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The Young "Brain Trust"

It is interesting to refer to the ages of the American delegates to the World Conference. They are all sexagenarians. Their average age| is 61.

It is a very different average from that of another Roosevelt body-

WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1933.

EDUCATION DANGER IN JAPAN

RUIN BY THE PEN OR

BY THE SWORD CATASTROPHE FORESHADOWED

During the last few years and as were held, of the high schools

the Brain Trust, which is advising especially since 18th September, was ipso facto licensed to teach. him on world economic affaira.

1931, when Japan surprised the "Should he prove a failure in the The nine members of the "Brain

more lucrative field of business he Trust" are Professor Raymond world by her high-handed action, in could always obtain a post as teach- Moley, Professor Rexford Tugwell, Manchuria, there has been a fairly erand, unfortunately for Japan's Professor Adolf Augustus Berle, general belief outside Japan that schools, he did." Mr. William C. Bullitt, Professor

Education Peril

Mordecai Ezekiel, Professor John her militaristic government and her Dickinson, Mr. Lewis Douglas, Nt. serious economic and financial situa-) The existing educational situation Charles Taussig, and Mr. James P. tion were leading straight to ruin. in Japan is fraught with imminent Warburg. With

the exception of That may, of course, be, the case, life. Our author is of opinion that peril to her social and economic Mr. Bullitt, who is now in London, the members of the "Brain Trust" but an even more imminent cata-unless a remedy can be found a are remaining in Washington. strophe is definitely foreshadowed in political revolution will probably Professor Moley, the oldest, is only a little book which its author has ensue, which "may even threaten 48. The youngest is Mr. Warburg, forwarded. The contents of the words: "Not, therefore, as the ber very constitution." Note these who mixes finance with the com-

men above the law.

position of revue lyrics, and who book are well sumarised in the sub-world thinks, on the fields of Man- is only 36. The average age is 39. title="short history and discussion churia or Shanghai is Japan's future of the present situation and likely being really fought, but in her Magna Carta

future development."

school rooms." (Our italics), The anniversary of Magna Carta

In Japan, as elsewhere, there is‘a The writer, whose duties in four superabundance of black-coated and was celebrated with much munici-schools leave him little time for white-collared men, "a large and pal pomp at the Temple Church on 'close research, wishes it 10 June 18.

be disgrunted intelligentsia. Of her The Charter has been pretty drawn from opinions expressed by some 80 per cent are unemployed. understood that his material is College and University graduates, roughly handled by historians in competent Japanese educationists and in 1932, eight candidates applying the last thirty years. From being from reports appearing in the for railway posts submitted applica- the "palladium of English liber-Japanese and English press. He, de tions written in their own blood in ties." it has been reduced to the sires to remain status of a piece of slovenly possible, and for that

as objective as the hope of receiving preferential draughtmanship merely intended study is all the more authoritative that in Japan, in our own Scotland reason his treatment. Is there any wonder to put a number of disorderly rich and conclusive. We have seldom, if and in practically every country, This, however, scarcely matters. the same time, a more damning red at great expense to their parents ever, read a more temperate and, at young people who have been educat- DEATH.

Na-The true value of the Charter is for Japan, a more portentous indict and their country are bewilder- France not in its text, for nearly all its ment, |ELLAMS—On 18th July, 1933, at

An Provisions are long since repealed,

ed, disillusioned, and consequently The historical summary Canossa Hospital, George

but in its reputation.

deals thinking "dangerous thoughts?” Ernest Ellams, late Hong Kong impasse appeared to have been For centuries, Englishmen have peoples, the introduction of Bud-trying to stem the tide which seems with Japanese contact with foreign In Japan the nation's leaders are Canton & Macao Steamboat Co. reached, but after an interval persisted in believing that all sorts dnism, the displacement of Korean to be gathering strength towards Ltd. Funeral will pass the monu- for reflection Germany decided of principles that King John's bar-by Chinese influence, the establish- revolution by insisting on the more. mént at 5.30 p.m. to-day.

not to press these claims. Thus one never dreamed of--trial

byment of the Feudal System, and the widespread' teaching of the Chinese. hope was

jury, habeas corpus, no revived and

taxation opening of Japan to trade on the Classics. A bigger dose of Classics" was without representation strengthened by

were demand of America and Russia in will not satisfy Mr. Davis' secured by this hallowed document. the years 1846 to 1848. Stress is physical hunger.

the pangs of statement, which was interpret Of course they were not, but that rightly laid on the work for educa- ed to mean that the United faith has helped to keep the con- tion of the Emperor Meiji, who in no mood to be doped by any foreign The young men of Japan are in States would co-operate in action sitution alive.

