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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. · WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1934..

HERE ARE THE

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-for 1934

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NOTES OF THE DAY WHERE THE NEW The Very Idea!

THE TUNG WAH

DEAL

FAILS

By COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT

MORE PIPS AND SQUEAKINGS

By George

Wm the arrival of the

mosquito for his sum- mer vacation in Hongkong a new style in arms and legs is heralded:

THEN the national Democra- cancelled on allegations of fraud

tic Administration Look and collusion. office far-reaching policies were We believe that the principles Initiated with the statement that of liberty are bound up in our they wore in the nature of emor system of government, which es gency measures,

tablished three branches, oach to The new mosquito lays The President announced in check the other and preserve the the cutest little bumps and effect in January that theso mea-liborty of the

people. sures were to become a permanent! 420

The great governmental organi. blotches at plain and fancy part of our governmental scheme.zations are usurping day by day angles and guarantees a free in his new book he does not deny more of the legislative functions, pattern in red pimples which that his Administration polleles They are usurping the judicini will stand the wear and tear of are revolutionary. Homeroly also, for they not merely promul- the climate for several weeks, stater that if his Administration gate the regulations but impose Should you suffer from a pale "Is ឆ revolution it is a peaceful pennities for violation, decido on complexion the mosquito will give one."

what violation may bo and pro- you a free face lift, and should To-day we must face squarely nounce ti. penalties themselves. Inertia be your trouble, our little as an issue whether we, tho

The attitude of the NRA is friend will give you enough scratch- American people, wish to see our miliaristic. Prussiantom. It is a ing to replace your slimming exer Government changed J the bullying, bulldozing frame of ciscs. fashion which these measy \ro- mind that is foreign to anything vide. I do

our ancestors would have per not intend at to discuss their economic

h.mitted, The vital question now in their effect upon our constitutional The great federal organizations differentiated. rights and liberties.

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245

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1934.

LAND SETTLEMENT SCHEMES

Individunt

The mosquito bite should not be confused with the cheaper and less effective fica nip or the tender dig of the wasp. They can be easily

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THROUGH OFFICE WINDOWS.

First of all we must tell you how we enjoyed Whitsuntido.

The weather was glorious accord-. ing to the paper and the beaches were crammed with people engeriy absorbing the ultra-violet rays, the ozone, and sandwiches

But for us none of these things. Whille happy holiday-makers gale. livunted about in next to nothing onjoying the liberty of the In- dependent citizen we sat with our do not think the handing down to noses to the grindstone, our hand children of great amount is either to the plough, and our shoulder to just or healthy for a community. the wheel, managing in this dif-

om speaking .now for

The Tung Wah Hospital's reply lo criticism concerning the prac tice controlling admisalons of patients to that institution and to other local hospitals passes over without comment the incident that gave rise to the specifle complaint against the Tang Wah. The cho la not met by a long way. It la possible that the parents of the child were referred to the G.C.II. That cannot be ascertained without furtiior investigation. There no doubt that they did not go and It is conceivable that, as with so many Chinese, the custom-inspired distrust of foreign medicines exceeded their desire to secure immediate treatment. There is a peril In, trenting all "accident" chaos alike. The Tung Wah is or should be peculiarly fitted to meet the needs of people of the foreign doctor-shy type, even if they moot with an accident. What would have been more interesting, to the public, too, than the explanations given would have been an indica- flon of who are the arbiters of admissions to the Tung Wah and whether attendants at the reception entrance, without medical quali fications, are authorised to use

that have been sot on foot, such

If it is a wasp's sting you should- their discretion. Chinese atten- The so-called New Deal is not as the NRA, the AAA, etc, ewcop find some of the animal's rear dants at government hospitals have liberal and is not new. It in aside state lines and extend their sticking to the wound, and a search been known to take for too much reactionary and un-American be- tentacles down into the com- of the premises will reveal whether upon themselves when dealing cause it carries as its logical con-munity, prescribing the details of the offender was a flea. Aв a with Chinese would-be patients. It clusion some type of autocratic existence in city and in country safeguard against these impersona should not be necessary to stress government. If it is fixed upon All these undertakings have tors fly-catchors dabbed in treacle that public. anxiety in this matters, it predicates for the future an brought in their train an ever can be hung from the knee while Is not based upon " solitary autocrat rather than a President. Increasing army of employees. sitting and wound round the legs Incident.

