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THE HONGKONG
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19, 1988.
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MERRILY WE LIVE
Wada Rawline, novoltat, roughing it on the Pacific Const, sa stranded when the rickety old cer ho is driving falls into a ravine. At the Kilbourne home he is mistaken for a tramp. Mrs. Kilbourne has a hobby of taking in tramps and before he can ex- plain mattera he is engaged as chauffeur. The family la ao or (pinal, no deoides to stay for its copy valve Mir, Kibourne la onalous to secure Senator for lan's support for a bond isruo in which he la interested, Wade, mistaken by the senator and als daughter Brineres for a hover quot of the Kubourno's, by chance wins the senator over to Afr. Albourno's side, Jerry Hi- bourne does not like Afinarva'e Internat Wade.
Ooperichs 1928 by Loew'a Ino
Chaptor Eloven
Genator Harlan and Minerva dropped by at the Kilbourne's to pick up Wade. The Bertator te grated that he could not spend the afternoon with them. Perhaps the pinch which his daughter gave him, when he seemed to be wavering in his determination to leave, was the deciding factor.
"Tell Kilbourne to call me up."
'ADAPTED FROM THE
Maro Goklyn Maya.
PICTURE
LUCY HUFFAKER
Sald
you go riding with Wade? Le tad something important to do
wouldn't be back until after din ner, maybe. It's a lovely day for riding."
"I wasn't invited and I'm no Minerva Harlan.”
"You didn't give him a chance. I Just saw him and I know be fools simply terrible. He can't help it if that horrible Harlan girl pirso- tically kidnaps him, can be? Being a man, he has to be polite, even if sho Inn't. You get in my hair sometimes, Jerry-but you're punity a mighty good nort and steen times an pretty as Minerva or any other girl, for that runiter. going to tell him to wait.”
I'm
She
But Marian was too late. yelled na loud as sho could, but Wade was driving fast down the rond.
Junor
Jerry appeared at the Labin that evening in one of hor most charming evening gowns,
"Why no dronay?" Mactan naked. "The party, you know, was last night."
"I think ta a good thing” said Sirs, Kilbourne, "to drone up now and then, Don't you know how people in junglen and other places like that, do it, to keep up the moralo? Net that your moralo isn't all right, dear," aald Mira. Kilbourne hastily.
"Thank you, mother," said Jerry and she smiled.
ho sold as he shook Wade's hand "What's thin about Wade not bo- on parting. Tá jike him to lunching hero?" asked Mr. Kilbourne. with me tomorrow, if he can. You havo completely won me over."
Jerry did not want to go to the club but she could not slay away. She flattered Kane into going with her by telling him she wanted to improve her game and he was a better teacher than any professional
"He said he know you wouldn't mind if he took the station wagon," "He didn't tell me sald Marian. where he was going exactly, but he said he had to go quite a long way-wanted to pay somebody or other for something he had bor rowed and broken. Didn't say what,
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"Tell Kilbourne to call
me up," he said as hé
shook Wade's hand.
sho had over bad. Bo it came | exactly. He said he didn't think about that they followed Minerva he'd be back before dinner, but I and Wade around the links. They was not to forget to tell you to cali. could not bear what was being said Benator Harlan and let him know ahead of them, but they could see. if you could have luncheon with him tomorrow. So now I've told Jerry saw altogether too much for her peace of mind or was it her you everything, exactly beariz
It wasn't fake faltory when Min- erve complimented Wade on a drive and sald sho would give any- thing if she could hit a ball as he did.
"No reason in the world why you can't," said Wade. "What you need most of all is to loosen up."
"Marian," said her father,, "how would you like to be my nocretary. in a few years? I think you're a little wonder."
After dinner, Mr. Kilbourne wont to a stag party, Jerry, to Marlan's delight, proposed a game of cards. Mrs. Kilbourno, who never could keep her mind on one thing too "I wish you'd show me how you long, tired first and want off to play your iron ahots without cut-bed. A little later, Kane said ho ting the ball.”
thought he would turn in. At last,
Wade came toward her and stood { avon Marian said it was getting Just back of her. He put his armsj late. Jerry and Marian wont up- around her in the manner of a stairs arm in arm. But Jerry know professional, trying not to nome too she could not go to sloep
came out into the hall and eropt close to her.
down the stairs. She did not want to waken anyone.
"I always play the short shots off my right foot," he said seriously, for he took his golf that way.
Minerva looked over her shoulder at him and smiled.
