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Vice-Consul of Italy at Macao,

BEAUTY UNSHEATHED. By J. C. R.

make

remarka

some very pertinent

them na

And is there any use then

In marking where they fall,' Words that fly, apart, again In no time at all?”

în

Paint-

tke

Illustrated from the fact that in the results just announced it is disclosed that out of 680 puplis who actually took the examination, no fewer than 456 falled, which

THE HEART OF THE BRITISH PEO- means that only approximately PLE IS AS BIG AB ITS PURSE-W. J. third of the entrants succeeded. Locke. The argument that the examination ...

Tho Commercial Union Ansur may have been too stiff would ap- pear to be countered by the ance Co., Ltd., advertise that Mr. T is at an obvious disadvantage |

that I begin. Stars are not an R. K. Hepburn having returned to fact that some of the schools did the Colony will take charge of the original subject. But the fact! get a hundred per cent, pasca. Company's Hongkong Branch as that my effort may end in an un-

from January 0.

finished essay does not swerve me

True, there is the satisfaction of On the other hand, it is possible

from my purpose. I long have felt having contributed in a way, no that certain schools may "cram" The Royal Italian Consulate Gon-that I might, upon the proper oc- matter how humble, to a phenomen for these examinations-a policy oral fa Hongkong informs us that marks about stars. The difficulty on almost beyond the ken of under to be regretted, inasmuch as this the Portuguese Government has ac

corded approval of the appointment then is one of discrimination. Time standing. Frail as i know words being relative in any event, I see are yet they are something the is not education in the true sense. of Mr. Fernando de Senna Fernan- no reason why this moment will not only tools I have with which to

evolve an offering. Were The tremendous waste of effort des Rodrigues to be honorary Royal ovens well as another.

er I would speak from the canvÈS, Max Ehrmann telis. us not to and thus find a more tangible disclosed by these figures should

forget the use of the stars." This means of expression. Were 1. * give the managements of some of A reception will be held at the seems at firat glance a strange ad-musician I would speak in liquid serious food for Club Lusitano this evening at 5.15 monition. Are we then so likely arpeggios and crescendos of a star thought. Howover valuable higher Am. In honour of H. E. the Gov-

crnor of Macao, Senhor · Artur get that stars have uses? I BQ 80mo time agą, ‘ʼn aingle star education may be, the fact must be a general way I like to think of

as the glowing children of the glowed red and white, and recognised that the great majority Madam Barbosa, to which the Porsky who help me fit unwieldy words measureless space between myself

Into the curved melody of my verse, and it scintillated with its lumi of school children in this Colony tuguese community is invited.

Thus, speaking as a poet, May no lance. There was a message there 21 than nothing better

The troopship Nevassa is due in astrologer read these linos, for i am for mo. I remember reading, long

conferalon: I of an ancient thoroughly good

ago

philosopher, who grounding in Hongkong to-morrow at 8 a.m. and about to make a

In the know only the most familiar store sald, "I read messages in the stars. primary subjects. Give them that, will probably leave again and they will go out Into the world afternoon. On board is the Wor- by name. In fact, I know only Not in the way that other men. their center Regiment which has recently those which, by reason of the rise pretend to receive guidance. sufficiently equipped for the life been at Chinwangtao, and is on its and fall of accent upon their daily affairs. A greater message which lies ahead of them-possibly way to Indle. The Novasse will syllables, are most eastly used in than theso I read. The stars tell better equipped, for all practical take a few details from the Colony a rhyme scheme. Therefore 1 speak me that they have seen and they with the authority of one who is see. They tell me that those things for return to Elome,

not hampered by the technicality that are of the past are finished, purposes, than they would be by

of his subject.

and though they are full of portent, dabbling in subjects of which they The Kowloof Fire Station re-

Ono need only stand at night they are but mere shadows of the cannot hope to secure a really good ceived a call at about 5.80 this morn

high place, unincum- things that are to be, and they ing from the itsul Bussan Kaisha upon some

bered by earth's shapes, or by self, shall all be good," grasp. To some extent, the pro-coalyard at Yaumati Three en-

