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GAMBLING

NOTES OF THE DAY

The Kowloon coal dump scandal may prove a blessing in disguise, assuming from the outsot that Government cannot entirely ignore public opinion. Constructive

ideas have emerged from these

ON TO THE WORLD OF

TO-MORROW!

By SISLEY HUDDLESTON

Bent to make on the condi-

Y far the most important com warmest in complaints, as well as

tions which perplex the politicians criticism of the authorities, and bewilder the public is this:

THOSE GOLDEN YEARS.

making the best of what remains.

to

and to apply ourselves resolutely

There will be "good times" again there are signs that we are ap- proaching them-but they will not

The Very Idea!

A BURNING QUESTION

By Edward "Mammy" Kelly

We are amazed at all this fuss Kowloon re-

be the same kind of "good times," sidents are making about To be mesmerised by bygone condi-the coal dump. tlons is the profound but instinctive

What's a dump of coal mistake not only of the average man but of those whose business it between friends. It nearly

For that matter, the supposed briquettes our heart... is to help to shape human destinies.

For years and years security and pleasantness of the

that we are facing, graver Kowloon people have been past is largely an illusion. It may problems, affecting the fundamental jealous of the Peak. Now that principles of civilisation, than our

bo

Yesterday, we-outlined-a-scheme We cannot go back to the days for making use of the area as the which seem to us in retrospect to site for a new Central British have been tranquil and happy.

That sounds banal. It appears School. Since then another pro- | self-ovident. There are few people posal, a strong rival in attraction, who would not entirely agree. And has materialised. It contempinies yet it needs to be repeated, though the conversion of the extensive it is hardly said at all; for we act area on the harbour side of the on the more or less conscious as railway Into a public Lido, after sumption that If we put forth the right efforts wo shall be able to re- the style of Mr. George Lansbury' turn to a period we have passed.

the effort in Hyde Park. In

fathers had to face; but they, too, the K.C.R. is trying to provide place of the Serpentine, a hugo

It is apt to become an obsession felt they were facing grave prob them with a Peak of their own

lems which seemed insoluble, and they don't want it. swimming pool, up to four hun-of the statesman and the man in the which threatened disaster. They, dred feet long and fifty feet wide, street that, by a series of appropri- too, were perpetually conscious of Think of all the trouble people would be constructed; there would ate decisions and actions, what we the menace of gigantic upheavals. have gone to to provide ben bandstand; a promenade; are pleased to call "pormality" can Their habits were constantly being

coal dump. kiosks for the supply of cold and will be restored. We are disturbed. They were uneasily hypnotised by certain dates. Those

have tolled day and night, digging drinks and fruits; an avenue of of us who were grown up before aware of a sword of Damocles hang. Deep down in the coal plts, miners" little nuggets of coal. The cap- trees; a long sweep of springy the war want to get back to 1913, ing over their heads, turf. A charge would be made when our life went on quietly and

Moreover, if we really had the taina and crew of steamers have for admission, as is done in comfortably. Others of us remem-

to bring their Shanghai's public parke, providing ber longingly a few golden years

after the war, of which 1928 may opportunity, how far back would braved the seas more than suffiefont funds for well stand as the peak, when things we care to go?, In spite of much pr cions black cargo to Hongkong.

that is distressing, in spite of the were booming and hopes were high; unquestionable uncertainty of the and permanent era of peace and

life is morrow,

incomparably prosperity was regarded as pos- richer in resources, immeasurably sible.

maintenance charges`

THE WRONG TIME?

in-

are

A RICHER LIFE.

Kowloon with a

Is all this effort to be in vain? Should Kowloon give them the coal shoulder?

In an effort to get at the battoni

Royal Commission on Lotteries / suggest that such proposals to-mado to resemble 1928. What has evolution, though continuous, kas there lle for geological investiga-

in others. It touches upon many aspects of a question which

WILL

deeply enters into the lives and BRIBERY CHARCES habits of millions of people. The Royal Commission refrains from

uy Him A Piano To-Day Issue

morrow.

we

man tion. One never knows what one.

Each Individual, in accordance more varied, broader and deeper with his personal experience, will than it was, for example, at the

has been inconceivably enlarged. the dictionary yesterday to ACL If the Government would only choose his own date; my own are turn of the century. The horizon of all this trouble, we looked up resign themselves to the fact that merely given us examples. The The poorest man to-day has con- what it vns about.

Coal, we discovered, is an the large railway reservations are point is that we are all inclined to veniences and pleasures which the look backwards instead of for- richest man could not have pur- never likely to be required for the warde, and to imagine that, by the chased fifty years ago.

amorphous substance derived from purposes which brought them into magic of international agreements, Yet It must be admitted that, the vegetation of prehistoric, ages. being, they might see their way we can start again, as it were, in with the unquestionable general

How many Kowloon people know clear to develop the Chatham Road 1913 or 1928.

Such a belief and it has taken progress, we have reached an inter- that? How many of them know

medlate stage between the old that district in line with social

possession of almost everybody-ls is dying and the new that is being that coal consists of different terests and ideals. But We

a delusion and a snare: 1933 cannot, born. There are forces at work in kinds of hydrocarbons, found in the earth. not very hopeful. Government by the ingenuity of experts and the every domain of which we are only beds and veins In

process of Think of all the opportunities that The report of the British policy at North Point does not good intentions of delegates, be dimly cognisant. The

gone has gone irretrievably.

reached a critical point. Precisely and Betting has been received day as a public Lido in Kowloon could spare ourselves many heart- what will happen next no with a storm of hostile criticism are likely to coincide with a phase aches and many headaches by knows. All that we can do is to might pick up in a coal dump. in some quarters in Great Bri- of sweet reason in Government frankly accepting the world as it keep a tight grip on events, and And if Kowloon knows, it does not

is to-day, and making it a point of turn them to the best possible parcare. Think of that! tain and with modified approval circles.

departure for the world of to- pose.

What ignorance! What soul. I sometimes picture not only our This does not mean that there International conferences but also stirring depths of unintelligibility. should be the smallest resignation our personal and family debates as What. But let it is... to the obvious cvlla of our present taking place on the back of a whale. Besides, this is the wrong time

On tho contrary, the While wo. are deliberating, the A good deal has been heard late-state.

problems will be tackled with whale will not keep still. When wo of the year to get hot about coal. entering into the general moral | ly, one way and another, about

greater energy and with a real have reached our conclusions,. it The torchlight of publicity thrown involved. Presumably corruption in the Civil Service. prospect of achievement if the goal may madly plunge and scatter them upon the coal dump is liable to starting from the point of view The Critic, for instance, has made is regarded as ahead and not as to the winds. Yet we must recon- make a fuel out of someone. that it is hopeless for legisla- serious allegations about P.W.D. behind if we cease to lament what-elle ourselves to the mutability of else he'll get into hot water, which

These vicissl. tures to attempt to make nations moral by act of Parliament, and methods. The League of Nations ever we found good in circum- mundane things.

Someone is building a replica of It is not, after all, a whale's back that the law must not too far Committee which studied the "red-tances which have irrevocably dis-tudes are not, in fact, capricious. is just as bad,

but n rolling ship which will Edinburgh Castle out at Repulse outrun general public opinion, it light district" problem in Hong-

weather the storm and come into Bay, so the best way out of the does not aim at Interfering with kong went away convinced that at

Kowloon gambling among private indivi- lenat one branch of the depart-Looking at the World Economie smoother waters. Its inconstancy trouble, aceing that

doesn't want the dump, would be. duals, but only at prohibiting or ment of the Secretariat-for-Chin-Conference, as I have looked is merely apparent; all the time it is

to shift it out there. it marked with the

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Of course, we can understand only in front.

1928; and there is no greater fal- long-established practices; but

There were certain monetary lacy than to imagine that it is our the Kowloon view on this subject. the members are evidently-dis-prove more fruitful of results than

