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HOPE OF THE WORLD

MARCH 21,1985.

COUNTRYMEN HAVE MOST BRAINS

We cannot congratulate ourselves nt this time that the nations, of humanity, have progressed very far towards the ideal which the late Président Wilson set up for them. His dream was ha International Government at Geneva, and at one lime there was reason to belleve women are

By HENRY GOUDE

T is commonly asserted by town thamptonshire, and Abraham Lin I dwellers that country men and coin was descended from a country

slow-witted. The family of Hingham, in Norfolk.

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AN AWFUL DISCOVERY By Horatio Bogy, Ineligible qu Some day when your liver is good and there is no danger of your throwing a fit, we shall tell

you cur life story. It maybe Norfolk, the best country of rural the absorbing story of a bon to itself the responsibility of pre-enjoy, a tale.

England, is the only county that is viveur or the meanderings of serving the peace of the world.

I have ceased to look for beauty not ruined by industrialism or an under dog born after his The League of Nations has done or truth in the towns or cities, urbanfaation. We can claim a re-time, but whatever it is going Its best; but it has been handicap having realised for a long time markable list of national leaders to be, it will not have altered ped from the beginning. It has

that the realities of life dwell in and heroes. Nelson was born at our respective positions à int not had the strength to compel ob

Burnham Thorpe, close to the sca Bervance of its laws, for the nations retained too many of their old pro- The country folk, living closer and the wide open spaces to the we as the half-witted author of judices and adopted too few of the to nature, have a clearer intuition north, which give unbounded con- this column and you its long-

Adence and vision. Nurse Cavoll suffering: render. principles of internationalism which of the meaning of life and action. lived at Swardeston, near Norwich

The melancholy train of thoughts are its essential attributes. To be In the towns it is often stated that successful and fulfil its function, a new religion is wanted, and con- This heroine, like Nelson, was born which has nearly induced a swan in the rectory of the parish. Bong from us, was provoked by the the League must have the un-atant reference is made to such qualified support of the great things as psycho-analysis, hypnot In law we have Sir E.. Coko. In most dreadful discovery in any Powers: not half a dozen of them, fam, and the subconscious mind.

artists, Crome, Cotman and Mun-man's life, whether he be a latter- but all of them. Membership in

Authors Include Rider Hag day Pepys or one of the proletariat The countryman

understandsnings. the League must be compulsory.

managed to sort out the other day, And any

nation violating inter- these movements, but regards them Hard, George Borrow and Amella the first grey hair, which wo

Ople. as a fancy growth on the real alma

while grooming ourself to meet national law must be forced to

that other best girl. defend its action at a bar of Inter- of life. God is real to us, ruling over our worldly affairs, giving us national justice, and, if guilty personal freedom, and the powering to Norfolk whose works not Other outstanding people belong-

can

and Sir George Edwards, who started life scaring crows and served the farm workers all his life.

tuously, as we jerked out the offend "Bah!" we snarled contemp the penalty. That was the ideal which President Wilson conceived, of choosing our own deliverance

tion but illuminated the whole path vanity in the fireplace. or something like it, and that, it and salvation in material and only served their day and genera-ing member and sacrificed it to our would seem. is the only real spiritual things,

of civilised progress are Sir Robort

Sir But others that will be follow- guarantee of peace that we

The Bible cannot be excelled in Walpole, Matthew Parker, know. Given a League embracing its guidance for all activities of Cloudesley Shovell, John Calus, the ing may not be so lightly dismissed. when every nation, and immediate aban-life, and we believe our trials are founder of Calus College; Cam And so one day to come,

these signs of a senila decay will donment of national armaments, due to the lost understanding of bridge, Elizabeth Fry, leaving in the hands of an inter- its teaching, particularly in the

have become complete, we shall be national force the only weapons in towns... All things deeply real must

forced to console ourself with a the world, we might then with a

distinguished head of groy hair be studied, and we learn how to

and tell that other chap with the | feeling of security scrap our navies | study them.

bald pate to keep his hair on. and our alr fleets, for we would be assured of protection against Inter- national banditry. As it is we The average of educational at

But what a distressing position must pin our hopes for the solution Iininments is lower among country/women roared in the natural cradle. of the present European crisis upon folk than town people. This is of the race. They could see their to be now in, with this first warn- goal and mission in life, and fearing, of the best years of our life the diplomacy and far-sightedness very much to our advantage, as we lessly and unselfishly bent the having been already put behind us. of the statesmen of three Powers: have not been ruined by being whole of their faculties to its at Shall we get into a panto like the

tainment. blunder, we may be lost.

