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The Thursday Habit.
In the course of #1 recent lecture, Professor Sir Arthur Thomson ja reported as having said:-
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1931,
"And the parent-home of those Yu Lenng, "(26), had his akull" 2,000 homes, the training school fractured when a number of bricks from which those 2,000 workers fell on him whilst at work at the came, the centre of all, this activity Kien On building contractor's and life-a building in Regent's matshed on the new No. 2 Police Park, London: St. Dunstan's Head- Station building site. The Tajured quarters. The great work carried man was conveyed to the Govern on by devoted staff, working dayment Civil Hospital. by day, year by year, not merely
for material ends, but in pursuit of "Young Eagles," the best aerial a noble atm-the fulfilment of a fighting all-talking pieture yet pro- promise of life-long help made to duced. is showing at the Central the men of the Empire who lost Theatre to-day. Spectacular and their sight fighting for the honour thrilling battles in the clouds and and aufety of this dear land, real hazardous "dog-Bghts" within Britain."
fifteen feet from the ground of aeroplanes can be seen in the most realistic manner.
No more vivid description could be given of the work and aims of the great organization which caręs for the war-blinded men of the Empire than these few short pára- graplis. They are taken from the sixteenth annual report, which has just been issued, and from part of
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NEW BILLS PASS
COUNCIL.
Subsistence of Debtors. in Jail.
ARMS LICENCES.
Four new Bills passed their first reading at yesterday afternoon's meeting of the Legislative Council,
under-
The Attorney General moved the first reading of "A Bill to amend the Code of Civil Procedure." He said-The object of this Bill is to raise the fee for subsistence of dabtors, which creditors have to pay, up to a maximum of $2 per day. been in existence for over half a The present maximum has
and it is quite inadequate.
The Rev. Brother James, of the the story of St. Dunstan's as writ. Christian Brothers, arrived here century, being only 26 centa a day,
from Malaya on
the P. & 0, s..
ten by à newcomer of six months' standing a newcomer, moreover, representative of the younger gen- aration which has come to maturity since the end of the War. To this
Kashgar.
The Colonial Secretary second- ed and the Bill was read cable has been received stating that
Many will regret to learn that a time.
a firat
Arms and Ammunition. Missionary Society, died In Eng-first reading of "A Bill to amend Miss Helen Davies, of the London The Attorney General moved the land on the 7th inst. Misa Davies further the Arms and Ammunition ago, after Ordinance, 1900." He said.-The
generation the question "What is St. Dunstan'a doing" and "Where ara St. Dunstaners to-day?" spring left the Colony a year from a curiosity natural in those
who did not see the birth of this over forty years' service in educa- | obječt of this B is to enable the Institution, ita fine work during the /tional work carried on in the Ying Governor-in-Council to fix the fees
war and afterwards. for men who without it would in most cases have been doomed to lives of idleness, uselessness, and despair.
From Other Pens.
Wa Girls' School.
For arms and licences in the future, and to provide that, for the present, Medical Society. yesterday evening.able for each licencs,
Before members of the University an annual fee of $10 shall be pay- Professor J. L. Shellshear D.S.O., M.D., Ch.M. the well-known anthro- and the Bill was read a first time.
The Colonial Secretary seconded. pologist, gave an interesting talk on
the importance of the "Peking.
Peace Preservation. Man" in establishing the origin and first reading of "A Bill to amend The Attorney General moved the evolution of present-day man. Dr. the Peace Preservation Ordinance, G. H. Thomas, M.D. presided over 1886," the meeting.
He said. The object of The speaker ill-this Bill is to add, at the end of
An Atlas of Dialects.
Before the wireless and the au-ustrated his address with lantern the Indemnity Clause-Clause 14
tomobile have quite rubbed out the slides. boundaries between one place and another, 'American philologists are
it seems to us, a Thursday planning a "Linguistic Atlas of the HOSPITAL SUNDAY. that section. After this 'Bill has
to per
Services in St. John's
Cathedral.
-to the principal Ordinance, words which will strengthen the effect of
passed its first reading I propose to move, on your Excelleney's direc tion, that the Standing Orders of this Council be suspended in order that it shall pass through all its atages at this meeting. Your Ex- cellency has declared that, in your opinion, an emergelley exfats, and it is desirable, in the public Interest, that the Standing Orders should be so suspended.
