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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1933.
suspension.
The Philippines
ARISTOCRATS
OF MOSCOW
By R. T. CHOLERTON
The Very Idea!
GIVING US THE WOIKS
By Edward "Stickybaak” Kally.
We received an invitation the other day to seo a trade film of the Austin Car" factory at tho Queen's Theatre.
The United States appears to have abandoned the high moral purpose of helping the Filipinos to achieve reat independence grounded on economic and poli- tical 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 theirja 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 3-Point Cushioned Power 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. go 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 And that economic strength un- times to contain in themselves the
Filipinos economic well-being. even street crowds seem some-many an official guide.
Take the chapple who makes powerful six-cylinder engine in dergirds political, social and whole history of the last fifteen the dominant social element is the stance. His office work wouldn't As far as Moscow is concerned, the Hongkong Directory, for in live rubber at all four points of educational development of the years. Faintest, scarcely to be new bourgeoisic. These fill the differ much from ours, we sup
islands. A gift which loses the pre-Revolution revolutionary: restaurants; ladies tending to being his rounds.
discerned now, are the traces of cinemas and the theatres and pose, but he gets a kick out of do- much of its value as soon as it of the men and wemon who lived dressy; gents less formal-black is accepted is a shabby" gift. in exile, and who dressed eccentri-shirt, velveteen jacket, top boots Peak Road together, when sudden Imagine us ambling along the Seo and drive the New Rockno Especially when the giving is ex- cally, and who spent their time-but none-the-less unmistakably y from one of the flats half a Six to-day!
pected to enrich the giver at the discussing, and often quarrelling used to a higher standard of life dozen coolies stagger out beneath expense of the recipient. Be-over, the precise importance of than the ordinary worker.
a plano. The Directory Director cause of the opposition in the this or that article in their faith THE HONGKONG HOTEL. Legislature, the Filipino mission and its "application; of the in-of them is a volume of Marx, ing," he says, “I must find out for
On the book shelves of each one pricks up his ears.
"He, the Mugwumps are mov is expected to seek to have the tellectual-Bohemian-Anarchist re-bound in limp black leather, and my new edition where they are question of acceptance put be-Russia from their favourite cafes and Lenin. They use
volutionaries whe flocked back to
on their walls portraits of Stalin fore a special convention. The in Paris and Geneva and Vienna
going," the tele. next steps would be the election when they got news of the fall of phone 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
when, after a whole series of Five- the President of the United
Year Plans, gramophones - and States and to a referendum in
two-seaters will be available for, the Philippines. Upon approval
their women and natty blue sailor' The luckiest of these veterans suits for their youngsters and a probationary autonomous go-
have been able to return to their enough food to have jolly parties vernment would be established cafes, and enjoy a small but ade-withut getting tripped up by the he mutters. He must have left in the islands. Washington active agents of the Comintern;
quate competence as not very "Party Line."
GARAGE.
Stubbe Road
HAPPY Takz
The
Hongkong Telegraph
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1933.
THE SOCIAL SERVICES
"OLD TIMERS' OF REVOLT
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 havo either died and been ac
and
A few seconds later he re- turns with a defeated Inok on his face. My mistake," he says, "they're not moving. The bailiffs are in."
Or we come across Pete pulling a ricksha up Chator: Road.
"Good Lord, there's Watkins,"
his job in the eivil service," and he goes across to see Pele.
"Sh-h-h-h" anys Pete, "don't speak to me. There's one of the shroffs over there."
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A timely and influentially | obligations. Indeed, the United not made. Most of their Ideng big Mystery Men like Stalin, are though, would be our bank mans-
signed manifesto, recently issu- ed, draws public attention to the danger of "economy" attacks on Local Government and the so- cial services. Among the signa-
tories to the manifesto were
Pelicanocracy
cracy.
in Soviet
more
ears.
aries of State and Maharajahs and Caliphs assume the "Who" role in very much the same sort of way.
THE SILENT MASSES
ger.
Promptly at 10 am. we'd be around to watch him. ding open the doors of the big safe.
Then he counts the money. As a rule, this is ok. within a $100 Chartered Bank note or so, which probably has gone for teas and things for the staff.
Then the manager would take his white munts down from the hatrack, lock the big safe-look- Ing to see that we weren't left in- from the Sundries and Emergen- aide and extracting his tram fare eles A/C, would sally forth.
•
SIC ITUR
We would add our modest tri-
access to governmental records.corded a State funeral, er hold As for the bosses or "Court and and the right to report to the minor administrative posts Personal" they wear smart uni- President any failure of the dream of the good old days when forms of black leather coats, and
The man we'd like to have take Parry satchels, and, except for the us around more than anyone else, Filipino Government to fulfill its revolution was in the making and States would retain responsibili-petit-bourgeols" or as deviations and from their offices in powerful "have long ago been condemned as b be seen any day travelling to ty for the islands without any of one sort or another from the real authority. This fact, "party line," and they enjoy the One ruling class is very like coupled with the retention of sort of esteem and consideration another, in bearing at least; and as military bases, might lead to that this accorded in England to, the Soviet Government has be grave dangers in the present say, gentlewomen in reduced circome more and more established unsettled state of the Far East.cumstances. 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
Next he checks the bundles of Salter, Mr. H. G. Wells, Dr. Scott the probationary period exports marriage law, and though here the earth and fittest to exercise Bills Receivable and laughs joy Lidgett, Dr. A. D. Lindsay, Sir of sugar, coconut oil and cord markedly dwindling-in Soviet authority..
