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THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1935

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The China Mail

Hong Kong, Monday, August 26, 1935

Mr. Runciman's Just

Optimism

may admit Herbert Samuel some ray of this light to his. closely shuttered room.

Here There and

SUBSTITUTES FOR RELIGION

Everywhere. THE POTENCY OF CRANK

CANNOCK CHASE

BELIEFS

Lord Anglesey's decision to de- HAPPY HUNTING GROUNDS FOR

FREAKISH MOVEMENTS

(By Very Rev. W. R. Inge)

molish Bean Desert Hall unless the National Trust can provide an alternative solution for its future, reopens the question of preserving Cannock Chase.

When a Parliamentary Commit-on Substitutes for Religion. rote for the abolition of vaccina-

tee was set up in 1929 to discuss

HIS is the last of my articles,the votes of this or that clique, to

perhaps

This is

the establishment of national parks. The crank is an Anglo-Saxon pro-tion, vivisection, capital punish- Cannock Chase, of which the park duct; he flourishes in Great Britainment, birth control. field-sports. at Bean Desert forms a part, was and in the United States, and is gambling, and what not.

everywhere else. In the

Some "Canses" put forward as a candidate. But rare

`Some of these "causes" may be since the financial crisis, the whole Latin countries he hardly exists.

#good; but what must be the state question of national parks has been The Mediterranean lands have

longer tradition of civilisation:jof mind of a voter who is willing more or less shelved.

The problem of preserving Can-their people are more sophisticated to make any one of them decide

better educated his political allegiance? nock Chase as a national park is and complicated by the existence of They do not commit themselves to the way to rot democracy.

No doubt it may be said that mining rights and the plantations absurd fads.

But we in England have always no reforms would ever be carried jof the Forest Commission.

encouraged, or at least not re out if there were not a few une pressed, originality and eccen-balanced enthusiasts who think TOO EXPENSIVE TO OCCUPY tricity. The French say we have that this particular reform is the Lord Anglesey has been unlucky two hundred religions and only one thing that must be pushed over Bean Desert Hall. Before the one sauce which is, perhaps. bet-through at all costs.

having two hundred Was not St. Paul considered a war he spent £16,000 reconstruct-ter than

crank by educated pagans? Were ing the exterior in its original sauces and no religion.

The United States is the happy not St. Francis and George Fox Elizabethan -style.

After the war he found that he hunting-ground of freak religions. men of one idea, and very unlike could not afford to live there, so the Their exports to this country in-ordinary people? This is, of interior was never completed. He clude not only duchesses and chew course, the plea and the partial Ing-gum, but Christian Science, justification of what in the eigh-

has been unable to sell it.

4.

The Hall belonged to Heary spiritualism, the group movement, teenth century was called enthu

cannot seriously VIII, who granted it to his secre and many other suchlike things, siasm; but me

some of which take as kindly to compare such men as these with tary Sir William Faget.

•

The staircase bears the name of our climate as the musquash and the monomaniacs who believe that

the Colorado beetle.

the British are the lost ten tribes, Waterloo, commemorating the ser-

or that millions now alive vices of the first Lord Anglesey.

(A few years ago

Your Daily Smile

The President's commenté upon the findings of Lord Mer- rivale, who had been inquiring case of an 1 for an I. into the loss of four steamers in

the North Atlantic earlier in

When two bores get together, it's

Car?"

* *

* Like a Thermometer

*

Witty Definition

Santayana, whose: "Soliloquies never die.” in England" is the most sympathe this announcement appeared

tic, most understanding and wit-thousands of posters.) Siest study of our character, man-

*

Sense Of Insecurity

will

It gives one a sense of insecurity

ners and customs that I know, says that our country is the paradise of to know that the destinies of the: jindividuality, eccentricity, heresy.country are in the hands of per- the year, will command warm Anto Salesman

sons of such low intelligence. But, (explaining to anomalies, hobbies and humours. approval He was resolved that green customer): "This is the radi Where else would a man inform fortunately, the crank is only in- Not long ago the Chancellor there was no slackening in the aur and this is the fan."

