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The Empress of Asia arrived at Vancouver on Monday evening.

There will be no concert at the Helena May Institute on Thursday, Karch 3, owing to the Flower Show.

A Young Man Declares

WE ARE NOT AFRAID TO THINK FOR OURSELVES.

century

November 11, 1018, the vast fereen of the universo seemed

the development of astronomical knowledge and the coming of the new and startling theories of space and time, the firm ground of cer-

after four long years of ghast ly travall. I was a child then, and have only a confused memory of flags fluttering everywhere; church tainty has slipped from beneath happy, cheering our feet, leaving us floundering in a morass of doubt and bewilderment.

of

Mr. Justice J. R. Wood, Puisne bella ringing; Judge, arrives from England after long leave to-morrow morning, aboard crowds, and a general senso

awift relief from a grim, Intoler-i the P. and D. An. Rajputana.

uble strain.

We have been taught that the world is like a grain of sand whirl- Ing round a tiny pebble, which, in And the young men and women its turn, is voyaging on a strange

War is a grim business, a fact which the Chinese cannot afford | to overlook. It is early in the day yet to represent to the musses that Japan is defeated and that she will be unablo' to continua tho struggle. As a Chinese corres pondent writes to us to-day, It will be better to await the develop

Included in the 408 bags of first and bofore menta of Japan's plans

second class mail, which arrived at of my generation can remember journey through space, through a 'celebrating victory,

But we have had to universo whose immensity appals Admittedly, Hongkong by the President Lincoln, little more. the Japanese have been given on bionday night were 128 bags ofi

tion, a fantastic universe which much food for thought by the mail from London, sent via Siberia Krow up in the world then ushered reason and staggers the imaging spirited resistance which they The London mati-was that of January in, a world unbelievably strange, a plays queer tricks with time, where world almost completely cut off there is unceasing flux and change, from the one in which our parenta} and where man seems less than

have encountered; and we can well believe that Tokyo feeling

naxious over the unexpected turn of events. But even the Chinese Government is preparing for n long struggle, which seems a rea- sonable anticipation unless unex- pected developments occur. in the circumstances, the wise plan is to belleve only that which in vonched for in reputable quarters. To do otherwise may be to result in much vain regret later on.

regions thia

at

28 to February 1.

teria antu

Nineteen cases of small-pox (nine spent thele youth. fatal, three Jatal cases of <lph. three cha of enteric lover (on fatal) were lated in the return or notilinble diseases occur- ring the Colony during the past us destas There were 2180 from pulmonary tuberculosis. Three three. of cases of small-pax und diphtherin were notified on Monday.

WELK.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Yesterday's

Celebrations.

nothing. And so to us the things which for centuries have been in- A Wide Gulf.

vested with the sanctity of re- vealed truth org now obsolete. To-day, n much wider puli

meaningless beliefs-mere phrases, stretches between a young man and Man appears as an insiuificant by- his father than the latter would product, with not a lot of sclentille and separating him from his great proof to support any of his puffed- great-grandfather, and so we can up pride in himself as the solo ex- hardly expect to escape scot-free planation for the existence of the from criticism and shocked indigna- tion when our whole outlook and

Only A Mask. attitude to life are so different from those of our elders.

generation's

conduct,

Beeming

universe.

we

Are

the

We have suddenly had thrust be- foro un incontrovertible proof of

Increased Leisure and Books,

The accusations levelled against our physical pettiness, and we make us are many, but not very varied, the mistake of thinking the sam

proof serves to multfy the efforts Recent experiments with cheap-

They all have a ring of monotonous of our mental and spiritual life, so er and omnibus books, and with [To the Editor, Hongkong

Telegraph.1

sameness about them: we are that there are moments whon nóth- expedients for Increasing the sale

cynical, mockingly sceptical, und in- ing seems worth while. The bot of books have led to a specifie

