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is based on a belief in the possibility of certitude in political matters. First The Ruskin Centenary Council has you have to turn men into bits of just reprinted a lecture on "Ruskin's Mechanism (Marx, being far more Politics" given by Mr. Bernard Shaw logical than Mr. Shaw, did face this nearly two years ago. In it Mr Shawane) and then you can assert that couples the names of Kuskin and there is a science of politics just on much as there is a science of mechanics Lenin with relish and proposes the health of oligarchy with his out and that it is idle to argue with the professore. They know and you do vigour

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and impishuess Whether Mr. Shaw is right or wrong translating Ruskin's Tory Socialism and distrust of electoral machinery of blood and thunder into terms Bolshevism is a matter of some, but not supremae, importance. What does really matter is whether the cOMMON- place criticisms of democracy, lively enough under Mr. Shaw's expository methoda, a sufficiently valid to up set the general belief of the day that government by consent is preferable to government by coercion.

Mr. Shaw pats the case for the Few quite simply. We are at least spared Sapermen and the Nietzschean gestur- ing. All Socialists are Tories in one

Benar.

not.

THE CHINA MAIL.

ly a virtus. It is probably better to do them as break-neck speed, for the simple season that it is easier to stop doing them.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED IN THE "MAIL"

THE PACIFIC CABLE.

MILLION STERLING DUPLICATION SCHEME.

bas

Where aristocracy finally fails to

ENTERTAINMENTS.

Although the Pacific Cable Board, satisfy the conscience and the com-

February 8-Coronet Theatre, mon sense of man is in ite denial of full buman personality. Plato's Ro- Dorothy Ginb in Battling Jane" the bead offices of which are in public was not a home for meu and Hongkong Theatre, Charlie Chaplin in London, have not yet received any

Government women; it was a swarming ground for The Vagabond." World Theatre, official intimation that the Australian functionaries. Plato, in his passion Ethel Clayton in "The Girl who came Commonwealth

Kowloon Theatre, Rex sanctioned the proposed daplication for order, drove humanity out with Book."

"Silver Horde." Theatre of the Pacific cable, it is anticipated a pitchfork; and humanity, like Bench's Dature, will always return. Prople Roy 1, Warwick Comedy Company. that Australia's assent will be obtained immediately, thereby securing the will always refuse to be regarded"A Woman of No Importance."

February 11.-Theatre Royal, War-unanimity of all the Governments who the cable-Great merely as the automata of function.

Brown are partners in Plato's soldiers and workers were to wick Comedy Company.

Britain Canada, Australia, and New be nothing but soldiers and workers; Sugar."

February 13.-Theatre Royal, War-Zealand. The proposed duplication their life was an insect life, tu do

wi Comedy Company. Pygmalion." will probably cost something over. February 13.-Mr. Harry Ore's 6th £1,000,000, but as the Board have in band a reserve and general renewal as recital. City Hall 5.30 p.m. F:bruary 20.--Society for Preven fant exceeding that amount, there of Cruelty to Animals fancy dress will be no need to call on any of the partner Governments for financial ball. City Hall, 9.15 p.m.

assistance. No action, however, cau be taken until the Commonwealth G vernment has communicated its decision.

their job and die. Wherever a few people arrange to d spose of the lives and happiness of the many the same insistence on function acquires a fatal But against that re domination.

mem who bave voce tasted freedom will always protest, gimentation and no amount of brilliant arguments about the illusory nature of freedom wih ever silence them.

The word efficiency brings us once mo e to the philosophic roots of the matter.

SOCIAL EVENTS.

February 10-Th Institution of Enginents and Shipbuilders of Hong kong, annual ball. City Hall, 9.30 70.

SPORTING EVENTS.

February 20.--Rongkong Jockey Club meeting, first day. The Challonge Cup.

Fbruary 21. Hongkong Jockey race meeting second day. The Hgkong Derby.

February 22-Hongkong Jockey ha spion Stakes. such

Olas race mireting, third day. The February 25.-Hongkong Jockey last, For arbitrary power is a great cor-Club race meeting, fourth day. The rupter of mankind. But, granting Hongkong Handicap. the possibility, we may yet doubt the value of such a change. As was said

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even

of state

if it

OTHER EVENTS,

It is a notable fact that although one section of the Pacifio cable-that between Canada and Fanzing Island -is the longest single stretch of cable in the world no interruption has ever occurred on it (except when it whe

cut by a German cruiser) in the

it is considered unwis to rely on future immunity; nineen years it has been laid. Netheless, moreover, the capacity of the single ever there is a special rush of traffic line is considered inadequate wheo- For these reasons the Board consider line has become a matter of urgency.

