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IF IT IS

Boots

IT IS BETTER !!

THE EVER INCREASING DEMAND FOR THE MEDICINES AND TOILET PREPARATIONS OF BOOTS PURE DRUG CO., LTD., PROVES THE POPULARITY OF THIS FAMOUS

FIRM.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

THE HONGKONG

6 TUBE MODEL

$150.00 Not.

Est.

DEPOT

FOR

BOOL

PURE DRUG CO LTD.

THE HONGKONG

HERE ARE THE

VAUXHALLS -for 1934

Old traditions-new concep- tions translated into 'motor cars of distinction-enjoyable alike to enthusiast and averago motorist.

"BIG SIX" [Successor to CADET) 5 Passongor Saloon

TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY

BRITAIN'S REVENUE

The British people are fast be- coming incurabls optimists, 60 aharply does the industrial situa- tion contrast with the bleak outlook of even two years ago. It was characteristic of this now spirit, which has little real tangible basis nt the moment, tradó still being

DON'T

BLAME

EVOLUTION

By DOUGLAS JERROLD

Nassertion," said the great|

The Very Idea!

MORE CHIT-CHAT By George

WE received

sive from Bane-Aw-

fords to-day in which they pursued their postal attack re outstanding account.

They say: Dear Sir or Madam,

"We have to thank you for your

!

further cuts in taxation. The modern world knowledge, the pop the rosemblance of men to monkeys letter of to-day ultimo (A.D./19-

£325

7 Passenger Limousine 550 420 Sports Coupo

Romney

Drop

Hoad

Coupo

370

Danton Close Coupled.

Coupo

Ryo Cabriolet

380 420

DISPENSARY

(A big car in miniature)

Standard Saloon

De Luxe Saloon

Coupe...

£210 230 245

RECOVERY CONTRASTS

(Hongkong delivered prices) Further particulars on request.

1841.

We have Received

Another Consignment of

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including 6, 7, 8 & 10 tube models.

"Patterson" sets are beautifully designed and constructed, while their popularity is proved by the fact we have sold every consignment received; it is the set which gets results.

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Easy Terms.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

The family of the late Mr. Le Cheung

shui wish to express their heart- felt thanks to reintives and friends for kind mesanges condolence, Rowers and attendance at the funeral.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1934.

ARMS TRAFFIC

of

many

34) and have duly noted and pointed out to our Mr. Edmond the correct spelling and

pronun- ciation of your name.

AN

Thirdly, we know that-all Iving Huxley, which outstrips creatures have certain anatomical far below that of the pre-depres- the evidence is not only a blunder. features in common and others sion yeare, that indications of good but a crime." In consideration of which look as though they had revenue returns should be followed. this principle the modern world once been in common. Fourthly, to by BIL immediate demand for ought to examine, in the light of leave anatomy behind and to come to more physical characteristics, Treasury replies that however good ar assertion that ovolution is

has probably won more converts the figures for the first quarter of proved. the

We have seen a whole range of to the lden of Evolution than any financial year, they do not represent a sound standard for beliefs and practices grow up un-thing else. estimating the results of the year.der the prompting of the belief in WHAT PRINCIPLE MEANS. Mr. Duff Cooper did not even admit Evolution. We are told that what that a shrewd idea could be obtain-was good enough for our fathera This is a fair statement of the Whilst according this matter the ed. Mr. Neville Chamberlain cannot, because we are evolving, real "ovidence" for Evolution, but Importance which it undoubtedly doubtless reminded him that there be good enough for us. Forms of it is very easy to show that none deserves, we respectfully her to may be certain armaments bills to government, questions of morals, of it is evidence at all for Evolu- point out that your letter hardly face shortly.

