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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1933.
BEFORE YOU DECIDE
NOTES OF THE DAY
THE SPIRIT OF REVOLT
A Great Grain Expert on
THE WORLD'S BULGING
WHEAT BINS
By F. E. MURPHY
The Very Idea!
-STATISTICS AND STATIC
By Edward Kelly, Figure Expert
JHAT with Budget week WHAT
just over, everyone is
Wheat, the most valuable of all | Agreement, and show the man, in full of statistics. We don't
grain the street why the purchasing
Kranses
wha?
The late Bir George Beaumont's life experianco was typical of this modern-day world. A direct descendant of King Louis VIII of France, a brilliant army officer, a landowner and a model gentleman farmer, he was comparatively little known enitalda the small -eirela | cereal of defestershire arciety--until furnishes the flour for our daily power of his hardly won wages has mean the kind you get on carly this year when the price of bread, and where production is Theen brought down, and why so you should try out the Inttures Giled him with the spirit therefore of supreme Importance many unemployed men owe their four wireless, but real honest
of racelt and he turns baronete to the world at large, has lately unfortunate condition solely to to goodness figures. NEW VAUXHALL, His family history evoked universal attention, wheat,
Not that we're keen on statistics ourself. The only.
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EFFECT ON NATION.
governs the price of all farm com- in America the price of wheat
and war deeds were then employe When the reprezentatives of ** jed to form the perfect backgrinind countries met in conference in for a story which barst Into the Fondon, an agreement was signed front paz-k of nearly every Eng to limit supplies for two years, lish newer uper, of the baronet whe and, among other points, to dimodities, and in turn the country's figures that interest us are www going his rounds solling his courage any extension of the area agricultural products as a whole those we see every Saturday
wn vegetable producel, Indige|of wheat already own. nant at the midkliernan, be abrogad
national income. If the country pro and Sunday out at Repulse it and brune
duces too much, it cannot sell, Such la faram,
Money cannot he corned, and Bay.
public guro,
*
WATER SUPPLY
KEYSTONE OF PROSPERITY,
govern to a very great extent the
I believe this decision is likely to prove of inestimable value, for I therefore the people have not got feel convinced that wheat in
to spend. And no the wheels only rezonalble for the depression of trade slow down. It is no good terest us to know that there are
not
For instance, it doesn't in-
Fears of a Spring water short-in industrial and financial circles the former thinking that he can although restoration of a fuil sup- upon which the future prosperity wheat, heenuse the more he grows that if you were bitten once by age have, happily, been removed today, but is actually the keystone ac more money by growing more 686,666 dogs in Hongkong, and
ply to inland consumers is nut within sight. Itations for all must be the maxim for several months ito come unious ruins umrauni to the Autumn come along to not Tyturn overflowing. This, it will agrood, doen not seem very likely at the moment and thought therefore travels to the question of whether aftra caution is not being exurefant by the Ro-
Hongkong Telegraph.rnment, whether if rations there
TITORSDAY, "Geronet 6, 1988.
DISARMAMENT HOPES
The next faw dnya should de- elle the fate of the Disarmament Conforamen
soon to re-
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of the work depends.
Perhaps a few hard facts and the slightest shadow of doubt why figura will demonstrate beyond
I believe this In sei.
the lower falls, the price.
A DEAD MARKET.
.
►
A recent experience of mine will
each dog you'd probably get
rabies. We know all that. If
The present low price of wheat which have taken place owing to Reafforestation Department.
serve to indicate the repercussions you don't believe us, ask the widely due to an enormous sur-the over-production of wheat. us which has slowly been ac After the close of the London Still, if you want figures, here mulating in the world's granuries Economie Conference 1 toured and has been glutting the market most of the Continental countries for the last five years,
A HUGE SURPLUS,
are some more:
In order to talk with the people-Every-day~8;665 cups of ter nad explain to the best of my Inne might not be
ability how the present-day con- are consumed in the various Increased. The inland reservoira During and immediately folidu-ditions of commerce have arisen.
offices of the Hongkong civil beday storing alatt 2.100,000, ing the war, there was naturally ful petit-point handbags, inquiry service. This means that if
In Vienna, noted for its benuti. 000 gallons, little short of full great demand for wheat. from showed that America was the there was only one working · 80- |capacity, suffelent at the present jaren of 47,000,000 acres, the United chief customer. She is buying Evernment official he would have to
|
very little to-day, I was told, and
rafe of outflow to Jani for ninn_or] States of Amerion increased the fen month. Government also amount to 71,000,000, Canada,
asuren un that present arrange frota a pre-war acreage of 10,000 there was distress in this consume the ten at the rate of ments muka 11. posible to us Ahing | 000, nowed 27,000,000 nerva
industry, which normally gives six cups a minute, providing he Mun water to better advantage Just an wheat production fluctu- Vonice I heard the same doleful in a working official,
jemployment for 8,000 handa. In aten, no dows all commerels, Intain: America, who used to buy Ldustrial, and financial work pro- 88 per cent, of the output of lace,lit every minute, and 100 smokers Then a thousand cigarettes are
To-day than twelve months ago Circumstances would. Koom warrant a little further relief.