In the meantime it would appear that the duplication of the present

that a service of wireless telegraphy is to te installed on the Pacific route. a statement made According to

Director nf by the Managing the Amalgamated Wireless Com pany of Australasia, preparations for February 9--Hughes and Hough, a cheap and rapid service of direct quantity of tobacconists' sundries. communication with North America have been completed. All the capital - February 10-Hughes and Hough, cities of the Australian States will b Sales rooms 10.30 a.m.

bronze Chinese porcelains.

and able, according to this authority, to kakemonos, Salea rooms 2 30 p.m. take advantage of this service as soon February 10.-Hughes and Hough, as a projected station in Canad, has

Sales Rooms, 5 been provided. stamp collections, p.m.

March 2.-1longkong Horticultural bow. Botanic aupus) Society's Gardens.

Let m 168 Gin a thing palpably improbable namely, that a The curious thing is that Mr. Shaw small class of dictators can be found, bas tumbled upon authoritarianism honest, far seeing, and swift in action, at the very time when authority is in who by abolishing the machinery of general difficulty and disgrace. Th democracy could guarantee officiency disagreements among the specialista in administration, a kind of peace of on every subject are usually funda Cesar pouring its material blessings a world in turmoil. It is, of mental and always furious. One ou

could thinge used to be taught that in mathematics course, well-nigh impossible that at least one touched the absolute

began. ever here were no confusing relat vities, but truth pure and undefiled. Euclid, as well as Enoch, walked with God. Then contes Professor Einstein, and all If we the sweet securities and certainties are in the dust of conflict. cannot abide in faith by the findings of the select low among the sciences The Tory is a man who be lives that those who are qualified by far less reason have we fur surrender nature and training for public working judgment and initiative to the For every and who are naturally a minority, oligarchs of polition. bave to govern the mass of the people, political philosophy, like every moral also philosophy, is, in the last resort, That is Toryism. That Bolshevism." And Mr. Shaw, for the unarguable. Its foundation is a direct, a priori judgment. It depends finally duration of his lecture at any rate, approves. He excuses the necessary on a dictate of reason which cannot he reasoned, or, as some prefer to call gospel coercion, and he preaches the

asit, so intuition. At some point we have of "getting something done" furiously as any busines man in a always to believe something we cannot political panic. The people seldom prove, as that life is worth living or that happiness is good in itself. There know what they want and know bow to get it." In this are various kinds of political "goods," world things are done by men who and there is no conceivable possibility believe of achieving certainty in the valuation those convictions to be right, and of those "goods." The aristocrat by Piston and the who are prepared, with all the ronviction, the

can rally Lenine, believe that they know best strength they have or

Justified in enforcing to them, to impuse appropriate and institutions on the vast majority, who their scheme of values on society, are themselves as incapable of making imposing the appropriate institut the institutions as of inventing the ions," telescope or calculating the distance it. But the answer

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belore we come back to the unargu able, to the judgment of taste. Is a life without choice and with errtan guaranteed externally amenities really more valuable than a life with choice and no such guarantees? The

willa of aristocratic temper man assert that it is: the democrat will deny it, mainly because he believes that the object of society is the pro Visiou of a full life for all and

be

Buch there that fullness without freedom. It is very easy to show that modern democracy does not give that fulluess; it is impossible to show that aristocracy could ever give it. Democrats have had some shattering disillusion, but they hold the faith. They remember that the peace of Cusar has been tried, and that it has been the peace of death.

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as Mr. Shaw approvingly pute "Gets-It" Peels

My Corns Off!

is that they

not of the nearest fixed star." And so cannot be certain; they may be wiser on. It is the old Platonic ideal. Let than

the specialist der #r.

We are, but they are Government ! infallible. If the word science is

a science like asumamy, capable of taken to imply the possibility of

being reduced

precision. It is not question

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mathen.atical cartainty in results, then there is DO much # (more a political science than there is of find ng philosopher a moral science. There are just

scienust political and moral theories. finding who will adjust

The philosophical foundation of

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the microscope to us most carefully democracy, then, is simply this. Bince and "impose the appropriate in-nobody is certainly right and anybody stitutions."

may be right, the only sensible course

If it was simply a matter of apiking is to let all men speak their minds Mr. Shaw's private gune, it would be freely that the majority may decide. enough to point out that where the The majority may often be wrong; oligarche and the specialists have indeed it is often wrong, and no sate actually got us band and trussed for demarat denies it. But since the observation and necessary action"

specialists are always at loggerheads Mr. Shaw is the loudest complainant. they plainly cannot be all right. being 80, majority rule, The Harley Street potentates, the This scientist kings, the men who are accept crude as it may seem, is really ed as the unquestionable authorities in far less crude than minority rule, their own aine, are constant recipients despite the air of knowingarss with of M. Shaw's territic powers of which the latter may be invested. invective. On the issue he squeals, The critics of democracy make a like any pour democrat: "Leave me tremendous point of their accusation are always that it does not get things done alone. You Wisencres wrong. Permit me to cure my own quickly. But speed is not necessari-

