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MORAL RE-ARMAMENT
Individual Straight Thinking
Urged by Rotary
A plen to every thinking person to re-arm morally against the unrestful forces of the world fostend of thinking only in material terms, was made by Rotarian L. W. Amps at the meeting of the Rotary Club yesterday under the title "Success."
In an eloquent speech. Mr. Amps compared the progress made in the scientifle world with that made spiritually and morally by the great nailons since the Treaty of Versailles, Individual change of heart was necessary to achieve a return to better relations, and in this connection, only a constructive peace to which both sides were fully agreeable could bring hope to the Far East.
Among visitors welcomed by the President, the Hon. Dr. 13 Shu-fan, were: Rotarians M. J. Meyer, Singapore; R. Lindel, Hankow; J. G. Hutchison, Peiping; G. G. Helder, Changsha; Messrs. F. E. Schmidt, A. R. Ross, E. W. Davhs, Revo, H. D. Rosenthall and J. R. Higgs,
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URBAN COUNCIL
Peak Tram Eating House Licence Refused
At a meeting of Die Urban Council yesterday, a letter from Government relative to the appointment of Mr. A. e) Arculli to be a member of the Urban Counell for a further term of three years was laid on the table.
Correspondence relating to the pro- posed erection of a pubile latelné on the alte north of and adjoining New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2041,
Num Kok Road, was put naide to be dis- are at work, but to discover the best
cussed at a later meeting so that the way to eradicate them,
Counell may have time to view tho "Baslenlly the world
unrest is to
spot, be found in the rook disease of Applications for an eating house materiullam showing itself in wide-firence for the premises at the Perk spread selfishness, fear, and greed-Tram Station, The Fenic; for a food not in this nation or in that, but in factory licence for No. 102, Third all. We are all guilty.
|Street, ground floor; and for a fund shop ((ruit) licence for No. 311, Queen's Road West, ground floor: were refused.
"Labour in all countries, if true to Its traditions of pincing human and spiritual values before material
can build bridges over nit- barriers and play a decisive part in the reconciliation of nations: it can make such a contribution to world conditions that the voice of faction and
self-interest can be Jeffretively dealt with, fear will go,
and God's grent plan for will be revealed and find
This is what moral T-
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The following is a 1st of the liecuees granted by the Urban Coun- ell between Jumuwy 3 and January 16 inclusive: Food Preserving Estab- sliments (1), Mill: Shops (2), Swine (2), Restaurants (1).
Mr. R. R. Todd, Chairman, presided at the meeting.
in inter-new murai rearmanent if the world to challenge all hority rufficient scnlatives to consult or discuss with.
Indeed,
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January 18, 1939.
Not A Vanishing Race
Canberra.
The Australian aboriginal is cer- tainly not
of the one
world's "vanishing races."
According to figures released here by the Master of the Interfor, Mr. McEwen. Australia's Aboriginal population, which at June 30 last year was estimated at 52,835, hack increased in 10 years by 3,450.
The
number of half-castes had in- creased in that time by 9,488 from 15,462 to 23,950.
Mr. McEwen said that it wasa esti- mated that there were about 20,500 nomadic aborigines in Australia.
Approximately 67,253 square miles of the Northern Territory were - re- served exclusively for aborigines; 1,009 square miles were leased; to misalons, and on the 215,162 square miles under lease or leener, abori- gines were permitted to hunt and live.
A further area of about 230,840 square miles was unoccupied and avaliable for the full use of natives,
bringing into our own lives an en- tirely new spirit. Perhaps the first step is for each of us to bring a new sincerity to bear on # and to be willing to see and admit our own faults instead of pointing an necusing ther at others, and maintaining the wretched pretence that we have none ourselves.
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An attitude of pretended righteous- ness deceives no one. Others see our faults even if we ourselves refuse to do so, and this refusal on our part only arouses resentment and
ourselves.
intents all in one. The result was mistrust in those less blind than
a one-sided treaty which could not stand the fest of lime,"
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Faith in League
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Uniting the Entities A country's policy may not be wholly on the right Uncs--but country is not a fixed enlity in itself, individuals like ourselves some being it consists of a number of separate
leaders, others the men-in-the street.
