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THE

PREST-O-LITE STANDARD

Gutter Brand Cigarettes

THESE MASSIVE MODERN

BRAINS

By ROBERT LYND

The Very Idea!

S.W.B.'s in B.V.D.'s

By Edward (Patou) Kelly, New uniform and equip ment, which, if finally adopt. ed will considerably alter tho appearance of the British Army, was officially shown for the first time in London' this week.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. | THE HONGKONG HOTEL source of origin, they should be considered that one shows greater the fact that, unlike the other

The industrious scavenger who apparently has been making a living by producing cigarettes from discarded ends picked up in the street gutters was rightly

TT always surprises me Such intelligence às animals absolved from legal penalty in

when people who love slow, however, is of an essential- the Police Court yesterday. Life animals set out earnestly to different kind from the in- would not not be safe for anyone The battery on which Prest-O-if Ordinances could be stretched prove that the animals they animals are intelligent enough to telligence of human beings. Some Lite's reputation was originally in all directions to meet special love can think. built-but given the benefit of new casea. At the same time, the

bo able to learn to perform tricks,

A striking feature of the dis improvements

but they and

An ominent man of science de-enough to invent tricks for them- proof hat, of the

aro discoveries facts brought out suggest that

not intelligent play, we learn, was a light water which make it, to-day, a better the occupation of this particular ivered an address the other day selves-or, at least, to invent new pattern, which can be folded into deor stalking battery than ever.

man, and apparently of many in which he denied that animals gamos for every new generation. the pocket. Many of these Improvements are others in the Gutzlaff Street dis are capable of thinking; and im-The untrained animal plays the Wo understand that the do- protected by broad, basic patents trict, required official action. mediately everybody who owned a played for generations, and the was raado only after considerable same games as Its ancestors have claion regarding this type of hat which prevent infringement.

Let us demonstrate the many medium for the spreading of vehemently indignant, as though descendants

We cannot imagine any better cat or a dog or a pot lamb became Game games will be played by its discussion by the Yar Council. features which make Prest-O-Lite tuberculosis and other germ dis-

R thousand years batteries give you the most valuo cases than cigarettes produced an insult had been offered to the brain of a human being to invent

The idea of a dear stalking honce. It requires tho massivo

hat is, of course for the Army, per dollar.

under the conditions described, darlings of the animal world. auch games as Tiddleywinks.

self explanatory. and while the smokers are pro- I do not see why it should be telligence of human beings lies in The chief evidence for the in- bably perfectly aware of the protected from themselves. In-respect for cats by saying that animals, they aro constantly cidentally, this is not a new local they can think than by saying that it possible to change. The lion changing everything that they find "industry" by any means. Some they cannot. It is not disrespect is dressed to-day as lions years ago, the B.AT. broughtful to cate to say that they can dressed in the days of Julius prosecutions against manufac- not play the plans, and thinking Caesar; but in the same space of la no more a cat's job than play time human beings have changed tures of Gutter Brand cigarettes, Made by

who rendered themselves llableng the piano. If cats could think the fashions of their clothes al- Trent-O-Lite Storage Battery Sales Corporation

by also collecting B.A.T. con- they would cease to be able to most as often as spring has como tainers and selling their wares purr. INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

You never hear a philogo-round. under well-known labels. The pher purring.

The Englishman, pace painted have been finally decided upon, wo Toronto, Can, man in court yesterday did not

with woad, developed into that are sorry the War Council did not go quite as far as this, but the

mighty-brained being whom you 80 further than this. will see dancing round and round

Something that would strike a danger to the community is, we

in tails and a white waistcoat. As more original-more daring-note suggest, worthy of greater con-

for the Englishwoman, the most was required: sideration than the infringement

highly intelligent being yet crent of admiring the handsome curves For instance, we had every hope of a wealthy firm's trade mark. of stories about animals that sug-ed, she changes the fashions of of Tommy Atkins in Kayser wrap-

gest that they possess some kind the intelligence of man can follow,

her dress mode more quickly than of intelligence. The guide-books her,

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1932.

:

Personal Liberty

THE BELL PULLERS

OF WELLS.

There are, of course, all kinds

Thus, in Pence-time, every man can lay down the arms of War for the arms of the girl friend.

decision has been made yet ro- Pending further information, no were garding trousers.

S.W.B.'s will be confined to bar- It is stated unofficially that the racks while the authorities taking down their particulare.

