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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1933.

THE

VAUXHALL

SYNCHRO-MESH FAULTLESS GEAR

CHANGING

NOW

BEING DEMONSTRATED

AT OUR SHOWROOMS

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

Stubbs Road.

practice of giving "favoured treatment to one set of buyers as compared with another, of making special discounts and seoking special advantages, of using 'outside. inducements to build up trade. How many of those who will wag their heads at the Morgan disclosures will

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THE KING'S ENGLISH

IN THE

KING'S STATUTES

The Very Idea!

WHAT THE DICKENSI

By Eddie Pickwick Kally,

AS this is the time of the

By His Honour Sir EDWARD PARRY The use of the King's English in something "arising out of his em the King's Statutes is both exten-ployment. At last a caso occurred

ono in which a man in a colllery was thoughts turn to Christmas,

aivo and peculiar. Every

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all our

a bad

agroes that too many words are killed in trying to stop a runaway refrain from seeking out

He was not, of couro, em- we have decided to write an friend through whom to buy used, and litigation continually re-horac.

minds that the words that are used ploved to stop runaway horses, no appropriated story. It will man named rug or a refrigerator at

L. be all about a are often peculiarly unfortunate, it did not arise out of his employ- "wholesale" price? Oil com- and fail to explain what was at the ment, but it clashed with A panies have seen the wisdom of back of the author's mind and what Smith's sense of justice that the Scrooge. Scrooge was `n he intended when he wrote them widow should not draw the insur-

ance money and ho invented a doc bad.man. Which was attempting at least to root out down.

Parhaps we want a statutory trine of acts done in an emergency thing. the giving of undeserved dis-

with stalwart to meet the caed,

He sat before the crackling editor, armed

For some time arbitrators and counts or of making the discount editorial blue pencil and the power a plain price cut which the whole to strike out from the proofs of the Court of Appeal did not ad- fireplace, thinking, thinking, think- to tho It was Christmas Eve. And he public 'could'

Retail the statutory drafts presented to minister the Act correctly. They ing, etc. enjoy.

him anything that he did not undrew nearer and nearer stores have taken steps to curb derstand himself, or thought might conclusion that the mere fact that was alone in the great, silent some abuses of accounts. It be embarrassing and irrelevant to the man was Injured by accident room.

disentitled him to compensation, Suddenly he heard voices, chil- does not lend dignity to the the general reader.

for obviously no man la employed dren's voices, singing beautiful securities market or the in- We certainly ought to have some to have accidents in his master's Christmas carols, which led him

are so time.

back to his own childhood days. vestment banker to picture system whereby statutes

But for the House of Lords, the He listened while the volcos last- Issues of speculative stocks be-drafted that High Court Judges

could readily understand their in- Court of Appeal of that date would ed, then they faded into the dis- ing passed out to customers and tention. On blay 3, for instance, have ruined the scheme of the Act. tance, and old Scrooge was ogoln friends in much the way we read that the Lord Chief Jus-It was the good and out-spoken com- alone with: his reveries,

He was a sick man, and he knew grocery might give away kewpie tice, assisted by Mr. Justice Avory mon-sense of Lord Halsbury that

and Mr. Justice Humphreys, spent saved the situation. He could not it. He was getting too old to go. dolls or roller skates pre-

morning puzzling peddlo about propositions of "scope out on binges with Edward Kelly. a merry May miums to children. To reach over the meaning of the words of employment," and the rest; but

Outside the Phono 23124. the particular situation' pointed "special occasiona" in the Road told the Court of Appeal that "the That last one had nearly settled Traffic Act, 1930. The words cc-broad proposition, of course, was him. He coughed several times, out in the securities business by curred in one place by themselves, that there should be compensation hands trembling. legislation would seem difficult. and in another in the phrase "race given to overy workman in certain wind fell and the snow howled, The

American Government meetings and other like special oc- trades, when an injury happened while inside the Telegraph office

casions."

to him in the course of his employ Edward Kelly wiped the perspira.. might undertake to require that

There were quite a lot of appeals mont." Lord Lindley informed the tlon from his brow and paused to when a stock is listed on an about the meaning of these words, world that the results arrived at think. exchange all sales of it shall be and they came from rural Cornwall.jin the Court of Appeal were "start-

It seems that in some cases the ling and untenable."