Ladys "Oh, then it's an all-season you, with a sort of proud challenge, sane at one point. In other ways

that he lived on nuts, or was in we often find him quite sensible... of the Exchequer described the effective control committed to

Many of us keep our Ideas very correspondence through a medium trade outlook as "persistently (the Board of Trade for securing

Fair Warning!

with Sir Joshua Reynolds, or had comfortably in watertight com. and doggedly cheerful" He the safety of British seamen. He

After a visit to London, Sandy re-been disgustingly housed when last partments. There is, perhaps, no was glumly reproved in certain set up an expert Committee tol

much danger that any one fad will quarters both for his cheerful report upon the types of steer turned to his native village and was in prison?

The Englishman always rides sweep the country. Prohibition in ness and for his choice of ading-gear fitted to the Usworth asked about the great city.

The "Oh it's a grand place, all right,” verbs, but the President of theland the Blairgowrie.

said Sandy, "but the people there some hobby. He travels through America was a war-measure; its: the world with one eye shut, hops advocates took advantage of an Board of Trade was in general public mind was much disturb have to be watched

Mr.ed by some of the evidence.

"What makes you think so?" ask-all over it on one leg, and plays his exceptional crisis and now at last agreement with him. Runciman said recently that he given before Lord Merrivale ed his friend.

"Well, I bought a box of pins la-scales with one finger. "He will de it has been repealed.

Nothing has damped the ardour approached the coming year and even more by his searching belled "A thousand for a penny. On fend the silliest opinion with

impartial observations with restrained optimism but and

the way home in the train I counted mind of learning, and espouse the of teetotal fansties like the tem- Why Merchant shipping, as we know, them, and there were six short!"

worst of causes on the highest porary success and ultimate failure certainly with optimism. not, indeed, when despite a few has fallen on evil times latter

principles.

of their propaganda in the United States: And yet theirs is one of temporary checks the upwardly Yet, though expenditure movement continues apparently has to be cut to the minimum.

Risks to care, a hang what they do with The crank belief may be a sub-the most respectable of sil crazes, without a break? A year the obligations remain. ago, as many will remember, can only be run at imminent their characters' eyes. For instance: stitute for religion when it takes for drunkeness used to be a ter- "Her eyes roamed carelessly round on the properties of a religious rible evil The demon was exor-- he thought he saw signs of the danger to the lives of men if the

The belief may have cised, not by the cranks, but by "With her eyes she riveted him to dogma saturation point being reached ship encounters exceptionally The heavy weather. The primary

nothing in common with religion better education and increasing re- fin the home market

figures of 1934-5, however, and the ultimate responsibility "He tore his eyes from her for except its quality of absoluteness.finement. I wish I could hope that ha There is a recognisable crank the same ininences would even- have proved him wrong. and for seeing that a ship is in a and they fell on the letter at

feet" a mis seaworthy condition rests on he candidly admitted

"Their eyes met for a long, breath- mind which when it has picked up tually drive out betting and gam The less moment, and swam together." an idea turns it into a sacred con-bling and other follies.

(Continued on Page 101 taken prognostication Judged the owners and master. by every simple pointer, it was Board of Trade's duty is to see Marjory would often take her viction and tries to propagate it a remarkably good year, and that the regulations are ade eyes from the deck and cast them with the fanatical zeal, of a bigot.

Some content themselves with DEPORTEES FROM unless something- untoward guate in all particulars and that far out to sea

JAPAN happens 1935-6 should be still full compliance is rigorously hers. It was a painful moment for one craze; others drive a whole

enforced

Batch Of Chinese At Shanghai

better

LOW "DENS" OF DOCKLAND

Retired Naval Officer's Attack

BAD SOCIAL AND MORAL CONDITIONS

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Rough Staff

Some of our novelists don't seem

the room."

the spot

He wrenched his eyes away from

both of them.”

