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town two padded, blue- gowned little figures present themselves for their first lesson in English.
They arrived that bitter, Hong-iron-clad morning, their delicate, slender, well-bred small hands well tucked into wide-mouthed sleeves.
Before entering the school-room each paused on the threshold and perform- inclinations ed courteous
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No extraneous chatter during the lesson, cager attention being given to every utterance of the
Instructor:
The lesson ended, again low bows and courteous thanks.
"Having frequent OC- casion to use buses travelling schoolwards, I have been most unpleasantly astounded at the liberties and discourtesies which Chinese boys and young men take, and are allowed to take, unreproached and uncorrected."
Says
"CRENA "
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Nor was this attitude "new boy" timidity. Throughout the whole of their instruction the conduct of these Ettle Eastern smug young Chinn lolls at his of it unencumbered by the care- Phones gentlemen was beyond reproach; comparative ease and in oblivion. lessly flung book-baskets. 27778/9 the father-himself a charming And the unfortunate tem-
or street the most that can be expected in n careless nod or grin. "Oh, but they must let off steam out of class!!
Let us investigate and, for our sins, participate in a teach. er's purgatory.
Noise, inattention, covert or even open insolence to the in- structor are far from infrequent.
Upon the first stroke of the "break" bell follows a hideous scrape of scrambling feet and hurtling bodies in this unseemly exodus.
Master's permission to retire? Quite superfluous and, of course, unuttered, or if uttered would be unheard in the general din; nor are the final words of his pororation of the slightest use.
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SUCH ATTRIBUTES-mot disheartening to any friend of China-quite possibly arise from an ultra modern iden, not peculiar to the Orient, unhappily, that to display politeness is to lower dignity and suggest sub- jection.
Schoolmasters tell me that the diliculty with students is not in instruction (the average Chi- nese adolescent is by no means
old fellow, superficially at least porary co-tenant of the double
constantly enquiring as to seat will probably find himself THE MODERN CHINESE stu- unintelligent) but to instil into their progress and behaviour. gradually and painfully edged dent will not "cap" either their proteges any notion of the into the gangway, what there is master or headmaster on campus true nature of discipline is all
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There may be something
If so, future China appears to be in danger of emasculation.
Especially does young China seem unconscious of the benefits which accrue to himself and others, even in refraining from injury to feelings; and he might at times without unluc search find an outlet for active cour
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All will welcome the news that moral suasion has ended the situation by which the Unitedtesy.
Ilaying frequent occasion to States was supplying airplanes for Japan's bombing of Chinese use buses travelling schoolwards, I have been most unpleasantly civilians, The U.S. National
astounded at the liberties and Munitions Control Board reports discourtesies which Chinese boys take, and are that applications for licences to and young men
unreproached export plates and parts to allowed to take
uncorrected. Not merely Japan censed last year. This and
towards the general public. was in response to an appeal by
An expensively clothed, some- Mr. Cordell Hull to aircraft what bloated young blood, as makers to stop this sorry busi- | comfortably
éxiguous bus seating will permit, not only will allow his form- There have been some ques-master to stand in the over- tions as to whether Japan was crowded vehicle, but will offer no The only nation engaged insign of salutation or even of re- bonbing civilian populations, cognition.
know that this But Japan was a clear-cut ense. Moreover avrican public master is a graduate of Oxford. opinion's strong opposition to and ponder upon cause ant
jeffect, or vice versa. the whole of Japan's war in Chim gave the State Depart ment unquestioned support in this appeal.
ness,
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With the intensification since Munich of American feeling about some of the allies of Japan, the same public opinion in the United States may now demand cessation of plane exports to Fascist countries. Certainly be- fore American air Beets are developed on the scale now being proposed in Washington to match German air armaments, American exports of planes and motors to Germany should cense. The amount of these is in ques- tion, but one estimate recently published was to the effect that hundreds of German military planes are powered by American engines or engines built on plans licensed by American companies. Nearly U.S.$3,000,000 worth of air equipment went to Germany from 1932 to 1936.
The State Department has belittled the amount of Ameri- can aid to Germany and has said that the granting of export per- mits is mandatory under the Neutrality Act to nations not at wan Two questions are involv- One is how far planes ed here. and motors listed by the State Department as for civil aviation have been devoted to military use. There is some evidenço that planes used in the bombing of Spanish towns have had Amerienn motors. Also it may be asked whether American supplies of civil aviation have not facilitated military aviation in Germany. The other question is whether the State Depart- ment can use its moral suasion also to stop exports which ald Fascist arming,
I happen to
our
Old gentlemen and ladies of any age may sway and stagger and strap-hang al big side but
T
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
Cepr. 1938 by Unitré Pentur
"Got anything more exclusive in rabbit?"
but an impossible task.
The trouble would appear to be that old bugbear "loss of face."
A Chinese boy will not, as a. rule, accept deserved punishment cheerfully, get "chipped" a little by his comrades, and then forget the whole episode.
He cannot rid himself of the (probably innate) notion that in undergoing correction he has lowered himself, not only in his own esteem but in that of his comrades and his superiors-if he by chance acknowledges any such!
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CAST YOUR MIND back to the days of the old-type, long- gowned Chinese gentlemen- there are still some surviving.
Recollect the honoured place which the tutor in the family or the master in the school occupied in the esteem of the father and the son. The tutor remained honoured and respected to the end of his days.
If the change is a regrettable - one, to whom the responsibility. teacher or taught?
