TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1928.
THE CHINA MAIL,
HARRY ORE'S PUPILS. CHURCH & WORKERS, now extended her protection to him
1.
GIVE AN ENJOYABLE PIANO RECITAL
THOROUGHLY ENJOYABLE.
There was a large audience
the St. John's Cathedral Hall evening when a piano recital
Ore, the well-known local instructor,
last
same
music
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under the new conditions. Her first step was to assert the dignity of labour. As I have already atat- ed, before the birth of Christianity labour was held in contempt, as a
Martyred blessings which
pro-Freed slaves were admitted to the priesthood, and were even raised Included in the programme were to the episcopate. In the year selections from some of the leading 221 St. Calistus, who had been German masters, whilst pieces fugitive slave, and was later to from the lighter realm were chosen die the death of a martyr, was from Kellog, Chaminade, Debussy raised to the Chair of Peter as Christ's Vicar over the Church on Earth.
and others.
The playing by the pupils gave evidence of much understanding of technique which made their contri-
Those taking part in the
were
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recital
the Misses Ethel Banker, Dareen Ma, Pheobe To, Rosic Choy, Grace Ho Tung, Lei Wa tsuen, Daisy Ma, Albertina d'Eca Remedios, Mary Ahwee, Elizabeth
Dunbar and Mr. Donald Anderson, CINEMA NOTES.
"THE ACE OF LADS"
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
AT
MICHAEL ARLEN ROMANCE,
ish actors,
'structure
enee
Better Times.
At the
the
men
in
Refuge for Oppressed, Thus we see that as in the begin-
use that
The craft gilds were really $ the Catholic Social Guild have done union of masters and workinen, and are doing splendid work, and which gave the gilds a character a Catholic Workmen's College has quite distinct from any trade asso- been founded at Oxford to train clation of modern times. We read young Catholic workmen to take Blood of Christ and was destined
of frequent squabbles between dif- their places ne leaders in the labour for Heaven; one who was n bro-degrading necessity which was ferent crafts, and opposition to new movement. In China, where there ther in Christ and the sonship of only for slaves and unworthy of regulations issued, by the municipis a Catholic population of over two God. The slave was received into free-man, at the Church with the same cere however, in the Church which was disputes between musters and work nothing appears to have been done A great power arose, allty, but there is no evidence of and a quarter milions, little or monius as his master; he partook destined to establish throughout men in the same trade until towards the formation of a purely was of the same sacraments and ob- Europe the diguity of labour: that middle of the 14th century, when Catholic labour organisation. With given by the pupils of Mr. Harry tained the same graces and the power was the monk. Of the many the influx of villeins into the town times that of all the other Chris- |
privileges. slaves were venerated by the Orders have conferred upon society and upset the balance between sup- Catholic Church would appear to be a Chinese membership about three monastic increased the number of workmen than bodies in China together, the The programme was long, and came to assist at the Sacred eltation of the dignity of labour.
Church, and their former masters few can compare with their resus-ply and demand. diversified, and a very enjoyable Mysteries over their tombs. St. Anthony teaches his monks To
ነጻ be solicitous about three things cessive labour by her festivals, movement, guiding it on the path of evening's entertainment was
At the same time the Church pro-position to exercise a powerful in- a particularly advantageatte tected the workman against ex-luence vided.
manual labour, meditation on the
on the Chinese labour Psalms, and prayer. "Compel thy- which afforded the necessary rest prudence and diseration and coun- self," "he says, "to work with thy and recreation. On Saturdays and selling against violence and the hands, and the fear of the Lord eyes of festivals all work ceased at destructive doctriness shall be in thee." Meenrins and St. Pacomius,
So with St. mid-day.
of Russian and other agitators. The natural And To-day. St. Basil tells his monks that if fast-
How different is the condition of movement are Shanghai and Can- contres for the Chinese labour ing hinders their work they must labour to-day, Salvery and serf-ton: in the former city, with its eat, for they are the workmen of dom have long disappeared, but In- huge Catholic population, there are When, with the conversion of the of St. Martin and St. Columbanus. tions between masters and
Christ. So again with the disciples stead of the happy personal rela- many thousands of Catholic work- butions very acceptable. The tho-Emperor Constantine, who was re- St. Benedict gives the key-note to which were to be found in the old a good English education. Is it roughly enjoyable recital reflected ceived into the Church an a cate-the rehabilitation of labour: work craft gilds, we see the labourer too much to hope for, that we may men. Some have probably received high credit on Mr. Ore
the chumen by Pope St.. Sylvester I,, is the leading iden of teacher.
