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Don't wear a

Truss

Brooks

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BATHING

APPLIANCE

Cannot be detected through the Bathing Costume

THE BROOKS BATHING APPLIANCE

Is equally suitable for use in the home bathroom or for seaside bathing and wwiin- miny. It is unaffected by scă or fresh water, whether hot or cold. All buckles and. fittings are rustless (chromium plated). The hands are of closely woven white non-clauite webbing. It provides an ideal support for bathing at all season.

A Wonderful Addition

to the Brooks Range

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AN ALL-THE-YEAR - ROUND PROTECTION

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You will be delighted with the results if you follow the Arden Way of Caring for the skin.

LANE,

ON SALE AT

CRAWFORD,

PERFUMERY DEPT.

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

Attention

Motorists i

Windscreen Barnacle

License Holders

in Chromium and

Walnut

NEW STOCKS JUST

ARRIVED.

$2.80 each

Apply

WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1935,

NOTES OF THE DAY

FAIR ENOUGH

A word in defence of the report. ed decision of Great Britain to allow the exportation of arma te Abyssinia. Up to the present Britain has scrupulously avokiled

BRITAIN MUST GROW MORE FOOD

By COLLIN BROOKS

It is one of the weaknesses of Our need for imported food

The Very Idea!

THIS EFFICIENCY. BUSINESS

By Eddie Kelly,

Live-Wire

any action which might contribute SINCE last night we have to a stifToning of the Abyssinian casy, vivid catch-phrases. What Trado fanatle who would have

become efficient all over. attitude against Italy `and result Bret Harte called "sobre cuts of overy part of the globe employed It all came about through In encouraging that country to go Saxon speech" stir the imagination on its easiest produce, no matter

deavoured to

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food producer.

to war in defence of its independ and save the mind the trouble of into what terrible straits this reading the advertisements ence. Britain has genuinely en-thinking. Most political catch might fling any particular nation in an American magazine.

пп prevent the entry phrases serve excellent pur in times of crisis.

We get a kick out of any into Africa of any armamente pose, up to a point. Then they It certainly cannot satisfy any-modern advertisements that which might be, used for war, in become treacheroua, The new body who desires to ego a Britain we see. keeping with the undertaking given Prime Minister has found for us defensively and economically set In fact we got so many by the British Government jointly the necessary injunction, "Look to above mischance.

kicks out of reading our with other interested European your moat!" The days when Bri-

American magazine last nations. But the position becomes tain had a moat that could keep somewhat altered when a European out the attacker have passed, but In 1918 the war had compelled night that we became black

de even if we take the phrase as a

our soil what [and blue all over. power, which insisted upon priving Abyminia of any means of metaphor the warning demanda, Denmark, and France have always eighty years old to-day! My riations ke Holland, Belgium, "What? A hundred and defence, herself londs transports double thought. It is necessary with every

modern engine of that we are to it that our defences dont make the most of it as a dear, you don't look a day destruction and

builds

over 170. However do you Abyasinin's frontier an enormous

that we see to it that behind those The area under cropa now in do. it?" force for the prosecution of

defences the garrison is well England and Wales is only 75 per

ceni. of the acreage in 1918. offensive campaign. We do not sup- provisioned. pose that any fair-thinking man would willingly stand by without interfering if he saw a well-armed belligerent about to maim an un- armed neighbour, no matter what

Wheat, which is our staple food the 'colour of his skin. Britain's

product, has suffered a decline in decision can be justified, too, by

production of quite 60 per cent. the fact that

Of this amount we produce no We could, if we wished, double our no other nation. more

than £250,000,000 worthwheat production. except Italy, has taken any steps from our own soil. to enforce an embargo against

Of the total agricultural acre- Abyssinia. At the same

We depend on over-seas time.

sup-age in 1918, over one-seventh now Britain will show no favouritism.food ench year.

pliers for £389,000,000 worth of Hes fallow.

If Italy wants to buy British muni- tions she will not be prevented must in troubled times, as

if we look an ourselves, as we It all seems fair enough. If it garrison on these islands, there were possible to prevent both of must be ferried over that moat of. the antagonistic nations from ob- ours this vast quantity of food-

Even had we lacked that leason, taining weapons, Britain, we be stuffs.

forethought and care fur The The fact that the Ministry of leve, would be the first to deny

benefit and future of our race If the supplies fall for only a should have taught us that the Transport in London is circuint-them the opportunity. But under bare three weeks, our lives are in more food we produce by our own

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

Stubbs Road.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1935.

