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The Daily Press.

HONG KONG OCTOBER 7, 1936

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1936.

KING'S

MORE FAMILIES, ELOCUTION AS

AN

GOEMBOES DEAD

MEMORIAL

BUT SMALLER

How Overcrowding

Is Intensified

Project

Criticised

“TOO UTILITARIAN”

(To the Editor, "Hong Kong Daily Press."] Dear Sir.

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As one who has perused your leading article on the project for playing fields "as Hong Kong's

IS A RELIGIOUS

REVIVAL IMMINENT? memorial to our late King. I must

confess that I do not agree with your contention that a memoria: utilitarian can ever worthily enshrine the Colony's love for a truly great Ruler.

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The provision of playing fields is a

the provision of pipe-lines, roads matter for Government, just as is ind, other public works.

To my way of thinking, a beauti- ful memortal after the manner of a shrine, would be the most ap- propriate form for the memorial to our late monarch.

·Yours, etc.

À FALSE STANDARD

More, but smalier, families are intensifying the housing problem. Binns, according to Mr. George Chler Sanitary Inspector, Liver- pool, who spoke at the Sanitary Inspectors Association Conference at Harrogate recently.

Inadequate supply of houses at rents which the working-classes could pay was set by Mr. Blans at the head of the Est of causes of the overcrowding evil, which, he declared, had been considerably intensified by the increase in the number of familles.

AID TO ART

Interesting Lecture By

Mr. Gerald

Gerald Sydney

SUPPRESSION OF EMOTIONS

An appreciative audience attended the University Assembly

·Hall last night and listened to Mr. Gerald Sydney's address on Elocution as an aid to Art," given under the auspicies of the Hong Kong University Arts Association.

Mr. Sydney was ably assisted by Doris Blair (Soprano) well- known, to 2RW Esteners.

Historian and philosopher are in the exercise of their functions expected to take cognisance of all available human phenomena. If life is to be seen full-orbed, every formative influence must be as- signed its duo place. Even the experience which is essentially individual ceases to be exclusive ly so when it becomes sufficiently aggregative to make impact on contemporary society ami the course of history. Down the ages

done these two religion gone through a more religion, has

discouraging time than in the things. Irrespective, therefore, of any personal "attitude towards years between the end of the war the low standard adopted in the all try and get the idea of what. THREE CHILDREN it, religion calls for appraise and 1930. Throughout the war

By Order,

S. A. SLEAP,

Actg. Secretary. Hong Kong, 5th October, 1936.

IN EVERY FAMILY

Are Needed To Maintain Nation

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SAYS SIR LEONARD HILL

Harrogate

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siders a motor car 3 greater pos- session than a child, he continued. The physiological need of many

women is unsatisfed if they do not bear children.

ment as a factor in civilisation. That growth is in spirts is a, principle operating throughout all biological nature. It seeing equally active in religion. But

** ALTRUIST."

the church's attitude was mis- understood; subsequently secular rationalism was proudly aggres sive; hedonistic philosophy copsi- dered itself vindicated "by "the new discoveries in psychology

He welcomed the Housing Act, 1935. as "the first real attempt to deal with this vast evil." But It was a serious blemish upon the new Act that It still permitted every room in a house, except Scullery or bath-room, to be count- ed "for sleeping "purposes.

The title of my address this evening. Elocution as an aid to Art 13 rather unsatisfactory, as elocution is an art in itself. To tell you the truth, when I was con- sidering what I wanted to say to you, I found that I should be drift- ing from one subject to another in a somewhat irresponsible mien ner and, for the life of me. I old not know what to call it. How- ever, I think that we must first of

Budapest, Oct. 8.-The death bas occurred of the Hungarian Premier, Dr. Julius Goemboes. He passed away at the sanatorium at Neuwit- telsbach, near Munich, after suf-

which affected his heart.-Reuter

BRITAIN'S SYMPATHY.

Budapest, Oct. 6.

