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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1927.

MENACE OF ORIENT.

IS THE GAGE THROWN DOWN?

Mr. Sisley Huddleston writes to the "Sidney Sun"-

THE CHINA MAIL.

BIRTH CONTROL.

SHARE IN MURDER.

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OPPOSITION GROWS THROUGH- OUT WORLD.

London, August 13.

DYING MAN THROWN INTO DITCH.

Montreal.-Criminal annals in

At least 20,000,000 women in Canada contain, nothing surpassing all parts of the world, are callousness the conduct of the murderers of Adelard Bouchard, a opposed to Sirth control.

Between East and West there is) a great gulf. One likes to dream of the solidarity of mankind, and to look forward to a time when hu- According to the Catholic taxicab driver, who was done to death on the highway to Malone, man divisions will be erased. Yet organ "The Universe," this huge New York, after he had been en- It is hard to conceive the rapproche array of women, all members of gaged in Montreal to drive two mea ment of the Occident and the the International Union of and a woman to the border. Orient. Never the twain shall Catholic women's Leagues, have When his body was found in a meet, wrote Kipling. It may be, that in one sense Kipling was right issued through their leaders a ditch by the side of the road blood. -that is to say that West and East combined protest against the stained feminine garments were will never understand each other. proposed measures of legisla-found not far off, and it was sup- But it may be that in another sense, tion in certain countries, claim-posed by the police that the woman and in a more terrible sense, he ing to possess a high standard accompanying the two men had also culture, which would been murdered. It is now certain was wrong, and that West and East of will meet each other in the same formally sanction birth prevened, but she actually took part in that not only was ahe not murder- manner as colliding trains.

tion. There is another sense in which the meeting of Weat and East can

the murder of the driver, helping They make their protest on to carry the dying man to the ditch be considered--namely, in the four grounds :---

into which, he was thrown, and (1) Artificial birth control is staining her clothes with his life sense of an interpenetration of ideas which may have distintegrat- immoral, and a violation of blood, ing effects on what we are accus-Divine and natural laws.

Bouchard was five when thrown tomed to call the Western world. (2) It arises from a pagan in the ditch, and swallowed over a

The Chinese conflict and the Rus alan upheaval have turned men's at- and purely materialistic view of gallon of water there before he be life, which, denying any future died, according to medical evidence tention to the great cleavage tween the Occident and the Orient, existence, weakens the moral at the inquest. An American im- for the events of China and of Rus-sense and replaces a generous police theory that the woman had migration inspector broke down the sin interest us all vitally. Russia and disinterested outlook by a been murdered by telling of her for all practical purposes must be weak selfishness, which seeks to arrival at the frontier only partly regarded as essentially Eastern: evade responsibility.

clothed, so that she had, to wrap und the great ferment, which

(3) It mocks at the age-long the limousine rug around her when spreads from the Baltic Sea to the morality of marriage it tends told to go into the office. Pacific Ocean has Intely alarmed

She had apparently been chang- not only the pure politician but the to weaken the marriage bond, to

diminish mutual respect and ing her blood-stained clothes on the philosophical thinker.

Paul Valery, a distinguished conjugal fidelity, and leads in-road, and lacked some duplicate French writer, a member of the evitably, as experience shows, to garments.

After the murder the trlo drove Academy, who expresses himself in divorce, to free love, to prosti- to Montreal, abandoned the car, re- Somewhat obscure style and there-tution, and to abortion.

engaged a room in the Mount Royal fore is listened to only by the elite,

(4) It undermines the Hotel, and for several hours held a once said that Europe, by which hel

strength of the people: Large celebration, drinking meant Western Europe, that part of families, far from being a dan- champagne that when they left the Europe which has been built Latin-Greek traditioas-is merely ager to society, form its strength. hotel without paying their bill they

"Artificial birth control," con- owed over £12. little outjutting headland of Asin,

into the tinues' the protest, "is an anti- It is believed that the two men, and may be re-absorbed immensely Asiatic world. One need social evil, which must eventual who gave their names as George not accept the pessimistic, Implica-ly-indeed, rapidly-lead to de-both names believed to be ficti

Vance, of New York, and Macdonald tion of such an epigrammatic state population. The lessons in his tious--are white slavers, and that mebelu attacked more seriously tory of Greece and of ancient their presence in Montreal was due ment, but that Western Institutions. than they have ever been attacked Rome, prove that the fear of to an effort to abduct immigrant kefore is apparent. And although childbirth is a certain sign of the girls as they disembarked. the huge American continent and decadence of a people seeking to vast Australia, seem in some res pects to stand aloof and afar from Western Europe, yet they are, a It were, the offspring and the out- posts of Western Europe, and must песевнатПу be affected by the strange phenomena we are now wit nessing.

