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THE CHINA MAHA MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1936

The China Mail

Ninety-first. Year of Publication.

SA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong. Telephone 20122.

London Office:

Garrick Street, London, W.C.2

Notice To Contributors.

CHINA'S ANCIENT Here

SAGE Confucius's Memory

Honoured

TRIBUTES BY SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

To-day, according to the lunar All communications intended for calendars being the 27th day of the publication should de addressed to

One Year

H.K.$36.00

6 Months .....HES18.00

3 Mouth ..... HK$ 9.00 (.

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There and

Everywhere.

CHUNG LING ROBINSON

In his Chinese water spectacle

the London Alhambra

last

STRANGE STATUES ON EASTER ISLAND

SOME ANCIENT MYTHS EXAMINED

PREVIOUS THEORIES DISCARDED BY FRENCH SCIENTIST

the east

the Editor, and be accompanied by eighth moon, primary schools, col-month, Dante, the Danish-Ameri the Writer's Name and Address leges and universities throughout a magician, acknowledged the not necessarily for insertion, but China celebrate the birthday of the originator. Ching Ling Foo..

This was a real Chinese, not to CURROUNDED by vast ocean) The statues are merely burial Chinese sage Confucius, whose sa a guarantee of good faith.

teachings have been passed down be confused with that very clever depths, the gaunt cliffs of monuments. Explorers who touch- Subscription Rater. from generation to generation for magician, Chung Ling Soo, whose volcanic Easter Island rise out of led at the islands at the end of the

name was Robinson and who was the Pacific 2500 miles from

(eighteenth century have left ne- almost 3,000 years.

the counts which make it plain enough Every." Educational institutionern in America of Scottish par-

and that 'abus-construction of statues will be closed to-day as a mark of ents. Chang Ling Soo was accid- Chilean coast ou respect, and students will gather entally shot at the Wood Green 1,750 miles from the Gambier Is-on burial sites were part of the to talk of an ancient Hong Kong, Monday, Oct. 12, 1936 to pay homage before his picture. Empire in 1918 through a defect lands, the nearest land to the culture at that late date. It is

in front of which incense will be in a gun he was using, and died west. Lonely islands

the next day.

exactly remarkable. What dis-people who disappeared together burned.

"Robinson so acted the part of tinguishes Easter Island is its with all of their arts. Born in the year 551 B.C. dur-

colossal monuments, ing the Chow Dynasty, Confucius. Chinaman," David Devant says, strange,

am which stand erect 90 4 naked from a very early age, showed in "My Magic Life," "that I

background that he possessed amazing intelec eure he began to think he really landscape against

Certainly his audiences of black and yellow. A whole up-rooting the old culture. They As a pointer to the possible tal power. At school he was al-was one.

literature has grown up about! his class-did."

them. result of the American Presi-way miles ahead of dential contest the recent elec-mates, and, like the infant Jesus,

NOT SO MUCH MONEY

A Franco-Belgian expedition Scotland is having a record year visited Easter Island and remain- tions in Maine were favourable at times he used to have his mas-

a

No Landslide For Mr. Landon

2

www.3

unlimited

→ Polynesian Settlers

not sense are

1886 the Easter Islander had for- gotten how the statues were trans- ported from the quarries and what the tablets meant.

New World Revealed Europeans are responsible for

frevealed a new world to the Pas- crans From that time there was no peace, no joy in life on the jisland. Decimated by savage warfare and converted by the to Mr. Landon's hopes, but only /ters and teachers gathered around in the zumber of American visi-led there from July 29, 1984, to|| mildly encouraging. Though him listening to his views and tors, but much of the shooting is January 3, 1935.

whites to Christianity, the Pas- One of its opinions on certain subjects.

