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CHANGING TURKEY,
FORTUNES OF ASTROLOGERS AND
to &
WIZARDS VOLARS
BADLY-TRAINED ARCHITECTS
TOO MANY INCOMPETENTS IN THE PROFESSION
the question.
"TOO VIOLENT"
AN EARLY VIEW OF CRICKET.
IN COURSE OF COMPILATION:
There is scarcely a custom or an in- THE DIRECTORY
stitution now, thriving among us which has not had to fight for its life. great, from Summer Time to the aseptic method of surgery, has been fiercely opposed and ridiculed in the period of its innova- ros tion, Even pastimes of which tho This Committee, whose report is now harmlessness is now so obvious that it issued, express the belief that while there is difficult to understand how men ever is no overcrowding so far as the highly- trained competent man is concerned, yet thought them harmful, have been at there is a surplus of indifferently-trained tacked by reasonable people with the grades. But this overcrowding, is in co memory, lawn tennis has been thought persons, especially amongst the junior most soldeman rhetoric. Within recent
way contributed to by the recognised architectural schools states a writer in the London Korping Post,
effeminate and selish it was a game, we used to be told, which, if it were encouraged in schools, would undermine
AND CHRONICLE
1926.
OHINA.
JAPIN, INDO-CHINA, SIAM, STEKAN, SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATER
NETHERLANDS INDIA, PRITIP,
PINES, BORNEO, Ere.
SIXTY-FOURTH
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It would perhaps be an exaggeration The alleged overcrowding of the archi- to say that in the days of Absolutism, tectural profession led recently to the when few Turks, even when speaking Appointment of a joint committee of the Everything, aval and
foreigart, would mention the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Association of Architects, Surveyors, Sultan as such, but always respect Technical Assistants, to examine into falty referred to their Sovereign as hia Imperial Majesty, it was the prac tics of the Necromancer-General and the Somnambulist-General to go out of office with the Turkish Cabinet as if they had been an Attorney or Solicitor- General in Downing-street, but certain it in that the Astrologer Royal, who was Dean of the Chapter of Court Horoscopists and Chief of the Vatici!
There are to-day some 12,000 architects, nators and Wizards in Ordinary to the including 1.300 pupils and students in Eng manhood of the nation; it was Caliph exercised an influence but little land and Wales, as against 7000 forty inferior to, and far more permanent years ago, or one architect or potential treated by schoolboys themselves with architect to every 1,107 of population in contempt, and anyone who played it, than, that of the Grand Vizier, and England and Wales compared with one unless in secret for the amusement of comparable only to that of his High to 3,714 forty years ago. These figures o mall sister, ran the risk of being ness the Chief of the Black Eunucha do not include the comparatively large thought a shirker or a coward, who If the Grand Vizier was a strong number of persons who enter the profes liked patting a soft ball better than
THE DIRECTORY GOVE tha - kota's's man he could hope at least to be "The ion irregularly or nesidentally by pro anding up to a hard one parents, ports and aities of the Far East, from
Netherlands
India to Siberia in whink Porte, hat his two rivals were, with motion from the office boy or clerical Bicycling, too, received more than its the assistanco ... of an occasional | grades.
share of abuse from the complacent and said Diectory as fall and complete
Not only is the in the favourite, The Palace"; and, so long It is felt that at least as many men werd in ita haughtiest contemporary Fart or Settlement is prefaced by DESORIE the respectable."It was to 1:200 thin each case as it can be made, but cash Colony, ak Abdul Hamid was absolute it was are entering the profession as the pro-sense extremely vulgar. not uncommon for "The Palace" to infession can at the present time absorb, women, it was
Among TION carefully revised a year. Alacace the suspicious and superstitious and the Committee are of opinion that modest Miss Corelli attacked it, and GUIDES FOR THE TOURtar, giving avery debuit: "eccentric" and im majority of which will serve as an accurate monarch, by means of omens and the steps should he taken, not to limit the her admirers held up their hands in in connection with t
places, their humory, „sta.
Pacz
Abridged Edition
the
position of the stars in their courses, numbers entering, but to warn the pro horror while they thought of what Information in these com
"QUACK" ARCHITECTS.
