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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
4-Point.Cuabioned Power
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1933.
The Philippines'
ARISTOCRATS
OF MOSCOW
By R. T. CHOLERTON
The Very Idea!
GIVING US THE WOIKS
By Edward "Stickyboak” Kelly..
We received an invitation the other day to see a trade film of the Austin, Car factory at the Queen's Theatre.
We think there is always some-"
The United States appears to have abandoned the high, moral purpose of helping the Filipinos to achieve real independence grounded on economic and poli- tical stability. Instead it is offering them autonomy with one hand wind snatching from them with the other the ccon-
The various phases of omic supports needed to make Russian Revolution have left their, a result of the Soviet Govern- thing fascinating about seeing
the and whose improved conditions as autonomy secure. For it is free mark on the population of Moscow ment's policy form the subject of how things like this are done, and trade with the United States and on its institutions, 80 that many an illustrated booklet and hope that the invitation won't Smootheness is assured in the which largely bases the newspaper articles and plays and provide heavy ammunition for stop at motor-cars. Rockne Six by pillowing the Filipinos economic well-being. even street crowds seem some many an official guide. powerful six-cylinder engine in dergirds political, social and whole history of the last fifeet the dominant social element is the And that economic strength un-times ta'contain in themselves the
As far as Moscow is concerned, live rubber at all four points of educational development of the tacerned now, are the traces of einemas and the theatres and pose, but he gets a kick out of do- years. Faintest, scarcely to h
| new bourgeoisic. These fill the islands. A gift which loses the nre-Revolution revo....onat, restaurants; ladies tending to being his rounds. much of its value as soon as it of the men and women who lives tressy; gents less formal-black Peak Road together, when sudden.. is accepted is a shabby gift, in exile, and who dressed eccentri shirt. velveteen jacket, top boots
Imagine us ambling along the" See and drive the New Rockne Especially when the giving is ex- cally, and who spent their timu hut none-the-less unmistakably y from one of the flats hall a Six to-day!
pected to enrich the giver at the discussing, and often quarrelling used to a higher standard of life dozen coolics stagger out beneath expense of the recipient. Be-over, the precise importance o
a piano. The Directory Director cause of the opposition in the this or that article in their faithan the ordinary worker.
pricks up his cars. THE HONGKONG HOTEL Legislature the Filipino mission tellectual Polician-Anarchist of them is a volume of Marx, ing," he says, "I must find out for "Ho, the Mugwumps are movi is expected to seek to have the volutionarics who flocked back to/und in limp black leather, and my niv edition where they are
suspension.
L
GARAGE.
Stabba Rand
Happy Valley "
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, FEMUARY 21, 1953.
THE SOCIAL SERVICES
A timely and influentially signed manifesto, recently issu.
were
Pelicanocracy
tellectual-Bohemian-Anarchist re-
1.
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On the book shelves of each one
BOSSES
Personal" they wear smart uni- forms of black leather coats, and arry aztchels. and, except for the big Mystery Men lik: Stalin, are to be seen any day travelling to and from their offices in powerful
As for the bosses or "Court and
of one sort or another from the cars.
Ro
the question is
Take the chappie who makes differ much from ours, the Hongkong Directory, for in- stance. His office work wouldn't
we sup
going."
A few seconds later he re- turns with a 'defeated look en his fare. "My mistake," he says, "they're not moving. The bailiffs are in
Or We come across Pete pulling a ricksfin up Chater "Road.
he mutters. He must have left "Good Lord, there's "Watkins,"
his job in the civil service," and he goes across to ses Pete.
"Sh-h-h-h" says Pete, "don't speak to me. There's one of the shroffs over there."
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The man we'd like to have take us around more than anyone else.. though, would be our bank mana- ger.
Promptly at 10. a.m. we'd be around to watch him fling open the doors of the big safe.
Then he counts the mpney." As Chartered Bank note or so, which probably has gone. for, teas and Next he checks the bundles of things for the start. Bills Receivable and laughs joy- ously. Then he checks the bund- les of Bills Payable and doesn't Jaurb.
This done he has a go at the Bank Premisas A/C, and if nume caress ciod of a clerk has chuck- ed ink on the wall, the manager gets furious, because the cost of cleaning it up has to be charred against capital. So the long day. passes with one thing or the other until four o'clock.
Then the manager would take his white nats down from the" hatrack, lock the big safe-lonk-" 4 in to see that we weren't'left in- .- Ride-and extracting his tram fare - from the Sundries and Emergen- cies A/C, would sally forth.
SIC ITUR.
