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NOTES OF THE DAY WOMEN SURPASS MEN

Individual complaints have fail- ed to produce any improvement in the operation of the bus services in Kowloon. It remains to be seen whether the fatervention of

IN TALK

By ALEXANDER M. THOMPSON

The Very Idea!

THE BREWERY

By Eddie Kolly, 'Boor Export LIVER since yesterday afternoon, we have

The chairman of a Labour con-1 That is the time when verbosity E the K.R.A, will produce any better ference recently staggered hls is exhibited in its most exuberant result. Lettors written to the audience by a daring departure and deadly formi. management of the Kowloon Bus from conventional procedure. Ho The representative from Blither- tried to beer up under the Company, detailing specific in-proposed a formal voto of censureton, let us say, has bean entrusted strain. stances where cause for protest on the British Government for by his branch with a resolution to

Possibly you were one of their treatment of the Meerut which they attach great importance. existed, have been ignored, but prisoners.

The business of the conference has the huge crowd who danced .copies have now been forwarded He read the motion, and then, pushed it back to the moment. The to the police. The failure of the without a word of comment, said: assembly do not want to hear any-a maypole around one of

show." thing about it.

the vats during the opening Bus Company to show even com- "Those in favour, plenso

The delegates word literally

When the resolution is moved, mon courtesy by vouchsafing a

while we leisure- ceremony, AFC reply to representations by the dumbfounded. Automatically they they ery, with what speakers

raised their hands. "Carried,' accustomed to describe as "no un-ly swam around inside. K.R.A. offers name suggestion of said the chairman, and blandlyt the mover has been instructed Strong men leant on each other's certain volco," "Agreed, ・ agreed.” It was an unforgettable sight. the manner in which the monopoly proceeded to the next business. is exercised. If the higher ofl- cials set such an example, it is not surprising if "conductors can be thoroughly discourteous and get away with it. Now that the mat- ter has been brought oficially to the attention of the polico, we shall watch, with Interest, the results.

A BIERGARTEN

CUTTING THE CACKLE.

Even babies cried for their bottle.

a glorious day—ñi

It was Д

te expound his thesis. He has sat shoulders, and sang, and song, up many nights after his day's and sang. work to prepare it. His chest is Women wept, and the coolies full of it. He must talk to get collapsed under the strain of But the astounded delegates had relief. So ho starts: "I have providing that huge assemblage now recovered their breath, with their breath,

and much pleasure in moving this re- with samples of the new boor. their voices. solution.". Muted Inglorious Ciceres who had The audience make it rudely prepared devastating eruptions of manifest that the joy is all his oratorical lava sprang to their feetown. He struggles on amidst to protest in the sacred name of merciless storm of homely badinage, unforgettable event in the history the freedom of speech,

Ho atammers and flounders. There of Hongkong. We arrived out at The chairman crisply remarked is a buzz of talk which drowns his the Brewery at 5.30. a.m. to get that the resolution had been carried voice. He clutches at his coat. He ahead of the queue, and waited In a world where things were and there was no more to be said. shuffles from foot to foot in pathe-patiently until the opening cere- too persistently perfect we should The clamour continued. Then Mr. tic nervousness, for, as the proverb money at 4.30 p.m. doubtless degenerate. For that Bovin, douce man," asked those in truly saya, "all that blithers is not

During the day, in order to reason the regret inspired by the favour of the chairman's ruling to bold." He loses the thread of his whot our appetites, we consumed thought that yesterday's happy show hands. A great majority discourse.

huge chunks of salt, washed down scene at the opening of the new signified assent, and so the incident | I heard one poor victim in his with raw onions and garlic. Browery, with ice-cold beer free closed.

desperate plight deciare of a mem- As they opened the gates to all comers, la not likely to be Under orthodox conditions, the ber of the Government: "I am4.30 p.m. we strolled Inside In repented, may be subject to some delegates might have spent an hour afraid he didn't mean what he leisurely fashion, tearing our modification. Nevertheless, the in telling each other what they all said when he said he didn't pants in the crush.

As soon 33 occasion dld suggest a means of thought about the British Govern-mean what he said about re-

wo regained our We to breath perpetuation along rather dif-ment's tyranny, in terms more or considering his decision not

naked a group nť ferent lines, namely, the establish less identical with those employed change his mind." There is a roar officials where the beer was.; ment at Sham Tserg of a biergar- by scores of other speakers at pre-of laughter at this sentence, but "Beer!" they said in horrified ten. The extensive foreshore vlous conferences. There was not when he cheerfully continues, tones, "why, there's half a dozen with its delightful outlook andhing now to be said. There was no "Just one word more," the assom speeches yet." cool breezen would seem to be an difference, of opinion to be diably, who know that "one word ideal alte and as a half-way house cussed. Then why talk? for travellers tu Castle Peak, us a

BREVITY AND stopping-place for motorists out for a jaunt in the cool of the oven-

WISDOM. ing, such an amenity would un- doubtedly prove highly popular.

