively, are we to delay too long in putting our house" in order? Are we to wait until the patience of the world is exhausted, when in desperation it will accept an experiment, based on some half- baked armchair ideallam, where we shall all probably move by numbers and have the freskish moral 'stand- ards of a few air-brained cranks and' lopsided fanatics pushed down our throats. Even the Shirt Organisa» tions under a condition of a waning- economie life cannot be expected to stave it off. Indefinitely, is