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MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1933.

AMERICA'S PHASE O

DISILLUSION

"SHE IMAGINES SHE HAS

LOST HER SOUL

many, planning a garden party or IN FACT SHE IS ABOUT TO FIND IT

(By The Hon. Harold Nicolson.)

A visit to the America of 1933 ica became, not vulgar merely, but

The American Idea.

ļa plenic, will in future be able to learn early in the morning whether (the day is likely to be wet or fine. The municipal meteorological de- Įpartment'has decided as an experi-

ment to instal several

of these weather forecast machines in the should furnish any Englishman of actually unkind. jstreets. Cards produced by the heart or understanding with three coins will state whether the day is Requisitions. The first should be to be hot or cold, wet or fine, and a deep liking for all authentic, Yet no serious person could visit whether the visibility will be bad Americans.

the America of 1933 and and there For good.

The second, an enduring pre-òc-jany but the most incidental vul- cupation with the ridle of Ameri-garity. The depression may have ca. And the third, an absolute; done many Matching Colours by Wireless. although ill-determined, conviction America; it has given her a dignity unhappy things to

It is probable that an Ancient that from the present American which she had almost failed to British belle was often distressed vortex will emerge a civilisation of jachieve. because she could not get the enormous value.

What, therefore, are the elementa Jexact shade of woad to match the The physical and material of this general and highly. salutary blue of her eyes, and it is not given achievements of America are al-juncertainty? We may state them in ¡to every modern

to have ready immense; ber spiritual and a single phrase. America since 1929 an exact eye for close shades of moral qualities are even to-day be-has lost her hold upon the American colour. Now colours can being transmuted from something Idea. What, again, was the nature matched across the world with a childishly derivative into something of that idea, and in what respects certainty which allows no margin adult and organic. Intelectual and has, it declined in validity? The of error.

Jaesthetic virtuės may also deva form of certain generalisations.

VEHICA

admitted, is of composite origin. It was evolved, in part by theory,

It is done by juggling with the lop, once the crust has hardened,) The American Idea, it must be three primary colours, red, green, jonce the melting pot has come off jand blue, out of which, as" Newton the boil. -

showed, every hue on earth is made. The three colours are inset

An Acute Problem.

in part by practice; it has been maintained by a deliberate form of national belief.

As a theory, it derived from the And the Founding Fathers, from the pro-

in a screen and are mixed by For the moment, however, we are! means of a spinning prism. A concerned. not with potentiality carefully standardized lamp pro-but with existing facts. duces the "daylight" effect neces-main fact which will impress the nouncements of the liberators, from an almost wilful misrepresentation

sary in matching, and this illumin-European observer (once he has

of the

jates a tiny aperture behind which emerged from the stage of cam of what Jefferson thought, and from situation by joining others in do-is the colour to be matched and parison and conquered his Initial the frantic endeavours of five gen- ing something, whether it be a alongside it the colour produced disbelief in the existence

erations of American citizena to United States) will be the problem and a formula which would lend a.... game or work of some kind. All by the mixture. the days are not days of sunshine By means of handles the amount of American uncertainty.

spiritual favour to seemingly Hong Kong, Monday, June 5. 1933. in which the lazy body may bask, of red, green, and blue cax be This problem, during the last

materiallat intentions. ". the nights are too long for sleep-regulated until the colour produc- few weeks, has become curiously In practice, it has been moulded

colour acute. In the next few weeks iti

by two important factors. The first..... ing through all the hours of dark-ed is identical with the

When the may become imensely important. ness, and the fact forces itself on under examination.

was the expansive force of America all but the dullest intelligence colours coincide a gauge gives the Even when we have discounted fand the wide area over which that If the world should succeed in that the human machine literally observer the exact proportions of the congenital diffidence of the force has hitherto been able to getting back to prosperity. will craves occupation, and must be the three primary colours used, American; even when we have at- all the idle millions be found fed mentally, or given outlet for and the reading is expressed intributed to this charming weak-operate. The second was the influx iness his hyper-sensitiveness to during the nineteenth century of work? There are students of physical action. This is a dispen-three numbers.

sation of Nature with which it is!

