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AN AMERICAN'S DEBT,
PROTEST.
THE HONOUR OF MY COUNTRY."
LIVES AT £10,000 EACH.
The recent drought in Australia rubbed.
New Yona. in the old lesson-the need for irriga
Before the adjournment of the United tion on a great scale, supplemented by States Congress for its summer holidays individual effort by small farmers. its members-Representatives as well as Under the benign skies of Australia Senators-received a remarkable petition, simple methods of irrigation like those couched in impassioned language, asking practised by the peasants of Lombardy for the cancellation of the war debts would produce astonishing results.
owed to the U.S.A by Great Britain and But the problem of Australian irrigaher Allies. tion is like a hundred other problems in Australia. It is easy to point out what might be done and what should be done, Eat much more difficult to get it done. The Australian farmer who is filled with invention and ambition is a being to be ritiel. He cannot get labour.
The petition is the work of Mr. Fre- derick Peabody, an eminent New Eng land lawyer. It is addressed to Mr. Coolidge, the President.
A CONTRAST IN SPEECHES. Mr. Peabody contrasts some of the The conditions that faced the first speeches made by members of Congress settlers should have passed away long in 1917, when the money was forwarded' fera-now They persist mainly owing to to the Allies, with their speeches in the The cost of labour. The high coat has last two or three years, when they driven labour from the land. Every wrangled as to the largest amount which farmer is not amassing a fortune; the could be obtained from a war debtor. average, man simply cannot afford the wages for skilled craftsmen. that Aus- tralian standards prescribe. The farmer Land his family struggle_on_the_best_way. they can with their own rude skill and appliances, but the results are low efficiency, postponed improvements, and a backwardness of agricultural develop.
ment.
The Australian is very proud of what Australia is. Few Australians think much of what Australia might be and ought to be.
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In Australia the plain man--the man in the street in Melbourne or Adelaide habitually regards immigration as palliative of labour shortage, pr, if such is his angle of interest, as a menace to the established standard of wages. It is overlooked that immigration, upon a scute which immigration into Australia will almost certainly never assume, had little or no effect upon the standard of wages in the United States; rather did it maintain that standard by incessant expansion.
Mr. Peabody argues that America is actually indebted to the Allies. America lent them about £2,000,000,000.
He quotes an unnamed regular army officer as authority for saying that the Allies saved us £5,500,000,000 by doing our fighting for five-sixths of the time we were in the war." This, says Mr. Pea- body, is nearly three times the amount of the American credits to the Allies, and even when the charge made by the United States in respect of the time taken to repay is added to the borrowed sum, America would still owe £1,300,000,000 to its late associates.
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LIVES AT £10,000 EACH.
The army officer, in reaching his con.. elusion, place a value of £10,000 on the lives of each of the United States 50,000 men killed in the war.
Mr. Peabody emphasises the grand hatred of America which he says is growing throughout Europe because of its attitude regarding war debts, and adds:
We are a friendless people and our destruction would. Be the salvation of A WONDERFUL COUNTRY. The one thing to keep up, or augment, our wages in Australia would be a great era of development Compared with what it might be the rate of development for the present is slow; and the chief reason is ihat the work of the nation is sadly in
arrears.
debtors. Plainly, expressed, my grievance is that the honour of my country is being bartered, and address this petition to my Government for re- dress of that grievance in the perform- ance of the most solemn duty of Ameri I am a firm believer in high wages.can Litizenship-the preservation of the No on could be blind to the fruits of that uncompromising democracy which has nation from history's brand of shame. guided the fortunes of this Southern New In his speech to Congress asking for HUSHIGAURA-Finest Seaside Summer Holiday Resort in North China. Five milo World. Nothing could be more deserving the declaration of war against Germany
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ed the application to the problems of nation-building of the more refined sentiments of social justice that, wore struggling for recognition in Europe.
But deeply entwined in every form of government is a tendency to excess, Whether embodied in governments and municipalities or not, Australia is ander a Labour ascendancy. In power or out of power Labour rules. It is actually in office just now in all the State Legis latures but one.
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LOVE OF PLEASURE.
1926
MINERS DID NOT PLAY THE GAME."
ACCUSATION BY RAILWAYMEN.
WHAT A LESSONT
Biting comments on the attitude of the miners as disclosed in the general strike report of the General Council of
in the Lucomative Journal, the organ of the Trades Union Congress are contained
the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, edited by Mr. J.
Broraley, a Council.
member of the General
article:-
The following are points from the
"In our opinion the miners' leaders have not played the game with their fellow trade unionists.
They were asked at the..very.cam-. mencement not to allow their members to work outcrop coal should a strike take place; but not only did miners do this, but we have evidence that miners on strike also took positions of railway- -men-and-others-who-cama-out-on-strike
in their support.
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ACTIVITIES DURING JULY,
The following is the combined report of the work of the Inspectors of the Hongkong Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to "Animals for July."
