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NOTES OF THE DAY

ANOTHER DANGER.

Apparently the possibilition of complications between, Britain and Italy are growing space. We have

interesting

now recevent the intervals with resist with farce any attempt on the part of the Italians to blockade the coast of Africa. Huch a blockado would only be nimed at Abyssinia, perhaps, but it would mean that Italy would require the right to search neutral shipping. This says a diplomatic nuthority, Britain will not condone. There is only one circumstance which could possibly excuse the desire on the part of the

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ARE YOU READY TO

RETIRE?

By WILSON CHAMBERLAIN

Over 1,800,000 people retire year in Great Britain, 640,-

000 on old age pensions aroraging 103, a week, soort in beli- tributing pensions, running to a pound a week, 7,000 on Civil Service penalons, 2,900 on Navy pensions, 1,700 on Army pen- Time Comes, What Will You Have Set Aside for it? Financially? slons, 2,000 on endowment insurance annuities. When Your Mentally? Spiritually?

that is, increasingly, to almost every age of retirement can be and should To every one of us who works life, just as you save up money, the grown person in this modern world be the happiest of your life.

there must be two outstanding Many people think that with age days: the day you went to work for the first time; the day you will standing. There is no more false come wisdom, mellowness, under- go to work for the last time.

Between these two tenses, what napan of effort, energy, thought, devotion, hope, purpose and ambi- tion is comprehended!

hat,

notion.

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NEW TRAFFIC LAWS NEEDED

Something Has Got To Be Done About PedestrianS

(By. Eddie "Belisha" Kelly)

about time some new gated in Hongkong.

traffic laws were promul-

Not one pedestrian has been knocked down by a car for over a week.

to blockade the African

The simple truth is that old people can be utterly stupid, lack- coast: the lifting of the arnis em

Ing in all understanding both of barge against Ethiopia. Whether

the world and of the human heart.

If we want Hongkong to You went one day to the office or the embargo la lifted by Britain

There is only one rule about it: anbe recognised as a tourist or not, it does not matter. If arms works, you hung up your coat and intelligent and generous young per resort, we have got to face

you gazed about you with son will be an intelligent and gener-the facts. in any quantity are shipped to the

mingled fear and awe; it all ous old person'; a stupid and mean any nation, Italy may attempt to

eighteen, twenty!

mean old person. atop the traffle. In that event her

then again comes a day But when you are young, you warships might be sent to attempt when you go to the office or works, can get away more a blockado. If one sympathises you hang up your coat and hat in stupidity and

enally with meanness, .Your with the Italian aims in Afrien, one the morning as usual, and you take great vitality may push you on, will at once agree that she has them down an usual in the evening, mako people fear you, step out of a new set of foot traffic regula- overy right to try to prevent muni.and this time, too, you gaze about your way.

And

you, with mingled fear and awe;

For Particulars and Terms apply tions reaching her opponents. Bri- but for such a different reason. [stops. People are no longer afraid

HONGKONG HOTEL

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28, 1935.

THE REAL ISSUE

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If we cannot provide sport for anotorists on the same-scale as Shanghai or Manila, tourists will simply go to those places.

We have tentatively drawn up.

tions,designed to make the streets safe for motorists.

In fact, under our rules, if you get run over by a car the onus is on you to prove that you didn't throw yourself under the wheels just to annoy the driver, and amenr his mudguard with blood.

It will be necessary, if our rülen carry number plates, tail lights are adopted, for pedestrians to

and all the other paraphernalia Usually associated with vehicular trafic.

People living on the Peak, of course, will be able to indulge In luxuries like rear vision mir- rom, ornamental mascots, and snubbers on their boots.

But when you retire, the. song tish sympathisers may even admit

Not because of the strangeness, of you, they shove you out of their that the right of search of British the

newness-but because of the way. Your stupidity and meanness steamers by Italian warships should familiarity of it all: because you now become unbearable to everyone not be opposed. But there will be do these things again.

are never going to see these things, close to you.