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In the living room, she wandered aimlessly around, then found a book and curled up in a chair, to It must be anid in vindication of read. But she could not read. Sho Jerry that from a distance--the way hoard some one put a key in the
Bho they were standing did not exactly door, turn it and come in. look like a teacher and a pupil. looked up trying to scom not too Jarry grabbed "took" is too mild eager. It was Mr. Hulbourne. Sho word the club Kane was hold-called a soft "hello" to him. He Ing and prepared a mighty swing asked her if it wasn't pretty late for at his ball.
her to be up. She replied aha had lost track of time, she was so interested in her bock.
"Look out, ais,” he oried. "You may bit those people."
Jerry took a swing at the ball and topped it. It dribbled on the too. She threw the club on the ground and started to walk toward the clubhouse. Kans, bewildered, plokod up the club, the ball and the two bags and scurried after
her.
"Hey, Jorry, what's the idea?" he called.
"I'm going home. This course in too crowded for me."
They did not soe Marian, sitting 'on another tea. She had a pair
Mr. Kilbourne came toward her, took the book from her hand and ant down near her.
"Daughter," he said softly and slowly, there's something bother- ing you. Can I do anything? After all, I am your father, you know." "It's nothing, Dad-nothing you'd understand."
He sighed.
"Probably I wouldn't. I guess I haven't been a very good father. No, don't stop mo. I've provided for you all. I've given you things.
of feld-glasses to her eyes. She But the other kind-a real father- was watching Wade and Minerva. the kind I had one to talk things Kane tried to talk on the drive over with-you know-a friend a home, but stopped when he saw it well as a fathor-I haven't been would be a monologus. Jerry stared that." straight ahead. When he stopped
to
Kane said.
A WILA
Jerry was deeply Lonched 3ho the oar, she jumped out and ran meant it when he said it wasn't into the house. She was lying on his fault; they were just that kind the bed, face down, when he went of a family.
When
new hoy I room with her golf bag. more ars
your clubs, Jerry" dreamed of having a home like this and a family like this-but I won- "Thank you, Kane, I'm sorry I der if somewhere along the road in lost my temper, iust-just because money and power, I haven't lost all. I made such a rotten drive, We'll of you. Oh you love and respect. mo, I suppose in your own way. go again sometime, won't we?" Bub Jerry, I've watched you
"Bure, whenever you say," said whole lot more than you think. Kane starting for the door. Then don't want to pry into your sacrota he stopped. "Maybe you'll tell me have no right to. But I da Its none of my business-but-wail, ; latend to say this-when you come I don't think I ever told you bê- to marry, don't let any trifling fore, but I'm pretty kes about you | things like money or social posl ---you're tops compared to other fel. tion koop you from your happi- lows sister-and-way, If you've nos. Promisor"
fallen for Wade-why, what I say the nodded. He felt an olors to why shouldn't you? If you think tours as she looked Boho you're too good for him. I'm telling | started to go upstairs, he tried to you you're not. I know he's as bo humorous.
good as anybody. I'll go now. But "And who are you, anyway, Mlan take my advice, Try being ulos to | Geraldine Kilbourne, to put on alre him."
wby your own father started as a When another car drove up Jerry | nownboy," ran to the window and saw Wado
"
""Dad"" she said, "you are the slop, out and. Minerva drive off, i most wonderful father the world Wade went to the station wagon. bas evor known,"
·Bho saw Marian talk to him, then
-walk away. "There was a tap at
the door.
"Bis,” said Marian, “why didn't i
To be Conoinded)
INCOME-TAX BRIGANDAGE
NOME of nur unco democrats are so
engrossed by the motes in other
should see that no citizen cheats the ruvenue, it is not wrong that the rc-
people's eyes that they are sublimely By "AN OLD STAGER" venue should cheat the eltizen?
unconscious of the beam their own. How many of those who prate so Insistently about foreign despotisms
1
At the present time it is common knowledge that Assessments are often, If not systematically, made out on what may be termed the try-it-on former high principle. In fact, a omcini concerned with Income-tax
the
have even taken the trouble to read payers extends beyond the impover a book by the Lord Chief-Justice of ished landluru who has to pay sur England, entitled "The New Des- tax on the money he expends on im- pollsm"
perative agricultural Improvements, In that most interesting volume even though such improvements are assures me that the total of such they would find
very authentic really in the nature of long delayed over-assessments received by
Treasury every year would, if the arraignment of the manner in which, repairs to dilepidations. under our existing political system, My sympathy goes out, free and figures could be published, stagger
professional bureaucracy is sapping unrestrained, to those insignificant the taxpaying public. My the liberties and hedging about the small taxpayers, like myself, whom contention is that the public, or that freedom of true-born Brilons.
the British Treasury, or whoever is molety which has any concern in Existence under the rubber trun- responsible for the conduct of In- direct taxation, is entitled to a square cheon of Hitler's Nazi friends, or the come-tax collection, systematically deal from the State bureaucracy.