谢
CONFIRMATION
grown or wane.
THE BLACKEST CLOUD.
.
UNMIXED GRAIN..
wish they'd bought matches stead of a lighter.
in-
citizen, and a heavy shower of
rain rofilled the reservoirs there would still be a water shortage.
If all the shroffa who have
In 1928, mul just prior to it, now, virtually speaking, a dead warning clouds began to gather,
market. nomble and the key in un-URITISH TRADE
for the world's wheat output grow and manufacturer when asked why Every shopkeeper, merchant, doubtedly with Here Iller.
no big that supply exceeded domand France, Britain and the United
Over 3,500 holes and ladders in When Mr. Chamberlain takes a by 950,000,000 bushels. In 1980 trade was und invariably roplied States have reached practically bright view, there in room for high the Importing countrien of Europe that he did not know. To each of stockings are mended every day, trommon ground and Hallan suj | encouragement, His speech at alone increased their production by them I explained how it comes This represents a totul area об port on the malo insusa in alne the Manaton Houso removes any 100,000,000 bushels, and the excess out that wheat, the easiest thing 100 square feet of feet or leg to award. In doubt the attt-four that the improvement may be world production was 600,000,000 in the world to grow, is not being he covered.
thon, tude of Germany. Inflexibility more dual in the pan. There tabels, Sineo
however, converted into cash at a workable
If Hongkong's present water of polley ban been the chler are all black potn, na, for in-production and consumption have proft, that there is consequently Pharacterfalle hitherto of the lanen, In The coal trade,, ship | been about equal, although even little money for luxuries in the supply was doled out to each buffelig ud export bústnona, now there are Home 600,000,000 possession not only of the farmer Miller reglue, an attitude which at these are exceptions, not, the bushels of exceps stock to be difeet of all the people who are mund always be fatal to agren, rate un was the case a year hgo, - posed of somehów,
dependent upon kla prosperity. ment when applied to foreign A suph entitlick "Index" of Bund- affaira, Baroi von Neuralh la nous Activity," pubilabed to the in Dorthe well versed in the atti- Krammint shows the tide boun tude of the other great Powers, to turn in the third quarter of how for they are prepared to been a stendy upward trend-Alow lhat your. Since then there has where they bitend to cdl a dos
[roristuly, but unfaltering. Multe halt. If he refurna with proposals neccpfulde to the other
the absorption of the excess stock. will be greater if it is made more Between 10 pm. und midnight. pricipal Powera, the Bureau of
No country in the world. has palatable. And If some of the in Hongkong five hundred thou- ilo Durmainent. Conference
studled whent and its problems restrictions were removed in-sund cats howl to be let out of the will reatine' dineuaslona In Post office relaran, which always more deeply than the United States, creased consumption would follow front door. Ten minutes later
_confident __upirit,
to balnean and nowhere in Gront Britain or on naturally. with errespnad slowly
conditions,-tell the-name-atory: the Continent doce a botter organi only the mavad
gues
The number of letters posted bosution for dealing with it exist. growing
Exports siste that if all wheat-the-same-number-howl-to-come-in- pitfall. to avold. Mr. Norman, a to Ingreso the moment the America is the greatest wheat-pro-acreage by 15 per cent., this de-
countries would cut again. Duvin, Ambasador-at-Large trade-tle turned, namely last ducing nation in the world. She pressing cloud would vanish in a
It is computed that over ณ Enter the Hoover Administra September, after going down had cortainly foreseen the present year.
