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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.. TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1934.

REGISTERED

Everywhere.

VAUXHALL -Light Six 14 h.p.

MY 1934*

THE CAR SUCCESS

of the YEAR *STANDARD SALOON

-£210

DE LUXE SALOON

-£230

WDY. 10 IT TRAT ONE CAR SHOULD INTRREST 80 MÀNT PEOPLET Because the Vauxhall Light Bla has fexture

NOTES OF THE DAY WILL YOUTH RID The Very Idea!

HITLER HOMILY.

Herr Hitler and Signor Musso- |lini are still the sole repositories of what really transpired int Ventes, but there is one thing that Herr. Hitler has been untále ta conceal, that his, visit han Im proved neither his outlook nor his tone. Back his own country, he seizes the first opportunity to shout challenge; supposed to have impressed Il Duce as a dreamer, the Nazi leador no sooner crosses the German border than hu blossoms forth afresh as the man

of action. An interesting paychu logien atuly seems to be offered, perhapa furnishing an important elue to the Nazi destiny for the observer acute enough and cap able of conducting the analyst The Immediate concern, however, Is Hitler's message and here there ส nothing encouraging. .He seems plausible enough uncritical- ly examined. In a nutshell, he demands universal adoption of the That distinctive. Vauxhall appestañon for those who must be among leaders of fashion. Cult of narrow nationalism. Let Venzha Baper-Synebre-Mesh Fear Britain look after her own affairs, change for those who want fool-proof, care and the French after theirs, and

driving. The unique No-Draught ventilation system at somfort Drink

seating for leave the Nazis to run Germany all want climbing and acceleration to keep ahead exactly as they will. This is the drivers abead on the road. And yet, wilt lucrudest ideology even if it com- surprisingly low-running expen the Lighttains a kernel of commonsense. 9lx h the ideal car for the family man who watches every penny! The falliment of your ilght car needs will be found in the Vauxhall WAVE OF FEAR Light Six.

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Hong Kong Hotel Garage Stubbs Road.

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1934.

THE FREE PORT ISSUE

Value in the Hitler hemity can only lie in causing governments to reflect upon their responsibili- tics. Undoubtedly, andite alten tion has been devoted to foreiga affairs; the wave, of fear has clouded the entire horizon; dona- tic cares have been, to a large extent, neglected. That there ja # distinct relationship be tween this development and his own activities would either not occur to Herr Hitler or would not Impress him. In any case, it is stil arguable that if the nations as.4 whole concentrated for a while

upon putting their own houses in order, the close of such regime might reveal much less cause for anxiety in international affairs.

A MAD MIXTURE

discover a запо

WORLD OF POVERTY?

REG SOCKS - ONE:

By George "The Golden Candareen"!

Sixth Instalment

JEEJEEBHOY sighed.

was within a few

BỊ PRESTONIA MANN MARTIN OR a number of years previous all their lives, driven by the need to working out the Notions to live coupled with fear of the Livelihood Plan outlined in my wolf of poverty always waiting at little book "Prohibiting Poverty," the door. Under such a system It had seemed to mo that the chief the conditions of peace and iclaure evil in our social system was not, which, are essential for the full hundred yards of meeting Madge as the Socialists were always tell ripening of spiritual

tual qualities are. and already his hawk-like eye ing us, financial inequality under not generally attained and millions (we forgot to say that Jeejeeb which some were rich and others of people, worn out, without ever- poor, but the fluancial Insecurity having possessed the chance to hoy carried a nurble where his rich and poor. which menaced all classes, both bring to fruitage the talents which other optic should have been, the Nobbdy was unfo; lay deep within their natures. In transformation having been nobody could be sure that his their quiet, sorene moments, many means, whether grent or small, feel atirring within them hidden elected by an accident with a might not vanish overnight. powers and possibilities, but they toothpick whilst Jeufeebhoy was This fact was brought home to are saddened by the knowledge at a school, party) and already me in a painful manner when I that these never can be developed, his hawk-like cyo (owing to the The National, Livelihood I'lan young girl. My father, as would seek to free mankind for extra work imposed on it, the xious to provide for the safety of well-known company, and for nine provide that a national livelihood keen that we feel justified In his family, insured his life in a over from this bondage. It would remaining eye had become so years. he set Baide every month in baste necessarles should be using the appellation hawk-like) $100 to pay the premium. Some the efforts of the nation's young and atrendy his hawk-like eye months it was hard to find the money, but he and my mother people between the ages of 18 and

