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HANKOW-NANKING TIME TABLE

(FOUR TIMES WEEKLY)

East Bound (stead Down) **

Tuos. Thur.

Fri, Sun.

(Dolphin)

West Bound (Read Up)

STATION

Tucs, Thur.

Fri. Sun.

(Dolphin)

7.00

LV HANKOW

Ar

14:00

8.15

LV KIUKIANG

Lv

12.45

0.35

LV WUHU

Lv

11.25

10,20

Ar NANKING

Lv

10.40

THE

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER

30,

1937.

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Incorporated by Royal Charter 1833 HEAD OFFICE)—LONDON. 38 Bishoperate, E.C.3.

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HANKOW-CHENGTŲ TIME TABLE

(DAILY SERVICE)

Wost. Bound (Reast Down)

East Bound (Resa Up)

Sun. Tue,Mon, Wed, THƯ. SAL

STATION

Mon, Wed, ¦ Bun. Tur

Fri.

su. But

Fri.

(DC-2)

(Loening)

(Loening)

11.45

8.00

LY HANKOW

Ar

17.10

(DC-2) 11.15

0.40

Lv SHASI

Lv

15.45

10.40

Lv ICHANG

Ly

14.45

13.00

LV WANHSIEN LV

12.25

15.00

14.40

Ar CHUNKING LV

10.30

8.00

- Mon, Wed.

Fri.

Sun. Tue. Thư. Sai

Sun. Mon.

(Stinson) 15.10 17.10

LV CHUNKING, Ar Ar CHENGTŲ Lv

Tue. Thự. Sat. (Stinson) 10.00- 8.00

Wed. Fri, (Stinson)

14.30 12.30

(Stinson)

15.10

17.19

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it relaxing for die Arst time on his western trip, at the home of Seated are Mrs. James his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John Dorttiger, In Seattle. Roosevelt, Curtis (Buzzle) Dahl, the President, Eleanor (Sistic) Dahi, Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Boettiger. Standing are Mr. Boettiger and James Roosevelt, the President's son. Later the party visited Vietoria, B. C., as "good neighbours,"

MARRIAGE

TRAVESTIED

THE ways of the tenurgrevor ure Evil of Short-Term dition would develop under a short-

hard. Sa, too, are those of the social reformer.

Contracts

By "AN OLD STAGER"

What sort of family He or tra-

term marringe contrast system? To ine it sounds like a trigid sacrifice of the children's best welfare, which conserved in the united home, the alter of sheer sexuni lupusity,

on

Mr. A. P. Herbert, whom, it has pleased fate to take as a professional humorist and make the instrument

I invites all the social and per- of a sweeping revolution in our mar-

They will light-heartedly sign on sonal disasters that await youthful elago laws, may yet find it so. He

the settes line with rather less, pre impetuosity and careless surrender to hus had a strenuous and ecasionally ineditation than if they were tiding rush impulse, and throws the children, Nerce struggle with the episcopal a service Bal

who are the helpless victims of the reactionaries and other dic-hard There are many other points of system, to the wolves of homeless We should become a apostles, but he will presently dis- expert crucism that promptly sug- perdition.

Bes theutelves. According to the population of short-term matrimonial cover that his worst enemies are his best muhorities, it is the third year orphans. own friends.

of married life that brings the tug This prospect is daunting and dis-

of me. Aut then is the time gusting enough to be repulsive. But Alendy a clergyman has launched when cornial inarriages may become it need not cause us intense anxiety, a new campaign of drastic marriage slightly critimi. reformi. This gentlenum proposes,

that marriage shall be made a ter- Serning their Term minal civil contract, of, my,

ten

beenuse. since it runs counter to fundamental and elemental human instincts as well as to those of the more udinirable specimeNA of the

years legal duration, with the option Under the existing marriage laws, brute creation, It will never become

of extension for a further five or

more years on the expiration of the original domestic lease.

