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The China Mail

Hong Kong, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 1934.

HERE, THERE

and

· EVERYWHERE

TRYING THE IMPOSSIBLE'

Accidents in the Alps increase yearly, and six climbers have been killed on Mont Blanc in re cent weeks. This does not mean that mountaineers are geting more careless or less experienced. It signifies that the game is getting steadily more competitiva.

with fixed ropes on two of its ridges.

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CURIOSITY AND KUDOS

TIME DOES NOT FLY ANY FASTER

STRAIN OF MODERN

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LIFE MINIMISED

OFFSET BY MANY BENEFITS

(By Peter Fleming.)

THE present age-admittedly, not dictated; they were not com

THE an unpleasant one to live posed largely of gibberish formu Any bold climber prefera the in-has developed in us a remark-las like "Yours of even date to first ascent to the pursuit of seme-able capacity for self-pity. Of hand." They were letters which one else's footsteps. The number this one of the commonest aymphad to be not only courteously but of first ascents still available in

toms la a complaint about its also carefully phrased; his great the Alps has been reduced to a tempo. We exist to-day, I am al-grandfather could not cover him. [minimum by past generations, and

the aces are now to be found only ways being told, at a tearing, at a self by saying, "If there is any on exposed faces and almost im People talk about the rush of mo- not clear I would be obliged if you really incredible rate of speed. point in the shove which is possible climbs, like the north'

dern life with an air of convletion would telephone my secretary at wall of the Grandes Jorasses.

The Matterhorn for instance pect to see them clutching on to

so impressive that you half ex-this office." which is still thought of as a ter their hats, like passengers on the just as much right to complain I think his great grandfather had ribly dangerous peak, is covered giant racer at Wembley. It is about the strain of modern life,

most alarming.

In the old days they did fewor The complaints, as a matter of things, and they did them more fact, are not really complaints slowly. But the process was just Secretly we enjoy feeling and as wearing, took just as much out Before members of Parliament we enjoy still more being told by of them. If they sat down to went on holiday they found time to psychologists-that we are burn think, they thought; and thinking leave 133 questions behind them. ing the candle of both ends, that is just as hard work as answering. This eagerness reveals a com-jour nerves are being shot to the telephone, the necessity for do- mon idiosyncracy.

pieces, that the strain of moderating which nowadays prevents us The member whose question life a terrific. There is a mark from sitting down to think with. produces an important Govern-edly academic tone in our laments any success. You often ment reply basks in reflected for the days that

are lost when people saying that they get no time glory. He can modestly tell his life had a more dignified and for serious reading; the statement. constituents "As the Prime Minis-spacious pattern. We pride our is a boast, not a grumble, for they ter said in answer to my

ques-selves on being, and having to-be, think that it is more strenuous to tion......!

tougher, guys than our forebears. lead the sort of life which makes The questiona cover shipping. Pale, haggard, jaded, we are serious reading impossible than to Ireland. Woolwich Arsenal. Fas- nevertheless indomitable; and we actually do some serious reading. cists, derelict areas, the B.B.C., know it.

Which it is.not. pedestrian crossing places, the We are, in truth, a gallant lot

Less Uncertainty Economic and Disarmament Con- of fellows to face without flinch-

The fact of the matter is that ferences, War debts, Austria, slum ing so formidable clearance--and musk rats.

the Tempo of Modern Life. At the damage inflicted on us by an in- least, we

are if that monster crease in the tempo of our exis- exists. Personally, I don't believetence has been more than offset by the benefits we drive from a simul- I grant that you are probably. We may grumble that the incessant taneous increase in its amenities.

ringing of a telephone gets on our

David Livingstone A man whose work changed the conditions of a continent and its future was worthily commemor Scientific Professions ated at home recently. Listening in their British homes, millions of people heard, borne over the

Your Daily Smile!

it-does.

a monster as

hear.

