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CENSOR MYSTERY,
WHY WAS "YOUNG WOODLEY" BANNED?
Van
away
from
SCHOOL TESTS.
USELESS TAIL TWISTER CRAZE.
PROFESSOR STUMPED.
And if there is vice or immorality dents.
in this, or a situation, indeat, more Ilkely to produce anything but a
feeling, I do not know it.
An Exquisite Mument.
answer.
"SAFETY FIRST.”:
IS ALL VERY WELL, BUT-
this is true.
fined. it
Faith and Fact. "
of trust.
THE CHINA MAIL,
* SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1928.
religion, as a timid mariner will CROSSWORDS LEGAL. A BLACKMAILER.
worse and worse,
BIR C. BIRONTS CONSIDERED JUDGMENT.
ner
TEST OF SKILL.
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It WRB stated that entries had to be accompanied
somo
research.
his
WOR
of
SERVANT DEMANDS "HUSH-
MONEY" FROM EMPLOYER
MISS A. AND MR. B.
man-
On February 7, Mr. "B" received a letter from him making allega- tlons against him and Miss "A." a
to be married, and demanding "enough hush money so that he (Wright) could go abroad.
structions, she arranged to meet pointment, but went to Miss "A's" Wright, who did not keep the ap house early one morning.
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seok any port during a storm. Their motto is "safety first," and in consequence they learn nothing, He who experiences nothing is made no wiser by solitude; he who ON TAKING RISKS. BEAUTY IN A PLAY.
made no shuns temptation is
Dr. Henry Longstaff, Arthur | John Wright, aged 20, a tests The word Adventure is in the stronger to reslat it. London, Feb. 14. New York. Intelligence
But why did I say that our Longstaff, his son, and Charles servant, was sentenced to three The play running this week atjare beloved of psychologists in air just now, especially in relation the Arts Theatre Club is Mr. John American education. They think to religion. It gives a title to the modern way of looking at the Burdett Rendali again appeared at year's peaal servitude at the Old summons for Bailey for blackmalling ̈his em the last book of Essays edited by world is favourable for an under- Bow-street on
the Competi-ployer, stated to be à man of good publishing Druton's "censored" play that by taxing the mind of "Young Woodley."
young people of the United States Canon Streeter. We are exhorted standing of the meaning of faith? |
Before the tion Racing and Football Win-position.
scheme for the sale The prosecutor was referred to I record that it is "censored" definite educational advantages are to "live dangerously," as Nietzsche The answer is this:
lottery entitled
in the with shame and regret. Institu-won and the boys and girls go out bade us. "Safety first" is all very age of science, not only was the
case as "Miss A." tions, in England, are the product into the world of business fully well when we are preparing to history of the universe cramped of chances in a
The Recorder: (Sir Ernest Wild, of the pubile that supports them or stamped from the educational mint. cross a street or board an omni- into an absurdly narrow compass,The New Blind Cross-Words," as "Mr. B.," and a woman
But these faddists have received bus; but in the great quest we but there was very little concep- There were also summonses against is too idle to abolish them. The censorship is the product of the n. Lasty sel-back from Dr. Frank must be prepared to run risks. Ition of history as having any mean- Dr. Henry Longstaff, Arthur Long-K C.), said that blackmail was the
what sense ing. It was believed that the unistaff, Edward Bates, and George public which supports it or is too MeMurry, Professor Emeritus of wish to consider in
verse was created out of nothing Richard Jeffs for publishing the only class of crime where there a sudden and stupendous aame scheme in the Racing and was a consensus of judicial opinion idle to abolish it.
Teachers' College, who sarcasti What is faith? A schoolboy de-by
that the naties of persons black- If "Young Woodley" had been a cally remarks of education in New
mailed as "believing what you miracle a few thousand years ago, Football Leader.
should not be published. play that advocated immorality or York that it impresses him greatly know to be untrue," which sounds and that it will be destroyed by
by Otherwise such persons might be a too well another sudden and stupendous vice, there might have been a case "I am still greatly impressed," he like a caricature of for suppressing it, or again, there says, "for on the whole it has been known sentence seldom correctly miracle in a very short time. "The
ઈ. for each aubsequent at tice.
