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PATRIOTISM AND INTERNATIONALISM.
MAUDE ROYDEN AT THE CITY HALL.
THE PECULIAR GENIUS OF THREE GREAT RACES.
Miss Maude Royden's second public lecture, given last night at the City Hall was not so startling and original as her first. Although, extremely interesting.
Pleading the ideal of internationalism sho insisted that it must be based on a real and fervid patriotism, and a desire not to impress the culture of one nation of the world, but to give to the world at large the peculiar genius of each race.
Miss Roydon was introduced by the Rev. J. H. Johnstou, pastor of the Union Church, Kowloon, whe said that he had been enormously impressed by a serman on a similar subject, which he had heard, her preach ten years ago in the City Temple.
Miss Royden began by saying that, the reason for her, present tour was to discover if there was any real world consciousness, if the world was conscious of itself as a unity: It appeared to her that there was something like world consciousness, but it was hard to say whether it way a consciousness of brotherhood or of conflicting interests, or if this consciousness was going to work for peace or for war. The issue, scemed to be hanging in the balance.
Patriotism Cannot Be Wrong.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1st, 1928.
China's Genius.
Royden said that she did not know Speaking then of China Miss
what, were her greatest things or
COMPANY.
was rowed on the Dee by sight H.K.V.D.C. SCOTTISH other Kings Eight Kings in a country the size of England! As for Wales and Scotland," added Miss Rayden, "I don't know buw many there were; I never yet met Welshman who was not a lines! descendant of Kingși” (Laughter.)
what China was most proud of, but what struck the casual visiter was her greas and wonderful art. We in English could once make such beautiful things, in the 13th century nearly everything from Cathedrals to honschuld' utensils were beauti- ful, but dow we produced thousands of things which were nearly all ugly.
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Solving The Russian Problem. Then someong naked Miss Reyden her way of solving. the Russian problem. Avoiding such a tremend- ous thems, Miss Boyden, replied that she was not here to solve the problems of the nations but only to suggest the principles on which they might be solved. It seemed | to her almost inevitable that some great cataclysm should come in Russia. As in France, where those in authority before the Revolution | would not progress, they were bound to create terrible confiict. Terrible as it was, it ultimately led to something better, and might be so in Russia-though from the bottom of her soul she abhorred the dictatorship of any class. or in- dividual.
it was in the East that we wanted to buy.
willing to give its genius to the world instead of trying to impress its own culture upon it would the world rally be civilised.
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HALLOW'EEN. DINNER.
THE OLD CUSTOMS OBSERVED.
Corres Scottish ceremony was fully observed at the Hallow'een dizer last night of the Scottish Company of the H.K.V.D.O.
CINEMA NEWS.
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Richard Dix arrives today at the Queen's in "Knockout Reilly," a comedy of love and the prize ring. Dix plays the hero, and Mary Brise of Peter Pan" lame is the delightful heroine. An extremely realistic boxing match, is provided 2.3 a climax to an entertaining story.
The Company was piped into dinner and Volunteer Headquarters had been turned into a regular bower, of greenery lit up with lan terns on whose globes the "Man in the Moon. "
had been deeply portrayed. Later during the excel rent neal served by Lane, Craw- ford's the haggis was piped in by Pipe Major Wilson and carried in, triumph round the · room.
The quaich was quaded by all the prin- eipal guests, amid general applause, Scottish songs were sung, kilts were in evidence and much good liquor the larger proportion of it from the evening was out. over the Border-was drunk before
Oompanionate Marriage. The next question enquired Miss Royden's views on Judge Lindsay's ideas of companionate marriage. Miss Royden kindly summarised the Judge's theories as follows:-Young people felt the imperative demands Capt. R. S. Morrison, presided and The O.C. the Scottish Company, of sex long before they were it to among those supporting him were establish a family, and they found Lt. Col. L. G. Biru, D.S.O., Major an outlet in promiscuous inter-H. B. L. Dowbiggin, and Messrs. course. Judge Lindsay's remedy R. M. Dyer, A. H. Ferguson, J. was that young people should as-Ferguson, W. Logan Mackie, R. sociate sexually (using contracep
found their love for each other was
Young and Lieut. G. Duncan, sufficient to build a life on, and B. and a number of officers wished to have children, they would become permanently man and wife. She believed the Judge suggested that if a child were born, marringe should be compulsory.