"This has always intercated me be blem is just the same in England gines wore del patched to the scene. to realise how great are the "uses as it is in Hongkong, with the pro-whore it was discovered that a heap of the stars." If there is poetry cause it shows so well that the im in you it will stir, if there is song portance of all nature is dependent of slack cofi had ignited. The viso that it is more apparent and blaze was soon extinguished within your heart it will sing-silently, upon what we bring to it. If we Stars engender quiet; the sky, bring wisdom, we receive wisdom more greatly emphasised hero. In out any serioas damage being done. their own glow, and the hushed in return. And so it is that where voices of the night, these are the ancient philosopher looked up education, as in all other spheres of

Through the courtesy of the enough.

And if I know their names to the stars and read the future, life, it in folly to attempt to run Chairman and Committee of the I would be saying, "There is the sailor may gaze up and find before the art of walking has been Compradore Association Club the Orion" instead of "There is Beauty there naught but the answer of to-

"Drawing" connexion with the unsheathed!" No, astrologer, berate morrow's weather. St. John Ambulanco Brigade has me if you will, I should not care I have known what it is to come been arranged to take place on the to know their names.

homo beneath the stars, not in the premises of the abovenamed

Stars have wisdom, a greater way of proceeding toward a destine- sociation on Wednesday, Jan. 14th, wisdom than men. They have seen, tion, but as having already arrived. at 4. pm. Purchasers of tickets and they have profited by what I have locked up to them in all the. Shortly before he left the Colony, Sir Cecil Clementi uttered a war- Some very outspoken comunents, are invited fo attend to witness the they saw. They sparkled upon the loveliness of their fixed beauty,

waters as Odysseus sailed home knew they were shining and though ing to Hongkong school authorities possessing considerable intercat for

ward. They shone upon the calls the morrow's sky might cloud them against excessive ambition. He the majority of Hongkong's civil

Mr. Pal Sykes, the Canadian unfurled in Carthage Bay. Bathed from me, yet they would still be In their radiance, ก Carpenter there, their radiance undimmed. observed that there is room in servants and pointing, possibly, an Government Trade Commissioner at in Hongkong for good schools without avenue worthy of investigation by Hongkong and Mrs. Sykes returned prayed for guidance on the Mount They became in some unaccount- to the Colony to-day on the R.M.S. of Olives. They smiled down upon able way one with my stubborn the three sentor classes, adding the Retrenchment Committee, are Empress of Japan. Mr. Sykes has Launcelot and the seekers of the thoughts which I am labouring so Grail. Underneath their hard to sat down upon paper. Like Canada during the last Holy that attempts to conduct an upper contained in a recent issue of the been in

subject sight months both on leave and dia-light Lincoln walked the darkened the stars, I know they are shining, Was not but it is so difficult to keep the and school without adequate atoffs have Times of Malaya. The

cussing with Canadian exportera streets of Richmond handicapped more than one private matter of the article was the pros the possiblity of further develop unmindful of them, meditating up-mist from between them and those "faith- school. This was so, he said, be-pect of the appointment of a new ing Canadian trade with Hongkong on the emptiness of victory; and it for whom they are meant.

and South China. cause such efficient staff as was Chief Secretary when Mr. Cochrane

n throbbing plane across the black ful as the fixed stars." available concentrated on the pre-retires this year, "as Mr. Cochrane

An extremely enjoyable time was waters of the Alantic such a short one phrase: "the fixed stars," in-

time ago.

flexible, 'unyielding, unswerving, paration of boys for the Junior must and should do, on his reaching spent by about 100 couples at the

All this they know, and so are true. Oh, yes, the stars have uses. restaurant of Messrs. Lane Craw.

