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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1950.
Fireside Echoes--No. 1:
GAMBLING IN CHINA
(Editor's note: The following
is the fist of a series of articles by Mr. Brand, an "Old China- hand.")
By Wm. M.S. Brand
It
the masses, by a cursory glimpse, nor by life-long residence in some river or const-port.
A lot in common The interior folk of China are ns charming or as hostile, as the
States of America.
"We must take off our coats if we want to compete with the Japanese and Germans,” says the head the British paint industry. Or, alternatively, make coats
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"His retirement was E great less to the service."
One less, anyway.
mankind, the Chinese of the in- In common with the rest of
terior have their virtues and their failings. Reating upon the laws of human development, their
care of Canborranother scandal like that. good points will take themselves, and will rise in time. Duleepsinjki will be going to nt the Canberra The defects of Chinese life, their bat for India faults, however have been so un-conference, but he doesn't expect necessarily magnified that an en-any bodyline stuff, this time. discourse to do with the "gam- simple inland folk has been given It may be asked what has this tirely erroneous picture of these
bling." The answer is every- to the Western nations. What thing, and in this chapter I at- hus been portrayed for the most tempt to describe that which is part consists of -ù satiral canvas of closely connected therewith with Ching's river-sida and coastal speil, the Chinese, and who the Occi- population, whose original de-
bren blended dent labele as an inherited vicefects have
with
ONE MORE EFFORT The Secretary-General of the United Nations plans to go to Moscow, and hopes to meet Stalin. His visit will more or less coincide with the Conference of the American, British and French Foreign Ministers and the meeting of the Atlantic Powers. In the past few weeks Mr. Trygve the chance is either for or against roking it is, and it is this mad and is assiduously working to those learnt through foreign con-of saying bye-bye to the Socialists,
Lie has been discussing the world situation with leading statesmen in the United States; Britain and France, It is his view that the world is "at the cross-roads," and must decide whether it wants by supporting the peace United Nations. The alter- native, he believes, is a third world
war. He therefore wants a new and great effort this year to bring the cold war to an end.
The effort is necessary and worth while, but there is little faith in the success of his mission. The Soviet slogans for May Day revealed noth- Ing new, and many feel that the peace offensive which pre- ceded the event was merely another phase of the cold war. The position in re- gard to the United Nations is just as difficult as it is in the which have other issues .divided the world into two camps. At Lake Success the Russians must continue to use the veto, with all its un- popularity, or be outvoted by the numerically superior Western nations.
"German atheletos pelted." They must have had a
bad'
Occidentals look upon the writ- Len languages of the Orient with amazement at the wondrous cal- ligraphy; awe in tackling the art among the wreckage with an un-, women have made of civili-ation', traveller conducts himself. Except that will stay on. in writing them, and a "very | heeded voice of pretest. En- in the Occident, then all that can that they do not use our Wester- wholesome respect for them when lightened governments in the be said is that our forefatheraalsed type of tableware, the discovery is made that what some breath condemn prostitution took the wrong turning and we have a great
they deal in common they thought they wore writing, as a social evil, overtooking the of the Occident have been, and with the interior folk of many Judging by all reports, this new If at all translatable, turns out to fact that there would be fewer art is not the fault of govern-:| Wales, Scotland, Spain and Italy week is the Peak of perfection.
travelling the wrong road. Western lands, such as, Ireland, tram they're putting on next be something with an entirely harlots if the great majority of different meaning. At least this men tried to live pure lives. The menis, for elected or not, they and certain communities located is so with the Chinese language, | elergy lives and works among the merely reflect the will of the In the South East of the United of which there have been count wreckage, and their voice is people.. No people has a govern. less professors but few masters, heard for too loudly..
incut. OTEC than its own lazy even among the Chinese them-
The inequalities of our age are
hatred of responsibility deserves selves.
