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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. 1998.

EMPTY CRADLES

◄ONSCRIPTION or Voluntary

may appear a question of major importance. Infinitely тоге important, however, is the pro- bicm of the total population which will be available under either system if the birth rate in these islands continues to de- dina

CONSCRIPTION of Veure war

The limitation of the family-at one time a subject of furious con- an accomplished trovkryla now fack. Among our well-to-do clauses, copecially, those mother of whom my friend the late W. L. George wrote: "They bore their tuziänds, twolve children and no malice," have dis- appeared.

Statisticians, indeed, are so gloomy about our dwindling population that they predict the end of the British Empire within the next few genera tions from this sole cause.

Mean Danger to

The White Race

Declares

GILBERT

FRANKAU

thinker maintain

comes assessed separately. A preity encouragement to breed!

If we desire--and we must desire to stay the decline in our popula- tlon it is vital that we should en- courage people to breed. How are we to do this? Not by the applica- llon of one remedy to many causes. Marriage allowances, quadruple them

not suffice.

prime needs of every poten- H======+f tal mother are peace and security.

Unless and until these two boons- with

all that they imply-are ves- that the present tored to all the nations in Europe. much of them squan: the ultimate end of European, and taxation en- possibly of American, civilisation is We, the white race, will go down

sure.

For we are, remember, primarily burden of death dutles, income tax, an Empire. or. If you prefer the rates (how term, a Commonwealth, of Free Na- dered!) and indirect tions. Take away to give only one courage us to fill our nurseries? instance-India, an you remove But parents get rellef-you say before the black, the brown, and the wame of the bread from every work- from income tax. All right. How yellow.

man's breakfast-table in these mttch?-55. Bd. in the £ on £00 for Mother Nature knows not pity. each child, and a limited allowance You can beat her, sometimes, by red-

Isles.

Separate us in Great Britam from for a wife. Meanwhile it a fairly son and intelligence. The rest of the Commonwealit, und well-to-do couple "live in sin" they But you will never beat her by it is extremely doubtful whether we can save more by having their in- beating druma build keep more than 10.000,000

men, worth, and children in medio- ere romfort-par-present population exceeding 45,000,000,

This is the mere bread-and-butter

sife of the problem. It excludes the entire question of won

Ani all major wars-let further remind you-have

THE LONGEST ARM

MIERE is only one arm longer and did so the tram drew out of the sta

the aim of coincidence.

stronger than that of the Law tion.

been fought, palmarily, for land-hunger or

We have Was that telepathy? Or did. it ger. Increasing populations food-hunger.

all had experience of the common- merely hoppen that a woman elovely invariably set upon decreasing popu-

The temptation af the est type, numerical coincidence. tations.

resembling his wife was in the sta tion at the time? acres

res is too strong to resist.

For example, a recent correspon In sentiment, re dence in the Press elicited that tady gentlemen, unknown to one another,

lighter day

vein, there were the two girlsion in

In whose initials were "E. B." had late- but of identical appearance down to thely been presented with a bus ticket the details

of their costume, who

at. Justorian' of

volts Cliina. But

Use

cause

Man's Defiance

In

future, surveying the present strug marked EB 3500471, She pointed were invited to a fashionable wed- Ete without sentiment, will perceive

out that her age was 35, her house ding. Coincidentally, they met in an root

of it to have number 99, and that the licence plate archway. One raised his right arm, been inevitable. Japan's swarming of her husband, a taxi driver, bore the other his left. million, boxed in narrow Islands,

Agures 471. the

They gaped the ordinary simultaneous amazement, and ended must sprend or perish.

way, however, numbers can be too the comedy by simultaneously stick- easily twisted to make their com- ing a finger in one another's eye. binations really amazing.

