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INSULATED
"TOUCH WOOD!" BULLS AND INNERS
ment, they have most probably 60 mitigated it. At any rate, the American idea of putting the workless into jobs, and not mere- ly paying them. to remain idle, is the obviously sensible way of dealing with this problem. It may not be possibly wholly to cure unemployment in this way but a very decided impression can be made on the evil by ac tion along these lines.
Chinese Education
A STUDY IN SUPERSTITION: By E. L. ALLEN.
From the Office Butts
JAD $100€
Yes', remarked someone in my haps at that very moment some hearing, I have been in Hong- eruel Fate might be watching for dy 6,7! 148 enost kong for twenty years, and not so the chance to strike him down! much as a day's illness all that
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favour-
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The burning question last Tues- day was:-Why did not H.E. wear uniform at the S.WB. spec- tacle?" The answer is simple. He did not wish to clash with the Colour achenie.
"Chlas needs a firm hand, says # writer. That's what we're always telling our cook-boy.
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The success of the mannequins at the recent A.D.C. show was principally a matter of form.
time. Then he turned round and, IS MAN A half amused at what he was doing RATIONAL ANIMAL? and half ashamed of it, touched the
It is said that man is a rational back of a chair, Why did be de that? Probably he himself could animal. The evidence, however, not have given a reason. The fact would suggest a cas optimistic is as yet only is that this practice goes so far conclusion. Man
of the Two independent reports have back into the beginnings, of the struggling painfully out been made recently upon the race that we have long since far- morass of superstition and begin- ning to feel the solid rock of rea- Chinese educational system, one gotten what it originally meant.
fect. The by a layman's commission from Some of us as children played son underneath his
You fears and terrors of our primitive America sent to survey.
misa game called "touchwood', sionary work, and another by a were chased by your playmates. ancestors still occupy many a nook but the moment you touched wood and corner in the mind of civilized commission of European educa-
you were safe, ther had lost ali man. When we say of tional experts appointed by the right to pursue you any further. able condition of things that it is Council of the League of Na- When we touch wood in the middle too good to last, we are back at Nemesis which tions. The American mission of a remark we are making, it is this belief in confined its studies, largely to for the same purpose; we want to grudges us our little happinesses.
Men's suits, we read, can now... missionary schools, while the secure. ourselves against forres Even in this twentieth century and European experts surveyed only which are on our track and may do for some who have had a scientific be bought with chromium-ple
buttons. Edward Kelly us serious harm. But why should education, the world appears to be New Rockne Six closed models Chinese public schools. Both it be just when we are congratulat-full of malevolent powers waiting that's a much better idea then. are insulated against dirt, noise groups agreed that "American- ing ourselves ou our good fortuns to pounce upon us because we walk old-fashioned method of pay and outside temperatures.
Allization" of Chinese schools, mis-that we need to defend ourselves under a ladder, or spill salt, or sit Rockne carburetors are silenced, sionary and public, has gone against these hostile influences? thirteen at a tablel, We are a
See and drive the New Rockne have been gradually separated matter. The whole thing is a world deals with mankind on one be a good name for those who be too far. As a result, schools There, to be sure, is the crux of the long way yet from understanding
"Swoptimists" would appear to Six to-day!
from the indigenous life of the yival from the mentality of primibasis only, the simple one of right tive man and his fear of myster
lieve trade depression can be people. Reforms are urged
cured by barter. THE HONGKONG HOTEL. which will connect the schools ious forces all about him.
The gods are jealous, and to draw more closely with the needs of their attention to our happinesa is the Happy Valley
Chinese .masses. The to risk having that happiness taken League Commissioners sug-from us, to boast of it is to arouse. Therefore we must gested that the Chinese are their anger. more likely to And models intake instant care to enlist on our side some counter-influence which Europe than in America upon will secure us against the possible which they may build an ini-consequences
of our thoughtless digenous system of education, words. So we touch wood!" "because American civilization
GARAGE.
Btebbe Road
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1933.
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has developed in spite of a total THE RING OF absence of
traditions, POLYCRATES
local
that the Power which rules this
and wrong.
COLOUR IN LIFE
By John Ressich
Whether we care to admit it or not, the world rolls on to-day in a mental atmosphere of gloom and apprehension.
