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NOTES OF THE DAY

SILVER'S SHARE

3,1933.

AGE LIMITS ARE SILLY

Says· ROBERT LYND

It is impossible to see the truth through the hazo of rumours about America'a plans for silver. The nearost it can be hoped to get is that there is a possibility, that President Roosevelt will be com-HERE is apparently no sub- the individual John Smith will pelled to throw a cop to the silverject on which human beings like steak and kidney pudding. agitators, because of the extra are readler to talk and to bacomo Apart from this, in business, excited than the respective merits pollifes and the arts, It is the men of youth and nge.

who differ most from the "avoroge

ordinary Intel dels puy the metal. That influence is puzzling A commodity the production of

We have now reached a point man" who perform the best work. which in the United States-inst at which a Government dopart- An "average man" is no more At year amounted to only $15,000,000

ment has imposed an age limit to creato a great business or to be seems to command more youtal for architecta in a scheme for a Prime Minister than to write allegiance than any other. Gen-

now building-an age limit, it is "Hamlet." Hence the fact--if it erally the reason assigned for such

worth nothing, that if it had been wore a fact that the average man power is the support coming during times of depression from in existence in the sixteenth cen- attains his highest efficiency be

tury, would have

disqualified tween 35 and 45 would be a fact agriculture. At these times the Michelangelo from doing his or- of not the slightest Importance ngrarian States, which have chitectural work on St. Peter's. when it came to the choice of a habit of thinking that the only thing that causes depression is shortage of money, look upon allver as the logical base for new depression money. But there is a political power attaching to allvar independent of that coming from

After all

It seems to me to be one of the business manager, an architect, or most foolish things in the world even a Chancellor of the Duchy of to ask such questions as: "What Lancaster.

go should an architect be?" "What age should the head or a business be?" or "What age should

statesman be?"

the

The question is really as absurd as a question that once stirred the literary world: "Whint is right, longth for a navel?"

There is, of course, no right length for a novel. Obviously novel must not bo as short as single sentence or as long an the "Encyclopaedia Britannica"; but experience shows that the excel.

MIRAGE OF.

THE ELIXIR.

The Very Idea!

WE PROTEST

By Eddie Kelly, Protestant. October 1. Britons imprisoned In Russia, British protest.

October 15-Nussian jour- nallat expelled from Germany. Soviet protests.

October 17-German" Journ alista expelled from Russla Germany protests.

October 21-Fishing boats selzed by Soviet. Japan pro- tests.

October 22.-C.ER. seized by Monhchukuo. Soviet protests. October 28.-CER."officiala imprisoned by Manchukuo Soviet profests.

November 1-Soviet molor- boats smuggle gold out of Ban- chukuo. Manchukuo protests.

¶VERYBODY ... protests.

Even we protest.

EVE

The truth is, it is the talents with which a man is born' and

If people go on protesting which he cultivates, and not his like this there is no knowing years, that distinguish him most where it will end. So its importantly from his fellows. If about time someone started an elixir of youth were discovered,

a stupid old man would drink it protesting about all these in vain if he thought that by do protests. ing so he would turn himself into anything but a stupid young one. If As well might a stupid young man they've been during the past things keep on as well-lence of a novel depends, not on expect to become wise morely by

two or three months, we can its length or shortness but on the the acquisition of grey hairs. qualities of the novelist.

It is odd that this controversy expect to see something like "Monte Cristo" is long and about youth and age should have masterpiece... "Treasure Island" become so aante in a period in the following in the nows- is short and a masterpiece. which the distinctions between papers:

youth and age have gone a long ROOM FOR

way towards being abolished. ALL.

Grandmothers and grandfathers

these years,

self back upon the 16 to I ratio

Berlin, Nov. 1

A sensation has been caused

'. In fiction there is room for both are no longer so old as they use here by the report that the Jewish the long and the short, and it seems to me equally obvious that in active life there is room for both the young and the old.

A PERSON.

It might be possible to make a

to be. They dress and play games in a way that would have seemed shocking to the grandchildren of the Victorian Era.

We seem to be approaching a time when it will be possible to

mistake a grandmother for her granddaughter.

community has decided to raise the interest on all money lont ht pawnbrokera establishments from

10 to 25 per cent.

Herr Hiller has lodged a pro- test-Renter.

A further proteal is expected.--. Reuter,

H'an-how, Nov, 2.

Six bandita who were captured yesterday in the drive against Kwangef communists have been executed.

It is stated that the 'bandits protested.-Central Press.

agriculture. It arises from the far-flung area of silver mining. which seems to make a rapresenta- tive of a stato producing only a few ounces a year a silver sonator.

