1939-10-21 — Page 9

SATURDAY, OCTOBER

21, 1939.

PONT

Girls' and Boys' Corner

This is all my own work

Name

Address

Deny Kiddies,

The colouring competition was exceptionally well done inst werk and it took me quite a long time to plek out the winning entries. How- ever, after careful consideration, I

the have derided to award

Drizes this week to:

Nancy Pan (aged 131, 336. Wong Nel Chong Road, 1st Floor,

Tu Po-yat (aged 8), 7. Kolewall Road.

Frank Daniel (aged 75), 220, Prince Edward Road, 3rd Floor.

Coupons have been sent to Naney, Ju -yat und Frank which I want them to brus

the "Hongkong Telegraphy offres

Wyndham Street. The compores will then b exchanged for money pizes,

Specially commended for excellent wurk me the following!

Seniors: la Gaan, Altre Lee, Ghazi Khan, Wendy Barton, Paul Vessonna, Mary Grace Aselie, Yeung Kit-wa, Nelson Yeung. Shrita Tissier, u Po-chin, Penny Lee. Derek Stokset, Join huts. Roy Holmes, Manstur Ali.

Interizedales: Socorro Rodrigues, Eileen Peter F. Corea, Lei Cur- į visiae, Philomena Chan, S. S. Box. Herbert Lanson. Hazel Cutter. Korma į Clark, Joan Agnes Banket. Patsiera | Osmund, Bovarie Ozoris, Jujin Bon- ner, Anthony Cutcher.

Juniors:

Wood, Atin Danjel, Gerald Marshal),

This week, kites, we are having an interesting type of competition You will sen to the úlove picture ive charnglers; Hite by, hite giri, a bear, a pen.

plecy of cheese, a pot of honey, Ming Jou farts, a cell atin dish.

First of all make itp your mind which of these things each character wants.

Thurs The Tittle gut, for Eistance want

LOVE OF TRAV ELING ALONE Ilustration From "The British Character" '

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

The British on Themselves

Rays Of Japan's Sun

The Menacing Sun, by Mons Gardner,

New York: Harcourt Brace.

THE SUN IS an important

THE

part of life in southern Aala,

a factor which has much to do with every detail of everyday of- fairs. But it is not that sun to which Mona Gardner refers in the title of her-new book, "The Menacing Sun." It is the rising sun of Japan whose rays she has followed into the far parts of eastern countries.

After 12 years in Tokyo, and as a correspondent in Shanghai and Hankow, Miss Gardner started back to the United States' by a roundabout route. She was seeing countries about which she had an intense curiosity, but she also was looking for Indications of Japan's possible' southward E. M. Delafield, in an introduc- | expansion and its probable tion, proves that she thoroughly effects.

The British Character, stulled and reycal, violin, a cello, a clarinet and a

ed by Punt of Punch, New York: Кнор

harp.

Mwith

FARGARET HALSEY'S Malice Towards

appreciates the qualities of her Misa Gardner found Japan's Some" exused no end of merri-fellow-countrymen; but she is citizens, engineera, photograph- ment among Americans, but also, careful to insist that these quali-ers, and look-see men in strange, Kan Siu-ebing, Bertie to the amazement of manytes belong specifically to the faraway parts of the jungle. Phillips, Theresa Marcal, David Americans, among the English. English, and not necessarily, ns And she attempted to trace their Asche, David Knight. Hugh Morgan. Pont of Punch proves once more the title suggests, to the British activities among the inert An- Ines Low, Susan Wood, Dolly Au. Raymond L. Sheila Stoke, Pamela | that the English can be funnier as a whole. She finds a funda-namities and Tonkinese, the Jarvis, Pauline Neubronner, Patriel about themselves than Ameri-mental English quality in the beauty-loving Cambodians, the

cans can be about them. The substitution of tradition for up-to-date Thai,

the shy Englishman can view his

own thought.

Thus the English, Malayans, the picture-posteurd foibles without raneur. No one who are fond of dogs and horses, folk of the Netherlands islands, can be more amusing about him but take another attitude to and the restless Indians. Fule and a rootsse. Als vehject: than himself, except possibly the fosc, deer, and pheasants. The author has observed with

Frenchman.

