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BANK CONTROL
NOTES OF THE DAY IF I HAD A FORTUNE.. The Very Idea!.
FREE STATE POLITICS
There are two ways of looking at Mr. de Valera's announcement in Cork indicating that an carly Free State election has been in- definitely postponed. It momen
WHERE WOULD I LIVE?
Asks ERIC LINKLATER
· EGGSTRAORDINARY By Eddie Kelly, Eggspert.
MR.
R. Wynne Jones admitt- ed in Kowloon court
the other day that when he was a kid he used to have a passion for sucking, con-
tarily damps the hopes of the ÚTHORS, uncaptured crimin-you, and the winters you and dull United Ireland Party without A ale, and winners of sweepstake because the neighbours are scarce ly to your liking. You also hanker being altogether. discouraging. Mr. de Valera has found it ex-prizes are among the few people for the theatre, the restaurant pedient to come to terms with the at liberty to choose where they gaieties, and the hearty, bustle of densed milk from a tin. Labour Party, permitting the exist-ahall live. For the vast majority London-and you hear of a plea-
We were the same way when we were a child, only. London at first delights you, but eggs were our strong suit. by-and-by boredom again descenda
Contented milk from content- on you, for now you have no work
Government to survive, a step of people in this orderly and sant and opportunely vacant house which can readily and probably civilised world it is external cirin Hampstead. correctly be interpreted to mean that the political atmosphere to cumstances that decide the ques- day is anything but strikingly tion. propitious for the Fianna Fail.
A man may, of course, choose be We have to credit Mr. do Valera with skill as a tactician. His ruah tween one suburb and another, and election which took the opposition his wife can easily decide on a by surprise last year was a master-third. But except within these So once more you sock distraction our mottoes.
in travel, and to improve your That's why we followed' with ly stroke which reaped its due narrow limits of solection there le mind you read widely as you go roward. To-day he dare, not risk
to do, and work, though undoubted-ed cows, and contented eggs ly a perversion, is the best and from contented hens. Them's most entisfying of the perversions.
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an appeal to the country; he finds little freedom, for the demands of and so collect a vast number of so much interest the letters in à contemporary about the cruelty himself instead compelled to ap-office, shop, factory, foundry, or books. peal to his supporters to discover professional connections speak in
LR.A. CONTROL
But as
And as you pass from Egypt toto hens at a recent gymkhana. that India, from China to Japan and It nearly yolk our heart.
South America, your wife accumu- lates a huge quantity of curios, Friend about it when we took her We were talking to the Girl nick-nacks, and supposititious
COMPANIONSHIP PROBLEM.
them for the delight and envy of her the menu. your friends? So yet again you beasts were disgustingly cruel to are forced to look for a house. those poor hens. Do you know,
attractive LONDON.
Eddie, I think I'll have chicken to-night[" ·
some
Not that chicken has anything
Our
their common-senac, to refrain a stern, determined volco from the acts of terrorism which must be obeyed. are losing him erstwhile allies on
And so one often hears people all sides
wistfully saying, "Oh, if only works of art. But what is the use out to dinner the other evening, were independent! If only I were of books unless you have a library,
"Yes," she said, as we handed Iof curios unless you can display at liberty to live just where
"I think those pleased!" And they think that if If there were a chance of the they had £30,000 in the bank, and Irish Republican Army and of the freedom which. that sum can Dublin's hooligan gangs respond-bestow, they would live happily ing to the appeal, Mr. de Valera ever after.
It is, I think, regrettable that might still hope for the future.
the majority of roads lead to Lon- But the I.R.A. has become too ac
a matter of fact they don. It is wrong that London to do with eggs. At least, very customed to dictate to be able to would be faced with an appalling should draw from all other parts rarely. You've got to take the accept meekly any dietation. Post difficulty, especially if they, had of the country with a force almost good with the bad when you poning the election merely makes
the any imagination. For so many equal to that of gravity; for what emulate Mr. Wynne Jones' feat. it more certain that when mandate of the country is finally and various are the attractions of I have said to authorship applies
We used to be very fond of sought, the Fianna Fail will bo the world that it is by no means equally well to many other trades.
