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"When round the festivo board wo sit, And pass around the wine, Remember that aburo is vila

And uso may be divino.

That Hoavon in kindness sent the grape

For use of great and imail;

That littlo fools will drink too much

And big fools nono at all."

FINE SHERRIES

We have the Finest Selection af Sherries in the Colony.

A Sherry for every occasion

and a Sherry to suit every

palate.

A. S. WATSON &

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CO., LTD.

Wine & Spirit Merchants.

EST. 1841.

RECEIVED

SECOND SHIPMENT OF THE

A

"PATTERSON"

ALL-WAVE RECEIVER.

highly efficient set giving satisfactory reception on both long and short wave bands:

Brings in London-Paris-Moscow and other distant stations with clarity and power.

Demonstrations arranged.

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.

York Building.

25%

Discount

on all Summer Goods.

Chater Road.

Girls'

Coats

Plain and Fur Trimmed

in Tweeds and Cloth.

Small sizes for the tiny ones,

with

leggings and hat to

match.

Prices Extremely Reasonable.

ANE, CRAWFORD, ITD.

LAN

Children's Dept.

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

BEFORE YOU DECIDE

on your NEW CAR you should try out the NEW VAUXHALL LIGHT SIX

HAVE ARRIVED!

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Stubbs Road (Showroom)

PHONE 27178-9

Thongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1933.

SATURDAY,

NOTES OF THE DAY

NAVY DAY

SEPTEMBER 16, 19

AN ECONOMIC PLAN

By E. L. ALLEN

BULLS AND INNERS

From the Office Butts

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and

The other day a lady dropped The programme is out for Hong-

a bag of onlons on the "island" kong's Navy Day and, quite

HE idea of a nationalto manage everything, and it would THE ovidently it is destined to be an

hor refuge plan, scouted a few fall if it tried to do so. In the opposite the Star Ferry Wharf Occasion. In one. afternoon,

come in of private sector, business would go Obviously which will be all too short, the years ago, has

on much as to-day, and savings strength! Navy will endeavour to squeeze all the events which are spread late for considerable popu-could be invested in it and divid through a Week in Home ports: larity. With Russia as its ends drawn, from it. But there small wonder that it has been sole advocate, it was looked would be no room for payment of

desirable to leave considered Trafalgar Day to itself and to on with suspicion, but now interest in the socialised sector: hold Navy Day on the following that something. rather like capital there would belong to the Saturday Forsistence in the

properly! original intention to combine the the conversion to it of the community, and this would not two would have left the Silent United States has taken charge itself for the use of its own Service with 3 contingent of place, its respectability can- CALCULATION OF AVERAGES. nervous wrecka!

APOLOGIES?

If there had been any tendency

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of

An regards the individual, he

The

fisherman's prayer. May the fish bite as well as the mosquitoes!

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Some of these ukelele friends for their own amaze.

only play,

ment.

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A correspondent asks where

quaint old bridges are to be round in the New Territories. Over

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A London cloric suggests that should strike at the cause of the back! trouble. But she's probably hit

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Birmingham claims to have the

certain in the world. We thought she sat girl with the largest mop of hair in front of us at the Queen's the

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Love can't be what it used to be. The projecting apparatus broke and the couple sitting near us noticed it! down at a local cinema recently.

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not any longer be denied. And, if a general election were shortly to occur in would be free to seek work and

at least, he would be as free to do rivers. to lack of enthusiasm in civilian England, there can be little spend his income as he wished circles, the announcement of the doubt that all three parties so as he is now. The State would least enlist and direct labour as industry Navy's plans will give rise to would produce at

needed It by propaganda (just as mental apologies. Quite clearly, the venture has not been embarked Some candidates whose pro- advertisements are used to-day), a man who is unhappily married upon lightly, and having decided grammes would offer the and by the offer of varying wage Inequality of reward would remain to undertako a task demanding outlines of a national plan. rates and other inducements. For great deal of time and organisa

Not that all doubts on the sub- under the plan as before, the tion, the local authorities intend to do the Colony proud, If we may ject have been removed. Econo-difference being in the basis of such inequality. Whereas now it is be permitted the expression. The charge for admission will serve a mic planning was accepted in a natural or artificial shortage in double purpose, both of which Russia under dire stress of re-supply which enables commend themselves, namely, revolution, blockade, and famine, occupations to demand more, then moving the possibility of the ap but it is not wanted elsewhere as rates of payment would be deter- other night.

