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IT'S CHESS TOO BAD

Best- My talks with the doctors show- tagu Norman to be foking in his NEURASTHENIA

roata... paychasthenia of serious nerve disturbances aro

ed that at the back of any number W notice that, now that winter is coming, recent comment upon the shifting hypochondria... like a dreadful fears as numerous as they are the Hongkong Chess Club is scenes at Washington. To-day discord of clanking chains these groundless ... ridiculous fears. oven those on the spot find diffl-names occur with dismal frequency chimera belonging to the getting out its boards and culty in following the movements. In the grand crescendo of modernim torrain of childhood before blowing the dust off its

reason began to exert its dominion over the growing mind. If the eyes are taken off the stage th

swiftness of the movement.

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. fear,

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1933.

PERFORMING RIGHTS

for as much as the proverbial Foreshortened Into "norves," minute, the picture has changed they, become the password that

Fear is the dynamic force bahind almost beyond recognition by the ushors an over-lengthening pro- time a

a huge number of nerve cases, second glance is taken. cession of distrait human beings was told. It zigzags through hu Things actually accomplished are through consulting-rooms, nurs man society like black lightning. being overlooked because of the Ing-homes, hospitals, health clinics, unseen but enormously powerful confessional boxes, divorce courts. paralysing the health, the happi-

Nerves... nerves.... nervosness, the efficiency of millions. and things like that, and our .... the disease of our age; the drives men to drink, women

It sets the mob howling. It only regret is that it didn't stay eurse that civillantion has put on drugs, breaks up homes. the brow of wilful man; the heavi the paychic fiction that so many

Chess pieces consist of sixteen eat, the costliest social burdon of mistake for hard fact: the "long

shadow that, logically, in always pieces, of which a vast majority there.

are pawns, Pawns cannot do Among the flagrantly many The doctors declared that auy anything except get in the way ever revealed in the number of rules of sensible living-not enough very valuable to the opponent until people for whom the aun la always good quality steep ("Balm of hurt he has captured them. partly in eclipse, for whom exist-minds,,, chief nourisher in life's ence te one long wrestling-match feast"); dietary ignoranca and The queen is the big shot in with dork powers in little Gethse-abuse, over-indulgence; neglect of chess, being much more powerful the prime virtues of fresh air and than the king, just as in real life. manos of their own.

not nearly so high in the list as is exercise; over-work-with this last A queon can move all over the board commonly supposed.

without warning, and usually docs. The object of the game is to capture the king and finish the fracas in time for a late dinner. Beginners at choss are inclined to be impatient and take only Afteen minutes to think up a move. You can't get anywhere by rushing through lika. that.

BANK CONTROL

Look, for example, at some of the implications behind some of the recent trends of the NRA.

has authorised the Roconstruction Finance Corporation to plunge in to the banking business with any thing from two to four millions of moucy to "invest." Exactly where will the old American banking | system bo when offorts are made What is the story behind the to square accounts. In addition, mounting graph of nervous illness? there aro- to be noted the definite When the case-books of the twen- support for organised labour, and tleth century are dug up from the the vast network of, price-fixing, ruins of Harley-streat a thousand profit-stabilising and consumer-years on, what will they disclose protecting devices which seem de- to the peering, attentive professors stined to become a permanent of that time?. part of American institutions..

NOT SATISFIED

What subtle disharmonies in the soul of man, circa 1938, will they roveal?

Interest the recurrence of cortain

The medical historians of the future will probably note with catchwords taken from our current And still President Roosevelt is neuropathy. Yesterday it was satisfied. This is chiefly inferiority complex." To-day it calculations la "conflict." To-morrow a new far one may be lifted from the Italic studded dictionaries of paychology: Schizophrenia.

human

not because

fall ef probable effects short in the result mainly because they fail to take account of the human element. Advanced theories will always meet with resistance aufficient to damage if

The penalty of any of theso obvious sins can be severe; and many there be that have paid it.

Each of the authorities I talked with had his own theory, his own path of research; each sold that there is still a great deal about "nerves" that cannot at present be adequately explained.

Good chess players are named Ca- sabllewitz and things like that, But, thinking back over my talks They come from the Balkans and with them, I recall that there open the game with the Queen's seemed to be a general note of Gambit Declined. This is a varia- fogically known as man's will to castles shifting instead of the ond. agreement on what is psychotion of the Aw Boon play with the power that over-ruling passion to We do not know why they always outshine one's fellows, which, in decline this, but they do. We go extremes, peoples the wards of them one better by declining to mental hospitals with pathetically comic Napoleons and Queen Vic-| play at all. torias.

The descent upon Hongkong the Performing Rights Society is interesting to the average person mainly as an illustration of the extent to which official control is exercised over almost every human action not destroy the plans of their survey of the flowing tide of not; the damage is done when we which move catty-cornered. They

advocates. The President therefore, continually forced further experiment and is now

I had not heard it until a day or two ago I went among the medical magi as a preliminary to this brief and no doubt daringly inexpert psychic unhappiness.

aro

You ought to know something about the other plecss. Like the We all want to be what we are bishops, for instance. The bishops nondescript-looking things aspire-and perspire-to be what'

cannot go by a red light. Tha we never can be.

