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THE HONGKONG Telkrarh, Saturday, NovembeR 20. 1937.

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The

ROBERT LYND'S SATURDAY ESSAY

Art-But NOT For

I

Art's

Sake

No man is fit to be a dictator

SEE, that an A.R.A. art is good. I do not, as a mat- denly decided to reform the arts has expressed himself ter of fact, believe that the world and ordered all writers to write in the arts. If the enemies of

Tory Herr Hitler's favourite

com-

-in favour of General would be any the poorer artis- in accordance with the

torical powers a few generations Goering's new order to the tically if 98 per cent. of the pic world outlook on pain of having poser, Wagner, had had diein-

nett, tures that have been painted had their works suppressed.

there would now be no Minister of Education to

never been painted, if 98 per What a bonfire would at once "Ring" for him to listen to. "clean up" the public art cent, of the music that has been be made of all the works of Mr. If Dr. Johnson had had the Wells! Mr. passions and the power of a die- collection, in Prussia, as a composed had never been com- Shaw and Mr. result of which a great posed, and if 98 per cent. of the Priestley and Mr. Aldous Huxley tutor he would have suppressed Tel. 27778.9 number of modern pictures books that have been written would no longer be able to make Gray-a barren rascal”—and

a living. Mrs. Woolf and Miss Fielding. If De Quincey have been taken away and had never been written.

General Goering's object, how. Roge Macaulay would be reduced been a dictator he would have hidden in cellars.

number of publishing houses had been a dictator he would would have to go into liquidation. have suppressed nearly every

Fortunately, few English Gov- body.

Thongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, NOVENDER 29, 1937.

TIME FOR AN ANSWER

had

"About 75 per cent. of modern ever, is not to sift the artistic to something like penury, and a suppressed Keats. If Tolstoy

the Germany," says art in A.R.A.. is quite awful."

grain from the chaff, though it is true that he bas strong opinions on modern art and That may be perfectly true, agrees with Herr Hitler who ernments have ever thought the but it is not truer of modern maintains that modern artists arts worth bothering about.. German art than of art in nearly are suffering from eye-trouble takes a great deal to convince an all countries and in nearly all when they draw "misshapen English statesman that litern- from time to time and from per-

nges.

It

CONSIDERING how ar.

tistic taste varies both

free to choose what books' to

cripples and idiots, women who ture is serious enough to be dan-

son to person, the sane course can rouse only abhorrence, men gerous. If it had been other- Many suggestions for The improvement of housing condi-

AFTER all, many people who are nearer animals than hu- wise, Byron and Shelley would seems to be to leave the public have maintained that man beings, and children who, if never have been allowed to print reade what pictures to look at,

and tions for the poor classes of

of some 75 per cent. of the pictures ex- they were like that in real life, their verse. Hongkong have reached this

would have must be regarded as a curse of Dickens's novels hibited at the Royal Academy are

been burnt by the common hang- office during the past few days."quite awful." But how would

God."

*man. They are further-instances of the. A.R.A. like it if Mr. Neville But the Goering and Hitler the extent to which this prob-Chamberinin sent the Minister dislike of modern painting is not

lem

In England. however, the

free. The cynic may reply:

and what music to listen to.

If every book has to be a tract and every picture a poster, ex- pressing the ideals of the Gov- ernment in power, the artist will

is worrying the public of Education to the next exhibi- so much aesthetic as racial and artist has been comparatively Hoon lose his artistic ambition mind. But the impression seems tion of the Academy with orders political. They wish artists 10 yes, he has been free to starve and the public its artistic ap- to be abroad that the Govern- to purge it of all pictures that be propagandists of the National-or please his patrons." "But petite. ment, whatever it may wish to did not express the virile spirit Socialist world outlook. They the point is that, if he cannot I dislike a great deal of mo- do in the matter, is bound to of the woad-painted Britons, want art to be Nordic in the new win the support of the section dern art, but I should dislike remain inactive for reasons of with Special instructions

to Germanie fashion. economy. This belief is quite cleanse it of the paintings of possibly erroneous. An officiul Mr. Augustus

John on the statement of steps taken by the ground that they are "a decadent departments concerned in the by-product of Bolshevist-Jewish housing problem, of methods of reform considered, and the find- [ings" of the Commission which

has apparently had the matter

some

under advisement for time, would be welcome at this stage.

of society in power, there are still more strongly art produced other sections to which he can to order as an expression of appeal. Mr. Shaw has nearly some statesman's world outlook. always been the enemy of the

I do not want a poet to sing THE same sort of thing Government in power, but he

of the lesser is happening in Russia, was never forbidden to make a Marxistically

living by selling his books to his celandine, or a musician to com- The young artist is told that he own particular public.

pose a Nazi Pastoral Symphony. must express "the Socialist ra- „And, indeed, it was only the

Similarly, Mr. Epstein was re- Anyhow, the thing cannot be

other day that Mr. Augustua

~tionalism;" ́or whatever it is, in viled by many of the most in-done-not, at least, by artists John, speaking of his inordinate

his painting. If he does not, he fluential people in English society of genius, cannot become a professional even in English artistic society passion for onions, said that he painter. He must paint Marxist Jery wished to purchase one of but if any municipal art gal-}

would rather paint an onion

corruption?"

sheep, not capitalist sheep. I his works the Prime Minister of than a duchess--one of the most wonder who can tell the differ- the day had neither the power LETTERS TO THE

*

A suggestion which seems Bolshevistic remarks ever utter- to be popular among interesteded by a great painter. people is that Government should itself invest in tene-

ence.

nor the wish to prevent it from doing so.

