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YOUTH RALLY FOR CORONATION
FOUNDATION OF NEW EMPIRE MOVEMENT
DOMINIONS TO CO-OPERATE
A Coronation rally of
Empire
youth, which may be the start of -a vast youth movement in this
country and the Dominions, will be beld at Westminster Abbey on May 19-seven days after
the Coronation.
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The King and Queen and the two Princesses may attend.
This service of youth will pro-i bably be followed by a similar ral-, ly at the Albert Hall. at which the foundation of an Empire move- ment of youth will be discussed, and at which representatives of youth movements in other parts of. the Empire will be present.
All countries of the Empire. every denomination and all youth movements have been asked to co- operate. The Archbishop of Can- terbury, Dr. Cosmo Lang. has promised to be the preacher at the Abbey if his engagements permit.
The suggestion of a Coronation youth rally came from the Domin- ious. The Archbishop of Canter- bury and the Dean of Westmins ter. Dr. W. Foxley Norris, willing- I agreed to lend their support. and already the interest of youth organisations is assured.
Those attending the rally will be between the ages of 16 and IS. They will come from the universi- į ties, public and secondary schools. Toe H. the Boy Scout and other) youth movements. It is hoped that!
be represented.
lines.
tend.
work of similar services.
Education of Canada, said.
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1937
At least ten person died and 70 were injored in this crash on the elevated in the North Side of Chicago A speeding all-steel express crashed the wooden cars of the L rapid transit. crowded with home-coming shoppers, and hurled splintered wood and passengers to the street. 20 feet below. Firemen and police are shown trying to extricate the dead and injured.
Mr. Roosevelt's
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The name means Valley öf the Allan strath being a Scottish word for valley. It is intended to commemorate the stream already immortalised in the old ballad "On The Banks of Allan Water.”
The name of the other liner, already runounced, is Strathe- den.
This liner is expected to be placed on the regular service towards the end of next year and the Strathallan will follow shortly afterwards.
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GEN. BOOTH AT MADRAS
TALK AT ROTARY CLUB Madras. "Nations and Po- fin life, and on terms of friendship armies or its wealth, nor by its
wers are judged not by its! with their neighbours, will defend themselves to the atmost, but will territories nor even by the wis treasury and the extent of its never consent to take up arms for dom of its politicians but by its
Alla
Speech Pan-American Conference
Hope For A Common Future
his own
conference to form alliances, to
preserve the
of
la war of conquer.
From this the President passed exalting influence and the au- to the reflection that interrowed teaching," observed General thority of its enlightened with these problems was the fact
from commerce
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spirit may
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He had
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that the welfare and prosperity of Evangeline Booth, the head of the Salvation Army, addressing each American nation depended in large part "on benefits derived the Rotarians at their luncheon every country in the Empire will PRESIDENT Roosevelt, it his hatreds and new fanaticism
speech at Buenos Aires to the the demand that injustice and ice and with other nations. for our had 60 training schools and its The General among ourselves meeting to-day.
added that the Salvation Army Pan-American Conference for the quality be corrected by resort to present civilisation Service In All Cathedrals
maintenance cf peace, saluted the sword and not to reason Every cathedral in the country the members of the American peaceful justice, of the cry that commodities."
basis of international exchange of people were all trained to grap will be asked to hold a similar ser family of nations and asked new markets can be achieved only evi: effects on every nation
He spoke of the ple with every class of human 'vice.
needs.Associated Press. the Roman Catholic solemnly:-"Can we, the and
Rept through conquest, of disregard every individual of trade barriers, Americas lay in the spirit Church is to be invited to make bits of the New World help the for the sanctity of treaties. its own arrangements on the same Old World to avert the catastrophe
and found it "no accident that In that faith and spirit we will which impends?” He answered.
We know, too, that vast arma-the nations which have carried are peace over the Western Dr. Foxley Norris said:---
ments are rising on every side and this process furthest are those World. In that faith and spirit we "The rally will be held during confident that we can.”
question:-"Yes, I am
that the work of creating them which proclaim most loudly that will all watch The full the period when the Abbey is intext of his address has been given lions. It is natural, however, forment of their policy."
employs men and women by mil-the require war
and guard our instru-hemisphere. In as the
and that faith charge of the Office of Works. but out by the State Department as to conclude that such employ- It is no accident that their at help, offer hope to our brethren we also, with God's both this department and the Coro- Mr. Roosevelt told how three nation Executive Committee have years ago the American family" builds
ment is false employment, that it tempts to be self-sufficient assented to the holding of the sermet in
no permanent structures led to falling standards for their Montevideo, when they, and creates no consumers' goods people a state vice. This means that 8,000-9,000 with the rest of the world, were in for the maintenance of lasting must refuse to accept with every
of affairs young people will be able to atthe grasp of a chattering depres prosperity. We know that nations instinct of defence, with every ex- sion and tragie war was raging guilty of these follies inevitably bortation of enthusiastic hope, and "We hope that the Abbey will between two of their sister Reface the day either when be the centre of a nation-wide net-publics. Yet at that conference weapons of destruction must
their with use of mind and skill. hope for a common future and used against their neighbours
b He spoke with pride of the sa- "This is a very great opportun-gruster measure of mutual trust when an unsound economy, like 2 American republies to the world orilutary example given by the ity. Every great country is press was born in this hemisphere, and house of cards, will fall apart. ing forward the organisation of now the night of fear had been
-the principles of liberal trade, youth, and we in England are do- dispelled, many of the intolerable came engaged in war they must the "still wider application"
Even though the Americas be policies endorsed at Montevideo. ing almost nothing. This rally burdens of the economic depres-suffer. But could they help
of may start a really great non-poli-ion had been lightened, and "due Old World avert the catastrophe: Jably contribute to peace.
the which at Buenos Aires would not tical youth movement in this coun-in ne small part to our common Yes. try and in the Empire."
efforts, every nation of this hem-i
done all his power to sustain the Major F. . Ney. executive seisphere is to-day at peace with its!
