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she might have had. This, he says, induced Franco and Russla
to provoke an attack on her, in the hope that they might patch her
napping.
Germany's military weakness, in fact, was a cause of the war, in that it lod Germany's anemies to jump on her.
JUNE 8. 1931.
DAY BY DAY
THE GREATEST CONTESTS FOR FREE- DOM IN THIS COUNTRY WERE FROM
THE EARLIEST TIMES CHEFLY UPON THE QUESTION. OF TAXING-Burke.
Thus we are left to draw the amazing conclusion that if Ger-
A Chinese case of typhoid WHA many's Army in 1914 bad only reported to the health Authorities been composed of eight or nine yesterday. million men, instead of five, the pence of the world would have remained unbroken. Absurd
THIS THING
THEY CALL SUCCESS.
By E. TEMPLE THURSTON.
O achieve success is the ripe fambition, his own faith in him-
TO fruit of all endeavour, Lot self.
how minny ran, enjoy in with im- Now, removed into fashionable punity when it falls into their quarters, he is working for the handa"
public. His follow authors, who nchieved that large
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace
It is one of the most ironicet have never as Harper will regret to learn that their spectaclea in life to set the fine commission from admiring read- 4 year old son passed away at efforts of a man crowned with suc-ers, are of no account. He has route to America with his parents,
all of this is, General Ludendorfi Yokohama on Saturday whilst ences, only to witness as a result another compensating phantasy is merely éxpressing the stock
the gradual disintegration of allow. Those writers with a select those qualities which have made and limited cireulation he calls armament
the miturints.
[him what he is.
highbrow and dismisses them Make your military establishment The lion. Treasurer of the St. John Life, as you might say, is one with a well-turned phrase. Ho
Ambulance so overwhelmingly strong that no
Brigade acknowledges of the biggest practical jokes lectures about literature and for- with grateful thanks the receipt of there is.
gets how he has learnt to write one will even dream of making $50, being one-half of the proceeds:
The man who held up the trurit. The drug is working. Car on you, and you are safe; for the International Folk Dance Dis-fe in Piccadilly, by appearing in
Insidiously, but inevitably, it is avvy's clothes and starting banging him from a writer of with pick and shovel to pull up great promise into a omug man of the roadway, had a similar sense the world. of humour to that Providence
thre
אן
the redo. General Ludendorf has simply expressed it
play.
Own
suicide
Wanchai Rond, eommittent yesterday, her hurly later being moved to the. Publie Mortuary.
rason for the girl's act is given.
Lottery Winners,
in its most extreme form 'The Hanging herself with her argument ist of M
convincingirdle, suspended from a hook the which superintends the affairs of
wall of the house, a mai-tsai, aged nowadays as it was a generation 15, named Wong Wong plog, of mankind.
And this is a spectacle to be One may observe an author who, seen in every walk of life. apo. & world impelled by fear
reafter years of patient struggle in One nattees it most in one's to keep the ponce does not look
N-furnished' rooms on third-floor|own immediate surroundings.
backs, has leapt into fame with But it happens everywhere. attractive nowadays, and there
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There is always considerakla interest attached to the successful The Enstern Extension Telegraph:
Success had been the one thing winner of a lottery. But I have Company annunce that the 37erby he had required to give him on sometimes wondered whether it results were transmitted from the fidence. Like one who has been would not be a profitable inquiry cores immediately after the winners starved to the point of despair, be to trace the lives of those for- passed the post over their cabies to is in dire net of the stimulontanate pouple once the vast sum
-Bouday in 2 seconds, Alexandria
of money has been put into their You cannot go on and on writ-hands, fing books that no one reads.
in 2 seconds, Capetown in seconds Hongkong in 3 seconds. Adelaide in a
and South America in
recognitim.
The First Sign. -
Of all sneeussen, the winning of
In lottery is perhaps the most sper- taeular of 0. It is so sudden.
We have not yet carried this new altitud far enough, however, In domestic affairs 20 still beatecomla. on the power of fear.
