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sincere aspirations for peace. As such it presents a great wall of moral force which must” ul- imately be reckoned with. If properly supported by public 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!
still
By "SENTINEL"
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AMONG THE GOATS
By Edward "Ringtail" Kally.
Saturday..
Some recent remarks of mine on 1,500-page Report is now ready We were at Happy Valley on the futility of the so-called for consumption.
clence of economics have brought letters of approval (for
You must have noticed us. We many thanks) and also letters of
Then there is the "Energy Sur- were one of the people in front of disapproval.
the Grand-stand. One correspondent, vey of North America" which writing more in sorrow than in was established soon after the Just over from us were a lot of Making London Lovely School otonomics, with its of the industrial resources of the and others came from Australia
anger, auggests that the London War to make a complete analysis ponies. Some were Chinese ponies packed lecture-raams. forms Continent. Three thousand pro- A couple of the races were won For a long time many
"concrete confutation" of my eri-ducts have been examined, and the by Loo. Frost. As far as we were or. ticism, I am ganisations have been urging however, that the a priori reason-charts, the ratio of employment to
convinced, history of each plotted out on concerned they were all Frost's. ".
We werg, cleaned out so mich London to rebuild itself according, 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, however, ject, is rooted in a fundantental has been carried out by a staff of wouldn't accept one of our Char- ing to some definite plan. In all academic treatises on the sub-case. The actual research work bus-ride home.. The conductor 1933 Rockne Six. Bodies are there is unfortunately at pre- fallacy ie, the erroneous Iden 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 ed. Features include. Free
Those who collected on the first Wheeling with Synchronized small part of London which is have the validity of, say, the law Columbia University, Columbia, race backed The Goat. But all this Shift and silent second speed already planned may return to gravitation. If such laws by the way, is an institution after goat got out of it was a pari-mutuel
70 horsepower six-cylinder architectural disorder. The
actually existed, then it would Sir William Beveridge's heart. It ticket. have been possible for our lead-will provide you with courses in Why, they call them pari-mutuels automatic starting Commissioners of Crown Lands, ing economists to predict and ex- anything and everything, from beats us. There
Was nothing electro-fused steel bodies who are the landlords of Num- plain the present world-crisis just story-writing to laundry work, and mutual about the way, they took. safety. glass. windshields ber Four, Carlton Gardens, have at astronomers can give us the teach you by correspondence how our money, closed models wired for given-permission for that house date, duration, and other detallato sell pea-nuts or play the piccolo. The only stroke of luck we had to be pulled down, in order that of the next total eclipse of the And the sociological pseudo- was with the five bucks the Editor sciences flourish mightily in such gave us to put on Coo Coo Bay. American Universities.
Coo Coo Bay was beaten, so that made us five bucks.up.
We bought ourself a ticket on
engine
radio.
Sed and drive, the Now Rockno Six to-day!
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Bibby Rood
Happy Valley
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Mrs. Shand and family wish to thank all friends for their deep sym- pathy and condolence extraded to them in their recent bereave. ment, also for floral tributes and attendance at the funeral.
The
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1933.
In point of fact they failed to
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collected.
"Watchee wanted?" asked the
the hoarse.
or placing the a la carte before "Bur," we replied." me-
a block of offices thirty feet sun. higher than the surrounding buildings may be erected, thus destroying both the architec- foresee it or to anticipate its
successive phases. So lamentable The "Energy Survey" has ener-Trentbridge in the Trial Flate for tural and the residential nature has their failure been that Sirgetically passed beyond the task grilling with the money. Tho of an area which forms part Arthur Quiller-Couch (I am al- facts, and is willing to provide bridge only paid $5.70.
