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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1936.

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FRIDAY, OCT. 16, 1936.

TOO CUMBERSOME

The impatience felt in some quarters over the slowness of the international committee method, as applied to the non- Intervention agreement in the Spanish crisis, raises an issue of the utmost importance. It is a matter which has frequently come into prominence in the troublous times of the past few years in many parts of the world. The failure of the League of Nations to prevent the virtual absorption of Manchuria by Japan is an outstanding example of the injury a country can suffer whilst an internation- al body is discussing the pros and cons of a crisis. Long before the Lytton Commission was despatched, Japan's object had been achieved, and despite the fact that the Commissioners found that Japan's action was indefensible, the stark fact re mains that China has been boreft of an immense arca" of territory which was indisputably hers. We saw a further instance of the perils of delay in the Italo- Ethiopian dispute. Italy was declared the aggressor, but whilst committee after comimit- tee was brought into being at Geneva for the purposes of in- vestigation, and painfully labor!- set in machinery was

ous

motion, nothing intervened to prevent the annexation of a sovereign State enjoying mem- bership of the League of Nations. We are now witness- ing the same process in the ease of the Spanish civil war. A most imposing list of nations has agreed not to intervene in the conflict, but specific charges have been made that the agreement is not being observed. Under the rules of procedure agreed upon, the Non-Intervention Committee will only listen to such charges as are submitted by a Govern- ment, which is party to the agreement. It is then the duty

of the Committee to examine the complaints with a view to ns- certaining the facts. In this instance, Russia, a signatory of the agreement, has lovelled specific charges against Portugal and Germany, and these are now under process of investigation. The tragedy of the situation, so far as the Spanish Government is concerned, is that whilst the enquiries are being pursued, the insurgents, allegedly backed from the outside, ure daily driv- ing on towards the capital. Whether one's sympathies are. with the loyalists or the rebela, the outstanding fact is that a constitutionally established Gov- ernment is.in process of being overthrown whilst an inter- national body is engaged in seemingly endless talk to deter- mine whether there has been any outside aid given to the rebola. On the general issue raised, there is accumulative evidence of the non-offectiveness. of present methods for dealing with major rises, but the trouble is that no satisfactory alternative has yet been devised.

Maurice WEBB

here introduces a new Series of · · Articles, by men and women prominent in British public life, that will point the way to Civic Progress.

H

E was very young, very pompous, and very anxious to impress. A

candidate for the local council, he was airing his views for the first time to an outdoor audience.

It seemed that the world was his parish. Ranging from Peru to Peking, he graphically sur- veyed the international situ- alion.

Then came the voice of a heckler who seemed to have interest neither in Peru nor Peking. "Never mind about the blooming Chinese; what about out. dust- bing?" he bawled.

"Dustbins?" said the youthful Dustbins? orator with scorn. You worry about dustbins whilst catastrophe hangs over the world. You've got a parlah pump men- tality, my friend,"

Then he resumed his catalogue of world problems, with frequent " dustbin satirical references to minds."

He did not get on to the Council. The voters preferred a man who anid little about Siam, but who had much to say about sanitation.

Very crestfallen, he came to see nie, co-plaining bitterly about the Jack of vision among 'voters.

I showed none of the sympathy he expected,

I told him It served him right. He would go on losing until he learned that what he scathingly described as a "dust- bin mind" was actually a healthy and desirable mental condition.

There was a sense, a vital and comprehensive sense. in which the parish pnp mentality" was a creative force.

It was poor for men to range the Universe with critical fat-seeing eves in search of a new world order. But it they never surveyed the Hittle domestic world around their own doorstep with equally "critical gaze, their new world would differ but itle from the old.

In the long run the demand for dustbins and other sanitary ser-

SIGNPOSTS

to

THE

PAST

PROGRESS

vices was probably just as es-

sential to progress as the demand Kruger Park Lion

for disarmament.

Had thore not been devastating epidemies caused by germ-laden dirt, which had carried off more lives than war?

Did not thousands of children dle each year because of inade- quate welfare services? How many mothers died in childbirth because efficient public expenditure on maternity services was miserably iow?

How much avoidable death and disease was rampant because of the lack of adequate sanitation?

Who could measure the mental and physical suffering of the maases of people condemned to ilve in slums?

These were the questions which I asked my world-saving friend, I repeat them here because the time has come, I think, for a stirring or the public-conscience--about these matters of civic and domestic welfare.

that local The stupid idea government is of secondary im-

The Never-Ending Race

WHEN securely ensconced out of, ling these hugo conveyances like men serious, in the track of hurrying wheels, to whom driving is no novelty, their the that of one can find, in watching the traffic manner is alert and

marked contrast to on a busy main road, that devotees exquisitely groomed young lady at of the lure of speed can scarcely be the wheel of the big sports car that

Into

all-embracing rolls up in the course of the next lumped

few seconds. category.

one

AB ono watches vehicle after vehicle go past there comes a sense of wonder at the sheer immensity of the activity that is summed up in the word "motoring," One gets a sense

ONE

dirty streets because there are no healthy open spaces to which they

Chasès Cars in Play can go..

Johannesburg, Oct. 1.

NE of the lions in the Kruger National park is becoming well known to tourists in the Pretorius Kop district on account of a playful habit of running after cars like a dog after a boy

ahicycle.

on

The lion lies in walt on the road. On the approach of a car he jumps up, runs, alongside for 30 or 40 yards, biting at the tires, and growling, an seems thoroughly to enjoy the fun.

some

Cortanée, and can be catrusic. › any odd collection of retired old gentlemen, must go.

