1929-06-29 — Page 11

SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1929.

OUR WEEKLY SERMON-

Is A Science Of History Possible?

MODERN CHURCHIMAN'S VIEWS

[By G. G. Coulton, M.A., D.Litt., Fellow of St. John's College, -

Cambridge]

(Continued from June 22.)

THE

CHINA MAIL,

CHIANG'S STAR IN THE ROUND THE CINEMAS SHADOWS BEFORE,

ASCENDANT

PURSE'S STRENGTH

| WANTED -- A “DAWES PLAN "

FOR CHINA

OR NO CESSATION OF WAR?

A COLOURFUL DESERT' ́

ROMANCE

"FLEETWING"."

"Fleetwing," the Fox Films' produc tion adapted from Lambert Hillyer's and Elizabeth Pickett's alluring story of the desort, which may be seen to morrow and Monday at the Queen's Theatre, brings to the screen one of the colourful romances seen here for same

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE MFAIL "

ENTERTAINMENTS

ř

"Lady of the Pavements”.

To-day Queen's Theatre;

To-day- World Theatre; "The Missing Link

To-day Star Theatre; "Resurrection."

To-day Majestic Theatre; "Drums of Love."

By routing the "rebels" of the Kwangsi faction, and re-establish- {time ing his authority at Hankow; The love of Jaafar for Thirya, the Chiang Kai-shek has enabled his dancing girl enmeshes them both in

Home Mails will perhaps be even more welcome industrious propagandists to broad-mad fight against tribal forces that To-day Inward from Europe to the many who have heard or read east the unification of China as a succumb to the tribai law.

are stronger than themselves, and they via Negapatam, ("Patroclus"). them than to the few who now hear fact, so nearly accomplished that

About to be sold at auction, Thiryani, Weihaiwel and Europe via To-morrow-Outward for Shang- them for the first time;

a now set of postage stamps is to pleads with Jaufer to save her. He 'Long ago it was said, in terms be issued for its commemoration. fees with her his father's camp.

Siberia, ("Patroclus"), 9 a.m. which in their comprehensiveness At the moment (says J. O. P.Happy in his love for Thirya, Jaafar

Lantmerts'. Auction include all the aspirations of the Bland writing in the Sunday is forgetful of the tribal tradition that searcher after knowledge: "Thou shult love the Lord thy God with Times" in mail week), the star of bere, fos, she must be sold to the high-household furniture, etc., 11 a.m. all thy heart and with all thy soul the Cantonese leader shines brightest bidder.

daily. and with all thy strength"! endly, while that of his chief rival, the The sorrowing father has no way of "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as "Christian" General Feng, appears holds a card up her sleeve, and the lots of Crown land at Prince

Land Sales comforting his son. However, fate thyself." In the old story

July 2-A P. W. D. Offices, two listener, from whatever country he to be under a cloud

battle-cry of the Wahabis, their here Edward-road and Mong Kok-tsui, came Parthians and Medes, Cretans Considering the all-important ditary enemies, is heard throughout the 3 p.m. and Arabians-heard the message in part which money plays in Chinese hills, and sends them scarrying for his own tongue, A great saving speaks to every man in the language politics, there is nothing very sur-cover. Many thrilling incidents occur which he understands. To the stud-prising in this. The financial re-before the final climax.

every

ent of science the words mean sources at Chiang's disposal (re-| Picture backgrounds of desert and that he is to put his whole heartcently increased by tariff

oasis add greatly to the charm of this his work, believing that in some

production

into

We are disconcerted by the way in which undeniable facts are utilized indiscriminately with the grossest tetions, and sometimes even by his claim to have verified those fictions. And while, on the one hand, we are clevated by his conception of the Church as the ideal City of God, on the other hand we resent his frequent confusion (it might almost be said his wilful confusion) between the ideal Church, containing so many mem- bers of whom. Christ will say at the last day, I know you not." We wonder how, if indeed the Church ean. poclaim so surely and so definitely the mind of Christ, there should have been no recognized au thority ta decide that erucial question, debated for a century and а half before Augustine's own time. Is heretical baptism valid or not? Has a person baptized by a Success from Jaws of Failure heretic taken even the first step Here, then, is strong and welcome Has support for those who believe that leading away from hell? he even crossed the threshold of we cannot get the most scientific the City of God ? And, lastly, we result out of history except by the this strenuous exercise of every human notice that nearly half of fairly bulky book is frankly con- | faculty; that our reading must troversial; that the Saint works with sword in one hand and trowel in the other; and that he cannot of his even Jay the, foundations City of God until he has demolish ed that City of Cain which had en cumbered the holy site.