To intensify that we surround ourselves with greyness--it is the key-note of our lives. Our streeta,
a child
cash.
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Beer will very scòn be one of America's liquid assets.
A couple of Tango dancers we saw the other day seemed to in dulge in a good deal of walet effort. DO
[The military authorities bato de
to provide the troops, wi
eided superior and better-fitting boots.]
Let die-hard old colonels write
to the journals
And splutter and fume at the cl The matter's decided, and all raz
provided With footwear that glows at
mels.
They tell us, moreover, that Tom-
ny's in claver
With wearable boots in his kit. And he won't get flustered because
Major Mustard
Shova definite signs of aft
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The modern girl has long since been an ancient topic.
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whereas "European, like Chinese The classic illustration of this churches, halls, houses, gasometers civilisation must always take superstition is the Greek story of and, until recently, restaurante are still the incarnation of drab count of local traditions dating the ring of Polycrates, Poly-gloom. Now it is extremely dini THE BETTER WAY
back thousands of years." The crates was ruler of Samos, and over cult to be cheerful at all in de commission emphasized, how-a number of years he had met with pressing surroundings-it is im If the US. Government does ever, that "no form of civilisa- uninterrupted good fortune. A possible to be cheerful for long.
friend to whom he boasted of this
The truth of the matter is that not make a distinct impression tion which has developed in urged him to avert the certain an- we have been made afraid of colour on the unemployment problem, different conditions, can become ger of the gods by inflicting.some From its earliest years it will not be for want of the cultural tradition of the loss on himself. Let him cast away should be encouraged to steer to China that is now entering upon something he valued greatly and warde brightness. Not that ភ celerity of action on the part of an era of reform. New China he would no longer be too fortunate great deal of encouragement is ra President Roosevelt, whose must mobilise its forces, and for the gods to endure, Polyquired what is wanted is to avoid emergency relief programme is from its own history, from its crates took the advice and flung a directing youthful minds into this
sea. Next habitude of nccepting greyness B already under way.
The new own literature, from all that is costly ring into the
morning a fisherman arrived at the normal background. Administration is
the palace. He had caught a fish, and proceeding truly indigenous, extract
If you offer an infant the choice along three useful lines--the that will be neither American he hastened to return! The friand one it will inevitably reach for the materials for a new civilisation, in its mouth was this ring which between a plain toy and a coloured enrolment of workers for immed-nor European, but Chinese." turned pale at the sight and fled bright colours. It is our natural late public employment, grants The so-called "anti-foreign" the court, knowing that the gods but unhappily suppressed tendency. The next best thing to coming to States for relief work, and the movement against missionary receive the sacrifice, Soon after, the criticism that bright colours of it.
meant mischief and would net I have frequently been met with from good stock is to own plenty creation of a broad public works schools and the restlessness Polycrates was enticed to the main are all very well, but they are too
O ☐ programme. Under one branch in Chinese public schools land by a Persian official, seized costly, not only in the initial stages, of these activities, a quarter of may he explained in large part, and crucified!
but they show signs of wear and An incident in recent history is tear much more readily than the they believe, as a partially con- a million unemployed will be seious protest against further even mora striking because of the mosidy beef-gravy abomination of formed into a Civilian Conserva- foreignisation" of the Chinese personalities who figure in it. In desolation to which the дуегаре tion Corps for the purpose of
educational system. Chinese November 1917 the Bolshevista dejected eye has been reafforestation work, being pro- educators heartily agree with overthrew the Provisional Govern- accustomed. I have proved that vided with food, clothing, hous-
ment in Petrograd and seized the this is not so, and it is difficult ing and medical attention and be public education in China will to Lenin in his room in the Smolny average house in any town or city
League Commissioners
reins of power. News was brought to comprehend why entering the paid three dollars monthly.
not attain the value of Western Institute late at night, and he re-should be like entering a tomb, This will strike most people as education until all signs of tired to bed but not to sicep. Trot- Such lugubrious taste is even more a far more sensible plan than
con- criminal in the country, where the the "dale" system, under which European and American infiu sky called next morning to
an affliction of dirt does not so pre- The sudden as-vall and light is all around you. the workless are paid for doing ence have been eliminated, when gratulate him and found him
C 0 ¿ nothing. Indeed, the whole
there will be something really exhausted man.
cent from exile to absolute power The day of florid pretentions basis of the American method is Chinese to compare with what was more than man could bear trappings being mercifully
America will be singings is essentially American or Euro-It makes me dizzy', a distinct 'improvement on the
he said to simple furniture can be bought Columbia! before long. Trotsky, and made the sign of the to-day in plain wood at prices that. British plan. The Labour Party
pean."
