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NOTES OF THE DAY
NURSERIES OF EMPIRE CITIZENS
TRAINING THE EMIGRANTS. FROM CHILDHOOD
By PERCY A. BEST
Contributing causes to our un- means of which we can distribyt:
The Very Idea!
THE MORNING AFTER
"I'm
By Eddio "Stein" Kolly "m bored stiff", as the pedestrian said when the steam-roller ran over him."
We always feel the same
We are propared to believe, as Major Cassel would seem to be asking us to infer, that his bark Is worse than his bite. What still remains to bo understood clearly Is not so much what the proposed. League does not intend to do, but what its programme is. Despite the swing to dictatorships, here, thero and everywhere, we still be employment problem are that our our excess population and keep it after we attend the opening of a Brewery. This week! Hleve that any movement towards population, has increased with the within the Empire. desirable reforms in any sphere decline of our industrial output,
and the improvement in our The Dominions will not take was no exception. can best achieve it's objectives methods of mans production and our untrained failures as of old, We've spent the past hour through an appeal to ronson. distribution and also to the fact and at the present time are not
| turning over the pages of opera- Coerclan may sometimes uppear to that emigration has practically ready for any industrial achieve quick victories, but such censed. Before the War 370,000 tives, but to reduce the unemploy- the Telegraph, looking up some sticcenses cannot be lasting. The left these shores each year for the ment among the latter we must idea for to-day's page, and more vigorous the coercion, the Domintons, Colonies, and other organise for the scientific Increase thinking of all that beer we countries. In 1931 more came of the purchasing power of the
have drunk at the been Dominions by the steady growtli could deeper is the opposition inspired. back than left. Had there
of of their populations. Such Brewery if we could have swal- The suggestion in the first pub- no War, and had the rate
will not prevent the
lowed faster. lished interview on the objects of emigration been maintained, welechome the League that to aim them pres- should have been able to meet the migration of trained and workers export as and when the Dominions are Inevitable decline in
unless sure would be exerted through trade without so serious an un- ready to take them, but
emigration from this country is boycotts and so on aroused hosti-employment problem.
The first important step to take put on an organised basis the old Ilty. If there is good in the pro-
for reducing the future perman-hit or miss" methods will prevail. then This scheme for training young ont unemployment figures would seem to be the organisa-people for the land in the Domin- ton of migration to the Domin-lons is not intended to Infer that ions, including a suitable scheme I am not aliye to the necessity of for the proper training of the developing farming in the United but, fortunately, the joints we future emigrants. Now that the Kingdom as a means by which visit don't serve water. Ottawa Agreements have heen unemployment can be lesserted, made, all the Dominions will but the subject 'of agriculture in naturally begin to plan for their England has for so long been the to lay off beer, our doc. was only individual development, and Cinderella of our industries, that trying to get a bit of his own
baek. should be ready to co-operate with I almost begin to despair of any England for the purpose of mak- action being taken. ing plans for the future "xtream of emigration."
gramme, it can be achieved with cut the employment of force of any kind, although it may take a little longer. Our offen to Major Cassel remains open.
A NEW TURN
The
Austro-German situation has taken ʼn now turn. The report that an Austrian Legion is being
in Bavaria cannot armed
be
Hongkong Telegraph. ignored, for it can only mean that
Au-
the Nazis contemplate the over- throw of the Dollfuss Government by forceful methods, using strians who are sympathetic to the idea of Anchluss means to the desired end.
UNITED EUROPE ?
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THE MUSE AND THE MODEL
There was a time when a mall
Everybody has a headache aftór the binge, and even the headache has that tirade feeling.
Pete calls it Hongkongitis, but
our doctor says it's just a little
stiffness at the joints..
He told us that drinkug water
instead of beer would prevent us
from going stift at the Joints,
Probably, when he advised us
Ho has been treating un for heart disease for years, and our heart is in such a bad way now that he daren't send in his bill. So we just bill and owe.
But what with all this trouble about our heart, and our chit accounts being stopped every- where, we have decided to adjure wine, man-bait, and wild oate
The proper people to populate the vast fertile lands of the Em- pire, now sparsely inhabited, are time the British people, and no should be lost in preparing scheme for this purpose. Just might stroll down Oxford-street after Christmas. No uso start- and Rogent-street, or, indeed,
as summer is anywhere where shops were, with ing before then, something of complacency. He nearly ever now.
