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BACK TO THE BAD
OLD DAYS:
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It is reported that at present a Since then, toleration has be
The Very Idea!
THESE DICTATORS By Edward "Naxi" Kelly. WHAT with Dictators springing · up all over
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MELCHERS-Op 18tr April, 1933, at the Victoria Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Melchers, No. 612, The Peak, a son. (Shanghal Papers please copy.
had learned to tolorate,
Our Dictaphone has been
himself would have opposed any since we married her. So The Archbishop of Canterbury trying to Dictate to us ever attempt to banish Cardinal New-far we've always had enough man or to send him to the Tower.
real sense the material inven-which-political-opponents--were of impeaching Mr. Gladstono as a traitor and the enemy of his tiveness of man has caused us treated as public enemies.
country. to be our brother's keeper. The I suppose that, if wo look back weak is more than ever at the over the history of the world as a mercy of the strong. The world whole, we shall have to admit that has a duty of protection to,per-this is the normal state of affairs, form.
An era of tolerance has always been the axception; an ern of violence or suppression hna boen the rule,
What Do I Know ?
This was not as romantic as life over at the end of the month in the days of Queen Elizabeth, to pay our club fees, but a but it resulted in a greater dis
tribution of happiness than would man never knows. During the post-war troubles industrial Revolution had inaugurat, there's no place like the have been possible if the In- Be it ever so humble, Michel de Montaigne, in whose Ireland, when the country was in od a century of civil war. It memory celebrations are being the throes of Black-and-Tan and would be easy to exaggerate the Club. hold this year, Ilved 400 years Republican violence, a famous achievements of the nineteenth ago, but
the keynote of his Lord Mayor of Cork was asked by have both outlasted it, but at least we think it would be a good. Getting back to Dictators, century, for poverty and aluma famous "Essays" strikes a chord a journalist what he thought of it was moving ateadily in the idea, if they could lend us a to which the modern world well the situation. He replied: "Nor- direction may listen. Through those self-mal. The situation in Ireland la ordinary man's chances of enjoy few in Hongkong.
of increasing the revealing, self-analysing writmore normal to-day than it has ing life ings runs a quiet refrain of been since the days of gentle tolerance and suspended | Elizabeth. judgment. It is as though he THE ESSENCE OF were ever asking "Que senis-je?" PARTY GOVERNMENT. (What do I know?) to quote his own words in the French of his
and it secured the
Queen ordinary man against the terrors
The type of men wanted wouki
ter of a Presby-
terian schisma-
of persecution such as exist in all require the strength of charac- ages of intolerance and violence. Even the poorest man living un- der the shadow of Mount Etna is The same thing might be truth-happier when the volcano is not fully said when trouble brenks out in eruption. in any country.
Wo are sometimes Inclined to
THE NEW FANATICISM.
tic, the impin cability of the Peak,
the omniscience of
a taipan, the effrontery of a borrower and
Even then we're much misunder-
time. He lived in an age which only too well resembled the pre- sent, in a world of wars and
Even in England there are many rumours of wars fomented by think of England as a country liv-
ing in the perpetual peace of con-people to-day who do not seem to grievous misunderstandings, stitutional government; but the realize this. Whether they sym The peace of his own study in England of the Wars of the Roses pathing with Communism or with the pertinacity of a shroff, his chateau at Perigord Was and of the soventeenth century Fascism, they are impatient of the violently invaded on at least one
was no more peaceful than a vol-peace of toleration nud long for stood. occasion. Men dwelt in constant cano in cruption. Eminence in something more catastrophic,
One beauty about having, a dread of insecurity. Injustice public life might then lead to the aume volcante unrest tot couple of Dictators in Hongkong Aacethed all around Montaigne, | scaffold or to exile.
make life normal again, if not which would appeal to pedestrians Prismall, at the Victoria Hos but his serenity remained un- pital, on April 20th, 1933, a son. disturbed. It was a period when a noble paradox, come to be wel-
The Opposition had not yet, by more comfortable.
