HỒNG KÔNG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1931.
OUR EMOTIONAL LIFE. thing. It is not that we condemn HONG KONG STOCK
SOCIETY SMILE IS NOT A TRUE SMILE: EASILY DISTINGUISHABLE.
FATHER BYRNE'S ADDRESS TO ROTARY CLUB,
Father G. Byrne, S.3. gave a highly interesting address at the Rotary Club huncheon yesterday when he spoke to members.on the subject of Our Emotional Life."
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The disturbing revelation was made that a psychologist could easily tell when a smile way a true smile, aud, when it was an alleet- ed or "wistysmile, Father Bryne, by means of an illustration showed how, in the ease of a the smile there was always a twinkle in the eye, whereas in the ease of the society smile, the tell-tale twinkle was absent.
The speaker also gave a learned discours as to the part play ed by emotion in our everyday life.
•INFLUENCE OF GROWN-UPS ON CHILDREN.
In introducing Father Dare resent the epithest "emotional sid William Hoonell said:-Father fellow'7 Byrur is a member of thi Jesuit Order. He has been inanost of the
countries of the world and a few
years ago he came here as the head
"Emotional Fellows."
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Yet we are "emotional fellows, indeed so strongly emotional that
rept perhaps in our banking transactions, emotions tend to curry
|llwse outward ̈ ̈ manifestations; it
is not that we should repress the emotions" "in" our lives. The sense
in oite
MARKET.
Tife is a very real part of man's | CROUCHER & CO.'S DAILY life: the emotions are just ni much
a portion of his complex make-up
REPORT.
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CANTON SILK INDUSTRY.
TESTING OFFICE ON ́?
SHAMEEN.
[reom our own CORRESPONDENT.]
as his intellect and will, but they -The market continues very active. are the less noble part; and ther] A stream of wush orders, particular- are the most dangerous part. They ty for Hotels lifted the prices, busi-
CANTON, May 12, are like the steam in the engine,
ness resulting at various integ Commendable work is heing done which must be under control.
Aeash was done at advancing prices by the Kwangtung Raw Silk Test- mon without passions, a man who from $15.90 to 810.00 with corresing Burena in the way of improv- | would not hugh 'with "the, abandon | ponding rates forward. The market, ing the silk industry here and of good humour, who could not | however, closed with a glve and sunile with the satisfaction of joy, take feeling at 817 July. who could never shed a tear of Unions were raised to 808 owing sadness in sorrow's, hour would be a
to the decline in exeliange, with Inouster indeed; but a man who out inducing sellers. Underwriters trembles with fear at every breatharp wanted at 85.00; sellers seem of adversity, whe despairs of play-unwilling to operate. ing a manly part, who explodes with angry passion at the slightest contradition, a man, in fact who is ruled by his emotions, is an equally ( undesirable specimen of the creature
"made to the image of Gud."
"Killing Time."
There is a crime for which: no
of increasing the confidence of foreign consumers. The Bureau, which is under the Department of Reconstruction of the Kwangiang Provincial Government, is located on Shameen. Tis organisation was completed on May 1, and was in- There are sellers of Docks st $34| sugurated on the following Monday, and Wharves are in demand at $183.The Comatissiätter of the „Depart- Providents are wanted at $5.80 ment of Reconstruction, Mr. Tang and Humphreys at 8171.
Yin Wa, officiated at the opening Cements and Dairy Farms are
ceremony, and made the inaugural again in demand at $18.65 and address. 890.70, respectively.
Watsons Cano to
business at 613.75.
legal penalty is assigned. 11 is of daily occurrence: it is not char-
Telophones suffered further recOS. acteristic of the coolie strata of life:sion and can be had at '840,
Cottons are a shade easier at it is rather the perquisite of the
Over 200 guests veré present an the scension, including Government officials, members of the Canton Consular Body, representatives frun silk firms, filiature merchants, and managers of many business concerns in and about Canton.
The Bureau's facilities enable it
day's run. The equipment and machines are of the very latest designs which were imported from America, Japan, and Switzerland.
