THE
HD Law, I take it, exists been paid in by cheques, mado out, on his directions, in his name. The old ladies were sold
protect to
society
against those of its mem- up lock, stock and barrel, bers who are anti-social.
There were indignation meet-
Cynically speaking, then, ings called by the parents. perhaps virtue is its own Trustees were appointed and roward, since without a the business went into the hands modicum of virtue a com- of a receiver.
munity can't exist. From Amid the hubbub of infurl- that it follows that it's up to ated parents and distraught spinsters, a letter arrived from everyone to preserve the this very bad man, declaring Law and Order, if only in with a fullness of heart that was properly touching that he self-protection.
was disgusted with himself at And yet I keep on encoun- his behaviour, that life was a tering situations whero the sad and wearisome thing to him crook is allowed to go scot-free and that ho could but hope hla and very often at his victim's prayers for forgiveness might at wish.
long last bo realised. He gave confilet no address on the letter and foreboré to enclose his cheque
It seems to me a
between Sentiment and Senac making good the losses which or being over-casual as opposed had forced so pitiful a result. to being a busy-body. Or is it just laziness?
And the upshot, of course, is that nobody did anything, the not informed, and I suppose the oldest gag that police were any writer can use la the situa- instead of being occupied in tlon of the lonely cottage, stitching sacks, I've no doubt where the owner flads Buddenly the gentleman is working a and disconcertingly that he is similar and not very original not alone, but his seclusion has trick elsewhere.
Can
me why been invaded by an escaped
anyone tell convict or n fugitive from nothing was done?
justice. It's a grand situation
and I've no doubt but that it's
been handled in a thousand ways, yet still I am at a loss to
CASE TWO: My friend Mr. know whether I myself should Jones purchased a house-boat In practice help the wretch on and decided to take out an his way or hand him over to the insurance policy to cover possi- polico. Taking it, of course, ble loss of either the boat or its that he did not win the argu- contents; and as the boat was
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER
WOULD YOU HAVE HAD
ment immediately and con-
clusive by being the first of us
two to pick up the poker.
But the following versions of well-worn theme have
this
come my way in the last few daya.
THEM JAILED?
done?
By Anthony Richardson
branch manager sent for Mr. Pettifog, who, con- confronted with his illicit tactics, subsided like a pricked air-ballon
and confessed. He was sum-. marily dismissed.
No action whatever was taken against Mr. Pet- tifog. The world is full of the likes of him.
What would you have done in the branch manager's posi- tion?
CASE FIVE: Big Shot Bert of the What-not Film Company was given the job of directing the screen adaptation of William X's novel "Wishing Willy," The sale of the film rights was arranged between Mr. X's agent and the head of the flim company for £300.
Two days before shooting began, Big Shot Bert called moored in a tidal river, he was Mr. Jones, what would you have a word at the right time would upon the agent and suggested, well advised to do so,
have effected a capture and a much to the latter's surprise, fumantura, alarm Ahimili visão conviction. The landlord of that the price was not right. Ho had before done similar CASE ONE: Two maiden business in a very small way
the Ship and Sawdust, like Brer The agent very fairly repiled Fox, laid low and said nothing, that it was far too late now to ladies in the late fifties ran a with his acquaintance, Mr.
CASE THREE: The landlord though in the event either of discuss such day-school for boys. They had Sharp. Indeed, at times Mr. of the Ship and Sawdust was speech or silence he would have original deal had been completed a matter, as the conducted their business with Sharp had borrowed money off not unaccustomed to the ways neither gained nor lost any weeks ago and anyway he would the barest of success for over Mr. Jones. There being nothing of seafaring men, as his public- thing. twenty years. There seems no quite so blind as a very blind house lay on the very edge of
not on his author's behalf have doubt but the concern was from man, Mr. Jones agreed to Mr. the harbour and the majority of the landlord of the Ship and £300.
What sort of man, then, is accepted a penny less than time to time perilously near Sharp's suggestion that he his customers were both long- Sawdust? What shape of a disaster. But each storm was should arrange the insurance.
To which Big Shot replied shoremen and deep seamen. citizen would you make of that in his opinion the price, for weathered till, finding their age
In a short time Mr. Sharp Discreet as is the way telling upon them, they decided
of him? Is he a sportsman or a from being too high, was £100 to engage a headmaster to run wrote and informed his client landlords he said nothing con- partial rogue?
too little! And that he could that the policy was quite in cerning the pretty little piece
easily arrange on the budget- the place for them.
They advertised and found order and it was now time for of business that was being done
ing of the picture which their man and engaged him on the first premium. Mr. Jones by a clique that frequented his
He shut his eyes to what CASE FOUR: A company now in his hands for another the spot. Possessed of con- purted with five pounds, but on bar. siderable personal charm and the day that his boat sprang a was nothing of his business. A selling a household apparatus, £100 to be paid in, which could canvassers to push be equally shared between the apparently entirely knowledge- leak he received another letter cautious and an honest man ho engages able in his work, he captivated from Mr. Sharp pleading ex-refused to purchase stock at the their commodity. Mr. Pettifog agent and himself. The agent, his employees and the parents treme poverty and admitting agreeable price of Bs. 6d, for a applied for the post and got it, being a man of repute and in-
tegrity, showed Big Bert of the pupils.
that he had "borrowed" the 12s. 6d. bottle of whisky. He working on commission.
