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PUT IN THE SECOND XI The Very Idea!

GIVE THE OLD PARLIAMENTARY

HANDS A REST

Says ROBERT BERNAYS, M.P.

SPENDING MONEY By Eddie Kolly, Chit Expert.

such as often accompany revolu |tionary political changes. It is clearly defined, after this lapse of time, as an essential part of Nazi policy, one of the fow po- creed. Herr Hitler hus openly declared his intention of restricting Ger.

YESTERDAY in Legisla- man citizenship to German peo-

Council, a mere plo and degrading the Jews and This post-war world," said Mr. | Mr. Robert Hudson, the Undor- bagatelle of $310,277 was up other non-Teutons to the po- Baldwin in the great India debate Secretary of Labour, again, is one Bition of resident aliens. His last week, "is full of pre-war of the few men who do not regard for consideration followers have consistently eng-minds."

unemployment as being a question aged in "Nordic" glorification. Then why does he share the of how to make the best elec- Finance Committee.

We don't know what This is an attitude petty and responsibility with Mr. MacDonald tlontering case for the current

for having appointed a Cabinet mouth's figures of unemployment. Hongkong government is coming small-souled, not worthy

almost exclusively of "pre-war Ho does give the definite im Germany.

minds"? It is a question rather pression that the problem is more to. Once upon a time they used Impudent though it may be for a than the negotiation of the next to think nothing of spending as

many millions at one sitting. young man to ask it-which has difficult corner. frequently suggested itself to me Mr. Shakespeare has done con- We can see that what the govern-- when I have heard the Under-spicuously well at the Ministry ofment wants are a few suggestions Secretaries at Westminster time Health. If the slums are noty a well-known local expert. and again, in arresting con-cloared by this recent Housing Act

Child Training Test

of

by the

the

A little less than a year ago a group of psychologists got the tradistinction to the painstaking it will be the fault of the Act, not For instance, tako item No. 19 chance to take over the training performances of their Chiefs, scor any lack of energy and enthusiasm at yesterday's meeting, "Special of two newly born twin brothers, ing merrily all round the wicket. on his part.

to rest

Mr. Baldwin has stated them in

themselves.

OF THE CLASS.

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drastic

Apart from these obvious ex

what

Expenditure. One Accounting Machine", they called it.

It seems that one machine for

General. issuing receipts to the Public in not enough.

As many as 2,200 receipts hove been issued in a single day, result- ing, according to the official Mem- oranda, in a strain on the shroffs who take the money.

met We have never yet shroff who has considered it a strain taking money from us, Thon there's Item No. 30.- Extra Bailiffs.

It neema owing

that

to the

large number of

writs issued out

of the Supremo

past twelve mon- Court during the ths, Bailiffs have been compelled to work overtime.

.

The increase In this item is explained by the fact that it la twelve months since we arrived In Hongkong.

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They set out to give all their I fully appreciate the motives of It is no disparagement of their elaborate theories of child-train-patriotism which inspired the pre-chiefs to any that more of thess ing a test. One of the lads, war atateamen to remain at their young men ought to be in the named Johnny, was put through [posts when the guns ceased

Cabinot, Their comparative youth, a stiff course from the very start HELPING THE

Instead of being an obstacle to promotion, ought to be their litte -daily courses of exercise, sys-NEXT GENERATION.

to it. tematic instruction in the use

It is quite a pre-war idea that of his limbs, and so on. Jimmie,

A characteristically moving none under 45 should be in charge the other youngster, was pretty much let alone to develop in his speech, Speaking of the men who of a great Department of State. were "middle-aged already when Sir Austen Clyimberlain was bare. own way. He got the same food the war began," he added: "Ity 40 when he became Chancellor and general care that Johnny has become our lot not to seck the of the Exchequer thirty years ago: got, but he was allowed to spend oase, but to carry on to the end Sir John Simon was 37 when he most of his time. in his crib, and help the next generation that was made Solicitor-General. Mr. playing with his toes, gurgling is coming along the generation Winston Churchill was 34 when he and conversing with himself in that was too young to fight-help was Home Secretary. It is absurd blissful solitude. The other that to take its pince as and when that a man of the calibre of Mr. Hudson, who is now 46, should be day the assembled psychologists the time comes."'

The date of that speech was regarded as a young man only got the children out and put March, 1925. It certainlync-suitable for a subordinate post.

I should like to see the second them through their paces.curately represented the situation mar. Johnny, who had had all the then. We were suffering from a eleven sent in to bat. Obviously there would have to be some rlage between MIBA

Alberta training, autahone his brother lost generation.

