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the barbarism of the primal phrátries. It is still barbarism.
It is still
It still
ALLEN. On October 8, at Porta bar to civilization.
Erin, Isle of Man. to Mr. and cherishes the seed of militarism. Mrs. C. S. Allen, a daughter.--
With all HAYIM.-OT November 19, af NATIONALISM. respect
Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Hayim, a son.
THE CHINA MAIL:
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THURSDAY} NOVEMBER 27 1919.
"
STEAMER OVERDUE.
ANYO MARU" MISSING.
1.CHINA MAIL." SPECIAL."]
stranger. It was once necessary to
A shrewd critic might he no longer believes in resurrection, SPECIAL CABLES. survival."Ere's a stranger: let's A CRITICISM_NOW make answer and we will publish the news of his 'eave 'alf a brick at 'im" is a
with this question. | resignation when he resigns. The classically modern expression of an "Does not your faith and trust in same report quotes Canor. V.F. Storr ancient sentiment, a sentiment, be evolution as a sort of divine process as saying that the clergy have begun it noted, which is essentially pat-teach a policy of inaction? Does it to realize the truths of Biblical riotic. It is also essentially un not in the midst of an earnestly criticism., For various other startling civilized. It is militaristic. It is struggling world compel you to sit opinions of similar character readers incidentally atheistic, implicitly deny with folded hands, helpless, unhelp are referred to our contemporary. ing the common fatherhood of God, ful, useless? If so, why live?" The and repeating the crime of Cain. It answer to that is that it does not. was a barbaric virtue; it is a civilized anymore than it leads a religious man who trusts in God to do nothing. Rationalism and re There is a difference between fussing LET REASON ligion are not foes. and helping. There is a meaning to
Indeed, to make your
watch and pray "which gets over-1/48. religion effective you looked Watch comes first, and it must let your reason worky There means to be intelligently obser- is no such thing as a
and passionate vant
ready to help. conviction; that is a contradiction For instance, in politics it works. in terms. Instincts, produce pas-this way. The enthusiastic sions; reason produces convictions. party politician is tremendously busy Hongkong Hotel to-day from 4.30 to The progress of civilization, itself hustling old ladies into the wrong.
sin.
WORK.
LOCAL ‘AND GENERAL.
་
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE OLD ADAM: "THE WOMAN THOU GAVEST,"
[To the Editor of the "China Mall."T
Sir,
hereby withdraw my letter in your issue 26th inst. My wife, a convinced conservative, stood over
To-day's dollar is worth 5-ping circles for the "Anyo Maru," which is four days overdue from Hongkong.. It is feared she has to see a missionary friend. Apologies. encountered a disastrous typhoon.
SINGAPORE, Nov. 27. Anxiety is expressed in local ship-me with a poker as I penned it, and my principles had to be sacrificed to
marital felicity.
She has just left for Cheung Chào
To-day's return of communicable disease is another "ni" -
7
L
A tea Dance will be held at the
"Chaksang.."
a part of evolution, involves the tramcars, regardless of where they F.m. overcoming of instinct by reason. want to go. The enlightened man
All goods ex 5.3. Reason is evolving) we cannot say it watches. If he sees an old lady has yet evolved. More men are attempting to get into a 'bus, his pot cleared by November 29 will be swayed yet by instinct than by rea- falth tells him she will probably subject to rent.. son. Our reasoners are our eminent succeed. It will take time. but men, and we see them backsliding she will get in. His intelligence tells
The King of Stam will shortly into instinctive inconsistencies, like him that in all probability she knows start on a trip through the Allied the German professors in wartime. where she wants to go, and that this countries. His Majesty will visit Dr. Chatley says that
except in is her right bus. He will quietly also, the United States. highly developed individuals. reason | STEP forward and gently help is powerless to control cúmulative her. He will not get excited mass-suggestion." As we have seen, it can be powerless to check in those individuals instinctive impulses re- maining as an inheritance from their barbarous progenitors.