truly appalling. They would And science and the selentlets Orientals regard tho written magically vanish if a sufficient will pour out upon their followers Jonguages of the Occident in number of men and women were their treacherous flood of peace At least this to leave off their mad scramble to time marvels to console mankind identical manner. in so with the English language in be rich in terms of money. The for its wartime sufferings they Chinese eyes, and 'among those world improves mighty slowly for] were unable to prevent, and for words in this language whose the reason that material thinga which torture they are almost exact definition puzzles them is are grossly overestimated. That solely responsible. the word "gamble". Incidentally is the main cause of unjust laws, It puzzles the whole world. In ifa of economic wrongs, tyranny, and strict sense the word implies a atter stupidity.. stake of money by agreement on a mere chance. Yet that is not as clear as it seems to be with the emphasis the
This love of money is nothing on
word "chance", here used as indicative new; but that a vast majority of of a mere "probability", because mankind should be absorbed in
There is little immediate hope hurdling our stamp out as a social evil among tacts. the event the probability is al- race for wealth, ways for it.
freedom and the rights of the in- the Fukienese,
Since a large number of these judging by the way they get by Thus, in calculating the pro-dividual, which is the real cause In writing of China and her defects are similar to those which in by-elections,
her borders, the Western nations were afflicted bability of any event, the dif- of mon's diallike of religion and peoples within
as many persons the Increasing abandonment of life and habits of the populace off with, or are yet bearing the bur- culty is not, hnagine,
in the process, but in all that once counted for honesty the interior should be studied. | den of, and since these ore the the statement of the proposition, and fair-dealing.
preferably by personal observa- people the Western nations accep-Bang, bang. and the trouble withi
The clergy are debarred from tion, rather many of
than to base one's ted as neighbours, and with whom dispute on questions gambing, or gaming, in their judgment on the 70 or 80 per cent they have traded for more than those who cf chance is that they are unable private lives, yet their Churches of the population who reside a century, such liabilities, losses,
derive certain to think clearly.
required support along the river-banks and the or disappointments, as have been from so-called Chances are expressed by the such as one onds at country fairs, those abservations should be un-la to a great extent their fault.
games of stelll, const-line of the country, and experienced by Western nations frection of probability, theme and they themselves are permit affected. It is not a wise act to In the above manner sweeping nominator being the total number of events possible, and the ted to invest money in business judge a house by the exterior. statements have been made that numerator the number of events on other people's fortune, or luck. is many a heart of gold beating blers,admitting the word in every | enterprises which are dependent In like manner with Man there the Chinese are frenzied gam- favourable. When an event hap- pens which is very improbable. Something is wrong. terribly beneath beggar's rags. So the phase of its clastic meaning. Yet the person to whom it happens
which keeps its interior of China is not to be considered lucky, and the greater chances for so low, and if this judged, in spite of the admitted the improbability, the greater his state of things us what men and Ignorance, squalor, and misery of luck.
Nothing new
is in a world
It is a remarkable fact that luck is the only subject in the world on which we have no recognised authority, although it is a topic Then again, strictly speaking, to of the most universal interest. be lucky simply means to be auc- cessful. Now luck attaches to persons and not to things so it is useless for an unlucky man to
change either seats or cards, for no matter which he chooses the personal equation of good or bad luck adhering to him for the tine being can not be shaken off..
Secondly, all men are lucky in some things, and not in others;; and they are lucky or unlucky in those things at certain times for
certain reasons.
Uncertainty
CATHOLIC CONVERTS
fortune is uncertain; for the man Stewart, a
such things as chance
By "Windrush". Special Correspondent
Important pronouncement
If lead Is Xed
To guys
They dies!
"Pesident honoured." R you sure that's correct?
are they more so than one comes Full Marx for Truman plan. across in any other country? A A possibly biased correspondent truthful answer is in the nega suggests that the ultimate end of tive. But they do play somePoint Four planning is this: If unique games for agreed upon America gives the backward stages of money, in the course of nations all the things Marx said which money is gambled away, they should have, they will not or aquandered, which it is the in- become Communist. tention of this chapter to describe
in regard to the habits of the true Fuklenesc,
In the villages of the interior lying off the beaten track agricul- tural pursuits allow of little time for amusements. When they do
Animal crackers,
The story deals with a British duke who turns llama."
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man
it is to celebrate a family event "So you're they young —a wedding, a funeral, or an who wants to be my grandson?” ancestral or a parental death-
"Well, sir, that's not the sole date or the occasion of a sca-
reason for my wanting to marry sonal festival,
Artiücial lighting is practically Mabel." unknown except for a crude wick
in a vessel of oil, so it is a matter
of carly to rise and carly to bed Classic with the day's activities conclud-
wages
'will
candles and
someone may
Hend of the West Europe
Better watch that heel while
That learned
which and stodgy, pearance
the Catholic to the troubled magazine, the "Hibbert Jour Church makes nal" has this quarter an un-peoples of Europe today.
