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FRIDAY. DECEMBER 16, 1932.

been realised, but the matter obviously cannot be left where It is. If It is, the Lausanne agreement will have been of no avail whatever, with the result that the European. situation will revert to one of intenso gravity and a first-class crisis be inevit- able. The British attitude has

laen thoroughly consistent from MA

ARE YOU WORKED OR

BORED TO DEATH

By ROBERT LYND

ja

and

MATTANY wino men have divided | it is because so-called work the very first. It is tha all

the human race into two or infinitely lesa strenuous these war debts and reparations more well-marked classes. Charles less exacting than enjoying ono

A roally should be completely wiped out Lamb divided them into lenders self. I scarcely know - policy which finds supporters and borrowers; W. S. Gilbert lacy man who would not rather do in practically all parts of the into Liberals and Conservatives. a couple of hours work than go to world, excepting the United those who love dogs and those who

Others have classified them as a cocktail party: States. Short of that, there love cats. Carlyle saw his coun- from the question

With most men, apart altogether must be a radical revision of the trymen in two sections "mostly necessity, work is debt agreements, but in any case fools" and the rest. Britain still stands by the prin-

of

The Very Idea!

MUG'S LUCK

By Edward Kolly, Punter. With Pote and a borrowed ten bucks we went to thó Happy Valley races on Saturday.

The fact that we word able to como home in a tram demonstrates how successful the venture was.

Despite the newspapers, we, have it on good authority that tho professional backers describe the meeting as one of the worso from their point of view since the economic course was opened, by far tho Pete and us, while sympathising casiest, as it is by far the least to a certain extent with the pros, of passing the wish to point out that it's all in Mr. Winston Churchill, in his original, way Iciples of the Balfour Note, that new book, provides yet another time. How the lazy man's heart the game; and, anyhow, we have classification. There are, he de- boats joyfully as he sets off to spent the $15.50 now, so they clares, three kinds of people, the office in the morning and tells might as well bear up like sports. those who work to death,

Although we had a fairly good those himself that he now has nothing who worry to death and those who to do but work till six o'clock day. It's the last time we'll go to the races with Poto. A man are bored to death,

might as well take his grand- mother.

we do not intend asking from our debtors more than is needed to pay our creditors. That policy shows our bona fides. It does not imply any insistence on our pound of flesh. Generous though it is, it is based on sound statesmanship and reflects the British view that it were better, In the common interest, to for- get, as far as possible, these un- happy logacies of the past.

Slums and Housing Problems.

strikeal Life for him runs 08

that everybody who is born into YOUNG

It is somewhat startling to think smoothly as a tram in its rails. the world must ultimately belong MILLIONAIRE. to one of these categories. None

of them is exactly ideal. Work millionaire with nothing to do, Compare with him the young

Before we took him, Pato had an idea that a TACO-COUTSe was some- thing you got at a cafe when you ally, It's the last time wo put any were in a hurry. And, Incident- money on for the Editor of the day. Telegraph-ho wants too many

proofs.

was all very well in the old days when there was little else to do who has to think out a new pro- no wireless, no gramophones, no gramme of pleasure every cinemas and when everybody. How often la ho like a motor-car like the village blacksmith, had with a very cold engine that can to work like demons in order to bo started only with the greatest All in the time and to be tired effort! And throughout the day enough to fall asleep when the no rails for him-only the rough day was over.

and difficult road, with a fresh decision to be made at every turn.

The

mac business

can

•

We arrived, at Happy Valloy in time for the first race, and Pete, with the usual mug'a luck, backed Gay Crusader. It won.

A

Wo backed Dynasty's King. It ran like China and Japan in

the three-legged race in aid of League of Nations.

Of the three basic necessitics of mankind-food, clothing and shelter-the Colony cannot claim Nowadays, however, it is pering to have mastered the problems fectly easy to tire oneself out always find an excuse for eating presented by any one of them. without doing a stroke of work in the lunch that suits him and go- But in the provision of shelter it the twenty-four hours. The ing away early. The pleasure- has demonstrated marked inade- cinemas and the wireless are in lover, on the other hand, is allow quacy. In evidence of this it full swing almost before one has cd no such excuse for refusing

to ruin his digestive system. Not "Blue Love," we said, "don't suffices simply to cite the im- finished reading the newspapers.

for the timid and the indolent say we never, told you." mense slum

Worn Out by Pleasure tenement areas,

such a life na his. Frankly, if He told us that the horse was -out- WORN OUT

anybody would employ me, I scratched. should refer to be a navvy.

grossly overcrowded,

Hongkong Telegraph standing symbol of profound by PLEASURE.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1932,

BRITAIN'S DEBT ATTITUDE

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one

After tiffin Peto asked us what we were going to back for the third race,

"Badly?" we asked him.

