MINISTER PELTED
EGG AND TOMATO PRELUDE
BUT MR. ELLIOT SINGS HIS PIECE
Mr. Walter Elliot, Minister of Agriculture, and a wild reception at Glasgow University Students' Union recently when he arrived to address the Tory Club.
As he walked on to the platform, accompanied by Mra. Elliot, ekka and tomatoes were huried at him. Both and his wife were hit.
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The Minister was visiting the club to speak on beinif of Sir Iain Colquhoun, the non-political candi- date in the Rectorial election, who is supported by the Tory Club, The other candidātes are Sir Staf-
Mr. C. W. A. Scott, wife of the ford Cripps (Socialist), M. Pado- famous airman, with her husband's rewaki (Distributis!) and Mr. Cun-massage from Melbourne telling of ninghame Graham (Scottish Na-bie info arrival and success in the tfonaliat)
Immediately Mr. Elliot arrived there was barrage of eggs and tomatoes from all parts of the hall. Student leaders held up their hands appealing for order, but in vain.
A tomato hit Mr. Elliot on the head and burst over his ear. Next
Air Race.
14,000 SPANISH SMUGGLERS
According to "El Debate" Spain
minute the contents of an exlover £5,000,000 annually in duties which had crashed against the cur-lon smuggled goods. tain above, fell on him. A student
In the gallery took alm
with n
Mrs. Elliot had been struck, by tomato which, however, did burst. A woman student led her off the stage.
The customs authorities estim
wator-pistol and emptied its con- fate that 14,000 people In Spain tents over the Minister's clothing. take Kome part in amuggling activities, and that of these 2,000 notare women. Tobacco is the chief article of contraband, and some 1.200 tong are introduced annually in clandestine fashion according to the estimates of experts.
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A BALLAD OF MILK. Then an undergraduate ran the electric controls and let down the curtain. Eggs and tomatoes were smashed all over it. Next down by the National Government, moment Mr. Elliot came out and there is no other Government front of the curtain and faced the or parts which has constructive audience amid considerable uproar. proposals to
Ultimately quiet was
put forward. The restored, imenities of these times are entire- but when Mr. Elliot rose to speak fly ignored, especially by the Scottial he was greeted with a chorus of Nationalists, who are doing nothing quimal noises in which the rounds to tackle the real dimculties of cows and pigs predominated. agriculture. The students alsu sang a ballad. "We have had no milk to-day."
Addressing the students, Mr.tinued Mr. Elliot said: "There are some very and shots in this audience, I don't think there will be any mistake, however, when the
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The Socialists are on
the run in every country in Europe, con. Elliot, "becaure they have no guts. The Socialists Ave or ten years ago were the hope of the world. To-day they are the rectorial despair of the world, and in Ger- many the Socialistą have brought
lection taken place, berause I am
here to say that we of the Tory Jalavery upon their own people.” Club are going to put our whole weight behind Sir Iain
yuhoun."
At the close of his address Mr. Col-Elliot was given a warm send-off
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by 2,000 students.
He continued: "The problems of afterwards he said, "It is the land, which are fendamental to some of the students forgot that day, are being tackled on tines kald there were ladies present."
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SINS OF MODERN CIVILISATION
By OLIVER BALDWIN
B
MADRID'S OLD BULL RING
Madrid's old bult ring, which has done service since 1874, has seen |ils lust fight before being pulled down to make way for a motor-bus station.
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Each man has a different con- bling of our prescut economic ception of what is meant by Civil system we and ourselves drunig Bation, but for my purpose i wall into
The old ring is replaced by a denial of take it to mean the economic and morality, by the acceptance of is situated on the outskirts of the commercial huge new ring to sent 20,000, which cultural state of tangs prevailing commissions, bonuses, and pro- town in the dreary suburb of at the moment in our own country, mas of luture favours which, but Ventas, and far too near to Mad With this state of things there a few years back, would have beenrld's large municipal cemetery for are undoubtedly many who a.e looked upon as graft. entirely content, and who look In the world of armament man fighters.
the liking of the superstitious bull- upon any attack on this civi-facturers, good business for shore- sation as an attront to their per noiders has come to mean war and sonal dignity, as if they alone murder for some fellow-creature when hypocrisy comes in at the were responsible for it all, under adstant country; and art and window, honesty goes on at the the direct supervision of Un- beauty is gradually losing Its door. changeable Nature or some private place in the list of those things God of their own.
