1934-11-05 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1934

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REVIEWS SITUATION

WAR NOT INEVITABLE

(By Prof. Julian Huxley)

London. Jand managerial factor in business

The much-disputed question whe ther "mummy" wheat (that is]: wheat taken from Egyptian dynas- tic tomba) will germinate in this] year of grace should soon be solved. Sir Ernest A. Wallls Budge, the eminent Egyptologist, writes to the] Times to say that he has sent IT is clear to everybody that and national life. supplies of "mummy" wheat to the the European situation is Marx envisaged a cleavage of in- editor of The Farmer's Weekly and very black. In all the helds creasing sharpness between capital to the "directors of the agricultural where lie the potential · causes of and labour. The growth of this departments of Oxford and Cam-war-tariffs and. trade restric-technician class, however, has bridge, for the purpose of experl-tions, armaments; minority pro-blurred the distinction. More and ment.

blems, national feeling-the situa-more of business is run by

It is understood that this wheat tion is, on the whole, worse managers, and the idea of service, was found by Sir Ernest in a tomb than it was five or ten years ago instead of, or at least alongside, at Western Thebes of about, 1800—instead of better.

the idea of profit, is growing. 1200 B.C.

Is war therefore Inevitable? 1 More and more scientiate and Tests made in 1907 showed that do not think so. Other tenden- technologists are becoming alarmed sample of wheat grown in 1882 cles have been growing which may and disgusted at the result of the germinated. That is accepted by remove the friction. The ques present economic systera, the scientists, but they dispute the tion is whether they can develop If this large and Influential sec- [other claims, freely made during quickly enough. If we can ortion of the population could be- the past few weeks, that dynastic ganise a truly international police come consciously organised, it wheat contains a living germ. force, and if we can get economic could swing the political balance

These claims have been made by nationalism under control on the of power. responsible people, and it la time basis of a system, of planning and that decisive tests were made. jof profit-limitation, we may save |

the situation.

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ALL AT SEA

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The National Association of Local Government Officers have hit

The event will be marked here by

Your Daily Smile!

A sports writer' says there are 300

Profit-And Service

But I am going too fast. Let us

Hopeful Signs

And the last factor is the growth of new methods of carrying on business--by huge public corpora- tions like the B.B.C.; by private corporations controlled by regula

upon a novel way of celebrating get down to fundamentals.

In every, historical process a con- tion like the railways; by groups of year's centenary of local govern-fict is at work. Action calls forth private individuals or firms con- ment in this country.

They have chartered a liner and reaction, and in their interaction trolled in the public interest as well as their own, like the milk the three or four hundred members fresh resultant.

the opposing forces · produce a producers under the Milk Market- of the Association w visit There are, it seems to me, three ing Board. Common to All libraries, and study road and other main pairs of these opposites at these new ventures are planned jenterprise by the War and by the

municipal problems in such cities work in our western world to-day. control and limited profit coin- surplus Budgets that followed it.

as Hamburg Copenhagen, Stock- Prosperous finances were not a holm and Oslo.

One is the opposition between cident on reduced risk.

and laisser faire industrialism

It is these factors, which give Hong Kong, Monday, November 5, 1934 necessary, condition of the work,

except to give confidence to ad- the publication by the Association controlled planning.

hope. ministrators, for the expenditure of a special volume telling the story tween private proft and social the internal political situation in The next is the opposition be If the technician clasa can sway on irrigation. has brought a good of municipal progress during the Removing Famine's

return for all the capital invest-last hundred years.

service.

a few key countries, it can force- Menace

ed. More than a hundred and

The third is the opposition be- the idea of limited profit and plan- twenty millions sterling have

tween nationalism and internation-ned control on industry.'"` If ·In- The opening of the Mettur Dam been raised, and the average

aliam.

dustry becomes organised on such recently, released waters that yield has been about 7 per

