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RESPECTING EXPERTS
NOTES OF THE DAY
NANCHANG AFFAIR
JAPAN'S MISSIONARY
RELIGION
By E. L. ALLEN
ONE Japanese village, a Shinto and Buddhat meg the
BULLS AND INNERS
From the Office Butts
People who loave beer bottles on bathing beaches are a pest. We have no word to describe those who leave their bottles of beer at home, when wo're In the party. ១. ព
The officors of tho Nanchang aro free after more than five months in the hands of Manchur lan bandits and, happily, are not greatly the worse for their un-
NE hundred years ago in not to regard it as a hotch-potch of pleasant experiences. It must feet
Shinto and Buddhist Ideas. Of good to be back amongst fellow- countrymen again, although, the simple countrywoman went methods of Christianity, It is attitude of all three revents noth
and generously supported by Ing of melodramatic exuberance of about her daily work, watch-highly organised under a Prelato Despite August's weather re-
losed as they ing over a growing family, faithful. The movement is underson-struck than sun-struck.
thecords, the girls we mat were more doubtless are. Five months under and punctilious in her wor-astrong central control, has a the conditions in which they lived ship at the local shrine. To- veritable army of clergy and IR plenty of time in which to cultivate the habit of philosophy day she is worshipped as teachers, and an elaborately grad-
A Yalo professor says that beer. ed system of 'churches', backed by and so they appear to have used divine by nearly ten per cent. auxiliaries like the T.Y.M.A. or is inclined to increase the waste it. Their's is # spirit which of the population of her na- Tenrikyo Young Men's Associa-line. Apparently the beer drinker Britons admire.
can be detected by his breadth as tion,
well as breath,
thankfulness,
tive country, and mission-
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND aries go out every year to
BRITISH ISRAEL Wherein does its attraction lio?
A MATTER OF LUCK
Congratulations should also be carry her gospel to the extended to Captain Obata who world. A short run by train It might be compared to a com- secured their release after a host or eléctric tram from Osaka pound of two movements in the English-speaking world, Christian of disappointments. It might be takes the traveller to the Sclones and British Israel. It has felt that a great deal more time
wasted Holy City of Tambaichi, an explanation of disease and it than was necessary as before yesterday's pleasing ter- where coolies work in the glorifies patriotism.
The soul of man-such is the mination of the affair, but the streets with the characters Tenrikyo teaching-is like, a mir- gendarmoric officer bears no part
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Husbands who complain they never got a kick out of life should try making a tactless remark while sitting opposite the wife when guests are at dinner,"
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Navy Wook will awaken interest
of the responsibility. The In-Heavenly - Principle-Teach-ror, in itself bright and clear but in the navy. Navy Weak to Make cident perhaps affords opportunity ing' on their tunics, where liable to be covered with dust. the Navy Strong. for an interesting comparison with numerous hostels house the Thore are eight kinds of soul-dust covetousness, niggardliness, sel-
months ago and encourages #nocu
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The main trouble about Hong-
the developments which followed the kidnapping of Mrs. Muriel members of the various fishness, hatred, consoriousness, anger, greed, and arrogance. Pawley in the same region twelve churches' at great festivals, measg is due to the settling on kong's water supply is the main Intion on whether Mr. Clifford and where a modern con- the mirror of one or other of these trouble. Johnson and his colleagues would crete building forms the mis- forms of dust; what is wrong not have been at liberty agoner sionary centre from which with the body is the signal that had it been their fortune to have
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there is something wrong with the Dryost autumn on record, The
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a woman companion. No great the words of this new faith soul: let this be swept clean and outlook, in the next few months London journal shrieked a blood go out to the end of the all will be wall. The root of will be decidedly wintery.
diseases is in mind. "There would money offering on this occasion world!
bo no disease or ailment but, for and for all the public interest
How did all this come about? errors of our minds. In her life which appeared to be taken after the first fortnight, the Nanchang One day in 1887, there was sick-time, the Feundress was credited officers might still be with theirness in the family, and a local with miracles, particularly in the t "friends." Not that ser- priest was called in. The usual curing of small-pex and the grant lous criticism can be implied. medium was not available and of painless child-birth.
the mistress of the household That is the way of the world.
volunteered to take her, place.
