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"And what a spread they afterwards! But the man not stay. He had to go back the prison-in Jonah Spree's cab.",

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Franz Josef's Solo,

THURSDAY, APRIL

1933.

G.B.S. WEIGHED AND FOUND WANTING

ALL AMERICANS ARE DEAF,

BLIND AND DUMB

CYNICISM REVEALS HIS “FLAW"

(By Helen Keller.)

I think George Bernard Shaw is in the role of the cockney girl

la London.

to 'greet him.

This is his story of the convict's one of the greatest men in the world whose outlandish dialect was trans- wedding:

to-day: But in some respects he is formed into the speech of a lady through the genius of a student of. “A woman and a girl hired the wanting when weighed in the scales phonetics. old cab at Rochester Station and of aupreme genius.

I understood that play so well ordered me to drive to the Borstal

At any rate, that is the way he The difficultles that confronted me Convict Prison. There the girl jumped out and rushed into the impressed me when I met him re-when I undertook to learn to speak were far greater than the cockney arms of a men surrounded by war-cently at the home of Lady Aster girl ever dreamed of.. At the age of 10 months my ears were sealed, His is a most exhilarating person-| "Away we went to the church,

"I became muto and there to cap it all-they made ality. For at least 40 years he has and, as a result of deafness, is a

questioned all our traditions, ridi-ery short time

also. When my teacher, Anne Sul our. conventions and had culed all

livan Macy, first came to me, lan- scoffed at all our virtues. And, guage of any sort had no meaning though we have writhed under his to me. I could utter only primitive to lash we have elevated him to the sounds. I was a child of 7 when I pinnacle of a prophet by reading essayed the heart-breaking task of hims, going to his plays and discuss-learning to speak. So language and ing him early and late. When hel japeech have a deeper meaning to Two, "1848" and "Franz Josezjarrives in the United States shortly.me than to those who learn them in the course of his world tour, he

normally. ANG straight

"Slasy,"

· plays;

expects the continent to tip over From the night I "saw" Pygma- Kreisler's operette, deals with the with the weight of his American lion" I wanted to meet Mr. Shaw life-story of the ill-fated Empress admirers all rushing to the dock and tell him how wonderfully. I Elizabeth.

thought he had -depicted the intri- The most debatable portrayal of I suppose there is no man living cacies of speech. This desire per the late Emperor is in the revised who can hold a candle to this aisted through the years and grew version of "White Horse Inn."

crotchety Irishman for exposing the stronger with every new play he In one scene Franz Josef appears shams and lies of civilization. wrote. His "Saint Joan" moved In his favourite shooting suit with, By tearing the veil of self-decep me profoundly. It seemed to me la Tyrolese hat complete with tion from our eyes he has made us that this Interpretation of the Mald chamois beard and singe couplets, realize that empire is another name of Orleans was truer than any other sibility of wise spending (1) by between his puffs at the long thin for oppression and war; that our had read, not even excepting stimulating productive enter-cigar with a straw through it educational system does its best to Mark Twain's masterpiece..I wish- prises and (2) by reducing taxa-which Central Europe knows as a quench whatever intelligence there ed more than ever to touch the hand

These two methods are virginia..

is in the minds of children; that that had written so understanding- not in the least contradictory, for

Even good Republicans are rather financiers are not necessarily wisely about Joan of Arc. both aim at increasing the power shocked at this caricature of the men; that wealth is not prosperity: Some of this intense interest in and the readiness to purchase once All-Highest. Habsburg sym-that modern industrialism is slav Mr. Show must have been evident goods; and the problem is how to pathisers are furious, "Dull but safe" is an apt de convert them from ultimate ideals into Immediate practice. Reply- scription of the Budget intro ng recently in the House of duced into the House of Com-Commons to a debate which inons on Tuesday, and the British again expressed the strong feel- Government has drawn justifi-ing of Parliament that the Gov- able criticism for its extreme cau-ernment, should use its credit to tion. The taxation proposals are stimulate industry by the com of a minor character and it is to mencement of public work or the be regretted that the burden of encouragement of private enter-

