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FRIDAY, JULY
NOTES OF THE DAY
ANGLO-GERMAN AGREEMENT
1934.
A GERMAN REFUGEE SPEAKS
By-
Britain held the whip-hand in the debt negotiations with Ger many and the agreement signed satiales all British requiremente, Britain undertaken not to employ Its powers under the Clearing after month. I wake up in father would have said to me.
AYS days Month gether, boy," That's what my
House Bili and Germany guaran- tees to meet all debt charges on the morning. I go to bed at night. the Dawes and Young Loans. As Nothing happens; time goes slow- far as Britain is concerned there ly-terribly slowly. No. change the matter rests, or so Mr. Neville no chance..
Germany Chamberlain bolléves.
is not in quite the same comfort- nble position. Not yet has the Anglo-German agreement put an ond to the danger of stimulating international antagonisms and economic feuds. And, moreover, it is not at all certain that the dropping of the clearing-house schemic by Britain will be accom- panied by forgetfulness among other nations of its usefulness.
PERRY v. CRAWFORD
"We must go!" I say to my somewhere, anywhore, but we must wife. But where? Yes, where?
go. There is the world, the great, One year ago, suddenly, life beautiful and dangerous world, broke away in the middle of my Somewhere there will be a small work, that beloved work of mine, place for two to work and to live the terror came. Terror unbein. And we will come back, we lavable. Suddenly a strange de- must come back again!
heart,
The Very Idea! BACK TO BLOOMERS
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By Maison Eddie Kelly Et Cle Mr. Edward Kelly, who dragged, screaming and kicking, Into the Telegraph office once a week to write "Very Idea,” has seized upon the "Cult of Fashion" controversy with fendish delight. Since last Friday, Mr. Kelly has spent his spare time out at the beaches, personally investigating the Intent fashions in shorts. His oplalons, which aro given below, may be summarized in a state- ment he issued this morning,
"Of course they're shocking," Mr. Kelly said, "but we men are good shock absorbers,”
Now read on.
pression oppressed my How are such things possible? The Crain rushes through the STRIPPED to our scanties Could atrocity stalk so boldly in night. We are quiet and tired, and brassieres we times of culture? Is this the terribly tired. Three trunks are "new order"? All hopes for the a!! wo have. One man in the cor- reiterate our protest against future destroyed in a moment. No her says: "One hour and we are this feminine invasion of
At the frontieri hope to get any job. Even the at the frontier." smallest Job; even the most hated Do you realise what that means? men's clothes. work.
Do you know, man? Freedom,
We, as protectors of the No uniforms, no processions, no door bells ringing, no "friends" public morals of Hongkong, who are afraid to speak to "aub- have had occasion before this to human traitors," who played with protest against woman's invasion them na boys and met them as men of man's rights. Do you realise what that means- At the frontier?
Whut shall become of mo? What shall become of my wife Is there no way out?
to man,
or that
As the victim ourself of a certain knobbiness about the
that women wear shorts simply to Boll it all down, and 'you'll find attract our Intention.
Since last Friday we have spent most of our time at the beach, and, let us toll you, we can see through their intrigue even if
Noto by Abigall: If you were a gentleman you wouldn't look,
Note by Mr. Kelly: We sald "Intrigue. Besides (coldly), this column isn't intended for women to-day.
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As we were saying, something be dono about these should" feminine fashions,
F. J. Perry and Jack Crawford will clash in the final of a national tennis championship for the fourth We are sitting at home. No one time in less than a year when they speaks. It is a dreadful silence, in meet to-morrow for the greatest rooms where a few days ago hap- prize of all, the men's singles pinces and laughter could be The train stops. Omcials come knees, we know what Father di championship at Wimbledon. No recognised. Are the rooms the in. Control. Minutes grow to Angelis was talking about when further evidence would appear to same as before? They are not. hours. The train starts again. he said that shorts are the thin be necessary to establish them as All seems strange. This old table, Stopa again in a foreign country.edge of the wedge. the outstanding players of the pre- this old picture of my father in Uniforms I never saw before, pollte sent time, and it needs only the the uniform of a German soldier, officials, happy people speaking match itself to satisfy public He was a "patriot" and fought for language which I cannot under opinion on the most interesting his "Fatherland."
stand. But I see they are free. point, which of the two is the greater? Results suggest Perry Fatherland! That word reminds Free in word and free in mind. and he must enter the contre court me. Switch the wireless on ...
