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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1933.
BEFORE YOU DECIDE
on your NEW CAR you should try out the NEW VAUXHALL LIGHT SIX
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NOTES OF THE DAY, HOW ARE YOUR NERVES?
THE WASHINGTON SCENE
scenes
Tosta
By REGINALD POUND
new-1 My talks with the doctors show-'|
ed that at the back of any number of serious nerve disturbances aro
The Very Idea!
IT'S CHESS TOO BAD Most people thought Mr. Mon- TEURASTHENIA tagu Norman to be joking in his N
that, now WE notice the psychasthenia e a recent comment upon the shifting hypochondria.
that winter is 'coming, like a dreadful
fears as numerous as they are the Hongkong Chess Club is at. Washington. To-day discord of clanking chains these groundless.... ridiculous fears even those on the spot and dif-names occur with diamal frequency chimena bolonging to the getting out its boards and culty in following the movements. in the grand crescendo of modern dim terrain of childhood before blowing the dust off its
reason began to axert ita dominion the oven are taken off the stage for, as much as the proverbis!
over the growing mind. Foreshortoned Into "norves,"
pawns. minute, the picture has changed they become the password that
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Look, for example, ht some of cat, the costliest social burden of mistake for hard fact; the long pieces, of which a vast majority
almost beyond recognition by the ushers an ever-lengthening pro- Fear is the dynamic force behind Chess is a game for bril- time a second glance le taken cession of distralt human bongo was told. It. zigzage through nu It goes back to medieval a huge number of nerve cases, Iliant minds; we do not like it. Things actually accomplished are through consulting-rooms, nura man society like black lightning, being overlooked because of the Ing-homes, houpitala, health clinics, unseen but enormously powerful days, when they had knights swiftness of the movement.
confessional boxes, divorcé courts. paralysing the health, the hippi-
Nerves... nerves... nerves ness, the efficiency of millions.. and things like that, and our
the disease of our age; the drives men to drink, women to
It sets the mob howling. It only regret is that it didn't stay curse that civilisation has put on drugs, breaks up homes. the brow of wilful man; the heavthe psychic fiction? that so many
fear, there.
shadow that, illogically, is always the implications behind some of the lot.
thore. tho recont trends ofthe N.R.Aİ-
Among the flagrantly many The doctors declared that any HONGKONG HOTEL programme. President Roosevelt national secrets that no census has number of nervous breakdowns has authorised the Exconstruction over revealed is the number of rules of sensible living not enough have their origin simply in broken Finance Corporation to plunge in people for whom the sun is always good quality sleep ("Balm of hurt to the banking business with any partly in eclipse, for whom exist-minds.. chief nourisher in life's thing from two to four milliora of once la ons long wrestling-match feast"); dietary ignorance and money to "invest." Exactly where with dark powers in little Gethse abuse, over-indulgence; neglect of will the old American banking manes of their own.
the prime virtues of fresh air and system bo when efforts are mado
What is the story behind the not nearly so high in the list as is exorcise; over-work-with this last to square accounts. In addition, mounting graph of nervous illnesa? commonly supposed. there are to be noted the definite' When the case-books of the twen- support for organised labour, and tieth century are dug up from the the vast network of price-fixing, ruins of Hailey-street a thousand profit-stabilising and consumer-years on, what will they disclose
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1935.
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atined to become a permanent of that time? part of American institutions. What subtle disharmonies in the soul of man, circa 1988, will they reveal?
NOT SATISFIED
And still President Roosevelt is not Batisfied. This is
Was
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Chess pieces consist of sixteen
are pawns, Pawns cannot do anything except got in the way
very valuable to the opponent until of your own pieces, making them he has captured them.
The queen is the big shot in chess, being much more powerful than the king, just ns in real life. A queen can move all over the board. without wärning, and usually does. The object of the game is to capture the king and finish the fracas in time for a late dinner. Beginners at choss are inclined to be impatient Each of the authorities I talked and take only fifteen minutes to with had his own theory, his own | think up a move. You can't get path of research; each said that anywhere by rushing through like there is still a great deal about that.
The penalty of any of these obvious sins can be severe; and many there be that have paid it..
