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Covenant of the League of Na- tions, the Locarno Agreement, the Pact of Paris, the Optional Clause, the General, Act of Ar- bitration. But despite all theso instruments for peace the world. continues to spend nearly a thousand millions # year on armaments alone. How much
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MUST WE ALWAYS
BE AMUSED?
The Mania for "Brightness"
electric wireless set
"Is there, then,"
The Very Idea!
A FAST LIFE.
By Edward Kelly, `Fait-idious.
7E are pleased to hear that
WGandhi has receded from his
finished. from the weariness, the boredom Anyhow, wo could drink water
still if we were fasting.
Look at the menu thero There is plain water, cold water, holled water, clean water, dirty water, rain
water, sca water. whisky'n water, and bath watorTM---- just to mention a few varieties,
longer are the peoples to be HERE are times, no doubt, just at that twilight hour, when
when you ask yourself this you would fain alt in meditation decision to restart fasting. denied what is admittedly and
at by your peaceful hearth, act open Personally, we think that if we demonstrably one of their most question, when you wonder urgent demands? Which nation the strenuousness of the effort their windows to give you the full lived on goat's milk and nuts wo stands in the way of disarma to overcome the supposed dull- decert of their new, powerful, all- should have so much practice at not eating anything that wo'd ment? All in turn deny thatness and monotony of the mortal they are the obstacles. Each lot; at all this energetic plotting yourself, "no refuge to which one so na to make sure that we didn't you may ask have to start starving as a youth, has publicly professed its desire and planning, for the cheering can fly; no haven under the wide die of old age before the fash for disarmament. Why, then, up. not of a select few, but of sky to which one can steal away does the world not get disarmsentiro communities.
of always being amused?" Scheme after scheme From every side you hear that
Did not a poet write of a land has been submitted, yet little clarion call, for brightor towns, where it was always afternoon" solid progress has been made. brighter villages, brighter schools, a hushed, still land of balmy Much depends on the immediate brighter workshops, brighter holl- airs, of lulling winds and waves, deliberations. It is now clear day resorts, brighter church ser- and of music that fell more soft- beyond any doubt that the Dia-vices. Man, in the widest and "than petals from blown roses on the grass?" Is there no map, armament Conference is enter most comprehensive sense, in what no guide-book by which the road ing upon its most crucial stage. ever place he has set up his earth to it could be found?
There would be occasions, wo The next few weeks-even dayely habitation, in the getting of Then there is another sweetly at our goat, and think of all the suppose, when wo would look sad- -will determine whether it is to achieve success or end in wisdom, at his work, at his play, singer who tells you how he means world gorging themselves on fish to arise and go to Innisfree.and chips, and rice pudding, curry, failure. The peoples of the evon at his devotions, must, at any Could you not go niso and build bananas, pickles, and herrings in
he declares ho will, to their Govern-price, be got at, and thoroughly, there, an
tomato sauce, washed down with Sparton Model 16AW. ments to play a real and effec- completely, and efficiently brighten-mall cabells you thuit at laltiesco a quart of the best, and waving
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He says nothing about any how marvellous instrument is instant-measure of world disarmament mothers to brighten up their babies
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Then we'd probably turn away and fill in time by eating Balt.
This would make us drink more
more enlt, and so on around onc
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It is a long lat and ever grow- "purple glow. of noon," and even- Then there'd be different varie- ing. Almost daily some buoyant logs "full of linnets wingal" Hetica of salt. There would be Will it Work?
spirit voices yet another sugges-teile also that, by day and night, table salts, epsom salts, rock salt, one can hear "lake water lapping smelling salt, the salt of the earth, tion; sets another pennon waving with low sounds by the shore," ?
over the heads of the leaders of Yet, you feel it would be good to spirits of salt, and saltpotre. Notwithstanding civilization's this campaign whose battlecry is larise and go with him, even now, Mun Dam finished, there's not much Anyway, until we get this Shing dictates against corporal punish-Brightness, whose banners bear to Innisfree. ment, the somewhat astonishing aloft this exhilarating motto. "Let And then yet another poet ́eings report comes from the Antipodes the people be amused." that an automatic spanking ma-
chance of the Government letting a fasting in- anyone introduce novation hers.
