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THE CULT OF THE STRONG MAN.”

THE TREND OF MODERN LEADERSHIP.

FORCEFUL ADDRESS AT THE ROTARY CLUB,

The modern tendency of allowing the individual self to be over- shadowed by a feeling of helplessness, and the danger attached to such a tendency was dealt with at some length by the Bav. Dr. E. L. Allen, B.A., in an address given by him yesterday at the Rotary Club entitled "The Cult of the Strong Man."

The speaker inid that very seldom had there boen a generation so rich as our own in forceful energetic personalities. We should · think of these personalities, not as half-gods, but so men like pur selves who had proved to us that the individual was still the centre of power.

PRESENT-DAY PERSONALITIES.

as follows:

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1932.

SHIP'S STEWARD ROBBED.

PICKPOCKET SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS.

Mr. W. Schofield and Mr. E. Wynne Janes, sitting together at the Magistracy yesterday, pasted sentence of two years' hard labour on a pickpocket, who was convicted of stealing a fountain pen from Mr. George Malcolm, a steward of

DEATH OF MRS. WM. YINSON LEE.

WIFE OF SHANGHAI SOCIAL SERVICE WORKER.

BUSINESS LEFT TO

ASSISTANT. So pretty

REWARD FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE.

Word has been received from Shanghai of the death of Mrs.

A bequest of his shop and other Iping Lee, wife of Mr. William Eremiaca to his assistant in recog- vinson Lee, who was recently in tition of faithful service is made Hong Kong. Mrs. Lee passed away by Mr. Edward O'Hare, of Gray's quietly on Saturday night at the Inn-road, W.O., clothier, who died Shanghai Sanitarium, where she in March, leaving £09,604, in his. had been a patient since returning will. He directs:- from Hong Kong in May. ·

Mr. Lee, who is a brothor of Mr. Li Chor Chi, well-known local

the .. President Hoover.

Sub-Inspector Russell stated that Mr. Malcolm Was walking in Queen's Boad in the vicinity of the Queen's Theatro yesterday afteringer, is head of the Chinese De- noon, when defendant anatched the partment of the Sun Life Insurance pen from the breast pocket of Mr. Company, Pesident of the Chinese Y's Men's Clubs throughout China, Malcolm's jacket. He was seized Mission to Lepers, organiser of the in the act by a passer-by, a tailor:

and a prominent Rotarian and of Wellington Street, named Tsang

Freemason. Tong.

Defendant, said Inspector Rus sell, had five previous convictions, three of which were in respect of larcenics from the person, and had been placed twice under police supervision.

The Hov, Dr. Allen's address was, each Prime Minister and each Presidens has been hailed in turn "How very interesting it would' as the "Man of Destiny" who was be to take a leap into the year 1983 to lend the country into an era of and to see what shape the history prosperity.

"Without trying to bring all of our time had begun to take by i then in men's minda. I am sure the theso instances of hero-worship historian of 80 years hence will have under one head, can we offer any a great deal to say about the poli-explanation of this series of phone tical and economie questions which mona? I see in it's compensation are our main pre-occupation and for the sense of impotence and perhaps he will have something also frustration under which the mass to say of the many uncertainties of mankind has suffered now for

In answer to Mr. Wynne-Jones, which beset us in private and family years; we worship the strong man life. But I hope he will not omit because we know ourselves to be the officer said that police super. one feature which is to me among weak. The origin of this wides-vision did not seem to have much the most important and most inter- proad feeling of powerlessness is effect on the man. esting--what I would call the cult easy to trace. It goes back nean. of the strony man. Let me explain tually to the disillusionment of the

what I mean by this,

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returned soldier when he came back from the War to find that every thing in the World had changed beyond recognition except the minds of the men who ruled it. It has a strong support too in the fear which haunts so many to-day, the fear

He was still under police supervision when the pre-

Mrs. Lee left two daughters and

501.

EXCITING CHASE IN

YAUMATI.

sent offence was committed. He had CULPRIT PURSUED ON MOTOR

CYCLE. regularly reported himself.

The tailor responsible for the arrest was complimented by Mr.

To his assistant Henry North,

of Edwards-square,, Caledoman- road, N., if in his employ at his death, in recognition of his long servico to me and my brother Peter O'Bare, the goodwill of his trade or business at. 229 Gray's Inn-road, W.C., with the stock-in- trade and £xtures

He loft to him also his premises. 920, Gray's Inn-road, W.C., for life, with remaindor to Patrick Arthur O'Hare, and he also left to Henry North his premises 2 and 4, Sidmouth-street, Regent's- square, Gray's Inn-road.

I he should die while in the testator's employ, then he left his wilo £400.

Gifts to Housekeeper.

