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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION.
HOORAY for the NEW EDUCATION!
Professor Lower's Learned Dissertation ment L. W. Lower heartily endorsies.
on the Three R's... Racing
Recreation and Rest
The members of the New Education Fellowship aim to reform old methods of education. And about time, too.
Dr. Harold Rugg, Professor of Education at Columbia Uni- versity, New York, is of the opinion that "a child should not be a passive receptacle for facts, but should take an active part in the process of his education."
Why didn't they think of that when I was going to school? I'M sure I'd have had as many "You will find it on page forty-
degrees as a thermometer if six of your history book. Wille."
"Iluh! You can't believe all your I'd been allowed to butt in nowend. What about that report on and then while I was at school.the water supply? Anyhow," "lex · It
For instance:-
slide. Carry on."
"We ni know that Christopher - "The Spanish Columbus discovered: America," "said ¦ carllest settlers the teacher to the class,
"I doubt that," said little Wille, "Have you any proof of that state- inent?
The
"Well, my Spaniard!"
were
among the
poker pals
"Shut up, Willie!"
are not
"I'm taking an active part in my
By
L. W. LOWER
education, Whose education is it, anyhow"
That concludes the history lesson for to-day."
"About time, too. I never heard such bunk. And, by the way, tea- cher. About that sum you set us for homework last night. It can't be done."
Sez you!"
"Oh, no? #gez me!
It starts off: 'It a man had three dozen apples, four dozen oranges, and xlx dozen peaches.' ... Well, I ask you! Where's a feller going to get the money to buy all thai stuff, apart from the fact that peaches can't be obtained in long- kong. And another thing, if I re- nember rightly, he gives alx away It doesn't and receives two back. say why he got them back. Probably they were rollen. But what I say is
Plagues Of Egypt
SCIENCE has been inquir
ing into
one of the greatest catastrophes that ever befell a nation-the ten plagues of Egypt.
They have found that modern theories ore in accord with the Bible story.
The plagues were brought upon the Egyptians by Muses in the days of Israel's captivity.
Dr. Charles J. Brin, n New York authority on public health, says that Moses must have anticipated by 3,000 years modern science's great- est fear the use of disease germs, water pollution and other attacks on sanitation as war weapons-in short, bacteriological warfare,
Moses, states Dr. Brim. In addi- tion to
to being the founder of the science of hyglene, showed that
warfare .could
germ
anolate effectively
man and beast more than arms and man power, With it he bent the nighty Egyp- tiahs to his will and thus brought about the Exodus, the release of the Israntites from Egyptian slavery.
With the so undermined their man power and morale that it be-
A Lay Sermon
By HUGH REDWOOD THERE are no wild asses in Pulestine now, or so the natural historious assure LIS. But looking around on a work which is so busily building forts and erecting towers, one feels
the that A joy of wild asses.
breed is not IATAN, xxxi.. 14
extinct. The wild asses are having their joy- dus,
Isaiah's vision, however, has yet to be realised, for he was thinking on different lines. He was seeing, as other prophets have seen, u time when the spirit shall be poured out from on high, and the whole earth be Alled
with the knowledge of the tim
that of the Lord. When comes, men will have learned their lesson. They will know what forts and towers are for.
They will know (though God
alone knows the cost of their knowledve) that peace is made in men's own hearts and not armament factories.
In
If that day seems long in com» Int. Its coming is no less sure (Habakkuk, H., 3). We must walt for it and work for it. Peace is "the work (1.c.. the pro- duct) of righteousness," and no better contribution can be made to its cour then a heart lint la right with God,
show that Moses anticipated by 3,000 years.
the greatest_fear_of_modern science.
An old drawing of the Seventh Plague"and the
Lurd rained hall."
care Impossible for them to face the hardships of war.
The ten plagues, in this order, were:--
Changing the water into blood; The frogs;
The lice;
The Ales;
The murrain of cattie; The boils on the Eppptians; Hati:
The locusts;
The darkness;
The death of the first-born,
The air breame with Wed
the disease germs bred in this ideal fore- ing-ground. People and animals be- came Infected,
Fles descended in swarms greater than people had ever seen, bringing germs withi
more them.
Cattle died their thousands.
it
DUST, in a
naturally
dusty country, be
came
infected, more spreading disease and death. Na ure toak a
turn. A terrific hallstorm strick- ed over Egypt, The few crops that were left stand- ing were flattened and destroyed. Animals were killed by the force of the hallstones.
Next come the locusts, dropping in their millions on the fields,
cating everything the hail had left.
When they passed a duststorm, chused probably by the hot, electri- cal wind known as the hamsin, blew up and darkened the sky for days on end--as sandstorms still do that part of the world.
and last
plague, the The tenth
of the first-born, was a natural death consequence of all that had happen-
The first step. in this carefully ed since the day the water became planned attack, says Dr. Brim in a newly published book, "Medicine in polluted.
the Bible," was the pollution Egypt's water supply.
of
t
This had two results: First, attacked the god of Egypt--the Nile; secondly, it sapped the very fountain of the country.
NGYPTIAN
EGYPT
*
Ingend said that the Nile sprank from the blond of the god. Osiris,
"the
Hence,
turned Into rs of the Nile were
Egypt depended on the Nile for its drinking water, on lis yearly Inundations for the irrigation of the fields.
A polluted Nile was a smashing blow at the water supply and at the crops and cattle.
Nobody could wash or drink.
The fish-one of the staple foods- died. Frons were forced to leave their natural haunts in the river banks and invaded the streets, fields and houses in their millions,
Swarms of frogs, with no water or food, died and rotted over the coun- tryside; Cartloads were burned, but not before the germs of pollution had time to multiply.
"A child should take an active part in his education" is a senti ment L. W. Lower heartily endorses. He is here shown explain- ing the finer points of education to teachers, who, he says, did
not teach him properly.
why worry about it? It's all over and forgotten now. Probably the COVE
fruil singing this who wan
dead for years. around has been What's it matter to me how many oranges he had? What I say is..."
"Wille! Sit down!"
"Ob. all right! A bloke's got to sit here and just be a passive recep- facte, eh?"
A Real Poser
sir!" "XCUSE me.
sald young Alfred, more or less saving a situation which looked like becoming tense. "May I ask a question?".
"Certainly, my boy! There's what I'm here for."
"Are those baggy eye-lids of yours due to late hours or drink?"
"WHAT!"
sce
"Hear! Heart" muttered the class. "Well, we'll try something dif- ferent. I don't want to weary you, boys. There are eight horses to a rave. The winner's price is Alve to four on. How much would you have to put to win fifteen shill- lings?"
"I wouldn't be suel: a piker!" said Ittle Thomas, Indignantly. "If a man's going to bet like that he might as well stick to the Tote. Anyhow. you haven't given us the form or past performances. Noboly would bet in the dark like that. Might as well pick 'em with a pin. Have a bit of sense!"
"Oh, confound Class dismiss!"
the lot of you!
of that
"Why didn't you think before? Wasting our time burbling about oranges, and bicycles, and things when a man could have been fishing. The trouble with you is that you're behind the times. You won't co-operate."
(0),
*All right. All' right. Don't do your block and set t bad example to the class. Let's get back to these oranges and things this chap was giving away. What was his name?"
14 don't
that
it matters.
"Go away!" monned the teacher, Alfred." "Oh, yes it dves!" chipped in "Oh, go away!"
Come Oscar, the dux of the class, "I he's
boys," said young the
same chap, who bought ten Alfred. "Leave him alone. He looks pounds of two-inch nails, laid them about all in." And they slowly left end to end, and then wanted to
the room, palting the sobbing tea- know how many nalls there were if
cher gently on the head as they It took him three
minutes to ride
pussed. past them
education! a-bicycle
Hooray, for the new going t
What a pity it came loo late for most twenty miles an hour, he ought to
of us. be certified. It's not safe to let those fellers loose. And another thing. ask you, as man to man, what earth- ly use is all that muff to me? Am I ever likely to buy (en pounds of nails and bicycle and ride...
"Oscar! Sit down!" "There he goes
0.1
That's nli wearily. "Sith." said Alfred he can think of. A fine chance a man's got of getting eluented in this school. No co-operation. None of that get-together spirit. Sit down, shut up, and listen. It ought to be the school motto."
"That's enough! dozen oranges. There he
A man has three
goes again! Couldn't you make it watermelons? If you knew what it was to have to sit here listening to you drooling
about u maniae who doesn't know how many oranges he's got you'd have a bit more consideration.
Bridge Problem
No. 42
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Nil
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10 7
Diamonds
A Ú
to 7
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arc Trumps.
South
lends and North-South must-win all six tricks.
Solutions by Wednesday to Bridge Problem," Hongkong "Tele-
Wyndham Street, graph,
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SOLUTION OF PROBLEM 41 South leads spade six, and West, putting up his queen, is allowed to Win North playing low in an effort West leads to stop crossruling. trumps (hearts), and South wins The Bible does not say explicitly with the nine, East discarding a club that only the first-born died in this South leads club four, which North
ruffs with his remaining trump. plague.
Norli wins with ace of spades, What does say if
North "And it came to pass that at Enst a diamond
lendis
diamond, which South midnight the Lord smote all the
wihs
with king South wing Arat-born in the land of Epupi,
heart Jack, which North
on from the first-born of Pharaoh
East discard diamonds. South lends sat on his throne to the first-
West must club queen, on which born of the captive that was in the
unguard his diamonds or throw his master spade. North discarding the reverse, North-South must win the rest of the tricks.
that
dungeon."
The epidemic killed many "othera, but in the death of the first-born lay the greatest calamity, for the Arsl- born son was chief in-every Egyptian household.
..
.
•
with
wind
OVCL-
found rather This problem was difficult, and the only correct solu- ilona have come from A.E.G., Mrs. A. K. and J. K. Most entrants over- HIRIM does not explain looked he fact that West could cover how the first plague was South'a spade lend with the Queen. brought about,
While "Emjay" but if Moses did
apparently pollute the Nile it must have been dene when the water was low.
that 1 is certain
Moses was n medical genius, as his laws of health prove, and knew the certain effects of water pollution.
Neither does the doctor explain haw Mases foresaw the hall, but it is possible he could judge atmos- pheric conditions with, precision,
V. B..
looked this fact, her solution is not disqualified an cubsequent play con- forms to the solution. This proved most interesting problem, and, the three
rucntioned correspondents above were the only ones to notice the that West's correct play on
Queen of initial space lead was Spodes, in order to either force North's Ace or take the lend `with trumps to provent cross-rulling.
TEST ANSWERS
Are You Sure? (Questions on Page 2).
1.-Britannia. 1-Elephants, “3.—Suviel Rússia. 4-A trade wind.
5.-A piraty
6.-Admiral.
7-England. 8.-Bridge. 1.---Five.
10. "He leadeth me beside the
still waters."
11-1, 3, 0. 27.
12-Great Britain.
1. Czechoslovakia.
́4- Irridescent — should
iridescent.
lil
15.-Alice in Wonderland. 18.-A
be
17.-One
he half-sovereign and 20 sixpences.
18--Victori
10 Chungking.
20 Schering and
lous.
Talla
21-Ormsby-Gare,
22.--Ceylon.
23.-A poem.
24.-Australia,
unscrupu
25.-Nelther, Seven and nine
is (or are) sixteen!
Weck-End Problems PROBLEM L
MISS BOTANY'S OUTING Four girls found cowslips The rates of pay were:
For each fritillary
H
1%d.
1d.
4.
orchlit cowslip
axifrage
*. PROBLEM II. STUMPWORTHY'S AFTERNOON STROLL 2,100 yards.
Light-Fingered Lily
The evidence was something which both Lily and Hooping- hoc had overlooked Lily's fingerprints in, and on the cover of, Hoopinghoe's notebook. The receiver, unable And a sotls- factory
of explanation
these, talked himself into a tangle; and in the end was unable to extricate himself.
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GRAMOPHONE
CLA
NLARA BUTT'S name once more appears in record lists, Columbia having re-issued four of her biggest hits, among them "O Rest in the Lord," with which the Albert Hall has to often been dissolved into ecstasies. Such re-. issues of performances by the famous have an undoubted historical value. The business might be extended:
When, for instance, are we to hear again the records Busoni is said to have made? Coming to modern times, there is a new record made by Galliano Masini (airs from "Turandot" and "Butterfly") which are of the utmost ef- ficiency, carried out in that true Italian manner which, according to your taste, you will consider either the most exquisite singing or little more than stylish voice produc- tion. Technically this singing is a sound example of the high-stepping Latin style.
The December lists include a number of records of dance music, swing music and light music, some good, some indifferent, the rest merely Background Noise. Continental Waltz Favourites (Col.) is a Wiener Tanzorchester record that provides excellent rhythmic playing of half a dozen well-known tunes. The plentiful decorative efforts aro amusing enough, but there will be many who would be as content to have the music plain.
*
Another successful record is "Melody in Riff," made by Eddie Carroll for Parlophone. It is authentic Swing, not of the most highbrow variety but quite peopery enough for normal tastes. The title is beyond me ("Monotony" on the The actual music I reverse side needs no explanation). found reasonably entertaining, though, record for record, there is more fun to be got out of Gert and Daisy playing darts in the persons of Elsie and Doris Waters (Col.) and more amusement from the new Paul Jones record.
H.M.V. have earned the gratitude of Mozart connois- scurs with the record of the little C major symphony (K. 200). This is rarely heard and is of the finest quality. Each movement is perfectly formed and the material is manipu- Inted with unfailing assurance. The performance by the Berlin College of Instrumentalists under Fritz Stein is im- peccable.
*
Another unusual record is that of J. S. Bach's great organ Passacaglia in Minor (Col.). This is a curiosity, in that the work with all its florid convolutions is transcribed for a quartet of strings. The playing of the Stradivarius Quartet is, for musicianship, altogether blameless, but a curiosity the record reinains, nevertheless. The change from the manifold colours and dynamics of an organ to the abstract delicacy of a string quartet is too drastic to be
S. G. acceptable.
WEEK-END PROBLEMS
By Hubert Phillips
PROBLEM I.
MISS BOTANY'S OUTING
MISS BELLA BOTANY took
IVI
PROBLEM II. STUMPWORTHY'S AFTER- NOON STROLL
"I've been for a stroll in your park," said Stumpworthy, to his host, the Euri of Broadacrea
"Where have you been?" asked
her seven pupils for a walk. To encourage them to hunt for wild flowers she offered prizes in cash. She offered so much for each fritillary found, 50 much -for-each-orchid, so much_for_each_the_cari..
cowslip and so much for each saxrifrage. A girl finding one specimen of each would have re- ceived 4d. in all.
Actually, ench
girl earned 711⁄2d. and each was paid for 6 flowers. No two, however, pro- duced precisely the same collec tion. Taking their collections as whole, orchids outnumbered fritillaries, and fritillaries out- numbered cowslips, while only three girls produced saxifrage,
How many girls found cowslips, and how much was paid in res- pect of each of the four flowers?
"Why," said Stumpworthy, "the park, as you know, is a perfect circle and just 1,500 yards in dia- meter. I started at the Lodge-- which is at the circumference of
and the park,
due cast of its gentre-and walked duc west for 540 yards. Then I turned south, walking in a straight line till I struck the circumference of the park again, and from that point straight back to the Lodge."
How far had walked altogether?
Stumpworthy
(Solution in Column Five),
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