THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1936.
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Have
You
Ever written
to the Editor?
ETTERS of all sorts,
Typed and scrawled: angry and glad: long and short: crazy and sensible.
What manner of people write them?
And why?
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get things off your
chest sometimes.
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FOURTH
is the type-fortunately much the commonest-which no the editor can have too much of informative letter writer... he has an interesting fact, opinion, argument or gestion to contribute (thero isn't any one of us who hasn't)
and he writes he knows his stuff. clearly, concisely neatly.
A good article of this type. Iss better than a sloppy article to any editor; and it helps him to keep in caritact with his renders, to give them the newspaper service that they want.
the
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writer who asks for some specille service or information, ..., Can corns be enre by auto-nuggestion? What makes bald met bald? such like.
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here are some of the reasons why people write to the news-
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papers:-
1 Inquiry.
to get specific in- formation or service..
Response... to contribute une- ful information, opinion, argu- meat or suggestion ..this fort of contributor provides the editor with a sort of straw vota of sub- scriber-opinion.
this pro-
3 Letting off steam
who
viles vicarious emotional enlis faction for those readers
similar complexes ..
have
similar straws in their bonnets.
4 The crazy letter.. a very
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extreme degree of 3.
Exhibitionism.... a motive only abnormal in excess and often motivating quite valuable stuff.
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An unhappy, negleetik, quorul- To get trouble, and a corte, personal problem of his own, though'
and spondence, all one need do is you might not know it. One of cus wife who innments the lack of
And romance those two the functions of any letter columu chivalry attempt to answer
is to act as safety-valve for his novelesque qualities in the modern questions.
..she is having an oblique or her-relief,
Whoeve Something written has touches smack at her husband COMMONER than you might think him well on the raw he is nnt fault Is it anyway that she wisely to regard it almost as a personal these security instead of romance? The spinster-in spirit if not in la the plumb crazy letter.
..he will express himself,
eindemning fact vehemently Easy enough to cognise on Insult
of cruelty Lo dumb DEADERS whose letters would be committers sight.
the nouns are in capi- with an acerbity that he would
other never permit hihself in private animals
cruel to her fellow. most value! often heitate to tals
almost every
wavy fe
to the point even of sug man perhaps not so cruel as write, thinking: What good can my
letter to? phrase is underlined by a
the hand gesting that any one who thinks they to her.
But don't forget that a newspaper Stubbs Road Hue for emphasis
feeble-minded, Bis- ... different
should really-perhaps ideally-be the writing is oldly irregular nume, address, and date may be honest and hardly worthy of being
THIRD type of letter writer is result of an internetion between its .. his letter is omitted
rarely are all three permitted to live
the exhibitionist, the epistolary renders and its editor.
The letter to the Editor is an im highly charged and explosive present.
all plainly a result of the sudden audist, the breaker of records.
His grand passion is to be seen portant part of that interaction. Contents are of two kinds :-
release of highly compressed and in print
he writes weekly or is the render's Cominent-the Editor's
but is suppressed emotion. 'full of hate
oftener to the papers. The first
Type out 100 words in three parn- He may be a disgruntled old only successfui once in a while.
Krajis Make the first your idea, the makes vague references to malign full
Kent
neglected and unloved Not such a bad kort really. second your argument, the third your forces, usually untamed.
will
...who blasphemia at the younger his stuff is often good despite the conclusion-preferably a constructive of Ideas of persecution
in reality, pror old slightly kinked motives that father conclusion. sometimes boldly assert that the generation
Then post it and forget about It writer of the criticised article is, gent, he is being sorry for himself, it.style a little on the dogmatic nally some one else in disguish.
Dr. an netogenarian lauly--she 'schoolmasterish side... his ring.... anyway, it hasn't done you any
Gladstonian and harm, when young-- who ing periods are quite was, a beauty
Writing to the Press. among The other Kiwi...
there is a touch of offers grotesque recalls the gracious measures of a litorial
"After-kick," ather things splendid spiritumi mild # grandige
iperient. and cranks solutions to the world's delightful long-past quarter-con- acerbily,
the directed towards the Editor, whom Men have staved off suggests tury when she queened it, really big prems pretty bluntly, that it is the writer's world is naturally not now so good, he half-suspects of being leath suicide by a useful habit H. P.D.
to publish the stuff. mission to offer these to an ungrate. God bless her! ful, pretty undeserving workl says he
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, APR. 23, 1936.
