1938-10-21 — Page 40

THE

FRIDAY, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

OCTOBER

1988.

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

There were indignation meet-

Cynically speaking, then, ings called by the parents. perhaps virtue is its own Trustees were appointed and reward, since without a'the business went into the hands

com- of a receiver. modicum of "virtue a munity can't exist. From Amid the hubbub of infuri- that it follows that it's up to ated parents and distraught apinsters, 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 & 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 on the letter and seems to me a conflict no address between Sentiment and Sense, forebore to enclose his cheque or being over-casual as opposed making good the losses which

had forced so pitiful a result. to being a busy-body. Or is it just laziness?

wish.

It

And the upshot, of course, is that nobody did anything, the

I suppose the oldest gag that police were not informed, and 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 acclusion has trick elsewhere. beon Invaded by an escaped Can anyone tell convict or & fugitivo from nothing was done?

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

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me why

CASE-TWO: My friend Mr. know whether I myself should Jones purchased a house-boat in practice holp 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 boat or its that he did not win the argu- contents; and as the boat was

WOULD YOU HAVE 1

ment immediately and con-

clusive by being the first of us

two to pick up the poker.

But the following versions of havo this

well-worn theme. come my way in the last few days.

weathered till, finding their age telling upon them, they decided

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branch manager sent for Mr. Pattifog, who, con- confronted with his illicit tactics, subsided like a pricked air-ballon add confessed. He was eum- marily dismissed.

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

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

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CASE FIVE Big. Shot Bert of the What-not. Film Company was given the job of directing the

screen adaptation of William X's novel "Wishing Willy." The sale of the filmi 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.

with

Mr.

In a short time Mr. Sharp

done?

have effected a capture and a much to the latter's surprise, MILAGREE conviction. The landlord of that the price was not right. He had before done similar

the Ship and Sawdust, like Brer The agent very fairly replied CASE ONE: Two maldon business in a very small way

Fox. laid low and said nothing, that it was far too late now to ladies in the late fifties ran a

his acquaintance,

CASE THREE: The landlord though in the event either of discuss such a matter, as the day-school for boys. They had Snarp. 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 not on his author's behalf have the barcat of success for over Mr. Jones. There being nothing of seafaring men, as his public thing. 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 "penny less than 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 ho his customers were both long- Sawdust? What shape of a

To which Big Shot replied disaster. But cach storm was should arrange the insurance. shoremen and deep seamen. citizen would you make of that in his opinion the price, far Discreet as is the way of him? Is he a sportsman or a from being too high, was £100 too little! And that he could easily arrange on the budget- to engage a headmaster to run wrote and informed his client landlords he said nothing con- partial rogue?

that the policy was quite in cerning the pretty little piece

ing of the picture which was the place for them.

They advertised and found order and it was now time for of business that was being done

CASE FOUR: A company now in his hands for another their man and engaged him on the first premium. Mr. Jones by a clique that frequented his the spot. Possessed of con- parted with five pounds, but on bar. He shut his eyes to what 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 canvassers to push be equally shared between the tegrity, showed Big Bert the able in his work, he captivated from Mr. Sharp pleading ex- refused to purchase stock at the their commodity. Mr. Pettifog agent and himself. The agent, his employees and the parents tremo poverty and admitting agreeable price of Sa. 6d. for a applied for the poat and got it, being a man of repute and in-

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

The issue at stake is whether of the pupils.

In his first term ho re- fiver to help him over a difficult also refused, by adopting an He soon discovered that the door, organised the curriculum, period. It is yet to be disattitude of passive resistance, company, paid: full commissien brought into a falling business covered If any policy was ever to give information to Mr. on the sale, amounting to 858., the agent should have mado 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 his own chaser. After half a dozen auc- thetre was nothing less than a crook. Did the and promise, and went so far as

Mr. Jones-who clearly, and later on

cessful and atraightforward small-time to convert an attic into a form Intentions of chapel. He conducted the should be known perhaps as admission, a revenue officer.

way of making moral courage or was he a wise services himself and was most "One-Born-Every-Minute Jones" The food ship Mary Anne set transactions, Mr. Pettifog 'dis agent suffer from a lack of impressive. He was clearly n-replied that" it seemed a sail strimmed to the scuppers covered a net aman 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?

