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MONDA MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1931.

STEPHENSON AND TREVITHICK.

DAY BY DAY

I AM CONVINCED BOTH BY FAITH

· EXPERIENCE THAT то AND BY MAINTAIN ONESELF ON THIS EARTH! is NOT A HARDSHIP, BUT A PASTIME, IF WE LIVE SIMPLY AND

Thorcati.

WELL.-

The P. and O. s., Soudan, from Singapore, is due here at noon on

Thursday.

p.m.

St.

The final practice of Irish dances in connexion with the St. Patrick's Ball will be held at the Peninsula Hotel, this evening at 6 p.m.

ROBERT LYND says

LET US HAVE A LEAN GOVERNMENT.

H. G. Wella and his colla-ja fanatic rathor more dangerous Mborators have been telling us than Robespierre. Perhaps it will

"Thero has never in any country

later improved on Trevithick's in- vention and that he attained a famo which madó, his name a household. world in engineering circles, but his Indebtedness to the Cornish genius Js in controvertible. Trevithick was also responsible for numerous other inventions from 1796 to 1832, which have caused the engineering correspondent of the Manchester Guardian to describe him as "pro- bably the greatest Inventor whe ever lived." Another authority

In "The Science of Life" that be replied that he was leaner then The annual concert of the has pointed out that it was Trevi-

Patrick's Cathulle Club is to be held the build of a man's body corre and has grown more medium-broad thick who first broke through the in the Club this evening at 9 o'clock.sponds in some way to his char- with the years. Such are the re- trammels of Watt's syɛtom of con-

plies commonly made to in con- ncter and genius. The annual sports of the Central Thus the lean man is the more trovertible arguments, densation of low, if not negative, British School are to be held at King's

In my opinion with all respect, pressure, who first employed the Park on Saturday, commencing at 2likely to be a fanatic or spinner of

theories, while in the man of meal I say, to Mr. Lloyd George-the dium build you will more probably loan have in the past left the af internal fireplace and internal heat- ing surfaco, who first created a

find the intuitively practical man, fairs of the world far too much in

Cavour or Mr.

Lloyd the hands of the medium-broad such us

men, instead of taking thom into chimney draught by means of ex-

George.

their own. I have never had much faith in haust steam, who first employed a

those theories

"body-build" of horizontal cylinder and the cranked

which associate leanness with fann. been a Cabinet conslating exclusive. axle and to propose two such cy- Anders with cranks at right angles

ticism of a rather sinister kind, and of tall, lean men, and, as a re- exalt all fat men as mountains of sult, there has never been a country to each other, the first to surround

good nature. I believe that these the affairs of which have not been theories have been spun out of the perpetually more or less muddled.

The truth is, the lean are too the cylinder with hot air, the first

The annual general meeting of the jealous brains of the fat while the

Association lean, not being subject to jealousy, own praises, and so the fat and the modest, too disinclined to sing their Hongkong Lawn Bowls to draw a load by adhesion of a

will be held in the Board Room of have nover retorted in kind.

mediumbrawl have thrust them a- | smooth wheel upon a smooth iron

Mossra. Jardine, Matheson & Co..

If there is one thing more cer-side and even executed them-poor bar, and the first to make and work Lad, on Friday, March 27, at 6.30

tain than another, it is that, as the Robespierre, for instance, who, if human race has grown older, it has he had been allowed to live, would a railway locomotive. These Items m.

At the Rotary Club meeting at grown leaner, and that, as it has almost certainly have developed in- in Trevithick's progress are impor

in-grown lenner, It has grown more to a kindly and tolerant old gen- Lane Crawford's restaurant tant us showing that his locomo-

morrow (Tuesday), the speaker will tolerant, and even more good-na-Lemua.

if you tive was no mere matter of acci-be Dr. David 2. T. Yul, General tured, Fifty years ago,

We have only to imagine what Secretary, National Committee, wanted to meet a real fanatic, you would have happened if Napoleon dental good fortune. but that in

|Y.M.C.A., China.

had only to go into a club and speak had been a tall, lean man, in order regard to mechanles he was a mon

to the most corpulent member you to appreciate the desirability of could discover in one of the arm leanness. We have only to im of almost infinite resource.

chairs. For us here in the Far East it in interesting to note that Trevithick's Hon, who, we believe, is still alive in England, was also a clever un- gineer and that as a young faan ke came to Japan, where he lived for many years. He married a Japan- ese lady, and a son by the marriage is now one of the most popular and able shipmasters of the

N.Y.K.

Among those staying at the St. Francis Hotel are the French aviators, Monsieur Muench and Monsieur Bur tin, and Captain Johansson and his officers of the wrecked M.V. Ioseville.

