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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1947.
Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:
Sitting on the
E following lotter is In- tended for birds and animals
only and need not be read
by any other creature.
Dear Big and Little Sirs,
the
As the only calumniat in world to be rend by birds and
unique. animals and to enjoy the
privilege of publishing their letters,
the
Fence
by NATHANIEL
GUBBINS
Noudy can talk rubbish to you because you don't understand, un-. lesa yoti are an "almost human" dog, poor thing.
Nobody can argue with you about politics or religion, knowing nothing. about
either.
واز
Nobody can say "Thou shalt not steal," In your world there nothing to steal. The world is yours.
* f
I consider it my duty to offer some
It is only when we capture you nations' That is why, with the explanation and apologies for
These are just a few aspects
of and 'make slaves of you that "you in snarling at each other, you And human behaviour in 1947. There share our misory, like some of you behaviour of my own species
Forliament and bewildering members of
arguing are many others which we won't poor tentlemen who are ridden by these dimeult
warmly about the most trivial go into now.
madmen in the Grand National and thousands times.
things (such ns cheese),
break your backs while, በጾ K. had happened nothing whatever
miracle and as if some overnight might swing us back to pre-revolu tion days.
If you read anything apart from Fence, you may Sitting On The
have noticed a small paragraph in one of the papers which stated that a mah had calculated how many had hundreds of miles Hammond
what covered between wickets in
lifetime of record was called run-getting."
U
In the madhouse
WH
of other madmen cheer.
Saint Francis of Assisi called' you' Rills brothers. It seems a nity als that those who have followed other teachings have forgotten that
one.
【HAT do you make of it all? Do You think that "In our last For myself, I prefer British revo- daya we are just a lot of poor lutions to the foreign kind. They, mädmen, bealing at the bars of our are so much more comfortable, madhouse trying to get out, or play- almust jolly, shall we say?
ing style games like counting up the miles a cricketer has run, or storing At the cinema
with our idiots' eyes
may have noticed that some the more fortunate inmates of the of us are not miserable at all.
nd
to
Hammond is a cricketer, if you
NOTHER thing you may have asylum and rushing upon them
destroy them in our mad Jealousy? know what that means.
A noticed is the strange be- such huviour of human beings (mainly doing While people
If, as sensible birds and animals, are
women, I am glad to say) when you think this, you can hardly be wicked things this may seem harmless occupation. But when you members of their species who have blamed for it. consider what is happening in the distinguished themselves as actors or actresses dare to show themselves world, and what is likely to hop in public. pen, it seems a very odd thing tu
do
Nero may have fiddled while Rome burned, but what do you think of a man who adds up the number of miles a cricketer has run when the entire world ray burn?
At the golden gate You
This
we are capable of self-delusion.
rebels, de unica.
with you. Tell us facis and we are Tell us a fairy story and we are
not,
POCKET CARTOON
"I'm told, Homer, if you throw dollars
the
"natives" "will dive for
them."
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber MY mind reverts to the octopus
In the Neapolitan aquarium,
Old Bedford Music Hall. and I remember a scene at the
A man in diving costumio got into At one time, in civilised coun-
It is possible to make us believe a tank where there was an octopus, irles, mad people were locked up
ourselves that is, and Induced the boast to dance In and sare people went
anything about free. In
good. We even time to the music of the orchestra. over, anything that is that Germany, when Hitler took
intelligence Then arose an official of the Society and believe that we have in all the 'mad people got free
and you have not. You might well for the Prevention of Annoyance to
Fish and shouted, "That animal toelted up the sane people.
have been
trained on hot Therefore, it is easy to make us What's the use of hot bricks in a We Arc wonderful tank of cold water?" retorted the believe that
of dogs. enough to be immortal.
trainer. "You're thinking
cried hunting
You might have thought
distinction anybody who carna any of the arts, or in unything else, by his skill, perseverance and de- votion to his work, would automa- tically earn, the respect of his fel- lows.
But what happens? Recently I have mentioned this because il crowd of 5,000 screaming hooligans actor escapist mobbed a distinguished film the. typical of seems
and his wife at a cinema, blacking behaviour of the human species his eye and tearing her hair. dering what H. D. Wells believed to be a last days.
years.
•
•
We have
of you
ask why.
