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TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1932.
GERMANY VÕTES
In the senINH
TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1932.
DAY
BY DAY
OUR WORST SIN IS CONCEIT
Says Andrew Soutar, the Novelist.
THE besetting sin of the nation modern llerary circles,
among
Tin conceit self-conceit. We live artists, actor, and actresses,
not money. If that fact is taken on Sat, Apr into account, it becomes easier to understand the hybrid character of the Nazi movement. A large num- ber of the older generation of Ger-
NOBLE MEN AND WOMEN, IRRE- mans, especially in the northern
SPECTIVE OF RACE OR CREED, WITH and castern districts, were before STAND TEMPTATION, TEIKULATION the war, and have been still more AND PERSECUTION FOK JUSTICE'S since, wholly out of sympathy with SAKE. the big industrial and moneyed in- terests which had the car of the Kaiser. These survivors of the old Prussian military and landed aris- tocracy have a fellow.feeling with A thief entered the apartment of the young Conservative- revolu-Mr. S. M. Ismail, at 457, Hennessy Road, yesterday morning, and rande
After all, what are these self- which constitute the
a haul of clothine and jewellery, the whole that you walk with your
none in the air? Why not come styled aesthetes If they are not value of which was not disclosed. nain body of National Socialism.
down to earth and walk with
inummors,, story-tellers, entertain- crowds 1101 lose the
ers, clowns, amusement makers- The revolt has been against a ré-
touch'?"
people who are given the choice xime and a tendency of which the
Liu Kangeman a military officer,
Self-conceit is 40 insidious
af keeping the workers light- it cuts into disease that main object appeared to be the mak-staying at the Namping Hotel in Des
hearted while they are doing the Voeux Road Central, linn reported to
corrosive acid; Zi ing of Germany safe for pluta the pulice that he left an attache life like
tionaries
The Empres of Russia is due here from Shanghai at 9 a.m. to-morrow.
in difficult times, but they could singers, and dancers, there is so be made cauler cach one of us much conceit that every labourer took hold of himself, sat down in who tolls in the fields all day and chair, and talked, beginning ikke empties a cesspool at night for the sake of the extra few shillings this:
"Who do you think, you aru? has every right to thank heaven And why should you reach for a that he has been given halo every time you take your job, hat down from the rack? What
have you done for the nation as Up in the Clouds.
common
д
puldic it
A man's
cracy. The unnatural alliance of articles, in a ricksdia when alighting are supposed to keep a family to-terary snob has only, to go into
Junkers and industrial magnates under von Papen has certainly not been able to stay the collectivist tid, even if the Nazis have not won complete rucECES,
lectioneering is all over, the re- Now that the construction of the Government has to be faced. Until that task has been completed, it will not be easy to assess the new situation, or to
y whether the stalemate is but! the forerunner of a new series of
issolutions of the Reichatag.
nors,
-------
Japan's Policy.
are
ease, containing papers and various nullifies even those blood ties that real work of the world? Your outside the Hotel yesterday. does not know the number of
ricksha.
He gether in times of success or ad- the British Museum and he will the veraity. Only the other day find books, written two or three hundred years ago, which contain
heard
man say--"On
three
20
all (and more) that he has put into his poor volumes.
different occasions I have had said to me, I can't believe that she is
Your painter who lingers too she is Arrested after having arrived in
long in the line light of his own Hongkong on board the s.. Yuct On your sister because
'coarse.*** from Kongmoon, a Chinese, found in
No, he was not an illiterate man, commissioning, has only to walk possession of 54 taels of prepared opium, was fined $5,000 by Mr. as we judge illiteracy, he was a into the National Gallery, to Schofield at the Central Police Cauri solicitor; he was the guest of his realise his own impotency. Your this morning. with the alternative of sister, a wealthy woman; he was actor who sits on the edge of a one year's hard Inbour. The con-dependent on her for most of the cloud and surveys the world with feet of his kind traband was found in the defendant's favours be received in this life, contemptuous eye had a forebear belongings.
but while he smiled and smiled who sat at the
juicy bone to and remained a villain he was and was given a thinking these things. One whisky gnaw in return for his services. Stated to have been injured by the too many and he felt the urge to Why don't we try to realise the explosium of a bomb which he had give them verbal expression. truth of all this? kept as a curiosity, Toi Sam-kau.
