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OTTAWA HOPES

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1932.

DAY BY DAY

Europe have reverted to barter by thetr bilateral, agreements. The fact that Britain Is finding it in- creasingly difficult to secure pay- ment for her exports means, le Buys, that before long sho may be

THE LIBERATOR GOES THROUGH THE WORLD WITHOUT MALICE, ENVY obliged to enter into such agree-

OI FEAR. menta. If an international under. ICE, FREEDOM AND standing is not

TRIUMPH OVER ALL, OBSTACLES femible, Lord

THE END. Leverhulme thinks the opportunity

THUTH

IN

TASK OF YOUTH

By "THIRTY"

THEN once we have satiated; W

for

Ignoring superficialities, irt us. ourselves that we have, na turn to the fundamental features IIE KNOWS THAT JUST far as is possible, taken all prac example, democratic government.

of civilised life, such BHALL tical precautions to avert disaster,

and to mitigate the effects if dis-lised world is run on the assump- We find that most of the civi nater abould arise, wo can turntion that every individual above u

· provided by Ottawa shoukl be used The Empress of Canada, from our attention to the overhauling certain age is equally qualified to to reach

have a voles in government. As agreement between the Shanghai, is due here on Friday at of the machine.

4 1.ลด various nations of the Empire, and

The precautions auggested in find that the only profession

an extension of this principle, we the Inst article are obviously not life for which Suffering from injuries to his head the only measures to be taken, and qualifientions of any sort are con then seek the co-operation of those

no training or at 222, Reclamation Street, a shop's

themselves.sidered necessary, is the profes. foki was taken to the Kwang Wah! There la, besides,

the hope of jaion of government. So convinced something helpful emerging from are our statesmen of the value of lospital yesterday.

Lausanne and Ottawa, even if the this idea that they regard it es a indications are not too favourable duty of pressing urgency to grant But I think that self-government to the illiterate,

other nations with whom agree. † caused by a fall from a bamboo ladderothera will suggest

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nut

for

in

directed attention to the fact that imposed by all ports in the United thorough overhaul and examina-the crown of civilisation that il

A married woman of 33, Cook

ment may be possible.

It will be seen, therefore, that there is A demand fur very

During a ght between two men at thorough-going handling of monct-32, Temple Street, one of the com- at the moment. ary problems at Ottawa, in which and had to be taken to the Kwong will agree that the only hope of and the half-baked in every pon- hatanta received Injuries to his head most of the younger generation the disgruntled, the aboriginal. connexion also it may be noticed Wak Hospital for treatment.

permanent stability is, so to speak,sible corner of the globe. Demo- that the New Zealand Premier has

to take down the innchine of civi-cracy is so universally accepted Quarantine restrictions have beenlisation to the last

as one of the brightest jewels in currency difficulties are si im-States of Americu, including the tion.

occurs to few to question its real portant cause In the grave reduc-from Hongkong on account of cholera. Į

Hawaiian Islanda, against "arrivals] Patching can only be

a tem- value. tion in the value of Dominion pro-

[porary palliative. There is clearly

something ton ducts.

fundamentally For this reason New Zen-

But at the risk of being thought Street attempted to commit suicide one for us to expect recovery heretics, let us resolutely examin land thinks that the price level, yesterday when she threw herself into without a drastic revision of ideas this theory of Democracy in currency and banking problems the water off Hunghom. She wasjas to the causes of the trouble. light of first principles and known

seen by a seaman of the steam launch | must be an important feature of Man Bing and rescued.

it may be argued that one cannot

facta. take the machine of civilisation

It is a fact from which we can- the Conference. Britain, we know,

down to the last nut without not escape that folk are born into is entering the Conference chamber

bringing it to a standstill, but it the world with regretably unequal is quite possible to examine it in dowries of physique, health, and with an open mind on thess and

sections to see where the errors intelligence. No Parliament has other Issues. Moreover, there have

in design lie, and still keep it runs far been able to do anything | been numerous indications that the

ning. But we must be prepared about this troublesome working of to get back to first principles and law of nature. Upbringing and Dominions are anfinated by a

discard all our preconceived and environment may influence deve- spirit. which will rule out

traditional notions. We must lopment after birth, but they can Never offset, except in minor de-

concessions.