She did not think it was a sound proposal: it was really a trial mar. To call thing marriage which consisted solely in sexual companionship, seemed to her to suggest an extraordinarily inade quate idea of marriage. The sexual aspect was only one part of mar- riage, which involved mutual res ponsibility in the difficult art of living together: it was not easy to make a beautiful thing of a common life.
"I would like to
of the K.O.S., B.
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"We're In The Navy Now." "We're in the Navy Now" with Wallace Beery and Raymond Hat- ton will be screened at the World' from to-day to Saturday The payal career of Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton is one long laugh.
at
"Honour Bound,” George O'Brien and Estelle Tayr or will be seen as the leading players in "Honour Bound" the Star from to-day to Saturday.
It is the story of John Ogetree through the treachery of a woman. who has been sent During his imprisonment, the girl to prison'
marries a wealthy coal mine owner
convict labour camp. Her hushand and uses "her influence in securing a position for her sweetheart in a
Ogletree and his wife, and consigna overhears a conversation between
the latter to the coal mines.
MR. T. P. O'CONNOR 80.
Mr. T, P. O'Connor, the "Father" of the House of Commons, was 80 on October 5th.
When a reporter called as his flat in Morpeth Mansions, Victoria,
Company Activities. After the Loyal Toast had bech given from the Chair, Capt. Mor rison proposed the health of the Visitors. On behalf of the Scottishs.w. Company he was very pleased to welcome them to this 4th annual
As it
was also the Company dinner be would refer very briefly to some of their activities during the year. Owing to
A Chinese eriftsman would spend Many people wanted to think a life time on making one benuti. tives) but not live together. If the Sutherland, O.B.E. The Rev. F. C. internationally but were afraid that ful thing, and she wondered as she to do so ruled out patriotismoked at this and considered the The cause of internationalism had mind of the maker if the Chinese suffered great harm owing to this thought that we were living in the
· Larren form of thought, this fear
middle ages, or if they relegated that we must no longer love cur
us to the dark ages. A striking own-country best. Most of us are convinced that whatever we should
Tart was that when we travelled do we do in actual fact love our own country above all others. "If some foreigner says, said Miss Neither art, pohties, nor science
celebration of Hallow ̋een. were civilisation but all were nord- "Royden," that he loves my country,
better than his own, I feel that Ted. Only when each country was Am farther away from him, not closer. An instinct so deep, passionate, and so universal as patriotism could not be wrong. The true internationalism auust be based on the fact that you loved your own country,
because then, you wyre in a position to understand why other people loved theirs.
Children mught in be taught got only love of their own country but its traditions and the history of those who had made it great, after that they should learn that every child in every other country felt the same pride. Each child thought its own country "it" and they were it right, for no country was without its genius and its great men, and each had something to contribute to the world, the small countries as well as the large. Greece had given beauty, Egypt. the beginning of science, and, Palestine Cbrist.
The world, vaid Miss Royden, has never trampled on the small- est nation without inflicting i an immeasurable loss on the whole
world.
Tea Or Coffee. ·
A Complete Map Of The World. In the olden world an Empire kingdom conid live to itself and consider itself the world, there
Wils
economic troubles and the closing of several concerns they had lost several extremely good comrades and they all hoped that these men had obtained good joba at Home. Recruits, he was sorry revere the to say, were not coming in as fast no vital question of inter- whole thing," added Miss Rorden. as they should. He asked mem nationalism. But when the world" To me it seems that the satisfachers to canvas their friends and he grew bigger the idea still lingered tion of desire for physical union suggested as their slogan. Pride that one nation might dominate.
should be the final expression of It was difficult to realise that all a spiritual union, not the other way different types of civilisation were reund." Miss Horden also said she of value, but it must be done. The thought Judge Lindsay's proposals world was now a complete map.
were misconceived biologically be The matter was in our hands, we
cause premature satisfaction of sex climates, and we had become con- people and often led to knew the area, the races and the instinct was very bad for young arrested scious of being crowded and afraid development in alter life. of being crowded out..
