THE CHINAS MAIL
THURSDAY
1935
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The Futile Motion Of Censure
Their frenzied fanaticisin
Here There and
Everywhere.
HIS LITTLE JOKK
An amusing account of a call he made on Gen. Goering at his pala- tial house in the Leipzigerplatz is given by a London journalist.
The Germsin "Air Minister re- ceived him in his study. The wall- paper is
A DETECTIVE LURKS IN EVERYONE
THREE FACULTIES VERY NECESSARY
TRAINING IN OBSERVATION
AND DEDUCTION
(By Francis Iles) UPPOSING that tum- The
the top-
bitch-black blooded, the carpet bled into one of those si-person hain of the ordinary the large room are three white tuations which, according to ficed by experience to marble basis Two are of politition, the stage, and the screen. posite. It has been trained to cians Herr Hitler and himself await the most humdrum reject anything that is no use The other is of a musician. Dr. people at almost any moment to it, or which it is not specially Supposing that you could ex asked to record. If it did not,
Fatwaensier
from the other wall
The face of each is illumined by tricate yourself from a nasty its owner would go mad.
a detective yourself, arc lamps trained upon the basts mess only by employing hither And yet, as I wrote above.
to uncalled-for powers of detec- you are
you to employ these three fa-
An. Instance
A desk the size of a small islandtion to unmask the real culprit whenever the situation requires.
is the most conspicuous piece of furniture. On it stands a tele-1 phone and a switchboard with a
coloured buttons.
"If I press this one.” said Gen. Goering amiably to his visitor,
Could you do it?
It looks so easy and so objculties. vious, when the detective ex-
bewildering number of different plains in the last chapter or Take a simple instance: You just before the final curtain are interviewing an applicant Well, of course," you say, for a situation. The post re- there was nothing else hequires an energetic person of putting his finger on one of the could have done." Bat. --- could careful habits. You' reject the applicant: you don't really you have done it?
With your present mental know why; you just feel vague equipment, almost certainly you by that he or she was not suit- Icould not
able; perhaps it was something
knobs, "you will be arrested with in five seconds.”
*
THE TEMPLE OF FAME
Wheiz
grease-spot
hise
"But the detective. the real he said; you don't know. Yet An American encyclopaedia has detective in real life, you point this is the process that went on included Shirley Temple in its list out, no more intelligent than in your subconscious mind:
uniformed Observation. The sides of" af immortals. She appears be-I am. He was a
Besides, we the soles of his shoes are mud- tween Frederick Temple, Arch-constable first bishop of Canterbury from 1896 know that in real life it is the dy. There is a to 1902, and Sir William Temple, organisation and the machine small but perceptible, on
work. I could do the remain day and the streets are dry, The China Mail everything in the garden will be statesman, diplomatist and author. that does 99 per cent of the waistcoat. It is not raining to
prefectly lovely in the here of 17th century fame.
ing I per cent. as well as any- but it did rain yesterday.
Clear Thinking. His shoes ¡after. And, no doubt, a good
jone else." Your Daily Smile!
All Detectives
jhave not been cleaned since he That is true; you could. But got them muddied yesterday. A would be funny if it were not such irresistible evidence that! "I got this cup for playing tennis-with your present mental equip person who drops a spot of And yet, curiously grease on his waistcoat is a. startment, no- the community at large must!"-m
enough, you are something of a careless person; a person who always be on its guard against playing it with a cap?"
without does not remove it later is a detective already, deluded idealists satiated with
knowing it. Anyone who lives lazy one.
Constructive Imagination. in a crowded world has to be
three faculties see, this person in the post, I see- There are which everyone possesses in him mislaying letters, spilling the some degree, but which in the ink, being late in the mornings; detective have to be trained and and I see that he would not do.
Instinctive Process developed above the normal Customer: "You know that music observation, clear thinking, and That is what happened; yet you stool you sold me?"
