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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 171934

British Cars of Rofinoment!

NOTES OF THE DAY

WHETTED APPETITES

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BIN SHORT o mos" things far away waterworks and the Adam Appleflower, optimist and stake. ploughman, "an' there's better "Water's a wunnerful thing, stuff in th' world than water, time mind ye," said Mr. Woodpecker. you come to think on't. So I ain't "A man's bohowden to it, same as now, a woman. Bo's a bullick an' no's gooin' to start grumblin' f’ain't likely."

a plg. Master should say he'll be "You don't need you should, fair rowined along o' cartin' f'r Adam," replied Mr. Woodpecker, a stock. Time you're short, they're trifle of acerbity in his tone. extry thu'sty."" "You ain't a womankind, an' you ain't got a womankind to look fond of water is wimmen. Take it arter. They're some wunnorful altered problem compared with away from them, an' they'll start that which confronted them twelve clanfanderin,' soon as look at ya." months ago. The outlook for n Mr. Appleflower had been turn Battled peace may very well de- ing his team at the end of the

when Solomon are furrow

Wood- pend upon how far those

"I in me time, declared old honour of the family socmed at DODDERING into the awellent

realised. If high expectations are fulfilled, the general situation may be regarded, in conjunction with the improved atmosphere created by Herr Hitler's speech, as having takon a definite turn for the bet ter,

CHANCE OF POLICY

Encouragment may be taken from Sir Bolton's cryptic observa- tion that Britain's moral strength Stubbs Rd. will be put to the test by the new proposals. The test will probably be survived without any difficulty. The Cabinet have probably come round to a way of thinking that the public mind has encountered and overcome long since. Public opinion is already quite certain of that much, that peace will never bo secured by vagueness, werk- neas or irrosolution, whether the alternativo fa disarmament rearmament. And if the Cabinet

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1984.

or

has finished with well-intentioned delusions, then the memorandum must contain a demonstration of a change of policy and important concessions to the German view point.

REAL EDUCATION His Excellency the Governor, whose practical outlook on local problems has often been de- monstrated, did well, at a recent | FRANCE'S NEW CABINET. school speech-day, to stress the importance of technical training

spare,

But if beer was the medium of consolation, water was the tople of conversation.

The Nuisance Man, accompanied by a furriner, said to be an in- spector, had been through May chester and the Mudfords making what are called "enquirations," proceeding of which the absurdity was glaringly manifest to wise

men.

barber's shop in Ilongkong, we fell into a chair and said to the Jap, barber: "Make us look human.” "More better you go see Dr Bunje," remarked the barber kinj "this place barber-shop, ina gery!"

THEN TH

we said, "Shavo us, "If we hadn't got water wo shampoo, face-massage, ouldn't have no beer," declared violent-ray, and de-blackhead us. Mr. Wospottle, almost defiantly, We are in your hands.”

"Beer ain't samo na water," Mr. Mould reminded him. "You want

So he started. Right here we good barley an' malt an' hops, f'r want to say that if ever

you beer."

want the ravages of time and "An' forever of water," persisted the effects of high living and Mr. Wespottle, stoutly, "Mother low morals eradicated from the acz so."

countenance, or face, do what. th' we did. "Happen she know when well's gooin' to fill up on Rattler's Green, since

sho's so larned," It may cost you about 60

bucks, if you get out aliye. sneered the Pensioner.

"She know all about it, I iny,"

The shave, with cloven hot replied Elijah. "She bin lookin' reg'lar owd-fashioned at some o' towels and three varieties of face cream. The hair-cut with. them stars lately."

"There's a many hereabouts the electric tooth-drill; tran don't set enough store by water, shampoo-these are mere pre-

aaid Ephraim the liminaries.

pecker, walking down Honeypot lane under the hedge, paused to pass the time of day. Though Mr. Woodpecker, in pursuit of his law. ful occasions, can give most men a start and a beating, he always, has a minute or two to Now he prepared to move along as one who has said the last word. "I ain't no wife at mine," ad- mitted Mr. Appleflower cheerfully, "bein' I'm same as a widder man. But I ain't got a pump in memo friends," garden neither. I gotter traipse Carrier, who lives quite close to

The hair is dried with hot air. up to th' Square along o' me palla the Village Green pump, address-

Hongkong you ing the Peculiar. People, in cor- Fortunately in an'. me hoop, most evenin's."

