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GENERAL

BALL SUCCESS THEOSOPHY AND

ST. GEORGE'S BALL

(Continued From Page 1)

Ulster, in a happy and contented frame of mind. Most of you will remember them.

The Celt in all his variants from

Builth to Ballyhoo.

BROTHERHOOD

Part Played In World To-day

"The Appeal of Theosophy" was

characteristic of the Aberdonlan. he is probably not quite dissolute and. brandishing WO guineas. enough. (laughter but on the greeted the specialls:

with

aother hand he is undoubtedly of cheery "Here we are again, Doc." the adventurer type. Having serv- The speciallat eyed him suspl-ed his country in so many parts clously, but nevertheless overhauled of the world, we could count upon Sandy with meticulous care, and him not to bury himself away in then pocketing the two guineas. saintly isolation in some remote the title of an address given by told him to carry on with the corner of the Middle West, sitting Mr. E. R. Willam at the Theo- And can logically predicate his treatment he had recommended on on a. fence waiting to see what sophical Society meeting on Thurs-

finish by his start:

his first visit. The specialist also happens to the rest of the world.day But the English-ah, the Enghailed from Aberdeen. Laugh- (laughter)

sh they are quite a apart.

His mental processes are plain-

one knows what he will do,

race

ter).

1

Their psychology is bovine, their

outlook crude and raw.

MODERN-DAY DRAGONS Ever since the honour of the

They abandon vital matters to Presidency was conferred upon me,

be tickled with a straw, But the straw that they were

I have spent many a long weary hour in the Club library laugh- " tickled with the chaff thatter)-not, as you surmise, in the they were fed with-...

armchairs--but in the archives.

They convert into a weaver's searching for something to the

beam to break their foeman's head with."

..

For undemocratic reasons and

for motives not of State, They arrive at their conclusions

-largely inarticulate.

Being void

Our American friends might think over my suggestion of a Patron Saint. It's not so fan- tastic as it sounds and of one thing at least they may be sure. St. George would extend to him a cordial welcome into the ranks of the Calendar of Saints.

AT GRIPS WITH REALITIES

In the present appalling state of the world, said the speaker, amid the utter wasto that was going on-the waste of man power, the wanton des- truction of life and property and things of art and beauty the need for the expression of universal brotherhood was ur- ront.

and hate

Though the efforts of totall- credit of our Patron Saint, with which to refute the libellous state-

In conclusion, let me make my tarian states to prevent interna ments made about him by some of peace with those more serious- tional co-operation would even- my predecessors. Unhappily. my minded members of our Society, tually fall, the greed search was unavailing.

who expecting from their Presi that were being generated, as well emotional states, It disclosed that St. Andrew, St. dent an intelligent and considered as the biser of self-expression Patrick and St. David are all well resume of world affairs, have been would produce astral effects which they confide their views to established in mythology, if not in so bitterly disappointed. I make sooner or later would show them- history, as godly men, but all the them my apologies, but I'm afraid selves in a physical form. possibly But sometimes in a smoking evidence points to St. George navn no repentant mood. I would in some terrible catastrophe.

room, one learns why thingsing really been the 'somewhat dis-remind. them that our sense oli solutë fellow of the adventurer typhumour, our ability to maintain it. were done.

smoking-that my predecessors described and keep smiling, no matter what of him. Nevertheless, with that in the conditions, has always been our

nate contrariness of us astonishing; greatest asset in times of trouble should and an echo in all men's

and always will be.

none:

Yes, sometimes in

room.

through clouds "Ers" and "Ums." Obliquely and by Inference

lumination comes,

On some step that they have taken, or some action they approve-- Embellished with the argot of

the Upper Fourth Remove. In telegraphic sentences, hal? nodded to their friends. They hint a matter's inwardness

and there the matter ends. And while the Celt is talking

from Valencla to Kirkwall, The English-ab, the English!---

- English, we adopted him, and who shall say our judgment was at tadi?

fle has slain our dragons for us throughout the axes, and will continue to slay them pro- vided that we see to it that his armour is the best we can pro- In vide, up-to-date and t every way to cope with the dragons of to-day. For, strange as it may seem, in these en- lightened, highly civilized days, with their much vaunted standard of culture and educa- tlan, the world's dragons are a far more fearsome breed than ever they were in the ignorant days of chivalry.

