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NOTES OF THE DAY THE PHILOSOPHY OF A
FRANC DANGER-
Doubts about the stability of the franc havo now spread to Parin Itself; that more than foar of in- creased taxation is the probable explanation of the rush to sell French currancy on Wednesday afternoon. If the movement de velops into a flight of capital from Paris, as is distinctly pos alblo, abandonment of the gold
LOCAL BOOTBLACK
IT, NEVER RAINS BUT IT. SHINES FOR HIM
By C. V.-L. for the Telegraph
The Very Idea!
TEACHING US MANNERS
By Eddie Kelly, Bun Driver
YOU'LL notice by to- day's Telegraph that the Bus Company is commenc ing a School of Manners for its employees.
There has, we understand, The cold season, from that ho, Mr. So-and-So, be en-
abled to see in the shining expanse been some talk of late about standard may be forced upon the which a tolerable contin- of leather a reflection of his own the deplorable manners of
others sco him?
French Government whether they contemplate the stop to-day or not. uance of the dry spell may self: in short, accing himself as The fluctuations on the exchange be expected, is on the verge BUSINESS market affected all other Continen- of setting in, and local boot- EXIGENCIES.
tal gold countrica alike. further
world's currencles must be n
take more than a limited
HONGKONG, HOTEL MR. ROOSEVELT'S PROBLEM ·
GARAGE
(Show Room) STUBBS ROAD Tol. 27778-9,"
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1933,
SOCIAL EVILS
Wherefore it is to be believed the bootblack does occupy a niche
In our communal structuro Ins-
bus-conductors.
Why complaints should be restricted to bus drivers is beyond our comprehension. disturbing commercial interests. blacks, with a period of The recent uncertainty in the emergency barely left be-
We know lots of other Hong- nightmare to the trading com- hind, are speculating if for tead of merely a nuisance and an kong people who need lessons.
We could mention heaps of munity. It is obviously impos them business will improve. obstruction.
True, the fraternity may have names, but, instead, we'll con- able to cad and while the for- Like other businesses, neces-pushed business enterprise a bit tent ourself with glving a few ward market still offers insurance sary, or unnecessary, the too far. A fow in this connexion hints on etiquette,
For instance, when a news- against risks, it has its limitations, business of making shoes have been known to acize on the unwilling leg and 'draw it. willy- as the Hongkong Government dis- covered in 1912. much to the alarm shine has its ups and downs, ailly, to the footstool. But that paper reporter calls on you the of the Auditor.
and just now it has fallen is only to be oxpected when the correct things to do is to grunt community koopa its footwear and tell him tersely to get to into the pit of the general meticulously clean and the dry somewhere out of this.
weather conspiring to preserve A gentleman should always slump.
If people will only follow the this mark of respectability. A remove his hat in a lift when bootblack, in the last analysis, is ladies are present. If the gentle- advice of the economist and compelled to live in order that he man is bald, he can walk up the feeling dubious about the ultimate spend more and save less, least may continue to serve a thankless stairs., Blakes no difference to us.
We're just telling you. Auccess of the Roosevelt Recovery of all on the trifling cost that
When one comes to think of it,
Nowadays it is hardly necessary programme. The expectations of will help to make their lives the American man-in-the-street brighter by a little shoe polish, there is just one moral danger to to ask permission of a lady to have been woefully disappointed, what a different story perhaps, the bootblacks themselves. Force smoke, unless it's opium; but be of habit and an endless parade of careful, If you do ask, not to use although the experts in trade and there might be to telli industrial affaira, even those who
All the virtues concentrated in dirty shoes may have tended to keep the phrase "May I smoke?" You're were optimistic, knew that the tiny tin of shoe polish may not their gaza rivetted to earth when it simply asking for the correct up to answer, which is "I don't care if precess of recovery would be pro have been recognised and exploit-could have been lifted tracted.
