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HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
NOTES OF THE DAY
12,
1935.
Own a. 1935-
Vauxhall
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THE UGLIEST WORD
Way, since there was a land alled England, has cost the nation dear in blood. By the sword those gallant gentlemen of other days
WE FLEW RIGHT UP
AND OVER
By WILL ROGERS. (Reprinted from the Sunday Express)
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how great they was.
Well, sir, when I returned from around the world they sent me practically all they raised in the valley that year, 1 think. Every!
The Very Idea!
MORE KELLY NOTES
Jottings From The Scrap- Book Of Master Edward
Edited By Eddie
7E are an outcast.
W
Yet in all respects we are an honourable man. time a box would come i would We do not belt our wife or
be more pears and befter pears (if pick our teeth with a brend possible).
This is one of the most polg-pears, and I afterwards wrote about won an empire,, and held it, innant articles the Sunday Ex-them, but aaid they never did offer their sovereign's nume. War, in press has ever published. It me any; they just kept telling mo the days of sailing ships and knee- was written by Will Rogera and breeches and the muzzle-loading posted just a few moments be musket, wis bad enough. costly fore he and Wiley Post took off from Seattle on the flight that enough, tragic enough; but to-day ended in their death in the it is carnage, chaos, anti-Christ. frozen north. Yet we muri be prepared for it. We must be prepared to face that of his article his favourite topic Rogers chose, as the subject horror which, even within the the safety of air travel. The company of short memories, al- [spelling and grammatical essen- most destroyed the world. It is tricities are part of the style incredible; but it is true. This is which helped to make him the mere newspaper sensation- most popular man in America nlism; this is the opinion of able mun, broad-visioned world over.
not
men
are
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might call a
We looked down and saw a big knife.
We are not a poet, nor do forest fire in the mountains. Pilots said it had been burning for days we possess a dog that goes.
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It's beautiful country in out into the street without a Northern California, and Oregon muzzle. and Washington-everything green,
We always smile at ladies rivera galore. Into Portland, Ore. gan, a beautifully located city. when
we pass them, and
hnuled
travel in lifts with them.
We have never committed murder. Nor have we ever used the wrong fork.
poor stroller. The feet asked for Tex Rankin, the flier that take off our hat when we
are bad
me
over
that
In all these things we are beyond reproach.
the I am what you
mighty Mr. George Dern, the
bud and the legs If you are contemplating to United States Minister for Var, worse, so I take mine out in riding, country in the early days. He was become a motorist owner-if you anys that it is inevitable, but he So this is "Thoughta While Flying," a fine flier, and is yet, which means are desirous of a change-if you believes that Amerien van avoid Away here a week or so back 1 that he's good.
"You are a fine flyer" means a are going on home leave--a word it. There are some who will say night at Los Angeles to catch a lot more than saying, "You was
went out to the flying field at mid- from you to
that newspapermen seize on such
'plane for Seattle. You see, a day fine lyer." A girl stewardess come ACQUAINT US OF YOUR | expressions of opinion as this, put or night means nothing to 'em now. along womewhere in the story here REQUIREMENTS AND WE WILL them into big type and distort With the courses all lighted, they with a fine lunch. It had more FURNISH YOU WITH PARTI- them in order to sell papers. run schedules in the night time the dainty little sandwitches and kulek.
kuncks than I had ever seen at any-)
Yet we are treated like a CULARS AND TERMS.
There are some who have gone so same as in the day. far as to suggest that newspapers bis mother were with me, and Ively. They say it was made ucidentally, a shroff, Nor Bill-that's my first-born-and lunch in my life. It was arranged shroff. We are not, in- HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
breed war. Show Room
They don't.. unless was off on a little alightseeing trip at the St. Francis Hotel, in San
Francisco. Phone 27778-9. Stubbs Rd. they are the instruments, of a pro- [with Wiley Post.
are we a bailiff, hawker, in- Then into Puget Sound country,surance-collector, landlord. pagandist, War news may sell When my wife knew it was with
beautiful bays and islands. them a few more papers; but they Wiley, it didn't matter where it Tacoma, who had the first slogan Yet we are an outcast.
going, and she was that I can ever remember. It was suffer from the after effects of Was we was
Our family has practically wars like everybody else; and the mighty line about it.
when I played there in vaudeville disowned us. Our about 1908-"Watch Tacoma grow."
boss profit is soon consumed by losses. You can't live with a comedian for I have never watched it much since, curtly refused us our usual No sane man or business enter without being mighty forgiving. but it did.
mid-month advance. The prise wants, war; but equally cer- On the same field, a couple of Seattle? That's a bole story in boy at the Gloucester hands tain is it that no sane man will
itself the gateway to Alaska-to us our Tiger as though he shut his eyes to its possibility and
the Orient, to Canada. its menace, but will prepare to
We have to biffin, and meet the emergency if it arises,
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, 1935.
