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THE HONGKONG

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THURSDAY, APRIL 19, · 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY THE

WITH A CAR TRADE AND POLITICS

Home Delivery At

Hongkong Landed Prices

"LIGHT SIX" SALOONS Standard

Do Luxo

£210 £230

"BIG SIX" SALOON

successor to the Famous Vauxhall Cadet £325.

To the motorint going on Home leave special ar- rangements aro extended

The argument that all wars are chused, in some manner, by econ omic rivalry is recalled by the rumour that the Singapore naval base might be used ne a pawn in the Anglo-Japanese textile negotia- tions. The story was, of course,

after Sir John Simon's statement

SIN OF

OVERWORK

Alan

The Very Idea!

IN THE GARDEN

GOOD morning! Lovely

growing weather.

By ROBERT LYND

A small portion of divine Now, it is no easy thing for a afflatus which descended Vabsurd from the beginning and MANY people must have been

Va shocked during the week to boy of high principles to abstain upon me this morning, ac-' Anothing more will be heard of it.read of the Japanese editor who from overwork in this fashion. He companied by several gallons

to be reprimanded by his has to be prepared for baiting and of mean rainfall: It seemed a little strange, however, had Uto find the Foreign Minister speak-employer for having worked 18 biting words from schoolmasters,

How sweet on the listening ear for insulting reports to his parents, is the sound of the pattering rain. Ing as though it were sacrilege to hours every day for a whole year. Xintroduce political questions into

even for punishment. There will We don't mind the mud, for it Everybody knows how strong | commercial discussions. Doubtless HForeign Offices dislike the idea, but the temptation to work is. Work, no glittering prizes for him at fattens the bud, and it's good to

Įseo puddles again. la that of paramount importance?ke tobacco, may be distasteful to the end of the year. At the annual AIf the proposition that all wars the beginner. But when once we examinations he may be put down It washes the alleys and streets, are economic is true, then it would have acquired the habit ft grown as a failure. All these difficulties, and makes all the lampposts look seem to be advantageous to con

however, only serve to strengthen newer. It gurgles and mutters in sider the political aspects of all upon us till, if we are not very his character, and he will set out gulleys and gutters, and frolics declaions by government concern-careful, we may wake up ono day

along through the sower. ing trade matters. That, however, to find ourselves slaves to it. The on his career at last as n

whom not even the most powerful The turning are shouting hur is a far cry from abandoning the chain-worker is Да common B Singapore Base in return for a phenomenon ne the chain-amoker. temptations could induce to become sah; the brussels are sprouting right gally. The rhubarb 18 cotton industry understanding.

one of the sad army of the world's redder: the cowa in the medder Excessive work, it may bework-addlets.

have doubled their output twice argued, like excessive smoking.

dally, Fortunately, the danger of over- injures nobody but its victim. 1 Bollvin's claim to a smashing cannot agree. For one thing, by working is not so common na it From which, if you read it.care- victory over the Paraguayana in exhausting our vitality, It lowers used to be, The law of England fully, you will gather that it has the Conchitas sector in the Gran our efficiency and therefore makes now regards overwork as a crime. been raining. Chaco is likely further to delay the

And isn't Deferred Tarms-Repurchase-

just too wonderful Licence & Insurance Arranged resumption of peace efforts by the us less useful to our employers. People who loathe half-holidays

Take our amah, for instance; who Full particulars on application. League of Nations. The investign-If we all worked 18 hours a day are compelled to take half-holldays, what a spot of moisture will do. tion was brought to an end when it we should ultimately be unable to Shopkeepers in the grip of the pas as you know, has aspirations and HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE became obvious that the parties do any good work at all. Hence Ision for overwork, who want to adenoids.

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risk of a police prosecution. Trade ing about as one aflicted with a Paraguay's fortunes in the war be- I remember, as a schoolchild, unions, again, have come nobly to green and yellow melancholy. And. gan to turn that that nation just hearing of a little girl who had the aid of the law in the preven- then the sky began to leak, the Its anxiety for an armistice. Now

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THRSDAY, APRIL 19, 1934.

*

IN THE GRAN CHACO

Parliament by Mr. Neville Cham-they may be as gollers, work un-others? Suppose you give your-

self brain-fever, won't it make I dislike compulsions of all sorts.

Fable

*

Advancement of Learning When I look at the skies, I think

of the Greeks and Romans, As superstitious as the Zulas They thought the stars were gods -human beings-animals- Stuck up there in the heavens

to learn them how.

are now.

