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HONGKONG'S LOSS

It is no mere platitude to say that the news of the pending transfer of His Excellency Sir

•Androw Caldecott from Hong- kong, to assume the Governor- ship of Ceylon,

been has received with the utmost regret by the whole Colony. Sir An- drew's tenure of office in Hong-

BUILDING A BETTER AMERICA

by

Hugh Quigley

F the Presidential policy atma at improvement of the fundamental conditions making for greater social security and economic pros- perity, the dinculties confront- ing such a policy will probably be found to be less in the United States than in almost any other country.

is an The American character extraordinary thing. It is easily swayed by propaganda and bally- hoo: it listens with avidity to all kinds of prophets, from Father Coughlin down to Townsend, but it likes a change in its prophets and is not fundamentally influenced by any of them.

The keynote of contemporary American civilisation is exactly this impatience with established things and the desire for change, and this desire is expressed in habits which are curiously com- munal in their effect, if not in their intention.

On the Roads The growth of camps, the sub- stitution of trailers for proper Axed homes, and the new apparatus of living on the road which has been evolved during the last three years, is merely another expression of that love of central meeting places typified in the hotel lobbles, halls of transportation and the con- courses beneath the new skyscra- pers,

more Young America is living and more outside on the street and along the road.

This is certainly educating and consolidating the American mallon1

as no other thing has done before. One must take into account the influence of the Reform admluls- tration, particularly in education and in art,

During October, the Metropoll- tan Museum of Modern Art badt An exhibition of architectural drawings and plans representa- Live of the new public buildings and schools and the great nev public services initiated, carried out and financed by the Federal Government.

Just before that, the Govern- ment staged in New York also an exhibition of paintings and draw- ings Inspired and carried out under the Federal Art Project. and one can sed in the new schools, which are being bullt by local authorities with Federal assist- ance, even in remote country towns, in the design and decora- tion of great new public bulding, an increasing interest in good planning, good architecture and good painting.

It is true, of course, that the

onc of putting

Rood scheme Federal building in every town of Importance, generally represented by a combined Post Office and Courthouse,. originated under the Hoover regime, but the effect of this policy has coincided with the work carried out by the Roosevelt administration. It is possible to

see the beginnings at least of a new American architecture and new American school of painting.

In a different field one can in- alance the educative work carried out by the Tennessee Valley Au- thority among the farming com- munity.

The Authority has been success-

SOME DAY: Your Dreams

May Come True

The Metropolitan Furrum of Modern Art, New York, where ait cruibition hús been held illustrating the seu publie buildings, schools, and pubile services, initiated and financed by the Federal Government.

ful in creating a very large num- ber, probably now in the thousands, of associations of farmers pledged to carry out, good farming prac- tices.

In return for the adoption of sich practices, which are deter- mined by the Ministry of Agricul- ture, agriculturai experts attached to the Tennessee Valley Authority and by the farmers themselves, the farmers are assisted in various ways, one way being the supply of free fertisers from Muscle Shoals. In o number of institutes the pensants are being taught the rudi. ments of good design and applied art, according to principles very similar to these adopted at. Dartington Mall.

AL Berea, in Kentucky, which is now A recognised centre of good handicrafts represented

by bodies like thr Churchill Weavera, a college for the Inculention of good design has been in successful operation for some years. and its activities are being paralleled In other States of the Union.

Thin, backward areas of Tennessee. with their poor white population, are being opened up by new ronds, the children are being brought to schools. many of them recently built, with the result that the new generation will have a better outfonk and hatcher

kong will have been the shortestARE you one of those people who For when you heard of the Browns standard of rilleiency than the old.

has

he

mony

in-

You may know that this is most

unlikely, circumstances being as they are But if you have the secret of projecting yourself into an illusive figure you will get a certain amount of pleasure even out of an illusion.

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For in this envoking of some day is there not a hint of the vision and

moment of time you have sensed the joy of possession.

And if you say it once you will say it often. When the Smiths came to tell you about their tour to Venice, it is more than likely that you said then, "Some day we also will go!" And at the words, far more clearly than they could describe it, did you not see that City of Wonder rising above its strange watergates, with its pulaces, its churches, its spires and zuinarets glittering in the sun? You heard the soft beat of oars in the quiet logoons, the echo of the gondo- liers' songs, and floating in the sill air the golden noise of bells.

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Of course, sensible, practical people will tell you that little good ever came of such unsubstantial phantasy. But if you are one of those who speak of some day, even in this world of sorrow and hidden joy that the years cannot. and unrest, you will have an inner take away. You will be related, al- though even distantly, to the seers of visions, and the dreamers of dreams, who with lovesome and gentle arts, know how to beguile the road of the mortal pilgrimage.

Heroic Plans

In many backward areas the influ- ence of the younger generation is already so marked that one can see in its last stages that crude, hilly-billy civilisation which was a standing TU proach to all American administra- tions.

