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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 1925.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

September OctoAs they dash through Skill's

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A CALENDAR. ber, 1925.

28, Mon., M. The Americans cannot bear

Pasteur died, 1895. anything of their own except 29, Tues., Women's Franchise, N. their people-Miss Viola Tree,

It's impossible to get on in this 30, Wad., J. Keir Hardie died, world without a well-developed past. Mr. Anthony Gibbs.

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This world's divided into two classes of people, those who stand upright and those who lean-Mr. W. D. Pelley.

You have to go to the working people of the North County to find real students of literature.-Sir Edmund Gosse.

I think that plays with happy endings are most in keeping with British ideas of the theatre.-Mr. Archibald Nettlefold.

LOST AT SEA.

AMERICAN SUBMARINE

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greater degree than Louis his work on micro-organisms, Pasteur. He is best known for though his range was very wide. He showed that alcoholic and ace-1 tic fermentations were caused by

Or plunge mid the dancing

apray.

Their bale-fires blaze in the

mighty forge,

Thoir life-pulse throbs in the

mill,

Their lightnings shiver the gaping.

gorge,

And their thunders shake the

hill...

Hol these are the Titans of toil

and trade,

The heroes who wield no sabra; But mightier conquesta reapoth

the blade That is borne by the Lords of

Labour.

•

*

Each bares his arm for the ring.

ing strife

That marshals the sons of the

soil;

Than laurels with life-blood And nobler the arch of a bare bold

wet;

brow

living organisms, and that when And the sweat-drops shed in their,

battle of life, these are killed or excluded decay

Are gems in the crown of Toil." is prevented. Thus he opposed the idea of spontaneous genera-

And prouder their well-won tion, and introduced sterilisation.

wreaths, I trow, To-day the words "Pasteurised milk" are known to all, and to Pasteur is due the saving of many lives through the preven- tion of the attacks of harmful organisms. His studies in this

Than the clasp of a coronet. direction led him to the investiga- tion of the prevention and cure of

No wonder that Thackeray on hydrophobia and other virulent hearing "The Lords of Labour" diseases, to the germ theory of recited by Charles Lever exclaim- disease, and to the principles of ed, "By Jove! I don't think Burns preventive medicine, of which the could have taken the wind out of Pasteur Institute is the enduring this man's sails." memorial. Like all really great men, he had to encounter a good deal of opposition and ridicule in

This desire for re- his time, but his reputation is NEW WORDS. form is not con- fined to Labour. now quite secure. To nebody more than Pasteur is it due that Here is an American concerned doctors nowadays lay so

much about the words of his country's more stress on prevention than on national anthem and writing:-- Later. cure.

There is a general feeling that, while the music of "The Star- Spangled Banner" is most inspir- **We still ing and highly appropriate for a

DISASTER.

(Reuter's American Service.)

New York, Sept. 26. The submarine S51 has been sunk as the result of a collision with the steamer "City of Rome," twenty miles east of Block Island, Thirty-seven of the submarine's crew are reported drowned. stenmer rescued three.

The

The fate of the crew of the 251 is still uncertain, though Navy officials are of the opinion that it

is possible the bulkheads are hold- A GENUINE SONG want," says national anthem, the words are

OF LABOUR.

intolerable, affecting probablying in parts of the vessel and some l

Mr. Ramsay not at all appropriate for such a the duration of disputes not a of the crew are alive. On the "our great Labour song-metri-been prompted by the circum- Mac Donald, purpose. They seem to have little. The ordinary vol. teer Portsmouth, New

contrary, a radio received at

Hampshire, cal verses, it may be presumed, stances of a particular battle, with service should be maintained at a from a destroyer at the spot superior in content as well as in the author's heart stirred by the most efficient pitch. But beyond where the submarine is lying at a music to "The Red Flag." Labour confusion, terror and hatred of Overland China Mail. this there should be banda of depth of hat attempts to drive basic and primary significance of the verses are difficult to as a term has been robbed of its such an awful experience. Some volunteers taking instruction in reports that to com- municate with the crew have been

"mental or physical exertion, the running of the trams, the

unsuccessful.

especially in obtaining the means ferries, the post office, electrical

of subsistence," is its full diction HOLED ON HER PORT SIDE. services, and other things essenz-

ary meaning and to many the The submarine, which is rest-work is merely an abstraction, or tial to the community. first sight, may suggest antagon. has a large hole on her port side cal. party. But it was not always for consideration, with the hope

This, ating on her keel, inclined to port, at most the hall-mark of a politi-

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Hongkong, Monday, Sept. 28, 1925.

A VOLUNTEER SCHEME.

abaft the conning tower.

Newport at six this morning for The destroyer "Putnam" left the scene and wirelessed having discovered a buoy made up of life

memorize and they do not convey a sentiment which is suitable for a national song of this kind. that new words might be written, A desire has beeri expressed or the old ones modified. These words are, therefore, submitted

sons of toil, the manual workers, tually be used, efforts and achievement of the that they or better ones may even thus, and it is questionable if the

have ever, in lyrical medium been more finely and justly recog-

Some of the stirring lines of this Labour song, written well-nigh seventy years ago, may appro- priately be quoted at the present moment. Here is the first of its and eight lines of the last: three twelve-line thrilling stanzas

Just

T

(First stanza)

in the light,

What so proudly we hail with a the stars, and the stripea on

joyful, devotion?...

But the emblem that stira every the blue and the white.

