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Robert Lynd's Saturday Essay
Would You Like To Change Your Name?
URING recent weeks
a lady who after a searching cross- examination by Mr. Derek Curtis-Bennett felt so "ter- ribly upset" that she would "never be able to forget it" gave notice that she was changing her name to "Mrs. Kurttisbenet."
It has always seemed strange to me that in England anyone can, merely by announcing the fact,
get rid of his surname and adopt any other name he chooses,
The change, it must be ad- mitted, is often a change for the better. Many authors, with their fine acrise of the flavour of words,
names have adopted which were a considerable im- provement on the names they in infancy. Thus, The contribution which sport received can make towards improving "Anthony Hope" seems a much relationships of nations has long more appropriate name for the been a subject of keen debate. [author of the "Dolly Dialogues" That the debate to-day, gener-than the original Anthony Hope ally speaking, has changed in Hawkins.
tone from one of enthusiastic In our own day again, what expectation to thinly veiled a brilliant invention is the nume cynicism may be a significant | "Michael Arlen"! Mr. Arien's commentary.on humanity's hall- original name, Dikran Kou- ing progress towards interna-youmdjan, is in its way impres- tional friendliness and under- sive enough, but it is impossible standing, but one hesitates to to imagine Mr. Dikran Koù- believe it is the final, or the most youmdjan as the author of "The accurate assessment of Sport's Green Hat." relation to world happiness and
peace.
Possibly thiose who most ardently believed in the ming- the ling of nationalities on sports fields, where they have a common ground of approach and a nation are not its
lenders--
international misunderstanding
"Mother, whoever dreamed that some day I'd be an O'Reilly ?"
names no eminent poet-in Eng- . Modern Prussia has gone fur- lish at least has ever done so. ther than this and has put a tax In France J. B. Poquelin altered on a change of surname amount. his name to "Moliere," and ing to from 10s. to £150, accord- Francois Marie Arouet took the ing to the
lowed their example.
name.
THEN there was Moses Hitler, of Warsaw, who naked to be allowed to change his name on the ground tant, because of it, he had been refused a room in a hotel, that his ten-year-old son had become the laughing-stock of the school, and that his grown-up son had been jilted by his fiancoo, who could not face the prospect of be- ing known as "Mrs. Hitler." "His request was humanely granted.
Recently, again, a Russian Jew named Hitler altered his name by deed poll to Kamenskt.
Other Russians besides the Hitlers have recently become sensitive about their surnames. There was Comrade Ecanosik, for example, whose name means "Noseless" and who rightly changed it to "Snowman," and there was Comrade- Jukko£» (which means "Swindler"), who will be known in future as "Sea- ma.'
I do not feel that there was the same reason for Comrade Lissokobilka ("Little Bald Mare") to abjure the name of his fathers. But that, after all, is his affair, and he has taken advantage of the new dispensa-. tion to call himself "Shevchen- ko."
It seems to me that if anyone wishes to change his name he should be allowed to do so only on condition that, instead of adopting a name already known, such as Chamberlain or Eden, he should invent a new name... either a simple name like "Poet" or "Astronomer" or "Greengro- cer," or a decorative name on the Dickensian model of "Chuzzle- wit" and "Cheoryble."
""the"name"lacked dignity, that" it was not fundamentally a name at all, and that its use would be
contrary to public policy,"
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I am myself in favour of a law forbidding anyone to change his from wishing to be called by the Yet in other countries, for
he can show surname unless
historic name of "Hitler," vari- Un-
To me, it seems, on the good reason for doing so.
ous members of the Hitler family
contrary, that any der French and German law, I have been at considerable pains one who wishes to call himself believe, it is not permissible to to change their surname to some allowed to do so; but I should "Mr. Parkyakarkus" should be change one's name without ofli- thing else. There was Mr. Mor- require very strong reasona be cial authority; and, in fact, in ris Hitler, of Brooklyn, who fore I allowed a non-member of pre-Hitler Germany,
anyone complained that, on account of the family to call himself by the wishing to take a new surname his name,
noble name of "Smith." he was continually other possessor of the name ob- causing him much embarrass- history proves the opposite. Did was forbidden to do so if some subjected to scorn and ridicule, surnames do not matter, but It may be replied to this that
jected or could show that it ment," and who was permitted
not the English, in their at- might be injurious to his in- by the Supreme Court to rename civilisation of Ireland, pass terests.
