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THE IDEAL OF The Very Idea!
LIVING
By HUGH REDWOOD
Mr. Lloyd George has recently revived his famous land settle. ment scheme, embodied in the phrase, two acres and a cow. But, as practical politics, what is the use of talking grandiloquently Julian Huxley, "fall short 66X7E to-day," says Mr. about establishing thousands of of the ideal living, and fall short law is perfectly obeyed; obeyed We may, perhaps, define it as a new system in which a perfect new small-holdings in England, as just as radically relatively to with the same exactitude as so- if it were only necessary to pase aour circumstances and the state of called Bill or two, and vote money, for our civilisation as did the early govern alike the mightiest une "ostural" laws, which the thing to be done? How differ Jews relatively to theirs.". and the least of the atoms. Here we have for your choice
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FACTS AND THEORIES
It.
PROMISE OF PROGRESS. Now these, in the main, are people who believe the Bible to bo the purpose of God. a unique revelation of the law and
The New Testament is a promise of progress, from the ideal of the Kingdom of God, received in men's hearts with the trust of children. to the realised state. of perfection, when "that which is in part shall done, away" and man shall know his Creator as he is known
CHRISTMAS CARDS By Eddie Raphaël Tuck Kelly *HRISTMAS and New Year cards" should be
CHR
abolished.
They are a menace.
piece for visitors to see, they Displayed on your mantel-
are a guide to your position in Hongkong society. If you have only a couple from the ten cent box you are not. of much account, but a row of privately printed cards
that of being a Compradore. gives you a cachet equal to
For a long time we have been at a disadvantage in this respect. The envelopes And I saw a new heaven and we get at Christmas bearing
And thero
We can
a new earth.
shall be no more death, neither three cent stamps do not sorrow, nor.crying, neither contain best wishes. They are shall there be any more pain. stuffed with offensive looking
And there shalt be no more
pleces of papers, with nasty.
curse,
Mr. Julian Huxley, one gathers, Agures printed on them, And cent literature." But it is not theirs, arranged in rows in front would agree that this le magnif- when our friends show us because it is literature that men, of the clock, our blood bolls with God's help, are shaping the until it makes our chilblains. course of their lives by it
No-one will easily got thosa. people to take on the twelve-hour day the seven-day week, the habits of frugality and forethought, the It is strango, then, that Mr. deprivation of gregarious joys, Huxley should ecom to regard which a smallholder must face to them, and those who agtea with succeed. Nor will many of their of religious progress. They can them, as loth to accept the iden wives care for migrating to condi-not help accepting it. They cling tions where water has to be pum- to it as their great hope. ped, and neither gas nor electrici- ty is laid on, and the nearest pic turo-palace is several miles away. For economic and defensive ren sons it might be considered desir able that the British Isles should once more raise a much larger SILVER HOPES
Proportion of its food from. Its own soll. That is 'n sound basis by Him. UNFULFILLED
for policy. But it would be futile to pretend that the English people Amidst all tho
are tumbling over each other in confusion the desire to raise it, or that we ground against which these as which has been created by Pres-can pick and choose the manner insurances shine with the greater foolishness, and to the profes-
The Old Testament is a back-gdry from any other book." -- ident Roosevelt's silver plan, the which it shall be raised.
This may be, to the Greeks, only certainty which has
All of them are expensive, some. Borial mind "simply superstition," coating as much as $1. Nor do Its historical portions show us but elsewhere in the same Book they come from any Tom, Dick or how surely the way was prepared it is shrewdly observed that God for Christ's coming: its pro-has made wisdom look rather silly. phetical chapters link up with the present-day problems. Christian Gospel, as applied to
be
glory.
Into
FORERUNNERS:
language of Jesus Christ points to
They believe that the recorded worse than ever, Plan and to its final fulfilment, of which the words of the seer of something this Christmas.
