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HONGKONG CARICATURES. 1
The Day Dreamer And The
BankerTalk On
Humour
when LASZLO SCHWARTZ,
Hungarian
Caricaturist, meets Mr.
V. M. Grayburn in the first of a series for the Hongkong "Telegraph” GEORGE WASHINGTON couldn't have looked at the cherry tree he chopped down with that historical axe more wistfully and monumental (to a humorist well-nigh forbidding and awe-inspiring)
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ESTD, 1841.
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MONDAY, MAY 4, 1936.
NEW COAL POLICY
A recent examination of the
Nature!
STILL daydreaming over WHEN I asked for his this lesson, taught by views on the Value of Blossoms and Granite, I was Humour in Life, that much- shown into Mr. Grayburn's heralded and rhapsodised study. I say "study" and and besung "Irish Smile" of
mankind on critical occa-
fully mean it. For once in his owed every trace of sions. Take Disraeli, Lin- my life, I came into a ban- the "banker's bulge" and ker's presence and did not wrinkles from his forehead, coln and others they were feel the least quiver of un- You could verily see all his all past masters at this art. easiness that unnerves me "worry wrinkles" turn into "Here in the East we ap-
on such occasions. All this "smile wrinkles." Then he preciate the role of humour AND then I left Mr. in life; perhaps even more so Grayburn to continue. spacious room needed was mused on:
just rows and rows of books "I feel sorry for those who than they do in the West, for my daydreamings under the on not-dusted shelves (not take life too seriously all the we are in the fortunate pink blossom-laden trees. necessarily on Banking, time, for they choke the position where we do busi- This time I no longer felt the Business and Barter) and best out of it. There is no ness with a people who are
hurt, because of the sharp presto chango it would have walk of life where humour wonderfully blessed with a turned into a study. Into does not prove a great bless- sense of humour. To be contrast between Granite organisation of the coal industry the Sanctum Sanctorum of ing to man. As a matter of frank, I am certain that we and Blossoms. No! Now I has resulted in a scheme for a la most sincere and thorough fact, I feel convinced that if would never have got along felt with a deeper stir the complete transformation in its ly humanised student of our politicians and states- so well with the Chinese wonderful one-ness of life. structure. A number of pro-Life.
men would apply more hu- people if they lacked the The coming and going of mour when they come to capacity to make merry over blossoms, like the coming posals, which are intended to
The student-Mr. Gray- come into force in July, have burn-sat there at his desit, grips over some of the vital any and every situation that and going of money into the problems of our age, it gives birth to a merry 'Ha- monumental storehouse, was been decided upon. They con- All he required was the would greatly relieve the ha. Indeed, I would go but a different way of regis- sist for the most part in the books-dust-disorder and tension and save them from as far as to say that whether tering the ebb and tide of formation of a systematic sales less granite about him to many a blunder.. History in the individual or in the life sung so eloquently by make-him-feel-at-home.. records innumerable in race as a whole, lack of hu- the lapping waves and wave- stances of how humour mour indicates the tragic lets in the beautiful harbour served as the saviour of lack of balance."
of Hongkong.
policy. The demands made upon the British coal industry have|==
hitherto caused attention to be NOTES OF THE DAY
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS
concentrated more upon output, | and seiling has been a secondary consideration. Now a complete reorganisation is to take place; sciling is to become effectively controlled. There will no longer be scope for rival. interests in the mining industry; single their fleet by twenty-eight-new ownership will establish a cen-Empire flying-boats. The first ef
As a
Owing to the steady progressi made by Imperial Airways it hna' been found necessary to increase
while the remainder are in various
HAVE YOU A HEALTH
CONSCIENCE?
By Sir WM. ARBUTHNOT LANE
The common cold is costing Britain tral control of development. these is now nearing completion, THE time must come when ill health will be considered a
uncounted suma each
yenr-money The Government has decided to stages of construction. More than disgrace rather than a mis-
spent not only on remedial efforts endow the Reorganisation Com-three thousand men are occupied fortune.
but lost in inefficient or neglected work. We cannot afford to be in mission with adequate powers to on this great undertaking, which
future the victims of the common secure large-scale amalgama-marks the beginning of an era when
It may sound.callous, but the truth is that our national health would be
cold no
we have been in the past. tions. These changes have been all the British Empire's fastest better if we were to despise rather
We must realise that the man who initiated by the Government in transport will go by air.
than pity those of the alling whose of their homes. To a certain extent|
without taking order to increase the efficiency It will begin next year, and the illness is the result of their own they have developed a health con- coughs or sneezes
reasonable precautions against sprea We cannot science with regard to themselves, carelessness or laziness,
ding infection is a nuisance. Like the of the industry from the stand-Government has decided that all blame the innocent victims of circum-
There is an old story of a doctor dodger of Income-tax should he be point of both production and first-class letter mails shall be car-stance, but we can see to it that our sales.
result of the ried in bulk by Imperial Airways citizens are not exposed to conditions who remarked to a constantly alling punished, for while the latter may little wealth, that make them auch.
patient, Andam, you did not choose deprive the country of your parents wel!! Adults of to-day he is depriving it of health, which is
of The man who lives in a town with are not responsible for their parents, the ultimate source national threatened strike at the begin-on the main Empire routes. Ser- vlees will operate night and day, ning of the year a Joint Stand-and the air-liners to be provided not trouble to do to the municipal poll parents of the children of
n bad sanitary record, and who does but they most certainly are for the wealth.
to-morrow, Ing Consultative Committee was will be of a size sufficient not only to vote out the responsible powers, Although there is a fashionable vogue Great Savings
for for talking a considerable amount of formed, representing the Coal for bulky mail transport; but also is himself in part to blame
nonsenses about eugenics, the main
We have not yet created a sense Owners Association and the for the provision of luxurious Bational degeneracy.
principles of that science are well |
the ordinary Minoworkers Federation. The sleeping and day accommodation ticular. wenkeness to combat: When the dawn of history.
Every generation has its own par-known and have been almost from of responsibility in
citizen in relation to health. A Committed mot for the first time for passengers. Imperial Airways the value of fresh air was unrecogni-
health conscience la real national the lowest recently. Its purpose is to im-communication will make it possi-sed the result was pulmonary com- Men and women to-day can see to asset-looked at from
and the White Man's it that a future- generation chooses ground it is actually money in hand. bo provo and strengthen the rela-ble to reduce the journey from plaints,
Scourgo counted its unnumbered its parents well. Generally speaking, The national health bill cannot tionship bolween the owners England to India to three days, victims.
modern parents are conscientious estimated, but we know it is en-
instead of wasting to their } with regard
children's ormous. and the miners, and in this di-while the Journey to Cape Town will
When populations urged together health, and if they were not, the energy in grumbling at the Income- rection they have already ac-take only four days, and to Aus in congested masses before adequate schools would soon urge them to this tax we utilised our powers in re- complished much. All questions tralia'seven days. During the com-Ranitation was established, then fever duty.
tho of common interest, including paratively few years in which the Klondyke and elsewhere at the time A Danger to Others wage principles, are in future to company has existed, Imperial Air of the gold rush. be discussed before the Joint ways has contributed a great deal Escaping from Machinery
to British Air development. It is Committees, so that the possi-well worth the subsidy the Govern- bility of friction between owners ment pays it. and workers will in future be' considerably reduced. Although
followed-as In
Camps
of
ducing the health bill, the Chancellor of the Exchequer would soon be able to announce à reduction in taxation. It has been estimated that: com- But the ordinary citizen is still mon colds aluno cost Great Britain extraordinarily careless about £40,000,000 a year. Imagine ha the welfare of the community at or even a quarter of that sum spent To-day we live in a time of ex-large. How often is a conscientioun in intensive health education for a cessiva nolae and hurry, and inevitably business man heard *proudly to few years. If we developed a generu a generation is evolved whose nervous exclaim
tion with an acute "health conscience" system da severely taxed. To bemoan
the chances are that we should save
the fact that a highly civilised com- "Yes, my wife took my temperature annually for more than the heavy the coal industry has fallen to the nation. On the other munity is inevitably highly atrungit was over a hundred. But she toll on the Exchequer of War deble somewhat on evil days, its im- hand, owners have been facing and nervous is to beg the whole could not persuade me to stay away and the cost of armaments. portance to the nation cannot be shrinkage of markets and, in question of the duty of being healthy from the office. I've not missed a
Recognising the danger it is our half day for lil health for years, I health is a luxury which few people now can pay for. We despizo over-stressed. In recent years, some districts, steady losses; obvious national duty to combat it. and I do not mean to start!" ~
those who livo beyond their means, there has been recurring friction obviously, they have to take due A friend of the owner of a fine
The man who has never missed and one of our present economies between the miners and the account of economic factors. car recently expressed his surprise
probably boon many a time a menace family budget-doctora". fees, and owners, both of whom have their The recent conversations he- that the motorist had taken to hiking. business for so many years has mest must be that unpleasant item in the
"If I would keep my sanity I must to the public. To keep up his re medicinus. own economic problems to face. tween owners, and men have
"A conscience is a luxury that I There has been a deal of sym- been conducted in a most ami-occasionally escape from machinary!" cord he will risk spreading disease exclaimed the motorist Ho was to the twenty odd poople he meete in pathy for the men, in their de- cable spirit, both sides showing obviously a man with a health con- the train and at work apart from cannot yet afford," said a pushing but
Stock Exchange. into less personal contact- mands for more pay and better a willingness to appreciate the science, and realised his respons- the numbers with whom he comes not so far successful member of the
bilitles towards himself,
A benith conscience, however, is a general conditions, since it is others' point of view. Both will
Some day perhaps it will be a luxury which we cannot afford to bo Most men and women now do their recognised that their calling is now benefit from a relationship daily twenty" when they ring, play criminal offence to be in any public without, and once we have developed an arduous and dangerous one, in which the obligations as well game, run
soon shall learn that its a mile, or take some place with a bad cold. One can im- It wa and, moreover, that they are as the rights of each are being form of regular exercise. They also arine a medical inspector walking economic benefits are the smallest of
give an Intelligent amount of attention round the theatre stalls and ning the benefits wo obtain
possession. engaged in an industry so vital kept fully in mind..
to their diet, and to the ventilation every offender who sneezea!
from its