SATURDAY MARCH 11, 1939.
Girls' and Boys' Corner
Che SNAPSHOT CUILD,
YOUR" CAMERA LENS
I WONDER WHAT
THE LONDS ARE.
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Address
Name
Dear Kiddies,
THE GULLS SEEM TO
KNOW!
This is all my own work
Very few entries this week, kiddies. I was really very sur- prised as I had thought that a jig-saw puzzle of that kind would have been most popular.
The prize-winners this week
are:-
Joan E. R. Gordon (aged 12), 51, Nathan Road, 3rd Floor, Horacio Ozoroi (aged 81⁄2), 289. Prince Edward Road, Phoon Wai-kwok (aged 7), 8, Garden
Terrace.
Coupons are being sent to Joan, Horacio and Phoon Wai- kwok which I want them to bring, to the "Hongkong Tele- graph" offices in Wyndham Street. The coupons will then be exchanged for money prizes.
FOXWELL
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White, S. S. Bux, William Wong, David 'Asche.
K. Daniloff: As you did not give up your age, your entry had to be taken out of the com. petition.
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Charles Clark: Yes, you can still enter competitions. When you celebrate your 15th birthday you are then too old to send in entries.
This week, kiddies, I want you to study the stove picture very carefully. There are two kinds of cargo in the holds of the boats and letters hidden about the picture spell their names. Find out what cargo down, fill in your name, age and they are carrying. Write this address coupon and send your entry to Unele Eddie. "Hongkong Telegraph," Wynd- ham Street. The competition closes at 2 p.m. on Wednesday.
Good luck, kiddies,
c/o
Shuk-chum, Uncle Eddie
Specially commended for good work are the following.
Seniors: Ho Charles E. Clark, Ho Man-chan, Oleg Julebin, Mary Grace Asche.
Here is a good riddle sent in Intermediates and Juniors: by Charles Clark. Joan Daniel, P.. Wong, John
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK END
A camera with an anastomat lens. 1.0.3 or faster, is a great help in obtain ing clear, sharp Indoor plctures such as this,
TAKING drst-rate snapshots ro- means "fros from nstigmatism." The TAKI
quires good eyes. Das is your speed at the lons is also indiented, in "eye for pictures," your ability to rec the form of an "number," such as ognizon picture when you see it. The 1.0.3, 1.4.5 or 1.2. other in your camera's "oyo"-its ions.
This speed is important. An 1.0.3 nnastigmat lens is four or are times You can train your "eye for ple- na fast as the average box-camera turen." The more snapshots you take, lens. This extra speců makes snap- the better you learn to see a pictura shois possibio in dull weather, and chance when it confronts you. Dat, with small photo bulbe at night. once you have chosen-a subject, it is Again, an 1.4.5 annsligmat tens is up to your camera's "ayo" to record twles as fast nn the f.6.3. And on the It clearly and sharply.
belter-grade miniaturo cameras, osy Lenses on most box type or sized- finds fast lenses rated at 1.3.6 or 1.2-m focus cameras aro remarkably good. so fast that they tako snapshots at at the price. But the finest camera night by ordinary room light, when Ionses are known as "anastigmats."į the camera is loaded with high speed They are fant-lot in a greater film.
amount of light than the ordinary The smaller the "number," the Jens-enabling you to take pictures faster the lens. Always remember under adverse conditions, on dull this, when you examine a camera. days and at night. And they produce And when you get a Anor camera, negatives with reedle-sharp detail with fast lens, treat the lens as care- over the entire picture area. Noga- fully as you would a Jowel. Don't tires made with anastigmat lenses smear it with Angerprints; clean it occasionally with a soft lintless cloth. yield splendid enlargements,
The word "annatigmal" is usually If you treat your camera'a lens well, stamped on the mounting of theso it will repay you with many better Jeunes. It is something like the "Ster- pictures, 1ng" thark on silver. Actually it
lord?
Because they both make their Why is a tailor like a land- living from rents.
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The Stein Song
HEY used to sneer at her THEY at te stray Ter comprehensible Number One." Not that she minded very much, for she is a remarkable mixture of shrewdness and innocence. Still, she would prefer people to be pleased with her. "Why -on-earth,"1-can-hear her say.. ing, "shouldn't they like Ger- trude Stein?"
And, looking at that square, sun- the brown eyes, burnt face, with the close-chopped Iron-grey hair and the homely smile, I can't see, for
why they the life of me, shouldn't either.
Margaret asks for more
"Of course we must face facts. It's going to mean waiting."
One of the many amusing illustrations by Pont of "Punch" in "The British Charactor" (Collins, 5s.).
UNMASKED
AMLETO VESPA, Italian-born but now a Chinese subject, ardent atilla Fascist and an admirer of Mussolini, has written a most remarkable book, Secret Agent of Japan (Gollancz,
109. 04.).
So shocking are his revelations that they seem like the embittered imagin. ings of a disgruntled and discarded employee.
