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Plato's Academy.
The discovery of the site of Plato's Academy in one of the north-western suburbs of modern Athens is likely to prove of more romantic than archaeological in- terest.
MONDAY, JULY 17, 1933. -
IN LAND OF OPIUM
SMUGGLERS
THRILLING TREK INTO
WILDS OF TIBET
HISTORIC HIGHWAY TRAVERSED
(By Captain F. Kingdon - Ward.)
We already had fairly detailed! descriptions of the place from the classical gossip-writers, and the
Captain F. Kingdon-Ward, the, Then came the difficult moment present discovery has been made by folowing exactly the directions of explorer and hunter of rare plants. when we were nanded over to the elan; but nothing much the second, century Greek map is penetrating hitherto unexplored Miju
country in Tibet-the River Gorge happened, though we halted for a maker, Pausanias.
When Pisto began teaching the country. Captain Kingdon-Ward is day, while Jaglam explained us, lika Academy was simply a public garden now beyond reach of normal com-the chorus in a play, and the Miju conveniently near to his country munication, and this article was gams looked on sourly at us. The trouble with these redoubtable hill- house, where he and his pupils used despatched by a native runner.
S. E. Tibet. men is that they have too long been to discuss reality over a glass of
The journey through the Mishmi accustomed to blackmailing travel- wine.
Later Plato bought the garden, Hills proved more difficult than ex-lers passing through their territory. endowed it, and bequeathed it as a pected; although previous experi-Bidden by the British to keep open of the hillmen should have this historic, route between India. School of Philosophy to the city of ence
me that they would not Tibet, and China, they have been Athens. A gymnasium and other warned buildings
erected, and readily assist strangers in their compelled to suppress their pre- datory instincta. No longer able to philosophical teaching was actually territory. given there continuously for 900: However, I came with the power-demand money with threats-to ful backing of the Assam Govern- break the pas now might jeopardise ment, and even the independnt Mish- their independence taer alternate mis had to take notice. At this between fawning and blustering. time of year it was necessary to Every gam asked me for money----- carry rations not only ourselves and and a threat was implied; literally a What do you mean by our servants (since we could get toll for being allowed to go through. telling the maid that she and her nothing in the hills), but also for But every gam also brought with the coolies; and we began our three him a "present"-usually a fowl. sweetheart could have meals with weeks march with sixty coolies. and a few eggs, for which I paid a
$17.50 to $27.50 $19.50 to $32.50
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EXPECTS IMPROVEMENT WIFE:
HUSBAND: I'm tired of her One Nimnoo, the most influential rupee. This served to turn the con- sweetheart always getting the best gam of the Digaru Mishmla, was to versation into the right channel
accompany us, and be responsible money. Up to a point I gave way food.
for our safety as far as the Miju to the gams. Thus encouraged, the Mija reverted to the ancestral.cua- Iclan. TOLD OFF.
In fine weather we moved off, tom, and raised me. Unexpectedly, The conceited young man who
'crossed the inner line into unad-'called the bluff. Flatly I refused would be to lower costs all round to had stayed rather late playing ministered territory, and reached the fiscal reform suggested by the everybody's benefit It is, however, bridge was given a lift to the sta
the gorge of the Lohit. Within a Miju gem. He could hardly believa of no use to argue along these lines, tion in his bost's car.
"I hope," he said to the chan-few days the valley began to change his ears, and was unwise enough to Hong Kong Monday, July 17, 1933 and there is no need to consider the
its appearance. The jungle grew threaten to boycott, whereupon I economic argument on the other feur. "that I won't miss the last!
less dense. Irregular tiers of ter-closed the discussion.
That night, when my sirdar came train." Economic Nationalism. side-that world-wide free trade by
"You won't, sir," said the driver, races lined the bottom of the deep opening all markets to the countries where production costs are lowest significantly. The governor told valley. The steepness of the hills for orders, he said the game were coolies. I replied that they were The Industrial Recovery Bill, now
to me he'd give me the sack if i was astonishing, and slopes of 60deg, angry and would not produce the
were cultivated, being enforced in America, is the would compel other countries
We passed through fields of snow-frightened and would.. He also told reduce wages; that the resulting brought you back." most daring instalment of Mr. competition in wage cutting would
white opium poppy-the source of me there had been a fracas between Roosevelt's policy for recreating result in diminished purchasing
much smuggling into Assam. Then blackleg coolies and union coolies.. prosperity, in the United
power everywhere; and that when
came scattered pines on the sunny and that Jaglam wad uneasy. But I' By measures already on the Statute wages all over the world were re- would it cost me to divorce my hus slopes. heralding the approah to a said the game would be more docile book he has been given authority duced to, say, the Japanese level, band?
