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THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1933.

Britain takes her stand on that

point. She is willing and ready UTOPIA, WEISSNICHTWO, The Very Idea!

to negotiate along" prescribed lines; but she refuses to be dictated to. There is no ques- tion, as Mr. de Valera attempts

OR WHAT HAVE YOU?

BUS-TED

· By Edward Kelly, Agını Provocateur.

The man had an excellent Plat-

About fifty years ago, à cómpany the solution of the social problem- to make out, of Britain bringing of people procured a tract of land particularly his bellef that the pressure on the Irish people, on the west coast of Mexico. There auntitut production of nature's All that is necessary is for the they intended to set up a model fruits would be its solution-they, too, have been no less takon' with points in dispute to be arbitrated community, operating it on a sys the charm of his narrative and the form Manner. His gestures were upon by an appropriato tribunal. tem of State socialism. A book, novelty of his method.

restrained, yet convincing and his We shall be surprised if the long since forgotten, was written.

treatment of hecklers was superb. coming election does not show about it. It was entitled, "Integral

Co-operation," and set forto

That which Sir Thomas did A thin woman with a rattan that the Irish people recognise motives for the colony's sounding naively and with charm, Sir Francis basket snarled: Does this bus go to the realities of the situation. If a weil as its hopes for the future. Bacon undertook with seriousness. Kowloon Tong? Kowloon Teng! all the parties which belleve in That such a colony was founded In his "Now Atlantis" be sought Not Kowloon City, Kowloon Tong!, respect for Treaty obligations was nothing new evou for enuse to picture the ideal society main- Eh! present a united front, there can times, ior in every ago there are to tained by, political policy and state be no question as to the final result.

Prince George.

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"Madam," he said, in acconta

reminiscent of old times, the days of There is a calm spirit about them, systems the mandarina when courtesy was the first of the virtues, spacious times. Tourjours la Politesse and Leave Latter in teceptacles Era, if you know what we mean.

per-

We set out Toner Day to chauenge their virtues. We foard-

be found individuals whose hopes guidance. The object of natural sweet and low, his very tone a and theories about Ideal social science, no Sir Francia held, was to caress, "It docs. May I remind you conditions demand practical ap restore the commerce between man not to alight while the bus is mor plication..

nature and reestablish the lag? Bon voyage.” dominion of man. This could bo In times of national stress accomplished only when the sub- transitional periods in human his jugating "Idoia" of the world had

He was a conductor upon one of tory, in restivé epochs in a nation's been overthrown-Brat the idol of the vehicles operated by one of Prince George's birthday and growth, these attempts to institute the tribe, man's proneness to find Kowloon's genteel bus services. All the New Year havo both passed governments representative of the without the conferment of the millennial rule are far greater than nature greater order than really of them are spiritedly vying with times like exfats second, the idol of the cave, each other for courtesy, tidiness Dukedom foreshadowed by those the present, it is perhaps quite third, the idol of the market place.

at other porlots. In

private and peculiar prejudice; and good conduct. "in the know." Doubtless, dis natural to And interest running the influence of words over men's Don't be rudol)

(Dia we hear someone laugh? cussion will continue unchecked high among both the theoretical and there will still be debates and the practical on the subject of the theatre, the error arising from judgments, and fourth, the idol of regarding the rival claims of bettering conditions generally,

traditions and accepted Sussex and Kent. The last Recently a movement

of of thought, Duke of Kent died in 1820 and started to Impiant, the seeds his chief claim to fame is that Bellamy first developed in his! In 1872 came

State Socialism which Edward

Samuel Butler's he was the reluctant father of a great Queen. The last Duke of

"Erewhon" and in 1901 "Erewhon Ra-Visited," both satires upon the Sussex was George IIF's sixth

imperfect social organization son and died in 1843. Eccentric

One has to go no further than the time. About this time, too. eu a Nv. o had produced our most like most of his brothers, he had mankind's insistent longing for a camo William Morria's "News Gyepsplat ider for the benefit of the several worthy characteristics. better state of affairs than it now From Nowhere." it

Conductor. "Do you ever exceed tour and a hai mes an hour!'' wo Moral courage was one of them. the question of an ideal society hapa the only possible result of a He loyally supported the Wings should be of such powerful interest. Poet's venture into the realms of sken, jerking a boorian thumb in which earned him Royal dis- It is that determined feeling that economics a picture of a socialls the direction of the driver. favour for many years, so that were one to start afresh with the beautiful, and as far away as any petition?”

tic commonwealth, appealingly have you started a to blow com he refused to be buried among whole problem of human organiza of the work of other Pre-Raphao- his kin and chose Kensal Green tion, growth and development, alllites. The London of Morris's Consored adequate, he replied, in "Au service air, in generally, instead.

