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INDIAN HOPES.
DAY BY DAY
ed himselt. Equally reckless and Il-balanced is his latest assertion: that the Round Table Conference; was an unauthorised constituent assembly, ile must surely have
THIN Is TRUE PHILANTHROPY, forgotten that the Conference was
THAT BURIES NOT ITS GOLD IN 03- officially opened by His Majesty TENTATIOUS CHARITY, BUT BUILDS the King. and participated in by ITS HOSPITAL IN THE HUMAN HEART. representatives of all the political-Harley. Parties.
The F. and O. s. Kalyan from Hongkong arrived at London the 25th January at 11 pm.
The Ren Line
GETTING
GETTING THE MOST OUT OF LIFE.
By
Sylvia Thompson.
PEOPLE
are apt to expect to genius for living or activity and
*
The P. & O. R., Comorin, from In commenting on the outlook Shanghai, is due bere at 8 a.ra, on
"get something out of life" whose abilities are probably min- some little time ago, we remarked Friday.
rather as a conjurer gets rabbits imised and standardised by ordinary the Gandhi could speak the word
and silk handkerchiefs out of an methods of education. The ten- which would put an end once and
en empty hat. They forget that even dency of all social "improvement" conjuring tricks are based on some in the last fifty years has been to for all to the civil disobedience
previous work-and that the people give more people more lolsure-- movement and bring all parties to;
who seem to have miraculously full without helping them in any way gether with the one alm of securing from Home ports via Straits
8.5.Benwyvis, and surprising lives have, at the to get any real profit out of it.
and back of all their spectacular for a united and contented India as a Manila, is due here on February tunes, some special gift or effort This is comparable simply to giv member of, the great Commonwealth 3rd,
to account for them.
Ing everybody an allotment without Lack of interests presupposes seeing whether they have any in- of British Nations. Now that he
A water-logged junk is reported lack of interest. Stupid people are terest or ability or tools for has been released, his opportunity to be at lat. 29° 18' N. and in perpetual danger of boredom. agriculture. And the result is that has come. We enn only hope, that Lang. 134° 44′ E. It is considered They are usually acutely, though the majority assign their allot- instinctively, aware of this danger ments of time merely to the cul- he will grasp the occnsion, reveal to be dangerous to navigation.
and their instinct of self-preser- tivation of wild oate, or the ercc- himself as far-sighted man and,
Guests at the Rotary Club timn vation (from their own essential tion of roundabouts, or to stud-
hobby-horses · as the Tinies recently expressed it. yesterday include Mr. F. C. Milling-futility) makes them indulge in farming
activities. Golf nobody can ride. realise that the uphill rond to self-ton of Shanghai, Mr. Ward, of the perpetual minor
Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada,courses, tennis-courts, ensinos, Roverument, which now lies open, stationed at Montreal, and Dr. Lowe, motorcars, radios, musical comedies, is preferable to the slippery slopes attending the Leprosy Conference at crutases, and all the blessings of of Hyderabad, India, who has been thellers, slot-machines, pleasure
of revolution. He and his as80-
civilisation are designed for the elates have been given abundant
Last week's health return shows fact that they have no resources of people wllo do not want to face the seven cases of diphtheria
(three their own.
proof of the sincerity and goodwill
Manila.
which
Enough of this Talkie Slang!
fatal), one being imported; as well Thus "getting the most out of! as two non-fatal cases of scarletife has come to imply for a great By PETER BURNUP. fever and one each of paratyphoid and small-pox. There
many people an incessant deaths from pulmonary tuberculo-amusements.
of "catered-for" occupations and
ols.
were 57
mund
H, yeah?" says the authen-
Otle smart young man of the
of Britain; if they respond in fatal); seven of typhoid (two like mood, they can play a wonder, ful part in initiating a glorious new era for their country. We be- lieve, with a well-known member of
When
people achieve altaost the Conservative Party, that now
to conver twenty-three out of twenty-four suburbs when he seeks and then there comes in the affairs As far as could be ascertained crowded hours of such inglorious incredulity. => [of then a mament when courage is this morning, the
8. Kochow, life, they feel they are "living"--|
"Sze you." you reply, if you are which went aground five miles and their friends say in admiration in the veritable mode. safer then prudence, when some below Samshui Campbell that they are "burning the candle at great act of faith can achieve the island last Sunday, has not been both ends."
We are too many of us, indeed, Undinubtedly it is bet becoming a race of wise-cracking The local agents ter to burn a candle at both enda Willies--wo miracle that no arts of statesman-refloated yet.