Although open-necked shirts

ara

And it is a positive shame to let tell us, for example, that the swane animals except man were born per/out a set of Lustro underwear,

It may be argued that all the him go out on a route march with in the moat that surrounds thefect in the beginning-that the of one of the local regimente, pos- Then we'd like to see the Q.M.S.

The problems connected with Bishop's Palace at Wells pall a first chaffinch, for example, was the pursuit of liberty are intri-bell by the side of the most when perfectly clothed, and knew howing in the very latest things in cate and always with us. Among they want to bo fed,

to build a perfect house for it. Corsets. self-and that such problema perhaps none is more difficult than that of find-

showed their intelligence by not ing out what constitutes free

changing.

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TIGERS CAN'T

MAKE BOMBS.

therefore they

Or the Sarge Major, looking for all the world like a stocking ad- vertisement.

No regimental Colonel would be le dernier cri unless he has That Schoolgirl Com- plexion, or The Skin You Love to Touch.

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"PITHEY"

So that old Fithocanthropus what's-her-name was a female after all.

We know it all along. "You can kill yourself with kind-

11e38,

You can souac yourself with alo, But the female of the species

Is more deadly than the male."

was the size of the lower jaw. What proved the thing conclusive-

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THE SAHID.

IS JAPAN INDICTED?

The London Daily Telegraph

I have never seen a swan doing is evidently very anxious that

this, and I fancy that when I was no impression shall get abroad dom. Liberty, intellectual ast in Wells the bell was broken. that the British Government re-confused with license. To avoid that the tradition is true, while well as political, must not be am willing, however, to believe gards the Lytton Report as an such confusion, the individual

I deny, however that animals remaining unconvinced that the Indictment of Japan's actions in must enter into the pursuit of

were created perfect. Take the Manchuria. With the issue still knowledge not only of the sort wan is a highly intellectual bird. tiger, for instance, who still fights Roally, if the British Army is to before the League, it is quite to be gained in school but that After all, if you met a human with his teeth and claws. These be anything at all, this scheme will right and proper that Britain also which is implied in the com- being who was in the habit of ring before his enemy, man, had learn-, before it is adopted.

were perfectly efficient weapons have to receive full consideration and all the other Powers should mand, "Know thyself.” Manying a bell when he wanted fooded to arm himself. They aro suspend judgment. None the persons enjoying a maximum of and who showed no other sign of hopelessly out of date, however,

freedom-political, economic and less, it is difficult for the layman social will agree that there is Intelligence, you would regard against powder and bullets, Yot to reach any other conclusion

the tiger has not had the brains to than that Lord Lytton and his yet a deeper form of liberty, and him almost as no krbecile,

devine new ways of defeating a that only as one is in possession At the same time, it is hard not brainy two-legged animal who is colleagues have definitely found of intellectual and moral free to believe that some animals are physically greatly his Inferior. Japan to be in the wrong. of

dom can he make the best use more intelligent than others-that. Much as I like animals, indeed, the initial operations in Septem- of the other forms. To in- dog, for instance, la more in-I can see no evidence that they are ber of last year it is recorded tellectual freedom the schools telligent than

11 processionary much good at thinking. It wild that they "cannot be regarded have much to contribute. But caterpillar. Even so, I must con- animals could think, they, would be as measures of legitimate self- the assertion of moral freedom fess that I have never met a real much wilder in their treatment of defence."

ly Intelligent animal. Then the Report un-is in the hands of the individual, perhaps, a cat called Peter. I de tigers and the elephants would ly

Except. human beings. The lions and the doubtedly treats "Manchukuo" It is becoming clear that moral not know why I thought he was unite in a war on the frall biped as the sham which it is, calls liberty is the corner stone upon intelligent. Probably it was be who persecute them. for its abolition, and stresses the which rests all true liberty, both cause he looked intelligent, and restoration of Chinese sover-national and personal.

