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HOWARD, HENRY JOHN—Age 35. at the Canton Sanitarium & Hospital, Tung Shan, Canton, at 11 p.m. April 26th, 1935. Funeral will pass the Monument, Happy Valley, Hongkong, at Sunday, April 28th.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1935,

BUILDING COSTS

SATURDAY,

NOTES OF THE DAY

FIGHTING DEFLATION

The question of how deflation was stopped arises

a result of an 'attempted answer recently to the companion question: Did De. valuation Stop Dellation? Again the real question is: How did the United States' departure from gold and the consequent depreciation of the dollar stop deflation? In 1982 the total national income arising from the production of goods and services amounted to $48,894,000;- 000. Of this the total taken by Agriculture was $4,201,000,000. Of this $062,000,000, or just over one sixth, went abroad. It

WAS this exportable surplus that govern- ed the price attainable for most of the-agricultural crop, -This-is-the proposition that has been dinne in American cars sinto the first farin nyitation started. All ex- portable surplus makes the entire farm crop part of the world crop, tled to a world price.. Let 218 #elect cotton

example. Liverpool is the premier world market place for cotton. Reason: Britain is the greatest buyer of exportable colion in the world. Liverpool prices, consequently, gov- or the prices of cotton where. Through the foreign ex- changes the Liverpool price is translated into crop dollars. When the dollar began to decline in terms of gold, it likewise declined in terms of sterling. That is to say. the dollar meant less in sterling; viewed conversely, sterling meant mure in dollars. Hence the Ameri- En cotton, planter obtained more dollars, for his cotton,

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APRIL 27, 1935.

Our King

Queen

on their Silver Jubilee

Princess Mary in V. A. D. Uniform in 1918,

much cleverer than I."

of Wales.

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When “Bears" get busy on tho share market, trouble. Is nsually bruin.

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A ten-cent piece isn't supposed

to be as good as 'n dollar, but it goes to cliurch oftener.

A local doctor says too much dancing in the hot weather is bad for the heart. So's too much sitting-out.

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Laurel and Hardy have now dissolved ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄partnership. ~ Joking apart.

A Kowloon realdent has a dog that loves radio. Must be a wire.

| less-haired terrier.

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In # recent competition in Europe, thirty turnips were eaten in succession by one of the con-

testants. Must have exceeded the Swede limit!

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A gramophone record was re- cently played in n Court action. "Both sides were heard.

A Bishop neted as barber at a recont camping expedition, Ilis Shaving Grace.

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Harvard has dropped Látin as u B.A.

that requirement, Well, ought to bring in some good foot- bali material, anyhow.

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In some South Anlerican Re-

publics there's no fixed number for

The Presidential anlute. It's usual

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"Russians Get More Soap," says heading. Maybe they'll get enough to clean up some_of_their_old_debts.

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We suppose housing reform will everybody has a house that every- never be really successful until

body else would be glad to live in.

Hitler is said to be the only real dietator in Europe. All the rest are married.

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A lot of people who spout so free- ly about Caplin! and Labour never hind any capital "and never did any labour.

Farm prices play an impoelant role in the composition of the average index of all prices put ou! by the United States Bureau of Labour Statistics. This la the

A psychiatrist says those who measure of the internal purchasing

have hobbies rarely go crazy. power of the dollar. It was shown

Yes, but what about Princess Mary was.brought up have to live with those who have those who One very important member | from this table that the Internal of the royal family seems to have under the influence not only of hobbies? purchasing power of the dollar stopped rising (that is, the general been neglected in our daily Queen Mary, but of Queen Alex- price level stopped falling) when stories. She, is, Princess Mary, andra, both of the old school. the dollar was severed from its fixed

now Viscountess Lascelles. foreign exchange

As a result she was well-trained price. There are those who insist that

The princess is the only daugh-in household duties as well as in such a change in the foreign ex- change price promotes a continuouster of the King and Queen. the task in being a princess. drop in the internal purchasing Born in 1897, she was called by In her childhood she was some- In the section of its report power of the dollar. They were Queen Victoria "My dear little what of a "mother" to her dealing with property, the Econo-influential in the early Itoosevelt

We needn't bother unduly about dis-Diamond Jubilee Baby." brothers, and used to play the the report of building speedier mie Commission suggested that days. But experience has

proved them. For, except for farm the increasing OVERSIZE

number

When war broke out, Princess part whenever the King and cars. One can be killed just as of prices, most other prices are not Government regulations and directly affected by devaluation. Mary was just seventeen; her Queen, as Prince and Princess of dead at fifty miles an hour at

ninety. restrictions in regard to building Indirectly there may be some bene "coming out" parties were, for Wales, were away. construction were having unit. Or there might be on

gotten in the years of strife, and In 1918, the princess realized desirable consequences. As a creased sale abroad of result, it was indicated, many Rapids furniture. For. If the charming princess turned a life's ambition by becoming a landlords complained that it was

dollars

accrue to the price received her attention, as did all the other probation nurse at the Hospital impossible to obtain an economic by the Texas former for hi cotton members of the royal family to for Sick Children in Great Orly made with a machine-gun.

