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THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY E. MAXWELL FRY on

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Japan's protest against the do- fensive action taken by Great Britain In the colonial textilo

than was expected. Doubtless the

THE MACHINE

CALLED LONDON

A man with

ECONOMIC SURVEY.

Japan offers to negotiate for a single room in Bethnal Green, amenable to replanning We

The Very Idea.!

THE BOOK OF TONAL

CHAPTER 3.

AND the word of the King came unto Tonal the second time, saying:

2. Arise, go unto Neukau- lun, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

3. So Tonal arose, and went

lenst of them.

6. For word came unto Terence- the chief of Neukaulun, and he arose from his place and put his gun, yea even his machine-gun from hini, and covered him with a muzzle and sat in kennel.

markets is more restrained in tone have started clearing the create a new plan for London, and

W

slums. It is going to take a new way of life for the poor. dimeulty in producing arguments to her we be a gond We want to prevent slums from

job of it, or a very bad job of it, happening again. to support the charges of dis-it is going to take a long time to crimination and treaty brenchos clear up the mess left by a hundred was an important influence. It years of muddle. What is it In

To do this we must carry out cannot be denied that the effect fact that we are setting out to do?

survoy. Not a survey of slums, What is a alum? Is it a pro- of the quota proposals is to place blem of human beings, or of bricks but an economic survey, including all transport and communication, a restriction upon Japanese im- and mortar? Is It just poverty porta to a far greater extent than that makes a slum? It is largely all housing from Park-lane to into Neukaulun, according to the Easy-street, industry, commerce, word of the King. Now Neu- think, though money upon those of any other country. Poverty, I

alone will not effect a cure. The every factor bearing upon the run-kaulun was an exceeding great But it needs more than that

city of three hours' journey. thing is more complicated thanning of the machine.

The East End is overcrowded,

4. And Tonal began to enter in- legally to constitute discrimina- that.

Think of it first in terms of but here are large areas of empty to the city an hour's journey, and tion. In imposing the quota

land and decayed factories not put he cried, and said, Yet forty days, Bystem, Britain goes beyond the human beings. present abnormal conditions and tuberculosis is like a machine that to proper use. It might be quite and Neukaulun shall be overhy has broken down, The lungs no possible to plan now areas of light

5. So the people of Naukaulun. factories served by electricity and endeavours to restore the ratio of longer work, and we must send all services, into which we could obeyed the King, and proclaimed Tears is our late Desi desin of past Varty foreign textile importe prevalling this man to a sanatorium where draw much of the badly conducted a truco, and put on muzzles, from

when competition existed on a country air and simple food may in more even keel. The three-year time restore to use the wom small business that mixes up with the greatest of them even to the period 1927-31 is taken as the

gana again. Now it is no accident housing to the detriment of both. I suspect strongly that a survey basis for all countries. No charge that brings this disease to a man would show how much of the Enst of discrimination can fairly elving with a family of seven in End is a two-storey congestion, modification of the quota, if Bri-He is the victim of another should find out why the traffic tain is agreeable, but if this is the machine that is as broken down as blocks and how to free it for rapid limit of her offer, its value is he has become.

service. Finally we should know negligible. It is useless to ask The house, the street, the city where to put the houses we are Britain to modify the quota unless of which he is one lonely citizen going to build. And we should be Japan is prepared also to discuss has ceased to provide him with able to plan it on a scale that will the conditions that forced the light, air, room to move and live allow us to raiso and not lower quota decision upon Mr. Runcimanin; with food, clothing, and often standards; to provide amenities and his advisers.

enough with work for his hands. beyond our present powers. The machine which we call London

Technically, there is nothing wo has broken down..

cannot do. But we lack this new Just because our attention is type of technician-the construc-

8. But let man and dog be drawn to this fallure In the tive planner. Slum clearance lacks covered with a muzzle, and cry machine by the too obvious exis that man mainly because it has mightily unto the King; yea let Twelve pages of reasons have tence of slums, we are proposing never seen the problem as being them turn everyone from his rabid been produced by the British Gov- ernment to justify its rofusal to rebuilding the worst areas with whole machine. We have all been in their teeth.

to ease our national conscience by concerned with the running of the way, and from the violence that is support a forty-hour week pro blocks of dwellings on the bad old tinkering with posal shortly to come before the sites. So far we find we cannot when what we want, what the turn and repent, and turn away an 1860 model, 9, ho can tell if the King will International Labour Conference. build these dwellings, cheaply on thousands of. tubercular poor from his fierce anger, that TYC The fact in itself makes the deci-pugh ever to touch the people who people, the thousands of basement perish not? If the proposal war-lived in the slums we pulled down dwellers the overcrowded millions ranted complete condemnation. These creep deeper into the laby- want, is a 20th century model that was wrongly based in principle, arinth, spreading the contagion of WORKS. dozen woll-turned phrases should poverty as they go. of words suggests merely pander- that builds for the poor has reached have suffleed to riddle it. Weight The L.C.C. and every authority our Conservatism.

