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MONDAY, JULY 18. 19:2.
COMING GERMAN
ELECTION
PER
con
MONDAY, JULY 18, 1932.
DAY BY DAY
MOST PEOPLE IN THEIR BLINDNESS DO NOT SEE THE INFINITE DIFFER-
of the control of the police system of Prussia
never be ex aggerated), the liveliest appre hension la aroused. Meanwhile, the recent appointment of the vot Papen Government has aroused anxiety in the SouthIn Bavaria ENCE BETWEEN BIGNESS AND REAL the Catholic People's Party is just | GREATNESS, TI Y MISTAKE OR HIGNESS WITH REAL stronger than the Nazis, and CONFUSE
GREATNESS OF MIND, HEART there has been an angry outers SOUL, why should Bavarians endure the dictation of East Prussian land- owners? The interview recently
OUR HECTIC HERITAGE
BY "THIRTY"
"Let na eat, drink, and be merry↑ man nature being what it is, we AND--for to-morrow we shall be out of know that they will let disaster overlake them rather than do any- a job!"
thing about it. NHAT, I think, represents the attitude of most of us who can afford it and who are not al- ready trumping the streets looking
During a ght between two bontmen at the Mongkok Ferry Wharf yester- day, one of the men received a cut over the forehead and was later taken to the Kowloon Hospital for treat ment.
THAT
So why should we waste time and breath, like the economists, with their almost daily invention of new jargon and incantations to explain
in Berlin between the President and the Chancellor on the one
for a chance to grind out a livelf- the curious crumbling in the feet hand, and the Premiers of
hood. Our elders en inspire us of their idol, International Bavaria, Baden and Wurtemberg
with no better objective, for the Finance? on the other did not clear the air.
reasons 1 have tried to explain in
We know the idol has feet of Mr. Kinnard, an' overseer of the
clay and, to be given now feet, will Obviously the principle of Keich Public Works Department, has report-
previous articles.
have to be taken down for repairs, Commissioners, and the liberation ed to the police the theft of aix Even if civilisation is crumbling, with a considerable loss of prestige lengths of one-inch zinc piping from what is the use of being depressed and temple reventies. We know of the Storm Detachments. cethe lower dam at Aberdeen on Satur-about it? It has not given such the idol and its worshippers would mained distasteful to the visitors.day morning.
At the moment, nothing definite ean be foreseen. The German
momen-
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advantages that we shall miss it us rather perish miserably than have much as our elders. And it is not that happen. Meanwhile, why an if there were anything we could should we get hot and bothered?
A reminder is given that a Service do about it in the meanwhile. Even
will be held on the men's dance
If we
ourselves elected to Hot tennia courta of the European
Are real that the Parliament,
Take another great problem ul Y.M.C.A., Kowloon, this evening. Should the weather prove inclement, Party Whips belleve that little the day--War Debts-which is
should be
not closes to us one of the peculiar de- dancing will take place in the concert M.P.'S
seen and
economist in the hull.
heard. Though elderly politicians usions of the are helpless, their dignity must be matter of wealth and the even more preserved at all costs, and the peculiar delusions of the statesm younger men "kept in their place."]m the matter of ethics,
be
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Government can with difficulty he termed either popular or constitu- tional:
its members represent. though not specifically, the Nationalist party, whose failure in recent elections has been strik-
Whilst preparing à elarge of Cremer ing. Yet by posing as saviours of dynamite at a quarry near
I suggested to a Minister the To us is clear that the wealth Street, Talkoltsui, yesterday a fore- the Fatherlund Herr von Papenan of the Fu Long Bum of contrac- other day that it might be helpful represented by War Debts censed and his colleagues
tara received severe injuries when the to let the younger members be heard exist almost immediately after It was blown out tarily riding the Nazi flood, while charge, exploded unexpectedly. He more frequently, it ply to "blow it was created.
was taken to the Kowloon Hospital or steam." He was horrified. of existence, was worn out, or mere- receiving the support of the in-in a serious rondition.
"The front buchers," he assured disappeared. Yet this wealth is same light as dustrial magnates whom they đư
me with the pontifical air of one regarded in the
linching as argument, "would not capital sunk seme tangible. not seem to have botlared tu con-
Three hout people were charged like it!" I have no doubt that he existing, earning enterprise, like a sult. Though Hitler Is on cordial fore the Bon. Comdr. Hole, at the sincerely believes that the collapse railway or a great liner,
But in Marine Court this
with morning. terms with Big Business, it is ine
of civilisation will be postponed be-six years time conversion loans having emised obstruction | disputable that his movement is Mengkok Ferry Whart by
eats "the front enchers would apart, we shall have paid for it mooring
Twice over.
