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Songs my Mother Taught me (Dvorak)
When 1 Havo Sung my Songs (Charles) DA-1524 KREISLER FRITZ: AND LONDON PHILHARMONIC
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Concorto in E Minor (Mondelssohn) DB-2460-2461-2462
RUBINSTEIN ARTHUR:-
Prolude in a A Minor (Debussy) DB-2450 Tombeau Couperin-Forlano (Ravel)
TOSCANINI AND PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA:—
Semiramido-Ovorturo (Rossini) DB-3079-3080
GIGLI BENIAMINO:
Lost Chord (Sullivan) DB-1526
Goodbye (Tosti)
STOKOWSKY AND THE PHILADELPHIA
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Danco Macabre (Saint-Saons) DB-3077
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SYMPHONY
Magic Fluto (Mozart) Variations on air from Beethoven
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PROGRAMME
1. Lodolska. Ouveriare.
2. Scrno do Ballet
9. Un premier bouquet. Walix
4. - Carmen Selection
5. Dance Blay
6. The Willow Plate
1. Allegro Vivace
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, Ocтourn 26, 1030.
THERE CAN BE VICTORY IN DISASTER
MAN
DO
HOW YOU PRAY?
JANY of us have started to pray again for the first time, perhaps since we were children. And we don't find it easy.. We flop down on our knees and say, "O, God, please let there be pence in the world, and it there must be war, don't let them kill me and my family."
A petition like that is not really a prayer, but a wish, and, when you come to think of it, rather a selfah one. Why should you in particular be exempt from danger?
Those who get up from their knees after a prayer ilke that probably feel, "Well, now I've asked God to do what I want. If He doesn't de it I shall feel that He doesn't exist and that it is no good praying."
This frame of mind leaves such people very much where they were before they started 'praying, in a state of despairing half-belief. It is reducing God to the level of a lucky mascot.
All the sume, half the battle is won by the willingness of people to
trust something mort than Just clever wits and material strength. The most encouraging signs recently have been those of the public dis taste for war. The question is: When you pray to God, what ought you to pray about?
The first thing for you to do is to acknowledge the existence of Evil. This should not be diffrut. The dogs of war have rather barked their way into prominence recently,
The next thing is to remember that it is not for you to condemn any human being as wholly evil. You are not to pray for the destruction of those of whom you disapprove. Cal will destroy them, in the end, if they ought to be destroyed. God always triumphs over evil, because He is all- powerful and evil is only negative.
DUT God has more time to work
His w than our short lives. Even Communists or dictators or Conservatives or whoever they may be whom you personally dislike must one day dle.
But you can work against the will of God and assist evil and war by wishing destruction of people rather than of things. So when you pray, pray for justice, right and grace. JUSTICE for all in the decisions which are being made to-day, not the sort of justice that was made nt Versailles, but divine justice.
Right triumphant over wrong. Grace working in the hearts of all inen, to bring about the triumph of good over evil,
And here you can dedicate your- self to God, to let Him uso you as He wills. In this way, even the prayers of the faithful cannot avert a war, you will be submitting your- self to the will of God and He will tell you what to do.
And if you want words in which to express all this and more, you will find them in the Lord's Prayer.
High Shields
Ex-pupil reports
on his school
by
LORD
FORBES
O-DAY a new genera Then the parent must name which his name on the school roll at birth.
times
your
son
In
AN
Etonlen, when ho
first
goes to Eton, has to fux- The first six to ten boys will be able to order the new arrivals to run errands for them. A young boy will have to be a fog from one to two years, according to how well he passed his original entrance examination.
Discipline in the house la main- tained by the first five or six senior persons of the house. If a boy mis-
the
prob-it to this day if it were not the cus- it will cost £150.
tom for every young Etonian to be If a boy passes the scholarship he Etonian is given one small scuttle of At the end of that time he must ably much better adapted than] told by the school authorities of the has the right to put K.S. after his coat every day, however, but four masters on the ticket to say that-hla..
masses
that
both distrust and suspicion.
