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For the first time since their in- auguration over 20 years ago, Mr. Bernard Shaw's name does not ap pear on the programme of the Fa- bian Society's autumn course of lectures.

MANNERS & MORALS OF THREE EPOCHS

CONDUCT COMES NEXT TO RELIGION

DEMOCRACY'S BENEFIT

(By Dean Inge)

That of Professor Laskt still does.TEXT to religion, and con- gone on almost everywhere;

sonduct.jons

the

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difference between these two old Have the standards of, right and sia, Japan, Egypt, and Palestina. colleagues on the subject of Dicta wrong changed since I was young? The restriction is mainly volun tors in general, and Hitler in par. When a nation is divided into clas-tary.. Married couples now have as ticular, it might be assumed that ses, there will be different stand-many children as they want, and remember the (G. B. S. was being "punished" byards of conduct in the same coun-not more. I can

his fellow-Fabians.

try. When Queen Victoria came to time when the very, suggestion of The opposite is the case. Mr the throne, the fashions for the deliberate restriction was consider- People quoted the Shaw has been increasingly inluct privileged class had been set by ed shocking.

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APPLE DAYS «

But

ant to go to the labour of preparing those gross old men her uncles proverb, "Where God sends mouths a long lecture for the last five years. What their morals and manners He sends meat," and the injune- Now, at the age of 79, his friends were may be gathered' from Cree- tion. "Be fruitful and multiply," have at last excused him.

vey, Byron, and other writings of which is said to have been given He has announced, however, that the period.

when there were only two human The will attend all the lectures and "Little Vic," before her marriage beings in the world.

probably heckle the lecturers. was disposed to innocent romping:| Question Of Motive

she might have been a Hanoverian Nine people out of ten now think like her eldest son. But she made that the morality of restriction de

excellent pends on its motive, and that the Apples are plentiful this season, love-match with on

Then motive may be good. Berious, cultivated German.

I will not but the English producer is finding them "scarce worth the picking" began the reign of Victoria II argue the question here; those who With Covent Garden reporting which went on till Disraeli, as condemn the limitation of families

Gladstone complained, made her are defending a lost cause, prices of English fruit as low as & shilling a bushel it is not surpris-quite unmanageable." The Queen, many think that prudence may be ing that old orchards are being no-however, remained in perfect sym-carried too far for the good of the glected. Many of the cherished pathy with the English middle country. On the basis of a sta- varieties -the russets and rib-class, who saved the country fromtionary population a birth-rate of stons of childhood memory are be revolution, and put Mrs. Grundy on about 18 per thousand is necessary. coming rarer and rarer.

her pedestal. The aristocrats, only to balance the deaths. And, un- The apple dumpling, too, beloved half repentant, were obliged to make fortunately, it is in the best parts of old English epicureans, has lost an alliance with the bourgeoisie of the population-the professional some of its significance, The days and to pretend to adopt their stand-classes and skilled labour-that restriction la most practised. The when wisely administered, a tho-are gone when it called for that ards,

Thus arose the famous Victorian lowest rates are among ministers roughly democratic method of wholesome respect which inspired

of religion, doctors and teachers, expressing public recognition is Dr. Juhnson to advise Boswell to compromise.

The masses, for their part, were the highest among the slum-dwel- the distribution of some of the have a good orchard."

The Doctor in fact, declared that not yet in a position to call the lers and the mentally deficient. Hong Kong, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 1934 older badges of distinction. The

great air race, to Melbourne in he knew a poor clergyman who tune.. They had always disapprov When we speak of "morality". in honour of the hundredth birth-"brought up a family very reputed of Regency morals, but they this country we think chiefly of day of that great city, reminds ably, which he chiefly fed with ap-never made a religion of hard work sex. Those who have studied the and "getting on." So when the subject are agreed that commer- one of some of the sayings of the ple dumplings." very typical Whig Statesman.

new century and the brought a general relaxation restraints, Puritanism was at. discount.