was roving the seashore look- saved and sacrificed and always 26, as a continuation of their pubing for a place where he might managed to squeeze out the ro- school education. Upon the quired sunt. At the end of the completion of their service they berth his craft. nino years the

company failed and would pass into free competitive

where, however, they Jeejeebhoy nighed. nino years savings vanished. society, My father turned thereafter to would be provided during all of savings banks for safety. In the furnished by the labours of the their lives with an adequate living present depression they, too, and fresh relays of young recruits al- every other known means of obtaining financial security have ways coming up from the schools Junk. failed.

and taking their places in the

wna a

the

furnished to the whole nation by

I became convinced that all ranks. forms of money insurance were This plan sounds simple enough; illusive and that the only real the social consequences flowing security for old age lies in some from it, however, are enormous. arrangement whereby-as in ear- Poverty would be banished for ller times the old who can no aver and the fear of poverty, longer work shall be taken care Unemployment, as we know it, and of by the young who are fresh and the fear of it, would be gone. strong.

Crime could not fail to be dimin- sized when all of the young men, ous age, were kept atrictly and une- at their most restless and danger.

task is accomplished would find fully at work, and when

their

As he did so his hawk-like eye "udrienly alighted on two Chinese who were swimming behind the

Enensed in re buoys they were rapidly overhauling the junk, using the dog paddle stroke with their handy and walking on the bottom with their feet. In their teeth they held knives, revolvers, chop- pera, and machine guhs whilst the one furthest away was also chew- ing his moustache.

Holding up his handkerchief to the wind Jeejeebhoy found he was able to add a couple of knots to his speed.

Ray Noble & His Orch.

Ray Noble & His Orch.

Rale Da Costa.

How to establish a due claim on the part of the old upon the Raie Da Costa.

labours of the young as a national policy, without placing too heavy a burden upon the young, was the Raie Da Costa.

problem. A decent, honest day's themselves safely provided with a work was all that could justly bo Hivelihood for life and therefore Raie Da Costa.

required of a young person. The free of much of the incitement to The controversy on the ques-

question was: Could the effects of crime. Paul Robeson. tion of the retention of the

that day's work be so multiplied. Best of all, perhaps, men would

Not to be outdone the Chinese Paul Robeson. Colony's free port status has

That is as high as the Hitler by machinery as to suffice for nine then return to the normal human also took out their handkerchiefs case can be put. And it was or ten other persona beside the practice of living by working und tied knots in them. Alfredo & His Orch. been taken a stake further in the hardly worth establishing. Es worker himself? I becamo con-

(their own work) and not as now, Alfredo & His Orch. response made by Mr. F. A.entially, the Nazi attitude provinced, and this view was cor- by selling. Independence would They were only a few yards be- grarume is the uegation of inter- roborated by experts, that it could then return. A man's well-being, hind when Jeejeebhoy conceived Derickson & Brown. Sir William Shenton's invitation standing and can

Joseph and Mr. S. H. Dodwell to national cooperation and under-be done. Indeed, it is believed and his very existence, would then his iden. Derickson & Brown. for a general discussion on the helpful to Germany than it is as our machinery our total output players, upon banks or upon some member that he had pilfered the

be до more that by enlarging and multiplying depend not upon markets and cus- tomers, foreign trade and em- Jack Hulbert.subject. Up to the present,advice to the rest of the world. could be expanded to almost any

