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TUESDAY, JAN. 27, 1931.
year.
NEXT YEAR'S BIG CONFERENCE.
been Already there has considerable discussion on various points dealt with in the propornis of the draft convention drawn up
JANUARY 27, 1931.
DAY BY DAY
JIE WBO CAN TAKE ADVICE 18 BOMETIMES SUTERIOR TO HIM WHO CAN GIGE IT-VON KNEBEL.
Mr. H. W. Kinuey, of the South Manchuria Railway Company, is in' Hongkong on his way to Manila.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has decided to hold its annual carnival ball this year, on Felday 6th March at 9-10 p.m. This will be during Race Week.
deal adequately with material at present in stock, and it la possible to evade such limitation, but, in the view of Lord Cecil, the machinery suggested of requiring
The P. and O. 8.s. Allpore, from uniform returns from the different | Singapore, le due here at noon on counties as to their total expend- February 2nd, iture, and special returns as to their naval and military material, will form
a fairly trustworthy method of limitation. Short of doliberate deception, there cannot be any doubt under this system as to the amount of money being spent by each country on arma- Of course. If there is 10 be deliberate deception, no scheme can be made really watertight. Budgetary limitation of material. coupled
of with the limitation personnel, would appear to offer the best method of dealing with the question, and thera, is a con- siderable bulk of opinion which believes that, with further, ap
ments.
LAWRENCE EASTWOOD on
THAT LAZY FEELING.
MARIVAUX, it is said, oncofreason of showing that where there
a young
fighting, while the men with the twenty who asked him for nima.
gloves on who really understand Amazed at the contrast between the flower-like life, do five minutes'
the
this humiliating request and
polg- Appearance of the beggar, he said: Patting and retire to comfortable "Are you not ashamed young and dressing-rooms in Oriental strong as you are, to beg for bread is.
Finally, laziness is the great which you might gain by honest work?".
economic necessity. It is all very, well
to keep half the popula
at school with endless perioda of laziness about August. are all grown. пр into vigorous manhood, and to the othor half 48 Boon
Struck by the vigour of the atten tack, the mendicant sobbed out:
"Ah, sir, but if you only knew, they I am so lazy!"
to
of
Mr. Eric Teichman, Chinese Serro- tary of the British Legation, has left Feking en route to Singapore, where
Rut Marivaux was not quite sack ho will meet the British Minister Str Miles Lampson, ned hla party. All honest with the youth. Voltaire they have really learnt their jobs of them will leave Singapore in the said of him that he knew all the in the interests of those who can middle of February for China via byways of the human heart, though find "standing room only," but this Hongkong.
not the high road." He knew per-is merely tinkering with the pro- A fine of $1,500 or six months' feetly well that he himself belonged blem.
of idlers who, to the great race
As soon as ever we start loading hard labour, Wha inflicted on a under cover of a tremendous out-flower-like lives and assimilate the Chinese, who, arrested in possession of 60 teals of raw opium, was also put, are desperate wasters of time. full philosophy of Marivaux's young previous convic Listen to them! Macaulay con-man the economble problem will itself. Competition will found to have
anya settle
relegated a similar offence. The fesses to "laziness." Johnson
the limbo propriate measures, A very renition fur
Case was before Mr. Lindsell at he "resolved" and in vain-forbe the Central Police Court this morn-fifty-five years. Rousseau dawdles. "economic mistakes" and the millen. So does Goethe. Alfieri has to be nium "in our time" will be wait- ing.
tied with a lensh to his table. Balzac ing on the door-step.
You may be inclined, if you are a Charged on three different counts tries dodging his work, and Zoln, of obtaining small sums of money who has produced the huge pile of busy, earnest person, to ask me for from shops by falsely pretending the Rougon-Macquart series, bates further ovidence. "But, ah, sir, if
you only know, I am so ląży." that he had been authorised to do his self-imposed task. so by the Inspector General of Charles I., the excellent man of Police, an unemployed Chinese who business and the most libelled of all appeared before Mr. Williams at our kings, plays idler and, accord- ing was remanded t Thursday his chief sultana was "sauntering." afternoon.
History has only canonised the re- mainder of his seraglio.
And here is Mr. Arnold Bennett,
measure of disarmament may he worked out,
It is well to keep in mind, how- ever, one point which Lord Cecil in never tired of stressing---name- ly, that any method of imitation Inscribed in Treaties will be
*
futile uniess, by the hard work the Central Police Court this morning to Sheffield. quoted by Macaulay EAT WHAT
of popular education, people can' be brought to the point of insist- ins that it be made elective
Regrets and recriminations will
Doom of Jazz.
