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Untouchability.
HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
An Historic Anathema. · One forgets how many times M. Venizelos has appealed to the politically-minded Greeks, but passions at the forthcoming general election in Greece, cannot well run-so high as they did dur- ing the war.
One
picturesque anathema which was issued against the aged Greek atatesman
recalls
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THURSDAY, MARCH
1933.
THE FADING GLORY
OF PARIS
MONEY SHORTAGE HITS SHOPPING CENTRE
NIGHT LIFE DIES DOWN
(By Ernest Betts.)
Arnold Bennett wrote of the grim, You wonder whether It's funny in
by a dignitary of the Greek Church smile of the Five Towns. It is now reality. The money shortage his, in 1916. It was addressed: time to write of the grim smile of scarred the fair lineaments of the "Electors! Brothers in Chrisi "Paris, the Paris that is fighting for city, and hit the shopping centres; and after inveighing against the its reputation as the City of Plea-and, as in the German shops, there pro-Ally sympathies of M.sure, and, like a pretty invalid, is is always a sale somewhere. A sad Venizelos, it went on:
smiling through the doom of a not smile, but no laughter, passes down
the boulevards. "Therefore, against this traitor too favourable report. Venizelos we have invoked the fol- Paris is still a blaze of light, is There are a few places which still |lowing injuries:
still romantic, but its laughter has do a lively trade the Ritz, the "The ulcers of Job, the whale of jdied down.
"Baghdad," shiny bars in back Jonah; the leprosy of Naaman, the The manager of a famous theatre, streets, the Berry In the Champs bite of Death, the shivering of the pacing up and down the foyer, says: Elysces, Maxim's: The "cheaper dying, the thunderbolt of Hell, and "We're in for a hard year. Yes, lunch" habit, the snack counter, is the malediction of God and man. sir! Business? There isn't any very much in evidence. But that is
"We shall call for the same in- business. Tchub!" He chews a business; it isn't pleasure. juries upon those who at the com-amall cigar-a very small cigar. Up in Montparnasse, where five ing elections shall vote for the Now and then he glances at the box years age you could stay in a pos. traitor, Venizelos, and we shall office and turns away in disgust, assible hotel for twelve france & night, further pray for their hands to if ashamed to be connected with it. the cafes still do a fair business. whither and for "them to become Unimportant people, paying nothing The little bookshops, the colourists, deaf and blind."
for their seats, straggle into the the one.brave flowers shop, the. {theatre.
chromiumplated bars and restaur
Can Time was when you dashed over ants stare engagingly at you. to Paris as a matter of course if it be the same? you wanted the most brilliant and THE MASTER TOUCH. Every unnecessary word is to be civilised pleasures in the world. cut out from the talkies. Holly-You not only dined on wood learned how to do it by study- luscious foods, the rarest wines, everyone appears to be cating and ing the cablegrams from Aber- inestimable cheeses, dream creations drinking, but nobody eats or drinks deen.
of the Parisian chefs, but you dined expensively. You can sit for hours among the best company. All the by the burning braziers outside the most interesting, distinguished and restaurant and drink coffee, like a as amusing people were there: it was lean poet waiting for the dawn. In the cocktail bar, red as a tomato, pic-impossible not to meet them.
Your Daily Smile.
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Just Think, Brother. opinion. The Government of. In-
Maybe your wife would be dia consequently propose that wonderful as that one in the resolutions on similar lines should tures if she had
д 3. husband be discussed in the provincial wonderful as that one in the pic councils, and that the Bill should tures.
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CONJUGATION.
I am strong-willed, You are stubborn
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He is a pig-headed fool."
Please Overlook Thie,
be circulated "for opinion," thus giving the Hindu electorate and the representatives of Hindu Lord Willingdon has refused electorate and the representatives sanction to the introduction in of Hindu public bodies and so the Madras Legislature of two cieties the fullest opportunity of Bills dealing with the removal of recording their views. That the the religious disabilities of the caste Hindus are deeply divided Depressed Classes; but he an on this subject is certain. Mr. "temptation or other beckoning nounced that he would permit Gandhi, who recently threatened him," writes a novelist, Somewhere the introduction of a Private Bill to renew his fast if the Madras a vice is calling! for the abolition of Untouch- Bills were not sanctioned, and ability in the All-Indian Legisla-
On
A man always has some little
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Facts You Did Not Know.
into a well.
♥
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to
,
Unchanging Cafes. The "Dome." at its famous the most corner, seethes with movement, and
You went into shops determined glasses are knocking together and a to buy; to be in the buying move drunken visitor seizes his neigh ment. You returned to England, bour's hat. He asks for a drink to slightly. giddy and surprised, but be poured into it.... Champagne. The bar rocks with laughter. Some undeniably rejuvenated.
old
The Gay City, hostess to kings fool Englishman-quite like and queens, had smiled upon you, times!