English who said this morning that several at-than to keep it in the store cup boasted that we were the lords of ship car compass. Our fervent terupts had been made to get her board, but the method has its draw-language and who are now in peril hope, shared we believe it off.
frue friends of the is by all British Empire, is that the release of Gandhi and his colleagues will prove to come within that category for a great and of things done noble purpose.
WC
(
once.
backs, the chief being that you in- evitably burn your fingers when the of developing into reatless slaves of
slang. Whilst it is early in the day to
The man and his wife who flames meot.
The talkies are on the road to judge of the likely reactions to the
were arrested in connexion withi On the other hand, one of the
recently and his ass
the robbery
nt retense of Gandhi
62B, most attractive frets about human triumph, if you take the revolution
of that triumph. ciates, all who have the welfare of
Bonham Road were both remand behaviour is that the more people in our native tongue as a measure ed by Mr. Lindsell at the Central really "live," accumulating interest Police Court this morning until and experience or getting anything The Daily Mail protested two the Empire at heart will hope that
Tuesday
the years ago that English must inevit next, when the case important done or thought, the experiment will be justified by
against the man will be car more they live in and "of" them-nbly become debased if the spate of pictures continued which talked in remarks brief If the results.
menced. The hearing of a charge selves made by the Congress lender im-
of receiving stolen property against
The higher tyne of human being the hideous amalgam of language British Film Quota.
the woman will be dealt with im- can get adventure out of two hours prevalent on. New York's East Side. mediately he was given his freedom
No one insists that our native mediately the other is finished. in a library or a walk down a street; refleet his real frame of mind-
Cinema managements and
can find existence inexhaustibly ex- tongue shall remain fixed and im- and there Arena 10 reason for patrons alike will exhibit,
Fung Yiu-wan and Pun Mei-kiu, citing and intercating from a sick-mutable. It has been the glory of doubting that they do then the imagine, the livellost interest in husband and wife, were convicted bed, change the course of literature the English language that it has situation may be regarded as dis-the further development of the by Mr. Butters, at the Kowloon from a chilly attic, and modify the assimilated and been enriched by the accents and idioms of a hundred Magistracy this morning, on, a history of a nation by a sequence tinetly hopeful. He asserts that plans, outlined elsewhere in this charge of possession of 68 lottery of their thought they are too busy other tongues.
seeing or learning by their candle- But the enrichment of our tongue he preserves an open mind on the issue, for bringing British talking-tickets on the second floor of 16ight to waste ita irrecoverable in-is one thing. Its incessant debase-
to Hongkong. The Nanking Street, yesterday
after ches
ment by ugly Inflections and Im-' future, being unwilling to commit pictures
nat sebere does
envisage the noon. An additional charge ni
Perhaps it is fortunate that the poverished slang is another. himself until he has conferred with limitation of British films to occa having written lottery tickets
It is not that the language of all bis colleagues and the leaders of sional programmes; on the con- was preferred against the second majority of people are so busy
to defendant.
The first defendant working for money that the ques-American talkies is bad. The in- the Indian delegates to the Round trary. British producers are
tion of living and using life to its flections in the voices, for example, was ined $150, or two months, as compete actively with Hollywood and the second defendant
uttermost never becomes practical, of our George Arlias in "Diaraal!" Table Conference. Inasmuch
since the people who have money or of Miss Ruth Chatterton in any or five weeks' und $50 or the latter are, ncenrding to Mr. for the bulk of the business.
(and therefor face the problem) one of her films are beautiful to' Ramsay MacDonald, sworn cham-the contest, the cinemas and the weeks respetively.
make such a lamentable and fantas-hear. You do not think of banaf Of late, the
tie failure of their leisure. On the wise erneks "or of the drah and plons of the work done at the Con-public must benefit.
popularity of the talking-film has
Ho Choi, a butcher, and eleven other hand, since there exists vulgar monotones of the Bowery in ference and are determined to do been on the wane. The intervals pork stall sellers were charged minority who have the power and connexion with Mr. Arliss or Miss their best to inaugurate a regime between the really good pietarea before Mr. Butters, at the Kowloon intelligence to live fully, it is de-Chatterton.
with pressing to realise that of this of goodwill and co-operation, there seem to have been extending, and Magistracy this morning, is ground for hoping that the Con- the fill-ups often suggest that they
[B
3100 three
having caused needless suffering minority probably only a few ever The Bowery Idiom. to 27 pigs. It was alleged that escape into activity from Home It is the second-rates which are
gress faction will come to realise are turned out daily before break- the pigs were being conveyed in necessary economic thraldom.
fnat. Perhaps that is too severe 24 erates in a lorry yesterday As things are, people seem to to blame. And, unhappily, so many
that there is a better way than the course which they have hitherio followed.
