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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1935.

THE NEW

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LAUGH WHILE YOU MAY

Far from depressing the spirits of speculators and holders of vital commodities, the rumours of war in Europe cause smiles of pleasura, blo anticipation. While the British Navy mobilises its fighting units In the Mediterranean and the Italians "Expressions by a Noted Authority mass their troops in East Africa, in all matters pertaining to`motor- | and while the delegates of the fup"

nations strive to seek an accord Sir Malcolm Campbell's opinionht Geneva which may allow the of the 1935 MIRACLE RIDE Hottlement of the present threaten STUDEBAKER given in his article ing crisis, the stock markets of the which appeared recently in "The world are in a fover of excitement, Field" concludes with--

anticipating big profits. Nations which contemplate waging a war, "Altogether, I consider the New whether it be defensive or aggres- Studebaker a very good car insive, must provide themselves with deed. Quiet at all speeds, very oil and wheat, cotton and steet, smooth and easy to handle, quite fast on the level-70 m.p.h, is and all the other requisites of must spend to the well within its compass-good battle. They on hills and with excellent acce- uttermost limit of their resources, leration on all gears.. It im- and beyond. And the result is presses me as being excellent inevitable.. Unless they can find It is a car that I think will appeal may be bankrupt before their cam to a very wide section of British paign has been properly begun. motorists.

It seems to us that Italy, whose finantes are already in a precarious state, is heading for this financial quagmire. Unless she necepts the League of Nations' terms she will have no other alternative than to attempt to take by force what Signor Mussolini belioves hix nation requires and deserves in the way of African territory. It may be that he can accomplish it, that his Government can wenther the economic storms which are bound to follow In the wake of battle, bul without an fron hand upon the | helm, Rome may well find herself floundering in a son of troubles in which there is no haven. We cannot help but wonder if I Dice appreciates the extremity of the

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FRIDAY, SEPT. 20, 1935.

C. Courtneidge. CITY DEVELOPMENT Walter Glynne

SCHEME Walter Glynne.

Cyril Smith (Pianoforte). general finances. It is estimated

crisis he is courting; or whether he says, with Le Roi Soleil: "After me the deluge."

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SAY GOOD-BYE TO MRS. GRUNDY

BY NOEL CARRINGTON

In this country the road housea

YOU must have noticed that the | wealth and iclauw. The desire to mensura of a hent wave in bathe outruns the fnellities for England now is the congestion at enjoyment. Comparatively Jew the public swimming baths. The municipalities have open baths, nation has suddenly gone mad on | and the old closed baths are quite swimming, It is rather curious, obsolets for the main purpose, of because it is not as if swimming, bathing. like flying, were a modern dis- covery. What is the cause of it. all? Chiefly it is due to the very fill a gap for those who can reach different views which we of this them or afford them, and even gar- generation, as compared with ourages are finding a swimming pool. fathers, have on the subject of more profitable than "minerals and nudity. Somehow or other, first teas" But far more pools are in one cinas and then more gener needed for the great industrial ally,, the human figure has ceased cities and suburbs. Where rivers

shock. Ordinary

summer or lakes are available they could dresses for women are now sleeve-bo made at little expense and they less and backless, while bare legs are as good an investment 115 aro almost the rule. Bathing drains or water supply. I have not

to

dresses have reached the structural

noticed swimming pools amongst limit of elimination. In private the projects of the New Deal. It lmming pools simple nudity is would sound unpractical. I sup-

often taken for granted-as It is in Sweden and elsewhere. Shall wo live to see it established as a commonplace on the beaches of Brighton? The effect of bathing dress reform or abolition has been to discover the pleasurable effect

The Very Idea!

BEING AN ARCHITECT

Kelly Sniffs at All The Fuss About a New Bank

WE

Edited By Editie

E noticed in yesterday's paper that the Hongkong

& Shanghai Banking Corporn- tion have issued invitations for the opening of their new premises on the Double Tenth. We haven't received our invita» tion yet, as the H.K. & S. Bank people are a bit afraid that if people got to hear about it there might be a bit of a “TRIK on the bank by depositors. It will be recalled that it was us who drank the National Com- mercial Savings Bank open.

All the same we are a bit disappointed about not receiv- ing our invitation.

