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SPEECH DAY.
THE FAITH OF THE REALLY EDUCATED MAN.
|MR. HORNELL'S SPEECH
Saturday was Speech Day at the Diocesan Boys' School, and the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hongkong, Mr. W. W, Hornell, C.J.E, M.A., gave a vigorous and Illuminating speech during the course of the afternoon. His address was on Education and how
MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1929,
COUNTERFEITING.
QUESTIONED DISCUSSED
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a teacher doce not now attract the
KIDNAPPING HOAX.
Eastern Residents With Western Habits.
A fruitful source of ill-health among Europeans resident in the Far East is the utter disregard. of climatic demands in the matter of food,
To put matters right the blood
AIMEE MCPHERSON'S ADVEN- TURE IN CALIFORNIA,
Genova, Apr. 13
Amsterdam, Apr. 14.
Sacramento, Apr. 18. Opinions were divided among the Willem Mengelberg, the famous A sensation" was caused in the members of the Legal Committed conductor of the Concert-Gebouw Californian State Senate during at the conference for suppression orchestra, has resigned owing to the impeachment proceedings of countorloit currency as to the Dutch tax collectors' demand against Judge Hardy when Mrs. whether counterfeiting should be for the payment of income tax on Lorraine Wiseman Sielaff teat that nearly every European eats. It is no exaggeration to say trosted as a political crime or a his American earnings, on which fied that the story of the kidnap- crime at common law.
tax has already been paid in plug of Mrs. Almes McPherson moat at least twice a day, and in Ultimately, a sub-committee was America. Mengelberg Intende to
addition partakes freely and fre- appointed to examine and report change his domicile and leave (the evangelist) was a hoax: Reuter.
Holland.
She declared that Mrs. McPher-quently of rich indigestible foods, The Handelsblad says that the son and her mother, Mrs. Kon with the result that at last the Concert-Gebouw administration is nody, both told her that Mrs. Me stomach robels, the miseries of it helps the progressive discovery youth whose minds they have pic-trying to induce the authorities to Phoraon made an excursion with indigestion act in and the appolite
a wireless oporàtor named Ormia- | dwindles to nothing. of truth and brings one to the full tured a white paper or pliant this truly great catastrophe. ton to the artist colony of Carmel, heritage of the human race. Wax. If only the rising genera- Reuter,
of. in California, at the time of the
Yet even then, Instead Many who are interested in the tion can be directed in the proper
supposed kidnapping.
taking these troubles as a "Wrong- work of the School attended, rath, the re-generation of the
The witness also alleged that food" warningo rooted in the sponding a pleasant afternoon in human race will be a reality in
under Judge Hardy's direction she bellef among Europeans that one the apacious grounds prior to the stead of a drénm. When Aristotle tent of enthusiasm. The life of produced a woman who posed as must eat generously to sustain the ceremony in the main hall.
asked himself “How shall we make British boy and giri as it did, and "Miss X," Ormiston's alleged com- strength in a hot climate--the Assembled on the platform. In our citizens good son," he answer the cause of this le not by any panion when Mrs. McPherson was victim has recourse to various the hall wore Mr. W. W. Hornell,ed without a moment's hesitation
accused before the Los Angeles artifelal means, appetisers...... and Mr. A. H. Compton, Vice Chair-"By education," To him, in fact, means economie.
jury of going on the excursion | purgatives, for example, and so man of the School Committee, who the fundamental problem of poll-
with Ormlaton.-Router's Ameri- furthers the already established presided in the absence of the ties was education. "We would
evil, can Service, Right Roverond the Bishop not," wrote Plato in his Republic, of Victoria, Rev. W. T. Feather "have our citizens grow up amid stone, licadmanter of the School, images of moral deformity as in
needs Immediato attention-it the Very Reverend Alfred Swann, some noxious pasture and there
must be purified, strongthened Dean of St. John's Cathedral and browse and feed upon many majority of them.
and enriched. And for this pur Mr. Swann, Mr. W. L. Pattenden, bannful shrub or dower, day by
pose Dr. Williams' pink pills, the Rev. N. V. Halward, Mr. and Mrs. day, little by little, until they
famous blood tonic, stand pre- E. Cock, Professar G. T. Byrne, ellently gather a festering mans
eminent. For over forty years Miss E, Fiddes, Professor L Fors of corruption in their own soul." ter, Rev. H. dú T. Pyner and Mr. Plato died in 347 B.C., and Aris
these pills have been curing just auch casos as these. They send F. Mason, Mr. Law Lok-tip and totle in 322 B.C. The splendour
fresh strength, energy and health Mr. T. S. W. 'Chan.
