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SHANGHAI SHIPPING IN 1920.

SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1921.

WHAT RELATIVITY MEANS.

THE PRESENT DIS- CONTENT.

Record Figures.

Lord Haldane on Life and

The Only Remedy. The Annual Trade Report and

the Ideal

"The times are out of joint." Returns of the part of Shanghai,

**Relativity" is a hard word. With millions of women and for the year 1920, just issued by Professor Einstein's recent dos-children

in Europa starving, the Staustical Department of the ttina of Relativity in Physics with

millions mare Dron in Chinese Maritime Customs, bears brought it into prominance. Yet our OWN comparatively for striking testimony to the growing the principle of it is not now, tonato country struggling for importance of Shanghai. The for it was embodied in Greek existence on the poverty line,

and ralue of trade. the Customs philosophy:

Viscount with the spectre of pestilence Ravenue and the

Haldane, in his book, "The Reign stalking abroad, and the demon tonage of shipping using the port have all of Relativity" just published, of revolution stirring everywhere, established new âgures.

mentions that the subject (not the outlook for civilisation does limited to physics, bot extended not inspire much hope, states a The tonnage of vessels entered in its relation to all knowledge) writer in a Home Journal. and cleared during the year has pecupied his mind for over amounted to $2,500,000, a con-10 years pasi. |siderable advance on the figures

Various authorities give various reasons for the present absos. It Relativity, Lord Haldane ex-is war unrest, saya one. It is for any previous year and four plains, only means that our view disillusionment due to the un- millions in excess of those for of things varies with our personal satisfactory peace, says another. 1919. The share taken by eaob circumstances. There is another It la a revulsion from the war- Dag is as follows:..

sense, quite different from this, time spirit of sacrifice, says a 1134 percent in which relativity importa that third, and so on. All ignore the our direct knowledge is not of fact that the present unhappy things as they appear in relation) state of affairs is not a product of to our minds.

American British

Chinese

++

37 1836 216 2714

3

+

3+

| steamers

French

the war. Some of our post-war LADY AND HER PARASOL. writers attempt to have us believe Japanese

He offers a bomely illustra-that the world was a semi-Para- Other Bags...

tion:-

dse in 1914-they forget that The activity in the lo ' ship- "If ■ lady drops her parasol, it unemployment, sweated labour, building industry has been greater seems to her to be attracted by starvation, and countless other than at any time in the past, and gravitation to the muddy pave evils were rampant then as now. the size and, number of vessels ment.

The seeds of the present turmoil | launched bears witness to Shang- *For = observer with a were alire and germinating then, hai's growing inc portance in this powerful telescope and himself and the war, with its orgy of respect. Two large atandard at snch, a distance as to know waste and bloodshed, acted as a were launched and nothing of any gravitational forcing-house for their intensive completed for the British Govern attraction, it might appear that cultivation. ment by the Shanghai Dock the earth and the lady were mor

THE ROOT CAUSE. and Engineering Company, and ing upward with an accelerating The fundamental reason for th- the same firm also launched aor increasing velocity; and that present chaos is not be found, an large steamer for the China when the lady's parasol slipped-o many suggest, in the an Merchants Yangtze trade, as put of her hand, it at that moment doubtedly faulty mechanism of well as six steel cargo vessels of lost its accelerating push and four modern social system-it is 300 tons deadweight and a twin-relapsed into a rate of motion more elemental than that. It has screw river gun-boat for the upwards that 923 without its real beginnings in the age-old Italian Government. The New acceleration.

crime of selfishness. It was Engineering and Shipbuilding "Io consequence it would be Germany's criminal selfishness Works put four ships of 1,350 obvious to the dialant observer which commenced the struggir rons each into the Norwegian owners. The Kiang-and the mud bad overtaken it, and parallel cases could be found 080 Doock and Engineering instead of the parasol having right down to the dawn of Works launched two large stand-{descended to them.”

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nations or individuals, must b the year swells the total output A man drops, say, a ginger-achieved at the expense of others. to a record for Shanghai, and the beer bottle from a train going at No one, possibly. purposely acts volume work in band angurs well 50 miles an hour. He observes with a view to creating unhap for the future. The local yards that the bottle falls in what for piness, but to pursuit of their own were also kept fally employed on him is a straight line perpendicu-ends, they do so ruthlessly, if in- | repairs and had a very satis-lar to the ground, under the in- directly. The monopolist who

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fluence of gravitation.

forces up the price of some The trend of the freight market who has just escaped its impact. not mean, intentionally, to create But to an indigoant platelayer necessity be has "cornered," does was downwards throughout the

that

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wear. In the coasting and river the bottle appears not to have suffering sad misery for thou trade business was fair and rates dropped in a straight line at all, sands of the poor--but he does so. remunerative during the early out to have flown by him in a Similarly, when one or two in- months, hut towards the end of Parabolic curve. The reason is portant classes of workers strike heyearseriqus reductions bad te

the platelayer applied for their own ends, their fellows he made. In the southern trader different co-ordinates of re-in a dozen other trades have to

specially the slump was very

pay the penalty in unemployment, cavy, the rates at the end of the

It all depends upon the point of Selfishness always claims its rear having fatten below the pre-

view and the position of the victims. var qure. For ocean-going

observer!

