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NOTES OF THE DAY

BRITISH EFFICIENCY

GROWING OLD AND STAYING HAPPY

By SILAS K. HOCKING

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The Very Idea!

ALICE IN KOWLOON

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UT who," asked Alice as she twined her fin

Mr. Herbert N. Casson was writing for the information of the Canadian people when he said: There has been a belief in Canada that the United States is the land of progresa, and that Great Britain is the land of tradition." He goes on, to say that if a man wants to it. know what is new, certainly he

Poets, novelists, dramatiata have exposed to the storm. should go to New York, but if he done their best to make old age There may be a few old people wants to know what is tested, appear unlovely and even hideous. who would like to fight fo's bat- proved and sound, he should go to The old man is represented as be-tles over again-endure the pain of quoth the Mad Hatter. "He is London. Mr. Casson is an authoring blear-eyed and toothless, with disappointed hopea and thwarted the No. 1 to-night and will have ty on business manngement, econo- knees and shoulders bent, legs un-ambition, see their dreams fade some nice things to say to you." mics, efficiency and such. His steady, hande gnarled, and a voice like summer clouds, or more rarely With these words the Mad word must be respected. Since he like the croak of a raven,

feel the momentary ecstasy and Hatter put his hand bohlad Allco was born in Canada and spent 24 years there, ho knows the Donin that is not true,

In reality-speaking generally--thrill of a battle fought and vic- and skilfully removed tart from

tory won.

the table fato his mouth. lon. Since he spent the next

"Oh!" said Alice and burst into twenty-odd years in the United

But, speaking generally, tho

fears. States, he should know America, Parliament-street not long ago quiet and calm of eventide aro The Mad Hatter stood sill with And, finally, having spent the last with a man who revealed to me much more to their liking. They his mouth wide open and the tart twenty years in England, he must that he was ninety-five. His back enjoy the rest after tall, the peace stuck halfway in. He looked so be in a position to compare the was not boat, nor were his steps after strife, and are content to nee

business systems, and advise all briskly, with bend erect and chin armour that they have fald aside, stopped crying. merits of the British and American unatendy. He walked firmly and tho now generation putting on the funny, that Alice dried her eyes on Abigail's handkerchief and and are grateful that they have done their job and earned their Mad Hatter. However he finish- "It's perfectly absurd," said the

ed his tart and took Allee by the

E spectre of old age fal Outside the bitter wind may gonernily worse than the rave, and the pitiless rain beat. reality. The four of it gradually against his window panes, but he gers in her neighbour's vanishes the nearer we approach does not mind. He only

fools trock, "is that big handsome sorry for those who are still man who is sitting in the middle of the other people?" "That is the Poet Lindselt."

British people of the fruits of his experience. Canadians are not the only ones who, in the past, mny have felt some doubt as to the offiency of the British business system. Too conservative! Old fashioned? No efficiency! These opithets were too frequently thrown into the faces of the reserved and wholly competent British man business. Mr. Casson has some thing to say about such charges,

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DUMB-BELLES LETTRES By Juliet Lowell: Cleaner Than Thou!

Old age has its tragedies no large measure what we have sown, The Poet Lindsell began to doubt-but no period of life. No one can wholly shaping of our lives for which we that the Mad Hatter was thump has every other or what was sown by our forebears. speak. Alico was fidgetting with There are factors which go to the her hair but suddenly she noticed.

are not responsible. Inherited ing his feet on the floor. He la the quintessence of all that is temperaments, weaknesses, dialways did this when he was an-

ghostly and frightening human positions which mar the beauty not noyed. experience is to make a profound or age but also of every whisper that could be heard alf "What Is It?” asked Alice in a period of life.

Yet how much we can do for over the room. It is quite true, he paints out, charm of old age-of its restful- ourselves if we only tryi

"He is talking about the Wonder- land of Kowloon," said the Mud that before the War Great Britain pess and peace after the storms

Having a hobby is vastly im- Hatter indignantly. Alice remom- had been losing, since 1885, the have spent their fury. Of the portant, and a hobby of some kind bored that the Mad Hatter lived position of foremost industrial quiet backwater sheltered from is surely within the reach of all on the Peak and began to giggle. nation of the world. During the the wind, where, rich in garnered The man who retires from business War and for alx years afterwards, knowledge, and undisturbed by the and who has never had a hobby of the Mad Hatter and he went back "It's prep post roun," atuttored the ́ bureaucracy and politicians | fretful, nolsy crowd, one ean any sort is in rather a pitiable con- to find another tart. were in control. British business meditate in quietness, and live dition. Nothing can be more bor- Then the Poet Lindsell in a bir BRITAIN, JAPAN'

lay prostrate. Britain had her six over again the sweetest moments ing, or even soul-destroying, than husky volee began to rosite: years of "New Deal,” she had slate that life has given. AND AMERICA

to sit twiddling one's thumba with "Will you please roll up in hun- control, and the experiment was a

nothing to do. No wonder that dreds, said the Virar to Kowloon, the fallure. Then, in 1920 came There is talk in London and revival of private enterprise. The

auch people become peevish and. There'll be othera close behind you Just as the closing hours of irritable, and pessimistic, and are so you can't get here too soon. elsewhere of the possible revival, "reconstruction department" was summer's day are often the most nuisance to themselves in a new form, of the Anglo-quietly abolished and there com- beautiful and most restful, so the everybody else. Japanese Alliance. To what ex-menced a twelve year period of closing years of A long and busy