Picking up a sack (you will re Jack Hulbert, however, it has not been made Nations can. no more confine desired extent.

body else's "purchasing power" C-2661 "Three Sisters" Selection-Parts 1 & 2

quite clear whether the novo-themselves to their own borders cates of a change in the existing outlook in

to-day, than can

The general financial insecurity but upon his own efforts properly Steam Laundry's junk) he threw New Mayfair Orch. system base their plea primarily ceptance of the fact, prepared na affect upon our people. Old stand also his country's safety and wel-mouth and lay still.

permenting our society is bound to directed and scientifically organit straight at his leading purauer. Intro: "Circus Queen;" "Now that I have a Spring Time:" on the desirability of protecting they

recognition and ae-have an extremely, demoralleing ised to further not only his but The sock coiled once round his "Somebody wants to go to sloop;" "Roli on, local industries from foreign admit it. Small wonder

arc platitudinously toards of business honesty began to fare. Rolling Road:" "You are doing very well:" "Hand competition, or on the iden of thinkers spend most of their time frantic desire to acquire money in All boys and girls, when they leave struck by a stone."

that give way under the pressure of The plan itself is very simple. The unfortunate man sank as if in Hand:" "What good are Words:" "I won't free trade between the various speculating on how it will all end. order to safeguard one from pover high school at 18, would be put Dance;" "Lonely Foct;" Finalc,

units of the Empire. If the Herr Hitler talks in the terms of ty and the humiliating dependence to work in a national industrial Two bubbles and a cockroach former, it would appear that in some special directions, as we which all classes dread.

the eighteenth century, and acts,

upon family, friends, or charity army for eight years, using showed his grave as Jeejeebhoy. nothing short of high tariffs may expect the world to act. al-rear generated an unnatural greed utmost-perfection. The stupend thirteenth victim with a notch in This machinery and organisation to the took off his shoe and marked his would-be of real value, and even most generally, Mr. Dodwell would prefer pre-

perhaps twenty servation of the free port status America's futurists, and France's work for it stimulated the crime-which cannot be done at pres- years hence. Britain's idealists, was casier to steal money than to machinery, if run at full capacity

for money. The feeling that its productive power of modern his big toe nail. to action in this direction. On realists, all manage to talk fifty impulse."

ent--would the issue of Imperial reciprocity, yearn hence and act diplomatically

enable these young. we at once encounter a difficulty

like the eighteenth century.

The tragedy of our criminal re-workers not only to supply all of which Mr. Dodwell is not alow DEFEATISM IN THE CHURCH

cord, especially among young men, their own basic needs, but would may take its origin in the thought furnish the entire nation with a to perceive-namely, the fact

that haunts them: "Why slave all livelihood, in such fundamental that the great bulk of this

#9 one's life to save up a little, only necessaries trend of thought Colony's products, such as they carries us along to Bishop Hall's time?" This thought led also to

food, clothing, to have

it swept away

at any tion.

shelter, transportation and protec- are, are produced under condi- remarkable sermon at the Cathedral undue extravagance and reckless

Their service completed, the tions which would not be to- on Sunday. It was remarkable in expenditures, often for vien.. "Let young people would leave the na- junk stewed into bank; its engine lerated in the Mother Country or suggestion, admission or confes-

a score of way-particularly the as eat, drink and be merry, for tlonal organisation and disperse to

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It was characteristic of the man that he did not throw an- other sock at the second-par- Buer. The man was out of reach and anyhow there couldn't be another sack like that in the laundry of the entire Colony. With a faint gurgle of relief the

the Dominions. It is perfectly sign that the Sermon on the Mount to-morrow the banks may fail and their homes, where they would be kicked once in the stern and Jee-

does not work

true, as Mr. Dodwell points out, that factory regulations in Hong-dividual life. In the midst of so

even in the in-wipe out our savings.” kong are much more rigorous much outspoken truth and so much

