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FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1934.

THE RABIES OUTBREAK

FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1984.

NOTES OF THE DAY POLITE SOCIETY The Very Idea!

PROTECTIONIST BURST-

W

COMING BACK

By PATRICK BALFOUR

*

1

HOW DRY WE ARE!

By Edward Kelly, All Wot..

POSSIBLY, you noticed

The published discusalons this last week on the pros and cons of the Colony's free port status have been interesting.. if not Όπο conspicuously enlightening. contributor only felt sufliciently

that it rained a little this strongly about the Isauce rolned to assert his viewpoint uncom- THEN I asked a hostess of "manners makyth pian" was al- morning.

It's rather a shame, really, promisingly and even

this new London season ways our favourite motto. with Mr. Edgar Davidson there were. aus whether she had noticed any re-

because now we've got to picious appearances of a log-pull.cent social change she replied,

After all, there is everything to

And His cycle of progress towards "Yes. Young men are answering be said for polite society: for ale write about water.

again. They also prosperity

gance as opposed to vulgarity. everybody knows how we -protection pur-invitations

after the chasing power consumption write to thank you

roatraint

as opposed to exhibition-

detest water. production-fresh, employment-party."

lam, conversation as against wine- It is a humiliating reflection on cracks and doubles entendres. Re- Ever since last Friday now purchasing power, ad

have our times that such a statement volt against convention comen pro-we've had our head wrapped Inanitum-could hardly

al:ould need to be made or scom fessedly from a distasta for been seriously submitted. surprising that protected coun- at all striking. The truth is that hypocrisy, a taste for simplicity, a in ice-packs, we've isolated tries do not burst, was the com. while other ages have been more desire to be natural and a need ourself, hunger-striked for ment of Mr. Davidson, who was affected, others as hectic, the pres for easy intimacy.

ent epoch has outshone them all perhaps forgetting that they as the age of und manners. sometimes do.. In 1920, the United States, the most highly protected country in the world, burst so mossily that all the bally hoo and President Roosevelt have not yet succeeded in putting the pieces together again.

CONFUSING POINT

It is

And now, dash it all, it rains. Our subject was going to be rabies.

We were only drinking about it last night, and when we came across on the Star Ferry with our Girl Friend this morning, we asked her whether she thought It would be a good, subject.

But politeness is considerate. five days, and after pro- ness, not hypocrley; simplicity found thought, discovered a may spell vacancy; the natural is subject Tor to-day's "Very that

But this phase is passing of all too easily confounded with the

am sure. My friend's re-animal; and as to intimacy, it

Idea." la mark is indicative of a significant a thing which can only come by change. Society, since the war, slow degrees. It is not attained has been in the molting-pot; its by the abrupt demolition of all constitution; its manners, Its mor- barriers. Certain restraints are als, its very existence. But it natural to man. If he filings them scoms quite clear to me that from suddenly aside he is behaving in Mr. Davidson did not, in fact, fifteen years of chaos it is at last a manner unnatural to him, and the beginning to emerge in a more the result is no revelation of his carry the exploration of

stablo form. Colony's peculiar problems any further and it cannot be said that. For example, if one thing dis true self.

The truth is that this cult of very much was achieved at all. tinguishes the London season on informality sprang from two prin-

"What do you think of rubies ?" which we

We are now embarked, it little unfor-

"People don't talk about 'that tunate that Sir William Shenton is its raversion to formal enter cipal motives: laziness and self-we anked simply.

Ishneas. People could not be The old-fashioned and Mr. Stanley Dodwell should tainment,

bothered to think or to talk In-sort of thing until they are mar- "ball," which ten years ago was have chosen to drop the subject mocked at, is returning in triumph, telligently, so they took to cock-ried!" she said severely,

That's the worst of having a at the stage reached in the lettors The "party," which took its place, talls and wisecracks. They were of Wednesday and Thursday, for

only out for themselves, and good cold. confusion is rather greater Those quaint pyjamXXTODIG, I Manners (meaning consideration Getting back to rain, something will have to be done about ali this water.

It is, moreover,

the

Is receding into the

years,

Thousands of poor fish are un. happy about it all. Which is a howling shame. There is nothing

ftah.,

than when the controversy. it affairs are things of the past, for others) were a waste of time. muy so be called, first developed. There is no moro of that "Let's But a new generation In more It has been suggested, for instance, that we might obtaining up some people and get up solema than its predecessors, morg engraved invita-seriousminded, interested in other party" preferential treatment from Chinations ure pred veeks ahead and things and other people, while its as a quid pro quo for collecting the dance lists are longer than predecessor, humanised by finan-more pathetic than an unhappy, her Customs duties for her in they have been for

elal adversity and learning by bit this Colony on gouda destined for The Derby House Ball this sen- ter experience, la realising that no China before they leave here. son will be remembered as a signi- one can get very far in the pursuit But surely, in order to render this ficant socini landmark. Women in of happiness, or even in the strug- service adequately

tioras and in dresses which for glo for mere material success, un- have to abandan entirely our free some years have been reverting to lesa he considers his fellows.

