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The
THE HOT-GOSPELLER
OF TECHNOCRACY
By R. J. CRUIKSHANK
The Very Idea!
A-DAM EVE-ILL
extra time in reaching the.ats- tion would not greatly matter. The mistake, unfortunately, has been committed, but we are still not without hope that the time will yet come when much of the huge area at present oc
By Edward Kally, Dam Expert. cupied by the railway will be
A gentleman (so they tell us) opened up to public use. Then Technocracy, which has been of the intelligentsia who shunned at to-morrows Rotary tallin is it would be possible to lay out sweeping through the United. Sta-him as a prize bore.
going to make a few observations a marine frontage which, if not tes like a new religion, is follow- Technocracy has suffered a on Dams,
We regard this as a deliberate so imposing as Manila's Luneta, ing the pattern of religious his good deal from the injudicious en- would at least be a big improve-tory. by developing schisms and thusiasm of its converts. Not encroachment on our preserves. ment on the present situation heresies. The most important of the money system by erge and Engineer in charge of a tu'penny What qualificatians has a mere content with proposing to replace and would provide Kowloon re-these is the secession of Professor joules and to entrust government ha'penny construction scheme like sidents with an ideal promenad- Walter Rautenstrausch, of Colum-to engineers. they are offering a Shing Mun to discuss such a ing spot, whilst at the same time bia University, and three other complete Utopia which bears learned subject? making provision for periodical distinguished members of the some close resemblance to the original group of engineers and new worlds in Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward" and Butler's "Erewhon."
band concerts in the summer
season.
economists.
If the Rotary Club wanted a few observations on Dama, surely Edward Kelly should have been given first refusal,
Those who think that this U.S. Bank Problems
This has alarmed the moderates You've only got to read our disavowal of Mr. Howard Scott who find themselves associated in newspaper panegyrics to know by some of his ablest, colleagues the public mind with a visionary that there's no person in Hong Hostility to branch banking spell the doom of Technocracy State in which human beings keng better qualified to speak on has undoubtedly been a factor in are likely to be disappointed. A would have less freedom than this subject.
gala following the religious paral-Robots. The extreme Technocrats the creation of the American fel I fancy that the movement has would number us all, train us,
We've had to write about Dars so 6en that they've become the currency crisis and it is equally been strengthened rather than allot us four hours work a day curse of our life. certain that efforts to remove weakened by the split. The out. (mainly machine-minding), give Australian cussed 'em, as it were. An old the ban on the establishment of put of books and articles on the us a large but fixed income pay- Stop us if you heard this one at branches of the great metropoli-subject has been redoubled since able in energy certificates instead
other pictures the
day... tan banks will be revived. The the Rautenstrausch schism was of Treasury notes.
What is a Dam?" roared Jimmy Glass Bill provides branch bank-made public. Many of the respon-
Clergymen and artista would Schnozzle. Durante. "A Dam is a ing-under certain specified con- the ideas of the Technocrats were have to exist (if at all) on volun- hole in the ground. And what is
sible men originally attracted by ditions. Senator Glass has offenced by the showmanship of tary subscriptions of energy che a hole in the ground? Nothing foreseen the danger that tropolitan banks might establish the extravagance of their promises
at all. An' if you think I'm going. Those who rebelled against the to stand here speaking about branches in communities already and the carelessness of their Technocrats would not be impri- nothing at all, vou're a hole-in- endowed with sufficient banking statisties. The circus perform-soned but given medical treat-the-ground well mistaken."
Which is how we feel about facilities, and crowd out olders and the professors made iment: Not necessarily castor oil.
me- Mr. Howard Scott and his friends,|ques.
inevitable.
the
afternoons, when everybody but us are out playing golf, or tonnis, or drinking beer, on the sort of delicious March Saturday after- noon when the birds are twitter.
established institutions in the bedfellows, and their parting was "In a Technocracy," states Mr. writing this columa on Saturday process. To avoid such a situa-
Harold Loeb, who represents the tion, he and the Senate accepted As a result of the split the mo- extreme wing. "the punishment an amendment that branch bank-
derates in the movement can now for habitual dirtinese would be ing be permitted to national their own quiet way, devoting transfer to the cleaning depart themselves to research into the ment. Shirking, would be Rena- banks only in States allowing fascinating internlay of machine lised in much the same way, that. Ing in the trees, and the Editor this practice to State banks and and men, and the apparent dis-is to say, by transfer to one of the has lumbago, and six shroffs have under the same restrictions as location of industrial civilisation less agreeable labour tasks. If called. rre placed on State banks. Nearly 11,000 banks have failed REVIVALIST
ZEAL
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MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1933.