And this protest, which headache.

is perfectly valid against the conspira-

tors of Harley Street, as he likes to call them, is certainly equally and probably more justifiable when appli-

CURE THAT COUGH. HEN you

F

hove troubles us

cough, it does not mean that you

to have it, but it does mean that your ing Street. The case for aristocacy or lungs ato threatened, and it is just us oligarchy, when you get away from wel to be on the cafe side and take Obamberlain's Cough Remedy before it that surface of smart aphorisme ou is too late. For sale by all Chemists which Mr. Shaw loves to linger and storekcopere

ed to any possible oligarchs in Down-have consumption or that you are going

ONIM SO SORRY-MR. SMITH' THAT YOU CAN'TUGIN MR.JIGGS AT THE CLUB TONIGHT, I'M SORRY YOU ARE 10 BUSY-

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Any Corn or Callus Comes Off Peace- fully, Painlessly. Never Fails.

11 is almost a pianic to get rid of A COFF OF Callus the "Gets-It" way. You apend 2 or 3 seconds putting on 2 or 3 drops of "Gets-It," about as

Use *Gole-It,” peel off earn this way. simple as putting on your hat. Gets- It does away forover with con- traptions, sticky, troublesome, bina- lets, groep ointments that rubloff, blood-letting knives and scissor

"Gate-1" that snip into the "quick." ODDOS pain. Tour aching corn shrinics, You peel dios, luusene from the toe. the corn painlessly from your toe in one complete piece. Thero is the pleasure of 11-you peel off h you would a banana akin. Nothing olue bist "Geta-It" enn do it. Get peaceful, como sense "lets IL."

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February 13-Hughes and Hough, household furniture, billiard table, and enamelled iron bath. No. 64

February 14-Haghes and Hough, Nathan Road, Kowloon, 10 a.m. steamer "Ban Yek." Sales rooms,

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February 16.-Hughes and Hough, twin screw passenger steamer "Son Tak." Sales rooms, 3 p.m.

COMPANY MEETINGS, February 10,-The Kowloon Land and Building Co., Ltd., 23rd. ordinary general meeting. Company's offices, Victoria Buildings noon.

At

ANIMALS THAT LEARN,

DOGS KNOWLEDGE

SEVERAL LANGUAGES.

OF

Can horses and dogs pick up a foreign language and still remember that of the land of their birth? The subject was broached by a speaker World the Liverpool

who de Exhibition Servics clared that a British horse could re- cognise its own language abroad,

Experts consulted, were unanim February 10.-Hongkong and Kow-ous in admitting that this is the case. loon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., They emphasised, however, that it is 36th ordinary annual meeting. Offices primarily the inflexion of the voice of Mesers, Jardine, Matheson, and that the animal earns to understand when sent to a foreign country. It Co, Ltd., 11 am.

February 14-Dairy Farm, Ice pays much closer and quicker atten- and Cold Storage Co. Ltd., ex ration to the tone than to the sound of ordinary general meeting to consider words. resolution increasing capital from $855,000 to $1,500,000. Registered like horses, remember the sound of Offices, No. 2, Lower Albert Ros,

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February 16-The Green Island Cement Co., Ltd., 33rd ordinary BN- nual meeting, St. George's Buildings, Chater Road, 11 a.m.

The view was expressed that dogs,

the language of their masters, and even after many years in a foreign land can recollect the meaning of

'entences.

A clear proof of dogs' lingual prowess is to be found in the way February 16.-Union Waterboat they pick up several native tongues Co., Ltd., 17th annual general and dialects when they live with their meeting of shareholders. Offices of British masters in India or Africa, in Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., 11.30

8,m.

February 17.-Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd., second extraordinary general meeting, to confirm resolution in

reasing capital from $2,600,000 to $5,000,000. Hongsong Hotel, 11 a.m.

February 18.-Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation, ordin ay yearly meeting of shareholders, City Hall, noon.

and

places where several languages are spoken. A man who had lived in Khartum told a reporter that his fox terrier had quickly learned in succession the purport of the remarks made to it by native servants who spoke various tongues.

Another man who had lived in: Irkutsk. Siberia, knew an English- speaking Date whose terrier Vixen knew Russian, Danish and English.

Cats, on the contrary, seem in- February 18.-The West Point Building Co., extraordinary general capable of picking up more that, at meeting to doufirm resolution for the utmost their names in the country voluntarily winding up the company.in which they live. They are sufficient Offices of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, unto themselves and do not deign to & C., Ltd., 11a.m.

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