There can be little doubt that, usually interesting article on outalde England, It is the only what is becoming an increas-force in West Europe which can ingly important matter. It is command an Attachment can called "How the Roman Catho-} speak ́ ́ with a moral authority
ed before sun-down. The visit section of the State Department lic Church makes Converts," equal or superior to that of Com- Stalin doesn't like the Unit- Th the lives of all the tide of and it is written by Dr. H. L. munism. In the struggle to of a neighbour, seldom alene, will is Ted A. Chilles.
lead to betting on the weather, ed Nations methods anyway.
Cum- Professor at the save West Europe from He has carried his domestic
has never lived who could be sure, Dalhousie University, Halifax. / munism, the nows in the press the extent of the crop, the num-Parls is on the job, boy. of the weather a week ahead. In Nova Scotia.
has been chiefly of Americanber of suckling-pigs expected, or prejudices, which have almost the matter of things this must be
economic ald; but this gives an whether so-and-so's child Dr. Stewart is 口 convinced incomplete picture. put an end to the activity of so, for if there were no ups and
Without be a boy or a girl. His understanding the moral force of the
Roman In view of the general illiteracy any sort of representative downs in life, there would be no Protestant
many and luck, of why
Protestants in Church, West Europe might now the only means of recording these assembly in the Soviet Union and the laws of probability would Americh and
Britain become be Communist.
usually involving a stake is therefore
in kind or a special meal, is -even of the Party Con- not exist. The world looks upon Catholle converts
through the medium of a witness. gresses-into the international certain men in the belief they all the more interesting.
The first reason in his opinion
At the
first opportunity zach domain. Teheran and Yalta are lucky, whereas the truth is
is that the Catholic Church takes
party will visit the nearest way- simply that they have been lucky are his ideal in method-and up to that time; they have suc itself more seriously than do the
side shrine and there invoke the -not--necessarily-because-of-ceeded so far; but that is no Protestant Churches in the Eng-
In the past few weeks,there At family events, or festivals, re- god concerned to grant success. lish-speaking" world,
today.
Important the results they yielded. The guarantee that they will succeed
theas been an
prolatives and friends will be lavited again.
the Roman Catholle.
Romne which Soviet Dictatorship has con-
he takes nouncement from
from the nearest "town", who This is demonstrable by the Faith, and all that
may make the Catholic activity will bring gifts and little luxuries tinued to grow inward, and Jaws governing the probability of trightly or wrongly) to be im
in politics even more cffective. the contraction of the clique can truthfully say that Life itself parate his policies and purposes of Cardinals presided
successive events. And so we riled in it, must constantly
The Holy Office that is, a body which may include
matches. over by which runs Russia is reflect-
It is them that is a gamble from the cradle to the from those
the Pope has agreed to the par produce a pair of dice (three are ed also in the dislike of any grave. Is this then what modern either rejects it or ignores it.
asso- negotiations embracing more
10 | used too) and start to explain how governments condemn as criminal "To a Roman Catholic there is Licipation by Catholics in
ciation's " to take counsel to- they are played at the nearest objectionable or If it is public in nature and open nothing unusual
gether concerning joint action in "city" than three Powers,
to all comers; criminal as a public in a solemn warning from the the defence of the fundamental postal-courier route, whence the village situated on the This contraction is not a nuisance, or, in other words, a altar against concurrence in some principles of Christianity and the news and the views of the dis- purely personal eccentricity: social evil?
specified design of the Govern-natural law".
trict tre gossiped and broadcast. He indeed expect's con- It is a sign and symbol of the,
It would appear 50. Skill is ment.
This is not of course 0 com Here, too, a few will be found, in the preservation of that Life, which, in the Church's name, Protestants have often collabor- others, amusing themselves with the Soviet Dictatorship has Then what is the distinction be- the faithful will be summoned ated
in political dice and cards. in England arrived. There is no hered, tween games of chance and fair from time to time to oppose matters. During the war there
and honest contests of akill? political leaders." itary succession to self-
were the meetings presided over Man-made laws condemn the Among Protestants, on the
(To be continued) Jointly by Archibishop Temple made dictators as there is in former yet recognised the latter, other hand, it is often considered and Cardinal Hinsley, But the case of Emperors and and permit the latter offering meddling it a minister interprets Catholles, were never quite Kings. The headline given to prizes without converting the current political events in the how their activities in this res- light of Christian principle. The pect would be regarded by Rome, Mr. Paul Hoffman's reference game into a mere gamble.
