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NOTES OF THE DAY
WASHINGTON SHOCKS /
IS OXFORD WORTH
THREE YEARS?
Shock after shock descends upon
By AN UNDERGRADUATE Washington. The latest of the Brains Trust to tender his resigna- the best three years of my life; the innumerable preoccupations of THEY would be, I was promised, The child, left to himself amid tion la Professor Sprague, ond of
the modern parent, attaina - America's most expert International and so, in a sense, they were. economists, and President Roose-
Those years when one is first dependence of outlook at an early velt may well be wondering where "grown up," while still not yet "of age. Moreover, he mixes far more the blow will fall next. For it is age," have a certain rapturous freely and on a more equal basla a blow, whether or not the Presid-quality wherever they are passed, with his elders than we did, ent or Mr. Morgenthau will have and doubly so if it be at Oxford or negregated in the nursery wing: and this, more than anything, is a it that it is so. Both have exhibit. Cambridge, ed a very deliberate unconcern at
In no other surroundings is the maturing and civilising Influence," tribute to your newly acquired; But on the whole the point is the resignation and if the attitude maturity so agreeably deferential. less that the modern child is ad- of the acting Secretary of the You step into a suite of rooms vanced than that the child of the Treasury, Department is sincere, it in certain that both the resignation which is all your own. A servant last generation was retarded in and the manner of Professor is deputed to wait personally upon development. Aristotle's theory of Sprague's departure are causing you. You may sit alone by your education in the Ideal State was much earnest thought at Warmowa firealde or invite whom you that there should be no mental
like to share it with you.
Instruction before maturity. TII Springs.
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You are invited, not commanded, i physical rather than intellectual to attend lectures or to take part development It produces an aver-
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1933.
BRITAIN'S POLITICAL
OUTLOOK
Results of recent bye-elections, notably the staggering blow de-
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in sports. You eniny, in short, age Englishman who, at 10, is very
The Very Idea!
BACK TO BEAUTY
Dy Eddie "Malmon" Kelly,
AST week the famous Hongkong Ad fashion export, Edward Kelly et cle wrote a special article on "How To Brighten Up, the Uniforms of Our Armies." That the article ̧would bear, fruft, Mr. Kelly did not for one Instance doubt. In fact; He coyly admits that when it comes to "fruit" very few men are his equal.
Therefore it was no surprise to Mr. Kelly to notice in the paper this morning, that Germany “hod come, into line with the rest of the world by adopting Kelly fashiona, The new Nasl uniform will be a mixture of the present British and. Russian uniform.
Encouraged by this success, Mr. Kelly has decided to turn to the civilian aspect of his "Back to Brightness" movement.
Now read on.
Public
LL Hongkong A
Services and Servants
gether too funereal, too un-
pleasant, almost sinister.
Mr. Sprague was virtually the Inst line of defence of the anti- inflationists within the ranks of Administrations officinis. The gold policy, or inability to cooperate honestly in its pursuit, has weeded out all inclined to reafstance. With for the first time the existence of much younger, more childish and for that matter-are alto- Mr. Sprague goce the last real pil-a civilised being.
undeveloped than his foreign con- lar of stability. It may be argued
temporary that if President Roosevelt was You consider yourself grown determined to go on his Treasury up; but of course you are nothing ́adviser's allegiance, could
I speak in the present tense; but of the sort. And herein lies the the situation is rapidly changing. nothing. The other side of the great charm of university life. At 18 many a boy has seen enough about any of them, nothing
For the first and only time in your of life to have grown out of his to inspire romance, argument is simply this: the Pallotted span you can have things senco within the inner councils of o voice of warning might cnally mean the difference between control over the situation and complete lack of restraint in the swing towards Street makes no boned about its adoption of the new theories. Wall
mean
'own opinion of the development. The dollar drops heavily immediate ly and an intensification of a flight of capital is confidently predicted.
·
after a
There is nothing happy
or any
both ways. You can at once be public school and to be hankering
wider horizon. At 19 he thing like that. treated like an adult and behave seeks no longer the protection of
ice & child. You can be glorious-an Alma Mater, but is ready for And they could easily be Irresponsible, as never before or the fray, anxious to acck his for- so attractive, so pleasing, so
after,
At Oxford you are old, but with
•
tune without more ado.
denied that those three years on? In such circumstances it cannot inspiring, so--but why go
career.
