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Naval Mascots.

The Maori kilt which, as was dis- closed recently, Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey wore us a good luck talisman during the war when his ship, the New Zealand, went into action, was not the New Zealand's only mascot.

There was also "Pelorus Jack," al famous bulldog, which survived until after the Armistice.

THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1933.

MIDDLE WEST WANTS DEBTS PAID

RESTITUTION TO THE "LAST RED CENT"

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ECONOMIC FACTS MAY CHANGE HOSTILITY TO REVISION

(By Martin Moore).

St. Paul (Minnesota). for all. This argument deserves a Pelorus Jack was named after the In Minnesola I met an old woman hearing by European readers who strange fish which, for several years, who had lived through Indian mas-would understand the American used to follow steamers through secres. She had seen braves walk-viewpoint. Collating various con- Pelorus Sound. between the Northing in the streets of St. Paul. She versations I have had, the reasoning and South Islands of New Zealand.remembered the days of the covered runs somewhat as follows: Although the Navy claimed him as wagon,

"We are told that if we write off

a shark the fish was, I think, species of dolphin,

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Assaulting the Tear. Pelorus Jack, the bulldog, was as;

3 That casual and irrelevant en-all or part of Europe's debts, Ameri- counter seemed to strike a keynote can foreign trade will revive, our for the understanding of this great industry and agriculture will Middle West and North West of flourish again, and this depression America. It gave a vivid glimpse will soon be a thing of the past. It successful n mascot in the opinion of the background from which these is said that we have already lost in

people now look at Europe.

trade decline and the collapse of of the crew as Admiral Halsey's

And without some knowledge of capital values far more than we can Maori kilt.

that background it is impossible to even hope to receive in cash from The bulldog's greatest exploit, understand why the great majority cur debtors. however, was perpetrated when Ad-of Americans think as they de about "But America does not depend on mira} Beatty's battle cruiser Europe, and why so many of them foreign trade like most European squadron was at Kronstadt. When adopt an "intransigent" and unrea- countries. Even at the peak of the the Tsar came to visit the squadron, soning attitude on such question as boom, our exports were never more

war debts.

than 10 per cent. of our tutal pro-

Pelorus Jack made a sudden asenult

on the Imperial trousers. For- Cleavage of Old and New, ¡duction. Since exports are such an tunately, his spring was broken by aj

St. Paul and its twin city of Min- unimportant factor in Amèrica's watchful midshipman, and a major neapolis across the river now com- economic life, how can it be argued catastrophe was averted,

bine a population of nearly three-that our agriculture and Industry But it is would revive, even if we were to re- since the gain the whole of the foreign trade of Indian we have lost?

Bulldogs have always been quarters of a million. favourite naval mascots. The fashion only a single lifetime

WHA

set by the late Lord Charles pioneers went in fear Beresford, who used to bred them raids. Trains equipped with shower- "Furthermore, an all-round can- and then present them to battle-baths and radio now steam through cellation of war debts and repara- Tships.

the grainlands of the Mid-West. tions would leave American taxpay- The successive waves of immi-ers holding the bag. They would tined to usher in an epoch of an- The China Mail

Your Daily Smile. grants who settled here were the have to find the money for interest archy and chaos, but will even-

malcontents of Europe: Poles and payments an the Liberty tually be surmounted like other!

By The Bye.

Czechs and Irish. They turned their Bonds, Our people might accept Hong Kong, Thursday, Mar. 23, 1933.¡erises of the past. Even the

Some more Seriptural cricket re-backs on Europe, often forsaking it that burden if it were balanced by successive changes by popular ferences:-

with a grudge. To-day their sons the great advantages promised by vote of government control-in!

Thou shalt destroy them utterly, and grandsons, brought up in that the cancellationists. But would it Germany and France, for in- they and their cattle; their bails tradition, are being asked to face not in fact have the effect of tran stance, not to mention America's shall be broken.

around again towards the Old World.ferring a heavy tax handicap from The frequent assertion that sweeping reversal of Presidentia!

But one who stood afar off by They do so with reluctance; some European-and especially German- the present period of depression majorities-The Economist

the boundary of the field did mark times with open hastility. Europe's industry to American industry, and to determination is the worst in the world's his-cribes rather

him; he caught him even as he troubles are no affair of theirs, and make the United States a dumping- lory" is one of those generaliza- that the way out shall be found.

it is hard to persuade them that the ground for cheap European manu- tions which needs a more accur-by-orderly governmental nea. Beside the wirket he stood all problems of the Old World-can-in factures.?" late test than is commonly up-sures than to an instinct for up- the day, even until the sun was any way be linked with their own!

plied.

