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HOPEFUL COMPUTATION :
One of the effects of the Amor- ican devaluation programme, ap
A
NOUS LIBERTE'
parently, will be a reduction in the The Englishman
Must be Free-or Die
actual size of the U.S. government' stupendous national debt. Shortly before the nature and extent of the V devaluation was announced, Pro-THE-art of Governance in the
fessor Fisher, of Yale, pointed out
that although the debt has recently ney increased in round figures from U$12,000,000,000 to $24,000,000,000, ally the total actually is substantially Xless, if a reduction in the value of the dollar is taken into account. HVlowed in this light, he remarked,
the government debt to-day is rent- Aly about 12 per cent less than the debt on March 4, 1933-despite the fact that in cold figures it is 15 por cent greater. All this should be com- forting enough, to a nation filed with uneasiness by a growing Federal debt. But It indicates that the ordinary processes of arithmatic may be extremely confused de- liberately or not, in future asscss- ments of the American national profit and loss. A method of reckoning which makes twenty- four billion dollars less than twenty-one billions is something our school books falled to teach us.
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FATAL RELICS OF WAR
That
Mines put into the sea during the HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
World War still are allost. A Show Room
Finnish steamer recently found one Stubbs Road in the Baltic Sea and destroyed it. Since the war one Swedish naval officer has found and destroyed more than 350 drifting mines- hideous engines of death, waiting to slip into the paths of un- suspecting ship captains. such bazards still exist on the high seas is rather Blocking to our sense of security. But stopping to think about it, the wonder is that there are not more of them around to causo tragedies. Mines were togs- ed into the water in an In- N.R.A. DOUBTS AND describably prodigal manner during
the war.
When the armistice HOPES
arrived, the allied navics spont months picking them up; but in the very nature of things it was in evitable that they should miss a great many. The world really is very lucky that these derellet minos have not proved a far greater hazard to post-war ocean traffle.
FRIDAY, MARCI 9, 1934.
the
Whilst President Roosevelt's he recovery schemes are, as says, designed to secure greatest good for the greatest number, there aro indications that in several respects they are not working out altogether THE STRATOSPHERE as was hoped. One of the big-
There is no pause in the assaults gest complaints being voiced is
upon the stratosphere. Russian that "the little fellow in trade scientists, who have already made and industry is in danger of be- several experiments, are sending up ing squeezed out by the creation a robot-controlled balloon at the of fresh monopolies, President end of the month, while Colonel Herrara, the Spanish airman, is Roosevelt, however, has just proposing shortly to go up in an Colonel Herrara declared that he is as determined open basket. to safeguard the interests of hopea, by this method, to capture some of the air twelve miles above the small man as he is to see the earth for later analysis. If the justice done to the larger in-adventure is successful, valuable information may be made available, terests. A considerable cou-
but however carefully planned and troversy has been raging in the however carefully wrapped-up- States on the point as to whether he may be, Colonal. Herrera's pro- ject must obviously be attended by the N.R.A. plans have not had
considerable risk, three Russlan the effect of preserving to the airmen having already lost their industrialists much of their old lives under much less exacting con- ditions. The uninitiated may well The suggestion is made, ask what objective there is in these nacents to high altitudes and on the one side, that when em- ployers traded collective bar-whether the risk to life warrants it. gaining for suspension of the anti-trust Lawe, they made a WEATHER FORECASTS most advantageous deal. The
The answer is very simple. Dis- other side of the picture is that employers have now become so tinguished meteorologists are con- enlightened that they will make vinced that accurate information nature of the concerning the better use of their power, using stratosphere, ita temperature, con- Belf-government not merely to stitation, and so on will assist raise prices and root out unfair weather prophets in their task. competition, but to protect their It is, indeed, contended by some, employces and the public. It with or without good ground, that may be open to question, how complete knowledge of the upper air far a newer and better social would permit a new way of fore- casting weather conditions, en- consciousness has begun to per-abling the expert to indicate, with vade industry. There are many almost perfect reliability, the businessce whose heads do not weather to be expected a week or perceive the interdependence of perhaps a month hence. It is also the toga in the industrial Auggested, with sounder basis, that exploration of the machine. With the situation as thorough
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PRACTICAL WAY
It is, there is much to be said stratosphere may lead to the dis- for the contention that, for thecovery of a way to foster speedler
aviation. present, it may be most pract- ical for the enlightened elements in industry to be helped to con- trol the unenlightened, with the Government in the role of police- A more practical way, of getting man to see that the Codes are this information that the balloons observed. That is a tremendous in which men may lose their lives job, admittedly, but if it is seems to be that sponsored by the adequately performed, labour Russians, or that which is being carried out in the United States, and the consumer will be in an an
where forty rubber balloons will be infinitely better position than ever before. The main essential ant up about twelve miles and will continue until they burst. Hitch-
is that the Government shoulded to their fluttering fragments as
be alert to protect the public in-these fall to earth will be delicate. Information torest. President Roosevelt has instruments
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By "SENTINEL"
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for forms of government let roll and attended with'
The Very Idea!