NESS.
Ladies are reminded that the
There must Eave been a terrible typhoon on the Kowloon side yester day. We note that one editor's face was almost entirely denuded of vegetation.
and shout to the policeman to stop Cup presented by Mr. Congdon will the traffic. (Banana-skin legislation), be played for to-day over the Deep He will not butt her in from behind Water Bay Golf course. (militant reformers). He will not take an axe and chop the bus to pieces to widen the entrance. (Bol We assume he was shevism.) He will not seize her and GREGARIOUS wrongly reported pull her back, advising her that she about gregariousness.is safer where she is. (Conservatism). which is not the Ner will be elbow her aside to get expression of the necessity for an himself. (Patriotism). He will, wider preservation of life than in as we said, keep his head, see what the individual alone." Gregarious-is wanted, and quietly do his bit, re ness is an instinctive impulse due to membering that she is an old lady. the need for individual self preserva and that the bus has a long way to tion, and it implies the presence of inimical individuals or of another and inimical crowd. True gregarious- ness, in the sense of communal safety, would melt all human crowds or flocks into one, as Christ wanted.
big stove from the The huddling of one fleck carries. S. Court for China, displaced by the implication of exclusiveness-it an up-to-date system of steam is a coming together to exclude. a heating. We happen to remember
dividual.
One of the Shanghal A SHANGHAI papers notes
STOVE. disappearance of the
The Amurrican con-
the
man.
"The Philistine not only ignores all conditions of life which are not his. own but he demands that the rest of mankind should fashion its mode of existence after his own."
The death occurred at Shanghai on November 21 of Mr. Edward Wheeley. The deceased, who was 78 years of age, went to Shanghai many years ago, joining the firm of Alired Dent & Co.
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SERIOUS RICE POSITION IN MALAYA.
(CHINA MAIL SPECIAL.]`
KEITH WEST.
BOMBS FOR DINNER.
[To the Editor of the "China Mai."][
*
Sir, The milk and Water character of my article was due to my fear lest Keith West and others like him should withold their support, poems, and advertisements from your paper
SINGAPORE, Nov, 26. At the Federal Council, the Acting High Commissioner, the Hon. Mr. F. S. Janes. stated that the rice and have dinner with me. Lenín is If you want the real stuff, come position in Malaya is very serious. my dearest friend, and I buy my
may be bombs from Bela Kun. Youri Only a restricted crop
SOLON. expected in Siam next year. Economy of rice and an increase in food pro duction is essential.
CH'OI CH'IU KUAN AT THE TAIPING THEATRE,
GETTING HOME FROM ST.
ANDREW'S BALL.
To the Editor of the " China Mai!."}
Dear Sir,Will you kindly oblige This Society by drawing the attention of those who are going to St. Andrew's Miss Pik Wan Ha, the famous Ball to-morrow night, to the effect that Chinese Actress whose photo we the Police Authorities have very kindly reproduced the other day, acted the relating to the use of hired cars after agreed to waive the traffic regulations
role of Ch'ai Ch'in Kuaa at the Tal-1 a.m. For Saturday, the 29th inst. ping Theatre last night. She was, of cars may therefore be hired from any course, helped by the other actresses of Garage after 1 a.mt, without contraven the Company. Her acting is so good, ing regulations. Yours faithfully,
P. TOD. Hon. Secretary, that it is attracting nightly, a large
St. Andrew's Society. audience of Cantonese theatre goers. Hongkong, Nov. 27, 1919. As is well-known Miss Pik Wan Hz.) Cerrainly. Tis done. It was in→
sensible. Someday we hope to be
language or yer the acting. It must rention that this traffic regulation
Consignees are reminded that all be observed that the Cantonese actors is as fntolerably presumptuous as the act quite differently. Instead of curfew: Whose grandmother invent criticizing the acting, it would appeared it, anyway?-Ed. C.M.]
more interesting to give to be our readers the story o! the play. Su Mu the Chinese patriot, (86 B. C.) who was imprisoned by the Hans
December 7,
THE FRAWLEY · COMPANY.
