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MONDAY, MAY 8, 1933.

SPORT CRAZE IN LOCAL SCHOOLS

MONDAY, MAY 8, 1933.

street during the busiest houre of day, yet another encouraging bait for the bane of local educa- tion, the constant transfers of a

Science's Quest for 'Truth'

..

INTO THE DAWN The Very Idea!

OF THE UNIVERSE THIS HIKING EVIL

A

By REV. D. MacDONALD, S.J.

to be.

We go, the

those immense massen of gas the

the

are

By Eddie Kelly, Tramp.

"FOR the Love of Hike!”

Greater hate hath no respect-

П

It was just the kind of Sun- day morning, when good men's' thoughts turn to Hymns, and 10 bad men's thoughts turn "Hers".

boy from one school to another. The state of affairs is one re- quiring very serious attention. Obviously it does not apply to all educational institutions in equal measure. It might fairly be claimed for many that they

Once more we set out in our ward Journey. And lo, just as we able reporter than he who, at. are entirely free of the causes magic aeroplane. Last time wo through the length and breadth and Editor, meekly

start Bomb great tremor passes the stern command of a cornleas for criticism enumerated. It conquered space in that breath- depth of chaotle space and the whole

puts on his. might also be argued that the less dash and now we aspire to face of the universe begins to change. squeaky wenders, shovels a hand- situation is merely a passing vanquish time. We audaciously The gaseous substance that was so ful of dog biscuits into his poc phenomenon, that once the first determine to fly back into time, uniformly distributed now disturbed ket, and wends on a compulsory. fine careless rapture has worked back into yesterday and the day immense masses of gas leaving re-

In its balance begins to break Into hiko. itself off, schools and youths will before and through all the glous empty or almost empty. The "The pikers-pardon! bikers- settle down to sounder and more yesterdays that have been until gaseous molecules mutually attract are out," said the Ed. to Eddie, steady practice. But it needs maybe we reach the boundary of one another and from the outskirts of "Go get the news." careful watching.

time beyond which there was no molecules are sucked into that mass

Time WES when the only yesterday.

by its powerful attraction, in fact the hikers in the land were young So off we hop and at once we gaseous ass becomes more and more ace the history of mankind unfold- and more empty. Very many of

women walking back after compact and the empty spaces more ing itself backwards, the dynasties these immense missen

little difference of opinion with of gaa of China that were rise up in now to be seen occupying at intervals

a motoring boy friend. If it has ever been felt that reverse order before us again. the space that was before chaos, just

But now it's different. Take modern science has a self-satis-Fach beginning in defeat and like big globe shaped clouds.. There

disaster and ending in triumph is a great pressure within these great yesterday, for instance. |fied air about the body of know-where history books tell us they mosses tending to make them burst The birds, hardly realising that

ledge it has amassed, one might began. On and on

up and shatter and go back the the Summer was here, were twittering heed the words of Dr. Harlow days of Confucius flash past sness of their masser maken the force and old man Kelly's son was dress- original state of chaos but the great in the trees, the bun was shining, Shapley, director of the Harvard the prehistoric days become to us of suction, to to speak, by which ed in the latest in hikorlo. Astronomical Observatory. Dr. ns new yesterdays na in our flight everything is drawn or attracted to- Shapley predicts that "practical things are reversed and offects wards the centre of the masa, power- ally all current theories" are go-come before causes, decny before ful enough to prevent the mass break- prosperity, death before birth. ing up, may even powerful enough to ing to prove mortal before so We have no mind to gaze into the make it contract and contract con- very long. The axioms of to-maze of human history laid out before tinuously. In some of theas manes, day will be the abandoned and us in inverted sequence, Intereating an we watch them developing the outgrown theorica of to-mor- though it be, for we wish to go on and those just become great big balls, suction is exactly towards the centre we parking and parow; and Dr. Shapley

adds: puraing the land marks of history

Under ordinary circumstances, with thought-like wings we and our-so to speak of tas of fabulous size we would have been bowling along "The only eternal veritics at selves in the twinkling of an eye out; and weight. In others the rush of present are the enthusiasm back before the time when men began to the gna does not go radially but gets in Matilda (Matilda is our car, of hypotheses, the will to know out even before this very Earth a slight twist (we didn't just quite you know!) with one of the giri

itself began

Now the sun perceive how it got the twlat) and so friends by our side, sneering at the and the willingness to fumble as does not rise or set for there is no the whole mass starts off with a fool hikers cluttering up the road- we learn to know," This view- earth upon which to rise or set. And spinning top movement, Le, the whole way. point, to be sure, is the general still we hurry on and we are before mass starts off like a sort of revolving Instead of which, obeying the rule among scientists. But lay the sun was, but still the way is ball of gas. We didn't see how that men often misunderstand it, and open before us, we see no painted initial tremor came about that set stern call to duty, we hobbled pain- signboard saying "Beyond this there everything agog, nor did we see who fully out to Taipo, cursing the because they misunderstand it is no way." As we travel we gaze or what started it nor why it started, thoughtless motorists who wanted they sometimes resent what they at the star cities of our former trip there was a tremor that woke up the

but somehow we got the idea that the whole of the road.

