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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1936

EXPLANATION

Ninety-first Year of Publication.

SA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong. The Most Contemptible

The China Mail

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1821) of Westfield, Mass. NO SALARY, NO DOLPHINS

Lord Willingdon, who has suc- All communications intended for educated as a physician in Eng

publication should be addressed-to land, was the meanest traiter in ceeded Lord Reading as Lord War-

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MARRIAGE

and Mrs. Duncan, to Helen Walker, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Wylie.

American history. He i-

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ASTROLOGY--SCIENCE OR SWINDLE?

"ILLEGITIMATE SISTER

OF ASTRONOMY”

VENERABLE ANTIQUITY OF THE OLDEST OF HUMAN ARTS

(By Benjamin Farrington)

The only charge on the Trea- ASTROLOGY has been called After all, a professional man is

not hesitate to accuse others cfjon the sea bed. the wachinations of which he alone

the legitimate sister of paid for his skill, not on his re- sult. As my friend said to me at

Queen Of Sciences Indeed under the Koman empire.

den of the Cinque Ports, will re- the Editor, and be accompanied by all the Writer's Name and Address situated himself into Benjamin eive no salary for the office.

The salary of £3,000 a not necessarily for insertion, but Franklin's confidence and was by

the latter installed in

was abolished before Lord as a guarantee of good faith.

fidential capacity with Silas Deane, merston became, Lord Warden in American Commissioner in France, 1861 While ostensibly serving as a spy in England for Deane, he was at sury in connection with the of the same time betraying all the fice is the upkeep of Walmer Cas-astronomy.

It might be more accurate to the time, a doctor is not denied his American secrets to the British tle, which Lord Willingdon will

(call her the mother of astronomy fee if the patient dies. Intelligence Service, for which he have as his official residence.

His only "perks are the rights an invincible and disreputable This comparison between the received from $2,000 to $10,000 a year from the enemy of his coun-of "Botsam, jetsam and lagah" old mother who has lived on to be astrologer and the doctor, how- of her respectable ever unfair it may be to the me- try. He kept Great Britain in-within the area of the Cinque the disgrace

daughter.

dical profession to-day, is full of For astrology is one of the historical significance. There was DUNCAN-WYLIE-At Kowloon formed of every shipment of arms, Ports.

Even these rights are not quite

oldest of human arts and, in a time when astrology, like me- Union Church, Hong Kong, on supplies and troops to his native

His activities endanger so extensive as one might imagine, 19th June, 1936, James Her-country.

ed the American cause and materi- since whales and dolphins cast view of its venerable antiquity. It dicine, was looked upon both as a is not remarkable that it can science and an art, and that by bert Swan, youngest son of Mr. George Duncan, M.RE y prolonged the Revolutionary ashore belong to the King as daim from time to time a numer-the best intellects.

War. The French Governmental fish."

if nondescript following of "Flotsam, jetsam and lagan"OKS complained that everything it did was known to the British Ambas-meau respectively floating goods, people who think there may be

something in it. sador. The double spy then did goods cast. ashore and goods Popular newspapers would hard-and again at the Renaissance, there ily feature astrological calendars were those who claimed that astro- IN LORD READING'S FOOTSTEPS unless there were readers whology was the queen of the sciences must be and the most precious of the arts. Lord Willingdon's career has consulted them. There Your Daily Smile! been very similar to that of the people who want to know that What frere its claims

late Lord Reading, whom he suc-the aspects of Tenus to-day may titles? Why must if forfeit them

produce strange love adventures." to-day? A candidate addressing his consti-jeeeds.

for that "the day's lucky number The claims of astrology in an- Public opinion still counts for tuency was surprised by voice They were contemporaries something in England, for which, calling from the back of the the Liberal benches of the House is eight" And it used to be said cient days may be briefly explain- in a certain big modern city that led thus. Primitive man all over which let us thank whatever hall, said: "Well, I don't care what of Commons for six years. gods there be; so that there is you say, I wouldn't vote for you if

were raised to the peerage during the professional astrologers were the world deifies nature in various still a chance that the "Great you were the angel Gabriel."

Came the reply: "If I were the the last Liberal administration, ever so busy as when the share aspects and believes, in a sympathy Betrayal" which the Labour angel Gabriel, you wouldn't be in my Lord Willingdon in 1910 and Lord market was lively. For if the between himself and nature.

planet Venus presides over love, Among the Babylonians, who Party so castigates may nöt jconstituency.”

Reading in 1914

there is another planet. Mercury created the science of astrology, become an accomplished fact.

Both have been elevated, ranko, according to age-old belief. the stars, including the sun, moon. Airman (after landing in a tree): Because there is surely not the

by rank, four times in the peer-presides over business and swindl and the planets, were regarded as slightest doubt that the declared "I was trying to make a new re-

age.

the divinest element in the uni- cord."

fing. British policy. if carried

Farmer: "You did. You're the first Both became Marquesses on 're-

Casting Horoscopes

Įverse and ́a sympathy was suppos- through, will cause the national

man to climb down that tree before linquishing the Viceroyalty of

The only astrologer I ever knewed to exist between them and man. name so to stink in the noselimbing up it"

India, and the Cinque Ports ap- trils of decent men that it will

pointment followed in each case. personally came to me once when it was supposed that life on earth and 3.000 years before Christ the His business was a modest one;

of the beavenly bodies in order events Qu

Hong Kong. Saturday, June 20, 1936 was guilty.

