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NOTES OF THE DAY S

THE AIR FEVER

Avery bad attack of air fever has fallen upon Turkey. She is making haste to acquire what is called an adequate air force, and, unfortunately, the measure of ade- quacy is constantly changing on the upward scale. What Turkey may think a sufficient force to-day sho may deem wholly insufficient before the year in gone. At all events Turkey is going "all out" for air power. The minds of the people are being inflamed by a Government appeal for subscrip- tions. Organisations have been formed in overy town and village to gather in the money. The now papers are sounding the big drum.

and even the services of the priest hood are being enlisted in the good causo. All the members of the Civil Service have pledged them- selves to give a substantial portion | of their pay, wealthy business men have given large sums, and tho devotion of subscribers is marked by badges worn on the coat lapel, somewhat after the manner of flag days. It looks as if the five million pounds required will soon be ob- tained. One result of the coming of air power is that a nation which formerly was of little account in the councils of the world may sud- denly, and at comparatively little cost, acquire status which came at very slow pace, and at great sacrifico in the days when naval and military strength counted for all. Now the balance can be upset in a few years, and the peace of the world threatened from quar- ters, formerly unthought of.

Hongkong Telegraph. READER TAKES A HAND

FRIDAY, AUG. 2, 1936.

THE INOCULATION QUESTION

|

AUGUST

1935.

HIGH BROWS' LIVES

ARE EMPTIER

BY GILBER FRANKAU

The Very Idea!

BE KIND TO AUTHORS

Mr. Krankau replies in this amus-alone with our, jazz and our do| Animals Are Not the Only ing article to a contribution, "I Am tective stories. A Highbrow," in the London Newes Chronicle by Aldous Huxley, the well-known novellat.

I am overtempted to quote against Mr. Huxley:

do nat look for holy saints to

guide me on my way. male and female devilkins to lead my feel astray.

Or

If

So

these are added, I rejoice-if

not, I shall not mind.

long as I have leave and choice

to meet my fellowkind. For as we come and as 100 go (and

deadly-soon go wel) · The People, Lord, Thy people are

good enough for me. But that is Kipling, whom the sight of gallant men on gallant horses palting over high timber at the risk of their necks in pursuit of a fox fills neither with cold dingust nor hot indignation!

But the trouble is that he

won't; and that he simply cannot get it into his great brain that our interests are just as wide as, nud wider than, his possibly even

own.

Ones Who Want Loving

AIVE minutes' conversa--

tion with a writer. will convince anyone who has He claima the larger exambitions become one that it perience; and that we live in o world where events are "Isolated would be far better to gò that his knowledge can, fuse and put his or her head in a "Isolated happenings into what is bag and leap from a great at least a partly comprehensible whole."

height.

and unconnected." Ho maintaina

I suggest the Apostle's. "Much learning doth make theo mad."

We are sure that if there was a prize offered at the Hongkong Club, for a grand champion boro, Wo lowbrows do not. believe it would be a writer or author overmuch in learning-except it bo the study of our own | who would have the proud dia- particular trade. We hold that tinction of getting the pretty

ia life

A simple affair of work and play, and that In almost ¦ medal.

Besides, Kipling ends his poem, Deliver me from every pride-the Middle, High and Low- That bara me. From a brother's overy difficulty conscience and

and Of course there is a reason elde, whatever pride he show, jovery difficulty conscienco

common Benso are the truest for this. To find out the reason, guides,

So I prefer to sympathise with And although we share Mr. all you have to do is to write. Mr. Huxley and his brother high- Huxley's respect for true science, Write like we do.

doals brows. Because, really they, do which

with material miss such a lot of fun.

phenomena, we hold, with the You start off with a vague idea dead satirist, that all Art is apt and no plot. You plant the hero to be useless-unless the artist can convey the complexity of his in the middle of the Sahara desert own experience in simple words, and then discover that you don't In simple sounds, in simple brush-know a durn thing about deserts,

I cannot agree with my fellow novelist, you see, that the life of the highbrow is relatively fuller than the life of the lowbrow, I belleve it to be emptier.

And Russia has begun a fascinating"content" (7contentment) is in-

when he says that his strokes, to us.

In this attitude towards Art, it and you have to shift him to some experiment in authorship. Soviet writers have started to read selec-trinsically richer and more signi- seems to my small brain, has place you're more familiar with

the one and only ficant than mine, the very use of germinated tions from their books to audiences that word "significant (hall- quarrel between the highbrow and by plane, because you don't know of young people who criticize and mark of all highbrows) gives me the lowbrow. The lowbrow saya, anything about boats. suggest improvements. High hopes

a alight pain.

in effect, "Be clear'"; "the high- are entertained of this experiment.