And in marriage he would be different.

Nowhero was small "and white Cultured accents, with no nint" of courageously followed the When Plato taught, the Athens and clean," free of noise, free of resentment in his voice,

***This Dus dictates of his heart in days which we call "golden"

an smoken poet's dream, which am Guppy to assure you will get when the Royal Marriage Act actuality. To him it was not the looked to the future for its ethics you home in time. An. Here we was cast-iron. He married two ideal. The philosophical symosis and to the past for the robes in are, sir. I've rung the bell" commoners: in early youth Lady over which he presided turned more which to dress it. Augusta Murray, daughter of governed by Ideal justice. In the had our thought held to the sub- and more upon a possible society

In our own time, too, we have Lord Dunmore, who bora him "Republic" it may be gathered that ject of Utopia. Mr. H. G. Wells, two children who took the sur- to Plato ideal justice is possible with keen discernment of what next bus, we tried an orange.

Our lear hadn't worked. On the name of d'Este. The daughter only when each individual fills others have written, has discussed pected it as became Lady Truro. In middle that place in society for which he the matter again and again plenti- possible and threw the debris all incompetently As age he married again, Lady is fitted by nature and inclination, fully and provocatively. What over the seats in the first-class com- and when all is directed by superior is more, we have the Russian ex- partment. And then stuck our feet Cecilia Underwood, formerly wisdom. Whatever else has been Buggin, and nec Gore, whom read into his philosophy, it seemsperiment to consider, as well na on the seats. Queen Victoria

of Stato ultimately plain that he clearly saw that the the recent exhibition

Not a word of reproach. Not a created Duchess of Inverness, a only hope of reaching such a stato Sociallem in Chile. With Russin, suggestion of injured amour pro- woman of good sense, good lay in the education of the

the actual problems have well- gre. All that materialised was nigh submerged Marxian theories, fresh-faced conductor, immacuintely The Duke embraced the cause of ing of a perfected ayatom upon an and the world, called upon to wit clad, with an air of beautiful

and immature

nesa the classless society of Com- resignation and a broom and dust- agriculture, was keen on science, inexperienced

munism, has beheld what is in pan. There was almost a hint of was a noted boolé collector, an humanity,

Sir Thomas More undoubtedly a hybrid structure bordering on though he sought our permission truth an autocracy of workers genuflexion about his arrival, as enthusiast for pugilism and shooting, and at the end of his

state coptalism,

to clean up the mess life deeply religious.

WAS

In-

Hongkong Telegraph heart, and remarkable tact. dividual rather than in the engraft-

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1933,

IRELAND'S

CHANCE Ireland is again soon to be in the throes of another General Election, consequent on the re- signation of the de Valera Gov- ernment, Those who desire to

he

The Future of the Future

:

J. B. D.

We left him pousning the buttons

on his tunic. (Shut Up)

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Ho then asked for our fara in an

A NEW RAT-TRAP.

An obliging reader has sent us an original prescription for exter- minating the rats at Kelly Mansion. "Get a large jagged stane," be 8058. "Put a piece of fish on top. Then sprinkle profusely with pep per. The rat takes ona bite of fish, and then anezzes so violently. that it bashes its brains out on the stone.""

had considered Plato's propositions well when he wrote "Utopia." The renaissance was only beginning to make itself felt, and Sir Thomas Even Mr. Wells probably would apologetic tone of voice. An evil, caught the swing of it. What admit that it is much easier to you could see he felt, but one which must have impressed him keenly, write of Utopla than it is to im was reluctantly imposed upon him was the disparity between the plemont it. Whatever one's solu- by a company which always desired England that he knew and the tion to the problems of labour, to do ita clientele a favour, but state which Plato had envisaged un- property, leisure taxation, poverty, what with conductors' salaries and witnesa a renewal of Anglo-Irish about the future is its location. With fine imagination and a tall ther one is a disciple of Malthus, small charge.

