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24253 42nd Street

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24365 Are you making any money

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Ah, but is it love

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Be Careful

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54511 The Day you came along.

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NOTES OF THE DAY

ALFONSO'S VISION

Talk of the possible restoration of King Allonso to the throne of

Spain is based more upon bellef in the adage that history repeate itself than upon manifestations o public foting In that much-tried

country. It is easy to recall that sixty years ago, an carlier Ro- public was proclaimed in Spain, that it falled and that Alfonno's father, Don Alfonso XII was in vited to return. Doubtless some of his faithful courtiers persist in holding that vision before the present exile. It is likely to be long time, however, before Alfon- so makes a grand entry down the Gran Via in Madrid, with bells pealing, bands playing, flowers ba.. ing tossed, ladies waving their mantillas and grave Dons lifting their sombreros."

PRETTY PICTURE ·

COMING DOW

THE

A PEC The Very Idea!

By SISLEY HUDDLESTON

entertainment in a chateau my difficulties have vanished_as of Northern France was of the though by magic." beat. I and my fellow guests duly admired the beautiful sixteenth century rooms, and. the splendid decorations, which included price less Gobelins tapestries.

He went on to tell me how his

THE COMING YEAR

By Auld Eddle Kelly, Syner,

E were going to write

Wa retrospect to-day of

Besides, said the Editor nastily, this is a respectable newspaper.

With the New Year less than - case of H.K. beer away, this is the time to write about the future..

house, his servants, his motorcar, our life in Hongkong during and the luxuries which he had the past twelve months, but We visited the charming old been well able to afford for fifteen

there are so many intimate world garden, and strolled by the years, had become his master.

They had set a financial mark details that we think our canal, and took our case in the huge park of stately trees, and for him which he was, in changed public would prefer us to

unable to roach. played golf on the private links, conditions, and even went a little way into Henco he became anxious and look ahead to 1984. the privato wood which is a gama distraught. preserve and which extends for His work suffered, and he was ten milea,

actually making less than he One of the guests said to me: would have made had he not felt "How foolish of him to try to keep himself obliged to make more. this place up! He is already *Then one fine day," he went ruined, but if he closed this cost-on, "a light broke in on me. I ly house he could still save some suddenly saw that nothing com thing and go off somewhere to pelled ma to chase the impossible live quietly with his wife and because it had once been possible. be nothing left.",

vants and takon a small flat. I know that he would hang on.

"The rollef is unbelievable. In foretell? What will happen when, People nearly always insist on stead of being worried, I am now on May 6, 1934, Mercury will be keeping the rank to which they cheerful. Instead of having a in conjunction with Glucoso? are accustomed, no matter how grave deficit, I have now more What but enough of these their circumstances change. No money than I really need. In-

questions! thing is harder than to come down stead of earning less, I am earn- ing more. As soon as I find that The incident made me think I can open the house again I will about the situation of many do so. But I am not going to be people I know, who have been bit- Its slave." torly hit by the unprecedented | That seemed to mo to be crisis of recent years.

What, you ask, does 1984 hold

It is a pretty picture, perhaps, i family. If he hangs on thoro will So I have given up house and ser for me? What do the stars

A peg.

but the latest information seems to indicate that talk of restoration is quite premature. The situation is not difficult to understand. In 1931, after the republic was pro- claimed,

olected A Cortes was whose main task was to supply Spain with a republican constitu- tion. This done, it was expected to resign and allow a new Cortes to be elected. But nothing of the Bort happened. Under Senor Azana, Premier for neatly two years, the Cortes continued in ses- sion. After the alliance of his THE REVERSE OF THE PICTURE. Action Republican party with

There are a number of cases in other radical parties the Socialists ruled the roost. A stream of lawa which the revenue has been re- Statoduced not by twenty-five per cent. was passed. Church and

The Jesuits but by seventy-five. Yet out. were separated. were driven out Teaching was wardly they live as before, and

the hands of the cannot help thinking that that taken out of

result must be disaster. and priests

nuns. Labour changes were set up to take care of the workers. The estates of the grandees were expropriated. But, to the general dismay, a law for the defence of the republic was passed and under this news- and were suppressed politicians arrested. It looked

de Rivera.

Cx-

In simple, non-technical langu- age, so that even the Editor of the Telegraph can understand us, we are going to give our 1034 pro dictions. Thus, at one sweep, wo will get in. our article before all the economists who will say that (a) the world is doomed (b) wa mapyare on the road to recovery (c) seen the dollar will rise (d) the dollür

sensible view. But it is accep- tional, How many tales of woe I have latened to how haggard faces have I caused by the general reluctance to come down a peg or two!

