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such as often accompany revolu- tionary political changes. It Is clearly defined, after this lapso of time, as an essential part of Nazi policy, one of the few po- sitive elements of the creed. Herr Hitler has openly declared his intention of restricting Ger- man citizenship to German peo-
Child Training Test
PUT IN THE SECOND XI The Very Idea!
GIVE THE OLD PARLIAMENTARY
HANDS A REST
Says ROBERT BERNAYS, M.P.
helping theE
NEXT GENERATION.
young men ought to be in the Cabinet. Their comparative youth, instead of being an obstacle to promotion, ought to be their title to it.
SPENDING MONEY
By Eddie Kelly, Chit Expert.
YESTERDAY in Legisla-
many millions at one sitting..
We can see that what the govern- ment wants are a few suggestions by a well-known local expert.
For instance, take item No. 19 Expenditure. One Accounting Machine", they called it.
It seems that ono machine for testing receipta to the Genoral Public is not enough.
tive Council, a mere ple and degrading the Jews and "This post-war world,” saki Mr.Į Mr. Robert Hudson, the Under- other non-Teutons to the, po- Baldwin in the great India debate Secretary of Labour, ngain, is one bagatelle of $810,277 was up sition of resident aliens. His last week, "is full of pre-war of the few men who do not regard for consideration by the
unemployment as being a question Finance Committee. followers have consistently eng-minds."
Then why does he aharo the of how to make the best elec aged in "Nordle" glorification.
We don't know what the This is an attitude petty and responsibility with Mr. MacDonald tioncering case for the current
of for having appointed a Cabinot month's figures of unemployment. Hongkong government is coming small-souled, not worthy
almost exclusively of "pre-war Ho docs give the definite Im to. Once upon a time they used Germany.
minda"? It is a question rather pression that the problem is more to think nothing of spending as impudent though it may bo for a than the negotiation of the next young man to nak It-which has difficult corner. frequently suggested toolf to mo Mr. Shakespeare has dono con- when I have heard the Under-spicuously well at the Ministry of Secretarios at Westminster Lime Health. If the slums are not A little less than a year ago and again, in arresting con-cleared by this recent Housing Act a group of psychologists got the tradistinction to the painstaking it will be the fault of the Act, not chance to take over the training performances of their Chiefs, scor- any lack of energy and enthusiasm at yesterday's meeting, "Special of two newly born twin brothers, ing merrily all round the wicket. on his part. They set out to give all their I fully appreciate the motives of It is no disparagement of their elaborate theories of child-train-patriotism which inspired the pre-chiefs to say that more of these ing a test. One of the lads, war statesmen to remain at their named Johnny, was put through posts when the guns ceased, a stiff course from the very start daily courses of exercise, sys- tematic instruction in the use
It is quite a pre-war idea that of his limbs, and so on. Jimmie,
A characteristically moving one under 15 should be in charge the other youngster, was pretty much let alone to develop in his peech. Speaking of the men who of a great Department of State, were "middle-aged already when Sir Austen Chamberlain was bare.
We have never yet met own way. He got the same food the war began," he added: "Itly 40 when he became Chancellor
shroff who has considered it a and general care that Johnny has become our lot not to seck the of the Exchequer thirty years ago;
strain taking money from us. got, but he was allowed to spend ease, but to carry on to the ond Sir John Sinion was 37 when he
Then there's item No. 30.- most of his time in his crib, and help the next generation that was made Solleitor-General. Mr. playing with his toes, gurgling is coming along the generation Winston Churchill was 34 when he
It seems that and conversing with himself in that was too young to fight-help was Home Secretary. It is absurd Extra Bailiffs. to the blissful solitude. The other that to take its place as and when that a man of the calibre of Mr.
Hudson, who is now 46, should be large number of the time cames." day the assembled psychologists The date of that speech was regarded as a young man only writs issued out got the children out and put March, 1925. It certainly
ac-suitable for a subordinate post.
c the Supreme I should like to see the second | Court during the them through their paces. curately represented the situation eleven sent in to bat. Obviously past twelve mon Johnny, who had had all the then. We were suffering from there would have to be some, the, Baillifs have CORDEIRO-MARQUES.-Tho
between Miss Alberta training, outshone his brother lost generation. riage
The men who, in their late qualifications in such a drastic been compelled Cordeiro and Mr. R. M. Marques all the way through. He excell-
be will
solcanized nt
Sted at climbing stairs, at paddling thirties and early forties, were the proposal. Men like Major Walter to work overtime.