PATRON SAINT FOR U.S. But Patron Saints have other

1. therefore, echo His Excel- lency's New Year message. Lei" us ft up our hearts. Let us, If we want to. go to the Gripps 'and have a good time, provid- ed always that we also come to that other kind of grips-to- grips with realiiles. For at this period in our history no member of the Empire can af- ford to underrate the grave responsibilities imposed upon every one of us by the difficul- tles of the times we live in. ·

UNIVERSAL TRUTH

The appeal of Theosophy was universal. sald the speaker, and

hearts, men of all vocations, all religions, rich and poor alike, for Theosophy was expressed in the universal truth, throwing light on all Scriptures and the occult direc- tion of the universe.

We heard, to-day of a much greater tolerance between various religions, even attempt at CO- speaker operation, and this. the maintained, was largely the result of Theosophical teachings. The Theosophical Society asks no one to leave his own religion, rather to stay in it, but it shows the other man's point of view and en- Unhappily, not all the dragonsables each one to understand the int to-day are outside our own mysteries of his own" creed.

domains. Far too many of them are within it, and perhaps the two most subtle and dangerous of them all arc apathy and

don't say anything at all!" And now of course you will all expect the President, "being vold of self-expression," to sit down! without further ado. Unfortunate- ly for you all, years ago, in the dim. and distant past, my forebears! were turfed but of Ireland (as it

drift. St. Sir Richard Needham, K. CLE. was then called, either for being uses than merely slaying dragons. George cannot slay those beasts DS.O. and Mrs. Thomson, Briga- too much for or too much against A really popular Patron Saint is a fer us. That is cur job, and it is a dier A. B. Thomson, M.B.E. and the Government which, has never great national asset, especially to job we must faithfully perform be- Mrs. Peck. Group Captain A. H. been clear and I seem to have democracles, for often quite a lot re we can satisfy our consciences Peck, D.SO., M.C. RAF. and Mrs.

dash of Irish" which/of wise and far-sighted things can that we are contributing our bit Hancock, Hon Sir Shou-son Chow,) has rendered me slightly less in- be done in the name of a popular to the cause of freedom and jus- Kt. L.D. and Mrs. King, M.B.E. articulate than the average Eng- Patron Saint that cannot be done ice, and so earning for ourselves Hon. Mr. T. H. King and Mrs. Kay. disabilities the right to that peace the Prime Mr. H. R. B. Hancock and Mrs. ishman, particularly when sur- under some of the rounded by so many friendly Celts, democracies are heir to.

Minister is so earnestly working | Pearce. Mr. W. Kay and Mrs. Cock, Mr. T. E. Pearce and Mrs. Hughes, all securely muzzled (laughter). ..BEGINNING OF WISDOM

It is in a spirit of determination! Mr. E. Cock, M.BE and Mrs. DoR- biggin. Mr. C. G. Perdue and Mrs ica, has never yer discovered her to accept those responsibilities and Archbutt, Mr. A. W. Hughes and Mrs. She is, of all na-full them that we will all now winter. Mr, G. S. Archbutt and tions, the one that needs a Patron drink to the toast of our Homeland | Mrs. Perdue, Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy

--England.

inherited a

It has always been a mystery to for.. me why that great democratic nation, the United States of Amer-

Patron Saint

Saint. She loves everything that

and Mrs. Cassidy. Mr. F. B. Winter

is old, and indeed almost every- PRESIDENT'S DINNER and Mrs. Comell, Mr. W. A. Cornell

thing that is old has already found

its way to her hospitable shores.

and Mrs. Labrum, Mr. P. S. Cas- His Excellency the Governor and sidy, Mr. V. C. Labrum.` Sometimes I even suspect her of Lady Northcote Hls Honour Str we Atholl MacGregor and Lady Mac- coveting St. George, but as

Mr. and Mrs. A. E cannot possibly part with him, and Gregor.

as it is rumoured that she is likely Southard, Commodore and Mrs. E.

SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY

The President and Lady North- to become the standard-bearer for B. C. Dicken, Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith. democracy, it is quite time she did Mrs. Smith and Miss R. Smith. cote, His Excellency the Governor something about a Patron Saint. Brigadler and Mrs. A B. Thomson, and Mrs. Dodwell, The Vice-Pre-

Curiously enough, on New Year's Eve. a little incident occurred which raised my hopes that at last she was beginning to recognize her responsibilities in this matter

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AMATEUR MOVIE CONTEST

Prize Films Shown

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Prizes-winners in the Ama- tear. Moyle Contest conducted by the Filmo Depot were yes- terday presented with their prizes. An exhibition of the prize-winning films was also held. These compared well with the best AD amateur movie-maker can be expected to "shoot."