There is the artist who day. castles, on the other hand, move The knights are called knights dreams that ho is a genius; when sidewise, which is very illogical. scores deep, comprising a pallid, singer who cannot understand why

ments than real ones. They go two- tight-lipped army, chanting as its she is no prima donna; the hurably are even crazier in their move-

18, I gathered that it denotes a state to of mind formerly labelled even leas prettily. I also gathered that the

and impulse. It seems next to impossible these days for an individual to be responsible for any sort of action affecting a finally committed to the Com- ranks of the schizophrenes are now he is simply a good craftsmann; the because thoy look like horses and

second party without the exist-modity

that such

Dollar. The

fret

n. revolution in the

be a lender.

ence of a legal enactment govern-pectacular contribution to the marching song an adaptation from born wife who longs to be "à lady" squares in one direction and one in thesis falled badly. It took lean Wordsworth: "The world is too the inept politican who in crazy to another or vice versa, 'not having ing it in some fashion or

much for us."

To all these, and many others, the sense enough to cut across and con- other. No-one enn fairly cavil than a week to prove convincingly

shock of finding that the cup of serve their energy. at the object of the Performing basis of currency could not be ed the source of a vast deal of with disappointment often supplies sion to be derived from chess. We For there you have (I discover-life is well and truly running over There is great intellectual diver- ! Rights Society; some protec-

tion for the authors of musical achieved without some reference nerve misery the basle disinclina-the last kick that sends them into are sure of this, because it gives to the international aspect. An- tion of the individual to face reality the fantastic world of dreams us a headache. There is nothing works is obviously necessary if other hasty jump only demonstrat- and his failure to indulge In the where they can indulge, unchecked, like intellectual diversion. they are not to end their days ined that the need for re-examina-others to skip over or dodge round dominion, and power.

nimble acrobatic feats that enable their fatuous longing for majesty, poor law institutions; although tion still existed.

the rocks, pot-holes, and what not Are the doctors (you ask) declar- that bestrew man'a road down the ing war, then, on ambition?

some resentment may be felt.

at the termination of a long

Unsuspectingly, valuable

a

ages."

self-disciplina

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An argument in favour of the game is that the pieces make lovely playthings for the, baby

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war with society. aisympathethoy are increasingly emphasising ticularly as the cost of the collec-

tío handling in adolescenco... perhaps,

that ambition must be logically tion of fees-presumably the ob-

contribution towards certain of the more violent kinds of directed and impelled by motives religious influence.. lack of which do not impose such dians jective-is likely in a small place world recovery may have. been

all these, Itrous strains and stresses on the like Hongkong to cancel out the made. The pegging of the dollar found, are down in the physicians' personality. prospect of any worth while and the pound would be one of the black-list as making for much sub To sum up: Nearly all fune-

Let's see, now. Ho can have bounty to musical composers and best guarantees of stability insequent suffering under the head-tional nervous disorders are cur- "Perleeze, Mr. Hemingway" "Pink

ing of "nerves"

able, and a great majority are Elephants," "She Was Only Bene- authors. Such considerations these difficult days. "Senator

Given these conditions, or some proventable.

body's Daughter," "My Boop-oop- will not weigh with the Society. Pittman sees in the developments of them, together with various The doctors are gradually casting-doop Doesn't Mean Boop-oop-a- The Colony's broadcasting ser- the prospect of the permanent factors of Il-health, and you are a out the devils haunting this genera- doop" and "Here Lies Love. Yos, vice may suffer; cafe proprietora stabilisation of currencies and a fairly sure candidate for the grey tion, in travail with its nerves, so and we'll also, throw in 'Stormy with loud-speaker installations return to the gold standard by all brotherhood of the nerve-wrecked that those who come after may be Weather" for good theasure.

They all belong to our neigh- may have a problem to think nations, and he may not be far

bour, over; but it seems that the wrong. But it will not be a re- Colony must pay and look a turn to the gold standard as understood in pre-war days; that pleasant as it possibly can about easy to judge. The difficulty is the payment, even while feeling to foresea in exactly what final doubtful whether any real bene-form an internationally accepted fit will accrue to anyone as a monetary standard will emerge result of the innovation. The from the present chaos.

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VICE VERSA

Speaking of records, one of our favourities la "The Voice in the Old Village Choir." And speak ing of vices reminds us of an ex- perience we had at Homo once,

In case you don't know it we wore a bit of an amateur carpenter in our quiet way. Nothing much, you know, only when it came to knocking down the old fowl House and building a nihy one, we had the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank contractors licked to a frazzle. We may have occasionally dropped a hammer on somebody's head, but we didn't drop five-ton lumps of masonry.

We were cured of carpentering when wo went Into a hardware shop one day, and approached the lady behind the counter.

"Have you any vices" we asked her confidentially,

We have ofton wondered why she slapped our face.

HOLLYWOODN'T

Things are so bed in Hollywood that one girl has had to part with her wedding rings,

A MAX FACTORY

We are told that women used to paint their faces in the Middle Ages. They still paint their faces in the middle agee..