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PREMATURE.
character of the figuros would be sufficient to disprove their truth, but to the gullible, eager to read and believe the best of thoir own side and the worst possible of the other, such "news" can only have a misleading and dangerous effect. Such stories tend to make Chinoso non-participants loso all sense of the strength of the opposition, with the result that if and when bad news comes, the reaction is all the worse.
DAY BY DAY
CENSURE IS THE TAX A MAN PAYB TO THE PUBLIC FOR BEING EMINENT. Swift.
The Empress of Asia arrived at Vancouver on Monday evening.
A Young Man Declares WE ARE NOT AFRAID TO THINK FOR OURSELVES.
N November 11, 1918. the vast forces of the universo seemed.
O
Lion,
War is a grim business, a fact Helens Alay Instituta on Thursday, y travail. I was a child then. and new and startling theories of space There will be no concort at the after four long years of ghast the development of astronomical knowledge and the coming of the which the Chinese cannot afford
March 3, owing to the Flower Show, to overlook. It is early in the day
have only à confused memory of and time, the firm ground of cor yot to repronont to the masses that
flags fluttering everywhere; church tainty has slipped from beneath Mr. Justice J. R. Wood, Pulsne bells ringing; Japan is defeated and that she
happy, cheering vur fect, leaving us floundering in a will be unable
Judgo, arrives from England after! to continue
of nornas of doubt and bewilderment, tho
long leave to-morrow morning, aboard crowds, and a general sense struggle. As a Chinese corres tho P. and O. s.s. Rajputanu.
awift relief from a grim, intoler- We have been taught that the pondent writes to us to-day, it will
able strain.
world fa like a grain of sand whirl- bo better to await the develop
And the young men and woman its turn, is voyaging on a strange ing round a tiny pobble, which, in ments of Japan's plans before celebrating. victory. Admittedly, the Japanese
have been given much food for
thought by the apirited resistance which they have encountered; and we can well believe that Tokyo is feeling anxious over the unexpected turn of events.
But even the Chinese Government is preparing for a long struggle, which seems a rea- sonable anticipation unless unex- pected developments occur. la the circumstances, the wine plan in to believe only that which is vouched for in reputable quarters, To do otherwise may be to result in much vain regret later on.
Increased Leisure and Books, Recent experiments with cheap- er and omnibus books, and with expedients for increasing the eate of books, have led to a specific
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Nineteen canus of small-pox (nine spent their youth. fatal), turve utal cases of
WUK. There were BBO
A Wide Gulf.
To-day,
A
are now
Included in the 406 bags of first and second class mail, which arrived at of my generation can remember journey through space, through a Hongkong by the President Lincoln, little more. But we have had to universe whose immensity appala on Bionday night were 128 bage of mail from London, sent via Siveria grow up in the world then ushered reason and staggers the imaging- The London mall was that of January in, a world unbelievably strange, a plays queer tricks with time, where, a fantastic universe which world almost completely cut off there is unceasing flux and change, from the one in which our parents and where man. seems less than nothing. And so to us the things which for centuries have been in- diphi-
vested with the sanctity of re- teria and three cusen of enteric lover (one latai) were listed in tuo
obsolete, much wider gulf vealed truth return of notinable diseases occur.
meaningless beliefs-mere phrasee, ring in the Colony during the past stretches between a young man and Man appears as an insignificant by- s deaths his father than the latter would product, with not a jot of scientific from pulmonary tuberculosis. Three find separating him from his great-proof to support any of his puffed- Cases 01 amali-pox and threo of dipatherin were notified on Monday. great-grandfather, and so we can up pride in himself as the sole ex- hardly expect to escape scot-free planation for the existence of the
universe. from criticism and shocked indigna. tion when our whole outlook and
Only A Mask. attitude to life are #o different from those of our elders.
The accusations levelled against our physical pottiness, and wo make us are many, but not very varied. the mistake of thinking the same They all have a ring of monotonous of our mental and spiritual life, so proof serves to nullify the efforts sameness about them: we are that there are moments when noth- cynical, mockingly sceptical, and In-ing seems worth while. The bot tom has been knocked out of life; but, because we are not going to alt and whimper in a corner, we put on a mask of cynicism or hide our real feelings behind a show of
CORRESPONDENCE.
