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TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY

RUBBER CONTROL ·

an

necord-

THE SOCIAL EVIL

A book recently published in Committee moeting on the subject. London purported to give a faith-"Our National responsibility In ful account and description of the his matter in a great one, for our of brothels and the interesta in the Enst are consider- business Chinese traffic in women and drew able." what must have appeared to the

The Very Idee!

WHAT'S ICUMEN IN? By George

SPRING is here and the ́.soason of catch-as-catch-

Already the moon hus had her

There is a good deal that remains to be explained about the rubber most regulation proposals. The puzzling feature is contained in the

True, fudged from the standard SPF quotas themselves, making pro- vision for

output, Ing to intialics, is consider loca minded, a vivid and alluring of morality at Home, it is appall-}

which

apectacle of debauchery in the ing. Judged at close quarters, it can is upon us. greater than the total production Far East.

becomes. If not justified, at least; The book was treated with 'acant more understandable, in any single year in the history of the industry, If this is restric

Ill-balanced, mixtures of popula- tion, it 1

know, with the knowledge avail- tion cannot live together in a state face lifted for her annual tour of a strange type. If it is courtesy by local reviewers who limitation, it seems to be based upon able to any dweller in this Colony of "#pretty-pretty" morality and the heavens and romantic cate

ghly optimistic estimates of a

fch months standing, that while it is desirable that the best lift up their voices nightly in futuro requirements.. The pro- the facts related are very far from standards should be adhered to their search for the great un- bability is that there is a mistake the truth of such matters as they stringent observance is not to be somewhere. There are anticipa stand at the moment,

expected. It would be hypocritical known. tions of a rise in price. There are

Hongkong portrayed as tho canto suggest now that every absenter fears of

of encouragement to extended

from his native land contributes Such tral attraction of the trade apporto the uplift of the moral tono of obedience to the spring ergo. We in. Indo-China.

A scr-

Pvelopments can only go with ed too incongruous to merit

of the nativo woman,

We must bestir ourselves in

restrictions in output, and in this lous criticism of the book, which the Far East during his brief must fling our typewriter from us matter, the industry has still to might have been true if published stay. The fact is his infhience is and get going. As an added in- make up its mind completely about a half century ago but which frequently in the reverse direction. ducement the rent is dus and we

Hongkung in not as black as she what it really wants. The applica-amounts nowadays to a libel en als painted largely because where have the month's wages in our tion of new uses for rubber will city which has so enormously pro- be stayed if ices rise too high or grossed towards the emancipation clean-up has not occurred she has pocket.,

prices

beon whitewashed. Tolerance, upi too rapidly.

La The problem

to a point is, nevertheless, good subtle change that

Everywhere around us is that whether lower prices and the

marks the radial expansion of demand as world recovery gains ground will not, ultimately, be more advantage- ous to the Industry as a whole than restrictions in development and it accompaniment of individual griev

Ances.

MODERN MANNERS

Many people assert either that modern manners are bad, or that they do not exist. It is therefore

Of the other towns and colonies for us to criticise.

1

mentioned by the author it is not Judgment and home of the move-advent of spring. For instance it ments that go on beneath the sur- is April no longer. May is here face provide an outlet for feelings and to-day is Tuesday. There is It is a vast enough work to set that might otherwise easily take a one's own house in order and the much less pleasant form.

no reason why this shouldn't be work has aut yet been done.

The representatives of China so but nor is there why it shouldn't

ought. It has however reached a stage, and Persia agreed to a suggestion beyond which I am afraid It will at the Committee meeting referred The girls are mixing their not go rapidly for many reasons. to above that central authorities

liquor with languor and the Daily there are cases before the should be established for the ex-

snakes in the grass have cost establishments change of information and in- of magistrates characterised as aly brothels-creased collaboration on the sub-

their coats, though why the appellation "aly" get of the traffic in women but

the

women trained

In the meantime there is clean-

be cut..

refreshing to find an Italian noble, should be necessary when there they did not agree to the abolitioning to be done at home and hair to

no licenced or recognised of licensed brothels, woman. the Duchess of Sermonta,

houses in the Colony escapes my Commendable or not as that may | maintaining that mannery

better understanding. As rapidly as ond seem, the representatives at least Even the snails are snapping out to-day

hctually ILTO

place is suppressed another takes ensured an TORGERSEN.At the French

open and regulated of third gear and the warbler in than .those of previous agex,

root elsewhere and le eventually system instead of a poisonous our garden has had his tonsils pital on 8th April, 1974, Johan even if she does noi entirely prove

cut. traced out and put down, both prosecret growth,

Sometimus WU Alfred Torgersen, aged 36, from ner case.

