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Hong Kong, Wednesday, Mar. 1, 1933. standing.
A Forty-Hour Week.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1933,
"I REMAIN, YOURS VERY FAITHFULLY..."
BEING LETTERS ABOUT MR. SHAW BY MR. SHAW
OLD SHAVIAN MANNER
The latest copy of the "Izvestin” in England, contains a striking ac- count of a new Soviet enterprise.
Moscow scientists, supported by the Soviet Government, have now received permission to construct a giant weather factory, which will reproduce the warmth of sub- tropical lands when the rest of Mos- Letters that passed between cow is shivering in Arctic cold. the two best living authorities The new "factory of artificial on MF. Bernard Show-Mr. climates" will consist of a huge Shaw himself and his early glass structure fitted with powerful American biographer, Dr. Archi- lamps, humidifers, and radiators. bald Henderson-were sold by The objects are partly therapeutic auction in New York recently. and partly experimental. The How come the letters to be factory will be used for conducting | written?
agricultural experiments. It will In the old Shavian maaner, to also be a home for invalids, and a be sure; they are letters by Mr. doctor, înstead of ordering his Shaw about himself, and were patients to the South of France or addressed to Dr. Henderson to |the Caucasus will pack them off in tell him how to write
a bio- aleighs to the requisite section of graphy of
Bernard the Palace of Artificial Climates.
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A Legation Pelic.
Shaw.
George
When Mr. Shaw first heard of Dr. Henderson's biographical
One of the public meet- Inga was at the Memorial Hall in Farringdon-street; and the speak
er of the evening was Henry *- George.... I read Progress and Poverty, and went to a meeting of the Democratic Federation at which I гос and protested against their drawing a red herring across the track opened by Gearge. They told me I was a novice, and that I should real Karl Marx's Capital I promptly went and did so, and then found that my advisers were awestruck, as they had not read it themselves. I immediately became 4 Socialist.
He dates a big change from his
A zealously-guarded treasure in ambition he wrote to the can- the Dutch Legation at Teheran is didate: "Send me your photo-meeting with Mr. Sidney Webb a photograph of the entrance, graph."
main door.
| showing two sentries guarding the On receiving it he had a good look at the picture and wrote: The one On the right is a "You seem to be the right man stalwart trooper in Cossack for the job."
uniform. It is Riza Khan, then a So the letters-legan: they private soldier with more courage poured across the Atlantic in than mental power under his rapid succession, full of wit and astrakhan cap, and now Shah all the Persians.
Your Daily Smile.
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MY CHOICE,
of
irony, of advice and instruction, of criticism (of other people),] and, of course, of a self-revela- tion all the time blood brother to self-approval.
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All this was a quarter of a century ago, Yet it was not until about a year ago that the final definitive edition of the biography was published.
Once, on the dust cover of a
wrote:
BLOOD WILL TELL. Many a liar is given away by a proposed that the discussion blush, said 'a London police court should proceed on that under-magistrate.
But the repre- sentatives of half a dozen Gov- ernments, more or less favour- A doctor declares that to cover able to the reduction of hours; one's head with the bedclothes is presentation copy, Mr. Shaw took alarm at the condition of alto risk asphyxiation. Well, if it's con- guarantee of present wages. a case of asphyxiation or dance the They substituted an ambiguous music until midnight from the Organ-phrase "the maintenance of neighbour's loud speaker, give me recent- the standard of life of the work-asphyxiation every time. examine ers." to
Another conference will the proposal of a universal forty-be needed to interpret that hour week as a remedy for un-phrase alone. Does it require the employment, has produced most maintenance of each individual's picted. disappointing results.
The so-called technical ference *summoned by International Labour ization, which met ly at Geneva
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SUDDEN STORIES.
"My dear Henderson,-Sell, this while the boom lasts. It will provide a dowry for your daughter."
