1934-03-16 — Page 6

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TIGER BRAND

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1934.

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The fact only makes it the more

LET'S HAVE A CASTE SYSTEM IN HONG KONG

Edward Kelly Suggests That The Peak Show The Kowloon Untouchables Where They Get Off

By Edward Kelly, Cad. TAVING ̈ passed `the graduation class with two years residence in HAY

Hongkong: Mr. Edward Kelly, distinguished journalist, is now pre. paring to join the ranks of the Snobs. As a matter of fact Mr. Kelly was, with difficutly, restrained from going the whole hog by refusing to write for the "Very idea," contending that, now he had become eligible for membership in the Peak Club, low-brow humour was beneath hi dignity-NOW READ ON.

reserved for $760 taipans. · Work

month will be ers on $500. 4 allowed cork tipped elgarettes, workers, plain tips for 8400 ordinary pipes for $350 workers clay pipes for $250 workers and chewing tobacco for the losser fry, On the some baals $1,000 mon will drink champagne, whisky and liquors will be provided for the $760 class, and beer for the $500 class. The $300 class real- dont can drink water.-

With summer coming on, the swimming question is one that is causing some perturbation, but we have hit upon a fairly reasonable plan. Since there are not enough' beaches in Hongkong to go around, Repulse Bay and other resorts will have to be sub-divided,

Sharing the same table with an inferior class person would ɓe - bad enough, but the Ineffable horror of bathing We thought of extending the

been in water that has idea to cemeteries, but have had

contaminated by having the legs of some inferior person--- enough space in Hongkong. In

it simply cannot be done! order to preserve the salary dis- tinctions of life, at least six feet

We first of all planned to have would have to be allowed for Repulse Bay roped off into lane- every $50 difference in salary ways, according to salaries, but On this basis, a $250 per month something more substantial than the Monument, and would probably to confine the water to its respec- employees funeral would start at rope will have to be used, in order end at Tientsin.

In similar fashion, plain wind TT'S about time the Hong-.($400 per month) rises to indiges kong government woke tion (8000), to flatulence ($760), surprising that it has been left to up to itself (writes Mr. to stomach catarrh ($1,000), to an X-Ray ($1,500), with a chance the present time, when overcrowd-Kelly).

of developing Angina Pectoris at Ing has become advanced, acuto and There's been too much $2,000 per month. general, to take advantage of an

been pandering to the local prole- authority that might have Deferred Terms-Repurchase-mado effective 36 years ago and the tariat. Kowloon wants put-to abandon it, as there is not

tradition carried on. Falluretting in its place. enforce the Ordinance has un- Besides, the line of demar- doubtedly encouraged infringecation between the Unreach- ments and contributed to the ables and the Untouchables excessive level of rents in the slum should be more clearly defined. arons. It has led to the creation of If we're going to have snobbery "principal tenanta" who make that in Hongkong, let's go the whole their principal profession, not only hog, and become real snobs. living rent-free at the expense of the coolle class but frequently so managing affaira as to control a comfortable cash margin.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1934.

DISARMAMENT

It is apparent from the state- ments made in the House of Commons by Sir John Simon and

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POVERTY PROBLEM

The problem admittedly goes back to the root cause of a social evil. Poverty, here in a woeful degree, goes hand in hand with overcrowding, and in a concrete and vialblo form is expressed by the slume. Pictura a narrow floor with no lateral ventilation Free circulation of air is restricted by intervening boards partitioning off as many box-like cubicles na can be conveniently devised, with space in each only for a bed, a locker and

little

or

This stunt of simply refusing to associate with anybody because he or she doesn't live on the Peak is amateurish. Let's do the thing properly.

It would be a simple matter for the Government to find out what salary every person in Hongkong was receiving, and the various degrees of Un- touchableness could be based on this.

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Mongs and Others

tive portion of the beach.

Even with concrete' dividing walls, there is no guarantee that won't sooner or

The question of dogs will have the $400 water to be gone into. Actually, the later be splashed into the $1,000 Government has already taken portion of the beach. action in this respect by depriving Kowloon dogs of their trees.

Pity the $425 Man

a

Strictor supervision will have The whole problem is bristling to be exercised, however, in order with difficulties, but we think the to prevent pomeranians ($1,000 a Government is capable of handling month) hobnobbing with $400 it. Naturally, there's going to be mongrels.

many individual cases of hardship, Naturally, it will take soma but, in any now scheme, there are time for the plan to come into unavoidable. For instance, a man on $1,000 a operation, as serious difficultles

We refer, of course, to the month would naturally reside on may be expected regarding bargain the Peak, the height above sea hunters. The wife of a $2,000 per border line cases. While the line level being based upon the height month taipan will probably still of demarcation is obvious as be- of salaries.

n $500 and a $1,000 the love a bargain Taipans in

as much as the tween millionaire class could, if neces- wife of a $250 worker, and the month man, the chap who is on. sary, obtain balloon residances, only way we can see out of the $425 a month will be in a quandary which could be moored above the difficulty is to compel Lane Craw-as to whether the Peak Tramway ford's and other establishments to conductor will lot him sit in the Streets would have to be laid erect different shops for different $450 a month seats, or will relegate.

him to the $400 seats. In this respect we also see

Ha may, of course, profer: the difficulties during the summier latter, but can only do so at the months regarding evening gowna risk of ruining his wife's next and bathing costumes. It is a bridge party, or having the finger well-known fact that the more a of $450 per month acorn pointed

on pays for a bathing costume at his children, or evening gown the leas she gets.

Peal

the

On this basis, the mid-Victorian Publication of newspapers Wind or Flatulenco ? costumes would be worn by $250 would be on a sliding scale, to per month wives. A $100 bride suit the various salaries. A $1,000 Doctors in Hongkong will find could bathe in neck. to knee per month subscriber would re- that their biggest problem will be contamea, while backless models celve his Telegraph, printed on in adjusting any given disease to would be reserved for the $760 vellum, und tied up with blue

Balaried

their girl.

the

of status patients.

Plain atomach-ache in n $400 per month parented child would Automatically become gaatritis in the case of an infant in a $750 household, and may even rise to appendicitis when the father is on $1,000 a month.

Belly-aches could be re- served for Kowloon residents. they being noted for this form of discontent with the ruling order of things.

But we foresee difficultles when salaries rise above the $1,000 mark, and the question of establishing a nudist colony on the Peak will have to be seriously gone into. This can, however, be left in our hands.

A Scotch Problem

ribbon. Salaries of $750 a month would merit good art paper, the used being ordinary paper now reserved for the $500 subscriber.

Shop-worn paper, after it had been used for wrapping up $750 most from the Dairy Farm, could bo utilised, for printing the newa- paper, of the $400 man. ***

We could go on like this for Smoking and drinking will hours and hours, but we have to naturally come under our scheme. see our Boss. We think that our $1,000 taipans will smoke corona-work at least entitles us to a rise coronas, the lesser. cigara being to the $750 a month class.

Mr. Anthony Eden that the Brit-perhaps a couple of chalre. The out horizontally along the side of customers;

Peak, For instance $600 ish Government, whilst not dis- law, with the idea of facilitating Street would be somewhere about posed to admit the total failure ventilation If not the passage of Albert Road.

This would allow people in $600 of its disarmament efforts, rea-light, has required that the parti lises that hopes of even a partial tions be not over a certain height. Street to look down upon the measure of success are some- To prevent overcrowding as we now residents of $500 street, and so

see, it also specifies the air apacon, right up to the top., what slight. The issue has been that must be allotted to every pers very plainly stated and the reason. But for all that overcrowding has gone on inside, and we fhid also litics of the situation brought that the passage outside the rows into prominence. In effect, of cubicles and even that the niche Britain says she is most anxious under the staircase has been adapt to save the Disarmament Cón-ed for bed-spaces. ference from a complete break- down, and is prepared to go to HEALTH ISSUE the fullest possible limits in or- der to achieve some degree of For overcrowding of this acute success, but if her efforts do not ness, which surely is possible only meet with useful response, there two reasons, namely a low wage in Hongkong, there are obviously will be no alternative but to earning capacity and a high rent strengthen the nation's defences.disproportionate to the income of the average labourer. To these Time, as Sir John Simon says, factors is added an entirely un is running short, and, in view of the present tension in Europe, Britain cannot be expected to take undue risks.. France has still to give her last word on the subject, and we shall not know what that is until next week. In the main, however, it is obvious that we cannot expect any marked departure from the policy of extreme caution so far overcrowding and health, (apart To tackle the twin problem, of displayed. France does not re-from the periodical house-cleans pose any trust in the peaceful ing) it is now auggested that measures are to be taken to regulate utterances of Germany's new the number of tenants, a heavy task lenders, and accordingly is not indeed if it is to include all the inelined to approve of any plan floors in the Colony known to be which implies German re-arma- task also if rents cannot be con Aimilarly overcrowded. A difficult ment. Yet, like all the other trolled or voluntarily brought down nations, she would hesitate to to conform to wages, and if no take the responsibility for a alternative housing accommodation final breakdown of the disarma is offered elsewhere for the purpose of such decentralisation. The matter in its wider aspect assumes the wholesale clearance of slumą,

suitable type of dwelling, and vicious circle by which his health and happiness are circumscribed, is complete. A high mortality has been returned from year to year from tuberculosis, one of the surest indications of the evil of overcrowd- ing hore,

SLUM CLEARANCE

ment proposals. It is here that Bone small degree of hope may Until this is done, periodical In- bo entertained. If no nation spections of floors for overcrowding wants to be, regarded as being can be described as only nibbling at the cause of a breakdown, then the problem. the presumption is that all are

willing to make some contribu- not take too kindly to any de- tion however small, to partial {cided step in this direction; yet success. This thought was pro- it is just possible that, as a bably in Sir John Simon's mind | choice between two awkward al- when he remarked that an imternatives, it might be prepared perfect agreement would be preto agree to some contractual ferable to no agreement at all. obligation which would help to One other point suggests itself, allay the fours of France. How namely, whether Britain has yet ever that may be, the disarma- | pinyel all · hör: cards-whether |ment outlook at the moment is she may not even yet have some-not at all reassuring, although thing more to offer, in the way the report of the possibility of of guarantees, for example. - Germany's return to the Leaguo Public opinion in England might gives cause for some hope.

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