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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1847.

Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:

Sitting on the

E column this week will

A be devoted entirely to the

discussion of mancy.

Most people who write about money, are experts on finance and economics.

This discussion is written by a man who has never read any

knows thing about finance, nothing about it either by ex- perience or instinct, and whose only interest in money is in earning the largest possible amount of it by the least pos- sible effort and using it for spending purposes.

Fence

by NATHANIEL GUBBINS

wasting his time. It is not part of the argument,

Where are we now? On, yes. The builder, the

failor, the shoe Ladies and gentlemen, N. Gubbins, maker. How are they going to live? Although you will need food every Esq, on money.

day you will not need a house, suit of clothes, or a pair of shoes, every day.

Before money there was a system of barter.

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other

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Fot

Ono man grew beef. The

exchanging grew wheat. By with the other they could both brend and meat, instead of one cat- ing nothing but bread and becom- Ing bread bound and the other eat ing nothing but meat and becoming scrofulous.

be

In an ideal community there would a baker, a grocer, a butcher, tailor, u shoemaker and a builder, all essenti- to a comfortable existence. For the sake of this argument we will leave out the brewer, though we might throw in a doctor.

It would be dificult to estimate how many steaks a house in worth er how many eggs a suit of, clothes

is worth.

lyr So what to

You Invent which form of exchange

Is con ventent to all parties for all pur- poses.

That, children, is probably huw money began.

theory

about

The

Possibly this origin of money has been expounded before. It nught to occur to anybody mind is not entirely concentrated on football pools.

that is so obvious

whose

N.

n new life in any and take out surance policy on Monday? Or stu money into the bank against a ralny day?

Nobody enn blame them for take int out a life Insurance policy, or slutting money into the bunk. Up to now no Government has guaranteed them a comfortable old age.

But you can blame them for lack of faith and pecuse them of hypo- mon than ensy-unless it is no riddled thinking.

an

of money

Woo

paper

Lack of these pieces of causes domestic misery. sumetlineA divorce. Even those who love you hegt won't love you so much if you are poor.

Too many pieces of paper or tan few either demoralize your children or embitter them.

Those who are clever, carn or nequire many pieces of paper; those who are not so clever don't. Thos who are too clever pften end up in prison.

don't

The sensible people who bother about pieces of paper, except RS wrapper for fish and chips, are called tramps.

They are despised by those who acquiring spend their whole lives pleces of paper and giving them to other people.

return.

to

the

Perhaps the sillest people ato those who give pieces of paper bookmakers hoping to get more in

Whoever

except they are. tramps, their lives are dominated by necessity two voices-the voice of

of urging them to acquirt pleces paper and the voice of the tax col- them some of demanding lector back.

01

called

POCKET CARTOON

"It's for you, sir. i didn't..

ank toho it was?"

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

B

ATTLING Stan Trivett, the English heavyweight who leads with a simul- taneous loft: and right, is worrying the boxing promoters.

method paralyses them. dity of such an unconventional

To the simple mind of N. Gubbins, against Esq.. the Christian faith is aving money. It implies that there

than Minor voices demand pieces more reliable is something

and banks

Insurance companies. paper for rent, rates and insurance. That is, if words mean anything at Any pieces of paper lett over are handed over to those who provide all.

clothing and what is If you are already worried about food, this problem there is an easy solu- entertainment. tion.

materialist Either be an honest

So you will see that most of us It ought to be so easy to den! and ave your money. Or be annet Christian and spend it or give wante our lives collecting pleces of with him, but his opponents If houses, clothing and shoes were

paper, either in large quantities or find that surprise at the absur- It away. not considered necessary to a com- It occurred independently to

You 'can't be both an honest small, to hand over to other people fatable existence that is to say. If Gubbins, Esq., after a long and bit-

to somebody else. the members of the ideal community ter correspondence with Mr Blood- materialist and an honest Christian. who, in their turn, hand them over were "xepared to

10 go about

naked sucker, the income-tax Inspector.

Madness could go no further ex-!

Said Erule Bullsfout: "He push- and sleep on the grass-the com

cent in the international field, where ed' out both arms at me, and I munity could live by barter alone.

because one piece of coloured paper; Rould and the baker

for Jonys and

of one design is more valuable than laughed. But he repeated the trick another so quickly that I found myself down another piece of paper of design, we must either export most and out in the first secunds of the

We need

fight". Trivett's stance is most un- of the commodities

conventional. He leons far back on his starve.

heels and edges towards Almost from the cradle, and cer-his

our hyes are opponent,

to as though reluctant lainly to the grave,

with come to blows

him. Then, completely dominated by picces of!

coines upright and paper.

