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Hongkong, Friday, August 7, 1925,
SYMPATHY.
were over-grown men of degenerate and tainted outlook. Make the punishment fit the crime by all means, but do not let it be such that in the future it can be said of patriotism that it is the last resort of a schoolboy,
The Dry Law.
While prohibition remains written in the United States Constitution and the Volstead Aep continues to hold its place on the United States Statute Book, it is the duty of the authorities of the uation to unforce,
FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1925.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
The humorist has through a slackness in the censor- STRIKE LIFE. yet to rise to give ship. Perhaps this particular us the funny side journal is of the "Red Hot" of the strike if there is one. variety." It should be if it There have been many interesting portrays the feeling of the body of Items noticed. Take for instance young men who take charge of the instruction being given daily China's destinies on the slightest to would-be tram drivers and the provocation. This student body. eager way in which the new has sent forth preaching bands. comers are quick to grasp the although there is no evidence to details necessary to a successful show that any band has reached driving of a tram car. There Hongkong to proselytlee and con- was the geyser-like eruption of vert-and raise funds. Manila to the limits of practicability, the water in the Wanchai district the has had a visit and presumably due observance of both. If the law
The jet rose Singapore is next on the list. and maintained itself to the How much money is raised and is a bad law it ought to be repealed. height of the shops and was a what becomes of it? "Red Hot" Elven a good law, which it is suspended piece of silver, and of blood needs sustenance, and possible to carry out because of the
sheer beauty. It lasted some doubtless there is a large expendi- inck of a sufficient weight of public time and must have helped to ture in feasting-feasting let us opinion behind it, would be botter alter the overflow figures of the readily admit of a simple charac- repealed than remain a dead letter. Water Authority. Curiosity has ter. It is well that the faithful While, however, it stands, the had great play wondering who who enjoy the privileges of plain duty of the Executive is to the young lady is who was seen foreign imperialism in other Beek to carry it out at whatever on certain afternoons perched on places should be made to realise cost. That President Coolidge up-
other afternoon.
parently takes this view of his dutya Pedder Street verandah twang- that there is such a thing as a all to his credit. The extreme ing a guitar or a ukulele, and the student Body. They will know measures he is directing to that end catches from the sea to those of nation suffers "hot blood" treat- sight of fish vendors selling their what to do when the next foreign are calculated to succeed either in the Praya wall. There is also the ment! making the illicit traffic impossible
1)
Plans to erect
d monument to the memory of
meeting
or in demonstrating the necessity newspaper man whose feats of for repealing or amending the law.lee-carrying, hosing the garden, The figures of the American De buying food, deserve to be written PANCHO VILLA. partment of Commerce as to the
in imperishable prose or poetry- estimated value of liquor smuggled at least he says so. He has dis- Pancho Villa, the flyweight cham- into the country last year, despite covered the ideal way of assisting pion of the world are the tremendous expenditure that for instance, can more easily be ground that the pugilist did not in the washing. Handkerchiefs, with opposition in Manila on the was incurred to circumvent the done when one is sitting in the earn auch recognition. Recently smugglers, must be very disquieting bath.. Also socks can be easily Governor-General Wood said that to thoughtful citizens of the coun-cleansed if they are on the fect Pancho Villa had done more for try. The department estimates that
no less than 40,000,000 dollars with the wearer again sitting in the Philippines than all the worth of contraband grog found its the bath. The ability to meet politicos. put together, and the way into the United States during troubles can be tested by the mea. General ought to know for the sure of looking on the humorous politico, from all accounts is an side of things. And-note this entirely disreputable person.
the 12 months. It also "declare
that this figure representa a
小心
thas of course, also to be added the product, known to be enormous of the illicit manufacturers of in- toxicants within the country.
creuse of 10,600,000 dollars com- pared with that of the previons year. To the 40,000,000 dollarsericus" people, who, seeing ing managers, and brought to through a glass darkly, and notice the Philippine Islands, and unable to measure their own in the Filipinos. Does all this "Average" significance, step in where angels merit a monument? fear to tread.
people will agree that it does not. Pancho Villa's name will find a very honourable place in boxing is records, for he was a clean and STUDENT BANDS, made that the clever boxer who, so to speak, had organ of the the ball at his feet. This is some- finding thing to be proud of, and just as Colony good as any monument."
it is not the humorous people who Pancho made a fortune for him- cause trouble; but the sad self and a couple of astute "box-
THEY SAY THAT
I may yet write half a dozen plays. Mr. Bernard Shaw.
