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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1933, --
of moral force which must ul- timately be reckoned with. If properly supported by public opinion, it will remain a barrier to unbridled militarism until.res- son again obtains control in Ja- pan and a genuine settlement of the Manchurian question-never to be wrought by arms-can be achieved.
Making London Lovely
MAN V. MACHINE The Very Idea!
By "SENTINEL"
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AMONG THE GOATS
By Edward "Ringtail" Kelly- We were at Tappy Valley on Saturday.
You must have noticed us.. We. the Grand-stand. were one of the pople in front of
Some recent remarks of mine on 1,600-page Report to now tho futility of the so-called for consumption, science of economies have brouunt letters of approval (for which
Then there is the "Energy Sur- many thanks) and also lettera of disapproval.
voy of North America" One correspondent,
which writing more in sorrow than in was established soon after the anger, suggests that the London War to make a complete analysla ponies. Some were chinese ponies School of Economics with its of the Industrial resources of the and others came from Australia. packed lecture-rooms forms Continent.
A couple of the rays were won Three thousand pro-
As fans we wore
sun..
absurd accusation.
Just over from wore a lot of
tea.
"Watchee wantee?"
For a long time many or "concrete confutation" of my cri- ducts have been examined, and they Lea. Frost.
concerned they were all rost's. ganisations have been urging ticium. I am atill convinced, history of each plotted out on We were cleaned at so much London to rebuild itself accord- however, that the a priori reason-charts, the ratio of employment to ing to some definite plan. Ining, which is the basis of nearly production being shown in cack that wo had to sign a dt for our The actual research work bus-ride home: The Conductor all academic treatises on the sub-caOO. New beauty distinguishes the the eyes of many, however, ject, is rooted in a fundamental has been carried out by a staff of wouldn't accept one of r Char- 1933 Rockne Six. Bodies are there is unfortunately at pre- fallacy-le, the erroneous idea thirty-six engineers working in co.tored Bank $100 notes, lower and more richly appoint- | sent a danger that even
Those who collected onto first that that "economic lawa" exist which operation with a department of ed. Features include Free small part of London which is have the validity of, say, the law Columbia University Columbia, race backed The Goat. Ball, this Wheeling with Synchronized already planned may return to of gravitation. If auch lawa by the way, is an Institution after goat got out of it was a parmutuel Shift and silent second speed architectural disorder. The actually exlated, then it would Sir William Beveridge's heart. It ticket.
Why they call them pari-tuola 70 horsepower six-cylinder Commissioners of Crown Lands, have been possible for our lead will provide you with courees in
beats us. There was Ating engine... automatic starting who are the landlords of Numing economists to predict and ex- anything and everything, from
electro-fused steel bodies ber Four, Carlton Gardens, have plain the present world-crisia, just story-writing to laundry work, and mutual about the way they pok
at astronomers can give us the teach you by correspondence how our money.. safety glass, windshields given permission for that house date, duration, and other details to sell pea-nuts or play the piccola. The only stroke of luck wond closed models wired for to be pulled down, in order that of the next total eclipse of the And the Bociological pseudo-was with the five bucks the Ed radio.
a block of offices thirty feet Sec and drive,
higher than the surrounding Rockne Six to-day!
buildings may be erected, thus destroying both the architec-
of an area which forms part of Nash's "great sweep" from Carlton House Terrace. up Regent Street, to Regent's Park. The Crown Lands, of which Carlton Regent's Park are a part, belong to the nation. Originally the private property of the King, they were surrend ered by George III just over 170 years ago in return for a fixed Civil List. With the royal al lowances, the King's Civil List approximately THE LEAGUE REPORT £70,000 a year. The nation may be said emphatically to Mr. Stimson has declined to have struck a shrewd bargain when it acquired the Crown make any comment upon
Lands for this sum, for last year League Assembly's Report, in the profits from these lands dicating that the decision
re-were nearly £1,250,000. It is garding America's udhesion urged that, since the Crown must, at this stage, be left to Lands are already returning n Mr. Roosevelt. The endorse- most handsome profit, there is collect and collate facts, often no imperative need to destroy provide material for helpful de-
The ductions. ment of the policy of non-recog- the charm of Carlton Gardens, & Booth's "Life and Labour of the wealth in which
Plato conceived 1 common-
Quite a breezy little Jape is to philosophers write to about thirty of your nition must, however, follow in singularly graceful example of People of London," and its recent- should be kings, but Wo have dearest friends, asking them to It would be mislead-its particular style of architec-ly-published sequel, are invaluable never seen it oven in becoming come to your party to-morrow; ing to encourage Japan to be
works for all who are concerned simply because, as Jowett told his after which you lock up the house are not and go out for the day. This lieve that America can in any
with the problems of poverty, political pupils, "men
the merry folk gathered on your way approve her disregard of the
They show, for example, that real governed by logic." It would be causes roars of langhter among Pact of Paris. Or that they are
progress has been made in the very distressing. I feel sure, last fifty years in bridging the have to live in a State governed doorstep. antisfied to see the Nine-Power
Englsh nations, the rich and the experts who would judge every dangerous gulf between the two by a committee of technological treaty torn up like a scrap of
poor, of Diaraell's famous message body by his or her value in foot- paper. Mr. Roosevelt, starting
to the "Young England" of his pounds. day. Another "Young England" fresh, may be able as a part of his "new deal" to make these
is now achieving influence in the Conservative Party and feels that things clear in a fashion more
selences flourish mightily in such gave us to put on Coo Coo 1
Coo Coo Bay was beaten, so th American Universities.