Even the sound busi- bonts within 35 feet of The not like it." basically anti-capitalist; his most their
nes principle of allowance for de- wharf. They admitted the offence:
preciation was not applied to War alle spokesman, Gregor Strasser, and were each $10, or one
week!
Debts, represents an important and in-imprisonment.
Whatever one's theories of the teresting Left wing in the Party, And it remains to
In connexion with a report mite what out fathers called "a career nature of wealth, it is obviour that whether a Nazi split can be inde-to the police on Saturday morning at all seriously and, in any case, cannot regard wealth that stil Chinese married woman of why exert unself to make money to exist in the same light as wealth Anitely postponed. There are all Hunghom who stated that she had pay to the politicians to buy votes that has consed to exist. Though it may be argued that the present thebeen held up and robbed in Chathara with?
pust-war state of the world is an Road, outside Holt's Wharf, it has
The shallow suprabbles of the set. there is clearly some now been ascertained that the report;
w Churches about dogma and ritual economic fallacy here, which ought hns false. The woman Was
TROW admitted to the police that there had do not satisfy any deep spiritual to have been foreseen.
een no hold-up and that she
have. had urge or curiosity we may
But there is also an rthical had Even the pleasant counter-attrac-fallary-the treatment of wealth hidden the money, which she collected from Haft's Warf on behalf, tim of scientific theories that the
manner of possibilities in situation. The voting on July 31st may well have a tremendous influence not only 11 German polities but on those of Europe na
The Irish Problem,
matters worse.
less deplorable.
by 0
the
✡
We regard politics, Then, as Tweee. With every prospect of col. lapse there is no point in taking
of her husband, to avoid hru-creditors, Universe is a bursting example of as something more valuable than
hert
Public attention has beet much centred
n the Lausanne well. Conference of late that the in
pure mathematics, and that the in-fe. The State did not hesitate to mutes of the heal zoo are our dis-Ask the manhood of the nation to minence of the General Elvetiin.
The Villa Rose mystery, one of the tast cousins, does not inspire is to ive its life freely and without con- dition. But wealth was treated as which laken place in Germany on The dispute between the Irish cleverest of A. E. W. Maron's Hanou any enthusiastic conceptions of life. Biore valuable commodity and
stories, is the subject of the fenture; Each day brings fresh evidence July 1st, has been inresly con.Government and Whitehall
alfilm at the King's Theatre and pro- that theorists or every kind mavenly borowed at 5 per cent, interest looked."
The present Chaseellor,ready contained clements so dis vides excellent entertainment. The been hopelessly wrong, so there is a curious reflection on the outlook
identity of the murderer IN adroitly Her von Papen, is regarded by quieting that the abject failure an
little inducement to sindy. Can we of our much-vaunted elvilisation. concealed without restart to red-
On Armistice Day the State competent German obsorvers to be
of Mr. Norton's compromise in
herrings, for which reason the film. le blumed, then, for making the
the vanished dead. The tervention could scarcely make will give a greater measure of enjoy most of life while we can and for mourns a stop-gap, in which connexion it
It is none
the ment to those who have not had the, not taking it, our elders, or our rest of the year it pays interest, on vanished wealth. If Socialists are is worth noting that his Cabinet
The satisfaction Trevor plays the port of Hanau with
pleasure of reading the book. Austin, selves, too seriously?
tempted to regard this as an argu- has been officially described a widely expressed bath in England is usual polish and conviction, in a
Besides, our outlook compels us ment for Socialism, let it always Fransitional Ministry of non-party and Ireland when it became double sense, while Richard Cooper to regard the problems that harass he remembered that Socialist muni-
fills the role of the tyro detective, our elders frem a different and
tion-workers, who were selling expert whose task is to steer known that Mr. Ramany Mac-providing humourous relief along more practical angle,
Their labour, never hesitated to de- the country past the coming olee-
Donald's invitation to Mr. delines perhaps a trifle libellous to the
Take, for example, the great pro-land wages far higher than those tion. For the moment, the rear-
Valera had been accepted, revealedriginal Ricario, t
blem- of over-production-the of the fighting men who were mere- the sincere desire of both coun- tionaries are in power, but it re-
phenomenon of starvation in the ly giving their lives. tries to end an unseemly and un- - At A
midst of plenty. From this it is If it is the official view of civilisa. mains to be seen what will happen necessary squabble. The aban-right channels.