"Pardon me," they ejaculated in a AJATURĘ bhors sentiment. Many so-called instances of tele- single voice, "I thought you were a even more than she ab-pathy may just as well be attributed mirror! ! Too, good to be true? horp n vacuum. "Be fruitful

and the less romantle law of chance, Perhaps, multiply" is her one and only com mand. But elvilisation-Being In its husband was away on business, ad What The Mirror Showed very essence man's struggle against the savagery of Nature urges, hin usually to defy that command:

"Shall I

NA

I give up all the niceties of life," cries the modern

wamon, "merely

European

A recently married wife, while her

an

vivid dream, in the But the best instance of a "conca. course of which the train in which tenation of circumstances" I know--

è us to travel home on the mor some would call it black mugic-la row was totally wrecked. When she an authenticaled tale. woke the terrifying effect of the

A householder in an English town,

to reproduce my dream remained so strong that she having written an urgent epistle to

could think of

of nothing else, particu

acquaintance in Scotland, 11-

own species?

Shall I slave my soul out" criesterly at the hour when she knew her covered that he had lost his friend's the modern European man, "just to husband would be catching the address, and had no means of re- feed and clothe and educate an en- "doomed"

express. Later,

sitting alone at an open windows, she and covering it. omous family?"

At that moment the postman

So what? (as the modern Ameri-a newsboy shouting "Extra! Extra!" handed in a letter marked "Damaged

who also limits his family, would say What remedy shall in the street outside.

can

civilization find for its own disease? Double Premonition

The toilitarian States-less sen-

limental and more war-minded than

ale macross.

i

The train had been wrecked. The

by scu-water," with the comment that it must have been one of those 23 mail- which had crashed in the tently salvaged from

householder, Ocean. The

the democracies remedy. But so far names of the dead and injured were Indian -even if we accept the mast op not yet available. She fainted, but looking curiously at the stained en- Uminile forecasts with very moder-recovered consciousness to find her velope, noticed that there was faint Jusband anxiously bending over her, writing in reverse on the back of the He had returned by a later train, and envelope. Another letter had been Many Causes

was somewhat surprised to discover pressed against it. and salt-water her at home, for, just as he had been lad done the rest.

Interested, he held the writing up IT appears, therefore, that about to enter one of the carriages

however loudly in leader which now lay in splinters beside to a mirror. It was the address of may best his patriotle drum, he can the track, he saw someone, who he his friend in Scotland! The series of neither persunde woman, that her could have sworn was his wife, bee- million-to-one colncidences which main duty is to provide national koning from behind the barrier. He led up to this result are almost in- rannon fodder nor man into surren- ran towards her, lost her, and began credible. dering most of his creature comforts to hunt through the throng As he

in favour of his procreative facul-

Writing for a nation of men and women whose main ideal the only ideal for which they could ever be persuaded to take up arms against aggressor-is individual liberiy

an

under just laws, I cannot bring my- self to pen any such balderdash as,

IN

GRAVE HUMOUR

A. P. S.

"It is your duty to the State to have the ordinary course of events the of

rge families."

a chef we And:-"Peus

to his

A former grocer is credited with:-

down to brass tacks.

fast place in which one would hashes."

Let us bring all such parrot cries expect to find humour in a church the world is 'not worth a flg, and I

yard. Yet many an old cemetery The basic causas of lile limitation contains sparkling instances of wit have good raising for saying so. A brewer's 'stone informs us;- and humour. Anyone in search of the modern British family arg queer epitaphs

confine the Here lies poor Burton, he was both must junaifold. First of all--at risk of

hale and stout. shocking the ultra-prudes we have search to old moss-covered tomb-

of

knowledge. Our Victorian progeal stones; there, many examples of wit Death Inld him on his bitter bier,

iors did not possess that knowledge. We do, and wrongly or rightly-it is becoming more. widely dissemin ated every day.

Frightened Wivas

SECONDLY

rtikas many a

be found. In recent years

Now in another world, he, hops may

about. plaphs have become more conven- tional, and confine themselves to 1 is easy to gues the profession of commemoration of the departed. the late John Brown: ----

In the older churchyards all over the country abound inscriptions of Stranger, approach unconscious humour, such as:---

gravity.

this spot with

Borrow

Typically Irish is one from Bel- cumspect lines inscribed by sorrow- ing relatives. A widow erected a Here lies, the body of Patrick

headstone with:-My

Is O'Brien.

greater than I can bear. On her re- marriage some wit added "alone,"

classic:-- From Ireland, however, we have the

Died In Philadelphia, March 1753.

