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Oregon state polies and striking mill workara engaged in a good old-fashioned Donnybrook near Forest Grove, Ore., during the lumber mill strike that paralysed the industry in the Pacific North- west. In this picture, one striker is coming out second best in his
brush_with_the law.
The Maharajah of Kapurthala, reputedly one of the world's wealthiest men, and undisputedly one of the law remaining abio- lute rulers, is seen here enjoy- ing the night life of New York city for the last time before de- parting after a visit to America. He is seen at a club mingling
with the regular patrons.
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COUNTESS OF CARRICK An excellent close-up of the Countess of Carrick, popular an dancing partner of the Prince of Wales, is shown above. She is the former Marion Donaghus of Philadelphia, and succendi Mrs. Wally Simpson of Baltimore and Lady Thelma Furness, sister of Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt an the Prince's favourite. The Countess, whose home is in Ire land, has four children.
The battle was short, but the casualties heavy. Swinging heavy night sticks, the froopers dispersed a
crowd of about 80, and in this picture, are teen out dragging one of the battle victims.
TOO MANY SEEKING SAFE JOBS
INITIATIVE BECOMING
W
SUPPRESSED?
BY DR. E. D. LABORDE
(Careers Master at Harrow)
TE live to-day in a country which is over-populated to the extent of some 16 millions of people. Our towns and roads Our daily are crowded to a density far beyond the optimum. journey to our work, our visits to the cinema, or the sports ground, must all take place in the midst of an inconvenient press. of our fellow men.
Such conditions are rapidly forcing us to adapt ourselves more and more to living in crowds; and crowds need regulation.
This comes partly from within the individual and partly from external authority. The individual recognises, the need for orderliness, without which anarchy would reign, and his immediate response is what may be termed the queue-habit.
Anyone who watches a crowd the boys and youths of to-day
✡ tube booking-office will cannot amuse themselves. realise how well developed this
nt
As soon as school life begins, habit is among uk, But however the modern boy enters on the advantageous ita practical effects struggle of life. It is a paradox may be its ultimate influence on that competition should reach its the nation cannot fall to be the highest degree of severity in an suppression of Initiative and in-age which seeks to abolish it. dividuality.
Strenuous competition at school
English society turns out en masts in all its gay finery when the Derby is run at Epsom Downs. Here is the Viscountess Weymouth with the Duke of Marlborough among the thrangs at the race track.
When individual action is in-and university for qualifications adequate, external authority ateps which will secure a good start in own, failed to achieve his object, In. A grandmotherly State at-life leaves little time for thought finds the greatest difficulty hi re- templa to protect us from
our
at the very age when mental entering it. potential folly at street-crossings, activity should be greatest. Only 10 save us from excessive drink, to shelter us from accident in workshop and factory,
In some of the older foundations Is school authorities have a
is their leisure to digest what is new batch of leaving-pupils to read..
place, and the employer is sus We have become accustomed to
When the struggle is over and picious of applicants of unusuai. being formed up and passed along the usual qualifications gained, age, by attendants in one place, by olicials in another, and by police-young men do not feel disposed to
Added to all this, incentives to risk the loss of several years' adventure are fast disappearing mon in the streets. No force of grind by striking out on a new from the modern world. Avenues Initiative can survive constant venture, Hard-won ground must have been closed and prizes re- shepherding.
be maintained. They therefore duced. The development of economic tend to seek "safe" jobs, and only "rationalisation", tends in
the most adventurous dare stray same direction. Modern large- scale businesses, with their im-from the beaten paths.
the
proved organisation and Increased mechanical processes, have secur
UNPRODUCTIVE
Besides, the tradition of our
THE FUTURE
AGED FOSSIL FOUND
BONES OF GIANT.
TITANOTHERE
Pasadena, Cal., July 11. Discovery of the fomallised skeleton of a glant Titanothere, a beast that roamed the Amargosa Vocations which were formerly desert area more than forty million years ago, has been revealed by procarious have become "safe"
the through
introduction of Dr. Chester Stock, paleontologist of ed a grip on the nation which, schools is to encourage the best salaried posts. To strike out for the California Institute of Techno- whether we like it or not, is bid-pupils to aim at "binck-coated" oneself is perhaps to meet with logy.
the opposition of a large mono-
The rare, find was made in a ding fair to curtail our freedom in jobs, since these are supposed to polistle or even the State the most intimate spheres of life, be the most respectable and have post concerto a feeling, too, virtual graveyard of pre-historic It pays to follow the crowd, and reasonable stcurity of tenure.
that everything has been tried. beasts, a rock ledge where a titan- The result is that our best only those who can afford high
othere skull and other bones pre- brains are diverted into careers prices can escape
What the outcome of this re- strait-jacket.
that are not productive. This is pression of initiative will be one vinusly have been dug out. less true now than it was fice or hardly dares to contemplate. Its A herd of the queen animals, ten years ago; but it is still far politieni effects are already which resembled somewhat a huge
Lévident In certain more true than it should be.
countries. lumbering rhinoceros with two The severity of competition in Foreign methods are unlikely to blunt horns, apparently perished
openings makes
thebo copied here, but our own nation Honing with the child" for dis-penalty for early failure tou seems to be in danger of what here while the now torrid valley of cipline too often involves the heavy for the ordinary young man may be called the dictatorship of here rock constant Imposition of a strong to face the risk of it. Once out crowd instinct. The "good form" meadow.
child of the stream of recruits which of pre-war days has gone, to be adult personally on the mind, with the result that the flows from school to office and replaced by another and stronger of fossil-hunters in the desert to growth of initiative and inde- factory, the daring spirit who has though not dissimilar-force: pendence of thought in atrophied. struck aut on a new line and has, thut of the herd which overwhelms search
That is one of the reasons why perhaps through no fault of his and swallows up the individual.
the economic
THE CHILD.MIND While these conditions affect the nation at large, special influences Leud to sap the initiative of the young. The substitution of "rea- finding
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