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THE
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DAY BY DAY
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HOW THEY CAME TO EXIST. (By Sir George MacMunn.)
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which to-day is still further diminished; condemned further wage reductions as unjust and un- economic; and declared that the principal means of restoring the
GOOD AND FRIENDLY CONDUCT equilibrium which has been upset
MAY MEET WITH AN UNWORTHY, must be sought in a reduction of with an UNGRATEFUL, RETURN; DUT hours. The chlof idea which THE ABSENCE OF GRATITUDE ON THE
Apart from
better than the the general in- seem no CANNOT effectiveness and mischief that Brahminism, which all the while arises out of these discussions is PART OF THE RECEIVER
DESTROY THE SELF-APPROBATION that there must be international WHICH RECOMPENSES THE OIVER; has come to India from Mr. had lain lurking in the forests of Gandhi's own pecullor mentality, the Himalaya, in the patholon of action if any real Impression is, AND WE MAY SCATTER THE SEEDS the real matter behind his pre- the desert, spread again, and to be made on the crisis. It is or coURTESY AND KINDNESS AROUND mise of fast is worth understand-achieved about the time that the
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Gandhi has taken his stand on construction of Hindu-dom. the crime against the Hindu body. This reconstruction succeeded that the granting of communal in placing everyone back into a election to the untouchables, and system of grades and castes. which will insure actual members woven Into the life of the people JI.M.S. Osiris will hold a dance in of Parliament from those classes, and more rigid than it had over boon before, though more human. the Garrison Lecture Hall to-morrow no distinct from their having from 8.30. p.m. to 1 a.m. The Lin- merely a franchise, will give them All those of heart and thew, colnshire Regimental Band will be in nothing tangible.
Aryan, Tartar, or Turk, who would attendance.
What is the Hindu body, follow his chief in support of national, economic, and religious? Brahmins and in protection of the H.E. the General Officer Command. We must go very far back into cow, received the gratifying title ing, Major General J. W. Sandilands, will be leaving Hongkong to-morrow the mists of time, and we must of Rajput, "sons or followers of The interesting Neuralis, accompanied by his A.D.C., Brahmin priesthood evolving from sading status. national scale which, even though Captain D. R. M. Cameron, and Lieut. the first-appointed priesta and be- point, however, in this:
Baskervyle-Clegg. His Excelloney is coming a separate clar, almost a who would conform in any way only approximate to the moment, due to arrive at Shanghal on Monday, separate race within the white was accepted, each in his fade. His wild religion and creed was will allow the reduction of hours of November 7, and will leave Shanghai invaders of Dravidian India.
on Thursday the 10th, arriving backt We must imagine the keen also admitted as part of the warp work as a means of combatting in Hongkong on
Sunday the 10th.
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unemployment, and, in-general, as
of the universe as all theologians below the salt in the gocial and Mr. Harry Ore gavo a very success-i
to religious scale. There thus arose Corporation
A means of reabsorbing a part of ful concert in the auditorium of the must do, and hitching it on INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
the earlier conception of a misty fissiparous tradea-unionism be- in the Young Men's Christian Association In tho unemployment
Canton on Tuesday evening. This dolly. We must imagine them fore which anything Western must Toronto, Can, machinery of production.
concert was the second given under anxious to bring all folk within pale, and which sealed the state ono protecting of the low caste without hope of No doubt the World Economic the auspices of the International the worship of
Women's Club of Canton in aid of deity, and thinking that all the relief. Conference will have many other their welfare work in the city. The white folk worshipped on one line
New Faith of Islam, aspects of the situation before It Club pledges itself to support a dis-:
Unfortunately for India and of thought, while recognising that when it meets, and its work will trict nurse for this welfare work, and the other folk also worshipped Brahminism, thin astounding
It was in order to raise the money
Al- construction could not bind în a WYNNE-JONES-At the Victoria be greatly facilitated if definite for this purpose that it arranged this manifestations of the same
Hospital, Hongkong, on Novem- draft agreements are brought for concert. The event was very well mighty in wild and ignorant ways, bond of amity the Rajput States to come of the north, nor teach them to 3. 1032, to Mr. and Mrs. E. ward for a solution of the funda-attended, and Mr. Harry Ore received but worthy, however,
form front against a the applause which he always merits, under the same umbrella. Wynne-Jones, a daughter,
mental problem not only of Im his visit to Canton being much p
Then we must see the priests jenemy. The new faith of Islam, proving economic prospects, but preclatod.
