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ARE REALLY HAPPY

By BERNARD FALK

am persuaded that we do not istonce.ran on in one narrow chan.

Analysing my memorien I sco

A LIFE OF CRIME

By Ed, Kelly, Public Enomy No. 1.

THE advantages of a life of crime are so obvious{

Amid "wars and rumours of ware," many are striving to make real to the world the horrors of war by drawing platures of gua`at- tacks from the air that will

know when we are happy. It nel, an uninterrupted flow of smother our homes and our chil

is a view with which I have found peaceful moodn, we should never that it is a wonder that we dren, of paralyantion of supplies. of starvation, and of pestilence. most people whose opinion I have know happiness.. How could wo

An old deprived of the means of com- did not take up the profes- The purpose of these pictures in to Hought to agree with me.

sion earlier. enlist fear to help the cause of friend, on whose ripo wisdom I ast parison 7 A

peace. Mr. Nikola Tesla has now much store, expressed himself in

this fashion:

that I was happy, not when things We refer to the fact that added his quota with the

promise

We can no more tell when we are went smoothly for any lengthy we have to appear before Uof a horrible death ray which he

intends to place at the disposal of happy than we can be sure when term, but when, pendulum-like, X

all governments. The idea is that the top of a Stock Exchange boom, was swung, backwards and for Mr. Wynne Jones this morn-

is reached.

wards, for worry to mental case. ing in connection with a Hit will be so deadly in effect that

For most of us schooldays are The relief of reaching calm waters little unpleasantness with In- none dare risk its employment

probably the happiest period of our after each storm was my earest spector Saunders about our car. against them and their people existence, when the simplest jays, approach to definable happiness. The world would do well to refuse

In terms of happiness the red- As we have no money to pay Lfear as an ally. Fear's sulvice to holiday, can put us on the beat letter days in my life were not the u fine, we anticipate that we will man is negative, telling him to of terms with ourselves. Yet how showy months when tangible suc at least not have to write for bids him do, whereas constructive few are the Boys and girls who cesses were won, or when I imag-this column for the next fort- frain from doing what inclination Sthought and action are the need of realise that with their Innocent ined I had attained some coveted

this school-years are bound up in objective. Striving, rather than night. the day. Examples of obstructive quality of fear are seen numerable golden hours which succeeding, was the happier ex-

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partence of the two, as now, so sometime, and bring some flowers, recaptured! Courtship, marriage, the birth long after. I know to be the case and beer, and cheese......for the In every field of material invention and in social history. Another of a first child, early successos, in eliaracteristic of fear is its effect

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to associate with happiness, but

difficult situation me first neccosity in a typical career which it is usual and unselfish, creditable to both Actually, we would have taken is to be able to appreciate correctly until these chapters are part of art and conscience, and faith-up the life of a criminal much what is the right course to pursue, life in the round we cannot disally to pursue that aim, is, as so sooner in life if it weren't for the

many poets have sung, to come as risk of accidents. but it is notorious that fear warns tinguish whether they are inter- near to happiness as is humanly the judgment, giving a strong bins ludes of genuine or illusory con- possible.

Another drawback is the hours against the course which it elects

you have to work, especially if you Perfect happiness I have never are a burglar. found; and I have yet to be con- vinced that it has fallen to the

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man

It has been said that burglary

Stubbs Road known to be apprehensive of the take purchased pleasure for that Jot.of any man. People who have is a safe job. This le untrue. On

outcome...

THE ETERNAL DELUSION

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1934.

PLAYGROUNDS FOR.

THE POOR

is

tentment. Were the necessary to believe ungafe. For this reason, gift of discernment ours to com-

venture no one willingly

nand we should not so often mis would choose

leader a

more profound serenity of mind and spirit in which real happiness boasted of being perfectly, happy our frat burglary we smeared the wero victims of hallucination.safe with gelignité, or "soup," ne functions, and has its being.

That they felt themselves really they call it in the trade, threw a MATERIAL CONSIDERATIONS. happy fa a matter of debate, for match at it, and then went for a Prosumably for our good, hap-genuine happiness is unconscious long walk. When we came to, there What has been said of the expiness, it would seem, is only to happiness, realisable only, as I was a rather deep and ragged hole perience of individuals is equally be detected in retrospect, when its have already urged, in retrospect where the safe used to be, and

To remind ourselves we are that was all. true of international affaire. Feng comfortable spell has passed, and, operates to prevent confident and in contrast with other periods of happy is surely to threaten the

