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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
JULY 22, 1937.
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THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER"
COUNTRYSIDE
Beauty Being Destroyed
(By Percy Cater)
Westminster, July 1.
TNGLAND is being destroyed before our eyes," cried
"ENG
Mr. H. G. Strauss, Conservative M.P. for Norwich, in a tremendous appeal to the Government, in the House of Commons to-day, to save the beauty of the English landscape before it is too late.
It is from the intruding building and from ugly, un- worthy houses that Mr. Strauss, a renowned champion of the glories of the English scene, wants the lines of downs and moors and coasts and the green loveliness of the countryside to be preserved.
In impassioned and moving language he revealed his own!
Firat pleture froin the camp on the
from where regular meteorological
North Pole of the Russian Expedition, reports are broadcast to the world, Federov
one of the party is seen reading his instruments.
soul. The Government, he urged, should make itself responsible BACKWARD
for saving the amenities of England, and not leave a national duty to local authorities, which were in many cases too poor to pay the sums of compensation involved.
With burning phrases he condemned the spoiling of rural England, the setting up of garish houses, and called on the Government to stop ribbon development.
"The peculiar horror and lunacy of our proceedings," he de- clared, "lies in this, that by destroying the beauty of England we are not only making money even, but as a nation we are losing it.
TOURIST LOSS
SOCIAL SCIENCES
other social sciences were
TEACHERS of economics and criticised recently by Sir William Beveridge, director of the London School of Economics, in his "There are few industries more capable of immediate ex-Commemoration address. pansion for the benefit of our Invisible exports than the tourist! industry.
More students each year studied these subjects, he said, but there was
"I can assure the House, from inquiries that I have taken the not a corresponding recognition of who taught our the authority of tho trouble to make in the United States and from some of Deminions visitors, that we are to-day already losing thousands of them. potential visitors by the destruction that we are, in this mad fashion, doing both to our architectural glories and to our rural beauty."
These words, and others similarly forthright, clattered like hall about! the cars
Kingsley of Sir
Wood, Minister of Health, on the Front Bench.
A NEW WORD
Mr. Strauss added a term to the Janguage. Suddenly he flashed out! # condemnation of "the Jerrybethani style" which was laying rural Eng- land waste without creating the
possibility of evilised existence.
"The right thing to do with ribbon,
1,000 Small
Cinemas Protest
(By H. L. McNALLY)
Without better understanding by man of his own nature, and the nature of human society, civilisa-
fon was in danger.
for the good of mankind. the social pciences had still to win for Khemselves, laboriously, the recogni
tion and assured place of Influence already won by the natural sciences,
THE TWO KEYS
The keys that could unlock for them the gateway to their promised land were observation and detach- ment.
There were two reasons for the un- status of the social
development," he exclaimed, "is to SMALL men" of the British film satisfactory
stop it, not to put the ribbon a little
industry met in the Crown sciences,
farlier from the road." It was de- Trade Theatre, Wardour-street, W., First was the frequent failure of monstrable that the Town and Coun-recently to protest against the Board social scientists to be scientifle in try Planning Act was not going to of Trade's plans to exclude from the method; in particular, their neglect work fast enough.
quota Aims casting less than £2 10s. of observation of facts as the basis The towns and the countryside a foot, or a minimum of £15,000,
and control of theories. were obviously necessary to civilised life.
The Government proposes to Ax this minimum to overcome the evil cheap films made usually for
"To-day," he said, "we are de-of stroying the characteristic virtuca American firms. of caeli, abolishing the boundaries
Second was the failure of some economists and political scientists to be selentitle-in detachment from partisan action, and in avoidance of
continually Sir Albert Clavering, a producer giving Judgment of each, and creating in their place a universal, hideous, form-since 1910 and director of National controversial practical Issues, less suburbin without the charm Government propaganda films for of town or country, or any charm the Conservative Central Office, pre-1 at all."
sided over nearly 100 independent
England's beauty was unique, but it was very vulnerable. There was! nothing like the English Downs any- where else in the world. MINISTER'S REPLY
producers, distributors, and exhibi--
ters,
"I acted purely as an independent, impartial chairman," he told me, "and in no way as a partisan."
on
and
· RABBITS AND FROGS
"The business of the social scientist s to study and compare different types of economic, political,
Sir social organisation," declared
studies biologist William, as the forms of life, or the elemist com-
uf the reactions
different pares materials under various conditions. Sir Kingsley Wood, replying, con-
The view put forward at the meet-
"The biologist does not hate rab- gratulated Mr. Strauss on his speech, ing was that the minimum cost of bits and love frogs,” he added. had remarked: "If it was pitched a 15,000 might be abused by waste-| little high, it certainly awoke-li did fut expenditure, that small produ in my mind-a great deal of syncers of "quota, quickies" and their pathy."
Sir Kingaley stated, however, that he thought Mr. Strauss Intended I to be "a propaganda speech," and complained that It hardly did credit! to the efforts of local authorities to preserve the English countryside.
ABUSE FEARED
technicians might be thrown out of work, and that 1,000 or so smint) cinemas would be deprived of cheap Dims.
A committee
formed "to collate Information and register a vitrous protest against the Gov- crament's proposed legislation,"
кля
The attitude of the trade as a
Ship Named After
A Football Club
A ship lounched recently by the Blythswood Shipbuilding Company, Ltd., Glasgow, for Manchester Liners, Sir Kingsley declared that a great deal was being accomplished. The whole was expressed to me by a disLtd., was named Manchester City in question was largely one of compen interested expert, who said there was honour of the football club which sation in many cases, and it was not n little possibility of faking productión last season won the First Division case of a few hundred thousand. costs.
pounds.
championship.
THE CORONATION Runaway Bus Panic:
"PLOT"
A letter sent to Scotland Yard "warning the police that, "a gong plotted to
of desperate characters wreck the Coronation" had a sequel
Woman Killed
Leicester, June 28.
at Folkestone Police Court recently. PANIC-STRICKEN WO-
Summoned for causing a public
Heath, architect, of Trimworth Road,
men and children on an
Other women, and children were Injured and taken to Leicester Royal
Infirmary.
There were between 25 and 30 them
women in the bus, many of
accompanied by children.
I was the outing of members of
the Uppingham Road Infants Wel-
mischler, Ingrum Frederick Drury outing were trapped in a Folitestone, was committed for trial runaway bus which career- Mr. B. II. Boniface, who prose-ed down a steep hill and cuted, said the letter led to police crashed into a ditch at New-fare Centre, Leicester, and they had inquiries, which culminated in an Interview with a Folkestone woman. town Linford, near Leices-one to a farm near Newtown.
Later, Heath made a statement in tor, this evening.
which he said the letter was sent.
"to show up in her true colours. I
led me on.***
The bus was parked in a feld where there was a steep incline. All were seated, with the excep- of the driver, for the return
tion
Journey when the vehicle suddenly started to move.
With her 5-months-old child was in love with that lady and she in her arms Mrs. Gertrude Annie Kent, of Leicester, jumped from There were two further sum-the bus. She fell under the nonses against Heath of sending wheels and was killed. indecent communications 10 D woman. On these he was also com- The baby was thrown clear
allowed and escaped with slight bruises, and children forward into a heap.
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