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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII,, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1938.---

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TRUCK

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FOR ALL PURPOSES

Models W.L.G. 2-ton chassis

Modals W.T.L. 3-ton chassis

can be supplied

from stock

Regular Shipments Arriving

IS

BEST

per doz. pints

$4.65

per doz. qts. $8.00

Solo Agents:

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Wine Dept.

and

Tel. 20616.

For prices and particulars apply

GEMS FROM THE NEW

"H.M.V." RECORDS

DB3206/08 Sonata in A Major (Cesar Frank)

DB3302

DA1586

C 2977

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Played by Heifetz and Rubinstein.

Ponchielli

Ciclo o mar (La Gioconda). O Paradiso (L'Africana), Mayerbeer

*Sung by Jussi Bjorling..

(a) Lachon und Weinen (Schubert) (b) Meine Liebo ist grun (Brahms) tel Die Forelle (Schubart)

Sung by Kirsten Flagstad.

Music of the Spheres. Waltz (J. Strauss)

Played by Viennese Waltz Orchestra.

also a fine selection of Dance Records by Ray Fox & His Orchestra, Jack Harris & His Orchestra and othors.

Complete supplement sent on request

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1838.

PUBLIC HEALTH PROTECTION

A woman who had spent a week in gaol, on remand, was released yesterday, a charge of having deposited the body of her 15-year-old son in a lanc having been dismissed. The boy [died of smallpox. A second charge, that she had failed to notify the proper authorities that her two children had con- tracted smallpox, was also dis- missed, and the woman caution- ed. The reports of the police court proceedings did not men- tion what became of the second child, also victim of the

*

DON'T GO WEST, YOUNG MAN!

Steuse

Strube in the Daily Express

Four successful men tell the secret

How to

W

£1,000

a year

E can't all earn

£30,000 a year- the income, rough- ly, of a millionaire. Only

epidemic. Presumably it, too, 800 people in this country had died; or else it is being earn that.

cared for by the Government as Yet we can take the ad-

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. both children would have been vice of successful men and

York Building

GALA PREMIERE

FRIDAY

Chater Road.

QUEEN'S

HER DIARY TOLD IT ALL!

Sixty years

aqueen..and

overy day a

'woman'

madly

In

lovel

ICTORIA

the GREAT

Anna

NEAGLE

Anton

WALBROOK

IL B. WARNER WALTER RILLA

One of the mortaitonlihing women who ever wore a crown fives again in one of the greatest picturas ever mada With many wondrous scenes. TECHNICOLOR =

HERBERT WILCOX

in the first place had their un-

fortunate mother only had the use it.

presence of mind, or courage, to Henry Ford, they say, is report their condition. Un-worth £100,000,000. This is

fortunately some of the Chinese

In the Colony have a deeply- rooted disinclination to notifying

what he says:

“Start in a small way and watch

out in life to build something better

WHAT THEY

SAID

of—

earn

NUFFIELD: The only road to success to hard work.

In five years' time the full train- ing force of our one-hundred-mil- lon-pounds-a-year educational sys- tem will be turned on them.

For ten years after that they'll be Olling out their repertoire; learning to memorize signs to help them read, write and work out sums,

·

Those ten years over many of those 2,000 boys and girls will begin new training in the trades and pro- fessions. The clever ones in the class will stay on for a few more years.

But even the dunces will have done well. They'll have a far greater knowledge and range of tricks in January 1050 than the shad twenty years before,

That's the way to train human beings..

improves on his natural abilities. Do your Own Thinking

STAMP: The man who rises to £1,000 a year is the one who

SELFRIDGE: The secret of success is the absence of complete satisfaction.

FORD: Build something better and sell it cheaper than ever be fore.

looking ahead."

THERE is, however, one flaw

In our methods of training. We give our students so much to learn that they tend to use their brains to memorise Instead of using them to think.

