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sincere "aspirations for peace. As such it presents a great wall of moral force which must ul- imately, be reckoned with. If properly supported by public opinion, it will remain a barrier to unbridled 'militarism until rea son again obtains control in Ja- an and a genuine settlement of the Manchurian question-never to be wrought by arms-can be achieved:

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AMONG THE GOATS

By Edward "Ringtail" Kelly.

We were at Happy Valley on {Saturday. ⠀

was nothing

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Some recent remarks of mine on 11,500-page Report is now ready the futility of the so-called for consumption: letters of approval (for which science of economics have brought

You must have noticed us. We many thanks) and also letters of

Then there is the "Energy Sur were one of the people in front of disapproval. Une correspondent, vey of North America" which

the Grand-stand... writing more in sorrow than In was established soon after the

Just over from us were a lot of Making London Lovely School of Economics with

anger, suggests that the London War to make a complete analysis ponies. Some were Chinese ponies

its of the Industrial resources of the and others' came from Australia. packed lecture-rooms forms Continent. Three thousand pro- A couple of the races were won For a long time many

"concrete confutation" of my eri- ducts have been examined, and the by Lee. Frost. As far as we were ganisations have been urging however, that the a priori reason-charts, the ratio of employment to

ticism. I am still convinced, history of each plotted out on concerned they were all Frost's. London to rebuild itself according, which is the basis of nearly production being shown in

We were cleaned out so much ing to some definite plan.

each that we had to sign a ëhit for our New" beauty distinguishes the

In all academic treatises on the sub case. The actual research work bus-ride home. The conductor: the eyes of many, however, ject, is rooted in a fundamental has been carried out by a staff of wouldn't accept, one of our Char 1933 Rockne Six. Bodies are there is unfortunately at pre- fallncy-le, the erroneous idea thirty-six engineers working in co- tered Bank $100 notes lower and more richly appoint sent a danger that even ed. Features include Free

that that "economic lawg" exist which operation with a department of Those who collected on the first Wheeling with Synchronized small part of London which is have the validity of, say, the law Columbia University, Columbia, race backed The Goat. But all this Shift and silent second speed already planned may return to gravitation. If such laws by the way, is an institution after goat got out of it was a pari-mutuel

30 horsepower six-cylinder architectural. disorder.

actually existed, then it would Sir William Beveridge's heart. "It ticket. engine... automatic, starting Commissioners of Crown Lands, ing economists to predict and ex-anything and everything, from beats us. There

The have been possible for our lead-will provide you with courses in Why they call them pari-mutuels electro-fused steel bodies who are the landlords of Num- plain the present world-crisis just story-writing to laundry work, and mutual about the way they took. safety. glass, windshields ber Four, Carlton Gardens, have at astronomers can give us the teach you by correspondence how our money. closed models wired for given permission for that house date, duration, and other detalls to sell pea-nuts or play the piccola. The only stroke of luck we had radio.

to be pulled down, in order that of the next total eclipse of the And the sociological pseudo- was with the five bucks the Editor Seo and drive, the New a block of offices thirty feet su

sciences flourish mightily in such gave us to put on Coo Coo Bay. Rockna Six to-day!

higher than the surrounding

American Universities.

Coo Coo Bay was beaten, so that buildings may be erected, thus foresee it or to anticipate ita In point of fact they failed to

made us five bucks up. THE HONGKONG HOTEL destroying bath the architec succussive phases. So lamentable getically passed beyond the task grilling

We bought ourself a ticket on tural and the residential nature has their failure been

The "Energy Survey" has tner-Trentbridge in the Trial Plate for with the money, The of an area which forms part Arthur Quiller-Couch (I am al- facts, and is willing to provide bridge only paid $5.70.

that of collecting and collating mere grifin the lute was that Trent of Nash's "great sweep" from ways glad to have "Q" that icono- the world with a new form of We were quite calm and collected Carlton House Terrace, up clast of shams, on my side), was

it. Especially collected, Regent Street, to Regent's justified in his retort to Sir Wil-governance. Technocracy" is the about

word-as blessed in the ears $5.70, in fact. And we, were The Crown Lands, of liam Beveridge who had accused those experts as "Mesopotamia" calm we were quite hoarse after it ACKNOWLEDGMENT. which Carlton Regent's Park Cambridge of cultivating studies.

are a part, belong to the nation which had no meaning for the was to the ancient lady of the all. So we went in and had some Mrs. Shand and family wish to thank Originally the private property absurd accusation.

modern world. It was an utterly us all, their leader insists, if we

anecdote. All will be well with tea.

