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THE HONGKONg Telegraphi, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1935.

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Sonata in A Major (Cotar Frank) DB-3206-3207-3208

FLAGSTAD KIRSTEN:-

Songs my Mother Tought mo (Dvorak)

When I Have Sung my Songs (Charles) DA-1524 KREISLER FRITZ: AND LONDON PHILHARMONIC

ORCHESTRA:--

Concorto in E Minor (Mendelssohn) DB-2460-2461-2462

RUBINSTEIN ARTHUR:-

Proludo in a A Minor (Debussy) DB-2450

Tomboau Couporin-Forlano (Ravel)

TOSCANINI AND PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA:

Semiramide-Overtura (Rossini) DB.3079-3080

CIGLI BENIAMINO;—

Lost Chord (Sullivan) DB-1526

Goodbye (Tosti)

STOKOWSKY AND THE PHILADELPHIA

ORCHESTRA:-

Danco Macabro (Saint-Saens) DB-3077

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SYMPHONY

Magic Fluto (Mozart) Variations on air from Beethoven

DA-915-916

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1938.

THERE CAN BE VICTORY IN.

DISASTER

The Chinese people will need. all the moral support their friends can give to withstand the second disaster that has) overtaken their country in less than a week, for morale and con-

must fidence necessarily

be

badly shaken by the successive losses of Canton and Hankow,

Wo were

DO

HOW YOU PRAY?

MANY of us have started to pray M ngain for the first time, perhaps since

children. And we don't find it easy. Wo Dop down on our knees and say, "O, God, please let there be peace in the world, and if there must be war, don't let them kill me and my family."

A petition like that is not really a prayer, but a wish, and, when you come to think of it, rather a selfish one. Why should you in particular be exempt rom danger?

Those who get up from their knees after a prayer like that probably feel, "Well, now I've naked God to do If He doesn't do it I what I want. sunt feel that He doesn't exist and that it is no good praying."

This frame of mind leaves such people very much where they were before they started praying in a state of despairing half-belict. It is reducing God to the level of a Jucky mascot.

All the same, half the battle is won by the willingness of people to

trust something more than just clever wits and material strength. The most encouraging signs recently have been those of the public dis- taste for war. The question is: When you pray to God, what ought you to pray about?

The Arst thing for you to do is to acknowledge the existence of Evil. This should not be difcut. The dogs of war have rather barked their way into prominence recently.

The next thing is to remember that it is not for you to condemn any human being as wholly evil. You are not to pray for the destruction of those of whom you disapprove. God will destroy them, in the end, if they aught to be destroyed. God always triumphs over evil, because He is all- powerful and evil is only negative,

DUT God has more Ume to work

BUT

His will than our short lives. Even Communists or, dictators or Conservatives or whoever they myy be whom you personally dislike must une day die.

But you can work against the will of God and asalat evil and war by wishing destruction of peopio rather than of things. So when you pray, pray for justice, right and grace.

JUSTICE for all in the decisions

which are being made to-lay, not the sort of justice that was made at Versaillea, būt divine justice.

Right triumphant over wrong. Grace working in the heurts of all men, to bring about the triumph of good over evil.

And here you enn dediente your- self to God, to let Him use you as He wills. In this way, oven it the prayers of the faithful cannot avert war, you will be submitting your- self to the will of God and He will tell you what to do.

And if you want words in which to express all this and more, you will find them in the Lord's Prayer.

High Shields

Ex-pupil reports

T

on his

by

LORD

school

FORBES

breakfast until 8.30.

