1932-04-16 — Page 7

SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1932.

The Written Word.

AN INFORMATIVE AND STIMULATING BOOK

A CULTURED INDIAN NOBLEMAN FRANKLY. FACES THE GREAT INDIAN PROBLEM.

A Working Girl. Who Was Disillusioned.

China Mail Reviews.

HOSPITAL

GATHERING.

Annual Presentation

at G.C.H.

THE

At the Government Civil Hospi tal yesterday afternoon the annual presentation of certificates to the graduating nurses and dressers who have just completed a four ́years' course of training was made, In the presence of a large gather- Ing.

CHINA MAIL.

Shanghai Letter.

HEAVEN - SENT CHANCE FOR

OUR

FRIENDS CHINESE

THE RE-BUILDING OF CHAPEL.

A Peep Into the Future and What May Be Made of It.

Our Own Correspondent.

Chinese friends have now a heaven- Mrs. Wellington, wife of the

Shanghai, April 11. Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington, distri- While the diplomats, admirals, sent chance to take the foreigner at buted the certificates. Among the and generals are wrangling at the his word and set about the task recipients were seven nurses, conference table and splitting hairs of reconstructing Chapel. There is Misses I. Soong, M. Lok, G. Mak, over the niceties of the proposed a wealth of architectural talent in a survey N. Lam, D. Wong, S. Brown and Japanese withdrawal from the Shanghai, both foreign and Chinese, "The Indian Horizon" by The is devoted to sport, but Maharaja of Burdwan (Ernest, of current events, embracing every J. Lau, also two dressera, Messrs. Shanghai area, there is another who will aid them in the coming Benn, 3/6 net).

sphere of life the world over, which Chan Suf-wan and Shun Kwok-fal. kind of battle going on behind the task, and if the opportunity is seized The Maharaja of Burdwan is a provides intercsti reading, is also Among the officials of the Gov-scenes which have nothing to do with both hands, the recent fighting ernment Civil Hospital and other with the movements of military or will have proved in the nature of a leading Hindu nobleman of Bengal, given.-W.

an what is called

doctors present were noted Dr. R. naval forces. Wit is being match-blessing in disguise. If the Chin but is not "orthodox" Hindu. His career is

E. Tottenham, Dr. I. Newton, Prof. ed against wit in the realm of ese can build anew on the ashes of W. 1. Gerrard, Dr. G. H. Thomas, business no less than in that of the old Chapel, then, indeed, a new a record of extraordinary states-

Dr. Bau Tsu-zung and Miss E. A. diplomacy and warfare. Hard-city will emerge pheonix-like from manship, true love for the evilisa-

Girling (principal matron) and headed business men, endowed with the ruins of the old. tion of the Hindu people, and great Both

Miss M. J. Wilson. The guests a breadth of vision, are not slow to physical and moral courage.

were entertained to tea, later. appreciate that the present diploma- by inheritance and experience, he

tic impasse is bound, sooner or is well qualified to speak with know-

later, to come to an end; and when ledge and with judgment on Indian, problems from the standpoint of the

it does, the manipulators of "big business" will have to bestir them landholders and the Indian Princes.

*Belves to the end that they shall He refuses to close his eyes to ob- stacles to the realisation of the dreams of Indian Nationalists and,! in this book, faces with perfect frankness the most serious of those obstacles-the Hindu-Moslem com- munal problem.

The Marquis of Zetland con tributes a Foreword and, in his con- that the eluding paragraph, says book contains "the mature reflec tions of a leading Indian who is qualified to speak for a class whose views are seldom heard, but one. whose importance in the body politic is nevertheless a paramount one.... The book possesses this supreme merit that every word of it is palpably sincere and that it is wholly free from any trace

The Marquis special pleading.” of Zetland, as Lord Ronaldshay, was Governor of Bengal from 1917 to

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BERNARD SHAWS'S NEW BOOK. While in South Africa recently Mr. Shaw has been engaged on story which, he says, deals with an African native girl's search for During her God in a forest. wanderings, the girl meets Jesus and Mahomet and several pagan WOMAN MAY BE A LIEUTENANT

GOVERNOR. kods, and modern scientific thorities, including the Russian savant Pavioa.