It is unintelligent and foolish suppose that any country is pletely devoid of people who think cendbly and unselfishly and who have kindness in their hearts. There are such people in every nation, and among that nation's potential leaders too. Those people Instinctively wel- come a friendly voice from abroad. strengthened and consolidated by it, and their constructive views are
so that their good influence in their country's policy carries more weight. If we put ourselves in a position of critical superiority we can make no progress in Umt direction. It is not enough to think internationally; we must think super-nationally, for the good of the world.
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really involves than we had during to their responsibility individuals Roods can be purchaved as tapeducational lectures and study cir- enough to think notionally; it is not
ceminent,
war seems
in-
The speaker said:-I am very much structure bied on materialisin spears honoured at being asked to speak its time resisting as best, it may the
is friends of the benefit of the doubt in to you to-day, and there are shock of one grave int
radually
this realising anxious times for all of us would inter-class
all territorial changer and the Axing another country and making thin its objective of a fantastic sum as "reparations." like to talk a little, if you will allow Thinking inen of every class
"Inspired by such a spirit, Labour We never had any ex-enemy repre- sume of the principles every nation ine, about
realising that which I have
regard anmaterialism must be replaced by a would have nioral
We fundamental to
of every
procinbred the other parties to nis to rise above the level of a dreary operation in framing and applying
be the criminals and ourselves as community, and to call for their cu
julges, policemen and successful successfon of crisy after
crisis, ultimately
Ja polley which would confront perhaps, to face the Twenty-four years ago the Great destruction of elvilization
materialism with its only muster." the War was in progress and we had abyss of a more terrible world war begun to realise what a bitter long-than ever before.
Fundamentals of Success drawn-out conflict
This is not the expression of a pi, would be.
There have been many expressions religious theory; I am speaking of doubt if
there were any of us of this view recently. Lord Sala-the fundamentals of success.
"In the years that followed we who took part in the actual fighting bury, Lord Baldwin, Field Marshall cannot get success without it. Strain, Nations. We trusted that the imper- Wepinned our faith to the League of who did not hate it. But there was Lord Birdwood, Lord Frenchard, anxiety and one thing about it that encouraged Marshall of the RAF, Admiral enormously in the
worry ve Increased lections of the Paris treaties would last 100 years, be smoothed out and that at Geneva us to go on; we felt that in the endford Cork and Orrery and others of with the result that we are told by we could begin a new era of Inter- it would be worth while. We fell every shade of opinion have said so, the medical authorities that in Eng national co-operation. and believed that this was a war to
We planned Many of you wi have seen a land alone there are 4,000,000 people as if the "Nature Red in Tooth and end warm, a war to make the world remarkable
statement from The who require treatment for neurotic it to live in, a war fought in order Tones of Landon on this
side of human nature
had subject disorder, while 200 English men and gone to
to the scrap to ensure a hosting peaces We firmly which was reprinted in the Hongkong women attempt suicide every week.
heap." "I admit that believed, however horrible i might newspapers a few weeks ago signed Can the basic underlying native of who assumed it-not, I must say, at I was one of those be at the time, that In the end our by 36 of the leading British sportsmen business have efforts would be crowned with stean every branch of sport, cricketers. There is enough for everybody's need, our doubts about so easy a trans- become falsified? the Fence Conference, where we had
golfers, prize dghters, What is success?