In the Paris streets everything which was equal to a benediction | from Europe.
appears to be the same, save that not so clean, To-day Paris smiles merely to the pavements are show you the ashes in her mouth, especially in the suburbs. The wo-
and the rose-lit tables are occupied men still look smart and fastidious- by disappointed gourmets, bewafily made-up, and walk like
to the dullest
ing the days that are done and the Lisas, inscrutably, matches dishes which the chefs appointments. seem to have forgotter how to pre.
pare.
Expensive Spirits.
tive Assembly The Governor- many Nationalist politicians sup- On the Sports Field.
port the legislative sanction of How to be a good sports model: General had excellent reasons for temple entry by the untouchables Wear a winning smile when you're a decision which at first sight and the legislative abolition of playing a losing game.
One of the few places of amuse- might seem contradictory. The many oppressive customs,
ment in Paris which is regularly intention of the Madras Bills was the other hand great numbers of
paying now is the Bal Tabarin in Montmartre. It is
packed every no doubt admirable. Their sup-orthodox Hindus are vehemently
night-chiefly with French people. porters sought to secure for the
There you can go in for the equiva-1 ostenstes the removal of the bar opposed to it, and it is note worthy that Dr. Ambedkar, the
lent of one-and-sixpence and buy a riers reared by tradition and leader of the Untouchables, has
A new time bomb for "shooting" bottle of beer for two-and-ninepence, maintained by custom against given more attention to the poli-oil wells can be set to explode up to Whisky and brandy are fabulously their entry into Hindu temples.tical, economic, and educational Madras, moreover, is the pro-advancement of his community hours after it has been lowered dear. There is a good archestra and plenty of dancing. The soul of vince where the disabilities of than to the removal of specific
Paris is awake here, but it is a the Untouchables are most ex-disabilities by legislation. The Lensive and are most resented. Bill is therefore likely to be vigor-
The front of a church built across Paris of the suburbs and the palais- But the issues raised by these ously discussed in the coming the end of a Copenhagen street has de-dange. There is a cabaret, pur- Bills are more than local. Apart months, while the Government of been designed to resemble a giant ple with iniquity, which everyone Jenjoys. The English used to reval: from the fact that pilgrims from India maintain their benevolent pipe organ.
lin it. all parts of India visit some of neutrality. But their assent to
The night life of "fashionable” shrines the most sacred
A holder that encloses an entire its introduction was almost a Madras, these proposals obvious-
foregone conclusion. It would cigarette so that ashes and sparks Paria just now resembles the condi- ly affect the beliefs and custome have been difficult for & British cannot fall off has been invented by tion of London's West End five! years ago. It is in the stage of the of the Hindu community as
Government to defend any other a New York man.
"mushroom" club. whole, and cannot properly bel
policy. dealt with on a provincial basis. Including the Depressed Classes there are more than 41,000,000| Hindus in Madras, but there are nearly five times as many in the The Houston-Westland bipleno rest of India. Nor can the. Cen-jchosen for the forthcoming flight
of
Everest Flight Trials.
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Japan was the purchaser of 29 per cent of the raw colton exported from the United States in the first half of this year.
(Continued un Page 10.)
Elegy.
Monia
Written in a Durty Courtyard. (With apologies to Gray)
The dustman tolls 'the knell of
breaking Dawn,
The garbage-cart wends slowly
through the road. The coolics strew the garbage on the
lawn
And "boys" with garbage on the
van do lond,
Hase,
Now floats a smell that doth offend
the And all the air a mass of dusty
cloud;
Save where reclines a faded flower
rose,
And dustmen cursing "boys" ex-
cenalvo loud.
Save that from yonder lefty, cloud-
clad Peak,
one, The moping crowd do to Bright littlo
Sayer, complain or dust and smell and liquid that
dance clubs spring up overnight, and are cut down in the morning.
I went into a club off the Champs Elysees which had just been opened. It was built underground-warm, cosy, "intime." It had a faint but not convincing air of smartness:
The
doth Jenk
From garbage-vans that he should ne'er retain.
breezy
Morn
The
call
of evil- smelling
shouting from the allt eart
The brass-ball peeling, or the deaf'-
ning horn,
Eer more shall rouse them from
their lowly bed!
For them no more the blessed, mod
*weet repose;
Or busy worker ply his evening
care!
No fragrant scent an wafted from a
rose,
But dust and odour cling fast to
their hair!
