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ARISTOCRATS
OF MOSCOW
By R. T. CHOLERTON
80
The Very Idea!
GIVING US THE WOIKS
By Edward "Stickybank” Kally.”
We received an invitation the other day to see a trade film of the Austin Car factory at the Queen's Theatre.
differ much from ours, wo sup Take the chappie who makes
pose, but he gets a kick out of do- stance. His office work wouldn't the Hongkong Directory, for in
"The United States appears to have abandoned the high moral purpose of helping the Filipinos to achieve real independence grounded on economic and poli- tícal stability. Instead it is offering them autonomy with one hand and snatching from them with the other the econ- omic supports needed to make Russian Revolution have left their; a result of the Soviet Govern- thing fascinating about seeing The various phases of the and whose improved conditions as
We think there is always some- 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. which largely bases the newspaper articles and plays and provide heavy ammunition for stop at motor-cars.
that many an Illustrated booklet and hope that the invitation won't Filipinos economic, well-being. even strect crowds seem some-many an official guide. And that economic strength un- times to contain in themselves the dergirds political, social and whole history of the last fifteen the dominant social element is the educational development of the encanta, scarcely to new bourgeoisic. These fill the As far as Moscow is concerned, islands. A gift which loses the pre-Revolution revolutionary restaurants, Indies tending to be discerned now, are the traces of cinemas and the theatres and much of its value as soon as it of the men and women who lived dressy; gents less formal-black Sco and drive the New Rockne Especially when the giving is ex- cally, and who spent their time but none-the-less unmistakably is accepted is a shabby gift. in exile, and who dressed eccentri- shirt, velveteen jacket, top boots Six to-day!
pected to enrich the giver at the discussing, and often quarrelling used to a higher standard of life expense of the recipient. Beaver, the precise importance of than the ordinary worker. cause of the opposition in the this or that article in their faith
On the book shelves of each one is expected to seek to have the volutionaries who flocked back to tellectual-Bohemian-Anarchist re-
of Marx, bound in limp black leather, and 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 get news of the fall of phone a great deal, are mad on of a constitutional convention the Tsarist Government, and submission of its work to "OLD TIMERS" the President of the United States and to a referendum in the Philippines. Upon approval
suspension.
T
THE HONGKONG HOTEL, Legislature the Filipino mission and its application; of the in- of them is a volume
GARAGE.
Stubbe Road
The
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Hongkong Telegraph
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1933,
THE SOCIAL SERVICES
tial to national
were
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OF REVOLT
11
5
more more
cars.
"
Peak Road together, when sudden. ing his rounds.
dozen coolies stagger out beneath ly from one of the flats half a Imagine üs ambling along the
a piano. The Directory Director prieks up his ears,
"Ho, the Mugwumps are mov- ing," he says, "I must find out for my new edition where they are going."
A few seconds later he te- turns with a defeated look on his face."My mistake," he says, "they're not moving. The bailiffs are in."
we
Or
come across Pete pulling a ricksha up Chater. Rond.
he mutters. He must have left "Good Lord, there's Watkins," his job in the civil service," and
he goes across to see Pete.
"Sh-h-h-b!" saya Pete, "don't speak to me. There's one of the
ger
+ +
,་ “
Then he counts the money. As
a rule, this is ok within a $100 Chartered Bank note or so, which things for the staff. probably has gone for teas and
•
SIC ITUR
We would add our modest tri-
gadgets and dream of the time when after a whole series of Five-" Year Plans, gramophones and two-seaters will be available for have been able to return to their enough food to have jolly parties their women and natty blue sailor The luckiest of these veterans suits for their youngsters and a probationary autonomous go- cafes, and enjoy a small but ade-withut getting tripped up by the vernment would be established in the islands. Washington active agents of the Comintern;
quate competence as not very "Party Line.". would be represented in Manila some of them have disappeared into FASHIONS FOR by a High Commissioner having the wastes of Siberia; the rest BOSSES only minor powers such as free have either died and been ac- access to governmental records corded & State funeral, or hold Personal" they wear smart uni-
As for the bosses or "Court and shroffs over there." and the right to report to the minor administrative posts and forms of black leather coats, and President any failure of the dream of the good old days when
The man we'd like to have take Filipino Government to fulfill its not made. Most of their ideas big Mystery Men like Stalin, are though, would be our bank mana
revolution was in the making and
rarry satchels, and, except for the us around more than anyone else, A timely and influentially obligations. Indeed, the United have long ago been condemned as to be seen any day travelling to signed manifesto, recently issu-States would retain responsibili-petit-bourgeois" or as deviations and from their offices in powerful ed draws public attention to thefty for the islands without any of one sort or another from the
Promptly at 10 am. we'd be danger of "economy" attacks on real authority. This
around to watch him filing open fact, "party line," and they enjoy the Local Government and the so- coupled with the retention
One ruling class is very like the doors of the big safe. of sort 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 tories to the manifesto
grave dangers in the
say,gentlewomen in reduced cir-come more and more established present Sir Josiah Stamp, Sir Arthur During the first five years of the theoretical basis of Soviet more aware that it is the salt of unsettled state of the Far East. is still to be seen in, for instance, more and more assured, more and cumstances. Even so, their influence the Soviet ruling class has become Salter, Mr. H. G. Wells, Dr. Scott the probationary period exports marriage law, and though here the earth and fittest to crercise Bills Receivable and laughs joy
Next he checks the bundles of 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"
ously. Then he checks the bund- Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, Dr. Ernest be limited and during the second and "free discipline" to this day government to the famous ques-
Lenin resolved all problems of Ies of Bills Payable and doesn't
lauck. Barker, Col. John Buchan, and at American tariff rates to pay the Dictatorskip of the Proletariat) are an attempt to answer this careless clod of a clerk has chuck- five years they would be taxed flavour very faintly the Marx- tion, "Who is to govern whom?" This done he has a go at the other well-known and represen- Filipino debts. At the end of with co-education and hand-wear- question; once the question ia ed ink on the wall, the manager Lenin-Stalin gospel and connect Revolutions, like general elections, Bank Premises A/C, and if some tative people. The manifesto ten years, if all conditions have ing and vegetarianism and the decisively answered a ruling class gets furious, because the cost of points out that "any serious re- been fulfilled the President simple Ile," with model colonies comes automatically trogression from the standards would surrender all sovereignty in the Cotswolds and New Eng-ence, and Commissars and Secret against capital. So the long day into exist cleaning it up has to be charged so laboriously erected would of the United States and pro-land.