One of the interesting things der the government of ideal justicel exchange; and regardless of when on, they were bound to make a peace heartily hope that as a

In our most violent manner, wo result of the appeal to the voters Perhaps we should be somewhat such a commonwealth which he had Bentham, it will be found that the demanded to know what the devil

ing wit be act to work to write of Adam Smith, Hanry George, ar the Fianna Fail will be given at gen regarding it. if political been told existed in Utopia "No most closely reasoned and par- he meant by asking us for ten very definite marching orders. orators were less emphatic in Place"-ar as one might say after fectly knit theory regarding the cents for a ride from Kowloon City Mr. de Valera, always an ir- placing it. But they have so the German fashion, Weissnichtwo, ideal state will give him pause to the Ferry. responsible firebrand, has made searchingly "looked forward into "I know not where''! In this coun- when he attempts to carry it out. An Inspector who joined us short- a sorry mess of Irish affairs the future" that we have come try of which he wrote there was, And this is largely so because he ly afterwards was determined to since he сате into

to the conclusion, somewhat community ownership of goods, a would engraft a state whole upon keep up the Company's reputation. office. Animated by a

narrow-minded hesitatingly, perhaps, that the national system of education, work a moving society, and because ho "Were you questioning the fare,

for all, and a utilitarianism future actually lies ahead of us. protected tho, common good from account for the human equation. anti-English spirit,

that cannot adequately measure and sir?” ho asked pleasantly. "May I has

point out the advantage of taking brought his country perilously This being the case, something private abusa, near to ruin by persistence in a ought to be done to enable

But certainly a solution to this a season ticket. It entitles you to policy which he must know to speech-makers and others to entire was somewhat lost upon Utopian economist has overcome pany and of course it saves you be- It may be that Sir Thomas's problem exists. No doubt the latest take any bus operated by this com- be wrongly-based. However vary their "forward look" those early readers, who were easily even this dificulty-in much he may seek to explain into the future. Nobody, AP captivated by an adventurous tale. And whether he has or not, the

ing worried." theory... Then we woke up! away the circumstances of his parently, ever has

thought If later readers have been more world will be just as eager as ever resignation, the plain fact re- of taking 2 glance back- sophisticated and have thought Sir to hear about it! mains that he has confessed his ward into the future. That has Thomas naive in his discussion of inability to carry on. If, as he seemed absurd. Neither has says, he enjoys the confidence anybody urged a squint forward of the people, why should it be into the past. This has seemed necessary for him to throw in his equally ridiculous. Even at- hand? By his own insensate tempts to take sidelong looks folly, he has brought serious into the future have not met trouble to the Irish people, and with any great measure of suc- his resignation is a tacit ad- Cess. By whichever way one mission that he is unable any has sought to approach the longer to steer the ship of State future he invariably has found. with any measure of confidence. it lying ahead. When, there-" On both sides of the Irish Chan. fore, one heurs an orator speak nel is it becoming increasingly of "looking forward into the felt that it is sheer madness that future," he wonders if the the existing Anglo-Irish friction speaker is anticipating a change should continue. Both countries in its position; if he, perhaps, is have been raising the tariff walls contemplating surreptitiously higher against each other, and sneaking up to the front and the spectacle thus presented, of edifying the listener with the re- component parts of the same sults of an occasional backward Empire being at daggers drawn glance into futuro prospects. one with another, has been, to In that case, the phrase, “look- say the least, altogether foolish ing forward into the future," and totally unnecessary. The may not be as tautological as it fault for this unhappy state of sounds; merely looking into the affairs must be laid at the door, future-In the future-will have of Mr. de Valera. It is not to be qualified if the "looker" is denied by Britain that there are to know in what direction to aspects of the land annuities and gaze. Forward, backward and other financial agreements beeldewise glances into the future tween the two countries which each will have its soparate mean- call for consultation and possible ing. In the meanwhile, other revision. But there is a right speakers will doubtless continue and a wrong method of dealing to "advance forward" toward with these issues. Mr. de Valera their several goals, "linked to- has, in his usual provocative gether" by a "single-unit" of manner, chosen the wrong way. purpose, which will enable them It has long since been an es to "ascend up" to heights where tablished law of international they may "still continue" to usage that agreements solemnly advance forward" to the "good entered into by two parties can benefits" which they hope to not be unilaterally terminated. ' reap.

“Mary Ann has unusual talent, but our docerator won't

let us havo à plàno in this apartmant.”.

"

INTRO TO FILMLAND.

No editor has yet offered as a large sum for the exclusive story of our film career, but for tho benefit of posterity our feel it our duty to make it public,

It was a bright sunny morning when wo first called at the studio. | in consequence of a mistake in the telephone numbers. The studio People thought they were sonding for a plumber, while We were under the impression that they had seon our photograph somewhere and had recognined the surven's next Great Lover.

We were discussing this rathor heatedly with a very rude door- keeper when, a gentleman in a beret hat arrived. He took one look, and said, "Good heavens, that facel"

We admitted that it was, a face, so he grabbed us by the arm' and led us Inte a large factory shod where about thirty pessimistic mon were doing what most people in film studios seem to be doing most of the time, 'nothing,

"Boys," said our decort, "gaz on this clock. Look at that vacant expression. Observe what passes for a nose and mouth. Isn't he the perfect type for our village idlot