Ask us for a trial run,

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Hong Kong Hotel Garage

Stubbs Road,

Chongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1934,

NEW TERRITORIES AGRICULTURE

FORTY-HOUR WEEK

slon suspect.

AGE OF LEISURE

If support implied immediato adoption of the forty-hour week

18

a

war.

A 'MUDDLE.

A TOWN PLAN.

What a great chance for the new

7. And he caused it to be pro- claimed and published through- out Neulaulun by the decree of the chief and his council saying, Let neither man nor dog, chow nor peke, toate anything; let them not feed nor drink strong drink:

10. And the King saw their works, that they turned from their rabid way; and the King repented of the evil that he had, sold that He would do unto them; and he did it not.

CHAPTER 4.

to

6. And the King caused to be prepared a permit, and made it to protect Tonal, that it might be a passport for his dog to assuage him, in his grief. So Tonal was exceeding glad of the permit.

A work of very real value is being carried out on the main land, in a quiet but effective

a dead end. Their attempts to Socialist L.C.C.! That they, In- manner, by the New Territories

tinker with the machine called tend setting about Landon housing Agricultural

But it displeased Tonal exceed- Association. So

London have not moved one wheel, with a new will is obvious enough. much will have been gathered

It is worse clogged than before the It has been announced on separate ingly, and he was very angry,

occasions that a new survey of 2. And he prayed unto the from the report of its annual

housing is to be undertaken and King, and said, I pray thee, My meeting. The Association is,

that a town plan for London will | Lord, was not this my saying Imagine for a minute what sort be put in hand. If that town plan when I was yet in my district: however, somewhat handicapped in Great Britain, the "Thumbs of a machine London is. A hun is a plan of reconstruction and not for I knew that thou art a gracious in its work through the lack of day circumstances, be justified. gardens ringed it round from auce is closely welded to such a of great kindness, and repontest Down" decision might in present-dred years ago fields and market a thing of paper, and if slum clear- King, and merciful, slow to anger, a central headquarters, where, The very essence of the ILO. Chelsea to the City. The south plan, then we can look forward to thee of the evil. also, experimental work can be operations, however, is gradual bank was nearly rural.. In that a London that can afford to allow 3. Therefore now, My Lord, carried out. Obviously if its improvement of the lot of the

neas. It secks the slow but steady hundred years there was a wild its poorer citizens to live intake, I beseech thee, my place

Into the work is to expand and be of worker

expansion,

middle of decency.

from me, for it is better for me In every land. Each which came the railways, tearing One of the chief uses of. a plan maximum worth, such a head- country is at liberty to ratify or through and cutting up the street for London will be the regulation

go than to stay. 4. Then said the King, doest quarters is a necessity, and it adhore to Conventions that are plan in a frenzy of speculation and of wide areas of land for sium thou well to be angry?

drawn up when, and only when, it competition. is to be hoped that ways and feels it can do so with fairness to

clearance on a scale that will allow 5. So Tonal went out of the city The last half of the century was architests and planners to provide with his Terrier and sat on the means will be found of meeting all economic interests nationally a mad rush: no control, no plan. housing of vastly improved stand- North side by the sea shore, till the need. The Government is concerned. Britain's decision reno standards: just building for arda at less cost than the present he might see what would become

veale confusion of purpose in high profit without ceasing. already assisting the Associa-places. Mr. Walter Elliot and

hole-and-corner methods involve; of the city. We now mensure the extent of so that the East End will gradu- tion-with-a-yearly grant; and as others have seen the age of leisure the damage as we survey the mud-ally become a balanced community, proof of the usefulness of the globe. The forty-hour week, even modern traffic; the muddle of rail- higher-paid people attracted there rapidly spreading легова the die of streets that have to bear our with, I hope, a good proportion of organisation is now forthcoming, less than forty hours, is coming as way lines and silly redundant on account of the amenities offered there is every reason why the surely дя to-morrow. Rigid stations; the miles of authorities should do all in their bureaucratic mentality alone could Mwers, pipes, and cab or expensive by open spaces and fine planning.