And by that time, we'll pro- bably all be in a land, far, far away, where there ain't
no water!
STRANGE ACCOMPLISHMENTS
(of a magic casement" opening "on faery lands forlorn." But must it chine has been offered for Quite recently yet another call be only on the wings of a dream use in the public schools. It is went forth-for brighter libraries you may hope to escape? announced that the implement Did you not hear that cry with
Still there is a ray of hope; for may be adjusted to deliver as something of a pang? Have you just now and then, amid all this many spanks a minute as the of-not always thought of the library clamorous babel of amusement, you fence may warrant and at what you frequent as a sort of pleas- hear a still, smell voice asking We are interested to read of the ever "spank power" it may be ant retreat? Most likely,
na the wistfully for the lost peace and Indy in the West of England who desired to apply. Whatever the unwearied brighteners pointed out, where it can be found? So per- always wrote backwards and did attractions of a mechanized age its atmosphere may be drab.
haps, before long, someone may sums upside down, But realise that the human heart is That is nothing to what und its "labour-saving" devices,
little dog, "Runcie," can do.
Wa put before him a number of letters, and asked him to spell Free Trade.
it is not to be supposed that the you step into it out of the noise weary of all the useless baubles of device will be taken seriously in of the streets; and its quiet, its empty pleasure, in which there is that very advanced quarter of familiar calm, somehow soothes and no real joy, and would falu cast the globe. Though various so-comforts you, You have no desire them aside, and have a little time LEONG-Reginald Edmund George,
for its own already half-forgotten dreams. g 25, the beloved son of Mr. Cleties interested in great events to have it changed and Mix, Wexley George Leong, of the past have been prodigal
Just as the spoiled child, in ita and brother of Albert, farald and
luxurious nursery, tires of its too Maurice, passed away peace spots," they have overlooked the placid hour, perhaps it is dull-faside, lies down before the bright lavish toys, and, putting them fully t 4.30 n.m. yester- day
Prospect Place, geographical site upon which the toned also, but how restful, with fire to make pictures in the glow-bark: "Make Imports smaller." Bonn Rond,
first spanking took place. "So that ever-lovely inscription, or in-ling embers, to build castles in the The funeral will take place this 'ciety of the Descendants of
where And that reading room in the marking of "historic you may
now and then pass
our
He selected a T, an A, an R, un I, two Pa, and an Si
Then we said to him: "Runcie, if Exports are equal to Imports how can we make Exports larger?" He replied, with a short, sharp
He is a bright little animal, and
junction, "Silence," and again air, those castles that children, old does not cost much to feed. Most-
afternoon, leaving the house at Patrons of Corporal Punish-silence," confronting you on all and young, have always built, that ly he eats his own words.
4 p.m. and passing the Monument at, 5 r.m. (Shanghai and Austra lian papers please copy).
The
Rides.
the child of the cave and woman most surely would build, away back in the dim, strange beginning of
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APOLOGIES DHE.
ment" should be formed for this purpose. History fails to re- cord the name of the first span- But the cry was for brighter things, lying before the log fire, lands was so deeply grieved aver We are all very sorry Mr. Hol- ker. It is equally silent with re-libraries, "Can they," you may be under the twilight sky of the young the Colony's welcome to the con- gard to the name of the first anxiously asking
yourself, "be world.
Hongkong Telegraph spankee. Something should be planning band performances in the
MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1932.
THE ELEVENTH HOUR
year
in
And so a new thought may go quering heroes of the Interport done about this. The first span-entrance hall, or proposing to in-abread and bear fruit, and mankind team. Herewith and now, with king was an event too rich instal a wireless set in the reading will so long for a refuge that some half of the community, our tear- aut reservation, we tender, on be- significance to the human raco
one may begin to build, even to be overlooked. Perhaps the room, to cheer you, as you linger the midst of the city, a Temple
page, with the, of Silente. archeologists may yet discover over your chosen some ancient record which will blare of jazz?” enlighten the world on the sub-
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MARION W, SIMPSON.
