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ENGLISHMEN ARE HUMBUGS

BUT PECKSNIFFS MAY BE HEADING FOR EXTINCTION

By Oliver Baldwin

TOREIGNERS have always look- us as a nation of humbugs. It started in the days of Cromwell, when we first launch- ud out on Imperiallet expansion, and it has lasted until the present

day.

From the days when a policy of -defence caused Us+ strangely onough, to occupy Jamaica, until the end of the Great War, when after affirming most stoutly every not few months that we were fighting for gain, and we finish, ed up in 1919 with an additional empire of many thousand square miles, this accusation has been mado and denied, reaffirmed and To-denied. Yet, having travelled in many countries and known many peoples, I am forced to agree with the accusation.

Charles Dickens did not create his Mr. Pecksniff from imagina- tion; he built him up from.obser- vation, and produced. in him, a

symbolical type peculiarly Englishman which we all recog- niac.

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I belleve, however, that the type ie dying out, and that the general emancipation and revolt against

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different forms of authority has done much to bring this about. Some of us are thankful that this is the case; the real humbugs, of course, are in despair.

There are many sides to this national humbug of ours, of which perhaps domestic humbug is the muat common. We are constantly assorting that the basis of our Imperial gtory les in the home, wherein reigns the most perfect harmony and the greatest parental and filial devotion, yet we know that it has been the poverty, In- compatibility, and arrowness of this very home life that has sent forth the younger members to distant lands as ploneers of the very Imperialism we pretend worship.

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MARRIAGE TIES Unhappy Individuals who have mnde a mess of their married life continue their life of humbug to- gether whereas, with 2 little honesty, the two persons concern- ed could free themselves from cach other and be thereby better servants of the community.

From domesticity, the humbug enters the political life, and we have to-day the tragic spectacle of representatives of the people enjoying the fruits of office Bud position by having denied every political principle for which they ever stood, and humbugging the

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[publle that what was not in the national Interest yesterday is no to-day; when nothing has altered savo the political situation, which they themselves had said would become more serious as a result of the policy they used to oppose, but now support.

Conservativen have in this altua tion been devold of humbug, for, apart from a democratisation of their view, they have stuck to their main principles. Liberals. who believed in free, unfettered competition and the liberty of the individual, are backing Socialist schemes of control and opposing the right of free expression opinion.

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Labour leaders, having been routed by the power of organised capitalism, now stamp the country and shout "Boo" at the very things they were incapable of opposing when in office.

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In infernational relatione excel ourselves, We give service to the League of Nations, and abide by it; decisions when it affects other nations, but refuse to accept any suggestions that may be made that have reference to our own posacasiona.

We fulminate against the

wickedness of international arma- ¡ment manufacturers, and draw our i dividends from the slaughter their actions have caused. We speak with one breath of the freedom our rule brings to nome native race; with another we acknowledge we hold these races in subjection by the power of the sword,

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In religion, we pretend to follow the precepts of a Prince of Peace, the doctrine of forgiveness and merey, and a bolief In the prin- ciples of turning the other chock

at the same time as we hang the battle-scarred standards of war in

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1935.

ARTHUR MURRAY SAYS YOU MUST RHUMBA OR SIT OUT

It's tantalizing to have to sit out a rhumba-and the rhumba is simple to do. Arthur Murray, president of the National Institute of Social Dancing, tells how lo do it in this fourth of acerics of six articles on "Dances, for the. Holidays."

(BY ARTHUR MURRAY) New York.

Within the past year, the Cuban Son, commonly known as the Rhumba, has attained wide popularity. The national dance of Cuba, it no longer is limited to exhibition purposes. During the holiday season, the most up-to- date couples at parties and bulla undoubtedly, will Rhumba when Rhumba music is played.

Remember that the manner in which you hold your partner and your own body to all important

Phebe Wallace and Luis Arnold show how the third step of the chumba is accented by a pause. Diagram at left shows the complete shumba routine pattern.

when he deciden to pause. Almost the Cuban Son, the basie steps of any woman who dances at all can which 1 have diagramed here to- follow a man who really, knows day. The man steps forward to the where he is going himself. Perfect lell with his left font, bringing the dancing la, then, largely the man's right one up to it on the next beat. responsibility.

