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1TH.

RITCHIE At the War Memorial

to Mary, wife of A. Ritchie, a daughter.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, MAY 18, 1936.

"The Man-on-the-Sidewalk”

Royalist America!

HAVE crossed the American con-

everywhere I was conscious of dmiable

tinent four times. My first crossing feelings toward Great Britain; an amiability for was in 1929, my last a couple of weeks ago. And the United States have changed a great deal in seven years.

In Chicago I went to an hotel that I know, and said, not without dimdence, that I would like a drink. Six years ago one had to enlist a bell-boy in illegal, expensive, and embarrassing conspiracy in order to procure a little whisky for the stomach's sake.

•

But a fortnight ago I wa... directed to an elegantly, furnish- ed bar, and for the reasonable sum of twenty-five cents I ac- quired a very robust and well- flavoured dry Martini.

"How are things In Chicago?" I asked..

"Pretty good," said the bar-

man.

"Any shooting in the Loop nowadays ?"

"Why, no," he said. were you here Inst?"

"In 1930." "Oh.

since

Five Melodious Notes, Accurately ting any test scheme into opera- barman."

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which we are largely indebted to King Edward.

"The people of the United States are pur - quod friends but they are naturally averne from any overt and officiel alliance with Britain- because of their fear that such an alliance would entangle them in European politica and sooner or inter embroil them, in a neur wear.”

!

by

Eric Linklater

fore."

the King."

an

Mr. Roosevelt is at present being attacked with particular venom. Part of the Republican Press in talking heatedly and admiringly of Rugged Individualism; a tradl tional American virtue, it says, which Mr. Roosevelt has done his wicked best to destroy,

Wall-street presumably favours the very Rugged Individualism, but so also do many Americans whose financial interests perished with the. boom years. They say, perhaps with reason, that the Now Deal has been anti-democratic und unduly restrictive of liberty and initiative. But a Republican victory next year might result in the formation of something like a Left Front.

It would not be very far to, the Left, but its opponents would paint. it na red as the cowpunchers used to paint Laramie and Las Vegas; the American talent for exaggera- tion makes them see the hideous threat of Moscow In idons that be- como familiar to Britain about 1006.

THE recent floods, low-

ever, wore more obviously wasteful think a lot of you Britishers look than Presidential polities. I saw like stuffed shirts. But you're a good deal of them. right about the King. He does

Enormous areas were sunk bo- make a difference, and we feel there's a man among the stuffed neath brown, wind-ruffed water on shirts now."

which ice floes drifted, and the ri- their Royalist America! During my tile, had invaded flelds and city

vera, carrylag wreckage on hurried crossing of the continent streets and were shaking the foun- and in short visits to Chicago, dations of great Philadelphia and New York I talk- Delaware was a terrifying sight, bridges. The ed with dozens of people, and every and little anonymous streams had where I was conscious of amiable become swollen torrents.

feelings towards Great Britain; an under-state, amlability for which we appear to be largely indebted to the person of King Edward.

.

I was on my way from Chleago

rec-

Phowed no signs of witnessing a national tragedy. They were in-

were mildly their Eastern States from New England to Washington have lately annoyed at being late for bualnesz appointments; and they were de- ROYALIST been a bottle it, sed by enorm lighted when the restaurant car an-

was tragically ill-used by enormous.

those

THEY have

"When "That

is ment," I replied.

to Philadelphia when the rivers grew. dangerous, and the train had "I saw him on the pictures everything's changed the other day," said the bar-

The people of the United States reached the outskirts of Pittsburg before the danger became acute. are our good friends, and they are Then we turned tall and headed for then. There isn't no man. "He was in Glasgow, or excellent friends to have. But they Hospital, Hongkong, on May 17, crime to speak of now, not since some place. The folk started are naturally averse from any overt Bulalo. 200 miles to the north, have the bootleggora lest their job. clapping and wouldn't hardly and offcial alliance with Britain being discovered that the safest, if Chicago's #1 nice respectable stop. I haven't ever heard such cause of their fear that such an not the shortest, line between two place that anybody can live in a lot of clapping at a movie be- alliance would entangle them in points was three sides of a

tangle. It was nowadays."

like going from European polities and sooner or London to Newcastle by way of Then he asked after the statę

later embroil them in a new war. "A man from Seattle told mo of Britain, and I in my tun the same kind of thing." I said. an eventuality America would pull most as wet.

And they suspect that in such Milford Haven and Belfast; and al- answered, "Pretty good. And "He told me the people there no plums out of the European pie, But the Amerienns on the train it would be even better if we stood up and cheered when but merely burn its fingers, GAS-ATTACK could get away from all this they saw the first news red of They have plenty of troubles of terested in the floods; they were

talk of war." MEASURES

their own. Their unemployment excited by the brawling, wreckage- "I guess you're right," he certainly think a lot of figures are still fantastically high; rirewn rivers; they Publication of the main fen- said. "You're nearer to it than him here," said the barman. tures of the methods likely to be we are." adopted in Hongkong to cope "You're lucky there," I said. with the remote possibility of!. "Well, the last war didn't do air raids has arotised consider! us much good."

