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Story Behind a Photo
Taoism-Doctrine Of The Way Of Virtue
One of the most remarkable and interesting religious faiths of the Far East is that of Taoism- the "Doctrine of the Way of Vir- tuo founded In the sixth cen tury B. C. by the great Chinese philosopher and sage, Lao Tzu. Not even Confucianism, the pro- fessed faith of Chinese official- dom, and Huddhism, the creed of the majority of Eastern Asia's teeming millions, have exerted u greater influence upon Oriental modes of thought; for after afl, Taolum
represents the essence of those negativistic Idens, which seem so characteris tle of the Asiatic mind, and which at the same time are so perplexing and generally incompreliensible to Occidental people.
N short, the fundamental touching of Taoism is that all obstacles to bunun life and happiness may be overcome by absolute passive resin- fonice," and it is just this detrine which has been sa suverasfully put into practice by Mahatma Gandhi n extensive Civil Disobediener Campaigns in India.
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BY
T. PAUL
A Letter To Be
GREGORY Read in 6940 A.D.
Taoists
mi uleiulaimu
In fact, in practier the aver rout may be taken to expla.nail its variety and vigour. To tas of civilization", however, Hes in
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of the
A 5-cent can opener, a woman's | of modern timen. Produced by hal of the latest mode and a Holy special methoda es countless attempts must have
on permanent been made to find a solution to the | Bible nestled side by side within acetate flm by RKO-Pathe, this
sulphide of mercury enigma which would make this pro- the Westinghouse Time Capsule fifteen-minute newsreel deplets
capable of bestowing eternal life upon mortal al Well at the New York World's Gettysburg, on the 75th anniver
na it was lowered into its "Immor- 'resident Roosevelt speaking at men. These researches while they air recently. did not secure the steret of immor
sary of the famous battle of the Designed by Westinghouse Elec-| Civil War; Howard Hughes, aviu- fality, were yet invaluable in enrich- ing the relence of Chinese medicine:] Aric Company engineers to resist tor, returning from his record for the healing art in China is largely che ravages of 5,000 years, the | chree-day, 19-hour trip around the empirical and the
were; seven-foot, torpedo-shaped tube | world; Jesse Owen, negro athlete, among the most skilled in all its of copper alloy contains more than winning the 100-meter dash in the principles.
a hundred separate items, repre- 1936 Olympics; a collegiate foot- Tab.si, Moreover, through peculiar emphasis upon the occultoday, and seven reels of fim. Yale; a big league baseball game Asenting a "cross-section" of me ball game between Harvard and has become a doctrine more Imbued into four reels of Micro-File are -the 1938 All-Star game at Clu- with mysteries than even the Bebrew cubali,
A secret selence has been compressed more than ten million cinnati, Ohio. It also shows the developsi, in the Tao-te-Ching of words and a thousand pictures; Cited States fleet engaging in TAOIST PHILOSOPHY
Lan Tzu, has been made, in the be three newernels prepared by RKO-¦ war games; the Soviet celebration lief of the Taoists, a repository of thef d'athe Pictures, Inc., show the May Day in Red Square, Mos- The basic principle of the Tast atmost limit of human he led nigalights of 1998's news.
cow: United States sham war philosophy s,, morcover, bevo
In fact, every character and every thoriaghly
Within the limitations imposert į manoeuvres; the bombing of Can- incorporated into the sentence of the impireti volume, con- minels of the who profess the other fans, according to these adepts of the Westinghouse Electric Com-how in New York; and a preview by space, it has been the desire ton by Japanese airmen; a fashion [ two of Chinês great region, that gurative as well as direct sena.
the people can well say indeed the Word: may be interpreted that pay to touch upon the principal of the World's Fair. "nisregarding Inevitable
they External
The core of the "cross-section convey the most tandastle mean-categories of our modern life in dillerenes the three
religions are
phase of human existence
and end, historians, teachers, editors, the three-and-a-half reels of an: Chines: doe, not find anything
the relation of men with all things archacologists. engineers, scien-microfilm. actually an "essay". incompat. with
upernatural-Consequently, on artists, artists, crities and commen-covering professing
in detail the major three faith: He may be
count of tus reverent al attitude to tators have offered advice and sug- seklevements and knowledge of goud wards the work Confucianist, a devout Haddhist and
of the original Master, Tootsin, as it is lawn xe dions. Out of the thousands to-day. Reproduced in miniature, a cont:mplat,ve Tautat
if the and the
day, is a doctrine in which super-
proposals submitted, the Com- it may he esily rend with a small same time for as the people movely sinus bellef of the most incredible mittee have chosen what they con- microscope Included in the Cap- THE "TELEGRAPHI" has the state: "Confucianion appeal to the surdity march hand in hand with privilege to-day of being the Buddhism to his spritual tengings cepts.
