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MONDAY, JULY 18, 1932.

of the control of the police aystem of Prussia can never be ex- aggerated), the vellest appre- hension is aroused. Meanwhile, the recent appointment of the von Papen Government has, aroused anxiety in the South, In Bavaria the Catholic People's Party is just Į stronger than the Nazis, and there has been an angry outery- why should Bavarians endure the dictation of East Prussian land- owners? The interview recently in Berlin between the President

DAY BY DAY

MOST PEOPLE IN THEIR BLINDNESS DO NOT SEE THE INFINITE DIFFER ENCE BETWEEN BIGNESS AND REAL GREATNESS. THEY MISTAKE OR CONFUSE

SOUL.

►

During a fight between two bontmen at the Mongkok Ferry Wharf yester day, one of the men received a eut over the forehead and was later taken to the Kowloon Henpital for treat ment.

a job!"

OUR HECTIC HERITAGE

BY "THIRTY"

their

BIGNESS WITH REAL "Let us cat, drink, and, be merryį man nature being what it is, we GREATNESS OF MIND, HEART AND--for to-morrote we shall be out of know that they will let disaster overtake them rather than do any. thing about it. THAT, I think, represents the

So why should we waste time and attitude of most of us who can breath, like the economists, with afford it and who are not al- their almost daily Invention of new ready tramping the streets looking Jargon and incantations to explain for a chance to grind out a liveli-the curious crumbling in the feet hood. Our elders can inspire us of

idol. International with no better objective, for the Finance? reasons I have tried to explain in We know the idol han feet of previous articles.

clay and, to be given new feet, will have to be taken down for repairs, Even if civilisation in crumbling, with a considerable loss of prestige what is the use of being depressed and temple revenues. We know about it? It has not given such the idol and its worshippers would advantages that we shall miss it as rather perish miserably than have much. our elders: And it is not that

why happen. Meanwhile, ns if there were anything we could should we get hot and bothered? A reminder is given that a Service do about it in the meanwhile. Even

will be held on tho men's danco

it we got ourselves elected to tennis courts of the European

Kowloon, | Y.M.C.A.,

that the Take another great problem of we realine this evening. Parliament, Should the weather prove inclement, Party Whips believe that little the day-War Debts--which dis- seen and not clones to us one of the peculiar de- dancing will take plaer in the concert M.P's should be

economist in the hall.

beard. Though elderly politicians lusions of the are helpless, their dignity must be nattir of wealth and the even more preserved at all costs, and the peculine delusions of the statesman younger men "kept in their place." in the matter of ethics,

and the Chancellor on the one hand, and the Premiers

of

Bavaria, Baden and Wurtemberg on the other did not clear the air.

Mr. Kinnard, an overseer of the [Obviously the principle of Reich | Public Works Department, has report. Commissioners, and the liberationed to the police the theft of six lengths of one-inch zinc piping from of the Storm Detachments, re- the lower dam at Aberdiven on Satur- mained distasteful to the visitors. day morning.

At the moment, nothing definite can be foreseen. The German Government can with difficulty be termed either popular or constitu- tional; its members represent, though not specifically,

the Nationalist party, whose failure in recent elections has been strik.

Whilst preparing Л churge of Ling. Yet by posing as saviours of dynamite at a quarry near Cremer,

I suggested to a Minister the To us it is clear that the wealth Streek, Talkoktsui, yenterday u fore- The Fatherland Herr von Papen man of the Fu Long firm of contrac other any that might be helpful represented By War Debts censed and his colleagues are monien-tors received severe injuries when the to let the younger numbers be heard to exist almost immediately after It was blown out exploded

unexpectedly. He more frequently, if only to "blow it was created. tarily riding the Nazi flood, while charge

was taken to the Kowloon Hospital | per steam." He was horrified. ut existence, was worn out, or mere receiving the support of the in- in a serious rendition. [dustrin mngnates whom they do hot seem to have bothered to con-

having caused obstruction al the

"The front benchers," he assured disappeared. Yet this wealth is

Pame light me with the pontifical air of one regarded in the

some tangible, linching an argument, "would not capital sunk in Three, boatpeople were charged be like it I have no doubt that he existing, earning enterprise, like a But in salt. Though Hitler in un cordial for the Hon. femur. Hole, at the sincerely believes that the collapse railway or a great liner, teens with Big Business, it is in- Marine Court this morning, with or rivilisation will be postponed be six years in conversion loans benchers would apart, we shall have paid for it | disputable that his movement is Mongkok Ferry Wharf by moorings "The front

twice over. Even the sound busi- their boats within 3 feet of the Bot like it." basically anti-capitalist; his most

ness principle of allowance for de- wharf. They admitted the offence

preciation was not applied to War able apokesman, Gregor Strusser, and were each $18, or one week'

