10
THE HONG KONG DAILY
THINKING AND DOING.
WHY FILL ONE'S LIFE WITH UNIMPORTANT ENGAGEMENTS?
THE DANCER OF BEING ALWAYS IN A HURRY.
SERMON BY THE CATHEDRAL
CHAPLAIN.
MR. HENRY FORD'S TAILOR.
WHO
PRIVATE CUTTER
MAKES MILLIONAIRE'S
SUITS.
OLD-TIME GARB.
Mr. Henry Ford is credited with bring the only wan in the world. who has his owe tailor's shop in his place of business, and who keeps his own private cufter busy making his suits.
Trenching at St. John's t'athedral | wil suveed unless he holieves in his caress No matter how hard a on Sunday, the Rev. H. Capley
hat they work bir sucess if his Moyle niz ---
fluga is saturated with failtive il will kill his efforts, neutralise his endeavours and make success in-a possible for him.
|
The colleet for the week speaks of thinking and doing We might have experts tinut it would be abiittt prayer so this is often called Boga- tion Sunday and the next three days are days of special prayer for God's blessing "on the fruits of the earth. They are days of prepara tion for the great Festival of Ascen sion day when we chunk of the glori- Das return of our Blessed Lord the poser of Heaven which the bod Said aside for a time an order 193 come down and live a human life | n earth. Asension day ought to l be devoutly observed by all Chris- tians at the Coronation day of our Lord. As it is not a public holi- day like Christmas or tioed Friday it may be more diffenit to attend polis worship or the day, yet I export there are many here whe with an effort could do so, and all should keep it by special prisale PERSPEN
Chur subject, this morning is think- ing and doinist. As suggested by the words of the rollevi. Thought is the prelude to action. You very often hear of a man who sadleny {RL+AMEHE thing which startles pple Perhaps he is a highly
1 recently ente across some very modern verses which strongly if
digantly express this truth. The are called The State of Mini.”
If you think you are beaten, you
are
don't
If you think you dare not you If you'd like to win but think you
won't
It's almost a rinch you won't.
lust,
For ant in the world we find Success logins with a fellow's will It's all in the state of the mind. If you think you're out-classed
So are
He has also been credited with fondness for buying his suits ready made. Which is the ruling passion we do not know.
Ranged on long, tables are holfs of the rarest cloth in the world, ready for Ford's selection when he wants a
new suit. They include Yorkshire cheviots. Donegal tweeds, Moltons,
English cheviots. Trish tweds, Harris tweeds-a might pirk the finest suit to be selection from which a blind man
had anywhere.
PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25th, 1927.
WHITE SLAVE
TRAFFIC.
SECRET REPORT
DISCLOSURES.
WORLD WIDE BUSINESS TO TRAP GIRLS.
BRITAIN FREE FROM
SCOURGE.
When the first part of the White Slave Traffic Commission's report. prepared for the League of Nations, was issued the second part was withheld from publication owing to the nature of its contents;
The in-
It has been prepared and edited with the utmost thoroughness. As is remarked in the introduction.
FACES AND THEIR MEANING.
DR. RUDOLF KASSNER ON
PHYSIOONOMY.
NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS.
BUDAPEST. Dr. Rudolf Kassner, who is con- sidered by Count Keyserling to be the greatest thinker of the day," has returned to Budapest, after an interval of twenty years, n the Rest of Count Janos Ziely.
Inn Iceture on physiognomy, at the Academy of Music, Dr. Kassner said that the science of physing nomy included all other sciences has it is built on position know- ledge.
The Russian people anite ex- fees in their type. The expres sions of spiritual disharmony, of
44
H.M.S. NELSON."
The ship has no stern fire from heavy guns, and the heavy-gun turrets are so arranged that only two turrets, and not all three, fire
FEATURES OF NEW 35,000-bend.
TON WARSHIP.
THREE TRIPLE GUNS TURRENTS.
The completion of the 35,000-ton bud Beship Neem for the British Navy is an event of great im portance. She arrives at Ports. mouth from the Tyne to-day (April!
d) and will go into the dockyard tremoriaw morning, writes a cor-
spondeat to the Daily Mail. With her sistership, the Wodney, now nerly ready for sen, the Jeton is the last battleship that this cody en lay down, under the lithus fyed by thm Treaty of Washington, until 1931.
