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THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1929.

tainly cannot be squared with the categorical dental minde by Mr. da Rocha. u replying to the lat ter's

ALBERT EINSTEIN.

THE MAN AND HIS CHARACTER.

DAY BY DAY.

The Very Idea!

WORDS ARE OFTEN EVERYWHERE AN THE MINUTE HANDS OF THE SQUL, MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVEN THs Aberdeen, It is reported, has HOUR-HANDS OF ACTIONS-Richter. | been completely "carried away"

Commdr. (E.) L. H. Heath has beon appointed to H.M.S. Ben.

protest, the Chairman, whilst promising that the matter should be investigated, asserted that the Chamber had been in- undated with claims. It would be Interesting to know to what extent these claims have been proved to be well, founded. We are informed that there were mother being n nister of my H.M.S. Ships Bruce, Soraph and

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for

On the Occasion of the 60th, Birthday of the Father of the

Theory of Relativity, March 14,| 1929. By Dr. Ludwig Manni] In the eighties of the last cen- tury I often met Albert Einstein in my grand-parents' house on the Murkot Place of Ulm, his grand-

H.M.S. Dartmouth has left Aden for Colombo, en route to Hongkong.

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by a popular jazz-tune-the words of the song having been slightly amended to bring them into still. closer accord with local sentiment:. "Af can't gle ye onything but love,

Inssic.

Money's no a thing tae gio awa',

Iassic.

Wedding rings - An' sic things- Ah'm no sao, nafti.

Bido'n wee,

An' wo'll sca

What yer nuld grandfather

Fine ah'd like tao tak' ye lao the kirk, lassic,

Once ye hae the allor in yer

pooch!

Till that bonny day yo ken fu'

wool, lassie, Ah, no gie'ye anything but love!"

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only a dozen arbitrations grandfather. At that time, his Somme have arrived at Amoy and

childhood, may cousin Einstein the Sterling and Stormcloud year, seven of which concerned often struck us as having no pur-Swatow. non-members of the Chamber and tleular relish for our childish

An amended notification states games. Possibly even then his that all the others were in re-mind was occupied with more that the P. and O. 9.5. Khiva, from pect of ole member, all these be- serious thoughts; possibly he was Shanghai, is dus hora at 5 p.m. to-wills ye. Ing said to be due to wrong in- also affected by the cares which morrow.

his parents and terpretation of the shipping con- weighed upon

prevented him from enjoying a The transport Somersetshira, tract, with no question of really happy childhood.

which is to pick us the Queen's practices at issue. If this

Einstein's father had started an Royal Regiment at Hongkong, snil- correct representation

of electrotechnical factory for which ed from Singapore' yesterday and facts, then we see no reason the times were probably not ma-is due here at dawn on Luceday.

ture; at any rate, the business did wholesale condemnation of the not prosper very well and conse

According to a police report, the conditions under which the quently caused him and his family last of the three revolvers stolen Colony's export trade is carried a great deal of worry.. These cir- from No. 2 Folice Station on the magistrate (to a loquacious wife) cumstances naturally cast n cer-8th inst, have been recovered, to Incoming. Committee, tain gloom over Albert Einstein's gether with two holsters. It is which is to investigate the mat-childhood; he saw troubled faces understood that three men are now

all around him; he certainly saw in custody. ter, might woll consider the ad- that those in need must rely upon visability of, making public the themselves and the

Pleading guilty to a charge of possession of twenty taels of pre- results of its onquiries as soon which they must fight their way pared oplum, a Chinese, described through; but just as certainly, too, he learned how bitter it is as a carrier, who was arrested last to be one of those who need to be aned $2,000 or, in default, six night on the Hol On Wharf, was given assistance.

weeks' hard labour, by Mr. E. W. This experience penetrated deep Hamilton at the Magistracy this into the character, 80 that, morning. throughout his life, le has cherished profound sympathy

on. The

as possible. »

manner in

Mr. W. B. Luke, the Willesdeu begin to understand why your husband found it a little difficult to live with you. I certainly

should.

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A Willesden Applicant: When 1 called to see the woman my

• the shadow was observed on blind and a man came out and hit Man at Kingston: There was me on the nose.

another follow walking with us, but there were only two of us together.

Telegram from 'defendant to the Acton Bench: Can't appear in

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One gets education in these days from one's children, anya Lord Cottesloc.]

"The child in father to the man"

(The fact is worth impressing}, And the man with children, keen

and smart,

In regard to the alleged pre- sence of alcohol in cassin oil, the annual report of the Chamber shows that this matter has been most carefully gend late, and cor- for the poor and persecuted and science; they had their part. In respondence on the qucation still has shown himself ready, to help leading him to that doctrine of re-time, Guilty,

Mr. Registrar Friend at Clerken- continues. So far as we can see from whenever and wherever help was ativity, which made him famous

required.

and valuable to mankind as a well County Court: At the age a rending of the report, there has

Another cause of bitterness was whole but which did not make up of 59, a man ought to be proof been no definite proof of alcoholic for him his schooling. When he the worth of the man himself. against the blandishment of

circumstance which was quite young, his parents left The worth of Einstein the man young women. content, a

Ulm. They first. moved to remains the same, with or with- suggests the inadvisability of offi- Munich, then to Italy and after out the fame-a fame for which cials of the Chamber committing wards to Aarnu in Switzerland. he never strove and which, when themselves to utterances which In this way his education was it came, made not the slightest might prejudice the issue and repeatedly interrupted. He took change in his character or in his

Bttle interest in languages, and modest mode of life. cune claimants to press their was often subjected to sear at In Einstein, sentiment and case. Honesty in business pays the grammar school in Munich on science realise that union with in the long run; of that, there account of his one-sided intel-the cosmic which religion, calls

lectual capneity, Bul his re- piety, that union which inspired Can give the bachelor chaps a start 'can be, no doubt. But whilst it markable mathematica! gifts another great member of the In science, languages and art,

is right and proper that that ultimately found recognition at Jewish race, Spinoza, with the And leave them feebly guessing. and,So, children, leurn up all you can, point should be stressed, it is the school he attended in Aarau courage to seek the truth

where he passed, the examination while perceiving the greatness of Be thorough and diecerning! equally important that a big com-entitling him to matriculate at af humanity when viewed as a whole, It's up to you, my lucky lad THE COLONY'S TRADE.mercial centre such as Hongkong university.

to view human affairs In all their To see your parent proud and glad, There can be no doubt that the littleness amid the eternal per And be the one to make your dad should not suffer undeserved

father'à connexion with technical mutations of the universe.

A man of light and learning. criticism. Above all, it is essen-affairs provided Albert Einstein During the confusion Nof the The annual meeting of the

tial that there should be real cu-with opporinuities for making ex-war, Einstein kept a perfectly

Frenchman (sternly, to fellow- Hongkong General Chamber of

operation between all officials of Periments. But he had also an- level head, nor did he lose his countryman who has become a Commerce is not usually marked the Chamber of Commerce, with capacity of musical expression, which followed the war, although, "What have you gained by be- other hobby; namely music. His equanimity Huring the truculence naturalised British subject)- by such a sharp divergence of the single purpose of securing the indeed, constituted, as it were, a on account of his views, contume coming naturallued viewpoint between officials of that maintenance of the Colony's

menus of communication between ly was poured upon him and he The Other "Well, in the first. body as was revealed on Tuesday, reputation as a great entrepot of him and people of quite other was even menaced with physical place, you see, I win the battle

origin and other speech. His danger; despite all this, he re-

of Waterloo!"-From "Artists of, case was one of those in which mained true throughout to music proved itself to bo amoral, religious and political universal language the expres- opinions.

THURSDAY MARCH 14 1929.

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To-day's Dog

Story. "My sion of current culture through It is significant of Einstein that young midshipman son (R.N:),"

a medium understandable by all, he would rather have given up his writes a Parkstoné resident, "wor Switzerland, with its mingled Judaism than his selones, assum- the fond possessor of an unusual-

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whole.

a few minutes

Sir Bogo Birst, the chairman of nationalities and its variety of ing of course the absolute im-ly intelligent and affectionate ## to all the British General Electric Com-universities, trilingual Switzer possibility of retaining both. fox-terrier called Thistle, which forth a strong protest, on the pany, has cleared the air immense-and--that peaceful enclave of When he was confronted with the he left with us during his absence ground that the strictures passedly by his statement to shareholders international understanding in alternative (this was in pre-war on active service. This dog, with were entirely unmerited. Speak- in London yesterday, Until then the midst of nationally divided timen and would be impossible in our own two fox-terriers, slopt in the explanations of the decision | Europe-served not merely, to present-day Germany) of, re- a small room. In the night of ing as a business man in daily to confine the new issue of shares widen Einstein's intellectual con- linquishing his religion or re- July 9, 1917, shortly after mid- contact with the export business, to British citizens seemed to fallception of the universe, but also ceiving a high academic call, he night, a must peculiar, very loud, and quoting the authority

short of logical argument, and to point out to his youthful and declined the latter, for--albeit and agonised cry rang out in the there appeared to be some ground | impressionable mind 21 road under more modest and less house so human that my hubsand others equally well-informed; Mr. for the protest by the American which led him into the remote, the favourable circumstances-be and I took it to be illness or shareholders against their exela boman and the cosmopolitan. In could still pursue his scientific fright on the part of one of the from Mr. Weal's statements cor- sion from participation. No hit this way, and altogether apart researches. Thus, he would have maidservants. reetly reflecting the facts, the

had been thrown out that shares from his researches into the a-been prepared tu sucrifice his con-

"hurried out to find them hat migrated to the United States ture of matter, its forges and his fession to his science but not lehuddled in a group with scared past your hus, seen a marked im-without the knowledge or consent phenomena, the ponderer upon his personal prosperity,

the provement in the quality, stand-of the British directors; it was natural philosophy was bound to In all things Einstein is in-faces!. asked what was ard and packing of exports, Tol naturally presumed that the lave urged him the relativity of tensely human in the highest matter, and one said, "It is not us, American holdings were the result everything human in the sphere sense of the world. It was this mudan; it's Thistle. Going to The disinterested observer, it does of a capital flotation in New York of the immaterial, the mental and comprehensive bemanness of the the dogs room I found: Thistle standing in the doorway shudder- HPPIN regrettable that there Sir Hug has now made it clear the spiritual. Thus Einstein, the man that gave birth to his opposing violently, while the other dogs

and philosophic] tion to the war; and it was this should be thin clash of viewpoint that a very determined attempt thematical

was suddenly made last year to genius, undoubtedly received from same humanness which inspired slept serenely in their baskets. I. una multor of such extreme in-vaplure control of the British com.the totality of Albert Einstein the his labours in connexion with the southed him and returned to my

the trade of the pary, and that more than half the man-out of his deepest soul and League of Nations, inasmuch as, nom; but within Colony, art we are left to wonder ordinary share capital passed into out of the subconscious stores of under the matured influences of American bands as the result of youthful experience-intuitions bis early experience, he devoted why some agreement was not. reached before the holding of the prices. The British directors took

heavy buying at abnormally high and impressions which had their hin selence, his energies and his effert upon his labours and re-entire personality to the service meeting which would have pre- steps to prevent the establishment arches in the realms of exact of humanity as vented any disturbance of the of foreign control, which would be the result of continued "pur- harmony of the gathering and left chases in New York, but, other no doubt as to the actual facts means having falled, it was stipu- of the situation.

ated when the time came for a fresh capital call, that the new In making the remarks that he shares hould be British, not trans- did, Mr. Weall was undoubtedly | ferable to foreigners, or to foreign inspired with a desire that Hong-corporations. The American in- vasion of England, as this influx kong should possess the highest of share speculator has been possible reputation as a business called, cannot be checked at all centre. Indeed, he said so much, points, but it is vital that the es- But it must also be admitted that sential British character of Buch concerns as the British General his observations were of such a Electric Company (in some waya a character as to suggest that the public utility company) should be In order to business morality of many of our preserved. It was

guarantee that is. shareholders exporters is at a very low ebbshould be predominantly British "Adulteration of wood oll and that special 'conditions are attach. essential oils, poor quality ginger, cd to the new share issue, 'und. lowering of the standard of pack- the decision of the directors was recepted by a large majority ing and quality of rice, have," he at yesterday's meeting of the Com- declared, "been the order of the pany, The American shareholders day, resulting in loss of prestige protested that the resolution whe a violation of the rights of all the and trade, while claims have been stockholders. What they really

of common occurrence." These mean is that the value of the shares they hold is likely to depreciate. ara sweeping statements, and we But they should not show surprise

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"Thistle had never before, and never afterwards, evinced such almost human and apparently. causeless anguleh. Can it be that some animale are clairvoyant?

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in Dummy with Queen of din- monds.

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No member of the family could Jack of hearts is led and 3 of rend it, und it had besten all the hearts played from Dummy.

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guests at the Christmas party.

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