Wherever the National Physical criticism, his anxiety regarding many millions of depressed Euro- the position who say that many useless to wrestle. If a man is not

Laboratory standards of colori- the effect be in producing; even It was the conflict between this

A Mechanised World,

appearance

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* GOING TO THE DANCE. Courtship-Hired car. Engagement--Tazi, Marriage-Tramcar.

* WOMAN.

Nowhere to go; no

in.

wear

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jour economic life. Recreation "You know you constantly re- man hands. For countless ages and study will come in for a great mind me of Brown." man has earned his bread "byler share of attention, with a re- "Of Brown?

THE

half

with emotion, and utter recklessness.

.

The Englishman (more stolid,

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being nurtured on optimism, in MAN WHO FOUGHT

can never be re-employed owingjemployed he must be entertain.metry are accepted. that colour when we have made allowances for theory and this practice which pro- to the drastic upheaval that has led. His necessary rest is a period can be obtained. Thus colour can the helplessness which at moments duced the inherent contradictions, be sent to Australia by wireless, mast assail the American when he the resultant falsity, of the Amer- taken place in industry by the with a limit set upon it by pay and the latest decree of fashion as becomes conscious of the hetero- ican Idea. Let me examine that

chological influences. After advance of

to shades of colour can be repro-genesus elements by which his con-falsity a little closer. machinery. En-that, he will seek "something to duced exactly.

{tinent" Is' inhabited-when we havej J meshed in a maze of perplexities, do." An idle community is like-

allowed for all causes of self-dis- "One Magnificent Lie." the world gives ear to a remark-ly to be a dangerous one. Here,

Your Daily Smile trust, we are left with a residue of You had on the one hand the able number of theorists and the hours of necessary labour then, arises the new problem if

diffidence which can be explained theory of Liberty, Equality and only by causes which lie deep at Fraternity. You had also a strong planners with schemes for right-are curtailed. Theoretically, the Summer Daze are Here Again.

A doctor says we are never so the heart of American history and Puritan tradition and an intense ing matters, some carrying an solution of the unemployment

conditions.

desire for righteousness, difficulty, so far as it arises from alert or nimble-brained in summer practicability, of

It is then that we suspect that On the other hand, you had a many simply fantastic. In times cordance with the principles of

rapid machine production, in ac- as we are in winter.

the United States may be in alvast territory inhabited by Indians distressingly false position, and and ocupied by French and like the present people are willing the "technocrats," will lie in a

that every citizen thereof may Spaniards. You had your negro to listen. One of the new reli- general way of speaking in short- The man who refers to his wife

feel dimly that his centre is not population, you had the growing er working hours. It will not as his bitter half. gions that have sprung up is

exactly in his own middle.

menace of Japanese immigration, solve the depression difficulties;

The United States, since many and as the century progressed you that given the name of "techno-the root causes lie much deeper

decades, have lost their genie of had an immense industrial pro- eracy." While attended by than that. But it is plain that

direction. Yet what is so interest-letariat, recruited from those ele strange proposals for new stan. machinery is superseding man-

ng is that within the last few meats which, had proved either dards of values measurements, have to be provided for in some power, and the extra time will.

weeks the average American citizen recalcitrant or incompetent at home. has at last realised that fact; is at it is based on the fact that ma-way.

How on earth were the theoreti- The outlook may present)

last asking himself anxiously what, cal tenets of the Contrat Social to chines are performing an ever-itself as one in which the cater-

to after all it is all about; and where, be reconciled with a practical situa increasing amount of the workers of entertainment will play a go

after all, he is expected to go. tion so diametrically opposed to the anxioms on which that theory was that was formerly done by hu- larger part than they do now in

Following Mr. Roosevelt. And if the agreeable Mr. Roosevised in terms of "one magnificent based? Thie reconcilliation was de- Good gracious,velt now tells him to go off at a

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energy, self-sacrifice, deep chinery that runs without human its level. There is mitigation ofį