The reason most people are not

other people think for them.

they nequired the habit, in their early years of learning, of letting

the Medical Department when the work yourself. Let a man start by closer attention to his job and by mora auccessful than they are is that i their people contract diseases. and sell it cheaper than it has ever The Mind is a Sifter This prejudice may be the out-been sold before-and the money will growth of fear or ignorance, or roll in so fast it will bury him if he both, but in any event it is a doesn't look out.”. condition which must be swiftly

Another great motor magnate gives remedied. If the prosecution of this advice:--- the mother mentioned above has done

no

"The only road to success is hard more, it has work, and, of course, foresight. It is given publicity to & deplor-not always the men who've had an able state of affairs which, expensive education who do things." as long as it exists, will make

Those are Lord Nuffield's words. the fighting of epidemics a

advice nightmare for authority and undo much of the good work carried out in combatting dis-

ense.

What must be brought home to the Chinese community is the necessity for co-operation in

Mr. Selfridge passes on given him by his mother. He says:

"Success? The secret of it is the entire absence of any feeling of com- plele satisfaction. My mother gave me a philosophy: To travel hopefully is better than to arrive, and true suc- cess is labour.?

A fourth great mun, Sir Josful matters concerned with the pro-siamp, railway ehlef and economist. tection of public health, Forte said last year:

Now, it is difficult to pay close attention to anything when the mind has not been trained to concentrate. We have so many thoughts and Ideas that it needs a definite effort to keep them apart. Henry C. Link, the New York psy- chologist, said recently:—

At the beginning of their careers they have wide knowledge. But so have all their competitors,

Look Ahead

Tow many people really

who are not so young to-day have

"If we remembered everything seen great Industries spring up in our minds would be a jumble of our own lifetime. Motor-car and undigested matter. The mind airplane manufacture, the telephone, serves as a sifter."

radio, electricity, artificial alĺk—ati these and other industries have given Sometimes we let our subconscious to men and women brand-new, op- thoughts Interfere with our actions. portúniiics for success. The result can be embarrassing,

-

Many of the unknowns of to-day, A certain well-known hostess. those who are looking ahead, train-

entertaining the millionaire banker ing themselves and learning new J, P. Morgan to tea, was scared that tricks which will lift them out of the her small daughter would remark on making themselves the famous men class of ordinary performers, are. the size of his nose.

and women of to-morrow.

But the child behaved well and

It la possible to work and wall for in time went off to bed. Mother success. But for those who work

Instance, if a neighbour learns "There must always be £300-a-smiled with relict and, turning to and train for it there is virtually that a certain family is afflicted wear men. But the man who is going the banker, asked brightly, "Would "no walling.". with a discase which should be to rise to £1,000 a year is the one you like sugar or cream in your notified, it is obviously that who proves on his natural abilities nose?" neighbour's duty, as a citizen,

to be a success.

Inability to

think clearly has

reaching a "£1,000-a-year jab.

Never Stop Training

The man or woman who ins not to report the matter. It does bour, not directly affected by learned to think clearly cannot lope not mean trouble for the victim the misfortune of his fellow- of the diacase, but protection citizen, who falls-to do his duty and probably cure, if help ar- and report the presence of dis-ruined many a man's chances of ever rives in time. No magistrate case, especially in times of will be apt to convict a mother opidemic, is much more to be or a father who, in the confusion blamed than a worried parent. and terror of the moment, for If punishment Is ever merited gots or omits to report a notifi-for fallure to report, it is in ablo disease. The law is not such instances. Here again designed so much to punish | ignorance may play a part, and offences as to prevent them. it is the responsibility of those in this country to-day (same num The Chinese should know that who know the regulations, as her as are born every other day: In they can expect sympathy fn well as the authorities con- the year).

T

'TF we could keep up the pace that in not in the first

A

They began small

In obscurity.

LONG Rat can be made of famous people who started life

Hitler. Roda house painter; Mussolini a mason; Ramsay Mac Donald was a farm

80, 100, was sienry Ford,

twenty years of our lives, we should all be more successful.pri

pli, Think how thoroughly we · are'

trained during that "time, T

2

"About 2,000. bâbles will be born

their afflictions; and that per-cerned, to educate the ignorant, It won't be long before they will. secution has no place in the ad-particularly the new-comer to have to start learning a few tricks.