A Dogmatic Preacher. A port has invented a new sort taxation has not been apprecia-prise," Mr. Chamberlain said:

Quite early in his career Mr. meet George Bernard Shaw. I do bly lightened. With the publica-That is the policy of the Gov- of waistcoat. This should give

those people who look on poets a Shaw perceived that mankind lia.not remember ever being as excited any one as I was tion of the defence estimates an ernment.".

over meeting Where and when, useless people something to think tens to a fiercely dogmatic preacher that day. I wanted intensely to get indication was given of the therefore, it may be asked, is

who denounces brilliantly its state the fealing of the man, as I am 6 Government's policy. The public that policy going to begin, and

of sin. He must have studied dill- was given full warning last year how is it to be begun without READY FOR DIVORCE. gently the method of John Knox often, able to do, from a hand-clasp of a probable increase in the adding to the burden of rates and

MOTHER: The first quarrel is and Calvin and learned from them or a few minutes of intimate con- cost of national defence, when it taxes? There will be no dissent the key to married life. Whatever the art of supreme assertion and (Continued on Page 11.) was truly pointed out that these from Mr. Chamberlain's warning

the importance of utterly destroy- services had been cut to the bone that such a policy must be limit-ou do, don't give in.

DAUGH-ing one's opponents. and that the savings then effected in extent and in effect, for it TER: I won't mother. But · sup Mr. Shaw says it is an instinct' ed could not be repeated without is sheer, waste to stimulate the

pose somebody has given Charles with him to attack any idea which serious deterioration in, the ef-production of anything which is the same advice!

**** has been full-grown for ten years. ficiency of the defence forces.unlikely to be sold or used. But

By some freak of nature his mindi The increase in the defence esti-the answer,.bearing this warn-

While always takes the opposite.

us he mates was therefore neither sing in mind, is that such a policy Burglars stole a 5-ton safe last imposing his views upon alarming as the increase in the can usefully be pursued without week. One theory is that they did shoots off the

aphoriam, "You prospective total of national ex-taking the form of a vast init in a moment of weakness.

should have no convictions, for, as penditure. Exclusive of the debt crease in Exchequer grants or

Nietzsche puts it, convictions are services and of self-balancing even

prisons." Mr. Shaw hacks at our

Hong Kong, Thursday, April 27, 1933. tion.

The Budget.

Your Daily Smile.

OH, OH, ON, MR. KIPLEY! Believe it or not-the stouter the girl, the less weight she has with

the men.

Rhyme and Reason.

about.

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NEWLY - MARRIED

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PARADOXICAL.

in Exchequer liabilities. Owe de Cologne.

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JOY

Facts You Did Not Know.

ery; that the English-speaking peo-to Lady Aator when, at a luncheon ple are not obviously the chosen she gave me during my visit to of God; that machinery and speed London, I talked with her about do not make a happy people; that him, for she said: "You two must the chief object of our law courts is meet each other." A few day not justice. But Shaw has smashed afterward Lady Astor, telephoned all our idols with such verve and wit to invite Anne Sullivan Macy, my and satirical acumen that we have teacher; Polly Thomson, our secre- thoroughly enjoyed the process. |tary, and myself, to come to her |house at 3.30 in the afternoon and

vèrsation.

TENNIS PLAYER

"MARRIES.

Miss Enid Lo “And”

Mr. J. L. Litton.

MANY ATTEND WEDDING RECEPTION.

not where the chips fall. He is as elemental as the lightning that A wedding of considerable inter- clears the atmosphere. Like Cal-est in tennis circles took place yes vin, he would send the human race terday afternoon at the Registry,

clusion: My

Ladles tennis, champion and also personal admiration for holder of the Open Mixed Doubles George Bernard Shaw is genuine title, became the bride of Mr. Jober and deep. The dashlights of his Litton....