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question of acceptance put be Russia from their favourite cafes on their walls portraits of Stalin fore a special convention. The in Paris and Geneva and Vienna and Lenin. They use the tele- next steps would be the election when they got news of the fall ofplione a great deal, are mad on of a constitutional convention the Tsarist Government.
gadgets and dream of the time and submission of its work to "OLD TIMERS"
when, after a whole series of Five- Year Plans, gramophones and the President of the United
OF REVOLT
two-seaters will be available for States and to a referendum in
their women and natty blue sailor the Philippines. Upon approval have been able to return to their enough feed to have jolly parties The luckiest of these veterans suits for their youngsters and a probationany autonomous go cafes, and enjoy a small bat ade-withut getting tripped up by the vernment world" be established
quate competente in the islands. Washington active agents of
as not veryParty Line." the Comintern would be represented in Manila some of them have disappeared into FASHIONS FOR by a High Commissioner having the wastes of Siberia: the "re only minor powers such as free have either died and been ac- access to governmental records corded a State faneral, or a and the right to report to the minor administrative posts an! President any failure of the dream of the good old days when
revolution was in the making an obligations. Indeed, the United have long ago been condemned as Filipino Government to fulfill its not made. Most of their inte States would retain responsibili- "petit-bourgeois" or as, deviations ed, draws public attention to the ty for the islands without any danger of "economy" attacks on real authority. This fact, "party line," and they, enjoy th One ruling class is very like Local Government and the so-courled with the retention of net of esteem and consideration another, in bearing at least; and as cial services. Among the signa-military bases, might lead to that this accorded in England to, the Soviet Government has be-a rule, this is ok. within a $100 tories to the manifesto
grave dangers in the present a gentlewomen in reduced cir- come more and more established unsettled state of the Far East.umstances. Even so, their influence the Soviet ruling class has become Sir Josiah Stamp, Sir Arthur During the first five years of the theoretical basis of Soviet more aware that it is the salt of is still to be seen in. for instance, more and more assured, more and Salter, Mr. H. G. Wells, Dr. Scott the probationary period exports marriage law, and though here the earth and fittest to exercise Lidgett, Dr. A. D.-Lindsay, 'Sir of sugar, coconut oil and cord markedly dwindling-in Soviet authority. Oliver Lodge, Dr. Cyril Norwood, age to the United States would educational theory. "Free, love" Login resolved all problems of Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, Dr. Ernest be limited and during the second and "free discipling" to this day government to the famous ques- five years they would be taxed flavour very faintly the Marx- tion, "Who is to govern whom?" Barker, Col. John Buchan, and at American tariff rates to pay Lenin Stalin cospel and connget Revolutions, like general elections, other well-known and represen-Filipino debts. At the end of the Dictatorship of the Proletarial are an attempt to answer this
with co-education and hand-weav-| question; once tative people. The manifesto ten years, if all conditions haveing and vegetarianism and the decisively answered a ruling class points out that "any serious re- been fulfilled the President simple lie," with mede! colonies comes automatically into exist trogression from the standards would surrender all sovereignty in the Cotswolds and New Engence, and Commissars and Secret- so laboriously erected would of the United States and pro-land.
aries of State and Maharaiah and claim an independent Filipino
Caliphs assume the "Who" role in have consequences of a disas-nation. But while not proclaim- THE PROLETARIAN
very much the same sort of way, trous kind". Some of thoseed, the full freedom of American MAN:
THE SILENT disastrous consequences are in-producers to bar out Filipino Another clement in Soviet
MASSES dicated:"They might well im- produets by tariffs would be rocicly reminiscent of the Ст at least
There is, of course, the popula- pair for a generation the dis- established at the same time.respectable,
traditional, forms of revolutionary tion of Russia to be taken into And they would have been en-activity is what might have been account, the peasants and workers covery of that ability so essen-joying some measure of freedom called in Victorian England the who were neither pre-Revolution tial to national leadership, from Filipino competition for Movement for Cultural Improve- revolutionaries nor lave become We would add our modest tri- They might easily lead to those ten years already. That is the ment Amongst Working Men. new bourgeoisie or ruling class. bute to the policeman who sum- social conditions of which the freedom which puts a taint on The big "realists," our Union hos These, except that at the moment moned himself for having a poker fruit is seen in high incidence this gift and may cause its re-types, have long ago moved into they are more than usually hungry party and was fined four dallars the Kremlin, and their runners-up and shabby, have been largely un-and commended by the Bench. of infantile mortality, bad.con-
jection.