Is it true? Is it reality or for the great occasion of his career**.. since 14 years the Marxist dream? We two among a free with the moral advantage, not in-and Jewish traitors ruined the people who are not persecuted and considerable, furnished by a series Fatherland... Did you really, are not afraid to speak to us? I of victories over his rival. Three poor old dad? Did you ruin Ger must try that freedom, I cannot straight sets sufficed when last many in the trenches in France? stop trying. I try to speak with they met on a hard court, and if Switch it off honour the the odd words of this a superiority complex has any memory of my father.
language. They try to understand. meaning, Perry should establish
The bell rings. 1 se the fear Really, they try. They do not ever the first English Buccess at Wimbledon since 1909. The only in my wife's eyes. Are they com- laugh at me. What a pity we must An old grievance was ven- doubt engendered arises from sug-ing? Will they take me to the Elve it up! And I would have been tilated at this week's meeting of gestions of some lack of form in camp? Is this moment the last at so happy to speak again as man
Old Whalesteeth and us, we took. his last match or two. That may home? I open the door, a youngs-
A new world begins for us. One our wives down to the K.C.C. for t the Chinese Chamber of Com-mean nothing at all. It would be ter in Nazl uniform asks for money merce when complaint was voiced safer for Crawford to assume that for the Storm Troopers. I have no friend, whose address we had spot of tennis last Sunday, and the at the losses suffered by renson Perry has been playing within himmons have just lost my job, helped us for the first days to get women would insist on wearing
self, reserving his energy for the The Nazi rings the next door bella room and to find our ways. I shorts; of the discounting of chopped real task,
Once again we sit at the table. begin to run about. I visit all Hongkong dollars. The chop-
I did not tell my wife what Willy committee rooms and assistanes Whalesteeth had a hole in the seat. me yesterday. He said organisations. I wait there for of his pants, nor were we to blame ning of dollars can be traced back
Kifoozlebugs came up, should go as quickly as possible. many hours. I tell my story a when in its origin to pro-coinage days
They are behind you," he said, thousand times, I find no hope of slapped him on the back, and sald: in China, when sycee, was stamped as a method of guar-called, continue to issue encourag work as correctly as anyone else.
Economic experts, actual and Are they really? Why? What is any work. Not here, not there.
wrong with me? I have done my nowhere.
I get letters of introduction. anteeing the genuineness of the ing forecasts, carrying always a
reassuring promise of good times I am a good Socialist, they know of Everywhere they are friendly and silver. It is for the same pur-ahead. People or every age and me. That's true: They all know, willing to help but nowhere they pose that dollars are now country look forward hopefully. It is sufficient to make me a can help. I will take any job.. chopped. Formerly, there was with a realisation that, somewhere prisoner, a victim of the Storm But i am not allowed to take a job
-and there is no job going. a deal of chopping done in Hong-sun of happiness and prosperity,
behind the clouds there shines the Troopers.
I know what they did with some I met a man I know from Ger kong, but this is no longer the In recent years, however, there has of my friends. I could cry, I could mady. "You will have more suc- case, Canton and the Kwangtung come into the experiences of many run into the streets and cry aloud: ceas over here than a man like interior being the centres from a persistent fear that basic changes "Have you all forgotten that you ma," he says. And I believed him for the logical development of the are men and not benstá? Is there! which the defneed coins come Capitalistic system) have destroy- no eternal right of mankind happier than I am! into Hongkong. Actually, undered the economie structural ma Where is the Lord to help the an ordinance passed some forty tiny which-had-come-to-seen persecuted? la there no feeling small-savings become smaller and the foundation rather than the no sentiment, is there no heart? smaller. And even this help can- years ago, it is a demeanour in mere outward expression of har What have the little children done not be sent any longer from Ger-
No; we have had serious Ideas the Colony to deface a dollar bymonious existence. An era of dis that they are persecuted? What many. The restriction strikes
illusionment, bringing with ft con-
hard. chopping, whilst under the same vincing evidences of the transitory
have they done?"!
And finally the savings about this sawn-off trousers move- have gone. Every day we run for ment for some time. But nobody would answer, no-the papers. Is there something matches in the old days, when the
We used law no payment of money made value of those things which many
to watch football in dollars so defaced is legal had regarded as substantial and body would try to look at me. nav about Germany? Is there any
permanent, unquestionably has few men in uniform would come hope? Can we hope to return players were trousers to the knees, tender, Actually, these dollars caused many thoughtful persons to and--mental hospital or concentra- Will our beloved country become and the jerseys were worn to the where they met high stockings, are accepted, but at a discount, seek a basis of true and actual tion camp would be the end. and as they are freely circulated, values. being continually encountered in
GOOD TIMES AHEAD?
ordinary everyday transactions, NEW FORMULA ?
the public is at the mercy of
told
A
Month after month passes. The
free again?
