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Reform In Abyssinia.

Nature. Sometimes he destroys. sometimes he preserves. Let anyone try to turn a few acres of rough land in the South of England into a "wild" garden, and he will find that, as soon ag he has enclosed it and kept out Intruders, the brambles and briars, hollies and elders, thistles! and nettles close up all the paths and make the place a wild gar- den suitable only for the plea- sure of a pachyderm. Ferns and foxgloves, anemones and prim- roses are smothered by the ranker vegetation. The wild, garden must have a gardener: Similar difficulties arise with all Nature Reserves. In the great new "National Park" in the South of Italy, for example, chamois and ibex are increasing

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1932.

Dehumanizing Path Of Progress

Man Cannot Combat Nature's Will

BREAK - NECK PACE

(By "A Voyageur.")"

"Four thousand feet' la mid-air! It is any wonder that more and.

Intelligent people are to the delight of every one; but a walter hovered over me with a more so also are bears, and wolves are dish of hors-d'auvres and inquir-growing disgusted with this speed- mad, machine-made thing we call becoming a scourge of the neighed, "Sardine or anchovy, madam?" civilisation That more and more bourhood. Beavers are now writes Ethel Mannin, in Sunday people are asking "What is the good of it all" and trying to escape from it before it is too late, trying

protected on a great scale in Express.

North America; but they have

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passed reasonable limits," and ""Neither," I said for at that to snatch peace and sanity out of steps have to be taken against moment the airplane gave a good chaos and madness? them. Similar examples come imitation of a badly managed lift, from all sides. To preserve wild-

ness is an interference as much and these refinements of civilisa as to destroy it. The National tion were lost to me in the primi- Trust and the Society for the tive desire to stand on good firm Promotion, of Nature Reserves earth again..

The Happiest People. Explorers are constantly testi- fying to the harm done to thế natives of remote lalands by the invasion of the white man." who brings to them firearms,

wisely refuse to accept even But that, I thought, as I huddled alcohol, clothes In which ton.. suitable areas unless some" pro-{

smother their nakedly healthy vision is made

for, their main in my seat reminding myself that bodies, commercial enterprise tor tenance. Maintenance must im-actually there are no such things the corruption of their souls, and ply expert guidance on what to as "air pockets," and that one gets ready-made pleasures in place of eliminate, what to encourage, used to everything in time that simple, spontaneous happiness. and how to fix and adjust a

General Smuts once remarked

"Perhaps," you will say. "But: who on earth wants to live in a mud hut, wear nothing but strings of

balance of Nature. Now that is civilisation, that nice refinement

of choice between sardine and an- that the happiest people in the there is abundant and most

world are the uncivillaed African- valuable support for the pre chovy when rushing through space natives servation of amenities there is at 120 miles an hour 4,000 feet nothing more urgent than wise above the earth: guidance as to how the pre- The next day I was at a chil servation is to be effected.

dren's party, at which part of the beads, and die of disease because of. entertainment provided was

anot knowing how to cure it??.

Well, It would simplify life for home cinematograph show accom-all of us a lot if we lived in mud The finals of the King's College panied by wireless music. Annual Aquatic Sports will be held A Daily Sacrifice.

News In Brief.

ing a dial.

huts and wore nothing but stringe. of beads and lived on uncooked"

our lunatic asylums. It gives us

the legal abolition of the practice could not be made effective He is moving against slavery by sap and mine rather than by frontal attack; but he is moving, and his at the College awimming pool on The children: took it all as a foods, and we should have fewer foreign critics should remember Friday next, at 2.30 p.m. that the prevalence of the in-

matter of course that they could diseases because, we should be

ing more as nature intended we. stitution which they condemn is

The quarantine restrictions imsee Charlie Chaplin in a suburban should. Competent observers who have largely a consequence of the posed by the Japanese Government drawing-room to music relayed What is it we get out of civilisä- - made a special study of the anarchy into which Abyssinia against arrivals from Hong Kong from Moscow or Paris or Praguetion which makes it so precious and- made a special study of the policy fell when

Menelek I was on account of Cholera have been or anywhere else, simply by mov-so much a source of pride? of the Emperor Haile Selassie, stricken down by disease. If he removed.

Civilisation gives us hospitals- have no doubt that the ruler of can unite and govern his Empire;

Why should they not-little itself an indictment of the condi Abyssinia is perfectly genuine in if he can substitute a civil ser- Dr. Arthur Woo, who has been

moderns who have grown up in tions under which we live; it puts- his desire to abolish slavery vice, however primitive, and a attending the China Medical Con-

an age in which miracles are men and women to work all day in throughout his wide territories, loyalty to the Crown for the dis- ference at Shanghal, returned on

part of daily life? This accept factories to the roar of machines; Unfortunately for the negro orderly feudalism of the pagt; Sunday by the Conte Rosso. Dr.

ance of cleatific marvels, this, it sends them down to the bowels. tribes, who inhabit part of the above all, if he can persuade the Woo has been re-elected a Vice- their President of the China Medical As-

too, is part of civilisation as we of ships and into the "darkness at

noon" of "collieries: v country, the Imperial writ does Abyssinian clergy that

know it. can be sociation. not yet run in all provinces of educational methods

And air crashes; train smashes;