might befall & refined girl who went gallivanting about the country with ing of s
hundred interesting whiskered mess on wheels. Where was with facts concisely set out, and sombining feminine dignity? Where ladylike re serve 1
statistion of the TRADE of each Country, and
or "by persuasions of a domestic na ture, to ran counter to, or even en-ession and the public of this fact, and to tirely to upset, the political arrange ensure that the training given to students
to the con- wishing to become architects is thorough fusion of cabinets and ambassadors ly adequate.. and, it is believed, the occasional pro
Above all, what would become Port, would alone suffice to fill a large values. fit of the two picturesque Great Officera
of the unity of family like if daughters
The Book is printed from New Type specially of State, and the Favourite of the day, It is the quack architects who over had machines that would carry then arved for the purpose, and uniformity in Although the Astrologer Royal di crowd the profession and bring it into where their mothers could not followery arrangement greatly facilitates referanos. sot rank as a "Highness" with the disrepute, declared Mr. C. McArthur The opposition was so serious that de Grand Vizier, the Staik-ul-Islam and Butler, Secretary of the Society of Archifiantly absurd costumes wels worn, as the Chief Eunuch, his position was so fects, in commenting approvingly on the 8 sign of their emancipation, by the Beslies tha nina! Alphabetical. Idish of Biyon. influential and his opportunities so con- joint report of the R.I.B. A. and the bicycling revolutionaries. Then, sad the Directory give the CLASSIFIED LISTS siderable that a number of ambitious Association of Archects...
denly, the thing became "fashionable. | of THADES and PROFESSI
At the larger Bothers and fathers sniggered a little, Commercial Centres. but in Battersea Park at dawn they: learned to ride with a parental poise,
With the statement that there is a sur-
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20,000 FOREIGNERS,
CHRONICLE
corrected.
men took pains to qualify themselves to be his AUCCESSOR.. The rules of a science which is believed to have been plus of indifferently-trained persons he árat developed by the Babylonians were entirely agreed. There is nothing," be and tandems, which had formerly been ALPHABETICAL LIST of RESIDENTS in. diligently studied, and some enlarged explained, to prevent anyone putting deeply suspect, became symbols of con- the Far East contains the names of over- their qualifications by learning how to up a brass plate and calling himself an jugal felicity. Every one began to forecast, the future and determine the architect, and men without training and chatter elegantly of free-wheels and all auspiciousness of a particular day or without traditions often perpetrate, for the world promptly forgot that bicycles arranged, with the Initials as well as the Suz hour by means of observing the flight the people who are foolish enough to go had ever been supposed to roll young names, in strictly Aphabetical. Order, so that of birds, the jumping of beans, or to them, buildings which are quite unit innocence away down the steep paths of any same can be found instantly. visions in ink.
for their intended purpose and of an ruin Unfortunately for them Abdul Hu ugliness for which the profession gets the was the last to hold office as Astrologer-blame..
So it has adways been. Even golfers THE MAPS AND PLANS - caa remember & General, and he fell from power when. It is with these unqualified men that martyrdom when golf" was supposed to engraved by one of the most eminent Firms is time of glorions of the principal ports of the Far East hary boon upon a day which he had warned his the real architect has to compete after lead to drink, the desertion of wives Great Britain and master was inauspicious, Abdul Hamid ceased to be a Bultan, whether obsolute costly years spent in learning his job ax and the angry chastisement of children: brought up
up to date. or constitutional, and no provision was an articled pupil or in the schools. Train-But hitherto cricket has generally been
notable e Latio ed architects cannot advertise, and stuer considered together with Terts et al the mort impork loger-General in the ensuing esttastes waiting hopelessly for a commission some quiet, peaceful, decorous game, perfect-ant Treaties concluded with the countries of This dnshed the hopes of the students of them are squeezed out.
ly fitted to exercise the sons of gentle Eastern Asia, the racons Customs Tarifey of accult arta, ás, so far from being" The only solution, which has long again and again-particularly by thos Fees, Hongkong amps Daties, Signal
Trade math. Have we not, indeed, heen told
Regulations, Chambers of Commerce, Scales Commissions, Consular and Court able to aspire to sway an empire by Been advocated, is the compulsory educ who feel that lawn tennis is effeminate Codes, Charts Festivals, Tables of Money, their prognostications, they could tion of architects to a certain standard and that th study of wild flowers and Weights and features and other Com now only hope to make both ends before they are allowed to practies, and birds by small boys is only an excuse mercial Information. meet by practising as Jinjir or Faljik system of statutory registration! among the credulous or, at best, to "As a profession we are entrusted with tion of Imperial and manly virtue, and KONG DALY PRESE."
for loafing--that cricket is the founda It is published at the Office of the "Hone secure a mont substantial recognition the spending of millions of other people's is the source of that spirit of unselfish as village Forenrers.
