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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER. - 20. 1933.
NOTES OF THE DAY
ALFONSO'S VISION
COMING DOWN A PEG
By SISLEY HUDDLESTON
"THE entertainment in a chateau | my diMculties havó · vanished na
Torontonan mentan a chat the thought
He went on to tell me how his
The Very Idea!
́THE COMING YEAR
By Auld Eddie Kelly, Byner,
Talk of the possible restoration of King Aliopso to the throne of Spain is based more upon bellef in the adage that history repeate
best. I and my follow guests duly
VE were going to write WE itself than upon manifestations n public teening in that much-tried admired the beautiful sixteenth
a retrospect to-day of country. It is easy to recall that century rooms, and the splendid sixty years ago, an, earlier Ro-decorations, which included price house, his servants, his motorcar, our life in Hongkong daring and the Juxuries which he had the past twelve months, but public was proclamed in Spain, less Gobelina tapestries. that it falled and that. Alfonso's We visited the charming old been wall able to afford for fifteen
there are so many intimate father, Don Alfonso XII was in world garden, and strolled by the years, had become his master.
canal, and took our case in the They had set a financial mark details that we think our vited to return. Doubtless some of his faithful courtiers persist in huge pari of "stately trees, and for him which he was, in changed holding that vision before the played golf on the private links, conditions, unable reach, public would prefer us to prosent exile, It is likely to be and even went a little way into Hence he became anxious and look ahead to 1984, long time, however, before Alfan- the privato wood which is a game distraught.
preserve and which extands for so makes a grand entry down tho Gran Via in Madrid, with bella ten miles, pealing, bands playing, flowers be- ing toased, ladies waving their mantilins and grave Dons lifting their sombreros.
PRETTY PICTURE
It is a pretty picture, perhaps,
e.named,
a
to
Besides, said the Editor nastily, this is a respectable
newspaper.
His work suffered, and he was actually making less than he One of the guests said to mo: would have made had he not felt "How foolish of him to try to keep himself obliged to make more. this place up! He is already
"Then one flag day," he went
With the New Year less tha ruined, but if he closed this cost-on, "a light broke in on me.
Ia case of H.K. beer away, this ly house he could still save some- suddenly saw that nothing com Is the time to write about the thing and go off somewhore topelled me to chase the impossible future. live quietly with his wife and because it had once been possible. family, If he hangs on there will So I have given up house and ser-
be nothing left."
but the latest information secrus to indicate that talk of restoration is quite premature. The situation is not difficult to understand. In 1931, after the republic wna pro- Cortes was elected whose main task was to supply Spain with a republican constitua per. tion. This done, it was expected to resign and allow a new Cortes to be elected. But nothing of the sort happened. Under Senor Azana, Premier for nearly two years, the Cortes continued in sex-
questional
What, you ask, does 1984 hold vants and taken a small flat. for me? What do the star I knew that he would hang on.
"The rollof is unbellovable. In-forotoll? What will happen when, People nearly always insist on stead of being worried, I am now on May 5, 1934, Mercury will be keeping the rank to which they cheerful. Instead of having a in are accustomed, no matter how grave deficit, I have now more conjunction with Glucosa? their circumstances change. No money than I really need. In- What--but enough of those thing is harder than to come down stead of earning less, I am carn- ing more. As soon as I find that I can open the house again I will do so. But I am not going to be its slave.”
That seemed to me to be a sensible view, But it is excep tional. How many tales of woo I have listened to how many haggard faces have I
neen
The Incident made me think about the situation of many people I know, who have been bit- terly hit by the unprecedented
crisis of recent years.. Stubbs Rd.
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1933.
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE SCHOOLS ?
aton. After the alliance of his Action Republican party with other radical part.es the Socialists
THE REVERSE OF THE PICTURE.
There are a number of cases in
118,
In simple, non-technical' langu- age, so that even the Editor of the Telegraph can understand 'wo are going to give our 1934 pre- dictions. Thus, at one sweep, we will get in our article before all the economlats who will say that (a) the world is doomed (b) wa are on the road to recovery (c) the dollar will rise (d) the dollar
ruled the rockt. A stream of law, which the revenue has been re- caused by the general reluctance } witl•full (e) Eddie Kelly will pay
were
the
EX-
was passed. Church and State Jesuits The separated. ware driven out. Teaching was Laken out of the hands of priesta and auns. Labour changes were set up to take care of the workers. The estates of the grandees were expropriated. But, to the general dismay, a law for the delence of the repubiic was passed and under this news
were suppressed and politicians
It looked very much like the days of Primo de Rivera,
Papers arrested.
