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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1929.
more than the news officially re- KNOCKED DOWN BY CONFLICT OF SCIENCE MOTOR CAR
leased.
-
Rumour counts for
Rumours much in China, MAN WHO WAS PREOCCUPIED .Galore
WITH OPENING CIGARETTES
вселев.
WANDERING AIMESSLY
Yesterday afternoon. Major G.
Medical evidence was that death was due to a severe fracture of the skull and alceration of the brain.
AND RELIGION
1
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LECTURE BY CANON STREETER. ON THE PROBLEM OF PAIN
MAN A SUPER-ANIMAL
Canon Streater delivered another
however, and it is in the vernacular i newspapers that one gets hints of what is is happening behind the
So that although the Willeon and a Coroner's Jury held interesting address last night at Chinese war news is far from an inquiry into the death on Decem- the Cathedral Hall to a large audi
ber 4 of a Chinese named Tao! To jence. The subject chosen dealt lucid it is worth publishing be- (33), described as a foreman of the with the problem of pain as the cause every now and then the P.W.D., who was knocked down by chief difficulty to belief in God. drift of something really big is a private, Chinese-owned motor car The speaker, in opening his ad.. seen-Chiang Kai-shek'a negotia- Stowart Roads, Wanchal, near the
at the junction of Lockhart and dress, emphasised the fact that it was a greater difficulty to form & tions with Yen Hai-shan, break-Kwong Sang Hong factory.
belief. In a Divine Providence with aways by provincial Generals,
the misery and evil of this world, significant movements of forces,
when one believed that there was only one God, and He, good. He and so on.
always thought himself, that from Did Not Hear Horn
a strictly intellectual point of view, Reverting to the
Leung Chi-kuon, the driver of the the problem of evil was less de Not Very well-meaning com- car, said that the tragedy occurred pressive than that of good. It was
Useful mittee at Nanking, at about 2.40 pm, whilst he was
more easy to explain evil in the the "Straits Times" driving the car along Lockhart world, than to explain good, on the
Road, going cast
hypothesis of a good God. .to west.
Evil cannot honestly say that the par- When near the factory,
was positive and good negative. he ticular issue of their publication noticed a man starting to cross the Yot be considered that it was more which has reached it is very use-road about 30 feet away from him. important to explain life than The man's attention appeared to be
death, and it was more important ful, since its chapter titles in clude "Président Chiang Kai-shek оп Disbandment," "Railway
Meaning of the Cross He sounded the horn three times Minister on Railway Conditions”*
Dealing with the pain of the but without effect, the man con- Cross, Canon Streeter asked what (very rosy picture), "Issue of 70 tinuing to wander, aimlessly across was the meaning of the Cross of: Million Dollar Loan," and other the road. Then he swerved the car Christ, and he thought it was re- matters which the present strug-to the right to avold the man. At flected on the three main lines, that. gle has pushed into the back the same time the pedestrian started God was not an onlooker of the pain
to turn back, and it was then im- and suffering in the world, but. ground. However, any attempt possible to avoid colliding with him. entered into it; that the suggestion to circulate reliable and authentic
hinted by Isaiah, when worked out, information about China is wel-
applied particularly in the case of come, and since the "Straits
Christ., Times" is not among the journals which invariably hope for the
have a little flat of his own worst about that country it pro- Instead of having to drag out an mises to give the committee's existence in a stuffy and congest-publications due attention. ed cubicle.
As
m
trades.
NEWS IN BRIEF..
we think The Inaugural ceremonies in-con- very nection with the Chinese Doctors' Association are to take place at the Lee Gardens at noon to-morrow.
can
care
+
engaged in the opening of a packet of cigarettes and ho did not seem' to hear the car horn...
The jury returned a verdict of death from accidental causes and added a rider that they did not attach any blame to the driver of
the car.
CORRESPONDENCE
RENT PROBLEM
(To the Editor of the "China Mall
It is
to explain the good things in this world, than the evil.
Canon Streeter said that there was rather a lot of cant spoken. about suffering elevating men, for men were animals, and unless suf fering was faced in the right spirit, it merely reacted on the lower animal instincts and caused de-- 'pravity, depression and desolation. But there was something more- about man He was
a super- reacted on those super-animal in- animal, and it was when suffering
stincts, that it purified the soul. Suffering had to be accepted in the right spirit and only then could it elevate a man. -
Science and Religion Speaking on the subject of The conflict between Religion. has embraced, by totally omitting to and Science" at St. John's Hall, Consider the other aide of the ques-last night, to an audience com tion. As regards landlords, any
prised of students of the pretension to fairness has consisted University and members of the of refraining to abuse them, more public, Canon Streeter likened the that he has done.
controversy to the quarrolling of the youngest offspring of a family with the older members.