AS A retired architect we

pose if one suggested spending à have taken rather a million or two on this it would be fatherly interest in the new rejected as unproductive. What is bank, and spent all yester- productive then? In polities it day afternoon waiting to means something which produces hear the lions roar when the moro money. Yet theoretically girls went by.

money has value only for what it

| of the aun on the human skin. It procures in exchange. And what

There are a lot of build-

can enally be carried to excess,, tois more valuable than health? 1ings going up these days."

the detriment of looks and comfort and even of health, but in madora- tion sunbathing is as delightful na it is healthy. Incidentally, it has led to a curious reversal of fashion. The beauty no longer seeks to pre- serve the Illy-white skin beloved of poeta all the world over. If she cannot get a genuine ian, the beauty parlour supplies a glorious substitute.

have always argued that this was Some of them are going up the kind of job on to which the at an astonishing rate. In fact, unemployed might well be act it didn't surprise us in the least namely, the creation of an amenity that a building in Shanghai waa from which the whole community blown up the other day. Such would benest, including themselves are the marvels of modern and their children. It was one of science. the joba to which the Quakers put the miners at Bryn-mawr, the car liest and most herole of experi- menta in reconstruction. And ever since, ten years ago at least, I bathed at Brasted, in Kent, where a fine open pool seemed the natural is that until the sun could get at centre of village life, I have look our bodies, we could not discovered forward to the day when every

That is by the way. My point

that of youth, Inside our clothes

The lost huge block of flats we built were so modern that we don't think anybody will be game, to live in the place until about fifty years' time.

We had a bit of worry at the work, and it seems that we forgot time and our mind wasn't on our

the holes for the windows.

After we'd finished the building

We installed a few snappy Ini-

formations which attend a seden- we can conceal all sorts of malnovations in our last block of flats. First of all we had a machine tury life--the beginnings of cor-erected which made an awful noise. pulence or the lack of muscle. That was so you couldn't hear ZBW Not so on the beach,

on the neighbour's wireless.

Then we had keyholes on doors. that practically pounced on your key and ate it. Any koy would fit any door in any flat in the building. Which should have made the pince extremely popular-in-Hongkong.

Joo Ramsbottom opens a Barber's Shop Norman Evans. As the project with which it Joe Ramsbottom sells pills

Norman Evans. deals is self-financing, the Gov- ernment House and City De- Cello with Organ....Beatrice Harrison.velopment Fund does not figure PUBLIC WORKS IN ABYSSINIA the chief pleasure of bathing, village has its pool, as it has, or

One of the most recent publica- which is the before and after. The ought to have, its cricket ground and started hacking the holes OUL 'Cello with Organ .Beatrice Harrison. in the Colony's Budget, being

kept quite separate from the tons of the League of Nations is fold sanctity of clothes is not dying and village hall. The effect of the for the windows the edifice looked

on National Public Works without a battle or two in its debathing habit on human physique rather, that

(Well, we'll be.

Eric Coates Medley

Sydney Custard. that at the end of the current prepared by the Organisation, for fence. Only a few years ago is as yet hardly recognised.. For dashed. Wonder what that is!) man who committed the crime of reasons which need not be labour-We saw it in the dictionary and Communications and Transit. In Hermann Lohr Medloy

Sydney Custard. year, sums totalling over $362,- view (Organ of Gaument Palace Cinema, Chester, 000 will have been expended on

of the present crisis, the exposing his chest in Hyde Parked, the ideal figure will always be liked it. You leave us alone.

was sentenced to a month's con- nost interesting, section Is that England),

the undertaking, but against devoted to the reply of the Abys

finement at His Majesty's expense. DA-1416 My lovely Celia (Arr. Lane Wilson |

these have to be placed over asinian Government.

It is only three years since I read Elisabeth Schumann. million and a quarter dollars re- the fact that

This reveals Pastoralo (Arr. Lano Wilton)..Elisabeth Schumann.ceived from the sale of land. I works, put in hand since 1929, have

In a local paper of a farmer's wife numerous public

who, catching two hoys bathing DB-2414 La Ronde des Iutins (Dance of the Goblins)

naked in a river, threw their There is thus

balance aÓW been completed. (Op. 25) (Scherzo Fantastique) Baxxini)

clothes after them and summoned Yehudi Menuhin. available at the moment of include important national ronds,

the police. The magistrate cen- Moto Perpetuo Perpetual Motion) Op, 11 (Paganini) | $858,227. The Government, notably an extension of the Addis Violin solo Yehudi Menuhin. however, does not intend to pro-construction of the Jima rond. It

Not all the ingenuities of the Ababa-Addis Alem road and the sured their disgraceful conduct

and fined them heavily, his only beauty specialist can give a woman ceed further with the scheme at is stated that serious obstacles were

regret being that he could not have the firm flesh, the poise or the S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. present, it being pointed out encountered at various places whilst them whipped. The town councils walk which are a sign of real

that the cost of the new Govern- constructing this road, the most

of our Reaside resorts for long health. The girl of the future But we think we falled with the ment House alone will be about difficult problem being to protect

maintained, the" rule of the "con- will be as solicitous of her physical lifts. So that there would be no a million dollars more than the the SCORSESEE funds at present in hand. This which, und, from the heavy rained, and forbade undressing except complexion or finger nails. More anyone living on the tenth floor had road from the heavy rains tinental costume," as it was term-development as she has been of her waiting we had a lift for each floor. We had overlooked the fact that

decision has been criticised by auch torrents that it is impossible

in curious vehicles called bathing | than ever we shall be reluctant to to get out of the first lift at the machines. for the heads of the drain pipes to

