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FRIDAY, DEC. 26, 1990.

THE HINDU-MOSLEM CLEAVAGE.

DAY BY DAY

OUR HAPPINESS IN THIS WORLD: DEPENDS ON AFFECTIONS WE

British that the Hindus were able to breathe freely and mako,pro- gress. in the economic and educa tional spheres. The sufferings of India before the advent of the British are famillar to every stud- ont of fatory. Former con- ARE ABLE TO INSPIRE-Duchern do

Praslin. querors thunderod over the land, dovastated the country, and pass- ed on. Britain, however, says Allah Nawaz Khan, cannot be claused with auch conquerors. The rule of foreign monarchs who established dynasties in India was marred by Incessant internal strito, famines and civil war, whilst freedom of re-

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on or before the 81st January,

THIS YOUTH BUSINESS.

No. 3---What is the Quarrel About?

By

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SL PHILIP GIBBS.

His Excellency the Governor ap- pointed Mr. W. H. Bell to be a Mom-THESE ATTACKS on the young Strike which menaced the food ber of the Harbour, vioo Mr. J. K. people of to-day in Press, supplies of the nation. There was Bousfield, resigned.

pulpit, and play-house seem to me a call for volunteers who could as unfair. drive busca, Jorries, tramcars, very, unwino aa well It is notified for the information The answer--if youth answers who could unload ships and sweep easy and discon out yards and take a hand at any of owners and occupiers of tene-back-is

kind of job.. ments that rates for the first quar- certing. ter of 1931, are payable in advance "You old fogoys," it may day. One needn't go into the political "have no right to criticise us. Aside of that crisis, or any that one- pretty mess you've made of the class, was better than another. A bankruptcy notification states world in which we happened to be But foreign observers were alled ligion and personal Ilberty that a first and final dividend of born a few years ago! If what with admiration and astonishment A8 they exist 10-day were $6.50 per cent. has been declared in we see around us is the result of by the spirit, the gallantry, and unknown. If British power were the case of Yung Fook-chiu, launch your windom, your charactor, your the good nature of all those boys: roduced, race would fight race and owner of 329, Reclamation Streat, high morality, and your idealism who answered the call to service

Mongkok.

we are not inclined to gasp with of some sort, and especially by the religion would fight religion, and

admiration. Your grey hairs or courage and gaiety of all those The birthday before the struggle could be de-

of Siri Guroo your lack of thatch-do not inspire millions of young girls in short frocks and silk stockings who a8. cided, it would reduce the whole Gobind Singh Ji is to be celebrated us with reverence,"

at the Sich Temple to-morrow,

shop girls and factory girls and country to anarchy and involve in Heads of departments and firms about anyhow? Why should we although all the wheels had stop what le all the quarrel typists never missed a day's work, terrible disorder three hundred are requested to grant a holiday elderly men be so irritable with ped and they had to trudge from

to their Sikh employees on this the younger crowd? million people. It is for these

What are suburbs to city until volunteers- the accusations against them? In those Dominion reasons that, under Statua, the British connexion should be preserved.

occasion.

And

boys in

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"plus-fours" It is notified that at the expira- the two articles by distinguished brought the buses out again. tion of three months, the Wing writers which have appeared on Hang On Kee Steamship Co., Ltd.,this page the indictment against.

It seemed to me then that youth The amazing thing to the out-and the Wallace D. Hawkes (Hong-youth does not hang together.

kong), Ltd., will, unless cause in Mr. B. V. Knox thinks youth too was all right, in a crisis. nide observer is that Indians can shown to the contrary, be struck off old, too grave, too brooding. Mr. One sees these little shop girls not see the prime necessity of first the register and the companies will Boyd Cable thinks youth stays threading their way through a young too long and is frivolous, tangle of traffic as carelessly, or Indjusting their own differences be-be dissolved.

and, lacking in the idealism of Its at east na lightheartedly, os fathers. It is difcult to reconcile though the streets of London were those two charges,

buttercup folde, while we elderly folk hesitata on the kerbstone.

On the stage

One sees a shingle-haired damsel Somerset Maugham Iashing our driving a powerful engine like at

express train along the young people with his whips of mouth road sa calmly as her satire.

"You bore me," says his grandmamma manipulated father of the family, and of course aowing machine. all fathers of families sitting in

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have Mr.