Mr. O'Hare also left his shares

Sergeant Franklin, attached to the Yaumati Police Station, figur-in the National Provincial Bank, od in an exciting chase on Monday furniture and his premises 11 and night as a result of which a Chin-1, Argyle-square, King's Cross, to em from Macno was brought before his housekeeper Selinn Rayal, if in the Kowloon Magistrate charged bis service at his death, in recog with the attempted larceny of bonition of her kindness and attention. Addressing the defendant, his cente from a cook of Portland to him and his late brother.

Mr. North, who is 64, worked Street Worship said:-Apparently prison

Sergeant Franklin was riding his for Mr. O'Hare for more than fifty terms and police supervision are motorcycle at night near the Po

Schofield, who said that it was a very smart arrest and that he de- served avery credit for it.

He said:- of no use to you. You will go to Hing Theatre, when he noticed the years. He has a family of sight.

"During the war, as in all wara, there was a demand for a new type of leader, for the man of iron will and resolute action, who would con centrate on the one thing that mat- fered and brush everything else

I came here as an assistant to man who was shouting:" He has aside to deal with the necessities of that there is a place for them in gaol for two years, with hard lab-defendant runhing away from a

stolen my purse." Defendant ran Mr. O'Hare when I was twelve the hour. We had such men in Kit- the scheme of things only till suchour..

past the side of the Po Hing Then- thener, Fock and Clemenceau or if time as the machine has been in-:

tre, along Chi Wo Street, then down years old. Mr. O'Hare had been we were on the other side, in Hin- vented to take their place. Then

of a century. He had emigrated denburg and Ludendorf. The war there is the fact that the rapid ex-century demigod can do anything Tung Lok Lane, returning by that here at that time about a quarter

with it, we ordinary people can just Sergeant Franklin drove with one passed on, but this mentality re-tension of the franchise in so many ait back and do nothing, for the hand, held a revolver in the other mained-this craving for the man countries has brought into power matter is clearly out of our handstband, and blew a Police whistle.

new democracy just at one of

the most difficult periods of history so that they are not yet equal to their task.

of clear head and strong will who i would get things done, the man who would make a clean sweep of pre- cedents and traditions and vested interoata and cut a way for us through the thicket in which we found ourselves.

"We remember the tremendous enthusiasm which greeted Woodrow

• Wilson when he set foot on the shores of Europe. He was the New World come to the deliverance of the Old; he was the politicn! Mes Bish, and nowhere was his populari. ty higher than in Germany itself.

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False Rellei.

Power of the Individual.

The fact is that we have looked at these men in the wrong light. They "In a very simple way we seek are not a refuge from our power- relief from all this impotence but loseness but a proof that we are by no means as powerless as wo it is a false relief. A boy was brought up to believe that cricket think. On all hands it is said that

street.

The culprit gave himself up to the police officer in an exhausted condi tion.

His Worship bound the defendant over to be of good behaviour for

months.

FINE REDUCED.

"DOGS' HOME.”

from Ireland when young,

"His home was in Newry, and ho carried on the business with his brother and sister, both of whom are dead. Mr. O'Haro died at the age of 88, and, like his brother and sister, was unmarried.

"I worked with him all through the years, and I knew I was to benefit on the death of Mr. O'Hare. Mr. O'Hare lived here all bis life, just as I do now with my family. In the event of my death

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New Typs of Leader.

was the finest of all games-ne of the individual to-day counts for $10,000 CUT DOWN TO $5,000.- "As the war came to an end, we.

course it is--but he was himself quite nothing and can do nothing; he is grew tired of the soldier and we turned to a very different kind of hopeless at it. What did he do? rushed by systems, displaced by

The fine of $10,000 imposed on the property passes to a nephew man, if not to the philosopher turn-He constructed for himself a phan-machines, and exploited by m

convicted on a charge of having who is now at Dulwich College, ed king of whom Pluto spoke,. at tany-picture of a great cricketer bines; in economics and politic, Georgs Alexander Carter, who was of Mr. O'Hare, a boy of fourteen, any rate, to a University Professor with the features of "W.G." who alike, the game is played behind possession of 2,400 taels of illicit turned President.

kuocked his records and everybody closed doors and the only rule opium at the Kowloon Wharf, waa Just as seems to be that the common man reduced by Mr. J. A. Fraser yes-

terday to 85,000. clac's into a cocked hat.