poultry once. They used to even swept away. That is always pro-easy to decide where to live. This tendency, however, is not call us the Poult Laurette where vided General O'Duffy does not
new. Both Queen Elizabeth and find the delay fretting and make
King James I., if I remember right-we had our last chicken farm. and an attempt to force an issue by
Perhaps you nurse a romantic ly, realised its existence
But we had to give it up. exploiting the Blue Shirts in political manoeuvres. That poor nostalgia for the South Seas? deciding that it was contrary to imitation of Continental Fascism But which of ten thousand islands, the welfare of the country decreed hens learnt all about birth con
own standing up. This was the origin: A rather startling interpreta-were better allowed to fade quiet-all unfamiliar, would you decide that their nobility must spend long trol, and used to lay their eggs.
upon were you to win a fortune? Periods of time on their
of scrambled eggs. And unless you tion is now being given to the ly away, unmourned.
propose to live estates. like Crusoe in solitude, whom Now there are still in existence There were so many bad eggs in announcement at the end of last
would you choose to accompany territorial magnates and moneyed our hon house, too. Most of week that the Reconstruction
you and how would you persuade people with country residences, these onded by becoming hard Finance Corporation is propos-
them that, for example, the Society and it would be no bad thing if boiled, ing to lend $1,000,000,000
There is something to be grate Islands are preferable to the Mar- those Tudor and Stuart ordinances Bound American banks, The ful for in the admission of the quesas, or that the amenities of were revived and they were com Even a hen house, like Chicago,
polled to live in their country can have its Al. Capon. banks are expected to re-lend Kowloon Bus Company that the Norfolk Island
of Bali, Honolulu, and homes, not merely 17 own them could distance. They
At the place where we have the money at a slightly higher services It is providing are not those
the last word in efficiency. Such Tahiti? interest rate, the step being de- an admission does at least offer
Jocal life, industrially, been staying since our creditors And at last, after a year of foster
even intellectually, chased us out of our flat we have signed ostensibly to encourage some sort of assurance that an
you had and so provide rival centres of been fed nothing but bacon and financial houses to lend more attempt will be made to improve debate and two years of explora-socially, and
matters and the Company's letter tlon, when eventually
eggs for breakfast. We're so siek freely to business and to in- to
the KR.A. makes certain discovered some green paradise interest to London.
But perhaps it is impractical to of Bacon that we profer even dustry and thus promote the re- promises and outlines definite beside a lagoon of heaven's blue,
And even covery programme. It is never-lines of attack upon the problem would not the bliss of your exist- expect legislation on such lines, Robert Burns, now. theless also being interpreted as The solution is by no means easy chce be shattered by the realisa and the problem of where to live, Bacon Burns,
It is one thing to arrange perfect tion that you were 800 miles from when it exists, must be answered
individually. a revolutionary. movement de-schedules and another to maintain the nearest dentlat? signed to give the government them when buses are constantly
But, you say, you have no ist-
It may not be so important, after virtual control of the banking breaking down. The maintenance clination for tropic islands. You
all, as the companion question, of discipline among the staff would system. The loan is reported appear to be less difficult to tackle have heard of the charms of how to live? And perhaps they a villa at be answered together: to my mind Continental life, and as likely to be "floated" by the until consideration is given to purchase of $1,000,000,000 worth the low wage scale prevalling, if any one of half a dozen places there is a great deal to be said for the South China Morning Post,
we are correctly informed. Low would suit you very well.
to
BUS SERVICES
are superior
COUNTRY DRAWBACKS.
from
a
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In fact, our opinion of bacon. and eggs is eggsactly what you think it is..
What's a mero lizard or two? What's a dragon? We've seon thousands of 'em.
