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of moral force which must ul timately be reckoned with. If properly supported by publie opinion, it will remain a barrier to unbridled militarism until rea son again obtains control in Ja- pan and a genuine settlement of the Manchurian question-never to. be wrought by arms can be achieved.
MAN V. MACHINE The Very Idea!
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By "SENTINEL"
AMONG THE GOATS
WES nothing
was with the five bucks the Editor
'The only stroke of luck we had.
gave us to put on Coo Coo Bay. Coo Coo Bay was beaten, so that made us five bucks up.
By Edward “Ringtail” Kally, the futility of the so-called for consumption.
Some recent remarks of mine ön 1,500-page Report is now ready We were at Happy Valley on science of economics have brought
Saturday. letters of approval (for which
PAGE SUSZYou must have noticed a We many thanks) und also letters of
Then there is the "Energy Sux the Grand-stand.
were one of the people in front of disapproval. One correspondent, vey of North America" which writing more in aorrow than in was established soon after the Just over from us were a lot of Making London Lovely anger, suggests that the London War to make, a complete analysis ponies. Some ware Chiness ponics
School of Economica with its of the Industrial resources of the and others came from Australia. packed lecture-rooms forms a Continent. Three thousand pro- A couple of the races were won- For a long time many or "concrete confutation" of my eri- ducts have been examined, and the by Leo. Frost. As far as we were ganisations have been urging ticism. I am convinced, history of each plotted out on concerned they were all Frost's. London to rebuild itself accord- however, that the a priori reason charts, the ratio of employment to We were cleaned out eo mach ing to some definite plan. Ining, which is the basis of nearly production being shown in each that we had to sign a chit for our New beauty distinguishes the the eyes of many howevery ject, is rooted in a fundamental has been carried out by a staff of wouldn't accept one of our Char- all academic treatises on the sub-case. The actual research work bus-rido home. The conductor 1933 Rockne Six. Bodies are there is unfortunately at pre- fallacyle, the erroneous idea thirty-six engineers working in co-tered Bank $100 notes. lower and more richly appoint sent a danger that even that that "economic laws exist which operation with a department of Those who collected on the first. ed. Features include Free small part of London which is have the validity of, say, the law Columbia University: Columbia, race-backed The Goat. But all this Wheeling with Synchronized already planned may return to of gravitation. If such laws by the way, is an institution after goat get out of it was a pari-mutuel Shift and silent second speed architectural disorder. The actually existed, then it would Sir William Beveridge's heart. It ticket.
70 horsepower six-cylinder Commissioners of Crown Lands, have been possible for our lead- will provide you with courses in Why they call them pari-mutuels engine automatic starting who are the landlords of Numing economists to predict and ex-anything and everything, from beats us. There
electro-fused steel bodies ber Four, Carlton Gardens, have plain the present world-crisis just story-writing to laundry work, and mutual about the way they took safety glass. windshields given permission for that house date, duration, and other details to sell pea-nuts or play the piccolo
at astronomers can give us the teach you by correspondence how our money. clcsed models wired for to be pulled down, in order that of the next total eclipse of the And radio,
a block of offices thirty feet sun.
the sociological pseudo- See and drive, the New higher than the surrounding
sciences.. flourish mightily in such Rockna Six to-day!
American Universities. buildings may be erected, thus In point of fact they failed to destroying both the architec- foresee it or to anticipate its
We bought ourself a ticket on THE HONGKONG HOTEL tural and the residential nature successive phases. So lamentable getically passed beyond the task grilling
The "Energy Survey" has aner Trentbridge in the Trial Plate for with the money. The GARAGE.
