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PLEASURES OF NOVELTY

By ROBERT LYND

SPENT the Whitsunildo holiday | ugliest. To see a toad for the in a village at the mouth of a first time is an experience worth wooded gorge in which wood- having. I do not know whether

wrens

The Very Idea!

MADGE AND · THE' AMAH'S EAR

By George

A growing consciousnesa the world is failing to establish peace is bringing to the fore an Irrepressible question: What shall be the attitude of Christians to-

"The Golden Candareen" ward th "next war"? On every side car lost men and women aro

WING to some rather acckinır an answer. Several

uncalled for comments Vgroups have alrendy. ventured

on the lack of action in the which suggest

Jeejeebhoy serial we nearly A increasing purpose to TANOVE

were singing not many there are any really ugly birds in Christian support from War. U At a conference in New York yards from each other as one pro- Nature, but, if there are, I should killed the whole thing off

which hundreds registered their grussed along the path.

certainly like to see them. Most yesterday and only the in- Xopposition to war for "whatever

people will agree that there are ducement of free shows to This was, нo far as I was cor-

some fairly ugly flowers--the the cinema this week and the cerned, a new experience. I had winter hellotrope, for instance. personal persuasion of the heard the wood-wren before-that yet I have watched a man who Editor are responsible for the continued existence of Madge and her boy friend.

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curious ocstatic vibration of sound that seems always about to become had never seen the flower before muste, and, indeed, sometimes be- gazing at it with a look of rapture comes it--but I had never before as though he had discovered n been in a wood full of wood-wrena.treasure, The wood-wren and the garden-

on

DIRECT ACTION

How much do such declarations The resolve to wage war upon war probably expreases warbler seemed to be the most The memory, of the first time young (this is only their seventh something more than general audible volces among the oaks we saw a bird or a flower con-instalment) but from now. desire to stop war. For to-day and beeches of the wood.

jures up · 21 whole landscape be- they must live in daily fear of the world is disillusioned with

Every holiday should provide been excited by the experience

fore us-proof that we must have death. efforts to make peace by stopping some novelty of this kind. The since it stamped the image of a

And then no more will Madge We are impatient, of piling

puff. at her Isla de Perfectos pacis on pacts. We see that we aight of something new afforda 'us place on the mind in this way.

cheroot and cheat the amah at mahjong while the fireflies poke their little fun at the cockroach and the moon waltzes serenely across the tropic sky. No more will Jecjeebhoy cut his carne with his father a razor or sit medita tively at his little desk in the PW.D. reflecting on the higher ethics of sex.

are not making peace by merely talking peace, while sticking an- other pistol In our hip pocket. Yet there are many who feel that the effort to set up substitutes for war must go on and they seek to wage war on war by organisation and education. Opposition to war for "whatever purpose" and Stubbs Road pledges not to fight come from those who despair of success for pence

machinery and distrust renounce national promises to

They turn to direct action, and personal renunciation of war. This is an extension of the attitude of conscientious objectors. recognises no obligation to country and asserts that war is never the lesser of two evils.

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1934.

OUR OVERCROWDED' PRISONS

war.

NEGATIVE PACIFISM

ためし

a pleasant excitement, whether it

is a small greenish-yellow bird or Some of my clearest memories of the Pacte Ocean seen from a peak sight of a nuthatch, a black red- places are associated with the first

in Darien.

a very

start, a nightingale, a bee-orchis,

New cities, new mountaintops, | rest-harrow, and fumitory. I re new birds, new flowers we are member clearly even, simply be s built that we crave for some cause I had never seen the flower novelty of the kind as the man of before, the sloping field where selence craves for new knowledge. for the first time I saw a flower The popularity of pleasure-cruises the name of which i forget. Bat we are anticipating. just now is due largely to

A Incidentally night had fallen. The Importance we assign to fitting scene this for the sweetcat human desire to see as many new

novelty hns nover been places as possible. Most travel,

more rendezvous that ever fell to our lot indeed, is un expression of the apparent than since the invention to describe. craze for novelty, I know a great of wireless. How many posseH- Jeojcebboy and Madge are still many people who would ca surs of a sufficiently strong wire-alive, especially the latter whom we visit a new country that was un-ess set have been able to remain left treading on the cat in her little comfortable than a country that apathetic on hearing a new bungalow on the Kowloon side. Reg was comfortable but familiar. station? Even propagandist had just killed a pursuer with a

rather

however, the

difficulties and ob-

talk about the output of pig-iron well-aimed sock on the kisser and Nature. It is obvious, intended in Russin from Moscow stira the the stage was set for the meeting us to be lovers of novelies. She blood if it is the first time you of these two lovers after overcoming pours them out for us, especially have succeeded in getting Moscow. insuperable It is an extreme position, almost in temperate climes, daily. Never How sweet the most hackneyed į stacles. a defeatist attitude. It is evoked since the beginning of the world fox-trol would sound if it come,

