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THE PERILS OF The Very Idea!

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By ROBERT LYND

have had an influence but the number of minor ensunities unable to sleep, and I should be a situation cannot be viewed lightly T among portico in sports perfect wreck in the morning. as the industries chiefly affected women this summer has made cannot help thinking that the and to a greater extent than the many people wonder whether in is due to their being sont to bed "nervy" condition of some athletes net Increase in unemployment games the passion for perfect phytoo early, shown-ure those producing quick-sical efficiency has not been carried consumption goods. The banks too far. meanwhile complain of a decreas- ing demand for the abundant credit facilities available. The conclusion they reach is that Britain is stil far from out of the wood. There still remain problems, political and industrial, recovery, over which the monetary for solution that are retarding

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THURSDAY, AUG. 9, 1934.

BRITISH FILMS Correspondents who have re- cently written urging the deair- ability of moro British films being displayed in this Colony have unquestionably stressed a very real need. Time was when

British the

cinema industry lagged, far behind the standards set by foreign producers, but that day has gone. The best productions of British studios can now hold their own with those of any other country. But the fact remains that Hongkong seldom has the opportunity of

film. We are not concerned at

chemists or electricians with first- rate records. It is estimated that more than 300,000 persons ac- customed to earn more than £500 yenr aro now without any employment or claim to insurance benent. At least 100,000 of these have held highly responsible executive positions.

A

OUR HORROR-SCOPE

By George

READING Herr Hitler's

horoscope the other day in which an early traffic accident is predicted for the

us of our own little destiny unfortunate man, reminds

worked out by the National Imagine what would happen to Astrologians of Assyria. writers if they were trained on the would be sa much under the die Horror-scope, the star gazers same principles as athletes. They Under the title of Georga's tatorial thumb as the children of show that we were born in the the Old Woman Who Lived in a fifth degree of the second circle Shoc. They would have to submit of the Millenium which means all their dinner invitations to the cheap stalls in the theatres and dictatorial eye, and the dictator would usually any "No." They many appearances in identifica- beginning to feel happy. They was in her fourth astral revolution would be bundled off to bed like tion parades, schoolboyn Just when they were

Had it not been that Jupiter' would be taught to regard.re at the time we should have found If pocts collapsed as easily as porters as dangerous wild beasts ourselves tied to a life of success- athletes people would begin to and to run for their lives ot sight think that there was something of one. Altogether they would ful crime but things being as they wrong with the lives of the poeta,vo unnaturally segregated lives were we found ourselves imbued

with nfection and in time would lose their in-

for dogs with. thing that enables the ordinary cal ideal of efficiency.

It seems to me that the only dividuality victims of a mechanicrossed eyes and friends with un-

crossed cheques, '· disaster is his capacity for relaxa- man to go on living without

It seems odd that, while ordinary human beings, disregarding many of the rules of health, have been atter than usual during the sunny weather, a remarkable number of magnificent physical specimens of humanity have fallen like nine indigestion, nerves and similar pins before atacks of sore throat,

troubles.

I cannot believe that in such an

AUNT EMMA.

Dear George,

Venus rampant in a field of fail tion. It is because they need re-environment u Rudyard Kipling or ing stars predicts that we shall laxation that millions of men J. M. Barrie would have been always back the fourth horns in dinner parties and smoke and drink beer and give able to develop his genius. He field of four and that our full would have felt that he was being houses will be opposed to four of numbers now destitute, of hyhose

go to the distresses little has been heard theatre and rend novels. If they turned into a Robot, and the feel-a kind. clerks in business houses who have compelled themselves day after ing that one is being turned into Love la supposed to knock at our been accustomed to earn a few day, month after month to think Robot depresses the mind and heart at the same time that oppor hundred pounds a year, men who of nothing but their suceeas in lessena physical resilience.

tunity comes in at the door." "We have held important administra their vocations most of them would Training, every one will agree, shall probably miss both whilst we tive positions with salaries rang-break up physically. In their is necessary, but it is a question are window cleaning: ing up to £4,000 a year, and skilled search after efficiency they would whether in recent times it has specialista such as

ultimately achleye inefficiency...not been carried too far. It is surveyors, architects,

A few men of genius might Forty years ago children were ad- like chewing in this respect

ceas, justify their concentration on suvised to chew their food well, on but the reat would miss the example of Mr. Gladstone, who success by trying too hard.

I do hope you escaped owed his long life to the fact that that terrible shower last night. 1. Everybody knows, of course, he chowed every bite 32 times. was out with Fido having a little that no one is of much use at Then came Horace Fletcher from walk along Kennedy Road and my any work or any game unless he America, who went a step further dear, I was positively drenched. is keen beyond the common. Keen- and told us that we must go on Fido, the poor mite was soaked ness at the right time, however, chewing every bite till it was through and I is very different from keenness aliquid in the mouth. Henry James caught a touch of rheumatism. I am afraid has the time. Hours of keennens need tried to do this and by doing so, shudder to think what a vampish to be balanced by hours of cure-according to Mra. Wharton figure I must have cut with my lessness. W. G. Grace and Ran-atrophied his digestive system and dress clinging so closely to me with that hours of carelessness. are no jitsinhji showed by their example died-a martyr to over-chewing, the wet and showing me up like a bar to masterly exploits on the strain it must put on the nerves

It is easy to imagine what a young mannequin, cricket field. It is possible to slack for an afternoon without to be conscious of every chew one have taken up the cudgels on be I am glad to see that the press being a sincker.

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half of the poor dumb goldfish. · There is nothing that imperils have always admired their boaut!- It seems to me that an athlete,tealth more than this awful conful colour but they are so delicate, while keeping himself fit according able that there is no surer way to when they die that I really think centration on health. It is argu-poor things, and smell so terribly should live as far as possible like destroy the efficiency of the diges- they should be left in their wilh an ordinary human being. He tive system than to be thinking state to roam the seas. should go out to dinner when he perpetually about its efficiency.

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In the same way, it may be bowl of them for show is the Glon- none of these advantages, for its to dictate to him, liko a bospital argued that the top strict training ester Arcade but that has stopped. own membora. The middle-class nurse, about his diet and his hours, beneficial to them. It allows too pocket one as they passed and the of athletes Is injurious rather than I suppose goldfish fans used to education of his children if they man must pay large sums for the The trainer In modern times has little relaxation according to in-replacements became too heavy for S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. seeing a really good class British in their turn are to be equipped to been elevated into a dictator; and dividunt tastes. It affects the the management.

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I see that a man who stalo thirty

carry on professional and ad- dictatorships in practice are near-nerves by its concentration-camp the moment with the whys and яons, now destitute, whom it is act on the assumption that all accounts for the decline of in. two watches is to do thirty-one ministrative work. These are per- by always stupid. They usually seclusions. It is posible that it the wherefores; we merely state all the more difficult to help be- human beings are alike and that dividuality, of personality, in days time. One of those cases of a fact-which-cannot-be-denied, cause in the majority of cases they rules that are good for some modern sport, of which many watch and pray I'm afraid.

critica complain.

I am quite in favour of banish- It is possible that the local have suffered in silence. Too people are good, for everybody.

proud to advertise their.

ing the beggars from our streets theatres are the victims of cirvances, they have removed from of

grie- That is why you hear of teams

It is also possible that the de-though it does seem a dificult grown-up cricketers being cline of personality is merely an problem when they come back cumstances beyond their direct the comfortable houses where they ordered to bed while it is still illusion of the middle-aged. Ex-again after a free holiday at the control, and that they would wel-

were well known among their almost daylight. The assumption perts differ on this point. In any

Government neighbours; have taken their

expense from come come an opportunity of rectify-children away from expensive to be in bed by ten or eleven.

is that it in good for everybody case, I cannot believe that the delightful place like.

ideal of mechanical efficiency is Macao, Foochow

Canton, or the ing the grievance. The argu- schools, and have subsisted no one

suitable for human beings. Obvi- Territories which I never get a New ment has been advanced in some

can say how,

I cannot believe this. I believe ously it makes some of them very chance of visiting. It le fatal to that it is good for some people to ill. Even athletes, I am quarters that the public do not

be in bed by ten and good for would be healthier and happier If always seem to remember you. I suro, start giving them anything; they patrouise British productions, HELPING THEMSELVES

other people to sit up till two. If they acted on the advice of that gave one a bad fen cent piece once This may be true so far as

I were compelled to go to bed at great Puritan, John Milton, not to and he always passes some queer mediocre or obviously old films

Their case. is now recognised us

ten every night I should become refrain "when God zenda a cheer- remark when I see him and clears a national problem. The most

so exasperated that I should be ful hour." are concerned, but it cannot be hopeful aspect is that men of this seriously contended that, given class are usually those most cap the same quality; the cinema. able of devising means to help themselves. A number of them going public prefers the foreign have formed an Executive Employ product. The whole trouble ment Society, which is not only hitherto has been that the aver-cies for its members, but starting searching energetically for vacan- age type of British film shown new businesses. Another device here has, been far below the is to start a co-operative insurance standard of foreign productions, association through which execu- In other words, the British film

workers may insure them- xelves against unemployment. has not been given a fair chance. Others are endeavouring to pro This question, so

fur as the mote an extension of the system of Colonics are concerned, has again business under which employers

provident schemes in housea

'of

and again come to the fore in and employees contribute to a fund recent years, but no steps have to be used for various emergencies,

it is more been taken by Hongkong for that this is a national issue of the and more being felt dealing with the issue by such a first order. The plight of the method as the adoption of the manual workers has never for a quota system, which has been

moment beon forgotten. But it is no less important to prevent the applied in some of the depen- wastage of the skill, energy, and dencies. Why this Colony should high equipment of some of the stand aloof in this matter it is

best qualified individuals in Great Britain. dificult to see. At the Colonial Office Conference held some six

tivu

or seven years ago, at which] that the trade should establish Hongkong was represented, thean effective distributing agency whole question was discussed at for the whole Empire. Nothing considerable length, and the hope along these lines, at any rate so was expressed that the various far as it affects Hongkong, has Colonial Governments would do yet been devised. The general all in their power to promote the issue is one of so much import- increasing display of British ance, from many angles, that the films. At the same time, it was public would, we feel sure, wel- felt that the industry itself and come its being raised by one of its obligations in the matter, and our Unofficials at an early meet- |the suggestion was thrown out |ing of the Legislative Council,”

"I know how you must foul, darling. You'd bettor go out again to-morrow and lower that acore."

his throat. A casa of cumshaw and come often I'm afraid.

Well. I must toddle off now and Lake advantage of the cheap gramophone sales to get a few of my favourites. "The Voice in the Old Village Choir," is one I want and if I can get it cheap I shall seriously consider buying a gramo-. phone soon. It's so cheerful to hear a man's voice about the place.

Yours affectionate,

Auat Dorothy.

LOCAL RHYMES.

A military man is ho And fit to rule a whole army; Too bad that he will leave us

Hoon

To go to the Fifth Infun-tree. A good man Col. N******** He sits anon on dead man's

bonas

A terror to those men of loans Who interest charge at cent por

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He's moretful to those who'ro

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On terms unjust. Upright

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A Scotsman, full of mirth and

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Than Indicato his many charma By saying he's a "Jolly beggar." An upright man, C. J. M********

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Liko teaching a lon rugby braces the muscles,