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PREMATURE.
War is a grim business, a fact which the Chinese cannot afford to overlook. It is early in the day yet to represent to the masses that Japan in defeated and that she to continuo the will be unable
corren- struggle. As a Chinese pondent writes to us to-day, I will be better to await the develop ments of Japan's plans before
celebrating victory. Admittedly. the Japanese have been given much-fevd for thought by the They' spirited resistance which have encountered; and we can well. fooling believe that Tokyo is anxious over, the unexpected turn But even the Chinese of events.
for o Government is preparing
long struggle, which seems a rea- sonable anticipation unless unex- in pected developments occur.» the circumstances, the wise plan is to believe only that which is vouched for in reputable quriers, To do otherwise may be to result in much vain regret later on.
Increased Leisure and Books. Recent experiments with cheup- with er and omnibus book, ant | expedients for increasing the male
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WE ARE NOT AFRAID TO THINK FOR OURSELVES.
10th century we6 born after four long years of ghast Helena May Institute on Thursday. ty travail. I was a child then, and
tite
There will be no contort al March 3, owing to the Flawor Show.
Mr. Justice J. R. Wood, Puisne Judge, arrives from England after long leave to-morrow morning, aboard the P. and O. s.s. Rajputana,
Included in the 400 bags of first and second class mail, which arrived at Hongkong by the I'resident Lincoln, on Monday night were 128 bags of The London apais was that of January all from London, sent via Sioerta,
28 to February 1.
November 11, 1918, the vast forces of the universe seemed to centre around hint. But, with the development of astronomnient knowledge angt the coming of the new and startling theories of space have only a confused memory of and time, the firm ground of cer- flags fluttering everywhere; church tainty has slipped from bensath bells ringing; happy, cheering our feet, leaving un floundering in a of marnes of doubt and bewilderment. crowds, and a general sense swift relief from a grim, intoler- able strain.
We have been taught that the world is like a grain of sand whirl- ing round a tiny pebble, which, in And the young men and women its turn, is voyaging on a strange of my generation can remember Journey through paco, through n little more. But we have had to universe whose immeneity appals tion, a fantastic universe which in, a world unhellevably strange, playa queer tricks with time, where Krow up in the world then ushered reason and staggers the imagina- world almost completely cut off there is unceasing flux and change, from the one in which our parents and where man scena less than nothing. And so to us the things which for centuries have been in- A Wide Gulf.
vested with the anctity of re- obsolete. vented truth much wider gulf
meaningless beliefs-mere phrases, ritik in the Guluny during the post stretches between a young man and slan appears as an insignificant by De estas his father than the latter would product, with not n jot of acientific Thres find separating him from his grent- proof to support any of his puffed- three of
Nineteen ennes of small-pax (nine spent their youth.
diph latal cases of fatal), three
of enteric theria and three roses lever (one fatal) were listed in Laš Jeturn of notilable diseases occur.
WENK. There were 180 from pulinonary tuberculosis, casea ad small-pox on diphtheria were notitted on Monday,
CORRESPONDENCE.
Yesterday's
Celebration.
To the Editor. Rangkonu
Telcorank.
To-day.
1
universe.
