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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1933.

THE

the moment are that the League will take a much stronger line than at one time appeared Ilke- ly, and that, at any rate, is something for which to be thank-

VAUXHALLful. China may not get all she

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1933

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TO DEMONSTRATE

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Literature and Scenery

SCANDAL

By ROBERT LYND

Do," writes a clergyman-but and heartlesa, and I feel like mur. not to me "try and curb the pre-, muring: "Let us not forget our valent fault of gossiping, because absent friends." And to remem It shows a littleness of mind to be har our absent friends is to remem- constantly talking of others' faults ber their failings.

if there were no bigger thing

BULLS AND INNERS

From the Office Butts

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The Finance Committee of the Legislative Council this week voted sum of three dollars for range expenses, the sum to be met by savings on band allowances. Let's hope this doesn't mean

cutting down the length of trombonça.

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There is no malice in this. Our info to converso on."

friends' failings make them comle Scandal, he suggenta, spoils the characters, and who ever liked o

The Hongkong Government haa favour of many a cup of tea, and man leas for being a comic charac decided to amend tho definition of

ALF nn alternat ve ter? Even, the more odious of our) ho proposes "reading about things that help friends become comparatively Hike-a and listening, if need be, but not able when we have had a good newspapers aren't called upon to tho laugh at them behind their backs.coin a new definition of the Gov-

ernmont, participating in scandal as order of the day."

newspaper. Fortunately, the

The London Times is running n series of photographs depicting scenes which are associated with English literature. A village that Thomas Hardy has given to the ages is pictured in its actual

C reality, and the reader of Hardy derives a new signicance from

come more tolerable the more they A reader thinks it's about time harmicos Kowloon was given a new name. comparing the spot with the

It will be generally admitted, I are laughed at. The imaginative cameo he already suppose, that for about one-tenth vanity of one, the little malsur It was laat night, by a man who has stored away somewhere in of the scandal that is talked there linesses of another, the bump-missed the last ferry.

Not for Egomaniacs

And even the most charming of our friends have failings that be-

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Pity Bernard Shaw won't be here for the Races. They might upset his apple-cart!

no possible" defence. The tlounnens of a third, the tactless- the cranny of his memory. The fa experience which he underwent calumnies of the base, the lyingness of a fourth. The incapacity of in his reading is given a fresh detractions of the envious, are than fifth to nee a joke, the slight but

We are wondering what Govern- perpetual tendency of a sixth to value in being brought into rela- poison of conversation.

diverge from the truth, the ex- ment servants and some of our tion with the actual scene which

Gossip, to be tolerable, must be traordinary contradiction between commercial magnates are going to is described in the book, and the good-humoured, not bitter; the professions and the conduct of do about these Wednesday after lover of literature derives a pecu- without this sort of gossip it is

weaknesses of some of our friends in. llar satisfaction from seeing his difficult to see how converantion seventh-these are some of the noon holidays when the boom sets mental picturing set in contrast could be carried on except in that are best ganaiped about and No made amusing Instead of wearl- with the place which, inspired company of saints.

It is. One of the most admirable things some. the verbal delineation.

Seandal of this kind is a vehicle true that there are many places about gossip is that it gives people

something besides themselves to of truth. It enables us to tell be- ¶ WE WANT THIS CAR TO in Great Britain which are talk about. Men and women must hind a friend's back facts that we BECOME KNOWN. JUST gularly visited for their literary be conceded the pleasure of talk could not tell to his face without

Exmoor of ing about themselves to certain

One of these days we shall read COME IN AND ASK US FOR Asociations. The

hurting him. Ono cannot say to Dartmoor extent. Self is the ideal subject for one's frend-nt least, not to an of a function which isn't success- RUN. WE WON'T ANNOY R.D. Blackmore, the YOU WITH SALES PRESSURE. of Eden Phillpotts, the Shrop the talker if it were certain that ordinary friend-"How self-impor- ful, a speech which lon't interest- shire of Mary Webb, and the the listener was equally interested. tant you are!" or "What a misering, a wedding which lan't pretty. THE HONGKONG HOTEL Borderland of the Waverley No- For the listener, however, there is you are!" or "Can you really not and a military display which isn't vels annually attract their pil-nothing on earth more boring than help telling lea?" The candid spectacular. That'll be real news! GARAGE.

grims. Motor trips are organiz-to have to listen from clock-strike friend ends by having no friends.

to someon to clock-strike

who We must be candid or burst, how- ed to pinces where purely imaginkorps on talking about himself ever, and, being charitable, wo re- ary characters are supposed to with a flushed and eager face. Berve our candour about our caught his first glimpse of Morri-

Stuhhe load

The

Happy Valley

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1933.