"You'll find me there afore I'm rugated Iron Chapel assembled, do not get the human variety. much owder, to my thinkin, mate," "an" now all these things bin an'

Then starts the face massage. cried Mr. Woodpecker bitterly, come upon 'em.". and proceeded in the direction of "Time they kin goo to th' pump You are oiled, creamed, and the "Wheatsheaf" 10 find the an turn a tap on, they wax fat bleared. scanty comfort that lies in a half an' kick, same as Jeshurun bin an'

done. They'll no more to do but An electrical exasperator is' pint pot.

waste it, they on't think nawthen wheeled up to your side. The to it. They forget that if it worn't operator turns the thing on, and f'r water, they 'ouldn't be clean. you immediately get hoebie- If it worn't f'r water they couldn't jeebies in the face. have as much as a cup o' tea if

You then disappear from hu- they was perishin' o' thu'st, same as Ishmael, time Hagar took him man ken beneath a swathe of She never had no tea pore sowl, along o her inter th' wilderness. hot towels. The operator then but she prayed an' got all th' water goes away to have his tiffin. she wanted. They do say folk After many years, during never had tea those days, so she which your whole life passes 'ouldn't ha' felt th' miss of it. before you, the towels are Mo frien's we gotter pray, an' then "If," said Mr. Mould, the Pen- we'll happen & springs too, that's taken away and pink mud aloner, "th' furriner bin an' come likely."

rubbed, slapped and pounded i inspectin' time we got anything to Not for the first time Ephraim to your face. We find here one of the big inspeck, I'd ha' set some store by has quickened the courage of his

But there ain't more'n flock. as one of the most important difliculties of the Inst twelve him.

two wells round us what got their But Mr. Hunke, the rival branches of education. Advan-months, both in France and Bri-

tain. It is the instinct of poli-water la tem, an' he never took"Meetinger," foresees red ruin and eing the view that education in ticians, if not of great statesmen,

no count of neither o' they. Seems the breaking up of water supplies these days must of necessity he to resist any departure from the to me," he went on, with a rare ant he has good reason.

A bachelor, he lodges with Old more utilitarian than in the past, course to which they have been flash of insight, "he never come publicly committed. They refuse

to look f'r water at all. He come Gammer Partridge, whose pump The violent-ray we took without he urged that whilst culture to see when former conditions have to see wells, it's likely.

cannot be persuaded at present to anaesthetic. It consists of a must not be neglected, care must been swept away and former "That ain't no sense," Mr. Elijah yield so much as a pallful a day. swarm of starving anta with im

thods of treatment have become Wospattle, son, of the district's Mr. Hunks can dispense with portant appointments in your core- be taken not to cram youth with futile. France's frequent changes Wise Woman, interposed with in- water in time of crisis as bravely bral cranium. ill-digested and useless informa- of Cabinot have failed to alter the tense conviction. "A well ain't as any man, but he cannot give up

Twice we nearly escaped, but we tion. The utilitarian attitude personnel in any important sense same as a well, once that's dry. his tea. Eight breakfast cups a towards education is gaining tical case has always remained the nards, that ain't no more'n a hole to secure it, he

and her attitude to her strong poll- Time that got no water in ita in- day are his portion and in order were brought back, giggling, with must push the our tonsorial robca bedraggled, but fresh impetus almost everywhero same. Hence there is hope for u in th ground.”

cowl as far as the pump on the still furled tightly around the "When you got forever o' water," green. For one who suspects the neck Daladfor's new government, which proficiency in reading, writing will bring

declared Mr. Trout in a tone of reason why this affliction has be

We were given smelling salts, dozen new minds to and arithmetic; which it is bear on the problem. Sir John St reproach, you don't set no store fallen the righteous, nothing but and a towel soaked in Florida water

by it. Time it ain't there, you indignation can be expected.

to suck, agreed all must acquire, thero mon's chief handicap has been his feel th' miss on't."

"Why are we short o' water?" legal mind. But if we believe the are certain other subjects which First Lord of the Admiralty, e Man rum Mudford, you- Wint That's come about aleng o' folk's us draw a curtain over this. We

"That's a true word," cried the he demanded angrily of his flock. must be regarded as essential has now consented to throw doc-

water. I gotter take me cowl an' backslidin's. There's then round were thrown out of the manicure preliminaries to higher eauca-trinaire logic overboard,

goo a quarter o' mile, day in, day here what play all manner o' games parlour. Nice girl, though. tion. As Dr. Dyson, a noted

out. This ain't a time," he added come Sunday, what drink their beer

And so back to the office, walk- master, recently stated, in many | GERMANY'S RE-ARMAMENT

bitterly, "to scrub floors, ne yet an' smoke their pipe an' goo snarin' obvious respects the arts and

wash clothes an' child'en, more'n rabbits what don't belong 'em, aning mincingly into the lift, asking ain't got a ha'porth of righteous- the draivah to draive slowlah so as crafts

auitable

anybody kin heip." training

ness about 'em. Read what th not to disturb ouah part. pory Man, "ain't happy if she ap th Heavens so that there shan't Chlorafluers, we found

"A woman," mused the Tem-Book bin an' said about shuttin

Smelling strongly of Ashes of ain't got a pall o' water handy be no rain, an' folk shall same as most unwelcome. Our penches and WO Avere If she ain't bilin' it f'r tea, she's perish. Then you'll same as see cream complexion was lost in our billa' it. f'r to wash things." f'r y'rselves what you're a comin' hasty retreat from the editor's

"Water's drowned many a good to along o' y'r 'bominations.” man," continued the one from Mudford.

