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THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1934
NOTES OF THE DAY PSYCHOLOGY OF The Very Idea!
SORE SHINS !!
PACIFISM
By
Just when an opportunity arrived | 66XX7E ARE all pain. "SENTINEL".
PEAKS AND OTHERS
By George NE former Peak resid- ent has moved over to
ON
After all the kicking the Austra- Hans have done about, leg-theory bowling, a pair of soro ahlns, here or there, is hardly an odd occur- rence. Illa, however, somewhat strange that Voce should develop a physical disability of this Ind
for an object lesson to Mr. Tom Clarko and his chatter about n single performance. Much more of it seems a singular proof of much in life and treasure as we people move to the Peak on every alde. The ubiquitous use he adde, we could hardly lose s not suit his wife. Most than that, without special know unanimity. But when you try to lost in the Great War. ledge, it is dimcult to say about a ascertain what, precisely, it means subject which is becoming increns- to the Individual you find. It is a It was Mr. Bernard Shaw, I seem themselves at Kowloon.
because their airs don't suit. ingly painful. The explanation case of quot homines, tot sententiae. to remember, who first put forth for Voce's absence in Australia's In point of fact it is one of those this doctrine of turning both socond innings at Nottingham formulne, dear to the politician, checks and the rest of one's miser-
What will happen when the sounds so this and landequate that which cover the multitude of dif- able body to the enemy. He heir finds that he doesn't like the may very well be truel-working ferent, or even divergent, opinions suggested that the German in-airs at the Peak or the air at from the suggestion that the Notts as to a question of polley. It is vaders would have boon ashamed Kowloon? Personally, give us committed could have invented a an instance of that trickery of to commit any hostlio act whatso Kowloon we can make our own more plausible lle and they needed words on which the demagogue ever in France if the inhabitants to give authority to an "Innocent relles for decolving the people for had done nothing to oppose their deception" in the intereals of good some purpose of his own. relations with Australia. There is
triumphant progress. The Bishop also a possibility that Voce im-
of Birmingham is the latest ad- On the lips of many mon and vocate of this polley. It is only in parted the information to his com-
DIFURCATIONS FÖR SHORT. women it means nothing more, if thi mittee, who were not responsible nothing less, than their willing to its Navy, has never been. country, which, thanks
malaly for its truth. Who's to say? The ness to respond to the familiarly invaded, that his doctrine could ing the vexed field of controversy
actual
Belated though we are in enter- only thing certain in that the In-petition: "Give peace in our time, ever get a hearing, much less cident is exceedingly unfortunate, O Lord." You can confidently ex-secure adherents. Frenchmen, a feel that an expression of opinion on the subject of bifurcations, we Especially on the eve of the Fifth pect a fervid and Final Test.
response to it from portion of whose country has been at this stage will do much to soldiers at church parade. Know thrice occupied by German armies,
Wis a sying which it heard people. Even if we were attacked.
s'to-day") or ill-treat an utterly defencelesa Kowloon because the air did
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to see a good bit of leg and am hope I live to see the day of all in favour of shorts for women." abbreviated bifurcations, Odsfish!
ing what war is, and what war is would not listen to it for a split simplify public bewilderment. not, they are the least bellicose of second. Only too well they know men. Then there are the numer- what would happen if German which means a division of one into Bifurcation, means two-forked, It is too early to condonin Eva,to war in general, admit that it paying guests. They would take two from which we got trousers---
ous persons who, though opposed soldiers were received as although already it is evident may be a necessary evil in particu- everything worth taking with the shorte-women tennis players. that the complications of the lar cases. erngaroads over which "she" pre-
thoroughness they showed in run- ning off with all the clocks in the sides were not very closely studied They cherish the delusion, des Franco-Prussian War. But whole- before the scheme was proceeded plte historical object-lessons to sale looting and the killing of with. Many motorists, after a few days' experience, are making age of trained men and weapons be nothing in comparison with the the contrary, that a general short-those who tried to stop it would detours when they can do so with will prevent nations from
Jother out Kroat inconvenience that when some deep-rooted defenceless population
hlilcons humiliations a should give Hongkong's trafficment has to be settled. All that to endure. authorities something to think happens in such cases is that the over. The general atowing-up of war lasts longer, and involves a
Harry Hopkins, Wimbledon ball progress in this part of the city ex-
larger waste of human life, than up a little logic in the course of set,
Dr. Barnes ought to have picked boy and member of the younger tends beyond the motor-car to the
it would have done if the belli- the mathematical studies which Harry: It is given to few women 189 terse and final, Bald tramways, whose services are seriously affected at the outset. If we had been Wrangler. So I confidently appeal was meant to be, in their brothers
two-minute geronts had been better equipped enabled bim to become Second
to display the female form as it As many as three tramy proceed properly armed against aggres to him to put ble theory to the fng the same direction have been sion at the beginning of the Great logical test. It la clear he objects cut-down flannels. I think this other, waiting for the red light to sooner-perhaps it might never whether latent or actively applied. tennis will undermine the moral of observed one on the tall of the War, it would have been over to any form of protection by force, racket of introducing the cut in turn to amber and then to green. have happened if Germany had Let him then publicly announes the game and will eventually affect
been convinced that we had a suf- that neither he himself nor his the not receipts. ficient force and were determined house and household are under to use it.
