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NOTES OF THE DAY!

'''SQUATTERS" PLIGHT

The "aquatters" in Wongnci. chong have been ejected. Many of their shanifes

have been torn down. The Land Bailiff and the police have acted, the law has ful- filled ita function, the remedy has been taken. But the "squatters"

AUGUST 10, 1935.

BETTER GO BACK TO WHISKERS

By P. G. WOODHOUSE

BULLS AND INNERS

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From the Office Butts

A Shanghai paper asks "Ia Hongkong à Joke?" If we were, we should not be nearly as flat as Shanghall

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wife who drives from the back sent A Kowloon lady thinks that the is no worse than a husband who cooks from the dining-room table.

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Then there was the other golfer

TT is pretty generally agreed,, If he says, as he starts his breakfast. think-and what I think to-day | And, if he is alterary critic, Manchester thinks to-morrow→ | What a book! he feels, as he picks are still with na. They will pro- that something has got to be done up the latest ghastly effort of some ably build themselves pitiful little

to restore vigour and vitality to author who ought to be selling shelters elsewhere, as they have

literary criticism.

conts Instead of writing novels. done before. They provide ณ perennial problem. It is quite There was a time, not so long But let n man omit to shave, reasonable to demand that they ago, when reviewers were review oven for a single day, and mark

A local gulfer did a couplo, of should be removed and the action ers. They lived on raw meat and the result. He feels hot and holes in two under bogey last week. yesterday

justified. The spoke their minds, and an author scrubby. Within twelve hours his Strangely enough, the double eagle was trouble is that it does not solve who published a book did so at his outlook has become jaundiced and market was not seriously affected. the problem. "Squatters" are, a own risk. If he got by without | captions. ;

O B menace, and "squatters" and their Revere contusions of hia Helf- rights have been Botiree of respect, he know that he must be

If his interests He in, the direc-who collapsed after beating bogey trouble to other places than Hong-pretty good. And if the reception

one stroke. Ho heard the birdies sing! kong. There was a notable ease in of his first novel left him feeling tion of politics, he goes out and by recent years in Vancouver, Canada, as if he had been drawn through throws a bomb at someone.

口 O when "aquatters" fought against a wringer or forcibly unclothed in is an employer of labour, he starts In lock-out. If he la a critic, he which attempted to public, that was an excellent thing sita down to write his criticism

It put him on his eject them from their homes along | for his art.

If he had the stuff, he per- with the determination that by the a section of the waterfront where toes. they stood in the way of industrini severed. If he had not, he gave time he has finished reading it the author will know he has been in development. Not quite the same situation exists here. No-one Today, the question Hare you a fight. would object to."squatters” in read auf pood books lately? la one Wongnichong in reasonable num-which it is impossible to answer. bers, we suppose, or if they did

a company

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it up.

our eyes.

not constitute a menace and "L There are no good books now nuisance. Their quarters are in-ndaya-only superb books, astound- describably Althy. They are living ing books, genuine monsterpieces,

and books which we

not close to a reservoir. They have ashamed to say brought tears to invaded the outskirts of a chnice residential district, These things alone would be sufficient to demand their expulsion. Besides, they are breaking the law. So that even if their treatment has been harsh, in the light of the repeated warnings given them the "squatters" have hardly h justifiable complaint. The only comment anyone Is likely to offer is that they were treated

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A typhoon in the China Sea seems to be worth two in the Manila Observatory forecast.

If the "Shanghai Mind" only meant “Mind Your Own Business, everything would be quite all right.

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A Chinese lad almost swallowed mouth-organ the other day. He must consider himself lucky that he wasn't playing a trombone.

You have only to lonk about you to appreciate the truth of this. All whiskered things are testy and short-tempered--pornas, wild ents, Bernard Shaw, and-in the mating

Would season-shrimps.

