1938-08-27 — Page 11

SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1938

That's Why They Go Away!

By A. B.

FTER visiting nearly thirty holiday pinces on the consts

of England, Beotland and

Wales, I have made one discovery,

know now why people take holi- days, why the deepest rooted beinga tear themselves up once a year and no somewhere else, why every summer we behave If we were carpets that had to be taken out, banged on the wall and Inld down again.

We go away to enjoy staying, al home.

During my count crawl I met dozens of men and wonth who were just na far removed from their own parish pumps as were the pipern in Penzance. I met Lancantifre people in Torquay, Welsh in Margate, Yorkshiremen in Weston-super-Mare, Midlanders 11 Rhyl, Devonians in Scarborough, Cock- neys in Oban.

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They all Impressed upon me that though Torquay, Margate, Weston, Rhyl, Scarborough and Oban were fine places to their way, good enough for ' change, grand for a bit of fun, like, they were not a patch on Manchester, Cardiff, Leeds, Birmingham, Exeter, or Tooling Der.

In Penzance, for instance, the pipers were not the only Beottish visitor. Another, a mining engineer, sat- not far from me at dinner.

naked

"Wheur's the halls?" he loudly. Tell me that. When I got to Coryall, they zald, there would be same awful bad huls for the car. I couldnar nee them. There were nac Qualls at a"

And he turned to his soup with 1 olay Phormous ratiainction.

was being a mucers. Cornwall was proving to him that Scotland had big- ger and better bumps.

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Then there was the Manchester unn an electrician visiting Torquay. was willing to be fair.

"They've gat sen here reet enough." he said "I'll grant ye that. And ye don't have to walk far for it either. But have ye seen t'aands at Morecambe anti Blackpool and Southport? Ah, they've noothing to tooch them here. Fine dry sanda stretching as far as je can ree. Not just little bayn"

He gave a tle sigh of pleasure and gazed fondly onl over Tor Bay. Tor quay was winnung his affection-be- Cause it was just not quite as gradely Bs Lathenshire.

In Llandudno there was a man from Norwich, n retired naval afheer. He hind come all the way across to North Wales from Norfolk to find out what really extraordinarily nice people there

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were in Norfolk if you got to know them.

"Tiso Welsh," he told me," spend all week trying to do each other down, and then enter into a conspiracy on Bunday to Bec they can't drceive the Almighty. Now round Norwich..."

Llandudno, for him, was the perfect tonic. He would go beaming back to his neighbouLTA.

At Oban I watched a young woman from Preston pursing her in very prettily as she looked from Dunally Cantle rock across the Bound towardh Mull and all the hills of Morven.

Ye-es, he murmuredi, "Oh, of Course I know there's Romething awfully grand and-well. I suppose, romantic about it here, but I still think the Lake District in prettier in a way, if you see what I mean, don't you tiluk?

I didn't, but I knew that The Western Highlands Ind suddenly made her realise what pleasure iny at her own back door When

returned to лhc Preston,

At Oban, Jon, there was old Mr. Cuntning. He had come only from Inverts, but the Utile journey nerowa Scotland had filed bim with pride in his own east coast

"The farms are terrible wre uver here," he said happily, prodding the ground with his alick,

ye **Man, should Are them where I come from, near Inverness--good, open land, and plenty of it."

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All this going away to enjoy saying at home is, I am sure, of great valije to the nation. It encourages those humble virtues which have in the puxt-er- built up the-ah-bulwarka which... I. for stance, have learned 'some- thing from this prolonged inquiry luto the seaside which will sweeten my home life, I am almost foolishly fond of bathing. During my recent tour I bathed off the rocks at Penzance, in the harbour at Newuny, under the stern of a destroyer në Torquay, off the Hoe at Plymouth, under the pier at of a thunderstorm Llandudno, 111 Southport, from an Island In Winder mere, beside a submarine at Olan, of the shingle at Folkestone, from the sands Bournemouth, Ventnor and Rydr.

ozonised. scoured,

I also bathed in nerated,

tlled. fitrated, scrubbed, please-put-your-clothes-in- the-basket, sall water swimming pools nt thyl, Blackpool, Morecamole, Skeg ness. Scarborough, Margate, Ramsgate, Bustings and Brighton

And now I and that my own bath In my own house has one tremendous udvantage over all beaches and pools.

