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THURSDAY APRIL-6, 1928

CHINESE RACIAL VIRTUES. DRANK MOTHER'S RUM

PHYSIQUE "INTELLECT AND

MORALS.

BEGGAR WHO KNOCKED

AT WRONG DOOR..

An amusing story of a man's ingenious method of obtaining brandy aud, whisky was told at Ashton-under-Lyne, when Joshua Taylor, son of well connected people at Stalybridge, was charged with begging.

brandy..

Thas the Chinese Ere a strong race by heredity, whether viewed from the standpoint of physique, intellect or morals, is assorted by Cho Wang, & student at Cornell University, in an article contributed to The Journal of Heredity (Wash.

Complaints had been received of ington). This Chinese writer notes at the outset that many foreigners, Taylor knocking at doors in the especially Americans who have been early morning or late at night, tell observing and studying the Chineseing the occupants that he had had for many yoara, bays come to the a fainting fit, and begging for conclusion that the Chinese are hereditarily very strong.

Unfor. tunately, he says, this is unknown to many particularly to the Chinesa. In order to accomplish any taak the performer must have confidence in bía ability, and a syn pathetic understanding of others. A consideration of the Chinese heredity, therefore, is not only enlightening to the foreigner, but imperntive to all Chinese. He goes on:

Taylor made the mistake of knocking at the Chief Constable's door. The Chief Constable open ed it, and Taylor was arrested.

It was stated that to dilute the brandy given to him Taylor carried about a bottle containing spda

water,

NOT YET SETTLED.

HONGKONG ELECTRIC

TROUBLE

WHAT THE MEN SAY.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

SEAMEN'S WAGES.

EMPLOYERS STAND FIRM.

ANOTHER REDUCED" CREW.

Another Blue Funnel stesiner, the Tyndareus, hon sailed with o crow, shipped at the reduced rate, similar to the "Bellerophon.""

PASSENGERS.

DEPARTURES;

Per B. L... "Tanda" on Apr. 4 ;—Mr"} OF.VA. Ostergren,¡Mire W.JE. Green, Miss Grace Glasgow, Miaos Kipping and blac, Mr T. J. Korthaos, Miao W. O. Spicer, Mim Mario Bartlett, Miss A.-de Mandeville, Misa F. M. Heacock, Hers A. 8. Matabhoy, Fred. V. Woodford, K. Rijbnomal, Madavdes and Doclol.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

The position of the Hongkong

Inquiries at the Seamen's Union Electric Co.'s North Point work to-day elicited the statement that men, who downed tools on beyond addressing a letter to the Tuesday afternoon, is that the Chairman of the Bhipowners As- Company considers the employees snciation who has already replied have dismissed themselves by not that negotiations should be with the returning to duty.

Yesterday, the men's representa gants direct, writing to the B.C.A. tives, called on the S.C.A but and sending delegaten to Canion,

The P, RM8. "Empresa of no progress towards a sctlensent nothing further had heen done.

arrived at Nagaki on Apr. 4 was made. According to the Chinese Their principal object will be to Engineers' Institute, the manager lige complaints with the British.m. left Nagasaki on Apr. 6 at of the Electric Co., asked the men Consul of Canton and Mr. Luk 11a.m. and is due at Shanghai on Apr. to call for their wages yesterday, King-fo, two of the signatories to Gat 8p.. but none complied. This morning the agreement last year,

The Acten maintain that in- gates at the S.C.A. offices and ins- ability to make large profits is no the manager mer the men's dele- The Chairman: And very nice, tructed them to call for their pay. reason to break an agreement. A China Mail reporter had an However, a Chinese Shipowner, in too. (Laughter.)

af .. speaking conversation with a China Mail re Taylor said he had been nursing opportunity

two Electric Co. workmen presentative to-day stated that it his eighty-year-old mother, and he to

of the strikers labould be pointed out that the had taken the stimulants provided to-day-one

and a foreman in another agreement was not intended to bind for her.

