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"I suppose

I'm fussy..

... but I don't see

why, at my age,

I

should put up with

second-best... For

instance, I'm fond of the theatre;

but, believe me, I'd rather stay away than see an indifferent play.

So that's why, when you offered me whisky, I asked you

to make mine a White Horse. I daresay some men hold that one Scotch whisky is as good as another. Well, when they know as much about it as I do, they will think differently."

WHITE HORSE

Whisky

You can tell it blindfold!

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Here's Luck!

EWO

BEER

Bringing Up Father

WELL-I'VE JUST GOT TO TELL MAGGIE THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF MONEY IN THE BANK-I KNOW IT WILL BE A SHOCK TO HER-BUT-I'VE JUS GOT TO GET IT. ÖVER WITH --

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY

THE WORLD AS

Knowledge For Intelligent Order Exists Now

organisations, ignorance of cial organisat to be thrust in gery of a nourished, ph -at the age o

"I was too ances for the and stifling 1 that they were

down; they ju ed that as only "To this day dislike restrict knowledge as

"The knowledge that is needed to make a good world order exists now,” said Mr. H. G. Wells in concluding a broadcast talk on “The World As I See It." Mr. Wells, who was speaking from Melbourne on on earth. In the national network, added: "We are offered is second only far more than we dare desire. All that exists to starve and extraordinary between us and the realisation of this abundant up to contemp promise is our want of awareness, and our want the course of of resolution to know and attempt.

years before I to secure four

tinuous study, at the Royal Co

one under Hux

A CLE

"The world

"That knowledge is not made available for us. It is being practically kept from us. Let man only insist, and the fears and miseries of this pre- sent time will vanish like a dream. Knowledge is power, and knowledge is freedom. The only freedom is in knowledge that the first com-something he mandment for a modern human being is to the confused

80's. Mentally learn, know, and educate.”

fastest betwee "I was born in a rather unpro-der why they conspired to deceive 25 or 26. Thes sperous, servantless home. I was me and why only books 10 or 20

memory as all undernourished, and most of my years old came into my hands. No ting together waking time was spent in an un-educational Minister was dreaming puzzle.

"In 1887 I derground kitchen," said Mr. Wells, of giving the people contemporary

knowledge, and for us to-day no-precisely as in beginning his address.

“After the age of seven or eight body is really bothering to give have been a

additions, but years, my imagination was being people abundant cheap new books.

damental rest used to amplify and expand what I

"The English democracy is still I knew saw and felt directly ....

grossly, ignorant, but I think the saw a limitles the world was round because every-books we got in 1880 were

ascending fr body told me so. There were classes out-of-date than those you get towards the sta day. In 1880. I got my world ed then abou that one did not, and poor people pretty wrong judged by the higher and when as

standards of that time. The history article, identi fourth dimens "What I saw-of the world about they taught me wound up in 1700. 1880, when I was 14, was with a distorted and foggy vision, and yet

one respected and lower

had to work.

classes

more

"Then a sixpenny book of the came into my

ENGIN

I was seeing it as most people late Henry George in Great Britain were seeing it at hands, and set the thinking about that time, and as multitudes of peo-rents, wages, and such-like matters. Then some rumours about a science ple are seeing it to-day, as it was

called geology reached me, and I shown to me.

observed in Woods's natural his-GIVES IN KNOWLEDGE NOT IMPARTED |tory that the species of animals had needless likenesses to one another

"For a score of years before that if they had all been created sepa- time tremendous discoveries had rately.

REMARK

(20%

INDEPEN!

(changes CONTROLLI

been made about the past of the "Suddenly I woke up to the exis- earth and the origins of man-im-tence of a vast and growing world, mensely important discoveries that and to thought and knowledge out- challenged every idea about life side my ordinary way of thinking. (you can't help

these The world' as I had seen it hitherto commonly accepted. Yet fundamental discoveries had not became a flimsy falsehood upon the been imparted to my parents, who face of reality. I have heard that had similar ex- were intelligent book-reading per- other people

gons.

periences.

"My religious teachers did not "I suppose I had a thirst for teach me anything but the dry con- knowledge in good measure, but tents of their stale old histories far stronger was my anger at the without a hint of the broadening|paltry sham of education that had

· knowledge of the time. I still won- been offered me by the religious]

IT'S A GOOD TIME TO TELL HER NOW AS MOST OF HER RELATIVES ARE IN

JAIL AT THE PRESENT TIME-

THE HAIR- DRESSER IS

HERE NOW-

MUM-

NO-DRAUG

(fresh a

We will pro run on any demonstrate

B

VERY GOOD

CHARMON-- AND YOU MAY SERVE TEA AT FOUR-