Shopkeeper: “Yes.” Customer: "Well, I've twisted and
all directions, but turned it in can't get a single note out of it."
Full Name
New Variety
did they
* *
The Mistake
*
*
Not Even Squeak ·
*
constructive imagination.
have not the least idea distinyDAKKA By constructive imagination rejected the person because of the I mean the ability to make best few specks and on his shoes use of a clue, what methods to and a tiny grease-spot on his
It was laid down as a general the exploded socialistic theories
Husband (after the theatre): "But political dictum some years 380er Karl Marx. The theory of dear, what did you object to?”. that the function of the Opposi- the freedom of speech and Wife: "Why, the idea of you bél-
lowing 'Author! Author!* zia tion is to oppose, so one imagines opinion in England. its greatest that there must have been some stronghold, displays over and Shakespearean drama!" idea of doing its duty in that over again, in the light of these direction, behind the futile mo- evidences, the fact that only by tion of censure moved by the the process of complete display Labour faction in the House offend discussion can these dar- Commons on Tuesday. In the gerous theories be examined and face of Sir John Simon's quota-exploded for the shams that tion of facts and figures it is they are. In allowing the pro- dificult to see what other motagonists to blow off steam and tive there may have been behind disclose their real intentions, the Little Rosalie a first-grader, walk- it, unless Labour was banking State is safeguarding itself ing with her mother, spoke to a small knowledge of her character and that it is instinctive, though you. on the premise that any stick against the dangerous blowing boy. "His name is Jimmy and he is habits, and so on.
As for clear thinking, it is have been doing just what a de- tective is carefully trained to do, is good enough to beat a dog up of suppressed energies of the
the little boy's last astonishing how few people call and that is to deduce character with There are many direcwrong kind. If they were not name? her mother asked. tions in which a vote of censure displayed to the light of sanity "His whole mame," said Rosalic, reason clearly from cause may have had some justifica- and reason and were suddenly's Jimmy Sitdown-that's what the effect; and still more rarely the process, was unconscious, with tion, but in attacking the Gov-sprung upon the people, there teacher calls him." ernment on the ground that would be the grave danger that they had done nothing to re-the public at large would be un-
to protect lieve the unemployment situa able
themselves
tion and that the system was against a fait accompli of not able to adapt itself to chang-notions, however idealistic, that ing conditions the Labourites are false in their premises and struck two of the least vulner-based upon a social order re- able joints in the National pugnant to the large mass Government's armour. A drop the British people
· of
~
in my grade," she explained.
“What is
my to
employ in the tracing of a miss- waistcoat The process, of your ling girl according to your thought is so usual in a busy world
to
from appearances.. But with you
trom effect to cause, which is
Sctioni
But it is in
So much for observation. As. for clear thinking, and construc- „tive imagination, let me offer you:
the mysterious and all-import- the detective it is conscious.
“deduction" of detective! CHINESE CHOIR AT ant
CATHEDRAL
observation, which one would think was the a test for these out of real life.
A girl was fund murdered on a. casiest of all these three pow
lonely common. Only two clues ers. that most people fail.
could be found: a regimental badge and an ordinary coat-but
Hallelujah Chorus In Cantonese
EXCELLENT PROGRAMME WELL RENDERED
Simple Test
If you consider that you are ton jan ordinarily observant person Here was no case where routine here is a simple test: Make a or the machine could help; the de- rough sketch from memory of tective in charge had to use his
think What, in that detective's place, would you have done?