GETTING DOWN TO

*FACTS

that

the

once

And Where Have You Been ?

The Real Criminal The one danger of this kind of!

I gossip--in which, believe, bishops as well as meaner mertals The Proper Study of Mankind" indulge is not that it may do

that they are perfect in character, any more than it would be to

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As the Scotsman said when he son Hill-"Ah! gran' it is, mon!"

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It is only fair to the Philhar monic Society to point out that The Fountain of Youth" was pro- duced whilst the water restrictions

were in force,

O O Then there was the Hongkong schoolboy who said Cleopatra was a famous needle-woman!

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men.

The Hon. Mr. S. W. Too the

absent. I have lived. Hardy himself tells

It does not matter whether he friends till they are of enthusiastic readers who spent is making himself out to be a far know a house where candour be their vacations searching out re-

more important person than he is, gins as soon as a guest has sald mote villages which had no place or describing for the twentieth good-bye and left the room. The in reality, but which he had time the symptoms of an imaginary Worst of this is that everybody someone stays a long time, since everybody mado so vivid that readers act-disenar, or telling how ually found places which bore has a knife in him. The drip-drip is desperately anxious to be the resemblance to the localities that of egoism wears out our patience last guest to go.

"Let us existed only in the author's and we lour to cry out:

talk about something else. Let us! Hardy faney. Indeed,

talk about the failings of our spent many hours on a bicycle in friends." an attempt to discover the ham- let of "Little Hintock." in "The Woodlanders." but admits that

For the man-and when I any some injury to an absent friend,

A sports correspondent in a con- "man," I mean also woman-who but, that somebody present may Japan's effort to

of the quest ended in failure. stave

of his repent to the absent friend some-

that he doesn't judgment by the League of Na-though tourists had assured him talks about the failings tions, by attempting to keep the positively that they had found friends is a man who, as we say, thing that has been said about him temporary says

a gallop that dispute with China within the the environment without trouble, can get out of himself a man to or in supposed to have been said know what to make out of the subs. that It answered in hom other people are important about him. Gossip would seldom for there is not a single runner orbit of conciliation procedure, and

de-and enormously interesting. The do much harm if it were not re- that can produce is hardly likely to succeed. The every particular to plain fact is that neither Japan scription given in the book.rus egolat can never be a gossip peated in this fashion. The ra- would compare with the third-rate

grandat, be has a way of dragging he one of the greatest acoundrels, about trying a little ginger?

O 0 nor China is in a mood in which, The idea of linking actual of this kind, for even when he talks Peater of gossip neems to me to runner of lust season. What concllitory measures can be of scenes with the places which himself offensively in as the hero outside prison. If he repented it accurately, it would seldom matter

"The Bar- have

has of every story. pictured in- authors

much. But as a rule, ho is in-1 any avail. It is therefore

"Eyebrow."-No; cumbent on the League to pro- been utilized on the films as well

It may be objected that, in capable of making a faithful re-ber of Seville" is not a Shavian "The Farmer's spite of what I have said, port and perverts a harmless joke piny! cecd under Paragraph Four of as in the press. Article XV of the Covenant, to, Wife" of Eden Philipotts derives there are surely other and less into a malicious and unforgivenble things to talk criticism. The only person who state the facts of the disupte, not a little of its charm from diangrecable

Most Hongkong-born girls are and to make such recommenda-heing "shot" in the Devonshire about than the failings of our should never be told a piece of

And there certainly gossip in its subject. He can said to despise self-made tions as are deemed wise. This, of which its author writes: and friends.

are. Palaeontology is a good subscarcely ever see the joke.

