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HERE, THERE

EVERYWHERE

Hitler And The Saar

FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1934.

WHY GREAT NATIONS FADE AWAY

CANKER OF TOO MUCH

BUREAUCRACY

ENTERPRISE STIFLED

(By Sir Flinders Petrie.)

The German Government have| given a prompt denial to the story, published in the Danish Politiken" that Herr Anton Scherer, an alleged ! |deputy-leader of the Nazi Party in] the Saar, was reported to have said that "after, the plebiscite in 1935 his party would take exemplary He vengeance on its opponents." had 'aaked Herr Hitler for a frea to do; the less Inspection it requires, hand for 48 hours and "unfor- the less dictation it needs on de-framed in accord with the ability tunately the leader had given only tails.

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THE more intelligent a nation is, placed in the world by the dicta- the less it needs to be told what torship of "ordered" Governments. Such a rale must necessarily be

The history of the last 8,000

B.S

and energy of the people governed. The more arbitrary and compre

the

it tells ita tale to bensive it is, the more it will The story comes from anti-Ger-years,

world over, sterilise the mind. man sources abroad. Herr Anton archaeologists the

Those Who Differ Scherer, the German Government proves this beyond dispute.

The ultimate example is The tragedies of these dead and say, delivered no such speech made:

in the fact Soviet system, where the dictator no demand for a free hand to Hitler zone civilisations lie and therefore received no answer. that recognition of this truism did is the sole receiver of all produce A recent order, Issued by Colonel not come in time to save them from of labour and the sole dispenser Roehm, urges Nazi Storm-Troopers disintegration. Are we to go the of the means of life.

The extreme of this breaka in the Saar not to yield to provoca- same way? Sometimes I fear that

periodically, and yields somewhat tion by foreign agenta. He warns we shall.

The growth of Socialism. with to individual management, them that every excess will be treat-!

It requires a larger number of

ed as an act of treachery and the its inevitable development of ofli- perpetratore punished when the pro cialdom, is, to my mind, the writ-officials than any other system, as vince returns to Germany.

Those Were The Days

In Georgia-the Stalin, not the "Peaches" country-every man who owned a few sheep used to be prince.

the produce has to be seized n

Ing on the wall,

Let us take one of the more re-detail by the Government so as to cent examples of the death of a civilisation through the canker of an overloaded bureaucracy.

Mass of Rules

secure enough to distribute.

Working among people not ac- customed to initiative, it has a better chance than it would have elsewhere, but it seems very doubt- can maintain the Tul whether it official ranchine without destroying the individual life.

In ancient Rome administrators were merely the household slaves To-day there are not so

many of the early emperora; every ques sheep, and most of the princes are tion, even in the provinces, went

To succeed, it must paralyse- tramcar conductors.

up to the emperor for decision.

thought in the nation. It has had Recently, two Georgian emigres But when Diocletian shaped a were bemoaning their past great-vast bureaucratic system, society to suppress this symptom by kill- the Empire do to-day an inherent

dictator. ness in a Paris cafe. One said, "Do went entirely to pieces in less than ug off all who differ from

the old Romanoff two centuries. you remember right to influence their own. p..

Italy has produced a fat more The glory that was Rome dis-

result in Fascism duction and their own trade as days, and my palace in Tifle, withi

and her elvilisation successful

There "private enterprise is most each considers proper, they have it thousand rooms?" "Yes," replied appeared no claim to demand of the the other. "And do you remember counted for nothing.

I have no quarrel with any of-efficient and useful in the interest motherland the terms on which the old Romanoff days and my coun- their products shall be admitted try house with its 5000 servants?"cial. I realise that nobody knows of the nation," as officially declared. The telephone service has been A Russian who was sitting at better than the official that the thither, Australia for 'Instance

Your Daily Smile!