The American nation has in it the elements of greatness.

It belleves in herole experiments, such as the flood control and weler power projects of the Federal Govern- ment: the great new roads, such as the New York and Pennsylvania high- way, the New Jersey and Miller high- ways, leading in the one case to the. Hudson Tunnel and in the other to what must be one of the most beauti- ful bridges in the world. Ute George Washington Bridge.

The construction of great new medi- cal centres like the Cornell and Columbia Presbyterian hospitals, or of magnificent railway stations like the Cincinnati Union Terminal

The elaboration at experimental forests, such as one Anda in New York State, and the building of scente in the Great Smoky highways ns National Mountain Park.

One could prolong the 1st in- definitely. but the activity recorded

a readiness to try illustraton

out

new possibilities and complete new schemes which is peculiarly Ameri-

can.

The country is so vast list no one could attain any part of picture of what is being done and even the gigantic labours of the Works Pro- gress Administration in preparing, with The assistance of over 4,000 writers, a closely detalled survey of the whole Americaii scene will only serve to bring out the immensity and the complication: they will not tell us what America really and what it will appear.

One has always a feeling of revolu tionary change about to occur some where.

Past & Future

The advent of the mechanical cot- ton-picker, now successfully proved. is one which suggests terrifying labor difficulties in the cotton belt.

The Americans themselves in their attempt to get down to ʼn better cum- ception of life, are beginning to revive and define what memories they have of their 18th century civiltsattori.

The reconstruction of Williamsburg In Virginia, show u beautifully plawed 18th century town, is not merely an expenditure of money by an nunensely powerful private interest. but it is an attempt to catch what is Anest in the 18th century architectural tradition.

Americans themselves admit that the maxt beautiful example of domestic architecture in their country is still Jefferson's house on Monticolio.

At the other side comes-the pr occupation with ultra-modem types and standards represented not by the Rockefeller Centre, but by an educa- Lion development in New York which has hitherto been ignored.

Social Responsibility

If I were asked to select what I should regard as the most promising and the most vital development in con- temporary America, I should certainly select the New School of Social Res search in New York, which, under its Fresident, Dr. Alvin Johnson, is bring- ing a live conception of social respon- sibilities into that chaotic Individual- ism which we regard as new America.

Dr. Alvin Johnson says: "The New School exists to promote, to the extent of its abilities, freedom of thought,and fairness of action, the values upon. which American civilisation resis.

"I urges its students and other friends to look beyond the immedia- eles of particular lectures, particular courses, to the ultimate aim of develop- ing an institutional form which shall prove effective in the cultivation" of whst is best in our national Hte."

When Pets Are Pests

tur, did you not also see, as in a in the history of the Colony; he speak of some day? Have you

a habit of saying, "Some day we will flashlight picture, just the very little will be leaving within sixteen do, well, all sorts of pleasant things"? car you would decide on if you could you Because if you are, when for

afford

ord it. Just the very road months of his arrival here. stance you hear that the Browns have

know you would take for your first Brief as the period of his at last bought a car, and are having run to the open country, just the very you would enjoyable blue, summer weather the mast thrilling and

choose for the adventure? You may incumbency

been,

His week-end,

de- exploring so

never have

for a your wish, but lightful places, instead of being de Excellency has won a measure pressed, and more or less envious, of popularity such as seldom you will say quite light-heartedly,

"Some day we laso will have a car!" falls to the lot of any Governor. Not only has he shown himself an administrator of marked talents, but, what is of almost equal a cosmopolitan importance in

And the strange thing is that the Colony such as Hongkong,

ability to do this does not arise from has, by his urbanity and by his any discontent. You are certain that it has nothing to do with any sorrow- social attributes, made friends ful longing after the unattainable. Is sit not more like an airy and joyous amongst all sections of the com- fancy? You speak of some day, and munity. Never has a Governor straightway an odd and unexpected buoyancy touches you. As if the made closer and more kindly bluebird happiness had

suddenly contacts with the people. stooped in his high flight to flutter his bright wings across your path. Blessed with a keen sense of As if out of the land of your lost childhood, out of the Little City of humour and A common-sense Make-Believe, where on ice

journed, come outlook on life, his rare com-called to you, "Let's pretend!" And gay, childish voice bination of qualities has served all at once the shadows of the years between are 1lt with sunshine, and him well in the innumerable the slience stirred and rippled over difliculties with which he has with laughter, been faced ever since he took aver the Governorship of the Cokmy. His acquaintance with depressing conditions was, how- ever, no new experience, for he lency's pending departure, but had known the full difficulties of the slump in Malaya, where their regret in the case of Lady his services were of the ultmost Caldecott will be no whit less. value in the successful overcom- Although she has been in Hong- ing of the obstacles to recovery. kong for little more than half It was this circumstance which a year, her ladyship has

