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UNIVERSITIES BECOME DANCING CLUBS,
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The Universities of to-day have become vast dancing clubs.... It is time someone did indict mo- dern youth.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, MAY
1927.
-U.S. GOLD GLUT.
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CROSSWORD
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SIR JOSIAH STAMP POINTS. THE DANGER.
"The details recently published showing the lacrenso in American Income for 1926 are astonishing, even to those who are hardened in Thus Mr. H. G. Herklotts (Cum-analyses of American prosperity." bridge), during a lively debate at the National Union of Students' Congress at Bristol yesterday, on the motion that this house view with alarm the time when its own generation will be in authority."
The question arose on the motion of Mr. F. O. Darvall (Read- ing), who said.
did Sir Josiah Stamp, the econo- mist who is president of the ex- eentive of the London Midland and Scottish Railway, in an address to the American Chamber of Com- merce in London at the Hotel Cecil recently.
Sir Josiah, who was entertained at luncheon by the Chamber, pointed out that the total current income" of the United States £14,000,000,000. The exceeded
"All the new generation wants Is a little enttage in the country and a charming wife. (Laughter.) It is unfitted for future authority.stupendous nature of the figure because it has no self-control and would be realised when he said it. no confidence in itself. This gen- nearly equalled the capital wealth eration is non-enthusiastic and of the United Kingdom before the apathetic."
"I see nù cause for alarm," - re-
turted Mr. A. Haddon (Ein burgh), in opposing the motion. "What has been stated against the present generation is preposterous nonsense. (Laughter). We shall not make a mess of the world when our time comes. If we pass this resolution, we may as well give up the ghost altogether."
Mr. J. Ramage (London School ut Economies) said: "Political spellbinders like Mr. Haddon not only delade their audiences, but they delude themselves. I can see no hard, vigorous intellectual effort put forth amongst our generation to-day.
Creative, Spirit Lost.
war.
It was small wender that the United States' power to lead abroad was so great. That power was now, and must continue to he
dominant feature in the world's commercial transactions. The ex- pert surping of geoda necessary to
ke this foreign investment was being largely increased by a sale
of goods for gold.
The United States' gold imports for January, more than £10,003,- 000, were equal to more than a month's world-production.,, But if she continued this policy of ab sorbing and neutralisine gold it would conduce to a lower external price level in Europe and else where and that, in turn, must renet on her home prices, with the result that her prosperity would tend to (Car-decline.
Mr. . d. Herklotts bridge), supporting the motion. said: "This generation has lost the creative spirit. We have des enyed in classical quotation, and! about all we can now say is that i Kruschen feeling,' ar The More
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£15,000 BLAZE.
we are Together the Happier We) nii OUTBREAK IN GLASGOW
«OILWORKS. .
Damage estimated at between £10,000 and £15,000 was caused mail
shall be flaughter). That is the greattal indictment of modern youth i have ever heard. It doesn't seem now to matter what sort of people come together. laugh- ter. Life is one perpetual hurry; an outbreak of fire There is no time to think, a work in the ail work of P. & IT. without time is not life at al-Hall (a), 28. Kyle Street, Port is modern civilisation. The Uni- versities to-day have herome wasd dancing clubs. It is about tim: someone did indict modern youth
Dumian, Glasgow.
The discovery was made shortly after one o'clock, and in a very short time, owing to the inflani
ble nature of the stock, the pre-
Mr. A. G. Bagnall (formerly
a roaring MEISH (if Oxford) said if they rejected theses were motion it would be because they lan would not face the situation and
When the fire brigade arrived because they had not the moral on the scene huge tongues of damo were shooting through the courage to plate this indictment on record. "The great curse of Ox-
i roof: ford." he added, "is the car and the cocktail."
The premises involved were two buildings, one of two flats and the ether a single dat, while in the The House divided, and the pre-back yard hundreds of barrels of sident declared the voting to be which were stored there werd For the motion, 160; against, 82. There was some cheering, but no sooner had it subsided than the
destroyed.