Porta-

her

There are young gentlemen in

fore expecting any concession in An fine of $10 two weeks' the direction of self-government. imprisonment, was imposed by They must know, whether they be Mr. Bultere, at the Kowloon Ma- gistracy this morning, on Lau Tsun. Hindus or Moslems, that a perpe-

a coolie, charged with unlawful tuation of the differences will th-possession of a quantity of tree evitably lead to disaster. What is branches in Castle Peak Road on

Christmas Eve. equally astounding is that at the very moment when Britain is With a view to promoting native the stalls and the dress circle There's no risk they won't take showing the utmost Anxiety to goods, a meeting attended by vari-laugh very heartily and applaud for the thrill of adventure or a

ous manufacturers and merchants the brendwinner who ravolts little fun. There is a young wo-▲- placate national opinlou and alm- has been called in Canton for the against the aclfishness of his off-man-named Amy Johnson. People ing to secure a really united na- native goods promotion campaign spring.

are forgetting her now, though sho grand scale. tion, mob violence, sabotage and to be carried out to

Realising the Importance

e of such a

I laughed just as heartily as all made mythology look foolish. It will be a thousand pities if attempts on the lives of high off-campaign which concerns their per- of them, and I noticed that the the Round Table Conference comercials should be made. But despite sonal Interest, the various manu-younger people about me were the Royal Air Force who die at to naught through the inability of all these circumstances, we still keen interest in this subject by re brage. But the answer to "The anyone bothering, in time of peace. facturers are reported to be taking equally amused and took no um- the rate of one a week without the ladus and Moslems to adjust refuse to believe that Indians will gistering their names to take part Breadwinner" is to be found in There are lots of boys in mines another theatre, where they are and factories and workshops who their differences, Both communi-throw away the opportunity which in this movement

playing "The Barretta of Wimpole face daily risks to life and limb tics are anxious to attain self-

is now presented to them. It is to

Street. There one seen an early while some of their elderly critics A qualifying examination for government, and it has been made the hoped that during the period pointments of Probationer Clerks

Victorian family terrorised by are safe in their armchairs, their father. Öne BCDS youth

Porhaps something is wrong abundantly clear that Britain is of the Conference's adjournment. in Government Service is to be held

in Queen's College Hall on Monday, crushed and tortured by the with their manners and their willing to concede it, within the Hindus and Moslems will reach a

5th January, at 9 am when all tyranny of enforced obedience. morals. Isn't that another acou- limits of Dominion Status. Yet

rapprochement and 90 ensure the fish dietation, and on Thursday, Eth since then. Youth has liberated are hard and selfisht If they are

candidates will be examined in Eng-

If they are not soft they The pendulum has swung dar sation?

when only those who have itself from ed to reach an agreement on the have promised so much.

those oppressions. not old and grave and cynical With passed in matter of the continuance of the Britain in a frame of mind to meeted in arithmetic, composition, gen-Not I.

seems to think, then they are eral knowledge, translation from separate electorates which the all reasonable wishes, and with English to Chinese and from Chin-

foolish and frivolous and vicious. We, whose heads are greying or Mouiems enjoy in relation to the the Princes having been equally ese to English. Intending candi charges made against the pre-war or crowd whom I meet now and

whitening, should remember the

Well, I must say that the young- Provincial Legislatures. Every conciliatory, it

forward to the Assistant will be nothing Colonial Secretary

dates must for

then seem to me much more dècont before youth. Our young men were sup- on or effort to reconcile the parties has short of disastrous if hopes are Tuesday, 30th December, a copy of posed to be offete and effeminate, nigger at the kind of jokes which been made by Mr. Ramsay Mae dashed to the ground on

thea Certificate as to character and There were grave doubts about salgger Donald, who, however, has plainly Ifindu-Moslem issue.

education from the Headmaster of their patriotism. Mr. Kipling had used to amuse the audiences of Victorian and Edwardian muale- their last schonl together with one something to say about flannelled

The is.. There are not

the same unmounted photograph on the back tools and muddled oafs. of which should be written their Germans had a lot to say about conconlments. They are not so

the decadenee of English

shame-faced of simple and natural name, address and date of birth.

hood.

facts. They are franker in their way of speech, but on the whole, I believe, cleaner in their thoughts.

the two factions have so for fall-success of the deliberations which Fanuary "etation will be examin-Who would put the clock back? before their time, as Mr. Knox

they will only have themselves to

futile.

Then In

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declared that it is useless to set up a new Constitution and ex-

Debts and World Credit, pect Britain to settle one of the most essential points. The situa The bankers who discussed be-

The answer was given in 1914, tion, therefore, is that if the in-fore the Academy of Political Professor Angell came to much the and lasted until November 11. dua and Moslems cannot them-Science in New York recently the

causes for the world-wide depres-me conclusion as has been reach-1918. It wasn't a bad answer.

