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NOTES OF THE DAY MY CRITICISM OF The Very Idea!

RUSSIA AND AMERICA ·

YOUTH

By: OLIVER BALDWIN

THE war-born children of overy that those who are secking for an as our borech drobiny opportunity of trust are Lofton their nation the moment they cross denied it because they are of this the threshold of manhood and taka gonoration.

BRIGHTENING US UP

By Eddio Kelly, Storm-trooper. ALL this correspondence In a

morning contemporary about Indiani getting their shirts out suggests that we should have a brighter. Fashions-For-Bon move- ment in Hongkong, Edward Kelly, will hla usual insolence," han decided to support the more-, ment, and begins to-day's Illata, with the Volunteers and local Regiments In mind, `k

Negolinilons between the United Slates and Soviet Russia seaking the establishment of diplomatle res Intions are being hampered by josues which M. Litvinoff anticipat ed would be ignored by mutuni con-' elevonth hour, resident Roosevelt, was dragged out most of the skeletons into the cold Hght of day and consequent ly, recognition seems likely to be.

on their first responsibilities. Nothing outside their own little ielayed. The move is surprising, They start with a handlenn which world seems to interest them, and suggesting as it does that for some in. not often realised and which their answer to any political or reason a change of attitude has finds the origin in those dark daya social injustice is either, "I don't come over Washington. America's of war when, under-nourished and know anything about that," or friendly gesture, seized upon ap-over-sensitive, they pass a child-why should I worry?" In the provingly. In Russia, may resolve hood of mass-inflicted inferiority: face of this, ono sols singularly conjunction with Mr. Firth Bernard, we have BEFORE YOU DECIDE ON YOUR itself into a cool discussion upon

When they are young they are impotent.

I find it very difficult to rely on decided to brighten up things. NEW CAR CONSIDER THESE! points of difference between the two forced to live in a world of their

countries. M. Litvinoff has had to own. They are of little con- their word, since, to thom, it is of HK$3.400 consult with Moscow before pra sequence; the father or older no consequence that they tell you considerably in the local.

ceeding further.

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and they gradually develop an in-original statement; a carelessness forlarity complex, often coupled that they are used to, and that ing to be "New Pants The conclusion first likely to be with a form of jealousy bound to their own generation accepts with For Hongkong's Parade drawn is that Japan's strong an- produce trouble for them in the out question and with understand-

Grounds". tagonism to a closer rapproche- future.

ing. ment between the United Statea

These children have grown to That there is a sullen dissatis and Russia has contributed some-manhood in a mad world in which faction with their homa life is thing to ovents and it is easy to quote the decision to move the nothing seems secure and no one obvious, but it is rare that n defi- appears to know the reason whynite broak with family tradition U.S. Fleet Into the Facile as things do not go on as they did is made, since the decision calls significant of the President's an-before the war.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1938,

GOVERNMENTS AND THE PRESS

Take the Volunteers. The big trouble with these people is that with the present uniform they look too much like soldiers. The whole art of soldiering is to deceive the enemy, and our iden of army uniforms is to create a general idea of a lot of young men out for a nice long stroll.

The two things coming together look curlously like circumstantia! confirmation of the suspicion that America's Far Eastern policy has undergone a change. though u swift denial would probably follow to the State a direct question Department. Nevertheless, Litvinoff is likely to feel, if he be-xle for economic existence and is, comes involved in technical dis-the necessity for economy and self-

denial. cussion on debt claims and counter- claims, that he has been invited to Washington under somewhat false pretences.

their eyes; slogans are shouted ing.

I feel that this new generation aloud to be donted within the year; hopes to thoir questions are is socking for something they can hopeleas and inadequate.

not define that they are conscious All around them they ace wealth of the futility of so much they haveAlso, our army, fashions are go- and poverty, yet their ears are al- been taught and yet are incapablo ing to change with the seasons. In ways filled with talk of the strug of deciding for themselves what it futuro, Hongkong soldiers will

waar their shirts out during the winter and get their shirts out dur ing the summer. Nothing like be- ing a bit original.

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They pay little attention to the opinions of their elders, and yet can never give a constructive al- Soon they are launched into the ternative.They mock at much their

Take hats, for instance. They're world to add to the number of elders hold enorod, yet worship far too orthodox. Of course, the strugglers and fighters, and so.in-things of even less valuo, tense is the battle that immor A love of speed, of exhilaration, members of the Scottish Company JAPAN AND RUSSIA

ality in their methods of business may merely be sensuous, but it is are allowed to wear berets, but among this that's only a tiddly-winking con Probably there wasn't Meanwhile, the seriousness of appears an easy way for their amazingly common

generation. A disregard for life cession. developments in the Far East can-cary feet.