The comedy presented by the F-
was worthy of better
A mariage has been arranged, defensive alliance. In origin it has that stove, and are wondering if the and will shortly take place, between is a Northern actress and generally deed " very kind" of the Police to be an individual and selfish Impulse.
old fashioned American lawyer has
Captain Michael Hughes, barrister-at- that of dividing the attention of disappeared with it. We recall one law, formerly H.BM. Consul in China, such do not interest the Cantonese, able to announce that the Government the pursuer, which
consule planca, who stalked up and explains the instinctive fear of a lonely dra'h. down the Court flour, hands in and Victoria Cecilia Carpenter, of who cannot understand either the has very kindly" admitted our con→ We see how in the course of evolu pocket, while addressing the Judge. Gainsborough, lately of Peking. tion the crowds or flocks have grown
At frequent intervals, without any bigger. The English patriot claims appreciable pauses in his argument, to have become a British patrior, and her expectorated at the square after that an Empire patriot. If we opening in the face of the stove. take his word for it, he stands seif He never once missed his aim. Each convicted of an offence against nation- time there was a fain: biss. It was alism. By his actions in making like this, most fascinating. "I tell the Empire he has shown dislike you, Judge (tramp, tramp) you caint of nationalism. Perhaps the objector spl:) do ur.
At St. John's Cathedral, yester for 19 years, was being returned to lay Company last night, "The Mis at Shanghai had this in mind,
stitootion (tramp, tramp) don't (spit) | day evening, the Bishop stated that and wished to show that racialism is allow ut. Section (spit) so and so of the building of the new Church at China, when Han Chiu Tai, (Chinese leading Lady, a larger patriotism than nationalism. the laws of (spit) so-and-so make it Canton was being retarded owing Emperor); accepted to send hie fav patronage for it again showed the It is not. Our Empire has may surely evident that (spil) to the authorities having taken a ourite concubine, Ch'iu Kuan, as a ability of the artists to turn into a suc
We wrote A sketch contrasting races, not one. Loyalty to the Empire, is not patrictism, for the this scene with that in
portion of the proposed site for the tribute to the Tartar Emperor. Sucess what might otherwise be a com
plate failure. The plot is somewhat Mu, however, brought back the news similar to that of "Scandal," for empire contains more than the father-awfully solemn and dignified court construction of a new road. land. It is not nationalism, for it kept by Sir Hiram Wilkinson, the includes mary nations. It is not British Judge. Sir Hiram enjoyed it, of Mr. A. A. L. Tuson, of H. 8. M. ing herself to be polluted by the a silly prank with a strong minded.
The engagement is announced that Ch'in Kuan, instead of allow Helen Steel (Miss Vera Doria) plays and bought a dozen copies. The racial, for it is of mixed races. It is American Judge enjoyed it, and Consular Service, eldest son of Mr. Tartar Emperor, had cast herself man in leading him on to the inevit probably a delusion, varying in conception according to the bought us a drink. Which of these and Mrs. F. E. Tuson, Canörta, into the river and was drown able proposition of marriage and Usen appreciations we most appreciated Eastbourne, and Miss P. D. Innocent, ed. Her sister, Ch'oi Ch'iu Kuan tells him she did it to aid her friends, would make a good problem for a daughter of Mr. J. W. Innocent, the role played by Miss Pik Wan in a thoughtless wager. The similar- Herein we have been prize contest. We write of many Commissioner of Customs, Wuhu, Ha last night was one day in the ity of the two plays comes in when garden of her house, where she fell Jack Craigen. (Mr., Albert Morrison) CLEAR trying to think clearly, years ago. The lawyer whose and Mrs. Innocent.
