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TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1930.

It is n post which is contrary INTELLECTUAL· GIANT

to the spirit of poetry and it was

casuited to the genius of Dr. AND BIGGER BRAINS

Bridges. He was the victim of

longevity, Poets, according to USEFUL AND IMMEDIATE TASK

OF EUGENICS.

TENDENCY OF TO-DÀY,

tradition, should tie young. If Dr. Bridges had died at the age of thirty, with an ode on his lips, to-day he would be as famous es A distinguished scientist, J. B. S. Haldane, writes in the Evening Mr. Kipling, who perhaps, as a Standard: Cromwell and an other eminently suitable person, may in-wise unknown German bricklayer. herit the Laureateship if the The latter, if a potential Cromwell, offee is to be renewed.

was, unfortunately, guiltless of his country's blood, and ten million more ordinary men died to establish democracy in Germany.

Neither Cromwell nor, Byron was

News in Brief.

of that word. As an undergradu

Have You Heard?—

Saya Dick to Jock: "Your neigh- bours say you wrangle your wife each day."

"Pooh, pooh!" said Jock, "they only joke; 'tis now a fortnight since we spoke."

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He: "I observe my company is not agreeable to you."

She: "How did you observe it?" He: "By the clock. You've turned it forward instead of back."

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"I'm almost sure that's an old

friend of mine sitting at that table over there."

"Then why don't you speak to

'The forthcoming wedding is an intellectual in the ordinary sense announced of Andrew Duncan, engineer, residing at No. 1 High-ate at Cambridge Cromwell is said burgh Terrace, Kowloon, to Agnes to have been more famous for his Robin, who is

to the exercises in the fields than in the en route Colony by the 8.9. Mantua.

schools, being one of the chief him?" match-makers and players at foot- "I'm afraid to, because he's so ball, cudgels, or any other boister-shy that he would feel awkward i ous game or aport." He was essen- it turned out to be another mas tially a man of action, and had no after all."

Wong Tak-hin, who lied re- cently in Hong Kong left estute to the value of $10,000. Probate

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of his will has been granted to his chance of displaying his talents

until he was over forty years old.

"It's a very bad business to bor- Byron expressed certain rather row from Peter to pay Paul," said straightforward emotions

with Tomkins. enormous force, but he was not a

"So it is," agreed Jenkins; "I thinker..

find it especially so."

concubine anw two sony. The will states that the property is to be divided in five equal parts.

For the theft of a wall clock from 1011 Canton Road, two Chi- nese lads were at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning ordered to [receive 12 and 8 strokes, respec- tively. IL was stated by the Police, that the clock was worth $3 and the accused pawred it for $1.30.

A Chinese, who described himself as being a former employee of a distillery in Ching I Island, was at the Kowloon Magistracy this morn ing sentenced to three months hard labour for the theft of a shovel from a wine shop at Pitt Street. He served a term of 21 days in jail for stealing last year.

on

A Chinese boat woman, who was remanded from yesterday a of dumping the body charge. of # baby four months

on the number of, "stresses" in a line, nat on the number of syllables, and that poetry should follow the rules of natural speech. His poetry was privately printed in the first instance, and was slow in making its way be-old in Waterloo Road, made yond a comparatively small circle her second appearance before Mr. of admirers. His best work is to Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day, when a fine of be found in his "Shorter Poems" $25 or three weeks hard labour was (1890) and a complete edition of imposed. his "Poetical Works" (six

"Why should you, more thos others?" inquired Tomkins.

"Because I enn never find Peter," was the sad reply.

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Complicating Life. Cromwell and Byron were magni- firent specimens of humanity, but they certainly complicated life for their neighbours. If they are fair samples of big-brained man, a large

The retired colonel entered the increase in human brain-weight local bookseller's and asked for A would not be conducive to the copy of "Her Privates We." world's peace. On the other hand, "I'm sorry, sir." said the shop- they suggest that, from the keeper, a timid specimen of a past anatomical point of view at least, generation, "I don't have that book. the man in the street may be right I can order it, though. What's in his judgment of what constitutes the title again?" a grout man.

On being told, he said:-"Ah. yes, Probably it refers to one of the Bantam Battalions, sir!"

Collapse of colonel.

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The average literary, artistic, or scientific man is, after all, a special- ist, which Byron and Cromwell were not. He hardly uses some parts of his brain. Thus must scientific The newly-formeti village band men do not have mental imagos as was having its first practice, and vivid as the rest of us. And it is one of the players seemed to be in natural that the brain of u special-dificulties, ist should be only a little larger The bandmaster had a phrase re- than the average..

peited several times, and al last A man like Lindrum who not only said: possesses a marvellous control of Joe, you're making hard work of his, muscles, but can foresee the the clarinet, but I don't hear your position of the billiard ball several part coming out. Is anything strokes ahead, probably displays as wrong?" much cerebral activity as a higher "Navy, there's nowt much volumes) was published in 1898. RECONSTRUCTION OF mathematician, and has as large a wrong," answered the purple and brain. But his contributions to perspiring Joe, "but there's one humanity are less permanent. thing as tha might tell me. Am

I bidvin' in right end?"

