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GOOD-BYE TO OXFORD
Says GILES PLAYFAIR
The Very Idea!
ed. The Farm Bill amendment now proposes that the Federal Banka should purchase a further three thousand million dollars' worth of Government bonds. This will increase bank reserves but
The other day a friend of mine have edited such an artificial increase in re-kindly gave me a lift from Oxford journals, but I would besitate to serves is not the sole factor in to London. Like myseif he had been write anything of Oxford which I the volume of bank credit. It pursuing his academic career for could honestly call wholly true or Arca per pal custow diva
wholly comprehenalve.
one of the weekly
depends also on the temper of over three years; like myself he I know this much, however
LETTERS OF A SELF- MADE COLONIAL Edited By Eddie Kally.
T great personal cost wo have
bundle of letters, written by a new arrival in Hongkong, to his. Girl Friend at Home.
Revealing as they do the soul- stirring depths of passion in an Englishman just out from Home, we think they should be passed on
We know the writer,
was leaving Oxford for the last the business community, of time in stalu pupillari.
I know, that modern Oxford is which Stock Market booms of As we drove down the High-street guilty of none of those faults of last week's character are little Inked him if he was glad to bo which Its new enemies would have criterin, and by business pro-leaving and he replied that he was, the world belleve it is. spects. Here America is faced As we passed over Magdalen They say that Oxford is nothing by a factor entirely out of her Bridge I asked him if he regretted better than a place where stunt mer-to our public. control. Business prospecta de his time spent in Oxford. Ho re-chants are harboured gladly. On the contrary, there is no place in pend largely upon developments plied that he did not.
And in both these thoughts the world where stunt merchants abroad responsive to the Ameri-
are frowned on moro soyerely than in Oxford.
¥
I know this to my cost. Oxford
can action. If a depreciation believe that he was justified. race sets in, if tariff walls go LEGEND-AND DISILLUSION, higher in gold countries, there Three years in the university is he not easily forgotten or forgiven: will be no gainers. All will be quite long enough for the average the balloon union. Josera. An agreed measure of undergraduate. He is not sorry to They say that Oxford is da- inflation by all countries simul- leave and the reason is easy to dis- teriorating. On the contrary, Ox- taneously might achieve what cover. The popular superstition ford is passing through an appears to be the main objective that the world is waiting with open paralleled period of inclino.
A short while ago I was strolling of the United States, the raising arms to welcome the young man fust
to count for very much.
members of the Oxford Union.
un-
He is
& cruel-
ly mis-
undo r-
sto od
and we
man,
want to
maka hin
Inner
nature
known
by the lotters ho has written.
We are privileged to print
of commodity prices. In to-day's down from Oxford has long ceased down the High-street with two life them. They show, as nover be-
chaotic world where it is impos-
The undergraduate who moote They belonged to the period of the fore, the unflinching courage sible to foresee the full results those of his friends who went haughty ninetics. One of them and imagination of a man, who of any development, independent down" the year before, asks them remarked, "Nothing seems to have faces for the first time the action by the United States may what they are doing. He is quite changed much since our day." horrors and terrora of Hong- accomplish all its sponsors de- prepared for the dismal and in- The remark of this life member kong. Who can say, without a But the risk ta tremendous, evitable answer which nine out of made me think of Oxford, as it was sob in his throat, that this man If President Roosevelt's advis ten of them must return-nothing. In my first year and Oxford as
is not a Briton through and ers have miscalculated, and it The sad fact has been realised in found it in my fourth. The differ- proves impossible to achieve an Oxford, as it has been realised else-ence between the two struck me so through international agreement, world where, that modern life is just a forcibly that I could hardly credit pioneering stock that has made recovery may be set back for struggle for existence. Small won-it. During my first year Oxford our great and glorious Empire
der that the average undergraduate was just beginning to emerge from what it is. Imagines that the sooner he enters its real period of decadence. that struggle, the more likely he is to triumph.
years.
Grantchester-Beloved of Poets
CAGE OF BATTLE.
of the
Hongkong, Friday.
