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NOTES OF THE DAY

PLANNED PIONEERING

CHARING CROSS OF THE PACIFIC

By A. EDDY

An

The Very Idea!

IN LIGHTER VEIN

A correspondent recently obsery-. ed the following church notice during a motor run:-

ADDRESS, SNOBB.

A LARGE ATTendance la CON- FIDENTLY ANTICIPATED.

WHY HE WEPT

A Jow attended the funeral of a

tier. The transfer, of populations oporations between San Francisco Pacific airway system would noį millionaire, and during the service

wept as though his heart would break.

"What are you wepping for, Abie?" asked a friend. "He wasn't

relation of yours!"

n

.

The new Deal has traded in" the covered wagon. As the first contingent of Minnesota, farmers atarta for the Matanuska Valley In

The chances of Hongkong be-mercial ports of the seven sens, Alaska, they mark something more coming the Charing Cross of the and she should do everything pos- been further sible to make the most of the than the beginning of one of the Far East have American Government's most pre-advanced by the decision of the opportunity to devolop into tentious rural rehabilitation pro-Pan-American Airways to instituto aerial travel junction connecting a regular air service between China, with the Industrially and jects. They symbolize a new era California and China. Latest de-economically most developed na- when large-scale pioneering in the velopments from Manila Indicato tions of Europe and America. United States is to be a matter of that the final arrangements pre-

Plan-liminary to a trans-Paciße air ser The incorporation of Hongkong direct Government concern.

the continental and trans- ning has caught up with the fron- vice are now under way and that In

and the Philippines are scheduled doubt accelerate the proposed ex- from submarginal areas la prob to commence before, the autumn. tension of the Imperial Airways ably one of the soundest of plan- The original plan of making Con- from Bangkok, via Hanol, thus ned-economy theories. But there ton the Western terminus of the making this Colony the China term- Airways, however, inus of the British. system and are problems In practice that are trans-Pacific

cannot materialise owing to poli-placing Hongkong into direct com- not always qa simple as they appear tical difficulties; and circumstance munication with Europe and Aus- upon the blue prints. And the so-should thus enable Hongkong to tralia. The stretch between Hanoi cial aspect of mass migration is become the Western terminus of and Hongkong is considerably an airway which is destined to shorter than the all-water dis-

Ilongkong develop into one of the most for- tance between midable trade and travel routes of] Manila ati can be negotiated over the world, or to disregard an oppor- the Hainan Straits without flying tunity to assume the unique posi-over Chinese territory. The Im- In the case of the Mid-Westerntion na the greatest international perial Airways are now covering.

airport in East Asin.

much longer and incomparably farmers who are taking up the

This may sound an exaggeration, more dangerous ocean stretches, $3,000 Alaskan homesteads on

but even a superficial acquaintance like the dreaded Timor Sea, and 30-year basis, the shift in environ-with the trend of nerial developying over this relatively short ment will be marked, but not in-ments in the Far East will indicate distance between Indo-China and superable. For this reason picked to anyone interested, that all aerial Hongkong and in continuous pro- familles have been chosen. In the ronds in East Asia must ultimately ximity of land does not present any difficulties from an operating point Ozark mountain region, where the lead to, or pass through Hongkong, of view. No country in the world which geographically, pulitically Government is planning to resettle and as a travel transit centre, possesses the unlimited possibili- 45,000 natives, the geographical situated on the busiest highways ties of China in the aviation field transfer involves lesser readjust- of the Pacific, is the most suitable account of the almost complete ments. Families in many instances place in East Asia to act as a hub absence of modera communications of an international air service.in the interior. Experience shows that the prosperity of China means will be moved only short distances With the elimination of Canton na

the prosperity of Hongkong, and to obtain fertile instead of barren their western terminus, it is now it is in the best interests of this old!

for the trans-Pacific rock-dotted mountain soil. But the necessary

Colony, from an economic and

one of these,

PICKED FAMILIES

"No, that's why I'm weoping," sobbed Able in a fresh outburst of

and grief.

A QUERY

Heard in London:—

"Have you heard Hore-Belisha. on the wireless?"

"No; is that an opera?"

#

RIGHT!