Sir-lt perhaps too obvious different to most things of import- tom has been knocked out of life; study of the pince which books for me to point out that the fring

ance. Religion has lost its appeal; but, because we are not going to alt and whimper in a corner, wo have In a democracy. Some of the of crackers yesterday by the local Ogures given in this study by R. I. Chinese was an inevitable expres-reverence has vanished; convention put on a mark of cynicism or hide Duffus are interesting. Certai ofsion of their jubilation over the is flung to the wind; and we have our real feelings behind a show of the conclusions of the writer, how-reparts of the latest successes of snapped the gulding-rein of all re- blase indifference. We are angered by insistence on dogma and the the Chinese troops in Shanghai.cognised morality. ever, do not seem thoroughly well However, I am of the opinion—

stressing of the letter rather than These are hasty generalisations, the spirit, but never before has founded. Mr. Duflas complains and 1 am sure it is the opinion of that the public buys less than two many as well-that such a rap with about as much truth in them youth felt so deeply or so sincerely books per capita. The figures are turous action was taken without us in most generalisations, yet they about the great issues of human

mature consideration. Perhaps have sufficient justification behind life. perhaps misleading because it is the impulse created by the news them to make it impossible for us Naturally we are bowildered- not to be expected that either of success, in the wake of that of to ignore their significance or re-cons of progress havo been | young children or illiterates, or the reverse, was so great that, once fuse to try to understand the very crammed into the last few years, great mass of people who reside auflicient momentum had been real concern which prompted them.till our minds turn glddy and re- where books are not readily ob- gathered. nothing could stop its

It seems to me that the fault lies fuse to grasp after the meaning tained, are likely

to buy them. finding an expression of some sort.

largely with our detractors, for, of it all in mere self-defence we Probably for the adull population It is well known that large num-with the best intentions in the hasten behind our barricades of living in reasonably

wellbers of troops are on their way to world, they never trouble to seek mockery or boredom; but any brief settled

reinforce the Japaneso now facing average the Chinese. It appears that for an explanation of the younger examination of the books we

writing or the questions we aro of two books

year should General Uyoda had expected the rather to put it down to some in- asking should be enough to show be increased to five or six. That stiff resistance put up by the No-one with any sense of ad- is, of course, not a great number Chinese before the commencement nate and quite inexplicable, por how earnest we are in groping after miration for the splendid and aur-But the people will spend more of the "Big Push," and had conse versity of character. Surely it a solution to the riddle.

I do not want to deny the un- prising fight which the Chinese every month on motion pictures the reinforcements, to stand by, we are the inevitable products of orthodoxy of

quently ordered the 11th Division, must he obvious to everyone how

our ideas about- are putting up in Shanghai would than they do in a year on books, not in distant Japan but at the the pecullar environment which morality; but who is to blame if we

them a little crudely- begrudge the defenders' compa- while on motor-car riding

some very mouth of the Yangtac, And surrounded us during the most im-express

sometimes offensively? New-found triots in this Colony expressing twenty times as much in disbursed who knows that the Japanese Com- prcasionable years of our life. their gratification over the news annually. Eugene Field, in a mo-mander has now not another divi- Familiarity with marvels dullsfreedom is always able to abuse, of successes in the field, provided,ment of satire, intending to con-

slon, or divisions, marking time one's sense of wonder, and we are and in the reaction from of course, the demonstrations are trast the lot of the publisher with somewhere ready to be thrown into all too apt to take for granted the byporrisy any stifling repression of

the hotbed?

most atupendous achievements of the half-century before the war kept within reasonable bounds, It that of the author, once gave as a is but natural that, in such circum-division of a procession

Thus it is quite evident that la science. Perhaps it is labouring we may have swung too far in the the whatever nature the reported suc- the obvious to insist on this, and it direction of qut-spokenness. But, stances, sume ebullition of feeling Chicago World's Fair, "Publishers cesses claimed by the Chinese in would be tedious to recapitulate the at least, we are not afraid of the should be displayed. The Chinese in carrlages followed by authors this moment may be, the declstyr list of advances made during the truth: wo belleve that values are community would indeed be poor on foot." But after all neither battle has yet to be fought out. past thirty years; but their not static; they must change as changes. Axiomatic, patriots did they not find joy in publishern nor authors rank high The Chinese therefore should not magnitude and Influence must be civilisation

if the people

between one would think., Yet to-day, be- give themselves. so soon to wild stressed victory. But

refuse to pay die to threadbare con- after yesterday's ¦ in American plutocracy to-day-transport. They should be calm, twenty and thirty are ever to have cause celebrations, the counterpart of It is fair to say that the whole though watchful, and continue to their views given a sympathetic lip service

ventions and taboos, which have some which have taken place in tendency of the organization of give their Government support. hearing.