¡crown?” labour, or every nearly so, and the trouble in the new inventions, therefore the necessity to work new ideas, and changes of cus- largely disappears. Whether tom and habit, all of which pro- that is to be regarded as the con-pound the establishment of fresh

avoidance. of all unpleasant dition of perfect happiness in means of production, while at the

thoughts), may feel that this Amer-¡ this world of troubles is to be same time the population of the

ONE OF MANY

Ican bewilderment is uneducated| doubted; but if some kind of reworld is increasing and the tastes

ARTIST: See that picture? What and slightly neurotic. In so feeling of those arrangement takes place to meet of the multitude are constantly do you think of it? A thousand he will be guilty of one the factor of universal produc-jevolving or developing. It seems

wouldn't buy it.

facile and unsympathetic generalisa- tion by the machines equal to probable, however, that, no mat- CANDID FRIEND: Yes, I'm one tions in which we are so foolishly the slower output of many pairs/ter how fast the populations may [of the thousand. of hands, it will bring, a new pro-increase, the advance of machin blem that of an excess of lei-ery will always keep ahead. sure. This is a workaday world. Strange rumours have been The true faler, he who has the in- heard at times of discoveries 'or, nate capacity of inertia for hours inventions that contain such ter- with no thought in his head dis-rific potentialities in relation to turbing his peace of mind, and the industrial position that they finding nothing irksome in the in- have been kept out of sight and An ice cream freezer has beet of his country is not exactly what for gallantry, to the late Reginald dolence, is scarce. The toiler may remain locked up, unused. There-invented that does its work in an he had been taught to believe at Henry Montague Gray Clerk to be prone to think that happiness fore, the problem of additional electric refrigerator, the contents high school

the Magistrate of N'gamiland,”; lies in being entirely relieved of leisure becomes an important face being stirred occasionally with a

Bechauanaland. the trouble of making a living: tor, in economics, and is possibly wooden paddle projecting from one intense national mood of self-

It is this very uncertainty, this The circumstances of his gallan- but, thrown into idleness, the very near. It may be that hu-side.

examination, which is to-day of Wille on an

try are thus officially described :--- average individual soon realines man nature will adjust itself, as

expédition in that the want of occupation is it always does, that a type will The mileage of commercial air perhaps alarming an element in the save a comrade from a wounded. potent, pregnant, respectable and August inst Afr. Gray attempted to something to be dreaded, for even work out adapted to the change services in Soviet Russia has been American attitude. amusements pall when there is of circumstances; but it has all more than double since 1928 and. The American of this moment is

ilion, too much time to give to them.the appearance now of many extension of present lines and es- so keyed up to noble self-sacrifice wanpon an empty shot gun, with--

Mr. Gray, who had as his only The truth dawns on him that, left millions of hours less work being tablishment of several new ones that he may out of sheer nobility fout hesitation clubbed the lion to his own resources, the world required when the ordinary are planned.

of emotion sacrifice the world. We which had attacked bis companion, is a dull and monotonous place. course of affairs is resumed, and p Man is of all animals perhaps the with the hoge amount of un- With a capacity of 250 gallons of who assure us that at the peak of He then tried, while kicking

may well belleve those Americans until the gun, broko. most gregarious in that, having employed waiting, there is an al- liquid a spraying machine for the boom period of 1929 America the animal, to pull it away with been endowed with speech, the most immediate proposition pre-farms and orchards has been became unlike herself. We may well hi-lands: The lion was eventually. DAVIE, BOAG & Co.Ltd word us is a solace. The world with so much extra spare that enables it to tum around in is from personal contact that dur-“Mr. Gray died a few days later

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A LION.

Posthumous Award Approved.

London.

inclined to indulge.

It is not often that one finds a Yet in fact it is not in the least human story" in the nustar

London surprising that an American should pages of the official at this moment feel uncertain. Were Gazette. he not to entertain these doubts, he But there is certainly one in the would be erring in authenticity and announcement that the King has Intelligence; since no intelligent or approved the posthumous award real American could fail at this of the medal of the Civil Division. moment to be aware that the future of the Order of the British Empire,

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Fing that same bubble period: Amer, as a result of shock."-Touter.