drier ountry. The river grew ever in the morning; and they were.
belll- Next morning the most the boisterous more
gorge the thunder of gerent of the game was early in our narrowed, and
well for a time. Whatever little
States.
to increase enormously the volume
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BARGAINING,
Gangster's
Wife; How
much
hundred
25
+
1100 Lawyer: About of currency and of credit in the there would be very little trade left
for anybody, The restrictions dollars. nope of bringing about a rise in the imposed are based on reasons of a Gangster's Wife, Two hundred cataracts reverberated among the camp, with the coolies; so all was price level; to restore the purchas different order, on the recognition dollars! Why, I could pet him shot hills. ing power of agriculture that there are other and more vital twenty-five, comparison with the manu-things to be taken into account in
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After the first week, Nimnos troubles we had with the indepen- handed me over to Jaglam, and de-dent Mishuis would have been much facturing industries: and to determining national policy than the
HE'S CRAZY.
parted. I was sorry to part from Teater but for the help of the
old unemployment by huge mere balance of economic advantage,
eadger Political Officer at. Sadiya and the INSURANCE INSPECTOR : Nimnon. Grumbling price level; to restore the and that no country can be in a Would you mind telling me if there though he was, he did his bit-not Assam Governmnet.
Mishmis Go Tibetan expenditure
works healthy condition if it allows its is any insanity in your family, well, but he did it. He came one By the present Bill he has the widest farming population to be ruined lady
morning, plaintive as ever, sucking The Tibetans are using the Lobit powers to control and regulate in and its agricultural land to become WIFE (a policy seeker): Well, his long pipe, raised his hand in valley more freely every year, and dustry, providing, in the words of derelict. A similar motive compels no, not exactly. Only my husband salute, and shouldering his gut trade between Rima and Sadiya is nis Presidential Message the "me" the newer countries to build up, thinks he's boss at home.
waddled off with his retainers; growing, though the distance is great co-leven at some economic loss, the in- chinery necessary for a
scarlet figure against the blue-green nearly 300 miles. At present it is operative movement throughout a dustries which they consider neces
BAD BUSINESS.
haze.
perhaps based largely on oplum findustry in order
to obtain wide sary for a balanced national life. "This place has a healthy climate Jaglam, the stoutest-hearted gam smuggling, but once the Misamis re-employment, to shorten the work All this, of course, is economic na-except the doctor, nobody had of the Upper Lohit, took his place can be persuaded to leave the valley ing week, to pay a decent wage for tionalism; and it is perfectly true died for five years."
He was a horse of another colour, safe for democracy, some of the de- truculent but efficient. Jaglam told parted glory of this historic high- me that the gams take the orders of!
way may be revived. We met Government, but that the young hot-many Tibetans, even in Sadiya. Facts You Did Not heads do not, and the gems are dis. The well-to-do go as far as Cakutta.
He had a dif- Meanwhile ficult part to play. On the one hand gradually adopting Tibetan custome
(Continued on Page 10.)
with
com-
"Starvation.".
Know.
able to control them.
a shorter week, and to prevent un that one of the causes of the exis-| What did the doctor die ef?" fair competition and disastrous ting depression is that practically lover-production." The whole pro everywhere economic nationalism gramma is frankly experimental; has been pushed to lengths which but Mr. Roosevelt is convinced that are injurious to the whole the dangers involved in it are less munity of nations. In some indus- than those which would be incurred trial countries agrarian protection by inaction. It is now meeting has become prohibitive; has des- Adjustable to nuts of all sizes,
increasing volume of troyed all wholesome competition; new implement that can be clamped criticism and even of opposition and imposes too heavy a burden on to a table cracks their shells with- Some observers seem to fear that the urban populaíon and too severe out injury to the mests. the outcome of a policy of economicļa handicap on the primary pro- isolation may be to intensify rather ducing nations. In their natural| A pick defying lock invented by a of Miju. than to mitigate the evils of econo- and healthy desire for national German is operated with a flexible Things were made more difficult mic Isolation The ideal which so life as complete and as well ba-key composed of jointed sections by the fact that none of us spoke many of the old Liberal school pro-lanced as possible, the newer cour- that fit a crooked key-bole. fess to desire the establishment of tries have tried to make themselves
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he was anxious to carry out the! orders of the Assam Government. and to serve me. On the other hand he wished to stand in with his gwn folk. Then he is a Digaru, and he
had to commend me to the rival clan
:
the Miskmis
DSEATS RESERVED
FOR 7D.
aro
Popularising Cologne's Opera.