These were hard days for County made through the exchange.magistrates had held that "special This could be enforced only by occasions" included weekly cattle Court Judges who, under the ab weekly fair, on his last journey to- tora under the Act. When they prohibiting any other transfers fairs. Now to an ox who goes to a surd statute, were unpaid arbitra- to be made on the books of the wards the slaughter house, this is followed the right Interpretation' of But to the Act they were treated with con- company, and such a regulation a very "special occasion." could be made only under a the farmer who takes him there, or tempt in the Court of Appeal; but though I perish," he exclaimed

the butcher who meets him there, if, as usually happened, the case suddenly. federal chartering law. There it is merely a weekly incident arle- went to the House of Lords it was are other and better reasons for ing out of and in the course of their pleasant to hear what Lord Hals-Pounds, and her four young chil-

employment. Even tho Solicitor-bury, Lord Davoy, and others such a law. But the exchanges General, who appeared for the to say about it all when they set dren, who lived out at Kowloon Tong. She was a poor woman themselves can take action statute, so to speak, agreed that a things right.

who washed for a living;

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

Mra, C. More wishes to thank most sincerely those friends of her late brother II. A. Rodgers, who showed their kind sympathy in her great loss by sending wreaths and attending his funeral.

The

Hongkong

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Telegraph. against such abuses. If they weekly cattle fair was not a "special It is curious how people who

THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1933.

THE FINANCIAL

Police Changes in London

occasion.

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Editor's note: Get on with the story.

'Eddie's note: Bay, you, who's got to make this thing leng enough to filia column?

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"I must go to her to-night, even

Ho was thinking of the Widow

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Editor's note: Do only poor wo men wash?

Eddie's note: Yes, during the water restrictions.

Her husband had died five years

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Editor's nole: The author means drinking heavily.

Eddie's note: The Editor la ́s teetotaller: ***

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The weather was oven more

of the blizzard. The wind shriek ed louder and louder. Blinded by snow, he staggered on and on.

More alive than dead, be finally recognised the single, fluttering the Widowy Pound's light of house..

Somehow, he reached the door and beat it feebly with his numb

-then darkness came, fist-

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Editor's noto: Suppose he fainted from sursisoke?

Eddie's note: No. The had 'set.

value public confidence they will

Now in the carliest statutes of have to draft statutes, decrees, and make regulations under which which we have any knowledge the orders for the regulation of the direct.affairs of the simple citizens glory the public may know there have language is clear and

"Thou shall not steal" could not in periphrastic obscurity. I re- been no sales of a stock to trouble the minds of the dullest member in the Pensions days Sir Peace, and most Stephen Demetriadi, who did good insiders or may know on what Justice of the terms they have bought. In-Clerks to the Justices that I have voluntary work for the Department previously of alcoholic poisoning.

met could easily explain to the during the War, showing me a pa-through drinking heavenly.

· OCTOPUS.

vestors with whom the testi-Bench whether there was evidence per he had to send out to a sesinan his wife. In it there wore many The enquiry into the gigantic mony of recent financial in-upon which the Bench might con- or stoker calming an allowance for financial operations of

the vestigations has sunk in will devict the prisoner of stealing..

Vast legal treatises have been obscure alternatives, but I will only famous firm of J. P. Morgan mand that investment bankers' written about grand and petit lar-quote the last: "or if his full pay and Company having concluded, offices be made "one price" ceny, and the doctrine of "asporta- and allowances in the nature there-

Old Scrooge was very wealthy. the U.S. Senate Banking Com-stores. In such a market there tion, and the animus furandi; but of exceed 22s. 6d, a wock is not it all comes back to this-Are you less than the weekly excess of such

that man Intended to full pay and allowances over 21a., He had been a selfish old man now At last, mittee has begun upon Kuhn, would be little or no opportunity sure

for the type of "ground floor" steal? Then, If he did, you must provided that if the excess be not for nearly seventy years. Loob and Company, though

under deal out certain punishments to an exact multiple of Bd. It shall be it appeared, he was going to do à It is difficult to see what operations that is now

him. The statute "Thou shall not not less than the precise multiple decent, kindly act.

A gust of wind nearly upset good purpose is likely to be discussion. The surest defence steal," with a schedule of pualshof 6d. next below such excess."

