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NOTES OF THE DAY HOW ITALY

THE SOCIAL PROBLEM

of

mass

It hardly needed the report of iho Society for the Protection of Children to bring realisation the vast problems of social endeav our, that exist in this Colony to challenge the European commun- Ity. The problems of industrial injustice, the problems of mass Illiteracy, the problema of poverty, and the traffics that prey waxing fat in the atmosphere thereby crented cannot, even in the ordinary dally run, escape the attention of those who do. not deliberately shut their eyes. The value of the S.P.C. report is that It marshals concreto cases in a form which reveals more vividly than any specially written treatise the deplorable conditions that prevail and refuses to permit the Government to indulge the habits of the ostrich.

OVERCROWDING

FOUND UNITY

By "SENTINEL"

The Very Idea!

THIS RADIO EVIL

By Eddie "Marconi" Kelly

Na ship which carried

One doctor, a man's life

structions received by wire- was saved recently by in-

During the recent water shortage, which some of you.

M that the Fascist Revolution reader's), which is the very sou MOST Englishmen still think elpline," as Mr. Munro warns his was merely a reaction against post of Fasciam, is manifcatly a spiri-less from a doctor. War Communisin and International tual legacy from the Rome that, Socialism. They believe it was an by ruling itself came to rule the

This is nothing new; nel- ending in the overthrow of affair of cudgets and castor oil, world. The Italian word connotes

Par-"self-respect combined with the ther is it clever. It even liament and the seizing of power orderly unselfish behaviour as an Imay be positively dangerous. by a Dictator of the Extreme outcome of an educated sense 01 In similar circumstances we Right. This widespread miscon- one's responsibilities to society." ception has been crystallised in an It.is humaniem in action, within once operated on our grand-

epigram to the erroneous

effect and without an ideal which is na father. that, if Lenin had not been, Blus- remote from Oriental obsequious- solini would never have Arisen. nesa as from the riotous individu- All sorts and conditions

of do-alism which la a social peril in the

West, cinliste in this country, acting on

may remember, our grand- the dangerous adage that the end

The chapters In which the in- father was sporting on the Fan- justifies the meana, have thought it possible to reap political advantage tricate history of Italy from the ling golf course when he fell for themselves by representing the achievement of independence down and broke his wish bone." "Corporate State" established by (Garibaldi's laconic obbedisco in

He was picked up and towed the Duce as a personal and paraly reply to his newly-found King's sing tyranny. And this absurd order, for to march Into the Tren-homo by the ambulance, to the belief. is actually accepted by many tino was a truly Roman act of dis- great delight of Inspector Lane, Conservatives who ought to know|ciplína) to the entry into the Great who regarded our grandfather as better.

War are miracles of brilliant con- the bugbearer of his life and had elseness. Ho can make a Tacitean frequently toad him (our grand- phrase at need and, a still rarer father) home himself. (the Ins gift, prefer taciturnity when it la|pector). more to the point;:

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The poor old gentleman lay on a bed of pain for weeks. Which,

In almost every disclosure-con- What seems un-English may not cerning the tragedies of poverty be un-Italian. That the first lesson to be learnt from Mr. 1. 3. and overcrowding can be found a pointer towards the need for Munro's survey of the works and which is the Government action, withheld.doings of Fascism

ripo product of many years of The failure of Italian Parlia-If you don't mind us Intruding There are, for instance,

keen observation and reflection. mentarianism, an ephemeral phase thene intimate details, seriously the Colony governing housing it is the first treatise the sub of sixty years in two thousand of Interfered with his occupation, conditions which are specifically ject which, written with a sym-, social history, Is brought home to Javhich was a taipan.

Inws in

character gives us a complete and of Giovanni Giolitti, "A specialist

room.

|designed to prevent overcrowd-pathetic understanding of Itaian us by his deftly-drawn character He was a self-made man, but ing, and which are never enforced.coherent picture of the "Buckshirt In party warfare, he jockeyed the like all our talpana ho had hla Іп ono case quoted by the

