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to do what he can to strengthen the Lends of peace and goodwill among men, nationally and internationally, throughout the world. After having carried out the mission which has brought me to the Orient, and having travelled a little about China, Mrs.
BOUND AND GAGGED.-
ROBBERS-TAKE POSSESSION
OF TWO HOUSES.
who formerly lived in Japan, and day with their faces covered
£480,000,000.
agree with that proposition also. Has like an intended reversion to the our reviewer been guilty of cant? We point that our reviewer's wording cannot see it. We read the censured may have touched a snobbish nerve in sentence as meaning on the face ofor, eritie: but it wasn't. It came it that he (the reviewer) is aware of round by accident, corrente calamo. the convention that treats the dead Nevertheless, since there is no detect
Details of two robberies committed as in sanctuary, that as 21 rule heable cant in the passage complained espects it, and would prefer to do so of, we have to guess what words in
Rockefellerand I are looking forward to in houses occupied by women ouly at OIL KING'S FORTUNE KSTIMATED here, but that he has been constrained was that our critic "resented" as
spending three or four weeks in quietly the time, come from Tseka village On Mon- br other circumstances to perpetrate | "canting. putrorizing. offensive,
AT £480,000,000,
visiting Japan Mr. Roger S. Greene, in Salkung district.
fort anamed morning n breach of it. In effect, he claims Victorian. barbed. painful, and
We to have the decent instincts of a annoying."
read ja his
his wife will be of our porty during men Son of John D. Rockefeller, the that time. Thus, before sailing for with handkerchiels entered house No. gentleman. wishes his readers (or letter that he "resents them Terr some cf them) tu know that, and much", and instead of replying, as book-keeper who became the richest home, we are hoping to get a com-32, during the absence of the men at One of the two women hopes that they will see that the we well might have done.resent an on earth, after getting control prehensive view of this beautiful and market. special circumstances excuse
or and be slammed", we have argued of America's oil industry and creating
intruders shaking her roughly and warrant his lap.
long looked forward to visiting." On the worst with hin here very patiently and in the Standard Oil Trust one interesting country, which we have occupants was awakened by one of the
नई the greatest financial COD-
saying get up and give us your construction, he is boasting that he painstakin ly, in the hope that per-
money." They forced her to open. puts his sense of duty before his sense haps the thoughts so stimulated mashinations in existence John. D. of what is agreeable or expedient. shed for him a bright light into the Rockefeller. Jr. accompanied by MR. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER'S her chest of drawers from which they extracted five 10-cent pieces. They There is no caut about that, unless dark comers of his own psychology, an immediate party of seven
then awakened the other women you diatly disbelieve, and regard as a This indicates the presence of a right, arrived in Hongkong this after-
bound and gagged bath of them, and lie, his statement that because a measure at love in us, does it not, for noon on the Canadian Pacific Steam-
tied their hands to the bed pott. certain thing was written by a young that We of all people should be ship Company's liner "Empress
The robbers left after spending man who has since died. he would accused ofcunt" of all things is—is of
Manila. The party, whose tour in the!
Mr. John D. Rockefeller, the
about half an hour in the house have preferred not to say much about-well. perhaps we had better say no
and proceeded to tha house ir. Out critic has not described it as more just now. The mercury shows South is being conducted by the American oil magnate, car have few
next door No. 53, which they a lie. If he had, our reply would signs of thing, and if we let ourselves local Standard Oil manager, Mr. rivals to the distinction of being the
entered in il simila: manner, have taken another form. Within the get hot we might reveal our censor's Walker, is staying at the Hongkang wealthiest man in the world for, ne-
Hotel. Mr. Rockeller, whose father has cording to Mr. Heary H. Klein, the bound and gagged the only woman last few moments, while copying the name,
already given orer £20,000,000 to the First Deputy Commissioner of Ac- words complained of. another
Foundation-his total counts of the City of New York, he isnt and ransacked the place, stealing from A heavy tin box suspicion flashed into our mind. Can
fortune is estimated at £180,000,000 worth about $2,100,000,000, or, at the
under the bed $73 came to Thins to attend the opening normal rate of exchange, £480,000,000, money, 4 place of jewellery exercises of the Peking Ction including his holdings in the Founewerth So and a 10 shillings gold itsations and the wealth transferred to piece. It was not until several hosts The Exchange Banks will be Medical College which
Foundation. his family. "Foundations" are large afterwards that the much frightened existence If so, we hasten to say that in using it closed for the transaction of pubic Incidentally it is interesting to recall amounts of money put in trist for and exhausted women were released | our reviewer was utterly unconscious business on Monday, October 10,
that John D. Rockefeller Senior, who various public philanthropic
by their male folk on their return Ltd. of it in that sense he not being a
froea market. is now years of age, began life as a purposes.