The teacher, introducing a lesson on "The Potteries," asked the class where they thought all our cupa and saucers came from.

"The cupboard," was the oncour. aging response of a seven-year-

QUITE GOOD

PRICE-On Sunday, 9th June, 1995, mental readjustment, on the whole, Airways to stop at Manila or to travel point of view an inseparable will be more far-reaching because make a connection with the China nirt of China, to co-operate with National Aviation Corporation, at

her neighbour in order to enable of the present character of the Hongkong, which link would place her to effect an aerial contact with

The teacher had remarked dur- area with which the plan deals. this Colony into direct aerial com While it may be overstatement to munication with practically all the great international travel sysing the lesson that a surname very

tems for the benefit of both.

often indicated the trade of the speak of the need for overcoming China, occupying one twelfth of

ancestors of those who bore the well as the surface of the globe and bar. submarginal culture as

name. bouring within ils confines more

The

Hongkong Telegraph. submarginal economies, there is, than one afth of the entire human GOVERNOR OF THE P.I.

MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1935.

i.

WORLD ECONOMIC

PROBLEMS

of

nevertheless, the necessity of pro-race.

well 09 viding wider mental as physical horizons. Here is a new problem for the "New Dealers."

PINKING OR KNOCKING

The position to-day is that China MR. MURPHY WELCOMED would be only too glad to extend

AT MANILA ker airways to llongkong which she!

Manila, June 8. recognises as the most suitable

Governor-General Murphy and travel junction for effecting inter-i

arrived TO-DAY'S MOTORING HINT national connections, but without Mr. Manuel Quezon, President of

giving up the principle of allow the Philippines Senate, ing no foreign interests to estab this morning, lish nirways over Chinese terri- The President, Coolidge docked tory. The upholding of this prin- at half-past nine amid scenes of ciple is nolitically of the highest great excitement. She was excort- importance for China, and it would ed from the breakwater by 30 tugs be.In the larger interest of Hong- and launches, their sirens shriek- kong to fall in with the interests | Ing. of China in this caec. The neces- The strictest precautions sary junction can be effected with taken against natoward huppen- out difeulty once the planes of ings. The whole of pler No. 7 the Chim National Aviation Cor-I was roped and only privileged per- portion are permitted to incor-sons were allowed to approach. porate Hongkong as a regular port Both were glad to be back, Mr. or call on their Shanghal-Canton Murphy said, he really wanted to line. Apart from the advantages stay in Hongkong, but was com- which Ching would gain through pelled to come. Interviewed, both this connection, the importance of reiterated what they said while in

Hongkong.Itcuters

decarbonising.

I

Offered Candidature

PARENOLOGY

were

Questioning one of the boys, she asked him:"What were your an- ccatura, Webb?”

He thought a moment, and then replied: "Spiders, Miss."

MORE HOWLERS

A brunette is a young bear.. A giraffe needs a long neck be- cause its head is so far away from its body.

The domo of St. Paul'a is sup- ported by eight peers, all of which are unfortunately cracked.

A vacuum is nothing shut up in a box. They have a way of pump- ing out the air. When all the air and everything else is shut out, naturally they are able to shut in nothing where the air was before.

Petroleum is what you cover floors with.

A refugee keeps order at a foot-

Payche was a black boxer who fought Carpentier.

Mary Queen of Scots was play- ing golf with her husband when news was brought her of the birth of a son and heir.

Mainly by reason of the op- position of the employers' group, there seems no prospect of any action being taken by the Inter-

A pinking noise is rather like a national Labour Conference at metallic rattle and it is due to an accumulation of carbon in the In- Geneva on the 40-hour week, a torior of the engine, or the use of subject which has been before an unsuitable fuel-one which can- the conference for several years not withstand high compression. in succession. The employers' It may in some cases be that the viewpoint on this question is op ignition is too for advanced when is pulling hard. On posed to that of Mr. H. B. Butler,ding the ignition the knock Director of the International disappears, and the same is true Labour Office of the League of when a lower gear is engaged, Nations, who, in his recent an-

If there is a considerable accu-Hongkong as a vital link in this nual report made a strong plea mulation of carbon, however, pink-potentially most powerful trade