The Directories and Descriptions are of ;--- money, and the public should be given team-work which has undoubtedly some guarantee of our efficiency, made England what it "is" It is not easy to believe that it was over. regard- of as a coarse and dangerous pastime which men of breeding ought at all costs to avoid. MAN
OPPORTUNITY FOR WIZARDS. When the Republican Government fortunately, many men who would not disestablished the Moslem Church in dream of going to law without a barris Turkey, if one may use that phrase, n ter's assistance think themselves quite sumber of people believed that the competent to draw up plans or are con
Yet we have the indignant evidence foundations of all religion had thereby tent with, the "advice of builders and of been overthrown, and, as has unilly quacks less skilled than builders. In the of Dr. Willich to prove that cricket not always "ap honourable game. been the case in such circumstances in end they lose more than the architect's was. other countries, began to seek for some tecs,
Dr. Willich compiled & Domestic substitute. Here was the opportunity Architecture should be taught more the time, it is to be presumed, when Encyclopedia in the year 1807-about for the survivors among the wizards in our public schools, for, like geography the Battle of Waterloo was being so who had been disappointed by the it is part af s liberal education and successfully fought in the neighbour- Young Turks 15 years before. They Blocked into the Chamber which the Rene should have some knowledge of hood of Windsor Cricket," he ex- publicans thought they had swept of evercrowded until action is taken uniue formed with bats and a bail This it. The profession will continue to be plains is an exercise or game per- mollahs, hojas, imams, and other del rout persona who might be unduly cap lines of this report, and we secure sport was formerly confined solely to servative, and began to practise upon compulsory standard of efficiency.?? the labouring class of people, but is the ignorant and creduloas, not merely
| now" becoming daily more fashionable with all the arts of the male and m
among those whose rank and fortune female magicians to be found in Lon
entitle their countrymen DERVISHES AND REACTION,
to expect a dony but with some pleasing local
very different conduct. So much for variations. No case is reported of What has, however, emerged from the the writer's aristocratic frown, but this toplasmic materialization in Anatolia, fray is that the Government now ap is not all. Dr. Willich, like others but exponents of the Black Art unques, pears to associate Dervishes with reae after him, had the best nud gravest tionably champed glass in their mouths, tion, whether they be of the Orders im reasons to fortify him in his prejudice, inbaled flames, pierced their persona plicated in the recent revolt or no, and "Although," this moderate man con- with knives and skewers, prognosticated good deal is being said and written tinues although we have on all occa- the future by means of chartomzacyjbout them, usually in an unfriendly sins Anjoined proper muscular exer lekanomancy, or after examining it. It is said that many tekkés or cise, yet we strongly reprobate that of appearance of the entrails of sheep, omvents of Dervishes have become crisitet. which is in all respects too. One Dervish sheikh even harnessed ruinous and that no religious cere:violent, nad, from the positions into modern to ancient science, and enormonies have been held there for years, which players must necessarily throw mocaly impressed his up-country while their revenues have passed into themselves, cannot fail to be productive clients who were received in a darken the pockets of the Abbots, who are of frequent injury to the body, In ed room, by veiling his face and awitch often hereditary, or of the heirs or deed, we have witnessed several melare- ing on small electric lights concealed assigns of these prelates. Other choly accidents which lately happened in his beard and whiskers. This is he abbots and sheikhs are accused of boing in our neighbourhood and dislocations lieved to have had no small effect in incompetent or morally reprobate. It of the hip-joint in particular are by bridging about the recent abortive is claimed that for years past young no means uncommon, from the awkward Kurdish insurrection, and it is "prob men have been ashamed to follow their posture occasioned by employing both ably on account of this political fathers into the ranks of a Dervish com arms at the same time in striking velopment of Art Magic that the munity, and there is in general just distant object Turkish Government has decided to such a campaign against the Dervishes might be supposed that our neigh curtail the activities of the necro- of all Ordera, Mevlevis, Boktashis, bourhood was exceptionally unfortun mancers and wizards, who are consider Rufais Berberis Kaderis, Shahsilis, ate in having erratic bowlers and bats ed to be old-fashioned reactionaries, Nakshibendis, Haziris, and others, as men who could not resist a tempting. and do not claim to be the heralds of might have been found in England in wide But Dr. Willich js not to be a new and ultra-scientific, dawn, the days of King Henry VIII Sultans so easily discounted. His medical As yet, however, although an era of of the House of Othman were not con fears are less important than bus an persecution for these people is pre-sidered to be fully seized of the Imerring social instinct We trust." dicted, the Government has taken not perial power until they had been gir says he, "the time is not very remote very drastic action. The necromancers with sword of the founder of their when this game, like pugilism, will be who have been hanged may reasonably dynasty by the hereditary Abbot utterly exploded by all who possess a he supposed to have incurred that, fate Teneral of the Movlevis the famous correct taste and have any regard for rather by reason of open insurrection Chalobi of Konis,
the constitutions as well as for their respective situation in lite
or other pralinary acts of high treason, Now the Sultans are gone, the sword and can properly be claimed as is in a museum, and people are talk martyrs to their wizardry A foreigning of suppressing the monasteries, dis black_exponent, pl. Arabian magic and endowing the Dervishes, and dis- kypnotism has been thrown out of the inheriting even the heir of the pious country, and one no longer hears the Merians Jellal-ed-Din Bumi, an set un- bleating wail of "Mæras, maras" thinkable only a few years ago Tint formerly, emitted by the perambulating such a proposal can be made publicly Pythonesses who told fortunes among and in all seriousness is proof, indeed. the feminie Orthodox 26. Constar of bow for the Republic has tënvellei tinople.
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