SATURDAY'S SYMPOSIUM.
(Continued from Page 6) Ridiculons and Foolish,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:
company become excessively jovialar
almost what
Prohibition's the Thing.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1923,
(BT AMERYCDs.") DAIRY FARM NEWS.
[vulgarly called "blotto"-betors Speaking of Booza"! Well, I have стоп felt my pulses of course we do. Can there be stirring much beyond normal any doubt about it Is it not a But those have been exceptional fact that half the crime that occasions for me an old pats occupies the time of Police, Judgas wedding, a New Year celebration, and Lawyers is due to this cause? ÍBY "ROMALEY.")
or the like; otherwise I practise Let's be quits candid. How many This is a foolish question, but what I preach.
of the good fellows between 018-we often hear discussed. I should
a model the ages of 30 and 50 that: People generally give you some-husband, shouldn't I? It is Leap we have followed to Happy body else's ideas; they either Year next year, too! But I am Valley would be alive to-day but quote a doctor or soms intemper-not signing my name to this, for the same reason. Every boy sto crank whose violent exaggera so I feel safe in my disguise. who drinks his first glass of beer tions belie his claim to be Of course, I have, incidentally, is a potential drunkard. "temperance reformer." That kind let the cat out of the bag, 8ɔ to Prohibition is the thing, and the of thing annoys me. Supposing Ispeak. You know now that sooner the batter. If we hurry were asked the question am a bachelor. But enough of up, by the time our children are about * friend of mine, I this apparent self-advertisefathers, John Barleycorn will be could possibly giro you animent.
dead, buried and forgotten so lang
answer at least, I could give, It is obvious that most of our that nobody will miss him. Here's my opinion. If, on the other hand, social clubs exist on the fact the test. any woman of child the question was meant to refer that we-that is the majority has ever gone cold or bungry ss ta the contributors to this of us--drink too much. Ils result of drink, the answer to Symposium, courtesy would forbid once belonged to a club where the question above must be in me to give an answer. But when the item "bar receipts" loomed the afirmative. But alcohol is I am asked "Do we drink too largest of all the items in the an- not the only offender. There is much?" I presume that the "we "aus balance sheet. No, I wasn't a drug in tea called Tannin refers to people generally, and I kicked out; I left tha, district, which affects the root of the am therefore forced to proclaim and duly resigned my membertongue of the temale of the the question & ridiculous and ship. There WAS A rumour species,
to causing it foolish one. I may as well be ask-afterwards that the committee animatedly.
wag Husband, brother, ed "Do we blink too much!" Of which included three Scotsmen, family secrets, even truth itself late years there has been an over- one a doctor-beld
a special are no longer sacred to the victi fondness to raise questions of a congratulatory meating. My in- of this pernicious drug, especially general and sweeping characterfuence had been one likely to lif taken between the hours of 2 about our fool, our drinks, our affect the revenues seriously.p m. and 7 pm. It is supposed that clothes, our babits, our sleep and for when asked "What's yours the potency of the drug is affected all those kinds of things, just as I often boldly replied "A small by the sun's rays as the symptoma if we of the Twentieth Century lemonade! My monthly chits, become more pronounced towards were going off the intended track likewise, worked out at 002 parfsunset. in umpteen different directions. cent. of the average member's) I We even eat our food with a query total. It was a land where should include tea, at least be- instead of with natural enthu-Iman could raise & thirst," and sween the bours mentioned. siasm, and we shall possibly befusually quenched it with cold am for:- urged to live on tabloids before water. It seems a terrible con- the crazy queries come to an end.fession to make, but my disguise No, my friends, our drinks and has emboldened me. At least I our eats are quite all right and can always travel in perfect com- the great masses of humanity for: on any American ship-30 don't violate their natural wants long as the water supply does as medical cranks and fervent not run out. idiots would have us believe. There have been drunkards and
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Every man who drinks alcohol turn to the Government estimates Sourmands since Tory early My Dear Joe-i owe you slin any form drinks too much. for last year, in which we find history and it will possibly te debt of gratitude: for youve One drink is more than enough, that the estimated income deriv many years before they die out brightened up my whole week. Moreover, it is unnatural for able from the liquor duties is but as a race the human family The man that set the lesson for human beings to drink anything given as just over one million has kept its sanity and balance the class must have had a per- at all, except water or milk. It is dollars. Compared with the verted sense of humour. "Do suicide in the long run. Has it duties on liquor at Home, those we drink too much?" When ever occurred to you that man is charged in loogkong are com-St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong.. showed Mac your chit be nearly the only living thing that takes paratively light, and, whilst it is, eat will eventually ruia ουτ bad three successive sets o'con-his own life and that his chief impossible to say exactly whst teeth and stomachs, the
com-vulsions.