However, we showed them. Patmos are
We an inspired fore have carda' strewn around like. shadowing. And the more they study the Book) which contains the leaves on the Babes in the these things, the more certain it Wood. They are stuck into picture Is that they will go on placing frames, they are on the mantel-ploce it "in an entirely different cate and on the window-ledge,
aro' cards everywhere.
There
Excellency the Governor, and"an- Harry. There Is one from His other from the Colonial Secretary,
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emerged so far is that expecta- MARKETING COMES FIRST tions held in some quarters of a likely rise in the world price of the commodity have not been the present Government has been The prime need is that which
Certainly the world would be ill-served to-day by a "wisdom" realised. The opinion seems to the first to tackle seriously-the
Take a glance at some of the
'which swept away, as fetish- No, we didn't send them to our. be growing that, if rehabilita- it possible for home farm produce lingly fit our times, and you will organisation of marketing. Make ancient prophecies, which 60 start-
worship, a belief that is helping self. It happened that last Janu tion of silver is one of the objects to reach the vast British consum-150 reasons
to keep it out of the abyss. ary we wanted a scrap book to stick aimed at the scheme does not ing public not, as heretofore, on
why men find the
our clippings in, and our local go far enough. In this con- oversca rivals, but on terms rather
Bible a God-given spring when
THE WAY WITH CHILDREN. stationer had not got one. As this torms less favourable than its human resource has run dry. - Mr. Huxley would have us look where our credit was good, he was was the only place at the moment nexion, it is worth nothing that more favourable, and production Haggai, for instance, which seems the History of England. We may two large volumes, which he said At that resounding chapter of on the Bible much as we look on anxious to please us, so he produced numerous authorities in America must to some extent find its own to have been written to the address use it to illustrate the fact of past we could have if we liked. are disposed to minimise the im-formings will prevail in different la mine and the gold is mine, progress in the future. Indeed, channels. Different types of of our economists. ("The silver progress and to point the way of portance of the plan. The districts. Small-holders will be saith the Lord of hosts") There, to these ends, he is pleased to full of sample Christmas cards from Speaker of the House of Repre- in the picture; but they will not coupled with the warning of a approve it as
They happened to be the volumes. sentatives, for instance, thinks be all over it; and may even not world upheaval, is the promise strument,"
"an admirable in which you select the design you there should be silver
be very prominent. There is cer- that "the desire of all nations Heaven would seem to be indica-We asked him if he wanted the (A gratified flutter in want for your own private use, monetization on a broader basis, spend untold millions.
rtainly no case for the taxpayer to shall come." arguing the necessity for a bime artificially to make them so.
ted.) But if it is to become "acards back when we tore them from At Joel, too, Isaiah foresaw in order tallic base involving the rapid
time when the nations should we say, like certain doctrines wor-give them to the cat to play with.
fetish in the realm of ideas" (shall our book, and he said, no, we could beat their swords into plough-shipped by scientists?), it is not. We admit that they bear the date purchase of silver, against which | COTTON FROM INDIA
shares; but Joel saw rearmament, fit, he says, for children to read." silver certificates could be is-
when they should beat them back
"Christmas, 1932", but we don't I shall put it the other way. If suppose our friends are so Ill-bred swords again and there the Bible is taught to our children as to notice that. sued and made redeemable in gold. This, he thinks, would tity of raw cotton, but Lancashire he also saw, in the midst of it all, worship of all kinds,
Indin grows an enormous quan in the valley of decision." Yet they will be liberated from fetish- hould be "multitudes, multitudes by qualified spiritual teachers, help to restore the 1926 prices cause most of It is very low-grade. salem,
