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FROST.--AV the Victoria Hospital. Hongkong, on Florember 11, to Dorothy (nee George) the wife
Scheme Iimited in scope and pay WHAT DO WE GET FROM
ing benefit for a fixed number of weeks, and ceasing to pay it to those who are still unemployed at the end of that time. - Such a scheme divides the unemploy- ed into two classes, one drawing benefit as of right, and the other denied any right and compelled to seck relief in some form out- side the Scheme. As one news paper asserts, "there is no sential difference in merit and
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ART EXHIBITIONS?
By CHARLES FABEN KELLEY,
An interesting incident was re-¡ true work of art. - If we can find contly brought to my attention of this out for ourselves, and dis- a, professor in a great university entangle it from Its surroundings, who resigned his membership in wo can never complain again of
need between the unemployed an art museum association be- the monotony of appearances.
man or woman within Insurance cause he did not like an exhibition and his or her fellow-worker who which he had attended there.
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This is, however, only is outside. The distinction mado We may assume that the pro- aspect. What contributes most to one between them by the Majority, fessor represents a class rather confusion is that our defnitions is purely artificial.”
Broadly, above the average in intelligence broadening and we can no longer of art have been constantly the position taken up by the Min-1 and education. Doubtless he felt apply to a picture the measuring ority members of the Commis- sion represents the general views strongly on the subject, and it is rod of actuality of appearance. Wo of the Labour Movement, but it equally probable that his educa-now know that it may look just will be upon the Majority Report tion, extensive as it was, had had like nature and not be art-al- that Government action will be nothing to do with art in any of though it does not necessarily follow that the further away from based. Already, there has been its aspects. He must have gone nature, the nearer art. That is a considerable criticism of the pro-to the exhibition with the rather pitfall into which many, particu- posals. The Majority Report is definite Ides of seeing something|larly the untrained and the ima- described in one quarter as a quite unlike what he actually did mature, easily fall. Tutile attempt to postpone the ace, and was consequently, die Inevitable. In effect it admits appointed. The exhibition was of that the principle of insurance is the "modern" typo, which means only applicable to intermittent, that there was a great variety of and occasional unemployment, and is a quite inappropriate me technical experimente, and not thod of dealing with chronic and much of what we are used to call
ing "realism." What is the public continuous unemployment,
to do?
Laughter With Banners
The Very Idea!
BRINGING UP GOLDFISHL
By Edward (Walton) Kally.
"ICHTHYOPHTHIRIUE"
Bald
he, languldly brushing the curla back from his forehead. dah.
It's a discase. It affects gold-
Don't ask us how they manage to fit a disenso like that into the ordinary size goldfish. It would bo far too technical and vocabu-
understand. laricus for you, and you wouldn't
infusorian parasite?
For instance, do you know that a lethyopopherolone thing is an
Ah, what soul-bursting Ignor- ance. What noisome depths of illiteracy. What...... but let it pasa.
we don't know about goldfab, the Let us tell you that anything
goldfish don't know about it either.
in-
Pete and us once sat up all' night with a sick goldfish. material. What he does with it,
Nature la merely the artist's raw Whooping cough was the trouble: Wo did everything in our and how he does it, is all there is power, but the Grim Reaper to art. There should be no mis- claimed our little Jim, and ho take as to what the artist's inten- passed
over the Great Divide tions are--he should speak clearly with ono faint, final whoop. but that does not indicate that Poto, with the desperate his meaning can be immediately solence, borne of grief, turped to grasped by anyone who dashes us and anid, "I told you that rum past his picture. If careful and you gave him wouldn't do him In the first place, only a small thoughtful and even leisurely con- any good." proportion of the public attends templation does not reveal the art exhibitions, Exhibitions would artist's idea, there are only two We just glanced be better if more people went to and he are so dissimilar in your spoken to him since.
possible conclusions either you left the room. Wo have never them. It is no secret to museum tastes and experiences that you do officials
We now pursue our studies that many artists will not send their work to else that there was no idea. Un- through its life span. Cradled it first-class not speak the same language or alone. We have watched the fab exhibitions unless it la especially fortunately, the latter is often, through birth, nursed it through invited every year. We jump to invited, and not everyone can be true.
the anxious stages of adolescence when its character was being conclusions: we say immediately,
until it got curvature of the formed, watched it grow bigger upon walking into a gallery, that
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at Peto and
It is well to remember that some painters or public-are more in-epine swimming around the bowl.
