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THE CHINA MAH, SATURDAY, MAF 9, 1936.
The China Mail
Ninety-frst Year of Publication.
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Cathedral Organ
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To the Editor, "China Maill Sir-It has become necessary ito renew the action of the organ of St. John's Cathedral, and it has been thought advisable while Notice To Contributors.
doing this to transfer the console Mm56,000 INTO 20,000 All commimications intended for to the Northern side of the Chan-
An amusing story which, even publication should be addressed to cel in order to co-ordinate the the Editor, and be accompanied by organist's control of the instruif, apocryphal, illustrates the more the Writer's Name and Addressment and the choir. The organNazi financial ideas, is going the conservative German's view of not necessarily for insertion, but itself is fine instrument. but, jas a guarantee of good faith.
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The scene is an election meet-
of
of
WHAT ARE THE 3 GRACES?
CHARACTERISTICS IN MEN AND WOMEN
TWO FAMOUS WRITERS GIVE THEIR
CONSIDERED OPINIONS
(By Storm Jameson And James Laver) 17OMEN is love do not look TT is inevitable that these
men.
Because of their exalta-the man's point of view-even tion they see what they wish the young man's point of view. to see. In their imaginations They are therefore biased, per water becomes wine. and some-haps selfishly biased. times the miracle is a lasting
the action being composed largely rounds. of leather, wood, and paeumatic tubing, is particularly susceptible ing in the recent German election. The proceeds of the sale of seats to changes in humidity such Hong Kong knows only too well. came to 20,000 marks.
Herr Hitler. Gen. Goering, Dr. In recent months the organ has grown less and less reliable and Goebbels, and Dr. Schacht had all agreed that it has been impossible for the spoken, and it was
should be divided be Hong Kong. Saturday, May 9, 1936. organist to be sure which of his the sum
the beneat stops would sound on any given tween them for
if they did their favourite charities. occasion and which
Who can, seek absolute truth Dr. Schacht, as the man English As She Is Spoke sound would stop when required.
one. But in marriage they dis-in matters intimately affecting well- appointed to effect cover that some graces every igures, was
are his own happiness and that at
finer and more fortunate then being, and who, seeking it, can This is an age of assimila-service, every organ recital, and the division.
Dr. Schacht said: "The Fuehrer others.
find it? tion, and nowhere more perhaps every concert given in the Cathe
Perhaps they discover them (Continued on Page 8). than in the spoken word do we dral an embarrassing uncertainty will receive 14,000 marks." This
And borrow from each other, from has afflicted all the performers, allotment of the lion's share was only by their absence. the most up-to-date slang of the and sometimes the listeners have received respectfully. jalkies
terribly heard anything but what they "refaned" accents of the wire had the right to expect. less announcers. Nor must the insidious influence of the press
to the
too
This has meant
*
*
Having in mind these conditions NAZI ARITHMETIC
charge would of course be three times as
The Cathedral | great
many
this is sad, but not in the least settle down mentally or to take
So "Gen. Goering will get 14.000 fatal.
marriages life easily. marks," announced Dr. Schacht.
seem to flourish only in defiance The world to-day is a seething of their discomforts:
pot of unsettled problems, mis- Here, then, are the masculine takes, and senseless contradic- graces I should like to discover tions, and the man who does not concern himself with them is anlin one man.
only fit to play bridge every Kindness
jevening. Away with him!
Life-Long Happiness
will
be forgotten-that we have and the value to the community of
When Dr. Goebbels raised almost come to the stage of possessing one first class and re-
least, the objection both on mathematical accepting the horrible "fare-liable instrument at
The first is Kindness. welled" as a commonplace is Cathedral Church Council has and personal grounds he was also surely "evidenced"
This is not the same as mild- by any determined to appeal publicly for allotted 14,000 marks. All three
The third and last grace is newspaper report "anent" the assistance in renewing the organ. then turned to Dr. Schacht, and ness or gentleness. Mild men
the most necessary of all. den rture of some prominent The total cost of the work is es-said: "Well, at any rate, there are almost always bores, and person But it is also in the timated at $4,000 and were it not won't be anything left for you." the gentlest man I ever knew Lacking it, all the others are matter of the idiosyncrasies of for the fact that it can be ex- Dr. Schacht replied: "On the is also one of the meanest. But stranded in dryness and dead- A talent for Enjoying pronunciation that a man will trusted to Mr. Blackett, who recontrary. I shall also take 14.000" kindness is an
active, lively ness. which knows Life compensates any number most warmly defend his parti- built the organ in 1927. with every He proceeded to draw up the fol-sort of tact. cular practice to the exclusion prospect of irs: class work the lowing table:
instinctively what is the right of faults and minor vices.
