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TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1933.
BIG FIVE BANK
CHIEFS
WHAT IS THEIR "INSIDE KNOWLEDGE" WORTH?
UNANIMOUS ON ONE POINT
(By A. A. B.)
Among the sunken treasures are eight columns in porphyry and a
The question which I am going to amount of their advances to number of sculptured marble try to answer in this article is whe- tomers has decreased. In other tombs and Roman bas-reliefs. Ather the men who are from their words, there is a glut of money in part of the antiques were leoted position in what is called "the know Lombard Street, which is the rea- from Arles by Charles the Ninth really know more than any intell to 4 per cent, so that the banks son why the deposit rate has fallen and Catharine de' Medici in 1564,gent outsider who is interested in have been having a thin time, with and loaded on a barge to be taken their subject. In other words, is the a prospect of a still thinner one.
to Paris.
The barge foundered 100 yards Field-Marshal a better judge of the These are infallible proofs of the from port, and a similar fate over situation than the Army Comman-guation of trade, and if the chair- took a barge-load of Arlesian art
men would give us a definite lend as der? treasures which Napoleon attempt know more than the Brigadier, and be cured they would be rendering Does the Army Commander to how this plethora of money can led to ship to Paris in 1805.
does the Brigadier know more than their fellow-countrymen. the Captain?
benefit.
The aid of the Italian divers who recovered the gold of the Egypt is to be enlisted in the salvage work, (now sanctioned by the French
Ministry of Fine Arts..
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the allocutionary addresses of the to the superiority of judgment pos
These queries are suggested by Pursuing my vein of scepticism as chairmen of the Big Five Banks to sessed by those in the inner ring, it their shareholders. These chairmen will be interesting to leave the fleld are highly intelligent, well-educated of finance and to turn to the wider bankers, or they would not occupy area of politics, where the false pro- their positions. But after wading phecies and glaring misjudgments The Shock.
carefully through columns of print of leading men strike one in the eye. "Yesterday I confessed my past I am driven to the conclusion that About the year 1916 when the great to my sweetheart."\
there is very little in what is called war "What did he say?"
was half way through, "inside knowledge."
Bethmann Hallweg, the German "He didn't any anything. He That is to say that any member Chancellor, confided to an inter- went to the mirror and combed his of the board would have delivered viewer, with his handkerchief to his Nair. It was standing on end." an equally impressive address on the eyes, that it was very sad to reflect
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financial situation, just as I believe that in a few years time the whole His Mistake.
that any member of the Cabinet of Europe would be obliged to pay The mayor of an American city, would know as much as, and tell us tribute to Germany for a hundred tells this one-
perhaps more than, the Prime years. "I was a member of the party of Minister.
Things have, however, I except from this some-turned out quite otherwise. American mayors that visited what sweeping assertion the Gov- In 1917, after America had France last year,
ernor of the Bank of England, who come Miss marriage between Florence Ho Tung, daughter of Sir teachers and with other studenta, "In Paris I was called upod to was honest enough to tell the Lord Page, who Wha
make a speech, I spoke for fifteen Mayor and citizens at the Mansion admirer of the English, wrote Robert and Lady Ho Tung, and Dr. stimulated the mind before con-
minutes. There, wasn't a bit of House bangpet that he knew nothingja letter to Woodrow Wilson, draw- K. C Yeo, son of Mr. and Mrs. tact with the world has paralyzed it with routine. But college in-
applause.
about the matter, and couldn'ting a picture of America lead- Yeo Kim Hong of Penang will take!
"I sat down and another man therefore predict the future--an ad-ling the new world, with England place on Friday, March 24. No struction,
as every college in- took the floor. Ic talked in mission the candour of which tran-trotting after her as her ally. formal invitations are being issu-structor agrees, has no exclusive French and delivered
wonder, awareness, oration, with gestures.
fiery sported the banking fraternity with invited the President to consider ed but all friends will be welcome rights to
He var gratitude. at the Hong Kong Hotel at 4 p.m./esty. Although many educated; "I joined in the applause until a of compound interest, or he would the renovation of the world. at the raception which will be held Judgment and intellectual honapplauded at every pause.