NAVY DAY
CASTLE PEAK
Trouble about flat life in Hong- kong is that you don't know whether it's the water pump on the roof working or the tenant below banging for water.
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PATRIOTIC APPEAL But its main appeal is to The incantations went forward, patriotic fervour. Tenrikyo boasts
A missing Ice House street and she was thrown into a of its devotion to the national trance. The priest enquired in causo in war-time, and its sacred broker was last seen on the golf authorities should the usual fashion by what divini literature extols Japan as the links. The ty she was possessed, and was root of the world', the elder leave no divot unturned in their
brother among the nations', destin- search for him. staggered to receive the reply ed to teach and discipline the rest, that it was no other than the This is by the Divine Order, etor- Supreme Being Himself who had nal and unchanged since the first entered into her!
day of the creation of the universe and human life, 999,000 odd years
HOTCH-POTCH OF IDEAS.
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'Unto this day foreign peoples have commanded Japan;
What grief hath not the Parent Buffered?'
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Australia wants to promote the sale of brandy. Why not try pro- hibition?
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A lot of these troops fighting dispelled and the sickness healed human race was born, and thither Alas! his troubles had only be- it will return one day to pay
un-homage to the gods. For a time in China don't know on which side gun. His wife showed an
Impulse.
towards Japan is in a position of in-thoir head is battered. charity, giving away to the poor ferleri controllable first her own possessions and then those of her husband. He sought to exorcise the evil spirit, for be felt it must be such, but his wife's will under the trance was always stronger than his own. after they had s:ld their last rice- field and pulled down the house in which they lived, he was saved from his unhappy predicament by death.
Soon
But those roles will one day be reversed-
"Though we have been used to look up to foreign powers until now, They are like branches that will simply break.".
When Japan has accepted Tenri- kyo, ahe will find the world at her
"When Japan shall be empowered with the holy faith,
After that, the prophetess pass-fest. cd from beggary to, persecution, and it was only by some not very creditable subterfuges that the new religion was able to avoid sho official suppression. When died, it was already on its way to success, and to-day it is spoken of as Japan's most vivorous cult.
She will paelly other peoples a6 aeems good to her.' World-rule is in store for her.
'Hereafter Japan shall command foreign powers,
Mark it well, all of you!' "They have been called hitherto Japan and foreign lands:
There are fewer railway than motoring accidents because the steker saldom nestles up to the driver and holds his hand while a curve is being negotiated.
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When Eddie Kelly tried to kiss a girl the other night she told him not to be funny. He has therefore given up kissing as it affecta his
art.
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"It pays to smile when things go wrong." It doesn't pay
golf caddies.
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Experts in many fields have sustained some loss of prestige during the last twenty years, The World War-like every great
The Senior Service is contem- conflict at arms, destroyed the plating the organisation of a Navy reputations of men like Lord Day next month, a proposal which Kitchener and exalted others. should meet with an enthusiastic Military repute crumbled under reception. Fow are the contacts the impact of new methods of ate between the Navy and the civilian community in the Colony, to their tack; but leaders with Imagina-outual loss, and. If the project tion enough to grasp the mean- serves to better relations, give the ing of the changes and to devise Colony a better acquaintance with methods to combat them rose in the work of the Navy, and at the Her husband, as a strugglingago. stature and quickly became au-same time illustrate that the com- farmer, was particularly dlatress- It must be remembered 'that the thorities under the stress of the munity here is not entirely com-ed, and begged the Deity to find Foundress received her revela-i "Not at all! Not at All!" said times. Similarly the casualties posed of stiff la-di-da priga, the some more fitting lodging than a tion' just as Japan was being com- of the depression embrace a list prime mover (whom we believe to mother of four children. But his pelled to open her porta to the Eddie Kelly when we asked him
be the Commodore) of financial reputations which thanks all round. There is some when ho yielded after three days chi is spoken of as 'the centre off much he loved his wife,
wilt can request was refused, and only West. The Holy City' at Tambai- if he'd mind telling his public how seemed shock-proof a few years reason to blame the civilian when of vain entreaty, was the trance the world': it was there that the ago. Here inability to prophesyan unsatisfactory atmosphere has correctly and point a certain way occasionally crept in, but it la not out of distress proved to be what due to lack of appreciation of the mechanical engineers call "yield blue jacket as a man or as a type. points" under the tension of po- At bottom, the aloofness that some
He is, in truth, rather admired. pular disappointment. Again, times appears arises purely from failure to win successive politi-that strangely English trait of cal victories discredited not a reluctance to enter into conversa- few specialists in this field. The tion with anyone without a formal failure of some experts to live introduction. The opportunity of up to the highest standards of "mixing" provided by a Navy Day professional honour hurt thein in would do much to remove a source public regard, and the limitations of misunderstanding. of the venerated brought down many of the mighty from their scats. Yet specialists are still The scheme for developing the highly considered by Intelligent possibilities of Castle Peak as a persons and are, of course, vital- bathing and week-end holiday re- ly necessary to civilization. The art deserves every encouragement, world has used them from the The Cafeteria is ideally situated earliest days of the division of for the purpose and in itself, with offers ado- a few modifications, labour. The expert is in no dan-quate facilities. There is room for ger of permanently losing his an impromptu dance when the place among men, though the evenings are cool and what could popular mind is more aware of be better when evenings are warm his limitations than it used to than on al fresco meal with, say, be. Probably too much was ex- a tankard beside one with co pected of him. His standing was clinking the sides. The chief value not always enhanced by demands of the Cafeteria will, however, be upon his for ex cathedra opin- that of supplying a long-felt need lons on matters outside his field. on the road round the New Terrl- tories. It sooma rather extraordin- Even inside his bailiwick, the ary that we should have had to specialist has to watch his step. wait so long for the provision of lest he assume that what he does
a properly run place of refresh- not know, is so. The witnessmont to break the long journey stand has been the Waterloo of round the New Territories. many a reputation for this rea- son. The expert's future pres- tige is assured, but it will be
Nows from Austria is disquiet- higher if he maintains the hum- ble attitude of the natural ing. No special importance need be attached to the alleged do scientist toward his work and sertion of army officers: but the has sympathy for the layman, statement by Prince von Starhom- while carrying on with fine mas-berg will certainly cause special tery of technique in his chosen enquiries by other Interested The Princo, -an- field. Recognition of his worth governments. goes far beyond the mere super-nounces himself as a convert to lority of highly, individualized Fascism and there is talk of the creation of a dictatorship. It is training and skill. His most not a far stride from this position valuable attribute is his judg-to the auspicion that a roundabout ment, and the use of this is so way has been discovered for the aften involved with problems union of Austria with Germany. concerning foresight that spec- If Austria was in way unanimous- lalists are not to be condemnedly inclined, no great alarm would, for differing in their opinions perhaps, be felt among those of when these are honestly reached. vialon but any move ofther to wards Ancklusm or towards a It is one thing to Interpret the dictatorship would certainly past and quite another to sense arouse the active opposition of the the best future course. The pub Socialfate, with possibly serious lio erra when it expects experts, consequences for internal peace, to discern the future, almost as though they were freed from human limitation. The greatest as specialiste, Respect for spo of men are usually charmingly cialized knowledge and ability. modest about their abilities. will increase if the expert livea. They may, for example, respect up to the code hold by the best the value of versatility, but will of his kind, and his star will be hesitant to claim a correo of shine long and brightly in the It inconsistent with their placo firmament of reputations::
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It claims, of course, to be an entirely new revelation. But the Western observer finds it difficult
I'I go in an
about an
Ilereafter there shall be naught but Japan'
Talking of care, it would be great if care would go as fast as
the instalments fall due,
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"Exercise", we are told, will
always kill germs." But it's so dashed hard to get the little blighters to take it.
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Some people seem to think that the Fox Film Co. are playing a foxy game with Cavalcado.
CAVIL-cade..
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The height of economical op timism.The Government spend- Ing $600 on two incinerators!
Somebody has suggested a púb for Bhok-0. We understand that they would not even permit tap Tooth 1
In spite of America's action, Hongkong is showing an inde pondent spirit by gradually going dry.
At the MC.LA® beach" pyjamin parado we shall probably s06;juht? one tan thing after another?
Married men Halver, but
battar