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WHAT PULLS THE STRINGS?
By ROBERT BLATCHFORD
The Very Idea?
A FAIRY TALE
Edited By Eddio Kolly [ONGKONG grown-ups haven't enough men-
expectations. John is traditionally Lot us, dear Mr. and Mrs. strongth and agilty are perform H
a fod."
Socrates happily busy throughout
21
What do we mean when we say
alow in employing time-saving | Render, turn our backs upon devices and in realising the ad- garrulous and futile world and take vantages to be derived from counsel to edification. Let us, if a nong or poem has "thrilled us? tality to enjoy our Very eliminating the junk and launch in of ple you, consider a aut Put into a different colloquial Idea column. So to-day we of perennial and universal appeal: form the saying explains Itself.
Thus: There is a strangely mov-are going to write for the cross-harbour business, but once let us talk about ourselves, this stage has passed, he is all Let us inquire as to what we ing quality in a contralto volce, children roudiness for the new routine.are, whence we are and why we some of the rich, deep notes go We mention this because Govern- are.. Let us probe deep mysteries through us." There in the fact.
At least, we are not going to mentems to be gron slower than of personality which would baffle The thrill "goes through us!" not
We are going the Crimes Club.
through the head, but through the write it ourself. John. Sick persons being trans- Here, to begin with, is a question | kody......
to allow, Nathaniel Gubbins, ported from Kowloon to hospitals which would have kept the good No one ever felt a thrill in Major Cassel, the I.G.P., Robert on the island are still subjected to
the brain. The brain reasons: MacWhirter and a few other the unpleasant experience of ex-
summer's day: if he had
it does not feel.
humorists into our column.. hibition on stretchers on the Star thought of it.
Should I ask my old friend The poots, who understand m- ferries, Neither in the Interest of Colonel Chutney where he keeps man nature better than most ne the patient nor of the public is his mind he will answer with a ver accepted the brain as the sent this desirable. In some cases, Itght heart: Why, God bless you, of the entotions; they accounted can be definitely detrimental. At in my head, of course," and flatter love and anger, joy and sorrow an one time, there was talk of the himself on having me down for the phenomena of the liver
count; but, as Rabcinis tells us, heart. provision of a special launch for things which are acemingly easy When Dr, Housman saya pwe this purpose and we suggest that in the pursuit-may-be-in-the-cope tical-inspiration arises-in-the-pit
and encounter somewhat difficult, of the stomach he is saying DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS, So in this instance: if the Colonellas a poet he has himself felt. thinks the mind is in the head, or, | Inspiration comes from organs as some say, the brain is the mind, other than the brain. Dear old how does he account for the fellow | Dan, Leno said: "Promotion's in the cellarage?
like a black eye: you never know By the fallow in the cellarage you've got it till you get it," and mean that mysterious other self would make a like claim for in- who rung our physical machinery,spiration. for the brain has no part in re-
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1933.
THE GERMAN PROBLEM
THE CROWN AGENTS
or the
than thorn ig “a fonen in Mix
We are sending Nath. Gubbins a bottle of Hongkong beer in. exchange for his message to the children of Hongkong. Here he {s:
Here i am at lusti
So many excited letters from boys and girls of all ages have reached me that I expect you will be all sick and trembly when you open your newspaper to Page Six this afternoon.
St
The August Crown Colonist in more than normally Interesting, spiration, circulation, digestion or heart of the prose" it is as though
And what a wonderful children's commemorating as it does the rowth, and though it may curb our the fellow in the cellarage reach-
ed up and struck from the mental column It is! centenary of the Crown Agents for emotions, cannot inspire them,
I suppose it has happened to instrument. unlocked-for chords the Colonies. Remarkably little is
Jolly Jokes, tensy-weasy tongue- striking.
excitey-wley known about this institution by the most of us to have a name, or date of beauty. There is
stories, majority of Hongkong residents, appeal to our head in
or fact escape our memory, We Indeed startling example of this twisters,
vain. It
Ado riddle-me-rces, and rompy-wompy', despite the fact that it plays avalls not to beat our brains, the About Nothing." Two commonplace parlour games. Oo-ooh. what
sudden uprash in "Much highly important part in nearly all answer is not there. We abandon
treat minor villains are talking as they lovely
for поза kiddie developments of a Government the search, and in a few minutes, shelter under a penthouse from the widdles! nature. Its history and activities or hours. or days, when we
rain. One mentions the fashion of are, for this reason, likely to repay are thinking
But before you read any further of sonie other
a doublet and n hat: the other study-and, perhaps, to cause a matter, the errant word or
takes a bald reply, and then aud- I want you all to promise, on your revision of opinion among those fact
hobs
up serenely, com. who are ready, without acquainting apparently from nowhere. denly and apropos of nothing word of honour, that you will be ance with the facts, to accept the The explanation is simple: The Borachio blurts out the most beauti- ceme a Mug Wump.