She and the foolucy are the only alat evil, and of idiocy are seen more frequently in Russia than any-Navy, as the Hood was designed he post-fidand capital ships in the where else,
ін
The
'
Astern six pairs of Gin. guns are carried in six closed steel turrets, free pairs Bring on either broad- side.
for
There is only one funnel. This is placed astern of a huge amoured tower, containing the fire-control Appliances and the station navigating and controlling the ship. There is a low tripod mast astern, She is 702ft. long and 10uf. broad and will carry a crew of 1,300 officers and inen.
One-ton Shells,
Details of the ship have not been published and are still einf secrets, so that it is, as yet, impos ties are, sible to say what her fighting quali
fter nine big guns are of new size in our modern Navy. They fire a 2,340, shell (or rather more than a ion weight) and they them selves weigh a little over 110 tons piece. They are protected by ex- tremely thick armour.
Against attack by aircraft the ship is defended by strong bomb- proof decks of hardened steel. Inder water she is so designed that she could resist the explosion of four torpedoes," or "even more. She has a very elaborate system of sub- division, though she is not. Acted with the balge which has been installed in all the battleships of the Royal Sovereign class.
Aeroplanes On Board.
cera of the fuge Rouge River Amid all the contorted iron vis-
The Daily Mail, says a copy of (writes a correspondent in Mee'stant paper iw to hand, is now able Wear 2), this tailor's shop is a to review this seront part, which, pleasant pasis ef sunlight and is nearly :¥WK kanity, it is egripped as so other
in length. Though much of it makes terrible oneetstomer shop in the world was ( trading, nevertheless it is a docu
The German face is, in general, fare datland, though the plans were ever equipped. There is
palified considerably after that 11 huge
ment of the highest importance for, bat rigid and inexpressive. eunting table, carved out of an
Kaiser's The
Imttle. well-known an understanding of the present almost extinct white pine There position in regard to the
f example
The Vrison cannot be described afnee which exhibits wholesal If you think you'll lose, you're is a Root of maple, polished to a problem and statistics of whate all the evil characteristics of its is a generful looking ship as were
mit vor-like sheen. There are bean-lavery.
the ships of the Queen Elizabeth From the physiognomist's owner riful presses of highly polished
pini of view, another bad face is class, before their funnels were walnut.
The report covers 25 countries in that of Ladendorff; whereas theatered. The heavy battery of the North, South, and Central America, free of Hindenburg is both sym
new ship is buddled forward on the in Europe, certain countries North Africa berdering the Mediter is clever, fine, but sensual.
of pathetic and fine. The French facherously long forecastle in three canean Sea and Turkey.
Theres, much of which contains Italian nee, like the German, three 16-in, guns.
is vestigation over this wide area has generally inexpressive.
Her rost will be about £7,500,000 but stil taken more than two years and was shows traces of the herole, for the
Triple Gun Turrets.
tax mampared with £5,443,000 for completed in December 1926.
Latin races have given to the world vessels
These new battleships are the first the much larger Bond); the cost of
the Navy to carry triple annual upkeep will be „£432,000. the most perfeel features.
ace of Mussolini expresses both age introdured in Italian, Ameri-pults for discharging them at gra gan Luvts, which were some time How many neroplanes and eata- will power and a high degree of ins ran, and Russian battleships. They she will carry has not yet been dis- telligente.
have never been popular with gunelased. The result of mechanical life is nery officers, because the presence carry one scontion and two lighting American battleships each A report written for publication wen in the English and American of three guns in and eirenlation must be presented face, which is frank, open and
a single turre aeroplanes, with usually two cała. with circumspection and with dis-
means great complication. uniform. The Mongolian descent
pults. crimination. For those reasons is to be observed in the Hungarian iphers have been used to conceal face, which is extremely expressive the identity of persons and of! in old age. One of the nobless. phere, extracts only or sum living faces is that of Count maries have been given of to Appiny, whose full face" is ther realistic conversations, details have been omitted which, thungh | Magyar.
manie, while his profile is pure vivid, ware not sufficiently gen- Genias, whether finding expres eral to insist upon.
sion in music, literature, art, or A report inevitably loses some; statesmanship, ean e infallibly re thing of the realism and conicognised by the shape of the ear, vincing quality of the original and by the eye. Mozart's ear re authente documents. It is, theres anbied that of a desert fox. Goethe fore, perhaps ovessary to state that there his laen deposited with the Se retariat of The League of Nations the complete collection. find and inlexed, of the mass of original decumenis,
to de
You've got to think high to rise, You've got to hustle before. You can ever win a prize. Lifttles don't always qu' To the stronger or faster than But soon or late the map who wins is the one whe thinks he can. Thoughts have real power. If we to ourselves that we commit sist a temptation, then we will If on sported and humoured citizen we most certainly fall into it.
