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NOTES OF THE DAY
DICTATORS
new
AUGUST 30, 1935..
SEASIDE LAUGHTER
MAKERS
By PHILIP ALLINGHAM (WHO IS ONE OF THEM)
A revolution has taken place in true busker is proud of - being
is startling, although maybe to you seaside entertaining. To us this professional.
--our quilence—-It has been per haps less perceptible; which is curious, in a way, because you have been entirely responsible for it.
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Has the output of dictators ceased? Are ኮነ
dirtators produced because there are no countries to be dietated to? Or is dictatorship ceasing to be the vogue? Sir Herbert Samuel makes a suggestive reply to these questions. He says that within the last year or so a great change has come about. The lessons of experience are beginning to have effect. People who do not read history can only learn by what happens round about them, and they are learning one thing now from their own observations. This lesson-which history has fold over and over again--is that though violence can control poli tical factors, It cannot control economie factors. Men of the dictator temperament are rarely capable of understanding the first elements of economies or public finnace, and the history of man- kind is strewn with their wreek- ] found in the greatest cities and in troupe I know in a busy little spot
the West End.
age. Now, the first condition of
The Very Idea!
HONGKONG GROUSERS
Some Hints On The Noble Art Of Argument
don't know how to argue. TROUBLE with most Hong- kong's grousers is that they
A good argument is like an avalanche.
make-up box ja never short of "ve" However scanty his wardrobe, the and "nie"bluck pencil and blue her. He is on a different fooling at the seaside from anywhere else The facts are that seaside enter in the country, and even Black- It starts easily, gathers speed talning is no longer. a casual Pheed Joe quite rightly régatis quickly, embraces everything in rather inefficiently and presented himself.as one of the attractions of its downward swoop, bystanders, taan tertient audience whose the place. No longer is he dodging passers-by and casual loiterers, minds have been fulled by holiday the police from one street. corner mows down tempers, courtesy and morals; leaps and ricochets attractions to a genial indulgence, to another.
from one point to another and Nowadays cinemas and the sel- The average pierrot troupe con-finishes with a grand erash tings of the theatres are
so ex-sists
of seven artists, and the which necessitates the calling travagant that nothing, but the takings are divided into eight parts, of the police and subsequent ap very host will satisfy the public, the guv'nor, the man who got the pearances before Mr. Wynnc and as a result the level of sea- ahow together, taking two shares.
Jones. side entertaining has risen to
Much depends upon the type of
That is a good argument. heights comparable with that holiday
cussions take place every day in resort, of course, but a
But countless puerile dis- on the south coast can colleet round which the participants all keep about £100 in a good week. Out their tempers down and their
coats on, and generally behave, in a manner which is a slur on the very name of argument.
Of what earthly use is an argu
don't Josh your
national stability and prosperity GARAGE
is sound finance, and that condi tion cannot be produced by the
la consequence focal authorities of this, however, they have to pay and
sume methods as those which pre-responsible for super pavilions and
and private enterprises have been £30 for their pitch. Showroom
cure the subjugation of a pede theatres which rival in enterprise run on very business-like lines and Many of these concert parties are 'Phone 27778/9| And then there is that mortal di-
and eliciency many London houses, ¡seriously compete with the legitim- sease to which dictators are subject at only is personal comfort ratered ate theatre. But some are not so um-
megalomania. It is antalady for which there is no known cure
but the productions are on bitinus. I know a small band of What is more convincing than a Unless it's a rabbit killer on the ponch 0122 the nose? Nothing. back of the neck.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
where
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It hardly seems right for kits to be "thinned" for their rent or required to negotiate credit for In the anal of Louisiana, however, odd things over. That
inct i 1 temper?
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The right and ability to argue
the North-East coast It is not
annstal nowadays in They possess at least the spirit of
is one of Nature's greatest gifta to find the expenses of a peaside show the oldtimers, although this is about
man, and should not be toyed with. running to £300 a week, and therejalf they du possess.
It is sickening to sometimes Peserta which actually take i
They have paid for rather agreed | hear the despicable tactics of £1,000 a week at their chief attracto pay £15 for their pitch on the | some low-grade Hangkong urgners, tion.
sands for the entire sensoll. Their
They will offer to bet you ten You re wrong.
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This year the jubilee is giving daily takings are often only a few dollars that a particularly British davoor to the shillings, but during the sunimer "Money up, or shout up." is their programmes, and while some of the jevery performer has a special bone. | shanë song hits are looking backwards to fit, and on these nerasinus business
In addition to the collection purts of gifts are received.
picturesque region is ruled with a past favourites, there is nothing is surprisingly good.
completeness unknown elsewhere
Anerica by the official
#11
wine
would make "every man a king." Yet within his domain be has this
«ld-fashioned in the seaside shows or Their companies.
A few weeks ago thousands of expert vocalists and comedians set
If ten dollars can win an argu- ment why aren't we all stricken atto dumb, awed, submissive silence. when passing the new Hongkong and Shanghai Bank building?
Bet apart from the Matters,
They drag in irrelevant details with the proud air of a tom-cat
fast-table.
year shart off the income or several to their summer destinations who represent the theatrical ele-dropping a dead rat on the break- thousand public employees
រ៉ាវរ ent.
And
J.. has devotre recent show. months to devastating his enemies
there are
the
"I snitt
Argh!