Su for as Britain's attitude is concerned, there must be genuine gratification felt that the Indian problem does not seem likely to be
it emanates
The
out by
the
of Hollywood's pictures come into criticism.
At all events, a pro-morning to the Yaumati Railway fall into three classes-the people the category of the second-rate. jeet which will make unneces-Station. The crates were piled who get the most out of life against
Hollywood turns them sary to show them should receive three deep and were without any considerable odds (a small class of
matting. Seven coolies were exceptional individuals); people methods of mass production. Their a cordial welcome, the more seated on top of the crates. but who really get nothing out of actors are fable, their dialogue since
from Great they ran away on the approach with all the odds in their favour couched in the manner The advent of the of the police. All the defendants (ie., who have leisure and misuse idiom of Chicago's "Loop" or Man- Britain. talking-picture his Kiven the pleaded guilty and were fined $5(it); and the third immense class hattan's Bowery.
haven't of people who
a natural Very shortly many of us will British flm industry and British euch.
find we have unconsciously fallen nude the shuttlecock of party voices a wonderful opportunity
into the language of the films if the politics. The Prime Minister has and now sound reproduction has
flood of the second-rate talkie per- intimated his anxiety to maintain been perfected by a British pro-
sinta. In particular the Cockney, with his facility for imitation, bas contac! with the leaders of the cess, the industry is going ahead
already fallen a vietim to the Alang Liberal and Conservative Parties in by leaps and bounds. More than
of the screen. the continuing negotiations, whilst enough films of high quality are Mr. Baldwin has made his own being turned out to provide full for two Hongkong position quite clear by declaring theatres for a year. The question that if he should lead the Party ariser, nevertheless, whether the which succeeds Mr. Ramsay Mac-scheme outlined justifies oficial |
In other words, Donald, he would conceive it to be encouragement. his duty to implement the work of in view of the removal of dif- the Round Table Conference by ficulties in procuring British films, whether it would be a right and working out a Federal Constitution
proper thing for the Government for All-India. This, after all. leto introducé a quota system, re-i what should be expected, since the quiring local cinemas to exhibit a placing of India on the rond to self- reasonable proportion of British is system i government is not the work sojaly pictures. Such
As the already in operation in Malaya of the Labour Government.
aad, we believe, other places under)
programmes
Prime Minister' took' occasion to the British flag, and the public hos
point put in the House of Commons had no cause soever to regret the on Monday, the present policy is fact. "Atlantic," shown recently the natural sequel of statements was one of the best films we have made and stages reached when seen here for some little some. It other Governments were in power. disclosed that British producera still lacked-two years ago-- Mr. Incidentally,
nd- Baldwin
something in technique, though ministered a much-needed robuke to the design was splendid.
The Mr. Winston Churchill when he as- carly leasons, however, have been sorted that the latter, in his recent well learned and the films Issued All-timed autbursts, was not speak- from British studios these days aro comparable to Hollywood's ing for the Conservative Party best. This is an obvious method It is well that that point should be by which Hongkong can mado perfectly clear, stace we can oncouragement to British enter- conceive of fewer more mischiev-prinė and we shall be strong sup ous utterances than those to which porters if the quota lasue arises Mr. Churchill has latterly committ-in the future,
give
BARA MIC CES *. CAT OPE
"Don't expect any cigars from the chief this year, Oscar:
ho just dropped about a hundred grand on the market.”
Words alone will not stay this. avalanche of debased English. There is only one way in which out, tongue may be preserved.
be
The B.B.C., through its announ- cers, has held out a sturdy defence against the encroachments of the Bowery. It is vitally necessary that more and more pictures ahal
made in England by people who comprehend the glories and the Infinite beauty of our language, who will maintain the purity of diction on which the B.B.C. Inslate.
That appears to me indeed to be the major justification of film-pro- duction in England at the moment. And, incidentally, its one, sure re- cipe for success.
CHINA MAY SECURE BIG LOAN.
REFORM OF THE MONETARY SYSTEM.
Shanghat, Jan. 27. Chinese banking circles belleve the Finance Ministry in nogoflat- ing with the European Powers for. a loan of £10,000,000, with the re- venue of the Maritime Custome and Railways as security, he
The sum, it is said will be devoted to the reform of China's monetary: system and the development of in- dustries.