Imagine that the initial stage of the milltary conquest of Manchurin is over. Mr. Veapa's Japanese chief sends for him and says: -
"Japan is pour, very poor. Our first task is to lighten the burden of our We did enormous military expenses.
not Lake Monchuria to spend millions an it .. all our expenses... all the expenses of the army of occupation must be borne by the Manchurians."
How? Along come the drug, drink and prostitution monopolica. Vice is
Are You Sure?
ANSWERS
HERE are the answers to the
questions on Page Two:
1. Erypi; 2. Japanese, Irish; 3, Queen Elizabeth; 4, 25,000; 5, Holland; 6, Sparrow; 7. Hero of Alexandria; 8, Denmark, Swll- zerland.
15, Your olfactory sense would smell flowers in Spring. 10, Where meals are eaten.
17
St. David's Day, St. St. George's Patrick's Day. Day, St. Andrew's Day. 18, R., Stevenson.
19, A physiclan's fee. 20, A neat of wasps, 21, Four.
22, Source of a river. 23, Xylopyrography. 24,
of them. 25, 2,000, 2,400,
All
26, A fish. 27, Red, orange; yellow green, blue, indigo, Violet.
PUZZLE CORNER ANSWERS Cryptogram: "Whatever I have tried to do in life. I have tried to do well. What I have devoted myscit:LO, I have devoted myself to completely." Incomplete Division: 49824 alvided by 24, equals 2070.
"Letter Changing:
real
roar, saar, sour,
Beef, reet, reel,!
What Are the Dimal Soup... 16 feet)
by 38 feet.
A nice old woman who could be a holy terror to humbugs. A great talker, whether her audience is a Parisian garage-man or a couple of hundred Oxford undergraduates. A fluent, rambling writer, Intelli-
Fun With Synonyms: Calm-tran- gent enough to sometimes deceive
quidistant-remote; excessive--re- herself, considered by some critics
dundant; fanciful-capricious; immov- to be a literary
|able-stationary: genius, dismissed
careira-neglectful: a pathological_case,
opening-initial elegant-sumptuous; by others ng
molst--humid; obstinate-stubborn. hailed by her friend, Sherwood An- derson, as "the greatest word-slinger of her generation."
That's Gertrude Stein.
strong on spelling people's names, she was hardly ever taken
In.
She may have her own ideas about ways punctuation. ("A comma by help ing you along holding your coat for you and putting on your coat for you and putting on your shoes keeps She thought it was very nice be- you from living your life as actively ing a celebrity a real celebrity who as you should lead 1") She may can decide who they want to meet often be obscure and repetitive ("and say so and they come or do not am tremendously. Interested in the volume and rhythm of words.") She may think more than somewhat of herself. (Being who she is, why
come as you want them."
organised, encouraged and sold to the inhabitanis, with the profits flowing speedily back to Japan,
'Gangs of bandits aro organised to extort money by kidnapping, black- mail and any other means they can think of. These samo bandits, in Japanese pay, stogo train wrecks and other Incidents which provide Japan with exenses for new military measures against the land her troops are ravag- ing.
For the inhabitants of that land there is no pily, Japan's soldiers rape, rob and murder at will.
"We have no intention," says an}- other of Mr. Vespa's secret service chlets, of imparting our civilisation to the people whom we have conquered or shall conquer. They will simply disappear.
"The Koreans will be eaten by vices. The Chinese will be the victims of oplum and other narcotics. The Rus- sfans will be ruined by vodka. They will ill be annihilated.”
This is n sordid story, brilliantly told, by a man who helped the Japanese to some extent towards their goal. There is no doubt that he regrcia it billerly.
W. M. T.
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Dear Savage-by-Marcos Spinelli (Peter Davičs, 8s. 6d.). Even as a boy Carlos Diaz be- lleved in other things than the Bun, moon and stars. This is the strange story of what happened afterwards
And Having Welt, by Chester BL John (Peler Davieš, 8x, Gd.). The story of a great English family from Plodden to the pro- sent day. At least, it's "great "* if you happen to feel that way.
Duce Fears Third
Of Three Plots SIGNOR MUSSOLINI is alarm-
ed by the plot by the mad gunman, Bruce Simone, thirty- which cost the life of one of the eight, mechanic, to kill him,
Duce's guards.
It has reminded him of an amaz- ing prophecy made by an old gipsy woman in Bledly last Spring. The Duce, who was then visiting Palermo, recelved a letter from the gipsy.
When they showed her the Missla-
The letter, in primitive and nalve sipp! she was rather disappointed. "T sold that Mark Twain's life on the words, implored the Duce to beware Mississippi had made it so real to of three mortal dangers threatening But, when she sings her Stein me when I was a little girl and there him in the Spring of this year. song, I And I have to listen.
shouldn't she?)
WHs a story of a flood and I had liked that and how well there was Six years ago, when The Autoblo- something the mailer I could not graphy of Alice B. Toklas became a quile get used to it not looking quite |* best-seller, she was one of the towns enormous as I had always seen it who were not astonished and, per- hups, chagrined. (Pretending to be the reminiscences of her friend, it was actually the work of Miss Stein.) She liked the success, and she liked the money that it made her.
