WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1930,
SINGAPORE HAWKER
PROBLEM.
Contemplated Change of Policy.
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M.O.H.'S OPINIONS.
BLACK MAGIC.
RIDDLE OF SURVIVAL IN 20TH CENTURY.
WEST END CIRCLES.
Superstition and credulity con- tinue to make fortunes for many charlatans.
Discussing the hawker question in From a Jersey police court comes the course of his annual report for the case of a farmer who said he last year Dr. P. S. Hunter, Munt had called in a native of Demerara; cipal Health Officer, Singapore, West Indies; to change his luck by driving out evil spirits from his should be noted
that home. the number of outing-houses The native, dressed in a binck
WAS licensed during the year gown, red girdle, and fez, burned
in 1928. 428
against 205
incense and struck doors and win- Much of this desirable result dows with an apen knife. must be attributed, I feel sure, to the campaign against food hawkers and the deletion of certain streets from the lists specifled for stall hawkers. This increase, forms the best answer to those who are in clined to sympathise unduly with the hawker.
The farmer's luck did not change, although, he said, he had paid the picturesque native £186, and the magistrate remarked it was sad that people should believe such a tale in the twentieth century.
But they do. Two years ago a Welsh farmer hanged himself in his Late in the year, but too late to
at Meliod, Montgomery; cowshed shire, because he believed he had have helped to produce the result noted above we decided abate our demanda somewhat withbeen cursed by a witch.
we must
To the end of the 17th century
regard to property to be licensed as It was heresy not to believe in food shops. I have realised for witchcraft, and in rural districts some time that our policy of asking there are people still who believe in for complete reconstruction to give giants, dwarfs, fairies, fays, elves, up full open area, etc. was operating hobgoblins, and gnomes. unfairly. In most cases the pros- pective tenant has to pay for the extensive alterations for which we
have been asking. And sometimes it does not end there. As soon as he has settled-in his new premises, the landlord imme- in some cases diately raises the rent. And the tenant cangot even protest..
Superstitious beliefs may also be heard in West End drawing-rooms and at provincial and suburban-tea- parties, where the esoteric cult of the occult has a strange fascination.
Belief in Charms,
A belief in charms and in unlucky objects is not confined to the lesser educated. I know a lawyer who The Licence Problem. Further I am convinced if we are always carries a piece of red tape to be successful in inducing the food in his pocket to prevent his nose hawker to take up licensed premises from bleeding, and I have met a
must be abated be-detective who is convinced that our demands cause, as a rule; where the hawker piece of potato will plies his trade most freely, the rheumatism. property, is old and insanitary and a
our previous to make it satisfy demands involved a very consider able outlay.
ward of
Students of folk-lare will and inf the British Museum hundreds of ancient customs and traditions that supply modern superstitions.
There is superstition in
the
It has now been decided to grant a licence provided the house is Strand. Bush House, Aldwych, has oomy enough and the applicant is eight pillars ornamented and une willing to provide commodious food plain. The plain pillar subscribes preparation rooms and kitchen ac-to the feeling asing the old Greeks commodation, subject of course to that perfection belongs to Gori other, necessary minor alterations alone. It is an interesting piece of ancient superstition in the heart of and improvements.
modern London.
Just as children are terrified by
Our polley of the past few years
Out of this survival of super has resulted in a very great Im provement in the eating-houses all stition comes the opportunity of the over the town. This change of charlatans, from the founding of policy therefore was not arrived at new religions to the exploitation of
without A certain old fcars. lightly nor amount of regret. It may seem to be rather a retrograde step but the threat of the bogey man, so are am convinced it is necessary. We neurotic people disturbed by the must simply try to minimise any prophecy of evil, end that la why we possible evil that may rise from it get blackmail and the black art:so by closer supervision and more closely allied. frequent visits of inspection.
USE OF LEISURE.
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And Will Be Wealthier Still.
MR. J. M. KEYNES' OPTIMISM.
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We have never ceased attempting to discount in these columns the de- pairing interpretations of modern Britain that keep Hooding its press and to which we give the same pro- minence that they enjoy In the coun- try of their origin. Indeed we have more than once suggested that this consistent attitude of self-deprecia- tion arises-consciously sciously from a desire on the part of the British to encourage rashi over-confidence among their com- petitors. We are therefore grati- fled to find no less an authority than Mr. John Maynard Keynes explain-: ing to a group of women delegates from national councils of womer oversens that the present condition of Britain is excellent. Here are more striking para- two of his graphs-
this We in
country have for twenty-five years beon carrying out one of the greatest social experi- ments in history, the equalisation of
wealth and the abolition of the worst kinds of poverty Because we live in the middle of them we have over- looked the changes. The well-to-do classes in this country are poorer than they were, but for the great bulk of the people the change in the standard of life has been most re- markable.
It has been carried through by governments of every political party, quietly and peace; fully, in spite of the Great War. It has been done not only by the increment of wealth, but by the willlngness of the richer classes to submit to the subtraction of their wealth.
