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NAVAL RACE IN THE PACIFIC
NOTES OF THE DAY MARRIAGE IS A GAMBLE The Very Idea!
Now that a definite decision has been reached regarding the site for the Shing Mun dam, we have a right to expect action. The schema has been dragging through
says
'LORD SNELL
FEW appropriate words that | shiver with terror at the prospect
A -- I used during a debate on-theand-they promptly get married.
CITY HALL RELICS By Eddio "Fossil" Kolly
different phases for more than ten question of the nationality rights What is the good of talking as if INTERESTING discover-
years;
oMetal night. · Evon when stage was reached, it was only the new, beginning of things. Months of despatches to and from London proceeded while the Colony wont all too frequently bathless, and queues lined up at street foun- tains, often enough holding up umbrellas to shield them from rain. Considering all
In the
cowardice.
shelved, of married women, with took place the emotions did not exist?
ries, we understand, have mapped out, dragged out, shelved again and in the House of Lords recently, ecstatic condition in which people been made during the de- finally restored to favour in the aroused nearly as much interest as in love with each other find them-molition of the old city hall.
this If I had said something entirely selves reason seems to be unreason
and prudence more
Traces of old masonry, Yet the truth of what I said was Sometimes, to be sure, we are in- it is reported, have been obvious, and, indeed, incontestable, formed through advertisement discovered during the excava
Dealing with the serious incon-not take place," and then the case
columns that "the marriage will tlons. ventences which a woman has to
But why all this hush. hush- endure who marries a man of another nation, I remarked that.
It is at least arguable that a mar-
policy about the other fossilised ' ringe which is based upon emotion relics that have been unearthed things, "this Bill assumes that a woman | however, we now have very little says 'Hello, here is a foreigner and is on a higher moral plane than one at the City Hall?
arrived at through lawyers and For instance, we have it from to grumble about. In the hands I will forthwith marry him! A family councils. "You wish, Pauln, the horse's mouth that the of private contractors, the work though I speak with the hesitation to marry Priscus. I am not sur-excavators came across is likely to proceed more swiftly and with the humility which are apprised; you are wise; Priscus will glyphic tablet, which, whon de- than would be possible, with thepropriate to my condition, I am not marry you and he is wise.”
best will in the world, if the nevertheless assured that marriage | P.W.D. assumed responsibility.does not happen in quite that way.
is altered,
Mr. Gifford Hull's anticipation I understand that people who marry The criticism that I directed that the foundations will be ready are the victims of a remorseless against the Bill before the House by the end of the year may be emotional compulsion which I do not was that, in effect, It continued the regarded as distinctly encourag-pretend to understand, but which penalties which British women bear to a degree deprives them of their If they unfortunately fall in love with, and marry, a foreigner. "The be an alien," and my submission wife of an allen shall be deemed to
was that such women were not in a
ing.
CABARETS
normal mental balance.”
The point of these remarks is that British law treats women who marry foreigners as if they had different mental condition from The conviction of the proprietor committed a wilful and deliberately-other people who fall in love and of the Casanova Dancing Institute, planned offence against the State. marry people of their own race and on a summons taken out by ǹ near-
It. assumes that they chose of that they should not lose their by resident who complained of the noise from the dance band, was their own free will to marry an nationality in consequence. Inevitable. Of the cabarets in alien and that they must therefore the Kowloon residential aren, the take the consequences of their
acts, onc
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CITY ESTABLISHMENTS
They appear to believe that it
The Stato is under a special obligation to those of its citizens
a hiero-
ciphered, contained the Hongkong-
recommenda- government's first tions for the alleviation of the water shortage In Hongkong.
A dam, said the report, would at Shick Man. be constructed (probably corrupted to Shing Mun) and this would end, once and
anco, for all, a question of acute import-
Chiselled out of stone, one of the foundation blocks in the City Hall contained, we petition from the residents of are informed, A
Hongkong, praying for the total- abolition of all cabarets in tho residential area. As an instance, it was stated that residents in
Des Voeux Road could not hear the radio next door because of the wails of the saxophones,
Editor's note: There were no saxo- phones or radios in those days.