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it be that the teal offence is the re-
ference to the dead author na "a young man." that this phrase strikes our critic this friendi as disrespectful. }
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The United Athletic Club an holding their first annual Aquatic Sports meeting in the V.R., bath on Saturday, commencing at 3.40 p.m.
snob. Any objection to such a simple | Mrs. John Glover Wilson. lecturer English phras could only be based and war correspondent. arrived here jen a snobbish sentiment. We should to-day by the R.M.S. Empress of
from Shanghai. apply it as innocently and unconscious | Russia ly to the Prince of Wales, or any other young nat. If out critic repudiate this suggestion, which occurs to us when noting his further reference to the passage as a patronizing and offensive phrase in the Victorian manner. we shall accept his word A collection of Japanese curios. for it, and return to our first suspicion also a selection of silk embroidered that he has been annoged by some kimonos will be sold by Messrs. Eam- thing quite apart from the passage mert Bros. at public auction to- complained af. a suspicion we have morrow afternoon.
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MR. ROCKEFELLER'S ENTOURAGE.
PARTY NUMBERING ABOUT THIKEY,
RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD.
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The refusal of. Cantou oil wilt proprietors to grant more holidays in It is a book of figures which make the year has again caused another the brain reel. In it is given a list of strike. The oil mill workers had only 175 fortunes over £2,000,000 in value just returned to work after the previ- which have been left during the pre-vas strike when the trouble came to a sent generation.
The first five are as follows: Andrew Carnegie (highest
amount owned) Frederick Weyerhaeuser
(estimated) William Waldorf Aster
(estimated).
head.
£60,000,000 of the business development of the United States. Then every man was £60,000,000 seeking to advance his own personal interest. Especially was this true in £10,000,000 the oil business, when my father first
Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Junt.. Mrs. and Misa Rockefeller, came to China with a party numbering about! thirty to attend the opening and Charles W. Harkanas.... £31,000,000 went into it. Quickly realizing, dedication of the Peking Union Oliver H. Payne... £30,000,000 however, the needless waste of such The Carnegie fortune was made in conditions he soon began to get steel, the Weyerhaeuser ic lumber, the together the leaders in the business Aster in New York land, and the and gradually developed the principle Harkness and Payne in cil.
consider just. Our main purpose! The Imports and Exports Office in writing (always allowing for the will be open for all parposes from fact that we hare to write about some-3 a.m. to noon on Monday next. All Medical College. thing is to defend ourselves against licensed warehouses will be entirely this shocking and entirely unexpected closed on that day. charge that we have been guilty of i
C.S. DYNASTIES.
Mr. Rockefeller's immediate party includes, in addition to Mr. and Mrs. Rockefeller, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A.
of co-operation which has since Leen Ryerson, of Chicago, Miss Pauline A.
so widely adopted both in the United Bennett. Miss Lilian M. Kline and
According to Mr. Klein there are States and in other countries and Mr. Charles G. Heyett.
more dynasties in the United States) which alone has been able to bilag Other members of the party are that existed in the Old World. "Their together adequate sums of money Dr. J. A. Armitage, Trustee of weath power is greater than all the and adequate forces of men to meet Peking Union Medical College, and King-power combined," he says. the vast demands which are made Theirs is the power of life and death upon the great corporations of Dr. J. G. Clark, Professor of Gyne-over the whole human race.
cast. We would not take the same] A meeting of the Hongkong toarle to defend our good taste," Hockey Club is advertised for 5.30 because of taste there is no disputing. p.m. on Wednesday, October 12, ia We think we can, however, appeal the Hongkong Cricket Club pavilion, with every confidence to the judg- kindly lent for the occasion. ment of our regular readers, on the accusation of cunt. Against cant Mr. II. Percy Smith returned to | Miss Armitage. and hambag the China Mail wages the Colony this morning by the almost daily wat. For sincerity and P. & 0, s. Dunera" completelycology. Laiversity of Pennsylvania.
There is the dynasty of oil and * In the philanthropic work plain speech walmost daily plead. restored to health.
