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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1932.

THE FAILURE OF CAPITALISM,

THE REV: E. L. ALLEN'S INDICTMENT.

ROTARY TALK.

capitalist system, but I will content myself with a brief reforence to three of these.

are

THE DIOCESAN CONFERENCE.

BISHOP OF VICTORIA REVIEWS POSITION.

low prices, but to sell them, and to the lant Capitalism is term of ofce In

to that it must see that the people have money with which to buy the

more

economic

his

FLATULENCE IN BABIES.

First and foremost among the troubles of babyhood are digestive derangements, usually manifested by distressing' attacks of flatu- lence. Besides the primary serious- ness of the mal-nutrition, there is. always danger of convulsions if the child is unable to expel the

ods. The money is Just what anarchy, the blind hope that out given by the Bingkong, whinecumulation

M.A..they have not got. There is

A strong indictment present-day capitalism was made by the Itev. E. L. Allen, Ph.D., Dastor of Kowloon Union Churell, when he delivered an ex- tremely thought-provoking address Club itatary at yesterday's luncheon. held at Menara. Lane Crawford's Restaurant, under the chairmanship Kir

of

Willar Hornell.

After pointing out the disastrous results of economy and rationalisa- tion, the speaker suggested the dire necessity for economic plan- ning, first on the national and then on the International scale: plan- ning designed to ensure that con- sumption kept pace with produc- tion and that the process of put ting goods on the market did, t the same time, give people power

buy them.

of

gh8

in

the

that of comparative margins of private profit. In short, I capl- taliem does not reduce unemploy To begin with, capitalism has ment, mankind, which is fast falled where fullure on the part of

weaning itself from feudally-en- an economic system is unpardon-gendered patience, will abollah

It ible. has literally failed to decapitalism and replace it with a more perfectly loss clumsy and liver the goods, The task of an conomic order le not merely to

en-ordinated economic system."

A survey of the work done in make goods on a large scale and at

The important words there

"A less clumsy and the Diocese during the last twelve

co-ordinated years, this boing the length of

of Victoria stomach.

In order to ensure normal di when presiding for the last time at the Diocesan Conference, which gestion you should glvo Baby's commenced at St. John's Cathedral Own Tablets, the remedy special- Hall yesterday evening. The canly prepared for babies and all ference is a two-day event and children up to six. These pleasant- will be continued this evening.

tasting little tablets, which His Lordship referred to the be given without trouble, are in- diminution of foreign clergy, #ay- ing that the Chinese Church, at valuable for correcting stomach the present lime, unquestionably and bowel troubles generally. uceded the assistance of western Baby's Own Tablets him moat anxiety was the decrease in the number of foreign mis- clergy. He added that what gave

sionary clergy serving in the Diocese,

shortage, not of goods nor even of ople who would like to possers them, but of purchasing power in the hands of those who want the goods.

of the chaos of competing units will, nomehow, arise the there common good. If we continue on this rond it will lead us sooner or later, to beggary. But there fo an alternative and what that fa Russia has shown us.

Ruggin's Lesson

Here. It seems to me that Mr. 1. A. Hobson's analysis is as sound as any. In a time of industrial

The new Idea which we can to C- learn from Ruslin is not com- rosperity wealth tende

malute in the bands of the inmunism that may or may not

buy casting class, who use it to

conception of economic planning, machinery to make goods and yet have value for un-but just the more goods. But too small a proof the deliberate control of the

national incomes

ezanamic forces which operate portion of the has gone Into the hands of the within the borders of a country.

and others who

for the common good of its people. wagarnern want to buy these woods, so that Russia's plan is for Russia only, They have not the purchasing

and any plan which course, power to take them off the market other countries might adopt would Bence those perioils of latted have to be framed with their own markets and unemployed workers, conditions in view. He concluded by saying, “1 g***** nothing I Christianity which of poverty amid plenty, through should make it more opinised to one of which we are passing to

tbar

day. to capitalismu Communis The future of civilisation depends. ability to would suggest, on our fet a reconciliation between the tal of indavidonf iiborty on the

bank and the

progomie forea on the other. which are at work in Soviet Russin."

to

New Members,

The followin new were welcomed. Dr. R. A. de Crestro aml Mr Banto, Mr. M. Manuk

216

M. Goodall.

visitors wel- Non Rotarian ened were

follow, Flight Lieutenant R. M. Trevathan, M.C.. H.M.S. Hermes, Mr. W. I. Handy. sile (Hongkong), Mr.. Ehrhardt (Shanghai), and Dr. F. S. Tsang (Shanghai).