After Christmas we intend to could feel himself surrounded, as used to be known, in those far-off any Bunthorne, by beauty, by what do digger and debtor things. days, as a "bevy of beauty."
BIRTHDAZE There they were, these repre-
We have been laying off par
the
fertile lands of the Empire, that gentatives of the fair nex, in their
therefore,
A
nay the event.
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*
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1933..
CHINA'S PROBLEM
the United States has grown from a small English Colony to be the It is related of Mr. H. G. Wells Habicht denies the allegations, greatest industrial power in the that on being asked what had declaring that the Austrians are World, so must our great, Domin
hope, struck him most in the writing of his "Outline of History," he being admitted only to the German ions develop themselves, 1
Labour Corps, but both Austrin within the Empire, because it is
proper distribu-i replied, "The importance of
tion of the population to China." Mr. Lionel Curtis, in and the interested Powers have only through "The Capital Question of Chins," very real grounds for suspicion.
industrial Britain can hope to says that, beside China, other
maintain its present position, and platoons. Some, it is true, were ties ever since the police visited countries fade into insignificanca
austain its existing industry. Ipallid as wax, and languid, and us at our last one, but we have that the gazed at one with glassy, not to an invitation for Saturday night bellave, that is, as presenting a pro-
vacuous eyes. "As lilies that we can't ignore. It appears first require Buy, blem. Why? Simply because
At this stage a united Europe, Dominions will
on the staff were born, on the me appear. the great lumbering republic of
have neglected farming in Eng- the Eastern world, is trying to and still more a united Europe emigrants for the land, and as we shrined in crystal, so Do thou to that two of the lesser journalists Indeed, one might imagine same day, and they'yo decided.to make a nation out of itself, and and America, ought to be able to land, it will be necessary for a
ΟΠΟ each. the problem is immense be-liquidate the Nazi menace with scheme of training to be prepared Herrick sauntering along, and get hold the one-party to celebrate beauteous waxen models which us- of them $10, and we know the cause nationalism is contrary to out bloodshed. But not, if they in co-operation with the Dominion ting great satisfaction out of the the disaster. As we
it haa re-armed A Governments, the ethos of the people. Each weit tin
My suggestions is that in all the cd to display the "liquefaction" of party will be flat without us, we little section has lived within re-fanaticized Germany. And not,
elementary schools of the country, their clothes. Jullas there were have decided to accept their in- Incidentally, we must thank itscif so completely that an if they start quarrelling among boys and girls whose parents have a-plenty, their lips out-redding the vitation, external supervisory govern themselves. The object of such decided that they shall make their cherry, as he would have put it. ment involving the concept of a pressure should be definite and careers in other parts of the Em-They pouted and simpered under Pete for tipping us off that they're. Saturday-morning-for- nation has been almost superflu-limited-to stop Germany from re-pire, will be given simple book their ringlets of perfects coiffure. gotting in two cases of Hongkong ous. There was an Emperor, until arming, and removal of her ap- training in farming, whether it be Even at their most fatuous there beer on 1911, but the guarantee of his
farming, or the growing of special more, of delight, in them.
Now poor Herrick would have a
SHOOTING THE MOON throne was that he reigned, not Parent threats to her neighbours. general, sheep, fruit or dalry was something of aplomb,
crops like tobacco, rubber, and so
different song to sing if sing ho that he ruled. Confucius sald
Mr. Eddie ("Peabody") Kelly "This book Instruction will be could. "Play I could once; but,
announce that he has carried on until they leave school, gentle friend, you see My harp wishes to Open to criticism as Germany's when they will become students hung up there on the willow tree." been pestered a bit lately by the was all." These words were, in post-Versailles treatment by the at agricultural schools, situated in At least he would be constrained Directors of the Hongkong and on ringing him up about trifling the eyes of the, sage, a tribute
matters, 80 ho has decided to to good and wise government. Allies has at many points been, various parts of the country and to deposit his harp in Piccadilly-Shanghai Hotels, who will insist For a la changed. The lay spend the remainder of this week Westerners thus found it difIt is not true that they have never staffed by the different Dominions, circus beneath Eros.
ing selected the Dominton, the
Mr. Kelly, in an interview with ficult to understand China. So revised the Treaty in her favour. The parents of the children, hav
life. Models the most monstrous apparently did the Chinese, On the contrary, they made to her child will, on leaving the elemen-figure has taken on a strange, al on the Peak...
