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THE HONGKONO TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1938,

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The

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1938.

NO TIME FOR CONFLICT

Cabinet

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YOUR SWEEP TICKET

!

OLD

"A LITTLE MAN, AND HE HAD A LITTLE GUN”.

With apologies to McRae in the Melbourne Herald.

Guy

Ramsey Thinks

THESE WERE THE GREAT

I

in work or personality, impervi- Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) ous to time."

The saint with a sense of Now, where do your Napo- humour. Worker among the leons and Drakes come in?

poor, the needy, the lepers. Took no thought for the morrow! founded two Orders at a huge

THE VERY IDEA”.

THE RACE WENT TO

THE FLEET

ALL THE COLONY NOTABLES

WERE AT HAPPY VALLEY TO SEE EDDIE KELLY

By Ed. "Horse's Neok”. Kolly

W

were out at Happy Valley on Saturday, Doubtless you say ug there. We were the chap with the pockets stuffed full of bank-notes.

We had a bit of trouble with Bir Vandeleur Grayburn and the Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson, who are in charge of the pari-mutuel. There was nothing mutual about their financial dealings with us.

We were

also disappointed when we went into the bar for à noggin or two. The bar-tenders were really quite ordinary,

According to the Race Pro- grammes the stewards should have included people like Sir Percy Noble, Sir Charles Little, Major General Bartholomew, Commodore Dicken, and Sir Atholl MacGregor. They didn't

servo us once, /

They weren't too liberat with their drinks either. Even appointed Major Hogg and Captain Rowden as Oficial Measurers 'to see that WO didn't pour out more than a nip.

We notice that the record for the 1% mile is 2.56% Wo put our money in the first race on a horse that easily broke this record. He got so far behind in the first race that he was able to canter home the winner of the second event.

We got a lot of information from the horse's mouth.

But was it any good? Neigh, neigh, neight

Fyou were asked to choose the 20 greatest people-men and women who had ever lived whom There was open talk in London would you elect? A throng of a rift in the British of names rushes to your

It's an open enough subject, picnic; started on a crusade the week-end: mind: Napoleon (always the Heaven knows, but my choice without an army. Jested with and when London speaks so

the fire that was to put out his frankly of the intimate affairs first!), Alexander, Elizabeth (set out chronologically) is:

oyes. First man to call the of state the Empire and the Tudor, Drake, William the

Akhnaton (1375 B.C.)

animal world "brother." Spent world are bound to pay atten- Conqueror 1066, that hero tion. There is real reason for Sydney Carton, no, he was

Pharaoh of Egypt, Amenhotep his eloquence on the birds who concern. It cannot be, as too in a book, Shakespeare, of IV. First man in history to be hushed to hear him. many cynics are apt to express course, and, er, Mussolini, I conceived under the image of lieve there was only one God,

Genghiz Khari :(1162-1227) it. "just press talk." The Lon- don press is a particularly well-suppose.

the Sun. Merciful, charitable, Leader of the Golden. Horde, informed body, as a whole, and Before you can choose your lover of liberty. Crushed by greatest conqueror of all time. of countless minor With a ragged Mongol tribe, by the political experts do not go score you must denne greatness. priests

Un- The casiest definition is: hav- "gods," whose racket he des-irresistible generalship-and-in-

his credible speed he subdued the tion to the South Americas, even fortunately, there is every rea-ing the most powerful influence troyed; dispossessed of

the Black to the against the European conquista- son to believe that certain on the world-which would make crown by soldiers whom he, as a world from

Yellow Sca, from the Volga to dores. members of the Cabinet are not William Caxton, who invented pacifist, would not employ.

tho Indus. His military govern- in agreement on one at least of printing, a greater man than

ment endured for four genera- the vital questions of policy now Shakespeare.

·tions after him. under discussion. There have been whispers of it in the past, and now, apparently, things have reached a crisis.

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Or you might say "great" meant having a profound in-

Gautama Buddha (cira 500 B.C.) Warrior prince of India, who, fluence on one's own time before the birth of Christ, anti- which would reduce Socrates to a cipated much of His messagec.

We walked home.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

At one master-stroke he turn- Joan of Arc (1412-1431) ed the rhodomontade of Eliza Peasant who, at 17, by sheer bethan drama into supremo

A conflict of opinion among smaller figure than the Athenian Stood at the peak of his triumph, force of personality turned a poetry and supreme humanity. the British leaders at the pre-inspector of police forbidding victorious, wealthy, beloved: benten army to a beating one. Vagrant poucher and strolling market gave up all to follow what he be- In two years she changed the player who wrote Immortal sent juncture of world events is knuckle-bones in the

lieved to be the truth.

map of Europe so that it has verse and rattling good stories most inopportune. At best it after 11.

never been changed back. A in one. He wrote it. fill in creates a feeling of unrest in Take, then the classic defini- Socrates (470-399 B.C.) virgin, she lived with soldiers your favourite quotation for the country, and it is inevitabletion of greatness: "Greatness Greatest ange in the highest and made them forget she was yourself. that opinion will be divided. involves supreme mastery of slave civilisation (Athens) ever a woman. And this is not a time for one's craft; supreme originality; known. On his soul-searching Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) division;. for a divided people and a quality of ennoblement, questions lies the reputation of lacks effectiveness, loses much

:

debt.

