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LAND SETTLEMENT SCHEMES

An old idea is being revived by the suggestion that small holdings should be provided for unemployed who have been in able to obtain work and have

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY WHERE THE NEW The Very Idea!

THE TUNG WAH

over

The Tang Wah Hospital's reply to criliciam concerning the prac tice controlling admissions of patients to that Institution and to other local hospitals pasRCE without comment the incident that gave

rine to the specific complaint against the Tung Wab. The case is not met by

long way. It is possible that the parents of the child were referred to the G.C.II. That cannot be ascertained without further investigation.

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as

XX

DEAL FAILS

By COL. THEODORE - ROOSEVELT

issue whether we,

the

MORE PIPS AND SQUEAKINGS

By George

7ITH the arrival of the

W mosquito for his sum-

mer vacation in Hongkong a new style in arms and lege is heralded.

WHEN the national Democra-cancelled on allegations of fraud

Administration took and cullusion.

We believe that the principles office far-reaching policies were Initiated with the statement that of liberty are bound up in our they were in the nature of emer system of government, "which es

The new mosquito lays tablished three branches, each to There isgency measures.

The President announced in check the other and preserve the the cutest little bumps and effect in January that these men- liberty of the people.

blotches at plain and" fancy sures were to become a permanent The great governmental organi. part of our governmental scheme, zations are usurping day by day angles and guarantees a free In his new book he does not deny more of the legislative functions: pattern in red pimples which that his Administration polleles They are usurping the judicial will stand the wear and tear of

He merely also, for they not merely promul- the climato for several weeks. arc revolutionary.

Should you suffer from a pale states that if his Administration gate the regulations but impose "is a revolution it is a peaceful penalties for violation, decide on complexion the mosquito will give what violation may be and pro-you a free face lift, and shoulit To-day we must fact squarely nounce the penalties themselves. inertin be your trouble, our little The attitude of the NRA is friend will give you enough: scratch- American people, wish to see our militaristic Prussianiam, It is ing to replace your alimming exer

clacs. Government changed the bullying, bulldozing frame fashion which these measures pro mind that is foreign to anything The mosquito hite should not be

would have vide. I do not intent at this time our ancestors

confused with the cheaper and less to discuss their economic worth.mitted.

effective flen nip or the tender dig of the wasp. They can be easily The vital question now is their effect upon

The great federal organizations differentiated. constitutional rights and libertica.

that have been set on foot, such

If it is a wasp's sting you should The so-called New Deal is not na the NRA, the AAA, etc., sweep find some of the animal's rear liberal and

is not

new. It is aside state lines and extend their sticking to the wound, and a gearch reactionary and un-American be tentacles down into the com- of the premises will reveal whether cause it carries as its logical con-munity, prescribing the details of the offender was a flea, As a clusion some type of autocratic existence in city and in country, safeguard against these impersona government. It is fixed upon All these undertakings have tors fly-catchers dabbed in treacle us, it predicates for the future an brought in their train

can be hung from the knee while autocrat rather than a President. increasing army of employees. sitting and wound round the lega

We do not believe in nuy form The Federal Government has in like puttees when walking. of autoerney for our country and its employ now more than 611,000. we intend to fight to the atter-employees. Incidentally, the an

which we nual salaries of the employees'

no doubt that they did not go and it la conceivable that, as with so many Chincao, the custom-inspired distrust of foreign medicines exceeded their desire to secure immediate treatment. There 16 a peril in treating all "accident" cases alike. The Tung Wah is or should be peculiarly fitted to meet the needs of people of the foreign- doctor-ahy type, even if they meet with an accident. What would have been more interesting, to the publie, too, than the explanations given would have been an indien tion of who are the arbiters of admissions to the Tung Wah and whether attendants at the reception entrance, without medical qual Bentions, are authorised to use their discretion. Chinese atton- dants at government hospitals have been known to take far too much pon themselves when dealing with Chinese would-be patients. It should not be necessary to stress that publie anxiety in this matter Jo not based upon A aolitary

incident.

our

most any movements

in

over the advisability of citizena feel tend toward that end.

be a

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per

an ever-

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THROUGH OFFICE WINDOWS.

First of all we must tell you how we enjoyed Whitsuntido.

The weather was glorious accord. ing to the paper and the beaches were crammed with people eagerly absorbing the ultra-violet rays, the ozone, and sandwiches.

