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NOTES OF THE DAY

NURSERIES OF EMPIRE CITIZENS

TRAINING THE EMIGRANTS

FROM CHILDHOOD

By PERCY A. BEST

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The Very Idea

THE MORNING AFTER

By Eddie "Stein" Kolly

"I'm bored stiff", as the

suicide said, when he

emptied a revolver into him- self.

We always feel the same affer we attend the opening

of a Brewery. This week was no exception.

We are prepared to believe, as Major Cassel would seem to be asking us to infer, that his bark is worse than his bito. What still remains to be understood clearly is not so much what the proposed League does not intend to do, but what its programme 1s. Despite the swing to dictatorships, here,

Contributing causes to our un-¡ means of which we can distribute there and everywhere, ove still be-employment problem are that our our excess population and keep, it lieve that any movement towards population has increased with the within the Empire. desirable reforms in any sphere decline of our industrial output,

and the improvement In our The Dominions will hot take can best achieve its objectives methods of mass production and our untrained failures as of old, through an appeal to reuson. distribution and also to the fact and at the present time are not Coercion may sometimes appear to that emigration has practically ready for any Industrial ́öpera-

We've spent the past hour achieve quick victories, but such ceased. Before the War 370,000 tives, but to reduce the unemploy turning over the pages of succenses cannot be lasting. The left these shores each year for the ment among the latter we must the Telegrapk, looking up some

other organise for the scientific Increase more rigorous the coercion, the Dominions, Colonies, and

countries. In 1931. more came of the purchasing power of the iden for to-day's page, and deeper is the opposition Inspired. back than left. Had there been Dominions by the steady growth thinking of all that beor we The suggestion in the first pub-no War, and had the rate of of their populations. Such "could have drunk at the ished interview on the objects of emigration been maintained, we schemo

the the League that to aim them pres- should have been able to meet the migration of trained land workers Brewery if we could have swal-

inevitable decline in our export as and when the Dominions are lowed faster. sure would be exerted through trade without so serious an un-ready to take them, but unless Everybody has a headache after boycotts and so ou aroused hosti- employment problem. lity. If there is good in the pro-

the bingo, and ovon the headache gramme, it can be achieved with

has that tirade feeling.

Pete calls it Hongkongitis, but out the employment of force of

our doctor says it's just a little any kind, although it may take a

stiffness at the joints. little longer. Our offer to Major

instead of beer would prevent us He told us that drinkng' water

but, fortunately, the joints we jointa,

to lay off beer, our doc. was only visit don't serve water."

Probably, when he advised us

trying to get a bit of his own

Cassel remains open."

A NEW TURN

The Austro-German situation has taken a new turn. The report that an Austrian Legion is being

in Bavaria

irmed

cannot

be

Hongkong Telegraph. ignored, for it can aniy mean that

will

not prevent

emigration from this. country is The first Important step to take put on an organised basla the old for reducing the future perman-hit or miss" methods will prevali, ent unemployment figures then This scheme for training young would 8 am to be the organisn-people for the land in the Domin- ton of migration to the Domin-fans is not intended to infer that ions, including a suitable schema I am not alive to the necessity of for the proper training of the developing farming in the United future emigrants. Now that the Kingdom as a means by which Ottawa Agreements have been unemployment can be lesbened, made, all the Dominions naturally bogin to plan for their England has for so long been the will but the subject of agriculture in individual development, and Cinderella of our industries, that should be ready to co-operate with almost begin to. despair of any England for the purpose of mak-action being taken. ing plans for the future "stream of emigration."

A

THE MUSE AND THE MODEL

from going stiff at the

back.

He has been treating us for heart disease for years, and our heart is in such a bad way now that he daren't send in his bill So we just kill and awe.

use start)

the Nazis contemplate the over-the vast fertile lands of the Em- The proper people to populate throw of the Dollfuss Government pire, now sparsely inhabited, are

But what with all this trouble FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1933.

by forceful methods, using Au- the British people, and no time

about our heart, and our chi accounts strians who are sympathetic to should be lost in preparing

being stopped There was a time when a man where, wo have decided to adjure

every CHINA'S PROBLEM the iden of Anchluss

the scheme for this purpose. Just as 113

Here the United States has grown from might stroll down Oxford-street wine, man-bait, and wild oats,

