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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, Saturday, AUGUST 7, 1937.

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Robert Lynd's Saturday Essay

Steal

People Who Queer Things

N spite of all that the clergy and the school- masters can do, the human race does not appear to be growing much honester in small matters. "Pinching" things must still be an extremely popular Hongkong Hotel sport, if we may judge

Stubbs Rd.

Garage

SHOWROOM

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from the statement, just published, that between 300,000 and 400,000 towels. are lost every year by the four big English railway companies.

I cannot for the life of me · imagine what pleasure it gives anybody to steal a towel. It is arc said, however, that there

DANCE RECORDS Hongkong Telegraph. even one who find excitement

25323-Sperdboat Bil F.T.

Trees. F.T.

FT.

Until The Real Thing Comes Along.

25374-I'm Crazy 'bout My Baby.

25405-Now Or Never. F.T.

Darling, Not Without You. FT.

25448-Little Old Lady. F.T.

Now. FT.

25481--Whispering. F.T.

Tiger Rag. FT.

25503-Las Palmeras. Rumha

Inspiration. Tango.

FT.

Ray Noble's Orchestra.

"Pats" Waller's Orchestra,

Nuby Newman's Orchestra.

Ray Noble's Orchestra.

Benny Goodman's Quartet.

Xavier Cugat's Orchestra.

25514-Mounlight And Shadows. F.T. . . . . . . . . . . Eddy Duchin's Orchestra.

Love Is Gaud For. Anything That Alls You. F.T. 25530- Can't Break The Habit Of You,

You're Laughing At Mc. F.T.

25552-Shall We Dance, F.T.

For You. F.T.

25553-Turn Of The Moon. F.T.

Jammin', F.T.

25561-A Love Song Of Long Ago. Waltz

It's No Secret I Love You. F.T.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1937.

FAR EASTERN

OUTLOOK

Another week having passeri without any major clash between the Japanese and Chinese forces,

'Cause My Baby Says It's So. F.T. 25564-There's A Lull In My Life. FT.......Kay Thompson's Orchestra. diplomatic means, but present

Carelessly. F.T.

25566-The Lady Who Couldn't Be Kissed. F.T... Guy Lombarde's Orchestra.

25587-

I Know Now. F.T.

lum A Waltz. Waliz

Hold Me Tight, Waltz.

Without Your Love. F.T.

..........Xavier Cugal's Orchestra. 25500-Let's Call The Whole Thing On. F.T..... Eddy Duchin's Orchestra. ."Futs" Walier's Orchestra.

.Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra.

25571-I've Got A New Lease On Love, F.T.

Sweet Heartache. F.T.

25373-Wake Up And Live. F.T.

Sleep. FT.

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people

in stealing a bath-mat. This 1 call stealing for stealing's sake. Or is it evidence of a perverted love of cleanliness-of a crazy desire to be surrounded by as many symbols as possible of that cleanliness which is said to be next to godliness?

FEW Souvenir-hunters

Spoons, I suppose, are the most popular trophies for the

are yo

Messrs. S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. Peiping and Tientsin, a circum- the spoon as an object of theft. their guests from temptation, and electric bulbs and hat pegs householder whose knocker was

YORK BUILDING

CHATER ROAD.

steal, I am sure, for the Far Eastern situation may utilitarian reasons. They have F.T..."Fats" Waller's Orchestra. be said to be as satisfactory as reasonable excuse that they need not the thief's comparatively

reached, however, only some moral code in their stealing, ..Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, could be hoped for in the circum-what they steal more than the conduct of his associates-told was

stances. Small comfort, how person who owns it. They steal me that, when he returned home, when one of the souvenir-hunt- I hold, for example, that one of Tommy Dorsey's Orchestru.

ever, can be extracted from the for fun, like the man who some he found to his horror in his tail- ing guests made off with a silver the first rules for the souvenir- years ago stole the Sacred Cod, pocket a silver knife, a dessert hair brush with the Sultan's hunter should be that you must ...Xavier Cugat's Orchestra. actual state of affairs. In some the gilt emblem of

Massa- spoon, and two Apostle-spoons crest on it. The Sultan there- not rob your host. quarters, there is a feeling, that chusetts, from the House of which some more sportive col- upon announced that unless the I should also like to see it laid returned he down that, if you must steal, you 25502You Can't Run Away From Love To-night, F.T.

league must have placed there. hair brush was Bunne Berigan Orchestra. actual war may be avoided by Representatives in Boston,

would have to stop inviting Euro- should stent only from rich cor- purations, such as railway com- panies and the more fashionable LOOTING on this scale peans to his State banquets,

is, of course, the

hotels, and never practise your indications do not warrant undue souvenir thief. There

are sup- art in those small teashops optimism along these lines. many spoons stolen every year enemy of hospitality. It makes AMERICANS

ill posed to be the lead- where the proprietor can Even if there is no immediate that it almost makes one believe hosts suspicious and watchful, recurrence of hostilities, China in the transmigration of souls and it spoils the atmosphere of ing exponents of the art of afford to lose his ash-trays and

and that thousands of people a tea party in a drawing room if souvenir-hunting, and it is said his spoons.