They are not all angels. I dare selves adjust their viewpoints, sion were wary, as is customary D'Abernon, namely, that if Britain, war youth was not like pre-war accept averything as their right, ed by Sir Charles Addis and Lord Doubts crept up again. Post-any many of them are selfish, and among members of that profession, the United States and other inter- youth. It had been spoiled and and are impatient of advice and blame if the Conference proves in fixing the precise degree of re- ested nations, do not take action Pampered, because of the war restraint, and rebellicus against sponsibility devolving upon various of some sort voluntarily, it is by no It was all for pleasure, cocktails, ber something of the same kind years when the fathers were away, their parents. I seem to remem Without the Assurance of a factors in the political and business

means impossible that action will jazz.

when I I was a boy in a blg family, united India, it would be the height oltuation. But in general it may not be forced upon them by events,

England something| I have no doubt they are greedy - of folly to set the country on the be said that reaction from a

even by a breakdown of the whole happened which came as a test to for a good time, and do not want period of overspeculation, the

fternational credit path of self-government.

structure the younger crowd. They wore to pay for it by drudgery and dull enactment of United States Itself.

needed again. It was a General duty. Youth has always been like prime necessity WAR recently tariff law at an inopportune mo-

that. They are out for happiness stressed by Allah Nawaz Khan,,ment, overproduction, and the

and get disappointed if they are thwarted, as they are bound to be, who added that with unity there world's war debts were the main

because none of us has found it. must be complete ability to pre-cpusen allocated. Mr. Thomas W. serve, unaided, internal peace and Lamont, whose eminent position as

an international banker order, as well as financial solvency weight to his views on this subject. and ample credit, the last being enumerated six reasons for the pre- dependent on the first two. Asent state of the world's finance Britonless Indin, he says, fails to and commerce. Among them he satisfy the first two essentials, did not cite the existence of the war debts, with the heavy burden they and therefore must fail also to

put upon taxpayers of foreign

This

gives

satisfy the third, India, he as- countries, and the dimculties which sorts, cannot do without Britain, arise from making transfers to the and in this connexion he points | United States as the chief creditor. out that three or four years back, la noting, however,, the shifting of worse than any failure in the ma-gold holdings among various coun-; chinery of the Montagu-Chelms-trica as a basle reason for depres sion, Mr. Lamont Impliedly Includ ford Reforms was the growing ed the existence of the debte among tension between Hindus and Moshis hurtful conditions, for unques“, lems, which caused moderate mentionably the endeavour to meet in- the greatest apprehension as one terest payments on the various in. has in- outbreak of violence followed an-ernational obligations other. Violence of this naturefluenced the heavy drift of gold in- may take place at any time in to France and the United States. Nevertheless, if Mr. Lamont felt India, and we have here not only that the debts were in reality a ma- a standing menace to life and pro[jor factor in causing depression, perty, but a,rock on which all he refrained from so saying. Prof. hopes of national unity may suffer James W. Angell of the chair of ahipwreck. From the Hindu point economics of Columbia University, of view, says this commentator, on the contrary, gave to the debts primary place among the causes of the Moslem rulo of India which dislocated commercial and financial lasted for centuries was by no conditions throughout the world. means a period of ease, comfort or He pleaded strongly for some ro [contentment, and it was only when vision of the debt situation, as fu- (the Mughals, wore replaced by the deed did most of the speakers.

DOGS

"I got an eye for beauty; that's the reason I chose this spot."

They take frightful risks, some of them, and get into awful scrapes. They are contemptuous of tradition. They behave as Ir there were no experience behind them, as if they were so many Adams and Eves facing life for the first time.

They are, I think, a little be- wildered by life and don't know what to make of it or what goal lies ahead of them.

Well, who is going to tell them? Who nowadaya in certain of any. thing? Where do they get a lead from older folk, more bowildered and bothered than youth itself? Einstein's theory of relativity, which only Mr. Bertrand Russel and a few others understand, is but one form of suggestion that there is no fixed point of truth.

Roligious leaders · have under- mined their own creeds in the English Church. Philosophers. novelists, casoyiats, jeer at the old meralities. "Do as you will," says Mr. Aldous Huxley.

The politicians do not inspire great faith or noble ideallam. The world is in 'n' turmoil. The hu- man mind is in a turmoil. How, then, can we expect youth to march in disciplined ranks to- wards some great objective?

All that we can ask of youth is | to be young, "They uapéct us to be whand, we disappoint them, horribly!

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