This, I belleve, is dao to a new and motorista alike would be the political passions, untempered by comed as an essential assistant in kind of fanaticism, or at least to a utter simplicity with which the
new admiration of other people's traffic problem could be solved. thought or reason, spurred men the Government of the State.
fanaticiam. to quick and violent action. It is sometimes said that the
No fuss, no worry, just a couple Rationalists used to believe of machine guns, and a battalion through the pages
PRISMALL-To Mr. and Mrs.
The
Hongkong Telegraph. Telegraph.
But,
more
LESS ROMANTIC BUT HAPPIER. · ·
Appoint a Dictator who is a motoring enthusiast to fix the pedestrians, and appoint another 'Dictator with autophobia to fix: the motorists. Everybody could wipe everybody else out, and then there'd be no traffic pro- blem.
But, like a cool, healing stream, modern bumane treatment of
of the political opponents was originally that, when religious fanaticism ["Essays," flows ever the kindly statesman, Sir. Robert Walpole, /ed by an age of universal tolera-thing's over and done with.
due to the indolence of a great disappeared, it would be succeed- of hired assassins, and the THURSDAY APRIL 20, 1933, insistent plea for tolerance who was too lazy to persecute. tion. Unfortunately, their pro- and humanty. It is doubt Certainly it wan during his life phecy has been falsified. To-day, ful if any other writer has time that a new moderation came religious fanaticism, if not dead, ARMS EMBARGO been so consistently read and into politics, and came to stay.
no longer rules the life of nations; admired. Perhaps, to-day his
Its place has been taken by An embargo on the supply of essays
political fanaticism. And the and letters are
political fanatic of to-day is as arms and ammunition to either widely pondered. than at any or both of the belligerents in the previous time during the past "From that time" as Macaulay intolerant of his opponents as was
teenth century.. Far East has now emerged as four centuries. There is great says, "It has been the practice the religious fanatic of the seven- practical politics. The House of need in these times of interna practice not strictly according to the theory of our Constitution, but Representatives has authorised for that mature, deliberate at loss of ofke, and the public dia-pondents that all sects should be tional bickerings and disputes still most salutary to consider the the President, to forbid ship-titude that refuses to be swayed approbation," as punishments tolerated, wrote to his follow- ments to any part of the world. by one-sided, overwhelming pre-suicient for errora Mr. Roosevelt is thus endowed judice and passion but asks ministration not imputable
in the ad believers: "We hope that God will
to assist us to demonstrate the wicked of water, would order all the with executive authority, the instead, as did Montaigne, in the personal corruption." "Our old
Hotels to supply whiskey to add ness of such a toleration." Senate having passed a similar spirit of judicial and temperate volley," he adds, "*. was as Rewrite that sentence in the to the whiskey when you ordered resolution three months ago. inquiry, "What do I know?" absurd as that of the King in the phraseology of to-day, and might whiskey and water, current water The only restriction upon the before it passes judgment.
Eastern talea who proclaimed that American President is that he
any physician might come to Court It not have come from the pen rates to be charged for the extra of a Hitlerite, a Fascist, or 2
The President of the Kowloon shall first procure the co-opera-
and prescribe for his diseases, but
Bolshevist?
venturer should lose his head."
tion of "such governments as he Same Shoe-Different deems necessary." The main obstacle to the success of the British gesturo is now removed.
18,
Foot
that if the remedies failed the mid-
A leading Presbyterian in the seventeenth century, protesting against proposal of the Inde-
Then there's the water shortage. We could do with two or three water Dictators in Hongkong.
"A popular Dictator would be the one who, In view of the shortage
whlakey".
of Cruelty to Peak Pomeranians. What was left of the Peak would be given over to the Cabarets, where anyone who played the Saxophone, gramophone, radio- phone, xylophone and other phoney musical instruments after mid- night would be incarcerated.