asleep. She dreamt that a goddess, abducts his temptress and forces her accurate aim so impressed us was a THINKING. to help you to pure
Mr. Montague Beart, whose Sai Wong Mu, came to advise her, to play up to the rules she herself reason. Yet we know handsome, fine figure of a
death occurred His name was Holcombe..
at the Shanghai that she would be chosen by the has formulated. We are then givent many of you will-instinctively,
General Hospital on November 20Emperor to take the place of her another exhibition of an imitation of proper
passionately denounce it as an un- to the
Last evening's China after a short illness, was one of dead sister in the Imperial harem," The Taming of the Shrew." idolaters of Scott, of the All-Father (which concept
patriotic article. Even the worshippers OUR MOTOR Mail extra told a Messrs. Butterfieid & Swire's oldest and also gave her some instructions
shrew" is not exactly starved into abt know involves the common sonship of all
startled Hongkong employes. Joining the firm in Hong. in the use of arms, at the same time submission but she is chained up like everything. He had at least the men the Buddhist going logically criminals are becoming.
how up-to-date its kong, in 1885, he was for many years giving her three magical, arrows a dog in order to bring her to repent- ignorances of his period. When he further and saying of all living amusing to listen to the comments Steamship stores in that port. After death of her elder sister. The next carry out their parts admirably, hold-c
It was in charge of the China Navigation with which she was to avenge the ance. However, the two players speaks of the man 'with soul so HEALEY GIBSON.On Septem- dead" who does not prefer his own, Creatures) will denounce us as un of the public as our special edition wards he removed to Chefoo, where day she went to the Imperial Palace ing the stage alone for some consider-
ber 9, at Maindee, Leonard his native land, he conveys a false and an obstacle to civilization. How convinced that the kinema had a lot Butterfield & Swire's agent. In 1916 before the tablet of her deceased on the audience.
patriotic for calling nationalism a sin circulated. More than one were for many years he acted as Messrs. to perform the usual ceremonial rites able time without inflicting boredom Charles Healey, of Shanghai, to impression and helps to confirm a
in this possible? Dr. Chatley answers. Elsie Mande Gibson, Newport. barbaric virtue which has ceased He aferme "the ignorance of the pleaded more than once for a com returned.
to do with it; but although we have he retired and went home, but soon sister, when she was seen by the there is a newspaper reporter (Ameri HALEY-HUGHES,-On November to be virtuous. The convinced balk of the individuals of all nations petent censorship of films and yachtsman.
He was an enthusiastic Emperor, who took a liking to her. can) personated by Mr. Homer Bar 19, at Shanghai, George Arthur cosmopolitan has not a "sul so
She was duly married to the Emper ton and a lunatic (harmless), acted by Haley, of Hexham-on-Tyne, to dead." He has an atrophied instinct the whole of some nations. You kinema is to blame.
and the almost complete ignorance of posters, we cannot agree that the
cr, and before many days elapsed, Mr. Daniel Frawley, and both are The kinema Dorothy Constance, only daugh-In his case rational civilization is
A Sacramento despatch, dated news came that the Tartars had really funny. We shudder to think have instinc's, but not know teaches, we believe, that in the end the 1st instant, says that the Call- crossed the barrier, Ngan Mun Kuan, what would be the fate of the local ter of Mrs. A. J. Hughes, of overlaying instinctive barbarism.
You have passions, but the criminal and the villain is always fornian Legislature has adopted a and that General Li Kwong was reporters were they to take their cues ledge. Shanghai.
