WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1930.
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THE
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DEFENDERS
MR. GREENWOOD'S PROMISE: WIDER POWERS
LOCAL AUTHORITIES
CHINA MAIL.
HOW U.S.A. SPENDS
SUNDAY
WEEK-END HOUSE PARTIES JUST COMING INTO THEIR OWN
to come
OUTDOOR SPORTS
That underground conspiracy for good known as the Design and In- dustries Association had their A generation Qual dinner recently in London
Other young people, of both soxes, who are less materially mind- ed, And the week-end equally allur- ing. They visit the nearest largo eity for ди Innocent bout of theatre-going, or young men drive
over in hordes to the nearest col- lege, for girls, and stay at the village Inn while they indulgo in concentrated social activities--
So
The week-end is only beginning dances, toa dances, dinner dances,
even tuncheon-dances. into its own in America. and
has this practice of ago it was little extensive practised except along the Atlantic deserting one's own campus become with Mr. Clough Williams-Ellis in
seaboard, and even to-day it is re- among the young men that Presi the chair, supported appropriately garded as an innovation in most dent Angell, of Yale, recently found Lennugh by Mr. Frank Piek, the manager of the Underground Rail Parts of the Middle West, though it necessary to issue a public broad- with the growing attention in re- alde against it. He declared that way, and many leading architects, cent years to outdoor sports and the the habit of going away for the furniture designers, printers, model
increasing number pf country
week-end was interfering sadly (makers, textile manufacturers, and
homes it has become much moro with the discipline of those too ar- designers, painters and journalists, popular. It has been helped enordently devoted to the Friday-to-Mon- with Mr. Arthur Greenwood. the mously, of course, by the universal day habit. Some other institutions Minister of Health, as the chief use of the automobile, which has have recently found it necessary to Ruest. The speech making was
a rule forbidding done away with the long and dreary put into effect very much to the point, that is, for ride on an uncomfortable suburban departure for more than one week- the making of the New Englano train which formerly gave a melan- end in three or four. However, the with responsibility and with under choly beginning and end to even motto of the American student con- standing of the wonderful England the pleasantest party in a country/tinues to be: "Don't let your studies
house.
interfere with your education," and Habits vary from one part of it is safe to say that most of them
won't. America to another, but, generally
of the past. At this gathering it was noticeable that the D.L.A. are advancing from their initial con cern with fitness for purpose, and so beauty of the ordinary articles speaking, the week-end house party of everyday life to questions of usually begins not carlier than what to do under modern conditions Saturday noon, and is more likely to end Sunday night than Monday with the towns and the countrysido
morning. since every American of England so that it should be
male, no matter what his wealth or more fit for the purpose of people social position, feels he must be at if only to set an example to his his desk bright and early Monday,
office mates. There is a small group
to live in it.
Mr. Clough Williama-Ellis spoke movingly of our responsibility to ourselves and posterity in the sort
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Johnson, from Isleworth.
Singapore.
Raghel Tridon Post Office, from
of England we were making with of the very wealthy who conscien-Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong:- the beautiful England despite its tiously imitate the week-end prac- Victorian blemishes that had come and their house parties have no tices of the English county families,
down to us. The D.LA.'s propa-
ganda in their "Cautionary Guide features which are not thoroughly to St. Albans," in which they have familiar. Lower in the social scale, shown with what disastrous
welt
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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spellings, such as hurber, plow, and altho)
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11-A river in Central
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night 24-Bread made of corn-
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Virginia 23-Pronoun 25-New (Best.) 27-Soaked with
liquid 20-A country of N.
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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in ta-ninrotis tyrue along with a new crossword puzzle.
LOUISE FAZENDA
It wasn't so long ago that a for tune teller prophesied to Louise Fazende 'that she would niesta blonde woman who would change. the trend of her life. Louise met Mra, Paul Bloan and is studying singing with her. Louise's voice la so excellent that one fine day ahe may branch out into the musical
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION,
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for at least in the scale of wealth
Zircon, from Bangkok.
S. LACK.
Superintendent.
Hong Kong, 9th January, 1830.
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thoughlessness we were destroying and ostentation, come the profes- that sweet town had already bornasional class and the business man of less important position. In tho some fruit, and had even led to a debate between him and the Town Past decade, especially, these per- Council. That was all for good he sons have been going in for country homes in addition to their flats in the difficulty of the
|town, and no 'Sunday at one's rural; problem. Hideous towna and
residence would be imaginable which did not include 15 many worker by our fathers, and the worker desiring something of the guests as can be packed into the beautiful England outside was go.