But perhaps the most delightful Even six penow) the size of a foot- Secret Thoughts caused Hongkong so warmly to played the keenest interest in the thing about this same day you ex- welcome his appointment. to this affairs of the Colony and has pect is that it has no date. It be ball, can throw an entire family into a tumult every time the gold-fish's longs not to the troubled past or pre-

There are many ladies who are Colony, in the sure and certain made a host of friends by reason sent, but to

the future that my bath water is changed.

wholly devoted to their Pekincse pets, knowledge that if any man

sterious, that wonderful unknown, in There is no wife on earth who and in many cases it is no secret to of her charm of manner and her which things, now accounted most would stand for hours on a cold door- say that the pet is considered just could help to extricate us from

ab-step calling for her errant husband, like a husband. Where the family deep sincerity. It is little short Improbable, most utterly and

may solutely Impossible, happen. night after night. She would leave goes the pet must have a place, and the problems with which Wo

who has it in his grip, him if he kept the hours of a cat. wore beset, that man would be of a tragedy that the exigencies And Fate,

must yield it up to you at. Inst. At soon inst it must dawn for you, and Caldecott. His of the service should so

surely Sir; Andrew Excellency quickly obtained a deprive the Colony of so able an it will come, all in an azure glory. Pamperred Parrot

Hashing gold along the hill-tops. clear grasp of the Colony's administrator as Sir Andrew. And is sunset will be full of fair A friend of the writer an old man dimeulties,

during

cloud-pictures, and its sweet and in this case keeps a parrot, which be tem- the Regret will, however,

A lady who loves cats, and houses dewy eve hung with stars of silver, takes up much of his precious time. period of his Governorship he pered by the knowledge that, and of amethyst, and lyrical with the Every morning at nine o'clock the them at hollday times for local resid-

loveliest has been largely concerned with Sir Androw's transfer means a

barrot has fresh water and millet seedents, would bore you with her long songs of birds.

and gravel. Grapes and cuttlefish tales about pussies if she knew you laying the foundations of a new distinct promotion and is a fit For some day will surely herald followed at noon. From 1.30 p.m. to at all. I have met her several times; and really, as a man. I am bound to and better order. Already some ting, recognition of his high in a fair new world. Some day the four was set apart for the parrot to

City with the wall of jamper may be enjoy a siesta. Later, more grapes confess that in my humble opinion of the measures he has devised talents. The movement in cer- built, the wolf muy dwell with the followed for this lucky bird, and it this woman lives for cale. Wells have borne fruit; thore are tain quarters to secure a reten- lamb, men may beat their swords was not dimeult to decide who was have a certain admiration for this lady in her efforts to protect the feline, I am not enamoured with one. many others which have been tion of His Excellency's services into ploughshares, and their spears the master. of this house.

Into pruning hooks. Some day you

The poor old gentleman, wealthy, subject all the time, and feel very sat in train, and which the com- for Hongkong correctly, reflects may see from afar those who hasten

and a confirmed “pet slave" never | relloved when I get away. munity generally will hope to popular sentiment, but it is to be with beautiful fect upon the moun

wavered in his devotion to this lean. 'tains, publishing peace!

Haunt horridan of a bird with Certainly pets should have a place Hee brought to completion by his feared that the fint of the

staring eye like an in our lives, but wo must never Accessor. Not only will Hong- Colonial Office will have to be

fanaticnt Dsssassin's. If ever a man was in the allow them to be our dictators. kong deeply deplore His Excel obeyed.

J. R. K. B. clutches of a dictator, here was one.

and

the dream of which the poets write?

dis-

In

Morcover, you will never walk in

On several occasions I have noticed loneliness, for even the Micawbers TT is an undeniable fact that in

man dutifully and industriously will make free of your company; and many homes the pet cat or dog although a little shabby and down-receives as much care as or more trudging the streets on wet nights at-the-heel, willi prove themselves than, children, The pet "rules the with his pet dog. Yes, Ught-hearted comrades, with much roost" se lo speak, and ilves a wholly weathers this man can be seen, and for little pug dog has inhaled enough that they expect some day to "turn convenience

fresh air. The dog undoubtedly re that talk of all the good things retired life, without the slightest, in- he never appears to know when the ceives more kindly consideration than If the dog dies up." It will be as if you trudged the others. shundowy valley passes, and took up

We are all familiar with homes his muster ever did. the toilsome hill tracks with happy of a song and n tale by the way. because of the cat, and where friends master, or for that matter, that I had wayfarers with whom you were sure where the people cannot go away early it would not to the fault of 15

cannot come in because of the dog. run short of fresh air.

a sixpenny gold-fish swimming

So may all your dreams come true, same day.

Marion W. Simpson

or cangiderullon

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its likes and dislikes must be con- sidered. How must a poor husband feel in the circumstances will never be known, bul. It is almost certain that he sometimes wishes he were in the dog's place.