It was no fault of ours that
"Golly, Whalesteath! Look
at that awful rip in your pants!"
"Sh-sh! you fool," hissed Whalesteeth, "that's my
wifet"
Shorts on the beaches and tennis courts, as Father de Angelis auld, are only the thin edge of the wedge. Unless nipped in the bud, the wave of immodesty may scorch and poison other public occasions.
Besides, it's hot fair to the moths and silverfish, cutting away the cloth from under their teeth,
und
neck, and as often as not were We must come to a decision. Hope is our life, hope is our adorned chastely with ties in the One or the other. But something only happiness,, hope must be club colours, and when further, must be done. Suicide? For one realised.
the players wore caps. terrible moment that idea rushes
In these latter-days of clothes,. through my mind. I know that There are the "Committees," which expose the bare flesh from those who fix the discount.. A What is to bring, and what is to thousands of good men made dea- there is the High Commissioner below the knee to wall above nice little ramp is, indèel, con-Insure, the permanency of these perate choose this way. No. 1 can (once our hope), there is lip ser- the beginning of the thigh (if
better conditions? Is some new not, 1 am too young; I still feel vice. We make 4 few personal we may tinually going on, inasmuch as and untried formula to be prescrib. too strong. "Pull yourself to-l
(Continued on Page 10.) dollars accepted at a discounted, not as a
but as a
again find their way into circula- specine? Dat bas not
man can
tion, and so the process continues engendered impatience. It has, rather, inspired a defnite and ad infinitum. As far as the lay-hopeful search for the finer and mure substantial things, visible see, there seems no adequate reason why these dol-atlety. In this search it is being and Invisible, which sustain and Jars should not be accepted by discerned that greed and fear are the banks at their face value. the fons in the path which must Be that as it may, the present tou long appeared as the most per be met and overcome. These have
position is far from satisfactory sistent and aggressive enemics and and as the publle is being vic-destroyers of human happiness. [timised continuously, the mutter
is one which calls for serious at- | RIGHT THINKING tention. Something might be done along the lines of with- Those who look hopefully for drawal of the existing dollars and ward need not be discouraged or their replacement by token coins too deeply concerned because the world has not been transformed smaller in size than the present and redeemed from greed, selfish- dollara and of less siness and baseless fears in the ver content. This would be in years that have passed since the and proaching of the
line with the action taken in re
brought the clear ray of
to.
gard to cent-pieces.. Such a step would remove, the necessity for Llous people.
benighted and supersti By line ubon line, precept, Truth Im-
(chopping and thus check the precept Anally and convin- I
evil at its source,. On the ground pressos
cingly of convenience, also, it would be
проп
the
consciousness of
appreciated by the public, which listen and learn to understand. has not taken at all kindly to We chould look forward, with no the substitution of dollar-notes
rightful by cumbersome "cart-wheels."surance, claiming as a
fruitage of past experiences, and Whatever the method employed, as a result of leasons well learned. things it is high time action was taken, the brighter and better It ought certainly to be possible which are the firat rewards of for the Treasury in conjunction right thinking. The law of com- with the banks to evolve a plan pensation is irrevocable and im whereby the public is protected partial. In Ita application and enforcement there may be delays, from the exploitation to which it but there can be no miscarringes is at present subjected.
of justice.
"He's a darn good horse. That's the trouble, he's too good for his job.!*
use that word without offence), and which condone open- neck shirts and no hats, we prefer our Ludo and our Snakes and Ladders.
Let the authoritles lay down de- Aallely what are their minimum For their assist- requirements. ance we offer the following sug- Restions:
(1) Foundation garment of red flannel, caught below the ankle-. bone with an elastic band, and renching to a point not more than two inches below the ears. This underwear must not be hem-stitch- ed or French-pleated, or embroi dered, though a touch of braid at the wrists would not be objection- able.
(2) An overgarment of dull grey tr-s-re, touching the toes, and voluminously about the legs and th-ghs and waist.
(3) A top garment of heavy shirting, buttoned to the neck and at the wrists.
(4) Rod woollen mittens. As indicated, those are just the purely for barest suggestions, male participants In games. For females, the same rules will obtain, except, naturally, in ros- pect to the outer-garments where for the male fr-s-Ts there would. be substituted a crinoline with n minimum of three petticoats, long whalebone cors-te, woollen blouse with leg-o'-mutten alcoves and. high-boned neck.
There are other details about which, however, we prefer to maintain a discreet silence, but.. upon which we should be only too delighted to enlarge upon In a private talk with the mother -of any contestant.
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