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WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1933.
NOTES OF THE DAY
reason
and that the
own remedy. It is very
on H
BRITAIN IS FINDING FAITH AGAIN
By G. WARD PRICE
The Very Idea!
PROTOGRAMS
By Ed. Kelly, Rab! Rah! Rak!,
establishments must find their other parts of the English-speaking vent us in normal times from even ican dictionaries. turite that some arrangement in that a new religious movement cept in very intimate company, dis-
has begun.
it
has been a commonplace assertion
years ago.
un-
and
The cabarot question takes now aspect la view of the _un- compromising refusal of the polico to modify their arbitrary curfew hour. The Inference is that tho
Is it possible that, amid all the throughout our history, this undor- PROTOGRAMMIC authorities responsible for the
anxieties and perplexities of our lying foundation of boller rises to Telescopic words are declalon ara not amenable to public affairs, a great revival of the surface. The instinctive
re-being added to the Amer- dancing Christianity is on the way? In atraints and inhibitions that pre- unfor-world certain signs suggest strong- discussing questions of roliglon, ex-
For instance, a Proto- appear, and a "religious revival" gram is a word that is made cannot be reached between the
For the last quarter of a century as we call it, sweep across the land.
The first great English revivalist up from initial letters, such police and the proprietors, be cause the restrictions, insofar as in this country that we are growing was John Wycliffe, who lived 600 as "Nep", which means in thay affect the city establishments, more and more godicas.
In those days religion Russia the New Economic That statement is based upon the was standardised under the are unduly onerous and exceed all change in the habits of religious disputed authority of the Church Policy. The other day we requirements. There was, for observance which every Briton who of Rome. It required a courage had "Wec", meaning the instance, more than humour be has reached middle age has witness-almost beyond our comprehension to hind the question asked by Robert ed in his or her lifetime. challenge that authority, as Wycliffe World Economic Conference. McWhirter in the Post this morn- It is a fact that, in areas whore did, by denouncing the abuses that ing: Where do our young ads regular records of church atten-had crept into the priesthood. But Telescopic words are a com- get to of a night-time those days? dance are kept, the decline in the ho aroused an immediate response bination of abbreviated words, We have heard much talk during number of churchgoers in the past from the people of this country. such AS "SOCONY",...which the Cabaret controversy regarding fifty years amounts in some cases Though the Church then possessed public morals and so forth. It to 60 per cent.
considorable judicial power, which means "Standard- Oil Company might even be, contrary to most
it tried to use by arraigning him of New York."" of the submissions made, that the Those of us who were children at on charges of heresy, the Bishops diversion provided by cabarets the beginning of this century car support which Wycliffe found
could not prevail against the popu
All right, let's have it. Think what a saving of time, could be regarded as a social remember that anyone in those days asset. Meanwhile, an enquiry has who did not go to church at least among all classes, from the hum-paper, and labour it would mean, been made regarding the source once on Sunday was regarded allest peasant to that all-but-roya! The Hongkong Government of the powers taken py the police most as a social outcaat. To read nobleman, John of Gaunt. It was pardon, the Hogovcould ex- to Impose the curfew. It is novels or newspapers, play games death that his remains
not till forty-five years after his plain their whole policy with suggested that a test case might er sing secular songs on Sunday disinterred and burnt by the Pope's by one word, "nocabs."
were regard to the Cabaret question prove interesting.
SILVER STRUGGLE
After a fortnight of concentrat ed effort with success apparently always looming nearer, Senator Pittman's scheme for the habilitation of silver has received
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All we'd have to say every time the shroffs came would be know that it meant "Get Out Of "Goobbikyo."! They'd instantly Here Before I Kick You Out
Then think of the convenience of roading in the newspaper, "Hob
seemed to the generation that im- mediately preceded ours to be a order, but by that time the Wycliffe definite, breach of the low of God. movement had prepared the way Even people who were brought up Two hundred years ago another
for the English Reformation. in this atmosphere have difficulty to-day in understanding the earnest great impetus was given to the ro- convictions that used to inspire such ligious life of this country by John Wesley a horror of the sin of "Sabbath-Wesley, Like Wycliffe, breaking." There can be no doubt began his revivalist campaign at pler for having made Sunday a day ways been a fertile seed-bed for the Brewery sells Beer at Half a Buck that the nation is healthier and bap- Oxford. That University has al-aclls Beer at Haifa Bab", instead of the long-winded "Hongkong a succession of cold douches. The of public recreation. I myself flowering of religious faith. hope of
a Bottle". Think of it. Think of As is the case to-day, the Eng- an agreed programme doubt very much whether its relig receded very definitely with the ious faith has been in any way land of the eighteenth century the beer at half a buck a bottle. refusal of other power to promise diminished by that change.
seemed sunk in cynicism and in- Lead us to it. difference.