You end up an

frascible and a very strong antagonism to any

You are sixty, sixty-five, seventy, wretched old man. And your years auch endeavour on the part of And you are retiring. And it is of retirement-for which, ironical- Mussolini among those people who little fearful and a little awe-ly, you had worked so hard-turn a see the Italian war plan in Ethiopin Inspiring to know that you have at bitter joke on you and leave you as something unjust and unnecca-last reached that stage in your life desperately lonely.

when every moment of your life is sary, and who will condemn it as to be free, with no work to do, cach flagrant breach of treaty and violn-hour to be led by your own bid- Will you be happy when you re- tion of the international code of ding.

tire? The answer becomes clearer; honour. One doubts whether Bri- This day of retirement is, pre-It takes the form of another ques- tain would be tempted to seek to sumably, the day you have been tion: What is your present hap- enforce sanctions against Rome per-Working for all your life. All piness bullt on. haps, and for that reason suspects in taxes, all your voting for Govern- and spiritual eggs in your office? your days of work, all your money Have you placed all your mental that there is little danger of ament officers and political platforms If you have, it certain that one

free man (including yourself) from against you-your eggs inside. slavery; to increase man's leisure.

But if you have placed your eggs And now that you have at last in different fields, you will enjoy What will you do? attained leisure.. What then? them not only in your active life, be happy?

Will you really but in your years of retirement.

And what-to continue metaphor-are these eggs?

They are your interests in life It is a question for all of us which cannot be stopped by outside not just for the hundreds of thou-forces. sauds who reach the retiring age Your interest in your work can ench year-because the answer, if and will be curbed by the directors It is going to be a happy one, needs of your business, or, if you own least have the effect of brighten- The new regulations would at a long time preparing,

You cannot suddenly answer it ders, no matter how interested you of our newsPAPETA.

the business, by your doctor's oring up the news columns of some

The plea, made by a Rome clash between British and Italians have had one common purpose: today the office door will be locked ports models, with alogans over

newspaper, for a better under-

on that score. But one cannot deny standing between Italy and that likelihood of conflict is not so Japan in regard to the Abys-remote if Italy interferes with sinian crisis, is not altogether British trade, whether it be in unexpected. There have been munitions or potatoes, with the indications latterly that Japan is countries of Africa. disposed to look with sympathy

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on the Abyssinian attitude, and BUSES AND BEACHES it is in order to dispel such a tendency that the Giornal Following complaints which were d'Italia now ческа to win made to a representative of the Japan over the Italian

stand- Telegraph who visited Repulse Bay point. To the outside observer, recently, enquiries have elicited the there has been apparent fact that bus services are not per of outlook in mitted to use the lower beach rond

a similarity

the

Women will affect those snappy

their number plates like: "If you can read this you're too closel

The more portly will find solace in the new scheme of things by be- ing able to affect rumble sosta.

The 1936 model pedestrian with synchromesh gears is already on the market, and may be seen in the near future cruising down Des Voeux Road.

Thus:

CALLOUS PEDESTRIAN

Hit and Run Jay-Walker Bolts From Road

district for another

The police-are-scouring - the Peak hit and run pedestrian-the thirteenth this month.

He was knocked down in Pedder

the day you retire. If you have still are. never thought about retiring, never planned for it, you will find your-in

But an interest in books, in music. self suddenly bereft and desolate in gardening, in animals, in any one pictures, in the theatre,. in S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. Japan's policy towards China for the purpose of discharging or the world: a prematurely old person of dozens of hobbles, cannot be and that of Italy towards picking up passengers, at Hong-with nothing to do: a person who stopped or even enrbed by such out. Abyssinia. The Rome journal,tised Lido! We have not been able that habit has suddenly been cut off terests spring from the illimitable

kong's nich ttisenssed and adverlived only by the habit of work-side sorces,

ing every day, and from whom The reason: because such in- obviously realising this point, is to ascertain what objections there as sharply and definitely as if you breadths of your own mind, rather at pains to lay emphasis on the are (if any), although we have been had lost your mate.

than from the confines of a job, fact that both Italy and Japan given to understand that the Hotel

for such a person-and there are It sounds so simple, yet the fact need new territory for their Company would be prepared to issue thousands, particularly among high-remains that the great majority of Street by a Supersonic Six early last growing populations and for the inclusive tickets to the Lido cover brings no happiness, only forlorn themselves.

powered business men-retirement people have no interests outside night. Instead of lying down and purpose of expansion. Here we ing bits transportation to and from restlessness, days of emptiness.

aurrendering to the police, he got up touch on an

Hongkong. Such a state of affairs issue which ad-is certainly surprising, especially cide rates in the major countries be interested in their families and It is no odd chance that the sui- they may adore sports, they may

