MINISTER PELTED
EGG AND TOMATO PRELUDE
BUT MR. ELLIOT SINGS HIS PIECE
Mr. Walter Elliot, Minister of Agriculture, had 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 Mrs. Elliot, eggs and tomatoes were hurled at him. Both he and his wife were hit,
The Minister was visiting the club to speak on behalf of Sir Iain Colquhoun, the non-political candi date in the Rectorial election, who is supported by the Tory Club.
The other candidates are Sir Stat
Mr. C. W. A. Scott, wife of the ford Cripps (Socialist), M. Pado-} famous airman, with her husband's rowski (Distributist) and Mr. Gun- message from Melbourne telling of ninghame Graham (Scottish Na-his onfe arrival and success in the tionalist)
Immediately Mr. Elliot arrived there was a barrage of eggs and tomatoes from all parts of the hall. Student leaders held up their hands appealing for order, but in vain.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1934.
SINS OF MODERN CIVILISATION
By OLIVER BALDWIN
MADRID'S OLD' BULL RING
Madrid's old bull ring, which hus':
done service since 1874, has rec
RIGHT FROM
iis last fight before being pulled THE
down to make way for a motor-hau station.
Each man has a different con- bling of our prosent economic ception of what in meant by Civili- mystera we and oursuives dritung
The old ring is replaced by a sation, but 10r my purpose 1 will into # denial of commercial huge new ring to seat 20,000, which take it to mean the economie and morality by the acceptance of is situated on the outskirts of the cuitarat state of tange prevailing commissions, bonuses, and pro town in the dreary suburb of at the moment in our own country, misca of future favours which, but Ventas, and far too near to Mad- With the state of things there a few years back, would have been rid's large municipal comelery for ore undoubtedly many who are looked upon as graft.
the liking of the superstitions bull- entirely content, and who look In the world of armament manit-fighters: upon any attack on, this civil- facturere, good business for share- sation as an affront to their per- norders 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 in a distant country; and art and window, honesty goes out at the the direct supervision of Un- beauty is gradually losing its or. changeable Nature or some privato pisco in the list of those things God of their own.
That go to make up a civilisation.
That civilisation has brought unloid benefits to mankind no one will deny; but that man has often mulaused them or even destroyed them is something that must not be forgotten if we are to be honest with our own conception of what is best for the majority in this world of ours.
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Our civilisation has also had its 1
PUZZLING LAWS.
A country's trade can be inter-effect on the domestle side of Hfu. į fered with add ruined by those The congestion in the towns pro- that buy and selt, a country'a duces convention and the herd money for their own personal instinct, and this, in its turn, pro- gain; financial crises and the duces roactions that fly to the overthrow of governments can be opposite extreme. accomplished by the same means. The civilisation that we banst of has now become a purely materini
In order to keep the balance out We have praised ourselves for state, uncontrolled, unmoral, and laws then proceed to formulate having given the light of our vicious in is effect on other criminal acis in support of con- civilisation to what are called dark people. And it in not difficult to vention with most surprising ro continents and backward races. Hec why this has become so. As suits, such as in the question of We have imposed by force our commerce has grown, so has tas divorce, wherein a man, la order laws and customs on people en- breach widened between morality to be free, is forced to commit According to El Debate. Spain
tirely different from us in habit and materialism. An ex losen £5,000,000 annually in dotles
and heredity, and where it has not Ton amuggled goods.
worked successfully we have in- variably blamed the receivers.
Such is our conceit in the ad- vantages of our way of doing things over the way of others.
14,000 SPANISH SMUGGLERS
A tomato lift, Mr. Elliot on the head and burst over his car. Next minute the contents of which had crashod ngainst the cur- tala above, fell on him. A student in the gallery took alm, with a The customs authorities extim- water-platol and emptied its conate that 14,000 people...in · Spain tents over the Minister's clothing,
Mrs. Elliot had been struck by a tomato which, however, did not burst. A woman student led her off the stage.
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part in smuggling netivities, and, that of these 2,000 are women. Tobacco in the chlef article of contraband, and some 1,200 tons are introduced annually in clandestine fashion according to the estimates of experts.
A BALLAD OF MILK. Then an undergraduate ran to 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 in and there is no other Government front of the curtain and faced the or party which has constructive audience amid considerable uproar. propwants to put forward. The Ultimately quiet was restored.cuities of these times are entire- but when Mr. Elliot rose to speak ly ignored, especially by the Scottish he was greeted with a chorus of Nationalisis, who are doing nothing animal noises in which the sounds to tackle the real difficulties in
agriculture.
of cows and pigs predominated.
The Socinlists are on the run The students also Bunga balind. "We have had no milk to-day."
In every country in Europe, con- Addressing the students, Mr. tinued Mr. Elliot, "because they Elliot said; "There are some very have no guts. The Socialists flyn had shots in this audience, I don't for ten years ago were the hope of think there will be any mistake, the world. To-day they are the however, when the rectorial despair of the world, and in Ger- lection takes place, because I am many the Socialists have brought here to any that we of the Tory slavery, upon their own | people." Club are going to put our whole At the close of his address Mr. weight behin Siraln Col-Elliot was given a warm send-off
by 2,000 students. quhoun."
Interviewed
He continued: "The problems of afterwards he said, "It is a pity the land, which are fundamental tu some of the students forgot that day, are being tackled on lines tuid there were hudies present."
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Christianity, which IB the nccepted ethical foundation of our civilisation, prenches or should preach if it followed its Tencher's precepts-co-operation and bro- therly love; Industrial Capitalism
what the law calls a crime,
Perhaps it is in a perusal of our laws, that future generations will find it most difficult to understand our civilisation.
They will be interested to see how we punish a tradesman for giving his customers short weight in goods, and praise the man who, by buying and selling currency. gives us short weight in money. Hlaw we imprison a boy for steal- ing apples from an orchard, and say nothing to the company pro- moter who makes away with the. money of his investors in legiti- mate trade. How we forbid the buying of a sweepstake ticket, and encourage the gambling on Stock Exchange. How we con- demn the murderer for killing hy killing him in his turn.
the
In the appendages to civilian- tion-those lttle frills und fans cica that have become tacked on to It-wo Bnd Home interesting things. There is the speed of living, the over-orowding of the towns at the expense of the countryside, the sodentary life, the facile and rapid means of com- munication; and we find they have produced an amazing number of nervous complexes- deteriora- in the physical health of the people; and an artificiality of peach, contume, and custom that result in a form of intolerable nobbery and an utter disregard for thought and contemplation,
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It is when we think what could be done with the resources of civilisation that we are apt to despair, for there is so much that is good and so much more that
beltered. could be
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~Thin la a lust of patience. Puray-varius int-varitiṇERMOremen-The pussy enough to tako pride in these re-
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Internationally, we have saddled prenches the exact opposite, which our elvilisation with the rights is competition and rivalry, vousness of Might. Imperially wel Both of these fundamentals are have bound up Commerce with the taught the child from the first power of armed force, and Justi- days of lifs, schooling, by word of fled it by the commendation of an mouth and by example. with the organised Church..
natural result that the grown man Nationally, we are satisfied with falls between two stools, and once our civilisation, when a material he has become tired of sitting on Budget is balanced, and have de- the floor, will take the most com- that most finitely based our values on the fortably rent. And more material pounds, shillings,, comfortable seat enables him to en the material advantages that and pence.
could be acquired by the denial of Christian principle and the worship of Mummon.
sources if we do not see that they are put to the best use; nor nood we boast of our productivity if we cannot distribute It,
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