"nerves" that cannot at prosent be Good chess players are named Ca- adequately explained.
torias. comic Napoleons and Queen Vic-play at all.
You ought to know something about the other pieces. Liko the bishops, for instance. The bishops are nondescript-looking things cannot go by a red light. The which move catty-cornered. They castles, on the other hand, move sidewise, which is very illogical. : The knights are called knights because they look like horses and are oven crazier in their move- ments than real ones. They go two squares in one direction and one in..
The medical historians of the future will probably noto with with them, I recall that there They come from the Balkans and But, thinking Back over my talks sabliewitz and things like that. interest the recurrence of certain
open the game with the Queen's catchwords taken from our current cemed to be a general note of Gambit Declined. This is a varia
agreement on what is psychotion of the Aw Boon play with the neuropathy. Yesterday it chiefly "inferiority complex. To-day It logically known as man's will to castles shifting instead of the end. The descent upon Hongkong
because human calculations is "conflict." To-morrow a new power that over-ruling passion to We do not know why they always far one may be lifted from the italicutno one's fellows, which, in decline this, but they do. We go fat! of the
of probable effects Performing Rights
extremes, peoples the wards of studded dictionaries of psychology: mental hospitals with pathetically them one better by declining to short in the result mainly Society is interesting to the because they fall to take, account I had not heard it until a day or
Schizophrenia. average person mainly us an of the human element. Advanced two ago I went among the medical illustration of the extent to theories will always meet with magi as a preliminary to this brief which official control is exercised resistance suficient to damage if and no doubt daringly. Inexpert We all want to be what we are over almost every human action not destroy the plans of their survey of the flowing tide of not; the damage is done when we
psychic unhappiness.
aspire and perspire-to be what and impulse. It seems next to advocates. The President ¡B, I gathered that it denotes a state we never can be. impossible these days for an therefore, continually forced to of raind formerly labelled even less There is the artist who day- individual to be responsible for further experiment and is now prettily. I also gathered that the dreams that he is a genius, when ranks of the schizophrenes are now he is simply a good craftsman; tho any sort of action affecting n finally committed, to the Cour scores deep, comprising pallid, singer who cannot understand why second party without the exist-modity
Dollar. Tho frat tight-lipped army, chanting as its she is no prima donna; the humbly to the marching song an adaptation from born wife who longs to be "a lady"; ence of a legal enactment govern-spectacular contribution ing it in
much for us." other. No-one can. fairly cavil than a week to prove. convincingly at the object of the Performing that such a revolution in the Rights Society; some protec- basis of currency could tion for the authors of musical achieved without some reference to the international aspect. An- works is obviously necessary if other hasty jump only demonstrat- they are not to end their days ined that the need for re-examing poor law institutions; although tion still existed. some resentment may be felt
...
some fashion or thealy failed badly. It took less Wordsworth: The world is too the inopt politican who is crazy to another or vice versa, not having
at the termination of a long-
innings, the occasioning of PEGGED CURRENCIES trouble and inconvenience; par-
not be
sense enough to cut across and con- serve their energy,
be a leader.
To all these, and many others, the shock of finding that the cup of For there you have (I discover-life is well and truly running over"
There is great intellectual diver- ed) tho source of a vast deal of with disappointment often supplies sion to be derived from choss. We nerve misery-the basic disinclina-the last kick that sends them into are sure of this, because it gives tion of the individual to face reality (the fantastic world of dreams us a headache. There is nothing and his failure to indulge in the where they can indulge, unchecked, liko intellectual divernion, others to skip over or dodge round dominion, and power. nimble acrobatic feats that enable their fatuous longing for majesty,
the rocks, pot-holes, and what not Are the doctora (you ask) declar- that bestrew man's road down the ing war, then, on ambition? oges.