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Bernhard Breslauer, aged 23. the German visitor to London. fell

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He had asked a fee of two to anticipate thereby learth was instituted. guineas for casting a horoscope.

Experience has shown the limits and his disappointed customer had

the ceremony): "Whaur's stigma. It is difficult to see how after that policy can possibly be Sandy?"

Guests: "He's round at the back of ment, is in his early 703. approved by the man in the the car, trying on the old boots.” street. It would literally be al betrayal of the millions who by "Ten stitches did the doctor have their clamour voiced a denunci- to put in my husband after the fight

a accused him of obtaining money of the useful application of this ation of the Hoare-Laval pro-with your old man last night."

Ter,

was it? Well, when

on false pretences. My friend was art. It is, of course, true that the posals with such unexpected doctor sees my poor husband carried

a firm believer in his art. Be whole cycle of life on our planet strength. It now appears to 50. says he: Has any one fot

month gave me some understanding of is conditioned by the relative posi as to be patently obvious that sewing machine?' '

the mass of data he had to con-tions of earth and sim, that the the Government is riding for a

sider and the elaborate calculations moon affects our tides, and that tremendous fall if it persists in "My last boarder was a wonderful

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he had been at the pains of mak-jax accurate knowledge of the cour its declared policy of lifting artist, signed the landlady as she

ing in order to cast this particu-ses of the sun, moon, and planets, sanctions and truckling under hacked at the pie crust. "He always said he found inspiration in my cook-

The Irish Free State Parlia-lar horoscope. I felt that, how which we owe principally to the force

circumstances. ing.” Throughout this sorry business "Ah! A sculptor, I presume," said ment assembled recently at 5 pm ever unsatisfactory the result, be Babylonians, has turned the face for his two of the sky into a great clock by it has been a malicious pleasure the boarder, surveying his bent fork instead of 3 p.m., so that members had worked hard for enemies of the country to

might visit the Dublin Spring guineas, and I was glad when the which the activities of civilised

magistrate acquitted him.

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then sufficiency and gain. The firm volved,

every single stand taken by Mr. Anthony accusation of bad faith which Eden, both when he was Minis-has been levelled at the coun- ter for League Affairs and try by calumniators is fully latterly when he was appointed justified. We have all along Foreign Secretary, patently insisted that we were fighting belied the innuendo or so it for an ideal that we were on seemed to those of Us who the side of right as opposed to honestly believed that Britain might; we have congratulated meant what she said. In fact, ourselves that in a world where one of the most inspiring things moral principles were lax we, about the whole business was at least, have been imbued with the apparently honest leader-some sort of altruistic cham- ship of Britain in the collecpionship of the weak and tive attempt to stop Mussolini's needy. Scoffers, at the rate of mad campaign of slaughter. ten a penny, have been only too we have been It now appears to be evident vociferous; that the apparent calumniators accused of every form of hypo- Now, unleas have been right all the time. crisy and cant.

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How else to explain this sudden this shameful policy is revised, change of face? The argument all our protestations will be that it is forced upon the Gov-worth nothing and every single ernment as a sort of writing-one of these accusations will off of a bad debt simply will have been proved to be true. not do. No one can help but The Morning Post talks about admit that the League has fail-thecourageous" decision led in its elementary duty of the British Government; and protecting one of its members The Times, which could hitherto against unprovoked aggression, be depended upon for moral which has been unequivocally leadership in the policies of the denounced To sit back now country, in its evasive talk and calmly permit the aggres-about "energetic and compe- leadership," is most sor to derive what benefits he tent can from his aggression is the jobviously uncomfortably unable worst sort of defeatist to face the plain, issue. Where and despicable policy. To call is the "courage" in abandoning it a "Great Betrayal" is not in your guns at the first hint of

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a slightest degree an exaggera-trouble ahead?. tion. It is a betrayal and a "energetic. lot more. It is a scandalous leadership" which abandons a and utterly contemptible piece moral and highly idealistic of moral cowardice. We know leadership for a craven and all about the threat of exten-"grovelling submission?" sive trouble which would follow The "National" Government retention of the only honest will most certainly be misrepre- course of continuing sanctions.senting the wishes of the nation But since when has Britain if it persists in this degrading turned tail and fled, abandoning policy. The Hoare-Laval pro- all her principles of honour and posals raised a pretty storm of integrity, at the threat of dan-public protest; we shall be very ger? Since when has she sud-much surprised, indeed if a σε dis- denly been prepared to aban-veritable hurricane don her great role of moral approval is 'not raised in Eng

proposed leadership to knuckle down like land at Britain's a slinking cur before a hint, change of face,

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