A wreath will be laid on the Cenotaph by Colonel C. D. Mylea. O.B.E., Vice-President of St. Patrick's Svelety of Hongkong, at 11 n.m. te-The Fat Fanatic. morrow. The full Committee are ex- pected to be in attendance.

morning.

agine, on the other hand, what would have happened If Abraham Lincoln had been a fat or modium- There have, of course, been many broad man, in order to realise the

in Excellency the Governor (Sir exceptions to the rule of the fana-peril to mankind of fatness and I rather think that the best thing William Peel), accompanied by the ticism of the fat. I have no doubt medium-broadness. Inspector General of Police (the Hon. that every Falstaff of either sex Mr. B. D. C. Wolfe) and Chief Inspec- who reads these lines fa an excep- that this country could do in the tor P. Grant visited the varinusion. At the same time, I am sure present crisis would be to form a Police Stations in Hongkong thin that if I were being tried by a ran-Cabinet consisting exclusively of gistrate for poaching I should be lean men chosen irrespective of happiest if he were a tall, lean fel-party. My impression is that wo With three previous convictions low, with stooping shoulders and shall have a thin time' until was against him, a Chinese named Ho It is well that the rider Tre Ying-niu, pleaded guilty to the there a weak chin. And if I wore a re- allow thin men to govern us."

volutionary in the dock, nothing I confidently prophesy that if this of a piece of timber from 311, Port- would terrify me more than to be ever happens the income tax will Ian Street, yesterday, before Mr.

within a year have fallen to a shill- ing in the pound. I make the pro- After all, if there is auch virtue phecy with all the more confidence in fatness, why is it that the fat because I know that it will never from the Colony, following a similar at such pains to reduce themselves

After having been banished For life are so berrified of fatness, and are happen.

order against him in Singapore, a to the proportions of Cassius? The Chinese who returned Hongkong lean guest at table eats and drinks for the fifth time since his deportation what he or she likes, but the fat, was brought before Mr. Schofield at or potentially fat, person eyes every the Central Police Court this morning dish and every glass with suspicion and sentenced to one year's hard labour.

as something that may add the hundredth part of a cubit to his or her circumference.

A little Hem which we encounter- od in a Home newspaper a few days ago revives the question as to who, Lime. was the inventor of the steam lo-vithick's claims should be vindi- comotive. This was to the effectcated. The facts have frequently been stated and at long last they that in the little town of Camborne, in Cornwall. a statue is shortly to appear to be making some impres- be erected in memory of Richard įsion. No-one wishes for a moment | Trevithick, who was a native of the to detract from Stephenson's great town named and who is regarded by accomplishments, but in the inter- all Cornishmen, and many others as fests of historical accuracy, the facts well, as being entitled to priority should be widely known. over George Stephenson in the claim of having built the first lo- comotive as well as the first rail- wy. The rival claims of the two inventors raises an issue of extreme interest to all engineers, the more so since the facts appear to run al- Police Reserve Orders issued by the together contrary to popular opinion.. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, CM.G.,

Яtte;--- ian.

awny

POLICE RESERVE.

ORDERS FOR CURRENT WEEK.

Police Training School,'

familien, at the Kowloon Magistracy face by a judge with a double this morning. He was sentenced to chin and protuberant cheeks, three months' imprisonment.

ADMITTED BEING

SMUGGLER.

FRANK CONFESSION OF

OCCUPATION.

How Our Girls Have Changed!

Says

OWEN M. GREEN

Returning to England after a quarter of a century in the Far East.

Thus it is clear that, while it is the custom to eulogise fatness, lean- ness is the secret ideal of the human race. I do not say this because I happen myself to be of the lean persuasion. I write as an impartial and coldblooded observer who has been forced to certain conclusions Arrested in Hillier Street, over by an overwhelming mass of evi Generul,

the week-end with a large quantity dence.

Reports of a fire at a famous Revolver Practice. There will be of illicit opium in his possession.

girls school recently praised the Trevithick and Stephenson were

It was not a fat man, but Mr. remarkable coolness of the girls. no revolver practice at the Kennelly contemporaries. The first-named Road Range on Wednesday, March Chus sequently Bernard Shaw, who brought good But anyone who knows the modern taken to the Police Station was humour into English Socialism. schoolgiri can mentally hear their was born in 1771 and died in 1833. 18th, 1931.

asked by Inspector Shaftain for And it is commonly reported that shrieks of ironic joy at finding frat whilst Stephenson

saw the

his occupation and he unhesitating-by far the beat humoured man on themselves heroines. They wore The weekly classes for Policely replied that he was an opium the left wing of the Labour Party not half so much afraid of the fire light of day in 1781 and passed

Reservists at the Police Training smuggler.

today is the far from In Mr James as full of the fun of sliding down in 1848. "The Cornish School. Kowloon, will be held as The opium was found strapped Blaxton. Giant," as Trevithick was known,usual on Tuesday, March 17th. at

to the man's body and after it had

rapes from their bedroom windows; As for the "medium-broad typo" and, if chilly in their night things, 5.30 p.m. All members of the Chinese been analysed he was charged that the authors of "The Science they had the warm thought to hug for he was a man of great stature Company and of the Flying Squad with having had 75 tales

pre-of Life" praise as the "Intuitively that there couldn't possibly be any as well as a giant in engineering who have not yet passed Part 2 of

pared opium,

practical man," I have no wish to more school that term Training Course "should attend.

