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TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1932,

DAY BY DAY

You NEVEIL

CITE THE CAN EXAMPLE OF A THOROUGHLY HAPPY

send out troops to this section for the enforcement of law and ordur." No mention whatever is made of Japanese marines havinir been Ared on whilst proceeding to their nssigned positions in the Settle- ment defence scheme. At mid- night, the occupation began, "e- MAN, FOR NO ONE BUT THE MAN, HIMBEL KNOWS ANYTING ABOUT: cording to plan." followed by an

IT.—RoınacaIL. intense aerial bombardment In other words, Japan had evidently decided to occupy Chapel, no mnt- ter whether the reply to the four demands were Batisfactory otherwise, Certainly no appor- riven the tunity whatever was Chinese to discharge their pro mises.

or

After the holidays, the Hongkong dollar is unchanged, the demand rate being in. 6.1/163,

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The Empress of Britain, now on a world cruise, is due to leave Manlin at 4 p.m. to-day and will arrive here at 7 m, on Thursday.

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Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1932.

There is another aspect of the Tokyo Government's lateat, state- ment which calla for comment. is the statement that additional reinforcements were sent by Japan of all to relieve the inhabitants nailonalities from the strais fear and disquiet, and for the pru tection of the common interests of the Powers, with whom Japan says the is co-operating in contributing Far and well-being in the pene Eust. The claims would be more seriously taken were it not for the fact that the Powers have in no uncertain manner expressed their disapproval of Japanese action in Shanghai. It surely cannot be Japan's Heriously contended Ust

The Eari and Countess of Stafford police reflecta co-operation with the are aboard the new Canadian Pacific selfsamener Empress of Britain, which is due Powers when these

in Hongkong on a world tour Powers have felt Impelled to utter Thursday. Whilst In Singapore, they strong protests against the mea-spent the day at Government House Burcs she has seen fit to employ. the guests of Sir Ceelt and Lady

Clementi. That is asking too much for the outside world to believe,

thr Amongat of

passengers whe arrived here by the Empress of Itussin were. Sir Victor Sassoon, Sir Wiliam Hornell, Mr. E. B. C. ifornell, Mr. G. E. Costello, Mr. G. Benbowe Rowe and Mr. L. Kadooric.

The Battle of the Sexes,

costning

A recent magazine another of those dissertations (by a male writer) to the effect that men can do such-and-such much botter than wornen. This time it is housekeeping. The world is told that women are unalterably conservative, that they will nut

JAPAN AND THE CRISIS. accept mechanical improvements

past

or follow directions. Men would do up the day's housework In two hours, is the claim. Whether this

We are informed by Messrs. Dod- well and Co., Ltd., that the n. Gange left Shanghai on Monday morning and is due here to-morrow (Wednes day) morning. She will go niongalde Kowloon Wharf and sail to-morrow at 6 p.m. for Europe.

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of

A PLAGUE OF SUPERMEN.

By "OLD STAGER."

pence.

It is the same In all perspectives Hife. Nations and families would contrive to jog along to Rether happily enough, if it were not for the persistent interference of individual busybodies and mis- chief-makers.

one

unknown and

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has been left to a woman political platforms or forensic tub

scientist to announce, er and the bees must be busybes. great paychological Their instinet is to be changing cathedra, a truth that many ignorant laymen everything, at once and wherever have long suspected. We are all they may be, and they always call of us conscious of a fact that his their changea "reforms." The Joy tory corroborates. We recognise of inertia, the charm of quiet that most of the troubles that meditation, the rapture of contem- aflict an otherwise not uncomfort- plation are sitke able humanity can be traced to a hostile to their mentality and make- relatively few masterful spirits up. They are, in brief, Nature's who constitute themselves the dis- regimentai sergeant-majors, turbers of the

And just as

full-blooded R.S.M. can wreck the happiness of a whole battalion, so one of these disturbers of the peace in civilian affairs can upset the content of a the blesseri whole community or calm of whole household. Their maladroit energies distil through. It has now been discovered that out the world. They are the au these upsetting entities, the na-thors and patenters of the world's tional autocrata

thunicatic unrest. 46211

all Kuffering

A Waste of Elfort. tyrants alike, are

mankind The majority of from overeating. In the earliest months of infancy it la the baby more or less tolerant of exlating who makes mast, noise that gets conditions, and well-disponed to-

Even Infantile

wards things in general. But al- most sustenance. mentality soon grows to appre- ciate this fact, now attested by ways it happens, sooner or later,

which that some superman, cariest science, and it proceeds shamelessly to trade upon it. Thus know menna someone who bas we have the repulsive apretacle of equired more than his or her fair blackmail in the cradle, and its share of vitamins, starts stirring astute practitioners, during their up turmoil.