We thought it was going to be feel is a too dogmatic and in-. they seem to be not quite the same

before yet in general they haven't universe from its slumbers and made no end of a hike. By 3 p.m. we flexible attitude on the part of changed so very grently, so we travel it begin the work of its long day. thought there was going to be no science. A proper understand-on and an through fabulous periods of The big masses that thun start their end to the hike.

great spinning- The cult of sport, slow to take ing of it might save us from a time watching our nebulous star career revolving like

We were so burned up we felt more and cities becoming

more tops are to us more interesting than a grip in the beginning. has good deal of our creepy dread of nebulous. And in! finally we are the others, for the others just don't do like a fuel.

We were unlucky, too. the rising of scientific knowled- before the birthdays of the nebulae anything but wait, I suppose, for

After emerged as a vitally important ge. For it seems, now and then, and pause in amazement and awe at someone to give them a shove to wake leaving the Peninsula Hotel, we had

We have them up, so we ignored them. Tho influence in Hongkong's educa- as if the scientists were banish the dawn of the universe,

to walk about two miles past Not- tional establishments in the lasting mystery from

undone all human history, all stellarothers contracting and revolving the world. history: we have even brought back the same time entels our interest behan Road before we could find a two or three years. Every youth It seems as if science were about the great nebulur foundations of the cause we BCC that as they get motorist who would give us a lift aspires to become an athlete, and to say: "Thus and so was the universe into the shattered fragments smaller and smaller, while yet of out to Talpo. he is not content to confine him-world made, and thus and so was of which they were built and pause course immense in alze, they revolved. We managed to stagger out of his at the threshold of Univeral history more and more rapidly. We estimate car when we arrived there, and self to any particular branch of man himself put together, and and gaze upon the scene of desolation the magers of these big gas clouds, were just in time to wheeze our sport; he is ready for them all. you can make your religion and that lies before us. What do we find and, strange to say, their masses are way along to the railway station Intensive training, of a sort, your poetry and all of your there?

shattered universe, not just more or less the massen of the

flight. Then goes on both in and out of dreams fit this framework or like the shattered ruins of some great star or nebulae of our first and catch the last train back into

earthly elty, but a universe shattered universal

fact town. school hours. Masters are ap- else you can discard them-it and roshattered until the whole of dawn upon us that these great gase- We met the girl friend at the pointed whose main duty is to makes no difference, for this is space becomes a chaos of the ultimate ous monges that have just been born Kowloon station.

The out of chaos are those very nebulae

she "Have you been hiking?” cultivate the urge towards phy- the way things are. Now that ruins of all things that were. atars that we spoke of, but yet in

solid Earth and planets, the sical fitness.

their asked sweetly. And who would manner of talk is liable to upset liquid or gaseous, the great nebulae swaddling clothes of infancy. We

"In every joint!" we replied challenge the need or, funtiamen- the equilibrium of any thought-all as it were ground back almost to notice that they do not all revolve tally, the desirability of en-ful man. But it is precisely the nothingness, Space seems absolutely with the name rapidity. We also feebly.

in the beginning couraging this movement? kind of talk that the real scien-vold but no, the materials of the notice that while

universe are still here, not solid, not they were like immenso globes, as Sport, properly directed, tenches tist does not indulge in. He is liquid, hut gaseous molecules the time went on owing to there ever strength, skill and chivalry, No. more likely to keep in mind universal matter of which all things increasing speed of revolution they one would question the proposi-Plato's great picture-A dim are made are there desolved back into become more and more flattened, first tions that physical education has cave, with man chained facing a thin gaseous substance. And the like an orange, then like a thick, you say $197,000 for new Govern too long been neglected in Hong-the inner wall, speculating fruit whole space of the universe lo filled bulging lens and then like a thin lens,ment offices was charity? -

with that tenuous gas. And the gas wit

with an edge of gas very, uniformly

You shouldn't listen when we're kong, that healthful exercise lessly on the shadows cast on the is so thinly distributed that each distributed at the rim. This rim дав aids mental development and wall by beings who walk against molecule stands apart from its neigh now resembles in its uniformity the addressing your mother, son.

of primeval chaos only that it But what did you moan may go a long way to improving the sun in the open air. The bours by a couple of feet whereas in nearly to thin, and as we con- charity, daddy?

