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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1937.
NEW LIFE MOVEMENT.
AND HONGKONG
Before a nation can become truly great it must conquer illiteracy. The truth of this statement has been recognised by the leaders of progressive people in all times, and but never has the knowledge resulted in more ambitious reforms than under the direction-of-Chiang Kai-shek in China. His' New Life Movement is principally concerned with the education of the people, for education is means to almost any end. With- out it the public mind is not receptive to change. Illiteracy, and bigotry are close relations, and until the first is removed
a
the second makes abortive all
efforts at moral or physical uplife.
V
I STOOD on the
ESUVIUS, the great foaming volcano that towers above Naples Bay, is in violent erup-
tion once again.
For months the scientists, keeping day and night watch, 11ave anticipated this new out- burst from Nature's most destructive firework."
Now it has come, and all around that lovely countryside, lapped by the blue watera' stretching out to the island of Capri, anxious eyes are enst up- wards at the smoke-crowned peak. Does it spell disaster? Will molten lava now once more-down through the Valley of Hell-consuming everything in its path?
Less than a month ago I watched from the crater top the flaming fury of that restless mountain. Yet, like scores of, other visitors, I was able to walk over the black mass of lava only two days old; dodging fissures through which the red-hot earth still oozed and spread.
It was an awe-inspiring ex- perlence even then-but.so familiar is it to the Italians that It was being displayed much as an old-time Crystal Palace fire- work show.
When, in Naples, I suggested that I would like to see the monster at close quarters, an we could Italian friend said drive there" by the new road." We phoned for a taxi and, with no more emotion than you or I would experience in asking n driver to go to. Kew Gardens, my friend spoke the one word "Vesuvio."
Swiftly we sped along the new autostrada, an almost straight speedway on which it is a crime to travel at less than 45 miles an hour.
the hall town of Torre At Annunziata we turned into a nar- row lane, passed through some of the worst alums I have over seen, and soon picked up the zig-zag road that has been cut out of the treacherous mountainside,
And then the fun began; our driver, who seemed to be enjoying himself, negotiated the dozens of sharp, hairpin bends with hair- raising daring. Often the car turned on two wheels, defying all laws of gravitation. The radiator bolled, and more than once we passed other cars that had given up the struggle.
Along the road we passed work-. men laying the foundations-of-a- new concrete highway as subatan- tlal as the Great North Road. Our mudguards Frequently scratched the solid wails of dend lava through which the road had been cut.
As our progress carried us ever upward, these things were for- gotten in a spectacle of majestic
Hongkong may congratulate right in Hongkong where con-
itself upon the efficiency of its
sumptives are concerned. There
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administration and the relative have been cases of men report- comfort of its population in the ing themselves ill, their employer aggregate. The amenities of discovering their complaint and life here, for poor as well as instantly dismissing them. So, rich, compare very favourably for the most part, the victims with those of cities of China. of this scourage will try to dis- But there is still room, plenty guise for as long as they may of room, for improvement. For the nature of their malady one thing much might be done When it is no longer possible, to improve the public health. It they return to their homes to will be readily admitted that the die. loss of life through tuberculosis
In the homes themselves, is serious, though it is almost Impossible to accurately check while the affliction is treated its ravages upon the population. with the dismay it deserves, victims die there is only the smallest per- Thousands of its annually. It is the belief of centage of the people which has persons, the faintest idea of the care and well-informed medical men among them, that caution required in preventing Dept. 11.25 a.m. · Arr. 4.25 p.m.
through education it might be the spread of the disease. As possible successfully to combat for treatment of the unfortunate WITH CONNECTION TO SIAN, CHENGTU, KUNMING
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clean food and drink, clean as a palliative but which by no clothing and bedding ought to stretch of the imagination can be considered. Knowledge of be called a cure. What chance the risks that are incurred by has the patient? What a risk and must his relatives run in their fastidiousness lack of caution, which are instinctive ignorancol Here is a condition with those who have had the which education, systematically advantage of even a little educa- applied, could to. some extent tion, would go for towards correct,
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TOP of VESUVIUS
This article gives you a vivid close-up. of Mount Vesuvius, one of the world's few remaining active volcanoes, which'
has been in eruption again.
desolation. Away out to our right, stretching down into the valley far below. was-spread out the vast mass from previous eruptions that have taken place at irregular periods since the dawn of time.
In the distance we could see the ruins of Pompeli, uncovered after Afteen centuries of burial. Farther west the site of Herculaneum.... and still within Dend clien shadow of the new villages, and homesteads among the vineyards.
From the very summit there spread a black shapeless mass, hundreds of millions of tons of it, the latest overflow from the crater only a few years ago. That was a **amail" eruption, and had poured out of the flatning mouth of Vesu- vius in three days.
It had crossed the narrow track, swallowed cottages and mountain huts, and buried them under what was now solid rock many yarda thick. And here we had to stop and complete the journey, a mere fow hundred feet, on 100%
This proximity to the active out- Ict of the volcano sent a cold shiver through one's body, for as one walked slowly up the steep, wind- ing path the ground shook under repeated explosions that sent great columns of sınoko skywards and scattered stones and aches over a wide area.
Then we reached the Up of the crater....
Spread out before us was the vast basin, a huge natural amphi- theatre, in which fantantie mon- sters of black rock bore witness to the ferocity of the upheavals that created them: Bome of them might. have been the gargantuan creatures of a dead age--immense, incredible.
A gulde, who Ukod to be called the "Devil of Vesuvius," undertook to show me the lava actually flow- ing in the crater. As we advanced the heat became intense.
STORIES ABOUT SINNERS
The
shopkeeper repilid:"You can suck peppermints while ye are stening tac the minister preaching. but ye canna wash yer face in the kirk
No matter how much we may re- why can't you sell me a cake of
gret the lapses of those who fall soap?" by the wayside, we must, at the same time, smile at their excuses. Many of the stories concem those who indulge" too freely, and whom the minister has seen fit to rebuke.
