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FRIDAY, MARCH

9, 1934

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NOTES OF THE DAY

HOPEFUL COMPUTATION

One of the effects of the Amer- ican devaluation programme, ap

NOUS LA LIBERTE'

parently, will be a reduction in the The Englishman actual alze of the U.S. government' stupendous national debt. Shortly before the nature and extent of tho devaluation was announced, Pro- fessor Fisher, of Yale, pointed out that although the debt has recently increased in round figures from $12,000,000,000 to $24,000,000,000, the total actually fa substantially Xleas, if a reduction in the value of the dollar la taken into account. H

Viewed in this light, he remarked, the government debt to-day is real- Aly about 12 per cent less than the debt on March 4, 1933-despite the Lfact that in cold figures it is 16 por cent greater. All this should be com- forting enough, to a nailon Alled with uneasiness by a growing Federal debt. But it indicates that the ordinary processes of arithmetle may be extremely confused de- liberately or not, in future asDC SA-

Must be Free-or Die

HE art of Governance is tho

Tmost dificult of all.. Success

in it is much more a question of the spirit than of the letter of a Constitution, whether written or unwritten. Hence the epigram:

For forms of government let fools contest;

Deferred. Terms--Repurchase Licence & Insurance Arranged Full particulars on application.

Whate'er is beat adminlater'd is best.

which

By “SENTINEL"

The Very Idea!

THEY CHEERED WHEN WE LEFT THE KINDERGARTEN WHEN we were six months old

and just learning to rido a bike, our mother said to us, "Ed- ward, my boy, I'm going to take you to see a doctor.

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We were polishing our rattle ut the time, but wo put it down and, looking her squarely in the eye,. wo said, "Fanny, old girl, bunk to that suggestion. We have already seen some of them at a distance, and they don't appeal to us.”

Now and again the stream of Wordsworth #poke has burat Its banks and seemed to threaten a far-reaching devasta, tlon. But it has always returned to its channel, and nearly all our revolutions have been in a sched constitutional and attended with very little bloodshed, if any Every civilised nation has its own

Wo put our bootes down firmly Some of the characterística of a kind of Hberty, but ours has been

on that idea, but now we ace it good government are manifest. at more wisely controlled, because of

was a mistake. Had we but seen sight. The defence of a nation its very nature. It is rooted in the a doctor as wo have served my against foreign aggression must mentality and morality of the race. King, he would not have deserted be adequate, and the prosperity of Even in mediaeval times the rul-

ua in our last bout of megrima, as its members must be secured. Ating classes in this country, unlike Cardinal Wolseley remarked at the the present moment, it must be the noblease of France or German

battle of Trafalgar. admitted, this country possesses barons, whose castles were like. In our young days, you whip- neither kind of security, and there wild beasts' Inira, or the kinglets. la talk everywhere of making of Poland, that "hell of the

menta of the American national | radical changes to secure a grea- sants," never regarded them pea- nrtona

proft and loss. A method of reckoning which makes twenty- four billion dollars less than twenty-one billions is something our school books failed to teach us.

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FATAL RELICS OF WAR.

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE Mines put into the sen during the World War still are afloat. A Show Room.

Finnish steamer recently found one Stubbs Road In the Baltic Sea and destroyed it,

Phone 27778-9

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1934,

N.R.A.

Since the war one Swedish naval officer has found and destroyed more than 350 drifting minca hideous engines of death, waiting to slip into the paths of un- suspecting ship captains. That such hazards still exist on the high seas is rather shocking to our sense of security. But stopping to think about it, the wonder is that there are not more of them around to cause tragedies. Mines were toss- ed into the water in an in-

the war. When the armistice arrived, the allied navica spent months picking them up, but in the very nature of things it was in- evitable that they should miss a great many. The world really is very lucky that these derelict minos have not proved a far greater hazard to post-war ocean traffic.

'DOUBTS AND describably prodigal manner during

HOPES

There is no pause in the assaults upon the stratosphere. Russian scientists, who have already made several experiments, are sending up robot-controlled-balloon at the end of the month, while Colonel

ter measure of officiency. It is ns of a superior species to the rest suggested, for example, that we of mankind. The Earl and the should consent to a dictatorship churl were brothers, especially in resembling that of Mussolini in war-time when the knight in arm- Italy and Hitler's in Germany, ours and the archer cultivated The answer to this suggestion is comradeship very like that of the that this country is neither Italy regimental officer and his men in Germany, having political the Great War. That ancient ideals which are un-Italian and sense of casential brotherhood Is the source of our conception of a form of liberty that shall involve no man's slavery.

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un-German.

