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NOTES OF THE DAY IN A WILTSHIRE VILLAGE The Very Idea!
COST OF LIVING
A visitor to Hongkong recently remarked that, so far as he could judge, the hotel rates in the Colony were as reasonablo ns in any of the larger cities in the world, but that the ordinary cost of living for the man in the flat was something considerably more than It ought to be. The better flats in Hongkong. ha pointed out, were anywhere from $160 to $200. per month and up, unfurnished. And with the dollar climbing every day, so does our ront go that much higher if we are living on an income based on aterling or American dollars" he said. In respect to food and clothing he had the same complaint. "Women's clothes in Hongkong are priced ridiculously," he believed. A
which would cost two garment or three dollars in an American departmental storo selle in Hong- kong for not once or twice, but sometimes ten times that price, reckened in American currency." He gave a good many more in- stances and his figures wore im. pressive.
BAD BUSINESS
He was not complaining. he pointed out, because of any spite- fut desire to damage somo Hong- kong tradesman, but because, in the long run, the business policy hard- of many firms would work a ship on the whole of the Colony. Already Hongkong had the reputa- tion of being an expensive sort of place, and not at all the resort for a man of moderate means to select for a holiday-ground. Travellers were commencing to realise that they could buy more cheaply in Japan, Shangha! or Manila, and were passing by the Hongkong tradesman'a door with no more than a glance. There were excep tions, of course, he admitted. TUESDAY, FEB. 26, 1935. Some stores offered a special Une of goods of a character which would not allow of "bargain" HOME POLITICS prices. But taking it all in all, It was time something was done in Again and again since the the Colony to remove the impres National Government was form- sion that it was the most expensivo ed, Mr. Baldwin has fought place in the Far East in which to ....Jolly Coburn's Orchestra. opposition within the ranks of five. We are inclined to agree with Rome of the complaints We are in- Jolly Coburn's Orchestra.the Conservative Party, having
on each occasion emerged trium of this visitor. phant, his leadership confirmed. clined to agree that tourist busi-
ness, which so many persons con Tom Coakley's Orchestra.The portents, however, are that after vital to the welfare of the Take a number from one to ten. Tom Coakley's Orchestra. he may not be able to resist the Colony, will only come when we continued pressure from many have something attractively priced quarters which would make his to offer: And, at the same time, kood fow in- leadership contingent on the we could suggest break-up of the present coali-stances where the price of service and commodities might very well tion administration and a con- be reduced to the ordinary resident sequent reversion to party consumer of Hongkong. politics. Mr. Winston Chur-
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By Horatio Begg, Sinner As one of the Intelligentsia of Hongkong, this question of no- fined English has moved us to the very seat of our pants."
Here wo have been priding our- self all along on our ability to the way, she is render English spoko and writ at Oxford. A purist in tho practice of Art in all its forms, we had congratulated, oursolf as a child of literature on being quito unspoiled.
Came this bombshell the other
day when a padre complained that, where we should have been more religious in our use, or misuse, of that precious gift from God that is English, wo had sinned, and
This gem of imperishable Eng- pseudo-timbered cottages, pro- lish literature has nothing to do sided over by a homogeneous com- with a Wiltshire village. Nor has munity of ladies inspired with a it any reference even to Wessex, single idea. They have no ro the incomparable province over ligion, no politics, no taste for art, which this journal wields its no ayes for Nature, ne views about political and moral sceptru. In-literature, and apparently no glit deed, my only excuse for writing for cooking. If they possess hun- under this time-honoured headline bands they rarely mention them; is that I desire to give you the glad if they have children they hide tidings of my return to this them. Their one consuming pass- village after an absence of three ion la Contract Bridge. If by chance you gain admission into I am once more in your midst, one of these pagan temples the and I can imagine the plaudits of priestces in charge will not tak sixty thousand discerning. readers you whether you like Sussex or rending the welkin from the New how your husband la, Sho will Forest to the Mendip Hills. In ask you a simple and straight fact, there are moments when I forward question: "Do you play Contract?" You may be fearless ean imagine almost anything.
and foolish enough to answer "I needed a change of air, but "No," in which case you will finish being unwilling, at my ago, to your ton in gloomy allence and bidsinned deeply. change my mode of life, I merely farewell to the interior of that went out of Wessex Into Sussex, house for ever. These women are I hoped to feel at home there. I like galley slaves, linked to expected to find South Saxons do gether by the iron chain of their ing much the same things as West own bridge engagements which
tho wholo whole encompasses Saxons. I thought the place would be teeming with They form themselves into a Saxons talking about potatoes and ruthless combine and approach drinking beer. But I was mis each wavering nowcomer to the Laken. As far as I could see there district with: "But, my dear, If is not a single Saxon left in the you don't play Contract you will whole of Sussex. At Chichester I find yourself left out of every
Gontle and charming saw an early English enthedral thing."
