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The South African Native Bills
HERE, THERE
EVERYWHERE
SCORING BY SLIDE-RULE
A famous aeroplane designer was [recently playing a game of contract
in a London club.
This is one of his rare relaxa tions from grapling with those aerodynamic and engineering pro blems which are only axpressed in abstruse algebraic equations.
He was in difficulties with the scoring tablet. Mere arithmetic
AMERICA AND THE EUROPEAN CRISIS
MUST AFFECT U.S. IN
THE LONG RUN
DIFFICULTY
OF MAINTAINING REAL NEUTRALITY
(By Walter Lippmann)
was obviously unfamiliar to himmerely a drama of which we could be used in co-operation with HE European situation is not have a stabilisation fund which He had to be helped out of difficulty. It would not have been in America are the interested but he British fund to support and one. if he had brought his slide-detached spectators. It is already maintain the agreement. We could. rule, a.
having an important effect and settle the war debts."
By settling the war debts, the may at any time touch the vital in-
Ambargo on the American capital. terests of America.
Although the whole position le market would be lifted, and in cer The above is reminiscent of a
and ex-tain eventualities that might prove obscure, complicated, story which used to be told of Fro-plosive, it is not too early to begin to be a matter of life and death to fensor Hopkinson, who occupied the to define the issues as they affect Britain and France. From our Joint of view and from theirs, it Chair of Mechanics at Cambridge. American interests.
"APPROXIMATE”
After fumbling diligently with the slide-rule for a few moments, The would announce: The result is
nine-approximately."
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costly and dangerous to let the world deflation continue. From ur palat of view it would be bsurd to let 'deflation continue in- order to collect debts that cannot. Je collected as they stand. From
heir point of view it is lunacy not. make a substantat investment by Jaying, a respectable sum to lift thei inancial blockade.
A' Neutral's Needs.... A neutrality policy has two each main requirements. One is to
He was a great devotee of the I realise that any such attempt is slide-rule, and invariably began his likely to give an over-simplified lectures to new undergraduates ; picture. Yet in examining any pro- with a few exercises in its use. blem, if one is to think about it at
"Let us find the square root of all, there must be
a working 81," he used to say.
hypothesis, however tentative.
Lost World Trade
to me, two There are, it seems concurrent but interrelated crises.
be in Europe to-day which can identified roughly as the crisis of deflation and the crisis, of mill- tarism. They accentuate After winning nonstop dancing other in more ways than it is pos-possess sufficient military strength competition, a couple, had their feet examined. Yes, their feet-not their sible to describe. For present pur to make 1 ingoaible for belliger heads.
poses it will be sufficient to asta ents to ignore the neutral. The that the latest figures show that in other is to recognise clearly the peace of. Vereeniging was only
was in difficulties of neutrality, to have In Approved Manner" December world trade concluded when a clause had been inserted that no change inspect the pipes this morning?".
"Did the plumber come down to in-value at its low point for the whole appropriate legislation enacted, or Fat least drafted, to have plans depression. the status of the Native should"Yes." be made unitil self-government "What did he say?
The effect of this is to intensify drawn carefully for all develop.. had been granted. The "Cape"| "He said there was nothing the mat-the competition among nations for ments that can be foreseen,
Experience has shown that tha policy was to educate the Native, ter, but he could soon remedy that" their share of a shrinking volume
maintenance of neutrality is not and give him a vote if he could In spite of several years of retire-
of trade, and to intensify the com
a mere matter of doing nothing. read and write and possessed ment, they say, Bobby Jones still keeps petition of classes within the na
American commerce, and Ameri-- property or received not less well out of the 80's at golf, tisations for their share of a greatly
can citizens range. the world, and.. The art of devising headlines than a certain amount in month- polat of resemblance between our game reduced national income.
In some measure most of the their interests would be threatened
A Buc has recently received the rely salary. The Boer policy was and Mr. Jones",
great Powers have succeeded by In all the zones of war. cognition of a stout and inform-that the Native should live under ing volume devoted exclusively patriarchal control without any!
