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ABYSSINIA

from Ethiopis, says that veror Haile

pathetic faith in the Kations

S

has

He writes to Genera as great ancestor Menelek wrote

the Powers, in French, which speaks finently.

NEW RELIGION IN RUSSIA

COMMUNISM INSTEAD OF

CHRISTIANITY

FOUNDED UPON OUT-OF-DATE

SOCIALIST THEORIES

(By Very Rev. W. R. Inge)

Those who have studied Com-down fire from heaven upon munism at close quarters, es- Samaritan village.

pecially in Russia, seem to agree The Communist movement has

He was educated by the French that it can only be understood as its bible, like other religions. Its

moalcs of Hamr

SLOWING DOWN-

.

2 kind of religion. It is to be old testament is Hegel, its new discussed at the Church Congress testament is Marx on Capital. this autumn as "a rival religion," The sacred books are unfortunate- "a challenge to Christianity."ly chosen because Hegel was an The Emperor has been cautions This seems odd when we remen-idealist, who believed that nothing The Com- In his introduction of Westernis-ter that Lenin described religion exists except mind. ing measures since the fall of as "opium for the people, amunist dogma is that nothing King Amsenllah -of Afghanistan, noxious drug to be abolished like exists except matter. Heger deified the State, and was accused He was wiser than Amanullah, the traffic in cocaine. D too. in taking all potential rivals: What is meant, of course, is that of teaching that God attained full with him when he made his tour the symptoms are the same as in self-consciousness for the first time of Europe.

the agsressive, epidemic phase of in Prussia

Bolshevism has no use for God. Incidentally, what is called a young religion, Islam for in Westernisation was begun long stance. These symptoms are conscious or unconscious, and. before Haile Selassie.

fanatical conviction, enthusiastic Lenin cared but little for the Menelek introduced the tele-propagandiam, ruthless persecu-State. "It is simply the weapon graph Haile Selassie has added tion of dissentients, and an with which the proletariat wages to it the telephone and wireless apocalyptic belief in speedy and its class-war; a bludgeon, nothing The Russians are used Addis Ababa is now in wire-complete victory. The symptoms į morë.” less communication with distant undoubtedly exist.. Are they as to being bludgeoned. Ivani - the parts of Ethiopia as well as with inexplicable as an èpidemic, or can Terrible and Peter the Great (the outside world.

*

*

UNDER DIFFICULTIES

we account for them?

“Economic Man”

pounded them vigorously; but the little finger of Stalin is thicker |than the loins of Peter.

"New Testament”

As for the New Testament, the

The old, political economy was Not all the difficulties of a pro-responsible for the figment of the gressive ruler in Ethiopia are due "economic man," against whom to the conservatism of the people. Ruskin thundered in vain. The Works of. Marx, Bertrand Russell There is the case of the tele-economic man then appeared as a is right in saying that they belong mentally to the middle of last heavy-handed employer of läbour,

They have no connec- graph system.

Sometimes the telegraph wires whose prosperity proved the bene century-

tion with・・・ modern economic are hung on trees in stormsficent effects of unrestricted com- some of the trees fall down. petition. But economic materia-realities. The class-war is quite Sometimes the wires are on fism is not necessarily the friend out of date in a society like ours, poles, is in Europe White ants of capitalismo. Both sides interwhich is rapidly approaching 1

|LEFT SEVERELY ALONE

were

consequences, for their class, of this new religion."

(Continued on Page 7)

оп the watch, and what is found to be legal this year can Hong Kong, Monday, July 15, 1933. be made illegal next.

A Voice For All Time Income-Tax Evasion

eat the poles, and the poles fall preted history-in terms of econo-state of things when there will be If the first word of eminent

dawn.

mies; but the god of one side was no more classes, very few rich Abstract men, and several millions of small. the devil of the other- Academic was Mr. Chamber-foreigners arriving in London a compliment to London's

theories of human nature are apt rentiers.