Whole nations, under the in- physically most impressionable

than their uence of these dynamic bullica, go period, imbibe more normal share of sustenance. In- through the throes of revolution evitably they grow up into heavily and civil war maybe, just to gratify the over-leaping ambitions that can over-vitimined adulte.

the On charges of offering a bribe of

The habit contracted in the nur-be traced to gourmandising in $50 to Inspector G. A. Stimson, two members of the crew of a fishing boat Hery persista until the grave. The cradle. After all the dust has committed for trial by Mr.intelligent lady scientist to whom ettled, and the casualties have Schoßteid at the Central Police Court we owe this definite analysis of been disposed of, most people are neither better nor worse off than this morning. The first defendant, baby paychology geek so far as to they were before the disastrous up- who is master of the craft, was quote the regimental sergeant eval. All the ferment and agony fined $200 for possession of dynamite, major. Millions of men who have detonators and fuse on board the boat, encountered that military gentle-have been, for them, so much wast- Mr. Hin-shing Lo represented both man will be profoundly grateful effort and needless discomfort. accused.

for the insurance that he is auf- But it is meat and drink to the fering from over-nutrition. That, supermen. History is full of ex- and that alone, explains his brist-amples of hustlers who have mur- ling ginger moustache and his tyrised nations for a faded laurel

wreath. parade-ground bark.

were

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All Over-Fed. But the respected R.S.M. does not stand alone. The same is ob viously and equally true of all kinds of supermen and bullies. Nearly all the unpleasantnesa in

The situation as between China

The following cable at the close includes answering the telephoneof the sugar market yesterday has and Japan has nut undergone any marked change during the

and doorbell, doing the mending been received by Messrs. Pen-this world, which might be such two or three days, unless it be that and looking after the children is, treath and Co. the conflicts in which the rival not stated. It ta easy to make such forces are engaged are daily taking generalizations, which at best are

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No doubt we shall be told that these setive spirits, whom I call bullies, are the world's great re formers, that they are in fact, the salt of the earth. I think a more fitting description would be the

gr

of the world.

Regard the records of authentic

tranquil temporary resthouse for history, and dispassionately size up..

the mass achievements of the poor transient mortals, Is due to

world's most famous revolution. similar order of grossly over-110

aud prophets. aries, conquerors, nourished kill-joys.

It is the three-bottle baby, in Does the sum total of their beat his or her adult manifestation of

accomplishments

for

humanity

misery and suffering they caused? later life, whose restless energy or come near compensating for all the masterful ambition keeps the rest it is probable that the world's in- of us in a constant turmoil of un-

purpose, that TURK throughout the ages, would work

rest. This adequately explains creasing the Trade Union boss, the playout its own salvation just as wall, tub-thumper, the earnest

and almost as quickly, without out- tionary, the office alave-driver. 1

Hide assistance from the aupermen. the autocrat of the breakfast Behind the blistering pageant of

table, and even the club bore. We find there nuper-charged agitators the world's dictators, I fancy, Hea a sordid record of personal ambi- in every walk of life and every tion and greedy machination. grade of human activity.

When other people are well con-

Meddling Politicians.

on more and more of the charac-theoretical, there being too few

Continued available examples on which teristics of a real war. bombardments and actual hand-to-base them. A worker fresh from hand fighting reveal the fact that anthing effective has been done to prevent the situation developing, along even more serions lines. In the circumstances, the position is one of continued gravity, and there are no indications that the Japanese intend letting up in their attacks on the Chinese defenders, who are offering a far more stubborn resis-out some thought-needs to

to keep from I especially in guiding children; and

That plain, blunt man, Mark_An- consistently niert tance than was expected.

into ruts. With the arrival of the first mail slipping

Few where the back-fence boasting in tent to be quiescent, and let things tony, was only partly right. Both Brutus and Cæsar were ambitious. deny that there are thoroughly and honestly eliminat be, these masterful spirits with the My admiration досв out more from Shanghai since serions would

ed from the scene, many a femi-gluttonous infancy must be up and readily to the quiet energy of the trouble broke out, we learn that some men who would make more

nine housekeeper doubtless wel- doing. They belong to an order world's silent pioneers, to the prac foreign opinion there was first in-eficient housekeepers than some

of men and women who neem tical engineer, the earnest sciep- are to-women: or that there clined to be somewhat lenient

coutes her husband's suggestions have been born with their sleeves tist, the inspired poet, or the clois- shown them concerning short-cut methods. tucked up. Not for them the wards the Japanese, on the ground women who have

at business than Furthermore, there is certainly soothing atmosphere of Lotusland, tered literary worker, even to the

great actor that they had suffered a good deal selves better

or stage comedian, Some met..

many a man who owes much of A place that was always alumbrous than to those frenzied agitators of provocation, but that this at- anme

wo-his success to the discernment and afternoon would drive them crazy who are for ever buaying them- titude has now undergone a marked motorcars better than some

selves with their neighbours' All men are business efficiency of some woman. In no time. change, with the result that the men; and vice versa.

