SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1933,
ROBERT LYND on
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.,
NOTES OF THE DAY
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In Flanders' fields the popples blow
Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our pleco; and in the Sky
The larks still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Doad, Short days ago, We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fiolds.
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S one read the lottor of the¦ happened about the turn of the The sharp slida taken by the
17-year-old girl who wanted century. It was about this time that children began to feel the American dollar claims close at tontlen. A section of London to know what to do with her par weight of oppression being re- opinion is already agitated and enta, who had forbidden her to moved from their shoulders, not
The week's Gardening Hint. and urging the Chancellor of the amoke cigarettes, one could not as a result of their own peralatent Various fertilizers and manures Exchequer to counter-mensures help feeling that here was a cry demnads for Hiberty, but because and the tone of Mr Chamberlain's from the heart.
their parents suddenly began to aro necessary at this time of your, but the best thing to put over demand liberty. - answer certainly cannot be
"My parents," she complaine-
Abraham Lincoln, attacking beetroot la vinegar. interpreted na ruling out tho likelihood of a currency battle, she calls them "my problem alavery, once said that you cannot Non-committal regarding his in- parents" in another sentenco in hold a man down in a ditch with- tentions, he, emphasises the Gov. the letter "still treat me and out staying in the ditch yourself. ernment's policy of retaining the Punish me as If I were a little And Victorian parents, while en- Cricket, Robert MacWhirter says indopondence of sterling; to put girl."
Hero surely is a case that calls slaving their children in the home, there's no catch in being a bowler it another way, retaining liberty of action. The fact is that no-one for the sympathy of every friend had to become slaves of the home if you can't hold a glose-in your BEFORE YOU DECIDE ON YOUR is fully aware of the distance in of liberty. It throws even a more in order to do so. In order to hand.
that dopreciation
Prealdent sinister light on the tyranny of compel young Frederick to cat fat at the Sunday dinner table, the NEW CAR CONSIDER THESE! Roosevelt is prepared to travel, the modern parent than the case John McCrae.
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Take up our quarrel with the foo; To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high. If yo break faith with us who,die,
We shall not sleep, though popples grow
In Flanders flelds.
The foe is now poverty, disease, disablement-the bitter aftermath of war for so many of its direct and indirect victims. The Poppy Day Fund stands as a barrier; stronger every year, between those who have no other help and the slough of deepest despond.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Serenade, Op, 43 (Volkman) Flight of the Bumble Bee
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Largo (Xerxes") (Handel) Slavonic Danco in G Minor, (Dvorak)
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After watching the Intorport
of the girl of 16 who threatened to stern Victorian father had to re- We overheard a lady remark on leave home unless she were given main at the table watching him do the Peak tram that she doesn't a latchkey and was told all the ing so. And all the other little know what to do now that the oven- same that she couldn't have one, tyrannies of life occupied as muching aro so dark. Why not, switch
of the time of the parents as of on the light! the children;'------
TURNING THE TABLES.
The need of appearing authori- The Navy certainly is a paradox. Fortunately, there is a growing tative had yet another unhappy Although, so energetic, they fre- movement nowadays in favour of consequence for parents. It com- quently awing the lead! The trouble with some people preventing parents from interfer- pelled them to pretend to be older at home is that they want it both ing with the free development of and wiser than they were in order ways. Britain's financial affairs the personality of the young. It is to Impress their children. If the have been so completely pulled round,true that this object can be ordinary Victorian child had
obedience to the parent while censing to say which was the mark of the age in "Don't" to the child.
the nursery.
There is a movement on foot to
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In the last two years that London acheived only by interfering with known how young its father and revive some of the old silent films. can fairly claim to be the strong the free development of the per- mother really were, he would never est financial centre in the world sonality of parents. It depends have dreamed of yielding them
unquestioning to-day, with the boat credit. In for its success on saying "Don't" that times of uncertainty such as now prevail. loose funds circulating in the world naturally tend to gravitate to London, undoing any effort the Government may be making to keep the pound at normal parity with the dollar. Only reckless gambling with the country's finances could influence the position, with the probability that our own stability would be wrecked.
The marriage is announced between William Albert Shea and Rose Lee, and will take place at St. John's Cathedral, on Saturday, November 25, 1933, at 3 pan. No INSURANCE CHANCES invitations are being issued, but All friends are invited to the ceremony, and afterwards to the Restaurant at 4 p.m.
Hongkong Telegraph possible date was urgently desir-
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1933.
