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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1936.

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Sho is far from the land (Lambert) John McCormack. Hongkong Telegraph.

Drink to me only with thing eyes (Calcott)

John McCarmack,

B-8442 Sweet Melody of Night (Film-"Give us this night")

My Love and 1 (Film-"Give us this night").

Webster Booth. Load the covered wagon (Kane & Hunt) Peter Dawson. Rolling Along (Film "Music goes 'round").

8-8443

FRIDAY, AUG. 14, 1936,

HOUSING POLICY Housing polley is still the Peter Dawson, subject of considerable contro- versy at Home. The Intest B-8444 Where am I? (Film~"Stars over Broadway"}

James Melton,group of critics to become 'vocal Carry me' back to the Lone Prairie ....James Malton, argues that present tendencies are objectionable because they The Spanish Lady (Hughes)

Stuart Robertson.

separate or segregate the Limahouse Reach (Proctor-Gregg).Stuart Robertson.different classes of the com- ..Derek Oldham.munity and therefore hinder the

Derek Oldham. prospects of a better under-"

..Molly Picon.standing among the people generally. The argument, ́ap- Molly Picon.parently, is that all classes should Sam Browne.dwell check by jowl: that there

should be

well-to-do

B-8445

B-8446 A little love, a little kiss (Silesu)

Nocturne ("Song of Love") (Curran) Busy, busy (Picon-Ellstein) The Song of the Tenement (Picon-Ellstein)

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Lost

A Melody from the Sky

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(Film "Trail of the Lonesome Ping") Sam Browne.neighbourhoods, no middle-class

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of exuality and neighbourliness has been brought down from the clouds to the level of everyday reality Nor-is-it-probable--that many

members of the public wish to see this idea put into practice; if it were otherwise, more would have been heard of the

1,4 plan. It admittedly depressing to see, hundreds and thousands of practically identical | buildings grouped together in monotonous rows, but it is

HOW OTHERS

A frank article by one

of the thousands of foreign'

visitors now in Britain.

F

OR years now I have beon backwards and for-

wards between my own country and yours, es- pecially your capital London: and, each summertime, I find some of your own people and your writers who detract from the value of Great Britain as a vacation resort.

They say how wonderful, how beautiful, how quaint with its locat customs, is abroad:,how refreshing in short. But they are blind to much of what is on, their doorstep, and which pleases me.

I do not count my business trips to make money. Then my eye is on the main chance. But I am at last moved to demand from my- self why so often do I return here: simply for a vacation.

It , of course, because I ka it here, and you: but why? Shall I try to answer that question?

NOW, Drst of all, I think I have a reason which may seem queer to you British who are accustomed for an many years to being treated at the big foreign resorts as csaen- Unlly British-in'a word, as some- thing rich and strange (I read your Shakespeare, too) for whom very be special arrangements must made.

I mean that you are used to always hearing English spoken on the beaten track of the tourist. You demand your afternoon tea and you, get it.

The difference between you and the people of the country you visit is marked and not forgotten, and you seem to like it. Perhaps you are a little conceited when you go abrond.

Shall I say, then, that my frat reason is half-and-half to see you as you are at home when you are not conceited; and to be absorbed in your crowds with no special arrangements made at all for me like we would make for you.

I come here on holiday. Apart from your extremely emcient guides there are few, if any, in the hotels who speak my language: nothing like so many who speak your languagę abroad. And I can whistle till I am blue in the face · for my particular kind of meals.

You do not treat me, as we treat you, as some thing to be catered for. You treat me as one of your- selves one who is a little mad perhaps but still as a very ordin- ary fellow.

You have so many of your own tricks which you do not change for anyone. You do not and them convenient, perhaps. There is

doubtful whether an assortment NOTES OF THE DAY

of dwellings, with tenements,

villas and those mansions which

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SEE US

LOOKING OVER LONDON

A view of Trafalgar Square and beyond” (from.

St. Martin's) that few people have ever seen.

this business of hours for drink- ing, and your pubile-houses which are unattractive and not aesthetic most of them,

There is the hour of eight after which no tobacco can be sold.

Things like that. Contrasted with abroad, they seem restric- tions, and you escape them when you go abroad. But I do not mind, any more than I mind your coffee or your English breakfaat.

Indeed, I-and-your-food excel lent. I do not mean your restaur- ant food-that la excellent, of course-but your home food.

Believe me, there are bad cooks in the homes of Europe, and the way they con murder a steak is beyond bellet. Your steaks, too, can be killed; but, when they are good, they are immortal.