Not
The Chinese people will need
A T 7.25 am, weather wet behaves the captain of the house has all the moral support their
tion of Etonians will house he desires his son to go to, will attend carly school. To get to The permission of the house-. friends can give to withstand the second disaster that has
hear about the Iron Then, twelve years after the birth his classroom he may have to walk master, or tutor as he le called at of the child, an entrance examina- a mile. And he will not be given Eton, is as a rule asked before the tion has to be taken.
breakfast unul 0.30.
culprit is punished. A boy can only overtaken their country in less Duke.
Before the examination the
After his breakfast you would be punished for house offences by the than a week, for morale and con- good that they should hear tell parents must decide
Perhaps in these troubled
whether they think that he would be able to sit in captain of the house. fidence necessarily must be of a strong Irishman.
wish their son to attempt a scholar- & warm room in his house, especially If a boy does badly at his work The Duke of Weltingon did Elon ship or to be an Oppidan.
winter. No, this comfort is de- he comes before the headmaster. The badly shaken by the successive
pled to him because none of the form master will complain to College great injury when, in a t losses of Canton and Hankow, of generosity, he said, "The battle
headmaster that Mr. So-and-So is THERE are many advantages Eton houses has central heating.
Each student has his own bed- idle and should be chivled. in peace-time the two largest of Waterloo was won on the playing
enough to take a scholarship. His sitting-room. There is
fireplace In The headmaster then sends for the cities in the country except fields of Eton."
Few believed this fantastic state- fees will be halved. Instead of his every room. But no boy is allowed kile buy, and puts him on a white Shanghai.
ment, few would have remembered education costing £300 per annum to light a fire in his room before ticket.He is on a white ticket for ten.
twelve noon. For the whole day an days. Chinese newspapers are
obtain the signatures of all his form King's Scholar. British journals to telling the duke's foolish remark
have He will then live in "college", omong times a week only. When I was at work has improved. If one of his Since this evil day Elonians have none; that means the withdrawal
Eton I endured cold for three days form masters should fall regarded themselves as the mainstay seventy other scholars.
to sign, the from the Wuhan area was in- of the Army officer class, and the If your son is not so bright as in the week. However, I looked boy is summoned to the headmaster evitable: that to fight in Flan. Publie have regarded Elonians with that you decide that he should be- forward to the limited amount of and is flogged with a birch,
come an Oppidan. He will then conl I was given by my housemaster
Flogging at Eton is kow would havo hurt China
Lake a simpler exam. and THE public are biased at passes will go to one of the twenty- Eton refuses to install central heat with pomp and ceremony. The boy made to kneel on #1 much more than Japan; that
once by the clothes that eight houses. Each house hus about ing in the houses, although it has to be flogged
done so Chinese leaders, including Gen- Etonluns wear. The top hat and forty boys in it.
In the schoolrooms. The block with his trousers down, However, boy who goes to a housemaster must not be blamed for gentleman called a fussee then sits. eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek, pre-tall coat for boys from the age of
the unfortunate's head, and forty students in looks down
his on house always twelve upwards is ridiculous."
on the giving the forty
of the senior boys hands the birch to will call the scholar house a limited amount of coal. dicted early this year that the "Is that school trying to educate the scholar.
And the flogging. into effeminate by the derisory name of Tug.
For the living of a housemaster the headmaster. Japanese entry would be effect- sons of the rich
There are Twelve hundred boys depends upon the money he can marches on.
