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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
AUGUST MONDAY,
9, 1
1937.
Hunting THE
HERRING
The Last Adventurers
H
By Jerome Will
Hurst & Blackett, 151.)
E does not call himself a sallor and he dislikes to be called a fisherman. He wears no nautical uniform and very few nautical terms are heard on board his little slip.
He in a trawlerman. Unlike those he describes na fuhermen, His voyages are usually long, and the sets out cheer- fully in sail boat to battle with some
of the world's worst weather.
Clad in an old jersey, slacks and a cap, with a ridiculous little scarf round his throat, he will voyage anything from two to tour thousand miles into the Arelle, Nearly four thousand men from Wall and inndreds from Grimsby do a trip like this every three weeks Just to belus back fish to the breakfast and dinner tables of Britain.
They are the last adventurers in n new nie, und, as they slide away from the dock in the grey light of dawn, they bid a cheery "Good morning" to The dock workers, as if they were just Aborting a journey up to town from the suurin.
Share full will tell you that the trawlernen make a good Dr. Many 3[ _2}'ntale).
There are skippers whe earn a thousand pounds " year and lock hants who turn over five pounds 11 week. lunt what a cont!
Gu rocking about in the Arctle oft the desolate and windswept coast of Bear Island or along the rocky crags the of the Norwegian cont, where wind whines like voices in helt. Do it in the depths of winter, and you wil tel a taste of what it is like! The Bay of Bray and the Atlantic reem like iluckpons comparison.
If the weather is good round the English coast and there are plenty of fish on the hotne market, all the work res for tle or nothing. They have travelled three thousand miles in the Arctic night to bring bark coals to Newcastle." Tough, int it is all the life of a trawlerman. On to 70 degrees North, and the devil take all shore jobal
It seemed best to me to let Mr. Willis review this book for himself by quot- ing from the opening pages of his Bagn of the trawlermen The author made the trip to the Arctle, and they necepted him as one of themselves. Which means that he knows what lie is writing about
Why fish fetches such poor prices at times. Why it is necessary to go so far north. Why the Norwegians and our- selves quarrelled so much that the Foreign Ofee hind to step in to pre
Why vent international incidents. Hull and Grimsby are so jealous of each other,
All these questions are answered, and many more, In The Last Adventurera, Whether you order fish and chips or Sole la Bonne Femine, you should read IL.
CARR JONES.
10 those married
T
A
Hitler CHALLENGES
CHRISTIAN LIBERTY
by Arthur Porritt
Former Editor of the Christian World'
QUICK succession of smashing blows, evidently designed to be knock-out blows,
is being directed by Herr Hitler and the Nazi Party nt the Germin Evangelical Church.
The arrest of Dr. Martin Niemolier was the culmination of what has been described as a wave of arrest which has been proceed. ing for the last few weeks.
Over forty pastors are said to have been thrown into prison or sent to concentration camps.
Dr. Niemöller's arrest has its sensational asprets. In a sense it is a challenge to all Christendom.
For Dr. Niemöller is the leader
of those Protestant Evangelical Christians who have attracted world attention by their courage- uus resistance to the Nazification of German Paganisation And
huvo They alone Christianity. dared to resent the Nazi regime.
Dr. Niemüller, as their leader, is more than a national figure in Germany: he has become one of the best-known men'in Christen- dom. Ife symbolises the cause of Christian liberty.
No preacher In Berlin has greater eminence. In his Dahlem congregation are-or were-teve- rol members of the German Government, including Baron von Neurath, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Dr. Guertner, the Minister of Justice.
His war record as a submarine commander testifies to his patriot- ism and loyalty. He is not, in any sense, an extremist. He took no part in polities until the Church crisis arose.
His ministry is Biblical, exposl- tory. One might say that he is the Berlin equivalent of Canon Elliot Dr. Campbell Morgan, in
or
London.
The Bishop of Chichester, who knows Dr. Niemöller, describes him as a man whom any Christian might well be proud to count as A friend. "I have never," says Dr. Bell, "seen a braver Christian, or a man in whom the lamp of faith burns more brightly."
Why, then, should this worthy Christian minister bo in jall?