That is another of the new floods and the sudden release of nounced free meals. able interest. The value of "It's a way that war has," I phenomena. With the excep frozen rivers; and they are facing publicity in such matters is that said, and asked for another tion of a few die-hards, the the bitter and fruitless strife of a

'great capa- the public is aroused to a Martini.

city for punishment. As the box- people of the United States had new Presidential election. recognition of the fact that

"That new King of yours a large affection for His late when the time arrives for put-seems

IT is not an idle in men say of a fighter who can pretty good," said the Majesty-I saw thousands, in

comparison, stand up to heavy punching, "They

tion, the population generally

Times Square waiting patiently this juxtaposition of a Presidential can take it."

And, in spite of the depression for the latest bulletins of his election and the flooding of Pitts- will be expected to co-operate in the measures that are deemed

fillness-but about King Edward burk, American politics are say that is still with them, they are ns age and expensive, and unprofitable. Intent as ever on making the world essential. There is, of course,

NOTES OF THE DAY they are almost as enthusiastic Republicans and Democrats both a gayer pince. Tailors, for ex- the no special significance in

as Londoners.

spend one year in four in the selec- ample, are trying to make men as He is a constant topic of con- tion of a candidate and the neces- fashion-conscious and brilliantly Inying down of these plans at NEW GOVERNMENT

hued as women. versation and invariably the object sary campaign for his election. this juncture; Hongkong is

of admiration and respect.

For his four years' tenure of There is a new magazine adver merely doing what other cities

Thinking I might benefit a little office the President must ride a tired as a magazine for men that in all parts of the world consider For a long time successive British from the overflow of his popularity pantomime horse-with Repub- gives many pages to the display of advisable. Preparedness is e-Governments have fell, and deplor- I said to a girl in New York-a lican in one end and a Democrat the orchidaceous male fashions.

If the tailors succeed, American Ltd.sential in such a matter. In ed, the need for new Government very charming and intelligent girl in the other-whose antics art em-

England at the present time, big cfllees. Nourly twenty-five years "I think you like us all rather more barrassing to any but the most in- men will soon be as brightly plum- Schemes are in hand for instructago a proposal to build these than you used to."

sensitive of men. And during his aged-as goldfinches or a cock phen- Chater Road. ing the people in self-protection. offices over the gardens between "I'm not going to admit that," last year of office the President is sant; and the Yale Club and the

Indeed, the London classes for! Whitehall and the Victoria Embank- she said. "I've seen

news invariably the target for missiles Harvard Club will look like tropical

aviuries. medical officers and ambulancement, up to the extreme limit to reels you talk about, and I still from all parts of the audience, members have grown so large, wards the river, was put forward that a whole hotel is taken at and stopped by Parliament. Now a more 'definite scheme has been week-ends for training. Hun-advanced, and approved by the dreds of people have received Cabinet. The new scheme ія instruction, and these will hand on the knowledge they have ac- quired to doctors, police, firemen, sanitary officers and the public. In another big city, Sheffield, a

of that policy a generation or two few weeks ago, the city corps of the St. John Ambulance Brigade

The new offices will be one of neurosis during the last reign. A human bodies is altogether excessive from now? Time alone can give the at any rate, in time of peace; for many who look forward to that ans- answer; but meanwhile there are marched through the streets the largest blocks of Government the start of a new reign our civilian- wearing gas-masks and carrying offices in the world, and the cost tion is showing symptoms of physical should have its fill during war-time.

we still think It right that progress:

wer

with profound apprehension. stretchers. Classes for the in- is estimated at about £1,750,000. and mental disease even more alarm-

It is only recently, however, that Agala, what price is being paid for which than those

were dis-

aelence and struction of the people in that The first section will be completed ing

we have, una riution, begun to see the urbanisation which 1914

that man's mind is no more made for industry have made possible? Does city are to be opened when the about 1940-41, and the whole cernible before

The now reign opera upan Д

ils in authorities have selected build-about 1945-40. It will house the momentous question-will the disease technology than is his body, and that, a place like London offer environment.

ment fit for ings which can be turned into Labour, the Board of Trade, and we decide that it is time to begin

Air Ministry, the Ministry of be allowed to run its course, or shall conversely, technology is valuable habitants an

only in so far as it helps men to cul- fully human beings? Or

Or consider first-aid stations. This docs not the Ministry of Transport, all of new epoch of history and try to cure tivate sanity and goodness as well as modern transport. It saves us from how using our muscles; creates and then cover all the preparations being which are at present inconveni- the present symptoms and prevent begin to suspect that many technolo allows us to satisfy a nervous craving

bodily health. Moreover, we made in this big industrial ently situated with regard to each their recurrence?