Everything would be well if the standard were slightly lowered; everything la wrong because the standard is looked upon as ordain- ed and unalterable."

No one should, through fear of the future, abandon a position WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1933.

which he has built up and can sustain. No one should start There are all kinds of reasons cutting down his exponditure which operate: WHAT'S WRONG

without real necessity. Indeed, it There is an unjustifiable acnae is a duty to society as well as to of personal humiliation, as though WITH THE SCHOOLS ?

oneself to keep all the wheels rehe individual were responsible In spite of the increasing at. Very much like the days of. Primo volving and to try to set other for a regression

papers

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SPAIN'S UNREST.

INCLINE TO RIGHT

to

4

more

on

wheels in motion.

la uni-

will fall (0) Eddie Kelly will pay us this month (f) Eddie Kelly wit never pay us (g) there will be a water shortage (h) there won't be a water shortage, and so on, down to Zed,

The Coming Year

JANUARY—Arrangements for the opening of the Now Year aro so well in hand that no fears of s postponement need be entertain- ed. Early in the month the moon will rise in opposition to Uranus, and the sun will act in the westi New Year resolutions will be broken all over the world.

which vorsal, But the other side of the picture There is a vain desire to show deserves some attention. Where those with whom one comes in sun will be inaudible at Hongkong FEBRUARY-The eclipse of the there is a really serious diminu-contact an immunity from the and, due to misprint in 1984 tion of means and there has vicissitudes of human existence.

calenders, there will be only 28 been such a diminution, parti

Keeping up with tho Jonesca days in this month. Friendly in- cularly for professional men and was an American slogan.. What-ternational relations will be of an those who depend on investments over the Joncees could afford, amicable nature.

It is surely suicidal to hold to their neighbours must possess. fictitious appearances through And even though the Joneses are foreseen happened this will be

mero pride.

now poor, everybody ·ís ashamed I know one instance in which | of going down with the Joneses. the consequences were tragie.

WHEN THE CRISIS CAME,

When one has lived on a certain level for, say, twenty years, one comes to regard it almost as a law

Once I knew a very rich man who could not buy drink for

When the crisis came, the man now with excessive liabilities. I with the overhead charges and no have been utterly miserable in margin was eventually obliged to the vain attempt to make ends transform utterly his situation; meet. Happily, I have now re-whereas the man with the margin solved to start all over again, and (Continued on Page 5.)

MARCH.-Unless something un-

the third month in the year. Shroffs will be unusually active, following rumours that Eddie Kelly is due for a rise, Monthly trade returns will be issued by the Hongkong government.

APRIL and MAY.—Estimates for

keen competition. If no rain falls up to the end of these months, à water shortage will exist in Hong- kong..

July.

to on-way

lar in many respects to July. AUGUST.-August will be si

tention which is being given to education in England, a strong and widespread feeling exista that there is something radical- Spain wearled of Its Cortes.. It ly wrong with a system which had gone too fast and too far. turns out young people "educat- The people wanted breathing ed" in some respects, but with space during which

con done. out a sufficiency of practical structive work could be knowledge to equip them for the There were widely varied causes stern realities of life. In parti- of dissatisfaction. Business men cular, the secondary schools, and resented interference. The trade depression, prevalent all over the even some of the public schools, word, was test severely and the are said to be failing in their workers found that the republic essential tasks. Recently we had not provided a heaven published a striking criticism earth. The peasants of the south

The republic had no of Nature that one must continue himself, and who sponged shame the Transit of Venus will reveal along these lines by Colonel | wore angry,

fully on his friends. Yet he was Loftus, Headmaster of Barking intention of giving them the ex- to live on that level.

was to bo Certainly the struggle should truly a rich man, and he was not Abbey School, who was at pains propriated land. to show that England's educa- rented to them. Loyal sons of the not be abandoned without good a mean man,

Church did not like the radical | reason; but a plain balance-sheet tional system is not producing measures taken against it. The should be drawn up from time to had put everything into the osten

What had happened was that he results in any way commensurwomen, who swayed-the-vots In time, and the prospects-ba-regard-tatious signs of wealth. He spent the Liquor Traffic

„JUNE.—A_movement to confine. ate with the huge sums of the recent elections, were against | ed clear-sightedly.

enormously on his mansion, on streeta will causa discussion, and, money spent on the training of the Government because, while the If it is evident that income and his receptions, on his yacht; and in the controversy in the Corres- boys and girls. One of the com- ecclesiastical schools had been expenditure do not correspond, he cut things so fine that he had pondence columns of the now-

others plaints made is that many closed to their children,

and are not likely to correspond, no ready cash. That is one way papers, there is a probability that schools boast of examination were not opened fast enough; nor

then bold decisions should be of living, and it does not appear the defeated section will be the supplied with enough trained successes which, when analysed,

taken before it is too late.