If he had added to this what a fine people the En;sh would that he did not understand the rule be au assistants and coadjutors in men have degrees after their neighbour whispered. I wouldn't never have bound this country to other ofbility crossed the mind No names, the will to be educated, applaud so much if I were which is the first essential, does Mayor; that man
pay in sixty years a xum of of Ambassador Page. The present not require tuition fees. To break your own speech.'”
is interpreting £2,000,000,000 in discharge of an picture of the United States wallow the "stranglehold of the pre-
original debt of £800,000,000, he ing in the slough of despond looks sent," as Mr. Demos vividly des-
would have increased my sense of rather queer by the side of this THE HUNTER. cribes it, the past is the most ef- "What is your occupation?" »
obligation and lightened the burden prophecy. fective weapon.
For the presenti "It isn't an occupation, it's a pur- other story.
of my taxation. But that is an-
I'm a bill collector."
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vantages. The deliberate breadth of the instruction offered, the with association
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The China -Mail
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Education Through Wit.
is the product of the past and auit,
In:
the promise of the future. Har- order to live wisely in the present
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you.
Bankers' "Patter."
into
the
war,
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He
A War Prophecy. The third misjudgment comes neurer home, because we happen to
To return, however, to the banki know intimately all the characters chairmen's addresses. There is a judged. On the outbreak of the
In a recent issue of the vard Alumni Bulletin, Mr. moment it is necessary to have a Men are just as much interested certain amount of what I call bank-Great War in August 1914 Lord Raphael Demos, Lecturer on sense of the continuity of time in what they wear, but they don't ers" "patter," or what lawyers would Morley, speaking of Mr. Lloyd Philosophy at that haven of in- and an awareness of the fact that have time to give bridge parties to call "common form." tellect, discusses "Sume Aspects those who made history, wrote prove it. of a Liberal Education." Since books and created ideas were he is striving after clarification fully alive in their present. That rather than novelty, his maxims, is the teacher's function: to isolated in italic type, have a awaken and communicate the life, familiar ring. The aim of al of the past. If the past in die- liberal education is to arouse the frusted, it is because the tenthera A warming drawer and a slow sense of wonder," he says.have not enkindled it, and the cooking well for routs or vegetables
Facts You Did Not Know.
"The nim of education is students have not burst into, feature a new electric cooking range,
to break the stranglehold of flame.
ness,"
Discussing the univer
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Inflation, de- George to Professor J. H. Morgan, [flation, reflation, monetary control, exclaimed:. "This war ends the race managed currency all recur with between him and Winston; his heart the monotony of a chorus refrain. is not in this busines-he 18 a man To how many of the people do of peace, but Winston! There'll these words mean anything? To be a great naval victory in the North Sea, and he'll go down history 38 the Chatham
very few.
There is another recurrent phrase to
with striking unanimity. They are George as a man of peace and Win- on which all the chairmen Inslet of his age." The portrait of Lloyd
the present." "And the aim of ajsity don in one of his aromatic! Of English invention is a device all agreed in saying that the priceston Churchill as the Chatham of liberal education is to arouse the essays, George Santayana says: that supplies a mixture of crude oil of primary commodities ought to be our age will make most people smile. young man to a keener aware-"Yet dry learning and much and air as a fuel to kitchen stoves. Increased. The primary commodities It is perhaps a little unkind of Pro- are corn, coal, sugar, tes, rubber, tin, fessor Morgan to revive it in print. To the common concep-chewing of the cud take the place tion of liberal education as a con-amongst them of the two ways!
A washing machine has been hi-copper. Not one of these authori So much for the men of the inper spiracy to arouse the sense of men have of really understand-vented to freshen alightly wilted ties tells us how the price of these ring. wonder it may be reasonably ob-ing the world -- science, which spinach before it is shipped to Primary commodities is to be rais-the jected that men who make no explores it, and sound wit, which market. pretence of being educated have estimates humanly the value of
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jed. They are nearly all of them be- ing produced at the present time at a loss to the producer.
Rubber, for instance, which is the
This last gaffe is probably greatest in modera history.
PEAK THEFT. Diamond Ring Stolen.
LIGHT BULBS STOLEN.
a large capacity for wonder. To science and of everything else." Costa Rica has prohibited the tm- the man in the street, the man/The educated man, whether he vehicles that weight more than four only primary commodity with which |
¡portation of trucks and other in the office and the man in the has been to college or not, comes tons.
