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'FRIDAY, MAY

NOTES OF THE DAY

COLONY'S TRADE

The Colony's April trade figures, Indicative of the trend if not com- pletely accurato, offer 110 en-

18, 1934.

THERE'S NO "LUCK"

ABOUT SUCCESS

Says J. D. BERESFORD

The Very Idea!

THE AGE OF SCIENCE

By Edward Kelly, Bign-this INCE Robert MacWhir-

couragement that the bottom of THEN I say that I don't be- get so much as a consolation prize. Se asked his readers to

person

come up and get their gold watches, and a burglar took hirn at his word, we've

we've had to say. been mighty careful what

article written for to-day's

We had an "Very Idea" about rearing excellent

babies, but we've decided to

Our articla on babion was all

raro old argument

Einstein and ourself had about. this before we were tossed out

who comes Lussions now.

the trade dopression has been love in luck, I do not mean My own mother had a queer gift) roached. Except for the short to imply that there is no such for winning raffles at church, month, February, the statistics of thing or that some people do not bazaars, importa and

exports show get a greator share of it tha smaller volume of trade during others, or seem to. Most of us stances, I should like to have

But before I grant these in- April than during any previous know someone or other who a few more statistics. Some people month since the compliation of pears to get more than he should have to win those Sweep prizes, trade returns was resumed. Com of all the good things of life with and did the lucky people always plaints there were in abundance out doing anything (in our opin-have their good fortune? I do last year, when a heavy drop lon) to deserve it. But we must not think my mother could be occurred immediately following not forget those significant words counted as the Christmas season. In the first "In our opinion," bacause it is 80

a consistently lucky scrap it. There's no sense four months of 1934, both imports very consoling to our vanity to than this matter of hazaar lot.

in any other connection in taking risks. and exporta were reduced by ap-attribute another's success to luck teries; and even that was pro-write about something we and So, instead, wo're going to proximately 25 per cent. ns com- rather than to ability. pared with the corresponding

bably of the same order as a run you know nothing about. Two young men are looking for on, one colour. If she had gone about the theory of relativity. perlod of last year. An end must

a job. One has a cheerful, con-on and made a hobby of It she Many's tho come to this process at 'some time fident way with him, always hopes would probably have struck the or other, but the question dimeult and looks for the best, has an common average. to determine is, When? There is neilve mind, and is quick in the a growing feeling that things are uptake. The other, though he has to account for success by attribut-

We are far too ready, in fact, of Germany. We miss thone dla- likely to get still worse, before plenty of ability, does not showing it to luck, without taking the

The only person in the offica they improve.

anywhere near our It by his manner, is given to trouble to go a little deeper and intellectual lovel is the lift-driver, weighing a question before he an- look for any other contributing and oven he's inclined to be a bit swers, and in far too modest about factors. And the sloppier we are upplah-although, on the his own capacity.

in our own methods, the slower to hund, ho's also downish, look out for the off-chance and to being four floors and a basement There are two atriking features

take it when we find it, the more in our building. of the trade report. On the one

Now in that critical search for quickness of others and put their the iden

apt we shall be to depreciate the We gave Einstein the germ of hand Japan stands practically a job. One will be successful and success down to the whimsical relativity. The theory of relativity for his theory of alone among importers as having Two most probably will not. And favour of the gods, increased her trade with

is really very important, as, by the everyone who has a grouse against business methods and society in

a handle, ono simply turning I know this because I used to do can find out how many relations Colony since last year, a result general will attribute One's auc-it myself. There was achieved largely through intense cess to fuck. He is, indood, the my lfe, nearly thirty years ago, when you're broke and the shroffs A time in ono has. Which is very handy activity in the artifical silk and typient lucky person, the fellow when I believed myself to have

won't any they

walt woollen markets. The other is the who is always bringing it off when been singularly cursed by Fate, month.

another sturtling reduction in the Colony's others make a mess of it,

when I was ready to avow that Januc Newton (dead now, Foor exports to South China. Last But it is not luck in the ordinary And so, of course, when I saw the gravity. Gravity is mostly used by nothing ever went right for me. fellow) WOLLE the inventor of April, Canton took goods from sense, not chance, not the effect of success of various contemporaries aviators when they want to get their Hongkong to the value of over some rare coincidence engineered who, in my opinion, had no. more names $17,000,000, possibly an abnormally benefit. It is the effect of his the usual thing.

by the gods especially for One's ability than I had myself, I said obituary columa, although it is high Agure. Last month, the value had fallen to alightly over man who has faith in himself, and personality. He is the kind of $8,000,000.