to be the wiscnt. tenchora.

losers. mean practically nothing and

I knew another man, nothing JULY-Nothing will happen in which certainly do not appear

I met a man the other day who ture he deliberately kept down to like so rich, whose basic expendi- to produce in the recipients of

had been wrestling with this pro the lowest possible point. But prizes either culture or an abili-

A scurrilous press campaign blem. "I have always," he told this left him a large margin which ty to face life's problems ser-

was directed against Senor Azana. me, "lived well within my he could spend as he pleased. iously. Thousands of boys and Then a number of municipal by-sources; but there have been such girls are being turned out an- elections went against the Social- drastic changes that I find myself qually, more or less fitted to take ists and the more radical Re- an academic course at the uni-publican parties, followed by an versities, but quite unfitted to election by professional and enter tho world of

a newly- work, municipal groups

of Con Colonel Loftus, who speaks with established Tribunal

stitutional Guarantees. Not only direct knowledge of the subiect, did this show a sharp incline to argues that the greater part of the Right, but some of the mon the present secondary school Azana had had arrested were curriculum is waste, and that chosen by the voters. It was in real value in education could be these circumstances that Presid- obtained by scrapping the whole ont Zamora, who did not like of it and starting afresh, mak Azania anti-Church activities, did ing the boys' and girls' need the daring thing. Although ruling factor-not the demands Cortes had given Azana an over- whelming vote of confidence, of the universities. Two ques- Zamora brought about the Pre- tions suggest themselves as in- mier's resignation. He was fol- dicating the needs of the times lowed in the Premiership by Senor educationally-first, what is the Lerroux. essential knowledge which stid- ents should have on leaving school; secondly, how schools be organised economical. Senor Lerroux was overthrown ly, simply and efficiently to en- in three weeks, but his successor, sure the acquisition of this Barrios, was compelled to demand essential knowledge by the the dissolution of the Cortes and pupils?

a new election. The result has suggested' como out that the old type elemen Leadership la nu in the hands #N foreshadowed. tary school, which concerned of Senor Lerroux, leader of a itself more with a sound ground coalition representing 4 ing in essentials than with the publican concentration with Jean- "frills" of education, produced | ings distinctly towards the Right. 11 better type of boy than Barrios and Robles are membera. modern methods do. This may The republic must not, therefore, be an over-statement of the be regarded as in any danger. facts, but there is a sufficient carried away by their success at The more extreme Right wingers, germ of truth in the assertion the polls, are angry with the to cause educationists to ponder youthful Gil Robles for linking on the desirability of curtailing himself with a conservative Re- a curriculum which would ap- publican Cabinet instead of nup- pear to give most youth a porting the Monarchists. But smattering of knowledge on a there a little doubt he has chosen great number of subjects, but wisely. It fa obvious that any at- little of real value on any would light the fires of civil war tempt to restore Alfonso to-day. complaint which is heard these In manner which would make the. days in Hongkong just as much recent Anarchist outbreak look as it is at Home.

Ilke a ten-party.

It

can

COALITION CABINET

the

"Well, here I am about to marry a man with a bald spot."

SEPTEMBER Statistics for September will be very bad, and, as a result, many listeners will endeavour to sell their wireless cote. The Trade Returns will disclose that trade is not returning, OCTOBER-It will be too hot to predict anything for October.

NOVEMBER-Standing Com- mittees will be nominated by the Legislative Council to sit and adjudicate upon the problem of Hongkong's water supply, Sever- al patriotic people, including a well known journalist about town, will write, offering to sacrifice their water ration. Comets are al. most, bound to be visible in Hong- kong, and what will happen when they appear will be the subject of some conjecture. Naturally, they will comet anything.

DECEMBER.-Ratification of" the pact between Ipso and Facto may lead to differences between Ultra and Vires, but the good offices of Cum Grand Salle (well lighted and equipped with every modern business applianco) will offect a settlement. Several shroffs will hope that Edward Kelly will do the same. New Year resolu tions will be prepared all over the world. An Ordinance will be in- troduced in Legislative Council, with a clause prohibiting the pur- chase of Christmas presents. This † will be known as the Santa Clause.

OCH, AYE

If we weren't tired of jokes: about Scotsmon wo'd tell you the one about the. Abordoen farmer, the father of two daughters, who | bought a double-barreled shotgun.

·

MAGAZINE ADVT.

"THEY LAUGHED WHEN · I SAID I COULD CRACK A JOKE, |BUT THEY STOPPED WHEN 1

CRACKED IT."