When I am in it there is no room for anyone else.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

Girls' and Boys' Corner MEN BEHIND

Address

Name

Dear Killes,

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Ents of stren this week, klies. Although some of you did not put the correct answers, I think you tried very hard. No. 12 Across "Kettledrum" TIM MINUT katjes a diteit glue. "Naker." "However, those of you did not get the correct answer to this question," but did the rest of the purri correct, are being: specially commended

for youd work.

Hucha,

Seniors: Antonio Souza, Daniel Choy. Mary Grace Asem, Reinaldo Vs. Pamela 15, Peter Sma, Varinen Tavaces, Audrey Barton, Cleo Rocha, Alma Rogers, Wonk Ma- Yong-xing, Yvonne Cropley, Suen tak, Reynald Cheang Leen, Carles Edward

Lambert, Endle Clark, Molly who

Ingmar Eriksen.

Souza, Penelope Intermediate: Teresa Dodwell, John Bariloon, Hubby Cropley, Hoy Marsh falthough not quite correct, Roy, I want to commend you for trying so hard. Well done), Patricia Ororin, S, A. K.

The prize-winners this week are; Ea Laurri Lakró 13), 297, i'rince Edward Road, Kowloon!

Sidney Hollandı (ared 9), 61, Mount Parish:

Jacky Heal (aged 6), 4. Wang Tak Street, First Floor. Happy Valley.

Coupons have been sent to Eba, Sidney and Jacky which I want them to bring lo The "ngkong Telstraph" omeen in Wyndham Street. The coupons wil thers he exchanged for munez prizes.

Specially commended for good work are the following:

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Justors: Gerald Marshati,

I want to welcome Palsy Cattre un i

Girls new cmber of our

and Boys' Corner. You sent in a very good entry, Palsy, but unfortunately. It could not be entered with the other entries as you did not send me your wɛe.

David Calman: and Paul Veupona: As you did not slate your ages your entries which were excellent, had to be left oul of the competition,

Winnie Ingram: You von the argument, Winnie. When I enter names in the com inended list. I do not arrange them in order of merit. Therefore, it is at the very end of the list. It does not mean that she has kent in a poorer entry than Y who is at the end of the list.

This week, kiddies, we FOTD Kotng to have a colatring competition. Above you Bee a drawing of roses. I want you, with your paints "ör eragons, to 'calaur The drawing as goily as you can. When you hove done ils, eut it out and paste 1 on to a postenrd or cardboard. Then fin your name, age and address coupon. Send your entries to Uncle Eddie, c/o "Ilong- kong Telegraph." Wyndham Street, before

p.. on Wednesday,

Are will be taken into consideration le judging the colourings. Three prizes will be given, one for the best in ench Section.

Lots of luck, kiddica,

Uncle Eddie

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BY-ELECTIONS

by A. J. McWhinnie

Who has reported more of these by-elections

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than he can remember.

E are having a boom year in by- elections. The King Canutes, whose job it is to control the political tides, are now at WII- Jesden in the middle of the 51st by-election campaign since the General Election. And Dart- ford is still to come.

It is difficult to believe that in so short a time so many M.P.S have died, been raised to the Peerage, or applied for the Chiltern Hundreds.

And those who audit my ex- penses sheets probably find it amcult to believe that I have motored nearly 10,000 miles around Britain in the 1938 by- elections, commenting on what you, the electors, are thinking and doing.

AT Willesden I am meet- Ing aguin nil, those men from Westminster who travel the country building up election machines, the men and women who make the wheels go round, and the political observers and newspapermen who watch the revolutions.

And every night, touring the meetings of both sides, I Rin meet- ing again prominent M.Ps of bott Parties, whom I first met losing weight under the strain of being candidates themselves.

Every time we meet we are in a different

part of the country. Then we chat again about the year'a by-elections from the nights when we sat around roaring winter fren in an old Dickensian hotel at Ipswich, discussing political trends while snowstorms and floods swept East Anglia.

Both candidates were staying in the same hotel. Everybody seemed to be staying there. And you had to be up bright and early to bent Torylsm to the bathroom.