of collecting and collating mere griffin the lute was that Treat of. Nash's "great sweep" from ways glad to have "Q." that icono- the world with a new form of Carlton House Terrace, up clast of shams, on my side) was
We were quite calm and collected Regent Street, to Regent's justified in his retort to Sir Wil- governance. "Technocracy" is the about it. Especially Park. The Crown Lands, of liam Beveridge who had accused those experts as "Mesopotamia" calm we were quite hoarse after it word-as blessed in the ears of $5.70, in fact. And we were so which Carlton Regent's Park Cambridge of cultivating studies, are a part, belong to the nation. which had no meaning for the was to the ancient lady of the all. So we went in and had some modern world. It was an utterlys all, their lender insists, if we
anecdote. All will be well with tea Originally the private property absurd accusation. Everybody of the King, they were surrend knows Cambridge is "a scientific 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 years ago in return for a fixed Sir Arthur Shipley, F.R.S., who place of them an economic
We will say this much. We Civil List. With the royal al was fond of the humour of under-chanism designed, according to thoroughly enjoyed our five bucks lowances, the King's Civil List statement) and produces radio-his plans and specifications. Then worth of tea at tile H.K.J.C.
active workers for every field of we shall only have to work four approximately practical research. So is not ours a day for four days a week the Committee that circumstances But we regret having to inform £570,000 a year. The nation to be blamed for suggesting that to earn a comfortable livelihood will prevent us from going out to may be said emphatically to Sir William and all the other and shall be able to devote the have struck a shrewd bargain famous economists, who have been rest of our time to the art of liv- Happy Valley to-day. How they will get on without us, we don't when it acquired the Crown so lacking in foresight, should go ing. How to use а largely know. But you can alter circum- Lands for this sum, for last year and hide somewhere in South increased supply of the chief by stances. the profits from these lands America.
product of prosperous industries leisure, to wit-is a question he were nearly £1,250,000. It is urged that, since the Crown
does not discuss. Yet that is an all-important problem of modern civilisation.
amounts to
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often
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she asked, smiling sweetly at us.
"What are the circumstances ?**
"Outa." we replied horsely.
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WE'VE HAD SOME."
Quite a breezy little jape is to
to
among
"I must admit, however, that the Lands are already returning a collect and collate facts,
economists who are content to most handsome profit, there is provide material for helpful de- no imperative need to destroy ductions. The late Charles Plato conceived a common- the charm of Carlton Gardens, a Booth's "Life and Labour of the wealth in which philosophers write to about thirty of your singularly graceful example of People of Lendon, and its recent- should be kings, but we have dearest friends, asking them ite particular style of architec-ly-published sequel, are invaluable never seen it even in becoming come to your party to-morrow; ture, merely for the sake of
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 They show, for example, that reni governed by logic." It would be causes roars of langhter
with the problems of poverty, political pupils, "men are not and go out. for the day. This pointed out that the demand for progress has been made in the very distressing, I feel sure, to the merry folk gathered on your offices in this area will probably last fifty years in bridging the have to live in a State governed doorstep. not be very great, for it is es dangerous gulf between the two by a committee of technological timated that about 200 offices English nations, the rich and the experts 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 Conservative Party and feels that is now achieving influence in the 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.
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ment which is a cancer in body of the commonwealth.
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cost of a million dollars, and their (Continued on Page, 9.)
THE MARTINET.
And here's another straight from the horse's mouth. When the—AS- sociation arranged a bazaar recently
THE LEAGUE REPORT 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 dure course. It would be mislead- ing to encourage Japan to be lieve that America can in any
As a matter of fact a Techno-they did it in first-class style, and way approve her disregard of the
no sacrifice is too great that will cracy already exists In Soviet asked Lady-to come along at noon Pact of Paris. Or that they are
solve the social problems of this Russia. The real rulers of that and open it, although
why she satisfied to see the Nine-Power
critical period, especially the tre- distressful country are the techni. should want to declare the thing treaty torn up like a scrap of
mendous problem of unemploy-cal experts, who are enforcing open at twelve o'clock when it was the huge schemes of masa pro- to start at ten is more than we can paper. Mr. Roosevelt, starting
duction in factories and, of say, but such things do happen.