My chief objection to collect- can never be satisfied with the must have been jack-daws in a you know that all the time your to be in order to counter Ame- position it is. Japanese previous existence. Three hun- host has his eye on you for fear rican genius that fish knives are ing door-knockers-a favourite dred spoons disappeared during you may try to steal his spoons. no longer laid on the table in form of trophy-hunting when I forces are in control of numer-

number An increasing

of most Parisian hotels. For was a single trip of the "Normandie."

young-was that it gave ous Chinese centres, notably

There is much to be said for hosts, it is said, anxious to shield tunately, there are still ash-trays more pain to the not very rich stance which is conducive to It is easier to slip into the breast now bring out only their least and tumblers and towels and all wrenched off than pleasure to pocket of one's evening clothes valuable cutlery when entertain- sorts of odds-and-ends to satisfy the trophy-hunter who wrench- eventual action for their ejec than a towel. It is less bulky ing on a large scale. I saw it or at least, to mitigate the edit,

souvenir-hunter's Yet I had a friend-and tion. Japan would doubtless be than a hassock or a clock-both stated the other day that ut most confirmed

charming friend-whose content with the preservation of of them, I believe, prime British Embassies in the various craving for other people's pro- very

one passion in life was knocker- had drawers favourites with the respectable capitals of the world electro- porty.

And in an English hotel he can wrenching. He the status quo, which would he thieving community. It is dim- plate now takes the place of sil-

the soap. He full of other people's knockers in in line with her policy of "local-cult to make off with a complete ver when "the natives of the always steal

his father's house, and when he much countries concerned" are being usually does. isation" of the dispute, but any cruet-stand-another

I myself have none of the pas- showed them to you his face settlement leaving Peiping and loved souvenir-without attract- entertained in great numbers.

The Sultan of Johore, again, sions of the souvenir-hunter, shone ecstatically like that of a ing attention.

had to cease using his gold plate and so, never having experienced bibilophile showing you his first Tientsin in Japanese hands

A spoon, however, scarcely at State banquets because so temptation, I may be inclined to editions. would never be acceptable to the needs even manual dexterity to many gold spoons and other condemn where I ought to con-

I do At the moment, it convey it safely into a pocket. I pieces of cutlery were stolen by dole. But Chinese.

think that have heard of the head of a great the guests. The breaking-point souvenir-hunters ought to obey appears that Nanking is not only college who invited the members prepared to resist further aggres- of an amateur dramatic society sion, but is also determined to to tea, and I was told that even regain control of the areas which the most clumsy-fingered of the guests went home with their have passed into Japanese hands. pockets bulging with stolen The leading Chinese journals silverware. A friend of mine continue to urge active diploma-who was present-an elderly re- spectable man who would not tic efforts with a view to secur-even rob the head of a college, ing the support of friendly and who was indignant at the Powers in the event of a major

PUNCH PACKED ACTION !

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THERE was one knocker in the town, however, knocker-wrencher,

no

which either local or imported, had been able to wrench. They had all had a go at it, but it still hung there, a twisted and unshapely thing, looking as if it had been battered with sledge-hammers and bombed, and as if. Samson had swung round and round on it with his feet off the ground in a frenzy.

no use.

Sir Arthur Keith says "the world will have to sleep for ever

But no one could get it off the conflict developing. Chief hopes upon which Japan has embarked,

with a loaded gun at its side." door. My friend used to go by in this direction appear to lie and which is obviously designed

An American journal quotes Or else sleep for ever when it night and gaze at it mystically, with Russia, which is known, by to seize control of more of the case of a woman who hasn't goes off.

like a mountaineer gazing at the for stopped weeping

peak of Everest. Then it would reason of her territorial propin-China's territory. How quick quity to China and her suspicion Japan is to seize on any pretext weeks, Perpetual (e) motion!

According to a doctor, lip. magnetise his hand, and he would for action against China was

O O of Japanese foreign policy zen-well illustrated in the case of the

stick is repulsive and dan-clutch it and twist till his eyes The sweltering heat this week gerous."

On the other hand, were starting out of their erally, to be sympathetically dia- Japanese seaman who disap-has made lots of people strip- many young men have conclusive sockets. But iined it

The knocker remained inviolable. poset. Some newspapers even peared" some little time ago in teasy.

proof that it creates a good im-

I was glad of this, for, as I pression. urge that representations be Shanghai, allegedly kidnapped by

have said, I have never believed It's a crime, punishable with

O ☐ made to the Powers with intor Chinese, but in reality deserting imprisonment, to laugh at the

in stealing knockers. Or, for So Kowloon golfers may get that matter, in stealing spoons unsavoury police in Yugo-Slavia. But we Razor Hill. They ought to be tions against Japan, but thore episodes. Japan has since apolo-suppose they'd let you off with able to scrape along there alor soap or towels. And I think

gised for the "commotion" she a fine if you only sniggered.

there is something slightly irre- is no ground whatever for think-caused over the incident, but, had

verent in stealing prayer-books ☐ 口 ing that such a development is the seamen never returned, the

and hymn-books, as was done A reader wants to know if woļ

"London Population Going during the wild souvenir-hunting likely. When the origin of the myth of his being kidnapped can recommend a nice spot for Up," says headline. Hongkong's scenes in church after Mr. Walter crisis is remembered, there seems would doubtless have been main-a change. Well, we've been getting more air-minded, too. Elliot's wedding.

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The truth is, I think, that if no justification for the action tained. The fact is that Japa-thinking this week of joining those Soviet explorers who are which Japan has taken. Evon nese policy in China is provo28" adrift on a big, cool ice-floe. When the mui-tsai question is you want to collect souvenirs,

tive to a degree, but there is a

out of the way, what about a the best thing to do is to buy the "incident" itself has never limit to what a nation will atand An advertisement refers to movement to remove the re- them. How strange that none

the been satisfactorily explained:]—n fact which

twenty-five million Japan herself accordeons specially built for proach caused to the Colony by of certainly it was not of a nature may soon perceive if there is no, Hongkong's climate. Only wish associating it with the complaint souvenir-hunters should

known as "Hongkong foot"? hava thought of this! to warrant the aggressive policy radical change in her tactics. we were, too.

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