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All communications intended for Texas, literally "extracted" their publication should be addressed to fee from a wounded man whom

Senor Salvador Dali, the private

the Editor, and be accompanied by they attended. In December 1923, view of whose pictures took place the Writer's Name and Address Jose Flores was riding a horse at the Lefevre Galleries in London. not necessarily for insertion, but near Waco, when a man with last mouth, is technically perhaps as a guarantee of good faith. whom he had a quarrel rode up the most talented of the Surrealist

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FACT AND LEGEND OF FREEMASONRY

EVIDENCE OF ANCIENT

ORIGINS

BACK TO SOLOMON – OR ONLY TO MIDDLE AGES?

TH

are

(By George Godwin).

his left side and fired. Due to the He also thinks of the best titles, explosive effect of the bullet at which confirms the opinion that to close range, the wound was very extract the full flavour from Sur-İ/THERE HK$18.00

nearly 5,000,000]the masons, and drew up articles large, and in cleaning it out, the realism you must have a pro- Freemasons in the world, and rules for the government of doctors found pieces of clothing|gramme..

men of all creeds and races whose the Craft Those rules still colour and a compact wad of foreiga Here are a few of his titles for whose common bond is obedience masonic procedure, bearing a mark-

three $50 bills, folded tightly. The ition: money, damaged, was turned over

Hong Kong. Saturday, July 25, 1936 substance, which proved to be his pictures in the recent exhibi-to a rule, and the true worship ofjed resemblance to the Ten Com

the Supreme Architect of the mandments. Soft construction with boiled Universe. It is the rule that It is of interest, since MASONS apricots.

makes Masonry the astonishing keep their secrets well, that after “Geodesical” portrait of Gala. Portrait of Gala with two lamb phenomenon it is, for, stripped of objurgations to love God, the ac-Church, one's Master, the novitiate chops in equilibrium upon her verbiage, initiation involves shoulder.

ceptance of a code whose king-pin, was sworn to keep the counsel of Skull with its lyric appendage. to use a mason's metaphor, is his Master and a wary watch upon The weaning of furniture-natri-brotherhood.

his tongue.

What Ho For Art! to a bank, sent to Washington for exchange, and the new money was doctors as their

What with the "Silly Sea-tendered to the

fee. The patient, Flores, made a son's" now being fully upon us nice recovery and is still living, and one thing and another- including the Surrealist Exhibi- tion in London, to which re ference is made in an adjoining column-the time seems ripe

of those utterly

those of

tion. Church Over A

Saburbs of the "paranoine-criti-

The story of the origin and This same document traces the

cal town.

growth of the Freemasons reveals Craft back to the days of the Ark Cemetery

Fine, middle-sized, invisible harp. this element of brotherhood from and makes mention of Babyloni. If our readers could at a glance earliest times. Research into the Yet fantastic as it all may sound, · for another very entertaining New Haven was founded in at these they would be open

First Church of Christ in attach the right pictare to any one past has produced two schools of there are many reasons for sup

tomasonic historians, the first do-posing that Masonry is indeed of discussions on art, with part-1640, the original building being congratulation.

cumentary, the second anthropolo- ancient lineage. cular reference to Art and

a small log chapel In 1757, a

But we are willing to give long gical Both have gathered materi- For example, signs used by the "Art." It was not so very long larger brick building took its odds that they would not be able al of the greatest interest.

Hung Society of China, whose ar- ago that Messrs. Luis Chan, place, and in 1812, the Ecclesiasto walk up and. at once identify. Masons, to-day,, use Rules and tiquity is unquestioned, are in AN.M. "Eeyore" and others tical Society asked permission to this one: "Average atmospheric Charges that go back into the many ways similar to enlivened the correspondence build a new church, as the one in cephalic bureaucrat milking a mists of time. For example, the Masonry. Savage races have been columns of the Sunday Herald

too small The Village cranial harp.*** use was

famous Regius MS.. a copy of found who also used these signs, with a sometimes frolicsome Green of New Haven had been

which is in the British Museum, a fact that suggests that Masonry and occasionally learned and purchased for public use, under

may be nothing more than a legendļowes something to very serious enquiry into the the administration of five men.

of the Craft, though none the less since dead. claims of modern artists to be These men made a bargain with

fascinating for that. There you taken seriously. Whatever the Ecclesiastical Society: If the

may read that it was unemploy conclusions may

been Society would permit them to run daughters," holds a cleric. As a comment that gave birth to the move drawn were, of course, quite Ja road through the site of the persation, no doubt, many daughters

ment. The legend runs something inconsequential; because

brick church, dividing the green make good cocktails

like this: where is more argumentative in half, they would permit the

Eachd Called In! heat engendered opinion

or

Society to build a church over the more steadfastly held to than

the brick behind cemetery

have

in a discussion of art. Every church. The bargain was sealed man feels himself perfectly and the church erected over the equipped to hold and deliver his

opinions on the matter, whether cemetery of 129 graves. he knows anything about, the

subject or not. That bourgeoise KOWLOON HOTEL

Your Daily Smile!

WITH A KICK "Cocktails do not make good

.

creeds long

Amusing Reading vide a good deal of amusing read- "Ancient masonic documents pro-

ing.

For example, one such lates how Grand Master Moses "HOWLERS"

used to muster, the Israelites into **Bismuth Was a great German

The problem of finding work a regular and general lodge while {statesman.”

"Darwin invented the theory of "that they might gete here lyvynge in the widerness. King Solomon, revolution"

thereby" led to a general considera- it is claimed, was a Grand Master. "The Royal Mint is what the King Sion of the problem. It was de-in his day of the Lodge of Jerusa- [puts on his new potatoes.”

cided, as is the custom to-day, tolem, and Nebuchadnezzar, Grand Two famous Scottish patriots are call in the expert, and no less a Master Mason.