The regulation of business be- com-

by success, but by blind obedience differ, they cannot stop work, but to those rules, is most injurious to must refer to a court for a judicial

decision. any except the strongest mentality. The people have shown their

paralyse

It sets up a false standard of

it tends to

almost all casen,

good sense by coming to terms in and the courts have less than one in a hundred of the disputes.

Out of the welter, the dis- may not consider Britain to be the next table, and whose ancestors mere fact of his officialdom does improved by transfer from the appointments, and the distress acting wisely in the steps she is were Crusaders when the Georgians not inspire him with unlimited State to a company,

mental gine in framing voluntary which appear on every hand to- taking, They may consider that were still skulking in the jungle, wisdom.

It is obvious that the

binations in trades day, we must trust that all in restricting her imports into turned to his dog, a little Pekinene.

All in a trade must pull to- things are working together for the home country Britain is act- and sald, "Ginko, old man, you, too. outlook of being bound by a mass good. Just as the distress of aing against her own best inter- must remember those glorious Roof fixed rules, often quite in century ago was followed by an ests as a creditor country; but manoff days when you were a great applicable, and being judged, not rether, master and men; if they outburst of production and trade that is entirely her business. A big St. Bernard." and improvement in living con-a democratic country her rulers. ditions through all the strata of placed in power by the votes of society, so we should hope that the people, rhust pay first atten-

Lady customer: "What a wicked conduct, the distress which the world has tion to what her people demandi

The difficulties of parrot! It must have been kept thought. Mere memory alone is suffered during the last three of them.

can realst ship." Dealer: "No, wanted, and few men years is the preclude to an ucti- Britain in arranging terms to on board a

the deadly influence of the loss of vity similar to that which took suit all her customers-for she mum, in a garage:"

individual responsibility. has good customers outside the place a century ago, and on

Modern conditions necessitate larger scale, as befits a more Empire as well as within it-are

but a reflex of some of the de- Foreman: "You must not smoke any ordered Government entrust-officialism, and the system costs only a day's wage in the year for populous earth.

mands made with regard to the at work." Labourer: "Who's working the welfare of a country to a maintenance. What is so necessary is to ap-|

ling?"

large body of officials.

This perhaps, yields the best re- preciate the other man's point of trade of Australia. The indus-

It is inevitable that in the place sult for Italy, mainly under Lom- view and his reasons for holding trial expansion of Japan has con-

"He: "At last we're out of of men of sharp wits who know bard orderliness; the discontented that view. Why has Britain, the tributed to the recovery of Aus- heart of the Empire. turned tralia through the power which debt." She: "Oh, thank good that they must succeed or go

residue is seen in deported thou- get credit under shall be administrators who sands, in Rhodes, in Sardinia, in away from Imperial trade und Japan has thereby attained to nees! Now i

are there to obey a code of rules

convenient islands, for nothing adopted the doctrine of national purchase Australian wool. Ex-again."

and who, no matter what the re- self-sufficiency? First, she found perience will in the long run

system. the countries which owe their prove to the people that there is brigin to her venturous sons a great deal in international The Surly Bird Catches the Germanits, will be blameless long may stand in the way of the

"Dull and morose people seldom as they have obeyed. and sufficiency. Freer trade between turning themselves more

to self-suffi- all nations, through the encour-resist disease more resolutely ciency, while at the same time agement which it will give to with a cheerful disposition," says a separable from the expansion of expecting the motherland to take each country to bring forth most doctor,

in the way of primary products efficiently the products for which whatever

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fdem was sent her. The it is naturally adapted by Boll Kissing: Sincerest selling market of Great Britain and situation, will lead to a high-flappery. was closing, the buying market er standard of living, especially

moderate

means.

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what follows the Let us sec growth of officialdom which is in-

State management, so glowingly pictured by so-called Socialists in of their propaganda.