Lansing, Mich., June 8. for continuing the effort to ing persists, even when the igni- and travel route would not only

bring in its wake countless finan

The "Old Line" Democrats, led establish the shorter working tion is retarded, and this means

cial benefits from the high class

A. A schoolmaster lends a sedimen- day and week. The conviction is

travellers who will use this airway, by the ex-Governor, William A regular tapping, noticeable at but from an advertising point of Comstock, have secretly chosen atary life. gaining ground, he says, that all times, but which varies with the view would have incalculable in- tentative ticket for the 1936 elec-

tion. this is one of the means speed of the engine, is due to ex-iluence on the future of this Colony

It is reliably learned that ball match. spreading

The as a stop-over for world travellers employment more cessive tappet clearance.

clearance is so great that it is ex- and as an all-round-year play- Governor-General Murphy, of the equitably, and is also the logical cessive even after the engine is ground for residents in East Asia. Philippines, will be their candi- consequence of the increased thoroughly warm, so the tappet There are few places which, from date for the Governorship of

So as not to get malaria when powers of production in present heads tap against the ends of the an airway point of view are more Michigan.

favourably situated than Hong- It is problematical if Governor

to the people go abroad, wise people get day industry and agriculture. valve stems.

kong. Her exceptionally strategic Murphy will accept, due He is also emphatic in saying

location has enabled her to enjoy fact that he is primarily interest- intoxicated before they leave Eng- that efforts to reduce costs of genuity, and attention to the the enviable distinction of figured in the Philippines-United land'a shores. production, mainly at the ex-provision of the elementarying among the five greatest com-Press. pense of wages, had not yielded needs of feeding, clothing, and the expected results. In coun- shelter on a civilised scale as to tries where wages continued to the provision of air communica- decline, such as Belgium, Czecho- tions, wireless services, and Slovakia, Italy and Poland, no elaborate systems of national increase of employment had defence." Mr. Butler points out followed. Whatever opinions that those countries which have! may be held on these points, it adopted an expansionist policy can be said that Mr. Butler's have fared better than those who report makes a notable contribu- trusted to the automatic play of tion to a full understanding of economic forces. "There is less the world economic crisis. The and less willingness to accept the report covers the fifth year of thesis that all human agencies the depression, and deals with are impotent to control the what Mr.. Butler describes as the fluctuations of economic fortune, somewhat superficial evidences and the fact that this sentiment of recovery in 1934. "There is is becoming widespread is in it- still," he says, "widespread dis- self a psychological element in tress and frustration of hope. the general situation which can The world is still groping its way not be ignored." Economic self- painfully and fearfully. It has sufficiency is no remedy for the not acquired confidence in the crisis, and there can be, Mr. new economic system which is Butler argues, no return to any slowly emerging. Even less has thing like general prosperity it derived confidence from recent until international trade revives, events in the present political The policy pursued by Govern- system as furnishing à stablo ments in the direction of econ- foundation for peace and tran-omic isolation has destroyed He sug- quillity." Most hopeful of all the international trade. developments of 1934, Mr. Butler gests that economic nationalism, thinks, was the change in the at- or "autarchy" as it is sometimes titudo of Governments and the called, is a policy which few developments of a policy of social countries, if any, can follow planning. "It now scema reason, without destroying the founda- able to expect Governments to tions of their people's standard devote the same energy, in-4-of-life.

MESHAR SITERAL

LANGUAGES

"Those people fascinate me. I'm something of a gypsy, myself.".

A Fascist is u man who has beauty culture.

Richelieu was constantly ill from hia berth.

The Romans left Great Britain quickly because they were afraid of the Gals.

Meteors are used to tell you how much electricity you are using.

A motor fa driven by an inferrial combustion engine.

•

NEW NAME

The other day a fathor had occa- sion to take home to his child a gift consisting of a bowl contain- ing three goldfish.

"Oh, daddy," cried the boy glee- fully, are these red herring for me?"

•

NOT INTERESTED

"How are you, my child?". In- quired the visitor, who was stickler for etiquette,

10

"Very well, I thank you," replied. little Mary.

4

"Now, my dear," said the visitor, "you should ask how I am.".

"But I don't want to know, came the child's retort.