Reading Marx, it la extraordin-[a 'basis, the sting is taken out of will irrigate 1,300,000 acres of cent. With the works now kinds of games played with ballary to, find with what accuracy he economic nationalism, and the way, land, and lead to a great increase approaching completion it may There're more than that many kinds forecast the present suitation. He opened to an increase of Interna- of sure cultivation in an area be hoped that India has played with golf balls alone." hitherto dependent on an uncer been saved for all time from tain monsooI. This is but one the worst effects of a failure of of the vast irrigation projects the rains. Millions of acres that that are steadily freeing the were desert in the recollection of Indien peasant from the menace men still serving in India have of famine. When six years ago been turned into fertile areas. Sir Malcolm Hailey opened the Whole populations have moved Sarda Canal he could say that it into districts that had been bar would provide water for a region ren since the beginning of time on the lines of police women's helmets. the struggle for markets would Even if such changes were, re- as great as all the cultivable land Northern India has become one The effect is said to be quite arresting. result in economic nationaliom, stricted to Europe, the world would in Egypt about 7,000,000 acres. of the great wheat-growing areas

with more intense nationalist feel- have taken an enormous step for The elevation of the Aswan Dan, of the world a change that

Inspiration

ing; that class war would Krow

ward towards peace and stability which will be completed next year has had remarkable effects upon Asked how he managed to build auch fiercer, that communism would be If there is a moral in all this, it and is rightly hailed as one of the physique of the population. letters, the boss disclaimed any credit come

A splendid, effective series of collection|

widespread, and lead is that foreign policy is not to be the wonders of the world. will The thousands of acres that are "Saved my son's letters from college," eventually to revolution.

disentangled from home politics, water an additional 750,000 acres now growing sugar promise to he said. "Only a few changes were

and that an intelligent handling of the economic situation in this coun- try is one of the essentials for· · avoiding European war..

Cheap

prophesied that the ordinarytional trade on a planned · basis capitalist business cycle of booms under export and import boards." and clumps would culminate in Nell: "I stopped in at the bargain widespread unemployment and so-

World Police Force! sale this afternoon."

And this in turn paves the way Belle: "Did you see anything that called over-production; that capi. looked especially cheap?"

talist production would become for a weakening of the idea of na Neil; "Yes, several men waiting organized in larger and larger tional sovereignty, and the erection around for their wives."

units; that as more and more of a truly supernational police countries became industrialised, force."

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The latest Paris hats are said to be

in the valley of the Nile. In make India independent of all needed,"

India the irrigation engineer has outside supplies. The growth of added nearly 40,000,000 acres to cotton has expanded until India the lands that bear crops, and can supply most of the raw mat

that total will be considerably erial for a vigorous manufac- ATTEMPTS TO BRIBE

exceeded when all the projects ture and have a surplus for ex- pow in hand have come to com- port. Incidentally new indus- pletion. Well has it been said tries and new demands for trans- that, when the British achieve-port have arisen to deal with the ment in India comes to be sum- products of the fertilised lands. med up, no names will stand In no other way could the pro- higher among the country's blem of finding subsistence for benefactors than those of the the teeming millions of India.

have been so effectively solved. irrigation engineers.

Primitive irrigation In India). Idates back for centuries. The

Mettur Dam, which is to hold up! the waters of the Cauvery River, is the successor of a huge masonry work built in the eleventh century upon which the whole prosperity of the delta depended. This was reconstructed nearly a Icentury ago by Sir Arthur Cot- ton, one of the more brilliant

IMPERSONATIONS REVEALED

Two Chinese Charged With Fraud

POLICE OFFICER -

Pork Shop Owner Fined $25

Marxian Omissions

Are we, then destined helplessly to live out his prophecies?

:

There are, it seems to me, fac tors in the situation which Mark

overlooked or failed to foresee.

One is birth control. which Marx seems not to have foreseen. All the nations of Western Europe will within twenty years have a declining population..

Another is the League of Na tions..

لوم

4

LOTTERY TICKETS RESULT IN FINES

Chinese Widows Pay The Penalty

"It is a wonder that you did not punch him on the head," a mere embryo, and has to admit months hard labour, was imposed It is true that the League A fine of $100, in default two

said

Mr. E I.

