SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1939.
Girls and Boys' Corner
Dear Kiddles,
On the whole the entries for Inst week's competition werą very well done. Some of you, however, did not read the rules and coloured the flower, This was incorrect as you were asked to leave the flower white,
The prize winners are:
Kostia Daniloff (aged 12), 16, Carnarvon Road, Kowloon.
Shirley
Langenberg
(aged 10), 23, Homuntin Street.
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Irmgart Soltau (aged 7), 174, Pokfulam Road.
Coupons have been sent to Kostia, Shirley and Irmgart which I want them to bring to the "Hongkong Telegraph" of- fices in Wyndham Street. The coupons will then be exchanged for money prizes.
This is all my own work
Name
Address
Arc
Specially commended for ex- cellent work are the following | Garcia, Dennis Remedios, Peter du Roza, Peter Peckham, P. Coom.
Wong. Roland Morley.
Seniors; Claude S. Alice Lee, Ghazi Khan, Edith Tan, Paul Vessoona, Shirley Wilks, Oleg Julebin, G. D. Ab- bas, A. C. Bux, Peter Sum, Lue Koon-lan, Robert Remedios, Austin Spary, Ip Po-hee, Mabel Lim, Miskin Sumy, Luiz Souza, Theresa Roza.
Ozorio.
Intermediates: Shons McIn- tyre. Margaret Williams, Lore Korner, Joan Daniel, Julie Fok, Roberto de Sousa. Horacio Peter Paxton, Kitty Kwok, Chung Wing-foo, Fred Lee. Shirley Toull, George La. Marcus Drewery, Green Chang, Clive Quie, Chan Kan-wa, S. S. Bux. Patricia Rend.
Juniors:
This week, kiddies, we are having an interesting, kind of competition. Study the picture above carefully and then spell the names of five fruits by only using letters which are joined by lines. Fill in the name, age and address coupon.
Uncle Tele- The
Send your entries. Lo Eddie. c/o "Hongkong graph", Wyndham Street. competition closes at 2 p.m. on Wednesday. *
Prizes will again be given— une for the best entry in each section. Age and neatness of handwriting will be taken into Anthony Catcher. consideration when judging the Gerald Marshall, Ann Daniel.untries. Marie Gomes, Noel Peters, Da-1 vid Asche, Jacqueline de Sousa,
Chuen- Nena Ozorio, Kwan
Best of luck, kiddies. :
yee, Geoffrey Wedlock, Mary Uncle
Swaine, Susan Wood, Jacqueline
Xavier, Frank Daniel, Tootsie
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After Forty
Years.
TURGOT AND THE ANCIEN REGIME IN FRANCE. by Douglas Dakin
LOUIS XV, by Alfred Leroy (Massie Publishing Co.)
QUOLAS DAKIN has rescued the moth. Scarcely anything in English has been written on Turgot for over forty years.
DTurgot from
On August 8, 1701, Turgot was up- pointed kalendant of Limoges,
In this poverty-atriken provlace of waste and ten he confronted the prob- lem of having to tax the pensantry in order to build roads, drain the marahrs and stimulate industries.
Even so, the masses would never be able to make a living from the few neres he could rectafin. For their hard- earned money would still have to be Laken from them.
Throughout his career, both as in- tendant of Limoges, and later, na short- lived MiniMer of State, Turgot worked for reform.
As Minister of Blute he survived twenty tantis before being crushed by the forces he had fought through- out his political life-vealed Interesla, He lived long enough to see most of
Getting
Around-
EASTERN VISTAS, by Audrey Harris
(Cullins.)
IF you want to know why Japan
will eventually tall while China will last for ever, through the deeper strength of her people, you should travel with Miss Harris Manchukuo, Japan! through China and India.
Miss Harris did not intend to wre A book when she set out, which makes all the difference to an author's out- look during her trip. She conceived a very genuine liking for the Chinese people, but before she had been i Japan for an hour she fell homesick for Korea.
"My final reaction to Japan was to feel the atmosphere hectic, unconvinc ing, restless, superficial and insincere; towards the Japanese that they are tense and uniourless and too un. balanced to be a big power-in the long run."
She found the women gentle and sweet and downtrodden-the men
coarse and arrogant.
Impossible. "They've got the strength and weak- ness of all totalitarian plates-cust iron, which has the habit of snapping suddenly,"
Throughout her Journey Miss Harris travelled "rough" and got to know the people themselves rather than cificial representatives, Her their book is a book of humour and human- ity, and will give a vivid gebern) im- pression to the reader of the countries through which she made her way.
E. C.
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Barmaid of the soul
GUIDE TO MODERN WICKEDNESS, by O. E. M. Joad
(Faber and Faber.)
his reforms abolished, but not long enough to see the whole applecart of the Bureaucratic regime overturned. - He died in 1701, eight years before the
revolution of '69.
of
Alfred Leroy in kis study Louis XV has not performed any im. portant service to the cause of political enlightenment.
In the noble way an advocate pleads for a lost cause, he underlies the basic folly of the man as indicating his humanity.