Revolution" in its origin and de- Centre parties to his will and little idiosyncrasies, which he kept Society, a family of seven were velopment, principles and doctrine, exercised a virtual dictatorship in a small bowl in the dining- occupying a single bed-space on applications and mechanism. Mr. over the Italian people with a a floor where, in one room, seven Munro adopts the historicni method, severity scarcely exceeded in Fas- families lived in four cubicles living up to his pretatory quota cist times. But his outlook was and six bed-spaces, And Gov- tion: "Let us study these things; that of a shrewd electioneering ernment, knowing the facts, the observing the state of times past, agent. Parliament was his chess conditions and the perils, nc- the doings of men, their govern board, and the game was office... newly-developed Arca on the deavours; so that we may discern whose Liberalism bartered away Praya East Reclamation into a and Judge rightly of things pre- all its principles in the market of similarly health-wrecking rabbit-sent, and foresee wisely things to compromise." warren. The official excuse is that action would inflict hardship, because the probem is economic- the people who live under such conditions do so because they can-

Hongkong Telegraph. quiesces in the conversion of the ance, their counsels and their en-He was the master of a Centre

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1933.

not afford better,

EDUCATION

elforta

to raise the

come."

Anyway, he wouldn't let any doctors near him, which hurt us more than it hurt him, as we were his solo heir. This was, another of his little foibles, and in addi- tion he was also a Pacifist. Ho onco offered to buy a

naval conteen from the Army, gind because they rejected his applica- tion he could never afterwards That has been the doom of stand any mention of war. He Liberalism all the world over! hated the Army and Navy so much Mussolini, when he appeared above that he used to spend hours on the political horizon, becoming the the Praya poking his tongue out at

to

In a preliminary chapter on the "Tangled Udyssey" of the fate of the Italian people after the fall of the Roman Empire, when they dictator of revolutionary Socialiam the battleships in the harbour, were divided among themselves by 1914, wan to Giolitti as a meteor Where the devil were we? under shitting multiplicity of

a candle-flame flickering in (You were about to operate en foreign masters, he shows how every breath of opinion. English your grandfather.) Yes. Well, we patriotic idenia Burvived to

critics are too apt to forget the made arrangements to have expressed first in the Risorgimento, carlier episodes in the Duce's instructions broadcast fro KZRM, finally in Fascism. Dante, the first apostle of Italian unity, soned eleven times for his political kong doctors. Having thoroughly amazing careor. He was impri-Manila, not trusting the Hong- peared at a time when the political iconoclasm, in Berne, Lausanne, sterilised the Bx0 and other disintegration of Italy was most Geneva, Trent, Forli, and other instruments, we laid our grand- complete. He kindled a watch-fire of patriotism, which became a con- places, "and every time," he told father out on the table and turned

Emil Ludwig,. "It was the same on. the radio. flagration more than five centurica Interval of repose that I would later when the successful fight be not have given up of my own free is below the waistline." Which "The appendix," said the radio, gan for Italy's freedom,

will." In auch Intervals That is why the tenth year of

of en was a bit tricky as our grandfather forced reflection he must have the Fascist Revolution, really the worked out his plan for the recon-

had no waistline. explosive endlog of an age-long cillation of Socialism-and-Nation evolution, was celebrated by analism then so vehemently opposed.

act of homage before, Dante'a tomb at Ravenna. On that occasion

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the left side."

"Make an incision low down on

We did this.

BRITAIN AND MR.

ጎ DE VALERA

Politely, but firmly, the British Government has refused to be drawn into a controversy

The Government, nevertheless, with Mr. de Valera as to what it contributes practically nothing might or might not do in the towards

standard of living in the Colony, event of the Irish Free State

Its educational policy, which proclaiming a Republic. Pre- should be an important factor, 18 ferring to regard such a pos-purely negative. Of the large sibility as purely hypothetical, Auma devoted to education in the Colony, the bulk goes towards the it does not feel called upon to creation of office clerks; the define its attitude in advance.elementary education which would Mr. de Valera has sought to read do much to improve social con into a recent speech by Mr. tions, by giving the offspring of the poverty-stricken at least ari Thomas an implication, which it opportunity to better themselves: could not possibly contain, that is largely denied, the entire those Cantos of the "Divine Come- On that occasion he defined his education effort being expendeddy, which deplore the unnatural industrial policy. "By work," he Britain might be prepared to on a secondary standard in the divisions of Fourteenth-Century said, "le moant that of the produc- this also. "Bo aure," it went on agree to the Free State setting interests, often, of individuals Italy and recall the power of Im-tive middle classes and working to get your shoes from the

And then,.. up a Republic quite independent who could well afford to pay more perial Rome, were duly declaimed. classes bf town and country. No Shanghai Shooory." of continued association with the for the better standard of educa- There are distinct, if distant, echoes privileges to the former and no very harshly, it said, "Beat up the of Dante's prophetic conception of privileges to the latter; but the white or an eggt Remove the Crown. His endeavours to show