gical advances hitherto regarded as for going somewhere else and boing region, for 2 Territorial bat-other. It will accommodate 5,360 The situation is at once a good deal wholly beneficial may have their bad in a crowd; it carries us so swiftly talion is to be converted into an Civil Servants, as compared with worstone, whe God dent better in well na their good alde

from place to place that we cannot anti-aircraft unit. A much 1,185 housed on the present site. Worse because, thanks to technolo For example, technicians have made observe the details of the intervening more complicated problem is the It is to be a single block with gical progress, a lunatic world is in kinds of novel amusements and discal and psychological, are we paying

possible the

multiplication of many landscape. What price, physiologi provision of protection for the three large internal courts, and a position to do itscif much more tractions, from the modern newspaper

for railways, cars, and planes? inhabitants of crowded city dis- there will be eight main storeys than it could do a quarter of a cen tricts. While every house can above the basement. The length tury ago. It is worse also, because to television. Feople enjoy these Factory production makes possible distractions, But that does not mean the multiplication at a cheap rate of that they have its gas-proof rooms, there will be about 550 feet; the breadth the physical condition of the patient

less antisfactory than it

are, humanly speaking, innumerable objects. But is even the altogether good. People also enjoy best factory a proper environment for at the widest point-300 feet: fore 1914. safety points in working hours, and the height 87 feet. The total It is better, because self-satisfac-hashish and opium, when these aro fully human beings? And is there Then there is the question of an floor area will be sixteen acres tion has disappeared and increasing made available. It seems possible any sense in encouraging possessing

that we are paying a heavy spiritual ever increasing numbers of unneces yd. adequate supply of gas-masks for Nowhere will there be elaborate numbers of men and women

or unnecessary decoration; and begun to renilse more or less clearly price for our new-found amusements. sary bits of matter? the civil population. However the exterior is to be so designed what is wrong excellent progress is being made as to conform to the dignity of tion suffers may be described In

The disease from which our civilisa. dividuals and as a species, for some of the recent advances in pharma in all aspects of the problem, Whitehall.

medical technique?. This brings us to a series ofyot The offices will be few words. Since the accession of cological and

new more fundamental questions. and it has just been announced built on the steel-frame principle, Queen Victoria

there has been Tho

market in flooded with that same thirty million masks and so planned as to make the enormous and accelerating techno- drugs. Is this one of the reasons is the price of Industrial prosperity?

What psychological states are для doubled since the beginning of are to be made available, design-most economical use of the site, logical progress. Machines and the why the number of doctors related with different incomes? What ed to give protection against any for the housing of large numbers are fueration have been deve century, while the population has is the price wo pay for a philosophy

which what possible concentration of poison of Civil Servants.

But, unfortunately, wo and our increased by only about i

As for the

herole doctors,

conception gas which might be used in time

fathers before us have persisted in of war. Then, of course, there been devoting detailed study to regarding technology as the Pharisees engaged in activities which are in other words, the iden that money have been frequent experimental the problem is most reassuring. regarded the Babbath. We have be the main of obvious immediate benefit must be made for its own anke,

It is because

such long-range effects of their activities? mock raids carried out in big So far from creating scares, haved as though man were made for to individuals. But what of the merely as a symbol of power?

questions were towns at Home and in other knowledge of what is being done, technology, not technology for man.

Eminent authorities have warned. us never answered, and, indeed, hardly thut the wholesala inoculation against ever naked, that the new civilisation parts of the world. The whole and what will eventually be ex- Sacrificed To Moloch

Infectious diseases will probably which grew up so rapidly under Vie object of these schemes is to ac-pected from the pubile, should

In the first half of Queen Victoria's result in the survival and increase of torin and Edward VII, came so near quaint the public of what might have the effect of inducing a

human strains which have no to perishing under George V. be required of them in time of feeling of confidence which reign, technology was a kind of

resistance to tho diacreo What will tappen during the reign This may mean that we of Edward VIII Shall we at last emergency. Hongkong, there-might otherwise be lacking. Moloch to which human beings wors

sacrified in the most brutal way. In in fore, though not expecting Moreover, experience gained mine. factory and slum, the lives of are now preparing the ground for decide that technology is made for enemy invasion, does wise to locally by residents would obvi- countless thousands of men, women, futuro epidemics on a scale hitherto man, not man for technology? If

children were offered up

we do this, and begin to put the prin- come into line with what is being ously be of value in times of and

No lose immolately bencheint ia cipta inte practice, the reign should: done elsewhere. The mere fact emorgency elsewhere, should industrial progress. We have

pre-ben happy one. If we prefer to go that a committee, including ex- they at any time leave the to be shocked by such manifest in our present medical palley of

molation and think that the claimserving weakly and disease-prone on as we are going now, there is no perts amongst its numbers, has Colony..

made by technology to feed on broken infants, who would otherwise have saying what may happen.

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