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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1929,"
DAY BY DAY.
Yesterday's return of notifiable diseases shows two further cases of typhoid-one British and one Chinese,
Another aspect of the League's Activities is the educational work which it doca In connexion with
YOU MUST BE CONTENT TO LIVE the schools. It has been found A DAY AT A TIME Graham Travers, that many children in the slum districts of the big cities have the raziest ideas of the importance of the sea to the British Empire. Ac cordingly, addresses are periodi eally given in the day schools on
His Excellency the Officer Ad- ministering the Government has subjects connected with the sea appointed Deut-Commander "Li services. In this way, the rising onel Moore Bridge, Itoyal Navy, generation are given. a correct to be a Member of the Harbour,
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appreciation of what Great Britain owes to the Navy and the Mer- chant Marine.
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THE PROFESSING PROFESSION. Some Thoughts on True Leisure,
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College professors are not the fessor and not "typical," so far as only class of persons whom we can see, at all-who has taken regard as essentially absurd. Ask it very hard Indeed. Again And the regular perusor of humorous again I have urged this man to "colyumes" or of coloured Sunday see the situation, so to speak, "11⁄2 Supplements-nak anyone, in the round" and in relation to what short, who gets his daily laughter he knows of human nature. fresh from the great national point out to him most cogently manufactories, and he will tell and clearly that the great dear you that, although the Typical Public simply has to think in terms College Professor is indeed the of types because such thinking His Excellency the Officer Ad-most laughable man on earth, yet saves time and energy. I ask him ministering the Government he, has good, company and even to draw a little upon his not wholly We have already briefly referred Thomas Churles Stiff, R.N.K., to already realize the fact, he will casionally he docs draw a drop or has appointed Lieut-Commander some rivala. In case you do not deficient funds of humous; and oc- to the Navy League's attitude on be zin Assistant Government inform you that the members of two, smiles a wan smile, and then the disarmament question, and one Marine Surveyor (Nautical Sur-several professions are so natur relapses Into gloom. Nothing helps ally and spontaneously ridiculous him permanently. He has come ta other quotation will serve to show veyor), Harbour Department.
that the mere mention of them abhor the very title of "Profes how it views this matter. In a re-'
at any rate on the proper ocasor," and he is never more happy Observatory... returns for the cent letter to the Press, the League month of September show
sions and among people who take than when he has slunk away into MODELS OF FROM FOUR
a normal view of such matters some still backwater of society TO EIGHTEEN CUBIC FEET officials said its attitude towards the average mean temperature was is sufficient to rousel glad and where he feels sure for a cimo those who were seeking inter-812, the highest being 00.3 and the heart-easing mirth. If you press that the bated syllables cannot
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are the Typical College Professor,
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luck to you; we cheer you on and of rain, whilst the average humidi-arranged in the order of risibility, name, but the full measure of his
the Preacher, the Poet and the Woe is not yet revealed. ducing the chance of the breaking
are informed by Mr. H. Painter. (You must not suspect same man of whom I speak once out of that curse of mankind-Davenport Browne, Hon. Secretary him of deliberate alliteration. If pent two laborious years in add- war," That is sufficient to show of the Hongkong A. D. C., that all the ludicrous professions hap-, to his name the suffix "ph. owing to unforeseen circumstances pan to begin with the letter "p" and the suffix also clings like a burr. He pulls it off, dashes it that the League is neither jingois-the committee has regretfully decid- that is no affair of his.) tie nor bellicose in its policy. It ed to withdraw the production of Still, the Typical Collega Pro- down and trends on it, but before does, however, want the realities ed for the 16th proximo.
