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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1932.

CHANGING ENGLAND

PROFESSOR MIDDLETON SMITH MAKES COMPARISONS.

20 Years Ago and Now.

THE

CHINA

MAIL.

There seems to be now more unity guiding the lenders of the sympathy with the Germans than now and vast democracy.

with the French for the latter are! My generation erected in London TO-MORROW

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thought selfish and are blamed for monuments to two of the greatest the economic troubles of Europe exponents of those ideals-George | to-dny.

Washington and Abraham Lincoln. The New Religion.

This welding of individual free- For centuries England was the dom with unity is the antithesis cock-pit of conflicting creeds. The of communism; so to-day the venom youth of England to-day is quite of the Bolshevik dictators is direct- indifferent to those old Issues. ed against England, the enemy of

Ethical zeal now voices itself in tyranny. the most potent moral appeal ever It has been said that the English made to active minds. Thou shalt are stupid and sentimental. Per- CONTINUOUS PROGRAMME build the Kingdom of Heaven upon haps it is true. There certainly is From 11.45 a.m. to 2 p.m. At the Rotary Club tiffin to-day expenditure on a new frock. "My

beneath a rough surface a rich vein. Professor C. A. Middleton Smith dear, you don't seem to understand

But the native of the tropics of sentiment in most Englishmen. SO THIS IS BARKING TOWN. gave an address on "Changing B-that being well-dressed gives a wosists of lazy basking in the sunshine "Kiss me, Hardy, and no one in PLAYING FOR SAFETY,

thinks that an earthly heaven con- Nelson, as he lay dying, sald Jand." He said: In England, recent- man a sense of security that even while his women ly, I saw that amazing new play, religion is powerless to bestow."

do the chores; England thought the worse of him "Cavalcade," which gives the

generation.

vitation to come

and paying Income-tax.

What has happened in the mean- time in England? Things are not just as they used to be. The most Striking of the changes have been brought about, not by the politi cians, not by the parsons, but by the men of applied science.

To use an old rhyme: "Cynics may complain that

ciety is mixed." am ready to maintain its

gredients are fixed.

So-

in-1

Earth."

I

and the fighting Turk thinks of for that. Dickens touched our TRUE SCOTS !

heaven in terms of hårems. That heart-strings. I am told that the idous not deflect the Englishman best seller for years was a senti- ON THE SHORES OF LOIRE.

from his self-imposed task, nor montal novel called "The Rosary.", diminish his restless energy, in Let us be frank and own that we HERE'S HOW! striving to carry it through.

prefer in our men and in books

A Confession.

My Scottish friends assure me

Commerce is King. panorama of the history, of my Society, as well as commerce and)

the theatre, attracts all the sundry What a contrast is the England at to London. The fashions for to-day with that which I left twenty ladies dresses have changed; the years ago, when I accepted the in wheel has turned full cycle from

to Hong Kong: the long skirts of my youth. to the real responsibility for any evil that and filth.

He firmly believes that he has a homely sentiment to mud-raking A PRESSING PROBLEM. and su found a dopressing climate gradually diminishing length which and indefatigable critics, but lost made petticoats impossible and exists anywhere in the world. the privilege of serving on a jury bobbed hair compulsory, back to the The spiritual urge to extend this

COLD MAJESTIC SERVICE, stately evening gowns of 1932, type of civilisation has often that there is a mass-production fac BLACK MAGIC.

But for all these superficial rescued the nation from the bondage tory in Aberdeen where they turn changes society remains much the of inactive comfort.

out a ceaseless stream of stories THE STONE AGE. same. There are still the froth

It sent Stanley into darkest that make a joke of. Aberdonians. and the dregs in London as there Africa, Gordon out to China and it I can make no such claim for RETIRED BUSES. were twenty or thirty or a hundred rought freedom to slaves throug- England; but the English sense of years ago.

out the world. It cleaned up Egypt; humour did not disappear with the MASTERPIECES IN SAND. und in Malaya it established order horse-bus and Dan Leno. It often out of chaos, and justice in place of revealed itself in the midst of the THE CITY OF SUN SHINE corruption.

horrors of the war. It exists to-

CANNES. This zeal to confer, not only day. Punch still produces at least material benefits, but a new ethical one good joke each week. is'sease, often compels great. sacrifice. The Englishman hides nothing-- England is left carrying the baby no defect of form ability. as to-day in the matter of War Randolph Churchill, Chancellor of Debts and the finance of the League the Exchequer, in an important of Nations.

speech, spoke of thousands of The industrial life in

Then the Englishman grumbles pounds and was corrected because language, good books and good has greatly changed since my work but plods on with his burden. As the figure was millions. He retort- shop days; conditions are much bet- in the Great War, and as a brillianted "I never can remember those The Metropolis.

ter in many ways. There are now

German writer recently acknow-damned noughts." The invention of the steam engine old age pensions, shorter hours and ledged, "He pays an infinite price! It always amuses me to think of led to the transformation of Eng-less manual effort.

The automatic that he

nay accomplish infinite the history of the English patron mother of heroes, with strength yet, land from an agricultural to atoot and the always-moving bench good."

