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MONDAY, MAY 8, 1933.

Science's Quest for 'Truth'

Hongkong Telegraph. point, to be

MONDAY, MAY 8, 1933.

SPORT CRAZE IN LOCAL SCHOOLS

INTO THE DAWN The Very Idea!

OF THE UNIVERSE THIS HIKING EVIL

By REV. D. MacDONALD, S.J.

good deal of our creepy dread of cities becoming

nellous. And io! finally we

ате

to

fact

By Eddie Kelly, Tramp.

"FOR the Love of Hike!”

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

car,

We thought it was going to he

town.

street during the busiest hours of day, yet another encouraging bait for the bane of local educn- tion, the constant transfers of a 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 institutiona in

Greater hate hath no respect- 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 we through the length and breadth and Editor, meckly puta on

start some great tremor passes the stern command of a cornicas for criticism enumerated. It

his conquered space in that breath- depth of chaotic space and the whole might also be argued that the less dash and now we aspire to face of the universe begins to change.ful of dog biscuits into his poc- squeaky wenders, shovels a hand- situation is merely a passing vanquish time. We audaciously The gaseous substance that was so 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 ito balance begins to break up into hike. itself off, schools and youths will before and through all the gfonn empty or almost empty. The "The pikers-pardon! hikers- 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."

those Immense masses of gas the careful watching.

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

Time was 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 gascous mans becomes more and more

women walking back after a see the lilstory of mankind unfold-compact and the empty spaces more

and more empty. Very many of little difference of opinion with ing itself backwards, the dynasties these immenso masses of gas a motering boy friend. of China that were rise up in now to be seen occupying at intervals

But now it's different. Take If it has ever been felt that reverse order before us again, the space that was before chaos, just

Each begining in defeat and like big globe shaped clouds. There yesterday, for instance. modern science has a self-antis-dienster and ending in triumph is a great pressure within these great

The birds, hardly realising that fled air about the body of know-where history books tell us they masses tending to make them burst |ledge it has amassed, one might [hegan. On and on wo go, the up and shatter and go back the the Summer was here, were tivittering original state of chaos but the great in the trees, the sun was shining. heed the words of Dr. Harlow days of Confucius flash past neas of their masses mankes the force and old man Kelly's son was dress- Shapley, director of the larvard the prehistoric days become to us of suction, so to speak, by which ed in the latest in hifkerie. Astronomical Observatory. Dr. as new yesterdays as in our flight everything is drawn or attracted to- Shapley predicts that "practical things are reversed and effects wards the centre of the mask, power- ally all current theories" are go-come before causes, decay before ful enough to prevent the mass break-

ing up, any ever, powerful enough ing to prove mortal before 80 prosperity, death before birth.

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 befure Linuously. In some of these maares, watch them developing the day will be the abandoned and us in inverted sequence, interesting as we outgrown theories of to-mor-though it be, for we wish to go on. suction is exactly towards the centre

Under ordinary circumstances, row; and Dr. Shapley adds: Spurning the land marks of history and these just become great big balls,

with thought-like wings we find our-Iso to speak of gas of fabulous site we would have been bowling alongs "The only eternal verities at selves in the twinkling of an eye out and weight. In others, the rush of in Matilda (Matilda is our present are the enthusiasm back before the time when men began to the gas does not go radially but gets of hypotheses, the will to know he, out even before this very Earth light twist (we didn't just quite you know!) with one of the girl itself began to be. Now the sun perceive how it got the twist) and so friends by our side, sneering at the a fool hikers cluttering up the road- with and the willingness to fumble as does not rise or act for there is no the whole mass starts off we learn to know." This view-earth upon which to rise or set. And spinning top movement, ie. the whole way.

revolving Instead of which, obeying the sure, is the general still we hurry on and we are before ass starts off like a sort of rule among scientists. But lay the sun was, but still the way in all of gas. We didn't see how that stern call to duty, we hobbled pain- men often misunderstand it, and hoard saying "Beyand this there everything agog, nor did we see who thoughtless motorists who wanted

open before us, we see no painted initial tremor came about that

set fully out to Taipo, cursing the becaus they misunderstand it is no way." As we travel we gaze or what started it nor why it started, they sometimes resent what they at the star cities of our former trip, but sumchow we got the idea that the whole of the road.

they seem to be not quite the same there was a tremor that woke up the feel is a too dogautic and in- before yet in general they haven't universe from its slumbers nad made no end of a hike. By 3 pm, we flexible attitude on the part of changed so very greatly, so we travel it begin the work of its long day. thought there was going to be no science. A proper understand-on and on through fabulous periods of The big manges that than start their end to the hike.

star career revolving like great spinning-

We were so burned up we felt ing of it might save us from a time watching our nebulous

more and more tops are to us more interesting than

are the others, for the others just don't do like a fuel. The cult of sport, slow to take

We were unlucky, too. Alter. a grip in the beginning. has the rising of scientific knowled-before the birthdays of the nebulae anything but wait, I suppose, for 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, wo had dawn of the universe. We have them up. ignored them. The to walk about two miles past Nat- influence in Hongkong's educa-as if the scientists were banish-undutic all human history, all stellar others contracting and revolving at han Road before we could find a tional establishments in the lasting mystery from the world. history; we have even brought back the same time calch our interest be motorist who would give us a lift

