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THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1932,

THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY

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THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1932.

DAY BY DAY

constitution. Wellington's minis- try had fallen, from other causes, within a fortnight. Grey too hla place. It is in many ways typical of English "revolutions" that Grey's Cabinet which framed the Reform Bill had only four of its members in the House of Com- mons, and that of these four one was heir to an carldom, another

Mr. A. H. Ferguson returned to the an Irish peer, and third Colony by the Empress of Rusalu to- baronet. It is no less remarkablechy,

MEN MUST LIVE IN HARMONY WITH THE FAITH BY WHICH THEY ARE PUSHED ON; THEY MUST BE ABSOLUTE INSPIRED TO THE MOST DISINTERESTEDNESS.--Masojni.

IS MAN REALLY DOOMED?

By WILLIAM EBBUTT

Is Man Doomed?

And if he is, who will succeed to the sovereignty of the world? likely) The birds (it seems and the gastropod molluses are now at or near their maximum Quarantine restrictions have been of complexity, success and vari- imposed against shipping arrivals ability; the mammals (to whom from Shanghai,

condition is not considered serious,

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

annil and

"A selector of sufficient knowledge and "power |might verhaps obtain.... a race combining au 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

that the serenge af land owned by members of this ministry WAB

we belong) are perhaps slightly greater than that owned by any

past it; the reptiles are very de- preceding Cabinet, It hardly

Mr. Roland Draddell, the well-known finitely so, and the amphibians needs saying that many of the

Singapore barrister, arrive here by arguments by which the old sys-the s.. Haruna Maru, accompanied by still more definitely so. tem was defended were crude or his wife. sophistleal. The "pocket" bor-

A man and a woman residing at of Evolution," just published by oughs were pieces of property:, Kimberley Road were rentoved to Longmang (7a. 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

the vulture, the

theless brutal. Aish freedom. In the revolution of suffering from food poisoning. Their apotheosis of the nightingale and increased and its methods made

"The superman of the slug? 1688 the vote of the close boroughs

Throwing his eye over the record would develop more slowly than decided "had

that momentous Duing this fortnight a number of

health of Hfe on earth during the incom-we, and be teachable for longer. very interesting lectures on

of He would maintain in maturity national event, and stood between matters will be delivered by some of prehensibly amazing period

certnin characteristics which misguided 'populace and the local Chinese medlenl men under perhaps one or two thousand mil- tyranny." These boroughs per the auspices of the Chinese Y.M.C.A. lion years: watching what is hap-most of us lose in childhood. He Last evening. Dr. Li Shu-fan spoke pening even now at our, own doors, would probably be more intelli. on "Public Health Measures and the Professor Haldane says:

gent than we, but distinctly less formed a useful service in normal

The usual course taken by an taid and solemn." times; through them young men People of Hongkong."

evolving line has been one of de- And there, as it seems to me. a tentativo were introduced into politics; they

Mr. M. J. Quist, Consul-General for generation. It seems, to me alto- the Professor offers gave openings to intellectual su- the Netherlandis, who reales at 47.gether probable that man will take answer to the question with which periority which would otherwise The Peak, has reported to the police this coure unless he takes con- his own goomy words compelled

his evolution me to begin this article. that at about 11.30 am. on the 5th xclous control of

few thousand

But

Mr. Bernard how will have waited long for recognition-inst. some person stole from a bed within the next

Shaw take it-Mr. Shaw who (ne Through these boroughs again room a quantity of clothing valued at

$46.50. The stolen property

holds It may very well be that mind.cording to Mr. Haldane) later

iza the recovered manufacturers and merchants, the

at our level, is not adequate for that no decent-minded person can was gained through Iruc representatives of the great Admission

such a task, probably on account; belleve in Darwinism? of its emotional rather than intel-) unenfranchised towns, came to the open window.

lectual deficiencies. House. Such arguments were too

Our Canton correspondent reports. If that is the case we are per- weak to stand alone. They might that instructions have been given by

the Mayor of Canton, Mr. Liu Chi-haps the rather sorry climax of be used in debate, but the more

wen, to the Canton Water Adminis- evolution.

