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A COUNCIL AGENDA,

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ceptance of which is only consis-

the same time adopted a hostile atas to the origin of life. or the des- titude towards the Nationalist cent of man. Father Byrne him-[ Government, discrediting it before self is probably hardly conscious of

Johnson-I hear that you have

the eyes of the public." That is this. But to an outside reader, the been getting married.

Brown-Yes. Johnson-Whom did you marry? · Brown-Polly Smith, her mother,

all there is to it. The newspaper wished-for result or belief seems has told the truth regarding the evidence before it gets sifted in his quite patently to colour the whole corruption and political monkeying mind. And this constant protest- her stepfather, and two maiden that exists in Hankow, and by so ing not proven' seems to betray aunts! doing has displayed great courage, an uneasy conscience. |having everything to lose and noth-{ Nothwithstanding his regret at ing, materially, to gain. The the violent statements on the other

Angler How are you, John? journal's disclosures of official inside, and his remark, "they are un John-Well, sir, my lungs are eptitude and turpitude have been true, and a departure from truth very bad; wot's left of 'em, an' my eagerly snapped up by the coasts of genuine science," we cannot help perly, an' I'm gettin' stone deaf, an must injure, not serve, the cause heart's all jumpy. I can't sea pro- Press and, no doubt, telegraphed feeling that this initial attitude of abroad. No wonder the "Central Father Byrne is a terrible handiwot with my corna an' chilblains Chinn Post" has been suppressed. cap to the unbiased weighing of I'm all anyhow. The Printers Union, we observe, evidence.

Angler Otherwise all right? does not want to deal too harshly

Mr. G. R. Stirling-Taylor, in re- with the Imperialists Their Of England in the Bookman

viewing Mr. Belloc's History of The teacher was trying to give position is only confined to those months ago put the matter very meaning of the word "persever- a few her pupils an illustration of the Imperialist nations which are adopt succinctly when he wrote:-"The ance" "What is it," she asked, ing an aggressive policy against mind that can submissively sur-that carries a man weak nations." So, upon certain render itself to the dogma of

along rough conditions, they are prepared to re- Church is not well suited for the down, through jungles, and swamps, roads and smooth roads, up hills and turn to work. These conditions are handling of Becular historical as laughable as the declaration of evidence." And if this can be said and raging torrents?"

There was this small but virulent union's optorical evidence how much more is it father was. & motor dealer, spoke about the handling of secular his silence, and then Tommy, whose position to specified "Imperialist applicable in the case of the bio nations." It is demanded, for In- logical sciences? stance, that "corrections should be The implicit acceptance of made in all articles and news whole body of belief which controle against the Nationalist Government (50 many of the avenues of thought

all.

up.

"Please, mias," he said, "there ain't no such car.".

published in the paper and sufficient leaves so little room for the candid

Two costers entered a picture guarantee should be given that no ence that the person who has ac- scape dotted with horsemen. Each examination of unfavourable avid gallery and paused opposita a land- Buch things would be published in cepted it seems destined to reach horseman had a falcon attached to the future." The obvious futility the inanity of Cardinal Newman, his wrist by a chain. The title of of such a "demand" must appeal to "We cannot without absurdity call the picture was "Hawking."

ourselves at once believers and in- quirers also." And so the Inquiry in them days!" said one of them. "So that's 'ow they 'awked stuf is laid aside, and the comfortable "Queer, ain't it?" facts and those that fit in with the accepted falth are alone received.

"Yes," said the other, "bat I quotation the whole truth of which them blokes is tryin' to sell."

Father Byrne concludes with a can't make out, mate, what exactly he apparently accepts. It is by somebody who has tried to read far! beyond his intelligence and who is

CORRESPONDENCE.

EVOLUTION, DARWINISM, AND

THE REV. FATHER BYRNE.

ment.

verse.

"Must be them parrots of theirs.”

M'Dauber, an eminent artist,

or

дол.

big or small, outside that zone. In the result the agendas of Council meetings are poverty-stricken. To the Editor of the "China Hall") Big men with big ideas are rare.

