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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1935..

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RETREADS

NOTES OF THE DAY

DOLLAR AIDS THE FRANC

DEGENERATE FICTION

ECENT

DISTURBING

By LEWIS SPENCE

The Very Idea!

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TOSH AND BOSH Jottings From the Scrap

Book of Kelly

Edited By Eddie

Nations may put up barriërs of tariffs and monetary restrictions In attempts to protect their domestic |trade and industry. But they can- Rthese columns

correspondence in) persunsions have been sufficiently

Yesterday we promised our Great -not-separate this trade and Industry of the spirit which inspires modern of the evil, but the public as a

and Admiring Publie a system to from their financial nourishment, fiction in this country has made it whole has maintained a strange beat the Ice House Street brokers, 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 the continuance of business res section of the public is seriously certainly failed in its duty in fur-put into effect.

In the past, the average resident, pects no boundaries but those set disturbed by the degenerate char- thering means to suppress what like George or Waldroidvat by confidence. Even in a period of | it is merely a trulam that it is Common action on the part of the (Biggar and Botter) or ourself, havo actor. of the contemporary novel has become a national reproach.

been a bit scared about having such extreme nationalism as almost impossible to pick up a work Churches should kag ngo have been flutter, but all that's ended now,

USE of fiction nowadaya which does not organised, but, although tentative

THE KELLY SYSTEM. contain passages repulsivo to any measures have been taken in cor-YOUNG MAN, THIS MAY BE YOUR man or woman or common decency. tain instances, especially in that CHANCE IN LIFE. DO IT NOW.

First of all, you've got to take the There are, of course, degrees of of the Free Church of Scotland, Intitude in

these productions. organised protest of an effective Now York-London cross-rate on the

16th of But one and all, nearly, lay un-kind is still lacking. necessary stress upon sex relation the Church of Christendom as a

If ever there were a time when i then add the average of Bombay

silver prices for the precoding 21 ship, and a very high proportion whole should address itself to the

months; multiply the answer by fifty- sovcn 34ths of the double

caglo describo situations or uphold subtle and mischievous ideas so utterly task of boldly confronting an evil quotation for the day. You wit estimato what you think the Hong- inga and outlook of British people foreign and repugnant to the feel which threatens the fabric of

Christian society as surely ag | kong-Shanghai cross-rate will be next that the sources of their inspira- public health, it is the present. It previous Thursday, or twenty-seven Good Friday, subtract .000 per cent, plague or epidemic can menace

of the London silver rate of the tion cannot but be as suspect as could engage in no nobier crusade 64ths of the last-quoted export parity they are deplorable.

It has combated the scourges of drink and gambling with a courage than the purification of fiction rate (whichever is the greater); then cut the resultant figure in half-and you have the Kelly system in a nut- house mat-shell. and singleness of purpose which from its most inveterate enemies. have extorted admiration even Wherefore, then, does it permit the

terests. From $8.00

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Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1935.

The

the world knows to-day, therefore. nations will be forced at times to enter into the most intimate mort of International co-operation simply to protect their own Internal in

It is in this light that the help which the United States Treasury gave to France in her monetary crises must be seen. It should not be assumed that any financially powerful country could flounder without adversely affecting the United States. And just now, when the prospect of world currency stabiliantion is being discussed in financial capitals, and when the United States has shown readiness to join other countries in bringing order ont of the costly chaos into which world moneys have fallen. there are obvious reasons to prevent further demoralisations in money

As one who is jealous of the good name of his profession, and who is a lifelong student of fiction, the writer has done his utmost to reveal the dangers consequent upon the unchallenged acceptance of iterature of this type.

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lucrative, here is indeed a rotten- If corruption be notoriously ness which pays, and pays trium- phantly and lavishly. That it richly remunerates those publish ing houses which affect it is known

of any month starting with e

Care must, however, be taken to sell the same amount of exchange as you buy, and then you'll have the satisfaction of knowing that what you've done won't upset the market either way.

ham

Unfortunate predicament of Hongkong civil servant on house leave, bereft of services of amah, and looking after baby for tho Arst time.