At blackmailers. surrounded by a Roman wall. Arundel I discovered a Norman castle thronged with Americana. Brighton seemed to be delivered
year.
at homo."
Our excuso is that if we had sinned, we had sinned with a good and numerous congregation,..
But for all this attempt to square ourself with our conscience (if we possess such a thing) we cannot help feeling that the good padre was right. We feel that, as a shepherd leading his lock of
of this column, wo ought to have guileless sheep through the pitfalls been more careful
Our grandparents, when they consigued us for the first time to the care of a tutor, had told him they wore giving us to him as a precious trust, for him to mould our young Impressionable minde, and lisping tongues, in such a fashion that, thereafter, wo should bo a joy to them to hear and be hold in the home.
tho con-
This is indeed a very serious charge, for which we feel ourself answerable to our many readers.
They: Oh yeah? Wo: I'm telling you.
One evening I was smoking a Into the hand of Israel. In the pipe with another rathor un- scclusion of the more fashionable important husband when the lady hotels 1 found several film stars of the house returned from one fleeing from their adoring pubiic, of these orgies having lost nino and I was privileged to observe shillings. "I have told them," she them in the act of drinking cock declared with flashing eyes, that I
And what has ho, or we, done talls incognito. On the beaches of will not play bridge during August
to justify this pathetic trust? Sussex 1 anw a number of Phari-while the children are soos cooking their naked bodies by The unimportant husband said Nothing but to transgress way of relaxation from the more "Henr, hear, my dear. What he King's English! We are a intellectual pastime of cooking may must confess that I, too, was A veritable hog for assimilating have thought is another matter.Rcienceless mummer of journalesot company reports; and in the villages among the downs I found touched. I went away and, in my vulgar Americanisms! certain scribes, for the most part mind, painted a picture. I fashion- ed it after Romney's Circe because engaged on sex novela.
the lady in question possessed the I was permitted to linger in the same tragic beauty as I imagine presence of one of these lady was Lady Hamilton's after Nelson novelists. She told me that she had died, when England had cruelly was writing a new novel, to be deserted her, and when Romney's I draped her called "As Yet Unborn." Hoping eyes had grown dim. that she had not seen me wince,in flowing whito with single jewel I enquired when I might see the at her breast. Little children clung bookstalls ablaze with her new appealingly to her robe. I filled the book, to which she made the background with shadowy bridge staggering reply: "Never, I trust. demons and spurned beneath her I am hoping it will be banned." sandalled feet, I painted a grand alam in ne trumps. I can sco it I was so overcome with reverent now.. It is a beautiful picture. amazement that I could think of nothing to say. "My dear good
was an occasion when I man," she continued. "you are Thero completely out of date. Don't you thought I had discovered the last I found know that it is now the sole nm-survivor of that lost rate. bition of modern authors, worthy him in a village inn. of their art, to have their books old. He told us he was ninety-six banned? It is the new hallmark laat "tater diggin"," of genius,"
The necessity of the moment suggested here is not for saving souls, but for purging speech of profanity.
We have already made a start with Edward Kelly, a, notorious delinquent, but sad to say, he is quite Incorrigible.
"Hihihi-cup," was all he could manage to say when told his But I found no South Saxons.speech lacked the resonance and.
polish of good English.
was very
"Surely you must be à Saxon,”. I ventured.
As I walked homeward across "No I baint," he replied, “I be a the downs I stopped at Intervals Liberal, allus hov bin, an' allus and endeavoured to kick myself, sholl.” Dolt that I am! I now realise that
I have let a golden opportunity-stood him-a-pist-of-beer, and slip. I have, in fact, completely the mists began to lift from the dis- missed the bus, for, when the tant landscape of his memory. He Editor of this very journal has, told us that he had begun work on one or two occasions, seen fit ninety years ago, minding sheep on to suppress some masterpiece of the Sussex downs for fuurpence a mine as being a trifle foul I have week, and how he had risen to be entirely failed to realise that I head shepherd at the princely had come within measurable disealary of nine shillings a week. tance of the summit of literary "Af've worked hard all my life," fame. On these occasions I have he said, "an brung up sixteen simply torn the returned manu- children." sell their
script into a thousand fragments to starving
and jumped on it. And then I children and small boys are to be
have gone out to the village inn seen leaning against walls in the bitter frost who have been doped and drowned my mortification in
beer. with heroin cigarettes. With auch big refugee problems waiting to be solved, there seems little chance that the League's work on behalf of refugees will be brought to an end for some considerable time to come.