We plan
You cannot go on ansi on singing is M complete. Yet often to keep erine down by
Celebrations in connexion with the songs that no one listens to. To after that first arresting clamour people niraid to break the law. Centenary of the Venerable Order of the street singer, the chinking of success, one never hears of the We try to make car neighbours the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem,
from June 22 in 27. will take place sound a penny the pave-winners again.
ment is not merely
How is that? encouraging
Do they do noth- majority at Buckingham Painee, where a spe
eint Investiture will be held on June because it means part of a menljing with their fortunes? Is suc of a 2 by is Majesty the King, the It is an assurance that someone eess no good to them? Do they Wil n
Sovereign Head of the Order. On the at least, is listening.
never rise any higher above the previous day there will be n Cere When, of sudden, the author point at which it found them? M monial Banquet of the Order at St.)
think and talk as the thinks and talks, for fear hostile public sentiment Line Curie when WA 1
MORLEY. At Victoria Hospital.
on June 8, 1931, to Mr. and sensible an attitude toward the Mrs. Alfred Morley, use of fear in these fields as we daughter.
are now beginning to take in the feld of international relations? If and when it does we shall have an infinitely healthier society.
patiometrying task
ACKNOWLEDGMENT,
The
-
V
In
ultimate de-
James' Palace, which will be presided ind his book selling in thousDoes the drug get into their biond over by His Royal Highness the Duke sands, there is the terrific uplift and work to their of Connaught, the Grand Prior of the thought that a public is struction?
It is a consoling thought for Commemoration Service will be held caring for what he writes. at Westminster Abbey on June 24,
POLICE SUSPECT
ARSON.
DISCOVERY NEAR SCENE OF SMALL FIRE,
at-
He goes out into the street those who bave bought their different man. No longer does.he tickets and searched in vain for feel that discouraging sensation their names down the list of win- of not being wanted in life. nera. Among all the hundreds who are For when you come to think of passing him by, even though they it, the whole lottery may not recognise him as yet from egnposed of these million-to-one the portraits that have bugun to chances. Immedinte appear of him in the paper, he frequently no more than the draw is somebody. This
ali heling of the right ticket. WAX needed to give him the freshened
An Antidote, impetus to work.
The Public Taste.
of fia
is
success
Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Ruttonjee and than that to which Mr. Hender-
family beg to thank their
11. Son is applying himself. friends for the many kind
would be difficult to conceive. Penee of *xpressions
sympathy received in their recent sad
speeches as such have long credi bereavement.
The discovery of four small tins to impress, not because public
containing cotton wool, and smel-
It just happened that Mr. Bald- opinion is not whole-heartedly inling strongly of kerene, has
win came across a novel of Mary favour of every possible measure given rise to suspicions of Before this he has spoken of the Webb's and spoke out his appre- for the establishment of permairatempted arson being committed at beat-selling authors with a note of ciation of her work. From that 1. Wai Sau Lane, where a small contempt. It has been his com- moment she achieved the success pener, but because almost every fire broke out on "The stair ense pensating phantasy,
of recognition for which she no Just before two o'clock this morn- thing that can he said upon the
It has helped him to bear the doubt had been striving. It was ing.
bitter want of his own success. too late for her to profit or lose forty subject has been said
Cheung Chan, the master of the But now he realises that the pub-by it. Perhaps that is the suc afty times over, and nothing, or
Wo Sang fish stall. at 1. Wai Saulic cannot be mistaken. •
cess most worth having. very little, has bera denne, The Lane, Gfirst floor, reported to the They know a good thing when But fortunately for human na- "public is tired af pener platitudes, police this morning that at 145 they sen it. There is something ture, this is not always the way. aan. he was awakened by cries of infallible in the public's taste. Anyone who ever met him knew and if Mr. Henderson has gained a
"Pirot" and on getting up saw he His book was gond. It was the at the late Mr. Arnold Bennett hearing. It is because, in the first that the celling of the staircase best he could do. And the pub was one whose stature was only From that added to by his success. It was ples, he fully realises that public leading from the first flour to the le has acclaimed it.
second was alight. Mr. Arthur Henderson's un-opinion is far ahead of the average
moment he is renewed in vitality for many years after he wrote "The Old Wives' Tale," with which flagging efforts to create a healthy government, and secondly, he has his fokis, he managed
With the assistance of some of and purpose. Nothing
he first reached the great public, to exlin-him now.
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, JUSE 8, 1901.