·
bar, "and let me tell you these damned man who had just come in from tho farmers would shoot them all as wer
sald the trainer. "Octopuses love coon as look at them." "That's right,' danoing and it's the only way to At that point keep up the breed,"
curtain was rung down.
It may be that everybody in the world is mad now, so li doesn't maller if we are locked up or not.
You don't bother about auch Hounds, please," As a matter of fact, we have things. Your heaven is here. But never been free Hike you.
thousands of we who have been so long in been locked up for
darkness, must be forgiven' if Our bars have not been made of look forward to the light, when the doors of the madhouse are fung been made It must be difficult for you gentle tron. They have
open and we are free. understand taboos. men, big and little, to
You mustn't do this, this. I believe that if you mob mustn't do that. You ought to do your own species it is either be this, you ought to do that. I don't cause they have stolen your food or know what people will think I know nothing about these mat- Egg Jam noticed, in the House of Commons. because they are sick and you wish you if you do that. I don't know ters (who does?), but, being mad PLEADING that the jammed in
In July 1945, a revolution took to make a merciful end of them, what people will think of you
If like the rest, I am willing to bellevestrument had an egg In shell place in Britain. When revolutions At least you have reasons for doing you don't do this.
anything, if it's a pleasant thing to wedged in it, Robert Moffley, of Coke countries it.
what believe. take place in most other
Houso, Lowcester, howled with the losing side is either exterminat-
Rrc All task without wishing to start laughter when (continued on page 4. ed or silenced in some other way, They at least know they have had a
n controversy or cause offence, is col. 3) revolution.
this L..
The sume sort of escapism may be
I can offer no reason for the be haviour of the mob at the cinema. because Mr Paul Holt says it was "they seek to destroy success in re venge for their own dull lives."
care
of
We
Whereas you don't
long as anybody thinks. So madmen leave you alone you perfectly happy.
You mate and are merry in your mating If you are not, you mate again, without going to law about As he has been a student of films it. Nature provides everything for audiences for some you and would for us if we would - years, I will take his word for it. let her.
But in modern Britain we never know when we have hud a revolu- tion (and we have had many), any more than we know when we are and cinema beaten.
WILLIAM
HICKEY
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IF any lions or tigers are reading
List
Ugh!
THERE
have been complainta,"
says a leading article, "of watery solutions of gelatine with an abomin- ablo odour, and worth, at the most, twopence." And not only that. There old have been complaints that dirty bootlaces are being sold as liquorice, at nine and six-pence foot, in the lower end of Malling-street, where
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"SHE was really suck a very pretty violinist that I found myself con- Even when ducting solely for her,
U.S. President Trumon, chalking DEPOSIT: After 50 years of hiring MYSTERY: Toking back Brigh the Jungle than we have done.
I believe that your rule will be at White clothes to men, You-know-who, of ton's Hotel Metropole after its six up his 7.000.h handshake
Covent Garden, now hire them out House receptions since Christmas,
to women; "anything from a bridal years as Alr Force establishment, the saner, more just, and (to use because of a rurvives smilingly
outit to a bathing wrap," at 30s. to hotel owners liked its large new odd word on this occasion)
"Norman Wilkinson" murals, guess-humane. up "secret technique" perfected to avold 50s. for a day or evening dress,
At least you will never kill any the violins were silent. I still al- knuckle-crushers. Formula a to eight guineus-for-classy wedding ed he had painted them while hon.
Says
Miss air commodore in the RAF. The living creature for no reason at all;rected my baton-to-her-attention. outfits. quick grab before his guest has time LAURIE GILES (31): "Almost the murals were renovated, photograph- as we do. You will never impose standing half-turned, so as to face her. And It seemed natural and a Imposing is, Buy to get in first, then a squeeze of the first thing our
see them, taboos, without giving good prac mero courtesy, to use my left hand them. You to blow her kiss when she resumed whole hand reduced to a "sponge" "Have you anything glamorous?ed for the Press before NORMAN taboos for the
In- Then she shows them the stock WILKINSON, invited to
I noticed, that she the presidential palm.
Therefore her playing. are not elever like us. caretaker:
blurhod, and there were hotel
murmurk includes entire wardrobe of C. B. mine." Said the timates say he can still make them range (700 dresses and suits); it said: "They're good, but they're not cal explanations for
from
the rest
of the orchestra, but I wince after 1,500 immediate pre- Cochran's show "Big Bon."