Masters of art not cough for everybody's greed.formation-but afterwards, when we Foxhounds, It is the thing
Jockeys, footballers, The Danie of the head of yielded to suggestion, and built up a that each of us men whose names
carry a world- hopes for, strives after and works wide reputation.
successful business in London sort of creed that if we had enough her fell They said they will be well known for all his life. That have we any impelled to take up the call for moral of
and schemes and good resolutions many clearer den to-day
you. Mr. Austin Reed'societies and exchange of visits end whant Success and
"to awaken and spiritual rearmament
away the Great War when we were
and from home as Hongkong? He wrote cles, OUT good intentions would be Hiving nations alike, so that the spirit of to
to The Times verything we possessed to attain it: national service may no linger be therelves force is live on lower sern the barrenness of our attempt
recently na follows: rewarded," "To-day many busines For the success in which we placed evoked only when
men feci "Now, after twenty years, we have our hopes and beliefs did not
but may ever be active in ethical levels than they themselves to build a new order of things with years
later whe
we the cause of goodwilt, mutual
would choose. The world of business out a fundamental change in human to bulki I was at sportsmen *「j1 that Geneva during the last session of the Heenuse they were paid for it? No. the root of the
Sittement"in moral and uniritual values is at а new work
the
sieme economie pro- foundations League of Nations Assembly
crumbled had Just To get in the public eye? They are ness means a return to its true pur-
blems. Moral Rearmament in
in busi- beneath the old." the
recent European
Crisis.
all there already. To my favour the thing we had to face then with someone? No. They signed that pose, and it is my belief that it will increasing disillusion of these years. "And then, in the midst of the was the failure of modern states statement because they stendfastly provide that confidence and unity manship to provide an adequate belleved that moral rearmament is which is the one true foundation for
I came across a factor which gave answer to the probleins of the work fundamentally the only answer to the Pen
me a new approach to the question permanent to-day.
We economle reenvery. world's problems.
international
cli- relations. I need to co-operate with each other Feciing of Futility
covered that human nature could be Holland's Queen
in the service of the nation instead changed," Never have I felt such a feeling of
A few weeks ago the Queen of the
of Bghting one another to get our "In country after country I began
convinced that to helplessness and futility as I did in Netherlands issued a courageous call Way. I am
tu see the practical out-workings of Geneva and later in London during to her antion, voicing the conviction land is the highest form of national who had been freed from fear, pre- bring about this new spirit in Eng- Moral Re-armament. I met men the European Crisis. Trenches were of the humblest subject in every being feverishly dug in the beautiful land. Speaking to her nation, Her
service."
Fat lost his hatred of the Ger- judlee and racial hatred. There was London parks and thousands of tiny Majesty also spoke to the world.
Frenchman In Alsace, for instance,
nee school-children with labels tied roundi
who their necks were being hurried to onging for peace forms a bondso far, but the principles remain the same for us In Hongkong. The Far
There was a South African #380315. peoples", said Her East bus problemas to face which are places in the country to avoid thei
economist, who had learned to love "But this longing. terrible destruction which seemed
it in undergirded by the re-Europe has been
even in no way less than those which the race which had caused the death Inevitable in the next few days. Inforcement of our military strength, ma
facing. We have of his father in the Boer War. There What an end to all the sacrifice and a still insufllcent
gth many advantages here in this Colony: was a Balkan revolutionary who had peace to make hopes
of the Great Wari
are not called upon to face the given up a revolution of guns for the lasting. It must be supported by the horror und suffering of war. It is a And yet materially and scientiflent, conviction which has been expressed great opportunity for us to play an could unite his country. I
Bake of an inner revolution which ly what marvellous successes have in the call for Moral and Spiritual active part in helping to find the multiply such instances by crowned the efforts of mankind in Rearnament.
thou- solution to the problems few decades, Truly the
ms of East sands." past inventive genius of man has reached an outward change has also the effect and say that we are a British Colony. Changed human nature could be the "This Inner urge which produces Asia. We can, of course, be apathetic "Here, I saw, was something which amazing heights. But somehow we that honesty.
went to the heart of the problem. confidence and love that it is no business of ours to do not seem to have made corres- become the rufe of conduct between die in the affairs of other nations, foundation of world peace. Nothing pending advances spiritually
and individuals and nations."
and that such not gained we have enough to know how to continued, "that the deeper our con-that sound reasoning?
