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NUFIX

FOR

MEN'S HAIR

NEW HAIR 15 THE FINEST

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY

THE SOCIAL EVIL

HERE ARE THE

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RUBBER CONTROL

The Very Idea!

By George

A book recently published in Committee meeting on the subject. WHAT'S ICUMEN IN? There is a good deal that remains London purported to give a faith-"Our National responsibility in to be explained about the rubber ful account and description of the was matter is a great one, for our regulation proposals. The most business of brothels and the interests In the East are consider- puzzling feature is contained in the Chinese traffic in women and drow note." quotas themselves, making pro-what must have appeared to the True; judged from the standard SPRING is here and the vision for an output, which accord- loose minded, a vivid and alluring of morality at Home, it is appall- season of catch-as-catch- ing to statistics, is considerably spectacle of debauchery in the ing. Judged at close quarters, It can is upon us,

Production Far East.

bacomes, if not justified, at tanst

The book was treated with seant raore understandable. courtesy by local revlowers who Ill-balanced mixtures of popula

Wo must bestir ourselves in

the total greater than in any single year in the

Already the moon has had her of the industry. If this is restries tion, it is a simnge type. If it is know, with the knowledge avail- tion cannot live together in a state face lifted for her annual tour of limitation, it seems to be based upon able to any dweller in this Colony of "pretty-pretty" morality and the heavens and romantic cats highly optimistic estimates el of & few months standing, that while it is desirable that the best lift up their voices nightly in future requirements. The pro- the facts related are very far from standards should be adhored 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 bo somewhere. There are anticipa stand at the moment.

expected. It would be hypocritical known. tlons of D rise in price. There are

Hongkong portrayed as the con- to suggest now that every absentes fears of encouragement to extended

from his native land contributes ctral attraction of the trade appeur- ting in- planting

Indo-China,

Such 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 Influence is and get going. As an added in- make up its mind completely about a half century ago but which frequently in the revoras direction. ducement the rent is due and we

Hongkong is not as black as she what it really wants. The applica- amounts nowadays to a bel on a tion of new uses for rubber will elty which has so enormously pro is painted largely because where a have the month's wages in our be stayed if prices rise too high or greased towards the emancipation clean-up has not occurred she has pocket.

been whitewashed. Tolerance, up The

of the native woman. rapidly.

problem

Everywhere around us is that to a point is, nevertheless, good subtle change that Of the other towns and colonies judgment and some of the move advent of spring. For instance it the whother lower prices world recovery gaine ground will not, ultimately, be more advantage- ous to the industry as a whole than restrictions in development and its accompaniment of individual griov-

Cristales Conan only go with ed too incongruous to merit à ser.to the uplift of the moral tone of obedience to the apring urge. Wo

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DEATH.

Show Room Stubbs Road

marks the

gradual expansion of demand as mentioned by the author it is not ments that ga oh beneath the auris April no longer. May Is here

ancen.

MODERN MANNERS

Bra

face provide an outlet for feelings

no reason why this shouldn't bo 80 but nor is there avhy it shouldn't ought.

The girls are mixing, their liquor with languor and the snakes in the grass have cast their coats,

In the meantime there is clean-

be cut.

for us to criticise.

It is a vast enough work to get that might otherwise easily take a and to-day In Tuesday. Thoro lo one's own house in order and the much less pleasant form. work has not yet been done.

The representatives of China It has however reached a stage, and Persia agreed to a suggestion beyond which I am afraid it will at the Committee meeting referred not go rapidly for many reasons to above that central authorities Daily there are cases before the should be established for the ex- of establishments change of Information and in- magistrates Many people assert either that

characterised as sly brothelo-creased collaboration on the sub- modern manners are bad, or that though why the appellation "aly" ject of the traffic in women but they do not exist. It is therefore should be necessary when there they did not agree to the abolitioning to be done at home and hair to refreshing to find an Italian noble-

are no licenced or recognised of liceased brothels, woman, the Duchess of Sermonts houses in the Colony escapes my Commendable or not as that may maintaining that manners of understanding. As rapidly as one seem, the representatives at least to-day

