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THIRTY REASONS FOR DRINKING.

Bome drink because they're hungry, some drink.when they are

ary;

Some drink to koop themselves in health, some drink for fear.

they'll die;

And some drink because they are too hot; soma drink because

they cold; ph

Some drink to strengthen them when young, and some when they

Soort dr o keep themselves awakej. some drink to gain

do sleep;

Comp rink because they're happy; while others because they

P

Bo drink to celebrate some gain; some drink to mourn a loss; Bon take a shot when they are pleased; some drink because

they're cross;

Some take a snort when they're at work; some drink when

they're at play;

Some count it right to drink at night; some drink alone at day; Some tip the glass for fellowship; some sneak it on the sly; Some drink when they are wringing wot; some drink because

they're dry;

Some take a shot of liquor whan they make a bargain rarò; Some take a drink when they've been atung for the drinks, the

feed and fare;

Some drink in search of pleasure; some drink to dima pain; Some say it's good, some say it's bad, but never once refrain; But all must own the proverb's right-" When the iron's hot

then strike it;"

Ab, I've found the reason why men driak ALLSOPP'S-they

drink because they like it.

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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1932. 牌拜禮 日登拾月捌年式世佰玖仟查类

AMERICA IS TOO BIG TO FAIL.

IT TAKES THREE WEEKS FOR EVENTS IN NEW YORK TO AFFECT CHICAGO...

cause

BY MARY BORDEN.

But The Twentieth Century " It is difficult--indeed it would be almost exact to say that it is got to Chicago at nine or nine- impossible to understand what is thirty in the morning, and at eleven' going on in another country, be- I was handed a telegram which events, however dramatic, read, "Loan arranged. All my men nothing in themselves, and financial troubles over for the mo facts, however stark, however sharp mant." I read it aloud to my in outline, have to be interpreted British husband, who looked as if he could not understand. Indeed, to be true.

neither of us could understand, for I, too, had forgotten the size of my country.

It is necessary to link them up with a hundred other facts, much less easily observed and usually ignored by strangers, before they can be properly assessed as elements ! of stability or disruption in a nation's life.

And we argue from the few given❘ facts according to our own experi- ence, our understanding of the com- plax pattern of our own national life, our knowledge of the character of our own race and of ourselves,

Land of Vast Distances.

"Congress Must Be Crazy."

We understood so little that we rang up Chicago on the telephone. It took a minute and a half to get on to the man we wanted, but I knew he was 800 miles away when he said, "Certainly, I got my loan. it takes, three weeks for anything that happens in New York to affect Chicago."

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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

TO-DAY.

(August 11.)

Theosophical Society Meeting, 0

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Whist Drive at Police Club, Happy Valley, 6.30 p.m.

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Star Theatre: "Marianne." Oriental Theatre: "Touchdown." Majestic Theatre: "The Love Parade."

Garden Theatre: "Captain of the Guard."

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Tea Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Hongkong Hotel, Peninsula Hotel, and King's Res taurant.

Tides High at 3.32 and 20,30; Low at 11.55 and 21.45.

Hoine Mails: Outward for Europe via Siberia by Malwa,

FRIDAY:

(August 12.)

Meeting: Creditors of K. E. Mogra, at Cunton 10 a.m. (British

of American facts that have kept | Consulate); St. Joseph's College three pictures. before us.

We get news from Washington, and are given a picture of Congress that reminds us of nothing so much. as a drawing by Bateman; we get

Football Cab, 3.15 p.m.

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We say to ourasives, "I would do so-and-so, and my neighbour would do likewise in such and such circumstances"; and we say, looking across the Atlantic, "If it is as bad as they say it is over there, it can mean only one thing: & serious political" convulsion is imminent, the stock-market quotations; and Ship? for if such things were happening in England there would be a re volution."

And that is just what the most intelligent, even the most fair, minded and sympathetic people in this country are thinking about

America,

the sky-sorapers of Wall-stroet lurch as if we viewed them from at switchback; and we are told all about the kidnappers, gangsters, racketsers, and bootleggers, till the underworld of that country across the sea takes on the lurid glow of a prairie fire; and quite recently

But they are wrong; and they we have been told the dreadful have got it all wrong because, even story of the unemployed.

if they have got the facts right

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King's Theatre: "Wicked." Central Theatre; "Wings." World Theatre: "Reminiscenes of Peking," Part 2..

Star Theatre: "Atlantic" Oriental Theatre: "Touchdown."

"The Love Majestic Theatre: Parade."

Garden Theatre: "Captain of the Guard."

Toe Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Hongkong Hotel, Peninsula Hotel and King's Res-

Tides: High at 4.43 and 21.14; Low at 13.13 and 23.14.11

and have collected a good many, Nond of these pictures is pretty. for every fact they know they The first in so, bewildering in its ignore a dozen that are relevant.composition that it suggests a pic-taurant. Curiously enough, they seem turo conceived in the mind of a ignore the most obvious facts of lunatis. all, and seem to forget to take into account in their reasoning such simple things as the size of the country.

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Home Mail.-Inward from Aus-

"Congress," we say to ourselves, looking down Whiteball to Parlia tralia by Changte; from America by ment square, Congresa must be Pres. Taft; Outward for America crazy; and a crazy Congress means by Empress of Russia 10 a.u I was in New York a year and only one thing, swift and inevit- a half ago, on the day that the able retribution. If the British Bank of the United States failed. House of Commons were full of It was one of the strangest days men as insane as the majority of that I have over lived through the members of the American House The atmosphore of New York was of Representatives, the British like the atmosphere of London on August 4, 1914.

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people would kick them out, just na they did kick out the far less demented Socialists a year ago Therefore the American Congress will get the boot."

Much Talk and Little Done.

It

"But they can't in time. would take five years of orderly procedure to repeal even the 18th Amendment. If they are to change the Constitution in time to save the country, they'll have to have a coup d'état, a revolution of some Bort,"

But someone who knows a little

And to this you answer, "Exact- about America, argues: "You can't ly. That's exactly what we expect seo happen quite shortly in get rid of this Congres or any Cont gresa till its time is up. That it is America."

But you have forgotten to take futile and infantile and hostile to the Cabinot makes no difference; into consideration a number of that there is an impasse and a facts: deadlock at a moment when quick

We happened to be lunching and dining with "big mon on Wall Street. I had with me two men, end an American from the Middle West and one an Englishman. My two companions spent the morning down town interviewing bankers and brokers, who were as polite as buy gentlemen in a panie could be,

Twentieth Century Express. We saw the American off for Chicago on "The Twentieth Cen-action is called for makes no differ- tury at three o'clock, after a lunch party that was about as cheerful is the last mohl on a sink

You've forgotten, in the first place, that the American in groat talker, and that 60 per cent, of all that goes on in Congress is nothing but talk.

ence; that no Government could possibly govern during a crisis under much conditions, makes no difference. The American ConstituAnd you have forgotten, perhaps, ing ship. The Westerner had to go tion won't allow you to give Con- that the Senate has power to throw because he had-to arrange for a loan from his Chicago bank next gress the boot. morning if his business in the West

were to survive.

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