"Some motorists have the knack of How far can human intelli-wireless from across the world. gence go on enriching itself by the roar of the waters of the Vic-making their tyres last much longer in the very act of reading these than other drivers can," anys a writer, words, travelling over (in some new draughts from the bottom-toria Falls on the Zambesi, and One method is to negotiate corners cases under) the surface of the nerves, but we should grumble far

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Acid Test

Mr. Bacon: "You should never judge

earth at a speed which your fore-more if we had to take all our fathers could not achieve more messages round by hand. The

less well of science? Or has the through the rear came the voices economically on two wheels, reservoir of knowledge a finite of those paying tribute to David depth, capable of being reached Livingstone. That Livingstone perary as speaking straight from me than once in their lives, and then business man who bemoans the by a finite mind? If it has not, discovered those falls, the great shoulder." Further in the account it only by throwing themselves off necessity for making frequent and and "though veil after viel may est on earth, was only, as it were, was "straight from the heart." Ons the top of a cliff. But the speed rapid journeys at least makes lift there will be veil upon veil a prologue to his work.

Yet to more stage of descent and it'd have at which you travel has got very them in comfort and security. In behind," a point must exist place his statue close above the been ventriloquism.

little to do with the speed at which the old days he would have travel- somewhere at which man's ex-wonder of the narrow abyss of

you live. The latter, in fact, ia led, albeit slowly and seldom, in ploration of the mysteries of the gorge, into which rush the

ator waters of a mile-wide river, to be this package, madam."

"You've put too much postage on usually in inverae ratio to the

neither. existence will have to

former. for the speed at which For above all, there is far less Human life, unless means of ex-hurled down three hundred feet,

"Gracious me! I only hops it won't you live can only be reckoned in uncertainty in life than there used splendidly appropriate go too far." tending it are discovered, will was

terms of experience, and the to be. I mean uncertainty in the not be long enough to enable any- Something on the titanic scale

A Teacher: Now, Peebles, tell

faster you travel the less you feel, small, diurnal things, in the actual one to go farther. Though the should be the setting for

Suspended Animation day-to-day routine of living. Our time available to an individual monument to Livingstone's en-which month has twenty-eight days?

The name Peebles: They all have, teacher. The man who flies to Berlin in ultimate destinics may be in the for the acquisition of knowledge ergy and character.

less than no time thinks that be of dictators and depressions, but capricious and incalculable hands la strictly limited. the demands of his nephew. the Hon. H. U.

is living faster than the man who upon it are ever growing. Could Moffat. who unveiled the statue.. a man bequeath his learning to happily links with the cerea man by his clothes, my dear." went there in a coach. Actually, our private lives are led in luxuri

of Mary those who come after him, as he mony the memory

Mrs. Bacon: "I never do, I always of course, he is exchanging several ouely padded cells.

days full of novel and exciting ex-

Modern life is in reality a very can bequeath his money, so that Moffat, the heroic and devoted judge him by his wife's clothes. one generation could start where wife who went with Livingstone

perience for a few hours of ous-soft option. We know where and Facts You Did Not Know pended animation above a large how to get everything we want, the other left off, this might not through half his labours.

relief When Livingstone sailed for jao much matter. But everyone

map. The fact that his from pure milk to police protection.. comes into the world with his Africa less than a century ago, Insulated by a layer of asbestors, a first action on entering the plane Everything of which we may have its interior was unknown from new piston for internal combustion en- is to stuff his ears with cotton need, from doctors to railwaya, is mind an absolute blank. Even

gines is asserted to to

provide better before he could spell "wireless" Cape Colony Timbuctoo combustion, economy in motor oil and wool is typical of the whole busi-almost 100 per cent reliable. We Marconi's son would have to When he died on his knees in less wear on cylinder walle. learn his alphabet. And to get his lonely camp near

A radio station is being constructed any knowledge of the subject he ganyika he had travelled over would need to study it from the a third of the Continent, from near Shanghai that will provide direct elements up. Each discovery in the Cape to the Equator, from communication with England early that the figures on the world's

next year and eventually will, make science means a new task for the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean direct radiophone service possible. stage move about their business that the Tempo" of Modern Life is the student. but the discoverer Not all was done, but no other

at a far more lively, not to say Getting Him Down' and that he is does not provide any more time African explorer has ever achiev-

con- frantic pace than they used to. as jumpy as a cat on hot bricks, He gave the im-stracted in Connecticut is asserted to But when they call attention to satisfy yourself that the bricks are beyond that contained in the tewed so much. ture allows and cannot be in-all the great work which follow.space inside although only four feet Rush of, Modern Life, they for-ing, too. flecting years of youth that Na-pulse, he was the inspiration of provide nearly three times the useful this fact by talking about the really hot before you start jump-

