1939-01-26 — Page 7

Thursday,

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In Memory of Burns

Countrymen

To

Gather Pay Homage

To Scotland's Poet

Common esteem. for the imperishable verke of Scotsman Robert Burns brought 245 men together in the Rose Room of the Peninsula Hotel Inst night. The occasion was the annual din- ner in celebration of the great poet's birth.

The "conviviality, of the occasion demonstrated how strong a link between Scotsmen-is fact, between all true verse lovers- this love of Burns hus become. The programme of the evening very fittingly bore this printed protest;

Whh muys that Robbie Burns is deld?

Wha says he lies below the weed,

A pickle stoor, baith heart and heid,

This hunner year?

Bell blast the loans! but they line lee'd,

For Robin's here,

The fare was Scotch and simple-, have little doubt that when he wrote though no humble Scotcht cottage those thies he meant and felt every ever saw melt luxurious service, word of them. "Scotch Broth" led up to "Hergin", an'

It was Wordsworth who said that Tatties." Then følolwed the "Hariis," the best poetry should consist of ceremonionly played in, and next "emotion recollected in tranquillity": came "Roma Mutton an' Bashed and it was, think, just in this res- Tattien." "Apple Dumplin" rutind peer that Burns and the other ed off the dimmer and the evening Romanties blazed a completely new becaine vely "Wi merry sangs a felenilly cracks" in which all gladly

trail. joined..

men.

mean

privilege of being used by another young Scol

died too soon. Who Freddie Talt wis not the greatest tolter of all time any more than Hobble Burns was the greatest poet. of all time, but they, both

Retri ไ

have had that little something that

WATER CUT OFF

Insts beyond the grave. It is barely Landlord's Action When

40 years since Freddie Tait was - ed in South Africa, and Robbie Burns

is already about a hundred years nhead of that.

Tonants Do Not Pay

January, 26, 1939.

THOUSANDS KILLED IN 'QUAKE

Santiago, Chile, Jan. 24.

A strong earthquake hit Santiago to-day. The epicentre is reported to have been between Copihue and

shuck North Hemted. The

Was

I strong al-Talea, north of Copihue.

It is reported that some houses collapsed al Valparulse and Curieno, terrorising the Infobitants who gathered at the Plaza Victoria while the Cathedral tower hung danger- ously, with pieces of masonry falling info the streets.

Said to be the first summons of its * "Immortal" in a big word to use, kind taken out since the issue of the but I have personally itle doubt recent emergency regulations for the

Many windows In the business that a century hence, unless some control of water in the Colony, a tolalliarian han meanwhille put all summons was brought against Licentre were broken and communi. cation with Santiago was stopped.- persons of Scottish mice into Intern-Shiu-fal, of 57 Robinson Road, be-

United Press. ment camps, men will still be gather-ture Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Cen- ing all over the world as we are trul Magistracy yesterday, for caus- lo-night to celebrate this twenty-ing or permitting to be altered, a Afth of January. And that is about service connected to the Waterworks, as for ahead as most of us dare to at No. 34 Russell Street, Wanchai, took these days.

Mr. A. 1. Cash, Waterworks over- cer, said that towards the end of, the majority of landlords

Two Thousand Dead

Santiago de Chile, Jan. 25. A radio report from an amuteur at Concepcion, Intercepted here, es- timates that 2,000 are dead in the city and at least 40 per cent. of homes

the last yealogy were Informed by the destroyed.

Gentlemen, I Rive you Immortal Memory of Robert Burns. Toast of "The Lassles"

dears

in the

..

that

Water Authority that they would be

The Minister of the Interior an- In a refreshing speech that was responsible for the water supply in

nounces that a state of siege has often interrupted by delighted laugh- thele houses. The defendant, land-

been proclaimed at Talcahuano where ter, Mr. H. L. Mackenzie proposed lord of No. 34 Russell Street, was so

14 are said to be dead, including the toast of "The Lassies.” He began informed, and he in turn notified, his

four ratings from the naval base, and with the quotation.