The annual meeting of the St. Andrew's Chub was held last night, who lives on twenty-four hours a with the Rev. W. W. Rogers in the chair,
real
and
merely
YOU WILL.
Saya Dr. WILLIAMS.
to
or
lead nowhere: the one lisk which
After the usual business day," telling us that all the really matters is to inspire and had been transacted the following writers hate, their writing
THE new method of treating. In organise publle opinion so as to officials were elected for the enga-that those who don't are
ing year Chairman, Rey, W. W. the duffers at their job.
T digestion, which is announced Those who have the cause of ensure the success of the coming Rogera: Hon. Secretary, Mr. R. H.
Marivaux's young man, as you from the Pasteur Institute, is in world peace at heart are expecting | Conference. Ir the public con- Wong; Hon. Treasurer, Mr. N. A.
E. Mackay: General Committee, see, was of this splendid company, reality meroly the application results of the utmost value to ac selence is awakened, then no Gov-
E. Landolt and Messrs. E. F. Fine- but he didn't hide his idleness dietetics of the principle familiar to ere from the World Disarmament ernment will be able to resist the her, R. Baldwin and H. Kew. under a panoply of hated endeavour, all as vaccination.
So we arrive at the fact that the That principle is the education of Conference which is to be held at demand of its people for a forward
A coolie named Tsang Wan, when work of the world has been done by the powers of resistance by repented Geneva, under the auspices of the step in the direction of disarma-charged before Mr. Butters, at the the unwilling horses, merely lack small doses of the substante League of Nations early nextment and worki peace.
Kowloon Magistracy this morning, ing the complete self-revelation of virus which creates the symptoms. with having had in his possession this friend of Marivaux's.
The first small dose provokéa a six ounces of gun-powder, Hald he
He considered laziness was not reaction, in the form of slight dis had been given it by his master, who
an excuse bat a vindication, and comfort, slight malaise, possibly a Was a sub-contractor, to carry. The defendant was arrested in put in" no nonsense about what he slight rise in temperature.
After a suitable interval the same The brilliant first-night of the Boundary Street yesterday with had done-"Ah, sir, if you
dogo is repeated. This time the re- Įby the Preparatory Commission, Westminster Glee Singers and the the powder, wrapped up in a paper knew, I am so lazy."
The defen- The truth is absolute, he pleads uctions irre much less; and this in, which connexion the old ques remarkable public response aug-parcel without a label. tion of trained reserves has come gest that Hongkong may one day dent's master appeared in Court, "guilty, and the case is "dismis-ocs on until there is no reaction at
but as he could not give a satis sed. There is a smooth perfce-jail to the original sized dose. bad name in the in for considerable attention. In live down its
Then the size of the dose is rais- factory account as to how the tion about the thing that compels community defendant got the powder, Mr. the tribute of a reluctant esteem. ed, and when, after several injec sume quarters, the complete aboli.musical world. No
And who on earth really cares (tions, there is no further reaction tion of conscription has been ad-which can sit with genuine plea Butters adjourned the ease unil
about the busy man? He la mere to this the dose is again strengthen- ly a ruthless egotist doing the best led, and so on until the patient ac- vorated, but opinion in League
for himself. He never gives any cepts with complete Immunity any eireles is that this is not, at the
one a wrinkle. What he is doing is dose of the particular substance
him merely adding one a day to hla which may be offered moment. practical proposal. Many Continental nations will not hear of it, whilst even those who by treaty have been obliged to
the systera abandon
are by no
л
sure
it was
is
through an entertainment consisting largely of glees, mad- rigals, simple stories in sung bal- lad and broad marching choruses, can be reproached with lack of musical appreciation.. If true of Hongkong in the past, it is loubtful if it is true now; thanks, perhaps, to the enthusiastic or- means unanimous in praise of the ganisation of the Musical Society, change. Large sections of Looking around, it would appear opinion in Germany appear to de- that Hongkong's reformation mand a reversion to the old con- part of a general revolt in the scriptionist system, whilst Bul-English-speaking world against jazz. Lovers of great and bean garia.is repeatedly asking for it. tiful music were at one time ap
These facts seem to suggest that prehensive leat, to put it in their there is a good deal of disarma- OW! words, "Jazz might oust ment education to be accomplish-music." In the last two or three rd before the general abolition years, there have been suggestions of conscription can be regarded as that the end of jazz is in sight. within the sphere of Neither of these expectations has coming practical palities. It is interest-been fully realised, but to-day ing to note that according to the finds that supporters both of the wroat classics and of the sweet terms of the draft Convention. tunefulness of old ballad and song there is to be limitation of all may take heart from the fact that effectives. both professional there are indications that the ollicers and men and conscripts. music of their delight is receiving If the Disarmament Conference wider and wider approval and sup. The recent festival at Nor. fixes the limit in any
countryport. Kufficiently low, then the number wich was a wonderful Bustration
of this "revival."