Such was the predicament of Pat "Why were you not at church last when he was tackled about his con- Sunday?" demanded another minis- dition the previous night. "How is ter. To tell you the truth," replied It," he was asked, "that you are al- the erring one, "I get a job and mad
drunk?" "Shure, your rever five bob." "You mean, you broke
Was the Sabbath?" "Yes," I have to drown me Barrows," replied Pat. "And do you succeed?" reply. One of us had to be broke."
"No, Pat shook his head dolefully. bedad. The divils can swim."
But the minister does not come off "Sandy," said another minister, " am sorry to see you drank." "Weel," worst in these exchanges every time. was the reply. "11
you are
sorry He can give as good a reply as he
takes. then we'll sae nae mair about It."
One of the greatest trials of all Another story concerns a minister
•
the
who, seeing one of his congregation ministers is when the congregation
of * public-house, begin to fall asleep during the coming out promptly tackled the culprit. "May-mon. Each uses a different method be you did teo me come out," replied to waken the sleepyheads, but few the culprit. "but we must come out has been more effective than the sometime)"
melhod used by one'eld Scots minis ter. Seeing one man usteep he called But not all the stories are con- to the wife of the erring member, Belty, and bring John his cerned with those who indulge too "Go home.
On another occasion a difference freely. In many places it is still night cap." considered a greater sin to break the Sabbath as ono
visitor soon dis-of opinion had arisen between one of the congregation and the minister, covered,
Finding that he had run out of and the former, wishing to get his+
In own back before they parted, said, soap while he was holidaying Scotland, the visitor went into the There is one thing; if I had a son soap. The order was refused. "But into the church." local shop and asked for a cake of that was on idiot I would put him
"Your father evidently thought why?" demanded the customer. "Just now you sold a little girl some dff:rently," was the reply.
J. R. C. that peppermints. If you can do
eliminating such dangerous and Some day Hongkong may be disgusting habits as expectorat able to afford a camp for con- ing anywhere, and everywhere,
By воте such in atracts or in restaurants, Insumptives.
scheme this Colony might show street cars or ferries.
that the culture upon which it is not mere There have been instances of prides itself
no No people, almost
Incredible callousness complacency:
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community is so far advanced of a few of the principles which that it cannot take some advan- constitute the New Life Move- tage, riso a little higher in the ment as sponsored by China's social sense, through application Chiang Kai-shek,
by ERNEST
JAY
Around and great rock our guide pointed with pride to a shapeless innas. "All that we are walking on now flowed two days ago,” hơ said.
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As he spoke the point on which I stood began to move. Its sides cracked and through the fissure thero poured the white hot lava slowly oozing Into the crovices, weaving itself into weird shapes.
wo could wo quickly Sumped from point to point, bruin- ing and burning our shins in an effort to find a cooler spot. Then we came to the cone, the vent-bolo of the crater, and watched epoll- Vesuvius crashed and bound
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thundered.
Every few seconds a roar, ko the firing of a great gun, shook the mountain top. Cascades of red- itet stones fell like hall.
That was Vesuvius on a "quiet" Does it day. Now it is active. mean disaster or has the mountain. played its worst tricks?
master thezo Selenco cannot powerful forces of Nature, but it can now predict when they are Ikoly to reach abnormal dimen- alons. Every ten years volcanoes and earthquakes, sister terrora, of cause the deaths of thousands people and hundreds of millions of pounds' worth of damage, to property.
One day the scientists may be able to cut this bill, and if they do it will be in no small measure duo to the vigilance of men who nover rest in this battle with Nature.
Out in the lonely Pacific is Dr. Thomas A. Jacgor, who acts as the Bentinel of Kilauea. He says that a lava river can be bombed into that is to a course submitting
He lives likely to do less damage. actually in the crater and has no fear that the volcano will steal a march on him.
So, perhaps, if the new eruption of Vesuvius is really sortous, Mus- solial will find a better use for his bombing planes than slaughtering helpless natives in Abyssinia.
The use of this modern weapon, the bomber, has not yet been tried
a large-scale flow of lava, which pours out of the earth at a toma- perature estimated at 1,000 degrees Centigrade, and makes approach! by ordinary means impossible,
Nor, in view of modern methods of communication, are the nearest villages of Resina and Terzigna likely to be caught and enveloped as were Pompell, Stablas and Her culaneum in the first century of the Christian era.
Those peoples of this early civil- lantion had been lulled to indif- ference by centuries of inactivitei on the part of the volenno, and, evon when warnings came, they remained unmoved until it was too late,
The
Violent eruptions of Vesuvius have followed at irregular inter- vals, no fewer than 60 having occurred in the last 400 years. most serious disaster took place on December 10, 1831, when more than 10,000 persons lost their ves, and since then the crater has over beon quiescent for more than brief periods.
More recently, in 1906, a flow of lava partly destroyed the town of Boscatrecase, and almost roached the township of Torre Annunziata. on the const, and other minor out- breaks culminated in a further eruption 18 months ago.
This last flow, while it covered vast areas of the mountainside and
sprend down to the valley's edge, did no material damage..
Uniess that eruption is repeated on a vaster scale than has yet been known, the
'Daviis of Vesuvius" will still ply their trade of showing
the visitors round
mysterious aurvival from a world in the making.
And we shall still go on taking risks for a peep into the workshop of the earth, which, to the advan- tage of most of us, closed down unknown centuries ago.
-To-day's Thought—
·DISEASED nature
times breaks forth
oflen-
In irango eruptions; oft the
teamtag earth
Is with a kind of colic pinch'd
and sex'd.
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