Ben Jonson have kaffed a man on de- count of sine literary disagree, ment if he had not been bearded to the eyebrows? Can you imagine

Shanghai asserts that Hongkong nation of spruce, clean-abaven Bolsheviks, smelling of bay rum" suffers from "myopic aloofness."

ashamed of themselves) say that Some people who ought to be the reason for this tidal wave of There is only one thing to be Anyhow, that's botter than total sweetness and amiability is the fact done. We must go back to whis-blindness,

reviewers

аге to-day that

alt kers. And there must be no half novelists themselves, Onl Hili, measures. they claim, who does the literary

We are not sure yet whether the page of the Scrutineer, is not going have a beard like Frank Swinger-Shanghai is not the result of subtle It is not enough for a eritle to prominence given to Hongkong by to jump on Old Jog's "Sundered Souls" when he knows that his own ton's, which, though technically publicity propaganda by our newly- "Storm Over Brixton" is coming beard, is not bushy enough to sour formed Travel Association, out next week and that Joe rans the natural kindliness of his dis the book column of the Spokesman position. We must have, the old

This, of course, not so.

Assyrian stuff, the sort of beards Hebrew minor prophets wore-

ensending Nobody who really knows novel- great

spate-shaped ista and their aming integrity Things such as the great Victorians would believe it for a moment. It grew (whether under glass or not is with genuine surprise that has never been ascertained). William, having added "Sundered I realise that I shall suffer my. Association aiming at a big im. men-who think they could make Souls" to the list of the world's ! нelf from the change. There will

BUILDING UP THE NATION

a little ruthlessly, perhaps,

The particulars given yester-HARD-WORKED MAN day of the scheme evolved by the Physical Education Com- mittee of the British Medical

There may be a million men, in British Isles-mostly young

means.

millions

Inay

masterpieces, finds that Joseph, a

ception of a few of the younger set who have a sort of unpleasant downy growth alongside the cars, are all clean shaven.

sake of literature, and I know that sudden ebullition of whiskers among crities would raise the whole standard of writing.

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Hongkong's rainfall is still below the average for the

year. We're beginning to suspect that Mr. have mislaid the Evans must

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average.

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There was a boom In Ice House

let off a cracker!

A famous dance band conductor

has just retired. Now he's just

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. Whether the old critics were bitter because they had beards or

A young author would think one of the jazz-beens, grow beards because they bitter is beside the point. The tive novel of adolescence if he knew were twice before starting his introsper-

口 ☐ fact remains that aff the great that when published it would be iterary rows you read about were handed over for review to some for getting his fingers crushed in a A carpenter recently got damag28 between bearded men, whiskered body who looked like W. G. Grave door. Money for jam! men, erities who looked like burst at the age of eighteen. horsehair sofas and novelists who

were

writing altogether, and what a Nervous women would stop

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Officials of a London ericket club break that would be for the read- are complaining of soot from ink public. The only novelists who ¦ neighbouring chimneys. Pitch would carry on would be a small, black.

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There is no truth in the rumour ns good a shape as Cabinet Minis-week later, has done the same by my work like "Another Wodehouse China Sea in search of Mae West.

be no more of those eulogies for that the Navy is now scouring the provement in the physical condi-

ter as any membera, past or pre- "Storm Over Brixton," An odd

coincidence, he feels. ·

for "8 by 10%, 315 pp.," which I tion of the younger generation | sent. There ́ are many

have been pasting in my scrap- Xo, the root of the whole trouble | book for so many years. But I am indiente that a throrough-going who believe that the post is an engy

one with a comfortable salary. In is that critics toxiny, with the ex-, prepared to sacrifice myself for the Street the other day. Somebody campaign is likely to be started fact, most men are apt to think for the purpose of giving they could make their mark in any the British people more vitality, think again when they hear of

other fellow's jobs. They

better stature, more robust

what a day's work for a Cabinet New Mayfair Dance Orchestra.health, more pleasure in work Minister

Lord Zetland, Lots of other interesting records in the

and play, and more zest in Secretary of State for India, tells of a typical working day. It new consignment.