Because we are acquiring more suddenly, he than we need or because we have not enough for our needs, because we are spending more than we have or be

spend much Cause fear makes us less than we have, there is no peace in the mind of anybody.

No peace, rest, no "me to Thought in the night stand and stare."

The butcher exchange steaks loves ter steaks and both could do COON after

deal with the grocer in return for money butter and egks.

The next abuse Abuses of money making money out of money;

This la sometimes done by invest the invention ofing money in private companies, came the abuse of it. backing horses to win races, or play rst abuse of it was to save it ing cards for high stakes. All could contribute to the doctor's instead of spending it. vistence in exchange for

This will sound like her sy profes- existence

ston:

Hervices,

In other words, they could without money.

The

to

the

At its best Investing money by most of us who have been brought buying shares in a company is living live up to believe that thrift is a virtue. on the toll of others, except in

But is it a virtue? Or, rather, is case of working shareholders. It a Christian virtue?

NOTE: If any reader is now grab-

At its worst it is a wild gamble in tlow many people hear a parson write in and ask, bisp a pen to "Where did the grocer get his but preach "Suficlent unto the day is money producing fantastic riches for

the ter and epps and where did

the cell thereof and pray" "give us some and pauperising the rest. this day our daily bread." on Sun-

You must ask yourself if this is an baker get his wheat?" that reader is

William Hickey

The doctor writes to himself

DO YOU EVER write letters in the world the moit revolutionary to yourself? It's not a wide force since prehistoric man's dis- spread occupation but one cory of fire.

sor.

which has the approval of at We scientia recognise OUT In least one distinguished profes- escapable responsibility to carry to

Ilis name:

Dr JAMES our fellow citizens an understanding M. MACKINTOSH,, Professor of the simple facts of atomic energy of Public Health in

and their implications for society. University.

London

The professor has just, disclosed the he has sent himself a long letter to be opened on his 65th birthday,

The letter urges him lo retire and

on that date take up some new in- terest no

matter how elicient Inay

he

Dr Mackintosh belleves that all 'nen should follow his example. "For As we grow older self-criticism be- comes blunted and the comic spirit

not

We need 1000,00 dollars for this great educational task. I do hesitate to call upon you to help. The writer: Albert Einstein. The signature:

HICKEY NOTES:

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pond,

unmoral thing to do.

But if you decide that it is, you must not point an accusing finger at elderly, unprotected people who have nothing to live on but their divi- dends, Point your finger at the big gamblers.

The third abuse of money was in- ternational financial juggling which WATS and caused two world has seems likely to cause a third. If it docs you will be throwing your use less money into the gutter, as prophets said you would.

WHI

no

Nudist colony

Are handlers necesAUT

r

smashes both Asts home, twice, three times, four times, like, streaks lightning. Mr Bruce Woodcock said:

seen

of

"I haven't

him night, but it sounds all nonsense to me."

WH

be WHAT (un it would

if the various cations which are bring-

to ing democracy

the Antarctic ques-found, just as they were going to

WHICH "brings us to the

tion::

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the

of

have a row about whose fing should By aver a particularly attractive Metro- stretch of lee, that the Goldwyn-Mayer flag had. forestalled them all.

Do they contribute anything human happiness or are they chief cause of human misery?

Must "the red, sweet wine youth be poured out again on the Golden lining battlefields because old men juggle with pieces of paper? of

the

Already the voice of reason is be. ing shouted down by the voice

moncy.

Britain's moral influence in worid affairs has declined because she is poor.

Few people can see that the con finued abuse of money may be the end of us all except for a few sur vivors who will be obliged to return to a system of barter.

Pieces of paper

miserable

URING Frozen Cod Week a loud Or are you the cause of your own voice in a bus said: "I believe every piece of in making hay while the sun shines."

and worrying An outburst of laughter from some. misery, grabbing

hap 30 thrants rocked the bus. But there paper you can get About things that may never pen?

is a silver lining even to the present. rc- has cloud. As a friend of mine Sometimes N. Gubbins Esq.,

Startin to marked: "No Mr Kings.cy thought that the only solution world anxiety is either to control the for-n-while,"

use of money, making it expendable

An necessities only or to abolish Sacristan swallows altogether.

towel-horse

naked doctor in return for services on earth cun keep it new-lald. All rendered.