HOPE OR CONFIDENCE?

And then there is Senator Key Pittman, The Senator from an equal in Nevada in without pertinacity. Without any defined prepossession of what should be done to improve allver's status, he is interested only that something should be done and his increasing offarts will be given a high place in accounting for any- thing that may be achieved. He finds something in every now angle of the Administration's policy to demonstrate the necessity for sil- Iver remonetisation; to-day he re- sorts even to threats, declaring that unless the President taken None of the perplexity as- voluntary action, he will force a

In the history of politics, cer-; sociated with the Roosevelt measure through Congress that gold policy has been removed may upset the Presidential apple- tainly, there is no evidence that the young are preferable to the either by explanation or by cart.

old or the old to the young. Pitt! developments. The one thing figuratively the Senator Bnds him.

In his twenties was à grenter Perhaps what some of the

New York, Nov. 2. offering a possibility of a clue, tangent once again. Much of the statesman than any of his white younger critics of the old object President Roosevelt has pro- the nature of the agreement activity in the New York market hatred contemporaries; on the to in the old is not their senility, tested against the protest by Mr. with Britain, is kept secret, al-must, in the circumstances, he at-

other hand, Gladstone in his but the fact that they remain Henry Ford regarding the N.IR.A. though the impression gained istributed to speculators who are elghitica was a greator statesman young too long.

The American public, it is stated, that the arrangement is limited more hopeful than confident. than any of his cheruble contem- Whether this prolongation of is now eagerly awaiting a protest poraries just down from the Uni- youth is natural, and likely to be by Mr. Henry Ford about the to an undertaking to avoid a

versity. No sane country, before a permanent feature of civilised President's protest against his currency war provided the SOCIAL PROGRESS IN EGYPT

choosing a Pitt or a Gladetone as life, it is difficult to say. We have protest, in order that the Preald- United States restricts the scope

Another long step forward to its leader, would insist upon first certainly got a long way from the ent may have an opportunity of of her gold purchase operations wards the establishment of bot-examining his birth certificate, days when Montaigne considered protesting against Mr. Ford's pro- to measures which will notter social conditions has been In choosing a leader man naturally himself an old man at 40. On the test against his protest against cause excessive fluctuation be effected by the adoption of the avoid the two extremos of school- other hand, the ancient Athenians Mr. Ford's protest, tween the dollar and the pound. Egyptian Parliament of its bill to boy inexperience and senile de- seem to have posscased the modern If that is so, the franc will have regulate the employment of child-cay; but between these two ex-secret of the prolongation of youth, are as likely to find If we may judge from the fact to bear the brunt of the "attack”

ren and young, persons in indus- tremes we try. The bill will come into force supreme genius in a young mon as that their greatest dramatists pro- and, for that reason, the policy before the New Year. It applies in an elderly one, and in an elder duced their masterpieces after may easily defeat itself. Never generally to industrial undertak-ly minn as a young one. they were 60. Eschylus is said was it easier than it would be ings as defined in the various In-

to have produced the "Orestefa" to-day to undermine confidence ternational Labour Conventions NO SICH

whon he was 07. Sophooles is sald in the franc and if that hap- adopted by the International

to have been 03 at the time of the pened, a rush to buy dollars and Labour Organisation of the

production of "Œdipus Rex;" and sterling would speedily wipe out League of Nations. It prohibits any gains achieved by the the employment of children under Roosevelt policy. America is, twelve years in industrial under- in fact, treading on highly tions the employment of children

taking, although in certain occup dangerous ground although the

between nine and twelve is still further postponement of foreign permitted.

This kind of prolonged youth Special

provisions and not because I believe It bears may be what Nature intends for purchases. seems to auggeat regulate the employment of young any relation to the truth. The everybody in the future. It fa that the need for caution has persons in dangerous DI un- test would be useful, however, on- possible that a time will B000 not been overlooked. There is healthy processes. A weekly restly in a world in which "average come when the retiring age for also a hint that America may use is also provided for them. The sterling to buy francs. Why is hours of work of children be not explained. If the object is tween the ages of nine and twelvo to support the frane while gold are fixed at seven in the day, and under purchases are being made, why those of young persons buy gold? How is this likely toitteen, at nine in the day. assist towards the depressing of DAME ANDERSON'S WORK- the dollar? Whatever happens, it is very obvious that It will be exceedingly difficult in future to interpret aright. the movement df foreign exchanges. Such movements will now be largely | a question of management, good or bad, and will hardly concern themselves with trade factors at all. But just as the Ex-conditions of child labour then change Equalisation Fund has existing in Egypt. Afterwards, at failed to guarantee to Britain the request of the Egyptian Gov

