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The Honakong Telegraph, Wednesday, December 21, 1988.
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terests can hardly be blamed if they greet with a cer- tain amount of scepticism the spirited defence by Japan's Foreign Minister, Mr. H. Arita, of Tokyo's plans for reviving and expanding China's indus- try.
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Vicar of St. Hilda's praises pools
ERHAPS the Church has not
realised yet
the seriousness of these pass- ing days. What was she doing during the recent, and
not yet ended, crisis?
Perhaps musing, or on 1 Journey, or peradventure, sleep- Ingl Perhaps the Church thinks that all is well with our modern world.
Whatever the reason, the con- ference of Manchester churchmen at a recent meeting was not concerned with the agonies of the world; not concerned about the
ending of war, or the making of peace: not concerned with the end- ing of tyranny or the saving of democracy.
It was concerned about the smashing of the Football Poolsi The Government was called on Mr. Arita's use of statistics
to turn aside from the healing of wounds, to fight a in pleading Manchukuo as an Europe's
"serious and mischievous menace example of what Japan plans to the community." The menaco for China will hardly convince is neither Phosgene nor Lewisite British and American mer- nor Mustard Gas, but-Football chants that the markets they Fools! once enjoyed in the Manchurian provinces are flourishing, Nor will foreigners be under any dis- illusionment regarding the fact that the Japanese Plan, if ef- fectivated, mcuns the end of the Open Door elsewhere in Chinn, und the virtual exclusion of all Western Powers from the trade and industry of the Far East.
The Japanese are thinking of co-operation with China in terms of monopolies and dis- criminatory privileges in favour of their own nationals. If they observed it in Manchukuo-and this is what Mr. Arita naively suggests is the Plan that will set to rest the fears of the West -not merely the ascendancy of Western commercial enterprise in the Far East is doomed, but its dwindling must ultimately reach the stage where it will become infinitesimal.
1823-1938
46AMOR GOD'S sake, do not into another
"Fragme
wari
IF it were not tragic, it would bo. laughable. Here is the world at its wits end to know how to escape trom the horrors of its own en- tanglements. If the Church be- lleves her own Gospel, she has the remedy.
Never was a greater opportunity presented to the Church. Not even contented with Nero's role of flery fiddler, the Church makes matters worse by bleating about Football Tools,
What is the truth about this numuacment which the Manchester
Diocesan Conference calls a menace to the community?
About half the population of the country tries to forecast the results of Saturday's football matches. Eighty per cent. fall, and lose their money. But in return they get "kick" out of week-end football which they consider well worth the money.
They know, the odds are some thousands against them, but they go on sending up their postal orders, feeling that it is all grent fun, and-" somebody's got to Win!"
What harm does it all do?
across
hungry
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NEARLY all my people, some six thousand, in- cluding their Vicar, try their luck. But I have yet to come single child who is going because daddy buys postal order every week.
The whole thing has become a family institution, and far from evil resulting, it is folly game, with always the chance of a and a welcome cheque for Wakes week. Where is the harm of it all?
hit "
It may be, perhaps, sad that people to-day can find no more en- lightened way of spending their leisure. But there are doubts even about that. There are far worse ways of spending spare time.
I have had to spend an enormous amount of time listening to the empty chatter of Church peopic, many of them wearing clerical collars. I consider that my time to much better spent filing up my football coupon. At least, it does stimulate my brain!
If there are other and better ways of spending leisure and the people do not know of them, that in itself is
commentary on the fallure of the Church to show
men the true brightness of life. The man in the street would for rather spend an hour poring over the chances of Manchester City than stening to the inaudible mumblings of the Oxford jargon of the curate saying evensong!
The Church has reduced the worship of God to a thing which is Inexpressibly dull, and everyday people will have nothing to do with it. They and escape in the Foot- ball Pool.
The man in the street would far mther weigh up the chances of the United away than go to the parish bazaar, where he is asked to buy n ticket for a raffle and win a thing ho doesn't want. The Manchester Conference had nothing to say about this "mischievous menace."
The Church of England, of all the Churches, has made religion sa utterly drab that we gladly turn to the Pools for a thrill. The churches are bare and chilly and gloomy; the parish hails lot in the rain, and the parish billiard-table
a scenie railway.