Mr. Francis Peregrine, for the mighi not, The public is not in-abominable, and now we are movlquoted-from Tertullian. Frederick world is very evil. The times are a fee of 1s. for, the firat and afraid to bring an offender to jus-
tempt. Prizes of £600 and £100 fantile, and the public remedy for ing towards a worse system." Myers distinguishes between the waxing late-Be sober and keep
were offered, and £20 was distribut prosecution, said that Wright had a play likely to offend it in to stop He warned teachers against this bastard faith of theologians, which vixil. The Judge is at the gate."
ed each week to blind charities. been employed by Mr. "B" for two it. But Coung pasalon for tests, texts, and more consists in believing something on The whole story was to be work- six thousand Woodley" is a play about a young tests. Then he gave them one test, insufficient evidence, and the right ed out in five or
were 14 words in one competition satisfactorily, until the beginning man of eighteen in love, his first which he himself confessed he was idea of faith, as the resolution to years. Between those two catag. According to the prosecution there | years. He carried out. his duties 1st, In: Boston,
Yet it was stand or fall by the noblest hypo- trophic interventions there was an for which there were alternative of this month, when Mr. "B" had romantic and idyllic love, with upable to girl slightly older than himself. given the other day to his own stu-thesis. This definition is not very other the Christian revelation. solutions and it was contended that to go into a nursing home.
different from the familiar words The whole idea of history was the result depended upon pure Five Boys: Four Posers. of the Epistle to the Hebrews, that catastrophic. There was no belief
Sir Chartres Biron, in a consider This was the test: Henry and faith is confidence in the truth of in gradual progress: the natural chance and not skill state of heightened and exalted Sam are eight years old. Edward what we hope for, conviction of the tendency of humanity was to geted judgment, said the question was lady to whom Mr. "B" was engaged 5.3 o'clock.
(This is
not whether there was not a large is nine. Arthur is twelve. and reality of the unseen.
The Meaning of History.
or even preponderating element of Richard eleven. Henry and Ed-probably near the meaning of a
Therefore, until quite modern skill, but whether skill was entirely If the incidents had been treat-ward play together and like each difficult passage.)
times, there was little or no faith eliminated. He had himself spent
"If you have any respect for Miss ed 'indecorously from the point of other. They will not play with
us having any some little time in trying to solve A, the letter added, "you will He Protestant theology has restrict-in human history view of taste (which is to Sam, for neither likes him.
important
afeels the same towards them. They jed the meaning of Faith too much meaning. We were sent into the the competition, and he found con- do what I want you to do. Do not many people as
moral-both would be very glad to play explaining it as subjective as-world to save our own souls and siderable difficulty in guessing molest my girl friend in any way, of the words. He thought because she does not know I am the point of view of
It has some-to help other people to save theirs. ity), or if there had been any with Arthur or Richard, but they [surance
doing this."
Misa "A.," indecorous speech or any indecor-don't often have the chance, for times been assumed that this atti-But there was so little belief in perhaps that was due to
Mr. "B." informed. ous action, there might, again, these boys prefer those of their tude of throwing oneself into the the life of the race as having any stupidity, through never having
arms of Divine grace may dispense mearing or value that if God solved one of these competitions be who, said counsel, communicated have been a case for suppressing own age. the play. But there is no Japse in The students were asked to state: /us from the duty of forming chose to "shutter to bits the whole fore, but a friend who had had with the police. Acting under in-
(1) Which of the five boys would rational convictions, and of direct-sorry scheme of things entire" the considerable experience also taste or single indecorous word
ing our lives in accordance with day after to-morrow, that would unable to solve one or two of the or indecorous action, and the whole | Arthur prefer to play with 7
(2) Name two boys who disliked them: Faith and fact come to be be a quite satisfactory end to the words without a good deal of that side of the history between
divorced. Either they are suppos- whole business.