cromeut, Mr. Butler, the present any ability to determine how Director of the International much a pound sterling shall be Labour Office, who was at that worth in terms of foreign cur-time, Deputy-Director, visited rency, ao will the American gold Egypt and assisted the Govern policy be equally dependent on

ment in drafting the provisions of external influences. There are has gone even somewhat further the present bill. Actually, the Act forces too strong to be con- than Mr. Butler's original recom- trolled by any forms of national mendations. Thus the occupations monetary management. Huge in which children from nino to liquid funds are floating about twelve may be employed are fowar the world awitching from capital | than originally proposed. The. to capital either for the purpose hours of work are also shorter, as of increasing earning capacity hours of effective work". The the original bill had proposed or for greator security and a prohibition of child labour and the stampede by the owners of these regulation of juvenile labour is one funds could undo within two of the objects to which the Intor- days the patient controlled national Labour Office has devoted efforts of months. In short, the greatest attention since its President Roosevelt cannot, ex-foundation. The greatest dificul- cept at prohibitive cost, control tfea hayo always, been encountered the future behaviour of the sont very notable success in Egypt in Eastern countries, and the pre- dollar externally, any more than is therefore, a matter for particu he can internally. In the lar congratulation. United States his policy of

reflation has produced little

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This bill is due, to a quite special ternational Labour Office. In 1980 degree, to the efforts of the In-.

Dame Adelaide Anderson, the famous English worker for social reform, vlalted Egypt.and drew up a sensational report, subsequently published in the International Labour Review, on the terrible

vialble effect because the in- la impossible to calculate with creased supply of money has not any degree.. of certainty, pre- produced any considerable in- cleely what will be the outcome, crease in bank advances, and of a policy of boosting the in- this because the banks are too ternational gold price. The re- nervous of the solvency of maining gold standard countries borrowers to make fresh loans. are at least ono stable factor in It is impossible to estimate the the currency world; any move power of the banks to im copardising that stability, may mobilise new, money, Just as it provo a boomerang.

test of efficiency which would show 87 when "Philoctetes" was firat that, on an average, the human put on the stage, being reaches his highest point RETIRING AGE between 36 and 46 I choose this of efficiency at a certain age day. NINETY-~ age-limit merely as an example,

mon" existed.

Civil Servants will be advanced to One of the most conspicuous and 90, and when centenarian ar delightful things about life, on chitect will be competing with the other hand, is that there is no boys who have just begun to shave such person as the "average man" for Government jobs." The "average man" is a myth when If everything goes well, youth it comes to the consideration of and age will settle down together individuals. A restaurant pro- amicably. If things go badly, prietor may decide that the "avor youth will blame age, and age will age man" among his customers find fault with youth. ding, but he cannot be sure that happening since the War. will like steak-and-kidney pud- That, I fancy, is what has been

"I'd like to ask you folke out, but my wife has become so snooty,

we never dee an ybody any more.”

Calcutta, Nov. 2. Calcutta newspapers_are_fen- turing the story of a Hongkong resident who stated that ho ilved on Willis Island, the loneliest out- post in the world, and that during

his stay there he was forced to ration his food supplies owing to a shortage.

The Mahatma Gandhi has pro- tested-Reuter, -⠀

It is authoritatively learnt that Edward Kelly, the well-known man about town, has discovered a bant ten cent piece on the ground floor of the South China Morning Post building.

Robert MacWhirter has pro- teated.

Serious allegations that the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph had refused to allow Edward Kelly

Editor's note: I protest! Eddie's note: Okay, Chief. We' Alled in our column, anyway.

OF CORP SO

We have been asked to state that there is no truth in the report that the soldier who was court martlalled was sentenced because he was rotten to the corps.

TO OUR COLLEAGUES

So here's to the gallant reporters, The boys with the pencila and

pads,

Those calm, undisturbadlo, Cool, imperturbable,

Norvy, inquisitive lads! Each time that we plok up

paper.

Their marvellous deeds we should ..."blosa,

Those bold, repréhensible,

Brave, indispensable,

Sensible lads of the Prosal. EDDIE'S NOTE:, "Bani

~AISLE SAY': SO

Noticed the other day that "Abigail" published a photograph of a sweat young Hongkong thing who is getting married. “Sho's not. getting married in Hongkong, but.. Intenda to go Home for the deod.

We don't blame her. It is only: 'natural' that an English girl should be prefer the British alelser