The other hand we think with 80. singarded as a modei of upright.
and can do at things through ness and he suddenly commits some
1 Christ
who strengtheneth" action, dishonestrable and perhaps he may rise to unexpected
often it dishonest. Why is it? Very is due to the fact that he has bo jimghts sorretly allowing those dishmeno alte and dishonest thoughts - We live today in an age which
epy his mind. and suddenly, they have driven him to the art
The secins so consistent with,
haracter at the soun as it spend to his fellows, but which is the toestande result of the thought which he has allowed to umeupy his 302221
זן
IN
!
No Time To Think."
UN.
prades itself on being a very pete bede nad we are in danger of loding so laken up with doing things that we have no leisure for thought. was reading a book last week on the Art of thinking and the author
!
plained that the modern schon time falle geoms to be puistracted The Power Of Thought.
at the idea of filhok up every We often read about the advance poule of the child's time and leav of modern psychology but
ing my leisure. This is a disult more die da keep the child pạt of mis doalful ifr w kan any abou ought than did the ancient claet hurt one at its evil results is tirecks, and there are few day that the child is never given site who kupy as much about thought to think, and AW dans as Pinto one of the gemtest ad. We paman and thinkers unless yances which has been made in a prople have sane leisure. That is gent years in the study of thought eason why, it is such a sad is the very great ffert which mistake to fill one's life with anim thought a have on the body of Bortant engagera uts. They leave the thinker, I suppose we have all time for thought. And yet there heard and read of the late. M. Coif they have two or three days in who feel quite ashamedl and his cures by auto-suggestion. In reaction from a
a week which are not filled up with schont of metlicise which was far to auterin, he may have exagger ated the power of though. His molto “Every day in every
Nort
1
any
į
ZERTENGTAS
The new walnut presses disciose! Ford's ̈ ኄዛ ሃን enflection of early American clothes,
to lis Annng them are richly broidered and broaded waist- mata, striped trousers, with straps going under the fool, and swallow
tailed coats with padded shoulders.
Ford wears these clothes in the mourby ballroom, where they dance the pilka, che quadrille and all the old spare dances, and where modern jazz IN rigidly hered, Muse is supplied by the cubal and the dulcimer, maint old anees- rors of the maxdern pinno
It is here than the richest man in the world, wearing his braided maisteral, his swallow-tailed coat, his strapped trousers and his square-foed brus, shining with gener-grense, fonds his employees in the old ting dances.
A
GERMANY'S PLAN,
TO BEAT. THE WORLD,
"CLEAN SWEEP " AT
OLYMPIC GAMES.
Too Vivid Detalls.
clude, an additions photo.
graphs and visiting cards, tele grams, letters of introduction from on trafficker to another, contracts of work, a copy of a recipi to a woman from the tran who procured her and whom she had paid off, fake or falsified deenments, and many other first, hand exhibits.
Athletes from Germany hope to work or play or sociai rugagements.swerp the Gold" at the Olympic Bul will G you with much com Games at Amsterdam text summer,
Placeny that they have not a free
Their elaborate preparations are a statement made by Lord Roch dale, chairman of the Coureit of the return from Monaco, where he res British Olympie Association, on his
national Olympie Gunes Commit- presented Britain at the Inter
amping letter and he is, evening for the next three weeks. one of the subjects emphasised in the laws of the particular country.
How America Suppresses Thought.
1.
may not have proved so invariabdy successful as he imagined, but he
The author to whom 1 just refer has enrtainly brought into pred suggested that if Plato had mine the undoubted fart tim
Jaren hurt in New York or Lundun thought can very greatly influener today he would it have developed the lady either for good or sinto the dinker which he was. The pers who thinks about a dis- remember an American once saying ease is more kels, other things to me that the Episcopal Church in being pal, to get that disease than the Inited States has do theulogical A peran who never thinks of it
writers of outstanding merit for if Thut reason why it is alle a man shows ability he is pul in unwise to enebarage people to talk charge of a big parish where his about their ailments, especially if work leaves is there 15 a pussability of their being, thought, witres in England there How often do are canonries and deaneries which we come across people who think give a man Jeisure and so he is able that a certain act will have a ver to produce theological works of real tain courquee, eg, they believe merit. Not only sellars but every if they sit in a draft they will catch Christian teeds leisure for thought cold, or if they eat shelf fish they and we ought so to plan one day will be ill and they find that the
that at least some minutes every consequence invariably day are spent in quiet thought and expected follows. I was once a victim of meditation. this belief. got the idea that a
rngitary auments,
1)
Time for
tie
Lord Rochdale ais mentioned, lans for a remarkable sports meet- ing to be held in Alexandrix in 1920,
when natives and white settlers from all parts of Africa will com pete in European grunes, inclad- ing rowing. fencing, boxing, lawn tennis and football.
