THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"," SATURDAY, JUNE-
FAMILY FORTUNE IS A DRAWBACK
RELIGION...... People,
Problems, Plans among the Churches
In their recruits their appeal for recruits
Land Ministry the archbishops report that in the last 50 years the popula- tion has gone up 13,000,000 but the number of clergy
has declined 5,000.
by
HAROLD NORWOOD
Fifty years ago such a candi- inte might have found a private benefactor. In Liverpool, for example, one shipping magnate
used to pay training fees for 40 fiture parsons every year.
But today he and his like been tuxed out have existence,
of
Here is one likely recruit writing to this columu. He is a 36-year-old church or- gunist and choirmaster, and he says: "For two or three ONE LABEL ? yeurs I have felt an increns- ing arge to enter the Church PIG FORCE helping on Church reunion in Britain has been of England as a priest. But the building problem. On many I have wife and two housing
A children to keep. What can Id"
neckwear
over invented
for
men. But the rest of his attire In a schoolmaster's gown over a Grey suit.
One of the stained-glass windows in this church shows.
in his shirt- present-day minister, Dr Donald Soper, preaching sleeves. That is his usual hot-
wehr for his open-air day services on Tower 11tli, although he can also be seen about the al Dear his church streets Kingsway, London, in parson's collar and cassock.
Best thiu to do with empty churches? Scrap them, is the advice of the new Congrega-
Lavell tiosa!
Chairman, Dr
garden Cocks.
estates and suburbs there is only one site allotted for all the Free Churches and they have lo settle among themselves who gets it.
оп
Why not, he says, sell out these great barns of churches, erected by wealthy Congrego-
who tionalists
refused principle to leave a penny pleve The solution often found is a
ity
way of endowment? Get rid Un'on Church, where people of the
buildings that soak up of many religious labels worship
and hire o contentedly together, rather than energy at money,
n shop-an upper room over Journeys to
Formand begin ali over again 59 long church with their own particular in the apostolic way.
The answer is-nothing, unless
he can find some of supporting other means his family for two years while he goes to college.
Keep and training will eost not less than £700. The label. Church will help with that. but it has no funds for de- pendants.
OAB and FLOUNDER
by WALTER
find a
In the mission teld of South India on Ceylon there has been another reason for union. There, many churches found they were merely puzzling educated In- dians
with
Christian differences,
vir
So Anghcans, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Method- ists have now Joined in one South India Church,
But experiment in Infla has Brought trouble at home
Catholics at Emsworth, Bants, would agree. They began say in Mass in the billiards room of the British Legion club. In four weeks the congregation Krew from 61 to 100, and they had to hove to the club's concert hall.
THE HARVEST
AND HERE is an infaut Church
A getting going in the Empire. At a housing Geelong, Australia, a temporary
settlement near
RL who finds
first
New Books by George Malcolm Thomson
Here is a magnificent sea adventure story
THE KON-TIKI EXPEDI. TION. By Thor Heyer- dahl, Allen and Unwin, 12. 6d. 235 pages, TTERE is one of the great
Here is one of the great.
It is a tale of real life nd- vonture which will outlive the fiction of Conrad-con- tains as much of the magic atmosphere of maritime quest and peril as Moby Dick itself.
It tells how six young men, Ave Norwegians and one Swede, crossed the Pacific Ocean in n craft more primliive by far than that used by their ancestors, the Vikings of thousand years
In cariler, crossing the Atlantle
"It 'tells how one
young War, if not at any rate supported, the voyage. For the pur pose, or at least the
on was the this Kon-tiki expedition was bellef, formed by Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdali
تودع
THOR HEYERDAHL
They would drown quickly or
starve slowly.
In fact, they made a voyage, crowded with gay adventure and an adequate spice of danger, from South America to a coral full near Tahiti, taking exactly 101 days to cover 4,300 miles of empty ocean.
the
Pitot
and dances of their Polynesian hostr.
It is a glorious book, for it simply the bald conveys not
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Anc
facts that make achievement, but also the ex- laration, the dare-devil spirit, the Intrepidity, the cool curiosity, which challenges such adyen- tures.
and
carries
them
triumphantly through.
4THOR HEYERDAHL has since childhood been interested in natural sciences. At seven he started a one-room zoological
He Diuscum.
