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THE Law, I take it, exists been paid in by cheques, made on his directions, in his protect society name. The old ladies were sold against those of its mem-up lock, stock and barrel. bers who are anti-social.

There were indignation meet-

Cynically speaking, then, inga called by the parents. perhaps virtue is its own Trustees were appointed and reward, since without a the business went into the hands modicum of virtue a com- of a receiver.

Amid the hubbub of infuri-

munity can't exist. From ated parents and distraught that it follows that it's up to spinsters, a letter arrived from everyone to preserve the this very bad man, declaring Law and Order, if only in with a fullness of heart that was properly touching that he self-protection.

was disgusted with himself, at And yet I keep on encoun- his behaviour, that life was a tering situations where the sad and wearisome thing to him crook is allowed to go scot-free and that he could but hope his and very often at his victim's prayers for forgiveness might at long last be realised. He gave wish.

no address on the lotter and forebore to enclose his cheque between Sentiment and Sense, making good the losses which or being over-casual as opposed had forced so pitiful a result. to being a busy-body. Or in it And the upshot, of course, is just laziness?

that nobody did anything, the not informed, and I suppose the oldest gag that police were any writer can use is the situa- instead of being occupied in tion of the lonely cottage, stitching sacks, I've no doubt where the owner finds suddenly the gentleman is working a and disconcertingly that he is similar and not very original not alone, but his seclusion has trick elsewhere.

It

seems to 100 a

conflict

been invaded by an escaped

convict

Can anyone tell me why or fugitive from nothing was done?

A

justice. It's a grand situation

and I've no doubt but that it's

been handled in a thousand ways, yet still I am at a loss to

CASE TWO: My friend Mr. house-boat

know whether I myself should Jones purchased a in practice help the wretch on and decided to take out an his way or hand him over to the insurance polley to cover possi- police. Taking It, of course, ble loss of either the host or its that he did not win the argu- contents; and as the boat was

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY,

OCTOBER 21,

1938.

WOULD YOU HAVE HAD

con-

ment immediately and clusive by being the first of us two to pick up the poker.

But the following versions of this well-worn theme have come my way in the last few days,

THEM JAILED?

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branch manager sent for Mr. Pottifog, who, con- confronted with his illicit tactics, subsided pricked air-ballon confessed. He was sum-

marily dismissed.

like a

and

No action whatever was taken against Mr. Pet- tifog. The world is full of the likes of him.

What would you have done in the branch manager's posi- tion?

of

CASE FIVE: Blg Shot Bert of the What-not Film Company was given the job of directing the screen adaptation William X's novel "Wishing Willy." The sale of the film rights was arranged between Mr. X's agent and the head of the film company for £300.

Two days before shooting began, Big Shot Bert called

moored in a tidal river, he was Mr. Jones, what would you have a word at the right time would upon the agent and suggested, well advised to do so.

done?

He had before done similar

In short time Mr. Sharp

Discreet

penny less than

have effected a capture and a much to the latter's surprise, conviction. The landlord of that the price was not right. the Ship and Sawdust, like Brer The agent very fairly replied CASE ONE: Two maiden business in a very small way

Fox. laid low and said nothing, that it was far too late now to ladies in the lato flflles ran a with his acquaintance, Mr. CASE THREE: The landlord though in the event either of discuss such

a matter, as the day-school for boys. They had Sharp. Indeed, at times Mr. of the Ship and Sawdust was speech or silence he would have original deal had been completed conducted their business with Sharp had borrowed money off not unaccustomed to the ways neither gained nor lost any weeks ago and anyway he would the barest of success for over Mr. Jones. There being nothing of seafaring men, as his public thing."

not on his author's behalf have twenty years. There seems no quite so blind as a very blind house lay on the very edge of What sort of man, then, is accepted a doubt but the concern was from man, Mr. Jones agreed to Mr. the harbour and the majority of the landlord of the Ship and £300. time to time perilously near Sharp's suggestion that he his customers were both long- Sawdust? What shape of a To which Big Shot replied dmaster. But each storm was should arrange the insurance. shoremen and deep scamen. citizen would you make of that in his opinion the price, far weathered till, finding their age

as is the way of him? Is he a sportsman or a from being too high, was £100. telling upon them, they decided

too little! And that he could' to engage a headmaster to run wrote and informed his client landlords he said nothing con- partial rogue?

easily arrange on the budget- that the policy was quite in cerning the pretty little piece the place for them.

ing of the picture which was They advertised and found order and it was now time for of business that was being done

hands for another their man and engaged him on the first premium. Mr. Jones by a clique that frequented his

CASE FOUR: A company now in his the spot. Possessed of con- parted with five pounds, but on bar. He shut his eyes to what

canvassers to push be equally shared between the siderable personal charm and the day that his boat sprang a was nothing of his business. A selling a household apparatus, £100 to be paid in, which could apparently entirely knowledge- leak he received another letter cautious and an honest man he engages

ex- refused to purchase stock at the their commodity. Mr. Pettifog agent and himself. The agent, able in his work, he captivated from Mr. Sharp pleading

tegrity, showed Big Bert the his employees and the parents treme poverty and admitting agreeable price of 38. 6d. for a applied for the post and got it, being a man of repute and in- of the pupils.

that he had "borrowed" the 12s. 6d. bottle of whisky. He working on commission.