"Well, it's out of the raco," said Pete.

We had to let it go, of course. It

· All the nowspapers tipped Gleneagles for the fourth race, so we had a bat on it.

les.

Wonderful horse, that Gleneag-

We didn't get exelted when it calmly on, and after the race was was winning. We Just looked

over we elimbed over the fence on to the course and retrieved our hat, and then strolled along and

economic maladjustment. Slums, according to a recent

A considerable amount of time THE LIFE port on Home Building and can also be spent at the telephone OF WORRY, Home Ownership, are the most The heart of the day may be de- arranging about future pleasures.

As for the life of worry-beats us why they allow the riders expensive form of housing voted to lunch and, when

mean the life of those who worry,

to wear those sharp spurs. It known. The community pays leaves the restaurant at three as people say, unnecessarily can't do the horse any good to be for them in taxes for ultities, for o'clock, one has already the feet that also is an exhausting form of scratched like that; it might lend police and fire protection, in fire ing that one has put in a fairly existence from which the so-called to blood poisoning. At a heavy cost, but in honour-insurance, in depreciation of ad- exhausting morning.

workers instinctively shrink. Many people begin life under the able discharge of the obligation, joining property, in social work.

His sense of duty tells him, how delusion that it is easier to worry Britain has paid the December However great the cost of wip-ever, that he must go on enjoying than to work, and lose the capacity ing out slums, asserts the report, himself. There is a dinner-party to work before they find out their instalment of the war debt to it is not so great as the cost of at which course after course will mistake. Worry is certainly a the United States. She has done maintaining them. And in their have to be gone through, and, full-time occupation. As a means so regrettfully, not out of any elimination and the substitution after dinner, hours and hours of of filling in the time, it is acarcely desire to refrain from paying of suitable homes for wage enjoyment before he is allowed to surpassed by the life of pleasure what is due, but because default earners lies a gigantic task but go home. People who dance have itself. The worst point about it one well worth doing, It is to go on enjoying themselves still is that, though worry makes one would, as Mr. Chamberlain ex-interesting to observe that the longer than the others. But it must almost as tired as pleasure and prossed it, affect respect for 'process of construction

among be admitted that all who live the far more tired than work, it is not collected our $1.50 from the tote. obligations

The official looked daggers_at throughout the 'America's major

the industries life of pleasure to

full, as soporific as they are. The man

us, but we just amapped our fin- world. France, not so puneti- of

dancers or not, can look back with who worries worries mass production is now

so much

gers in his face. Then we met lious on this point, has failed to

being examined by house-good conscience on a crowded about whether he will get to sleep Pete. builders,

day and have done all in their or not that he can't sleep. If he Construction en- meet the demand, The wisdom

power to earn a night's repose.

"How much did you win on it?" works as well as gineers foresee in the near

worries, he

he cald. of her attitude is seriously to be future the mass production of NO NEED TO

worries ao much as to how he can We showed him our $1.50. "I won questioned, but that is her affair. houses at low prices. Some look WORK TO KEEP BUSY.

get through his work that he can't the same," he whispered. "We'd From the lengthy review of the askance at this prospect as

work. If he goes out to enjoy better stick close together. There I do not commend the life I have himself, he worries, so much about are men on this course who would question which Mr. Chamber-acthetically undesirable. Of far described. It may be that I have whether he is not wasting time

stop at nothing." lain gave in the House of Com-greater importance, however, is not the constitution for it and that, enjoying himself that he

the fact that the mass produc- to me it is therefore sour grapes. enjoy himself. mons, it becomes clear why Bri-tion of buildings holds a promise Also, I have not the means. At the tain first felt inclined not to pay of extirpation of slums, of crea- same time, I think I have made it worrying as for being a galley. There is as much to be said for except on conditions. The fear tion of wealth and values, and of clear that for any one with suf-slave-Robart Lynd. was that If the sum due were the raising of living standards ficlent means, there is no need t for enormous segments of the the present time to work to death oneself fully population. The task of substi-in order to keep tuting adequate housing for our occupied during the day. slums offers a tremendous op Mr. Churchill would possibly portunity to private enterprise. reply that people who enjoy them- And if private business does not solves in this way are the undertake that task, the govern- people who, in his opinion, ment, sooner or later, can hardly bored to death, I fancy, however, EVER DEBET MANKIND - HONEST avoid it.

that, if Mr. Churchill prefers WORK WHICH YOU INTEND GETTING what he calls "work" to pleasure, DONE-Carlyle.

