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that the other Powers do not wish to apply to themselves the con- ditions of disarmament they have imposed on Germany. They add that Germany will not consunt to being treated as a second-class. Power any longer. Their attitude is, in the circumstances, quite un- derstandable.

Looking at the matter squarely, it must be conceded that the world

DAY BY DAY

SHADOW OF FATHER By AN OXFORD UNDERGRADUATE Mrcent object split fathers' names. They stand

MANNEDS ARE FORMED BY IN- recently on the subject of the their own but they do not stand TERCOURSE WITH THE WORLD, AND sons of famous fathers. I have so high on them that they can día- CHARACTERS BY RETIRING INTO had opportunity at Oxford of regard the debt they owe to their BOLITUDE.-Bulwer Lytton.

observing many Bone of many names. Mr. Giles Playfair has a famous fathers, for Oxford is their flair of his own, but he would not say that he owed nothing to the fact that he is the son of Bir.

The N.Y.K. liner Hakusan Maru,

Members of the Union lika to It is not anobbish in the sense see the chairs of ofloe occupied by that implies a preference for the sona of distinguished men. wealthy people. Although money Many of them would-although matters a great deal among a cer- they would not admit it themselves which was due to arrive in port attain act, that got is so small and-bo as much influenced by the self-contained that it can be dis-name of candidato for office as 6 p.m. to-night, has been delayed, regarded when generalising about by his oratory. After all, it is and will not arrive until 10 p.m.

Oxford. Undergraduate feeling only a natural pride in their society The Scottish Co. of the Hongkong on the subject is shown by, the In- that makes them like to talk of the to wealthy 'well-known names that adorn the Volunteer Defence Corps will hold its evitable reference Hallowe'en Dinnor at Volunteer young mon na "disgustingly" or lists of presidents and other Headquarters on Friday, November ["revolutingly" rich."

officials. Nor is there a widespread snob- The Union is only one facet of bery surrounding birth, even when undergraduate activity. Outside The Chun-Shing Typowriting it carries an odd coronet or two. the political atmosphere notoriety. School's graduation function of pupils A title is looked upon as a helmet is more desirable In eno's parents the hall of Hop Yat Church, 2 Ben- to protect an idled hend, and than solid distinction.

Saturday next, Mr."noble lord" rolls slowly and

I do not mean that the son of a Ma Ying Plu, the Managing Director sarcastically of the tongue. murderer stands higher in the of Sincero's will distribute the prizes Nor is there a widespread In-social scale than the son of a tellectual snobbery resting on judge. I mean if you are the jacademic attainments. Nor dojson of a novelist who has written The Hongkong Police have received athletics matter outside their own a best seller, or a famous play.

next, at 8 p.m.

The Empress of Canada arrived at recreation ground. Vancouver on the 11th Instant.

Oxford has a snobbery of ite Nigel. The battery on which Preat-O- is still far distant from the apochner Empress of Japan, which arrives

own. Passengers by tthe Canadian Pacifie Lito's reputation was originally when all nationa will have dis at 11 a.m. to-morrow, include the built-but given the benefit of new armed themselves to the German Shanghai interport polo team. improvements and discoveries which make it, to-day, a better level. Yet it is useless for Ger battery than over.

many not to take account of the realities and to demand the im- possible. But this doca not justify the Powers in continuing a policy of dilly-dally and evasion. They will have to face the fact that mankind looks upon them to make a substantial contribution at an early date to the cause of disarmament. Thus, so far as It serves to bring about such a development, the German claim must be welcomed. The next step is up to the Powers, who will have to show cause why they should not act in the spirit of the Toronto, Can. clauses of the Versailles Treaty which Implied a determination to follow the German example of dis- armament.

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THURSDAY, October 13, 1932.

THE ARMAMENTS MUDDLE

The Silly Season.

The "ailly season" at Home has started off with two promising topica. That pungnacious liber- tarian, Mr. A, P. Herbert, leads an attack in the Times оп the prudish borough councillors who compel bathers at the seaside to clothe themselves in what (heaven The presence in London of Mr. knows why!) are called "university Norman Davis and the French costumes." Would it really shock Premier again centres attention ladies to see a "manly cheat" on

of the 10th term will take place at

ham Road,

and certificates.

a letter from the Commisalonor of

Police. Macao, to the effect that a sphere. carrier pigeon, with link attached bearing the initials "CR. L.8" there- on, has been eught in Meeno. So far, no pigeon has been reported missing to the Police here.