ful lines in the whole play: "Secat criticisms often levelled by busi- fellow in the cellarage, or, as some thou not, I say, what a deformed nese men who would, for obvious more learned prefer to call him thief this fashion fa? how giddily reasons, prefer Government orders "the subliminal consciousness," has to pass through their
:
All you have to do is to write to Uncle Nat and say "I swear that will be a true blue British boy'
hands. searched for and found what the it turns about all the hot bloods (or girl) according to Mug Wump
between fourteen and five-and- thirty? Sometimes fashioning
There is, of course, a good deal brain mislaid. to be said for encouraging local But that is a trivial service. firms as far as possible, particular There is more to our mystery than them like Pharaoh'e soldiers on the ly when times are hard, but we do
Is Germany rearming? The answer which competent ob- servers give is at once Yes and No. There is apparently as yet no opon breach of the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. None of the 'aggressive' arma- UNIQUE POSITION ments prohibited to Germany
not imagine the Government will set up new precedents while the Crown service rendered by the Agents remains at its present high standard.
are being manufactured. This
that.
THE HOME OF INSPIRATION.
stomach.
reechy painting, sometimes like God Bel's priests in the old church window, sometimes like the shaven Hercules in the amirched, worm- eaten tapestry."
ore," and get one of your little
Boys and girls of any age up to friends to sign as witness, eighty-five may join)
Your affectionate
IINCLE NAT.
Dr. Housman, poet and scholar, These lines well up, like sudden is reported as saying that poetical music. They are a unique example | Riddle-Me-Rée. inspiration does not emanate from of picture writing, yet they seem the brain, but from the pit of theins spontaneous, as blackbird's MY mouth is bigger than' my head I toss and turn and groan in bed, song. They are what Fater called That to many will seem fanta- "unpremeditated, wild-flowers of Although I seem to lie quite still,
speech." But the rascal I'm rushing madly down a hill. The position of the Crown Atical, extravagant, absurd. But I
never spoke them. can be said with some confidence, Agents is in some respects unique. do most devoutly believe it to be Borachlo
truc. for secrecy in their making. They are the agents in the United asks what does it matter whether "demon" breaking through the
And if the gallant Colonel It is the voice of Shakespeare's My room, built firmly on the
ground, e.g. bombing aeroplanes, would Kingdom for the governments of the mind resides in brain or prose and lighting the dusk with Is really whirling round and round. be practically impossible. There the Colonies and they receive in-abdomen I shall in my turn inquire coloured stars. An undeniable At any moment I may die. are too many disgruntled com-atructions direct. The Crown does it matter whether the earth case of inspiration and not from Please tell me, children, what am I?
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a secret, if it existed, leaking ultimately responsible to, the our lives if we believed the moon much astonished by that miracle ag out. Even
Secretary of State for the Colonies, to be a lump of green cheese.
with regard to
The Governments to me at least, of vital interest,
cars
the
ANSWER: Blotto,
Teasing Tongue Twisters,
UNCLE Nat
Doth this shop. stock shot silk shirts? The Editor. Nay, this shop dothi dlatinctly not stop stock shot shot stop... stop shot shick .. shot....
Uncle Nat: Steady, steady. Say "Slim Sam awam like a swan.”
The Editor: Stam swim swum.