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Little has leaked out concerning

the British suggestions. It is not at all certain that the one clear proposal attributed to the Bri- dish Cabinet, an increase of Ger- many's army to 250,000 men, actually forms a feature of the memorandum. But it must con-

grounds both for the serious business of life and the leisure and recreation which may diver- sify life. Education, indeed, has a real part to play in regard to the right use of leisure. But when we come back to main prin- tain something of the kind and ciples, it must be conceded that other proposals granting Germany the first duty of the educational an even more substantial measure machine is to producë round pegs of re-armament. We cannot run for round holes, and square pegs away from the issue any longer. for square holes.. At present, If the Powers are not prepared to the pegs are getting rather badly give their consent to the gradual of Germany, the mixed. When education becomes re-armament more fool-proof from the utili-Reich will proceed without their tarian point of view, there may source of

consent, furnishing an explosive friction and tension. be time and energy for the more Demands for Security will be a strictly intellectual side. True, laughing matter In those vireums- the two processes may run tances.

parallel for part of the way, but

probably not very far. Between

thom they are likely to engage THE AMERICAN PARADOX

the ingenuity of practical educa-

tionists for many a day. It has

Meanwhile, the United States is

been well said of present educaplaying the peculiar role of preach- tional systems that too often ing peace and, non-aggression pacta, they aim at teaching students to while doing more than any other read and reproduce, to study and ment race. It is futile to talk of country to give a spur to an arma- write, when what they will good intentions or of an

entire really have to do in the world absence of territorial ambitions. which awaits them is to observe, Navies and air forces are not pri- to act, and to make. In nomarily intended for majestic ́re- place more so than in this Colony Vlows In the River Hudson and mass formation flights over · Now it necessary for the *States to build her

is there greater need for prac York. If

tical education-the instilling in- United

to the minds of the young such Navy up to full Treaty strength knowledge as will be of concrete in a period of five

Weit

years and value to them in after-life.

it is necessary to supplo- need to turn out from our schoola menther. air fleet, already youth who have been set on one of the biggest in the world, patha which will lead them to by building over a thousand new some definite goal, fit to take a because of a possiblity of their military machines, it can only be worthy place in the general future uso. Big-scale armament scheme of things, but also cap-building is preparation for war, able of expanding talents which no matter what other nicer-sound- have not been fully developed. Ing term may be applied to it. And If the goal is kept constantly in no war was over averted by a na- view by our educationists, thore tion's readiness. will be little danger of energies being diverted into unprofitable chinnela.

morandum, which was recolved (The British disarmamont me- after the above notes were written, will be found in another page).

"You don't wanter let it," de- Up and down the roads leading clared Mr. Ablott.. He seldom to the pump in Market Square that speaks, but he has a son in some:

(Continued on Page 10.)

"HEET VETE"

Het NATURE

CLIZE YOU WONDA

FREMEA

"I bet you never heard of a sick Red Indian."

Hydrochloric acid, or some- thing more fierce, is poured on. to you. Cream, oil-a final belt in the cheek, and you are massaged.

Thon we were manicured. Let

room to the lift.

N.B.--The lift driver has since had the elevator Insectlbaned.

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MINERS RIOTS

The riots in Kalgoorlie remind us to ask what is a nugget of gold or two between friends. And, anyway, how many people in Hongkong would know gold if they Baw it?

:

It's not a bit of uso, going o In the New Territories and look ing for gold if you don't know what It is.

People are pegging out and pegging out claims all over the, world in search of the clusive metal. They would bo much better employed pegging out the washing for their amahs.

.

Gold Is a metallic auriferous gold metal which is found in. large or small single lumps, or linked together as in gold watch

晶贼 chains, or Invisible, auch sovereigns.

Amatour prospectors must re- member, however, that it is illegal to peg out a claim on. man's stomach Just because he bas a gold

watch-chain.

Alluvial gold is found in crock- beds, water-holes, drain-pipes, and various other places. It is fou in mountains, and in vaļie, etcetera,

It is also not found in many of the above places. That Is thö catch,

The best way to tell gold is to pass tho nugget around a crowd of Australian' digger friends, and

ask them if # in gold, Hd

If it comes 'back, It's not gold.