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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1931.

Turning A Blind Eye.

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OBITUARY.

justment, correctly made, produces methods were adopted, and much commercial balance. I suppose re-distribution took place. The perfect balance could only exist in balance was destroyed, the com Ulopla. There, agriculture would pleated fabric of industry fell to

DEATH OF BRIG.-GENERAL produce Just what the world re- the ground, and all our endeavours

C. GREVILLE-HARSTON. quired in adequate supply. Trade have so far failed to set Humpty and communications would be such Dumpty up again,

By the death of Brigadier- do not ask the help of the tradesan to distribute that supply equit

General C. Greville-Harston, of the unions in that competition. They ably. Finance would maintain a

Royal Marines, which took place at welcome the trades unions because credit system neatly adjusted to the

We are too inclined to discuss Croydon on January 18, the British they see in them the best chance of needs of trade and distribution.

our difficulties as if they had somʊ

navy and army fost one of the securing co-operation with their Labour would be so trained as to quite different cause, but it really most popular figures and a falth- workmen In the

interests of and full employment, and the flow looks as though, once again, we wore ful servant who had spent the humanity and efficiency.

of recruits to its ranks would be turning a blind eye on a funda- greater part of his life in the This brings me to another funda- so controlled as to be absorbed in mental fact, Politicians mental point, too often forgotten, reasoned evolution.

financiers, by one expedient or nn-service and defence of his coun- that all industry, and not merely a

in his 83rd. year, had spent over Boction of it, has but one end, and Twenty years ago, after a cycle other, by one palliative or another try. The late General, who was that is to raise the standard of of increasing prosperity, the world have tried to moderate the shock, 60 years in the service from nearer to commercial only to find themselves faced by in 1867 until after the end of the Kving for the whole world, and not seemed

creasingly

problems. Great War. difficult only for itself. It has been urged balance than ever before, and more cres

misapplied, that this oneness of Industry could harm was done by the great war Labour is still

production la rife in the inflated be better realised by admission of in disturbing the balance than by trades, all the world still tries to

destruction of employees to the councils of the all the waste and employers, and I would suggest as actual warfare. Labour was die make and sell the same things re- the gardless of natural development or even more likely to do good the ad. located, first by the call to mission of employers to the councils armies, then by diversion of pro-appropriate enterprise.

What we should do is to face the of the trades unions. Their production to those industries which

conditions demanded. Men musle and start restoring balance, senes might be a wholesome correc. Wanged their trades to suit the rather than tinkering away with tive to Joosu thinking and

changed conditions, and the trend political secotine. We must weed precipitate action.

of recruitment made the change out unwanted producers, cut out Dellente Adjustment Necessary. more Inating. The means of pro- superfluous capitalisation, apply rather than duction were re-upplied and extend labour reasonably But, granted that our truest en-ed, and the resultant re-capitalisa, speculatively, and adjust the uneven deavours must be towards a steady

rewards in the ranks of labour It tion made this derangement per- improvement of industrial cond}-

self, in particular by improving the mnment.

reward of agriculture. Unless we tions, we shall find that, to ensure it, a very delicate adjustment of

do, crisis will follow crisia, and function in necessary. This ad-

catastrophe will follow catastrophe, in ever increasing waves.

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Valparaiso, Feb. 24. The Prince of Wales and Prince George arrived by aeroplano, escorted by six other aeroplanes, from Santiago.

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Born in 1848, ho was the fourth can of the Vicar of Sherborne afterward. Becoming ill himself, Abbey, the Rov. Edward Harston, Colonel Groville-Harston toured and after having been educated at the West Indies, Panama and Sherborne Schooi he joined the Venezuela. Royal Marines in 1867. Being of

in 1914, When war broke out mechanical turn of mind ho Colonel Greville Harston threw turned to the study of small arms himself into the task of supplying and, in 1868, made the first hun- the training Canadian forces with merless gun and invented a quick- munitions, and also superintended

of which he ring rifle, both patented. In 1873 he made a short the big munition contracts that were placed in Canada and United visit to Japan with a Battalion of States by the British Government. Marines and on returning home He organised a big inspection staff was put in charge of a Company and later became head of the which had been formed to work branch of the Ministry of Muni- the rifle he had made. Later he

