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TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY

DEBATE IN A Vacuum

The strangest thing about the long argument in the United States over the government's monetary policy is that so many of those engaged seem to be trying to con duct the debato in a vacuum. What the country is getting

HAVOC IN THE PUBLIC

SCHOOL SPIRIT

By B. L. Jacot, Oxford University and Harlequin Rugger player.

Twas one of the grand old i go to see the game? It's no secret.

The-Schooll äre driving the horde

we main, an academic discussion I Edwardian days that the Bat- The lingering echoes of Play Up

tle of Waterloo, or of Vinegar Hill, as surely as the lash drives the or somewhere, was won on the column of exiles into the frozon or wastes of Siberia. Each country playing fields of Winchester, Harrow, or somo such place, for the its own customs. And I'd choose safety valves of the public school Biberia. spirit were mostly blowing steam A WORD OF round the 'turn of the century. EXPLANATION.

of the relative values of money which is anchored firmly to an im mutablo gold base and, money which la flexible. It is an argu- ment, for the most part, which might just as well have been held In 1928 as In 1933. Most of the time the public unreat which makes. up the background of all the argu- mont is ignored entirely. There is plenty of scholarly expositions

Well-an inquest was held the It has always puzzled 'me (a other day into the death

of n

The Very Idea!

BATHWATER BALLAD XE ARE perturbed at a sinister move, moved by

WE

a London doctor.

He suggests that everyone should have a bath a day.

What's winter coming to? Much better to be re- ducoed twice a year. It is a well-known fact that we breathe through the pores of

on the way inflation starts and the ¦ schoolboy of eighteen who col. aimplo man), in the matter of the the skin, which open and.

things it does before it stops, and plenty of historical analyses of what happened in Germany and Russia, but very little mention of the way in which recent economic developments have put pressure on the social fabric,

PRIME FACTOR

lapsed while on the playing fields White Man's

Burden, Empire

shut with monotonous re-

How can a pore breathe under

of his public school. He was building, and so forth, what is playing Rugby football, and he wrong with the secondary schools? gularity. anid, as he took the field: "I am the battle of Bunker Hill, the Surely if Rugby, or Rapton, won' going to play the game of my life

for the honour of my school!"secondary schools and council water?

schools had a hand in some major unpleasantness somewhere? No one is likely to ask mɔ, but, if someone did, I'd say the council schools did a certain amount in the late war.

"LET'S GET IT STRAIGHT"

for the

No one who has played Rugby It is admittedly difficult to say

football is going to deny that as a exactly where President Roose-

game it is a good one. But if any

Let me explain quickly here, velt's monetary policy came from.

one knows how a battle was won while the public school spirit is but one thing is certain, it did not on Rugby football I would like to fingering its gun, that few can be come into being in a void. It has

meet him. So I imagine would fonder of the game of Rugby foot- been the product of forces some of lot of folk I know at the War Ofice. ball than I am. I am never in my them out of Presidential control.

I don't like that:

age able to resist the leafy smells Economic laws in text-books may

Honour of my school."

of autumn, The old head-lamps be important: so, too, says the President, are farmers in debt, In the days when folk used to ad-light up yet, and the nostriis quiver home-owners burdened with mort-mire hour-glass figures and ride when I first catch the scents of gages they cannot carry, cities on bicycles in Hyde Park the public the dying year. the edge of bankruptcy. All pro-school spirit was steadily working

Autumn means goalposts. It ducs dissatisfaction with an inflexi- up pressure behind the cork. So means (to the public school spirit ble currency system, a feeling that was its elder brother, "For-the-and to me) that manly smell of and Sake-of-the-Old-Regiment, Lance freshly-churned earth, the pale may be illogical, mistaken highly unwise; nevertheless, it is lot!" In easier times the public slant of the afternoon sun through the prime factor in the situation, school spirit could breathe a na- leafless trees, that misty tang to the and any attempt to settle the tional inspiration into such ideas air which comes with the approach Roundness or unsoundness of the as play-for-the-side. We are off of the whistle for no-side, American monetary policy is value- the Gold Standard now, and a good less if it fails to take it into ne- man is a man who can bite off a count.

piece for himself. Let's alt round this and get it straight. Honestly-How about football as a prospect for winning battles? Not good? I thought not.