We Ace that as they get out to Taipo. two or three years. Every youth It seems as if science were about the great nebular foundations of the cause

yet of aspires to become an athlete, and to say: "Thus and so was the universe into the shattered fragments haller and smaller, while

We managed to stagger out of his he is not content to confine him-world made, and thus and so was of which they were built and pause course immense in size, they revolved

the threshold of Univeral history more and more rapidly. We estimate cap. when we arrived there, and self to any particular branch of man himself put together, and and gaze upon the scene of desolation the masses of these big gas cloufe, 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 massea are way along to the railway station A shattered universe, not just more or less the masses of the and catch the last train back into Intensive training, of a sort, your poetry and all of your there?

or nebulae of our first |

the fight. Then goes on both in and out of dreams it this framework or like the shattered ruins of some great star

earthly city, but a universe. shattered univereni

Wo met the girl friend at the school hours. Masters are apelse you can discard them--it and reshattered until the whole of dawn upon us that these great gase- pointed whose main duty is to makes no difference, for this is space becomes a chaos of the ultimate cus masses that have just been born Kowloon station.

The out of elinos are those very nebulae "Have you been hiking?" shc Now that rains of all things that were. cultivate the urge towards phy-the way things are."

salid Earth and planets, tho sture that we spoke of, but yet in their asked sweetly. sical fitness. And who would manner of talk is liable to upset liquid or gascous, the great nebulae swaddling clothes of infancy. We

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

n, the materials of the notice that while in the beginning this movement? kind of talk that the real scien-wire are still here, not solid, not they were like immense glabes, as

YOUNG EDDY ON POLÍTICS. Sport, properly directed, teaches tist does not indulge in. He is liquid, but 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

Daddy (he calls us that), didn't one would question the proposi. Plato's great picture-A dim are made are there desolved back into become more and more flattened, first

And the like an orange, then like a thick, you say $197,000 for now Govern- tions that physical education has cave, with man chained facing this gaseous substance. too long been neglected in Hong- the inner wall, speculating fruit. whole space of the universe is filled bulging lena and then like a thin lens, ment offices was charity 2

You shouldn't listen when we're And the gas with an edge of gas very uniformly kong, that healthful exercise lessly on the shadows cast on the no thinly distributed that each distributed at the rim. This rim gas 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.

But what did you mean gas of primeval chaos only that it

by. may go a long way to improving the sun in the open air. The bours by a couple melecules are only isn't nearly so thin, and as we con- charity, daddy?

ordinary air the are not only the physique but the highest "scientific truths," the at about the distance of 1/8,000,000th template it, lo, a tremor

If you must know, my boy, we moral outlook of the younger greatest discoveries, are simply of an inch apart. We are in primevni shivers it and it begins to form new doubted whether market value was I generation. But, and the quali- shadows, To-day's verities are cluor before all things were that are, and smaller nebular bodies.. These calculated in the purchase of the old

generation fication is very necessary, it is to-morrow's discarded tlieories; This primeval gas that now fills ali new nebulae of the second

so thinly is perfectly uniformly still keep in the neighbourhood of Sailor's Home and supposed that of prime importance that there remains, as Dr. Shapley distrubted, no little hengs here and their great parent nebulae 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 Peor directed into proper channels, the willingness to fumble as we overywhere just the same. All is still themselven like a wheel and similarly Old Taxpayer.

No movement, nothing like winds or like their purents 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 of the third generation. proficiency are not obtained at

ly balanced stiliness. The stillness of masser too high a price. There is a growing body of opinion among those best able to study the 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 is under control. The prize-secking the announcement that the spirit is too prevalent; more at-government is to adopt a stern tention is paid to indulging the attitude toward workers who practice than instilling the nobi-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 pos- 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 to a single day's unjustified absen- know that proper training alone ce from work. Lenin himself enables athletic fents 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 letariat 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, we are evidently undertaken n run in seeking the same goal. But how the evening over four or five differently we are going at it! miles in the ill-conceived belief Iron discipline, a rigid régime in that they are training, keeping which the individual counts for themaelves fit. Three times out nothing and freedom is a dis- of four it is definitely injurious carded word-these characterized to their health. Another dove- the working-out of the Russian lopment of this sport craze sug- venture. We want the same gests that parents, too, are un- things the Russians want, but awaro that it can be, indulged we intend to get them in our in to excess. We refer to its own way. The individual work- exploitation for advertisement or may not be lord of the walk, In some schools, special pains in other countries, but he is ab- are taken to arrange the currl-solute lord over his own life. culum so that "organised aporta" Freedom, prosperity and hap- and physical exerclaes 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

void but

with that tenuous gas.

05 before

chaos, not of the chaos of disorder but These Inter, and in fact some of the the chaos of a yet unbuilt universe. second generation nebolae, wo and to We have arrived at our destination have a mass more or less about the and now we set forth on our home-

(Continued on Page 5.)

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

be like us mon, and all dress the same?”

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

Yes, my boy, a meeting of the Finance Committee is held. 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 Hon.

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

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

Sez you!

You'd better go to bed my Ind

If you're going to be cheeky.

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

What are embarrassing ques- tions, daddy?

And that is how Edward Kelly Junior came to take his supper standing up.

Which reminds us that Dr. Shrubanll, addressing the Child Study Society recently, said that the child which in a temper bites an adult should be bitten back, not. slapped.

But he did not say what course of action should be taken when Indult biten a child.

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