"firmly believe themselves to be the trained instinct and balanced Not all the strange character-the only wation on earth that is judgment of the good journalist, isties of the English are peculiar really kind to its animals.” and she has written with Hter- to them, however, as a perusal of Englishmen, according to Missary as well as pictorial quality. these reproductions of Pont's Delafield. convinced that

are drawings from Punch will reveal. It is not only the English who tend to think things not so good as they used to be, to arrive fate at the theatre, or to laugh at own anecdotes: though there is a singularity about the absence of a gift for cooking, the capacity for remaining calm in all circumstances, and the belief in the importance of not being intellectual. But there is per. haps something to be said for the failure to appreciate good

the honey, do you think, ne the doll?

When Nou've decided what rach or Suppose, for instance, decided

WHILEN. tape how fast they can get it.

you've

that the the gut wants the dot. Take a pencil and, starting on the path marked with an arrow just below the little girl. draw a line to the foll, going across the smallest number of erosions possible.

Early erovating in marked with a letter or number. So when you have drawn your fine to the doll you can easily comt

in the dumber of crossing your he has LOLD Over You must, of course, kes

Insites the paths in each care.

Hend your entries in Warta Eddie est before 2pm on Wednesday. Don't for

"Pangkong Telegraph". Wyndham Street,

petto al in the name, age and Kckdress coupon.

Best of luck, kiddies,

Uncle

Eddie

their

music when the music is being played, as on Page 29, by a

Features of the FRIGIDAIRE 1939

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but reading a novel is waste of time, and that children are a blessing to their parents.

England is going to rack and ruin, that England is the finest country in the world, that all foreigners are slightly mad, and "It will be part of our English that anyone disagreeing on any inconsistency." she concludes, of these points ought to be shot. "to enjoy Pont's delightful pre- While that all men are just like chil-point out to one

Englishwomen believe sentations of our national life, to another how dren, that it is better to be very true it all is, and to con. dowdy than smart, that listening tinue, unmoved, in our ways." to the wireless is meritorious

The

L. A. S.

Land Problem

in China

.

Agrarian Chiang, Selected Rource Mate- pensant fures landly at the lands of

rtals From Chinese Authors, introduce the landlord and the usurer. tion by i, H, Tawney, London: George Allen and Unwin, los. Od

One finds a good deal of docu- CHINA'S LAND PROBLEM mentation on how the rental and has never been well under-usuary systems work out in vari- stood either by the majority of ous parts of China. Some of the foreign residents of the country material is both dry and repellitious: or by city-bred Chinese. My first visit to China was in 1927, when the Nationalist revolution was at its height, and I was in- terested in the land question as in one of the moving forces of social upheaval. I was both sur- prised and disappointed to find how vague and sketchy was

most of the available informa- tion on the system of land tenure, the prevalence of ten- ancy, the amount of rent-collect- ed, etc.

but one occasionally comes across illuminating descriptions of peasant life and customs. Thus in a district of South China there is a saying amoni poor families: "Marry your daughter carly so as to save your food,while in mure....well-to-do funities, where there is mere land to be cultivated, the practice is marry off the sons early in order to obtain daughters-in-law, who cheaper than hired labourers,

are

accounta Several of the

repro- duced in the book are concerned with rural rehabilitation efforts and

on the

The SNAPSHOT GUILD

The St

TRICK PICTURES—I

Above: Reallatio, but a faka, easy with any camera. Inset, left, shows how to fake * scooter "wreck," Just use concealed pegs or props, pano subject as desired.

"RICK pleurca" you say: "oh, leet pose as if he had just toppled

I can't take those. Mine is just

off-and snap the picture.

Photo tricks with string or thread- are fun. Try a "magle golf club" shot. Juni une light-weight thread. and suspond one of your clubs from proper striking position, Hang a ball a few inches in front of the club head. Now, have

an ordinary caniora.”

There you're wrong. Splendid trick snapshots can be taken with any camera-whether It's a simple.a tree branch, ta Inexpensive box camera or one of the next entuerns made.