driving force the Governments Elliot, the Minister of Agriculture, Margaret's Church, Broadwood Road on Sunday 7th May at about in a pool, at manipulating before the war, had been wiped out and Mr. Oliver Stanley, the Minis- invitations will be little brain-testing gadgets and in the furnace of the Western or of Transport, would be in- issued, but friends are cordially at other feats of skill and Front. So the men who were included on the score of youth, I, invited to attend the Service and strength. Jimmie finished no-the seats of power in 1914 re-any case it is only a few months later to the reception which will where. But the most interesting mained there in 1925, and rightly since they were Under-Secretaries
thing about the whole business remained there.
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They are probably as good as anything which even that Govorn- ment of Mr. Asquith, one of the most brilliant perhaps in modern history, ever produced.
themselves.
be
OF THE CLASS.
CX-
Apart from these obvioua ceptions I would like to see the young men en bloc move up Into the seats of the mighty,
what
As many as 2,200 receipts have been issued in a single day, result- Ing, according to the official Mem- oranda, in a strain on the shroffs who take the monoy,
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The increase in this item explained by the fact that it is twelve months since we arrived In Hongkong.
...
"Item 99-Extraordinary Ex-
penditure. New Supreme Court. Owing to an oversight no provision was made for the fact that Edward Kelly would remain in Hongkong for more than 12 months. The
provision of a now Supreme Court
Supply.
ahortago. N.B.-
Thu Sir Samuel Hoare, the was this: Jimmie, badly out- But that was eight years ago,
Have Secretary of State for India, is
We have a Low Auggeations classed in every test, was never-They are still there now.
far too capable an administrator which we can give, gratis, to the next theless the happier of the two. they the same justification now?
and manager at a most difficult Legislative Counell for its situation in the House of Com- Finance Commit e mepting. most of the
His
mons to
superseded. Mr. Baldwin also would have to re- "Item 99-Special Expenditure. responsibilities seemed to rest heavily on his wee shoulders. I suggested in a recent article main. It is true that he is past Medicinal Stimulants. As many as FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1938.
He was serious, very much in that youth was missing ita chance his middle sixties, but he is still 2.200 demands have been issued on earnest, quite engrossed by all in this Parliament. It is not true an immense cementing influence Edward Kelly during the past six receives them. his cares. And Jimmie, unskill- of the young men on the Treasury in the National Government and months, resulting in a strain on
the citizen who Bench They have seized their retains in a remarkable degree the The vote is required in order to pre- THE NAZI POLICY
ed and unworried, kept wearing opportunities with both hands. power of interpreting the best
was no Whatever may be the deficien- elements In the Conservative pare Mr. Kelly for a further 2,200 Events in Germany provide a cheerful grin.. Ho
demands during the nezt aiz mon- cold comfort for those who hoped great shakes as an infant pro-cies of those in their late twenties, creed,
the, it not being anticipated that digy, and he didn't care. His there is no lack of ability and
a will come to light. and believed that the respon- failures depressed him not at all. drive about those in their late TO THE TOP sibilities of government would He was, in short, a perfectly thirties. produce a sobering influence happy child. Just how much im- upon Herr Hitler. Resistance
portance ought to be attached to to the only Disarmament Plan this fascinating experiment isn't likely to meet with a wide mea- clear. Probably the psycho-
It may be argued that it would There is Captain Anthony Eden, logists themselves don't know. Geneva. In Germany, the move- But any parent who shares the the Under-Secretary of State for be very unfair on the older men
to house the accumulated writs ment to expel Jews from every old feeling that a flock of laughs Foreign Affairs. He is acknow- suddenly to find themselves, after kind of profession-the Bar, the and a long stretch of utterly ledged on all hands to have been reara of devoted service, put on has become an immediate necessity. Bench, the universities, journal- carefree happiness are among the outstanding success at. Geneva, the scrap-heap. But In
"Item 100.-Water ism, medicine and so on-goes on childhood's most invaluable pos- When he wound up the debate cu other profession can men, how- with relentless force. Although sessions will feel the old-fashion- the Rome interviews, for the first over distinguished, remain at the Amount required to cope with the the boycott was officially checked ed, unscientific regime emerges time the House was treated to a top after sixty? It is the retiring present water after one day upon tardy re-from this test with the greater clear and vigorous statement of age, after all, for Civil Servants, Actually, no grant is required un-
what actually had happened, and who have an infinitely less exact der this heading, as the
will be met from savings under alisation of the discredit it en-
what was the direction of British ing life than that of politicians. foreign polley. Captain Eden fs Even among heads of colleges Soap for Official Use (1900 tailed the attack upon profes. Part of the laurels.