He slats that Louls is misunder- stood, and. quoting Montaigne, aska you to remember that "The bitterent and inos dimeult calling in the world is that of a king"
I am sure that the bitterest calling In the days of Louis XV was that of the far from pleturesque worker, who, sa history tells us, seems to have under- stood Louis in a more satisfactory way thau mony of his biographers.
BOGY!
M. W.
THE LABYRINTH OF EUROPE By Michael Burn
(Methuen.)
THAT a time this is of all times to be trotting out the Russian bogy.
Yet here is one of those moulders of educated opinion, a "Times" leader-writer, saying things like this:-
"I do not share the optimistic view that Great Britain in threatened only by Germany, Italy and Japan. The danger from them is merely the most immediate and most direct, over. shadowing another more insidious, less blatant, and in the long run ijulte a likely to succeed."
It is this fear of Russia that makes Mr. Burn write 04 pages on the Rus sinn menace compared with 10 on the Italian menace and 15 on the German innoce
It is also this that makes him say. quite casunity that fear of Communism is one of the guiding motives of Mr. Chamberlain's polley; and that triend- ship with Italy should be one of the pillars of our foreign policy.
Yet when Mr. Bum reaches the final page of this book-which is supposed to be a sort of counterblast to the revealing books recently written by British Journalists in Central Europe-m he has only one constructive surges- tion to offer:
It should become part of the edu- ention of young men of every class to spend a few months at a Labour comp."
Mr. Buru's qualifications for writing a European survey of this kind will not seem to most people very impres sive. He gives them in his preface:
"I have referred only occasionally to standard works, and read as few treaties on the international situation .ns possible, relying chiefly on news- paper cuttings which are available to everybody.
"I was never in many foreign coun- tries, though that has not prevented me speaking about them in the follow- ing pages. Altogether a remarkable
W. B.
book.
Real Lawrence
Of Arabia
Sir Ronald Storrs, formerly Oriental Secretary at the British Residency, Cairo, Military Governor of Jerusalem, Governor of Cyprus, lecturing to
and
the English-Speaking Union in London recently on Lawrence of Arabia, said:
Lawrence Was often popularly imagined as a super Rudolf Valen- no, charging up and down the sands of the desert, qualifying for posthum- ous honours in Hollywood."
Then Sir Ronald drew this picture of the rent Lawrence, whom he knew Intimately.
He was the untidiest officer in the British Army. It seemed im- possible for him to get all his uni- form on correctly,
He had un income of about £100 s year and did not even possess a dress suli.
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I could as soon imagine Lawrence In a frock cost or hunting pink as wearing an Old School tie. lle was the last conceivable product of the "public school type." •,
The versatility of his accom- plishments wns amazing. The lost motor-cycle, built to his order but never ridden by him, had 10 mechanical improvements he had invented.
When he was my guest in Jery- salem he used to get up at six every morning and clean all the lamps in the house.
I only extravagances were Dnely gramophone records, and priated books.
He reduced Bfe to an absolute minimum of necessities. -He did not smoke and he hardly ever dinnk; but he used the drug of speed. Once. un his motor-cycle, he raced an aeroplane for 15 min- uter.
Sir Ronald, sald'that Lawrence died An unhappy man. Towards the end of his life every sort of degradation was brought to bear on him, and he was asalled by a steady dribble of depreciation from people a great deal less talented than himself.
T
HE Victorians, says that lively philosopher. C. E. M. Joad, conceived conscience as a sort of barmaid of the soul, keeping it in order but allowing reasonable hours of licence. Bex and appearance apart, Mr. Joad is not unlike a barmaid himself. Ih his new book ho rops firmly on the counter round which civilisation is drinking'the sour wine of decay and self-decop- tion, and shouts, sharply: "Time, gentlemen, PLEASE! *
The title of his book is mislead- ing, for these four hundred pages of shrewd and witty argument do not, as you might have expected, indicato fresh primrose paths to the amateur of vice.
They are a modern jeremlad. Mr. Joad clears his bar, not all at ance, but by atages He dismisses God. Christianity, Markism and psycho- analysis first of all.
Ho finds Heaven emplier than the churches which, he complains, are less concerned about war than “the sin of Bunday tennis."
Indeed, his two chapters about religion and the "groundless optimism” of the Church, substantiated by stalis-
IN BRIEF
*Christianity OT the New Paganism. Henry, Brinton, Labour candidate for Grimsby, saya that Christianity Just as much as democrncy is threatened by Fascism He appeals to the Churches to give a lead to all anti-Fascists, not worrying for the time being whether they are Christians or not. The only hope of religious revival, he saya, lies in people seeing the Churches as alles in the fight for freedom. (Muller,
War, The War Behind the 1914-1918. For those who like learning about the inst war. this is gripping reading. The author Frank P. Chambers, tells in 600 pages of the political events in Few cach belligerent country. people in England know of the Baht against Prussian militar Ism
the waged lu
German Reichstag Lhroughout. The war The whole story is in this book. (Faber and Faber,
PHILOSOPHER JOAD Time, gendemen, please!"
tles and quotations from churchmen, might well Primate an uneasy night.
eminent
Kivo the
Two positive belleta emerge from Mr. Joad's diatribes against most of the things that you can think of. The need of the human animal for religious bellef, which when the Church fail to satisfy it. finds an evil'substitute in the delfication of Hitler, the State, of sygressive nationation
A religion, he maintains, is needed to bridge the gap between the world we live in under conditions of daily compromise and the world of absolute Valuca.