No lion or elephant has yet In- Such was greatly attached to himvented a bomb. Human beings eignty as one of the fundamental freedom may, perhaps, he liken-But even he, the most intelligent may not have much brains, but, at conditions of any settlement. cd to a magnificent building. Its animal I have known, had not least, they had enough brains to do But an even stronger indictment structure appears as a multipli-nouch brains to understand when that." is implied in the remarks con- city of ideas which may best find was told that it was wrong to

kill birds. tained in the Report to the effect effective expression, free and that Japan, without declaration distinct, in contributing to the Ing birds perfectly clear to him. Í made my ohjections to his kill- of war, has forcibly seized

strength and beauty of the hut, whether or not It was that large area of indisputably Chin-

whole. Thoughtful people now be regarded this as inconsistent recognize that freedom is some-coming as it did from a human. ese territory. It is, we aware, argued by Japan that whatever one likes. Those who chicken, he never maid the alight- LOVE OF PLEASURE, ARE AS RUINOUS thing other than merely doing being who frequently dined on PURSUED FROM A DESIRE OF CGAIN OR everything she has done in Man-are intelligently working for its est heed to mor

TO THE TEMPER AND DISPOSITION OF churin has been in legitimate wider establishment know well see in this a proof of the cat's in- THE PARTY ADDICTED TO THEM, AS self-defence, and that her actions the need of critical excursions telligence.

THEY ARE TO HIS FAME AND FOR- are not inconsistent with

TUNE. Burton. the among their own desires and League Covenant, the Kellogg actions. They know that only Pact, or the Nine-Power Treaty. by freeing themselves from But these contentions do not greed, from appetite, from will- bear close analysis. The Longuefulness, can they gain that self- Covenant makes specific provi-government which is the founda- sion for arbitral adjudication on tion of free government, and disputes, whereas Japan has which guarantees liberty to their seen fit to use force. The Kellogg neighbours as well as to them- Pact is based on a recognition selves.

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arc

of the principle of pacific ad-

justment. The Nine-Power

Treaty definitely, in its very first { Clemenceau Museum article, safeguards the terri-

torial and administrative in-

tegrity of China, and, what is Paris has added yet one more more, calls for consultation be- to its long list of museums. tween the signatorics. Yet The little flat on the ground floor Japan has preferred to act on of a house in the Rue Franklin, her own initiative. To Japan's where Clemenceau lived, has just argument that her special ia-been opened to the public. His terests in Manchuria are vital to bedroom, which was also his her, the answer is that the Reworkroom, contains a bed with- port recognises the existence of out a mattress-for the "Tiger" these interests and suggests a work table with the manuscript always slept on boarde-and a method of satisfying them. But of the last page of his book, no supporter of the League can "Grandeurs et Miseres de la admit that Japan should pro-Victoire," kept in place by the cecd in violation of the peace nose quill that he used. In the machinery of the world. The dining room, on a table, there Daily Telegraph suggests that are three large rusty keys which British policy is to proceed in had been given to Clemenceau. collaboration with the other They are the keys of the Bastille. Powers, and, above all, "in good The famous skull cap still hango faith and friendship with the on a hook in the tiny hall, and United States," Scoing that several of Claude Monet's paint- American opinion is intensely ings adorn the walls of the critical of Japan's whole policy apartment. Behind, in a little in Manchuria, what are we to garden, a few small rose bushes make of the quoted words?

provide the flowers that Clemen- ceau loyed so well.

Vegetarians may

A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

SPORTS AND GAMING, WHETHER

"Good morning, madam! Do you find yourself wonder- ing how to put your spare time to gainful use?"

The University examinations re- mind us, so don't be unkind. who has been to a public school, but "A Sahib is an important Indian

If he is Pukka Sahib he is not an Indian at all but a Sahib. If he is not a Pukka Sahib ho has not been to a public school."

"Mulligatawny was an Irishman who invented soup. He was what they call a broth of a boy."

"The Marathon race is named" after the battle of Marathon, bo- tween the Greeks and Romans. The Grecks ran so fast they were back in Athens in no time, and the one that got there first was acclaimed the victor."

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"The Inquisition was a rather strict tribunal. It burnt you if you told the truth and sont you to the stake if you didn't. This was called a Dilemma,"

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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Dalsy (Kowloon).-Yes (wo mean No), it's not too early to be thinking about your Christmas pre- sonts. Begin by making out two lets-the second for use If you lose the first-and, for obvious reasons, keep thom in different places! You havo a good foundation to build on in the "gifts" sent you last year.

May's "mules," for example, will do nicely for Janet, and Cousin George's Imitation frult le Just the thing for May. Bo Aure that labels, inscriptions, etc, enrefully, removed.

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BANKS.

are

We have just had a letter from our Bank Manager,

It begins as all letters from our Bank Manager. begin: "Dear Sir, I beg to draw your attention to the fact

And yet some people are worried by the fact that Mr. Montagu Nor man travels incognito..

We aro glad he does. The last thing we want is bank directors thrusting themselves upon bur notice.

If all the washing machinga In the Colony were placed ond to end, a woman would still select a radio.

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