17. employed as a coolie at the Lok Men Worse Than Women. Yee tenhouse at Simchun, in Chinese
If men would put away conceit and try to appraise themselves at
territory. WIN yesterday brought My experience is that men are their true worth we as a nation
more conceited onee own by train by his brother to the infinitely
Yaumati Station, whence he was taken women: they seem to develop to the Kowloon Hospital. He died at extraordinary idea of their 2.10 this morning.
for
The
to
the
that
OVERHEARD AT A MAH-JONG J'ARTY
tilef
in
our never our ΟΣ
rates,
but
there is
conceil
ጌ
In political life conceit sits on
They must have cost quite eighteen
And how pour are his grounds energy and endeavour like a hippopotamus sitting on a belated there, just look, I've dropped af on which man bases his conceit, calm that has been left up by the In my own profession-that of
Your Labour member who on the Oh, thank you Mrs. Montague, you writing-conceit borders really are most kind.
Judicrous. I have met writers in rose from the people takes more Is that the four of circles? Yes, all parts of the world, and I have pride in being able to slap a duke will if you don't mind."
"And now that makes me
Mah-
lide.
IL
marvelled that they have been able on the shoulders and call him reform that may to get through life without taking "Tommy" than he takes in bring-
on the ing about Jong. Yes, I think it's forty-four, thundering good punch
better the conditions in which the And double for a clean hand gives chin about once a week.
One poor fellow who had written people live.
And, oh! the joy of the plebeian me quite a lurgish score.
Yes really Mrs. Henderson, I over-a couple of indifferent novels used heurd her say
to make his wife stand outside his who can say in truth-"I have study door to prevent his being met the Duchess of Pooh-Pooh and interrupted while he was at work, she told me....
One day, in his presence, she Cut This Moonshine.
have [said to me--"]
Most unsuitable call it; though some people always will.
Yes, it was dear Mrs. Thompson | play.". who had such a nasty chill.
written
ย
"And so on.
Why cannot we be true to our-
than might touch greatness in a couple Raron Kijuro Shidchara
weigh an of decades. But we said that in diplomacy
strength manner
own supposed was equally important with man-
Importance. Very few of them known weakness. The love The dictum might well be
leave it to the public to appraise publicity saps individuality.
cent. of those Ninety-five per conceive their worth. They repeated to the present directors
During the week-end a small full ideat and are incensed if the pubne men who, by cajolery or subter- of Japan's foreign policy. The of earth occurred at the rear of No. does not agree that they have fuge, get their names into print redised it. If it comes to a ques-during their lives will pass away recent suggestion of a revision of Prince Edward Road, the
contribution to silence of Mr. J. Houssler, causing!
a with no more than a couple of that the German the Nine Power Part to exclude due to the female cinetion of actual
nation's well-being, only one man lines in an obituary column for elections have not made it possible Manchuria and to provide for the door. In reporting the occurrence in ten thousand has the right to which their relatives will pay the the police yesterday, Mr. Housster
about his achieve prevailing advertisement for extremists on the one side or neutralization of areas surround-expressed his fears
anather be conceited the other to dominate the situation, ing the chief ports of China was slide may occur with the next heavy ments, and his character would be Cannot they realise that?
Laugh this off, as the Americans fall of rain, as fissures have appeared such that he could not possibly be
conceited.
say: I know a man who refers to the results must be regarded as singularly inappropriate both as 10 on the hillside.
A woman may be conceited about himself as "a famous baronet" divorce satisfactory. As in other coun-time and source. Japan's plen
her personal appearance, but her because he figured in tries, the moment. is not propitious since she entered Manchuria has
object in nine eases out of ten is CASC many years ago! Between
more attractive fame and notoriety to make herself in Germany for any violent political been that she has been taking
of the man. The wide the
difference. oyer reaction. A complete triumph for police measures in self-defence.
conceit of a man would lead him bridges the gulf. to sacrifice the love of the most the Nazis might easily have led to A coach and four could be driven
"And did you see her shoes, my devoted wife in the world. undesirable repercussions; as mat-through either phrase at the best dear? Yes, quite the latest style; ters are, Herr Hiller and his fol- of times. In the present instance themselves they have embraced wide military lowers
must content
the with being the largest Party in the operations from Harbin all
coast to Riechstag. In the circumstances, way down the China they must get a considerable share Swatow. And under cover of them of Government posts, but the real Japan has succeeded in obliteral- control will be in the hands of Dr.ing a Chinese regime over an area Bruening and his supporters of the in Manchuria as big as England, and Centre, since they hold the balance France, Belgiuni, Holland,
New Mexica combined. Few a power. The stalemate was not
She was going to wear her chiffon indeed
for the race-méeling to-day." who left anexpected, and although it leaves people The situation better than it might accept the Japanese words conceivably have been, there will, Japan's prosent activities. we imagine, have to be a deal of appointment of High Advisers
the reshuffling in the ranks of the von the Manchukuo Government, Papers Government. To the outside new authority granted to observer, the position is not alto-Commander-in-Chief illustrate the lack of reality about the new State. kellier clear. The von Papen Gov-|
To many folk, Japan is merely ernment was brought into power under such unusual circumstances bent on proving that a nation may and its Ministers so little known carry ou a war, deny that it is a outside Germany that it is difficult War, and then claim that the very fact of such a dental constitutes To see precisely whom it represents.