Yesterday's
Celebrations.
To the Editor, Hongkong
Telegraph.]
and I am sure it is the opinion of
We have suddenly had thrust be- fore un incontrovertible proof of
Sir-It is perhaps too obvious study of the place which books for me to point out that the firing different to most things of import- have in a democracy. Some of the of crackers yesterday by the local nce. Religion has lost its appeal; figures given in this study by R. L.
Chinese was an inevitable expres- reverence has vanished; convention Duffus are interesting. Certa! of
sion of their jubilation over the is flung to the wind; and wo have the conclusions of the writer, how the
reports of the latest successes of anapped the guiding-rein of all re-blase Indifference. We are angored
Chinese troops in Shanghai.cognised morality. ever, do not seem thoroughly well However, I am of the opinion-
by insistence on dogma and the founded. Mr. Dulfus complains
These are hasty generalisations, the spirit, but never before has stressing of the letter rather than that the publle buys less than two
many as well-that such a rap with about as much truth in them youth felt so deeply or so sincerely books per capita. The figures aro
turous action was taken without as in most generalisations, yet they about the great issues of human perhaps misleading because it is the impulse created by the nows them to make it Impossible for us
| mature consideration.
Perhaps
have sufficient justification behind is. " not to be expected that either of success, in the wake of that of to ignore their significance or re-cons
Naturally we are bewildered 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, of progress have been great mass of people who reside sufficient momentum had been real concern which prompted them. till our minds turn giddy and re- where bonks are not readily ob-gathered. nothing could stop Its: tained, are likely to buy
finding an expression of some sort. It seems to me that the fault lles fuse to grasp after the meaning them. Probably for the adult population
It is well known that large num-with the best intentions in the hasten behind our barricades of largely with our detractors, for, of it all in mere self-defence we living
reasonably well bera of troops are on their way to world, they never trouble to seek mockery or boredom; but any brief Hettled regions
reinforce the Japanese now facing this average the of two books
Chinese. It аррсага that for an explanation of the younger examination of the books we are year should General Uyeda had expected the rather to put it down to some in- asking should be enough to show
generation's conduct,
writing or the questions wo are Beeming be increased to five or six. That stiff resistance put up by the No-one with any sense of ad-is, of course; not a great number. Chinese before the commencement nate and quite inexplicable per- how earnest we are in groping after miration for the splendid and sur-But the people will spend morequently ordered the 11th Division, must be obviousle products of
versity
of character. Surely it a solution to the riddle. priaing fight which the Chinese every month on motion pictures the reinforcementa, to stand by,
I do not want to deny the un- we are the Inevitable products of orthodoxy of our ideas about 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 blume if we begrudge the defenders' compa- while on motor-car riding ноте very mouth of the Yangtse. And surrounded us during the most im-express them a little crudely triots in this Colony expressing twenty times as much is disbursed who knows that the Japanese Compressionable years of our life. sometimes offensively New-found their gratification over the news annually. Eugene Field, in a mo-mander has now not another divi of successes in the field, provided,ment of satire, intending to con
Familiarity with marvels dulls freedom is always liable to abuse, sion, er diviolons, marking time one's sense of wonder, and we are and in the reaction from the af course, the demonstrations are trast 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 kept within reasonable bounds. It that of the author, once gave as a
the hotbed?