A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY
ject. It is commonly known. There is no doubt about it that however, that spanking came the edict has gone forth that you, into practice quite early in the with all the world, must be amused, Disarmament issues are once again in the public eye. It is history of the human race-per-Are there not times when you feel now the best part of a
haps as early as the neolithic that all sorts of people seem quite since the Geneva Conference period. It flourished in the last disinterestedly to be helping on
A MAN GROANS OVER WRONG, HE started on its great task. That century and was generally em- this strenuous cause? That may BHUTS UIS LIPS, HE TAKES HIS task was to free the world from ployed in all the best familiese why your next-door neighbours, UPPER, HE FORGETS--Voltaire. the burden and mentice of com- for use in the guidance of But this petitive national armaments and recalcitrant children.
to strengthen the security of modern generation will find no all by the disarmament of all, more than mild amusement in "Failure to accomplish sub-the advent of the spanking stantial mensares of disarma.muchine.
The Blue Triangle
into
re-
ment." in the words of a London journal, "would creato despair Among millions of people who' have built their hopes on some- thing being done towards en- The Blue Triangle Women's, suring world peace." Not only International Club comes that, but failure would start the being with an inspiring lead world once again into the mad from prominent members of the rivalry in armamenty that will community and a blessing from inevitably lend them in due sea-all who deplore the detrimental son to the fatal clash of arms. I comparison between Shang- Vigorous action to-day to make hai and Hongkong na regards war impossible is worth all the the atmosphere in social life. The protests later on to stop a war. prospectus, if it may so be called, If high sentiments and irre-lays special stress on one proachablo platitudes were quirement of membership, that enough, disarmament would candidates shall bring to the have been achieved long ago. club a spirit of friendliness. This for the official spokesmen of all and this alone can ensure the nations have paid the choicest success of the enterprise, the of verbal tributes to the cause principal objects of which, if of Pence. Not long ago waachloved, will happily fill a very celebrated Armistice Day-the noticeable gap in the communal anniversary of the day on life. The Blue Triangle aims to which the World War was entice a great number of young brought to an end. But when women out of grooves and to will the world celebrate Dis-break down racial barriers as far armament Day-the anniversary as possible, to supply a centre of the day on which the nations for a mid-day break from the agreed to put an end to - strain of the workaday world tional armaments without which and to provide recreational and wars cannot bo waged? For cultural activities. If the bluc fourteen years the statesmen of stockings and the only-too-wil- the world have been engaged in ling-to-help-in-a-labour-of-love laying and strengthening the type do not over-intrude, the foundations .of редсе and
venture should prove a great security. They have given the triumph for its organisers,
"Do you remember what the instructor said to do.
when she starta. going down 7”
ful apologies. To a man, we were wrong again. For some reason or other, the idea had entered our heads that all the trumpet blow- ing that was necessary had been and could be adequately perform- ed by members of the Hongkong aclection Football Association committee.
Next time, we will have throe brass bands, bevy of cheer lead- Cr and a litter of professional mourners to groan whenever the word "Shanghaf" in montioned.
THE WORLD REJOICES. Mr. Hollands will, however, "he consoled by following extracts from messages received Immo- diately after the result was flush- ed round. the world:
Mr. Jimmy Thomas: Congratula- tions. It's men like us who koop the Empire together.
M. Herriot: Could I have been with you, I would have kissed every man of the Hongkong team with true Continental aplomb.
Mr. Bernard Shaw: You did. well. Como down to the Emprcas of Britain and shake my hand. You deserve it.
President Hoover: Your foot- ball critica and my campaign manager seem to be ahout on a рак.
The only doubtful note in struck by Mr. Stanley Baldwin, who says: I suppose there were no Americans in the Shanghai team. We really' cannot afford to risk a diatur- bance of friendly Anglo-American relations.
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Of course. We all do,
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The first of our aunermen will be Periclos. Wo shall deal sub- Bequently, with Cæsar, Edward Kelly, Mahomed, Henry VIII, Ed- ward Keily. Junr., Lenin and the editor of "The Critic."
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