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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 24, 1940.

This is War

is

what the FUNNY SIDE UP

costing

By Abner Dean

STUDEBAKER FOR ECONOMY!

The Studebaker Com mandor has just won, the Gilmore-Yosemite economy run over a course of over 300 miles. The Studebaker Champion and President models also won first honours in their class. This is the first time in history.. that one make of car has won all three first prizes. Studebaker is the most economical. full-sized car to operate in Hongkong. Takes all the hills on top gear. Try a Studebaker before buying any car.

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MARQUES-Francisco Lulz Marques a retired clerk of Union Insur- ance Society of Canton dled carly this morning at Canossa Hospital. The funeral will pass the Monu- mment at 5.30 this evening.

The

THIS war is a very expen- community except perhaps the sive business, much more very poorest, for even if all in- expensive than the lust. Be comes over £2,000 a year were tween 1914 and 1918 the tional revenue would be in- completely confiscated the na- cost of the Army worked out creused by only about £60 at about £340 per man per millions a year. annum, whereas each man If the standard rate of income in the Army of to-day costs tax were raised from 78. Gd. to the nation on "the average tax were made to yield its last 10s, in the pound, excess profits £600 per annum,

pound, "fancy taxes" of one The Navy, Army, Air Force kind and another were imposed.: and Ministry of Supply are and indirect taxation stiffened spending it the daily rate, of the estimated revenue might nearly £4 millions. Almost an reach a⠀⠀ figure of £1,750 other million a day is being millions, I.e. a further £600| spent on Air Raid Precautions, millions a year. There wouldį evacuation, shipping and the still be a gap of £1,500 millions atabilization of food prices. per annum, and this gap could The whole of the war expendi-'be closed only by borrowing of ture is therefore close on £5 one kind or another. millions a day, out of a total . At the outbreak of war it was Government expenditure of be- estimated that the gross suvings tween £6,500,000 and £7,000,000 of the community cannot have a day.

exceeded about £750 millions n Already then, when we are year at the most, and this figure still only half-way through the included amounts necessarily first year of the war, we are set aside for the depreciation spending at the rate of nearly of existing capital.

£2,500 millions a year-and this As the nation's war effort when the war in the air hus

OF ALL

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"I think the one with the brown eyes is the cutest!"

hardly begun. Before the end expands, the growth of employ millions, made up of £1,750 has forgone the expenditure of

ment and the increased sums millions from taxation and'a pound which he would other- of the war's first year we may paid in wages must increase the £1,500 millions from borrowing wise have spent, then there is be spending £8 millions a day, nation's savings, and the Na- about what the war is ex- no inflation, no matter whether which is at the rate of nearly tional Savings compaign will no pected to cost during the com- the private individual devoted £3,000 millions a year; if the doubt lead to the saving of huge ing year. If the war develops the pound he did not spend to war continues, expenditure may sums which would otherwise in the air, then its cost will the payment of taxes, to sub- rise to £9 millions a day or have been frittered away. In be £3,285 millions year, or even the first hundred days of the as suggested above, it may ap- to the increase of his cash re- tremendously increased scription to war loan, or merely £10 millions a day, when the National Savings campaign the prouch truly terrific figure of £3,650 public subscribed, through the millions a year-and so there

figure

But if the Government ex- medium of War Savings Certi- will develop an ever-widening penditure on the war increnaes reached.

So much for expenditure; Bonds, to the extent of £100 height this gap might amount to tion in the expenditure of the ficates and 3 per cent War gap. When the war is at its without a corresponding redue- what of the receipts? The millions, and perhaps this rate between Chancellor of the Exchequer has of progress may be maintained £1,000 millions a year,

£500 millions and public, then there is inflation- estimated that

If, for instance, the citizen sub-

Hongkong Telegraph. millions

Wednesday, July 24, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015

THE preax "prelat to the Telegraph" is 11sed by the longkang Telegraph" to indienio news which a strielly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni. cations didinance, 1916 Buch new as bears the indication "UP is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re serve all rigista and forbid republication, elther wholly or in part without previous arrangement