Good manners go far deeper port status. How could we pre-old styles will again throng glided vent smuggling unless the duty drawing-rooms to the strains of than mere punctiliousness: they on all goods coming into Hong- the "Blue Danube," surrounded by are the windows of the soul. They kong waS pald on arrival? escorts who request, politely, the imply kindness, fellow-feeling, Smugglers would hardly suffer next but two. The reversion is so human sympathy pangs of conscience about divert marked that it can hardly be long ing goods Intended for internal before we start bowing, scraping, consumption to more profitable and hand-kissing again. channels.

RED HERRING

10

should

References to tho Colony ag a

the

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We ourself have been looking after flah ever since we were a small boy. We put tasty worms and similar dainties on hooks and lower them into the sea. The fish lies on its back and gnaws con- tentedly at the bait until it has enten the lot and then swims away.

We then pull in the line, balt the hook, and do it all over again. This. has been going on for years.

It's funny how our mind always wanders off the subject of water. were saying, "we", are

As Wo

Quids.

The fact, serious as it is, that the rabies outbreak has now spread into the hitherto clean area of Kowloon from the New Territories cannot be regarded as surprising. With no regula- tions applied to the infected

Moreover, if good manners are region, this development was

now making a reappearance on the social bound to occur sooner or later.

stage, thoir influence will be felt in private life. There is aa Yet from the very start, the authorities have stubbornly do

Moreover, there is one moment much room for politeness in the clined to tackle the evil at its

ous change which will surely en-home as in somebody else's home, sua: for the slim, boyish figure towards people you know as to- source. Up to the present, all

does not accord with stately enter wards comparative strangers. The that has been done is to enforce free trade island surrounded by tainment, und in any case Mae reason why the Edwardians made as a bit of an authority on pin-pricking regulations outside a world of nationalisni, introduced West, is the popular film star of success of marriage was that We remember, during our last the danger area, and to warn the a red herring. We are what we

too well-mannered, it be, their they were moment. Can

visit to Shanghai, how we wore public of the dangers of a situa are because of the role we have that women will revert to curves? showed too much consideration for prevailed upon to deliver a lecture tion created largely by the chosen to play in the realm of

The reaction towards formality each other and those whose ex- commeree-middlemen taking n Government's own hesitancy to

kong Hotel. do the only sensible thing by

rake-off as goods pass through. began last year, when London, in ample they were, to admit failure, our experiences in the Hong-.

Thousands were standing out- the eclipse of Berlin, the decline Our prosperity, of the past, has dealing with the outbreak in the

of Paris, and the depression of The reason why the succeedingĮ side the hall an hour before we been built upon services. If we New York, became for the first generation so often made a mess wore due to commence. After we district where it originated. hope to retain or resume the role time the leader of cosmopolitan of it was that so many of its mem- started they were at atanding. The task is by no means the in-traditionally considered to be our social life-and-lived up-to-that-bers thought good manners a form outside Couldn't get them to superable one which it is repre-sale justification for existence at responsibility more nubly than of hypocrisy, whereas in reality come in.

With the presence of wind for sented as being. All that is all, that of a distributing centre, Berlin, Paris, or New York. had they are the only foundation for a needed is to apply the muzzling it would be the sheerest folly to ever done.

successful, because unselfish, re- which we are noted, we loft the order to the whole of the New tradesmen, pure and/or simple, we able distinction, flocked to London

Foreigners, many of consider. Intionship.

hall and, going to the opposite The coming generation, inside of the street, started our Territories, to fix a date for its make our money, where and how and had to be entertained, and, respecting good manners, may well lecture from there. They rushed enforcement, and to notify the

we can and do not consider the as they were strangers, such enter- be able to show a bettor record into the hall. We rushed after villagers that dogs found un-place of origin of the goods we tainment had, of necessity, to be in home life.

them and locked the doora, muzzled thereafter will be shot sell, provided we get them at a of a formal kind. Dignity re Is it too much to hope that at sight. A drastic method, reasonable price and sell them at turned to London society filter a society's reversion to decent admittedly, but the only effectual a better. The code may not be along absence.