My Pet Just a line to tell you that
I arrived in Hongkong this morning
claim to notoriety was to be found with bandit" written all over their Idiotic young men, whose solo and haven't been kidnapped yet. The people here are a wild looking lot, in the choice of their neckties wore faces. I haven't had much time to
suro
But for all this, I believe that were the undergraduates of to-day offered their time over again, only minute percentage would disdain regarded by themselves and few examine the place yet, but it seams Happily enough, scarcely the chance of a university career. month now goes by without an And though I am one who takes an others as the heroes of the age. to be a typical outpost of our Colon. announcement that Great Bri equal share in the general dread of Undergraduates wasted their time les. I am living in a village called ailller parties, and running each mud hut to mine have warned me not tain has arranged for still an- the future, I can safely say that if going to silly parties, giving even Kowloon, and the people in the next other portion of her countryside ever I am in the position to send other down. The whole place was to venture near a place called the INFLATION to be preserved in perpetuity. son to Oxford I shall not hesitate permented with the slovenly atmo- Pesk. From what I can gather it is sphere of stupid affectation and inhabited by a terrible piratical band known locally as the Taipan Tong, But the news that the small to do so.
tiresome superficiality.
and also by the Mid Devil (pro- To-day all that has passed. The nounced Middlelovel) Tong. American currency develop-village of Grantchester, on the OXFORD ON THE UPGRADE.
It is the fashion of the moment recent "King and Country" motion ments remain the most absorb. outskirts of Cambridge, is to be
Hongkong, Sunday. ing topic of the hour. Precise kept forever free from economic for certain publicists to decry the at the Union constitutes a
S1ocetking-Had 4 terriblo exploitation will arouse far more universities, together with all those proof of it. It demonstrates the motives are still obscure. The than merely national interest, young men who have the temerity truism that Oxford has at last be perience last night. I was out hiking application of pressure for an Grantchester has been beloved to enter them. "Oxford is no long gun to think for itself, that it in- with some friends, and we were real- international understanding of English poets for 600 years. er werth while has almost become tends to face up to the problema of ing far away from the settlement at Peninsula, when suddenly we found furnishes an important motive But it was Rupert Brooke who a popular slogan. Epithets of the day in its own way and as its part of Kowloon known as the || ourselves right in the heart of the war but the official
undergraduate. And these epithets
Whatever the social rights and sens. The enemy, clad in white first brought it international abuse are hurled at the unfortunato please pronounce-
of abuse are now well nigh wrongs of that motion.
alothing, rushed upon us, and, for a ments made have undoubted-fame:
concentrated in their frequency and
Oxford has thrown down a chal-moment, I thought we were lost. as futile in their vulgarity, as those directed against an enemy in time lenge to the older generation Fortunately one of our members could
which the older generation knows "Wiskcesoda! Fides! Fides!"
speak the language, and -saying- of war.
But it would bo as well for theant fall well It cannot afford to harsh voloe, ofered to bribe our would be detractors of Oxford to ignore.
For my part I have nothing but discover a little about the object.
ly
cd.
left much unexplain- Badly outstanding are the two cardinal, thought-compell- ing features that the abandon- ment of the gold standard was not an act of necessity and that
Dan Chaucer hoars his river still
Chatter beneath a phantom mill. Tennyson notes, with studious eye,
How Cambridge waters hurry by
But Brooke waa in Berlin when he wrote his poem, and he is not sure that Grantchester raay not have changed since last he saw it,
stand,
President Roosevelt turned in- flationist in 题 night: Sub sequent steps were of a swift- ness that laft financial circles bewildered for the moment, but for the moment only, and the
The yet unacademic stream?... anti-inflationist forces are now,
O, is the water sweet and cool, Gentle and brown, above the poolt being steadily marshalled. The three thousand million dollar
It is pleasant to reflect that currency (or credit) expansion the answers to these questions programme, with its provisions will always be what Brooke for the debasement of the dollar, would have desired. has many rough seas to navigate
T
of their disgust. The other day envy for the freshmen of to-mer
national newspaper sent one of TOW.
their crack reporters to Oxford. OXFORD IS WORTH WHILE, He was to stay a week. He was to
G
captors if they would let me go. Upon payment of oumshow a ran som of one dollar (a Chiness coin)!
cach they departed and returned in a few minutes with a very old man |named Johnny. Walker, who shojoed. us the way to po home," Many of the
My
write a series of articles, entitled, Is Oxford worth while? I believe people here belong to an army known Say, do the elm-clumps greatly"What is wrong with Oxford?" that it is. It affords a young man sa the Cumshow Brigade. They are Still guardians of that holy land! He was to get to the root cause of the unique opportunity of mixing forever holding people for ransoms the with his contemporaries. It affords and are continually pitting their The chestnuts shade, in ruverend the trouble. I met him on
second day of his exhaustive re-him the opportunity of learningtrength against the Sickpleese, or re-
[pular troops. dream,
search. I told him to return to exactly what his generation is London. I am happy to say he thinking and of deciding whether he shall think with them or against
Hongkong, Tuesday. profited by my advico.
