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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1933.

NOTES OF THE DAY

WASHINGTON SHOCKS

Shock after shock descends upon Washington. The latest of the Brains Trust to tender his realgna- tion is Professor Sprague, one of America's most expert international economists, and President Rooso- velt may well be wondering where the blow will fall next. For it is a blow, whether or not the Presid- ent or Mr. Morgenthau will have. It that it is so. Both have exhibit- ed a very deliberate unconcern at the resignation and if the attitude of the acting Secretary of the Treasury Department is sincere, it is certain that both the resignation and the manner of Professor ‚ HK$3,400 | Sprague's departure are causing 3,600 much earnest thought at Warm 4,500 Springs.

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IS OXFORD WORTH

THREE YEARS?

By AN UNDERGRADUATE

would be, I was promised. The child, left to himself amid the best three years of my life; the innumerable preoccupations of and so, in a sense, they were, the modern parent, attains in- Those years when one is firat dependence of outlook at an early "grown up," while still not yet "of ago. Moreover, he mixes far more "89" have a certain rapturous freely and on a more equal basis and doubly so if it be at Oxford or segregated In the nursery wing: quality wherever they are passed, with his eldors than we did, Cambridge.

and this, more than anything, is a maturing and civiliaing influence.

In no other surroundings is the tribute to your newly acquired But on the whole the point la maturity so agreeably deferential. less that the modern child is ad- You step into a suite of rooms vancod than that the child of the which is all your own, A sorvant last generation was retarded In is deputed to wait personally upon development. Aristotle's theory of you. You may sit alone by your education in the ideal State was own fireside or invite whom you that there should be no mental like to share it with you.

Instruction before maturity. Till

The Very Idea!

BACK TO BEAUTY

By Eddie "Maison" Kelly, LAST week the famous Hongkong

fashion expert, Edward Kelly.et cie wrote a special article ou "How To Brighten Up the Uniforms of Our Armies." That the article would bear fruit, Mr. Kelly did not for.one instance-doubt. In fact, ho coyly admits that when it comes to "fruit" very few men are his equal.

Therefore it was no surprise' to Mr. Kelly to notice in the paper this morning that Germany hid come into line with the rest of the world by adopting Kelly fashions. The new Nazi uniform will be a mixture of the present British and Rossian uniform.

Encouraged by this success, Mr. Kelly has decided to turn, to the civilian aspect of his "Back to Brightness" movement.

Now read on..

time, depend solely upon your own on developing body alone.

Your activities, for the first then the child should concentrate choice. You may get up when Our public-school system can you like, go out when you like, eat hardly be said to conform to when and what you like, go to Aristotelian theory, but it does bed when you like. A respectful help to show up its fallacies when "Mr." is added to the bald sur-applied to the twentieth century. name of your public-school days. For in concentrating, as it does, on development it produces an aver physical rather than intellectuai ALL Hongkong Public age Englishman who, at 10, is very much younger, more childish and for that matter--are alto- Services and Servants undeveloped than his foreign con-gether too funereal, too un-

pleasant, almost sinister.

There is nothing happy

4,500 LAST LINE OF DEFENCE

HK$2,940 Mr. Sprague was virtually the to attend lectures or to take part You are invited, not commanded, 2,940 last line of defence of the anti-in sports. You enjoy, in short,

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ranks of for the first time the existence of | Administrations officials. The gold a civilised being.

policy, or inability to honestly in its pursuit, has worded up; but of course you are nothing You consider yourself grown

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1983.

BRITAIN'S POLITICAL

cooperate

lar of atability. It may be argued

temporary.

out all inclined to resistance. With of the sort. And herein lies the the situation is rapidly changing. 1 speak in the present tense; but Mr. Sprague goes the last real pil-great charm of university life. At 16 many a boy has seen enough about any of them, nothing For the first and only time in your of life to have grown out of his to inspire romance, or any allotted span you can have things public school and to be hankering trented like an adult and behave secks no longer the protection of both ways. You can at once be after a wider horizon. At 10 he thing like that. like a child. You can be glorious-an Alma Mater, but in ready for

irresponsible, as never before or the fray, anxious to seck his for so attractive, so pleasing, so And they could easily be

that if President Roosevelt determined to go on his Treasury was adviser's allegiance could mean nothing.. The other side of the argument is simply this: the pre- sence within the inner councils of voice of warning might easily mean the difference between control over the situation and complete lack of restraint in the swing towards adoption of the new theories. Wall Street makes no bones about

DANGEROUS OUTLOOK

after..

the oldness which in found only in At Oxford you are old, but with

ideals with the enthusiasm of the youth, pursuing new ideas and experimenter rather than the dis- Illusioned rationalism of the experienced hand,

of modern life.