We advertised for the safe, with- constructive Acts and to lead life, it is a shining memory over pence of mind on which it is based, judgment astray. To encourage which, as we grow older, the mind and, like happiness that is hotly out result. We suspect that some fear is to forge a weapon that is has a fondness for Ungering. If chased, to find it receding before dishonest person had found it and likely to prove more enemy than my experience has not been vastly us. I may be wrong, but I speak kept it for a birdcage or something. friend to peace, There can be no different from the great majority, from my own experience. doubt that the general sense of the occasions to ensure happiness Happiness, I maintain, fear and disquiet played a very are mostly governed, to the small- oblivion of self and the passing large part in precipitating the last ost extent only, by material con-hour. That la why men and wo la opening the Wanchai chil-Buropean war. The best that can siderations.

men whose work is pleasing enough! dren's playground, the Hon. Sir be said for fear is that men some-

Take a typical instance, a week-j wholly to absorb them are happy: Thomas Southern expressed the times avoid crime from fear of the end when I sit in the sunshine, why, amongst other reasons, the consequences, yet even in this cast perhaps in one of the publle parks, religious and charitably-minded, hope that the day would come it is worth nothing that fear has to read for an hour or so an in- who in goodly acts discover an en- when every child in the Colony done the man himself no good, for teresting book. Uncontrolled, my grossing occupation, are markedly

he still suffers from the delusion would have a place in which to that the crime would bring him ad- eye takes in the beauty of Nature's happy... play, free from danger to him- vantage, and. If at any time cir- self and others. That day, we cumstances make him believe he fear, is a long way off; it may can evade the consequences, he will commit it. Fear cañ no more pro- the less, duce peace never come. None

than darkness enn there has in recent years been create light. Real peace can come a distinet quickening of public only to a people whose thoughts

and sims are peaceful interest in the provision of open spaces for the masses, and the progress already made in this direction engenders even greater

hopes for the future. Happily in the Colonial Secretary we have

In high Government_official_who

is, heart and soul in the move

MEASURING. "IT"

Nobody or nothing has ever

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THE JAPANESE TRUST

Burglars make very good husbands. Through constant practice they become adept at getting home at all hours of the night without bumping the furniture or arousing the gold- fish. This annoys some wives.

As a matter of fact, any woman.

whose husband has got away with something without giving her the

scenic effects-the green tracery Not until I retired and was faced Opportunity to nag him about It of the trees, the floral riot of with the prospect of idle leisure has a legitimate grievance, which colour, the faint blue of the cloud- did I discover the extent to which should be sufficient grounds for decked sky. Follows a brisk walk happiness and hard work travel in divorce even in Hongkong. that brings me with keen appetite harness. Foollably used to

We think burglars are not fairly. to my meals. Perhaps I write imagine the raverse that only treated In this Colony. There some letters; do a number of odd when one was quit of work was should be a Kindness-to-Burglars jobs for myself; one way or an-one happy. To-day I suppose it Week. other, at the end of the day, I am is true that I seek to be more in found deliciously tired in mind and dustrious than ever. limb, so that I fall off into a soundi sleep, thereby rounding off a happy twenty-four hours,

FROM LITTLE JOYS.

Though the years had to accumu-

I am conscious that a day has late before the truth dawned on

Even If a man does break into the Chartered Bank vault,

after all, it's not his vault. (Order!)

Then again, they have a very

When

This explains the term "Silence in the caught,” which you have all heard at some time or the other.

Bag. snatchers have a hard life.

fingers a pattern of crochet-work, a bag from a woman and she hung or listening with rapt care while on to it. He couldn't get the bag a novel of Marion Crawford was away from her, so he had take the being read over to her.

woman as well. Even then she Friends of

still clutched it, and the finish the ex-Empresa

up Eugenie have told me that towards was that he had to marry her.

(Continued on Pago 5.)

Now he's practically on the brend line. He works his fingers to the bone all day snatching bags, and she picks his pockets while ho'a asleep. Enough to drive a man to teetotalism.

This, by the way, provides us with a moral which will save any aspersion casting. Our character is crumbling slightly at the edges already, and we cannot afford to have any further damage done to ft.