Local authorities are responsible for expending about”an cighth-of- the total national, income cach year. Last year £167 millions was pald in rates. The total expend!- iure on rate fund servlees, taking Into account various grants from allonal funds, was £368 milions. Now this may seem a large sum of money. It certainly is large the. biglics? cnough to meril standards of administrative skill in those responsible for its cxpen- diture and keen public interest in the direction in which the money is used.

But it must be remembered that It is less than the amount the nation spends each year on alco- aolle drinks and tobacco, and is almost insignificant compared with what we spend in paying for past and future wars.

It represents just over two shillings a week per head of popu- Intion. Not an excessive amount surely, when we consider that it must cover a whole range of essen- tial public services, including edu- welfare, sanitation, etc.

This lady handles her car conably enough, but, in her swerve round the woman who thrusts a perambulator ot into her path, there is a trace

flourish. With her superfluous sharply cut features and her nir of of something too fretful and tur-/ refined coolness she might well pos cation, housing. poor rellef, child

for. this year's Petrol Queen, but bulent to endure, and one gains that the general effect is marred by She is too sneaking sympathy for the poor a suspicion of pose. Jester of the table who waited at blatantly nonchalant, too redolent showing how the river for the water all to run of Mias Modernity.

easily she can master activities onge past.

purely malo,

A

But the stream never ceases. lordly saloon purrs up softly with glittering plating and flawless coach-i work, It teems in incongruous company following a length behind a worn and battered lorry.

SPEED FOR SPEED'S SAKE

who

The drivers of the heavy lorries, their rolled up sleeves exposing buro brown arms, seem strangely out of place in this speeding thrung. But the trio of motor-cyclist It is good to contrast the chauffeur's crackle past in rousing style belong superior air, which reflects conscious to a different fraternity. proficiency in an art he feels is being defamed by the casual levity of the driving styles of so many amateurs all round him, with the rather hilar- lous expression of the driver of the decayed car behind.

A DAY OUT

Their leather helmets, goggles and long boots proclaim that they have dressed with one thoughthe sheer delight of driving for mile. after mile on plece of mechanism it is their delight to tinker with and to handle.

This group representa the hundred This unfortunate car is gasping along under a load which consists of uer cent, enthusiasm of those beings a multitude of collarless men and who exalt motoring into a hobby, a hatless women with a fringe of hot passion, who consider it sufficient and excited children. This group in itself and who would scorn to Is evidently out for the day, to judge; use motoring as a convenience to by the hampers secured to the lug any lesser recreation. These are the age grid, and a day they will cer- men who ask nothing more but miles tainly make of it-if the springs hold of road ahead and an engine tumming

over crisply, out...

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Yet for my present purpose I um not concerned to argue whether it is inadequate of excessive.

My contem is with the fostering ut: new creative civie pride which will be profoundly dissatisfied with ugliness, inemelency and short- sighted niggardiness in our cor- porate life.

Once that is widespread, public opinion will, I am convinced. face the financial consequences of its new standards.

That the need for radical improvements is there, no one can deny, Look round any town-your own town-and you will discover need upon need which can only be met by resolute imaginative enterprise by the community.

Hospitals overcrowded and in- Health ser- adequately staffed. vices, although skilfully adminli- tered by heroic public servants, touching only the fringe of the problem of physical deterioration. Blums and near-slumts by the thousand standing as hideous monuments to the idea that prop- erty matters more than human

owded classrooms in out-of-

So they go past ceaselessly--a A couple of buses rumble past, their windows giving a brief and varied, hurrying, plungent stream, a vivid view of gay dresses and tanned vital and rustling current redolent faces. The drivers of these mam of the tireless activity of life, and moths of the road look purposeful, emblematic of mankind's unounce clicola, staffed by harassed, Their minds are set on a tight time able and almost tragie, pursuit of and overburdened teachers,

Children playing in dangerous- schedule, and though they are hand-happiness.

Mules of dreary, depressing streets lying about in chaotic ugli ness, without dignity or plan.

These are but a few of the social evils which awalt attention.

That public opinion recognise they are evils 18 equally evident. And by the pressure of public opinion, we have already, through Parllanient,

power provided which, if fully used by local autho- rities; could substantially remedy most of the above and other Amilar problems.

The trouble is that, baving gone so far, public Interest seems to stoją short. Is it because such things.a sanitation and street lighting are regarded too trivial to merit continuous attention? I think that must be the explanation.

Not having the dramatic back- ground of world events, we are opt to think that the prosafe incidents of running a town do not matter very much.

Well, they have got to be made to matter.

We have got to feel as indignant about the ab- sence of proper facill, ties for the welfare of our children as we all, quite properly, feel about breaches of the Covenant of the League of Nations.

We have got to understand that

· progress cannot be sustained if we neglect the most ordinary, intimate and elementary needs of men and women.

Here and there one sees gumpses of the exlatence of imaginative civic pride. Look at the spacious and delightful centre of Cardin. the impressive new Civic Halls at Southampton and Swansea, some of the housing estates in Lanark, the Headrow in Leeds, Manches- ter's now library, the health ser vices in London and Durham, some of Lancashire's new schools.

Here are things which enhance civic dignity and add to the well- They being of the community, point the way to progress, They set standard which abould be reached in every department of municipal service.

"

Although the clash and con- flet on the world stage demanda more and more of our attention, aurely wo British citizens 'have energy and time enough for a new regenerating Civic Crusade to lift local government out of the rut.

Let us give it new vitality and purpose and start the long-overdue job of building.dignißed beautiful towns inhabited by happy and healthy people.

Wags' Corner

EVERY Ume my wife beard a noise at night," said Mr. A., abe thought there was a burglar in the house and used to wako me."

"It's a pretty poor. burglar that makes a noiset ”

That's just what I told her. And now she wakes me up when she doesn't hear anything.".

To-day's Thought- TAKE cura to tel that you like or you will be forced to like what you goth-

-BERNARD;SHAW.