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The

MOTES OF THE DAY

CHANCE FOR REFORMERS

"Why," asked a traveller, "is it so hateful an experience for long- kong people to have to meet an Incoming vessel at the Kowloon

HE

BEST COUNTRY TO LIVE IN

By GEOFFREY NEWTON plera?" Having met trans-of in Englishman is, all things Although wages are no higher than considered, better off than any ours, a meal that would cost us 3s. staamera there on various occasions, of his Continental neighbours: 16d, costs the Swiss 7. 8d.; a glass we attempted to explain. It is

am not talking about his freedom of lemonade sa much as 38. 3d., and particularly disagreeable, we said, from the alternations of tyranny the rent of two rooms on the aver when it is raining. Sometimes, un- and anxiety which in these days ago $10 a month. lesa one times the thing perfectly, make up the political history of ono is left standing on the end of

most of Europe. the pier behind a barrier while the master of a liner stamps the bridge and curses at the shore gangs and the shore gangs struggle to moor a ship which appears almost com-

I simply mean that he can buy better accommodation, more to eat, and clothes of finor quality with his earnings than anybody in Contin-

pletely out of the control of the ental Europe who works for the master. That is because of tide same length of time at a corres and wind and such things. Ho ponding job. who waits at the end of the pier has nothing to do with that directly,

The Balkan countries are cheap

to keep alive in, for food is plenti- ful, and the peasant makes his clothes at home.

The Very Idea!

SOME: MORE SCRAPS

Notes and News From The Kelly Note-Book

Edited by Eddie.

Three Scotts, one Ireland, Hollands, ono English, one Melbourne, one York and one Marseille bear witness in the new Telephone Directory, issued, this Wants are simple and few, and month, to the fact that Hong-

Colony.

the people carry, on very happily. kong is indeed a cosmopolitan

But once you get into a town and begin to apply English stand-

becomes ards life

prohibitive. Clothes, books, stationery, leather Wages in Britain go 25 per cent.all cost twice as much as we have further than they do in Germany, to pay. Two things only are cheap 33-1/8 per cent. further than injand good-coffee and tobacco. France, and 260 per cent. further than in Russia.

except that he probably guesses the cause of the delay and curses it roundly. Gradually the crowd on the plor end swells. Hotel-run ners, steaming coolles, urchins,

Here is a rough table worked out the man-who- baggage-men and camo-to-meet somebody mingle to- by a man who spent more than two They months in the chief countries of gether In the roln.

Continental Europe living on the rub shoulders. There expected and unmentionable sights wages of a bank, clerk of two years' and

from the coollonuniority,

ono when element. Finally,

fool that одо to commonces

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These are a few of the names taken at random from the Telephone Directory and South China Morning Post Business Directory.

The long-standing Anglo-Saxon race for supremacy of the Smith- Jones-Brown clans goes definitely to I must in fairness put in a word the Browns, of whom there are nine for Denmark and the Scandinavian in the Telephone Directory, as com- Ipared with six Jones and five countries, where, though wages Smiths. and prices are about the same as our own, there is undoubtedly less poverty to be noticed, and a.higher proportion of well-clothed and well fod people are met in the streets.

On the other hand, there fower motor-cars on the reads more bicycles,

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are and

A very complete colour chart could be constructed from Hongkong residents with rainbow-hued names. There are, in addition to the nine Browns, four Whites, four Grays, three Blacks, two Greens and two Blues. The only Orange is an ex- Resident whose name is coupled in the name of a firm. Silvas pre- dominate, but only one telophone subscriber is Golden.

Tho Directory could stock a The standard of luxury in

two Scandinavia is probably lower than capacious zoo. There are

Wolfes, two Lions, ours, but the general level of com-Fox and a Bullock.

two, Bucks, a fort is higher.

I am always being asked about the state of things in Germany.

and

a shuffling and a shuddering and pain

crowd moves,

forward and the

Ilungary As the coolle Tralland towards the centre.