UNMANIFESTED CARGO
Ordered To Be Confiscated
of 1,000,000 in the unemployed From the way the Socialists does not come as a miraculous talk one would suppose that no- gift from heaven, like mamma on body but them is the slightest St. John's Cathedral was pack the front of the house in which wits. He got his man. How did la thirsty earth; there is behind bit interested in the welfare of
The go about it? it organisation, planning and the masses; that everybody who ed last night, when a programme you live...
of sacred and concert music was There is a subject that you
No, I am not going to tell you the deliberate facing of difficul- is not engaged in the "dignity rendered by the Shanghai Can-have seen hundreds and thou how easy and obvious it was Just ties, coupled always with the of labour" is a ruthless oppres tonese Union Church Choir sands of times. Yet in all those commonsense desire to make sor, out only for what he can haste slowly-in other words, to get, ready at all times to exploit der the able conductorship of times have you ever really look
led at it? encourage improving influences without mercy or charity the Mr. Faust Ho.
The varied programme includi
Anyhow, try the sketch. And where they are evident, and a misfortunes of those less endow- der no circumstances to allowed than himself; that, in shorted trombone, piano, violin and if you find you get all the de- tails correctthe spacing of oneself to be panicked into rash he is a ghoulish monster instead mouth organ solos. experiments and wildcat of a decent human being filled Miss Pansy Long, a delightful the windows from each other; schemes for the foundation of with some instincts of common soprano, gave an admirable ren- their height in relation to the brave new worlds.
humanity. The thing is really dering of Handel's If God Be front door: the number of panes Sir Stafford Cripps. who arcical Nobody denies that For Us, Who Can Be Against in them; the number and posi
tion of the chimneys; length of wound up the Labour case, is there are appalling miseries at- Us?"
was house in proportion to
Unmanifested cargo, consisting: the last man in the world to tached to our system, and that The Hallelujah Choras throw mud at a record of solid, there are vast possibilities of excellently rendered in Can-height; overhang of the eaves: or 250 catties of sugar, 800 and a dozen other equally im- packets of needles and three dozen- IL unobtrusive, achievement in improvement of the common
The choir, comprising 16 wo-portant features if you get mouth organs, found by Sergeant the field of labour. He has lot Nobody suggests for a played the Fat Boy so consis-moment that we should sit back men and 12 men, sang extremely even half of them right, you Grainger on the ss. Kwong Sai at tently and so often, without with our hands folded in comwell and reflect the greatest cre- may take it that you are a very the Yen On Wharf on July 4, was- causing anything more than a placency and thank our gods dit on Mr. Ho. The piano accom- exceptional person. ordered to be confiscated by Mr. delicious shudder among his that we are not as others are paniment was in the capable Most people will be doubtful QA A. Macfadyen at the Central
leven of the number of win- Police Court this morning. listeners, that a denunciation But it is ridiculous to attempt hands of Miss Lens Foon
His Worship also ordered the A collection w28 taken to de- dows! 2. from him falls rather flat We to belittle the solid accomplish. all know exactly what he would ment of the British nation in a fray the expenses of the choir. Again, what do you ever see confiscation of 320 catties of rice, do if he were dictator, just as time of particular stress for the The Shanghai Cantonese Union of the person who sits opposite and 200 catties of sugar found on we are equally aware of the whole world, and it is just as Church Choir will repeat the pro-you in the train or omnibus the ss Stanley at the Kwong perfervid schemes of others ludicrous to suggest that this game at the Hop Yat Church, Try to jot down the particulars Wing Wharf on July 2, umma who have also expressed them-was an Act of God rather than Bonham Road, at 8 p.m. to-night of dress and appearance of that fested selves in utterly fantastic and an accomplishment of the Na- and at the All Saints Church, Jone person The probabilities
Hommatin, to stupid prognostications. And tional Government.
tonese.
ro Jess remarkable than the That is not to suggest that the same time, zvowed intentions of these poc the National Govern
ket dictators as the bland way duced the whole bag of in which they guilelessly dis with a conjure
sex their brave they certainly de
of the be brought
Iclose that, ofe
new worlds into being
MINISTRATION my trouble
disor
servation of
fidence
row night at are that you cannot do it
Detective's
com
Enot all to z
its
Lew Doon-liam, of the Optical Compary, and
be able premises at 221 Tau chai, was fined $10 by at the Central
with