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TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,
NOTES OF THE DAY
DICTATORS
AUGUST 30, 1935.
SEASIDE LAUGHTER
MAKERS
By PHILIP ALLINGHAM (WHO IS ONE OF THEM)
The facts are that seaside enter
♫ 110 longer laining is
Has the output of dictators reased? Are no new dicintors produces because there are no countries to be diefated to? Or is dictatorship ceasing to be the
A revolution has taken pince In, true basker is proud of being a vogue? Sir Herbert Samuel
senside entertaining. To us this professional. makes a suggestive reply to thesis startling, although maybe to you questions. He says that within
However seanty his wardrobe, the -our audience--it has been per-make-up box is never short of "five" the last year or so a great change haps less perceptible: which is and "niue" black pencil and blue has come about. The lessons of curious, in a way, beenuse you have
liner. He is on a different footing experience are beginning to have
been entirely responsible for it.
af the seaside from anywhere else effect. People who do not read
in the country, and even Black- history can only learn by what
casual Faced Joe quite rightly regards happens round about them, aut they are fearning one thing now
rather inefficiently and presented himself as one of the attractions of from their own observations. This to an uncritical audience whose the plate. No longer is he doiging lesson--which history has
minds have been fullest by holiday the police from one street corner
over aml
that attractions to a genial Indulgence, to another. over again in though violence can control poli Nowadays cinemas and the set-1 The average pierrot troupe con- tien) factors, it cannot control | tings of the theatres are so
ex.sists
of seven artials, and the economic factors. Men of thetravagant that nothing but the takings are divided into eight parts, dictator temperament are rarely very best will satisfy the public, the guy'nor, the man who got the capable of understanding the first and as a result the level of sea show together, taking two shares. elements of reonomies or public side entertaining has risen to
Much depends upon the type of Anance, and the history of man-heights comparable with that holiday
resort, of course, but n kind is strewn with their wreck-† found in the greatest cities and in troupe i know in a busy little spet aye, Naw, the first condition of the West End, national stability and prosperity
told
is sound finance, and that rondi
on the south reast can collect round about £100 in a good week. Out
t Ju cannot be produced by the
In consequence lead anhorities of this, however, they have to pay sanne methods as those which prosesponsible for super pavilions and
and private enterprises have bern £30 for their pitch. cure the subjugation of a people.
Many of these concert parties me Phone 27778/9 And then there is that mortal di-theatres which rival in enterprise run on very business-like lines and rease to which dictators are subject and efficiency many London houses, seriously compete with the legitim- Not only is personal comfort eatered fate theatre. But some are not so am- but the productions are on thitions. I know a small band of West End lines, and in many cases 'optimists who are running a pierrot involve heavy expenditures and the troupe in a sleepy little town on booking of first-class artists.
Hongkong Telegraph.
Pripay, Ave, 30, 1985,
BRITAIN'S
DEPRESSED
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megalomania. It j it malarly for which there is no known cure
gave the removal of the patient from the enviroment which has produced j1, There are several in- teresting cases umiler observation at present.
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HONGKONG GROUSERS
Some Hints On The Noble. Art Of Argument TROUBLE with most Hong- kong's grousers is that they don't know how to argue.
A good argument is like an avalanche.
It starts easily, gathers speed quickly, embraces everything in its downward swoop, bystanders, passers-by and casual loiterers, mows down tempers, courtesy and morals; leaps and ricochets from one point to another and finishes with a grand crash which necessitates the calling of the police and subsequent ap- pearances before Mr. Wynne Jones.
That is a good argument. 'But
cussions take place every day in countless puerile dis-
which the participants all keep their tempers down and their goats on, and generally behave in a manner which is a slur on the very name of argument.
Of what earlily use is on argu- you don't lose your
ment
temper?
What is more convincing than a
n the Unless it's a rabbit killer on the nos? Nothing.
huck of the neck,
The right and ability to argue
is one of Nature's greatest gilla to man, and should not be loyed with.