Interrupted kin scientifle work when the Nazis Invaded Norway and joined the Free Norwegian Airforce. After special training with the British Forces in the UK, he served in a Parachute Communication Unit in Arctic Norway. MAUPASSANT. By Fran- cis Steegmuller, Collins, 12s. 6d. 384 pages. "He sought only high-class Haisons and always re- This spected his mother's house,
the war of
Paris (where he stayed until
to the Itivlora)
whero In a house
invited the charming voices
from visitors in: "Apart
the raft and
hablled exclusively titutes."
In such company Maupassant eaught syphilis (which killed him at 42) and wrote his
multi. for another fim, The Mann rafts of balsa wood lashed were shoals of whales hurting Maupassant, the place was in-
music
Very
top speed towards ant swirling away when within
a foot or two.
There were sharks, pulled bourd by the tail.
And there was, hugest Ash in
by pros
when he was in Polynesia before Empty of ships, that is to say complacent tribute to her son the war, that the South Pacific Dut fillet, overcrowded in truth, Guy, by Laure de Maupassant, Islands had been peopled by a with dish.
Ash scouted was, on evidence presented by his Industrious but sprightly Schouls of
Steegmuller, white race coming from South ahend of the raft.
not bographer, America long before the arrival dolphins followed it.
justined for long. of the present brown-skinned
The Kon-ki's, timbers were When the family fortune the home of countless crabs, in- population
foundered after cluding one large crab that be fou These white people could hot the to help her progress as a com- make boats, did not know how time.adomestle pet. At night 1870 Maupassant went to live in
rea was ablaze with a Or family fortune a hin- th
to use metals. Ilaw then could
drove him, disgusted, With her parents, who are on they have maile the trip from brilliantly fluminated fish com- the building of the Eiffel Tower drance to fame is 26-year- European business trip, Miss the Peruvian cost? Heyerdant ing up from the lower depths,
There were glent rays, bigger will be Elizabeth Firestone Firestone
in cald, by drifting on the west- The question of whether or lunch for 20 familles has been
old
Than Die whole raft. There aren Then she
Coward-flowing Humboldt Current not to grant full Church of Eng- birt out of two arroplane pack-
whose London. (pictured here).
to Rome, then Madrid, to write land reengaltion to the Church ng cases. To help the parson,
is the in South India is described as the Itev. W. Bolt, raise funds father
Together by balsa ropes, the worst Anglican headache of for a permanent church and millionaire head of a U.S. From Tanglers,
When the experts sald that She is Company of rubber company.
the
musical only Shell the century.
school the
member of the family, nds this was impossible, Heyerdahl Low Churchunen say: "Wet- Australia has granted him the
with inspiration use of 100 acres of land,
Elizabeth
sometimes while was stung into retorting: bluc-eyed,
well, I shall do it. come this new church, as #
hair-is à com- I'm cleaning my teeth." A neighbour pattern for the while Protestant
has copper gold farmer
fle found another five young all the sea, the whale shark, famous story of a fat prostitule, with Earley. poser. She has written a pann High Churcbmen are planted the band world."
men of restless disposition and 30rt, long, which iny in a kad Boule de Suif. a Scandmavian love of the sea of good-natured 'stupor along- opposed to recognising a chi The crop will be harvested by concerto, ore newly recided mtutie body.**
Mr Holi and his patirteners, love tallad called Why Try, a
who were ready to accompany side the raft until somebody Her music study began at six, to be worthlm sound-track, and so many
drove him. and is expected
petulantly cons 1 can't count them."
composing at eight. In Londoni They set off frem South into it. the goes to the American Em-American amidst universal_pro-
After sailing with the greatest ber stomach a little, you would fance she finds basy to practise on the planodictions of early disaster. Their of case across the ocean the raft ive me pleasure." drawback: "1 wish no une had by her friend
Maupassant's excessive love for tard de chymovie
Sharman clumsy raft, the Kon-tiki, would piled up on a coral reet and Douglas "I introduced her
not answer the steering car or went to pieces. It was a pity, his hysterical mother is held by Steckmuller responsible for his to Peter Lawford,"
set much as stance from the bot by that ting it did .not Elizabeth, short and slender. sail. The logs, working against matter. The six young adven- inability to have any but coarse, te a forthright, buoyant per one another in the sea, would turers, magnificently bearded, uncomplicated love affairs.
He had three close women ality. To match her hair
ropes through. gave themselves up to the feasts
friends in Bahamian seelely: wars ear clips, brooches
Blanche Roosevelt, married to an From ami bracelets of gold.