The fact remains that human any modern reader. poison gas, it may incidentally who fixes their salaries, regulates
conditions of service and office beings like to know what's what. POETRY THAT be noted that in her oppression expenditure, and fixes rates of The question is important and, WROTE ITSELF. of the Jews, Germany is depriv-commission. Ing herself of the services of for which the Crown Agents act for if Professor Hudson. is right The lines are not in keeping. her most competent chemists.nry, moreover, those for the ad- and the subconsciousness can ad Shakespeare in cold blood would If a Disarmament Convention, ministration of which the Secre- does think without the brain, then not have so used them. They are fulfilling in some
degree the tary of State is ultimately respon-man is not a mere mechanism un-out of keeping with the character Allied pledges and the obliga-alble. There is thus a three der chemical and atomic centroi and they have nothing to do with
play. That tions of the League of Nations cornered arrangement in which the but is a mind which uses brain the of their inspiration. under Article 8 of its Covenant, Crown Agents represent govern- and muscle as a musician uses a proof
They flamed up in the poet's mind is not adopted before the end of ments under the direction of the plane or an artisan his tools,
Secretary of State, are themselves Dr. Hudson points out that in like lightning flashes; they rang in like silver chimes. the year, the situation may appointed by the Secretary of moments of emotional stress or his change. The demand for 'police State, but yet are the agents net deadly peril the subjective mind Shakespeare had to write them, or like a slum
Uncle Nat: No, Slum Sam swim aeroplanes, based upon an in- of the Secretary of State but of silences the reason and sofzea con shall we any they wrote themselves?
Yes. Undoubtedly Dr. Housman like a dwan. cident which most people outside the respective governments from trol of the entire muscular and
The Editor: No. Swine Sam aluma like a swan. Germany believe fictitious, is a which they obtain their income nervous system. "In such cases is right. We may, deny
directly feats of almost superhuman autocracy of the brain.. symptom of a tendency which and to which they are
In these respects, may easily gather uncontrollable responsible. momentum. But that is look and also in the exclusion from ing forward. The immediate their functions of all political or danger is that the war-spirit is tion differs from that of the High diplomatic questions, their post- being fostered in many direc- Commissioners and Agents-Gen- tions. The standing-army of eral in London representing the 100,000 men, which is allowed Dominions and India, who owe to Germany under the Versailles allegiance solely to thoir own
Treaty, is for its size probably governments.
the most efficient military body
extant at the present moment.
Drill is regarded to-day in Ger- SURPLUS REVENUE
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The idea is encouraged in every The reputation of the Crown possible way and there are at Agents as a business organisation, least a million well-drilled men and the fact that their expenses available, National passion of are paid from a fund derived from
charges made for the the most bellicose character is being inculcated in School and which they transact, have some- College. It is trus
times created an impression that that the Government and Herr Hitler in business firm, put into their own they, like the partners of a private particular are far too wise to pockets any surplus of revenue desire immediate war; but, like over expenditure." That is not and all despots, they use. 'patriotism' never has been the
Case. Sur
as an instrument to consolidate pluses have in fact usually aC- that notwithstanding their own position. The danger crued,
ls that it may so caslly get out charges have always been modest; of control. What then is to be but they have been placed in a done about it? We must face reserve fund intended to provide for pension and other contingen- the fact that the present posi- cles. A few years ago an ac- tion is largely due to the unjust tuarial investigation showed that treatment Germany has suffered the reserve fund was reasonably during the last twelve years. A sufficient for. Its purposes, and it continuance of repression can was decided, with the concurrence never be a Fomedy for that, of the Colonial Conference of 1930, The problem is full of difficulty to refund each year's surplus In and complication, but somehow future to the Colonial Govern- Justice must be done. It is go-ments concerned in proportion to ing to be difficult because of the the value of stores purchased atmosphero latterly created. But during the year. This arrange- ment has emphasised the character are we to admit that man'a
of the Office as a contral | 20- brain and heart are unequal to operative agency for the mutugi
arden comes around-hora a dozen times a day complaining about his wife and stomach. I'm gettin' sick of
the
:
Uncle Nat: Furiously Flash Fred flew finging Afty fousand firkins of fowls fervers from him.
The Editor: Why?
Uncle Nat: Because Mistress: Hesther Masathers misthed her Easter as Mlater Mathers misthed his Heater's methage.
Fun for Every Ohe,
蠱
HERE is a good trick with
ring and a piece of strings
which will make a party go. The Editor: Go whore?'
Unele Nat: Go homie,
In order to do this trick with a ring and a piece of string you re- quire a ring and a pleco of string. Get some one to tie the ends of the piece of string to the ring, and announce that you are going to take the ring off the plece of string without untying the place of string. Every one will think you are crazy, but. what does that matter?
Turn away from the onlookers so that they cannot see what you are doing, got somebody to, untio the piece of string, take the ring off the place of string, taking care not to drop the ring, or the piece of string on the floor. Then get somo one lo tie the piece of ring to the string, or rather the ring: to the place of string, turn round to the audience, and show them that you have the ring and the ploce of stringIn fact, the whole dam thing
The Editor: But you were going". to show us how to take the ring of. the plece of strlog.
Uncle Nat Whose trick. Yours or migë)
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