SATISFACTION

for

"

Indeed, the consequences are al- Sword of the Spirit to sleep in its ready apparent, and that they have hand at the apparition of an been noted and commented upon cause its method of attack la more adversary even more dangerous bo- by responsible people again and insinuating and manifestly of fur- markets. Other reasons for

the again we all know. But the amaz-. ther reach and potentiality for dea- United States' sympathy

ing thing is that while Indignation truction? with

licence France's efforts to keep her cur- which has recently overswept our

at the wave of literary rency on the gold standard are not bookstalls and shops has been duly far to seek. The United States to-expressed, and warnings of the day holds by far the largest nation- most carnest nature have been al supply of the fellow metal. The issued from nulpit and Press, nuthority so far fins ignored the 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 a base for currencies. The future that mood of equivocation which it extend its lure and promise to the of gold-lacking powerful adher-all too readily assumes when facet 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

unknown quantity. And Britain has In commenting, many years not yet returned to gold. Dis of plays and films, the Law is so published by promising young

In the matter of the censorship upon the career of authorship.

Novela have of late years heen Jack Hylton & His Orchestra. ago, on the inadequacy of bath-closure of the part played by the nicely studious of the proprieties writers, some of which have not Zing: Went tho strings of my Heart-Fox Trot

ing facilities in Hongkong, we United States in saving the franc-as sometimes even to provoke a only plumbed the depths of depra- (From "Gay Deceivor") Jack Hylton & His Orchestra, put forward a suggestion that a decisive part, reports from Basel, smile. But in the field of fiction, vity, but have given the adolescent novels of a kind either bestially generation to believe that the BD-164 The Girl with the Dreamy Eyes-Fox Trot

what was needed at Repulse Bay Switzerland, home of the World gross or subtly vielcus are per wretched conditions they depict re- Jack Hylton & His Orchestra. 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. Orchids to My Lady-Fox_Trot

the unsightly matsheds, one Jack Hylton & His Orchestra. which would provide a big per obligations which nations have to consorship as exists utters no word Unless a novel display more than

ward one another to-day, The of condemnation.

a tendency to discuss the everlast- BD-165 Paper Hat Brigade-Fox Trot

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's and

Sordid as were the plays anding topic of sex, unless it show Jack jackson & His Orchestra. public needs would be entered with networks-of-cables, not only tion; coarse and unrestrained as the dark tendencies of

Elis missus had gone out to do some The Bridal Waltz-Waltz

for, not only in respect of bath with airy threads of radio

those com-were those of the carly Georgians, schools of thought revolutionary to hours. Ho rubbed his hands gleeful- wouldn't be home for at least two Jack Jackson & His Orchestra.ing booths, but with tea and munications, not only by ever the grossness which inspired them morality which have arisen NO ly. Now for it! Quietly he went in- BD-166 Serenade Rumba Fox Trot

other facilities also supplied. swifter travel accommodations, but was at least a direct one, racy of rapidly in a convulsed Europe dur- to the kitchen, deserted except for Jack Jackson & His Orchestra. | That dream has now been realis- in the very foundations of its ment. But not only is the fiction adjudged as effete and outmoded under the table while the cook-boy a-people-living in rader environing the past two decades, it le Fluffy, the cat. purring contentedly It happened in the Moonlight-Fox Trot

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. Jack Jackson & His Orchestra. Lido, which makes admirable In some part with sentiment but in tun subtlety of the degenerate, fitted for contemporary perusal. "Fluffy, Pussy!" he cajoled, clicking

most part with the unyielding from a wide inspection of some cent proclivity should be able to nauseating to normal decency, but, Also an interesting selection of vocal and

provision both for those who can

That a fiction of normal and de- his fingers. mortar of economie necessity,

Fluffy looked up warily. Such at- Instrumental Records.

afford the modern substitute of

hundreds of recently, published survive at all in the spate of pror-

tention was unusual. Ho prepared light, but the man suddenly the matshed and for others who

novels, I can bear witness that it lence and viciousness which surges pounced forward, grabbed her and have long desired something less MUCH TOO LARGE

makes open parade of human in- from the press is almost a thing carried her struggling from the room. timacles and vaunts unnatural in-miraculous.