Enlightened governments lega- result is that Protestantism
The declaration by the Holy to the matter-"Stalin Death || Itse horse-racing because, so they seems to be an affair only of Office will remove their uncer- Necessary for Peace"-seem maintain, it is an economic fac- Sunday instead of a man's whole And. It sufera in prestigo ed brutal, and the purport tor in the lives of the inhabitants, life,
yet the industry involved is based in consequence. on the public's spirit of gaming. or gambling.. They do not con- sider horse-racing a social evil, yet it has ruined countless in- dividuals and once happy homes The clergy lives and works
of the
man
who
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The struggle of the Vatican against Russian Communism of his remarks wishful think
certainly one of the great themes Ing. There is nevertheless
of contemporary history. But plenty of support for them in
something else is happening" to the light of history,
the Catholic Church at the pre- "The
Catholic Church has a clear and sent time which may be of Im- power of a dictator. has never
certain doctrine on which it re- mense significance both for Itself yet been passed on to a
fuses to compromise. The mo- and for the world. This it the successor without a period of
dern Protestant, on the other rise of North American Catholics great turbulence," said Mr. was in 1941. Stalin had gone minded that he ends by giving preme influence in the Church
hand, is apt to be 50 broad- to what may ultimately be su- Hoffman, who predicted that to extreme lengths to fend up all clear-cut articles of faith, A remarkable study of this when this crisis occurred in Hitler off: even to the extent Dr. Stewart quotes the well-
was made a little whilɑ ago by Russia the satellite States of becoming his ally and ac-known lines.
the Catholic novellat, Evelyn
he would break away and this complice in the crime against When suave politeness, tem- Waugh. It seems."
said. "that in every age. some one "most evil dictatorship" would Poland. And when the Nazis log betali
Corrected I believe to One does branch of the Church, racial, end..
attacked there was no hope feet.
wyd cultural or national, bears pa- From the days of Classical of freedom or liberty from The result, says Dr. Stewart, is collar responsibilities towards the Greece the chieftains the such as attack. The Russian danger and uncertainty, the Pro waxes and wanes among the thatzin, a world of increasing | whole. "Vitality, mysteriously Diadocchi--have fought be people knew that the success testant Churches nesm ftabby people. Again and again. Chris- tween themselves for the of the onslaught would be and defeatist. But the Roman | tianity seems dying at its centre. another succession. But war ja an- other way out, or a possible enslavement for the Com Europe beset by the Communist feve the decadent of their bur- part of the way out. The munist tyranny. There was threat, this is picolally, ?-Import- den......... World, it seems, | Russian revolutionartes made nothing to be done but to the Church of Roms will enter Providence is "ant. "With Communist athelem "In the New
schooling and use of the war-weariness of fight it out to the end, and tain no manner of compromise, strengthening a people for the the giant with feet of clay in even then armies went over Such reinterpreting of the Faith historic destiny long borne by the first World War to usurp almost without a fight in the as will maize (i formally, accept-Europe. "Already at this moment power. Rival factions may first few weeks on a scale able to the present rulers of the Catholics are the largest religiouar Kremlin" toy the Roman body, la, the United States, the seek to win victory at home without precedent in the Catholic just unspeakable blast richest and in certain ways, the by war abr
ich al history of war up till that | phemy? Holate most lively branch of the Catho- case, sceptics who eve ow time." The Soviet armies went It mut be remembered thatile Church in the world
man3who | CA Universal - Roman & Catholle treban Vitor tha: Estholle Church" led by American Catho“ really is beneath i
the substitution of an alien Catholic Church looks by con- Always Providence has
trast like a rock of" 1201. "In a¦ people quietly maturing (to pre-
over by the hundreds of thou“, door walysis läbygn
would sands, and it was not till de- churan
ith featjana passed "from" them arenenure
entered the hearts of the that the - altuation
Wit Een ma American Pope, a large infusion of the, Ameridan @spirit into the Church/ 111–119
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