Full many a suit of smartest cut
serene,
The mark of dust and mud from
garbage beart
Full many an infant runs about un-
clean, And breathe in odours that pol-
For
lute the air!
the madding crowd's
from ignoble life
tral Government forget that the over Mount Everest has per-chine in which it was made introduction of legislation con- formed splendidly in its prell-which, like the whole of the The decoration was shoddy. Of the so people whom I have fined to Madras might prejudice minary altitude tests at Yeovil. equipment and scientific appara-dozen or the general ssettlement of the Its achievement in reaching a tus which it will carry, is British seen in evening-dress in Paris four no less well or five were here-a curly haired problem presented by the social height of 85,000 ft. is an excel- throughout ---- is disabilities of
the Depressed lent augury for the success of adapted for the purpose which it blond and his partner, obviously Classes, who are actually less the venture, which has been is to serve. In every way it an-tickled to death about something, numerious in Madras than they made possible by the public spirit swered even better than those and two very clever dancers, tread- are in the United Provinces. The of Lady Houston and by the cour- who took part in the flights ex-ing with small confidential steps on Bill entitled the Untouchability tesy of the Maharajah of Nepal. pected. At the highest point each other's tous. An exhibition Abolition Act, which will shortly Without his leave the expedition, reached it actually flew for a few couple, hired by the club!:
Ninety francs for three brandles be introduced in the Central to which the Indian Office, the moments at a rate of 140 miles Legislature by Mr. Ranfia Iyer Government of India, and the an hour, a remarkable speed at- and a clean-up for the proprietor with the sanction of the Govern-Air Ministry. are giving all the such a great altitude, and even in three months.
Money Bays Nothing. ⠀ ment, is drafted in. much more assistance in their power, could at 35,000ft, to which it climbed
There is a huge and famous general terms than the two not have been undertaken. in seventy-four minutes from Madras Bills. It sets forth that, Planned by Colonel P. T. Ether the start, they were comfortably club-restaurant aflame with light in! |notwithstanding anything con-ton and Colonel L. V. Stewart warm, though their face masks the fashionable quarter. It is after tained in any existing enact Blacker with Air Commodore and goggles were coated with eleven p.m. and scarcely a soul is ment, regulation, or order, and P. F. M. Fellowes as leader, and fee. In view of the surprising there. You wonder who pays for notwithstanding any custom or Lord Clydesdale and Colonel fact that the temperature of the light, so brilliant and extrava- Interpretation of the law, no pen-Stewart Blacker as chief pilot seventy-six degrees below zero gant it is.
As you come out of the club'rowa alty, disadvantage, or disability and observer, its object is to ap-at the maximum altitude was not shall be imposed upon any Indian proach Mount Everest from the only lower than they expected, of indifferent taxi-drivers are lined subject because he belongs to an South and to survey from the but a good deal colder, in the up by the kerb, Paris taxi-drivers Hong Kong, 28th Feb., 1985. untouchable caste, and no cup-air the summit of the great opinion of Air Commodore Fel-don't care two centimes nowadays tom of untouchability shall be re- massif, towering above all the lowes, than they will probably whether they drive you anywhere or cognized by the criminal or civil mountains of the earth, which and it at Mount Everest, this not. Get in d) get out, it's all the courts. Like the Madras Bills, has so far defied all human efforts evidence in particularly satisfac samo, to them. Money buys nothing WOMAN LABOURER KILLED BY
18 FOOT FALL this very comprehensive proposal to penetrate: its secrets. Physi-tory. The knowledge that pilots in Paris, so why make money? affects the religious observances cally, technically, and scientific and observers will be so well When I talked to Parisians, the
of the cafes and While carrying bricks at the of the entire Hindu community, ally, the etecutive appointed by protected against the crippling Parisians The Central Legislature the Committee and the pilots and effects of extreme cold and rare- the shops, their mood" which includes Moslems, Indian observers are admirably qualified fied whe will be of invaluable help expressed as follows: and European Christians and by their experience and judgment the enabling them to face with don't know Buddhists well as Hindus is to cope with the great ad vniry!|
not competent to dispose of the ture, and the results of the trial reference to public flights have proved that the ma-
Bill witho
The sober Peskites never learned
to stray!"
Along the cool sequestered Vals of They kept the noiseless tener of
their way!
N. E. KIAL
was Mok Fee Brickworks, Sheung Shul, A Chinese female labourer, missed how woman her footing and fell a distanca of
mes tag trials and risks of age now. Paying for everything 18 feet! She succumbed to her in- expedition, into the un-has become so difficult and so tragic juries and the body was removed tus
that it's almost, funny,
the Kowloon Mortuary:
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