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THE CHINA MAIL. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1955.

Illinois

Chicago

Ottawa

Charles

Alton

THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES

held in these seven cities gave Lincoln a national reputation and put the presidency within his reach

Jones

AP Newfeaturės

ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S JOURNEYS

Short By Modern Standards

By DAVID L. BOWEN

living

If travel is what brondena) described his childhood, spent the mind. Abraham Lincoln helping his should not have been onesteads of tho most enlightened presidents in American his tory.

The man whose deep under- and tolerance guided standlang

his country through the Civil War

not inuch of traveller.

A

with

the

mpude from

family wrest from wilderness home- Indiana in Kentucky, and Illinois. Abe had a total of only one year's formal school- ing in his entire life.

He was 19 when he his first long trip away home, a trading voyage down the Mississippl to New Orleans

a young cor

companion. His first

after more

ire left the tamily hearth to strike out an his own three years later was

journey

that down another

waterway, with a all the globe for a stage. You romantic

do it for Lincoln with

of pickled pork, porn and cango live hogs.

For the next 16 yours, movements were almost entire ly restricted

Ho to Ilinola enlisted during the Black Hawk War of 1832, andi

tried to trace 11 you movements in the life of D modern president, you'd need

♫

of half the United States mup

Wore it not for trips to New Oricans during Abe's youth, you could got by with only a slice extending from the Mid- wg to the East Coast.

1).1:71 12

modern presidential Chat Rampaign, + condidate i su to visst every section in

cation

leust it!

Lab OUR

did not

..

his

got us thr

but saw north as Wisconsin, no active combat. His base for the first six years of this period ho New Salem, where

W-15

count only

and a store operated

began the Republican expvention at studying law. He was elected Chicago to 1880 wiwi. he was as a representative to the state

but he didn't step ut at Springfield a single lime

the campaign.

MADE MARK

Lincoln hat made hits mark on the body politic during the debutes between

legislature four times and emerged after the capitol seat was moved from Vandalin to Springfield as one of the lead- ing

of the Whig party in s

Established in the he moved to married Mary Todd

state legislature,

Springfield, himself and ant began practising law.

phen A. Douglas two years Carher in a nationally reported contest for a U.S. Senate seat- when Luncoln lust-and the was

don

ominee

одг

try

Always active in politics or an its fringes, he served term Da an Illinols representa-

the tive in

U.S.

House of willing to abide by the tradi- Representatives but nearly des

that day that a should not campaign

troyed himself politically in his own behalf.

going against popular feeling in Even after

his home state and calling the Linquin didn't budge from his It WBS Springfte home unti

Take e train 10

11111

his

Ho

election, Spanish-American Wor une

necessary and unjustified. was not nominated for a second teim. Wa angion for the inaugura- It was the slavery lesue that brought him from the sidelines

1410 four years

lo challenge the position of Illinois' famous Lite Sen Douglas, Democrat, on earth

coln's

of developing

tion.

notice that in consequence of thu change of ownership of the vessel, we have applied to the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, under Section 47 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, in respect of the steam ship "BELAPUR" of HONG KONG REGISTRY Oficial Number 108360, Groan tonnage 7939.17 tone, Begister tonnage 4927.01 tons, heroto-US presidem is likely to turn fore owned by Mr. Pang

up almost anywhere Kwok Sui

for meetings with Prince's Building. Hong other nations. But during his five years in the White House,

was never more than 160

miles away from Washing ton.

Lincoln's life journey began he was born on Feb. 12 in 1800. near Hodgenville, Ky., where The short and simple annals

of

Room

328.

name

Kong, for permission to

her change

to "SNOWDON HILL" and to have her registered in the new name at the Port of HONG KONG

owned the

by Keystone Shipping Company, Limited, Hong Kong.

With the means of traps- portation available today,

Lincoln

of the poor"

+

chiefs

of

com

powers

WaY

oratory brozat sidna such notice ho found himself the

Republicam party. Illinois spokesman for the new

Не called on to make several out-

but of-state, speeches,

they attracted no great attention.

WON NOMINATION

the way he

In 1858 Lincoln won the Re publican nomination for the Senate and it was him paign which produced the great

CRITI

Any objection to the pro- NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES debates between himself and

posed change of name must

be sent to the REGISTRAR OF SHIPPING ut HONG KONG within SEVEN daya from the appearance of this advertisement.

