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MONDAY, FEIL 2, 1931.
SOME PROBLEMS OF DISARMAMENT.
Viscount Cecil still Inbours un-
easingly for world disarmament, refusing to be discouraged by any the diversity of opinion on practical aspects of the question. Ife would, however, probably be
the first to admit that this is
alter in which if definite action
DAY BY DAY
WHILST BHAME KEEPS ITS WATCH, VIRTUE I NOT WHOLLY EXTINGUISH-
ED FROM THE HEART.—Burke,
There will be a whist drive in St. John's Cathedral Hall at 8.45
The P. and O. a. Kidderpore, from Shanghai, la due here at 10 a.m. on Wednesday.
BENNACHIE on
SPEAKING IN PUBLIC.
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ONE
If you are natural, many faults NE might be tempted to draw
distinction between the art will be averlooked: if you are in- of public speaking and the art of sincere, you will never make a good speaking in public. They are, of speaker. course, the same in essentials; but it in given to fow speakers to rise to the heights, to sway men and even nations by their words. These men, wo would any, have mastered the art of public speaking.
Onco you have got that firmly, fixed in your mind we can proceed to some of the more or less arti- ficlal modifications.
Wherever production is carried on for peace purposes, it is argued, there it can also be carried on for war purposes. Moreover, once, the standard of profits, applicable to ponce-time oconomy Нан been abolished, then, theoretically, ab- solutely no limit can be set to fur- ther expansion and provision of material for wartime production,p.m. to-night. Whoever, therefore, really destra to prevent war must turn is cir cumstance to account, making it the baala of protective and provonta- tive measures at the moment when
Always remember to be delibe- war is expected to begin. It need
rate, to speak slowly. The aud!- not be stressed that a large effec-
But there is equally and on a ence with whom you ard "convers tive strength in combatants and
Mr. Fung Ping-shan is to dis- minor scale an art of speaking in ing" is seated at some distance from you-not in a chair at the reserves enhances a nation's im tribute the prizes at the Govorn-public."
other sido of the fire and so what ment Vernacular Middle School on
It is curious that mont people othe mediate preparedness for war. Friday morning.
you say must be said deliberately feel a great shrinking from rd in (though not weightily), so have that Nor is it necessary to show that a
ing their voices to be heard
your words fall Mr. Siow Choon-leng, Director of public speech. A woman may sing time to aink into the minds of the high proportion of officers and pro-
Health Service Intelligence quite calmly before an audience of heare fessional soldiers able to train re-Bureau of China, arrived here from hur
hundreds, and be tongue-tied hearers. The majority of be ginners speak far too quickly, and cruits reduces the time required for Manila by the 8.8. President Taft.
when cho has. to propose
their words become B confused This in-
of thanks before a few people. further preparedness. volvon the greatest danger of all, Hongkong yesterday
The ss. Tanda left Manila for Aman may be the last person with jumble which never conveys their ity, meaning. Self-consciousness is a afternoon whom we would associate timidity,
deceiver: a speaker always ima namely, that as every adult male with the outward Australlun yet the prospect of an after-dinner gines that he is talking for more is trained within a short period of Mails, and is duo here on the 4th speech is sufficient to spoil his slowly than he is in actuality.
whole evening.. "ervice, the whole nation is in
reserve ready to he called up at Any moment.
Lady Feel is to distribute this prizes at the French Convent School on the 12th instant at 4 p.m.
the
instant.
Among the passengers arriving here from Manila by the as. Preal dent Taft was Major General G. H. Harries, U. S. Army, accompanied by his wife.
a voto
ard
Yet the art of speaking in public So, to begin with, a speaker should speak far mord slowly than he is not very difficult to acquire, and considere necessary. once the initial nervousness has passed, a speech should be a plen-Effective Pause. sant prospect rather than a dread- ed ordeal. Terrifying Facesi
These pointa raise vital issues
We may conveniently Ink this which will have to be threshed
to a further point, and illustrate out at the coming World Can-
The forthcoming wedding is an-
with a story. A divinity student ference, when the question of renounced of Mr. Joseph Chan, No.
