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NOTES OF THE DAY
The Kowloon coal dump scandal may prove a blessing in disguise, assuming from the outset that Government cannot entirely igngro public opinion. Constructive idena have emerged from those warmest in complainta, as well as
AUGUST 2, 1933.
ON TO THE WORLD OF The Very Idea!
TO-MORROW!
· By SISLEY HUDDLESTON
Y far the most important com- und to apply ourselves resolutely to
By far the most on the tonul tions which perplex the politicians
making the best of what remains.
There will be "good times" again prouching them--but they will not
criticism of tho authorities. and bewilder the public in this: there are signs that, we are ap-
Yesterday, we outlined a scheme for making use of the area as the
site for a
new Central British School. Since then another pro- posal, a strong rival in attraction, has materialiged. It contemplates the conversion of the extensivo area on the harbour side of the rallway into a public Lido, after the style of Mr. George Lansbury's effort in Hyde Park. In the place of the Serpentine, a huge swimming pool, up to four han
We cannot go back to the days which aceh to na ia retrospect to
who would not entirely agree. And
A BURNING QUESTION
By Edward "Mammy" Kolly
TE
WB 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.
have been tranquil and kappy.
That sounds banal. It appears tions is the profound but instinctive self-evident. There are few people mistake not only of the average What's a dump of coal.
man but of those whose business it between friends. It nearly
For that matter, the supposed briquettes our heart. security and pleasantness
For years and past is largely an illusion.. It may be that we are facing graver Kowloon people have been problems, affecting the fundamental jealous of the Peak. Now that principles of civilisation, than our
of the
set It needs to be repeated, though is to help to shape human destinies. it. is hardly said at all; for we act on the more or leas conscious as sumption that if we put forth the right efforts we shall be able to re- turn to a period we have passed.
THOSE GOLDEN YEARS.
hypnotised by certain dates. Those
years
fathers had to face; but they, too, the K.C.R. is trying to provide It is apt to become an obsession felt they were facing grave prob- them with a Peak of their own
lema which seemed insoluble, and they don't want it. I'dred feet long and Affy feet wide of the statesman and the man in the which threatened disaster. They, street that, by a series of appropri- too, were perpetually conscious of would be constructed; there would ate decisions and actions, what we the menaco of gigantic upheavals.
Think of all the trouble people be a bandstand; a promenade: are pleased to call "normality" can Their habits were constantly being
have gone to to provide kiosks for the supply of cold and will be restored. We are disturbed. They wero uneasily Kowloon with a. coal
dump. drinks and fruits; an avenue off us who were grown up before aware of a sword of Damocles hang- Deep down in the coal pits, miners treos; a long sweep of springy the war want to get back to 1913, 1ng over their heads. turf. A charge would be mado when our life wont on quietly and for admission, as is done in Shanghai's public parks, providing more than sufficient funds for maintenance charges
THE WRONG TIME?
A RICHER LIFE.
comfortably. Others of us remem-
Moreover, if we really had the her longingly a few golden years opportunity, how far back would after the war, of which 1928 may well stand as the peak, when things we care to go? In spite of much were booming and hopes were high, that is distressing, in spite of the and a permanent era of peace and unquestionable uncertainty of the
la morrow, life
Incomparably was regarded as pos- richer in resources, immeasurably prosperity sible.
of for-
with the unquestionable general Yet it must be admitted that,
have tolled day and night, digging little nuggets of coal. The cap. tains and crew of atcamere have braved the seas to bring their precious black cargo to Hongkong,
Is all this effort to be in valn? Should Kowloon give them the roal shoulder?
In an effort to get at the bottom
see
Each individual, in accordance more varied, broader and deeper with his personal experience, will than it was, for example, at the 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 a8 examples: The has been inconceivably enlarged. the dictionary yesterday to
The poorest man to-day has con- what it was about. the large railway reservations are point is that we are all inclined to ventences and pleasures which the never likely to be required for the wards, and to imagine that, by the chased fifty years ago.
look backwards instead
richest man could not have pur-
Conl, we discovered, in 3413 purposes which brought them into magic of International agreements,
amorphous substance derived from being, they might see, their way we can start again, as it were, in
the vegetation of prehistoric ages, clear to develop the Chatham Road 1913 or 1928.
How many Kowloon people know" Such n bellef-and it has taken progress, we have reached an inter- that? How many of them know district in line with social in-
mediate stage between the old that terests and ideals. But
possession of almost everybody-is is dying and the new that is being that coal consists of different We GAMBLING
are a delusion and a snare: 1933 cannot, born. There are forces at work in kinds of hydrocarbons, found in very hopeful.. Government by the ingenuity of experts and the every domain of which we are only beds and veins in the The report of the British policy at North Point does not good intention What has dimly cognisant. The process of Think of all the opportunities that Royal Commission on Lotteries auggest that such proposals to. made to resemble 1928. What has evolution, though continuous, has there lie for geological investigu and Betting has been received day as a public Lido in Kowloon could spare ourselves many heart-what will happen next no man tion. One never knows what one
gone has gone' irretrievably. Wo reached a critical point. Precisely with a storm of hostile criticism are likely to coincide with a phase aches and many headaches by knows. All that we can do la 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 tain and with modified approval circles.
is to-day, and making it a point of turn them to the best possible pur- departure for the world of
to- pose. morrow.
I sometimes picture not only our This does not mean that there international conferences but also should be the smallest resignation our personal and family debates as What to the obvious evils of our present taking place on the back of a whale, A good deal has been heard late- | state. On the contrary, the While we are deliberating, the
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GOODBYE TO THE PAST.
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care. Think of that!
What Ignorance! What soul, stirring depths of unintelligibility.
But let it lio, Besides, this is the wrong time
to shift it out there.
