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THE HOT-GOSPELLER

OF TECHNOCRACY

By R. J. CRUIKSHANK

The Very Idea!

A-DAM_EVE-ILL

By Edward Kelly, Dan Expert

A gentleman (so they tell us)

Technocracy, which has been, of the intelligentsia who shunned at to-morrow's Rotary tiffin is.

going to make a few observations on Dams.

extra time in reaching the sta- tion would not greatly matter. The mistake, unfortunately, has been committed,but we still not without hope that the time will yet come when much of the huge area at present oc- cupied by the railway will be opened up to public use. Then it would be possible to lay out sweeping through the United Sta-him as a prize bore. a marine frontage, which, if not tes like a new religion, is follow- Technocracy has suffered so imposing as Manila's Luneta, ing the pattern of religious his- good deal from the injudicious en- We regard this as a deliberato would at least be a big improve tory by developing schisms and thusiasm of its converts. Not encroachment on our prèserves. ment on the present situation heresies. The most important of the money system by erge and Engineer in charge of a tu’penny- content with proposing to replace What qualifications has a mere and would provide Kowloon re these is the secession of Professor joules and to entrust government ha'penny construction acheme like sidents with an ideal promenad Walter Rautenstrausch, of Colum-to engineers, they are offering a Shing Mun to discuss such ing spot, whilst at the same time bia University, and three" other complete Utopla making provision for periodical distinguished members of

which bears learned 'subject? the some close resemblance to the band concerts in the summer original group of engineers and new worlds in Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward" and Butler's "Erewhon."

season.

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4.

few observations on Dams, aurcly If the Rotary Club wanted a Edward Kelly should have been given first refusal.

You've only got to read our

economists,

Those who think that this dianvowal of Mr. Howard Scott who find themselves associated in newspaper panegyrics to know

This has alarmed the moderates by some of his ablest colleagues the public mind with a visionary that there's no person in Hong.

of Treasury notes.

the

U.S. Bank Problems

Hostility to branch banking spells the doom of Technocracy State in which human beings kong belter qualified to speak on has undoubtedly been a factor in are likely to be disappointed. A would have less freedom than this subject. the creation of the American fel I fancy that the movement has would number us all, train us, so cen that they've become the gain following the religious paral-Robots. The extreme Technocrats. We've had to write about Dams currency crisis and it is equally been strengthened rather than allot us four hours work a day curse certain that efforts to remove weakened by the split. The out- (mainly machine-minding), give Australian cussed-'em, as it were. of our life. An old the ban on the establishment of put of books and articles on the us a large but fixed income" pay- branches of the great metropoli-subject has been redoubled since able in energy certificates instead

Stop us if you heard this one at tan banks will be revived. The the Rautenstrausch schism W40

pictures the other day. ing under certain specified con- the ideas of the Technocrats were have to exist (if at all) on volun- hole in the ground. And what is What is a Dam?" roared Jimmy Glass Bill provides branch bank-made public, Many of the respop-

sible men äriginally attracted by Clergymen and artists would Schnozzle Durante, "A Dam is a ditions. Senator Glass has offended by the showmanship of tary subscriptions of energy che a hole in the ground? Nothing foreseen the danger that me Mr. Howard Scott and his friends, ques. tropolitan banks might establish the extravagance of their promises

at all. An' if you think I'm going Those who rebelled against the to stand here speaking about branches in communities already and the carelessness of their Technocrats would not be impri- nothing at all, vou're a hole-in- endowed with sufficient banking statistics. The circus perform-soned but given medical treat-the-ground well mistaken." facilities, and crowd out old-fers and the professors made ment. Not necessarily castor oil.") Which is how we feel about established institutions in the bedfellows, and their parting was "In a Technocracy," 'states Mr. writing this columa on Saturday process. To avoid such a situa- inevitable.

Harold Loeb, who represents the afternoons, when everybody but tion, he and the Senate accepted As a result of the split the mo- extreme wing, "the punishment us are out playing golf, or tennis, an amendment that branch bank derates in the movement can now for habitual dirtiness would be or drinking beer, on the sort of FORBES-On 13th March, 1933, ating be permitted to national go their own quiet way, devotine transfer to the cleaning depart delicious March Saturday, after...