Moral Judgments

All of this, and more, any reader will find in the book.. But that brings me lo one last consideration: How about, moral judgments in his tory? Do we degrade history from its pinnacle of science by striving at every point to make ethical distinctions; by saying to ourselves and to others, That thing Was good; that other thing was had' ? Let me quote here from one of the most impartial, as he was quite the most learned, of British

historians who have lived in our time. In his inaugural lecture at Cambridge, Lord Acton said:

"The weight of opinion is against me when I exhort you never to de

base the moral currency or to lower

the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim

that

governs your own lives, and to suffer

down. Sir William Bragg's ad- drass before

forth to destroy the soul of the nation, but to keep body and sou together. And again:

No clear line can be drawn be- tween ❤ure science and applied sclance either loses virine ir dissociated from the other."

Reinforce Ethles

zuto-

way which he cannat fully compre-romy) are far greater than those hend it is all worth while, and that of any of his rivals, and he can every straining to understand bis therefore afford to outbid them for surroundings is right and good: and the loyalty of military chieftains further, that in that way he can learn to be of use to his fellowmen and provincial satraps.

in Us

the

The Sword and the Purse

of the situation as evidence of an But to regard this development impending unification of Chine is to its misinterpret Actually this latest phase of the 'significance.

straggle which began after the over-

be not only an lutellectual but also throw of the Throne in 1912 fore- an ethical process; and that from shadows no cessation of warfare, all history, secular as well as but only new coalitions and com- ecclesiastical, we may truly draw binations of the "Outs" against the much the same moral as Augustine Ins." For the chief concern of drew. In a very real sense, Christ the mea who have made civil war reigns---Christus regnat, Christus lucrative profession for the past imperat. In a real sense, man's seventeen years is that no individual will can force success from the war-lord shall be allowed to achieve jaws of failure. As Dean Inge such a degree of power as might. told

Johannine enable him to establish and con- conception of Christanity, the re-solidate an effective central yelation to men is strictly relative thority. to their power of receiving it..

Were it not for the appalling con- we are immortal spirits on our ditions to which the Chinese people probation."

And, in a real. sense, have been reduced by this incessant we may sum up all human records strife, the recent achievements of; in those words from the Epistle Chiang Kai-shek might be regarded to the Hebrews with which St. as ingenious and some of their in- Augustine ends: There remaineth cidents as diverting. therefore a rest for the people of a campaign in China demonstrated so clearly how much mightier than the sword is the purse.

God.'

[Concluded.]

SEDITION ALLEGED

LEAFLETS ON THE SHORTAGE

A

OF WATER

RESULT OF POLICE RAID

form of sedition new

was arrested.

au-

Seldom has

Good Stage Management To the Chinese mind the

ease

|with which the Kwangsi Generals

have allowed themselves to be stampeded and their armies to dis- solve would naturally suggest the. idea that the "rebellion” was pro- voked, if not pre-arranged, by

"Missing Link"

Syd Chaplin in the "Missing Link" ably supported by Ruth Hiatt and a lover cast, including Akka, the Chim- panzee star, pleased large audiences at the World Theatre yesterday, and will appear for the last time to-day.

ন

Ruth Taylor

July 4-5 At Carlton Hotel,

Meeting

July 6-Meeting of Creditors of the Hong Kong Tug & Lighter Co., Ltd., at Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming's offices, noon.

Miscellaneous

To-day pavilion of S.C.A.A. at Quarry Bay,

Opening of bathing.

3.30 p.m.

June 30-At Roman Catholic, Cathedral, Blessing of 35th H.K.G. C.C. Boy Scouts' Troop Flag, 11-

a.m.

A VAST FORCE.

VALUE OF MOTORS TO U.S.A.

An idea of what the motor industry mears to the U.S.A. may be gained from the foliwing random figures. There are over 4,000,000 people in the United States employed in the auto- mobite industry and its allied lines, with a yearly payroll running into billions of dollars. Imagine the effect, for in stance, on the economic life of America if production of automobiles ceased to- morrow, throwing these millions of people out of work and stopping their buying power.