Some Examples. the two is summed up in one ex-leach other?
ed to be directed to different ob- This way of thinking about the
Conversation Overheard. A few examples were: Affray— quisite. faltering confesalon (3) Who play with boys of their jects, or we are told that the same world has vanished entirely from
of
Miss "A" telephoned to the De- love made by the boy and one kinajown age?
proposition may be true for faith the minds of educated people. We melee; to shell peas-sheal; make given, as it so easily might have (4) Whom does Sam dislike?
and false for science-in which are now taught that the earth is able-enable; ejects-ousta; pro- police. The result was that been given, at a moment of weep Dr. McMurry added that such
case we are on a quicksand, and something like 2,000 million years montory-ness; and, looking, at all tective-sergeant Mugridge over- ing.
tests, brought education to a low we are driven to play fast and old; that human beings, recognia- these facts, he did not think he heard the conversation between the able as such, have probably been could say that there was no element two while he himself was conceal- The Censor, even if reading tovel. And the trouble is caused loose with, veracity.
n million years or of skill involved, so he dismissed ed. through the love scenes with in-by an army of young Ph.D.3 who The soundest teaching about in existence
Wright then demanded £100. He The Faith is to be found in a quite more, and that there is no known all the aummonses under the Lot- tent to find fault, which was un-have never taught children.
of the tery Act.
anid that he had old letters and an likely, can have found no line that human element still remained the early Christian writer-Clement of reason why our tenancy
He planet ahould not be.prolonged for On the summons for appealing hotel bill to back up his demand. an infant would bhish for. But biggest factor in teaching, but test-Alexandria, about 200 A.D.
a charity In his sock was found a torn hotel divides the Christian pilgrim's pro- million years more, which will for subscriptions to the palpable reason, and the only ing was a small one." conceivable reason, for the play's) This example by the doctor can gress into three stages, of which give our social reformers plenty of which had not been properly re- bill, which was pieced together by suppression I presume to be. its casily be paralleled by others that the first and last are simple, the time to try every conceivable ex-gistered, Dr. Henry Longstaff was the officer.
Detective-sergt. Mugridge said) The first stage periment. "attack on the public school are given daily in the newspapers second complex.
Besides this we believe that all fined £5 and £2 29. costa.
that Wright was a native of Leeds.
In August 1926 he was system." Once the schoolmaster's and are taken from college course. is faith, the second knowledge, and
bound young wife, the girl who is in love Such tail-twisters are as popular the third love. Faith is an act of movements are gradual. They are
over at Coventry for theft. with Woodley, does say in so many as erass-word puzzles. But while rational choice, which determines not necessarily upward movements, eternal in the heavens." But these words that she thinks one part of they may amuse older people they to act as if certain things were nor does it follow that greater transcendent hopes will hardly re- December he stole a watch from
But it seems tive forces in the world in which
Wright admitted stealing the the system is of doubtful wisdom-are a dismal commentary on edu- true, in the confident expectation complexity implies greater value or main ours unless they act as crea-Warwick-square. that they will prove to be true. greater happiness. The upward path begins as an exquite clear that whether we call we live-that world which has been
taken into consideration. periment, and ends as an ex- the world good or evil, it is in well called "the vale of soul-mak- watch and asked that it should be The Recorder said that it requir- power to make it better. ing." perience. The venture of faith is our
Now all these "acts of faith" in progressively justified as we un-Time, for us, instead of having no derstand life better, till at last value or meaning at all, is charg the external world require courage ed a good deal of courage on the tremendous possibilities and a willingness to take risks. I part of a person blackmailed to knowledge passes into love, "which 'ed with
am no radical; but the kind of come into court. Fortunately both unites the knower with the known." for good and for evil.