tenants that they were responsible 67 wounded, while one-quarter of "Auld Nature, swears the lovely for the water they used. He also the town has been destroyed.

demanded $5 from the tenant of each

Government reports indiente Her noblest word she classes, o

floor as a charge for the water

ater fat least 100 persons are known to be Her 'prentice hand she tried only. The tenants refused to pay dend. Many communities have not bis, and defendant accordingly hired been heard from. Government de- And then she made the Lussies, o" a street plumber and instructed thepartments worked all night trying to

man to cut a seellon of the water and then continued:

establish the ensualties and damage These may be hackneyed lines, but, pipe and thus disconnect the water and organise relief measure nevertheless, has ever a finer com-upply to the Bats. He had no

authority to do this.

The defendant was fined $100.

NUISANCE CREATED --

inan

pliment been paid to womankind?

"Her 'prentice hand she tried on

man

And then she made the Lassles, o"

Water Supply to Upper Storeys Impeded

in con-

Morrison, the cultured Clarinda the CLOTHES LINE AERIAL knew, all kinda the lovely Mary delicate Highland Mary, and the

honest Jean Armour. He knew alro Fine Imposed for Having

"The sulky, sullen dame,

Gathering her brows like gather-

ing storm,

Nursing her wrath to keep it and who could bully her husband so

warm,"

that.

"He must to her his dear friends

Unlicensed Radio

woman, Lam Murl, of 13 Lan Kwai A Ane of $10 was imposed on a

Fong, by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Magistracy yesterday, for being in possession of a radio set

Reports which have Altered by means of radio indicate many wound- ed and heavy property damage in- cluding the razing of several towns,

It was the strongest earthquake fell in recent years. The centre of it was in a region extending south from Talca to Traiguen and west from Cordillera to the coastal city of Concepcion.

The Chile Telephone Company re-

Talca reported that eight dead cluding a 4-year-old woman who were carried into the morgue in-

Armedly reported that when the walla dled in hospital. It is also uncon- of Tales gaol collapsed, the prison- Are, killing 10. ers escaped and the guards opened

There were three strong tremors. The Arst lasting three minutes began at 11.30 p.m. and the others were of shorter duration. It is feared

that the death toll may be large owing to the late hour when most people in the stricken area were sleeping.

United Press.

EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN

Tokyo, Jon. 25. Fairly strong earthquake shocks were experienced over a wide area in the north-eastern and eastern dis- tricts of Japan proper at 1.02 p.m. on Tuesday.

in Fukushima and Ibaraki Profce-

The tremours were strong enough

tures to stop clocks and send frigh- casualties are reported yet, tened trned people, out of doors. No

The epicentre is described as being at a point about 30 kilometres all the eastern coast of Fukushima Prefecture in the Pacific-Domel.

Secondly Burns was lucky In being brought up in what was, until the Mr. W. Kay, Chieftain of the Hung days of wireless and cheap news- kong St. Andrew's Society, presided papers, probably the most cultured That, however, is only one of the und the Governor, Sir Geoffry peasantry that the world has ever to women. And the great charm of many cumpilments which Burns pald Northcote, was guest of honour scen. We laugh at their inter With them at the principal table site disputations

these compliments, as indeed of all about were the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl destination

pre Burns's poetry, is their simplicity, and free-will MacGregor, Mr. Justice R. E. Lind forth; but we should not do well, to interpret a difficult passage in one plainant in a case before Mr. Q. A. Aports that the towns of Angol, Parių,

Mr. H. H. Rose, an overseer of the and The poet Browning on being asked Water Office, P.W.D., was the com- sell. Hon, Me. N. I. Sinith, Hon. Mr. think. to laugh at that picture of of his poems said. "When I wrote Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magis-Pallahueque and Traiguen were seri- T. H. King, Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell low living and high thinking which Prof. I., R. Shore, Itev, K. Mac-

God knew tracy yesterday, when Ho Po-ting of nualy damaged. Kenzie Dow, Dr. D. G. 11. Black, and day Night

portrayed in the "Coltar's Satur-that, only myself and

what it meant. Now, God only 232 Shanghai Street, was fined $25 Messrs. E. S. Carter, P. S. Cassidy.

knows." But the compliments of on a summons for having permitted Chile's third largest city with more Fires are raging In Concepcion, true story which Illus-Burns to the Lassies are unlike this: the inside water services of his pre- than 77,000 inhabitants, also F. A. Joseph, K. S. Morrison, J. A.