Poison Gas Wars. the Empire. Abyssinia is grad-modernised without impiety- ually emerging from a condition then the days of slavery will be A lecture on "The Function of ear accidents; pedestrians killed It gives us wars with poison gas for which a parallel existed in numbered. His defeat of ex- the Foreign Importer in the Trade every day in the streets; a hundred and entire towns full of helpless the early history of England. Emperor Lij Yasu's attempt to of South China will be delivered men trapped in a sunken sub. Women and children wiped out Her past Emperors, who some regain power, and his success in by Mr. P. S. Cassidy on Tuesday, marine; mine explosions, and men with the pulling of a lever. It fills times imposed obedience on the cutoing the greater Rases, augur October 18, at 8.30 p.m., in the caught like rats in a trap, to be prisons where human misery is put minor kings, might be compar- well for his ultimate triumph. Union Assembly Room of the Uni- burned or drowned or sufocated in chains and labelled crime.

this too is civilisation, the price ed with the "Bretwaldas" who But he must be given both credit veralty All interested will be

It gives us machines with which- we pay for the acceleration of the humanity may destroy humanity, emerged at intervals from the for good intentions and time to welcome.

machine to its present pitch.......... Above all there

It plays auch havoc with our ner- struggles between Britons, Nor-fulfil them. thumbrians, West Saxons, and should be no talk of a Mandate A lecture on "The Function of Every day men and women are

tobacco, and even drugs to keep us Mercians, but could not unite for Abyssinia. The Abyssinians The Foreign Importer In The Trade sacrificed in the name of civilisedves that we must have alcohol and them permanently. The present would not tolerate it no Power Of South China," will be delivered progress; and even when it is not going. It breeds vice and crime to undertake their by Mr. P. S. Cassidy on Tuesday, a sacrifice of life there is the daily and ennui. It makes us dependent Emperor has revived the policy would care of unification, which was the conquest; and although their October 18, at 8.30 pm in the sacrifice of nerves and peace and on the artificial and the futile for

a Union Assembly Room of the Uni happiness.

relief from boredom. keynote of the reign of the great slave-raiders have

All interested are wel

...No Happiness, and When the peasants were require· Emperor Menelek. He is at- nuisance to neighbouring Gov-versity,

For all this "progress" of which led to evacuate the island of St. tempting to convert the Rases ernments, are they any worsem

civilisation is so proud does not Kilda every one said what wonder-- who govern the great provinces than the pirates and bandits who

Alfred Veloso, a Filipino, of make for human happiness; it ful new worlds would open up to- of Abyssinia from almost inde-are continually bringing China pendent satraps into Governors into international trouble and, Gloucester Building, was admitted manufactures ready made plea- these people smart clothes, cine

to the Government Cívil Hospital at sures; it makes for convenience mas, wireless, shops, restauranta, dependent on the Crown. His disrepute ?

the tiffin interval yesterday suffer for speed and for humanity's trains and motor-cars. most important step in this

ing from the effects of opium ultimate destruction

Caught in the Machine direction has been the centralisa-

poisoning. After treatment he was For what chance has man against Only to a comparatively few peo

the machine? Man cannot pít him- ple did it seem to occur that here salf againët nature, and nature and was tragedy, simple people being the machine are in eternal conflict. caught up in the machine of civili- Man may sink mines, but he sation, their lives henceforth to be cannot combat the forces of machine-made, like their clotaes nature, which are greater then and their food and their pleasures? ... – his machinery and blow the lot to that henceforth they must keep the

atoms"

breakneck pace set by civilisation, Man may send machines up in or go under that it might be " the air, but clemental forces over a lesser evil to wrest a meagre liv-- which he has no control may sending from earth and sea than fight

been

tion of the military system. The Wildness Of Wild discharged at 8 p.m.

Until recently, when a Ras, or Governor-General, was appointed

Nature.

Passengers on the President Wil- to another province, his army.

són which arrived from Manila yes- followed him. Like our Henry When in any matter with an terday on route to Seattle, vis VIL, and unlike some modern emotional appeal the easy stage shanghai and Japan Ports, includ- political leaders, the Emperor of rhetorical fervour has to passed Vicomte and Vicomtess de Cham- Halle does not approve of private into that of action, st

able bure, who are travelling to Kober armies, and has forbidden hie comea. In a paper read at York Vicomte de Chambure is an agent Kases to take their troops with recently Sir David Prain, an of the French Indo China Bank them to their new posts. It has ardent but sane advocate of the de

been their practice and the prac-preservation of the amenities of Col. Jose de los Reyes, a retired them crashing to earth. He for it in the scrum of the labour- tice of minor chiefs in the negro the countryside and of native. Constabulary Officer and ex-chist may build submarines for human market, to the roar of the machine territories to employ their troops animals and plants, asked, "What of the Secret Service of the Bureau destruction, but every once in a and the under-tow of competition in the lucrative business of is the wildness of wild Nature of Customs, Philippine Islands, ar- while the machine turns against.its and unemployment Better the slave-raiding, even across the we wish to preserve? Fossibly rived in the Colony from Manila creator

*** hardship of primitive conditions of time the answer might be made that yesterday on board the President 101 was a grim enough warn living than the artificiality of civi

ver-wildness" meant freedom. om Wilson on a holiday trip. He la ing against the menace of the lisation with its unholy trinity of

the influence of man, or at least accompanied by his wife and machine, but of what avall was that money-grabbing, lust for power, and « they of civilised man, and quite cer- daughter-in-law.

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