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Soo and drive the New Rockne Six to-day! THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1933.
a tendency in the preparation
of school history books towards THE CABARET QUESTION The Very Idea!
By the Controversialist
an idle and curious mind but for
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out the Great Academy Plan with-
a new definition in the local
scholastic
We are two inches taller than either of these gentle.. men.
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the extolling of national glory, and to get a mistake in fact cor- rected, when it favours the nh-
A PUBLIC SCANDAL tional interest or vanity, is far
By Eddie "Taipan" Kelly, froth easy. But it is along the
The intending Controversialist the business of a popular city caffe
We've lines of courageous and fair engaging a knotty problem like was nipped in the bad.
been insulted. We've been grossly insulted and we're treatment of facts that hope for the Great Cabaret Question ine- It was left to an astute Oriental here to-day to expose the whole. the wise future education of
vitably is beckled by two questa Insert the thin end of the wedge business and place a blot on. young people lies.
tions, "Do you dance?" and "Have and apply the pressure that has someone's escutcheon. you been to a Cabaret?" Both since opened the door to a profit- We want to tell you right here Sanctions and Peace dificult to answer, the first with evolution of the scheme is in journalists who have disgraced ablò business. To trace the and now that of all the brilliant out unduly flattering himself and Whatever Japan may believe, the second sounding so terribly teresting. The man who thought themselves by coming East, e No, no! Modesty prevents the League of Nations decision like an accusation and a reproach in the capacity of his own genius us from going further. regarding her actions in Mau-Vexatious, they may be summarily may not then have had a full Anyway, we're right at the top. churia, was rendered by a disin- dismissed as being proped for envisagement of its possibilities of the tree, if you get the idea. terested and impartial jury: forum etiquette and usage de-and so contented himself with the Even Floyd Gibbons and Arthur The League. report. was nomanding that a question however basic structure, while leaving to Brisbane look up to us.
others the full development. ultimatum of a diplomatic cabal, irrelevant be given attention. It no device to maintain a balance is conceded therefore that dancing, Such has been the history of great inventions, and has held good in of power. It was the considered or the manner in which it IB
this case which has taken a num- judgment of a united world, executed, is largely a matter of perber of years to reach its present Only the other day, His Ex But to get back to this insult. taken not in anger but with sonal predilections and varies as stage of perfection. At the com- celleney, Lieutenant Colonel An- the so-called expert mencement we had simply the tonio Jose Bernardes de Miranda greatest reluctance and only af- much ter seventeen months of in-opinions held on it.
The second dancing club" where members of arrived in Hongkong. vestigation and pleading. And query is foolish, as seeming to im- both sexes and their friends
"Go" said the Editor "and see it carries also the force of the ply that the Controversialist could foregathered for indulging in His X."
have adventured into a weighty rational recreation. Next, the nations' renunciation of war as problem without the preliminary "dancing instructress" for the cessfully negotiated the Hong- We set out, and having "suc as instrument of policy voiced survey demanded for a judicial mass now beginning to like the kong Hotel and Hotel Cecil, "Bright and dim" control of in the Kellogg pact. Japan and constructive contribution, art, fitted into the picture.The arrived safely and soberly at Rockne Six headlamps is located herself has subscribed to these Credentials furnished, the Con- rest is well-known history. Of Queen's Pier, on the floor-boards at the left of high purposes. And sooner or troversialist may be now permitted ficial strictures were complied
A cohort of police bore down on the clutch pedal. This makes it later the false fervour of con- to enter the forum without further with in theory if hot in fact, and us. The following conversation unnecessary to remove hands quest that old blinder of na-restraint.
the word "academy" has acquired took place. from the steering wheel when tions--will abate in Japan and
Now the Cabaret Question
The Inspector: You get out of changing lights.
her people will recognise the though its materialisation into the dictionary. But call it by the here, Kelly. This is a respectable
term of "cademy, school, college quality and force of the judg-local form has impressed
party. a recent or institution," whatever the fancy, i ment passed by forty-two na-development, is by no means new. we have here the inner form of a
Mr. Kelly:"You're telling us. tions in Geneva and since apKing Solomon, to whom many cabaret dressed in
The Inspector: I'm telling you. Mr. Kelly: Well, piker, get the proved "in general" "by the social amenities have been traced,
garb.
low-down on this (producing United States. Meanwhile the is credited with having held the other nations have need fur-first Cabaret although on
Success and seeming immunity police paas printed in English, ther to purify and clarify their what restricted and monopolistic from official interferences has en American, Chinese, Hindustani. purposes. Can they with con-lines. Passing down the ages we couraged emulation and these so- Urdu, and Can do.)
