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DAY BY DAY
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This reproach must be removed if DAILY FOR GOOD
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better publicity. Sir Ernest STRONG WILL DOMINATE, THE WEAK IMAGINE that a good many the prolonged clinking of truce- Thompson and his colleagues must NUT BUccuMr.—John Burroughs.
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Mr. Thomas Fox, Editor of the positive assertion: "No human be. clatter of wooden hames, the cham- the need of serioita attention
to Siam Observer, ls in Hongkong on aing ever spoke of scenery for above ping of bits, the cllek of iron shoes this matter when they, state that holiday trip.
two minutes at a time, which makes against pebbles. Everywhere me suspect, we hear too much of it there wore visions of glossy brown British publicity is obviously be.. Blu Highness the Maharaja of Jind in literature."
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1931.
PLAIN SPEAKING.
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1
Chinese cares of diphtheria, both from Kowloon, were nollied to the health authorities yesterday."
hind the times and ineffective when and suite loft for Kobe by the compared with the propagands-of-Empress-of-Russin-to-day. other nations. In particular, the Two lack of attention to proper adver- tising is commented upon, a very necesary reminder of the power of the printul word. Another point of great importance is the Biggestion that British machinery exporters should be organised into groups so na to prevent wasteful in- ter-British competition.
We have not the space in which to comment at lengthan many other aspects of the Mission's report, a cfose reading of the summary of which, contained in this issue, is commended to all concerned, The
The Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotwall and Mrs. Rotewall left for Shanghai to- day by the Empress of Russia.
"Ah, yes," they would exclaim. with muscle; harness streaked with "Those long descriptions are now specks of froth; bround, cup-shaped old fashioned. How tedious they hoofa, heavy with brown loam; Reef to us, those lengthy passages men's faces red with tan, blue over- of the older novelists."
Alls spotted
with axle-grease; And I hear echoes of many a con-ed in their grip on the reins; and muscled hands, the knuckles whiten- dea-
fesalon: "Oh, I skipped the criptions, but the rest of the story through it all the aroma of warm leather, the scent of dead WAR good!"
[stubble-and stronger and more Such fy the sentiment of an age
1
Mr. and Mrs. C. Strafford were which is impatient, even intolerant, pentrating than everything else, the
turned, living earth," amongst the passengers who left for of word portraits in the okter, full-heavy enervating odor of the up- Vancouver by the Empress of Hussin length manner. And is this not
Here within the briefest compass to-day.
jono of the most characteristic X-
pressions of a restless time? For (requiring considerably less than two minutea to speak or rend) Aller batch of motorists than do we not want action, story, "grip.
impressions of various We begrudge xraphic
worls rise before us. You may call was summoned at the Traffic ping" narrative? Court this morning for various "two minutes" of description!
it narrative, if you like, as tho nature. offences, none of a serious
All of which is serio-comic
and men cleave, the fur- horses Lieut. Gough was filed $5 for having situation fraught with no little left a car unuttended in the street.
Irony and paradox. We know, for roughs in steady strenuous motion example, that Stevenson himself across the field. But the writer'a to the excellent programme arranged two minutes at a time und that we the sounds, the tactual impressions The attention of renders is drawn would speak of scenery for above purpose was not to narrate action, but to reproduce the appearance, several conferences suggested, in-for the international festival of dance are much the richer for his descrip and even the odors of the acere. volving bankers, manufacturers and and song in the grounds of the tive sketches 40 redolent
This peculiarly vivid and merchant houses, should, it called, The entrance fee is only $1, and the informal charm. We cannot forget
writers, all et prehensive picture suggests the help materially in producing tangi-programme will last from p.m. the great nature
whond fortunately spoke not two boundless realm merely of the world of the senses which description ble results from the Mission'a
timeGillbert White, proudly appropriates as its Convicted of a ebarge of theft of hours at a should eight drills, belonging to a building Therese, Rurroughs, Hudson and But no less encompassing are the the rest, not to speak of all the invisible spheres of experience. You quarry at Taikaktaui, a coolie, who novelists from Sent to Hardy. Andy draw the portrait of a person appeared before Mr. Hamilton at the the same reminder applies not only by sketching his actions, and in any Kowton Police Court this morning, to the scenery of landscape, but to complete picture of him this is
but was sentehred to
Any summary one month's hard all that scene which includes humanential; The defendant Inbour.
