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THERSDAY, JUNE 9, 19:2.

THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY

THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1932.

DAY BY DAY

constitution, Wellington's 'minla- | try had fallen, from other causes, within fortnight. Grey too hla place. It is in many ways typical of English "revolutions" that

MEN MUST LIVE IN Grey's Cabinet which framed the

HARMONY WITH THE FAITH BY WHICH THEY Reform Bill had only four of its ARE PUSHED ON; THEY MUST BE members in the House of Com-INSPIRED TO THE MOST ABSOLUTE

DISINTERESTEDNESS.-Mussolui, mons, and that of these four one was heir to an carldom, Another

Singapore barrister, arrived here by Mr. Roland Braddell, the well-known the ss. Haruna Moru, accompanied by his wife,

IS MAN REALLY DOOMED?

By WILLIAM'EBBUTT

Is Man Doomed?

And if he is, who will succeedl to the sovereignty of the world? The birds (it seems likely) and the gastropod molluscs are now at or near their maximum of complexity, success and vari- ability; the mammals (to whom we belong) are perhaps slightly past it; the reptiles are very de- finitely so, and the amphibians still more definitely so.

Thus holds Professor J. B. S. Haldane in his new book "Causes

"A selector of sufficient knowledge and power might perhaps obtain.. a race combining an average intellect equal to that of Shakespeare with the stature of Carnera. But he could not produce a race of angels.

J. B. S. HALDANE.

future

Mr. A. H. Ferguson returned to the An Irish peer, and ! third a Colony by the Empress of Russia to baronet. It is no less remarkable [dhy. that the acreage of land owned by

Quarantine restrictions have been members of this ministry was imposed against shipping arrivals greater than that owned by any from Shanghai. preceding Cabinet. It hardly nceds saying that many of the arguments by which the old sys tem was defended were crude or sophistical. The "pocket" hor-

A man and a woman residing at of Evolution," just published by aughs were pieces of property; 6, Kimberley Road were removed to Longmana (78. Gd.). Must man, they had been a bulwark of Eng-the Kwong Wah Hospital last night then, make way for some sublime speed of evolution may be vastly suffering from food poisoning. Their apotheosis of the nightingale and increased and its methods made lish freedom. In the revolution of condition is not considered serious. the vulture, the shail and the lens brutal. 1688 the vote of the close boroughs

Alust

"The superstart of the "had decided that

Throwing his eye over the record would develop more slowly than momentous Daing this fortnight a number ofj

very interesting lectures on health of life on earth during the incom-we, and be teachable for longer. national event, and stood between matters will be delivered by some of pretensibly amazing period of He would maintain in maturity * misguided populace and the local Chinese medical men under perhaps one or two thousand mil- certain characteristlen which the auspicies of the Chinese Y.M.C.A.lion years: watching what is hap-most of us lose in childhood. He tyranny."

These boroughs per- Last evening, Dr. Li Shu-fan spoke pening even now at our own doors. would probably be more intelli- formed a useful service in normal on "Public Health Measures and the Professor Haldane says:

gent than we, but distinctly less times; through them young men People of Hongkong."

The usual course taken by an staid and solemn." | were introduced into politics; they

evolving Hine has been one of de- And there, as it seems to me. Mr. M. J. (quist. Consul-General for generation. It seems to me alto- the Professor offers gave openings to intellectual authe Netherlands, who resides at 547. gether probable that man will take answer to the question with which a tentative periority which would otherwise The Penk, has reported to the police this course unless he takes con his own goomy words compelled

that at about 11.30 m. n the 5th scious control of have waited long for recognition,inst some person stole from a bed within the next

ปล evolution me to begin this article. Through these boroughs again room a quantity of clothing valued at

$16.60. The stolen property

years. Wa aunufacturers and merchants, the later recovered in the

It may very well be that mind. eording to Mr. Haldane) garden. true representatives of the great Admission was gained through at our level, is not adequate for that no decent-minded person can

such a task, probably on account believe in Darwinism? unenfranchised towns, enme to the House. Such arguments were too weak to stand alone. They might tre used in debate, but the more moderate upholders of the old or-tration to resume the redemption of Discussing that which, in the some course of evolution, has most out-

of

iler were moved by nobler motives than those of the defence of vest-

ed interest.

wan.

U. S. Hunger March.

gen window.

few thousand

of its emotional rather than Intel-} lectual deficiencies.

