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TO MOTORISTS

SCINTILLA

NOTES OF THE DAY

HOPE OF THE WORLD

MARCH 21, 19857

COUNTRYMEN HAVE MOST BRAINS

By HENRY GOUDE

TT is commonly asserted by town thamptonshire, and Abraham Lia- dwellers that country men and coln was descended from a country

Blow-witted. The family of Hingham, In Norfolk.

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By Horatio Bogy, Ineligible Some day when your liver is good and there is no danger of your throwing a fit, we shall toll you our life story. It may be Norfolk, the best country of rural the absorbing story of a bon England, is the only county that le viteur or the meandorings of not ruined by industrialism or an under-dog born after his urbanisation. We can claim a re-time, but whatever it is going markable list of national leaders and heroes, Nelson was born at our respective positions a jot

to be, it will not have altered Burnham Thorpe, close to tha BEA

We cannot congratulate ourselves At this time that the nations, of humanity, have progressed very far towards the ideal which the lato President Wilson set up for them. His dream was an International Government at Genova, and at one time there was reason to belleve women are to itself the responsibility of pre-enjoy a talo. serving the peace of the world.

I have ceased to look for beauty The League of Nations has done

or truth in the towns or cities, Its best; but it has been handicap having realised for a long time ped from the beginning. It has that the realities of life dwell in not had the strength to compol ob servance of its laws, for the nations the country. 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- principles of internationalism which of the meaning of life and action. lived at Swarleston, near Norwich,

fidence and vision. Nurse Cavell suffering reader. aro ita essential attributes. To be In the towns it is often stated that This heroine, like Nelson, was born successful and full its function, a new religion is wanted, and con- the League must have the un- qualified support of the great Powers: not half.. dozen of them, but all of them. Membership In

.

ism, and the subconscious mind,

the League must be compulsory these movements, but regards them gard, Georgo Borrow and Amelia-the first grey hair, which wo

which has nearly induced a swan The melancholy train of thoughts song from us, was provoked by the stant reference is made to such in the rectory of the parish. things as psycho-analysis, hypnot. In law we have Sir E. Coke. In most dreadful discovery in any artists, Crome, Cotman and Mun- man's life, whether he be a lattor The countryman understands ninge. Authors include Rider Hag-day Pepys or one of the proletariat And any nation violating inter-

Ople.

managed to sort out the other day, as a fancy growth on the real nims national law must be forced to

while grooming ourself to moot dofond ita action at a bar of inter-of life. God is real to us, ruling

that other best girl, national justice, and, if guilty, pay over our worldly affairs, giving us

Other outstanding people belong-

"Bah!" we snarled contemp- which President Wilson conceived, of choosing our own deliverance only served their day and genera-ing momber and sacrificed it to our the penalty. That was, the ideal personal freedom, and the power to

Norfolk whose works not tuously, as wo jerked out the offend- material and Prices HK$50 to $180. or something like it, and that. It and salvation, in

tion but illuminated the whole path would seem, is the only real spiritual things.

of clvflised progress are Sir Robert vanity in the fireplaco. guarantee of peace that wo can The Bible cannot be excelled in Walpole, Matthew Parker, Sir But others that will be follow- know. Given a League embracing its guidance for all activities of Cloudesley Shovali, John Caius, the ing may not be so lightly dismissed. overy nation, and immediate aban-life, and we believe our trials are founder of Calua College, Cam-And so one day to come, when donment of national armaments, due to the lost understanding of bridge, Elizabeth Fry, and Sir these signs of a sonile decay will teaving in the hands of an inter its teaching. particularly in the George Edwards, who started life have become complete, we shall be national force the only weapons in towns. All things deeply real must scaring crows and served the farm the world, we might then with be studied, and we learn how to workers all his life... Rd.feeling of accurity serap our navies

study them. and our alr fleets, for we would be assured of protection against inter- national banditry. As it is wo must pin our hopes for the solution of the present European crisis upon the diplomacy and far-sightedness of the stateamen of three Powers: Britain, France and Italy. If they

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AN APPEAL TO

blunder, we may be lost.

tainment.