This strain produces a quality is also common, and the number enough left to go round. for the

brims. not be overlooked. Russin and Japan cannot maintain relations that was not very apparent in pre-of suicides is greater among these

As the Anzacs are allowed to wear the feathers out of an emu'a One of the most striking and on their present delicate basis war generations. That of unre youths than has been known for

without a break somewhere at liability. It seems that the post-many years.

tall in their hats, we have decided gratifying changes which has some time and with provocateurs war youth has little pride in the

They show an inability to stand to provide quall, pheasant, spar come over Officialdom in England active, stirring up hostility, it may fact that when he says he will do. during recent years has been the come at any time. The story of something he is in duty bound to criticism which is strikingly fomi row and parrot feathers, for the.. increased facility given to the the sinking of two Japanese war- keep his promise. He is perfectly nine in Ita essence and is the result other units. The Mounted Machine

tion of their insignificance during Press in the matter of securing ships near Kamchatka must have content to say he forgot, or that hochhensitiveness which their Gun Troop will, of course, be pro- information on matters of public been of Japanese origin, although had not time, or that he did some childhood produced in the realis-vided with horso feathers.

the purpose, may defy analysis. thing cias instond.

Then again, wa will have to make He has little desire to perfect the war years, concern. Time was,

30 Experience of recent months has

They have no respect for Age, war more comfortable, especially if many years ago, when, for all suggested that if Japan seeks a himself in his profession, and intents and purposes, Govern-casus belli she will find one easily little enough interest in it as such. and that is Ago's fault, for the we're going to spend so much ment doors were closed in the enough, without worrying about He hesitates to acquire knowledge, world Age has made calls for no money on natty uniforms. Fight- and seems devoid of an inquiring respect and no admiration. In Ing in Hongkong during the sum- face of journalistic enquirers.nbsurd concoctions,

mind.

this I sco salvation, but, again, the mer would be strictly taboo. Of lack of respect la negative. They course, we could go away to cooler Or, at best, if information was

places during a local summer wur. produce nothing to take its place.

They have a saner and healthier Canada, for instance, where the

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In the winter we could slip back. to Hongkong, Fighting along these lines would be good, not only for the soldiers, but for the shipping companies. Special tourist rates could be provided for civilians, who would be allowed to mix with the troops en route.

The civiliana could be counted

upon to improve the war, as they of enthusiasm and encouragement would provide the necessary touch so often lacking in past wars. Ad- mission charges could be fixed as to make the war practically self- with American Alm rights thrown supporting. As a matter of fact, in, there's no reason why we couldn't make a little over for the Carteen funds.

You rush up to a man in Des Yooux road, and stick oven a-pin into him-let alone à big, long bayonet--and see what happens to you. In ten minutes you'd be arrested and charged with wound- Ing with intent. If that's not war, what' la?

eventually vouchsafed, a general AMERICA'S PROBLEM

Maybe he mistrusta knowledge; Press communique would be is-

Will the next chapter of Amer-maybe he has become hopeless In sued, with the result that the ican recovery be printed on green- stoing the strange use to which attitude towards the opposite sex fruits of one newspaper's enter-backs? The question. still re-knowledge is put, He is old in than their elders, and they are prise were made a present to mains unanswered although Presi-soul before his time, but younger less shy and awkward in company. others also. This unsatisfac-dent Roosevelt is being pressed for in mind than many a generation They are not behindhand in ex-

before him.

pressing their opinions, yet those tory method is still periodically a decision. The pressure

He is content with things as they opinions are generally critical and encountered in Hongkong. It from currency inflationists and are. He does not go forth to seek, unconstructive.