SPAIN'S UNREST
duced not by twenty-five per cent. but by seventy-flv2. Yet out- wardly they live as
before, und I cannot help thinking that the result must be disaster.
No one should, through fear of the future, abandon a position which he has built up and can sustain. No one should start cutting down his expenditure without real necessity. Indesd. It is a duty to society as well as to oneself to keep all the wheels re. volving and to try to set other wheels in motion.
to come down a peg or twol
Everything would be well if the standard were slightly lowered; everything is wrong because the standard is looked upon as ordain- cd and unalterable.
There are all kinds of reasons which operate.
There is an unjustifiable senso of personal humiliation, as though he individual were responsible for a regression which is un- versal.
But the other side of the picture There is a vain desire to show deserves some attention. Where those with whom one comes in there is a really serious diminu- contact an immunity from the Spain wearled of its Cortes. Ittion of means and there has vicissitudes of human existence.
had gone too fast and 100 far. The people wanted a breathing space during which mord con- structive work could be done. There were widely varied causes of dissatisfaction. Business men
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resented interference. The trad hvord, was let severely and the depression, provalent all over the
workers found that the, republie had not provided a heaven earth. The peasants of the south were angry. The republic had no intention of giving them the ex- propriated land.
It was to ไก
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'us this month ́(f) Eddio Kolly, will
never pay us (g) there will be. a water shortage (h) there won't be a water shortage, and so on, down to Zed,
The Coming Year JANUARY-Arrangements for the opening of the New Year are so well in hand that no fears of a postponement need be entertain ed. Early in the month the moon will rise in opposition to Uranus, and the sun will set in the west. New Year resolutions will be broken all over the world,
FEBRUARY.-The eclipse of the sun will be inaudible at Hongkong and, due to a misprint in 1934 calonders, there will be only 28. Keeping up with the Joneses days In this month. Friendly in-.
been such n diminution, parti- cularly for professional mon and those who depend on investments was an American slogan, What-ternational relations will be of an
over the Joneses could afford, amicable naturo. their neighbours must possess. And even though the Joneses are now poor, everybody le ashamed of going down with the Joneses.
It is surely suicidal to hold to fictitious appearances through mere pride.
I know one instance, in which the consequentes were tragic..
When one has lived on à certain level for, say, twenty years, one comes to regard it almost as a law of Nature that one must continur to live on that level.
Certainly the struggle should not be abandoned, without good reason; but a plain balance-sheet should be drawn up from t.me to time, and the prospects be regard- ed clear-sightedly.
If it is evident that Income and expenditure do not correspond, and are not likely to correspond, then bold decisions should be taken before IL is too late.
WHEN THE CRISIS CAME. Once I knew a very rich man who could not buy a drink for himself; and who aponged shame- fully an his friends. Yet he was truly a rich man, and he was not a mean man.
on
had put everything into the osten- What had happened was that he tatious signs of wealth. He spent enormously on his mansion, his receptions, on his yacht; and he cut things so fine that he had no ready cash. That is one way of living, and it does not appear to be the wisest.
In spite of the increasing at- tention which is being given to education in England, a strong and widespread feeling exista that there is something radical- ty wrong with a system which urns out young people "educat- eu" in some respects, but with- fout a sufficiency of practical knowledge to equip them for the 3.ern realities of life. In parti cular, the secondary schools, and even some of the public schools, are said to be failing in their essential tasks. Recently we published a striking criticism along these lines by Colonel | Loftus, Headmaster of Barking Abbey School, who was at pains to show that England's educa- rented to them. Loyal sons of the tional system is not producing Church did not like the radical measures taken against it. The results in any way commensur-
women, who swayed the vots
in ate with the huge aums of
the recent elections, were against money spent on the training of the Government because; while the boys and girls. One of the com-ecclesiastical schools had been -------plaints made is that many closed to their children, others schools boast of examination were not opened fast enough, nor with enough. trained supplied successes which, when analysed,
teachers, mean practically nothing and
I knew another man, nothing which certainly do not appear
I met a man the other day who ture he deliberately kept down to like so rich, whose basic expendi- to produce in the recipients of
had been wrestling with this pro the lowest possible point. But prizes either culture or an abili
A kcurrilous press campaign blem. "I have alwaya," he told this left him a large margin whien ty to face life's problems ser-
re- was directed againat Senor Azana, me, "lived well. within my iously. Thousands of boys and Then a number of municipai by sources; but there have been such he could spend as he pleased. girls are being turned out an-
elections went against the Social- drastic changes that I find myself nually, more or less fitted to taksists and the more radical Re- now with excessive liabilities. 1 an academic course at the uni-publlean parties, followed by an have been utterly miserable in and the vain attempt to make onds versities, but quite unfitted to election by professional enter the world work, municipal groups to a newly meet. Happily, I have now re-
of Colonel Loftus, who speaks with established Tribunal of Con solved to start all over again, and direct knowledge of the aubicct, did this show a sharp incline to stitutional Guarantees. Not only argues that the greater part of
the Right, but, some of the men the present secondary school
Azana had had arrested were curriculum is waste, and that chosen by the voters. It was in real value in education could be | theso_circumstances that Presid obtained by scrapping the whole of it and starting afresh, mak ing the boys' and girls' need the ruling factor-not the demands of the universities. Two ques- tions suggest themselves as in- dicating the needs of the times educationally-first, what is the essential knowledge which stud-
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ent Zamora, who did not like Azana anti-Church activities, did a daring thing. Although the Cortes had given Azana an over- whelming. vote. of confidence. Zamora brought about the Pre- mier's resignation. He was fol- lowed in the Premiership by Senor Lerroux.
