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TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1993,
DOGS A SENSE OF PROPORTION WANTED
common
WHY NOT A BRAINS CENSUS?
By SIR HERBERT BARKER
The Very Idea!
AUSSIEOSSITIES
By Edward "Dinkum” Kelly,
PERHAPS you've won- dered what took place at
confirmed suspicions in the urban districts—there still exist more satisfactory and; renson- able methods for dealing with it. We have previously outlined the form these might take. There is no reason whatever why animals should be shot on the streets. There is even less rea- We think of national wealth 'In that can be done. We must take son why some of the dumb terms of natural resources, in a census of brains, victims of police ruthlessness dustrial plant, and accumulated possible. Actually, it is nothing of tralian Association in Hong- Such a task might appear in the formation of the Aus- should meet sudden and often riches. There is an abundance of the sort: a census of brains whore-kong the other night. extremely crucl death. Present statistical Information on all these by we could arrive at an approxi methods, if effective, merely
ono point minta idea of the mental material Bear up for a big surprise. bring discredit upon the force.ubjects; but upon
experts are mute. I refer to the of the nation is well within the The Telegraph had its own re- It needs only a brief reflection,
realm of practical politica.
presentative at that meeting- surely, to convince the I.G.Pnational wealth in ability.
A start, as we know, has been Mister Edward Kelly. and his advisers that modificu-
To-day, at this moment, there is made at Harrow School; where the tion of the existing orders brain capacity, the sum of all the and the utilisation of the service position to reveal for the first in England an unknown total appointment of a Carcorn Minster Mr. Kelly is not only in the desirable. Or are
to We
ability of the nation. lieve, what is frequently SUR-
of expert psychologists is a clear time the atory of the Australlatí There is no book that can give indication of a belated investiga Association in Hongkong, but pected, that Officialdom tinues blindly along a set tract one a hint as to the extent of our tion of our youth. And useful (unknown to the public and the wealth in this direction. And this work in vocational guidance Association) he has appointed merely spurred on by a augacoma strange to me, alace, for done by the National Institute of himself Secretary of the As- gestion of public opposition? more than by natural resources Industrial Psychology.
and so forth, the prosperity of n
sociation. Countless experiments have re- country must ultimately be deter warded patient workers with a It may be news to the Austra- mined by the mental capacity of yardstick whereby Innate abilities lians to know that we have been If the war-weary shade of M. Its citizena.
may be accurately measured.appointed Secretary of their Georges Clemenceau stalks with- This truth has been demonstrat-The testing of abilities is no Association (writes Mr. Kelly). in car-shot of troubled Europe ed over and over again. For ex-longor, if it ever was, an empirical But with the new brewery open these days, it must be entertain-ample, the Spaniards in the New business,
eminently
EUROPE'S CRISIS
be-
con-
but one
A SIMPLE TEST.
We
Besides, our vocabulary is Homewhat restricted, AndI want a couple of new phrases for this column.
We will admit that
We wore
Wo.
ing some curious reflections on World found themselves masters scientific. It is important that ing, and talk of the price of the vanity of human endeavouring the period when that Empire every child on leaving school. cents, we thought the opportuni- of untold natural resources. Dur- suitable tests should be applied to Reach's being dropped to fifty At Versailles, The Tiger had but claimed the whole of the western And for a simple reason: there is ty was too good to be missed. one slogan-Security for France, world as against all other Europ-no single job that does not eall Everything else was subordinat-ean Powers, it had every natural for special aptitudes, for parti- ed to this; by sheer force of his advantage, every facility for the cular types. personality and skill at negotia-building up of a
vast Spanish did it this realm. Why
fail? It tion, Clemenceau wove
I suggest to my readers that theais deeply into the treaty. failed, I suggest, because the President Wilson was trying Spanish of that period failed to they make for themselves a simple vainly to get a peace based on grasp their great opportunities: it test. I will take an important somewhat taken aback when we
the next ship. During his fourteen points, a peace of falled because of the brain factor. branch of commerce-salesman- discovered ourself at the Austra
week lian meeting. We thought justice and clemency; and Mr.
observe those who serve yon when were keeping an appointment with The application of a nation's you buy, ar even when you ait the girl friend. It happened like Lloyd George, for all that he had
brain-power to its problems-down in a restaurant and face the this. just completed an election
political, industrial, and ethleal-small but sometimes difficult_pro- campaign on $4 "Hang the
is obviously of supreme import-blem of selecting a meal, If you Kaiser platform, was ready to ance. Wastage in brain-power, in do that you will be astonished to help him. But M. Clemenceau ability, means loas of wealth and find how many people are earning triumphed. France was to be a braking of progress in every their living as "salesmen (for naked sharply, our journalistic in- rendered forever anfe from at- sphère of human activity.