waren
ministerial post, still carries a
Startling revelations have good deal of weight, is dead set
Rachel made by Damo against Mr. Ramany Mac- been Donald's continuance as head of Crowdy, who was formerly in charge of the League's social the Government, whilst Mr. activities and who has just re- Randolph Churchill, who would ¦ turned from a vialt to Manchuria. appear to have inherited his Dome Rachel, who describes condi father's penchant for creating tiona aa far worse than she had trouble within the party ranks, imagined, declares that on a con- intends launching à Conserva-servative estimate two-thirds of tive Union, the object of which this White Russian population are lving on the verge of starvation. There la practically no alternative but prostitution for the girls, and anomaly that a Government little girls of eleven or twelve aro which is overwhelmingly Con- forced by starvation to haunt tow servative in complexion should dance halls. About seven retain a Labourite at its head-eight people are found frozen to that is, if Mr. MacDonald can death in the streets of Harbin to-day be regarded as a Labour- every night during severe weather ite. He is certainly disowned by whilat dope traffickers apparently the official Labour Party, and his views in the course of the past few years have smacked more of Conservatiam than of the traditional Labour outlook. When the position is analysed, there does seem ground for the view that the National Govern ment, as such, has served the main purpose for which it was created. It is true that con.. ditions are still far from normal, but so they are likely to remain American bankers have revived for an indefinite period. In the the subject of War debts, but this circumstances, there is much to time in a fashion which cannot be called offensive. The suggestion be said for those who contend from New York, said to have ori- that political forces in the Old'|ginated on Wall Street and to be Country should be permitted to known to A number of British re-align themselves on a party financial people, is simply that the basis. In that event, the Con- United States should credit against servatives would appear to have the capital of Britain's indebted a far better chance of winning made. The idea behind this mode. all interest payments so far the next election than they of settlement is to bridge the way would under conditions seeking to an Anglo-American accord which to preserve the National Gov-would make possible a more speedy ernment. One thing is obvious, return to normal commercial con- namely, that if there are to be tacts across the Atlantic, Ultimate- National Conservative and In- other European nations would be given an opportunity of settle- dependent Conservative candid-
ment with America. But the ates pitted one against the other dollar-sterling affair must first bo at the next election, the con-settled, in the American view. It∙ sequence may easily be a run-is certain that this debt deadlock away victory for the Labourites, has been responsible, in some with the Wavertree experience measure, for the uncertainty of repeated on a nation-wide scale, economic conditions and a
promise would be a welcome thing.
WAR DEBTS
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It therefore remains for the We will await with interest ampli- official leaders of the Party tofcation of the American suggestion weigh up the situation with this and the reaction from Great thought in mind. Mr. Baldwin, Britain,
in recent utterances, has aug- geated that the coming fight will
bo between the National Govern there is prospect of a serious ment and the Labourites. But split on these two alternatives. if the recalcitrants within his. And if the rival views are not party have their way, the strug-adjusted, the consequences may gle will be Conservatives v. well be dianstrous for the Con- Labourites. At the moment,servatives as a party.
"Sixteen!" I repeated, awestruck. Ay" he said meditatively, "two eights."
I thought of my own pigeon pair
Sussex is plentifully aprinkled and modestly withdrew from the with blatant red brick villas and (Continued on "Page 5.)
NAK
"For years, he couldn't relax with company around."
But that is the worst of trying to fight a "dragon" as the padre puts it, "of bad English."
Kelly, who is a red menster, comes back with the accusation that we had been splitting hairs, whereas all he had been doing was to occasionally split an infinitive or two.
L
"Huh, there you are also split- ting your Infinitive," he now says, triumph in his voice,
We: But the Editor will allow- me to make a correction if it is not too late.
no
Kelly: Makes
difference with mc. After all, what is a aplit infinitive or two between friends?
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And said: "Recly! Now isn't that
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"You've decided, in future, to
lunch upon hay-
"You find that it's more econo-
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Cut This Out
"The new bronzo Mercuries are hatless, the sculptor considering that the conventional headgear im- posed on Mercury by the classical aculptor too closely resembles the tin hat worn in the War News item.
Thus nullifying the whole symbol- ism of the Ancients, who very proper- ly made Mercury, patron of thloves and politicians, wear a bowler hat Not a tin hat, Ia bowler hat; the emblem of Progress.
The bowler hat, as I have pointed out before, has certain magical pro portico. It is supposed to make do tectives (who wear it day and night), invisible. It expela frivolity, wards. off hilarity, ensures sobriety, encour ages intropidity, dispels timidity. Inspires rigidity, and-torn slowly into strips, alcoped in forn-soad oll under a new moon, and eaten with the proper incantations--la a sovereign remedy for the Hockogrolkle, or Dorbyshire Wambles.