the Church emerged from the cata-hady.
soul and dominated by the power of an in- yet see cons, slavery still entered into the mude for the success of the Bene-him he feels there is but little Catholic Social Guild of China-
This was the spirit that visible capital between which and abroad-under the auspices
some of theso men sent of a of Roman society. But aletine monka throughout Europe, sympathy. The relations between for courses in Social Science at the the harsh authority of the masters, every country, within whose walls as to cause anxiety as to the future ford and similar institutions the Christian emperors curtailed Great monasteries were founded in capital and labour to-day are such Catholic Workmen's College at Ox- took away what Hadrian had left every kind of labour was gathered in the minds of all students of his other countries? of their power of life and death, together and sanctified. By the tory; but the wide ramifications of and legalised his marringe. From monks whole countries were chang-merce so entirely, dependent upon ning the Catholic Church was the granted to the slave redress at law labour and the example of the the complex system of modern com- the doctrine of the brotherhood of ed, great forests were cleared, all in Christ followed ennacquenees marshy lands were drained, waste currency and credit-and the exi- refuge of the oppressed and the as to the rights and duties of men. lands were reclaimed, and barrencies of competition-especially protector of labour; as she fought respect for which was incompatible wildernesses wore tilled. with the maintenance of slavery,
international competition, in for slavery with determination but with the result that, as the influ-
Church's Activities.
eign markets-render a solution of with prudence, counselling against of Christianity increased,
the problem extremely difficult. any attempt at violent change, a slavery was modified, declined and strenuously worked for the manu- ed. The Bolshevist has tried his-set herself to combat the present same time the Church Many remedies have been suggest council of prudence, she has to-day with the same purpose and the same finally disappeared. The Rational mission of the serfs. Sir Thomas he has destroyed everything of the evils, while guarding against the ist historian, W. H, Lecky, in his Smith, a Protestant Councillor of old order through carnage and pil-destruction of the complex and de- Adolphe Menjou, who is often History of European Morals, thus Queen Elizabeth, thus speaks of the lage-but it remains to spoken of as being the best testifies to the work accomplished abolition of serfdom in England: whether the new systera which he know that dressed men pn the screen, has a by Christianity: "Christianity broke "Since our realme hath received is endeavouring to erect on the control the chief causes of all labour be seenlicate machinery of commerce. We dual role that of villain and hero down the contempt with which the the Christian religion which makes ruins will materially improve the troables--the greed of the capital- in "The Ace of Cails," Para-master had regarded his alaves and us all in Christ brethren, and in condition of the Russian workman. ists and the excited passions of the she has the power to mount's latest picture which planted among the slaves a prin- respect of God and Christ conservos, Throughout the world the workmen workmen because by her religious comes to the Queen's Theatre to- ciple of moral regeneration which men began to have conscience to have combined in unions, or gilds, organisations, embracing both mas- day and to-morrow. The story is by Michael Arlen, the famous expanded in no other sphere with hold in captivitie and
such ex- British author of "The Green equal perfection.
Its action in treamac bondage him whom they must have seen here in Hong Kong and wonderful influence which God has
to defend their rights, and, as we tera and men, she can Hat," and the cast includes was unceasing.
procuring the freedom
of slaves acknowledge to bee their brother, China, at times open war is declar- entrusted to her over the human The law of the and as wee used to term him aed between capital and labour. no fewer than six Brit Emperor Constantine which placed Christian..
Adolphe Menjou the granting of liberty to slaves continuance of time, and by long and the seemingly impotent efforts while, from the records of the past, Upon this scruple ini
heart. The master knows that she plays the part of a dissalute young under the superintendence of the succession, the holy fathers, monks to arrive at a solution, what has she has a powerful claim on the In the midst of all the perplexity is bound to the principles of justice, guard's lieutenant, who, having clergy, and the many measures that and friers in their confession, and reformed for love of a woman, is gave special faculties for manu- especially in their extreame betrayed by a false friend.
the Catholic Church done to and Hemission, symbolised the religious deadly sicknesses, burdened the prove the lot of the workman? As he was a slave she took him to her in-confidence of the workman. When comes back twenty years later character that the act had assum conscience of them whom they had she is Catholic, and flourishes under bogom and nursed him into full, free only to kill a second love that ed. It was performed at Church under their hand: so that tem- every form of government, so she manhood: when he was a serf she, the first may live. The plot then festivals, especially at Easter, and pornle men by little and little, by accepts the existing Industrial arin the person of her monks, work- takes a distinctly unusual turn, though it was not proclaimed a reason of that terror in their enn- rangements in all countries, and great skill is shown by Luther matter of duty or necessity, it was science, were glad to manumitte all demaing where they diverge from the rough clothes that he wore, ed beside him in the fields, wore Reed, the director, in the working always regarded as one of the most their villeins." out of the complicated situation acceptable ways of expiating part
the principles of justice and ex cheered him in his tail, cared for The picture has actual outdoor, sins."