mined by the importance of the pearance of the confusion humanity which spoil the Empire the child of such conditions. contribution which a man's work Fair and rendering aid, to highly We might submit to much under made to society In the carrying out even to of its plan. The social value of deserving charitable objects. We feel it. would be superfluous to constraint of hunger,

paid for it. urge the community to make the forced labour and shopping que-work would fix the price to be

we ordinarily, though, effort worth while, The dificulty lues:

Here a problem arises. The is more likely to be that of keep should rebel against wholesale advantage of a national plan is

Burglars broke into a fish shop that the crush in reasonable

compulsion and regimentation. that it makes it possible to fore- control,

cast demand and to neo that recently. We understand But would a plan be possible neither too much nor too little is there were several sole survivors. without these accompaniments? produced, thus avoiding booms and

Overheard on the Peak Tram. Some part of the proceeds of the Again, it is possible that capital-depressions alike. But how cap

we do not dress for pot- Trafalgar and Navy Day activities ism is guilty of many abuses and you plan ahead if each consumer

to do? The answer is simple. A luck!" Mr. Lanopart will have to will be donated to the new Cheero

in the extreme. But calculation of averages is what is look to his laurels. Club building fund, a cause that its present position is pre-is to be free to buy, as he wants in keeping with the spirit which carious actuated the sponsors of the naval would the ills involved in chang- required. A display. The value of such ing over to something different know what a given child is going Institutions as the Cheero Club be more objectionable than those to cat at a Sunday-school-treat, but cannot be over-estimated and it which would lie in making the best experience enables him to know as to have has been sadly missed not only by

for 500 children, so economic neither waste nor shortage.. In entertain the Services but also by those in of what we have? We might be pretty accurately what to provide other walks of life who found real willing to and sincere pleasure in services planning if its two doubtful com- the same way, we should be able rendered. When the new building panions, revolution and dictator- to tell beforehand what a popula arises from. the ruins of ship, did not appear to demandtion of 50,000,000 will need in a Beaconsfield Arcade, however,

articles, and trust that individual there will be no regrets about the accommodation at the same time! year in the way of certain staple differences in demand will cancel disappearance of the Old Club,

out. In addition, those goods for which, frankly, served a highly

Prof, which demand would be most A Viennese economist,

be would naturally useful purpose without making any claim to offer Ideal sur-Walter Schiff, has set himself to variable roundings. In retrospect,

classfication. He's awhea Bged! which would continue to make pro-

ts in return for its acceptance of insect

THE CHEERO CLUB

the

FEASIBLE PLAN.

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With the now co-operative flat 8" is entirely with the investor. scheme for Kowloon, the "own

Among the curious occupations who locally, is that of a man favoured as a tablo delicacy. We catches a small kind of octopus understand he's squids In!

We understand that "Vinjar"

spring of this year at a speed organisers of the Cheero will be dispel these anxieties, and to show handled by private enterprise, recently received a small hopping

On

risks.

for the purpose

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Australian tennis team to play

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MacWhirter has discovered an for seasickness. infalliblo

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SPEED RECORDS Three years ago, Britain held every speed record that was worth while on land, water, or in the air. To-day, there re- mains to us only one, the land speed record established and re- established

Malcolm by Sir Campbell. It is not surprising therefore that there should be some disappointment at the Government's decision that, for the time being at any rate, Great Britain will not attempt to re- gain the world's air speed re- cord which she lost to Italy when Warrant Officer Agello flew over Lake Garda in the

of 423.76 miles an hour,

able to regard the condemnation that a large-scale plan which would land and water Great Britain is

of the City Hall premises as the eliminate crises and unemployment best thing that could have happen- and yet leave us with democracy

VAST ACCOUNTING WORK. still one of the fastest-moving ed. A need was met, that at least and individual liberty, la quite

When it is known what will be nations; she holds the records can be said; but the circumstances feasible. To be sure, he does not

search and a for the world's speediest trains. which compelled Her water records are only striving for better things will not urge that Austria should make the needed by the people, it should be in Chicago. Visiting racqueteors. just short of

America's.be regarded, in the last analysis, experiment; he looks to a larger possible to calculate how much a. beginning.labour will be required to produce us altogether a mishap. The new area than hers for In these circumstances many

should be paid to enable the com- Englishmen would naturally like project is well conceived and we. Nor does he disguise his conviction it, and what wages and salaries to see her obtain the principaleel sure, will be pushed on with that such a scheme would require munity, as consumer, to buy what When he travels ho holds a silver

all possible speed. But it needs

a Socialist administration with so it has manufactured, as producer. dollar between his teeth. speed record that she does not

money. Need any more be said;

clear a mandate for change that Provision would, of course, be possess. But for the immediate

vested interests would be unable made for social services and the

An allbl is proof that Edward future the decision of Lord Lon-

to block its attempt to write 'Its need for fresh capital investment. donderry, Secretary of State for

the

All this would call for a vast Kelly wasn't really at the Club programme into Air, is final. Lord Londonderry

Feudalism in American industry election

amount of accounting work, but when he really was.

O has several strong reasons to is fighting a stubborn rear-guard statute.book. support his action. The cost of action in the dealings of the coal

The first step, of course, would probably not more than to-day, when it has to be decided,, for

Then there was the Scotch infant industry with the National Re- preparing to regain the record

be the socialisation of essential example, how many pins can bo covery would amount to something like

Administration. The £200,000 a very considerable spectacle of a number of em-services, particularly of the bank put in a 10 cent packet to show a who shot his parents as he could

ployers walking out of n con- ing system. The State would not profit! And the plan would not go to the orphans' picule. sum of money at a time of na- tional economy. It would niso

ference room in protest at the pre-take over the whole of industry, it be as fixed and precise as

would it be highly flaxible and sub- sence of the president of the would willingly, leave a fairly Russian one claims to be. Rather divert attention from the nor-American Federation of Labour is mal training activities of the but an incident in the struggle. large field to private enterprise.ject to constant revision, because Royal Air Force. In answer to The larger issue is the recognition If the Stato can exercise control its aim would be to supply the when necessary, it does not need wants of a democratic community. the argument that a speed vic-of Labour's right to bargain for tory would so increase the pre-itself in the now national econ- stige of British engines and omy. And the still larger and acroplanes that the commercial paramount lasue is recognition of harvest would be well worth the the fact that there has got to be initial cost, Lord Londonderry a broader spirit of fair play, tolerance and, cooperation if the observes that after the last two

Capital-and-Labour Schneider Trophy race victories problem of British exports in these lines relations are over to be solved. The remedy for the bitter con- actually declined. But the chief ditions in coal centres, as for. reason at the back of the Gov- men's economic difflealties gener- ernment's action is the appre-ally, is in the application of com- hension of further loss of hu- mon Christian ethics. It is not man life. Four men already only currency problems which are have been killed in training for causing the recovery drive to Ing. the Schneider race in England;

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INDUSTRIAL FEUDALISM

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and Italy has had to pay a simi- | THE MAIN ISSUE

lar price for her victory. Thoro la little fixity of public opinion

Unionism or

non-unionism

on the speed question, as it in the mines is incidental to the forms a part of aerial progress: main point. Organisation of the operators into coal associations The world grows recklessly, en-

beapeaks the right of workers to thusiastic when a flight is suc-

organise over an equal scope ra cessfully accomplished, and un-

ther than be limited to dummy un- reasonably panic strickon if a

fons under industrial espionage. great flying enterprise fails. If coal managements show them- Progress in flying should be selves hidebound to the idea that based on: firmer ground than they must koop their Labour in a this. That progress must and kind of Industrial soridom of low will go on no one can doubt. wages and long hours enforced But progress is most success through the macifinations of com. fully achieved when it is most pany police, company houses, com- wisely prepared for. When fur-pany stores and the like, they need not be surprised if they find ther research has been made in- to the conditions of flying and themselves heartily disapproved by the sentiment of the United the capacity of acroplanes, on

States at large. They ar.not doal- a scale beyond the resources of

ing, in the recovery programme privato firms, but well within merely with Labour, organised or the abilities of governments; unorganised. The Great Experi- then, as Lord Londonderry hintment is seriously threatened us it ed, Great Britain will probably. It cannot hope to succoed un- not be slow"in attempting to til Industry conses to look upon marks aruthai pressing of ""better":"even"

Agello's splendid achievement seldah adva.

going to make a solo hop,

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Apropos the appeal for funds to the ants in get rid of white Cathedral, it's quite evident that what's needed is a rich uncle and not an ant.

Edward Kelly's car'is getting so old that the only part nowadays. that doesn't make a noise is the horn.

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CAVALCADE.

1983--Dobt.

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1914-Death...

A side show of life. The split skirt.

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"I was struck by the beauty of the Peak," said a visitor to Hong- kong recently. Ile must have tried to kiss hor.

English cricket team under Jarding to tour India. India should play her Untouchables,

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Despite the beneficial ralus carlier in the week wo were all glad to' speed the parting gust.

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New uniforms for soldiers, As you wear.

Now kind of hiccough discovered by scientista. That was to be pected with beer... now only fift conta a bottla.

There was also the s of a railway engine rouged her lipa "rroen red.