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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1933.

NOTES OF THE DAY

LOCAL PLAYGROUNDS

OUR NOISIER WORLD

By A. P. GARLAND

NHE Industrial Health, glance at the mortality. tables of

the life-assurance companies. Board in, its recent re-

The Very Idea!

Government support for the Playgrounds Association follows closely upon recent criticism of official policy regarding the grovi-port states that after close sion of obey spaces, Twenty-one investigation it has been FARMERS AND THE which is stored the biogra-

thousand dollara is now to bo de- proved that the constant voted to the preparation of four clatter of many typewriters grounds, two in Hongkong and two makes no difference to the on the mainland, and the money [health of the sufferers and could scarcely be better spent practically nono to their ef-ly

ficiency.

The Playgrounds Association will take over responsibility for main- tenance. The Government's ac

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This may serve to calm who extent the panic-mongers who are always bemoaning the stress and fury of modern life.

TITHE

EY

OUR BIOGRAPHIES By Eddie Kelly, Who's Who !

IVERY newspaper office has its Morgue, in

phies and histories of every person of note..

almost every English county

As soon as people leave farmers are showing increasing there have been numerous re- resentment against tithes. Recant this world of strife, all that

many of theso forced sales havo,

fusals to pay, followed by distraint is necessary is to dig deep on the farmers' goods. And now down in the morgue, drag been declared by Mr. Justice Swift out the copy, blue pencil any

the King's Bench Division to unkind. references, have been filegally executed.

and

in sight. Then after a pause

"Mother," she asked, "where do they bury all the bad people?”

Naturally, in the Telegraph' morgue, two or three drawers have had to bo provided for per In that way the fruits of the sons whose surnames begin with earth, no less than the con- the lotter "K". This has happen sequences of man's toll in their

HOW IT BEGAN.

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cause of personal, disagreements field of human existence we shall and there was the tithe, or tenth kept on are the newspaper writers

between leaders.

VENTILATING THOUGHT,

tion is gratifying, although there remains a great deal more to be done in the same direction.

For example, they indict the Uncountably venerable, and un-publish the rest. speeding-up, which is the salient doubtedly complicated as regards Which reminds us of the littlo feature of latter-day transport, upon which thes are based is girl who visited Happy Valley their legal history, the principle FOOCHOW PROBLEM

and assure us that the rate at delightfully simple. "The labour cemetery with her Mother. She which we are borne in our trains, er is worthy of his hire and if scalmed all the tombstones with- The situation at Foochow is still motor-cara and other vehicles is his fabour is spiritual, to the ex- serious although feelings of alarm making this a nerve-racked age. clusion of work accessary for have been somewhat allayed since Yet, on analysis, we see how material existence, then it becomes last week. The Communists ap feeble is this charge. Which is the duty of those for whom his pear to be in considerable strength, the more soothing, to sit at ease spiritual work is given to provide but the principal factor in their in a comfortable railway carriage that he keeps body and soul to

or rubber-tyred motor-car travel- gether. successes aguiríat the XIXth Army | ling smoothly at 40 to 60 miles is lack of unity. It seems a sad an hour, or to be jolted about in commentary upon the Chinese mili-rattling, springless, slow-moving tary machine generally when two vehicles over rough ground?

production, came under the tell of ed ever since we came to Hong- divisions under the same ultimate

LABOUR-SAVING INVENTIONS, the Church. There was the globe kong. Command lot one another down be-

allocated direct to the use of the

About the only people tag-isn't Again, if we survey the whole incumbent of the parish church;

thomselves. For instance, we can quickly realise how modern in-part, of the yield of the agri- tell you who it was you wore out ventions have greatly ameliorated cultural produce of the rest of the with the other night, while your the disabilities which our fore- land in the parish earmarked as wife was on a holiday in Shanghal, bears had willy-nilly to endure. belonging to him.

In the home, labour-saving' de-

In simpler days, when the entire We could also tell you who your Mental air pockets resulting vices have got rid of 90 per cent. parish-landowners and labourerswife was out with while aho was

in Shanghai.. from the sluggish circulation of of the drudgery of domestic work. lived under the ministrations of

In response to repeated re- ideas are big handicaps to health-No longer is the housewife an old one paraon, and when corn fetched ful thinking. Like a close room woman before she is 40. In the good prices and was the staple in- quests, we have arranged, after The highly healthy state of whose atmosphere is quickly im-science has provided us with Intribute in kind was nothing of a'] directory 'of the writers in Hong industrial and commercial world, dustry of the countryside, this considerable research, a complete

means proved by opening a window at finite

of avoiding the hardship. In its origin, a volun kong. If you don't believe, us, interest to the forthcoming pre-top and bottom, the human men- tedious and agonising labour of tary gift, it had in a very early ask them yourselves. sentation of the Budget not tality needs fresh currents of the bad old days..