DICK STOKES, dynamic candidate who cap-

tured the seat for Labour, made the running. He jumped out - of bed every morning at 5.30. Two hours later he and his K.C. oppo- nent-H. U. Wink-were holding rival work gates meetings in early morning snowstorms.

someone

to

But I don't advise all candidates to try being strenuous. By-elec- tions are a great test of physical and mental endurance. Things go wrong. Meetings get muddled. ·

There is always sabotage the time-table. There 15 always danger of frayed nerves as polling day draws nearer. And there is always an inquest to follow every by-election fallure. That's the point. If you are the candidate, and you become

M.P.. everybody on your side is happy. But if you don't. you are the body on which everybody holds a post-mortem.

To keep your seats you have to keep your sense of humour, How-

over earnest the issues there are plenty of laughs behind every by- election campaign. There aro plenty at Willesden. Mr. W. J. Stimpson, Maurice Orbach's agent, zees to that.

Stimmy" is an old campaigner with young Idens. Every morn- ing at six o'clock ho carries his clubs on to the links near bis home and goes round, whatever the weather.

Then he walks through his garden, plucks a flower for his button-hole and drives into London for anything up to 15 hours work as by-election agent,

Then there is Bill Kneeshaw, London countles Labour Party organizer whose merriment peeps out through oval-shaped gold- rimmed spectacles, and whose stout umbrella has been raised in many a by-election storm.

B11 has a greater tendency tu corpulency than when I first met him at Jack Ilayes' by-election in Edge Hill, Liverpool, 10 years ago. He always had a atirring time in northern by-elections, particularly those around Merseyside.

"You didn't get much in the way of canvassing returns in the old days," he tells me, "but you always got what the Liverpool man calls ' intooslaam.”'

ANOTHER organiser who fights by-elections with a mixture of em- fun is young Jock ciency and Taylor of the Eastern Counties who has a grand store of by-election tales told in a strong Scots brogue. Jock has a great wit when he prepares by-election posters. Even the Tories laughed when he killed three Government posters with six words at Ipswich,

Side by side on all hoardings the Tories had large posters reading: "Chamberlain saya vote National," "Simon says vote National" and "MacDonald says vote National."

On every hoarding Taylor had a fourth poster with the retort, "But common sense says vote Labour." It was dendly. Common sense, won.

But let me introduce you to che mystery man of the by-elections-- Captain A. H. Henderson-Livesey. ace political observer whom I first met nt Dill Dobble's by-election in Rotherham six years ago.

Every night the

Captain, in Becret reports, telis Lloyd George the day's moves on each side and the tendencies among you people, the electors.

ONE day, if you have a by-election in your

town,

you may

And

yourself talking to a tall, distin- guished looking man whose white, silvery hair is covered by a Jet- black Anthony Eden hat. He'll be wearing a well-cut black sult and looking, as one voter said, "Like a gent from the 'Ome Office."

But the next day he'll be talk- ing to someone eke in a fade i fnwn mackintosh over a rough tweed sult, a cap on his head and

Chief Labour Organiser George Shepherd llues and works with hits eye on the political map .

Behind the Tory machine is Sir Douglas Hacking, very tall and Immaculate-but see him play skee-ballf

a stout ashplant taking the place of his tightly-rolled umbrella, His erect shoulders will have taken on silght stoop, We call him the Jekyll and Hyde of the by-elce- tions.

For dull moments in a campaign there's nothing like a little gamble on the opening platform sentences of visiting M.Pл. was showing a good profit over the years until Ocorge Ridley's contest at Clay Cross nearly two years ago. knew the set speeches of a score of politicians. But M.P.s are improv- ing. There are fewer one-apecch men in the House to-day.

But there is one feature of all by-· elections - which I cannot under- stand

more than shrewd any George Shepherd, Chief Labour Organiser, or tall, dignified Bir Douglas Hacking, who travels the by-elections tightening bolts in the Tory machine,

Why do workers on both sides fib at canvassing? It provides more 5111, more Interest and more triumphs than any other section of campaigning.

Doorstep talks provide the news" bridad the by-elections. And they often decide the result.

NEW ENGINEERING DESIGN I

NEW

OPERATING ECONOMY

NEW

SILENT OPERATION!

NEW

USABILITY C NEW

Isn't she

BEAUTIFUL

How many times is that question asked when a beautiful woman en- iers a room?. Immaculate from head to foot-styled to the minute-lus- trous hair adding that youthful touch.