Then, leading with the left again, When you've made up your mind he stops directly forward. The Start to learn to dance the rhumba, de a right foot swings in circular effect few hesitation steps without music. from position number two to nam- cathedrals, condemn trans when it comes to doing dance steps Take three quick stops and pause her four, and the left is drawn up gressora of our man-made moral that depend largely on a pause, or on the fourth. Repeat until you to It.. He hesitates. Then he code to imprisonment or death, anda hesitation to give them charm and never lose your balance while steps forward with his right and burden our Budget with increased interest. The man who leads in a hesitating. Find some Spanish hesitates again, nikwing the body measures of defence at the ex- half-hearted fashion, allowing his type music on the radio or victrola to pause in time to the music. The pense of the health and happiness backbone to become quilte limp, will and try again.

first three stepa are done quickly, of our vast multitude of poor and discover that practically none of his As soon na you can hesitate pausing on the third and on the suffering.

partners will be able to keep stop gracefully and with perfect case, try sixth counts.

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In education, we divide its ac- quisition into, classes based on the money that each individual can afford to pay for it, and talk in aloud voice of the equality education and opportunity that is available for all; merely because there are a few scholarships here and there which enable a handful of people to fit themselves for a job which does not exist.

In sex, we punish the breeder of children with the force of economic pressure, and refuse to allow him that knowledge which

CROSSING CONTINENT BY DONKEY TEAM

For leisurely

pace the camel: would seem to have found a rival. Driving two donkeys in a "buggy" at an average rate of two miles an hour. It took "Peter Barber." an

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BLACK RATS AND BEETLES

DOING DAMAGE IN BRITAIN

London.

old identity of the gollfelda, twelve An inquest discloses the return and a wider freedom. We force months to journey from Western to Britain of an animal belleved to the unhappily married into com Australia to Melbourne for the

company while the black rat seeks

it,

Meantime, death-watch beetles eating away centuries-old timber have endangered part of the famous York Minster roof. Experta after examining the groined roof of the transept, which houses the famous Five Sisters Windows-have.........ro- vealed an alarming decay. Many

mithung n legal crime before we Centenary celebrations. Apart be extinct--the old English black of the great,oaken beams, some of legally bless their separation.

We keep knowledge from our

from the loneliness of the trip and rnt. In the seventeenth century which are thought to date back to

children for fear they be con- the retracing of his tracks for the grey rat from Sumatra, brought the twelfth century, have been taminated, and blame them for 100 miles at one singe becuase be over in trading ships, drove the almost eaten away. One or two their lack of knowledge when was on the wrong rand, he had native black rats out of Britain. have crumbled to such an extent tragedy follows thut ignorance. no exciting experiences to relate.

We become Indignant because a

| Lately rat-proof warehouses have that they are in danger of collaps- man puts five shillings on a horse, Tas and admire the man who, by the manipulation of stocks and shares, enriches himself and beggars the small investor.

man of free and definite opinion, been built. But they were only ing and erashing to the floor.

will emerge-the man for whom proof against grey rats. Behind, equivocation and humbug will be

"The full ́extent of the damage alien things that hamper and their walls the black rat revived, is not yet Imown," the Dean' of harness the soul in its endeavour

curious York said. "I am afraid, however, that it is going to cost us some-

We prepare for war, and war follows, and we continue to preto break through to an honest con- safe from its enemy. A pare for war, calling it the assurcoption of his destiny and a deter-difference between the two varieties where between £10,000 and £12,000 ing of pence.

mination to accomplish freely and)

is that the grey' rat avoids homun to rectify." without false shame.

We continue to promise 111- employed a return to prosperity when we have not the slightest idea how that prosperity can pos-

sibly return.

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WHAT NEIGHBOURS THINK In our conventions we pride ourselves on our independence, yet Ivo in daily terror of the opinions of our neighbours. We consider it more shameful to have illegitimate child than to women die in childbirth for want of proper care and nourishment. We bring children into the world with squalor and bury the dend with pagan pomp.

Worst of all, we humbug our- selves. We have lived so long as the heirs of a falue set of values, as the upholders of out-of-late fancies, that our conception of good things in but a narrow circle, and our conception of evil is evér widening. It is no_if-and it has been said before-God were static and the davil

progressive.

Humbugs, aren't we ali? Even in that title there is danger. We are humbugs because we fear the truth, because we are frightened of the unknown, because we do not and will not think things out.

Our aim and object, in spite ofi our claims for individuality, is to make other people like us. We are afraid of being left behind. The likeness we wish all people to ABBUMO is a narrow, hesitant, frightened

against sameners,

which true liberty, constructive Individuality. and real freedom Boom to Aght in vain.

No; we are not all humbugs, and the ensuing years will forcibly

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