TRANSPORT.
Poultry, crates Poultry on trucks and lorries,"
loads Poultry in junks and ferries,
crates
2,147
211
Pigs on trucks and in baskets... 1,008 Pigs in junks and ferries Pigs by rail
360
156
Poultry by rail, crates
144
Cats by rall.....
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Dogs in market, Taipo
10
Cats in market, Taipo
10
288
276
IMPORTS.
Foultry, crates Pigs Cattle
9:137
10,905
1,369
350
B
Cattle in juaks Cattle ashore... Cages of birds
Sheep and goats Cages of birda
Cats Otters
Iguanas Frogs, baskets. Monkeys Basket of snakes
Frequently, when it was suggested that a basis for settlement had been arrived at their leaders pooh-poohed the idea of settling a strike in two or three weeks, saying that miners strike usually for 13 weeks. Let, our readers imagine the psychology of miners with their mines blackleg-proof, with safety. workers keeping them ready for a re-Sheer and geats
sumption of duty and willing to starve for 13 week, and compare it with the position of maly other workers whose jobs were filled by blacklegs and volun- teers immediately they stopped, and let our readers ask themselves whether the miners' leaders had the thought for trade unionists who assis ed them as they showed towards the miners.
same
MINERS' FUNDS INTACT. "Again, many unions spent all their funds and then borrowed money,' and we believe it is true to say that the great miners' political funds are still Lntact
We would like to ask if it is true that the money sent to the mining areas for support of women and child. ren of strikers has been earmarked to members of the Miners Federation or non-unionists add refused to members of other unions employed at the mine What a tragedy it all is!
"While one or two of the miners' leaders talk glibly of a fight to a finish, very many others realise the absurdity "and the wrong of such an idea..
Even Mr. Cook is reported to have said, speaking at Wardley, County Durham, that their leaders would see that the pits were reopened on the conditions prevailing in April, and that afterwards they were prepared to ham- mer out an agreement, but that they raust have something more than an agreement over which they would have to fight every 12 months."
"Was not that what the General Council had obtained for the miners on May 11th, and before this victimisation of thousands of men who rushed to the miners' assistance, before the im
paverishment of hundreds who helped the miners, and before these weeks of starvation for hundreds of thousands of men, women," and children 1
What leadership! What a tragedy What a lesson !!!!!
"Little more than a week thereafter Congress voted to make war supplies that had accumulated in the country available to the Governments engaged in war with THE PROBLEMS OF THE DAY. the enemies of the United States.
This Act of the national Legislature
"We
PAYING FOR TIME.
4
EXPORTS.
Poultry, crates. Cattle
15
343
Cats by rail
Markets Birdshops.... Dealers shops Dogs home
VISITS.
Pig pens at Yaumati Railway stations
Тока
Landing place at Kennedy Poultry depots Cattle depot...
MISCELLANEOUS. Markets watched, times Ferries watched, times Landing places watched, times Ignorant cruelty
rected
cases
COT-
Cautions given Case_investigated_on_report
received
Prosecution, Fined 8:0 Dogs received into home 'dur-
ing month
Dogs claimed during month Dogs sold during month Dogs died during month..... Dogs destroyed during month Cat from Statue Square" des-
troyed
* 588 26 **
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SIMILARITY IN CHARACTER.
A DANGEROUS CAUSE OF
FRIENDSHIP.
HAPPINESS OF MARRIED PEOPLE WHO DIFFER.
To be awarded the Dunmow Flitch is, as everybody knows, a sign of exceptional married felicity, and it is therefore in- seresting to hear that Mr. A. R. Arnold,———— who, with his wife, was a successful claimant for a fitch, attributes their married happiness to the fact that he and his wife are" "absolutely opposite in character."
Certainly, there is much to be said for
the view that people who differ from one
another get on better than people who are alike, writes John Blunt, in the Daily Mail.
When you meet a person who has the same type of interests as yourself, you instinctively hope that he will strengthen your own opinions by a complete agree ment with you. When you find that he diverges from you at some point or other (which is almost inevitable) you are in- clined to get annoyed and to write him. down as an ass
opened with words that should be known WHAT MODERN YOUTH THINKS. to every citizen. These words (would
You do not mind if a man, whose only that they might be blazed across the Boys of 58 countries have answered
interests are sport, expresses contempt sky) were : For the purpose of more with great frankness the questions put to
for your favourite author, but you do effectually providing for the national them by the Y.M.C.A. in a world-wide security and defence and for prosecuting endeavour to discover what modern youthmind if a man, who is keenly interested thinks about some of the problems of the in literatare, expresses contempt for him. war.