If that is the case we are per-.

Our Canton correspondent reports, that instructions have been given by the Mayor of Canton, Mr. Lia Chi-hups the rather sorry climax of wen, to the Canton Water Adminis-evolution.

its debentures held by the time this month. The these bonds was sanctioned by standings distinguished

Municipal authorities on application:

koo,

war.

make

from other animals, Professor!

آن

But how will Mr. Bernard Shaw take it-Mr. Shaw who (ac- holds

Help for China

By H. WILSON HARRIS.

THE

E world is faced with the problem of China, If the recent conflict in Manchuria.

were

of

of the former Mayor, Mr. Ching Tien-Haldane points to "an extraordin it is difficult for us, in these As one commentator has ex-

Mr. Liu is now endeavouring tory arrest of development." The days of democracy, to appreciate pressed it, victory and defeat are

hasten the earrying out of the sebene, period of growth has been great-

ly lengthened. the bitterness of the struggle for relative terms in politics as in

Thus there

is a general law Parliamentary reform which ter

The composition of the first vice men.

(which gives the amount of food minated a hundred years ago with reformed Parliament was very like unnecessary.

Such aims should be eaten by a mummal before it be and at Shanghai and the intermin- The Government comes adult. The same formula able discussions at Geneva have the passing of that great measure, that of its predecessors. Within should provide every possible care applies to the mouse and the clep-not taught us that. they have sponsored by the second Earl the next fifty years the Church for those who were actually dis- hant.

taught is very little. The actual Grey, which ended the days of the and the Monarchy, were more firm-abled in war and for their depen-rule. For him the amount must Lytton Commission will be sand- Man is an exception to the fighting seems to be over. The "Rotten Boroughs," The centeny established in England than at

dents. But the more it gives to be multiplied by seven.

ing its considered views (it hug ary velebrations, which took place any time since the end of the

"disabled" men who are holding This is the long period of baby-ready sent a preliminary_report in England on Tuesday, serve to French wars.

good jobs, the more difficult it hood, childhood, The Tories had up becomes properly

to Adolescence of un great value) Geneva. recall the open bribery and cor-pealed to history, and history who really suffered.

to help those that time during which man is Immediate dangers are receding.

It must be slowly ripening his powere ruption which prevailed in British showed that they were wrong. On remembered that only about half body and mind.

But more remole dangers are not. What is going to happen in polities in those earlier days, when the other hand, the Reform Bill of the "veterans" got oversens andner of our race, probably matured draw her troops if anarchy a to Neanderthal man, that forcun-Manchuria? Japan will not with- Parliamentary seats were openly 1832, and the Reform Bills which only a portion of those were ac-much earlier, and was therefore follow their withdrawal, and advertised for sale and when none followed in the course of a centively engaged in the fighting.Įprobably less teachable.

though r efforts to establish but a select few and the least in-tary, disappointed in their turn Undoubtedly many suffered tur-i "If human evolution is to con-security have increased insecurity worse chaos fustice in the nation's affairs. different generations of ardent re-

rible experiences, and many lost tinue along the same lines as in enormously, still Happily, the Reform Rill of 1932 formers,

step in the economic army. But the past, it will probably involve might result if Munchuria Such disappointment

still greater prolongation of simply turned over to the rivalry became the forerunner of other must come for many years yet to out in better physical and mental tarity," says the Professor.

there were many others who came childhood and retardation of ma-of Chinese warring factions. gunrantecs At Shanghai and more liberal measures, those who put too much store by condition than when they went in, The preservation of infantile peace and order will be required 2 that to-day manhood and wo- the form of political institutions and found better positions than traits at a period in the life-cycle in the future as in the past, not manhood suffrage is firmly estab-and forget that "men, not walls, they held before the

when the individual was shelter-only by Japan hut by a dozen other lished in the British political make the city."

ed from violence has enabled man nations with rights in the Inter- Undoubtedly many who

did to shed a good deal of animalism, national Settlement. Decisions system.

not fight were ready to

All the same, Professor Hal-Indeed have to be taken on the Necessary as the grout Reform

any anerifice and were moved by dane sums up mankind to-day as whole future of the settlement, Bill was, it was violently assailed

the highest patriotism, but there "probably an extremely primitive on the basis, no doubt, of the re- Featham by the high Tories, who thought States to pay the $2,000,000,- an adventure or to evade respon