Dr. Thomas Cochrane, Founder and the dynasty of copper, the dynasty of which he has established this same Show us rant, and we will uproot it, staying in Switzerland and Czecho- first Dean of former Calon Medicul beef and the dynasty of coal, the principle of co-operation operates,
in the spirit of the scripture which Slovakia.
says we must cut off our right band |
He has been
if it offend. Convince us of cant and The eighth annual Aquatic Sports we will repeat, apologise, and reform, mecting of Queen's College will be Do not, Lorever. Ulanie us unjustly: held in the V.R... bath to-morrow do not point out cant, or pretend to afternoon, commencing at 2.30. Mrs. see it, where cant cannot be shown. E.. A. Irving will distribute the prizes where cant most clearly is not pre- at the conclusion.
sent. ence
This critic says this refer
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond C. Foster to his dead friend occa sioned him pain. a thing which, of Beaton, USA., arrived to-day by if the fault were ours. we would feel the R.M.S.Empress of Russia" sorry for. There are, however, pains from Shanghai. The Fosters have only which we can and do inflict without recently com from a trip through remorse. The pains which snabbish Japan, Korea, and northers China. people feel, which ignorant people are
College, Peking, and Mr. Thomas Cochrane.
Dr. G. E. de Schweinitz. Professor of Ophthalmology. University of Pennsylvania; President-elect American Medical Association.
of
modern civilization.
dynasty of steel and the dynasty of Through the Rockefeller Founda. railroads, the dynasty of gas, electric tion, the largest of his philanthrophies. light, and traction and the dynasty of my father is aiding in the improve. ships, the dynasty of tobacco, the ment of public health in 35 countries. dynasty of telephone aud tele throughout the world. graph, and the dynasties of a hundred other things in essential use by the
Dr. S. S. Goldwater, Superintendent Mt. Sinai Hospital: Expert and Coa- people. sultant in Hospital Organization and Administration.
"But the principle of co-operation as applied to individuals and groups in business and philanthrophy is Rockefeller is the Colossus that equally applicable nationally and in- bestrides the world. The Rothschilds ternationally and in the various re- Dr. J. B. Grant, Member of Staff of in Europe, whose wealth is estimated lations of mer... No man can International Health Board; As- at two billion dollars (£400,000,000 live unto himself alone or can any scciate Professor of Public Health and approximately), and the Guggenheimus; nation. Individualism is no longer Hygiene, Peking Union Medical Du Ponts, Vanderbilts, and Astors, possible in civilized society for either College; and Mrs. J. B. Grant.
whose family possessions approximate man or nations. In cooperation Dr. R. T. Leiper, Professor of half a billion dollers each(£100,000,000 alone lies the hope of the future." Helminthology, London School of approximately) are subordinate to Tropical Medicine.
Rockefeller."
Or
RETURN TRIP.
بيعة
The
into the China Mail net it is "cant." We would rather fail to catch the subject to, which careless, suspicious An advertisement in this issue unique specimen we are after, than or jealous folk may suffer, concern us announces that a general meeting of include that. Yet we have just been not. We consider them less ever members will be held in the Old Union Medical College, Director of
Hongkong Automobila Association
Dr. Paul Monroe, Trustee of Peking; accused of it. A passage in a review than the surgeon considers the sensa
RELATIONS WITH CHINA. The party is expected to reach Teachers' (of all possible articles) has been tions his operating tools may cause. Chamber of Commerce Room, City School of Education.
Japan on the return trip on October pointed out and stigmatized as a Let us tell here an illustrative story, Hall, on Tuesday, October 25 at 5.30 College; and Miss Monroe.
ME. ROCKEFELLER ON CO-OPERATION. 17. Mr. Rockefeller intended return- "casting" one. Our reviewer Ic About thirty years ago, in a little P..
