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DEGENERATE FICTION

DISTURBING

By LEWIS SPENCE

The Very Idea!

TOSH AND BOSH Jottings From the Scrap Book of Kelly

If ever, there were a time when sliver mumply the answer by ne

menace

stabilisation is being discussed in who is a Hfelong student of fiction drink and gambling with a courage you have the Kelly system in a nut-

Jack Hylton & His Orchestra.which would provide a big per-obligations which nations have to

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Unfortunate predicament of Hongkong civil servant on home leave, bereft of services of amah, and looking after baby for the first time,

His missus had gone out to do some

Nations may put up barriers of tariffs and monetary restrictions in

Edited By Eddle attempts to protect their domestic

ECENT correspondence in persuasions have been sufficiently.

Yesterday we promised our Groat trade and industry. But they can- not separate this trade and industry of the spirit which inspires modern of the evil, but the public as a and Admiring Public system, so strange beat the Ice House Street brokers, from their financial nourishment, fiction in this country has made it whole has maintained a The supply of capital necessary to evident that a very considerable apathy on the question, and has who'll be broker than ever when it's In the past, the average resident, the continuance of business res- section of the public is seriously certainly failed in its duty in fur- put into effect, pects no boundaries but those set disturbed by the degenerate char- thering means to suppress what like George or "Waddy", or Davey by confidence. Even in a period of acter of the contemporary novel. has became a national reproach. (Biggar and Boster) or ourself, have such extremo nationalism as the is merely a truism that it is Common action on the part of the been a bit scored, about having

work Churches should kog ago have been flutter, but all that's ended now.

SYSTEM. almost impossible to pick up

USE THE KELLY world knows to-day, therefore, of fiction nowadays which does not organised, but, although tentative nations will be forced at times to contain passages repulsive to any mensures have been taken in cer- YOUNG MAN, THIS MAY BE YOUR First of all, you've got to take the enter into the most intimate sort man or woman or common decency, tain instances, especially in that CHANCE IN LIFE. DO IT NOW. with of International co-operation simply There are, of course, degrees of of the Free Church of Scotland,

16th of any month starting, latitude In

theen productions: organlaed protest of an effectiveNow York-London cross-rate on the

kind is still lacking.

Z; then add the average of Bombay internal in- to protect their own

But one and all, nearly, lay un-

prices for the procoding terests. It is in this light that the necessary stress upon sux relation the Church of Christendom as a help which the

34ths of the double eagle United States ship, and a very high proportion Treasury gave

to France in her describe situations or uphold subtle whole should address itself to the seven

and mischievous ideas so utterly task of boldly confronting an evil quotation for the day. You then monetary crises must be seen.

Christian society an surely ne kong-Shanghai cross-rate will be next Good Friday, subtract .999 per cont should not be assumed that any foreign and repugnant to the feel- which threatens the fabric of estimate what you think the Hong-

inga and outlook of British people financially powerful country could that the sources of their inspira- pingue or epidemic can flounder without adversely affecting tion cannet but be as suspect na public health, it is the present. It

could engage in no nobier crusade 64ths of the last-quoted export

previous Thursday, or twenty-seven than the purification of fiction rate (whichever is the greater); then the United States. And just now, they aro deplorable,

As one who is jealous of the It has combated the scourgea of cut the resultant figure in half-and when the prospect of world currency

good name of his profession, and Anancial capitals, and when the the writer has done hla atmost to and singleness of purpose which house-not-shell.

admiration have extorted United States has shown readiness reveal the dangers consequent upon

Wherefore, then, does it permit the to join other countries in bringing the unchallenged acceptance of from its most inveterate enemies. order out of the costly chaos into literature of this type.