Ceventy-five years ago this lad's grandparents were just about the same size as himself, and yet old man tortoise was as large as life in Dark Africa, although at that time he was just a "kid" bimself. Mr. Tortoise, who is seen here very obligingly favouring one of the younger passengers on the Canadian Pacific liner Duchess of Bedford, which arrived in Montreal recently, with aride, was at the time this picture was taken, on his way from the Liverpool Zoological Park to the National Exhibition at Toronto.
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Instructions attached to this seventy-pound tortoise warned those taking care of him during his long journey not to worry if he would not eat; however there did not seem to be very much wrong with his appetite, for by the time the big liner reached Montreal from Liverpool the ship's larder had been diminished by several very large cabbages.
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When people compare us with the countries in Europe, they should re- member that for the ordinary work er we are supporting a standard of life forty-five per cent. higher than that in France. Britain is still far and away the richest country in
6 p.m.-Chinese Programme. Europe, and by no means at an end
7 p.m.-European Programme of prograss. It is four times as rich as a hundred years ago. I would predict with absolute confidence that of Columbia Records supplied by
With Sword and Larce, March, a hundred years hence we shall be the Anderson Music Co. at least eight times as rich as we Light of Foot, March,
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More practical evidence of a similar nature is to be found in the Just like speech of Sir Hugo Hirst, chairman I'm in the of the General Electric Company of Great Britain, who pointed out to a meeting of stockholders that profits The Maid of the Mountains-
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Columbia Light Opera Co. (DX81). had increased nearly 10 per cent. It the past year, and who also stated that the company's export business, You're in Love and I'm in Love, 'now running into millions,' is What wouldn't I do for that Man?
Ruth Etting. Comedienna (DB19). 'nearly double what it was four or
English Medicy (Evans),
The Maestros (Vocal) Thomas Andrew Ling, of Kings-five years ago."--The Living Age.
Quintette) (DX80). way, W.C., was at Bow Street fined 295 and £25 costs for selling liquor during prohibited hours at the Street, DR. JACKS ON PLEASURES OF Comique Club, Rupert
Coventry Street, W. CREATIVE SKILL.
"The leisure of the idle rich is one thing; the leisure of the idle poor is another. I know not which of the two is the more dangerous to society and the more demoralising to: its possessor." So sald Dr. L. P. Jacks in an address on "Leisure," delivered recently.
"If you ask what kind of ready. made pleasures are most sought after to relieve boredom and stimul- ate tired seace, there are four which cover most of the ground- sex enticement, gambling in one or other of its innumerable forms, out- ward display, and sight-seeing. The most promising line of attack on the problem of leisure, especially sa connected with sex, fa not the line of moral exhortation.
"If I had to write a motto over the portals of leisure I should do it in three words-skill, recreation," beauty and I would call the whole house the house of Joy. I would make it clear and sedulously instill into the young that the pleasures which result from external excite. ment are far inferior to those which result from creative skill, and that bought pleasures are hardly worth having in comparison to those which arise in the exercise of the creative. faculty"
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Billy Stephens, Baritone (DBIS).
The Tromboneer,
The Troubadours,
Trombone Duet by Robinson and Boam (MR94),
A Pair of Blue Eyes,
I feel you near me,
Layton Johnstone, Duet. (DB186).
The Policeman's Holliday (Ewing),'
Orgare Bolo by Tarance. Casey (DB172).
8 p.m.-From. the Studlo: Mr. Harry Ore-Pianoforte Soloist.
Sixth Sonata j..........ty
Softly Awakes My Heart
(Saint-Saens),
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Mariel Brunshill, Contralta
In a Persian Garden,
(3328).
Habert Eledell, Tenor (9381).
From the Studio: Mr. Harry
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Prelude No. 17,
Valse No. 5.
Sea Wrach (O'Neill),.
Chopin,
Muriet Brunaklil, Contralto (9687).
The Midnight Review (Newmarch),
Robert Easton, East (0412). From the Studio: Mr. Harry Ore-Pianoforte Soloist,
a. "Monk's Prayer."
Two Buttorales,"
The Hungary Horse rings the Bell
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d. "Sixth
(Liszt)
Hingarlan Rhapsody"
9p.m-Weather Report, Local Time and Press News.
9.06 p.m.-Danca Programme.
1. Fox Trot: "Here in My Heart."
That night in Venice..
2. Fox Trot: "Ted for: Two,"
Want to be Happy."
3 Waltz: "When it's Springtime in
the Rockles.
"I'm failing in Love Again."
4 Fox Trot: The Rogue Song.
When I'm looking at You."
5. Blues: "Sweetheart, we need each
6. Waltz You're always hmy
Arms
One Step You
Fox
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Gotta
"Can I Help it."
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DAUGHTER OF 42. "NO DOING ANYTHING WITH HER."
A worried-looking mother asked Mr. Barrington Ward, the magis trate, at Old Street Police Court if he could advise her on the legal rights of parents.
"We are so troubled at home," she said,, "about the behaviour of my daughter, A short time ago, she came into a little money, and now there is no doing anything with her. She goes out at night and has a few drinks and then ske comes home and beats me and her father."
added that her The woman daughter was forty-two.
Mr. Barrington Ward said it Was diflcult to know what to do
He sug in such circumstances. gested that perhaps if the daugh- ter were summoned for assault some good might result.
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