Sir-Being greatly interested in consequently suffering from a working beside a picturesque coun Only when the Colony is threaten-through the Rev. Father Byrne's tion. Just as the Dyspeptic has try farm was being worried by the Evolution and Darwinism I read avere attack of mental indiges- ed by some abnormal upheaval do lecture as it appeared in your the craving for food, he has the persistent attentions of a small fox those in the limelight through columns-with deep disappoly-craving for ertitude and the terrier, and Anally in a moment of their position as official or un-

gnawing mental pain from the unrestrained passion he asized the More than thirty years ago one lack of it. Just listen to it: animal and dipped its hindquarters official members of the Council of our great acientists since dead, "For the plain truth is that, in a pot of vividly coloured paint. make an effort to get out of the "The meanest kind of criticism is there is not a single point in which appeared.

gave utterance to the following:- though some agree in this and that,, Soon after the owner of the deg rut and to make the proceedings that of the man who cheapens all agree; battling for evolution, of the Council meetings some- the very simplest facts of nature is left, nothing at all on their show-shrieked.

acientific explanation by saying that they have torn it to pieces; nothing "What's the meaning of this?" he thing more than commonplace. are unexplainable. Such a man ing save a few fragments strewn That is not to say that anyone savage to the reverence of a Sir

"The brute sprang at me," 10- prefers the chaotic wonder of the about the arena."

turned the artist calmly, "and I would advocate the artificial crea- Isaac Newton."

But what does Father Byrne or stopped him with this"-holding up the writer of tion of public interest in the this printed up in letters of gold happier if an angel from heaven other. "Sprang at you! What-tail We wish Father Byrne would get Would "Father Byrne be any the

this really want? a brush. affairs of the Council, around over the entrance to the St. Patrick's (or any other means by which he firat?"

"Sprang at you!" 'anorted the which are inextricably woven all Club, and have it adopted as the believes absolute certainty could

motto of the Society of Jesus. that concerns, or should concern, Father Byrne in his locture said: formed the whole human race come to man) came down and in-

The Artist (bitterly)-"The fact every member of the community."Many talk glibly of 'Darwinism, that man was actually evolved from Is, not one purchaser in ten knows But is it not time to take our eyes Darwin's own works is comparative soul (whatever that may mean)

but the number who have read an amoeba and had no. immortal a good picture from a bad one." off South China once in a while ly small. Darwin was very modest different from the protozoan?

Critic (brightly)-"That's what and concentrate on the problems label as facts' statements which the happier?

in his conclusions, and did not

II call luck for some of you fellows, ask would Father Byrne.be any eh?" Hong Kong, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 1927, that are solely connected with this were only theories."

Or if he does not Colony? Public work, we are

Then Father Byrne proceeds with like this,, let us suppose the re-

Little Robert-Pa, a man's wife this summary:"Many scientists

Let us suppose that the is his better half, isn't she?' often told, is fascinating. It tends hold that if we were sufficiently angel brought down definite in-

His Father-We are told so, my to make for better citizenship. It curious about our ancestors Investi controvertible evidence that man

gation would reveal them to us as had no relationship, physical affords a capital training ground monkeys in the forest. Now why mental, with the rest of the;

Little Robert Then, if a man Save for the Budget speeches for community service that must do they think this? No one can animal or plant world, but had marries twice, there isn't anything and debates it is to be feared that ever leave its mark not only on semblance, in bodily structure, be a soul, and was a special creation.

deny that there is a considerable re-breathed inte him a special entity, left of him, is there? the average agenda of the Legis. those engaged in it, but on the tween man and ape; scientists can Would Father Byrnes then be any lative Council meetings is some- Colony as a whole. But of fas-Foint out further affinities as in the happier?

nature and reaction of the blood. We cannot think so. It is just thing akin to that of many of the cination there will be none, of irk-Further archaeological researches this clash and struggle, this age- meetings of the Sanitary Board-someness there may be over-much, have unearthed various specimens long warfare from amoeba to man of human workmanship and human which is life.: And while its nothing of public interest to dis- if the routine of the Legislative remains

the earth,

The tools phases and forms, which, like in- ! cuss. There is no live topic be- Council is allowed to become too used by these ancient men were of a dividuals give it a transient em- man!" fore the Council, and no live mechanical-a perfunctory duty to a rudimentary civilisation. Some pass out, the struggle and the war- primitive and rough kind, pointing bodiment, are extinguished and member apparently ready to sub- to be performed with a subse- skulls and other skeletonfe parts fare remain. Far as we can look in tramcar who frequently takes Elderly gentleman, to workman, mit one. Officials and unofficials! quent sigh of relief. Something found indicated, in the opinion of back into the past where there was nips from his bottle-

many scientists, a type of man life there was this struggle. And alike seem content to permit the more enduring than that is ex-much closer to the ape than

the when we look into the future

"Do you know, my man, I nuter. business of the Colony, so far as pected on the part of those who spent over these relics and it was the British Association and the

of to-day. Much work was when the Roman Catholic Church, tested spirits in my life?" the Legislative Council is con- are entrusted with the responsi- hoped to complete the collection Society of Jesus have passed to a-goin' to begin now, neither!

