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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1938.

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1038.

NO TIME FOR CONFLICT

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

With apologies to McRae in the Melbourne Herald.

Guy Ramsey Thinks

THESE WERE THE

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THE "VERY: IDEA”

THE RACE WENT TO

THE FLEET

ALL THE COLONY NOTABLES

WERE AT HAPPY VALLEY TO SEE EDDIE KELLY

By Ed. "Homo's Neck" Kelly:

WE were out at Happy Valley on Saturday. Doubtless you saw us there. We were the chap with the pockets stuffed full of bank-notes.

We had a bit of trouble with Sir Vandeleur Grayburn and the Hon. Mr. M. T. Jolinson, who are in charge of the parl-mutuel.

There was nothing mutual about their financial dealings with us.

We were also disappointed

when we went into the bar for a

| 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, Commodoro Dicken, and Sir Atholl MacGregor. They didn't serve us once.

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

-F you were asked to in work or personality, impervi- Francis of Assisi (1181-1220)

choose the 20 greatest. ous to time."

Now, where do your Napo- people-men and women There was open talk in London would you elect? A throng

-who had ever lived whom leons and Drakes come in? af It rift in the British of names rushes to your Cabinet over the week-end:

mind: Napoleon (always the and when London speaks so first!), Alexander, Elizabeth frankly of the intimate affairs of state the Empire and the Tudor, Drake, William the 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 cloquence 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, Ilieve there was only one God, it, "just press talk." The Lon-!

conceived under the image of Genghiz Khan (1162-1227)

Leader of the Golden Horde, don press is a particularly well-suppose

the Sun. Merciful, charitable, informed body, as a whole, and

Before you can choose your lover of liberty. Crushed by greatest conqueror of all time. the political experts do not go score you must define greatness. priests of countless minor With a ragged Mongol tribe, by The easiest definition is: hav- "gods," whose racket he dea-irresistible generalship and in-

We notice that the record for The saint with a sense of the 1% mile is 2.56%. We humour. Worker among the put our money in the first race. poor, the needy, the lepers. Took

on a horse that casily broke this TO thought for the, morrow! founded two Orders at a huge record. He got so far behind It's an open enough subject, picnic; started on £1 crusade in the first race that he was able Heaven knows, but my choice without an army. Jested with to canter home the winner of (set out chronologically) is:

the fire that was to put out his the second event. eyes. First man to call the

We got a lot of information animal world "brother.". Spent

from the horse's mouth.

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Akhnaton (1375 B.C.)

We walked home.

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

son

to believe that certain on the world-which would make crown by soldiers whom he, as a world from the Black to the against the European conquista- members of the Cabinet are not William Caxton, who invented pacifist, would not employ."

Shakespeare.

in agreement on one at least of printing, a greater man than the vital questions of policy now under discussion. There have been whispers of it in the past, and now, apparently, things have reached a crisis.

lieved to be the truth.

Yellow Sea, from the Volga to dores. the Indus. His military govern- ment endured for four genera- tions after him.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

At one muster-stroke he turn-

Joan of Arc (1412-1431) '.

ed the rhodomontado of Eliza- Peasant who, at 17, by sheer bethan drama into supreme

Gautama Buddha (cira 500 B.C.) Or you might say "great" meant having a profound in- 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 messagee. 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. wealthy, beloved: beaten army to a beating one. Vagrant poacher and strolling the British leaders at the pre-inspector of police forbidding victorious,

wrote sent juncture of world events is knuckle-bones in the market gave up all to follow what he be. In two years she changed the player who.

immortal 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 creates a feeling of unrest in Take, then the classic defini-

.. fill in Socrates (170-399 B.C.) virgin, she lived with soldiers your favourite quotation for the country, and it is inevitable tion of greatness: "Greatness Greatest sage 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)

Rembrandt van Rijn division; for a divided people and a quality of ennoblement, questions lies the reputation of