stage of English legal history be- KELLY, EDWARD, born and graz- ed in Australia, 1889; edne. Or, and Even in such matters as bodily come compulsory. usual to the annual stocktaking. thought obtained by a kind of gain, which surely

must be the

But its obligatory nature docs Far East; g.on of Edward, notorious bushranger; m. Arabella through no In a year of business depression, cross-ventilation process. Mental greatest of all nerve irritants, not seem to have mattered until fault of his own; waue Peto Watkins, with intensive competition car-ruts and indolent habits of thought medical discovery has endowed us Lime brought other changes with Afrs. Whalesteeth, the Vory Idea

bountifully with palliatives. No greater potentialities of irritation. invented Chit system 1992, abolished ving deeply into the commercial predispose one toward intellectual man, for instance, with tablets at The growing sectarianism of the chit system 1953. Wears black and Recreations: Drinking, profits which might have been stultification. Prevention and cure his elbow need endure a headache countryside cannot have increased tan hoca. made despite smaller turnovers, ofthis unhappy state are both for any length of time; his grand- the cheerful willingness of the sneering at shroffs, drinking," Publi the Treasury has steadily inaccessible to multitudes. The sim-it. And in grave illnesses the tain cases, of tithes into lay hands,

father had usually to grin and bear gift. And the allenation, in cor- catione: "1.0.U."

MACWHIRTER, ROBERT: b. Scot creased its surplus and the bal-ple programme of opening the patient of to-day has a luxurious | mado possible-ns we are told-by land; educ. same place. le dangerous ance on the right side the sixteen million dollar mark.is the only prescription necessary; If revenue continues to come in but it takes persistence to follow, at the same rate, new

through. Wo all tend to become creatures of habit, to take the line will be established, although the of least resistance. Most of us principal factor in the flourish-need to let the currents of fresh ing condition of the Treasury is, ideas sweep away prejudices and of course, the rise in dollar ex- obsolete opinions. change, making possible a great saving in salaries, for instance,

THE COLONY'S BUDGET

the Colony's finances lends an

recorda

docessors.

„NOISIER-BUT EASIER.

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deprived of all sentimental reason 1888. Shouted Edward Kelly such offerings, which thus became drink 1908. Fond of buttermilk, but as impersonal and cold-blooded na consorts with suspicious characters, being member of K.B.G.C. Recrea tions: Bewels, haggots, and keeping eys Publications: on Edward

"Hop Scotch "Freg Beer big otto with knobs on,

True, it must be admitted that a mortgage, oura is a nosier world than IRKSOME IN LEAN YEARS. ever before. The growth of traffic] - - and of factories has produced a But the shoo must have really volume of sound that might be begun to pinch about a hundred expected to be gravely injurious to years ago, when payment in cash the nerves.

took the place of payment in kind. Yot-to-accept-this-boliet would The basis of payment was still be to discount unwarrantably the corn, and the price of corn over a Cross-ventilation of the think-amazing adaptability of the human certain number of years governed Old the amount. In good years the ing processes is mainly a matterrace to changing conditions.

The Once Over Club:

in

"CELLULOID & PREVIEWER” 1. Hollywood Zoo, edus, same place, issue Gold Cups, Bouquets, Raspberrics. (mostly raspberries.); m. Aisender Korda, 1032 div. same pear: leauvig stocking factorian shareholders in scantily dressed film. atara. Raised in l'asces many framed pictures of FM.C.A. "Ford" of fourcayatta

Publications

"Baily who?" Re.

every

film,

moant a substantial bill in tean him, icture shows on

the

free lickets, sleeping. Clubs: II.K.H.,

and several others. PUBLICO 8. 1655 zohan invented; issue: any

18-compared-with-the Budget NEW ANGLES. Estimates. The position is high- ly gratifying but it throws a greater responsibility than al upon the framers of the Budget of viewing things from new angles. and feeble people may find the sum could, no doubt, have been, for 1934. We can look corapin Old subjects of interest take on nolso of modern traffic oppressive, and was, paid without dimculty. cently upon the past and the re- vitality when thus regarded. With-but it is their lack of resiliency But the average process too often mainder of 1933: the future pre- the receptivity of eye and ear to

drawal from the banal, widening that is to blame.

The modern child, born into a years. sents more difficulties and a fore-beauty, diversification of reading, noisy world, sulfers no discomfort Matters came to a head in the PH, BBH. cast of what the Government Interest in the biography of emin from the turmoil. To him or her post-war years, when the anchor- PRO will do is not easy.