I was sorry for it instruments of destruction are proportion of the total expes. forting theorist who see afterwards. A joke's a joke bat alcohol and drugs?
can
ditare os liquor per year is rep- ahead to the time when we shall one that's likely to set a body's Druzs work fast, bringing resented by the duties paid, hav- all be blind, weak-brained, hair frient off into status epil plivna insanity and death within a few ing
regard to the various less and invertebrate because of arges on the criminal unless years. John Barleycorn is more kirds of liquors consumed and the drinks we drink, and the very ye ha pan to be doctor cuaning. He reaches farther into the
varying rales of duty pleasant toothsayer who foresees yourself.
the future but he just as surely charged,
would ic
be the gradual dying out of the
Too much?" As if that were snips oft the goars. Thus very conservative estimate to haman race just because some possible! I tell ye the wor drinker is # women don't like having children thing about drink is not having suicide,
post-dated take the total yearly expenditure killing bimself off on liquor as to the neighbourhood are on a par with Old Mother ang. Seriously, though, I sup-ten, twenty, thirty years ahead of three or four million dollare. Shipton. And she was proved to pose its merely a question of of his time. Yes, sir, the use of What does this mean, then? It be a liar, my friends. It was Capacits. I've known oce wea alcohol is a devastating curse. means that the community of either Shelley or fieorge Bernard drink being ower much for a man. It produces the dipsomanian. Hongkong spends every year on Shaw, or somebody else like that, That was because he coulins' never staggeringly drunk: the liquor cearly twice as much as it who discovered the great truth read the label in the dark. Oxalic periodical drunkard who goe+ spends ou education. In other that "temperance in all things is acid is fine for cleaning brass but long stretcbes without taking words, the the oily rest virtue."
average individual And so, man, it makes an awfu' mess of drop only to fall into a debsuch considers that the liquor be all of us are virtuous in some & body's stomach. Just as one which sometimes lasts for weeks, consumes is twice as important as directions and uncirtuous in mother-in-law can convince the the habitual drunkard, the in the education of his own, or other; a man's delight is an average man that polygamy is all who prefers a small glass of water, other peoples, children: other, other man's anathema. But if we wrong, so a drink o' that kind'e with a large whisky but will wise, presumably, he would not stand squarely on our two feel very apt to make a chap T. T. for drink anything from light beer to be prepared to spend his money and think curently for the space
hair tonic.
in the ratio of two to das on these of just two seconds we shall laugh
Too much? Well the answer to Cunning alcohol. It acts on two objects. to scorn the question which he is that depends a lot on the stuff one set of nerves by paralysing this column, because we shall itself? There's one or two places others.
The economic aspect of the The imagination is question needs no know that the jolly old human in this Colony in which yesticulated; the stomach and particularly when, in addition, it
comment, race is going on to better things canna' bare tos little. I would brain rained. Ab, you say, but is borne in mind that e largo part every day and that every ceners a swap a sore head next day what of the moderate drinker, the of the liquor consumed is manu tion has done and will do mainly for all the sport that Wrinkled man who can take it and leave Factured outside the Colony and what the Designer of the great Cara derides. and Laughter it alone. Folly. This talk of the the money spent on it is, therefore, scheme intended that it should holding both his sides. That last rational use of alcohol is a snare, largely lost to the community. My answer to the question is, bit's Milton, though it wasna' the wheedling of the Devil. Every therefore. "No." But, as I have a drtok he was on at the time. man who drinks at all-even to relation to the amount we spend penchant for moralising. I wouldYou'll mind the story about the the extent of one glass-drinks un other objects the amount we add: Be as sober as often as you beadle who, when one morning too much. He commits an out-apead on drink is infinitely more can, and when drunk always a he appeared before the minister rage against mature and nature's than we are justised in doing. gentleman.
wi' an awfu' head, and was God will not be flauted. admonished wi"It's a bad thing whisky, Joha," replied, "Deed
A. Temperance Advocate.
(BY FIRMSPEAR.")
We do and we don't. We drink, on the average, too much alcohol, and too little water. It
lif
The conclusion, then, is that in
To say that we do drink too much 18 The Economic Aspect.
sound. surely perfectly
an' that's true, sir, especially betó (BY TROIS ETOILE.") whisky.'
"Do we drink too much?"
