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CONTRACT "STRONG MAN" CULT peace in the same capacity, and

BRIDGE

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Refusing to ruff, but instead making a valuable discard, gavo Mr. Richard Frey of Now York, | four odd on the following hand.

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Neither side were vulnerable. South passed, West bid one heart, North passed and Mr. Frey, hold- Ing the East hand, bid one spade.

South bid two diamonds, West went to three spades and Mr. Frey took the contract to four spades.

The Play.

ace.

The jack of clubs was opened by South which Mr. Frey, the de clarer, won with the ace immedi- ately returning the six of hearts which South won with the South led the ten of cluba which the dummy ruffed with the eight of spades. Mr. Frey's next play was the king of hearts from dum- my, following with the six from his own hand. He then led the queen of hearts from dummy and when North trumped with the jack of apades. Mr. Frey refused to to overtrump with the king of spades, but instead discarded the six of clubs. This play later made it possible for the declarer to pick up North's trump,

مونی

REV. E. L. ALLEN ADDRESSES ROTARY CLUB

LOOKING

AHEAD

"I believe that wo should re- solutely put aside this longing for a superman and go boldly forward in the path of democracy. The times in which we live are not an appeal for a dictator who will jockey us all into happiness and prosperity, but for a few hundred thousand ordinary people who will seck a little more knowledge and develop a little more courage," said the Rev. Dr. E. L. Allen dur ing an address on "The Cult of the Strong Man" at yesterday's Rotary Club tim.

"How very interesting it would be," said Dr. Allen, "to take a leap into the year 1982 and to see what shape the history of our time had begun to take by then in men's minds. I am sure the historian of 60 years hence will have a great den to say about the political and economic questions which are our

now he has a rival in Hitler, head of a great movement. Most ro

markable of all in the two great

democracies of Britain and the United States, each Prime Minister und ench President has been hailed in turn the 'man of destiny' who was to lend the country into an ern of prosperity.

"Without trying to bring all these instances of hero-worship under one bend, can we offer any explanation of this serica of phenomena? I see In it n compen- sation for the senso of impotence and frustration undor which the mass of mankind has suffered now for yours; strong man because we know our- we worship the selves to be weak.

feeling of powerlessness is easy to "The origin of this widespread

trace.

the disillusionment of the returned It goes back eventually to soldier when he came back from the War to find that everything in the World had changed beyond recognition except of the men who

ruled it.

A Reason for the Cult.

main pre-occupation, and perhaps he will have something also to say of the many uncertainties which But I hope he will not admit one beset un in private and family life. feature which is to me among the most important and most interest- ing what I would call the cult of the strong man. Let me explain what I mean by this. there was a demand for a new type

"During the war, as in all wars,qual to their task. of leader, for the man of iron will centrate on the one thing that and resolute action, who would con. mattered and brush everything else aside to deal with the necessities of the hour. We had such men in Kitchener, Foch and Clemenceau, or, if we were on the other side, in

Hindenburg and Ludendorf. war passed on, but this mentality remained-this craving for the man of clear head and strong will who would get things done, the man who would make n clean sweep

of precedents and

"It has a strong support too in the fear which haunts so many to- for them in the scheme of things day, the fear that there is a place

only till such time as a machine has been invented to take their place. Then there is the fact that the rapid extension of the franchise in so many countries has brought into power a new democracy, just at one of the most difficult periods of history, so that they are not yet

The

traditions and vested interests and the

cut a way for us through thicket in selves..

which we found

our-

New Type of Leader, "As the war came to an end, we grew tired of the soldier and we turned to a very different kind of

It was necessary for North to lend a diamond South's ace of diamonds would go to sleep. When North led the diamond, de- clarer played the seven and South won the trick with the ace. South returned a diamond which the de- clarer won with the queen, He then led his king of trump and a small trump to dummy's

man, if not to the philosopher On the king of diamonds, in dum-trned king' of whom Plato spoke, my, declarer discarded Josing club. jack of spades, Mr. Frey made his By refusing to overruf North's contract of four odd.

relief from all this impotence, but "In a very simple way we seek

it is a false relief. A boy was brought up to believe that cricket was the finest of all games-as of course it is-but he was himself quite hopeless at it. What did be do? He constructed for himself cricketer with the

phuntasy-picture of great features of "W.G." who knocked his records hat. Just as this ind got out of and everybody else's into a cocked

this figure of the arvellous cricketer, the sarsfaction which

his own sorry performances could never yield him, so we console our- elves for our own powerlessness and failure by a phantasy picture of the super-man, the dictator--- call him what you will. That this is the origin of such a figure is shown by the fact that each of us has Rome private prescription which we are sure would cure the world's maladies, but which know nobody is likely to adopt, and it is just this that we imagine the

we

his last at any rate to a University Pro-strong man is doing! We would

fessor turned President.