Debts. and in-imprisonment. " teresting left wing in the Party,

jt

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Telegraph, represents an important

MONDAY, JULY 18, 1932,

COMING GERMAN

ELECTION

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We regard polities, then, as a farce. With every prospect of col. Japse there is no point in taking

Whatever one's theories of the

In connexion with a report made what out Tathers called "a career" nature of wealth. it is obvious that. whether a Nazi split can be inde- to the palice on Saturday morn why exert ouself to make money to exist in the same light as wealth at all seriously and, in any case,ne cannot regard wealth that atili by Chinese married woman vi finitely postponed. There are all Hunghom who stated that she had pay to the politicians to buy votes that has ceased to exist. Though it nang be argued that the present manner of possibilities the been held up and robbest in Chatham with?

post-war state of the world Is an Kond, outside Holt's Wharf, it has

The shallow squabbles of the sel. there ix The voling on July now been ascertained that the report

clearly some situation.

false. The AS ODHALIL เ now Churches about dogma and ritual economic fallacy here, which ought 31st may well have a tremendous was

admitted to the police that there had do, not satisfy any deep spiritual to have been foreseen. influence not only on

German been

no hok-up and that she hud urge or curiosity we may

But there is also an ethical hud Even the pleasant counter-aterailucy-the treatment of wealth polities but on those of Europe as hidden the money, which she

collected from Holt's Wart on behalf¦tion of scientific theories that the of her husband, to avoid her creditors.

Public attention has been so much centred on the Lausanne well. Conference of late that the im-

mineper of the tieneral Election, which fake place in Germany on July 1st, has been largely » ver-

The Irish Problem.

Government

conconled without Pesuri. to

have.

curious reflection on the outlook

Universe is a bursting example of something more valuable than pure mathematics, and that the in-c. The State did not hesitate to mates of the local zoo are our dis-sk the manhood of the nation to The Villa Rose mystery, one of the tant cousins, does not inspire us to give its life freely and without con- The dispute between the Irish cleverest of A. E. W. Mason's Hanun ang enthusiastic conceptions of Ifedition. But wealth was treated as stories, is the subject of the feature Each day brings fresh evidence more valuable commodity and and Whitehall al-lm at the King's Theatre and pro- that theorists of every kind have only borowed at 5 per cent. interest Junked. The present Chancellor, ready contained elements so dis-vides excellent entertainment. The een hopelessly wrong, so there is Herr von Papen, is regarded by quieting that the abject failure identity of the murderer is ndroitișttle inducement to study. Can wat our much-vaunted civilisation.

of Mr. Norton's compromise in-herrings, for which reason the film he blamed, then, for making the Armistice Day the State tervention could scarcely make will give a greater measure of enjoy most of life while we can and for mourns the vanished dead. The matters worse, It is

the ment to those who have not had the not taking it, our ellers, or or rest of the year it pays interest on vanished wealth. If Socialists are less deplorable. The satisfaction Trovat

pleasure of reading the book. Austin selves, too seriously?,

playa the part of Hannu with

tempted to regard this as an argu- widely expressed both in England his usual polish and conviction, in a! Besides, our outlook cunipels us

ment for Socialism, let it always and Ireland when it became double sense, while Richard Cooper to regard the problems that harass be remembered that Socialist muni- fills the role of the Lyro detective, our elders from a different and tion-workers, who were selling known that Mr. Ramsay Misc- providing humourous relief along¦ more practical angle. Donald's invitation to Mr. delines perhaps a triße libellous to the Valera had been accepted, revealed original Ricardo, but nevertheless Take, for example, the great pro-raand wages far higher than those

satisfying.

nome

the sincere desire of both coun- tries to end an unseemly and un-

their labour, never hesitated to de-

competent German observers to be a stop-gap, in which connexion it is worth noting that his Cabinet has been officially described as a transitional Ministry of non-party experts whose task is to steer the country past the coming elec- tion. For the moment, the reac

blem of over-production-the of the fighting men who were mere, tionaries are in power, but it re

phenomenon of starvation in the ly giving their lives. midst of plenty. From this it is If it is the official view of civilisa. mains to be seen what will happen necessary squabble. The aban right channels. Reprisals have clear to us that the whole distri- tion that death is of less account when the voice of the nation donment of all effort to reach a served merely to concentrate be-merce is founded on entirely false deduction that we can make is that.