WORLD PEACE.
#
favour
were
<
sequently, he found four
ern stop
on from one
AC-
world opinion
(1 been speaking principally for fraish the outbreak without the But this is exactly where the that he strode universal peare
symin foreign consumption. His Burge aid of the Fire Brigade. Sub-ironic practical joker steps in-hievement to another. And there demonstrated a few days
small the gentleman with pick and no doubt how he did this, ago Memorial Lecture was distinguish-ins containing cotton wool and shovel, in navvy's clothes,to hold
There is an untidote to the poi- when he delivered the
son of success. It is Burgeed by frank admissions
deeply of the smelling strongly of kerbsone near up the traffic of his career.
Ile has tasted of the drug of A man who can
diaphragmatical sense of humour. Memorial Lecture in Lonion. His failure of Governments to keep pace the spot where the outbreak ne-
laugh from his curred.
success-that most dangerous plen was move to Governments with paldie opinion, and of a feur,
The police are now making in-drug in all the human pharmaco-stomach unwards to his eyes in in no fear of the insidious vapours than to peoples, for he rightly widely shared. that nations willĮvestigations, believing that an at- pœia,
of success. Arnold Bennett had Before on that third-floor back that sense. matter of not show Governments in time that tempt was made by someone to set
Others have had it the place on fire.
he was working for himself, his and have lived through the iron- eal fortune of picking the win- [ning lottery ticket,
assumed thai in the disarmament Government netion
they can count upon fall support is well behind public opinion. for all retuctions, however drastic, The trouble with Governments is that they are inclined to justify Conference may agree.
to which the World Disarmament
their military preparations and
in
anong A slow
The community sense alliances on the ground of self-nations is in fact defence, but that argument has
development.
That acrinus surely buen robbed of much of its
doubts of the likelihood of force by the fact that practically such a development would arise, but
all nations have now subscribed for other factors, which are vitally
to the No-War Pact.
It has been well said that the mind of the militarist works in a
| important, though they are given
little attention.
Few problems of peculiar manner. The ordinary do not have International
jany magnitude now crop up which
| mortal cannot hope to understand;
conse-
all he can do is watch and marvel,quences of some sort. Each coun- and pray that some day enlighten-try has the whole world for its ment will come to bim. General next-door neighbours and the isola- tion of oreans, has censed to mean Ludendorff the other day express
anything. The health' department | of an American Middle-West city, For instance, is now seriously troubl ed by a highly infectious malady hitherto confined to North Korea. But for the speeding up of com-
ed hiniself, once more. on the causes of the World War: auct
he revanled his sheere belief that war cume because Germany was not sufficiently prepared. To be sure, Germany's war strength in 1914 mumberod 5,000,000 soldiers, muntentions. this would have been But universal conscription. suys,
Impossible. It erentes a thought- the Genéral, existed in Germany provoking tople for politicians na Similar "only on paper." This imposing Well as for medical men. array of soldiery constituted only consequences of the amazing re- 54 per cent. of Germany's potential duction of time disiunces in the man power. Furthermore, the past twenty-five years exhibit them- selves in scores of ways, each | General suve other nations knew.
defences; know that she had no- whore near as large an army as
ment of a community spirit among nations.
guess I'll take a sirloin to-day-William's_getting fussy
again, since he's gone back to work."
But these who do not possess this sense of humour are seldom heard of again. Like the winners of the notorious sweepstakes. their names are upon everybody's lips for a day, but history never records what they had achieved with their fortunes. A very sim ple reason is to be found for this.
History has nothing to tell..
PHIPPS Describes a.
NEW TATTOO DEVICE.
The Sussex Women's Institute recently made a lasting impres sion on visitors to its exhibition of work. The Impression measur ed' about one' equaro inch per visitor.
The Sussex Women's Institute had run out of."pass-out" tickets, so it proceeded to give an exhibi“ tlon of over-work and branded hundreds of patrons on the wrist with an indelible stamp. Extra- |ordinary scenes were witnessed.
One patron stated, "I never felt so shoopish in all my life," while. another said, "There was a torri- ble bang and I lost consciousness. When I came round the first thing I said to my alstor (Mra. Side- ways) was 'Ada, tell them I'm not
vice worked well, and I am pro
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