WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1927,
THE VICTORIANS.
WHY THE GEORGIANS OBJECTED TO THEM.
I suppose the one man who does represent Victorianism is George Stephenson. Mr. Osbert Sitwell, in an inspired mood, auggested that the Victorian coin should be embossed with the re-
SIN OF BEING OLD-FASHIONED, llef of a funnel,"
John English writes in "Daily Mail"-
the
Hardly a day passes but some
undit pummels the Victorians,
They are derided, denounced
They are all reduced to pygmy stature by our own giants.
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The God of Science.
Away with them! Their sins are legion. But the greatest sin is that they came before the Georgians. In this they are in- evitably blameworthy.
To the list of deadly sins ing old-fashioned. be added the wickedness of
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"COMRADE" TOM MANN.
THE CHINA MAIL
HIS ANTI-BRITISH WORK IN CHINA.
of
WORK FOR THE BLIND.
JAPANESE STUDENTS
SUCCESS.
ing for his Ph.D.
OUT OF FAVOUR.
PAIN IN THE STOMACH. It is most annoying, as well as dis agreeable to be troubled with pains in the stomach, and there is no need of It, fer one dose of Chamberlain's Colle and Diarrhoea Remedy will allay the pain. Bold everywhere.
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RED SPEARS.
MASSACRE MOSLEMS, IN HONAN,
Peking, Sept. 13.
Red Spears in Huai Ching-fu,
ganisation. Mosques have been 'seized and used as slaughter- houses, while Moslem women have been forced to marry Red Spears, the message further adda,
It is understood that the local Moslems will bring the matter to the attention of Dictator Chang mediate steps to suppress the Red Spears-Kuo, Wen
POLAR CAKE
ITS QUALITY THAT COUNTS
worth- ··· telling-briefly. Son of a Rowntree when he was lecturing In mining expert, he was hoping to the Far East. Two years ago, with follow his father's profession, the aid of friends in Japan and of though his great love of beauty his scholarship, he was enabled to tempted him to art. He was plung- go to Edinburgh," for further ed into despair when, after many study. operations, it was clear that his While staying in London before At the fourth annual conference
Ten years ago a young engineer-sight was irretrievably lost. Even his return to Japan to lecture and of the National Minority Move- ment, opened on August 27, in Bat-ing student at the Wasuda Untually his mother managed to send to establish, as he hopes, his work Happy idea! The steam-en-terees, Mr. Tom Maun imparted very at Tokyo suddenly lost his him to the Kwansei: Gakuin the for the blind in Osaka, the great
some vivacity to proceedings which sight after a fortnight's illzeze. largest. Christian college in Japan, Industrial district where further Honan, are massacring Chinese gine is the symbol of our grand-ere not otherwise spirited by giv-Els whole future, physically and in- after he had learned braille at the help among the blind is sorely Moslems by the thousands, accord- parents' view of life. Even so, ing his impressions of the Nation- tellectually, seemed destroyed. Yet Osaka Blud School. Here he did needed, he la studying, bathing to a telegram received by local
to-day "this": young Japanese. splendidly, and won bis diploma and through his braille books and that does not exonerate them.alist movement in China, and of the studying in London, after spend a scholarship for his essay on through the offices of relays of Mohammadans. The telegram 81.53 They have mechanised the world. personalities with whom he came in ing two years at Edinburgh Uni- Milton's "Sonnets," for Milton is friends who read to him daily, and that the Moslems have incurred the and dismissed. Their men were They have made it possible for contact while there. A meeting foppish, selfish, narrow-sighted; us to fly to America and to ex-addressed by him at the Sun Yat versity where he has just got his bis great hero. And this is where also gaining all the knowledge he wrath of the Red Spears because of their women were but dolls, plore the atom. They invented sen Univeralty was anti-British MA, with distinction, and is read-/ Mrs. Iwahashi comes. In, Well | can of the Intest. methods of blind their refusal to join their or
educated and coming from a good education, and care without courage and character. Science more or less.
and, he declared, "you could put
But this is only a means to an family, she had been a nurse in a me down as the most anti-British end, Mr. Takeo Iwahashi told a tuberculosis hospital; and had join The Victorian home was
correspondent, who supplied the ed the "It-to-En" community, the temple of hypocrisy. The whole
of the whole damned lot."
In his connection the "Daily "Manchester Guardian" with the members of which offer their ser The Vic age, was a mistake..