Regent-street, a small English Colony to be the and

or, indeed, after Christmas. No that on being asked what had Habicht denies the allegations, greatest industrial power in the anywhore where shops were, with ing before then, as summer is

It is related of Mr. H. G. Wella means to the desired end, struck him most in the writing declaring that the Austrians are World, so must our great. Domin-something of complacency. He nearly over now. of his "Outline of History," he being admitted only to the German lons develop themselves, I hope, could feel himself surrounded, ns replied, "The importance of Labour Corps, but both Austria within the Empire, because it is any Bunthorne, by beauty, by what do digger and debtor things. China." Mr. Lionel Curtis, in and the interested Powers have "The Capital Question of China," very real grounds for suspicion.

nys that, beside China, other countries fade into insignificance

·

that is, as presenting a pro- UNITED EUROPE ?

Why? Simply because the great lumbering republic of

blém.

At this stage a united Europe,

industrial Britain can

After Christmas we intend

BIRTHDAZE

only through a proper distribu-used to be known, in those far-off tion of the population to the days, as a "bevy of beauty." fertile lands of the Empire, that There they were, these repre- sentatives of the fair sex, in their hope to

We have been laying off par maintain its present position, and Platoons. Some, it is true, were ties over since the police visited sustain its existing industry. I pallid as wax, and languid, and

us at our last one, but we have believe; therefore,

the gazed at one with glussy, not to an invitation for Saturday nigh

vacuous eyes. "As lilies that we can't ignore. It appears require Bay, Dominions will first have neglected farming in Eng-me appear. land, it will be necessary for a

that

the Eastern world, is trying to and still more a united Europe emigrants for the land, and as wa/shrined in crystal, so Do thou to that two of the lesser journalist.

1911, but the guarantee of his

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on.

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beer on

Saturday morning for

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on the staff were born make a nation out of itself, and and America, ought to be able to

on the Indeed, one might imagine same day, and they've decided to the problem is immense be-liquidate the Nazi menace with-cheme of training to be prepared Herrick sauntering along, and got hold the one party to celebrate cause nationalism is contrary to out bloodshed. But not, if they in co-operation with the Dominion ting great satisfaction out of the the disaster. As we OWO Олен beauteous waxen models which us of them $10, and we know the the ethos of the people. Each walt till it hos re-armed a Governments. little section has lived within re-fanaticized Germany. And not,

My suggestions is that in all the ed to display the "liquefaction" of | party will be flat without us, w itself so completely that an if they start quarrelling among elementary schools of the country, their clothes. Julias there were have decided to accept their in external supervisory govern themselves. The object of such boys and girls whose parents have a-plenty, their lips out-redding the vitation.

decided that they shall make their cherry, as he would have put it. ment involving the concept of a

Incidentally, we must thank pressure should be definite and careers in other parts of the Em-They pouted and simpered under nation has been almost superflu-limited-to stop Germany from re- pire, will be given simple book their ringlets of perfects coiffure. Pote for tipping us off that they'r ous. There was an Emperor, until arming, and removal of her ap- training in farming, whether it be Even at their most fatuous there getting in two cases of Hongkong

dairy was something of aplomb,

nay the ovent. throne was that he reigned, not parent threats to her neighbours. general, sheep, fruit or

farming, or the growing of special more, of delight, in them. that he ruled. Confucius said

crops like tobacco, rubber, and so Now poor Herrick would have a. of the Emperor Shun: "Re-WEIGHTY CONCESSIONS

SHOOTING THE MOON different song to sing-if sing he ligiously observant, he sat grave-

This book instruction will be could. "Play I could" once; but," carried on until they leave school, gentle friend, you see My harp, wishes to announce that he has Mr. Eddie ("Peabody") Kelly ly upon his throne, and that

Open to criticism as Germany's when they will become students hung up there on the willow tree." was all." These words were, in pust-Versailles treatment by the at agricultural schools, situated in At least he would be constrained Directors of the Hongkong and been pestered a bit lately by the the eyes of the sage, a tribute ex-Allles has at many points been, various parts of the country and to deposit his harp in Piccadilly Shanghai Hotels, who will insist to good and wise government.

on ringing him up about triẞing Westerners thus found it dif.it is not true that they have never staffed by the different Dominions. circus beneath Eres. ficult to understand China. So revised the Treaty in her favour. The parents of the children, hav

the ing selected the Dominion,

For all is changed. The lay-matters, so he has decided to apparently did the Chinese, On the contrary, they made to her child will, on leaving the elemen- figure has taken on a strange, al- spend the remainder of this week

went to the West a series of the weightiest con-tary school, proceed to

monstrous life. Models on the Poak."