For one
waste of time,
who has
*
forco, too.
the oldness which is found only in youth, pursuing now Ideas and
deals with the enthusiasm of the at Oxford are a
The whole idea should be experimenter rather than the dis- anve for those who contemplate
What would be illusioned rationalism
the Civil Service or an academic capitalised. the of experienced hand,
to more fascinating, for instance, DANGEROUS, OUTLOOK
Thus Oxford is an enchanted engage upon a moneymaking car than to see the officials of the world, a dream backwater in eer (and how many to-day have President Roosevelt is now in the free. As such it
which you are both sheltered and not?) they do but postpone the bailiffs court attired in "King
evil hour, and the boy who goes of the bears little
(w)Ritz" costumes hands of Professor Warren, an in-relation to the stormy vicissitudes straight from school into business flationist to the eyebrows, and Mr. of modern life.
ateals a march of three valuable (Costumes supplied by Thirst Henry Morgenthau, a man describ- ed by the New York Evening Post as I heard on my
Where else will you hear to-day, years upon his undergraduate con- Bernard of Laidlow the Right-
last visit to temporaries.
way, or the highest bidder). as a man without training or pre- Oxford, a group of gentlemen
They would add tone to the issue. paration for his post, whose ap-calmly discussing the expenditure pointment is an affront to the finan- of some thousands of pounds for year or longer to shake off the your usual weekly blue paper you Even more; for it often takes a of writs, and when you received cial solvency of the United States. the purely aesthetic purpose of im- Indolent habits acquired at Oxford The description may be severe, but proving a view?
and to get properly under way.
would do so with the fooling of it is probably accurate to say of
Moreover, I believe the modern satisfaction that all this was being him, ns of President Roosevelt,
Of course, Oxford is what you undergraduate la heginning to done for you. * that he had little occasion for con- make it. For many it is not the recognise that he la an anachron- tact with economic problems in lazy back-water which, admittedly, lam. There is in Oxford to-day a Take our police livered by Labour at East Ful-times when economic principles I made it myself. You can work certain restlessness which was Instead of the absurd dark cap and
still had some authority in them day, instead of the orthodox analy- selves. In the United States to sis that goods and services con- stitute original purchasing power, money serving as a medium of ex change, wo are confronted with the threadbare absurdity that pur. chasing power originates in money crn.,
But there is surely room. for and that the whole secret of pros This being so. It is impossible Oxford still if she will but adapt perity is in raising wages and to regret the experience of those herself to modern needs. A teles- the police should be suitably prices. As Professor
Sprague three Oxford years. Their flavour coping process should be applied hints, the only logical reasonings must always remain among the to, education to keep pace with the attired for all occasions. The the scheme is that since the Governmemory's most treasured pose Four years is quite long enough should be in morning coat, striped telescoping of youth into age. man on duty at a Church function menthetesses should be print detachment in regard to the for any boy to spend at a public trousers, top-hat and gloves;
possesses power to print Bions. But viewed with critical ted forthwith. Why worry about practical problems of modern life school, especially if the public schools will grow up a bit and pro- balancing budgets? What If Government credit is destroyed be had for the when money can printing?
NEWFOUNDLAND
INDICTMENT ··
there in carnest. You can study never there before. She seems blue suit, why not a wide-check dead languages but science and herself. She sees so many of her bright check golf cocke? Is it any not merely past history and the no longer wholly satisfied with Norfolk jacket and plus fours with such practical subjects as will put contemporaries already making a you well on the road towards a living in the world that she han-wonder that policemen are un- successful commercial career.kera to follow their example.
popular with us girls? Serious But this is not its essential atmos-
and melancholy in appearanco and phere. That belongs to a past
sombrely attired.
*
As a matter of fact wo think
tone jumpers, according to the weather.
they take on a different aspect.
Water police from Taim Shau Regretfully, I cannot but de-vide him with a greater element of Tsui station would be atmos- plore my Oxford days, when I re- civilisation.