The attempt to force the Unit- were others who went to war and imperfect type of rational port by Mr. Justice

being."

published last June. the end had come and that social 000 due in 1945 on the World War sibilities at

There are many who hold that: Now who is to guarantee low home. The indis-the human mind cannot be a pro-and order in Manchuela? revolution was inevitable. Old veterans' bonus at this time of criminate sentimentality which duct of evolution. Professor Hal-

A WORLD Lord Eldon wrote of his gratitude emergency is the first sign of the would make every man who wore dane, as

thorough-going evolu- DIVIDED. to Almighty God that his time on threatened upheaval in Anterica, a uniform a.hero and the politi-tionist, does not share that view. then would mind has been evolved, earth would not be long, and of

where there are now 10,000,000|enl buccaneering which

It is idlo to pretend that A the possibility that mind may things are the Government 01 his sad confidence that the Mon-unemployed. The chances of Pre-endow him for life tend to glorify now take charge of the process Nanking, threatened perpetually archy and the Peerage would not

sident Hoover giving way to the war and to commercialise patriot-given him at least a hope that in by the rise of rival Governments long

pressure are small and those in Iam.

the next few thousand years the at Canton and elsewhere, can do survive him. It has to

touch with the facts are prepared |

it. Half the provinces of Ching be remembered, of course, to back the Administration to the

are their own masters, and though that the French Revolution damp full. More than half the veterans

nuch action as Japan bas had the folly to take may unite the whole ed down the zeal of many reform drawing disability pay are men

nation for a time in spirit, it is ers, but in the later years of whose trouble is not connected

only for a time and only in spirit. George IV. the younger generation with war service, although dis-

The evolution of a permanent jstructure of government is as far was no longer frightened by the abilities arising before 1925, are awful example of France, while is estimated that in another year

to seck as ever. That is the assumed to be so connected. IL

problem that faces the world-for the abuses of the reformed one-fourth of the men who were

It is no had saying that China's parliament were becoming more under arms in the World War will

future is her own affair. that primarily, 110 doubt, but intolerable to public opinion. The be receiving allowances for dis-

where a quarter of the world's legislation which followed the ability which has nothing to do.

population, and all the potential Reform B shows how the stream with bearing arms, And the ro

trading capacity that implies, is involved, a Chinn in anarchy Is had been dammed. Bentham's

cent tendency of legislation for

100 great a temptation to other the veterans has been toward ideas had provided reformers with

Powers. more relief for those not injured a programme, a standard, and in war, the pension bill for widows method, Legislation was L and orphans just passed by the science: the legislator should aim House of Representatives being at the greatest good of the great-the latest example, Expenditure est number, and apply the test of [for "service-connected" disability utility to all laws and institutions, has not been lessened. But they How could this test be applied by ler proportion of the total spent

have become an increasingly smal-j a House of Commons which was for veterans' relief. And the dan- itself an abuse, a centre of yestedger is that with such relief be- interests and of the corruption conting more and more n matter spread by these interests? The of politics and mounting to auch short period of crisis which onded heights that the head of the in the early summer of 1832 be- Veterans' Administration says the gan In November, 1830, with a

nation will have paid as much as solemn affirmation by the Duke of 500,000,000, for this purpone by the total cost of the war, or $21,- Wellington that the representative1045, no much will go to the un- system of Great Britain was the deserving that the deserving Will beat in the world; that no one not receivo adequate caro. Evon could devise a better system, and now America has flag days when that he, Wellington, would regist [the public is naked to contribute any kind of change in this perfect directly to help disabled

ox-ser-

10

"I wonder if we'll ever wear rings in our noses?"

If China cannot put her house in order they will try to do it for her, and in all likelihood clash not merely with her but with one an- other in the process.

China is not in complete anarchy to-day. To say that is to say a good deal too much. But neither is China in z state of order. She is not even progres-, eing with any suffelent speed to. wards a state of order. That is not the fault of able and patriotic men like General Chiang Kai- ahek, Mr. T. V. Soong and others, who are grappling with resolution and courage with a situation bo- yond their control. But they need help, experienced help disintorest- ed help, such as can at present only be found outside China.

It is no new thing for Chinese Governments to enlist such as. alstance. Among Englishmon-to. namo no other country--who have counselled China wisely in the past may be mentioned Sir Robert (Continued on Page 4).

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