It is a life-long happiness to of all variations. Nothing on
thing to say.
live with a man who is happily earth would induce
The really kind men for us, instance, to speak of the
never try to be comforting and absorbed in living: a man who "Iddles" of the King or of the unable to find
sympathetic when sympathy is can sink himself as thoroughly sooching" of the wind; when it size in its present financial con-
-This appeal is being Running his pencil up the fours, an insult: he will never say, "I and pleasurably in cooking a comes to "varze, vayze or vanz"dition.
unhesitatingly plump for made to all the Cathedral mem- he said: "Four and four eight told you so:" he never stoops to meal as in discussing the state
12, and four rub in the blame in an emer
Everything interests hima, At the same time he varze as being the only really bers and it is because we believe and four makes
"16." Then. running gency.
everything comes alive under civilised pronunciation; never, that the need of a fine organ in makes
the left-hand will never tell lies.
his hands-you will never catch Nothing whether in а never should we dream of talk- good order is felt by others that his pencil down
added: "And one ing either about a controversy we are giving this appeal wider Sgures, he
friend, a lover, or a husband-him saying: "Oh, it was a mere something Or other. makes 17-18-19-20.” or a controversy. But these circulation.
is so unforgivable as lies.
There are no mere things, "But that seems a bit odd," they
Lying is the last unkindness, are purely personal likes and
his world "Ah, yes," was the
events, people in and the kindest man is at once All are accepted by him as part dislikes touching the speaking Brearley at the Chartered Protested.
how Nazi the honestest and the most con-of the everlasting play of life. of non-barbaric English. When
we
a sam of this
Donations will be received by
John's Cathedral.
Herr Hitler Gen. Goering
Dr. Goebbels Dr. Schacht
it comes to a matter of dialect Bank and cheques should be made reply, "but that's our taste is truly catholic. The parable to the Organ Fund, St. finances work!" speech of Somerset, Dorset, Devon or the wilds of York-P. S. CASSIDY shire is all alike music; there is Trustee and Chairman of even occasionally some charm
the Finance Committee.
to be derived out of hearing the A. BREARLEY native Scotsman-from any-
Trustee and Treasurer. where but Glasgow-talking 1. A. J. LAFFORD with his soft burr. It is a
Organist and Choirmaster. happy thought, therefore, in H. W. BAINES our opinion, for gramophone į records of various dialects to be iplaced in the British Museum as has been recently suggested. There will surely come a day
when we shall all talk either
Chaplain-in-charge.
$517 FOR ORGAN FUND
The following are the St. John's
like they do in American Cathedral Organ Fund donations "movies" or in painful and halt-jalready received:
11
ing imitation of the radio an- Proceeds of Bridge, and Mah-
jongg Drive
nouncers, with their bland, pow. 1. Gerrard
in-Miss Summerskill
humourless and utterly furiating patronage. In that J. Pioworth. Esq.. case one can almost visualise Miss Stanley Smith the homesick wanderer from
the ends of the earth, harrow-
ed to the very vitals by hear-
ing a Devonshire farm-lass at
$430.00
50.00
20.00
10.00
7.00
$517.00
Ye Olde Tea-Shoppe asking it DOOR OF SCHOOL
LOCKED
Landlord Alleges Disorder
he would “take an ace." repair- ing in the utmost gloom. to the British Museum and asking with tears in his eyes for the "Devon" record to be put on the gramophone, so that he may savour the accents of the old,
Mr. Eric Victor Moore, of Ful- fold dialect once again before the dies. It will surely be ham-road, who conducted a danc-| almost as harrowing to hear the ing school, sued Mr. A. Garvidi, country yokel referring to his owner of the premises, at West Chloe as a "pipping bonzana" London County Court last month,
damages or a "bot-cha cutie," which for seems more than likely we covenant under the lease. go on as we do at present. It was stated that, following an In short, variations of alleged incident outside the pre- speech to their particular uses. mises, Moore found that Gurvidi Surely there are enough bar-had removed the sign advertising maids who talk like duchesses the school, and had locked the already; that mincing affecta-door. of the room. tion which allows a programme- Afterwards Gurvidi's solicitors seller at a matinee to say wrote alleging that the school was “Thenks, that'll be namepeace" run on disorderly lines. Moore
for
breach
of
is not pretty, and in its social denied, in evidence, that there had effects in that it generally been disorder, and etated that he gives rise in the hearer to had lost about $100 through thej thoughts of murder, arson and closing of the school.
all uncharitableness-is surely
a subversive influence. It is two forms of speech-one for only in their social aspects that ordinary everyday use, and the differences in accent and speech other for social occasions. are undesirable,
We are a this way everybody would be nation of snobs; a broad accent pleased; and Mr. St.
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John
in the best man in the world is Ervine (an Irishman), would. a social handicap. There is perhaps not have so mary something to be said, therefore, opportunities of pointing out for the suggestion of a pro-that
be the best English minent educationist that those has heard spoken is in Timbuctoo, to whom a public school accent Kamtschatka, ' (for want of a better or more Tierra del Fuego or the Wind-
Islands anywhere, comprehensive term) does not ward come naturally should cultivate fact, but in England itself.
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A retired colonel declares that mary modern soldiers lack military bearing. He prefers the poise of the old-brigade.
scious of the other person.
Energy
jof Europe...
If one were reduced to living with him in a cave he would
The second grace I demand is be excellent company, and be would make the best of it in Energy--of mind and body.
A swollen stomach should be every sense--he would turn. his regarded as a mark of shame, mind to making it warm and and avoided by some better raiuproof and enjoy the labour method than golf..
of doing it. Walking is a natural human In short, if I can live with habit. So are fasting and a man who really and natural-
he ly enjoys living,
need under-eating.
Both go well with energy of possess no other grace- mind that is, the refusal to Ston JAMESON.
"BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
Edward III
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