Teacher: "Johnny, can you define developing their home markets and cessful neutarlity policy requires. In nonsense!"
by expenditure on public works clear decisions as to which of these- to what the author calls "Head-political personality at all: linesa." Brevity is the soul of actual practice there was not so Johnny: "Yes, teacher an elephant and armaments in Anding some many interests are to be defended. the headline; but "Natives much difference as there was in hanging over a cliff with his tail tied compensation for the world trade and by what means."
they have lost. But in all rations As to Japanese-American rela Charter" as a description of the theory; but the conflict of theory to a daisy!"
tions, it is necessary to be franica this is wholly inadequate. three bills that are to be laid has always been fierce, and use
In all nations, therefore, the in-s well as firm. To be firm is to- before the South African Legis-ful legislation has been hung up lative Assembly is brief at the year after year becuase the
ternal pressure which threatens stand on the proposition that the radical reform or revolution and American navy must be superior expense of descriptive accuracy. smouldering fire showed some
which to the Japanese In the ratio of five- external pressure Nonetheless the proposed legis- signs of flame.
Next Monday the General Post the lation is of great interest in the The "Cape" Native leaders, Office will be open from 8 am to threatens war have been increasing. to three. The Japanese face one troublesome question of how to now by no means confined to 5.30 p.m. for the sale of stamps aud
Among three great Powers where ocean, We face two oceans, and devise a system under which that Province, have always taken all other business except Money the pressure is most severe, in in a heavily armed world that does. men of different races can live the line that whatever qualifica: Orders and Parcels. All Brinch Japan, and Italy, and Germany, it not give us the power to attack. and work together side by side tions for the vote were introduc- Post Offices will be entirely closed. has already produced the Man Japan in the sphere of her in- without getting in each other's ed they should be the same for
churlen adventure, the Abyssinian Auence, even If we had any such way. So far from being new.jall, and that if elected a Native Unclaimed telegrams for Abra-adventure, and the Nazi rearma-purpose, the proposals are a resubmission should be allowed to sit in the ham, from Shanghai and Murray ment with its guns pointed towards. of similar bills that have been House of Assembly. That is at Louer, Peninsula Hotel. from Eastern Europe.
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lair before the same authority present expressly prohibited in Chicago, are lying at the Eastern Three Consequences
three previous occasions. the Constitution. The Constitu- Extension Telegraph Co., Ltd. The motive of dealing with themtion, however, did provide for
Policy In Asia
To be frank is to recognise that
the weakness of China and the en-
It may be sald, I think that forced withdrawal of Russia and America is affected at the follow-Great Britain from an active posi-.
at the moment is to satisfy the four members of the Senate to Next Monday, at 10 am, there ing points: Firet, since we are at-tion in China and Eastern Asia- Imperial Government that a sys be appointed by the Governor-will be at the Catholic Cathedral tached to an International goid make it impossible for us to assume tem has been created which will General on the ground of "spe- the Official Thanksgiving Service price level, the world deflation now the burden of solitary opposition. THE KWONG KWUI CO., LTD. ||justify them in posposing to the cial knowledge of the wants of for Catholics, for the Sliver Jubilee in progress and the greater one to Japanese Imperialism in the people of the Protectorates that the Native population"-a proof His Majesty the King. His which is threatened must tend to Asiatic mainland. Our traditional they should be handed over to viso which has merely given the Lordship Bishop H. Valtorta will deflate us. Second, the crisis of polley has been based upon the idea the Union Government, with fair prospect of securing their vilege of appointing four of its Catholics are invited to attend.
aGovernment of the day the profficiate and 'deliver a sermon. All militarism in Europe may produce of collective action in the Far East.
a ware in which neutrality will be There is no prospect of collective. voluntary concurrence. What is supporters who have not happen-
as difficult as it was in the last action in the Far East to-day, and new is that by the coalition of ed to get elected in the ordinary
States Mr. David Fraser, The Times cor-war, unless the United
isWe have to adapt our policy to the
altered facts. the two main parties which has way, Indirect election through
It may not be Inappropriate tọ... given the present Government an a college of electors. themselves respondent in China, is homeward far better prepared to preserve it overwhelming majority, there is chosen by a special role of con- bound by the s.8. Ranchi, which than it was in 1917.-.
