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MAN'S tailor told a reporter the other day that it is months since he' has had an order for a new suit of evening clothes. One would have expected this, for in a time of severe economy evening dress is one of the luxuries most easily dis- pensed with, as are those large parties at which men in the black-and- white of evening dress look so much more agree- able than in the clothes they wore at lunch.

Apart from this, even- ing dress is the uniform of pleasure in a world rich in superfluities or, at least, in a society rich in superfluities, and is, there- fore, symbolic of some- thing at variance with the spirit of the hour.

I hope, however, that the disappearance of even- ing dress is only tempor- ary, that it will return with the return of peace, and that our children will live

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akilt, a fourth it a sailor. suit, a fifth dressed like me ---who in such circumstances could take the game serious- ly?

To have sport at its best you must have uniforms. I remember some years ago going to a football match in Galway in which one of the players played in his bare feet. Even this small de- clension from the regulation costume of the game made one feel that this was not football up to the Charies Buchan standard.

The genius of golf, it is said, has survived the dis- appearance of the scariet coats that used to make it so lovely a game among the sandhills; but I cannot help thinking that golf would have evolved into still greater per- fection if the red coats had not been allowed to vanish.

If, then, uniform is so im- portant in work and in sport, is it not reasonable to believe that it is equally important in social life? Consider the part that evening dress plays in the theatre, for example. How gay is. the scene in the stalls as even the ugliest man in a white shirt treads on women's toes on the way to his sent! I have sometimes thought that the stalls seen from the gallery are often more interesting than the play which they certain- ly would not be if the oe- cupants

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will be the possession of every male citizen.

For one thing, I like uniforms. I like clergymen to look like clergymen. Highlanders to looke Highlanders, and butchers in blue aprons to look like butchers very nice but- chers.

What a commanding figure is the policeman in his uniform: out of it he is only human-no longer one's superior, but one's equal. Hospital nurses in the costume of their pro- fession inspire double con-- fidence in their Samaritan skill and selflessness. I have always thought that the modern attack on the housemaid's cap and apron, though well meant, was deplorable, since, if it succeeded it would result in the disapearance of one

of the stalls were dressed in the evening as they are dressed at break- fast.

Opera at Covent Garden could scarcely have survived unless many people have been willing-to-pay-large-sums-of money, not to listen to music, but for the pleasure of seeing a crowd of men and women in evening dress.

I confess my heart sinks when I enter one of those Continental theatros Lo

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which men and women go merely to see the play and where nobody has taken the trouble to change from day to evening dress. How shabby the drama seems without of white shirts to brighten it from the audi- torium! That, no doubt, is what the late George Alex- ander felt when he made an order about evening dress in the St James's Theatre, which resulted in Mr Bernard Shaw's being refused admis- sion to the stalls on one occa- nion on account of the

of the comparatively few irregularity of his costume.

charming features of civilisation.

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I should like to chemists, publicans, drysal- ters, loriners, shoemakers, fishmongers, osteopaths, poets 99 and cotton manufacturers- everybody except journalists, indeed-wearing the uniform of their trades.

A Government patrol officer in Papua ate some "death medicine" to prove to native villagers that it was harmless. The natives had warned the officer that he would die if the "medicine" merely touched his skin.

The pleasure the eye re ceives from.uniforms will be admitted at once by anyone who has ever watched cricket at Lord's. Imagine Test match in which Bradman came out to bat wearing the

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The story la told in the annusi "Several men warned me to leave slummocky evening dress of report of the Acting-Adminis. them alone or I would die. trator of Papua (Mr H. W. "I poured some of the powder Champion), tabled in the House Into my hand, Women gasped and

of Representatives recently,

The officer's report says that the "death medicine" consisted of two parcels of greyish powder.

He solzed them at a village where a young man whs reported to have faded away and died through the agency of the "death medicine."

yelled, and the men drew back and shouted to me that I was doomed,

"The powder was made from sesahelis, corul, and wood. A dead stone-fish and ́a catfisha had been burned with IL. ·

"To complete my demonstration of the futility of such death horcery, 1 ate some of the stuff.

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n waiter in a bankrupt re- staurant, and Woodfull, his partner at the other end, ap- peared in a grey flannel shirt and plus-fours, with his braces exposed. Imagino too that the English fielders stood in their positions, not in the uniform of the game, but in anarchistic variety of cos

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To wear evening dress o some occasions, however, is not only a duty but a pleasure. After a hard day's work, to change one's clothes is like beginning day over again. It is an escape from the drab- ness of toil into the uniform of leisure, and one's spirits rise accordingly. One is ready to face cheerfully even the ordeal of a long dinner at a party.

Care evaporates as soon as, after desperate efforts, the bow is tied well enough not to be likely to come asunder. . One passes into a world in whch life is ensler-less like a realistic novel and more liko

comedy, Imprisoned be- hind a stiff shirtfront, one luxuriates in freedom. This is all make-bellevo, but it works..

How nice to think that within

Д reasonable time. human beings will be enjoy. tumes, one wearing‚hiker'sing this freedom again! And, 0A 1 opened the parcels the vil-The villagers were Lagos moved away, the report that I would, die, but I'm still on shorts, another dressed like n to my mind, the more the

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stockbroker, a third sporting merrier.

May 14, 1941

By Walt Disney

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OMMUNIST policy since October, 1939, if successful, could bring nothing but slavery and ruin to the people."

Who says that? Mr Vietor - Gollancz,

Coming from V.C., this must make a lot of people sit

up.

