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WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1931.

DOES POLITENESS

PAY?

"GOOD MANNERS GET YOU NOWHERE NOWADAYS."

MEANS OF SELF-DEFENCE.

Good manners-reallyfgood man-Į pushing past an ancient dame or ners get you nowhere nowadays. trending upon her toes are unpar They are, no doubt, appreciated by donably rude actions, but the extra the fow, but are taken advantage courtesy which one wishes to offer of-by-the many,

to' age is shown up as foolishness The nice old ladies who would say "Thank you" are few and far between, you conclude, and you do

The "engaging" manner. which some people adapt only for the "worth white "individuals, may be

the Evening News, clality does not impress unless the people are intensely stupid. But simple, genuine good manners, will

THE CHINA MAIL.

TRIUMPH OF SIDKY MUSSOLINI TALKS OF THE GHOSTS OF

PASHA.

Reasons for Wafd Defeat.

BOYCOTT METHODS.

RELIGION:

It Is Indispensable,

But

"I AM THE STATE."

BRIXTON.

Strange Happenings at a Club & Cinema,

MYSTIC MUSIC.

The result of the first degree!

"La politique c'est moi," said: In the good old days ghosts used elections In Egypt constitutes for Signor Mussolini. paraphrasing to confine their attentions to cs- Sidky Pasha and his Government a the famous words of King Louis tablishments as famous for their victory which exceeds the hopes XIV. "L'etat c'est moi" ("I am the gloom as their antiquity, writes a entertained by his warmest friends State") in an interview he has just special representative of the Lon and must enthusiastic supporters, given to the Paris Journal. victory has undoubtedly been due to dispute between the Italian Govern both in London and in Cairo. That Mussolini, was referring to the

ment and the Vatican when uttered the phrase.

He said he believed that

is outstanding courage and ability, and to the far-sighted and unstint ed support given to the Government

don Morning Post.

with the times for the latest Nowadays they seem to...move-

he psychic manifestation comes from a brand new night club and an ad- jacent cinema in London.

re-

In the heart of Brixton a huge

It

be recognised and appreciated by iy made way for the first two late. but on the crucial issue of the Condren be taught their catechism but for a watchman who has never

such people immediately.

To be pleasant and courteous to everybody is surely the true idea? The old to the young; the young to the old: the rich to the poor, and vice versa. It is quite unneces- sary to have been educated at # public school or university to possess perfect manners.

ruled out, writes D. M. Burnett in not feel like being rebuffed by nine by King Fuad, writes an Egyptianligion was indispensable not only building. has recently arisen on the

Such artifi- out. of ten for the sake of doing a Correspondent in the London Morn-for the people but for the elect of site of an ancient plague pit.

geod turn to every appreciative ing Post,

the nation, and also for science. tenth.

The first degrea elections were "I wish to see religion all over houses the Moulin Rogue Club and Again, when you have courteous. fought not on the choice of deputies, the country," he said. "Let chil- the Astoria Cinema.

The cinema is deserted at night comers of a theatre-party and restitution framed laat Autumn by Let them be sent to communion on ceived no muttered apology, you the present Government,

Sundays, even in their swaddling

played. a note of music. in his are tempted to be a polite obstruc- Nahas Pasha and Mahmoud Pasha clothes. All that I leave to, the life--but the organ is stated to tlon to the remainder of the party. declared this Constitution to be priests. It is religion.

play, and to play well, at mid- The next time the same people are arbitrary and unacceptable to the "The rest is policy and 'La night. Numerous complaints have Inte they may be good enough to Egyptian people, and called upon politique c'est moi.

been made by the neighbours about¦ "I admit no one, absolutely no. a polite "excuse me" to the latter to show their disapproval

this. the people they are disturbing. by refusing to vote. They went one, to interfere in any way in what

Three times recently the police further. they attempted by every concerns the State.