There is absolutely no truth in the rumour that the reason why Gradually however within living the Hongkong Government declinor This, perhaps, is only fair. For centuries children have had to memory, Tarents, forgetting their to adopt incineratora, la because endure all the punishments and duty to their children, changed it simply hates giving people compulsions. It is time that their outlook on life. Instead of money to burn!. aronts and nurses had a taste of pretending to be older and wiser the same modicine. Why should a than they were they began to pre- nurse bave the right to put a child tend to be younger than they were,
The new commandment for par- THIS PARENTAL ents in relation to their children, CRAZE. indeed, is "Dont say "Don't.
Shanghai's winter weathor is
in the cornor for losing its temper Mothers, and even grandmothers, said to bring about an influx of if the child has not an equal right began to look like schoolgirls in bad characters. Winter scuml to put the nurse in the corner for the tennis courts. Fathers, who losing her temper? Is not bad would have looked as old and temper a more serious fault in a austore as Moses, in any other grown-up person than in an in century, took to prancing through fat? Yet it is only the infants fox-trots in the dancing halls with lowed his whistle: A blow balow. who have hitherto been punished the agility of undergraduates. the bolt!
Paint, powder, and the motor-car for it...
THE SUPER-LOGICAL
INFANT.
A Home football roferes 'swal-
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did the rest. We often hear of
"Feed Your Pet Properly" reads the craze for pleasure among the modern young. What we should an advertisement. We always buy always remember is that the craze her the best of chocolates. for pleasure began among the
parenta:
new
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. the importance of Germany's | straight to 18 seems in particular of somnolence. Let us sit up to parents had naturally no time to
Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Boston Symphony Orchestra.
GERMANY'S
ly admitted that to reduce them OLIVE BRANCH drastically at a time of rising prices is a policy which will re quire a great deal of defending. It is much too early to assess The drop from 26 weeks benefit olive branch; but the mere fact open to challenge. The bright that it has been offered at all is features of the plan are those covering training and physical Nothing could give brighter pro- a good molto.
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(It has been stated that now.
Its echo la still to be heard.
"Twas the pride of the nation
and had an ovation
When wassall and revelry
⚫atirred. Now 'tis merely partaken like.
kidneys and bacon, And cause no bosoma
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Boston Symphony Orchestra, the happiest of beginnings. atness. No benefit for slackers is about children needing more sleep waste in forcing fat down their
The Government's proposed reception to be held at Gloucester changes in the administration of insurance benefit will be read with very mixed feelings. It has always been evident that to get the scheme back on to a real in- surance basis at the earliest
As for liberty in general, this able. It is probable that a change has been withheld from children in in "transitional bonefit" in its the past only by the use of brute
History, I am sure, will show force. The child know, for ex- present form could not in any case be delayed indefinitoly. On the simple, that if it refused to go to that the youth movement in its adays the "roast beef of Old Eng- other hand the benefits of the bed at an unreasonably early scheme as a social reform have hour it would be carried to bed. most frivolous aspects was started land" is less popular than fish an Of roast beef and Britain tho themselves. been so great and are so universal- If it had been allowed to argue It by married men and women who chips)."
song has been written; might have said with perfect were determined to remain young justice: "Surely Nature is the great guide in these matters. A NEW
Fent upon pleasure, the Nature will tell me when it is time FREE RACE to go to bed by inducing symptome gother and see who gets tired tyrannise over their children. first." And, if the parent had Fathers, longing to get away for roplied with the usual platitude a round of golf, had no time to than their elders the child could sons reluctant throats. Mothers, have made the unanswerable re-hurrying to the tennis court, were tort: "If I need sleep so badly why only too eager to leave their in- do you keep a nurse to wake me in fant daughters to develop their the morning long before-I-want personalities in peace.
As a result, a race of children to get up?"