at Oxford and Cambridge, whose Estimates Page 666 item 333), soap sional Jews remains a cardinal
85, feature of policy. University
There is Mr. Malcolm Mac-lot is cast in peculiarly pleasant no longer being required, owing to Donald, the second In command at places, far from the din and dust the shortage of water. professors are being dismissed in
the Dominions Offico. His speech of conflict, a retiring age has been numbers which must be detri
These people in Hongkong talk was introduced, and is now strictly about there being no depression resolutions on the Ottawa mental to the institutions they
The recently issued report of
observed. It is a commonplace of here, and about their accumulated have been serving. Small won- der that intellectuals of high re- the Edinburgh Cinema Inquiry
medical science that round about surplus, and the rising dollar. seventy the brain begins to lose Bahl pute are expressing their dis- will not be ignored by anyone approval by resigning their po-genuinely interested in the social sitions. And the most serious effects of the film. This report aspect of the situation is that is the result of close questioning Herr Hitler cannot well suspend of some 2000 children between his activities. There is little the ages of 9 and 16 on the sub- doubt that the allegiance of ject of their favourite films and many of the men he gathered in-film stars. According to the to the Nazi movement was ob- Edinburgh inquiries, the tastes tained by his promises of em- of boys and girls are very simi- ployment in the new Govern- lar. This similarity is more ment. High administrative posts striking in connexion with ac- were to be given them. They tors than with films, and with actors. ware to get the jobs held by actresses than with men of
Jewish race. Herr Janet Gaynor is the favourite Hitler, in trying to carry out his actress of both boys and girls;! promises has shocked the hu- then boys prefer Marie Dress- manitarianism
ordinary ler, and girls Constance Ben- peoples and has come into nett; both agreo in placing MacDonald third. collision with the Steel Helmets Jeannette
of
Boys, Girls and the
Box Office
and the National Party, who The boys put Laurel and Hardy apparently found that while jobs at the top of the actors' list, were being distributed, their while the girls rank them sec- sharo was disproportionate, ond, with Ronald Colman first. His difficulties with the Stahl-The boys' second choice is Jack heim may have been largely met Holt, and yet another comedian, by the defection of their Com-3lim Summerville, occuples the mandant, Dr Seldte, but the third position. Comedies are critics of his identification of the boys' favourite kind of film. national policy with racial pre-They also like "weaterns," my- judico will not so readily be over-stery thrillers, and war pictures. has The girls prefer mysteries and como. Physical violence been warmly denied and it may "westerns" to all others. Both be perfectly true that the atro boys and girls heartily dislike city roports have been considera-"love" films. In connexion with bly exaggerated, but physical the fact that war. pictures are violence is a less deadly weapon enjoyed by boys, it may well be than the organised economic remembered that war pictures, hostility now being practised. like "Westfront," or as it was This racial persecution, which named when shown in Hongkong has shocked all democratic opin-Four Infantrymen," for ex- lon, is not the product of tem amplo, can be made excellent porary excitement and hysteria propaganda for peace.
easily the best debating perform ance put up from the Government Front Bench.
amount
What they want is a man like us on the job for a few months.
What they need од Finance Committees is a man of experience. We'd soon bring Hongkong into line with the rest of the world.
...
THE GARBO.
Greta Garbo is on her way back to the United States. The great- est secrecy is being preserved. Nobody will be permitted to learn of her arrival oxcept the newspaper cameraman, the newsreel and movietone experts, five hundred New York reporters and one hun- dred and twenty-two million Amer-
icana.
ita incisiveness, and thore is...a growing lack of adaptability to now ideas. Yet in a profession that above all else needs youthful minds and the capacity to grapple Instantly with new situations, the whiter the head the higher the office.
A HANDICAPPED CABINET.
Particularly at this moment is the elevation of youth important. The world is changing so quickly that mon steeped in the politica of 1918 ard, as Mr. Baldwin auggoat ed, for that very reason hand- capped in approaching the pro- blems of 1988. A Cabinet whose avorbge was 40, Instead of as at presant nearly 60, would not mero- ly be stronger in ability and dobat- ing talent. It would also have an
"You must realize that you have the future of the country to think infinitely greater right to call'
of."
Itself "National."
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