These governments." Some phenomena of the setting day have undoubtedly taken more phenomena will occupy an

Let not your glances fall to the formidable shape than in other portant place in future financial right or to the left. periods of the kind the scope of history of the period. They im The keeper of the wicket

ai least an the three-year decline in prices, ply

attitude watchful; none might pass of restraint unusual for instance, and the dislocation:

at But Amon was there in the field, +imilar junctures of and caught him. of many foreign currencies. But other these occurrences are clearly ex-

!the past.

To what extent our Paul stood up before the Eleven, plainable by the nature of the politicians will be influenced by and was hold. war which shortly preceded them, this absence of organized popu- They found hire in the city, and in which the price level was rais-lar demand for perilous experi- ran him out.

¡ran.

set.

im-

ed and the burden of debt on bel-ments in the field of legislation.!

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ligerent governments heaped up.j the course of events in 1933 will Pangs-and Bangs-of Love.

to previous show.

on a scale unknown history.

But when comparison

is made regarding certain other

familiar phenomena of great eco- nomic reactions. there may be

wan

dificulties in the New.

This atitude that regards everything European as foreign) is common to all Americans, what- ever their racial ancestry and however recent their family's im migration. Everyone is at heart an isolationist.

(Continued on Page 11.)

SANITARY SCIENCE

EXAMINATION.

Local Successes.

A Very Unpopular Topic. During my tour of the Middle A cable from the Royal Sanitary Western States I have met few peo-Institute,

London

Alates that

found more contrast than ana-mind of man is leas vividly stirr- Prople followed him in night variant of the words attributed to Sullivan, and V. M. Benwell have

an

MR. J. G. SMITH'S FUNERAL.

ple who even cared to discuss the Messrs. A. T. Braley, E. A. Chater, question of War Debts. The in-W. Elliott, 1. W. Hame, H. H. Mun- A young Glasgow man, whose tricacies of international indebted-idy, G. H. Miles and M. E. Taviln the man have passed the recent examination sweetheart kad jilted him, frink alness are a closed book to The Hearing Ear. hatchet, it is alleged, and smashed in Main Street or the farmer in his in Sanitary Science.

righteen plate-glass windows in the prairie homestead. If he consents Messrs. G. W. Bowden, C. T. It is ancient wisdom that the Kehin Haugh district.

to give any opinion at all it is some Champelovier, J. R. Hodgin, D. C.

logy. That is true, notably inled by what finds entrance!

clother. He later told a magistrate Mr. Coolidge: "Well, you hired the passed the Sanitary Inspectors Ex.

amination. the United States, of conflict be- through the ears than by what is that he was auffering from the pangs money, didn't you?"

This tween workingmen and employ-brought before the eyes.

of unrequited love and was remand. "The average farmer has not the ers. Strikes of labourers there is a common experience.

glimmering of idea that the "The ed for a week. have been, but they were insigni- eyes believe themselves, the ears!

Which only goes to show that love, price of wheat at Liverpool has any- ficant compared with the so-call- believe others." Yet hearing lightning, is capable of playing thing whatever to do with the price The gets for his crop here." I quote ed "labour up-risings" after 1 93 does bring satisfactions to the all manner of tricks. {and 1873. Nation-wide strikes, mind which the eyes cannot of-

this opinion of a prominent publie popular riots inciting in foreign fer. The radio has given the

man I met in St. Paul; and it is one that has not yet been falaified in the countries political revolution have spoken word a new opportunity not occurred as they did on other in the educational systern. The

course of my own inquiries.

Here and there, in the cities, how- [similar occasions. The attitude voies from the outside can never

of

An automobile period take the place of the class-room

with tyres

men who labour during this

re-ever, I have discovered

The funeral of Mr. John Gentle moved that runs on two cables and have really made some study of the Smith, late Chief Officer of the 8.8. might indeed be described as teacher and book and picture is steadied by a third one overhead economic aspects of international Sui Tai, took place at the Protes- distinctly conciliatory, when com-but it can aid the teacher and pared even with the demonstra- give wider horizons to the is being used as a passenger ferry payments, gold transfers and tariffs. Lant Cemetery, yesterday,

I think it would be fair to say that The late Mr. Smith was found tions of 1919 and 1921. Strug-taught. Especially is this trucjacross an Oregon river.

most of these people favour a sub-shot dead in the officer's bathroom gles of a portentous nature were in the higher ranges of teach-

modifica- characteristic of older depressioning, where students are the bet-

[jat 6.30 a.m. yesterday.' A revolver periods. The short-lived "genera- ter able to appreciate the

ceased.