Vested Interests were grow old. Vanity, vanity, you may ninth floor and walk down to the contemporary, and there is cer-

at stake. Even so the all power say, all this is vanity, True, but eighth floor and catch the next lift tainly ground for doubting its carry them off, so as to keep the

ful Sun God broke through their vanity is no bad thing if it brings to the seventh floor. .anyway wisdom. In defence of the de- Poulway suficiently dry. A halt-

defences, and those who are still health in its train. Or call it self-gut out of the place.

you were old and gray before you cision, it is pointed out that the ing place with a hotel has been

shocked by the human figure have respect and it becomes a virtue. demand for building land in the constructed and telephonie com-

themselves. We are only at the happening unnoticed in our midst a cunning move to prevent the the road. Since the beginning of

beginning of this little revolution may well have greater significance tenants from bolting out 1929 airports have been built in

of the several places and in 1933 a-large

In our customs, urged forward aa for our children than the neroplane place without paying the rent. wireless station was built at Akaki,

it is by the unnatural congestion and wireless have been for the That was another failure, because which is on the outskirts of Addis

of city life and by the increase of generation of to-day.

they used to light a fire and then dash off via the fire escape. Ababa. A new purliament house has been built in the capital, and a enthedral on the same plan as those

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There were no exits in our flats.

central portion of the town is at munications are ensured all along every opportunity of indulging | And this little, revolution which is They were all entrances,, This was

in

a standstill, and therefore no at- tempt will be made to sell the sites already available "until conditions are more normal". The desire of the Government to get as good a price as possible for its land is understandable, but a point which must not be

the West. Several hospitals forgotten is that the higher the have been built in certain provincial towns and two large ones in the price, the greater will be the rents charged for such buildings large barracks have also bean com- capital itself since 1929. Two as are eventually erected on thepleted, one in the capital and the sites. The query therefore sug- other at Genette. These outstand- gests Itself whether the ing instances of public works by Government, policy of awaiting no means complete the list of those boom times is justifled. There given in the League's latest publica- is the further consideration that | tion under the heading of Ethfopin. the longer the scheme is held up,

the longer will the Colony lack of a million dollars for the pur- certain very necessary buildings pose of land resumption in con- In this connection, it has to be nection with the scheme, but if kept in mind that the under the decision to hold up the pro- taking envisages a much-needed ject is adhered to, the transfer City Hall and a big central block might just as well not have been of Government, offices. Of the made at this juncture. At any desirability of a City Hall there rate, with the eight lakhs at can be no question, for at the present in hand, there seems no present time the Colony has no reason why some of the work public building suitable for the should not be continued during holding of big events, a fact the coming year, instead of com- which was illustrated when the delaying the eventual completion pletely suspending activities and farewell to Sir William Peel had of the undertaking. The matter to be held at the University, a is one which will no doubt bè by no means convenient centre. mentioned during the coming Recently, the Government secur- Budget debate, when, it is ed the permission of the Finance hoped, Unofficial members will Committee of the Legislative ment of the scheme, which

press for progressive develop Counell for drawing from the makes no call on the ordinary Fund a sum of over`a quarter | finances of, the Colony,

"Plouso listen, Alfoe. For a long time I've been wanting to tell you how I feel about you.".

We spared no expense. We built two separate mall boxes for ench tenant. One for bills. We even went to the luxurious and had I.O.U.-in-the-slot gas meters..

To the early stages, the scaffold-' Ing around the new H.K. & S. Bank wasn't a patch on qur scaffolding, And you should have seen us scuffling on the scaffolding?. Baffled on the scaffold.

Which reminds us. Have you heard the Hong, "Oh, give us a home, where the buffaloes roam?" We had an iden of building a large home and.filling it full of buffaloes, but our legal advisers said it would be no good.

The scaffolding was our chief trouble. We had so much of it that when the building was completed we had to call in detectives to find out which was the building and which was the scaffolding.

The structure was half-completed and architects from all over the world and Italy were coming In: droves to marvel at it and Jealously lean against it in a vain attempt to mika it fall over, Then we lost the plans. Undaunted, we decided to do it from memory. The result' was startling. Modern, that's what it was...

One of the dining-rooms on the tenth floor had four stoves, a bath and a bulit-in wardrobe, and when the plumbers had finished their: part they discovered that they look-: (Continued on Page 4)