By their acceptance of things as is obviously unfair, and is sound money advocates alike. But but is content to drift with the thoroughly at variance with between the President's immediate tide. His energies are, diverted they are, they deny the creative the practice now followed in the plans and runaway currency in from doing to watching; he just-instinct. They accept and criti- Mother Country. To-day, press-flation there is a great gulf fixed. hes his existence by the soporifice clae, but refuse to build

It is because so much in our men who call on several Govern-Credit expansion is still logical of horse-race gambling or games. ment departments in search of step in the recovery programme. They are the whole of his life-existence is old and out-worn about it. We accept, and find it information encounter not the although the thinly veiled op interast, the work and the recrea that we become tired and lazy

position of the banks to the whole tien combined... slightest difficulty either inplan is creating unexpected ob For a long time I boiloved that unsatisfying.

writera misjudged the What we need is something to establishing contact or in secur-stacles. As. Mr. J. M. Keynes has other ing exclusive information. At-pointed out, the need now is for modern youth; I do not think so create some new world in which tached to each Ministry is a expenditure on capital goods-now, but I do realise it is not their we can take a hand in the mould Publicity Section, complete with that is, on these things which go fault. Theirs were not the hands ing of it; in which we can feel we and fashioned the are creating, and, having created, staff, which exists for no other into the building and equipping of that formed

have something new and fresh and than to furnish the manufacturing plants, and whose state of society in which wo Ilve,

It was not they who murdered bright to hold on to.

That now thing, that new.world, There'd be no rough stuff in our Press with official statements. production employs a vast army

of labour of all types. Expendi- their fathers and brothers in four No attempt is made to be secreture of this kind must be financed years of war. They are not res- can be made by this post-war wars. Anyway, It's about time tive, neither is there any ques-through credit. A

prospect of ponsible for the world's state of generation. It can only be made men get rid of the childish idea tion of permitting other news-currency inflation could only hind nervos. They know the state of by them. They it is who have seen that they go to war to hurt each papers to profit from the enterer credit expansion because no-one things, but they have no desire to its rottanness from their earliest other.

years, have experienced, and are experiencing, the reactions to its prise of their rivals. "First wishes to tie up money in loans take part in bettering them. come, first served" is the prin- when it appears that he will bo

They avoid responsibility when-gross materialism in the shape of ciple on which these official repald in currency of less value. over possible, to such

an extent

(Continued on Page 11.) Publicity Sections work. This, after all, is no it should be. COMMODITY DOLLAR Government departments at

The need for adjusting the dol- Home do not arrogate to them-tar's value to changed conditions selves a position, over and above is recognised by the Administra- the public, to which they have tion. Justice to debtors, who are no rightful claim. They realise trying to meet obligations in dol that, if anything, the boot is on lara which represent much more the other foot-that the public, goods and effort than those through the medium of the they borrowed, calls for adjust. mont But the President for Press, has a right to Information tunately still jibs at achieving this on matters of general concern. through currency inflation which Here in Hongkong, there are might easily become a source of officials who act on this prin- continuing infuetico to creditors. ciple, whose helpful attitude we His principal advisers at the mo freely acknowledge, but there ment are Prof. James Harvey are others the majority, unfor- Rogers and Prof. George F. War tunately who are so hide-bound ron both of whom are "commodity dollar mon. Recent policy has with the traditions of the past been directed towards the creation that they invariably "play for of the commodity dollar-whose safety" by taking refuge in value would be adjustable to ac- silence when approached for cord with changing commodity official information. Happily, prices and the President is pledged we have as head of the Adminis to give it every chance to prove it- tration at the moment a Govor-solf. Europo's experience with: nor who, unlike some of his pre-currency inflation offers a grave decessors, thoroughly believes warning against the issuance of printing-press money, Neverthe- in taking the Press into his confess certain sections of American fidence. There are lesser lights public and political opinion are in the Government, however, advocating virtual flat currency, whose attitude is distinctly Farmers, anxious to 800 another otherwise. Is it too much to sabatantial price rise in their pro- hope that during Sir William ducts before crops leave the farms, Peel's incumbency, a general have a formidable representation Instruction may go forth to all in Congress. And it may safely bo departments to follow the Home predicted that unless the Admini

stration succeeds in bringing. practice, thus opening up to the about substantial increase in farm public some of the avenues pricas, the country will be faced which are now wrongfully closed with the prospect of currency in to enquirers on Ita behalffintion in its most dangerous form

When he calls on you again, can't you Just mention that your father might consider a position with his firm?"

The word "battle" would be absolutely taboo in our war. As an alternative we would suggest that the word "bottia" be substituted. It would gain an enormous number of recruits for the Volunteers it they knew they wore. going. fight on the bottle-front.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE TEST

Someone said the other day that average Hongkong person had the montality of a child of six. The Editor says very nastily that it's because they read this column, but wo take no notice of him. "Anyway, just to test out our Great and Ad- miring Pablic we have not a serios of questions. The person giving the most accurate reply will bo given, as first prize, a night out (11) It's a woman) or a thick oar (if 10's) a man),

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