Dr. F. G. Peabody, Associate Pro-
ing on one of the State" ships, but marked that because the author of a country town where there were two
fessor of Medicine, Harvard Medical; Replying to an address of welecme he and his party were so comfortable PEARSON-MALAOLM. - On Septom certain item was dead, he would have newspapers, a market gardener and
The Honging Jockey Club's School; Resident Physician, Peter at a time given in his honour by the on the "Empress of Asia" on the ber 21, 1921, at Cheloo Charles preferred not to say much about it, greengrocer died. One of the rews fourth Emkhana meeting will be Bent, Brigham Hospital, Boston; and Shanghai Chinese General Chamber of outward voyage that reservations have
held (weather permitting) at Happy Mrs. Peabody. Gerge Gordon Pear of the but that as it had been the subject of papers, written and edited by
Commerce, Mr. John D. Rockefeller, been made for the return trip. Chouse Goverment Sale R-gross representation elsewhere, kejournalist, reported with profound Valley on Saturday, October 8. In Mr. J. C. Reid, Trustee of Peking said that there were two ties which party will therefore return on the venue Departmest. eldest son of murst point out certain things about regret the untimely denise of an stewards invite the ladies of Horg. Reid.
an advertisement in this issue the Union Medical College, and Mrs. bend him to China. The first was "Empress of Asia," which sails from the late G. R. and Mrs. A. C.fit. That, says one of our readers, is esteemed citizen whose avocation was
the tie of business through the Yokohama on November 19. Pearson of Clift. Bristol. Engan offensive passage. If the reviewer horticultural" and who, in the course kong to be present.
Dr. F. F. Simpson, Pittsburgh, Standard Oil Co. Most pleasant had Pennsylvania. Land, to Durotles Pring'e Mal- felt like that, either don't say it, or say of half a hundred lines, was several
been the relations of the company A ROCKEFELLER STORY. colm, eldest daughter of Dr. and it and don't cant about it."
The Committee of the Hongkong We times referred to as the deceased
Sir William Szyly, Gynecologist, with the merchants of China. The Mrs. W. Malcolm. Chefco. are taking the effect of this to be that gentleman." The other paper, with and Kowloo Chinese Public Free Adelaide Hospital, Dublin and Miss second tie was humanitarian Illustrating the care taken to keep
if our reviewer must commit the a much larger circulation, and less School for Poor Boys states that the Smyly.
philanthropic. It was in this con- from the grandchildren of Mr. John indecency of criticising the cutput of space to waste on that sort of thing, Engineering Co., Ltd., of Hongkong Rockefeller Foundation.
manager of the Taikoo Dockyard and
Mr. G. E. Vincent. President of ection that he had come to the D. Rockefeller, the oil multi-million- Orient. His father's interest in China aire, the knowledge that they will oze deceased, he should do so without was written and edited by a young has kindly permitted it the use of the Mail.ntioning that he does it seluctant man who let us put it as modestly
Dr. W. H. Welch,, Director of extended over many years. A care-inherit the largest fortune in the PEXLIO APHVICE"ly, and as a disagreeable duty. This as possible) had some sense of literary ground floor of No. 4. Fourth Street School of Hygiene and Public Health, ful study of the needs of China world the New York Herald quotes a
is such extraordinary censure that we values, who preferred words of one Ho as the fifth school of the Hong- known is Tai Fu Street in Sai Wan
Johns Hopkins University.
revealed the fact that improve story attributed to Mr. Rockefeller are inclined to suspect cant in it-the syllable if they fitted the meaning kong and Kowloor Chinese Public FURPOSE OF BI VISIT.
ment in public health was one himself. Mr. Join Rockefeller jun cant of ne imitated by something He wrote: There died last night, Free School for Poor Poys, free of rent said Mr. Rockefeller in a statement to, health
"We have come to the Orient," of the greatest needs, for obviously has an estate at Seal Harbour, Maine, else altogether, and desiring to vent at the age of 63. Mir. Dash Dash, and that the Committee of the School the press, for the purpose of attend- well-being,
is fundamental to the where his eldest son is spending his bis irritation while concealing the true market gardener. He was a good wish to make public their many beattying the opering exercises of the Peking the prosperity of any nation. Heuce, is playing along the shera in an old the happiness and holidays. His favourite amusement cause of it. For otherwise the attack man, and all who knew him liked thanks for this kindness. must appear glaringly gratuitous and bim." Came then an angry letter Those who have kept a fresh-water unnecessary. "Let us grant for the Iron ons of bis daughters, a quite aquarium, and done their own collect purpose of the argument that it is in good young woman who sold good , will remember what happened shocking bad taste to point out faulta cabbages in her good father's shop, en they went after some particular in the work of the dead Let us but who, unfortunately, was a saob, sperimen in a ditch or poud with a concede that our present critic and read into that beautiful tribute a small hand net. They manwaved has been honestly shocked by disrespect that was
not intended the mouth of the net until it seemed that. If he had objected to that, and that was not there, Among Per P.M: 8.3.Golden State vester
A rcent windfall for American that a quick stoop must force the if he had asserted that no circums other things she wrote: My father day-Mesirs W. Booth. Julio Chavez, dsired animal into it, and they tances whatever can excuse such con- was not a man. He was a gentleman.". A. Davies, Mr and Mrs F. C. Fisher
a subsidiary organization of the co-operation. Co operation depends education is a gift of £250,000 for s #rooped. What an untidy, writhing duct, he would have occupied a posi-Full of the idea that whenever our laris, Mrs Mary Leonard, Mios Fazli Rockefeller foundation and was on contact.. It was Charles building to house foreign students at meas they looked at, generally, on tion los easy to assail than the ops own turn should come, we could wish Leonard, Mr C. Lombardini, Mrs E. D. organized to do medical and bealth Lamb, I think, who said, I cannot Columbia and other schools in New holding up the net! Mud, bits of he has got himself into, by the for no more splendid epitaph than Barbary Slurphy, Mr and Mrs 4. Me
