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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1930.

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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE,

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as herber, plow, and altho.)

36

15

38

40

42

54

55

62

59

75

HORIZONTAL

1-Free from fault

5-Bolls slowly

9-Exist

10-Assistant

12-To kick (zang) '13-River In Italy

15-Suffix densting an

#pont

18-Falschood

18-2000 pounds

20-Abids

22-Dreary

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24-Hub of a wheel 26-6. W. State of U.

(abbr)

27-Bind

45 46

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HORIZONTAL (Cont); VERTICAL (Cant) 57-Anger

19-Short sleep 58-Addition to side of 21-Extent of surface

22-ProJudica house

23-Sharp

59-Female attendant

(India)

61-Pale

63-Lads

04-A little

86-Prefix. By

67-To abatruct

| 68-Conjunallon

170-inolines the head

72-To cauterizo 8.74-One (Scat.) 75-A flower |76-Hall

28-New Zealand parrot

30-Transfix

31-Pronoun

32-Collega official 33-Wither 35-Prefix. Form of "ex" *36-A constellation

38-The nostrils

40-Upon

41-Exist

42-Mental Images -

45-Base-singer

VERTICAL 1-Early English

(abbr.) 2-Compass paint 3-Insect egg

4-A theological de- gree ((abbr.) 5-Tica

7-English school

6-Little child

e-European country

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(Abbr.)

49-81iced cabbage

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51-Tiresome person

(52-Compass point

48Within

(abbr.)

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60-Prefix Three

11-Girl's name

12-Bird bills

14-Uncloses

18-Roman number

17-id-est (abbr.)

25-Contendo 27-Gold mound 29-Constellation

32-Eato

34-Rub out. 37-Stick 39-Prussian watering

place 42-Newspaper para.

graph 43-High (musical) 44-Girl's name 45-Ingrained 43-Exlat 47-861a

48-String of mules

(Sp.) Go-Whisk-braom St-Coming 53-Qir¥a name 55-8aize suddenly:

CS-An age

50-Clue. 62-Pronoun 63-Paet

65-Part of foot 67-Sheep cry 09-Egyptian sun-god 71-Doctor (abbr) {73-Interjection. What 174-A continent (abbr)

The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in

to-morrow's issus along with a new crossmoord puzzle.)

(2) Mary Pickford and

THE

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WHY SOME PARSONS hears of it being done.

FALL

It would be interesting to know if it is done.

Two Sins-and Why

A cleric is not unfrocked unless there Is the gravest scandal, In

CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS

THERE ARE "BAD EGGS" IN ALL avery diocese there are men who NEW RULES FOR SELECTION OF

PROFESSIONS

1

ONE EXPLAINS

If anybody ever wants to make me angry it can be done by making either of the following observations, which display in the one case pre- judice, and in the other abysmal lack of intelligence!

work "under a cloud." A friend of mine made à journey one day to see a clergyman who had applied for a post in his parish. He found the applicant to be a brilliant man, keen and gifted.. "I ought to toll you," said the applicant, "that I am under a cloud. I have given, way to drink at times....

DISTRICT MAGISTRATES

BY COMPETITION

The Initial step in the system of open competitive examinations for the selection and appointment of civil service officials of the There are two sins that seem,

Government was taken in Nan- from the reports one reads, to be king on January 26 when (1) "Another paraon gone wrong.

State the usual clerical lapses drink and the

Council promulgat- I never did bellove them."

immorality. The layman, when heed & set of Provisional Regulations (2) "Oh, it's easy for you parsons falls, gives way to a variety of governing the selection of District: to do what is right. It's your call-offences. Not so the parson. Magistrates throughout the country ing."

by open competitive examinations.

The second observation makes me madder than the first. It was said to me only the other day.

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Who ever hears of a burgling parson, or an absconding parson, or a murdering parson? No! It is always montonously the same. Is not that significant?

that induces these temptations? It What is there in the parson's life looks as if there is something." "I

According to the Regulations any Chinese citizen having attained the age of 25 and possessing one of the following qualifications may be tions:- come a candidate for the examina-

1. A university graduate (either in China or abroad) or a graduato of a college of law, political science, economics and other social |

I have no available statisties but I would say that the proportion of "bad eggs" in the plerical profession is less than those in other profea-will tell your sions, protests the Rev. D. Morse-

(1) The wear and tear of poverty Boycott. There are doctors who go...trying to make onds meet, with wrong, and butchers and bakers out publishing penury....that im-sciences. and candlestick-makers. Unless the poses great mental strain on a man. crime is grass or ghastly it attracts The pitiful poverty of modern little attention.

clergy, and their magnificent silence, are at once their Church's shame and glory.

In the case of professional men. civil penalty does not necessarily lead to degradation unless the offence affects the office. A doctor is not struck off the register be cause he gets drunk, but he would bo if he were performing an opera tion at the time.

