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NOTES OF THE DAY

COLONY'S TRADE DECLINE

23, 1933.

I WON'T MARRY A

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SCOTSMAN

By Rita Donald

I love my native land is much as over; the purple hills yearly draw me to their sweet embrace.

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The Very Idea!

LOOKING AT SPORT

By Eddiq "BummyJahn". Kelly WE notice in the papers that a women's cricket team is going to tour Australia this year. Presumably, the Aus trallans will protest against- this fresh Invasion of leg theory, but that is by the way.

in sport. We are, very keen I meet my "depression English-on sports. In fact we are man" and we go to some sociable

The Colony wails in val for a sign of an end to the trade depres- aton, Figures covering Imports and exports for September show

friends hore in England Scots. holding their joba while that the month did not differ from any other month of 1998 in roven- ling a marked falling off in com going to marry and acttle down in "received notice" from which parison with the same month of Scotland. I have just returned you will argue this proves them 1932. More important, the figures from a holiday north of the Tweed to be better men. Not at all.

It proves them to be what they confirm the growing conviction and quite honestly I hope the fates that one of the chief causes of fal-will spin no tartan wedding skeins are greater opportunists, mon,

additional encourage- ling trade is heavily reduced local for me. I have decided that I with greator acumen for assessing WE are glad to see this consumption, undoubtedly due to could not face marriage with their work and fellow-men in hard

terms of money for services ren-ment of girlish participation restricted purchasing power. It is Scotsman now.

dered. a notabla fact that while the Colony's imports declined by nearly $100,000,000 in the first nine months of 1933, the reduction of exports was only about $45,000,000. In other words. Internal consumpday.fills me with scorn, due to the tion was reduced by over $50,000 fact that, after my eight years in 000 in nine months, taking whole the south, I have shed my vine sale prices as the guide. What the gary Scotch prejudice. You see, is; he leaves it to you and you Boys when they defeated the amount would be in terms of retail I was young when I loft Scotland, play your part by deciding on the Reception House... baseball prices it is impossible to compute, and when you catch a Scotswoman moat reasonable Item available. though it is not necessary to go young she will soon noclimatise The times, we agree, will change team by four goals to one. It was a very interesting much further to discover the cause herself to any new scheme of life. some time for the better.

But your Scot with his nost of so nuny fallures of small firms. She is infinitely more flexible than

the Scotsman. Once, a Scotsman egg safe and sound--cannot by game. They were playing base- always a Scotsman and always a the nature of him carry off such a ball and we were playing foot- human thistle, prickly, and on his aftuation with tact. Go to a cine ball.

The difference between base- ma or theatre and it is the verlest guard.

Throughout his life the Scots-lecomfort. You are made self-ball and football is that in base- man remalis plain John McNab of conscious and ill-at-ense by the ball you try how far you can MacNabbery, with his parochial obvious manner ho stops and slide on your own stomach, and ideas only slightly adapted to any weighs up the money to be laid in football you try to silde as far broader plane on which he may out. His "What do you think?" is

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1933.

LOCAL BUS SERVICES

place for a cocktail and to talk. known as a bit of a sport But the young Scotsman of to-Ile knews he cannot afford to do ourself.

things as he would like them to be

We are captain of the old done, so he smilingly does the next best. Together you accept life as Home town Asylum's Old

PURCHASING POWER

The September figures show the truth convincingly, for the reason that trade during the month was not down in quite the same heavy proportion as the average for the year. Exports, in fact, showed a find himself. Whisky, women, the us plain as it can be. You are as you can on someone else's falling-off, as compared with 1932, bagpipes, the bawbee, all retain bound to suggest the cheaper stomach.

We don't think either of them of only $1,700,000. Imports losses their old-time values for him. Boats, or otherwise you feel you

trails behind him are condemning him to a terrible le a good game for girls. Tonnis vere three times as heavy. The Scotland

laparity has long ceased to be a wherever he goes; he can't help and long future of rigid economies.is much better game for our sex In tennis one girl atands on, ond coincidence. It has revealed itself it; his trouble is that he prefers

aide of a not, finger-waving her month after month. There is only it so.

For me the worst feature of all hair with one hand, and holding Increasingly I realise the awful! one conclusion to be drawn; `ns-

Rameness about Scotsmen. It is is the inexorable hold the Scottish the bat, or paddle with the other, the right way and it the right to be ascribed to the cut-and-dried parent has over the son. Daugh- while another girl does the same spirit, the Colony is not quite so family and educational treatment ters are different! If a suitable thing on the other side of the net. helplessly in the grip of outside they all receive, irrespective of sort of person presents himself for One of the girls swipes the ball her hand, why that's all right. In with the paddle, or bat, and it influences as we have been asked class.

