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Talbot House, Presently. Called Toc H," Was Started by a British Chaplain in France During the War, Establishing a Form of Unselfish Fellowship Now Extending Throughout the World. On Monday next, Toc H celebrates its Coming-of-Age; and a Service will be broadcast
from St. Paul's Cathedral to the Empire.
N
a bleak day in Deccin- ber, 1915, a sign was hung over the door of an old three-storey house in the Rue de L'Hopital in the little Belgian town of Poperinghe. The sign bore the unique legend "Everyman's Club" and how well it justified its name could he attested by thousands of men of every walk of life, who came to know and love it during the three long. wenry years which followed.
Among the club's organizera was a little man fondly addressed
of his associates by some "Tubby" and to-day young men who were then born call him by the same familiar nickname, so widely has spread the influence of this genial little Church of Eng- Stubbs Rd and clergyman in gulding men along the paths of Christian fel- lowship and service. In thosq days the Rev. Philip R. Clayton. M. C wa a comparatively -- an-.-- known chaplain of the Britishy Sixth Division who had been as DUNCAN - WYLIE, Jack Hylton's Orchestra.
Kowloos Union Church, longhong, og 19th signed the task of providing a rest June, 1988, James Herbert Swan, house for troops moving in and Jack Hylton's Orchestra.
of Mr. George out of the Ypres salient. Duncan, M.B.E., and Mrs. Duncan, The old house and its genial. ..Darktown Strutters.
to 11ten Walker, only daughter | innkeeper were destined to be, Darktown Strutters.
of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Wylie, from the day its doors opened, al- most the sole permanencies among the ebbing and dowing tides of war. lu soeking a name for the War Memorial house someone suggested that it TOLLAN-AL the
named "Talbot House" in Nursing Home, on June 20, 1934, be Rosinn Win Tollan, aged 58 momory of Gilbert Talbot, a son years, beloved wife
of Duncan of the then Bishop of Winchester. Pollan. Futteral will pass the This suggestion met with unanim- Monument at 5 pm. to-day-ous approval. Gilbert Talbot, a
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Roy Fox & His Orchestra.
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Roy Fox & His Orchestra. But where are you-Fox Trot Roy Fox & His Orchestra. Roy Fox & His Orchestra. Wah-hoo-Fox Trot I'se s-muggin'-Fox Trot... Roy Fox. & His Orchestra. And so to bed-Fox Trot
Jack Jackson & His Orchestra. You have that extra something-Fox Trot
Jack Jackson & His Orchestra. music-Fox Trot
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FOR
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Kremants
The Ballyhooligans. The Ballyhooligans. The Ballyhooligans. .The Ballyhooligans.
DEATH.
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The
young Oxford undergraduate, had been killed the previous summer in a futile and foredoomed, nt- tempt to regain some ground lost
Hongkong Telegraph.quid-fire attack.
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1936,
THE PALESTINE
UNREST,
By Charles W. E. Morris
THE KING LIghts some NEW TỌC H LAMPS by the battalion during the first as a Patron of the Organisation, the King Lends His Presence to the the Evening 2 Typical of Ceremony at the Church House, Westminster. During thousands of young men as yet un- Kitten Strolled Onto the Platform and Attached Itself to known to the world, ho bore rich (then Prince of Wales). It May Be Seen Under the Chair. promise of a life of great servico "Tubby" Clayton' Is at the Left.
to his fellow men and strikingly revealed the irreparable loss and the ghastly futility of war.
the King The Rev.
but happily escaped with only minor damages. There were days when troops were prohibited from using the-house due to the danger of severe casualties resulting from a concentration of men within te walls, and for a short period the house had to be evacuated.
Finally, the great allied coun- ter-attack swept the battle lines castward, culminating in
tha Armistice on November 11. Spon afterward Talbot House closed its doors, it mission accomplished, but in the ensning months, men. who had loved its cheerful en- vironment returnel to London and there "Tubby" Clayton was pre- vailed upon by a number of his erstwhile associates to start Toc 1 off on a peacetime footing. They knew that with the coming of peace there remained a great work all to be accomplished if the spirit of unselfish service and brotherhood which had character- ised Talbot House was to be per petuated.