The Chairman following Rotarinn

welcomed

guests.

Mr.

the Mr.

J.

Bankrupt of plens,

are

Aro

'can

also

storinch

colds, relieving croup, checking diarrhoea and allaying foverlah- rapidly effective for breaking up

nens. During teething the tablets are especially valuable, for their

on the He further said that where desettling effect

of the pains. finite progress did seem to have

removes the cause been made was in the matter of

and thus enables baby to enjoy building, and although he did not claim credit for any of those de health-giving sleep. Baby's Own Tablets are guaranteed to contain velopments, some of which were

barmful no narcotics or other done before he became Bishop. It had been a great encouragement drugs, but comprise the prescrip- to witness such growth and the ton of a qualified medical practi-

done by

tioner of special exerience in splendid work

children's ailments. people in securing those result. Ofelats Elected.

All chemists supply you.

many

The Rev. L., N. Watkins who was not present owing to Blness, was re-elected Honorary Secretary, and Mr. Paul Barker was elected Trea- aurer. Messrs. Thomson and Com- archpany were elected nuditors. directed The following were clected to the Executive Council, the Bishop, The Dean, the Honorary Secretary and Treasurer being cr-officio Reve. C. 1. Blanchett, G. K. Carpenter, N. V. members. Clergy, Halward, W. W. Rogers and G. T. Waldegrave. Lay Representativen, St. John's Cathedral, Lady Pollock,

and Professor I Forster

Sir Henry Pollock, K.C.

St. Andrew's Church, Mr. J. W. Baldwin and Mr. J. 1. Hunt, Q.B.E.

But the idea of a Five Years Plan has come to stay. Let there be a rebene drawn up by the best brains the country can command; in let it live in view every aspect In the second place, I are capitaliam a bankruptcy of ideas, at the problem--the production of and capital gomils, 1 has no remedies to offer everpt, conuription

disease the pervision of crodits, the edu nch as would make the

The two ration of technicians, the housing worse even than It's

of the people and so on, and let medies which i PITADAMON

every section of industry. Instead nomy nit rationalisation.

trind of oit off on its own in search Remnony has been mally in Germany: Mr. J. M. of private profit, be so

Seynes tells us that no rountry that it will contribute its quota prosperity, with has ever accepted such a regime! to the common

of waste or over- of hardship and sacrifire as she the minimum

We have too long al- And lapping, has imposed upon herself. to what end? In spite of all the lowed economic forces to control reduction in wages, the drop in. The time has come when we prices, the acceptance of a lower must assert our right to control standard of living, and the us them and make them serve us by UA a better social pension of trade union regula-building for

order. ions or perhaps because of all

New State Needed, These things-business remains at

Let me anticipate one objection. standstill and the misery of the

I said a while ago that individual people only increases. H.

Rationalisation is equally dis-liberty withered under capitalism. I not that also true of Soviet

It is Bussin? Certainly railway trous. An it is pretised, for xample, by the

and yet I auggest that, in this antes and other great combines

Russia's galit in less than ours, In England. it deliberately hims

for she never benefitted an at dispeasing with labour and so

have

kreat done by those two adding, to the volume of

the movements, the Renaissance and the Reformation, which taught us employment and poverty in

antry.

worth of personality ise supreme

that for But the fact remains and its right to self-exeression. those who believe that individuality Is the spring of all progress and that a society is to be judged by the room it gives to the develop ment of the individual, there is no satisfaction in the communist, any

Monsieur le Directeur d'estime nore than in the capitalist sint. We need a new kind of state. inde mon devolr, en ma qualite de of Consul General de France, de vous which the

control social

do re- conomic forces and the freedom exprimer mes sentiments

l'article que pour connaissance of the individual can co-exist.

vous avez bien voulu, spontano- ment, consacrer a la memoire de M. Briand, ancien President du Conseil, et Ministre des Affaires Elrangeres de la Republique.

11.

T. Fox (Bangkok). M-Carthy (Shanghai). Mr. Mr. (Shanghai). Mackown Sandor (Shanghai). ME, A Shister C. E. Singapore). and Me. Sebroeder (Liege, Belgium).

Mr. Fux anid that the President of the Bangkok Club had asked him to convey his personal street. ingas Hongkong Rotarians whom be met about a year ago; also the veeelings of the Bangkok Club to the Hongkong Club, with the hope that In the fatere it might be possible for the two Clab to get into closer contart.