N Etonlan, when he Airst goes to Eton, has to fng. The first six to in boys will be able to order the new arrivals to run errands for them. A young boy will have to be

to two a fag from one to years, according to how well he passed

original entrance examination. Discipline in the house is main- tained by the first five or six senior persons of the house. If a boy mis-

hig

the house-

his name on the school roll at birth. O-DAY a new genera Then the parent must name which

T 7.28 nm, weather wet behaves the captain of the house has.

a right to bent him. or fine, the young Etonian tion of Etonians will house he desires his son to go to will attend early school. To get to The permission of hear about the Iron Then, twelve years after the birth his classroom he may have to walk master, or lutor as he is called at

of the child, an entrance examina- a mile. And he wil

will not be given Eton, is as a rule asked before the ilon has to be taken. Duke.

culprit is punished. A boy can only times Before Perhaps in these troubled

thie examination the After his breakfast you

would be punished for house offences by the it is good that they should hear tell parents must decide whether they think that he would of a strong Irishman.

wish their son to attempt a scholar- a warm room in his able to sit in captain of the house.

especially If a boy does badly at his work The Duke of Wellingon did Elon ship or to be an Oppidan.

No, this comfort is de- he comes before the headmaster. The In winter.

none of the form master will complain to nied to him bectral heating.

the. College great injury when, in a fit

HERE are many advantages Eton houses has

headmaster that Mr. So-and.So is your Kon is clever Each student has his own bed- idle and should be chlvied.

The headmaster then sends for the

in peace-time the two largest of Waterloo was won on the playing

of generosity, he said, "The battle flelds of Eton."

cities in the country except Few believed this fantastic state- cough to take a scholarship. His sitting-room. There is a dreplace in

fees will be halved. Instead of his every room. But no boy is allowed idle boy, and puts him on a white

Shanghai.

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ment, few would have remembered education costing £300 per annum to light a fire in his room before ticket.lfe is on a white ticket for ten

twelve noon. For the whole day an days, Chinese newspapers are prob. It to this day if it were not the cus- It will cost 16.

Lom for every young Etonian to be

If a boy passes the scholarship he Elonian is given one small scuttle of At the end of that time he must ably much better adapted than told by the school authorities of the has the right to put K.S. after his coal.

name; that means

obtain the signatures of all his form King's Scholar. Not every day, however, but four masters on the ticket to say that his British journals to telling the duke's foolish remarks,

Since this evil day Etonians have He will then live in "college" among times a week only. When I was at work has improved. If one of his masses that the withdrawal regarded themselves as the mainstay

nty other

Eton I endured cold for three days form masters should fall to sign, the scholars. seventy from tho Wuhan area was in- of die Army ameer class, and the If your son is not so bright as in the week. However, I looked boy is summoned to the headmaster evitable: that to fight in Han. Public have regarded Etonians with that you decide that he should be- forward to the Jimlied amount of and is dogged with a birch.

bolli distrust and suspicion.

done so

اقان

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a

gits

one

come an Oppidan. He will then coal I was given by my housemaster kow would have hurt China

take

exam. and a simpler

Flogging at Eton is carried If he for the remainder of the week. biased ut much more than Japan; that

THE pubile are

Eton refuses to install central heat- with pemp and ceremony. The bey passes will go to one of the twenty- once by the clothes that eight houses. Each house has about ing in the houses, although it has to be flagged is made to kneel on Chinese leaders, including Gen-Etonlans wear. "The top hat and forty boys in it

with his trousers down, in the schoolrooms. Teman called a fussee then housemaster nge of However, eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek, pre-tall coat for boys from

# boy who goes to

must not be blamed for on the giving the forty students his on the unfortunate's head, and dicted early this year that the twelve upwards is ridic house always looks down

"Is that school trying to educate the scholar. He will call the scholar house a limited amount of coal. of the senior boys hands the birch to

And For the living of a housemaster the headmaster.

the flogging Japanese entry would be effect- sons of the rich into effeminate by the derisory name of Tug.

[ops?" That it is the

That's what is said.

There are twelve hundred boys depends upon the money he can marches on. ed before July.

A century ago that would be a at Eton. But it would be an errör amass out of his house. Each house- It is considered a great disgrace to tenth and not the seventh month true statement. Eton was trying to to think that they are pampered master receives 200 per year per be fogged by the headmaster. When

care. An the educate its scholars into being little with luxury and which of the year in

Eton boy.