standards of decency, all are to- tion

Kenerally

understood. dealt with the matters at issue and day placed in the molting pot in When we speak of Evolution as did not enclose (as we had con- the name of Evolution:

principle we mean two things;fidently anticipated) a cheque for Mr. Baldwin bells us that the first, that mind came from matter $200 in settlement of your account. world in evolving so fast that what or is a function of matter; second-This wo feel sure is duc entirely to Was right yesterday is almostly, that all forms of life, including | forgetfulness on your part and How different the British re necessarily wrong to-day. Hence man, have evolved from one com-trust that you will not regard this covery method has been from that the White Paper, a wholesale sur mon source; ie, that there is a letter as anything but a well- adopted by the United States render of rights laboriously ac-direct link or series of links con-intentioned reminder. leaders, coping with a problem inquired, a wholesale denial of necting an with the earliest

respects similari The

responsibilities hitherto honour- forms or organic life. The whole British Government has moved ably discharged.

conception of Evolution, n the step by step, slowly, with the up-

word is used to-day, derives from pearance of cartinus deliberation.

the belief in these two things. President Roosevelt has aimed straight, with awift, direct blows, at its objectives. Britain began by limiting disaster, the Americans by stretching out their hands to prosperity, London by reducing ex- penditure, Washington by increas ing it. The process of restoring confidence In Britain has been ex- with the removal of certain causes hibited in two stages. It began

of fear, and passed on to the re- establishment of positive hope. | The first stage seemed all negative: the cutting down of State expendi- ture, reduction of salaries and of unemployment benefits, an incrense of taxation-a goneral tightening of the belt. Then, gradually and at first almost imperceptibly, the process of relaxing the pressure, ution by slow but sure degrees giving place to a spirit of more expansivo confidence and even optimism.

MENTAL CHANGE

INDUSTRY 15 "EVOLVING."

The rationalisers and the nation-

It is precisely in regard to the alisers tell us that industry is development of mind from matter small businesses must go. dence at all. The public na been "evolving," and that therefore and the development of one specica from another that there is no evi- pacifists tell us that the allons are evolving towards a world-state and that therefore we need no air

force.

getting children, say the apostles Marriage for the purpose of be- of the Eugenists, was all right To-day it is old- yesterday. fashioned, Human nature ia

We must move changing. the times. Let the State regulate who is to bear children and then let the State support them. The

with

rest of us can amuse ourselves.

As regards the future of the business horizon we must con- fess that the only thing out- standing as far as we can see,. are our clients' accounts; and the silver lining which you optimistically prophesy will, we are afraid, remain as thin as the linings of our own pockets. However we are glad to have

completely and ludicrously misled had this opportunity of exchanging views on the hoped-for dispersion by talk about the "missing link" They have never realised that all of the business depression and

driven to call that excellent crea-able and by transmitting a cheque the links are missing, so definitely feel confident that you will do | missing that evolutionists are your little bit towards this desir-

ture known as Archeopteryx a link, for $200 to us without delay. although Vialleton, the greatest anatomist of the twentieth century. denies that he is anything but a perfectly good bird.

Incidentally, it is interesting to note that Vialleton is supported in this vew by Berg, the most

But

Yours fly, Bane-Awfords.

Dear Bane-Awfords, (we begrun in reply)-Reverting to the little mutter on which tre had occasion to write to you yesterday (ultimo, of course) we regrot to say that your clerk sill holds the opinion that our name is spelt Smythe- Byllintone as against iterated assertion that the "B" in. Byllintone is a small b.

our re-

This however, is not the main subject of our communication to- day but we would mention in passing that we strongly protest against the suggestion contained in the words "Dear Sir or Madam" which we feel sure is. more a slip of the pen than of the mind.