Passenger: "Why are porter?”

1905. His chief volumes are "Prometheus" (privately printed

at Oxford in 1883), a "mask in

NANKING.

THE CAPITAL.

CENTRE OF THE NATION.

A T

the Greek manner" "Eros and PRESIDENT'S PLANS TO IMPROVE Psyche," a version of Apuleius: "The Growth of Love," a series. of sixty-nine sonnets printed for private circulation in 1876: "Nero," an historical tragedy, "Achylles in Scyros," a drama; "The Return of Ulysses," a drama

in five acts.

"The Feast of

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Hong Kong, Tuesday, April 22, 1930. | Bacchus," # translation from

Terence, and "New Verse."

When Dr. Bridges received" the POET LAUREATE

Dr. Robert Bridges is dead.

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we late,

"The train ahead, sir,

If it is agreed that the superman with 11 five-pound brain is a dangerous ideal at which to aim, what goal is more reasonable? I is often stated that knowledge is Porer: accumulating at so vast a rate that is behind, and no single man can assimilate more fore besides." than one branch of it, and only a

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we was behind 'be-

"Isn't

"Her ignorance

Norn

Sally Scandal: Newrich very ignorant?"

Gertie Gossip:

Nanking. Thursday. A plenary meeting of the Re-superhuman intellect could carry construction Committee of the out a great intellectual synthesis to- Capital was held on April 15 at day. 2 o'clock. The high officials pre- It is possible to cover a very wide the waiter at the local restaurant I do not believe that this is true. is simply appalling. Why, when

lowing remarks:-

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appointment of Poet Laureate the opened the meeting with the fol- cannot remember the date of the was standing about doing nothing, "For the last three years Nan-weight of samarium, or the Christ-coming out of a nursing-home. The old house, at Boar's Hill. lustre from the personal disting- king. has become the capital. AP Eyck, but I can look up any of them i

sent included President Chiang Kai-shek, Ha Han-min, Dr. Wang field if you learn how to use books asked her which dessert she liked Chung-hui, Dr. H. H. Kung, Gen-of reference instead of cumbering the best, he replied, 'The Sahara.” eral Ma Fu-hsiang and others. your mind with knowledge which in President Chiang, presiding, only useful on rare occasions. I

One aftemoon recently a man who battle of Ethandune, the atomic noticed á umber of gentlemen

Van Accosting a passer-by, he said:

"Can you tell me who them are?" though a programme of recon-

"Yea,' struction has been prepared, work within two minutes.

answered the опе ad- has not yet begun. As the capital

The real trouble is much more dressed. "It's a deputation visit-

"I see" suld the other. "So

Oxford, will stand empty until another tenant is found, presum- ably, as will the vacant chair of the Poet Laureateship, a post which it would be gracious to de- clare annulled by his death. Dr. Bridges, like many another who held the office, earned the literary stigma which attaches to the Laureateship. This he did not

office had already taken on a new

ble

successor Was

ian name of the elder

Chemistry and

ROBBERY SEQUEL.

-

Police Effect Arrest of a Suspect.

tion of previous holders Southey, Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Austin. It had fallen into is the cultural, political and serious, Mathematics are invading ing the hospitals."

economical centre of the nation, all other branches of knowledge. contempt before Southey, and on

to which foreign nations direct Astronomy and physics, as acrious them are the delientes." Tennyson's death there was a their attention, the reconstruction pursuits, are already closed to non-i considerable feeling that no possi- scheme must be laid on such a | mathematicians.

with the engineering are dally becoming acceptable scale as commensurate (William Morris and Swinburne spirit of the Revolutionary Gov. more mathematical, Many branches ernment. I hope that those pre- of biology, psychology and econo- being hardly Court Pocts). Even sent at this meeting will careful mics are in the same case. And a tually, however, the undesirability ly discuss the question of recon- scientific politics would be based on struction in all its details and de-numerical facts not only about. deserve, for, much of his poetry of breaking with tradition for cide on the ways and means of wealth but about human birth and may stand beside some

temporary reasons, of the

and thus completing the reconstruction of death, health and disease. best of Wordsworth, Tennyson, severing the one official link be the capital." and the other Court Poets. Un-tween literature and the State, Agency." like Tennyson and Alfred Austin,

prevailed over the protests CHEUNGCHAU NOTES however, Dr. Bridges refused to abase his talents to flattery of the any one of inferior genius. It Influx of Visitors from Nation on popular occasions: If may be noted that abolition was he were unpopular among the similarly advocated when

against following-Tennyson-by-

a

literati for holding the Laureate.