AL still think himself to be. It

Hastings,

If it were abolished we would be warns him that.

although he may a man tired of lending things to his

back to the ideal community already

TOMEBODY has invented a "death- not know it he is becoming cratchety neighbour and not getting thein

mentioned where the naked butcher,

an egg ray capable of keeping naked und difficult to live with.

and the baker back, sued for the return of & Un00

the na

naked there you are, the So of cument, sparking plugs, a stop- thing that money has made you. grecer bartered food, and each con-new-laid for ten weeks." Ha. Either

decide tributed to the cock in the neighbour's ly

sustenance of the an egg is new-lald or it isn't. Nothing Pleces of coloured paper geranium cuttings and some flower what you may do, where you may pats. The neighbour paid £1 12s.live, who shall be your friends and, in some cases, who you shall marry. shall They decide whether you travel or not: In

countries whether you shall eat or not.

They make you work at tasks you disilke, change your character and lumn Droud men into sycophants.

Cails us when we take the stage as oidera."

Elis nge now 50; it will be 1950 before he slits that envelope.

COMFORT: To every airplane

.the. passenger who has known anxiety of sitting in a fogbound plane and wondering "when you're going to hit that hill";

airline' few days ago wealthy uresident HOWARD HUGHES de- monstrated the first simplified use of radar in a a commercial airline.

Installed in his Constellation was an upparatus weighing 15lb. (costing. £100) designed to accomplish one job to let the pilot know when he's. Belting near to something hard. (An ultimeter doesn't do this it simply tells pilot low high he is above the sea.)

With airline radar" a bell rings and a light flashes as soon as an feet within 2,000 obstacle comes range-thus giving the plane time to climb.

HOWARD HUGHES demonstrated his gaiget by taking his passengers through a steep-sided valley dolted around with peaks. His passengers ware enthusiastle--after they got

down.

BEGGING LETTER: I write to you for help at the suggestion of a friend.

Through the Telcase of atomic energy. our generation has brought *Writing in the Lancet.

NANCY

--AND MY COUSIN HAS TWO HEADS

in lleu,

A Cambridge cinema, after putting smashed-up 1931 car in the foyer to advertise a Road Safety film, now reports a customer's £70 bid for the

wreck.

EDITORS PEERN SEKTICE, ING.

some

"It's daddy. He wants to know can he come home; or is

What a Disappointment!

\THAT'S NOTHING,

MY UNCLE HAS THREE HEADS

Mrs Green still hero.”

REALLY?

YEP---

C'MON~" I'LL SHOW

YA

could

that the boast means' is that stale But in such a community what

a naked columnist do in re-ges will be labelled as new-laid. "I funny myself have hardly thought it worth turn for food? Tell them bedtime stories as they sat shivering while to apply for a patent for a life-giving spray which will keep new on the grass?

N. Gubbins, Esq., told you he knew potatoes old and rotten

¡ years. nothing about money.

for twelve

CROSSWORD

Across

15. During the war, it care gauch

pleasure. (4) 17. Extrems. (6)

15. innate character. (8)

10. It's no underband. (8)

21. You may call her she. (8)

må. Condescenda. (6)

24. 600 I DORD,

Down

A and 24. No, this is not a seaside

entertainment, (0,7),

4. Ponder. (8) 3. Hapisana. (7)

4. Where you and metal taga on

incos ().

5. According to Express ? : 4tan-) ́dards bea'a tavlaži tipper." (8) 6.210s down to the pisca. (4) 1. Boo 1 Across.

D. Mer's gos them ju asema. (4),

14 The all child. (a)

19. tiro to stars with, ous thres

of them (4)

30 Taken from a local airway. (4)

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right royally.(B, D).

8. Often wedi na door corating, (3)] - solution of yesterday's PELL'S ——Kormaši

19. Writing material, (03.

20456 10, ścento (ailways.

11. Murt have been costs who folet: Woo Pors

gays this warning. Be there are 19. Eelon: El Trio 110 man. (4)

12. It may point out a stopping viiimatio:

place." (3) 18. Kuroo

14. “Bhip, me somewhores seat of 'rain:

Lou: V4, Lamery

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