Indeed, the consequences are ni. Sword of the Spirit to sleep in its hand at the apparition of an which world moneys have fallen, ready apparent, and that they have adversary even more dangerous be there are obvious reasons to prevent been noted and commented upon cause its method of attack is more further demoralisation in money by responsible people again and Insinuating and manifestly of fur- markets. Other

But the amaz-ther reach and potentiality for dos- reasons for the again we all know. United

truction? States' sympathy with ing thing is that while indignation

at the wave of literary licence L Franco's efforts to keep her cur-

which has recently overswept our If corruption be notoriously rency an the gold standard are not bookstalls and shops has been duly lucrative, here is indeed a rotten- far to seek. The United States to- expressed, and warnings of the ncss, which pays, and pays trium- lavishly. That it day holds by far the largest nation- most earnest nature have been phantly al supply of the yellow metal. The issued from pulpit and Press, richly remunerates those publish- authority so far has ignored the ing houses which affect it is known value of gold in great measure evil, or has dealt with it in the to every man of letters, but the depends upon its continued use as most perfunctory manner, and in deplorable thing is that it should TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1935.

a base for currencies. The future that mood of equivocation which extend its lure and promise to the of gold-lucking powerful adher-all too readily assumes when faced literary artist, and particularly to HONGKONG'S LIDO ents to the gold standard-is an by problems of major importance.young and ardent spirits entering

upon the career of authorship. unknown quantity. And Britain has

In the matter of the censorship Novela have of late years been In commenting, many years not yet returned to gold. Die of plays and films, the Law la so published by promising young. ago, on the inadequacy of bath-closure of the part played by the nicely studious of the proprieties writers, some of which have not ing facilities in Hongkong, we United States. in saving the francas sometimes even to provoke only plumbed the depths of depra- But in the field of fiction,vity, but have given the adolescent a decisive part, reports from Basel, smile. put forward a suggestion that what was needed at Repulse Bay Switzerland, home of the World novels of a kind either bestially generation to believe that the grods or subtly vicious are per- wretched conditions they depict re- was a modern scheme to replace Bank, declare-thus offers another mitted to fall from the press with present the normal life of the com-

Illustration of the unavoidable daily frequency, and such feeble munity. the unsightly matsheds, one

Unless a novel display more than a tendency to discuss the everlast SATISFACTION consorship as exists utters no word ward one another to-day. The of condemnation.

Sordid as were the plays and ing topic of sex, unless it show manent structure, where the world is bound together not only novels of the period of the Restora- evidence of an acquaintance with shopping at Lane, Crawford And public needs would be catered with networks of cables, not only tion, course and unrestrained as the dark tendencies of those wouldn't be home for at least two for, not only in respect of bath with airy threads of radio com- were those of the early Georgians, schools of thought revolutionary to hours. He rubbed his hands gleeful- ever the grossness which inspired them morality which have arisen 80ly, Now for it! Quietly he went in- ing booths, but with ten and munications, not only by

was at least a direct one, racy of rapidly in a convulsed Europe dur-to the kitchen, deserted except for other facilities also supplied. swifter travel necommodations, but

a people living in a ruder environ-ing the past two decades, it is Fluffy, the cat, purring contentedly the very foundations of its That dream has now been realis. In

ment. But not only is the fiction adjudged as effetc, and outinoded under the table while the cook-boy-

Fluffy.

Pussy!" he cajoled, clicking ed in part by the opening of the economic life which are cemented of our time infused by an "intellec in its tone and attitude and as un-fed it on scraps of meat.

his fingers. Lidé, which makes admirable in some part with sentiment but in tual" subtlety of the degenerate, fitted for contemporary perusal.

nauseating to normal decency, but, That a fiction of normal and de-. Fluffy looked up warily. Such at- must part with the unyielding from wide inspection of some cent proclivity should be able to tention was unusual. He prepared provision both for those who can

mortar of economic necessity.

hundreds of recently published survive at all in the spate of prur- for fight, but the man suddenly afford the modern substitute of

novels, I can bear witness that it fence and viciousness which surges pounced forward, grabbed her and the matshed and for others who

makes open parade of human in- from the press is almost a thing carried her struggling from the room. Out and along the passage he went, have long desired something less MUCH TOO LARGE

iimacies and vaunts unnatural in- miraculous.

and into another room, closing the decencies in a manner unknown

door carefully behind him. A mo- expensive but have hitherto not

sudden, either to Georgian, Carolean; or The lending libraries: reject it ment later there was The had their wants mel.

