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Dr. Lim Boon Keng's Address.

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|I am afraid you will feel bored. The University is a realization of

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1920.

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powers in China. For the last 20 years every school boy has been taught military drill and that old Chinese teaching of Boshedo- the art of the soldier was taken back from Japan to China and } has become tho Gospel of the Mr. Stanoley Baldwin recent

The Naval Commander-in-Chief The popular conception of the read European books on Chinese people again. If you ly delivered his presidential, ad- has recolved the following sub Royal Mint probably is that of a China dress to the Classical Association scriptions from local sources to the vast factory where coinage and you will find that it was univer. in the Middle Temple Hall.

Submarine M. Disaster Fund, and nothing more is made. Nothing Under the auspices of the Chin-sally taught that the Chinese The classics (he said) will never | dosirea to express his sincere could be farther from the truth. use Association, a very interesting understood only

force und, porish out of the land so long as thanks to all concerned. address was delivered by Dr. Lim curiously enough, the Chineas they are cherished by ordinary These amounts have been re-day would seem to have a very, Boon-keng at the Club house in have always thought that, with people. And so it seems to me mitted to the Rear-Admiral in high appreciation of art for art's Beach Road, Singapore, laat week. Europeans, force" was the only good that you should have a pre-charge of the Submarine Service, sake and to be entering very seri- Mr. Cheong Koon-seng, who cupied the chair, with a brief it was a gase of the pot calling the scholar, who is not particularly Naval Benevolent Trust (Address:tinental firms in the execution of

of argument that was intelligible, so ident occasionally who is not a

for transmission to the Royalously into competition with Con- speech Introduced the lecturer to kettle black. They are both the distinguished, but who can speak Room B, High Street, Chatham, orders for plagues, medals, and the largo tidlence who attended sume. After all, one touch of na- for the common folk as an ordin-Kent), which is the central the "meeting.

A general decorative metal work. ture makes the whole world kin. ry man.

thority for administering sub- Dr. Lim Boon-keng said: "It is nothing remarkable, that the may take advantage of this scriptions received on this account. highly appreciate the honour which Chinese should find those who opportunity to seek on my own

Hongkong Football.

Asucciation the, Association has done in ask- come from over the seas to be behalf your indulgence it, in the ing me to come before you fo-human and they also find that few Latin words that I may use night, Your chairman has asked the Chinese are human, Lc., they thereafter, I pronounce Latin as it me to talk about the University of are animals. It is characteristic was taught to me 50 years ago, 1 many years in a Amoy, and I would like to do of our animal nature that we must have lived for

Backwater and the flood of culture nothing better, but you have

has swept forward far away from heard of it so much of late that

The Comptroller in his intro- Nature's Problem.

me. I speak not as the man in the

duction lays great stress on the street even, but as a man in a

special signficance of the Mint, Continuing, the lecturer refer-field path, a much simpler person

which he describes" as "the one a great dream. That dream was red to books which dealt with the steeped in tradition and imper-

remaining service which is com- to create a chaotic and unhappy struggle for existence, also that vious to new ideas. China into a new centre of life of the German interpretation as

mon to the Empire ns a whole, Only a few short centuries be- and hope. A centre where we given by Nietzche. He asked his fore the age of Pericles, only a

still produeing, as far as the gold hope to create a new generation audicace to go back many thou-few short centuries after the fall

coinage is concerned,, identical of men and women who will not sand years and see what

QUOTATIONS.

coins which are legal, tender they of Troy, there was but a settle-

throughout all only save China, but help to save would find.

