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NOTES OF THE
THE AIR FEVER
DAY
HIGH BROWS LIVES ARE EMPTIER
BY GILBERT FRANKAU
The Very Idea!
BE KIND TO AUTHORS
Mr. Krankau replies in this amus alone with our Jazz and our do- Animals Are Not the Only
well-known novelist.
I am overtempted to quote against Mr. Huxley's I do not look for holy saints to
guide me on my way Or male and female devilkina to
lead my fest astray. these are added, I rejoice-if long as I have leave and choice
not, I shall not mind.
to meet my fellowkind.
fective stories.
But the trouble, is that he won't; and that he simply cannot get it into his great brain that our interests are just as wide as, and, possibly even wider than, his
own,
Ho
Ones Who Want Loving
FIVE
VE minutes' conversa- tion with a writer will convince. anyone who has claims the larger ex-ambitions become one that it world where events are "inolated would be far better to go. perience; and that we live in a
that his knowledge can and unconnected. He maintains and put his or her head in a
fuse For as we come and as we go (and at least a partly comprehensible
"Isolated happenings into what a bag and leap from a great The People, Lord, Thy people are
deadly-roon go_108)
wholer"
So
A very bad attack of air fover. has fallen upon, Turkey. She is making haste to acquire what is called an adequate air force, and, unfortunately, the measure of ade- quacy is constantly changing on the upward scale. What Turkey|ing article to a contribution, "I Am may think a sufficient force to-day A Highbrow," in the London News. she may deem wholly Insufficient Chronicle by Aldous Huxley, the before the year is gone. At all events Turkey is going "all out" for air power. The minds of the people are being inflamed by Government appeal for subscrip tions. Organisations have been formed in overy town and village to gather in the money. The news papers are sounding the big drum, and even the services of the priest hood are being enlisted to the good All the members of the cause. Civil Service have pledged them- selves to give a substantial portion of their pay, wealthy business mon have given large sums, and the devotion of subscribers is marked by badges worn on the coat lapel. somewhat after the manner of ting days. It looks as if the five million pounds required will soon be ob- tained. One result of the coming of air power la that a nation which formerly was of little account In the councils of the world may sud-That bars me from a brother's every dificulty conscienco and denly, and at comparatively little side, whatever pride, he shume.overy difficulty conscience cost, acquire a status which came at very low pace and at great sacrifice in the days when naval and military strength counted for all.. Now the balance can be upset in a few years, and the peace of the world threatened from quar- ters formerly unthought of.
Thongkong Telegraph. READER TAKES A HAND
FRIDAY, AUG. 2, 1935. THE INOCULATION QUESTION
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good enough for me. eight of gallant men on gallant But that is Kipling, whom the horses polting over high timber at the risk of their necks in pursuit of a fox fills neither with cold disgust nor hot Indignation
I suggest the Apostle's, "Much learning doth make thee mad."
./
height.
We are sure that if there was a prize offered at the Hongkong Club, for a grand champion bore, We lowbrows do not believe it would be a writer or author overmuch in learning-xcept it ba the study of our own who would have the proud dis- particular trade. Wo hold that tinction of getting the pretty
a simple affair of work and play, and that in almost medal.
Besides, Kipling onda his poem, Deliver me from every pride the life is
Middle, High and Low-
common guides.
and
Of course there is a reason sense are the truest for this. To find out the reason,
Mr. Huxley and his brother high- Huxley's respect for true science, Write like we do..
So I prefer to sympathise with And although we share Mr. all you have to do is to write. brows. Because, really they, do which miss such a lot of fun.
I cannot agree with my fellow novellat, you see, that the life of the highbrow is relatively fuller than the life of the lowbrow. I believe it to be emptler.
use to
shield their
deale with material phenomena, we hold, with the dead satirist, that all Art is apt and no plot. You plant the hero You start off with a vague idea' to be useless unless the artist can convey the complexity of his in the middle of the Sahara desart own experience in simple words, and then discover that you don't in simple sounds, in simple brush- know a durn thing about deserts, strokes, to us
By the time this in. done, about
Russia has begun a fascinating
And when he says that his experiment in nuthorship. Soviet
"content" (?contentment) is in- In this attitude towards Art, it and you have to shift him to some writers have started to rend scise-trinsically richer and moro signi- seems to my small brain, has place you're more familiar with- of young people who criticize and mark of all highbrows) gives me the lowbrow. The lowbrow anys, anything about boats. tions from their books to audiences cant than mine, the very use of germinated the one and only
that word "significant" (hall quarrel between the highbrow and by plane, because you don't know suggest Improvements. High hopes are entertained of this experiment.
a slight.pain.