One wonders what the men on him as he opened the front door, served. A little more scope for against advantage-seeking abments the judge may award for

Old Scrooge was the scandal sheets may be uses in all branches of business stealing, is practically all you want the lower deck thought of this and the sun beat floreely upon hin

Jargon when it reached them. For greying head. to-day. is the development of a sense of I am not sure that when we find it is jargon, as Sir Arthur Quiller seized with another dreadful fit of provided, but essentially, the evidence is not likely to provide honour and justice that will a statute has been so drafted as to Couch pointed out to us in the "Art coughing.

prevent its intention-being-carried of Writing." Unfortunately, jar- anything more than the exist- neither offer nor accept any out, we should not to-day allow the gon seems embedded in the brains severe than he had anticipated. House of Lords to amend it. The of the politicians, the Civil Ser- His feet were numb and his frail ence of the system and practice special or insinuating favours.

words "arising out of and in the vice, and those who draft, edit and guro rocked periously in the grip similar to that governing the

course of his employment" were us-publish our statutes. affairs of the House of Morgan.

ed by old-fashioned judges who Even a great Minister cannot Sufficient has already been re-

disliked the theory of the Work-say "No" to a simple question, but men's Compensation Act, in order replies that "the answer is in the vealed to justify severe restric-

to deprive workmen and their denegative." And Sir Arthur points tions. The "sensations" when The decision of the British pendants, whom they left behind out that if your language be jar analysed merely illustrate the Government to effect important if death ensued, of the benefits they gon, your intellect will almost cer-

were entitled to.

tainly correspond, and where, your mind should go straight will dodge. contentions of opponents of the changes in the organization of existing order of society that the the London police could hardly The way they tried to misread a For, as he truly says, the Style is careless the Man, and where a man's trea- control of human affairs exercis-fail to arouse as much contro-somewhat awkward and ed by such concerns is damaging veray as interest. For this au- phrase was to suggest that a man sure is, there his heart, and his must prove that at the moment of brain, and his writing will be also. to the interests of the com- mirable body of disciplined men, the accident he was actually doing-London Morning Post. munity as a whole. Judged by though constantly subject to cri- the most modern economic ticism, is on the whole extremely theory, daily gaining adherents, popular among the general the facts are self-condemnatory. public. There has undoubtedly Judged by ordinary every-day been much exaggeration in the standards, they are disturbing British press about the increase enough. There is the unplea of crime. Murder and attempts sant implication, for instance, to murder have steadily dimin- that the effect of the favours ished throughout the last thirty granted by the House of Morgan years. Assaults, cruelty, mall to certain influential men has cious damage, drunkenness and put them under an obligatlon, many other offences are far fewer. The most serious in- liable to influence their attitude in affairs involving the public crease has been in crimes against property, such as burglary, lar- welfare. As explained by Mr. ceny and fraud, often accompan Morgan and his partners, the ied by violence, and committed transactions appear a reasonably by criminals of a new type, natural one, disposing of issues men of cunning and energy, us- acquired as an incident to other ing automobiles, telephones and mechanisms of their own devis- activities. And It certainly Ing. To deal with criminals of would have taken unusual pre- this kind a far more elaborato science even for a Morgan part-police machine has become neces- 'ner to have told in 1929 that Mr. Bary. Trained intellects are re- William H. Woodin would to-day quired to direct its services 'both be Secretary of the Treasury. at headquarters and at local con- tres. The main object of the Yet the existence of these prac proposed reforms is to provide a tices is fraught with serious directing staff of highly educat possibilities where disinterested-ed and specially trained men. ness is so vital as in govern To provide men suitable for ment. The deals, If they have these posts a police college la to its unpleasant connotations in be established where selected financial etiquette, illustrate a candidates will be trained for two years. Opponents of the re- type of practice that is not con- forms see in them an attempt fined to Wall Street nor to any to militarize the police, and to one line of business. It is the introduce Fascist influences.

"Rómarkablo"

mind As, good

most mer

sin

When he awoke, he recognised the four little pinched faces about him. He noticed the shabby, poverty stricken house, and shud- dered. He still, felt cold.

The Widow Pound's gentle voice reached his half-frozen car.

"Whywhy did you come to. visit us

on such a night, Mr. Scrooge?"

The old man feebly extended his bony hand.

"I have

"for the rome," he said simply,

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Kelly's Tests For Civil Servants,

even

We suggest the following task in the next examination for civil Acrvants. Nowadays, thanks to the frank publicity that attaches: to American film stars, non-stop revue, and illustrated lingeric advertisementa, there is no longer any pretence of mystery about a lady's undios. Will any sane, unprojudiced citizen advance the theory that the average man, though he is turned out in all bla sartorial stratą by Row and New Bond Street, is a graceful or pretty apoctacle in his vest and under pants! Such an object of aesthe tic ridicule he looks, in fact, that the wonder io ho still attracts enough romance to qualifyák. actor in a divorce suit.

A woman in similar undress, however, judging by'all the avail able evidencos, still looks both fascinating and coquettish. E plain this