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this task also, was shirked, as a Which reminds us that Jimmy last measure the energy certificate Durante has insured his nose for could be cancelled.
$100,000, You bet he pays through the nose for it. And "When an individual proved
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in the last decade. Eighty per cent of them had capitalisations They have left Mr. Scott and not in excess of $25,000. Sixty his immediate disciples to stump obstinately recalcitrant, for ab- there is the extra premium, of cities in Michigan which all had the country preaching Technocracy scure reasons, the psychiatrists course, against the old Spanish banks a year ago are now bank with much of the zeal, but with would attempt to unravel the trou- custom of learning to play the less. And 1200 other towns are little of the eloquence; of the car-ble.
In no case should real punish-Saying which, we will now in the same plight. This ceny revivalists who rode through
ment, such as solitary confine- Proceed to make our
observations. dition is by no means unique, America years ago. THE WRONG USE
Truth to tell, Mr. Scott cuts a ment or labour forced by physical but could be duplicated in the
poor figure on the platform, H threats, be necessary." experience of other States is no charlatan, no fraud. He is TECHNOCRAT Two matters touched upon Nothing like it has occurred in just a zealot, a kind of Praise- PARADISE in the presidential address at the tortured history of American God Barebones of the Machine the meeting of the Kowloon Re-banking. It is no wonder that, Age, who is driven by
The two Technocratic groups it seems a very good idea. sidents' Association last week people are falling back on barter sciousness of the inequalities o' are likely to drift farther
Apart from the fact that you could make him generally use ul are worthy of notice, because and scrip money. The cash- our civilisation, just as his Cal-farther apart. Scott they both affect the use to which lessness that hes reduced them tovinist ancestors were ridden by immediate followers will continue as a fourth at bridge, or to take to preach the doom of the present the cat for a walk and scare dogs these medieval conditions is, the fear of eternal damnation
a paradise desirable areas of land are at largely the product of bank- He is a tall, gaunt man, terribly system and promise present put. The first of these lessness.. In some area the in earnest, who has none of the to come in which engineers will of, or to keep the maid company when she has to wash up after Burity and single-mindedness, and everyone live in eniovment of you've had guests to dinner, a on Kowloon scrip money might be weld- His words come pelting out of pn income of 20.000 dollars for private police force of your own would be invaluable. For one Point by Army mule-sheds.ed into a permanent system. him in a turgid, tortured flood. 660 hours' work a year.
thing, you could take him out in The secession group, headed by the car with you and gend him These structures have long been If this feeling spreads, there He has so many ideas, good ones
is real danger of the rise of and bad, that they trip one an- Professor Rautenstrausch and Mr. ahead to stop the trame at those an eyesore. The heart of 2
separate money systems, a days-other up. He is d'acursive, volu-Bassett Jones, will devate them-cross-roads where you usually would set at ble and generally unconvincing. selves to a careful survey of some have to wait ten minutes to get such buildings, which should be naught the national currency But he is aa, honest na.the day. [of those gigantic anomalies of into the stream.
If you found yourself at one of situate far out of the main cen- system which is one of the For weeks past his life has been modern life that puzzle all th ́nk- tre of Kowloon, nearer the hills. mainsprings of the Republic, under the burning-glass scrutiny ing men the existence in in- those parties, where they make of hostile investigators, and there dustrial countries of a large num- you play intellectual games like Incidentally, such a move would
is little fear of bel laws to ber of unemployed, even in times pickin- up peas with two knitting. more nearly meet military needs, Peacocks and 'Princes restrain critics in the United of prosperity, strange lag between needles, a telephone call would be production and consumption, the bring him along to arrest you for States. The worst that can since it is in the hilly regions.
said against him is that he is bitter Irony of men starving while something, and not even the most that these mules are mostly One of the constant conflicts slapdash In his use of figures, and Franaries are bursting with unsold sceptical hostess could disagree employed. The improvements in the masculine breast rises liked to pretend in the days of wheat, the virtual sterilisation of with that alibi.
the world's gold.