Even the analls are snapping out actually better

place la suppressed another takes ensured an Open and than

regulated of third gear and the warbler in those of previous ages, root elsewhere and is eventually system instead of a even if she does not entirely prove traced out and put down. both pro-areret growth.

poisonous our gardon has had his tonsils her case.

cut. Sometimes wo wish his In support of her stato-

Chivalry hus fallen from ment she quotes several incidents cesses taking place with a stead-

its throat were cut as his mellow bei- similar to the occasion when Sarah,iness and persistence that keeps former quixotic state to a quality low mingles with the low coolng Duchess of Marlborough

the occupation within tolerable to bo

measured by degrees, and of the water buffalo and the sweet fley into

bounds.

women ui Fae Eastern countries, sound of the Chinese playing foot- on being command- an abusive

какс оп

The inhibitions of a race of in many cases are not conscius ef ball in the rond outside our door. #ed by Queen Anne to look for her

to submission any desire for gloves. The

women trained the of

emancipation opinion Duchess

However every little helps and the modern Miss China is probably not the less re- through the centuries are mixed

atar higher liable because incidents like this to with the national peculiarities of

If spring lias to be banged in and in the Boher not altogether prove her contention. peoples from all over the world. world than it has ever rison 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 Cast is only a step more serious ed heads than upon what ordinary ideas and voluntarily segregrated clock suddenly. To put it forward athers conforming to their own and dangerously than to stop the

A laugh is just, a gentle breeze, gently is the beat method and lait maketh muste as you please, or calls forth angry sontiment; but careful if you go Ho Hol for that's a algn your nature'a low, and justifies resentment,"

TORGERSEN.--At the French Hos- pital on 30th April, 1944. Johan Alfred Torgersen, aged 36, from Oslo, 2nd engineer of "Fingal" Funeral will pass the Monument at p.m. to-day. (Home papers please copy).

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1934.

POLITICS IN

BRITAIN

Notwithstanding noteworthy achievements which have placed the nation's affairs on a sound footing, the National Govern ment does not appear to face the future with any marked de |gree of confidence in its ability to retain popular support. The special platform campaign on

men and women do on ordinary ocensions, in the street, on the bus, and in the home.

WIDER TEST

from the mass.

"How appalling!" says the lady the one which alone can bring chairman of the British National, results in Hongkong and China to Committee at a League of Nations; day.

PHIPPS tells us

WHEN LEEKS ARE NOT SOUP

ever, contemporary manners have Judged by this wider test, how-

no reason to be.ashamed. That the chaviour of average people to-day has not upon it the fine bloom of troupe of performing experts is up The Ministry of Agriculture's erremonious

courtesy which

JA truc and natural

AGAINST CIGGLES.

Professor George C. Williams, of Ithaca, New Orleans, has gone into the subject deep; and charac- ter ho now avers, from laughs. spectacle to see. Welshmen run-more easily thin words, arg tabu- ning over their emblems with|lated ut a peep, tape measures to make quite sure they haven't paid for a gets cheery with a short Ha! Ha!, For instance if your kind papa. "Selected" and been landed in his nature may be vicious; but it the "Soup."

ho atira his hearty bowela, with OTHER POSSIBILITIES.

longishly-drawn Ha! Ha! vowels, don't fear to thwart his wishes., And the scheme, of course, leaves the Maater-Minds of the

Should unele make a sound like

even bets

is to be encountered In to its droll pranks again. romances of medieval chivalry Its latest gag is even more but at no period of time hus there Day (look you) the troupe, with enough; topical than usual. St. David's been more real kindness manifest- one of those lightning thought ed in personal relations than there sequences which leave us laymen which it has embarked has its nowadays. This is perhaps, at dazed, immediately thought of origin in a feeling that all is the moment, being brought home to leeks, not well. Mr. Baldwin, in his many people who, in view of Having got that far the rest Ministry with plenty of scope for Haw," when cold reserve begins. appeal in a Liberal journal the celebrations which are being was engy. The Ministry is already its application to other emblema- to thaw, you'll know he's got a

prepared for the hundredth anni engaged on its plan for bringing

tical-horticulture: For instance: vacant- mind;-and-if-ho makes no farc, openly declares that there mas of this year, are refreshing National Mark Scheme, and it/dificult to mark the thistle (for 4 chance to fall, it's against a return to party war-versary of Charles Lambut Christ-all. English vegetables under the although they might find it rather sound at all, just give the coln is a grave danger of Socialism their memories of the "Essays way