The first and most golden rule an ence preaching before a cer--
tain congregation, and suddenly, serves is bound to come forward. 7. Kal Yee Rond, Kowloon City, to in-Be natural. Easily said, lean to his horror, he saw one of his Mas Alice Sahmet, No. 746, Na- easily done! Why is it that the professors in an obscure corner Wherever extreme nationalism
than Road, Kowloon,
sight of so many faces turned to: of the church. He was struck exists, it is not difcatt to plunge a
wards the speaker seems to dumb with fright, and managed country into war, for, unhappily, At the Rotary Club eeting at paralyse his vocal powers, and to continue only after what seemed
Lane the danger to whleh each in-
Crawford's restaurant to- gives his voice such an intonation to him to be an interminable in- morrow (Tuesday), the sponker that he has great difficulty in re-terval. dividual is exposed is often not will be Sir Thomas Allen, of the cognising it as bis own? "Nerves." After the service the professor realised until long afterwards, and British Economle Mission.
of course, we would
answerent round to ace his student in nervousness caused by the orden the vealry, and in the course of even longer still afterwards by the
Passengers who left by the P. and that lies ahead.
the ensuing dissection remarked masses who have to pay the reckono. liner Comorin included Sir. Mey-
But look at things in this way. But, Mr. So-and-So, that pause of ing. War is a crude and barbaric. rick and Lady Hewlett, Cap, and Everyone, more or less, has the you
yours
pausa. method of selling differences. Mrs. V. Mc. Liddell, Mr. and Mrs. gift of speech, and can retail his he was very effective; cultivate So to all speakers wo would We live in an age when it ought A. P. Glanville and Mr. and Mrs. S. experiences. Suppose you have had
S. Perry.
an exciting experience to-day, or echo "cultivate the pause." It is never to be possible. Unhappily
have seen something amusing, ora, real achievenient to be able to there are interests which thrive Whilst rowing a passenger boat!
wish to retail a good story. You
seconda without losing оп warfare
still with his wife off West Point, the are in a room with a friend and and silent on a platform for лай which
master accidentally fell overboard have no difficulty in retalling your control over one's nerves. To the exercise too much influence in and has not been seen since. A re-
Disarmament may port of the incident has been mado fenerience. And if another friend nenker these few seconds are at
then a third, then a fourth,
fret one long agony of tension- embar you are still free from any to the police by the widow Ng Arassment. Now suppose you get up where his next words are to come probably because he does not know
on a chair or footstool to tell your from and he is apt to imagine Local residents returning from story there you have crossed the that they are the same for his Manila by the ss. President Taft almost invisible borderline between audience.
and speaking in.
But this is far from belir the to-day included Mr. and Mrs. D. conversation en-Burlingham. Mr. and Mrs. J. Har-. And no let us think of speaking ing space, allows an idea to sink
public.
case. The short pause is a breath. it rop, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Hillyer in public along this line-of digni- in, and what is perhaps most im Mr. W. II. Bell, and Mr. W. A. But fed conversation: a monologue, if portant of alt, arrests attrtion
you will, with various adaptations which may be flagging and
keys Charged before Mr. Butters, ntcumstances yet essentially one has
and modifications to suit the clr- up anew. Once some expofence the Kowloon Magistracy this morn-man telling a few more men what thing in the world to keepose a been gained it is the last ing, with having robbed their mas he thinks, what he fools. what he finger on the pulse of an audema, tor, Chan Sam, of 56, Peking Road, has heard.
WESTMINSTER GLEE SINGERS.
FURTHER RECITALS ON WEDNESDAY.
it
of
far
ho.
terfield.
of seven pieces of timber, Tsang Ping and Lam Sung, were each fined $10 or two weeks' imprisonment
The Platform Voice.
severa
world affairs.
absolute guarantet not be jagainst war, bnt. if enforced
rigidly within well-defined Hmits can materially aid the cause peace. Supplemented by the is not taken in the near future.couragement of pacific ideas. the danger of a new world war
offers the best means но wi" continue to loom up on the devised. horizon. Not that any nation in particular is anxious to start a new conflict, but the will for peace must be encouraged if
to senso when their intern is
tendencies are not to
flagging, to renow it by somdittle take the
artifice, to gauge to a nicely the opposite direction. This is why
With this in view, we can easily length to which a pause magen- he is so keen on arousing public
Hongkong estate-te the value of ace the importance of the rule: tinue without becoming toon... I opinion along pacifc lines, It is
"Be natural." Many speakers in-and to break in again at th $91,200 was left by Chan Tsz-hang dulge in that weird monstrosity, achological moment. alias Chan King-kun, who died at not enough that nations should
Hongkong is to have further op No. 20, Pokfulam Road, on October "platform voice," under the delu formally foreswear war as an portunities of hearing the West-17, 1930, Probate has been grant- sion that it arouses respect and Beginnings and Endings.