The British Minister called on Admiral Horty. Regent of Hungary, "this morning and conveyed the sympathies of the British Govern- ment on the death of. Dr. Goem- bocs.

"

Mr. Cheng Yum Yue, Chairman; The more your skill increases. The tendency towards an in-

o the Association, introduced the the clearer and more articulate

will the expression of beauty be-fering from atrophy of the kidneys creasing population of small famil-speaker who addressed the meet- les and a decreasing population of ing as follows))—

come. And here let me advise larger families would continue.

you young students that, whatever art or profession you are engaged upon, you should concentrate all your energies and powers upon your technique. Don't worry about your talent or genius ignore it: that will take care of itself. The great character actress. Miss Maric Tempest, said that it took her the seven years to walk across

Dr. That's the outlook. stage! Richard Strauss, one of the great- est of modern composers was once conducting a world famous or- chestra in a programme of his own compositions. The only item not written by himself was, Mozart's Piano Concerto, which the arches- tra had played hundreds of times. At the rehearsal he spent over two hours on the Mozart alone; finally he said" Gentlemen, I apologize for

Mr. George Laws, of Richmond. Strey, said: "The results of the overcrowding survey following of

Act mean that for many years to

come

of

hundreds of thousands familles, unless they choose to live and sleep in kitchen-living rooms.

must tolerate lack of privacy and decency in their family arrange. ments."

Art is, and what it isn't.

ART CLASSIFIED i

The Arts have been classified

probably by someone who existed in the dark ages) under two head- Ings' which are still known as (1) Figures revealed that no fewer the fine arts, by which is meant, than 380.000 families were on the I presume, those arts which are

The state funeral of the Pre- mier will be held during the week- end.

A bulletin issued to-day statex that the Cabinet has resigned.-

Reuter's Bulletin Service.

occasion or opportunity for the ex-

in religious terminology the spirt here was intellectual uneasiness verge of overcrowding, and if Hv-purely decorative luxuries, not keeping' you so long. It doesn't and Ideals. Hidden indeed! For

be

ing rooms were not counted for necessities, such as music, painting. sleeping purposes the number of sculpture, poetry, and so on.

(2) The useful arts, by which we 853,000 instead of the 341,554 can only understand all skilled overcrowded families would

workmanship which has for it's given in the report.

aim the production of things use-

***The ideal standard which

should be enforced is the bedroom standard. only," said Mr. Laws.

EGYPTOLOGIST PASSES

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London, Oct. 5.

ful and necessary.

Cooking is an art which is placed by some people in the first cate- gory and by others in the second. Hairdressing would be difficult to place, and so would chiropody, or the art of dressing the toe-nails. But it seems to me that such things Dr. Alfred Butler, 88, the well-di shoe-making, brick-laying, or any form of werk which requires skill, might be included amongst the useful arts. Architecture is supposed to combine beauty with usefulness, and might reasonably

is classified as a revival. And

within the church itself, not within the Christian organisation

because of any disloyalty to many recognised authorities have acknowledged that the church eternal, truth but because of the lives on revivals and from re-emporary difficulty of co-relating that truth to man's ever-widening vival to revival.** Even in the The birth rate is falling to such judgment of the detached ab- scientific knowledge. Since 1930 an extent that shortly the schools

server the facts seem to confirm that set of circumstances has will no longer be filled, and there

very definitely given place to the aphorism.

another. will be a great excess of old, people....