8. Merchant, M . E. Murphy, Miss work in China.
hate the man I know.'
York City, of which there is most weed, wringing creatares not wanted, peculiar wording of his ensure. SachHe was a good man, and ali who Henzie. Mis Carl Orton, Mr Chas. B.
"This is my first visit to the While I have long shared my urgent need, because to-day in New all Figglely piggledy, and perhaps a position, though narrow, world have knew him liked him," we took Tipton. Me and Mrs M. Myer. Mrs A Orient," said Mr. Rockefeller. "I am father's sympathetic interest in China, York third-rate lodging house chargo biding the real object of the hunt. been understandable. We have, no steps to ense the pain we Ben, Mr J. W. de Bloeme, Mr H. V. Assume that in the ditch there are a lowever, his own argument, including were said to have caused. What Berzar, Mr Chan Harr, Bliss L. Desi-- looking forward with much interest my coming here has greatly helped me 12 weekly for the privilege of occupy- ques, Mr A. Ettinger. Mr SC. E to the opportunity thus afforded of to understand the Chinese people stding a bed in a third floor bark. The lot of venomous, unclean creature the offensive comment that provokes would have been the use. If she brahim, Miss G. Erro, Mrs. Feldstein, coming to know something about the their problem. Such interchange of gift is anonymous, but them is little which it is desired to keep out of the this reply, to show that he does not kept on being a noob, she would keep My Borley Horder, Mrs R. J. Harrison, great countries and great peoples we visits between the men of various doubt that John D. Rockefeler, Junior ner, and you have aur image that keep that position. He says, in effect, on feeling unhappy, for the life of Mr. Chi, M. Heimer, Mr L. Echippers are accing
nations is of inestimable value, as is is the donor. One of young locker" Me 8. F. Silert and His 16 L. Weix; Frill serve very well for a newsieper in the alternative condret he recomanob is a career of constant affronts
"My visit has no political or finan- the interchange of students under a schemes is to establish scholar- and the task of editing it. Things mends, that we may dd even that sees where and when not meant. The
cial significance whatever. I come preferor in our universities. chips here, the recipients being reep Now if there be one (criticise the dead, so long as we do not only way to end such paine is to cut left singapore on Oct. 6 for Hongkong interested in his fellow men and eager practically unknown in the early days studenta.
The Hyson" (Blue Tunnel Line) simply as a private American citizen "The principle of co-operation was restricted to the rest of poor tatious thing, we dainos draze to slip !~eantabout it. Very well. Let us out the snobbery, This looks rather and is due here on Uct. 10.
WE REBUT AN ACUSATION,
PASSENGERS.
DEPARTURES.
Mrs W. W. Barria, Hias Ferths E.
of B
Union Medical College, held in Peking the Peking Union Medical College, to rowing boat. One of his playmates. during the week of September 15th to aid in establishing high standards of a local boy, said to him one day:
and 23rd. This medicalcentre, consisting public health
education "Say, if I were you I'd have a fine medical and pre-medical throughout the Chinese nation. motor boat!" "Gee whiz! Who do school, a hospital and dispensary, a "A great fundamental principle you think we are-Vanderbilts?" zuras' training school, and the many underlies my father's business and replied the grandson of the richest buildings and residences necessary in philanthropic endeavours, and such man in the world. connection therewith, has been built success as has attended both," Faíd by the China Medical Board, which is the speaker, "is, by the principle of