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FORGET-

THE NATION THAT

DID

NOT DESERVE

TO DIE AGAIN

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THE name of Poland once annually 10,000,000 tons of mer-

again disappears tem- shandise.

of Now consider the man who is the porarily from the Europe, but it will not vanish backbone of Poland-the pensant. from the hearts of the Poles,

maps

nor should it from ours as we do battle in the west for its liberation.

.

Going east from Germany in War-

saw the Nord Express used to rush rough endless miles of plain, every inch of which was cultivated. From the train windows you saw the

Let we forget the enormity of the wheat felds stretching out from the railway track to the horizon, golden German offence committed against and breast high under the summer

Poland, consider what the Poles did sun. for their country in the course of its Phones: 27778-9 Stubbs Rd. 20 years' resurrection.

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Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 October 12, 1939

The War Goes On

WHEN THE German armies violated Belgium in 1914 their lendars counted on a short war. The unfortunate German people have been told by their controlled press that, with the conquest of Poland, Britain and. France will be eager to accept peace terms, and the remarkable "armistice" cele- brations throughout Germany on Tuesday are indicative of this desire of the Germans to believe that their leadera ara rischt.

For not only have its men, women, and children died under the hail of German steel, but years of hard work have been wiped out, years in which a race transformed itself into a nation.

A beautiful scene this, but on closer examination what struck the observer most was the poverty of the pensant, He was very poor.

700,000 Small Holdings

BACK in Warsaw I tried to find out whether this could The first time I went to Poland I not be remedied, and there, at the Imagined that Warsaw would be a Ministry, I discovered that only in drab, backward Slay city, dirty, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia was any attempt being, made to solve the pen- tumbledown, lacking in elegance,

sint problem in Central Europe. Instead. I saw Warsaw as a clean

"First of all, please understand city of fine buildings, with a magni- that Poland is land hungry," said the ficent opera house, skyscrapers, up- expert, and that's due to over to-date newspaper offices, and the population in the rural areas." best-dressed men and women I had Now this is what happened.

As

"I tell you, Chief, we got the year's biggest horror story hero-

three bridge players stranded on an uninhabited island!”

To-day is Hongkong Budget Day GILBERT FRANKAU has thoughts on

MONEY

years

NEVER having been out of Channel. It is a pity, therefore, that

the debt between met since leaving London and travel- early as 1919 the Scim (Parliament) 1906 and 1939, I claim to know of the Polish Republic passed a re- ling across Northern Europe.

the averago Briton should be taught so little about money when he or she is young.

solution fixing the principles of land as much about money troubles as "You see," said a friend, on the reform. Chief of these was to break any treasury in the Brilish Em-complex. Most of us, from the rich- terrace of the Hotel Europesky, "we up the big estates and parcel them

are not Balkanised or backward as out into small lots. ao many of you westem Europeans seem to think, though, I admit, 20 years ago it was not like this."

Homesteads And Farms Burned

pire.

As a nation we still suffer from the "money is the root of all evil" est to the poorest, prefer that our chlidren should learn the hard lesson of £ s. d., as I myself had to learn It, by bitter personal experience.

Yet my very rich Irlends-I am So during the lust 20 years 700,000 farm holdings have been created or always delighted to observe spend

We would far rather see the little enabled to achieve independent status. far more time worrying about their

darlings studying French for their These have been giving work and a financial futures than I do mine. livelihood to 3,500,000 peasants.

bread, meat, fish, and vegetables. My father was like that. Though school certificates than the price of Then year by year the Poles in his worry was never personal. The While on for teaching them the dif- crensed the area of arable lund by turning barren Jond to account, and thought that he might not leave my ference between Preference and Or

much more satisfactory that they FROM him I heard what Po. they have, in fact, increased the area mother and his four children pro-dinary, shares, or even between a Jand looked like just after of arable land by more than 3,000,-perly provided for used to drive him freehold and a leasehold .. how

should have started algebra. brandcant yesterday and, doubtless. the 1914 war. The factories were 000 acres to give the peasant a better nearly frantic. Mr. Noville Chamberinin will be closed because of a shortage of raw equally emphatic in his rejection of materials. The Gelds of the peasants their stock had the so-called Nazi peace terms when were waste lands, he addresses the House of Com-been slaughtered, their homesteads liberated. mans this evening.

and farms burned,

The Nazi bost has been given aj withering answer in M. Daladier's'

unuli serts

are once mare even @ hunsom cab home after a Inte night at the office. Us he grudged nothing.