Italian marquis, who kept on te bracelet hangs a medallion
the far side of the Alps; Her- with the head of Toscanini on it;
taine Lecomte de Nouy, whose he sent it to her as a birthday
hband lived in Rumaila. 15 jacent.
lover of the queen; Countess Helene Patockn, whose husband lived In
Poland.
MANY COSTUMES 21.500,
About half will go to church
44/HAT rhall I wear today?" tunds, and the church will stay a problem in for part in hot it ties £3,000
sony,
They have ingre choice in hand.
than you would think.
When a bishop appears in palhe he roay be all grau i mitre and cope. Cladden
your eyes,
may
Hi the
Bishop of Queensland, at the Albert Hall, with shining pint: robes, be hit may arrive in plain black cont and stalters.
When Bisdogs Halli, head of the South Ind a Church, shoes to Muswell Hil, and function
In England In Method: servirg
for the first time in his life, he
linen alla Wears a
and an orange Mole. The Rev. Stanley Leyland who takes the service, has the tabx of #! 10 snow-white
minster, often Methodis!
Fe embed as the must attractive
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It is her hast that she has 4ver allowed family Influence
Two Books and persons
publishers in a horse
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Books
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Courage and Fear. By Remy Arthur Barker, 15s. 890 pages.
More poignant true stories of seek the underground war In France
John Secret Valleys. By Cousins, Cape, fx. 6d. 256 pages An honest, economical novel for of post-war Crete to which
men go to
She weng simple dresses,
Mark prefera directors town.
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Flaubert, Maupassant's master
literature, recognised
"Your merit:
prostitute charming. If you could reduce
lfe loved none of them. Elis
ju gay grave and reverend publishers .Staf of Longman, Educational
director back apron foll to the skirt and three "ief to whom by the author of those remark, mother returned his adoration. 25-year-old trip, pischeed CSS. He was Front Les a triple row of pearls, Evening
they had
dropped supplies able memoir of a secret agent e tu pantomime, Alice tri api Turaluteal Book, director owns are her extravagance. She during the Aghting. They find The Silent Company. A record of Wode Iant, this year.
Tat. Longwa was Back Lens hopet to help the creuing wear hin: they also stumble Dn te
complex of suspicion and un life at it is lived beyond the
Whn, think you, played the Wortes Knight's htt Tw
They were mu
modestly anony- on the prep samme.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"LOOK AT THIÁT BACON... LIKE
CHIPS OFF AN
OL RUSTY TIN
ROOF!
PHOOEY"
NOW WHEN
I HAD MINE CUT....
'GOOD APPLES? HOPE YOU CAN EAT SOME
evived in New York.
-London Kaprest Serntec)
| rest.
MY TONSILS WERE BURIED SO DEEP THEY HAD TO PRETTY. NEAR BLAST!`
BROUGHT YOU SOME CLEAN
SOCKS/
*HOW DO YOU
FEEL NOW>"
limits of human endurance.
When he died, slie (a free- thinker) said in her grief, "If God exists, I will fice him and we will have it out."
World copyright-London Express Sereter)
"Semi-Private Room'
Bu KEMP STARRETT
HE GETS CARVED
IN THE MORNING.
A
OIL, MY GOSH, WAS I SICK! TAAT ETHER'S. TERRIBLE STUFF!
MY
"THE
STITCHES!
MY STOMACIL!
PAINS THOSE NEEDLES!"
J
THEY'RE GETTING BETTER VIEN THEY SQUAWK ABOUT THE
FOOD.
GET READY,BOYS/
HERE THEY COME
WITH THE ALL-DAY
SUCKERS!!*
THE WARD COMEDIAN ...WHEN
THE THERMOMETERS APPEAR..
"HI, FRED! VILKT WAS IT,
BOY OR A GIRL?
IT NEVER FAILS!
HEY!
Mmmodat
THE ONES WHO COME OVER TO CHEER YOU UP BY TELLING YOU HOW HORRIBLY THEY SUFFERED.
WHERE'S THE FIRE
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(ALL OF THEA).
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THE WAY THE NEEDLE
LOOKS.
HEYRE JUST WALKED
OUT OF HERE!
THE ONE WHO ENTERTAIS ALL THE OTHER PATIENTS WITH TRE
LOUDEST COMMERCIALS.
CONVALESCING.
AND HE DOESN'T CAR
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