When you have made your

adequately defined "It" but gone pleasantly by, bat, however me, now I know that out of ilitie deadly Instrument has just made agreeable my feelings, I do not joys the greatest moments of hap strict code of honour. its debut which may cause riots in honour them with the title of happiness aro born. Like Addison, pinched, they never dump their the feminine world. The "panho-piness. That must be part of the famous essayist, I have been buddies (meaning, of course, they meter" is a complicated affair of later revelation. For a morning most contented in the company of never rat on their cobbers), ment and who has played no positive and negative bulb lights, comes when I awake with a dull a few select friends, overjoyed to small part in the activities which an infra-red ray passing between headache and everything to which share their conversation. have resulted in the laying down two lenses and a magic aluminium I apply myself takes on a atale or Nor have the exalted ones of this of six playgrounds during the circle wherein one's figure reflec- Inck-lustre aspect. My little uni- earth found that Glory's thrills past five years, Mr. J. L. Maction is caught by a photo-electric verse is endly out-of-sorts; I feel offer them more satisfaction than cell which registers the degree of as old as the world Itself. Then, the everyday pleasures which are Pherson, also, has shown charac-intensity on a fin). It purports to regretfully, I think of the wonder- the common privilege of the hum-We know one poor chap who was teristic energy and enthusiasm register personality or, and ful day I spent in the sunshine, blest of mankind. In the eve of doing real well about three years in the project. But, gratifying is being demonstrated at a radio among the lowers, and, for the her long reign, Queen Victoria was ago, but met with a frightful bit as the progress has been, there exhibition. Miss Jocelyn Howarth, first time, recognise how happy I happy copying with still supple of bad work. He tried to snatch are, as Sir Thomas Southorn has the star of the Australian film was. pointed out, thousands of chil- "The Squatter's Daughter", regis- dren who remain unprovided for.tered 98 per cent. "It" or

LEARNING BY CONTRAST. on the

We need, I am sure, the contrast The system at present in force machine, but she was beaten by n is for the Government to provide young Melbourne suburban matron between the bright and dull sca-

who registered the plots, leaving it to the Chil- cent.

one hundred persons of life to learn when true The Lord Mayor of happiness was our portion. If ex- dren's Playground Association Melbourne registered only 39 per to equip and maintain the cen- cent., while the lady Mayoress, n tres. The burden is, however, daughter of Mr. Norman Brookes, a heavy one for the Association, the famous tennis star, showed. which requires at least $460 only 36 per cent. per month to carry out its work effectively. This is on the basis of the existing six playgrounds; obviously, it will need even more Lancashire cotton loom census money as and when fresh play reveals that while most other ing-fields are opened up. There countries are reducing equipment, is even now an urgent need for steady expansion is still proceed- this process funds. Many of the sporting ing in Japan and institutions of the Colony have seems likely to continue. Japan's success in the World's trade in helped by joining the Associa textiles mny be summed Up tion, but the number of individ- fundamentally in a word: or- ual subscribers is lamentably gantsation. When Japan went in small. When it is considered for Industrialiantion, it already what a boon these playgrounds possessed this great advantage. are for the poorer children of the For "the Hermit Kingdom" woke Colony, for whose enjoyment so

up in the sixties without sacrific- little is done, there should be no ing a foudal system. The State difficulty in maintaining a regu- took the place of the lord in the lar yearly income enabling the State as personified in the Mikado. allegiance of the Japanese-the Association to function without And it was the State that guided the need of having to worry over the country industrialisation. finances. If there are residents There was no stage of

stage of industrial who desire ocular proof of the faisnes

Saveral faire need which these playgrounds families, despised merchants in serve, we commend a visit to the the era of feudalism.

were the Wanchai centre, where during agents of industralisation, But,

either through any evening hundreds of children with the old class or through the intermarringo can be seen making use of the subsidy system, they gradually facilities with unbounded enjoy became indistinguishablo.

from

tho mont. But, na we any, only a State itself. Thus, before cartels beginning has so far been made; were, over hoard of. Japan had so much remains to be done. thom. Before rationalisation bo The great need at the moment is came a new word in the languago. more money. We commond the the lexicon of Japanese business movement to all who have at words of Mr. Arno S. Pearse, head had a place for it. Japan, in the heart the welfare and happiness of the Lancashire Cotton Federa of the poor children of the lion, has developed into one huge Colony.

trust.

Into

Krent

"And the funny part of it la that Emorried her before I know nho wan quch good cook...

money, quit the game and reform. Learn to play a harp. Become a Start taipan and live on the Peak.

campaign about Lower tram stations. Cultivate the company and distinguished

of

wealthy

people. Then, if you're ever feel- ing bit penurious, you've got the stut laid of.

Don't forget that retribution will overlake you. Take the case of our old pal Dillinger. In eleven hold-ups he managed to get about $400,000. He deposited it for safe kocping in the National Prudential Western Trading and Commer cially ltural Trust Fund and Bank

....The very Corporation ing

Inc.... next day a scoundrel of a manager robs Dillinger and a few other people of no account and leaves for Hongkong, where he became broker and the bank is broke. From broke to broker.

Which just goes to show....Wo mean to say that it proves beyond all shadow of doubt......anyway. It just shows you. Don't it?

Ah, well! We suppose we'd better trot across to Kowloon and sco our friend Mr. Wynne Jones now.

Don't forgot.

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