For to mo every manifesta- brow, "It is clear. If only you It is the reduction to a system of

tion of life is equally algni- weren't such a moron." a method that has often provodficant-whether it be a manly useful when aporadically employed

Which is mere ju-julam. Which

mere "private is

snobbery. Yet also

By the time this is done, about

elght new characters have butted into. the story, and you keep

in the past. Alert authors have sport or those frequently taken hints from their "ymbols" which our modern pocts worthy of a lowbrow's sympathy.forgetting their names and which UAG to shield their private Because most of us practise our is the wastrel son of the old Earl emotions from the contaminating ju-jus. Most of us are given to o crowd.

We revert to the question of inoculation of dogs because there appears to be a diversity of view on the point whether the cost of such inoculation, if | renders, though Jane Austen once made compulsory, should be declined a suggestion made by no borne by the Government or by less distinguished an admirer than individual dog-owners. The the Prince Regent to the effect that point is subsidiary to the main she should write a romantic co issue, which is that every possi-his stories in monthly parts, over- tume novel. Trollope, publishing ble precaution should be taken had an unknown lady in a public to protect the public from the place any that she was tired of his danger of possibly rabid dogs. famous character, Mrs. Proudlie. From the standpoint that every "Madam," anid Trollope, "she shall dog is a potential source of dan disappear, in the next issue." ger, there is much to be said for And, sure enough, she did. The the argument that the owner

choice of children as critics is wise, should meet the cost of a mea-

If rather bold. Children have ex-

sure necessitated by the mere

little harmless snobbery when we and what the devil happened to I cannot understand why ply our own particular trade. Aldous Huxley should believe himself a better man than I am-

the retired Colonel. You distinct- ly remember him stepping into the

or even than Gunga Din-because There was never a good work; hotel lift for no particular reason, he finds the sex appeal of a liar man without a slight superiority but you can't leave the man shut complex. Tho motor-mechanic rison Fisher girl less thrilling than that of a seventeenth-century who tunes your engine is just as up in the lift for three chapters. Mao West as depicted by Rubena. keen to make his craft a mystery Then you discover that you have Neither does it seem to me a proof as the surgeon who operates of virtue that his book entertains your body or the barrister who Invented a porter with a limp and

conducts your case. him more than my bridge.

While his statement that human

од

fact that he owns a dog. There cxpress quite pungently. On be- leisure in disputing about tastes indulge hla superiority complex? | five other people who are clutter-

assume

cellent taste, which they tend to I asked which of the "Alice" books she preferred, did not a small girl, after deep thought, make the sufficient reply, The 'Wonderland is less dull than the other 7 Yet they can discern merit in unexpect ed places. They rescued from the rubbish. heap of political contro- versy the bright shining gem of "Gulliver's Travels." Assuredly they are good, if severe, critics.

So why shouldn't the author of you rather like him. This renders beings spend at least half their such fine books as "Point Counter the hero entirely superfluous, and Point" and "Brave New World" | you lose interest in about twenty- does not smack, to my essentially Why shouldn't he bear mid snowing the place up. lowbrow mind, of the truth. and ice his banner with that

Highbrows may delight in such strange device, "Significant"? discussions. But for us, presum ably lower organisms, the scant hours to leisure are too precious to waste in idle talk.

You have one

of those brain-

I, a humble lowbrow, pomiro wayca which come only to true him all the more for it even if genius and decide to burn the I do hold that he might be a better artist if he could sympathise with hotel down with heavy loss of life. the roaring crowd at a Cup Final:

By the time you've finished with- We are the sons of Martha, and

the thrilling part about the firemen most of our day is spent in toil. Released from toll, we demand secretly, he even envies the tired building and squirting people and But perhaps he does. Perhaps, dashing in and out of the blazing our simple enjoyments, claiming business man wrestling with his swooping up and down ladders you nothing for those enjoyments cross-word puzzle. except that they help to relax

For all heights are lonely. And And that, in the furious heat of composition, you have accidentally sider that inoculation would pro-times is the fact that, though de f either mind or body,

surely, øven Mr. Huxley must For we lowbrows and still yearn, every now and again amidst killed the porter who was saving humble folk.

his snow and ice, for the warm the proprietor's little child when the Britain Mr. Huxley is wrong-and companionship of kindly, ordinary, wall fell on him.

