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THE WEAKER SEX!
LIGHT-HEARTED PROTEST. [BY BASIL MACDONALD HARTIYOS. Į
THE RONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 11T, 196
Ere. y'ave, cried the proprietor of the coco-nut shy. "Seven balls for six- pence. Alf way for ladies, I smiled
HOPELESS ERRORS.
„THE FATUITY OF UTOPIANS,
Many people who have not examined closely the tenets of Socialism are half attracted to it because it sounds humate and idealistic, writes John Blunt, in the
ADMIRAL ORIENTAL LINERS. U.S.S.B. CHAIRMAN DEFENDS SALE TO DOLLAR INTERESTS. Manila papers contain à United Preas message from. Washington, dated. May 4th, which states that Kr.-T. V
Board, when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Commerce, strongly defended the sale of the Admiral Oriental liners on the Seattle-Manila ne to the Dollar Steamship Company.
to myself I can bag coco-nuta, even if r Daily Mail. But after we bare listened O'Connor, chairman of the Shipping
cannot kill partridges. Unto each man
to the Bowery rhetoric that Socialista in dülge in and turn to their concrete pro
his honour. Unto each man his disposals for improving society, abolishing tinguishing accomplishment.
poverty, and bringing happiness to every one, wo discover that their minds are totally unfitted to grapple with real prob. levis and that their schemes are mere idle
nonsense.
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I paid for seven balls and hurled them awiftly at the nuts. Three nuts I struck, but nouc fell. It was my first experience of failure at this fascinating pastime, and I am afraid that I did not comport mykell with proper sporting spirit. I insinuated. They assume that mankind can be not by words but by a certain curling of the lips that the nuts were so fixed that not even a fast bowler could knock them off their pedestals.
Then the proprietor of the shy invited my companion, a girl, to try her aim "Ladies 'all-way," he insisted. The girl, went half-way up the pitch, thus render ing herself liable to be no-balled by the most short-sighted of umpires, and with a whirl of arms and a swirl of that kilt which now they call a skirt, brought three nuts to the ground. She handed them to
This will never du.
me to enrry.
All my life I have thought tenderly of We adult males can, no the unborn.
doubt, hold our own with the contempor ary adult female, but are not things so shaping themselves that the boys of 1950
Ir
must be the slaves of their sisters? may have been true once that the male
was born with the finer intellect, but it is
true no longer. Yet the handicapping of the sexes has remained as before. There is not the slightest sign that the physical and mental development of woman is accompanied by a corresponding decline amongst men, for all the talk of lipsticks and effeminate clothing. Man has re- mained stationary, Woman develops with appalling rapidity. Yet she is treat ed to-day very much as it her inferiority was as marked as it was in medieval the households of Eastern times or in potentates.
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A SPORTING ANALOGY,
He said that he favoured Rempting the Dallar bid because he favoured deal ing with a successful fein. He told the committee that his chief fear was that made to "lislike private property, that the ships would be forced back on the people can be turned out in a mould.overnment's hands and he thought the and that everybody will be contented best way to guard against such a cons and well off at there are no rich persons tingene, would be to sell them to a com- Above all, they imagine that a kind of pany which could operate them success silly, Tague Utopia, whose inhabitants fully. would think only of the good of the State
and
It an inexperienced Arm were to get hold, of the vessels, said Mr O'Connor, they might fail and the Shipping Board would be compelled to operate them once
would meander about uttering second-rate, chear moralisms, is a far finer ideal to strive for than is this worldmore, we know, where struggle is the law of nature, where character and brains win their way to the front, and "whère file is indeed a great adventure.
A FANTASTIC SCHEME.
Their scheme of a model state is not only ridiculously insipid but fantastically impossible. "It would be a vain effort to destroy the whole schrine of nature and to refashion the whole ebaracter of man.
It is, perhaps, very unfortunate that 131211 was not constructed on 'topian
lines, just as, perhaps, it is very unfor- tunate that spiders want to eat flies and foxes want to eat rabbits bat that does The whole Socialist not aller the fact. theory is based upon a fundamental error that is to say, it does not take into consideration what is the real char acter and personality of mankind.
It I knew someone who had invented a marvellous philosophy of the universe, the entire structure of which depended on his belief that twice two equalled fire, I might consider his views curious, but I would not consider them of any value.
HUMAN MACHINES.
