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NOTES OF THE DAY POLITE SOCIETY
PROTECTIONIST BURST
COMING BACK
By PATRICK BALFOUR
The Very Idea!
HOW DRY WE ARE!
By Edward Kelly, All Wet.
POSSIBLY, you noticed that it rained a little this
The published discussions this last week on the pros and cons of the Colony's free port status have been interesting. if not conspicuously 'oulightening. One contributor only fuit suiclently strongly about the issues rälsed to assert ble viewpoint uncom X7HEN I asked a hostess of "mannors mokyth man" was 'al-morning, 7 promisingly and even with Mr.
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It's rather a shame, really, Edgar Davidson, there were BUS- whether she had noticed any re- picious appearances of a leg-pull young men are answering be stid for polito society: for cle- Write about water.
cent social change she replied,
because now we've got to. After all, there is everything to His eyele of progress towards
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after the restraint as opposed to exhibition-detest water. power consumption write, to thank you production-fresh employment-party." 420
iare, conversation us against wise- ROW purchasing
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surprising that protected coun-at all striking. The truth is that 380
tries do not burst, was the com- while other ages have been more ment of Mr. Davidson, who was affected, others as hectic, the pres for easy intimacy. 420
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FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1934.
THE RABIES OUTBREAK
hardly
United States, the most highly protected country in the world, burst so messily that all the bally hoo and President Roosevelt have not yet succeeded in putting the places together again,
CONFUSINGPOINT
"Very
hypocrisy, a taste for simplletty, a in ice-packs, we've isolated desire to be natural and a need ourself, hunger-striked for But politeness is considerate-five days, and after pro- Teas, not hypocrisy simplicity found thought, discovered a may spell vacancy; the natural is subject for But this phase is passing: of all too easily confounded with the
to-day's that I am sure. My friend's re-animal; and as to intimacy, it is Idea." mark is indicative of a significant a thing which can only come by change. Society, since the war, slow degrees. It is not attained has been in the melting-pot; its by the abrupt demolition of all constitution, its manners, Its mor- barriers. Certain restraints are als, its very existence. But it natural to man. If he flings them seems quite clear to me that from suddenly aside he is behaving in fifteen years of chaos It is at last a manner unnatural to him, and beginning to emerge in a more the result is no revelation of his stable form.
It
true self.
And now, dash it all, it rains. Our subject was going to be rabics.
it last night, and when we came We were only drinking about across on the Star Ferry with our Girl Friend this morning, we asked her whether she thought it would be a good subject.
"What do you think of rabies?"
we asked simply.
Mr. Davidson did not, in fact, carry the exploration of the Colony's peculiar problems any further and it cannot be said that very much was achieved at all. It is, moreover, little unfor- tunate that Sir William Shenton and Mr. Stanley Dodwell should tainment. have chosen to drop the subject at the stage reached in the latters at Wednesday and Thursday, for the confusion is rather greater receding into the background. than when the controveray, If it Those quaint pyjama-and-bottle manners (meaning consideration may so be called, first developed. There is no more of that "Let's
affairs are things of the past. for others) were a waste of time. it has been suggested, for instance, that we might obtain
ring up some people and get up a party" spirit; engraved invita- preferential treatment from Chinations are issued weeks ahead and as a quid pm que for collecting the dance lists are longer than her Customs duties for her in they have been for this Colony on goods destined for China before they leave here. But surely, in order to rendur this service adequately we should have to abandon entirely our frea
For example, if one thing dia-
The truth is that this cult of tinguishes the London season on informality sprang from two prin- which we are now embarked, is its reversion to formal onter- cipal motives: laziness and self- The old-fashioned Ishness. People could not be
"People don't talk about that bothered to think or to talk in-sort of thing until they are mar- "ball," which ten years ago was telligently, so they took to cock-ried?" she said severoly. mocked at, is returning in trip tails and wisecracks. They were That's the worst of having a The "party," which took its place, only out for themselves, and good cold.
Getting back to rain, something will have to be done about all this water.