good waitress or waiter is a sales-stinct aroused. tack. Whatever happened, the This being so, is it not amazing man too) who have no aptitude for
"The Ausules are having a meet- old militaristic elique in Ger- that know so little of just what the work.
ing." someone replied. It has been said by more than many was to be made impotent. reservoirs of human wealth we
"Yes, and they say pusscas? Is it not astonishing one wise man that there is no
excitedly.
from
across the Rhine. M.
BRAIN-POWER WASTAGE.
of our schools?
Striding down Pedder Street. we noticed a big crowd milling around the Gloucester elevators.
"What's going on here?" we
that
the
It may possibly be the habit There would be no more threats that we are not able, at any given greater blessing in this life than beer is free-" said someone else of Bumbledom in this Colony to
That was enough for 48. We ignore, nay, openly to flout Clemenceau had his way. The time, to say what types of child- to find one's work and to do it. public opinion, but,
treaty was his, in its essentials ren are sitting in the classrooms | Failure to discover what work ono pushed our way through the crowd
is best suited for, that the whole experience or not, it offers no Germany WAS left crushed, adequate reason for
Let me indicate just how this personality may flourish, results and entered the lift. The meet- silent France rose triumphant. And lack of knowledge of the human in some degree of unhappinessing was in progress when we ar- acquiescence. We drew atten- to-day, less than 15 years after wealth of our land results in loss, and often in misery. For Instead rived on the eighth floor. tion a few days ago to a flagrant that treaty was put together, the in incompetence, and in that un-of work becoming a thing of joy. case of callousness in the vendet-menace from beyond the Rhine happiness that flows from malad-it remains throughout life a task striding in. ta ngainst dogs, shooting in the
small presence of
Tho
children.
The man-whose work is too
"Where's the beor?" we asked,
"Order?" said the ChairmaIL We called the boy and ordered. The meeting was talking-about-
own.
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YOUNG EDDY ON GASPIPES.
Why are they digging up the road again, daddy?
You here again. Don't know, Bor.
to be got through somelid-even appears to be on its feet. again, justment to one's environment.
Take a boy who faces the pro- anyhow. The peace of Europe seems once Since then, an authentic instance more threatened by the old blem of earning e living on of the killing of a dog againstFranco-German quarrel. There leaving school. It is, in most diffeult for him struggles to per-membership when our drink which, or its owner, no possible is little doubt that it forms the cases, all important that he shall form it competently, but always rived.
"The point is," said the Chair- offence could be alleged, has been background of the deadlock inably well rubbed into him. He is beyond his natural abilities, earn money, and this fact Is prob- with the necrot knowledge that it publicly exposed, and complaints the Disarmament Conference. says: "I'll take any sort of work,'
The man whose work is too eney man, "who are going to be Full be As- of maiming are all too frequent. Lord Hailsham, like France, and means it. In so saying he girda againat a condition of life Members and who will
Hociates?" These may, perhaps, be regard- talks dangerously of the appli- reveals, no doubt, the right spirit, which denies him the opportunit
"That's easy," we said, "let's ed as a product of the pernicious cation of the sanctions clauses, but what are the chances of such les to reveal his true qualities. system operating in the police These are only some of the a haphazard method resulting in
In either case the result to the all be Full Members."
The motion was carried -10-
were organisation under which off- cers are liable to be dealt with fruits of the treaty which, if it the discovery of the work for individual is loss of happiness and
loss of opportunity for self-fulfil animously. The Members ment. In either case, for the com-carried out unconsciously. did nothing else, was to remove which he is best suited? departmentally unless their re-
SUITABLE CAREERS.
munity, the result is wastage in When we woke up the minutos corda reveal a specified number France forever from the danger
Thousands of war with Germany. The cur-
of youths
were still on the table. There enter human material. of "cases." But we must con- rent of world history to-day trade, industry. and the pro-
of minutes. I believe that for every man and were fiftyfive pages fess to a feeling of very real
fessions without any reference to woman there is some work for Another five and there would have astonishment yesterday when seems to be bent on proving that their suitability to the work to be which he or she is suited. The been an hour. two "delinquents" were brought the cynic was not as good a learned.