• Saint-Saint George. He was not equal to the appaling burden she manufacturing ention. To-day demand less muscle but also less

Creed in Schools.

even English; for George of Cap- now bears, she is neither decadent, commerce is King.

skilled labour. They have, however, That is the sort of creed they padocia was born in Cilicia. Ho despondent nor dismayed. Vigour- Yet it is the ambition of every reduced employment.

teach them in the schools of Eng-was a low parasite, a war profiteerous and elastic as in her youth she city worker to own sent in the The blunt fact is that the in- land. The discipline of games and in bacon. He saved his money, still dares to believe in her destiny, country, The banker or the semity of the engineer has outrun fagging, the hero-worship, the de-collected a library and Intrigued her powers of endurance wealthy manufacturer, time after the vision of the politician and the mand for loyalty, hammer into the himself on to

a Bishop's throne. recuperation. time, has driven the Earl from his ficiency of the distributor. And malleable young minds a code which Subsequently George was lynched by

As I look back to the pre-war castle. But each year fewer peo-so we find poverty in a world of carries them in after-life through a mob, as he thoroughly deserved. days, it seems to me that in pros- ple work on the land.

plenty. The farmers were burning great adversity.

And so this precious knave to-day perity she was often moody and

Mass-production, modern methods of transpurt, such as motor-cars, airplanes and eletric trains, have changed the daily lives of millions. Broadcasting has brought voices from afar inte almost every home in the country.

It has already exerted a remark- able influence on Bot. 13. It has educated them to appreciate good

Music,

twelve millions.

What is this

are there

the East.

For the world of men and women

a social ginger-pop

The dregs are at the bottom and the

froth is at the top.

The Paradox,

England

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The rush to the cities continues wheat in America while millions in This creed produces the rulers is Saint George of England, patron irritable; but in the storm of battie and Loudon daily increases the num-Asia were starving; and coffee was and the leaders the statesmen like of chivalry, emblem of victory and or calamity she reveals unexpected ber of its inhabitants and the area used for fuel in Brazil so that you Salisbury and Grey, the powerful culture, linked with Saint Michael vigour, and her pulse heats like a of its suburbs. There are eight and I might pay more fur what we

Ambassadors and the uncorrupt-but not with all the angels-in steam-hammer. millions in greater London to-day; buy,

the coveted letters, C.M.G..

England is a land of workers, a and it was recently reckoned by an Yet there is far less res poverty

To-day the English will stand no Strange that the salid truth-land of patriots, martyrs, sages and authority on town planning that in in England to-day than there used tyranny from any one or any section speaking English should not worry inventors, a land of robust men and thirty years the number will be to be.

-the finish of the General Strike about the antecedents of auch an virtuous women. You find, at any rate in London proved that. They demand balance; impostor. But America was named There laboured for us and for all magnet that has and South of the Thames, no one in they object to the lopsided develop after a thief, a pickle dealer of mankind, Nowtou, Shakespeare, drawn within such a small circle a rags, no one that looks "down and ment of one or other side of human Seville, Amerigo Vespucal, whose Faraday, Nelson and a million for- population greater than that of all out." In Poplar and Whitechapel nature.

highest rank was a boatswain's gotten others that the human race Canada or all Australia? Why you see neatly dressed children and They regard the whole man as mate in an expedition that never might gradually slough off

more people in London grown ups, sobriety, and an absence made up of four component parts, sailed. Yet he gave his dishonest attributes of the brute and slowly to-day than there were in the whole of squalor. Town planning has social, physical, spiritual and in-name to half the world; a name evolve the new civilisation that has of England in the days of good given to the new generation of the tellectual. They believe that only known to millions who have never put power behind the worker and Queen Bess?

lowest class sanitation, sunlight and the man who has developed all four heard of Columbus. So no one can has substituted moral and intellec- Virgil said that the sea divided | sef-respect.

sides can stand four square to all throw stones.

tual agencies for physical force. the poor Britons utterly from other Paradox of Progress.

the winds that blow.

The English language has spread

"England Expects." peoples; but modern science has There is, however, a paradox of'

For the development of social all over the world. My Colonial,) It is an island famous for im made the sea for England a ring of progress in England. A palace can ideas to the exclusion of all others Scottish, and American friends will mortal laws, for those

announce- marriage with all the nations, be built with ease and rapidity, but producen the crank, physical the all agree with Mark Twain whoments of what is right and wrong, I suppose the main reasons for no architect can provido a certain brute, spiritual the bigot, while con- said he was certain that the angels that find an echo in every generous London are geography and the sea; sure for a smoky chimney!

centration on the Intellect leads to in henven speak English-with an heart; and if the ocean out of which and following close on that, the They can build magnificent halls, the devil-for it was by intellectual accent.

it emerged should wash it away, Its peculiar genius of the English peo-but they cannot guarantee that any arrogance that there fell Lucifer In the past centuries the English-immortal history will remain in- ple for machinery and commerce. one who speaks in them will be and the angels.

man has gone out into the wilds and delible upon the records that tell Geography minde London, as it has heard!