Third, the rearmament of Ger-uggest that a successful American a great probability that at last stituents, and subject to the con-sails from Hong Kong to-morrow.
means that Russia and policy requires something like uni- fied patriotic support from the these Bills subject to some aition that they shall be white
Great Britain must now concen- people. Let us forgo the excite Amendments will be added to the men and not Natives, will be no During the absence on leave of
trate all their energies in statutes.
satisfaction of the demand made the Rev. N. V. Halward, Priest-in-
ment of tearing ourselves to pieces Europe, and therefore, as rea- over internal quarrels, which can The problem they deal with is by advocates of equality, though charge of the Kowloon Tong Angli-
pecte Japan, we in America are only waste energies and brain locally South African, In the it will be an improvement on an Church, "the Rev. L. L. Nash
'power that we must have if we are North the civilisation is in form the nomination procedure that will assume his dutles.
These would appear to be the Muslim, and Europeans are con has continued for the twenty-
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Austin left three most immediately important to do justice to the American in-
terest at this fateful hour. tent with exercising supreme four years that have elapsed control. The West Coast admin-since the Union was established for Japan to-day by the Empress of consequences of the crisis as it at- istrations take the form of ad with promises of something very Russia. Tehy expect to return to fects the United States. They call the Colony, by the Empress of Japan for the formulation of three vice to powerful Chiefs. In different.
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major policies dealing with International monetary matters, Leung Shing, an unemployed, with preparation for neutrality,
East Africa Europeans and Arabs. The creation of Native Ad on June 7. and all non-Africans live segre-visory Councils is the continua gated in small communities that tion of the experiment begun by are like islands in a sea of Bantu Cecil Rhodes in his "Glen Grey was this morning sentenced to and with Japanese-American rela- and other tribes, who live a pri-Act," and already at work in part three months hard labour by Mr. tions. mitive tribal life with pastoral of the Cape Province which is A. A. Macfadyen at the Central A monetary policy which would or agricultural occupations. In called the Transkelan Terri Folice Court for the theft of two produce stabilisation and thus end the territory now comprised in tories." This is another hardy jacket from No. 119 Des Voeux the deflation is a matter of reach- the South African Union two annua! which should have been Road. The premises were the head- ing an understanding: with Great policies have been at war with passed, but for party manoeuvres, quarters of the Fish Dealers' Guild, Britain. The strength of the Bri- each other that are not merely ten years ago Success will de- who they were preparing for the tish position in rejecting stabilisa- tion at this time rests upon the different, but diametrically, op-pend on details of powers and Jubilee Celebrations Procession, posed to each other's and the ex-especially of audit which are pression at wares ant therely purely administrative. The opening of the St. John Am- the experience of London in inter- figurative. i. It was in protest The third Bill, dealing with bulance Association and Brigade national Anunce, and the political against what has been known as land, merely sets out to fulfil a Headquarters, in Tai Hang Road,dependence of France upon Britain the English or the "Cape" policy promise made in 1914 when the opposite the new Navy football owing to the menace of Germany. that the Boera went off on theNatives Land Act" was passed ground, will be performed by H. E. The weakness of the American posi- Great Trek of 1884 to found the by General Botha's Government. the Governor at 5.30 p.m. next tion lies in the fact that, though Transvaal, where the first sel- It was decided to separate the Thursday.
we have great Lesets, they are at tence of the Constitution. or land that could be held by Euro--
the moment politically unrealisable. one]
and the bloc,
Grondwet, read "there shall be reans from the land that could over. That was twenty * Currency Agreement no equality between white men be held by Natives The part of years ago. Slow as progress und Natives It was a fear of the Act that prohibited pur-bean, all that can be sald Is But If Congress would consent But we could offer Great Britain and "equality that caused the chase by Natives was passed better late than never. Transvaal war of 1880, and the the other trait, prohibiting pur- the political Native will not be France enormous advantages in re- bigger war of 1899, and the chase by Europeans was held satisfied.
turn for a currency agreeme
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