Discussing that which, in the moderate upholders of the old or-tration to resume the redemption af der were moved by nobler motives its debentures held by the public, some course of evolution, has most nut- รางแห distinguished- time this month. The redemption of standingly than those of the defence of vest-these bonds was sanctioned by the from other animals, Professor Municipal authorities on application

ed interest.

War.

Such

was years. garden.

did

make

Neanderthal man, that

Help for China

By H. WILSON HARRIS.

THE world is faced with. the

TE worm is china. If the

recent conflict in Manchuria and at Shanghai and the intermin- able discussions at Geneva have they have not taught us that, taught us very little. The actual The fighting seems to be over. Lytton Commission will be soud-

chaos

were

oľ

of the former Mayor, Mr. Ching Tien-Haldane points to "an extraordin ary arrest of development." The It is cult for us, in these As one commentator has ex-koo. Mr. Lin is now endeavouring period of growth has been great-

hasten the carrying out of the scheme.

ly lengthened,

Inay | days of democracy, to appreciate pressed it, victory and defent are

Thus there is a general the bitterness of the struggle for relative terms in polities as in

which gives the amount of food Parliamentary reform which ter

The composition of the first vice men.

Such aims should be enten by a mammal before it be Government comes adult. The same formula minated a hundred years ago with reformed Parliament was very like unnecessary. The the pas Tip of that great measure, that of its predecessors, Within should provide every possible care applies to the mouse and the elep

the second Earl the next fifty years the Church for those who were actually dis-bant.

Man is an exception to this sponsored by | 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

ing its consistered views (it has "Rotten Boroughs," The centen y established in England than a dents. But the mure it gives to be multiplied by seven,

This is the long period of baby riready sent a preliminary repor

to Geneva. difficult it hood, childhood, adolescence of no great value) ary celebrations, which took place any time since the end of the "disabled" men who are hokling

good jobs, the more

man is Immediate dangers are receding. The Tories bad ap in England on Tuesday, serve to French wars.

becomes properly to help those that time during which

of But more remote dangers are not. What is going to happen in reall the open bribery and cor- pealed to history, and history who really suffered. It must be slowly ripening his powers

foreun-Manchuria? Japan will not with. ruption which prevailed in British showed that they were wrong. On remembered that only about half body and mind.

their withdrawal, and polities in those earlier days, when the other hand, the Reform Bill of the "veterans" got overseas and ner of our race, probably matured draw her troops if anarchy is to though bir efforts to establish Parliamentary seats were openly1832, and the Reform Bills which only a portion of those were ne-much earlier, and was therefore follow

in the fighting. probably less teachable. advertised for sale and when none followed in the course of a centively engaged

suffered ter- "If human evolution is to con- security have increased insecurity

atill worge -but a select few had the least in- tury, disappointed in their turn Undoubtedly many

the past, it will probably involve might result if Manchuria

of almply turned over to the rivalry hence in the Juation's attairs,different generations of ardent re.rible experiences, and many lost tinue along the sume lines as in enormously,

step in the economie army. But a still greater prolongation Happily, the Reform Bill of 1992 | formers.

disappointment

there were many others who came childhood and retardation of ma-of Chinese warring factions. At Shanghai guarantees became the forerunner of other must come for many years yet to out in better physical and mental turity," says the Professor.

The preservation of infantile, peace and order will be required liberal measures, those who put too much store by condition than when they went in,

when the individual was shelter-Jonly by Japan but by a dozen other so that to-day manhood and we 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 held before the war. ed from violence has enabled man nations with rights in the Inter- Decisions manhood suffrage is firmly estab-and forget that "men, not walls, they

Undoubtedly many who

to shed a good deal of animalism, national Settlement. lished in the British political make the city."

not fight were ready to

All the same, Professor Hal- indeed have to be taken on the yalem.

any sacrifice and were moved by dane sums up mankind to-day as whole future of the settlement, Necessary as the great Reform

I. S. Hunger March.

the highest palriotism, but there "probably an extremely primitive on the basis, no doubt, of the re-

published last June. Bill was, it was violently assailed

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

being."