Thoughtful men and said Sir Leonard Hill recently, in Regarded strictly as a sub-women everywhere are looking his presidential address to the division of history, the Christian out on the world with a sense of Banitary Inspectors: Conference at church had its origin in a great despair. It is a despair that

A nation is decadent which con- spiritual surge which has passed scientist and psychologist are known Egyptologist, who in his into verbal currency as Pentecost.powerless to dispel. Throughout younger days was tutor to the Its influence permeated Asia the war, the post-war depression former Khedive of Egypt, died here Minor, then Europe. While the and the present world ferment to-day forces of burbarism were engaged science

While at the Egyptian Court he and philosophy, hava was largely instrumental in found-be called the art of beautility!. in these exploits, which won for by themselves seemed impotenting the Coptic Museum, at Cairo. that period the title of the Dark Wearied of tentative and invari- now world-famous- Ages, the church kept alight the ably disappointing expedients, Reuters flame of religion and idealism. people are looking for some key In Britain the more ancient solution which will be adequate forms of religion were superseded to the world problems and satis- by the Christian, Throughout fying to human souls. Without the centuries revivals were re-being conscious of it, many men current, John Richard Green are practising methods that are describes "the first of those great definitely, although not avowedly. religious movements which Eng-religions. They are finding in- land was to experience.” At spiration in the vision of a world the end of the eleventh century, permeated by a spirit not of and under the reviving power of selfishnese but of service. the members of the Cistercian H; Rotary and humerous kindred.⠀ order, the historian says that "a movements have splendid records

The proper number of children in euch family to maintain the na- tion is three, not one, and while

the limitation of large families is "wise. the wide prevention of any children must lead to national dis- aster.

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CONSTABLE FOUND DEAD

About

ten o'clock yesterday morning the body of Chinese police constable C54

at the was found Police Training School with a re- volver by his side.

From all appearances. It was a case of suicide, and. investigationis

are afoot to ascertain if others are involved

THEFT REPORT

JUDGE PASSES

London, Oct. 5.

Sir Percival Clarke, Chairman of

the London Sessions, died suddenly this evening, aged 64 years--- British Wirelett.

new spirit of devotion awake; it

Toc

of essentially" Christian work to

penetrated alike to the home of their credit--records built up by

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Friedrichshafen, Oct. 6., The airship. Graf Zeppelin land- ed here safely on Monday at 4.07 p.m. on completion of the 14th south America trip. The next trip

to Rio de Janeiro begins on Octo- ber 17 from here. Transocean News Servier.

JEAN BATTEN AT BRINDISI

DUCHESS OF KENT

'London, Oct. 5.

Bester.

pression of our hidden emotions

the environments in' which we much matter how we play have our being, and the conven works, but if we are going to play tions of Society, force us to put a constant restraint upon the up- ward fights of the soul towards beauty. Among the British peoples especially, the suppression of the emotions has become almost *

etish. No wonder then (but what. a tragedy) that these emotions of beauty, sympathy, kindness, love and charity, frequently become atrophied, sometimes indeed cease to exist in us altogether.

Mozart, we must try and do so a5 The mem- perfectly, as we can." bers of the orchestra thought they could play Mozart åtanding on their heads. the genius thought otherwise. That, my friends, was an artiste. I hope I have been able to convey to you my idea of what Art is or should be.

THE GREATEST OF ARTS I am now going to consider especially the art of music- I like Robert Browning's delinea- chiefs because it is the one that Ition of the soul in ita' common known most about, and also be place surroundings, as: .scroll of cause it is upheld as the greatest manuscript tightly rolled up. of the Arts, inasmuch as it has However, if, after spending the the most universal appeal Now, music is an expression in sound of something that cannot possibly be MISLEADING

expressed in words. You might However, I consider that these reasonably ask "What is there to two classifications are most mis-express that we cannot express in leading. I refuse to belleve that words?" Let me tell you young men that ordinary speech (in spite anything of rare beauty can be of the growth and development of without use. On the 'contrary, it must be both useful and necessary language) is an extremely limited

greater part of our days in adding up figures, making shoes, or in any of those dull tasks with which the exegencies if life force us to occupy ourselves; if, after constantly keep- ing locked up in ourselves the best that is in us, for fear of society's disapproval; if, we can find some quiet moments to drink in the beauty of music or any other art, means of self-expression. When, and especially of that which trans- as is often the case, it is carelessly cerds all art, the beauty of nature: used. It becomes an inaccurate then we can say with Browning- translation of what you mean. To "At length my soul smooth itself illustrate this. let me drift for a out, a long cramped scroll" moment, to the art of Poetry. Poetry is really a combination of literature and music.

