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Amid wars and rumours of wars," many are striving to make real to the world, the horrors of war by drawing pictures of gas nt. tacks from the air that will amether our homes and our chil
peace.
ARE REALLY HAPPY
By BERNARD FALK".
know when we are happy. It nel,
A LIFE OF CRIME By Ed. Kelly, Publle Enemy No. 1.
am persuaded that, we do not latence ran on in one narrow chan-THE advantages of a life an uninterrupted flow of of crime are so obvious dren, of paralysation of supplies. Is a view with which I have found peaceful moods, we should never that it is a wonder that we of starvation, and, of pestilence, most people whose opinion I havs know happiness. How could wo,
did not take up The purpose of these pictures is to sought to agree with me. An old deprived of the means of com
the profes- enlist fear to help the cause of friend, on whose rips wisdom Isot parison?
sion earlier, Analysing my memories I seo Mr. Nikola Tesla has now much store, expressed himself in added his quota with the promise this fashion:
that I was happy, not when things We refer to the fact that We can no more tell when we are went smoothly for any lengthy we have to appear before of a horrible death ray which he intends to place at the disposal of happy than wo can be sure then term, but when, pendulum-like, I Xall governments. The iden is that Hit will be so dendly in effect that
[against them and their people. probably the happiest period of dur after each storm was my nearest apector Saunders about our car.
none dare risk its employment The world would do well to refuse existence, when the simplest joys, approach to definable happiness. Lfear as an ally. Fear's advice to
unexpected half-
In terms of happiness the red- man is negative, telling him to re- holiday, can put us on the best letter days, in my life were not the a fine, we anticipate that we will As we have no money to pay Lfrain from doing what inclination of terms with ourselves. Yet how showy months when tangible-suc-
of
the top of a Stock Exchange boom was swung, backwards and for- Mr. Wynne Jones this morn- wards, for worry to mental, ease. (ing in connection with a For most of us schooldays are The relief of reaching calm waters little unpleasantness with In-
in reached.
such us An
bids him do, whereas constructive few. are the boys and girls who cesses were won, or when I imag at least not have to write for Sthought and action are the need of realise that with their innocent ined I had attained some coveted this column for the next fort-
the day. Examples this school years are bound up in- objective. Striving, rather than night... obstructive quality of fear are seen numerable golden hours which succeeding, was the happier ex-
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Actually, we would have taken
and social history. Another characteristic of fear in its effect of a first child, early successes In upon man's judgment. In everyone's calling-each is a landmark im in view, at once honourable
in typical career which it la to be able to appreciate correctly to associate with happiness, but heart and conscience, and faith-up the life of a criminal much what is the right course to pursuc. iifo in the round we cannot dis-fully to pursue that aim, is, as soнooner in life if it weren't for the
until these chapters are part of hut it is notorious that fear warpstinguish whether they are inter. many poets have sung, to come as risk of accidents, against the course which it elects Judea of genuine or illusory con possible. the judgment, giving a strong bias
near to happiness as is humanly
Another drawback is the hours to belleve unsafe. For this reason,gift of discernment ours to com found; and I have yet to be con tontment. Were the necesanry venture no one willingly mond we should not
Perfect happiness I have never you have to work, especially if you
are a burglar. often mis-
vinced that it has fallen to the It has been said that burglary more profound serenity of mind and spirit in which ranl happiness boasted of being perfectly, happy our first burglary we smeared the functions, and has its being.
wore victims of hallucination.safe with gellgnite, or "soup," as That they felt themselves really they call it in the trade, threw a MATERIAL CONSIDERATIONS. happy is a matter of dobate, for match at it, and then went for a Presumably for our good, hap-genuine happiness is unconscious long walk. When we came to, there What has been said of the ex-piness, it would acem, is only to happiness, reallarble only, as I was a rather deep and ragged hole perience of individuals is equally be detected in retrospect, when its have already urged, in retrospect. where the safe used to be, and true of international affairs. Fear comfortable apell has passed, and, To remind ourselves we are that was all.
would choose
As leader A mnn Stubbs Road known to be apprehensive of the take purchased pleasure for lot of any man. People who have is a safe job. This is untrue. On
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1934..