There are two countries," the Local Examinations, for which very the age limit of fifty-five." "When ford last night, on the occasion of still. Is it not idle to attempt in

country ITE few of their pupils entered and we say," the writer goes on, "that the third annual dance held by the any manner to measure the "uses ancients said, and that is true to

the Mr. Cochrane 'should and must Hongkong Ladles Hockey Club. of the stars" which are separated day. There is that

Over the entrance to the dance from us by the expanse of countless which for the most part I needs equally important lower and re-retire next year, we may it for two Boor were two crossed hockey sticks, light years? Of what good are must stay, where the streets are full move classes were ignored. Some reasons. Firstly, Mr. Cochrane together with the Club's badge words for a subject of such magnl- of the rush and rattle of trains. of these remarks would appear to will have served in Malaya for the Popular dance music was provided tude? We might say with Eunice and the blare of

by the Loric Dance Orchestra. The Tietjene be particularly apposite in view of long period of thirty years and, ovent was, in every way, a success,

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, JAN. 9, 1931.

TOO AMBITIOUS SCHOOLS.

"

most of them failed.

while

mastered.

Civil Service Age Limit.

draw.

13-

the results of the Junior Localanpart from anything else, is fully thanks to the energetic work of which have just been announced.

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entitled to his pension, while, the Secretary, Miss Nanay McNeille secondly, were Mr. Cochrane to and the organising Cominittee. Looking through the examina-decide to stay on it would be most tion results, We have been unfair to every member of the struck by the very poor show-Malayan Civil Service as this would ing made by

the block promotion right down the xome of

line." The journal belleves in the smaller institutions. In some cases, maxim laid down in Sir George every candidate entered failed to

Maxwell'a now very famous satisfy the examiners. Contem-memorandum, namely, retirement plating this fact, we cannot but do- before decay. It was a maxim plore the waste of time and energy which was applied to Sir George implied, to say nothing of the dis-Maxwell himself in spite of the appointment to pupils and parents fact that he was one of the most brilliant administraters Malaya alike. Whether there ara any

ever had, and there is a great deal instances, under this heading, of

to be said for it even when it ap- neglect of the lower classes by

pears to bear hardly upon an in- reason of the staff concentrating on dividual or upon an administration the preparation of pupila for the in special circumstances. In Hong- Junior Locals, it is, of course, not kong, for instance, there are at possible to say; but it is obvious least thirty members of the Civil from the results that very consider-Service who remain on the active ist in spite of the fact that they able numberá of pupils were enter- have passed, the nge limit. ed who could not possibly hope to Nearly all of these gentlemen have succeed. In the speech of Sir completed 25 years' service, hold Cecil Clementi's to which we have high administratiye posts with com- referred, it was emphasised that mensurately high emoluments and the Education Department has to are entitled to, good pensions. We do not wish to suggest it is be cater to a large number of boys cause every year adde

a little to and girls who have to leave school their savings and to the amount of before the Junior Local stage, and their pensions, that they hang on, Sir Ceell did well to lay strees on but whatever the motive, there Is the point that brilliant fesults in a very strong feeling in, the Service public examinations are only com-that if the "axe" is to applied in mendable if, at the same time, the the cause of economy, it can be em- ployed in this direction without rest of the school is adequately pro harm. Younger men would step vided for and efficiently conducted. Into their shoes, obtaining the pro- It is to be feared that theso con-motion for which they have striven alderations are not given the and to which they are justly entit weight which they should be in ed. Doubtless, the Retrenchment many of the schools of the Colony, Committee is bearing in mind this aspect of the problem before it. Op with the dual consequence that the face of things, it would seem those who do not enter the examina-obvious that the greatest savlog in tions suffer from lack of attention, the easiest way, causing the least whilst very many of those who de hardship, is to be affected if staff enter are attempting an impossible reductions, where considered neceER- task. The latter point is well sary, begin at the top.

was their light that helped to guide "Faithful" someone said, "iisis

"Oh, is there any use then In putting words together," Words as hard to manage As leaves in windy weather?

Art Wonderful?

"Oh, Jack, isn't the smoke and soot and dirt simp

motor horna. There are no stars in this countrys the arc lights have blown them out. But ob, there is another country far from this, one filled with wide open fields and wandering roads and (Continued on Page T.)