Love of ones own country was right, but the difficulty was that we too often stopped. there. We travelled at so much with an iden of realising what was good in other countries, as with noticing where they fell behind our own. When an Englishman went to the United States he did not discover that he could get there the best coffee in the world because he was too busy complaining, about the abominable tea. But if America were just Like England we could not even enjoy laughing at them-or they ar us. There would be no point or enjoyment in travel at all if we found everything just like home.
Three Great Races. Patriotism does not mean a desire to make our own ways the standard of civilization..
That fear was based on some- thing gond, on a belief in your own type of civilization, but there was By more stapul and cruel passion than fear, and race feeling and race contempt was based on fear. growth of the world and the direc- I was prissible now to estimate the tion in which people would spread, I should be possible by means of science to determine that growth and fluctuation. To take the parts of the world which were uninhabit. able and make them so, or arrange that they be inhabited by races who were able to live there. We should no longer be subject to blind panic and fear of other peoples, we had our destiny in our own hands and with wisdom and with- out fear we could learn how to use
our resources."
use.
England's Part, ***
In this gigantic task it seemed as if England might be of great Our political genius might be used in organising the world, it meant a capacity for when having seen an ideal giving it a "local habitation and a name."
Grounds 01. Divorce, On the other hand, continued Miss Royden in earnest tones, when we allow people to blunder into marriage in the state of ignor ance we often do, and then say nothing on earth will ever justily, make the ground ready for Judge separation or divorce, I think we Finlany, I think people who have really tried to make a great thing out of marriage and bave failed, and there is nothing left but the legal contract, I think they should be released.'
Inter-social Marriages.
of Country,”
The Company had kept up its musketry reputation. Though beat en by the Scots Guards and the. Borderers they quite held their own against those two great Scot tish Regiments while at the Corps Ride Meeting they swiped most of the things that could be swiped." (Hear, hear, and laugher.)
yesterday he said: "Rules for leng lifet Why, I have broken thein all. There is only one thing I have been careful about and that is alcohol. I have two drinks a day- whisky and soda and a tee total drink-at meals. never any between."
He world asosangratulate Sergt. Cuttle on his success in Part of the Musketry. His score of 107 out of a possible 117 would take some beating.
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Mr. O'Connor was entertained to birthday dinner, and was later the guest of honour at a House of Commons, dinner.
There was great hilarity over the Dookin for Aipples," and the evening was brought to a close with the singing of "Auld Lang Syne" and God Save The King.
They were glad to welcome Mr. first time and also Col. Bird, who Ferguson and Mr. Mackie for the was there as President of the St. George's Society. (Cheers.) He was also glad to welcome the Rev. F. C. Young, the successor of their old Friend Mr. Kirk Maconachie, He was pleased to have several K.O.S.B. officers with them and would like publicly to thank the Officers, N.C.O.'s and men of that regiment for all they had done for the Company during the yast year. (Cheer.)
The Bill O' Fare, THE PIPES: Brose an' Butter,"
GRACE,
Lt. Col. L. G. Bird in a brief reply thanked the Company for a most cheery evening and an excel- thing about the haggis except that lent men). He wouldn't say any
he couldn't understand"ik (Laugh- ter.) He would ce specially to congratulate "Georgie Duncan' on the decorations (Hear, hear.)
The Committee who made the Arrangementa
Capt. K. S.
derson, (Sec), C. M Hanion (Bar), Morrison (Convenor), T. P. Saun-
J. W. Blakely (Food), G. Duncan (Decorations), Sgt. A. Mackenzie (Asst. Convenor).
A Chinese lady asked, Do you think international marriage would promote the international spirit?"