Tithe atarted with Abraham, and has been going on ever since.-8 Trustrum Eve.
Few Englishmen can pronounce their own language correctly.-Dr. H. H. Hulbert.
In all big minds ambition takes the forth of wanting to command someboly.-Miss Catherine Dodd.
It is a great waste of time to shut a child up in a room with a stupid teacher.-Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, M.P.
thought of reason and no thought of the future, that future which we are helping to shape so that. No one can say how long we may others may enjoy it, or rue it? live when we are free from the We have settled the servant ravages of germs-Sir Ronald
Ross. question, after a fashion. It is
a
the belief of many that it has not Gardeners know only too well been settled; that there has been that Nature can't be trusted for
second. Mr. Maurice Lane too much insistence on punish- Norcott. ment and less on Christian justice,
Boer acts as a food as well as o
Councillor
TO-DAY'S SMILE.
Students' harbourage
Complaint
Union
in
13 the
GREEK MYTHS IN ENGLISH POETRY.
he spas deeper tha
Thing 100, O fairer spirit walkest
here
Upon those lifted hills; Wherever that all thought within
the breast
The more one studies the Greek servile grace, myths and legends the more one the outward loveliness. feels that the source of their ap peal is twofold; first the love of beauty which all the world acknow ledges in Greek poetry and mytho logy, as well as in Greek sculptors and architecture; and secondly, a certain diness of the stories to serve no symbols of idens. And, of course, in many cases, the two, the love of beauty and symbolism.ure so closely interwoven his to be almost inextri cable, says "Christian Science Monitor" writer:
s
To do justice, to such poems Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound" and Keats's "Endymion" and "Hyperion, it is necessary to know Shelley and Keats, for each of these porms embodies the centist message
The inner beauty of the world
moved;
naturlight that the dome of even-
ing ills:
On endless waters rounding to,
the west;
For them whe through that beauty's
vel have loved"
The soul of all things beautiful
She hest..
But the Greek gods and goddessce will not always bear close inspec on. In an anthropomorphic age,
fale, as the receptile for his own their gode with their own weak- idas Prometheus is merely a nesses rather than their strength. symbol for the regenerated man, The Iliad shows a record of petti struggling against the tyranny of nss, envy, and injustice on the custom and finally overthrowing it. part of the gods, and the old myths This custom, convention, tradition have power only because the idea all it what we will-is by Shelley that they symbolized was bigger typified by Zeus. The poem breathes than the symbol. more the spirit of the French Revo- lution than of the old classic world. on a kindred subject, but conceived Two poems by Tennyson written "In similar fashion, Keats employs in totally different moods, illustrate both Endymion" and "Hyperion" perhaps best of all the beauty of to illustrate his own idea of beauty. the old tale, illumined by the
A thing of beauty is a joy for thought, imagination, and experi ever." he asserts, and so on through ence of a modern poet. Both are the lovely, mmbling, much maligned based upon the Odysey. In "The poems he conveys his message of Letos Eaters" Tennyson enters beauty transcendent. In "Hyper- imaginatively into the Epicurean ion, it is the triumph of the new view of life in land where it is order over the old. of Apollo over always afternoon." In Ulysses,” Hyperion, for it is nature's law however, the impulse is that "first in might" should be "first in beauty."
on which after all our laws are drink to the British working man of its writer, each poet chose an old men seemed too often fo endow based. We have treated the who works very hard. servant in a manner that should Miss Pucker. make him sit up and take notice The great tragedy of history is of himself: as an equal in intelli- that few persons can stand the gence and as an indispensable.Duanico, M.P.
position of leadership.-Ray. H. We venture to suggest that the
The franchise is no panaceas and servant question will never be is only good as far as the wisdom settled until a Commission of and virtue of the people makes it so. Enquiry has gone fully into the Canon Donaldson. question of the status of servants: The merit of almost any sort of hours of labour and rates of pay, education is that it makes people and until the Government- ask for more and better education.