PLAYGROUNDS FOR THE POOR
outcome.
| THE ETERNAL DELUSION
of
is
operates to prevent confident and in contrast with other periods of happy is surely to threaten the constructive acts and to lead life. It is a shining memory over peace of mind on which it is based, We advertised for the safe, with- | Judgment astray. To encourage which, as we grow older, the mind and, like happiness that is hotly out result. We suspect that some fear is to forge a weapon that is has a fondness for lingering. If chased, to find it receding before dishonest person had found it and likely to prove more enemy than
my experience has not been vastly us. I may be wrong, but I speak kept it for a birdenge or something. friend to peace. There can be no different from the great majority, from my own experience. doubt that the general sense
Burglars make very good the occasions to ensure happiness Happiness, I maintain, fear and disquiet played a very are mostly governed, to the small-oblivion of self and the passing
Jusbands. Through constant In opening the Wanchai chl- European war. The best that can siderations.
large part in precipitating the last ost extent only, by material con- hour. That is why men and wo-
practice they become adept at getting home at all hours of men whose work is pleasing enough dren's playground, the Hon. Sir Le said for fear is that men some-
the night without bumping the Take a typical instance, week wholly to absorb them are happy Thomas Southern expressed the times avoid crime from fear of the end when I sit in the sunshine, why, amongst other reasons, the
.furniture or arousing the gold- Ash. This annoys some wives.. hope that the day would come it in worth nothing that fear has to read for an hour or so an in- who in goodly acts discover an en- consequences, yet even in this caac perhaps in one of the public parks, religious and charitably-minded,
As a matter of fact, any woman when every child in the Colony done the man himself no good, for teresting book. Uncontrolled, my grossing occupation, are markedly whose husband has got away with would have a place in which to he still suffers from the delusion eye takes in the beauty of Nature's happy.
something without giving her the that the crime would bring him adscenic effects the green tracery play, free from danger to him-vantage, and. If at any time cir of the trees,
Not until I retired and was faced opportunity to nag him about it self and others. That day, we cumstances make him believe he colour, the faint blue of the cloud- did I discover the extent to which should be sufficient grounds for the floral riot of with the prospect of idle leisure as a legitimato grievance, which. fear, is a long way off; it may can evade the consequences, he will fecked sky. Follows a brisk walk happiness and hard work travel in divorce even in Hongkong.
commit it. Fear can no more pro-that brings me with keen appetite harness. None the less, duce peace than darkness
Foolishly I used to there has in recent years been croate light. Real peace can come some letters; do a number of odd when one was quit of work was should be a Kindness-to-Burglars can to my meals. Perhaps I write imagine the reverse-that only treated in this Colony. There We think burglars are not fairly a distinct quickening of public only to a people whose thoughts jobs for myself; one way or an-one happy. To-day I suppose it Week. interest in the provision of open
and aima are peaceful.
other, at the end of the day, I am is true that I seek to be more in- spaces for the masses, and the
found deliciously tired in mind and dustrious than ever. limb, so that I fall off into a sound progress already made in this direction engenders even greater
never come.
hopes for the future. Happily, in the Colonial Secretary we have
a high Government official who
MEASURING “IT”
ever
sleep, thereby rounding off a happy twenty-four hours,
FROM LITTLE JOYS..
Though the years had to accumu-
I am conscious that a day has late before the truth dawned on
Even if a man does break into the Chartered Bank vault, after all, it's not his vault. (Order!)
Then again, they have a very When
I
This explains the term "Silence in the caught,” which you have all heard at some time or the other.
Nobody or nothing has adequately defined "It" but a gone pleasantly by, but, however me, now I know that out of little deadly instrument has just made agreeable my feelings, I do not joys the greatest moments of hap- strict code of honour. its debut which may cause riots in honour them with the title of happiness are born. Like Addison, pluched, they never-dump their is heart and soul in the move- the feminine world. The "pasho piness. That must be part of a the famous essayist, I have been buddles (meaning, of course, they ment and who has played no positive and negative bulb lights, comes when i awake with a dull a few select friends, overjoyed to
meter" is a complicated affair of later revelation. For a morning most contented in the company of never rat on their cobbera). small part in the activities which an infra-red ray passing between headache and everything to which share their conversation. have resulted in the laying down two jensen and a magie aluminium I-apply, myself takes on a stale or of six playgrounds during the circle wherein one's figure reflec-lack-lustre aspect. My little unlearth found that Glory's thrills Nor have the exalted ones of this past five years, Mr. J. L.. Mac-tion is caught by a photo-electrie verse is sadly out-of-Burts; I feel offer them more satisfaction than Pherson, also, has shown charac-cell which registers the degree of as old as the world itself. Then, the everyday pleasures which are Bag snatchers have a hard life. teristic energy and enthusiasm register personality or "it", and ful day I spent in the sunshine, blest of mankind. In the eve of doing real well about three years intensity on a dial. It purports to regretfully, I think of the wonder- the common privilege of the hum-We know one poor chap who was in the project. But, gratifying is being demonstrated at a radio among the flowers, and, for the her long reign, Queen Victoria was age, but met with a frightful bit as the progress has been, there exhibition. Mias Jocelyn Howarth, first time, recognise how happy I happy copying with still supple of bad work. He tried to snatch are, as Sir Thomas Southorn has the star of the Australina film pointed out, thousands of chil-The Squatter's Daughter", regis-
fingers a pattern of crochet-work, in bag from a woman and shu hung dron who remain unprovided for.tered 98 per cent. "It" on the
For listening with rapt ears while on to it. He couldn't get the bag a novel of Marlon Crawford, was away from her, so he had take the The system at present in force machine, but she was beaten by a is for the Government to provide young Melbourne suburban matron between the bright and dull sea-
We need, I am sure, the contrast | being rend over to her.