-standards of behavour it more means of coping with the situa- patriotically moral one in a British tion. If It be pleaded that the Colony, but this is hardly the time New Territory folk cannot afford for the merchant to quarrel with the cost of muzzles, then let the Government supply them free of charge and notify" dog-owners that they can secure them at the

meddle with tariffs. If we are

it.

TARIFF REQUIREMENTS

The time to consider modifica- tions of our free port status can

I believe that this tendency has than a passing fashion, that it been maturing, by way of reaction implies a renewed sense of ita against fifteen years of unrestrain- responsibilities, that it even part- ed behaviour, for some time. We ends an awakening of finer sen- are by nature a formal people.sibilities after a dead and shallow We have never been good Bohem- period?

lans. We are more at our vase The Intellect, at least, should among the conventions of polite derive greater stimulus from the

When we'd finished our lecture, women were weeping, men were gronning, a few were frothing at the mouth, nud all the windows were smashed. The chaleman said he'd never seen an acdience so greatly moved,

When we left Shanghal we were presented with a magnificent bunch

even be desirable to go further. have been developed in the Colony backatairs bar. The white tie is sent than from the promiscuous maiden hair all around it, and a nearest police station. It might only come when and if industries society than in the studio and the formal entertainments of the pre-of rare awkwards, with sprigs of

either by limiting the number of it is premature to decide the

our natural evening uniform, and orgies of the past. dogs which a family may possess

question now. For it does not or by refusing to grant licences follow that tariffa must accompany except in cases where dogs serve industrialiastion. A variety of an obvious necessity. The fact considerations

study requiro a duty on any com. is that there are far too many before

can

In dogs in the New Territories, the first place, it must be shown

modity

be justifled. many more pariahs, owned by no-one. It is, indeed, most Uke- from a tariff le efficient; the mere that an industry secking shelter ly that these are the type of fact that a factory locally exists animal which, coming across the is not enough. It should also be border, are largely responsible shown that protection is necessary for spreading the disease.. Un- and desirable; If an industry is fortunately, the evil cannot be competitive It can stand on its tuckled along the preventive own feet. If it needs the support lines followed in England, where of a tariff before commencing all dogs coming into the country operations, it should never com are placed in quarantine for six months; the existence of the Chinese hinterland rules that method out. But in England the quarantine requirements are re- inforced, when necessary, by muzzling orders in the affected areas not outside them, which is the Hongkong way. If an outbreak of rabies occurred in one county, the muzzling regulations to other than the main ja- tions would not be applied to an- fected region, and by issuing other they would be confined to warnings to the public. The the area directly affected, which situation calls for thorough- is the only sensible course. This going action on the part of the is in sharp contrast to the meas- authorities, whose business it is ures adopted here in Hongkong, to take every possible step to which would appear to be based protect the Colony from the on the almost fatalistic idea that serious dangers to which it is because the inhabitants of the at prosent exposed. And no New Territories might object to question of the "susceptibilities" the application of the muzzling of the inhabitants of the New. order, nothing can be done. The Territories should be permitted | evil certainly cannot be com- to deflect the Government from batted by confining the regula, its obvious duty,

mence. And there can be no excuse for protecting an allen in- dustry, that is to say a

business not suitable to the Colony but making a venture and trying to struggle along against odds. That is where an economic committee would be valuable; in steering that cannot be acclimatised, so to auper-optimists clear of ventures

speak.

Itemember, we're calling on the Conwaye this evening, so don't

order anything that will make you hiccup.

large bottle of rum. We also had a police escort.

So eager was the crowd to get near us that the police had to draw their revolvers, and ve people were killed and many wounded.

Wo were in Hongkong during the great drought of 1842-1931, when there was such a shortage of water that the Water Authority' didn't know whether they had restrictions imposed or not.

But our greatest experience In Hongkong was in June, 1934, when, for 1 whole days, it never rained at all, and the water in the streets was only three Inches deep, and going down' rapidly..

On that occasion the Peak people had to, drink their whisky neat be tween the hours of C p.m. and 4

a.m.

All this is to show that we know as much about rain' aa Mr. Joffries docs, so that any advice we give is backed by experience.

Still, it's a pity we couldn't write about 'rables this morning. We could think of some snappy things to say about dogs.

When It was raining eats and dogs this morning, we stopped in a poodle.

Wo

As we can't write what we want to write about, and, bosides, people are sick of the rain, think we will now change into some dry clothes, and telephone, our Girl Frland. ·· We're going to " ask her if nhò®ll,

for coma stroll to-night, lef

Anyway, speaking of rain, the

Teast shed the better.