Eddie's note: Well, what were they complaining about, then?
As a
-
Englishmen take delight in
result of investigations parading their pedigrees and in carried out on several statues tracing. their descent from an un- which were discovered in the base. does not care a fig for their exclu- fairly certain that they are nothing tainted insular past, but Nature ment of the City Hall it is now
Casanova is probably the
who undertake the burden of rear- causing least annoyance, but the
Ing children for its service. Private Ordinance does not allow of de
Individuals, most of It is apparently
whom are themselves married, fre- grees.
Marriage is the approved institu- only necessary to satisfy the Magia-quently admonish unhappily-mated tion through which a nation's life is trate that the noise, dance music people in the same foolish way. transmitted from one generation to or anything else, is calculated to "You have chosen to marry," they another, and the race is not injured disturb a reasonable normal man. say, "and you will have to endure by occasional contacts with the The association of the huge The decision was practically cerita inconveniences.. . You marri- bloodstream of other peoples. American naval building pro-tain from the beginning and if it ed in foolish haste and you must gramme with Japan's notice of has a lesson at all for Kowloon now grin and bear it.””. her intention to lay the keels of cabaret proprietors, it must be
These frost-bitten counsellors several new warships can only that their own interests will beat seem to forget that they them be served by moving to premises have the effect of arousing pub- where the chances of neighbourly selves were once young and that lic opinion in both countries, and l-feeling are remote.
they were probably about twice as abroad, to a lively sense of
impulsive as young people are to-alveness. We are piqued with but the fossilised remains of the alarm. The mere threat of a
day.
pride of pure descent," says Emer-original members of the Hongkong son, "but Nature loves moculation." Legislative Council. naval armaments race in the
Are these people justified in And she does.
It seems fairly certain now that Pacific would be dangerous at
assuming that marringe is de- the best of times. To-day when Meanwhile, the controversy re-pendent upon the approval of the rather than the quality of life, and held in the City Hall, for the last She is interested in the quantity the original Council meetings were the suggestion coincides with a continues to engage attention, al-
garding the cabarets in the city normal will?
to secure life in abundance she records of this period proved that distinct sense of political strain though a period. of quiet appears
puts upon the individual a "re- the Council commenced a discus. between the United States and to he reigning. The proprietors, is the result of a careful appraisal morseless emotional compulsion." slon regarding a coal dump that Japan, it is doubly ominous. Spy with their interest centred chiefly of the relative advantages and My claim, therefore, was that was being pushed on to the scares and expressions of suspic upon the questions of closing penalties, whereas the probabilities marriage, even with a foreigner, residents of Hongkong. ion regarding the United States hours and the licencing system are that, except in regard to the should not be regarded as the re- have been numerous in ultra- advisability of the creation of a Experience. would suggest the nationalistic Japanese journals Licensing, Board
marriages which we are told "have sult of a soulless business contract, somewhat been arranged," if young people but as a fulfilling of higher pur- in recent months and the ten-similar lincs to that which were able calmly to reason about poses.
tion, planted it with trees and dency to look upon America as authorises, or refuses, the issue of the matter they would never marry. a potential enemy has latterly liquor
Marriage is the only game of grass. It is now known as the licences. The reasons
chance of which the clergy approve, Peak. spread even into the more mod- which justify the establishment
and all of us are not aspirants for So far as can be ascertained, erate newspapers. Rumours of of the one are exactly those which Daily experience of life suggests its gains. At its best it is a para- the original Council is still dis- secret orders to the U.S. Asias suggest the desirability of the that reason plays only a subordinate dise which all men and women are cussing the matter. tic Fleet in the beginning of the other. In point of fact, if the part in the determination of youth not permitted to enter. For my- year, the interpretation placed authorities intend to be relentless to marry.
