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CLEMENTINE

HENRY FORDA

LINDA DARNELL

VICTOR MATURE

Directed by JOHN FORD

NEXT CHANGE!

Ingrid BERGMAN

Cary GRANT

with

WALTER BRENNAN,

TIM HOLT CATHY DOWNS

Produced by

SAMUEL & ENGEL

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THE HONGKONG

ONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1947.

FROM GIN SHOPS TO DOG TRACKS

WO hundred years ago Britain was nearly ruined by gin. "Drunk for a penny; deud drunk for twopence," was the attractive advertisement.'

Now the chief national vice is betting, which Disraeli called "a vast engine of national demora- lantion," though in his time it was nothing like so bad as it is now.

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The figures are quite appalling. Twenty years ago it was estimated that over £150,000,000 some even said £500,000,000-changed hands overy year in this way.

About 75,000 people are now tempted away from useful employment to work for the football pools. This alone is a very serious, evil.

Can anything be done?. Proposals have often been made to tax betting:

The bookmakers say that they are the poor man's stockbrokers.

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The bishops say that bookmakers are such wicked people.that the State ought not to recog nise their existence.

The Socialists object to taxing the working BY POPULAR DEMAND!man's vices while the middle class still have any “ NOTORIOUS "✨-

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ALEXANDER KORDA presents

taxable virtues.

It must be admitted that legislation against Immorality--for example against prostitution-is seldom successful.. Prohibition in America wha a dismal failure. But the case is so desperate that some effort should be made.

The ruinous effects of this vice cannot he denied. I once asked a prison chaplain which class of criminals he found the most incurable, The murderers? Oh no: the gamblers and betting men.

Games of chance are univer-

sal and much older civilisation.

than

The Minoans of Crete used gaming tables 3,500 years ago. Tacitus say that the Germana would gamble away even their personal freetlom.

Juvenal SAVA that the Romans in his time staked all their fortunes in gambling. So

THE OAKS

IMPRUDENCE"

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OUR GREAT NATIONAL VICE

by Dr. W. R. INGE

as a lunatic. But it appears betting man I took no advan did the rich landowners under that the pleasure of getting tage of the revelation. The the Four Georges. Charles money without earning it is so horse “also`ran.” James Fox was plunger. Many great

were

We

ቤ notorious much greater than the pain of has estates losing money which one

earned that this percentage of

untaxed manner.

in

an

Goths came city,

BACK

IMPRUDENCE

TO 'WIN!

and sacked their

We may cease to be a great Power, but I hope we shall al- ways be a great nation. Our hope for years to come must be based on what God has done for us in ages past. We are trustees of a great tradition. classes. Christ never thought We have had our faults, but

have never been "ignoble.

of men in a mass.

I have before now mentioned

Arnold Toynbee's chapter on "challenge and response."

If

the challenge is not too severe,

n healthy nation will be all the better for it.

SOMETHING UNUSUAL

lost in this way, some certain loss may be accepted. Sometimes, of course, as times in a single evening.

is

The real object of betting How any rational man

can curd games, there

The arrival of twin bables, a remember the Tranby find

some and drinking is to get away pleasure is this base element of skill, and

big moment in any family, Croft baccarat case, in which form of excitement is difficult bridge players hope to add to from a gentleman whom we King Edward VII. came in for

their income in a pleasant and know slightly and find an in-hardly caused a ripple in the routine at the Walter Pearson severe criticism. He said that

tolerable boro-ourselves. Cản he never staked more than he

home in Liberty, Missouri. Mra could afford; a poor defence,

Mass bribery in politics and we not all acquire some more

call A intelligent interest in a world Pearson did not even if it was true. But he had ac-

betting the chief interest

doctor. commodating friends

which is often depressing, but among *

in private life. It is not wealthy financiers,

pleasant to think of the present always interesting? condition and prospect, of our country.

Vivien LEIGH Latency OLIVIER PERSONALLY I am quite

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to understand the attraction of bolting or gamb ling. It entirely destroys my pleasure in a game of bridge

earner.