Habit is to be encouraged, rather local dialects will be traced. With United States," upon which all than discouraged.
characteristic thoroughness they Indeed, subsequent remark have drawn up a questionnaire of of Sir Arthur's, in the same lec-one thousand questions which will ture, seems to contradict and de- The questions are framed to get a he asked of one thousand persons. inolish the hypothesis establish-"complete cross-suction of the ac ed in the earlier part of his customed vocabulary." For in-
Next Sunday which is also the address quoted above. He said, slange, one question might be, Feast of St. Luke, the Patron Saint What would you call a deep, nar-
of Medical Work, is being obrved referring to our civilisation:- [row valley?" The answer might as Hospital Sunday in St. John's The Colonial Secretary second-
"We are now going to have be a ravine, glen, valley, guleb,
Cathedral. This is the annual oc-ed and the Bill passed its remain- an epoch in which science is hollow, gully, dingle, dule, vale, or casion on which the Anglicaning stages and became law.
Church tries to show its care and dell, according to local usage. to be brought to bear on all the The country has indeed achiev gratitude for
Suitors Fund. the splendid work problems of life. The more weed unity when it needs
The Attorney General moved the which is being done in this Colony first reading of "A Bill to amend can chart the seas of the future patuate its diversity in this way, by the medicar art auising profes-the Suitors' Funds Ordinance. scientifically, the more chance Bu even if local dialects are dy-gions, and those other workers in 1396. He said.This Bill makes
ing out it will still be possible to the Sanitary Department and elaca few amendments in the "I notice in children the we have of surviving, and that make a phonetic atlas of the States where who guard the health of the Peipal Ordinance which have fallacy of thinking always of}
is our hope for the future." showing the different accents and community. something that is coming. I Anticipation and realisation intonations with which a common As in former years the form of State. call it the Thursday habit. are too very different things, in muntention and wireless will not special reference to this work. The and the Bill was read a first time. language is spoken. Swift com-
service and the sermon will have The Colonial Secretary seconded They say to-morrow will be many cases; but we are not con-wipe that distinction out. In Bri- preacher at the 11 o'clock service The following Bills were read a Friday, and then we shall have vinced that anticipation does thin, a far smaller place, it sur will be the Rev. E. W. L. Martin, second and third time and passed. reached Saturday.' Always not condure to happiness. In us vives so vigorously that one has M.A., Warden of St. Stephen's "A Bill to amend the Liquors Con- thinking of the future instead many cases as it may not, in just phone to
heard a man, speaking on the tele-College, Stanley, and his subject, solidation Ordinance. 1911." "A a total stranger, say "The Life Work of Michal Fara Bill to amend the Gunpowder and of the present is apt to becomes many cases it does. But, as after moment's conversation, day," whose well known discoveries Fireworks Ordinance, 1901. "A a very continual habit, and it we remarked afore, it must be "Ok, but you come from Spalding." does not conduce to happi-intelligent anticipation, not anti-
ness."
This habit is not peculiar to children. Grown-ups are just as
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guilty of it. If it is a habit of Mail Commentary. which children need to be broken, there is yet greater need for grown-ups to discard it. For grown-ups, perhaps even more than children, ure in the habit of saying "To-morrow will Friday, and then we shall have reached Saturday."
be
may come
sixteenth
annual
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been
approved by the Secretary of
"A Bill to amend the Land Regis-
are being celebrated this year by a
Bill to amend the law relating to centenary commemoration. The the Registrations of Births and preacher at the 6 o'clock service will Deaths," "A Bill to amend the be the Dean, who will also speak Money-landers Ordinance,
1911," about medical work.
H.E. the Governor and Lady Peal The next meeting of the Legisla-will be present at the morning ser- Live Council will ba held next vice, together with representative Thursday afternoon, when the un- doctors and nursing sisters. official members will speak on the Budget.
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GERMAN PUNISHED.
Cavell Relic For Sale.
tration Ordinance, 1844," and "A Bill to amend further the Stamp Ordinance, 1921."
HOT SUMMER PREDICTED FOR
1934.
The next hot Summer need not be cxpected unth 1934, says M. Henri Memery, the weather expert of the Talence Observatory in the Gironde Department.
To-day's Thought.
Appeal to a New Generation.
