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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFII, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1938.

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Would you like be 21 again?-

to be

I wouldn't

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F you could have the chance, would you like to be young again?" The question was asked of a group of middle-aged men and women in a university gathering.

With fervour and sincerity we all repiled:

"Not for anything you could give us,"

For no bribe would we again have endured

the fumbling experiments, the amotional miseries, the self-conscious humiliations of youth. We knew well enough when we were well off.

Nor have I over heard that question answer- ed otherwise by any one of intelligence to whom it was put directly and personally.

Yet in those curious public pronouncements which often seem to be made automatically and Phone 27778-9 without thought, people go on declaring that the world is for the young, is in the hands of the young, must look to the young for solution of all its

difficulties. The

young, heaven help them, be- lieve it, and it

Hongkong Telegraph. depresses them,

FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1938. ·

ONE REASON FOR

OPTIMISM

as well it may.

THE days of

because there's a

lot of nonsense talked

about being young. Life gets better as you

get older

by DOROTHY L. SAYERS

BUT there! the relation

of theory to practice

is always so disconcerting.

In the days when parents said, "Children should be seen and not heard" they had a great many children, who looked cagerly forward to being grown-up and enjoying themselves.

Now that parents say, "Youth must be served," they have very few children, many of whom complain that they don't want to grow up and cun see nothing en- joyable to look forward to.

Let us for Heaven's sake stop talking insincere and poisonous nonsonsc. What youth has to look forward to is the pleasure

TT is odd that the cult of being adult, which is a very

of youth should be so great pleasure indeed. energetically preached from

educational pulpits. The object

of education is (one would sup-

" said Dr. Johnson, "clear your mind of

pose) to assist the mind to at- cant." To make a pet or a tain maturity. Yet the modern fetish of youth is to exploit it educationalist is the first to cry for our own selfish amusement.

To refuse employment to ma- stinking fish over the goods that he supplies.

ture workers is not homage to The brute fact is that the youth, but a plain matter of buy- brain decays much later than ing in the cheapest market. the body, and in some people The howl in public over our seems never to decay at all. This own lost youth is an open con- is the best argument for the so- fession that we did no good with

a man are

called "higher education" of it, and never should, not though three-score years

famous detective writer, herself aped forty- women: and the one argument it were restored to us twenty and ten, and the

three. Broadcasting recently she said: "fe in

that is never, or seldom, advan- times over. not true that a woman is finished at thirty. If days of u

ced.

Excellent indeed was the ex- it were it would be a dreary thing to took,

hortation woman, accord-

forward to."

If any one asserts that a

to become as little the vital statistics, able; for here, skill is sold to the woman is "too old at thirty," we ing to

children-ns nice, old-fashioned Statistics

are usually dull rather more, since the female public directly and on its merits. should immediately demand, children, whose wholesome ambi- things-except for the statis-organism is tougher.

What doctor, scholar, or writer "Too old for what?" Certainly lion it was to grow up into men tician and those whom the The days of our youth being, expects or is expected to attain not too old to enjoy making the and women. figures directly concern. The at a generous estimate, thirty of thirty?

great importance under the age best of her wits.

The slogan "too old at thirty" general public of Hongkong, for years, we must all (it seems) The golden age for all who live belongs to a brief, bad period of THE VERY IDEA" instance, has very little interest than half a life-time of futility. forty to sixty. They have learnt expected to do no thinking, but THEY CALL

more by their brains is the period from social history when women were in trade returns, and the num- No wonder that, confronted by their technique and are ready to only feeling (and not too much bers of bags of this and that this exhilarating prospect, mo- create freely in their chosen of that). Yet books and news- coming into and going out of dern young people are sometimes medium, and with wider know- papers are to-day crammed with

accused of appearing slack and ledge they have gained wider in- verbinge this Colony. A housewife may discouraged.

purporting to tell women "how to keep young." It be interested in the price of

They know they are having a Incidentally, they have become would be more sensible to tell pretty thin time now, and they more entertaining and easier to them how to grow up. are confidently assured that this get on with, because they no is the time of their lives. Why longer take themselves with cannot we middleaged such agitated seriousness. The hypocrites tell them frankly, delight of middle-age is 2

more Important to others one becomes less important to one- self. -I-can-think-of--four-reasons, To drop a social brick at seven-

flour, but she has little or no concern whatever with the num- ber of bags delivered at Hong- kong godowns. Just the same.

look forward to rather

terests.