The invested savings of the poor, lain's epithet for the recentis

to lead to violent quarrels, and London debate on the proposal wonderful policemen,"

last word as they catch the

In the heyday of Moslem the economic man has never exist- since the war exceed three thou

Just at the to take 6d off the income-tax boat-train from Victoria may military glory, when Moslemsed and never will. Life is much sand million pounds

moment when the capitalist na- Academic it was in the sense well be a lyric of praise for were conquering all North Africa, more than a livelihood

which London's "wonderful telephone their Generals refrained from It is difficult for those who, like tions are beginning to doubt that an amendment

Now, indeed that the penetrating into Ethiopia, in myself, belong to old professional whether they have taken the would have converted a small girls.” prospective surplus into a large paragon of all telephone girls spite of the fact that the Ethio- families, to do justice to the So-wrong road in the overmechanisa has been found at the Victoria pians had been converted to cialist movement. We see the tion of production, the most for certain deficit stood not the Exchange, there may be every Christianity in the third century, existing system at its best. For bidding aspects of capitalist in- slightest chance of acceptance temptation to miss the boat and should therefore have been generations we have had interesting dustry are being introduced into work, a good social position, mode-Bassia, the worst kind of wages But as a discussion of the prin-train itself for the sake of hear special object of attack

One attempt at invasion was rate and fairly secure incomes, slavery, without any safeguards ciples of public finance the de-ing her voice. The Post Office, [bate had its value, which the Which in its public relations is made between 1530, and 1540 by and not very much anxiety. The lot at all Nothing but · fanatical Chancellor himself enhanced by no longer a believer in hiding the Moslem General Mohammed of the English professional man hatred could blind so many of the its talents, may indeed take Gran. It ended ingloriously. before the war was perhaps the workers of Europe to the real his own little discourse on the

Mohammed Gran was killed in most desirable in the world. from Victoria, as it has already a skirmish. His troops relationship between taxation steps to popularise phone calls

Different For Others land psychology. Other things

telegrams

routed and driven out of the

The matter appears differently a low tax is ob-Fopularised

Paddington, by sending a polite country. being equal,

to those who are exposed to the viously preferable to a high

full blast of cuthroat competition one. But other things are not boy down the platforms to ask

Your Daily Smile! to finctuations of trade, to equal The element of confpassengers if there is not some-

harassing, fear of employmen dence weighs heavily in the thing they have forgotten

The gracious-toned winner of scale. If a balanced budget ad-the Post Office's prize for a

"This mest in so tough I can hard- and, if they are employers, to the mits of reduced taxation, con- "golden voice will, however, be ly chew it. Hasn't a man say choice doubt whether it is possible to succeed in business without sacri- adence is increased, often to

"Sure! You can take it or leave icing, much that makes life worth such an extent that the remisspending busy moments for the up here?**

next few weeks at least in the sion pays for itself. But if re somewhat monotonous task of

honest and Mak Hon Knen, a 17-year-old Is Share mission is only made possible

Mother: "What's the matter, Wi-human man. Would it not be student, of 122 Fa-Yuen Street better for everyone to work for Kowloon, disappeared while, bath- Eaby budgeting for a deficit, fear counting the fleeting seconds ---- for the future may more than counting them, moreover, aloud.

Willie (indignantly) There's one the State, free from wearing ing at Laichikok yesterday and is offset the immediate gain. Such and adding them into minutes le was the Chancellor's argument task is finished, the tones resort and they've made me anxieties, and secure of a mainten believed to have been drowned. and it is unanswerable.

On the other issue raised in served for Victoria subscribers the debate the evasion of will become the delight of every taxation the logic of the Londoner who wants to know why wife has been working on the evitable loss of liberty, which does and when about 200 yards fro the time and no longer needs to err, "Simkins," the householder said not mean much to a large part offshore was seen to be in diffen

ties, but before any. case is equally clear. It is the

ask a policeman. The prize to the chauffent.

Such argaments may make men could be rendered to him, social reformers, but not furious and disappeared. The

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EUROPEAN BOY

Magic Battle "What's this, Zussms?" asked the new mail, indicating a metal bottle.

That is a bottle which will keep things hot or

whichever you

desire, explained the mistress.

law, but if the law leaves a Hoophale he is justified in wall cial privilege which many are 20 and pot everything right again. ing through it. It is not the said to like but few to achieve She will enjoy the sound of her Isheep's business to proffer a

own voice lump of wool which the shears miss. So far as indirect taxe- tion is concerned, the justice of this view is universally admit SUDDEN DEATH OF ted No one is condemned for evading the tobacco tax be cause he does not smoke. But a different measure is sought to be applied to the direct tax payer who insists that Hable to income-tax what the law defines as Such exactitude is offensive to Socialist ethics

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