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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 0, 1930.
FAIR PLAY FOR LANDLORDS
in
a misty morning in early November, 17 years ago, I stood on the aerodrome at Hounslow, and watched a tiny aeroplane ascend and disappear on its way to Paris, carrying the
Flying
first air-mail load to be con-years America has paid more signed by the Post Office on between London and the the commercial flying routes
Continent.
That little 360-h.p. transport- a load of 400lb., plane carried and it flew at 80 miles an hour.
By Harry
HARPER
the well-known authority on the history of flying.
TESCO
Yesterday, in this column, a writer discussed the so-called "Rent Ramp" in Hongkong and intimated that the remedy lay in the reform of the system which allows investment for profit. He journeyed, for a
The other day-epitomising little, into the realm of the ab- stract; and he suggested that I saw the giunt British trans- 17 years of British air progress British people may be funda-port aircraft, Sanopus, the last mentally
their word in modern commercial dc- generally accepted views on sign, leave to inaugurate the economics. At least that a new all-in air mail service to total is approaching 300,000 how many will interpret the Singapore-longest and cheapest miles.. words, and may not agree with air route in the world, them. However, there is no in- tention to argue here the merits, or otherwise, of the capitalistic system. Perhaps it suits the British mentality. It seems to have served very well.
wrong
But the immediate problem facing Hongkong calls for another sort of remedy. It is not feasible to suggest that the
This machine carries a crew of five. It has day asloons for 24 passengers and sleeping berths
for 16.
And, in comparison with the one small bag of letters carried by that first mail-'plane of 1919, it can carry a mail load of ap- proximately three tons.
Vast Mileage
At the present time, the Bri- tish Empire has the distinction of leading the world in commer- cial air route mileage in opera- tion."
The latest official figures are: British Empire, 53,291 miles; United States, 52,461; France, 24,451;-- Germany, 22,291; Netherlands, 12,898. To-day there are fundamental commercial issues which govern
and
rent evil can be corrected by WHEN commercial aviation be- airway operation, just as they gan we had just one 250- govern that of trains or steamt- destroying the investment miles route between London and ships. In the air there are com- scheme, or
British the investor, for Paris. To-day
mail mercial speeds that pay upon that system this Colony is loads, leaving London by air, three are speeds that do not. built; and only as long as it sur-
are flown over nearly 30,000 vives will ongkong flourish. miles of European and Empire But a measure of rent control routes and 30,000,000 letters a does not
mean socialism. It year are carried. calls for the exercising of
No ordinary. common-sense. one, from the staunchest of con-
servatives to the hottest liberal (and we are not using the word
In 1919, throughout the world, there were only 3,000 miles of organised airways. To-day the
than £30,000,000 in air mail sub- sidies. During the same period the British Government granted only about £3,500,000 in sub- sidies to Imperial Airways.
Abroad subsidies have been lavished on a form of civil avia- tion which has a definitely mili- tary background.
Here our subsidies have been on an extremely modest scale,
and British commercial aviation aircraft has been making its carry bigger loads for any given horse-power, and has been en- couraging more and more people to fly by giving them the best possible combination of speed, safety, reliability, and comfort.
Figures for a recent period of 12 months show that big British luxury aero- planes, flying in and out of
THE "VERY IDEA
Empressive Sight In Our Harbour
WE
By Lord Eddie Kelly
E have just been hob- nobbing with Royalty and the blue-bloods aboard the Empress of Britain.
Their blood is so blue that they carry a. bottle of Stephen's Ink around with them, just in case they're feeling anaemie; --
Armed with gold coins and bank drafts and other little- known currencies, these tourists will shortly invade our shops.
Despite their wealth they will that drive so hard a bargain they will beat the unfortunate shop-keeper's prices down to a measly 150 per cent, above ordi- nary local charges.
These tourists should be warned about beggars. Last year there was a man named Shaw aboard. When his companions said “Come, Shawl" they were mobbed.
An amazing number of cam- phorwood boxes will be sold to the tourists.
Still, we suppose that is what they camphor.
They also came to see the sights. This, of course, is no reflection on Indies who live on the Penk.
The Empress of Britain is the largest ship to berth at the Kow- loon wharf. It must have been a alongside. If wharfully ticklist job taking her We were on the bridge we'd be scared stiff that we were going to pilot up.
Still, the Britain should have no dicalty in berthing anywhere. we notice it carries a Peer.
Let us away from this noisesume office.
Croydon across the Con. tinent, carried more passen- gers than all the competing foreign air lines put to- gether.
The British Mercantile Air Service is being built up on the same sound lines as the British Mercantile Marine, and ils re- putation for reliability-for "de- livering the goods"-is already world-wide.
Smaller Policemen & Soldiers, but—
MAN is GROWING
LIFE is a misült. The future is stiff with giants, but no one wants them.
Europeans stand two inches taller than their grandfathers, and behold!
our grandsons, the doctors and an-
soar three, thropologists say, will possibly tour, inches higher still.
Hemoter descendants yet may jook But this Already,
TALLER
-says- John Crofton
Speed And Comfort RELYING on far greater sub- sidies than are available in this country, foreign enterprise is, in certain cases, piling up air ke trees, as men, walking. speed to a point which, though is all the height of folly. spectacular and gratifying to to-day, a giant hus the impulse to go
into the garden and cat serpents. tortionist in hotel beds, of genuflect-
"A ¡national pride, is definitely un-i
cent pronouncement by Seating before other people's mirrors and in the political sense) likes the to house a population which has economic for commercial flying, land Yard was another cut at lofty of bending like an ox over a manger idea of profiteering. Especially as much right to live here as and would be impossible to main- Metropolitan Police was reduced by even of lifting our wives on the hall pride. The minimum height for the at other people's tables. We tire is there a strong feeling against you have."
tain were it not for heavy finan-
one inch to 5ft. Bin. That means chair to kiss them goodbye in the money-grabbing in a time of The rights of private indivi- cial backing from the State.
comparative pygmies will soon wear morning.