And that is precisely how I regard the views of Socialists. They seem to bank very nicely together, provided you are simple enough to believe that ordinary men and women
Senator, Copeland of New York ex- pressed the opinion that the committee should ascertain whether under the law the Government ships must be sold it ja anslifed bid were offered, whether the ner of sale to R. Stanley Dollar was er and whether the board was justi. in considering further bids. Senator Jones of Washington and
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The sale of the fire ships would give the Dollar interests control of not more facilities across the Pacific from Sanoficial publications. than twenty per cent. of the passenger Francisco and Beattle.
Mr. O'Connor denied that the sale would give the Dollars. a monopoly on the Pacific.
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A bomily on wasteful office methods has been delivered in four pamphlets by H.M. Stationery Office to the chinls of Government departments, clerks of sta. Baremaster
Some items of information to be tionery, and authors and printers of
gathered from the economy recommend tions are
Leather-covered despatch boxes, at- tache cases, and gusset cases are only supplied to political and permanent heads of departments, and cloth and rexine varieties to "officials of high Tank"
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The death took place on April 7th, on board his yacht Palfreye, at Wivenhoc, nens Colchester, of Mr. Bayard Brown, an eccentric Ameries whose strange mode of life had excited much discussion. Although this strange and stalwart
Ink-wells should be filled to a reason. can be turned into hermit had lived in a yacht for more than 30 years, he never put out to sea, but had
a nautical hame a few hundred yards from the shore at Brightlingsca. During the The truth is that Socialism, where it war he moved his vessel, at the request is idealistic, is exceedingly silly, and of the authorities, to Wivenhoe where it is mere annoyance that others. He arrived at Brightlingsen 36 years. people should be more successful than ago, but whence he came no one seems you are, is exceedingly egotistic.
Let us take an analogy from lawn tennis or golf. (Note that we innst resort to the pranks.There is no such thing as brandi- capping in cricket or Rughe football which are exclusively "men's games in which the weak must go to the wall.) A player in 1923 may improve his game so much during the year that at the end of machines without any individuality, with it his handicap will be altered. In 1920out any desires, and without any inherit. he may and himself a scratch man, thus ed instincts. making it impossible for him to override those players on his former mark whose Kaine has not improved. This is just, for you cannot expect golfers and tennis players to have the humility and self. discipline of cricketers and footballers.
Now woman having arrived very nearly at masculine standards of perfection, why, in the name of justice, is she still allowed half-way up the pitch? Yes, rankle. I am over forty-four years of age and, while the band obeys the eye, it is necessarily a dimming eye. Yet when I compete with a fresh-muscled young shyer of seventeen years of age, zenith time for agility, I am compelled to give her 50 points in a hundred just because she is a female. (I do not wish them to read-it.)
CONCERNING CLOTHES.
The man who wants to get on in the world has got to work. If, instead of realising this, he lets his mind be full of an eager Socialist hut be will neve bitterness against society, he may become.
become a sticcess.
The price of your hat remains the same. You pas, put on the new bat and go, leaving behind you the old hat in order that it may be cleaned. Observe that the only remark you have made is. New hat."
THE FEMININE WAY.
If it were a matter of mere cocă-nuts, I would not be calling my fellow men-
Now see a woman buying a hat. Her around me. Borrowing from the ineffable Tchekov, I make coconuts my symbol.first plot is to get someone else to pity As you read me coconut-less, see me how in my other minus aspects.
to know. It was understood that he was born in California, had lived in New York, and he was reputed locally to be a millionaire, but little else was known of
him,
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At the end of each day's work the
·lids of inking pads should be closed and the pad turned face downwards on the desk till morning.
The last hint is illustrated by the ex- He was generous, or the reverse, atperience of a Government official who is cording to his mood. He would give out stated to use an inking pad 800 times man £50, and meet the next who might
with
have a much better claim to charity every working day and to find that it shower of any missiles which only needs re-inking twice in six months. Writers of Blue Books, White Papers, might be handy.
In the summer a score of beats might and the like are instructed to refer to u be seen rowing round and round his particular dictionary for the spelling of Sometimes Mr. Brown would words ending in able, ible, ment, ise, or yacht. allow a visitor on board, but usually, and words containing double-con
some odd
Cross sonants. In Government work, it is laid down, such spelling as "inquire," not subjected him to examination,
Fully manned, provisioned, and with enquire, and connexion," not connee. steam constantly up, the Falfreye lay tion, will be used.
There was always apparently plenty of in the little harbour year after year. and many legends have grown around the berauit. One was that he wrapped bank notes round lamps of coal and threw them at people in small boats...
Most of his time was spent in his library, smoking and reading.