The way to get on

.an

wright or actor, or a celebrated [K.C., or big business man who is in the public eye, you will go There is a certain amount of down better at Oxford than the snobbishness surrounding the men son, for instance, of a highly- who have become #gures in placed civil servant who works be University life by way of thehind the scenes. The son of Friends of Mr. W. A. Cornell Union, the O.U.D.S., one of the Edgar Wallace would be well-known architect, will be pleased

vague eagerly courted than the son of an to bear he is making satisfactory University journals, or a progress after his recent operation literary and artistic dilettantism; Equerry. for acute appendicitis. He hopes to but the way to get on at Oxford leave the War Memorial Hospital is to be the son of a distinguish- next week, but will not return to his ed father. office for some time.

of

Inverted Snobbery

more

A nobleman's son le gonerally

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entree

certain:

If you are graced by a well-assumed to have no brains at all, then everyone will It is curious that a title is not a During the week ended on Satur-known name, day, 3 cases of dinhtheria. 8 cases of seck your acquaintance, everyono real asset at Oxford unless its typhoid (6 Imported),

one case of will ask you to partics and dinners. Owner can prove he has charm and of it. As for paratyphoid and 2 cases of mening- People will introduce you with a ability in spite

foreign princolings and nobility tia were reported to the health su- significant. pause on your name, thorities. There were also 63 deaths and a light will spring to the eye they are treated with an amused from pulmonary tuberculosia during of the newly introduced friend. A tolerance and it is openly hinted the week. On Tuesday there was a whisper will whisk round the room: that their titles are bogus. One clean bill of health.

"The son of" Though you have Raritanian prince found it to his but mediocre attainment you will advantage to give up using his Captain R. J.

title. on the disarmament question. One the beach or even in the Serpen-incris de d Healy of the Dollar be jockeyed to fama by your large

Madison, rescuer of

But if you have a well-known circle of friends. wrecked steamer of the objects.of Mr. Davis' visit is tine? Or are the Puritans solicit the survivors of the

If you are the son of a famous father you will have the

There are October 8th to to attempt to reconcile the Hooverous, like the late Lord Brentford, Nevada, was married at Tacoma on

Mrs. Drucilla Rue politician, the way to success lice overywhere. for the children's morals? One Young. Their romance started about open to you at the Union. Feople young men who make a hobby of proposals with the British dis

line of defence is that "our borough a year ago when the bride was a pas will listen to you with attention, collecting as large an acquaintance Armament programme, while M.

councillors" are not the only senger to Manila on Capt. Healy's and, provided you have the facility among the sons of the great as Herriot is to explore the general prudes; there are similar regula-ship. She was also a passenger on for disarming jealousy, you will the capacity of their purses allows.

latest crossing and watched her

with disarmament question with the tions in many Continental countries future husband direct the rescue of progress

amazing speed. Of course, it cuts the other way Indeed, there was one debate at as well. The alightest forward- British Prime Minister. It is in most, perhaps, save Germany, the shipwrecked

men.

the Union a few years ago in which ness on the part of a son of the hoped that, as a result of these the nudists' paradise. But that

The attractive appointments and all those speaking on the motion great and he is instantly accused conversations, the Geneva Confer-argument proves nothing except furnishing of the public rooms were song of well-known statesmen of "trading on his fatbor's namo” that there are more silly people in Gloucester Building, have been further or politicians, and none, it was one of the unwritten sins or UX- ence will be able to get down the world than Mr. Herbert sug- enhanced by the provision of excep. said, had earned his position by ford. There is a poute assump- closer to realities, and, maybe, gested. One correspondent in the the Colony recently. Specially made less fortunate members who have capital out of your name

tionally fine carpets, which arrived in the hard spade-work necessary for tion that you ara not making unless achiove something to allay Ger- Times takes exception to the "allp" by the famous firm of Messrs. Wm. C. to speak late at night before a you mention your father. That is man impatience and dissatisfac-on wsthetic grounds. Think, he Gray and Son, of Ayr, Scotland, bored and ever-dwindling nudlence, suicidal, 100

it arousea all tho not only of the tion. If these alms are realised, saya,

"manly makers

Ayrto# There was comment on that de. latent jealousy, and unless you are carpets, to the order the way should be made all the chests," but of some of the waists Messrs. Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., bate, and things have changed an experienced hund at disarming

It, you may suffer. below them "large balloon-like Ltd., the local agents, the various since. Sons of famous politicians easier for definite progress in the formations, which

the Union now. colour schemes are most pleasing and speak at dot the plage dil considerably to the general effect ability has won them that dis-selves, Uxiord in one vast

Unless they make fools of them-- cause of disarmament.

like hay-cocks in a newly cut of harmony and restfulness.

cons- tinction as much as their name. piracy to give the Bons of the It is now becoming evident that meadow." True, alus! But do they |

No one would deny that Tony, great a good time. It is their best. the German equality demand is subsido when enclosed in a skin- A motor-driver named Tsang Ngan, Greenwood, the son of the ex-club. being given a more sympathetic tight covering of black or white who had had his licence permanently Minister for Health, on form, is or pink-striped wool? Mr. Herbert auspended some time ago, was brought the best example of a dryly incisive reception in various countries

before Mr Bulters at the Kowloon will have a long fight, wo fear, Magistracy this morning on a charge orator at the Union at the moment. was evidenced by the against Mrs. Grundy and Dog- of driving a-lorry along Nathan Road Michael Foot, son of the Minister!