1868 issued his Rescript. Its open- ethics, least of all the ethics of against

ing sentences remind us rather of China, which they have been taught the pompous dedication found in to despise by the press, their. our 1G11 Authorised Version. spiritual pastors and masters, and "Know ye, Our Subjects: Our Im-the whole military caste and system autocratic

The China Mail

Hong Kong, Wednesday, July 19, 1933.

Gloomy Outlook For

Disarmament.

Jed in policing colonies.

turally Britain and would not assent to this.

an aggressor. The Iknowledge that in the circum-: stances predicated the United States would throw her weight into the scale, would

Your Daily Smile

style.

The

MONEY MINDED BRITISH GUIDE (showing places perial Ancestors have founded Our which meantime hold have of interest): It was in this room Empire on a haals broad and ever-away in Japan. Karl Marx is far The failure of the World smoothed the path of the Confer that Lord Wellington received his lasting, and have deeply and firmly more immediately attractive, to Economic Conference

implanted virtue. Our subjects ever some extent because he is frowned But a few days later Mr. first commission! does not ence. improve the prospects of the Davis's assurance was "quali-

AMERICAN TOURIST (sudden. united in loyalty and filial piety have upon by those in authority. The Disarmament Conference, which fied,

ly interested): How much was it? generation to generation illus oppressive attitude adopted by the if not nullified," by

trated the beauty therefore.". And national government and University' a resolution was adjourned in the hopes that

of the For-

SHE'S A BIG HELP

50 on, in the same grandiloquent authorities is evidenced by the fact eign Relations Committee cf any accomplishment at London the Senate which obliges the ing to practice economy. dear, and HUBBY: I thought we were go-

that in 1931 and 1932 there were towards international

65 Years Of Progress

more than fifty' school strikes. co-opera-American Government to ¡tion in the economic sphere serve neutrality as between bel- dress!

pre-here you've gone and bought a new

In the 65 years that have elapsed

Too Much Bribery might lead to better results at ligerents.

since the Meiji Rescript Japan has Is there WIFE: Well, darling, I am prae- pissed from abysmal ignorance of Education Minister proposes to re-

any remedy? A further obstacle Geneva. The outlook is far from to agreement was the signi- order for a suit and bought the one of the Great Powers. There those entering schools of law, litera- tising economy. I cancelled you the world to the taking of her place duce by one-half the number of cheerful, but the signing of the ficance to be attached to the dress for half the money you would is therefore little Four-Power Fact on Saturday word "aggressions," which is have spent on the suit.

reason for sur-ture. political economy and com last improved the situation as it almost impossible to define in

prise, that her educational system merce in the Imperial Universities and the culture which a sound and private institutions. He does affects Central Europe.

While the abstract.

Everything de-

education slowly produces are char-not say what means will be effective there is bound to be a sense of pends on the concrete situation.

"Would you-er-advise me to-acterised by superficiality and dan- for this purpose, nor what is to be relief in the assurance that the nation which fires the first marry a beautiful girl or a ten-gerous symptoms.

|sible girir".

done with those who are excluded. pact is not in any sense an ab-shot might be technically the

If five-year plans had been in "I'm afraid you'll never be able vogue 60 years ago, Japan would

(Continued on Page 112. rogation of the League of Na-aggressor, yet might be exercis-to marry either, old man.”

probably have proposed to banish tions, but is made

withing the legitimate right of self- "Why not!"

defence. Yet another vexed ques-]

"Well, a beautiful girl could deliteracy in half a decade. As it lin the ambit of

the tion was the proposal for the better, and a sensible girl would pecially Anglo-Saxons, with open

was she welcomed foreigners, es-ARMED ROBBERY AT {Covenant, there Ere sume total prohibition of aerial bom-know better"

points to be kept in mind. The bardment. Britain stipulated pact is a welcome expression of police purposes in outlying re- that this should be sanctioned for good will, but it does not great-gions.

**

* ** CANDID.