England it is the daughter who is goes up in the air, and overybody a dandy Tennis is to believe. One of the most im-

Here in England the wide safeguarded and the son who is portant factors In the existing

a young lines.

The girl who screams loudest Is trade depression is internal and variety of types and minds is allowed to develop along his own

vastly stimulating to

It is strange, but true to the always made the Captain of a therefore capable of responding to woman like myself, as I feel it local treatment. Not that we as-must be to anyone except the logic of Scotland, that the mother girl's tennis club. Of course, the. ticipate that anything will be done. Scotsman, who appears to think, and father (either the one or the girl who scores runs also has a it is the problem provided by the subtly, that it is his prime mission other) should have this great chance.

the accepted immemorial right of submerged nine-tenths cropping up in life to slow down the tempo of ascendancy over their sons. It is

living. again.

the parent, and sub-consciously, no doubt, the sons hope to exercise in turn the same control over their offspring.

PREJUDICE AGAINST JAPAN ?

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That may be a good thing, but I leny that the Scots method of do- ing it is good.

screams. game.

We only ever scored one run at tennis when we were a girl,. and that was in our stocking.. We are far, far better at kick- the-tin and egg-in-the-hat than anybody we know. What we mean I had been told these English

So, if you as a sweetheart do not to say, when we say anybody we were terrible snobs." Let me just note down two points under conform to the parental Idea of know, we mean to say, if there's that head. England bases her what is sultable in a marringe anybody we don't know, we don't As a matter of fact, we got so social system on a triangle plan, worse still, if you have no money know them. with a broad base and an apex as an additional matter of con- Very sound, I discovered, and sideration-the silent propaganda confident after we won the inter honest, admitting the natural in- begins. There will be no clash. port kick-the-tin final that we had earthly chance-unless the young trophies. Twenty-two feet, eix equalities and distinctions among Oh, no! But you just haven't ana sideboard built to hold our man who wants you is right out- inches long it was, and oight feat people.

their side the family circle and its in-wide. It wasn't big enough. The

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men of other countries.

the bottom halt. Very nice young

Hockey Is a game played by girls with thick legs. You have a thick stick with a bend in one end like a banana, and the iden is to bash the shing off the opposing side without tripping over the stick..

Somo Hongkong teams use a

It is a comforting sign that the local bus companies, given an opportunity of replying to their critics, concerned them- selves more with explanations regarding plans for effecting im

Many interesting facts are re- provements in their services. A vealed by exploring between the confession of fault, with definite lines of the Statistical Depart promise of remedies, gives rea- ment's report. It is possible to dis- son to expect real endeavour, cover for instance, that the Colony And with that, the public must is becoming more than ever a cheap rest content for a space, appro- goods market, providing additional ciating that the radical re-confirmation for the suggestion organisation essential needs care that decreasing purchasing power and time for full application, locally looms large among the

The Scotch express Such changes as can be effected causes of the Colony's trade crisis. immediately are, we are told, The Colony is, in fact, absorbing

clan pattern-an All this safeguarding of sons ono we have now we are living in. through the

A young married couple are shar- already prepared for, and the more goods than ever from China theory of social construction fluence.

und less from Europe and the instic circle which never breaks would lead you to suppose that the establishment in Kowloon of a United States, despite the fact school of manners-amusing as that in normal times, the deprecia- no matter how far it is extended. young men of Scotland would being the top half, and we live in Hockey la our foric. We always. it may possibly be to those tions of the dollar and the pound Their snobbishnoss is a madden. infinitely superior to the young couple they are.

ing self-sufficiency.

I am quite safe in saying that wanted to be a champion hockler whose experience has not reveal-would have had an opposite effect.

I had also been clearly told the ed the necessity-shows that the Britain's percentage fell from-13.2 English were immoral. Those the average young man in Scotland when we were young, so that just not entirely per cent. in 1932 to 10.9 per cent.whom I have met have not appear has progressed morally no further proves to you that the wish is

father to the forte, managements are nonplussed by the chaos into in the first nine months of 1953. ad so; or, at worst, their pecca-since the days of Robert Burns.

My sympathy goes out. to the which the services threatened to China's share increased to 29.4 per dilloes have not been profoundly fall. The companies have stated cent. largely, be it noted because wicked. At any rate, they do not wild and wanton poet, I must hud- their case very plainly and in the piece-goods field Britain has smugly trouble to cover them up. mit. His case has never been pro- Your Scat remains dou? (pro-perly understood and can to-day although it is not possible to been ousted, not by Japan, but by agree with their views on all Shanghal. Japan's piece-goods im- nounced doorrr) about his past life be duplicated a hundredfold. Who points, the interviews have ports were 8.8 per cent. of the total, and you are left to imagine that wouldn't react violently against

Britain's 26.0 por cent, and Shang- he is the most blameless person all those family embargoes?