as the result of devaluation, fewer return on the cost of construc-pounds sterling are likewise needed war work.

mond street, London. Our pic- tion. Property values at the for the Briton to buy Grand Rapids moment are admittedly not high, furniture. Hence there has been

She became an active organi- ture to-day shows her with her. but there are a number of fac-some stimulus to American exports: ser; she made, and collected mother, Queen Mary, in V.A.D. uniform. She continued this tors contributing to this state of But the stoppage of a rise in the garments for the soldiers; she

work-until 1920 affairs, one of which, overbuild-dear dollar requires much more was

a constant visitor to hos- than devaluation. What makes it ing, is referred to at length in

fall continuously is either

pitals and canteens; she inspired the

In February, 1922, she was Commission's report, equipment of the entire people with the women of England to the married to Viscount Lascelles of Whilst it may be true that more money, or a natural recovery great heights to which they rose Harewood, one of the wealthiest Government regulations and res- of demand. The first is inflation. in the war years, trictions also play their part in The second is the recovery "sought

men in Britain. They now have increasing the cost of construc- under the Roosevelt programme,

And all who came in contact two children, their first-born, Įtion, there would be an obvious

danger in any undue relaxing of A QUESTION OF ROMANCE

with her, loved her. Ever cheer George Henry Hubert being seventh in line of succession to measures considered necessary

ful and witty, the Prince of The Cambridge A. D. C, the Wales once said of her: "I wish

the throne. from the standpoint both of most famous dramatic society of she were heir apparent. She is Monday: Investiture of Prince public safety and hygienic condone of the world's most famous tions of life. The present laws universities, has just written on building construction are so finalo to a tradition. In doing so complex and cover such minute it has raised the question whether details that it is impossible for the modern drama would not do other than those with expert tlon's fruits. The tradition Is. that well to preserve some of the tradi- knowledge on the subject to say untit

the reign of Charles II, whether existing standards are women's parts in plays profession. set unnecessarily high. In the ally presented in England were circumstances, there would ap-always taken by men. The practice |pear room for close investigation ceased about 1661 in the profes- of the subject, long lines which slonul theatre, but it has hitherto would give an opportunity to

been followed by the A. D. C. It architects and actual building Shakespeare wrote his plays, and was for an actressless theatre that constructors to make their views his work was profoundly affected known. Possibly the best by this fact. Since boys method of procedure would be imitate women only within limits, the appointment of a Commis. it caused him to keep his women's sion to study the whole question of housing in all its ramifica- tions. The activities of such a body might well be extended to with CAPS & SHOES to match all types of building, industrial and otherwise. On the question of house-building costs, it has to be, conceded that they are ex- tremely high, when account is taken of the fact that labour is relatively cheap and that a great deal of the material needed in might well bo explored by any construction is to be found local- Commission dealing with the ly. A comparison of the costs Colony's housing problem. It of erecting a four or five-roomed certainly deserves the closest house in this Colony with those possible scrutiny. As we have prevailing at Home, for example, indicated, on general lines It would undoubtedly show that would be folly to cut down rea- house-building here in Hongkongtrictions and regulations beyond is immeasurably more costly a reasonably safe standard, than in England. This raiacs merely in order that betten re an old issue, namely, the prevall-turns might be assured on pro- Ing belief that construction costs perty investment. It in for here are kept unduly high owing those most affected to establish to the existence of a contractors their case that Government re "ring." Whether this impres- quirements are unduly onerous; sion has any solid grounding in and their best avenue of up- fact, it would be difficult for the proach to that end would, we layman to determine, but that suggest, be provided by the tho view is widely held there can appointment of a well-chosen. bo no question whatever. In body to investigate the problem any event, a matter such as this in its varied aspects.

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parts short. But an even more important consequence, It is now ng ced, is that it led Shakespeare terest of some of his plays to other to aubordinate the romantic in- things. That the public is ready to welcomo an extension of dramatic Interest beyond merely personal romantic themes is shown by the Lincoln" and "Journey's End." success of such plays as "Abraham

vish-you had brought a paper or magazine or something.

to look at.

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It's hard to understand why tho father of these quintuplets objects to somebody else taking away from him the job of walking the floor at nights with his five babies.

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American polleo recently an nounced the theft of a 22,000- pound locomotive. The underworld Ja evidently branching into a new line.

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A professor advises people who- can't sleep to wrap themselves in. a cold, wet sheet. Suggest this to wife, and she'll provide a wet blanket.

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Writing

The Curso 02. Bigness," an author says every- thing big is bad. You've nover, for example, heard of a littlå bad wolf.

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Then there was the mun who simplified matters by leaving his. estate to the lawyers in the first place...

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Now that they've invented a fly- ing automobile, you'll never know whether a woman driver is going to go right, left, or up

Think how much money could bo saved if these bald-headed gon tlemen who buy hair. rostorers would only realise this is the streamline ago.