· Take-again--work. We were brilliant of the Soviet scientists, brought up to think that work was who regretfully records that "the what produced wealth. To-day deeper our knowledge penetrates we are told that we are moving to into the domain of fossilis, the wards a new era

in which the further back recede inter-genetic main task of mankind will be the relations which, as it were, ever organisation of leisure. Work elude our grasp." must be restricted if mankind is to

The public, of course, was right become better-off, It is pleasing news to read that

To the old-fashioned all this link" as the key to Evolution,

in fastening on to the "missing the Arms Traffic Committee of

sounds topsy-turvy. But we are up the Disarmament Conference has

Looking back on the record wo against the universal blind faiththey were told that it was only be proceeded so far with its task has moved step by step with We live in an era of flux. What chain, and they therefore still Nee that this return of confidence of the present day in Evolution. tween ourselves and the monkey that there was any gap in tho that it has approved a drastic economic Improvement. The bud- was nonsense yesterday is sense draft convention aimed at regul-get, which was balanced with such to-day. It is, indeed, certain that assume that, as far as the rest of ating the manufacture and sale difficulty after the crisis of 1941. if this faith in Evolution began is a perfect series of links. It i

animal creation is concerned, there

We also wish to point out that of war materials. This is the by April, 1934, ensily produced a first step in the direction of a

even to waver, nine-tentha of our astounding to have to record, not such terms of endearment are handsome surplus. The balance post-war policies and ideals would as a guess but as a fact, that there hardly sustained by the further much-needed control of arma- of revenue over expenditure dur-be in the melting pot, for they is no single link in the whole of contents of your letter in which ment production, and if it is at your showed a surpins have, all of them, one characteris the fossil remains known to you

of £11,000,000,

press for payment of în by one way of the in common. They all rest on

amount of $200' which we have followed up by universal accept-reckoning, £38,000,000 by another. the assumption that what was im Acience between any two species. ance of thoroughgoing measures Figures of the registered unem-possible yostorday and to-day will fossil record was incomplete. It

We used to be told that the "overlooked." aimed at reducing the dangers to | ployed,

Such forgetfulness on our part. totalling only slightly be possible to-morrow. peace inherent in the private more than 2,000,000, were less by

is curious logic that rests its ease we would state most emphatically manufacture-of Arms, there some 800,000-than- they had been --ARGUMENTS-IN-FAVOUR.-upon the absence-of-evidence, but not, and never has been a part should be less fear of future at the bottom of the slump. The

let that pass. We now know, of our policy and we trust that we [wars than there now is. Before export trade, too, has at last taken in favour of Evolution first.

Now, let us take the arguments however, that the fossil record is shall never again be accused of a turn upward. And accompany-

To not incomplete. Mr. Dewar has negligence or slackness in our the World War, the manufacturing these material signs or begin with, it is evidence of a sort shown that every one of the attitude to business houses of ers of war materials had matters vival, it is the mental attitude both for ev in teple do not a fassil record, and that though It is on the basis of prompt and Evolution that many people modern European animals has left such large ramifications as yours. pretty much their own way. of the Government and of the peo- Under the cloak, of patriotism, ple that has changed from stolid rule belleve in anything intrinsi-there are only forty-eight genern punctual reciprocation that the they argued that they merely determination to buoyancy and cally absurd.

of European land mammals alive credit of great businesses stands supplied the means which en-

cager expectation.

In the second place, there is one to-day, we have fossil records of and we trust that we shall continue abled their respective nations to

fact of Evolution which is beyond no less than eighty genern. Why to go forward, hand in hand, to- argument. We know, beyond ques- have the countless thousands of wards the achievement of an era defend themselves against NEW ENTERPRISE

tion, that the Derby winner is an intermediate types between man of unexampled prosperity as in- possible enemies, But this

evolved product. We know that and the jelly-fish failed to fossilizedicated in our letter of the day claim has been shown to be quite

breeding and environment (albeit while an overwhelming proportion before yesterday untenable by revelations proving

It is as if, during the first two many generations of both), are all (and, in the case of the land mam-course) and ref. A.D./1934. that they sell their wares not years of Britain's inconspicuous that separate the village idiot from mala 100 per cent) of the genera only to their own country, but to busied itself exclusively with dig that a

recovery plan, the Government had the wiseal of mankind. We know we know have produced all-comers. Thus it has been ging deep and laying the concrete plant heredity has beautified our only answer that a reasonable man knowledge of the law of authentic fossil pedigree? The disclosed that British troops at foundations of national finance on gardens.