Riow and unsteady recovery. tent the reports are based on

Itlife may yield the deepest content was not until last year that the and provide the most satisfying probabilities it is difficult to say. strong upward trend began. But charm. All the beauty of the all in producing a delightful old Perhaps the greatest thing of But there does нест some in 1933 468 new factories were world is not in the springtime; nor age is to cultivate the friendship ground for the assertion, that built and 95 old ones extended, in the hot and sultry days of sum-of the young. We keep young by but come and join the Fair. economic as well as political about half of the total in or near mer, Autumn is often richest in ontering into the spirit of youth. issues have figured in the con-London. Ten per cent. of these colour, and winter has a beauty We can find infinite pleasure inu, etc., etc. versations on the naval problem, ere branch factories, built by unknown to all the other seasons sharing their pleasures and }}} Of course you will and have." despite to-day's denial that foreign companies, because of the

Life in like the seasons, and each looking at life from their paint of

"Oh how lovely," said Alice and now British policy of protection. season has its there has been anything secre- More new factories were built in charm. Hence to look forward

particular view.

began to clap her hands. tive in the exchanges of view. Britain in 1933 than in any other with fear and distress to the com: tell me that they cannot get on he said in an angry voice. "Get The Mad Hatter pulled her 1 sometimes meet old men who roughly out of the room. The suggestion is that Japan country. In 1934 there was only ing winter to imagine that old with the younger generation at all into a ricksha and we'll go home," "Punk," may be content with something one automobile factory in the world age can yield us nothing but pain don't understand them, don't less than naval purity if some which paid 100 per cent, dividends. and anguish, in to reveal a timid know what they are up to. Don't Austin's, and unheroic spirit and to make know whither they are drifting. leading to the cessation of the tying 16,000 persons, not the even the brightest days dark with Don't know what will be the and textile war between herself and the most efficient. Since 1920, in never come true.

largest in the world, but certainly forebodings that probably will

what flimsy basis that rumours it has increased its output

Rest is sweet only to the tired. There are allly, frivolous, addie-. have gained currency of the experts 500 per cent. and its wages never know the delight of relax- women in every generation, but New York City.

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1153 Sixth Avenue, possibility of a new alliance be-45 per cent. It has lowered its ing our limbs and laying our heads the quality of the mass is, I think. Conta ing devised. It is of interest to highest dividends in Great Britain.day's work, or a long tramp over not really at enmity with the old don't like monkying with finger prices 60 per cent and has paid the on a pillow of down. After a hard aner than ever it was. They are recall that the old

Please get me nother job. I Anglo- Not bad for these conservatives! hill and dale, who has not said They want our help, our sympathy, bowls. Im use to working for Japanese Alliance began in 1905, Furthermore, it has received no and that in addition to involving state help of any kind.

as he has thrown himself into his our encouragement. They have people as washes theirselves befor, any easy chair. "This is good. This is rough road to travel, a hard battle they come to the tabla. an understanding for the mutual monopoly or other advantages.

delightful. This is blessedness to fight. defence of the territorial rights

deep and satisfying."

Mabel D-; of the two nations in the Far

If we show ourselves friendly East and India, it aimed at the

they will be glad of our friendship, And their friendship will enrich preservation of peace in Eastern

Old age is essentially a time of us, and be inspiration. Asia, by ensuring the indepen, "Back to the land,"

The While the logam everywhere else rest and relaxation. The scarred old and the young should frater- dence and integrity of China.ltles are expanding at incredible off his helmet, removes his heavy The one is the complement of the Britain's and weather-beaten veteran takes nise. They were meant to do so, with the policy of the Open Door speed. Wembley had a population armour, gets rid of his mud-ether. The young and the middle- for all nations. The Alliance of 20,000 in 1924, and now has clogged boots, and wrapping his aged will not be afraid of old age was renewed in 1911 for a period 60,000; Hayes had 11,000 in 1928 dressing-gown round him, and when they see the octogenarians of ten years, with certain and now has 35,000 Luton hai pushing his tired feet into his as blithe and cheerful na tliey are modifications. but was

then 50,000 in 1924 and now has 80,000: carpet slippers, drops Into his easy themselves--and perhaps a little allowed to lapse. It is known eventry hart 70,000 in 1901 a chair with a sigh of content, that American susceptibilities grows. Not only is London the How has 190,000. Anil London still were a factor in the non-renewal largest city in the world. but it is of the Alliance, besides which its the fastest growing, covering eight continuance was not looked upon square miles and swallowing up favourably in League of Nations farms and villages. There seems circles. Since 1921, a great deal where there are such results s IM: no limit to its growth. has happened in the Far East. these produced by private enter throwing suspicion on some of prise, there must be efficiency, Japan's policies, and certainly There have been no new discoveries Heading to an estrangement be-of natural resources, féw govern- tween Britain' and Japan. The ment subsidies. In fact the textile dispute has also latterly Government has hindered as much served to aggravate the position.us it has helped, except in its policy Yet, on looking back, it must be prosperity that is now being creat- of home trades protection. The conceded that the old Allianceed and distributed in Britain is not was a stabilising factor in the based on debt. British people are Far East, and its value in this not going to pass on the hill for respect can hardly be

their progress to posterity. There stated. Hopes in some quarters British financiers and businessmen is no artificial inflation of values. that the eloser drawing together have an efficient system of their of Britain and the United States, own, unscientific, not based on following the lapsing of the statistics and organised charts, Alliance, would compensate for mechanics or logie, so much as it. the change of alignment, and is based on common sense and n still preservo peace in the Orient, Britain can teach the Empire, and find tradition of square dealing, have been undermined to some the world, a lesson.

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