ROAD SAFETY

at

Italy's plan

According to the census of 1931 there are in Great Britain nearly 45,000,000 people.

We consume every year food to the value of about £639,000,000.

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More and more land has gone to grasa since the end of the war: pasture acreage has risen steadily and without check since 1919.

After the lesson of 1916-18 we should never have permitted the tion. fall back in national food produc-

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the circumstances it would seem chaos. Trade 18 we know it hands from our own soil the better not only unjust, but deliberately ceases, and we become a people for us,

of precariously rationesi by Au encouraging, to conquest, to forbid the export of thority, as we were in the grim

is no graver error in middie and later years of the war statecraft than to try to view any defensive weLpons to the Ethio-

when enemy ac-pians.

submarines were question as a matter of economics holding up the ferries of food.

only. The economic cost of a Whatever else we do or don't, policy may be amply repaid by the do, unless we ensure that these politien and social benefits. supply ships reach us regularly and safely we starve, in war their failure to arrive means de-

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feat.

That is one side of the question.

This is the otheri

Every year we pay out nearly $400,000,000 for foreign food.

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been

industrial

One of the secrets of Britain's that the urban communities have been constantly refreshed with rural stock. One of the symptoms of national decadence is the rapid diminution of rural stock.

There is yet another aspect which cannot be overlooked.

One need not be a particularly In practice the return bargain hazy mystje to agree that Jangled payments may fall into default. may not be made, or the Interest nerves, and a wearied mind can be

"It's that new Crome de Laichikok Foreshore Mud, darling. I just put it on be tween meals. And just fancy! It comes in 57 dif- ferent varieties, to suit any size face!"

"Oo, la, la! I must buy a keg of it immediately!"

'em.

Now, that's the stuff to give

Take the case of our old pal Whalesteeth.

Wealthy, he is, with pots of money, Good looking and of noble birth, he had a luxurious steam yacht and a steam train and railway station. Yet every- body avoided him...

When he walked into a theatre the whole audience made a dive for the fire exits. He couldn't make it out. Even his best friends wouldn't tell him.

ing they stepped on it and aimed As soon as they saw him com-

for the nearest horizon. But at last one of his enemies told him -by letter.

You guessed it--he had hall- tosis. Ninety per cent. of our unhappy marriages in Hongkong are due solely to this ravaging disense.

it?

That makes you sit up, doesn't

about another fellow,

Sit down again and we'll tell you.

They do not thrive on opposition, needs the food orders that go out exotic, foods transported under no money

Because of various political that la lacking in allen and signing the dotted line and sending

on

that acknowledged requisite factor welcome in the representative sys-to the various nations which artificial conditiona of storage We became an architect in three

Aupply นค both British

from the ends of the earth. and foreign, are subjected to various

ike.

tem. They dare not depend reason for support.

ing fifteen million copies of the "Highway Code" to all house holders in Great Britain in dicates the importance which the authorities place on quainting the public with rules which are considered necessary | RULERS VS. REASON for the safety of users of the

Ban and banishment appear to roads. The Code is a summary, in simple language, of such be the best answers a dictatorship rules, affecting the pedestrian as writera whose treatment of the make to newspapers and well as the motorist. Hong- regime is considered inexpedient. kong, some little time back, had For evidence, there's the New York a "Safety First" campaign, ex-Tribune reporter, banished, from Times, banned, and Chicago tending over a period of two Italy for sayings unpleasant to the weeks, and general opinion was Fascist fancy. Probably it should

He thought: "Holy Miko! An- Men and women flourish more other second of this and I'm that it proved of value. The be put. more seriously than that.

Dictators are not dilettante about In theory the people from whom when they are fed, on the foods asphyxinted!" But, just to

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be effort, however, was too circums- these matters. They do not follow we buy should be taking our and drinks that are traditional polite, he said: "You stick here. cribed to be really lasting in its the press closely merely for enter-manufactures in exchange or pay and native to their beings. I'm going to throw myself into the effects, and the thought does tainment, and mete out rebuke ining us interest on our foreign |

harbour.' arise whether or not the authori- Behind the

wny we-are-not-amused attitude. loans.

