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THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1928.
GERMAN LOOKS AT RAILWAYS AND ROADS.
EUROPE.
ENGLISHMAN DOES NOT LIKE
TROUBLE OF THINKING. -
TENNIS RACKET GIRLS.
COMPANIES OPPOSED TO A
ROYAL COMMISSION.
The railways nro against the pro- posal that a Royal Commission should be appointed to inquire inte certain transport questions, and that the consideration, by Parlin- "I think I may say, without foar ment of the companies' Bills, In are sought to of contradiction-at least, it seems which powers to me so, and I should not wish for establish road services, now pend- anything to hurt anybody's feelings ing, should be deferred until such that the weather of to-day maya Commission-made their report..
In a perhaps be safely called not really
statement the companies bad that would be saying too point out that the relevant facts much-but somehow less satisfac. are known and there is no need for tory than the weather of yesterday. an elaborate Commission of In- Don't you think so too?"
quiry to explore them. The Privato Bill procedure of Parlin- ment provides for a most searching inquiry into the preamble of a Bill.
This. "English" sentence intro- duced by Court Hermann Keyser ling in the section on England in his new book, "The European Spect- rum" which has just been publish- ed by Kampmann of Heidelberg, and is likely to become a European sensation-characterises English mentality as viewed through the eyes of other nations.
The railway companies, it is added, would not be averse to the Bills being considered by a Joint Committee of both Houses of Parliament specially constituted for the purpose. It would be general- ly agrbed that no better tribunal could be found for determining an lesup of this, kind,
Count Keyserling is the philo. sopher who was once described as a man "on terms of indecent in- timacy with his own soul," and hero he has been at pains to analyse the with the many Russians who have souls of the nations, of Europe, sought refuge within her borders, firstly in relation to themselves, and so that her Inflexible spirit may be then to Europe as a whole. His leavened by the disintegrating spectrum flashes in bold colours, ao Russian influence. But it la Spain, brilliantly, so 'topically, that one is where women is still wife and, tempted to accuss the philosopher mother, which stands ethically of journalese, with a difference, of highest among the group of Euro- course, as shown by his mention of peun nations to-day. Here, too, Is the American newspaper pro-the only democracy worthy of being prietor, who, after commissioning called such:-
| Pegasus," asked the Count, "be
come a Ford?"
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some very highly-paid articles from Democracy can only exist in a. the philosopher's pen, sent them true sense where the "lower" aro back with a staff representative to the equals of the "higher." Never explain what was wanted in the shall I forget the impression I re-
of way
alteration. "Shall aceived from a young Spanish pea- sant woman, who had had six children in five yeara, and who re- But it is truly pleasing to find ceived two Spanish dukes and my- Pegasus taking a delight in being self in her humble cottage after a naughty, delightful to find the motor accident. She not only acted lender of a school of wisdom so far as un, equal of the dukes; she 2018 untending as to hope to offend "all an equal, because she was as con- Pharisees, Philistines and bour-scious of the dignity of her class as geols, all those who are small- the Duke Alba of his. As regards minded, lacking esprit and a senso Germany, Count Keyserling says
of humour." And women readers he can understand why Englishmen
will be pleased and astonished to
are misunderstood; but not why the
find a philosopher so deeply interest-world always sees the German in ed in the various aspects of love.
The Englishman,
the wrong light. He ascribes this to the German love of doing a thing. for its own sake, studying it, and its relation to it. He quotes the regarding the rest of the world in Englishman who said. "If there were two gates, and on one were written, 'Entrance to Heaven, and on the other, 'Entrance to Lectures on Heaven, every German would choose the second one."
Beginning his analysis with the Englishman who is not likely to be flattered by it-the Count. finds him closer to the animal world than the "intellectualised" Continential. The Englishman combines, in Key serling's view, a dislike of offending anybody's prejudices by too direct
He mentions a well-known pub- statement with the unerring in-lisher of philosophical works who stinct of a pointer. Times, how-told him that nearly all the publica. ever, have unhappily changed since tions of one of the foremost modern the days when the ruling classes philsophers were lying unsold in and colonial officers needed no more his cellars, adding, with enthusiasm. In their heads than an interest in "And that's how it ought to be," eating, drinking, sport, and, while so convinced was he that philo still young enough, flirtation. Tosophers and their publishers should day English statesmen reason as not grow rich, and so pleased that though they were Frenchmen, and life worked out as he thought it hold forth upon programmes and should. ideals as though they were Ger- mans. Herein, anys the Count, lies difficulty, as the Englishman doca not like thinking. At this point the English girl comes in for some cruel criticism :-
Europe's Task.