any

A four-year-old Chinese boy was knocked down by a private motor car in Queen's Road West yesterday causing injuries to the left side of the Government Civil Hospital. Ind's body. He was taken to the

Slight injuries were received Li Mui, aged 18, when he was knockeil

cscape Free, initial discrepancies,

meticulous weighing of respective down by a private motor car near the take nothing for granted.

muxi The task will not bo Guseway Bay tram terminus yester part of the design

day. He was taken to the French ruthless and unhinged examina- Hospital, where ITEM injuries were ition. fr's"].

easy, but with goodwill and a de sire for mutual beneßt, # should be pressible to register concrete re- sults of advintage to all,

commit

they

the

Yet in most of our conceptions

are

to the of our

of government we turn a blind eye. to these discrepancies and assume that one and all are equally quali- AChinese attempted 14

No one in his senses would sug-1ed to dietate the destiny of the suicide early this morning by jumping Kest that there is any chance nation. Can it be that with every into the harbour near the Yaumati the world as a whole revising its extension of the franchise we hav Ferry

Whart, Hongkong. Aideas. They are much tog, deep-been receding further and further coxswain of the steam lunch Kwong rooted. But if leaders, Instead of from the laws of nature and that Other Aspects,

Lee, which was lying near the wharf, running round in frenzied circles, jour systems of government heard the splash and, on seeing the applying patches, would take time founded un a colossal misconcep man, rescued him from a sampan. The Impedal Economie Con-

to examine our problems in the tion? If so, might this ference at Ottawa promises to

light of first principles, they might plain at least some portion of the not ex- Whilst a melor ferry was have repercusions far beyond the driven along Murray Rond near Bable atmosphere for the solution

being be able to create a more Tavour-niess we have made of the world? territories immediately concerned. one of the fekis who was on the of those problems. At least there road of inquiry lead us

terfield and Swire's ofBees yesterday,

Further steps along the same Mr. Ramsay MicDonald's decision vehicle lost his balance and fell off. would be less danger of their add- oconomic consequences

He was taken to the Police Stationing to the mistakes The stage in my set for the to send Bevel of hits

leading and later removed to the Government already made.

have conception of democracy, for many Ottawa Conference, which is to be Cabinet Minisers to attend it in. Geil Hospital suffering from serious

of our present troubica arise from injuries to his head. He succumbed Therefore, those of us who think certain widely-held beliefs officially opened to-morrow, 14 isdicates that Bitain is well aware early this morning.

about these things suggest that a cerning the duty of the State to- this of this fact. The team selected

rold and dispassionate examina-wards the individual. With formal address attion of basic principles is not only extension of the franchise, on the gathering of Empire statesmen is includes Me. Stanley Baldwin, and yesterday's meeting of the Rotary an essential and a practical step, other hand, we have heard less and attracting more attention then guy such experts in finance, economies Club, but on interesting discussion;but probably the only one offering less of the duty of the individual

took place regarding future pra chance of a successful and per- to the State. other Imperial Conference yet held, and

grammes, when appeals were made to Not only in the Old Country and the Neville Chamberlain, Mr. Walter members to give them the benet of manent solution of our troubles.

Let us get back to first princi- their knowledge on various

If we could be given a "trouble-ples on this point. The "State" Dominions, but in all parts of the Runciman and Lord Hailsham, be-of business. Mr. E. Cock

aspects created

ted finding chart" for our examination had no say in my arrival in this world there is a belief that big de- fsides a full staff of departmental much amusement when he said that of the machine 01 civilisation, world. It did not ask for me to

if the representatives of the Churches probably the mark the officers led by the Spretaries of withdrew he would be able to tell should find on it would be: "What therefore, what sort of claim can are likely to

first question we be born. Ethically, er logically, the meeting all about shipbuilding in is the machine for and why are make against the one word.

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Oftawa discussions, materially State for Dominion, (okinial and helping. it is hoped, in the task of Agricultural Affairs. The reason dissipating the prevailing de- for so strong a delegajan is not pression. Above all else, a deter-far to seck. Not only are there. mined effort will be made to bring possibilities never befon,existent the various units of the Empire in- of establishing a British Empire:

begin-

WEST NORTH AND EAST - to real and lasting co-operation. If Customs Union, but it

RIVERS hopes are realised, the Ottawa Conning to be seen that othernations must be affected by anyting of ference will be written down in his. the kind.