The answer in that he is resisting at all costs the avowed determination of the Nazis to compel the Church to submit to the control of the State and to reduce it to the some condition of abject subjection that has been imposed in Germany on political parties, trade unions and youth organizations,
Totalitarianism is the annihilation of liberty and even a Church must be allowed no freedom. For four yeurs Dr. Niemölier has been leading a passive resistance movement of German Con- fessional Christians to this demand for submis-. sion to Cresar.
He has stood resolutely for freedom to preach the Gospel and for the equality of baptised Jews with Gentile Christians; also he had stood like a rock against the new paran State. religion or racialism which substitutes Germania for God and regards Christ as a public enemy.
Previous suspension from ไป!s: pulpit and Imprisonment for out- spokenness have not crushed Dr. Nemoller's intrepid spirit. "We no more think," he said recently, "of arbitrarily cluding the grasp of the authorities than the Apostles did."
Six days afterwards he was ar- rested and is now awaiting a "secret trial" on the charge of Incitement to disobedience of the State.
His utterances, It is alleged. have provided foreign newspapers with material hostile to Germany, To silence him the Nazis deem it necessary to clap him in Jall.
This arrest of Dr. Nemöller is only the sensational climax of re- pressive measures against the Church (Roman as well as Pro- testant) which have been ruth- lessly employed in Germany since the beginning of the Hitler regime. Roman Catholics and Lutherans are alike under fire.
A year ago the flames of con- troversy seemed to be dying down It looked as if the Nazis had de- cided, in the spirit of compromise, to yield a measure of liberty of conscience to Christians in Ger- many.
But a fresh mood of malignant Beverity became manifest carly in this year. Then Horr Kerr, who had been appointed Church minis- ter and practically ecclesiastica! dictator, started dragooning tactics once more.
DR. NIEMOLLER arrested and taken to the Moabit Prison.
Under a law for the "safeguard Ing of the German Evangelical Church" he was empowered to act by decree.
To caso the tension Herr Hitler himself promised that a General Synod should be elected by a free vote to draft a new Church con- stitution.
Nothing has been heard since February of this promised election. No polling date has been fixed-no Indication has been given as to whether the vote shall be re- stricted to Church members or con- ceded to all nominal Christians.
Not without reason the Con- fessional Movement leaders sus- pect that Dr. Kerr intends to **fake" the election by springing it, without notice, upon the Church and by gerrymandering the clee- toral rolls, so that nominal church- men may swamp the Confessional members in the ballot.
But under a decree issued by Herr Kerri on June 20 the use of church buildings in connection with the election has been for- bidden and the publication of leaflets or propagandist literature is" verboten," too.
An arbitrary ban has also been placed on the long-established custom of reading out during public worship the names of per-
women, especially A nine-years married English woman was offered
mothers, who talk of going out to work again, I want to say: "Sit down and do a little elementary arith- metic first to see if you can afford the job!"
I have been married nine years and, I think, have been a good housekeeper. I have done all my own work, including washing. making jams and marmalado, baking cakes and pies and making my own and the children's clothes. This has been from necessity.
Three months ago I was of- fered a job at £3 a week.
This
18-
was tempting! I could see a long holiday at the side for all of us, new furi, sh ings for the home, and a nicely growing account in the savings bank.
FTER
AFT
three
a £3-a-week job, jumped at the
chance, but
after three months' experience she says.
I Can't Afford to Work
montha The tradesmen's books showed the
I have less in hand following weekly extras. than before, and last night I set down with all my tradesmen's books and accounts around me to find out where the money had
gone.
Laundry
£
2. l.
0 1 0
Windows (1s. per fort
niplit)
0 0 8
Soap flakes (for wash-
ing up)
0 0 0
Kindling for fires
0 D
4
to
Electricity
0 0 74
Butcher, baker, etc.
0 1 3
20 10 10
The largest item was the weekly wage of the woman who came
I could work in the house for me. have had a young daily maid or a girl to "live-in" for less, but the one couldn't cook and we haven't a spare room for the other. Besides,
I wanted someone reliable to leave
Stockings
were a great expense.
I could wear darned ones at home,
but not at business, where my legs were on view all the time.
