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Tie?
It must seem to him like å.pro-·: phecy of the end of civilisation He can scarcely help feeling that, if the propliccy comes true; the sun will never shine on England so brightly again.
now Gyo CIR CYRIL NORWOOD'S appeal, new roomy comfort, forecast the other day tion, as I believe strongly in the el sympathise with his emo solid safety and long-lived of the future of the public virtue of school patriotism. All" economy !
schools must have dis kinds of patriotism seem to mo tressed many
a wearer of to be good in moderation- the Old School Tie. "After whether national patriotiam; county putriotiam, civic patriot- this war," " he said, "it will sm, village patriotism, or the be found that their day is patriotic sentiments that grow done. Parents who are up around that little nation of glad to pay £200 a year for adolescents, the school.
.... The Old School Tie has be an individual boy will be so come a joke in recent years, and few that the system will not it is possible that there are be able to be maintained be. enough Old School snobs gad. cause of lack of numbers." ding about to justify the ridicule. To the public-school man myself have never met them. who has a proper feeling of pa- I have known one or two Uni- triotism for his old school, this veraity snobs, but the Old School must come as disastrous news, mobs have not come my way. The affection that most of my |acquaintances have for their Old Schools seems to me as innocent
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SPEAKING of uppishness as the affection
OF DENTISTS
"YOU'VE pulled three teeth.
wanted only one pulled, yelled Jones indignant- iy.
"Yes, I know," replied the dentist blandly. "But we gave you a bit too much gas; and, I didn't want to waste It.-
A small boy visited a dentist. #I want a tooth out,” he said hurriedly, "and never mind about gas. I'm in a hurry!
"That's a brave boy,” sald the dentist. "Which tooth Is
Come in, Johnnie," shouted the boy, going to the door, “come in and show Him your tooth," A Scots patient was fumbling In his pockets.
"You need not pay me in ad- vance," said the dentist.
The world stands to-day at special crisis in its destinies and upon France falls the full brunt of the struggle. In the immense con- lict which is raging, the greatest
eyes of all
peoples turn to.. wards France and England as their | champions. It is ours to bear the of right and liberty, their standard standard and oura, in the forefront of the battle. They watch eagerly to see how we will endure the test It is far the most terrible and the
to most searching which Britain and France have been subject,
and
gos." the enemy proclaim that the battle-has already
been won. The battle has not been won; the Nazi boost is vals and false. A great concentration of German mechanisation and air power forced the breach in our lines in the frontier region, and through this breach poured, unchallenged for 24 hours, the full force of Nazi might.
But our troops have fallen back fighting where the lines have had to be straightened, or have remained at their posts where the lines are being held. Just so the glorious old Army had to fall back in those equally dangerous and critical first weeks of the last war when the ex- Kaiser in his arrogance ordered his host to trample upon the "contemp- tible English"" army," Within a few
weeks those "Old Co
Contemptibles"
helped to stay and turn back the German
armies almost from the walls of Paris, and shattered for ever the German General Staff's visions of rapid and easy conquest.
Our men to-day are sons of the
"Old Contemplibles" men of the
same breed and temper.
Unlike
the heroes who faced and held the fury of the enemy's ons
onslaught in 3014, they are buoyed up by the know- ledge that behind them there stand ready the of Britala, žanr
by years of preparation the determination of the
civil all the virgin strength of the Dominions. They will not prove less-stubbom in de- fence, or less fendy at the right moment to turn upon ́and-drive back the foo.
In England there is no panic and no semblance of panic. The British people are fully aware, we bellove, that the situation is grave and even critical, but they look at the facia with steady eyes. They had hoped that the great efforts of the French, British and Belgian troops would have checked earlier and completely the onslaught of the enemy, but the very magoliude and novelty of the Blitzkrieg rendered inevitable the
withdrawal-to-lines desperate-|
far behind the frontier and
ly near England's coast..
We in Hongkong should look upon the position Ing sober practical fashion. The Allies have had a heavy blow; the people, know it," and there is no use attempting to hide
"I'm no going to:" was the re- Ply. "I'm
only counting my money before you gie me the
they feel towards relations who have been a part of their happy world.
And this love of school must not be confused with love of learning. I was devoted to my school, but I | regarded it as a good school to stay. away from on any discoverable pro- text. I liked going to It, but I Ilked batter
slipping still
out of the by a side gate and attend
sounds by a
ing a matinee in the theatre
I ought to have
Toughers on old Trubshaw, - what ? Remember old Trubbers--skippered us at_Rugger ? Poor old blighter's cot a sixer in the sneezer"
the Institution for fear people would restored to their teens so vividly do who makes no think you mean Borstal? This 1 put their faces and their voices remain attempt to be a credit to his school, down to the envy of a product of a in the memory. People in general may be frowned on by masters, but rival and inferior establishment.
room. The Idle pupil in the ashamed to admit that you went to but I should know them if they were
his patriotism is not to be quenched by frowns.