But for us none of these things. While happy holiday-makers gel-

— THE HONOURS SYSTEM

Long discussions In Cannclu

Our taken on for these now ventures founded foris more than $100,000,000. there accepting titles of

honor Constitution

1fberalism and as a defence of the This army is searching into the from the British Crown have

rights of the individual. It was affairs of everyone, regulating, caused Englishmen to review the question of the honours system based on the Declaration of Inde- prescribing, punishing infringe

Every amendment to ments of their codes, Individual in relation to the needs of modern pendence.

to initiative and industry, far from democracy. One quality ascribed our Constitution that standa

day hins its purpose some further being rewarded, are penalized. to the British custom in this mat-

I am not speaking now for ter should be of especial, interest. liberalizing of the Government, 11 is costended that the habit of some further protection of the closssal fortunes. I do not belleve livanted about in next to nothing against injustice. in them, nor in big sums of money enjoying the liberty of the In- cal services with exalted Boch These provisions are jeopardized gained by speculation or chance. dependent citizen wo sat with our rewarding distinguished politi-individual distinction is

and have been violated during the do not think the handing down to noses to the grindstone, our hand One of the main

children of great amount is either to the plough, and our shoulder to reasons for the integrity and past year,

just or healthy for a community.

the wheel, managing in this dic- honesty of the British political

am speaking now for Geult position to turn out our daily Liberty of the people includes and governmental world. If this were really so. It would

their rights to criticize their own the millions of Americans who quota for the sealle and perverted. most important point. But its in

Government. Any attempt to con-hold the 66,000,000 life insurance

Of course we were not alone, trol or prohibit this criticism is a politics and to whom belong the The Old Man sot us a good examplo, diment to accept it withont quali-

$24,000,000,000 in the savings which we didn't follow, by coming The Minister of Agriculture, Mr. ditary honours was already

banks accounts. No more striking example of the

early and another, which Under the present scheme they couldn't follow, by leaving early. Waller Elliott, aunounced

last force in the eighteenth century, violation of this principle could be

are the ones who given than the case of Cel. Lind-It is their savings and their Ble Idea we were seized with a wave

Arc suffering. weck that if a Small Holdings when British politics were notor-

As we tore up our first Very Association for England and lously corrupt, while soon after bergh. When he protested Wales were formed to provide the war, grave suspicions

criticized the action of the Ad-insurance policies which are con- self-pity. "Poor Very Idon" we Verministration in cancelling the air-seated when the currency is de thought, conceived in tortured plots for suitable unemployed widely entertained that

mail contracts, a deliberate

It is on them the taxation anguish after nights of pain; born men, the Government would con- system was a source of corruption.

concerted attempt was set on foot brought about by the wild extra-

in poverty, mental starvation,, and tribute up to £50,000 annually

to discredit him in the eyes of thegance in Washington falls with struggle for existence, and public by trying to show that he crushing force.

dragged out into the burning light A publicity-Recker and by Those who are directing the so- of publicity by the scruff of its endeavouring to prove

that his called New Deul say it predicates mental neck."

At this point the typewriter motives were base in that he had regimentation of the people. Un- profited to an undue extent by his der regimentation all initiative is began pawlag the ground in its connection with the development taken from the people. The con- eagerness to be off, so we gave it a of the air service,

ception spells autocracy and kick in the pants and wrote the Equally important with free sheeplike people, dependent on the above. aptoch-is-n-free, uncensored preas, state and subject to the will of have a guarantee of this freedom Resolute attempts of the press to the autocrat.

small prospects of finding jobs.fication, for the system of here: step on the road to autocracy.

for three years on the basis of RIGHT MOTIVES

.

In

A rather different story, hus, the system of social uniformity

Was

and

and

based.

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UNREPORTED CASES.

We

Judge: Well George you аге

Well, do you admit the debt? Yee, but I have no money to pay. What is your income? Nothing for three months. Why is that?

It's all booked for other creditora,

£1 for every £2 subscribed by non-State sources by the Asso- democracy calls

It may be pointed out that full for equal op- ciation.

He added that a thou-portunities for all. Inequalities sand acres for such a scheme of inheritance and inequalities of had been promised by Mr. Mal- rank hoth militate against this, colm Stewart. It has been said but the former can be modifled by that to put a man on small

social provisions of such things holding is to condemn hith to museums, etc., far more effectively as public education, art galleries, hard labour for life, with no-than can the latter. Nevertheless, asserted in the NRA code were Lincoln enid the Civil War' was thing to show for it in the end. neither the honoura system nor denied. The Secretary of Agri-fought in order that "Government here on a wilt which anys you owe however, been told by a Scottish has a clean and atraight advantage culture, Mr. Wallace,

stated of the people, by the people, for this firm $300. What is it for? that if the

Us: Provisions, my Lord, the people shall not perish from present M.P. who recently concluded over the other sufficiently obvious publicly

What sort of provisions? Achemes in Washington are to the earth. The doctrines of the tour of small holdings in the to justify in either case the

