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means also Britain's pecurity-and help to save the peoples from an- other costly conflict. Morcover it is not true to say that the Die- armament Conference has nothing to, show for its labours. What has definitely emerged is that substan-, tial results can be secured if the

DAY BY DAY

Governments represented-Includ- KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT WILL

SUIT THE

ing our own-are really determin-Wilde. ed to succeed. Furthermore, the prospects have improved as result of the "Left" victory in the French elections.

copy.

the

passenger

OUR MUDDLED

Why Youth Awaits the.

Coming Crash.

By "THIRTY"

many men

are

ELDERS

the

THE ARTISTS OF THE COUNTRY ARE

and optimistic deductions from THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE RIGHT

history about "muddling through." TO SAY HOW THE PEOPLE BUOULD HE

Foll THEY HAVE THE "Civilisation, of course, in crack-Till the exact reason for the trou- CLOTHED,

BEST ing up; but otherwise things aren't ble is found the car will not go. HUMAN FORM.-Oscar no bad!”

Such instances face my genera tion every day, and naturally in- THE SPEAKER was a clever duce an uncompromising attitude TH

young business man and the of mind. When We apply this Mrs. Knight of the Peninsula Hotel has notified the Palice that sho lost remark was made as casually as outlook to the present state of her hand-bag in Des Voeux llonil one reference to the weather, for it the world we find that the world afternoon. The bag contained a small represents the point of view of has gone hopelessly wrong, and "Started Something" with the

and women of the that those in charge of it, who aum of money and personal articles. introduction of bodies of welded

younger generation. The coming are largely responsible for its If by an expenditure of £40,000 which

A new weekly Journal made its ap collapse of "civilisation," as we present condition, can advance no steel construction

pearanco in Hongkong on Saturday. suitable for the high speed and Britain can assist in the formula-

the tion of an agreed plan for inter- Named The Critic, it follows, in for-know it, is regarded as something coherent explanations and merely crowded high-ways

national reduction of armaments, nint, Truth, the well-known London too obvioun for discussion, like hurry from one nonplussed con

periodical. It sells at fifty cents per the incompetence of politicians, or forence to another.

the burden of taxation. The only

Meanwhile, the great, machine present time.

the expenditure will be in the

point in discussion is when the of civilisation is obviously plung- It in Other makes have followed.

nature of a profitable investment.

Whilst shopping at the King's Discollapse will come, and how. What ing headlong to disaster. For the Prime Minister han al- pensary on Thursday evening last, older people are just beginning not surprising, therefore, that we ready declared that the alternative Miss S. G. Farrell, the daughter of timidly to hint to their incredulous should have no confidence in the Mr. P. T. Farrell, lost her handbag contemporaries, younger people to an effective disarmament agree which was stolen from the counter have long regarded as self-evident.ability of the drivers to apply the And the reason for this is that brakes, however many beautiful ment may be increased building by where she had left it.

how to apply the brakes they Great Britain under the esculator

A watch and fob to the value of the younger generation has a more phrnags they invent. If they knew

from the best room realistic outlook, clause of the London Agreement. $20 was stolen

To older people this may seem would have applied them long of Mr. Mitaren, who occupies room If that should eventuate, the addi-No. 31 at the Trueadero Hotel, Feking both sweeping and startling, so since. It is obvious, from

nome perhaps I ought first to explain the existence of so many divergent theories, not know. tional cost to taxpayers will not Rand. The watch was taken

reasons for the different outlook political and economic

For time during Friday afternoon.

of those of us who have been born that they do | be a few thousands of pounds, but

several millions of pounds. And Lo Shu, the foll of a

boat, was fined $20 or two weeks since the beginning of the contary. clearly all those theories cannot One reason is that we have been be right. And no amount of op- reference to history Britain is already spending over imprisonment by the Hon. Comir.

Hole, at

Marine Court, this born into a more difficult world timism or

order to books can convince us that dian- In parents. £100,000,000 a year on armaments.

morning, for having made his craft than our

have to examine pro-ter will be avoided. History, in Real economy means wise expendi

to the President Coolidge while she exist we was under way in the harbour this blema that never troubled them, any case, in far too young to show

They were born ture, and there is autely no wiser

in the piping any close parallel to the present morning.

if history were when situation, even anel times of prosperity, expenditure than that incurred on

Mr. A. E. Bates has arrived from they were young the world was never an infallible argument.

comfortable and' If one sees a var plunging over efforts to lighten the burden of

New Zealand for the purpose of taking comparatively armaments, increase International

over the activities of the New Zealand stable place. Despite the conval-a eliff, it is not convincing or en- security and make the resort to, Perpetual Forests, Ltd., in Hongkong sions of latter years, they cannot couraging to the onlookers to as fie ia accompanied by Mr. I visualise a permanently different sure them that in a previous case

ін the

Enst Far who war unnecessary.