Workers Behind The Guns

The attitude with which all the working classes in Great Britain are throwing themselves into the war presents a striking contrast with that of many of them between 1914 and 1918. Then, among large sections of the workers, there were doubts and misgivings, and fears of ex- ploitation. To-day thereis. overwhelming evidence of the

fight, and that everything for which organised labour hns stood throughout its history is at stake,

;1 year would be

in the year 1989-40 he will receive £995 millions, and in the

financial year 1940-1941 he may, if he is

lucky, receive

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loan, not out of cash set free by the limitation of his expenditure but out of ad- vances made to him by his banker for the

as much as £1,250 millions. Ex- or even increased, penditure, on the other hand, is likely to reach at least £3,200 that

the additional amount perience of the last war, by a is subscribing. millions. Between the two which can

be secured from borrowing which will be, in there is a difference of £1,950 genuine savings will be more effect, hardly distinguishable, creasing subscriptions to war This is the method of in- millions- say, £2,000 millions, than £750 millions a year-in if at all, from Inflation.

loans which was adopted in the How is the gap to be closed? other words, £1,500 millions a If in wartime, as the last war, and it may well be Increased taxation is the first year is the maximum that may "Economist" very clearly puts that circumstances will compel resort which will spring to mind, be received from savings. it, for every pound that the its adoption in the course of and the increases would have to Thus we now have a total of Government spends some pri- this struggle if it should con- be borne by every class in the Government receipts of £3,250 vate individual (or institution) tinue more than a year or two.

How will this fresh gap be purpose and possibly on the But It. Is dificult to believe closed? Judging from the ex- security of the loan to which he

Continuing... OF MICE AND MEN

conviction that this fight is their ON Saturday night the to the barn. Curley rushed up-

"Your puppy! He's dead!". "I think you're goofy," she boys went into town to stairs to administer one of his "He was so lil'," whimpered giggled. "But you're a kinda frequent beatings; but she Lennie. "I was jus' playin' nice fella. And a person can tour the saloons and the out- turned on him in hysterical with him an' he made, like he kinda Kec what you mean. lying roadhouses. George fury.

was goin' to bite me an' I made Sometime when I'm doin' my went along, but only as an

like I was goin' to smack him hair. I jus' set there an' stroke onlooker.

it because it's so soft. Feel an' then he was dead."

"Don't you worry none, He there an' see how soft it is, Len- was just a mutt. You can get nie. Don't you

muss it up, another one casy. The whole now." country's full of mutts." much good planting seed for the "Yeah. I seen that machine "It ain't that so much. George LENNIE gently, happily, little truck garden on his and last night. Why didn't you tell ain't gonna let me tend no rab- stroked her hair. "Oh, that's Lennie's place could be bought your old man so he could can bits, now." for fifteen cents.

them fellers? I'll tell ya why.

More than that, they under- stand that the struggle is not only for their own rights and liberties, but also for that kind of internationalism which has peculiarly appealed to the British, labour movement. Mr. Ernest Bevin, the powerful trade unionist who is now Minister of Labour, made his, first appeal as a member of the Government to his old comrades on grounds larger than national grounds. "I arm an inter- nationalist," he said, adding that one reason why he as a trade unionist took office was because the labour movement i was being internationally des- troyed and its members on the Continent were being impri- Boned and tortured.

In Britain it is no small thing that a trusted trade-union leader should ask his followers to dis- eard the narrower conception of trade unionism. In the last war there were endless disputes about the dilution of Inbour and the restrictive rules established by collective bargaining; there were strikes and threats of atrikes which gravely hampered output. There are no signs of such reluctance to press on with the industrial speed-up to-day. All appear conscious that there are heavy arrears to be made up, that there is not a moment to lose, and that this is a war in which speed on the fighting front depends on speed in the factorios.

