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DAIRY FARM CO. CITY' PREMISES NOW BEING
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EXPANSION NEEDED. Excavation work, undertaken by Messrs. Lam Woo, building con- on the tractors, has just begun triangular piece of land sitiate, Wyndham-street and between Lower Albert-road, at the back of the Dairy Farm, Ico and Cold Stor- age Company's town. premises.
The land is being prepared for the building of an extension of the present premises of the Dairy
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1928.
CONFUCIANISM.
PAPER AT CAMBRIDGE BY MR children towards parents, but it
LO TUNG-FAN, B.A.
(Tho substance being that of al Paper read before A Study Circle of Trinity Hall. Cam- bridge University, on March 1, 1928, by Mr. Lo Tung-fan, B.A.)
11.-LIFE OF THE SAGE."-
social life and security of the Chinese government, for It does- not only mean dutiful bahaviour of“
also implies loyalty to the king and respect for authority.
Social Institutions. Now let us have a look at the Chinese social institutions of Con fucius's time. The basis of the
Chinese society was the patriarchal family system, and the individual was insignificant except as a mem- ber of the community. The family system can be compared to that of the Romans during the Republic A short sketch of the life of and the Early Empire. The father Confucius and a short description had the same sort of absolute
M
(Continued from yesterday.)
Blood rela-
Farm, which the Company, with its of the social and political condi- power in the family. extensive business, had outgrown ions both before and during Conlon was the most important of all
fucius's time may help us to un-social ties. Above the family · and the need for expansion had derstand better his teaching. Con- there was the clan which was been felt for some time...
At first it was thought to expand fuclus was born. in 551 B.C. In the composed of all members of the
feudal state of Lu, now a part of same clan name, "skyward" by adding a floor to the the Shantung province. At fifteen father was existing building, but the project his mind was set on learning and the family, the elders of a cinn was vetoed by the Building Autho-
became jealous of its prosperity
Just as the the absolute head of.
There was nothing approaching
rity because local regulations dia [at thirty he stood firm in his con- were the absolute heads of the not permit a building to be of more victions. In his 22nd year he be-clan. All disputes were settled in gan his career as a When with the width of the thoroughfare him minister of justice and acting trates who had a sort of jurisdic he was 60, the Duke of Lu made the elders were the virtual magla- on which It stands. Unluckily for
He at once tion' over all causes short of the Dairy Farm Company, the prime minister.
brought order out of the chabtic homicide. Indeed local govern- height of their building is calculat
affairs, and the people ment in this form was early deve ed by its Wyndham-street elevation state of
Above the clan instead of the Albert-road frontage, began to live comfortably under a loped in Chine. on which side the height of the Chi, a neighbouring state of Lu; family writ large.
good government. The Duke of there was the state which was a building is well below the limit.
Faced with the very real neces→ Bity for immediate expansion in and resorted to corrupt the Duke order to cope, efficiently with their by a present of some beautiful the modern Western idea of stato courtesans. When Confucius as an abstract personality distinct large business, the Company con- sulted their architects, Massrs. found that the Duke was Bent from, and existing above, the or- Leigh and Orange when their ori- more on pleasure than on the task dinary rules and sanctions that:
of government, he left Lu to arek figured in the private life of the ginal plans were turned down.
The people were for the It was then that attention was employment at the courts of other people. turned to the triangular plece of feudal lords. Now it must be re-most part still in the stage of cus- ground at the back of the Dairy membered that Confucius was not tom, and therefore unable to think Farm building, which although it specially attracted by the glory for themselves. Customary rules had been owned by the Company and power of a high office, but by prevailed in every thing, and en- for many years, had always been the opportunity offered by a gov acted laws in the form of imperial regarded by unprofessional oyes ernmental position to carry out his constitutions were issued rarely, upon those participating in them. more or less as "waste" land, in cherished hopes of reforming the The theory of government was that At the present moment, however, view of its small size, shape and people and of bringing peace and government was by men and not order among the states.. If he lov. by laws. The King was regarded sloping nature, the American plan seems the one
After a survey of the land, how-ed power it was because he pre- as the father of his many subjects, and their relationship was purely more likely to prove efficacious as, ever, Messrs. Leigh and Orange re-ferred action to speculation..