We do not believe in any form The Federal Government has in le puttees when walking. of nuteeracy for our country and its employ now more than 611,000 THE HONOURS SYSTEM

we intend to fight to the utter employees. Incidentally, the an- we nual salaries of the employees Long discussions in Canada inost any movements which

Our taken on for these now ventures over the advisability of citizens feel tend toward that end,

Constitution Was founded for is more than $100,000,000, there accepting tities of honor

This army is searching into the from the British Crown have liberalism and as a defence of the

everyone, regulating, caused Englishmen to review the rights of the individual. It was affairs of question of the honoura system based on the Declaration of Indeprescribing punishing infringe

Every amendment to ments of their codes. Individual In relation to the needs of modern pendence.

to Inftiative and industry, far from democracy. One quality ascribed our Constitution that stands to the British custom in this mat-day has its purpose some further being rewarded, are penalized.

Government, I am not speaking now for ter should be of especial interest. liberalizing of the It is contended that the habit of some further protection of the closasal fortunes, I do not believe rowarding distinguished politi

injustice.in them, nor in big sums of money against cal services with exalted necin! These provisions are jeopardized Kalned by speculation or chance 'An old idea is being revived distinction Is

one of the main and have been violated during the by the suggestion that small reasons for the integrity and past year, holdings should be provided for honesty of the British political

Liherty of the people includes: unemployed who have been un- were really so, it would be a

and governmental world,' If this their rights to criticize their own the millions of Amoricans who cult position to turn out our daily Of course Wo were not alone.. small prospects of finding joba i dimicult to accept it without qual. Trol or prohibit this criticism is afpolicles and to whom belong the The Old Man set us a good example, able to obtain work and have mast important point. But It' la Government, Any attempt to con- hold the 65,000,000 life insurance quota for the schile and perverted. $24,000,000,000 In the savings which we didn't follow, by coming The Minister of Agriculture, Mr. aftary honoure

fication, for the system of here- stop on the road to autocracy.

No more striking example of the banks accounts. was already in

Under the prescat scheme they couldn't follow, by leaving early. Walter Elliott, announced last force in the eighteenth century, violation of this principle could dare the ones who are suffering.

carly: and another, which week that if a Small Holdings whop British politics were notor-given than the ease of Cold Lind It is their savings and their life dew. We were sulzed with a ware As we tore up our first Very Association for England and iously corrupt, while song after burgh. When he protested Wales were formed to provide the war, grave suspicions were criticized the action of the Ad-insurance policies which are con- a self-pity, "Poor Very Idea", re plots for suitable unemployed widely

"conceived in tortured thought, this ministration in cancelling the air-fiscated when the currency is do

mail contracts, a deliberate and based. It is on them the taxation anguish after nights of pain; born men, the Government would con- system was a source of corruption. concorted attempt was set on foot brought about by the wild extra in poverty, mental starvation, and tribute up to £50,000 annually

to discredit him In the eyes of the vagance in Washington falls with п struggle for existence; and for three years on the basis of RIGHT MOTIVES

public by trying to show that he crushing force.

dragged out into the burning light El for every £2 subscribed by

Those who are directing the so- of publicity by the scruit of its non-State sources by the Asso-democracy calls for equal op- motives were base in that he had rogimontation of the people. Un

It may be pointed out that fuli was a publicity-seeker, and by

endeavouring to prove that his called Now Deal say It predicates mental neck." ciation. He added that a thou-portunities for all. Inequalities pro

At this point the typewriter sand acres for such a scheme of inheritance and inequalities of profited to an undue extent by his der regimentation all initiative is began pawing the ground in ita had been promised by Mr. Mal rank both militate against this, connection with the development taken from the people. The con- eagerness to be off, so we gave it a ception apelis autocracy and kick in the pants and wrote the colm Stewart. It has been said Rocial provisions of such things speech is a free, uncensored press. state and subject to the will of

but the former can be modified by of the air servico.

Equally Important with free sheepliko people, dependent on the above. that to put a man on a small holding is to condemn him to a public education, art galleries, Resolute attempts of the press to the autocrat. hard-labour-for-life, with no than can the latter. Nevertheless, asserted in the NRA code were museums, etc., far more effectively

have--guarantee of this freedom. thing to show for it in the end. I neither the honours system or denied. The Secretary of Agri- fought in order that "Government here on a writ which says you owe

Lincoln Baid the Civil War was A rather different story, has, the system of social uniformity however, been told by a Scottishhis a clean and straight advantago

Wallace, stated of the people, by the people, for M P. who recently concluded a

publicly that if tho present the people shall not perish from over the other sufficiently obvious

to the earth." The doctrines of the tour of small holdings in the to justify in either case the schemes in Washington are West of Scotland, where he turies-old tradition. Either can public opinion. Controlled public nouncement as a worthless scrapi sudden abandonment of a work there must be a "controlled" Now Deal discard Lincoln's pro- found success and prosperity be, and has been, productive of opinion is censorship. It violates of paper. The New Deal holds the general rule. The men, he good; and both require working vitiates the First Amendment to state. In so holding it gives the the principles of free speech and that the individual exists for the says, are not only paying their with right motives of unselfish- rents, but are making a

lle to the words that have been the Constitution. goodness and service. profit. The reasons arc two- fold, it appeară,