wish his In support of her state- ONIO, 2nd engineer

Chivalry has fallen from its throat were cut as his mellow bel- afment she quotes several incidents cesses taking place with a stead- "Fingal." Funeral will pass the similar to the occasion when Sarah, iness and persistence that keeps former quixotic state to a quality low mingles with the low cooing Monument at 5 p.m. to-day Duchess of Marlborough flew into

the occupation within tolerable to be measured by degrees, and of the water buffalo and the sweet Come papers please copy).

women of Phe Eastern countries, sound of the Chinese playing foot an abusive rage on being command- hounds. ed by Queen Anne to look for her The inhibitions of a race of In many cases are not consci mus of bull in the road outside our door. gloves. The

to submission any opinien of

desire for emancipation

However every little helpa and Duchess is probably not the less re- through the centuries are mixed though the modern Miss China is Arisys nas to be banged in and Hiable because incidents like this do with the national peculiarities of getting her star higher in the not together prove her contention, peoples from all over the world, world than it has ever risen be-out every year by poets and rent The manners of an age depend less

some rising above the level of this fore. Custom is the clock that re-collectors a moan by George will upon the behaviour of people of degradation, some taking their gulates life. To push It on too not be noticed we hope. title in their relations with crown-place easily in the stratum, and fast is only a step more serious others conforming to their own and dangerously than to stop the ideas and voluntarily segregrated clock suddenly. To put it forward A laugh is just a gentle breeze, from the mass..

gently is the best method and is it maketh music as you please, or How appalling!" says the Indy the ono which alone can bring calls forth angry sentiment: but chairman of the British National, results in Hongkong and China to careful if you go Ho! Hol for Committee at a League of Nations day.

that's a sign your nature's low, and justifies resentment.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1934.

POLITICS IN

BRITAIN

1

a neats than upon what ordinary men and women do on ordinary ocensions, in the street, on the bus, and in the home.

WIDER TEST

tu

PHIPPS tells us

And

AGAINST GIGGLES.

he stirs his hearty bowels, with | longishly-drawn Hal Hat vowels,

don't fear to thwart his wishes. the scheme, of course, leaves the Master-Minds of the

Should uncle make a sound like

eat horticulture. For instance: Vacant mind and if he makes no Ministry with plenty of scope for "Haw," when cold. reserve begins its application to other emblemn to thaw, you'll know he's got a although they might find it rather sound at all, just give the coin

Notwithstanding noteworthy

Professor George C. Williams, achievements which have placed ever, contemporary manners have Judged by this wider test, how-

of Ithaca, New Orleans, has gone the nation's affairs on a sound no reason to be ashamed. That the

WHEN LEEKS ARE NOT SOUP into the subject deep; and charac-. footing. the National Govern has not upon it the fine bloom of

ter he now avera, from laughs behaviour of average people to-day

The Ministry of Agriculture's spectacle to see Welshmen run. more easily than words, are tabus ment does not appear to face a

ceremonious

troupe of performing experts is ug which

ning over their emblems with lated at a peep. courtesy the future with any marked de-is

be

to its droll pranks again.

tape measures to make quite encountered in

For instance if your kind papa, of gree of confidence in its ability romances

medieval chivalry Ita Intest gay is

sure they haven't paid even more

for a gets cheery with a short Ha! Ha! irue and natural

St. David's

"Selected" and been landed in his nature may be vicious; but if to retain popular support. The

enough topical than usual. but at no period of time has there | Day (look you) the troupe, with

the "Soup." special platform campaign on been more real kindness manifest- one of those lightning thought OTHER POSSIBILITIES. which it has embarked has its ed in personal relations than there sequences which leave us laymen origin in a feeling that all is nowadays. This is perhaps, at dazed, immediately thought of

the moment, being brought home to lecks. not well. Mr. Baldwin, in his many people who, in view of Having got that far the rest] appeal in a Liberal journal the celebrations which are being was easy. The Ministry is already propaved" for "the hundredth annt- against a return to party war-versary of Charles Lamb at Christ-engaged on its plan for bringing fare, openly declares that there mas of this year, are refreshing National Mark Scheme, and it difficult to mark the thistle (for 14 chance to fall, it's even bets. all English vegetables under the is a grave danger of Socialism their memories of the "Essays was officially

Lamb being returned to power at the of

Bonny Scotland), the grading your Unc's unkind. 'declares

Leeks would

would offer delightful possiblities, bo brought up to will that he

And If he laughs the Hi in next general election. Fearful believe that true gentility exists the Mark on St. David's Day (to