Lions which wan started went on official misstons, to the Canado. It was in 1916 that he Balkans, and visited most of the went Englund, Aarving capitals of Europe, regarding France and being promoted It is to the economist we should which he had many interesting re- Brigadier-General. In June, 1917, hard miniscences to tell of the pro- be returned to Canada and look for guidance in these times. If economic science is R

In 1882 he retired, but later in the same year | minent people he met. science at all, which 1 nometimes took part in the first Egyptian went back to England, serving doubt, it is the science of com-

War, on the conclusion of which first under the Army Council and marcial balance. I cannot help he went to Canada, receiving a later, at their suggestion, under feeling that, like us, traders and Commission, with the rank of the Admiralty. It was in England workers, they, too.

are somewhat Captain, in the Canadian Forces that the Brig.-General did yeoman fundamentals.

in Their

1883. ahnky on

Meanwhile, Captain and valuable service in the matter Greville-Harston had invented yet of munitions, superintending the pursuit of the gaki atandard is as full of adventure as the pursuit of

another rifle-an Improvement on re-building of salvaged rifles and the old Martini. When the North Lewis guns. Later, hin services the Golden Fleece. The cloud with the silver lining still hangs over

West Rebellion broke out in 1885 were requested by the Admiralty the East, obscuring the rising sun.

he was given the command of in connexion with shella for the As an engineer, I often wonder Company of Royal Grenadiers fleet, and he organised an aspec

served with distinction Lion system in seme of the largest if their gold standard is much throughout the Riel Rebellion, munition factories

(notaby at power, "the work of one horse," be under the late General McKenzie Luton) where shells were not he

Still keenly interested in rifle Ing properly filled. fore we put it into scientific shape.

improvements, Capt. Greville- As a member of the Imparini 1often feel that economists for-

Harston was, at the end of the Munitions Board in England, he get that they are dealing in a dynamic, and not a static, selehce, rebellion, sent by the Small Arms performed some of the most meri- Committee to England where, atturious service of his carcer. that their quantities are mostly

Eufek, he designed and made

A large One instance will suffice. vectors, and as such, only obey the

magazine rifle the forerunner of

shipment of Colt guna had been laws of simple arithmetic in ex.

the present magazine Lee-Enfield. made to the Canadian troops in jeeptional cases,

In 1889 he returned to Canada, France but upon their arrival in serving at the District Camp of England inspection proved them to Instruction at Niagara, Further be defective and practically use work on small arms eventually led less as far na service was con- to promotion and appointment to cerned, The General immediately: the Headquarters Staff of the went to work and after consider Master Genersi of Ordnance,able research and renovation had oppost-and, in 1911, he was gazetted been made he converted the entire Chief Inspector af Arms and Am- shipment into mchine runs which munition for the Dominion. in were later used on the British 1912 he visited England with other cruisers patrolling the North Sen. Colonial others for the Automu Manoeuvres, and spent a month at Woolwigh collaborating with the authorities there on munition matters.

better than our old standard of

Occasional phrases, such as "Ing of retail prices," or "speed of cir- calation," show some realisation of facts, but generally they seem to me to be still back on two and two make four. They forget that if two and two happen to be tion they will make just nothing. They

tell us that if we send out one thousand pounds' worth of goods, In due course we shall get one thou- sand pounds" worth back. But how will that profit us if, in the mean- time, we have died or become bank- rupt?

Let us pray for an Economic Joule or Kelvin to put their science amang the nelences. Then the maintenance of commercial balance will be more easy of achievement,

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After the Armistice. Brix- General Greville-Barston was quest honour of the Grand Fleet and received the thanks of the Admiralty and the War Office for the work he had done.-

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Scott Harston.

Returning to Canada with his wife это the ill-fated "Royal George," which was wrecked below Quebec, Colonel and Mra. Greville-J. Iaraton went through a trying ex- perience, the little hont into which they crowded being tossed about in the lower St. Lawrence for over ten hours in biting cold and # heavy wind. His wife never quite recovered from the harrowing, ex- time Perience and died a short

in expressing thanks to the speaker, Rotarian Robertson said that he agreed with what Lieut. Col. Morcom had sald in the open- ing part of his address with regard to the necessity for clear thinking. With regard to the position of changing. econamle science, he did not think

announced that that economists could produce anthere would be no meeting of the

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