living. The suggestions now

begins at nine in the morning put forward follow a recent la- with an hour of attendance to ment by the Minister of Health | general carrespondence. From ten

to eleven he grapples with some had forgotten to shave for years regarding the people's physique,

to overtake all is impossible--of | The Edinburgh reviewers and in its work the Committee the telegrams pouring in from | beavers to a man. has closely consulted the Ser- India. TI one o'clock he, as a vices and the Health and Educa-the perplexing problems of the Cabinet Minister, is wrestling with tion Departments. One of the whole world. The next two hours, proposals is that there should be with a short interval for lunch, he more time and facilities provided is agnis immersed in Indian af- for physical training in all types him till half-past eleven, with an- fairs, and then Parliament claims

of school, that local education other brief interval for dinner. authorities should appoint or-

This attendance to Parliamentary debate is not a formality with a ganisers for gymnasties, games, Minister responsible for the pas and sports, and that more op- sage of a great and complicated portunities of physical develop measure. He must listen aften- tively and have the subject at his ment should be put in the way finger-ends so that he may on the of young people who have spur of the moment repel any at- already left school. At the tack made by opponents. Even present time, of course, physical midnight may not see the end of culture figures in the curricula Lord Zetland says,

his harassing duties. For, as

he may

lie of most of the schools, but the awake in a sultry night thinking programmes are often dull and the brilliant retorts he might have made to his critics, hut did not,

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perfunctory gestures, largely re- garded ht outside serious routine. The eare of the mental

Ins "physical illiteracy" is widely fibre of the pupils, to the rela-

apparent. Town existence is in tive neglect of the physical fibre- shows that a proper balance has

some respects a handicap to physical fitness, as also is the not been observed. As one com- tendency to rely on mechanical mentator asks, of what use is a

means of transport. Latterly

bright, well-furnished mind if it however, hiking has come into is continually being clogged, prominence, but there is need clouded and burdened by an ab- for rigorous, well-planned physi- ject frame? For it is beyond cal education. This is fore- question that due regard for shadowed in the report of the physical training produces re- B.M.A. Committee, and, happily, sults of the highest value in the desire among youth for character formation, Germany physical excellence has never and other Continental nations ordinated scheme is evolved and

been keener. If

D well co-

are, through attention to physi-

applied systematically to the cal, culture, bringing a virile rising generation, we may hope generation into being, but in to see a better type of manhood England what has been described in the days ahead.,

and caustic criticism is not hard hit

The connection between whiskers select group of tough eggs who had

to see,

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And it is useless for the critics Then there was the

meteoro- to protest their inability to fill in logical expert who was declared There is probably nothing which with the idea. It is perfectly easy bankrupt. He couldn't raise the so soothes à man and puts him in to grow whiskers. There is a wind. a frame of mind to see only good whiskeredd all-in wrestier in Ameri- in everything as a nice clean shave,, ca named Hairy Dean. He did it. He feels his mouth pink checks, Are our star reviewers going to begins to gurgle within him. and the milk of human kindness tell me that they are inferior in will-power and determination to out of window.

What a day! he says, as he looks an all-in wrestler?

What a kipper! Tush!

"Yes that's wonderful. Can wo go now?"

A philosopher ways'a woman's thought ought to rise above dress. They usually do as far as the hat.

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We never know the real horrors of poverty amidst plenty until our five-year-old tourer got caught in a queue of 1935 model limousines one day last week.

Most men believe in heredity until their sons begin to act like fools.

It is stated

that a goose isn't This

nearly as silly as it looks. should be some consolation to fat nten who wear cinay shirts:

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The chief objection to jazz la that it takes the rest out of restaurant and puts the din In dinner.

A divorce due to quarrels over crosswords has been granted to an American couple. The Court gave no ruling as to who should have custody of the dictionary,

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A now dress material is described as looking as though it is covered with tiny flies.

gnatty...

Sounds quite

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English and French ink manu-

facturers are to meet in conference.

Inky-Inky-Parley-Views!

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"Gorman Organ Banned," says

newspaper heading. Must have

played the wrong. kind of music.