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NOTES OF THE DAY ROOSEVELT'S THE PRESS AND PEACE ̈
The_League of Nations recent |ly organised a special press-con- |ference at Madrid to consider whether there is any means of
FREEDOM OF PRESS
The main points which emerged from the discussions are enshrined In a serios of resolutions. The
FIRST YEAR
By R. J. CRUIKSHANK
The Very Idea!
ALL HOT AIR This is serious business; wherefor
we want you to pull down the corners of your mouths and look all agog; and tho ngogger you can look the bettor.
Looking all ngeg is performed combating the spread of false in-AMERICA has come to the end able to poke fun at the ancestral
of one of the most crowded pieties,
an follows. Standing before a formation which may threaten to
and exciting years in her history. Indeed, people have actually cheap mirror, the cheaper tho disturb the peace of the world When Mr. Roosevelt WAS in-been beaten in the streets for better, one opens one's mouth to and good understanding between augurated President, just a year venturing to criticise the Prosits fullest extent and pops ont
ago; overy bank in the country dent.
one's eyeballs as far as they will nations. Thirty-two countries was closed. Fear gripped the It is a curious fact that the one go, at the same time crinkling up were officially represented as well people. The old leaders were dis- current stage hit of a satirical one's forehead until it looks like. credited; the new men wore, un-typo chastises not the politicala corrugated scrubbing board.... as thirteen of the great inter-known quantities.
leaders of to-day but poor Mr.All ready? Since that morning of erlols, Hoover. He is scen on moving Ladies and gennelmen, ahem!.. national press, agencies like Reu-
America seems to have lived day, and
Do sharp-tongued Mrs.
you wonder, over bother ters. Thore were also present through ten years of history in a Hoover la represented demanding yourselves about the air you Bome representatives of such puro- brief 12 months, Old ways of to know what they have to show breathe?........Of course you don't. thought have boon discarded for for four years in the White House, You got all stewed up about ly national agencies as the Swiss now. The objective of a planned The President wandern down to clean milk, and clean bath water, Editorial Association.
national economy has been sub- the footlights, and with an in- and pure beer, and the altuation stituted for the age-old American describably woebegone air says in Japan and fresh fish, and Ideal of individualism.
to the audience, "Well, what has armaments; and all the time you Industry has been regimented un-anyone else to show for it?" This are gulping down great dollops dor the N.R.A. codes. The stubborn is invariably received with roara of putrid atmosphere; atmosphero national resistance to any form of of malicious laughter.
that is positively rocking with Government relief for the destituto. The New Deal has done one impurities. has given place to the most lavish thing for the stage that would dele system in history.
have shocked Mr. Coolidge. It has Instead of the Coolidgo policies recognised that destitute actors most important of these are those of cheeseparing economy the Gav- have as much claim to Govern- ernment is deliberately incurring ment assistance as destitute brick- which re-aßrm as the two pro- a debt of 10,000,000,000 dollars in layers. requisites to any progrese, the order that America may "spend
The Civil Works Administration freedom of the press, and access her way to prosperity."
is hiring numerous companies of to fall and authentic information.ness" has been silenced, and the free performances in schools and The old cry "Hande off buat-those impoverished players to give The point of the latter le that Administration is now involved in other buildings. The salaries are
all. journalists are often wilfully mis-one way or another with virtually around six pounds a week. It is led by their informants and then every business enterprise in the complained that this is poor puy Take, for example, the gures
land. the papers are blamed for publish-
for a Hamlet, but it is better than for Shanghai. With what do the The farm bett is flooded with starving.
Municipal Council of that ing false news. The Conference Treasury cheques paid in return; It is actually possible at this salubrious city their poor was also dead against all forms of for the reduction of acreage or moment in New York to see a play starved beings?....Let the facts. censorship In times of peace. the destruction of stock.
acted
by Government-paid per-speak for themselves. All the great onks of the forest formera, to hear a concert
by Oxygen
31 parts are fallen. Prohibition, that Government-paid musicians, in-Nitrogen ...... 49 J seemed unchallengeable, has sud-spect pletures painted by Govern Fish-and-chips a traco denly vanished. The majestic mont supported artists,, and to Carbon monoxide two traces Republican Party, that seemed un-read a newspaper run by the Gov- Ilair oll
3 parta beatable, is in rains.
ernment for the benefit of des- Ammonta It a doubtful whether any itute writers. That this can be insolable matter, 1 gill such profound changes in a year, anguish from the rugged in- nation in modern times has shown done without arousing walls of Gin To a resident in this country the dividunilate shows how far Ameri. for Hongkong: Compare thie psychological difference is even en las travelled in the past twelve Oxygen more striking than the material months,
Nitrogen The Government's influence on Pigs .... alterations,
CORRECTIONS
Hongkong Telegraph. ciple that
And of what does that air, consist?