SOVIET PARACHUTE JUMPS

Crank Belief

There are some teams of them. men, often half in and half out of politics, who may be described as the "antis." They are anti-vac- cination, anti-vivisection, anti- corporal punishment anti-alcohol,

When the China Merchants car- No fewer than 103 parachute anti-tobacco, and so forth.

go boat Ewa Mow arrived in: jumps were made during the con- In the early days of Christianity Shanghai recently, another batch tests for landing in a prescribed the only craze of this and was of deported Chinese arrived from spot during the All-Soviet Union anti-eex. Some of the hermits and Japan. They were 71 persons in Meeting of Parachutists which monks brought themselves into all and most of them were natives took place on August 9.

such a state that the sight of of Kiangsinked pretty girl made them feel sick, Having spent a night in the just as the smell of beer or tobacco Customs Jetty shed the refugees

Mr Runciman explicitly at tributed the main source of the prosperity of British internal trade to the stimulus given by tariffs. To the same cause he assigned the welcome improve ment in exports... Without the bargaining power of the tarifi. instrument he would never have been able to persuade foreign Governments to reduce their Itariffs and mitigate the quotas; affecting the entry of British

The social and moral condi- illegal sale of intoxicating: goods. Nor would they have

kadoo, Nantao, Band, where they been induced to increase their tions in British seaports were liquors and covert prostitution turns the stomach of the fanatical were taken by a boat to Tong-

2 American Fad

were temporarily accommodated purchases in the British mar-attacked by Capt F A With the aid of the automatic teetotaller or anti-smoker. ket. Britain has exported an Richardson. RN. (ret), at the piano, dancing is openly car-

This last fad is the first dogma in the Kiangsi Residents Guild.. additional 2.500,000 tons of coal seventh Imperial Social Hygiene ried on

little of a religious sect in America Delegates of the refugees later Wor-called on the City Government and in two years to the countries Congress, opened by the Earl of "These dens with which she made trade Plymouth. Under-Secretary of activity until after the public They take as their motto agreements; the countries with State for the Colonies, at the houses are closed, when they ship the Lord with clean Lips," and the Shanghai District Knomin-

Here ob- which she has no agreements London School of Hygiene and become busy and keep open anyone who smokes is called a tang to appeal for assistance.

until the small hours of morn-1"cigarette fiend" less. In the first three months

show

have purchased $1,750.000 tons Tropical Medicine.

The congress, attended by ing The wait boss of moist serve a difference betwee

of this year British exports are delegates from all parts of the ants dance with the patrons, selves and the Americans. up £4,500,000 to the former Empire. has been organised by who are mostly coloured sea-are cranky, but tolerant. countries; exports to all other the British Social Hygiene men, and as they is usually an America pablic opinion i

inner room, very little imaginative and tyrannical countries have only risen Council.

tion is necessary to conjure the To the question,

£2,000.000.

Runciman Gloomy Atmosphere ME

in

brother's keeper ? Exorbitant

answers emphai said Capt. many

ays there who were white or freedom in

flasks than

may be the more persuaded of Capt. Richardson, who has sequence.* the soundness of his policy by conducetd investigations

The wa Mr. Lloyd George's resolute de London, Liverpool and Cardia. claration that the tariff should spoke of the gloomy atmosphere Bich be "utilised unhesitatingly to of dockland, the grime and half force consent to more trade dilapidation sordid slums and bargains which we are in a low type public, house 1 stronger position than my vous for seamen

"In the sailor town of Car other country to make, since we are far the biggest interna- diff" said Capt tional trading country in the world Without the tariff Bri

are in on o-called cafes abou

tain would have been as help the Chief Constable less as in the old days, and acers would have merciless advantage of In time, even Sir

con Sales places

ren

He

still:

We