(1607-1669) Jacks effectiveness, loses much

Plato 18 a philosopher. He Crest of the Rennscence wave. Innovator who made darkness

painted; visible in art. Created (op

aliko "realism" and Evolved posing The (for romanticism) reality. Delighted "universal as much in ragged beggar or old --crono as in Court beauty, Starved

of its motive power, sacrifices

Martin Luther (1483-1546) Obscure German monk who,

to buy paint; sketched on scraps of paper in which his scraps of food were wrapped.

some of its strength, depending effort is most vital. On the other drained the hemlock with a smile Mathematician who upon the seriousness, of the hand; it might prove to be a and the reminder of a trivial inventor who sculpted.

the first aeroplane. debt. cleavage.

blessing beyond estimate that

give the cliche!) If, for example, Mr. Anthony the country should be given the Julius Caesar (102-44 B.C.) gentus." 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- than agree to a course of action go forward with fresh con- which he deemed inexpedient fidence, knowing that a united tician, conquerer, colonist, ora- or possibly dangerous, there people is behind it. If, for in- tor, writer. Bringer of light by nailing up a thesis for debate,

Ludwig van Beethoven would be a vast sympathetic stance, a Foreign Secretary is from Rome in dark places of the precipitated the Reformation.

(1770-1827) body behind him to approve his convinced of the error of his earth. Queller of a mutiny with Inaugurated, unwittingly, the

a single ward,

most successful "revolution of action; and it would be inevit-colleagues' judgment in matters

the rich." Breaker of supersti- moods. As great an innovator Composer who expressed all able that the faith of that mass of foreign policy--and one foels Peter (circa 30 B.C.-A.D. 60) tion 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 treachery in his own blood; of the devil.

Deafness did not sour his spirit. Eden during the past few years, consideration-it would be as founder of the Christian Church. Michael Angelo Buonarrotti nor restrict his output, though would be deeply shaken. It well that the whole matter were The "coward" who chose to be

he had to be turned round to might still trust its Government put squarely before the public. to do the safe and just thing; The graver the issue, the deeper

Supreme artistic genius who ace the applause that greeted could portray greatness.

Con- his work," but it might, too, demand that the cleavage is bound to be. It the feeling of the country should is up to the majority, then, to

demned painting as "woman's Karl Marx (1818-1883) Mahomet (567-632) 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 pre-eminent general election. And where ground beneath them..

fought Arab indolence and Arab in the new medium as he had (Christian Science is, by de-

branch of Chris would British foreign policy be It may not come to that pass, militarism. The Local Boy Who been in the old. Inaugurated a finition, a then, poor thing? At a time of course. There is more than Made Good-go good that his school of art which has taken tianity; Fascism is old-fashioned Be-Nietzschean Stale-worship when it is needed most, when a possibility that the nane, followers thrice shook the realm three centuries to decay. 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 is essential in the councils of who comprise the British Cabinet to create more than he destroy.poetry at 80. ----- the nations, Britain might be in will find a way of compromine, ed. The only founder of a great Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) || volution the throes of a political upheaval or that one faction or the other religion who was content to be and unable to do all that is ex-will provail without the neces-n mortal, pected of her in the develop-alty of any test of strength or ments which crowił upon states of publle opinion. But it is u

盛腐

mon.

hend-downward crucified

bc-

cause he was not worthy to be crucified like his Master.

Hildebrandt (1023-1085).

(1475-1564).

hia own clasa in the dock. Created the greatest social rü-

(posthumous) known.

Morence Nightingale:

- (1820-1910) "Lady with the Lamp," who

Founder of the Jesuits, the one successful Instrument of Counter-Reformation. Austere Bad fact that in Mr. Edon's Pope Gregery VII. A once originator of eyatom of nub. It in ponsibly a curse of the resignation Britain will have fobscure German monk who dared duing the flesh. Created the democratic system that such lost a servant in the foreign keep the penitent German Em-only Christian system to unite preferred to spend sleeplean danger can occur at the very office who had the confidence of peror waiting in the snow outside the gospel of ponco with the nights in the Crimon than to

the fortress of Canosan.

aword of war. Brought civilian live uncleanly In London. time whon smoothly co-ordinated the nation.