I could go on listing such in- The second term was not so cooler for five quld." On the Mr. N. Parker and his friends pocket the initial 108., and so On this particularly cheap successful. The headmaster was assumption that Mr. Sharp had searched the wrong vessel from collecting a profit of 15s.

being discovered the stances indefinitely, but I should get no nearer in making up my missing, together with the bulk at least a couple of dozen cus- transom to stern.

There acema little doubt but trick

mind. The ouctome of ench ond Iseems the same.

of the parents' fees which had tomers of the same mentality as

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5 Opening with each end (8). 0 Aice that shows up a little

god (8).

What is the motive that tricksters get away with it? Is it fear of publicity? Of botom That the Jew is not afraid of hardings? Is it sentiment and the Christian they lived. THE Jew must speak," and speak to Jews poisoning the wells, or that tion of the communities among whom to deprive him of his human rights? ing involved in legal proceed!

defence! How the disappearance of a cheering and refreshing it is for a child was dus to ritual murder com-Were the Jews too much bent on toll has in recent years been amply ever-dawning hope that this

Freud, is loyal to an ideal the last two Jew to note such a declaration as mitted by Jews for religious pur- commercial activities and anxious to demonstrated in Palestine. That he plausible fellow will make this that made by Mr. Lewis Spenco in poses, it might have been easy to amass wealth? Einstein,

nny two-wortis 43, 4). show, as both Jewish and Christian Neuman, and a host of other intel- thousand years of his history have his last escapade and reform? a recent article bearing that title.

ribd ((6). has been mostly forbidden to speak, an atom of truth in those allegations. They have been made to zúffer be-'voted to the land of his birth or tarest? Is it charity or weak" 10 Some bad speakers excel" this 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 lack of ingick of taste is not good for

You can search me. I don'tar Pred chi-rapy" (anag) (0), and in Germany to-day he is not It then the onus of explaining the cause of the Jewish blood that lows adoption that treats him as a worthy

13 He pou; perhaps, from side to allowed even to utter a cry of des- attitude of the medieval fanatic to- in their veins. Is it then the pccu- human being, his loyalty to Britain mindedness?

Do you? poir or an appeal for mercy. But in wards the Jew were thrown upon Itarity of the persecuted, or the enu- and his services to the British Eme minded person. That ho feels safe

14Bymbol (6) Scotland highly-esteemed and me, what could I say? Could I say:ller mentality of the persecutor, that pire ought to convince every fair know the answer,

secure in a truly religious popular writer invites him openly anything at all except that it was has to be explained? and earnestly to state his case and not the peculiarity, of the Jew but But had hot the Jew faults? Of and to 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 That he acts as a brother among that was responsible for the hatred to dwell on his own failings and country is only too glad to declare.

It only nhim

and for the outrages in which it woonesses as the Scol is.

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

Is it reasonable to maintain that the people who Hate the Jew hate organisations clearly, feruffes. That made to indicate the reason why the Jew is frequently hated, it is surely Germany lost the war in 1918, be him because of his faults! There he is ready and glad to associate If cause the Jewish citizens of the would then be some hope that the with his Gentile heighbour on equal necessary to recoll his attitude.

142 Fynual reveized' maken warm Pagefothing (S);

N# with some following it would

be welld (8). HE

20 Kind sounding like letter and

number. (8).

possibly (three words-8, 2, 3)..

8 Describes many characters in

fairy tales (8).

7 A cube is what a sphere cannot

bo (8).

12 Temper makes it quite mild

(3).

15 A speaker's notes? (9).

to A lifeless policeman's round is

weary in the extreme (8).

18 Product at crudo nut but mere

nourishing to cat (8),

31 Bar this for a wina (3).

2 Of great value to pedestrians

who realise the difference be tween the quick and the dead (7). 124 Point in circles of recent origin

(0).

