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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1932.

THE WORLD BAFFLED

the

UNTOUCHABLES OF INDIA

HOW THEY CAME TO EXIST. (By Sir George MacMunn.)

to

re-

common

equilibrium which has been upset must be sought in a reduction of hours. The chief idea which arises out of these discussions la that there must be international

GOOD AND FRIENDLY CONDUCT action If any real impression Is

MAY MEET WITH AN UNWORTHY, to be made on the crisis. It to WITH AN UNGRATEFUL, RETURN; DUT

Apart from the general in seem no better than felt in some quarters that the pre- THE ABSENCE OF GRATITUDE ON THE

the old. effectiveness and mischief that Brahminism, which all the while sent system of redistribution of FART OF THE RECEIVER CANNOT DESTROY THE BELF-APPROBATION

India from Mr. had lain lurking in the forests of labour upon the different natlehal WHICH RECOMPENSES THE GIVER: has come to markets, by legislative measures AND WE MAY SCATTER THE SEEDS Gandhi's own peculier mentality, the Himalaya, in the potholes of the real matter behind his pro- the desert, spread again, and The battery on which Prest-0- or labour agreements, is haphaz OF COURTESY AND KINDNESS AROUND mise of fast is worth understand achieved about the time that the

US AT SO LITTLE EXPENSE. Jeremy

Ing.

Romans left Britain a great re- Lite's reputation was originally ard and ineffective In the absence | Bentham,

Gandhi has taken his stand. on construction of Hindu-dom. bullt but given the benefit of now

This reconstruction succeeded of such International agreements improvements and discoveries

industrica

the crime against the Hinda body that the granting of communal in placing everyone back into a which make It, to-day, a better as will guarantee the

election to the untouchables, and system of grades and castos, battery than ever...

of each country against foreign

which will insure actual members woven into the Ilfo of the people Many of these Improvements are competition. Thus, it is argued,

H.M.S. Osiris will hold a dança in of Parliament from those claason, and more rigid than it had ever protected by broad, basic patents it becomes necessary to lay down, the Garrison Lecture Hall to-morrow a distinct from their having been before, though more human. which prevent infringement..

Aryan, Tartar, or Turk, who would Let us domonstrate the many! without delay, uniform Inter- from 8.30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tho Lin-'meroly a franchise, will give them All those of heart and thew, What is the Hindu body, follow his chief in support of features which make Preat-O-Lite national senle whick, even though Regimental Band will be in nothing tangible batteries give you the most value only approximate to the moment,

The weekly Police whist drive will national, economic, and religious? Brahmins and in protection of the per dollar.

will allow the reduction of hours of Lake place at the Police RecreationWe must go very far back. into cow, received the gratifying title must or Rajput, "sons or followers of work as a means of combatting Club this evening, commencing at 8.00 the mists of time, and we

p.m. An admission fee of 60 centa try to envisage the hereditary princes," a high and blessed cru- Tho interesting Brahmin priesthood, evolving from fading sintus.

anyone the frat-appointed priests and be point, however, is this: a means of reabsorbing a part of

H.E, the General Officer Command-coming a separate clan, almost a who would conform in any way In the unemployment

ing, Major General J. W. Sandilands, separate race within the white was accepted, each in his grade. will be leaving Hongkong to-morrow invaders of Dravidian India.

His wild religion and creed was machinery of production.

on a brief visit to the North, by the We must imagine the keen also admitted as part of the warn No doubt the World Economic Neuralis, accompanied by his A.D.C., Conference will have many other Captain D. R. M. Cameron, and Lieut, brains thinking out some theory and woof; but he was put for aspects of the situation before it Bankervyle-Clogg, His Excellency is of the universe as all theologians below the salt in the social and when it meets, and its work will to brrive at Shanghai on Monday, must do, and hitching it on to religious acale. There thus arone November 7, and will leave Shanghat the earlier conception of a misty fissiparous trades-unionism be be greatly facilitated if definite on Thursday the 10th, arriving back deity. We must imagine them fore which anything Western must anxious to bring all folk within pale, and which scaled the state draft agreements are brought for- in Hongkong on Sunday the 13th.

the worship of ono protecting of the low caste without hope of Mr. Harry Ore gave a very success-deity, and thinking that all the relief. ward for a solution of the funda

New Faith of Islam. mental problem not only of imful concert in the auditorium of the white folk worshipped en one line)

Unfortunately for Indie and proving, economic prospects, but Young Men's Christian Association in

Canton on Tuesday evening. This of thought, while recognising that concert was the second given under the other folk also worshipped Brahminism, this astounding also of permanently restoring econo-

Al-construction could not bind in a mie prosperity. The deliberations of the auspices of the International manifestations of the same

to the Conference will be watched Women's Club of Canton in aid of mighty in wild and ignorant ways, bond of amity the Rajput Staten

their welfare work in the city. The hut worthy, however, come of the north, nor teach them

form front against with the deepest interest in all Club pledges itself to support a dis-under the same umbrella.