LGEBRA forsooth. When

much their own boots cost, and the girls, at any rate of our so-called upper and middle classes, can't even be trusted to buy a cauliflower,

deal.

I still think of him as the least

who ever lived. He Financial Ignorance Lest we forget, these independent selfish man all furmers now become litler's grudged himself everything at times

they

Then, for obvious reasons and 10. "The Germans and the Russians absorb the surplus rural population, fought back and forth here like giant the Poles concentrated on industry. ploughs," my friend-added;~"turning---What they have done in Industrial my mother and I between us blowed

their production can best be seen by the inside 10 years. upside down everything in

index Agure. in 1922 it stood ut path."

75.5. but last year it had risen to

With what result? lle died, as 1 told you last week, at an early age, leaving quite a large capital-which

Oh, the financial ignorance the sheer; ~erass,-hopoless, terrifying and completely avoidable financial ig- norance of the average middle-class bride and bridegroom.

The enduring miracle is that their domestic budgets ever baimce. Yet

Eventually most of us learn the

Whatever successes Hitler's per- Arly and desperate haste have won in Poland, all the world now knows that the conquest of that unhappy victim of Nazi aggression is only

Biewed, maybe, is not exactly the right word. Most of the money went the beginning of the struggle to

Vast districts were on the edge of 119.5.

into a business-and never come out which Nazilem

Com- has challenged famine, communications were Though the Germans destroyed or of it. Nevertheless, the money went. civilisation and into which Britain pletely diaorganised. The currency stole 80,000 electrical machines and is throwing all her strength. was chaotic, with German, Russian, about 7.000,008 yards of cable, Po-The Way to Treat Itmost of them eventually do.

The Fuehrer in his frenzy may and Austrian coinage in circulation. Jond's electro-technical industry In-

creased its production fourfold,

Motor Watt value of money. But half the knocks we take on the way to knowledge be blind to the lessons of the long

Lest we furget,, then, this is the

could be avoided if either our parents effort from 1914 to 1918, but they background of the new Poland which

Outsume story: the output of soda rose herited an exaggerated sense have been well and truly learned in Germany has again told waste. Ly 145 per cent; calcium products personal responsibility that I could or our school teachers would be less

a were doubled; artificial silk produc- restore England.

of this morass the Poles built

their share of the family snobbish and more practical. fortune to my surviving brother and Kitchener's doctrine that to wage country, not faultless, but having tion Increased fivefold.

Her locomotive builders made Po-sister. a major war the nation must pre- within it plenty to admire.

But I never have. And that they her pupermakers increased their out- would have been any the happier for put four times; the cellulose mills it I refuse to admit.“ Accounted for a sixfold increase in production.

Fishing Village

mother died without

The chemical industry tells the wards I used to dream-having in-

pare for yearn of fighting was Now look briefly at their schleveland self-sufcient in rolling stock; startling In 1914. We then ments. wasted many lives, much time and much treasure before our leaders organised Britain's man power for military service nad her industries for the supply of munitions; Now, the machinery to marshal the Em- pire's utmost strength in arms, Baltic. made ready before the outbreak of war, is at work,

Into Big Port FIRST, Gdynia, bulit to give

them their own port on the

il

She Wanted Ten More Years

of

Both, like myself, lead busy lives. My brother Ronald's success in well known. My sister's, though less spectacular, seems to me oven more satisfactory. She has devoted her acif, in the Intervals of bringing up a large family, to pure scholarship,

Accordingly, there is no need for that Poland was one of the first my father to turn in his grave.

to introduce the eight-

Nor, as I like to imagine, were his

L

EST we forget what the Polish | worker has now lost, note

Sixteen years ago Gdynia wus village of a couple of hundred flaher- countries men, who lived with their families hours day (seven in the mines and

In thatched houses along the sandy six for workers in temperatures over efforts and my mother's entirely 32 degrees). In Germany, and pre-wasted, ifas the poet tells us to sumably under the

10 live in hearts we leave behind is not

to die..

shore.

Germans,

the working day.

The making of money, the spend- Ing of money, or the investing of money, however much we may resent the fact, plays a considerable part In almost every human being's existence.

