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The Elements of Monetary Reform

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An examination of the birth of the village on the Swedish

model and so on, elements of monetary re-

In reference to the manner in form forms a highly import-which Britain progressed towards ant feature of "Christianity her present predicament, it is

stated: The iden of freedom is one

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Why shouldn't Government House be built in the Botanical Gardons?

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We understand that MacWhirter

and the Crisis," the remark of the easiest to invoke in an Eng was most indignant when asked to able book partially reviewed gllah mind. And it can be invoksign for an onion at his Club. He, in this columns yesterday.sphere, the claim for freedom has

ed for any cause. In the economic apparently owes his onlons(

The Dean of Canterbury, Dr. in effect boen the claim to im Hewlett Johnson, conducts. the munity from interference when examination and he demands three acting in ways that made others points. processes in monetary reform (1) into virtual slaves. We are com-the dwellers Handel Largot

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In discussing the suggestion that the now .Government Housa be placed in the Botanical Gardens |and in stressing objections to tho alienation of the gardens, from public use, we did not overlook other strong reasons for op- position. In the various stages of the big scheme upon which the Government is embarking, there LARGE' STOCKS

will be a considerably amount of money to, shall we say, play with, CARRIED

It will be agreed, however, that that will not justify any departure TO MEET

from the principle of careful ALL-REQUIREMENTS economy which has guided the

Colony's expenditure over a num« that the Community must control ing now to realise that the economic ber of years, Adoption of the the creation of money, (2) that it freedom of the rich and powerful

must be created, not according to means the economic enslavement They're making rubber roads in proposal for Government Houso in

tiny arbitrary standard auch na of the weak and poor. We the Botanical Gardens would in-

gold, but according to economic ace now that the "equality of Singapore. Perlings this will be volvo, the construction of another and industrial requirements, and opportunity" which so warmed the the solution to Hongkong's pro- residence for H.E. the Governor on | (3) that monéy, must, ronch con- | hearts | of nineteenth contury the Peak and nithough it,,might sumers in adequate amounts. Liberals is n ghastly travesty of

A London.. critic asserts that a not be built upon a magnificent He shows how debts to banks equality,

create further debts and proposes Do the Churches intend to do fog can be very beautiful. We scale, neither would it be a ferry-the elimination of what Mr. Cope anything about it? The average never see much in a Peak fog..

recently termed "the Third Pro-man feel that the Churches Gro party of Money" which at present too deeply involved in, and with, causes progressive dispropor- the present social structure to be tion between purchasing power able to lead any movement of down a house the other day. He A bellknown resident knocked and prices. Export credits, bank-revolution, however peaceful In It will be recalled that only a ruptcies, writing down of capital, method. The people in those an auctioneer. few months ago, Legislative Coun-hire-purchase debts have, the Churches are able to endure the

Dean points out, helped to hide the sight of the waste of life, cil sanctioned the contruction of a trouble and postponed for a while cruel Inequalities and the

The snappy flapper who persists bungalow for the Governor

the inevitable stalling of the measured sufferinga which still in singing in a certain Repulse Fanling. The plan went through machine.

continue; or, if the sight of them although without lights, the next Bay matshed should remember that without a word of opposition; on Space forbids a closer study of becomes too painful, they know shed may be occupied. the contrary, some doubt was ex- the economic solution offered, but how to become blind,

building pressed whether the contemplated was quite good enough. Apart from that, it was generally felt that approval could be given without stint. We doubt, Later, in dealing with the bur-Churchihen have exalted the vir

We hear of a very proper lady however, if that feeling would den of debt hanging like a mill-tue of moderation to such a pitch

stone round the neck of industry that they have come very near to who objected strongly to her have been quite so strong as it

husband being elected vice-chair- was but for the understanding, at and of society, it is pointed out apostacy,

that we cannot afford to pay| Dr. A. Herbert Gray, M.A., D.D., |man. the time, that Government сол-

more than half our national taxa-anys: Whether we have a right to templated abandoning Mountain tion revenue to functionless war criticise Communista in an open

A case of gramophone recorda Lodge and the construction of debt holders and provide national question. We say our method of

than their has been found near Repulse Bay. Government House in the Peak housing schemes, slum clearances sacrifice is better District, removing the necessity and a high level of education. method of violence. But to what Lost Chorda! We cannot imagine that there for two residences, one for sum-Wo see clearly that we cannot extent do we practise such sacri pay the American war debt in fice? Christians declare that the mer and one for wintery

gold, that she can only be paid in Communist plan has fatal flaws in goods if she will receive them.it. But are we going to prove But we refuse to see that we can- ourselves as much in earnest over not run a Christian social com-building the Kingdom as those munity with rising standards for others are about building their

Do dogs love music? asks a all on the basis of the dictatorship Communist State?"

The moral standards the Church correspondent. Probably Bach. of the Capitalist, directed mainly to one end-the extraction of has approved or condoned in the the largest possible income for the economic sphere have not been its

"Vinjar" asserts that anakes are proper owners of land and capital in the own

The rapidly multiplying in Hongkong. form of rent, interest and profit. philosophy on which the businessMust be addera!

All civic and, ultimately, all life of the last two centuries has the been built has been utterly alień State reform depends on

The same authority refers to possibility of altering our indus- to its own philosophy trial structure, organisation and The fundamental' weakness of a reptile with a "Brightly polished functions in the direction of a the Church has been its lack of bronze back". Obviously cobra! scientific ordering of community moral courage and realism. It

C life. We have to demand as has been for too rendy to come to A well-known club Christians that we shall no longer terms with the gods of crude, tolerate a community life depend-insensate nationalism.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1933.

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it is based upon the principle of It might be anid, with some The Just Price and if the book painful truth, says the 'Canon of contained no more than this it Westminster, that Christian people would be sufficiently thought-have had for too much patience bridge loves holding hands. provoking and stimulating. and too, little courage and daring.

standards.

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were many residents of the Colony who were fully con- versant with the meaning of an | NEW CITY HALL order for committal to the House of Detention prior to the revela- The large amount of money tions in The Critic and the Tele- which will accrue to the Govern graph, or there must have been ment In the course of the develop

ment scheme outlined on Thursday public outcry long ere this.

must, as we say, be spent wisely Public opinion here is slow to and one of the things that the manifest itself, laissez faire has publie will domand will be a City far too firm a grip, but we be Hall worthy of the name and lieve, we must, that the more worthy of the city. We do not decent type of resident would doubt the intentions of Govern soon have grown so ashamed, as meat in this matter, but it is just the number of committals piled as well that they should be in no

It has Peninsula is investigating the up,-that-reform-would have been doubt about community feeling,

In the last ten years. or so, re-ent on-profit-as-the-prior claim been, and-la, too much on the alde possibility of making dice out of demanded. Now that attention sidents were undoubtedly inclined before existence or necessaries of property. What it needs at rubber, in order to lesson the noise. has been brought to the really to look upon the old City Hall

are forthcoming.

present most desperately is that Para-dice?" The polley would mean state moral sincerity and passion which appalling conditions in the rather scornfully. A little re-ownership of power, railways, is the best gift of the rising- Eddie Peabody, the banjo player "House" in so striking a man- | flection,

who was once in Hongkong, gets however, will bring harbours, shipping etc. but not generation."

Most of this is quotation. Ita guinea an hour for his work. ner, it may not be necessary to realisation that when the old City necessarily state management and urge, a speedy remedy upon the Hall was constructed, it must this would involve control of reveals very clearly that these Fairly easy picking.