Close to 6,000,000,000 dollars spent annually for the upkeep of America's automobiles. Almost a billion dollars (1,000,000,000 dollars) each year is spent for parts and service to 89,000 service stations and a like amount for tyres for replacement. Fuela and lubricants to the extent of almost 2,500,000,000 dollars are purchased from 217,000. filling stitions and 304,000 pumps 80 per cent. of all the petrol consumed in the United States being used by the motor industry.

say that

average

per cent.

SEEING EUROPE

MOTOR CARS MORE POPULAR

The figures do not include any charge for depreciatiou, not even on the 2,000,- 000 cars that are scrapped or replaced

no man and no cause to escape the

annually. Strange as it may seem, the average life of an automobile is seven undying penalty which history has

years and the average cost the power to inflict on wrong.

887 dol Chiang and his colleagues; a clever sents; control of the rich revenues ears are bought on time payments and lars Fifty-eight per cent. of all new St. Augustine does indeed often! fall below what we require from at

of Kiangsu, and the prestige which leading finance companies by move, designed to give themselves he has acquired in the eyes of many automobile owners as a class are a perfect historian; but it is not his irresponsible Chinese in the Colony "face," to convince public opinion ethical tendencies that drag him has been discovered as the result of abroad of their determined initia- of his countrymen by virtue of his splendid financial risk, the

a Police raid, led by Detective tive, and thus prepare the way for successful attacks upon the privileg losses of these concerns for a period of tion may give us the greatest Shing Wo-road yesterday.

the British Associa- Sergeant O'Donovan, in a house in the long-hoped-for loan in America ed position of foreigners under the years being less than one-fifth of 1

and renewed demands for the

Treaties. encouragement here.

Feng on the other hand, has A number of leaflets were seized abolition of extra-territoriality. Bel 'Science,' he said, 'is not setting and a man found on the premises! this as it may, the concurrence of been chiefly distinguished in the this singularly bloodless campaign past for the swiftness and precision When the prisoner was produced with the presence of a great cloud with which he emerges at critical 2 severe bite before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the of foreign advisers at Nanking, moments to inflict Central Magistracy, this morning, with the abolition

Lately he has (on paper) of upon the top-dog.

Americans are increasingly "seeing": charged with the unlawful possea- "kin," the American contract for cultivated the reputation of a bluff, sion of seditious literature, the air-lines, and the passing of count-public moralist and the friend of travellers from the States, bringing simple-living man of the people, a Europe by motor, and a great influx of Sergeant told the Magistrate that less good resolutions by plenary

their own cars, is expected by Contin- the oppressed. the leaflets found in the house, conférences, has all the appearance

ental countries this year. In order to make the European trip more attrac- evidently intended for distribution, of good stage-management.

Nevertheless, all China is pain-

So far as any prospect of the tive to Americans, and to induce them alleged discrimination by the local authorities in connection with the fully aware that the realities be unification of China is concerned, to take their cars with them, the Curd present water shortage.

hind all this the things with which however, or of a re-organisation of and Anchor Lines have just announced Accused was remanded for a the war-lords are chiefly concerned, the country's finances, it matters a schedule of new and reduced rates week.

begin and end with the control of not whether Feng or Chiang gets for the transportation of automobiles

across the Atlantic. the country's taxable resources." the better of the present bont, for,

The Cunard and Anchor companies No Ringing of Bells

it is not in the nature of things have classified a group of eighty-nine There have been no public re-that either can ever impose his percars in general use, and have estab joleings over the alleged unifica manant authority upon the prolished their rates on poundage, The tion; the nation's attention is vinces as a whole price includes all items of expense ia centred on the silent struggle in: The struggle for place and golf connection with the shipping and use which Chiang and Feng (good)

and power will inevitably go on, an automobile abroad, viz. United States Customs registration, washing Nationalists, both) are engaged for and the nation continue to eat and polishing of car, supply of oil and bread of affliction, until the Powers petrol, port charges, membership in the possession of such revenues as brigandage and famine have left in Anally cohtrive to agree upon a Automobile Association on the Royal Shantung. The man in the street polley of benevolent Intervention Automobile Club, international licence What China needs is a Dawes plates and driving licence, and Customs observes that minor incidents, such as the Mohammedan butcheries in plan of assisted reconstractian, papers for touring both the British Kansub,

no interest in directed in the first place towards Isles and Continent. Banking securing the public revenues for When, in 1912, Yuan Shih-kai public purposes, and then to the predicted that the abolition of the gradual disbandment of the rabble

