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DO FILMS MAKE CRIMINALS?

A disquieting account of the effects of gangster

The Very Idea!

COST OF LIVING

By Edward Kelly, Economic Expert,"

screen pictures on the young mind of America DID you notice that dirty

By R. J. Cruikshank

crack at us in the leader of yesterday's Tele- graph?

The cost of living is a tople pro- viding endless scope for discussion It is not surprising, therefore, that within the confing of a short lead- ing article, wo wore unable to assess the true weight of all the factors contributing towards the marked disparity between wholesala and rotail prices. Some part of the omission fa rectifled to-day by a

discussion will be found in another The films are responsible for a pictures 54 murders took place, in After all we've done for column, and it is sufficient for us to large number of juvenile crimes, 12 pictures 17 hold-ups took place, endorso the points made, Govern- according to a group of American and in 32 pictures there were 60 the Editor, too. It was only ment's reply as regarile, import scientists who have spent four instances of assault and battery, the other day that we gave duties, would be, wo imagino, that yours studying the effects of mo-

AWAITING THE REPLY, him his "Cost of Living" the slackness of trade, shown in a tion pictures on the mind and be-

**Those constantly diminution of imports, compels haviour of children and adolescents. crime picture may become for a subject for a leading article maintenance-of the existing tariff A summary of the conclusions of level in order to keep revenue up to this group appeared in the "News, portion of the spectators not merely by borrowing ten bucks from its former figure. If the process Chronicle" recently and now the school but a very university of him.

crime with 4 wide range of sota up a vicious circle that is un-¡detailed evidence on which they baso

techniques, suggestions and pat- fortunate,

correspondent their findings has been published Interns cunningly executed and vivid-we have at least got a high.

Although we are sneered at, Our overlooks one point in his analysis. a book entitled "Our Movie Mnde ly presented." While it in true that Chinese taxes Childron," by Mr. H. J. Forman. on exports contribute to the high WAYS AND MEANS OF ROBBERY. gives cases of sex delinquency know that, when it comes to Another acction of the report enough opinion of ourself to cost of living, they are taken into

Investigators who examined account when local wholcanie prices

among men and girls which it is writing about cost of living, a pún are indexed and when this has been large number of young criminals alleged were inspired by the films. is mightier than the sordid.

The reply of the film industry is done, the rise in the averago cost

in prison report that many of them a foodstuffs to the importer is still had been inspired by gangster awaited with intorest.

source of only ten per cent. above the figure films, and from this

criminal education had derived their methods and technique.

for. 1924.

THE MENTAL ATTITUD

Twenty per cent, of the con- victe studfed affirmed that the

recurring

SONGS THAT

High Cost of Living is at tributed to the dancing dollar. Nothing of the sort. Anyone who has resided in Hongkong for any length of time should know that the High Cost of Living is the same

Beer.

pictures had taught them ways "WON THE WAR" in all respects as the High Cost of

and means in theft and robbery. Professor Plumer and Dr. Hau-

these:

them

Socking root causes, there is yet another factor which cannot be overlooked In considering living costs in Hongkong. It is not ser made an exhaustive catalogue

Those who in the war years were economic in character, profound of methods which these young moved-ns much greater music be- as is its influence upon our inter-criminals declared they had copied fore and since has failed to move nal economy. It is purely a men- from films. Among

were them by the yearning lilt of "A tal attitude, as expressed in the

long, long trail a-winding," will wellworn phrase: No-one comes to

How to take door of hinges to learn with genuine regret that the force way into apartment, Hongkong for the good of his

Home to break window noise Stoddart King, recently

author of this famous song, Mr. health, The spirit behind it do-

died in leasty by pasting Rypaper on it. Washington, after a long minates commercial life-and for

illness, How to open or close lock with at the age of 49. pair of tweozerá,

He wrote the song (another How force automobile door American, Mr. Zo Elliott, composed with piece of pipe.

The "scientific way" of burg was a student at Yale University. the tune) before the war, when he ling by leaving no finger prints. It "caught on" for some months,

How to use weapons in crimes and

was then forgotten-until -pistola, shotguns, machine British soldiers in France began to guns, blackjacks, brass knuckles sing it on the march. Soon the and bomba.

Germans in the opposing trenches were singing it too. It was carried to Mesopotamia, to Italy, to every hamlet in Britain.

Hongkong Telegraph.beyond to an extent disastrous to

WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1933.