Modern Masonry dates from the Robert Brace and Edgar Wallace,

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SCHOOLROOM SILLINESS "How many make a dozen?" "Twelve."

attitude to art which is so scathingly and scornfully re- jected by the intelligentsia-“I | don't know anything about art, but I know what I like"-is, in point of fact, the exact counter HUNGARIAN DOCTOR FOUND "How many make a million?” part of the attitude of the ultra-highbrows

who

would

have us take an intelligent in-

magnum opus.

TRAGEDY Apparent Suicide

DEAD IN ROOM

"Very few."

•

"The knight fell down an abbess personage than Euclid was decided Įthat yawned in front of him." upon. With his well-known pen-formation of the Mother Grand

chant for squares and triangles, it Lodge, inaugurated in 1717. ́I was natural, perhaps, that Euclid drew under its discipline most of suggested that Masonry, of all the existing lodges England, crafts, offered the best solution though those of Scotland held. This MB. therefore purports to themselves apart. Similar Grand İlink äp modern Masonry with an-Lodges were founded in Scotland cient Egypt. Strangely enough, the and Ireland, and it is from these Mabel: "So you and Jim are to legend is supported by other evid-that the world organisation of to- of be married? Why, I thought it was

ence, that of the mural decoraday developed." Helen: "So did Jim.”

tions which suggest that Egyptian This statement, however, may masons used precisely those signs not go unchallenged by the Ger- that are used to-day by miz.sousman masons. The Germans cer- throughout the world.

tainly had an ancient craft in the Other Records

[Steinmetzen, or stone masons, and believes Other records speak of Athelstan their historian Findel as a mason who called together" (Continued on Page 1)

terest in the more rabid mani-j What appears to be a case festations of modern art: that suicide occurred yesterday at the only a mere flirtation." it is not so much the reaction Kowloon Hotel, when a Hunger-

The Answer of the onlooker that matters asian, Dr. Adalbert Bardos, aged 49,

Mother: "Haven't I always told the intention of the painter was found dead in his room, death when be is producing his being apparently due to poisoning. you the Browns are not the kind of And that bless- Dr. Bardos came to the Colonyboys to play with."

Junior: "Yes, mother, but I'm a ed word "chiaroscuro" is bound on July 19 from Amoy and booked

good boy for them to play with" He left! to be dragged in somewhere, at the Kowloon Hotel. together with "patine," "tonalthe same day for Canton and did

Hel values" and "sublimal tra- not return until July 22 scendentalism."

reached the hotel late in the ever- Consider the Surrealists, for ing and it was assumed that hej example. What is one to make returned by the night boat.

about

of an artist who can conceive Yesterday he was not disturbed and execute a "portrait of Gala during the day, for since he had with two lamb chops in equili-booked his room he had intimated brium upon her shoulder?" that he did not wish to have meais What, if anything, does "The at the hotel. Finally, at weaning of furniture-nutri-14.30 p.m., one of the "boys" went tion" mean? Who, but anto Dr. Bardos" room with the in- insane galoot, would produce atention of cleaning it, and when painting of an "Average he could not get a reply to repeat-į atmospheric cephalic bureaued knocks he became suspicious crat milking a 'cranial harp?""

and entered. Is there a deep esoteric signi-been entered earlier since it was ficance about all this tom foolery, and is the rest of the believed that the doctor was sleep- world stark, staring mad, or ing.

The room had not

can it be that a company of The "boy" immediately report- maniacs are deluding themed the apparent death of the oc- selves (and, alas, very often cupant of the room to Mr. White, the critics) in some huge, truly manager of the hotel, who inform- Homeric, gargantuan leg-pall?led the Police and the hospital.

Dr. G. H Henry, of Kowloon The thing passes the compre-į hension of the ordinary man; Hospital, came to the hotel and the and what annoys him about it body was later taken to Kowloon more than anything is the in-Hospital mortuary. A post_mor" sufferable assumption. of tem is to be held this morning. superiority with which

Beside the body of Dr. Bardos timid disapproval is met. The were found three phials, all empty, up-raised eyebrow, the half-and it is assumed that he took his amused shrug, the eye raised own life by poisoning-

his

to heaven as if silently asking Inspector A. EL Elston is coa- for divine guidance in this ducting enquiries. supreme trials these are com-

mon manifestations in response

to the timid request for elucida-'in the world's greatest city. tion. And whatever else may But surely the time has now be forthcoming in answer, to come when, "if not, they, some interested enquiry, one thing other qualified annotaters that is certainly not vouchsafed should enumciate, firmly and is a plain, unvarnished explana-į without equivocation, just what tion in terms one can under-that message may be said stand of what these people are to consist of. And in the setting out to devise. (See meantime we ourselves propose "chiaroscuro" etc. above). to produce a masterpiece in the The Surrealists presumably Surrealist manner, full of take themselves. seriously; } poached eggs, the Albert presumably they have a legiti-Memorial and the Empress of mate and honest art message Britain in a typhoon, and we to deliver to the rest of the shall proudly, bravely, defiantly world otherwise they are label it" "Allotropie - Varia-| hardly likely to go to the tions of Tetrakaidekahedronal trouble of holding an exhibition Parallelepiped.” And so what?

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“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

CUTTING

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OUT OF THE PATIENT

DOCTORS WEL, CROSTHWAIT AND WEL SOUTHER EXTRACTED 150-FROM A WOUNDED PATIENT. JOSE FLORES WAS SHOT IN THESEE-THE BOLLET STRUCKA SMALL WAD OF 3 FIFTY-DOLLAR BILLS

AND CARRIED THEM DEEP INTO THE MOUND,

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