This phase of the question of tax custor-ull bottle of Mussolini's, has diddles out of moneys not due and
AL
even
earnest
as little attraction for me as for the which they can ill afford to lose. If evasion is so obvious that it is amaz- deepest-dyed democrat who ever there is to be an end, as certainly ing it should have been completely adorned a soap-box. But it happens there should, to illegal tax evasion, overlooked by those journals which to be
like thut liberty,
when artifice lends it seeming have been allowing themselves to be my view
official pro- charity, begins properly home. legality, so should there be an end to made the medium of The fool, so the Bible tells us, has his illegal extortion by the minions of peganda on the subject. For be it from me to make excuses for wealthy eyes in the ends' of the earth.
tax-evaders. But it is This question of despotism crops There may be some optimists who or poor
on the believe that the Income-tax people merely an elementary up, conveniently enough, topical subject of the Budget. We never try to cheat the poor taxpayer, high taxation breeds low taxation are told that Sir John Simon, for while quite willing to admit, even morale. whom personally I have the very with fervent gratitude, that there are
the State.
highest regard, means take steps some strictly honest and righteous Legal Artifice
axiom that
In his first Budget to stop tax evasion tax collectors. I happen to know that People who regard Stale appro- even by means of legal artifices. the description does not apply to all, priation of over one-half
to
of their
the in-
There is nothing in that prospect and I question much whether the in- incomes as confiscatory are bound to
aroust anything but righteous crearing tradition of the Income-tax do all the wriggling that enthusiasm in the breast of a self- authorities is not to encourage the genuity of lawyers can devise for respecting British taxpayer, particu- latter and discourage the former.
their reiler. larly if that admirable citizen hap- pras not to come within the category Tru-lt-On
bear it. Goose and Gander
1
Most of us, of course, would be only too glad, on our present modest
one-
OUR
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BRITISH
ACROSS
1 "Cheap oil rag" (unag.) (11)- Husband and wife were seient- ists (5).
10 Dwarfed vegetation? (11). 11 Town of France (5).
12 This wood is used in the making
of spliced arrows (5).
15 Fine tea (6).
17 Part of the Geisha's dress (3). 18 In what country do you think this cabinet minister was? (4). Foreign soldier (5).
with
21
devotion's vinage and plous action we doo'er the Devil himself" ("Hamlet") (5). 22 One
One of five (5).
of wealthy surtax-payere. Nobody
I have been shown assessment scale of living, to hand over two- somebody else evading likes to kee his just State ducs, the more so when forms for a whole office staff, not thirds of our income, if the residuum the nice fat figures it correct, and in amounted to an additional one of which wa that evasion throws burden on other people less able to which the error was in every single actually does in many such cases. cose heavily against the recipient of With an income on that scale, nobody the assessment. Within recent date need feel an overdraft. But that is have myself, when protesting no reason why Influential journals But what astonishes me, and against the omission of a fixed and should lend themselves to
lawful allowance, been curtly in sided bureaucratie campaign.
Sir John Simon is entitled to his arouses my strong suspicion, la the formed that the omission was made obvious propaganda with which this because I had not formally claimed pound of flesh, but his energetic and tax-evasion reform is being associat- ft.
astute subordinates should be firmly 10 ed. This official pabulum has been It seems to me a perfectly scan- discouraged from filching even illegal put across, not through the negligible dalous thing that experts, who know ounces over-measure from an already medium of the stunt Press, but in every schedule of the game by heart, somewhat emaciated taxpayer.
The the stately and sedate columns of the should" withhold
their
knowledge law's chileaneries are not by any very best journals. The editors of from the assessed, often people who means invoked solely on behalf of 23 Material for brushmaking (6). these journals appear to have opened have a very imperfect understand dishonestly evasive taxpayers. An 20 This mythical being their mouths, shut their eyes, and ing of the Income-tax regulations,, equal chicanery of legal artifice is swallowed what Whitehall gave to the financial detriment of those exerted by the State to exploit the
victims. If it is right that the State taxpayer. thern.
I hoid no brief for wealthy tax- evaders. As one of the unhappy class on whose comparatively meagre Income the existing Income-tax falls with most confiscatory thud, it would be the little taxpayer with whose dodges and shifts I should more readily, sympathisc, if 1 sympathised
at all.
THEY PLAYED AND-I PAID!
rather a deer (4).
27 Only one tool (3).
Bounda
28 Not all of this Irish town is old
(5).
helps mountain range people to find the direction they want (5).