"hit", to cat his stomach's scarce- of such a prospect, he describes when "in polite circles" the "same

"Selected Ultra Prickly," ault-ly fit. his muscles there are weak goodness).

able for football matches; the Socialists as being controlled attentions" are paid to elderly It is stated that there will be "Selected Not So Prickly," suit- vulgar "heck," denotes sarcasm by with age; whilst Ha! as in tho by extremists and strongly people, as to young. Palce earns three grades. (Don't miss ́ ́tlife.) inble for domestic use;

Lamb's praise In the circumstance "Selected Large" with stems not

the peck and not "Selected Definitely Blunt," for ange.

the knowing tainted with Communism. This that he behaved in precisely the less than 1in. in diameter at the dancing reels, tossing the caber, is hardly a fair description of same courteous manner to rich and widest point, and blanched for at and braw bricht nichte-generally And sorry are wo if we hear. the Labour Parliamentary Party, can claim that distinction, but it is not less than in. in diameter,

poor alike. Not everyone to-day least 1in. "Selected," with stoma and

you laugh the Hel as in

"more "Selected Imitation," for pre-beer": you show eff-em-in-ney; in whose leaders have studiously a sign of social advance that every- and blanched for 3in.; and aentation purposes,

males and females both alike, it turned the cold shoulder to the one is expected to do so.

"Selected Soup," with stems not In the meantime, I am able to shows a lacking of what's right, Leftists within its ranks and

less than in, in diameter, and deny the rumour that Jack Peter- and the first aro'very nacey! blanched for 2in.

sen has consented to mark tho. It will bo a really superb first leck

Elia."

of these

who have declined to have any moderate faction, which con- thing whatever to do with the tinues to veer away from the Communists. But by holding up Right. The point at issue, how- this bogey of extreme Socialist ever, is whether the country is domination, Mr. Baldwin is pos-again prepared to vota for a sibly hopeful of persuading that National Government. Here it must be remembered that con- growing body of thoughtful ditions are entirely dissimilar opinion which is more and more from those which prevailed at inclining towards moderate Left the time of the 1931 election. ideals not to be influenced into Moreover, it was then agreed to supporting Labour in the event by the leaders of the three of the official Labour Party de-balanced and the

parties that once the Budget was emergency iling to fight the next election overcome, there would be a re- on party lines, as it is almost version to party alignments. Is. certain to do. Obviously, the I therefore to be expected that ex-Premier, in appealing for when the next election comes continued support of the Nation-National Government, as such, round, probably in 1935, the al Government, fears that if thes to be given a further five Conservatives came out us a years' tenure of office? A fur- party, they would probably suf-ther pertinent point is whether, fer defeat. He may be right. with the prospect of Labour Fighting the election as a unit. more or less solidly standing the party would certainly be other party, there would be suf aloof from association with any more rigidly Conservative in its c.ent support from the Left to policies than it would when mer-justify the Government in e- ged in a "National" movement. taining its "National" label? In such an event. the extremists Analysing the position, it be within its ranks would demand comes clear that British politics and exercise a far greater mea- the future one of decided uncer are undergoing n' change, with sure of influence. Under the tainty. Possibly there may yet National banner, such out-and-emerge from the "National" out Conservatives na Lord Lloyd; idea a now Centre Party, attrac- Mr. Churchill, Mr. Amery anding to itself the most progres Sir Henry Page-Croft are shut now clamouring for public sup alve elements of the several units out from control by the more port.

announced that

08:

+

"Now, loave me out of this. I'm not going to take oldes"

If conventional and good you'd be, the Hful in "huge" is quate o-kee, but that is for the wealthy: but anyway just bath and quaff, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, for doctors say it's healthy!

For Scots Readers

Th'art keekit nour. I' gowan

flock

Haub'st roople turbit on th'

hock:.

By tuppit haums thy lafters

reck -

O' plaidest hour:

Saft scopio naina: Aglaird o'

neck

The teepon faur..

*

Wha' caulkit? Whore the dins.

adnit

Let auchterlochtle yang th" gait; Braw salo holl-an'

th'rait

In pairta awn',

all'a

Wee fiichtle yon, nor keel abate

For balenies twa.

•

*

These beautiful lines wero sug- geated by thut strangs passage in. the Aunold the proper translation of which has so long been a mattor of controversy....

Nec flumine gravior, non in puella delecto

Certorarle apud, do to gracilis preferrant.

Porson always maintained- though against the weight of con- temporary opinion-that some- thing has dropped out of the text. hore. We wonder?

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