"Watches wantés ?" asked tha Everybody all friends for their deep sym- of the King, they were surrend knows Cambridge is "a veientiae clear away the "riff-raff" of exist boy, placing the a la carte before pathy and condolence extended to ered by George III just over 170 sort of place" (to quote the late ng institutions and install in thei

the hoarse. them in their recent bereave years ago in return for a fixed Sir Arthur Shipley, F.R.S., who place of them an economic me-

"Bur," we replied. ment, also for floral tributes and Civil List. With the royal al was fond of the humour of under his plans and specifications. Then worth of tea at the H.K.J.C.

We will say this much. We chanism designed according to thoroughly enjoyed our five bucks lowances, the King's Civil List statement) and produces radiowe shall only have to work four

active workers for every field of hours a day for four days a week the Committee that circumstances amounts to approximately

But we regret having to inform practical research. So "Q" is not to earn a comfortable livelihood will prevent us from going out to £670,000 a year. The nation to be blamed for suggesting that and shall be able to devote the Happy Valley to-day. How may be said 'emphatically to Sir William and all the other have struck a shrewd bargain famous economists, who have been rest of our time to the art of live will get on without us, we don't when it acquired the Crown so lacking in foresight, should.go Ing. How to use A largely- Lands for this sum, for last year and hide somewhere, in South Increased supply of the chief by-know. But you can alter circum- the profits from these lands America.

product of prosperous industries

leisure, to wit-is a question he she asked, smiling sweetly at us...

"What are the circumstances?" were nearly £1,250,000. It is urged that, since the Crown

I must admit, however, that the! does not discuss. Yet that is an

"Ours.", we replied horsely. economists who are

all-important problem of modern THE LEAGUE REPORT Lands are already returning a

WE'VE HAD SOME. most handsome profit, there is provide material for helpful de- Mr. Stimson has declined to no imperative need to destroy ductions. The Jatė Charles Plato conceived a common- Quite a breezy little japa is to make any comment upon the the charm of Carlton Gardens, a Rooth's "Life and Labour of the wealth in which philosophers write to about thirty of your League Assembly's Report, in- singularly graceful example of People of London," and its recent- should be kings, but we have dearest friends, asking them to its particular style of architec-ly-published sequel, are invaluable never seen it even in becoming come to your party to-morrow; dicating that the decision re-

works for all who are concerned simply because, as Jowett told his after which you lock up the house ture, merely for the sake of a garding America's adhesion little extra revenue. It is also with the problems of poverty, political pupils, men are not and go out for the day. This must, at this stage, be left to pointed out that the demand for They show, for example, that real governed by logic", It would be causes roars of laughter among to the merry folk 'gathered on your progress has been made in the very distressing, I feel sure, Mr. Roosevelt. The endorse offices in this area will probably last fifty years in bridging the have to live in a State governed doorstep. ment of the policy of non-recog- not be very great, for it is es- dangerous gulf between the two by a committee of technological nition must, however, follow intimated that about 200 offices English nations, the rich and the experts who would judge every- established by the commis- poor, of Disruell's famous message body, by his or her value in foot- due course. It would be mislead- sioners in their neighbouring to the "Young England" of his pounds...

And here's another straight from the horse's moutn. .Waen unte—äs- ing to encourage Japan to be-property of Regent Street are day. Another "Young England"

sociation arranged a bazaar recently lieve that America can in any untenanted: Whichever side of is now achieving influence in the Conservative Party and feels that

Techno- they did it in first-class style, and way approve her disregard of the the controversy the individual no sacrifice is too great that will cracy already exists in Soviet asked Lady--to come along at noon Pact of Paris. Or that they are may take, few would deny the solve the social problems of this Russia. The real rulers of that and open it, although why she satisfied to see the Nine-Power desirability of doing nothing critical period, especially the tre- distressful country are the techni. should want to declare the thing treaty torn up like a scrap of that might render more difficult mendous problem of unemploy- cal experts, who are enforcing open at twelve o'clock when it was of mass pro-to start at ten is more than we can the task of replanning London. ment which is a cancer in the huge schemes papers Mr. Roosevelt, starting

duction in factories body of the commonwealth.

and of eay, but such talags do happen. agricultural collectivism. They

Being a man, we scoffed rather have eliminated such non-techni-good-humouredly at the affair, be- Two American commissions of cal matters as liberty and leisure, cause they were all women, until inquiry have also been carrying and the peasant or artisan, who is the secretary wrote and asked us Whilst Bernard Shaw, in a out work comparable with that discontented with a twelve-hour if we would kindly assist. We sup recent interview in Hanokon initiated by Charles Booth. One day and a starvation wage, is posed they wanted us on the plat

attendance at the funeral

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Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, 'FEDSUARY 20, 1933.

fresh, may be able as a part of

his new deal" to make these things clear in a fashion more agreeable to Tokyo than any Mr.