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THEY CHEERED WHEN WE LEFT THE KINDERGARTEN WHEN We were six months old and Just learning to ride a bike, our mother said to us, "Ed- ward, my boy, I'm going to take We were polishing our ratilo at you to see a doctor." the time, but we put it down and, looking her squarely in the eye, we said, "Fanny, old girl, bunk to that suggestion. We have already soon some of them at a distance, and they don't appeal to us."
Wo put our bootes down firmly on that idea, but now we see it was a mistake. Had we but sean. a doctor as we have served my
us in our last bout of megrims, as King, he would not have vosertod Cardinal Wolseley remarked at the battle of Trafalgar.
Now and again the stream of most difficult of all. Succoss which Wordsworth spoko has in it is much more a question of burst its banks and seemed to the spirit thinn of the letter of a threaten a far-reaching devasta- Constitution, whother written or tion. But it has always returned unwritten. Hence the epigram: to its channel, and nearly all our
have boon. in fools contest;
Whato'er la best administer'd is very little bloodshed, if any. Every civilised nation has its own bent.
of the characteristica of a kind of liberty, but ours has been Some good government are manifest at more wisely controlled, because of sight. The defence of a nation its very nature. It is rooted in the against foreign aggression must moatality and morality of the race. be adequate, and the prosperity of Even In mediaeval times the rul its members must be secured, Ating classes in this country, unlike the present moment, It must be the noblesse of France or Gorman
In our young days, you whip- admitted, this country possesses barone, whose castles were like aoither kind of security, and there wild beasts' laira, or the kinglets persnappers, there were no Kinder- по Clinics. The is talk everywhere of making of Poland, that "hell of the pengartens, and
nearest we got to a clinic was the radical changes to secure a grea santa," nover regarded themselves ter measure of efficiency. It is as of a superior species to the rest clink. suggested, for example, that we of mankind. The Earl and the ahould consent to a dictatorship churl were brothers, especially in resembling that of Mussolini la war-time when the knight in arm- Italy and Hitler's in Germany, ours and the archer cultivated a The answer to this suggestion. Is comradeship very like that of the that this country Is neither Italy regimental officer and his men in Germany, having political the Great War. That ancient Ideals which are un-Italian and sense of essential brotherhood la the source of our conception of a un-German.
form of liberty that shall involve no man's slavery.
publicly declared that this he is which may fainingowledge of the stratosphere and open a now determined to do. The creation era of advanced weather forecast- of the now Review Board for the ing. A reward has been offered for purpose of investigating com- the return of the Instrumenta, in plaints over the working of the the condition found, to the Mas- N.R.A. is a further indication of sachusetts Institute of Technology. his sincerity. It is well, how. The rubber balloons will bring back ever, to remember the Codes early as much information as could man-controlled stratosphere craft: have no motive power in them-Data will include: records of tem- selves. Improvement under
perature, humidity and atmospheric them will carry no further than pressure. The success
of the the enlightened self-interest of experiment depends upon the metco- industry or tho social conscience rologists recovering at least one of the people pushes it.
sot of their devices.
nor
Many efforts have been made to
though Efficiency,
ominently desirable, is not everything. A sergeant may know much more about regimental work than a sub dam the stream arieing from this altern, but we insist that the late source or to divide and dissipate ter should be the former's superior the strength of its deepening and widening flood. In the end all offleor. Without agreeing to famous Judge's dictum that there artificial barriers have been swept are "liars, damned llars, and ox-away. Legal discriminations have ports" wo sagaciously object to been removed, and every man being ordered about by experts, now equal in the eyes of the Law who are necessarily specialists.
We were brought up under entch-as-catch-can rules, and we our parents. However, we are not must say that we are a credit to gathered here to-day to talk about details which can be looked up in any "Who's Who," ka
It's about clinice and kinder- gartens. Don't go away, you're going to get some Information and instruction which will do you a mound of good. The first thing they do to a baby after it has been lugged unwillingly to the clinic with its abining mourning face, as Shakespeare puts it (Crikey, to weigh it. ain't he cultured!)