Americans, of course, can be support to the signatories of the
The Established
проп to Church was full of scandals. Many relied
réduco this proposed Elght-Power Agreement. Since then, Mr. Pittman has been The truth is that religion is large-vicars held several livings, and new language to a fine scale. up their nowspaper, It is only enthusiasm that has that few nations are temperament of them. Bishops 'neglected their Americans of the future vili.
formallem rend, Demhugbrep blaskhorb," kept him going. As fast as hally more devout than the British. dioceses. Slackness, placates one party, fresh objec-Their principles are none the leaa and dissipation were widespread and will know from long habit. onder among the clergy. To combat this that it means "Demands, hundred tione are raised by another. First strong for being masked Holland, then Britain and then conventional disguises. The easiest state of things, Wesley formed a grand for breach of promise; Spain, none of them really vitally Christian precept for the average group of Oxford students, who took blonde asks heart balm."
Briton to obey is the one which the name of the Methodists and Going to the telephone in his concerned except indirectly, pro- warns against a Pharesale display undertook Itinerant tours of preach-difficult moments, the Hongkong vided now hitches. When he has of piety. But the British · Ideals |ing. Then 'he, with his brother business talpan could give his The painstaking inquiry into gone the rounds, he will probably represented by such terms as Charles, the hymn-writer, and reason for not going home with the fatal balcony collapse at Yuk have to begin all over again. "decency" or "playing the game" Charles Whitefield, the great pre- the single word "slatofcon" mean- Sau Street terminated in a man-Senator Pittman has not given up are directly inspired by the Golden acher, moved to London and de-Ing "staying late at office for con-
Rule of the Christian faith: Devoted themselves to a national forence." ner which can only be described hope, but optimism has gone,
unto others as ye would that they campaign of revival, tho effects of as unsatisfactory and as leaving
which have never passed away. behind a number of reflections OH NEPTUNE !
[shoudd do junto you disturbing to public complacency. While a measure of reluctance
Thongkong Telegraph.seeking a compromise and clearly by a matter of temperament, and were hardly ever seen in any one Picking
WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1933.
FATAL BALCONY COLLAPSE
fower
being
Such protogrammatic words s Cif. E&OE and IOU are too wall known to need mention here...But a lot of Hongkong people will
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-MUSIC-HÁTH-CHARMS.-
He was a careful burglar.
To the foreign visitors, of whom 80 many are over here just now, the
This month there is external appearance of England can be understood, it is a matter been sneaking home after dark in religion. In our cathedrals
The old Gulf Stream, which has may indeed suggest indifference to celebrated the centenary of yet an- have to prepare for "Ita In Swam", for regret that the jury should its stocking feet, has been caught find many sightseers, but
other of these mighty periodic meaning, of course, "If this ac- they stirrings of the religious. bellof count is not settled within a have chosen to be non-committal at it. For years this warm-worshippers than one sees in the that may slumber deeply but never month when the evidence loft little room hearted old traveller has been giv great shrines of other European dies in the hearts of the British On second thoughts, though, we for doubt as to the facts and stilling the oceanographers and other countries. Yet the speech of oven people. It was known as the Ox- think we'll stick to our good old less for confusion. The balcony interested parties an impression; the roughest class
ford Movement, and was associated English. We've got to fill this of. Briton is was designed and approved as a that it strolled leisurely, up free from the blasphemous oaths with such great figures as Pusoy, column up every day, cantilevered slab, as were all America's Atlantic coast, crossed that similar people in some other Keble and Newman, who later join- others in the building. This over to the British Isles and went countries commonly employ, and ed the Roman Catholic Church and [became___a__ Cardinal Profoundly. design was comparatively new to to bed possibly-somewhere in the public opinion--here-would-never
divided the aretle regions. the Colony and involved the Jay have been on its trail and they anti-Christian flues that are to be Church of England for a time, the
But detectives tolerate the irreligious cartoons and as their activities ing of steel-work on principles have picked up enough clues to found from time to time in sections vitalising effect of their zoal was He had watched the house
unmistakable. basically new to the workmen satisfy themselves that the wily of the Continental Fress.
patiently for weeks, until he learn- and, apparently, to the foremen. old stream is a regular rounder.