SEVENTH INSTALMENT. by memories of the extreme has the round of the year in Eng. not from a London hotel, but from pressure to which Christians in all land been exactly the same as the at-long-last-found Ljubljann! As

Picture Madge looking out with So overcrowded were the gaola | nations are subjected by war-time round of the year that went before novelty wears off,

ineffable sadness over the Harbour hysteria, pressure which led unit. There is no mechanical same-attraction of foreign stations of the Colony last year that no English bishop to say of the World ness in the procession of the sen- slumps in sonte peculiar way, and their entrance.

where the Kowloon sewers made fewer than 1,307 male prisoners War, "This is the greatest fight sons. Things are so ordered that a good programme from Daventry

One eye was closed but in the had to be released before the ever made for, the Christian re-even a shower of rain may become seems better than 1 bad pro- Alfredo & His Orch.expiration of their sentences ligion." One must sympathisen novelty to us or a fall of snow, or gramme even from the far end of other was a look of longing. A tear had wormed its way down the Alfredo & His Orch.

with this attitude, this negative fine day in August. The very the world. This, however, is rugged lines of her face and was Thix is revealed in the paclism. But it must be re-distribution of the flowers varies partly because the number of Derickson & Brown. annual report of the Super-cognised as negative. The rejec from year to year,

This year, for wireless stations is limited and keen edge of her jawbone.

now hanging precariously on the Derickson & Brown. intendent of Prisons, which re- tion of war is not quite enough, example, unless I am mistaken, soon comes to an end, and because Madge hiccuped and the tear.

old knob to fell with a splash on an sìt. Jack Hulbert, cords the fact that all the exist. Other ways must be found for the white lace has bloomed with turning the same

Del adjusting differences

an unprecedented splendour. listen in to a new country does With a foul curso that came Jack Hulbert.ing penal institutions of the abusing justice. Negative paci-

not quite give us the novelty of With Nature so tavish of novel-a visit to a new country,

strangely from those sweet fomin- C-2661 "Three Sisters" Selection-Parts 1 & 2

Colony had their accommodation Gsm must be accompanied by

ine Hips: Madge swallowed New Mayfair Orch. severely taxed. In regard to

positive peacemaking. And the ties, then, we should surely be

unnatural if we were indifferent The motorist in his wanderings dozen lumps of sugar in quick Intro: "Circus Queen;" "Now that have a Spring Time:" Victoria. Gaol it is merely stated slight as some of the despairing hope for positive effort is not so

to them. Most of us go through does not so easily tre of new succession. It would never do if "Somebody wants to go to sleep" "Roll on that it wits again overcrowded. ones believe. War is only the

life unconsciously making a places. For him the number of she should hiccup when Reg's arnts were about her and that Rolling Road:" "You are doing very well;" "Hand At the Laichikok Female Prison.cltimate violence developed by collection of them in our memories, possible new places is almost un-

stupid and hateful thinking. It is

Even novelties of food and drink limited, and he can spend theft high pitched volee whispering

on his words of love in her ear. ut only the final violence, but remain pleasantly in this collec- holidays of a lifetime

tion of never-to-be-forgotten ex-travels without exhausting them. across to the nullah and washed As an afterthought Madge went the procuring cause the fear and

I remember drink blundering which needs atten-periences.

ing-stregn for the first time at between visiting new places and the verandah and resumed her I confess my own taste swings her ears. Then she returned to Assisi, and eating bouillabaisse

visiting familiar places. One atance. Her knees felt weak and for the first time at Marseilles.

new after a time she fell into a cross- did not like either of them, but I does not see enough of n liked tasting them for the first place to become acquainted with logged position on the verandah. time.

Fall ita novelties: the novelties of a place seem actually to become more numerous as we become more familiar with it. It is the same with familiar books: the novelties of Shakespeare and Dickens ecem to multiply as we go back to them again and again.