It means monopoly of power, both material and spiritual-that 18, dictatorship by the head of the

Each trade seems to manage its own affairs with the minimum of

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SEVEN YEARS FOR MANSLAUGHTER,

1932 Murder Charge Sequel.

Charged

was expected to keep as open as among wage-earners and other Barter

The American dentist accepts bureaucracy-if we carry the in-

at the Criminal [ever. Trade is threatening to people of small or

become unbalanced with

farm produce in lieu of cash for crease of officialdom to the logical Sessions yesterday with the mur professional services. One patient conclusions.

der of Li Mau-san, at Castle Peak means of paying for British

arrived with two achers and a cow. For that reason we must fight on October 18, 1932, Li San was . goods sent to the other nations of the Empire except by way of

against the growth of bureaucracy found guilty of manslaughter and capital investment in those coun. The possibilities of the holiday Schoolboy Howler: Battery-aļas we would resist any other form sentenced to seven years' hard of insidious national disease, labour by Hls Honour the Chief tries. Also, the weakening of in the air is greatly in evidence place where goats are kept.

A

of monopoly

any kind. Justice, Mr. A. D. A. McGregor. the British navy has caused Bri-in England- to-day. There were

The following jury was em** The Parent: "I never tald lies whether of dictation or of labour, tain to fear for her food supply more cars on the road, heavy should she be engaged in another bookings on the railways, and when I was a boy," Young Hope-ts a fungus on the tree of national panelled-Mesars. B., Carbonael, war. Why should she not take additional cruises; but at the ful: "When did

you

begin, life, eating into its strength in-|A, Grossart, E. M. Castro, A. C. da steps to ensure a possible food same time an increasing number father?"

visibly until in a storm of trouble(and J." G.' C. Somner. the tree is bound to fell without al supply from her own land should are travelling by aeroplane. This oversea supplies be cut off? It is a most significant develop.

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Mr. Tycho Wing, instructed by Social Aspirant: "I saw Mrs. [hope of recovery,

[Mr. C. Y. Kwan, appeared for the is another, argument for self-ment. It inaugurates a season Blueblood in Queen Street." The blind faith of the pine-[defence, and Mr. J. A. Fraser,-

century sufficiency. But the other na- which will see a tremendous ex- Friend: "How, was she looking ?" teenth

in ́"counting | Assistant Attorney General, pro.... tions of the Empire say, "If you pansion of air travel in England "Right past me."

keads" has now been largely ro-secuted. will not take from us the food-not for holidays alone but for

stuffs which we produce in quan-business purposes. The theory Hymen: Most women long for a tities so greatly beyond our own that Great Britain was too small tall husband. requirements, how are we to pay to enjoy a comprehensive sys

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the interest on the money which tem of air lines has been for ever Bridegroom: "Have you kissed in years past you lent to us?" exploded.

the bride" Best Man (absently): And the British Ministers who Last year there were only "Oh, yes, scores of times." carry out the all-sufficient policy some 600 miles of internal air And that there are difficulties lines. This year 8,600 miles of they never dreamed of, and that new routes are projected, apart

the consumer, however much he from the joint scheme of the come thoroughly air-minded. Re- may be in favour of home pro-railways and, Imperial Airways cently thousands of people were duce, has to be considered. One which will add something like given free air trips at the Berlin of the measures taken is for the 1,000 miles more. Thus between central aerodrome with this ob- purpose of ensuring an adequate one season and the next the total ject. in view. Commercial air supply of home-grown bacon. mileage for regular aeroplane expansion at home will inculcate As a result, pigs of all conditions services will have increased air-mindedness, and will encour and sizes have been raised, giv- eightfold:

age aero-engineers to develop ing a bacon to which the con- The nation which masters the engine-spoeds. For that reason sumer objects, in that much of it air holds the key of the future, it is important as a contribution is either too fat or its sides tools fact, which is fully realised towards the attainment of that short.

throad. Germanyfo putting pressing need strong Air Claiming as the nations of the forth tremendous efforts to be Force for Great Britain.

SAPAJOU in the N.C

ANOTHER INTERNA TIONAL CONTEST.

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