and the temporal leaders realising running riot in Afghanistan and with horror, as the folk of the Central Asia, poured forth ita ad- also of permanently restoring econo-
By the installation of special re- mic prosperity. The deliberations of frigerating plant at various depots in United States do, the dangers of hereats to the conquest of India the Conference will be watched Hongkong and Kowloon,, the largest miscegenation and how easily the in the days of the Norman con- of which are situated at Lane, Craw-white warriors and traders might quest of Britain, and that was with the deepest interest in all ford's premises, the local distributors lose their identity if they were the end to this day of Hindu rule to mix with one in India.. Fire and sword and the parts of the world, since the issues of "Anchor" brand butter, are now allowed freely
in the position to supply this well- another. raised are of vital concern to all THE WORLD BAFFLED peoples in this time of stress and
Oakland, Cal.
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Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1932.
uncertainty.
the
re-
common
known product in either retail or weaving great social barriers,
Hence the iden of Faith of the Prophet succeeded
The butter comes from the largest co-operative
wholesale quantities.
to Buddhist and Brahmin.
Nevertheless, Thus in some way caste as we
under Moslem producers of dairy produce in the know it arose. All the conquer-sway, though many of the Rajput world, the New Zealand Co-operative ed races were without the pale warriors accepted that faith, and thereof, many of the bumble folk for the Dairy Company, Ltd., who have a and all mixed progeny yearly turnover of £7,000,000. The But once that Was established equality of value. that the now fact that this particular brand of those without the pale, with their faith offered, the mass butter has large salca in foreign strange ways of worship, might Hindus, high and low, lived butter producing countries is, in itself, be admitted within a dim re-land worked, weaving their caste an eloquent tribute to its quality.
SUGAR MARKET
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS
The folowing cable at the close of the sugar market yesterday has been received by Mesara, Pen- treath and Co.
London Terminals, March 1933 6/-%1⁄2 up 1⁄21⁄2d. May 1933 6/21⁄2 up 1⁄2d. August 1933 6/6%, up 1⁄2d. December 1933 6/8 up 3⁄41⁄4d. Buyers at above prices, sellers asking d-d. more.
of the
ligious aura. If they admitted fabric over tighter, so that the and accepted their place within untouchables and the depressed this thrice-classified band of folk, had to possiblo chance of rising then in some sanse they belonged in man's esteem, even though they to the great race of India; they collected something of this world's were Hindu, part of the warp and gooda. They were part of the weft of the continent...
More and More Complicated. For hundreds and hundreds of
the
and
atrange Hindu fabric, and it was n fabric which survived the streas and strain of close on 800 years of Moslem dominion.
One of the most interesting
The American Election. Buggestions which has been made
There is a strong persuasion for easing the unemployment pro- that the turn of the Democrats has blem, which is now acute pras-come and that the next President tically the world over, is the lay-or the United States will be Mr. Roosevelt. Political ing down of an international pro- Franklin gramme of public works. This scors have already nominated the The idea is amongst many ather is- members of his Cabinet. Autes being considered by the pre-election takes place on Tuesday next and the wiscat are those who committee which paratory
la
await the result. The straw vote drafting the agenda for the com- is a fairly rollable guide but much
years this classification endured,
From time to time in the past ing World Economie Conference has happened since those concern:
and, intensely fasiparous, grew great reformers have ariuen, There was a time, before the ed recorded their attitude. Never
more and more complicated, and preaching the equality of man, and world situation became so acute was there a greater feeling of un-
the way of salvation more
have formed sects and gained more involved. And all the while followers. But their efforts have as it now is, when there was a certainty. A vast majority
more and more preachers tried to been chalk on granite, and they tendency to regard the unemploy- population are entitled to vote,
simplify matters
and weld the have but added and all in this astonishing year
another to the ed og
Brahmin unemployable.
people together, Stories
many sub-divisions. Even Sikhism, need to bo convinced, owing to the
New York Terminals. elique and clan fighting all rothe were.circulated of abuses of the
teaching of gentle Babn general obliteration of the cus- December 1932 1.01 up 3 pts. formers.
Nanak and force Guru Govind, "dele" system, all tending to suz-tomary slavish party loyalties.
March 1933 93 no change.