have had to call up the secretary of form of violence to prevent the elec

the Moulin Rogue to inform him torate from going to the polls. So

that the lights of the club had sud- singularly and ignominiously did

every door has been found locked denly gone up. On each occasion they-fail, that the proportion of electora who ignored their vows and

and every electric light switch down. performed their duty as enfraṇ- chined citizens, was, higher than

Trodden Upon.

murmur

#

I learned a useful lesson at popular tenshap. In my politest On the other hand, the man-artones I ordered a peached egg and wantan--who lives up to such "old a cup of coffee, emphasising that

-fashioned" ideals-will find himself was in a hurry. -metaphorically speaking-trod den upon. The old can he just as offensive to the young as the young,

Offensiveness Paid..

No egg and no cup of coffee came

"Life For The. Church." in the State, nothing outside the "My formula is clear; everything State, nothing against the State." Mussolin!' added, according to the British United Press:

..

to the old, with the exception that my way, in spite of many polite re- that recorded at any of the four religion needs the support of the a race,, paychic, but a few nights

If the young argue in self-defence minders, which were ignored. To they are dubbed "impertinent." my annoyance all around me were And the poor can be every bit being served promptly. In despair as offensive to the rich as the rich 'I adopted my most offensive man- to the poor.

ner, loudly demanding my food and drink immediately. By return came the poached egg and coffee.

"

The really pleasant people will, of course, continue to be polite to all and sundry irrespective of set- bucks. But the impatient and leas pleasant ones (who nevertheless cherish the ideal of good manners) will seek for some means of self defence.

previous elections. It was 67.3 per cent, as against 58 per cent., 55

per cent., 60 per cent. and 63 per cent.

Nahas Pasha and his allies now

accuse the Government of having faked the elections at every point. The mendacity of these assertions

The other day a hostess went up to two people after a party. She is proved by the official statisties hardly know either of them, but which admit that here and there the one obviously amused, her, while poll for local reasons was low, for the other she found on the dull instance, at Port Said, where it was only 4 per cent. On the other hand grent cities. like Alexandria and Cairo, showed enormous in-. creases over the previous elections.

side.

When you politely hold open & To the former she gushed, "Now swing door at some stores to a when are you coming to stay with swing us, and we'll give you lots of bridge robust old lady who let it buek in your face, a feeling of and tennis?". Turning to the slight annoyance follows, When other, she said abruptly, "Good- severat uld ladies have behaved in bye. Perhaps I'll meet you again a similar fashion, you think that one day. Come to tennis or bridge old ladies and swing doors are best or something." left to themselvos.

I hope you will appreciate the feelings of the person thus

Unpardonably Rude. Good manners stil! dirbata, that dressed.

SIAMESE GOLD RUSH.

Led by 130-Year-Old Priest..

A SPECIAL CEREMONY.

50,000 Trained Men A Year.

CHAIN OF AERODROMES.

are

Preaching Revolution.

State.

Feeling the Depression. "In order to accomplish its aim, Saxophonists are probably not as The Ten Commandments ago, the Moulin Rogue performer ave existed for centuries. Who told me that he had a feeling of obey's them?

intense depression, and together "They say 'Do not covet your with other members of the band neighbour's wife, Thou shall not saw a door open slowly.

The place kill, and so on..

was mpty but for themselves, "These laws are broken. Left to and i complete darkness. "I am herself the Church becomes a vain not easily upset," he told me, but thing. We wish truly to give life was more than glad to get out into to the church by the force we put the street." to her service."

CLAVICHORD MAKER.

I

Tommy Noble, ex-Flyweight Champion of the world, is a mem ber of the club and after these events offered to spend a. night there with the head walter..