(cuana lost all their traditions. the Republicans recovered

syndicated:

members. Henri Lavachery, exa-] State in which they were de- Worshipped As Saint

Why did the Pascuans stop mak- These shooters are not the pre-mines anew all the theories of the feated in the two previous elec-| As a result of his extraordinary war type of American visitor with statues origin, in the British ing statues? Lavachery thinks tions the majority in the most wisdom his friends and neigh seemingly

that the group of specialists res- resources, archaeological magazine Antiquity ponsible for the practice of the critical contest that for abours reverenced and worshipped There is not, and perhaps never and substitutes 8 few sober seat in the Senate was only him as a saint. Even now in the will be again, the same amount of archaeological

strange art was wiped out by a facts for the This interior of China, students still liquid American money about... 5,000 votes in 300,000.

popular poetic myth of a lost con-war-and there were many wars was no dramatic swing of the regard him as a saint who

St. Donst's Castle, "in Wales tinent of Lemuria, which was sub-at the beginning of the nineteenth pendulum for a State whose sent from heaven to teach

the owned by Mr. William Randolph merged beneath the waters and of century or by an epidemic intro- traditions are Republican. In people. and worship him

Hearst, and lent by him to Mr which only one of its peaks, Easter daced by whalers or by Peruvian Confucins attracted the atten Denis Conan Doyle and his Russian Island, was spared together with ide between 1859 and 1861. By sense it was a personal] triumph for Mr. Landon, who tion of the rulers, and at the 28 princess bride for their honey its Lemurian idols. visited the State during the of 25 was placed in charge of the moon, is unusual in being an electoral battle and gave some records of the Government trea-American-owned English home full

Wishing to make better rather more precise indication (sury.

of history, such as only a million-

To Lavachery the Easter Island- of the programme that he has use of Confucius's knowledge and aire could afford to own. restore,

Iron Rare On Island to offer the country in oppo-wisdom, the rulers made him

and keep up.

ers are Polynesians. Their ances- tors carved the statues, engraved Before 1860 iron must have sition to that of Mr. Roose-Minister of the country now call- velt

the Democrats. Jed Shantung Province, which was

(puzzling symbols on rocks and set been rare or unknown on the is- For

Your Daily Smile!

up innumerable monuments around land. Those who believe in a lost Maine offers a warning that the very difficult to govern owing to

the coast. Probably the island people and a lost culture put for- November election will require the uncontrollable clans, who from

A little girl sitting in church was settled between the twelfth ward the difficulty of carving strenuous campaigning for time to time waged war against

ex- Within three watching a wedding, suddenly

and thirteenth centuries by Poly-ligneous rock with the stone and their party if it is to be won. neighbouring clans.

claimed: There can no longer be con-months Confucius had the whole

"Mummy, has the lady changed nesians-a date deducible from the wooden implements known to the list of 57 Pascuan kings. There islanders of modern times. But fidence in a repetition of the country in good order, for most her mind?"

"What do you mean" the mother are meanments on the Gambier they are peculiar people, these is- sweeping victory of 1932. of the people respected him and Though Mr. Roosevelt would did not dare to disobey his com- asked,

"Why," replied the child, "The Islands which recall those of Eastlanders. They refuse to admit the welcome a majority not so em-mands..

went up the aisle with one man and er Island. And it is probably obvious fact that stone adres can

from the Gamblers that the Pas-work wood, yet. they say that adzes... barrassingly large in his second

Land stone chisels were used to cuana or Easter Islanders came. term: Maine is a warning that One of his famous exploits,

Bat Dad Has His Doubts

work the two kinds of andesite of The will be much harder pressed which has been recorded in Chin-

Dad: "Is the teacher satisfied with

which the statues, hols and stone than seemed probable when ese history, is the "Empty City |

"What are those Whole Wheater?"

houses were made. It is so easy Mr. Landon obtained what look-Trick," which gained his people a you?"

times

Johnny: “Oh, quite.”

"They're very good, but have you

to fashion the stone of the island ed like the forlorn hope of the victory over an army ten

Dad: "Did he tell you so**

tried these Jumbo Fizyz** their number. Republican nomination.

