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THE TWILIGHT OF CAPITALISM!

WILL THE WORLD FOLLOW RUSSIA'S

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ABLE ANALYSIS" AT ROTARY CLUB

MEETING.

"An unusually interesting "address, that made a very deep impression on all who heard 'it, was delivered by the Rev. E. L. Allen, M.A., Ph.D., at the Rotary Club yesterday, the speaker paming his subject "The future of Western Civilisation."

In the course of the addross. Mr. Allen said that the economis Bystem koown as Capitalism had been tried over the last hundred and Alty years and despite great achievements in the past has been found wanting at the present time. "Ho pointed out in- stance after instance where capitalism had failed very literally to deliver the goods." Goods" were produced, but purchasing powar tagged helplessly behind productive power, thus creating a Hlut on the world markets.

Communism in Rhanin, said the speaker, was an experiment which is being watched all the world over to-day, and it certainly showed that there was an alternative to the capitalism of to-day. Communism was not without its faulte, but it supplied an answer to many problems which capitalism had failed to solve,

Speaking of the deep-rooted antagonism throughout the world to the ecoboraics of Soviet Russia, Mr. Allen did that hatred of political wrongs and cruelties had led us into a great mistake. "I see nothing in Christianity," he said, which should make it more opposed to the root principles of Communism than to those of Capitalism."

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Sir William Hornell presided and there were a number of distinguished visitors, including Rotarinas C. E. Schroeder of Liege, A Shister of Singapore, 11. Sandor of Shanghai, T. `Fox of Bangkok, G. J. McCarthy of Shanghai and H. Macgown of Shanghai. Non-Rotarian guests included -Mr. W. L. Handyside, Dr. F. S. Tuang, Mr. John Ehrhardt and Flight-Lt. R. M. Tro vathan, M.C., of H. M.S. Hermes.

Now members announced yesterday were, Messrs. M. Munuk,

. M. Goodall and Dr. R. A. de Castro Basto.

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WHERE CAPITALISM IS FAILING.

The speaker said: I were to choose a sub-title for my remarks I think it would be "After Capitalism

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During the last hun- dred and fifty years the Western world has lived to an increasing

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Gifts of Capitalism.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1932.

But dapitalman, 16 exists today.. is the paomy of human frogdom and has given us the Slave State in one of its worst forms." The greas industrial countries give the people democratic institutions and the semblance of power, but the reality. of is is alsowhere, with impersonal enonomie forens. The reason why inen do not rubel to-day is that the enemy is a thing rather than a per- You cannot rains an army against the gold standard or the rate of exchange or the price-level, but these musters of destiny!

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Starving Because Too Much.

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I was tempted at one stage to give way to foren of habit and take 4 text. I have not done so, hut I

will read you the words I might have chosen for that purpose. They are the words of an American economist, Professor Douglas.

"If mankind must go through such great periodical stresses, if mon must starve because there is too much food, go naked because there is too much clothing, and sleep in the parks because there is too much housing, then the masses of sensiblo men and women will create a new economic system, whose governing principle will be some- thing other than that of compara-, tive margins of private profit. In short, if capitalism does net räduca unemployment, mankind, which is fast weaning itself from foudly engendered patience, will abolish capitalism and replace it with a less clumsy and a more perfectly co-ordinated economic system.

"The important words there are the last ones, "A less clumsy and more porfectly co-ordinated economic system." Capitalism is anarchy, the blind hope that out of the chaos of competing units there will somehow arise the common. good. If we continue in this road

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THE WAR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.

OFFICIAL OPENING THIS AFTERNOON BY HE. THE

GOVERNOR.

NEW BUILDING DESCRIBED: LATEST EQUIPMENT

INSTALLED.

The War Memorial Hospital, which will be oficially opened by His Excellency the Governor this afternoon, is in every way, a modern building and la equipped with the Intens hospital equip ment The building took roughly two years to be completed and covers an area of approximately 39,000 square feet. It presenta an imposing appearance the basement being faced with Hong Kong

granita and the surface treatment in white marble plaster..

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The foundation" stone to the hon.

pital, which was laid by Mra W.

T. Southern on April 24, 1930, bựnra the, following inscription:"

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Operating Theatres.

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Much care has been taken with planning of the operating scation, which consists of two largo well "This War Memorial Nursing

equipped theatres. Only Home was built by the Com- theatre for the present will be in munity of Hong Kong to tho

use, fitted with table, sciilytio memory of those who served and light, sinks and instrument cup fall in the great war, Angust, hoards. Batween the two. theatres 1914. to November, 1918 The

is a sterilising room, with bowl, foundation stone was laid by

gloves, instrument and water gas Mrs. W. T. Southörn. wife of

sterilisers. The nanesthetic room His Excellency, the Officer Adis adjacent, and there is also ac ministering the Government, on

commodation for doctors; wash-up 24th April, 1930. --

attached and sisters' rooms. rooms, changing rooms, with a bath

At the going down of the Sun and in the morning, we will

.... remember them,'"

The X-Ray department consists of a main room with apparatus, The accommodation provided is well-fitted dark room, dressing room

follows:-First class

cases, and lavatory, Both the main and twenty; scoond class, nine; mater-dark room are well ventilated by pity, six children, twelve; free, exhaust ducts and air inlets. right.