They agricultural collectivism. fresh, may be able as a part of
·Being a man, wo scoffed rather have eliminated such non-techni-good-humouredly at the affair, be his "new deal" to make these
Two American commissions, of cal matters as.liberty and lofsure, cause they were all women, until things clear in a fashion more
Inquiry have also been carrying and the peasant or artisan, who is the secretary wrote and asked us Whilst Bernard Shaw, in agreeable to Tokyo than any Mr.recent interview in Hongkon initiated by Charles Booth. One day and a starvation wage,
out work comparable with that discontented with a twelve-hour if we would kindly assist, We sup-
isposed they wanted us on the plat Stimson has achieved. But he may have over-stated the facts is the committee appointed by compelled to transfer his foot form to give tone to the show, and can hardly avoid making them in asserting that the Inter President Hoover three years ago pounds to an open-air penitentiary to propose a vole of thanks to Lady clear. And until some better me- national Labour Office is
the
to investigate social tendencfes such as the Archangel forest Blank or something, so we agreed. in the United States' with a view front. The system of "decanting", We cleaned up our best coat and thod of upholding the Kellogg only living branch of the Lea to ascertaining all the causes of populations, which caused so much trousers with petrol, and wrote out pact and the Nine-Power treaty gua of Nations, it is the truth industrial depression and indicat-misery in the Middle Ages, is a little speech, briefly referring to appears the United States will that the public generally has a ing possible remedies. Five being employed there to an ex- the importance of women in history very hazy conception both of hundred investigators have been tent unparalleled in the world's from Eve to Greta Garbo, and deal- stand on the Stimson Doctrine. the work and the I.LO. and of employed for three years, at a history. You won't see me voting ing thoroughly with social - and The military regime now in po- its importance. The summary wer in Tokyo may not relish it. of the activities of the Office But certainly the nation which during 1932, recently issued, brutally and unnecessarily told throws a deal of light on the the Japanese people they were subject. For example, it is an- not admissible immigrants will nounced that, by the end of the hardly court the favour of this national Labour Conventions year, 490 ratifications of inter- military group, raising no voice had been made by various against the violation of treaties Governments and officially re- and the smashing of the word's gistered at Geneva. What does peace machinery. Nor is it sure this meari ? ̧. There are thirty- that much can be achieved by one of these Conventions, and giving way to Japan. A con- cach deals with-the-improve- ciliatory attitude is easily mis-ments of conditions of labour in understood in Tokyo, as weak- some department of industry, ness. It is true that in the ear in agriculture or at sea. Each lier stages of the Manchurian convention deals with a particu- adventure temperate opinion in lar subject and is intended to be Japan was exasperated by the a model for national legislation failure of Western peoples to ap- along progressive lines. preciate Japan's provocation, Government is bound to ratify The Lytton Report altered that a convention, but the matter situation. It offered Japan more must be discussed in Parliament; than she asked before her army within a reasonable period. ran away with her. And under- What the total of ratifications standing of Japan's case has means is that, in 490 cases since been growing. However, sym- the Great War, countries have pathy with her, difficulties does decided to act upon the pro- not extend to approval of the posals suggested at Geneva for excesses of her militarists. The the welfare of their workers. Lytton Report, endorsed by the Each of the 41 ratifications re- League, is the world's most gistered during-1932, it may be available means for 'expressing taken for granted, represents a its disapproval and maintaining real advance towards the aim its rights. At present it seems set out in the Treaty of Ver- to afford the best focus for peace sailles "fair and humans con-
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override it even as her army has men and children, not only in hopped over or crashed through their own countries but in all the Great Wall of China. But countries to which their com the report is no selfish demand.mercial and industrial relations It is an expression of the world's
extend."
"We'll either have to get a new car, or start bringing his six- o'clock bot tle 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 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 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.
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 a 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, "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."
She intimated that she would do, nothing of the sort. We said she. couldn't come in...
"All right, she said, icily. "I won't."
She drove off in a bad temper,. and a big limousine,
The ladies are still wondering why their patroness neither came mor apologised for not spring.
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