25 He is neither young nor wise

27 Bit of Geneva determination

I were asked to-day why Herr Hit Reich proved disloyal to their tebran2 àituation? wald:improve. But if the terms no one will deny. That he is for Szechues are piled up-fn-1994 Has Verdlet on a lightningi vietiin (0)

which he himself explains and just adopted it as a positive" creeds. files that hatred.

I would then and that Herr Hitler Peculiar Mentalition

asserts that the Jew has never made a

MAILS ACCUMULATE

Kunming, Oct. 10. Thousands of malibags, tirtended Kunming post office owing, to dif- ler was alled with such a Berce try? And yet. General Ludendorft Jew is used merely as a scapegoat ready to give his life in defence of culties of transportation by road. hatred for the Jewish race, I would spent the last years of blaille for any that tells a nation or a the country to which he is a citizen trucks have been bought re his record in the Great War abun cently but not in sumcient numbers among the community, what can he do?

Idantly proves. That he can render) have to re-read his book "Mein spreading this theory

arid the Nazis have

Persecution Does Not Pay

valuable service in the most-reson to cope with the situation.

All forms of transport are hard to Kampf" and quote the passages in Germans,

sible positions the distinguished Jewish Wilters Have been at least members of his race have abundant ret, Many buses are not followins the regular routes, but carrying-"re- as "brutally frank" in dwelling upon ly shown,

fugees from air raida-Reuter. Do the Poles oppress the Jewish the weaknesses of Jews as Scotish any contribution of any value to hu- man culture and civilisation; that he citizens of their country because they writers have both, in the words of That no country benefits in the of history irrefutably declare. That' Is by nature a parasito, a rogue, envy them their wealth? The Follah Mr. Spence, in dwelling upon the end by persecuting him, the annals

KWANGSI MISSION a moral degenerate, a traitor to the Jews are known to be suffering in- weaknesses of Scotmnen.

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

secuted because of his weaknesses. because of its fairness to the Jew, I worthless creature, whose mere exis from starvation.

Are the Jews in Hungary disliked Why should the Jew be? Is not the sincerely believe. That other na On the ninth Sunday lence spells danger to his neighbour because they are racially or religi- difference between the Scot and, the Unns will yet fearn 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 Jawith cit- the Bishop of Canton, ordained in 82, that the Hungarian Jews, like the of his own that Scotland is part zon, I fervently, hope. That love John's Cathedral following mis- Let me give another instance, majority of the German and Aus of Great Bgiam; that Britain is but-will in ume conquer hatred is the lionaries and workers of the Bible

the Nanning District/KWaldaja When in the Middle Artes whole trian Jews, had up to a few years ficiently atong to protect her sub-earnest prayer of the Jews, as it is Churchmen's Missionary Bäciety

Deacon, Peter Paai Priesta, Pép Jewish communities were alatigh ago followed a polley of somplete jects anywre in the wide world of all true Christianis. tered, or burned in their Synagos assimilation, and that the nusaber of that.no, di aldr or demagogue Mill This: how the Jew speaker which

Perkell, Gospeller, Mrs Pran, Agues. because rumours had boen mixed marriages among them was dare to treat the Scot as a scapegoatible Gentle heighbour. is wing to Huang, Arthur Charman, and Osmond SbFund that the Black Death was due, greater than?among any other: wees for his mountry's #ralstarsten and listen to him.

Mediaeval Barbarilles

After Trimky

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28 Entirely part of 29 klown 'lo as- This makes the parting harder

sign (5).

20 Each bud' contributes to over

indulgence (7).

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ASMENINI PEER UNTERPUBING INSTAL

DEDEEMABU STEW USARTLESS A NOR 1} BLOK 6IUTOWITAN

goomes to acltlement (8) 80 He will be pleased when he 31. The way to include, a natural US

growth (6).

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1 An author's written chardsters? (PAPER ONEHRU VER

2 Bruce ought to have written his

-battle-orders in this kind of 1

3 The usurer likes his business to··

and

A dzsie geologist wit tell you that at the lowest of these is the oldest

(6).

5. Quite treala (8).

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