The book brought her a shoal of invitations to revisit the United Stater, where she was born in 1872.
when I read about it."
"There will be three attempts to kill you, The Great two will be easy to escape, as your enemies will be madmen. The third will be the most dangerous. It will be well-planned plot against you.”
MORE GUARDS
And, then, all too soon it was over,
The letter warned the Duce that and she was on her way back to
frouble would follovr immediately France, looking in on London to see the death of a great old man. the first night of her ballet-with- words, "A Wedding Bouquet," Sadler's Weils.
at
The Duce thought that it referred to the King Victor Emmanuel.
But the Simone attempt, immedi- ately after the death of the Pope, hus impressed him, especially as, liko oll his countrymen.. Signor Mussolini is very superstitious
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INGING not Arms and the Man but Books and thà
written, in n' alim; groeip- comered pamphlet, far and awAY. the most algnificant volume or the week for you and for mo (Books and the People. The Hogarth Press, 1s. (d.).")
Always to the point, she is plod- santly belligerent and quite often chastening. reminding tia, - - för instance, that, though we are one of the most literate and wealthy. nations in the world, we have had to wait a long, long time for the democratization of books.
Only now are books beginning to feel the influence which, in the courso ΟΙ
gentration, has brought gramophone records, allk stockings, foreign travel and smoked salmon (to take four ex- amplos at random) within the. reach of small purses.”
The reasons? The history of English education and the charac- ter of English publishing and book- selling. Mra, Cole Indicts the first. Culture for the Governing Class: No Expense-Spared” on the one hand and "Cheap and Nasty: For the Masses a" on the other.
And she gently chides the second. Publishing, she argues, la still too often a matter of that old School Tie. Too many books still tend to be issued by graduates for graduates, by gentlemen for gentlemen.
So that, until quite recent times, "reading for culture's sake, and the ownership of books, was a class privilege belonging to the well-to- do-except in so far as philan- thropy or unusual enterprise pro- vided a small cheap ration for the poor,"
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Many places, Mrs. Cole points out, would have had no libraries at all if it hadn't been for that Scots- American, Andrew Carnegie.
"Many.. ones.
have miserably poor Even in the best, owing to the lack of funds, the provision of booky is quite inadequate to meet the demands of the users."
Of the mass-hunger for books there can be no question. I know it, and the publishers know it- everybody concerned in This Busl ness of Books knows it. Witnesa the popularity of the cheap reprint and the sensational success of the sixpennies, "falling in showers on the bargain counters," and the rise and consolidation of a score of Book Clubs in the land.
In fact, an eager new public is avalling itself of these laudable if belated iterary services, a public that will surely grow by what i feeds on, a public of hundreds of thousands of men and women, a possible public of millions...
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As Mrs. Colo remarks: “If even a fraction of this potential demand could be supplied at prices which it "could afford, we should be very- much nearer a real democratiss- tion of reading, for we should be reaching the point where a book could be handled with as casual familiarity as any other object, could be purchased and used like packet of cigarettes, a postal order for Littlewood's or a cinema check.
The guards at the Villa Torfonia. Signor Mussolial's residence, have been reinforced. And when Mussolini reviewed his of
of bodyguard uniformed
"Gradually I was ending and we She hadn't seen the place for thirty went out and on the stage and there years, but she was pleased that all where I never had been with every- those people wanted to see her. So thing in front all dark and we bowed she went there and enjoyed it en- and all of them coming and going ormously, as she tells you in Every and bowing, and then again not only black- body's Autoblography (Heinemann, bowing but coming again and then "Musketeers" in Rome recently, 12s. Od.)
as if it was everything, it was all
twenty-five civilians were only about twe I found it a delightful book. The over and we went back to sit down.
to see the ceremony: allowed to "I guess it was a great success." The Italian political police, the nice old woman-and the holy ter- ror-talks amusingly and sometimes I guess it was, too, And it dow famous Ovra, is investigating very maliciously about New York and served to be. For Gertrude Stein carefully Simone's past... Chicago and the men and women was having the time of her life once. It is true that Simone was for alx. she met and the ten cent stores and more. Sho always having the months in a lunatle haylum Bul the dogs and the Negroes and walk time of her life. That's one of her there is no explanation how he came her life, And though the lan't al-listen when she sings her song, model, in use in the Italian Army.
Alexandra Building ing and dying She had the time of secrets. That's why you have to into possession of a revolver, a recent
There are many other stimula- ting comments in this admirable pamphlet asides on authors and their troubles, the problem ofen Just Price for books, the pheno- menon of Professor Hogben, libraries, literary propaganda and
so on and so on.
But, through it all, Mrs. Cole's chief concern is clear, She wants books and book-reading to become less and less the privilege of the few and more and more the posses- slon and the habit of the many..
"And woe belide anyɑne who says- her payt
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