"And So To Bed" which was arrang-fessor heads the list. Painters he has moved ten paces some well-
and Poets and Preachers are
nintentioned person has run up be- of the position to be faced, and
deed delightful, but he is bene hind him and has said--not to is overwork the metaphor "your to see that vital rights are not
ficent; our laughter at them like a steady spanking breeze, but title, Sir!" You should see how his surrendered. Hongkong.
when his name is mentioned It eyes light up when he sees him- ob-rises to a gale. And if I ever have self spoken of in print, or hears great seaport, does well to retain
the good fortune to meet a Typical himself, addressed in speech, not as Its link with the League, by joining
College Professor-I have been "Professor nor as - which residents of the Colony will
hopefully searching for one these Ph. D.," nor yet as "Pro many years, but thus far in vain fessor, Ph. D., but simply have the assurance that they are
I shall certainly say to him that as "Mr."! That light helping forward a work of real
this wonderful faculty he has of of joy in his look signifies amusing his fellow men and drive that he has managed to scale ing dull care away ought certainly the two huge walls with broken Banknotes and Cantonese 20-cent to ameliorate and cheer his other glass on top that have so long sundered him from his fellow men Electric Power Abegging.
pieces to the value of $1,700 have wise unenviable lot.
Professional clowns and joke- and la once more disporting hin That the swift tidal currents been reported stolen from the safe flowing from the Atlantic into of Lei Hung, manager of the Hungsmiths, we are told, lie awake self, no longer a Professor and as Thanks to the activities of the large river estuaries round the Wah Restuarant, 264, Queen's Road nights. thinking up new ways of though he had never been a Ph. D., West, the robbery having been making people laugh. But here is in the blessed level fields of the local branch of the Navy League, coast of Great Britain
a man who does it naturally, with-Misters. Nelson Day (the anniversary of potential source of enormous elec-effected by means of a dulicate keyout effort or forethought,even It is a strange thing, you
trical power is elementary. The between 11 p.m. yesterday and 6
man should work: the Battle of Trafalgar) will be problem which has engaged the o'clock this morning. A cook who without knowing how he does it, say, that a
as a bird sings. Although seldom so hard to acquire titles witty in himself, he is at any rate which, once they are secured, observed in Hongkong on Monday attention of the foremost British has since absconded, is suspected, scientists in the last few years is
the better half of a Falstaff, be-The works perhaps even more by the laying of wreaths on the whether these resources can be The following forthcoming wedding so obviously "the cause that earnestly to evade and Ignore Cenotaph and the Wanchai Monu-harnessed at a cost which would ings are announced:-Mr. Charles wit is in other men."
and- get forgotten. Well, be commercially practicable. It Frederick Southin, Foreign YM.C.
and so it is a strange thing,'even ment, and, at night, by a fine con is, therefore, a foregone conclu-A., Shanghai, to Miss Winifred If my own experience goes for inconsistent, if you like; but then cert at the Lee Theatre which sion that the report of the experts Emma Holloway, No 47, Pinfold anything, Typical College Pro-human nature is itself strange and should give much enjoyment to all who have been investigating the Street, Rugby, Warwickshire, who fessors seem to be excessively inconsistent, and there is a sur- possibilities of the Severn Barrage is travelling to the Colony on rare, and 1 simply do not under prising amount of human nature who attend and also help consider-Scheme, and reported most favour board the s.a. Malwa; Mr. Sidney stand how it is that cartoonists in professors. It is seldom com ably in adding to the funds of the ably, will excite the widest interest James Carter, Chief officer of the and the concocters of Columns en-pletely eradicated even from Ph. hear so much of disarmament, it circles. Mr. J. II. Thomas will, Kowloon Hotel
we are sure, need no persuasion
secret haunts. Not only are they Although I have found that I might at first sight seem a little that one of the finest constituents The health bulletin of Eastern acquainted with the minutiae of cannot say anything that will give incongruous that the Navy League of a cure for unemployment is ports for the week ended Saturday his long hair, ancient garb, enor-I go on suggesting lines of thought his personal appearance with this man any permanent comfort, should continue its activities, but ready to hand. The undertaking last, issued by the Director of
would be of enormous value in a Medical and Sanitary Services, mous spectacles, and faithful to him which would certainly be a knowledge of the nature of the dozen different ways, and if en- gives the following cases, the umbrella but they have caught helpful to a more reasonable per- work done by this organisation larged upon in other spheres, pro- figures in parenthesis indicating abounding in Greek and Latin he can name that is more bene the very trick of his speech, son. I ask him what profession should serve to dispel erroneous vide the complete solution of Great deaths: Pingue,
derivatives; they have exact in- ficially influential than his own, formation concerning his so-called in what one he would be likely to ideas on the subject. In its pro- paganda work," the League has
bank account and also about his find more intelligent and thought- made it known that it is thorough
exiguous and somewhat chaotic ful colleagues, or where in all this domestic arrangements. But I, a world he could hope to acquaint have already confessed, have himself more thoroughly with never actually seen a Typical what is best in the great past wille College Professor. Far be it from at the same me to hint that he is a mere myth closest relations with the present time maintaining perpetrated by professional and the future.