. When all lands were placed tending her sympathy and active him and fed him when he was sick scenes of London, Paris and the
under the feudal system of tenure, influence to mitigate the hardships and needy, and ultimately won for parade of a Guard's Regiment, this crent social evil, the former where the various crafts were es- ably read at one time or another craftsman she taught him how to When the Church had eradicated the settlement included the towns, of any system. You have all prob him his freedom: when he was a and, although an. American pro- slave class, which had been reliey- tablished. From the craftsmen the the celebrated encyclical, Rerum combine for a common purpose in duction, conveys an excellent Cri-ed from the degradation of per lord exacted a proportion of their Navarum, on the condition of the gilds which took the constitution of tish atmosphere throughout.sonal dominion, though in a post product instead of labour on his working classes, which was issued of the religious gilds for a model Supporting Adolphe Menjou is tion of self-dependence, Alice Joyce, another favourite, enjoy personal liberty as we now ed, the lords' exnctions multiplied, cyclical devoted entirely
did not estate. Later on, as trade increas- in 1891 by Pope Leo XIII, an
and of which religion was always so while other members of the cast understand it We shall consider with the result that the craftsmen labour question. The contents of his friend and his champion, and strikingly a part. Through his include Norman Trevor and Philip one section of this new freed class of each town found it necessary to this encyclical are well known, and to-day the
centuries of struggle she has been Strange.
as an example. The great Roman form themselves into a general as- have commanded the attention and activity of her labour organisations conquests had brought huge estates sociation or gild in self-defence. respect of the world. The Holy shows that the fight for his welfare wonderful world-wide in many countries under the con- The lord had then to deal with the Father defined trol of the Roman aristocracy, whole town, and the result was that and responsibilities of employera therein the duties The cultivation of those distant most of the differences between and workmen, and his thorough
is still for her a labour of love. A lad who has been pampered estates wan all his life by his mother is the class of men who held allotments ed on a system of compromise.
entrusted to a new him and the craftsmen were adjust grasp of the difficulties of central figure in "The Sap," or farms in return for a prepor- '
the which comes to the World Thea-tion of the produce and
situation and his sympathy for the tre to-day and to-morrow. Dur-number of daya labour on the rept
Town "Gilde." a fixed
labourers were evident ing the war, the mother's boy is nf the estate. These men were called of which included all the citizens, no question whatever, that
This town gild, the membership he wrote, "and there can
throughout. "But all agree," grapher-typist for solicitors' offler. Experienced Steno- drafted to France, and through a coloni. The frruption of the bar formed the nucleus of the munici
be Apply P. O. Box 387. mistake he is credited with hav-barians destroyed the Roman Em- pal corporation. As the towny remedy must be found, and quickly ing effected the capture of pire and its institutions, and it was grew larger and more prosperous, ness which press so heavily at this twenty-two of the enemy and is not until the settlement under and the lords grew needy from w moment on the large majority ofHE Undersigned havo received
found for the misery and wretched-
PUBLIC AUCTION. decorated for his supposed Charlemagne, who adopted the sys- and extravagance, the citizens were bravery. Back home he is ac-tem of the. Roman coloni, that a able to negotiate for charters, by the very poor. The ancient work- claimed as a hero until the town permanent arrangement was come which, on payment of a lump sum
men's gilds were destroyed in the
Instructions to sell by Pubile bully steps in and reveals the to for the ownership and cultiva or a fixed annual fee, they became last century, and no other organisa- fact that the lad is a coward. tion of the soil. Charlemagne r- entirely free from further exac- tion took their place. Public in- After many humiliations and tained fiscal rights over the whole tions and undertook the manage-stitutions and the laws have re- struggles, however, he finally vin- land, and granted to his nobles ment of their own affairs. dicates himself in a terrific fight large tracts in freehold, which they developed gilds for
Then pudiated the ancient religion. Hence by degrees, it has come to with the bully. Kenneth Harlan in turn sub-divided into estates crafts, founded to preserve the in-pass that working men have been
Individual is ably supported by an excellent held in tenancy for Hife. As a re- terests of the craft against the or- cast which includes Mary McAllis-sult of the very disturbed comil dinances and regulations of the less, to the callousness of employers given over, isolated and defence. fer, David Butler, and Heinle tions prevalling these tenents for municipality. Conklin.
