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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1931.

A

MISCHIEF-MAKER.

He to adopt a helpful attitude. contributed nothing constructive to the discussions, preferring to remain largely aloof and, when ho did speak, investing his remarks with a good deal of sarcasm and cynicism. Yet now and again he made what now looks like a pre- tence to sincerity, though t по stage committing himself in any

surely are not what one should expect from a leader who never tires of telling the world that he diafavours anything in the nature

of violence. The only outcome to

DAY BY DAY

BUSINESS OR A PROFESSION?

A Problem for Parents: by a SCHOOLMASTER.

from Shanghal, is due here on Friday world crisis

The P. and O. 8.8. Rawalpindi,

at 7 a.m.

The health return for last week, apart from the diphtheria opidemic co-slows two fatal cases of typhoid and 44 deaths from pulmonary tuber спітнім,

the

expect from such loose talk is the DENT AND SELF-RELIANT, OR ALL THE MEN MUST BE MADE MORE PRU- working up of anti-British feeling. SCHEMES OF REFORMERS WILL HE A and doubtless when this is accom- MERE WEAVING OF ROPES OF SAND plished and retallation becomes-cury Fawcett. Inevitable, Gandhi and hia fol-

IGNS are not wanting of the must have an academie education. lowers will calmly proceed to lay

incrousing gravity of Le and to that. end the secondary the blame at Britain's door. Once

in trade and com- schools are minde pubservient to merce. Business is bad. again, in his latest speech, Gandhi

We him. They are the trains by men or they perish. So say many and these destinations are, unfor wants the other side to give way

of us. must make our Bous procesiunat which he reaches his destinations. before he even thinka of

storm that brings no harvest to growing less alluring. Of what Nevertheless it is a pour lunately, becoming fewor and operating. What he desires is the

some beachcomber, and there are Avail it that we have saved und repealing' of recont ordinances

basinesses which will weather the struggled,

As one miner's which have been put into effect in

crisia with

wife During the New Year Holidays the

1 great measure of put it, "to give

laddie the SACTORY. Lorder to suppress Illegal Congress Exchange Banks will be closed to the

letters after his name," when hin transaction of public, business

By this I do not mean the wel brother, too dull to aspire to cap activities, such as the no-rent cam-Friday, January 1, and Saturday,hould make ear sons hentheom- and gown, has risen to bo manager paign. Reports from various cen- January 2.

bera-heaven forbid!--but that at the pit or at the mill as a result we should consider the industries of a few years' elasнen at the even- tres in India show that, at thei

We have received from Mir, and Birt Hikely to survive when the crashing technical scinol. direct instigation of Congress, A. P. Pereira a sum of $10 for Earr

and put our Pons inte Foresight and there has been wholesale defiance | Balg's Fand for Dienbleil Service: 11:020.

the professions knowledge inva

a man in invariably too young at thirty for of the laws. So Gandhi's plea isoen! Secretary.

Men, which we have passed on to the of economies are required, but the responsible posts, but in business patient parent will try to acquire "too old at forty" is an outworn renily one which seeks to take

these, and, having examined the superstition. In business, too, he chatices away all power from constituted

of his son's success in has a greater chance of attaining business or in the professions, will affluence earlier than his profes- authority: in short: To is the apes

probably declare for business. |sional brother. tle of anarchy.

To begin with, success in the The hale gaema weighted in commercial sphere is not a matter favour of a business career for the of competitive examination: in bright boy, and if we could only academic subjects, whereas in the rid ouratives of our anachronistic dependent upon placing in “exam" professions, succes is largely prejudices as te respectability we would come to regard business us results lista.

honourable and as A boy who enters a University occupation as that of priest or worthy ди finds himself in competition with pedagogue, jurist or physteinn. minds as acute and often mare brillant than his own. They are

The management of

the pure Bay Hotel nakя un to state that there will be

a dinner dance to-night, owing to preparations for the New! Your's Eve dance.

Struck by a public car in Nathan Bond, near the junction of Joras toad, a 14-year-old Chinese lad was injured yesteriny, and taken to the Kowloon Hospital for treatment.