DEPRESSED AREAS
"Many of the unemployed † curtare, miners, knowing that the coal Bes beneath their feet and see ing the winding gear ready to turn, cannot readise that nothing Jean be done to put them back tri work to bring The coal to the
The best resorts will pay a noted
at the seaside, (singer 430. a week, and in some ment surface. Habit of mind in-
even made it perplexing for many frases even 260. Freqpiently these hundreds
other in et tough
And the barking and filling. fluences them. They can, it be
Senator also receive a percentage at the elephant's fusk." Huey P. Lang's philosophy as dis-takings, because the most popular
"Didn't you say soands0 ani fieve that they have hat their corned amank his
turns are nowadays incorporated in These include the sand-model-sandso a while ago," Wh people
you point ast framp to work to the pit teaches that the end justifies the the presentation
a company which makes possible |lers, the ventriloquist for "yent," out triumphantly.
of an elaborate as they call him), the Parth and they have
their means. Wern
Judy worker, the exhibition divers, the kind!"
"Oot I never said anything of the pavement artists of "Beyer- in preparation for the state pri-singng, to say nothing of a chorus blers," and many more.
Holiday-makers look for comedy. vers." the street singers or "war- the first report of the Commis
mary, six months afT. His chief of "lovelies." sioner for Special Areas in Eng-foes routrolled the vity government
Gipsy bands this year are remark know are giving
Two enterprising young girls 1 land and Wales. In one district of New Orleans. The "Kingfish" ably popular, and the accordion, a tional high diving display fromWe have a pleasant memory of two
a quite sensa-
Enough of these incompetents. sought to get at them through eity rare old favourite, is back into its the visited the Commissioner en | employees, His
pler
rotired manewrings own ngain.
ata well-known Felderly mei,
from the countered people who were con-
led to cutting off their pay.
south coast resort this year. They strenuous activiting of life, who 'The The best resorts in Scotland Are earning from 8s, to 10s, a day | regularly met to argue on the ad- vinced that something could be pitiful strike of garbage collectors are always prepared to pay for, each after paying the pier man vantages and itisadvantages of done to restore prosperity. They ar
in New Orleans showed the success and thus secure, first-class talent, axement a third of their gross stabilisation.
They kept it up for these tactics. Some good and are noted in the profession, takings. asked whether the Government
citizens regard even Longism'as But while some
During the winter months they Each day would find the in- could not establish factories or preferable to the Inssism now inefficiencies of seaside entertaining baith give music lessons in a Lon
their rendezvous at 11 a.m. Per- the Commission take the situa
Now, Orleans. But have rightly been eliminated, there]don suburb. Those who apends one, having thought of u tion in hand and reopen pits and with other weapons
warfare al bosses 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 the
works. "I told them frankly," poverty and hunger of innocent elephant's Tusk," which
the mumers and all who work on the one-legged diver, who hurls him and wait, fuming with impatience.
is our self down from a dizzy height into for the other.
And so they says the Commissioner, "that public servants, Huey Long's rhyming slang for on the busk. a tank of flaming water. During angled on through the
years, willingness to make poorly paid!
the winter he does the sort of
until one day, one of then, in the the first thing to be determined
people pourer may
thing on the
middle of a very heated passage, fairgrounds, some- was whether their district was light on his share-the-wealth" baskers-the public entertainers over twenty times a day. Risking
These
the pierrots and times going through
was stricken with apoplexy and his show.
succumbed. on or off the industrial map, and,
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 tude, as most industries in these lifetime restore its industrial areas have been exceptionally activities." These words show free of labour troubles, and he in striking manner some of the is satisfied that no employer who problems which are being tackled. is prepared to offer fair and reasonable conditions of labour
control of
doctrine.
than
throw some
in the derelict industrial areas 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 operation with Government de-
the spirit of co-operation. Numerous recommendations are partments, but he is convinced
made in this 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-i 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 and the pit-head, reorganisation of inefficient, he contents, for the the iron and steel industry and Commission to initiate activities the scrapping of obsolete plant, which can be better performed a survey to decide on a policy by existing departments already of transference and the possi- bility of emigration..a cautious possessing the necessary machin-
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 complexities, but the inves- depressed areas, the Commis-tigations now proceeding should sioner asserts that the facts eventually be of-great value in devising re-adaptation of indus- scarcely warrant such an atti-
try to current needs.
aro
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“Junt pretend you don't notice him and he'll stop pretty soon."
years.
them at
The last words he said were: "Absolute rot! You're a liar!"
The other old gentleman, after vainly trying to
the
carry on argument by talking to himself. simply, pined away.
The night he died there was a terrible thunderstorm, {
the lightning and hailstones that flow about have left us convinced that there is an after-life,
Bat the fact stands out.
It is personality that counts in An argument.
Facts, logic, reason, eloquence, all have their place, but per- sonality is the thing.
Be
Be eloquent if you can. logical if your side of the arga- meat will stand it. You may even be reasonable to a cerinin extent. State your facts, drive them home. If you run out of facts, invent some, and drive them home, too.
Bui, best of ult, exert your personality.
Face your man. Look him in the eye. Take off your coat, Roll up your sleeves: Ask him, fendy, If he still thinks he is right.
If he puts his face elose up to yours, glares at you, and says he's SURE he's eight-let him have his way,
Freedom of speech is a wonder- fat 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. Then try again.
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