If this be true, if science be not less itself, but more truly itself, for being applied to benefit the human race, what more beneficial purpose can it serve than to re- inforce ethics ? This comes out still more strongly in Sir Wil-

liam's concluding

words, which

AIR SPEEDING

FAST FLIGHT FROM LOS ANGELES TO NEW YORK

Los Angeles, Yesterday. Captain Frank Hawkes flew here from New York in 19 hours, 12 minutes, which is over five hours faster than the previous record. Reuter's American Service..

Corrected Time

Hawkes corrected time is 29 hours, 10 mina, 28 secs.

A DEMOCRAT

EDWARD CARPENTER DIES AT RIPE OLD AGE

POET AND PUBLICIST

London; Yesterday.

The death is announced, of Edward Carpenter. Reuter.

Biographical [Edward Carpenter had long been regarded as one of Britain's democratic writers. He was 150. poet. Carpenter was bortrat Brighton

arouse

Needed--A Dawes Plan

In 1844 and educated at Cambridge, monarchy would result in several armies which prey upon the people. He relinquished orders and fellow decades of chaos, during which ship, and

He started upon the return jour.. tured sciencambridge, 1876; lec. there would be no peace in the

for

nex after r brief delay repairs. Reuter's American Ser- vice.

CYCLE OVER EMBANKMENT

Could Be Done

The thing could assuredly be done

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in connec Empire," he had in mind similar for none of these rabble armies tion with University. Extension move-periods of Chinese history. He are fighting forces, and the nation ment innorthern towns till 1881; settled. 1882, on small farm near knew that the thing that hath as a whole would welcome any grams are lying at the office of the Sheffield; literary work, market gar been if that which shall be, tervention which promised the dening, sandal making, Socialist move and moreover, that at such periods surcense of strife. But it would ment, street-corner propaganda, etc.; visit to US. and Walt Whitman, 1884 of chaos every war-ford (nay, every necessitate the abandonment of terany and Ceylon and South-Indian Guan cap in o bandits) is justified by thin political theories, and the adop- in 1890.1

many precedents and common tradi- tion of concerted action in lieu of tion in regarding himself as the laweer faire, by the nations to whom possible founder of a dynasty. ⠀⠀⠀⠀ China's well-being is a matter of

Chiang v. Feng

immediate concern ----

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Ip San, a coolle employed at the

E. V. JESSEN Repulse Bay Hotel, was the victim

Superintendent. of a serious accident whilst cycling

For the moment, Chiang and There are symptoms, in more

Hong Kong, 27th June, 1929, near Deep Water Bay on Thursday.

Statistics prepared by the Feng occupy the centre of the than one quarter, of a disposition At about 7.30 am,, he was return. Birmingham police, show that run- stage, but, if one may judge by to regard the matter in this light,

STANDARD TIMEL ing from town, but, when going ning across the roadway is a pro- their careers, neither possesses the but much depends upon the con- down the steep incline above Deep life source of accident. Running superman qualities requisite for clusions to be arrived at by the Water Bay, he lost control of the usually means dodging, and once a the attainment of undisputed power. American advisers and experts

SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN machina, which fell with ita rider walker starts to dodge, drivers of Both have displayed considerable now studying the situation at

COLONY WARM down the steep embankment on to vehicles naturally become confused ability in adapting the fruits of Nanking, and their effect upon the Sunrise and Sunset in Hong the beach below. Ip suffered mul- When roads are wet the careless Western learning (lucluding or policy of the State Departat Kons for June (Standard time of tiple injuries and was rendered un- walker is a danger to the carganised propegends) to the use of is a hopeful eign (If report speaks the 120th Meridian, East of Green- conscious. He was not found until driver. To avoid the walker who modern Chinese politics

truly) that Washington no longer wich), are as follow

an hour and half later when his suddenly steps off the pavement, he Chiang enjoys many advantages of cherishes any serious illusions con-- groans attracted the attention of has to apply his brakes and on position, the sympathetic good will cerning the Nationalist party's June Police Sergeant Walsh, who had greasy roads this often results in accorded by the friendly Powers determination or capacity to put an him removed to hospital.

askid.

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