COALITION CABINET
ro-
ents should have on leaving anhool: secondly, how can schools be organised economical- Senor Lorroux was overthrown ly, simply and efficiently to en- In three weeks, but his successor, sure the acquis.tion of this Barrios, was compelled to demand essential knowledge by the the dissolution of the Cortes and pupils 2 It ja
a new election. The result has Buggested
como out 48 foreshadowed. that the old type elemen- Leadership le now in the hands tary school, which concerned of Senor. Lerroux, leader, of n itself more with a sound ground-coalition representing ing in essentials than with the publican concentration with lean- "frills" of education, produced | inga distinctly towards the Right. better type of bay than Barrios and Robles are members. modern methods do. This may
Tho republic must not, therefore, be an over-statement of the vo regarded as in any danger. facts, but there is a sufficient carried away by their success at The more extreme Right wingers, germ of truth in the assertion the polls, are angry with to causo educationists to ponder youthful Gil-Robles for linking on the desirability of curtailing himself with a conservative Re- a curriculum which would ap- publican Cabinet instead of sup pear to give most youth a porting the Monarchista, But smattering of knowledge on a
thore la little doubt ho has chosen great number of subjects, but little of real value on any-a complaint which is heard these daye tu Hongkong just as much as it is at Home.
the
wisely. It is obvious that any at- tempt to restora Alfonso to-day would light the fires of civil war in manner which would make the recent Anarchist outbreak look like a tea-party.
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When the criels came, the man with the overhead charges and no margin was eventually obliged to transform utterly his situation whereas the man with the margin
(Continued on Page 6.)
"Well, here I am about to marry a man with a bald spat.”
MARCH.-Unless something un-. the third month In the year. foreseen happened this will be
Shroffs will be unusually active. following rumours, that Eddie Kolly is due for a risc. Monthly trade returns will be issued by the Hongkong government,
"APRIL and MAY.—Estimates for the Transit of Venus will reven keen competition. If no rain falls ub to the end of these months, a water shortage will exist in Hong- kong.
JUNE.--A movement to confine the Liquor Traffic to one-way streets will cause discussion, and, in the controversy in the Corres pondence columns of the papers, there is a probability that the defeated section will be the losors.
BOWE-
JULY-Nothing will happen in
July.
...
AUGUST,--August will be sitti Jar in many respects to July.
SEPTEMBER-Statistics for
September will be very bad, and, as a result, many listeners will endeavour to sell their wireless cots. The Trado Returns wili disclose that trade is not returning, OCTOBER.---It will be too hot to predict anything for October,
NOVEMBER.-Standing Com- mittees, Wali do nominated by the Legistative Counen to ait and adjudicato upon the problem of Hongkong's water supply, bover- al patriotic people, including a well known journalist about town, will, write, ottering to hacrifice their water ration. Cometa are al- most bound to be visible in Hong.. kong, and what will happen when they appear will be the subject 01 Bome conjecture. Naturally, they will comet anything.
DECEMBER-Ratification
of
the pact between ipso and Facto may lead to dillerences between U tra and Viros, but the good officca of Cum" Grano Salis (well nguted and equipped with every modern business appliance) will élect a settlement Séveral shroi wul hope that Edward Kelly will do the same. Now Year resolu tions will be prepared all over the world. An Ordinance will be in- troduced in Legislative Counell, with a clause prohibiting the pur cunso of Christmas presents. This will be known as the Santa Clauso..
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OCH, AYE
If we weren't," tired of jokuj about Scotsman we'd tell you the ons about the Aberdeon farmer, the father of two daughters, who bought a double-barreled shotgun.
MAGAZINE ADVT.
“THEY: ́LAUGHED WHEN SAID I COULD CRACK A JOKE, BUT THEY STOPPED WHEN ́CRACKED IT.”