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if there is any money on the rubber. But I suppose I have to imagine. There may be a middle-class mind. Betting little superstition at the back seems to be a vice of the of it, like that which made the leisured class and of the wage Greeks and Romans erect al tars to the goddess Fortune, Anyone who knows the who presides over the irra- brokerage can calculate to a. tional and unpredictable hap- nicety what proportion of his penings in human life. total stakes he is certain to Some people believe in a lose if he goes on playing long faculty of "precognition," enough. One would have power thought that a man who goes events,

to see is

When Pearson relumed home from work on a recent evening he found hls 24-year-old wife, Theda, silting on the day-bed in the living room

What I, as an old man, long IT is because men choose to pedding potatoes for supper. Beside revival of old- think their work irksome her were the twins, Carolyn Suo, úva fashioned Liberalism in poli- or degrading, which it never half pounds, born two hours before, pounds, and Marilyn Lou, three and a tics, and of puritanism in need be, that they have re-

morals.

themselves out.

Pearson had expected something

Mrs. Pearson had not expected a

course to dram-drinking in one unusual when he neared the house, I shall certainly not live to form or another. "Whatsoever but not this. His young sons had see elther one or the other. But there will be a swing of the ye do, do it heartily, as unto met him with this report: "We got pendulum some time, when our the Lord and not unto men." a lot of little sisters," present discontents and poli- Almost any work is pleasant if tical delusions have worked we try to do it well, and our child until June.

leisure need not be wasted on

"I scarcely got to the day-bed vicarious athletics and the per- į when-there was the baby,” she Meanwhile, there is much to be done except to use formances of horses and dogs, said. "That second baby sure was n

surprise." a what little influence one has

This sort of thing is worthy

Pearson called a doctor who, after of foretelling future against the profound demora-

the degenerate And it only of once had the win- lisation of our people.

an examination of the mother and to is comforting to know that in- Romans, who lived on free twins told her; "You did a good on, playing after making this ner of the Derby revealed

a dividuals are much better than meals and public shows till the job Arsociated Press. calculation ought to be certified me in a dream. Not being

I

BY THE WAY

Beachoomber

not

RUMOUR is busy with the turned if he citer hand, word Getting together

name of C. Suet, Esq. He trary. If, on the

comes, then the other people, before

I that the birthday of Graham Bell,

WAS surprised and chagrined

has been mentioned as a pos- applying, send in (c out) whatever sible director of a department is wanted for registration alther way, inventer of man's best friend, the to be set up to deal with the co- before getting it back. ordination and integration of Interlude. licences and permits by the new method of four-way registration (back and forth, up and down),

without telephone, passed

one of those ceremonies we, used to have, where somebody made the first call was usually Prodnose: Could you give a con- tu some distant spot. It wa

"Hullo! mid described like this. erete example?'

Mrs Wibforth. There was a pause. far away Myself: Yes. Suppose I apply to M'Bambwa. And thus Lontion spoke

"Hullo,' said a volce in Four-way registration you in duplicate for a bag of con- across space. Smalling Mrs Wibforth crate, you relost by sending me your FOUR-WAY registration is a most four-way forms, back and forth, up was then presented with a tile silver

important technical improvement nad down. I sind you back two in

receiver.

in connection with permanent regis duplicate, and keep the other two, tration. The basis of the system is unil you return the two I sent you. A suggestion

the back and forth up and down whereupon I return to you in dupli- THREE bears, making their debut method, by which four-fold registrace de two I have kept in duplicate in a Lancashire music-ball, were tions are split into two lots of two. until receiving your two in dupli- for the applicant, and the fional authority. Each keeps

registra- dute.

two.

.

and rolumns two," some“ „going up, Prodnose: But what does up and others down, according to instruc- down.mean? tions received or transmitted by one

other of the propie concerned. Myself: It is merely a technical What is sent out mord only be re- term in use in official circles.

NANCY Nothing but the Truth

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HELLO --- WE'RE MAKING A RADIO SURVEY-

50 disturbed by the footlights and

the orchestra that they drugged the trainer and his assistant round the stage." Is there a producer of ballet in the house? Why not engage the three bears at once to appear with Turbelova and Serge Trouserin?

WILL YOU PLEASE TELL ME. WHAT'S. PLAYING ON YOUR RADIO: RIGHT

NOW

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