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The Investiture at Govern-Queen Victoria's first Prime ment House yesterday was, like Minister, who gave the capital most ceremonies organised on ajof the Colony of Victoria its military pattern simple, short, name. Viscount Melbourne was and impressive. Here were three accustomed to say exactly what citizens, practically unknown to he thought and on one occasion, most of the people-present, who after receiving what was and had done good service to the still is the highest rank in the State, and who received a pub English orders of chivalry, lic acknowledgment in as for-"What I like about the Garter is weaks old!' mal and official way as possible; that there's no damned nonsense the symbol of the State's grati-of merit about it."": tude has no market value in it- Probably most, men of to-day only four weeks."

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Personal Pars

new

reign cfallsed vice has decreased enor

he

the

Is

of mously. This must be a matter for a rejoicing, for the degradation of womanhood is a disgrace to civili. The Reckless Age sation. But everybody knows that The reign of Edward VII. was the abolition of this outlet may not a wholesome time. Those who sometimes be dangerous. Commuter: "Hmm! Early today!"

could afford it enjoyed themselves In-my young days, even the most.. Not Guilty Mistress: "Just look at the dust on recklessly, though much less vul- extreme Freethinkers generally ac this piano. Mary. It's at least six garly than the "bucks" of the Re-cepted the Christian standard of gency; and. at the same time there morality in these matters. Frederie. Calm Mery: "Then it ain't nothing was a new temper of "militancy," Harrison, the Positivist, said once: to do with me mum, I've been here).

which boded ill for the future." "A man who cannot control his There is no Democracy has on the whole been passions is a cad. self, for no one else could law-would prefer the much plainer

good for morals. There are three love except in 'marriage." A well-dressed man had sat down forms of democracy-as a form of The Great Change fully use it, but it is in every "Order of Merit," which would

newly-painted seat. Distressed, government, a form of State and way an honourable satisfaction write his name into a very small on a

Now, there has been a great Or he said to the painter: that the names of the recipients and distinguished company.

"Why don't you put 'Wet paint' on a form of society. The last means change. The psycho-analysts tell will be recorded on a roll of per- would they? Quite possibly the

equality of consideration, and may jua that "repression" is physically your state ?" manent membership in honour-actual choice, if offered, might "That's what I'm doin', ain't 17" re- claim to be Christian. If it has injurious, à convenient doctrine for able association with others produce some very surprising replied the painter;

not entirely abolished snobbery in those who wish to indulge them- whose service in a military or versals, of expressed opinion. At

England, it has greatly diminish-selves. They talk about "monkish civil capacity has stood out as any rate there is no doubt that

ed class-arrogance, and has brought morality"; I wish they would read noteworthy.

the "V.C." would be more prized

to an end the detestable notion that Plato. "Do we not know," There is a great deal of affec-than any. Those of us who ad-

Mr. Wong Lin-sze. of the Kwang-the daughters of the poor need not makes. Socrates say, that many tation about the common pose of vocate peace must recognise tung Provincial Educational De- be treated with respect. The modern athletes remain continent all indifference to such decorations. that though it may be true that partment, arrived in the Colony gentleman has learned that gentil time of their training? They do it No one pretends that the State "peace hath her victories, no less last evening."

ity has no necessary. connection to obtain a corrupible, crown" (al- has any infallible method of dis-renowned than war," they do not

with heraldry or property in land most the words of St. Paul), "and Miss Hu Muk-lun, daughter of Then came the War. At first shall not we do it to obtain a vic- cerning merit, but in our genera-captivate the imagination tion at any rate enrolment in the easily.

Mr. Hu Han-min, returned to the there was a fine spirit of sacrifice; tory over our lower selves?" various orders has been confer- No one has every even suspect-Colony from Canton last night, then a reaction, and the licentious there not a great deal of danseous red on men with names it is an ed that the "V.C." has ever been

ness which a great war almost a cant about "the unmarried mother"?" nonour to be associated, and there given by favouritism, though it Lt. Norman E. Millar and Lt.ways fosters. There was a revolt Attacks upon marriage are very is a superfine delicacy of refine is sad to think how many who John Andrews, Jr., were passen of youth against age, a revolt which popular in fiction a bad importa ment in scenting any taint of have earned it did not live to regers

aboard the .s. President is still going on. The older generation from the Continent, where the snobbery in the matter. When ceive it. In the Great War the Wilson, which left here yesterday. tion, the young people thought, favourite plot of a novel is a acab- the annual Birthday List of Hon-number of the "recommended"

had sent their sons to the shamrous story of adultery. Facilities ours appears it is often described grew so rapidly that a special or-

bles to expirate, their own follies for divorce have been increased, as "dull because the names are der was issued by the War Office