THE "GRAF ZEPPELIN”

The Graf Zeppelin can now look back upon the completion of over five years of active service. Dur- ing that time the airship has made more than 300 trips, both long and short including one world cruise, one cruise into the polar regions, and fifty odd transoceanic cross- ings. The total distance covered off those trips amounts to over 700,000 kilometres and 17,500 pas- sengers, 37,000 kilograms of cargo and 20,000 kilograms of mail have been carried. The airship has been in the air for more than 7,000 hours and has passed through the most varied meteorological and climatic zones. Whether it has proved profitable venture, it is more difficult to say. The main thing is that despite the fil-fortune that has attended the experiments of other countries, Germany is con- tinuing with the development of airship travel. A new Zeppelin, with immensely increased passen-

ger accommodation, is expected to take the air shortly. Her career must-be-regarded as an acid test.

THE BOTTOM BUTTON

Members of the nobility, the theatre, literature, and the business world took part in the discussion recently conducted by a popular London newspaper concerning the question whether the waistcont's bottom button should or should not be left undone. Each contribu- tor showed a proper sense of the gravity of the subject. From the zeal with which the topic was threshed out one might have sup posed that a wrong decision would have shaken the British Empire. Perhaps this was in part because the distinguished French writer, Andre Murals, had just shown that the connexion between. tho British Empire and bottom-button custom Is closer than might - ap- pear to the casual glance. His- torians have said that the Empire was acquired in a mood of abstrac- tion, when the British people were and thinking of other things King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, started the waistcoat but- ton habit in the same way.

BOOST HONGKONG !

This is the season of the year when Hongkong attracts to its shores from other parts of the East visitors who find unalloyed delight in our climate, our scenery, and the innumerable facilities which we have to offer for outdoor recreation. Unfor- tunately, however, the number of these visitors is not a tithe of what it might be were a really serious publicity campaign undertaken in localities within reasonable rench of the Colony. At the moment, the only efforts in this direction are those dis- charged by shipping and hotel companies. These are necessari- ly limited in scope, but they do have. some

effect. Shanghai people come here because they find the weather milder than the rigorous conditions which pre- vail in the North, while from Malaya we get a periodical in- flux of people who want a break from the enervating climate with which they have to put up year in and year out. A few weeks spent here, with the attractious of such spots as Repulse Bay and the New Territories, to say nothing of the facilities for golf, tennis, walking and yachting, give our visitors an impression of the Colony which they hasten to convey to their friends on their return. This process of spreading the news of Hong- kong's charms is, however, na- turally very gradual in taking effect. The real need, if we are to secure the maximum benefits from our undoubted assets, is a big, well-organised, consistent plan of boosting the Colony as a

It had been assumed that the winter resort. Other Crown

Prince left the button unfastened Colonies, with no further attrac-

because he was a "atout fella," but tions than Hongkong possesses, now M. Maurois assures the world do not hesitate to branch out that it was merely beenuse he for- along the lines of official publi- got. So did an attentive and city campaigns. The point patriotic people model their social which needs stressing in the Far behaviour on the momentary for- East is that here, close at hand,

getfulness of royalty. Signs, how- over, are not wanting to show that there is an unrivalled winter re-

the time is perhaps ripe for a bold sort. If our Chamber of Com-and determined man to turn the | merce, retail houses, shipping | tide of fushlon. Gilbert Frankau, companies and hotels could unite the novelist, says that he would in a scheme, and secure some measure of financial aid from the. Government, results of a tangi- ble nature should accrue. The | more visitors we attract here, the better will it be for business -and these are days when wo can do with anything that helps In this direction. It only re-

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SARTORIAL DICTATOR

"rather go to Ascot in plus-fours" than not leave the bottom button Reid states that he does so "with undone, but Captain Cunningham- shume The Earl of Westmor Iand has found that the only antia- factory way is to wear no waist- coat at all. Public opinion is plainly waiting for a lead. Any, Englishman who to-morrow morn ing fantena his bottom waistcont button, with a magnificent dla rogard for social ostracism, and the acorn of Mr. Frankau, may and that within a month he has become a sartorial dictator.

on

"WHY ALL THIS SHOUTING ?"