SLIGHTLY CONFUSED

erms, swallowed with avidity, and paid for handsomely, whatever in- formation was hrought by foreign 'MISTRESS: You will cut and illiterates who posed as fully quali- It is an expeditious roll the lawn, weed the gravel path, fied teachers. ly amplify the guarantees al-method of keeping the peace and pot some chrysanthemums, hoe the ready afforded by the Covenant disciplining refractory

SHAUKIWAN.

Farmer Stabbed.

Five men armed with daggers at-

.

So in business, British, Amer-tacked a matshed at Chai Wan tribes turnips, plant all those rose bushes, feans and Germans were directing Village, Shaukiwan, at 1a.m. this and the Kellogg Pact. Moreover, cause the employment. of land to the hesting apparatus-

It is also a humane method, be-clean out the greenhouse, and see houses and teaching the Japanese morning. the way to agreement was full of troops would involve heavier NEW GARDENER: Excuse me markets.

how later to capture their own] The owner of the matshed, Lam pitfalls. No sooner was one casualties, and, as warning of madam, but is this a day's work or wholesale absorption, imitation and awakened by the cries of his fellow- “Everywhere it was Pui, a farmer, said that he was controversial issue settled then these raids is given, the delin-a five-year plan? another arose.

quents have

apprenticeship,” and as Dr. Kidd of worker, Sze Mun who was sleeping Two months which they often take, of sub- an opportunity,

Aberdeen said to a drunk man who hear, him. Five men armed with ago the Disarmament Conference mitting to

claimed to be one of his converts, daggers threatened them and when authority without CHORUS GIRL (quarrelling in we may or may not "be proud of he attempted to resist being bound, seemed in danger of

he was stabbed in the back of the down because of 1

Japan's defeat of China in 1894-5 neck.

# •

OUCH!

able attitude of Gerne

bloodshed. The warmest friends dressing room): Not only that, bat our handiwork"

unreason.

Facts You Did Not Know.

can

was perhaps as wise as her teachers, house and made off with a quantity

for wiser. Then Ker crushing vic- of money and property to the value

Lory; over" Russia proved that she of $22.70..

could beat the West at its own game. To Japan, as to the other inations of the world, the Great War

brought ultimate economic disaster,

News In Brief.

of the reduction of armament you get uglier every day. are constrained to admit the SECOND CHORUS GIRL: An- first inclined her to believe that she The robbers.then searched the For complications with which it is other thing I can do and you example, the British "stan-jencompassed. For instance, not. dardisation" plan provides for Britain would unhesitatingly the general adoption of "short to a dispencation for the term of service" in military es-imperi

outlawry of submarines. They her food supplies. tablishments. Germany object-France, on the other hand, quite ed to this, although it had been justifiably from her point of Revolved by a tiny motor, a novel but the years immediately following aged 53, was knocked down by A Chinese woman, Lai Hung Shu, her own policy until the Treaty weapon. Britain must have a hours and minutes to servē as

view, declined to renounce this electric lamp shape is marked with the war were, in Japan as with us, motor-car, No. 2352 yesterday in of Versailles--to prevent her quota of light cruisers, adequate clock.

a years of unbounded hope and vault- Nathan Road, Kowloon. She sus ing ambition. Extra Commercial tained injuries to her head and was from exceeding, by a system of for the protection of her com-

and Higher Commercial Schools sent to the Kowloon Hospital for intensive training, the number munications. A self-contained Of Switzerland's 825 motion pic-were constructed to supply workers treatment, of effectives permitted to her-compulsion. And so the argu-towns of 10,000 or more population New schools required teachers, and An unknown Chinese was knocked Power is not under an equivalent ture theaters 149 are located in 30 in Japan's mushroom Industrialism. fixed the period of enlistment in ment continued. But upon the each. her army at twelve years. Ger-resumption by the Disarmament Conference further deliberations

many also demanded that in the

special courses were organised to down by motor-car No. 1788 yester supply the need. At the same time day putaide the Royal Naval Yard

A new electric fan that includes every graduate, which means prace entrance when he ran out from be.... are likely to be influenced by the a humidifer washes and cools warm tically every pupil who remained to hindia trah. He was sent to the event of a European war overtrand of opinion at the World air before it is circulated about a complete the course, without regard Government Civil Hospital in sea troops should only be engar Economic Conference.

to the results of such examinations kritint condition.