Here we have a new task for conservatism which proceeds from Mr. "B." and Miss "A." had that Mr. John James Sainsbury, aged Thus faith is the first step, know-
task without which falth mere timidity is not to be com- courage. that, with its argument, for and 83, founder and head of Messrs. J. ledge the second, and love the faith,
But for Wright's youth he would was necessarily half crippled. mended. It is a curious reflection against, has been a commonplace Sainsbury, Ltd. owners of many third.
the average age of the have sent him to penal servitude "See that thou make all things ac that as A Kind of Courage. in every suburb for a quarter of a provision shops, left a fortune of century. Anyone venturing it as £1,158,615, 80 far as can be ascer Faith, in the Gospels, does not cording to the pattern showed thee population increases year by year, for seven years.
These are our the influence of cautious grey- would he tained. an original discovery
with net personalty meau believing something: it is an in the mount." 1qoked at with wonder. But on the £884,865.
inherent quality in the, mind. It marching orders, which before the beards may possibly be too strong. stage it is apparently the Censor'a He bequeaths:
is a kind of courage; an attitudejage of acience were very little at- However, the flapper vote will not
and is tended to.
tend in this direction; and possibly idea of an "attack," and as con-
An annuity of £200 to his house which favours adventure
Its op-
Timid Conservatives,
the younger generation, who have taining it "Young Woodley" is for- keeper, Emily Ferris, if in his ser- not afraid to run risks.
posite is not intellectual sceptic- We are not to suppose that life left school since the war, are less bidden a hearing otherwise than vice at the time of his death. private on the stage of London. Six months' wages to each of his lam, but worry, cowardice, or des-in this world will go on for ever. Inclined to play for safety than The inference might be that if the other servants who have been in pair. It can remove mountairs-All the tools and instruments, the their parents were.
Faith is a spiritual venture, and not literal mountains, but the ob-stage and scenery, which the
The death occurred on March 11, public schools seriously needed to his service for seven years.
stacles which sloth and cowardice Creator has provided for the per- does not imply an optimistic view be defended by such means, they £200 a year to Leonard Tubbs.
But those of Mr. George A. Macdonald, of had better disappear to-morrow $100 a year to the other execu-have put in our path. "Who doesformance of His great drama will of present tendencies.
the Co., Glasgow. Mr. Macdonald was morning. As the public schools tors during the continuance of the the utmost that he can will whiles be scrapped when the play is done. writers who have emphasised the the firm of Macdonald, Stewart and
That will not matter. "Though buoyancy and courage of do mair." are certainly capable of surviving trusts of the will, and
earthly house of this genuinely Christian character, have a director of many rubber com The residue of the property, as Now I think it may be said that the it, the better inference is that the disappearing might be done by the to one-seventh each, on various the modern world is in a better tabernacle be dissolved, we have done good service-Dean Inge in panies in Malaya and visited there
trusts for his children, George, position to understand what Christ a house not made with hands, the "Evening Standard," Censor,
James. Lilian Weldon, meant by faith than the ages which The supression is additionally Paul
one-went before us. Faith is a deci- Dorothy. and Elsie, and provoking in this case, as the play, seventh in trust for the children sion of the will, a sort of wager with certain rare and lovely mo ments in it, is always on the level of each of his deceased daughters, in which we decide to trust life of being worth seeing, and the net-Alice Symons and Loulsa Hankey, to justify our best hopes.
the part of the system that keeps cation in America. young boys of the impressionable ages from fourteen to nineteen off!
cially segregated from the
fluence of women.
A Commonplace.
It is a point of view that is not
unknown. It is a point of view
MILLION WILL.
FORTUNE FROM PROVISION SHOPS.
to
It is
The will, dated June 25, 1925, not the attitude of a mers onlook- ing is some of the most purely with a codicil, is proved by hisler. "In this world," said Francia beautiful that has been seen in song John Benjamin Sainsbury, Bacon, "God only and the angels London for a long time past.