aries of State and Maharajahs and passes with one thing or the other claim an independent Filipino have consequences of a disas-nation. But while not proclaim-
THE PROLETARIAN
Caliphs assume the "Who" role in until four o'clock. trous kind". Some of those ed, the full freedom of Americari MAN
very much the same sort of way.
Then the manager would take his white spals down from the disastrous consequences are in- producers to bar out Filipino) Another element
THE SILENT in Soviet
hatrack, lock the big safe--look- dicated: "They might well im- products by tariffs would be society reminiscent of the
MASSES
ing to see that we weren't left in- time. respectable, or at least pair for a generation the dis- established at the same
side and extracting his tram fare There is, of course, the popula-from the Sundries and Emergen- covery of that ability so essen- joying some measure of freedom called in Victorian England the who were neither pre-Revolution And they would have been en-activity is what might have been account, the peasants and workers
traditional, forms of revolutionary tion of Russia to be taken into cies A/C, would sally forth. leadership. from Filipino competition for Movement for Cultural Improve revolutionaries nor have become 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 boss 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 dollare of infantile mortality, bad con-
jection.
the Kremlin, and their runners-up and shabby, have been largely un-and commended by the Bench. have become the new "State Bour-affected by the Revolution, Great But if he thinks he, la original, ditions of housing (with their
geoisie" and may in time, if things changes in history are inevitable consequence of a low
ge well, become the new aristo-brought about by mass move won promotion ourself when we often why he's wrong. It was thus we standard of public health), a
ments, but their consequence is served with "The Force." wide indignation at the denial
Here and there, however, traces always that the mass remains The pelicans are said to
still exipt of the old-fashioned "Whom." One "Who" after an aional canteen (ah, beer was bear "Tight" one night in the Divi of equal opportunity which interested in technocracy. The tally a little slow, perhaps whose will continue to occupy, the to the occasion. though only then be worker-intellectual-serious, men- other has occupied, and doubtless in those days!) we rose at once makes so seriously for the divi- machine age has brought them very face immediately calls up a Kremlin; "Whom" is a constant a raw and unfledged constable. sion 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 thor-ing-room or a discussion group on, its brend, stares at illuminated arrest at the station and locked 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 labor 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 4 wise old bird. As the holder of minently in the leading articles of reads the newspapers that "Who" evidence was ascertained inter-. an abstraction--who figures pro-fate that "Who" imposes, and 'clearly "The corroborability of the period to injure the mental and patents for the first known prae- Pravda and Isvestia, physical power of the present ticad cold storage system it has given an honourable, if unexeit--remarkable tolerance and good cheered when we repeated these who is writes, with generally speaking rogatorily." How the magistrates 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.
facts from the witness-box!
Within a week we were a ser- confronted." The fact that a facilities for gathering and stor
reant, with twice as much "to body of public men representa-ing its food. And it has not
spend in the canteen. 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 economists, should feel it neces- somewhat to restrict its easy economic situation has served sary to issue such a manifesto 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 sulted in decreased expenditure fish canneries got into operation then, at various points, great on education and the general and ejected sufficient waste pro- slowing down of the progress 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 flight 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- clever 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 a now many canneries have been. public opinion that will resist closed by economic conditions unjustified attacks on the social and the younger pelicans, uh- services. It is to be hoped that trained in the pursuits of their
Pelicanocracy
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. the Government will give more forefathers, are blaming the
Hardware Dept.
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 cars in the cannery can quarters.
Come to the aid of the pelican.
craey,
"I'm afraid by the time we get our act rehearsed all the music will be out of date"
ARAMINTA AGAIN,
Dere Mister Kelly. U are a rele gentelman and 'compleatly with drawers ennythink i may hav sed against u enny time.
Last nite I bawt some tripe and 'unions & it cum rapt in a paper what add an articul pokin fun at the Fire Brigald.
Now Mister Kelly, apekeing as a lady and a muther witch.no wun can diney me avin 'ad seven littel wuns (thogh as won lot was twins and wun lot was triniex i am not as old as u mite think) i wants to KAY In my umbel oipnuin & J hav add sum experiense of firemien thogh I may be no Hellin af Tray or Cleoptera not Moaner Lizard neither, all thogh sumwun did say as how i smiled like wun in a buss wun day wich was verry "rand but ment kindly like I could
see well has I say I think the.. Hong Kong Fire Brionid is the nisest buneb of yung chapps i ave seen in my life an perlite and rfishent two and I won't ave no- buddy say nothin else become it aint trrew and i wont sit down wile ennywon in casting aspar reocross at them. It may be orl right to cast piles befor wine & ave them returned in manny ways hut. I wont nye nun cost at our Fire Brigaid even thogh it is ned without malles aforenence and let em as laffs loudest burn longest Brz i...
Armleta Austin,
Mother of Seven Baby
Austine)
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