TEACHERS WITH BOBBED HAIR. torian worshipped the wrong
Telegraph" recalls that it was Mr. story. "I have offers of a lecture vices free for all sorts of helpful gods. Their ideals were alike
Mann who, when the Concession at ship at one of the Christian uni- tasks. Their principle is that their Hankow was invaded, telegraphed versities in Japan, and I am going lives should be "like water trickling
*Tokyo, Sept. 19. incredulous and meretricious, Every age turns and rends its to the National Minority headquar-back to my country specially to debeneath the soil, unseen and un-
Of late, those who bob their hair This is no exaggeration of a predecessor. The crinoline and ters, announcing the disgraceful vote. myself to work among blind heard, but giving life to trees and
already flowers. Miss Yano, as she then are increasing in number among point of view to be deduced the barouche are too near to us fact that British gunboats were Japanese. There Are from prevailing literature to be either romantic or vener-anchored in the river, and pro- tighty schools for the blind in was, heard of the young blind stu-school-mistresses in this city. In Tso-lin and urge him to tako. Im-
claiming to British Workers that Japan, and many braille books in dent, and by reading to him and this connection, it is reported that about our grandparents.
able, Reduced to Pygmies.
They have not yet reached immediate action was necessary to English and German. But we helping him in a multitude of ways the educational authorities of the To defend any of the Vig that holy of holies, Antiquity, prevent a new world-war." It was want many more braille publica- tried to smooth his path. Especi- Tokyo Municipality, fearing that I would be the first to grieve for Mr. Mann who, at Canton in Feb- tions in Japanese, more statistics ally she assisted him in writing his such a fashion may influence on ex autobiographical novel entitled school children, will shortly warn Borians, however great, is to be the Victorians did I not know ruary, appealed to his Chinese au- regarding the blind, and an
of medical preventivo "The Moving Grave," from the these female teachers against bob- outlawed by the intelligentsin of how unkind they were to their Ism out of China for ever," inform-work." dience to drive British Imperial- tension
words in "Samson Agonistes.". bing their hair,—Toho, our time. Is "Pickwick" or
Mr. Iwahashi, who is a strong in- own grandparents. 'Copperfield'
ing them that "British Imperialist Mr. Iwahashi wishes to promote A great book?
Did not Thackeray and his pirates had filled history with many further interest in the welfare of tornationalist in his sympathies, Perish the thought. Could, G.
contemporaries with ironical bloody pages of the oppression of the blind, particularly in the spirit had also been studying Esperanto. F. Watts paint pictures, or
Geor- hundreds of millions." And it was of the relief work done by the This brought him into touch with quills chastise the first. Tennyson write poetry? Never.
Mr. Mann who, after the arrival of Society of Friends, of which he has a Quaker journalist in Japan. His gians? What of Gladstone....or Hux-
must the British Defence Force in become a member since he came to interest in Quakerism and the ap His story, and plication of its spirit to the solu- ley or Darwin?
Shanghat joined with his two cul- Great Britain. be-leagues of the foreign Communist that of his devoted wife, who has tion of social questions was atimu- Europe, I lated by meeting Mr. Seebohm delegation, a Frenchman and an accompanied him to But let the Victorians, and es- | American, in signing and publish-| A stranger suddenly, whirled pecially those remnants among ng an incitement to the men Into this crescendo of denunciaus, take heart. They will return that Force to mutiny. The three tion might imagine that the Vic- to favour some day.
signatories, briefly introducing torians were a species of bar- barian, that had consciously or
themselves as "the representatives of millions of workers in England, unwittingly blighted the world.
All those human people so truthfully recorded in the novels by Dickens and Thackeray, Meredith and Hardy, or in the paintings of Frith, Shotter Boys and Millais were "outsiders." Were they living to-day it is doubtful if we could allow them to be at large. Such is the im- pression we gain from the critics. Particularly is the Vic torian woman pilloried. That
have periodically, during the past is writing immortal two years, instituted massacres poor darling in her crinoline, silk verse, Mr. Edward Carpenter, and blood-baths such пя the shawi and poke bonnet.
an octogenarian, can yet offer Shameen, Shanghai, Hankow, and Fettered to a narrow conven- us a lively philosophical treaties, Wanhsien massacres, in which hun- tion, the servant of her husband, Lord Oxford might teach young dreds of Chinese were massacred unlearned, untravelled, a vacil-politicians to speak and to write, in cold blood. Only the other day. ating, fainting creature, she Sir Edward Clarke at eighty in order to avenge the six. Euro- was fated to represent woman at five is vastly entertaining, while peans who were killed by the pald Sir Harry Poland at ninety-ern Militariats, the British and agents provocateurs of the North- eight is the belligerent father of American Imperialists bombarded Bachelordom.
the city of Nanking, killing over 600 defenceless Chinese." It was pot. thought necessary to particu
arise the "untold miseries" inflict- neae, the substance of whose com- ed by our countrymen on the Chi- unto the nine-plaint against us that we have presumed to do for them à number of useful and profitable · things which they were unable to do for themselves. As for the allusion! Lo - "massacres," that is the con- secrated Communist formula in re-i ferring to resistance offered to murderous mob-violence; and the figures mentioned are merely figures of speech. The allusion to the Nanking atrocities is a master- piece of concentrated mendacity, with its imaginative account of the Nationalist soldiery, who ran smok in the foreign quarter, its descrip-| tion of the shelling of a small un- occupied area outside the walls as
her weakest.