•

Jine Smith, killed by a kick from John Brown is filling is last cavity. at visic of Well done thou good and shocking the

In a few casts some wag has com- super-pa- a cow triolse have the constant harping faithful servant,

pletely altered the

gravity, of cir- so many public men on the chances of noother, Armageddon in fast, which reads:- future. This s-not-so-distant

uny a young wife say to herself subconsciously if not gon- sclously, "Why should I hear a child |

to hazard its being Had he lived, he would have been in pain only

buried here. since I have used the word repeat what I. wrote this very popes.

If our doc not entail tors would be less callous la human Because this point. *niso,

A FUST readers we

liave,

"paint

ed in

ima

soma year Poaking.

That childbirth,

need

Nearer home we find:- Erected to the memory of John Mac- farlane, Drowned in the Water of Leith. By a few affectionate friends. Examples of deliberale fun are In some cases, the deceased's 13 or indirectly: On the gravestone

many.

aument to the affair in handy profession is mentionelt either direct-

shok

1

none of my

us rools of the decline in our popu

lation, a mis of economie cause Financial decurity-considered

tain by the Victorians. Housing

If

lived in n at the KG KAROL

even nocottuse?)

of domestic – „lábou

Britons In Midnight Scene

But that the greatest of all but In Tientsin

Stranger, weep, for at the age of

seven

Little Willie went to Heaven.

To this was added by some humor- jst:

Cheer up, stranger, who can tell Willie, may have gone to hell. J. R.

in fetching luggage direct from the train.

THOROUGHBREDS

DONT CRY

(dapted from the METRO GOLDWYN MAYER Aclara

HALSEY RAINES

Bir Peter Calverton and his young grandson Roger, coming to America on borrowed funda for one last try at the interna- Honal prize horas racing cup, engage Timmin Donovan, a headstrong but loyal youngater, to rich their mount. Felgning desperate lines, Timmia's scheming father," aummone tha boy to him and says the only way he can provide money and save A life is to throw the Ridge- more Handicap, a triat race. Torn between his natural hous caly and Ala feeling that he may be responsible for 'his' 'father's death if he falls him, Timmio

agrees.

.

Oopyright 1937–Soew's Ink,

Chaptor Sovon

Cricket was pounding some an onymous stout gentleman on the back as Roger returned sombrely to the Calverton 'box.

| słoward. "We haven't any positive proof, but we've watched enough races to have a good idea when | things arenit on the up-and-up.

We're giving you a warning—”

The telephone on the stand rang. The second stoward picked up the receiver.

"What's that?" he asked. "Bir Peter Calverton? A heart attack. you say? Well, keep us inforried...” Timmis, ail pugnacity a molnent beford, suddenly forget about the | charge that had boon thrown at

him. Bir Peter Calvertan

the mán who trusled him ... who bad toon Implicitly relying on him to guide The Pookah home to victory ....... now, the shook of knowing, or suspecting something...

"What's that about Bir Petor?" ho naked sharply.

"They're taking biza to the Gen- eral Hospital. He suddenly collapsed at the finish of the race."

Il mind a confused and half- accusatory bundle of thought, Tim- mit stumbled away. He rushed to the jockey room, changed from rid- ing habit to strent clathos, then "Hey, look, everybody!" she cried. miarted for the telephone booth out- "They're right at the post!"

side in the fan. But what good "Thila la the first time I ever bet wan it to 'phone? No, he must hurry hors on the nose," and Mother to the hospital and find out posl. Halph

vely how Sir Peter was doing. A sudden roar from the crowd, The face of the operator at the coining simultaneously with the reception desk in the hospital was alarter's shot, drowned out the expressloniess and non-committal. noise of the pistol. Roger leaned Penting out news, good, bad, or forward and stealhed his eyes to Indifferent, was the order of the catch every bit of netion. Thoday, and something that had to be Pookah had got away to a bad handled with as little emotion as

possible.

start

"What's tho matter with that Timelo Donovan?" exclaimed Mother Ralph. "Asleep at the post, ho "

Sir Poler, hands tensely clutch- ing the rait, pressed his pa to gether, but said nothing.