"Need I assure you", Her Majesty with by the things should be dealt else could strike at the age-old con-
Foreign Oke, But is our selentille and viction and the more our lives
The future success of the Colony express torin dies The aeroplane, this c for has passing it on through in bound up with the prosperity of
er-out our own circle and beyond, the| East Asia,
brint
of
trialle. Twenty uolter war, standing and peace", Why did there is now recognising that deterioration nature. We have tried
SUPTE even
before
And
the
utilise
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more disantraut.
I have spoken mainly of Europe
ot
in
ful level of perfection. I do not know renter will be the possibility of depend? Some
And on what does that have hoped how many are now being turned out realising a better future. Whoever that the side we happen to favour in the world cach day, but it is safe understands the signs of the times, might win the war; but we have had to say that 85% of them are designed known that now is demanded of us ample evidence already that to piny their part in the destruction an
Taction act of confidence, self-sacrifice, miklern warfare victory in the field of the very civilization which brought moral courage and faith." them to such a state of perfection.
does not necessarily
bring success. Prosperity can only come to the Far Bernard Shaw once said that he did speaking to her people and to the East by the ultimate achievement of not know whether the other planets world. To some of us who have spent a lasting constructive peace. It may come yet, but if we are even-
method of government
would be all right. But
That is the Voice of
not seem
a queen
not
we
Lone
of
on
could
fiets which have divided nations.”
That is what one of the British Conference thinks. Delegates at the Versailles
Peace in Far East
Pence
man who is really honest with himself inspires the respect and con- fidence of all, whatever may be their race, creed or nation, and only such a man or such a nation can make a real contribution to the peace. Pence is not milk-and- water thing, and it does not come through negative, milk-and-water methods. It needs courage, unselfish
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patriotism, freedom from vindictive- ness, understanding, generosity-all the qualities we most admire in our hearts.
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His Excellency the Governor hus given us a New Year message
of encouragement and hope. What are the forces which he says have done violence to the conscience and the common sense of humanity for 50 long? Are they not greed, dishonesty, Inck of confidence. Peak Depot. Tel. 29352
selfishness, Hongkong Dept. Tel. 21279 Cloucester Bldg. 2nd Flr. Tel: 28938 fear? But the blessings which he
Kowloon Depot. Tel. 58545 implies are not going to drop into our laps from the skies above. We have to do something to attain them. new virility is needed, n sense responsibility; we have to look at ourselves with a new honesty
and sincerity.
A of
Changing Others Everybody wants to see the other fellow changed. Every nation wants to see the other nation changed. But everybody is waiting for the other fellow to begin.
It is very aptly described in the leader of the S. C. M. Post in its first issue this year, in which reference is made to His Excellency's New Year Message: "It may be said that the principal event of 1038 was not Munich but the awakening of con- science in many countries to the reailsation that If there is to be peace there must be a change of The speaker was thanked by Rotarlan 1. P. Dunlop, who said Mr. Amps, though an engineer, had up- proached his subject more from a philosophical point of view than a factual one, and had left them much food for thought.
In the end, the true interests of Hongkong and of East Asia will bo secured only by the achievement of a sound and constructive peace which
heart." (Applause). is accepted willingly by both sides. No peace which is based on vindic- siveness, selfishness, or resentment can be effective or Insting,
One of the strongest factors pre-
the
town citoris at peace
in 5 after like that. Can a man with Buch
right-
were inhabited or not because heur lives relying on material thingsually to achieve anything we must venting a peaceful rotullon of the had'nt been there, but if they were to solve our problems it has an know in mind the goal towards which conillets which the world has had to he thought they must regard this one familiar ring. But is it an unreason, as their lunatic asylum! (Laughter).able view? You will have observed
face has been prejudice and partisan- What is the popular
are aiming I was speaking the other day to conception that
ship. The tendency is to take sides, of national
onal greatness to-day? Often at Just before Christmas the British
of Hongkong's leading business both on the part of those concerned Often Government specially voted the huge it is pride of race, military prowess sum of over H.K. $300 million for men about my faith in the future of and of those outside the actual con- or armaments. The world is placing the inediate construction in En would depend on a lasting peace. to see any right or justice in its faith in rearmament. Each nation and of emergency shelters against le thought I was
ntrude in East Asia, which I said lict, They look at the situation with
prejudiced
eyes, and And it dimeult tends to take the view that if only high explosives to be carried out a reminded me of the failure of oured that my own altitude was rather
Je an optimist and it could become strong enough to
| other man's point of view. I realls- spread abroad its own
To rapidly possible. The United culture or
States is grimly preparing to face a the world
possible further crisis this year, and the Great War. He was
right; feelings within him contribute any- this attitude does not seem to have marked success. Those who are in It is not in the treaties themselves
the
talks in Romel have not had a but cannot East Asia
from thing useful to the solution of
tho what we bave learnt of
of that failure?