"It would seem that somebody in day. Even in India, China and Japan Humorous Toleration. authority took advantage of the great most of the answers give the white race The humoroza toleration with which need of our associates to requre of them a position of superiority. A Japanese you regard the views of the one man is a promise to repay money advanced for boy's opinion is that Civilisation of changed in to indignant bewilderment our security and defence money that, Christian countries is toaterialistic, but when you hear the views of the other. God knows, was so used. It was a mean that of non-Christian countries is spiri- And this, of course, is natural, because and un-American thing in such circum taal. A Jamaican boy, replying naively the one set of views is of no importance In the economic kingdom its power is stances.
to the question, Could industry and in your eyes, whereas the other set of business be organised to-day on & Chris views is of importance. infinitely greater. Of that power all
tian basis?" writes: Not in Jamaica, perceive the effects. One of these is a
advanced England, Belgium, as 50 per cent of the business there is tendency to restrict enterprise (and consequently employment) to vist under- France, and Italy something less than in the hands of the Jews and the takings-to State or municipal works on £1,000,000,000, and upon a pure technic Chinese." "If all people were really the grand scale, or the developments of ality we have demanded and they have Christian, what kind of war would there large and wealthy businesses. Another agreed to pay not only the principal sum be?" asks a Japanese boy. effect is, by making costs prohibitive, to but upwards of £2,200,000,000 for nothing snuff out at their birth numerous small but time. or private contracts that might in the
And much the same thing happens with aggregate employ a much large popula tion, of skilled craftsmen and be con
regard to character and personality. ducive to a higher standard of comfort
People who differ greatly seldom get on in the country,
each other's nerves, because they don't Here in Melbourne I hear all around of what defeated Germany hands over to An order for line-pipe and casing re-
expect too much of one another, me the sounds of music, dancing, and her former enemies, to indemnify them cently given by the Anglo-Persian Oil Affections founded upon similarity of gaiety Two nights ago I was in the for the destruction wrought by German Company is one of the largest ever placed outlook frequently result in disillusion. solitudes beyond the rail-heads andguns in an aggressive and unprovoked in Great Britain, and amounts to some ment, because, at its most.complete, such settlements. Is there no call of duty in war, cur Government intends to take 263,000, says the fl News. It includes similarity is only partial, whereas you. these solitudes. Are they of no value to from its war associates for part of the thirty-four miles of 12in line-pipe, want it to be absolute. mankind? If they are, and if the work cost of keeping their soldiers fit to fight afty-six miles of 10in, and fifty-eight lies there awaiting the strong arm and the enemies of the United States for our the skilled hand, can it be said that Aus security and to die in our defence. of piping. The combined weight is.over | Moreover, there is a perverso side to. tralia is pulling her weight in the task German payments, cease after 38 14.000 tons, of which 9,360 tons repre- human nature and many people would of.civilisation 1
years; those of our friends continue for rents line-pipe. Over 1,000 men will be get tired of living with a copy of them- If Australia is not pulling her weight, 27 years thereafter, and in the end we directly-employed for three months in selves. It is very nice to be agreed with, all the blame need not, and must hot, shall have exacted more than the total the manufacture of the line-pipe. while but sometimes it is refreshing to meet be laid to the door of Labour There is of German reparations,
800 men for one, and a half months and with opposition."
France has counted upon German reparations for rebuilding her devastated RECORD BRITISH PIPE ORDER. regions, but our demands, will annually take about 60 per cent. of the German payments if made. Much more than half
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miles of casing, making in all 148 miles, Perverse Human Nature.
a suspicion of precocity about the art "I ask-nay, demand the cancellation 100 men for four months will be engaged Affections need not be founded upon a and gaiety and luxury of the Australian of every dollar and cent of debt arising in making the casing. In addition, there community of interests or ideas, provided cities. Is it because all classes are well out of advances to those Governments is the work in the steel plant, where that people have the same sort of sense off and pleasure-loving that difficult engaged in war with the enemies of the 1,450 men will be engaged for one and of humour.
Marriage, we are told, even the bap... achievements and hard problems are United States. I demand it on behalf of a half months in the manufacture of the ahirked, that primary industries as a myself and every American who loves his steel required for this work The total piest marriage, depends largely on give whole are under-valued, and the national country and has in his breast a spark of of direct, tube works and steel works and take-and the capacity for give and labour is 9,175 man-months, equivalent take depends, surely, on possessing a mind and energy turned to the secon- honour.” dary!
Mr. Peabody sent copies of his petition to the continuous employment of 3,058 similar sense of humour. And in ordinary To all these questions the answer, it is to Mr. Mellon, of the United States men for three months. The order for friendship a sense of humour is equally to be feared, must be yes. If the greater Treasury, and other members of the line-pipe has been entirely placed with czsential. For who is there in this world work of Australia is impeded, the slack Cabinet, and he has distributed them to Mesera. Stewarts and Lloyds, of Glas who does not sometimes fall short of what mentality of the younger generation of the Press. The New York Times repro gow, and the order for the casing has we expect of him of who does not some- Australians must share the blame with duces his petition. Most of the other been shared between that company and times give vent to views which we regard Labour.:
as quite wrong! leading newspapers ignore it
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