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SCARING UP WAR
Numerous are the uses of the It will sell newspapers,
war scare.
as any bright newsboy might ob- editors as all news Berve, and know. It will provide business for munitions makers. It will con- Bolidate public opinion and take domestic the people's mind off
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SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1935.
MR. MACDONALD'S RETIREMENT
Normally, the resignation of a British Prime Minister is 13
8, 1935.
MEN DON'T MARRY' FIRST LOVES
By MISS CLEMENCE DANE
One of the most versatile and stimulating of women writers, the author of "A Bill of Divorcement" and other famous playa and of several novels which have attracted widespread attention, here die- CASE the arresting comment made by Mr. Justice Swift in the High Court-"Very few men, imagine, marrù' the. woman that they first tell they love."
electioneering. In a preface he has written for a book un National Labour Party polley, published recently, the retiring British Prime Beares Minister says that "war
of have become a stock-in-trade partisan fighting." And Mr. Mac- Donald is not vague about what he has found to be the popular prens's contribution to these scfires: "The selling value of a popular newspaper whose aim is circulation, is headlines. And the selling head line must provide a daily thrill. The most ordinary event must ment
VERY now and then Life Jerks
out of some reluctant specta-'
the
love. But that does not mean that they marry their first loves. For custom still decrees that men pro pose, and so women are preserved, if they choose, from any confes alon of a feeling which may not to be mutual. They can afford wait.
BULLS AND INNERS
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For the second Monday in suc cession there's to be a holiday. So whilst Geneva discusses the 40-hour week, Hongkong gets it.
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Maybe when local bankers say money is tight they mean that the Hongkong dollar keeps staggering
And in this they are lucky, for about. than they escape the "breach of promise" menace. They need not at fear later ridicule becauRD eighteen they felt and behaved as youth has a right to feel, and bohave.
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Newspaper headline:-"H.M.S.
Brush with Pirates.""" Cicala in Presumably a Jack-Tar Brush!
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last month "Jubilluminations."
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Not everybody, of course, allows tor a comment which makes his- them the right. To the poet first tory. The more obvious the com- love may be a "violet in the youth calling the Hongkong night displays
more enjoyable the of primy nature," but to the aver emotional be 'sensational," astounding,' 'a discussion it arouses, especially if age parent it is un
achool of thought. The monstrous scandal' and what not. it draws attention to a fact that measles, to be cured according to Rumour is made to rank with fact, we have only realised subconscious your
paternal school believes in ignor- and necessary hysteria is suppliedly,
ing the whole altuation, by invention which has not even the value of rumour. This is one of the gravest dangers public opinion and democratle judgment have
now to face in domestic affairs. But when international matters are dealt with in the same way, the dunger to world peace is of the gravest kind."
ABUSE OF SENTIMENT
as A husband realisea colour of his wife's eyes.
the
"Oh, no, we never mention him, "Come to think of it, I belleve
his name is never heard,” you're right. They are blue!"
Shakespeare was adept at such for alternatively in hurrying off the sufferer to the Riviera for a nice "The simple-subtle revelations: apparel aft proclaims the man." change, "Conscience does make cowards of us all." Indeed, he often based whole not a mere sentence but a play upon such a remark as that of Mr. Justice Swift.
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The maternal schoal of medicine, on the other hand, treats first love as they used to treat measles in nurseries. There old-fashioned
question of preventive remedies. "Let 'em catch it and Just so, the maternal policy is generally to throw them together till they are sick of the sight of one another. The cure is quick and lasting, and every body is pleased.
How many of us remember, as ive shake our heads over the deenye it ever." of constancy, that Rombo's frat love was not Juliet
Feather of lead, bright smoke,
cold fire, sick health! Still waking steep that is not what it is!
A statesman recently talked over 25,000-mile telephone circuit to prove that "there are no earthly limits to human speech." A visit to Ice House Street proven the same thing.
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A loen typist was recently dis- missed for reading a novel at work. she lost her place.