We noticed someone's name In problem is to place our workera before the Court, charged with guide for practical affairs as the
The result is the inevitable where each one of them will pro- the Minute Book as Secretary and allowing dogs to be abroad with. idealist would have been. Someone: we have an enormous number duce the best, both for themselves Treasurer, so we substituted our out muzzles. In one case, the day, perhaps, we shall learn that of people, of both sexes, doing and for the country.
Until we take a census of brains
Australians who desire to join animal had been injured for of all men the hard-headed and work for which they possess no
can natural aptitude and, Inevitably, and realise that our present sys-the association are reminded that life by a gunshot. In the other, severely "practical" man In vivid description was given of often be the least reliable of doing it indifferently or really tem of trade, industrial and pro- subscriptions are now due. Mem-
fessional recruitment is hopelessly bership fees: a quid for full mem It is a lesson that badly. a zealous chase through Shauki-leaders.
One of the problema to-day-ansefentific and, hence, wasteful. bera, ton deiners for half full wan, out into the harbour in a Germany, above all, may have to sampan, until the creature was learn. The mistakes of 1919 and it is one we scarcely recognise we must reat content with getting members, and two bob for empty
members. caught, shot and provided with a cannot be remedied by going as such is to increase the divid from the pool of our national ends of our national brain-power, ability but a part of its total
Empty members must bring watery grave. If that were all, back to 1914. To-day President There is only one way by which capacity for work and service,
their own bottle openers.. it would be sufficient. But it Roosevelt takes the role of would seem that having ac-idealist-though he can assume complished "their duty to the that of the practical man with community" by killing or maim- equal facility-and Herr Hitler His Reichstag ing, police officers have to satisfy is the cynic. the law.
owners were, speech yesterday was a model of therefore, prosecuted. One discretion. Herr Hitler chose
to magistrate declined con- his words carefully, so carefully tribute further to this ruth-indeed that he said very little less exhibition of justice.beyond claiming moral justifica- The other imposed fines, two tion for Germany's attitude at offences being alleged. The Geneva. The tone was reason- facts seem hardly credible in aable enough. With the bulk of civilised community. We can his statements there could be suggest only one other measure little quarrel anywhere. But he
taken, which might be
the left a great deal unsaid, a great presentation of erstwhile owners deal that the world wanted to with a bill for expended am- hear. Herr Hitler tended towards munition! Such action would the cynical in offering to dis- surely be logically in keeping arm completely if other nations with the spirit in which the would do the same, thereby ap- campaign against dogs and dog-parently declining to accept the owners has hitherto been waged. Inevitability of gradualness on It is difficult to believe that the so vital an issue. If we are in police officers themselves are error it is because the Reich entirely responsible. The in-Chancellor omitted to go into ference to be drawn from recent detail. He failed to clarify the events is that orders are being situation. The sole promise carried out, that the arbitary of the speech is contained in the and inhumano methods employ-expression of willingness to par- ed are the result of instructions ticipate in a settlement of the from Higher Authority. In political and economic difficulties which case, it is the more to be of the world in an unselfish way. deprecated. It reflects an at-if this means that Herr Nadoiny titude of mind and a sense of is returning to Genova to-mor perspective out of all proportion row in a new mood and bearing to the problem which the au- a spirit of compromise, if it thorities are facing. The Police means a response to President Department has an exaggerated Roosevelt's appeal, there is yet Idea of the menace of rabies.hope. But a fuller disclosure of Even If the danger is as great a3 Germany's attitude is necesчnry they apparently bellove-in the before the world can feel at entire absence, we believe, of liberty to breath in peace.
C
"Tell him to stop worrying about us and go ahead and
got married."
They're laying gaspipes down, daddy. Why don't they put them down before they make their nice new road?
Why don't you ask me questions I can answor? They probably think there is an old-world charm about red lamps and trenches. Sopisticated almplicity, my boy.
But it spoils the nice now roads, daddy, to have those repairs marka Across It. Is that what you mean by almplo city, daddy?
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GAÓL INTERVIEW.
A young hawker in Court yes- terday, told the Magistrate that ho committed the offence in order to get into gaol to see his father.
He was fined four dollars or four days!
The only thing lacking seema to have been an enquiry by the Mr. Wynuo Jones as to whether four days would be sufficient for the complotion of the interview. This would surely have been the high- water mark of clean, unconscious kumour.
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