Working-man-No; an' you ain't cerned at any rate, to pursue the bilities of high positions, whether some day, and to show the gradual the limbo of Forgotten. Institu even tenor of its way. There is, they be officials or unofficials. The aping of the ape into the man. tions, and the present order is no The collection is still incomplete, more, this struggle and warfare however, a danger in getting Into primary task of the Council may and the link between man and will still remain: for this is life, the fireside in the evening. Mother a groove and staying there. It is be, it is true; legislative, but it was in the days of Darwin. We of gratitude they owe to Charles newspaper, and the boy was study- monkey is as missing a link as it And biologists feel the great debt was knitting, father reading tha not sufficient to point to the marle ought also to be creative and in- read at times of the "food" of Darwin because the realisation of ing words. ing time that the Colony is ob spiriting: When it becomes that evidence. The "food" consists of the truth of this age-long

a few skulls, some pieces of bones omnipresent struggle as the warn Hances?" serving until such time as affairs in actuality there will automatic and some skeletons grouped around and woof of life is due to him and in South China permit of normal-ally be an end of agendas that con- them. It was remarked that they almost to him alone. And in him ity in the commercial realm and tain nothing more than room for Ford delivery-van."well-nigh perfect pattern in the could all fit into the back of a small also we have that unique and of the resumption of schemes for reporting that no business of Iwonder does Father Byrne really scientific study of that, warfare in the development of the Colony public interest was discussed." believe that if Charles Darwin had plant, animal, and man. This is been listening to him on Thursday the science of biology which in its Progress can never be achieved

laat he would have assented to this scientific form dates a new era through stagnation or dormancy.

as a fair summary of the evidence from, may almost begins with, the that has come to light since his publication of that great work the How can the sympathy and prac Killing The Truth.

death 7. Or if Charles Darwin' had tical co-operation of the commun- this morning from Hankow a letter of Father Byrne that he (Darwin)

We received through the post been delivering the address instead "Origin of Species in 1859. ity be forthcoming it all that containing. Chinese and English ver- would have made the same state

man

ment?

Yours, etc.,

DARWINIAN.

A man of diminutive proportions

sat down at the restaurant table. "I want some salad," he said. "What kind, shrimp?" asked the "Don't get funny with me, young.

walter..

•

The family were sitting around

"Dad," the boy asked, “what is

engaged to be married.

Father A young lady who is

le

Boy-Then what le a fasco, dad? Father Oh, that's the fellow who

going to marry her

A little girl was going to her first fancy dress party, and her mother" was perplexed as to what she should wear. Couldn't I go as a milkmaid, mummife?" suggested the child.. "I'm afraid you're too small, answered the mother. "But I could go as a condensed mildmaid,

is presented at each successive sings of a "declaration of the Wuhan Father Byrne really belleyen meeting of the Council is more or Printers Union regarding the Prin- this I have practically nothing fur- FALSE PRETENCES? couldn't I, mummie?" retorted the less a blank agenda? If there is to strike in the Central China ther to any except that I don't think

child

ALLEGATION AGAINST A

CHINESE TOTES

Post The document, of course, the study of the works of Charles nothing to sympathise with, no comprises the usual propaganda Darwin during three lifetimes thing to co-operate in, the Legis- such as sneaks Into the Colony now would do Father Byrne any good. lative Council may just as well and then. That, however, is not one could only say, "EphraimTM is

The forthcoming wedding fe an-, the point which concerns us at pre-The final contence: It was re- have lived a number of years In holl no meetings and contain no sent. What is of more importance marked that they could all it into Mexico, was this morning charged

Joined to idols: let him alone."

A Chlusse who was “stated to nounced of Joseph Lealía Quie, de- countant, residing at No.7 Yue unofficial members in its person is the delightful way in which the the back of a small Ford deliver before Major C. Wilson at the Miss Helen Yvonne Wilson Waller, KwongTerrace Hong Kong, to nel. The truth of the matter is Printers Union lets the cat out of Vans not exactly therapri Central Magistracy with obtaining Diocesa Boys School, Hong Kong. that each and all are so wrapped as most people know, is the British Charles Darwin

the bag. The "Central China Post exemplified in the writings of $180 by false pretences from can up in their own little world that owned daily newspaper for How

other Chinese. The accused was Nervous old lady hiring a taxi alleged to have obtained. money they are unmoved and unshaken which was for

on the pretext that he wo by what may hap

cation

able to obtain a visa for They

plainant's passport (from Mexican Consu

of influence

Unfortunately there is anoth

side to all this. Eve bil: casual, reader.

Father Byrna uaryfween the

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