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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRApi, SaturdaY, JULY 31, 1937.
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26323-Speedboat Hill, F.T.
Trees F.T.
25374-I'm Crazy 'bout My Baby. FT.
Until The Real Thing Comes Along.
25405-Now Or Never. F.T.
Darling, Not Without You. FT.
25448-1tlle Old Lady,
Now. FT.
25181 Whispering. F.T.
Tiger Rag. F.T.
F.T.
25503-Las Palmeras, Humba
Inspiration. Tango.
25514-Moonlight And Shadows. F.T.
Iay Noble's Orchestra. ........... "Fats" Waller's Orchestra.
F.T.
Ruby Newman's Orchestra.
Ray Noble's Orchestra.
Benny Goodman's Quartel.
.......... Eddy Duchin's Orchestra, Love Is Good For Anything That Alls You, F.T.
25530-I Can't Break The Habil Of You.
You're Laughing At Me. F.T.
25552 Shall We Dance. F.T.
For You. F.T.
25553-Turn Off The Moon. FT.
Jammin'. F.T.
SATURDAY, July 31, 1937.
LOCAL LEPROSY
SURVEY
Two facts stand out pro- minently from the results of the
sidents' Association. The first
In the House of Commons Kitchen,
Five Members of the House of
Commons tell PERCY CATER the
High
Being
M.
wage.
P.s
are
as
Cost
an
the
of
M. P.
"Most M.P.s whose whole
WASPS Earn Their STRIPES
WASPS are annoying creatures
when they sting but how many people know their many use- ful services,1 often Avonder.
It was making careful note of the wasp when nesting that made known the secrels of paper mak- ing. For countless years the wasp was building her next of thin sheets of parchment collected from the trees,
Of times I have watched the drawing tribution, others men who had
had to make the £400 spin out to means are represented by their was at work. With her powerful £600 a year
cover all their bills' as family £400 a year find the morfey most jaws she bites off tiny pieces of from July 1 be- men, or who knew those who inadequate, and in many cases decayed wood, which when mas- have to deny themselves what ticated to the right consistency is cause £400 is not, for a were in that position.
In these site chosen for the nest. essentials of life." modern politician. a living, Here is a selection from what might reasonably be considered used to build little cells inside the
I was told:
Mr. Tom Williams (Soc., Don Paper-lined cells the young wasps Mr. Morgan Jones (Soc., Caer- Three hundred and philly): "The case of the M.P. Valley): "Any M.P. who has are reared.
During the summer months we -one in London for himself and provinces and educate children often see wasps much larger than Xavier Cugat's Orchestra. investigations into the leprosy twenty-five M.P.s have said who has to maintain two homes had to maintain a home in the
problem by the Kowloon Re-that the rise is just and one in the provinces for his will have found it difficult to those which appear in great num
bers in the first warm days of
These utmost manage on £400 a year.
the are And. tht Prime family--deserves proper.
sympathy. Life has been difli- "The cost of keeping in touch early spring.
queens, which were reared at the is that the disease, loathsome Minister shocked the coun- cult even for many M.P.s who, with a constituency is consider end of the previous season, and though it and definitely contagi- ous, is not the serious menace to try by his revelations that on £400 a year, live in London. able in these days of social legis grown fat while hibernating dur- "Members of my party have lation, and correspondence is a ing the long winter months. On the Colony which many people some people had had to go had to resort to shifts which they substantial item in M.P.s' costs, awakening, the first duty of the think it is; the second, that, hungry to be members of would not like to discuss, but Parliament to-day is a legislative queen is to seek out a home, which except in the matter of notifica- the House of Commons. they show the terrible fight they workshop, and an M.P. has little will most likely be a hole on a
have had to keep going." time for any other activity if he sunny bank. tion or registration, existing
Once the site is chosen she be- Mr. Alfred. Denville (Cons., is to keep abreast of the many local laws meet the Case-
Newcastle on Tyne Central) problems on which he needs to be gins to search a countryside for provided they are put into effect.
ea "My salary has
never covered informed. He has to spend most decaying wood to build the paper The inquiry which the Associa- think it enviable to be an niy expenses.