Now who is to guarantee law by the high Tories, who thought

There are many who hold that ed States to pay the $2,000,000,- an adventure or to evade respon- the end had come and that social 1000 due in 1945 on the World War sibilities at

home. The Indis- the human mind cannot be a pro-and order in Manchuria? revolution was inevitable. Old veterans' bonus at this time of criminate sentimentality which duct of evolution. Professor Hal- A WORLD Lord Elden wrote of his gratitude emergency is the first sign of the would make every nun who wore dane, as a thorough-going evolu- DIVIDED.

then If mind has been evolved,

It is kle to pretend that

Government at to Almighty God that his time on threatened upheaval in America, a uniform a hero and the polititionist, does not share that view.

would where there are now 10,000,000 cal buccaneering which

that mind may things are the the possibility earth would not be long, and of

unemployed. The chances of Pre-endow him for life tend to glorify now take charge of the process Nanking, threatened perpetually his and confidence that the Mon-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 the next few thousand years the at Canton and elsewhere, can do archy and the Peerage would not

it. Half the provinces of China

It survive him.

are their own masters, and though ใน to touch with the facts are prepared

such action as Japan has had the remembered, 1 course. to back the Administration to the

folly to take may unite the whole that the French Revolution damp full. More than half the veterans)

nation for a time in spirit, it is pay are men ed down the zeal of many reform-drawing disability

only for a time and only in spirit. whose trouble is not connected

The evolution of a permanent ers, but in the later years of

structure of government is as for. the ever, That to seek as George IV. the younger generation with war service, although dis abilities arising before 1925, are was no longer frightened by the assumed to be so connected.

It

problem that faces the world-for it is no use saying that China's jawful example of France, while is catimated that in another year

future is her own affair. It is but the abuses of the unreformed one-fourth of the men who were

that primarily, no doubt,

world's where a quarter of the parliament were becoming more ander arms in the World War will

population, and all the potential infolerable to public opinion, Thebe receiving allowances for din-

trading capacity that implies, is legislation which followed the ability which has nothing to do

involved, a China la anarchy in Reform Bill shows how the stream with bearing arms. And the re-

too great a temptation to other 1 Powers.

log

ไฟ

nd been dammed. Bentham's

pressure are small and those .inism.

cent tendency of legislation for the veterans has been toward USC in the sea.fideas had provided reformers with more rollef for those not injured

a programme, a standard," and n

in war, the pension bill for widows i method, Legislation wis

and orphans just passed by the Reience; the legislator should aim House of Representativen 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 have become an increasingly smal- How could this test be applied by ler proportion of the total spent a House of Commons which was for veterans' rellof. And the day- itself an abuse, a centre of vested ger la that with such rellef be- Interests and of the corruption coming more and more a matter spread by these interests? The of polities and mounting to such hend of the short period of crisis which ended heights that the in the early summer of 1832 be- Veterana' Administration says the nation will have paid as much ca gan in November, 1830, with a

the total cost of the war, or $21,- Bolem afirmation by the Duke of

500,000,000, for this purpose by Wellington that the representative 1945, so much will go to the un- system of Grent Britain was the deserving that the deserving Whi Evon best in the world; that no ono not receive adequate care. could devise a better system, and now America has flag days whon that he, Wellington, would resist the public in naked to contributu any kind of change in this perfect directly to help disabled

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

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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,

not China is

complete anarchy to-day. To any that is to But say a good deal too much.

state of neither is Chiun lun order. She is not even progres- sing with any sufficient speed to- wards a state of order. That Is not the fault of able and patriotic men like General Chiang Kai- nhok, 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 disinterest- ed help, such as can at present only be found outside China.

Chincae It is no new thing for Governmenta to enlist such as- sistance. Among Englishmen-to name no other country-who have the counselled China wisely in

past may be mentioned Sir Robert (Continued on Page 4).