30 T
33 Modern British dramatist (5). 36 After school-time I get before
the race in the end (11).
30 Upright (8),
37 One's own legs (two words-7,
4).
DOWN
2 Reform a charmer to make her
wash (5).
3 Any he may become a beast of
course (5).
4 A plece of literature for a boy
(4).
A CINEMA MANAGER'S ACTUAL EXPERIENCE But there is a fine old adage which seems to apply with special force too-DAY I am a manager of a Scot- violin case, others sheets of music, this
of all tish cinemu. In 1918 I managed others carried instruments controversy. It is that familior one about sauce for the goose being a cinemo near a hill station on the kinds, many of them strange to me,
the gunder too. That North-West Frontier of sauce for
Indla. which they said were musical. They millionaires should be able to get out Cinemas nowadays, with their big
filed Into the building in a ceaseless of their proper share of payment to staffs and emelent apparatus, prae-
stream. I had understood the band wards die national upkeep by Jug, fieally run themselves, but nine years
the kiing with bogus companies, and ago they really required managing. consisted of 36 members. By turning income into capital expendi-At least mine did.
time everyone who sald he was a iure, exeltes my condign wrath. But not more so than the fact that learn-
musician had entered the cinema the number must have approached 350! The show started and my takings at the door were barely sufficient to cover the 50 rupees it had cost me give a great deal of money back- to hire the band. The house was only a little more than 80 rupees. full into the bargain.
Money Back
It was a "super de luxe." It seat-
ed gentlemen, members of the Bar, ed about 300, and I had been appoint should aid and, abet them in such ed to manage it from the opening rother a cheating, and even write textbooks day, Tlist opening was
trial. I had arranged for the mill- on how best to commit the outrage,
tary band of a regiment stationed nearby to play at the opening per- formance, and when the time como On the other band, I have the for its arrival, I was in my place at the band utmost sympathy with landowners, the box-office to admit
Land Burdens
be they of great or small holdings, members, who, of course, were being who find themselves taxed up to the privileged to see the show free of eyes on income they do not receive charge in return for their orchestral I believe this form of bureaucratic efforts. brigandage largely explains our de- pressed agricultural position.
The Biggest Band
s Undo (0).
6 Pigment (6).
7 No this kind of sen does not make beaching a boat easy (11).
When I say the show started, I My announcement that all money mean the band-or that section of it would be refunded as I regretted the
CROSSWORDS
131
8 Without any sense certainly not
more (11).
12 Not exactly open-handed (12). 13 Dissatisfied with sultable round
at heart (11).
14 The sound of laughter loud
perhaps (5).
15 A little secä (3).
10 The bird that is left when
another is decapitated (3).
20 Down in the mouth it appears
(5).
24 Gardening instruction (3). 25 The tree of fame (3),
20 An abbreviated county (5). 20 "Butchered to make a holiday”
(Byron) (5).
31 A kind of emblem (5).
32 No French song seems complete
without this word (5). 34 Lineain's and Gray's perhaps
(4).
YESTERDAY'S' SOLUTION CARTOUCHE LOGI G HOAMOR" ||O| AMBULANCE UBUEP 8 ECT BENE Y MABBAGE ANGULAR ▬▬▬▬▬EEL E L CONCERN DABNING O EO INH C OWSLIP DBAUGHT K8O107 B RAPTURE COMICAL Ο ΠΑΟ ΡΥΙΕ ΟΕ ΗΙΟ APPLE AKBANGING [OE BLU IL" A HERAT DAMNATION
By the time the last man was out. had just to take everyone's word, side the building I had paid out four or five times the amount that had been paid in.
And I might have been a further
that I could see and hear perform alms had been delayed, was greeted few rupees out of pocket, but for ing-struck up the introductory with loud cheering, which rather the fact that I spotted several mem plece. We did not get any further, puzzled me. But I was puzzled no bers of the audience who had re- for the news was brought to me by longer than it took me to pay out to ceived their refund trying to sneak
was still back into the cinema again. audionce my half-caste projectionist that no rupees-the
What I saldand did---I am afraid, Soon men began to file into the filma had arrived. The local train, queued up at the box-office. I, went
They come enrrying
true to traditional custom, had gone on paying and paying; I really had would have shocked even a sergeant- I shall never own more real estate building.
on a detour. I consoled myself, with no option. You see, no tickets were major. It certainly shocked that than some corner in a cemetery. But musical instruments; one had a violin another, a
the reflection that I wouldn't have to issued in return for money, and I section of the British Armyl my compassion for distressed tax-tucked under his arm,
In advancing these views 1
can
claim that my withers are unwrung.
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