that go to make up a civilisation. That civilisation
Our civilisation has also had its has brought A country's trade can be intereffect on the domestic side of life. untoid benefits to mankind to one fered with and ruined by those The congestion in the towns pro- will deny, but that man has often that buy and sell a country's duces convention misused them or even destroyed money for their own
and the herd them is something that must not gain; Bnancial crises
personal instinct, and this, in its fura, pro- and be forgotten if we are to be honest overthrow of governments can be apposite extreme.
theduces renctions that y to the with our own conception of what accomplished by the name means. is best for the majority in this The civilisation that we boast of world of ours,
has now become a purely material We have praised ourselves for state, uncontrolled, unmoral, and having given the light of our vicious in its effect on other eivilisation to what are called dark, people. And it is not dimcult to continents and backward races. ace why this has become so. We have Imposed by force
AB commerce has grown, so has the Jawa and customs on people en track widened between morality tirely different from us in babit and mujectaloni, and heredity, and where it has not
Christianity, which worked successfully we have in-accepted ethical foundation of our variably blamed the receivers. civilisation, preaches or should Such fa our conceit in the ad- preach if it followed its Teacher's vantages of our way of doing precepts--co-operation and bro. things over the way of others. therly love: Industrial Capitalism
aur
the
PUZZLING LAWS,
laws then proceed
In order to keep the balance out criminal acta in support of con- to formulaté vention with most surprising re- diverer, wherein a man, in order suits, such as in the question of to be iree, is forced to commit what the law calls a crime. laws that future generations wil Perhapa is la a perusal of our find it most dealt to understand
civilisation.
how we punish a tradesman for They will be interested to nee
giving his customers short weight In goods, and praise the man who, by buying and selling currency, given us short weight in money. How we imprison a boy for steni- ing apples from an orchard, and y nothing to the company pro- moter who makes away with the money of his investors In logiti- Imate trade. How we forbid tha | buying of a sweepstake ticket, and encourage the gambling on the Stock Exchange. How we con- demn the murderer for killing by killing him in hla turn.
In the appendages to civilian- tlon-thuse little frills And Can- cies that have beçame tucked on to it-we find BONJO interesting things. There is the speed of Hving, the over-erowding of the towns at the expense of the countryside, the sedentary life, the facile and rapid means of com- munication; and we And they have produced an amazing number of nervoas complex:8 deteriorn. Lion in the physical health of the people; and an artificiality of speech, costume, and bustor that result in n form of intolerable nobbery and an utter disregard for thought and contemplation.
WORKING FOR LEISURE.
It is when we think what could be done with the resources of civilisation that we are opt to despair for there is so much that. is good and so much more that could be beiteral It Is not
This is à test, of patience. Pussy versus vat versus cameramen. The pussy enough to take pride in these re-
WOB.
Internationally, we have saddled atur civilisation with the right edueness of Might. Imperially we have bound up Commerce with the power of armed force, and just fed it by the commendation of nu organised Church,
preaches the exact opposite, which is competition and rivalry.
sources if we do not see that they are put to the best use; nor need cannot distribute it. we boast of our productivity if we
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To glory in possession or the Both of these fundamentals are acquisition of power is nothing to taught the child from the first the satisfaction received from the days of his schooling, by word of knowledge that the people of your mauth and by example, with the country have food, clothing, and HONG KONG HOTEL natural result that the grown man shelter, and time for real leisure. Nationally, we are satisfied with falls between two stools, and once Our present ciyllisation has our civilisation when a material. he is beeume tired of sitting on taken work for profit as its ideal. Budget is balanced, -nnd have de- the floor, will take the most com- How much better to take work for finitely based, our values on the fortable seat. And that most leisure as its aim. more material pounds, shillings, comfortable seat enables him to and pence.
ree the material advantages that could be sequired by the denial of Christian principle and the worship of Mammon.
COMMERCIAL GRAFT.
As signs of the progress of this' civilisation we point to the big Trust, and cluse our eyes to the elimination of the small trader.
We differentiate between "square dealing and "good business." and. unhappily, in the crum
Civilisation must use alter ita basis. The ethical basis must take the place of the material one. Peace and economic liberty are fundamentals for happiness, and Hypocrisy thereupon enters his neither can be the lot of our people make-up, for, while still giving tip if the Material is constantly service to the Christian principles lauded above the Spiritual, the of his youth, his material life is Body above the Mind, and the
constant contradiction; and Brain above the Soul.
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