butive mechanism of world com- thun dividends, the only possible |makes itself heard. There is un-settlement after a talk Insting hind Mr. de Valera strength mciples. We have a shrewd there is not much point in living. doubtedly a move in cortam quar-three hours exposed irrespon- which would not have been more suspicion where the fault lies, but because it is clear that our chances ters for the restoration of the sibility unmitigated by the fact, than half-heartedly applied in all that matters to us is the ques-of wealth for the remainder of our chosen circum-tion of whether it can be remedied, lives are negligible. If that is not Monarchy, so much so, indeed, now apparent, that both parties more carefully

went into the conference with stances. Ireland now purposes a

And we see at once that the only the official view of civilisation, why that the new Minister of the In- the impression that the other was tariff

people who might be able to re-do the leaders of civilisation go on War with Britain and terior proclaimed in a speech re-prepared to depart

medy the defect are those who acting as if it were, at the same his genuine Irish loyalty to the Com- make their living out of it-and time chanting smug phrases about cently that a loner hy was the former stand. Mr. Ramsay Mac-monwealth is indefinitely post- that the cure would entail a drastic the horors of war, and the "sanctity most suitable form of government Donald should have known Me. du poned.

reduction in their incomes., Hu-of human life"? for a country in Gerriany's posi-Valera better. The Irish leader tion.

should have been aware that the Looking at the situation gener.

Englishman is never more clim- ally, there is no doubt that the assumed an air of sanctimonious cult to move than when he has forees of reaction have beer help-righteousness and rectitude.

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from

As

ed by the breach between the So-in every stage of the development cial Democrat uit Communist of the unhappy relations now sub- lenders. Howevez, the Social De- įsisting between England and the mocrats appear determined to

Irish Free State, both sides are

make a big fight

almost equally to blame. British an the coming

politicians, not one of whom election. and they are still

ap- pears to have the haziest know- facior to be reckoned with. The edge of Irish psychology, thought internal situation is most com-they could frighten Ireland into plicated. In the States, as in the submission by threats of economic Reich, no party has a majority | pressure, and succeeding only in which makes majority govern. stirring passions in Ireland which ment possible: in the States the

most people thought were Intent if not dead, felt compelled to net old Ministers have mostly ear-

upon the threat when it failed of ried on as a so-called "business its purpose, simply and solely for government." This has very na-the preservation of their dignity. turally caused great indignation | And the serious aspect of the among the Nazis in Prussia, who land annuities issue might easily have become by far the largest have been avoided had not the old Imperialism raced in to defend party in the Prussian Landtag.the sanctity of the Oath, when it For some time it has been on the did not warrant the slightest fuss, cards that a Reich Commissioner The point of substance was whe- would therefore he appointed by ther the Free Stale intended to the Central Government to rato stand loyally by its undertaking Prussia. Since it is clear that Hit-to remain within the British The ler has an understanding with the Commonwealth of Nations. new Government, by which he Oath is merely a form of words of no particular importance. If gives them general support in re Mr. de Valera, stubborn and turn for the promise of a free suspicious, chose the wrong hand in the administration of method of its removal, an ounce Prussin (and here the importanco of taet could have turned it into

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"I'm beginuing to think maybe we should have let her

marry that Mr. Truendale."

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Naturally, we cannot-take them, or their outlook, at all seriously. Confronted, with a world capable of entertaining what we consider such illogical misconceptions and of tolerating for so long such colossal structural defects--a world run by men who are so patently out of their depth and blind to the faults of the machine they control-we see little chance of their being able to effect running repairs. Even if they knew how to do that, they would have to stop the machine to free its seized bearings. But, of couree, they have allowed things to go too far.

The only reply to our question as to what they propose to do is a vague theory that, although they do not know what is really wrong with it, the machine will right itself without any effort on their part except for such gentle words of en- couragement as they, may offer at the Lausanne and other confer- ences.

A machine that will eliminate its own structural defects and correct the fullncles of its designers, with- out those in charge of it being cognisant of either, or being pre- pared to take it to pieces and make drastic alterations, is a phenome non outside our experience, beyond" our understanding. We may be forgiven, therefore, for replying to these optimistic travellers' tales of our elders that "there ain't no sich animal,"

Meanwhile, till they produce the phenomenon to rebut our in- tredulity, there is nothing for us-to do except to remain cheerful.

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