There is Plummer, C. J. Sollis, and L. Wylle. trates this point. The old schoolmaster they are simple and sincere.

the mises to be altered without the ap- who had taught Robbie and was a Indeed Burns is the only national proval of the Water Authority,, ou

noval base of Talcahuano four miles The Immortal Memory

! good friend of the family was poet who never

north, maligned women. December 25. The toast of the "Immortal Memory enabled near the end of his life to Take a glance at the opinions on Mr.

that Rose stated of Robert Burns" was proposed by visit London in order to meet the women from other national represen-sequence of complaints from tenants the Colonial Scerstary, Hon. Mr. Nintellectuals of that city. Now if you tatiren "Frailty, thy nurme a woof the upper storeys of the premises. L. Smith: He said:

kaow your Boswell you will realise man." sald Shakespeare; and again; he visited the defendant's floor on Having heard this feast proposed that there was some ganti conversa-

"God hath given you one face and January 3 and found that two stop last year and the year before by two tim iz London about then-Gold-you make yourselves another," From cocks had been Atted to the water successive Governors, I fee: rather mill and Burke and Garrick and Russia we have Tolstoi's pronouner-pipes in such a manner as to impede overawed by the gravity of the task Adam Smith and Reynolds and the ment: "Women are a necessary un- the water from running to the floors that has been imposed upon me to-rest, besides Johnson and Doswell pleasantness in social Life.”

above, night. I must confess, however, themselves. It is not recorded which The Spanish paet says: "Woman's The magistrate remated that the that I accepted the Chieftain's in-If any of these intellectual giants the chief weapon is her tongue; therefore offence was more in the nature of a vitation without much real as I admit that I buy herbation old dominic met; but it is recorded she takes good care that it doesn't nuisance to the occupiers of the other

for the that when he got back to his Low-rust."

floors. Mr. Rose agreed, and said that beat part of my life something of land home he gave his considered But why pursue this unsavoury the P.W.D. had alsé been given some what would nowadays be called a opinion that London had nothing to lack of appreciation? Suflee it to inconvenience, for as a result of the Burns

"fan" By this I do not mean ofer compared with the talk that he say that Burns's native Scottish al-reports they had to send workmen to to suggest that I have read all has had for years been hearing in theantry made it impossible for him to the premises and thus much time had

frequently stall my Burns farmhouse. poets, and

think of

woman in these cynical been wusted. The matter had now engine over his broader examples of

terans.

Been rectified. Is it to be wondered at that the the Doric. But in my schooldays

For Burns owes as much to the In Imposing the fine, the magistrate outstanding

of Maure came under the influence of Thomas peasantry.

guch

It is said that he could fine defendant when his ploughshare lassies, they owe to him. Carlyle's little boot about "Irrden turned up a field-mouse, instead of undeniable that the best of Burns's anything up to $250, which was the and Hera-worship" and so naturally letting out an

expletive like an poetry could not have been written maximum penalty. grew up with somethhut like en in ordinary yokel, should go home and were for the lassies, o lle grained belief that Robert Burns has immortalize that sleekit beastle" in certain claims to be included among lines that have run through the the world's

Kreat

civilized world? Now you may say that person.