With the object of throwing a lurid light on this great public ucandal we have engaged, for one night only, the services of Pro fessor Poopdiggle, that woll-known scaremonger, whose revelations sprout billions of goose-pimples will, we are Aure, cause you to and make your flesh eroep over the place.
Air
none
7 pints with the figures
hardly any nono
Poof!
17 parts
2:3
Another very important prin- was apparently un- animously accepted was that con- cerned with "the right to correct MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1934. false news in the international field and in the press should be WAR ON POVERTY
one of the most effective means of combating the harmful-effects of At a moment when we are false news which may threaten to disturb the peace of the world and being constantly reminded, by the good understanding between overcrowding and other revela- nations." The 'right of reply' as tions, of the low standard of the same phrase is better known living of many of the inhabitants in English, is one for which many of the Colony it is interesting to people have frequently sighed note that within a space of forty when they have seen published years the number of people in what they know to be calumnies the London area living below the against Home foreign people. poverty line has been reduced Should this proposal be taken from 30.7 to 8.7 per cent. That farther and really be accepted as is the net result of comparison a rule of conduct international
the figures compiled by news should be considerably puri- on the other side of the Atlantic, Fine Arts Committee of the Trea- Interest the people of Kowloon to
fied.
To-day America is still beact by the arts is likely to be marked. Brilliantine troubles, but her attitude to them Unemployed artists in large num- ZBW has completely changed. In 12 bers have been recruited to decor- Laurel and Hardy a soupeon months Mr. Roosevelt has swung ate the new buildings being erect- Snobbishness the spirit of the nation
2 parts fromed by the Public Works Adminis-
n trace. pessimism to optimism. He has tration.
"The flavour of this so-called own courage and cheerfulness. communicated to his people his; During the past three months atmosphere," says the Professor's. 2,500 artists have been given em- outstanding events in the story of have produced thousands of works gives a gritty reaction like chow- The anniversary of one of the ployment by the Government, un report, "reminds one of bad oggs and spinnach. When bitten it America will be the occasion for a of art. More than a million dol- stocktaking of the many political fare has been allocated to this ing sand-paper, and one imperial
and financial experiments of the work.
quart of it was found to contain Roosevelt Revolution, as it is **This project will have a lasting three tin-tacks, one daddy-long- called hero. There is, however, a effect on the culture and artistic legs, and a portion of an old boot. number of social effects of the life of this country," stated Mr. None of these foreign bodies has
the slightest nutritive valuo." Revolution which are not known Edward Bruce, secretary to the
And what of Kowloon? It may know that oven the atmosphere is not above auspicion. The figures shall speak for them- selves:
Oxygen
mainland
46 parts
7
1!!
оде
Orchestra 3 parts
of
but make interesting footnotes to sury. "American art in futura Charles Booth in 1889 with a
eurrent history.
will be less a fad for the rich, and Take, for example, the effect on more definitely a factor in the life survey the details of which have
popular literature. In the closing of the people, now been published by the Lon-TIME'S JESTS
months of the Hoover Administra- Mr. Roosevelt has also made a don School of Economics. In
tion the bookstalls of New York great deal of difference to the were swarming--with the most social-life-of-the-country. More Nitrogen. the sharp reduction of extreme The revival production in avage lampoons.
Lipstick A fungoid than any other man he was res- poverty we see the cumulative London theatre recently of "East growth of satire sprang up, at ponsible for the disappearance of Bus tickets. results of the many measures of Lynne," which, to the late Victo- tacking authority and tradition in Prohibition, and this has not only Ronnie-True's social amelioration that have rians, plumbed the very depths of all its forms. With the advent of brought prosperity to hotela and Coal Dump Dust 18
Roosevelt it vanished, to be suc-created a number of legitimato been passed during the last few pathos, provoked twentieth cen-ceeded by sober pamphlets
tury audiences to almost continueconomica.