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tune without more ado.

In such circumstances it cannot inspiring, so-but why go at Oxford are a waste of time, be denied that these three years on?

the Civil Service or an academic capitalised. save for those who contemplate

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Even more; for it often takes a

The whole idea should be What would be carcer. For one who has Thus Oxford la an enchanted engage upon a moneymaking car than to see the officials of the to more fascinating, for instance, opinion of the development.world, a dream backwater in cer (and how many to-day have OUTLOOK

The dollar drops heavily immediate- which you are both sheltered and not?) they do but postpone the bailiffs court attired in "King ly and an intensification of a flight relation to the stormy vicissitudes straight from school into business (Costumes supplied by Thirst

free. As such it bears little

évil hour, and the boy who goes of the (w)Ritz" costumes Results of recent bye-elections, of capital is confidently predicted.

steals a march of three valuable notably the staggering blow de-

Where else will you hear to-day, years upon his undergraduate con- Bernard of Laidlow the Right- livered by Labour at East Ful-

as I heard on my last visit to

temporaries.

way, or the highest bidder). Oxford, a group of gentlemen ham, naturally give rise to specu- President Roosevelt is now in the

calmly discussing the expenditure

They would add tone to the issue Jation on the probable length of hands of Professor Warren, an in-

of some thousands of pounds for rear or longer to shake off the your usual weekly blue paper you of writs, and when you received life of the National Government. Henry Morgenthau, a man describ-

the purely aesthetic purpose of im-Indolent habits acquired at Oxford would do so with the feeling of flationist to the eyebrows, and Mr.

proving n view?

and to get properly under way. Despite these reverses, however, ed by the New York Evening Post. it is doubtful whether the Ad- 48 a man without training or pre- make it. For many It is not the recognise that he is an anachron-

Of course, Oxford is what you undergraduate is beginning to done for you.

Moreover, I believe the modern satisfaction that all this was being paration for his post, whose ap-lazy back-water which, admittedly, ism. There is in Oxford to-day a ministration need become unduly pointment is an offrent to the finan

Take our alarmed concerning its future. clal solvency of the United States. there in earnest. You can study nover there before.

police force, too. I made it myself. You can work certain restlessness which was Instead of the absurd dark cap and. One thing which cannot be it is probably accurate to say of dead languages but science, and herself. She sees so many of her bright check golf socks? Is it any

The description may be severe, but denied is that it has succeeded him, as

not merely past history and the no longer wholly satisfied with Norfolk jacket and plus fours with She seems blue Bult, why not a wide-check of President in effecting a marked improve- that he had little occasion for con- you well on the road towards a living in the world that she han: wonder that policemen are un-

Roosevelt, such practical subjects as will put contemporaries already making a ment in the financial and tact with economic problems in successful business life of the country.still had some authority in them-

times when economic principles But this is not its essential atmos-

commercial career. kers to follow their example.

popular with us girls? Serious In some spheres, it has failed selves. In the United States to-

phere. That belongs to a past!

and melancholy in appearance and to show initiative and courage, day, instead of the orthodox analy-

But there is surely room for sombrely attired, but if some dissatisfaction is sis that goods and services con- to regret the experience of those herself to modern needs. A teles- the police should be suitably

This being so, it is impossible Oxford still if she will but adapt stitute original purchasing power, felt on this account, the domina-money serving as a medium of ex must always remain among the to education to keep pace with the attired for all occasions. The

three Oxford years. Their flavour coping process should be applied ting fact in the situation is that change, we are confronted with the memory's most treasured posses- telescoping of youth into age, man on duty at a Church function there is no prospect of any al-threadbaro absurdity that pursions. But viewed with critical Four years is quite long enough should be in morning coat, striped ternative Government arising to and that the whole secret of pros- practi al problems of modern life school, especially

chasing power originates in money detachment in regard to the for any boy to spend at a public trousers, top-hat and gloves; seize the reins of office. Except perity is in raising wages

If the public and they take on a different aspect. schools will grow up a bit and pro- in name, the Administration is prices. As Professor Sprague

Regretfully, I cannot but de-vide him with a greater element of Teui atation

Water police from Taim Shau. not a National Government at the scheme is that since the Govern view them thus. To spend three

hints, the only logical reasoning in plore my Oxford days, when I re- civilisation.