They do not of the same sort the occupants Falkner,

All the in- Business Manager; and is resident at order of things.

grasp the significance of the emerged unscathed. Repulse Bay Hotel,

changes that taking place dications are against it happen-

ing again. The British im version of the under their eyes.

other We, on the

hand, can Too Many at the Universitles/

"The Beggar

Let us look at the present in- Viennese ,operetta,

The world is com- known the com-dientions. Sir Denison Ross has implied Student", now showing at the Queen's barely remember a stable world.

is an extremely creditable production. We have never that too many young men and wo- Shirley Dale and Lance Fairfax, who fortable assurance that prosperity pletely out of control, economic-

share the musical honours, Mr. Fair-breeds, and our view of the fature ally and politically. men in England go to the univerfax having a particularly fine voice, is not clouded by any set notions are getting worse and politicians. All sities. This is an opinion so fre- play their parts with restraint, while as to what life should be like. financiera and business men are There are, we fear, still very many people who are dissatisfied gently voiced that some examina- the humourous interludes are provid We have open minda to expect any-powerless to do anything.

tion of it may be profitable. At ed by Jerry Verno (Jan Janiki) and thing, or nothing, from the future. the indications, therefore, point

to a complete collapse. Mark Daly (The

Sergeant).

Several older men to whom i with the League of Nations and the outset it

may be remarked

Another reason is that our up-have suggested this have replied, with the World Disarmament Cow that if England errs at all in this

Eight Chinese were brought before

and environment have in almost identical words: “I ference, It is, however, notes respect, it does not err so grigy- Mr. Fraser, at the Kowloon Magis bringing

other countries. tracy this morning, charged with been different from that of pre-admit that it looks as if things

from stowing away Macassar tvious generations because of the aro worthy that the crition ure generously as some

going to collapse, but, of the Dutch steamer

Almost course, it will never be allowed. ally those who have never shown One in every 1160 English per- Hongkong on

was stated that after advent of the machine.

we have been Hons has had a university educa- Tjileboet. any real anxiety to assist in maktion, compared with one in every

the steamer had left Macassar, the from the nursery

tion go."

Who"they" are is never clearly quarters without any money to pay cal things. Subconsciously, per- in the League an effective and 600 in Germany. From the point defendants were found in the steerage interested in scientific or mechani-They cannot afford to let elvilion. 11le Worahip imposed hans, but inevitably, this has given explained, but it in hinted that powerful international instrument of view of those who regard a their passage. or in encouraging the idea that university training as a danger a fine of $75, or six weeks, the fine us a different mental approach to they are the mastermind of

being equivalent to the cost of the life because association with any- sulous possession, the English record passage.

thing mechanical or scientile in- politics and finance. If this is the

Conference Geneva

favourably

ment against collapse I have compares even more achieve positive results for a redu-

Banished for life seven years ago, duces exact thinking, which is 50-and this is the only argu-

heard my generation may with that of Scotland, where one:

an elderly Chinese was charged be sometimes mistaken for irrever- tion in national armaments.

in every 150 has a degree. In the fore Mr. Fraser, nt the Kowloonence or a sense of superiority.

If our cars, or our wireless sets, forgiven for having no confidence Strangely enough, the suggestion United States the proportion is Magistracy this morning, and was

is high time "they" hard or even our homely electric lights in them" for letting things get months' that the Powers in general, and still more startling, being one in sentenced

labour. His record showed that he go wrong, we know that there is so far. It

an exact reason for the trouble stopped playing and put an end Britain in particular, should turn 125. The argument usually ad was convicteil nome time ago of arm

It is clear that the country in their backs upon both the League | vanced against opening the doors ed robbery and kidnapping and was and that, till we find it, they can-to the joke.

of the universities too widely is sentencesi to 11 years hard labour not go right again. Therefore we When he had served his sentence, he and the Conference, is usually put

the desirability of keeping up the

was banished. His Worship said he are moulded in a frame of mind which things are most hopeful is demands and gets an England, and that if any country forward it the name of "economy." standard of work done in them. had intended to inpose a sentence of which

therefore, examine the Objection is taken to what is

Even to-day some things are done. 12 months, but in consideration for exact answer to curiosity in so can reintroduce stability to the

months off.

interested. When our curiosity inļus,

and omnipotent called "the growing expenditure in universities which really have accused's age, he would take three many of the things in which we are world it will be our own.

the wider problems of life is not mysterious of the League of Nations and the no place there. These

gratified by an exact answer, be "they" of England to Hea what In cause age cannot supply it, we lose we can hope for from them. heavy outlay connected, with inter-confined to any one country.