that serve

The dimculties that face the power further to facilitate its have prevented British acceptance streets never designed for econ LCC. are grave, and some of them activities. The Association

of the proposal at least

omy; the rotten courts, alleys and deeply bedded in the social fabric could, indeed, be the nucleus of

worthy objective.

diagraceful

streets that should we have inherited with the slums. never have been bullt by the same But when an even bigger organisation

the new Council was through, which the Government IMPERIAL UNITY

nation that boasts a Royal Academy elected, and sat planning and slum and is building three cathedrals. might in course of time embark

clearance in the forefront of its 8. And it came to, pass, when But these rotten streets; the on a much more comprehensive

polley, it brought new hope to all the sun did arise that he did pro- slums we are setting out to cure, sections of the community. The pare a velement rabies; and the plan of aiding the development 25th accession anniversary next are, as you now see, only one part slums lie badly on our national terrier snapped unto the feet of

The suggestion that the King's of agriculture in the Now Terri-year should be marked by a great as they le helps the machine only to rid us of them permanently will in himself to die and said, It is of the problem. To rebuild them consulence, and a determined effort Tonal that he fainted, and wished tories. Already, the Associa-Inter-Imperial conference is eer- tion is employing a farm visitor,

a little; and slum clearance, If it get ΠΩΡΟ tain of ready response. It would

support than some better for me to die than to live. possessing experience from that be a strange mistake if the oppor-

9. And the King said to Tonal, valuable centre, Lingnam Uni- tunity were missed. There never

Docst thou well to be angry for versity, and it is reassuring to was a time when cool heads and

the permit? And he said, I do learn that his lectures are being level judgments were necessary in

well to be angry even unto death. well attended by farmers. A when Empire unity should be the world's affairs, and, therefore,

10. Then said the King, Thou was sad for the permit for which wise plan is also being followed clearly expressed and demons-

thou hadst hot laboured, neither by interesting students of New trated. Coordination In defence

caused it to be; which was order- Territory schools in modern as well as in economics has bc-

ed in a night and cancelled in a methods; the instruction which come more than ever vital if the

night. they are receiving should prove British Empire in to play its pro- of value in the days to come. per part in affording guarantees In these courses, specialised and of world peace. Disarmament general instruction along practi-pes are as dead as mutton. cal lines is being given. It is salvage something of value from There is no harm in trying to clear, therefore, that the Asso- the corpse. But it would be a. ciation is proceeding along the waste of time to cry about it. A right lines. Its work may at strong Britain and a unified the moment be somewhat cir- Empire, a facing of realities, is cumscribed, by reason of finan- now the Empire's best insurance cial considerations, but as these against another Armageddon, are overcome ita utility should

be even further enhanced. One

of the matters which the Asso-FAR EAST OLYMPICS ciation has had under considera-

tion is the question of cheap The East Olymple basket- loans to farmers, but the regula- ball dute hus been settled In tions drawn up are in abeyance, favour of China, but it in a pity it pending indications of the Gov- ever arose. It appeared so pain- ernment's future pians. This is because they were in

fully obvious that China protested undoubtedly one

losing post- of the most tion. The objection against the state vital points in connection with of the ground was justified; but any scheme for developing the conditions were equal for both New Territories, resources, and teams, and adaptability is half the we look to the day when the test of the ok!) of an exponent of authorities will take this issue any sport. Incidents of this kind. up and evolve measures paving the moment, and more quickly bo

develop,

of course, in the heat of the way to a really extensive cause of the international rivalry effort in encouragement of what Inspired by Oymple contests. should be a big and profitable is not surprising that there is a industry contributing greatly to growing school of thought resist the needs of the Colony as a ing the encouragement of interns-

tional sport.

whole.

It

is to be lastingly effective, must people think.

"Bay, Joe, when we use two moro boxes of this soap we can get

a silver soup spoon.

7. But the Culvet made a veto when the morning arose next day, and it smote the permit so it was cancelled.

11. And shall not I spare. Neu- koulun, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persona that cannot discern be- tween their Plymouth and their Gordon; and alav much dogs?

SUGGESTION,

A monkey has been discovered that speaks three languages.

Surely this little fellow could be kont on international missiona more cheaply than many whom we emplay?

CHESS.

Alekhine and Bogúljubov are fighting for the world's champion- ship. Where do they dig up auch: names, we wonder? We call them Al and Bo. As thus:

The odds are on Al

But my money's on Bo; Yea; back hing I shall, Though the odds are on AL-

I was born in Natal,

So I surely should know;

The odds are on Al,

But my money's on Be.

Ed: What has being born in

Natal to do with it?

Wo. Nothing...

Ed. Wore you born in Natal?: Un. No.

I.

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