The Tradesman's the
Sir, The new spokesman for the Case well take
Rent Problem Committee in the of themselves.
person of "Fairness" has a big task We agree with "Common Sense"
before him, particularly if he Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim, the that if trade is so bad as to make, novelist, is stated to be among the wishes to vindicate his right to the
pseudonym he has adopted. a tradesman feel the pinch of passengers due to arrive by the not disputed that he has shown re- tourist ship "Stella Polaris," duemarkable fairness to the cause he high rental, all he has to do is to here on Christmas Eve. remove to smaller and cheaper premises. The customers are al-
Useful deak calendars for 1930 bave been received by the "China ready paying for his high all from Messrs. Lane Craw rental. It is not uncommon to ford, Limited, and the Anderson buy an article in one shop Music Company, Limited.
A person holding himaclf out as a for Bay $10, and to find it retail-The Hou. Mr. J. Owen Hughes student of any problem must first ed elsewhere for almost half the has been appointed by the Governor rid himself of any opinion he has on
Canon Streeter proceeded to sum. The seller, when asked to to be a member of the Licensing the matter and approach it wholly Babylonian scientific discoveries as examine the results the without bias. A student of the proving the scientists' contentions. Board for three years. He pre- explain why he should charge $10 vitaly served as an elected member, rent problem of Hong Kong ought as to the Book of Genesis: The when so-and-so are selling a representing the Unofficial Justice of thus to consider not only the point position, he said, was reversed, and similar article for half the price, the Peace.
of view of those who pay rent but the leaders of religion were in the invariably answers:
also that of those who hope to remain right when they came to exam- "Look at
The name of the Kang Ah Co., ceive it. Any leaning to one side ine the question of materialiam. the rent we have to pay, and also Ltd. has been struck off the local or the other must point to the mind our overhead expenses." If a register
of a bigot.".
Within recent times, he con- of companies. Unless
cluded, there has been gradual tradesman can curtail overhead cause to the contrary is shown in
It appears that the members of harmonization of what had hitherto expenses so as to conform with three months, the names of the Yee the Rent Problem Committee are no been opposing ideas, which was juát Cheong Co., Ltd. and Tal Wah further considering the problem of as it should be if they were to save interview the policy of "Small profits but Restaurant, Ltd. will also be struck their minds: they have decided that and to preserve for us those vast rent, They have already made up civilization from self-destruction The "Kau with the Deputy quick returns" It may certainly off.
Sing" Harbour Master, help materially to bring about a
rants have to be controlled and their benefits wihoh had accrued from. Mr. T. W. H. Hose-revival in trade. Five and ten will be interested to bear that Mr. best way of doing so. If rent as
All lovers of beautiful pearls problem consists in thinking out the science since the late warfare good, a representative of the centastores in America and Kodaka will be opening his annual an economic problem is really worry extended to Canda Streeter at A hearty vote of thanks was "China Mail" has been informed Japan, where good and useful exhibition at Komer & Komor on ing them, why is it that no landlord the conclusion of his highly in- that the rescue tug, "Kau Sing" articles may be picked up, have! Monday, December 16. For several has been asked his opinion? Ja i teresting lecture. He is leaving will be undocked before Christ- amassed profits running into mi- Hong Kong with wonderful ex- Committee, self-appointed, are also visit.
years now, Mr. Kodaka has visited not because the members of that for Canton this morning on a short mas. Asked as to the extent of lions of dollars. Woolsworth amples of natural and cultured self-satisfied? the damage sustained as a result Building, in New York, came in- pearle, unmounted, ar mounted in of her striking some rocks of to existence in this way Chaiwan Bay on November 21,
Hong Kong. Saturday, Dec. 14, 1929.
STILL WATERS
In
an
Mr. Hasegood said that the job of repairing her is a fairly big one. The work is being done by the Taikoo Dockyard. Further than that, the Deputy Harbour Master would not say!
