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"When round the festive board we alt; And pass around the wine, Remember that abuse is vilo

And use may be divino,

That Heaven, in kindness sant the grapo

For use of groat and small;

That littlo fools will drink too much

And big fools none at all."

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EST. 1841.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1933.

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Thongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1933.

NOTES OF THE DAY

WATER SUPPLY

The downpour which ended tho local drought has relloved offcial minds of any anxiety about a pos sible water famaie in the Spring without being sufficient to lesson the inconvenience to island con- Aumers by way of a relaxation of restrictions. Some there are who will grumble; at the same time

appreciating the Government's

GERMANY'S AIR PANIC

-By MARGARET SETON WAGNER-

aro

The Very Idea!

PALMY DAYS

way

So thorough are the mea- This now National move to-

By Eddie "Canter". Kelly: sures that Berlin is now taking Wards protection from the air against aerial attack that they and cancelled out all exlating our Adam's applo moves

came into being three months ago LIVERY day in every include the removal from the nasociations of more or less up and down more rapidly over city's attics and lofts of all in- sporadic growth. Tho Actual sport. flammable material; even old movement in Germany dates from

It is computed that if all the 1027, when it was decided that beditenda being taken the Versailles Treaty, permitted a space set aside in newspapers attitude. The phonomenally dry away.

safeguarding of the public from regarding cricket scores, gual; August, carried well into Sep- tember, provided a

scare from RED handbills have been posted the air. But it was not until 1930 and lawn bowls was set aside it

that the idea grow in volume out- would make a which recovery is not easy, and

up overnight on the doors, of side

good packing military and technical aren. If the present policy is interpret the big block of flats that make up coteries. It was taboo in pacinst

Is all this excitement over mere ed as ono of excessive caution, an ordinary Berlin street with the circles. It must also be regarded as only stamps of the local police-court upon

gamos Justified? Hyperlon wins In 1931 and 1932 the appearance the Derby and St. Leger and what natural' in the circumstances. Figures could be quoted by the them. Streets where these hand of foreign aircraft flying over does it do? Ill feeling is bred be yard, perhaps, to illustrate that, billa have not yet appeared are impetus to propaganda. The in- jockeys of losing horses feel dis- German territory gave a welcome tween book-makers and punters, at the present rate of consump-merely a sign that the police force cident of the aeroplane believed to contented with their lot, and every- tion, the water in storage should on that particular bent is somewhat hall from German Social Deone's soro at everyone else. be adequate to meet requirements lower than in the neighbouring mocratic circles in Prague which

district.

for nine months or even longer and that an extension of hours of supply might well be risked. For the moment, however, patience with safety frat will do no harm and Hongkong residents may consolo themselves with the thought that, at least, they have escaped the unpleasantness of a three-hour limit by Christmas, a prospect which was rather more definite than a possibility, until the rains of this week. The wea- ther during the remainder of September will be the final arbit er of the island's fate for the reat of the winter. Three or four inches of steady rain wil both minds and restrictions.

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case

local police jurisdiction to

vide for safety, not from ordinary international diplomatie protest. A punter, for instance, is not a

menaces to public ponce, but to danger from the air.

Oh, yes, wo know a lot about.

Our old man used to For Berlin, like every other scattered seditious leaflets over horse racing. German efty, has now been divid-Nazi ground made quite as much follow horses once, and we don't ed up into units corresponding to similar occurrence

impression in Germany as the mean he had the kind of job you're fu Austria thinking of. pro which so lately brought forth an

man who drives. a punt. He's a If Germans are told to-day that bettor, though he's no better than The handbills are printed in the protection from bombs and polson-maker.

it is their duty to know all about anybody else, unless it's a book- form of h manifesto.

gases the organisation controlling

Even then he's not equal to most this movement le so magnificently bookmakers, who, by the way, don't ORGANISING THE

equipped that it is very certain mako books. Under English laws POPULATION.

that these occurrences have been they'd get booked if they did. That given full publicity value.

is, if they make illegal alips. Most of the punters make the slips.

TRAINED.

The difference, moreover, be- we mean. "active" and tho

Fielders is a term borrowed from

cricket because they make catches, only they catch the mugs.

“CAVALCADE"

We were one of the distinguishi od gathering who attended the gala premiere of "Cavalcade" last night.

their national duty and help sup Citizens are called upon to do port the efforts made to safeguard ACTIVE AND

But to get back to the book- them by subscribing whatever PASSIVE.

makers, that's what we all like to amount they can afford to the

do after the race, the chosen raac, National Air Protection Society tween the They are reminded that soon mem-"passive" resistere to these forces too-walt-for-age races, where the There are other kinds of races, CRICKET RECORDS":

bers of overy household will be from on high cannot be too great-griffins we back waft for the old made aware of their individuali ly Cricket achievements are cur- responsibility to themsevies and amount of elite troops of young You watch the races from the stressed. Only A certain onca; maiden races for fillica only. lous things. Freeman, the little their fellow men.

men will possess gas-masks, learn stands. Stands are provided for the man of Kent, who trundles out In some casca the names of halle how to patrol the streets and-It is people to stand on. Fielders stand batting giants with astonishing are given where meetings will bo presumed-to MONETARY POLICY regularity, seems likely to top held at which instruction in these form of gas or bomb it is that get a good start if the favourite determine which in front of the stands, so they can the three hundred wickets mark responsibilities can be gathered, menaces the population. The rest happens to win. In the debate as to whether for it is impossible that he should for the second time in his career,

In others the organisation is not of the populace will simply know or not the value of currency can be left out of the that match of yet so complete. But the German how to obey orders, but to oboy be kept stable by. government the season, the Champlone versus national duty to attend at least

citizen will be required as a them implicitly without panic. regulation, the example of Swe the Rest. Yet his appearances one such meeting and gather what from Munich, and similar tests either a retired jockey, a trainer's

The "air-raid" lately reported

Then there's the urger. He is den has been cited by both afdes. when he has turned out, has sel- able to obtain,

for England have been rare and

ever instruction he or she may be which have taken place in Breslau, grand-father, or his uncle's friend's The managed money advocates dom been given

Konigsberg and other cities, indi- next-door-neighbour's milkman the chance to

This Instruction will confine cate a sincerity in the belief that used to deliver to Hyperion's have pointed to Sweden's auc-distinguish himself. He went to itself in the main to describing the Germany's populace must be warn groom's niece. You can always cess in keeping domestic prices did not bowl a single ball in a

Australia a few years ago, but correct behaviour before, during ed against attacks from her neigh-| tell an urgor, but he's more likely fairly level while those in other Test match. Much, the name sort and after a raid of any kind from bours, which is distressing to to tell you.

Taking it all in all, horse racing countries have been falling, of comment might have been made the air. Although the eventuality those who believe that any form with discouraging effect

on about Ames, until recently. Hoof poison-gas is the pivotal point, of protection from danger runs is a poor sport except for a rich employment

beat all wicket-keeping records the dangers from bombs will also counter to the ideals of pacifism. man. and. business for three years in succession, but be enlarged upon. activity. Now the opposing found Duckworth displacing him EVERY FAMILY school has analysed the for England. He obtains his Swedish statistics and come to place consistently to-day bo

cause of his batting prowess, not the conclusion that far from because of his qualities as a having solved ita economic trou-stumper. The explanation is, of bles through the management course, partly to be discovered in of its currency, the country Freeman does not get the wickets,

Kont's barrenneas in attack. feels the depression like every- they are not obtained, and his one else. As is often the case, understanding with Arnes is per the-truth-les-somewhere befect. Between them they have tween

rescued Kent from these

two extremes.

predicament. When Sweden was forced to abandon the gold standard at SOCIAL PROBLEMS the end of September, 1931, chiefly by the British example, the first concern of the authori- ties was to assure the Swedish public that the value of its money would not disappear as it had in Germany and other European countries' a decade before. They engaged, so far as lay in their power, to main- tain the internal purchasing power of the krona. In other words, their first purpose was tributors to The Rock may por taken in the mase, than the con- to allay fear. In that respect mit. themselves to be. Also, it they were successful. The cost would seem, our use of the term of living did not go up. In July "agitation" conveyed an idea to which they could not subscribo. this year the index number The substitution of active insist- was 153, with the prices of July, ence would probably represent 1914, taken as 100. When the more accurately our own policy country went off gold, the re- and at the same time widen the tail price index was 158. The door for supporters. trouble was more the other way,

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If

As we entered the front portals of the King's Theatre cameras clicked, flashlights flashed and people stood at attention.

There should be no need, accord- ing to these tenets, to inspire a humble Berlin householder with horror morely by informing him But the population as a whole that he dwells in a big city lying will be divided up into passive | open and exposed to horrible men- citizens and active safeguarders of aces from a frontier only 14 hours their interests.

away by train. learn the use of a gas-mask and CE LAX

One member of every family will know what to do when the moment CIVILIAN.

We bowed, smiled, threw our comes.

Actually, it is possible to look tooth-pick away and followed His The others will at least know a little deeper into the matter and Excellency the Governor inside. many how to obey order. It has not yet discover the true aims of the A.D.C. we were able to successful- By pretending that we were an been stated which members of the Protection-from-the-air propaganly negotiate the door-keeper family will be chosen in the case, dists. There may be military Dio- of there being no adult male in the harda among them whose motto it spectacle wo have ever seen. We It was the most magnificent home.

Is to ensure peace by preparing went out and celebrated the re- The Rock ans entered into the deadly seriousness underlying the who enjoin this "national duty free beer in the King's Restaurant.

That journal of many parts,

But the tremendous zeal and the for war. But the great majority lief of Mateking by drinking some discussion on local social pro- presont propaganda point to blems, taking up the issue, more enlightening of the civilian po population in habits of order, of King Edward to the throne, an believe in the training of a whole We also colebrated the ascension or less at the point at which we pulation without any subaldy from obedience, discipline and belief in drowned our sorrows at the sink- recently left off, and contributing public funds on an undreamed-of-authority. No better way of training of the Titanic, got thirety at Оле от two useful suggestions, scale. We doubt, however, if the more

ing the lax civilian in the military the sight of Herbert Mundin's pub, This action is only temporary, virtues could have been devised, celebrated the dissemination of information, All teachers in German schools are the mere fact of making him pay drank a few more for good mea- Armistice and valuable as it may be, is likely now receiving special instruction for his "defence," according to to rouse public and government in dangers from the air which they his capacity, and telling him it is to necessary action. We are, will impart to their pupils, so that his duty, gives a spontaneity to the on free beer if you don't drink it.. What's the use of them putting perhaps more cynical in our view the younger generation, it is movement which it would lack of Hongkong mental proceedce, presumed, will know how to take entirely if it had grown out of wards; But it was a fine picture. We forgot what happened after-

1.

When the first anxioty had been SLUM EVILS relieved, it was found that while on the gold standard We do not like laissez faire and Sweden, like its neighbours, nor in economice, nor yet in pro- never did, neither, in government allowed prices to slip too far, bloms connected with and in May, 1932, a policy was betterment. This Colony, should social adopted that would tend to raise set an example not acquiesco In wholesale prices moderately, the evils of acute poverty with while keeping the cost of liv- the excuse that similar, or worse ing as nearly stable as possible. conditions are to be found in But in spite of these efforts the Swatow, Canton and other places wholesale price index, which and that the sufferers aro ác. had gone up from 107 in Sep-customed to their mode of exist tember, 1981, to 110 a year once. Such considerations do not later, sank back to 106 Instase the minds of those who s

(not merely look at) the hard- March, following the world ships round about, coupled with trend. Binco last May it has the appalling way of life thrust bean rising again. Sweden's upon thousands in our olums part- present policy is still to effect ly through government's falluro a moderate rise in the domestic to insist upon observance of the level of wholesale prices, whe- Health and Building Ordinance. ther in conjunction with other We admit that the problem is not countries or Independently; but likely to be solved by rigid ap plication of the regulations. But its cardinal aim is to keep their owners of property cannot be cost of living within the coun- compelled to content themselves try as even as possible. While with a fair return"and" the "prin- it is true that so far the success, cipal, tonant" sub-division," scan- of its financial policy in koop-|·dal, cannot be overcome by any ing prices stendy has not saved other means there is an alter- the country from all the ills' of | nati that of the provision of

tected it from some

care of itself,

ordinary taxation.

aures.

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LET'S SPONSOR-

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Something like this, for in-. stance:

RIENDS of the radio

-all-

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