He soon discovered that the door. In his first term he re- fiver to help him over a difficult also refused, by adopting an
The issue at stake is whether organised the curriculum, period. It is yet to be dis- attitude of passive resistance, company paid full commission brought into a failing business covered if any policy was ever to give information to Mr. on the sale, amounting to 85s., the agent should have made an atmosphere of enthusiasm taken out at all.
Nosey Parker, who began to on the payment of the first in known to the company the fact and promise, and went so far as On being questioned as to his frequent his house and was staiment of 10s. by the pur- that a highly paid employee of After half a dozen suc- theire was nothing less than a his own chaser. Jones who clearly, and later on to convert an attic into a form intentions'
crook. Did. the cessful and straightforward small-time
suffer from a lack of of chapel. He conducted the should be known perhaps as admission, a revenue officer. services himself and was most "One-Born-Every-Minute Jones" The food ship Mary Anne set transactions, Mr. Pettifog dis- agent impressive. He was clearly a-replied that it seemed a sail strimmed to the scuppers covered a net way of making moral courage or was he a wise man of parts and godly as well. dirty trick to put a bloke in the with contraband alcohol, while money, by paying from his own and reasonable citizen?
The second term was not so cooler for five quid." On the Mr. N. Parker and his friends pocket the initial 10s., and so successful. The headmaster was assumption that Mr. Sharp had searched the wrong vessel from collecting a profit of 15s.
On this particularly cheap missing, together with the bulk at least a couple of dozen cus- transom to stern. of the parents' fees which had tomers of the same mentality as There seems little doubt but trick
Mr.
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I could go on listing such in- being discovered the stances indefinitely, but I should get no nearer in making up my -mind. The ouctome of each one seems the same,
THE JEW DOES SPEAK By Dr. Salis Daichos
What is the motive that prompts us to let such petty tricksters get away with it? Is ***It fear of publicity? Of becom-
an ideal the last two
Do you?
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Kunming, Oct. 20. Thousands of mailbage.. intended
THE Jew must speak," and speak to Jews poleoning the wells, or that tion of the communities among whom to deprive him of his human rightsting involved in legal proceed- That the Jew is not afraid of hard Ings? Is it sentiment and the In his owit defencet How the disappearance of a Churlston they lived. cheering and refreshing it is for a child was due to ritual murder com- Were the Jews too much bent on toll has in recent years been amply ever-dawning hope that this Jew to note such a declaration as mitted by Jews for religious pur- commercial activities and anxious to demonstrated in Palestine. That he plausible fellow will make tbla that made by Mr. Lewis Spenco in poses, it might have been easy to amass wealth? Einstein, Freud, is loyal to a recent article bearing that title. show, as both Jewish and Christian Neuman, and a host of other intel- thousand years of his history have his last escapade and reform? For centuries the Jew in Europe divines did show, that there was not lectual giants had no such ambition, abundantly shown. That he is de- Is it indolence, or lack of in- has been mostly forbidden to spealt, an atom of truth in those allegations. They have been made to suffer be voted to the land of his birth or terest? Is it charity or weak-
worthy and in Germany to-day he is not If then the onus of explaining the cause of the Jewish blood that flows adoption that treats him as a allowed even to utter a cry of dea- attitude of the mediavol fanatic to in their vēlns.
Is it then the pecu- human being, his loyalty to Britain mindedness?
You can search me. I don't pair or an appeal for mercy. But in wards the Jew were thrown upon itarity of the persecuted, or the and his services to the British Em- Scotland a highly-esteemed and me, what could I say? Could I y llar mentality of the persecutor, that pire ought to convince every falcknow the answer,
That he feels safe minded person. writer invites him openly anything at all except that it was has to be explained? popular
A truly religious and earnestly to state his case and not the peculiarity of the Jew but. But has not the Jew fault? Of and secure in
this to explain why so many people hate the preuller mentality of the people course he has. The Jew is as ready Christion community the Jew in html
that was responsible for the hatred to dwell on his own failings and country is only too glad to declare. and for the outrages in which I'weaknesses as the Scol in. If only That he acts as a brother among Now, before any attempt can be found expression?