would be atmos- all; it is a Government of Con- ment possesses the power to print

Two years is quite long enough ball-bottomed trousers and two- phorically perfect in neat drill, years at Oxford is to live graceful- for him to spend at Oxford. servatives, tinged with a some-money, the presses should be star what Liberal outlook. Bot. Mr. ted forthwith. Why worry about Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. Government credit is destroyed mice, competition and the restloss is in the habit of doing to-day) look ne if it meant business if it

balancing budgets? What

It is but marking time while econo- at 17 (two years earlier than she The Emergency Squad, would be had for the spirit of the age demand that and give him a two, in place of the got up as cowboys with a full

Baldwin would appear to have veered politically, though from different angles, towards Liberal

when money can printing?

INDICTMENT

If

conceptions, and the same may NEWFOUNDLAND be said of some of the younger Ministers. It has, indeed, been suggested that although the The Royal Commission's report Liberal Party has practically on Newfoundland is startling in its' ceased to exist as

a political findings and sensational in its re entity, the Old Country has at committee finds no solution for the commendations. Lord Amulree's the moment a Liberal-minded island's dimculties other than Government at its head. Some supersession of the rule of popular support for this idea

government and the substitution of can be found in its steady refusal to be tory of financial organisation is a benevolent autocracy. The his- dictated to by the "Die-Hard" nothing but a record of mismanage wing of the Conservative Party.wrong hands. In the face of this mont; polities have got into the The only conceivable alternative severe indictment, the people of to the present Administration is Newfoundland will probably ac a Labour Government, but al- cept, willingly if temporarily, the though the Labourites aro con-ment, though there is a danger in proposals of the British Govern- solidating their forces and patch- the situation of creating a bad ing up their internal differen- precedent for Imperial interven- ces, and at the same time mak-safeguard in the fact that the in- tion. Here, of course, there is a ing most vigorous preparations vestigation proposal canie for the next General Election, it Newfoundland, where there still is to be doubted whether the rests the right of accepting or re- public is yet disposed to give fusing the suggested cures. them another trial. The view]

from

of the average man-and it is by the National Government he who counts in elections-is has coincided with a progressive that during its two brief spells in improvement in the nation's office the Labour Party failed to trade and finances. The ten- make any favourable impression dency, therefore, is to continue either on unemployment or on to repose trust in the Govern- the financial situation of the mont. Thus far, the Adminis

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. nation. With the whys and the tration can point to quite a good

George E. Smith the Goff professional from "Moray Golf Club, Lossiemouth, attends our Sports Department every day from Noon until. 2:p.m. to select your clubs from our extensive range,

wherefores, the average voter record. If it can stimulate does not concern himself: he practical Imagination by a policy: merely takes note of the facts, of vigorous enterprise, it should) In a similar manner, ho does yet further consolidate its know that the occupancy of office position.

era.

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As a matter of fact we think

ly, hence it is to evade the issues There seems no reason why the tone jumpers, according to the

of life as the world lives it to-day. university should not receive him weather.

Honours

youth should get down to business present three years with the minimum possible delay, course. Thus he could still profit display of Ironmongery for the Youth, In fact, is slowly being by the civilising Influences of cognoscenti to adntire, and so on abolished altogether as the ages Oxford and be a potential wage and so forth. telescope one into another. There earner at 19 or 20 into the bargain, ja no time to be young. Life must Why not? It would be a pity be faced from the cradle.

to let Oxford pass away.

These acts still make me a little nervous,

Detectives working in pairs might go about their lawful occupations as, day, the Bing Boys, or Laurel and Hardy, or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Even the traffic police could stand a little colour treatment, Full evening dress with crush hats and white gloves complete would definitely add to their impressive-. ness. It would become a real pleasure for a female driver to be "booked" under these circum- stances.

The spinsters' dream of being rescued from a burning building would soon become the Hongkong flapper's dream if our firemen were equipped with red jumpers, more brass, and lipstick.

The deck hands on the Star Ferry might well be sent on duty as gondoliers in colours that would morgo with their surroundings, The romantic setting, aided by the. romantic costumes, could not help but make for romance.

Thera

are several other sugges- tions we could make, but we have.

written enough for to-day.

Let this be a lesson to you.

*TRUMPS

Last night we hold a little hand

Bo dainty and so noat. We thought our heart would

surely burst

So wildly did it beat.

No other hand e'er held so tight, Could greater gladness bring

Than one wo held last night.

It was four Ace and a King.