his Majesty's They would be con-ment of shepherds on the Palatine

Messrs. Carroll Bros..are in re- Dominions, and thus constituting, the whole world. (cheers). The fronted with a wonderfully fear-Hill. Yet within a thousand ceipt of a cable from Singapore with the Judicial Committee of world is out of joint. Consumpful struggle of tooth and claws, years the tramp of the Roman sen-giving the following quotations the Privy Council, an outward tion is spreading 'amongst the and a trail of blood through the tinels was heard along the Wall; and advising that Rubber is now and visible sign of Imperial unity races. I do not mean the con- long vistas of the people that his watch-ires illuminated the quoted at $1.04% per ID. sumption of the hody, (laughter) have made fearful destruction, waters of Euphrates, the hand of Allenbys but a political consumption, and almost unimaginable sacrifices of Rome reached from the Biscay Co

Alor Gajahs unless something is done, the life in order that the problem of the Euxine, from the Danube to Ayer Panas

Ayer Moleks world is going to be shaken to nature might be achieved. Ho the Nile.

Balgownies blecos China is going to pieeos; then asked: "What is the pro-

Here is the greatest, the most Bassetts India is going to pieces, and, as blum of hature? Just think. faseinating problem in all history Bukit Jelotongs

Brogas you already know, Europe is al-unless you think the problem is for the scholar and the statesman. Bukit Katils ready very far gone. What is to hopeless. It is sa vast, com-Why did the Empire come into Changkat Serdings be done? We who live in the plicated, so difficult to envisage existence at all, and why, having Glenculles

Connemaras Bast wonder why China is in this that should scarcely dare to come into existence, did it perish? Indragiris troublous condition, and since I speak to you about it, although Surely the character of the Roman Jerams have been asked again and again have spent many years in think-played as great a part in the rise

Jimal for some explanation of what ising over the problem, unless you of the Empire, as his character Kedah, going on, I wish to avoid polities, will think for yourselves."

Kempay He played in the fall? If possible.

Kuala Sidims I can only speak urged them to scrutinise" closely

Britain's Heritage.

Lunas generally, to-night, as it seems all the field of nature in order to sec

What of us, the ultimi Britanni, Mainka Pindas of you here are interested about more than the usual things one the youngest member of a great Mandai Tekongs

Malakoffs finds on the rocks on the sea-family? I like to feel that the Mayfields shore, str. All these possess life. fortune of the youngest son is New Crnigeleas

Niew ours. I like to picture the proces- Nyalas

Serendaha Taking

11 Vase containing dowers, he illustrated the struggle sim of the nations through the Pajams Docile and Pacific Nation.

for existence of the vegetable axes as a great relay race of Punggers kingdom. He said that even here burnes.

Ruskin once said "all inferior We come back in speaking of one could see plainly how the nations to the dividund and this plants twist and entwine to get poetry is an injury to the good, is a very important point. China head of the other; and the one inasmuch as it takes away the Tambulaks suffered from this great military that did not succeed in topping freshness of rhymes, blunders Teluk Antons

uited Malaccas apheaval from many cruses, as the others would dwindle and die upon and gives a wretched com- Utan Simpans you already know. The Chinese fout.

monality to good thoughts; and in for many years have been looked

general adds to the weight of human weariness in a most woeful apon as one of the most docile and

and culpable manner.” parife nations. They, had been conquered and dominated and

this consumption that is wasting China. It is the same discuse.that is wasting the whole world, for that reason.

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The lecturer enlarged upon. his subject by showing that in the plant world there is carried 02

But the literary works of Greece

.....

Sandycrofts

Seudais

Bagans.

humorous song.

.Straits..

Ender the Crown."

3.20

2.07

2.75 12.00

Among the most interesting of the Mint's activities during the 150 past year have been the prepari 1.45 tion of the Great Seal for Northern 170 Ireland, which includes an

1.16

1.25

42 usual Royal effigy showing the 8.25 King on horseback, a Great Scal 2.70 for the Government of the Irish

0,25

Free State, and a coat of arms for" 150 the Kingdom and the Royal cities 215 of Iraq. 3.76

2.70

9.00 Much space is devoted to the 4.00 work in connection with the pro- 17.60duction of the various trade and 4.50 ouvenir medale struck in con- 86nection with the British Empire 12.50 Exhibition, the experience acquir-

4.26

17.00

NEW COINAGE DESIGNS,

ed in connection with which is 13.26 stated to have proved extremely 18.00 valuable to the staff of the Mint

1.30 It was demonstrated beyond ques- 3.75 2.06 tion, anys the Comptroller, that it- 4.35 is possible in England to produce 28.00 plaquettes and other similar ob- 13jects which, for design and finish, 2.70 do not suffer by comparison with- 450 the work which has for so many years, and with such invariable I remember well the first elec-success, been turned out both by State Mints and by private manu- tion I fought. It was what was called an old-fashioned election facturers in Continental coun- a process which the Chinese sages and Rome which have reached us in an ancient borough now diatrics. ruled und kicked about from time immemorial had inter come burdened with no such poor

franchised. The candidate was. "I trust," he adds, "that the laughter), so that within the preted rightly and tried

to relations the poets whose recit- expected to, spend three evenings British public will take note of last fifty years it was naturally enforce, Le, they should a safe thing to ill-treat the Chin-marry within the family.

oting in the month of August was week during the time of his pro- this fact and give to all of those He such a plague to Juvenal and his bation in one or another of the who

arc thus testifying to est people and they were always then traced the origin of life contemporaries, have not survived public-houses which jostled each righteousness, whether here at submissive. So it WAS al-through certain evolutions in the to

other through the consituency, lis-the Mint or in the private trade, ways safe to kick John China plant world, and stressed the imsecond rate has long fallen by the plauding what, for want of a bet-ed in terms of fresh orders."

weary us, and everything

tening to and vociferously up-a support and confidence express- man and so he Was kick-

portance of filial piety, which he way into the gap of centuries, ed. If

you, yo back in the said, according to history of the Chinese,

the Chinese, over which only an eternal meriter namie, was called on the lucus Bay wa

the criterion of a man's has enabled the survivors to waft non lucendo principle comic or 3,000 years ago-and when you character. Such teaching is themselves. go back 3,000 years ago you are found in Baddhism, Christianity

After a time I felt the need of The interest of the Mint in ar- Due again to the freshness of only reaching the middle ages of and Taoism. And they were en-the words is another feature of a moral purge and a literal sedalistic endeavour as distinct from Caina-what do you find? Chin- joined to love their enemies. But the ancients' writing, its clarity ment to find what my soul needed. illustrated in a paragraph dealing tive.. It was the wurk of a mo-mere utilitarian manufacture, is ese people of 3,000 years ago were how many of them, he asked, and its conciseness. fighting all the time. The History could do that. In order to

When I came home at night from with the production of plaquettes of that period is the most interest-thoroughly appreciate what had

these orgies, I seldom went to bed and struck medals. In this art, ing, and not like the present time. been said, the lecturer urged the

Moreover, the ancients did not without reading something of the says the writer, the "severest. And if you pass down the cen-udience to read some old Chinese verelaborate their thought, be-Odyssey, the doneld or the Odesmitations are imposed on the uries you will find that 200 or 300 classics, literature, philosophy ing content to leave something of Horace. By the date of the esigner, who, as distinct from Boars ago China was in a state of which would provide them with a to the mental processes of their clection I had read all the last sculptural colleagues, must', serment, fighting, quarrelling, war-good deal of information covering leaders. How different from so named, and most of the others, reduce a model which can stund ring, very much the same as the

many of our English scribblers, not without labour in the die hetes, of examination from every people of to-day. So after all the

who seem to have taken to heart oneries, not always with ease, angle and in every light-teats Chinaman is not a very pacific

Wilde's dictum that nothing suc- but with care and increasing joy; rarely imposed on works of sculp- animal. He is one of the most Proceeding further. Dr. Limceeds like excess," and who swathe and with the desired result that ora. Is it to be wondered at, he warlike peoples, "If he finds it Boon-keng mentioned that real the thinnest of thoughts in a pro-though defended I had passed asa, that the good sculptor is not necessary to be so. The history love to manking would only come fusion of words in the hope, through the fire and the smell of a good medallist, or that in a view of Ching shows that. But since when they practised it at home, may be, that it will appear larger burning was not on my garments. of the present deplorable lack of the day of Confucianism, the when they loved their father and, from its wrappings.

The Earl of Oxford is a Roman, commissions, the number of ar- great influence of that sage has mother and brothers and neigh-

Why do we all know about the in his lucidity, in his phrasing, in tists who can afford to concen- had great effect in bringing to hours really and truly. Then only beauty of Argive Helen? Not he- nis felicity. It requires but lit-trate on this specialised branch C. E. WARREN & Co., Ltd. great ethical teaching that war the present moment the race pro precision, but just because he defence, shall we say "Fro A great deal has been heard.

bear upon the Chinese people the were they fit to love others. At cause Homer gave us a' catalogue tie stretch of imagination to pie-of sculpture aro

of her charms with exhaustiveture him in the courts delivering between? does not pay, and the Chinese, blem was the greatest in being a practical people, very long world. One function of the gave a hint and left it to us. Georgio," or in, its greatest day about improved designs for the ago realised that fact. They had universe was to bring about rucę

I think he says no more than addressing the Senate in a speech coinage, and several debates have suffered much to compromise on conciliation and this, was a matter that, as one day she passed upon which for its incisive and dexter-been staged in Parliament at the every possible occasion in order that had been taken up by the the walls, the elders said it was ous advocacy, its compact and instance of Sir Charles Oman and to avoid war, and for that reason League of Nations.

no wonder that for such loveli-pregnant sentences, would be the others on this question recently. they had become the football of ciliation could not be brought es men should die and elties despair alike of the translator and The report says of this that some all the nations. So the present about by means of political ma-

should be sacked. Her loveli-the most experienced writer of progress has been made in experi rejuvenescence of China is the chinery; it could only be brought visage as we will, and thus it is

ness is left to each of us to en-Latin prose. result of the militarism of all the about by evolution, by the federa- that it lives afresh in a myriad sion to the anthology which my have been invited to send in do- ments with a view to'new designs I cannot end without an allu- and, as a first step, selected artists powers that had made China the tier of all the great universe of form, newborn throughout the dear friend MacKail has done alans. By the end of the year, football field. They came here the nations, where

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If I may now strike a personal readers, I would remind you of considered sufficiently promising everything that possible. of truth for the prosecution of note I think what I have gained is the epitaph on the Athenians who to justify consideration. The consequence was that follow those results of science, philoso-some sense of proportion, a stun- fell at Plataea, lines which might hope," udds the Comptroller, "to ing the example--the very sue-phy and polities, to bring together dard of values, and a profound have been written for our own bu able to speak more hopefully. cessful example-of Japan, the all racce of mankind upon a com-respect for the truth of words, youth which hastoned out to of prospects in this direction in Chinese people very reluctantly mon understanding,

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my next report.” miltariam among the people as

Add to these the perennial hap- If to die gloriously is Virtue's the only way to atop the militaris- The lecturer eqncluded his ad-piness I am fortunate enough to ferown, to us above all men For- tle actions of all the great powers, dress amidst loud applause. The find in the sheer beauty of Latin tune gave it, so the confusion and militaristle secretary of the Association, M. and Greek and the thousand.im- For we fell in the act of striving activities of the generals in China Lee, Chim-quan, in a brief speech. ages they call up in the mind, to free Greece, and' ago cannot is.n revival of the warlike spirit thanked Dr. Lim Boon-keng for and I am indebted to my curly wither the praises on our tomb. of the people caused by the war- the able manner in which he had training more than 1 can ever Hike operations of militaristic delivered his discourse...

hope to repay,

[Mr. Baldwin recited the epitaph in. Greek.J

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