I could bring myself to believe that brethren his record in all fraternal made to indicate the reason why the Is it reasonable to maintain that the people who hate the Jew hate organisations clearly testines. That Jew is frequently hated, it is surely Germany Tost the war in 1018 be- him because of his faults! There he is ready and Elad to associate necessary to recall his attitude. If cause the Jewish citizens of the would then be come hope that the with his Gentile neighbour on equal for Srechuen ors piled up in the I were asked to-day why Herr Hit Reich proved disloyal to their couns situation would improve. But if the terms no one will deny. That he is Kunming post office owing to dit- ler was filled with such a fierce try? And yet, General Ludendorft Jew is used merely as a scapegoat ready to give his life in defence of neulties of transportation by road hatred for the Jewish race, I would spent the Inst years of bla life for any ill that befalls a mallon or a the country to which he is a citizen New trucks have been bought re- have to re-read his book "Mein spreading This theory among the community, what can he do? his record in the Great War abun-cently but not in mufficient numbers Karop," and quota the passages in Germans, and the Nazia have.
dantly proves. That he can render to cope with the situation. which he himself explains and Just!- adopted it ́as a positive crced. Persecution Does Not Pay
valuable service in the most resnon-
All forms of transport are hard to sible positions the dialingulahed Jewish writers have been at least members of his race have abundant-ret. Many buses are not following as "brutally franks" in dwelling upon ly shown.
the regular routes, but carrying re- Do the Poles oppress the Jewish the weaknesses of Jews as Scotish
fugees from air raids-Reuter, any contribution of any value to hu-
That no country benefits in the man culture and civilisation; that he citizens of their country because they writers have been, in the words of is by nature parasite. rogue, envy them their wealth? The Follah Mr. Spence, in dwelling upon the end by persecuting him, the armals of history irrefutably declare. That a moral degenerate, a traitor to the Jews are known to be suffering in weaknesses of Scotsmen..
But the Scot is hated and per- God has blessed the British nation country which befriends him, n describable poverty and to be dying
cuted because of his weaknesses. because of its fairness to the Jow, I worthless creature, whose mere exis- from starvation.
Are the Jews in Hunvary daliked Why should the Jew be? Is not the sincerely believe. That other na- On the ninth Sunday after Trinity tence epelis danger to his neighbour because they are racially or religi- difference between the Scot and the Lions wiil yet learn from Great the Bishop of Hongkong, nuriated by Mediaeval Barbaritles
ously exclusive? It is well known Jew this: that the Scot has a land Britain how to treat the Jewish citi- the Bishop of Conten, ordained in. St.. that the Hungarian Jews, like the of his own; that: Scotland is part zen, I fervently hope. That love John's Cathedral the following "m's- Let me give, another instance, majority of the German and Aus of Great Britain; that Britain is cut will in ume conquer hatred is the slonaries and workers of the Bible When in the Middle Agta whole trian Jews, had un to a few years ficiently strong to protect her sub- earnest prayer of the Jews, as it la Churchmen's Missionary, Society - in Jewish communities were sinugh- ago followed a polley of complete feels anywhere in the wide world; of all true Christians, tered, or burned in their Synago- assimilation, and that the number of that no dictator or demagogue will This is how the Jew speaks when `glies" because Tumours had been mixed marriages among them was dare to treat the Scol as a scapegoat his 'Gentle neighbour is willing to -spread that the Black Death was duo greater than among any other sec- for his country's misfortunes and listen to him.
nes that hatred.
would then find that Herr Hitler Peculiar Mentalities
asserts that the Jew has never made
KWANGSI MISSION
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Deacon, Peter Pak: Priekis. "Pani Huang. Arthur Charman, and Osmond Peskett, Gospeller, Mr. Pard,
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ACROSS
8 Opening with each end (6). 8 A vice that shows up a 'little
god (8).
Lack of taste is not good for many (two words-3, 1). 10 Some had speakers excel this
Iribe (5).
11 "Ted can rap" (anag.). (9)..
13. He goes, perhaps, from side to
side (0), 14 Bymbol 40).
17 This air reversed makes-warm'
clothing:(3)..
19 With some following it would.
(be weird (8).
20 Kind sounding like letter and
number (8)..
23 Verdict on a lightning victim possibly (three words-8, 2, 3). ' 28 This makes the parting harder.
(0).
28 Entirely part of 25 down to as-
algh (B). 29 Each bud contributes to over
indulgence (7).
30 He will be pleased when ̈ ̈he.
comes to a settlement (9), 31 The way to include a natural
growth (0),
DOWN
1 An author's wrliten characters? -
(0).
2 Bruce ought to have written his battle orders in this kind of hand (7)
3 The usurer Bites his business to
be so, and it in (0),
'The geologist will tell you this
the lowest of these is the vidgat. (0).
5 Chulte fresh (8).
6 Describes many characters in
fairy tales (5),
7 A cube to what a sphere cannot
be (8).
12 Temper makes it quite mild
(3).
15 A speaker's notes? (9).
10 A lifeless policeman's round is
weery in the extreme (8).
18 Product of crude nut but more
nourishing to eat (0).
21 Bar this for a wine (3), 20. great value to pedestrians
who realise the difference be tween the quick and the dead (7).
24 Point in circles of recent origin
25 He is neither young nor wise
(0),"
27 Bit of Geneva determination ·
(5).
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