made us five bucks up. In point of fact they failed to
We bought ourself a ticket of foresee it or to anticipate its THE HONGKONG HOTEL | tural and the residential nature has their fall been that Sir of collecting and collating more griffin the late was that Trent-
The "Energy Survey" has oner-Trentbridge in the Trial Plate fo Guccessive phases. So lamentable getically passed beyond the
task grilling
with the money. The Arthur Quiller-Couch (am al- facts, and is willing to provide bridge only paid $5.70. ways glad to have "Q" that icono- the world with a new form of
We were quite calm and collected clast of shams, on my alde) was
about it. Especially collected. governance. "Technocracy" is the fustified in his retort to Sir Wil-wordmas blessed in the care of $6.70, in fact. And we were so liam Beveridge who had accused those experts as "Mesopotamin" calm we were quite hoarse after it Cambridge of cultivating studies which had no meaning for the was to the ancient lady of the all. So we went in and had some
anecdote. All will be well with Let
asked the modern world. It was an utterly us all, their leader insista. If we boy, placing the tt fa carte before knows Cambridge is "a scientific ing institutions and install in the
Everybody clear away the "riff-raff” of exist- the hourue. sort of place" (to quate the late place of them an economle me. "Bur," we replied. Sir Arthur Shipley, FR.S., who chanism designed according to thoroughly enjoyed our five bucks We will say this much. We was fond of the humour of under his plans and specifications. Then worth of tea at the H.K.J.C. statement) and produces radio-
But wo regret having to inform active workers for every field of we shall only have to work four
to earn a comfortable livelihood will prevent us from going out to practical research. So "Q" is not to a day for four days a week the Committee that circumstances to be blamed for suggesting that and shall be able to devote the Happy Valley to-day. How they Sir William and all the other famous economists, who have been rest of our time to the art of live will get on without us, we don't
ing. so lacking in foresight, should increased supply of the chief by-stances.
a largely-know. But you can alter circum- and hide somewhere In South America.
product of prosperous industries "What are the circumstances?” lolaure, to wit-ia a question he she asked, smiling sweetly at us. does not discuss. Yet that is an "Ours." we replied horsely. all-important problem of modern civiliantion.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1933.
due course.
the
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amounts to
ture, merely for the sake of a little extra revenue. It is also pointed out that the demand for offices in this area will probably not be very great, for it is es- timated that about 200 offices catablished by the commis sioners in their neighbouring property of Regent Street are untenanted. Whichever side of the controversy the individual may take, few would deny the desirability of doing nothing that might render more difficult the task of replanning London.
The Work of the I.L.O.
I must admit, however, that the economists who are content
to
Jato Charles
ment which is a cancer in the body of the commonwealth.
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WE'VE HAD SOME.
THE MARTINET.
And here's another straight from the horse's mouth..When ing-As- sociation arranged a bazaar recently As a matter of fact a Techno- they did it in first-class style, and cracy already exists in Soviet | asked Lady-to come along at noon why she no sacrifice is too great that will Russia. The real rulers of that and open it, although solve the social problems of this agreeable to Tokyo than any Mr.