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forced to consold ourself with a distinguished head of grey hair and tell that other chap with the bald pate to keep his hair on.

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This list is not by any means complete, but it indicates the sub- and stanco and mettle of men The average of educational at women reared in the natural cradle tainments is lower among country of the race. They could see their to be now in, with this first warn- But what a distressing position folk than town people. This is very much to our advantage, as we goal and mission in life, and fear-ing, of the best years of our life have not been ruined by being lessly and unsellably bent the having been already put behind us. crammed with other people's ideas. whale of their faculties to its al-Shall we get into a panic like the old girl thero who, like us, is drift- We know from our everyday ex- perience what we can do over a The towns rob the individual ofing into a comfortless old ago, and, very wide field. Town people do the spirit of progress, and in its risking everything in one last SEEDS OF WAR

the same routine things, such as stead we find restless complaint of desperate throw, get married? For this present tension it is serving in a shop, or tending a the conditions they have created. machine; thus their minds and Than they meander through life. THE PUBLIC

hard to place the blame. We can bodies become listless, flabby, and crowding to Indoor entertainment not find fault with Germany's view unfit for constructive thought and and watching outdoor sports in An opportunity to show public she was at the mercy of an agresults in the atrophy of the mental them to take part.

that, surrounded by armed nations,

action. This condition ultimately which their physique will not allow appreciation of the faithful ser-gressive power so long as she was and physical powers, and fills the vice rendered to the Colony by unarmed. Germany does not trust hospitals and asylums with human Sir William Peel, and at the same her neighbours. "How aplendid wrecks. time to assist one of Hongkong's had she been able to trust some

A few months ago a series of this that to-day has found us with 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 a press with crushing strength the that disease was treated by phy-dustrial lenders for the improve-wastepaper basket and the other on ment of trade. One speaker refer- the desk: puffing away contentedly special appeal on behalf of the first warlike enterprise which might sicians in the health temples, pro-red to countrymen saluting him at a cigar (for us a sure sigs of Society for the Protection of have threatened Germany's bord vided with sports grounds, bathing

05 an act of subservience, and prosperity in the latter part of the cral We cannot bluune France establishmenta and Bun-baths. Children. The ready consent very much for desiring the security. These tempies were situated in the thought it was due to his expensive month)-looking for all the world given by the use of his name is a further in-bring. It would be ridiculous to by the sea-shore, where the air was pearance.

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What an awful alternative, to ask a person to tako. Was it then for this that we have all along success- fully resisted the blandishments of | tusk-toothed maldens and spurned

acheming dowagers?

Again we ask you, whs it for

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We put the question to the In- dication of Sir William's convic-suggest that France desired that pure and the patients from the Such salutations are common insurance Agent as attracted by the tion that the Society is discharg-force for anything but the safe towns could resume normal cond! Norfolk, and they are entirely due alght of our Cerona Magnum he ing a public service of very real guarding of her frontiers and her tions of life, and recover their to friendliness; there is no sub came again to Interview us. value. No more fitting manner ing it would be if France, too, could tailed medical advice: In Leviticus ride in a car or on a horse, the vinced him with the desirability of colonial empire. But how gratify. | health. The Bible gives much de-servience in them. If you walk, Previous rebuffs. had not con- of commemorating His Excel omit from her budget the millions the Jows are told, "When ye are people will salute lency's Governorship could have of francs necessary for the main-gathered together in your cities Iseal of the day." If you do not leaving the vast fortune embodied you with the our being not married and not 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 policy to the widow, who the appeal, in the hope and belief immense system of fortified lines, you..

which it is given, you will be re-ever that much-to-be-pitied woman that the response made will be and call upon the International worthy of the dual object which force under the control of Geneva The present trials of England garded as some stranger from the was to be. its aponsors have in mind. When to protect her against a belligerent! are due to an unbalanced popula- towns who has lost his manners.