Tan-

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A three wheeled automobile

longer then the average American car.

ness. He might as well blindfold have less cause for doubt and fear himself as well He is not living than our forefathers ever had, and faster, he is hardly living at all doubt and fear are worse for the There is, I admit, no denying nervous system than anything else. So next time anybody tells you

duced to increase. Although ed. Stanley first went to Africa

get that half the time they are some port has said that "the best to find Livingstone, lost in the A system has been developed in Eng- automata. A mechanised civill- GIRLS DUCK MAYOR

wilds. When land whereby thousands of subscribers sation, has made it possible for of all ways to lengthen our days Tanganyikan

IN NEW LIDO.

Novel Opening For London Pool

they used to do; but it has also made those things far easier to do. The worker's energies have bean canalised and stereotyped by rou- tine. He works for eight hours every day, but most of the time he

· Wood Green's new lido' was working semi-mechanically, opened in novel fashions. A Half his intellectual faculties are crowd of five hundred bathers not called into play at all.

were present at six-thirty am Consider the Tired Business for the ceremony.

is to steal a few hours from the Livingstone's death was known listen to radio programas received at them to do far more things than] night" that theft, if carried too Stanley was asked. "Could you central stations and sent out over lines that are tapped at individual and would far, has its penalty.

you complete homes. Still it is only by burning the the work?" and was equip

He was mid-night oll to the bottom of ped for the task.

8. AIR RECORDS the lamp that a young man can himself foremost to proclaim hope to absorb a anfficient the pre-eminence, the leadership

SMASHED amount of knowledge to enable of David Livingstone, who, to him to acquire any scientific pro-Stanley's mind, "united in him- fession soon enough to make a self all the best qualities of other American Plane's start with it in the uphill battle explorers." Certainly he was at

Fine Feat of life. Meanwhile the standard once the gentlest and the most of proficiency geta higher and desperately resolute. higher, with still but twenty-

four hours in his day and three

She Claimed £4,000 Damages

New

Lia

Man, as he is whirled homewards The Mayor of Wood Green New York in his limousine. (At least, he (Alderman S. B. Cole) stood he- Eight new world's, records would be whirled if everybody else sitating in his bathing costume hundred and sixty-five days in' SAT ON AN APPLE were set up by the Pan-Ameri-wasn't being whirled too. It on the brink of the pool before each of the few youthful yeara

can Airways machine, S42, the typical of the myth I am trying to he took the plunge, when a crowd" largest flying boat in the USA destroy that what is called the of girls seized him and threw allowed him for reaching it. The problem of this young man

which yesterday maintained a Rush Hour is the hour when the him into the water speed of 167.82 miles an hour largest number of vehicles are Thus was the bath officially now beginning to take a practical

lover a 1243-mile course.

completely stationary for the long The pool, which cost £30,000,

opened shape, and with it is bound up.

The records Include that forest periods of time in traffic is claimed to be the second larg the problem of the world a fur-New York-Miss Olive Dawson, speed over a 600-mile course for blacks) Whirling, then, he re eat in London. ther advance on the road of effi-of Los Angeles, climbed into her ships without load, as well as fects with a glow of satisfaction ciency.

motor-car one day and sat down with loads of 1100,2200 and on an apple.

The apple injured her apine. corda mover a 1200-mile course. She sued a grocery firm whose with the same loads. The records

· Arriving from Shanghai this' morn- ing, the U.8.8. Sacramento fired delivery van had spilled the apple were previously held by Euro salute of 21 guns as she entered the port. The salute will replied by Black

dead Fort, Other American, navA. Vessels in port are the U.8.8. Izabel Land 0.9.8. Mindanao.

into her car.

Mias Dawson claimed £4,000 damages,

The judge awarded her $100,

Because of the drought the that he has just dictated and sign-Metropolitan Water Board re 4400 lb and also the speed re- ed thirty letters. He feels that he fused to supply the water, and

eanlines

Colonel Lindbergh was a pas senger on the flying-bust during its record fight:

has had a full day.

In Grandfather's Day ;

But was if any.

great-grandfather grandfather admitt ed three letters, But

the opening had been delayed for- a week while supplies were on- than his tained from wells. Six hundred gallons of water were conveyed by motor; lorries, and it took. Roven days to fill the