The bride who is the daughter mind have flashed strong rays Into the physical darkness which I have of Mr. Lo Cheung-shlu and sister known from infancy.

of the famous doubles pair, M. E

My mother and I used to have and M. W. Lo was given away by heated arguments over his books, her father. Miss Trixie Choa at-

services, the total at £465,760,000 The search for projects to pro- I see the city of Cologne says. it most cherished traditions and cares is £18,500,000 higher than for duced at home is not equal to the can't pay its way now. 1982-33. It is true that large home demand, or to carry out savings may be anticipated on works which will give a return the debt services owing to the on expenditure, need not take Nice to reflect that while most Conversion operation and the very long. There are numbers other European nations are all ex-to hell for the sake of a logical con when Bliss Enid Lo, the Colony's low cost of the floating debt; but of such projects already known, cited, Switzerland remains cool. these services can hardly cost of which the cost, particularly if less than £265,000,000 supposing account be taken of consequential Better The Day; Better The Feed the same provision as before for savings to the Exchequer, is not Sunday diaper.; the Sinking Funds. Moreover disproportionate to the return to Mr. Baldwin has already warned be expected from them; and which the House of Commons that on could be financed, as "involving the other side of the account legitimate capital or investment taxation cannot be expected to expenditure, either by loans rais- yield even as much in 1988-34 as ed by public authorities or by A survey has indicated that more especially the prefaces to the plays, tended as bridesmaid while the In 1932-88, and the revenue re-loans raised by private enter than a million horsepower can be With most Southern people of her flower girls were the two little turns show that the latter year prise with the assistance of some derived from the rivers of Saskat-day, mother preserved a romantic daughters of Mr. M. HL La

· The duties of best man were attitude towards life. She was will close with a deficit over and public guarantee limited in time chewan. above the amount of the Sinking or in extent. The point need not

shocked by Mr. Shaw's Iconoclasm taken over by Mr. W. A. Zimmern. A reception was inter held at Funds The two features of the be laboured because Mr. Cham- Examination of the rings in an-and bitterly resented what she re÷| the Hong Kong Hotel where "a national accounts are therefore berisin has already announced clent tree trunks in Arizona have garded as his subversive Ideas, She a practically stationary expendi- that these projects will be spon- shown that droughts have occurred thought he was a vainglorious char- large gathering Including the Hon. ture and a badly sagging re-sored if they fulfil the conditions there at 300-year, intervals, the last latan. "He audaciously takes it Mr. WT. Southern and Mrs. upon himself, she would say, to Southorn, were present. The hap- venue. It is really small com- which common sense requires, about 1900. fort to know that these evils are But it follows that, if such ex-

chastise humanity and gets away by couple, are apending their honey- more intense in other countries, penditură can properly be put to

Musk oxen have been imported with it. He has never and a child mpon at Tytam, or even that Britain is in a post-capital account, so also can some from Greenland to replace the lost of his own, or taught one, yet he tion to take advantage of any further expenditure now includ- herds of northern Alaska with a presumes to criticize parents and LOCAL PROBATES. world recovery; - 21 Howeverjed in revenue account in the view to establishing a new meat teachers. Awe-stricken by his cor- true it may be that a general and Budget. For example, expendi- producing dustry. substantial return of prosperity ture on Sinking Funds on exist-

celt and bewildered by his mon Letters Granted In Two strous pretensions, they submit Ike)

Estates.

in the goods of Marian Dods, whe died at North Berwick, Scotland,

must await a recovery in world ing Government stocks can clear pounds, And If it has been herpes conditions, the possible beneficially be suspended. Or again ex- thought legitimate, as It has, to But while one half of my mind and immediate effects of an active penditure on building, on land put to capital account expend agreed with my mother, the other Letters of Administration have domestic policy cannot be dis settlement on drainage, and ture upon the Conversion bonus, half halled George Bernard Shaw been granted to Michael Howard regarded: "The first step for generally "non-recurrent, why should it be improper to put cleansing storm sweeping Turner, solleitor, lawful attorney.

through the world;; those whose whole ambition is to extraordinary, or development to capital accountexpenditure restore confidence is to display a expenditure" could be met by upon productive enterprises, pro- little confidence themselves, borrowing and disappear from the vided always that such an There is a very large measure of Bu agreement, which the Govern- the ment has recently shown alg

of sharing, upon the ideals:

British domestic policy, pursue. They

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