Kipling realized, when he wrote those lines, that the be- 'ginning of all wisdom in peo- ple and in nations is to be able to laugh at themselves. It is a gift so precious that if only the Almighty had distri- buted it equally amongst all nations, we should have been spared much of the trouble in the world to-day, and that Utopian relationship, called the brotherhood, of nations, would have emerged long ago from

Movie studies included Colonel J.

the land of make-belleve Into

Sir Vandeleur Grayburn and Misssident and Lady MacGregor, Com-F. King's scenes of rice cultivation the realms of reality.

Grayburi. Col. and Mrs. N. M. S. modore E. B. C. Dicken and Mrs. and Mr. E W. Orchard's "Tollers!

Chinx." Bubjects chosen by We English of course have the

Irwin, Capt. C. B. Barry, R.N... and Bousfleld, Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith of faculty developed to a very high

Mrs. Barry, Mr. and Mrs. Elder and Mrs. Dicken. Mr. E Cock and the other competitors ranged from degree, but not by any means to

Potter, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hughes, Mrs. Smith. Lt. Col. H. B. L. Dow scones of travel and local scenes to Mr. and Mrs. H. R. B. Hancock. biggin and Mrs. Hancock, Sir Van- the more simple picnic scenes and neighbours. They have reduced It I had just arrived at the Peak Mr. and Mrs. T. E Pearce, Mr. and deleur Grayburn and Mrs. Cock, scenes of "baby.""

Mrs. J. F. Macgregor, Mr. and Mrs. Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy and Mrs. Cas- to such a fine art that the thou- Club fancy dress dance, disguised. Kay. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Tag-sidy, Mr. P. S. Cassidy and Miss D. sand and one stories the Aber as a Turkish diplomat, complete gart, Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Anderson, Dodwell. donians tell about themselves not with harem, (laughter) I was only provide a fund of amusement pondering, amidst all the merri- Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Winter. Mrs. D. for all of us, but are gradually ment, over what 1939 might have Wardle, Mr. P. A. Cox, Miss R. Vickers, The Misses Dodwell, Mr. eradicating the "very trait in the in store for us, when to my R. K. Valentine, Mr. R. Macgregor. Hon. Mr. 8. H. Dodwell (Chair- Scottish character they ridicule. astonishment, my hand was warm- (laughter). At least, that is my ex-ly shaken by a figure representing Mr. David Humphreys. Capt. 6. H.man), Mr. J. K. Bousfield (Vice-Mr. E. W, Orchard, 2. Mr. George perience, having so many large-the very embodiment of my idea Batty-Smith, Lieut. J. F. Gunner. President), Hon. Bir H. E Pollock. Stoker, 3. Mr. George Stoker, Class R.N., Mr. G. Treverton. Mr. A. Som K.C., Mr. H. R. B. Hancock. HOL.B (no first prize awarded) 2. Mr. hearted, broadminded Scottish of what America's Patron Saint

Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C. O.BE. W. G. Harrison, 3. Mr. K# P. Dün-. friends in the Colony.

should look like. It turned out. to

Mr. T. E Pearce, Mr. E. Cock, top. nonc other han Addison Of all the stortes émanating be

M.B.E., Lt-Col H. B. L. Dowbiggin. from Aberdeen, perhaps the best Southard, America's popular Con-

O.BE. Sr Vandeleur Grayburn, Mr. O, B. Archbutt,

the same extent as cur Scottish

HAPPIEST OMEN

is the sequel to Sandy MacPher sul-Gen ral, who modestly protest-

one 35

merfelt.

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IRON LUNGS FOR COLONY

The Hongkong Government has Mr. W. A. Cornell (Chairman), cabled to Lord Nuffield's repre- of happiest Honour Sir Atholl MacGregor, Kt. Mr. A. G. W. Tiekte, Mr. G. Gsentative at Oxford asking for two

K.C. and Mrs. Bousfield, Monsieur

OFFICIAL SUPPER The President and Lady North- son's visit to London to see a speed that he was merely Friar Tuck. cote, la Excellency the Governor cialist about his heart. You all I shall always refuse to believe and Mrs. Dodwell, The Vice-Pre- know, of course, how Bandy.book-him and continue to regard that sident and Lady MacGregor. His ed from station to stution in case coincidence his heart gave out on the way upomen. (Laughter}

Of course, 'I do not presume to H. van der Stracten and Mrs. to London. When he arrived in

know whether this distinguished Wardle, Mr. A. E. Southard and London, Sandy was warned by a friend that the specialist's fee was son of America is really seeking Mme. van der Straeten, Commodore five guineas for the first visit and such drastic promotion. (laughter) two guineas for subsequent ones, but from our point of view, Amer- with the result that Sandy enteredjica might search a long time and the specialist's consulting room in not find a more worthy candidate. that Jaunty debonair manner sol Admittedly, for our peculiar taste,

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