It has been said "A woman's crowning glory is her hair. That certainly holds true to-day.

Hair style of to-day depend on proper shamposing. A proper sham- poo should leave the hair easy to manage should not contain harsh alka which dries the scalp SHOULD CONTAIN NATURAL OILS

• which nourish the scalp. Avoid or- dinary soaps

Discriminating wom-

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en everywhere Mulsified because it leaves the bale şaft and easy to manage preserves its natural way and colour makes it sparkle with

new life, glòis and lus. tre,

Make your hair the

Envy of others with

Mulsified

COCOANUT OIL SHAMPOO

THE

NEW

HERE has been some outspoken discussion letely in high medical quarters on the subject to which one eminent doctor alluded as "the new killerretmatism.

What he meant was that, whereus we used to think of such things us scarlet fever, smallpox, consumption. cancer, and one or two other mala- dies as the main human slayers, rheumatism bos of late years become Fo prevalent, and its inroads on the ure systems of the school children RO alarming. that we have had to wake up, sit up sharply indeed, and take notice.

They have given us alarming figures as regards the increase of cases, the Inroads on the National Insurance funds, the tremendous ag- and gregate of days and weeks

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for one may rear a delicate family in a drain and they may grow up free of taint, where another family living well on the dry hillside win be incurably rheumatic and die eff In infancy or early youth like flies.

There

But surroundings and heredity must always play a part, as they both so seriously do in consumption. and constitution account the as they also do with tubercle. Is especially a fair, delicate type of child that seems to be particularly susceptible to the rheumatic virus.

bottom, due Is the thing really,

to a germ? Thin ane of the mat- ters we are trying, and desperately, to settle before attacking the for- tress on other lines. It may yet be

so.

months of loss to industry, and also Simple Diet the startling figures, in millions of pounds, this loss means.

And what is this growing terror that is threatening to become the nation's greatest killer, this rheuma- We know that It shows itself Usm? in many forms, apart from the acute, sub-ucute, and chronic varieties.

Heredity's Share

The symptoms vary according to whether the chemical deposits that get infitrated to our issues go into the museles, nerves, joints, or vital and so we get myalgias, urgens, abrosites, rheumatoid arthritis, with, in the chronic forms of later life, the calelfed deposits, cripplings, and de- formities.

In the meantithe, the ordinary per- son wants to know simply what to do to avoid the thing. No doubt diet means much, and it it is sim- ple, plain, sumcient, and nourishing. with proper assembly of vitamins, that is one of the best lines of cle fence.

very

Vegetable and frult and body- busking cereals

meun very much, apples, oranges, lemons; por- ridge and whole-ment.

But perhaps even greater things are lots of sunshine (if it can be got In

our cloudy land) and fresh air, with visits to seu and mountain at holiday times.

The body must be properly clothed and kept warm and dry, especially

mechanical

NOW YOU KNOW

Answers from Page 2

1-Read it. 2.--Not yet.

J.-- Jew prays with his hat en,

A partly-ettelosed part of the

North Sea. 9.--Daliu.

4-Country behind the coastline. 7.--Spoke it of klim, -Period of play.

-Cutting tool.

10-Denta in stolen goods. 11-Oxonian.

12-An inhiensurable period of time. 13. The Right Honourable. IL-God save us all.

13,-Botanical tree garden.

-The tilti.

17. On eye troubles, 18-South of India.

19.-Castle dog. 20.--Singapore,

21-tim a good memory 22.-Fruzen vapuur.

-Darnell.

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that linger and produce in the blood and tissues the very acids that do the evil left alone to work their own will.

Perhaps, above all things, is avol- But why do we get rheumatic tros- the lolos and the feet-proper and

dance of chills and colds that pre- bles? Is it the damp climate, the gentle oxercise; mere

and joyless physical jerks, that the treatment of local Infections that dispose to rheumatic incidence, as Insanitary home, the changes in ha-

governors neem to bit and trade, poor food and cloth-grandfatherly

think of so highly, are of litle use. are always dangerous to the growing ing?

Heredity, we know, plays a great In the case of the grown-up, this child-septic tooth, gland, tonsil, part, but is not everything, nor are sufficiency of exercise means burn- or throat, &c.

(Dr.) Frederick Graves damp surroundings entirely to blame, ing off the waste products, the ureas