RACKETEERING IN. U,S.

channels... America must

moral quality of the mass of the community. The doctrine is quite frankly advanced as a justi- fication for profiteering, even for the acceptance of "squeeze." Sub- mitted as a subject for philosophic discussion, it would still find powerful defence, if we correctly estimate the mentality of many of its practitionera. And there is no cure for them. Some of them join the Rotary Club with its fam- ous motto, and do not observe the incompatibility. It is quite prob able, indeed, that they practice the Christian idea, on Sundays,

INDUSTRIAL DEBTS.

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How to drown out shots of gun by backfiring.

How to maim or kill motor cycle policemen by swinging and stopping car suddenly.

How to effect gaot breaks by using truck to pull bara from

windows or dopra.

How to use ether on sleeping accupants of house being burgled. How to use arc-burner to burn out combination of safce without noise.

violin case.

WORSE THAN FAGIN.

OFTEN WIN NO REWARD. It was not music of distinction; the War songs were not great music. But it has entered, like a half-dozen other war-time, songa, into the emotional consciousness of an en- tire goneration. It is a part of the musle that wrings the heart.

Neither in this country nor in the Stoddart

two

Last month, after we'd bottled wth tho Compradore for our liquor supplies, it took us all our time to make ends meet, We are only able to do it by letting our other accounts slide until the end of this month...

The cost of living is higher on the Peak thau It is in Kowloon. This is, of course, natural. Everything is higher on the. Peak About 1,800 feet higher,

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Personally, ever slice our perience up there last year, we have no time for the Peak. The girls may be okay, and we can still have our little bit of fun with them, but, as far as the Peak itself is concerned, it's a washout..

It all really. started when we went into the Peak Hotel and. ordered a couple of drinks.

We are just about to caso our raging thirst when the boy came along and asked for the two dollars. It appears that chits are not signed on the Peak.

This pooved us.

But what you ask, has this, to

It has required the kidnapping perii and other activities of racketeers to bring home to the United States that prohibition has not been solely to blame for

President Roosevelt's appeal for the gangster menace. Doubtless a common effort to break the in-

they took four two drinks away. We were even more peeved when.. dustrial depression in the United boot-legging contributed to the States provides

How to carry machine gun in United States was Mr. a further clear

King's name well known. The When we said we didn't have the authors of songs which stir

two dollara.. rise of the power of the gangs example of his enlightened attitude towards present-day problems, He

continents often win neither fame So we stalked out of the place, and doubtless, the removal of has not failed to grasp the fact, Young criminals, according to nor financial reward. Mr. Gitz and went to live in Kowloon,

which is being brought home only their own explanations, often re- Rico, who wrote "Mademoiselle where, believe it or not, we are.. the prohibition on beer has very slowly to most people, that the gard gangster films as laboratories from Armentieres" in 1915, when

still trusted. diverted lawlessness into other creation of new money by banks, in which they can see how various he was serving with the Canadian through the expedient of making mothods work, and these investiga Expeditionary Force in Franec, per-lonns by ledger entries, la one of tors give names of films, which declared recently that he had "never do with the High Cost of Living? force face the simple fact that the most destructive factors in our prisoners claim to havo inspired received a cent" for this famous Well, it's all a matter of taste?

existing economic system. He them with various new ideas. song, which-in one version or Taste is what does it the underworld has discovered, realises that the payment of in- Many cases are given of boys who another is known to everyone who

because served in the British Army during show good taste by drinking Up on the Peak they say you. terest charges upon the burden of adopted criminal careers. _during_the_past dozen years, a huge industrial debt ja keeping they admired flim gang leaders or the war.

moderately. Over in Kowloon Other composers of songs which that organised society is often money out of the hands of the crooks and imitated them even to

consumer, that the purchasing pow- their accent and mannerisme. acquired immortality during the war you can taste anything and still helpless before daring and ruth-er of the community can only be "Fagin's school was child's have been more fortunate. Early have a good taste.

maintained by the creation of fur- play to this curriculum

of this year the Cross of the Legion of is on the mainland, and we know Besides, the Hongkong. Brewery less criminals. This is partly duether debts, ultimately producing the crime," is the comment made Honour was conferred upon M. awing back to depression. He on this disquieting record. Camille Robert, the composer of

the Secretary, Manager, sub- to an antiquated and cumber-appeals, therefore, for a voluntary Half the inmates of one penal in- "La Madelon," a song which was Manager and the whole works, some legal system. It is partly remission by creditors of a por-stitution testified that the films gave as popular with French soldiers as which is just one way of defeating

tion of their interest. We are them tho desire to carry a gun. was "Tipperary" and "A long, long H.CL. or HC.B. due to a disorganised, politics- cynical enough to confess that we of the same group 28 per cent. trall" with our own. To insider Over at Kowloon you can Then there's the shroffs to con- do not anticipate any wholehearted stated that the films aroused in spiriting strains the French Army ridden police system which puts response. But what does it mat- them the desire to practise hold- marched through the Arc de always tell a shroff, but on the every large city under terrific ter? Half-measures are useless ups, while 21 per cent.