In the end the lop-sided Faust brought home his spoils. The most the story of the ascent of man. made Hong Kong; but English While the doctors will put a new suddenly realised that books are a typically English things to-day are All over the world we English call energy, reinforced by the canniness piev into my skull, put new fea-, bloodless substitute for life. And Welsh rabbit, Irish Stew and England "Home." If in my effort and thrift of the Scot, created the tures on to my face and manipulate so he sold his soul to the devil in Scottish whisky,

to entertain, I have bored you; if two great ports in the West and my intestines while they dope me exchange for the social amenities "Watchman. What of the Night?" in my love for England I have, as

so that I can watch them as they he had neglected.

People ask me "What is the out-it seems you, claimed too much, It The Metropolis has changed, and work, they cannot give me a per- Science Acknowledged. look in England' to-day?"

I have strained your patience, I beg yet the City is unchangeable. There maurent eure for a cold in the head, Science was the Cinderella in my Far be it from me to prophesy forgiveness; but I could only say are now tubes, cleztric underground nor can they stop an epidemic of youth.

about the future. We exist in a in a fów simple words just what 'railways, moving staircase and measles!

Now the scientists are encour-wayward and capricious old world was in my mind: flickering electric signs at night. The engineers build marvellous aged; so they are trying to prove with its millions of quite un- For England gave me all 1 hold But Gog and Magog, The Tower, bridges across the Zambesi and that Newton and Darwin were all accountable inhabitants. Upon the most dear-glimpses of great lives, the City Companies, and the Lord Sydney harbour, and bring drinking wrong.

natt reactions of their Ideals, their memories of my youth, wonderful Mayor's Show remain.

water from Wales to Birmingham; Every day I live in terror lest my fears, their lusta and then pre-books, the deep affections of parents Crime Featured More. but they cannot supply a pipe which colleague, Professor Shellshear, will judices the future depends.

and children, a desire to live in The newspapers feature crime does not barst in a frosti

produce a book as wonderful, and as The outlook seems bad. The amity with my fellows and to-try more vividly, but the simple humani While locomotion is being speeded dull, as "The Origin of Species." If pound is unstable, the trade balance to do my bit, for in its universal emotions of laughter and domestic up and cars now frequently roar he does I shall have to read it he adverse, unemployment alarming, appeal, a famous signat reminds affection are as prevalent as of old; along roads at sixty miles an hour, will argue!

taxation, unbearable, Asia in chaos, everyone of us that England' ex- the Englishman's home is still his the great towns suffer more and The most valued heritage of the Europe in despair, and 'America not pects us to do this day and every castle and to do his duty to his more from traffic blocks so that In Englishman is not the steam engine much better..

day our duty. family and fellows yet remains his streets the speed gets slower and that brought him wealth, not the Yet things might be worse. "At As a compass always swings main ambition.

slower.

dynamo that brought him light, but Home" they still keep on keeping north, so do my loyalties, my hopes Taxis are replaced the hansom While, if I had a great deal of Magna Charta that brought him on!!

and my memories swing back, to the cabs of my youth; the cinema has money it would be quite easy for freedom.

A Brave Effort

hills, the green meadows and the caused the old-type of music-hall to me to make a good deal more, if, The first English Parliament has I real, Sir, in regard to this old country lanes of England-the land disappear

ke the vast majority of my fellows, evolved into something greater England to-day that she is like a that I enlf "Home.” (Applause). In London to-day you see the new I have no money except what I To-day the Anglo-Saxon confedera-ship battling with a shrieking Boy Scouts and the old-time earn, it is extremely difficult to tion is a state which, unlike any typhoon, but still carrying her MR. S. E. DA LUZ. Beefeatera You find as of have enough.

other in the old, the nurse-maids amiling

basis:olds hus a moral colours bravely at the mast

I found her not dispirited, not at the Guards; but the girl- In spite of the agony of the war, It rests upon the idea that within weak, but well knowing that she had

Funeral. typist now accompanied the nothing mean, nothing revengeful, the Empire, founded by force, there seen dark days before; indeed with male to the office, and city banks exists in the English heart to-day is freedom for every man. We have a certain pride in the struggle, an an old resident of the Colony, who employ amartly dressed Phyllis to Affer the peace of 1902, the Boer learnt to pronounce the words Instinct that she sees a little better had been 30 years in the service decode cables and add up, columna Generals received impassioned ad-unity and freedom in one breath, in a cloudy day than when all is of Messrs Trainer of other people's money,

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FALY In my lifetime waman has enemy Smuts is now the greatest That also Id the secret of the

Col, Ita took place. Is it not a fact, Sir, that the wise Catholter Cemetery, emerged. She is in Harliament and exponent In the world of our success of that amazing experiment ancients did not cheer a ship leaving eved in that list rruge of the die English Ideals and aspirations in welding together in peace, and port with fying, colours, but on hards, the English chinh. She is Recently, a prominent German into one. Federal, Stat many that Brave vessel that cam quite able to take care of herself. sad The English state resta on two diverse nations in the Un

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So do feel In regard to England

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