STRIKING FEATURES

And I Виррове any

casual The hope may well in some way he is able to pass that acquaintance might have said of be expressed, in the interest of faith on to others. The possible me that my luck changed about Canton commercial concerns as employer will probably find a use that time. It didn't but I did. well as those of Hongkong, that for him, because that quick, con- began (for reasons that I need some arrangement for facilitating fident manner is a real asset. It not go into here) to have new business intercourse may develop is for instance the mark of a faith in myself, and to put new from the informal converantions good salesman.

energy into my work; and present started by the Hon. Dr. Kotewall a little while back.

ly the results began to show. And you will never persuade me will admit that the beginning of that those business heroes who this new attitude of mine was dus started with a ahilling and ended to what might appear as a coin as multi-millionaires "got there" cidence, hut, as I began by any as a result of the smiling induling, I am not denying that there gence of their patron saint. They is such a factor as luck.

MATERIALISM

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other there

In the paper under the

alau very useful for moppling up your bread in.

Newton invented gravity while in an unconscious condition after being stunned by an apple. If mind to hit him on the head with Homeone had had the presence of

ft

pumpkin we might have known lot more about gravity now. Then there was Centigrade, who invented the thermometer, with-

out which we would not know remarkable instrument is worked when we had malaria, This

solely by temperature. If there was no temperature, the would be useless.

thing

FIGHTING CANCER One of the ways in, which Empire Day is being observed this year is to make an appeal. not only in the Mother Country, but throughout the length and breadth of the overseas posses. sions, on behalf of the British Empire Cancer Campaign. No more worthy cause could be im- agined. There is no necessity to stress the dread effects of the cancer scourge; they are too well known to need emphasis.

The religious fanatic, shall we won success because they were. The suffering and the toll in

call him, would probably suggest rather more clever and more im- What I do say is that it plays Something similar is the that Hongkong, like the rest of aginative than the next man. Al-n far less important role in our barometer, which tells us when the lives are such as to create a

the

world, is suffering for its so, they had the capacity for look. lives than most people appear to wonther is fair or not. People universal hope that before longthorised voices have concurred in work.

materiallam. Numerous and aning ahead and a genius for hard think. There 18, admittedly, the who cannot afford barometura the origin of the disease will be

effect of coincidence, and now and just open the window and have a blaming materialism as one of the

again we come across an individu- look out. definitely discovered and success- principal causes of the crisis that

So much of what the average

al in whose favour these fortu- Science is the most enthralling ful methods of treatment be in-

has been felt the world over, not man regards as pure luck should

or unfortunate, concidences subject if you have the tools. We merely in the economic but in stituted. This is the object of

off by ax- be rightly ascribed to ability. A seem to play an unusually import-were going to start the Cancer Campaign, which

the political aphere. The thesis gambles on the Stock Exchange ant part. But such individuals plaining the fourth dimension, but to that the inventions and dis- and brings it off. B comes a pur are comparatively rare, just as are we are afraid that this is too -Ins now been labouring for ten against mankind, that knowledge sons why he hung an to his stock and, like all exceptiona to the

coveries of our age have been usedler, and will give you is dozen ren-long runs on the black or the red, technical for you.

Everyone, especially during of how to use our increased re-too long or gold it too soon. Far- common rule, they strike the at-

the summer months, should sources has not kept pace with ther, he will tell you that A had tention.

know something about anthro- their growth, that moral life has the most infernal good luck. But

pology, however, anthropolgy been sacrificed to material life. the truth is that A saw a little lief in the power of luck to alter Finally, I am sure that this be-

being the study of ants. Hence, Accumulation of material wealth farther ahead than B, and used our lives is responsible for much

during the hot weather the ex- for the sake of material wealth in his knowledge to the best advan-trouble and unhappiness.

pression "ants pants" a mood of selfishness and rivalry. But there is one thing the Colony