But there is a more subtle trouble emergency and profiting from duals must be respected-until Britain is now putting on her that sky-scraping helmet which (like the misfortunes of others. A they come into collision with the Empire. routes flying-boats the Guardsman's bearskin) was in-which lesser, thus happler, mortals
vented to add to formidable stature a rarely comprehend. It is that be reasonable return on invest-rights of the public. In a state which, in their combination of still more elongated look. meats is desirable from the of real emergency individuals speed, reliability, comfort for point of view of every citizen, are likely to find their goods passengers, and ability to carry “I challenge him . whether he owns property or and property commandeered, commercial loads, represent the not. For prosperity of any and the price they will get for most successful combination of class or section of society is, to their possessions may not be, in a number of varying qualities some extent, of benefit to the their minds, anything like that has so far been evolved. whole. What Hongkong people their
But if the
worth.
hour.
·
tween the man of df 'Bin. and the ordinary run of mankind a gloomy "psychological barrier is set.
I have never noticed a St. Bernard FIVE feet eight-only three and a collection of terriers amicably And thus it is inches above the average getting together." Englishmant I challenge the Com--we giants disconcert the lower missioner of Police to say: How long human animals.
the height standard for the police and These jars, such as the lowering of the Army, make us--I mean the stul- head against the dft. Sin, mark-feel wart fellows who can knock a fore- embarrassed and small. Well, not small, anachronistie.
yards
Wol
However
ver kindly disposed," they They can never put the hand of good fellowship On our remote brain when talking to us. shoulders. They get a crick in the
on
does he suppose that visitors to his These big 18-ton air-boats Metropolis will go on thinking his cannot take us into their confidence. do object to is a piling of profit Government, which is the can attain a maximum speed of policemen wonderful? on profit, and an attempt to public, needs them, automobiles just on 200 miles an hour; while make up for slim earnings in or houses must be surrendered. when carrying their full loads the past by raising beyond a fair So it is with living quarters
Little men are often colossal pests level the present selling price of in Hongkong at the present. If they are capable of maintaining
10 це. They remind us (standing any commodity or possession, landlords are not reasonable in a cruising, speed of 160 miles an
tiptoe with their heads flung whether it is flour or butter or their demands for rental-and
back) that Alexander and Napoleon motor cars or floor-space.
it is for the Government to do- The speed, for a really large
We think of the times when stature were of about their inches, that Nel- son stood below average height, that In ordinary times a man is cide what is fair charge-there type of aircraft carrying heavy was a good reliable commodity. Beethovers was rather short, and that entitled to build a house or a ought to be a way of forcing loads, and providing sleeping as recall how eagerly Frederick the Kents and Shelley towered in mind,
to conform with the well as day accommodation for Great combed the nations for his but not in body. block of flats and ask whatever them
How detestable are these com- rent he likes. He is entitled to exigencies of the times. It is its passengers, represents a rea- Potsdam Gitards, men averaging two-
and six inches.
placent midgets. The temptation Is a hundred per cent, per annum not suggested that the remedy sonably economic air speed for
To-day mechanisation and science to put a hand in one's trouser-pocket on his investment-if he can is confiscation.. But it is sug-commercial purposes at the pre- do more than rob the really tall of on and rattle the loose change in their
ancient aristocratie superiority: they face. get it. Conditions are generally gested that anyone who has sent time. such, however, that "ho will complaint should have some come down to the competitive place to alr it besides the level if he has any business columns of the daily newspapers. sense. That is his personal He should be able to go to a BRITISH air transport has been told that it must eventually affair. It is only when circum-wody of experts, disinterested stances alter radically, when an men, who will say whether or learn to fly without subsidies. emergency occurs and living not he is paying too much rent If the Government calls for still quarters are crowded and at a and request his landlord to meet higher speeds, British commer- premium that
Government their request for reconsidera-cial aviation le ready to answer authority should stop in and tion. The bright, and some that call. But such incrensed say: "Charge this much, which times painful, light of publicity speeds will cost more money. is a fair return on your invest would probably be all that was ment, for this property is needed required to effect a remedy.
The Subsidios
It has been calculated that during a recont period of twelve
put us at disadvantage. The Still, up to 6ft. Gin, one can main- tanks or surplus avoirdupois in their tain some liaison with the world. bombers any more than the police Things might be worse-3ft. 2ln.
bandit-chasers.
Mahomed Ghazel, of Cairo, whose ere lants at the wheel of their worse if you take, for example, Said In the hey-day of halberd, pike, oft. Sin. frame disappears nightly bed which is King Farouk's and sword we were worth three; no
into a now we are just a nuisance at the special gift to his mightiest su
It will have to be telescople bed Sald in still
rowing. So is Robert Wadlow, the 19-years- old Illinois schoolboy, who, when
cinema.
Lifting our Wives
ject.
WE tire of being asked how, Inst heard of three months ago, was the weather is up there, Bft. in. For him, Elsa van Dronson, we can spare, an old shoe for the German girl of 8ft, dins might baby's cridle, of playing the con be a tolerable match.
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