There was, it is to be feared, no has grown up which is the freest Here and there, of course, are be re-opened by the Nazi Chan-York, led by Major La Guardia, such attempt at ratiocination in that the world has yet seen, ^. cellor, An awkward situation is scored a smashing victory against Victorian days. The child was relieved and a favourable im- the Tammany ticket, headed by then little better than a Blave, a few lingering traces of the old pression created, bespeaking a Mayor O'Brien, and the Washing ordered about as though it had no servitude. There are still "pre-
ton interference represented in soul of its own, getting up and goblem, parenta" to be found who, his poops! ready willingness to listen sym- the arderer of Mr. Joseph V. ing to bed at hours dictated by in the spirit of the old dispensa- pathetically to the proposals Mckee. Both the Fusion and other people, taking its meals at tion, will forbid their daughter of fighting hours dictated by other people, 17 to smoke cigarettes. I aym- which are to be submitted in con- O'Brien tickets were
against Washington domination. learning to do sums and other pathise with the girl. I have her lipstick on the roundabouts crete form next week. Had theThe campaign as a result took on lessons at the dictation of other tried to give up smoking myself. last night, very quickly made up initiative come from other quar national significance and the people-in short, growing up with Not being she, however, I may say on the swinga. ters, the atmosphere of tension decision of the voters will pro- a cramped and distorted person that in the circumstances, if I were
be far-reaching, Mr.ality, ike a plum-tree nailed she, I should-give up cigarettes. No one-especially at 17 must have continued and the bably
Farley, Mr. McKee's backor, is against a south wail.,
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mise of a speedy adjustment of
Immediate differences-than-that-
the door so sharply slammed by LA GUARDIA'S SUCCESS Herr Hitler a month ago should
The Fusion forces in New
For, though John Bull may buy it, he adds to his diet. The sale of the nation as well.
If P-E-P-Y-S spells Peeps, Why not D-E-P-Y-S for doeps? If we tako Peeping Tom, P-E-P is not wrong,
For his pep was the cause of
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A Chinese tea merchant has left over a million dollars. That just shows what tea leaves!
The Kowloon anglers' motto: Balt and scol
prejudice stimulated by recent credited with political, skill, but This state of affairs might have should miss the opportunity invention. It should make money events must have go round. Europe is this much to the good contest he appears to have missed been for a curlous thing that self-sacrifice. at all events. As far as can be a trick. At the meeting of the Democratic State Committee in gathered from the few hints Albany a coup by John F. Curry afforded, the object of Ger-brought about the adoption of a many's proposals is to furnish resolution pledging the members the to suppert the conditiona under which she Individually may, without loss of face, re-regular Democratic candidates- sume her place in the councils the O'Brien ticket. Mr. Farley either outmanoeuvred or of the League and in the Disar-was
feared to risk a showdown. With mament Conference. The op- this internal problem of the portunity provided for calm re- Democrats as an inportant fac flection in the interval since tor, Major La Guardia scored withdrawal appears, at this easily. He promises a thorough stage, to have been wisely used; cleansing of the stables and it
come before it world opinion upon Germany's will not diplomatic policies, convincingly needed. expressed, undoubtedly created
the desired impression. Whe
was
ther or not this is accurate as-mand for re-armament in some sumption remains to bo. seen; form or other, bringing the although it is quite obvious that interested Powers smartly up Boveral difficult hurdles will need against the real difficulty in the to be cleared: Germany will whole situation. It cannot be propose, it is predicted, some re doubted that no agreement is organisation of the League of possible unless some degree of Nations, a fact which lends zest rearmament is granted to the -modified by a certain un-Nazi Reich. Noither in there" easiness to the expected de- much room for doubt that Herr claration. The importance of Hitler will re-arm, more or less, this feature cannot possibly be with or without an agreement. estimated until the details are Yot, and here the crux of the disclosed. The proposals may problem lies, can Britain, France casily be highly constructive and or any other country express readily acceptable. It is on the consent without breach of prin- question of Germany's fearma-ciples, oven although refusal ment that the outcome finally may not make much difference depends. German circles at one way or the other? Will Geneva talk of symbolical ro-yielding an inch mean the lous. armament a term capable of a of a yard? That is the question, host of interpretations. The and it contains sufficient serious one theme running through all, implications to test the wit of however, must be the clear de-statesmen to its uttermost limit.
"So we got to kidding each other, she pretending she'd never
oven heard of me-
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It was rather appropriate that
a local strong man should throw..
a party last week!
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"Farmers In America throw Spanner into National Recovery. Act". The Star Spangled Spanner.
Interport cricket match between Hongkong and Malaya was not a brilliant game. Inter-poor.
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Edward Kelly is hoping that dances may be arranged to take. place at the Brewery this seseon. It's just the place for hope.
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First prizes, in the Shanghai Champlone Bwoop were $84,670 and $27,072; second prizes $20,416 and $15.087 and third prize $10,- 145, News item in morning paper.
It is, of course, a coincidence that the winning numbers were—--- 34,570, 27,672; 20,415, 15,037, and 10,345.
It is understood that a well- known local talpan has threatened ble
to give upiblaying bridge name does not appear in the New) Year Honour List in January.
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