Dr. Allen's Address.

roni-

1123-

If a bave urged. what wrong is shortage of purchasing over, then any policy which fur- her diminishes that houer, an by vnge-reduction, increases in the ast of living, or taxation of the Tower level of incomes, only serves to ngeravate the problem.

Enemy of Human Freedom.

third The

charge against spitalin is of a different order, It has always made a certain moral claim; it has claimed to be the one way in which individual initiative and enterprise can be encouraged.

St. Peter's Church, Mr. R. Ash- truc:ton Hill and Miss R. Mow Fung.

We

The budget for 1932, which calls for an estimated expenditure ol $8,230 was accepted.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Acknowledgment.

[To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]

The speaker said: If I were to choose a sub-11e for my remarks, I think it would be "After Capital ism what?" During the hat hun dred and fifty year the western work. Hyd

increasing in an

Not a Death-Mennee. extent under the influence of the capitalist system: to-day that sya-

Lord Lothian, un his return last toe is arouching the point of dis- ut expitalism, as it exists to-day, Integration and the future of our

is the enemy of human treedom ear from Russia, said he was con- vinced that what he saw there was civilization depends on whether or

nd has given us the slave atate in

nota death-menace to civilisation I etait equitable qu'un hommage not we have the wisdom and-eour-

me of its worst form. The great age to put a better one in its place.

craiustrial entries give the peopleft the possibility of its re-birth. unanime fat renda a l'oeuvre d'un Dorint it's reign of a century and Hemneratie institutions and then it is not easy for us to learn homme qui, des le lendemabi de des du the common cause smblance of power, but the reality from a nation which we have sos Grande Guerre, s'est devout a in

rapprochement half, the capitalist gestem has bronght many benefits; it has in-

of it is elsewhere with inapersonal louse regarded as enemy of mankind.

Yet we must peuples, et s'est adonne a la tache, proved communications, popularis, enemic forces. The reason why ed knowledge, raised the standard

mten do not rebel today is that the learn this lesson of the dire neresnoble entre toutes, de coordonner sity for economic planning, first tous les efforts et toutes les aspira. than a penty is a thing rather of life and given to the masses a

on the tions des hommes de bonne volante on the national and then L You cannot raise an army

Neule: degree of personal comfurt un-

planning en vue d'etablir, contre vents et known previously outside the prirainst the gold standard or the international

designed to ensure that consump-marees, sur des hases solides, le the rute of exchange or

price- vileged classes,

tion keep pace with production, havre de la Paix. level, but these are the masters of

that the process of putting goods

Veuillez agreer, Monsieur le our destiny!

on the market does at the Bamc

Directeur, les assurances de ma time give the people the power to consideration tres distinguee. buy them.

Le Consul General de France. G. D. DE LA PHADE.

a

Ominous Signs of Disaster. But perhaps it might be a little nearer the truth to say that most of these benefits have been wrung

I was tempted at one stage to give way to Sorce o babit and take a text. I have not done so.

from capitalism by the organisedat I will reat you the wards I action of the workers, backed by the might have chosen for that pur

The are the words of an conscience of the community in the

of stale interference. To-day ཙ ། ཤ ཀ ༧ ང ་ས! (» ཚ It eponemlet. Professur form of this

vast and imposing edikce gives Douglas. eminous signs of impending disas ter: it is threatened alike from within and without. It has shown it if to be utterly unable to meet it the needs of the world situation in which we find ourselves, and it is Pingg Phallenged in an altogether new way by the fact that Bussin has set out to show the world that there

an alternative to It. There are many counts in the in- dielment which the times in which we Ese are bringing against the

111 of Capitalium, "markind must go through such great periodical Reases, if men must have because there too much fund, so naked because there is too much clothing, and sleep in the parks because there le too much housing, then masses of sensible men and wo- men will create a new cevnamie system whose governing princi ple will be something other than

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Perhaps few convirtions more deeply-rooted to-day in muds of the ruling, the possessing, and the educated classes through- out the world than that there is a relation

hand and the new economic forces

Soviet Russia.

The Club's Thanks.

of necessary antagonism on the ather, which are at work in

mora! between the religious and tradition of western Europe and the economics of Soviet Russia.

In expressing the Club's thanks believe that this is a great mistake.

D. M. I see nothing in Christianity to the speaker Rotarian

on the which should make it more opposed Maynard said he thought

Lo communism than to capitalism, while, that he agreed with nendly the for

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