be hailed with joy China and i trougly addicted to athletic pas-Gimes, and even" amongst the feast re-loving and athletic Romans, Greeks and other ancient peoples organized games were not so much am attraction as individual feats of strength and skill. Or, to take a more modern example, in the period when the English first secured their reputation as a sporting nation, it was really field sports, riding and boxing that got them the honour. Football had very little hold on the people and even cricket was not so generally played as many may think. The vicar, indeed, treads on dangerous ground when he asks for such evidence, for although the need for approval' oF otherwise did not exist when the Bible was written, will find in the early chapters of English history that' Kings and Parliaments, more keen then than they can be now on the enforcement religious observance, passed many laws forbidding Sunday games. A very good case can be made out in favour of Sunday games working in such an argument anda great many clergymen already have subscribed to the submission that Sunday games in acord with the ed without interference therewith.
His name and benefice have been forgotten for the moment, but ever there will remain the example of the clergyman somewhere on the upper reaches of the Thames, who invited sportsmen to come to early service at his church on Sunday and to come in their flannels Norfolk suits, and to bring wit them their fishing" rods, lunch baskets, bats, golf sticks, or whatever they would need. The porch and grounds of his church looked like a sporting outfitter's store, the church every Sunday was with an earmcats Tnterented aod steady congregation. There can be nothing but admiration for one like Harry Kingman, who refuses to play baseball on Sunday because he personally does not think it right, but we have not heard of him fore-regards roads and railways, the Tales Pal Ta coe been regarded as a general benefit, sera nat rie Miss Christina Kolontai, the frst woman Soviet Ambassadot to No1 way, presented her credentials to the Norwegian King at Christiania fon September 9. She was escorted to the court im a Bayal carriage Norwegian Communists protested against the alleged luxury displayed by the proletarian envoy.
August report, the United States Department of Commerce (office of eel Mee, Peg ararcistia fs ette tngineee tea" Rosslan with war tract price 2 "The hangar is being built igo re i ree Cantennuny Cemetery, where Joseph Conrad was laid to rest, is pietaresquely situated "without the city walls." As a member of the Roman Catholic faith, he could not be buried in one of the many ancient churchyards (and notably that of St Martin's where King Ethelbert was baptised by Augustine), which are still in use, but his reniains passed through the venerable streets of the within sight fof the Stour meadows Kentish hop gardens that he loved s0 fend eight students military and" aeronautical there.
ore sciences ice to. study When Chinese armies fight the! actual damage amongst the contestants never is very great, the ravaging of the countryside by victors and defeated alike and the murder and conscription of peaceable and industrious country people being the worst feature. Even though there are some aeroplanes with the rival provincial armies! now, they have done very little, but if the warlords are going to concentrate on the training of young officers in the best Western avi schools things will be different. The poor, ignorant coolies, made soldiers in five minutes and' incompetent to do more than fire a rifle from the hip, and lacking the! courage and enthusiasm for a just cause to go in for a bayonet charge, do very little damage, but even one bombing aeroplane, properly hand-Jed, will play sad' havoc, and the possession of several of them will give the ambitious war-makers a greater sense of power than ever.
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