are now
great-grandfather, and so we can up pride in himself as the sole ex- hardly expect to escape seut-free Planation for the existence of the from criticism and shocked indigna-
Only A Mask. tion when our whole outlook and atitude to life are 80 different from those of nur eklers,
Sameness
We have suddenly had thrust be- fare us incontrovertible proof of The Recusations levelled against our physical pettiness, and we make as are many, but not very varied the mistake of thinking the same proof nerves to nulify the efforts They all have a ring of monotonous of our mental and spiritual life, so about them: we are that there are moments when noth. cynical, mockingly sceptical, and in- ing seems worth while. The bat uf books, have led to a spreife Sir, is perhaps too obvious different to most things of import. tom has been knocked out of life; study of the place which books for me to point out that the firing! have in a democracy. Some of the of crackers yesterday by the local anc Religion has lost its appeal; Sgures given in this study by R. L.. Chinese was an inevitable expres- reverence has vanished; convention alon of their jubilation over the is lung to the wind; and we have Dofus are interesting. Certaí : of the conclusions of the writer, huwe reports of the latest successes of snapped the guiding-rein of uli re-
the Chinese troops in Shanghal. Cognised morality. ever, do not seem thoroughly well However, I am of the opinion- These are hasty generalisations, the spirit, but never before has founded. Mr. Duffus complains and I am sure it is the opinion of
a rap with about as much truth in them youth felt so deeply or an sincerely that the public buy's less than two many as well-that such books per capita. The figures are turous action was taken without us in most generalisations, yet they about the great issues of human
Imature consideration. Perhaps have sufficient justification behind life. perhaps misleading because it is
Naturally we are bewildered---
of not to be expected that, either the impulse created by the news them to make it impossible for un
have been to ignore their significance or re- teoas
progress of success, in the wake of that of | young children or illiterates, or the reverse, was so great that, once fuse to try to understand the very crammed into the last few years, great mass of people who reside sufficient momentum had
been
kit and whimpar in a corner, we but, because we are not going to put on a mask of cyniciam or hide our real feelings behind a show of We are angered by Insistence on dogma and the blase indifferent.
stressing of the letter rather than
examination of the books we
are
where bolts are not readily ob-gathered, nothing could stop its real concern which prompted them till our minds turn giddy and re- It seems to me, that the fault lies fuse to grasp after the meaning fained, are likely to buy them, finding an expression of some sort.
in the hasten behind our barricades of It is well known that large num- largely with our detractors, for, of it all; in mere self-defence wo
with the best intentions Probably for the adult population living in reasonably well bera of troops are on their way to world, they never trouble to seek mockery or boredom; but any brief reinforce the Japanese now facing for an explanation of the younger writing or the questions we are Metlind regions this average
Chinese, it the
appears that
conduct, generation's
accming of two books L year should General Uyeda had expected the be increased to five or six. That stiff resistance
the rather to put it down to some in-naking should be enough to show put up by
versity of character. Surely it a solution to the riddle. No-one with any sense of ad- is, of course, not a great number. Chinese before the commencement nate and quite inexplicable per- how carnest we are in groping after I do not want to deny the un- miration for the splendid and sur. But the people will spend more of the "Big Push," and had conse
of our Ideas about quently ordered the 11th Division, must be obvious to everyone how prising fight which the Chinese every month on motion pictures the reinforcements, to stand by we are the inevitable products off orthodoxy are putting up in Shanghai would than they do in a year on books, not in distant Japan but at the the peculiar environment which morality; but who is to blame if we begrudge the defenders' compa- while un metor-car riding some very mouth of the Yangtse. And surrounded us during the most im-express them a little crudely... sometimes offensively? New-found triots in this Colony expressing twenty times as niuch is disbursed who knows that the Japanese Compressionable years of our life.
Familiarity with marvels dulls 'freedom is always liable to abuse, their gratification over the news annually. Eugene Field, in a mo-mander has now not another divi of saccesses in the field, provided.ment of satire, intending te con- sion, ar divisions, marking time one's sense of wonder, and we are and in the reaction from the most stupendous achievements of the half-century before the war of course, the demonstrations are trust the lot of the publisher with somewhere ready to be thrown into all too apt to take for granted the hypocrisy any stifling repression of
the hotbed? kept within reasonable bounds. It that of the author, once gave as a
Thus it is quite evident that in science. Perhaps it is labouring we may have swung too far in the is but natural that, in such circum- division of a procession at the
the obvious to insist on this, and it direction of out-spokenness. But, whatever nature the reported suc- stances, some ebullition of feeling Chicago World's Fair, "Publishers went fined by the Chinese in would be tedious to recapitulate the at least, we are not afraid of the years; but their not statie; they must chango as should be displayed. The Chinese in carriages followed by authors this moment may be, the decisive list of advances made during the truth: we believe that values are. community would indeed be poor on
But after all neither battle has yet to be fought out, past thirty patriots did they not find joy in publishers nor authors rank high The Chinese therefore should not magnitude and influence must be civilisation victory. But after yesterday's in Ameriran plutocracy to-day give themselves so soon to wild stressed if the people between one would think. Yet to-day, be- celebrations, the counterpart of It is fair to say that the whole transport. They should be calm, twenty and thirty are over to have cause
foot."