"Did you want something?" she asked, when Timmis stood there confronting her, for a minute, un- able to frame hin query.

"Could you tell me," he gulped slowly, "if Hia Honor in okay?"

"Ilin Honor?" echoed the oper-

Around the frat great nec pedator blankly. the flying racera. Turning into the "Sir Pator-you know—muttered backstretch, The Pookah had failed ↑ Timmie.

Around the first great are sped the flying

racers.

"No, I'm just a friend," answered Thamle. He looked at her, and all nt once the truth dawned on him, the reason why she had asked if he was related,

to improve his position. Cream "Sir Peter Calverton?" The other Blog, Featherton and Hop Bit seemed to hesitate, the roving, flex- the intter a long aliot-were divide ible pupils of her eyen contracting Ing honora between them. On they just the barest fraction of a de went for another hundred yardi, gree. “Are you a relative to Ale The Pookah, still last.

Peter Calverton?" „Shouldn't he be making his mova now, Grandfather?" asked Roger, a worried look on his face.

"He should have made it, Roger," answered Sir Peter heavily.

On swept the horses. Timmie ***He ain't--you don't mean-be-1. was apparently using the butt of Timmle couldn't finish, but now he his whip to stimulate The Pookuḥ } could read the unmistakable mea- to renowed efforts. From tho standa sago in the attendant's oyas. no one could possibly have told that With a muttered, phrase of apol- it was all a clover caunoutage. De- ogy for his Intrusion, his features spito Timmie's caro to hold his reflecting the sharp atab of pain nieed back, the Calverton entry did that swept through him, the "boy cargo ahead, past one, then another wandered down the hospital stops. of the contenders. But at the finish | 11o was unaware of thố diraction Hop Skit (the borso backed by the he was taking, he only knew that Donovan clique) was about a he must keep walking. length ahead of the field. Feather ibn was second. Dream Slice third, and The Pookah, snorting as though ho realized ho could have won if he'd toon handled properly, trailed wero burning in his mind, tortur in fourth placa.

For a moment an impulss struck him to return to the hospital, use Bir Peter as he lay there, cold and grim, and speak out the words that.

Ing. him. But it was too inła now. Just ka the racers passed the Bir Pater wasn't there to hear. judges' stand, Sir Peter nuddenly Rager would be too overcome with swayed backwards in bls seat. sorrow to know or caro, Anywny, Vaily he tried to rise; bla hendit wouldn't be fair to confront him dropped forward.

with the additional shock of the “it wasn't Tlimmile'a fonit," Roger truth about the race.

"Next was mying reassuringly.

If he only hadn't listened to hla time he'll know just woul to do." | father's wild pleading. Certainly he He turned and gasped as he saw could have obtained the money ho Bir Poler's strained, deathly pale needed some other way. And who Juce.

was the doctor, what kind of man "Grandfather!" he cried, "What was he, to sanction this way of t?" He lamped to the aisle. golling the needed funds together? "Quick) A doctor!"

A sudden wave of suspicion, en- One of the usbors ran forward. gulfèd Timmley Suppore

Junt Ho called to an official, who hur-supporo ... there was something

·rledly summoned the track physi- bohind it beelde what had appeared clan.

on the surfaco? The horno his Mother Ralph, terribly upnoi, father had wanted to win. Hop tried to help the British sporlaman, į Skit, had actually captured the race. There was nothing she could do, Could it be possible that he had nor could she drive the frightened been duped by a pair of clover look, by anything she said, from tricksters? Roger's face. In a moment the doe- It was bad enough to think of tor had arrived. He looked at Bir|the tragédy na opa that had re: Petor, felt his pulse, and whispered - sulted from an 11Päävisad plot to something to an usher, who ran to save his father's life. But if his telephone for an ambulance. father really, hadn't been in danger

•***' it, yazy serious?" "begged | -4f his honor, an * Jockey, and Bir Roger anxiously. The doctor patted Peter's life had' Been specifiond to Mirm on the shoulder, and replied further the plans of group of T ‚with`abma'evasira phrase.