No one would deny that Mr. first reactions. Possibly this at- berry. The other topic is

yesterday without appropriate licence. the it was revealed by the prosecution for Mines, Mr. K. K. F. Steel- titude is an outcome of the sharp modern boy. This creature, BO that defendant held a licence some Maltland, son of the Rt. Hon. Sir disillusionment that has 'followed the headmaster of one of our years ago, but had an accident which Arthur Steel-Maitland, Mr. J. S.

led upon the failure to make any reat public schools has proclaimed, is a the police to charge him with Cripps, son of Sir Stafford Cripps, A

manslaughter. The case was not have interited their fathers' brnina, advance towards general disarma-poor specimen compared with the sufficiently proved against him, but boy of a generation ago. He lies, there was suillelent evidence for the ment. It is not, however, intend-he thieves, he funks, he slacks, authorities to suspend his licence more important for them at the 000 A.D. we will be able to tune permanently. A fine of $50, or one

than

to As for

ed to convey any Indication of aYou cannot even get him to watch general desire to see Germany re-a cricket match; it is too boring. armed. In that direction can onlyYet everyone but the schoolmasters lie mischief and menace. At the knows (and they know it too) that same time, the German plea is an boys in the past were bored

tears by watching cricket. #ppropriate reminder that some-the lament that Jones major, can- thing will have to be done, and not saddle a horse, Is it any more that soon. The Versailles signa-surprising or more disgraceful, tories cannot profess to be carry than that his father was not taught ing out Article VIII so long as to dance the minuet? And what they continue to spend money at is there novel in Smith minor liking to go as fast as possible In the present rate on their armies, navies and air Reets, Germany, his youth averse from scorching a motor car? Was Smith pere in for her part, is disinclined to ac-on his push-bike? It is hard to cept the promissory phrase in the believe in this tale of degenerate Treaty as a sentimental flourish youth-aneoking, Inzy, neurotic menning nothing in particular, boys and bumptious cock-tall and the Powers have no right to drinking girls. It is n hoary expect that she should do so.since Aristophanes, and we dare- theme; moralists have been at It France tells Germany that she is say they were at it even in willing to collaborate in the task neolithic age. of disarmament, but to this the Berlin Government may justly re- ply that there is nothing mora that Germany can do, seeing that ale is already subjected to the most drastic obligatory disarmaTM| ment. The German Chancellor, The following cable at the close in the courso

of the sugar market yesterday of å broadcast

has been received by Mesara. Pen- speech, has emphasised that Gor-treath and Co. many has no wish to rearm or to embark on a policy of warlike

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BE CAREFUL!

(By Edward Kelly, C. A. D.) ND now they tell us that wireless programmes, once on

But my point is that it was far the air, stay there and that in 2,- beginning of their Union careers into a programme broadcast in that they had inherited their

"I'm a little; worried about him. He's figuring out how

he could fly around the world in four days.".

1932.

Worse than that. They say that we'll be able to tune in to the year. 4,000 B.C. and hear what Adam said to Eve during the terrible Ag leaf shortage that year.

Up to a point, we are all in favour of this scientific advance.

Wouldn't it be nice if in 60 years' time, ZBW could · broadcast the first debates in the Legislative Council on the Shing Mun dam proposals, following a running descrip- tion of how the King, who was present by television, declared it well and truly open.

(Say it Softly.)

We'd like to know the classic phrases employed by Hannibal, when he kicked his toe crossing the Alps. Wo'd like to hear the billing and cooing of Anthony and Cleo, and compare their style with Robert Montgomery

his girl friends.

and ono Di

Yes, we would like to hear lots of things. We have often wonder-. ed what Mrs. Pharoah said to Mr. Pharoak when he bullt

his pyramid on her bed of geraniums. We'll lay the odds it was BOMO thing good.

But the line must ba drawn somewhere. It would be just too bad if in the year 2000 A.D. when we are nitting by the, radio with Mrs. Kelly, and the full and .com. plete story comes out of our ex periance with the barmaid in 1982 when we were home on leave.

Thero is a grain of hope loft, however.

We'll probably be dead by then. Hooray:

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