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Every Sunday it is "give for this" and "give for that,” and the people stay away. The Pool pro- moters do pay out as well as take in. There is always a cliance u "coming up."
18 not this ecclesiastical wall against the Pools on a level with the Church's attitude against. so many of the people's legitimate amusements? Is it not rather an echo of the story of the dog in the manger?
Tako Bunday games as an ex- ample. The Church says, “You won't come to church, so we will fight against your right to play on your only holiday."
What a relief it would be if the Church would frame a daring ro-
Cockfight GRIN AND BEAR IT
Fans' Have
Own Club
Outside a very close and secret clcle it is not known that there exists in this country in organisation | "I am worn down and worn itnown as the Ancient Society of out with crusading and defend- Cockßghts,
ing Europe and protecting man-
This centuries-old organtention kind; I must think a little of protects the interests of cockfighters myself. "I
und acts as an insurance club when- Am Horry for the ever its members are caught and Spaniards; I am sorry for the brought before the courts. Greeks I deplore the fate of the Jews; the people of the Sandwich Islands are gronning under the most detestable
Subscriptions aro voluntary but the list of patrons contains many distinguished names.
A member of the society said that
total of over £300 in North West-
tyranny; Baghdad is oppressed when 21 defendants were fined a I do not like the present state mortnnd a few months ago, some of of the Delta-Tibet is not com- the ones and part of the cost of the fortable.
defence were met by the society. "Am I to fight for all these "Our Dumb Friends League, who people? The world is bursting were responsible for the prosecution with sin and sorrow. Am I to in this case, think they have captured be champion of the Decalogue the ringleaders of the sport," he and to be eternally raising fleets and armles to make all men
good and happy?
Who
snid that? Sydney)
said.
"They are very much mistaken. "In the north, where Important mains are staged at regular - tervals in Isolated places, there'
Smith, English writer and! In not one chance in a thousand
divine, who died ninety-four
years ago.
of detection."
Is known.
at andi
however, that gatherings include other Influential
Sydney Smith was a sound enthusiasts
man.
magistrates
men.
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By Lichty
12-1
"Here's a rush job, Sneed! The chef at the Hotel Nift wants plans for a skyscraper to be done in frozen sugar
and meringue!"
By the Rev. W. Rowland JONES
(Vicar of St. Hilda's, Denton, an important industrial parish in Manchester.)
solution against the gambling of its best supporters on the Stock Exchange?
There is, of course, not one lota of difference between the wealthy churchwarden's flutter with his stocks and shares and B Rams- bottom's 'sixpence on three drawa next Friday. The only difference is that Blil does not go to church, nor support the collections, and the wealthy churchwarden always gives so generously to the Bishop's appeal.
TACTFULLY (or should we say despleably?) the Church remains allent about the greater evil, but fulmi- nates against poor Bill Ramsbot- tom.
Presumably, the same argument applies to the abolition of the stums, and the attack-upon- the Arms Ramp. You can't very well attack the very source of your own income, so you bleat about Foot-- ball Pools.
Will the Football Pool Promoters become churchwardens by way of defence? Then they will not be attacked, if their donations are- jurgo enough,
The Manchester Conference al- most coincided with the first anni- versary of the death of "Dlak" Sheppard, the greatest Churchman of them all.
He was not popular amongst his fellow-Churchmen, but how popu- lar he was among the common people, the same sort of people who send up their pools coupons, the same sort of people who used to hear Christ gladly!
DICK once wrote a book which he called The Im- patience of a Parson.
It was not popular among the off- clals of the church. It declared that the writer was heartily tiled - of the futile reactions of the off- cial Church to the burning prob- lems of the day.
Dick knew. He came face to face with life in the raw in the crypt of Saint Martin's. He knew that the Church had no answer for the hungry sheep that were not fed.
Dick was one who faced up to reality. When wil tho Church have the courage to do that?
The "mischievous menaco" of to-day is not the Football Pools. It is, as Dick saw, the diabolical threateninga of modern barbarism under the name of war. It is the cry of the hungry and the sullen heartbreak of the workless. It is the throat of the very end of our so-called civilisation.
What would the Lord of the Church have said? I don't think He would havo framed a pious resolution about Football Poolst
-To-day's Thought-
IT is folly to expool men to do all that they may reasonably
be expected to do,
--RICHARD WHATELY.
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