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labourer's household for the whole year. These defects were fatal when growing industries offered a better career; but the

Here There and I Everywhere

FLOATING DEET

SUBSTITUTES FOR RELIGION

BIG BUSINESS AND MONEY-MAKING

Paris wits, referring to the MAN CANNOT SERVE BOTH GOD

hage cost of the Normandie, which is largely borne by the French Government, have chris- tened her "la dette flottante.”

CLUBMEN ON SOAP BOXES

street corners.

L

AND MAMMON

(By Very Rev. W. R. Inge)

whole man. Sleeping or waking

ONG ago, when Mr. Holloway, the Catholic tradition of the of the Pills died his elders, with its arbitrary rules The latest recruits to the Go-obituary notice in the Times about fasting and penance. So.

that productive taught ernment's propaganda campaign contained the following remark-he are members of the Constitutional able passage: "Money-making is labour, and abstinence from all Club. They will mount the soap an art by itself; it demands for needless self-indulgence, are the boxes in the parks and at the success the devotion of the typical godly life.

Resmit Unforeseen They are volunteers recruited his thoughts must be devoted to I do not think he foresaw the by M. RH. Cale, the secretary it. It is not everyone who is inevitable effect of his teaching of the club. The club has pro-capable of such single-hearted But it is plain that if you can vided an army of 100 speakers attention as this. Most men convince a whole nation that Conservative supporters of the wish to be wealthy, but with a steady industry is eminently Government are rapidly drawing want of steadiness and single-pleasing to God, and that almost level with the outdoor organisa¬{ness of purpose. Politics or all ways of spending money in tions of the Socialists, who for love are great things to them:productively are wrong. that many years had almost a mono- they are nof willing to give nation is hikely to become very poly of this form of propaganda them up just as so many shares prosperous.

by which the path of money- We must not suppose that Calvin was blind to the abuses making is beset"

We cannot serve God and of money-making; on the con-

he

condemned

them A musical comedy actress always Mammon, as a great authority trary insists on exercising her pet dog her- told us two thousand years ago, severely. Every kind of fraud sel£ She naturally objects to any when trade and commerce were and dishonesty, every kind of body else taking the lead.

Your Daily Smile!

* Readers

"Ah, yes,"

Sentored the

“Fred."

раз

•

What's in a Name

That ain't a name—that's wot yer

"

very simple affairs compared speculation, every kind of op- with what they are to-day, pression, came under his lash. Mammon the writer of the Do not let us despise the poet,t

of things are getting better with me obituary notice, though. is as Puritans; we should be better, Twice as

many people read my exacting a master as his rival for a considerable infusion poems now.".

Samuel Butler characteristi-puritanism in our post-war so- What exclaimed a friend. You cally says that no doubt it is ciets- got married and never told me?”

difficult to serve both; but The defects of Calvin's schente everything that is worth doing would have been apparent ear--

old political The Cockney child had just start-is difficult. Is it only difficultier but for the or is it impossible?

economy of the nineteenth cen- ed school.

tury. "Wor's yer nime?" a classmate

We were invited to ad- ked

Earlier Views

mire the beautiful harmony and The money-making life has automatic working of the econo- not always been held up to ad-mic system, which provided an on the idea that the acceptance muvver sews yer pants wiv!”

*

miration The Greeks thought easy road from "each for self" of relief should be made as un-i

Missed Something

it a legitimate career. but not to "each for all" The strike of men employed attractive as possible. was far

It would be futile to resist the Boss (to office boy, who is hail an Jon the works started at Los less human.

The abolition of hour late): "You should have been one that an educated gentleman

would care for. The early natural laws" laid down by the Angeles and elsewhere to re-outside relief and compulsory in here at eight o'clock.", lieve unemployment, which are internment in huge barracks for Office Boy: "Why, what happen-Church held the curious view Divine Legislator. So with a that money is "naturally har-good conscience men took what to be financed partly by an in-the-miserable was simply a

ren." so that there is something they could get, and the devil creased taxation of the rich and coercion of the poor to accept|

unnatural in making it breed took the hindmost partly by an enormous pledging any pay, however far below the

The Jews, of course, made it Social Order Breaks of Government credit, are ac-subsistence wage- The idea SANITARY BOARD tual enough as events, and yet that involuntary poverty was they are contradiction in a crime,

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or at least that termas A strike is effec-it should be treated as such. Agenda For To-day's

Relief Workers Strike

new system, elaborately based

tive when both sides have became intolerable to all something to give that the humane men, and the next stage]

ed?"

*

Meeting

tians.

breed, but they were not Chris But the Puritan social order broke up from within. Big The Christian noble, if he Business ceased to be ascetic: wanted money, might set up as it ceased to be religious; it a robber baron. orav

ceased to be honest. The By way of mild reminders

manufacturer was displaced by That he needed coin, the knight the banker, the banker by the Day by day extracted grinders mere brigand, the Napoleon of

From the howling Israelite, finance. There were prosperous mer- To "make" money now meant chants in the Middle Ages, and to acquire it, no matter how.. they were respected. But the The chief method has been by

the

Carnegie was one of the best. If of the millionaires, for he mader

other wants; apart from was the spread of the doctrine The following matters will be any feeling of goodwill which of the right to work" La-

considered at to-day's meeting of may lead to a reasonable bour bureaux and relief works the Sanitary Board at 4.15 pm: compromise, the victory is won are an indication that that!

