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THURSDAY, JANUARY

NOTES OF THE DAY

EMPIRE AND PEOPLE.

In the spring of 1935 the whole Empire will unite to celebrate the Silver Jublico of his Majesty the King-Emperor.

bo 'B will

great occasion which we should strive worthily to commemorate, and we do not

It

1935.

WHOSE CRIMES ARE THESE?

whose

By: GERALD BARRY

sate-

The Very Idea!

WE GET EVEN

By George

THE passing out of the Old Year witnessed

SUPPOSE we are all glad that sibility than any single human Mrs. Brownhill, sentenced to being can safely be allowed to know if the Imperial Government death for putting her lunatic son exercise. But will the day not many other passing outa and the Governments of the Do- minions, which will meet in London out of his misery, has been re- come when, under proper

Some made pigs of themselves. on that occasion, have yet consulted prieved and is likely to be granted guards, such as the certificate of Call us up for a

the a free pardon. But what a sorry two or more qualified doctors, the The piggiest pig is the un- togother upon what might be demonstration

best memorial. If we lock at the farce that the law should have law will allow the helpless im-known who stole a pig which Fyou're a big car motorist-problem broadly we see that it was

one of the Hotels. if you enjoy the feel of a the work of our ancestors to make compelled the judge to pronounce becile and the hopeless sufferer to had been won in a fair, fight at

be gently put away?

We saw the place After the Ball powerful engine purring under a great Empire which their chil the death sentence!

It was plain from the outset that Like the problem of abortion, was Over it was a regular litter. the bonnet-if you like the dren should inhabit; but we have to confeas that great tracts of this luxury of a big, roomy saloon-heritage are still empty and unde- this unhappy woman, this devoted which would not arise if there The Road Hogs of Hongkong were this is your car. At £325 this voloped. The local Increase of mother

balance, kept wore full knowledge and free just a hiccup in comparison. new 27 h.p. Vauxhall Big Six is population is slow, and largely con through long years of hopeless exercise of birth-control, the prob- New Year's Eve certainly took remarkable value-for-money. It centrated in great cities. Many of is an all-feature car, with entirely the spaces between are little moretending of a suffering imbecile, lemn of euthanasia in the case of the ell out. of style! Taipans in In Canada and snapped at last under the strain imbeciles would not arise if mental paper hate-blondes in even less- automatic chassis lubrication, then scratched. vacuum controlled ignition, Australia especially, and also in of a now fear, so that she did a deficiency were tackled earlier on the nice boys in evening dress and these blase people, like us, who Synchro-Mesh, easy gear change, many other parts of the Empire, deed that made her technically by means of sterilisation. Pedomatic starting, self-return- there are lands which await the

All these questions-and indeed didn't even dress, plough, grass where no cattle graze, ing direction indicators

The New Year's Eve wilted the itself-are full of difculties. Is resolutions of the New Year's through the Nineteenth Century

If she was a murderer, what it ever forgivable to take a human Adam. Even so and more, if the out 自 constant England sent

inhabit name shall we give to the man Hfe? If a man has himself first hints of engagements which we stream of emigrants to thone regions, but the tide gradu-who slowly poisons his wife to taken a life then the law says, hear about come true. ally came to a stand and now has

Half-demented mothers yes, hang him. And in the case There's been so much of this turned inward again, so that there death? nre more people coming from the who kill their unwanted infants at of a defenceless and pain-racked sort of thing lately-getting mar Dominions Into Great Britain than birth have similarly to listen to incurable? Well, every now and ried and so on-that we contribu going from Great Britain to the the grim rigmarole of the death, then some agonised relative who tors find it just an expensive as if we were getting married ourselves, Phone 27778-9. Stubbs Road. Daminlons,

sentence, though they are never to has been in unbearable contact

and without the advantages. be hanged.

with the problem at close quarters RHODES ADVICE

The accounts for our last sight I don't suggest that society can likewise answers yes. We others friends' weddings are coming in It is a position neither healthy nor secure. "Having read the hie-afford in such cases to condone or who have been spared the torture, for the third time "calling your

attention to

We don't tory of other countries," said Cecil overlook a. crime. But need it en-dare not judge.

mind that if they start don't call Rhodes in his simple and direct force upon those who administer

us anything else.

guilty of murder-it was plain

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MARRIAGE,

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, JAN. 3, 1935.