First, it is our duty by every consistent efforts of the Secretary cretary of the National Council of neighbours." To-day this is no honourable means to prevent any of State. Mr. Cordell Hull, in ne future war among ourselves. This gotiating reciprocal trade instra- the total of which was "We have set up the nucleus of divide the spoils of war, to parti-can best be done by the streng-ments a committee in London under the tien countries, to deal with hu- thening of processes of constitu-significant even though their in- chairmanship of Mr. L. S. Amery.man beings as though they were tional democratic government-tojdividual results might seem small, It includes the Archbishop of Can-the pawns in a game of chance.make these processes conform to and which "in recent weeks have terbury. Lord and Lady Baden-Our purpose under these
the modern need for unity and received the approval of the happy efficiency and Powell, Sir Edward Peacock and auspices is to assure the contin-
at the same time people of the United States." But Sir Josiah Stamp.
mance of the blessings of peace of our citizens. By so doing the among them long-festering feuds. individual liberties there were other causes for war,
people of our nations, unlike the unsettled frontiers, territorial ri-|
But these people of many nations who live valries-
sources of The past three years had em-under other forms of government, danger which still exist in the Hall, where we contemplate dis-phasized the threat cussing, if not actually laying the among other nations, but had serv-tion to live in peace. Thus will not only few in number but al can and will insist on their inten-Americas I am thankful to say are foundation of an Empire move-ed only "to strengthen our horror democratic government he justi-ready on the way to peaceful" ad- ment of youth."
of war and all that war means."fied throughout the world.*.^ judication. While the settlement They in the Americas knew that Defence Against Aggression of such controversies may neces the war to-day meant more than
But in the determination to live sarily involve an adjustment at. the mere clash of immies.
at peace among themselves, we in home or in our relations with our They see the destruction of Americas make it at the same time neighbours which may appear to cities and farms-they foresee clear that we stand shoulder to involve material sacrificé, let no that their children and grand-shoulder in our final delibera-man or woman forget that there is children, if they survive, will tions, that others who, driven by no profit in war. Sacrifices in the stagger for long years, not miy war under the burden a poverty, but might seek to commit acts of ag- compared with the
madness or land hunger, cause of peace are infinitely small Dr. John Batchelor, Archdeacon also amid the threat of a broken ression against ns will find of Hokkaido, and a missionary in society and the destruction of con-hemisphere wholly prepared to Dream Made Reality
stitutional government. Japan for nearly 60 years, has am profoundly convinced that safety and our mutual good. I re President said in his peroration,
consult together for our mutual
The Western Hemisphere, the just gone home
to England on plain people everywhere in the ci-peat what I said in speaking be- had at last come of age. We took furlough for the first time for the vilised world to-day wish to live fore the Congress and Supreme from our ancestors a great dream, 28 years. He is 83.
He would have been home a few still leaders and Governments re-has learned the glories of indepen-unified reality. He asked them to in peate one with mother, And Court of Brazil:Each one of us We here offer it back as a great months sooner, but he received anort to war. Truly, if the genius dence. It each one of ns learn afar, as expressive of faith in invitation from the Emperor of of mankind that has invented the the glories of interdependence the Western World, the mainten Japan to dine with him and to weapons of death cannot discover read him a lecture, in
in Japanese, on
But secondly, and in addition to ance and defence of the democratic means of preserving peace, civili the perfecting of the mechanism form of constitutional representa- the Archdeacon's favourite sub-sation as we know it lives in an of peace, they must strive even tive government through which ject, the primitive Ainu people of evil day. Hokkaido, among whom he has
more strongly than in the past to could be more greatly provided But we cannot now, especially prevent the creation of those con- the wide distribution of culture, worked for so many years, and min view of our common purpose, ditions that gave rise to war, whose language, customs and folk-jaccept any defeatist attitude. We The lack of social or political pression, security of life, and education, thought and free ex- Jore he is a great authority. He have learned by hard experience justice within the borders of any equal opportunity; through which therefore postponed his departure, that peace is not to be had for the nation is always a cause for com-commerce might be fostered, art and dined with the Emperor. mere asking; that pence, like cern
Asked for his impressions
Through democratic pro-and science exchanged axiong na- of other great privileges, can be obcesses we can strive to achieve for tions, rivalry of armament avoid London after more than a quartertained only by hard and pains-the Americas the highest possible ed, hatred averted, good will and of a century, DE. Batchelor replied taking effort. We are here to de-standard of living conditions for trae justice encouraged; and “that coolly, “Many parts of London are dicate ourselves and our countries all our people. Men and women through it we offer hope for peace as forward as the bigdies into that work, fee
blessed with political freedom,(and a more abundant life to the Japan, but in matters of the lay-out The European Picture willing to work and able to find peoples of the whole world
Then the President painted the work, rich enough to maintain This faith would not be com- picture seen beyond the oceans their families and to educate their pleted if they failed to afim their of continents rent asunder by old children, contented with their lot faith in God. The faith ofthe
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"Various sub-committees will be l set up. one in particular to
ganise a great rally at the Alberti
“JAPAN AHEAD OF LONDON"
VETERAN MISSIONARY'S
VIEWS
of streets, the keeping of them clean, the lighting and the traffic arrangements, Japan is ahead.”
The Meaning Of War
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