The Turn of the Tide?

a

paid, and nothing said, the pay ment might be left out of cal culation in any final settlement. On reconsideration, it has been deemed wise to pay and to ac- company the payment with the suggestion that the sum involved, be taken into account inter on. Much misunderstanding would have been avoided had that course been taken from the start,

Optimistic prophecy is for, as Mr. Stimson has rightly

luxury nowadays from which pointed out, the U.S. Treasury public men, who have their re- had no authority to accept pay-putation to consider, have sternly ment excepting under the condi- turned away. But in the last tions of the funding agreement, wecks, several pundits in politics It has now been made clear, and in finance have actually however, that Britain will not spoken hopefully. Neither Mr. Chamberlain nor Mr. Montagų agree to a resumption of the Norman-who stand in peculiar position as it was before the ly vulnerable positions would coming into force of the Hoover lightly broadcast words of hope Moratorium. In other words, which they expected to be com- she regards this as the last pay-pelled to eat. Nor for that mat ter would Mr. Runciman or Sir ment under the old arrangement. Robert Horne. Therefore we There can be no doubt that, as take comfort from Mr. Chamber- Mr. Chamberlain states, the lain's guarded prophecy that the Hoover Moratorium was, by im-rising tide of unemployment plication, a recognition of the will be checked, and even begin connexion between war debts to show a steady if slow fall, in the next few weeks as a result and reparations. Indeed, support of a gradual revival in trade for this contention is to be found which is evidenced in the re- In the fact that the United ceipt of orders from markets States Government told Britain (long closed to Britain, and almost that a European reparations regarded as obsolete. Mr. Nor- settlement would be the method man's sober optimism appealed first to the City and the financial of approach with a view to re- houses, whose business was the vision of the war debts due to financing of foreign enterprise. America. It was on that basis Both these prophets seem to be. that the Lausanne conference (proving right. Nevertheless, was called, and the very natural our ups and downs are to-day as expectation wns that, with disconcerting as rapid. Mr. agreement reached

Chamberlain invited us to hope. gathering, America would show More recently the Frince of some disposition to reopen the Wales and Mr. Baldwin havo war debt issue. Unfortunately, congratulated us on not having this expectation has so for not despaired.

at that

very

are

can't

A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

We walked into the bar back- wards to make sure that no one was following behind us.

We decided to back Bright Star

In the fifth, but just as we reached the tote every window went down with a bang.

Pete turned to ue with a look of mingled disappointment and pride.

"The word has gone around," - WORK 19 THE GRAND CURE OF ALL | he said. "The pikers!--they

saw us coming.

THE MALADIES AND MISERIES THAT

"It's too young for me. I don't want to look like a 16-year-old,"

It was pretty obvious that were marked men. .

we

Came the Quconstand Autumn Champions. We had $2.50 each on Polar Star-But, of course, you must have read about it in the papers,

We went and hid in the bar after collecting, just to keep away from the newspaper reporters. We hate publicity.

Pete also won $5 In the last гдее He was given the money by "Ringtail" to put on Christmas Bolle.

of It came second, so. course, that left Pote with "Ring- tall's" five dollars.

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TO-DAY'S DILEMMA.

You are a strong Conservative ex-Liboral Free Trader, with lean- ings towards a scientific tariff. You are firmly of opinion that the National Government has saved the country from ruin.

You are shipwrecked in mid- Atlantic, and find yourself cling- ing to a piece of wreckage which will just accommodate one more. Floating about within easy reach are your wife and a National Liberal Minister.

Whom do you decide to saver

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IDENTIFIED.

ever

The strangest creaturo seen in New Zealand waters has Just boon caught by a nohing vessel off the coast of Codfish Island. It la ten feet long, four foet brond, five feet in depth, and hus:

Large, "expressive" eyes, A tail like a whale.

A mouth like a duck's bill.

It is slate grey in colour, and has no tooth.

It sounds to us like a novelist- critic endeavouring to ovado publicity.