He should be admired, not sneered at no intellectuality. You WILSON PRIESTLAND,On People whose instincts are still strong to be ashamed of yourselves. Use the pupil, and not the lesson, that sion to enact legislation for the con- an envoy
ought defeated. Is that not so? Then it is resolution, demanding a special ses- defeated by them: September 23, at Colney, J. G. will not agree. It is a curious thing your brains. Invest them.. Make is at fault.
arrived from. General from Mr. Barton, for he walks into Because stupid people trol of Asiatics. It says that the Li Kwong, that Profesor Wilson should have them earn interest. When you pray misread and misunderstand literature, menace of the control of California's Inforcements.
peoples'-private houses, unannounced, for ro-
keeps his hat on in the presence of Chiu-kuan, Highlanders), only son of Mr. and failetice that
-agricultural lands by Asiatica has seeing that the time for revenge was
ladies in their own drawing room, Mrs. G. C. Wilson, of Shanghai, mination and the principle of his Thy kingdom come" stop to think we do not blame literature.
what it means. It means civilization.
It is to quizz the been increasing so rapidly, that it come, offered to the Emperor to go
commandeers the telephone and alto- to Dora, youngest daughter of League of Nations are irreconcileable Civilization means the same as GENTLEMEN, diction only, and not threatens the white race. It is con- to war herself, and requested that gether acts more in the manner of a Rev. H. and Mrs. Priestland of Nations" handicaps it. It should and hatred, and intolerance, and and very necessary sentiment, that reach such proportions, that they will left for the Northera frontier with
civilian," the opposite of military,
the wholly admirable tinues at the present rate, it will soon he should accompany her. They detective with the power of the law Colney Rectory, near Norwick. .be
behind him. To be sure, he was suspicion, and fear, and war.
we start this note on an utterance by be beyond control. The menace can re-inforcement, and Ch'oi Ch'iu-kuan some reporter," Mr. Frawley car- The enlighten-Mr. J. W. Jamieson, our Shanghai be checked by appropriate legislation, came out to meet the Tartar general ried out a difficult part that had no THE ENLIGHTENED ed man (des Consul. It seems the men returned which is needed immediately. The who was himself a magician. On medium. It could either have been MAN, cribed by Dr. from the war have forgotten their extra session is for this purpose, and being defeated in fair fight, the Tartar extremely funny or utterly ridiculous.
Chatley
cameraderie and reverted to Treaty should be called not later than resorted to magic, and caused abig He did not fail, however, and his an EVOLUTION. gest fact and the the "highly developed individual" Fort snobbery." Mr Jamieson said January 8
to the Whizzbang" Football Club: very rare) is not "a
"You should not be divided because and not
nation- นี
one mad is in the Navy, another is more than he is fetichist. He "breathes
in the Police, and others are in firms
MARRIAGES.
P. Wilson (Lieut. A. and S.
DEATH.
BEART. On November 20,
Shanghai, Montague Beart..
The China Mail.
'TRUTH, JOSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE.
ADVERSARIA,
Sir Walter did
'self deter
things. The very name "League of
OF,
at
League of Humans, sincere Christians and คะ other religionists have said, a League of God's Children. Nationalism bars the progress of civilization.
Evolution is the big
truest truth. The and man who does not believe in evolu- patriot tion is more silly and more wicked alist, any
09
3
BANDITS.
than an atheist. Moreover, evolution soul to dead" that all his snarling or hongs. A gentleman is a gentle.
with
These barbaric instincts were children
Cosmo-
:
MACAO NOTES.
A grand parade of all the military
asking Ch'oi
fact,
The
For comic relief
bell to appear in the air which chased ties kept the house in roars of laugh- Chiu Kuan, ready to cover her up. ter. We should like to see Mr. Fraw- Ch'iu Kuan took one of the arrowsley in comic parts more often. given her by the Goddess and shot at To-night will be presented "TIME It, when the bell disappeared. The Man Who Carne Back." Tartar again summoned the help of
away by Ch'iu Kuan. With the third a huge dragon, which was also shot
arrow Chiu Kuan shot dead the PRELIMINARY WARNING. Magician general, The Chinese troop then went forward and sur
The management rẻ, the” China rounded the Tartar Capital, and Mail desires to prepare the wives and ultimately released on his promise to satinday aftenging for a shock qu pay tributes yearly.
them in advance. Their men folks, will approach them at that time with strained 'faces, hoarvely "repenting : A MILITARY MEDAL AND this morning."
these words: "I killed my taipan.
