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NE of the things
which most con- stantly amazes me
is the difference between the various parents I meet.
They range from the "let-the-youngster - rough - it-and-learn-how-to- live" school (to which I lean Gstrongly) to the "don't-let- the dear child - do- any - thing-the-doctor- doesn't - approve" school.
some
Planning
By Collin Brooks
Intolerable
Comfort
But the really odd thing about the convict was that he left prison on a Monday morning and was in the city until recaptured late on the Tuesday---still in his robe.
The other day I was in a home Having had the wit to realise where the fourteen-years-old son that so cind he would not adver- Tel. 27778-9 had won a box of chocolates in tise his profession or criminal contest, and its arrival propensities to the world, he expected to could hardly have caused more might have been horror if it had been a box of realise that in our crazy world people will not tolerate any dynamite.
summer dress so comfortable; so rational and so dignifled as pyjamas and bath robe, unless it be in a sandy beach where the sand gets up the legs and gadflies can sting the ankles.
* * HAVE been wondering what in his later years tera Barrie's thoughts of his native village,
SIMMONS.—On August 5th, 1937, at the French Hospital, Causeway Day, Katherine Simmons, atea 34 years, dearly beloved wife of John Henry Simmons, Traffic Inspector, Hongkong Tramways Ltd. Funeral wil pass the Monument at th pn. to-day, (Canton papers please copy).
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, AUCuur 6, 1937.
PEACE, BUT NOT AT ANY PRICE
One of the tragedies of the present world situation is the failure to recognise that there is a price to be paid for pence
neutrality, or
His Life
This wretched youth had not only his studies but all his amusements planned to a hair by a time-table, and took a strict- ly regulated diet.
Believe it or not, he was a first-class youngster and no prig.
I
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Long after Renan had left the Church he was asked what were There are some mothers who his emotions to the Faith of his believe strongly in the principle youth. that childhood should be made
-OR,
"Let The
Youngster
Rough It"
"off the coast of Normandy," as smooth and happy as possible,, he replied, "there is a sunken that children should see the village. None can
sce it, but world as a snug and well-protect- legend says that when the tide ed fairy tale in which they are is high from under the waves the fortunate
can be heard the faint tolling of heroes und
a church bell. At times from heroines.
The men who stay notice no to read biography properly. It the sunken Church in my heart change, for they help to make it. is caused by the common fault This would be an excellent I, too, hear the faint tolling of "The men who go must either be of reading history backwards. 25564—There's A Lall In My Life. F.T....Kay Thompson's Orchestra, just as surely as there is a price method of raising a family if the bell."
content with their memories or To those of us whom destiny overlay a cherished beauty with think for a while over the career If any one takes the trouble to 25560-The Lady Who Couldn't Be Kissed. F.T... Guy Lombardo's Orchestra, to be paid for war. Peace and family had not some day to face
mere passivity, the real world and if it did not has driven from early scenes to new actualities,
of Beaconsfield, whose own ad- Xavier Cugat's Orchestra,
I sometimes think that men vice was "read no history, read are by no means necessarily involve constant parental lying new surroundings the townships
of our childhood remain as sen- like James Barrie would have only biography," or of Moltke, 25500—Let's Call The Whole Thing Of, F.T, ........Eddy Duchin's Orchestra.
about life.. synonymous terms, ay Home
timentally precious as was the been happier if they had stayed or of Theodore Roosevelt, or Lin Without Your Love, F.T.
people seem to imagine. Cour--
Church to the agnostic Reran.
in the place of their early adora- coln, or Edgar Allan Poe, or Whitman, it becomes clear that age and a willingness to take. risks are as much the price that
what in the telling seems a fated life in the living was a sequence has to be paid for peace as they Nobody but a brute would wil-
of erratic accidents. are in time of war. To run fully sudden a child, but it may CHATER ROAD. away from danger may perhaps be eventually
postpone war. It certainly can-
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At times the memory stirs, tion. and a nostalgia arises to fret the heart. And there can be no return, for time is ruthless and changes all things. more brutal to The flourishing financier goes shelter a child too much and too back to the little riverside vil- way centre. The successful writer or painter leaves London or Paris to visit again the sand
Reading
Backwards
not avert war; it may make itong and then expect it to handle lage, and finds it a murky rail- RED by some recent obser- by the apparent lack of cause
more certain and beyond doubt more disastrous when it does
come.
These facts are clearly realised by those who are de- manding that collective security.
its adolescent or adult affairs without cruel hurt.
It is question on which there
vations of mine about suc- cess-that almost meaningless word-a reader who is at that
still
The biographer can detect that this led to that, but the man him- self must have been bewildered
and effect in his career. Myriads
Of "Ifs"
dunes of his boyhood and finds stage of life where forty them covered with golf links. scuma middle-aged tells me that can never be agreement, but
Where the wheeling terns and nothing discourages him more young parents should remember crying curlews once called over than reading the life stories of
If Disraeli had not lost money that nobody can live another's his dreaming head he stands famous men.
gambling in mines in his youth, as embodied in the Covenant of life and sooner or later a child aghast at the lusty cry of "fore"
if Lincoln had married Ann the League of Nations, shall be must live for and by itself.
from some large-footed Amazon Biographies show so steady a Rutledge, if Theodore Roosevelt made the cornerstone of British
progress from object to object had not come under the influence
foreign
The true kindness is to see policy.