Reprisals have clear to us that the whole distri- tion that death is of less necount when the voice
butive mechanism of world con- than dividends, the only possibly pation donment of all effort to reach a served merely to concentrate beers is founded on entirely false deduction that we can make is that the makes itself heard. There' is un-settlement after a talk inating hind Mr. de Valera a strength principles. We have a shrewd there is not much point in living. doubtedly a move in certain quar- three hours exposed irrespon-which would not have been more suspicion where the fault lies, but because it is clear that our chances ters for the restoration of the sibility unmitigated by the fact, than half-heartedly applied in all that matters to us is the ques-of wealth for the remainder of our now apparent, that both parties more carefully chosen circum- tion of whether it can be remedied.lives are negligible. If that is not Monarchy, so much, indeed,
went into the that the new Minister of the In-
conference with stances. Freland now purposes af And we see at once that the only the official view of civilisation, why people who might be able to re-do the lenders of civilisation go on the impression that the other was tarifl War with Britain and tefior proclaimed in a speech reprepared to
medy the defect are those who acting as if it were, at the same depart from
his genuine Irish loyalty to the Com-make, their living out of it-und time chanting amúg phrases about cently that a Monarchy was the former stand. Mr. Ramsay Mac-monwealth is indefinitely post- that the cure would entail a drastic the horors of war, and the "sanctity most suitable form of government Donald should have known Mr. deponed.
reduction in their incomes. Hu-for human life”? for a country in Gerruny's pesi- | Valera better. The Irish leader?
100:
»
should have been aware that the Looking at the situation gener-
Englishman is never more dim- eult to move than when he has ally, there is no doubt that the assumed an air of sanctimonious forces of reaction have beer help-righteousness and rectitude.
As
ed by the breach between the So-in every stage of the development rial Democrat and Communist of the unhappy relations now sub- leaders. However, the Social De-sisting between England and the mocrats appear determined to
Irish Free State, both sides are make a big fight in the coming politicians, not one of whom an almost equally to blame. British
#
election, and they are stil
pears to have the haziest know-) factor to be reckoned with.
The ledge of Irish psychology, thought internal situation is most
com-they could frighten Ireland into plicated. In the lates, as in the submission by threats of economic Reich, he party has a majority pressure, and succeeding only in which makes majority govern-stirring passionis in Ireland which' ment possible: in the States, the most people thought were intent if not dead, felt compelled to act old Ministers have mostly cur
upon the threat when it failed of ried on as a so-called "business its purpose, simply and solely for government." This has very na the preservation of their dignity. turally caused great Indignation And the serious aspect of the among the Nazis in Prussia, who land annuities issue might easily have become by far the largest have been avoided had not the old Imperialism rated In to defend party in the Prussian Landiay the sanctity of the Oath, when il For some time it has been on the did not warrant the alightest fuse, cards that a Reich Commissioner The point of substance was whe-| would therefore be appointed byther the Free State Intended to the Central Government to rule stand loyally by its undertaking Prussia, Since it is clear that it lo
within the ler has an understanding with the Commonwealth of Nations.
Government, by which he
Oath is merely a form of words of no particular importance. If gives them general support in re-
Mr. de Valora, stubborn und turn for the promise of a freo auspicious, chose the wrong hand in the administration of mothod of its removal, an ounce [Prussia (and here the importanco of fact could have turned it into
new
remain
British The
satisfyinır.
24
nevertheless!
"I'm beginning to think maybe we should have let her marry that Mr. Truesdale,"
•
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Naturally, we cannot take them." r their outlook, at all seriously. Confronted with a world capable of entertaining what we consider such illogical misconceptions and of tolerating for so long such colousal structural defects-a world run by men who are so patently out of their depth and blind to the faults of the machine they control-we see little chance of their being able to effect running repairs. Even if they knew how to do that, they would have to stop the machine to free its seized bearings. But, of course, they have allowed things l go too far.
The only reply to our question as to what they propose to do is a vague theory that; although they do Hot know what is really, wrong with Fit, the machine will right itself without any effort on their part except for such gentle words of en- couragement as they may offer at The Lausanne and other confer-
ences..
A machine that will eliminato its own structural defects and correct the fallacies of its designors, with- ut those in charge of it being cognisant of either, or being pre- pared to take it to pieces and make drastic alterations, is a phenome- non outside our experience, beyond our understanding. We
may be forgiven, therefore, for replying to these optimistic travellers' talen of our elders that "there ain't no slch animal."
Meanwhile, till they produce the phenomenon to rebut our in- credulity, there is nothing for us to do except to remain cheerful.
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