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The death of Sir Edward Mackay Edgar removes another of those dynamic figures who from time to time burst into big business.

Sir Edward, who was Canadian- born with Indian blood in his veins, was at one time a very rich man. It is doubted if he was ever A business genius. No one would deny that he was a brilliant sales-

man.

He was both courageous

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL'S PLACE

ONE OF BUFFERS AGAINST

WORLD HYSTERIA.

FATED

TO ATTRACT NONSENSE

(By James Hilton)

London, schoolboy whose parents are known

TOW that the public schools have to the ostentatiously and vulgar

begun their new year, I sup-rich!

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pose the usual spate of criticism Nor is it a militarist snobbery--- will soon engulf us. The public and in this connection it might be He had a vivid imagination. In schools suffer more than most worth while for pacifists to lend advocating the merita of his com-human institutions from the fact their whole-hearted support to mercial propositions, he was in- that the people who don't like them school O.T.Ca, since the latter so clined to be carried away by bis are usually the people who know often instil into their members a own-enthusiasm."

how to say they don't.

lifelong hatred of soldiering, And and Recently, for example, there was certainly it is not an educational or apeculative. On a "bull market, Published a symposium of schoolday an intellectual snobbery, **** therefore, he could make big money, memories contributed by various

The Mind A Shock Absorber young and youngish men of repute. No-person in the country has It was an interesting book, and ever been ostracised for dropping an the accounts, which were largely aitch. The chief things he mustn't Sir Edward's psychological make-ion of honestly. But the really school code, if it does nothing else, unfavourable, conveyed an impres-drop are bricks, and the public- up was curious. He had a power noteworthy point (which readers tenches him what bricks there are ful physique, and was an excellent! shot.

NERVOUS ENERGY

For.

He could stay up all night were left to realise for themselves) and how not to drop them. dancing and work all day. Yet he was that all these writer-critics a troubled epoch in which many were, ipso facto, untypical of the thousands of people are too clever, lived largely on his nerves.

average public schoolboy, who is but in which nobody is too tactful,

His personal expenditure was not a writer, and not a critic. is there anything wrong or regret.

enormous, even when things were

It is thus necessary to guard table about this? It may not be going badly. Yet, although he had at one time half a dozen expensive against the kind of syllogism which what the public schools are in theory runa: "I was at So-and-So School: aiming at, but it is what in practice cars, his preference was for a very nobody there had ever heard of they succeed in; and it is by no old one..

Proust, and I didn't like compulsory means a small achievement.

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written,

In the height of his success he games; therefore the public-school The modern world offers u sur- was extravagantly generous.

He system is iniquitous." As a person prises. that no kind of book educa- had a disposition to overplay his who at school disliked compuleory tion can totally prepare for, and the hand. In the end his-financial games as much as anybody, I can mind of the average citizen (ES carefully examining it, while the

testify that I was in a minority: opposed to the here-and-there boom fever is on them, will in-failure was complete.

and it seems to me nowadays that exception) has need to be a shock-- vest hundreds, the loss of which THE "JIMMY WHITE INTERVIEW it is only the minority report about absorber even more than a store- Hong Kong, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 1934, they may or may not be able to

The politely afford. This is on mere hearsay With his crash' many of his former public schools which is read the house of learning. that a mine of fabulous richness acquaintances fell away from him. majority report is rarely even sceptical boredom which is some times described as "the public- exists in a remote place known His interview after the suicide of Gold Mining Revival only to someone whom he never Mr. James White damaged him with By the majority report I do not school manner" is doubtless far before heard of, who is alleged the public more than his bank- often delivered by elderly celebrities less Plato's; but it does, by its very moan the kind of eulogy that is from being Dr. Arnold's ideal, still The fact that gold has recently to have just discovered it. This ruptcy....

on Speech DayB. The whole sub-limitations, act as one of the many about doubled its value in Aus-is now happening on the Stock

When White ended his life a re-ject of education seems sadly fated English buffers against the world tralian currency has the same Exchange every day, just as it

has happened many times before porter was sent to interview Sir to attract nonsense, of every kind hysteria of to-day. effect as would follow from the without the lesson that it should Edward. The statement attributed and flavour..