That is all very

It is understood that the latter this lad got out of this figure of must always loss. the marvellous cricketer, the satis true, but it is not the whole truth, sam is the maximum that his Wor- ship could imposed under the now faction which his own sorry per- Very seldom has there been a gene- Opium. Ordinance. The alternative formances could never yield him, ration so rich as our own in force of six months' hard labour was not so we console ourselves for our own ful, energetic personalities. These changed.

men of whom I have been speaking, powerlessness and failure by a phantasy picture of the super-man, they are individuals, many of them: On the other side of Europe, the dictator, call him what you will. with little or nothing behind them, in Russia, war bad brod revolution, That this is the origin of such aand we should think of them not as famine and the break-up of all moral figure is shown by the fact that each half-gods, whom we are to worship,| REPORT FOR LAST MONTH. standards, and a very different of us has some private prescriptian but na men like ourselves who prove figure rose-that of Lenia. These which we are sure would cure the to us that the individual is still

the contre of power. men have gone but others have world's maladies but which

One dog was sold three were ing, in Surrey, there is a masque come to take their place. We call know nobody is likely to adopt and

destroyed.... such men popular idols. There it is just this that we imagine they put aside this longing for a returned to owners while Eve were which is the headquarters of the Of the five destroyed, two were Moslem Society of Great Britain. is a significance in that word strong man is doing! We would superman and go boldly forward in

at the request of owners.

which lista in its membership seVOI-. 'idol,' for it auggests that we are dearly love to abolish the 'dols the path of democracy. The times destroyed in the Lethal Chamber In addition, this organization, There are now 10 dogs in the a prominent Britons, is raising half aware that what we are giving or, on the other hand, to take in which we live are not an appeal to them is something not so very everybody's income above a certain for a dictator who will jockey us all Home, two of which are awaiting 500.000 for a new mosque in the

The others are there for custody and treatment far removed from religious venera-level to maintain the unemployed, into happiness and prosperity, but suitable homes.

It is strange, indeed, that and we write to the papers to eny for a few hundred thousand ordin All are in good health and condi. this rationally-minded 20th century that what the country wants is aary people who will seek a little tion.

more knowledge and develop a little of ours should have produced so Mussolini who will do just this.

more courage. There is one article many demigods of worship...

But there is more to it than that, of faith which a civilisation simply cannot afford to lose-faith in-the

tion.

we

I believe that we should resoluto-

Let us run very rapidly over I believe there is a grave danger power of the individual to make the the list of strong men in the post in this modern cult, especially for world as it is a little nearer to the First and foremost nations which, rightly or wrongly, world as it ought to be We need a war world. there is Mussolini and the series of have committed themselves to the now morale, a conviction that the Fascist dictatorships modelled in enterprise of democracy. The attrac-power of circumstances is not ulti- mate, that, in such measure as we other countries on his. At the moves us from individual responsi are its master and not its alaye. tion of the dictator is that he reare prepared to grapple with it we ment, the destinies of Russia are mibility and the necessity for

It would be wary comforting to be

Mohammedanism, which, it is re- ported, will seek converts in Chins with the aid of a tunio said to have been worn by the prophet about 1,300 years ago, has already made Eleven dogs were admitted to some strides in England. At Work- the Dogs: Home" last month.

WHEELS STOLEN FROM MOTOR CAR.

THIEVES BREAK INTO GARAGE.

heart of West Kensington. Among Allanson - Winn, Baron Hendley, its officers are Bir Rowland George president; Bir Umar Hubert Ran- kin, Bart; ad the Aga Khan head of the moslems of India.

First British Moslem Peer. Lord Headley, a noted engineerTMTMTM is regarded as the society's most active and prominent member, and his conversion to Islam in 1913- startled British social circles. Ten years after that date he made a pilgrimage to the holy city of Captain E. H. Summers, of Ngau Mecca, the first white man to make the hands of Stalin with his new individual effort and presents us lieve that it is the folly of kings gan Villas, Kai Tak, has re- the trip openly and devoutly, and religion of the tractor and his plan with a ready-made mass-salvation. statesmen which has brought to compress centuries of evolution. “There is a craving in human nature. into half a generation. China has to take the easy way, to put off on us where we are but it ported to the police that sometime the first British psez. to enter the

it scarcely true. Each of us has on Tuesday night, thieves-broke forbidden realm

Baron Headley said that he had had its Sun Yat Sen and illa to other people the doing of what contributed. his quota of ignorance into his garage, and after pecking dozen war lords have been hailed in wo know we ought to do ourselves and indifference and hesitation. tu up. his car, s Willys six, stole three been a Moslem at heart for nearly turn during the last few years as It is a far easier thing to put the the result and it is yet to be seen of the four wheels. The loss is a half century, and that there were the strong men who wore to unite hero on a pedestal and burn in whether there is any deliverance estimated at $300. and reorganise the country. conso before him than to try to do possible in the long run without

"Men of Destiny......

"In Germany, Hindenburg pro- vides the one instatice of a war lor who has survived into the peace in the same capacity and now he has

bility and individual courage.

the heroic thing in a small way individual acceptance of responsi- oneself! Remember that there is all. the difference in the world between the strong man and the genuino leader the one does things for us, the other enables us to do them for ourselves. You see as long as we

a rival in Hitler, head of a great have persuaded ourselves that the movement. Most remarkable of, all world is in such a pass that only in the two great democracies of dictator, a superman, a twentieth Britain and the United States; (Continued on next Volumn.) –

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