Johany: "Yes; after a hard ex- Those will be all right, and have that the Pascuans think, it softer

me the other you any crazers-I mean crackers than wood of the modification

Due to a misunderstanding be-amination he said to For

"Well, we have Snix Sner and Nix All Polynesians know how to American opinion the measurejtween him and the rulers. Con- day, if all my scholars were like you

perhaps work wood and stone. The monu- of success obtained by the New ficlus resigned from his post, I would shut up my school this very Nax and Crispie Bixita,

That shows that I know you would like some Butterbiz" Deal is in large part responsi-opened a school, and soon had over day."

enough." ble. Revived prosperity has 3,000 followers or disciples, These induced misgivings about the pupils were taught the following arts: Music, mathematics, enormous taxation bill yet to be sir paid. The big industrialists permanship, horsemanship.

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"Xactly. Mixus Smix" "Anything else, Mrs. Smith?"

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"Yes, I want some cereal”

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For, the greater part of his life themselves against a policy that they feel to be destructive Confucius, followed by his disciples, of the American belief in in-wandered about the land writing dividual enterprise. Mr. Roose-books, making corrections in the velt has a bad Press, and most works of former writers, and teach-

faring the people how to live conducted have favoured Re-honest, clean and righteous life. publican victory. To these Books have been compiled of the evidences of changed sentiment many wise sayings of Confucins American opinion attaches no and they are used as textbooks in undue importance, for it is re-many Chinese schools. cognised that the wage-earners

the and

Confucius died in 479 BC. at

in industry and the agricultur-(the age of 73 years. ists are expecting further bene- fits for themselves from Rooseveltian programmé, are not so directly concerned as to how it is to be financed. A change in. opinion resembling a tidal wave would be necessary to submerge the results of 1932 and 1934, and of any such phenomenon the Maine: elec- tions gave slight indication.

NEW ORDER AT CHEUNG CHAU

Main Street To Be Widened

Owing to the extensive damage caused by the recent fire, which

As yet the lists can scarcely destroyed over 20 shops, at be said to be set for the Novem-Cheung Chau Island, the authori ber contest. Mr. Roosevelt has ties are planning to widen the not revealed the programme on main street, which is to be at which he will fight. Mr. Lan-least 20 feet in width. don has gone a very little way:

Property owners are also being

in that direction in making the approached to co-operate with the finance of the present Adminis Government and have been re-j tration his first object of at tack. A possibility is that the guested to replace all woodwork in their shops with concrete big battle will range round the

question whether problems that wherever possible.

concern the whole country are

to be dealt with as national mat SICK SAILORS TRANSHIPPED ters or left to the individual handling of the separate States

Three-sick members of the crew. whether in fact, the form of of the German Bed Star liner the American constitution is to Koenigstein were recently trans- be modified.. The emergence of ferred at sex to another ship of that issue depends upon Me, the same line, the Westernisnd, Roosevelt, who has shown him after an exchange of radio esiz. self astute in not actively re-

senting the destruction of much arises. Has America had en- of his New Deal by the Federal jough in the last four years Courts. Should be not call for of audacious experiment? Are constitutional change the con her people anxious for a quieter test will be largely one of per life and more orthodox adm sonalities.

rival the pis blunt,tration? So far

Kangas parties have gone little beyond

his re asking

Sons of the that electo

against the

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“How about some prexels pretzels?

mean ments of Easter Island differ from

"We have Pretzy Stix."

"Oh, all-right"

"Anything else, madam?” · "Yes, two stalx of "excelery, a can

those of other islands only in their size. So Lavachery concludes: "The abundance of easily carved stone was the sole predetermining

of tomatoes, a doxen ex-here; read cause for erecting the largest right statues found in the islands of it off this lisk

Oceania." "No, but we have Korn Krumbies." | any more....

I can't tax Thanx

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

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