In future, the young would think and further extensions are demand- unknown to the political journal- that no recommendation should

for themselves. And so they did, ed. In practice, the worst offen- lista. The moral to be drawn is be forwarded, except for very

The forthcoming wedding of Mr. with most remarkable results dera are the rich and the "Bohe rather that there is a great deal outstanding exploits. The medal Hector Caesar dos: Remedios, clerk Communism, moderniat art and mians"acters, film-stars; and such of loyal though inconspicuous was won towards the end of the of the Chartered Bank, living at poetry, the group movement in re like. service done in distant parts of war for deeds that were practic-No. 4 Salisbury Road, to Miss Car-ligion, intimate and gerenally quite Here I am on the side of the Puri- the world to our very scattered ally superhuman, as can be seen melita Marie Britto, of No. 244 innocent comradeship between the tans. I believe that marriage is nation which escapes publicity by reading the records duly Ashley Road, Kowloon, is an sexes, and so on. because it is efficient and success-printed and published. ful. If one of the servants of might expect from these that the State departs from, the na-the men commemorated would be tional tradition — for example, of. some unusual, physique or 'im- as Governor Eyre did in Jamai-pressive manner, but about ten ca-publicity is easy enough, it years ago a dinner was given to comes unbidden and its persist- all the survivors, most of whom ence is unwelcome. Some fifteen turned up in civilian dress, and years ago there was a frivolous what impressed everyone was the outery against the rather long extreme ordinariness of the lists of members of the Order of average hero. What exactly is Li Muf, a 71-year-old widow, of viable but discreditable, and this the British Empire, but the fact the lesson one should infer from No. 143 Jaffe Road, Brat floor, was applies to girls as well as to young was that the recipients were that surprising experience is dif- summoned before Mr. E. W. Hamil-men. mostly men who had never ficult to say. Is it that the quite ton at the Central Magistracy this sought any public office, but who ordinary man is capable of rival-morning, for keeping an unregister-But there are several special ques- had in a quiet and profoundly ling Achilles under favourable ed mui taut, Weng Sui, alins Tsai tions of morality in which public

opinion has changed very notice generous spirit given personal circumstances? In a world of or-King, 14 years, ⠀

One

PORTUGUESE WEDDING

nounced,

HAPPY MUI TSAI

Mistress Fined For Not Registering Girl

America's Example

The break with Victorian stand: ards has been complete; but the young people seem to be steadier than they were ten years ago.

From America has come the feel- ing that for a young man or woman to "have nothing to do" is not su-

These are general movements.

service to voluntary organisation dinary men that is a very dif- Sub-Inspector H. W. Fraser, ably since the beginning of the such as money could not have ficult idea, but at least it is true stated that the girl was quite happy century. secured, and those who had had that in dealing with a plumber with her mistress and that she was What has been the most Impor time the task of administering almost or a shopman we can never be exceptionally well-treated. A fine tant social change in our impossibly large and sudden quite sure that he is not Achilles of $25 was imposed. emergencies knew how indispen-in disguise.

sable? had been the help of many

of these "forgotten men," S

-Manager: KN.)

President Roosevelt would have

Not, I think, the War, nor the growth of Socialism, but the fall

Chau Yau, a banishee, was sen-in the birth rate. In 1876 the num tenced to 12 months hard labour by ber of births in England was 86.3 Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central per thousand of the population:

called them. Dr. Wang Chung-hul, the hinese Magistracy this morning, for re-last year it was 14.4. Where fiv

Skydancers Judge, at the International Court of tur What has given colour to the Justice, The Hague, arrived in Nan- satire directed against what is, king from Shanghai yesterday

to the Colony from benish babies used to be born there are now only two. This change has

:"

the best thing in human life, and that most marriages are happy. I Hold that when a man or woman (Continued on Page 11)

other, can I have another

of toffee, I lost the

“Where did you lose

"I put it in my mouth and allpped down?"