himself "Morris Hilton."
temp to uproot the Gaelic
It is because I believe this that name chosen. I
I think the American judge was HOW is it, by the way, nume of Voltaire; but, though imagine, however, that, if one wrong in refusing permission that though so many English actors and actresses were a German one would not be some time ago to Mr. Harry Einstein, the comedian, to be- prose-writers have adopted new have often preferred to be known allowed to change one's name to
by names not inherited
come legally known under his from Hitler even for £150. In Ger- stage name, "Parkyakarkus.” their parents, the leading Eng- many it is illegal even to call a The judge's permission was re- find themselves capable of ghar- whether those leaders-be dicta-lish dramatists have never fol- child. "Hitler" as a Christian fused on three grounds that ing sympathetle interests, ex-tors, politicians, militarists or pected too much. They looked financial magnates—but the men can travel who to the sportsmen to accomplish and women what the politicians and diplo-around the world leaving behind mats had failed to do, without them in the countries they visit realising that, to-day at any the feeling that there is still his something fine about humanity, rate, the politician and satellites, and not
fair chance sports and that given a the players, are the keymen to in- men would become as brothers. Lernational relationships. Were
Sport can make this contribu- positions reversed, perhaps the tion. Unhappy it is equally world would be much nearer its true that it can be a medium of Utopia.
This docs nat mean that and H-will. But in the final international sport has not and analysis the scales "eigh cannot, accomplish a great deal decidedly in favour of the posi- in bringing the peoples of the live contributions of interna- world into closer harmony. tional sport and sportsmen, and Such a belief could not fail to while the various branches of be aroused yesterday afternoon athleticism have representatives as the German tennis players like the tennis players who performed at the Hongkonghonoured Hongkong yesterday, Cricket Club. From their skill, sport can still be expected to their sportsmanship, their happyplay a leading part in the quest and friendly demeanour on the for an ideal state. Though in court, whether in victory or sport Mr. H. G. Wells can sec defeat,
of "the most hopeful organ several hundreds
for people of varying type and excreting the more violent and nationalities shared a common adventurous ingredients in the enjoyment and contentment. It surplus energy of making", he was possible for strangers to also confesses that "sport loads become neighbours, and racial also to the greater fullness of distinctions, social distinctions life and beauty," If. sport can and such became obliterated give us this it will have accom- beneath an overwhelming cx-plished something well beyond pression of friendliness.
the capacity of the greatest politicians.
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Laat night, a popular host From displays of sporting
who can
never get a word in skill and ethics such as yester The Gorman tennis aces who edgeways, disguised chewing- day's it seems an important | played here yesterday are among gum as hora d'ocuvres. Never- lesson can be learned. It is this: the world's best ambassadors.—theless, there was quite a good that the people most typical of S. A. G.
chin-wag.
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law ordering every Irishman to abandon his family name and to take the name of a trade such as "Fisher" or "Carpenter," or the name of a colour auch 68 "White" or "Green"?
And did not the Turks, after the Revolution, compel all citi- zens to take surnames on pain of being fined £2 and given a surname chosen for them by the-perhaps malignant-local authority 7
Everyone who possesses a Bur- name knows how important it is and how well it looks on a cheque. It is not, in fact, a thing to be picked up and casually borrowed by someone The question has arisen as to who objects to being called whether Australians are Euro- peans? They would probably
prefer to remain Australians.
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"Bobster."
I people must change
their names or borrow
the names of other people, how-
Brokers should be good at over, I think they ought to be
cricket. We've seen a couple willing to pay for the privilege.
of bowlers recently.
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I offer this as an idea to Sir John Simon for his next Bud- get. The tax may not bring in an enormous amount of money,
Dr. Gloucester was extremely but in these days every little busy this morning.
helps.
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