Out and along the passage he want, expensive but have hitherto not

decencies in a manner unknown

and into another room, closing the had their wants met,

either to Georgian, Carolean, or The lending libraries reject it, door carefully behind him. A mo The world has travelled far and Elizabethan literature. The third publishers readers contemnit ment later there was rudden, Hongkong Realty Company is to experienced much since Victorian decade of this century, indeed, will with ridicule. Yet persist it does, The door opened, and a

agonising wail, a soul-ploreing cry be commended for its enterprise, days. The very adjective, from assuredly have earned for itself in and the wistful manner in which animal rushed out. Then came the torrified which, as Lady Southern rightly being a label of distinction, ap-reputation as productive of the seek for it is one of the most touch-

the records of literature an evil thousands of readers, continue to man, smiling triumphantly. said at the opening ceremony,

pears to be in danger of degenera-foulest examples of fiction known ing and pitiful things in our time. dining room in their new Mid-Level He had boon right all along. The provides a Lido unrivalled for ting into a term of opprobrium.to all time.

The desire or determination of

There are, indeed, signs, faint flat was big enough to swing a cat beauty of setting anywhere else

ja. One of the chief reasons why na those of the first streak of a in the world.

neo-Georgean Britain seems to be fiction of a degenerate and sugges- winter dawn, that the long night of It has been alto- gether an anomaly in the past Victorian apple-carts as it enn. thing so impudently audacious) is older fineness and sanity will not doctor, because doctors aren't

to upset as many of the remaining gestive" can be applied to any ing, and that the return of the

tive character. (if the term "sug- the fiction of the debased is wan- THE LITTLE CUTIE

We won't tell, the name of the that, despite the existence of One melancholy comment on this not more frequently suppressed is long be delayed. It can scarcely posed to tell. He was in his surgery numerous benches in various change of valves is to be found the lack of organised protest be that the inherent dignity of when sho--one of those Peak lovelies, parts of the Colony, the general in the sale the other day of a against its publication.

humanity will continually tolerate públic, and tourists as well, have huge painting by C. F. Daubigny

an art so ludicrously partial to the Many ministers and clergymen nusty, which affords. a pleture of found the greatest difficulty in for only three guineus. Paintings in the Christian Churches of all (Continued on Page 4) 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 glanco 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 even greater development of the real clue to the monetary slump Lido, providing additional atmay be found in the fact that the unfortunate painting measures 10 tractions, including a big open-feer by 515 feet. Who has house- air swimming-pool. Those who

room in these days of ever-shrink- attended the opening ceremony ing domesticity for such colossni last week were greatly impress-manifestations of artistic, genius? ed with the Colony's latest In Victorian and earlier 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 prevailed 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 bigness persists, but asserts itself ing its natural beauties to the In the form of Transatlantic liners general advantage of the public. in oils. To tho present genera- rather than in that of paintings Doubtless as time goes on, the tion the necessity for making the new Lido will become an even Inttor of prodigious proportions is greater centre of attraction, with not apparent. In modern eyes it swimming galis and similar at- tends to obscure rather than to en- tractive events regularly arrang-hanco artistic value. Honceforth. ed, to be followed, possibly, by It seems, only the mural painter. informal dinner dances such as will be permitted or will find It that held at the Repulas Bay profitable to "think big.“ Hotel last Friday. Apart from

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"Now, dear, ont your peas and carrots before daddy goes into another of his tantrums,”

sup-

as a contemporary calls 'em-was ushered in. She had been ill for some time and wanted to know what~~~ WES wrong.

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

ly.

The Peak lovely ant up indignant-

"Doctor," she said severely, "cut cut that fresh stuff. I came here to bo examined, not admired."

HOSPITAL CASE

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

The ambulance came and, bore me

away,

And now I'm a total wreck. I feel my liver has gone astray

And it'e somewhere near my

neck!

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

sighs,

But what do Teare? for the sister

Aero

Is a blonde with big, blue eyes?

GIVE IT A NAME

Eddie Kelly felt too tired to supply a caption for this drawing.. (Continued on Page )...