It is considered a great disgrace to ed before July. That it is the fopa?" That's what is sald.
century ago that would be a at Eton. But it would be an error amass out of his house. Each house-
that they are
master receives £00 per year pampered
per be flogged by the headmaster. When tenth and not the seventh month true statement Eton was trying to to think
I was at Eton the heavy hand of Dr. care. the educate its scholars into being little with luxury and
Eton boy. of the year in which
genlemen and to wearing the same boy has less luxury than the or He has the boys in his house for Alington, now Dean of Durham, was Japanese can claim that they clothes as daddy,
dinary boy who attends a council eight months per year. Out of this much feared. I never experienced rent for his the chastisement of the Dean of Dur- have reached their objec- Now, however, there is a better school. In winter the Etonian has gure he has to pay
cause for deg-reason for keeping the Etonian uni- first of all to resist the cold, damp house, feed the boys, provide servants ham.
and heat and maintain the house. tive seems no
form.
Thames Valley climate, the purt of The headmaster pondency . on
of Elon, if he were questioned as to why he did the Chinese. They have not dress Etonians in clothes suit- made a gallant and impossible able to boys young in years, would GRIN AND BEAR IT
answer: probably stand for the three cities when dressed in loud-striped overalls so it would have been easy, and that they can easily be seen when probably not much less fruitful,
"Convicts
ure
they escape.
We can ensily follow the top hat uf an Elonian if he to draw the Japanese further breaks bounds." into the hinterland. The story So rather pity the Elonian. His
tnil coat worry top hat and
htm of Tehan in one that should be more then you. immortalised by China's his- It is not easy to get your Bon torians of the future, for to the dressed in a top hat and tall coat. gallant defenders of this obscure it is expensive, too. To send a boy to Eton it is necessary to inscribe and previously unknown village goes the honour of immobilising practically the entire might of Japan for three months.
is more able to withstand the attacks of Japan's mechanised | units and acroplanes than Japan China, reeling under two sucis able to withstand the attacks cessive blows, temporarily is
on her financial ' and 'economic like a punch-drunk boxer. But
structure. China's reverses are with the withdrawal from Han- blazoned on the front pages of kow and the taking up of now the world's newspapera; Japan's lines in more favourable terrain.reverses, because of their in- she has gained a breathing spellsidiousness and because, they for the next round... For Japan are really known only to the there is no such breathing spell.financial leaders of the country, Entry into a city, even a city of Nevertheless, of the two, they the size and richness of Canton are probably the greater. It and Hankow (the riches of both becomes a question of which will
are seldom or never mentioned.
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appeared in the hour of the in-If China's' morale remains firm; vadera victory) does not end or if the Chinese people continue to givo unwavering support to the relax the terrific strain underlanders who have led them for which she is conducting this war fifteen months, no nation on of aggression.
earth can conquer this great China, it should be reiterated, 'country which là our neighbour.
An
if he for the remainder of the week.
carried
out
11
one
HOWEVER, I once came near to it. I was before him for some offence to which I pleaded
By Lichty gorance.
Them Canal Streeters say it's only their fall maneuvers, “but we 'better' keep an eye on "end"".
Said Dr. Alington: "You are eitner
If I a fool or a knave. consider you to be a knave 1 shall fog you."
I quickly explained to Dr. Aling- ton that I was a fool. To my Intense relief he agreed that I was a fool.
Eton provides a good education. When a boy first goes there he has to work about ten hours a day. When ho gets older the volume of work is reduced, no doubt to accustom many to the life which they will live after they have left "dear mother Elon,
Etonians leave the school from the ages of seventeen to nineteen. Many Etonians go to the Royal Military. College, Sandhurst, and
Inter the Army. Other go to the universities and others enter business.
When an Etonian leaves the head- master bids him farewell and bands him a copy of Gray's "Elegy." The gift of this book is very important to an Etonian, for it shows that he left Eton in honourable circumstances and was not dismissed.
THE name of the departed Etonian will be carved on the panels of Upper School where. Pilt once studied Pitt started „this. custom, for he carved his name on one of the shutters of Upper School. Etonians do this because they can then say, "I went to the same school!
Willam Pitt." What
happthe
to Eionlane? go to fall, some to the House Commons as Tories, some become good ministers, some become night club propriclors, some generals, some stockbrokers, and others do nothing but live in the memory that they were once Etonians, and holst high the ter of black and blue...
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