It has always of his time in London, and, even cells. At first she must build greatest economy, it alone, but as each cell is made an egg is Inid, then after a few weeks tion has so admirably carried M.P., apart from the preposter- taken more than £400 to do the with the out had its genesis in the dis-ous hours politicians are compell- work properly, to employ a secre. must be most difficult to make she will have a number of helpers, who will carry on the work of covery of a colony of lepers on ed to work. Only 17 voices were tary, and attend to the consider- ends nieet on £400."
gathering and masticating the de- cayed wood for more coils, while she contents horself by attending
FT..."Fats" Waller's Orchestra.
Paul Whiteman's Orchestra.
Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra.
Xavier Cugat's Orchestra.
F.T. Bunne Berigan Orchestra. Kay Thompson's Orchestra.
25561-A Love Song Of Long Ago. Waliz
It's No Secret I Love You. F.T. 25562-You Can't Run Away From Love To-night.
'Cause My Baby Says It's So. F.T. 25561-There's A Luli In My Life. FT.
Carelessly. F.T.
25660 The Lady Who Couldn't Be Kissed. F.T...Guy Lombardo's Orchestra,
I Know Now. FT.
25567-I Hum A Waltz. Waltz
Hold Me Tight. Waltz.
Xavier Cugat's Orchestra.
25569-Let's Call The Whole Thing Of. F.T... Eddy Duchin's Orchestra.
Without Your Love. FT.
"Fate" Waller's Orchestra, 25571-I've Got A New Lease On Love. F.T...
Sweet Heartache. F.T.
Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra,
25573-Wake Up And Live, F.T.
Sleep, F.T.
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Anxious Days
FTER that, A
very few
Messrs. S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. to disperse and mingle with the they do not have to stay awake Putting at night worrying about an anxi-
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EVERYWHERE
Expensive
of eggs are laid in-
SIR Henry Fildes (Liberal Na to the more important egg-laying.
tional, Dumfriesshire): "In Thousands Difficult Times my own ease £400 a year in no the cells which are made by her
way meets the expenses contin- corps of workers.
With its gaudy yellow and black "SUPPORTED the increase gent on my being an M.P. My
a stripes we might liken the wasp not from a personal point of salary does ous present and an even more view but because I knew that at penny towards my living in Lon to a little tiger, and that is what it previous timės M.P.s who lost don. To run a constituency to- really is, for it diligently searches the countryside for all manner of. their seats had had very difficult day is a very expensive matter.
aro destructive creatures, It does
uncertain future.
not contribute
the mainland. Informed of the raised against the idea that able correspondence which an M.P. has to transact nowadays, matter, however, all that the M.P.s--who, in any case, are and to look after the social side Government did was to demolish hired and fired with revolting of an M.P.'s dutý. the shacks inhabited by the suddenness from time to time-- lepers, permitting the occupants should be so remunerated that
community generally. aside the possible danger to
such public health from course, consideration for the sufferers themselves might have knew that some M.P.s who had to that it is wrong that men who of constituents and the advance a great deal of useful work for been shown to the extent of keep homes going in the pro- have served their country should of social legislation have en-as, seeing that they were given vinces and educate families on be subjected to such experi- larged correspondence enorm-
Unlike the honey bee, which ously. I employ a secretary- feeds her young with honey and treatment. Actually,
£8 a week (sometimes less tax) ences." there was on the Statute Book clabbed together in town to cut Mr. Ernest Thurtle (Soc., this is an absolutely necessary pollen taken from flowers, the Shoreditch): "A politician's expense in my case, for my cor- hungry growing wasps must be at that time, and still is, an the cost. It was known that
carcer is very precarious. He respondence varies between 20 fed on animal food. Caterpillars Ordinance making provision for many an M.P. Inboriously typed never knows when he is going to and 50 letters a day in the ordi- are a favourite, and the the medical care and treatment his own letters to his con- be turned out. To attempt to nary way, and sometimes runs flying daddy-long-legs are easily of lepers, but this Ordinance,stituents because he could not find a new job at 45 or 50, or per- to much more.. like Ho many others in this afford secretarial help.