The men who, in their late qualifications in such Cordeiro and Mr. R. M. Marques all the way through. He excell-

at solemnized ba

Sed at climbing stairs, at paddling thirties and early forties, were the proposal. Men like Major Walter Margaret's Church, Broadwood Road on Sunday 7th May at about in a pool, at manipulating driving force the Governmenta Elliot, the Minister of Agriculture, p.m. No invitations will bo little brain-testing gadgets and before the war, had been wiped out and Mr. Oliver Stanley, the Minis in the furnace of the Westernter of Transport, would be in. issued, but friends are cordially at other feats of skill and Front. So the men who were included on the score of youth. I invited to attend the Service and strength. Jimmie finished no-the seats of power in 1914 re- any case it is only a few months Inter to the reception which will

where, But the most interesting mained there in 1920, and rightly since they were Under-Secretaries be held at 22 Wanchai Rond.

thing about the whole business remained there.

Thu Sir Samuel Hoare, the was this: Jimmie, badly out- But that was eight years ago,

We have a few suggestions classed in every test, was never. They are still there now. Have Secretary of State for India, is

far too capable an administrator which we can give, gratis, to the theless the happier of the two, they the same justification now?

and manager of a most dificult Legislative Council for its Expert Johnny wore a premature

PLENTY OF

situation in the House of Com- Finance Committee meeting. frown most of the time. His

be mans to DRIVE HERE.

superseded. Mr. Baldwin also would have to re- "Item 09-Special Expenditure. responsibilities seemed heavily on his wee shoulders. I suggested in a recent article main. It is true that he is past Medicinal Stimulante. As many es He was serious, very much in that youth was missing its chance his middle sixties, but he is still 2,200 domands have been issued on earnest, quite engrossed by all in this Parliament. It is not true an immense cementing influence Edward Kelly during the past six his caros. And Jimmie, unskill-of the young men on the Treasury in the National Government and months, resulting in a strain on THE NAZI POLICY

ed and unworried, kept wearing Bench, They have seized their retains in a remarkable degree the the citizen who receives thent. opportunities with both hands. power of interpreting the best The vote is required in order to pro- no Whatever may be the deficien-clements in the Conservativepare Mr. Kelly for a further 2,200 Events in Germany provide a cheerful grin. He was

domanda during the next six mon- cold comfort for those who hoped great shakes as an infant pro-cies of those in their late twenties, creed.

the, it not being anticipated that digy, and he didn't care. His there is no lack of ability and

hereill come to light. and believed that the respon- failures depressed him not at all. drive about those in their late TO THE TOP sibilities of government would He was, in short, a perfectly thirtles. produce a sobering influence

They are probably as good ne

Item 99%-Extraordinary Ex- happy child. Just how much im. upon Herr Hitler. Resistance ortance ought to be attached to anything which even that Govern- to the only Disarmament Plan this fascinating experiment isn't ment of Mr. Asquith, one of the captions I would like to see the pendituro. New Supreme Court. likely to meet with a wide mea- clear. Probably the

most brilliant perhaps in modern young men en bloc move up into Owing to an oversight no provision was made for the fact that Edward psycho-

the seats of the mighty, history, ever produced. sure of approval continues at

logists themselves don't know.

There Is Captain Anthony Edon, It may be argued that it would Kelly would remain in Hongkong Geneva. in Germany, the move-But, any parent who shares the the Under-Secretary of State for be very unfair on the older men for more than 12 months. The ment to expel Jews from every old feeling that a flock of laughs Foreign Affairs. He is acknow-suddenly to find themselves, after provision of a new Supreme Court kind of profession--the Bar, the and a long stretch of utterly ledged on all hands to have been years of devoted service, put on to house the accumulated writs has become an immediate necessity. Bench, the universities, journal-carefree happiness are among the outstanding success at Geneva, the scrap-heap. But in

"Item 100.-Water Supply. ism, medicine and so on-gacs on childhood's most invaluable pos- When he wound up the debate on other profession can men, how- with relentless force. Although sessions will feel the old-fashion- the Rome interviews, for the first ever distinguished, remain at the Amount required to cope with the the boycott was officially checked ed, unscientific regime emerges time the House was treated to a top after sixty 7. It is the retiring present water shortage. N.B after one day-upon tardy re- from this test with the greater clear and vigorous statement of age, after all, for Civil Servants, Actually, no grant is required un- what actually had happened, and who have an infinitely less exact der this heading, as the amount alisation of the discredit it en- part of the laurels.

will be met from savings under what was the direction of British ing life than that of politicians.