The services of an American tex- tile engineer and advisor, Mr. MB-
of a special mission, I got hold of him and we wow have Rieu Hail the day. The advertiser plays on well-to-do; it is a crime to which 8102 and Ewes are offering at to handle 509 bales in an ordinary
a hostel which is built and attach-
ed to the University. He is a
of versatile genius and he was at
01.
time among other things. domestic daplain to Mr. Tim "Healey, Governor-General of the
Irish Free Stat
have not fallen soinetimes-readily
The plead guilty, using an epithet
$13.75.
May 12, 5 p.m.
our emotions; does the cinema the culprits--and how many of as
heard play on anything eise There is good eanse for this. earliest form of conscious life to which, with another substantive, ALLEGED ASSAULT. Ryan were gazed from Novem develop is the emotional life. Ren- would mean the dan courts; I
refer to the crime' of " billing
son has a big handicap in the race. Long before the little child s'enp-time." Little by little, down the Father Byrne said!-
able, of reasoning things out, he No man likes to be set down as is capable of, and constantly giving emotional. He has the general ides expression to, emotions of joy and that emotional displays are, to put sadneza, fear and love and the rest. it familiarly, aleppy," that they If you glance at the chart of facial befie his manliness and rol him expressions you will see that there of a title, to which we all aspir~ |
is n distinct muscular reaction to
a man of character.. It may be for
emotious of joy, sadness, horror.
OŃ FERRY.
CHINESE SAPPERS
CHARGED.
INSPECTOR AND COLLECTOR ATTACKED.
easy incline of the emotional path- way, does one advance to the kill- ing of time. One does not kili time by the study of astronomy or of botany, ner by devoting one's spare the faculty of thought is developed time to any of the outlets in which by use. One kills time by reading emotional novels; one kills time by lightly turning the pages of the Three Chinese Sappers were sum- numerons frivolous periodicals, of mened before Mr. W. Schofield the burden of thought be lending yesterday for (1), assaulting Ar you through the ways of the emo: Yen, inspector on the Hong Kong-- Lions. One kills time by constant mati Ferry boats at Shambhui- attendance at the cinemas of which the advertisements guarantee the pn Wharf at 3.50 a.m. on May 8, emotional appeal, www.
and (2), assaulting Au Hau, ticket One would hesitate to say that colector on board the ferry launch matches, for one would be very
Cross-amones were taken Lorry to see such a healthy and day.
this reason that a psychological As these muscles are constantly which the aim is to save you from
battle has raged about the nature
f this emotions frous the days when the toies denied the distinct exist
of sentimental feelings to more recent times when disciples
-ice
brought into play, emotional activity tends to become easier for the
future.
All during the early years of life of Herbart would reduce theis to the reasoning faculty is dormant.
ber of last year, who is responsible for the organising of the Bureau and its operation for at least one year.
The Bureau bas two departinents, the Quality Department and the Conditioning Department. The former is in charge of Mr. K. Y. Lee, graduate textile engineer of Philadelphia Textile. School and 'formerly associated with the Shang- hai Burena of Inspection and Test- ing of Commercial Commodities, while the latter is in charge of Mr. W. K. Wong. Mr. Pau! Yam is superintendent of the office and general affairs.
there sensation-tones. It is beside Gradually grown-ups begin to work time is killed by watching football Man Ping at 5.13 a.. on the same equipment as the one in Shanghai,
our purpose, to linger on this battle.pon it, often, it must be adtuit- Geld.
The
We all clearly distinguish ted, clumsily; the ten scntentious saly sport deprived of its place out against the inspector and methods in use here conform to all
Same as in Shanghai, In an interview with your cor respondent, Enginger and Advisor the same in design and general Ryan said This Burear is exactly
which I built two years ago,
internatonal standards of silk test- ing. Silk is so hygroscopic that it will take up moisture to the extent weight. The Bureau undertakes to issue certißentes, after careful test- ing. Besides quality and quantity testing, the Bureau is also doing a the way of cocoon raising and silk
connected and from the ideas with the emotional striving of the lower day when one is not personally in collector and the Ferry Company, of approximately 18 per cent. of its
our ctnotions or sentiments from the sensations with which they re
which they are linked. Tlius to take a simple example, on n hot day the sensation of cold water Howing over the is agreeable, but. if the cold water, instead of com- ing from the shower, is due to the
reasons advanced for not having the tart have a poor show against
appetite for the joy which is buried in its sweetness. And to this the constant influence of grown-up example in
the pretty continuous
to football just to show how it in our national life. But we refer develops our emotional life. Some
terested in the playing team, is interesting to watch the specta- torn. One of the players has broken away with the ball he is nearing
collector. Before the case opened, however, Mr. F. H. Luzeby, for the
asked permission to add the follow ing charge against the Sappers, namely, wilfully and unlawfully
the goal line: the excitement of obstructing the collector in the great deal of improvement work in
dispiny of one or other of the clever the crowd becomes intenac: the sun-kwful discharge of his duties.89 reeling.