note, en passant, in the grent tribal called academies have nequired a sistency or conscience say
dances a joint community effort to muah-room growth. Nightly, saxa Japan and Chinh, "You
must provide inexpensive cabaret phones blared forth above the stop this slaughter," while at the amusement and recreation for old roar of city trafle and festoons of same time putting into their and young alike, entailing a multi-coloured lights over the hands at a profit the weapons minumum of skill in the per-house-stops pointed the way to and Mrs. A. W. Bewley announce with which to prolong it? Yet formance of the few gyrations for syncopated revelry. the marriage of their daughter they must be wise in halting the the satisfaction of a primordial
conditions have To have increased in such num Dorothea to Lieut. W. F. Hasel-wretched traffic in arms. An urge. Social foot, R.N. at St. Mary's Church, embargo upon both belligerents since undergone a radical change, bers could not have been possible Asverstoke, England, on 18th
and with a new order supplanting without the necessary clientele, March, 1933.
in the Far East, such as Brit- the old, a pastime dating back to and the "popular support for the ain" declared temporarily, works the greatest antiquity, has become undertaking seems to have been out to the advantage of the restricted.
justified by the crowds thronging these places nightly. aggressor, for Japan has, mu-
The need for relaxation of nitions factories which can sup-
strictures with increased The Controversialiat hay sketch. while China has not. Again creation has in one direction been aspect of the subject, and leav -Are the other nations identified in
some quarters as ing it to be developed at a later strong enough and sincere "bachelor isolation". It is an stage, will now take the issue Somebody, once said that the c enough in the desire to organise old cry. Long ago, in the Stone raised by these cabarets and as only place for a philosopher to gain knowledge was in 'n garden, ready peace that they are
to Age, it was heard over the wilder-disclosed in the recent make some sacrifices to carryness and men, so situated, then troversy. This may be defined by and when we last cut our lawn we out their announced purpose? went forth a-hunting with ab the progressive stages (a) does learned quite a number of things. So far they have shown their and spear for the congenial com- an undertaking of the character For instance, if the thing that panionship of the other sex. fulfil a genuine social or public goes round inside a lawn mower faith only in words.
That men have since learned subt-nced; (b) if it does fulfil such as too close to another thing that They ask an aggressor to give jer means is represented as so need, is it liable to abuses; (c) ifatnya still, the first thing does not up its conquest; what are they much polish and civilization Buch abuses tend to a social evil go round at all, and all that willing to give up
to enforce gained, but the congregational having particular regard to happens is that the wheels make their demand? To establish a instinct peculiar to the species place like Hongkong; and (d) if two deep skid marks in the grass method of preventing war, will remains as a restless urge for effective control can always be that would make a traffic police- supervised in the interests of a man looking for a clue whoop for
joy. they run the risk of applying those with fewer opportunities.
well-ordered Colony? When therefore the ery of an embargo which might bring
We once managed to make a clear arosc in The reply to the questions, ex-run of a couple of feet before we war upon themselves? If the "bachelor isolation"
that sickening crunch nations' peace purposes are pure similar anguished strain in the cepting the last, has been facilitat heard enough and firm enough, their Colony a few years ago, to the ed by the experimental stage, in which meant we had got to get Buffice. accompaniment of the refrain effect, to which the local cabaret down and risie losing another moral might should
"nowhere to go", some look to this has been" put in the fairly long finger. But we claim no credit as a sure indication of a need, a period before the authorities have for this. It was sheer luck. confirmation of the belief that decided to legislate in the matter,
Stubbe Road
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ANNOUNCEMENT.
HASELFOOT-BEWLEY. - Colonel
The
to
some
Hongkong Telegraph. ply most of her requirements, facilities for this form of re-ed all too briefly, the "historical
MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1933.
SCHOOLS & HISTORY At a moment in the world's history when national and racial prejudices are much in evidence on all hands, more than passing interest attaches to a movement being undertaken in the Scand inavian countries by a society called "Norden." The aim of this body is to endeavour to get the larger historical facts of life correctly reflected in school text
A Monumental Issue
I
or
con-
The Inspector: On your way. bozo. That's no good here.
Mr. Kelly: Woulder$10 fix things.
The Inspector: On your way, small change, before I spend you. So we went. It might sound rather foolish and ineffably sad to our Great and Admiring Public, but we reckon it's a lot of dirty names.
All the taipans were down at Queen's Pier to meet His Ex., and what we would have bit them for would have been a shame.
After all, what's a coupler dollars between pala."