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Efficiency, though eminently desirable, is not everything. Å sergeant may know much more

Many efforts have been made to about regimental work than a sub- dam the stream arising from this altern, but we insist that the late source or to divide and dissipate tor should be the former's superior the strength of its deepening and officer. Without agreeing to

widening flood. In the end all famous Judge's dictum that there artificial barriers have been swept are "liars, damned liara, and ex-

nway. Legal discriminations have perts," we sagaciously object to been removed, and every man fa being ordered about by experts, now equal in the eyes of the Law who are necessarily specialists.except when he cannot afford its We might find a super-expert like fees, a disability which is being Mussolini, but we know very well gradually dealt with. The bribes that his paternal control, which which Bacon took are now un- would make us cogs and footlin' thinkable, and political considera- little wheels in a huge State tions no longer have the slightest machine, would soon prove in- weight with our Judges, lions tolerable. For we of all peoples under the Throne" in very truth. under the sun expect to enjoy Our Common Law is seen to be a liberty, a sense of spiritual elbow sublimation of English common room, as a vital requisite of the sense, and that le why we are the life we live within and without. most law-abiding people in the Progress is the oxygen of a na- world. tion's existence, but we English at any rate must also have ozone. We must have liberty, even if we cannot define it.

This

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all the

Whilst President Roosevelt's recovery schemes are, na he says, designed to secure the greatest good for the greatest number, there are indications

What in

even more, that in several respects they

tyrannies have been spiritual are not working out altogether | THE STRATOSPHERE

swept away. Now and again an as was hoped. One of the big-

attempt is made to revive one of gest complaints being voiced is

English poetry, which is so them, and a few souls pathetically often. a philosophy of life trans- submit to an antique un-English that "the little fellow" in trade

figured by emotion, praises liberty servitude. But in England, as the and industry is in danger of be-

while deploring licence.

late Sir Walter Raleigh (of Ox frequent theme is most ing squeezed out by the creation

ford) sagoly observed: "Every nobly of fresh monopolics. President Herrara, the Spanish airman, is

treated in Wordsworth's magni- man claims the right to go to ficent sonnet, which every patriot heaven his own way," and none In this Roosevelt, however, has just proposing shortly to go up in an ought to have by heart and at dare challenge his claim.

heart: Colonel Herrara

foud, however, a new danger has declared that he is as determined open basket.

been disclosed. Well-meaning to safeguard the interests of hopes, by this method, to capture some of the air twelve miles above

persons, making other people's the small man as he is to see the earth for later analysis. If the

morals their business are con justice done to the larger in-adventure is successful, valuable

stantly inventing new sins and in- Information may be made available,

triguing, often, with success, to terests. A considerable con-

but however carefully planned and

obtain preventive or even punitive troversy has been raging in the however carefully wrapped up

legislation. The answer to all States on the point as to whether he may be. Colonel Herrera's pro-

such sanctimonious busybodies is Archbishop-Magee's declaration the N.R.A. plans have not had Ject must obviously be attended by considerable risk, three Russian

that he would sooner see England the effect of preserving to the airmen having already lost their

free than sober. industrialists much of their old lives under much less exacting con- ditions. The uninitiated may well The suggestion is made,

power.

on

of the

nak what objective there is in these on the one side, that when em-ascente to high altitudes and ployers traded collective bar- whether the risk to life warrants it. gaining for suspension of the anti-trust laws, they made a WEATHER FORECASTS most advantageous deal. The other side of the picture is that The answer is very simple. Dis- employers have now become so tinguished meteorologists are con enlightened that they will make vinced that accurate information better use of their power, using concerning the nature self-government not merely to stratosphere, its temperature, con-

stitution, and s0

will Desist raise prices and root out unfair weather prophets in their task. competition, but to protect their It is, indeed. contended by some, employees and the public. It with or without good ground, that may be open to question, how complete knowledge of the upper air far a newer and better social would permit a new way of fore- casting weather conditions, en- consciousness has begun to per abling the expert to indicate, with vade industry. There are many almost perfect reliability, the businesses whose heads do not weather to be expected a week or perceive the interdependence of perhaps a month hence. the cogs

in the industrial | machine. With the situation as it is, there is much to be said for the contention that, for the present, it may be most pract- ical for the enlightened elements

suggested, with sounder basis, that thorough exploration of the stratosphere may lead to the dis- covery of n way to foster speedier aviation,

A more practical way of getting this information than the balloons in which men may lose their lives seems to be that sponsored by the

Russians or that which is being

carried out in the United States,

in industry to be helped to con- PRACTICAL WAY trol the unenlightened, with the Government in the role of police- man to see that the Codes are observed. That is a tremendous Job, admittedly, but if it is adequately performed, labour and the consumer will be in an infinitely better. position than where forty rubber balloons will be sant up about twelve miles and will ever before. The main essential continue until they burst. Hitch- is that the Government shoulded to their fluttering fragments as be alert to protect the public in- these fall to earth will be delicate terest. President Roosevelt has instrumenta

information publicly declared that this he is which may revol knowledge determined to do. The creation ora of advanced weather forecast-

of the stratosphere and

opon a new of the new Review Board for the ing. A reward has been offered for purpose of investigating com- the return of the instruments, In plaints over the working of the the condition found, to the Mas-: N.R.A. is a further indication of aachusetts Institute of Technology. his sincerity. It is well, how The rubber balloons will bring back ever, to remember the Codes nearly as much information as could have no motive power in them-Data will include records of tem mau-controlled stratosphere craft, selves. Improvement under them will carry no further than perature, humidity and atmospheric

preanure. Tho the enlightened self-interest of experiment depends upon the meteo Industry or the social conscience rologists' recovering at least one of the people pushes it.