Arthur Sainsbury, and Paul James may be aspectators." Faith implies The play is not always on its best Sainsbury, all of Stamford House, something to be done as well as level. It gete a little melodramatic and Leonard Tubbs, of Moorgate-something be belleved. It and unskliful towards the end. street, Chambers, E.C., solicitor. brings imagination into play-ima The best things in its seemed to Fortunes From Provisions, gination, which for the ancients the first act (the dialogue | There have been several great was an idle play of fancy, but among the house prefects), the fortunes left by provision mer- which for Wordsworth "is reason first meeting between the two, and chants in recent years. +
in her most exalted mood." Like the confession of love, exquisite, as
Wordsworth Mr. John Musker, a pioneer of Coleridge,
me
distin-
1 have said, to the girl. But it was multiple shop trading and a found-guishes between imagination and difficult at all times to know how er of the Home and Colonial fancy. Fancy is an idle thing; much was being put into it by the Stores, left estate last year of imagination is closely allied to rea- actors.
2875,387, the death duties amount-son and practico. So allled, it be Young Actor's Brilliance. ing to more than a quarter of a comes creative; when it canses to he creative it turns inwards; and Mr. Frank Lawton, a very young million.
Mr. Henry S. Bennett, chairman becomes neurotic and unwholesome."" actor whom I admired extremely
a vision which always for his playing some months, aga of a Midlande provision company, Faith is..
Mr. George Smith prompts to appropriate action; if for the Repertory Players, gave a left: £149,941. performance of a sensitiveness, a Ollerenshaw, chairman of Hunters, it fails to do this it soon. retreats
and vanishes
heer beauty, that cannot be over. auto dreaptand, and
aisad. If the play, had to wait Four years ago Mr. Frank Hey-away.
a couple of years, as it did, before wood, of Croydon, a former chair- being produced in London, it was man of the Home and Foreign Pro- worth It seeing that chance led to duce Exchange, left £352,406, 7' bis playing the part now. (In-] -----
Men Like Darwin.
We shall make a great mistake
if we overlook the part which the creative imagination, which is
clden fly, he must learn not to kina, Mr. Derrick de Marney, the faith, plays in all noble endeavour, look away for so long from the per- little fag, Master Tony Halfpenny Buch, for example, as scientific dis
covery, Men like Darwin are
son, he is speaking to. He nearly (is this a possible name, the possessed with the Idea of a great spoilt a last-act scene by it. It is house-master, Mr. David Horne, principle which will explain the stage convention, and a bad one. and the boy's father, Mr. Aubrey way in which nature behaves. people who are fond of Mather, played line for line up to They work as if it were true, and er parting, say, at a rail- the author's intention.
hen they can think There, in an easy way
the
they find that nature also behaves as if it were true. 32-
This is exactly the way in which religious faith proceeds, and in oth cases It Is the method of ad- venture. Bome religious "bédple,
apondanger yt koy: lly most dogmatic and pozitivo
PROMISE
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Mr. B. W. Fleisher, publisher of the "Japan Advertiser," of Tokyo, arrived in Shanghai with Mr. and Mr. Mrs. O. Russell, of his staff.
House Hotot. Fleisher Is staying at the Astor
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6 p.m. Evening Prayer: Preach- er: Rev. H. A. Wittenbach, M.A.; Subject: "Duty to our neighbour."
Monday, 2nd April, 1928.
6 p.m. Special Service for Scrip- ture Union.
Wednesday, 4th April. 1928. 6 p.m. Evening Prayer, Litany & Address.
Thursday, 5th April, 1928. 7. a.m.: Holy Communion. 6. p.m. The Choir will render special music.
Good Friday, 6th April, 1928.
11 a.m.: Morning Prayer & Ser-
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6.p.m.: Evening Prayer & Litany; Preacher: Mr. J. H. Hunt.
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Sunday, April 1st, 1927. Morning Service, 10.15 o'clock. Subject: "The death of the
Cross."
Preacher: Rev. J. C. Knight Anstey.
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Evening Service, 6 o'clock.
Preacher: Rév. J. Kirk Macona-
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