has always disliked using it, be- his God triumphant in now Jeru; more than aything else. An Seeing that the Egyptian native interesting point here is the con- growers, whose cultural level can- tention that such a plan would not have been very different from make it unnecessary to maintain grow the finest raw cotton in the the Indian, have been taught to any ratio of silver to gold, world, it seems surprising that so Senator Wheeler, a keen silver little has been done to bring Lan advocate, is gratified that the side in the seventy years since the cashire and India together on this Administration is treating silver cotton famine during the Ameri as a favoured commodity, but can Civil War. An official en- he, likewise, wants something quiry, the produce of the Ottawa more than President Roosevelt unhopefully on the possibilities. conference, has now reported not has done, asking for unqualified We should be in a much stronger. silver remonetization, so that
position to claim India's prefer- the country can issue, currency more to her for the raw material; once for our cloth, if we went ngainat silver, as against gold. and We should advantageously Senator Pittman also hopes thaticasen our dependence on the President will go further. ginning to see the obvious truth the United States. Lancashire is be- There is a possibility that this and If tests, now being carried out growing volume of dissatisfac prove successful, important de- tion with the scheme as velopments may be expected in the stands may lead to further act- next two or three years, includ ion, since the step taken by ing, perhaps the rather strange President Roosevelt does not position that Japan should close the door to a larger use of conceded a moral right to a large silver for coinage or bullion
share of India's trade. backing if he finds it desirablo
it
bo
to extend the plan. London | NO TIP FOR WAITER? financiers already fear over. production unless other action is taken. With prices still not New York City, suggested the When Mr. Grover Whalen of materially affected by the Roosenbolition of tips for waiters as tho velt plan, however, there is no heat way of agreeing on wage scales real reason why there should be under the restaurant code, ho any rush to produce more. Yet, touched on a reform which has been strangely enough, there is talk mooted at many times and in many of renewed activity in the Cana- places and is generally regarded as dian silver mines, whilst Ameri-likely to appeal to both wago-carner can silver States are excited over is argued, would prefer to work for. and the public. Most walters, it the possible profitable working a regular and adequate wage rather of low-grade ores. Both these than depend on the generosity of developments would appear to the peoplo they serve. Most din- be based on the expectation of ere, undoubtedly, would be glad to higher prices, an expectation get away from the need of pouring which would appear to have no out a steady stream of ten cont justification at the moment, pieces. It seldom works out in that especially in view of the fact fashion however. The commonest that the United States produces gnored by patrons who are well procedure is a No Tipping order only about one-sixth of the aware that tips are expected just world total.
the same,
1934 BIRTHDAY GUIDE They will not learn that the Bible la "the only avenue to their JANUARY.--Persons born this THE PERFECT REIGN OF LAW, religious salvation" to Chris-month will succeed as they get on. teaching. Even the classic exit was given to them as a guide membered by those who bear them Progress is the essence of Bible but that, in God's careful ordering. them, and they will always be re- tians, Christ is the only Way Journeys not yet taken lie before
ponents of faith, we are told, hava book, as a lamp to their feet and a not achieved perfection. There light to their path.
in mind. is "Some better thing" ahead. They will know the truth that What is the ideal of living," sets men free, and' find the way for which men pray and strive of re-birth for the world as they and endure?
work out their own salvation,
"I guess it's getting harder to ghave mo every
Berg?"
Isn't it, Mr.
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APRIL MAY AND JUNE Hasty decisions should be arrived at quickly, but it would be prudent not to anticipate unexpected news.
JULY, AUGUST AND SEPTEM....... BER-Persons born during this period start life at an early age. In love affairs care should be exercised wherever a need for cau- tion exista....
OCTOBER, NOVEMBER AND: DECEMBER-Avold conversa- tions with atraugors you do not know, and beware of answering un- asked questions. Remember, every opportunity la a chance, and the. sudden acquisition of wealth is apt to add to one's possessions,
OBITUARY
Here lies the remains of a rad
fan Now mourned by hic many
relations,
He went to the A.P.C. smoking
his pipe
And was picked up by tioenty-
one stations.
Revised Version
A famous Hollywood actrose was looking at a photograph and, referring to the person whose portrait. It was, she said, "Sisters and Brothers have I none, but this man's father is my father's fourth wife's seventh husband'e twice- divorced brother-la-law's third wife. Who was the person in the photograph?
ANSWER: Elmer K Hogaboltom.
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