Miss Royden: "I think it is extraordinarily difficult to make a successful international marriage, and I hesitate to say this because it may be personally wounding to people in my audience. But I think the dagger to the children is su great when marriage is not only international but inter-radial that I should not like to risk it. The crossing of different stocks when they are very close together may An kea which was brought to be beneficial, but when you cross earth must be disappointing, but breeds that are far apart you may For the purposes of this lecture the spirit which would not suffer
not get good results. I do not Miss Royden said she would take that disappointment to break your suggest this as a general rule, but three great and very different coun faith in the iden was political in our present state of knowledge tries, England, the United States geoins.
it is taking a tremendous" risk to and China. Euch was very different There were other gifts of other give a child an inheritance in and each had its own peculiaritions of which the world stood in which colour, race, religion are all genius. The genius of Britain was feed but political genius was now different. There is a risk of setting political genius. Every democratic the world's greatest, perd, - Hep a dissonance in the child. government is the world owed that would be greatest among you something to the Mather of Parlet hip servo, was the noblest liaments. In the British Empire idea of patriotism.
there were 31 different kinds of Questions were then invited. government institutions. E fact which demonstrated clearly the statesmanship and elasticity which was an essential part of the British political genius. Politics are our great career, to serve our country by public life, and we judge in-affairs internationally stinctively every other nation by its political ability.
The American Genius.
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Reforming The Press.
cavent
The first questioner asked. If the newspapers adopted the principles of the Sermon on the Mount, would that produce a better state of
Miss Royden entered against thinking that the Press entirely moulded public opinion and gave instances to the contrary, In America "politician" is a term On subjects on which people were of abuse. The genius of America well informed they accepted little lay in the exploitation of her riches guidance from the Press, which had by applied scicnee, The applicnost influence in regard to subjects" tion of science to natural conditions was more complete and more full of hope than in any other country,
Living In The Middle Ages, The speaker described the typical questions, which were put to
her
were
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An excellent musical programme was given by the following gentle-
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G..McLeod, A. Chapman, J. W. Blackley, J. Whyte, W. J. John- ston and E. M. Haron; the ac- companist "being Mr. Edwards.
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(Continued on shext--Column),
Some hae meat an' canna eat And some wid eat that want"it, But we had meat an' we can eat, So let the Lord be thankit."
BCOTCH URUTK.
"WHATS a world championship
"Cauld kail het again."
TAWTIES AN' MEHRIN". Bonnie Fish an' halesome farin'."
HAGGIS.
Fair fa' your honest sonsy face."
BOASTIT BEEF.
Tawties Biled an' Champit. Kail aff the runt, Bashed Neeps.
Happy we are a' the-gither, Happy we'll be ang an a', Time shall see us a' the blyther Ere we rise tae gang awa!"
"I should rather aim at the pre- serving of each race than at the mixture of them. I have heard it suggested that we ought to inter- roarry until, there are no different races but we are all mixed up and view difference of race makes for it is when there is not that respect are all coffee-coloured, but in my
ly deep instinct for preserving your richness and variety. That curious that bitterness creeps in."
Misa Royden asked for more own race need not be arrogant. I questions, but the audience indicat- would rather look forward to aed by applause that it thought she world in which the races took a had been tested more than enough. pride in preserving their own type and the meeting concluded with a with perfect respect for the others- vote of thanks felicitously moved by (ontinued at fort of next column.) the Rev. J. C. Knight Anstey,
about which people were not deeply concerned. Unfortunately, inter- national affairs came within this category with too many people.
China In The Thross. In reply to another question, after her return from Miss Royden further explained her Chicago, questions about gun- views in the power of prayers and men and disorder, and the said she believed. it would benefit final remark that Americans both China and Britain if the were "living in the middle agen." people of Britain prayed for the Americans who visited England people of China. She could not were shocked to find that thou imagine a more wonderful thing sands of houses were without tele-happening in the world than that phones, bath rooms, ice chests or the whole British race should pray even ice that the English had for this great nation of China, none of the decencies of civilsa- now passing through tremendous tion and were living in the middle changes telescoped into so short'a ngen.” In fact the general criticism | space, which in British history were levelled by one country against an-spread over centuries. Did her other was "They are uncivilised." audience remember the King who.
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