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Which calls to mind the fact that journal
Mr. MacDonald's concern with the abuses of public sentiment through the weare headline is wide- ly shared by thoughtful people. His expression of this concern is
But why, why is everybody peculiarly timely because of the
This love feet I- tense feeling-amounting in some
n medical writer in countries to a war scare--that has declares Romeo; but his mind in pleased? Why do we all agree to world. In running on a lady called Rosaline!egard a unique emotional experi- ence as valueless just because it gripped much of the
Yet this Rosaline is in a few does not inst? Is durability the recently
stated that intoxication' Great Britain it is expected that
the hours forgotten; for "very few men Mr. MacDonald's preface to Labour policy book is also a pre-marry the woman they frat tell only test? Then why did we put can be caused by ordinary water. up Jubilee decorations and enjoy This should restore its lost prestige looking at them? I heard thens a beverage. face to attempts nt more stringent they love."
Adam's first love was Lilith, not other day of a poor man who was control, A big question press would be raised by such attempls. Eve. Jacob waited seven years for left a legacy of fifty pounds, and
ol WILB given Leaks.
spent the whole of it on a journey They might involve the very free-Rachel, dom of speech which is a funda- Dante fell in love with the nine- to Egypt because he wanted to see
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mental of democracy. They might years-old Beatrice, and followed the Sphinx. But his
her to heaven. But he married wanted him to buy a Government hangers.
no doubt, is why
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"Burglar With Sense of Hu- Most likely mour," says n heading. a wisecrackяman.
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The only claim of some people to being folk of considerable stand- political event of high import
relationsing rests on their being ance and significance. No such
result in the press's being more
bond. Who was the wiser, he or description can. however, be easily abused for political purposes Gemma,
they? applied to the replacement of than it is to-day. Actually it is
Shakespeare and Shelley did It depends. I suppose, simply not so difficult as it may appear Mr. Ramsay MacDonald by Mr. for nows renders to discriminate marry their first loves, to their and solely on one's years. Youth Baldwin. Not that the retiring between the necessarily disturbing eternal regret; but William Blake asks only to feel. Age asks only hour with his to feel safe. And if youth could Premier has not rendered, high news of international affairs and spent his first service to his country; without that which is merely destructively Catherine in describing to her, stay young and middle-age be born emotion, his un forty years old, all would be well. sensational. That they do not dis-with immense
We heard a woman say the other question, he has. But for some
criminate is due no more to ignor-rewarded love for another woman. The trouble is that youth
day that young couples shouldn't considerable time past. largely ance than to inertia. Perhaps He was so eloquent that at last stay young.
" do pity you," said his future
hesitate to get married on $200 a from reasons of health, Mr. Mac Mr. MacDonald's observations will
help to break that inertin. The wife.
The lively human caterpillar re-month. Well, the young people are Donald has been little other than peoples. are taking a bigger part
"Do you?" returned the impetu-verses the natural process by de- willing enough; but where is the nominal leader of the Govern in the policles of nations to-day- uus Williams, instantly brightening. elining into a slow-fluttering moth. $200 coming from?
than they may imagine, and that. Then I love you!" And so he. It forgets the Sphinx and discovers ment. He hus, also, because of a
for the Income tax. Then, and natural- the ex-Prime like Romeo, forgot Rosaline certain lack of definiteness in his Minister would impress upon the ver For "very few men-" (how [ly, it furiously regrets its fifty A reader wants to know where no words bad the biggest palm in Hongkong can recent utterances, lost a con- publie the fact that "Secret dip the phrase slicks in one's mind pounds and has
be found. We suggest that he tries siderable measure of the populomacy was bad; the diplomacy of "very few men marry the woman enough for its former self.
But sometimes the middle-aged some of the hotels. larity and prestige which he papers out for circulation and of they first tell they love."
Like all pithy sayings the remark Jare punished for their contempt. instantly begets questions. Is it The doctors tell us that people who held in the early days of the parties out for votes is deadly.”
a good thing that first love doesn't escape measles in youth seldom National Government's exist
According to a political writer, last? Should it? Could it? Is it contract it in later life, but that
"the toesin of war is sounding Nature's fault if it doesn't, or is when they do the consequences can again." It would be all right If I the fault of our civilisation? be serious.
The pace of living is nowadays.
It is just the same with love, we could only find an anti-tocsin. iso swift that it is necessarily ac- The men or women who have never
D D companied by swift developments experienced the delirium of calf in character. People don't "stay love should look out when they A local contemporary announced put" as they did. Can an adoles-near the fifties. For if they do that Mr. Teng Yueh received the cent marriage "stay put" either? catch the complaint they will be- C.B.E. decoration in the Birthday Unfortunately, the Must adolescence be deprived of come as insane
and very much Honours. marriage until its character sets more ridiculous than any luckless claims of Mr. Sha Ng-hai appear to for life. or should there be a young couple hopefully on the road have been overlooked: system of trial marriages for the to Gretna Green,
口 young?
ence.