most stupendous achievements of the half-century before the war is but natural that, in such circum-division of a procession at the
Thus it is quite evident that in selence. Perhaps it Is labouring we may have awung too far in the whatever nature the reported suc. the obvious to insist on this, and It direction of out-spokenness. But, stances, some ebullition of Teoling Chicago Work's Fair. "Publishers cesses claimed by the Chinese in i would be tedious to recapitulate the at least, we are not afraid of the should be displayed. The Chinese in carriages followed by authors. this moment may be, the declaive list of advances made during the truth: we believe that values are community would Indeed be poor on fent." But after all neither battle has yet to be fought out past thirty years; but their not statie; they must change as patriots did they not find joy in publishers nor authors rank high | elve themselves so soon to wild stressed if the people between one would think. Yet to-day, bo-
The Chinese therefore should not magnitude and influence must be civilization victory. But after yesterday's in American celebrations, the counterpart of It is fair to any that the whole the watchful, and continue to their views given a sympathetic to n
transport. They should be calm, twenty and thirty are ever to have cause some which have taken place in tendency of the organization of give their Government support. hearing. other centres, the feeling cannot society for leisure in these days The be resisted that there is a very in against the
plutocracy to-day.
of the "Big Push," and had conse-
L
A Changed World. Until comparatively recent times
hong of which inan really could feel himself the master, for all tho
changes. Axiomatie,
Wo refuse to
pay idle to threadbare con- ventions and taboos which · have long since lost what meaning they ever had, sober ago abandons us. in despair, with a woeful prophecy
And so our volces get a littlo shrill as we try to shout down the chorus of mil respresentation, and our tem- para Tray and we say more than we really mean in an endeavour to stir- our critics out of their complacent self-righteousness.
real danger of the populace being habit of reading books. Automo-have been spent in a far better the world was a snug, cosy Httle of damnation of its lips.
to
K. S. L.
money expended in fire- extension of the crackers yesterday must have been enormous, It could, and should, fooled by stories reflecting vic- blies, chemaz, golf, and wireless way.-Yours, etc, tories which only exist in the Ima-furnish amusement for every con- gination, Indeed, the
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real ecivable class and do not cost faels 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 enying, ac is away from continuing serious much, we do not detract in any and intellectual effort during lel- way from the magnificent fighting sure hours. Even newspapers are spirit shown by the Chinese troops, striving to substitute short and but the ridiculous tales in cireula-snappy articles for serious and tion yesterday should have been comprehensive contributions accepted with a very great deal jhuman knowledge. People seldom more reserve than they were. read beyond the headlines and the Once fanciful tales gain currency, first paragraph. however, it is almost impossible to zines, the mortality among the As to the muga- Acatch 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- papers and monthlies given over xerations. Since the Shanghai in the main to fiction thrive must. 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 occnsion of masses of men have more leisure celebrations in various parts of than ever in industrial history. China. Canton has been duped. That it should exist seems to offer so has Wuchow, and even Shanghai less reason itself. In the latter connexion,methods of book publishors or the for criticizing the we need only point to the fact intellectual sloth of readers than vouelnafed by a Shanghai contem- it does for adding to the belief that porary that the Northern port has there should be established some bgen flooded with editions of the form of education in the proper Chinese "mosquito pross," anch of use of Lwhich secks to outvle the ether in students of
leisure. Really serious economic conditions proclaiming tremendous Chinese look upon the shortened working victories and enormous Japanese week, oven the four-day week, an losses. In one such broadsheet a possibility within the lives of rocontly, it was blazoned forth that over forty Japanese warships condition arrive, it would be present-day youth. Should that had boon sunk, more than sixty calamitous if the massos hava not acroplanes 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 rondater,
The Major Sín.
Injustico and cruelty are the major sing in our eyes, and for us there is no greater crime than the restricting of a man's personal freedom, or the warping of his nature merely to make him alip casily 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- checked growth offers no monnce to- the happiness of his follows.
On the whole, I think we better than our predecessora..
sre
There are so many of our critica who are for ever looking backwards. with vain regrets for the passing. of an epoch In which they felt st home, instead of trying to adjust. themselves to the changed condi- tions of life; and to them we must necessarily seem completely allen in temperament and ways of thought. But if they will only lay aside their hostility and realize that. we are timorous and a little sit that our noisy self-assertion covers. up a great deal of besitant uncer-- fainty, and that, after all, we arg not yet. so young that we have acquired sufflefont sense of humour to save us from extravagance, they may see that we havɑ & cortain newți courage, a frankness, an originality. and independence of approach to life which more than compensater (Continued on Para DJ:
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