I am connected, is being produced on shop life is a constant struggle ultimately to rely upon mother
the best managed estates at a cost among wonders, many of which wit and his horse-sense. induce the profoundest misgiv-
of between three-pence and four- had larger dreams. He hoped to
Mak Sui, a young Chinese male, inga. "A man is educated if he
pence a pound, while its market pleaded guilty before Mr. W. Scho- A Panama Pioneer.
establish the greatest port in the selling price is just over twopence, field at the Central Magistracy this has been led to feel that things
world on the Isthmus since, he an-In 1910 rubber was selling at twelve morning, to larceny of a diamond may not be as they seem," Mr..
ticipated, the wealth of the Indies, shillings a pound, and costing be-engagement ring, the property of Science Service reports that the China, Siam and Ceylon would pass tween sixpence and a shilling. Demos observes. During this Smithsonian Institution has almost that way. period of heart-searching and ap-a dozen canes of the sort used by one of terrible suffering and, what of talking about controlled inflation, cused on two sureties of $100 each
The expedition proved
If Mr. Henry Hill of 29, The Peak. any of these bank chairmen, instead, prehension most, men are being medicine men of a Panama tribe of with the tropical climate, the would kindly inform me how rub to be of good behaviour for one His Honour bound over the ac- educated in that sense. Further Indians. Each is carved with the pestilences caused by the insects ber is to be sold at a profit, I should year. on in his discussion Mr. Demos unmistakable features" of a Dr. and the hostility of the Spaniards, be much obliged. particularizes his conceptions of William Patterson, who, it in said, was the hall-marks of the educated was "a leader of a Scottish colony" American orator
finally abandoned. Some
His Worship said he would want The same thing, of course, applies 'reliable people, to sign the sure- man: Plato says that educa-which went to the coast of Panama that no one
said years ago to all the other primary com-tles.. tion is the turning of the entire in 1698. According to the tradi-heroism of these colonists, that no most part, are being sold at a loss.
ever eulogized the
modities, which at present, for the] soul to the good. This conception tion, he worked such marvelous poet embalmed their memory_in seems to lead us into the perilous cures that he came to be looked song, that no novelist had taken
The truth is that what is wanted. territory of edification, where upon as a god of medicine. His their record for a fanciful story to marry cost of production to pro- even angels should fear to tread. fame and the consequent cult (as has since been done). But it fitable prices is not a new monetary William James is on much safer spread to other tribes and his is remembered ground when he says that an edu-ngure in carved wood (showing a survivors, a Presbyterian minister, who have to be created, as they do that one of the policy, but a new cless of consumers, cated person is one who can tell man with a long nose, high top hat landing at Charleston, became the not exist.
It is not, therefore, ex- a good man when he sees him, and a coat of green or black) be- ancestor of that President of the pansion of credit which is wanted, Education helps character to the came an instrument of magic to United States who made Patter but of population, which time alone A young unemployed Chinese, extent that it builds up a critical aid the tribal doctors. One won- son's dream come true in bufiding can bring, and a general revival of 25 years of age, Li Cheung, pleaded faculty which can see the good ders if this "Dr. William Patter the Panama Canal.
If it should trade throughout the world. I am the Central Magistracy this morn- guilty before Mr. Wynne-Jones at from the bad. The educated son" is not the William Patterson turn out that this founder of the weary of these generalities about a man is intellectually honest; who, among the founders of the Bank of England and leader of the good time coming,
ing, to larceny of 21 electric light he is conscious of what he has Bank of England, was the Scottish Panama Colony was also
Glut of Money.:
Įbulba off 'public lamp standarda in and of what he has not." In so organizer of the Darien expedition, the "Dr. William Patterson who Consider for a moment one other
Hong Kong. general and abstract a discussion He landed in Panama in the same landed in Panama In the same year common fact of the banks accounts, secuted said the thefts had been Mr. Demós has very little time year in which "Dr. William Patter and who as a "medicine man" in which tells its own tale. The banker committed between March 6 and to distinguish the man who is on" is said to have reached that the treatment of tropical diseases is a money-lender, and the amount March 12, formally educated in college from coast. Moreover, William Patter attained what has been declared to of his deposita is useless, because the man who educates himself by son had earlier in life been mis be "a rare brand of immortality, he cannot re-lend them to trade.
He applied for a 48 hours re experience, Peflection and by slonary in the West Indies and was there is further reason for grati-One and all banks report that in the of the property before. His Worship mand In order to recover a much training his mind: Formal edu- sécustomed to attend to bodily as tude to this Scottish precursor of year just closed the amount of their cation, has certain immense, ad- wall as spiritilai-healing. )/Ent bê
passed sentence; and Gorgas, deposits 'has increased' whilst the
His Worship granted the 'remand......
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