They may do a bit of gardening, and bolted, mittedly cannot be lightly dis-when it is remembered that the of the world are all at their highest friends-but just give them this posed of; the need for expansion walk from Repulse Bay Hotel between the ages of fifty-five and test and you will see where their is self-evident. But the matter able on a hot day, Adequate and

to the Lido is by no means pleasur- seventy. The ages of leisure! real Interest lies: bring up any takes on a different complexion cheap transportation is essential if aqualld, not just financially squalid, the converantion lasts about ten leisure that has become subject in the world: you will and when we come to consider at a pleamire resort on the outskirts but much more important mentally minutes: at the end of that time the whose expense the expansion is

of any city is to become popular, and spiritually squalid. An empty person will be talking about him- and to place restrictions in the way mind is far worse than an empty self. to be effected. It may be quite of private enterprise and public pocket-book. true,

as the Rome newspaper service is, to say the least of it. atates,

that Italy's proposed disappointing. However, we do not action in Abyssinia would not insuperable, especially in view of imagine that the obstacles are interfere with Japanese interests the fact that buses did at one time in that country. But much more use the lower road. germane to the points at issue

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is whether it will conflict with nations to order and control their Abyssinia's own interests, to own destinies. And it

say nothing of those of other precisely on this point that the Powers. Both Italy in regard League of Nations and Treaty to Abyssinia and Japan in upholders come into the picture. respect of China argue that It does not help, in considering virtual control of the destinies this matter, to recali past his- of these countries would, in the tory of imperialist expansion, for long run, be to the benefit of the the simple reason that the old countries subjugated and of the days gone for ever, and with it. world in general. In other the system under which coloured words, both claim that they have races were brought under a civilising mission to discharge, Western subjection. In the But what if the countries con- meantime, we have been led to.j cerned do not take kindly to the bellove that a now order has type of civilisation proffered? A jarlsen, one which specifically correspondent recently claimed guarantees the rights of small that it will be to everybody's nations. These guarantees, both advantage if Abyssinia is at last in the case of China and of opened up to beneficent civilisa-Abyssinia, are embodied in tion. The argument is under- solemnly-signed treaties. It is standable from one standpoint, the tendercy nowadays so ap- but everything depends on a de parent in certain quarters to ride finition of terms. The prospect rough-shod over the obligations of "civilisation" being forced enshrined in such treaties that home at the point of the sword has given rise to recent tension, is one to which no nation can be first in the Far East and how expected to take too kindly. in Africa. Respect for pledges

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD: What is really involved, in the entered into will have to be

case both of Abyssinia and restored if the world is to be China, is the right of small. freed of the danger of new wars.

But

But for you who save up mental and spiritual provisions alt your

MINNEHALUK

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Wherein lies the paramount secrét of happiness: there la no escaping (Continued on Previous Column.)

TRACK_S

"And if he doesn't want to take his nag, just read a few chaqbars of his animal book to him."

It is people like this who are fast making our roads tinsafe for motorists. Incidents such a thie' are worry commentary on our boosted police force.

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FURIOUS LOITERER

Pedestrian Has His Licence

Endorsed By Magistrate

Pete Whalesteeth, 29, was charged before Mr. Wynne Jones at the Kow- loon Magistracy yesterday with walk- ing on

footpath under the influence of liquor and furious loltering.

Inspector Nicholls, prosecuting, said that Whalenteath had taken 25 minutes to negotiate the roadway between the Peninsula and Kowloon Hotels.

He had his tail lights on in front, defectivo brakes and an air of in- solence.

"It is people like you who are,gly- ing this Colony a bad name amongst travelling motorists," said Mr. Wynne Jones, in fining defendant $50, and ordering his pedestrian's licence en- dorse to permit him only to walk down Nathan Rond.

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Of course, pedestrians will have to be registered. This will be on a weight basis, and only talpana can afford to be fat.

Examiners will have to demon-

strate

a knowledge of the first three books of Euclid, and an ac quaintance with the chief fuelling atations between the Hongkong Hotel and Repulse Bay,

It, bromide though it is: if you want to be happy, get outside of yourself.

Get out into books, into, nature, into philosophy, into people. Above. all, into other people. If you do this now, you will do it when you retire. Now, you may not hava much time for it.

find

But when you retire, your "your days the happiest and fullest of your life: filled with tremend- ous, exciting Interest in all that goes on outside of you