It seems to me that many sup- Realdents' Association would make Dictator. He'd good porters of Fascism and Communism another There were other things besides in England, who are perfectly prompty order the abolition of the the laziness of Walpole that con- tolerant themselves, do not suf-Peak, and inflict the death penalty tributed to that birth of what we ficiently realise that in effect they on anyone living on the island. It was fully understood from "To the necessities for somO | ROW regard as normal party are advocating, a return to an age All Hongkong tourist publicity the beginning that the British delay in the payment of debts politics. The spirit of reason was of intolerance. No doubt, many which mentioned the exotic beauty Government's original embargo may be added the British com-weakening. The ordinary intelli- and about Russin, but the fact ro- destroyed by public bonfire, and growing, and fanaticism was illes have been told both about Italy of Hongkong by night would be could only remain effective if it mercial regulations, lessening gent Englishman was weary of a mains that in those countries a all buildings used for the housing became international. On March our means of payment by pro- condition of affairs in which one political opponent is treated as an of records the harbouring of it was announced in the hibiting us from carrying in our body of citizens regarded it as a enemy of the State just as in ages members of the Peak Residents' House of Commons that though own bottoms our own produce to crime against God to let another of religious fanaticism a religious Association would be handed over the opinion of the Government their Dominions in our neigh set of citizens who disagreed with opponent was treated as the enemy to the Society for the Propagation was unchanged, the arms er-bourhood, and excluding valu-them live in peace.
of God. bargo would have to be removed able branches of it from their owing to complete failure to ob-home markets by prohibitory tain the co-operation of the duties. The means of payment Powers concerned. Throughout constitute one of the motives to the negotiations undertaken by purchase at the moment of Sir John Simon it was made in purchasing. If these means are creasingly plain that unless and taken away by the creditor him- until the United States Govern- self, he ought not in conscience ment was in a position to fall to complain of a mere retarda- into line with a common policy, tion of his debt, which is the the arms-producing countries of effect of his own act, and the Europe could not and would not least injurious of those it is take any step in support of capable of producing." But for Great Britain. With President the word "British," the hasty Roosevelt free to act upon his render of this quotation might own initiative, things may now think it is an excerpt from be expected to move in a new some speech or note on the war direction. A fresh impulse will debts. by Mr. Neville Chamber be imparted to the advocates of lain, the Chancellor of the Ex- the embargo. The primary issue which must then arise is chequer. In point of fact, it was written by Thomas Jeffer whether afforts should be made son, as tar back as May 29, 1792. to achieve co-operation in a Many problems arising out of refusal of arms to both dis-the treaty ending the Revolution- putants, which would involve no
a source of breach of neutrality or whether ary War remained
friction between Great Britain the embargo should be limited
as un aggressor.
This latter
re
to the State generally defined and the new American Republic. One was that of debta owing condition is possible in view from pre-war times to British
creditors. After receiving of the League of Nations' verdlet and that America la prepared to peated complaints from London go the whole way is suggested about American delay in meet- by Mr. Stimson's dictum:ing theso.obligations, Thomas Neutrality is almost impossible Jefferson, as Secretary of State, to-day; and impartiality in sell-indited a dispatch to the British ing arms to both sides Impos-Minister, from which the above. sible. If naked force is to be is an extract. The whole note, allowed to triumph in this world which is a model of style and once more, then the now planned erudition, would bear very care order of peace that has been ful rereading at a time when the
shoe is on the other foot.
"Now get this, once and for all~I'm 80 and we have beon
married only 12-years."
Really, this Dictatorship bu- siness has possibilities, and we are prepared to dicuss the matter with other Dictators.
Not just at present, however, We have just received a 'phone call from the headache, who anid that if we're not home by G p.m., she's coming after us.
•
MAD MELODIES.
Whon bathing on the benchies, Ita sometimes wet or fine; And everyone and each is, Addicted to, the brine..
And that is why the pobbics, In every mangrove swamp, Are nasty little dobbles, Which annoy us when we romp. So if we must wear sandals,- At Cantle Ponk or Shek- Oh-that is where the vandals, Their skins and papers scatter, Till the rainy season comes, And then it doesn't matter; For moonlight nights are dronry, Unless the water's warm; And when it in one's dreary, If moonlight bathers swarm. And we, your Edward Kolly, Catch minnown by the score, Though some are made of Jolly And they just make me sore, So if upon the mountains, You find your whistle dry, Try sarsaparilla fountains, You're another-So am It