in a world of rather drab environ~ ments. a sermon is useful in proportion to its' refining infinence upon the soul, what shall we say of such masterpieces as Milan Cathedral, a Beethoven symphony. or Shakespeare's "King Lear?" Is the beauty of a rose useless when it fills our hearts with tenderness? Suppose, all the beauties of Nature

H. G. Wella, in his "Outline of were suddenly to be obliterated and History." said of Shakespeare, that destroyed, and the functions af "he was a man of very sweet dis- earth were performed amidst "ugly position, who turned every line 'he and repulsive surroundings--man wrote into music" Arnold Ben-

a race of suicidal maniacs.

No, says. "When I read the lines

REAL POETRY.

the

"AN EAR FOR MUSIC" Mr. Sydney concluded the first part of his address with a few hints on how to find the beauty in music and how to listen to it. He showed that all the greatest

Brindisi, Oct. 5.

inusic was written for everybody. Jean Batten, on a fight from

and not for a few over-cultured

He depreciated the noble and of the trader; men practical and hardheaded. England to New Zealand, arrived could not exist-we should become nett, writing of the poet Yeats. musicians. London took its full share in the Without employing the vocabu- here safely and announced that she

idea that some people "were boru revival," Later the itinerant lary of religion they are applying would By to Cyprus to-morrow the long I think about it, the will arise and go now, and go to with "an ear for music" and some The Staff Quarters of the Hong preaching friars evangelised rural the message of religion. More morning.

more convinced I become, that Innisfree"-I know that Mr. Yeats without. It was, he said, merely Kong

is a great poet. But I cannot tell a question of allowing the ear to Hotel

what we know as the fine arts, are at 7. Wellington England. In the following cen- definitely personal and religious, Beuter's Bulletin Service. Street report that someone stole

not merely decorative, are not only why." You will notice that Mr. get accustomed to certain sounds, was again the Group Movement has within

useful, but are real necessities. Bennett, himself a master of ian- a process which took longer with the sum of $400 in money, and tury religious life clothing to the value of $36, while revived by means of Wycliffe and recent years proved itself a

USEFUL ARTS

guage, was unable to explain in some people than others... words what it was in these lines He pointed out that, one of the they were absent on duty yester- his Poor Preachers, The Re- powerful spiritual force. It has

With regard to the useful arts, that caused him to realise their chief reasons why some persons day.

formation, the Wesleyan Revival, achieved striking results among

It is officially announced that I don't think anyone would admit greatness. It was music. And if could not appreciate it was because the Evangelical Revival in the the peoples of some forty differ the Duchess of Kent has cancelled as an art that which makes no you consider any real poetry, you they wanted to try and get some Church of England, the Oxford ent nations and with individuals all forthcoming engagements and appeal to our sense of beauty at will find that it conveys infinitely concrete meaning out of it. They Movement and, still for some a of the most diverse type. The is not undertaking any further all An ordinary kitchen stove oz

more to you that the bare meaning i wanted to translate it into words, a football boot can hardly be ac-

of the worda,

instead of yielding themselves to its vivid living memory, the revival centenary of Dwight L. Moody functions during the autumn.-

cepted as works of art, though the

Listen to that magnificient influence. associated with the name of falls in February next, and aì-

latter may be in a sense uplifting! | artiste John Gielgud who after Dwight L. Moody-all these,ready throughout Britain elabor,

Let us say then that an artist seeing a production of King Lear quite apart from their personal ate preparations are being made unsuspected quarters... Even in one who combines exceptional said "It moved me so much that, after crying nearly all the time. I spiritual results, have exercised & for its celebration. They are while electing to stand apart, it kill with an inherent and uncon-

trollable leaning to beauty.

came out of the theatre exulting powerful influence or British being made in the confident beis impossible to ignore the fact Thomas Carlyle once defined in the beauty of the play? national life.

