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Unfortunately it is much easier SWALLOWED BY THE tragedy. A few years ago an im- marks of a scuffle and a few yards GAME RESERVES IN

one

mises of extended employment. Neither of them ventured to sug to emphasise the evils of the pre gest that a reduction of employ sent, situation than to devise a way ment at Woolwich Arsenal might of escape. Mr. Pink puts forward quite possibly be a national gain. several suggestions, some of them

Lord Eustace Percy 'gives many not entirely consistent with instances, of the futility of another. After noting the way in measures passed by a Parliament which some elements of the Press constituted as the House of Com- and some of the cinemas propagato mona now is. He mentions, for foolish notions, he suggests that of spending we ought to devise some means of example, the folly millions on road-making as a controlling these organs of pub- means of relief for unemployment. licity. That, of course, is what Among his suggestions for reform is the proposal that Government business departments, like the Post Office, should be treated as publié utility institutions and placed out side the direct control of Parlia ment. "He also wants to establish an advisory council of competent people to supplement Parliament.

Signor Mussolini is doing in Italy; but it is very doubtful indeed whe ther British people, with their traditional love of liberty,, would tolerate such methods of control over the spread of opinion.

Counting Heads.

By most people in Britain. a generation age democracy was re garded as the ideal form of govern

Whether that is still the faith of to-day has become more than doubtful. Everywhere one finds signs of dissatisfaction at the actual achievements of democratic government. The House of Com- mons has ceased to command the many respect which it held for centuries, and comparatively few people trouble to read the reports of its debates. In other countries which our country has made in form of State regulation.

dissatisfaction

with

and several countries have adopt ed a dictatorship, as a means of escape, writes, Harold Cox, the famous economist, in the Sunday Times.

provement of government.

JUNGLE

City in Heart of Ceylon.

LOST CIVILIZATION.

I have seen in my travels

no

stranger sights than those which lie hid in the heart of the Ceylon jungle, writes Robert Bernays, the special correspondent of the News Chronicle. To enter it is to stum ble on a lost civilization.

government-audience

pious inspector of roads tested his further on a neat pile of bones.

it all seemed an cerie symbol of rifle by firing it at the stone imsge.. Having satisfied himself as to its the triumph of Nature. Two accuracy, he walked a few yarda thousand years ago a great civiliga- Into the jungle and almost in sight tion, flourished here and now the of the outrage was trampled to death by an elephant.

only arts and laws left are those of the jungle.

to

There is probably no place in the With these grim meditations I world where archaeology and big returned in the gathering dusk to game shooting can be more en catch the mail train, leaving my trancingly combined. On our way companions continue their to Anaradhapura, the capital of shooting expedition in the ghostly old Ceylon and now the Luxor of shadows of ruined temples, and these buried cities, wo had several crumbling palaces. opportunities of potting jackals and red deer and even an elephant who incautiously came out to have a look at our car.

It consists

now.

LESSON SERMON.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG.

SOUTH AFRICA...

Drinking Troughs for Elephants.

PRESERVING THE GEMSBOK.

Special drinking troughs for elephants will be a feature of the three new game reserves which the 'South African, Parliament will be asked to sanction during the pre- sent session. They will be placed under the control of the National Parks Board, and are designed for species of African game. the special preservation of certain.

The largest of the now reserves is between the Aub and .Nossob Rivera, in the north-western Cape 1,800,000 acres in extent. Province, and is approximately

:

"A City Very Much Like London," The only direction in which

Here are the ruins of temples State control of the Press has re- and palaces and fortresses and polis as big as modern New York. Anaradhapura was once a metro. Mr. Alderton Pink is equally emcently been initiated is the pro- gigantic cities. At a time when it is now a struggling village -in- phatic about the defects of the hibition of extensive reports of Europe was a dark forest they con- the centre of a vast sprawling House of Commons. He begins by divorce proceedings. But there tained a philosophy, a religion and ruins. It once contained six mil- pointing out the immense progress are arguments even against this a structure of Government pro-lion people; its buildings stretch-

Ad-bably in advance of anything. the ed over 20 square miles; one of its the subject of the Lesson-Serman "God the Preserver of Man" was there is even stronger evidence of scientific and industrial matters inmittedly it is a sign of depraved world had seen. Then the jungle streets had as many as 90,000

in all Churches of Christ, Scient Here, the gemsbok, one of the then taste on the part of people who' in opened its jaws and swallowed houses. democracy, the last half-century, and

goes on to emphasise the fact that dulge in the reading of lengthy re them up. Their only inhabitants

most beautiful of South African To visit the remains is like ist, on Sunday, June 14. this progress has not been due to ports of a divorce case; but, on the are the leopard and the lizard.

