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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1988.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1938

LABOUR'S WORK AT GENEVA

This

year's International

M

ISS MARY PICK- FORD'S reception

on her return to England suggests that she still retains a great deal of the popularity which once gained her the name of "the world's sweetheart."

There was a time, I fancy. when, if a vote had been taken, it would have been found that Miss Pickford

most was the popular woman on earth-or, at least, in those parts of the earth reached by the fan in which she appeared.

In the past there has never been anything comparable LO

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models of in our own time we have seen

☆ NOT long ago, it is true,

League of Nations, at Geneva. countries, bas a special significance for them, like Garibaldi, have swept ing the "Cinderella that vast and growing army of the work off its feet; and I but other actresses have used courtesy or cleanliness are loved. Mr. Shaw doing everything in It may be argued that there his power to make himself the which has

been mo-doubt whether aven Garibaldi at the Cinderella formula without

world's sweet was also in Johnson much of the most unpopular man in England; bilised in recent years to serve

the height of his popularity was becoming the

saint and hero, and that it is for but, as his existence in England half ILS popular LOJA SPRS:ARSATZ | the growing needs of rond trans-

Charles hearts.

love him. I am made life a great deal more in- Chaplin at the height of his. It would take a very clever this that we port. On any of Britain's

person to make himself popular afraid, however, that there have teresting and amusing to thou- great roads they may be seen by

by following formula-so been a good many men who were sands of Englishmen, he has end- as Dr. ed by becoming An extremely day and by night. Their lorries

clever and so original that he as suintly and heroic devour the monotonous miles IF a vote of all the in- would probably have been popu- Johnson and who yet somehow popular man.

lar in any caso.

Escaped becoming popular in his under cover of the darkness. At

habitants of the Eng-

Take the most popular fashion. road-side snack bars they haltlish-speaking world were taken

characters in literature and you for brief respite and refresh on the question, "Who is your will find that most of them had Anyhow, we cannot explain

favourite living character?" is

the popularity of Falstaff by im-

a London newspaper ment; then ou again to their

qualities that we should have there any statesman or soldier thought would almost certainly saintliness and heroism to him. to what living man they were

puting vigorous strain of

took the votes of its renders as distant destinations.

who would receive as many votes make them extremely unpopular. Such men become popular most bored to read about, and as Marlene Dietrich or Labour

Falstaff is one of the most mainly, it seems to me, because Mr. Shaw topped the poll as the Garbo? I imagine not.

popular characters in the Eng of a natural exuberance of per- most unpopular man of his day. It may be said, and truly, that lish drama; yet he was a coward, sonality that makes them per- But unpopularity with one acc the popularity of a film-star is a thief, self-indulgent, an offi- petually interesting company. tion of the people is often the as shallow as it is widespread cer who regarded his men

As It is this exuberance of per- penalty of popularity with an- and that it reveals none of the "food for powder," and, as the

sonality that attracts us, and other. Gladstone at the height intense and deep-seated passion Prince jocularly described him, sinners as well as saints have of his popularity was one of the with which great statesmen and "a bolting-hutch of beastliness."

possessed it. It delights us even best-hated men in England. Boldiers are loved. Thousands have been putting forward their of men were ready

He had enough vices to ruin in so worldly an adventurer as We see the same thing hap- to die for the reputations of half a dozen Arnold Bennett's "Card." It

regard to F.T. Quintete of Hot Club Orch. demands. In response to these Garibaldi; not many, unless I am men; yet the fact remains that was this, as well as his gift for Hitler

pening to-day in

and Mussolini. Hitler, The Shoik of Araby. F.T.

appeals, the International La- greatly mistaken, would give we like him infinitely better than scoring centuries, that made most people will agree, fa enor- ..Max Milter.bour Office at Geneva has been their lives for Mr. Harold Lloyd. scores of men of the most un- W. G. Grace the idol of the mously popular in Germany.

studying the whole

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dents or police court proceedings last year the committee set up reveal to the general public to inquire into the conditions of something of the unsatisfactory | the goods section of the road conditions under which so many transport industry reported that of the drivers have to work. the position was still unsatis- An over-tired driver is a poten-factory and made recommenda- tial cause of accidents, and it tions for reform. becomes the duty of the State

Though the English-speaking to protect the public against countries (Including the United the danger. Also, from the States of America) still lead the point of view of the driver, ac-way with this type of legisla cidents through fatigue maytion, it is apparent that even have serious consequences and with them much still remains to jeopardise his chance of future be done. Action by the Inter- employment.

national Labour Organisation Canada, where distances are will fulfil a two-fold purpose. It long and where road transport will stimulate the progressive developed early, may be con- countries to more vigorous en- sidered the pioneer country in deavour, and it will provide an this field of legislation. In On- incentive to the more backward tario, the Public Vehicles Act of countries to make a beginning 1928 first regulated hours. In with the necessary legislation.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty hoc consumption. Foreigners.

"Let's soften those lights to amber-the white light adds ucars

to her age?"

His unpopularity with those who do not come under his spell, | however, is extreme. Like Mussolini'a, his particular kind of exuberant personality is for

do not feel that the good com- pany of the world is the richer for his existence, as it was the richer for the existence of Abra- ham Lincoln or has been the rich- er for that, say, of Mr. Loyd George.

DICTATORS,

indeed,

enjoy only the popu larity of temporary auccess. If they cease to succeed, they lose their popularity like idolised racehorses that have failed their backers.

The popularity of Mary Pick- ford may be shallower and less intense than that of a 'Euro- pean -- dictator, but it may be more lusting. After all, Cinder- ella to-day enjoys a

greater popularity than any of the Roman Emperors.

And so does Falstaff. And so does Dr. Johnson, I wish states- men thought a little more about posthumous popularity. It is bad enough to be unpopular while ono is living, but it is a terrible fate to be dotasted after

one is dead.