MONDAY, JULY 20, 1931.
WHY DEMOCRACY FAILS
Our Irresponsible Electors.
VOTE HUNTING IN BRITAIN.
By most people in Britain a, generation ago democracy' was regarded as the ideal form of Government. Whether that is still the faith of to-day has be-
more than doubtful. | Everywhere one finds signs of chsentisfaction at
come
THE CHINA MAIL.
HISTORY OF NEW WORDS.
Dictionary Editor's Difficulties.
THE VALUE OF SLANG,
ACTION AGAINST RESEARCH STUDY!
SWEEPS.
Prosecution of Yanks. Who Buy Tickets.
Mr. Horace Donnelly, U.S. Post Office solicitor, announced recently. that hereafter the Government will
lotteries.
OF LEPROSY.
Slow and Discouraging Treatment.
DOCTOR'S WORLD TOUR
Lchievements of deraceratic gov. I still among us some people, es- age were described to a Press. man vent use of the malls in connection.D., who had practised his pro
ernment.
Times.
The trouble is that almost of
plement.
mand for universal equality as the means of securing justice. We have passed beyond that stage, and to-day it is more im- portant to recognise the "fact
Some of the difeulties of finding igidly enforce the laws against An interesting member of the that in virtue of their natural| endowments men are fundamen-out the origins of now words which
The United States, Solicitor Den-medical profession paid a brief the netual tally unequal." But there are have crept into the English langu-
nelly declared, is determined to pre-te was Dr. W. Z. Zumler, A.B., visit to Singapore recently. pecially of the Socialist type. by Mr. C. T. Onions, the editor of The House of Commons has who would regard this doctrine the new English Dictionary Sup with sweepstakes.
"The use of the maile for the sale Ohio, for over 25 years. Now, fession at Hamilton, South West, censed to command the respect as an insult to the multitude.
There is the word "gadget." for and transmission of sweepstakest the ripe age of 71 years, Dr. which it held for many centuries,
tickets amounts to a national dis-Zumler, hearty and jovial, is tra and comparatively few people necessity, the multitude is comi-instance. "Gadget," early in the trouble to read the reports of its posed of the least valuable eles, has only just been, reached scact her. Donnelly said in re-velling round the world, having debutes. In other countries there ments of the nation, and at the after something like three years' echcing the recent statements made retired from his practice in 1906. is even stronger evidence of dis present time. these elements are work, investigation has shown that the same subjects in Loudun by owing to a breakdown in health satisfaction with democracy, and increasing more rapidly in num-it was known in the nineties, when Mr. Ji Ramsay MacDonald, the Bri- Since that time he has been th several countries have adopted a ber than those of a finer type. It was applied to a barge fitted with tigh Premier.
The Government, Mr. Donnelly with leprosy, having visited, in ing research work in connection dictatorship as a means of es- This is partly due to the reln- steam winches. cape, writes Harold Cox, the fa- tively large families of the poor-
said; intends to prosecute those who the course of his travels, "We are always up against such to the fact problems," said Mr. Onlons, "but order sweepstakes tickets abroad those countries where the disease. all nious economist,, in the Sunday est classes; partly
educational system, I find that there is a ready willing-and send the purchase money is most prevalent. He has been that our Two books on the general pro- with the idea of equality behindness to help. We are getting a through the mails.
During recent months American Islands, Samoa, Fifi, the Philip- to Bermuda, the Hawailan blems of democracy have recent. it, is largely devoted to spend vast body of quotations to day. I ly been issued. One is by Lord ing money on people who can get a regular batch from a man in interest has been keen in the Irish pines and elsewhere, studying Eustace Percy, M.P., entitled make but little use of the educa-Australia, for instance, and there Hospitals sweepstakes on the Grand the disease and collecting rata. "Democracy on Trial" (Bodley tion they receive. In Mr. Pink's is another man in the Tale of Man National and on the Derby, in the which he proposes to use when
Calcutta sweeps on the Derby and he reaches his home once more. : Hend, 78. 6d.). The other is by words: "In our schools and uni-who regularly sends to me. Others Mr. Alderton Pink entitial versities we are heavily subsidis- come from Germany and Denmark in other similar lotteries. Ameri. "A Realist. Loks at Deing the education of many who Foreign students are very much an anti-lottery laws are most strict (Hern," 108. d.). would have mediocre or even in-interested in the English Language. but of late they have not been ade- Both books state the essential ferior capacity, and we are thus
Slang, Too.