I have an English friend whose

If We All Among the four thousand spéc

In

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wife does steaks to perfection, and cabbage, foo; and I beg, whenever I visit him, no matter how hot the weather, for his wife to make mo ́a steak-and-kidnoy pudding.

I am not a boozer, so I feel no great embarrassment at being shut off from drink at the hour of closing. Besides, there is a great charm to ma in scoing you all BO resigned to Tate and shrugging your shoulders when the walter or the barmaid calls the time, That shows a philosophy which we Jack.

...

Perhaps it springs from your consciousness of a freedom to speak your minds about politics, Though, again, It seems you know you can speak your heads off with- out much of the result you crave. But you can say in your parks, Baldwin 15 barmy," and nothing

Paid Our Debts

job in life brings me into paying at all?

few can nowadays afford to run tators at the Society of British would present a spectacle more Aircraft Constructors Trade Dis-Mintimate personal contact with conscienceless individuals are asked And even if these

pleasing to the eye. Jumbled play at Hatfield recently were the

to pay something oft their account, groups of the type envisaged representatives of civil and mili-every class of the community.

During recent years I have been they immediately fly into a temper would probably annoy the up-tary aviation from fifty different appalled by the aingunt of needless pose "to be hurt" and threaten their custom elsewhere, to take saw striking anxiety countries. They

And holders of amenity just as much flight demonstrations of what are

coused misery

to Creditors know this, and are mortally professional and trades people afraid to ask payment in case they as the present epidemic of simi-believed to be the world's besh account of the almost universal lose that money which is owing to

ind them. Jurity does, Man, moreover, is acroplanes. During the past year attitude nowadays of clients

customers to have their accounts

It would surprise many of my a gregarious animal. He prefers British aircraft and nero-engine entered on "the book." to dwell among his own class or blished their technical leadership. designers have completely esta-

Whilst the general economic de-readers to know that professional sub-class. There is the further Demonstrations

men such us surgeons, doctors, and were given of

pression was one of the major cause dentists are as much the victims of factor that the divisions now fighters and bombers unrivalled in

of this pernicious habit, I find it the debt-makers as are the tailors, Impossible to exonerate the great

Bc- apparent are rooted in economic performance and

the drapers, and the grocers. in military mass of people who owć debts to

cause the professional man has to considerations, for where there power and efficiency. Among the others and yet use their money in

many people no equality of wealth there civil aircraft was

"keep up ado, the world's any direction except that of clearing think, it is

This

is for must necessarily be variety in fastest transport aeroplane and their liabilities, With the majority from being the truth and if it were type of dwelling.

these It may also be many other machines which com-

of people running debts" iline | so it does not offer even the slightest become a thrilling adventure. This said that a policy whereby bined in a high degree excellent some of mind is beyond reasonable possible excuse for taking the ser

vices and making little or no attempt economy groups of houses of different performance and

excuse; it is both dishonest and to pay for them. As a matter of type were mingled together operation.

fact, these professional classes are. might postpone. rather than Overseas visitors were frank "If people would only pay their as hard hit to-day as any other hasten such ideas of the brother and generous in their praise of the debts," is a plea I have to listen to branch of the community. hood of men as have still survived new British machines. General

day after day when professional men and women, business people despite the shock which those Milch, the German Secretary of

and shopkeepers, come to me for the Probably the worst type of case 'is for Air, expressed. ideas have received in recent State

the accommodation of

overdraft.

that of the small shopkeeper, owning years. This grouping of dif-opinion that the finest Oghter aero. This habit of "running a bill" hits ferent classes in specific areas is planes in Europe are being built these people both ways, for besides a well-run, well-stocked store, who has to carry a whole load of book a common feature of all centres. by British firms. "You have," he not being able to get their money debts contracted.

added, "the best engines and the stories are of for which they have given good the end driven county, which in

him We see it in Hongkong, as every-best men to build them." Forty vice to pay an interest, oft an honest trades-people during the last out of business. where else. And it cannot be machines were assembled for the overdraft. avoided, even were this desirable. event. They comprised afnotaen who have "let them down" bave now leave the district where they had Clients and customers, five or six years having to sell up and Far better would the critics of civil aircraft, ranging from four-terally forced. them into present conditions concentrate engine air-liners to small tour themselves. their energies on movements Ing planes; twelve military acro- which would assure all sections planes; one "convertible” machine of the community healthful aur-designed for civil or military uses; roundings and adequate everyday and four trainors. There was conduct. All classes of people used them have goods on the book. amenities. In other words, the also a "static" exhibition of every to pay spot cash generally, or at

up weekly or This clans of trader, many of them

be

disgraceful.