AN O.B.E.
Wait and see Saturday's Chias, Mail-Advt.
is the king whe can do no wrong. instincts derived from the jungle ran by birth; he is not a gentleman forces in the Colony will be held on of evolution. Therefor they were are suppressed or at least con- by occupation." We smiled over Dec. 1 at Tapscac ground followed HONGKONG, THURSDAY, Nov. 27, 1919. right. But that is not to say that troiled by reason. He is what that. It sounded so much like say by a demonstration along the prin
ing that born gentlemen cease to cipal streets. they are right now, or that they your Kiplings leer at as a will be eternally right. Evolution polouse." He is the "jelly-bodied Consul tried to say was quite clearly day in commemoration of the Revo- took prisoner the Emperor, who was mothers of Hongkong for a shock o carry on the business. What our The 1st of Dec. is an official holi climbs on stepping stones of dead international," "the **invertebrate rights to higher rights, to righter little Englander." He is all those this. "A bara gentleman is one lution of 1640 in which the Spaniards The report we have of rights. Patriotista was necessary. contemptible things you have so who has had the privilege of the up were driven from the Portuguese
Nationalism was necessary. Patriot often repeated, like the parrots you Portunity to become one, by gentle Throne. the Shanghai Quest QUESTETH, Society's discussion of ism and nationalisms were right in are. But by God he is on the crest No honest employment is more gen- i under the command of a 2nd Lieut.
nurture, training, and environment, ce see if their appropriate stage of evolution. of the front wave of evolution, or tlemanly than another. Distinctions are stationed at Portas do Cerco, the probably not a good summary. Dr. If civilization really is evolving, they elee there is no evolution and no between wholesale and retail, Govern Gate separating Macao from the Herbert Chatley may be presumed to are becoming wrong. If human God. He is emancipated from race know the subject better than the nature really be perfectible (which prejudice; he is civilized man. Once ment and civil, professional or trade, Chinese Territories," newspaper report makes it appear.religionists affirm and cynics deny) the Chinese as a people seemed to are snobbish." That is what he meant,
The local P. 0. has issued One speaker complained that the these are worn-out ekins it must be getting on toward trire civiliza and that is true. It is information again another surcharged stamp of 12 distinction between racialism and shed in a sort of moral ecdyals. tion, but now, corrupted by the bad as much required in Hongkong as in cents. nationalism had not been emphasised.
WHOSO
· There is a difference; but there is also
a relation which be probably ignored.
The basis of all these forms of xeno
pho, including tribalism, parochia Him, cliqueiam, and clannishness,"
the same. It is an inheritance from
example of material success in outer Shanghai..
The trout in the barbarians, they are reverting to in-
XENOPHOBIA. pool, the wild beast stinct and its murderous ways. The
in his own jungle enlightened man would argue with
OPINIONS.
About one hundred new soldiers
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A soiree will be held on Sunday The Daily Press. this the 30th inst at Macao Club in com morning quotes the memoration of the Restoration of Dean of St. Paul's as Portugal. My
haunt, the dog in his own street, the Christ Himself, but note this, he saying that "he could not pretend to Englishman in his castle, the villager would never crucify Him. It is in himself that the belief in a resuscita-WALLA WALLA Laushen in his village, all feel the stirring of stinct, not reason, that crucifes; tion of our bodies stood where it
this instinct to resent the intrusive passion, not conviction, that killa,
did." Wo'interpret that to mean that
Blake Pier Night and day str gion,
An interesting function took place, this afternoon at Central Police Station, when His Excellency the Governor presented Captain Monteith, D.SO., with the Order of the British. the Military Medal Empire and Sergeant Hutchings with
Particulars in to-morrow's Chine
Mail.
EARLY COLDS.
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