BRITAIN'S BUDGET
Whatever may be said of Mr. Neville Chamberlain's Budget proposals, the outstanding Tenture of the statement which he presented in the House of Commons on Tuesday is certain- ly the soundness of the British E second type is similar but more articulate and, in these finance system, coupled with the
the eduented days, commoner evidence it affords of generally hatter writer who is letting off improved conditions. In spite steam... he is working off some
tion
on
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TO-DAY IN THE PAST
A
dur.
like that.
Poet Was Born At Stratford
HAKESPEARE is not nuly our
greatest dramatist and poet; he
is also our greatest national stock
NOTES OF THE DAY Joke. Even in these days, when wi
dare, nol.
SIDE GLANCES
By
Sir Cedric
Hardwicke
but showmen, should have the handl ing of Shakespeare, the honour of in- troducing him to the younger genera- tion. If Shakespeare is to be put where he belongs--that is in the hearts of the English people-he must ire treated as he himself would wish to be treated, as an entertainer, not as a task master, a giver of pleasure, not a doler out of penances.
The coming of the talkies
hus
of the trade" the production of such films in a manner acceptable to mods ern youth does not present any great difficulty or entail any huge expense. The Film and Drama
The film as an educative force, Is
be of paramount value. In America, Germany, and Italy organizations for the production of films of educative
By George Clark value are in being, and in Germany
and Italy, receive considerable help from the State. In Germany, for in- stance, the Entertainment Tax is ro- mitted at cinemus where such films are shown.
of supplementary votes three times the figures estimated, the
appear to be losing our sense of ham- financial year has endes with n
our, the conic artist and the music hall comedian can always be certain of a laugh by calling on the name of surplus of three millions ster-
Shakespeare, and it is only in the ling, contrasted with an expected LIFETIME SALARIES
schoolroom and the cocktail bur that excess of revenue over expendi- The time is not far off, we be a joke about him will not get over.
They will not laugh in the first of Shakespeare was made' detestable to greatly simplified the task involved in ture totalling only half a million.[lieve, when the pensions system. those two centres of learning because us, and one of the millest ways at carrying out this suggesting. The as "re liming of the plays of Shakespeare as "silents" is indeed, like "Hamlet" Mr. Chamberlain rightly claimed as it is enjoyed here and at Home the literature hour is no time for that. He was inflicted on
worze, as a holiday task. As regards this as a wonderful demonstra- and in most civil services of the/vity, and in the second because they petition," as an "impot," and, even without the Prince of Denmark, since The snobbery which forbids any the latter form of pedagogic cruelty the poetry and not the spectacle is of the buoyancy of the present day,awill be radically Bright Young Person from admitting there could be no Burer way of make the sim; but modern apparatus and
in Shakespeare derives from. national revenue. In days when changed... Reforms recently sug-the-slightest knowledge of ar interesting the very name of Shakespeare modern technique in the film studios the stink in the nostrils of schoolboys for have greatly simplified the problems even Edgar Wallace himself that filming such works as Shakes most Governments are facing gested are the first reactions of school days--from those days when evers
public which commences to be just the child attains a hatred of hy so could have been struck a well-aigh, peare's plays present. Without go- heavy deficits and are quite un- a little critical of the treatment implacable that it might have en moral blow had his works been set into deeply into technicalities it inctilertat with set purpose and set in schools as holiday tasks. The can be mentioned, for instance, that able to balance their Budgets, civil servants receive. For in- mulier, in fact, from my own experi- fallies of pedagogues have made the by means of the Dunning process the British position must be re-stunce, this" pension system: how eace. I was convinced that the master plays of Shakespeare a byward and by which figures can be superimposed bored and listless class through garded as amazingly good. For many employers of labour, even the to whose doleful fat it fell to take the his name a mockery in his own land. upon any setting-and other ricks
Put Shakespearo-Where He.... soundness of the Governmost highly" sklled "and "specialised Henry V and Guling-Caesar the.