He soon discovered that the door.

The issue at stake is whether In his first term he re- liver to help him over a difficult also refused, by adopting an

should have made organised the curriculum, period. It is yet to be dis- attitude of passive resistance, company paid full commission brought into a failing business covered if any policy was ever to give information to Mr. on the sale, amounting to 358., the agent,

Nosey Parker, who began to on the payment of the first in known to the company the fact an atmosphere of enthusiasm taken out at all.

On being questioned as to his frequent his house and was stalment of 10s. by the pur- that a highly paid employee of and promise, and went so far as

crook. Did the his own chaser. After half a dozen suc- theirs was nothing less than a Mr. Jones who clearly, and later on

cessful and straightforward small-time to convert an attic into a form intentions

suffer from a lack of of chapel. He conducted the should be known perhaps as admission, a revenue officer.

The food ship Mary Anne set transactions, Mr. Pettifog dis agent services himself and was most "One-Born-Every-Minute Jones"

it seemed a sail strimmed to the scuppers covered a net way of making moral courage or was he a wise impressive. He was clearly a-replied that "

* man of parts and godly as well. dirty trick to put a bloke in the with contraband alcohol, while money, by paying from his own and reasonable citizen?

On the Mr. N. Parker and his friends pocket the initial 10s., and so The second term was not so cooler for five quid."

I could go on listing such in- auccessful. The headmaster was assumption that Mr. Sharp had searched the wrong vessel from collecting a profit of 15s.

On this particularly cheap

being

discovered the stances indefinitely, but. I should missing, together with the bulk at least a couple of dozen cus- transom to stern.

get no nearer in making up my of the parents' foes which had tomers of the same mentality as

-mind. The ouctome of each one

seems the same.

THE JEW

In his

DOES

There seems little doubt but trick

SPEAK By Dr. Salis Daiches

Christian they lived.

person,

What is the motive that prompts us to let such petty tricksters get away with it? Is

it fear of publicity? Of becom-

I don't

E Jew must speak," and speak to Jews poisoning the wells, or that tion of the communities among whom to deprive him of his humman rights ing involved in legal proceed- That the Jew is not afraid of hardings? Is it sentiment and the defence! How the diappearance of a own cheering and refreshing it is for a child was due to ritual murder com- Were the Jews too much bent on toll as in recent years been amply Jew to note such declaration as mitted Jews for religious pur- commercial vetivities and anxious to demonstrated in Palestine. That he ever-dawning hope that this an ideal the last two plausible fellow will make this Freud, is loyal to been easy to amass wealth? Einstein, thint made by Mr. Lewis Spence in poses, it might have

lack of in- a recent article bearing that tile.

show, as both Jewish and Christian Neuman, and a host of other intel- thousand years of his history have his last escapade and reform? For centuries the Jew in Europe divines did show, that there was not lectual giants had no such ambition, abundantly shown. That he is de- Is it indolence, or has been mostly forbidden to speak, an atom of truth in those allegations. They have been made to suffer be voted to the land of his birth or terest? Is it charity or weak-

is not If then the onus of explaining the cause of the Jewish blood that flows adoption that treats him as a worthy and in Germany to-day he

You can search me. allowed even to utter a cry of des- attitude of the mediaval fanatle to- in their veins. Is it then the pecu- human being, his loyalty to Britain mindedness? pair or an appeal for mercy. But in wards the Jew were thrown upon lucity of the persecuted, or the necu- and his services to the British Em- Scotland a highly-esteemed and me, what could I say? Could I say Har mentality of the persecutor, that pire ought to convince every fair-know the answer.

Do you? That he feels sate minded popular writer invites him openly anything at all except that it was has to be explained?

But has not the Jew faults? Of and securo In a truly religious and earnestly to state bis case and not the pecullarity of the Jew but do explain why so many people hate the peculiar mentality of the people course he has. The Jew is as ready Christian community the Jew in this own failings and country is only too glad to declare. that was responsible for the hatred to dwell on his klm!

MAILS ACCUMULATE That he acts as a brother among and for the outrages in which it weaknesses as the Scot is. It only

I could bring myself to believe that brethren his record in all fraternal Now, before any attempt can be found expression?