There then, arose, six centuries numbers under three million men May 1933 .98 up 1 pt. gest that the average man out of Unemployment has worked wond-
before Christ, that Rajput, or and women. July 1933 1.02 up i pt.
rather Kshattriva teacher, theIt is, therefore, amall wonder work preferred idleness to aers in this respect. The disappear- Cuban 56 Spot N.Y. 1.10 up G Buddha, i.c., the "enlighted" and that Air. Gandhi views a reform steady job. Whilst there can be ance of party lines is the most in- pts,
instead of being strangled by that shall make fack as good as no doubt that this was true of a teresting phenomenon. It is quite New York (2/11/32)-Decree Branminism, his teaching, alowly his master as vitiating the Hindu to be expected this year that the Oxing Cuban Crop at maximum spread, and overcast the old faith vision which keeps its slaves in few, it has long since been shown South will turn Republican or (as 2,000,000 tons, signed. grinding to and the old priesthood. Buddhian, their place. Moreover, Ro
dcop, that unemployment is a much
commence. 1st February and to which began as a "way of life" was recently indicated in Maine) moro aerious affair than that.
within the old faith, under the old 60 spiritual in many ways, ls the that the Northern States which finish 31st May,
umbrella, so "caught on" that. It Abborrence of the high casto for the low, that we of the West can- Its worldwide pravalence is an in- are usually Republican will turn conducted debacle, but convincing grow to be a faith Itself, and not possibly understand it. dication that it arises, not out of Democrat. A few days after the attacks are easy in the presence five hundred years har drivun,
To an Indian of
any status, laziness on the part of workers, Maine election the process was of the existing distress, and the Brahminism from the land.
But the new falth went the caste is everything in this world but out of a breakdown in the partially reversed in Wisconsin, swing of the pendulum should turn
and the next. The Westernised way of all churches, and came to students talk here in London of economic system as it is at pre-perhaps off-setting Maine, but, in Mr. Roosevelt's favour. sent operated. To such dimen-diente a trend away from Socialis
more especially seeming to in-
alons has it grown that it la pre- tic nostrums, which was hardly senting a problem which is caus-
to be expected during hard times. ing concern to economists and Theso aro only meagre indic- statesmen the world ever.
tions of the multitudinous compli- There have been various pro- cations, confronting the Party posals put forward for a solution managements. The Republicans, or an amelioration of the problem, facts, must abandon their old con- naturally, in view of present in which connexion it may be re- tention that their rule invariably called that the International Labour means prosperity, while the De- |Office, a League of Nations body,mocrats Inck remedies on which has neveral times had before it n the party generally agross, making plan for concerted action along criticism ineffective. The wisest the lines of a reduction of hours nowspaper prophets admit their Both party head- of work. The Unemployment Com-bewilderment.
quartors confess that there is a mittee of this body has, in fact, recommended that reduction of hibition is the neareat, but it is lack of compelling issues. Fro- hours and distribution of work is virtually ruled out owing to dlvid- preferable to discharging worked aantiment within party boun- era, and the best results in this darles. Modification of the tariff, connexion are said to have been and the money question is ap- obtained by a 40-hour week. The parently not to be acrimoniously International Labour Conference discussed, nong so far having at- tacked the gold standard as the has also discussed the mattor at
cause of the national disaster, and length, nearly all the workers' the difference with regard to the delegates and several Government subject of Import duties, is signi- representatives speaking in fav fcant, Prohibition will be prais our of the 40-hour plan. Its lasted and damned, but not by either. resolution on the subject drew party exclusively. The only`real attention to the present
nation-wide fasue so far is the ro- turn of such prosperity as will oquilibrium between disproportion-
Dasure a job to every willing work- atoly increased production and a or, and none can prove that he capacity for consumption which knows the secret. The Republi- was Insufficient evon at the be- can Party's history enormously ginning of the depression, and in its favour, despite its personally-
dis-
"Now, mind you, I don't say you'll look like this in two
or three days"
it all being out of date, and, in- deed, appear to neglect all ideas of religion, whether Hindu or Moslem: but they have not yet reckoned with their mothers and the family priest and the habita of many centuries.
RUNNING A BANK
By Edward Kelly, Cambler(ed)
Someone has suggested that our talents are simply going to waste, ruining reams of paper in a newspaper office. What we jshould.db, we have been told, is to get nuracivas appointed as ʼn bank maneger.
Wo have had this idea ourselves, but so far every bank in Hong- kong has displayed a remarkable lack of broad vision.
We can assure the public of Hongkong that any bank we're allowed to run will be different to any existing institution. What these Hongkong banks need to more pop.
Instead, of letting people stand. for hours, walting for their choques to be cashed,' wo would provide a row of easy chairs and a free lunch countor.
Someone súerested the other day that there was'a comer in one and five cent pieces. There would be no corner in any of our coins. They would be all round,
Our overdrafts would be ar- |ranged so that assots would never · (Continued on Page; 9.)
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