"I remember seeing four or five Air)
And If the little gentleman who is was beyond caring. I remember decessors-fostering the illusion of
IRONY: Powell-Duffryn Company, Force lads doing one painting-one singing so beautifully in my garden
during the fourth movement and I The murals stay much he is envied by us all, even found myself pushing her neighbour which produced and sold 20,000,000 did the Spitfires, another tanks, an- I should read this, may I tell him now that something drew me towards her tons of coal a year, is now assembl- other E boats,..
the moddest of us? And may he out of his sent, and sitting down be ing a team of fuel efficiency experts. with signatures blocked out.
summerside her. Some of the audience hissed. have a happy spring and Their new task: To Investigate how
Others laughed and applauded. But with his pretty little wife.
11-24 never asked to conduct in Salzburg again."
indestructibility and a glowing im- pression of firm friendliness." as one
paper puts it.
MARKET: Potential audience for
little conl Britain can work on. Mr APPROACH: How to win friends: Far East radio is 050,000.000 people w. L. BOON, who heads
the team.
"Take off the cover of every of the (roughly one-third
world's thinks our present industrial population), But, says JOHN sumption of 100,000,000 tons a year magazine you buy, pin it back up- MORRIS. B.B.C. Far Eastern Service could be cut to 00,000,000 by full- side dawn before reading-then walt scale attack on waste and ald- for people to ask how you can read Director...."among this vast poten- fashioned methods.
upside down."--Dressing-room tip at llal. audience there are at present not more than half a million listen- ing sets-only half that of Scot
land.
BARKER:
who
will
door
you will be more sensible.
I remain,
Big and Little Sira," Yours faithfully,
N. Gubbins..
D
(From "My Musical Life,” · by: Envico Tapioco,)
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FASHION: Dress advice to TOMMY-London Palladium. HANDLEY: "Don't wear on ob- SERVICE: Licence has been grant- viously striped shirt with an obvious-ed to ex-Army man JOCK SHAW, ly striped suit, it gives you that of St. Austell, Cornwall,
Tiger Tim look"; to Colonel CHIN- peddle peeled potatoes from PETS; Britain is losing first place. STRAP (Jack Train); "Were it not to door in Newquay, by permission as animal-loving country, warns new for creases in his tie, the Colonel of the Ministry of Food. Shaw R.S.P.C.A. war history, "Animals would be a proper dandy"; to ERIC argues machine-peeling saves waste,
"Mr Handley's suit is charges id, extra per lb.. ' Were There" (Hutchinson).
Mr certainly better looking than "Sweden Switzerland and Norway
advice? CHOICE: New £1,000-a-year now have better animal" protection Barker's." Who gives this
Retail the Scottish laws than those on the Statute-book The Tailor and Cutter magazine.
secretary of Drapers Association (appointed as at Westminster."
- DEGREE: A cotton mill in Staly the most likely person for the job," SECRET? Greek cinema proprietor, bridge, Cheshire, refused to restart though the post wasn't advertised) is £050-a-year Mr PAPADOPOULOS, seeing Eng- work during the fuel crisis because Edinburgh's former
officer. Name? land for first time says: "Queues to the temperature in the mill was 50 food.
young brother of see alms my people would whistle degrees Instead of minimum 60 de- SHINWELL,
between unions, and Emanuel. off the screen?....you English are grees agreed like sheep. But perhaps that is the employer.
'57': When HENRY JOHN HEINZ secret of your political, stability."
BATONS: More than 60 American last went to Britain in 1942, the DEAD? Seen In a antique shop: generals (including, retired officers) Government, talked food with him. began as privates," say imaginative (Apart from 57 varieties, he has 26 One highly exclusive Whatnot, its U.S. Army recruiting advertise factories, 17,000 workers.) Recent- label, "Genuine Queen Anne, 175 ments.
War Office comparison? "It ly, after he arrived by air from the guineas," flanked by a antellite ticket would take too long to look up
13. Trond.:10) 00: ro United States, he was ready to talk
15. Found in metal clipe, Ingenuously announcing, .com tired officers. · But on the present. business again. The Ministry, of pliance with price control regula- list we have eight generals who rose food, however, didn't know he was tions "SECONDHAND.".
from the ranks."
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