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It might almost seem that there has been a conspiracy of silence in the education of most of us concernâ€" ing China. As if we who are mere upswuoaflnm,-d the globe had decided to ignore this far older inhabâ€" itant. It comes, then, as rather a shock to our unprepared ears to learn that the most brilliant of the Chinese dynasties, that of Tang, was coinciâ€" another of its three great dynasties another of ts three great dynasties came at the time of the Middle Ages, and that during the Renaissance the Ming Dynasty held â€"sway. regaindse Of these three great dynasties, the earliest was unquestionably the greatâ€" est. Which means that between the years of 618 and 970 China reached her highest development in statesâ€" manship, religion, art. The question ther is one Of tLNose wmCn Nas aRACpL the historians young by making them feel their importance in the world. ~The backwardness of Chinese writâ€" ing has been put forwardâ€"asâ€"oneâ€"unâ€" doubted reason. â€"Another is the funâ€" damental conservatism of the Chinese people. They believe that heaven and earth, what we call the Laws of Naâ€" ture and the doings of men are all parts of an indivisible whole. As easily change the one as the other. This makes for an extreme conserâ€" vatism, a deep rooted Fatalism, a Toronto, Canada.â€"This composition by a pupil of foreign parentage is making board of education members chuckle:. "I have a pet dog. His name is Nell. My dog can do many tricks. He can stand on his two last feet and beg for eats. â€" He is always by my door when I come home from school. One day my dog made four pups. One was a spaniel, one was a bull and two were hounds. ‘He always stayed by his pups. He was a good mother." Washington.â€"The turkey crop this year is larger by 9. per cent than "Dead" Snake Is Alive Colorado Springs.â€"A "dead" boa oN TO CHINA News Shorts Was A Dog, Anyway "rmm static conception of the world not conâ€" ducive to change. "Hesitating like the man who traâ€" verses a river in winter, F Cautious as the man who fears his neighbors on all sides, Reticent, like visitors, = Simple, like unused material, _ They were wide as profundity 5 They were impenetrable as opacâ€" ity." This, written of the ancients can also be applied to the modern Chinese. These characteristics besides delaying progress have given China the longest continuity of civilization the world has ever known. § % ‘Gowen and> Hall, Hall being better known as "Upton Close," have written a readable and penetrating history of China. ~ â€" + â€"â€"The _most. striking . thing about Ernest Hemingway‘s "A Farewell to : Arms" is ~the matterâ€"ofâ€"fsct cynicism. If he were a shoe salesâ€" man telling of the numbers of his stock he could not use a more unâ€" emotional tone than the one in which he gives his devastating summing up of life‘s irony. <"If people bring so a panic when it came to life as the operators were starting to skin it. The twenty foot snake had been in a private Zoo on Cheyenne :Mountain, where the temperature hovers about zero.â€"â€"Theâ€"eonstrictor _ was _ found frozen stiff, and sent to the taxidermy Llusciuie itniodny d anins. Relcaly c shyfite oo uic d mt h ie vne o it e o4 ivate: Z00 Che Mountain, | â€" Over in Russia the communists are private Zoo on yenne :Mountain dvornting â€"the . adoption .of_ a where the temperature hovers @AbOUt| inrpe_day week for workers. This zero.â€"â€"Theâ€"eonstrictor _ was found| will give four days a week for propaâ€" frozen stiff, and sent to the taxidermy | gandising. es se, li; 3606 06 a6 o6 d6"d6 06 06 . 36 â€"a6 d6 o6 a6 o6 dG6 :v r f | n I & ® £. l m mm se in es den e ce n rmn egen ced rageeei is es i aaess uio igei en m iienigeconeacmg W BL | » a : \“ 8 ~ # w * R * e 9 es oR oRnenie d ob ninstreneri mz w on bucotnken L WHY THEY ARE LOST By Ernest Hemingway Charles Scribner‘s Sons THE CHIMNEYS SHOP IN WINNETKA Pli Enaglann English Antiquesâ€"=â€"â€"â€" much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.: But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very genâ€" tle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry." . This is tremendously effective beâ€" cause of its very matterâ€"of.â€"factness. In the same way his touching on emoâ€" tion is effective because it is done so unemotionally. When a comrade is killed. "He looked very dead. It was raining. I had liked him as well as : anyone I ever knew." & s Hemingway, in his other books, has told of the "lost generation." In this book it is as if he meant to tell how and why they are lost.© He makes his record of the heartlessness and bruâ€" tality of war as the experiences of tures of wide comprehension, and Alâ€" ways in this terse economical prose, as unemotional as a shoe salesman taking: inventory. â€" Theâ€"love story he has placed against the background of war is as brutal and tragic as the war itself. â€"â€" f ~â€"_ All this does not make for pleasant reading, though its sincerity makes it important.â€" It is a record of an exâ€" perience which though extreme was anything but unique. 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