A College Professor, I remind
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MRS. GRUNDY?
"If our Nelly were to marry abaronet, I wonder what Mrs, Grundy would say remarka Dame Ashfield in the first act of "Speed, the Plough," a come- dy by J. M.Morton: To Dame Ashield's infinite infuriation, her neighbour Mrs Grundy contrived to surpass and outwit her. in every way. Mrs. Grundy's husband was a bet- ter farmer than her own. So Dame Ashfield's foolish Laney was for ever imagining aftus- tions wherein she triumphed over her rival.
Alexandria 3 industrial
problems. (1), Baghdad 1, Rangoon (2), This is not so fantastic as itColombo 1, Saigon 1 (1); Cholera, sounds. Mr. Smith's completed Calcutta (15). Tuticorin 6 (5), acheme would provide 5,500,000 Pnom Penh 16 (11), Swatow (6) horse-power units per day, and Small-pox, Berbera 1, Alexandria current could be distributed 1, Bombay 5 (3), Calcutta 2 (2). those who are urging disarmament, throughout the British Isles at, Cochin 2, Madras 12 (1), Moulmein but, at the same time, it socks he estimates, 1/30th of a penny (1), Rangoon 1, Batavia 2 and
Samarinda 6.(1).` per unit. Works throughout the to stress the point that whatever country would be electrified. The scheme is eventually decided upon, costs of production in every in-
Among the passengers on the uneasily in college classrooms and him, is the white-hot point of fu
"getting even.”. it is essential that Britain should dustry would be enormously re- N.YK. 8.8. Kamo Maru which ar who are
duced. Mr. Smith has selected for rived here yesterday on her way Neither do I suggest that our on where paat and future meet, have a Navy adequate to the task his calculations; four pinces only, from Japan to Europe are Miss H. gibes at him are actuated by the or he more than any other human of policing the trade routes upon namely, the Severn at Portishead, Frealak and Mr. Frederick Ludwis excellent democratic determina- being is constantly engaged in
(Continued on Page which the food supplies of the the Dee at the Point of Air, the for Marseilles; Mr. and Mrs. tion to prove that oversong who Menai Straits, and the Mersey Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Canter and H. we have must be a fool. No, it Cousins, from Kobe. to Colombo: pretends to more knowledge than Old Country depend. The League above Liverpool Docks. Of the v. Canter, Jr., who arrived here le simply that I have no luck. Ap- does not stand for the "Big Navy" 34-foot rise and fall of the Severn from Seattle, on a world tour about proximations to the Typical Col WHO WAS.. movement, but it does believe that he would use only seventeen feet, two weeks ago, from Hongkong lege Professor I have indeed en- and on a similar basis, he reckons to Europe; Mr. T. C. Wang, Chin-countered-hints and adumbra the Empire should have a naval only 14 feet for the Dec, 14 feet ese representative to the Police tions of him, preliminary sketches force thoroughly efficient for the for the Straits, and 13 feet for the Convention to be held in Paris-but never the thing itself, the
rising tides the soon, task for which it exists. In that Mersey. On
to France; and Mr. J. P. pura and quintessential: outlook, we believe it has behind water would run through the tur- Shroff, from Kobe to Colombo.
bines into the Inside of the weirs, it all loyal Britons, to whatever and on ebbing tides through the political party they may belong.