AN OLD STORY
Well, she is about everything.
years or more ago, she had seen me off to Vancouver to catch a bont to
go to the Japanese-Manchurian war, I have to tell you about seeing would prefer it to be a real and then fly on around the world the big bombing 'plane they are one. and meet her in Geneva at one of just finishing for the army. It's even drink, alone. thoge disarmament. conferences the biggest in the world. where we used to always go for my Yes, sir, a 'plane is a great place amusement.
BUDGET DAY
The Colony's Budget, being introduced in the Legislative Council to-day, is not expected
How many times have we heard to be in any way spectacular.
that "Recovery is just around the Prevailing conditions are such that the Government has ofurner," or that "Prosperity is due
Regularly
from necessity to proceed cautiously here and there, a hundred times a yan. in arranging its finances. De-
year, since the world's securities
to-morrow" ?
IT-
tails of the proposed expendi-toppled, trade went into a declins, ture, published yesterday,,show and progress slipurd a cog. Mr. that it is planned to cut down 'Rudolph Hecht (no relation to outgoings in 1936 by a sum of Ben Hecht of novel and satire two million dollars, compared | fume," but the president of the with the current year. None American Banking
Association the less, the total is still high, and something of a satirist in especially when it is borne in American politics) believes that
the country is "ready for mind that the 1934 figure repre-covery," whatever that may mean. sented a record for the Colony. Most of the people in lads which But despite the wielding of the have suffered from the depression economy axe, a sum of over have been ready, and waiting, for three million dollars is being set recovery for some little time. aside for Public Works Extra- Hongkong for one. We could do very well with a couple of quarts increase of over two lakhs on
of that rare vintage of 1921-22, when officials could brag about in our commerce year. It is not to be inferred, "peak years"
the dollar Wils worth five or six shillings. Yes, we think we too are ready for re- covery.
CSMBRESSOSSESECSESSA ordinary. this representing an SECEES...UNCEDES90009 the original estimate for this
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barkation on new projects of any considerable magnitude; the explanation will most likely be found in the intention of the Government to push on with certain big undertakings already in hand. It is, at any rate, reassuring to feel that, despite present difficulties and future uncertainties, the Colony is able
ENGLAND LEADS
is more money in circulation than ever before and that Government! revenue is well in advance of what it was in 1934. Britain, too, ap pears to be in this state of "readiness" for recovery; or per- haps has gone a step farther. Thei only people who conectvably are not ready for better times are
England, we believe, lends in this struggle for economic health, Statisties indicate that industry has forged ahead tatterly, that there are fewer unemployed by a to concentrate on the completion good many thousands than there of these important schemes. At were last your at the same time, the time of writing,. the that savings are higher, that there estimates of revenue are not to hand, but it is expected that they will be materially below those of the current year, and that a considerable deficit on the coming year's working will have to be budgetted for. It is be lieved that the Government will base the dollar rate, for the pur-those in opposition to the Govern poses of the Budget, at a figurement. For a good Government considerably lower than the and good times make a hard com- present rate of exchange, al-trinntion to undermine. If the though above that of the Is. 4d. National Government doesn't make rate for the current year.`· Ex- a few mistakes and get into the change is always un uncertain red with its budget, it will leave factor, and it is thus impossibles opponents little to complain
about. Those in power no doubt; to say with any exactitude how the estimates ny eventually rival, and it is only those on the will tell us that recovery has ar work out. It is to be presumed, other side of the fence who still however, that the Government persist in declaring that it is still has made a close study of the around the corner. general position and has framed
its Budget on rather conserva-
tive lines, in the belief that the Colony can do at the moment existing conditions dictate the is to carry on in a quiet way, desirability of conserving avail-in the hope that before another able funds as far as possible. No Budget Day comes round the new taxation is considered like-general situation may
have
ly, nor, for that matter, is there shown some improvement, with any prospect of existing burdens the prospect of definitely better being lightened. The most that times ahead.