After the baby has kicked the springs out of the weighbridge and a disability which is being it la washed and wung out (hence Mussolini, but we know very well gradually dealt with. The bribes the term, wet nurse). The child that his paternal control, which which Bacon took are now un-is then handed over to the doctor. would make us cogs and footlin' thinkable, and political considera-The doctor examines it for eigna little wheels in a huge State tions no longer have the slightest of gout, apaving, Hongkong foot or machine, would soon prove in- weight with our Judges, "lons St. John's Wort, and if everything tolerable. For we of all peoples under the Throne" in vory truth, is in order, he marks the child O.K., and it is then stuffed back under the sun expect to enjoy Our Common Law in seen to be a liberty, a sense of spiritual elbow sublimation of English common into its clothes, jammed fats its room, as a vital requisite of the sonse, and that is why we are the cart, and is pushed off, a andder life we live within and without. most law-abiding people in the but wider child.
world.
So much for the clinic. Progress is the oxygen of a na tion's existence, but we English at any rate must also have ozone.į We must have Hberty, even if we cannot define it.
We might find a super-expert like feet when he cannot afford its had its weight painted on its side,
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What is even more, all tho spiritual tyrannies have been swept away. Now and again an attempt is made to revive one of English poetry, which is so them, and a few souls pathetically often a philosophy of life trans- submit to an antique un-English figured by emotion, praises liberty servitude. But in England, as the This late Sir Walter Raleigh (of Ox- while deploring licence. frequent theme is most nobly ford) Bagely observed: "Every treated in Wordsworth's magni- man claims the right to go to ficent sonnet, which every patriot heaven his own way," and none ought to have by heart and at dare challenge his claim. In this. feud, howovor, a new danger has heart:
disclosed Well-meaning been persona, making other people's morals their business, atantly inventing new sins and in- triguing, often, with success, to obtain preventive or even punitive legislation. The answer to all such sanctimonious busybodies-is Archbishop Magco's declaration that he would sooner see England free than sober.
It is not to be thought of that
the flood Of British Freedom, which
to the open sea Of the world's praise, from dark
antiquity -Hath--Rowed, with pemp of waters unwithstood," Roused though it be full often
to a mood Which spurns the check of
salutary bands, That this most famous stream
in bogs and sanda Should perish; and to evil and
to good
Be lost for ever.
are con-
In politics we now have free- dom of thought and also freedom of speech, except when it is denied by hordes of Socialist hooligans. It is our duty to-day to apply the It is never to be thought of principles of liberty in the solu- "we must be free or die, who tion of economic problems, and proving the most dificult speak the tongue that Shakespeare that spoke." Liberty of the Individual, task of all. Liberty may be com military strategy of the family, and of the nation pared with has been a three-fold pasalon with which is a very easy thing to un- us, which has sapped and destroy- derstand, but only to be rightly ed tyrannies of various kinds, both applied by a specialist of genius.
(Continued on Next Columns.) secular and spiritual.
"Yes, sir, the club still meets hero Fridays, but nobody
shows up any more.'
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The kindergarten is different: Children in kindergartens are never washed, as the egg marka and jam stains are useful for. Identification purposes. A child.
down on the records as: on joining the kindergarten, is put
Jones, Maggie Female. Egg mark on top lip. Jam stain on right cheek, One shoe lace undone. She is then regarded as student and is givon a lot of coloured blocks to play with. This is what is known as the Montessori method of training.
Carda are also used. The teacher holds one out to the child. "What have I here?" she says, "A card," answers the child wearily. Two more cards are then pro- duced.
"What have I got now?" saks the teacher.
""Three cards." "Good," says the teacher. "Now see if you can pick the Queen,
were at kindergarten When we our teacher was a wow at this sort of thing, and used to win our play lunch money regularly,
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You very soon learn to spell in. these places. We remember the we learned to very first words sell were "KICK ME." The pro- coss was a bit painful, but the knowledge has stuck to me.
Shortly after we learned to spell
were promoted from the Minus Z class to the Z, and was made a monitor. Being a monitor carries with it the right to pinch. all the chalk you can get away with, and you also dish out the beads. We got our blue for bead stringing in our second year, and we still have the string with the three beads on it at home.
When we were leaving the kindergarten at the expiration of our sentence the teacher said to our justly proud parents, "This boy will go far." He was right. too, because shortly after that we moved to Hongkong.
We shall always look back with pleasure on our formative yeare whon our character was being moulded. We were the most belted child in the kindergarten, and it speaks volumes for our charactor that we came back. In the night after leaving and burnt the place down. And now, here we are with my character all formed, and not a damn thing to do with it.
Ah, well..
You may go now.
Of all ideas of liberty, none was so important or so universally re- cognised as the liberty of acquir. ing property. A man's right to own anything (oven himself) is now being challenged, but with out this privilege, which, of course, involves a responsibility, It is hard to end bow any liberty at all is left. When Byron called Scott "Apollo's mercenary BAD,!!! the Shirra's reply was: "God heir the bear who may not lick his own pawe.
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