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it does. It is too easily satisfied. It trusts to the sun both brighten its buildings and cheer up the lives of its citizens. But sunshine, though a blessed gift, merely puts a good face upon the dirt and dullness that externally abounds, and for Garrick Street, London, W.C.2. many hours a day and consider-
Notice To Contributors.
able stretches leaves its cheering All communications intended for work on the mind to be done by publication should be addressed to other agencies. We do not plead the Editor, and be companied by for anything garish or loud. A the Writer's Name and Address, brightness that is cheap serves not necessarily for insertion" but any city ill. But the Colony as a guarantee of i good faith.
does need a wholesale periodic cleaning up. Kingsley said or did he say it? "Be bright, sweet maid, and let who will be clever," but no one has yet told a city to be bright rather than clever. The usual injunction to Hong Kong, Tuesday, June 22, 1937. |be go-ahead and up-to-date is too often interpreted in terms mere- ly of business efficiency. Even in of business, however, first appearances mean a good Brighter cricket has been deal, and a clean and attractive promised by some of the English appearance gives
a sense of con- counties and some have even fidence and opens the way to a given us foretaste, weather per-lasting connection. One or two mitting For there is the secret. firms have lately been lavish What England really wants is with paint to the admiration of brighter weather. She feels the all .who bother about these sting of Byron's satire directed things. Perhaps we may yet find from his safe retreat under Con- the Government refurbishing its tinental, suns—.
dingy remnant of the City Hall "The English winter-ending and setting an example of bright-
in July,
ness in other direction.
Postage Abroad Extra:
BRIGHTER CRICKET matters
To recommence in August." If her people could have 2 bright summer they would not mind so much about bright cric- ket.
What is more, Sir Stanley Call It A Day
KEPENTING
~~~ can
What must surely be one of
that
written on that microscopical
Jackson, than whom none has a better right to speak, has just intimated his view that first-the most detailed and document- class cricket, properly played, is ed days in history has just had as bright as anyone could wish, its full-length portrait issued in adding the dry reminder that he volume form from Leningrad. had
heard the clamour
Some time ago it was announced for brighter cricket from the mo-
that on the suggestion of Maxim ment he began to play the game. Gorky there was to be produced Not that the public demand is a record of all the events that meaningless. Spectators expect happened all over the world on the players not to give them one given day, and now pleasure but also to show them most extensive entry in the diary the game
at its scientific best. of man's doings has been issued But "brighter" does not always in a book of more than a thou- mean that, and Sir Stanley Jacksand pages contributed by "au- son's caution about mere slog of various countries.” What re thors, journalists, and scientists ging and "walloping" every ball is needed in cricket and in every to be seen;
viewers will make of it remains.
other game.
perhaps their first. Everywhere, in fact, the passion for brightness that history is not normally reaction will be a sigh of relief can be overdone. It is told of a certain clergyman that he once gratified his congregation by scale of searching exactitude, for if so there would be no keeping preaching a very “bright and en- joyable" sermon on the subject up with its published results. of hell. This kind of artificial Perhaps journalists will be in- clined to examine the new brightness the kind broadcast- ing organisations
volume most critically, for it are for ever being adjured to serve up
promises to challenge their own be much worse than the dullness sphere of written activity more it displaces. The promise
closely than those of other per- of. a bright show, or a bright talk, or
formers. The daily newspaper a bright set conjures up the aims at being a record of the most dismal prospect imaginable, world's doings during the pre- while projects for brightening vious twenty-four hours, and if hillsides .or the
one were to put together all the spread justifiable
contents of all the world's news- despondency among His Majes-papers for a single day the result ty's lieges.
would be such a mass of printed matter as would make the new Leningrad compilation look like a mere leaflet. In that there would, of course, be many repetitions, but we have yet to discover whether Leningrad can Something, however, can be devote more than a thousand said for having brighter cities pages to one day's affairs and and brighter people living in still avoid any suspicion of them. A brighter Hong Kong,“doubles” and overlapping. The for example, is one of the things day selected for that peculiar that may legitimately be desir- tribute was September 27, 1935, ed. Merely putting up flags and and it would be interesting to decorations on some gala occa- know how many of us could now sion, makes everyone feel more mention off-hand one single event cheerful.• The return next week from that day that would be to the drab aspect the city usual-worth a page entry in this full- wears is a somewhat depres-scale diary. So much for human sing experience. But Hong Kong memories and the link between could ordinarily do better than the date and the event!**
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