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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1933,
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DREAMS
Wonder if, She Will "
Says STANLEY LUPINO, the Comedian
I have noted a rather peculiar thing.
The Very Idea!
POLICE STATICS
By luspector Edward Kally, CID.
We've heard lots lately about.. the American and Home police casting stations. forces having their own broad-
We're all in favour of this idea. A little local application might zip up some of ZBW's program- mes,
of the Westminster Bank, Mr. R. E. Becket. (Chairman) ex- pressed the view that "some re- laxation of economy may be more beneficial in the long run than
In my dream I sometimes hear its strict maintenance." He
absolutely perfect music, and wake added that among the develop- At frequent intervals during the up thinking how good it was. ment schemes put into cold stor-paat afteen years I bave had a Then a fragment of the harmony age there were undoubtedly very strange dream dream returns to me, and I hum it over many "which
are ultimately, if which never alters. I find myself to and it absolute piffic. not immediately, productive in walking through a beautiful feld, character, and which, therefore, coloured thickly with red poppies. "A Fantastic Motor 'Ride"
"By E. V. KNOX would involve no permanent I have made this walk so many
My experience with dreams is charge upon the taxpayer or times that I have come to regard ratepayer, more especially as the field as my own. Perhaps it that they are usually due to in- abundant credit is now available Is," for I have never encountered digestion and that they form them salves about something of which to publie authorities at cheap anyone in it!"
A little white cottage, bathed in I have been thinking during the rates." These facts, and opin-
the cool rays of the evening gun, day. Here is a typical ions, taken together, do suggest stands at the end of the path, and ample
I dreamt that my son and I that more might be done by the as I approach, a woman comes to Government than is being at the gate holding out her hands in were bathing Judy, the dog, and tempted. One thing which is be greeting. I have never met this that, somehow or other, she sank yond dispute is that employment woman in life, but she knows me three times beneath the water. well. She is very gracious and "Good heavens!". I cried, "sha
The Police Department will on productive works is far to be gentle, and bids me hasten to her is committing suicide!" Between
us, however, we managed to get then give a ten minutes' talk on preferred to the experience of so side. many hundred thousands of
ex-
Something like this:
The day's proceedings would open with the six o'clock chimes from Victorin gaol, from where Uncle Bobby would broadcast birthday greetings to the lifers.
And "If No. 000399 looks under · the grating behind the northern observation post near the exercise
· yard_ke_will find a pleasant_sur- : prise". It may be a hacksaw blade or a tract, but it is bound to bring a ray of sunshine, into an otherwise duil existence..
For a long time we talk at the the animal out of the water, and "Last" night's burglaries." This workers who are anxious for jobs cottage gate, yet I can never recall stretched her out on the ground.item will be sponsored by the
but unable to get them.
The S.A.E. rating of the new Rockne Six motor is 23.43 horse- power.
The maximum brake Children of the Stars? horsepower of these engines is 70 at 3200 revolutions perk minüte.
Six to-day!
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
It would be a dull imagination that failed to stir at Professor
what passes between us. At last
to
I rememt very distinctly Pawnbrokers' Protection Society."
I bid her farewell, and as I make noticing that, poor Judy lay very Any burglar whose job has not my way through the poppies. I limp, like some stuffed exhibit, but been detected should ring the turn every now and then to wave the next moment, in the fantastic Central Police Station, and his my hand. She responds until her manner of dreams, I was driving performance will be broadcast figure is but a tiny speck lost in my car and had forgotten all about later in the day.
During the breakfast hour acs- her.
We were bowling along very aion the Police Medical the distance..
"One day the woman will ask me
cating", for the benefit of prison- no steering
ers.doing solitary. enter her collage. I am con- merrily when I suddenly discover will talk on "The Evils officer
wheel, but we got over this very
At regular intervals throughout vinced that this will be the ended that there was
grave nuisance by fixing some kind the day, a responsible police of my earthly existence
of rough brake. But the fact that officer will broadcast details of the car was such a monstrosity as the latest murder. Murderers to have no steering wheel worried whose story has been omitted are me considerably, and so, when we requested to register their com came to 'n garage, I pulled up.
plaints with the I. G. P. If Out came the assistant, but on possible, running commentaries hearing what was wrong he re-will be broadcast from the sctual
See and drive the New Rockne Lipman's report that he had found living bacteria in the in- terior of meteors. To be sure. science generally is not quick to get excited about this amazing" discovery as laymen are. Science has a way of checking and rechecking all such discoveries before accepting them whole- heartedly. It wants to
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Believe...”