audiences at of conscriptionist troops will
tending from all over the country obviously have to be reduced.
to listen eagerly to oratorio or Selection of men for milliary concerto. The B.B.Ca efforts to service may be determined by lot, acquaint Hateners with the beau or restricted by a higher medical ties of Beethoven, Wagner, Elgar atandard, or by more extensive and other masters are meeting exemptions for family or in with immense success. It is dif- ficult to put one's finger on the dustrial reasons. It is woll note also that the proposed limita: demand for beauty in music, but It oxits, and warrants every.en. tion extends to all military Ber:
couragement. vice, including "refresher courses" as well as the first training with the colours. When the World Conference comes in discuss the appropriate force in each country,
10
"KOCHOW" STILL AGROUND.
no doubt the "potential" of trains HOPES OF REFLOATING WHEN
ed reserves will have to be taken Into account just an, on the otiler hand, the actual fighting value of long-service troops will have to be considered.
There has been some criticism
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CARGO REMOVED.
Enquiries ninde this morning regarding the a. Kochow shows that ahe te still fest aground five miles bolow Samshul, near Camp- bell faland.
The eargo is still on the ship, of the draft Convention to and it is hoped thai sho will be material. On this point, Lord refloated after this has been taken
off. Ceell, who hopes for great things
to-morrow.
DOCTOR'S MOTOR
MISHAP.
CAR CATCHES FIRE AFTER HITTING WALL.
only
"
It is td of a famous old gour- met that, having spoken contem
who was ptuously about someone Baid to suffer from indigestion, he was asked what he did if something disagreed with him, and he replied,
go on cating it until I conquer." He was applying the principle which has now been rediscovered at the Pasteur Institute, a principle which gives scientific sanetion to in Success of perseverance
own collection til his brow that does all the sweating business gradually assumes the appearance of Willesden. Junction. A mishap in which, Dr. T. W.
And what does all this "speeding Ware, of the Goverment Civil Hoa-up" amount to? Just "nerves, pital, was involved last night, has then neurasthenia, and then the been reported to the police, the great parade of retirement and a medical officer informing the au- beginning of that Elysian lazines thorities that his motor Car whose call he has unheeded all his skidded in Breczy Path and collid-life-and all in vain.
subsequently All Harlely-street says that what the ed with the wall, catching fire but causing little damage.
Dr. Ware stated in his report fuge, not an irritant. We ought, that he was driving his car, No.in fact, to lead flower-like lives and 1419, down Breezy Path at about Just grow beautifully instead of of everyday substances there are Y o'clock last night when the getting "temperatures" scrambling which cause discomfort and incon- ventence to certain predisposed example, well mishap occurred. Dr. Ware was to Lord's for the cricket--that dries people. It is, for not injured, but was shaken by the up in an hour-and tighting up the
stairs into a stadium for the sole known that some otherwise per- fectly normal and wholesome per- Impact.
sons are unable to eat even a single strawberry without suffering from a hot and uncomfortable and din figuring rush for several hours afterwards.
B-150
this modern fever needs is a febri- gluttony.
"I'm afraid the other boys would want one too-
and we have such a small apartment.*·
It is curious to note what a lot
This is the more surprising when it is realised what a harmless thing A strawberry is in its chemical composition. It consists, as to very nearly 90 per cent., of water, And so far as can be ascertained it contains no acid or other irritating properties to account for its beha- vicur to some perfectly innocent folk.
There are several other articles
of food which behave in much the same way, not necessarily in the production of a rash, but in causing. malaise or somnolence or irritability In perfectly healthy people, and the trouble being slight and transient it is seldom or never attributed to its proper cause,
This is not very surprising when we consider the absurd uniformity. which custom imposes upon us in all matters. dietotle. Everybody cats more or less the same things day in, day out, year in, your out, when there ought in reality to be us much variety in food as there is in stature and colouring.
The hide-bound habit which characterises John Bull in so many [things has been his undoing in the mattor of food. His rotundity of figure and churlishness of manner. are due mere to unsuspected In- digestion than to anything else. When he learns that variety · In food is not only charming but essential, he will become more human.