IT MUSIC

-BAH!

"CORNET", IS KELLY'S CRY TO WAR-MONGERS.

By Eddie "Hos-Haw" Kelly

the number of those bags may "We are happier at forty than paradox: that as one becomes cult of youth has its ugly side. this war too seriously.

YOUTH is important, not for what it is, but for what it may become, and the

TONGKONG. is taking The fashion for immaturity reflected in the educational pro- We refer, of course, to the grammes of to-day tends to controversy between. make both boys and girls grow "Eeyore" and the music all dishonest: idiot sentimen- teen is a tragedy; to drop it at up later and later. And this lovers of the Colony. tality; the desire to pose as forty-seven is a comedy. artificial prolonging of adoles- cence encourages some extreme-

Both of them have written to

'directly concern her husband's we were at twenty, and so will earnings. The prosperity of a you be?" scaport—such as this varies

directly according to the bulk of freight which the docks handle for the godowns, and the godowns atore for markets here and elsewhere within reach of the Colony's traders.

It is good news for the house- wife, and her bread-winner, then, that Hongkong should have experienced a record year in the matter of trade. Granted that a large proportion of the thousand million dollar total of imports was made up of tren- sure; but whether the com- modity is sugar or silver, it means work for Hongkong Inbourers and something to add to the gross income column of the ledger.

martyrs; the readiness to shift our responsibilities; the con-

ONLY in middle-age is ly unpleasant inhibitions, not to the papers, protesting against sciousness of failure in our-

it gloriously revealed say vices, that astonish nobody "Eeyore's" insidious attempts to selves, and the desire to present to one that what one says and more than the parents and undermine the edifice so care- this failure as a malady incident does makes little difference in teachers who have done their in-fully built up, note by note, by rather to our age than to our in- the long run to anybody, and nocent best to bring them about. Paderewski, "Glazounov, Busoni, firmity.

that therefore one may as well But time brings in ita rc- etc. say and do what one likes.

venges: one of these inhibitions We could mention # whole THERE is a fifth and

If the party is dull, one can go is the refusal to face reapons-Liszt of composers who are more practical reason, home; if one prefers sweet wine bility; the refusal to face respon- turning in their graves as the employing cheap namely, that the preference for to dry, one may proclaim as sibility is a contributory cause red tentacles of bolshevism creep

labour looks much without shame; and sounds nicer when it is call- finds the works of Mr. X-both declining birth-rate will (we the fortissimos of the classics.

if one of the fall in the birth-rate, the up the piano stools and storm ed "giving youth its chance." dirty and dull, one need not are told) shortly give us a nation Wo once had * friend who

Inexperience is not in itself trouble to read them. If one almost entirely composed of preferable to acquired skill and dislikes physical exertion, child- elderly and middle-aged people.

vegetables, When we reach this point we experience: if it were, it would ren, dogs, green come dearer, not cheaper..

country surroundings. the re- shall really have to ask ourselves ligion of universal brotherhood, what has become of the theory In art and letters and the or theatrical productions in that the world is for the young learned professions, nobody pre- which the actors tends that experience is not valu- down long flights of steps in a and amiable theory has landed fall up and and how on earth that attractive

bad light, what does it matter? us in such a situation.

TELEPATHY: AS EXPERIENCED

BY AN ORDINARY MAN

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thought that a classic was a room. full of schoolboys who had eaten too many green apples.

Us, we are like that. Arpeggios in F. Major make us sick.

Give us Art Cornerlo and his bora playing "The Virgin Sturgeon Needs No Urgin'”, and we sit In rapt attention for hours.