the protection of the police, and that he will never allow a single understanding must be shown be
We think, shortly, that a good, How often I have heard these truncheon to interfere. In stig-
nice, kind woolly-minded dwell affairs. Let him rely on
his fore we are convinced that the new~~ on the horrors of war and the chivalry of the burglars, as he cult will make for faster women. blood and treasure! When forced by any Services, on the complai- appalling losses it involves in asks us to rely, when unprotected
admit that war may be necessary onvy us for the greatness of our Into a logical tight corner, they sant kindness of the nations who
and then the difcuity Is to possessions.
CON THIS ONE compel them to define the nature
What is a recurring slip of paper, international army for an inter- of the literary market a your ago convenient at one time and becomes of the necessity! Some of them would be willing to fight in an Nichols, cleverly caught the turn remembered, cannot be denied, is That clover writer, Mr. Beverley which cannot be lost, cannot be national сливе. Others believe with his "Cry Havoc!" a
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THURSDAY, AUG. 10, 1934:
A MIDDLE WAY? The varying experiments, economic and social, which dif- ferent nations have been making in their efforts to overcome the prevalent world depression have raised the question whether. there can be any middle way between laissez-faire and Com- munism. A case could certainly be made out for the contention, which runs somewhat contrary to popular ideas, that there are many directions in which a com- promise with both ideas can be effected. Even the limitation of hours and wage-fixing machinery can be cited as constituting an methods which, incidentally, are of the day, puts a check upon the This belief is held by the mild and War" (Peter Davies, 6s.), by F.ment and if not torn up often being welcomed by American main cast to west stream at those mellifluous Lansbury and, not so Yeats-Brown, is a simply crushing results permanent embarrass- horrible of all ware, is legitimate. most extreme form. "Dogs of sign of temporary embarrass- employers as enabling them to Intervals and is itself held up un openly, by many other busy Social- confutation of all the literary ment?. forecast their competitors' costs. necessarily half the time. The new German system, in
ists. For such imperfect pacifists gent's ingenious arguments. Mr. striking contrast, is based on the
I have an inkling of respect. I Yeats-Brown was a man of action individual factory, and it is yet
forgive them their lack of logic before he became a man of letters, this original and difficult-con- To assist our readers to solve too early to judge, its real-im--
because they do not adopt the and his "Bengal Lancer which undrum we would add that the slip plications. Speaking generally, however, it can be said that the dications of State control of
A good deal of alarm has been animated doormat" attitude of tells the story of his soldiering in is produced at the and of each caused in some quarters by in- those who go the complete coney, India, bocamo a "best soller", and month by a particularly unpiensant measures of planning undertaken banking in the United States. The
thoroughly deserved its success. in most of the leading countries reason is difficult to appreciate.