Attack on the Flames. Close to the scene are a large
were led
president announced that he ha!umber of public works, and with made a mistake. The correct vot a view to getting more advantage- ing wast-Against the motion. 169; for the motion, 82. The points for attacking the flames
several lines of hose through these factories,
Near the oil works is a tene- In the evening a discussion Look place on "The Art of Living Thement of dwelling-houses, and it Gospel of Laziness."
cheering was then taken up by the Opposition side of the Reusi.
Mr. Bertram Russell opened is by saying that the real practical moral code of our time was the worship of sarceus. "I do not think," he said, "that success in the way of geting income is a method of seeming happiness. you staly the men who have at-1 tained this encress, and in getting it have had a pleasure the youth, you will and that they are tire victims of dyspepsin and un- utterable boredom."
Flippant and Cynical.
was feared that the flames might i
proud to them, but the free moved to keep the outbreak the main building of the altworks. and the tenants were not required to leave their houses.
When the fire broke out all the workers had carated the premises for the dinner interval.
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BACHELOR JUDGE ON BREACH
OF PROMISE.
Mr. Justice Mardic, who is popularly known as "the barbeler judge," seems to get at least his fair share of matrimonial tangles and pre-trimony wrangles, to deal with, and usually marks such reusinas, with some outspoken opinions on the law as it exists
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Ways of Breaking Off. tions for breach of promise should either be abolished entirely The feelings of the plaintiff bui should be modified, so as to pre- undoubtedly been seriously hurt. vent a plaintiff securing anything Thoy could see from her demea - more than special damages, and ex-our in the witness box that she i felt acutely the loss of self-respect : penses which she had sustained.
I was not necessary or desie-in the defendant's refusal to: able to discuss that matter now. marry her.
There were two days of break- was in his view a very import- ant subject for public discussioning off an engagement, There because, as plaintiff's counsel had was the courteous way of ending rightly pointed out, the law as it an engagement and there was the stood now was the law that the cruel, thoughtless and even brulai Court, had to administer.
way. As counsel had presented
The question the jury had to the case the defendant had acted ensider was really what damares with an absence of good feeling this young woman should be given and tact. There was no sugges- for the loss she had sustained. Ition, however, as the result of the was impossible to overlook the fact breaking of the engagement bet- that when a jury was considering ween the parties that there was the question of damages in such any loss of plaintiff's honour. If
at present. "Certainly what they said does not aply to London University, Ox-
The other day he was provided ford and Cambridge, of course, do with another opportunity, when he "You can generally cound an a Cambridge man to say something many prople who can afford to heard a breach of promise claim a case as this they were dealing such had existed here in this case, go to a niversity simply to have by a nurse, and again had some in-not with the nobler aspects of mar-whatever the modern thought flippant and an Oxford man 1,
a food time. At London Univerteresting and pointed things to riage and not with its sentimental might be about the equality of gay something cynical" said Dr. Sity we have very few peuple of
sexes, a jury could have taken the MT. C. Andrews, president of the that types our people are muchings" and the money value of host
say on the value of injured feel- aspecte.
The law allowed them in asstяs-view that larger damages might be University of London Union Bo-1
Kere concerned with getting some ciely, when his attention
made" equipment whereby they can ences in the "atrimony maring the amount of damages to give assessed.
something to a plaintiff not only When the jury considered the drawn to a statement
for a special loss in the way of commercial aspect, and the loss of The Judge, in summing up, said reparation, but allowed them also plaintiff's future prospects his some thought that the law haul to give her damages for the loss Lordship said he could not help "I think they were speaking of
"There is some truth in the be muintained it was.
and of the future prospects and for Teeling that moderation was per- Oxford and Cambridge, and even thes of Father limit part of opinions Mr. Herkles and Mothers thought, and gave weighty injuries to her feelings and self-haps the best course. Defendant
was not a rich man. City life," Dr. Andrews said. | Bagnali expresed, but nothing reasons for their belief, that ac- respect.
Cambride and Oxford men at the Conpress "at Bristol.
a living. There is for more work
tone at Loudon University than
at Oxford and Cambridge
like the whole truth."
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