Even among heads of colleges Soap for Official Usa (1000, tailed the attack upon profes-

foreign policy. Captain Eden ist

at Oxford and Cambridge, whose Estimates Page 666 Item 338), soap sional Jews remains a cardinal feature of policy. University

There is Mr. Malcolm Mac- lot is cast in peculiarly pleasant no longer being required, owing to Donald, the second in command at places, far from the din and dust the shortage of water. professors are being dismissed in

the Dominions Ofce. His speech of conflict, a retiring age has been

These people in Hongkong talk numbers which must be detri

on the Ottawa resolutions was introduced, and is now strictly mental to the institutions they have been serving. Small won- The recently issued report of easily the best debating perform- observed. It is a commonplace of about there being no depresalon surplus, and the rising dolinr. der that intellectuals of high re- the Edinburgh Cinema Inquiry ance put up from the Government medical science that round about here, and about their accumulated

Front Bench,

seventy the brain begins to lose

Bah! pute are expressing their dis- will not be ignored by anyone

What they want is a man like us approval by resigning their po-genuinely interested in the social

on the job for a few months. sitions. And the most serious effects of the film. This report

What they need

Finance aspect of the situation is that is the result of close questioning

Committees is a man of experience. Herr Hitler cannot well suspend of some 2000 children-between his activities. There in little the ages of 9 and 16 on the sub-

We'd soon bring Hongkong Into line with the rest of the world. doubt that the allegiance of Ject of their favourite films and many of the men he gathered in-film stars. According to the to the Nazi movement was ob-Edinburgh inquiries, the tastes tained by his promises of em-of boys and girls are very simi- ployment in the new Govern-lar. This similarity is more ment. High administrative posts striking in connexion with ac- were to be given them. They tore than with films, and with actors. were to get the jobs held by actresses than with men of Jowish race. Herr Janet Gaynor is the favourite Hitler, in trying to carry out his actress of both boys and girls;| promises has shocked the hu- then boys profer Marie Dress- manitarianism. of ordinary ler, and girls Constance Ben- peoples and has

into nett; both agree in placing MacDonald third. collision with the Steel Helmets Jeannette and the National Party, who The boys put Laurel and Hardy apparently found that while jobs at the top of the actors' list, ware being distributed, their while the girls rank them sec- share Was

disproportionate.ond, with Ronald Colman first. His dimculties with the Stahl-The boys' second choice is Jack helm may have been largely met Holt, and yet another comedian, by the defection of their Com- Slim Summerville, occupies the mandant, Dr Seldte, but the third position. Comedies are critics of his identification of the boys' favourite kind of film. national policy with racial pre- They also like "westerns," my- judico will not so readily bo over-stery thrillers, and war pictures.. come. Physical violence has The girls prefer mysteries and been warmly denied and it may "westerns" to all.others. Both be perfectly true that the atro-boys and girls heartily dislike city reports have been considera-"love" films. In connexion with bly exaggerated, but physical the fact that war pictures are violence is a less deadly weapon enjoyed by boys, it may well be than the organised economic remembered that war pictures, hostility now being practised. like "Westfront," or as it was This racial persecution, which named when shown in Hongkong has shocked all democratie opin-Tour Infantrymen," for ex- ion, is not the product of tem- ample, can be made excellent porary excitement and hysteria propaganda for peace,

come

Boys, Girls and the Box Office

35.

on

THE GARBO.

Greta Garbo is on her way back to the United States. The great- ext secrecy in being preserved. Nobody will be permitted to learn of her arrival except the newspaper.

the nowercol cameron,

and movietone experto, five hundred New York reporters and vae hun- dred and twenty-two million Amer- icans.

ita incisiveness, and there is growing lack of adaptability to new Ideas. Yet, in a profession that above all else needs youthful minds and the capacity to grapple Instantly with now altuations, tho whiter the head the higher the office.

| A HANDICAPPED CABINET.

Particularly at this moment fe the elevation of youth Important. The world is changing so quickly that men steeped in the politica of 1918 are, as Mr. Baldwin suggest- ed, for that very reason bandi- capped in approaching the pro- bloms of 1988. A Cabinet whore avorage was 40. Instead of as at present nearly 60, would not mere. ly bo stronger in ability and debat- for talent. It would also have an

"You must realize that you have the future of the country to think infinitely greater right to call

of."

itself "National."