black hends оп brazen a Telegraph representativo last West & series of the weightlest contary school, proceed to went to the
soaked ceeslons possible-when they with- agricultural school belonging to sport
that bodies, or brazen heads on black night, stated that he had made order to defeat true, are so his 'decision in as young men, and
at the agricultural bodies. Some, the "new" drew their Disarmament Commis- that Dominion. I suggest in
con- the shroffs, shroffs being unknown themselves
pos on the Upper Levels. learning." They realised China sion, when they evacuated, years the course
when the pupils should then be trived, that Herrick might only after they returned. As before its time, the occupied ter-school should be for two years, cunningly, so diminutively they
ready to earn their keep on the sibly believe himself in his own they climbed to power, they ritory, and lastly when
the fairyland. But on the whole the Jean-tendency is to get away from tried to introduce reform based brought to an end the payment of farms and plantations
Dominions and Colonies,
by (Continued on Next Columns) on Western models, and classical | Reparations. Each of these con-
grace. not think of any other way China creaked and groaned in cessions was an 'net of protest. The process is still The two first, in particular, wore the distinct under- going on the process, that is, made on of making the Chinese of the standing that Stresemann's "ful- to remain vast hinterland personalise Alment" policy was their country. It was proceed Germany's. It is lamentable, but ing at such a slow pace in 1928 it is true, that as soon as they were complete, German public that the Nationalists thought opinion threw that policy over. they would put China into a forcing house of political educa-
of the Emperor Shun: "Re-WEIGHTY CONCESSIONS ligiously observant, he sat grave- ly upon his throne, and that
who
tion, and decreed a period of HOBBIES "political tutelage." When the
Japanese staged their interven
Fortunate the man or woman tion, the result had not been as who has a hobby and time to ride successful as was anticipated.it. Especially stimulating are Would invasion be a better those hobbles that consist of col- "forcer" than, political educa lecting something or other, for us tion? Many observers askedually they involve the collecting of of a great deal of information, his- the question. In the case
torical, geographic or otherwise, overy country similarly situated, which goes with the more objecte With including Japan herself, history
so eagerly hunted down. Thas replied affirmatively, the broadening of appreciation Signs are not wanting that among some collectors there has nationalism in China is growing also como a further stop which is under this impotus. Mr. Chen porceptibls also among numerous Kung-poh's Four-Year Plan-is fanciors of antique furniture. This one of them. The conferences is a disposition to acek pieces that at Kuling are of paramount im- are remarkable for their beauty portance; the policles being and comfort as well as their age, rather than merely for, their an- formulated in consultations botiquity. In fact, there is little tween China's leaders must have reason, aside from historical cur- a profound influence on the well-losity, why the ugliness or awk boing of the country if they can wardness of a past age should be bo translated into action: porpolunted Any more than that There is a real effort towards of the present In furniture the practical programmes all of reproductions of the best designa from antique models has given no which may be stultifed, not sattle beauty to our modern Bur much because of opposition by
that hobbies are apt to be what AWFORD. I TD. such bodlon as the South-West roundings. From this it appeare Palliical Connell, but because the ETA vor calle: "useful". Injepite
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The Peak is quite well spoken of by tourist pamphlets on Heng. kong. Possibly, if you have seen any of those issued by the stoani- ship companies, you will remene ber that it is regarded as one of the beauty spots of langkong,
result of the Ponding the petition by the Kowloon Resid- ents' Association to the Colonial Secretary regarding the coal dump, the matter of Hongkong beauty spota in aub judice, and wo at this June- can say no mora ture,
When the staff of the Hongkong Telegraph were informed of Mr. Kelly's decision to realde on the Peak, they clubbed. together and paid his fare by the Peak tram.
Owing to a difference of opini- on with his landlady, Mr. Kelly was not able to take his baggage: with him. Cast off clothing (masculine) in urgently needed, and should be sent to Mr. Kelly direct.
of of:
iyrical rapture, And the only connection with anything classical grace is that some the models resemble to such a degroo are facial and anatomical valuta distorted-attenuated.
Furles.
Doubtless there is sound sense in this distortion and featured featurelessness. One admits that that estimable body, the Corps of Window-dressers, have the right to Raivanise us into gazing, by any menns within their power, even to the dogroo of our going gaga in the process. The points of the clothes they say are bettery apprehended hung on t "props." It may be so, but lea