"The thing that lief that the one thing the whole that hosts of men and women, genius as "an infinite capacity for What caused this emotion? The I cannot think bare facts of the tragedy would not FRANCIS. On September 30, 1936, hath been, it is that which shall world is needing and awaiting young and old, are seeking to taking paina."

Country Hospital. bo." The dictum is accredited is a repetition on an international combine with their intellectual that he meant this definition to make a man cry. No. It was the

be taken seriously: Its' superficiality stupendous, over-powering music comparatively short time, to find Shanghai, to Ivy, wife of R. E. to. Solomon. It is of special scale of that mighty evangelical integrity a greater religious ins too obvious. I think it was a which runs right through it. Francis, a daughter.

the beauty in most of the world's WELLS-On September 30, 1938. at significance at this juncture, experience. Many people are intensity. They are ripe for an satirical remark directed against

It is the exquisite sound of the best music.. the Country Hospital, Shang- Obviously religious revivala, are stinctively critical of everything old-fashioned revival, but in the those who imagine that an in-

words. It is the expression in hai, to Margaret, wife of G. recurrent. Is one, now immin highly emotional, and particularly fashion appropriate to the mode herent and uncontrollable leaning sound of what cannot possibly be in his remarks he had been refer- James Wells, a daughter.

towards beauty is sufficient in it expressed in words alone. It is of excess emotion in religion and outlook of their own genera self to enable them to call them-music. But wait a minute! These Bong writing, as a creative art, was ring solely to ristrumental music.

· DEATHS

In many directions there areBat, provided that the newtion. If ballasted and balanced setves artists without the excep- are written words.. They have no symptoms favourable to an affir-evangelism has that intellectual with knowledge and sanity, such tional skill. The artistic tempera-sound until they are spoken. So you only an amplification of poetry and was, in nine cases out of ten, a mative answer." In the course of content which has accumulated a revival might well lead to a ment has been called "the endow see this long preamble does at last

dismal failure Mr. Sydney then Court, Shanghai, Milvina reviewing a prior survey of the from the positive ascertainments clear revelation of a convictionment of the devil." But it is only bring us to the question of Eloce- wound up his address with an ex-

dangerous when the possessor of it tion which I shall touch on later. the dearly-beloved mother of Augusta M. D'Aquino, Fred M. state of religion in Britain from of science, the higher criticism that many have all along che has failed to produce any artistic in the meantime I hope I have planation of the technicalities of

elocution. Gutierrez, and the late 1870 to 1914, a contributor to and the clarified speculations of righed in their heart-the convic work, because Le has been too lazy succeeded in Indicating to you, Leonora Storks.

the latest issue of the "Quarterly philosophy, there would appear tion that the que complete and to acquire the skill and to acquire however slightly, wherein the value Review" continues the analysis to be no reason to doubt that a permanent solution to all human, the skill you must have the caps of music Hes. to the present day. He expresses genuine religious revival would national and international probity for taking pains and thie capacity should be infinite because. the opinion that in few periods meet with a widespread response, lems lies in a sincere revival of there is no limit to the heights. of British history has organised and enlist adherents from many religion.

at

the

BIRTHS

GUTIERREZ. On October 1, 1936,

at her home in North End

MCKEE On October 1, 1936, at her home, 1383 rue. Lafayette Florence Annie, the dearly be- loved wife of John Matthews McKee, in her 43rd year.

ent?

to which genius can riser

HIDDEN · EMOTIONS In the work-a-day world in which we live there is but little

He Anally suggested that if any supposedly non-musical person were to buy a record of any beauti- rui muste and listen to it once a day without any particular effort or concentration he would grow - fond if it and, if he then repeated"... the process with another, record,' and so on, he would be able in a

Mr. Sydney stressed the fact that

A hearty vote of thanks, proposed by Mr. T. A. Martin, Président of the Association, was accorded to the speaker and to Doris Blair:for: their valuable contributions to the activities of the Association,