They had no joy in immemorial fairs trying to change the way Japanese are being severely con-not "natural" drivers or business All of which is only another way

elms and the haunts of murmur- they live and spend their days, and demned for pitching into the Chi-experts. Nor are all women "na- of saying that abilities are

ing bees. They must be after bellowing for a millennium whose housekeepers. There is merely a question of sex.

howing down the elms to make promised golden dawn keeps re- nese without giving them a chance tural"

of pbase of making good their promises in

mentality, how-

treating as mankind "advances." which likes to make respect of the four demands. Here ever,

based we touch on the vital point of the sweeping generalizations

Choosing caseA Japanese policy in Shanghal. The entirely upon sex, Japanese justification for taking of ineficiency in some feld, drastle action rests on an allega-finds profound satisfaction tion that whilst their marines were blacklisting one entire sex, to the the other. proceeding to take up their as unqualified glory of signed positions for the defence of Something peculiarly immature the Settlement, Chinese troops and superfien turks In such opened fire on them and precipitat-generalizations. There are too la conflict of which the present many different kinds of men and situation is the outcome. This of women, too many proved ex- allegation is repeated in the latestceptions in every kind of achieve statement issued by the Tokyo ment or failure, to allow for broad Government. but. neither in conclusions defined merely by the very detailed reports

line between the sexcy. which we have received from This back-fence boasting, this our own correspondent and from boy-and-giri sticking out of ton- Reater, nor in the vereions con-

gues, would be too triviál to merit tained in Shanghai newspapers to notice were it not for certain con- hand, is there any mention of auch sequences. Apart from its preval- an incident. It was at 2 p.m. on

ence as a species of self-indul January 28th that the Japanese gence, it rouses an unkind sort of Consul received the reply from the

maas backbiting, a counter-bonat- Mayor of Shanghai agreeing to all ing; invidious comparisons and in- the four demands put forward. Aidious antagonisms between men This reply was accepted as being and women who in this age of satisfactory. At 4 p.m.. the State

wider horizons are learning of Emergency was declared. The need of expressing co-opera- next development was at 8.30 p.m. tion and not rivalry, Per- whon Admiral Shlozawn announces haps the day when in axcel- reason given in the Admiral's pro lent male housekeeper may with- out neighbourhood comment, an efficient It was that "the Imperial Japan change places with Cse Navy, feeling extreme anxiety there are few homes which could business wife is yet far off. But about the situation in Chapoi, where Japanese nationals reside in not benefit from masculine attén-

tion to great numbers, have decided

genuine home-making,

his decision to occupy Chapel. The

clamation was clear and specifie.

to

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the

This is a very popular hote 1, lady. But they alltia maka

room for anybody I puts me O. K. on.”

My Utopia holds an atmosphere that agitators cannot breathe. We are told that, in the Kingdom of the Blind, the one-eyed man is king. In the republic of the ex- treme democrat the loudest-volced tub-thumper is dictator. There will always be evils to cure, justices to remedy, inequalities to soften, but meanwhile all of us have but the one short life to Ilve.

Ju-

Mankind has need, in this world. of something more than politics. It Ja good sometimes to get away from the raucous arena, where political quacks shout their pana- ceas, and to watch the sky through country treetops whilst lying with one's back on the primeval grass of Mother Earth. The more poli- ticians meddle with the universe, the worse they are likely to make it.

The mania for making everybody happy by Act of Parliament la as futile as the notion that we can all bo mado rich by taxation. The wisdom-of-the ancients-proclaimed the happlest country the one with the fowest laws. A modern philo sopher might add-and the feweat politicians. The red-faced orator on the soap-box is a fit and proper Babject for curative treatment. In the interest of normal, contented folk, he ought to be medically de vitamined.

The world has known but one inspired Prophet. He preachad the Sermon on the Mount, and Its algnificant slowan was, not Are In- perator, but Blessed are the meek.

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