President Roosevelt's led by people in the trade, and we other things finer and far brighter you burn." main problem is still to persunde are only dimly conscious that in than the polish they are so ready to the banks to lend. The manner. some mysterious way it is con- deal out to all and sundry with of their offer to accept cash from nected with Cherry Blossom or such an impartial hand. the Reconstruction Finance Cor-that feathered oddity they tell us porations is sufficiently indicative is the kiwi. Except that it serves
Mr. Tinkham is not
alone in
of their frame of mind. They a useful purpose by making old
public.
feel quite honestly that they are and dilapidated shoes look icas Women Are the
merely adding to the amount of old and dilapidated, the other uses idle money at their disposal. for polish, as for instanco its aid Patriotism in accepting the offer to character-reading, have not Arrests and convictions of is not ilkely to be followed by been fully considered in our daily local harridans for trafficking in "patriotic lonna", to individuals or routine. young girls have become suffi-firms who cannot provide them
security. with ample
Badly THE FINER ciently frequent of late to pro- caught only six or seven montha POINTS. voke comment. There seems to ago, a policy of caution to-day be a feeling, not without justi-is psychologically certain. fication, that a serious growth in
the traffic has recently develop-
ed. In the revolting case, this NATIONAL GOVERNMENT week brought to light, the prosc-
Selfish Sex
If a gentleman rises and gives his seat to a lady in a bus, she should first grunt at him, then take a step forward with the left foot, planting It firmly on his right foot, glare at him for having his foot en the floor, flop into the seat, and look out of the window.
It is the little details that count. At table, for instance. It is not good form to push the jam-tin lid down into the tin after you have used it. Someone else may have to struggle with it later.
The careful hostess.would never give her guests pens unless mashed
Give
By URSULA BLOOM. I regret writing this. It seems to be, on the face of it, disloyal.. It has been left, we venture to Yet it is so well deserved that think, to a bootblack more than I cannot help putting my pen to anybody
Asscas eise, to
the it. I say in the face of allop-potatoes are provided on the same. psychological points in footwear. position that mine is the selfish sex! plate. Peas alone can never be re- tained on a knife except by an To him it mattera little if the mine is the selfish sex! footwear is expensive, or merely Speaking in generalities, nine experienced diner-out. With mash- the cheaper products of standar times out of ten mino la the sex cd potatoes peas are etey. Democracy or dictatorship? The dized and mass manufacture more that expects everything to be done the peas a good coating of mashed knife. Take care, however, not to cution was assisted by the fact
Look round you. Women ex run out of potatoes before the pens that the mother was an unwill-question for many countries. has favoured by the plodding pro- for it, and to do precious little in potatoes and they will stick to the
censed to be academic. Democracy letariat. But if they are dirty, or return.
Womon push When cating fruit, such as man- ing party to the transaction, a is struggling for its existence. In if he thinks they require his pro- fact which gives rise to disquiet 1864, when the "Statesmen's Year- fessional services, he publicly calls peet mon to stand up for them in are finished. concerning the extent of vice book was first issued, there were attention to the fact, and the buses and tubes.
how he asd booking offcd quoues half-removed from the mouth with the tability, depending on organisation in these times of in Europe eighteen monarchies and owner's reputation for respec- themselves into theatre queues goes or lichees, the seeds should be
ong republic; to-day, according to
Women de handbag. Ou, the other hand, the variety others about them.
At important functions it is bost acute depression and unemploy-Dr. M. Epstein, the Yearbook's meets the offer, la at once at stake, way up, ignoring the protest of the hand, and placed in a pocket or ment. When some considerable aditor, there are eleven ropublica time ago, it was decided that and only eight monarchies. Recent of footwear upon which his pro-cupy the time of busy people, and
events show that it would be absurd feselenal cyo alights in a day must keep others waiting, while they to swallow them, as it saves muck- We forgot to mention that whero granted could with any forethought have dividual expressions, Hongkong should return to the to conclude from these significant have struck the full range of in-ask ridiculous questions which ing about, principle of prohibition and supfigures that the decline of monarchy that with the requisite degree of been answered elsewhere and pre- the guest of honour is a man, he Have you ever seen a man run should take the hostess's arm when pression of licensed premises, a necessarily means the advance of
character of the owner. Instant- plous trust was reposed in the democracy. If democracy is a polish, they fairly reflect the viously.
system in which power resides in efficacy of the Ordinance for the people, it is more likely to be ly, the shape and style intrude a shop-assistant off his or her feet entering the dining room. If the Yet woa third gentleman going in front
with the legs. the Protection of Women and found in monarchical Britain than here. What is clearer than high while he made up his mind about hostess is very far gone, another
dication to effeminity and a min- of course you haven't.
old We think that ought to be enough Girls, the only legal instruments in the republican Soviets. The heels, and pointed toes as an in-twopennyworth of ribbon? No, gentleman may hold the other arm
trend from royalty to republic is
Have you ever seen an devised in the Colony which
no indication whether or not the cing nicety of department in the men do it time and time again. male, or broader shoe patterns to
nephew should play patience with diligently, and let's know how you could hope to deal with the world is steadily becoming more de-emphasise a firmness of step and gentleman demanding that his for the first lesson. Practice aftermath. It was generally mocratic. Figures like those of solidity of outlook?
