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T

this:

OUR WORST SIN IS CONCEIT

Says Andrew Soutar, the Novelist.

among

Actors, and actresses,

PERSECUTION FOR JUSTICE'S in difficult times, but they could singers, and dancers, there is so be made easier if each one of us much conceit that every labourer took hold of himself, sat down in who toils in the fields all day and chair, and talked, beginning like empties a cesspool at night for the sake of the extra few shillings think you aro? has every right to thank heaven And why should you reach for a that he has been given a man's halo every time you take your job. hat down from the rack? What have you done for the nation na Up in the Clouds.

"Who do you

not money. If that fact is taken: into account, it becomes cauler to understand the hybrid character of the Nazi movement,

A large num- ber of the older generation of Ger-

NOBLE MEN AND WOMEN, IKRE- mans, especially in the northern

SPECTIVE OF RACE OR CREED, WITH-

circica, TIE besetting sin of the nation modern literary and eastern districts, were before STAND, TEMPTATION, TRIBULATION ||

is conceit-nelf-concolt. We live artists, the war, and have been still more | AND sinec, wholly out of sympathy with SAKE the big industrial and moneyed in- terests which had the ear of the Kaiser. These survivors of the old Prussian military and landed aria- Locracy have a fellow.feeling with the young Conservative revolu- tionaries which constitute the main body of National Socialism. The revolt has been against a re- gime and a tendency of which the main object appeared to be the mak ing of Germany safe for pluto- Crey. The unnatural alliance of Junkers and industrial magnates under von Papen has certainly not been able to stay the collectivist tid, even if the Nazis have not won Now that the clectioneering is all over, the re- construction of the Government has

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1932.

GERMANY VOTES

In the sense

to be faced. Until that task has been completed, it will not be easy to assess the new situation, or to say whether the stalemate is but the forerunner of a new series of

Tissolutions of the Reichalan.

ners.

Japan's Policy,

"

A thief entered the apartment of Mr. S. M. Ismail, at 467, Hennessy Rond, yesterday morning, and unde

After all, what are these self- a haul of clothing and jewellery, the whole that you walk with your:

nose in the air? Why not come stylod nesthetes if they are not value of which was not disclosed.

down to earth and walk with

mummors, story-tellers, entertain- crowds 'Nor

lose the common ers, clowns, annusement makers touch'?"

people who are given the choice- Lin Kung-man u military officer, Self-conceit is so insidious a ot keeping the workers Bght- staying at the Namping Hotel in Des disense that it cats into public hearted while they are doing the the police that he left an attache life like corrosive acid; it

Voeux Road Central, bas reportexi to

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case, containing papers and various nailifies even those blood ties that real work of the world? Your articles, in a ricksha when alighting are supposed to keep a family to literary snob has only to go into outside the Hotel yesterday,

llegether in times of success or ad- the British Museum and he will three the versity. Only the other day I find books, written two or

hundred years ago, which contain does not know the number of rickahn.

heard

three A man Ray-"On different occasions I have had said all (and more) that he has put to me, I can't believe that she is into his poor volumes.

she is because your sister coarse."

Arrested after having arrived in Hongkong on board the 8.5. Yuet On From Kongmoon, a Chinese, found in possession of taels of prepared

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Your painter who lingers too long in the line light of his own No, he was not an illiterate man, commissioning, has only to walk the National Gallery to ined $5,000 by Mr. as we judge illiteracy, he was inte Schofield at the Centre Policy Cor: solicitor: he was the guest of his realise his own impotency. Your his queuing, with the alternative of sister, a wealthy woman; he was actor who sits on the edge of a one year's hard labour. The con- dependent on her, for most of the cloud and surveys the world with traband was found in the defendant's favours he received in this life,contemptuous eye had a forebear feet of his kind belongings.

but while he smiled and smiled who sat at the

villain he and remained a

was and was given a juicy bone to thinking these things. One whisky gnaw in return for his services. too many and he felt the urge to Why don't we try to realise the give them verbal expression.

*

Stated to have been injured by the explosion of a bomb which he had pt as a curiosity, Trí San-kan, 17, employed as a coolin at the Lok Men Worse Than Women. Yee tenhouse at Simelun, in Chinese

another

about his be conceited

truth of all this?

own supposed

our

rates.