To achieve this purpose he would make optional in the marriage ser- vice the "until death its do

part"

to if crisis ripens

divorce is fairly easy. Perhaps, con Basis of Civilisation

open disaster, the general practice.

sidering the Ackleness of human Judg.

ages

munt and the instability of human Its evil lies in the fact, however, moors, it is already too easy.

that it would encourage the decadents Will the disgruntled parties have, and degenerates. It would be hold- vow, and, of course, institute State under the new dispensation now ing a particularly nasty candle to the endowment for children. Finally, he reriously proposed to wait till their devil. would facilitate the termination of ten-year contract is up? Will they, Civilisation in all recorded unsatisfactory unions, apparently con- willy-nllly, have to serve out the re- has been un inverted pyramid based tract or no contract, by registered mainder of their term? Or will the on the apex of the family and the private agreement and not through clause about "registered private home. To attempt to destroy or the.divorce courts..............

earcament" bezeme Instantly opera undermine that slender domestic {lve?

basis is a work, not of enlightened' A somewhat similar proposal was

Moreover, where exactly is this progress but of aturk, staring rest- propounded more than thirty years short-term contract business to end? tionary debacle. ugo by no less a person than George If we are to have ten-year marriages, That is one reason why it is really Meredith.

with or without the option of re- surprising to find such a theory ex- newal, why not five or two-year pounded at all, if it ever by any ones?

tronk of legislative Insanity became

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It is amazing, and disturbing, to operative, my carnest advice to the This is a surprisingly lulerant pro- and the vital social Institution of young man who contemplated a short- Eramme to come from a quarter as- marriage being treated in this cold- term marriage would be to remain soclated with the Nonconformist con- blooded business spirit.

bachelor. science of former epochs. In its de- Even the Russian Soviet has If he could bear the thought of parture from the straight and nar- realised soon enough the necessity of rot living with her for ever, he had row road of pre-war Nonconformist scrapping the first Bolshevist easy- best not risk living with her even ethics it is so broad-minded ax

regime. to marriage-easy-divorce

It for a decade with any old option of fully renewal or otherwise.

resemble by comparison one of those did not work at all. The great wide by-pass motorlag roads remalas, in spite of all modern If you are not in lave, don't marry. down which one observes modern changes and new-fangled philoso- ! you are, grapple her to traffe, significantly punctuated with phies, still the unit of domedie heart with hoops of something beller ambulance station, careering at 60 or civilisation,

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SCHOOL PUNISHMENTS

sacred rites to the level of a building DARENTS may need to take steps the pupit; and if it were the approved lease, with a terminal option of to protect their children from a and accepted procedure, it would the Hand short renewal, is enough to give me few black sheep in the teaching pro- never be necessary, for coalimental goose-fṛesh.

fession. But without doubt the vart would never be refused. But educa- of teachers deserve tlon authoritles lay down the law, But I realise that my outlook on majority this question is warped by onilquity Kympathy for the position in which "Strap only on the hand," and re- they And lemselves with regard to bel parents communicate this in- and inexperience. Yet, even ad- milting this cardinal disqualification; the possibility of being charged with formation to their children. The I fanes there must be a paychological assault. In addition, school is result is that some districts have a error in this reforming pastor's matrl-jcipline suffers from this possibility, band of regular little classroom

Inwyers. Trouble seldon arises when par- monial plans.

ents are at one with school putitor! The Teacher's Handicap Human nature, we are told, never ties in dealring good behaviour in changes much even in the course of the children. It is when unruly and long incons. The history of "munkind disobedient children, often with The education autherliles neglect distinctly confirms that theory. Yet direc or indirect parental encourage to say what should be done it a youthful human nature must

have ment, defy authority that harmless pupil refuses to hold out his hand. undergone a genuine sea change since but slightly unconventional methods No teacher would dream of asking my adolescence, if this ten-years of correction must be adopted. These this information, lest he be met with option for marringe, is now o' work-methods may be made to look port the modern nonsense talk about the eble proposition.

tively brutal, when expressed in "teacher's personality" at the super- legal language, or in terms which are duity of all punishments when Adieu to Romance.

good teacher is on the job. maliciously halt correct.