Dated at HONG KONG the 15th day of February, 1955.

KEYSTONE SHIPPING : COMPANY, LIMITED.

Consignees per

Cla des Messagarion Maritimes

5/1 “CAMBODGE"

Douglas Although be lost the election, ho gained a national

he made a tremendietas Impression in the East with an address delivered in New York returning to

are hereby notified that their cargo City: Before

will be discharged into the Hong Hinois from this trip, he made Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown

Co. Ltd down where it will be

obiakand.

·

into New England,

at consignees risk and subject in point at the "major cities the whack's berms and conditions of along

The Way storage, and where delivery may be This sat the stage for his nomination. and election DE Damaged packages are to be leži president." He took a zig-zag in the godown for examination by route to Washington Dor the consignees' and' the, cotogeny's BALDA Inauguration, but NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES Memory after

ho" oppe resched the natima's capital. With the on set of the Civil War hisoply

"PELEUA"

Dainaged cargo co this vessel wizi be surveyed by Memes Pauleen & Bayte-Dovy ab Bolt's Whort" Erneu

10 ĐI ĐÔI TÔMAT 10 and 12, 1030 and monal grides. Are

requested

to

have their representatives, present

during the survirgini

HUTTERYIELD & SWİRK.

Agacia.

Mongkong, Fabruary 15, 1955.

at 10 February, 1955,

: 19tis

No Claims will be admitted after travels were short valts to the all goods remaining undelivered scm. batile lines, which be conuidée....

the goods have let the godown, and

the Fist February, 1985, will be side (od vacatima prout his resp Jeet to rent.

`sibilities, at LRA „VIKLING, DECase"

All cimina against the vesel zoust An exception war a. short trip

be presented to the undersignal on to appear at dedication

they may not be recognised. or before, tho- 13th: March, 1855, or monito ufíthe battlefield,

·、",,

tery at Gettysburg, Paj

No Fire Insurance will be effected, he gave Amerion, in 268

CIE DEI MESSAGERIES MARITIMES: zavrgliche GesVMEYLARKS

Hong Kong); Uth: Rabzones: (UML).

the Whitc House, on Good Friday, April 14, 1885, to Ford's Theatre in Washington for the final

performance

of

HOUT American Cousin." It was there he was shot by Jahn Wilkes Booth. He died in the modest home of a

the tallor across Aircet fre tha theatro the following morning.

TOURISTS

WELCOME

TO VISIT N. VIETNAM

London, Feb. 15. Tourists froth South Vietnam Will be allowed to visit the Communist- held north, provided they do not violate the Geneva armistice ment, Vietminh radio an- nounced. today.

The radio, quoting a Vietminh Ministry of Information state- ment, added that sports com- petitions between the two zones would also be permitted, pro- vided they were not aimed at making propaganda for war."

declared The Ministry

its willingness to help the popula- tions of tho northern and southern Zorica to exchang books, alms, plays and photo- graphs.

SPECIAL REGULATIONS

Beak Balances Dowries Become

Kiwi

with one

Wellington, Fob. 15. A kiwi,

leg saught in ais apossuem trap, wal found:30 the bush near Glabore in the Foresty Kay district of the Nortis land.

The

and

badly

given a The kiwi wsa new home in a 300-square- .foot compound, and now seems всё be managing

very welt with its offe Ing. It uses la' long besk sa a check for balance, China. Mail Special.

'Radioactive

Vial' Was

A Dud

Ottawa, Feb. 15.

The cloak-and-dagger

Unpopular Among Greeks

London, Feb. 15.

A controversy is raging in Greece around the time-honoured custom demanding that every girl shall bring a dowry to her husband on marriage.

The question is, quite simply: to be or not to

he.

It follows a petition by raayors of communities In

ת!