Mr. Joad's other positiva offering is pacifism. He instals that the ultimate responsibility for war rests on the Individual. Only the Individual who abstains from war is safe in a world of blood-crazed funnties.
Therefore, for the sake of the world, the pacifist has a positive duty, saya Mr. Jond, to preserve himself alive and unharmed.
This is the Doctrine of the Burvival of Mr. Jond. Not at all a bad doctrine If it produces more books as good as Uhis one.
MR. JOAD makes the world his
coconut shy, Mr. Stefan Zweig selects just two of the human virtues and makes Aunt Ballies of them.
Beware of PRy: is the tile of bio novel, which is published by Messrs Cassell at B5. Od. Many, less worthy books have been dubted masterpiece
It is an engrossing story, states a
genuine problem, and has that gravity which implies riol only wisdom bui thờ polsed certainly of a spinning-top or A bird in fight.
Captain Hotmiller was decorate. during the Great War with the high- est and rarest medal for bravery. He won it because lia was a coward, be..
Are You Sure?
Questions Are On Page Two,
1. Sunk fence,
2. Yes. One. The Court Regiment.
Inns of
3.
Answers
Courts; and the French Royalist Party.
10a), Baseball. (b) Rowing. (c) Cricket (d) Eton Avea. (0) Fencing. (1) Rugby football.
(a) Steamboats, (b) Bicy- 20. (a) Wellington, (b) Bis-J cles. (e) Electricity, (d) Heaviermarck. (c), William iv. (d).||
"(Leonardo da ̈Vinci);" (e) "Dis" covery of America.
4.
Among troops paraded, 5. River.
6. French Revolutionaries.
7. Battle of Blenheim.
0. All of them.
9.
Bacon.
10. Clown or jester,
11, All save the Empress Britain.
01
12. Copernicus.
13. Steele.
14. Athens, Ottawa.
15.
Dalliance,
Godoy, Chief Minister of Spain. (e) Hudson. (1) Elizabeth.
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17.
18.
Mahomel's flight to Medinni. Peer's right to trial before
his fellow peers; Ecclesiastical
bell; as round as an apple; as flat as a puncake; as white as a sheet; ss pure as an angel; as brown as a berry; as full as a tick.
causo despair led him to regard his life as valueless.
It all started with a misguided gesture of sentimental pity towards hopelessly crippled girl when ho was a lleutenant in the Austrian
army.
First he gave her flowers. Then he promised her recovery of her health, for all the world as if he were Old Moore himself.
Then he fet the poor girl, torri- fying him with her desperate clinging to the straws he had flung. her, belleve that he might love har
The gradual crescendo from soft sentimentality to shrill nud unnatural barcor is mesmerising. The book endas in escape, tragedy and fast illusions,
*
DOWN in the bowels of the earth
beneath an ancient temple inj Rhodesia on the shores of a inqlumi sen red the Master, a green globulo; of pure inteligenca with as many i eyes as a packet of needles,
With its giant ants eight feet fong.! bred from queen ants as long as ocean. liners, he colonised Venus and Mara by means of inter-stellar rockets, and - threatened to overcome the earth.
How he was folled by an American entornologist who deiled the anta") atomie Disintegrators and carcered down to the centre of the earth in a telepathically-operated robat machine you may read and once you have
*The started you won't stop-in Demigods, by Alfred Gordon Bennett (Jarrold, 03. 04.).
Mr. Bennell has studied his Master-. brick and his Eugene Marala and keeps his own fortnicntium. On a tounda- tion of fact he has built a superbly preposterous fantasy, lushly written, creepily exciting.
Three Ministerial
Changes
New Ministerial appointments, made necessary by the death of Sir Philip Sassoon, Firat Com- missfoner of Works, were an- nounced from 10,. Downing- street, recently.
The appointments, which have been approved by the King are:
Mr. Herwald Ramsbotham to be First Commissioner of Works,
Sir Walter James Wumersley to be Minister of Persian vies, MT. Ramsbotham, and to assist Minister of Agriculture and Fish- eries in the House of Commons.
Mr. William Mabane to be. Assis- tant Postmuster-General, vice Sir Walter Womersley.
Neither the Minister of Pension nor the First Commissioner of Works Is a member of the Cabinet. The salary in each case is £2,000 a year.
Mr. Ramsbotham, who'lạ, 62, hgs: been Minister of Pensions since 1030. He was previously Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agricultural and Fisheries.
Sir Walter Womersley, who is 01, has been Conservative member for Grimsby since 1024 and Assistant Postmaster-General since 1935.
up-
Mr. Mabane, who has been pointed
Assistant Postmaster-Gen- eral, is National Liberal member for Huddersfield. He is 44.
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