I was at Elon the heavy hand of Dr.. gentemen and to wearing the same boy has less luxury than the or- He has the boys in his house for Alington, now Dean of Durham, waa Japanese can claim that they clothes ns daddy.

dinary boy who attends a council eight months per year. Out of this much feared. I never experienced. have reached their objec- Now, however, there is a better school. In winter the Elonlan hos Agure he has to pay rent for in the chastisement of the Dean of Dur- tive seems no cause for des-reason for keeping the Etonian uni- first of all to resist the cold, damp house, feed the boys, provide servants ham,

Thames Valley climate.

and heat and maintain the house. pondency

the part the Chinese. They

on

form.

of

of Eton, The headmaster

if he have were questioned as to why he did, not dress. Etonians in clothes suit-

answer: Convicts are

made a gallant and Impossible able to boys young in years, would GRIN AND BEAR IT stand for the three cities when probably

in loud-striped overalls su

the top hat

of an Etonian if he breaks bounds."

So rather pity the Etonian. His

tail coat worry him top hat and more than you,

it would have been easy, and that they can easily be seen when probably not much less fruitful, they escape. We can easily follow to draw the Japanese further into the hinterland. The story of Tchan is one that should be immortalised by China's his- torians of the future, for to the gallant defenders of this obscure and previously unknown village goes the honour of immobilising practically the entire might of Japan for three months.

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II is not easy to get your dressed in a top hat and tell coot. It is expensive, too. To send a boy to Elon it is necessary to inscribo

is more able to withstand the attacks of Japan's mechanised units and aeroplanes than Japan China, reeling under two Bucis able to withstand the attacks cessive blows, temporarily is like a punch-drunk boxer. But on her financial and economic structure, China's reverses are with the withdrawal from Han-blazoned on the front pages of kow and the taking up of now the world's nowspapers; Japan's lines in more favourable terrain. roverses, because of their in- she has gained a breathing spell sidlousness and because they for the next round. For Japan jare really known only to the there is no such breathing spell.financial lenders of the country, Entry into a city; even a city of are seldom or never mentioned. Nevertheless, of the two, they the size and richness of Canton are probably the greater. It and Hankow (the riches of both becomes a question of which will

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appeared in the hour of the in-If China's morale remains firm; vaders' victory) does not end or give unwavering support to the if the Chinese people continue to relax the terrific strain under leaders who have led them for which she is conducting this war fifteen months, no nation on of aggression.

|carth- can conquer this great Chira, it should be reiterated, country which is our neighbour.

воте

H to it. I was before bum for

TOWEVER, I once came near

offence to which I pleaded

By Lichty morance.

Them Canal Streeters say it's only their fall maneuvers, but we better keep an eye on 'em!”

Said Dr. Alington: "You are eitner a fool or knaye. I consider you to be a knave I shall flog you."

I quickly explained to Dr. Aling- ton that I was a fool. To my intense relief ho agreed that I was a fool.

Eton provides a good education. When a boy first goes there he has to work about ten hours a day. When he gets older the volume of work is reduced, no doubt to accustom many to the life which they will live after they have left "dear mother Eton."

Etonians leave the school from the ages of seventeen to nineteen. Many Etonians go to the Royal Military

the. College, Sandhurst, and later Army. Oliera go to the universities, and others enter business.

When an Etonian leaves the head-. master bids him farewell and hands him a copy of Gray's "Elegy." The gift of this book is very important to an Etonian, for it shows that he left. Elon In honourable circumstances. and was not dismissed,

THE name of the departed Elonian will be carved on

the panels of Upper School where. Pilt once. aludled. Pitt started this, custorn, for he carved his name on one of the shullers of Upper School. can

Elonians do this because they

ABS

"I went to the same school;

then

as William Pitt

What happens to Elonians? Some go to jail, some to the House of Commons as Torles, some become good ministers, some become light, club proprietors, some generals, sore stockbrokers, and others do nothing: but live in the memory that they were once Etonians, and hot high, the lie. of black and blut,

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