In effect, "Be clear""; the high- It is the reduction to a system of tion of life is equally signi- weren't such a moron."
For to me every manifesta-brow, "It is clear. If only you useful when sporadically employed a method that has often proved in the past. Alert authors have.
ficant-whether. it. bo
a manly Which is more Ju-juism. Which eight new characters have butted aport or those frequently taken hints from their symbols" which our modern poots worthy of a lowbrow's sympathy. forgetting their names and which "private is mere snobbery. Yot also Into the story. and you. koop readers, though Jane Austen once emotions from the contaminating ju-jus. Most of us are given to a declined a, suggestion made by no
private Because most of us practise our is the wastrel son of the old Earl' less distinguished an admirer than crowd,
little harmloss snobbery when, we and what the devil happened to the Prince Regent to the effect that I cannot understand why ply our own particular trade.-. she should write a romantic cos- Aldous Huxley should believe
the retired Colonel. You distinct- tume novel, Trollope, publishing himself a better man than I am
ly remember him stepping into the his stories in monthly parts, over-
or.even than Gunga Din-beccuso There was never a good work-hobel lift for no particular reason, famous character, Mrs. Proudie. pince say that she was tired of his "Madam," said Trollope, "she shall the next lague." And, sure enough, she did. The choice of children as critics is wise, if rather bold. Children have ex- cellent taste, which they tend to
We revert to the question of inoculation of dogs because there appears to be a diversity of view on the point whether the cost of such inoculation, if made compulsory, should be borne by the Government or by individual dog-owners, The point is subsidiary to the main issue, which is that every possi- ble precaution should be taken danger of possibly rabid dogs. From the standpoint that every dog is a potential source of dan-disappear in ger, there is much to be said for
Invented a porter with a limp and the argument that the owner should meet the cost of a mea-
fact that he owns a dog. There express quite pungently. On be- leisure in disputing, about tastes i Indulge his superiority complex? five other people who are clutter- sure necessitated by the mere
beings spend at least half their such fine books na "Point Counter the hero entirely superfluous, and So why shouldn't the author of you rather like him. This renders Point" and "Brave New World" you lose interest in about twenty- is also the further point that ing asked which of the "Alice" does not smack, to my essentially Why shouldn't be bear 'mid snowing the place up.
to protect the public from the heard an unknown lady in a public he finds the sex appeal of a Har-man without a slight superiority but you can't leave the man shut
Then you discov... chapters.·
you have.
than that of a seventeenth-century who tunes your engine is just as up in the lift for three rison Fishor girl less thrilling complex. The motor-mechanic Mae West as depicted by Rubens. keen to make his craft a mystery Neither does it seem to me a proof as the surgeon who operates on of virtue that his book entertains your body or the barrister who him more than my bridge.
conducts your case. While his statement that human
giri, after deep thought, make the books she preferred, did not a small lowbrow mind, of the truth. sufficient reply, "The 'Wonderland' discussions. But for us, presum Highbrows may delight in such is less dull than the other"? Yet ably lower organisms, the scant they can discern merit in unexpect-hours to leisure are too precious ed places. They rescued from the to waste in idle talk. rubbish heap of political contro- veray the bright shining gem of they are good, if severe, critics. "Gulliver's Travels." Assuredly
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We are the sons of Martha, and most of our day is spent in toil. Released from toll, we demand our simple enjoyments, claiming nothing for those enjoyments except that they help to relax either mind or 'body..