war is
the first time since the
Germany-who is competing for
sending 310 competitors, and the German Government is giving £7,000
this year and £15,000 next towards their expenses," said Lord Roch dale.
Great Plans.
Futile Laws. The countries are dealt with in alphabetical order, and to each survey is added an appendix giving
toucking on the question of the white slave traffic, Unfortunately the laws, admirable as they usually are, appear to be frequently evaded with ease.
As to the Argentine, for example, the report says:
It is clear that the traffickers manage to evade every restriction, and the evidence discloses on elaborate organisation for run- ning the business and securing girls therefor to the great profit of third parties. It is further significant to note the number of different towns which have been linked. Buenos Aires, Cairo, Paris, Warsaw, Antwerp are places which, though so widely separated, have yielded-encoun- ters with either the same traffic. kers or with friends of these same characters.
with
The white slave traffic is indeed an international evil. An investi. gator in Brazil reports the follow- ing renversation in Rio de Janeiro, with the keeper of a house of ill-
DII usually does business Idlow T in Paris. She Perhaps you know him "
Do I know him? I'll replied: say I do! Many a girl he sent to me. Here and in Bahin. I know him very well. In those days 1 got half, so it paid me; but now it would not."
long railway journey gave me a bad thought, doing may become a fussy
Thinking and doing. Without There is tremendous activity in beadache, twice a month I had to restlessness which, achieves nothing, physical training.
Germany in all the preparations for travel about 150 miles and always but on the other hand thought adinirable propaganda measure is fame:
This year ik fl expected the headache and almost which does not lead to action läheing promoted by the Government. invariably got it. It was often so evaporate in day dreams. It is not savern that I used to go to bed atendigh that we
There is to be a physical train- think those things once on returning home. Later on that be good "it is bessary that
ing conference of about 20 repre I realised that there was no reason
"we perform the same." It has
sentatives of towns all over Ger why a train journey should give me been said that hell is paved with a headache, and now it never gives me one, although I have been 14 Kood intentions. days in a train.
can he
Although between £30,000 and
many, and these people will be taken round the country to see the And there are
a various arrangements for physient Faure that many people whose thoughts are culture and athletics." many people quite unnecessarily noble but who fail to put those fine £40,000 are required to finance the splendid and self sacrificing and think themselves into illness which thoughts into practive. We need
a real illness but which is
performance, as well as thought. British games at Amsterdam, Lord brought
entirely by their What are we doing for God. It is Rochdale stated that his council thoughts.
true of course that our ordinary does not propose asking the British Again the power of thought in work may be done
for iod Government for a grant. "It has suggesting evil habits is very great whether we work in office or school never been our policy," he said, and should especially the recognised or shop, whether our work is that better to depend only upon private by all who have any responsibility of soldier on sailor or lawyer or
because we believe it to be much
от
for training the young. I saw a tailor if it is good work it may be subscriptions." little bay the other day trying to God's work E done for Him. climb and his amah said "You
are a manglity boy,
:
Fifty-five nations, said Lord. Roch-
Stadigin, upon which the Dutch dale, are expected to take part in the Amsterdam games. And the have spent about £40,000, will be rendy in January
.