Rome as a preordained world-protection of all interests that appendix. Cover with finely that the Free State is being kept

power, as well as of the practical harmonise with those of produce grated cheese. The hands should within the British Common-

statesmanship of Dante's fellow-tion and of the nation." Here is bo thoroughly rubbed with lemon countryman, Machiavelli, in Musso- the germ of the Corporate State, juice. Then out popped the little wealth by force, and not of its

Mini'a historic speeches. From which Is founded on (1) a basic bunny rabbit three times a day own free will, are too absurd to At the same time, nothing effec- Machiavelll the Fascist leador charter of rights for all employees, before meals and garnished with call for refutation. The legal tive is done to prevent or check learnt the truth of the saying that (2) the enrolment of every worker lettuce. The patient should be sweated labour. The S.P.C. speaks no prophet in the world's history of whatsoever kind, whether em- kept in a warm place and well COMING position has been made quite of a woman earning $10 a month, has ever succeeded in realising his ployer or employce, in an appro- corked."

clear by Mr. Thomas's latest which after paying rent, left her ideals without an army, Dante and priate Syndicate, and (3) the legal "What the hell are ye doin'!" statement, for, as he rightly with $6 to provide food and Machiavelli, no doubt, wore the recognition of these Syndicates by said our grandfather.

clothing for five persons, and it first Fascists. adde; "Although it is recognised that the giving of relief in cases

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SWEATED LABOUR

"Place the hands on the head and awing backwards and for- wards from the hips." We did

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of this nature might possibly re- adequately rendered by our "dis- scale." sult in enabling employers further to exploit sweated labour, it is also realised that there are hun- in the Colony dreds of women

points out, the 1921 Treaty settlement was approved by the Free State Parliament and sub- sequently confirmed at the General Election. No amount of quibbling will alter that fact. who would be glad of steady em- In point of fact, of course, Mr. ployment at $10 a month." The de Valera knows the position challenge is there, but the more quite well; he is not quite so such facts are brought to light. the more the conviction is Im- obtuse as he pretends to be. He pressed upon us that the exposure knows, also, the alternatives. merely wasted effort, that the

best that can be hoped for is tha They are simply summed up-

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problem. decision to withdraw there- from. There is no halfway

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house; no room for compromise.within it by force. Yet at the It is up to the people of the Free same time there is wide scope State to make the cholce. If for diversity of outlook, based they decide for secession, they on a degree of freedom which

Empire the

unique must, automatically lose their makes

political creations. rights as people of the British amongst Empiro. They cannot have it There is room within the Com- both ways-repudiation of allo-monwealth for each and all, Toy.giance to the Crown and reten- given a disposition to recognise tion of the privileges which they a common link and a desire to. now enjoy. To talk, as Mr. de serve a common. end. If the Valera does, of the Free State rish Free State leaves the Em- being in danger of aggression, pire, it will be of its own choos is so much sheer nonsense. Theng. But we imagine that even whole structure of the British Mr. do Valera will hesitate be Commonwealth rests on mutual fore taking a step which, ho willingness amongst its com- must know, would be equivalent. ponent parts to maintain" their to giving up the bone for the free association. No unit is kapt shadow.

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You know, Berths, I don't mention it often, but I was pretty

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"South China have just boen awarded a penalty, and don't forget that Hongkong Beer is the

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It was then that we began to think that there was something wrong with the wireless. Hastily throwing a shoot over our grand- father we went 'and examined it. Our gridleåker was short-circuited with the revolving gamle plate, thus disconnecting the directional gyratory gibbler, causing the Bougging fap.to fuse, We switch- ed the thing off and went back to our grandfather, who was pacing- up and down the room in a great

rage.

There he was, covered with grated cheese and breadcrumbs, wringing the lemon juice out of his whiskers.**

"What the devil am I going to do with this?" he shouted, holding out his appendix.-7.

"Let us stitch you up before something else falls out," we said. "Bo damned to you," bellowed

"Gimme grandfather.

our

safety-pin."

Well, we won't weary you with all the

man recover Put the old gentle."

and now goes every day on his tricycle to meet the Star Ferry, How awfully Jolly1 Yes, and what's more, he wears his appendix de a watch fob. You don't tell.ual: Yes.

Excuse us, we smell something. burning.

TIPPED

And then there was the Scots- man who ordered asparagus and: left the walter a tip."-