If men would put away conceit and try appraise themselves at Lerritory, Was yesterday brought My experience is that men are their true worth we as a nation Haron Kijuro Shidebara once down by train by his brother to the infinitely- more conceited than might touch greatness in a couple

Yaumati Station, whence he was taken women; they seem to develop an of decades. Bat we weigh said that in diplomacy manner to the Kowloon Hospital. He died at extraordinary idea of their

strength never our was equally important with man-2.18 this morning.

importance. Very few of them knowa weakness. The love of The dictum might well be

leave it to the public to appraise publicity saps individuality. their worth. They conceive 2672 Ninety-five per cent. of those repented to the present directurs

During the week-end a small fall ideal and are incensed if the pubic men who, by cajolery or subter of Japan's foreign policy. The of earth occurred at the rear of No. does not agree that they have fuge, get their tumes into print recent suggestion of a revision of 27. Prince Falward Rond, the re-realised it. If it comes to a ques during their lives will pass away sidence of Mr. J, Houssler, causing|tion of actual contribution to a with no more than a couple of that the German the Nine Power Part to exclude damage to the fence and the back nation's well-being, only one man lines in an obituary column for elections have not make it possible. Manchuria and to provide for the door. In reporting the occurrence to in ten thousand has the right to which their relatives will pay the the police yesterday, Mr. Inussier for extremists on the one side or neutralization of áreas surround-expressed his fears that

uchieve prevailing advertisement (the other to dominate the situation, ing the chief ports of China was slide may rear with the next heavy ments, and his character would be Cannot they realise that?

fall of rain, as fissures have appeared such that he could not possibly be

Laugh this off, as the Americans the results' must. be regarded as singularly inappropriate both as to on the hillside.

conceited.

say: know a man who refers to A woman may be conceited about himself as "A famous baronet" satisfactory. As in other coun- time and source. Japan's plea

divorce her personal appearance, but her because he figured in a tries, the mument. is not propitious since she entered Manchuria has.

OVERHEARD AT A MAH-30N, Object, in nine cases out of ten is CARC

many years ago! Between in Germany for any violent political been that she has been taking

to make herself

attractive fame and notoriety there is in the eyes of the man. Tho

difference,

conceit. but wide reaction, A complete triumph for police measures in self-defence.

conceit of a man would lead him bridges the gulf. the Nazis might easily have led to A coach and four could be driven

tu sacrifice the love of the most "And did you see her shoes, my devoted wife in the world.

In political life conceit sits on undesirable repercussions; as mat- through either phrase at the best doar? Yes, quite the Intest style:

endeavour like energy and They must have cost quite eighteen on which man bases

And how poor are his grounds hippopotamus sitting on a belated Iers are, Herr Hitler and his fol- of times. in the present instance

there, just look, I've dropped a

calm that has been left up by the must content themselves they have embraced wide military with being the largest Party in the operations from Harbin all the coast to Itiechstagr. In the circumstances,way down the China they must get a considerable share Swatow. And under cover of them: of Government josta, but the real Japan has succeeded in obliterat control will be in the hands of Dr. ing a Chinese regime over an area Groening and his supporters of the Jin Manchuria as big as England, Centre, since they hold the balance France. Belgium, Holland,

combined. New Mexico of power. The stalemate was not

indeed are left unexpected, and although it leaves people The situation better than it might accept the Japanese words conceivably have been, there will, Japan's present activities.

lowers

nutional

tile

PARTY

"And now that makes nie Mah-

In my own

more

his conceit. of profession--that

..

£

Oh, thank you Mrs. Montague, you writing-conceit borders on the tide. Your Labour member who really are most kind.

Budicrous. I have met writers in rose from the people takes more In that the four of circles?

Yes, all parts of the world, and I have pride in being able to slap a duke 1 will if you don't mind."

marvelled that they have been able on the shoulders and call him to get through life without taking "Tommy" than he takes in bring- reform that may on the ing about

better the conditions in which the Jung. Yes, I think it's forty-four a thundering good punch And double for a clean hand gives chin about once a week.

One poor fellow who had written people live. me quite a largish score.

And, oh the joy of the plebeian Yes really Mrs. Henderson, I over-a couple of indifferent novels used

say in truth"I have heard her say

to make his wife stand outside his who can She was going to wear her chiffon study door to prevent his being met the Duchess of l'och-Pooh and for the race-meeting to-day."

interrupted while he was at work, she told me." And so on.