Consider the snapshot shave. It friend pose ne if hypnotizing the looks like the sort of thing that de- elth Inti action-and shoot. If you manden fast "action" camera and use thread which is about the sa lois of picture luck. But don't be color and tone ns the background, It

will not show. fooled. The picture was pozed. The

Thread also can be used for trick berse was stuffed, and hung on a shots indoors. Thus, you can show peg. And the comern ied was a your wife "hypnotizing" a vase of Aluple amateur type such as thou

Kands of us phasesa.

flowers right of the table-ar beck oning her sewing basket to her through the air. Just uso dark thread to suspend the objects, and shade your photo lights so the thread is not illuminated.

Probably you don't love a staffed horse. But if your sun has a bicycle or "conter" you can pleture a spilt Just us reliable as this one. Simply rig up the child's vehlzie to a tree, Try these tricks now-and we'll showing it in a cockeyed, off-the tell you of some athers just as easy, ground position-re that the up-next week, poris are roserale, Let your sub-

The Book Window

A Bibliography of Dancing, Recond Cumulated Supplement, 1938-38, compiled by Paul D. Magriet (New York: H. W. Wilson), is al classified list of recent material,; indicative of the growth of interest In the dance and the consequent increase in its literature

Four Keyn to Guatemala, by Vern Kelsey and Lilly de Jongh Os- borne (Funk Wagnails). A detailed account of the republle's scenery, Indian tribes, colonial relles, and modern development.

The I. L. O. Year-Boak, 1938-30 (International Labour Office, Geneva and Washington, 109. fl.). || Ninth Issue, setting forth outstand- ing events in industry and labour through the Brst quarter of 1930.

pictur

with the application of the 25 per cent reduction In rents decreed by the National Government. The

author with { Orst-hund The present book, which was authors' impressions are not very by an prepared by members of the Re- favourable, poverty being described knowledge of China and Gift of search Staff of the Institute of as a great obstacle to the purchase literary style would appeal to a far Pacife Relations, therefore deals of machinery and the Introduction wider audience and would make the of better farming methods, while the with a subject which hus not re-

influence of the landlords ceived adequate treatment. 1 con- local administration was often strong sists of translations from the Chinese enough to sabotage the rent reduc newspaper and perladical press deal- ting. ing with various aspects of lund re-

A characteristic defect of a book lations. Although Interest in China of this type is a certain lack of is now naturally centred on China's synthesis and co-ordination. A book resistance to the Japanese occupa-written on the basis of such material tion, the importance of the agrarian

question

not should

be under- estimated. The peasant soldiers who make up the backbone of the Chinese armles will fight better in propor- lon as they feel that they have something to defend. Land reform within the area controlled by the Nationalist Government will be un nid to the armies on the loosely held fronts and to the guerrillas who are fighting behind the Japanese lines.

One finds conclusive proof In this book that there is much reum for reform. One must read it, I think, with iwo reservations fri mind. The first is hal, becouse of the terrific pressure of population In the more fertile purts of the country, the Chinese peasant, even urider much better and fairer con- ditions than now prevalt, could

hope for senrcely

13 European standard of living. The second Is that many of the articles which are translated reflect the doctrinaire Marxlat viewpoint which is held by some of the younger Chinese In- tellectuals. Its nasumed L Iltste too readily that every peasant is a guiltless victim, that every land- awner is a heartless oppressor.

Still there a litte reason to doubt the depressing accuracy of the gen- eral pleture. China is the classical country of "squeeze," of petly ex ploitation. No Chinese is too poor to pay tribute to some individunt or organization which makes a "racket" out of telling him his job. And the

more real and feilke. The present work, however, is of great value as a collection of source mate- rial. Its picture of abject universal rural poverty is certainly wilculated to dispel the persistent illusion (un- Incidentally, by any supported, statistics) that China is a vast rich market for foreign goods.

W. H. Chamberlin

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PUZZLE CORNER|| ANSWERS

Cryptogram: "The measure of Ja man's reat character Is what ho would do if he knew he would never be found oul."

A Charade: Read-dress; read- dress.

What is The Difference?: 36 quarts.

Letter Juggling: Leans. funes. skine, neals.

Cryptogram: Three' continents -Europe, Asia, and Africa- border on the Mediterranean Sea.

-At-the-Zoo:-Hare-Bear,--Ox,} Fox, Stag, Scal.

Letter Changing: Lose, hose, host, hest, heat, beat.

Arrange the Figures: 043 -- 434333+ 3,334 4,444.

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