On the whole, these week-rams are lying at the office of the Great Northern Telegraph Com- ing there and decreasing it but how ends are still likely to have
pany (Limited) of Denmark: could he be blamed for this effort? indoor rather than an outdoor char-
Hong Kong Chinese Importing acter, although an increasing Union, from Hankow. amount of attention is being given to tennis and golf. Walking, once popular pastime, has been ruined
house.
an
The following unclaimed tele-
from Shanghai.
Lolan, President Van Buren,
A Minister's Concern Mr. Arthur Greenwood, in one of the most hopeful speeches made on the subject, for he is equipped with power to turn some of his thoughts by the automobile! the highways Bank Bldg., from Stamford, Coan.)
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Hoyt, Hong Kong & Shanghai
Wullen Teh, Peninsula Hotel,
Akewple, from Shanghai. Hahaksian, from Swatow.
E. V. JESSEN,
Superintendent. Hong Kong. 8th January, 1930.
are almost the only place where into action, aroused much enthu siasm. He said that he hoped that one may Indulge in pedestrianfam,
and since there are usually no foot-from Shanghai. it would be possible by legislation paths at the side of the road one to give responsible authorities
may walk only at the risk of sudden power to control haphazard deand violent death. velopment, and he hoped to do
The Sunday Tour, something by legislation this
Around New York, at any rate,; session to that end. But no, legis-the country week-end party ia like- latton could do more than give the ly to do a good deal of drinking. power to the people themselves and Bridge is popular; and at every their representatives in the town country club or share resort there and borough councils, Success did
is a Saturday night dance through- not depend on Parliament but on out the summer months. Until re those whom God had called
to becently a customary feature of the town councillors and borough councillors. A house should be ample Sunday morning breakfast at javerage house party would be an more than a mere shelter. The cat which the guests would be expected tages that had come down to us to appear in unison and fully cloth- from ancient times were more than ed. To-day the more civilized cus- that. The workmen should have atom of trays in the bedrooms, or of house that is a home in a setting special service for each guest in the pleasant for the people who live in breakfast room whenever he ap
He spoke of the tremendous pears, la growing in popularity.
The chief American substitute
national effort in war-time. Would
it not be possible to have Bome for the week-end out of town is, of thing of this determination for the course, the Sunday motor tour. victories of peace? He disliked Six-sevenths of all the world's metaphors of the war-the subject automobiles are in the United of the discussion was "the D.I.A. States, and at least six-sevenths of from the point of view of the fight these would seem to be employed ing troops." But nevertheless he for recreational purposes on the would fight in the trenches with Sabbath, if one may judge by the them for the cause.
Mr. Henry Green, à novelist who mile circle about every city and congested, highways in a hundred-
had worked for some years in
town. Nearly every American Birmingham factories to experience working man has a car and a modern industrial conditions, and universal custom in summer is to Mr. Frank Pick also spoke. Mr.drive out into the country and have Pick defended the machine, saying a picnic lunch under the trees. that we were no Robots now but These picnickers do not always were controllers of machinery. He respect private property, and a feud piled up a tremendous indictment is constantly in progress between against the motor-car (not except them and the farmers, who object ing the motor-'bus) and suggested to the litter they leave behind them methods of stopping its worst to say nothing of fruit stolen and effects on the open country which flowers taken without even a by is invaded.
SOUND ARGUMENT!
AN OUNCE
OF PROCE
TS WORTH
A TON
OF TALK.
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your-leave. The habit of going fifty or a hundred kalles from/hamo for a Sunday al fresco lunch le by no meana confined to the poor. It is practised by all social, ranks: one, of its devotees, before há be came the prisonor in the White House, was President. Hoover for whom it was a favourite recreation, and, indeed, almost his only one.
Youth at the Week-end Among the most earnest devotees of the weekend are college under- graduates, both men and women. If a young man at Harvard, Yale; or Princeton is looking forward to a career in finance, as so many of them are nowadays, he regards the week-end of his college years as an Invaluable means of making the golden contacts on which his suc cess is to be founded. A well- dressed and unattached young male, who can dance, play brläge, and remain unaffected after, imbib ing large quantities of rank, booth leg whisky or gin, is made welcome by the rich, Long Island comitry house set, and if such a youth falls to appear at his clasres on Monday,.. or turns up half-asleep ha consoles himself by reflecting that ten years later he can compensate for his Įtemporary disloyalty tó Alma Mater by a handsome contribution to the endowment fund.
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