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EDUCATIONAL REVOLUTION

Great Britain runs two systems of education side by side-one free, the other extremely pensive. To modify this situation, tho National

It is said that nearly everything is worth doing once. The saying Schoolmasters recently passed n

Association of 19 a little sweeping, but un- doubtedly, when we look back, we resolution to the effect that a net- enjoy having done many things work of national primary schools that we enjoyed only because we be established to which the chil- were doing them for the first time. dren of rich and poor alike should have enjoyed seeing many places go. It was freely stated that such that I would not visit a second

system would revolutionise the time except under compulsion. country in a very short time.. Re. volutions often are rather more

than this

In our desire to see new animals und flowers, again, most of us are enger to see not only the most

complicated matters would imply, but such a proposal does, in fact, go to the roots of beautiful things in nature but the

the British educational system. If it were adopted, it might do for the British public schools what the fret twenty years of the cen- bring them within reach of all tury did for the older universities classes. These schools, of which Eton and Harrow, Winchester and Rugby, are the most famous, are anong the most private institu- tions in the world. It has been estimated that the type of eduen- tion which they symbolise, ending

eunstrueled to accommodate 120 inmates, there were frequently over 200, whilst in the case of the Laichikok Male Prison it has been found necessary to make provision for a further hall for 200 more prisoners. These facts strikingly indicate the strain placed on the existing prisons. When the figures are analysed, however, it becomes clear that the tremendous increase in our prison population is largely accounted for by incarcerations for minor offences. Actually, the admissions during the year totalled no fewer than 11,439, as against 7,793 in 1932, but it is significant that the number of convicts (long-term prisoners) in custody at the end of the year was easily the lowest for ten ycars. The figure was 162. In 1926, there were over 400. So far as the daily average of prisoners is concerned, last year's figure of 1,472 exceeds that of any other twelve months in the ten-year period. The point which naturally suggests itself is that our gaols are be ing needlessly cluttered up with with three or four years at Oxford petty offenders, whose "crimes"

or Cambridge. costs something acarcely warrant prison sen- like £3,000 per bay, which is as tences. The extent to which much as the total income this process is carried is shown prosperous working class family by the large number who have for twenty-five years, had to be given their freedom before their terms expired. | EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Facts to be remembered in this connection are that not only does circumstances related, that the.

It is hardly surprising in the this punishment for trivial

children of only about 8 per cent. offences increase the congestion of the population of Great Britain in the prisons, thereby adding are able to attend these establish. fresh worries to already harassments. Novertheless, the English ed officials, but the process public schools have trained and merely results in added cost to produced many of the most re. the Government in the way of markable mon in English history. Both Oxford and Cambridge now maintenance. To put it no higher, under existing conditions tum of society. They are able to welcome ability from every stra the game is not worth the do this because of the generous candle. Meanwhile, we can only scholarships they offer. If, as the commiserate with our prison National Association of School- staffs in the daily anxieties masters suggests, the children of which they have to face, partial classon in their first years re- cularly at Victoria Gaol, whichceived the same type of education, an equal op. has long since outlived ita utility. all would stand

public The only ray of comfort to them portunity of winning a

school scholarship. This, It is Is the knowledge that, at long contended, would be a further last, definite progress is being step toward completa social homo- made with the new gaol at geneity, and would modify the Stanley,

duality of British education,

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Hence we may conclude that. great as are the pleasures of novelty, the pleasures of familiari- ty with places and things that never lose their novelty--the sen on a known shore, the birds in a known wood, a handful of known books--are greater still.

́"I would like to divorce Albort and start on antique shop but

that business lan't whint It,"used" to be."

It was strange that this wo man who had killed pigs in her youth and had muscles that would have been a credit to a gorilla felt her strength oozing.

· from her as the hour of the rendezvous.approached.

Was it love? Again that hiccup.

Madge could only tighten her bolt and hope for the best.

The wind was freshening and ́she could feel the meat skewers in her hair tapping gently against the back of her head. They reminded hor that she had not closed the door Shooting out a doxterous. loft leg she slammed the door to, evoking a howl from the amah whose ear had become caught in the hingea.

But she could howl till the cows came home, for Madge's newly washed ears had caught the tramp of well known feet. She listened in a stiness punctuated only by the amah's yells, her own stertor- ous hiccups and the tramp of those dear feet.

One, two, three, four, five. She counted breathlessly, Good heavens how many foot was Jeafeebhoy bringing with him?

Perhaps he was riding to must her on a cow.

In the darkness alio could seo a shadow rapidly approaching the verandah.

(Will Jrejocbhoy reach the ver- andah? Is it Reg anyway or have we been putting your lega? · No, folkat Thie is Jesforbliop definitely on his way but whether he is riding a cow or a centipede is a maliar we leave to our next instalment. We never ought to have brought his feet into the story at all after the dienstrous effect of his ancks, How- aver what's done can't be undone and too can only hope that ichatever ha la riding won't stampede when Madge get on the hiccup. There is the other Hittle question of the amah's car to be settled, · Wè And thought she was quistly reading an old edition of Chaucer poems bri how could we know that nhu had left her lught the intell However what's done can be cut of and this is that we shall have to do to. morrow if she can't quit velling while we get Madge and Rog to gether in their first great love -sceno.)