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WHITAKER'S ALMANACK.

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"If You Can't Get A Man Get The duly benefit by that trade, "boom"

Next Best Thing."

In view of the grave difficulty that is being experienced in se- curing a Lieutenant-Governor for Ontario, it is suggested that the problem be settled by appointing

That indispensable companion of home and office, has reached its (68.). sixty-fourth year of issue The important events that have oc- curred since the last issue- the formation of the National Govern-n woman. ment, the General Election, dropping of the Gold Standard, the Census, and so on-Are fully dealt

The summary

of the past with.. year in other respects is complete and concise, and one may find in a moment Information on a thousand and one subjects.

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which is confidently expected to come in the wake of the troubles that have beset this region of Asia.

the No one in particular is men

tioned. but if is said that there are several who possess the ne- cessary intellectual, social and material equipment for the posi-tageously located

are

Another valuable reference book especially for those whose work is concerned with literature and art in their various forms-is The The book is based on a series of Writers' and Artists Year Book, lectures, which the Maharaja care-1932 (Black, 3s. 6d.). There fully prepared for delivery in lists of periodicals and their re- America, when he went to that quirements, British, Colonial, and country on a lecturing tour in the American publishers, literary and early Winter of 1931-32. They are art agents; articles on Copyright, now presented in book form in order to give to the British public more study of India and, to modestly, the Maharaja adda "present my conclusions... for what they may be worth."

one

of a

Free-lance Journalism, Writing for the Juvenile and Technical Markets, and Play Selling" "Play Writing (by Mr. A. A. Milne); and much on other matters useful advice affecting authors.

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What Can be Done.

It requires little imagination to appreciate the possibilities of the situation. As one walks throughi the square mile of deserted ruin that was once Chapel, thoughts of its reconstruction inevitably arise. Sooner or later, It will have to be rebuilt, and the question is, on what lines? Will the long or the short view be taken?-or, rather, will it be possible to take the long view? In many ways, it is impossible to regret altogether the destruction of a district which, from the wider point of view, was as much a debit; as.

to the Settle:

A Chance for City Planning. Those in the know who are in the inner circles of the property market have latterly been intrigued by in tensive activities of a group of

an asset to Shanghai, The Japanese financiers who have been looking over the Chapel realty field peculiar sense of contrast created by and are known to be endeavouring the sight of the palatial proportions to purchase parcels of land advan- of the Commercial Press in juxta- con- position with tortuous streets, nar- tiguous to Settlement territory. The row alleyways and slums which The difficulty of filling the greatest difficulty they are encoun- have been breeding grounds of sick- position is due mainly to the cost. tering is the opposition of Chinese ness and disease, the refuge of the entailed. Some support is being property owners to dispose of their professional kidnapper and every given to the idea of either re- holdings to Japanese on patriotic type of criminal, their proximity a adjusting the pay of Lieutenant-grounds after all that has happened. perpetual hindrance Governors, which is considered A similar difficulty is being met most inopportune at the moment, with in Palestine by Jewish business or preferably adding their form-interests who are checkmated in al functions to the duties of pro- their desire to acquire Arab estates vincial chief justices.

by the intensive propaganda con- ducted by anti-Semitic Arab circles effendi in order to overawe. the from disposing of their property to Jews at any price. The point of following analogy with China is almost com- countries plete, because in both there is an admixture of business and polities which is as a thorn in the flesh of those eager to bring about industrial development..

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ment police in their struggle against crime, was one of the most astonish- ing phases that never failed to Im- press the tourist. It was a stand- ing jest. in local newspaperdom- though it was a jest of the grim variety-that nothing less than an earthquake of major magnitude would remove the plague.. spot of Chapei from the doorstep of the foreign areas. It has taken an un- declared war between China and Japan to accomplish that which an earthquake was expected to achieve. Now that Chapel has been razed to the ground, there is a wonderful All interested in the so-called

Dream of Architects.

chance to start afresh along the "Indian problem," also those who

6.25 The anxiety of Japanese business lines of sound and constructive may be tempted to try to realise and appreciate the complexities of