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Of course, I suppose the ques- For the purposes of argument it tion before us can be made to is assumed that the implication may be that I am a crank, but apply to all kinds of drink, water in this question is, do we, as a bare always believed in what among them. If it doesas, then community, consume more The returns of the average some doctors call the "cold water it should, for when I was at home alcoholic liquors io various amount of bank notes in circula- cute," and which consists of last, Wullie Patell, Linkcumdod- forms, ranging from vermouth to tion and of specie in reserve in drinking freely of clear, cold water die's one and only licensed samshui, than is good for us from Hongkong, during the month with one's mexis. A good plan grocer and à pillar 3 the kirk, en economic standpoint as well ended 31st. December, 1922, as is to drink two tumblers of water was fined for selling weak as from other points of view, such certified by the Managers of the just before retiring to bed at whisky. He pleaded a burst as the physical and moral ones. night it is recommended by rain pipe in the back yard but These few remarks will be con-
respective Banks are:- medical men in most disesses of Bailie McNutt said the health of fined to a very brief consideration Backs. the alimentary system. Those His Majesty's laspectors couldna' of the subject from who have travelled in the United be risked that way and fined him economic aspect, and it is hoped States of America will recollect £5 besides threatening to take to show conclusively that the the custom there of drinking away his licence. If the Baille answer to this question in most Hongkong and small quantities of ice water at had belonged to the 1.0.G.T. emphatically "Yes, we do." all times of she day, and I don't suppose he'd have cared During the past year, the Mercantile Bank with all meals, even in winter. a curse onyway which just goes Government estimated to spend In my opinion R is an to show that a man's prejudice on education, approximately excellent plan, and I have can at times be stronger than his $840,000. Allowing an odd mil observed it myself wherever stomach, possible for some years now. "Do we drink too much?" Ay, as representing the additional *Sterling Securities deposited When I say we drink too much tea, fancy cocktails and soda. money spent on education in the with the Crown Agents valued at loobolic liquor I do not mean to Ye can have ower much water as Colony apart from Government £510,000. imply that I am in favour of pro well; about three fingers to one expenditure, we get a total of t3ecurities with the Crown hibition, pledges, blue ribbons, oro' whisky is my measure. For $1,840,000, or, say roughly, two Agents and Straita Government anything of that kind.
I believe the rest ye can keep them and million dollars, as the amount £1,800,000. in moderation in everything, and the opinions of the man contrary-spent by the community of
wrench,
llan-a very generous estimate-
and China, $11,133,672 $5,750,00)" Shanghel Bank-
Ing Corporation, $34,976,774 26,500,000
· of India,Limited, $ 1,264,413 550,000
Total......$17,578,789 32,307,00
3Securities with the Crown Hongkong on the edocation Agents £130,000. May gravels round his blather of the rising generation during
the course of one year.
Now, let us try to arrive at a You don't need to be rich to OND very rough estimate of the money
A VICTROLA. Out owre a glass whisky punch spent during the same period onak Houtrie's shout their wavy payment
Wi' honest men, alcoholic liquors. We will again
will drink wines and spirits minded. Wi' Rabbie, I say, occasionally without doing so to excess. Though, mind you, I am pretty good at the game when I have & mind to it, and, whilst I have never been intoxicated, have soen more than one man in my
An' goata torment him, inch by inch,
Whe twists his grantis wi a lunch
Our disdain,
by stenos
7th January, 1923, 1st Sunday after Epihany. Holy Com- mur:on (3
a... Children's Service (10 a.m.). Hymas: 4, 79, 76. "Matins [11 am).
Ferial: Responses:
Venite: Macfarrer (31);
Psalms: 46, 47 Turner; Te Deam; Wood- ward, Smart, Turle: Resedictus: Bennett 23rd evening): An- them: "When I view," Barnby: Hymn: 79. Holy Communion (12 noon). Evensong (6 p.m.). Responses: Ferial; Psalms: 67 Wesley; Magnificat: Smart: Nunc.. Dimittis: Wesley: Hymns: 78, 483; 477. Wesleyan Church, Queen's Road East, opposite Royal Naval Haspital, Mar cha Sunday, 7th Jan. 1923, 10.15 am, Divine Service and Naval and Garri- son Church Parade. Subject:) -"How to get better and bet- ter in every way, day by day in the New Year." Preather, Rev. C. Clouston Porri, H.C.F. 3.00 p.m. Children's Service and Church Parade for 1st Wanchai Girl Guides and Boy Scouts. Address by the Chaplain. 6.00 p.m. Divine Service, Subject:- "The Year of Grace · 1923." Preacher. Rev. W. F. Scholes, M. A 7.00 p.m. Convenant Ser- vice followed by the Holy Com munion. Thursday, 5.30 p.m. Prayer Meeting in connection with the Universal Week of Prayer. Wesleyan Sailors' and Soldiers' Home, Arsenal Street, Sunday, 8.15. p.m. Chaplain's Meeting and Social Hour, Ad- dress by the Chaplain. Wed nesday, 8.00 pm. Wesley Guild. Devotional Meeting, Address by Mr. Makeham on The Things that Matter." Week of Prayer, 1923. Pro- gramme. Monday, Jan. 8, 5.30 p.m. "Thanksgiving and Humiliation" Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie, Union Church, Kennedy Road. Tuesday, Jan. 9, 5.30 p.m. “The Church Uni- versal" Rev, T. W. Pearce, LL.D. Rhenish Church, Bonham Road., Wednesday, Jan. 10, 5.30 p.m. "Nations and their Rulers": Rev. H. Copley Moyle, St. John's Cathedral Hall. Thursday, Jan. 11, 5.20 p.m. "Missions, Home and Foreign" Rev. C. Clouston Porri, Wesleyan Church, Wanchal Friday, Jan. 12, 6 p
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