"Who bust your han', Cur- ley?" she screamed, laughing A drink of whiskey cost ff. wildly. "Who bust your han'?" teen cents; and George was ob- "I tole you I caught it in a sessed with the thought of how machine."

nice."

Lennie suddenly remembered He continued passing his

to go, but she blocked his path. it. She jerked her head side-

So George returned to the cause if ya talked, they'd that Mac was a "pack o' trou- Angers over her hair, gradually ranch early yet none too soon, talk too. An you were afraid blo", and that he was forbidden stroking it harder and harder, Lennie, as usual, was doing the you'd get the horse laugh like to talk to her. He made as if then passing his fingers through wrong thing.

I'm givin' ya now !! Not only did he wander out Curley's anger to the barn and visit the for- turned to cold bidden premises of old Crooks, fary. "I ain't the coloured stable buck; worse,

he betrayed the secret of their even gonna slug, dream place to Crooks, abetted ya. I'm just

gonna

By John

She spoke to ways, shouting "Look out, now! him soothingly. You'll muss it!"

PSTEINBECK talking to her. clung to

by Candy..

While George was ordering. your Lennie and Candy back to the

You're gettin' bunkhouse, Mac, adrift as usual outa hero.“

husband was in town on a

it. She

He needn't Frightened by her sudden worry about scream, he tightened his fingers being found convulsively on her hair and screamed The horse- again. ahoe tournament "Please don't holler," im- ****would last all plored Leunic, still hanging on. on Saturday night, while her You and me are through.” afternoon, and no

one would "George will be mad," leave it until it was over,

Mae scrambled to her feet, drunk, entered the barn.

THE Sunday afternoon horse- AT last Muo had some one "Let go! You let go she and Lennie stood up with her.. contest They tried to drive her away; shoo pitching.

was to talk to, and to the uncom- screamed. but Mac, stubbornly bent in full swing. But Lennie did prehending, scarcely listening

on finding out what had really not hear the excited shouts and Lennie she poured out her life's big hand over her mouth and In wild panic, he clamped his happened to Curley's hand, the occasional clang of a horse story; how her father had been held it a moment. When he re- ignored their insults and close shoe against the spike that a drunken sign painter who was leased her she screamed again, ly questioned one after the sounded from outside the barn. "put away" when she was a and again he covered her mouth. other about Curloy. Then she For great sorrow had come to child; how she had wanted to holding her tighter and tighter, noticed the bruises on Lennie's Lennie His pup was dead.

go into the movies, While he sat in the straw,

shaking her a little. She strug-

face.

"So--it was you," she said looking dumbly at the little life-But Lehnic kept returning to gled fiercely, kicking off one softly. "Well, maybe you're less form in his hands. Mae his own woe. "Maybe if I took of her slippers. Then her dumb like they say and maybe stealthily crept into the barn. this here pup an' throwed him frightened eyes suddenly be- you're the only guy on the At first she was unaware of way" he muttered, George came calm, Lonnie released ranch with nerve. You're a Lennie's presence; she had come wouldn't never know. Then her, his fingers still entwined in, dressed in her best dress maybe I could tend the rab- in her hair, and smiled with re- nice fella!".

George would have struck her and carrying her cheap patent bits."

lief.

then and there for "messin' leather suitcase, to find her "What makes you so goofy "That's right. Don't yell no around" with Lennie, had not puppy. •

about rabbits?" she demanded, more, I don't want, to hurt

you."on't want old man Jackson passed by and "I was clear through t

the

"I like to pet nice things. ordered them all out of the barn, ranch gate, but I remembered Once at a fair I seen some of

She stood facing him for an- When Curley returned home, you foolish little face--you're them long hair rabbits. And they other second, her eyes, dull, her Inte Sunday morning, from his comin' with me."--

was nice, you bet." I like to mouth open. Then she slumped all-night drunk, his father told. When she heard Lennie begin pet nice, soft things. Like vel to the floor. him about Bise's nocturnal visit to sob, she went over to him. vet.

(To be concluded) -