It is sickening to sometimes
If ten dolfars can win on argu- ment why aren't we all stricken
alito dumb, awed, submissive silence, when passing the new Hongkong and Shanghai Bank building?
Ent apart from the Mumiuers,
A few weeks ago thousands of expert voralists and comedians set
to their summer destinations, who represent the theatrical ole.dropping a dead rat on the break-
They drag in irrelevant details with the proud air of a tom-cut
fast-table.
"I sai
Arght
It is not unusual nowadays to!They possess at least the spirit of find the expenses of a seaside show the oldtimers, although this is about running to £500 a week, and there jail they du posseas,
resorts which actually take They have paid for rather agreed hear the desplenble tactics oľ £1,000 a week at their chief attracto pay) £15 for their pitch on the Į some low-grade Hongkong arguers, It hardly seems right for kings
Their They will offer to bet you ten to be "antie for their rent or i
that The year the juhike is giving daily takings are often only a few dollars
You are wrong. AREAS
summer "Money ap, or shout up," is their required
to negotiate credit for a particulaily British flavour to the shillings, but during the
lant. "Many of the unemployed | cartas. In the land of Louisiana, programmes, and while some of the every performer has a special bene- That song hits are looking backwards to fit. and on these occasions business miners, knowing that the boal however, old things occur.
is surprisingly good. picturesque region is ruled with a
past favourites, there is nothing lies heneath their feet and see completeurss "unknown elsewhere
ld-fashioned in the seaside shows ¦ In milition to the collection ing the winding gear ready to in
America by the adficial
who wir companies, turn, cannot realise that nothing would make "every man a king." Yet within his donmin he has this ean be done to put them back to
year shunt off the income of several work to bring the coal to the thousand public emples.c
The best resorts will pay a noted
a week, and in some ment at the seaside, there are simper £90 surface. Habit of mind in-even made it perplexing for many eases even 250. Frequently these | hundreds of others "an The And the barking and Alling.
to get enough tu Pal. Senator also rvenive a percentage of the elephant's tusk,” furuges them. They cannot be
"Didn't you say Hacy P. Lonu's philosophy as dis. takings, because the most popular ||
sounden und hieve that they have had their cred
These include the 'sund-model- [soundso a while ign, turns are nowadays incorporated in
you point Du triumphantly. last tramp to work to the pit teaches that the end justifies the the presentation
a company which makes possible lers, the ventriloquist for "veni." at an elaborate as they call him), the Punch an!
"Oat i never said anything of ile their means,
has devoted recent show. where they have
Judy worker, the exhibition divers,
the kind!" months to devastating his enemies,
the pavement artists or scree- This is an extract from
Holiday-makers look for comedy, vers," the street singers or "war- in preparation for the state pri-inging, to say nothing of a chorus blers," and many more. the first report of the Commis-mary, six months off. His chief for "lovelies." sioner for Special Areas in Eng-fers controlled the city government
Two enterprising young girls. I Gipsy bands this year are remark- know are giving a quite sensa- of New Orleans, The Kingfish"ably popular, and the accordion, tional high diving display fromWe have a pleasant memory of two In ane district hand and Wales,
sought to get at them through esty rare old favourite, is back into its visited the Commissioner en- employees. Нім manoeuvrings town again. [countered people who were con- | led to enting off their pay, The The best resorts in Scotland vinced that something could be pitiful strike of garbage collectors are always prepared to pay for, in New Orleans showed the success and thus secure, first-cinsk talent, done to restore prosperity. They
tactics. Some good are noted in the profession. 1 asked whether the Government citizens regard even Longism as But while
Each day would find them at During the winter months they some of the in!
their rendezvous at 11 am. Per- could not establish factories or preferable to the bossism now in efficiencies of sensitle entertaining both give music lessons in a Lon
control
Those who spend baps one, having thought of a of New the Commission take the situa
Orleans,
But have rightly been eliminated, there don suburb."