"At three o'clock in the morning," he stated, "I felt a sort of oppres sive feeling as though somebody

It seemed curious to be search. ing for him in busiest London, butį Nahas Pasha and his partners then even the most modern of did themselves permanent injury by cities can now hear and enjoy the preaching revolution and indulgence clavichord. Its tender strains are had thrown a wet blanket over my

in revolutionary tactics. No less being caught by wireless, amplied knock at the street door. I

head, Suddenly there was a

•

WAS

unpopular Was their attempted and distributed to us all. Yet Lon. ad-alliance with certain malcontent don's maker of clavichords lives i altting within a yard of it, and

members of the Royal House to plot a world of his own.

dashed out, only to see a complete. against King Fund, with the aug-

All round him were the instrueither direction. I am not fright- ly empty road for 100 yards in gested aid of the ex-Khedive, Abbas ments of olden days, the clavi oned at most things, but I packed SOVIET BID FOR AIR and the formal residint on by chord, the spinet, the virginal and it up then.

cecured renunciation by the harpsichord,...instruments, he the ex-ruler of his claims to the had made. There on the right was Moss, the general manager, and Mr. Hart, the chairman, Mr. POWER.

throne, and his final recognition of the spinet that Leslie French play Mr. Griffiths, the secretary, all told his Majesty King Fund and the ed on at the opening night of Sadme of the same uncanny feeling at new Constitution, the plotters were ler's Wetis. How the cast had times when the club is deserted. well-nigh killed by ridicule.

loved it! The Egyptians are a religious

Mr. Moss said that he was not "There on the left," he said, "is easily people and they were profoundly a harpsichord.

impressionable. "Some- shocked and indignant at the un Casals has played. How well, too, stay in the place I cannot tell you On that Pablo times." he added, "I just cannot scrupulousness of the Wafd and remember that night! The ball why." Liberal In dragging women into was a buzz. The concert was about etreat brawls. Not only this, but to start. Thers on the platform vanced to account for these happen- Various theories have been ad- the Opposition leaders in their de was that harpsichord. The night ings. Scenes which duplicate, in excite-- Moscow's intensive and incessant 'berate plans to provoke bloodshed before I had tuned it up.

The fact that the building ment at least, the famous gold aerial developmenta

Then is on the site of a plague pit is again and revolution had recourse to the suddenly Casals wanted the pitch considered by many to necount for rushes of California, Alaska and the seriously perturbing Europe, and a cosmopolitan riffraff in the capital raised..

these-manifestations. Possibly-it- Rand, are-being-enacted-in-NagorContinental Government, 1 am-in-and-in other urban centres."

"Was there time? Someone said, is the ghosts of old actors who are Svarga, where rumour has formed, is preparing a memorandum

It has just been said that the What if a string breaks? I have viewing these signs of changed spread that gold in- great on the subject, writes the Diplo Egyptian people as a whole are others, I replied. I could see that times with a ghostly disapproval. quantities is to be found in matic Correspondent of the Daily conservative in idea, and it may Casals knew what he wanted. Out caves of the Khao Luang mountain. | Mail,

Iwell be that the most capital mis- there on the platform at the physical research experts are going In any case, mediums and Ordinary puraults of the country This mepiorandum is intended to take committed by Nahas Pasha eleventh hour I raised the pitch. have been forgotten and crowds are be sent to other European Govern- and Mahmoud 'Pasha was to incite

to investigate the whole affair in "Clavichords, you know, are very the near future.. flocking to this village both by land | ments, for the purpose of warning the mob against a Monarch who is and water.

As many as 100 a day them of the great Soviet air danger. admired and respected by an over-member Walter Rummell; when in responsive," he went on."I re- are arriving to share the fabulous On the military side, Judging by whelming majority of Egyptians of this very room, bursting out with wealth, writes à correspondent in the number of machines, pilots, all parties for the public services what. Is the use of a beautiful and mechanics, Soviet Russia to which he has rendered to the day occupies fourth place among national welfare in every field, in-woman that has no soul, and what the use of an instrument that can- the countries of the world.

tellectual as well as economic, Every year, moreover, Russia is Similarly, although it would be not talk to one? He was compar- porary residence On top of turning out in the military section too much to say that Great Britaining the instrument he was playing Khao Luang mountain, dis-between 30,000 and 60,000 pilots is necessarily popular among all with a piano; at that moment he, covered the gold. It was and mechanics, and present Soviet classes, thoughtful Egyptians of too, had lost his soul--to they who brought the news to this plans show that it is proposed to every party realise only too well the clavichord. village and they have laid out the surpass Europe and the United material benefits which the British "Just as a rose painted on can- ceremonies which must be observed States by 1933.

connection has made for the new vas is to the real thing, so is the before the gold is available.