Wharton and Wordsworth died. The Poet Laureate, being ship, he was held in contempt by the general public for his silence. Court official, was considered re Yet probably not more than thirty sponsible for producing formal and appropriate verses on birth per cent of the literate classes ever read his poetry, which con-days and State occasions; but his tains some of the finest pieces in activity in this respect has varied, the English language, of which according to circumstances, and one day, when our martial great- the custom ceased to be obligatory ness may be less, we may be after Pye's death. Wordsworth proud to acknowledge as repre-stipulated, before accepting the sentative of the best things of our honour, that no formal effusion 'cultural life.

-Canton

Canton..

News

In connection with the case of al- templed robbery and attempted murder Mathematical ability appears to of a Chinese acountant at 3 Des Vooux be innate and strongly inherited. Roud West, the premises of the China As science, and Its applications to Navigation Cola branch office, the life grow the supply of men and China Med learns to-day that the women possessing this ability may Police have effected the arrest of a run short of the demand. Perhaps Chinese suspect. He is being examined the mathematician would be a more

at the C.LD., prior to a charge being useful and less dangerous ident for preferred against him. eugeniats than the superman.

OPIUM WORTH $125,000.

It is also learned that the injured man, who is in the Government Civil Hospital, is in no danger of succoinb ing to his head wounds.

Ten Years Ago

From the "China M=f1,"

April 22, 1920.3

To-day's doller is worth. 4/ 10d.

To-day, however, we are not in a [From Our Own Correspondent.)

position to encourage the breeding Cheung Chau, Saturday. of either superman or mathe- There has been quite a Influx|maticians. Our present society ap- of visitors, chiefly from Canton, pears to be so organized that men for the Easter recess.. A party and women possessed of any kind of 24 from the True Light sum of innate ability breed more slowly mary occupied the New Zealand than those who lack it. The im- Mission Houses. A party of mediate task of eugenics should be scouts in charge of Mr. H. to find a remedy for this state of Thomson stayed at No. 18 and affairs. We can leave the discus another party of girls stayed at sion of more ambitious schemes to No. 19. The Rev. and Mrs. Short our descendants.

Mr. F. Graham, manager of the Hong Kong Electric Company, call- occupied the London Mission pre- mises and the Rev. and Mrs. Kelly

ed on the Editor of the China and family at No. 6 The Rev.

Mau to-day and said that not only. from him should be considered a and Mrs. F. C. Mitchel and family

his Company, but the entire publici of the Colony, are under a debt of As a poet Dr. Bridges standsnecessity; but Tennyson was occupied their own cottage. Other houso owners were over

gratitude to the men of the' Artiy. rather apart from the current of generally happy in his numerous from Hong Kong.

Opium with a stated value of nearly

and Navy who so willing gave $125,000 was destroyed recently at their services that Hong Kong modern English verse, but his poems of this class. The emolu Services were arranged, for Pootung by the Shanghai Maritime work has had a great influence in ments of the posts have varied; Easter Sunday. The Children's Customs. The bon-firo included 8,082,

might not be plunged into darkness, select circle, by its restraint, Ben Jonson, the first to hold this Service was at 10. The Rev. Kelly catties of Yunnan and Ezechwan with all the inconveniences and conducted the full service at 11 opium, 146 catties of synthetle opium dangers involved, on the occasion purity, precision and delicacy yet office, received & penalon of 100.

per a quantity of morphin and oplum pilla.of the strike." strength of expression; and it marks and an annual "terse of The work at No., 25, goes on oplum-making paraphernalia, and in- We would not care to predict embodies a distinct theory of Canary wine To Eye an allow steadily. No. 27 has been sold, decent pictures.

what might have happened had the reverting to a Missionary body, The oplum was destroyed in the pre-eity of Hong Kong been plunged. prosody. His chief critical works ance of £27 was made instead of The big matshed theatre is al-sence of representatives of the Woo- into darkness. suddenly during the are Milton's

Prosody (1893), the wine Tennyson drew $72 a most demolished and the vege Headquarters, representatives of the substantial recognition by the sung-Shanghal Garrison Commander's strike, but it is our opinion that a volume made up of two earlier year from the Lord Chamber- tarians are the next in the field. Shanghai Spesial District Court, and Colony of the services of the men. essays and John Keats a criti lain's artment, and £27 from The few showers we have had representatives of the Anti-Oplum As-

findes i have not, interfered with the en-ciation. The parenties were seized other than what might be done for the Lor Steward's in lieu of the Joyment of the visitors, most of principally on river steamers entering them privately by the Company,

butt of sack,

be leaving, on Monday, the port - Shanghai Tirnen, vedn would be in order.zer

cal essay (1895). He maintain

that English prosody depen

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whom