The cost of production of the four volumes of instructions is about £80, but
for it. If she be married, she has money on board the mysterious yacht, the standardisation of Government forms 1
allowance for clothes, but have you ever tried to persuade a woman that hats are clothes 1. She does not see them in that They are adornments, light at all. signala, tiaras, garlands, haloes, wreaths, hangeret, anything but pieces of a ment. Say then to her that she can dis nense with them, and she asks you if she is to give up going to church:
Suppose hat-bayer
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Then she proceeds to exhaust mons of time and phalanxes of labour to secure that her hat-money is spent to her satis faction. She may pay less than a man or more, but here is an question of the expenditure of mere money. Because she
What do you pay for yours suit of clothes? I read not so long ago that a distinguished editor bought a suit in the year 1000 for six guineas. I have no idea what editors pay now, but I can say that I, who am a sort of lackey to these high men, an called upon to fork out ten guiness, and a guinea and a half for an Multiply that extra pair of Trousers sum in proportion to the respective posi tions of editors and me, and you will see that an editor's suit might run you into a matter of guineas that would pay for coffin, wreaths and tomb of any lowly citizen. And what does woman pay for an equivalent covoring? Some is a woman she is allowed to make a de- thing like fourteen shillings and eleven-mand on the world's service, and service pence, if the drapery advertisements are honest. The thing is out of all nick..
If woman were paid less than man, should I be fighting my present anger 1. The truth is that female artists, writers, singers, actresses, and so on, are frequent ly paid more highly than mea, and, i assure you that I am not thinking of the magnitude but of the rate of royalties: The salaries of women in the professions DOES A WOMAN NERO MONEY! either equal those of men or fall behind so slightly that it is clear they must be come level in a few years. Well, equal work, equal pay, you may say. I agree, but only if there be equal expenditure.
I have spoken of clothes. Let me not hurry from them, because clothes are are hereby intified that the Cargo will be disinseparable from the human body and charged into Holt'e Whad, Kowloon, where it the human soul as the hairy peld of the will be at Consignees risk and subject to coconut is from its flesh and milk hundreds of dress shirts or easy chairs Terms and Conditions of Storage Holi (Here am I stumbling upon poetry. A Wharf The Cargo will be ready for Delivery soul of the sweetness al 2000-aut milk 70, come to that, coco-nuta,
fier 7th May Admirable that while prowling in the Optional Cargo will to Steamer's arrival.
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is money's worth, which would bring down upon a man the execration and con tempt of all his fellows. Half way up the pitch? Why, in the matter of the buying of clothing she is permolited to go its whole length and stay in the chemy territory as long as she likes. And while she is there, what does she say? What does she not my fit
I say that woman does not really need money. She has no vices. What are alcohol and tobacco to her, aave in rare. had deplorable cases? She rarely backs horace, while we have to keep the book- makers going. The flag day collector. will give a smile for her penny, a frown for our sixpence. Women, moreover, do not need "watches or fountain pens ör
from Glodova on landed, unless Nodes mark 1 can lift my eyes to the light.) no great physical strength; with no finer
has been
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That poor young man of 1850! With
rem prior to
Take hats You buy your, hats even as mental equipment, he will get no higher All brakons casted and damaged to be left in the Godowar, where they will be I do. Once a year you go to your hatter age than the woman of his age, His. "New hat. He puts a rule in needs will be pretty much what ours are examined an may Tuesdays and Fridays between and say the hours
ours of 16:46 am and Hook within the the old one, which you place on the coun- to-day, but still be sure that he will be tar, and then he shouts into a speaking compelled to allow woman half-way up Free Storage period
be admitted after the Goods tube leading to the hat-collar. Up comes the pitch of life. Hopelessly handlesp Bo
Chains wil have left the Steamer's Godown, and all Goods your new bat. There is a change in ned by his chivalry, he will watch remaining codeñvered-after the 18th May colour, of course, because otherwise you woman amass riches while, even ar now, would not know the new hat from the he struggles eternally to make both ends will be subject by Bout
All Claims against the Steamer must be old, and might make a mistake of calling meet. Will that be bad for him! Per
resented to the Undersigned on or before the 27th May, or they will not be roogaland.
No Fire Lawrence will be effected
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on merchant prince in your second-haps not. That is our burdes in life, to make ends meet. But why should life best. I got a poor colour this year,
sort of coconut brown, but it could not be so planned that for women. the be helped, as I have had all the others ends are bound to overlap 1-Evening
Standard. "(Continued on next column.).
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