One theory is that the Chinese, like the Mongolias pony, cannot take corn; or if he does, merely. transforms good grain-into- monkey tricks, or worse.
FIVE GHOST STORIES
HE trouble about most ghost stories-and this Is the proper season for them-ls their source. In general, the better the story the more it owes to Imagination; and the more blood-curdling it is, the greater the difculty of pinning the curdler to actual experience.
The best ghost story I know---- Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw is superb artistic imag- ination: Its horror is terrine, These little stories of mine pretend to nothing terrific. They are devoid of imagination. I know all the people concerned as well as I know myself, and I promise you that the stories are entirely true. How lo explain them fa another matter.
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I will begin by saying that I once lived in a haunted house. I did not see the ghost myself, but I believe that he appeared twice..
There was a small party in my house -- I
the was away and hostess and two guests were walt- ing for the others to arrive. When they trooped in, the hostess was horrified to see that one of them had brought an extra and unex- pected girl-thus making an un- even number-but her horror wILN quenched the next second by the sight of a young man at the tall of the invasion.
This young man behaved rather oddly. He turned away Immedi- ntely through the opened folding doors into my own particular room, which was deserted and in dark- ness. In the qual of greetings the hostess decided hurriedly that he might have gone to telephone, but when, after five minutes, he did not reappear, ale looked for him. She switched on the light. He had vanished,
No one clso had seon him, and her inqneries were treated us lcg- pulling. However, she lind, a per-
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fect recollection of his face, and made a sketch of it afterwards- a sad young fellow, clean-shaven. and a lttle monkeyish.
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Six months later he arrived again. The hostess had brought some friends home after the cinema. They were talking when the door-bell rang→ a stranger who had mistaken the house. This interruption reminded one of the guests that it was time to go. He went into the hall to collect his hat, and came back to report that he had seen me-he assumed it was I. though he had only seen a man's back-going into my room.
Again the room was found to be empty. I did not come home for another half-hour, and, when I did. I was pluched to prove my solidity. It is interesting, perhaps. that this phantom had to have the front door opened for him,
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Now let us go back to pre- -War Ireland, where the same hostess, then a girl
of thirteen, was holidaying with her sister on a farm near Bantry. The farm included an ancient Danish fort-a mound about the size of an average house-and the Kiris decided to excavate it.
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Local superstition was against them, for any disturbance of these forts was belleved to enuse death, particularly among livestock. Thie farmer's wife, however, was cheery, Independent soul who bade So they began them go ahead. digging out an old, choked well which was supposed to be con- nected with the interior of the fort by a subterranean passage.
After two days, two cows fell sick, and three calves died.. On the
third day, the donkey lay down and would not get up. The farmer's wife, embarrassed and apologetic, though still claiming superiority to superstition, asked the girls they would mind filing up their excavations: so they obliged.
As they were Upping back the last stones, on a hot, sunny after- noon, they both heard from over their shoulders, where no human being was, a laugh. "Ha, ha, hat it came, in dreadful bursts. And, from that moment, the cows and the donkey recovered.
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AGAIN in pre-war Ire- land, this girl, accom- pauled by another sister and a friend. had a much more eerle experience. They were walk- ing up a drive to the felend's house when, rounding a bend near the sen, the girl saw, silhouetted against the night sky, a tall, very thin man. He was standing on a bank, and jumped into the drive
moediately in front of them.
• What was 80 Awful," I am told. was that he landed on the gravel in absolute silence: and his head was so small na to seem a mere button on his long, thin neck, I could feel my hair stirring. began to cry. My friend, who told me afterwards that she had seen the thing before, turned us round and hurried us back to the lodge. She saw it, too, that time, and said that it followed us for about a hun- dred yarda. But I didn't look. My younger sluter didn't see anything. We went back to the place the ay, and I found that it would noxt day. have been
to Impossible
see any- thing silhouetted against the sky, because the bank was topped by bushes at least six feet high. Bo he must have bera backed by enrious glow di ht: q”
Some years ago, long alter I was
told this story, a paragraph, which I have before me, appeared in the old ** Morning Post about elemen-“ tal earth spirits: It described them as very tall, lean men- mereriekles o' banes,' to use a North Country description-with small triangular heads." I thought this interesting. Λ woman I know intimately told me that she once sawn figure, which this descrip- tion fits, moving along a road hear Crawley, in Sussex. It seemed to her to have no hend at all.
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Then there is the woman who told me that she and her sister, who were taking part in some amateur theatricals in a country house, wondered who was the man with the dark moustaché sitting next their father in the front row of chairs. There was no man, their father said afterwards. “ Your aunt was on my left, but the chair on my right was empty."
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My own supernatural ex- perlences are confined to
a chest of drawers and enke - of nonp. The chest of drawers was in a house where I was staying. One night, just after I had got into bed; it emitted loud bang-no mistake about that.... The next morning I was told it had belonged to a womun- friend of the family--who always closed the bottom drawer with a kick.
The cake of soap was in a Batter- sen house, said to be milleted by a poltergeist or rowdy spirit. psychic investigator and I there. We watched and walled: nothing happened. We went.up- stairs, leaving the only other occll- pant of the house in the kitchen. And We explored every room. thon, in, the middle of a sunlit had passage, along which we walked a minute before, we saw a cake of yellow-gonp.
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Facts, Mr. Oraderind, simple facts, What Is 'one to make of
them?