But B. Flats leave us cold.. We had to get an electric radiator in our last onc.

SONATA BY HAIG

We don't care for Paderewski, but lead us to a straight Halg and Haig, with maybe a dash of soda, and we'll have another with you any day.

Rubinoff gives us a pain in our Cadenza.

Wo were once envelgled into a Helena May concert.

A man with long hair pat down

at the plano. For a while he caress. ed his ears,

Then we too

TINKLE-INKLE INKLET

He stopped to pick some vermin

the keya.

they are not recorded anywhere. These statistics are impressivo And still the movement of some in a certain light. In 1935 mer- hundreds of millions of bullion chandise imported into Hong- has not been added, approxi- kong (not including the quanti- mately $386,000,000 coming in: ty of goods for re-export) and $395,000,000 going out in totalled $304,989,915—a con- the past year.

WHILE home on a visit from was "something in it; that I was South Africa, where I had "sender" while she was the "receiver.”** siderable sum, but not reckoned Reading over these resounding built up a profitable little agency Power of Emotion anything to 'eclebrate.

The figures even a pessimist must business, I became engaged to a following year imports of the be impressed.

In one letter my fiancee advanced very intellectun) type of girl-) The trouble is, same sort totalled $462,350,193. as so many will complain, very vinced that telepathy was

a school teacher who was con- the theory that strong emotion, pro- duced by some happening of great But last year, 1937, they had few of these millions of dollars scentific and demonstrable fact.joy, "cuch as winning the first prize of

Import; some condition of extreine jumped to $617,083,967 ... or find their way Into the pockets Ifer accounts / bf ono or two in the Calcutta Sweep," was perhaps roughly $600 worth of produce of the average worker. But, as experiments in thought transmission essential to the success of such ex- for every single soul of the pre-a matter of fact, they do; al- my interest in the subject, and we

were sumelenlly startling to arouse perlments. sent population which is said to though just how many and just Africa we should systematically en- the date was burned into my brain

Agreed that when I got back to South One memorable Sunday evening havo Increased by 250,000 in how, it would be impossible to deavour to communicate with each later I was sitting alone in my room the past six months. Per capita, say. It stands to reason, how- other by this means.

Intent on my customary ritual, when Tho arrangement was that we over me, increasing in intensity to

amood depression began to creep this must be one of the world's ever, that the greater the mass should both spend half an hour in depth of desolation and feeling that most active ports. Nor is this income, the greater the mass solitude at a set hour each Sunday something poignant, and devastating ing Plumoffskiwinski's Minuet in A.

evening, allowing for the two hours' had occurred. import total the only one that spending must be; and one difference in longitude, so that our calamity became so painful that in- This foreboding of counts when one considers the man's profit, and the profit of efforts should synchronico in point voluntarily. I must have cried out of time; that we should keep a re-aloud, for my pal from the next handling of freight. There are the whole, is allared in some cord of what we tried to transmit, room polted his head around the door |the exports, valued at $167,322,- degree by every citizen. We give details of it in the weekly and asked, "Did you call?***

letters that passed between us, 721; and the re-exports, which have reason to look forward to

FRIDAY NIGHT IS AMAMI NIGHT cannot be estimated because a prosperous 1938.

As he spoke, the wave of horrified We kept up the practice religiously, misery completely overwhelmed me, and it certainly appeared that there (Continued on Page. 1.)

·RUMBLE-RUMBLE BRAMI Even the piano quivered. TINKLE-INKLE-INKLE-INKLE!

RUMBLE-RUMBLEI TINKLE-

INKLE

com

MINUETS SEEM LIKE HOURS "Say, what's this" we menced.

"Shhhh" they mald. "Ho's play-

Bathtub!"

"Peanuts!" we malá coarsely, and departed, leaving · Hongkong's musto lovers to enjoy the rest of" the programme by himself. Music may come in bars. But wo profer our bass from a bottle.

Nocturnes to you!