analysis must assume the descrip also beings and their activities, outer tive form. How else? For charged with trespassing on land and inner: everything that we mean analysis of under the control of the Public Works by description rather than narra
the concrete or
in- dividual must be description: in Department, a fine of $10 or fourteentive ur explanation. For I suspect days' imprisonment being impused.
visit to the East. It is not sur prising that the Mission urge that the stabilisation of si Iver should be sought by
méans, because during is stay in |the East the Missioners had plenty
every
of opportunity of seeing for them setves how disastrously the slump 1 bus redurial China's purchasing The plea that Britain power, should take a leading part in at- taining the necessary interna-
Diocesan Girls' School to-morrow,
4.30 p.m.
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(contractor
engaged on work at
WAL
FATAL MOTORING MISHAP.
minutes, but often
for
.com-
Own.
any
the analysis of the that Stevenson included all that, ton, contrast to in his innuendo. At any rate, the tract or general which is exposi-
like this essay.
Like same prevailing objection extends tion,
Moliere's M. Jourdain, who dia-, to all that portraiture which pre- sents any seenery in analytical or covered with astonishment that he pictorial fashion. We will have had been talking prose all his life. tional action towards this end is
or dis-80 we in ordinary conversation description foreshortened one which has been again and again.
persed, preferably in narrative, We must constantly describe or re- made recently, but, unhappily, with
are assured by all contemporary into silence! And even then our thoughts are busy with des manuals of writing what we read acriptions: "I am joyous in small prospect of anything being
one: "Seldom, indeed outside of done. Maybe, however, the Mia- Fatal injuries were suffered by summer resort and railroad litera-Presence of this bright spring day,"
He is an inspiring spenket
"She' a Chinese when he was knockedture' is much description to be found sion's insistence on the point will flown by a motor cne in Queen's that has been written for its own has unusual gracious help to bring about a reconsidera-Road, nisar the junction of Murray sake, usually it plays a secondary These random instances of our
Rent. yesterday Afternoon about 5.40.
the world. Pergy and enterprise are the two main necessities.
Soviet Trade Outlook.
CHINESE SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES.
morbing.
at role in a story or explanation."
Poor description! It must be sup-
else can
Car
we
« ma-
the
constant voiced or unspoken estimates of experience Are description, yet the
any
'sh
to
it
tlun of the issue. Taking the re- port as a whole, it is, as we say,
The car is a private one, and pressed or disguised so that no one genuine
"Connotes" the Joutspoken 10. મા degree. If a the driver Pang-Mantin ill recognize at east fit for term generally
reposting the case to the police, more than two minutes at a time! pictorial for
And this. is realisation of shortcomings is the alleged that the raan unexpectedly Yet in essence it is the one form most natural, for these analogous It does not require a very close I first step to reform, then we may ran into the way of the ear, and which must pervade all expression words, portrait and picture, suggest reading of the report of the firiwelcome the strictures passed, in was struck slown before the in language.
the mysterious similarity between Flow tish Economic Mission to the Far the hope that they will tend to a
vehicle could be pulled up.