Kunming, Oct. 20. made to indicate the reason why tho Is it reasonable to maintain that the people who hate the Jew hate organisations clearly testifies. That

glad to associate Thousands of mailbags intended Jew is frequently hated, it is surely Germany lost the war in 1018 be him because of his faultal There he is ready and necessary to recall his attitude. If cause the Jewish citizens of the would then be some hope that the with his Gentile neighbour on equal for Szechuan are plied up in the owing to dir- I were asked to-day why Herr Hit- Reich proved disloyal to their coun- situation would improve. But if the terms no one will deny. That he is Kunming post office

a Alerce try? And yet General Ludendorf Jew is used merely as a scapegoat ready to give his life in defence of neulties of transportation by road. lor was filled with such hatred for the Jewish race, I would spent the last years of his life for any ill that befalls a nation, or a the country to which he is a citizen New trucks have been bought re-

this theory among the community, what can he do?

his record in the Great War abun-cently but not in sufficient numbers have to re-read bis book "Mein spreading

dantly proves. That he can render to cope with the situation. Nazla have Kampf," and quble the passages in Germans,

Persecution Does Not Pay

valuable service in the most respon-

All forms of transport are hard to sible positions the distinguished members of his race have abundant-get. Many buses are not following the regular routes, but carrying re- ty shown.

fugees from air raids.-Reuter.

and the

which be himself explains and justi- adopted it as n positive crèčů. fies that haired.

I would then find that Herr Hitler Peculiar Mentalitles. asserts that the Jew has never made

KWANGSI

MISSION

Jewish writers have been at least as "brutally frank" in dwelling upon Do the Poles oppress the Jewish the weaknesses of Jews as Scottish

That no country benefits' in the any contribution of any value lo hu- man culture and civilisation; that he citizens of their country because they writers have been, in the words of is by nature a parasite, a rogue, envy them their wealth? The Polish Mr. Spence, in dwelling upon the end by persecuting him, the annals of history irrefutably declare. That a moral degenerate, a traitor to the Jews are known to be suffering in weaknesses of Scotsmen.

But the Scot is hated and per- God has blessed the British nation describable poverty and to be dying which befriends him, 'country

from starvation.

secuted because of his weaknesses. becaure of its fairness to the Jew, I

believe. Thut other - On the ninth Sunday after Trinity worthless creature, whose mere exis- tence spells danger to his neighbour Are the Jews in Hungary dialled Why should the Jew be? is not the sincerely

because they are racially or religl difference between the Scot and the tlont will yet learn from Great the Bishop of Hongkong, assisted by ously exclusive? It is well known Jew this: that the Scot has a land Britain how to treat the Jewish citi the Blahop of Canton, ordnined in St. Mediaeval Barbaritics

is part zen, I fervently hope. That love John's Cathedral the following mis- that the Hungarian Jews, like the of his own; that Scotland me give another instance, majority of the German and Aus- of Great Britain; that Britain is suf- will in time conquer hatred is the slonaries and workers of the Bible When in the Middle Ages whole trian Jews, had up to a few years ficiently strong to protect her sub- earnest prayer of the Jews, as it is Churchman's Missionary Society In

the Nanning District, Kwangsi: communities were slaugh- ago followed a policy of complete jects anywhere in the wide world; of all true Christians. Jowish

Deacon, Peter Paa; Priests, Philip tored, or burned in thele Synago- assimilation, and that the number of that no dictator or demagogue will This is how the Jew speaks when ques, because rumours had been mixed marriages among them was dare to treat the Scot as a scapegoat his Gentile neighbour is willing to Huang, Arthur Charman, and Camonst

and listen to him.

Peskelt; Gospeller, Mr. Paan. spread that the Black Death was due greater than among any other see for his country's misfortunes

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A

5 Opening with each end (G). 8 A vice that shows up a little

Kod (0). 9 Lack of taste is not good for

many (two words-3, 4). 10 Some bad speakers excel this

tribe (5). 11 "Ted can rap" (anag) (0).

13 He goes, perhaps, from side to

side (8).

14 Symbol (0),

17 This air reversed makes warm

clothing (3).

10 With sore following it would

he weird (3).

20 Kind sounding like letter and

number (0),

23 Verdict on a lightning vielm possibly (three words 3, 2, 3).

20 This makes the parting harder

(0),

28 Entirely part of 25 down to 18-

sign (0).

20 Each bud contributes to over

indulgence (7).

30 He will be pleased when ho

comes to a sotilement (8), 31 The way to include a natural:

growth (4).

DOWN

1 An author's written characters?

(0).

2 Bruce ought to have written hils battle orders in tils kind of hand (7).

8 The usurer les his business to

be so, and it is (9).

4 The geologist will tell you that the lowest of these is the oldest (0).

6 Quito fresh (B).

6 Describes many characters in

fairy tales (5).

7 A cube is what a sphere cannot

be (8).

12 Temper makes it quite mild

(3). IDA speaker's notes? (9).

10 A ifeless policeman's round is

weary in the extremno (8).

16 Product of crude nut but more

nourishing to eat (8).

21 Bar this for a wine (3):

22 Of great value to pedestrians

who realico the difference be tween the quick and the dend (7).

24 Point in circles of recent origin

70). 26 He is neither young nor wise

(0).

27 Bit of Geneva determination

(5).

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