It is Bolivia that in definitely war. such a pasalon for work that she tion of the once widespread evil clouds raced across the sky, the grass grew until we couldn't see minded as shown by the under-used sometimes to faint over her of overwork.

out of the windows, and, the dry books. The case of the little girl lying cause for the mutiny ameng made a deep and lasting Impres

The fact that the law has had and dusty carth sprang into life tho La Paz cadets.

sion on me. I reflected on the to take such drastic stops to pre-again. anxiety the

Next morning it took her three- must спивс her vent overwork is evidence of the NEW TECHNIQUE

parents, and I resolved to do all extent to which the craving for quartera of an hour to tell the that was humanly possible never overwork had spread among the compradore boy about our mutton Bolivin has now developed a new to become a cause of similar an-English people. Leave an English cutlet, not too fat. Three-quarters of an hour; and he wont away technique and a new type of soldier xiety to my family.

man to himself, and it is ten to one with his Hat on the Side of his whose losing streak has been halted BRITAIN'S BUDGET and whose chances of winning are As a result, when I was after that you will find him slaving away th

singing something that 18 hours a day' like the Japancao on the ascendant. A desire for wards struggling to master some editor. He has naturally the de sounded like the Chinese version of Riding on a Rainbow Night and Substantial relief from the peace which depends on the way peculiarly difficult subject like the vouring diligence of the ant which, Day. burdens which have weighed the war is going is neither deep exports of the Gold Const or the as the result of continuous over

If any of you know any cause or Har sincere. Both Paraguay and areas of the Canadian lakes, and work, has never progressed a single heavily on industry and on in- Bolivia seem to have shown that was feeling so tired that I could inch along the path of evolution just impediment why these persons dividual taxpayers during their professed pacific intentions have yawned the roof off, I did not, since its creation. The English-but she'll have to give me a

mouth's notice, so there! period of unexampled depression were hypocritical. Bolivia has dislike the ordinary work-slave, try man, indeed, needs no law to com has been granted by the provi-covered that her indian cholos, to ignore my symptoms and got on pol him to work; he needs only coming from the high altitudes, with the work. I put the question laws to compel him to batain sions of the Budget introduced in courageous and well trained though frankly to myself: "Is this fair to from work in excess. berlain on Tuesday. For the der terrific handicaps in low your parents rather unhappy?" and I should have preferred it if

titudes and in the tropical jungle first time since it took office, the terrain of the Chaco. So

Col. And, pulling myself together, the Englishman had been able to National Government has been Alfredo Rivas, who has spent his would throw the book from me and abstain from overwork voluntarily to lighten the load and, whole military career in the Chach, go out and make myself fit again and out of a sense of duty.

in a game of Wild Boar with my

He would then have had the what is more, to look hopefully to received permission to recruit an

army of Bolivian men and bove friends in the street.

courage to Bay to himself: "I owe the future. Acceptable as the whose lives have been spent in the Not that I was ever an enemy the same duty to my employer that? concessions are, they are the Chuco and who took upon it as of work. I am no bigot. I have the Derby-winner, Hyperion, owed their own. The advantages are always been one of the first to to his owner and trainer. If Hy- more readily welcomed because

obvious. They as their enemies, maintain that work in moderation perlon had given in to the craving they indicate not only the sound the Paraguayans, are thoroughly is one of the legitimate employ for overwork and had insisted on ness of the British financial posi-at home in this area and they are ments and enjoyments of the galloping at full speed time after tion, but also because they have fighting for their own, which the human race. At the same time Itime round the Epsom course on the been made possible by a distinct imported men the high realised from an early age that, for morning of Derby Day, what the sake of others if not of my-chance would his four white feet turn for the better in the in-plateaus were not.

self, I must keep the Industrious have ultimately had of carrying dustrial-and-commercial affairs

side of my nature under control him to victory? The answer-Is of the country. This happy out- USELESS WAR

and not allow it to run away with obvious. He would have run ko come, us Mr. Chamberlain has

A pitched battle is expected to me, like a bolting horse that brings a third-rate hack. In my employ stated, has produced a new spirit take place

or's interests I must model myself shortly near Fort ruin to its rider. of hope and confidence. It has Avanti, near Fort Ballivian, which

on Hyperlon and crush any desire] been a hard, wearisome, uphill the Bolivians look upon as their was always careful to leave off my efficiency."