Attacks From All Sides The Duke of Wellington was in a All of which may seat a poor. discovery of new mining fields in teach having any visible effect.to Sir Edward were so startling different parts of the Common-If, in addition to encouragement that Mr. Gordon, then chief sub-typical Speech. Day humour, when defence of a system which is nowa given to the working of low-editor of the newspaper in question (and if) he made his famous claim days being attacked from all direc wealth. The value of the gold in

grade mines, which the present refused to publish the interview un. that the Battle of Waterloo was tions. But It Is the attackers them- ✨

won on the playing fields of Eton: selves who, by the many-sidedness existing mines has been multi-price of gold makes profitable, less. It was signed.

The reporter took a typed copy of (The same might be said, with equal of their effort, provide the best plied by two, so that, even if no the Government could do some other discovery should be made, thing to check this mere boom- the story back to Sir Edward, who justification or lack of it, about defence.

Peterloo.)..

- Consider, for example, the mass of the mining industry is now due ing, the industry would be all signed it.

Nor is it easy to belleve, without iniquity which this single human for a strong revival. For, scat- the better for it. Capital that is tered all over the different States now wasted in a gamble would

a certain straining of the intellig-phenomenon, the English public ence, that the public, schools are school, is reckoned to comprise. are what mining men call "big then be available for investment

responsible for the entire greatness On the one hand, it is accused of low-grade propositions" just in genuine mining enterprise. below proût-yielding level. Most The rise in the price of gold writer. says there seems to be no end of a country which was great long being an idle and luxurious Capua, of these have become payable, makes mines in which gold exists to the different types of cats. This before they ever existed, or that where pampered youth is groomed and many of them, handsomely more valuable, but it does not particularly true of the Manx type they are unique among man-made for the languid exploitation of the

institutions in being both unim masses. This opens the way to in-put any gold where none was

But, on the other hand, creased employment in a primary before. Consequently, every

provable and infallible.

we have the kind, of, attack which industry for the product of which new discovery alleged to be made

represents all public schools as dens there is now an insatiable world calls for the same investigation the Municipal Bank. Sald he: "I want market. How long gold may by prudent investors now as it for the new arrival at our house. How maintain the price, which makes would receive in the dullest shall I distinguish it from mine? this possible cannot be foreseen. period following a boom reaction. The State Government is, there- Some of the stories about "big fresh beir fund?" fore, to be commended for mak-money made by boom apecula- There's one thing we like about any especial distinction; finds a job Again, there is a similar clash of ing its hay while the sun shines tors would deserve to be printed Mickey Mouse he's never said he in a hard world, and occasionally opinion as to the typical public by its promised bill to stimulate along with that of "Jack and the would rather play Hamlet.

not very often-looks back on his school product; except that he ein the working of low-grade mines: Beanstalk. To-day a man puts

schooldays. He forgets a good deal not what they, think he ought to be, Apart from that, there is already a few pounds into the shares of

(unlike the trained writer) but he bis detractors.can find little to agree a revival in this kind of mininga mine which as yet exists only

a piece of chocolate," said grand remembers that, on the whole, be upon. One school of thought re-.. from which the country stands on paper, and to-morrow he finds mother. And if you wash behind had a fairly good time and made garda bim as a stern and ruthless to benefit in a high degree, that they have grown overnight the ears I'll give you two pieces.*****

friendships which he still enjoys fellow, a brutalitarian empire- Such an industrial revival, how into a fortune without even a

"Grandma," replied-little Johnny, If there were a few scandals in the builder who dresses for dinner in ever, has to be distinguished from pick having been put into the "maybe I'd better have a bath."

school years, they were no more the midst of the jungle with his what is called a mining boom of ground. But, when the denoue

numerous or frequent than the scar-jambok on the table beside him. the sort that is now exciting, the ment comes, the last man who

dals he has aface come across in ··{Continued on Page 10 Sydney Stock Exchange, where bought the shares finds that he

business and private life.