Fire escape apparatus is provid Tho hospital is divided into seed for all floors in the cast wing. tionk, namely, ductors and sisters' a reinforced Operete staircase quarters in the south block, wards being situated at the end. The in the centre, an administration ground floor of this wing contains. blook to the north and an east wing the children's wards, lavatories and containing wards.

baths with the maternity section on the first storey.

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Sisters' Quarters:

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The basement of the doctors and

the hands of those who want the it will lead as sooner or later to sisters' quarters has accommodation goods.

beggary. But there is an alter-for servants and drying rooms,

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The maternity section has been exceptionally wall equipped with

a theatre 19 feet by 15, Atted with

a scialytic light and all necessary

Here it seems to me that Mr. J. native and what that is Rssin has with fats for the doctors "and adjuncts. The sterilising room at-

shown us...

matron on the ground floor. Each tached contains gas sterilisers for apartment contains sitting Howls, gloves, water and instru- Russia and Economic. Planning. dining, bed and bathroom, with monte, and the babies' room bas up-to-date double porcelain The new iden which we can learn pantry and verandahs. The two from Russia is not Communism upper floors are occupied by sisters" bath.

This section of the build- that may or may not have value for rooma.

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On the ground floor are two isola- tion wards, cut off from the rest. The food room is fitted with a gas

conkor and hot water boiler, and frigidaire..

- Ventilation.

In view of the climatic condi

A Hobson's analysis is as sound as any. In a time of industrial pros perity wealth tends to accumulate extent under the influence of the

in the hands of the investing" class capitalist systeTV. to-day that

who use it to buy machinery to system is approaching the point of maks goods and yet more goods, disintergration and the future of But too small a proportion of the us--but just the conception of ing is served by a main and service tat civilization depends on whether national income has gone into the economic planning, of the deliberataircase, and two food lifts from or not "we have the wisdom and hands of the wage-earners and ate control of the economic forces the kitchens.

The central block is of three -courage to put a better one in its others who want to buy those goods, which operate within the borders of

so that they have not the purchas-country for the common good of storeya, with the service require ing power to take them off the tg people. Russia's plan is for ments such as boiler room, laundry, market. Hence those periods of Russia only, of course, and any cold storage compressor, kitchen, During its reign of a century and gutted markets and unemployed plan which other countries might, drug store, servants" quarters, dry- tions special attention has bren a half the capitalist system has workers, of poverty "amid plenty; adopt would have to be framed with ing and ironing rooms and atores paid in the design to ventilation." their own conditions in view. But in the basement. The second class and in addition all the internal Brought many benefits; it has im-through one of which we are pass the idea of a Five Years Plan basand free wards, in addition to bathrooms are ventilated by means "proved communications, popularising to-day.

come to stay. Let there be a schieme clinical and duty rooms, are on the of vertical ducts running from drawn up by the best brains the ed knowledge, raised the standard

country can command, let it have in ground floor, and the first class basement to roof level where electric of life and given to the masses a

view every aspect of the problem-wards on the second

exhaust fans are installed. The un- In the second place, 1 ses in the production of consumption and degree of personal comfort

The first class wards are 16 feet wards themselves have been arrang- known previously outside the pricapitaliam a bankruptcy of ideas. capital goods, the provision 'vileged classes. But perhaps it. It has no remedies to offer except credits the education of technicians, square, and each has a well-equiped to give free movement of air:

the housing of the people and soped bathroom opening out of it. A word Signalling System has might be a little nearer the truth such as would make the disease on, and let every section of indus Outside all wards is a well lit and been installed consisting to say that most of these benedits worse even than it is. The twe try, instead of going off on its own airy verandah, 12 feet wide, on to switch at each bedside, which in search of private profit, be so have been wrung from capitalism remedies which is proposes are

directed that it will contribute its which beds can be wheeled if desir-operates a rbd indicator light over and Rationalisation. quota to the common prosperity, ed. by the organised action of the Economy

The second class wards are the ward door in the corridor, and workers, backed by the conscience Economy has been tried heroically with the minimum of waste or over- of the community in the form, of in Germany: Mr. J. M. Keynen lapping, "We have too long allow ed economic forces to control us, State interference, To-day this tells us that no country has ever

the time bás, come when we must vast and imposing edifica gives accepted such a régime of hardship aasort our right to control them ominous signs of impending disas and sacrifice s abe has imposed and make them serve us by building tor; it is threatened "alike from upon herself. And to what ond for us a better social order. within and without. It has shown in spite of all the reduction in in prices, the itself to be utterly unable to meet wages, the drop

indictment which the times in which

Bankruptcy of Ideas.