self, I remain a contented disciple upon Admiral Pratt's decision to in obeying the edicta of the
of Mr. Tony Weller, who gave the maintain the American fleet con- the curfew, there seems no reason cautious, business counsellora com- tinguished son: "When you're a Elderly people advise them to be following sound advice to his dis- grandmothers who brought about centration in the Pacific, the Na- why the cabarets should not be mend prudence and bloodless people atand a good many things as you silver in the vault of the Hong- tional City Bank photograph in- placed on the same
married man, Samivel, you'll under-day with £20,000,000 worth of: footing as cident are all significant of feel the hotels and restaurants who urge delay. The economic conse don't understand now; but vether ing in Japan, yet they must be enter for dancora. But this is quences of family responsibilities regarded as trivialitles when neither desirable nor necessary.
are described in solemn words. compared to the most recent alarum, when high quarters ser-
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iously entertained a belief in the BUS "HUMOUR" fantastic story that the United States was negotiating for a
on
The story of the bus that ran naval base in Fukien and were from town to Felix Villas without prepared to pay up to $60,000,- a conductor was not a joke. It 000 for the privilege. This at- was a singularly good example of mosphere of acute suspicion the sort of things that can and do renders it impossible that Japan happen on both sides of the har- will look upon America's naval bour under the new regime. But armaments programme as an it is the motive which, in some other of President Roosevelt's cases, offers most difficulty in un- efforts to provide employment blind woman, with the company derstanding. Victimisation of a and the thoughtless phrases of the only beneficiary, is a problem Secretary of the Navy Swanson in mentality which only an expert in recent speeches on America's psycho-analyst could. fathom. Yot naval needs have certainly not it happened on a Kowloon bus contributed to an amelioration yesterday. If one sought first of distrust. It may be contend-causes to explain such an incident, ed that the Washington and we suppose it would be found in London Naval Treaties will pre- the fact that the scale of wages vent the race from developing service as a rule only attracts in- to conductors, is so poor that the menacingly, but there are
dividuals of the lowest calibre. variety of reasons for an inabi- lity to feel complacent on that score. The least accusative lies in the fact that long before the big programmes now to be em- barked upon are completed, the
COVENT GARDEN NO MORE ?
Has Covent Garden given Its.
Treaties, will have terminated last performance, and is its his
and now compacts will have to tory to be neatly ruled off at the be negotiated. What hops can preciso end of its second contury there be of success if a race has a place of entertainment? If Bo, London will lose something begun. One of the most power that was very expressive of its old ful factors contributing to self-a point where the tides of sense of security under the Trea- fashion and commonplace jostled ties was the fact that none of each other in the best spirit, and the three principal naval Powers the exotle extremo of art and thought it necessary, until now, wealth throw their radiance to build up to the full extent amfably upon the vegetable market permitted. The destruction-of- and the polico.court. The ending. that spirit of confidence, is of Covent Garden" opera would serious charge against those red symbollas the fact that the patron sponalblezing van huw resigned offes in musid, as he
Pag-ingwald.in letters 594 JA
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During the discussion the coal dump was allowed to grow, until
the residents, tiring of official ac-
THAT $20,000,000 !
After our interview. the other
its worth while goin' through so kong and Shanghai Bank, someone much to learn so little, ng the spread the canard around the city The young people feel their charity boy said when he got to the that two bags, containing $2,000,
end of the alphabet, is a matter o' blood creep as they listen: they taste. I rayther think not."
was missing.
"I don't get lonesome. You soe, I never did care much
Vo treat this rumour with the contempt it deserves. If we had $2,000 do you think there'd be any Eddie Kelly column to-day? - Be- sides, we couldn't lift 'em,
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VICE VERSE
We are not responsible for what follows. We ndmit that we drink a little, gamble a little, swear # little, and poodle-fake a lot, but Bo far we haven't written poetry.
The verse was handed to us by a friend, whom wo owe $10. Under the circumstances, we know our Gront and Admiring Public will forgive the degradation of our column.
They're down in the Dumpa at
fair Kowloon,
Where they live on high rents
and the view,
For the cool' that so humbly
warms their toes
Wants a place in the scenery,
too.
"Coal in its place, but not in
your face,"
Is the Intest battle cry, For the dump blocks out tho
harbour view,
And doesn't tono with tho'sky,
now they've gone to the powers that be.
With a petition nico and mook Forgetling, of course, that they
have their dumplea Politoly galled the Peak!