The Golden Text was:The antelopes, will be preserved. The seeing the Book of Solomon come Parliament, but to individual en other hand, it is only fair to the

The Parricide's Stronghold. to life. There is a rock-hewn tom- Lord shall preserve thy going out gemsbok is very nearly extinct in terprise. All that democracy pro innocent party that the essential

I visited first the fortress of ple by the afde of a marble pool and thy coming in from this time other parts of the Union, but roams duces is the professional politician, facts should be made public. The Sigiriha, a vast circle of rock at whose glories even to-day the forth, and even for evermore." extensively over the wide plains to

same consideration applies to re- towering 600 feet out of the jungle. Queen of Sheba would have mar (Psalm 121; 8.)

be included in the new reserve, Two books on the general pro-

The Pretence of Equality.

In fact, blems of democracy have recently

Among the citations which com- which will also harbour bartebeest, 'Two thousand years ago, a king | velled. Analysing the origin of de parts of criminal cases.

prised the Lesson-Sermon was eland, kudu, lions, leopards, and been issued. One is by Lard mocracy, he points out quite ac directly we get up against the who had killed his father, took re- There are the remains of a

the following from the Bible:many, smaller animals and birds. Eustace Porcy, M.P., entitled "De- curately that in past days when question of trying to improve fuge in it and made it impregnable brazen palace."

The Addo Reserve of about mocracy on Trial" (Bodley Head, personal sovereigns ruled the public opinion by controlling the to all attacks. Even to-day only only of sixteen hundred columns am persuaded, that neither death, 78. 6d.), The other in by Mr.world the revolt against the Press, or the cinema, ar the stage, the heaviest howitzers could reach of granite, but from the intricate nor life, nor angels, nor principai 11,200 acres in the eastern Cape Alderton Pink, entitled "A Realist tyranny which they often exercised It is not easy to solve. It would not merely of the fortress but of a difficult to reconstruct the glitter-sent, nor things to come, nor the National Parke Board. It is we have reached difficulties, which it. Within the rock there are relics beauty of their decoration it is not itles, nor powers, nor things pre- Province, la also to be placed under Looks at Democracy! (Benn, 10s, quite naturally took the form of a Gd.). Both books state the essen- demand for universal equality as have been better if Mr. Pink had palace and a whole department of ing nine-storeyed building that height, nor depth, nor any other the last remaining spot where are

chambers, they once supported..

creature, shall be able to separate still found specimens of the unique tial facts very clearly. Lord the means of securing justice. We confined his attention to the im

our machinery of council rooms, guard houses, bath-

13 from the love of God, which is South African elephant, which is Eustace Percy, at the outset, lays have passed beyond that stage,

A Very Gentle Perfect Knight. in Christ Jesua our Lord." much smaller than its Central his finger on the primary defect of and to-day it is more important to

rooms, gardens, apartments.for the

African brother. There is a grass grown mound (Romans 8; 98, 39.) the present constitution of the recognise the "fact that in virtue

The root of the trouble lies in Queen,.

Spotted Deer. House of Commons--namely, that of their natural endowmente men the conferring of voting power---AB-we-scrambled up-the-rock-in afty feet high that records a The Lesson-Sermon also Includ-