3.30 am. in the Canossa Hospital banks only in States allowing fascinating interplay of machinelised in much the same way, that ing in the trees, and the Editor themselves to research into the ment. Shirking would be pena-noon when the birds are twitter. Alexander Reger Forbes Aged 52. this practice to State banks and and men, and the apparent dis is to say, by transfer to one of the has lumbago, and six shroffs have Funeral will take place at the under the same restrictions as location of industrial civilisation. less agreeable labour tasks. If called. Jewish Cemetery at 5.30 p.m.

this task also was shirked, as a Which reminds us that Jimmy last measure the energy certificate | Durante has insured his nose for could be cancelled.

$100,000. You bet hic раув through the nose for It.. And there is the extra premium, of course, against the old Spanish custom of learning to play the catarrh.

Saying which, we will now Dam Proceed to make our own observations.

DEATH.

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A POLICEMAN'S LOT, In Paris you can hire a police- man at the rate of 28. 8d. for a day, and whether it is true or not, it seems a very good idea.

Apart from the fact that you

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cent of them had capitalisations They have left Mr. Scott and "When ап

individual proved not in excess of $25,000. Sixty bis immediate disciples to stump obstinately recalcitrant, for ab cities in Michigan which all had the country preaching Technocracy scure reasons, the psychiatrists banks a year ago are now bank-with much of the zeal, but with would attempt to unravel the trou- less. · And 1200 other towns are little of the eloquence, of the earble. in the same plight. This con-ly revivalists who rode through "In no case should real punish-

America years ago. dition is by no means unique,

ment, such as solitary confine THE WRONG USE but could be duplicated in the Truth to tell, Mr. Scott cuts ament or labour forced by physical Two matters touched upon Nothing like it has occurred in just a zealot, a kind of Praise PARADISE

experience of other States.poor figure on the platform. Hthreats, be necessary."

is no charlatan, no fraud. He is TECHNOCRAT in the presidential address at the tortured history of American God Barebones the meeting of the Kowloon Re-banking, It is no wonder that Age, who is driven by a con- The two Technocratic groups sidents' Association last week people are falling back on barter sciousness of the inequalities of are likely to drift farther, and are worthy of notice, because and scrip money. The cash-our civilisation, just as his Cal-farther apart. Scott and could make him generally use ul they both affect the use to whichlessness that has reduced them to vinist ancestors were ridden by immediate followers will continue desirable areas of land are "at

these medieval conditions is the fear of eternal damnation. to preach the doom of the presents a fourth at bridge, or to take largely the product of hank- He is a tall, gaunt man, terribly system and promise a paradise the cat for a walk and scare Boga present put. The first of these lessness.

In some area the in earnest, who has none of the to come in which engineers will off, or to keep the maid company is the continued occupancy of one prospect is held out that marks of the prophet, except ab rule, the price system be abolished, when she has to wash up after

Beurity and of the finest sites on Kowloon scrip money might be weld-His words come pelting out of an income of 20.000 dollars for private police force of your own single-mindedness, and everyone live in enjoyment of you've had guests to dinner, a Point by Army.. mule-sheds,ed into a permanent system:him in a turgid. tortured flood. 660 hours' work a year.

would be invaluable. For one These structures have long been if this feeling spreads, there. He has so many ideas, good ones

thing, you could take him out in The secession group, headed by the car with you and send him is real danger of the rise of and bad, that they trip one an-Professor Rautenstrausch and Mr. ahead to stop the traffic at those lopment which would set at, ble and generally unconvincing. Belves to a careful survey of some have to wait ten minutes to get such buildings, which should be naught the national currenev But he is as honest as the day of those gigantic anomalies of into the stream.. situate far out of the main cen-system which is one of the For weeks past his life has been modern life that puzzle all think- If you found yourself at one of tre of Kowloon, nearer the hills. mainsprings of the Republic. under the burning-glass scrutiny ing men-the existence in

In-those parties where they make of hostile investigators, and there dustrial countries of a large num- you play intellectual games like Incidentally, such a move would

is little fear of libel laws to ber of unemployed, even in times picking up peas with two knitting more nearly meet military needs, Peacocks and Princes restrain critics in the United of prosperity, strange lag between needles, a telephone call would since it is in the hilly regions |··

States. The worst that can be production and consumption, the bring him along to arrest you for that these mulės are mostly

said against him is that he is bitter irony of men starving while something, and not even the most One of the constant conflicts alapdash in his use of figures, and granaries are bursting with unsold sceptical hostess could disagree employed. The improvements in the masculine breast rises liked to pretend in the days of wheat, the virtual sterilisation of with that alibi. made to the sheds do not, we from the inner urge to array his obscurity that he was more the world's gold:

A word from him, inspired by imagine, imply that they are pusillanimous awe of the grins But those are both very human may come.

himself as the peacock and his important than he "really was. Out of their research something you, would intimidate the owner of the loudest loud-speaker that. likely to be permanent struc-of his fellow men. Now comes an

failings. tures. The Government,

• Nobody who knows America can ever spoke, and some policemen we Englishman wearing together For years Scott haunted the doubt that it is rine for economic those who raid dancing academies know, is alive to the desirability with the courage of his predilec tearooms and cafes of Greenwich change. Meanwhile even the pic. can shake a pretty hoof. of freeing this area from

At the price. quoted you might the tions, a yellow waistcoat and a Village, preaching to the Bohe turesque Scott and his disciples. sheds, but the matter is not quite dress coat with red and blue mians there his gospel of re- may perform a useful service in even spread yourself and have

half-a-dozen to line the so simple as, might appear at lapels. Moreover, with a gallan-demption through government by breaking the ground for

when you finally go along to pay first sight. Alternative

actry almost meriting the D.S.O.engineers, and there were scores ideas.

your water rate. commodation would have to be he actually presided, garbed in found, and this 'would involve these rainhow hues, at a sedate considerable expenditure in re- Royal Society dinner. "What conditioning. None the less, there the world lacks to-day is colour,” does appear some need for has declared Prof. Henry Edward tening up negotiations between Armstrong, for the defier of the Government and the military tradition was none other than the authorities so that the land may distingushed authority on che be rendered available for re-mical matters. He told his sidential purposes. The other hearers: This is a drab age in point we have in mind is one which we live.....A hundred mentioned in connexion with a years or so ago the finest kind of relatively small matter-name- Englishman dressed in pearl ly, the large area of land at pre-pink trousers and, a salmon-pink sent occupied by the railway. | blouse-but look at us now! In There is no doubt that a big the presence of such eloquence mistake was made when, at the staid members and fellows the time the railway was being of the Royal Society probably did built, it was decided to locate regard one another rather fur- the terminal station so fear the tively and find the picture a ferry. We believe we are right bit odd, don't you know. This in saying that the original love of colour may be a dan- scheme was to have the station gerous thing: It brought jeers near Holt's wharf, but this plan in the House of Commons was subsequently altered. It young Disraeli, The future does not require much imaging- Frime Minister, in the days when tion now to realise what he was known rather as the magnificent marine promenade author of "Vivian Grey" than as would have been rendered avail-ja budding statesman, had an able had the original ideå been Oriental taste in costume. Pro- put into effect. As matters are.fessor Armstrong confesses to: the atretch of frontage looking his inability to convert the across to the island is completely Prince of Wales to sartoriali occupied by the railway, and shades, although he once attired nproach to the water cut off. ¦ himself In a bright green waist- The question of convenience in coat when he knew he was going having the station so near at to sit opposite that royal arbi- hand is not an important one.ter of fashion at a public dinner. Bus services would always be Beau Brummell was more for- available, and a few minutes' tunate-or more audacious.

to

"Baxter, I think the chauffeur was hurt when you didn't notice wo had a new car.”

LAW REPORTS OF THE TIMES. Dowlap v. Snodgrass

(Matince, Wednesday, 2.30). Book and Lyrics: Habens C. Orpus..

Music: Selected.

The piece opens with the en trance of the ladies and gentle- men of the jury in beach pyjamas and yachting cans. They put over a snappy song-and-dance number entitled "Why Bring That Up?"

Three trumpets and a BAXD- phone play a fascinating Rumba, 'Objection Overruled,",

the

judge entera on a trick bicycle.

Judge: What's it all about, girls?

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Giris: Miss Dewlap alleges that Mr. Kelly pinched. her-her

Judge: Well?

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Girls: Pinched her copyright. Judge: Hm. Glass of water, please. Not too much soda. Well, bring em In..

Trixie Dewlap canters in, dress- ed in a watching brief. After several somersaults she maps into her celebrated number, "I'm just a little quid pro quo."

Enter Kelly through a trap the floor.

Trixie: Cad. You pinched my copyright.

Kelly: I-

Judge: Swear!

Kelly: Vo-doide o-dő,

Well, you know how it ends.

? Trizio gets damages and Kelly rets rattled. Exeunt all singing "You can't keep a good girl down."