RUSSIAN POLICY

Europe is gradually coming to appreciate the full significance of M. Litvinoff's diplomatic achieve- ments in London, the key, being | LABOUR AND "THE DAY“ supplied by France's announce- ment of her willingness to in- Mr. George Lansbury recently clude the rigid aggressor defini-explained how far he is in accord tion in her own Non-Aggression with Sir Stafford Cripps's policy Pact with Russia. The fact is of "Thorough." Labour is to be that there has been a complete quite constitutional and wait for reorientation of Soviet foreign an elected majority; but, the mo- policy since the rise of Herr ment it gets it, things are to go Hitler. At the time of his as- with a bang. Socialism is to be sumption of office, M. Litvinoff inaugurated tromptly while the proclaimed Russia's sympathy The Labour Government would country has the hot fit upon it. for the defeated nations of the "take control of banking and fin- War and plainly inclined towards ance" and "reorganise agriculture, support for the revision of the mining, and other basic industries Versailles Treaty.

for the benefit of the nation," And To-day, Russia is as strongly opposed as to secure this there would be n is France. The mere difference shower of "Emergency Power of political systems would not Bille, Orders in Council, Proclama have caused the Soviet Govern- tions by His Majesty the King, ment to swerve from its tradi-Provisional Orders, and all other tional policy of friendship with

| forms of consitutional procedure." Germany. Soviet foreign policy

nt

We had no salt left, so we went more" invariably means at least a down to the waterfront and drank thousand, rise up in their wrath some salt water. and vociferously shut him up,

"However, I will not dotain you the But usually the level of e- any longer," said one of

after about twenty bating profielency in these Labour speakers conferences is astonishingly high minutes, "there are half a dozen

unquestionably higher, than the speakers to follow me". Parliament. The speakers talk debating 'average of the present of things they understand, and

-

We drank some more salt water, We led the stampede whon nt

last the speeches concluded, and, as we raised the tankard, the con- summation of all our dreams for the past fortnight poured down our throat,

Another example in economy of superfluous breath was set by the Women's Co-operative Congress.

At men's conferences the invari. able formulo

for proposers and seconders of resolutions is: (or seconding) have much pleasure in proposing express their expert knowledge with

excellent choice of phrase. Boldly daring and original spirita HOT AIR

this resolution." sometimes go so far as to vary the PUMPS. formula by substituting "great

We forgot all about the salt and pleasure" for "much pleasure," but

the agony of waiting. Those dry Sometimes, it is the delight

true, loud speeches faded into the misty remains fixed aprightly every time. And after than quiet, clear thought, but,

and robustious talk wins more applause past, and our tongue receded from

our chin. expressing his abounding joy, the generally speaking, the British We raised a second tankard. seconder proceeds to repeat, with labour delegate makes very de. All around us, people were drink- argument that was propounded by calls "bunk" and common sense, alight variations, exactly the same cided distinction between what he ing thirstily. the mover, concluding always with

We could ace, that we were in Extremists-"hot air pumps" foric-pardon, goodsh a second assertion of his "great" as I have heard them called-are time. or "much pleasure in seconding the usually heard with manifest im- the resolution."

an

Hoorahah 1 But seriously patience. They are for the most fic!-Pardon, indigeshun. Suche. But the women--the sex whoso part able young men, unquestion- goo. ber bers beer, an evry botlegh tongues, according to the humorists, ably sincere, sometimes passion- tastes bettr n bettre. Bettr n set all men's cars upon the rack ately, earnest, but they are too bettre, evry sphot, ole boy. Plese with ceaseless, everlasting clack-weepingly indiscriminate in their excush typing. they put us masculino orators to censures, too hopelessly oblivious Hongkongah ber all ri-ylv yr | shame by better way, When one of practical difficulties, too con-oursh word. Vry dochen them

lady had briefly and tersely stated spicuously deficient in the sense of sendsh invish-invishat- her case, the seconder would just responsibility, is thoroughly realistic and cold- "QUICK TRICKS“

to command the ask ush go outshsgood bearah remark: "I second it," and sit respect of men who have-literallyber to sor ri thish beirth. Sthill blooded. Not only that, but a

down..

as well as metaphorically-gona | ahum lefsh at brewish, but wonsh Social Democrat is quite as re.

through the mill. Whatever the be wensh we go nexh weeksh. pugnant to an orthodox Com-bridge player would call "quick This anxiety to make what the

The men are wont to obtain Labour leaders do, they ought

Tish good everydrop & Weigh munist as an actual Fascist. tricks" suggests that the Socialist

effect of eloquence by a invariably to have done the other now fo%% Line XXX"Tremelyyy But Soviet statesmen are con- programme would be in jeopardy

stupendous disproportion of thing. Parliament is no use. %9 gr*WaTef!!*!--&-/- cerned over the romantic crusad-if either Parliament the nation

Votes are a delusion and a snare. TBG@?? XXXXXGx)—————_HereSH language to sense. The ladies ing anti-Bolshevism of Hitler, were allowed time to reflect upon

secured it by that brevity which autocracy selected by themselves.