on trades to replace illicit ones but Fish-and-Chips.. a trace decades. Were it not for the ous roars of laughter. This cir-
has changed the whole favour and
"The air or Kowloon" the Pro- present heavy incidence of un- cumstance prompted a popular stage successes
Just over a year ago the chief quality of middle-class entertain- fessor reports," is rich in proteids and mineral salts. It is easy to were witty and ment. employment, the reduction would weekly to inquire what books or cruel mockeries of all the things People who took dinner chew, being of the consistency of be still more striking. For, as authors of repute the lapse of time that an older generation had held supper in dimly-lighted speak-stickjaw, and but for the presence sacred. "Of Thee I Sing" was a
easics were careless about their of the cosmetics mentioned would is pointed out in the survey, it has succeeded in making absurd. dazzling triumph in the last year appearance, but now when they be almost palatable" is unemployment more often Investigation showed that classic of the Hoover regime, but its dine out in hotels or restaurants
"Let 'Em Eat Cake," they
How long wear evening clothes to
are the people of than insufficiency of wages that authors of the nineteenth century sequel, is the cause of poverty to-day.have stood the test well. Only though just as witty, did poorly meet the scrutiny of the bright Hongkong going to put with this
in the Roosevelt age.
lights. The cities are more cheer state of things? How long are Despite the stern ordeal through one book then accepted as serious
The mood of the people had ful in appearance as a consequence they going to have their insides. to be changed. It is no longer fashion-| (Continued on Next Column.) which England has been pass-literature appears to-day
polluted with his fearsome mess? Irredeemably foolish. That is ing, in common with the rest of
"Eric, Or Little by Little,” by the world, actual privationr
Dean Farrar. But single passages among the populace stands at an from works which still maintain unprecedentally low figure. Even their fame are freely quoted. Few the so called hunger-marchers peopic, for example, seem cannot disguise that; indeed, adays able to regard quite serious- they emphasise it, though quite ly "the charm of David Copper- unwittingly. Still, the framers field's little sweetheart, Dora." of the London survey are anxi- Nor does the "herole obedience of ous, and rightly so, that the re-the boy who stood upon the burn- much sults of their labours should noting dock" to-day arouse engender a spirit of "compla-serious respones. Charlotte Bronte,
too, does not altogether escape. cenicy." Social progress, they emphasise, has not yet reached
a point when reformers can af- MODERN TASTE ford to slacken their efforts.
be
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The conscience of the country is This inquiry establishes two thoroughly ulive to the necessity points about contemporary readers, for continued exertions on behalf Unlike the educated pubile of the of the "bottom dog," not by Victorian age, they have little grandmotherly legislation, or by taste either for sentimentality or the subsidising of inertia, but by melodrama. They display a ton what one calls giving every member of the dency to population a fair chance to better "realistic" if one approve of it, his or her position in life. Un- and "hard-boiled" if one does not. fortunately, due to the present The danger of Victorian literary world conditions, that is a prob. taslo was to Bec deep feeling lem in which further advance overywhore; the danger of modern must in the meantime be slow. literary tanto appears to be the But there is evidence, in the reluctance to believe in the exist slum clearance and other ence of any deep fooling at all. schemes, of a steady determina-But the Victorian age did not tion to proceed with the task, realise its weakness in this rea- What is being accomplished at pect, wherean the modern age dose. Homo provides an excellent ex-The latter is therefore the batter amplo for this Colony,
armed.
"May we come through, gentlemen?
I think this ia our car."
Confident that our apped will not fall upon deaf ears, wo call upon the ratepayers of Kowloon to REFUSE TO BREATHE, to puff out their checks until their eyeballs threaten to pop, and thus to march in procession to Government House and air their grievances.
Let their slogan be "BLOW THE BATH WATER. GIVE US AIR.'
of the New Deal, and musicians, dressmakers and luxury trades aro among those reaping the benefit.
Even wireless programmes have felt the impact of change: Op- position critics have complained that they cannot get a hearing on the various radio networks. The charge that the Government is gagging discussion has been of- fectively disproved, but it is true that the timidity of the broadcast- Ing companies has often led them to veto attacks on Washington.
The radio is actually moro biased than it would be under Government control, for then the several parties in the State could as their demand representation right.
discus- In
Thoro is a great deal of. sion as to whether the changos American thoughts and habita In- troduced by the Now Deal are por- manent. Opponents of the Ad ministration assort that America Is being changed overnight Into a collectivist and totalitarian State, and that if the average man know whither he is being led ho would racoll in horror.
At the moment, however, there are no signa In the country that the reaction has begun.