emotions. Look at your father-
porters of the possible scorer betray
on their faces and in their gestures | ticket-collector on board the ferry
unsolicited attention of a small do as he does," and as four-year-alternate emotions af joy, hope, de-launch Man Ping on the morning
old cannot share his father's cigar
boy with a syringe, instead of joye can lose is temper as father does.
I experienes the enation of anger which betrays itself at once in my face, and the idea of the insult serves to accentiate my rage. The more angry I become the less rea soned action de I show in my emo tional display.
World's Great Thinkers.
Biro; bris opponents fear, sadness. and, if they think that the referee is not doing his duty, anger. If the player secure the goal, the tension.. which was very great, relaxes: for those on his side it is replaced by the emotion of joy-hilarious joy, it the goal be the winning one of the match; on the other side, the ten- sion yields to sadness which may prepare the way for snappy burata of the emotion of anger during the rest of the evening.
May 8
A Concerted Assault. Giving the facts of the ease, Mr. Loschy said that the Alan Ping was
one of the old sto ferries. She started on her journey on the morn·
in question shortly after 5 a.m and Au Hau was on duty as tirket collector.
DEATH OF AN OLD RESIDENT.
MR. M. D. CURRIE.
ho was transferred to Japan.
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Whether we like it or not, the painful truth remains that we are creatures of our emotions. They
Many old residents in the Colony are for ever casting disturbing
will greatly regret to learn that the ļishadows over the sun of reason and
Mr. Loseby said that it was the National City Bank of New York practice to issue tickets to first and
has received a telegram from its This illustration brings home to clouding the manifestation of true
second class passengers but no Head Office advising them that Mr. us the wide part which emotionslave by its counterfeits of senti: Part Played by Emotions. tickets were given to people travel-Mark Douglas Curris died on do play in our lives; no wide a mental joys and desires. In fact Briefly, if we sit down one day toing third class. These tickets were Monday.
Mr. Currie was born at Hawick, part that most lives seem to be when we come to ask ourselves estimate the part played it our collected while the vessel was under
lives by emotion and the part played way.
Scotland, in 1883 and first came t ruled by emotion rather than by what scope calm reason has in big by renson, does it not look as if
On this particular trip, the the Colony in 1000 in the employ reason, hence the work of a Lengue things or in little the answer in einotion had a wider scope than that collector had finished with the first ment of the Guaranty Trust Com of Nations, on a large scale and, surprisingly disappointing. If we with which we may have credited ass passengers and when he wont pany, and in 1904, on the absorn en a small, the appeal to common look back over any century of the it. It is easy to discern our emo- into the second class, two persons tion of the Guaranty Trust Com tions. One and all they are char had no tickcia. Here Mr. Loseby pany by the International Banking sense in everyday life. The em history of human thought, hardly arterised by (a) a bodily resonance plained that the Company allow Corporation, came over to the latter, tions are the reaching out of the five per cent, are original thinkers, of complex nature; some very ined third class passengers to crowd bank, remaining in Hong Kong mind in an effort of striving to ten per cent, occupy themselves interesting experiments were carried to the second class companion for about two years, after which
out by Walter B. Cannon tu show way,, provided they did not sit on
After seeing service there and wards the object presented to it. trying to understand and explain the increase of adrenalin and, of the benches. However, one of the
in Shanghai, he returned to Hong' The striving may be agreeable or the original thinkers' thought, the sugar in the blood due to any sio-two who had no ticket paid the disagreeable, or it may be associat remaining eighty-five want, at all lent emotion, and (2) they are due difference between the third class Kong in 1913 as Sub-Manager,
to reaction to intellecinal insight. and second class fare but the other maining here until April, 1914
one of the Sappers, refused to pay when he was transferred to New ed with a notion of difficulty or costs, to be saved the labour of Simple feelings, such as pleasure when he was ordered to go back to York as Assistant to the General thinking for themselves. Thus we and pain, are distinct from them. the third class. It was at this stage Manager of the International danger: su arise the different emo-
tan recall, al once, the names of Every emotion comprises one or that this man, together-with a' com Banice-President.
