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NOTES OF THE DAY
TEST TEMPERAMENTS
The Test Match temperaments of observors would make almost As Interesting study as those of the players. The gloom that OR settled down upon some of Eng- land's supporters because of the narrow cscape of Tuesday showa a strange lack of perspective.
It
CRISIS POINTS. IN
destiny.
AMERICAN POLICY
By GLENN FRANK
President of the University of Wisconsin (Excerpts From Recent Baccalaureato Sermon)
a now
The Very Idea!
OUR TWELFTH MAN
- By George
IN reply to correspondents
we are authorised to state that Mr. Rainmore has
would be absurd to suggest thatHE American people are faced | the field before dominated by prinot been selected as twelfth the Australians did not establish a complete mastery. Until the nome major decisions, decisions philosophy is taking shape, a philo. man in the next Test match. Rumours that the grounds- weather came to England's rescue that will determine our national sophy of statism.
In your generation, government ma and if England's weather was I want to put to you four major will play a larger and larger role man accidentally left the hose not useful sometimes, her people would have reason for permanent alternatives which, to me, uro al in the realm of economies. The turned on over the pitch over- trievance against it--Wyatt's then tornatives between Reality and day of a virtually anarchic in-night have been proved un-
Illusion.
dividualism is dead. The peculiar founded and Leeds people wore were doomed. But actually there
circumstances.
ces of the power age so impressed by the good man's was not much to it, beyond the Are we to strengthen
democracy or surrender to dic bave made Impossible any whole- alibi that they have subscribed ordinary luck of the game. Eng.
tatorship?
sele reversion of government to a handsome sum of money which land did not come off on a drying
the simpler role of a simpler day will buy him a cottage and wicket; two Australians maanged
The problem is to determine wise-
retirement. to stick together for the greater
ly the direction and the degree part of Saturday. is that good
of governmental activity in eco- reason to assume we have no bats-
nomic affairs which the new cir- men and, that the Fifth Test Is
camataacos of an age of science, already as good as lost? Recol-
technology, and power production make necessary.
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HONGKONG &
by England in the Third Test. That means no more than Austen- lia's 584 at Leeds when prospects of the Oval match are being con-
2: Are we to pursue our enterprise in freedom or under repimentation?
Are we to establish con- trol
of this age of plenty or 'execute a return to an age of Rcarcity?
The Australian team, in token of their belief of his "Innocenco, bresented the groundsman with a pair of particularly deadly anakes 4. Are ice to walk the wayя
as pets and if he is in good health of a realistic internationalisme The rank and file of Americans at the conclusion of the tour they balleve in rugged individuallem, have offered to take him a free or go in for the economic mo- nasticism of the nationaliste? as profoundly as did the pioneers, ride aeross the Buah. I turn, first, to the issue of demo- but they have had their fill of In caso it should be thought sidered. These things happen. cracy versus dictatorship. Drama ruthless individuallam. They will that we showed partiality yester Huge acores one day and puzzlingle secessions from democracy submit to drastic limitations upon day in printing the ode of the failures another. Isn't it just have everywhere marked the post- their freedom of enterprise before Boys from the Bush, wo crib. the that which makes cricket the game war politics of the world. It is a they will hand themselves back following lines to show the other
assume that into the power of a ruthless, in-side of the case to-day. mistake, I think, to thie opidemic resort to dictatorship dividualism of business, industry, in but a by-product of the war. and finance.
it is?
BURNING UP COFFEE
A
detalled
of
of
soundest
econ-
FIL
CARMEN LORDSIENSE.
"There's rain on the wicket- There's a chance for winning
cricket.
Pray, Mr. Verity, Have you enough temerity?"
"On my day i am deadly; Call me Hurricane Hedley, I can say, without asperity, That I have enough tomeritu.”
Boldly he strode to the creuso: Like somo hero of ancient
Greece-
Banged down
celerity:
The ball with
Oh, well bowled, and verilul
Woodfull, McCabe, Brown, Grad-
*-
Each to-day is a wiser, if a sad,
man;
And we can all say in sinocrity: "Your match. Mr. Hedley
Verity
Even before the war there was o For myself,.1 should prefer to growing conviction in the minds see this factor of integration pro- Once more that feature of pre-of many that democracy was not vided by private enterprise itself. sent-day life which futuro genera- up to the job of administering an And if the leadership of business. tions will fad. hardest to under-are of natural science, technology, industry and finance will face the stand or forgive the voluntary and power production.