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IN A PEAKIAN GARDEN.
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We trimmed them, and when we found that the sides of the lawn were bent inwards like a bow, we worked again at the corners, with the result that this time the sides were convex. We then remem- bered that a really good gardener. like myself always uses a couple of twigs stuck in the ground with a straight edge, and Anally, after working as meticulously "asa- sculptor on a statue of Venus, we managed to get them practically square.
books. The movement has some significance from the fact that many wars have been fought among these countries and much
Hongkong, busy hive of industry In our next article we will take at The grass round the edge can territory has changed hands. The writer of a letter to The by day, was inordinately a quiet closer illspection of the subject be cut with a pair of scissors, and dark place by night. By an and with the Controversialist providing nobody misses them They have even had Kings in Times recently hazarded a dar ingenious process of reasoning, a make an incursion into one of from-the work-basket, and then common and they have been ing guess that the reason the torn by reciprocal jealousies, ancient Romans inscribed their case for a dancing hall was made these resorts, selecting at hap you come to the biggest problem.
out, but at the first bare mention hazard and with no mind to You are now able to see that the. To develop a better attitude the monuments in Latin is that La- of cabaret" a condemnation and discriminate either because we borders of the lawn where delegates of the society's history tin was their native language. chorus of "baha" was provoked have heard or seen something to meets the flower-beds are not as instruction committees met in Now, Englishmen have a native which had the effect of silence its advantage or disadvantage, or clearly defined as they should be, Stockolm and decided to select language. Why, then, do they ing further inopportunities. A because we have been told that it and they have to be trimmed with
a spade. specialists from each country to not use it on their public build-scheme to couple the scheme to Is the best or worst of its kind. examine textbooks and recom-ings and memorials instead of mend whatever changes may be so often employing a tongue that deemed needed. The expense of ninety-nine people out of a hun- the revisions will be borne by dred cannot understand? the Norden Society and the work There is some justice in the is expected to be finished before complaint. When in Rome, do the end of next summer. Fur- as the Romans do, may on occa- thermore, permanent boards will sion be a sound piece of advice: be appointed in each country to but there seems little point in represent the society and to in- doing as the Romans did, when spect future proposed textbooks, in London, Birmingham so that publishers" and school Leeds. Yet in one respect Latin: committees may feel assured as fits in better with the monu- to the fairness of what they mental style of prose than does offer the children. Finally, the English. A chief necessity for society will publish special stone inscriptions is brevity. bibliographies and study guides Here Latin undoubtedly scores. for advanced research workers It does not find prepositions pre- in history. This work will be possessing; the definite article. done in co-operation with the it definitely rejects. A case can, International Committee of His therefore, be made out for Latin torians, and gradually other inscriptions. But care
£hould nations may take similar action. be taken to see that the case. This is surely a field where much is correct. If Cicero can be done. For instance, all entertained at Buckingham texts on the Palace, and fancied an after. American school War for Independence might be dinner stroll in the Mall, the checked by British historians, greatest possible care would and vice versa, or the chapters have to be taken to keep him in the World War and Franco engaged in earnest conversation, Prussian War in French and lest his eyes glance up at the German books might be subject Admiralty Arch, which faces to examination and possible re- the Palace and has on it the vision by an International body, curious information that it was
the preferably affliated with
erected by 1910 agreeable citi League of Nations. Would not
zens "Cives: Gratissimi considerable progress be made MDCCCCX." Cicero, being a man toward that mental disarma of affairs as well as a scholar, ment which must precede phy would doubtless perceive that sical disarmament? It is the the inscription was intended to children of to-day who will yote say that the arch had been built to-morrow. There is, of course, by grateful citizens in 1910.
ware
"Now, get this, "you mugs! I don't want to have to rip you
apart from any clinches,"
Imagine our horror when we found that by repeated trimming we had reduced the size of that lawn by nearly a yard all round. We were out next day, and the fab wong came. He waits until he sees us disappear in a cloud of dust round the corner then clocks himself in, so to speak, so that he can find his own jobs without. reference to us. He likes quiet, easy jobs, that require a lot of thought.
On our return he met us signi- ficantly wiping his brow. He explained that he had been tidy- ing up, which means that he had collected, one by one, a bushel of dried leaves, and heaped them in a spot where the first puff of wind would scatter them and again make some more work for him. He had also done some real work He said that the edges of the lawn had been very ragged, and that fie had trimmed them for u.
He had. Our lawn now looks like a green raft floating in a silent sea of newly turned earth. Still, unless somebody else trims it again it is large enough for ping-pong, and, anyhow, it doesn't take so long to roll.