The following table issued by the The new feature the Kwangtung River Conservancy Con- tory as marking the beginning of situation is that Britain, by lopt-mission shows the height of water that closer understanding foring protection, has put itsel for in English feet on the dates named in the West, North and East Rivers: which well-wishers of the Em-the first time in eighty-six pays

afford Acal West River at in a pire everywhere yearn.

position to favours to countries which

ki-

It has been disclosed from the provate in kind. The eonferece published agenda that practically is to build upon this, and mac, every sphere of the Empire's pro- paths whereby goods may t blems will he explored. As the through trade barriers now bloc various currencies and monetary ing world business, The Lusk ea standards of the Empire, are to be accomplished only gradunit? come in for consideration, it is op-Changes difficult to effect have t

be made. portume to direct attention to re-

Treaties promising "most favoured nation treatment cent views on this subject by pro-lowest tariff rates-to other minent people who hope that this Stales stand in the way, and may issue will be courageously dealt have to be denounced. Existing with. Sir Basil Blackeit, the noted inter-Empire contracts may also economist, thinks that some plan require modification. Only such should be evolved for the develop-

mutual concessions as Can be nient of an airen, no longer a little greed upon in advance are at all economic unit file Great Britiain,ference is in session. The plan of likely to malerialise while the con- but a large econontic unit within procedure confines the Ottawa dis- which there would be opportunities eussions to representatives of na- for the exchange of goods and ser- tions under the British flag. Bat, vice, and within which we could for Ottawa is to be followed by similar the time being forget the gold negotiations between Britain and; standard, having in its place a ster-dinavia and Holland have low Denmark, Sean- other States. ling standard which would keep the tariffs, though capable of assimila- exchange of goods and service with-tion to the policy now adopted at in the area free from the fluctuu-Westminster, and are to be next: tions which arise from foreign ex-approached. Other nations may A change. In Sir Basil's view, if the be invited to join later on. Conference can succeed in revers

growing world circle of mutually ing the trend of depression and de-Freer trade relations generally are lowered tariffs may thus develop.

fiation, it will not only help Britain, hoped for as the eventual outcome. but also the Empire and the wholo The whole scheme is so vast that world, to start again with more its implications haye as yet only hope. Lord Leverkulme points out partially been realised, though that the International agreement working out its programme,

Whitehall has been kept busy which the Macallan Committee is a hope, nevertheless, contain arivocated for stopping disastrousing much that is good and much deflation has not materialised, with too that is by no meana impossiblo the result that many countries in lof fulfilment.

it

State7

Con-

the

If I

you driving it?"

Those in charge of the machine must be against my parents. would have

On the other hand, the State except: "We don't know and we can legitimately make certain

10 answer to this!

to say

are not meant to know." If they claims on me, so long as I choos were asked why we are not meant to enjoy the protection and pri- Ito know," they would probably vileges which it offers. But it reply that they had been told that should be noted that there is no by the Churches. But they would compulsion on me to live in the Bot be able

where Churches got that information.

the land of my birth..

We are handicapped, then, at like being elected to a club. There Being born, after all, is rather the outset by ignorance of even is no compulsion to take up the the purpose of the machine which election, but there are certain res- we are examining. But if we stickponsibilities to the club to firat principles and known facts, does.

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one

it is possible that careful inspec- tion of the component parts may morbers demanded,

No club could survive if the as a right, throw some light on the purpose privileges in excess of the club's

resources, especially if the com. mittee had to bribe members with the club's funds to secure election. Yet that is the way in which the affairs of the great club which we call the State have been conducted in recent times under modern mis- conceptions of the rights of indi- vidual members. And, oddly enough, it is those members who talk most about "liberty" and "freedom" who are most anxious enforce compulsory claims against their fellow-members. Our suggested examination the machine has not proceeded very far, but we have already en- countered distinct indications of unsound design and faulty execu- tion.

to

of

It is clear, too, that if our ex- amination is correct, the repaira are going to take a long time and must entall considerable discom- fort mental and physical, to the repairers. It is unlikely that our olders will take on the work, even If they agree with our diagnosis of the damage, so our heritage is indeed a hectic one.

In a final article to-morrow "Thirty" sums up his conclusions.

now whether or not he loves me and whether

or not I love him,"

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