So the first small group
Was
formed and moved into a gift house where the furnishings from the old house in Poperinghe had been brought along with such in- timate links as photographs and the personal belongings of the Elder Brethren...Its rooms wero farnished and named in memory of sons and brothers, thus prov- ing a constant reminder to tho men who lived in them of other young men, who had shared the. same hapes and aspirations as they, and who went out from Eng- Innd and elsewhere never to re turn.
And in passing they left behind a challenge to carry on in the same okt spirit of selfless service, a challenge which was being taken up by these ather young men who were dedient- ing their lives to service for their fellow men. The jobs undertaken .were many and varied. Some e- camt Scout leaders and organizers of boys' clubs in slum neighbourhoods, others Look upos themselves the work of visiting the shut-ins and those in
before the old carpenter's bench a professor he had studied under institutions bereft of companionship.
came to know something of the at Oxford." grent truths which a humble Car
had penter of Nazareth once
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In the joy of service for others these men found their own worries and the dificulties whisked away in
fellows.
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about are
2,600 in the
South
With surprising rapidity other- The racial conflict in Pales- AND go Talbot House came into taught. Thus fortified, they went HAVEN'T we met before, sir? laughter of those they came, to cheer.
out with their heads erect and was the youngster's surpris-
groups sprang up und
or "marks," they are being and after the fashion their faith undimmed to meet the ed query. "I think I was in your branches tine. evidenced by numerous
of things which, are
regarded ordeal which iny before them. class at Oxford."
enlled, and within these houses are terrorístic acts, still gives cause affectionately, the house soon
"Quite likely," was the rejoin- to be found cosmopolitan groups of for concern. Once law and equired the nickname of "Toe H,"
der, "you'll observe I'm still pur- young men, brought together in
bond of interest and sym in keeping with the British Army's LENERAL the Earl of Cavan, suing the same vocation-driving
for pathy
their less fortunate order is restored, Britain in-signaller's code where the letter Tr who loved the old house, said miles."
. Of the hundred thousand men like-sounding letters of the alpha- happiness lived within, and the who passed through Talbot House, mission
the
purpose of
peace which passeth understand the great majority never returned, TO-DAY there,
branches and groups From the start the house was ing could be found by those who Each succeeding battle claimed ascertaining the causes of the
a-Mecca for-weary,--footsore-men- trouble and reporting on such who found there a haven where sought it in the Upper Chamber its toll and each week the roll of British Isles, others in Canada, Aus Within its portals was to be the Elder Brethren increased. tralia, India and thrilighout the British dominions or wherever Britons measures as are deemed advisa-they could reaf and refresh them found that quaint and unexpected Men from every county and every dwell in any numbers. In
selves. Over the door of one of mixture of holiness and humour corner of the British Empire came American cities, and even in remote ble with a view to preventing the lower rooms was a parody on that proved so satisfying and to know Talbot House and in 1917 settlements in Malaya und Africa. repetition of the unrest. Mean-Dante. It read, "All rank aban brought a corner of heaven into and 1918 American soldiers began are to be found Toe H groups. Almost don ye who enter here." At first the hell of men's lives. Many to be numbered among its visitors, 10 years ago "Tubby Clayton in- troduced Toe H to North America while, the Secretary of State for a few junior officers looked ask amusing incidents occurred. Ong one of the most frequent being and since then groups have become the Colonies quite rightly ance at this apparent affront to day a young subaltern strolled Bishop Brent, Chaplain General of established in several leading Ameri
their dignity, but wiser heads
American Expeditionary can citics, including Washington, declines to make any statement knew better what lay behind this tired and dirty transport driver Forees.
Across the room to where a very the
Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, on the subject. It goes without stripping away of purely artigial had just seated himself and in- In the spring of 1918 the tido and Baston, also in colleges and some saying, however, that the desire barriers and in the months and quired if there was anything he of battle swayed back to the very of the leading preparatory schools...