The only true democracy la an Luckahsh11&, Stvpq3n000000/k. and there is a general belief in it.

P.S.Hoorayshi Quite clearly, no importance

is the soul of wisdom. Moscow that Hitler's foreign is attached to the House of Con-

LEADERS' AND What a waste of wrath, uncharit-THE TAPPERTITS.

A WARNING political emissary, Herr Rosen-mons as a deliberative, but only able thought, and blasphemy would berg, endeavoured to interest as an enacting body. The incen- be avoided if their example were

We again have the unpleasant tive to all this Poland in a suggestion that

"To hell with all leaders," says task of warning readers against hurry followed by the men-especially on Simon Tappertit; and then, with putting the rough stuff over by Beeme to be fear of the Poland might be compensated for country's second thoughts. Onco

the last day of a conference when what to a bourgeois mind might signing our names to chita. A a retrocession of the Corridor to it has put its head in the noose the thoughts of delegates are cen- look like inconsequentiality, he Joke's a joke, and we have enough Germany by receiving a slice of no chance of escape must be giv-tred on early dismissal and home- nobly adda: "I'll be leader." He shroffs of our own to worry about

(Continued on Next Columns.) Soviet Ukrainia. Soviet-German en We can scarcely think the relations during recent weeks expert propagandists of Mr. Lans- have been embittered by arrests bury's party like this proclama of Soviet citizens and raids on tion of a "snatching" procedure. Soviet institutions in Germany, It is too suggestive of Mr. Tap- carried out by the police and by apart from the fact that Britain pertit and the 'Prentice Knights, National Socialist detachments. does not view the idea of a dicta- Despite the recent renewal of torship of the Labour Party with the Soviet-German pact of non- any greater favour than it does aggression and neutrality and of Sir Oswald Mosley's Fasciam. the formal declarations, on both

sides about the preservation of

"the spirit of Rapallo," there has A BLUNDER. been a perceptible cooling of Soviet sentiment toward Gor-

Mr. Lansbury has, indeed,, beon many and a corresponding rap guilty of a serious blunder. Por- prochement with France and aistence in support for the Cripps Poland. Only recently France programme will serve merely to and the Soviet Union exchanged widon the branch which has been military attaches for the first developing lately between the time Ainco tho

Trades Unions and political Lab- Revolution.

Trade unioniem te an ex- It remains to be seen, whether our.

pression of tho desixo for the distinctly friendlier atma economic and political freedom, sphere which now porvades and, as the resolutions to be sub- Franco-Soviet relations will bear mitted to the T.U.C. in Soptember any tangible fruits. But it is indicate, Congress has a deep de- welcomed in Moscow if only for tormination that any monaco to tho additional security which it liberty and democracy will be met provides in the West at a time by a united resistance of all sec- tions of the movement. Inciden- whon, the Soviet Government tally, there will be a big debate in cannot fail to keep watchful eyes September on the exact form of on the East. Whatever may be control. to be applied in the In- the course of avonts in the Far evitable change-over of industrial East, the shift of Soviot policy ownership and administration. in Europa away from the ro Out of the raw material being pre- visionist position is bound to sonted to Congress there should have important consequences. smorgon definite, clear-out pro- It is already, affecting theatgramme applied to Immediato Filluded of the Sarlah Melegation stint Stake rision fax needs and uldmate aims. It will at Ganavar #It woulds astums: the pause of the dictatorships | Drimaj

ward trains,

without being pestored by half a dozen bearing forged chits. This warning applies particularly to those who attempt to sign chits in our name at the Hotel or on walla-walla's. People with that sort of humour would do better. giving us ideas for this column.

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HAPPY HOMES HINT

Someone sent us along this old- fashioned recipe for a cure for all diseases of mankind:

Take a sour mother-in-law and beat up soundly; place in low ovon and leave to stew in own Juice; when cooked, 1.0., when scales drop off, bring to final sim- mor and place outside window to cool. Grate teeth and add sauce to taste. Cut into small places and servo with disgust. Then go for a nice long walk

regards patriotism as immoral, and like that ardent lover of his country of whom it is recorded. that it was a treat to hear him. praiso it his prafeo is to the effect that there is only one, blot" on the country. The Government Is rogues; Parliament is rogues. And the people aro idiots." The dear chap moans well, but his stomach has turned sour through swallowing more than he could digest of Karl Marx.15

Simon Tapperit in conflict with Ernest Bevin malcos a better ple ture of Dignity and Impudence": than: Landscere." But, after.) Simon has his unds, (Hetë koopa:

conférandes frum fallin' Bertacha deanári