long since lost what meaning they other centres, the feeling cannot society for icleure in these days The

mency expended in Arc-

A Changed World,

ever had, sober age abandons us. be resisted that there is a very is against the extension of the crackers yesterday must have been

enormous. It could, and should, Until comparatively recent times in despair, with a wooful prophecy real danger of the populace being habit of rending books. Automo-have been spent in a far better the world was a вnug, Cosy little of damnation of its lips. fooled by stories reflecting vic-biles, cii emas, golf, and wirelesswayYours, etc.,

home of which man really could And so our voices get a little shrill Lories which only exist in the ima- furnish amusement for every con-

feel himself the master, for all the us we try to shout down the chorus gination. Indeed, 43 the reat ceivable class and do not cust

of misrespresentation, and our tem- facia became known, it was shown materially more

would n

pers fray and we say inore than wo that there was

really mean in an endeavour to stir no justification generous devotion to literature.

our critics out of their complacent whatever for this amazing display But more than that the tendency

Belf-righteousness. of popular feeling. In saying sois away from continuing serious much, we do not detract in any and intellectual effort during lel- way from the magnificent fighting sure hours. Even newapapers are spirit shown by the Chinese troops, striving to substitute short and but the ridiculous tales in circula-snappy articles for serious and tion yesterday should have been comprehensive contributions to accepted with a very great deal human knowledge. People seldom more reserve than they were. read beyond the headlines and the Once fanciful tales gain currency, first paragraph. As to the maga however, it is almost impossible to zines, the mortality among the scotch them, especially where there more serious ones in the last de- is some slight basis of fact to ende was distressing. Short-story account for the subsequent exa-papers and monthlies given over gerations.

Since the Shanghal in the main to fiction, thrive most. troubles began, all manner of re-This situation exists and is being ports, subsequently proved false emphasised in a period when the have been made the occasion of masses of men have more leisure celebrations in various parts of than ever in industrial history. China. Canton has been duped. That it should exist seems to offer so has Wuchow, and even Shanghai less reason for criticizing the itself. In the latter connexion, methods of book publishers or the we need anly point to the fact intellectual sloth of readers than vouchsafed by a Shanghai contem- it does for adding to the ballef that porary that the Northern port has there should bo established some bcon flooded with editions of the form of education in the proper Chinese "monqulto 'press," each of use of Jolauro. Really serious which seeks to outvie the other in students of economic conditions proclaiming tremendous Chinese look upon the shortened working victories and enormous Japanese week, oven the four-day wock, as losses. In one such broadsheet a possibility within the lives of recently, it was blazoned forth that over forty Japanese warships condition arrive, it would be prosent-day youth. Should that had been sunk, more than sixty calamitous if the masses have not acroplanes shot down and no fower learned develop than 22,000 Japanese troops killed. through useful reading. To intelligent people, the wholesale

to

than

mentally

K. S. L.

"Boy, I'm going to find a job, work hard, and save so I can To back home in'a yallow roadster.

The Major Sin. Injustice and cruelty are the major ains In our oyes, and for us there is no greater crime than the restricting of a man's personal freedom, or the warping of bis natura merely to make him allp coally into his place as an unim- portant cog in the social machine. We insist that a man's individuality has an inviolable right to develop In its own way, provided Its, un- cheeked growth offers no monace to the happiness of his fellows. On the whole, I think wa better than our predecessors.

aro

There are so many of our critics who are for ever looking backwards with vain regrats for the passing of an epoch in which they felt at home, instead of trying to adjust themselves to the changed condi- tions of life; and to them we must necessarily seem completely allen in temperament and ways of thought. But if they will only lay aside their hostility and realise that wo are timorous, and a little shy, that our noisy self-assertion covera up a great deal of hesitant uncer tainty, and that, after all, we are EO" young" that we have not yet nequired sufficient sudro of humour to save us from extravagance, they may see that we have a certain new courage, a frankness, an originality and independence of approach to life which more than compensate

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