He travelled from state to state, a personal one. deservedly or undeservedly, the commended that the land be bullt
but none of the feudal lords would The principle of government was · League, despite its evident sin- upon as an extension of the present listen to his words or give him the personal management and control. Overland China Mail. cerity, fails to carry conviction
and thus governmental interference as to its preventive power. Euro- by the Company would more than further hope for himself, he re-should-be effected by example turned to his native state after rather than by force. It was ac pean nations obviously still cling fill its present needs.
Plans were accordingly drawn thirteen years wandering (496-knowledged that force could take to the belief that the forming of up, submitted to and passed by the 488) and spent his last days in cognisance only te suitable alliances is the best way Building Authority, and the job literary work. As Mencius anys: while good precepts and examples "When it way proper to go into would reform the vilest thoughts. to preserve peace; and the mak-was immediately let out to Messrs. office, then go into it; when it was We should take special notice of
Lam Woo, who hope to complete the extension before the end of the proper to keep retired from office. this personal theory of the Chin- then keep retired from it; when it ese social and political organisa- on such a basis A "China Mail" man was given was proper to continue in it long, tion as it was an opportunity of seeing the plans then continue in it long; when it that Confucius moulded his poli of the extension, by courtesy of Mr.is proper to withdraw from It, cal ideals. Manuk, Secretary of the Company, quickly, then withdraw quickly; yesterday.
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PACT.
ing of such alliances has been pro- ceeding ever since the close of the War. But we seem to be as far away from a real abolition of way than ever. Obviously some- thing, not drastic but revolution- ary in its essentials, is needed if
We
the additional space to be gained reins of government. building, with the assurance that
year.
The Extension.
Seeing no.
that was the way of Confucius."
Indeed Confucius, was most a
"My Time to Die." When the end of his life was
external acts
(To be Continued.)
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The extension, which will be in philosopher when he had to con- ST. JOHN BRIGADE. are ever to be rid of the keeping with the general outer ap-sole himself for not being a minis- horrors of war. Idealism and pearance and of the same height as ter. Thus he says: "A man sentimentaliem are worse than the main building, to which It will should say: I am not concerned useless in the presence of am-be connected internally, will have that I have no place, I am con- two storeys on the Albert-road cerned how I may fit myself for bition, envy, territorial and
frontage and three on the Wynd- one. I am not concerned that I
The Assistant Commissioner began am not known, I seek to be worthy to acknowledge the following sub", economic greed. We have yet to ham-street elevation.
The lower floor "on the Albert to be known." He gathered round scriptions to the Funds of the learn of any nation altruistic (or
number of disciples who Brigade, road side, will have two good sized him a hygienically constructed apart came to him from all parts of the ments with separate entrances, and country. "With them his frequent here will be housed the Ice Depot themes of discourse were the Book the maintenance of the rules of and the Dairy Department, respec-of Poetry, the Book of History, and tively.
At the back of these apartments, propriety." on the same floor level, but facing Wyndham-street, on which eleva- tion it will be well above street-near, he said, "No intelligent level (with godowns accupying the monarch rises; there is not one in space underneath), and therefore the Empire that will make me his light and airy, will be housed the master. My name has come to die." Compradore Department and the He died in 470 B.C., sustained to Cold Storage extension.
the last moment by the firm con- The floor above, on both eleva-viction that "Heaven would not tions, well ventilated with windows let the cause of truth perish." on two sides and a broad balcony How can we explain the unsuc overlooking Wyndham-street, will cessful career of Confucius dur- be given up entirely for quarters ing his life time. seeing that he is for the many Chinese servants and such an honoured personality in
later ages? workmen of the Company.
For an explanation we must get Two round windows on the Al- of the
China was then in the together with the tasteful balcony time. bert-road side of the upper floor. back to the history of China of his The central govern- on the other frontage will give a feudal ages. decidedly pleasing appearance to ment, the Chow Dynasty, was weak the new extension, which, when and was enjoying a nominal exist- completed, will be a source of pride ence. At the time of Confucius it to the Company and a credit to the was nothing but a country of civil professional ingenuity of the ar-wars among the foudal states and chitects,
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Hong Kong. Wednesday, June 13, 1928.
THE AMERICAN ANTI-WAR mad) enough to throw aside its means of defence, though clearly Judging by Mr. F. B. Kellogg's the speediest way to end war latest pronouncement, he con- would be for all nations to be tinues to be quite pleased with without the means of conducting what has taken place since he an-warfare. And even if the League nounced the desirability not only of Nations were the fearless in- of France and the United States ternational moral force that it meant to be would that agreeing upon an anti-war pact was but as to its being extended to as suffice? Unfortunately, it would many nations as would enter upon not.