0 authorities. It is a disgrace have been the Colony's most ambit-banking currency and credit in Church thinkers have not run

the public interest. We must away from their problems. ful blot upon the name of the fous building, and one of the finest, plan our society on these lines or Colony that a man should be architecturally and in the more collapse. gaoled, for all practical pur-matter of size, of its time. Similar poses, for the "crime" of poverly the new City Hall, the City ty, particularly in these days Hall of the 1930's, should reflect when, it is certain, the propor- this period; it should have the tion of deserving cases must be best that the Colony can put into high. We admit that the sys.it; and if it is not to be expected Item is not entirely harah. The that it should dwarf all Bur- inmates are allowed freedom rounding structures, it should not for four hours daily to look for itself be dwarfed into insignific- jobs and these hours are extend-

ance,

ed frequently upon request. They are not now required to PRIZE COMPETITION work as once they were, though we doubt if the majority of men would object to light work in objective and to obtain

The best way to achieve this a civic more respectable surroundings, building comforting to the cyc Every effort, too, is made to would be, we suggest, to follow assist them in finding employ the precedent set sisewhere and ment. These factors consider to choose t),e design from numbers ed, conditions are still shock-entered by architects in a prize Wo should ing. Discipline is to be expect ed, but discipline should not re-

also suggest a similar procedure quire men guilty of no crime to design for the new Government In order to obtain the most suitable be herded with criminals of all House. This is the method which sorts and description. Plainly, is most likely to be productive of the House of Detention should the happiest of results, not be in the gaol, nor should it bear any resemblance to a gaol.

competition scheme,

The system practiced here would IRISH TENSION not be tolerated for a moment

in England. Tho unemployed Politien) tension has grown up individual at Home is helped in in Ireland with such rapidity that. one of two ways: he is given Mr. de Valera seems to entirely, have financial assistanco or he is A great deal depends upon events lost his grip upon the situation. placed in a poor law Institution, in Dublin to-morrow. If the Irish which is controlled more upon capital, emerges without serious the lines of a hospital than any disorders, Mr. do Valera may yot thing else. The problem. In aucceed in putting his house in this Colony requires different order and aveld striking his flag, treatment undoubtedly, but it although the dico appear to be. should not be beyond the wit Ireland, as elsewhere, Fascism is heavily weighted against him. In and ability of Government to surging to the forefront and pro- doviso a satisfactory alternative voking an upheaval. Many of the to the present system. A Blue Shirts have been arrested, building right away from the But the movement gains in gaol should be adapted and in strength daily and a real test can- this new House of Dotention not long be delayed. What Ireland some attention should be paid to thinks about it we do not know, the fact that though the men ftween two alternatives, neither of but the chalco÷appears to be bac who go there are down and out which Kat Any particular atte they still have human instinetan tioniz

Behind the book lies the con- Hongkong government uncertain viction that the total inspiration regarding.Kowloon Lido scheme. of Christianity is sufficient for the What lido. modern task, but only on condition

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The alternative is a collectivis od man with one religion the

to that the very different Inspira- Major Cassel encounters op- religion of hate and strife

periods in accure justice.

Exigencies of space forbid a Christian history are combined in position to his idea for a League broader treatment of all the

single whole. As stated of British whites, but he expected forms courageously demanded, but yesterday, the book is on sale at discouragement. He went white among them are the reform of a cost of $4.50 at the Bible Society education enabling a common cul- depot and no-one who takes the in politics, ture, a more equal distribution of slightest Interest wealth, rising standards of life economie, or the Church, should with increasing leisure, the re-fall to secure a copy-W. J. K..

with courage. ·

Government House in Botanicat Gardens? The plot thickens.

Hongkong bear next week. Three hearty British beera.

Bulls and stoners, as the news- paperman sald in his report on a polico raid at Woat Point

In

a questionnaire on radio,

voted Hongkonglisteners

in favour of dance music broadcasts. That's giving ZBW the jazzberry,

The Cabaret ; question "What's the lime?"

White

Cathedral..

Major Cassol's iden la spreading.

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Hongkong listeners don't like lady announcers. Most of us get enough of them at home.:

Foreign and U.S. meddling in Cuban affairs will not be tolerat od, says President Machado. The Cuban

The Blue Shirts in Ireland are not as green as they look.

Australian grimn throws locat modico. Larwood's "the" causes. fall" thin24

hope I'm not going to bor

the robber said, when