Or
This would give us a chance to work in a pun about shifting coals to Newcastle.
deeply enters into the lives and BRIBERY CHARGES habits of millions of people. The Royal Commission refrains from entering into the general morally, one way and another, about problems will bo tackled with whale will not keep still. When we of the year to get hot about coal. issue 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 grener energy and with a real have reached our conclusions, It The torchlight of publicity thrown 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 tease to lament what cile ourselves to the mutability of else he'll get into hot water, which tures to attempt to make nations
we found good in circum mundane things. moral by act of Parliament, and methods. The League of Nation ever that the law must not too far Committee which studied the "red-stances which have Irrevocably dis- tudes are not, in fact, capricious. is just as bad,
appeared, outrun general public opinion, it light district" problem in Hong-
It is not, after all, a whale's back- Someone is building a replien of does not nim at interfering with kong went away convinced that at
but a rolling ship which will Edinburgh-Castle-out-at-Repulse- weather the storm and come into Bay, so the best way out of the gambling among private indivi- least one branch of the depart- Looking at the World Economic smoother waters. Its inconstancy trouble, seeing that duals, but only at prohibiting or ment of the Secretariat for Chin- Conference,
I have looked is merely apparent; all the time it is doesn't want the dump, would be Kowloon at scores of carlier conferences, advancing. facilities" where "those facilities under
I and it marked with the grave suspicion. lead to serious social consequen- fortunately, bribery is an offence the nations can retrace their steps. Un-recurrent error. that somehow ces." The Report does very difficult to bring to proof and They cannot. For better
So we should remind ourselves, not suggest
or for it is forging ahead, and is not turn- siderable alterations in regard to it is most unlikely that it would is cut off in the rear.
worse, they must go on. The roading in its tracks. It will not carry It is open us back to 1000 or 1913, or even long-established practices; but
only in front.
1928; and there is no greater fal-
Of course, we can understand the members are evidently dis-Prove more fruitful of results than
There were certain monetary lacy than to Imagine that it is our the Kowloon view on this subject. turbed by the growth of
naimilar investigation in Glasgow standards, certain political stan-job, or the job of our statesmen, Their's is a very black outlook. forms of gambling concerns,
recently, which rendered a verdict dards, certain moral standards, to try to return to the course we coal, blenk, sort of an outlook. ses which have recently been It found that the prevalence of it is utterly futile to recall them reference to the remote or the im- particularly the dog-racing cour which was merely embarrassing. curtain standards of safety which have left behind. Good or bad, we quite clearly no longer exist; and must continue our voyage without established in great industrial bribery had neither beca uth-as the standards which we must mediate past. We must continue it
TIME TO RE-TYRE 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 single specific case, deal of time and thought is wasted the unknown destination
Mptor cars are like girls- of the management of a course beyond a flagrant one already dis- There are fruitless regrets. There without useless regrets, keeping our This month Matilda cost us $30 for on this altogether impossible task. morrow, without looking behind, why we called our car Matilda. of their upkeep is expensive. That's 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 wo have known. It would be far number of days on which betting incident bore some marks, of a better to forget what has vanished, crew!
All power to the captain and his her conce, on top of which we' may be allowed to ten in a month habit. A suspicion or a belief of
had to pay five bucks for our own. or 100 in a year-a measure
And when we say that Matilda is of a retyreing disposition don't mean that she wants to go -“bye-bye." It's us who did the buy,
buy-two tyres at $35 each.
new
of restriction which to many will this kind is valucices unless it is #eem Judicrously ingeguate. strong enough to enable investi- In regard to betting 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 meat 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. not quite a just interpretation if the lightly-uttered allogations 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 extremely difficult to know not betting for cash. This is where to begin. rogarded by the working-classes
class-legislation, directed
against the poor who cannot THE EXILED SCHOLARS.
open credit accounts; and in con-
sequence illegal street betting is
But
of
common in every city in Eng- Germany and she should know 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 been ting when the cash is sent by purging her Universities and her post, but the backer must not professions of superfluous Jews. resort to the bookmaker's She has no further use for Pro- premises. This compromise fessor or for several other ex- would tend to abolish illegal ponents of scienco and tho street betting, and would
re-humanities whose names are move a class distinction in the world-wide repute in their respec law. In these matters politicians tive spheres. There has been no will not move far beyond public opinion; and if an effective such dispersal of intelectuat re- frontal attack is to be made on sumclent Turk fertilised Europo sources' aince the equally self- the growing social ovil of with the erudition of Byzantiume gambling the ground must be England is not lagging behind first sedulously prepared by other nations in appropriating her campaign to induce the masses share of this unclaimed Intelll- of the people themselves to wel gence, In, the interests of des come restrictive legislation, Upveloping knowledge, the move to to now there has been no such obtain 2 British disonship for campaign, and the maanoa, 10
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This is only a few of the pró- blems us motorists have to face. Take pedestrians, for instance. It in a curious thing that when we are ourself walking along a street every other pedestrian, on-
the approach of a car, will climb n lamp post, or jump into a nullah,. or callat in the police force, or do something equally urgent to got out of the way. But when we are at the wheel, they invariably soom to be blind and donf. Wo can't understand that! The only way to safely negotiate a pedestrian is to ongago first gear, and advance in skirmishing formation with staccato hoote, having previously arranged for artillery support, and all the time kooping ready to got into reverse if tho podestrian loses his head and attempts to butt the radiator.
Policemen are nearly as dan- gorous as pedestrians, Before we bought Matilda wo used to groot- 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 hope thaf It would be a fine day to-morrow, and our. lumbago was doing wall. Now he recognings us as a potential case, and he knows that sooner or Inter wo are going to fill a page in his note book. A NE
Polloemen should be treated vory politely. We have nevárí
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