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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 17, 1938

More recently the late Mr. W. D. Howells, the American novel-

The China Mailist and critic, roundly denounced

Ninety-Third Year of Publication SA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.

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the reading habit as a vice: "People may really be eating li- terature as they eat opium, and may be as effectively drugged to stupidity with the one as with the other."

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The recent picture of Earl Baldwin, in full evening dress All communications intended for lighting his pipe while the Ameri- can Ambassador looked on in ap- publication should be addressed to parent amusement sets one spe- culating on the possibility of the Editor, and be accompanied by changes in evening life wider

than may appear at once. the Writer's Name and Address, last great change of the

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a hall where such a thing had not been seen before and so established a new fashion which had consider- able effects, on the life of the time, putting in end to long sit- tings over the port after dinner and extinguishing the last re mants of the three-bottle age. Earl Baldwin's innovation strike the last blow at dining taboos, There are still rules or

may

Hong Kong, Saturday, Dec. 17, 1938. customs forbidding pipes in

ESSENTIAL HUMANITY

soon

what are called "smart" restaur- ants, but it needs only that a few good customers should follow the Baldwin example for these things to be swept away.

Another change, hardly fore- When President Roosevelt de-

King seen as yet, is sartorial. clared in restrained language that Edward's after-dinner cigarette the belief that 'the news of the last few days did away with from Germany has deeply shock-men must dress themselves spe- ed public opinion in the United cially for smoking and that to en- States,"

he spoke the simple ter the presence of women smell- truth. How much good the speaking of smoke was an outrage. ing will do is not yet clear. Re-Earl Baldwin, on the other hand, set sults may depend on how

may put the clock, back or and how fully the truth gets the tailors a difficult problem. Of through the German censorship all costumes, that of "tails" is

No one who knows the "Ger-

the least suited for carrying pipe 'man people can believe that more

and pouch. It has a good many than a propaganda-fed fraction pockets, but none which can take

sanction what has

a bulge" happily. It is possible, on. And there is some therefore, that Earl Baldwin's possibility that when they fully real monument will be the “Bald- understand what has happened win" evening coat designed spe- and how the Christian world feels about it, they will be able to make their own revulsion felt. It is precisely because the world expects more of Germany's Changes At Geneva twentieth century civilization than of countries like Russia:

of them

been can

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cially for holding the bulky ne- cessities of pipe-smoking.

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The abolition of the post of that it is now so shocked. There "Chef du Cabinet" to the Secre is relatively little disposition to tary General of the League of revive World War hates and Nations, held by M. Hoden, has prejudices. Almost every for-made an unhappy impression in eign protest also voices genuine London. M. Avenol, the Secre- friendliness for the German tary General, was within his people. Germans should know strict rights in abolishing any this. And they should know post which in his view had be- that their friends everywhere come redundant. Moreover, the have faith that the essential hu- Assembly of the League recent- manity of the German people ly instructed the Council to set will sooner or later find expres-up a committee of five to sion and end this shameful busi- what reductions could be made mess.

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Too Much Reading?

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in the standing costs of the se- cretariats of the League and the ILO. This dismissal might be interpreted as an anticipation of the Committee's findings, and is indeed officially explained as economy measure.

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The Poet Laureate's assertion surely open to doubt that people now read less than their On the other hand, there are fathers and much less than their not lacking those who say that M. great-grandfathers, would not Hoden held strong anti-Munich have been regarded as matter for views and went beyond the dis- regret by some famous writers cretion of a permanent official in Others are of the past. Thomas Hobbes, it forwarding them.

is recorded, had very few books ready to say that M. Avenol has in his chamber. and “was wont never, favoured a policy of op- to say that if he had read as position to Great Powers, whe- much as other men he should ther inside or outside the League. have known no more than other Without accepting either of these men" while Walter Savage Lan-views to the exclusion of the dor, in his, old age, confessed "the other, one cannot but wonder time I most regret is the time I why, if economy was the only have spent in reading: had I read motive, M. Avenol did not wait less I should have been more ori-for the Economy Committee's ginal."

Andinge.