Facts You Did Not Know.

脊

Shipping Community

Represented.

A Norwegian scientist has found atantial scaling-down or a-that the highest known cloudation of the existing debt-funding was found near the body of the de-,

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al strike" in England during thority of the information that iridescent masses of frozen vapor,

I met only one man who declared: 1926 and the same year'a pro- comes through the channels of float at levels from 14 to 17 miles

The Rev. G. T. Waldegrave of himself out-and-out cancella- ficiated. longed coal-trade labour bargo the air. President Hutchins of above the earth.

tionist. This man is an economist occurred long before this present the University of Chicago, chair-

Among those present at the and a close student of international graveside were Capt. Perritt, Capt. period of general economic reac-man of the Committee on Edu- A new shaving set that packs in a affairs-a traveller who knows T. T. Laurenson, DS.C., Capt. F. tion. Analogy with other de-cation, while calling attention to fat box about the size of a cigarette Europe almost like America. pression periods is sometimes the difficulties in making adjust-case includes a brush made in four

Smith, Capt. Bentley, Capt. Lee, "The plain fact of the matter," Messrs, J. Lawrie, Harry Smith, E. drawn from the attitude of nu-mente to the needs of such wide-hinged sections that can be folded he said, "is this: America will Latham, J. Anderson and T. Hynes. merous governments towardly varying groups, states from flat

Bually have to pay what remains i their currencies and from the the experience of the committee

Wreaths were sent by Officers of of the cost of the war, because the Taishan, Captain and Officers constant talk. The London Eco-that such school subjects as geo-

she is the only country that can of the Sai On China Coast Officers pay it." It is scarcely surprising Guild, and Institute of Engineers that this man declined to allow his and Shipbuilders; Mr. and Mrs. A. name to be quoted.

Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Me- It is true that the bulk of Ameri-Caw and family, Mr. and Mrs. C. can opinion hosille to debt conces Bond, Mrs. S. S. Harris, Mr. C. sions is uninformed. It is also true att, Capt. G. H. Madden of the

nomist, taking lately a world-graphy, history, civics, current] A powerful. American type short) wide view of such considerations, events, general science, English, wave radio station is being Installed finds ground for encouragement health, character, art and music in the Portuguese colony of Macao Keeping in mind "the magnitude courses lend themselves "admir- for broadcasting and telephonic pur- of the obvious causes for dis-ably" to broadcast presentation.poses. satisfaction, the high proportion The numerator of educationa

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of the population with as little value is still small for much a One of the giant trees in Yosemite that many people who have really Taishan, Capt. R. W. Lee-Jones and atake in the present as hope for stupendous denominator of listen-[National Park that is believed to be studied the question believe that in-Capt. Bentley of the On Lee. the future," The Economist holds ers outside of the schools as well 3800 years old has been estimated sistence on full payment would in-

seriously than cancellation. But it!

would be wrong to Imagine a hard dividing line on one side of which

FATHER NETO'S FUNERAL

it "surprising in what small de-as inside. The opportunity chal-to contain 363,600 board feet of jure America herself far more " gree popular discontent has mani-lenges the educational ́ ́authori-Jumber. fested itself in violent action," ties and the broadcasting com- Even in Central Europe, where panies to prepare themselves to the blow fell heaviest in 1931, make fuller use of the services

was ignorant clamour for "the Inst The funeral of Fr. Antonio Neto "the end of 1982 furnished evi-jof these general teachers, who age. We have not yet begun to red cent," and on the other an un-took place, last evening, at the Ro- dence of a steadler psychological can speak each in thousands of avail of the instructional aid that answerable array of economic evi-man- Catholic Cemetery, Fr. Neto attitude on the part of the schoolrooms at the same moment. the air is ready to give to those dence in favour of an opposite polley, was a Portuguese Jesuit. He died peoples, a general tendency to of more significence and im-who have the hearing ear as well. Some of the anti-revisionists have at the French Hospital the previous accommodate habits of life to the portance is the fact that educa-jas the seeing eye, and even to superficially convincing facts and day following an attack of mea- difficult conditions of a crisis tion is being carried on into those eyes have been dimmed figures which seem to many Ameri-monia after an operation for her- which, it is now felt, is not des-adult years and even into old beyond seeing.

cans to clinch the matter once and ma