of ancient Greece passed away,
to all parts of the erstom with The students opened the pro-The centuries went by and the hour, that it is exposed to the beat Progress is a real fact, but it is every dose. Try them now and ceedings by singing two songs and amazing epoch of the Italian Re-of circumstances and that Its never a straight-forward march: see how quickly you begin to the Chairman, in a short speech, naissance was born. In 1446 one stream of consciousness is chan-it is never a result, which happene feel better. Of all dealers, and apologised for the absence of the Vittorino da Feltre opened a school neled and directed by the events of its own accord. It is only a Bishop, who, he stated, had been at Mantus. We rend of Vittorino and environments of the moment. name for the mass of accumulat. from Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., called to another part of the that he made himself a beggar for Man, in fact, fe imprisoned in the ed human effort, successful hore, 60, Klangne Road, Shanghai, a Diocese. Mr. Compton added that the love of youth; receiving, feed external present. How, is he to baffled there, mla-directed and bottle for $1.50, 6 bottles $8, pont the school was indeed fortunate in in, clothing, and rearing side by escape this prison? A breaking driven astray, but on the whole free. As you value your health having such a headmaster as Mrnkie with the young princess of the prison walls will leave him and in the main producing como refuse substitutes, Featherstone and he was glad to many of the brilliant poor as he standing still in the prison. Yes! cumulative result. know that the headmaster had al- could find means to support. Wo But it may be in a prison so en- | ways received the loyal support of read also that his school at Man-larged and enfranchised that it be-
(uu was called "La Giocosa," or comes not n prison but a free My message then to-day is to the House of Joy. How it was world.
proclaim the faith of the really frescoed with playing children and The scholar securea is freedom educated min. He may be a man or in a pleasant garden, and how by keeping hold always of the of letters; he may be a scientist; the life of the pupils was inter-treasures of the past so that in a he may be a teacher; he may be a wound with the daily miracles of meadow and river, of little hills.present that may be angry and lawyer; or an official; or even the
sordid he can call back memorias head of a poverty stricken Univer "Pinto in his Dialogue Theud alady walka. How the school of calm or of high passion. Insity. It is the faith which is in
went a-pleasuring in the green "Of the officials enumerated places of Golto, and how all form present which calls for resignation him that matters. It is this faith above, there renaine to be con-of bodily excise making for spirit with which brave men kag the noisy present into the region or courage he can call back the which gives him an escape from sidered the chief director of the grace and dignified motion-ridago faced the same evils; he draws of facts which are as they are and education of boys and girls. Ang awimming, fencing-were in out of the past high thoughts and not as foolish human beinga want by law appointed this must be extricably a part of the course.
the Diocesan School boys.
Mr. Fontheratone then rend ex- tracts from the lengthy report which had already been circulated and the speech of the Vice-Chan
cellor followed,
Mr. Hornell anidr
Lawa' wrote as follows:
.
"How many of these men are now the refuse of other callings discarded servants or ruled tradesmen who ean not do a sum of three; who would not be able to write a common letter; who
Imprisoned Man. You have here the makings of an excellent school, but I am not going to pretend that if only the school had more money, the boys soner of men's minds, and the only of this school, or even the great escape from him lies in the can would, neces-templation of the not-present Cr sarily, when they go out into the the future? Yes, but you can not world, succeed as the world counts study the future; you can only success. On the contrary. I am make conjectures about it, and the going to remind you that the conjectures will not be much use greater part of the life of man is unless you have in some way rigidly confined to the round of studied other places and other things which happen from hour to ages.