So,

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A recent cat show,

New Account-

A proud father went to a branch of

to see you about opening an account

Fairly Good Time For Most of Spartan misery, where boyhood is What, however, I do mean by the cowed, sweated, and, flogged in a junwritten majority report is the fashion from which working-class Manager: "Suppose we call it the opinion of the average public children are happily protected by

schoolboy who leaves school without Act of Parliament. mike

Business Note

"If you wash your face I'll give you

Personal Pars

a mere scrip gamble is taking, the has transferred the fortune from Miss L. Odier and Mrs. J. Tur-And if he discovers that a know- place of ordinary business. It his own pocket to that of the first rettini, representatives of Switzer- (ledge of Latin grammar is of small la only necessary to look at the man. No money has been made land to the Red Cross Conference record of each day's transactions, at all. It is the same money won held in Japan, arrived in the Colony use in forecasting the future of the as reported in our columns, to by one and lost by another. The yesterday on board the 8.a. Preal consolation there is at least the

see that a large proportion of whole thing has been what those Lincoln.. them means nothing more than at an age to be interested in the

gambling on the daily or hourly Jack and the Beanstalk kind of On a pleasure trip around the fluctuations of the market by literature would call "only pre world, Mr. A., J. Bryne, President] "bulls" and "bears" through the tending,"It is in this case a of the San Antoine Country Club; medium of forward. delivery kind of pretence which to some and Mrs. Bryne arrived in the

has real effects of a very harm- Colony yesterday by the s.s. Preel ful nature all the same, and in dent Lincoln. thla harm the community to a

sales.

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LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES.

dollar exchange, there

the economica- trained experts are often just sa

Falling into the compound of the much at sea. Recalling the Chinese Y.M.C.A., from Bridges examinations he failed to pass, and street, yesterday afternoon while the religion which (in any fervent playing, an 8-year-old Chinese girl, sense) he failed to assimilate, he Lam Ol, was sent to the Govern- can nevertheless feel that Greyhurst ment Civil Hospital suffering from or Redbury or Greenstead left their body injuries. mark on him, and that it was not -all things considered-a – bad mark.

Sentence of six weeks hard · labour was imposed on Young Chu," Public School Snobbery. a40-year-old unemployed, by Mr. Which, no doubt, constitutes the E. I. Wynne Jones at the Kowloon

Instead of this being any help to mining, it is one of the heaviest handicaps to which the greater or lesser extent partici- Travelling approximately 15,000

pates. gold-producing Industry · is sub-

Of course, good mines miles, Miss K. Barrows arrived in ject. For all practical purposes a boom as well as at any other dent Lincoln yesterday. Miss Bar- may come on the share market in the Colony on board the s.s. Presi money used in scrip time. The stimulus given to rows is to be married to Mr. D. S. snobbery for which the public school Magistracy this morning for steal garabling, as far as the mining prospecting should even make Rebb, of Messrs. Lows Bingham and system is so frequently attacked. ing a counterpane, valued at $4. industry is concerned, might as discovery of new fields more Matthews well be taken out to the rate likely. But this being Counter how on November 14 full of snobbishness of all kinds, it terday morning.

One must admit that in a world from the 8.8. President Lincoln yes- course and devoted to the back balanced by the increased brood Mr. P. Lookoomall, manager of would be miraculous indeed if the Ing of horses. And those who of wild cats that a boom liberates, Messrs. Wassiamull, Assomull and public schools did not have a kind embark their capital in the scrip more than ordinary caution is Company, returned to the Colony of their own

To Ching-inel, of No. 188 Third- gamble would probably run no called for by easy-money hunters on board the s.s. President Lincoln They have, and the important ment Civil Hospital yesterday, suf

Street, was admitted to the Govern="/ greater risk if they invested it on as well as by genuine mining yesterday turf certainties. Many of the investora, The frony of it rig

question is, therefore: What kind is fering from concussion received so-called mines, whose shares that just at such times both are Mr. M. J. Quist, Consul-General Perhaps it is easier to say what the lane.

when he fell down the staircase inta become the medium of frenzied inclined to exercise less.. speculation in a gold boom, have

been submitted to no practical

en

test of their value, Otherwise Mr. Wang Ching-wel, Preside hard-headed men who would not the Legislative Yuan, will leav

vast Injured by a circular saw while

for the Netherlands, was auccess-kind it is not, It is not an aristo- |* budally operated upon for appendicitis cratic snobbery, – since Saat y the War Memorial Nursing majority of publie Home on Monday morning. It is long to the middle

spend sixpence on an ordinary capital today for Shanghai, where he requested that no flowers be sent not a plutocratić article of commerce without wil meet Dr Wang Chung-hai

unpopular,y

to him theralde

be-working at the Kowloon

Is yesterday, Pan

how removed to the