Corporation, later becom tions of joy or sadness, desire or
more simple feelings together with nion, began to hit the collectoring a abhorrence, love or hatred, on the sa Aristotle, Plato, St. Augustine, mental concepts or pictures, sen-
Upon consolidation of the latter The coxswain was communicated bank with the National City Bank; one hand, and, on the other, hope St. Thomas Aquinas, Pasteur, Kaut,sations and a bodily reaction which about the face and body
Darwin. They were original think-Bain! called the diffusive wave of with and this may sounded the dis of New York, Mr. Currie became or despair, courage or fear, anger,
Quite apart from the pleasurable tress, signals.
an assistant Vice-President, which Now you will notice that all these ers: their thoughts may, at times, emotions seem to be commen to us have lead them astray, but they did sensations in the case of agreeable eventually got alongside its wharf position he held until December, 1929, when he was appointed a and to the animals. If a dorthink for themselves. Round them emotions and the warning value of inspector came on board and he too Vice-President, and on the ap disagreeable ones, emotional excite
proaching retirement of Mr. H. T. showa jealousy, when another dog grew up school. Libraries were fill-ment plays other useful parts in lie was assaulted.
Might Have Been Riot..
5, Green took over charge of the is petted, we often hear the re-ed with volumes written by disciples ordering of our lives.
Mr. Lonsby concluded by anying Far Eastern Division of the Nation addition of adrenalia to the blood mark: "how like a human being1"
holps to diminish the fatigue of tho that he hoped the Magistrate woulal City Bank of New York. musclos, dus to, excitement; it also trke very serious view of the During his stay in New York. We ought to put it the other way
holps to decrense the time for the offence: Such an aaault night he paid one or two visits to the No real thought, palm reason and say how like my dog I
coagulation of the blood. These easily have led to a riot on board Far East, his last visit to Hong am, when I show angry jealousy!" guiding lives is not so common. Is physical advantages which are there were many vegetable carriers Kong being during February anil! The dog hever rises above his there not a danger of reducing many constitute a study of them and coolice on board, who all had March, 1996.
He had been suffering for some! selves. We mention them to round bamboo poles) and the consequences canine nature; he is always true patriotism to flag-waving, and pro- off the subject. With the considera-would in that case have been very time past from aortitis, and it enn to his animal self; but I, who am cessions, all of which are emotions which wo have put before you, grave. He asked that, the Magis only be presumed that it was this capable of magnanimity, of genero- tional appeals. And do we not find we have conclusive evidence that trate take whatever steps he thought disease which caused his death. He widow and a youngi our daily lives are widely swayed fi to prevent a recurrence of such leaves a sity, of an international outlook, people ready to condemn
by emotions and that, perhaps, we an incident.There is a tendency daughter.
inen of this type to gather Mr. Currie's cheery and genial debaso my spiritual nature if I patriotic a man who, on these days have not so much cause for being for juin my dog in his growf in the of emotional enthusiasm, prefers to offended it wo were classed as emo-together and take revenge at som disposition endeared him to all who rape into contact with hin. kennel of my own back yard!:
own back yard! qohumu at tome reading the history tional recognizing at the same future date," said Mr. Loseby.
The collector then rent and his death will be felt as time, how undesirable it is that tire
into the box where he gave evidence great loss by his many friends all it not because I have at least of his country or the lives of the emotions should rule our lives.
At the conalusion of the address, substantiating Mr. Loseby's open over the world, and napecially by rubconscious idea that human con- great men who have built it up the speaker, was heartily thanked ing remarks,
those who were associated with bin Tur HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, LTD., 11, Ies House Street, Hongkongi duct regulated by emotions is dero about which the bonfire kindlers on behalf of local Rotarians by Hearing was then adjoined till on the staff of the National City
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to try and explain what the original
thinkers meant..
a un.
einmotion.
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