intellectual side of a inau, nature, teachings of the highest meal presjera,
der truly representative of our sule, or on projection machines, Intructions for building of which first newspaper in the world to
and Taksin to ins mirvent met -
Ar harologists have been con precede each reel. piggscal practice and secult cul-
sited to make certain that the This 1.100-font "nutshell of publish photographs of
the ton This
pragmal e punt of view
:thinga included in the Time Caps knowledge" is a liberal education Great Fire of Canton.
rather direult for the Westerner
Pa sin has become the přential zone will truly fulfil the task rein itself. In these
A man reading the pruvines of the religious faltic, who, quired of them. to applvente in i entity, but Can vestlandes daya of high-speed communicain vert
Items such as material represented-if he kept the ital att trad. exploits to his own Ends the credulity cosmetics, the woman's hat, and at his task eight hours a day, fire tions the achievement of receiv
general, and illustrates the hity of the masses of the people. Tation, bits of jewelry have been selected lays a week-would require more La penja to ma fatally tr
than Buddhison, P TOSCANINI AND PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA:-ing and publishing photograpļissanitar ideas and Leeriatraem into phasises the power
with the aid of special committees than a year to finish it, and at least Semiramide-Overture (Rossini) DB-3079-3080
Something purely Chase
spell and most of the sorcerers, age | Mi women. In professional and a decade to assimilate all the in- of a happening less than a hun- Like other great religious
fautio professed adherents of one of the industrial felds we have had the prmation stored away on the dred miles away more than a Tim is implied with the sprit of Tanist seets for Taoism He Beneat of similar authoritative | Transparent stripa.
In the instances week after they were taken does wer; Lao Tzu who I will he its sister faith is divided into lifter committees.
ent schunks, each of which claims to where several brands d, was a contemporary of
of items, According
follow most elusely the originat teach equally good, were suggested but
MICRO-FILE comprises not seem, at first sight, rentark- tauchente nevint, he was employed there various sects pasares a striking only one could be used, the one he equivalent of more than 100 ings of Lao Tzu. Externally, too, able. Nevertheless, with the by a ruter of the ancient state of
resemblance in organization to that selected was chosen simply by alex Coumes of nine prit and in- Char to sets offlial historian ami exception of Japanese photo-
form of Mahayana Buddhism to Lei495. and
Junes more than 1,000 pictures. wh.. engaged 133
Collplète BOOKA, RUCN
GUNE graphs of troops entering Can-studies for this purpose brenme in- found in Tibet; for there in even
with The Wind" by Margaret ML- terested in philosophical speculation. Taols: "pope." This individual has (already published
his official Ex-It therefore pinned
residence immortal
ut Lamp-fu-
“Arrowsmith" by Sinclair THE ITEMS finally chosen for spell.
and clusively in this newspaper), work of about 5,000
5,000 Chinese charach or "Dragon and Tiger Moun-
lain in the province of Kings, the Capsule fall into four general Lewis, and "read, Goethe
oagner" by Thomas Mann have these are the first photographs of the Way of Virtue," which ex- He is, moreover, reputed to (aj categories.
bea ineal descendant of on Chang Tao- Eirst come the objects in com- ogen carefully microphotograpned to reach the outside world from be rendered immortal through the fal power, who lived in the first een number,
pounds the doctrin, that "man may lng, a mystle of alleged transenden- mon
entirety. 'I ne use. About thirty-five in their
Encyclo- Canton and the only photo-contemplation of the Eternal. the
these are separately Paedia Britannica has contributed repression of the passons, and the it is stated first developed the simple include, in addition to
tury of the Chistian en, and who classified and described. They some of its most signincant Bee- graphs of the fire. In order to
tions. The World Aimanac and a bring them to
Hongkong,Tanquillity of the sit
of attaining immortality
Bungs arcane of mysturies. He is also opener, hat and Bible, a tooth-enes, Roebuck catalogue is called Ben-tan, a phrase iterally credited with this Camera-man A. T. Hull journey-signifying subliming camalar, exorcism into
the development of urush, safety-mn, pipe, children's een "not" from cover to cover, sort of pseudo- mocas, a camera, cigarettes, foun- Art is represented by reproduc- seems to have been employed by Lam science accompanied by a host of tain pen and pencil, and similar ions ed through two provinces and a
modern paintings by Tau to indivale the "retning of the
The Araner
incantatory formulae, which, items; wrapped in 100 per cent cusso, Mondrian, Lai and wood, French Colony by land and from human spirit by meditation." How-ke the mystle chant of the
witch
ras paper with their identifention, as well as the Urozco Frescoer, Fort Bayard to Hongkong by, as it has often ved to be ductor instile into the hearer a sens tied with linen thrend and packed usic is represented by the scores the case in history, man is not satis of the presener of some supernatural within the nitrogen-filled inner of Sibelius "Finlandia," Sousa's sea. Three-quarters of
fled with the simple statement of a his
Stars and Stripes Forever" and Tanism as it exists to-day presents it over journey were made under extra-in an attitude of abscurantism, and an element of superstition which
division comprises "The Flat Foot Floogee by Gail ordinary difficulties, the route this is just what has occurred in the
ee of the work of Lao Tzu, The scures the lofty teachings of the about fifty small samples of tex-ard, Stewart and Green. The summary of the founder, These, however, when in-tiles, seeds and common materials. |traversed being continually ma-word tan, “ginnabar" has been taken vestigated in their original source, It offers bits of wool, silk, cotton and industries takes up more than
in s literal sense, It There chine-gunned and umbed by consequently arisen a singular cult fully compatible with reason and of asbestos, cement, metals, alloys, plete scenes, descriptions and in- has the Two-te-Ching will be found to be and rayon, as well as plastics, egal, balf of the microtim, with cum- Japanese planes.