Work For Everyone. naughty boy you must's climb, you But if the Kingdom of God is try
"No doubt
she meant well, but by making him spread in the world there is need think he was naughty, when he had for every Christian to realise that only bren trying to do what any or the must do some special work healthy small boy wants to do, she for the extension of that Kingdom. was sowing in his mind the belief There must be no shirkers in the that he was naughty and that be-
Army of Christ. How often we The characteristic of the world lief growing with his years may
find that one or two enthusiastic
in this present age is to he always load him to be a wicked man.
workers are bearing the greatest in a hurry, but we who profess to part of the burden of the Church's look beyond this world to the **If Thought Is Saturated With
work and, perhaps contributing the eternal shores ought already to show Failure,"
greatest part of the Church's in- by our lives that we are not absorb come. That is a real source of cd entirely in the passing things of weakness in the Christian Army, in this life but that our thoughts and which every Christian ought to be hopes have gone forward into that doing his full share of work. Not Paradise which Christ has prepared in a rush and hurry but after due for those who think His thoughts thought.
and do His acts of love and (Continued at foot of next column), charity.
The power of thought is seen in the success of the man who is suc cossful in business. He is always one who believes in his own aue cess. I don't say that every man who believes in his own success will succeed but I am sure that no man
wlis JP Full-face
perequality,
white thysharp features of Schiller, a will man," ean be best realised in profile. Gogol's face shows
und sensuality
signs
Roral utammede, mapyashone with high intel- ligence, and was characterised by a colossal and extraordinary nose. and in repose is ugly and ex- Stenugely enough, the free of
pressionless, and shows little of the wonderful spirit which animates the man.
The faces of strong-willed active persons rarely change, while thes features of intellectuals appear to be gently washed out by the passing of time. It is interesting to note that the deathmusks of great soldiers are invariably quiet, har monious, and smooth, whereas those of ports are often ugly.
Britain Cleared.
Conditions in Great Britain are remarkably good owing to the strictness of the immigration and criminal laws. The British reply to the Commission's question stated that:
at the present me there is no evidence of any traffic in women or children between Great Britain and any foreign country. The Commission itself
that
stated
evidence of traffic on an organised se was not found in Grent Britain.
Poland's Bad Record,
NOW
ON SALE.
1927 Edition
OF THE
DIRECTORY
AND
CHRONICLE
The Sixty-fifth Annual Issue of the
Directory & Chronicle
for
Poland's record is an unsatisfac- HONGKONG, the Treaty Ports of
fary one:
Poland was generally admitted by everyone interviewed at the time of this investigation to be a country of supply of women and girls who were taken to other countries, particularly to South America, for immoral purposes. According to information obtain- ed from various sources, it would appear that Jewish particularly exposed to exploita-
tion.
women are
kumania also is unsatisfactory.
The position as regards inter- national traffic in Rumania re- In France, as in other countries,
quires careful watching on the the underworld succeeds by vari
part of the authorities. Traffic through and out of the country is ous methods in outwitting the law and sulministrative measures."
necurring, and a large number of young girls are being procured. The method generally used in enses where the gint is under 21 in which the proprietor of a caba- A case is cited from Switzerland is the marriage method, since marriage emancipates the ed by him as a dancer, to sign an got an 18-years-old girl, employ- woman from control. other method of leaving the coun-
"
An-
ret
The inhumanity of such a con- tract is almost bound to produce
agreement which enabled him to try is the securing of false birth-dismiss her for practically no rea certificates for minors: and the son and made her transferable at
his will: issuing of passports showing them to be over age. For example, a said: "I can fix up papers, pass- trafficker, 4-, met in Paris,
ports, any kind you want, visa, and marriage, birth, and iden tity certificates" He showed English, Brazilian, and Polish passports.
In Germany girls are promised theatrical jobs if they will go abroad. One trafficker said:
All these kids are wild about the stage, the movies, cabarets, anything that makes them think they are artists. They are the kind that fall easy.
(Continued on next Column)
CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO-CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. MALAY STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, BORNEO,
THE PHILIPPINES, ETC.
This Large Volume of approximately 2,000 Pages gives, in addition to the usual Lists of Firme, an Alphabetical List of Residents in the Far East containing the Names of Nearly
20,000 FOREIGNERS.
Arranged, with the initials as well as Surnames, in strict alphabetical order so that any name can be found instantaneously.
It is a volume indispensable to business houses.
disaster in the case of the foreign Large Edition-with Maps and Treaties...$12
giri alone in a strange town, paid france a day, and without a friend to turn to when aummarily dismissed
Chinese Girls For U.S.
The White Slave traffic appears to be small in the United States, save for the Chinese girls smug gled on to the West Coast:
These very young girls are being smuggled into the United States and
are held in
what
Small Edition
$8
Orders should be Sent
to
amaunts to abject slavery; they HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, Ltd., 1a, Chater Road,
are bought and sold like chattels,”
+
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.