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Oregon stale police and striking mill workers engaged in a good. old-fashioned Donnybrook near Forest Grove, Ore, during thà lumber mili strike that paralysed the industry in the Paclic North- west. In this picture one striker is coming out second best in his
Bruil with the law.
The Maharajah of Kapurthala, reputedly one of the world's wealthiest men, and undisputably one of the faw' remaining abio- Jute ruleri, is seen here enjoy- ing the night life of New York city for the last time before de- parting after a visit to Amarica, He seen at a club mingling
with the regular patrons.
COUNTESS OF CARRICK An excellent close-up of the Countess of Carrick, popular as dancing partner of the Prince
of Wales, is shown abovm. She is the former Marion Donigħus of Philadelphia, and succeeds Mrs. Wally Simpson of Baltimore and Lady Thelma Furness, sister of Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt a the Prince'a favourite. The Counter, whose home is in re- land, has four children.
The battle was short, but the casualitos baavy. Swinging heavy night sticks, the troopers dispersed á
crowd of about 50, and in this picture, aru kean out dragging one of the battle victims,
TOO MANY SEEKING SAFE JOBS
INITIATIVE BECOMING
SUPPRESSED?
BY DR. E. D. LABORDE
7 live to-day in a country which is over-populated to the W live today in it cillions of people. Our towns and roads
are crowded to a density far beyond the optimum. Our daily journey to our work, our visits to the cinema, or the sports ground, must all take place in the midst of an inconvenient press of our fellow men.
Such conditions are rapidly forcing us to adapt ourselves more and more to living in crowds; and crowds need regulation.
This comes partly from within the individual and partly from external authority. The individual recognises the need for orderliness, without which anarchy would reign, and his immediate response is what may be termed the queue-habit.
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Anyone who watches a crowd; the boys and youths of to-day
tube booking-office will cannot amuse themselves. realise how well developed this As soon as school life begins, habit is among us. But however the modern boy enters on the advantageous its practical effects struggle of life. It is a paradox may be, its ultimate influence on that competition should reach its the nation cannot fail to be the highest degree of severity in an suppression of initiative and in-age which seeks to abolish it. dividuality.
Strenuous competition at school
When individual action is in- and university for qualifications adequate, external authority steps which will secure a good start in
English society turns out en masse in all its gay finery when the Derby is run at Epsom Downs. Here is the Viscountess Weymouth with the Duke of Marlborough among the thrangs at the race track.
own, failed to achieve his object,
at the very age when mental entering it. activity should be greatest. Only
in. A grandmotherly State atife leaves little time for thought finds the greatest difficulty in re- tempts to protect us from our potential folly at street-crossings, to save us from excessive drink, to shelter us from accident in workshop and factory.
We have become accustomed to
some of the older foundationa
His school authorities have n
Is their leisure to digest what is now batch of leaving-pupils to read.
place, and the employer is sus When the struggle is over and picious of applicants of unusual boing formed up and passed along the asual qualifications gained, nge. by attendants in one place, by officials in another, and by police-young men do not feel disposed to men in the streets. Ne force of risk the loss of
Bame
UNPRODUCTIVE
THE FUTURE
AGED FOSSIL FOUND
BONES OF GIANT
TITANOTHERE
several years' Added to all this, incentives to fast disappearing
Pasadena, Cal., July 11. grind by striking out on a new adventure are Initiative can survive constant venture. Hard-won ground must from the modern world. Avenues
Discovery of the fossilised shepherding.
skeleton of a giant Titanothere, a The development of economic be maintained. They therefore have been closed and prizes re-
tend to Reek "safe" jobs, and only duced. "rationalisation" bends in the
beast that roamed the Amargosa the most adventurous dare stray direction, Modern large from the beaten paths. scale businesses, with their im
Vocations which were formerly desert area more than forty million proved organisation and increased
procarious have become "anfe" years ago, has been revealed by the introduction of. Dr. Chester Stock, paleontologist of through mechanical procesnes, have secur
Besides, the tradition of our
To strike out for the California Institute of Techno- salaried posts. ed a grip on the nation which, whether we like it or not, is bid-schools is to encourage the best oneself is perhaps to meet with logy. ding fair to curtail our freedom in pupils to aim at "black-coated" the opposition of a large mono- the most intimate spheres of life. jobs, since those are supposed topolistic concern or even the State It pays to follow the crowd, and be the most respectable and have itself. There is a feeling, too, only those who can afford high reasonable security of tenure.
that everything has been tried. The the economie prices can escape strait-jacket.
THE CHILD-MIND
in n
The rare find was made virtual graveyard of pre-historic beasts, a rock ledge where a titan- othere skull and other bones pre- viously have been dug out.
result is that our best brains are diverted into careers What the outcome of this re- that are not productive. This is pression of initiative will be one
A hard of the queen animals, less true now than it was five or hardly dares to contemplate. Its While these conditions affect the ten years ago; but it is still far political effects are already which resembled somewhat a huge
evident In certain nation at large, special influences more true than it should be.
countries.umbering rhinoceros with two tend to sap the initiative of the The severity of competition in Foreign methods are unlikely to blunt horns, apparently perished young. The substitution of "rea-finding openings makes the be copied here, but our own nation soning with the child" for dis-penalty for early failure too seems to be in danger of what here while the now torrid valley of cipline too often involves the heavy for the ordinary young man may be called the dictatorship of here rock constant imposition of a strong to face the risk of Once out crowd instinct. The "good form" adult personality on the child of the stream of recruits which of pre-war days has gone, to be The Institute established a camp mind, with the result that the lows from school to office and replaced by another and stronger of fossil-hunters in the desert to growth of initiative and inde factory, the daring spirit who has though not dissimilar-force: pendence of thought is atrophied. struck out on a new line and has; that of the herd which overwhelms ecarch the
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