Bonny Scotland), that officially announced

the grading your Unc's unkind. being returned to power at the of Elia." Lamb declares

Leeks would be brought up to would offer delightful possiblities, one of these that he

And if he laughs the Hi in. will next general election. Fearful believe that true gentility

the Mark on St. David's Day (to

"Selected Ultra Prickly," auity fit, his muscles there are weak "hit", to eat his stomach's scarce- cxists of such a prospect, he describes when "in polite circles" the "same

goodness).

able for football matches; the Socialists as being controlled attentions" are paid to

with age; whilst He! as in the elderly

"Selected Not So Prickly," suit- vulgar "heck," denotes sarcasm by by extremists and

strongly people as to young. Paice earns three grades. (Don't miss this.) able for domestic use:

Lamb's praise in the circumstance Selected Largo" with stems not "Selected Definitely Blunt," for

the peck and not the knowing tainted with Communism. This that he behaved in precisely the less thani 1in. in diameter at the dancing reels, tossing the caber,

sage. is hardly a fair description of same courteous manner to rich and widest point, and blanched for at and braw bricht nichts generally: And sorry are we if we hear,

poor alike. Not everyone to-day least 4in. "Selected," with stems and the Labour Parliamentary Party, can claim that distinction, but it is not less than in. in diameter,

you laugh the Hot as in "more "Selected Imitation," for pre-beer"; you show eff-em-in-acy; in whose leaders have studiously in sign of social advance that every and blanched for 3in.; and sentation purposes.

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

"Selected Soup," with stems dot In the meantime, I am able to shows a lacking of what's right, less than in, in diameter, and deny the rumour that Jack Peter- and the first are very nacey! Leftists within its ranks and

blanched for 2in.

sen has consented to mark the

who have deqlined 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 vote. for a sibly hopeful of persuading that must be remembered that con- National Government. Here it 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 partica that once the Budget was by the leaders of the three of the official Labour Party de balanced and the emergency iding 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 it therefore to be expected that ex-Premier, in appealing for whon the next election comes continued support of the Nation-National Government,

round, probably in 1935, the

as such,

al Government, fears that if the is to be given a further five Conservatives came out as a years' tenure of office? A fur- party, they would probably auf-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 aloof from association with any the party would certainly be other party, there would be suf- more rigidly Conservative in its ficient support from the Left to policies than it would when mer-justify the Government in re- 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 are undergoing a change, with and exercise a far greater mea- the future one of decided uncer. sure of influenco. Under the tainty. Possibly there may yet National banner, such out-and-emerge from the "National": out Conservatives as Lord Lloyd, den a new Centre Party, attrac Mr. Churchill, Mr. Amery anding to itself the most progres- Sir Henry Page-Croft are shut now clamouring for public sup Rive elements of the several units lout from control by the more port,

It is stated that there will be

It will bo a really superb first leek

"Now, leave me out of this. I'm not going to tako aldea".

If conventional and good you'd be, the Hul 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!

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For Scots Readers Th'art keekit naur.. I' gowan Haub'st roopie turbit on th

heck:

Neck

By tuppit hnums thy laftera

reck

O' plaldest haur;

Saft seople naina: Aglaird o"

neck

The teapen flour.

Wha' caulkit? Where the dins

Bilalt

Lot nuchterlochtle gang th' galt; Braw Inselo hort-nn' all'o

th'rait

In nairts awat,

Wee lichtle yon, nor keel abnte

For batrnics twa.

These beautiful lines wore Aug- gested by that strange passage in the Acneld the proper translation of which has so long been a matter. of controversy—

Nec flumino gravior, non in puella delecto

Cortorarla apud, do to gracilis proferrant.

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

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