CONSCIENCELESS

RUINED SHOPKEEPERS

manner.

debt been established some years, running a well-stocked store in an efficient They would never have In Victorian times debt-making it not been for them trusting 50 per been reduced to such a plight had

Inoked upon

immoral cent of their customers by letting

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improvement of housing should component part and accessory delcost they settled

tall needed in the construction, monthly. But since the War debt-women, have to rely entirely upon a approached from the bottom. When everybody gets navigation and maintenance of fly-making on the part of all classes has quick cash turnover to gain their ing machines. Ninety-three firms become quite a light-hearted habit, small profit which enables them to decent. dwellings, well within wero represented and their and debts are contracted without live. It is impossible for them to their means, built along sound exhibits ranged from aero-engines the slightest twings of conscience, carry on with a load of debts, be

Indeed, it would seem that thousands cause without sufficient ready money planned lines, the housing pro- capable of developing one thou or people, unhappily mostly women, they are not in a position to pay the blem will automatically dis sand horno-power down to the contract debts with all sorts of wholesaler to stock their premises. smallest nuts, bolts and rivets, traders without any intention of

appear..

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happens to you. You blow of steam.

Ant, then, at the appointed time, you go and vote quietly, and without fear.

Ah, you do not know our fears on the Continent; you do not know our dictators, our political polico. You do not have to whis- per what you think of the Gov- ernment for fear of being over- heard and put in a prison. You aro free, and in your freedom you seem easy-going to some of our hot-heads; but I know your are not. You go about things constitutionally, but you go to your alm, your goal. And yourɩ ilberty you will always defend.

Your traina, your undergrounds in London, and your omnibuses, I find inimitable. I tell you the transport abroad öven the boasted expresses in America and across Europe—is not so good.

And then, although as I said, 'yan do not worry about me being a foreigner, and so make me feel at home: and then, I say, there is your politeness and consideration. In case of need. '

IT 18 combined, ot course, with a shyness, an embarrassment, that is very British; but it is very truc and kind. Just you try to get help from a French or a German bobby, and then compare him with your own. Compare also the officials generally. The advantage is yours. I do assure you.

You will hear so many stories of the scenery to seen abroad, and of the wonderful historical bulk- ings, and the quaintness of the people..

Well, take them all: but do you over take your Bath? What n lovely city! So all of a piece, and a pertod! So dignified!

Do you know your Wales? 'Its mountains and valleys? Your Can- torbury? Even your London? Here, where I write, in London is the world: magnificent touches of the old, splendour of ceremonial, a. vastness of ideas—your Dominions, your colonies--and a mixture of

is peoples that leavened all through by your British shrug of the shoulders.

I like to come here because you are like no other people on earth.

You, here, have been out of battles in your own land for nearly two hundred years, since Bonnie Prince Charles. You do not know what it is to be invaded. You fight abroad, yes, but at home you shrug the shouldera.

60, you see, I came here on vacation because I like to sit back and watch you queer, unusual people disport yourselves.

I am struck in the eye by your untidinces. Once I came to London. at Whitsuntide, straight from Bonn, where no one would dream of walking on the lovely prasa of Its square by the main hotel, much less dropping a paper on it. It is verboten, forbidden.

Etraight from Bonn I came, and All London, that Whit-Monday, seemed to me a mess of papers and rubbish on the grass of ita parks, But why worry? Someone cleared it up, and you-you preserved your independence,

You are careless about marriage, Your young people are apt to marry where they just love-or think they love-without thinking of prudence and the money that should be available for a happy alllance. And in that respect you say "rats!" to your wiser parents. Well, it is your mar- riagei

I CRITICISE the hospi- tality of some of your caunty hotels, the very polite refined ones I mean, that are managed by gentest Indies or former Army officers with dogs.

They do not lay themselves out to please the stray guest, very much. Your independence again, I suppose. But surely it is bad business. Anyhow such a genteel rocaption, when I'warit lunch a bit too late, does not wreek my whole life,

Bo como now, with all your curiosities and your Island superiority, I like you vory much and your sights and your Ways.

Yes, you are so funny-Or is it so clever that you make me feel clover while I am among, you.

-To-day's Thought WHY do you laugh? Change but the name and the tale: is told of you

HORAGE.