Geology is study of rocks. Most is never likely to be again; it will,

of us know something about this, We make it an excuse for our being on the rocks ourselves most These are common examples of weaknesses and never attempt to never be an El Dorado for the the misuse of the word "luck" in cure them, because it is so much of the time. Europeat, to come, remain a few everyday life. But there are easier to wait for the luck to turn years, automatically make a com-ether aspects of it in which we con- And in those cases, it hardly ever fortable "pile" and walk out not so easily attribute the stroke does turn.. again leaving it poorer than when of good fortune to a man's abili- be came.

years and has hopes of attain-

ing success in the task to which it has put its hands. It is to be noted that the work being done is in the nature of sys- tematic and carefully-organised and planned research, not hap- hazard methods, and that apart from the existing schemes of research, which are being gener- ously supported, new lines con- sidered of real practical value are also being liberally helped. As a consequence, knowledge both of the cause and treatment of cancer is increasing rapidly, so much so that some of the many problems associated with the disense seem to be nearing a definite solution. Although the campaign has been generously supported by the public since its inception, the economic difh- culties of recent years have greatly affected the income from subscriptions. and it is for this. renson that a special appeal is now being launched. This is the first time that Hongkong has had the opportunity of making a definite communal contribution to the campaign, and no better time could be chosen than the days immediately prior to Em- pire Day, when there will be a general drive wherever the Brit- ish flag flies. British scientists and medical men are striving with might and main in thoir efforts to get the dread scourge under control, and the least we can do, in this outlying part of the Empire, is to help in some small way in providing funds for the furtherance of their noble work. There will be opportun- Ities for each and all to help. In the meantime, we commend the cause most heartily to our readers, feeling sure that the re-. sponse made will be worthy both of the immensity of the task and of the Colony as well.

CARE AND DISTRESS

the

For is a fact that despite marvellous improvements, rapidity of the Colony's develop- ment, the unquestionable progress registered in nearly every depart- ment, there is more care and

dis- treas in the Colony to-day than ever before in its history. Ob- viously if there were greater good shown by class towards class, if the individual were less mindful of his own advantages and more concerned for the advantages of all, most of the troubles of the depressed nine-tenths in Hongkong would be alleviated as if by magic. To set down these axioms seems world as a whole has forgotten elementary, but it is because the these elementary truths that it is still going through travail after five years of the worst depression the world has known,

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PUBLIC SYMPATHY

This is curious Colony__in matters of public sympathy, The response to the appeal en benif of the victims of the tragie gan explosion disaster hos

been wonderful. Immediate and im pressive, the tragedy finds scores of kindly disposed residents only too ready to assist the distressed, Yet the nterdy,

daily, permanent work of mercy, covering a wider and perhaps finally far more im- portant field, of the Society for the Protection of Children, restricted solely because the

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Society does not receive the support it needs and deserves.

tage.

kong, however, are sent to collego Most of the geologists in Hong- by Mr. Wynne Jones or Mr. Tamilton, the course taking six-

or twelve months, according to the circumstances. This, of course, doce not include stone masona,

ties or personality. There are "Men at some times are mastors people who seem destined to draw of their fates," and the men who the right ticket for the Irish take their opportunities are these Sweep and others who do not who do not depend upon luck. nor should stone. or stoney

"Keep It a year-two yoara, and if you aren't satisflod bring it right back here and get your money."

mazona, be confused with free Frinsong, stoney magons nover being free,

By different kinds of rock, acientists are able to tell the age of the earth. For some, obscure reason this plenaes them im- mensely.

Speaking of the earth, you all know that it spins around the aun once every week. Thus, when it's springtime in the rockics, I'a dann hot over here, and when they're having lunch in London, it is Christmas in the work house. This explains away a number of animal tollen.

Editor's note: anomalies.

Eddie's note: No from the class, please.

You mean

interruptions

Television is one of the modern marvela of science. By means of this wonderful invention you can Aco what you're doing when you're not there. How splondid It will bo in time to come when one will. be able to lie back in bed and watch oneself going to work.

Wireless is a thing that has become so common that we cease to wonder about the miracle. Your wireless set in worked by waves. Ours is a Super Hoops- doop net with gramophone pickup and an attachment for burning toast with, so, of course, we get pretty good results, and are able to annoy the neighbours far more efficiently than in ordinary cases, We can get Walls on it.

We have been wondering Intely whether we could get $20 on It. Next time the wife goes out we'll investigate.