Isin

THE HIGH COST OF

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fashion, "I saw that expansion was

a

We told our Inst visitor-a shroff-that we intended wo start the New Year clean. He said he was quite willing if we'd come clean first.

deserves an Q.B.E. at least for be- in its obituary. Surely a man ing funny persistently and funnily for an extended period in the face of opposition and Hongkong faces particularly 7

All of which doesn't got us any its artlessness was a moving 48"Nothing like it, bollove me.further than halfway down, the few deliberate tales can be, Teaches them as nothing else column but as that is a decent end

"S" "MOUTRIE & CO. LTD. is feared that the Budget surplus worthy memorial to set before ourThe tragedy of: Mrs. Brawnhill can!" Teaches them what, to a decent day we'll call it that.

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1935 JANUARY

SALE

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CRETONNES SHADOW TISSUE PRINTED LINENS ARTIFICIAL SILKS SLUB REPPS

etc.

LESS

25%

COMMENCING TO-DAY JANUARY 2nd

FURNISHING DEPARTMENT

one 28151.

Six Lines.

But there are many still who everything, and that the world's its laws the cruel duty of pro-

& sentence which it think that physical pain is good surface being limited, the great nouncing object of present humanity should knows will not be carried out? A for the soul. It so happens that De to take a much of the world small reform, perhaps but not so within a day or two of the trial

Our fathers TA it possibly could." took a great slice of the world with insignificant from the point of of Mrs. Brownhill an inquest was

If that's the sort of cleanliness Married this morning at The Registry, this kics in mind; but if the Brit-view of the tortured creature in held on a Dartmoor convict who

Supreme Court, and afterwards ish people do not make the best the dock.

hanged himself with a rope made that's next to Godliness there's by the Rev. Dr. Reichelt at The use of this great heritage, there

of his prison clothes rather than been an error of judgment some- Tao Fung Shan Christian are other nations which will de- Institute, Shatin, Mins

rated. Every now and then some human face further flogging with the cat, where or cleanliness is much over- Primrose Hay-Edle, daughter of mand, and take their share. It is Mr. and Mrn, D. C. Hay-Edie or possible to imagine the logical and tragedy is brought to light

Here was another of these "reak 80

Talking about errors brings_us Paris and Monte Carlo to Mr. cloquent representatives of such

that the contrived life" stories. It brought back to naturally to the subject of New Reidar Johannessen, son of Mr. nations getting up at Geneva and poignant

the mind the worst horrors of gaol Years' Honours where wo find that and Mrs. J. E. Johannessen of proposing that those who could not tragedies of literature or Bergen, Norway.

make use of the great surplus of drama seem pany and unreal be-life as depicted by Charles Reade the local literary talent again writ- their

Dominions and Colonies should yield them to those otherside It. There was the story not in "It is Never Too Late to Mend, who had nose. In what is called long ago of a man and woman who horrors that we thought belonged natural justice there would be had made a mess of life and agreed only to the dead past. The mes- сизс and it might even be enforced

upon a pact of suicide. They sage which this hard-bitten man without respect to titles and legall

wandered into a wood and the who killed himself rather than ty, if by that time the British Navy

One appeals to ono's public (anıl had fallen below the level of power man shot himself, but the woman face the cat left bohind him on

that their should be something adequate to the defence of these could not serve herself to follow his state was an indictment of allot of them should bear us out) enormous poseesalona. This is a

him. Later, in a lodging house, of us.

pleasant to look forward to, besides GOVERNMENT

danger as much for the Dominions

the chance of deportation, for us Two days later I listened to al

funny humorista. It's a rib-tick- There is some disappointment as for the Mother Country, and the she put a tube in her mouth and

the gas but before mild-looking man with pale hands ing shame and we'll scream the being felt in England regarding best way to avert it is not merely turned on the financial results of the first to defend empty lands, but to fill doing so she scribbled an account and kindly eyes singing the praises work it is.

them.

of the whole futile story that in of flogging-for men and boys. nine months of the year just ended, revenue having slumped WORTHY MEMORIAL somewhat and expenditure in- creased. As a consequence, iture, then, is the idea of

wondered. nation in the coming Jubilee: as one of these stories. It is true in March will be of small dimen-high endeavour so to redistribute tragedy-full of pity and terror. Recently, I read of a youth in sions, even if an actual deficit is our people as to make the best "Truth is stranger than fiction," not disclosed. However, there both of them and their heritage,

the eat drove first into a bitter we announce, and go our way. are still three months to go To make, the spirit of this great

enemy of society and then into u before

we sit mad house. I suppose my kind- the balance-sheet is enterprise once more a living force And the man or drawn up, and in some quarters in the heart of the British race down next to in the bus may be faced friend would say that that The Daily Palma Fost hopes of a better showing than is the first requirement; we must nursing a secret as nameless and "taught him."

kindle and cultivate this seems at the moment likely are in life as a substitute for the easy

purpose terrible.