dearestReceived, your Last summer a brilliant and well-them. Above all, Oxford teachea monning German lady film director him something of the universal letter yesterday. After many ad- made a moving picture of Oxford competition of which modern life ventures it was brought to our life. I have just left Oxford after consists and of the disappointments village by the Pando, or native nearly four years.. I think that I which that competition inevitably carrier. I'm taking good care of myself, doar heart, and note what can claim to bave seen as much of brings with it university life as it is possible to There are those who would you say about the Alligators and been welcome the end of, Oxford. I am pirates. Darling, I always take. in that time. I have intimately concerned with O.U.D.S. fot one of them. I believe that extra care when crossing the har- productions of every description, Oxford still stands as one of our bour. Actually, the danger, is have spoken at the Unfon as a Lloyd most valuable institutions. I be very slight when crossing from George Liberal and have attained lieve that the day Oxford ceases to Kowloon to the Peaklands, be- office there, I have belonged to other exist will be a sad day for this cause the Navy always have at university and college societies, 1 country.
before it is steered through the How Many Words Make Senate. Inflation strikes at
a Language? fundamentals, whether It pro- fesses to be a credit inflation or
When lexicographers dis a currency Inflation. An over-agree, how many words are expansion of bank credit impairs available for the statement of the quality of credit, just as an their respective arguments? increase in the quantity of This is a difficult question, made money, if it goes far enough, more difficult by the fact that it is the very question upon which will impair its quality. An lexicographers are at present essential feature of satisfac-disagreeing. Dr. Frank H. torily controlled inflation must Vizetelly, editor of the Standard be public confidence. It Is Dictionary, has estimated the difficult to believe that genuine number of words in the English language at 1,000,000. Mr. confidence can exist in a country Harold Wentworth, associate which has just passed through editor of Webster's New Inter- a money crisis unequalled almost national Dictionary, thinks there in modern history. Confidence are two to three times that is not a vague general thing. many. But Prof. Robert L. It is specific. Confidence in Ramsey has just published-a survey that limits the language currency usually means con- to 260,000 words. Users of fidence that the government or English probably will divide into bank of issue will pay gold on more than three camps when, demand. There is a strong and if, this question becomes a popular issue. For instance, if opinion that it
forced Was
you are waiting for the party expansion of bank credit from who shares your telephone to 1922 to 1928 which was respon bring his conversation to a close sible for a great part of the so that you can make a call, you existing industrial depression; will decide then and there that which the now expansion is the Wentworthista" 2,000,000 or 8,000,000 is too small a number. designed to counter! The rot 8,000,000 seems like too many newal of government security words to master, you may note purchases by the Federal Ho how well the youngest member serve Banks in 1980 following of the family fares on three or the Wall Street crash was refour. And if a mero quarter of sponsible for the false boom of a million seema rather restrit- that year and the renewal of ex-tive, you have the consolation of Professor Ramsey's report that cessive security issues which this number is throb times as complicated very much the dim-large as can be claimed for any culties in the period that follow-other langungo
"She says she is 16, but I'll bet she's 18, it al
Icast a dozen warships in the har- bour to guard the Star sampans against pirate attacks,
Have I ever told you about the terrible Shroff Tong that inhabits - the outer districts of Hongkong. A friend of mine, Mr. Edward Kolly. was warning me about them last night. He was telling me that the Shroff Tong" will never rest | until their enemies are 'In' thóir clutches. Mr. Kelly has been captured by the Shroff Tongs several times, but with the aid of ransom (out here they pronounce it run-some or, occasionally, run- Jikel) he has always escaped death..
This Mr. Kelly is the nicest man I have ever met. The athor day he saved my lifo out at a desolate spot called Repulse Bay. We were resting in a mat-shed which some of the lads, havė facetiously named "Repulse Bay Hotel" when there was a terrible commotion down at the beach.
"What is it?" I asked femeful-
"Some of the Peakites throwing a wild party, I guess," replied Kelly, indifferently,
Sweetheart, that man's calm amazed me. He spoke as if the Peak Toug were civilised, law- abiding, people. If I could only. tell you some of the terrible things the people at Kowloon have told mo about the Peak Tongs, it wuld make your blood run cold. And here we were in the midst of one of their wild orglost a REA How are we going to escape! I muttered.
B
"Walt here, and I'll see wha
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