Belongs Jabour, guarantee a man a consis- schools recognise no other Shake-
What can be done to restore Shake- heen able to discover-was handing on ient's finance methods there can tent increase in wages and a life-spearean plays, so far as I have ever be nothing but praise. When time bonus of some fifty or sixty a vendetta bequeathed to him in turn speare to his proper place, to make
to his own people believe we ca The tradition of the manual and the childhood days. the position is analysed, the per cent. of his pay at the time of bilish master of his own him not only interesting but lovable only just beginning to be appreciated. "Studying a Shakespearean play, do this by wresting him from the copy-book dies hard, Nevertheless, thought naturally suggests it-retirement? Not many. Despite self that the situation would be the risks to which men of the Army analysing, dissecting it, writing hands of the schoolsiasters and restor- enlightened educationists throughout notes about it. for all the world as ing him to his friend--the artists and the country are optimistic for the even brighter still but for the and Navy are always liable to be if we were witnesses at an autopsy, the actors. Not teachers of English, future, and especially in the inculcat- necessity, in view of the general exposed, civil servanty pensions was only one of the ways in which but impresarios, not schoolua'ams, ing of a love of the arts, can-the film International outlook, of huge are considerably higher than those | ~~ expenditure
defence granted to the fighting services. services. The nation, however, We believe it is near the time i has long since reconciled itself when compulsory saving, by a con- to these heavy charges, consci-tributory Provident Fund system ous of the need of real security will take the place of pension in these times of general anxiety becoming more and more widely widespread uncertainty Interested in this development, and regarding the future. The pro-is generally ready to support Pre- envisaged by the vident Funds in the belief that a gramme Government calls for the laying worker with a savings account is out of tremendous sums, but it or greater value. Tho-worker is evident that the intention is actually creates his own pension by not to meet the whole cost out this system. assisted by the em- of current revenue, Mr. Cham-ployer. Together with health and berlain having forecasted the unemployment insurance, Provident
Funds bring a social security neveri possibility of part being met by known before. And one of these way of loan. Such a loan would days the workers of all nations who without question be readily pay taxes are going to demand a taken up. The Government has
cutting down in the bill for civil with obvious reluctance decided service pensions, on sonte increase in taxation, and, on the principle of spread-
the general situation, it is. ing this over the community generally, the additional revenue difficult to see that the Govern- is to be found from slight ad- ment could have chosen any vances in income tax and the ten other type than that upon which duty. On the other hand, some it has decided. Taking all the concession has been made in factors into account, the Budget
'can be regarded as even better! tax increasing the income allowance in respect of children than might have been expected, and in raising the, general oven though the increased taxa-
flowance for married people. tion may prove irksome. This will offset in some measure chief feature, as we have re- the now imposts." Increased marked, is its reflection of the taxation, whatever its form, is inherent soundness and stability never popular, but, considering of British finance methods.
and
Private schemes.
enterprise is
It
"I guess I must be falling for him, I'm beginning to worry when he spends money on me.'
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Admittedly the sponsors of this movement will have to proceed can tiously, and my opinion is that the Am for use in the schools should be re- garded as quite apart from that in tended for universul consumption at the cinemas. No matter what may be and the box office must receive its dae share of attention in the latter case, and the public can be very sus picious of "teaching films." In the public's case the showing of unauit able films of say, the plays of Shake speare, might easily tend to increase the distrust which such plays already breed in the public mind to-day.
The children, however, are not, in fluenced in their likes and dislikes by the factors that govern, box office re- ceipts, and it may well be that the very things which would bore the adult, film-sated public, would prove the greatest attraction to the younger audiences. Films will have to be very carefully prepared, and by those wito not only love Shakespeare, but under- stand youth.
I am sure that by such means a genuine appreciation of Shakespeare. could be coupled with on enlightened vlow of many aspects of history, and I can imagine the delight of the child In seeing, say. Cardinal Wolsey a, real, moving entity rather than a boring name or a date in a book, in discover- ing that Shakespeare could be funny and that he is full of robust humour and comie cross-talk, and that him dramatic scenes can be far "creepler" than any modern thriller." Thon will Sinkespeare come to life aguin and rise from the degradation of bore- dom and decision to which he has been sunk, to his right position an glori ous, beloved figure in our national consciousacks,