The Work of the I.L.O.

re-

collect and collate facts, often

content to civilisation..

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As a matter of fact a

stances.

THE MARTINET.

they

We cleaned up our best coat and

The job consisted chiefly in tell- ing the women who had queued up to get in that they would have"to go back and queue up at the outer door to buy a ticket, then come and queue up again to get in. We had been told to be particular that no body should get in without a ticket, and we were.

Stimson has achieved. But he may have over-stated the facts is the committee appointed by compelled to transfer his foot-form to give tone to the show, and can hardly avoid making them clear. And until some better me national Labour Office is the in the United States with a view front. The system of "decanting"

to investigate social tendencies such as the Archangel forest Blank or something, so we agreed. thod of upholding the Kellogg only living branch of the Lea- to ascertaining all the causes of populations, which caused so much trousers with petrol, and wrote out pact and the Nine-Power treaty gua of Nations, it is the truth industrial depression and indicat-misery in the Middle Ages, is a little speech, briefly referring to appears the United States will that the public generally has a ing possible remedies. Five being employed there to an ex- the importance of women in history. stand on the Stimson Doctrine. the work and the I.L.O. and of employed for three years, at a history

very hazy conception both of hundred investigators have been tent unparalleled in the world's from Eva to Greta Garbo, and deal- You won't see me voting ing thoroughly with social and The military regimé now in po- its importance.

cconomic questions from the female (Continued on Page 9.) cost of a million dollars, and their The summary

point of view. wer in Tokyo may not relish it. of the activities of the Office

We were a little disappointed, But certainly the nation which during 1932, recently issued,

however, to And that what they brutally and unnecessarily told throws a deal of light on the

really wanted was that we should take the tickets, and not.go into the Japanese people they were subject. For example, it is an-

the bazaar at all, but as we had not admissible immigrants will nounced that, by the end of the

promised, we agreed. hardly court the favour of this national Labour Conventions year, 490 ratifications of Inter- military group, raising no voice had been made by various against the violation of treaties Governments and officially and the smashing of the word's gistered at Geneva. What does peace machinery. Nor is it sure this mean? There are thirty- that much can be achieved by one of these Conventions, and giving way to Japan. A con- each deals with the improve-i cillatory attitude is easily mis- ments of conditions of labour in understood in Tokyo as weak- some department of industry, ness. It is true that in the ear-in agriculture or at sea. Each lier stages of the Manchurian convention deals with a particu- adventure temperate opinion inlar subject, and is intended to be Japan was exasperated by the a model for national legislation failure of Western peoples to ap- along progressive lines. ' No preciate Japan's provocation. Government is bound to ratify The Lytton Report altered that a convention, but the matter situation. It offered Japan more must be discussed in Parliament than she asked before her army within. a reasonable period. ran away with her. And under- What the total of ratifications standing of Japan's case has means is that, in 490 cases since been growing. However, sym- the Great War, countries have pathy with her difficulties docs decided to act upon the pro-1 not extend to approval of the posals suggested at Geneva for excesses of her militarists. The the welfare of their workers: Lytton Report, endorsed by the Each of the 41 ratifications re- League, is the world's most gistered during 1932, it may be available means for expressing taken for granted, represents a its disapproval and maintaining real advance towards the alma its rights. At present it seems set out in the Treaty of Ver to afford the best focus for peace, sailles-fair and humane con- sentiment. Japan may seem to ditions of labour for men, wo-

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hopped over or crashed through their own countries but in all the Great Wall of China. But countries to which their com- the report is no selfish demand.mercial and industrial relations It is an expression of the world's extend."

"We'll either have to get a new car, o start bringing his six- o'clock bottle along."

True, there was one very pretty girl who asked if everybody had to have a ticket, and we said, “Yes, excepting the Press," So she said, "Well, I'll be the Press, if you like and that was that..

Then there was a still prettier one who only wanted to go in and speak to a friend.

But on the whole we were like Cerberus, and when later in the morning a large person of uncertain ago blocked the daylight, we said, Ticket, please?". She asked why. We explained patiently that nobody could get in without a ticket, and she said, haughtily. "But am I sup posed to have a ticket?"

We said: "Madam, if Mary Queen of Scots and-Alice, in Wonderland came along, they'd have to have tickets. You can get one at the door,"

She fatimated that she would do nothing of the sort. We sild she couldn't come in.,-

"All right, she said, felly, "I won't."

She drove off in a bad temper, and a big limousine,

The ladies are still wondering why their patroness neither camen nor apologised for not coming..