Special attention is being paid Egypt, and though they may long instrument that is now being made One of the priests. whom by the Sovietto Central Asia. for the day when she will be quali- to the one that is but merely copi

the Bangkok Daily Mail,

The "rules" for this unique gold rush are outlined by two priests, who, while making their tem-

people call "Father.", is

to

te 130 years

the

a

said. Work has been started on the con-fied for full statehood, they do noted," said this maker of clavichords,

TELEVISION IN SIX COLOURS.

American Scientist Makes It Possible.

TESTS ON GASES.

Television pictures in different colours are now considered by

old and struction of a large number of wlah to alienate British friendship whole himself a well-known research workers.`. is highly reverenced by the super-aerodromes and a chain of and co-operation in the future. figure in the musical world. "The To overcome possible objections people for his miracles. In spite landing stations. Among the

of his age he is said, to be strong former is the huge areodrome being A

and vigerous and is eredited by his followers with supernatural powers Many who have sought him return.

their eyes..

Wafdists for London.

one is dead and lifeless, but the to the reddish orange shade of the other lives.. I have captured their neon lamp, Dr. Lloyd P. Garner, of built at Tashkent. This, it is.

Resentment, therefore, was acute souls. I have the secret of the old the Western Television labora- at the manner in which the masters. I have them now so that 'torias, has been experimenting claimed, will be the largest air station outside Europe," and will Egyptian. Opposition parties en they can talk to one."

with the diaphram of the loud- deavoured to stir up prejudice to report that while they conversed contain every up-to-date device

against Great Britain in a manner "And have you seen, the flowers speaker in sound wireless, is used, with him he disappeared before and mechanism for dealing with which, had it not been promptly in my garden he went on. We in television to reproduce electric

zeroplanes and airshipa. Those who would find the gold of Another extensive and well douatriotic Byption current as lights and shadows.

How. It is Done. to the old priest for Instructions, o In Samarkand. Both of these instead of a relaxation of British with his permission, one fragrant been able to get pictures in yellow. Khao Luang mountain must come equipped zerodrome is being erect Government, could not have forced with the words of the old masters

army intervention and a tightening ringing in my ears, I plusked, Dr. Garner explained that he has bringing with tham Iron-bars, establishments are to have special

blossom; for within what was once red, blue, brown, sepia, green or chisels and other implements. A mallitary depots. special ceremony of excavation Secondary aerodromes are near. It is also announced that Ward an orchard, the Duke of Devan combinations of these colours must be performed, according to Ing completion at Stalinabad, for and Liberal propagandista ara thire's, that is where London's When a different colour was de rules: laid down by the priest. merly Dushambe, and in Termez, shortly going to London, It is un-maker of clavichords has captured aired, he said a different television

Jamp was placed in the receiver. while a chain of landing stations is likely, at this date, that they will the secrets of the old mastere being constructed along the fron- impose upon anyone to do anything tiers of Persia, Afghanistan and effective. They should have come Western China A

When the ore is extracted It must

be treated by a special acid pra duced by the priest, Then, and then only, will it turn into gold. Ora dug under any other condl tions will be found to be worthless, the holy man has warned those seeking wealth,

control.

before the elections and not after what their advent shows is their

In view of these developments it desperation at the outcome of the is interesting to note that the

aerial strength of Central Asia "ret degres elections, To seek to according to Soylet Landers. "I make mischief after Egypt has Porahps the sample of ore; from destined to a doelsive part in given her vordiet is even less con- Khao Luang mountain sent for all Imperial

elvincing and more immoral than an endeavour to queer the pitch of tho analvals, to the Royal Department

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