But Keyserling's thesis that Ger- many sentimental, reflective, a bad user of power, is a feminine, not a masculino, nation down to the very structure of the pelvis-bone- broader in her men than the normal
The prettiest Miss, through lack of spirituality ("Innerlichkeit") ' la too often like a tennis racket. But how shall a woman develop will probably be judged the most sensual charm when she is address- penetrating thing over written ed as a matter of course, "Old about the nation. If Count Key- girl," and finds her greatest praise serling is judged apart from his in being called "a good sport?" prejudices he is intensely Illuminat However charming in youth, may ing.
His admiration for aristocratic
It not be as true of her as of the Hungary, hla prophecy that Italy, marshal's baton that every man in Napoleon's army carried in his in the future of Europe, will play knapsack, that she carries in hers, her part on heathen principles-- instead of the beloved and the since the post-Christian era, which mother, the weather-beaten old began with the War, heralds, in maid with big teeth?
many ways, the rebirth of the pagan soul-may be passed over. But A Result of Conscription.
his violent indictment of Switzer- land "nation of innkeepers, or Count Kayserling sees in the de- bourgeois, of ugly human beings cay of the English aristocratic who have followed the laws of classes the beginning of England's mimiery, with faces atony and decline, fears that the results of bodies gnarled as their rocks," calls conscription during the Great for protest. That the Count can War-which made the masees go badly off the track is also proved resentful and thoughtful for the conclusively by his chapter on Hel first time and the strength of land. Here it is quite clear that Labour in the Donnions, will lead he once fell into the hands of a to a domination of the proletariat oleman Dutchman, exercising that stronger in England than elsewhere sense of humour peculiar to this In Europe. He belleves, as, a recountry. "The Dutch," says Count sult, that the England where life Keyserling, "eat so little that they was once more gracious than also paint pictures of still-life to feast where will vanish from the face of their eyes upon what their Europe save as an influence on aesthetic stomach rejects," But future generations as potent as that he praises the asceticism of the old of the classle Greek tradition
sendogs, de Ruyter and Van These remarks upon England Tromp give the key to the whole book. Viewed through the eyes of Count Hermann Keyserling, the Baltic aristocrat, every country where de- mocracy is a flourishing force is distasteful to contemplate in the present, and has a gloomy future, To this must be added the mental vision of disciple of Rabindranath Tagore, imbued with Indian ideals. As a reault, those countries where women are most emancipated are believed to have the most unpleas ing prospects.
Points of similarity between the Russia of to-day and America, the lost opportunities of Sweden, the future of Turkey, and the signi- ficance of each Balkan and cach Baltic State, are discussed and given full weight.
The colours of Count Keyserling's spectrum remain bright and sharp to the end. Not in Interna- tionaliam, but in the cultivation of the individual soul of a nation he sees hope for Europe. The old col- lective ideals are dead, the new ones not yet born. There is no such The Strength of France;
thing as an international soul, but He considers that love is dying a community of nations, in which out in Europe, but may still bo each is complement of the other. found in Paris. In this fact lies When each laboura to produce the the strength of France, whose mis- highest type of individual, accord- sion always lay in the culture she ing to the national ideal, Europe disseminated, never in the doctrines will awaken from her spiritual she preached. The Count recom-lethargy and give a great message mends to France, Inter-marriage to the world.
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Feltham for £3. a week. Recently think that any Southend Magistrate she obtained a warrant, and he was would have so acted in such circum- committed to prison for two months stances.
for non-payment under the order.
Sir Frederic Senter, a Magistrata, Atmore explained that he had expressed the opinion that such been dismissed because of being treatment was a gross miscarriage sont to prison. He had also for of justice. criticised the action of another (about £700). The arrears &c-
Southend Magistrates sharply feited his pension and gratuity Mr W. Miles, another Magist- Bench of Magistrates when John cumlated because, while bo won Such a decision would never have rate, said that it was monstrous.
master, was summoned in respect a day instead of bis usual salary.Court. George Atmore, formerly a Post-sick leave, his pay was only 108.been perpetrated in the Southend of £37 under a wife maintenance
The Bench adjourned the case Sir John Francis, the Chairman, order,
said that he was surprised that the for two months and directed the His wife told the Bench that her man should have been sent to pri- Clerk to write to the Postmaster- husband had £500 a year as a'Civilson. Apparently he had paid 272 General and lay all the facts before Servant. The order was made at out of £90 arrears., He did not him.
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