Message of Faith.
reni emotions; he draws also that them to bo; an escape from the strength that comes also from commonness of daily happenings this communion is one of the realiseverely trained imagination; an communion or brotherhood. And to the remote world of high and ties of experience. The studentescape from mortality in the ser- he realises it, feels himself one vice of a growing and durable pur- of a long line of forch-bearers, pose--the progressive discovery lle attains that which is the most of truth. And this, let me tell compelling desire of almost every you, is that religion of Democracy, human being-a work in life for the cardinal doctrine of that which is worth living for and religion la the right of every which is not cut short by death..
human squl to enter, unhindered except by the limitation of its own Enslaving Present,
powers and desires, into the full spiritual heritage of the human race..
do not know whether the Earth "But surely," you will object, is a cube or a sphere and can "our business is with the future not tell whether Jerusalem lajand the present, not with the past. in Asia or Amerfen; whom a|If there is any progress in the gentleman would trust with the|world, any hope for struggling key of his cellar and no tradee-humanity, does it not lie precisely man would send with a mess in shaking off the chains of the Age?"
Tencher's Life Unattractive.
a single official, at least 50 years Four hundred years pass; the old, the father of children law-scene changes. We are fully begotten, children of both lause of Commons at Westminster in the sex, if possible, but certainly of and Macaulay is describing the one or the other. Both the man schoolmasters of the poor as he appointed and those who ap found them in England in the year point him must realise that this of grace 1847: offee is far the most important among the chief ofices of the State. Because, whatever be the creature, be it plant or ani- mal, tame or wild, if its earlicat growth makes a good start, this is the most important step in wards the happy consummation of the excellence of which Its
The Committee of the Diocesan nature is capable. On this ac-
Boys' School and Orphanage in ap count the low-giver should occ
pealing to the educational and to it that education is not mada
charitable work which the institu of secondary importance, or on-
tion has done in the past and to the nexed to other duties, but inae-
past and in looking steadily for possibilities of the future, and is much as the right choice of the
ward?" Yes, but the chains of asking the public of Hongkong man who is to have charge of
the mind are only broken by un-and elsewhere to mark this occa- the children is bound to conne In the course of the name de-derstanding and in so far as mension by giving of their charity to first and foremost, he must do bale, another speaker quoted a are unduly enslaved by the past, the Diamond Jubilee Endowment his very utmost to appoint and dame (these women played an imit is by understanding that nest Fund of the School and Orphan- make Director that man who out portant part in the English ele- that they may hope to be free. age, 1 support this appeal be of all in the State is in every mentary educational system of And it is not the past which en- cause my conviction is that the respect the best."
those days) as having summed up slaves; it is always the present. future of Hongkong depends, as I am not suggesting that the aitustion by saying "it's little In any age there are always frau- does the future of any place in should be appointed to this all-they (the pupils) pay us and it's ments of the uncomprohended past the world, on a constant supply important post on a salary at least little we teaches them." Dr. Bell, floating like dead things, pretend-from its schools of really educat- equivalent to the munificent re- a prominent educationalist of ing to be alive. A man who is the ed men and wome::. muneration received by the Direc- those days, uned to say that if you slave of theories must get outside tor of Education. Ihasten to re- gave him 24 pupils to-day he them and see facts; a man who is
Votes of Thanks. mind you that I do not satisfy would give you 24 tenchers to a slave to his own, desires or pre- At the conclusion of Mr. Hor- Pinto's conditions. I am 50 year morrow.
judices must widen the range of nell's speech a very hearty vote of age, but a confirmed bachelor. We have, of course, changed all his experience and emotion. But of thanks was accorded him on Education and Politics, this, but in spite of all the inter- the thing that enslaves us most, the proposition of Mr. W. L. Pat-
est which is taken in educatión, narrows the range of our thoughts, tenden, who stressed the educa Education has always been a not only in Britain but also cramps our capacities and lowers Bonal work of Mr. Hornell in the favourite problem with philoso- throughout the British Empire, we our standards, is the mere pre. Colony. Mr. Hornell, he added, phere. Those who have wished British are apt to feel a little sent. The present that is all is hortly going on leave; he will to reform and re-organise the doubtful about the whole business around us, accepted and taken for be sorely missed, and all would world, meeting with many difficul- and though we go plodding on granted, as we in Hongkong accept look forward to his return. ties in dealing with the mass of with the gloomy reflection that the fire crackers of the Chinese A vote of thanks was also ac-' grown-up people, have almost in-there can be no turning back, the New Year. The material present, corded to the Vice-Chairman variably turned their eyes to the ucentiam which is in the air, has the thing which is omnipotent for the proposition of Rev. H. du T. more hopeful body of ingenuous undoubtedly robbed us to some ex-
un, is the great jailer and impri-Pyner.
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