This was in 1929. Hender- son had first sent a gift book to The ice wasn't as thick as he ex- Shaw with an inscription assur-
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ing him that he was the greatest
The con- standard of life, or that of the Now every one says how he was living dramatist. ference has succeeded in no community? Is it an average in-respected. thing. It has evaded an unbiased cluding the unemployed? From
Shaw returned the book with inquiry into the immense
the question: "How do you ` dif- what · standard and from what I Pass the Iden On.
A greater know, Archibald? ficulties of introducing a forty- date will it be measured? Not- Lots of motoring writers have hour week by international ar- withstanding its uncertainty the been telling people how to keep their known to us to esteemed a ridi- may be on the way, elther in- rangement; it has been still far-labour representatives were con- car radiators from freezing during ther from an unprejudiced study tent with it, and indeed they can the cold spell; but I like my own of a forty-hour week as a reso construe it that it appears to idea best of all. At the first sign medy for unemployment. For-offer wages a greater security of frost I always go and buy a tunately the representative of than their own resolution would car with an air-cooled engine. the British Government refused have done. For if, as no one de:]
remain
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culous impostor, as I was.
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The Forerunner. The forerunner of the letters written from Adelphi- terrace back in June, 1904.
Was
It is full of niceties in modest. self-revelation about the great
the famous 'nineties: aman's life before and during
HER CHOICE. "Broken off your engagement to
She wouldn't have me.” *Mary 1"
"You told her about your rich,
to play in a game of humbug. nies, a forty-hour week muat Ica the Same the Whole World Genuine inquiry he welcomed, make production more costly, Over. but not a make-believe shirking and prices rise in consequence, divorce because he can't stick being
An American has just got the task which was the only rea- then wages must not son for the holding of such a constable; they also must rise. But his wife's husband; and that's ference. Moreover the alliances although the representatives of what most of us kick at too. of worker with worker and em- the six Governments had in mind ployer with employer were so the limitation, not the increase, strong that some of the funds- of wage rates, the uncertainty of MARY (spotting personable young mental objections to an inter the phrase saved the conference man): That's the sort of man I've national regulation of hours of from a breakdown.
| been looking for all my life. There was
JOAN: Same here. But you go work, regardless of the other agreement on disagreement; ́and factors which govern costs of on that unsubstantial basis the ahead, darling you've been looking production and international debate proceeded. This sort of longer than I have! competition, did not receive the pretence stamps unreality on the attention which they deserved. conference, Britain must re- A forty-hour week may yet be member and the country's la- proved a means of advantage-bour representatives at Geneva ously employing machines for do it disservice when they forget the advancement of divilization. that the higher the present uncle?" The benefit of the machine may rates of wages the greater will conceivably be converted into be the cost of reducing hours of leisure or retained, through a work while maintaining wage in- readjusted balance of produc-comes. In these circumstances tion, as goods; or it may be divid-the Industry of a high-wage ed between leisure, goods, and country must inevitably be han- services. The forty-hour week dicapped by a reduction of the proposal represents an endeavour hours of work; and, though For apartment dwellers a gas to secure an international edict tariffs might give protection in range that includes storage places that the beneft shall be convert-the home market, the full weight for dishes when closed resemblea ed into, leisure. Whatever is of the handicap would be felt a decorative piece of furniture. done by international regulation against its foreign trade. The should be done fairly as between increase of oversea trade should In spite of its extensive forests| nation and nation, and as to that be our particular care; the trade Australia: Imports nearly one half the theories of the advocates of depression has hit the export in of its annual requirements of 924.- the forty-hour week make no dif-dustries longest and hardest. It 000,000 board feet of lumber. ference. It is certain that the is therefore high time for the]
"Yes. She's my aunt now."
Facts You Did Not Know.
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I never lived the literary life, or belonged to a literary club; and though I brought all my powers unsparingly to the critic- lam of the fine arts, I never frequented their social sur- roundings...
(now Lord Passfeld):
. from that time I became a much more effective person; for I was really a committee of Shaw and Webb.. The difference between Shaw with Webb's brains and knowledge at his disposal and Shaw by himself is enormous. Nobody has ever gauged it be cause I em an incorrigible mounte- bank, and Webb.is one of the simplest of geniuses. I have al- ways been in the centre of the singe whilst Webb has been prompting me, invisible from the side. I am an expert picker, of other men's braine; and I have been exceptionally fortunate in my friends.:
Like A True Shavian. That world-beating letter (for length) was followed by this:
You will have to know a good deal before you know me inside-out...
. Are you going to write n natural history, like a true Shavian, or a romance, like an incorrigible anti-Shavian? Surely the right thing to do is to begin with a vivid romantic picture. of the miraculous Shaw, the wonderful personality, the brilliant, the witty, the para doxical, the accomplished, the eritic of a thousand arts, and the master of half a dozen.
Having got this off your afflated chest, then get to business. Point out as a matter of common sense that the admirable creature you have just been describing clearly does not exist...that the real Bernard Shaw was born into the world not by parthenogenesis but in the vulgar way... that he goes about on two legs, blow- ing his nose and falling and fudg ing along as best he can perceptibly short of many accom- plishments which are fairly com- mon, and in some Ways obviously ignorant, stupið and un- ready man... Not so obviously!
(Continued on Pape 11.)
FATAL WANCHAI FIGHT.
Shock Believed Cause Of Death.
I advise you in everything you write to insist on this training of mine, as otherwise you will great-; ly exaggerate my natural capacity. It has enabled me to produce an extra- impression of being an ordinarily clever, original and brilliant writer, deficient only in feeling, whereas the truth is that: thought I am in a way a man of genius-otherwise I would not have sought out and enjoyed my experience, and been simply bored by holidays, luxury and money—---- Enquiries at Police Headquarter yet I am not in the least natur- this morning, regarding the death ally "brilliant" and not at all of Yim Sam, a contractor who died ready or clever......
during a fight in a house under con- There is nothing more mis-struction in Wanchal Road yester- chievous than the notion that my day morning, reveal that death was works are the mere play of a de-caused primarily from shock. lightfully clever and whimsical An axe was picked up near the hero of the salons: they are the scene of the fight, but no wound result of perfectly straightforward was found on the body.
the drudgery, beginning in ineptest novel writingTM Juvenility, and persevered in every day for 25 years., man
He adds that anybody could get
News In Brief.
proposal approved at Geneva economic effects of a forty-hour A recently invented garage is would retard, and might well re-week to be dispassionately exam equipped with a turntable that his aidil by paying the same price- Patrons of the Repulse Bay. verse, the economic progress of ined. Perhaps the Governing turns a car inside the building and a good many people probably Hotel are advised by the Manage- Great - Britain, The proposal Body of the International Labour around as the door is opened and cheaper.".
ment that the usual dinner dance would not work equitably. Al- Organization will secure that ex- closed,
Longest Letter !!
at that establishment will not though the argument has been amination by inviting the opin
Then in the following year Mr. take place on Saturday, the 4th of used before it must be re-atated ion of the Economic Committee European Inventors have de Shaw wrote one of the longest let March. until it is honestly met; and the of the League of Nations. Not veloped coal tar and crushed ters ever written. It took him a restatement here will illustrate only the interests of the manu, stone substitute for asphalt when fortnight to complete NY Knocked down by a public hire. the shufung of phrases with facturing nations but those also used for paving or as a building. It was in answer to a series of car in Henessy Boad yesterday, a which too often Geneva disguists of the agricultural nations need material.
questions about his life and career, male, So Po, 16, of 27, Jardine's disagreement. The British Gov- to be studied. The Geneva com
and in it Mr. Shaw tells how he Bazaar, sustained injuries to his ernment's representative brought ference gave little thought to Panema has enacted a law, pro-rande one of his best speechas hand. He was sent to the Govern the conference to face the noces the ricultural countries, but a hibiting the importation, manufac about an hour and a half long, and mont Civil Hospital for treatment. sity of taking account of wager recognized causs of the tr
de tare, sale and use of fireworks that was delivered" in Hyde' Fark in might be Injurious to public health, pouring hain to alx policemen sent |to watch the aid the secretary of "hester" through the little society that had siled me frosti culates has been" in- to' speaki
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