now problems with a socially res destruction of foodstuffs at a time The problem of your generation is ponsible programme, no political when many people are going not the renunciation but the revi- leadership can win the suffrage of hungry-appears into the news.ston of democracy that it may func- the American people for a pro- This. timu It occurs in Brazil, tion more effectively. I content xramme that smacks either where more than 63,000,000 myself with two suggestions rea Fascism or of Communism. pounds of coffee are being burned pecting this necessary revision of polley, respecting the relation of
Meanwhile the line so that growers, marketers, and democracy. shippers can receive a "fale price" First, wo should recognize the the slate to private enterprise for their work. To say that this necessity and establish fixed soems to me clearly indicated. If sort of thing la unutierably waste- procedure for what Lindsay Rogers government will but keep clear
for the distinction between the broad: "crisis government" ful is not, of course, to attack the terms
normal underlying problem. No producer emergencies. The
pro- guidance of economic policy and QUOTAS
regimentation of can make a living when the mar- cesses of democracy
are not de-the
administration,. the ket le glutted with the commodity signed to deal with crisis of the business Normally, in matters concern-he produces, in the present state magnitude the worldwide depres- United States has, I think, the ing other parts of the Empire, it of world organisation. But the sion assumed. This technique of chance to evolve a sounder rela- is the experience of Crown fact remains that this way of "crisis government" should not be tion between polities and
meeting the crisis is fundamental- left to the improvisations and in- omics than either the communisms. Colonies to be given their ordersly wrong. Sooner or later we trigues of an hour of incredible or fascisma of the hour can pos- by the Home Government, leav must and a more intelligent way worry when the national mind is sibly achieve. ing officials on the spot no option of solving the problem of what is at wit's end. It should be a
matured technique held ready for I turn, third, to the issue of an but to comply therewith. On called over-production.
the moment of emergency.
economics of plenty versus the question, of the application
Second, for even" the normal economies of scarcity. We have of the piecegoods quota system ON A DIFFERENT PLANE business of government in this been working in terms of an age to Hongkong, however, the Colonial Office has so far been
Authorities at a New England complicated age we should effect of plenty, but thinking in terms
CHEILD AND US. content to be guided by the ad- teachers college have ruled that a reallocation of functions be- of an age of scarcity. Our enter- tween the legislature and theprise, has been new. Our eco- vice of the local Government. Women students must not wear executive. We must stop the in-nomics has been old. We cannot
ankle-length 'socks, except on the
Chelld: Where does Daddy go That is still the policy to be tennis court. The reason given expert Intrusion of legislators in- go on Indefinitely with our enter-at Tuesday tifin time? followed, for, on the question is that these little socks are "tion and the intricate processes of nomics in another. We must
to the detailed aspects of legisla prise in one age and our
fis: To the Rotary Club. being revived in Parliament, the bocoming
Cheild Is the company botter to future teachers." Secretary
administration. We must restrict either shove our enterprise back there? of State for the Why, one wonders, is it especially legislative bodies to charting to our economies or bring our Us: How should we know? Colonies has informed a ques- if the future stenographer, the broad paths. of policy, and to ajeconomics abreast of our
unbecoming to a future teacher?
enter- Chelld: What is the Rotary tioner that he intends asking Sir
critical checking up on the results Priscience and the machine have William Peel to give his con-sales-girl can
future housewife, or the future of administration. And we must
Club? wear them, why
Us: A gathering of men with S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.sidered opinion on the possibility not
lodge greater detalled power and brought us to the threshold of a tko future school mis- of instituting a "through ticket" tress? The teacher suffers wider discretion, in the executive. social millennium, but we have bank balances and corporations.
Chefld: Why aren't you there?
applied to imports intended for she ought, somehow, to be set we must pay for the avoidance of found the key that will unlock the bank balance. ystem whereby quotas could be good deal frere the notion that These, and like adjustments of the lacked the wit to unlock the door. then?
democratic technique are the price We should not rest until we have.
Us: Because we haven't got a domestic consumption, leaving apart from the ordinary run of
Cheild: Why 7 the entrepot trade unaffected. people. She has to be trained for dictatorship.
I turn, fourth, to the issue of Us: Because we rotate on our Looking at the matter from her job, of course, and she has
internationalism versus national- all angles, it will be sur. to be a woman of character and I turn, second, to the isle of jam. While the processes of the own axis and finish up where we
intelligence: but sometimes the freedom prising if the Governor of long-inaistence that
start. versus regimentation, world's life grow daily more she observe aThroughout the
Cheild: What do the Rotarians. kong modifies his previously different code than other women governments announce their deter world's governments
Western world international, the pelfeles of the do?
grow daily expressed views opposing inter- is carried altogether too far.