"We remember the tremendous Wilson when he set foot on the cathusiasm which greeted Woodrew

shores of Europe. He was the New World come to the deliverance of the Old; he was the political Messiah, and nowhere

itself.

was his

us with

dearly love to abolish the 'dole' or,

to maintain the unemployed, and on the other hand, to take every- body's income above a certain level

what the we write to the papers to say that Mussolini who will do just this.

country wants is H TWO WHIST DRIVES. popularity higher than in Germany

A Grave Danger. "On the other side of Europe, that.

"But there is more to it than I believe there is a grave FUNCTIONS AT Y, M. C. A. AND when in Russia, war had bred re-

HELENA MAY

volution, famine and the break-up ly for nations which, rightly, or danger in this modern cult, especial- of all moral standards, a very dif- wrongly, have committed them- A record number of tables for a These men have gone but others

ferent figure rose that of Lenin.selves to the enterprise of de- Y.M.C.A. whilst drive was the re have come to take their place. We dictator is that he relieves us from mocracy. The attraction of the ward of the organisers of a plea-call such sant entertainment at the Euro There is a significane in that word necessity for individual effort and men popular idols' Individual responsibility and the pean Y.M.C.A. on Monday night.'idol', for it suggests that we are Thirty-six tables were arranged.

ready-made half aware that what we are giving The prize-winners were-Mrs to them is something not so very Mitchell, Mrs. Holland and Miss far removed from religious venera- Stokes (booby); Mr. Guard, Mr. tion. It is strange, indeed, that Pope and Mr. Hart (booby).

this rationally-minded 20th. cen- Mr. S. F. Bernard who leaves tury of ours should have produced for England this week presented so many demigods of worship. the prizes. Mr. A. R. Brown, on "Let us run very rapidly over the behalf of the organising commit-list of strong men in the post-war tee, thanked Mr. Bernard for his world. First and foremost there interest in Service Work and is Mussolini and the serica of wished him a happy voyage. Fascist dictatorships modelled in

Forthcoming Y.M.C.A. Service-other countries on his. men's entertainments include n "At the moment, the destinies of tennia dance on July 18, swim- Russia are in the hands of Stalin, ming gala on July 23, and whist with his new religion of the tractor drive on July 25.

and his plan to compress centuries of evolution into half a goperation; China has had its Sun Yat-sen, and half a dozen war lords have been

M.C.L. Whist Drive.

present mass-salvation.

It

"There is a craving in humen off on to other people what we nature to take the easy way, to put

is a far casier thing to put the know we ought to do ourselves.

hero on a pedestal and burn in- the heroic thing in cense before him than to try to do a small way oneself Remember that there is all the difference" in the world be tween the strong man and the for us, the other enables us to do genuine leader; the one does things them for ourselves.

persuaded ourselves that the world "You Bec, as long as We have is in such a pass that only a dicta tor, a superman, a twentieth cen- tury demigod can do anything with back and do nothing, for the matter is clearly out of our bande!

A large gathering attended the whist drive at the Helena May Ia-hailed in turn during the lust fowit, we ordinary people can just sit stitute yesterday, organised by the years as the strong men who were Hongkong Women's Guild and the to unite and reorganise the coun-

| Ministering Children's League,

The prize-winners were Mes- dames G. Moss, G. Stimson and Lake. Mrs. Westlake- Won hidden number competition.

try.

Germany's Strong Man. "In Germany, Hindenburg the provides the one instance of a war lord who has survived into the

The fact is that we have looked at these men in the wrong light. They are not a refuge from our powerlessness but a proof that we (Continued on Page 11.)

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