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HASELFOOT-BEWLEY.-Colonel and Mrs. A. W. Bewley announce the marriage of their daughter Dorothea to Lieut. W. F. Hasel- foot, R.N. at St. Mary's Church, Averstake, England, on 18th March, 1033.
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SCHOOLS & HISTORY
MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1933.
a tendency in the preparation
of school history books towards THE CABARET QUESTION
the extolling of national glory," and to get a mistake in fact cor- rected, when it favours the na- tional interest or vanity, is far from easy. But it is along the lines ofcourageous and fair treatment of facts that hope for the wise future education of young people lies.
By the Controversialist
The Very Idea!
A PUBLIC SCANDAL
By Eddie Taipan” Kally. We've been insulted. We've been grossly insulted, and we're here to-day to expose the whole business and place a blot on someone's escutcheon.
vestigation and pleading. And query is foolish, as seeming to im"dancing club" where members of arrived in Hongkong.
some-
The need for relaxation of
over
the
issue
A cohort of police bare down on us. The following "conversation.
here, Kelly. This is a respectable The Inspector: You get out of party.
Mr. Kelly: You're telling us. The Inspector: I'm telling you Mr. Kelly: Well, piker, get the low-down on this (producing police pass printed in English, American, Chinese, Hindustani. The Inspector: On your way, Urdu, and Can do.) 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 dowz 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 pals.
...
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The intending Controversialist the business of a popular city ende engaging a knotty problem like was nipped in the bad.
It was left to an astute Oriental the Great Cabaret Question. ine- vitably is heckled by two questo insert the thin end of the wedge tions, "Do you dance?" and "Have and apply the pressure that has
We want to tell you right here you been to a Cabaret?". Both since opened the door to a proût
trace the and now that of all the brilliant Sanctions and Peace
difficult to answer, the first withable business. To
evolution of the scheme is in journalists who have disgraced out unduly flattering himself and teresting. The man who thought themselves, by coming East, we Whatever Japan may believe, the second sounding so terribly out the Great Academy Plan with- ... No, no! Modesty prevents the League of Nations' decision like an accusation and a reproach in the capacity of his own genlus us from going further. regarding her actions in Man-Vexatious, they may be summarily may not then have had a fall Anyway, we're right at the top churia, was rendered by a disin- dismissed as being prompted by envisagement of its possibilities of the tree, if you get the iden. an idle and curious mind but for and so contented himself with the Even Floyd Gibbons and Arthur terested and impartial jury.forum etiquette and usage de basle structure, while leaving to Brisbane look up to us. The League report was no manding that a question however others the full development. We are two inches taller ultimatum of a diplomatic cabal, irrelevant be given attention. It
than either of those gentle no device to maintain a balance is conceded therefore that dancing. Such has been the history of great
inventions, and has held good in men of power. It was the considered or the manner in which it is this case which has taken a num-
But to get back to this insult.. judgment of a united world, executed, is largely a matter of per ber of years to reach its present Only the other day, His Ex- taken not in anger but with sonal predilections and varies a stage of perfection. At the com-cellency, Lieutenant Colonel An-
expert mencement we had simply the tonio Jose Bernardes de Miranda. greatest reluctance and only af- much as the so-called
The second ter seventeen months of in- opinions held on it.
both sexes and their friends
"Go" said the Editor "and see His X." it carries also the force of the ply that the Controversialist could foregathered for indulging in
have adventured into a weighty rational recreation. Next, the We set cut, and having sUC- nations' renunciation of war as problem without the preliminary "dancing instructress" for the cessfully negotiated the Hong- 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. Tho 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 the clutch pedal. This makes it later the false fervour of con- to enter the forum without further with in theory if not in fact, and
the word "academy" has acquired took place. unnecessary to remove hands quest that old blinder of na-restraint.
3 new definition in the local from the steering wheel when tions--will abate in Japan and Now the Cabaret Question a dictionary. But call it by the changing lights.
her people will recognise the though its materialisation into the term of "academy, school, college See and drive the New Rockne quality and force of the judg-local form has impressed as a recent or institution," whatever the fancy, ment passed by forty-two na development, is by no means new. we have here the inner form of a Six to-day!
tions in Geneva and since ap-King Solomon, to whom many cabaret dressed in scholastic THE HONGKONG HOTEL proved "in general" by the social amenities have been traced, ar
United States. Meanwhile the is credited with having held the GARAGE.
other nations have need fur- first Cabaret although on
Success and seeming immunity ther to purify and clarify their what restricted and monopolistic from official interferences has en- purposes. Can they with con-nes. Passing down the ages we couraged emulation and these an note, en passant, in the great tribal called academies have acquired a sistency or conscience say to dances a joint community effort to mush-room growth Nightly, saxa Japan and China, "You must provide inexpensive cabaret phones blared forth above the stop this slaughter," while at the amusement and recreation for old roar of city traffic and festoons of
lights young alike, entailing a multi-coloured same time "putting into their and hands at a profit--the weapons minumum of skill in the per-house-stops pointed the way to with which to prolong it? Yet ormance of the few gyrations for syncopated revelry.