Why is that most people think International Assurance Co: 4.25 men to buy land in Chapel is in no

town-planning. By this, one does 11:50, sense inexplicable when account is not necessarily mean that the Chin Indian

should half a dozen times before buying a China Realty Co. the

problem,

23.75 taken of the Hmitless possibilitica ese should vie with the International of

reading book? Isn't it rather a showdown Shanghai Lands make

point Д

6.00 of the New Chapel. For years Settlement in erecting stately piles contains this book, which

of our respective valuations of the New Engineerings

those which adorn the the reflections

thoughtful

88.75 past, Chapel has been regarded as a such as importance gratifying. our Shanghai Docks and cultured member of the Hindu physical and intellectual tastes? Shanghai & Hongkew blot on the landscape, with its beg-length of the Bund; but it is 'pos- tortuous streets, un-sible so to change the skyline of landed aristocracy have found How many people would go without

.218.00 gars' huts, it an informative book and delight some purely physical gratification Shanghai Electrics "Bearer" 30.75 hygienic conditions and a water Chapel, as well as the interior parts ed in its stimulating pages.

15.40 supply that has more than once of that tract of Shanghai that it in order to possess a book-and if, Ewo Cotton Mills place it on a par with india ina educated people would probably Shanghai Cotton Mills 74.00 proved a veritable death trap to will be a credit, instead of a re-

10.25 Shanghai residents. Chapel has Transition, which appeared four- admit, books are among the most Zoong Sing Cotton Mills

proach, to the Government and peo-" suffered grievoualy by comparison ple of this country. teen or fifteen years ago, written worthwhile things on this earth, American Asiatic Under- by that world figure His Highness surely they

worth some writers

25.00 with the International Settlement of.

A Rare Opportunity. sacrifice? the Aga Khan.-R.

Shanghai and the French Conces-

The chance that is now afforded | How many houses do we all enter

23.00 sion. To go from the foreign areas 24.25 to Chapel has been synonymous to our Chinese frienda is ́an oppor-¡

but rarely to a that contain scarcely a decent book, | Aala Realty "Bearer" ....

with a transformation as complete (tunity that comes provision in other words for mental Mr. Alec Waugh in "Leap Be-food? Do you ever find one with-

as that which occurs when a man great city.. It. came to London in fore You Look" tells a story of the out anything in the way of a kitchen CENTRAL BRITISH ASSOCIATION.goes from Asia to Europe. Chinese 1666 and was missed, in spite of the political agitators, when clamour- efforts of one of England's greatest people he is intimate with.

Faith Mallory, Д charming

Owing to the success of the ing for the abrogation of extra-architects, and subsequent genera- Was there over a more noble or middle-class girl, is tired of being worthy cause? Any man or woman dance held on March 80, the Com-territoriality, have been sternly re- tions have been paying ever since Just an office worker at fifty shll- of good will the world over who pittee has decided to hold another buked by foreigners and counselled for their ancestors' sad want of linga a week. Being unsure, of considers that the comparatively Flannel Dance for members and to put their own house in order in vision, just as Shanghailanders to herself, she keeps Gerald Onsiow small place that books occupy in their friends in the School Hall on neighbouring territory before seekday have cause to bemoan the short- waiting patiently for her reply to the life of the people is a thing of Wednesday, May 4, 1932, commencing to assume jurisdiction over the sightedness of their forbears in the his proposal of marriage. Finally, which to be ashamed, can help the ing at 8.80 p.m. It is hoped that alien within their gates. They matter of the width of the streets, she marries Frank Gaveston, a movement. We are working-and all members will again give their have constantly been advised to which now have to carry an increas wealthy and elderly man, whom she that without ceasing-in our corner support. Tickets may be had make something of Chapel before ing load of vehicular traffic of the of the world to assure to the things from Committee Members. Admie asking for the foreign Settlement to fast moving type where, before, of the mind their rightful position.sion: $1.50 (including partner be presented to them on a silver there were only the pony trap, the

and refreshments). Stanley Unwin.

platter, so to speak Well, our wheelbarrow and the hand cart.:

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The rest of the story describes how Faith Mallory is disillusioned In thinking that only Society women She accom- enjoy easy times. panles her husband on a business trip to the West Indies, where she has an experience and, on their re- turn Home we find her a happy wo- men though her husband is a poorer He lost all his money in an "over night" revolution in a South American state.

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