Hongkong Telegraph. Britain, France and Italy. If they crammed with other people's ideas.

THURSDAY, MAK. 21, 1936.

AN APPEAL TO

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We know from our everyday ex- perience what we can do over a

This list is not by any means complete, but it indicates the sub- stance and mettle of men and

The towns rob the individual of very wide field. Town people do the spirit of progress, and in its the same routine things, such as stead we find restless complaint of serving in a shop, ar tending the conditions they have created. machine; thus their minds and Thus they meander through life, bodles become listless, flabby, and crowding to indoor entertainment unfit for constructive thought and and watching outdoor sports in results in the atrophy of the mental them to take part. nction. This condition ultimately which their physique will not allow and physical powers, and fills the hospitals and asylums with human wrecks."

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old girl there who, like us, is drift- ing into a comfortless old age, and, . risking everything in one last desperate throw, get married?

What an awful alternative, to ask a person to take.. Was it then for this that we have all along success- fully resisted the blandishments of tusk-toothed maidens and spurned acheming dowagers?

Again we ask you, was it for

SEEDS OF WAR

For this present tension it is THE PUBLIC hard to place the blanie. We can

not and fault with Germany's view An opportunity to show public she was at the mercy of an ag- that, surrounded by armed nationa. appreciation of the faithful ser-gressive power so long as she was vice rendered to the Colony by unarmed. Germany does not trust Sir William Peel, and at the same her neighbours. How splendid

A fow months ago a series of this that to-day has found us with time to assist one of Hongkong's had she been able to trust some most deserving causes, is pre-calm authority in Geneva to sup- We learn from the ancient Greeks wireless talks gave the views of in-one foot firmly implanted in the sented by the launching of areas with crashing strength the that disease was treated by phy dustrial leaders for the improve-wastepaper basket and the other en ment of trade. One speaker refer the deak: puffing away contentedly special appeal on behalf of the first warlike enterprise which might sicians in the health temples, pro-red to countryman saluting him at a cigar (for us a sure sign of Society for the Protection of have threatened Germany's bord- vided with sports grounds, bathing

an art of subservience, and prosperity in the latter part of the and aun-hath s Children. The ready consenters! We cannot blame France establishments given by the Governor to the very much for desiring the security These temples were situated in the thought it was due to his expensive month)-loolding for all the world

which a powerful defence force will pine forests of the mountains or

motor-car and his important up like a prosperous revenue officer? use of his name is a further in- bring, it would be ridiculous, to by the sea-shore, where the air was

We put the question to the In- dication of Sir William's convic-suggest that Franca desired that pure and the patients from the

Such salutations are common Insurance Agent as attracted by the tion that the Society is discharguarding of her frontiers and her tions of life, and recover their to friendliness; there is no sub-came again to interview ua.

force for anything but the safe-towns could resume normal condi- Norfolk, and they are entirely due sight of our Corena Magnum he. ing a public service of very real colonial empire. But how gratify health. The Bible gives much de- servience in them. If you walk, Previous rebuffs had not con- value. No more fitting manner ing it would be if France, too, could talled medical advice. In Leviticus ride in a car or on a horse, the vinced him with the desirability of of commemorating His Excel-omit from her budget the millions the Jews are told, "When ye are people will salute you with the our being not married and not lency's Governorship could have of france necessary for the main-gathered together in your cities seal of the day," If you do not leaving the vast fortune embodied been chosen. We readily endorse tenance of a great air force and an will send the pestilence among return the salute in the spirit in in the polley to the widow, who- the appeal, in the hope and belief immense system of fortified lines, you..

which it is given, you will be reaver that much-to-be-pitied woman that the response made will be and call upon the international

The present trials of Englandgarded as some stranger from the was to be. worthy of the dual object which force under the control of Geneva re due to an unbalanced popula tuwas who has lost his manners, its sponsors have in mind. When We cannot blame Britain, nor to protect her against a belligerent!

"By inducing us to place a pre- tion. Too many people. dro con- This incident is an illustration of unnatural conditions. Deteriora man and the countryside. We can ing a premium on marriage, we

pearance.

he relinquishes the Governorship any other power. And yet, centrated in towns, living under the misunderstanding of the towns- mium on a life-policy, you are plac- jof this Colony in two months' every thinking man will admittion sets in, and leadera, to bring afford to laugh at the jokes about told him: ourself surprised too for

terminating Colonial career seed of war is nourished. which has lasted well-nigh forty

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back to virility fall to the "clad-hopper," "country bump- the first time at the far-reaching

kin," and "awede gnuwer."