Therically perfect in next drill, vlaw them thus. To spend three Two years is quite long enough bell-bottomed trousers and two- years at Oxford is to live graceful-for him to spend at Oxford. ly, hence it is to evade the Issues There seems no reason why the of life as the world lives It to-day, university should not receive him It is but marking time while econo-at 17 (two years earlier than ahe
The Emergency Squad would mics, competition and the restless is in the habit of doing to-day) spirit of the age demand that and give him a two, In place of the look as if it meant business if it youth should get down to business present three years' Honours got up as cowboys with a full with the minimum possible delay. course. Thus he could still profit display of ironmongery for the abolished altogether as the ages Oxford and be a potential wage- and so forth.
Youth, in fact, la slowly being by the civilising influences of cognoscenti to admire, and so on telescope one into another. There earner at 19 or 20 into the bargain. is no time to be young. Life must Why not? I would be a pity than be faced from the cradle.
to let Oxford pass away,
ham, naturally give rise to specu- lation on the probable length of life of the National Government. Despite these reverses, however, it is doubtful whether the Ad- ministration need become unduly alarmed concerning its future. One thing which cannot be denied is that it has succeeded in effecting a marked improve ment In the financial and business life of the country. In some spheres, it has failed to show initiative and courage, but if some dissatisfaction is felt on this account, the domina ting fact in the situation is that) there is no prospect of any al- ternative Government arising to seize the reins of office. Except in name, the Administration is not a National Government at The Royal Commission's report on Newfoundland la startling in its all; it is a Government of Con- findings and sensational in its ro- servatives, tinged with a some commandations. Lord Amulree's what Liberal outlook. Both Mr. committee finds no solution for the
difficulties other Ramsay MacDonald and Mr.supersession of the rule of popular
Island's Baldwin would appear to have government and the substitution of veered politically, though from a benevolent autocracy. The his- different angles, towards Liberal tory of financial organisation is nothing but a record of mismanago- conceptions, and the same may ment; politics have got into the be said of some of the younger wrong hands. In the face of this Ministers. It has, indeed, been severe indictment, the people of suggested that although the cept, willingly if temporarily, the Newfoundland will probably ne Liberal Party has practically proposals of the British Govern- ceased to exist as a political ment, though there la a danger in entity, the Old Country has at the situation of creating a bad precedent for Imperial interven- the moment a Liberal-minded tion. Hore, of course, thero is a Government at its head. Some safeguard in the fact that the In- support. for this iden can be vestigation proposal came from found in its stendy refusal to be rests the right of accepting or re Newfoundland, where there stil dictated to by the "Die-Hard" fusing the suggested cures. wing of the Conservativé Party. The only conceivable alternative to the present Administration is a Labour Government, but; al- though the Labourites are con- solidating their forces and patch- ing up their internal differen- ces, and at the same time mak by the National Government ing most vigorous preparations has coincided with a progressive for the next General Election, it
improvement in the nation's is to be doubted whether the trade and finances. The ten- public is yet disposed to give dency, therefore, is to continue them another trial. The view to repose trust in the Govern of the average man--and it is ment. Thus far, the Adminis he who counts in elections-tration can point to quite a good that during its two brief spells in record. If it office the Labour Party failed to practical imagination by a policy make any favourable impression of vigorous enterprise, it should either on unemployment or qn yot further consolidate its the financial situation of the position.
nation. With the whys and the wherefores, the average voter. does not concern himself: ho merely takes note of the facts. In a similar manner, he does know that the occupancy of office
can stimulate
"These acts still make mon little nervous."
Detectives working in pairs might go about their lawful occupations as, aay, the Bing Boys, or Laurel and Hardy, or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
Even the traffic police could stand a little colour treatment. Full evening dress with crush hats and white gloves completo would definitely add to their impressive- ness. It would become a real pleasure for a female driver to be "booked" under theso circum-
stances.
The spinators! dream of being rescued from a burning building would soon become the Hongkong flapper's dream if our firemen were equipped with red Jumpers, møre, brass, and lipstick.
The deck hands on the Star Ferry might well be sent on duty as gondolfors in colours that would morge with thoir surroundings. The romantic Botting, aided by the romantic costumes, could not help but make for romance,
There are several other sugges- tlona wo could make, but wo have written enough for to-day.
Let this be a lesson to you,
TRUMPS
Last night we held a little hand 17. So' dainty, and so neat.
We thought our heart would
surely burst.
So wildly did it boat,
No other hand o'er held so tight Could greater gladness bring
Than one we held last night.
It was four Aces and a King.
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