possibly just a little too self-everyday men and women? consclous when he imagines, us

This is where you get up and The kind who pick his straw- snarling at him for his enjoyment berries for him-and might even walk up and down the room for a of Beethoven or Dostoievsky.. We read poetry if only a true poet quarter of an hour. "Then you are quite content for him to have would write to them in simple kick the desk over and go out and his symphonies and his Russian language of the simple things they have eight, brandies. novels if only he will leave us know and love!

is also the further point that the inoculation fee, applied in- dividually, would not amount to a hardship, whereas, for the Government to

the whole burden would mean a con- siderable, though not burden- some, outlay of public funds, As we say, however, the major question is whether inoculation should be made compulsory. Apparently, the Government's | MONEY SAVED veterinary advisers do not con-

One of the wonders of these duce maximum results. The pression is universal and most contention, it seems, is that people complain of being hard-up, inasmuch as dogs from across the saving practice In the border and dogs aboard has never been so active or so junks and sampans would most widespread. And that is to be İlkely escape inoculation, no noted particularly among persons really effective results would of modest means. The "Big accrue from the compulsory Threo" In thrift are the Post Office system. But surely is must be Savings Bank, the National Sav- conceded that even if complete Savings Banks. The most remark. Inga Association, and the Trustee coverage is not possible, it able of these Is the National Say- would be something to the good ings movement. It began during to lessen the measure of danger. the War to enable small Investors In other words, an additional | to help in financing the war, and precaution applied to forty or savings certificates now amount to fifty per cent of the Colony's more than 890 million sterling, with dogs would be infinitely better accrued interest of 98 millions. than no additional safeguard Savings Banks had funds of 62 Thirty-fivo years ago the Trusteo Moreover, the chief everyday millions; now these exceed 226 danger to the public arises from millions. Deposits in the Post 'dogs which are kept in the Office are about 854 millions, and urban areas, in the centre of Stock held through the Post Office populated regions; and it should Savings Bank is 185 millions. be relatively easy to insist on When to these many hundreds of inoculation in respect of these millions is added the enormous animals. The fact of the mat- dwelling-houses a faint idea of the amount Invested in the purchase of ter, of course, is that there are far too many unnecessary dogs the last thirty years may be form- in the Colony. Compulsory Ino-ed. And that, as everybody knows culation at the owners' expense might conceivably reduce the mumber, especially whero an owner has several pets. Some thing might also be done in the same direction by limiting the number of dogs which people in urban areas should own, or, if this is not thought desirable, there might be a graduated cats have quite different meanings "The words "Interest' and 'inter- scale of licences, increasing with

as they are being used with re- the number of animals owned. ference to the Abyssinian situation. On the broad general question, Thus the Italian press which is to there can be no two opinions say, Mussolini's, press-has con that compulsory inoculation | tained frequent assertions that would possess a distinct value British "Interest" In the Italo- in reducing the extent of dan Abyssinian dispute arises from the ger to the public. And, the rule existence of British "interests' in should be supplementary to the Africa, says the Christian Science existing restrictions, at any rato until such time as the Colony is freed for a considor able period of the rables

scourge.

expansion of the saving habit in

but sometimes forgets, makes for national stability. There is noth- log like having a substantial stake in the country to keep awake a man's interests in the doings of politicians.

EARNEST OF GOOD FAITH

Monitor.

But now that Mr. Anthony Eden has disclosed Britain's offer of a strip of her Somaliland territory to Ethiopia, the rest of the world, if (Continued on Page-7.)

WCHILE GRTANT

-19078

"Come on," Joe, I can't rest here, il always, get,

I see a mature of a prest

Never get married to an author. He's liable to get up in the middle of the night full of bright lena and firm resolves. Ho dashes off a few thousand words with the greatest of case, and then tears them up and behaves like a bear for the rest of the day.

It is after the author gets his 'stuff published that people start diving for cover when he appears. The author, however enjoys him- self. Having got someone, in a corner where he can't escape he is set for the day.

He will talk about there being no scope for intéllectual people In this Colony, about the rotten cover the publisher put on his book, how they mis-spelt a word. In chapter nine, how people re- fuse to display about three million of his books in the main window, how they're not pushing their sales in Abyssinia.

What's more, ho'll start talking about his next book, and if you don't tell him to the ground in time, he'll read a bit of it to you. If he goes to the length of asking your opinion of it, you've got him.

Just say "Rotten. Why don't you look for a job?"

never speak to you. again, being too busy going about telling people what towhound

-you are.