At the forthcoming session at Geneva, inasmuch as many subjects of vital importance to India are to be discussed and in consequence of Lord Willingdon's report to the effect that India's representation, wax not adequate to her importance and size, additional members are! being nominated in order. to! strengthen the delegation. The chief subjects from the Indian point of view to be discussed at! the conference are the all important] disarmament problem—which will have a distinct bearing on military, and naval preparedness in India, and questions relating to the drug traffic, labour, and the white slave traffic. The two additional members are Sir C. P. Ramaswamy yer and, Khan Bahadur Sheikh Abdul Quadir who have already sailed for, Geneva.
Something in small revolution hi the nature of a occurred in the $3,000. Nobody in the company was to get more than $3,000 not even the president. When the difference between this amount and the salaries actually being paid to the executive in the organi tion among less than $3,000, the increase in each man's salary, was 28 cents a week, or $15 2 yes These reductions in salaries re: present, says Br. Roberts (vice-president of the National City Bank, of New York), incentives that are taken away from the heads of the enterprise—men whose talents are rare, and which, under existing con. ditions, cannot be gained by other means. Like everything else, agonal talent, whether in America, or China, or India or elsewhere, is, rare—when it is of high order. The more it improves the rarer it becomes. If, ax many theorists urge, the financial rewards paid to such men were divided up among the, others, the gain to the masses would be a mere drop in the lbucket—an amount so trifling that it would soon be wasted on cigars lor chewing gum. The loss in the rare directing qualities of the leaders would be tremendous."
Commander Moraes, the. Acting Governor-General has been deposed by' military' officers. It. appears that for. some months there had been friction over a decree issued by the Minister of Colonies at Lisbon which proportionately reduced the salaries of all civil and military officials in Goa. Much feeling. was aroused amongst the military] section of the community by the fact that the former Governor-General, Senhor Martins, gave only] partial effect to the decree, ordering} the ents in the salaries of the military officials only. These naturally appealed to the Minister of Colonies who confirmed the ial decree, Despite this, how. ever, the Acting-Governor Gene continued to support the action of his predecessor and wired to the Colonial office for confirmation of! through. In a spogch recently delivered by the Amir hie gave sonic interesting sidelights on the proj for modernizing the country. electric power house has been ordered to be installed at Jalalabad to illuminate the city and work the factories which it is intended to erect there. The Amir also foreshadowed improvements in irrigation and the inhabitants will be compensated by the Goverment for any' land required by the Government for roads, canals and public buildings. Iso to hand that a of inefficient officialdom is taking place and we may at no very distant date—that is regarded from the historical point of view—yet see~Afghanistan in the van of progressive nations in the his attitude. The Colonial Office then made a complete volte face and granted his request, whereupon the itary officers took matters into' their own hands, deposed the Acting "Governor General and] communicated their action to the Minister of Colonies. Altogether a pretty kettle of fish and apparently the Vacillating Colonial Office was as much to blame for the revolt as anyone.
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