In a vague way Westminster times indeed, and because I think "The increase in the number tiny insects, and as most of these
proper
a
haps more, is pretty hopeless in man has no resources to fall back
(Continued on Next Column,)
Blow-
caught, and are relished by her family. The grub of the daddy- Social Life
long-lega is one of the farmer's worst foes, for this destructive Colony, has remained practically Altogether grimmer was the these days, and if a middle-aged
dend letter. Under it, nol Premier's declaration that more
THEN a great deal of research creature lives just below the sur
is necessary if on, his position may easily be- only are out-patient clinics and than one M.P. had had to go easy come somewhat desperate.
con- face of the ground and eats at the
valuable roots. hospital accommodation envisa
on the food to make ends meet. ged, but the provision of a leper The House of Commons, which settlement or settlements does not want skeletons in its) among the matters for which | cupboard, made the division on the Governor-in-Council is em-the £600 a good solid meal. powered to make regulations.
operation.
Where Money_Goos
I talked recently with a num-j
ber of M.P.s, some of them nien
BULLS AND INNERS
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From
the Office Butts
Despite the heat of summer, Matshed thieves stole a de-
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It is not advisable to encourage too prolife rearing of wasps in the countryside, but wise farmers ap- preciate the useful work they carry out, and welcome their in- cursions into his territory if their numbers do not increase, until they become a plague.
Cecil Rhodes
What is needed is that the plans contemplated by the Ordinance WHAT has life been like on the should be put into
£400 which has been the Consequently, the Kowloon Re-M.P.s' subsistence allowance for sidents Association, in urging generation long enough to be- Java continues its popularity as tective's badge whilst he was stituency is to be properly served This sort of thing at a time when people's problems the establishment of a leper come proverbial, without being a tourist resort. Well, you can bathing.
any more pleasant on that ae- have a Bali good time there, could, of course, be prevented if are so many and complex. If considers the deputations asylum and clinics for treatment count.
anyhow.
the detectives had their badges one
which have to be met and the O
tattooed on their chests. of the disease in its early stages,
support which an M.P, is expect Π Then there was the man who,]
0 is asking nothing more than the
Then there was the doctor ed to give to various efforts con- Government itself admits to be of means to whom the £400 was tortured by the heat, said he
good nected with the social life of his in the nature of an expense con-would be quite willing to swap who worked up such a necessary. Compulsory segre-
his prickly heat for a crop of practice that he could afford to constituency, it is obvious that chilblains. gation is not considered desir-
tell an occasional patient that £400-reduced by taxation to able, as it would tend to drive to be eminently sound and
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there was nothing wrong with £300 in many cases--is Inade-
quate to cover the cost. since the reasonable, the more so
Advertisement misprint: "Un-jhim. cases underground, but
"I abstained from the vote on Association is fully alive to the the cost of putting them into thinkable Bathing Costumes."
As an American commentator M.P.s' antaries because I think it Truth will out. dangers of infection caused by effect would not be by any
has put it, one of the best ways is a bad and dangerous principle the free intermingling of lepers means heavy. Once the exist "Fall of Brunete," says head-of achieving universal disarmu-that M.P.s should vote money to with the community at large, ing Ordinance,
the line. And some of our snappy ment would be to build battle-themselves, but, if you accept without control of any kind. It additional precaution advocated young blondes also go astray at ships by popular subscription. the principle of paying M.P.s, I
យ [1 strongly urges an by the Association, is effectively times.
There was much jollification addition to the existing law, enforced, danger to public health One reason news by radio and cracker-firing when a new providing for some form of should be eliminated, and, what can't take the place of a news-coffin-shop opened in Wanchai ai notification or registration with is of equal importance, sufferers paper is that you can't hunt it few days ago, Couldn't have brighter yesterday. Their faces. the medical authorities. The from the disense would be as-up afterwards to settle an argu-done bettor if it had been n real, jlooked already £200 a year better
live business. {ment. Association's proposals appear sured of adequate treatment.
therefore
with
。
.
think a rise from £400 is neces- sary."
M.P.8, however, were much
loff.