17 can provo either that he the personally wealthy or that he

southeastern Queen Fredrik

The Army pension fund, on the other hand, provides for a dowry for the daughters of ruiired officers,

mountainouLISI province of la receiving a substapilai dowry. Rournell, Grosce, In asking her to request th Government to introduce legis lation suppressing the nood foi every unmarried girl to provide her future husband dowry.

with a

mystery of the "Radio- necessity of providing dowries would be a direct interforatico

out

Experts studying the problem of the suppression of the dowry say that this cannot be Im- From ancient times the plemented by legislation. "It for their daughters has boca of the the parents groutes. come north to get information they will obtain permission and The vial was found to contain worries. In Greece, as in other affairs

countries throughout the East, luminous substance simfar to there will be special regulations that used for clock dials with a

the peasant will begin to think for them," The Ministry

stry stated.

of it from the day his daughter

**I correspondents of the active vial" turned South Vietnam Prese desire to today to be a dud.

The statement said it hoped commercial value of less than Southern Vletan would take

523,

the

The glass bottle, brought back DOCCESITY measures 10 enable

of culture, from Europe by a war veteran, exchanges

MacDonald of Beard tours and sporting activities "to Agus

was ut Arst be favourably carried out in the more, Ontario,

thought to contain either radium near future”—Reuter.

Or uraniumi. It had boun con- sidered so radioactive it was locked in a iced-shisidod votalt

Lion Shortage Hospital.

In Kruger National Park

a lion shortag

at the Fort, William, Ontario, The little vlal that attracted the attention of Government scientists, Ontario Provincial Police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was wanted by nobody today.

to takso

the

bottle

one

of

is bora.

EAT LESS

The father will cat lens bread and wine in order to save a few gold povereigns for his daughter оп дет marriage,

The mother will keep un- touched the linen which herself received as

a dowry in to pass it

her

order

daughter.

OTS

But today, ten years of war, ruin and raisery have destroyed whatever Grock families had an

We've been left with the Johannesburg, Feb. 15.

Hospital officials com. The Kruger National Park in baby," South Africa is suffering om lined. They asked the RCMP oft their In this famous

hands. sanctuary, almost all the hig game Africa can be seen and though former soldier, turned the vial the animals are far from taime, over to the Polles after opening they have leamed' virtually

ierrlic gotting wa Ignore motor cuts,

from supposed

MacDonald,

рца

to

At

beadache

A 30-year-old

Lions have always been the radioactivity. tourists' greatest attraction. He mid Dutchman gavo il Tourists are now wying" thako

in a town on the there are fewr of them to_be Holland-Germany border in re scen and his makes visiting dis- turn for "a couple of favours.**

appointing-France-Presse. --United Press.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

THORNÝ I'M

MANDRAKE.

I CAME TO SEE--

THE CAPTAIN PHONED ME, OS~ PLEASE ACCEPT MY SYMPATHY-FOR-CA -THE LOSS OF

YOUR FRIENDS--

FERDINAND

NANCY

NOT YET, CAN YOUR INVENTION ĮMOVE UNDER A

MILE OF WATER?

ER--I BELIEVE

IT WILL -- BUT

IT HASN'T BEEN TESTED

YET

M

↑ SO THIS IS IT!

| BET TILL

|WORK? I WANT

TO TEST IT NOW! YOU SEE,E THINK" MY FRIENDS ARE STILL ALIVE F

dowry for their daughters. The poorest girls now have only ato chance of getting married-to go abroad to Australia, New

Zealand, the United States, or even Central Africa where Greek-born settlers are asking for wives, and are ready to take them without dowries.

The custom of the dowry is 50 deeply ingrained m Greek Hfe that an officer of the Greek Forces, for instance, receives no licence to marry unless ho

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

argue.

State in the private of the citizen," they

A woman poliución, however, has declared that a relevant article could be inserted the Greek Civil Code, forbid

woman to give her husband a cowry, which, sho says, la a humilating way for & woman "to purchase" a hus- band.

ding

4

DOWRY ESSENTIAL

lender

A Trade Union claimed that the dowry i essential to help any newly married

to begin couple their married He. "Living conditions are so difficult in our days that without ade- qante help from the parents, the

family.

will have to face hard tänzen which

ruin their happinem," he said.

A novel suggestion put for- ward by the Chairman of the Linton of Families with Many Children in an interview with

Athenian

nowapaper, is that the way to solve this problem

to tax bachelors and use the to income from such taxation provide dowries for poor Grock girls-China Mail Special.

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