That ought to be enough to make striet watch which tics here should not take steps Mussolini's

any self-respecting girl go and wash agents

herself all over with Lifer's Soap. keep over somewhat similar to those now foreign periodicals in Italy Is a

Take our own case. We received being put into effect' at Home.compulsion that citizens of more

steadled and refreshed by a re-a letter saying, "Are you an un- The suggestion comes an democratic countries may find hard We must have their produce; bred and to one's native air.

turn to the land in which one was employed journalist? WHY NOT BECOME AN UNEMPLOYED appropriate moment, seeing that to appreciate. Dictatorships walk they need not have our goods in there has just been issued a full tight ropes. They are not balanced, exchange, and they may fail to to realise that

Still leas need one be a mystic | ARCHITECT?" We could have and completely revised set of

as are representative governments, reciprocate in any other way.

the fresh native been anything; electrical engineer, on the broad base of public opinion.

food of one's own land has a virtue lift-driver, deep-sea diver; all by traffic regulations. So far, how ever, the only publicity given to these regulations has been their appearance in the Government Gazette, an organ which very

They must few members of the general

with one clumsy weapon-force. public ever have occasion to con-

An effective suit. These regulations, which porarily. But still a clumsy one. weapon, yes, tem- number close' on two hundred, For it thoroughly perauades no occupy about fifty pages of the body, not even the users, of the Gazette. They apply, of course, soundness of the cause in which to all types of vehicles, whether it is wielded. And loyalty to be privately-owned or public motor-Insting must be of the head as well cars, buses, lorries, rickshas, imagine they can think for all those as of the heart. Dictatora may public chairs, or trucks, and de- under their rule, that they can tails are given of the various prevent, their subjects from think- parking stands for motor-cars.ing any but officially prescribed So far as motorists are-concern thoughts. But can dictatora pre- ed, the information given is of

men from thinking? Per- the greatest value; indeed, every

haps. But only for a while, motorist is supposed to acquaint himself with the regulations. Very few, however, will be likely to order the Gazette for this pur order to keep her export markets The fact of the matter is that in pose, and although the rules' are usually also published, and sold in such countries as the republica in booklet form, it would appear offer that territory some quid pro of South America, Britain must that those concerned could be much better served by being sup the "most favoured nation" clauses quo, and at the present juncturo plied with pamphlets setting out and various other economic ar those regulations which directly rangements seem to be the only affect them. In this way, the means of guaranteeing an open companies operating, public ser. door to British products in such vices and the individual car-Conference, the export trade of the areas, As a result of the Ottawa owner could be separately serv-Dominions to the United Kingdom ed, with only those parts of the has been materially, increased. regulations which directly con- And at the same time, although cern them. There would then restrictions and embargoes may be no excuse for anyone not cause heart-burnings, the polley of knowing the exact requirements the British Government in arrang- of the law. At the same time, countries has been largely respon- ing trade agreements with foreign the authorities might considerable for the Increase of $14,300,000 the desirability of issuing free of in Great Britain's export trade charge similar circulars for for the first five monthia of 1935 pedestrians, setting forth the as compared with the total for that obligations required of them in period of 1934. Simultaneously,

weeks. Our wife, who read all the On every count we must con-instructions, became an architect, meet slander, argument or fnct arrangements-quotas and the down the national habit of relying ton. If young Eddie had been ald more and more on supplies of leas enough to read he'd have been an excellent food from, over-seas. architect. neither the prices we pay nor the national progress, and our in-ather

These arrangements mean that' Our untional safety, our. We used to practice on each goods we get follow anything like individual welfare demand that

"natural" trend.

The wife would fall through the Ifront door and say:

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EQUITABLE ARRANGEMENTS

LTD. co-operating in safety on the Britain's imports, rose £4,000,000 roads. Measures such as these in the same period, Britain might would be far more effective and do worse than follow the present lusting in their results than system, which, though it may re quire adjustment In detall, soems spasmodic "Safety First" cam-

to be based upon paigns,

a reasonably sound and practical foundation.

we grow more food.

"Never mind reading all that stuff about your parents. What does it say about how I was dressed?"

"I got that there raise, Eddie! That brings me up to $11,559.69 per, an next week they're going to make me managing director!"

And we'd any:

"And it's all due to the Inter- changeable Correspondence School! Now we'll be able to get that yellow and red blanket for next winter."

When we sit down and strap our- self into a chair and think of how on earth we got on before there were any advertisements, when wa didn't have phorrhoea or halitosis, er unsightly hairs, skin blemishes, no ambition, couldn't play music on a saw, couldn't hold board meetings spellbound, and were never offered. the opportunity to earn $1,000 a week giving away packets of giant beans

well; it makes us feel sorry for us, when we look back on ourself.

Picture of young Hongkong wife proving to husband just how much she kneaded dough. to keep up appearances.

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