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consequences this Insurance bust- ness had had on the social relations Let us remain faithful to the of Hongkong. destiny imposed upon Us as #

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The acute despair of the Selec- tion Commitice of the Royal Academy, photographed at their toll struck me forcibly. Only one member semed complacent He had the coveted scat at the extreme left tip of the semi-circle.

The greatest leaders of our

The thesis was too much for him, people not only to help in re- Looking back to the days of 1918. nation were all of country birth, people. The humblest efforts are the Insurance Agent. For the moving what is well described when nations were sick of the sight or not more than one generation the most useful. Balance

first time, we saw final defeat in us a stigma on the fair fame of of blood, weary of battle, moaning removed

country

stock, population of town and country; the air of resignation with which this is more important than trade ho gathered his papers and took the Colony, but to show, in a over their millions of dead, we Shakespeare was a countryman.

balances. manner which His Excellency realise that, then, perhaps, was tho His characters act and speak

his departure. He was smoking moment for the great by the passions and principles that psychological most desires, some tribute to his minds of the world to put forward animate all minds, and life is he is still the bedrock of the race.

The countryman is not simple; our other Corona!. years of able and conscientious their best efforts for disarmament. portrayed in the world for all time and through him the struggle, In-

Academia work on behalf of the Empire. In those days they might have pre-in domestic and rural wisdom.security and wretchedness of the To those who have hitherto paid vailed, had their force been united. Washington sprung from country towns can be changed to happiness little consideration to the social had they had the courage to stock at Groat. Brington, In Nor-and Indepedence. problem which the Society is demand! First: enforced disarma seeking to ameliorate, we would ment of the unwilling few; and commend a close reading of the finally, disarmament by the group appeal, in which the aims of the foundation for lasting peace, trust of nations which had laid the Society and its actual activities and International friendship. Did are very clearly set out. A point they malas their opportunity, those which deserves special emphasis war-stricken nations which signed is that the Society does not dis-at Versailles a treaty which, so pense money grants, and that the they hoped, would make another cases it helps by medical treat-war impossible? Were they delud- ment and food supplies are con-ed and did they leave for another fined to familles whose income generation the solution of their

an problem? Treaties, observer per person per month is less commented the other day, are no than four dollars. In this con- longer A security against war. nection, a most illuminating side- Paper guarantees will not light on the extent of poverty bullets. We do not suggest for à in the Colony is provided by the moment that the situation in fact that of nearly four hundred Europe is as near to chaos as some cases handled in January alone, reports from abroad suggest. We the average monthly income-perbellove, still, in the sound sense of

Europe's statesmen. person was $1.82! A moment's preserve that faith, for other- thought of what these figures wise there will be panic. From imply should be sumcient to panic, and the terrible errors of prove the necessity of such work diplomacy which precipitated the is the Society undertakes. Ahorror of 1914, we would ask de- further fact to be kept in mind verance.

when considering this problem is

that the Colony possesses prac-

stop

We must

tically no Government social sor. Society admittedly only touches vices, and, as the appeal states, the fringe of a big social prob the alternative for such work as lem, but the good that it is doing the Society has voluntarily on behalf of the sick and des- undertaken would be a costly titute who are unable to help municipal service. This work ls themselves. is a sufficient reason not one for sectional responsi- why it should be provided with tion resting on the residents of expand its beneficent activities. the Colony as a whole; one, We bespeak for the Fund a mea- moreover, in which those of us sure of support commensurate who are fortunate enough to live with the needs of the Society in relative ease and comfort and worthy of the name with should willingly discharge. The which it is associated.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. Blity--it is a communal obliga- the wherewithal to continue and

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This time I'M going back to MY mother!"

Since Sir Joshua Reynold's time many relief expedients have been tried. One year they had all the entries stuck in batches against a long wall and an aged Academician was whirled quickly past them in wheel-barrow shouting hunting eries and throwing pellets of wet dough over his shoulder. This failed because he grew tired, and took to throwing great bandfuls at a time.-

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Another experiment was to got a little girl to open a big coloured picture-book at random, while the Selection Committee looked on, Procedure:

President: What is it this time, nys 7

Secretary: Stag,

President Charloy.

(yawning):

Tell

Senior Academician (at speak ing-tube): Hoy! Chorley! Ray Stevens!.

Voice from Below: Hullo! SA Stag up.

Voice from Below:: Ay, ay,

The first sing picture from the pllo. In the cellar was then sent p and accepted, and so on. This method also failed In time, because the little girl began to cry when she saw the picture coming up, nner mother indignantly took her home,