"I wonder," asks "Vinjar" in
the cowboy fashion, the gold-"what the average resident would seeker fashion, the war-time think if he were suddenly con-- wages do not attract the right type
fashion' of six months on active fronted by a Hizard-like reptile?" of man and are false economy in
you have settled service and six days of magnificent BAH! the end, when buses are run to Alas! when pieces years before their time. down, there is a fall in sterling, abandon to luxury. Hard work Government Royalty greediness, the exchange goes villainously and comparative solitude produce which comes into this issue, has against you, and the income from Gargantuan appetite for plea- undoubtedly played its part in the even £30,000 shrinks like a cheap sure, and then the sins of riotous living, may be expiated in more hard work. deterioration of the bus services woollen bathing suit. on both sides of the Harbour, and the K.R.A. policy of suspending judgmont for the time being la probably the fairest in all the circide that home is best. But after backwoods and at intervals des- the group of people who saw it. your foreign travels, and because cond on the city hungry and eager It was on January 1, which ex- of your independence, you now ns a cowboy or a soldier on leave, plains everything. The
a motto ambled up to us, breathing fire. adopt a critical attitude to your "Live dangerously," is follow countrymen, and in summer for heroes, but "Live variously," We fixed it by breathing our
breath. the multitude of trippers offends is good advice for most people.
of stock in banks throughout the country, thus giving, the government 25 per cent, of the ownership of bank capital. This huge government holding of bank shares would be sufficient to give virtual control of bank- ing activities. The administra- tion has disclaimed any inten- tion of operating the banks, and asserts it is only interested incumstances, making the banks foolproof.
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It is believed however that if KOWLOON AMENITIES the plan now under considera- tion in high government councils
The Colonial Secretary seems is adopted, it must be recognized destined to be deluged with letters as one of the most revolutionary from the K.R.A. on various matters steps in what is already being on the mainland. Offenalve smells, involving the community welfare described as the greatest econo- the Salisbury Road bottle-neck, the mic revolution ever known, al-provision of a typhoon signal at though its fate is still uncertain. the children's playground and the Kowloon City, the supervision of The object would be to gain again postponed covered way in circus wero control of banking policy, and the Ferry trafic
at the the suggestion, whether true among Issues considered or not, lends added interest monthly meeting and it might well of them, of be asked why some to the proposals of the comparatively trifling cost, have British. Labour Party outlined not been removed from the sphoro last week. The fact is that this. Government finda money to of correspondence long before none but bankers, and not sparo
to build quarters, and all of them, defend the existing residences for public servants, banking system. It works too great and small; and an amenity conspicuously in the financial like a typhoon signal must wait. interests of the few. It provides
im- necessary
too frugally for the welfare of THE BOTTLE-NECK the whole industrial community. Production miny, and does, Government is on safer ground languish. The dividends of the when it declares that the cost of Banks may, and do, flourish. In the removal of the bottlenock at Salisbury Rond is no longer justi- dustry cuts wages and salaries, fed. The K.R.A, meeting wonder- sacks men, silences its machinessed what factors have so changed as The Big Five in Britain pay from to lessen the urgency an
provement considered 14 to 18 per cent. in dividends. BOZIO years ago. It seems The allotment Leaders of industry, politicians, vory simple: newspapers and economista ex to motor-users of the large park- press dissatisfaction. But not ing space opposite the Y.M.C.A. has reduced motor traile into the everyone agrees about the bottle-neck, If not. by one-half, Labetalály on a scale, sufficient to should take. For want of that minimise any jjkeDICOLE OF
congestion or other trame dimculty agreement reform lags.
for some time to come,
You return to England and take a cottage in Devonshire, and de-
"
It is a good thing to live in the
"Botter buy now,
tor. Prices are going up on this stud
"Vinjar" mentioned the monitor lizard seen on Lugard Road in January, 1930. We were one of
Kzard
There are several lizards and reptiles inhabiting the swamps of Hongkong. We were in the Peninsula swamp one day whon we were accosted by a couple. We are so Inured to them that wo took no notice, so they eventually went away and ordered their own drinks.
We never did care for lizards with watery eyes,
DANGEROUS
IIe first met her at the Hotel Roof Garden one Saturday even- ing, and noticed hor expensive frock and the other things that went with it. But when she con- fossed a little later that she enjoy- ho ed cigarettes and cocktails made up his mind to have nothing further to do with hor. So it was not until Monday evening that he car ride "phoned her to go on a with him;
RECIPE
Tako one white sandy beach, three or four children, a couple of small dogs, a handful of spades. and buckets, unlimited quantity of sea-water, and a pinch of sea- sholls,
Mix the children, the dogs, the spades, and buckets together, and add to the beach, stirring con- stantly. Pour the ses water over the bench, sprinkle with holls, place under a clear blue sky, and bake the whole mixture' in the hot! Bun When brown, sot away to:
In bed.