Silence and Solllude who was born and bred, as Carlyle

And that leads me to the third was, in a place called Ecclcfechan point in which I think Burns was would be liable to a certain amount

icky-1

his carly employ- of

racial

prejudice or even local pre- ment. Joseph Conrad in one of his Judice. But this is not at all borne novels talks of the effect on a man's put by the other bamee In his

his mind of living in a sailing ship list of "Heroes" -- Cromwell and the inestimable benefits of silence Napoleon, Martin Luther and John and solitude" are his words; and Knox, Dante and Shakespeare and should think that ploughing field Samuel Johnson-in addition, of course, lo Robert Burns himself.n an early spring morning is the

Guilty, and said the set bad been And one is at once impelled to ask can offer in the way of

elf. nearest equivalent that the dry land silence and

given her by a man who had left the So it is but Atling to remember Colony. "on what grounds could it be right to solitude. It is an undoubted fact the lassies on occasions such as this; .select this Scottish peasant for a that many of Burns's early poems and, as Burns supper assumes said that the set was found on in- Mr. J. Key, Inspector of Wireless, were composed netually at the tall of national character, it is also fitting formation received. I suppose it would at first sight the plough, and throughout his life to remember the part

A clothes line svem paradoxical to apply the word we can surely see the traces of that Lassies have played in Scottish 11s and was so cleverly disguised

which The on the roof was used na #nacrial. thai "lucky" to man who was born to early apprenticeship,

tory. grinding poverty and hard manual

It was difficult to detect. No owner You all know his weaknesses. He We are all acquainted with Deldre, for the set could be found, so a toll: who suffered all his life from drank too much, especially towards Catherine "Barlass". Mary, Queen of summons was taken out against the grievous-health; who spent his the end of his life. He let his head Scots, and Flora MacDonald, principal tenant, in this case days dodging creditors and duns be turned too easily by his sudden what of the Lassies that remain defendant and bailiffs;

finally died rise to fame. And and who

he 10 more "unwept, unhonoured, and unsung?" The woman, he added, took out a quite same time before his fortieth attempted to resist any of the "lassics There is, for example, the immorial licence for the set a few days after birthday. But I think it is justifiable than he tried to interfere with thenny Geddes whe fung a stool at its discovery, but there was reason to say that in certain respects Durns green growth of the "rashes o." the minister in St. Giles Cathedral, to believe that the set did not belong was lucky or perhaps it would be 1

quote what and thus set ablaze the smouldering to her but to soncone who had used more proper to say that the world another poet wrote about yet another Scottish discontent at English rell-her name to take out the licence, was lucky in certain of Bums clr-post:

rious interference. Now, Jenny ha An application for confiscation of "Such stains there are--as when never been given her duc. Indeed, the set was not granted.

The Chinese Youth's Medical Re- some have tried to rob the Inssies of

lief Association, which has a good another's laughing the reflected glory by declaring that

reputation for its national salvation face

Jenny was a man in woman's cloth-

work has organised the play, which Willi nectar and runs on."

Ing. That theory, however,

has a cast of notable and experienc- 15 The lecture Romance" which started, Very Improper to splash another promptly derided by the irrefutable Outine of Buddhism," scheduled to

entitled "A Short ed amateur players. 1 suppose, with Rousseau and few Indy's face-but after all she was argument that had Jenny been

Grace Cheng and Banky Yip will be delivered to-day by the Ven. play athers And swept clean through Grace, and after all it was nectar. man the stool would have hit, and Brother Chee Hoy, has been

the leading roles, and the Europe In the last years of the So, may one not soy-after all it was not missed, the minister.

Inmous On the celled owing to the

Chang Kung In "The lecturer'n un- eighteenth century. In literature, in Robbie Burns, and after all we did other hand, it is urged that the off-avoidable departure from Hongkong. Herbert Tong, will show off himself Romance of the Western Chamber," inuste, and above all in polities men get the nectar of those heavenly: clating clergyman was П married Instead, the Manuk Lodge of for some reason suddenly started to love songs of his?

the in an entirely different type. mun,

and thus an expert through Theosophical Society will hold throw out their chests and breathe It is not altogether easy at this long practice in avoiding missiles.

The cast Includes Banky Ip, Grace social tea and question and answer Cheng, Gean Ma. Herbert Tong the pure air of reality and simplicity distance of time to understand the Iut the flower of all Scoltish meeting, to which all friends of the Hayman and sincerity after centuries of im- reasons for the immense and im- heroines "the Star that shines abune Lodge are welcome.