Hwitserland the loft edges away from a

Besian muttered threat and a blood-shot "ELLIR-FAIRBY-HALLIDAY, On lonk, the cuulle on the right presses July 29th.. 1912. Nathaniel, up chummlly and dumply, and the eldent son of J. Ellia Esq. E man-who-was-waiting and the Jr. and Mrs. Ellis of layen,

In every case I have calculated It is a very cheap country for the Middlesex, to Winifred Mary, fellow on the right go through the only child of Mr. and Mrs. George barrier together with a rush and the figures to show how much the foreign visitor. Meals are good Fairby-Halliday of Tynemouth, scuffle,

foreigner would have to spond to and plentiful. The standard of tripping over Northumberland, England.".

unseen buy a commodity that would cost accommodation B the highest in

books, freight-car rails. There is another the Engllahman £100.

Europe. Theatres, One

cinemas, even in a provincial town struggle on the gangway.

In the case of wages I give the of 60,000 people, are better than wonders, by this time, whether

amount the person in each particu- anything to be got outside London something should not be done about jar country would be earning at or Paris. Bali this. Perhaps the man-work for which the Englishman Is

Wages, on the other hand, are who-doesn't intend-to-walt-on-the-paid £100.

low. It is impossible for the Ger TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1935. pier and who would rather be a The Swedish figure applies pretty man to save out of them. A young little late in meeting those who generally all over Scandinavia, the man with an independent allow. must be met will clip this little com-Rumanian is a fair Index for the fance of £260 a year is looked on an OUR BANISHEES

Balkans. Experience shows that we should regard a £5,000-a-year ment and upon It rest his whole de the Russian worker is the most un-man in Britain, and the clerk with The frequency with which fence. It is much more thrilling comfortable in Europe, because out- $10 a month thinks himself well banishees return to the Colony to chat with the Number One boy before their deportation terms friend expire suggests the desirability pler of a revision of the law dealing with the expulsion of undesir- able characters. Scarcely a day Amerien should be encouraged passes without one or more such by the readiness with which

A German undergraduate, corres- cases coming before our crim-threatening storm clouds have re-

ponding to an Etonian up at Ox- inal courts, and in the course of cently been dissipated on the Labour

ford, can seldom afford to treat car strike in

his friend to a glass of boer, and a year the total number of de front. The street

is often without the tramcar fare portees dealt with for breaches Omaha, Nebraska, has been settled

Books in Britain are cheaper, that will take him to the station. of the law must total hundreds, by arbitration. The Toledo electri.

cal workers have agreed to resume/better bound, and better printed. I have known the son of a pro- than in any country outside Germinent barrister who once a week The law at present allows work while arbiters are presiding many and Austria.

at least went to bed without having In Paris just now these are the eaten all day. bank clerk, 1,000-2,000 franca working country-half of it on the monthly salaries to be earned: By Czecho-Slovakia is a busy, hard- (£15-£26);` by 8 stenographer, level of Germany, half essentially 1,200 francs (16); by a shop assis-Balkan.. tant, 800-1,200 francs (£11-£16).

side the crudest necessity, which is off. In the hotel bar than waiting for a provided practically free to a

at the end of a Kowloon

"STRIKING OUT“ STRIKES

In the flower garden there is a Tulip and a Rose.

Hongkong is strong for Royalty. There are nino Kings, & Prince, a Knight and a Marques.

The apostles are well represented |by two Marks, two Matthews, three

Lukes, one Peter and one Paul.

Several trades and professions are also represented in the Tele- phone Directory. There is Banker, two Farmers, a Hunter, a. Marshall, two Carters, one Stoker, four Cooks, onc Guard, one Warden and three Potters.

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As a study in opposites there are;

Two Days but no Knights;

One Small and one Biggar; A Boy but no Girl;

Two pages of Suns, and only one

planet (Mars) ;..

Property is not considered 80 privileged minority, everything is

In the Chinese lista Kwonge and prohibitively dear, and the slight-Important as in Britain or France est luxury is unobtainable. For a-for hardly anybody has any. Wings are close contenders for most pair of silk stockings the Russian Hours of work are long, which the popular names, each occupying five will give £15, if he can get it. On German does not mind (the Aus- pages in the Directory. the off chance of a passage in atrian, I hasten to add, does mind), bug-ridden bost down the Volga he and there is no spare cash about. must walt as long as five days.