Or again, clean shoes denote him and wait upon him hand and get on, and we'll come and ball you felt, however, that the decisions Dr. Epstein do not furnish any
answer to the question whether a person of careful habito, and foot in the way that old aunts de out. taken left many local require the development of events
dirty shoes a proof of well, a mand such service of nieces? Of
EVEN GREATER SINS. ments unsatisfied, particularly favourable to democracy or the darkened outlook. In the latter course not.
case what more fitting and natural
These are the smaller sins of as problems existing at the time reverse.
than that a shoeblack should here intervene for a aaying duty.to the selfishness, but some women, do community by imparting the neces-not stay at this. They allow their
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were likely to be intensified by
mere naine.
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the disintegration of the licensed DEMOCRACY'S ASSET houses and the driving of their occupants inta subterranean
Hitherto, even in democratically channels. It is claimed by sup-governed countries, the control of norters of Government policy foreign policy has been left in the that where licensed vice has hands of the executive; but tho mutual interdependence of the na been abolished, traffic in victimstions, to-day makes foreign affaire becomes more difficult when the ao fundamental an aspect of govern- system, after a preliminary ment that to separate them from period of disorganisation, has the direction of the people's repre- dwindled. That may be appli-sentatives would reduce democracy cable to conditions elsewhere, but from a reality to a
Further, increasing complexity of There, in a port contiguous with
questions of internal politics-the, China, the results hardly justifintricacy of such matters, for exam- this optimistic view. The pro-ple, as the gold standard and blem remains rather more dif- tariffs-makes the task of a dema- ficult than before. A wide-cratic government harder than spread camaign was carried out ever. Yet these difficultica are not against aly-brothels during the so much a discouragement as a spur "period of disorganisation," but and a challenge for democracy to it appears to have slackened overcome them. For many hun- pace and the traffickers have dreds of years it was considered resumed their activity, aggrava- axlomatic that democrney could ting the situation by now re: function only in a small city state; craftments. The arguments of the application of democratic sys- social reformers are still ineffec-tem of government to an area as tual in Hongkong where the large an England would for more than a thousand years havo, ap- ancient problem still remains of peared fantastic and absurd. As what can be achieved in the face democracy has conquered the limita of old customs and extreme potion of size, so will it triumph verty, the lack of means where over its other difficulties. The by the masses can be introduced reason for its ultimate success, is to a higher economical, standard fundamental. In Britain and also- and to better chances in life. where at the moment it may not Always discussions on matters seem to have the qualities of such as this must lead to the speed and decision to bo observed same end. Attacks on the slum in more autocratic systems; but problem, upon social evils of among a people with whom it has every kind, opium smoking and grown up and developed naturally, democracy has a flexibility, a capa- the like, will always fall of their city to adapt Itself to changing! objective while no effort is made needs, not found in any other to raise the living standards of method of government so far die
covered. the submerged nino-tenths.
"What an awful place to run out of gas. We'll be stuck
here for an hour."
Adieu! (French).
STIFF
(Wiik apologies te sil cancermed), If you are broke, with nothing in the
larder,
And rent and bills and payments
overdue,
If day by day life's weary road-seeme
harder
And debt-apllectors shower writs on.
་། you,
If you've no hope of finding a bonanza (The sort that yields twelve ounOGS
to the ton),
Then, with our Eddie and him who's
penned this stansa,
You are a modern Hongkongite, my
ADH.
'EAR ! 'EAR Y
Nature is wonderful! A million years ago she didn't know we were going to wear spectacles, yet look at the way she placed our
cars,
BY THE SAD SEA
Those who go down to the sea in sampana must have noticed several figures on yachts with rods and lines attached to them. These are. fhermen.
These fishermen are not dead, They are merely ossified, and every few months the government send a man to brush the cobwebs off them They novor catch any fish.
By the alde of each fisherman is parked a can full of worms having no end of fun, wriggling about and Inventing new dance steps for gigolos, playing tag, and making facea at the passers-by. We know one worm that crawled out of its tin and started for home, but was arrested at the end of the pler by A sparrow for passing a green- traffle light when it was red.
It is a mistake to think that a fisherman can't come to life. You tap ond on the shoulder and: gar him if he has caught anything yet, but first be sure that you've got a clear run to the polico station,