convey any
impression, anything in the visual representation of impres The victim, suffering from head that world of images in which we sions in colour and line and the re- East to recognise the fact that the complete reorganisation of British and body injuries, died at the live? Whether we sketch
presentation in words. In a bril investigators have succedat very tasiness methods in this part of Government Civil Hospital this chine or a bridge, a landscape, aliantly original work The Lion effectually in pointing out the weak
wokoon," Leasing once argued that. cathedral, er a human being, wo spots of British commerce in this
must describe. And even when we langunge being a "temporal" art would in a single word represent since it could present itself only as part of the world. Like the repart
Soviet imports from all quarters literally or figuratively any image succession of sounds or symbols of the Cotton Mission, this tatust
The critical nemt for outside or any thought in form other than in time) should confine itself document lays bare the whole posi-
credits with which to make these abstract, we must call upon des-the relation of events whenever tion and states a number of un-
purchases is the main reason for eription. If we make so simple an dealt with the concrete; while pain- observation as "the whizzed in being a spatial art, should directness
One of the most significant the dumping against which palatable facts with a
se along the road," we are expressing ilmit its efforts to objects in space. fentures of the International many protests have been made an image in terms of narrative, but But from the beginning of human which should be appreciated by all
· Chamber of Commerce meeting in | As the industrial situation in no less are we describing not only langunge men have quite ignored such an academie theory. No one who have the future expansion of Washington is the manner in Russia becomes more stabilized, the car but motion and sound. British commerce ad heart. Sir which the Soviet's status in world the purpose of this market raiding:
Perhaps we conventionally think an say that languago should not of description in all too narrow attempt to rival painting of other Ernest Thompson, when he reached markets has been brought into the will gradually disappear. Puttin
Who Listen to this scene from visually representative arts. terms. England, told interviewers that the forefront of debate. Matters obstacles in the way of Russian Norrla's Octopus: "The plough would presume to cancel the Bur- Mission would have some unplea-have been brought to a head by development, therefore, woulding, now in full swing, enveloped passing descriptions, those vadiant Ruskin, Do samt observations to make. The steady indications that the Five seem to have a boomerang effect him in a vague, slow-moving whirl ward paintings, of
Year Plan is being carried on world industry generally, of things. Underneath him was Quincey, or Pater in prose, or those ruport certainly bears put his pro-
Shelley, Jolting, trembling of Spenser, Shakespeare, through triumphantly, backward- Colonel Cooper's proposal should chin. He heard the horse and Tennyson in poetry? Who can
machine.... mise. Happily, however, the M-
ness in some fields being offset by | not be rejected without, most hoofs by
literature without the myriads crushing imagine sioners have not confined. themsel near completion well ahead of serious consideration.
down easily, deeply, into the loam, these images which alone can make
any experience.live again? to criticism: they have put time in others, and by realisation
We need not, then, take. too forward any number of construc- of the enormous damage to price.
seriously the somewhat. whimsical tive proposals which, if acted upon, stability of which Russia la cap
observation of Stevenson. In one of his beautiful descriptions he once should have a beneficial effect on able in the near future unless the leaders of industry are ready to
wrote of "the indescribable quiet the situation. Admittedly, there
talk of the runnel over the stones," co-operate. Russia is no longer are some fields in which British op-
Yet of that which ho professed to an insignificant factor in world
be ultimately "Indescribable," he portunities are extremely limited, trade. On the contrary, no coun-
mado a most suggestively lovely due largely to the growing industry in the world can afford to
description. Like every enger tridism of Japan. There may be frame an Industrial programme
despaired of achiey- ing the perfect picture, but 1 think some others in which the openings without taking her into account.
Business" "toutlers assembled
ho realized that our apprehension are lost for good and all. But It'
of experience is reflected in our Washington are obviously `aplit is just as true that new avenues are into two very distinct camps.
power to capture Its appearances in words.
P. K. constantly being opened up, and it There in one group which must be the task of British manu- advocates meeting Soviet competi- facturers and exporters to adjuat|tion by placing an embargo Ton themselves to the new canditions, Soviet goods of every class and description. There is another - Much stress is laid on the neces-
group, gaining adherents standily. sity of technical men being attach-which thinks more in terms of ed to agents' offices, both In Japan exports than imports and is de- and China. In a happy phrase, the manding restricted business Mission declares that a general exchange on the ground that the Agent without an expert is usually Soviet will follow the very rea- a mere order-taker, not an order-sonable course of purchasing only In thoso countries accepting getter. Here we touch on the point Russian, products. The American which has again and again been Department of Commerce has just emphasised, but which appears to published figures for February need constant reiteration. Apart, showing that the Soviet had also, from the technical aspect of become her third largest customer, the question, there must be a, bet- and that for every dollar received from 'American trado, Russia ter conception of the functions and qualifications of the salesman. Amerten Is the biggest exporter to spent $46 on Amorlean goods. All too often do we hear the cri-Russia, Germany being second and ticism that British commercial men Britain third, these three coun- are content to sit in their offices tries accounting for half the
At
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