Spain is the cheapest country for everybody except the Spaniards.

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for varying terms of im-

over their demands for wage prisonment being imposed on increases. A predicted general returning banishees, according strike in South Bend, Indiana, to the length of the deportation was nverted at the zero period. But experience has hour when employees accepted the abundantly shown that impri- peace overtures of the Oliver Farm

In the western (the European) sonment is no solution of the Equipment Company. The most A good sult of men's clothes half living, apart from food, is not problem; in fact, for the great dangerous appearing strike-that costs 1,200 france (£16) a cheap cheap. A meal of the 38. ed. stand- majority of the deportees our of the entire bituminous coal indus. ready-made suit costs 300 francs guola have no terrors whatever: try-has yielded to the President'a (24): a five-room flat costs 1,200

france (£16) a month. efforts for n truce. There aro they are regarded as places several minor strikes, however, Switzerland is extremely expen- where food and shelter are pro-heading in the wrong direction. alve for the tourist, but for the

worse. is well paid.

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vided free of charge in return The consistency with which these for labour which is by no means other striker have been turned into arduous. Not only do these re non-violent channels.

cannot be curring cases of returning ban- ascribed entirely to inadvertent for. ishees needlessly occupy the tune. Employer and employee пliko time of the police and the have shown considerable willingness to compromise, as have public courts, at a considerable cost to oficials to play the part of media- the public, but committal to guoltor. Is it not possible that the merely means cluttering up our various parties in these labour dis

putes have come together more already over-crowded prisons. speedily because they have been The fact is, of course, that ban-habituated to seek the conference ishees will return to the Colony, table during the last two years under constraint of law? Section whether sent to gaol or not on 7A of the NRA virtually obligated being caught; indeed, it. is not the employer to negotiate with infrequent to read of instances Labour. Now that this law is, at in which a criminal who receives Labour, Capital and the public seem temporarily, inoperative,

a life banishmeït term comes to be continuing of their own choice back within a few weeks of his the orderly procedure. The nation sxpulsion. But what good pur-appears to have grown more In

formed about the problems of pose is served by giving such workers during the depression and maen a term of imprisonment? more tolerant as a result of the None that we can see. The law, official recognition given to Labour's therefore, might with reason because.

so sumended that when a return-

least

ed banishee is apprehended he raised in Legislative Council, in should merely be brought before which connection it would be the Magistrate for proof of much to the point if details identity and then be again de could be obtained of the number ported. Where the period of of barlshees returning in the hanishment la less than a life course of a year and of the term, it should be increased as periods for which they are com & punishment for returning bemitted to gaol, there to live at fore the expiry of the period the public expense: Certainly To send such individuals to gaol the law as it at present

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ter is one which might, wall be

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ard costs 28.

The cheapest suit of clothes costs £4.

A clerk who carns £11 a month

Picture of young married 100man, ex-resident of Hong- kong, starting housekeeping for first time in England.

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Hongkong taipans and Govern- ment offcials, when it comes to giving news to the press, are the tightest people in the world. Just to get our own back on them, we're going to report to-day's play in the fourth Test Match something like this:

England, 2nd Innings Bakewell, b Crisp Smith, c Mitchell, b Bell Barber, c Langton, b Bell Hammond, b Crisp .. R. E. S. Wyatt, Ibw, b'Crisp: Leyland, e Mitchell b Crisp R. W. V. Robins, b Bell .¦. Verity, Ibw, b Lungton .......... Tate, c Viljoen b Vincent ....... Duckworth, e Noursa b Crisp. Bowes, not out

Extras

Total

THAT. KISS

857

And, of course, the inevitable spot. of verse:

A Kin

May be purely mechanical, Delectably soft

Or botanical

It may be a fip

On the martial lip

Or a pury that is

UN-Puritanical;

“Bill” where there is oscular action

In Hongkong Howloon, or Lys Peale

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Flo that our tokian will biếng.