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Chateaubriand a century ago de- clared that the new danger was not the danger of an invasion of bar-

destroy itself.

"The danger of over-population is much exaggerated. In such places where much danger might temporarily exist many remedies may be applied which are not immoral.

We may mention, among others, the cultivation of waste lands, of contenting one-

GETTING ON.

THE MISTAKES PEOPLE MAKE.

barians, but of an invasion of ideas. Belf with a reasonable standard Mail": This is a profound saying. In of living, and the forming of numerable hordes may not over- prudent schemes to encourage run the Western landa, putting emigration."-United Press. them to fire and to sword, as in thei

durk ages of history. But a swarm

of ideas may come out of the East;

much

John Blunt writes in the "Daily

The danger of making dogmatic: statements lies, it, seems to me, in the fact that what applies to one person does not always apply to another.

When, therefore, we discuss, B and and the bases of Western cul- drawn between the general concep- has been discussed recently in this ture. So-called

Communism, as tion of personality and of order paper, such a question as Does the it has manifested itself in Russia, which prevails in the West, and the wearing of glasses hinder à girl în is by no means the Socialism of the conception of mystic Impersonality finding employment? one can only German Karl Marx. Bolshevisma and vague confusion which pre-answer it by saying that it depends may have adopted some of his vails in Eastern philosophy and re- on the employment and it depends teachings, but in its essence. Boliglon. One stimulates energy and on the girl. I have known of girls shevism is peculiarly Oriental, and enterprise. That is why the Wes-who have actually taken to wearing has affinities with the vague mystic tern world has gone ahead. The spectacles to give them a more doctrines of Asia.

other leads to nothingness, whe- sedate appearance, just as I have. ther it be called Nirvana or Nihil-known girls who, though extremely short-sighted, could not be induced The Material and the Ideal. to wear glasses. Generalities are always in part

Looking Younger.

Pollties Short-sighted. Politicians must concern them- selves with political consequences

of the more immediate and percep tible kind, but behind these politi-false, but nobody who has studied It is no use laying down a cal consequences, which may be in the temperaments and teachings general law. Some people like to themselves relatively insignificant of representative Easterners and look younger than their age, some there are intellectual divergences Westerners can fall to see that these people like to look older; which are beginning to affect the generalities have much whole body of our social, our Te: There may be exaggerations in others in one way, some people in validity, people think they can impress ligious, our moral, and our mental Western civilisation. It may be another. No doubt the aim of criticised as having laid too much every girl is to look attractive, but

life.

some

It is this truth which Henri stress on mere mechanism, while there again there is no rule by Massis endeavours to expound in a Eastern civilisation can be criti- which this result can be attained. remarkable work which is entitled cised for rejecting the advantages

Personality is infinitely varied,

in its French form, "Defense de of physical science. On the other and to express one's personality in l'Occident. He tries to prove, with side, you have a discouraging dc-one's appearance must be a matter considerable success that the Wes-cultism with an acceptance of Pan of individual choice. Fashion, up tern world has been flooded, of retheism, which necessarily destroys to a point, tries to make us look cent years, with Eastern notions, personal consciousness.. On the which, whether bad or good in other side, you may have a too com- alike, but there is much latitude themselves must tend to shatter the foundations of European civi-plete separation of spiritual and within the decrees of fashion and

material things.