We saw in the way the thing is designed; Oas female goldfish we had, climb tercated in subject matter per se,
it develop the home some in colour, some in form, others Instinct as it reached its 'teens. and these interests prejudice one ed out of the water to polish the for or against a work of art, quite outside of the bowl. unconsciously. Probably some-
- Before we quarreled with· Pots, we spent many an interesting hour together, teaching the little shap ples to swim. We would stand on ing motions with our hands and one side of the bowl, making paddl-
the other side encouraging the fish One foot, and Peta would stand on "Come on, bubsie......Bubsie wubsie, come to dad-da."
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to be none too sunny, none too hope- ful of the future. If good hum- the grinding gears of social life, (another way of expressing our our is the solvent that lubricates the works we see are good or bad then it is worth trying in likes or dislike). the home. For instance, every family circle might have a chair of laughter in the library or at I wonder if the public realizes thing can be found worthy of one's the dinner table; such a chair that those who are working pralking in many pictures of which might even be upholstered in fessionally and constantly in art much is not understood. Very few artists can be totally wrong any cheerful plush and installed in feel that an exhibition is distinct more than those who view their the car.
The honoured occup-ly worth while if one out of ten pictures can be totally right, ant, without portfolio and salary, of the works exhibited seems
a picture may not to Even though would be expected to look on the them to be of fine quality? And tell a story, or deal with forms bright alde of events, to venture even they have their doubts, their with which we are familiar, it at times a keen observation or differences of opinion and their and rythms of form which are dis- may contain harmonies of colour two designed to prick the grey prejudices. They cannot be sure tinetly pleasureable. bubble of gloom, to represent
What the with enthusiasm the cause of a that they are always right, and public resents, and rightly, is lib cheerful to-morrow. Even wise this is one of the reasons why arties taken with familiar forms 'or purposes which they do not un- PROST-At the Victoria Hospital, cracking would not be barred visit to an art exhibition may be
Hongkong, on December
11.if it carry no barb of scorn or an exciting experience. It is anderstand: Distortions in the name Dorothy, dearly beloved wife of cynicism-but the chief business exercise in discrimination, an edu-discordant elements Instead of of design which actually introduce G. B. Frost.
of the chair of laughter, acting cation of one's faculties, perhaps new harmonies,
and destroy, through its chairman, should be a voyage of discovery.
rather than create, unities. to discover and display the
Artists are capable of respond- bright fragments in every altua-
"Ah, my de-car Ed-ouard Kel- a gay pattern of optimism ao of art in past ages have ceased to creasingly intelligent and exacting ee. It is zo fine city, zis Hong- public; and, on the other hand, kong of yours. Be-oautiful!" that a multitude of folk may en-exist, art is not regarded as 80 most of us are capable of enjoying sald the Celebrated Composer, gage forthwith in the manufac- much an economic necessity na ita far greater variety of art than "We will write ze Chinese suite. ture of smiles, snickers, grins once was, and is therefore con-we permit ourselves to look at. Ool La! La! It shall have zo- and guffaws-advance battalions sidered nonessential and even We should visit more exhibitions, what you call it!-atmosphere of in the victorious army of good frivolous. But leaving this out of good or bad, and try to form our zo place......"
We hurriedly passed the Contra}" own personal opinions about them, consideration, there is one reason else we shall miss an interesting Market, and walked down why all people should go to ex-and important part of life.
war in Pedder Street. hibitions, whether or not they like
CHARLES FADENS KELLEY. the pictures: It will put their ed at Home by the report of the Dismay is writ upon the wrink-surroundings into focus as nothing Commission on Unemployment led brow of the editorial writer. olse can, and they will look out Insurance, the majority mem- Avidly he scans the pages of the upon nature with clearer eyes. No bers of which base their chief newspapers, searching for a matter how dull the day or how recommendation on their view news item which may furnish in- drab the surroundings, there is
of G. B. Frost-a daughter.
DEATH.
The
One difficulty la that since many
Hongkong Telegraph tion, and to assemble them into of the reasons for the production ing to the demands of an
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1932.
FUTURE OF THE "DOLE"
Much interest has been arous-
cheer.