Puzzle
LUGGAGE STOLEN
The lot of the speculator in pro- varfous forms of jewellery. This perty is not auch a happy one as year's collection is said to be the has been depicted. It may be said finest ever brought to the Colony, that those who live by speculation
dio by speculation. body styled
Many are
A report was made to the Police A party of detectives from the caught when reactions set in; and yesterday by Mr. H. Koga, a Japan- The Chinese "The Inter-Yaumati. Police Station raided although there be few who take to esa passenger on the EMS. national Reta- trading junk in the Yaumati ty- the speculator it is difficult to see "Empress of Asia," to the effect mittee at Nanking is issuing a
tions Com phoon shelter yesterday and made how those of his tribe may be com- that four leather suitcases contain- a big haul of heroin pills stated to pletely eradicated without con- ing ladies' silk garments, worth weekly publication called "Chin- dollars. The pills, contained in
be worth several thousands of demning the innocent with the $7,000, were stolen from his cabin.
guilty.
whilst the ship was in port, Im-- ese Affairs. The sender states twenty boxes, have been sent to the are firme which can put up a hun friends in Wanchai, and when he "Fairness" mentions that there here he had gone ashore to see some mediately on the "vessel's arrival The argument carri-that it contains the important Government Analyst. It was learn- ed on by "Common current affairs relating to China," put under arrest, and will appear and yet apparently are not in a
ed also that the boat mistress was dred thousand dollars in fixtures returned he found his luggage mlsa- Problem Sense" and a "Sup- and asks us to publish the con- before the Kowloon Magistrate in position to purchase their own pre-
porter of the Bent tents "in order to show the true due course, Problem Committee" in these conditions and real facts concern- columes over the rent queang China to your readers."
is
tion The
Rent
former would have us
mises.
ing.
The more the pity for there is nothing which demonstrates the
Bongo, of the houses" In-Argyle verdict of suicide, an act solidity of a business so much as the highly interesting. Alas exclaims the Straits a Jealous lover, was returned by Surely no sound business man would been renumbered. Details are given brought on by the persecutious of ownership of an imposing building. Strest, in Kowloon peninsula, have believe that trade depress Times" if we only could! The the jury in a Coroners gulty risk putting a lakh's worth of ime in the "Gazette." sion has nothing to do with gentleman who was driven the held by Mr. W. Schofield, at the Provements in premises, the high rent, and that if a merchant other day to express in verse his into the circumstances of the death being secure. If the speculator Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, tenure of which is far from is suffering from the effect of bad perplexity at the tortuous charac, of a young Chinese girl who died could get a mortgage where business all he has to do is to ter of the Chinese war news The Jur returned a verdict of sully genuine respectable business das a result of an overdose of opium with to buy property sure- vacate. On the other hand, the echoed what everybody feels, ride and attributed the girl's act man could do likewise and prevent latter wants us to believe that Towns which one cannot find on to her ill health which was partial himself from being ousted. There landlords, in short, are tricky the map, Generals of which
ly brought on by the persecution are naturally speculators in trade, pergons who will not stop at any body has heard, mysterious fit of a man who has since absconded. too. It is perhaps mainly these
who can barely find sufficient capital third engineer, of the 6. "Kwai Chow" The body-91. Mr DH Morrison, thing. While we do not wish to tings hither and thither of all H.E. The Governor (Sir Cecil to meet the demands of their which the deceased had recently join interfere with this highly Inter
lissimos down-Clementi KCMG) and Lady bankers. The acquisition of pre-ed, having previously been third en-
esting argument, we cannot
frain from pointing
many rent at present in centre of
too high
glene
were
TEN YEARS AGO
From the “China. Mall”.
· December - 14; 1919.3 -..
-To-day's dollar. is worth 5/- 2K1
Hear Clémenti gave a Lion party at misos is impossible, colla danza Fireer of the zi. "Hupeh,” was picked. on Government House yesterday to Unless the Rent Problem Com? up la the road in Kennedy Town to
"the officers of the ma. “Hal-mittee and their supporters can day, "Thers, was a large fracture of
too
ould." ching", and Mr. AH, White senior think of remedies of a more con the skull. The deceased must have of the Douglas Company structive naturs, and approach the been on his way to go aboard his ship. matter of rents with less prafudios, and a spparently knocked down by it is not easy for them to refute charge of playing to the gallery.
invited. The guests were as
pi. Farrar, Mr. ArtE
Lev Bishop
ester, Mr.
ton,
Yours 8
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Mr.
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