a similar investigation in Glasgow standards, certain political stan job, or the job of our statesman, Their's is a very black outlook turbed by the growth of new forms of gambling concerns, recently, which rendered a verdict dards, certain moral standards, to try to return to the course we coal, bleak, sort of an outlook. particularly the dog-racing cour which was merely embarrassing. certain standards of safety which have left behind. Good or bad, we quite clearly no longer exist; and must continue our voyage without ses which have recently been It found that the prevalence of it is utterly futilo to recall them reference to the remote or the im- sub as the standards which we must mediate past. We must continue it established in great industrial bribery had neither been areas. Here they would endeav-| stantiated nor disproved; it failed necessarily re-establish. A good in the conditions of to-day, towards our to prohibit the association to unearth a single specific case, deal of time and thought is wasted the unknown destination of to on this altogether impossible task. morrow, without looking behind of the management of a course beyond a flagrant one already dis- There are fruitless regrets. Thore without useless regrets, keeping our with the provision of betting posed of in the criminal courts, is a pathetic clinging to that which gaze steadily fixed ahead, facilities, and would limit the but expressed the belief that this we have known. It would be for All power to the captain and his number of days on which betting incident bore some marks of a better to forget what has vanished, crow! may be allowed to ten in a month habit. A suspicion or a belief of or 100 in a year measure

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of restriction which to many will this kind is valueless unless it is seem ludicrously inadequate. strong enough to enable investi- In regard to betting off the gators to point to directions In course, it will appear that the which a special effort to eradicate commission proposes to extend corruption would moat with the the field to legal letting rather best reward, a la the "Paddy" May than to reduce it. But this is | clean-up of many years ago, But not quite a just interpretation If the lightly-uttered allegations of its recommendations. Under one hears from day to day have the present law credit betting any foundation in fact, it would with a bookmaker is lawful, but be extremoly difficult to know not betting for cash. This is

where to begin. regarded by the working-classes class-legislation, "directed against the poor who cannot open credit accounts; and in con- Bequence illegal street botting is

Germany and she should know common in every city in Eng- land, and the police are unable to her own business has decided suppress it. To get round this that there is more brain-power difficulty the

commissioners within her, borders than sho re- would allow ready-money bet-quires, and has therefore boon ting when the cash is sent by purging her Universities and her post, but the backer must not professions of superfluous Jows.] resort to the bookmaker's She has no further use for Pro- This compromise fessor or for several other ex- promises. would tend to abolish illegal ponents of aclonce and the street betting, and would

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are of move a class distinction in the world-wide repute in their respec law. In these matters politicians will not move far beyond public tvo spheres. There has been no opinion; and if an effective such dispersal of Intelectual re- sources since the equally self- frontal attack is to be made on suficient Turk fortilised Europe

of -the-growing social evil

with the erudition of Byzantium. gambling the ground must be England is not lagging bahind Arat sedulously propared by a other nations in appropriating her campaign to induce the masses share of this unclaimed intoill- of the poople themselves to wel-gence. In the Interests of des como restrictive legislation. Up veloping knowledge, the move to ta now there has been no such obtain. British citizenship, for campaign, and the massesizare Professor Einstein will be warmly not converted.

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NEW STANDARDS. ·

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"Im going to have a breakdown !! I don't get away-

for a vacation,"

Or

This would give us a chance

to work in a pun about shifting coals to Newcastle.

•

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•

TIME TO RE-TYRE

Motor cars are like girls- their upkeep is expensive. That's why we called our car Matilda. This month Matilda cost us $36 for her licence, on top of which we had to pay five bucks for our own. And when we say that Matilda is of a retyreing disposition wo don't mean that she wants to go "bye-bye." It's us who did the buy, buy-two tyres at $30 each.

This is only a few of the pro- blems us motorists have to face. Take pedestrians, for instance. It is a curious thing that when we are ourself walking along a street the every other pedestrian, on approach of a car, will climb a lamp post, or jump into a nullah, or enlist in the police force, or do something equally urgent to get out of the way. But when we are at the wheel, they invariably scom to be blind and deaf. Wo can't understand that! The only way to safely, negotiato a pedestrian is to engage first gear, and advance in skirmishing formation with staccato hoote, having previously · arranged for artillery support, and all the time keeping ready to get into reverse if the podestrian loses bla head and attempts to butt the radiator.

Policomon are nearly as dat gerous as pedestrians. Before we bought Matilda we used to great the traffic policeman with a smile when he passed us on his motor- cycle. At night time we would join him at the cabarets or the police club and he used to hopo that it would be a fine day to-morrow, and our lumbago was doing well. Now he recoghises us as a potentiai case, and ho knows that sooner or later we are going to fill a pago In his noto-book,

Pollcomen should be treated- very politely. Wo bave never'

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