For
conscious when he imagines us or so
the Inoculation fee, applied in dividually, would not amount to a hardship, whereas for the Government to assume the whole burden would mean a con- siderable, though not burden- some, outlay of public funds. As we say, however, the major question is whether inoculation should be made compulsory. Apparently, the Government's veterinary advisers do not con- aider that inoculation would pro- times is the fact that, though de- One of the wonders of these duce maximum results. The pression is universal and most contention, it seems, is that people complain of being hard-up, inasmuch as dogs from across the saving practice in the border and dogs aboard has never been so active junks and sampans would most widespread. And that is to bo likely escape inoculation, no noted particularly among persona really effective results would of modest means. The accrue from the compulsory Savings Bank, the National Sav- "Big Throo" in thrift are the Post Office system. But surely is must be ings Association, and the Trustee conceded that even if complete Savings Banks. The most remark coverage is. not possible, it able of these is the National Sav would be something to the good ings movement. It began during to lessen the measure of danger. the War to enable small investors In other words, an additional to help, in financing the war, and precaution applied to forty or savings certificates now amount to fifty per cent of the Colony's more than 390 million sterling, with dogs would be infinitely better accrued interest of 98 millions. than no additional safeguard. Savings Banks had funds of 62 Thirty-five years ago the Trustee Moreover, the chief everyday millions; now these exceed 226 danger to the public arises from millions. Deposits in the Post dogs which are kept in the Office are about 354 millions, and urban areas, in the centre of Stock held through the Post Office populated regions; and it should Savings Bank. Is 185 millions. be relatively easy to insist on When to these many hundreds of Inoculation in respect of these millions is added the animals. The fact of the mat- amount invested in the purchase of ter, of course, is that there are expansion of the saving habit in dwelling-houses a faint idea of the far too many unnecessary dogs the last thirty years may be form- in the Colony. Compulsory ino-ed. And that, as everybody knows culation at the owners' expense but sometimes forgots, makes for might conceivably reduce the national stability. There is noth- number, especially where an ing like having a substantial stake owner has several pets. Some in the country to keep awake a thing might also be done in the man's interests in the doings of same direction by limiting the politicians. number of dogs which people in urban areas should own, or, if this is not thought desirable, there might be a graduated ests' have quite different meanings "The words 'Interest" and "Inter scale of licences, increasing with the number of animals owned. ference to the Abyssinian altuation. as they are being used with ro On the broad general question, Thus the Italian press-which is to there can be no two opinions say, Mussolini's press-has con that compulsory inoculation, tained frequent assertions that would posses
distinct value British "Interest" in the:, Italo- Abyssinian dispute arises from the existence of British "interests in Africa, says the Christian Science
in reducing the extent of dan ger to the public. And the rule ahould be supplementary to the existing restrictions, at any rate until such time as the Colony is freed for a consider able, period of therables Scourge,
enormous
EARNEST OF GOOD FAITH
Monitor.
But now that Mr. Anthony Eden has disclosed Britain's offer of a strip of her Somaliland territory to Ethiopia, the rest of the world, if, (Continued on Page 3)
strange device, "Significant"? and ice his banner with that
him all the more for it even is waves which come only to true You have one of those brain- I, a humble lowbrow, admiro I do hold that he might be a batter genius and decide to burn, the artist if he could sympathise with hotel down with heavy loss of ilfe, the roaring crowd at a Cup Final. By the time you've finished with
the thrilling part about the firemen secretly, he even envies the tired building and squirting people and But perhaps he does. Perhaps, dashing in and out of the blazing business man wrestling with his swooping up and down ladders you cross-word puzzle.
For all heights are lonely. And composition, you have accidentally find that, in the furious heat of surely, even. Mr. Huxley must killed the porter who was saving yearn, every now and again amidst
humble folk.
we lowbrows are still
Mr. Huxley is
his snow and Ice, for the warm the proprietor's little child when the wrong-and companionship of kindly, ordinary, wall fell on him possibly just a little too solf- everyday men and women? snarling at him for his enjoyment borries for him and might even The kind who pick his straw-
his symphonics and his Russian language of the simple things they of Beethoven or Dostoieváky. We read poetry if only a true poet are quite content for him to have would write to them in simple novels if only he will leave us know and love!
Come on, Joe, I can'
walk up and down the room for a This is where you get up and
have sight brandies. quarter of an hour. Then you kick the desk ovor and go out and
Never get married to an author. He's liable to get up in the middle of the night full of bright Ideas and firm resolves. He dashes off a few thousand words with the greatest of oase, and then tears them up and behaves like a bear for the rest of the day.
It is after the author gets his stuff published that people start diving for cover when he appears: The author, however enjoys him- self. Having got someone in a. carder whero he can't escape he is sot-for-the day. J
He will talk about there being no scope for intellectual people in this Colony, about the rotten cover the publisher put on his book, how they mis-spelt a word..
in chapter nine, how people re fuse to display about three million of his books in the main window, how they're not pushing their sales in Abyssinia.
What's more, he'll start talking about his next book, and if you don't fell him to the ground in time, he'll read a bit of it to you, If he goes to the length of asking your opinion of it, you've got him. Just say "Rotten. Why don't you look for a job?""
He will never speak" again, being too busy pro
telling people
You