Bir gungsters. Timmis couldn't BédE “Timhils, misantima, had been sum- to think along(thèse îner sny fur- moned to the referen's stand the ther. But he was resolved that, moment....ha alighted" from The coms what might, he would-team Pookal

the absolute truth, "The "presiding steward and thei On and on the boy trudged. It two placing judges were talking to began to rain, a dine subtly pene gether in low voloos as-lin arrived. trating drizzle. He, paid no hect to Bomething waarin,, the air, that much was evident. “NES

"Donovan, we don't like the rido : you gave The Pookah, said the first award, coming bluntly to the point

You deliberately held that horse back until it was too late to make a move," wna' iho 'answer.

He suddenly realized that he was very near Mother Italph's house. That was the last place ho wanted to go, and be turned in the opposite direction.

Bir Peter's final words of encour "What was the malter with It?" | ngement, as he handed him the rejoined Timmie.

good-luck emblem before the race. rang in èle cars. He'wan the one person in the world, he and Roger (who had placed complota fatili in "Who did?" cried, Timmie. him. He had been ike his OWIN handled him just like I was told father ought to have been. Like h to. You saw me go to the whip and always hoped his father might coming into the stretch, didn't you? be. And he had betrayed him. Can I help it if the horas didn't For the first time in years tears hava: nothin'? If he won't run it streamed down Timmie's cheska ain't my fault, is it?"

"Listen, Donovan,” said the "first!

(To be Continued)

At about midnight, the group of British soldiers drove to: the station, necording to information available in Taxation All these bave their in-

Japanese sources, and without show. fluence on ouf

| Ing. Juggage 'checks to the Chinese clerics, reached the platform an controllers ip taxation hlatory itself

took their goods down from the train Japuneso, military officer who hop-station guard reached the scene. Tlentin, Sept. 18. which arrived there front Chinwang-pered to stand nearby, attempted to breyst

Two British officers, ons a major Conn

the very

Excitement prevailed in the com- tao..

Intervuno.

And the other a captain, were sum-: Franch law độcreed flint a peasant's pound of Tientain Station In the A Japanese clerk, then!'esme to The ditunton became rather serious moned to the station master's röon;} land must be equally divided among spall hours of this thorning when explain the situation, when one of whch lije British and Japanose and the affair was tompararily settled his children to population of rural soveral British soldiers, including: Iher Brillah omgers wuddenly struck, officers threatened to atagel duel, when the two Britishers signed their Frock began to sink. Can any snel officers challenged the station clerks him!

Jakuburied. Then "Kizhi.commander of MIO PADRE

moment that

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“ACKOBS

1 A game compañibn (8).

6 Diflcult bit of music? (8).

9 Chief points of the compass..

(8).

10 N.B.

of old, classically In the New World (8).

11 Not one of the Beat (8), 12 A wine (8).

new

14 Not the best position for see- ing the spectacle, please realise (10) 18 Police

tecs" can make it (19). 22 Its presence may be, a sweep

ing condemnation of the domestic (8)..

23 Were I to go his place of ser-

vice would remain, (8),

24 A relative of the guinea-pig

(0)

25 A militant brush (8). 20 Snare (8).

27 Quite a parliamentary observa-

tion (wo words-4, 4),

DOWN:

1 Reference with rolish to a mis-

chievous child? (0)\\\

2 Study ARP. and be less this of

the last pinyone

3 Againat

glad to have this over, (0),

4 An assúciation with" "striking possibilities. (two words-5, 8);

0 This kind of situation may be too serious to make one laughi (8).

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17 Epithel for some of our 'modern',

ways, perhaps (B),

*

-8 One of the minor ups and

downs, at

the

words-4, 4).

13 It

grows

f;

appines

(two

In the sea or en land

15 Protection that sounds like the

aal assistance (8).

16 This apartment is, a social cen-

tre (two words

17 This stuft is certainly the most

sultable in a call for help (8),

10 Hardly a suitable present to a

blind man (6),

20 This may enable Tommy to es

cape from his private begin- ning (8).

21 He once pulled strings to. people's discomfiture (8).

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