quately enforced. facts very clearly. Lord Eustace Percy, at the outset, inys his finger on the primary defeet of the present constitution of the House of Commons - namely, that it is elected by a body of people who have no financial re- sponsibility for the votos they give. There are NOW some 28,000,000 electors in Great Bri- tain and Northern Ireland. and of these only some 34 milljon pay direct taxes. Thus the vast majority of the electorate is not conscious of making any definite contribution to the cost of the Stale, ond so far as it values its voting power at all. values it merely for the purpose of extort-
from ing promises of favours vote-hunting politicians, Lord Eustace Percy goes so far as to say that the power of taxution exercised by the present House of Commons is as arbitrary as the levy of ship-money by Charles 1.
mocracy"1
Bribing the Voter.
*As
not only wasting effort but "We invite information as to the creating serious economic and dates of words, and three or four other difficulties."
people have, laid themselves out to Unfortunately it is much easi-supply us with Information. er to emphasise the evils of the "We are including almost all present, situation than to devise slang, and are making an import- a way of escape. Mr. Pink puts ant feature of Colonial phrases. forward several. suggestions, "Words from Australia, South! some of them not entirely con- Africa, and Canada, besides a large sistent with one another. After number of words from the U.S.A., noting the way in which some we shall have to treat fully. elements of the Press and some you know, a great many American of the cinemas propagate foolish phrases have been drafted into our notions, he suggests that we innguage. ought to devise some means of "In the new dictionary we cover controlling these organs of pub-the last half century. The licity. That, of course, is what dictionary was commenced in the Signor Mussolini is doing in late eighties, and naturally there Italy: but it is very doubtful in are omissions. Words could not deed whether British people, he included because they were not with their traditional love of in existence. A famous example liberty. would tolerate such is appendicitis. methods of control over the spread of opinion.
Counting Heads.
"Barracking." "Then, there
A GLASS HOUSE.
First One Built in Paris.
"SOLID AS A ROCK,"
ag
manj
The first glass house to be in- just been completed in Paris, and habited for domestic purposes has the tenants can throw
tones as they like without fear of doing any damage.
It is situated in the Rue St Guillaume, near the Sorbonne, and
le constructed of translucent glass which looks for all the world like [an ice-built Eskime hut
le "barracking," It has been so sited that if ob- which is an Interesting word be-
tains the maximum benefit of the day's sunshine,, and the light-rays penetrating the glass walls give a wonderful diffused lighting effect which is delightfully restful to the
State control of the Press has Colonial uses,
eyes.
"Glass houses will be the dwell
A
In spite of the many years he has devoted to the study of the disease he does not claim to be a leprosy expert, contenting him- self with being described as student of the disease. He left his home town in 1929, and after spending a year in South Cali- fernia, crossed to the Tinwalian Islands. The more he sees of, the disease the more he realises how little he knows about it.
Chaulmoogra Oil.**
Dr. Zumler considers that chaulmoogra oil, while being the best aid in the treatment of the disease known at the present time, is doing little good in the eradication of leprosy...
The treatment is slow and dis couraging, he says, although he acknowledges that it is the best science to-day. The oll gives the thing available tissues of the sufferer greater re- to medical
Bisting power, he explained, and added that in Manila the experi little iodine which seems to make ment has been tried of adding & it act a little more rapidly.
"I do not believe for a moment that leprosy is as contagious as some other complaints," said Dr. Zumler. He asserts that scarlet fever, smallpox, measles and The germ does not live long in diphtheria are more contagious.