of an area which forms part has their failure been that Bir of collecting and collating mere griffin the lute was that Trent of Nash's "great sweep" from ways glad to have "Q," that icono- the world with a new form
Arthur Quiller-Couch (I am al-
facts, and is willing to provide bridge only paid $5.70. Carlton House Terrace, Regent Street, to Regent's justified in his retort to Sir Wil-word-as blessed in the ears
up clast of shams, an my side) was governance. **Technocracy is the about it. Especially collected. Park The Crown Lands, of liam Beveridge who had accused those experts as "Mesopotamia"
of $5.70, in fact. And we were
calm we were quite hoarse after it which, Carlton Regent's Park Cambridge of oultivating studies was to the ancient lady of the So we went in and had some are a part, belong to the nation. which had no meaning for the Originally the private property modern world. It was an utterly us all, their leader insists, if we
anecdote. All will be well with tea. Thongkong Telegraph of the King, they were surrend knows Cambridge is "a scientific
asked the absurd accusation. Everybody clear away the "riff-raff" of exist- ered by George III just over 170 sort of place" (to quote the late ing institutions and Install in the
"Bur," we replied," years ago in return for a fixed Sir Arthur Shipley, F.R.S. who place of them an economic me- Civil List. With the royal al- was fond of the humour of under- chanism designed according to thoroughly enjoyed our five bucks We will say this much. We lowances, the King's Civil List statement) and produces radio his plans and specifications. Then worth of tea at the FRJ.C. amounts to approximately active workers for every field of hours a day for four days a week the Committee that circumstances
we shall only have to work four
But we regret having to Inform may be said emphatically, to have struck a shrewd bargain when it acquired the Crown the profits from these lands Lands for this sum, for last year were nearly £1,250,000. It is urged that, since the Crown Lands are already returning a most handsome profit, there is the charm of Carlton Gardens, a no imperative need to
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We were quite calm and collected
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boy, placing the a la carte before
"Watchee 'wantee?".
the hoarse...
THE LEAGUE REPORT/ £570,000 a year. The nation "practical research. So "" is not to earn a comfortable livelihoodwill, prevent us from going out to
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ing to encourage Japan to be- lieve that America can in any | way approve her disregard of the Pact of Paris. Or that they are satisfied to see the Nine-Power treaty torn up like a scrap of paper. Mr. Roosevelt, starting fresh, may be able as a part of bis "new deal" to make these things clear in a fashion more agreeable to Tokyo than any Mr. Stimson has achieved. But he can hardly avoid making them clear. And until some better me-.
to be blamed for suggesting that famous economists, who have been rest of our time to the art of live will get on without us, we don't Sir William and all the other and shall be able to devote the Happy Valley to-day. How they so lacking in foresight, should go
ing. How to .use A largely know. But you can alter circum-
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I must admit, however, that the
she asked, smiling sweetly at us.
"What are the circumstances?" "Ours" we replied horsely.
America. and hide somewhere in South increased supply of the chief by-stances.
product of prosperous Industries leisure, to wit-is a question he does not discuss. Yet that is an all-important problem of modern content to civilisation. collect and collate fucts, often
Booth's "Life and Labour of the wealth in provide matérial for helpful del destroy
ductions. The late Charles Plato conceived
economists who are
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Quite a breezy little jape is to
singularly graceful example of People of London," and its recent- should be kings, but we have dearest friends, asking Laem
which philosophers write to about thirty of your
desirability of doing nothing
The Work of the 1:LO.
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THE MARTINET,
to
And here's another straight from the horse's mouth. When ine-As- gociation arranged a baznar recently
why she
Mr. Stimson has declined to make any comment upon the League Assembly's Report, in dicating that the decision re garding America's adhesion | must, at this stage, be left to Mr. Roosevelt. The endorse ment of the policy of non-recog- nition must, however, follow in due course. It would be mislead-its particular style of architec-1-published sequel, are invaluable never seen it even in becoming come to your party to-morrow: ture, merely for the sake of a works for all who are concerned simply because, as Jowett told his after which you lock up the house little extra revenue. It is also with the problems of poverty, political pupils, "men are not and go out for the day. This pointed out that the demand for They show, for example, that real governed by logic." It would be causes roars of laughter among not be very great, for it is es- dangerous gulf between the two by a committee of technological
the very distressing, I feel sure, to the merry folk gathered on your offices in this area will probably progress has been made in
last afty years in bridging the have to live in a State governed doorstep. timated that about 200 offices Engish nations, the rich and the experia who would judge every- established by the commis-poor, of Disraeli's famous message body by his or her value in foot- sioners in their neighbouring to the "Young England" of his pounds. property of Regent Street are day. Another "Young England" untenanted. Whichever side of ta now achieving influence the "As a matter of fact a Techno-they did it in drst-class style, and the controversy the individual Conservative Party and feels that may take, few would deny the no sacrifica is too great that will cracy already exista in-Soviet asked Lady-to come along at noon
solve the social problems of this Russia. The real rulers of that and open it, although
distressful country are the techni_should want to declare the thing that might render more difficult critical period, especially the tre enl experts, who are enforcing open at twelve o'clock when it was the task of replanning London.
mendous problem of unemploy- ment which is a cancer In the huge schemes of mass pro- to start at ten is more than we can
duction in body of the commonwealth.
factories and of say, but such taings do happen.