The driver of a
commercial
vehicle cannot always estimate the speed at which ears are travelling, and in ignorance may wave-on # following driver when the accelerat ing powers of the ear are not equal to the occasion.
With the Government TO-DAY'S. MOTORING HINT predominantly Conservative in political complexion, it is more
WHEN OVERTAKING in keeping with the realities that Mr. Baldwin should take Many accidents occur when ce over its leadership. Yet Mr. vehicle is overtaking another. Be MacDonald's retirement for all fore attempting to overtake a slower moving vehicle it is neces- practical purposes from activesary to wait for the come-on signal political life does' mark a de- from the other driver. finite stage in the evolution of. In this connection, however, it British politics. It is early in should be remembered that such a
signal should not be obeyed im the day as yet to assess at its plicitly, since some drivers are apt true worth Mr. MacDonald's con- to give it without due regard to the tribution to his day and time. traffic conditions at the time., Looking back over his career, it must be conceded that it has been in many respects a remark- able one.
The son of a farm labourer, who later became a pupil teacher, then went to Lon-
It is always advisable to satisfy don practically penniless, took up oneself that there is ample room to overtake and regain the near- journalism, and eventually
side of the road without incommod. found his way into political ing on-coming vehicles. It is a activity, Mr. MacDonald will go CNC where the driver of the, over- down in history as Britain's first taking car must judge for him- Socialist Prime Minister. By deep study when a youth, and hy his eagerness to learn, both by terly, Mr. MacDonald has lost travel and by reading, he became contact with most of his former a man of culture. In his early Labour colleagues, as well as days, he was a rabid Socialist, with the rank and file of his old and in the Great War he made no party. He has, indeed, incurred secret of the fact that he was an Labour wrath by inferring that out-and-out pacifist, whilst again it is the party, and not himself, and again he figured prominently which has forsaken true Labour is Labour strike movements. principles. Actually, 'advancing But gradually he weaned him years and responsibility have self from the more extreme ele- undoubtedly changed his poli- ment of the Socialists, and it was tical outlook, so that to-day his not altogether surprising that views are scarcely distinguish- when the nation was faced with able from those of progressive a financial crisis of the first Conservatives. Now he can lay magnitude, he should come, out down the high office which he boldly for a National Govern has held for several years, con- ment, making his decision, so it scious of duty well done. The is said, without even consulting Government is still in capable his former colleagues. This hands under the lendership of dramatic move, by which he Mr. Baldwin, the veteran states- placed country above party, man whose reputation never gave him an enormously en- stood higher and whose honesty hanced prestige and was without of purpose is beyond question. doubt a turning point for the The reshuffling of-posts streng- better in the fortunes of the na- thens its position rather than ព fact in which tion. For this, his name deserves otherwise,
self.
to be remembered amongst other Britons everywhere can find great leaders of the past. Lat-' cause for much satisfaction.
For luckless Youth in the lumber-
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Finally, is the reverse of the ing stage coach of romance seldom A bachelor says most modern remark true? Do "very few gets as far as Gretna Green. girls in Hongkong are like mere women marry the first man whom ("Very few men marry the woman animated dolls. All the same, they they tell that they love?"
they first tell they love"). But don't often call "Mamma” Maturity in Its limousine rolls they are squeezed. down all too easily to Reno,
I should say that most women do warry the first man they tell they
"Say, which one of these cata is ours?"
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A reader is curious to know what Kowloon women talk about at ten parties. Nineteen to, the dozen!
A fire recently occurred in a saxophone factory in New York. But the Brigado arrived before any, real good was done.
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There was a time when young women painted china. Now they concentrate on their finger-nails.
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The quickest way for a man to know what's wearing this summer
is to look in the mirror.
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Maurice Chevalier has deserted the movies for the French music halls. Now Hollywood will have to keep a stiff upper lip in the absence of a famed lower one,
Husbands who rebel at the cost of wives' hata seem to forget their entertainment value,
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Phrenology is again coming! into its own. A large lump on a man's forehead indicates that ho's of an argumentative disposi- tion.
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Drink.prices are going down in Hongkong. So's the drink.