K. S. L..
-A Changed World. Until comparatively recent times home of which man really could feel himself the master, for all the
changes. Axiomatic,
Wo refuse to pay idle to threadbare con- have ventions and taboos which long since lost what meaning they ever had, sober age abandona us in despair, with a woeful prophecy of damnation of its lips.
And so our voices get a little shrill as we try to shout down the chorus of misrespresentation, and our tem- pers fray and we say more than we really mean in an endeavour to rtir our critics out of their complacent Helf-righteousness.
The Major Sin
Injustice and cruelty are the major sina in our eyes, and for us there is no greater crime than the restricting of a man's personal freedom, or the warping of hia nataro merely to make him slip easily into his place as an unim- portant cog in the social machine. We insist that a man's individuality has an inviolable right to develop in its own way, provided its un- chocked growth offers no menace to the happiness of his fellows. On the whole, I think we better than our predecessors.
though watchful, and continue to their views given a sympathetic lip servico some which have taken place intendener of the organization of give their Government
support.hearing.
fire- expended in money other centres, the feeling cannot society for leisure in these days The be resisted that there is a very
is against the extension of the crackers yesterday must have been real danger of the populace belag habit of reading books. Automo-enormous, I could, and should. footed by stories reflecting vibiles, eir ema, golf, and wire liave been spent hi a far better the world was a snug, cosy little
way.Youre, etc., tories which only exist in the ima-furnish amusement for every con- gination. Indeed, as the real ceivable clans and do nut cokl fuets became known, it was shown materially more than
would a that there was no justification generous devotion to literature. whatever for this amazing display | But more than that the tendency of popular feeling. In saying 80 | is away from continuing 'serious much, we do not detract in auy and intellectual etfort during lel- way from the magnificent sighting|sure hours. Even newspapers are spirit shown by the Chinese troops, striving to substitute short and but the ridiculous tules in circula-[nnuppy articles for serious and tion yesterday should have been comprehensive contributions to accepted with a very great deal human knowledge. People seldom more reserve than they were rend beyond the headlines and the Onee fanciful tales gain currency.first paragraph. As to the mugu- however, it is almost impossible to zines, the mortality among the scotch them, especially where there more serious ones in the last de- is some slight basis of fact to cade was distressing. Short-story account for the subsequent exag- | papera and monthlies givun over gerations, Since the Shanghai in the main to fiction thrive most. troubles began, all manner of re- This situation exists and is being ports, subsequently proved false, emphasised in a period when the have been made the occasion of musses of men have more leisurú celebrations in various parts of than over in industrial history. China. Canton has been duped. That it should exist seems to offer ao has Wuchow, and oven Shanghal leas - renson for criticizing the itself. In the latter connexion, methods of book publishere or the we need only point to the fact | intellectual sloth of renders than vouchsafed by a Shanglial contem-it does for adding to the bellef that porary that the Northern port has there should be established some been flooded with editions of the form of education in the proper Chinese "mosquito press," each of
leisure. Really use of
serious which seeks to outvle the other in
atudents of economic conditions proclaiming tremendous Chinese look upon the shortened working victories and enormous Japanese week, oven' the four-day work, os losses. In one such broadsheet a possibility within the lives of recently, it was blazoned forth present-day youth. Should that that over forty Japanese warships condition arrive, it would be had been sunk, more than sixty calamitous if the masses have not aeroplanes shot down and no fewer learned to develop mentally than 22,000 Japanese troops killed. through useful reading. To Intelligent people, the wholesale
"Boy, I'm going to find a job, work hard, and save so I can. go back home in a yellow roadster.
aro.
There are eq many of our critics, who are for over looking backwards. with vain regrets for the passing. pf an epoch in which they felt at home, instead of trying to adjust themselves to the changed condi- tions of life; and to them we must necessarily seem completely allon in temperament and ways of thought. But if they will only lay uside their hostility and realise that. we are timorous and a little shy, that our noisy self-assertion covers up a great deal of hesitant uncer tainty, and that, after all, we are not yet so young that we have acquired sufficient senze of humour. to save us from extravagance, they may see that we have a certain now courage, a franknots, an originality and Independence of approach to life which more than compinwate
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