thousand-people-visitHongkong. tion, agalu reprments the United month after month from October, impasse, and for the last seven States. This ensures continuity 1930. The entimated post office years had quietly been taking steps four chief exporting and produc-cent play a game resembling golf. That this is appreciated by the golf courses every week. Qné per of policy. It is also welcome surplus for the current year is to find a Way aut. Scientists, ing countries-the Argentine. The others don't. news to learn that the Secretary curious feature of statistics is that the universities all met and dis- Amerles and Australia, who be
the largest in its history. Adoctors, farmers, industrialista, and Canada, the United States of for War at Washington has held although employment in retali cussed the problem in all its aspects. tween them provide 45 per cent, of up the Army Modernisation.pro-trades in May and June, 1933, was gramme. It was estimated that higher than in the corresponding the question so very much to heart? the fact that they have now agreed Why should Amorten have taken the world's supply is shown by the new equipment on land and months of 1932, retallers stocke My reply to this will, I hope, not to curtail this year's exports and
Every fresh outbreak of crime' is In the aft would have coat some and sales were both lower. The only provide the £16,000,000, Action is deferred Board of Trade Journal records present economic stagnation, but cent. When the world sees that the news, such as
answer to the next year's production by 16 per attribuned to whatever is latest in until the results of the Disarm- lncrease of about 1.5 per cent. will clear away any doubt there, the cure is effective, it is hoped peace, the talkies, the heat wave, or the war, the amont Conference are made menth of the June quarter.
in retail employment for cach may be in the minds of farmors re-that the price of whent will body-line bowling. But there is known. On the other hand, the the other hand stocks at cost wore
Ongarding the wisdom of the Whent gradually improve. American naval programe pro-5.5 per cent. kiwer in June, 1933, ceeds npace. Fear of Japan lies than in June, 1032. Sales, allow- at the back of it. But it has re-ing for the smaller number of acted on other countries as well. I working days this June were frac- Navy groups in France, Italy June together the decrease was 2 tionally lower. For May and and Britain are demanding big-per cent. The inference is that ger and better navics. So much retailers reduced their staffs to n so that general opinion 'inclines minimum during the slump mon- to the belief that no conclusions the, and are now making ready for on Naval Disarmament can be a resumption of buying activity on reached at Geneva and the whole the part of the public. matter will have to be fought out
It was the grént surplus; the Farmers who still do. not see blackout cloud in the world to-day, why it is necessary to curtall home visited the Telegraph office in the nations was forgathered at ber that 85 to 100 per cent, of a queue they would still not be that faced the representatives of production of whent might remem search of Edward Kolly stood in
Canada Botne, London, last month. domcatle grain is unmixed in paid. They had to formuluto a plan for cortain countries. Consumption
at a Naval Disarmament Confer-
ence in 1985. In Great Britain, some of the most delicate dis- a meeting of the special Cabinet cussions behind the scenes Disarmament Committee, com- during the last few weeks were prising the Prime Minister, Sir on this very question, It is John Simon, Lord Hailsham, known that America in general Lord Londonderry, Sir Bolton has come round to support the Eyres Monsell and Sir Philip French plan and this doubtless Cunliffe-Lister, had little dif-influenced Britain's final acqui ficulty in forming policy. The escence. The other difficulties two principal troubles of the before the Disarmament Confor- British Government are the enco are largely caused by lack question of the abolition of air of courage. A bold Disarma- bombing and its desire to retain ment Treaty would cut through the right for "police purposes;"many of the difficulties that have and the question of supervision. been raised. But with fear The French Government is of stalking the world, nations are the opinion that world security terrifled to renounce what they can best be guaranteed, without consider to be their only means the existence of a League fight-of preservation, namely their ing force, by means of strict in weapons capable of most des- ternational supervision of nation-truction. But opinion is grow- al armaments. It is the French ing in Great Britain that within price for the dropping of the limited period there should be demand for a definito Pact of complete abolition of all weapons, Mutual Guarantee. The British including military, aeroplanes, Government was slow to agree forbidden to Germany, coupled to the whole of the French with limitation of expenditure scheme and it la surmised that and international supervision,
"It wouldn't hurt to mention to the publisher that ho would sell soventoon copies of your book to our rointiyes alone."
RADIO AND CRIME
no doubt that much of our present Jawlessness is due to the radio.
We are not referring to those undiscovered murders which are the result of the man next door filling the ether with shricks be- cause he is trying to tune in to Moscow with one good valve and a dud one, but to the theory that the waves themselves make dents in our morale. Some day a IV pentant malefactor is going to nscribe his downfall to a passion for listening to improving lectures from Daventry.
This. degeneration starts in u subtle fashion because radio shares with the motor-car an influence which makes its owner bell truths. No man braga about the way his gas stove will ball a kettle,
un-
yet he is always prepared to wear
on oath that his baby car will do elghty miles an hour, and that if It had claws it would climb a tree.
In the same way he will assure that his act picked up so much volume from Barcelona, that it shook the ceiling down, and that when he got Pittsburg at three o'clock this morning some people a mile away complained because he kept their baby, awake. He knows you don't believe it, but he simply can't help it.
-And then there is another model husband and father, started on a life of crime.
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