As the whole town and the greed of unrestrained com life gradually became independent in earlier days had organised itself petition. The evil has been in- of their superior lord. They built into one gild against the exactions creased by rapacious usury, which,
Hatstand, castles, handed on their estates of the lord, so now each craft form although more than, once condemned Couch and Chairs with Fancy to their children and established ed a separate gild to defend the in- by the Church, is, nevertheless, Cretonne Covers, Large and Com- a real proprietorship over the land tereats of the craft against the en- under a different forri but with fortable Armchairs, Silk and Em- With Blanche Sweet as the which had at first been held only actments of the town authorities, the game guilt, still practised by broidered Cushions, Silk and Net heroine and no fewer than four in tenancy for life. The only ser. These gilds usually took the con-avaricious and grasping men. leading men, the screen version vice which they rendered to their stitution of the existing religious to this must be added the custom Porcelain and Lacquer Vases, Lac- And Curtains, Carpets, Large Satsuma, of the play by Victorien Sardon, liege lord was of a military nature. gilds as 4 "Diplomacy," will be the
model, and adopt of working by contract, and the quor Tea Poys, Brass Ornaments, new Thus arose the feudal system, 'ed many of their observances. concentration of so many branches Marble Busts, Picturea, otc., etc., picture at the Star Theatre to- under which each class rendered. Thus religion formed an integral of trade in the hands of a few in- day and to-morrow. The leading service to the class above it, and part of the craft gilds from the be-dividuals, so that a small number of Teak Dining Chairs, Teak Side- Teak Extension, Dining Table, men are Neil Hamilton, Matt in which the lowest was the labour- ginning. So evident is this that it very rich men have been able to lay board, Teak Glass Cabinets, Tables, Moore, Arthur Edmund Carewer, serf or villain who held a small has been observed that, reading upon the masses of the very poor a Silver and E. P. Ware, Glass Ware, and Earle Williams. The story portion of land in return for ser their statutes, one might fancy yoke little better than slavery Dinner Service, Ten, Sets, Electric opens in Deauville, Europe's vice on his lord's estate.
that the old craftsmen cared only itself."
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an international conference of diplomats is taking place. The The condition of this serf, or times amusing instances are record the whole Church and to the whole etc., plots and intrigues of the secret villein, varied considerably accorded of the customs observed by these world, and their Influence has since Teak Bedstead. Teak Wardrobe agents of different countries, each ing to the temper of the lord and gilda. For fastance, it was the The result has been to create, or Dressing Tables, Chest of Drawers, one striving to secure an import the amount of service exacted. He practice in some gilda to make the foster, a general Catholle labour etc.,
been evident throughout Europe. with Bevelled Glass Doors, Toak ant document, makes the picture had his own house, his own pigs, change of officials during the sing-movement in every country," with extremely interesting and gives his own cattle. The law gave him ing of the Magnificat at vespers. the object of taking effective means Requisitos a remarkable insight into the no redress against his lord, but In the middle of the verse, "He to relieve the oppression of the methods of the secret services of his general condition was a great hath set down the mighty from modern commercial system, to im various countries. Throughout advance in comfort on the state of their sont," the organ the picture there runs the slavery. Yet a harsh and exacting singing ceased while the retiring working classes, to unite them for and the prove the social position of the romance of a young couple, an at-lord had much scope for oppres warden left his place and handed their common good, and to prapare taché of the British Embassy and alon and tyranny-for example, in an English girl who are unwill- the form of taxes, tolls, and ines over the Insignia of office. At the them by education for the strugg ing pawna in the hazardous game for, as I have said, the serf had conclusion of the verse, "He hath for their rights. In Germany, of international politics.
no redress at law. In England at exalted the humble," the new Switzerland, Italy, France, Belgium the time of the Domesday Book the Warden was conducted to his seat. England and the United States the serfs, including cottiera, comprised One pastry-cooks" glid had a Mass about two-thirds of the population offered up at the four, Ember Days The Church having secured the in explation for the sins of glut #heration of the lava an
May I suggest that It is really time Liberals got rid of some of their prejudicen↑ — Mrs. Runciman, M.
Hohed him fa comparative freedom, have been the occasion!
Catholic labour movement is to-day well organisad, and its develop ment during recent years has been
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