the tion in hand and reopen pits and with other weapons that
warfare on huisses can be conductedhearted public for the seaside have seen Dare Devil Peggy, the night watches, would arrive early
is still, and always will be a warm their holidays in the North must particularly telling point in
works. "I told them frankly," poverty and hunger of innocent elephant's
themammers and all who work "on the one-legged diver, who hurls him- and wait, fuming with impatience,
And so tusk," which is our self down from a dizzy height into for the other. says the Commissioner, "That public servants, Huey Long's rhyming slang for on the busk.
ja tank of flaming water. During wrangled on through the years, willingness to make poorly paid
the winter he does the sort of until one day, one of them, in the the first thing to be determined
peuple poorer
thing on the fairgrounds, some-middle of a very heated passage. may throw some
was stricken with apoplexy and These was whether their district was fight
the pierrots and times going through his show his "share-the-wealth" | buskers--the public entertainers over twenty times a day.
Risking succumbed, on or aff the industrial map, and, doctrine.
whose skill is judged among them his life has become a habit which if they were off, there was prob-
selves by their ability to make you think he would find difficult to put pennies into their hats. The break. ably no power that could in their lifetime restore its industrial activities.". These words show [in striking manner some of the problems which are being tackled in the derelict industrial areas
" M
tude, as most industries in these areas have been exceptionally free of labour troubles, and hel is satisfied that no employer who is prepared to offer fair and reasonable conditions of labour need hesitate to establish a new of Britain. The Commissioner's factory, as Trade Union leaders statutory duties include the mak- and unemployed alike are an- ing of suggestions to and co- | xious for an opportunity to show
the Joperation with Government de-
spirit of co-operation. Numerous recommendations are partments, but he is convinced
in this made
first report, that the major problems of amongst others the State owner- these areas cannot be isolated ship of mining royalties, reor (and left to one Government, de- |ganisation of the sales machin- partment; they must be tackled ery of the coal industry, State by the Government as a whole. assistance for large-scale pro- cesses for dealing with coal at It is clearly uneconomic
the pit-head, reorganisation of inefficicat, he contends, for the the iron and steel industry and Commission to initiate activities the scrapping of obsolete plant, which can be better performedju sárvey to decide on a policy by existing departments already of transference and the possi possessing the 'necessary machin- bility of emigration, a cautious development. of land settlement, ery and experience. Regarding and the re-establishment of the the suggestion repeatedly made apprenticeship system. The pro- that industrialists are unwilling blem has many facets and is full to set up new industries in the of complexitics... but the inves depressed areas, the Commis-tigations now proceeding should sioner, asserts that the fucts eventually be of great value in scarcely warrant such an atti-devising re-adaptation of indus-
try to current needs.
and
are
*
!
Enough of these incompetents.
the pier al IL well-known | elderly men, retired from the south coast resort this year. They strenuas activities of life, whe are earning from 8a, tó 108, a day | regularly met to argue on the nd-
ach after paying the pier man-
vantages and disadvantages of agement a third of their gross
stabilisation. They kept it up for takings.
years.
་
"Just pretend you don't notice him and he'll stop pretty soon."
they
The last words he said were: "Absolute rot! You're a liar!"
The other old gentleman, after vainly trying to carry on the argument by talking to itself. simply pined away.
The night he died there was a terrible thunderstorm, and the lightning and hailstones that few about have left us convinced that there is an after-life.
But the fact stands out...
It is personality that counts in an argument.
Facts, logic, reason, eloquence, all bave their place, but per- sonality is the thing.
Be eloquent if you can. Be logical if your side of the argu- ment will stand it. You may even be reasonable to a certain extent. State your facts, drive them home. If you run out of facts, invent somo, and drive them home, too,
But, best of all, exert your personality.
Face your man. Look Him in) the eye. Take off your coat. Roll up your sleeves. Ask him, firmly, if he still thinks he is right.
If he puts his face close up to youra, glares at you, and says he's SURE he's right—let him have his way.
Freedom of speuch is a wonder- ful thing; every man is entitled to his own opinions; some people are not worth arguing with, and, anyhow, the loss of one argument is neither here nor there.
Go to a gymnasium and learn. the principles of debate. try again.
Thon
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