For there was a time when the comrades at the C.P. headquarters bowed their heads with touching re- verence whenever his name was, mentioned.›

King- All that has gone. street has set up new idols.

The assertion I have quoted is taken from "The Betrayal of the Left, a 9s book

and edited, partly-written published by Mr Gollancz.

This book makes mince- ment of the Communists and their self-righteous claim to be the workers' only friends. Indual, it suggests that they are no friends of the worker at all.

Out of the mouths and manife tos of its leading spokesmen it conviels them of an indefensible betrayal of the anti-Nazi cause.

Change Of Face

In September, 1939, in a pamphlet called "How to Win the War," Harry Pollitt said: "To stand, aside from this conflict, to contribute only re- volutionary-sounding phrases while the Farcist beasts ride rough shod Over Europe, would be a betrayal of every-

forehears thing our

have fought to achieve."

Ile also said: "The Communist Party supports the war, believing it to by a just war, which should Le supported by the whole work- ing class and all friends of De- mocracy in Britain,"

About the same time

a C.P. manifesto was ined stating: "We are. In support of all necessary measures to secure the victory of Democracy over Facelsm."

These declarations

contrasted

in revealing detail with the later "Party line which firally harden Into the anti-war policy of "re- volutionary defentisin."

The contributors to this book- they include John Strachey and George Orwell-thow with a mass of evidence how completely the Communists have turned them- selves into 1itler's biggest allies in It is a black record of misce- and distortion by the

Britain.

sentation More, It is a pathe- eacecunt of intellectual aterility and polifical ineptitude.

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Those Innocent, well-meaning people who are the stooges for ench recurring camouflaged Com muniat manoeuvre will surely have their eyes opened to reality by this book. I recommend you to get. hold of it at once, whether you have any Illusions or not about the Communist Party,

Maurice Webb

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Mr W. J. Sprendbury and his bride, the former Miss V. M. Jounilho,

who were married at St Margaret's Church on Saturday-Ming Yuen,

Tuberculosis Talk

Chinese 'Doctors Meet

An address, "Modern Methods in the Treatment of Eulmonary Tuber-

with lantern slides was culosis," given by Dr Li Shu-fan at Jast night's meeting of the Hongkong| Chinese Medical Association.

from time to time

COMPANY REPORT

H.K. Fire Insurance Credit Balances

The report of the Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd, for presentation at the annual meeting on May 21,

the ac-

Dr Li said: Innumerable claims states: for the discovery of specific cures The General Managers and Con- for tuberculosis have been made sulting Committee have pleasure in

but no one of submitting a statement of them, be it drug or serum or any counts of the Company, made up to other agent, including the much December 31, 1940, in Sterling and vaunted gold therapy of recent years, Hongkong currency. has stood the test of time.

Collapse therapy however, is the only therapy introduced, which has received universal acceptance. This

1939 Account-this Account shows

$069,035.46,-and-it-is-

that this sum be ap propriated as follows:

$11 per share .......

Fund

form of therapy originated with the To pay a Dividend of re-discovery of artificial pieu nothorax 00 years ago, and is the To add to Reinsurance basis from which the modern con- cept and practice of collapse therapy Is evolved.

During the last deende, particular-

are

$440,000.00

229,035,45

$009,935.45

1940 Account. The balance at

ly the last few years, phenomenal credit of this account is $741,199.02. strides have been made in the deve- Consulting Committee.Mr 3. H. lopment of intensive collapse therapy. Taggart resigned his seat on de- By this, I I refer to the evolution and parture from the Colony on retire- Improvement of thoracic surgery, ment and Mr P. H. Suckling was with the result that numerous sur-invited to fill the vacancy. This stical collapse methods

the confirma- now uppointment available for the treatment of plmost; tion of Shareholders. MesSTS C every early type of pulmonary tuber- Bernard Brown, A. H. Compton, M. culosis.

K. Lo, T. E. Fearce and S. T. In our view there in one important Williamson retire but, being eligible, factor which vitally influences the offer themsleves for re-election. choice of any form of collapse treat- The accounts have been audited

MessrB ment in this part of the world, and by

Lowe, Bingham

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that is, comprehensive consideration | Matthews and Percy Smith, Seth & of the patient's social status, The Fleming, who, being eligible, offer following are some pertinent quer-themselves for re-election.

tions:

Is the patient sufficiently educated

and

I intelligent to co-operate with the therapist to the conclusion of the treatment

In the absence of some form of national health insurance, is the patient in a financial position to undergo lengthy institutional treat- ment?

the limited finance and time available, which form 'of treatment is best applicable to the particular case, with the view to short hos- pitalisation, speedy convalesence, and a minimum of follow-up treatment? Dr Ll then described the various aspects of the subject fully, the forms of collapse therapy being dealt with mostly in technical terms. The forms were Artificial Pneumothorax, Intropleurai Pneumonolysis, Olo othorax,

Phrenic Interruption,

| Scalenfotomy, Extrapleural Preum-

othorax; and Thoracoplasty.

Patients In Hospitals

It is understood the Committee of the Tung Wah Hospitals will 'hold' a meeting on May 20 to decide whether to put all T. B. patients in the Tung Wah, Tung Wah Eastern and Kwong Woh Hospitals.under one building.

CHINESE ARMY MISSION

Singapore, May 12, The Chinese military. mission headed by

Chen General Shang arrived here on the night of May. 10 from Kunia Lampur. Malaya, by motor-car. The patty, which has visited India and Burma, fe expected, 'to atny "here'n fortnight/Domela Asl

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