The Minister-of-Lands, MƑ......P..- it is elected by a body of people are fundamentally unequal." But upon persons who have no Bnancial the early morning the whole viata chivalry far in advance of the ed the following passage. from who have no financial responal there are still among us some responsibility for the duties en of the jungle came into view. As twentieth century: It was built the Christian Science textbook, G. W. Grobler, has made consistent. bility for the votes they give people, especially of the Socialist trusted to them. If we could get far as the eye could see there was by King Dutugemunu in memory "Science and Health, with Key to efforts to preserve these animals, There are new some 28,000,000 type, who would regard this doc rid of that folly we should be on mile upon mile of dense trace of the invading Tamil Prince Elara the Scriptures," by Mary Baker of which there are now only about electore in Great Britain and trine as an insult to the multitude, the road to progress. Under the chocked by impenetrable under whom he had defeated in single Eddy"This is the doctrine of 40 in existence. He has largely in- Northern Ireland, and of thesa The trouble is that almost of present system Parliament has lost growth. Hera, and there through combat. As far as I know there is Christian Science: that divine Love creased the land on which they

statue com-Its dignity, with the result that the morning mist could be seen ano

to. Hindenburg only some 8 million pay direct necessity, the multitude is

in cannot be deprived of its manifes roam, and the absence of water-

tation, or object; that loy cannot serious defect which caused the" taxes. Thus the vast majority of posed of the least valuable many of the best man in the cour clearing made by a huge square Northern France.

A short walk into the jungle and be turned into sorrow, for sorrow elephants to roam and do harm to the electorate is not conscious of elements of the nation, and at the try refrain from. attempting to pool of water. making any definite contribution to present time these elements are enter its doors In Mr. Pink's Thore were the Irrigation works we found almost buried in the te not the master of joy; that good neighbouring farms has been the cost of the State, and so far increasing more rapidly in number words, the present Parliamentary of the old king. They once pro-grass fresh temples and pulaco can never produce evil; that mat remedied. Boreholes have been tou can never produce midd nor sunk and special drinking troughs as it values its voting power at all, than those of a finer type. This is system means "the enthronement vided the water supply for a ard swimming pools.

Then we came an the most in-life result in doatti, The perfect built so that, they can now live valusa it merely for the purpose of partly due to the relatively large of mediocrity." It is interesting thriving people; they are now the

tereating experience of all. Im-man-governed by God, his perfect happily ever after. extorting promises of favours families of the poorest classes; to note that even the maintenance drinking places of wild beasts.

The third of the new game ro vote-hunting politicians partly to the fact that our educa of a specially competent electorate The contrast was even more printed in some marahy ground Principle-is sinless and eternal."

serves is in the Bredasdorp district, Lord Eustace Percy goes so far as tional system, with the Idea of by means of the representation striking when later in the day, we were the footsteps of an anima!. (p. 304.)

where the apotted deer, of which to say that the power of taxation equality behind it, it largely do given to the universities is in reached Polonnaruwa. Here are Out of curiosity we, followed them.

only about 90 head are stillin exercised by the present House of voted to spending money on people danger of being scrapped. Yet in relics not merely of fortresses and In a few yards we found they were

existence; will be protected. Commons is as arbitrary as the who can make but little use of the the universities there is at least a palaces, but eight glorious temples joined by other footsteps, obvious

Hitherto, the fact that these animals „Jevy of ship-money by Charles I. education they receive. In Mr. chance of securing man of outstanding side by side built to the leopard stalking its prey.

The Government has now acquire have not been completely wiped out Bribing the Voter Pink's wordas "In our schools and sanding ability who are not merely greater glory of the Lord Buddha. Then in the earth appeared the The cynicism with which many universities we are heavily sub-the nominees of political parties Lizarde alid across the stones as whole drama of the chase. We sawed 1,800 acres in the vicinity and is solely due to unselfish attitude of two neighbouring farmers who have members of Parliament regard, eldising the education of many, who Mr. Pink well sums up the whole we entered in what had once been the spot where the pursued realis- this will shelter 25 spotted door. their position is almost daily in would have mediocre or even fue matter by saying "So long as we a council chamber, monkeys were ed its peril and broke into a sprint The National Parks Board already struggled for many years to prevent. evidence. At, the recent election ferier capacity, and we are thus hollove that counting heads will do holding a round table conference. for its life. Close behind padded controls the Kruger National Park, the extermination of these beauti at Woolwich both candidates sp not only wasting effort but creat all that is required we shall make

The Curse, the leopard. The footsteps grew which is the largest game park in ful animals. pealed for the votes of workers in ing serious economic and other no progress towards anything The Etatue of one Buddha here nearer and nearer to one another the world, covering an area of about (Continued et foot of presed

Column.): the Woolwich Arsenal by pro dificul

records a grim, tale of modern Finally they met. There were the 4,800,000 acres,

from

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