Liquid, My Lord. West of Scotland, where he turies-old tradition. Either can

work there must be a "controlled" New Deal discard Lincoln's pro- sudden abandonment of a cen- public opinion. Controlled public nouncement as a worthless scrap found success and prosperity be, and has been, productive of the principies of free speech and that the individual exists for the opinion is censorship. It violates of paper. The New Deal holds the general rule. The men, he good; and both require working vitiates the First Amendment to state. In so holding it gives the says, are not only paying their with right motives of unselfish- rents, but are making

the Constitution.

llo to the words that have been a good ness and service. profit. The reasons

We,

consider as one of the basic devised to cloak its purpose, for arc two- fold, it appears. The holders LEISURE HOURS

principles of liberalism that every this is no new deal. It is the old specialise in poultry and pigs,

man should be given his day in deal from which we have been fruit, flowers and vegetables,

A new race of "scientists" has prejudged or denied a hearing.

court and that no one should be rising through yeara of struggie. If the so-called New Deal provalle, and they are near a ready mar-affirmations that the future holds Krown up out of the repeated

This principle was violated by the hard-bought gains for liberal ket. within two or three miles

the national Administration inism and individual liberty are lost. in store the prospect of greater of a

We atand for the spirit of the big town. Obviously it leisure for all. The first the air-mail contracts. Suddenly must be along some such lines gists have after deep research, un

(Continued on Next Columnj as these that any land settle- covered 700 separate and distinct ment polley must proceed if it ways to employ leisure time. is to make an

With the active quest still going effective con- tribution to the problem of un-on, the number may be increased to

701 employment. The trouble

any moment. Faced with however, that agriculture is economic conditions are

is, the proposition that changing to give already overcrowded and that the horn of leisure another tit unless new areas are opened up, experts are searching far and the situation will be complicated wide for hobbies that may legiti by bringing in new workers, mately be tagged as useful and In some Continental countries, beneficial,

It is interesting to note, artisans omployed in towns cultivate small holdings during the week-

HOBBIES

never

The leisureologists, however, ends and in their leisure hours.are said to be concerned chiefly In the opinion of one British with thoac persons who economist, at least ten thousand and probably would buy a jockey have been introduced to a hobby, holdings of this type could be sult to ride one. It may be that established in the United King-

plain and fancy,

K Ist of

dom, and an effort is being made will be red for prospective |

Buch expert ad

applicants may

to urge the Government to trinke hobbylats, with some such plan an essential part vice as doubtful app

of its programme. The fact seek. When the plan has been might as well be faced, however, that the carrying out of such a

the

ed and act Int

for hobbles become no great that

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plan would be much more dif- community will have its BROCHOR ficult than in, say, Germany or hood of Hobbyists in which Belgium. In these countries the and even

hobbies may divided

bit divorce of the artisans from the changed. Hobbies may be land has never been really com- into two main classifications-the ploto. Many of them have al- outdoor and Indoor. Undoubtedly

will reach into almost every. ways been half-farmer, half- artisan, with the result that the ano man's job may be

conceivable nctivity, for what is another people have never lost complete man's hobby.

Ono hobby. anld to contact with the land. The be very popular as a means of is that it is infinitely employing felaure time, has been easier to preserve a peasantry

absolutely barred. More ability than it is to recreate it after it at frittering cannot be consider has been once destroyed.

ed as a qualification for member- alip.

LTD.eason

and arbitrarily all contracts were

HOP

My Lord.

But after three months you wil have money to pay this debt? lablity in that case.

Yes. My Lord. But I deny

Remember that you are on oath, Now do you really mean to say you do not owe this money?

I do

not.

You do not what?

Admit anything. My Lord.

am a poor man. I have been out of work for a long time and have only just got a job. My wife has starved for weeks that children could have their Ovaltine.

I

our daily

Why then did you run up this extravagant account for liquor?

I had to have something. My Lord, to help me through those black days when I was tempted to throw myself In the Harbour to end the futility and hopelessness of life. Besides the beer was bad.

Judge visibily moved turna plaint who is to be seen wiping eyes with handkerchief.

to

Plain: I admit the beer was

bad but so was his cheque,

Judge: That is ΠΟ excuse. Bad liquor is the cause of most of the cases that come before me and my own cases are not always what one desires. Caso dismissed with costs against plaintiff and here's pips to your Adam's Apple.

Same to you, Judge..

Constitution and the bertios it guarantees the people. Wo in- tend by conference and study to develop to meet our economic pro- blems liberal polleles which do not jeopardize our rights and our form of government. All those who feel na we do must 'stand shoulder to shoulder in this move- mont. We must bring the young men and young women to the front. The future of the nation, is at stake.