On his appearance_before_Mf. skill, was buried at the expense of

any word in disparagement of Chinese Company.

Schofield at the Central Police Cavour or Mr. Lloyd George, but of the most interesting surprises The schoolgirl of to-day is` one a few fellow-workers in an un- Squad Drill.-All recruits of the Court this morning a fine of$9,000 can remember a time when the me-one meets on returning to England marked grave, leaving his fellow-Chinese Company will attend Central with the alternative of one year's diurn-broad Mr. Lloyd George was after many years. Not long ago a

Police Station for Squad Drill On hard labour in default Cornishmen and a handful of en-

was im-looked upon by many people, not as burglar, mistaking the house, climb. Thursday, March 19th, at 6.30 p.nr. | posed.

an intuitively practical man, but as led into the dormitory of some gineers and students of engineer? under 1.S.R.43 Two Chi On. ing matters to note his achieve- ments; whilst Stephenson departed Squad Drill-All recruits of the Flying Squad will attend at Police this life in JA hala

of world

on Headquarters for Squad Drill

6.30 p.m. fame, with various monuments Thursday, March 19th.

ater erected in his memory, in-under L.S.R.313 A. W. Money,

The weekly instructional patrol of cluding the large statue which the Kowloon Section will take place

Flying Squad.

on Tuesday, March 17th. Fall in at Talm-sa-tsui Fire Brigade Station al 6.30 pm, sharp. Drens-Winter Uni form and Cup with White Caver.

The weeky instructional patrol of the Hongkong Section will take place on Friday, March 29th. Fall in at the Central Police Station at 5.15 pan, harp. Dress-Winter Uniform and Gap with White Cover,

Sharpshooters Company,”

- Riot Drill-Riot Drill wi be out on Kennedy Read On carried Wednesday, March, 18th, at 5.15 p.m. Members will Baremblo outside Queen's Pier at 5.30 p.m. with belts, Uniform optional. All members, of holsters, revolvers and truncheons.

the Company required,

dominates the vestibule of Euston it a lttle Railway Station. It ironical that this statue should be erected almost on the spot where Trevithick laid his circular railway and ran his locomotive in 1808, six years before Stephenson 'bullt his first engine, "Blucher," and. thirteen years prior to the beginn ing of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which has been wrongly described as the first steam rallway In Britain to carry passengers as

Miniature Range Shoot-A spoon | well as goods. Even years before shoot will be held on the miniature! 1808, however. Trovithick had range by members of the Company Rife Club on Thursday, March 19th. established his claim to worldwide at 5.16 p.m. fame.

Equipment In 1797 he constructed his

Return Cards.-All members of the Company who have original locomotive model and innot filled in and returned their Equip- 1801 he built at Camborne the first ment Cards to the 0.1/e. Co. are ask

„ed to do xa na soon as possible, practical steam locomotive which

(Sgd.) D. L. KING, ran on the roads, Two years later,

D.S.P. (R). Hongkong, March 16th, 1931. ho drove a steam locomotive about the streets of London, while in 1804 he built the first rallway in Under the auspices of the Hongkong Photographic the world at Morther Tydvil, ten Club, a cinema show of educational

University Amatour

mids long, which hauled 25 tons interest will be given by Mesars. Eastman Kodak, Ltd., at the Univer

of material, as well as passengers.nity Union Asambly Room at 8.30 It is conceded that Stephenson 1pm., on Wednesday.

1931 BY NEA SERVICE, INC.

SKER U. & PAT DIP)

AUTHE

said-Martha, you need to dress up a bit and be

young again'

junior girls (they are known na "the babies") at a school I know. All "the babies" heads shot up to- gether from their pillows as they shouted joyfully "There's a man."

They were quite disappointed be- cause he did not stop and talk, and hugely amused when the end-♪ mistress kissed and comforted them, and left a light on, so that they should not be frightened.

bables" frightened i

Self-Rellant Maidens.

The

They and their elders alike are. excellent company. Not in the least forward, they are not an atom shy,

have plenty to say for themselves and say it well.

Games, gym, Girl Guide work, and the Greek dancing now Bo popular have given them mental as well as bodily polse; and the fact that the vast majority are brought up to some calling and look forward to Job of their own imparts a seriousness which now and then |shows up surprisingly.

A

great change from the awket ward, silent creatures girls of their

heir age so often were a genera

tion ago.

But they are no pure. D

They can be perfectly infantilg when the mood taken them. They? Taubmit swiftly to a: mistress who' knows her business; but'ɑng' who, doesn't they unmercifully rot. They often fight, but are not catty, and have a strong sense of honours

It infuriates them to read in re- ports of shipwrecks that care was, taken to get the women and child”

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