To have increased in such num- they must be wise in halting the the satisfaction of a primordial urge. Social conditions have wretched traffic in armis. An since undergone a radical change, bers could not have been possible embargo upon both belligerents and with a new order supplanting without the necessary clientele, 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 justified by the crowds thronging out to the advantage of the restricted.
these places nightly. aggressor, for Japan has mu-: nitions factories which can sup- social strictures with increased The Controversialist has sketch- ply most of her requirements. facilities for this form of re-ed all too briefly, the "historical while China has not. Again creation has in one direction been aspect of the subject, and leav
IN A PEAKIAN GARDEN." --Are the other. nations identified in
some quarters asing it to be developed at a later
Somebody once said that the strong enough' and " sincere "bachelor isolation". It is an stage, will now take the 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 con- gain knowledge was in a garden, peace that they are ready to Age, it was heard over the wilder- disclosed in the recent make some sacrifices to carry hess and men, so situated, then troversy. This may be defined by and when we last cut our lawn we but there once purpose? went forth a-hunting with club the progressive stages (a) does learned quite a number of things. At a moment in the world's 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. full a genuine social or public gees round inside a lawn mower faith only in words. That men have since learned subt-necd; (b) if it does fulfil auch af is too close to another thing that history when national and racial They ask an aggressor to give jer means is represented as 80 need, is it liable to abuses; (e) if stays still, the first thing does not prejudices are much in evidence up its conquest; what are they much
polish and civilization such abuses tend to a social evil go round at all, and all that on all hands, more than passing willing to give up to enforce gained, but the congregational having particular regard to, a happens is that the wheels make interest attaches to a movement their demand? To establish a instinct peculiar to the species place like Hongkong; and (d) if two deep skid marks in the grass being undertaken in the Scand-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. inavian countries by a society they run the risk of applying those with fewer opportunities.
well-ordered Colony?
We once managed to make a clear When therefore the cry of called "Norden." The aim of an embargo which might bring
in war upon themselves? If the "bachelor isolation" arose The reply to the questions, ex run of a couple of feet before we that sickening crunch this body is to endeavour to get nations' peace purposes are pure similar anguished strain in the cepting the last, has been facilitat heard the larger historical facts of life 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 correctly reflected in school text moral might should suffice. accompaniment of the refrain effect, to which the local cabaret down and risk losing another books. The movement has some
"nowhere to go"; some look to this has been put in the fairly long finger. But we claim no credit significance from the fact that
as a sure indication of a need, a period before the authorities have for this. It was sheer luck. many wars have been fought
A Monumental Issue
confirmation of the belief that decided to legislate in the matter.
The grass round the edge can among these countries and much
Hongkong, busy hive of industry in our next article we will take a territory has changed hands, The writer of a letter to The by day, was inordinately a quiet closer inspection of the subject, be cut with a pair of scissors, They have even had Kings in Times recently hazarded a dur- and dark place by night. By an and with the Controversialist providing nobody misses them common and they have been ing guess that the reason the ingenious process of reasoning, a make an incursion into one of from the work-basket, and then and with по mind to You are now able to see that 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 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 it delegates of the society's history tin was their native language. chorus of, "bahs" 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 silene- 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
In 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 Ats 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 Ahould torians, and gradually other inscriptions. But care nations may take similar action. be taken to see that the case If Cicero were This is surely a field where much is correct. can be done. For instance, all entertained at Buckingham American school texts on the Palace, and fancied an after- 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 preferably affliated with the erected by 1910 agreeable citi- Gratissimi:: League of Nations. Would not
zens-"Cives: 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 vote say that the arch had been built to-morrow. There is, of course, by grateful citizens in 1910.
or
"Now, get this, you muget I don't want to have to rip you
apart from any clinches."
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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. Wo then remem- hered that a really good gardener like myself always uses a couple of twigs stuck in the ground with a straight edge, and finally, after working as meticulously as a sculptor on a statue of Venus, we managed to get them practically square.
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 He waits until fah wong came.
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 he had trimmed them for us.
He had. Our lawn now looks like a green raft floating la s 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.