Us: Congregate, orató, donate, mination to plan the life and enter more national. ference with the free port status
and rotate. prise of their peoples. Are we to Despite the rising tide of of the Colony. In the first
pursue our enterpise in freedom or opinion to the contrary,
I am own axis.
Chelld: Do they rotate on their place, it is to be noted that, so
under regimentation?
convinced that the modern world
Us: Ax us another! If they far as Hongkong is concerned,
In each instance, so far, it has cannot be run effectively in terms did they'd fall down, the issue is really not one of cepts an important Sociallat prin- been a case of political leader of Isolated economic nationalisms.
Cheild: Why don't women have Lancashire v. Japan so much as ciple in the Petroleum Bill, which ship's stepping in to save a altan- The modern world is bound to-Rotary Clubs? for last year show that the total In the House of Commons, failed to master in any socially transportation, Instantaneous con ruminate, dissipate, and dictate. imports of piecegoods and tex- all petroleum and natural
vests in the Crown the property in satisfactory way. Everywhere the munication, and the frontier-cross-
(Continued on Page 3) tiles into Hongkong from Japan within Great Britain, and the "ex came to a mere seven million clusive right of searching and for and getting such five millions from North China
empowers the and eight millions from South | Board of Trade to grant licences China. United Kingdom im- "to such persons as they think Át" ports totalled eighteen milllons. to bore for and get petroleum. It is difficult to discover precise. This step has been forced upon ly what proportions of these the fact that so long as whatever the Government by realisation of totals represent domestic con- oil there may be in Britain re- sumption, but it is safe to say: mains in privato ownership it can- that not more than twenty-five not be exploited. No-one could per cent. remains within the make an agreement with land- Colony. A point to be stressed owners on reasonable terms, is that the suggested quota
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*
would only be in respect of cotton WHY NOT FOR OTHERS? piecegoods. When other classes
are excluded, it would most prob.
KAR
The Labour Party supported the
ably be found that Japanese Bill and urged the Government to imports do not amount to more bo logical and go the whole way | thân" about four million dollars' by ruling out private exploitation worth a year Imports from of State-owned oil. But that was other sources would also be more perhaps too much to expect from or less correspondingly reduced the present Government. It is, The question thus arises whether strit
however, interesting to have this admission from what is for the relatively small quantity virtually Conservative Govern of goods affected, when local con-mant, that privato sumption only is taken into ac-holding up the development of nership
oil count, it would be worth while to just as it is holding us the develope apply the quota system locally. ment. of the Industry- fact Commission
The effect on Lancashire's prob- roport of every Royal
which has been emphasised in the
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lem, which is worldwide in during the past twenty years! character, would be almost im case for the pubile ownership perceptible. When we add to control of Britain's national; re this consideration the cost of sources: seems unanswerable, The working the system, the incon- National Government venience.it would cause, and the endorsed it; for: overy argument Increnaed cost of clothing which ship of Britain's all applies with isod in favour of rublle owner it would impose on people who equnt force to every other resource can ill afford it, the case for on which the well-being of the quotas is weakened further still. nation depende.
the
A
state has come more and more into
novor feel
door.
* **
Us: Because they accumulate,
Cheild: Do you know any móře words, anding" with "'ato'?:
Us: Yes, We shall be late for a date if you don't skate. Kindly emulate a Ford V Eight or we shall imitate a heavyweight!
Chelld: That's gresti
The temporary roturn of the Marcus Show takes us back to those fragrant memories of Covent Garden Wagner sonsong when we were always to be seen in the front row of the Gods chowing" a wadful of spearmint over the dress circle.
Picking on our rash of reminis- cences. we would say that our: most cherished memory, is, of Jenny Lind's first Covent Garden appearance in 1847. Advancing to the footlights, aweetly blushing' and trembling with nervousness," the Swedish Nightingale curtsey ed to the Royal Box and began Cin English) the exquisite.arin, from "Lucia"
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Are you the O'Riley they speaka
of so well,
If you're the O'Riley". They speaks of no highly, Carblimey, O'Riley," you" ARE
looking well!"..
As the last pure silver note died away the vast theatre broke into a thunderstorm of applause, thủy. diva was half buried under an avalanche of costly flowers, and wa tare the diamonds from our frilled shirt front, sobbing, and hurled them, madly, ch the stage, 13 Yes, the “Garden", was the
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