We cannot blame Britain, nor centrated in towns, living under the misunderstanding of the towns-

tion. Too many people are con This incident is an illustration of mium on a life-policy, you are plac- "By inducing us to place a pre- ho relinquishes the Governorship any other power. And yet, S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. time, Sir William Peel will be that it is ki armaments that the tion sets in, and leaders to bring afford to laugh at the jokes about told him: ourself surprised too for

of this Colony in two montha every thinking man will admit unnatural conditions. Deteriora man and the countryside. We can ing a premium on marriage terminating a Colonial Chater Road.

career aced of war is nourished.

the race back to virility fall to the "clod-hopper," "country bump-the first time at the far-reaching which has lasted well-nigh forty

kin," and "swede gnawer.

consequences this insurance busi- ness had had on the social relations years, and the occasion now pre-

Let us remain faithful to the of Hongkong.

people not only to help in re-

The greatest leaders of our destiny imposed upon us as a

The thesis was too much for him, moving what is well described when nations were sick of the sight or not more than one generation population of town and country: the air of resignation with which

Looking back to the days of 1918, nation were all of country birth, people. The humblest efforts aro

most the

useful. Balance

the Insurance Agent. For the first time, we saw final defeat in as a stigma on the fair fame of of blood, weary of battle, mouning removed from country stock. the Colony, but to show, in a over their millions of dead, wo Shakespeare was n

countryman. this is more important than trade he gathered his papers and took manner which His Excellency realise that, then, perhaps, was the His characters act and epeak

his departure. He was smoking most desires, some tribute to his psychological moment for the great by the passions and principles that The countryman le 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- minds of the world to put forward animate all minds, and life is he is still the bedrock of the race, work on behalf of the Empire. In those days they might have pre-in domestic and rural

Academia To those who have hitherto paid valled, had their force been united, Washington sprang from country towns can be changed to happiness wisdom. security and wretchedness of the little consideration to the social had they had the courage to stock at Great Brington, in Nor-and indepedence. problem which the Society is demand! First: enforced disarma- seeking to ameliorate, we would mont of the unwilling fow; and commend a close reading of the finally, disarmament by the group appeal, in which the alms of the of nations which had laid the Society and its actual activitica and international friendship. Did foundation for lasting peace, trust are very clearly set out. A point they miss their opportunity, those which deserves special emphasis war-stricken nations which aigned is that the Society does not dis- at Versalles 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 ara con- ed and did they leave for another fined to families whose income generation the solution of their problem? Treaties, an observer per person per month is less

commented the other day, are no than four dollars. In this con-

longer security against war. nection, a most illuminating side- Paper guarantees will not stop light on the extent of poverty bullets. We do not suggest for a In the Colony is provided by the moment that the situation in fact that of nearly four hundred Europe is as near to chaos AB BOMO cases handled in January alone, reports from abroad suggest. We the average monthly income per believe, still, in the sound sense of Europe's statesmen. We must person was $1.821 A moment's

preserve that faith, for other- thought of what these figures wise there will be panie. From imply should be sufficient to panic, and the terrible errors of prove the necessity of such work diplomacy which precipitated the as the Society undertakes. A horror. of 1914, we would ask de. further fact to be kept in mind liverance.

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

tion Committee of the Royal The acute despair of the Selec-

Academy, photographed at their toll struck me forcibly. Only one member Bermed complacent. He had the coveted scat at the extreme left tip of the semi-circle.

Since Sir Joshua Reynold's time. many relief expedients have boen 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 a wheel-barrow 'shouting hunting cries and throwing pellets of wet dough over his shoulder. This failed because he grow tired and took to throwing great handfuls at a time:

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

· President: What is it this time, boys?

Secretary: Stag.

President

Charley.

(yawning):

Senior Academician (at speak- Ing-tube); Hoy

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Charley

Volca from Below: Hullof

3. A: Stag up.

Volce from Below: Ay, ny

Char-

The first stag picture from the pilo in the cellar was then sent up 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, and ber mother Indignantly took har home,