A Dark Age?
This is all very sad. One bities the Vietorians even while one condemns them. The great Empress Queen has something to nswer for. The odd sixty years f her reign will surely go down o history as a dark age,
And yet, and yet.. You need not appreciate the bscurities of Browning or the eo-classicism of Lord Leighton o understand the Victorians. Bangerous is it to turn to the rtists for an interpretation of ny age.
When this century is passing into middle age. our own chil- dren and grandchildren, now in the nursery, will look askance at us, and put the Victorians back on their pedestals, →→
The Wonderful Veterans. Such is the way of time. Meanwhile, Lord Balfour at the age of seventy-nine is play- ing tennis and incidentally look ing after affairs of State, Thomas Hardy, nearing his
nineties,
Are these Victorians or have they the secret of eternal youth? Perhaps they, too, would disdain the good old times. In any case, here's a health teenth century.
HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER.
SCHEMES FOR NORTHERN
AUSTRALIA.
They are individuals apart,
Speaking to a deputation at requently wilful, always tem- Rockhampton during his recent eramental, Let the two or tour,
ree defenders of Victorianism ho are left beware not to sup- ort themselves with Swin-
urne.
the Prime Minister said that the Commonwealth Govern- ment had in its mind's eye the eventual establishment of a chain of hydro-electric stations around The Poet of the Pines was no Australia, so as to cheapen the före Victorian than are our manufacturing costs. of com- plendid Georgians. He has no modities, and thus enable Britain eriod. He takes all time for a to compete in the markets of the ackground.
world.. With one foot in ancient With this in mind, the Govern- reece and the other in medi- ment was considering its policy in al Europe, Swinburne is no regard to the import tariff on ictorian, in spite of his dates. such large electrical equipments et he is intelligible. Is this why as could not be manufactured
e Georgians despise him? economically in Australia,
(Vanesaver during Diamond, Jabḥne, woska. Lovrom"
ravelling in effigy on the Halfway that made: For possible the union of the Canadian provinces, the Fathers of --Confederation” recently journeyed from Toronto to Vancouver via the Canadian Pacific Rail way. Their trip was part of the program of a Van- correr: department store in connection with the Dia- mond Jubiles Celebrations, are WinRA The Fathers were sculptured in Toronto by *{r}s, Foster: after months of research among the archives, at: Ottawa,, Little did these stalwarta dream. that reproductions of themselvść would trays) in far
omfort than their res, qui vas could comman
addressed
France and America," to the defenders of the Inter- national Settlement "an appeal to their conscience as workers"; and some passages of the document are perhaps worth recalling at a time, when Mr. Mann is living in London a free man and taking the chair a political meetings.
"Besides the untold miseries
which the imperialists impose on the Chinese people," wrote Mr. Mann and his two colleagues, "they
a bombardment of Nanking, and worth recalling that General Chiang its imposing casualty-list. It is
Kai-shek, at that time the Nation aliat Commander-in-Chief, stated that six Chinese soldiers had been killed by the fire opened to prevent their rushing the building in which the Europeans had taken refuge, of their countrymen on board the and murdering them before the eyes warships. Mr. Mann preferred, in the interests of Communism, to put the number at 600.
HONG KONG WOMEN'S GUILD
AND
MINISTERING CHILDREN'S LEAGUE.
Fun o the Fair.
TO BE HELD AT
LEE GARDENS
on OCTOBER 1st, 1927
from 3.30 p.m. to 12.00 midnight.
Do you want Music?
There will be three Military Bands,
Massed Pipers, and
"1812" played by the Massed Bands,
Fireworks at 11:00 p.m.
Do you want to Dance?
There will be Dancing to
Whitey Smith and His Majestic Music Masters.
from 8.00 pm, to 12.00 midnight.
Do you want Food?
There will be Open air Tea Gardens,
Chinese Chow and the Kandy Kids Stall.
Do you want Fun?
THEN COME TO THE FAIR