It is a remarkable fact, if car. based on the fact that in 1933 a and hopeless drift towards dis-

poral punishment is a good correc-

Please insert the following deficit for the first nine months integration which is prevalent in

tive, that it should always be the add in your Sunday paper, "Bull- It is natural that this woman's of the year was eventually trans- these times. Pulpit. Pross and dilemma should have revived dis-ame boys at a school who are dog for sale: will eat anything,

very fond of children." formed into a substantial deficit. wireless might combine in such a cussion of what is called "the

flogged again and again! A great deal now appears to de-propaganda. But there is need also right to kill," "I did it in mercy I hardly think our civilisation

Mack P port and, the buoyancy of the on this subject. Recent history, in who had to sentence her to hang- cent over while things like Mrs.

for thorough and basic staff-work was her simple answer to the judge has anything to be very compla

(signed) Income Tax returns. The ad- Australia, In Canada and nt ing. In her extremity she took Brownhill's crime and the Dart- verse margin now disclosed is Home is strewn with the wreckage

a greater respon- moor suicide can happen. ̧· alated to be largely due to of many promising projects of supplementary expenditure, es migration, which falled either for pecially in connection with relief lack of thoroughness in prepara- measures in what are known astion or of persistence and courage in operation. The Empire Sottle- the depressed areas. The calls ment Act of 1922 made a hopeful on these services continue to be beginning with plans fifteen years heavy, and there can be no ques- ahend and a vote of three millions tioning the necessity of allocat sterling a year between 1922 and ing funds for this particular ser- 1987; but the term is now nearly vice. In the meantime, however, over; not one-fifth of the money the general problem of

has been expended on the purpose employment persists, having the interval emigration has greatly to which it was dedicated, and in stubbornly resisted all measures declined. We do not ignore the so far taken for its solution. economic causes which have con- Apart from the desirability of tributed to this failure, but we be maintaining the structure of the lieve that free-will has a hand in nation's finances

the shaping of destiny, and that if Bound on a basis, the Government is natural we could recover the spirit which ly anxious to make a good Bud-Peopled the Empire it would be get showing, in view of the fact possible to continuo the work.

pend on

un-

that there are prospects of a trative expenditure at as low a General Election during the pre-level as is possible consistent sent year. One of the London with the maintenance of ef- journals, in commenting on the ficiency. The position in this position, says the lesson to be Colony would be much more learned is the necessity of the serious than it is but for the Government keeping strict con- fact that the rise in the value trol of expenditure, as, other-of the dollar is having a bene- wise, the hopes of a further re-ficial effect in respect of salaries mission of taxes will disappear and other sterling.commitments, and a Budget deficit loom up. 80 that, despite the fall in In this respect, it is worthy of revenue, Budget expectations are noto. that the Old Country is at likely to be fulfilled. Even so, the moment undergoing an ex government costs are unques- perlence similar to that being tionably too high; were they felt in Hongkong-a lessening of lower, there might be some pros. revenue and an upward trend in pect of the public securing some expenditure. The rising cost of reller in taxation as a con- government is common to both, sequence of the higher dollar. and it is as essential in the one As matters are, there is no in- case as in the other that definite dication of any such desirable [stepa bo taken to keep" adminis=| development in the near future,

upon herself

woman

a convict settlement abroad whom

"Then, just to get his reaction, I quoted him a price below our

manufacturing cost."

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Barnard College New York City

Mr. Edmund G Tarrytown, New York Dearest Dad:

Just love College. I'm terribly rushed though, buying furniture and all. Bought a lot of bargains at B————— basemont, counter and charged to your c count. Saved something like $10: Will be home for the week-end.

Janet. (signed)

P.S. Please send me $12.00. I have to buy a new hat, mine wan trampled on in the rush at the bars -gain counter.