Says WINIFRED GRAHAM, the Novelist
It is my fixed belief that during "male sleep the soul leaves the body and
labsolutely sure that. there cannot travels into another sphere, per-tired in as perturbed a state as scene of the crime, but no definite have been a slip anywhere. But haps that same sphere which we myself. Then he reappeared with period can be allotted for these Mr. Lo Cheung Shlu bega to announce for us who are more credulous term "the hereafter." I have at the chief mechanic, but this in broadcasts, owing to their ir-
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laughter when he saw the car.
"Why!" he cried, "there's nothing wrong. The steering wheel is at the other end! And so it was!"
it was strengthened beyond mea- daughter Gertrude and Dr. K. W. ment opens a new door on the
sare some eight years ago when Chaun will be solemnised at St. universe and sets in motion a my father passed over. John's Cathedral on Wednesday, new train of speculation. If
Thereafter, every night during the 22nd March, 1933, at 3 p.m. and that
Reception will be verified, Prof. Lipman's disco- the entire space of two years, held at the Gloucester Restaar-very would open the way to a dreamed of him as he had been" ant at 4 p.m. No invitations are new theory of the origin of life in life. One might argue that this being insued, but all friends will be cordially welcome.
on the earth-or, rather to a revision of an old theory. It has been "suggested that the first life on this planet came in the form of minute organisms drifting in from outer space. This has ne- ver been much more than an un-
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1933.
he
was a natural consequence upon the shock of death, but ag manifested his presence to me in many other ways I prefer to hold the higher belief. He is not dead,
but elsewhere-
FOOLISH "ECONOMY.. willing to accept it. But the see the body move!
"Sometimes Misleading".
Was Asleep at the Wheel" Says VIOLETTE CORDERY, Woman Motorist
The most peculiar dream I ever
Intending murderers would "oblige the authorities by furnishing in advance details of proposed dates and selected victims,
At 11 o'clock there wil be a special broadcast of the Depart mental daily talk to newspaper reporters. The theme song will be "Nothing Doing. Boys."
The Hawkere' Hour will be
had-If dream it can be called-sponsored by the Riot Squad, came to me whilst I was whizzing with Hawkerstral accompaniment.
round a race track at seventy-Sye
The evening programme will'
effort to wake up.
participants. This singing should An hour later, however, I must not be confused with the regular have dozed off, for I remember the grand operatic recordings from most awful feeling, coming over ZBW. me, not that I was going to sleep, but that I actually was asleep.
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On a more ordinary plane I miles an hour! This was during commence with a vivid descrip- supported guess; in the very na-can tell of my husband's dream my first attempt on long-distance tion of an all-in en ounter, be ture of things, there has been no that he was present at the lying-jrecords at Monza, when circum-tween a Peak resident and a bag- in-state of some great king, and stance forced me and my mechanic snatcher. Whenever opportunity concrete evidence to support it. that he looked in the coffiato to start the car on the stroke of offe, particularly on such oc- midnight. I did not feel in the casions as St. Andrew's Night, St. Most scientists have not been
I afterwards turned this idea least tired at the word "Go!" but Patrick's Night and daring the new discovery would revive that into a novel which was serialised after circling the track for about Australian annual celebrations. theory, If wandering meteora and published. Surely a parallel an hour I felt myself going to descriptive broadcasts will be Whilst it is manifest that the carry infinitesimal bits of life to William Archer's vision of sleep, but managed with a great given of the home-going of the unemployment problem will ne-embedded in their flintyThe Green Goddess!" ver be solved except on the basis interiors, the theory might of worldwide action to end the become the very cornerstone business depression, there is a
of scientific belief. If you
Says RONALD COURLAY, growing feeling in England that can actually prove that life
the Blind Pianist
I was in a dream world for re- much could be done by a bold outer space, you have good! has come to the earth from
Does a blind man see when he mote from the actualities of the policy of wise expenditure on grounds for auggesting that that dreams? Speaking for myself, no. race track, and, although I knew public works. Housing offers was the way all the life on earth My dreams give me very much the it, I found it quite impossible to one example in which a great originated. And yet solving this same irapressions as I receive in open my eyes-until I felt a hand deal could be accomplished: ancient puzzle really would leave life, that is to say, I hear people, close over mine and gently turn Apart from slum conditions us as much in the dark as ever. converse with them, and hear the the wheel.