We are an outcast.
We don't believe there's going to be an Italo-Ethio- pian war.
Latest Scot Joke
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Dover found a French penny and A scotsman on holiday at decided to swim the Channel in order to spend it.
į to see anything, only the wings are right under where you want to look Then around South America on and you can't see anything.
Did I really see Mount Shasta? 23,000 miles jaunt at one time.
it under the And, by the way, she is no mean! They couldn't hide
She wings. Well, all T know is just aviation enthusiast herself. will make all the short, trips with Lockheed's wings, Its Sirus wings, what little i wee behind this old
In fact, she was flying the next Lockheed body, three-bladed pitch back to New York and Maine to propeller, big engine, see our Mary,
Wiley calls it "Arora Borelaus,"
The news of his endeavour. But this has nothing to do with ¦ Feill it "Post Toasty,"
preceded him by wireless (says "air strolling, as I haven't started | strolling yet.
It's a beautiful morning in Seat London contemporary), and, Pretty night, nice stars, 1 drop- tle, Wash, Wiley and Mrs. Post as he approached Calais, hun- ped off in Frisco to tend some have been here a few days getting dreds flocked to the harbour business early the next morning, the ship from wheels to pontoons, waving small Union Jacks in and fealight a plane out there at I've had a mighty pleasant and honour of his tenacity. He twenty-four hours here. turned round and swam back. clesen the next morning, and then lovely to Seattle st five in the afternoon. Everybody Lerrible aice and agAt Dover they asked him if he Big Boching just scraped Mount of tourists coming in and out.
That's a pretty trip. Pilots in comodiating, fine hotel, lots and lots had landed and spent his penny. Shasta. Snow all over the old ant-
Some that have been to Alaska, as I got there I could see there "No," he explained, "as soon hill. We flew right up and over some that are going. sume that what I think they call Redwood have been to Yellowstone, some was a flag-day on."... Highway.
that are going. Lots of pretty little towns
P.O. Crossword nextled back in the little valleys Mrs. Post and Wiley and I drive
Crosswords have reached the and canyons. The first stop out of out to the field. It's a combination Post Ofee, not from an irate Sacramento was Medford, Oregon, and and water airport, called Great telephone subscriber or letter where a few days before some am- Lakes Washington. That's the writer, but as a bitious reporter had sent out a des-ake that turns out those champion
poser for the patch that he had seen Wiley Post rowing college teams. and me flying over there, when we
A letter posted this week had Mrs. Post decided the last min- were at that time crossing Arizona,ate to go up to Alaska a few days crossword puzzle on the out-
So this time he is liable to report later by boat, so it's only Wiley side with the following clues:- that I have arrived there by horse and I that are taking off, and buggy.
The ship looks mighty pretty. Say, there is some mountains][it's bright red with a few trim- over that route. South of Medford, ||mings of white stripes. The pon- north of Medford, that's the town toons are awful big-looking things, where they raise fine pears. but Wiley says, "None too big.”
Seattle is a great travel corner.
I was forced down there on my Wiley is kinder of Calvin Coo- previous flight to Vancouver and lidge on answers; None of 'em are they kept telling me about the fue (Contined on Page 6.)
"She's getting leun particular. Remember when she wouldn't
date a fellow without a roadstër?"
sorter.
Fails.
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Suspends clothes (two G's.) Place of instruction Dwelling.
Annoy.
2240 pounds.
Mean.
--of the old block.
Writing instrument.
Noah's son.
Droops.
The sorters sorted the clues
and the letter was
without delay to:
. Mrs. Pegg,
School House,
Nettleton,
delivered
Near Chippenham, Wilts.
Shot
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Nailed to the gate of a farm near Santa Cruz while on loca- tion, members of the Fox Com- pany filming "Way Down East," discovered this sign:-
"Warning. Anyone found near my chicken house at night will be found there next morn- ing."
Howlors
Another selection of howlers- from the classroom:---
An epitaph is a horse
the head of a man.
with
A monastery is a phrce where-
you make money.
To germinate is to become a
naturalised German,
A litre is a nest of puppies.
A magnet is a thing you find...
in a bad apple.
A metaphor is a suppressed smile.
An aristocrat is a mun performs tricks on the stage.
who
Chivalry is when you feel cold.
My favourite intrument is, picadilly