of the mystic which like the Alebem- the utmost excellence in gulding rubber and the like. Seeds are furmulion upon transportation, ists of mediaeval Europe has iste mankind into the paths of moral seated in airtight glass tubes, with communication, chemistry, wetal- His triumph is all the more tempted to find a means of saving metitude,
all human probierns.
the hope that they, as the grainsy, physics, astronomy, geology, Note, For creditable when it is remember-
further information of wheat found in the Pyramids electricity and medicine. keli- 1172072 Tauism in Chinese popular ed that other international news-
practice, see the writer's article on are reputed to do, will blossom ion and phitosophy, as well as reel men are still impotently parts who were principally occupied in the Hongkong Telegraph of Satur-
Unlike their European counter "Magic Charms Among the Chinese again five thousand years hence.education, have separate sections. The third section, the newsreel, Customs, habitata and manner of liv awaiting opportunity to leave with the task of finding a method of day, October 20, 1938,"
is devoted to characteristic scenes Any are described in detail, as well metals into
as radio, theatre, motion pictures Canton, two having to return to old, the Chinese Taoist adepts |
Dumating the baser
dated entertainments. the stricken city after their sought the formula for obtaining in
mortality. Cinnabar became to the lives had been virtually endan-atter, the enmpound of the
most divine attributes, and during the Jung gered in efforts to reach Hong- kong by more direct routes than the one taken by Mr. Hull.
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ETERNAL LIFE
but
a genuine gunpowder plot, or whether it was part of the schemes of Robert Cecil, Earl of WHEN FIREWORKS
are Salisbury, to discredit the banging and popping In Eng-Jesuits. The only fact about lish back-gardens to-night, and which anyone can speak' with 'guys, made from old clothes certainty is that the unlucky and a grotesque mask, are being, Fawkes himself was merely a consigned to the flames,, there catspaw
Jare few people nowadays who Last night, Hongkong radio give more than passing listeners heard from Daventry thought to the Gunpowder Plot A. P. Newton, a frequent broad- that was the cause of it all. caster on World Affairs,' speak When Guy Fawkes was found 'about the real Guy Fawkes. in the cellars of the Houses of Professor Newton is now attach- Parliament that night in 1605, ed to the Public Record Office, ready to blow up the King and where two remarkable docu- the House of Lords, there was, ments in the case are preserved. us may be expected, a great out-They are depositions from the ery against the Jesuits, who trin of Fawkes, bearing his were accused of engineering the signature before and after tor- plot. To-day, however, his ture-mute but cloquent evi- torians argue among themselves dence of the brutality of that as to whether there really was age.
dowtrines of Lao Tzu into a veritable
Pyrex glass tube.
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MESSAGES from Albert Ein- stein, Thomas Mann, Robert A. Milikan and Karl T. Compton to the people of A.D. 6939 were in- eluded. The message from Dr. Compton, President of the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, Juliowa:
"The Just 100 years is notable for the accelerated devolopment. of science and its useful applica- tions. The electrical constituents of matter, the structure of atoms and the nature of radiation have been outstanding discoveries in physical science. There appears to be a beginning of the control of biological processes including the development of new species. Telephone, telegraph, automobile, radio and widespread use of clee. tric power are technical develop- |ments of great significanco.
"Two interesting questions are frequently discussed: (1) WH there be in the future a slowing up of this scientific development? (2) Will the use of science to In- crouse man's power and control of nature be used to the great ulii. mate benefit or the great ultimate detriment of mankind? It is the (Continued on Page 3.)