Children brought up in complete ignorance--as so many upper and middle-class children are-of money matters represent a constant danger to the community. They are apt to become (as in my own case) spend- thrifts; or what is even worst, misers. Such children are equally the prey, in later years, of the bucket-shop und fraudulent political keeper economist like Karl Marx. You Must Be Master

FOR the real secret about money is that if you don't That the last sentence is perilously master it and the sooner you are near "sob-stuff," I admit,

Let us

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The certainty that, however long the task may take, it will be nt- complished, will hardly be kept by the warst brutality of the Gestapo from the knowledge of the German Now those same fishermen are (or hours.

rather were) living in villas in The Poles, however, do not belleve peopic.

Whatever Hitler's monornaniac nearby Zoppot, the Monte Carlo of that man lives by work alone.

admit, further, that great financiers taught to do this the beller-It will faith in his star, his people are the Baltic. For on the sites of their After, the 1914-18 war, the Poles treat money as it should be treated-end by mastering you.

Hence, more often than not, your clearly uncomfortable, as the joyous thatched houses stand blocks of flats, began with a shocking percentage of objectively, unsentimentally, and un-

due to the deliberale emotionally. But how many of us unhappy over-rich man who is afrold celebrations throughout the coun- rows of shops. The land on which literates, try at the hour armistice reports they dried their flaking nets is worth polley of the partitioning Powers, can afford to do that?

who wanted to keep thele victims not £1 a square yard. beur witness.

only in sertdom but also in spiritual Foolish Slogan

про

O nearly all of us money, Lest we forget Hitler's real smash darkness. It must be depressing to the

whether received as pay- man-in-the-street. how and grab aim, please note that you German over dulled, by propaganda, when he could see as many as 40 or 60 ships have built 10,000 elementary schools, ment for work we do or na interest bo in the 700 acres of Gdynia's harbour so no wonder the percentage of chil-on accumulated savings, is a personal learns that, though Poland crushed, he will for an indefinite basins, protected by breakwaters dren in school soured from GG in 1921 matter. Our private budgets are the two miles and a half long, equipped to the intest Agure of 03. It would measures of our inaterial lives. So period be short of meat, short. of with automatic radio beacons and spon have been 100 per cent, but much comes in yearly from our work

Hiller stepped in.

or our savings. So much goes out clothes without any soap, and that submarine oscillators.

Then, with her limited resources, is, the best which the regime can

Lower our Income or put up our promiss him. H

From here went negular passenger Poland created soclal services that services to North and South America. may now disappear-community cen-expenditure. Either way, we squeal. It In clear that ¡the ; Allled › chal-ġ In and out, moved 40,000 passengers ties, summer camps for children, And the people who.squent loudest lenge

feeding in the schools. In my experience-are the very peo Is disturbing. Hitler's a year. To make this artificial port supplicant the prospect is dark. ple who are always ready to preach: "peaca terma shows thatthe out of the scrub and send cost the

"Money doesn't mean happiness."

But in the last few years the Pales

for our expenses.

That slogan is not even "kob-atul

Lack of money for reasonable needs, these including enjoyment, will sour any body except a saint..

Fuchror has been thinking over it. Foles £12,000,000, but it will always "We needed another 10 years of to complete the creation of The "armistico" "celebration show stand nk symbole of Poland's crono- race wound," said sits attache at It is sheer balderdash, that the German people have also mic dynumier, though the name of the Polish Embassy to me.

Poland may vanish from the map? ANTENN and the name of tidynia be changed show that she deserved that peace.

Lest we forget, Poland's 20 years into some German form.

Leen thinking over it. They, the people, will think dangerously.

Someone in Germany Is going to remember that "the last battle Britain ́always wins."

In a few years, then, this new' port built up a trade in which it handled

Emrys Jones

Saints, however, are rarities; and the average Brilon, though, he dit- ilkes being told so, là just as fond of money as his neighbours across the

of losing his persessions. Hence, and hence only, your debtor who is al ways no certain that he'll be able to "tot you have it back by Monday". and never doen,. '.

Both such are Jnoncy - slaves, though neither of them, in my opinion, is worth much pity.

Such pity as I have for money- slaves is reserved for the vast majority who won't find it too easy. to pay that extra twopence on ten or that extra penny on petrol.

All the same, they'll do it," and without too much grumbling. Nor should the botter off grudge that extra income tax.

Because even thoro-and, bellove it or not, they are still legion-who have never been taught the difference between Preferenco share and un Ordinary know one meoning of the word "Security."

It's always worth while paying out money-down to your very last" bix" pence for that!