Age falls to Turning to the politicians, we ease the require-confidence in age. United States college has awardly aTected by this, because In this

that the present National national conferences,"

ed a Ph. D. degree for a treatise every single connexion, it has been pointed out

on a high school cafeteria, an ments of the university's entrance impress us, because age's mental find

ferent and-to us-sounantis-very men, of all parties, who by their action-or inaction-in the that the cost of the Disarmament English university considers that examination have been fully satis-approach to a problem is so dif- Government is composed of the

fied before the question of public fying. Conference is some £175,000 to the it furthers the cause of learning!

arisen. On assistance has

the If my car breaks down on the past are responsible for the state League, while the cost of the Bri-by giving a course in brewing.

contrary, this development has road it is no use adopting the of affaire to-day. Such remedial tish delegation is estimated at If the tendency to teach this sort raised the standard of university technique which age employs to measures as the Government has

of thing were encouraged by ad-

and to be content with a com-jof fear and necessity. An emer for-mitting more people to the univerwork in England by considerably solve ita problems. It is idle to so far taken have been the stauit, universities mis pick their promise decision, a majority ver-gency has compelled them to do, sities, or if enlarging the univer-widening the field from which the form a committee of investigation not of vision or leadership, but

dict, or with mere unreasoning too

THE ECONOMY BOGEY

some £40,000 in addition.

are not If a

Case

The favourite argument put ward by these crities is that there

sities' area of recruitment meant is really nothing to show for filling them with students 'incap- these Conferences, and that the able of deriving benefit from the old plan of negotiating by diplo-genuinely cultural studies 'pur- mney was certainly enormously sued in them, an irresistible

for keeping down their numbers cheaper. It seems to be forgot-would have been made out. But ten, however, that in the days of would this be the natural effect? "the old diplomacy" the Great There are two ways of getting students into English War coat Britain about £9,000,- more

One is to lower the 000,000; that it left her with a universities. National Debt in the region of standard of the entrance examina- £8,000,000,000; that she had near-tion, thas opening them

two

students.

It

LD nine

IL

to

up to those who can afford to pay their ly a million dead and over

fees but cannot pass the intellee- million wounded; that the damage tual tosta they set for admission. other is to give more to property in the British Empire The was estimateil to be something ap- and more public assistance proaching £400,000,000; and that those who can pass the intelles- Britain lost mercantile shipping of tunl tests but cannot afford the fees. The first method undoubt- over 9,000,000 gross tonnage edly would lower speedily the main- These items do not exhaust the standard of scholarship full list of costs-direct and in-tained in Britain's centre of high- fortunately learning. But direct but they are sufficient to er remind us how terrible is the toll there is not the amallest prospect that war exacts. It is strange of its being adopted. It is, a that the word "economy" in seldom partial putting into practice of

the second method used in relation to the expenditure brought about the density of universities on war. The critics do not raise population in any protest against the expendi which some authorities view with ture of millions of pounds a day alarm. Obviously, their alarm is for war purposes. But they be without foundation. In the last grade the comparatively infinite-few years numbers of young men and women who would not other- simal amount that is being spent wire have done so have been on

the

that has

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Inte, what foresight and courage should have accomplished voluntarily years ago. The fact that some of them foresaw disas- ter makes their responsibility heavier. But responsibility playa no part in modern politics. fact, plain defection from duty is usually rewarded by a peerage. Meanwhile, it is idlo to expect salvation from Government which cannot achievo the team- spirit of a village cricket club, is afraid to institute the drastic measures of economy which aro essential, can be scared by a few hundred post-cards, and daro not even take a strong line in such trival matter 48 Sunday cinemas.

the

Apart from the politicians, to whom we will return Inter, wo have to consider the financiers and the business men. Discard- ing the jargon with which it is fashion to cloak financial Incompetence, we are confronted. with the plain fact that our in- telligent financiers have lent the resources

of this country to bankrupt foreign States to nsalst them In competing with our war. shattered Industries. They have Just realised that they will never sea their money back, and now apend their time discussing how niuch goud monoy to throw aftor bad.

In this money-worshipping age, it is perhaps the crowning blas phemy for a young man to suggest that the "big business man" must take his share of the blame for the present state of affair, avan if it is not the largest #hare. But, (Continued on Page 0.)

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