have become the new "State Boui-affected by the Revolution. Great But if he thinks he is orie!na), ditions of housing (with their
geoisie" and may in time, if things changes in history are often why he's wrong. It was thus we inevitable consequence of a low
go well, become the new aristo- ! brought about by mass move won promction ourself when we
ments, but their consequence is served with "The Force." standard of public health), a
Here and there, however, traces always that the mass remains "Tight" one night in the Divi- wide indignation at the denial
The pelicans are said to be stillet old-fashioned "Whom." One "Who" after an- sional canteen (ah, beer was beer of equal opportunity which interested in technocracy. The tanya 'sow, pernups whose will continus to
worker-intellectual-serious, men-other has occupied, and doubtless in those days!) we rose at once occupy, the to the pccasion. though only then makes so seriously for the divi- machine age has brought them very face immediately calls up a Kremling "Whom" is a constanta raw and unfled red constable. sien between classes." The such a large measure of benefit picture of an institute or a read-factor. hom" queues up for We arrested ourself, reported the manifesto declares that "no di- that they have become thoring-room or a discussion group on, its bread, stares at illuminated arrest at the station and looked minutions in expenditure" are
oughly converted to the pro- say, William Morris's "News from street propaganda, gratefully ac- ourself up in the cells. We tested justified if, as these may well lot of luxury. The pelican is a
position of a little labour and a Nowhere." This is the proletar-cepts an occasional pass to the ourself for sobriety and, as we lan man-like the economic man. cinema or the theatre, suffers the suspected, was quite unable to say do, they seem likely over a wise old bird.
an abstraction-who figures pro-fale that "Who" imposes, and clearly "The corroboraliflity of the As the holder of minently in the leading articles of reads the newspapers that "Who" evidence was ascertained inter- period to injure the mental and patents for the first known prac- Pravds and. Isvestic, who is writes, with generally speaking rocatorily." How the magistrates physical power of the present tical cold storage system it has given an honourable, if unexcit remarkable tolerance and good cheered when we repeated these generation to cope with the led all other birds in the promo-ing, place in propagandist drama humour. grave problems by which it is No bird has developed greater tion of labour-saving devices. confronted." The fact that a facilities for gathering and stor- body of public men representa- ing its food. And it has not j tive of all parties and religious been unmindful of the value of denominations and including the inventions of man. Hence leading educationalists, medical its interest in the cause of tech- doctors, social workers and nocracy at a time when the economic situation has served 'economists, should feel it neces- somewhat to restrict
its easy sary to issue such a manifestu sources of food supply. In early is in itself an Indication of the days, the pelican employed such. strength of feeling on the sub- crude methods as diving for the ject The "economy" policy of fish which formed its chief, the Government has already re-source of food supply. And then, at various points, great Bulted in decreased expenditure fish canneries got into operation on education and the general and ejected sufficient waste pro- slowing down of the progres- duct to provide an easy living sive development of the elemen- for vast colonies of pelicans. tary educational system out-Pelican youth grew up in an lined in the Hadow Report. "The atmosphere of indulgence. The abolition of free secondary edu- next meal meant only a short cation and the raising of fees, and pleasant fight to the near- together with the imposition of est cannery. The machine age a means test for the parents of had removed the days, of drud- elever children, will deal another gery when their parents dived blow, at the "standards so la- and ducked ten hours or more 'boriously erected" by previous a day for a bit of herring and Governments. The purpose of often went to bed hungry. But the manifesto is to create now many canneries have been public opinion that will resist closed by economic conditions unjustified attacks on the social and the younger pelicans, un- services. It is to be hoped that trained in the pursuits of their the Government will give more forefathers, are blaming the consideration to the views ex-government for a shortage of pressed in the manifesto. than food. Hence their return to has hitherto been given to the technocracy with the hope that same views expressed in other All the cans in the cannery can quarters.
Come to the aid of the pelican.
cracy,
"I'm afraid by the time we get our net rehearsed all the music
will be out of date."',
fsets from the witness-box!
Within a week we were a ser- reant, with twice as much to spend in the canteen.
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ARAMINTA AGAIN, Dere Mister Kelly. U are a rele gentelman and i compleatly with-- drawers.ennythink i may hav sed against enny time.
Iast nite i bawt some tripe and unions it eum rapt in a paper what add an articul pokin" fun at the Fire Brigaid.
Now Mister Kelly, spekeing as a lady and a muther witch no witn can diney me avin ad seven liftel wuns (thoch as wun lot was twins and yun lot was triplex i am not as old as u mite think) i wants to ey in my umbel dipnuin' & i hav add sum experiense of firemen thogh i may be no Hellin of Tray or Cleoptera not Maaner. Lizard neither, all thogh Humwin did say as how I smiled ke wun. in a buss wun day wich was verry wood but ment kindly like i could see-well has i say i think the Hong Kong Fire Brivaid is: the niscat bunch of yung champs дус seen in my life an perlite and. effichent two and I won't aveno- buddy say nothin else becose it airt frrew.and I wont sit down wile ennywun is casting, uspar-, raograss at them. It may be orl- recast piles befor swine & ave them returned in manny ways" but i wont ave nun east at our. Five Brienld even thogh. It is sed without malies aforepence and lef em ns laffs loudest burn longest Bez í.
AP-4 Auwf{r,"
Mother of Beven. Baby
Austins)