Julius Caesar. (102-44 B.C.)

most successful "revolution of

Michael Angelo Buonarrotti (1476-1604)

Ludwig van Beethoven, (1770-1827)

Rembrandt van Rijn (1607-1669)

Plato

Crest of the Ronascerice wave, Innovator who made darkness as a philosopher. Ho of its motive power, sacrifices

who drained the hemlock with a smile Mathematician

painted; visible in art. Created (op- and some of its strength, depending effort is most vital. On the other and the reminder of a trivial inventor who sculpted. Evolved posing alike "realism" upon the seriousness of the hand, it might prove to be a

the first aeroplane. The (for- romanticism) reality. Delighted blessing beyond estimate that cleavage.

give the clichol) "universal as much in ragged boggar or old If, for example, Mr. Anthony the country should be given the

genius."

crone as in Court beauty. Starved Eden, the Foreign Secretary, opportunity to express its will Greatest all-round man of ac- were to leave the Cabinet rather so that the Government could tion of all time: statesman, poli- Martin Luther (1483-1546)-

to buy paint; sketched on scraps of papor in which his scraps of Obscure German monk who, food were wrapped. ( than agree to a course of action to forward with fresh con- ticion, conquerer, colonist, ora- which he deemed inexpedient Adence, knowing that a united tor, writer. Bringer of light by nailing up a thesis for debate, or possibly dangerous, there people is behind it. If, for in- from Rome in dark pinces of the precipitated the Reformation. would be a vast sympathetic stance, a Foreign Secretary is earth. Queller of a mutiny with Inaugurated, unwittingly, the body behind him to approve his convinced of the error of his

single word.

Composer who expressed all action; and it would be inevit- colleagues' judgment in matters

at the rich." Breaker of supersti- moods. As great an innovator: able that the faith of that mass of foreign policy and one feels Peter (circa 30 B.CA.D. (0) tlon who flung his ink-horn at as Wagner or Stravinsky but, of people, born and fostered by that his view of a problem of

Traitor who wiped out his own his own (superstitious) vision unlike them, does not "date." the accomplishments of Mr. this sort is worthy of every trenchery in his own blood; of the devil.

Deafncas did not sour his spirit Eden during the past few years, consideration--it would be as founder of the Christian Church.

nor restrict his, output, though would be deeply shaken. It well that the whole matter were The "coward" who chose to be

'ho had to be turned round to might still trust its Government put squarely before the public. crucified head-downward be- to do the safe and just thing; The graver the lasue, the deeper cause he was not worthy to be Supreme artistic genius who see the applauso that greeted but it might, too, demand that the cleavage is bound to be. It crucified like his Master. could portray greatness, Con- his work.

demned painting as "woman's Karl Marx (1818-1883). the feeling of the country should in up to the majority, then, to

work" and turned to labour with be tested. If that demand were express its opinion that those

Founder of only "now" religion vociferous, it would mean a who are in power shall feel solid

Camel-driver who successfully stone, becoming as pro-eminent general election. And whore ground boneath them. fought, Aral indolence and fray in the new medium as he had (Christian Science is, by de would British foreign policy bo

It may not come to that pans, militarism. The Local Boy Who been in the old. Inaugurated a finition, a branch of Chris- then, poor thing? At a time of course, There is more than Made Good-so good that his school of art which has taken tianity; Fascism is old-fashioned Nietzschean Stato-worship when it is needed most, when a possibility that the enne, followers thrice shook the reaim three centuries to decay. Be- calm and confident guiding hand cautious and conscientious men of Christ. The only Iconoclast gan to write (better than good) run rabid). Bourgeois who put his own clasa in the dock. is essential in the councils of who comprise the British Cabinet to create more than he destroy-poetry at 80.

Created the greatest social ro the nations, Britain might be in will find a way of compromise, ed. The only founder of a great Ignatius Loyola (1401-1558) volution (posthumous)......... ovor the throes of a political upheaval or that one faction or the other religion who was content to be Founder of the Jesuite, the known. and unable to do all that is an will prevail without the noces-n mortal..

ono successful Instrument of pected of her in the developsity of any test of strength or

Hildebrandt (1023-1085) Counter-Reformation Austero menta which crowd upon states of public opinion. But it is a men.

sad fact that in Mr. Edon's Pop Gregory VII. A once originator of system of sub- It is possibly a curno of the resignation Eritain will have obscure German monk who dared suing the flesh. Created the "Lady with the Damp" who democratic system that such a lost a servant in the foreign keep the penitent German Em- only Christian ayatom to unite preferred to spend aloopless danger can occur at the very offico who had the confidence of peror waiting in the snow outside the gospel of ponce with the nights in the Crimea than time when smoothly co-ordinated the nation.

the fortress of Chriossa. sword of war. Brought civilisu- live uselessly in London.

Mahomet (567-632)

Florence Nightingale - (1820-1910).

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