Place love can be as strong as in a planned life, that his own of Grover Cleveland, if Moltke They have
crratic deviations from his had retained his original nation- crities in plenty amongst short-that when that day comes, woman love, and stronger, and chosen aim become depressing.
whether sooner
ality, if Poc had ceased to drink wighted people. Mr.
the for those who suffer its pangs or later. Richard
We have all known that feel in his twenties-a myriad "ifs" Pares, the historian, has drawn wayfarer is equipped for living. either there must be no going
ing, but it is due to an inability bestrew the story of each.
an interesting parallel between
the attitude adopted by such
X *
people and the policy followed by AT & place in which I ought to
in loud tweeds.
away or no going back.
The choice to us seems inevit- able, but to them the choice at each "if" must have been cogi-
Walpole in regard to the War of feel a proprietary interest STORIES ABOUT AVIATORS tated and hung in the balance.
the Polish Succession. Walpole
Collins Bay, a prison on the succeeded in keeping Great Bri-other side of the Atlantic, a con- tain out of war for the moment, viet escaped recently by the but because his policy was one simple expedient of walking out in his pyjamas and a bath robe.
to
this
es-
HEN aviators W
meet they have conscious that the man in command many good stories to exchange. was in difficulties.
"What's the matter, darling?" she Some of these are obviously pleasant
which faltered. Inventions, but here is one bears the stamp of truth.
"Something hos gone wrong with the controls. I shall have to tand dificulties, The aviator got Info anally landing in a tree with a crash somewhere soon."
was trying to make a new record," he explained to the farmer, who came hurrying along.
In retrospect it seems equally inevitable that A should have met B, who turned his life into a meeting with B must have been | different channel, but to A the
a casual accident and its effect unrealised,
of mere neutrality, and not 20 | genuine peace policy, in less than
five years she was at war and My acquaintance with the under far less favourable condi-insides of prisons is as yet too tions than would have been the short and casual for me to know case but for her previous neutral-if all convicts are provided with ity. The fact is that in times of bath robe and pyjamas but my crisis mere neutrality cannot of knowledge of the human race is itself keep nations out of war. sufficiently long and close Without doubt, the wisest peace make me realise that policy is collective security, caper was wise. which means the strength of all Jerome K. Jerome once said of the principal parts of a biplane to strapped to your shoulders, and you for the defence of each. Un-that in a Turkish bath you can- the young lady who had come to will flout casily down to earth." happily, efforts to enforce that not tell whether your neighbour
"But what if the parachute doesn't policy have hitherto not succeed-is a bishop or a burglar, and I don't you?" he concluded.
"Now I think you understand It, open?" a timid woman passenger If any one grows depressed ed. The fault, however, is not know at least one bishop who, "All except one thing."
queried. "Oh, yes!" she agreed brightly.
because events hinder n stately "That's quite all right, ma'am," and direct progress to a parti- with the principle, but with if found walking near a peniten-
the plot smilingly assured her. "In "And what is that?"
that case, you have only to go round cular and desired haven, let him to the nerodrome cashier's office, and remember that every man who they'll give you your money backt," has made port sailed under scal- One well-authenticated tale coned orders, never knowing from cerns the nervous passen
"But we shall crash if you do? Jameson abandoning medicine "I know, but it can't he helped. because of Rhodes is but one Don't worry! It's going to be quite
"You have," the other assured him rubber plantation directly below us."wards a known goal turning aside all right, darling, because there's example of a man driving to- genlatly. "You're the first man to
because of his affection for an- climb down that tree before climbing up it."
The pilot who was giving exhibition flights had just announced these strange meetings
103 other, and no man knows when. Many of the best aviation stories to his passengers that he was about
will. concern the learner who is very, very to rise 2,000 feet.
occur in his own life. green.
"It anything should go wrong," he An enthusiastic teacher had been advised cheerily, "you have only to giving a long and patlest explanation pull the rip cord of the parachute
learn dying.
"Sealed
Orders"
those nations who refuse to tiary in a bath robe, would "What makes it stay up?" operate it. If collective security almost certainly be taken in were the reality that it should just on the off chance of his said to have taken place between two asked the pllat, "Is this pinne ante?" day to day how his course was to be, China would not to-day be being an escaper. menaced by Japan, whose milj-
tary ambitions would be checked
the
who
An equal degree of naivete is re-i flected by the conversation which is aviators in midair.
"Yes,"
returned
other be not. "Quick What do I do now, cryptically. "Safest on earth." Instructor?" the first queried.
The young learner had been taken It is only when the whole by the knowledge that peace-lov-which is encouraging Japan to the other contemned who had insisted on looping the loop tic deviations" "Goodnenal T
thought you were up by a very adventurous teacher, voyage is charted that the "erra- ing nations would join hands and go ahead in China to-day. China hopelessly.
about half a dozen times in rapid stood, and to those who later can be undor- prevent aggression. It is tho wants peace, but not at any price. to have formed the resolution to take
A young American Benedict is said succession. knowledge that the policy on-That is why she is prepared, if his bride up in an aeroplane during queried in a dazed tone, "do you seem like skilful tackings which the pupil eventually road the chart they may well shrined in the League Covenant the necessity arises, to defend the honeymoon. He had just had the happen to remember if the earth's up alone made the ultimate triumph has been flouted in the past her rights; cost what it may. Suddenly the young
necessary lessons, and no more. or down?"
A.W. over circumstance possible.
wifebecima
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"I BRY."
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