Hence, during my schooldays, for hard work that may endanger, struggle to atraighten out the Verdun. Both armies are far nation's finances and place them from their supply bases and are work at the first premonitions of on a firm and better basis, but operating in regions that at best exhaustion. Fascinating as the If I were an employer I should 28 inhos prose of Demosthenes was, I knew have notices all over the place the task has been accomplished. can only be described Indeed, so satisfactory is the Pitable. It is doubtful whether that I ought not to go on reading my employees not to work too hard. in the first second of the first yawn appealing to the better nature of

position that an even greater the ultimate course of the war,

any "decisive" victory will alter him. Other boys would have If there were still, however, men persisted, as they persisted In who perested in working the 18- measure of relief might have which probably will drag on until reading penny dreadfuls when they hour day of the Japanese editor been accorded without in any both sides quit from sheer exhaus- ought to be in bed. But I had an there would be nothing for it but way adversely affecting the tion, Wasteful, inhuman and use almost priggish devotion to duty to pass a law condemning every- Sinancial stability of the country, less, thin, the most senseless of

that enabled me to resist such body found guilty of overwork to Excessive caution appears to Wors among so-called civilised

temptations.

laeven years' hard labour. have dictated the policy of people, is a blot on the reputations of the main participants and a sad utilising the year's surplus of commentary on modern civilisation thirty-nine millions sterling for itself unless it be that certain dis- debt redemption. This might credited vested interests in that well have been carried forward, civilisation are primarily to blame. enabling a far bolder and more Quien sabe?

widespread programme of tax

from

remission. Such a course would THE LONGER LIFE

not have impaired the nation's

Anances, since the greater the Dr. G. W. Crile, noted American measure of relief, the greater surgeon, said the other day that, would be the spending power of there is no

with proper attention to health, the people, and this, in turn, should not extend his active career reason why a mun would have cumulative effects to the age of 80 or beyond. Fre- over a wide area, with enhanced quent physical examinations, he returns in the. way of revenue, says, would reveal failing capacities Find this policy been pursued, of vital organs and would make it not only could the pay cuts have possible for romedial steps to be been restored in full, but the just one more instance in which taken. Is this encouraging or small taxpayer would have

our scientific knowledge has outran secured much-needed relief. It our social sense? What is the use is noteworthy, in this connection, of enabling a man to keep working that the only criticism levelled to the age of 907 Unless we revise against the Budget is that it the notion that a man's usefulness does not go far enough in its oads with middle age, there is concessions. If, as is argued, small use in extending his active

life span. the relief granted will have a stimulating psychological offect, this would be even more marked MISDIRECTED REVENGE were a bolder programme put, in-

The Mississippi legislature hus to effect. The Government, how been debating a bill which would ever, evidently prefers to hasten give the father of a girl who was slowly in these matters, doubt-attacked by three men the right to less' with the hope and intention hang them for their crime. It of bringing forward more apeeta-seoms a shocking idea. Such a pro- cular proposals in the next posal goes directly opposite to the law has before an appeal is made to the ment law. In theory,

nothing to do with the motive of country. For electioneering tac-revenge. It is society's means of tics have their place even in such protecting itself. If it Js to be matters as evolving the nation's ondurable, it must. bo operated financial policy.

without pasalon or rancour.

LANE; CRAWFORD, LTD. Bulget, most likely the last whole theory of the capital punish-

MEN'S WEAR STYLISTS,

MAR

"Makes a guy feel he nin't so Important, after all, don't it?"

The names they gave themt Castor Pollux-Andromeda

And they had some comic idea

about the sun;

They never grasped the moaning

of Education Or of all the research that was

waiting to be done..

Now, of course, we know that the

stars are made of barium. And their light consists of waves of thingummybobs; And, mind you, we're not stuck

up about it, or anything... It's just that teachers, and so

on, are doing their jobs.

But I often think: wouldn't it

have been a come-down For Aristotle-wouldn't he

have looked a bit sick--

If you'd taken him, say, to

London University And said: Here, Arty, huve a

shot at Matric?

·

•

"GOOFY" EGGS ON THE COST OF LIVING

"These calculations about food," said Godolphin ("Goofy") Egga; "they don't sort of got us any whore, what?"

"How do you mean?" asked I. The only way, with Goofy, is to let him think things out on his own

lincs.

"Well, I mean to say," sald Goofy. "All this stuff about the working classes and what they have .10 have. Mont margarine and what-not; potatoes, sugar--"

"Yes, yes," said I. "I've seen. the figures."

"Well, there you are," salı Goofy. "What I moan is, it's a bit footling, isn't it? Take the Zulus; finest body of men in the world. (Or perhaps I mean the Kaflrs, or somebody.) Anyway, they don't have Professors to work aut calories for them. They just live on rice, or sago, or whatever that junk is they grow.› · Take the British workman of a generation back. Did he have all this mont and two veg, business? Take me for that matter. I got through as much in a day as most people (I mean to say, two rounds yestor day), and по ond works out dietaries for me. I mean to say. what does it all prove? Why, nothing; simply nothing."

"Goofy," Ianki, "You ought to go home and stand for Parliament. I've never heard auch eloquence."

"What," sald Goofy. And mix with all these Socialists and, toughs? Couldn't do it, old chap: I couldn't really,"

I wonder