ously. Then he checks the band- Oliver Lodge, Dr. Cyril Norwood, age to the United States would educational theory. Free love" Lenin resolved all problems of les of Bills Payable and doesn't Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, Dr. Ernest be limited and during the second and "free discipline" to this day government to the famous ques- laugh.
five years they would be taxed favour very faintly the Marx- tion, "Who is to govern whom?" This done he has a go at the Barker, Col John Buchan, and at American tariff rates to pay Lenin-Stalin gospel and connect Revolutions, like general elections, Bank Premises A/C, and if some other well-known and represen- Filipino debts. At the end of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat are an attempt to answer this careless clod of a clerk has chuck- tative people. The manifesto ten years, if all conditions haveing and vegetarianiem and the decisively answered a ruling class gets furious, because the cast of with co-education and hand-weav-question; once the question is ed Ink on the wall, the manager points out that "any serious re been fulfilled the President "aimple life," with model colonies comes automatically into exist- cleaning it up has to be charged 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
of the United States and pro-land. Eo laboriously erected would
passes with one thing or the other claim an independent Filipino.
until four o'clock. have consequences of a disas-nation. But while not proclaim- THE PROLETARIAN trous kind". Some of those ed, the full freedom of American MAN
Another disastrous consequences are in-producers to bar out Filipino
element dicated:"They might well im- products by tariffs would be society reminiscent of the
time. respectable, or at least more. There is, of course, the popula pair for a generation the dis- established at the same
And they would have been en-traditional, forms of revolutionary tion of Russia to be taken into covery of that ability so essen- | joying some measure of freedom activity is what might have been account, the peasants and workers tial to national leadership. from Filipino competition for Movement for Cultural Improve- revolutionaries nor have become called in Victorian England the who were neither pre-Revolution 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 dollars
the Kremlin, and their runners-up and shabby, have been largely un- of infantile.mortality, bad con-jection.
have become the new "State Bour-affected by the Revolution, Great But if he thinks he is original, and commended by the Bench. ditions of housing (with their
geoisie" and may in’time, if things | changes in history are often inevitable consequence of a low }
go well, become the new aristo-brought about by mass move-why he's wrong. It was thus we standard of public health), a
ments, but their consequence is won promotion ourself when we
served with "The Force." Here and there, however, traces always that the mass remaina |wide indignation at the denial
"Tight" one night in the Divi- The pelicans are said to be still exist of the old-fashioned "Whom." One "Who" after an- of equal opportunity which interested in technocracy. The werker-intellectual-serious, men- other has occupied, and doubtlesssional canteen (ah, beer was beer in those days!) we rose at once makes so seriously for the divi- machine age has brought them very face immediately calls up a Kremling "Whom" is a constant to the occasion, though only the
tally a little slow, perhaps whose will continue to occupy, the sion between classes. The such a large measure of benefit picture of an institute or a read- factor. Whom" queues up for We arrested ourself, reported the a raw and unfledred constable. manifesto declares that "no di- that they have become thor-ing-room or a discussion group on, its bread, 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 position of a little labo ir and a Nowhere." This is the proletar- cepts an occasional pass to the justified it, as these may well lot of luxury. The pelican is a fan mas-like the economic man, cinema or the theatre, suffers the do, they seem likely over a wise old bird. As the holder of an abstraction-who figures pro- fate that "Who" imposes, and period to injure the mental and patents for the first known prac minently in the leading articles of reads the newspapers that "Who" physical power of the present tical cold storage system it has given an honourable, if unexcit--remarkable tolerance and good Pravds and favestia, who is writes, with generally speaking generation to cope with the led all other birds in the promo-ing, place in propagandist drama | humour, grave problems by which it is tion of labour-saving devices. confronted." The fact that a facilities for gathering and stor- No bird has developed greater body of public men representa- ing its food. And it has not 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 resource of food supply. And sulted in decreased expenditure fish cannerics got into operation then, at various points, great on education and the general and ejected sufficient waste pro- slowing down of the progres-duet 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 cannerles 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.
"I'm afraid by the time we not our act rehearsed all the music. will be out of date."
ourself up in the cells. We tested suspected, was quite unable to say ourself for sobriety and, as we clearly "The corroborability of the evidence was ascertained inter cheered when we repeated these rogatorily," How the magistrates
facts from the witness-box!
Within a week we were a Ber- reant, with twice as much to spend in the canteen.
ARAMINTA AGAIN.
Dere Mister Kelly. U are a rele gentelman and i compleatly with- drawers ennythink i may hav sed against u enny time.
Last nife I bawt some tripo and unions & it cum rant in a paper what add an articul pokin fun at the Fire Brigafd...
Now Mister Kelly, avekeing "as a lady and a muther witch no wan can diney me avin ad seven littel wons (thogh is wun lot was twins and wun lot was trinlex i am not an old as u m'te think) wants to Ravin my umbel olpauin & I hav add sum experiense, of firemen thogh i may bé no Hellin of Tray or Cleoptera not Moaner Lizard neither, all thogh · sumwụn did any as how I smiled like wun in a buss wun day, wich was 'verry rood but ment kindly like I could see-well has. I say I think the Hong Kong Fire Brload. Is the nísest bunch of yung chanps i ave Reen in my life an perlite and efflshent two and i won't ave no- buddy say nothin else becose it airt trrow and i wont sit down wile, ennywun is casting Depar raogress at them. It may be ort- right to cast piles befor swine & ave them returned in manny ways. but i wont aye nun cast at our Fira Brigid even thogh it is red without maliss aforemence and let em as laffs loudest burn longest sez.í.
Armlets Austin.
Cfother of Seven, Baby
Austins
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