ВИССЕВА of

set of their devices.

new

the

It is not to be thought of that

the flood

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Or British Freedom, which

to the open sca Of the world's praise, from dark

antiquity

Hath Rowed, "with pomp of waters unwithstood," Roused though it be full often

to a mood Which spurnia the check of

salutary bands,

That this most famous stream

In bogs and sands Should perish; and to evil and

to good

Be lost for ever.

It is never to be thought of "we must be free or die, who speak the tongue that Shakespeare spoke." Liberty of the individual, of the family, and of the nation has been a three-fold passion with us, which has sapped and destroy ed tyrannies of various kinds, both sccular and spiritual,

In politics we now have free- dom of thought and also freedom of speech, except when it is denied by hordes of Socialist hooligans. It is our duty to-day to apply the principles of liberty in the solu- tion of economic problems, and that is proving the most difficult task of all. Liberty may be com pared

strategy

with military which is a very easy thing to un- derstand,, but only to be rightly applied by a specialist of genius. (Continued on Next Columns.)

"Yos, air, the club still meets here Fridays, but nobody

shows up any more."

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persnappers, there were no .Kinder- and no Clinics. The nearest we got to a clinic was the elink.

We were brought up under catch-as-catch-can rules, and 'wo maat say that we are a credit to our parents. However, we are not gathered here to-day to talk about details which can be looked up in Ray "Who's Who."

It's about clinics and kinder gartene. Don't go away, 'you're going to get some information and. instruction which will do you a mound of good. The first thing they do to a baby after it has been lugged unwillingly to the clinic with its shining mourning face, as Shakespeare puts it (Crikey, ain't he cultured!) is to weigh it.

After the baby has kicked the springs out of the weighbridge and had its weight painted on its side, its washed and wrung out Chenee the term, wet nurse). The child Is then handed over to the doctor. The doctor examines it for signs of gout, apavine, Hongkong foot or St. John's Wort, and if everything Ia in order, he marks the child O.K., and it is then stuffed back Into its clothes, jammed into its cart, and is pushed off, a sadder but wider child.

So much for the clinic,

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The kindergarten is different, Children in kindergartens are never washed, as the egg farks are useful for and jam stains identification purposes. A child un joining the kindergarton, fa pat down on the records as:

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Jones, Maggie. Female. Egg mark on top lip. Jam stain on right cheek. One shoe laco undone. She la then regarded as student and is given a lot of coloured blocks to play with. This is what is known as the Montessori method of training,

Cards are

also used. The teacher holds one out to the child, "What have I here?" she says. “A card," answers the child wearlly. Two-more cards-are-then-pro duced.

"What have I got now?" naks the teacher.

"Three cards."

"Good," says the teacher. "Now see if you can pick the Queen, When we were at kindergarten our teacher was a-wow at this sort of thing, and used to win our play lunch money regularly,

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these places.

You very soon learn to spell in We remember the very first words we learned to #pell wore "KICK MEL" The pro- cess was a bit painful, but the knowledge has stuck to me.

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Shortly after we learned to spell vero promoted from the Minus Z class to the Z, and was made a monitor. Being a monitor carries with it the right to ploch all the chalk you can get ‘away. with, and you also dish out the bonds. We got our blue for bead stringing in our second year, and we still have the string with the three beads on it at home.

Whon we were leaving the kindergarten at the expiration of aur sentence the teacher said to our justly proud parents, "This boy will go far." He was right, too, because shortly after that we moved to Hongkong.

We shall always look back with pleasure on our formative years when our character was being moulded, We were the most belted child in the kindergarten, and it speaks volumes for our character that we came back in the night after leaving and burnt the place down. And now, hero wo Bre

with my character all formed, and not a damn thing to do with it.

Ah, well...y You may go now.

out

Of all ideas of liberty, none was so Important or so universally re- cognised as the liberty of acquir ing property. A man's right to own anything (oven himself) in now being challenged, but with- this privilege, which, of course, involves a responsibility, It is hard to see how any liberty at all in loft. Whon Byron called Scott "Apollo's mercenary son,”. the Shirra's reply was: "God help the bear who may not lick his own. paws,"