They agricultural collectivism. thod of upholding the Kellogg
Being a man, we scoffed rather bave eliminated such non-techni-good-humouredly at the affair, be pact and the Nine-Power treaty
Two American commissions of cal mattera as liberty and leisure, cause they were all women, until appears the United States will
inquiry have also been carrying and the peasant or artisan, who is the secretary wrote and asked us Whilst Bernard Shaw, in a cut work comparable with that discontented with a twelve-hour if we would kindly assist. We sup stand on the Stimson Doctrine. recent interview in Honkong 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 in 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 national Labour Office is the to investigate social tendencies such as the Archangel forest Blank or something, so we agreed. But certainly the nation which only living branch of the Lea in the United States with a view front. The system of "decanting" We cleaned up our best coat and brutally and unnecessarily told gua of Nations, it is the truth to ascertaining all the causea of populations, which caused so much trousers with petrol, and wrote out the Japanese people they were that the public generally has a
industrial depression and indicat-misery in the Middle Ages, is a little speech, briefly referring to ing possible remedies. Five being employed there to an ex-the importance of women in history not admissible immigrants will very hazy conception both of hundred investigators have been tent unparalleled in the world's from Eve to Greta Garbo, and deal- hardly, court the favour of this the work and the ILO. and of employed, for three years, at history. You won't see me votinging thoroughly with social and military group, raising no voice its importance. The summary coat of a million dollars, and their (Continued on Page`9.) ·, against the violation of treaties of the activities of the Office and the smashing of the word's throws a deal of light on the during 1932, recently issued, 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 ness. It is true that in the car-gistered at Geneva. What does Governments and officially re- lier stages of the Manchurian this mean? There are thirty- adventure temperate opinion in one of these Conventions, and Japan was exasperated by the eath deals with the improve- failure of Western peoples to apments of conditions of labour in preciate Japan's provocation, some department of industry, Each The Lytton Report altered that in agriculture or at sea.
situation. It offered Japan more lar subject and is intended to be convention deals with a particu- than she asked before her army a model for national legislation- ran away with her. And under-along progressive' lines." No standing of Japan's case has Government is bound to ratify been growing. However, sym- a convention, but the matter pathy with her difficulties does must be discussed in Parliament not extend to approval of the What the total of ratifications within a reasonable period. excesses 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- gistered during 1932, it may be
to afford the best focus for peace taken for granted, represents a sentiment. Japan may seem to real advance towards the aim override it even as her army has set out in the Treaty of Ver- hopped over or crashed through sailles-Tair and humane con- the Great Wall of China. But ditions of labour for men, wo- the report is no selfish demand. men and children, not only in It is an expression of the world's their own countries but in all sincere aspirations for peace. countries to which their com- mercial and industrial relations As such it presents a great wall
extend."
We'll either have to get a new car, or start bringing his six
o'clock bottle along."
economic questions from the female point of view.
We 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 tell- ing the wonten 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 come and | queue up again to get in. We had been told to be particular that no- body should get in without a ticket, and we were; 1
True, there was one very pretty girl who asked if everybody had to have a ticket, and we said, "Yes, excepting the Press" So she said, "Well, I'll be the Press, if you like," and that was that.
Then there was still prettier one who only wanted to go in and speak 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,- "Ticket, please?" She asked why. We explained patiently that nobody could get in without a ticket, and she said, haughtily. "Ent 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."
She Intimated that she would do nothing of the sort. We said she couldn't come in.
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"All right, she said, iclly, "I won't."
She drove off in a bad temper, and a big limousine
The ladies are still wondering why their patroness neither came nor apologised for not coming.