Of late, however, the perfect Nichols' case rests entirely on a English when you leave a note say. He shows, for example, that Mr. Individual who cannot understand show that various forms are pos- Since the banking crisis of March, pacifist has expounded his theory dental of nationality. The paci-ing you will not be in, and has sible, many of which still allow 1933, great changes have swept of passive resistance and receivedi fiat's ideal will nover be realised, fat feet through waiting for you much scope to private enterprise. across the American banking a respectful hearing. Indeed, he Mr. Nichols admits, until national. These experiments also encour world, changes so sweeping that seems to have persuaded a number ism has been eliminated all the to come and translate your note. age the belief that even the Association recently summed up not only the cheapest but also the which all the nations are dancing, few realise them. The Bankers' of penny-wise, pound-foolish per- world over. He defines it na "a interference with individual
sons that utter defencelesanes is crazy and criminal hysteria, to
A GREAT VICTORY, liberty involved in planning can draws is enlightening. For in-most effective form of self-defence, because they are fed with lies the first three days of her appear be introduced, by consent as well stance, there were 30,800 banka He advises us to scrap our Navy, from the cradle to the grave, be-fance, Eva is now frequently show-
some of them, and the picture it
After drawing full houses for as by compulsion. During the in 1921. Now there are 14,000, a Army, and Air Force, using the cause they euck in the poison with past year, the United States and decrease of over half. About money saved for social reforms, their mother's milk, have it injecting a green eye as interest fudes, Germany, in particular, have, 4,000 banks have vanished since and to trust in the chivalry of our ed ad nauseam in all their schools, It is felt, in Fedder Street that under the goad of extreme March, 1934. Several thousand foreign rivals, who would not, he and live on an almost exclusiva their achievement in installing the economic distress, broken vio banks owe the R.F.C. more than a thinks, ever be so unkind as to rob. lently away from past traditions. sets. The R.F.C. has taken more
(Continued on Page_5.) half billion dollars on their as-
robot is a definite victory over the When this is coupled with the than a billion dollars worth of
tram extension partisania, further point that Italy and stock In 6,400 banks, including Russia have long since struck many of the strongest banks in out along new paths, it will be the country. Thus it has an in- seen that four of the world's terest in 44 per cent. of all banks chlef industrial States, contain- to-day. A million people ing some four hundred million Institutions have borrowed from people and responsible for over
the 5,800 loaning associations and sixty per cent. of the world's corporations started by the gov- industrial production, have now of credit. The R.F.C. also has ernment, to extend various types abjured traditional economic doc-direct loans to various corporn- trines. It thus becomes evident tions totaling around $700,000,000, that whatever path the world's progress towards recovery may take, it will certainly be a new one. At the moment, all eyes are on the United States, where abdicated from the credit feld, a Private agencies have virtually the Roosevelt administration Is conducting experiments which indicates. From 1922-1931 securi- survey of the American scene All some observers with fear and ties floated. in private markets others with renewed hope. Only averaged more than five billions time can tell whether the New Deal, in all its implications, will issues shrank to $621,000,000 a B year. During 1932-1933 those contribute to the eventual re- year, a decrease of almost 90 per covery of the nation. One point cont. Somebody had to do the that cannot fail to be noticed is anni in federal deposit that whilst America is veering insurance, giving another govern
It. Add more to the Left in hor social ment agency a direct Interest in experiments, Russia is being banking. Moreover, the divorce of compelled to modify her Com the security business from com- munistic ideas by introducing mercial banking has put a new measures based on more in complexion on the whole fleld. dividualistic luca. At the mo- and the influence of the Federal ment, a state of flux is every-Reserve System" la where apparent. Progress. in rising. So in any discussion of admittedly the future may best be found by whether government ought to go a compromise between the ex-right at the outset that the Ameri into banking, it fe well to realisa tremes of the capitalist and socialist systems.
can government is already In banking up to the hips.
CREDIT FIELD,
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That leaves twelve dollars a month, Shall that be for Feggy Ann's toe dancing or for gin?"
A Chincho clerk who posed as n constable while under the influence of drink had to pay $75 for the offence at Central on Tuesday, Ho had been searching, people in the strect A case of seek and ye shall bo fried.
Won
Twelve British schoolboys having scholarships In American schools are to spend a year in the- U.S.A. "In order to get acquainted with their American counterparts and co the lives of American schoolboys." We are inclined to Bay "Oh Yeah!" to this but. It is to be hoped that the boys will pack. a tidy Colt cach and learn to "take
it whatever it is. At the worst they can did the denths of Ameri- can schoolboys:
PRINTERS PARADISE.. Diplomatie circles have been deeply stirred by a recent para- graph which stated that R. naval, oficer nld a wreath by two goals to ens." An official enquiry as to whether the otheer was at the funeral.or participating in an inter-float match was made and it is under stood that a concillatory roply was sent. Latest reportaiatoithat the situation remains qulot