Their parents will be teaching- ministration of British Justice Hongkong, who may never have them to talk and walk and do all hero or elsewhere. The neigh-fheard of a public health service. the elementary things.

Sir Harry Lauder worked in a and Sir Harry McGowan, head of Imperial Chemical Industries, was once a clerk, in a. Glaspo10. afice.

More

than half the 140 pres denta und vice-presidents”......... of "America's rattways began ar tele- graph boye or workers on the line. All these are men who con- "centrated on tobat they wanted

ant kept on working for t

THE "VERY IDEA”

WE DON'T WANT TO STIRRUP TROUBLE

BUT WE'RE DETERMINED

TO WRITE ABOUT THE RACES AGAIN TO-DAY

By Eddle "Whoa, Boy!" Kelly TAVE you

HA

joined the Back to the Horse movements?

In other words, how much did you lose out at Happy Valley yesterday?

You might be interested to hear that we are one of the very few people in Hongkong who have had a really successful career on the turf.

When we say, we have had a successful career on the turf, wa don't want any of your nasty in- sinuations.

A lot of strange incidents aro connected with our sporting career,

For instance, five stars ago wo dreamt that a harsa hamed Striko Mo Pink would win the Derby. To everyone's surpriso it didn't, there being no horse of that name in the

FRCO.

Last year we found an infallible system for winning at the races. In a race with five ponies, we ask five friends to put ten bucks each. on a pony for us. You can't loss that way, especially If you can keep out of the way of the people who backed the losers for you.

The first races were hold at Happy Valley in 1845, and a lot of money was placed on the favourite, which came in in 1847 and was promptly disqualifled for being over nge.

Happy Valley is about 1 miles from the city going out by taxi, and about 5 miles walking home after the last race.

As the Chinese say: "Make cum fle."

Which means, "Don't put your shirt an a cert or the Steam Laundry won't be paying "any dividends this year."

We'll be seeing you near the sweep barrel. Or near some barrel.

That'll be all about horses."

There's Boon

in Stamps

THE stamp business is boom- THE

2,000 now Ing. Nearly Issues are likely to be made through- out the world this year, compared with 1,772 last year and 1,380 the year before.

The British Empire is busy chang- Ing over its stamps for the new reign, It takes many months, following the Coronation for all the now issues to and their way into circulation.

There were 203 Coronation stamps, and Canada won the race among the countries of the Empire to be first with her stemps for the new reign She made philatelie history by show. ing, for the fist time, an English king in mufli.

One of the most popular stamps of the past 12 months was the "Virginia Dare" 3-cente stamp sold by the United States post offices. It com- memorated the 300th anniversary of the birth of the first white baby born on the American continent. Her life was short. Indians overpowered the settlement and left no survivor to tell the tale.

The set which had the most adven- turous enreer was that issued by Colombla to celebrate the fourth Olympiad. I was sold only by the skin of its teeth.....

The stamps arrived late. Then they could not be sold because the President had not authorised them. He was chased round the country by. an aeroplane which was always one hop too late.

When his authorisation was given it was a public holiday, so no post ofices were open, and when they did open there were not enough clerks to cope with the demands of those who wanted to buy the stamps.

Among the most striking sets of the past year is the Greek tasue of 13 designs form * ztamps whose panoramu of Greek history from 2,- 000 B.C., to the present day. The first of the series shows bull-vault- Ing, in which boyn and girls used the animal's horns for grips, and the fost a painling or "atory," by one of the country's modera artists, N.. Olyzis.

Our own Government unwittingly played a port. In an amusing stamp mystery.

1

Complaints had been made about the stamp machines, so it was decid- ed to test them wfili stamp dummies, These were made with no design bas yond blob of init, which. HAVO them the nickname of "poschod 058 stamps."

By accident sumin "of these were left in the machines, and were ne- tually used on letters. All sorts of prices up to £3 were oaked for these until the bubble was pricked, when they boĉama «mera "labels" of no value whatsoever" beyond what the foolish would

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