LIVELIHOOD PLAN: than in mest other parts of the that was helpful, it was astonish-security of fortune leads to a con- Worst of all, this general in- East. Our workers, too, com- ing to find this almost all-pervaddition in which the vast majority pared with those of China Pro- does not work becomes to mean

ing attitude

of defeatism. The of the people must toll unceasingly. per, may be described 48 being that it can not work. not too badly off. But the

And if that dominant fact is that the local for the future.

is true. there disappears hope wage standard is so low when disagree with Bishop Hall's main For one must compared with that of England contention, that it is impossible, and the Dominions that there is for any group to act morally in a natural disposition on their

relation to another group, and part to protect their markets retain belief in a

future. for from the competitive effects of

civilisation. Granted that national

n code

our lowly-paid labour. This groupings offer an exceedingly very circumstance would appear within them even Churches lend unfertile geil, especially when to rule out the possibility of any themselves to plan of Imperial reciprocity. nationai patriotisms as a par- the cultivation of One other point remains, amount virtue. namely, the question of in-state, upon which the Bishop ati But can the world ducing China to grant prefer too lightly touched, be pictured ential treatment to Hongkong. without a constitution of inter- Neither Mr. Dodwell nor Mr. in a variety of nekds-all con-

locking

groupings-world controls Joseph are under any delusions forming to a universal code of on this issue the hazards the shrewd guess that one of the first essentials, furnish-

fornier morality? Is not such China might want as a quid pro ing the driving force to at least quo something very much more the majority of thinking men, be than retention of our free. port fore a world state can

emerge? status, whilst Mr. Joseph per. And is not the development tinently raises the most-favour-

that code grinding gradual, ed-nation question. Up to the the nuclei that ave the way to- well-nigh heart-breaking task for present, the only concrete pro day? The Church must lead if it. posal put forward on the general in not to be left issue is Mr. Joseph's idea of moment, it

out. At the ihorough Investigation by a re-looking a growing alloglance to the appears to be over- presentative Economic Com-material conception of history. mittee. For ourselves, whilst

we have not yet encountered any theories in one direction or. the compelling arguments appearing other. The cold facts of the to justify the experiment of a altuation should be impartially. departure from the Colony's examined, with a view to follow; traditional policy, we freelying the course shown to be in the concede that the present is no best interests of the Colony as time in which to persist in pet Ta whole.

provided for the remainder of icebboy was there! their lives with all the necessaries of life to be furnished by the ing up from the schools and taking labours of the fresh recruits com their places in the ranks they have (Continued on Page 5.)

"Is this all you havo? I don't find these very amusing"

(As we promised, Jeefecbhoy is now defintely on his way. Unless we have taken him round in a circle he should be on the same side of the Harbour a Mador by nogo. What will he do to her when he finds her hair done up in meat skewers? WIN he cakew her? Questions, like this can wait but they won't ex- plain why Jeejeebhoy didn't throw the second sock. What we said about there not being an- other sock like it in the Colony was all blarney. The laugh is on Jeejeebley because ke has thrown one of his DIVIL ROCKS away! In to-morrow's thrilling instalment of this heart-aching drama we are finally going to bring together these two central figurce of romance and passion, While we have been dealing with Jeofeebhoy, Madge has been cat chop sucy and now, overcome with

dropsy and romoras, sho lies half in and half off her bed wait- ing for succour. Will Reg be. the sucker! And which half is on the bed? These and other disturbing matters will have to be gone. into to-morrow unles we can get sumo contributor to write about dogs. Meanwhile we. feel that we have punished Jee- jeebhoy enough to take away his puratiera. We have already caused him to take away some. toe-mail. Besides we are clear ing the stapa for a little love making and we don't want any interference. The amah is read ing an old English edition of Chaucer's poems and can be kept out of the way!)

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