Mr. Kelly, in an interview with Lis young men,

and soaked cessions possible-when they with- agricultural school belonging to sport

a Telegraph representativo last themselves in the "new" drew their Disarmament Commis. that Dominion. I suggest that bodies, or brazen heads on black night, stated that he had made

at the agricultural bodies. Some, true, arc 80 learning." They realised China slon, when they evacuated, years the course only after they returned. As before its time, the occupied ter-school should be for two years, cunningly, so diminutively they climbed to power, they ritory, and lastly when they when the pupils should then be trived, that Herrick might pos- tried to introduce reform based brought to an end the payment of ready to earn their keep on the sibly believe himself in his own farms and plantations of the fairyland. But on the whole the on Western models, and classical Reparations. Each of these con- Dominions and Colonies. - tendency is to get away from China creaked and groaned in cessions was an act of grace. not think of any other way by (Continued on Next Column«.) protest. The process is still The two first, in particular, were going on-the process, that is,made on the distinct under- of making the Chinese of the standing that Stresemann's "ful- to remain vast hinterland personalise Alment" policy was their country. It was proceed- Germany's. It is lamentable, but ing at such a slov pace in 1928 it is true, that as soon as they were complete, German public that the Nationalists thought opinion threw that policy over. they would put China into a forcing house of political educa-

who

tion, and decreed a period of HOBBIES

"political tutelage." When the

With

Japanese staged their interven- Fortunate the man or woman tion, the result had not been as who has a hobby and time to rido successful as was anticipated. It. Especially stimulating are Would invasion be a better those hobbies that consist of col- "forcer" than political educa-lecting something or other, for us. tion? Many observers askedually they involve the collecting of the question. In the caso of great deal of information, hfs- every country similarly situated, which goes with the mero objects torical, acographic or otherwise, including Japan horself, history so eagerly hunted down. haa replied affirmatively, the broadening of appreciation Signs are not wanting that among some collectors there has nationalism in China is growing | also como a further stop which is under this impotus. Mr. Chon perceptible also among numerous Kung-poh's Four-Year Plan is fanciere of antique furniture. This one of them. The conferences is a disposition to seek ploces that at Kuling are of paramount im- are remarkable for their beauty and.comfort as well as their age. portance; the policies being rather than merely for their an- formulated in consultations be-tiquity. In fact, there is little twoon China's leaders must have reason, aside from historical cur- a profound influence on the well-fosity, why the ugliness or awk being of the country, if they can wardness of a past ago should be be transinted into action. perpetuated. Any more than that There is a real effort towards of the present. In furniture the practical programmes all of reproduction of the best designs which may be stultified, not go from antique models has given no much because of opposition by

ttle beauty to our modern sur Buch; bottles the South-West hobbles are apt to be what roundings. From this it apROATS Political Courall but because he RST STARCALL Busstal. In spita

the most

black heads on brazen

con-

his decision in order to defeat

on the Upper Levels.

the shroffs, shroffs being unknown

The Peak is quite well spoken) of by tourist pamphlets on Itong- kong. Possibly, if you have seen any of those issued by the atoan- ship companies, you will remette ber that it la regarded as one of the beauty spots of Hongkong.

Pending the result of the petition by the Kowloon Resid ents' Association to the Colonial Secretary regarding the coal dump, the matter of Hongkong beauty spots is sub judice, and we can say no more at this Junc ture.

When the staff of the Hongkong Telegraph were informed of Mr. Kelly's decision to reside on the Peak, they clubbed together and paid his fare by the Peak tram. Owing to a difference of opini on with his landlady, Mr. Kelly wae not able to take his baggage:

clothing with him. Cast off (masculino) is urgently needed, and should be sent to Mr. Kelly direct. *

lyrical rapture. And the only connection with anything. of classical grace is that some of! the models resemble-to such a degree are facial and anatomical "values" distorted-attenuated Furies distor

Doubtless there is sound sonak In this distortion and, featured featureloseness. Ono, admits that that estimable body, the Corps of Window-dressers, have the right to. galvanise us into gaxing, by any moans within their power, Seventh to the degree of our going guns se in the process. The pointer of thes ojothes, they stingaroys Fappréhended hung on K