One day, in his presence, she Cut This Moonshine. Haid to me"]

and!

Few

who

for

"Most unsuitable call it; though some people always will.

The

to the

we imagine, have to be a deal of appointment of High Advisers to reshuffling in the ranks of the von the Manchukuo Government, the | Papen Government. To the antside new authority granted observer, the position is not alto Commander-in-Chief illustrate the hack of reality about the new State. gether clear. The von Papen Gov- ernment was brought into power hent on proving that a nation may To many folk, Japan is merely

under such unusual circumstances and its Ministers so little known carry on a war, deny that it is n. outside Germany that it is difficult war, and then claim that the very fact of such a denial constitutes to see precisely whom it represents.

a peaceful settlement. Clearly. One thing, however, is clear, name-

inter- ly. that the Nazis will expect their any move to force a new

on agreement

China strength in the Reichstag to be re- would bring down her self-defence flected in the allocation of govern- mental pasts. Moreover, although plea like a house of cards. To the Centre holds the balance of press her recent proposals would not only prove the contention of power if we reckon on ordinary

Japan's critics, but it would also | political alignments, the Nazis will.

give them ground for saying that by virtue of their Parliamentary the unofficial war is an aggressivo power, be able to exercise a greni

war. Unquestionably, something influence 0371 the Government's

will have to be done sooner or policies.

Hater to develop a new policy to- The conflict of ideas represented ward China. That distressed by the many political parties, in country has been buried Germany may not, perhaps, be exauch a mountain of notes since plained in terms of orthodox politi-the Washington Conference that cal doctrine. Indeed, we have seen the facts are scarcely discernible. it put forward that it goes much But it was not the delegated part deeper than than, having to do of Japan to make the move. with the place of money and its social effects ол national life. | Fathers and sons, we are told, have been speaking a different language on this matter—the fatkers, almost to a man, welcoming the pluto- cratic standards of the nineteenth century, and the song rebelling

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R have written

Yes, it was dear Mrs. Thompson play."

Why cannot we be true to our- He formed at the mouth. How selves? Why cannot we cut out who had such a nasty chill.

Look, there goes another East dare she dream of writing in those all this moonshine about what we Wind and I've just discarded two short respites between clothing think we are and what we really And I've thrown away three Deathe children, devoting her day to have done? Why cannot we take them, and putting them to bed? a grip of ourselves and Bay. ons so I don't know what to do." Yes, it's your turn after me.

"And now Mrs. Bailey's Bunker. He was the god of the household; "Well, what really have we done? why didn't she kneel in homage? Jan't there something that we can Was I dreaming, or did somehody But that play was accepted, per- do for the sake of those who are sny something about ten?

formed, and brought in a com- to follow us ?" Why have we not I was right? How very welcome, paratively large sum of moncy-the strength of mind to plant a for my throat's quite parched and dry which he proceeded to spend as halo (figuratively) on the head of

Though with a quiet game like

quickly as he could. honestly I can't think

the fellow who gete on with his Muh-Jong

That is only an incident, but it job and say, in effect-"I've got a why!"

helps to M. N.

illustrate my point. In niche to fill, and I'm going to try

"I didn't have a thing to do with my afternoons before 1

lost my health."

to fill it"?

1

Why should we bend the knee to all the mountebanks who try to fool us into the belief that they are greater than we are because they have written a minor novel, or acted a part on the stage, or painted a picture that was in- spired by a genius who lived hundred and more years ago?

In this country to-day there are for not fifty men

of women) whom it could be said-"We shall miss them and their greatness."

There are thousands who be- lieve themselves to be 80 indly- pensable to the life of the nation that they are worried to death about the dimensions of West- minster Abbey!

Ideals and Idol.

Where lies our greatness, cour- age, strength of purpose, grip of understanding? I have my own ideals; I have my own idola; I. havo my own conception of the character that demands respect.

I know of a woman who lived for art; she married a furner and shrank from the work that is a farmer's portion. She was left to fight out her own salvation and fond for the children who depend- ed on her. With courage that shall never be fully appraised she tackled the job of farming.

Shortly after she was left alone, I asked hor--"How are you get- ting along?" "Fino," she said, and her eyes glowed. "I've boon reading up my work, and I mado the ball realise that I knew what I was talking about when I the said I wasn't satsfled with spring wheat. I killed four rats.

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