(2) The wear and tear of life.......... hours that never end and tasks that seldom change....that saps health. One of my boys said to me the other day: "Your job is like mother's It goes on and on." Very true!

But the poor, parson's offence I sorely miss the old days when leads to appalling publicity and one knocked off at a certain time, punishment. He has no unofficial and had the week-end to oneself existence. That is as it should be. If I had to choose my life again 1 The public is right in expecting would be a parson, In spite of the the highest self-discipline of clergy.snags....but all the same I hanker The very fact that it expects it, and for a fixed week.

is shocked when a parson g003 wrong, is a sign of our high stand Ing.

Parson who Carries Your Bag But it is not

easy for a parson to do what is right. He is made of the very same fleah and blood as anyone else.

He is not ordained until he is 23, and has had to face

the same

temptations as anyone

else. Ordination doesn't sweep the temptations away. A clerical collar does not create an impeccable

soul.

What does happen is that a young man plights his troth to a high and holy calling, and enters a state of life that demands the utmost from him. Now and then one is re minded, by sad lapsee (which are inevitably given immense publi- city), or by meeting derelicts who once held their heads high, that tragedy la not far removed from

anyone.

There is a clergyman who carries baga for a living. No doubt once he felt his degradation terribly. "He la hardened to it now. To get an extra tip he will tell you, if you are a parson, that he was once one himself.

Once a parson always a parson. Holy Order is indelible, and cannot be bleached out. When a fallen priest is unfrocked he has his job taken away from him, but not his character. He is still a priest. Not even the Pope can take a But the priest's Orders away, office may not be exercised.

It is easy to ace, then, how an un- frocked cleric can go from bad to worse, If he is drummed out, and yet is conscious of his priesthood.. Such a one, repentent or not, should be shown the tenderest pity. It is always possible for an unfrocked cleric to be reinstated but one never

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

PORT CRAM COREA OESEL RAP BROKE TEN AM ENDEO INO GEMEL E SPAIN ELAN ART ANNE -INCH OTTO DANE ACE EDDA OREAD A SNDER ROMEO AT (BA AMI SLAMIANDA ARDOR NITER ERST SNOW

Douglas Fairbanks

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(8) The wear and tear of serving all sorts and conditions of men... the bad, the ungrateful, the Ignorant," the tiresome, even the good....they take much virtue out of one. Packets of tea stay "put." Persons don't. You spend your life on others, and they often fall you badly. Then comes depression, dia. illusionment, disheartenment.

One Mistake Meana Ruin (1) The lonelines of life. What!. Can a parson be lonely in the midst of a parish? Can't hel One can more so if one's work is of the can be lonely in a crowd. The

lonely sort. The village grocer doesn't suffer from loneliness. Folk will go on coming in for margarine life which gives him satisfaction. marmalade, and he lives a private The parson has no private life People give up coming. He la ever standing on quicksands of change, and maybe he sinks him

self.

The demons of drink and in morality can exert their full fury upon 4 sensitive man, who, once seeing life in rosy huo, has found the road too long and the hours too d..rk. He cannot escape from his. Orders. la is, maybe, unfilled for any other task. Ha is exposed to temptations in a pecullar way by the wish-wash of life. Many e man and woman who goes wrong is not undone until the hundredth-fall. A parton's first will wreck him.

Most clergy suffer thus in one way or another. And some are ex posed to the bitter clamour of their people, who make the worst of theli failings, and not seldom invent what they do not know. {

As I grow older and see more of life-that which I meet. In the hectic lay world and that in the "quiet pastures" of clerical life.

LADY MEYER DEAD

Adele Lady Meyer, widow of Sir Carl Meyer, a pioneer of the South African goldfields, died recently at her residence, Chipstead - Place, Sevenoaks, Kent

Lady Meyer was a well-known hostess and took a great interest in the scheme for the erection of a national theatre. The present baronet, Sir Frank Meyer, is her

The Liverpool watch committed has rejected the efty council's re- commendation that the city should. have women police.

2-A middle school graduate with at least two years' experience in any administrativa department of the Government.

3. A graduate of any recognized Party Affairs Training Institute,

4-Any person who previously successfully passed an examina tions and qualified for a judicial appointment.

The following classes of persons are not eligible:-

1. Those having been deprived of their civic rights.

2. Those having been expelled from the Kuomintang.

3.Thoso having been accused and adjudged as local rowdies, de- proved gentry or corrupt officials.

4. Those who have falled to liquidate their debts.

5-Those addicted to opium smoking and other vicious habits.

pointment as District Magistrates Successful candidates for ap must also receive special training for a specified period before being appointed to any pest

The regulations also provide for the organization of an Examination Committee to be headed by the Chaleman of the Provincial Govern, from two to six members to be ap ment concerned and composed of

pointed by the State Council.

High Court and the District Courts Procurators of the Provincial

ed to act as supervisors during the in the province will also be request. examinations-Kao Min.

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