Naturally; they profer them made if forecasts prove to be correct, "The Mayor of Casterbridge"

It is only fair to our friends, to order-sbout, and football is butter still if other almost inevitably involves an and Tess of the D'Urbervilles"ject; and technocracy is another, adverse judgment being passed had their dramatic and pictorial people will listen. I am not con- however, to gossip about them. It on Japan. Should. Janan's

Dancing is more popular than -Loualities Preatly enhanced by tending that conversation should shows how keenly we are interested tions in Manchuria be declared to being filmed among the Doreset be exclusively devoted to scandal in them-how we netice their be-

like talk to rove among a thou-haviour and peculiarities and love ever in Hongkong this winter.

its to hear even the tiniest scrap of All feet to the pumpst have exceeded the requirements; lanes and villsory where these

sand themes, travelling in of self-defence, and China be ab- stories have their setting.

course through as wide a region of news about them. It would be no the compliment to them to pretend solved from any responsibility

facts and speculations as for what has happened since the

"Encyclopaedia Britannica."

aald that among incidents of September, 1931,

But I do not feel that we should pretend that they are perfect in other day in a little apeech on the

soccer game whilst at the same time there is

be justified in devoting all our their physical beauty. It is much

to Ree sportsmen there was no distinction a denial of Japan's claim Manchukuo was a spontaneous To spend three months pene- conversation to science and litera- more flattering to them

of the ture and history and politics and them as real people, to recognise of race, and sport would bring all creation, China should have lit-trating remote regions

snort After a conversation car- their extremely amusing defecta, cations to friendship. Most ex- de callent sentiment but a little Lle cause for complaint. But it earth by plane and motor-carried on on these lies I sometimes and, having discussed their would appear that China wants in deliberate quest of hair-rais- think that the conversationalists fects, to love them for what they hard to appreciate when your op much more than this-in par-ing adventure and have nothing have been just a little Inhuman are. ticular, she seeks a declaration to show for it but a single punc against the recognition of Man- tured tyre must be rather in the chukuo, This

disappointment. somewhat nature of a straining the point, inasmuch as Such seems to have been the It follows that if Manchukuo has lot of Lady Louis Mountbatten, not been spontaneously created, according to her own laconic it remains a Puppet State and,report of some 15,000 miles of as such, would surely not receive flight and car travel, with the recognition. One of the most Marchioness of Milford-Haven. unfortunate developments is the through desolate and sometimes Rections of feeling which is being fostered in ! brigand-infested China that Britain has some se-, Persia and the Middle East. Ro- cret understanding with Japan, membaring, however, the British under the terms of which she is aversion to "spilling" about such prepared to acquiesce in Japan- exploits, one may suspect that ese control of Manchukuo. The moments of suspense and excite- catagorical denials which have ment were not altogether lacking, been officially made by the Brit and that "nothing but one Ish Foreign Office should dis-puncture" was the airy peral- ipate these beliefs, although flage to be expected from the past experience has shown that, picturesque Lady Louis, whose oner canards of this type gain fried sausages were the talk currency, it is by no means an of London when she donned an easy matter to secure general apron and cooked for hundreds Rcceptance of the facts. The of transport workers in Hyde very fact that Britain's policy Park in 1926. But, hairbreadth is based, in the main, on the escapes or not, these two grandes | Lytton_Report, which itself ac-dames rendered all travellers, inestimable cses Japan of seizing Chinese small or great, an territory and declines to accept boon. To avoid constant Japan's interpretation of the counting of the story of their status Di Manchukuo, should travels they resorted to the in- anfee to indicate that these genious method of making a storles are mere figments of the map on which their route-was imagination. It is true that indicated, together with the they arrived in neither China nor Japan likes the dates when Lytton Report in its entirety, but, vilayets, took refuge in oases or no-ano expected that the Com-made happy landings out on the mission sent to China would, in desert. To inquiries, "Well, its findings, satisfy both sides, where have you been?" they re or, for that matter, either of the sponded by handing out a copy disputants. The prospects at of the map.

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THE PERF

"They ain't interested in art. They're just watchin' to see

if we'll fall off the scaffold,"

ponent kicks you violently in the small of the back,

If Mr. George Bernard Show vloits all the Rotary Clubs here- abouts, we tremble to think what he will have to say of the Far Enst in his next book.

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"Magistrates are always right," smilingly commented Mr. Wynne- Jones at the Central Police Court. Quito so. A great deal depends, however, on whether you are Inspector of Pollen or the prisoner in the dock.

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Eating peanuts is said to be a good way of preventing intoxica- water tion. So's going on the waggen.

Jokesmiths all over the world heaved a sigh of relief when it was confirmed that the Ford Motor Plant was not closing down.

They are a

lot of atraight- shooters down under. There is no truth in the rumour, however, that the Anzac Company are in receipt from the of congratulations Australian Prime Minister,

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At the H.K.A.A, evont last night, we understand that al- though motorists were given the . cholco of various courses, one, at least, in regretting that he did not. control his area!