The world has travelled far and Elizabethan literature. The third publishers" readers contemn it

ngonising wall, soul-piercing cry. and a torrified Hongkong Realty Company is to experienced much aihee Victorian decade of this century, indeed, will with ridicule. Yet persist it does, The door opened,

Then came the be commended for its enterprise, days. The very adjective, from assuredly have earned for itself in and the wistful manner in which animal rushed

the records of literature an evil thousands of readers continue to man, smiling triumphantly. which, as Lady Southorn rightly being a label of distinction, ap-reputation as productive of the seek for it is one of the most touch-

He had been right all along. The dining-room in their new Mid-Lovel said at the opening ceremony, pears to be in danger of degenera- foulest examples of fiction known ing and pitiful things in our time. at was big enough to swing a cat

There are, indeed, signs, faint ip. provides a Lido unrivalled for ting into a term of opprobrium. to all time. beauty of setting anywhere else in the world. It has been alto- gether an anomaly in the past that, despite the existence of numerous beaches in various parts of the Colony, the general public, and tourists as well, have huge painting by C. F. Daubigny Many ministers and clergymen found-the-greatest difficulty in for..only three guineas Paintings in the Christian Churches of all securing bathing facilities. That of the same artist used.to be deem reproach is now removed, and, ed worth thousands of pounds, provided the venture receives | At first glance this would seem to the support which is its due, imply the setting up of new artis there are prospects ahead of tic standards or criteria, but the real clue to the monetary alump even greater development of the

may be found in the fact that the Lido, providing additional at unfortunate painting measures 10) tractions, including a big open-fect by 5% feet. Who has house- air swimming-pool. Those who room in those days of ever-shrink- attended the opening ceremony ing domesticity for such colossal last week were greatly impress-manifestations of artistic genius? ed with the Colony's latest In Victorian and carller times they centre of healthful amusement, liked to paint on a large canvas, and the whole atmosphere which but even art galleries have not the prevalled suggested that at long wall space now to spare for many last Hongkong had taken a de specimens of such. The craze for finite step forward in capitalis I bigness persists, but asserts itself in the form of Transatlantic liners ing its natural beauties to the rather than in that of paintings general advantage of the public.in olla. To the present genera- Doubtless as time goes on, the tion the necessity for making the new Lido will become an even latter of prodigious proportions Is greater centre of attraction, with not apparent. In modern eyes it swimming galas and similar at- tends to obscure rather than to en- tractive events regularly arrang-hance artistic value. Henceforth. ed, to be followed, possibly, by it seems, only the mural painter informal dinner dances such ma will be permitted or will find it, that held at the Repulse Bay profitable to "think big.” Hotel last Friday. Apart from

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We won't tell the name of the

The desire or determination of One of the chief reasons why as those of the first streak of a neo-Georgean Britcin seems to be fiction of a degenerate and sugges- winter dawn, that the long night of THE LITTLE CUTIE to upset as many of the remaining tive character (if the term "aux- the fiction of the debased in wan- Hestive" can be applied to any-ing, and that the return of the Victorian apple-carts as it can. thing 90 impudently audacious) is older fineness and sanity will not doctor, because doctors aren't sup One melancholy comment on this not more frequently, suppressed is long be delayed. It can scarcely posed to tell. He was in his surgery. change of values is to be found the lack of organised protest be that the inherent dignity of when sho--one of those Peak lovelles,

humanity will continually tolerate ushered in. She

contemporary calls

had been 11 for in the sale the other day of a against its publication.

an art so ludicrously partial to the some time and wanted to know what nasty, which affords a picture of was wrong.

local residents, visitors who have all, the Lido can be regarded as to spend a day or so in port in a big asset to the Colony, and if the summer months, and who it proves the success which can should greatly appreciate the be reasonably anticipated, there provision of bathing facilities, would seem no reason why

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. will doubtles flock to the new facilities of a like character

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rendezvous, once its attractions should not eventually be provid are fully made known. All in od on the Kowloon side as well.

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"I still think I'm right about inflation, but I'm willing to Teave it to Gus. I've never known him to be wrong about Anything,"

an a

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"You've got acute appendicitis," be announced.

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The Poak lovely sat up indignant- "Doctor," who said severely, "rut

cut that fresh stuff. I came here to

be examined, not admired."

HOSPITAL CASE

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The following verse, covered bluuurd, and smelling strongly of chloroform, arrived in the office this morning:

The ambulance came and bore me

And now I'm a total wreck.

"I feel my liver kas gone astray

And 'e somewhere near my

Teck!

The doctor's looks are very soupre, And my friends all talk with

sight,

But what do I caret for the sister

here

Is a blonde with big, blus eyesi

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Eddie Kelly felt top tired to supply a caption

drawing.

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