The Chief Constable: He ad-department. The striker stated for ever. He asked if there was a that his section did not acquiesce boom in shipping instead of depres mits he drank his mother's rum,

for number plate dion and living had increased, would, The sentence was one day's to the order

checking at tiffin time because it the men consider themselves bound imprisonment.

would take, he alleged, at least by the agreement und resrain from twenty minutes, if not more. That asking for an increase. would considerably cut down the The affect of a new crow being tiffin interval, which, he said, found for the Tyndareus"? in addi would not then be long crough tion to the Bellerophon" is that He added that the Company in-

Bra tendard lamps, Table lamps, The differences between the Senanging lamps, Electroliere, Pendants, ing. foreman expressed the mon's Union and the Boarding Fenster, Chafing dishes, Beaters, etc

The opinion there was little house Keepers' Union as explained of the other in yesterday'a China Mail, ste probability employees striking in sympathy, accentuated and the feeling on both thereby affecting the supply of sides is acute. current. He said that the strikers should have first approached the management for an extension of for the time lost. Failing to get satisfaction, they should have ask cd the Guild for advice instead of striking on the spot.

"One of the most accurate criteria with which to measure the heredity of a people is its historical accomplishment. Chinese history and civilization are the longest of the unbroken, living ones of the world, and who has the slightest doubt that they are due to heredity? Advices have been received The Emperor Hwang-ti invented here to the effect that the French the compass and his Queen the silk-cruisers "Victor Hugo" and " Jules worm culture long before Greece or Michelet," now at Shanghai with flicted fines for lateness in return more men have been displaced. |

trade cxhibits on board, may be expected to arrive in the Colony on the morning of the 14th instant, staying here until the afternoon of the 18th, when they will proceed southwards.

that

Rome came into existence. One after, another of such epoch-waking inventions a gun-powder, printing and others were contributed to the world by the slant-eyed Chinese, These facts demonstrate clearly that the Chinese are not lacking in -originality; if they had never accomplished anything else, they would be justified in being proud of have not yet made any great contri-the one hour interval to make up. themselves.

bution to pure sciences, but this is The writer is fully aware of the due to a lack of scientific environ-

that repeated accusations the ment and not dog to deficiency in Chinese are a backward people. It heredity.

Such prominent biolo- is granted that the Chinese develop-gists and eugenists as East, Castle, ed a high civilization in uncient Holmes, Popence and Johnson have times, but it is said that their beads time and again declared that the ara bent to the past, aud thut. Chinese are by no means mentally consequently, progress decreased inferior to any other people, yet and finally changed to stagnation: any foreignera think that the and the glorious days of China are Chinese are only fitted to be cooks A WOMAN'S COUNTRY—BUT

The writer does not or laundrymen ( in the past.

MEN STICK TO THEIR SEATS. deny that there was a slowing- down movement starting about the Christian era, but be docs deny that the condition may be termed "back- wardness."

sre

Physically the Chinese shorter and thinner than the Tau- tonic people on the average. But the Chinese are a mixed people of

COALS OF FIRE.

A PENITENT PIEMAN.

A tired and hungry wayfarer, who, being out of work, had tramped from London to Sunder land, went into a pie shop. While the

shopkeeper was serving another customer the sight of the

NO “FLAD EYE" IN U.S. pies tempted him and he could not resist taking one and making, offi with it,

Mr. W. L. George, the novelist,

The retardation of muny subraces, so their weight or spent 10 months in the United sudden impulse to take the pie.";

I

eye which had suffered from the

how, and set him on his way ree joicing with a gift of 56.

Serves the Whole Family. The fame of Chambo lain's Cough Remoly is wold wire. It is god fr thep sted rough of the adult or the troop and whooping cough of the chid n. The's ma batle, serves tho wine family or s-le by all ihmiste and Storeksep r..

The shopkeeper caught him, however, thrust him outside, and punched him vigorously on the head. A crowd gathered and the police interfered. The thief ex- plained tis circumstances and his Then the shopkeeper, asked for Chinese civilization was not caused stature may vary from the highest States and has written a book on his version, answered: 1. ami by Chinese religion, philosophy, to the lowest, just as does the his experiences and observations; quick tempered, and when he took habit of thinking or any other American. Travelling writers and "Hail, Columbia!" (Chapman and the piel caught him and put him out already attributed agencice, but moving picture producers, having Hail, 12s. 6d.) mainly by geographical isolation for their sole purpose financial suc

Mr. George writes well and his of the shop and hit him. But I am

me and I will help him." During the Han Dynasty (85 B. C. cess, have often too grossly ex-book is penetrating. Of American Sorry I did so now. Leave him to to 327 A. D.) the Chiese had con-aggerated the queer Chinese physi- women he writes:

The policeman agreed, with the quered all that was to be conquered, que and personalities in order to I have been told that the Ameri- secuted all their material desires please their reader or audience can woman does not take pains to result that the pieman gave the within the boundaries of their There is little doubt that Chinese attract men, and that is to a cer wayfarer a good dinner, bathed his, Empire, and, above all, attained school children are not so well thin extent true, I have passed 10 bigher culture and civilization than developed physically as the Ameri- months, in this country, visited all their neighbouring states. Is it can, but this is due to the fact that many cities, and been on the look. not human nature to slow down. physical education in the Chinese out for any interesting-facts, but if a people are satisfied with what schools is poorer, and not to in- have never seen an American girl they have, with no fear of con- herited deficiencies. If any one has give to a man in the street what querors or competitors? Have not seen the well-developed physique of the English call the "glad eye."

American men also were closely the Chinese been awakened during the Chinese farmers with their mar observed by Mr. George. the last few decades by the in vellous rigidity and durability, beThe kneeling attitude of the fluence off Westeners? Has the will be convinced that the Chinese modern American seems hostest. retardation, of Chinese civilization are not weak physically.

He definitely admires his women. anything to do with heredity? "We can be assured, then, that He does not, like the Parisian, The Chinese are proverbially the Chinese people are not weak stress their elegance; like the known as a moral people, so it femorally, mentally, or physically Frenchman, their beauty; while rather unnecessary to dwell any but how about their social or politi-vaunting their smartness and good longer to prove that they are a cal abilities? The social and politi-looks, he especially values their superior people morally. For forty cal standards are determined by moral quality; he accords them a centuries the Chinese have been history and tradition rather than certain diguity, which Europe re- followers of their philosophy of anything else. Judging the present fuses them. America is definitely peace and industry; they are always Chinese society and governnient by a woman's country. But when you practising and preaching peaceful Western standards, they do not consider the facts a little more, justice noble idea which was measure up very well, but one must closely, you begin to be doubtful. gradually recognized by the leading know that the Chinese for forty I don't know in how many hundreds Thinkers of the world. Their fitial centuries have had and will have of crowded street cars I have rid- piety, friendship, loyalty and anai-forever their peculiar tastes and den, but only two or three times able character are perhaps unsur- dreams. They must be judged by have I seen a man give up his seat paseed. But most foreigners are that standard. These Chinese are to a woman, familiar only with the Chinese mer-now undergoing 7 transitional chants abroad, and consequently period; they are trying to adapt they draw misleading observations themselves to the best urts of the and conclusions, The writer does Western civilization according to not mean to state that sucli zier their own ways and conditions.- chanta do noi represent the America took more than half a cen Obiness, but he only wants to make tury to develop a strong central

it clear that they represent only one government, and Roma was not clean of Chinese. Students of built in a day."

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biology and sociology agree that "The reader might now ask, city life is detrimental to human since so much has been said about physique and morality, so there it the good points of the Chinese no wonder that even the Chinese heredity, why don't you tell why gamble or fight, tong wara. It it is so? This question may be must be remembered that most of answered briefly by the following: them are deprived of home life, (1) The modern Chinese are and have absolutely no such plea-derived from the mixing of moby sure and refreshment under the highly endowed tribes. category of social life. Yet the (5) In an over-populated coun Chinese merchants in the Philip try like Chins natural selection in pines, Hawaiian Islands, the the form of diseases and famines United States, or elsewhere on the line been very severe. globe, morally are second to none. (3) There are many Chinese re- It seems to the writer that the ligions or customs which are resson why the Chinese are often eugenic, such as ancestor worship,

hated, despised and, informed a large amy system, a

early mar

those who are not well,

simply this: That man carries his (4). There is a predominant rural bag of faults on his back he population 86 per cent. sccording always poes the faults of others but to the best available statistice-and seldom his own

the farm is the best habitat for *According to the reporter of the human beingedrag

nosáry schools in Chins, and to mental messurements of the

The Chinese are therefore,

of Roncation of the stified in being proud of their heredity. They have led civilizas

silan lelands, the average. tion In the past, and they will con

child is lost as able tribute much in the future. What The high scholor. They need is self-confidence, and

Ireredit

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