a peaceful settlement. Clearly, One thing, however, is clear, name-
inter- that the Nazis will expect their any move to force a new
national agreement on China strength in the Reichstag to be re-
would bring down her self-defence flected in the allocation of govern.
plea like a house of cards. To mental posts. Moreover, although
press her recent proposals would the Centre holds the balance of
not only prove the contention of power if we reckon on ordinary
Japan's critics, but it would also political alignments, the Nazis will,
give them ground for saying that by virtue of their Parliamentary the unofficial war is an aggressive power, be able to exercise a great influence (31 the Government's policies,
The conflict of ideas represented ward by the many political parties in country has been buried under Germany may not, perhaps, be exsuch a mountain of notus since plained in terms of orthodox politi the Washington Conference that cal doctrine. Indeed, we have seen the facts are scarcely discernible. it put forward that it goes much But it was not the delegated part: deeper than than, having to do of Japan to make the move. with the place of money and ita social effects onl national life. Fathers and sons, we are told, have been speaking a different languago en this matter-the fathers, almost to a man, welcoming the pluto- cratic standards of the nineteenth ¦ ¦
The following table issued by the century, and the sons rebelling
Kwangtung River Conservancy Com- against the economic and financial mission shows the height of water system which has brought the in English feet on the dates named in the West, North and East Rivers:
He foamed at the mouth. low selves? Why cannot we cut out Look, there goes another East dare she dream of writing in those all this monushing about what we Wind and I've just discnded two short respites between clothing think we are and what we really And I've thrown away three Dra-the children, devoting her day to have done? Why cannot we take ons so I don't know what to do,"
war. Unquestionably, something will have to be done sooner or later to develop a new policy to- China. That distressed
WATER LEVELS.
WEST NORTH AND EAST RIVERS
world to its present pass. The song have received an unexpected, and possibly unwelcome, ally In the grandfathera: people like the East North River at Prussian Junkers and the President who still think, in torms of land-and.
Jiighest on Lowet July record on record. si West River at
Bhlublog.. 441.7 Taingyen
+4-26.4 North River
Bamehul ... +173 A-5.8 Essi River al
Backlung +is
Aug
D
21.0
26.6
108. 10,6
12.5
10.9
--8.10.1
114
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Yes, it's your turn, after me.
"And now Mrs. Bailey's Banker. Was I dreaming, or did somebody
something about tea?
them, and putting them to bed?a grip, of ourselves and say He was the god of the household;"Fell, what really have we done? wify didn't she kneel in homage? Isn't there something that we can But that play was accepted, per-do for the sake of those who are formed, and brought in
Why have we not com-to follow us?"
I was right? How very welcome, paratively large sum of money the strength of mind to plant a for my throat's quite parched and dry | which he proceeded to spend
ashalo (figuratively) on the head of Though with a quiet Kame like quickly as he could.
the fellow who gets on with his I can't think Mah-dong honestly
That is only an incident, but it job and say, in effect-"I've got a why!"
helps to illustrate my point. In niche to All, and I'm going to try M. N.
to fill it"?
"I didn't have a thing to do with my afternoons, before I
lost my health,"
a
Why should we bend the knee to all the mountebanks who try to fool us into the belief that they are greater than we are because they have written a minor novel, or acted a part on the stage, or in- painted a picture that was spired by a genius who lived hundred and more years ago?
In this country to-day there are of (or women) not fifty men whom it could be said-We shall miss them and their greatness.
thousands who be- There are lieve themselves to be so indis- pensable to the life of the nation that they are worried to death about the dimensions of West-. minster Abbey!
Ideals and Idola
Where lies our greatness, cour- age, strength of purpose, grin of understanding? I have my own Ideals; I have my own idols; I have my own conception of the character that demands respect.
I know of a woman who lived for art; she married a farmer and shrank from the work that is a farmer's portion. She was left to nght out her own salvation, and fend for the children who depend- ed on her. With courago that shall never be fully appraised sho tackled the job of farming.
Shortly after she was left alone, I asked hor-"How are you got- ting along?" "Fine," she said, and her eyes glowed. "I've been reading up my work, and I made the bailift realise that I know what I was talking about when I the said I wasn't satsfied with spring wheat. I killed four rais
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