An argument in favour of the game is that the places make lovely playthings for " the baby,
Too much petting and fussing Most assuredly not; but as part over when young... instincts at of their prescription for happiness
FREE RECORDS war with society ..unsympathethey are increasingly emphasising ticularly as the cost of the collec- Unsuspectingly, perhaps, atie handling in adolescence.. that ambition must be logically
We notice in a morning news- tion of fees-presumably the ob- valuable contribution towards certain of the more violent kinds of directed and impelled by motives paper that the radio columnist is jective is likely in a small place world recovery may have been
religious influence.... Lack of which do not impose such disas- appealing for gramophone records self-discipline. all these, I like Hongkong to cancel out the made. The pegging of the dollar found, are down in the physicians trous strains and stresses on the for ZBW. We are prepared to
personality.
donate him several. prospect of any worth while and the pound would be one of the black-list as making for much sub- To sum up: Nearly all func- bounty to musical composers and best guarantees of stability in sequent suffering under the hond-tional nervous disorders are cur-up-erlooze, Afr. Hemingway," "Pink Let's see, now. He can have authors. Such considerations these difficult days. Senator ng of "nerves"
able, and a great majority are Elephants," "She Was Only Some Given these conditions, or some preventable. will not weigh with the Society. Pittman scos in the developments of them, together with various The doctors are gradually castinga-doop Doesn't Mean Boop-cop-a- body's Daughter," "My Boop-cop- The Colony's broadcasting ser- the prospect of the permanent factors of ill-health, and you are a out the devils haunting this generadoop" and "Here Lies Love. Yes, vice may suffer; cafe proprietors stabilisation of currencies and a fairly sure candidate for the grey tion, in travail with its nerves, so and we'll also throw in "Stormy with loud-speaker installations return to the gold standard by all bet the ded" on the nerve-wrecked that those who come after may be Weather" for good measure, may have a problem to think nations, and ho may not be far and the desperately sick of soul. over; but it seems that the wrong. But it will not be a re- turn, to the gold standard as Colony must pay and look'as understood in pro-war days; that pleasant as it possibly can about easy to judge. The difficulty is the payment, evon while feeling to foresce in exactly what final doubtful whether any real bene-form an Internationally accepted fit will accrue to anyone as a monetary standard will emerge result of the innovation. The from the present chaos.
solo matter of very real concern
in this situation is the future of
ZBW. Its existenco seems to PANNED ECONOMY have been the bait for the ap- pearance of the Performing
M. Sarraut's address to the Rights Society; and the demand Fronch Chamber on Friday should for royalties, added to the more be more than normally Interesting. onsily-understood rofusal of the Such hints as have been given of music stores to supply free re- | his Cabinet's programme suggest cord programmes indefinitely, that Franco is likely to draw more creates difficultica not to be than ever economically within it- Feasily overcome. Either dovolop solf and that economic isolation ment would have provided auf-will become as marked a fenture of ficient cause for rumination in general policy as it is in the United States. Planned economy, itself; coming together, the unofrtunately, means little mero Broadcasting Committee may than this since the fallure of the well be forgiven if it is tom-World Economic Conference. In porarily at loss. One thing là a planned world economy, obvious- certains the quality and variety ly, it would mean precisely the of programme must suffer unless contrary. a new source of revenue and fairly substantial is soon dls-
covered. Such is the law that short, it looks very much as It is not possible for ZBW to re- though ZBW has perforce to be- lay Daventry for instance, gin all over again, from an without incurring technical re-entirely new starting-point, to sponsibility for royalties as a tackis old problems afresh from further public performance. In la now angle.
free.
"I hope you're satisfied! Killing off all the wild animal life.”
They all belong to our neigh- bour,
VICE VERSA
Speaking of records, one of our favouritieg is "The Volco in the Old Village. Choir." And speak- ing of vices.reminds us of an ex- perience we had at Home once,
In case you don't know it we were a bit of an amateur carpenter in our quiet way. Nothing much," you know, only when it came to knocking down the old fowl house and building a new one, wo had the Hongkong and Shanghal Bank contractors licked to a frazzle. We may have occasionally dropped a hummer on somebody's head, but we didn't drop five-ton lumpe of 'masonry.
We were cured of carpentering when we went into a hardware shop one day, and approached the lady behind the counter.
"Have you any vlees?" we asked her confidentially.
We havo often wondered she slapped our faces
HOLLYWOODN'T
Things are so bad in Hollywood that one girl has had to`part with her wedding rings.
A MAX FACTORY MAX FACTORY
We are told that women used to paint their faces in the Middle Ages. They still paint their faces in the middle ages.