The only direction in which cause it comes under the head of The cynicism with which recently been initiated is the "There is a tremendous increase many members of Parliament re prohibition of extensive reports in the vocabulary. You have wire gord their position is almost of divorce proceedings. But less, which is an absolutely new daily in evidence. At the recent there are "arguments even thing since the dictionary was election at Woolwich both can against this form of State re-begun, and the new psycho-analysis, ings of the future," the architect didates appealed for the votes of gulation. Admittedly it is a sign with all its terminology. workers in the Woolwich Arsenal of depraved taste on the part of "Another interesting word is M. Fierre Chareau, told a Press the air and it has to get into the by promises of extended employ people who indulge in the read-googly. Sport has contributed a man: The walls are as solid as warm eirgulation of the blood in ment. Neither of them ventured ing of lengthy reports of a number of new words, the origin rocks and for permanency brick order to live. Consequently to suggest that a reduction of divorce case; but, on the other for which will have to be in- and even stone buildings cannot be here was no contagion unless employment at Woolwich Arsen-hand, it is only fair to the inno-vestigated.":
compared with them. I feel sure there were broken places in the
menns
or the stage, we have reached long the dictionary will be," difficulties which it is not easy the reply.
to solve. It would have been better if Mr. Pink had confined
Was
his attention to the improvement LEGION OF HONOUR. of our machinery of government.
was more
a might quite possibly be a cent party that the essential I asked Mr. Onions; when his that the Paris of the future will skin. The disease national gain.-
facts, directly we get up against work would be finished. "The com- have hundreds of glass houses frequent and more fully develop Lord Eustace Percy gives the question of trying to im- piler of a dictionary is unwise if he built within courtyards which toed in hot climates especially in many instances of the futility of prove public opinion by con-thinks he is going to finish by cer day hardly obtain any sunlight. countries where the races are measures passed by a Parliament trolling the Press, or the cinema, tain dates, nor do we know how "All the inside walls of my mixed. constituted as the House of Com-
three-storey glass House are so de-
It is his opinion that in mona now is. He mentions: for
#igned as to obtain the maximum checking the disease and affect example, the folly of spending
of natural light. You cannot realing a cure a change of climate millions on road-making as a
ly see inside from outside. If you is beneficial while much depends of relief for unemploy
ception, the building is so arranged Mental pleasure and proper diet are giving a party or holding a re on the patient's mental state. ment. Among his suggestions for reform is the proposal that
that not even a shadow can be seen are as important, as all known Government business depart
from outside,
medicines in the cure of leprosy. ments, like the Post Office,
The material used is ordinary In other words, he believes that. should be treated as public
St. Gobain unpolished glass. At nature should be given as much utility institutions and placed
this time of the year the glass chance as possible. outside the direct control of Par-
house is naturally lighted from 6 liament. He also wants to es tablish an advisory council of
o'clock in the morning until sun competent people to supplement Parliament.
-
The Pretence of Equality.
Too Many People in ཝཾ - Famous Order.
THINNING OUT PROCESS. ! France's Legion of Honour has
Bet."
LESSON SERMON.
"I propose to go to London and spend the winter there," said: Dr. Zumler, "after which I will go back home across the Atlantic, completing the circuit. I propose to make reports and I will probably write up the cases I have studied, giving my best judgment on the matter."
K.F.C. CONCERT.
Undeterred by Adverse Factors.
"LIGHTS OUT.”
The root of the troub lies in. the conferring of voting power upon persons who have no finan- cial responsibility for the duties entrusted to them. If we could get rid of that folly we should be on the road to progress. Under the present system Par-too many members. liament has lost ita dignity, with The Legion was created by the result that many of the Napoleon in 1802 as a reward for Mr. Alderton Pink is equally best men in the country refrain a few military and civilian heroes, emphatic about the defects of from attempting to enter its but there are now so many heroes the House of Commons. He be doors. In Mr. Pink's words, the that the handful of members has First Church of Christ, gins by pointing out the im- present Parliamentary system grown to an army of 155,000, of mense progress which our coun- means "the enthronement of whom 20,000 are foreigners.