The sound of autumn is the sound of a well-kicked ball,"

But what I am thinking of is Rugby football of early schooldays, Four-fifths of the time wasted No "gate." No special trains from on sports at school, and nine-Waterloo. Just s game, and tenths of the time wasted in this great game at that. What comes way at Oxford and Cambridge, later, If you are unlucky enough could be better employed in al- to play the game moderately well,

most any other way,

spoils football,

д

What, for instance, of the de- This is what I say when I think cent feelings of the gladiators of all the time and efort wasted thomacives 7 Does the Great Brit on football. Thousands of citizens ish Public ever think of this? Ask used to watch 29 other youths and anyone who has played before big myself playing about with a foot-crowds what he really thinks of ball at week-ends in the winter the crowd. If there was one time. A lot of good it did them. thought uppermost in my mind Or me If I had spent my time at when playing at Twickenham, fretwork, at least I could make a Edinburgh, Swangen, Dublin, it pipe-rack now.

was a longing to be let loose for

I often wonder what I shall do a glorious five minutes in the when some son of mine asks me grandstands with a meat axe. what a dropkick 18. Sometimes I

Why all this shouting? What imagine 1 shall give a demonstra has the man in the stands got to tion without the ball as a target. shout about? Did he do anything? That would be when I'm thinking Or did he? What's it got to do about making a good game into a with him, anyway? business for the sake of some odd thousands who want to shout about something without unduly expos- ing themselves to the risk of in-

jury.

It used to worry me, but I know now that the man in the stands is yelling his head off because Ploy Up-The-School! is. still echoing down the vaulted caverns of his

Doctors may come and under- takers may go, but the pore are always with us. (Classical quotation)

Why should-water be poured on the poor pore every day"

Consider soap. Stand back a bit and have a look at it.

We know a man named Albert Fruggle, who got soap in his eye and was only just saved from going blind by a specialist, who ' recommended a course of front Scats at Mae West pictures. Even more tragic was the case of Esteban Smith, who stood up wash under his knees, slipped on the soup, and broke his neck on

the tap.

We mentioned something about sinister movements, earlier in the recitation. Get this under your skull.

civil war in China when the There's going to be another supporters of the Bath A Day move- ment start wearing badges with the letters" "B.A.D." on them.

Wo foresce International up-" heavals when it is discovered that. people we have otherwise trusted have gone over, to the B.A.D. organisation.

We do not wish to cause alatin, but it seems to us that the bath a day suggesion is just the thin edge of the wedge, which will lead on to a cold shower overy morning.

We advise caution. Wet the eyes.

with one end of a towel. Ruflls the hair. Come out of the bathroom. panting. In other worda, be Con-

Bervative.

If you MUST sing. REMEM- BER.....sheet music.

You can sing it in bed.

•

Five essential rules for people who want to make themselves "popular" at the movies are pub- lished by the Viennese Kleine Volkszeitung.

Here they are, to be rend sympa=" thetically by all movie-goers:

1. Always come in late. Your neighbours like getting up. It's better if you choose the wrong sent. first.

At other times, thinking, per- youth. haps, of a certain preparatory school with only an exiguous line He is cheering the public school

2. Take off your overcoat so as of bright caps along the touch-spirit, and I'll bet that if you to knock off the spectacles of the lines for a "gate," I can picture watch him that evening you will

person in the row behind and the myself producing a ball with pride see him brush alde his fourth hat of the woman next you.

probably explaining why it has cocktall, muttering the while: For-The-Sake-of-The-Old - Re-

giment-Lancelot!

a pointed end, north and south.

What is it that makes the ap proaches to the Rugby Union) You have tho whole and business ground at Twickenham impassable in a nutshell in those fatal six on the occasion of the University words:. "For the honour of my Match? How many of the crowd school!"

Scamblers

“All this'talk' about Wagner and Beethoven!". Are you try-

ing to ruin this band?”

3. Always join the stars in sing- ing the film songs. People have come to hear your voice.

4 Tell people what is coming, Those around you are idiots, and you know so much better.

6. Jump up and hustle out be- fore the film' is over. You have been seen enough anyway.

*Charity Begins At Home,

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For Edward Kelly: 50 por cent. of the profits.

For loss distingished patrons : 49 per cent, of the profits.

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CELEBRATIONS

This week we shall eclobrate the 12th anniversary of the "Vory: Iden."

Soon after that we shall start celebrating Chinese New Year.

Then we shall celebrate Chinese New Year Itself, and soon after that we shall celebrate Easter.

Soon after that we shall celebrate the Awful Child's birthday, and soon after that we shall colebrate the other Awful Child's birthday.

Thon we shall celebrato our birthdays, and soon after that we shall celebrate Christmas. Soon after that we shall celebrato the 3rd anniversary of "Very. Iden" ∙and soon after that...

The Editor: You start celebrat-- ing Christmas again?

Ed. Kelly: Yes. And soon after that we shall colebrato the "Now Year

The Editor: And so begin

another year of wasteful · do- baucliery?

Ed. Kelly: That's right.