Then we must see the priests enemy. The new faith of islam, parts of the world, since the issues trict nurse for this welfare work, and

it was in order to raise the money and the temporal leaders realising running riot in Afghanistan and raised are of vital concern to all

for this purpose that it arranged this

well with horror, the folk of the Central Asia, poured forth its ad- peoples in this time of stress and concert. The event was very

attended, and Mr. Harry Ore received United States do, the dangers of herents to the conquest of India uncertainty.

the applause which he always merits, miscegenation and how easily the in the days of the Norman con- his visit to Canten being much ap-white warriors and traders might quest of Britain, and that was preciated.

lose their identity if they were the end to this day of Hindu rule to mix with one in India. Fire and sword and the allowed freely One of the most interesting

The American Election,

By the installation of special another. Hence the iden of Faith of the Prophet succeeded suggestions which has been made

to Buddhist and Brahmin, There is a strong persuasion frigerating plant at various depots in weaving great social barriers.

Hongkong and Kowloon, the largest

Nevertheless, under Moslem for casing the unemployment pro-

Thus in some way caste na we

All the conquer-sway, though many of the Rajput blem, which is now acute prac. that the turn of the Democrats has of which are situated at Lane. Craw

pale warriors accepted that faith, and tically the world over, is the lay-come and that the next President ford's premises, the local distributers know it arose.

of the United States will be Mr. of "Anchor" brand butter, are now fed races were without the

in the position to supply this well- and all mixed progeny thereof. many of the humble folk for the was "established equallly of value that the new Political known product in either retail or But once that ing down of an international pro-

Roosevelt. Franklin

The

offered, the mass of the This

butter those without the paie, with their faith gramme of public works.

seers have already nominated the wholenie quantities.

comes from the largest co-operative strange ways of worship, might Hindus, high and low, lived On idea is amongst many other is members of his Cabinet.

producers of dairy produce in the

a dim re-and worked, weaving their caste If they admitted fabric evor tighter, so that the sues being considered by the pre-election takes place on Tuesday world, the New Zealand Co-operative be admitted within

within untouchables and the depressed paratory committee which la nexi and the wisest are those who Dairy Company, Ltd., who have a ligious aura.

The and accepted their placo yearly turnover of £7,000,000. The straw vote

fact that this particular brand of this thrice-classified band of folk, had no possible chance of rising drafting the agenda for the com-await the result. ing World Economic Conference. is a fairly reliable guide bat much hatter has large sales in foreign then in some sense they belonged in man's esteem, even though they. butter producing countries is, in itself, to the great race of India; they collected something of this world's has happened since those concern-

were Hindu, part of the warp and goods. They wore part an eloquent tribute to its quality.

of the There was a time, before the

weft of the continent.

strange Hindu fabric, and it was n fabric which survived the stress world situation became so acuteed recorded their attitude. Never was there a greater feeling of un-

More and More Complicated. as it now is, when there was u

certainty. A vast majority of the

For hundreds and hundreds of and strain of close on 800 years

of Moslem dominion, tendency to regard the unemploy population are entitled to vote,

years this classification endured,

From time to time in the paet and, intensely fissiparous, grew

have Stories and all in this astonishing year ns unemployable.

more and more complicated, and great reformers

and preaching the equality of man, and were circulated of abuses of the need to be convinced, owing to the

The folowing cable at the close the way of salvation more

sects and gained "dule" system, all tending to sug-general obliteration of the cus-

slavish party, loyalties. of the sugar market yesterday more involved. And all the while have formed gest that the average man out of tomary

Unemployment has worked wond-has been received by Messrs. Pen-, more and more preachers tried to followers. But their efforts have simplify matters and weld the beer chalk on granite, and they have but added another to the work preferred idleness to A

the Brahmin crs in this respect. The disappear. treath and Co.

people together,

many sub-divisions. Even Sikhism, TC- steady job. Whilst there can be

ance of party tines is the most in-

clique and clan fighting all

the teaching of gentle Baba formers. no doubt that this was true of a teresting phenomenon. It is quite

There then arose, six ceaturies Nanak and fierce Guru Govind, few, it has long since been shown

or numbers under three million men to be expected this year that the

that Rajput, before Christ, that unemployment is a much South will turn Republican or (as

rather Kahattriva teacher, the and women.