Scientist, Hong Kong. try has made in scientific and mediocrity.". It is interesting Since the Order was instituted Industrial matters in the last to note that even the mainten- there have been two million mem- "Life" was the subject of the half century, and then goes on ance of a specially competent bers, and the British United Press Lesson-Sermon in all Churchos of to emphasise the fact that this electorate by means of the repre-correspondent reports that a Bill Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, July progress has not been due to sentation given to the univer-before the Chamber of Deputies 19. Parliament, but to individual ensities is in danger of being scrap aims at a severe thinning-out pro terprise.
The Golden Text was "As the All that democracy ped. Yet in the universities cess. The protesting Deputies in- Father hath life in himself; no produces is the professional poli- there is at least a chance of clude the blind ex-soldier M. hath he given to the Son, to have tician,
securing men of outstanding Scapini.
fe in himself." (John 5; 26.) In spite of the unsettled weather, ability who are not merely the Ench Cabinet Minister is allow. Among the citations which com a good crowd turned up at the Analysing the origin of demo- nominees of political parties. ed a quota, within the limits of prised the Lesson-Sermon was the Kowloon Football Club, for the cracy, he points out quite accur- Mr. Pink well sums up the whole which he can recommend the following from the Bible:When concert
which was held on ately that in past days when per- matter by saying "So long as award to people he considors de Christ, who is our life, shall ap Saturday night. It was a sonal sovereigns ruled the world we believe that counting heads serving of the honour. This right pear, then, shall ye also appear moot point around D. p.m. the revolt against the tyranny will do all that le required we has been abused, and the civilian with him in glory (Coll, 8; 4.3 at which time the concert was due which they often exercised quite shall make no progress towards heroes in recent years have far naturally took the form of a de- anything better.
The Lesson-Sermon also includ-to commence, as to whether there outnumbered the military.ed. the following passage from would be any entertainment, owing The Bill imposes restrictions on the Christian Science textbook, to a defect in the wiring system, the number of honours Ministers "Science and Health, with Key to which put all the Hights out of see the French Ministers Accord vides that, in every case, the can. Eddy: This is life eternal," says The trouble was, however, rec-
are allowed to confer and pro- the Scriptures," by Mary Baker commissionETEN ing to Paris messages, this pre-didate for promotion in the Order Jesus, 18, not SHALL BE and tied later in the evening, and the liminary conversation will be fol- must be acceptable to the Council then he defines everlasting life st waiting audience were amply re- lowed by a more or less informal it is also suggested that each can present knowledge of his Father warded for their patience discussion at which not only the didate for the Cross must be and of himself, the knowledge of An excellent programme includ on Sunday morning in a conversa British and American representa- known publicly and his accession Love, Truth and Life,This is lifa ed the well known Hawaiian Seren tives will be present but also the to the Order accompanied by the sternal, that they might know aders, and many well known local Italian and Belgian Ministers, posting of his nomination at the Thee, the only true God, and Jeaus artistes, preliminary to the London confer would be limited to:
These contacts are regarded as local Mayore codice. Numbers Christ, whom Thou hast sent by the afternoon train for London ence, the opening meeting of which with a view to reporting on Sun-" on Monday night will probably, be day night to the Prime Minister held at the Premier's residence, in anticipation of the Cabinet No. 10, Downing Street.
Monday morning to The American State Secretary
GERMAN CRISIS.
(Continued from Page 1.);
tion at the Presidence de Consell
and hide accepted the Invitation of
the French Premier, M. Laval, to
luncheon Afterward he will leave
the business of the con- Mr. Stimson, is being
Paris by the American
meet at evening
Mr. A. Mellon who dark
few days has been in
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are shown to die within a month or two, from: diston asie, 7 a rare sease of the Orient, the Rev Ral Thur ber, formerly – mission to
ecided to offer him.
bject of experiment to the medical staff of the Johns
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