Man is by nature a social shipping the year opened auspi- Of force. Viscount Haldane animal, and trua buman happi iously, with a very fair demandays, physicists know nothingness is possible only for mankin of space for Chinese produce to change in relative position. If class-consciousness, perfervid What they experience is only collectively. It is individualism. Suropean and American porta, and the regular lines had little therefore, it is once established nationalism, and other popular

fculty in filling 'heir vessels a

that gravitational and inertial but pernicious doctrines, which. he very bizh conference rates,

energy are the same thing regard-by destroying our social sense, hen prevailing. Subsequently

ed from different standpoints, are to blame for much of the he demand fell off, and, in that the inertia of matter is only world's unhappiness. All of them ddition, a

large number of the inertia of Istent energy, there tend to encourage the policy of United States Shipping Board may be tremendous consequences.grab-and grabbing never gave MORE REFLECTION NEEDED. teamers came OG the market,

real happiness, and never will. with the result that offers of attitude towards religion, politics.

Lord Haldane sees a changing.

THE WAY OUT. onnage greatly exceeded the

The remedy is simple. It! demand. The Homeward Freight

literature.. The absence of requires bat everyone--the but YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM their rates in September and again reflection, and can only be made try, to cultivate the habit of Conference accordingly adjusted settled conviction is the aher, the baker, the miner, the pablic mind is the result of olerk-avery class in every coun- owards the end of the year. But In spite of this encouragement to

good by refection.

It is thinking for others as well as hipping, the outward freight portant to seek out founds themselves, and their own little market remained stagnant, and

tions on which faith can be section or nation. Our first ques it the close of

rested: the year

tion should be, nor, “Will this bipments abroad had virtually desirable in

The reflective habit is highly benefit me?" but "Will it injure

the interests of someone else?" ceased.

democracy. How much misery The following table shows the through strikes and lock-outs, he sonally responsible for every We, every one of us, are per- number and toncage of ocean and asks, would not have been avert-wrong, every- cruelty, every in-

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Feat

No.

American

... 1.241

British

Danish

6-1

Dutch

92

French

125

Italian

46

Tapanese

Norwegian

Russian ... Swedish Non-Treaty Prs. Chinese...

Tons.

we do not realise it, because we

The world is a better world think as individuals, and not as than it once was. There has units of a great whole. We must been progress in many directions learn to think collectively, to 2,537.506 There is a new demand in our exercise the vast power for good 4:884 8.326.254 period for interference with in-possessed by a united community. dividual liberty in the interests Whenever we wish to start our 120, 24

of society as a whole. The wind new world, an infallible touch. 197,310 of the State never stands still, stone is ready to our hand.) 565.512 any more than does the mind of Let us ask. "Does this promote 171.258 the individual. We have there human happiness 7" If it does. 3.511 6,155,011 fore not only to watch, but to let it live and flourish, if 112.318 think, and to take heed lest our not-abolish it. We can hardly

72.513 social organism gets encrusted realise the

with the products of an environ-would soon come, merely from

happiness whicb 45.906 ment no longer suited to it."

breathing a happy atmosphere,

116

62

14

5

4,394 This is how Lord Haldane, of being cheered by the universa! 8,761 4,139.606 politicia and philosopher, ap spirit of happiness, instead of plies the principle of relativity«ickened and depressed as we sta to reflective thought to-day.

1merican

Total 18,924 22,498 112 Included in these figures, under the heading of "River Steamers," we find that there were 147 U.S.

gola of 59.619 tons: 1,169 British British * 1.823,539 tons; 575 Javanese of Danish 1,051,511 tons; and 695 Chinese of Dutch 1.036,231 tons: giving a total of French river steamers of 2,586 vessels Italian of

an aggregate tonnage of Japanese 3,970,950.

Norwegian... The dues and duties collected Portuguese by the Maritime Custorns during Russian the year amounted to HE TIs. Swedish 18,833,046, an increase of four Non-Treaty Powers and a half illion taels over 1919. Chinese The following table shows parti. culars under each flag-

Total

...

now. by the fool air of misery which pervades our world. Hk. Ms.

Humanity's salvation lies in 1,085,149.230 the development of its "social. 8,561.961.151 conscience." Civilisation is pre- 124,414.622 sently in conflict with chaos, and 238,012.224 to the thinking man or woman. 33915 369 one thing is obvious-mankind 61486.060 must pull together" or perish. 5,107.205.850 53,937.697

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CHINA'S ELECTIONS. 31,855.215 The case in which Mayor Sben 70,736.308 Pau-chang, of Shanghai, is charg- 1,031150 ed with having m smadazed the 2,143298.709 local Parliamentary elections has now been taken up to the Sup- 18,833,046,030 | reme Court of Chine for hearing,

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