Little can be said here with pro- Instrument of national policy: minster Glee Singers, whose de-
mghtful minging has been so deep-Chan Mang-chung and Chan Mang-wesitatingly be put down as con- of the tole Much could be had. ed to the widow, Chan Chiu-shf, and admiration. And if they used it
their friends they would unfit on the matter of the Influen the desire of the peoples of they appreciated during the past week. kwan. The will contains family beecited asses. Never mind though but experience is the best tender, world for no more armed con- In response to numerous requests, quests.
your voice betray the soft lilt of and to work by any rule of thumb flicts must be reinforced by de- there will be an
an additional perform ance on Wednesday
the Highlands, or the soothing method is merely to invite that, night, as
as well
I. M. S. Suffolk will anil from brendness of Aberdeenshire or the bug-bear, Insincerity. as a matinee on the same afternoon Shanghai on February 8 to meet sing-song of the Glaswegian; it in Unhappily, the relles of the at 3 pm. On the following day, the Vice-Admiral Sir William Archer
Finally, it is worth while to songsters teave for Shanghai, and Howard Kelly, successor to leer your tongue, and you have a right Great War are still left us, and there will no doubt be farge au- Admiral Sir Arthur Waistel s to o it. But a vencer of Oxford, or spend time in securing a good.. ginning and a good ending.e oven the more local "Kimmely In this connexion it is well to diences on Wednesday to give a Commander-in-Chief of the China Benk," is an abomination to all first allows the speaker to get en take note of the fact that there and his talented vocalists..
good send-off to Mr. Branscombe Squadron, at Hongkong. The new sincere minds. It deceives nobody.perly into his stride, and als
Commander-in-Chief left England Moreover, it is a
that nervousness at the start is a very considerable body of
with early in January on his way East.
will ensily crack.
may play utter havoc with e opinion in Germany which thinks
whole of a speech. And it is. that there is injustice in the fact
possible to over-estimate the vie of a concise and rounded ondt. that whilst the limits of German
We might add, too, the advice disarmament are exnelly deter
the late Sir Wilfrid Lawso mined and defined, the
"Obtain a good beginning and good ending, and bring them Hear together as possible."
fuite disarmament measures.
A crowded house at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night enjoyed two hours of unalloyed pleasure, a bright and happily varied prograni me being offered. Amongst those present were H.E, the Governor and Lady Peel, with n
a party
from Gov- experts ernment House. in concerted num. of other countries meeting in bers and individunt items alike the council on the question of their Glee Singers were altogether charm- own disarmament, emphasise theng, and encores were freely given difficulties of such limitation. feeling of resentment is raised. and this in turn arouses ink of "The
response to the insistent demands Af the audience. The part songs,
glees and folk songs were particu ecially the novel not-
thusly good, Cage Bincksmith"
Fair.
MA
a national spirit which is most the nonsense rhymes, The Great
Ment
Ple," "Among the Leaves 40 feared by the sincere pacifist Green-0" and "Widdicombe section ia Germany. One Ger-as well As the final
number, man writer points out that it was Hunting We Will Go." volcca blended perfectly whilst excellence France, and not Germany, which of expression and perfect enuncia- was the author of the dictum dion were other features. Needless that it was not enough to com-bert Greene as funny as ever, were to say, the Sea Shantics, with Al- pare the existing armaments of immensely popular. nations, but that their potential All the soloists were in fine voice, fighting strength must also be Especially cool WAB Desmond White, the boy soprano, whose rend- compared. He points out that if ering of "Killarney" was altogether by potential strength is meant satisfying Erie, his Meori Senk Eruct MeKinley sáng the possibility of waging war' nt
with
loudly applauded; Robert all, then there is no possibility Scott excelled by the artistte presen- of limitation." In support of
of his solon;
Wilfrid Thomas this statement it
pointed honours, his Ane bar). tone voice being well suited to his out that England and America numbe
of which "The Floral have furnished proof that
sung by request, Was in a prolonged war even those coun- Barber, ond of the fluest basson over vortiable triumph; whilst James tries which are totally unprepared, hoard in Hongkong, had a great or inadequately propared; are cap recoption, being doubly encored for
his Impressive contributions. able of prodigious achievements in in all, it was an evening which will All the provision of men and material. long be remembered.
being
veneer which
"You'd better go ahead and eat Martha. I may not be home for another hour. They're still on their second course.
There is no royal road to pub speaking. Experience, bought fallure and blunders and stu mering. is ten times more prod than theory. These few hints ca tainly should prove helpful if ch ried into practice, but they shou merely be the prelude to what old master of mine would e "getting up on your hind legs."
JANE CARLYLE'S HOUSEKEEPING.
TANE CARLYLE would hav
rejoiced at the present drop the cost of living, for seventy-fiv years ago she was having sleep less nights wondering how to mak both enda meat when her annum expenditure was up £30, and be allowance from Thomas remaine the same
It may interest modern house wives to see what caused the weekly Increase of 118., for it wis not due to any sudden extrava- gance of Jane's, who was a won derful minninger, and needed a far smaller allowance than otherwived having to keep up the same posl tion. It is the old story of "Mony mickles: maka muckle,"
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