THE HONGKONG Telegraph, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1936. ́ ́
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LASZLO
SCHWARTZ, famous Hungarian Caricaturist, in search of humour, discovers that
There's Money
In Oil But-
when he met No. 1 Oilman the Hon. Mr. W. H. BELL he had to provide the humour hiniself.
different manner, but even that
THERE are occasions on experienced in all these years..
I tried to explain that each one these interviewing ex- cursions of mine when I lose of us shows his heroism in a all regard and awe for the perfect gem in logic couldn't feats of Chicago's most bribe him to disgorge even n daring hold-up men.
teeny weeny sample of a funny
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Take my visit to the Hon. Jarn.
"Did you ever hear anything Mr. W. H. Bell early in the funny about oil?" asked Mr. Bell, morning when he is just instead of LS.
about to roll up his sleeves
and wade into the weighty, THIS was my one and only Tel. 27778/9. oily and other slippery prob-interview from becoming petrifi-
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1936.
A PLAGUE-FREE COLONY
shows that during the worst outbreak of this dread disease, in 1894. the death-roll in Hongkong totalfod
over five
lems of his daily grind.
Mr.
five minutes, so I dashed
resto, ut the same time I rattled Bell's face on to paper Tempo off my request for a bit of oily humour.
"
thousand. Happily, the plague NOTES OF THE DAY
glorious chance to save this
ed from ultra seriousness, so 1 risked the following story:
"A fellow sufferer of mine, "Buzz' Ware, the well-known cartoonist, one time made A wager with
oil a well-known magnate (who also couldn't see humour in oil) that within 24 hours he would convince him that besides anced and dividends YOU CRI also extract humour from oil. The following day he delivered the following set of comic cartoons:
"No. 1. Rockefeller per- sundes the State of New Jersey,
oven more
mox- and
咖
motion" (and profits) line at last been solved!”
famed for ita
for its cows quitoes than murder trials, to buy oil for the Mr. Bell laughed and laughed extermination of the mosquitoes. as no other oil man ever laughed
I
"No. 2.-Millions of bloated in the history of oil, and as he dend mosquitoes in the swamps closed the door behind me and marches of N. J. prove how heard a long and expressive sigh. effective the war was..
That sigh has worried me ever since.
men
"No. 3.-Rockefeller's fish out all the dead mosquitoes, run through a press, and regain _the_ail_originally sold to tha
State of NJ,
"No. 4-That identical vil is sold again to the State of NJ:
"No. 5.-Eureka!!! The per- plexing problem of perpetual
To save my life I can't tell whether it was_n_sigh_of_rellef at having got rid of me,—or is it possible that it was a sigh of regret? Not necessarily regret over my departure, but over the relative absence of mosquitoes in Hongkong?
THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS
This be the verae you grave for
me: Here he lies where he lenged
to be, Home is the suitor, home from
the sca. And the hunter home from the
hill"
Nature loved, and next to
Nature Art;
I warmed both hands before the
fire of life;
It sinks, and I am ready to
depart,'
At that most inopportune me ment. In steps "Yours truly,' hoping that his conducing smile will prove sufficiently infectious and the victim about to be held up. for humour will respond in a cheery spirit. Well, believe it or not, Mr. Bell did accompany his "take-a-rent" with a smile.
Being a "smile specialist" and incurable eternal student
for the searching
phonetic. dramatic and colour value of every word, I sensed immediate- Few people who have come to ly that the invitation was only suffused with sufficient “hos- flongkong within the past de-pitality" to last a maximum of cade can have any idea of the concern and auxiety felt by the authorities in former years lést the Colony might suffer a heavy tell in lives from annual visita-I was told that even though Mr.
That broke the camel's back. MB John Cowper Powys in his book, Poets' Verdict
The Art of Happiness," writes
In this respect, however, it is in- tions of bubonic plague. Bell's patience, sense of humour the following significant paragraph;→
"Not in what we posness, not instructive to note the findings of our Reference is made to the subject and other virtuca (he didn't
specify all) have been well tested what we achieve, not in the opinion great poets. Most of them plumbed the in special article appearing during his 42 years' stay in of others, not in love, not in anything depths of human pain, all had their elsewhere in this issue, which Hongkong, this was the "non below or above the sun is the secret struggles, all were conscious of the of happiness to be found. It is only imperfections of their age. Yet mest
Walter Savage Landor is just as plus ultra.'
of them found Life's short span a inspiring. What more challenging This was the most overwhelm- to be found in ourselves.”
goodly thing a time in which to words could wo desire to read re- ing exhibition of "nerve" he had with
garding Life's span, than those he this most ensible people discover the secret of living. Most wrote on his seventy-fifth birthday:- would find themselves in entire agrec- of them closed their years with a "I strove with none, for none was ment. How many there are, however, note of "something altempted, Romo- forth my strife, who live with the theory that hap thing done,” and' in that lay the piness is found in "things" rather happiness of old age, has been swept from the Colony,
than in states of being.
Sir Walter Scott discovered, for We progress. In Victoria, Bri- Anatole France worshipped `Beauty; instance, that "one crowded hour of the last cases reported occurring
tish Columbia, they have just and expressed the wish that after his glorious life is worth an age without as far back as 1929, when two nehleved a bit of social reform death a beautiful woman would close a name." Browning had the faith were notified. There can be no which might be adopted to advan- his eyes. If this could happen, he which could "greet the unseen with declared, he would die happy. Yet a cheer." Tennyson was unafraid to questioning" "the point that the everywhere, Victoria is he confessed at the end of life that he cross the bar because he was con- preventive measures carried out small proportion are without em-
city of some 50,000 people; and and never known a day's happiness, vinced, after a life of aspiring, ho year by year by the health and ployment, and a little larger pro-sight the closing of another chapter at the Inst.
With the end of another year in would not be stranded without a pilot)
Ia, there is net n word of fear,**
sanitary authorities are in large portion cannot afford to pay for in Life's short story will bring with
"I'll Make My Joy" Leaving aside a minority of gloomy measure responsible for this medical treatment either for them- it time-honoured greetings regarding poets, some of them left eynical and It is this optimistic attitude- to- selves or their dependants. In the the future. In what is supposed to soured because of too deep draughts wards the unknown after a life well happy immunity from a discase past the doctors of the city have be an age of pessimism it is doubted of sensual pleasure in curly life, it lived, that gives posterity a message which used to recur with dread written off thousands of dollars of for a happy New Year can ring the side of the angels of optimism grent poetry is made. It is heard in some quarters whether the wish may be said our great bands are on of hope. This is the stuff of which monotony every dry season. It "bad debts" from among this class sincerely. Happiness, it is stated in the matter of the significanes of again in some of our modern poets. is not claimed, of course, that of patient; and, more serious still, dogmatically, in not possible in days Life's little day.
like these. Some go as far as to men and women and children have assert that nobody has the right to this is the sole explanation of suffered
What are more inspiring than the severely because they happiness; be completely at peace lines of the great sufferer, Stoven- the disappearance of plague, dared, not incur the expense of in a world where there is suffering is san?
not the highest good but the utmost "Glad did. I live and gladly dia since in latter years there has medical attention. Now all that is selfishness."
And I laid me down with a will also been comparative immunity changed. The Medical Society has come to an arrangement with the throughout South China general- City Council for the treatment of ly. None the less, the steady, all cases of men on the "relief" list, consistent work by the local and their dependants, at a'-'flat authorities must have a cumula-currency) per month. Moreover, monthly rate of $850 (Canadian
tive and beneficial effect, to the druggists are getting together |which the public generally gives to supply medicines and other little thought. Routine work essentials to those who cannot afford to pay, on the same sort of such as periodical house-cleans-
basis. When the suggestion was ing and limewashing undoubted-
put before the City Council, it met ly ensures 21 measure with immediate acceptance. Why cleanliness amongst the poorer didn't-someone-think of it before? Someone did, quite two thousand classes which contributes to the
years ago. The Greeks had a word for it,
of
yd. lessening of risks from infecti
ous diseases. In the preventive work in respect of plague, much value is rightly attached to possible measure may be taken keeping a continuous check of against a recurrence of the dis- the rat population, since the disease. The destruction of lath- case is mostly communicated to and-plaster walls and colling man by the rat lea. Thus we some years ago, and the making, find that last year no fewer than of such structures illegal, has two hundred thousand rats were also been a factor in keeping
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SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
"And men still fall in love with women!"*
How little he feared that departure expressed in other lines he wrote! "Death stands above me, whispering
"I know not whal"into" mý"ear;" Of this strange, language all' I
know
Iow
The objection is often made that twentieth-century bards have not the simplicity, rhythm, message of the aid and tried favourites. Thoy de Hight in meaningless langinge, fan- tastic fileng and forms, jumbled son- tonces, revolting images.
There may be much truth in this, but it must be pointed out that the fault does not lie always with the pact. Great writing demande great readers. And the ancients were once dangerous moderns trying their pens with some perplexing now style.
Many of them write clearly and eimply on the matter of Life's short span.
There is music in the work of Mr. W. H. Davies:
What Is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stanú and
stare.
No time to see in broad daylight Streams full of stars, liko akion
at night,
No time to turn at Beauty's glance And watch hor foet how they
can dance.
In this short life the poet finds Line for many things. Noting n butterfly resting on д rock he writes:
Now let my bed be hard
No care take I;
I'll make my lov like this
Small butterfly;
Whose happy heart has power To make a stone n flower.
Sweet Life
And Norman Gale will have none
of our modern pessimism.
"Here in the country's heart
Where the grass is greon. Life in the same swoot life
As it or hath been."
This surely, is the philosophy for the last week of the year. Or if it is | desired to express it in another form
take the words of Leslie Coulson:--
"Our little hour how soon it dies;
How short a time to our bonds, To chant our feeble Litanics,
To think sweet thoughts, to do
good deeds,
Tho aliar lights grow palo and 'dim. Tho boils hang silent in the
tower So panses with the dying hymn
Our little hour." ·
Arthur T. Rich.