The avowed motto of Tor: years to come it was not an un- could do for him. As the man gates of Ypres and Talbot House
To think fairly of the British Government, as common sight to see a general or glanced up he recognized him as came constantly under shell fire,
To love widely a colonel taking tea with a private fair mandatory, is to give a
soldier and frankly discussing the deal to
and in the spirit of its four cardinal Arab and Jow alike. things which, lay nearest their
points, young men are facing the The Arabs think, rightly or
future with a definite goal in life. At the top of the house was a
At the weekly test night in a Toc wrongly, that they are not get-former hop loft which had been
I house one may glimpse. something transformed into chapel, A
of the spirit and meaning of this uni ting such a deal, and that as rough carpenter's bench, found in
que movement. The group frequent- ly meals for supper together and, Jewish immigration increases, the garden, served as an altar, and
before the meeting comtntences, the although the floor was deemed un-
and Main- as it has done rapidly of late, safe for more than 30 or 40, fre
Lamp of Remembrance tenance is lighted by the chairman thanks largely to the German quently several hundred men
A Chinese newspaper recently as the room is darkened. The lamp of the ald There have, of course, been many
ia almost a duplicate' expulsions, they will find the climbed the rickety stairs and here
Hongkong Island Christian catnesk lamp, except that under the rough-hewn rafters collapses recorded in the vicinity reported that
the handle is fashioned after the scales still
of Central Market, mostly amongst would disappear very shortly, more heavily
I double eroas taken from the arms of American tourists who have ap-40, it'll probably be mist. weighted against them. That is
Ypres. a herablic legacy from the task of the proached too close to the wind.
As the flame flickers, a point of view which deserves guarded. The
O
Figures show that Singapore is city to Toc H.
the Latin inscription on the lump, When British Government is to per- serious consideration.
Even 80, Lumen Tua. Videbimus Lamen" Having sanctioned sanctions, hotter than Hongkong. the principle, excellent in itself, suade, the jarring. elements to those whose sanction to ennction Hongkong still shows pretty good Thy light shall we see light"),
can be dimly discerned. of establishing Jewish live together in amity and con-sanctions was sanctioned, have been figures.
Then the chairman pronounces the National Home in Palestine was cord. This will be a task of the requested to sanciian the discon- tinuance of the sanctions they
A bomb was thrown at a tailor's words of remembrance: the sphere of utmost difficulty. The first sanctioned!
shop on Thursday, Appropriately brought into
00 insufficient duty is the restoration of order,
enough it was a ready-minde praetical politics,
W ជ thought appears to have been by force if necessary, but that of Rubber canoes are the latest sea-
Just the i Wo aball now be unable to say kide pleasure device, giyen to the "mon in
posses- itself will not serve to remove thing for the bouncing waves. that MacWhirter has never given sion." Naturally, the Arabs de the causes of friction. PoliticalĮ
away something worth while. $50 not wish to become a factor of wisdom must face the task of we notice that a London doctor diminishing importance in the ensuring justice and fair play delivered a lecture on "Perspira-|
Arab and Jew alike. tion". A pore subject. $ 5.00 land. Jews are able, energetic, to
and progressive. The Arab, as Britain, happily, is no stranger We are glad to observe that $16.00 Home writer points out, has to the handling of such pro-Hongkong has no debt oversens. a different tempo and different blems, by reason of the diversity Such little Items as pensions are, ideals. Clash of interests be-of interests apparent in many of course, merely incidental. Ha tween the two therefore becomes lands of which she has control. bilities..
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With proud thanksgiving let sen remember our Elder Brethren,
They shall grow ant old as 10 who are left grow old,
Are, shall not weary them, nor the, earn condemn
At the going duwn of the san and in the
We willer thoni. and the group in unison únswers, We will remember them. During the minute's silence which follows, in the faint light of the lamp," the faces of some of those Elder Reporting a Finance Committee Brethren leuk down from the walls, photographs of boys who went weat on " Government in the war, and in the silence comes discussion servant's special duty expenses, a the realisation that in these little
refers to contemporary
"subgroups of earnest young men Toe H sidence allowance. Enough to is built up a living memorial to
inevitable. The Jews at present This circumstance encourages Central Market is to be rebuilt. make up about one-quarter of the hope that, once the present] We always thought that the air make ita renders.collapse.
口 ☐ 口 the population. They look upon outburst is got under control, needed re-conditioning,
Apparently, some people think Palestine as their birthright, the establishment of lasting "Pirates Continue to Guin." they can buy their salvation by collec But the Arabs also have rights peace in Palestine should not Don't get exelted; it's only a placing apurious coins in collec-
baseball heading.
tion bags. that must be respected and safe prove an insuperable: task,
True to the beat they knew,
those
Men who were true at the break of day,
Proud to be up and the first When the whistle blow