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NOTES OF THE DAY

PEACE AND THE SAAR

It is evident that French policy,; based on the preservation of exist ing rights in Europe, has hardened in recent months. Every French-

WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR POSTERITY?

By E. SCHROTER

Hia

man desires peace. What worries What in the matter with the, ly-too seriously. He is learned him is that pence in such an un-world to-day? This is a question and can talk brilliantly on almost easy proposition. It is composed that has been asked so often in any tople under the sun. of fears and apprehension. of Inte years, in one way or another, zeciousness In pursuit of truth has suspicion, of preparation for that it passes for little short of coat him many a sleepless night possible conflict.writes Slaley facetiousness when raised by the and in consequence he la thin and Huddleston, from Paris. Through-avarage man in the street. More- cadavorous, lie, too in getting on out the greater part of the world over, with the science of sociology in the world, for people lock up there is the same false kind of very much in its infancy and world to him as they might, in primeval pence. Nearly every country in politice showing no algas of set times, have looked up to a mede» thinking of peace is disturbed by tling down to rational principles, cineman or high-priest, the prospect of war. And it may one might well be fearfully scepile Of course it takes all kinds to even be that in the end war will of the future and timini in broach-make a world. But, you will re- appear to many people as prefering such a subject.

member, I am in search of the type A abic to the anxieties of pence.

However, there la no rensen why of man who is best suited to shoul good deal has been done to disai-the least erudite amung, us should der the responsibilities of life. and painter to Mother pate the glamour of war. The be discouraged from giving the to act as a

lagt matter a thought or two. On the Nature when she brings new souls millions of men who had gone out contrary, it is a duty: for each and into the world. Now I do not say enough in the conviction every one of us contributes to think that either Mr. A or Mr. 13 that they were dofending honour, wards the

ion, would pass muster as such. If courag of evolution, home, civilisation, that war is a whether for good or otherwine. most of us were like Mr. A, wn would soon be back in the dark senseless and a vile business. Personally, I feel like the hishop

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On the other hand, if Mr. The disclosures which have been who, on visiting St. Peter's for the ages. made-and are still being made-frst time, felt his spirit swell until were the predominant pattern, of mercenary motives, of pro-it Alled the whole edifice; rather the world would probably tend to Wellsian Utopia, true, but fiteering in masa murder, have that like that other blahop who wards added to the deep disgust. The imagined himself dwindling away there in little doubt that it would obvious foolishness of most of the to nothingness-so greatly overas be quite devoid of romance-a

dendly dull world. diplomacy of the world has noted was he. escaped the attention of the aver age intelligent man,

war experience itself

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The Very Idea!

THE IMPATIENT PATIENT

By Edward "Sore-bones", Kelly

LAD In bandages and his night- Ct, Mr. Bdward Kelly, the

well-known motorist, write thir week's "Very Ides" from the depths of his bed in the Kowloon Hospital Mr. Kelly's story in simply told. Last week shady treo shellered palpitating pelters along the Fan- Ing Rond. Last week pluo, Mr. Kelly was the proud possessor of a mator-car. This week there is neither tree nor car. Now read on.

W

E feel surgery all over.

To think that, only a Week ago we were going to write wisecracks about Hongkong doctors!

here.

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Dr. Smalley may be going to operate on us but we don't want to be his meat.

Still they're an hospital' crowd

Dozens of sistern and nurses crowding around all day making us feel at home with their bottlen: doctors sticking old- fashioned phonographa to our cheats while we say "ninety-nine;" and wardamen warding of all kinds of disease such as

pneu- monia, pneuritis, pneuroticism and pneuralgia.

Also tonsilitis, bronchitis, pori- tonitis, alcoholitis And other lights too numerous to mention.

Slace we were admitted here we have become very keen Nurs-on hospitals.

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us look at the Saur. It is, of hash to thinking people, but it pro am tempted to put this forward part.

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This spirit, which I call the

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"Im!" he said, "very GRAVE! We were Horo, Didn't know whether he referred to our condi- tion or destination.

We spat out three or four teeth and groaned.

"We must remove his foibles," Buid someone.

One of the dispensers hit Us over the hend and we gradually Ius' consciousness.

When we awoke we were in bed, We don't know yet whether they have taken our faibles, but they have pinched our pants.

We are on the road to recovery

now, thank you, and are allowed to take slight nourishment.

For tiffin to-day they gave us нате hot water that tasted strangely of chicken,

To-morrow, the doctor tells us, we may go on our usual diet. Ve are tool to send out for some, but securely packed bottles may be sent to us through the post olllee.