woman as well. Even then she. who registered one hundred persons of life to learn when true Eugenie have told me that towards was that he had to marry her.
Friends of the ex-Empress still clutched it, and the finish up the plats, leaving it to the Chil-
cent. The Lord dren's Playground Association Melbourne registered only 30 per
Mayor of happiness was our portion. If ex- (Continued on Page 10.) to equip and maintain the cen-cent., while the lady Mayoress, a tres. The burden is, however, daughter of Mr. Norman Brookes, a heavy one for the Association, the famous tennis star, showed, which requires at least $450 only 35 per cent.
per month to carry out its work
effectively. This is on the basis THE JAPANESE TRUST of the existing six playgrounds; obviously, it will need even more money. as and when fresh play- ing-fields are opened up. There is even now an' urgent need for funds. Many of the sporting institutions of the Colony have
Lancashire cotton loom census reveals that while most other countries are reducing equipment, steady expansion is still proceed- ing in Japan and this process seems likely to continue. Japan's
Bummed up
word:
helped by joining the Associa- textiles.
success in the World's trade in
адам
may be tion, but the number of individ | fundamentally in a ual subscribers is lamentably ganisation. When Japan went in small. When it is considered for industrialisation, it already what a boon these playgrounds possessed this great advantage. are for the poorer children of the For "the Hermit Kingdom" woke Colony, for whose enjoyment so up in the 'sixties without sacrific- little is done, there should be no ing a feudal system. The State difficulty, in maintaining a regu- took the place of the lord in the lar yearly income enabling the allegiance of the Japanese--the Association to function without
Stabo as personified in the Mikado. the need of having to worry over
And it was the State that guided finances. If there are residents There was no stage of
the country into Industrialisation. who desire ocular proof of the latter
Industrial need which these playgrounds families, despised
Bront
faires in
wore
But
commend to the the of Wanchal contre, where during agents of industralisation Bat any evening hundreds of children with the old class or through the olther through Intermarriage can be seen making use of the subsidy system, they gradually facilities with unbounded enjoy became indistinguishable ment. But, as we say, only n. State itself. Thus,
from before
cartols beginning has so far been made; were ever heard of, Japan had 80 much remains to bo donu: them. Before rationalisation be- The great need at the moment is. more money. We commend the. had a place for it. Japan, in the
the lexicon of Japanese movement to all who have at words of Mir, Arno S. Pearse, hond heart the welfare and happiness of the Lancashire Cotton Fedora- of the poor children, of the tion, has developed into one huge Colony.
trust.
came a new word in the linesA
was.
LEARNING BY CONTRAST,
Now he's practically On the broad line. He works his fingers to the bone all day anatching bags, and she picks his pockets while he's naleep. Enough, to drive" a man to teetotalism.
This, by the way, provides uta with a moral which will save any aspersión casting. Our charactor is crumbling slightly at the edges- already, and we cannot afford to have any further damage done to it.
When you have made your money, quit the game and reform. Learn to play a harp. Become a Start taipan and five on the Peak.
a campaign about Lower tram stations, Cultivate the company of wealthy and distinguished people. Then, if you're over feel- ing a bit penurious, you've got the stuif laid on.
Don't forget that retribution will. overtake you Take the case of our old pal. Dillinger. In elevon. hold-upa he managed to get about $400,000. He deposited it for safe keeping in the National Prudential Western Trading and Commor. cially Rural Trust Fund and Bank- ing Corporation Inc................The very next day a scoundrel of a manager robs Dillinger and few other people of no account and leaves for Hongkong, where he became:a broker and the bank. Is broke. From broke to broker.
Which just goes to show. how. mean to say that it proves beyond all shadow of doubt..
.......anyway.
it Just shows you. Don't It?
Wo
Ah, well We suppose we'd i better trot across to Kowloon, and sea our friend Mr. Wynne Jones, now, but AD
forgot Flowers, and
And the funny part of it is that I married her before I knew beat, and cheese.....For the
she was such good cook.
Don't
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