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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
V
ESUVIUS, the great foaming volcano that towers abovo Naples Bay, is in violent erup-
the
I STOOD on the
TOP of VESUVIUS
tion once again.
For months the scientists, keeping day and night watch, have anticipated this new out- burst from Nature's most destructive frework.
Now it has come, and all around that lovely countrysido, waterz lapped by the blue stretching cut to the island of Capri, anxious eyes are cast up- wards at the smoke-crowned peak. Does it spell disaster? Will molten, lava flow 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 stil oozed and spread.
It was an awe-inspiring ex- perience even then-but 60 familiar la 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 tho monster at close quarters, an Italian friend sald we could drive there "by the new road."
We phoned for a taxi and, with no more emotion than you or I would experience in asking a 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.
At the small town of Torre Annunziata we turned into a nar- "row lane, passed through some of the worst alums I have ever 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 substan- ital as the Great North Road. Frequently our mudguards scratched the solid walls of dead 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
concerned with the clucation of lack of fastidiousness and i
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.
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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 Pompell, uncovered after fifteen centuries of burial, Farther west the site of Herculaneum... Dead cities... and still within 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 **small" eruption, and had poured out of the flaming mouth of Vesu- vius in three days,
It had crossed the narrow track, swallowed cottages and mountain huts, and burled them under what was now solld rock many yards thick. And here we had to stop and complete the journey, a mere few hundred feet, on foot.
This proximity to the active out- let 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 smoke skywards and scattered stones and ashes over n 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 fantastic mon- sters of black rock bore witness to the ferocity-of-the-upheavals-that. created them, Some of them might have been the gargantuan of a dead age--immense, creatures Incredible.
A guide, who liked to be called the "Devil of Vesuvius," undertook to show me the lava actually dow- ing in the crater. As we advanced the heat became intense,
caution, which are instinctive STORIES ABOUT SINNERS
with those who have had the
Many
gret the lapses of those who fall
covered. time, smile at their excuses.
those who of the stories concern
indulge" too freely, and whom the soap while he was holidaying in minister has seen fit to rebuke.
Such was the predicament of Pat when he was tackled about his con-
freely.
In many places it is still considered a greater sin to break the Sabbath-as one visitor soon clis-
out Finding that he had run
ot
Scotland, the visitor went into the! local shop and asked for a cake of The order was refused. "But
the people, for education is a means to almost any end. With advantage of even a little educa- No matter how much we may re- out it the public mind is not! tion, would go for towaru by the wayside, we must, at the same eliminating such dangerous and receptive to change. Illiteracy,
disgusting habits as expectorat- and bigotry are close relations, ing anywhere and everywhere, and until the first is removed in streets or in restaurants, in the second makes abortive all street cars or ferrics. efforts at moral or physical There have been instances of dition the previcus night. "How is why?" demandes the customer, "Just he was asked, "that you are al-now you sold a little girl some almost incredible callousness ways drunk?" "Shure, your rever-peppermints. If you can uplife.
do that cake of right in Hongkong where con- nce, I have to drown me sorrows." why can't you seli
"And do you succeed?" sonp?" Hongkong may congratulate sumptives are concerned. There replied Pat.
shook his head dolefully. "No, The shopkeeper repli:d:"You itself upon the efficiency of its have been cases of men report-bedad. The divis can swim." can suck peppermints while ye are ing themselves ill, their employer "Sandy," said another minister, "I listening the the minister preaching, administration and the relative discovering their complaint and am sorry to see you drunk." "Weel," but ye canna wash yer face in the
kirk.** comfort of its population in the instantly dismissing them. So, was the reply. If you are
"Why were you not at church last aggregate. The amenities of for the most part, the victims then we'll sae noe male about it."
Another story concerns a minister Sunday?" demanded another minis- of this scourage will try to dis- who, seeing one of his congregation ter. To tell you the truth," replied life here, for poor as well 48
guise for as long as they may coming out of a public-house, the erring one, "I get a job and mud: rich, compare very favourably the nature of their malady. promptly tackled the culprit "May- five bob." "You mean, you broke
the Sabbath?" "Yes" was with those of cities of China. When it is no longer possible, be you did see me come out," replied But there is still room, plenty they return to their homes to the culprit, "bul we must come out of room, for improvement. For die. one thing much might be done
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reply. "One of us had to be broke,"
But the minister does not come off worst in there exchanges every time, He can give as good a reply as he takes.
One of the greatest trials of all somo extent ministers is when the congregation
begin to fall asleep during the pr is serious, though it is almost there is only the smallest per- applied, could to
mon. Each uses a different method Impossible to accurately check centage of the people which has correct. its ravages upon the population. the faintest idea of the care and Some day. Hongkong may be to waken the sleepyheads, but few Thousands of its victims die caution required in preventing able to afford a camp for con have been more effective than the
By
such method used by one old Scots minis annually. It is the belief of the spread of the discase. Assumptives,
ter. Seeing one man asleep ho called Home well-informed persons, for treatment of the unfortunate scheme this Colony might show to the wife of the erring member, medical men among them, that patient, ho is probably ignored that the culture upon which it "Go home. Betty, and bring John his
itsolf is not through education it might be entirely or, what may be worse, prides
mere night cap." No people, no On another occasion a difference possible successfully to combat depending on the point of view, complacency, mortality from this cause. The given opium which is regarded community is so far advanced of opinion had arisen between one of the congregation and the minister, teaching of the first principles as a palliative but which by no that it cannot take some advan- and the former, wishing to get his of hygiene, of the value of fresh stretch of the imagination can tage, rise a little higher in the own back before they parted, sald, air and personal cleanliness, be called a cure. What chance social sense, through application "There Is one thing; if I had a cons clean food and drink, clean has the patient? What a risk of a few of the principles which that was an idiot I would put him
into the church,"
"Your father evidently thought clothing and bedding ought to must his relatives run in their constitute the New Life Move- be considered. Knowledge of Ignorance! Here is a condition ment as sponsored by China's drerently," was the reply.
J. C. the rleks that are incurred by which education, systematically Chiang Kai-shok.
by ERNEST
JAY
Around one great rock our guide pointed with pride to a shapelcas 100.83. **All that we aro walking on now flowed two days ago," he sald,
As he spoke the point on which I stood began to move. Its sides cracked and through the fegure there poured the white hot lava alowly oozing into the crevices, weaving itself into weird shapes.
As quickly ELB wo could we Jumped from point to point, bruis- ing and burning our shins in an effort to and a cooler spot. Then We came to the cone, the vent-bola of the crater, and watched spell- hound
48 Vesuvius crashed and thundered.
Every few seconds a roar. Hike the firing of a great gun, shook the mountain top. Cascades of red- hot stones fell like hall.
That was Vesuvius on a "quiet" day. Now it is netive. Does it mean disaster or has the mountain played its worst tricks?
Science cannot master these powerful forces of Nature, but it can now predict when they are likely to reach abnormal dimen- slons. Every ten years volcanoes and earthquakes, sister terrors. cause the deaths of thousands of 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 due to the vigilance of men who never rest in this battle with Nature.
Out. in the lonely Pacife is Dr.
acts as
on the Thomas A. Jagger, who sentinel of Kilauea. He says that a inva river can be bombed into submitting to a course that is likely to do less damage. Ho lives actually in the crater and has no fear that the volcano will steal a march
on him.
So, perhaps, if the new eruption is really serious, Mas- of Vesuvius is solini will find a better use for his bombing planes than slaughtering helpless natives In Abyacinta..
The use of this modern weapon, the bomber, has not yet been tried on a large-scale flow of lava, which out of the earth at a tem- perature estimated at 1,000 degrees Centigrade, and makes approach by ordinary means impossible. O by
pours
Nor, to view of modern methods of communication, are the nearest villages of Resina and Terzigne kely to be caught and enveloped as were Pompell, Stabine and Her- culaneum in the first century of the Christian era.
Those peoples of this early civil- isation had been lulled to indif ferened by centuries of inactivity! on the part of the volcano, and, even when warnings came, they remained unmoved until it was too late.
Violent eruptions of Vesuvius have followed at irregular inter- vals, no fewer than 50 having occurred in the last 400 years. The most serious disaster took place on December 16, 1031, when more than 18,000 persons lost their Hives, and since then the crater has never been quiescent for more than brief periods.
More recently, in 1906, a flow of lava partly destroyed the town of Bascotrecase, and aimant reached the township of Torre Annunziata, on the coast, and other minor out- breaks culminated in a further eruption 18 months ago,
This last flow, while it covered vast areas of the mountainalds and apread down to the valloy's edge,
damage. did no material
Unless that cruption is repeated on a vaster scale than has yet been known. the Devils of Vesuvius " will still ply their trade of showing vizitore round the mysterious survival from a world in the making.
And we shall still gʊ 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 often- times breaks forth In`atrango eruptions; oft the
tcoming carth
Is with a kind of colic pinch'd
and ven'd...*
HAKESPBARI.