•

comes,

Jn

In the circumstances, we can well understand and appreciate the chargin expressed by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, It is true beyond the least shadow of doubt that Britain has evinced an over- whelming desire to do the right their passage rates from Hongkong The "Glen" Line Ltd., have reduced thing by India, As the Prime to London as from June 1, 1942, as all selected by an entrance exam- Minister so well puts it, the Gov-follws: June 1 to November 30, 1932, ination of wide scope. Men send 200: December 1 to May 31, 1933, 475. their clever sons to the University ernment's one aim is to broaden The existing rules for the sume and their less clever ones into Indian freedom. Equally true periods in the past have been £85.12.4 industry. The result is that tho

and £82. respectively.

clever lad whose father either has The Fato of Bachelor Friendships foresight or lacks cash makes his

MARRIAGE-THEN GOODBYE.

of their bachelor

his assertion that the unhappy incidents now occurring do not re-

The Health Bulletin or Eastern way in business immediately,HY do so many men drop the present a baffled and oppressed Porta for the week ending the 19th having less intelligent competitors friends

inst, shows the following cases of than the clever boy who goes to days when they marry? India struggling to be fren, but a

infectious diseases and deaths there a University. mischievous movement trampling | from: Plague, Baghdad

case. Cholera, Calcutta 11 cases 6 deaths, upon India's progress. This ac- Saigon 1 ease. Small-pox, Baghdad elnet summary of the situation de 3 cases i denth, Bombay 2 cases 1

"Respectability." We all remember the character, poor Dobbin in "Vanity Fair

The boys in

father was

grocer.

One of my oldest friends has at told me of his engagement, and when I congratulated him i mentally bade him goodbye, for to keep up our old intimato com- deship he and I will gradually drift apart

nerven, as it will receive, world. deuth, Karachi 2 cases, Mudras I can who was mocked at because his know that after a few attempts

2 ensen 2 deaths, Batavia Rangoon 4 casen 1 death, Pondicherry Dr. Swishtail's school despised Saigon 19 canes death, Amoy do men who made their money in casen 22 deaths, Canton d essen, using

business, greatly attenuated, it in true, prevails to-day. We would all

wide prominence. The pity of it all is that those who should be joining hands in the task of con- ferring untold benefits to the In- dian people are the very ones who

Shanghai 15 cases ♬ deaths.

and the same

spirit,

At firat 1 and some other pre- marriage friends shall probably casionally, and we shall entertain

A fishmonger at the Western Market prefer to be able to say that our invited to his new home ac- are undermining the whole move. was attacked by roughs laat evening inons were docters, clergymen, or the newly-wed couple in return; in Hollywood Rund while returning lawyera rather than that they were but all too soon it will come to

iment and leading the country to wards disaster. Gandhi, by his latest utterances, ranges himmelf with the forces of disorder and

destruction.

or

successful an aud; he will form friendshipa with his wife's intimates, but his old companions will become ac-

home with the day's takings. Re managers of a chain of multiple ceiving a blow from an iron bar, which groceries almost paralysed his armn, he was hotel. compelled to surrender a cash-box to This is not because we revere) une of three men who surrounded him near the Man Mo Temple. In the earning more than money, butquaintances, or at the beat, mere subsequent hue-and-ery, the man who anes used the iron bar was intercepted by Bpectability" of trade. Yet, if wel in this manner? I think it will be

we atill doubt the "re-hosts of friends.

Do women treat their old friends

Весиние

a watchman, and the cash-box, con examine the endowments of our taining $43.17, was recovered, having colleges, we shall find that they noticed that most wives keep been discarded by the thief when he, are nearly

all dependent upon

their girlhood friendships alive. realised that capture was inevitable. business men for their financial while husbands allow theirs to die

stability. Andrew Carnegie and out,

There was my friend George, for John D. Rockefeller, to take but

tion.

terest.

FARDS

Доле

more for education than the

are too

and

To-day, when Frank told me he

provided for him by his

very

TI

were

wife.

The Cotton Surplus. Gandhi's first public utterance

The wretched state into which since his return to India does not the world economic system Ins

On their discharge from

prison, inspire the hope that he will en- worked itself la strikingly illus where they had served month two outstanding examples, have instance, one of the most popular men in my circle; since his mar deavour to keep the forces of dis- trated by the figures from the

stowing away on a steamer from Japan, three Укранове,

educationists themselves. In this ringe we hardly ever geo him, order in check and work whole- American cotton belt, where abun-yashi Shinoza, Nakakoa Masa, and country, it must be acknowledged, now I do not even know where

namely, dancy of crop is accepted as a Nishimara Mitaibo, were brought be

he heartedly in favour of a final set-

lives. When his wife presented conservative and still in our grave cause for alarm! The prospec. fore Mr. Williams at the Central Victorian

ideas of him with a son I sent a mug and tlement of the

Indian problem.tive new supply is on a bumper chargert with

Police Court thia morning. and what

what constitutes respectable his wife flowers. George asked Indeed, the underlying sentiment scale worse than the worst tears!

vagrancy. Detective occupation.

me to a christening, which I did Sergt. Mottram stated that the of his speech would appear to in- Various proposals have been ad- Japanese Consul would be arranging tional outlook.