The holders LEISURE HOURS specialise in poultry and pigs, fruit, flowers and vegetables,

A new face of “scientists" has and they are near a ready maraflirmations that the future holds up out of the repeated

This principio was violated by the hard-bought gains for liberal ket, within two or three miles in stero the prospect of greater

the national Administration in fam and individual liberty are lost. of a big town. Obviously it letsure for all. The leisuredlo- the air-mail contracts. Suddenly

Wo stand for the spirit of the must be along some such lines gists have after deep research, un-

and arbitrarlly all contracts were| (Continued on Next Column.) as these that any lund settle-covered 700 soparate and distinct ment policy must procced if it ways to employ leisure time. is to make an effective con- With the active quest still going tribution to the problem of un-701 at any moment. Faced with

on, the

number

may be increased to employment. The trouble is, the proposition that changing however, that agriculture is economic conditions are to give already overcrowded and that the horn of leisure another tilt, unless new areas are opened up, experts are searching for and the situation will be complicated wide for hobbies that may legiti by bringing in now workers, mately be tagged as useful and In some Continental countries, beneficial.

it is interesting to note, artisans employed in towns cultivate

grown

HOBBIES

více na

entertained

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that

cen-

never

small holdings during the week. The lolourcologists, however, ends and in their leisure hours, are said to be concerned chiefly In the opinion of one British with those persons who economist, at least ten thousand and probably would buy a jockey have been introduced to a hobby, holdings of this type could be suit to ride one. It may be that established in the United King- a list of hobbies, plain and fancy, dom, and an effort is being made will be prepared for prospective to urge the Government to make hobbyists, with such expert ad some such plan an essential part seck. When the plan

doubtful applicants may of its programme. The fact might as well be faced, however, thoroughly orgauteed and set into that the carrying out of such a

motion, the demand for hobbles

become plan would be much more dif- community will have its Brother

may

so great that every ficult than in, say, Germany or load of Hobbyists in which Idona Belgium. In these countries the and oven hobbies may be divorce of the artisans from the changed. Hobbies may be divided and has never been really com- into two main classifications-the plete. Many of them have al- they will reach into

outdoor and indoor. Undoubtedly ways been half-farmer, half-

nimont evary artinan, with the result that the

conceivable activity, what is be another people have never lost complete man's hobby. One hobby contact with the land. The be very popular as a means of One hobby, and to lesson is that it is infinitely employing leisure time, has been easier to proserve a peasantry alsolutely barred. Moro ability than it is to recreate it after it at frittering cannot be consider. has been once destroyed.

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UNREPORTED CASES.

Wo

"Judge: "Well George you are this firm $300, What is it fort

Us: Provisions, my Lord” What sort of provisions? Liquid, My Lord.

Well, do you admit the debt? Yes, but I have no money to pay. What is your income? Nothing for three suonths. Why is that?

It's all booked for other creditors,

We consider as one of the basic devised to cloak, its purpose, for principles of liberalism that overy this no now deal. It is the old My Lord.

But after three months you will man should be given his day in donl from which we have beon prejudged or denied a hearing. court and that no one should be rising through years of struggle. have money to pay this debt?

If the su-called New Deal prevails, Yes, My Lord. But I deny

fability in that case,

"Oh, come on, daddy, I want to look at theso dresses?

Remember that you are on oath. Now do you really mean to say you do not owe this money?

I do not.

You do not what?

Admit anything, My Lord. I am a poor man. I have been out of work for a long time and have only just got a job. My wife has starved for weeks that our children could have their daily

Ovaltine.

Why then did you run up this. extravagant account for liquor?

I had to have something, My Lord, to help me through those black days when I was tempted to throw myself In the Harbour 'to end the futility and hopelessness of life. Besides the bear was bad. Judge visibily, moved tums to plaintiff who is to be seen wiping eyes with handkerchief.

Plaintiff: I admit the beer was bad but so was his cheque.

Judgo That is no excuse Bad liquor is the cause of most of the cases that come before me and my own cases are not always what one desires. Case dismissed with coats against plaintiff and here's pips to your Adam's Apple.

Same to you, Judge.

Constitution and the liberties. It guarantees the people. Wo in- tend by conference and study to dovolop to meet our economic pro- blema liberal policies which do not jeopardize our rights and our form of government All those who fuel ns we do must stand shoulder to shoulder in this move- ment. We must bring the young mon and young womon to front. The future of the nation le at stake.