Cross before his face! Why did are almost fantastically low. has been making every effort
he do that? Under the strain of Life is very largely what our There's no inferiority com for some time past to get the
the previous night, he went back mental outlook makes it, and it is about the. Hongkong girls. National Government to in-
to the superstitions in which he sheer lunacy to continue to sur-here "a Miss is as good as à Mi stitute plans of a far-reaching It is matter of more than was reared as a boy, and the action round ourselves with this muggy
was an automatic one, without the atmosphere that reacts nature for the utilisation of the merely local interest that during consent of his more rational self, sciously yet none the less seriously national resources in land, eredit, the last winter women in Eng-He was too successful, and per on our welfare. materials and man-power, so as land have taken a much more
Women in Art
that
re-
to increase the total production active part in the art exhibitions of wealth in the country, but of the country than formerly. the Government refuses to be The most interesting "one-man" budged from its policy of wait-shows of the last few months ing on international action. have almost all been held by Even in this sphere, no immedi- women, while women were ate results are expected, if we sponsible for the most striking are to take seriously a recent de- pictures painted for the last claration of Mr. Neville Cham- exhibition of the Royal Acade- berlain's to the effect that no my. Women's entry into the thoughtful person can think that field of art is the more signi- the maladjustments which have ficant because there has always brought about worldwide un-existed a tendency to minimise employment are likely to be the contribution that women in corrected so rapidly that we can the past have made to the arts look forward with any confidence generally. One of the most suc to the reduction of unemploycessful plays, both froin the ment to comparatively small artistic and the commercial figures within the next ten years. points of view, now being pre- That, as Mr, Churchill has de-sented in London is the work of clared, is a ghastly prospect to
a woman. This is not a fact face, since, besides the material that causes any surprise, for effedis of unemployment there women have long asserted their is also to be taken into account dramatic skill. In act, the whole the moral agony which it pro- theatrical activity of the wes duces. The Government
tern world originally began with titude is that the provision of the work of a woman, Hrots- public works for the purpose of witha, who wrote plays appro- remedying unemployment has
ximately a thousand years ago. been tried out and has failed. In prose literature the first wom- In support of this contention, it is pointed out that between 1024 an's work that the Oxford an- and 1991, some seven hundred thology considers worthy of pre servation dates back as far as millions, sterling was spent on 1373. In poetry it goes back to various developments, but there
a contemporary of Milton's. had been, instead of a decrease, But now that they have achieved an increase in unemployment. The argument, however, is not economic freedom, women's con- bribution to the cultural life of convincing, since it may surely the world may be expected to be be submitted that if these works
considerably richer and fuller have riot stemmed unemploy than it has even been before.
at-
too long
over,
uncon-
"Joc, let's agree that if either of us ever gets married, the outer will have some plec e to drop in and feel at home.”
He met her at the talkies,
They went for little walkies Got married. Now the Storkies Keep them home to mind the
squawkies,
should condemn marriages of de Dean Inge says, the Churk' mutes. He frowns on the on happy solution of the marri
problem..
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Edward Kelly says he school because of dypepsia. couldn't spell it.
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When Prohibition ends, Amer- ica will be as wet as the Pacific. Just now it's as dry as the Atlantic.
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MacWhirter wishes to deny th he is taking up golf again.] hasn't yet found the ball he. It Just year,
Talking of mandates, Isn't there!
too much gap about the Islands?
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Bank assistants are said to have "photographic memory." Eg-
pecially when your account is in the negative.
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This idea of love In a cottage is
sald to be out-of-date now.
it's become a little fint.........
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Most cinema-goers are said to
like a perfect profile in their film favourites. Chin-and-It!
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"What are you putting your. money into?" naks an. advertise- ment. Most of it into the Govern ment coffers, we fear.
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A Kowloan youngster, has been making a nuisance of himself by knocking at doors and running away. He should grow up to be a typical dentist's patient.