But a new generation is more solema than its predecessors, more Thousands of poor fish are un- seriousminded, interested in other happy about it all. Which is a things and other people, while its howling shame. There is nothing predecessor, humanised by finan-more pathetic than an unhappy years.
cial adversity and learning by blt-fish. The Derby House Ball this sca- ter experience, is realising that no son will be remembered an Bigni- one can get very far in the pursuit cant social landmark. Wonten in of happiness, or even in the strug- tiaras and in dresses which for gie for more material success, un- some years have been reverting to lean ho considers his fellows. port status. How could we pre-old styles will again throng gilded Good manners go far deeper drawing-roome to the strains of the "Blue Danube," surrounded by escorts who request, politely, the next but two. The reversion is so marked that it can hardly be long and hand-kissing again, before we start bowing, scraping,
was paid on
vent smuggling unless the duty on all goods coming into Hong
arrival? kung Smugglers would hardly suffer pangs of conscience about divert consumption to more profitable ing goods intended for internal
channels.
than mere punctiliousnesa: they are the wladows of the soul. They imply kindness, fellow-feeling, human sympathy.
of its
We ourself have been looking after fish ever since we were R small boy. We put tasty worms and similar dainties on hooks and lower them into the sea; The fish. lies on its back and gnaws con- tentedly at the bait until it has eaten the lot and then swims away.
We then pull in the line, halt the hook, and do it all over again. This has been going on for years.
J
wanders off the subject of water. It's funny how our mind always
As we were saying, we are known as a bit of an authority on
Лuids.
We remember, during our last visit to Shanghai, how we were prevalled upon to deliver a lecture on our experiences in the Hong- kong Hotel.
When we'd finished our lecture, women were weeping. men were groaning, a few wero frathing at the mouth, and all the windows were smashed. The chairman said he'd never seen an audience so greatly moved.
The fact, serious as it is, that Raie Da Cost the rabies outbreak. has now spread into the hitherto clean Raie Da Costa. area of Kowloon from the New Territories cannot be regarded as surprising. With no regula- tions applied to the infected region, this development was
Moreover, if good manners are bound to occur sooner or later.
now making a reappearance on the social stage, their Influence will Yet from the very start, the
be felt in private life. There is na authorities have stubbornly de-
Moreover, there is one moment-
much room for politeness in the clined to tackle the evil at its | RED HERRING
home as in somebody else's home, source. Up to the present, all
ous change which will surely on- References to the Colony as a
sue: for the stim, boyish figure towards people you know as to- does not accord with stately enter-wards comparative strangers. The Jack Hulbert. that has been done is lo enforce free trade island surrounded by tainment, and. in any case Mne reason why the Edwardians made pin-pricking regulations outside a world of nationaliam, introduced Weat is the popular film star of success of marriage was that New Mayfair Orch. the danger area, and to warn the a red herring. We are what we the moment. Can it be, then, they were Intra: "Circus Quaon;" "Now that I have a Spring Timo:" | public of the dangers of a situa- are because of the role we have that women will revert to curves?
too well-mannered, showed too much consideration for "Somebody wants to go to sleep;" "Rell on,
tion created largely by, the chosen to play in the realm of commerce--middlemen taking a Rolling Road:" "You are doing very well:" "Hand Government's own hesitancy to
The reaction towards formality ench other and those whose ex- began last year, when London, in ample they were, to admit failure. in Hand:" "What good are Words:" "won't do the only sensible thing by
rake-off as goods pass through the eclipse of Berlin, the decline Dance;" "Lonely Feat:" Finalc.
dealing with the outbreak in the
Thousands were standing out- Our prosperity, of the past, las of Paris, and the depression of been built upon services. If we
The reason why the succeeding side the hall an hour before wo district where it originated. hope to retain or resume the role
New York, became for the first generation so often made a mesa wero due to commence. After we The task is by no means the in-traditionally considered to be our
time the leader of eosinopolitan of it was that so many of its mem. started they were still standing superable one which it is repre- sole justification for existence at responsibility more nobly than of hypocrisy, whereas in reality come in.
social life and lived up to that bera thought good manners a form autalde. Couldn't get them to sented as being. All that is all, that of a distributing centre, Berlin, Parla, or-Now York had they are the only foundation-for-n- needed is to apply the muzzling"|"It"would be the sheerest folly to
With the presence of mind for ever done. order to the whole of the New meddle with tariffs. If we are
successful, because unselfish, re- which we are noted, we left the Territories, to fix a date for its tradesmen, pure and/or simple, we able distinction, flocked to London
Foreigners, many of consider lationship.
half and, going to the opposite enforcement, and to notify the make our money where and how and, had to be entertained, and, respecting good manners, may well lecture from there, They rushed The coming generation, in alde of the street, started our villagers that dogs found un-
we can and do not consider the as they were strangers, such enter-be able to show a better record into the hall. We rushed after muzzled thereafter will be shot place of origin of the goods we tainment had, of necessity, to be in home life.