A word from him, inspired by made to the sheds do not, wel from the inner urge to array his obscurity that he was more
was. Out of their research something you, would intimidate the owner himself as the peacock and his important than he really
of the loudest loud-speaker that imagine, imply that they are pusillanimous awe of the grine Bet those are both very human may come. likely to be permanent struc- of his fellow men. Now comes an
fallings.
Nobody who knows America can ever spoke, and some policemen tures. The Government, we Englishman wearing together:
For years Scott haunted the doubt that it is ripe for economic those who raid dancing academic. know, is alive to the desirability with the courage of his predilec tearooms and cafes of Greenwich change. Meanwhile even the piccan shake a pretty hoof. of freeing this area from the tions, a yellow waistcoat and a mians there his gospel of
Village, preaching to the Bohe-turesque Scott and his disciples re- may perform a useful service in sheds, but the matter is not quite dress coat with red and blue demption through government by breaking the ground for so simple as might appear at lapels. Moreover, with a gallan- engineers, and there were scores ideas. first sight. Alternative try almost meriting the D.S.O. commodation would have to be he actually presided, garbed in found, and this would involve these rainhow hues, at a sedate considerable expenditure in re-Royal Society dinner. "What conditioning. None the less, there the world lacks to-day is colour," does appear some need for has declared Prof. Henry Edward tening up negotiations between Armstrong, for the defier of the Government and the military tradition was none other than the che. authorities so that the land may distingushed authority on be rendered available for re-mical matters. He told his sidential purposes. The other hearers: This is a drab age in point we have in mind is one which we live.....A hundred mentioned in connexion with a years or so ago the finest kind of. relatively small matter-name- Englishman dressed in pearl ly, the large area of land at pre- pink trousers and a salmon-pink sent occupied by the railway. blouse-but look at us now!". In There is no doubt that a big the presence of such eloquence mistake was made when, at the staid members and fellows the time the railway was being of the Royal Society probably did built, it was decided to locate regard one another rather fur- the terminal station so near the tively and find the picture a ferry. We believe we are right bit odd, don't you know. This in saying that the original love of colour may be a dan scheme was to have the station gerous thing. It brought jeers: near Holt's wharf, but this plan in the House of Commons to The future was subsequently altered. It young Disraeli. does not require much imagina- Prime Minister, in the days when tion now to realise what a he was known rather as the magnificent marine promenade author of "Vivian Grey" than as would have been rendered avail-a budding statesman, had an able had the original idea been Oriental taste in costume. Pro- put into effect. As matters are,fessor Armstrong confesses to the stretch of frontage looking his inability to convert the across to the island is completely Prince of Wales to sartorial occupied by the railway, and shades, although he once attired Approach to the water cut off. himself in a bright green waist- The question of convenience in coat when he knew he was going, having the station so near at to sit posite that royal arbi- hand is not an important one. ter of fashion at a public dinner. Bus services would always be Beau Brummell, was more for-]
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LAW REPORTS OF THE TIMĖS.. Dewlap y. Snodgrass (Matinee, Wednesday, 2.30). Book and Lyrics: Habeas C. Orpus.
Music: Selected.
The piece opens with the en trance of the ladies and gentle- men of the jury in beach pyjamas and yachting caps. They put over · 2o enappy song-and-dance number entitled "Why Bring That Up?"
saxo-
Three trumpets and a phone play a fascinating Rumba, 'Objection Overruled,” as the judge enters on a trick bicycle.
Judge: What's it all about, girls?
Girls: Miss Dewlap alleges that Mr. Kelly pinched fer-her-
Judge: Well7
Girls: Pinched her copyright. Judge: Hm Glass of water, please. Not too much Boda. Well, bring 'em in.
Trixie Dewlap canters in, dresy ed in a watching brief. After several somersaults she anaps Into her celebrated number, "I'm just a little quid pro quo,"
Enter Kelly through a trap in the floor,
Trixie: Cad. You pinched my copyright.
Kelly: I
Judge: Swearl
Kully: Vo-do-de o-do,
Well, you know how it ends. Trixie gets damages and Kelly rets rattled.' Excunt all singing "You can't keep a "good girl down."!