What will ent men and women and the cul- it is the natural condition of age to corn as a standard of pay-newspapers

all; b. in Flord ear, the Slaggerack, yield from present taxation con- affairs and world movements con maker makes no complaint of the to the tithepayer as the anchorage happen to the dollar?- Will the, tivation of curiosity about current things. And the riveter, or boiler-jment proved about as calamitous ainavia, just behind the sardine tinue at its present high level? tribute to such ventilation. Toler- din in which he labours.

to gold has proved to the rest of works; has blue eyes. Recreations:

Writing to the

Publica Editor. To sum it up, we have no need the human race. It is true that tionaThe These are two questions which anes for the views of others does

Coal

Dump" "The will be uppermost in

Govern- not imply assent to practices white modern life. It is now smoother abolished anchorage has Water Shortago",

tithe-rent "The Government thers.

"The Dua ment's mind when formulating run counter to cherished funda-modern life. It is now smoother abolished.

mentala, but it is a powerful leay- and easier than ever before, as our charge put at a fixed figure, while chies", ami its proposals for the coruing on in the lump of human discord. predecessors, if they got the a sinking fund has been instituted HISTORICUS & 1888 in Yorkshire, year, and they are not easy to Tolerance is a fresh breeze ahen chance, would be willing to admit, with a view to its redemption in suburb of Lancashire; edue. Bramell answer. It is probably safe to 1.4 into the habitations of thought.

In confirmation one has but to certain instances,

Lane. Invented body-line and button. holes in coats. fond of roses. Publica assume that the dollar will not With all its vast problems, the pre-

tione: lika Moor Baht T'at.", "The go much lower than it is to-day; sent ago offers less excuse than any

Red Rose of No Man's · Land", 1. York. If any pronounced movement which has gone before for leading

whire Puddings". takes place it is more likely too sluggish mental existence. Un be upward than downward. On bounded opportunities for self the second point, it is possible cultivation and improvement per- vade the civilized weld, Hope- to make out a strong case for a fulness is in the air. Across old reduction of taxation based upon ignorances and subjective thinking the figures of falling trade. A move the invigorating winds of review of revenue sources should unselfish desire for better things certainly be undertaken with a for all sorts and conditions of men. the attuno view to affording aomie relief, and these currents where it would do most good. Molian harp of the willing intel- It might even be wise to un- lecl to greater fullness of lying. balance the Budget-permitting

ourselves to remember the ample BETTING surpluses already existing-to secure benefit for the public.

This would not necessarily mean has been heard from official quar, Since its presentation very little any interference with the emer-ters concerning the Rowlatt Com gency taxation imposed when the mission's Report on lotteries and dollar was round the elevenpenny botting. What is its most prob- level-entertainment tax, bet-nble fate? The shelf? Latest in- ting duty and the increase in the formation suggests there is a risk assessment tax are all of the of it; and yet, despite outcry from type which spreads the burden interested quarters, it had many most equitably-but there are good points. Bir. Sidney Rowlatt directions where relief could Le is no bigot, and the Report makes a laudable attempt to distinguish afforded in a way which would two things the indivíduol's do engonder somo-enthusiasm. Asiro to "have a flutter," which it cut in the assessment tax would proposes to let him indulge rather merely mean a bonus to land- more freely than before, and the lords; there are other ways, operations of bodies sooking to poatage rates to mention only exploit this desire for their own one, if those responsible look profit, which it aims at controlling. carefully enough for them. WheWo dislike the proposal to ro strict "totos to horse-racing and ther they will or not depends up refuse them to dog-racing, bo on how they view the very un cause it sayours of class unfair. certain future, with hopeful op nosa, But the proposal to limit all timlem or the customary ultra-race-courses alike to a maximum of cautiousness;

100 openings, a year seemayilear

ve really outgrown those things.

to keep in shape.

playwith:

C.B.

TELEGRAPH EDITOR: b. Shing Atun Dam; educ. Oxford; has been converted to Fasciam; Recreations: Knocking back E. Kelly's applications for rise. Doce not smoke, drink or but has other vices. Plays poker with moderate success, lesing only $30 last month, Cluba: none. (married).

swear;

EARLY BIRD &. 1990 Happy Val- loy, will be buried in same place; privately, edue. Prominent gold-fish ner of reserve the goldfish ing Chips Also has veral goldfisk grifens. Plays mouth organ in secret; recreations: choir singing, catching worms, Sings in his bath Lub. Fought in Bosing Champion ships 1929; came out of hospital 1980, Wears red tice, Jaeger underpants and has been known to swear.

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