critical period, especially the tre distressful country are the techni. should want to declare the thing Stinson has achieved. But he
mendous problem or unemploy-cal experts, who are enforcing open at twelve o'clock when it was huge achames of m158 pro-to start at ten is more than we can can hardly avoid making them
duction in factories and of Bay, but such things do happen. clear. And until some better me-
agricultural collectivism. They
Being a man, we scoffed rather thod of upholding the Kellogg
have eliminated such non-techni- good-humouredly at the affair, be- pact and the Nine-Power treaty
Two American commissions of cal matters as liberty and leisure, cause they were all women, unt!! inquiry have also been carrying and the peasant or artisan, who is the secretary wrote and asked us appears the United States will
Whilst Bernard Shaw, in a out work comparable with that discontented with a twelve-hour if we would kindly assist. Wo-sup- stand on the Stimson Doctrine. recent interview in Honkon initiated by Charles Booth. One day and a starvation wage, is posed they wanted us on the plat The military regime now in po- may have over-stated the facts is the committee appointed by compelled to transfer his foot-form to give tone to the show, and wer in Tokyo may not relish it. in asserting that the Inter-President Hoover three years ago pounds to an open-air penitentiary to propose a vote of thanks to Lady
the Archangel forest-Blank or something, so the to investigate social tendencies such as But certainly the nation which national Labour Office is
only living branch of the Lea in the United States with a view front. The system of "decanting"
is a littlo speech, briefly referring to brutally and unnecessarily told gua of Nations, it is the truth to ascertaining all the causes of populations, which caused so much trousers with petrol, and wrote out
industrial depression and indicat-misery in the Middle Ages, that the public generally has a ing
possible remedies. Five being employed there to an ex- very hazy conception both of hundred investigators have been tent unparalleled in the world's the work and the ILO, and of employed for three years, at a history. You won't see me voting its importance.
nega.
the Japanese people they were not admissible immigrants will hardly court the favour of this
The summary military group, raising no voice against the violation of treaties of the activities of the Office during 1932, recently issued, and the smashing of the word's throws a deal of light on the peace machinery. Nor is it sure subject. For example, it is an- that much can be achieved by nounced that, by the end of the giving way to Japan. A con-year, 490 ratifications of Inter- ciliatory attitude is easily mis- national Labour Conventions understood in Tokyo as weak had been made by various Governmenta and officially re- It is true that in the car-gistered at Genova. What does ller stages of the Manchurian this mean? There are thirty- adventure temperate opinion in one of these Conventions, and Japan was exasperated by the cach deals with the improve- failure of Western peoples to ap-ments of conditions of labour in preciate Japan's provocation. some department of industry, The Lytton Report altered that convention deals with a particu in agriculture or at sea. Each
Bituation. It offered Japan more lar subject and is intended to be than she asked before her army a model for national legislation ran away with her. And under- along progressive lines. standing of Japan's case has Government is bound to ratify a convention, but the rnatter been growing. However, sym- pathy with her difficulties does must be discussed in Parliament within a reasonable period. not extend to approval of the What the total of ratifications excessen of her militarists. The means is that, In 490 cases since Lytton Report, endorsed by the the Great War, countries have League, is the world's most decided to act upon the pro- available means for expressing posals suggested at Geneva for its disapproval and maintaining the welfare of their workers. its rights. At present It seems Each of the 41 ratifications re- to afford the best focus for peace gistered during 1932, it may be sentiment. Japan may seem to taken for granted, represents a real advance towards the alm override it even as her army has set out in the Treaty of Ver- hopped over or crashed through sailles-"fair and humane con- the Great Wall of China. But ditions of labour for men, wo
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It is an expression of the world's their own countries but in all countries to which thoir com- sincere aspirations for peace.mercial and industrial relations As such it presents a great wall
extend."
Cost of a million dollars, and their
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"We'll either have to get a new car, or start bringing his six- elclock bottle along."
agreed.
We cleaned up our best coat and
the importance of women in history from Eve to Greta Garbo, and deal- ing thoroughly with social and economie questions from the female point of view.
Wo were
a little disappointed, however, to find that what they really wanted was that we should take the tickets, and not go into the bazaar at all, but as we had promised, we agreed.
The Job consisted chiefly in toll- ing the women who had queued up to get in that they would have to go back and queue up at the outer door to buy a ticket, then como and queue up again to got in. We had been told to be particular that no- body should get in without a ticket, and we wara,
True, there was one very pretty girl who asked if everybody had to have a ticket, and wo said, "Yes, excepting the Press." So she said, "Well, Pil be the Press, if you like,” and that was that.
hen there was a at prettier who only wanted to go in and
By k to a friend.
But on the whole we were like Cerberus, and when later in the morning a large person of uncertain age blocked the daylight, we said, **Ficket,plogne ?" She asked why, We explained patiently that nobody could get In without a ticket, and she said, haughtily, "But am I sup- posed to have a ticket?"
We said, "Madam, if Mary Queen, of Scots and Alice In Wonderland came along, they'd have to have tickets. You can get one at the door.”
Sbe intimated that she would do nothing of the sort. We said she couldn't come in.
"All right," she said, fclly, "I WON'
She drove off in a bad temper, and a big limousino,
The ladies are still wondering why their patronosa neither came nor apologised for not coming.