籍 woman con always be both Nevertheless, the normal West-fashionable and individual,

lisation. It would be foolish to

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accept this thesis in its entirety, erner will not have a moment's The great mistake is to try to because Western thought has for hesitation in choosing. But the look like something that you are many centuries been impregnated Russians have hesitated. Their not. That usually creates an un- with precisely the views which it tendency has always been to turn pleasing Impression, and I should is now pretended are being export Eastwarda rather than Westwards suppose that it is liable to have a ed from the East.

though such mighty monarchs as bad effect on one's chances. No- Nevertheless, one can go a long Peter the Great did their best to body cares for the person who is way with the author. One dis- bring Russia into the Western acting a part, and very few people agrees with him when he suggests world. The Bolsheviks may have who act parts succeed in doing that Kant and Luther are in con made sporadic efforts tradiction

towards them well enough not to be seen with the Latin-Greek Europe, but on the whole they have through. tradition; and one particularly die-only succeeded in becoming less In short, to be natural is the agrees with him when he argues passive Orientals and a spearhead thing that pays beat in the long that Protestantism, as such, has directed towards been borrowed from the East, and Europe.

the heart of run. Of course, one must mix

prudence with one's naturalness—|

- because it is opposed to. Roman But what of German Such for instance, it would be quite rea- Catholicism is therefore a dissolv men as Keyserling indicate a simi-sonable for a short-sighted girl not ing force.. He overlooks the fact lar destructive movement in Ger to draw undue attention to the fact that the greatest of Western lands, many, Keyserling represents their her prospects were concerned Including England and the United negation of intellect, the triumph but one must not turn one's pru- States, are predomiantly Protestant; of occultism. and are the leaders in the silent

dence into a pose. Personally, I do not think Ger- warfare that is being waged with many will succumb to Drieptele Too many people think that they Arfatism in all its shapes.

ism. The best observers believe can only get on by constantly aping others. But that is a profound

Certainly it is not my purpose to that this country, which had the discuss Western religions, but it choice of becoming a bulwark error. may be taken that Protestantism against the East, or of becoming and Roman Catholicism are equally ridge over which Asis might pass part of the tradition of the West into Western Europe, has clearly

P.W.D. ARCHITECT RESIGNS.

é lund equity semi that traditions thrown in its lot with the Occident. a barrier against the conceptions of The problem, it will be seen, is the East. It is a pity that the au not a military problem, or even, in thor spoils his reasoning taking

the common meaning, a political of the «barenu of public works,

Let us set aside this

Mr. Fernando Ocampo, architect

up a narrow Romanist standpoint. problem. enters into the domain; Philippines, resigned on August 80 erroneous of the thinker, the philosopher, the from Government service. His re- view. The case then becomes the artist; and the literary man, signation is made effective Septem stronger for a distinction. to be

Asiatism means a disaggregation ber 1. Mr. Ocampo was a Govern- of the human personality, a confus- ment pensionado to the United ed loss of being in non-being," an States and Europe. »He was grad- obliteration of social landmarks, a uated from the University of HELPS CHILDREN OVER HOT destruction of the hlerarchy of Pennsylvaniapoleonardo,

WEATHEROKE Hene, values, a decomposition urang en de While its Europe, he took up a Summer complaint / makes – little drowning in the great evolutionary course in the Architects' Academy “hndway with children whose careful ocean of which; the Karins Bregn- in Rome, Italy; He also stugged In

mothers as Chamberlain's Calle and laten the tides which wash on the Paris, France. At present, he Diarrhoes Remedy for stomach and shores of the vast All of the Uni-professor at the Mapua Institute of bowel: complainty, severe, and sudden intestinal cramps, and weakening diary verse. Never was there amore Technology, AANGEGA Choo Given the weetened formidable menace to the deep The Art of Arguelles, Quleum- water it in way, to take. For rooted traditional Western civilisa bing has engaged the services of sverywhere.

HONG KONG WOMEN'S GUILD

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MINISTERING CHILDREN'S LEAGUE

Stan Hill

Fur

un o the Fair.

TO BE HELD AT

LEE GARDENS

on OCTOBER 1st, 1927,

from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.

A magnificent array of attractions including

THREE REGIMENTAL BANDS,

Dancing to H. K. & S. Hotels Super-Orchestra,

GRAND FIREWORK DISPLAY,

CABARET SHOWS, CHINESE CONJURING,

DRAGON PROCESSION,

DONKEY RIDES

Teas and all the usual Candy Stalls, etc.

Come. Lasses and ads!

Charity Begins at the air!