It is therefore, small wonder more serious affair than that, was recently indicated in Maine)

Buddie, the enlighted" and instead of being strangled by that Mr. Gandhi views a reform Its worldwide prevalence is an in- that the Northern States which

Branminism, his teaching slowly that shall make Jack as good an dication that is arises, not out of ure usually Republican will turn A few days after the Democrat.

sprend, and overcast the old faith his master as vitiating the Hindu laziness on the part of workers. Maine élection the process was

and the old priesthood. Buddhism, vision which keeps its slaves in deep, which buran as a "way of life" their place. Moreover, so but out of a breakdown in the partially reversed in Wisconsin,

within the old faith, under the old so spiritual in many ways, la the but economic system as it is at pre-perhaps off-setting Maine,

umbrella, so "caught on" that. abborrence of the high caste for sent operated, To such dimen- more especially seeming to in- pts,

New York (2/11/32).—Decree grew in be a faith itself, and in the low, that we of the West can- sions has it grown that it is predicate a trend away from Socialia-fixing Cuban Crop at maximum five hundred years had driven not possibly understand it. senting a problem which is caus- tie nostrums, which was hardly 2,000,000 tons, signed, grinding to Brahminism from the land. ing concern to economists and to be expected during hard times. commence 1st February and to But the new statesmen the world over.

There have been various pro- posala put forward for a solution or an amelioration of the problem, in which connexion it may be re- called that the International Labour Office, a League of Nations body, has several times had before it n

ed

plan for concerted action along

The

SUGAR MARKET

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS

London Terminals. March 1933 6/-1⁄2 up.. May 1933 6/21⁄21⁄2 up 1⁄2d. August 1933 6/51⁄2 up d. December 1938 6/8% up 34d. Buyers at above prices, sellers asking ad-d, more.

New York Terminals. December 1932 1.01 up 3 pts. March 1933 93 no change. May 1993 .98 up 1 pt. July 1933 1.02 up 1 pt. Cuban 96 Spot N.Y. 1.10 up 6

These are only meagre indie- finish 31st May. tions of the multitudinous compli cations confronting the Party The Republicans, managements. naturally, in view of present facts, must abandon their old con- tention that their rule invariably means prosperity, while the De- mocrats lack remedies on which the party generally agrees, making criticism ineffective The wisest the lines of a reduction of hours"

newspaper prophets admit their of work. The Unemployment Com-

bewilderment. Both party head- mittee of this body has, in fact, quarters confess that there is a Pro- recommended that reduction of lack of compelling issues. hours and distribution of work is hibition is the nearest, but it is preferable to discharging work- virtually ruled out owing to divid- | ers, and the best results in thia ed sentiment within party boun- connexion are said to have been daries. Modification of the tarif and the money question Is àp- obtained by a 40-hour week. The parently not to be acrimoniously International Labour Conference discussed, nono, ao far having at- has also discussed the matter. attacked the gold standard as the length, nearly all the workers' cause of the national disaster, and delegates and several Government the difference with regard to the representatives speaking in fav. subject of import duties is algni- cùr of the 40-hour plan. Ita Inst ficant. Prohibition will be prale- resolution on the subject drewed and damned, but not by either party exclusively. The only real attention to tho present dis- -nation-wide issue so far is the re- equilibrium between disproportion-turn of such prosperity as will ately increased production and a assure a job to every willing work- capacity for consumption which er, and none can prove that he was insufficient, evin, at the be- knows the secret. The Republi- ginning of the depression, and can Party's history is enormously! which to-day is still further In Ita favour, despite its personally- conducted debacle, but convincing diminished; condemned further attacks are easy in the presence wage reductions as unjust and un- of the existing distress, and the economic; and declared that the awing.of the pendulum should tura principal_modus of restoring then Mr. Roosevelt's favour.

faith went way of all churches, and came to

"Now, mind you, I don't say you'll look like this in two

or three days"

Arisen,

To an Indian of any status, the caste is everything in this world Westernised and the next. The students talk here in London of it all being out of date, and, in- deed, appear to neglect all ideas of religion, whether Hindu Moslem; but they have not yet reckoned with their mothers and the family priest and the habits of many conturies.

or

RUNNING A BANK

By Edward Kelly, Cashier(od) Someone has surgeated that our talents are simply going to waste, rulning reams of paper in a newspaper office. What we should do, we have been told, Is to get ourselves appointed 89 ก bank manager.

We have had this idea ourselves, but

far every bank in Hong- kong has displayed a remarkable lack of brond vision.

We can assure the public of Hongkong that any bank we're allowed to run will be different to What any existing institution. theao Hongkong banks need is more

pop.

Instead of letting people stand their for hours, waiting for cheques to be cashed, we would provide a row of easy chairs and a free lunch counter.

Someone summated the other day that there was a corner in- one and five cent, places. There would be no corner in any of our coins. They would be all round.

Our overdrafts would be ar ranged so that nota would never (Continued on Page D.)