Most of us seem to be agreed on No, I say, give me a man who the fact that the world is "goingsleeps of nights-by all means. to the dogs". Our minds are filled But let him have a healthy thirst with uneasiness-with all sorts of for knowledge and the will to But the conception of peace in vague, but dire forebodings. And acquire it despite the dryness of yet how many of us do anything the rudimentary **drst steps". its, positive sense, as desirable in about it? There in the usual plen- For, having got so far along the itseif, bas scarcely made headway-tiful crop of preachers and

Wo heartily recommend them to It is still looked upon as the mere usual dearth of altruistic souls who path of enlightenment, man must absence war. Peoples can per- really get down to it. We are all continue, stagnation or retragres

After all, the young man of be persuaded to yield as egotistically preoccupied with ston would soon spell disaster to the anyone who wants a change.

bulk of mankind. But let him, et been teeth where our own individual affairs that we above all things, cultivate a spirit Hongkong cannot afford to take risks, where his health is concern. have not yet been asked to sacrilice leave to others the good work of of adventure that miraculous at- The maximum in the establishment worrying about what sort of a titude of the mind that adda zest

Play ducks and drakes with The maximum in this world we bequeath to our children's to every net in life, whether great your health and you'll find your- connection, Is simply the nution of children, ignoring the sociological for little, and which preserves a

self in the hands of the quacks. national superiority. They be frulam that the Individual is best sane outlook whether he be on the heve themselves each people-to off when the community as a whole pinnacle of success and vigorous about getting into hospital. The Actually there's no dißeulty. he better than other nations. Let prospers. This no doubt in literary health or in the doldrums of adver-

only hard work in the getting out lity and illness. COUTRO, German. It Wis tem-ably contains a kerm of novelty to

We know several aimple ways porarily taken from Germany by many,

as a pannten for most of the social

of getting in. way of providing compensation for

ills of the world. One meets this The revelations made during France's loss in coal. That less At all events, it is interesting to spirit, once in a while, but it is

Some people swear by mosquito ía to the Senate Committee's investi- has been amply compensated; the analyse our friends in the role of all too rare. It is like a draft of bites, but a simpler way

Saar should now be surrendered torchbearers down the highway of ozone from an Alpine mountainside,nock a police officer on the jaw. gations into the traffic in arma

to Germany. One would suppose evolution. What sort of people are It temporarily infoxes

Personally we preferred the even the

motor ear method. have induced, President Roose that the French would be enger to they? How do they react to life's melancholiac with its tonic effects.

We were just waking up when velt to take the first step in a

hand back the Saar, in order that problems? What kind of a legacy And it is usually found with all

they brought us in to Dot. no territorial dispute with Ger-are they preparing for posterity? (that is best in mind and body; for, novement designed to bring an

many can arise on A matter in Among my own friends there are when it is the guiding spirit in a Sinalley. end to private manufacture of which French claims are virtually two who present a strong contrast person's life, mature can work un- The instruments of warfare. He non existent. Yet when the ple in each other and whom I regard trammelled in eliminating the poi

biselle, which normally would as the typical extremes of the in-song of mind and body, as she does has set up a special committee show an overwhelming majority Baentini einsses.

under the cover of sound, health- to. deal with the issue, and it or the inhabitanta in favour of re- One of them-I shall call him ful sleep. The cynic, or pseudo- seems more than likely that he integration in the Reich, is about Me, A-is "fat and forty". The cynk, may be inclined to smile

to be taken, French policy ap-

mest remarkable thing about him tolerantly, but those who have ex- will succeed in the task to whichparently is to induce Saarlanders, un inordinate lust for money. perienced the throes of mental he has put his hands. If he if it can be done without open in In other respects he is a thoroughly depression know only too well the does, the United States will be tervention, to vote for the state good fellow. He spins a good yarn value of the kind of nuto-sugges

que, that is to say, administration setting a much-needed example by a Commission of the league of on the golf linka; he never misses

over a bottle; he is a topnotcher tion I am hinting_at.

to the rest of the world. The hope of a vate for France, but artntion now and then or an after- | spirit of adventure, which banishen Nations, There is, of course, no boxing match; and he enjoys a British Government's attitude on there may be just a chance of a theakow carousal at "Ye Toad in petty worry, sex oppression and all S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. this question is against nation-vote against Germany. Why? th' Hole" or whatnot. But ask him the other crabby traits of the alisation of the arms industries: Because the Saur enjoy various what he thinks of the Balkan DisAvarage city dweller, in not neces

advantages under the League pute, and he will not stare blankly, sarily a natural characteristic of it prefers a system of regulation administration will some elements for he is not as native as all that, a few fortunate individuals. Pay- and control, international in of a French economie and mone- but he will contrive to reply so as chologists tell us it can be acquired character. It is doubtful, how-tary regime, and escapes a number to put the whole matter in a trivial by anyone who is not a confirmed ever, despite the recent House of abilities and hardships which light. He once confided to me, pessimist. Have we not, among the German people are at presont broadmindedly enough, that he was others, the example of Heine, whose of Commons rejection of enduring. Suppose the Starlanders, sadly deficient for the arts and genius flourished during the sight Labour motion against private thinking of their coal mines, re-sciences but that he had awoken to years of living death that termin- manufacture, whether the Brit-membering the benefits of the pre- the fact too Inte in life, when heated his life? Let a man but make sent economic arrangementą, voted no longer had the courage or up his mind, first thing in the ish public as a whole is at one for the status quo. That would, in application to surmount the appall morning, to be cheerful every with the Government on this way, be a calamity for Europe, Foring mountain of academic facts; minute of the day and to treat con- nutter. Possibly when the re-

is is certain that Germany would not so he had soon relapsed into his sciously everything that befalls as cense to strive for the recovery of usual happy-go-lucky mode of exis- part of the great adventure of life sult of the League of Nations the lost province. It is virtually tence, his only claim to distinction itself, and he is in a fair way to discovering the elixir of spiritual peace ballot is made known, it certain that the Saarlanders would being the small fortune he was thfulness. He will soon will be seen that the people pre-soon repent. The possibility of amassing. fer an out-and-out abolition of Franco-German clash would not be private manufacture. One of far-fetched. In short, a vote for the questions in that bailot deals the status quo in the Saar might

bring war to Europe. specifically with the point; it reads: "Should the manufac- Lure and sale of arms for private nection it is not without interest profil be prohibited by interna- to note some figures recently tional agreement?" Efforts have quoted by Dr. Addison, based on been made by Government his experience at the Ministry spokesmen to stress the difficul- of Munitions during the ties in the way of an interna-Saying that Britain set up its tional understanding UN this own national factorles because issue, but it will be surprising if į private armament manufacturers the query is not answered by un were unable to meet the demands, overwhelming majority in the he stated that although these affirmative. The Labour Party factories were hurriedly impro- has argued that whilst thevised, within a few months of private tråde in arms is not the|their establishment, they were sole or even the main cause of producing 18-pounders at ten to. war, the existence of private twelve shillings apiece, whereas profit-making interests in arma- the average contract price, even ments is a factor making for with the most experienced arma. international insecurity. Itment firms,, was twenty shillings, would even go further than this despite the fact that the nationalisation by coupling with State munitions workers were disurmament all round the plac-paid extremely high wages, ing of all arms and munitions | But apart from considerations of factories under a world author-cost, the case for taking arms ily. Whilst such a method of manufacture out of the hands of dealing with the problem is private firms is overwhelming. scarcely to be expected in the Admittedly, Government control near future, there can be no of the trade would not be of questioning the point that so great value unless at the same long as private interests are per- |time there was an international mitled to manufacture arma-convention embodying a system ments, so long will there be of licensing, But the first step strong inducements for the work-is to make it impossible for pri- ing up of war scares. Recent vate interests to amass profits revelations have disclosed the from death-dealing weapons of tremendous profits which arma-warfare. The United States is Iment firms have been able, to approaching the question from gloan in a trade which depends the right angle. Let us hope for its existence on war and that the example will be widely. rumours of war. In this con- followed.

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himself pulling with nature instead Now my other friend-Mr. Bit of against her, as so many do. you like is a very different char-And if this is not a "good thing ncter. II taken life very serious-for posterity, what is?

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DUMB-BELLES LETTRES

by Juliet Lowell

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Second World War! Honolulu Golf Club. Gentlemen!

I note that I am indebted to of $4.40 for you for the sum monthly duca, special assessment and some sort of an additional racket that you call a war tax. I suppose I will have to pay this in spite of the fact that I have never yet set foot on the so-called 'golf links, nor been insido the so- called club house.

Now I do not object to this at all it makes me feel a deeper personal interest in the golf club, and by the time I have had to dig up a few, more assessments I may become sufficiently interest- ed to visit the place. If I should deelde to play a round or two as result of my newly stimulated interest and curiosity, the com- mittee would regret ever having awakened such interest and an other assessment would be re- quired at once for repairing the grounds.

But this war tax racket gets niy gont. It may be alright to fool The majority of the people that way but I have discovered by Judicious inquiry that the WAR HAS BEEN OVER for a number of years. Being interested chiefly in golf, you gentlemen may not have heard the news, but I assure You see I am you it is authentic. In the newspaper game and have to keep well informed as to world oventa. The last war is over and the next one has not yet started, so where in hell is the sonae of lovying a war tax? They are not using our golf links for a battle ground, are they? I think we are being gypped and suggest that. you take the matter up with Mr. Roosevelt who, ought to know whother wo are in war or not.

Sincerely and practically yours,

F. K. Makino::

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