sell, provided we get them at of a formal kind. Dignity re-
them and locked the doors. nt sight. A drastic method, reasonable price and sell them at turned to London society after a society's
Is it too much to hope that reversion to admittedly, but the only effectual a better. The code may not be along absence.
decent means of coping with the situa-patriotically moral one in a British
standards of behavour it more tion. If it be pleaded that the Colony, but this is hardly the time been maturing, by way of reaction implies a renewed sense
I believe that this tendency has than a passing fashion, that it | New Territory folk cannot afford for the merchant to quarrel with
against fifteen years of unrestrain responsibilities, that it even port- the cost of muzzles, then let the it.
ed behaviour, for some time. We ends an awakening of finer sen Government supply them free of.
are by nature a formal people. sibilities after a dead and shallow charge and notify dog-owners
We have never been good Bohem period? that they can secure them at the nearest police station. It might even be desirable to go further, either by limiting the number of dogs which a family may possess or by refusing to grant licences except in cases where dogs serve. an obvious necessity. The fact is that there are far too many dogs in the New Territories, many mere pariahs, owned by no-one. It is, indeed, most like, ly that these are the type of animal which, coming across the border, are largely responsible for spreading the disease. Un- fortunately, the evil cannot be tuckled along the preventive lines followed in England, where all dogs coming into the country are placed in quarantine for six months: the existence of the Chinese hinterland rules that mothod out. But in England the quarantine requirements are re- inforced, when necessary, by muzzling orders in the affected areas not outside them, which is the Hongkong way. If an outbreak of rabies occurred in apeuk. one county, the muzzling regulations to other than the main in- tions would not be applied to an-fected region, and by issuing other-they would be confined to warnings to the public. The the area directly affected, which situation calls for thorough- is the only sensible course, This
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TARIFF REQUIREMENTS
The time to consider modifien- tions of our free port status can
When we left Shanghai wo were presented with a magnificent bunch
inns. We are more at our ease The intellect, at least, should among the conventions of politej derive greater stimulus from the only come when and if industries society than in the studio and the formal entertainments of the pre-of rare awkwards, with sprigs of backstairs bar. The white tie is sent than from the promiscuous our natural evening uniform, and orgles of the past.
It
have been developed in the Colony, Is premature to decide the question now. For it does not follow that tariffs must accompany industrialisation. A variety of considerations require study before П duty оп any
com- modity сап be justified. In the first place, it must be shown that an industry seeking shelter
fact that a factory locally exists from a tariff la offelent; the mere
shown that protection is necessary In not enough. It should also be and desirable; if, an Industry is competitive it can stand on Ita own fect. If it needs the support of a tariff before commencing operations, it should never com-
mence.
And there can be no dustry, that is to say excuse for protecting an allen in- business not suitable to the Colony bat making a vonture and trying to struggle along against odds. That is whore an economic committee would be valuable; in steering auper-optimista clear of ventures that cannot be acclimatised, so to
is in sharp contrast to the mens-authorities, whose business it is ures adopted here in Hongkong to take every possible step to which would appear to be based protect the Colony from the on the almost fatalistic idea that serious dangers to which it is because the inhabitants, of the New Territories might object to
at present exposed. And no question of the "Ausceptibilitica"
the application of the muzzling of the inhabitants of the New
The
order, nothing can be done. evil certainly cannot be com- batted by confining the regule
Territories should be permitted
to deflect the Government from its obvious duty.
"Remember, we're calling on the Conways this evening, so don't
order anything that will make you, hiccup."
maiden hale all around it, and a large bottle of rum. We also had. a police, escort..
So onger was the crowd to get nor us that the police had to draw their revolvers, and five people were killed and many wounded.
Wo were in Hongkong during. the great drought of 1842-1934, when there was such a shortage of water that the Water Authority didn't know whether they had restrictions imposed or not.
But our greatest experience: in Hongkong was in June, 1934, when, for 1 whole days, it never rained at all, and the water in the streets was only three inches deep, and going down rapidly. On
ab occasion the Peak people had to drink their whisky-nont be- tween the hours of 6pm, and 1
.m.
All this is to show that we know as much about rain as Mr. Jeffries doen, so that any advice we give is backed by experience.
Still, it's a pity we couldn't write about rabica this morning. We could think of some snappy things to say about dogs.
When it was raining cats and doge this morning, we stopped in a poodle.
As we can't write what we want to write about, and, besides. people are sick. of the rain, we think we will now change into some dry clothes, and telephone our Girl Friend. We're going to ask her if she'll come out for n stroll to-night, simple
Anyway, speaking of rain, the least shed the botter,.