Peak he's more likely to tell you. declared Triomphe on Victory Day, 1919. except to stave off evils for a time. that the films taught them how to. It was not written as a war shroffe and talpans on the Peak...

What with being badgered by handicaps in ita fight on crime.

fool the police.

In analysing 116 pictures wock obtained the score early in. 1914 we wero nearly always at our It is partly due to the motor-car,

by week at the motion theatres, from M. Robert, who was on the wit's end, as King Henry said when which has given the criminal a the one that is most easily miased, number 406 crimes were committed "thankless trade,” and in 1916 sang

An obvious point often proves Dr. Edgar Dale found that in this verge of giving up composing as a ho kicked his Jester out of the

Palace. new mobility. It is partly due This appears to have been the ex- and 43 more attempted. In 35 (Continued on Page 5.) to the traditional corruption and who issued an

perience of the Government official 'assurance that no inefficiency which pervade fear need be entertained of dust from the coal dump at Blackhead the governmenta of moat Point affecting the Chatham Road American elties from top to bot-not already been caused, if house- residential area. If annoyance had tom; These are the points on wives had not sought the origin of their inability to keep their rooms, which the Congressional com-clean, it is hardly likely that any complaint would have been made. mittee recently appointed must And if there exists a feeling of provide

detailed information.to-day, quite clearly it will be grievance against the Government.

The time for dismissing all the accentuated in a period of strong wind. Nor can objections be evils of racketeering with the dismissed on the score that the area has long been a conl dump. It is airy remark that it is due to pro-probably in the difference between hibition is over. But matters the coal used by the Kowloon-Can- ton Railway and the commodity. will not be remedied until the dumped on the area by the M.B.K. that the source of the trouble will problem is tackled courageously.be found to lie. There is a lesson in this for Hongkong, as we pointed out re-

to the development of rival gangs and this, in turn, is almost certain to

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BLACKHEAD COAL DUMP

LACOSTE'S BOMBSHELL

Whatever hopes Englishmen held cently. The encouragemont lat-rogarding Britain's success in the terly given to the smuggling of end of this work, they appear to Davis Cup challenge round at tho opium is almost certain to lead have boon strengthened following team. Rerio Lacoste, solely respon- the announcement of the French sible for its composition, is assured of criticism between now and the tie. From distant Hongkong the selection of Andre Merlin over Bar- nard or Boussus is difficult to appre ciate. It is possible, of couran, both Merlin and Lacoste - may have something up, their sleeves. If Coventa prova this to be 80, we shall be the first to congratu

In one way and another, we have sufficient examples, on small scale, of what racketeer

meals. Any step which in ve them an impetus

Bonte

song. A music-hall artist, M. Boch,

Personally, we fail to see why there should be all this fuss about Cost of Living, and the only good it docs is to give us an occasional subject to write about.

We have long since given up worrying about such mundape affairs. Once upon a time, when we were new to the East, wo used - to take our girl friend out snuggle pupping, but we'd always pay the accounts afterwards.

Nowadays we still bill and coo,. and later bill and owe.

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Most people, when they arst come to Hongkong, are staggered at the way, their accounts mount up. After a while they conse to be staggered. S

Which is as it should be, with a dosh of pepper and salt to taste,

‚WAS MY VICE RED?

There's no doubt about it, wave got to be careful these days. Sith the women, we meat. What with beauty treatments, massages, Turkish baths and Inco-lifting n man fan't safe these days.

They're getting all thèse, bad--- Ideas from the cinema. For in stance, it's about time “Celluloid': exposed & Figsale - Foolsem, tha afren vamp, who recently came back to the screen playing young Innocent parts. She did not take her beauty treatment at all, bite sent a friend along to the studio in her placerat deng

There is also the case of Aïgle Ardfafce, whose face

so many times thab