Only last week I discussed the cleared up misapprehensions and hai's 40.1 per cent. As far as thus who ever lived. You ace, he wants placed the situation in a little Colony is concerned, the figures to have the advantage of a good point with a Scotsman down from better light from the viewpoint seem to confirm our contention that character, or, at least, the name Dundee for a long week-end. He ball as well, but this is just

told me the "attitude" his parents putting on side. of the Licensees. It was, for much of the condemnation of for one.

Your young Englishman, I find, took towards his girl friends, but, instance; generally believed in Japanese duinping has been largely

comes out of the fog of all this he added, "I don't tell them any Kowloon. that the diversion of attributable to prejudice.

trade depression for mere pleas-thing and, when they want to the No. 8 route from the Star

ingly than your Scotsman. Why? know where I've been I just tell

(Continued on Page 5.) Ferry to the Vehicular Ferry

I see around me in London young was the decision of the com-

America's move towards the re pany; it now seems that the diversion was the responsibility cognition of the Soviet comes rather of Government. The weight of later than expected. Mr. Franklin criticism rested upon the ob- Roosevelt has been slower in action vious fact that the route could in this matter than in most other problems that have come before never pay and was of little prac-| him in a hectic eight months as tical value, that it caused acute president of the United States. congestion of the No. 7 route, Now the decision to invite negotia- buses usually being full before tions has been taken, however, they reached their second main nothing will be allowed to stand in feeding point, Homúntin. It the way; there is nothing that can loses much point in the face of crop up which will be regarded as the explanation, although to sullleiont importance, compared, gether with the representations that is, with the trade aspect of the being made by the Company, it question. Suggestions that there should convince the authorities is some secret connexion between that some modification of the the approach and the Russo- schedule requirements on the Japanese tension are bound to be made by those who persistently No. 8 route can be permitted look for the nigger in the woodpile. without serious damage to the Such rumours may be dismissed. cause of adequacy. We could as so much nonsonso, if they invite not, of course, support general the inference that the Russo- resistance by the companies to Japanese crisis has influenced the maintenance of reasonable United States. Certainly it may schedules on specified routes instil extra eagerness in the Soviet merely because they are not to complete the negotiations, but profit-making. Their task is to that is all. Mr. Roosevelt Is. ques- provide passenger transport ting, for a trade outlet. facilities for all; in Kowloon," the

entire responsibility rests with

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U.S. AND THE SOVIET

the bus company and they must the whole, however, the attitude naturally take the good with the of the companies may be re- bad, the heavy profit-making | garded as satisfactory and the routes with those established explanations given should intro- purely for public service Here duco a better spirit. It cannot again, it may be questioned be denied that there has been whether the Kowloon Bus Com-some antagonism between public pany is on the right tuck in and companies, but the root plotting out a scheme for exton-cause has been inefficiency. If sions in the New Territories. performance in botterment ap When its oxisting services are in proaches nearly to promise, we truly shipshape order will it bo do not believe that the accusa- time to consider extensions. Ontion of prejudice will hold good.

"But wo sont presents for her first four babies, We can't just stop now."

A sport we never did care for was rowing. We went off rowing after we heard about the girl who acut!. went out for a row and broke her

We expect to be picked for the Interport hop-scotch. team this

year.

After the final game last season, the crowd gave us an ovation. A lovely big one, it was, with our name engraved on it.

We may also nominate for the suck' race. We are pretty good at sack races. Every time our boss looks at us we know we are" in front.

Well, well, we must be getting along now. Hendecho will be homa shortly, and the boy hasn't got the meat on yet. If over any of you. girls need a masseur, drop in any time except washing days and Saturday afternoons. Adios (Spanish),

MORE PLACE. NAMES ANDOVER. Your life or your

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HULL. Prefixed by "Oh" means "Drat it."

DUNDEE. A finished Capital.

CHIPPENHAM

parted pig..

Tensing de-

BOTHWELL Refers to mother and child.

NEWPORT, A fresh bottle.

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SOAP LEASED Somebody made a mistake the other day, and called the Telegraph on the telephone, then enquired: "Is that the Observatory?" Now: we have the brightest and beat littlo operator, always courteous," and always ready with a reply. But this time her sense of humour was good and her answer was this: "Yes, Sir." Then a dialect tongue that was hard to decipher naked i "How about a shower to-night?" "Fine idea," replied our telephoge girl, "Take one if you want it and uso plenty of soap."

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