Kwok, Kay Ma, Fred prisonment in the elining of the mediate "rage" for Burns and his them at remains anonymous. She

Chong, Elsie Wong, George Chow, classical tradition.

Dora I have suggested that his led

Elale Chicong. Wilfred Seto, and won no wars. no armies,

Po-kei, Chow, Lou

Mary Chan, sincerity and his simplicity and his Dut "peace hath her victories no less he was served with good old Scottish Gorden Lee, Beila Ma, David Ou!, Contrast with Dryden Take a simple process like falling hatred of hypocrisy were something renowned than war" and this lussie's parritch-a dish, as you imow, in Salina Luk, George Ng. Lily Chun. in love. Here in how Dryden, only Duchesses in Edinburgh had never one. Yet she did what all the in- The guldwife of the house rntheneth Wong, Mary Yao, James Poon, those days. Those victory was indeed a most peaceful those days not known in England, Kenneth Wong, Beatrice Law, Ken- a few years earlier, would manage come across just that sort of plough- telligentsia of London dared not de umidly enquired how he had Hiked Frisella Ho, Hugh Chen, Florence

boy be

before and they

She answered back the great Dr. it, and Johnson, with characteristic Lam, Tony Wong, Elsie Law, Ann "I attempt from love's sickness to tumbled like ninepins. And at the Johnson, and, "mirabile diciu." left politeness. replied: "Good enough Thu, Patricia Ho, Gloria Yee and

naturally fly in vain. Since I

am. myself my own an interesting sidelight in a chance! famous lexicographer had arrived in came the Softly, yet Instantly, Art Carneiro.

of the social senle there is in without a word to say. The for the bogs." fever and pain."

answer: "Then, sir, let me Very beautiful and very elegani, no

remark made by Lockhart, the Scotland full of his anti-Scottish give You

some more" blographer of doubt; but about as passionate as a that when Burns on his travels care things: "Much may be made of a gratitude to the lassies for what they

Scott, Who says prejudice. (You know the sort of And so it is with

deep sense of cross-word puzzle,

Burns

to on lan at night it was usual for Scotsman-if he be caught young") have done for Scotland and for Burns the other hand very even the waiters and estlers to jump At his first breakfest over the Border that I ask you all to be upstanding wisely starts by falling violently love, and then when he can restrain out of bed and dress hurriedly so

pince In such a team of stars.

euinstances.

In the first place it was lucky that

Burns flourished (if that is the up-

propriate word) right on the crest of

that

theng tidal wave that we call

on

זמון

templed to

a Grace

Sprinkles

quite new in

other end

himself no longer te bursts out: as to miss nothing of his wonderful.

Well we are used to something of

this sert nowadays-not

muchi

secrets tell,

And dreads a curtain fecture worse

tham hell"

"The Lassles" in History

Spelling Bee

But

And I will love thee still, my dear, poets as film-stars and aviators and

tear, the like. But how are we to explain HOW many of these words are

"As fair art thou, my bonile lors,

conversation.

So drep in luve am I,

' the

scas gang dry.

the sun, vive even after death?

Personally Survives

correct and what is wrong with

Til a' the seas gang dry, my dear, a personality which manages to sur-the others?

And the rocks

And I will love thee still, my dear.

While the sands of life shall run.”

It is true that he did not always If you go to cerlain obscure club-

multigate

Mohawk Molchan

acquntle aquamarine aquaduct

wait for the rocks to melt before houses in Scotland you will attil find English Oxford Dictionary spell- "transferring his eternal devotion to preserved there a éleck or a putter ings of these words will be found on

some other bonnle laas, but one canior

even A ball that has had the page 5.

without licence. She plended IN, MUSICAL COMEDY

the

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

con-

a

and dunk to the health of "the Lansica."

"We've faults and failings-granted Warly.

frail, backsliding tertuls merely Eve's bonnie squad, priests wyle

them

sheerly.

For oor grand fa"

But still, but still, I love them

dearly

God bless them a

Mr. J. Moodle made an able response on behalf of "The Lessies",

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