Let our cheers fill the air, let our loyal emotion!

ism to labour and the labouring classes. Nothing of the sort, of ecurse, is intended. Strikes in this part of the world are not to be compared with those taking servers, which is believed to nized and symbolized than by the Oh, say, do you see, as it waved have been floated up by the im-forgotten Glasgow poet and news- place at home, which are general-prisoned crew. ly based on grievances, and some

Meanwhile, the Navy Depart his ode, "The Lords of Labour." paperman, James Macfarlan, in sort of principles, and where ment is rushing all kinds of craft to the spot, including a salvage notice is given of their coming ship and three submarines with into effect. Here such is not the divers and listening devices; also case. Experience has shown a Navy seaplane which will en that grievances and principles are ascertain the submarine's exact circle the area and endeavour to very often absent, and that in-location on the ocean bed. timidation and hate come into effective play. The weakness, of the foreign population has been in its dependence, upon the Chinese labouring classes. Its utter In- ability, for some time at least, to accustom itself to the changed conditions caused by absenting

A BURVIVOR'S STORY. Lira, one of the survivors, said after the crash was Commander that the first thing they heard Lieutenant Rodney-Dobson call- ing to quarters. They rushed on deck and got out of the conning was running well submerged and tower somehow. The submarine went down almost immediately.

They come they come in a glori-Oh,

ous march!

You can hear their steam-steeds

neigh,

hearts breathe a prayer For the country we love 50 exemplified there.

long may that Star-Spangled

Banner still wave. Ku O'er the land of the free and

the home of the bravel

ANOTHER HERESY HUNT.

What the "China Mall" thinks to-day, Oxford thinks to-morrow, we said recently. Agreement one with the other in the matter of the use of the Boxer Indemnity Funds bore out this statement. The fact needs wider acceptance. What servants and workers generally. The last thing they heard was the the "China Mail" thinks to-day, If a limited knowledge of seaman-Commander shouting to the "City England thinks to-morrow.

"If music be the food, of love," same strains which sing like of Rome," "Please throw us a Not ship could be included in this line. Lira aded that two of those observed the Duke of Elyria to his false, seductive sirens in the eare so very long ago we suggested volunteer scheme, it will rescued were entangled in the musicians, "play on"-but, with neighbour to sleep. The truth is of one man may merely send his that the question of volunteer ba....seen what the moral wireless antennae and were car something rather like the same that the Washington police, it service in such a place as Hong- effect there would be on dived deep and came up astern of all the instruction which has been selves an inquiry beside which ried down as the boat sank, he conjecture in mind, that is not at this report be true, have set them- kong needed wider consideration. the mass of those who become the steamer where he drifted for issued by the Washington police, the heresy hunt of Dayton is like In a word that volunteer service such a care to the Government. forty-five minutes before being writes the "Manchester Guard asking a man with a watch the should not, first and last, be that Here then is work of a. practical picked up.

tan." These are reported to have time. Granted that music like of military service.. The Home Character waiting to be done. It

WASHED THROUGH THE HOLE.

unearthed some ancient re- Country has taken heed and it now is not & Government matter, or

Boston, Sept. 27..

gulation forbidding the play say but what that something is every other art, has something to has an organisation, fafluentially should not be, but one in which submarine arrived by the "City and it is announced that depends very much on the The three rescued men from the ing of "Indecent music" may be debated eternally, for it led, that will see that the country the leaders of the community of Rome." They say they were they will enforce it as 800 sa listener. And again as with is not placed to any great incon- should take control. There has in their bunks when the crash they have been able to decide what other arts the listeners stand- venience at the outbreak of a been an inclination in the present came, but being near the conning constitutes indecent music. It isards vary strike, especially those who trouble to trounce the Govern the opening to the ocean surfaces, red at once to even less astute improper, but few withers are

with tower were floated out through a difficulty which will have occur-eration. Some found Wagner gen+ have no direct part in the actual ment verbally for not doing They think, their comrades were (and suspicious) minds than those rung to-day by that rear To dispute. This is the siniple and things. There has been a vague suffocated by chlorine gas re- which are functioning so actively day there are those who incline to practical idea brought to birth in eas about the "not doing things lensed by the collision. One sur beneath the helmets of the Wash the opinion that some of t these columns. Twice within re- The trouncing should have been in the coming tower or on watch into hace mucer they do not languorous, wistful strains cent years has the Colony had a nearer home, and calls for volume come to the surface, but were One expert says that what the law out into vistas which an active, tower should have seem to have much to guide them. Debussy or Ravel are reaching strike inflicted upon it, and twice tears should not have had to be probably dragged under by intends to put down Is that God-fearing Rotarian would do has the great mass of the com-made by essential serv

hootchykootchy sort of intona- well to leave unexplored munity been put to very great and time and worry needle

And yet The Captain of the "City of tion, but this seems to be it may be suspected the unnecessary inconvenience so far.

Home which is an American definitely trespassing into the strains were played to: in reaching a stat as its essential services have bean

coaster, said he sounded the region of the slitby, toves, who fngton police so far ption. Such a volu

whistle as soon as he saw the sub-gyre and gimble in the wabe, and provoked and seduced ther concerned. Happily such great

would be a defensive

marine's only lights but was un- another Lewis Carroll or Edward be undeniably utility concerns as the Electri

offensive alliance. It

able to avoid the collision. His Lear seems to be needed as an short, shi ||Light

the

ship hit the submarine, which was inter affected

A rival exponent of does or doos but at least on one occasion, the

going at full speed, about half the resurrected law deck that eularly when WAY year the ste

suction.

and the

those