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those o
are never so real: to us us when we are in our teema'or younger. As we grow up; fewer and fewer people are
life of memorably real to us. When we are school every boy is an individual
ns
Low caricature.
Patriotism of this kind is, I Certainly, the day-to-day Imagine, selfish in origin. It's the place stands out clearly in the avidence that we have enjoyed go memory in a golden and entrancing at unmistakable and an unforgettable ing to school or, as the case may light. The masters, even those
whom have been, miching from it. If we we respected most profoundly, were had been miserable at school I doubt always
partly comic characters, whether its name would stir any masters, are bound to be in the eyes Hence, it is not to be wondered at very cordial emotions in "us in later of schoolboys;
and
men find happincisTM Int of them who that some life. Mr. Winston Churchill has con- could on due occasion strike terror talking about their old school; and fessed that he was miserable at Har into our souls were no less amusing how boring such talk can be if you ow he row: does
care
e twopence now than the rest when the terror was come from a different school! Listen adays, I wonder.
Blon or over. Looking bust on"
it on them, we to two Old Puddletonlans-exchang think of them as indispensable figures ing Inane Harrow wins at Lord's?
memories about their If you have enjoyed school, how in a little world of buzzing cheerful former schoolmasters and school- ever, you think of it not only as ness. By this time I feel an affec- mates, and, you are not an Old different from other schools, but as tlon even for the mathematical master Puddleionian yourself, you will be school unique, incomparable. I who was just about to throw me out driven to the conclusion that Puddle- myself was a day-boy at the toyal of the class when the ball rang. And ton College must have been the most his
Academical
uninteresting nest of Institution not
writing master, who, in a desembeciles a name for the writing
desperately
that ever existed. to suggest Paradise to outsiders and frenzy of excitement, reported me alk about the Old School should be still can hardly help thinking that to the headmaster for reading indulged in only when none but ex- | those who were sent to other schools Boys of London.”
A country yoket went ono evening to dentist and asked to have a tooth extracted,
The dentist examined
remarked,
mouth and
cost you about ten ́shillings Will
"I couldna pay that," pro- fested the yokel. "I'll just walt and have it out by daylight."
An economical Scot visited a dentist and inquired:"Will you loosen a tooth for me, please?" "But why only loosen it?" asked the astonished dentist.
"Weel, then i could get it out myself," was the reply.
For the third week in succes- sion the dentist's assistant re- ported that there was a ran in the waiting-room who de- clined to see the dentist.
"Perhaps he's nervous," Bald the dentist. "I'll go and see
· him."
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So be entered the waiting- room and asked if he could be of any assistance.
"No, thank you" replied the visitor blandly. "I just drop- .ped in because, you see,` I'm
reading a serial in one of your
papers."
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A dentist allowed his assistant to draw a patient's tooth under his supervision."
"You took a long time over that extraction," he remarked "after the patient bid departed. "Yes, sir," agreed the assis- tant, "but, you see, he married the girl who jilted me!”!
An Aberdoníon visited a den-.- tist and Inquired, "How much do you charge for, extracting a tooth? te meet
Теп shillings," mid the 'den-
"What! Ten shillings for ten seconds work!! exclaimed the Aberdontan.
""Well," said the dentist, "of course I can extract the footh very slowly, if you wish.”
A little girl of five poid hor first visit to the dentist to have a tooth out. She came through the ordeal temilingly, and later confided-to. her mother, "But, I' liked the spitting part best."
Margaret EXISTAL·
It, or to minimise what has occurred, fullest confidence in our Army, our
as has been suggested to us by more Air Force, bur Allies and in our- solves. The effect of Germany's than one person, ***
La success, should be to intensity Hong- I would be foolish, nay, danger kong's resolution to offer to the ous, for any Hongkong newspaper.to Motherland everything in our
Our power: attempt to hide what has occurred. The war of 1814-18 proved that behinkt a cloak of suppression or our troops could take it and dish [fatally. We well recall the helpless out." We have: no doubt that We beat the
feeling that engulfed the Chinese they can.o
сап со 50 1:1040 peoples when Conton and Hankow Gamers, pfier equally big reverser Tall Intropia Tuccion here in the lasts Ware The only danger of claims by their newspapers had defant in, thin war is that the civilian, buoyed up: ibelt hopes until the very and not the many in the trenches, Jast Where viruth and reston “pro Vail there can be no danger of parim my not be able to take it W ör-unreasoningsideobis berunding pris DECRA
and viewing the news we must that we maintain subline: faith, and "the-1LEY BOTH
which was then
deserve somehow to be condoled with looked on as dangerous literature. puplis of the Old School are present. An Ulsterman of another school sald' As for the boys, I might not re- i read an article the other day in to me lately. Is it true that you cognise most of them if I met them which the writer contended that there boys, when you come to England, are to-day after so long a separation; PLEASE Turn To Page 2.
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