EDITOR

It looks as though, under these I do not myself object to Herr My own objection to General

new Governments, the advocates Hitler and General Goering's ments, first, on a small sente:! Goering's artistic purge is not of which believe them to be the criticising modern art. It is HONGKONG HEALTH based on a belief that modern most advanced in the world, the ambition was to be an artist, and said that Herr Hitler's original] later. if the experiment proves :

Sir, In your leader on Health & satisfactory, to a larger extent.

artist-whether painter or writ- I can only say that I wish he hadging to see that some long required" Sanitation of Hongkong It is encour- Various objections to this step-17 per cent. of the rental er or composer-is likely to en- achieved it. Even if he had the improvements are still noticed.

Under my pen, in the Sunday are predictable, among them value, or net income from in- joy less liberty than his predeces- most artistic taste in the world,

however, I should object to his Herald, some months ago I pointed the old story of economy. But vestment. That means to say sors enjoyed under despots and using his power to destroy a most of the items you bring to light. out some sound improvements under particular school of art which, it is a pity they were not taken no- it is advanced that Government that so far as the Government absolute monarchs. would at least have that much is concerned it makes no jot of

Imagine what it would be like horrible as it may seem to him, ice of, as I am certain the death rate may contain works that pos- during the last cholera epidemie

would have

it more been less more property on which to levy profit from the "principal teman- in this country if the Conserva- terity might have hailed

us efficient gunitary methods trad been taxes. Another interesting view try" system, as has been sug.tive Government in power sud- masterpieces.

introduced before, it is strikingly apparent that Hongkong is decidedly is that laxation on tenement gesicd. Nor has the Govern-i

mediacval in this respect. properties should be reduced ment profited in any way as a from the ordinary seventeen result of the increasing rentals

per cent. level to, say, five per in Hongkong since the influx of BULLS AND INNERS

cent.

Regulations should ther refugees from Shanghai, Can-

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Some suggestions which I now puł forward may be of use:-

1. Overcrowding of Dwellings, Under no circumstances should this think the LC.C. be permitted. I have very strict rules en this point.

designed Proper, well

houses should be built for the poorer classes, and let out at a reasonable rentai according to needs.

2. Sanitation:-Every domcsilc buliding, should

be compelled conveniences to the main sewer. The | same should be done with public conveniences as one of the main fac

3. Retuse collection:-AL con went venient places in the town well en

closed briek refusebins should be

bullt where householders may depo- ait their garbage. From these bins the present lorries could take their louds in a quicker and more efficient manner than the present house to ap-house system.

be simultaneously enforced ton and elsewhere. The fact Is governing rent levels and an that the rateable value of effort made to abolish entirely Hongkong property is lower the system of "principal tenan- this year than lust by several try" Rent control would not lakhs of dollars. Compared to be new to the Colony. In 1922, 1933, the mtcable value has de- Chatham Road residents are The local golfer who modestly tors of health. with the boom years, such an clined considerably-from $39, complaining that the screeching asserted ordinance was in force. But 000,000 to $34,600,000 approxi- of the railway engine whistles in round Fanling in 90, probably after 1925, or thereabouts, the mately. And this in spite of all the still small hours, awakens meant Fahrenheit.

them. What about the poor) law of supply and demand cor the new building. It would rected the situation and rents scem, then, that there is no

signalman. He has to get up! found their proper level. The justification in reproaching|

D restrictions in force at this Government for making big We noticed a gallant major time applied only to old build-gains from this method of spearing his prawns at a Chinese! ings and tenement properties, taxation. Quite the contrary. jdinner the other night. We We notice that It is understood:

However, these questions must understand, however, that at the moment he was thinking about There has been some criticism be pressed: Is it admittedį

*tent-pogging.

Some may come forward with a 0 of the Government system of that the present conditions re-

renly to these suggestions that they will cost money which the Colony assessment and the fact that quire correction?. And what, if

This Week's Book. "The Peak cannot afford. To this I have a re- the rates charged against all anything, is Government pro-As usual, all the best people of Her Desire" by Nathan ply which I am willing to put for

word if required. property are on the same basis posing to do about it?

|are going Home next Spring. Rhode.

Some people's family trees pear to flourish by grafting.

All refuse collected should be dis posed of by Incineration, which so healthier and better way than of present, Aš Winter this may be

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regards suggestions 2 and 3, introduced gradually, a slurt made of some over- crowded district to see how the plan worica.

fashions "reveal simple figures." and Excepting on the tickets.

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