Application for a bakehouse li by the party which can best do "right" as been admitted in a cence at No. 192, Reclamation without what the other side half-hearted sort of way. At

Street, ground floor. offers. Usually it is a case of the present juncture the most Applications for eating house modern business man has his securing a monopoly, and those work versus cash, on the most debateable questions are: Basicences at No. 118, Queen's spiritual home in Calvinism who care to do so may study the selfish principles a worker is the out-of-work man a right to Road East, ground floor; No. 189, which has had a very impor- tactics of (for example) advised to strike unless the dictate what sort of work he Lockhart Road, ground floor; and tant influence upon the social Standard Oil Trust The great employer is anxious to get work shall do? and must be be paid No. 1. Connaught Road West, and economic state of Europe. American fortunes read like a to take advantage of a rising at the same rate as a man em-

Church's Attitude

reductio ad absurdum of capital- ground floor, market A strike against reployed on remunerative produc

ism ceiving pay when no orders are tion?

Application for permission to And if he refuses to add the first floor of No. 329, and been quite easy in its mind The Church hitherto had not coming in leaves the employer work at sassistence wage to delete the ground foor of No about private property. quite unconcerned — at least lower than the Union rate. has 327, Reclamation Street, from the man had not fallen into sin his money in, trade; but the any employer except the State he a right to a subsistence ware bake-house, licence for Nos. 527 there would be no law, no story of his retirement from

The State, which really con-without working?

and 329, Reclamation Street armies, and no private property, business gives food for thought. sists simply of the citizens, `em- These are fundamental ques-Iground floor.

These institutions belong not to Pierpont Morgan said to his as ployed or unemployed. has for tions that will make the politics In addition regular returns the absolute Law of Nature, sociate. Schwab, "If Andy wants the nonce to be considered as a

the English-speaking will be considered.

but to the relative Law of Na to sell I'll buy. Go and find his separate entity with an indivi of all.

Schwab went, and af- price countries for the next twenty

ture which we have to accept duality of its own; and its posi-

only because we are in a fallen ter a few minutes talk Car tion in this matter is weaker years. Our Governments may

negie wrote on a piece of paper, well regret the personal know- than that of the private em-ledge of the old parish con- SOLDIER BITTEN OVER EYE BY state.

But Calvin swept away thisFour hundred million dollars." ployer in two ways. The first is

distinction; private property shook hands with Carnegie with Morgan at once accepted, and that the striker is also a voter, stable; for it is the simple fact that men cannot be treated as

now becomes. without qualifica and can influence the State in

The Danby of Headquarter tion, part of the divine law. He the words "Mr. Carnegie, I want his own interests when election arithmetical units. Just as there

to congratulate you on being the time comes along the second is are differences between men, Wing, Lincolnshire Regiment, was, was convinced that Christianity that in all the English-speaking relief schemes. There is for in when he went into a hut at Sham and capitalism, and that this

so are there differences between bitten over the right eye by a dos is compatible with industrialism richest man in the world"

Something, Radically Wrong countries it has been adopted as a principle since the days of stance the great "TV.A.", only shuipo Camp to retrieve a tennis type of civilisation is, or may he. Can we wonder that men are Queen Elizabeth's Poor Law, possible when backed by nation-ball at 6.30 p.m. yesterday. As more Christian than the feudal beginning to think that there the the result of the incident a terrierism and militarism of the Mid-must be something radically that no citizen shall be allowed a resources, by which

wrong with a ̈system under to come to starvation. There is waters that have been running hitch and 3 puppies were sent to dle Ages. nothing irrelevant about judge to waste in the Tennessee Valley Matankok for observation, while He wished his adherents to which this sort of thing is pos ing this controversy in the light are impounded for cheap electric Pte. Danby received treatment at lead a strict disciplined, self-sible? it a substitute

denying life, without following

DOG AT SHAMSHUIPO

of old history for men have al-power, to be used both for irri-the Kowloon Hospital ways needed food, and most men gation of waste lands and have had to work for it. Also for various

Many Carrier Pigeons Lost cessful men in the nineteenth

I have- for religion This does not ap- ply to such types as Jay Gould, but it does apply to many suc

century, and to a few even now

que Rockefeller as saying to Bible class* “it is wrong to av

In Lympne-Berlin Race Bertrand Russell

industries for at all times there have been which raw hands will be

trained. some who have failed to find

Any answer to the work, and human nature is very ges" or "no" will be wrong, and questions which is a plain constant. The old system then, lead to trouble. There is a field which worked well enough for in which the State can do use

To-day-The great ma-and rain prevailing on Saturday couple of centuries was entire fat work without direct compe-jority of the German carrier Only one bird covered the e-sume that men of im ly local Relief was administerė ed by the parish Constable, ttition with the private empigeon fanciers who entered birds tire distance of 900 ilometres the wealth are always hap under the control of the Justices Ployers; but it will have to be in Saturday's race from Lympne, same day it of the Peace, and paid for out of thought out carefully, The on the south coast of England, to hours, which

State has also a function as Berlin, are still auxiously awaiting speed of 72 ki the local rates. It had the ad- THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION antage of complete local and arbiter between the public con- the arrival of their pigeons, only and thus gaining

personal knowledge; it kept the sumer and the manufacturer 88 out of a total of 1,200, having a golden badge worker in his own home, it was and the worker, the guiding

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ly amateur-solutions.

the ilusion?

done

stion up to owner others

driven ou

ng 12 mm lives his life for himself. age and has no regard for humanity The will be the most miserable man on earth. The lind of man I like is one that his fellows, content

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hows futur