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exactly the same as the first class, a light and buzzer on a numbered except that there is only one bath-indicator board in the Duty Rooms. room to two wards. There are two The lights and buzzers can only free wards, 38 feet by 15 feet, each be switched off again at the bed- containing four beds with bath side on the arrival of the sister in and laratory accommodation at charge in the ward. tached. In the duty and clinical rooms are sinks, gas rings, shelves, and the necessary furniture.

In the corridore, night lights are provided just above floor level in order to give sufficient light for In the administration block the night circulation, but at the same time eliminating unnecessary glare in the wards.

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Sin Against Freedom? Let me anticipate one objestion, the needs of the world situation in acceptance of a lower standard of 1 said a while ago that individual which we find ourselves and it is living, and the suspension of Trade liberty withered under capitalism. being challenged in an altogether Union, regulations-ör perhaps be not that also true of Boviet now way by the fact that flussia ause of all these things-business Russia Certainly it is true and basement is occupied by the digpen [yot I suggest that, in this common Bary, mortuary, service kitchen, a standstill and the sin against freedom, Busala's guilt has set out to show the world there remains at

The ventilation ducts to bath. misery of the people only increases. is less then ours, for she never ambulance entrance, and meter and is an alternative to it.

Rationalisation is equally disas two great movements, the Renais

benditted as we have done by those switch rooms, and from this floor rooms are served by single phase, There are many counts in the troue. As it is practised, for exam-sance and the Reformation, which the bed goods and two food lifta 50 cycle exhuust Fans with box type | we live are bringing against the ple, by the railway companies and taught us the supreme worth of per serve all floors of the building blades capable of discharging at ather great combines in England, sonality and its right to self-ex The main entrance hall and offices least 2,200 cubic feet of air per

pression. But the fact remains capitalist system, but I will content

it deliberately aims at dispensing that for those who believe that are on the ground floor, the optical minute at free daliyary. myself with a brief reference to

with labour and so at adding to the dividuality is the spring of all room and pathological laboratory outlets are provided in each ward for connection to drying lamps "in three of thes3.

volume of unemployment and progress and that a society is to on the first and the operating mo wardrobes.

be fudged by the room it gives to tion and X-ray department on the The lift installation is Waygood. poverty in the country. If, as I the development of the individual,

Otis Failure to Bell Goods,

have urged, what is wrong is short-there is no satisfaction in the Com- second. "To begin with, capitalism has age of purchasing power, then say muniat, any more than in the Capitalist State. We need a new failed whore failure on the part of policy which further diminishes kind of state, in which the social sh economic system is unpardon that power, as by wage refluction, control of economic forces and the able. It has literally failed to increases in the cost of living, or freedom of the individual can co deliver the goods. The thak of an taxation of the lower level of in- economie order is not merely to comes, only serves to aggravate the make goods on a large scale and problem.

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at low prices but to sell them, and

to do that it must see that the

exist.

Lord Lothian's Warning.

Christianity which sity for economic planning, first on that this is a great mistake. I see the national sud then on the inter-nothing in national scale, planning designed should make it more opposed to to ensure that consumption keeps Communism than to Capitalism, for pace with production, that "the" axarople. The future of civilisa process of putting goods on the tion depends, I would suggest, on Lord Lothian, on his return last market does at the same time give our ability to effect a reconciliation between the ideal of individual year from Russia, said that he was the people the power to buy them. Now the Enemy of Freedom.

epavinced that what he saw there Perhaps few convictions are more liberty on the one hand and the new people have money with which to The third charge against capital tion but the possibility of its re- of the ruling, the possessing, and are at work in Soviet Russia

was not a death-menace to civilisadooply-rooted to-day in the minds economic forces on the other, which mas du goud But-money-je-justism is of a different order. It has birth. But it is not easy for us to the educated class throughout the Mr. D M Maynard thanked the a. what they have not got, there is always made a curtala popralarn from a nation which we have world than that there is a relation apsaker for his very interesting so long regarded at the common of necessary antagonism between spouch and expressed the hope that shortage, not of goods nor even claim; it has claimed to be the one enemy of mankind. Yet we must the religion and oral tradition Mr. Allen would be able to deliver of people who would like to possess way in which individua) initiative learn this lesson of the dire noces of Western Europe and the econo- further address at some future

believe date. them, but of purchasing power in and enterprise can be encouraged. (Continued at foot of next column.) mics of Soviet Russia.

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