Nothing in the News
A THOUGHT FOR
TO-DAY
in-
THE TRUE UNIVERSITY OF OUR
that "the present position is spiration for the yet unborn always something to be seen from DAYS IS A COLLECTION OF BOOKE- such as to necessitate, not a fur- editorial. The clock on the wall which a real artist can evolve a Carlyle, ther patching up of the system, ticks remorselessly on, remind- but a revision of the principles ing him each second that time, on which it is founded." They tide and the 'deadline' wait for propose a dual system of Insur- no man. Nothing in the news!; ance and Relief. The insurance He recalls a short story in Edna system is to be retained and Ferber, narrating a taxi driver's amended in order to make it day. Just an ordinary day, "solvent" and "self-supporting", nothing to it-packed with more by limiting the payment of bene- thrills than a volume of Feni- fite which are to be reduced to more Cooper. Helping two out- 158, for men and to 19s. for wo-of-town maiden ladies to find a men-to insured workers who nephew who lived, they thought, have paid a prescribed number somewhere on West. 181at
of contributions. All unemploy- Street; persuading a headstrong ed workers outside this scheme youth and a rather weepy girl -workers who have exhausted not to elope, but to go back to their insurance benefit right and school and write home about it; workers in uninsured trades ending with the ingenious cap- are to obtain relief according to ture at 2 a.m. of a bootlegger need under a scheme to be ad- who was planning to add homi- ministered by Local Authorities. cide to his crime. As the taxi- This work is to be taken over man sleepily prepares for bed he from the existing Public Assist-proposes to his, wife taking the ance Committees by now Com day off on the morrow. "Let's mittees to be called "Unemploy-go and see one of them western ment Assistance Committees." A cowboy pictures; that's where a modified Mcans Test is to con-fellow has some excitement all tinue, the hope being that its ad-right.". Nothing in the news! ministration by the new Com-Let's sec, Japan announces & mittees will make it less objec-disarmament plan at Geneva tionable and deprive it of the which really means, disarma- Poor Law taint that is associat-ment, although they want Bri ed with the present administra- tain and America to disgorge tion. This differentiation be four battleships while they tween the unemployed Insured scrap only one. Poor hard-done- workers and the unemployed by Darlington beats Crewe in a workers who will be outside the Cuptio. Hitler finds some of Insurance scheme is strongly op his lleutenants have minds of posed by the Minority Report of their own. The Daily Mail re- Councillor Asbury and Mrs. fors to Sir John Simon's counsel Rackham. They declare that as wise and moderate! The the conception of the Majority editorial writer stops; his allot- Report is one of "an Insurance ted space is filled.
"Androw, what's this I hear about you making faces
behind my back for the last 86 years?"
weren't so hot on the American They learnt in no time. They
crawl, but yot should seen them on the breast strokes
So there you are.
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SYMPHONIE CHINOISE. Rudolph Friml, the celebrated musical composer, is in the Colony seeking atmosphere for a Chinese symphonic sulte.
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"Zere shall be ze syncopation. Qui, zC melody and ze rapid movement from ze bar to bar."
**IS that what syncopation means?" we naked.
"Oul, it is 'so,” replied Celebrated Composer.
"Oke.
said.
Let's ayucopate,"
We wraked_inside.
the
The Celebrated Composer, alp-
| pod⋅ thoughtfully.
"Our, he said "ze zuite, eet shall commence with 26 five sharoa in B major."
"Yeah", We Bald "our's is D. flat.
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morosely,
A Chinese coolie, standing be neath a "Refrain from Spitting** notice, made auggestive noises with his throat.
The Colubrated Composer stood still. His face grew deathly pale. "Mong Jow", (meaning "Well, what do you think of that") he cried. "I has been forestalled. ' Someone else. ' 'as composed my Chinese symphony."
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OUR NOTE TO PERSIA. "It will be appreciated, think, that the implications of a proposition aro not necessarily congruous howover much, prima Jacia the construction of its terms may appear to involve,ax- plicit discrepancies."
"The fact that an argument ap- pears to be debatable is not, of itholf. Irrefragable proof of its debatability; and hence the ma sortion of a conditional negative hea only a provisional and limit- ed relevance."
"To state what the object or aim of a stipulation is in a very different thing from making the succéssful' fuldiment of that obfect the condition of the stipu lation."
our
These are extracts from new Memorandum to Persia. · Bir John turned green. with envy when their wording was brought
to his notice.