40 PER CENT CUT.
Cologne.
Mishmi. My Tibetan servants, of course, spoke Hindustani, but the free trade in goods, services, and self-sufficient too rapidly, at too For filling automobile storage language used by the Mishamis when credit throughout the world is in great a cost to their general de batteries & California woman has, they want to communicate with the any case quite impracticable. Leav-velopment, and with too little con-invented rubber funnel to be outside world is Assamese. ing Russia out of the question, aideration for the manufacturing screwed on distilled water bottles.
Shameless Beggars ́ where all trade and all production countries upon whose markets they
These Mishmis are shameless A reserved seat for 7d. is. the are concentrated in the hands of a depend for the sale of their own Glass piping for industrial pur-. huge State monopoly, it is certain products. Thess excesses will not poses has been developed that beggars, and always asking for latest offer made by the new Na that the leading industrial coun- be cured by refusing to recognise withstands audden temperature cigarettes, or salt or tex. Teal tional Socialist management of the tries are not going to let their agri- what is sound in economic nation-changes. cultural populations be ruined and alism, or by striving to make the their land put out of cultivation by world one economic unit. Pushed the unrestricted importation of to extremes economic internation-
Why, when Assam: is the original Cologne Opera.
home of tea? It grows wild here. The seat, of course, is in the Thousands of acres are devoted to gallery, but there are no obstruc- its cultivation. Why, then, do the tions to the view of the stage and
food from countries where it can be alism can be no less dangerous level as would give producers in Mishmis not grow-tea for them nothing of the singing is lost. grown more cheaply. It may be than economic nationalism, and any uther parts of the Empire "full op- selves as the Kachins do in Northern Nor is there any waiting for 12 that by so doing they would reduce attempt to advance too hastily in portunity of reasonable competi- Burms? Probably from laziness hours for the doors to open-not even when Henny Trundt, and the cost of living and with it the that direction might lead to grave tion on the basis of the relative and the matter of the far more profit-
other, famous artistes are on the costs of production of their indus- social and political dislocations. cost of economical and efficient able opium.
Rarely could we persuade the bill. tries, thus increasing their com-The Economic Conference has to production" It was also borne petitive power both at home and discover some way of striking an constantly in mind that, as a mat coolles to do a full day's march. Seats in the well-known Opera abroad. They would certainly help equitable balance between the ad-ter of common sense and even of When the weather was fine, they were, from an English point of to revive international trade, stimu-vantages and the disadvantages on self-interest, Great Britain, the said it was too hot; when it rained, view, ridiculously cheap before lating the purchasing power of the the two sides, avoiding the extremes creditor nation, must recognize they said it was too cold, and the National, Socialists came into primary producing countries and bojh of excessive nationalism and that a large proportion of her im huddled round fires. The game power
a consideration of some importance of excessive internationaliam. It ports from the Dominions was not in their scarlet costs, surrounded The prices for all parts of the at the moment making it easier has to find some method of restor in exchange for British exports but by flying squads of musketeers house are now to be further reduc for them to pay their debla. Ac- ing world trade without sacrioeing in payment of debt obligations, The carrying fat: muzzle-loaders, maded by 40 per cent. cording to orthodox theory the useful national industries of legi- Conference would make a useful no effort to urge the coolies along,
Students and school children farmers and land workers, deprived imate national interests. The Ot-contribution towards international and we rarely covered more that may have reserved seat in the of their livelihood by these importa tawa Conference had a similar pro economic disarmament if it were seven miles a day, despite long gallery for 3d, and in the bal- tions, would inevitably be absorbed blem to face in its endeavours to able to agres upon soms similar hours,
in other industries, which would stimulate trade between the coun- guiding principle for the regalation But the path is not, good. Some couy for 6d. And orchestral stall benefit by the greater demand cans ries of the British Empire. After of tariffs, and some similar recog-times scrumbling over boulders in will cost them is,
ed by the Increased prosperity in much discussion it was accepted as nition of the responsibility of ere the river bed, ometimes in Jungle. The prices of seats in the for climbing elite, or crossing Deep Schauspielhaus have been simillar the countries from which the cheap a guiding principle that protees ditor countries towards
ly reduced Renter. galler, we tolld alonge
or food was bought, and the result tive duties thould not exceed such tors,
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