St. Dunstan's knows a new gen- eration has come to maturity to whom the story of St. Dunstan's Pleading "guilty" to a charge of either an intensely anchoring in the southern fairway, vital and moving thing. In which Tong Ping, steersman of a trading case interest and support will move junk, was to-day fined by the Marine in hand, or as a burden, some part Magistrate $10 or one week's im-
An attempt to sell in Britain a He bases his forecast on an ex- of which they are being asked to prisonment. But, whether or not the habit shoulder.. To this generation it
German military document, dealing amination of
spots, eclar conduces to happiness, seems to now makes its appeal for continued
with the CABO. of Edith Cavell, phenomena and solar periods." At the result of a fall of seaf- brought a State forester, named. us, a disputatious contention. Interest and support.
of The conclud-folding erected about a new building Christian
M. Memery leaves one ray Burger, before There is much to be said for ing words of the foreword of the in Bonham Road, an apprentice Criminal Court for Officials
the hope-next year we will have a at better Summer than the Summers both sides, and when that much pregnant with hope and with an of 190 Johnston Road, Wanchai, re-
report are bricklayer, named Leung Lin, (16), Weimar, and cost him the tenth of of 1930 and 1931-Central Nows. has been said, the issue remains understanding of the youth of to-ceived Injuries to his head and was
4 year's salary.
At the time of 'the trial and. undecided. So much dependa day which is surely nut misplaced. taken to the Government Civil Ho-execution of Miss
"Young people in Britain have pital..
Cavell, Burger upon the personal point of view. |
was a clerk in the office of the Gor- "Take no thought of the mor- to accept
never shown themselves unwilling
man military governor of Brussels, their share of the row, let the morrow take care of Habilities as well as of the assets of room in Murray Barracks, an odd When interest in the affair was re- the Game of Life,
When at work on the ceiling of a tration card bearing on the case control, helps prepare us to win in
and come into possession of a regis-
Any game that teaches us self itself," may be sound and practi-their inheritance." cal advice; but so is, "If people a contented, useful citizen pulling recate and injured his right the British Museum, but was told job caslia named Cheung Ming, vived a few years ago by the Cavell In each
(31), of 20 Shanghai Street, fell of take no care for the future they his weight with the rest of his fel
ilm, he offered to cell the card tö will soon have to sorrow for the lows, happy in the possession
He was sent to the has that that institution had no interest of present."
Is intelligent anti-keen on the many, and varied inter loving wife and joyous children, cipation to
be decried, even este of his life. He might havo
He then offered it to the British Voles totalling $103.138, parti-War Museum for the fantastic price though "Nothing is so good as it been a worrying, Idle pensioner. aculars of which have already been of £12,500. But at that point seems beforehand”? We think misery to himself, a dragging re-published, were approved by a meet- Burger was no incautious as to leave To-day's dollar in worth 2/111⁄2- not. Naturally, there should be "ponsibility to everybody about ing of the Finance Committee the card and correspondence with
him. For he is blind
which sat following the Legislative regard to it in a train, and in this "Two thousands workers. Each Council meeting yesterday after-way they came into the hands of City on Saturday afternoon. The A grass fire broke out in Kowloon
a man trained to his job, rich in the noon.
This superiore.
Fire Brigade and Palice were early self-respect which comes from work
In its Judgment the Court declar- on the scene, and after u sharp fight to be said for not being too other-winner to
well done, from a position as bread For unlawful possession of aed that Burger had substantially managed to get the flames under a family successfully quantity of oplum, which was con- Impaired the prestige of the official control. About one acre of grass worldly, as there is much to be maintained. He might have been cealed In a specially made cloth class. It was unworthy of an off- and 20 young pine trees were de said for not being too idealistic; sitting with his hands folded, brood-girdle, a Chinese woman, who ap cial to try to exploit a former war stroyed, before the flames were but are we not said to be the ins, discontented, a prey to morbid peared before Mr. Schofield, this antagonism, especially as the Cavell extinguished. The firo van sup thoughts, prisoner doomed morning, was fined $2,000, with the affair. had been utilised abroad, for posed to have originated by a care architeets of our own futures beneath the weight of the long, alternative of eight months hard the purposes of an anti-German leasly thrown cigarette end setting And, if that be admitted, then, empty hours,. For he te blind 'labour."
campaign.
alight to some leaves.
no. undue thinking: of the future at the expense of the present.
There is, of course, again much
"Two thousand homes.
elbow. pital
in it.
Ten Years Ago.
[From the "China Mall" of
October 16, 1021.1