problems of East Asia? solved the problems of the modern close touch with the world situation that we should place our security, system of justice. We recognise t
We Englishmen boost of world.
I wonder if we have been do
Our putting our faith in false ideals? In materialism which we have followed bullt. There was an interesting ar to feel that the but in the basis on which they are discussing these things we must not hitherto ang removed the possibility
the primary essentials in our judges who administer that system is im- get up in the clouds of speculation of another international condos Sicle in the 5. C. M. Post a few days partiality and freedom from pre-
ugo by Bernard Bourdillon who was Judlee. Instead of admiring Working Man's View
one of the British delegates to the quality in the abstract it is essential affairs-no nation. for We have heard The views of a Versailles Peace Conference. May I that each of us should begin to live example, could disband
its police Queen, what does the working man recall it to your mind by reading a it in his own life, whether he be the and its army to-morrow, But are think about it
a short extract?
statesman whose lot it is to take a we giving full recognition to the
"T A number of Labour leaders in December 1018". fundamentals on
part in the negotlations or the ordin- suppose I was an idealist in which the world England, including the chairman of I was helping to prepare
he writes, "when
ary man who forms the public situation is based? Perhaps, funda- the Trades Union Congress, omelala Paris Fence Conference, which re-
'for the opinion which is behind the states- mentally, national greatness is great-in micers and shipbuilders' Unions ness of character.
Such an attitude of freedom from ing belief among thinking men Parliament, recently Issued
There is a grow-land a number of Labour Members or drew the map of half the world. Yet
even then we ought to have realised prejudice can only be achieved by throughout the world that this is so. festo in the English Press calling in the atmosphere of war which stil!
man-we 1
man we could not make a lasting peace Thinking Materially
inembers of their party We have grown accustomed to think decisive part in the reconciliatlon of we had just had an election at which to play a reigned in our countries. In Englant materially, Many of us from our nations by Moral Re-urmament. The youth up have believed that success manifesto states: "During these days "Hang the Kalter" and
the cries come up such as those of
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We must remain essential-
and I touch
with
nian,
that
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HOW many of these words are cor-
others?
believe that International peace wastrophe, and the danger is not yet Iny in amassing a comfortable for the world has been on the abyss of lemon till the pipa sa Squeeze the Tect and what is wrong with the
on us the
tune, Some even to-day profess to
"I was working in the British De- The criain calls on us to legation at the Peace Conference. ! follow if we carry out a really com-face reallly, and forces
rehensive progamine of rearma- adoption of a constructive policy that condemnation of our ex-enemies in remember an atmosphere of total ment. Yet many men with material will make impossible is recurrence the war, which in spite of the terms fortunes have found that happiness This makes it imperative for of the Armistice, was held to justify his cluded them, and it is plain for Labour at the present crisis, not only expropriation of all their assets and inge of these words will be found all to see that the old economie to see clearly the root causes which colonies abroad, the giving to our
On beinif of the Tsinan Rotary Club, Dr. Li invested Dr. Gordon King with the badge of the Past President of that Club, and accepted a flag from the Club to the Hongkong Rotary Club, Dr. King was formerly President of the Tsinan Rotary Club, but has now joined the local Club.
The Hon. Secretary, Mr. Harry Hung Sling, reported that $2,356 had been raised jointly by the Rotary Club and the King's Thentre for the British Fund for the Rellel of Distress in China.
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