Suppose the drifting star dust various sounds connected with my which are a disgrace to civilian- did bring the first life, what everyday surroundings, or mental start. My nearalda wheel had not a man to be trifled with. He tion, it is computed that there then? In what far-off celestially visualise the same effects of been over the track, and had not pressed a button. And in a very my mechanic kept his head and few moments Inspector Clump
sud- is a shortage of at least a million workshop did that life originate? light and shade.
I often dream, for instance, that refrained from waking me. houses, whilst at the same time How and when did it come to
birth? How did it happen to I am in the broadcasting studio denly there would have been a As it was, we were able to put
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DETECTIVE DRAMA.
Deputy Superintendent Fingle Prinz sat alone in his room!
The 'phone on his desk rang
loudly.
"Yes" said the Deputy Com
was the only reply. Then I woke up with a terrible The Deputy Commissioner was
missioner. A prolonged buzzing
there are more than a quarter drift our way?. These stupen-putting over a number to listeners, nasty smash! of a million building trade opera-dous questions follow in the train or that I am listening-in-myself, tives unemployed, and many of Prof, Lipman's discovery, enjoying a programme of music, the car back on the track without thousands more in industries We never can answer them. It and so on. But in this connexion any violent skid or movement.
which cater to building. Speak is useless to try. And yet it
Ups and Downs of Science
ing at a conference of the Royal would be a sluggish imagina- tion that failed to be stirred by Institute of British Architects
them. recently, Professor J.M. Keynes said he had calculated that an expenditure of some £30,000,000 on housing would probably in- crease the national income by |£60,000,000 an account of ita Spurred on by Professor Pic- effect on may trades, save the card's flights into the strato- Treasury £15,000,000 in "doles," sphere, scientists employed by the Italian government are mak- and increase income from taxes by £12,000,000. In contrast to ing elaborate plans to go him one better. Preparations. are being these figures we have the Na-made to build a balloon twice tional Council" of the Building the size of his, in which it is Industries declaring that the hoped three scientists can ascend Government's "economy" policy to a height of about 12 miles; has resulted in at least £30,000,- bell is to be sent more than half and at the same time a diving. 000 worth of building work a mile down into the ocean, car- being stopped by local authori-rying instruments by which the ties. This does not include un-scientists hope to learn much employment relief schemes, but about conditions in the abysmal refers solely to necessary public depths. All of this, doubtless, works, including roads, housing, and all that; but the best com- is very important scientifically, schools, hospitals, and similarments made on this sort of thing necesalties. The Council estim-seem to us to have been made ates that the stopping of this by Professor Piccard and Dr. work has meant a year's uném-Beebe, whose submarine globe ployment for 800,000 workers, recently took him to prodigious and the payment of £20,000,000 depths under the sea, They met in New York not long ago, In unemployment benefit. Even and asked each other what they bankers are beginning to realise had seen. "I saw no angels, that Government "economy" can said Professor Piccard. "And I be carried to dangerous limits. saw no mermaids,” said Dr, Beo- Speaking at the annual moeting|be.
"Now, you will probably ask-just how would techno-
cracy function in energy units?"
stood before him.
Deputy Commissioner Prinz was a man of few words.
"That you, Clump?" he asked. "Aye, aye, sir,' said Clump. "Find out what's afoot." "What's what, sir?" asked Clump.
"What's afoot, you fool." Clump picked up the receiver.
A moment later he turned to the Deputy Commissioner, his face as white as the proverbial sheet.
"Brandy," he cried, hoarsely, "brandy."
From his escritoire the Deputy Commissioner took a decanter and two glasses.
LATEST NEWS FROM THE DEPRESSION FRONT,
The strident clanging of the alarm bell at Central yesterday heralded, not the escape of a prisoner, but the solution of the missing taipan mystery,
They didn't want the story to leak out, but we told 'em it was safe enough in this column.
..
Earlier in the day a sleuth had discovered what appeared to be u bag of bones in the street. The "remains" were taken to the police station.
"What are we to do with them?" one of the assembled officers asked.
"Do you mind telling me what you think you are doing," acidly. interjected the "bag of bones" dasuming a sitting posture.
The strident clanging of the alarm bell at Central yesterday.. heralded, not the escape of, a prisoner, but the solution of the missing talpan mystery..
And shortly afterwards, reveal- ing that the trade depression had not entirely daunted him, the taipan took a glance, backwards and placed an imprecatory thumb to his nose.
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