The Swise have no such conven- not attent, and that was the last

of They have esta- him. That was three years for their repatriation within a week's blished colleges for the higher R dicate anything but pacific inten-vanced in recent weeks for hand-

or ten days time. In the meantime, education of hotel keepers, muna: tions. It was hoped that Gandhi's ling the embarrassing surplus, but

he suggested a sojourn at the House the calculations appearance at the Round Table | based on a probable surplus of venient arrangement. The men were

have all been of Detention as being the most con- gera, and chefs. These young was going to marry I said I hoped

mon become economists. whe would

They

not disappear Ike Conference is London would pave 7,000,000 bales. The

necordingly committed to the House. are trained for occupations which e

George. Frank was indignant, the way to a real understanding: vitted for holding of 7,000,000 plan pro-

never would he drop his pla are as highly regarded as our but it is now history thai, whilst bales from the market until July

professions. It is a mystery why

why Friends. George was benpecked. nprofessor of political economy would be no fade-out of old friends Why He knew that for a fact, but there there, the Congress leader did not 31, 19:3, and restricting next

How it will all end time should be esteemed above a suc-wou show himmelf in any way laposed year's production so that the hold-alone will alow. But it is not at cessful hotel-keeper who

with him. He was tenching all certain that events will not professor in

Elizabeth bridge, and we his own way of Z over cotton would then be needed. It was actually arranged for the to take more than a

compel even Hongkong

domestic economy,

going to have some happy times residents

Out-of-Date Prejudices.

together when he got settled down 3,500,000 balen, for the American

casual in- Southern banking groups to nance

We are all at the mercy of a

it was the name old good inten- tradition, that the "lad o' pairts" tions, and sounded all very nice. Cotton Corporation to hold 2.000,-

but I fear that Bliezebeth will 000 bales and for the Cotton Stabi-

somehow lose all interent in bridge lization Corporation to hold a fur

after she marries, and Frank will find new amusements ther 13,000,000 bales. The right the price rising above a certain to sell was granted in the event of

level. It is apparent, However, that no holding movement can be. effective if the surplus in to be In the course of his visit to the 13,000,000 bales instead of saven. Continent, Gandhi was credited The scheme derived its hope for with the remark, whilat in Rome, success from legislative restric- that "to-day the whole Indian na-

tions on cotton planting adopted tion is called to a work of destruc-Arkansas, Mississippi and Loui- by the governments of Texas. tion-boycotting," adding that "niana. The object of theso emer- return to India to continue thegency laws was to reduce produc- struggle against England." It is tion next year by twenty-five per true that this alleged interview cent. But it follows from the was subsequently denied in a state- figures produced by the Empire ment in which he declared that he surplus of raw cotton at July 31, Cotton Growing Review that the; would take no precipitous action. 1932, will be more than sufficient, but would make 'ample previous on the present basis of consump- entreaties should direct action be- tion, to meet the demand for the come necessary. His obsession on

whole year. The cotton holding the possibility of conflict is still and production control plan must, apparent, witness his latest doleas the farmers are prepared to therefore, fall to the ground, un- claration that if a fight becomes abandon their cotton acreage ex- Inevitable, he Invites his followers tirely for twelve months. Even to be ready for it, as well as his thin would act avert disaster. 1t reference to the contingency of would appear in

different "a flory ordoal," This is not all, direction. The Southern farmer however, for he goes on to talk would be forced to grow his own of the next fight, in which Indian foods, now purchased from the will have to face builots instead of farmer is already in serious dif

Middlo West. The Middle West lathis. Utterances such as those culties from alleged over-produc.

way.

"Hollo boys: Just a line to let you know we made 450 miles the first day-having a great time.”

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which will not allow him to see much of his old friends. seems such a great pity, this breaking up of bachelor friend- ships, yet it is not always the wife who is to blame. Some of them at first made worthy attempts to keep the flame of friendship alive with their husbands ela

CRITIS but more often it is allowed to flicker out.

TA it because a woman does not Like anyone to know ner rusband batter than ake knows him? A young wife who has mat her hus- band but a short time before mar- rlage does not know him like a friend of his schooldays and and perhaps sho experiences, mething akin to jealous resentment of those who have known him before his benodlet days.

"Still, I do know of one My friend Hugh married and exception.

af

kept his friends. When he asks me over for an evening 1 am always assured of a welcome from his wife, and a pleasant meeting with other members of the gang. Bat Hugh has a clover wife,

and

expect sho knows Hugh and

thnu we imow ourselves.

I am going there to-night with Laurence, who is to call for me with his car. Good old Laurence! know he will never forget: his friends. But stay! Laurence Bas fust come in, and is babbling about having been up in un'aaròplane with a girl this afternebri. wonder!