-Sir Theodore Morison despised registration scheme is in operation. In a word the matter demands sympathy. Similarly with regard to schoolboys-the striking variety. We have been There is a saying that it is nice greatly moved by the speech of to have a giant's strength, but Dr. Wan Man-kai at the meeting better still not to use it as a of the Education Board. Dr. Wan giant. Something of this feeling combines in himself
the various elements of Chinese courtesy, comes to
dignity and commonsense. aspects of the strike or boycott thrust themselves upon ule. We are too prone to make this a personal or local affair by reason of the above, but by his work along social, religious and dwelling on our inconveniences,
medical lines, He rightly losses and worries-forgetting that the root cause is outside and diagnoses the case but pleads for beyond our boundaries and con-that sympathy with which even fines, and we had almost written, insane cases should be treated. our influence. But influence, even We are not to be taken as retract- local, must have a great bearing, ing the approval that striking not merely on the ultimate issue, Dr. Wan favours that. But it is schoolboys should be punished.
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but on the future as well. We are
all the
It is
but a truism to say so. And he is entitled to be heard, not merely
.
KNOW THYSELF: Daridedly, animals are stupid!” "Yes, my dear rabbit1'!----
Le Rire, Paris
*
*
To strive, to seek, to find, and not
. to yield.
Pure beauty too is Shelley's The hero returned from Troy can. "Arethusa," filled with that joy and not be content with an idlo, pur- exuberance of lifs which marks poseless life *"The Cloud."
Arethusa arose
From her couch of snows
In the Acroceraurian mountains,
From cloud and from crag, With many a jag. Shepherding her bright fountains,
She leapt down the rocks,
Longfellow, in his "Prometheus,” gains significance, not so much from richness and beauty of picture from the underlying idea:
All is but symbol minted
4
Of the Post, Prophet. Seer; Only those are crowned and sairited Who with grief have been acquaint
edhe
I am become a Tune; For always roaming with a hungry
heart
Much have I seen and known. I am a part of all that I have met, Yet all experience is an arch whore
thro
Gleams that untravell'd world,
whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. It matters little, in the realm of Ulysses, aca-tossed and battle- the imagination that Homer's
worn, wished only to return; that he might not have recognized his modern namesake. It is an interest- ing illustration of the new vitality that ena by breathed into old forms. So when we read that the poem represents Tennyson himself and hia own struggle for, self-mastery, the figure becomes more and not less valid to us. For in all of these. poems, it is the moulding by the post's imagination of the old forma of universal meaning, linking the and symbols that gives us a poetry past with the present, endowing Hamsa akpokiers; pains in the side and Buy Venus of Milo ha f the former with a new vividness, treating fervour valuable: It can be cuchara hearty Contenating the Venus of permanent significance.
of the disasse for which it is especially much more than a more picture of and the latter with a deeper, more
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agreed that Hongkong has no case not weakness to agree that a con- of any sort to answer. We siderable measure of sympathy reiterate that our hands our clean, should be tinged with the dis
cussions and decisions which
Making nations nobler, freer. and that as examplars we are
Yet all hards, whose hearts, un
lighted beyond reproach. The Chinese-occupy this particular matter. of all classes have rights of That the Government has it under
Honour and believe the message, consideration is a matter of astis A FAMILY NECESSITY, Hold aloft their torches lighted. domicile, freedom of action and faction. That its decision will be camberlain's Pain Balm at all times.
Every family should be provided with Gleaming through the realms be.
nighted justice, denied them in their own accepted without reproach we pray be cared in much-leas sine-Ar they onward bear the message domain. We are, if the simile can hope goes without saying. It is the pomptly treated Lame back be granted glants with the not likely we think to make the meat and ahemmatic pains are some strength of glanta. Are we using mistake. that strength blindly, with no
olboya... as if they eben.
Milo with the Medicmon's shy nuð.
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