Dress Account (three months. Very modest, I think):
Business dress
Shoes and repairs Stockings (six pairs)
£ s. d.
15 0 0 17 0 0 17 6
£3 0 3
longer in 1937 than in 1928), to "pass" the children as fit for school, to supervise their break- fast, to give my orders for the day and leave the house before 8 a.m.
In the evening, by the time the children were bathed and in bed, their clothes inspected and mended "bity" for the morrow, sundry washed and the menus decided for the next day, it was time for bed.
These figures have amazed my husband, but they have taught both him and me a lesson. We know my value in the home in hard cash. This week-end I hand in my nollee.
now
I can't afford to, go out to work. My place is in the home.
Caroline Brown
THAT
PICTURE
MAY WIN
A PRIZE! -if entered in the only 4s. 4d out of my “TELEGRAPH'S”
That works out at Gs a week and That left me with 11s 11⁄2d, a with my hair (3s. 6d. a fortnight)
leaves ne- glorious three pounds!.
in charge in case one of the chil- week. ciren should be if
So my budget began as follows:
This pitiful cum was swallowed up PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
The butcher's and baker'a counts showed the largest increase. Quickly cooked, and so more ex- in agent's fees, replacing breakages pensive, pleces of meat had to be at home, subscriptions at work and ordered and all cakes and ples were the difference in the cost of home- bought instead of being made at made and ready-made clothes for kome,
the children.
£ s. d. Mr. Taylor's wages.. 150 Fares.(olf--1...4d
1
per day)..............
0
0
Linches (staff. lunch,
0 4 0
21 18 0
the were
I HAVE lost financially THEN there
and physically, too. extra clothes I had to have. I had to buy a now dress had to get up an hour earlier to quickly as I had none suitable. get myself ready (it takes
See particulars
I
on another page.
good value), 1s.
That left me with £1 21. a week.
sons who havo receded from church membership.
By another edict the collections taken among Confessional congre- gations are restricted.
In defiance of Herr Kerri's edict Confessional pastors persisted in reading out the names of seceders, and it is for this offence that Dr. Niemoller, Dr. Jakobi and other pro- minent Confessional movement pastors have been arrested.
One of the latest of Herr Kerzl's decrees strikes at the financial basis of the Confessional Church.
The voluntary system,under which churches are sustained by the free-will offerings of their members has never taken root in Germany, Many German churches draw allowances from the State and from ecclesiastical taxes col- lected by the State.
This is the Achilles heel of the Confessional Church movement, and Herr Kerri has struck at this vulnerable spot.
By a decree Issued on June 29, he has taken power for the Financial Department to decide how ecclesi- astical taxes and State allowances shall be allocated.
This means that he has the Con- fessional Church, financially, at his mercy. Bo another new instru- ment of pressure has been forged to coerce the Confessional Chris- tians into complete subjection to the Totalitarian State system.
And the Archbishop of York has committed himself to the view that "the logic of the Totalitarian State
to is necessarily hostile religion based supposedly on a Divine revelation."
any
So the issue in this German Church crisis is cleared and simpli- fled.
The question at issue is whether n German citizen is, or is not, to have not merely freedom of public worship but liberty to live the Christian life as he conceives it.
The conscience of the Christian world is being deeply stirred by these latest developments in the German crisis.
The Federal Council of American Churches-representing all the Protestant bodies in the United States has issued a manifesto de- claring that "there is no possible ground for doubt as to the hostility of the German Government to the life, the teaching, and the influ- ence of the Christian Church-In direct violation of those promises of protection for positive Chris- tianity which led so many loyal Germans to accept a regime whicti claimed
lave to
conquered athelam."
all Representative leaders of Christian Churches (except the Church of Rome) in all countries in the world (except Germany), whose appointed delegates have been refused permission to attend by their Government), are to dia- auss, among other things, the Christian view of the State, the claims of the contemporary State and the Christian conception of freedom.
Is it possible-I hardly think it is probable--that this Oecumenical Conference will give expression to the sense of moral outrage with which Christian people everywhere are viewing the deliberate attempt to substituto paganism for Chris- tianity in Germany?
----------To-day's Thought-
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