by ordinary air the molecules are only not only the physique but the highest "scientific truths," the

before at about the distance of 1/8,000,000th template it, lo, a tremor as moral outlook of the younger | greatest discoveries, are simply of an inch apart. We are in primovali shivers it and it begins to form new doubted whether market value was generation. But, and the quall- shadows. To-day's verities are chaos before all things were that are, and smaller nebular bodies. These fication is very necessary, it is to-morrow's discarded theories: This primoral gas that now filla all now nebulae of the second generation calculated in the purchase of the old space so thinly la perfectly uniformly still keep in the neighbourhood of Sailor's Home and supposed that of prime importanco that there remains, as Dr. Shapley distriubted, no little heaps here and their great parent nebulas and re- the Government was helping on the youth's enthusiasm should be says, only "the will to know and there and no empty pockets but volve with them while also revolving good work at the expense of Poor directed into proper channels, the willingness to fumble as we everywhere just the same. All is still themselves like a wheel and similarly Old Taxpayer.

No movement, nothing like winds ordike their parents in their own good

But can't he protest, daddy? that youth's attempts to attain learn to know."

weather depressions but just perfect-time they give off a colony of gaseous proficiency are not obtained at

ly balanced stillness. The stillness of maBROя of the third generation. too high a price. There is a

chaon, not of the chaos of disorder but These later, and in fact some of the growing body of opinion among

the chaos of a yet unbullt universe, second generation nebulae, we find to We have arrived at our destination have mass more or less about the those best able to study the

and now we set forth on our home- (Continued on Page 6) growth of the cult of sport in local schools that the time has One of the most interesting come when it should be taken items of news from Russia under control. The prize-seeking the announcement that the spirit is too provalent; more at-government is to adopt a stern tention is paid to indulging the attitude toward workers who practice than instilling the nobl-fail to work as hard as the go- lity of athletics. Schoolboys, invernment thinks they ought. many cases, it is suspected, are Recent legislation makes it poa- being forced beyond their pow-sible for the government to de- ers by so-called sports masters prive a workman and his family who know nothing of training of a job, food and his house for technique, not even enough, toa single day's unjustifled absen- Imow that proper training alone ce from work. Lenin himself enables athletic feats to be per-urged that the dictatorship of formed without undue strain, the proletariat must not hesitate whose chief contribution appears to use force against the pro- to be the dosing of promising lotariat Itself when the occasion youngsters with Epsom Salts to requires it. And this odd con- keep their weight down. The tradiction emphasizes once more result is seen all too frequently |the strange" and fascinating con- In Kowloon streets-a group of trast between the things that are young Chinese in shorts and being attempted in Russia and singlets, just about all-in, but the things that are being tried still struggling along, having alsewhere. Basically, evidently undertaken a run in secking the same goal. But how the evening over four or five differently we are going at it1] miles in the ill-conceived bellef Iron discipline, a rigid regime in that they are training, keeping which the individual counts for themselves fit. Three times out nothing and freedom is a dis- of four it is definitely injurious carded word-these characterize to their health. Another deve- the working-out of the Russian lopment of this sport crazo aug-venture. We want the same gests that parents, too, are un- things the Russians want, but aware that it can be indulged we intend to get them in our in to exceBA. We refer to its own way. The individual work- exploitation for advertisement.er may not be lord of the walk, In some schools, special pains in other countries, but he is ab are taken to arrange the curri-solute lord over his own life. culum so that “organised sports" Freedom, prosperity and hap- and physical exercises are al-piness must begin with him if ways going on in full view of the they are to mean anything.

Russia's Way and Our Own

is

We are

"They don't think of nothin' but fashions! Why can't women

be like us men, and all dress the sams?"

YOUNG EDDY ON POLITICS.

Daddy (he calls us that), didn't

If you must know, my boy, we

Look here, son, don't be a worry, But, daddy, when the Govern- ment spends all that money don't they have to ask for a Voto or something?

Yes, my boy, a meeting of the Finance Committee is hold. Our Unofficial members of Council at- tend, the vote is approved and the money is spent, unless it happens to be Public Works Extraordinary. Then you never know.

In this public work extraordinary, daddy?

Well, strictly speaking, no.

Will they spend the money then, daddy?

Of course, my son.

Why didn't the Unsuspicious pro- test, dady?

Unofficials, son. Un-O-Fish-awis. My dear boy, you must not expect me to be omniscient.

Ses you!

You'd better go to bed my lad If you're going to be cheeky..

But daddy, the Unauspicious naked questions about a thousand dollars being spent on digging up some old pots and pans, why didn't they ask about the Sailor's Home? Embarrassing questions are not encouraged at Council meetings, my son.

What are embarrassing quea- tions, daddy?

And that is how. Edward Kolly Junior came to take his suppor standing up.

Which reminds

that Dr.

Shrubsall, addressing the Child Study Socioly recently, said that the child which in a tempor bites an adult should be bitten back, not slapped.

.

But he did not say what course of action should bo takon when adult bites a child.''

an