Many people still Ilving can re-ed for cortain that the family-had member the enthusiasm with which gone for an extensive holiday. Essential to the stability of They have learned that it un-
But though the dominant British the American revivallets Moody and these balconies was the laying of doubtedly makes a circular tour of
qualities of shyness and reserve Sankey were received in this county steel rods and beam stirrups at the Atlantic Ocean and returns to the top of the slab. In every its home in the Gulf of Mexico. apply to our religious instincts as during the last quarter of the nine- to many other aspects of our lives, teenth century. Moody was a lay- case, they were found at the Wiggle as it might, the Gulf there is no nation that devotes more man, but a forceful preacher. His bottom, with the result that Stream was unable to shake off the serious Individual, thought to recompanion, Ira D. Sankey, wes a
relentless eye of the designed to carry 6,000 pounds, ographer which parked on its tail British sects and denominations is meetings they held in the singing ocean-gious matters. The multiplicity of singer, who used to lead the vast their strength, in the opinion of and followed it around the island evidence of the deep attention paid of hymns which have since become the expert witness; was precise- of Spitsbergen, down through the by the people of this country to familiar to the whole British people. ly nothing. It was impossible North Sea, into the English questions of Christian practice and When I was crossing Canada a to accept any theory suggesting Channel and out again, down to doctrine. And at regular intervals! that the rods and the stirrups the west coast of Africa and found their way to the bottom across the Atlantic to the Carib- by accident. The inference is bean Sea and home. A pretty that they were so placed by little piece of detective work and workmen who did not know bet one that should bring the villain ter, or, who given specific into the bar of justice as the head structions regarding the laying, ring."
and tail of Neptune's greatest thought they knew better than their instructor because they
to
had done previous jobs, of BREAKABLE BABIES another design, differently. But! because the principles were new, Of the many children who enter because there was this liability slumberland through that dreamy to the assumption of better portal called Lullaby, at least a knowledge by Chinese, work-plexity. "Rock a bye, baby, on the few must acquire a doop per- men and because a similarly tree top," is of itself a suggestion designed balcony in the same with a charming prospect. But street had collapsed earlier, & the subsequent warning "If the greater responsibility rested up bough breaks the cradle will fall”. on those who understood the immust seem ill-calculated portance of meticulous attention usher a baby into a state of restful to correct laying and
were quletude. expected to see that it was been declared "breakable" does Especially since bables have properly carried out before the the Inappropriateness of the line concrete was poured. Two per appear. But it should not be sona lost their lives because this supposed that the theory of was not done. The jury do sug-destructibility as it concerns baby- gest in their findings that hood condemns such gentler prac- measures should be taken tico as rocking, and even tossing, to 800. that such
Recorda ac- the child.
of babins cident shall not occur again long list of "dont's" in this con rocked and tossed prove that the In consequence of a lack of pro- nection may Va Ignored, according per supervision. But that is as to Dr. W. C. Beasley of America. far as they go. Let this, they Of course, when you toss the tot, say in effect, be the last of you must do it with a certain laissez faire. To our mind, the amount of technique, never, for- Jury's findings, thereby give an getting that how and where the incomplete impression of the baby Innds, is an important point seriousness of the event. We baby, most parents will agree that to consider. As for rocking the can only hope that it has not the really important thing in this also gescriped the attention of process is to be reasonably sure those will power to exercise that it is the child who is falling controls x
naloop.
an
(Continued on Page 9.).
yan, remember where I got off when I was on this
sgo Tuesday!
It was a pleasant prospect; he could loot at his leisure.
Dawdling from room to room he thought he might as well have some muste. So he turned on the wireless.
As he chose his loot with in- heront art, some old-fashioned aira wafted gently from the loud speaker, "Genevieve. Sweet Gen- evieve
The burglar thought it rather nico. Ho sat down on the couch and listened while they played "Mother Machroe." Tears came to his eyes. Tears of shame. "The silver that shines in your hair" He choked as the song ebbed to completion. His mothor! Ho could not but think of her, how aho nursed him when he was a little chap
Slowly he rose to his fest, pick- ed up the bag of loot, emptied everything out on the floor. He took the wireless set Instead!
ROUND ROBIN,
Arthur Appel wrote a novel. Benjamin Beck dramatized it. Charles Cook made a photoplay of the drama.
Dorothy Dale novelized the pic- turo.
Edward Entz drámatized the novelization.
Frederick Flome made a talking. picture of the dramatization.
George-Gallifry wrote a short story from the picture.
Holon Hooker made aradio skotch from the short story, lig
Arthur Appel heard the radio' akotch and wrote a novel,
Benjamin Beck dramatized it - Charles Cook mado a telovision of the dramatization.
Georges Gallifry sued Charles Cook for plagiariam." - Arthur, Appel sued George Gallifry.
†jamin Beck sued: Edward
B. And that, sira, is how: to Hongkong to makė
holiday!: