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The Life of
Emile
Zola
WITH A CAST OF THOUSANDS INCLUDING,
Gloria Holden Donald Crimp Henry O'Neill Louis Calbern Persented by
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Benson play by Norman Neilly Maine,
Heine Heisid and Case Durer
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. doing well. (Shanghai papers
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The
Thongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1930.
GOOD NEWS FOR CHINA
War
Sho
Mal Camperomnemies
Stamping Borda
Fgway Irgen
Haward
Mun pingvir
Imaking table with breamneditin Tamara dusing the dip and
Gengis 16 mpper deck
Midship Cabin wich helpmetaspillet home (or 3 paczangers during the dry and
Eight
The Bull
Pright both here
Premade Takin with sesamma of ball and
• high
Cross-section of an Empire Flying Boat, typo which will go to Singapore.
Cash Value of an
OXFORD
DEGREE
BY
KEITH BRIANT
former Editor of "Isis" and author of the outspoken commentary on
University life "Oxford Limited."
Christ Church, Oxford, seen from across the quadrangle.
The significance of this is the disproportionate increase in the It is also various categories. noteworthy that the report of the board in 1936 admits that "there seems to be a surplus of experienced men applying for
vacancies.*
fruits
the
to
com-
of
his
In spite of the dismal picture which China's present position offers to her people at the com- mencement of. her New Year, there are at least a few signs that the future is not wholly hopeless. To be sure there are our neighbours, who are fighting the greatest and probably the
horrible
in their most history; and the peace and
MR. Charles Graves, dis-
For centuries Oxford seemed security which are their objec-
cussing the other day to provide the key to worldly tives on the road they travel
The millennium has are still out of sight. Neverthe. in "I See Life" whether Oxford success.
for the now been achieved. Oxford is "worth while" Lynless they may take heart from was
the optimism of their leader, average young man, pointed out within reach of the miner's son, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, and that well over 50 per cent. of and the grandson of the laird's from various little indications the undergraduates there nowa- gillie rubs shoulders with and intimations in the news of days are in receipt of some form grandson of the laird.
But the niner's son is per- the world beyond their borders of financial assistance-and, pre-
Something seems plexed, which may yet play a prominent sumably, as he said, could not part of the destiny of this otherwise go there,
-have-gone-wrong-somewhere—— ancient people.
As long as Oxford survives, I
or else an unscrupulous Optimism in such a man as suppose, controversy is bound to bination of the upper classes is Marshal Chiang, of course, is to continue as to whether years conspiring to prevent him from
enjoying the be expected. His unfailing spent there are wasted. courage would seem to make it Scholarship men are now in victory. almost inevitable; though not novel position of being in the entirely so. It would take a majority. And with the modern Where he Began man of real spirit to admit that difficulty of university This country's plight was desperate at such a time as this. But such an admission from the Marshal would not mean that the end of resistance was even under consideration. It would A Gamble probably mean the rallying of man-power and all resources for
His parents saved in anticipa- one titanic effort to smash the power of the invader. When, on progress from the preserve of tion of the time when their son classes to n would be at Oxford and in need the other hand, he returns the
of some money to hold his own smiling confidently from a tour democratic University.
The majority of those who against rich men's sons.. of his extensive battle front,
Then came the day when the China should take heart.
set out impartially to weigh the Words have been spoken at likely effect of Oxford upon letter arrived anying that he Geneva lately, and reported in their lives must face the fact had been awarded a scholarship,
that residence for the press of this Colony, which that if they will have to earn and
come Michaelmas term began on would tend to strengthen the their living when they impression that certain powers down, the expenditure of tinte October-
sort and money at Oxford is R were contemplating some of Intervention in the Far gamble which may or may not Eastern feld. Just what form yield a return in £ 8. d.
men
securing employment, the pro- blem as to whether Oxford is "worth while" is likely to be come even more acute,
THIS is a new problem--
the result of Oxford's
secured
HIS Oxford degree does not seem to possess the
Sesame"
power it "Open
For years appeared to have. he slaved away at school, work- ing while others were enjoying themselves.
the
But after all that striving, it seemed that it was all a fraud.
their action will take, whetlier The employer who declares For here he was, back where he direct or indirect assistance to that "Oxford men are ten a started, in the front room of No. 9, Victory-crescent, answer- China, it is hard to guess. More-penny" and that he can get a
which he would have had over, it is something difficult to man with First Class Honours ing advertisements for jobs discuss. But the trend of for £300 a year, is doing more good a chance of securing if he opinion, reflected in the words than sheer at Oxford; he is had never been near Oxford. and actions of statesmen, is stating a fact.
As the problem of securing fairly obvious.
as
This is
the boat
they'll use
in future
Y
M
OU read yesterday that Imperial Air- ways flying boats will be placed on the Sin- gapore route this month. What is it like to travel in one
of these flying bouts? Suppose you want to go from
-Your London to Alexandria.
includes is £40. It farc
conch special travelling by marked Royal Mail Aircraft on the ordinary
A 25-m.p.h, Southampton. motor-boat hurries you out to your ship at its moorings. In it you are to fly 2,300 miles in easy hours but in filleen
You will sleep to- night In Marseilles, to-morrow
stages.
in Allens.
boat-train
WHITE-COATED
WH
to
steward holds open the lower- deck duor in the nose for you to step through from a special raft.. On the top deck above your head are silting captain and first officer at twin, side- by-side controls. An engineer is ready with a boathook to radio cast off moorings, and
clerk, and Might operator equivalent of ship's purser, ure-- both up above.
ARPETED passage takes you past kitchen, through small midship cabin into big
Han, freight and
Work this
one out
George was telling William the result of a chess tournament, but, being George, he liked to put things in roundabout way. Four people, he said, played: their names were 1. M. Smith, U R. Smith, Reynolds and Fellows, The Smiths were the famous brothers
who played for
country nt football.
Reynolds curprised everybody when
their
both
he defeated Fellows. The man who finished third said to the winner at the end of the tournament: "Con- gratulations; I am very glad to have made your acquaintance." The runner-up was a man who Imped badly as the result of motor smash, He had always lived alone with his widowed mother. 1. M. Smith was a smart dresser; that was partly why Fellows had chosen him nš usher at his wedding.
William go! the result all right. Can you? If not, you'll And it on Page Seven.
THE "VERY IDEA"
THEY'RE
HAPPY: ORIENT
WE ALL?
CHINESE NEW YEAR WAS 2 WEEKS BEFORE FULL MOON: -KELLY-BEAT-THE MOON. BY FOURTEEN DAYS
By Edule "365 DAZE" Kelly
observation cabin with eight THE Chinese year that
Beats.
Altogether there are twenty-four arinehales in the ship. At night they can be converted into sixteen comfortable bunks for when night services begin later this year.
A QUIVER tells you the
captain has pushed the self-starter of the first of your four engines. You can chat with four engines running full- out without raising your voice. Feel the acceleration as you take
off.
Sheets of foam loshing past the portholes. The ship's half out of the water. Feel It smnck down Once or twice, then leave the wavea In a gentle climb.
Other passengers are dozing in their chalrs, ringing for drinks, playing cards, yarning! and gossiping over smokes in the popular forward cabin.
are
BESIDES
Twenty-three fellow-passengers, there three tons of mail and luggage hidden about the boat. Speed of your ship is 165 m.ph.,
top is 200 m.ph.
just ended was the Year of the Bull.
We thought as much
It reminded us that we had this column to write.
Chinese New Year is remark- able chiefly because everyone settles his debts.
But everyone gets into debt again as soon as the New Year is born. This sort of thing must be born.
BITTEN ORBIT?
The Chinese calendar is based on lunar month, and relies on the moon whirling around the earth.
If the moon didn't whirl around the earth, that would be the end of the whirica.
The Chinese cycle comprises 60 years, which is about the number added to a motorist's age by a Chinese cycilst,
The New Year is the Year of the. Tiger. Also H.B., and Allsopp's An Ewos. She weighs
18 Lons, is 8ft. long, 38 yards between wingtips, 24ft. high, higher than 21 double-decker bus.
Victor Ricketts
When the earth revolves on its axis 382 times there will be a year of the Pig. Don't axis how this happens.
PROPERLY CANNED Europeans do not recognise the Chinese calendar. For them,
So it must seem to many of men the new scholarship men who into the It must be appreciated, more-employment for Oxford
Years of the Sardine or Salmon, over, that any moves by friendly grew steadily more acute, the have won their way
the make his life a success. nations to help the struggling University Appointments Board University. The fruits of vic- Oxford the knowledge of how to Chinese New Years are still
lory turn to ushes when
fish which, RB everyone knows, One thing is certain, that with hide cunningly in tins, and come democracy of Asia of necessity came into existence.
This is an organisation which Oxford days are over. must be carefully considered.
£500 a year and capacity for forth only when the cook-boy and appreciation, and Any suggestion of recklessness is responsible for placing be-
developing servants are on holidays, would be disastrous. But there tween 400 and 600 gradunies Jack-of-No-Trado
Before 1912, Chiness cras began with each dynasty. is a general stiffening of the a year. Ils statistics are worth forces behind the democractic examining.
principle, and of the attitudes of Compare the figures of Oxford powers which favour the idea men placed by the board in 1927 of eollective security, altogether with those for 1936. heartening. There can no longer
be any doubt that collaboration Educational
of a very definito nature exists Government between tho United States Business and Indus-
14 trial and Great Britain. Such
more
A MAN may decide to go interests, he will have
to Oxford for a variety chance of extracting the best
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Dynasty is now a notifiable dis- ease in Hongkong. We recently took considerable palus to verifs This
Since 1912, the Chinese havo be-
if he makes his decision without £50,000 who thought Oxford "a of reasons, but he will be a fool from life than the man with 1936 realising that, lacking money or waste of time."
For if he spent his three 203 Influence, his chances of getting
64 a job when he leaves there may years well, he will have learnt come civilised and use the Gregor- most lan calendar, which was invented by even be prejudiced by the fact the rudiments of the
the difficult art of all-the art of T. Paul Gregory. Ainu western ri- 100 that he has
University, is 22 or 23 years old, living; and training in that es, and bullets, and neroplanes,
been to
1927
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co-operative
forco, properly Journalistic, Secre
directed, would mean much to the future ponce of mind of the
tarial, etc.
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and a Jack-of-no-trade,
world.
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"Vocation" is worth more than But if he faces this fact three years of life and more 883 honestly, he may gain from than £49,500 a year.
and bombs, and heroin.
Sometimes the bombs and bullets
go off. But this can't be helped.
Occidents will happen.