(Continued on Page 10.) Gallipoli in the World War were which the ballding was to be shot down by shells which the erected. And it has often seemed Turks bought from Britain, us if it thought that its sole duly while French troops during the was to lay those foundations, and same war were slaughtered by to leave the building itself ex guns which the Bulgarians and But now some of the girders are clusively to private enterprise, Turks purchased from ·grent ready to be put in position, and French armament firm. It is of these some at least are of State noteworthy that whereas world manufacture. The voting of mil- trade for many years past haslions of publle money for invest- shown a steady and very largement in the Cunardera was the of the decrease, world export of muni firat dramatic indication

Government's

attitude. Iow

Al- tions has shown a much less de- ercase. Taking 100 as the index most simultaneously came the an

nouncement that the Government for 1928, world trade in 1933 had had decided on a new national fallen to 36, but the export trade housing policy based on the pro-1 in munitions had fallen only to vision of money grants from the 75. Moreover, export trade in Exchequer. The growth of sast expressca munitions only tells part of the kind of confidence story. It has, in fact, becn itself in new enterprise has ar estimated that the

rived at last. The stage

over. foundation-laying 18

The

average

•

of

military expenditures of sixty cranes which were lowering the countries during the past five concrete are now raising the years have reached the enormous girders. sum of £800,000,000 per annum. According to authoritative Lea-

It

gue of Nations figures, the per-keep track of the facts, but the centages of world trade in arms intest statistics, those for 1931, and munitions amongst some of show exports of arms totalling the principal countries in 1913 over £3,000,000 and of munitions were:-France, 8.8: Britain, aggregating £3,500,000. 32.8; Austria, 3.7; the United must be remembered also that in States, 12.2. In 1929, the those countries which have largo French figures had risen to 15.4, public and private factories the the British to 37.8, and the production is undoubtedly many United States to 16.6, while times greater than the actual ex- Czecho-Slovakia had more than ports. So long as blg profits are taken the place of Austria with to be made from this traffic in 4.9. Owing to the labour. in arms, so long will wars and volved and the difficulty of secur- rumours of wars continue to be ing reliable figures, It is hard to encouraged.

"Would you be interested in a little business proposition, mister?

AN

(ultimo,

Yra affectionately,

·A.J.M, Smythe-byllintone.

•

CONTRIBUTED.

of

Song About Sally the Cat Sally the Cat was a prim litko cat

And every inch a lady, Iler lover on the mat

Ginger Cat,

was tho

Whose past was rather shady. He tried all the wiles known to

cats on the tiles,

But to love him couldn't force her. Ti ho put the "ow" in her

"mi-now,"

Then, ho was the cream in her

saucer.

She said, "What is love, tai-aow!” He said, "I will show you how-to-w. "When I go out with a lady cat "I don't buy her this and I don't

bay her that,

"But do we wer life on the front

door mat?

"Mi-now-ow-ow-ow-aw«01, **

She said, "Is it right, mi-now?i He said, "Well, it's cheap, any-

how-w-wew.

"When a lady cat goes out with

ma

"I don't buy her lunch and I

don't buy her tea,

"But the garden's ours and the

moon in free.

"Mi-aow-ow-01-018-02-01.

He said, Love te life, mi-aow. "It's the wherefore, why, and tha

ho10-10-10-10-10.

"Though it don't do old 'cals,

very much good,

"They're not so bad when they're

in the mood,

"And it's what the gipsies play

in the wood,

She said, "Do you, love me-nowf"; He said. "Not very much noum10="

Her kittens numbered one to ton. She said, "That's all you get

from men, "Sail nailer trust a man spea