It is therefore to be hoped that such an undertaking. In one of the latest telegrams on the sub- the Anti-War Pact proposed ject, Mr. Kellogg, who seems to by the United States Govern- will be seriously con- have been unusually successful as ment
Doubtless the more Secretary of the United States' sidered. State Department, mentions the nations participating the bet
for the peace "encouraging replies from Great ter Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan world, though it seems to us that and the British Dominions". as were the leading nations, say, the also the almost equally important United States, France, Italy, Ger- fact that "several other Govern many, Japan and the British Em ments have formally indicated a pire to pledge themselves to the desire to participate." If these Articles of the new peace pro- would be incon- nations had not expressed inter-posals, it
ceivable that the ghastly est in and sympathy for such s
could break subject, it would indeed have in- horrors of war dicated a deplorable state of out so long as all were true affairs. The horors of the "Great to their obligations. A real desira War" are still fresh in the minds for lasting peace is all-important, of all, and perhaps equally freah and until that desire is present is the knowledge that despite and continues to be genuinely diplomatic alliances (more prob. manifested, there is no hope of ably indeed because of them) and war ending no matter how many
From day to day a series of half - War Pacte be signed. Happily, Mrs. Rickett, of Averley Park, caused the overlook, on the part of difficult to answer but not alwayə the "encouraging replies" to London, and Misa Olive Cox, the the feudal dukes of the importance so simply solved as may be thought, which Mr. Kellogg referred seem daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas of any governmental work but appear on this page. Answers are
Cox of Worthing, Sussex, and of military efficiency. Military genius given on page nine. to denote a more serious desire Kobe, Japan, were married yeater- and not statesmanship, generals
PEAK WEDDING.
the king was powerless to enforce peace and order. The states through which Confucius travelled were shrouded in ignorance. The moral standard of the people was low. The feudal lords often lost their lives at the hands of their ministers, brothers or song who wanted to put themselves in power, It. was common for a strong state to wage war against a weak one for the purpose of annexation of territory or even for the capture -Mr. C. A. L. Rickett, the son of of a beautiful. queen. The desire
MEL CA. L. RICKETT AND MISS O. COX.
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deepite the fact that in 1914 Leagues of Nations exist or Anti- the late Mr. W. L. Rickett and of leadership among the states a dozen questions, not tremendously
inost nations were quite aware of the horrors of modern warfare, the conflict burst forth with sur-
prising suddeness and involved
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so many nations that the catas on the part of the nations, geri day at the Peak Church, the Dean, and, not philosophers, were most
erally to bring warfare to a close, the Very Rev. A. Swann, officiating. honoured by thom. If this ex (1) What book in the New Testa- trophe was inconceivably worse and it is therefore to be hoped Mr. F. Mason was at the organ. plains the unsuccessful career of ment follows the Acts of the than had ever been imagined, that all nations will fall into line The bride, who was given away Confucius, it also pointed out the Apostles
(2) What Is à Jumbuck? What then happened may again and, as signatories to the pro- by the Hon. Mr. C. G. S. Mackie, need of the age for some social
Medford wore a dress of white charmeuse and political reform, Confucius (8) From which of the Psalms is: happen unless steps are taken posed Pact, continue to regard over pink georgette, trimmed with saw the need of the age, and he this quotation taken?: "The Lord very directly, very sanely and warfare in this twentieth century pearls and diamante embroidery urged men to return to the bi- is my Shepherd. I shall not soundly to prevent its repetition, as a barbarous anachronism Miss Jean Mackis was brides cient traditions for the necessary want
(4) From what le macaront The League of Nations and this worthy only of those who fail to maid. Her dress was of cyclamen principles of moral and social re-
realise that might never yet crepe de chine,
generation. He appealed to men made Anti-War Pact proposal are the necessarily connoted right and Mrs. Cox wore a dress of beige to re-establish and eincerely prac (What bird other than the dove two great panaceas suggested that superiority in dghting forces satin and georgette
ting the tradition of Alial piety, did Not send forth from the Ark? Mr. Alan Rald acted an best man, and the self-cultivation of a vir Both seem sound enough theor-and in the use of them never made etically and, at their worst, they a nation that was in the wrong That reception was held at Craig. tuous life. Filial piety is the vir tue upon which have stood the cannot but have a salutary effect prove Itself to be in the right. Ryrie, No. 18, the Peak
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