It is a net worthy of note that in What young couple, or, for that ench district teachers seem to direct to the pupil's bottom, and take the Teachers, if bold, apply their strop matter, what middle-nged one, being all their assaults on the members of risk: If umid, they avoid the issue, genuinely in love and contemplating one or two families. matrimony, Is going to renounce de- Ilberately that splendid bargain em- Trouble-Makers bodied in the "till death us do part" — Vow? It seems to me the Kreat Iovers of history and romance have all felt that aternity was too brief n pledge for their devotion and fidelity.

2

ACROSS

10 shun bad ile (ang.).

It lacks definition,

10 Is this drink kept in a bin

??

11 Vehicle for sheep,

13 To start with, you can't hit this bird, and there's even less the other way.

15 This mouse is called ingenue in

Fronce.

16 Found in cora and on toor,

17 This is equal rubblah—with

wings.

10 Betler half.

20 Balle-na-Cliath's predecessor. In

Ireland.

21 The industrious workman who always finishes after all the others.

23 Growth.

24 Dimly mixed up with another

fifty, but in no severe fashion. 27 This bite is only a triding

affair.

28 Compile for a controversy. 20 Although he already ha com- pany he always takes us in- too. This, of course, is purely re- latlye.

32 A blue. Keep it dark, though. 33 Ealing (ang.). 34 Port concealed la lemonado

and the rabat karing it, and dia- sipline grows worse, 7

All practical teachers know that perfect Such trouble-making families are the teacher who produces

punishment is usually known to teachers, and it is behaviour when no not unknown for a timid headmaster even possible is an entirely mythical to avoid trouble by tolerating con- person, like the equally mythical duct in the children of these parents police force which maintains law. without falls or Aines. If marriage is to be made a civil which would not be allowed in the and order wil short-term contract, like taking a other children. Malicious, or merely But things being what they are, they country cottage or a seaside bungalow, stupidly Indulgent, parents can cause would prejudice their chimees if they brought the issue to a head with the we must bid adieu to such sentimental too much trouble and publicity, toh as the classic Dante and Beatrice The behaviour of our school chil- education authorities.

next. Hence the existence in our schools dren would be much improved: It

35 Gives a good order for liqueur, of these so-called assaults of a state of affairs where certain

DOWN The modern swain, operating under were committed, for they almost in- recalcitrant pupils are immune from

contract the short-term

wedding variably consist in applying the all forms of punishment, and know scheme, will approach marriage very strap to the bottom of a boy who re it, unless the teacher commits

technical assault, "of much as he might the purchase of a fuses to hold out his hand,

A type com. sports vor. The blubing bride will

The ordinary ann would consider mitted from time immemorial by narents, usually with less regard the affair in much the same this a very sensible, and indeed most light as she would the acquisition obvious procedure, salutary to the necessity. of a sewing machine.

conduct and harmless to the body ut

atinchment.

more

2 Why keep the girl in ignor-

ance?

3. Brult abrond,

4 The affection In which

monarch is held.

5 Hurry, deepest one (adj.).

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6 Made up in Holland,

7 A good number (but not the

wirmer) show themselves to be increasingly mean.

8 Places the toiler apart.

12 I'm clear, anyhow, and that may be taken as something remark- able!

14 1.C.A. and A.M.I.C.E, and artist,

too.

16. Spoil a crustacean,

18 You'll have your trouble in vain to account for such a scoundrel. 22 Mica.

25 Enter a comedian, unleap you prefer to be highly praised. 26 Twins,

27 Make a restless movement. 30 Patronymic.

31 A most unfortunate conjunc

tion.

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