Wynne

Jones when Sergeant Davies, main point is that it exists, and Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Central some spectacular failures; but the or Fan Ho, a young widow, by Mr. lof the Shanshuipo Police

Station, told him the facts that its existence makes it possible Magistracy this morning, for being of a bribery case at the Kowloon for supernational organisations to in possession of 847 Macao po più Magistracy this morning, when come into being. Without the lottery tickets In Des Voeux Road prosecuting Chan Kee, a 55-year-League, such ideas as an Interna-Central yesterday.

bribe him with 40 cents.

The monthly meeting of the Chin-

old shopkeeper, for attempting to tional air force would remain mere- Chan Yee, another widow, wia ly visionary, whereas now they are fined $50, in default one month's Sgt. Davies stated that the de-solid items for political discussion. imprisonment, for having in her fendant's pork shop was causing names upon the long roll of Inmoney by false pretences were Street, so he approached the de-tablish the principle of Inspection

Three charges of obtaining obstruction at No. 189, Ki Ling national force into being, or es- the Kau Yu Fong "Theatre.

If we could once bring an inter- possession of 277, po più tickets og

dia's engineers, and Tanjore by preferred against Lam Tin, 22 fendant for his name, which was of all national commission, we its aid was made the richest dis- years, and manter of the Tin Le refused him. He then took him should have taken a serious step ese General Chamber of Commerce triet in Madras. At an earlier Faint Contractor, this morning to the police station, but on towards resolving the nationalist will be held on Wednesday after- date British engineers had devot-before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at their way, when in Nam Chang conflict. ed themselves to the re-opening the Central Magistracy. and elaboration of the canals of Accused was charged with ob-40 cents and offered it to the Marxist analysis seems to me to

Street, the defendant pulled out. The third factor which the premises. the Mogul Empire in Northern taining $1 from Lui Shun, of No. Sergeant, saying that it was ten neglect is human idealism. India, which had become dere 89 Aberdeen Street, 85 from Wong money. lict in the collapse of Mogul rule. Shui-ki, of No. 38 Staunton Street, The period of East India Com-and $5 from Chan Kal of No. 69 pany saw the beginnings of new Staunton Street, by saying that works, but it was not until after

He was an interpreter from the

میز

the Matiny that the Govern Sanitary Department.

ment, haunted by the constant Sul Chi-ming, an - unemployed menace of famine that attended

A fine of $25 was imposed.

GEORGE ARLISS COMING

Enthusiasm

Nothing is more surprising to anti-communtate visiting Russia,

or to anti-Fascists visiting Ger many, than to ce the amount of Idealistic enthusiasm among the

any failure of the rains, began to seaman, was charged with imper Noted Film Actor Due population, and to find that much employ loan funds in the dam-onating e police officer for the ming of rivers and the construc purpose of effecting the release of tion of canals. The dire famine Lam Tin.

This Week

of it, even under these authori tarian regimes, is expended on ad- George Arliss, the popular mirable objects. And this en- at the end of last century gave guilty, and the case was remand character actor, who plays the lead thusiasm could be harnessed to so- fresh impetus to this work; and ad 48 hours on the application of ing role in the forthcoming 20th clal and international Improvement

Lord Curzon's administration

Both defendants pleaded not

M

was distinguished by schemes Sergeant H. G. Baldwin

that added over thirty millions

of expenditure to the forty mil-

lions already spent The pro-

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Century⠀⠀⠀ Film production, "The as much as to jingo politics or na- House of Rothschild", is due to tional prestige though "you must arrive here this week, according provide tangible organisations and reliable information.

definite goals on to which idealism a visiting may crystallise,

gramme that is now nearing.com:

The RMS: Empress Russia The celebrated pletion. Is the outcome of the arrived at Shanghal yesterday and the East after a business trip to Finally, the fourth factor is the stimulus given to every kind of is due at Nagasaki to-morrow,

Europe.

growth of the acientific, technical,

noon at 3 o'clock at the Chamber's

Doctor: How in your Patient:"Very poor. even, went to eat the things have, forbidden me