turbines into the outside of the There is, however, a side of the at low water keeping out the ris
wairs. The doors would be closed
Navy League's work which is not ing tide and also at high water, known nearly to the extent that it keeping out the full tidal water. should be. We refer to the aid between the times of high water Brussels
As there are three houra difference which it renders to naval charities on the Severn and at the other Geneva and to the training of lads for sea points, the Severn would get a Amsterdam service. These are the movements finish when the others were at half
start of three hours, "and would" "Milan
Berlin to which the larger part of the rising tide, and were able to take Stock
Stockholm League's funds are devoted. A over fully from the Severn. The Copenhagen splendid work is being done by the take over again when the others Prague Severn would be in a position to Vienna Sea Cadet Corps, of which there had reached minimum tide. When Helsingfors are now nearly forty affiliated to the working time of the turbines Madrid the League. These lads are train- was over, the head of water would Athens
Bucharest be disposed of by allowing the tur-Buchar ed in seamanship, signalling, etc., bines to run beyond their time and lo
Buenos Aires and eventually many of them find by opening large sluices, the chan- Bombay positions in the Royal Navy and els being large enough to clear Shanghai
away the surplus water in about Hongkong the Merchant Marine. Others are twenty minutes. It will be seen Yokohama emigrated to the Dominions, where that all parts of the scheme are Silver (spot)
Silver (forward) the training they have received, interdependent, but that they aim both in technical matters and in times the power contemplated by at the constant supply of eleven
character-formation,are, of the the Severn Barrage Scheme separ-
the for nothing except Etrascan Epistultified attitude towards life. greatest value. The lads are ately. Modifications would permit. Smith elsewhere than in the graphy or the dynasties of the separate working, would cost less, Severn are equally practicable as Pharaohs. All this, I should, im- trained in accord, with the best but the net result would also be a commercial proposition. Itagino, might be a little hard. traditions of British seamanship, best. No doubt, those factors are would be amazing If the prospetters is in fact, a corde heart of the younger, genera and the great majority of them being well in mind, and room of establishing Great Britain as
a college pro- will be allowed for co-ordination if the best equipped country, electri- fessor of my intimate acquaintance turn out to be a credit to the move further study reveals that the de- cally, in the world, were not given uite an ordinary college pro ment and to their native land. velopmente contemplated by Mr. the closest study.
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Now I surmise that it must be one of the less agreeable experi- ences of the ardlaary and non-typical professor to find that nearly everyone regarde him as completely. and po London, Oct. 17.
fectly typical. No one ever .123.870
wants to be a typical any- +4.87 7/12.
14.876 thing, if you stop to consider it. 20.175 a typical post or athlete or king) .12.09 or bishop or even business man; ,92.045 | 'what we want, and should want, 20.40 is to be individuals, and to be re- 18.14 garded as such. The professor Is 12.205 12:205 baulked in this normal human 18.205 wish. Ninety-nine persons necept .34.64 their opinions of him with perfect
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3 docility from the cartoons and the .193 84.195 comic supplement for one who has 375 actually seen a professor and has ..817 therefore discovered that he has
(1) .5% recognizable human traits. .47.1/82 The actual professor may be in- 1/5.27/32 tensely "practical," but he is re- garded. Inevitably, as a dreamerj 1/11.9/18 he may be crammed with facts, but! 23.1/10 he is always treated as an idle .23.3/10 theorist; he may have memorized British Wireless.
all, the baseball scores of the last dacade, but people will not abán- don thoir conviction that he cares
There was another Mrs. Grundy, a real person thie ono, the Hon Mrs. Felix Grundy of Tennessee, the leader of fashionable society in the city of Washington. A strict ob server of the conventions, she was regarded as the infallible authority on all questions of propriety, ..
From the two Mrs. Grundy's- has been compounded our con- ception of that much-feared person, the conventional. Bri- tish metron, to whom the slightest infraction of the rules of propriety is a crime of the firat magnitude. Tho rigid,
which Mrs, Grundy symbolises is obviously dying, however. "What would Mrs. Grundy
tion: