TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1931.
DISCOVERING THE ART OF LIFE
SOME PEOPLE WHO REALLY KNOW TO LIVE.
By Gordon Laws.
He has no care, and his motto is that God, if He looks after the spar- rows, will look after him...
Most of us would neither want nor be able to follow his example. But the fact remaina that this man ia definitely one of the sparse and happy band that "live." Who, Among our super civilised popula- tion of to-day, are the others who really live? And how do they manage it?
virtues.
A Few Examples.
examples
live.
discover.
The
PROTECTION OF CHILDREN.
Governor's Appeal for Generosity,
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A DESERVING CAUSE.
THE
CHINA
MAIL.
In attending the monthly meetings, QUEER FREAKS OF
re
the average attendance being over twenty. This constitutes cord that is dimeult to match, con. sidering that most of our delibera
tions lasted about two hours.
A Tribute.
It is my firm belief that the 5g ciety could not have accomplished half of what it has, had it not had the benefit of Mr, T., M. Hazlerigg's Its Joint! one of Secretaries.
At the annual general meeting of services. the Society for the Protection
of
Children,
held
City His
Hall yesterday
Excellent the
who presided, pald
1
tribute")
Honorary
LAW.
An Offence to Talk to His Son.
MISDEMEANOUR.
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Strange twists' are sometimes Mr given to the lives of people. In in the Hazlerigg has brought to his duties America, Here are some examples afternoon, the ripe experience gained as an of them.
For associating with his own son, Governor, Honorary Secretary of a branch
for the John Hendrickson, a 66 years-old' of the National Society to the work of Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, Prevention of Cruelty to Children labourer, of New York, is in danger Each method has its M.C.. Hon. Secretary, remarking in England; and since he assumed of going to prisen for three years.
He has been arrested under a new A so-called outcast from society, haphazardly.
that "It is largely due to his efforts office here has worked like a galley- who has pitched his. tarpaulin by
a road seems to have One could cite the Prince of Wales that the Society has reached the glave with the zeal of a crusader. law which makes it a misdemeanour the side of
He spent n, good deal of his time for any person to consort with come near discovering the Art of and Mr. Gordon Selfridge as two position it now holds." Life. He shaves, washes, feads individuals who certainly live every Speckers at the meeting included while on teave at Home about a known criminals-and his son is Both are in a sense com- Str Stou-son Chow, Kt., President' year ago, in studying child-welfare said by the police to have been in- the papers, takes an interest in the minute.
npelled, in quite different ways, to of the Society. and the Hon. Mr. work, and the working of the dicted in 1926 for the theft of a world of men and things, docs
R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D., Juvenile Courts in England and at motor-car.
# day's work in the fields when he live by rule.
But there are hundreds of artists Chairman of the Executive Com- certain Colonies through which he
Then there. is the case of Jesse S. feels like it, and, quite entrammel- |
was passing on his way home. As led, enjoys himself to the full in his and writers and odd job men; and mittée,
The official speeches disclosed that member of the Juvenile Court Conklin, who has practically no even business magnates who de- own peculiar way.
The the financial position of the Society Committee appointed by His Ex-chance of ever getting out of gael cline to map out their day.
cellency at the beginning of this again. He has been taken back to nere question of success or failure, was sound, and, in fact, was in I find, seems to make little differ better, position than last year, but year, he rendered most useful ser- the Auburn Prison, New York State, There are stage celebrities His Excellency drew attention to vice by preparing the draft legiala- to complete a sentence for forgery.
of "When this sentence is completed ence,
he will start to serve a life sentence arid film stars who can only be de- the fact that such a statement did tion which formed the basis scribed as dead from the chin up, not infer that the Society had more the report of that Committee.
The working of the Soclety has under a law applying to habitual while many a humble aspirant to money than it knew what to do with,
If this is not enough to hold him their honours is watching every, and appealed for increased genero- considerably increased during the criminals.
past twelve months, and is daily in- creasing. movement of the game, living every sity in donations to the funds of
We need more helpers; in prison for the rest of his life, second and ready to scize every op, such a deserving cause.
first of all, we need more members. he is liable to be charged with Dr. Hotewalls Speech. portunity.
Our present membership is not as escaping from another gaol, and also The lion. Mr. Kotewall said: A few
ladies and large as it should be, for we have with stealing a motor-car while Your Excellency, who *really*
A Sad Case. Here is the sad case of Mrs. Jose ber. In fact, the membership one thing common about them is gentlemen-In seconding the mo- only 350 members, when we should escaping. that their chief concern is either tion for the adoption of the report have four or five times that num- the present or the next moment, and secounts. I desire, in the first
to discharge effectively the mani just discovered that her husband They are either enjoying or ex- instance, to associate myself with should be even larger, if we are Dennehy, of Chicago, who has only!
Sir Shou-gon Chow in expressing Nopecting to enjoy.
Three men paralysed from the grateful thanks to His Excellency fold duties which the Constitution, obtained a divorce from her more This has not interrupted ther It would seem futile to count among waist, whose legs are merely an en- the Governor for the practical in-of the Society has laid upon us. than two years age. the chosen those who live for ancumberance and whose disability terest he has shown by presiding We have not only to protect the hour and exist for the remaining 15 causes them scute discomfort: Two at this meeting. The deep sympathy children, but also to advise parents normal home life, but
of which His Excellency and Lady in their duty towards their off- Dennehy is asking permission to The of them ure ex-Service to 20 of their waking day.
run businesses of Peel have for the children of the Springs, and to prevent cruelty. defend herself against the charge of people who live all the time, how about 35, who
every street. in suing for his 'divorce. ever, few as they may be, can be their own and wheel themselves poor, and the active part which We want members in every town- drunkenness made by her husband
Lady Peel takes in alleviating their ship, every village,
To my mind, the best safeguard about in chaira. picked from all classes and creeds,
They are both clear-eyed, healthy sufferings and generally promoting against cruelty, is public opinion. Walter White, aged 25, of Detroit, I even know a society woman who
He struck up a She has and vivacious. They never grouse their welfare, deserve to be more will those who have hitherto hung has gone to prison through a girl he lives, She can't help it.
Every instant of widely known, if only for the high back in doubt-now that our aims had never seen. and seldom tire.
re-speaking acquaintance with her and work have been 'clearly that disposition which. nelther the of soul-destroy-
their time is occupied to the full., example they set to others,
a through an air shaft while they monotonous round
Incidentally, they have each quite. The activities of the Society affirmed-join up and give us
have been so fully covered by the
helping hand? This cal to them were both being detained in the a coleric of women friends.
and by the Pre- An ex-chorus girl, now a domestic annual report
Both were released on probation, 1ery from the thousands of poor, to deal with.
one condition imposed upon servant, who, though engaged to an sident's address, that very little is a call of Duty-it is a plaintive county gaol.
dis- White was that he should not try to actor she shortly hopes to marry, is left to me never bankers after the stage loved should like, however, to direct helpless children in uor midst, many bat her work and regards it as training special attention to the lack of hos of whom are suffering from
pital accommodation for children ense, want or neglect, and all of associate with anybody also on pro bation. He tried to see the girl It .whom need attention. ground for the future.
With these words I beg to second when he got out of gaol, but after A sister in a convent who has on both sides of the harbour.
calling at her home when she was seems to me that the time has come
the motion. chosen her one and only vocation.
out he was arrested again, and An ex-Russian prince, now driv- when concurrently ing a taxi in Oslo, who declared to nichild-welfare work which is being friend of mine the other day that he so quietly and admirably done
"Living" -1 see it, consists in getting the most out of every hour, every minute and every second. Nothing more.
Cannot Help It.
Time is so invaluable. and tragically short on this planet that
ing convention nor the knowledge of Its inanity can kill.
The psychologists seldom ascom to stress the highly important truth that life, apart from those qualities of which we know nothing, is almost entirely made up of a continuous desire for satisfaction. This desire prompts our every minutest action. If you don't believe me, try to find Bome other motive that will account for your bodily movements.
When this constant desire ceaser death inevitably follows, because no human or animal. life "could go on without it. A person reputed to have died of a broken heart, for In- stance, has prabubly" died of just this cessation of desire and nothing more,
Two Types.
ed
men
with the
Excellent Work
In the course of his speech
T
*
now Mrs.
is now has to serve his sentence.
Back in Prison.
ex-
since
had never eaten, slept or felt so under the inspiring leadership of Excellency congratulated the Pro- well, and that only after adepting Lady Peel, there should, be in- Bident and Committee on the his present occupation had be awak-stiluted children's hospitals which cellent work they had done ened to the possibilities of life.
of
Sixteen yeara of exemplary
in the life of Charles Cundiff, who besides helping to reduce infantile the inception of the Society, and citizenship have counted for nought
go far towards proceeded;-
"There can be no more noble has just been taken back to the A young policeman on a pleasant mortality, may
chil work than the protection of chil-Ohio Penitentiary, where he escaped bodies best in the Golder's Green district abating that shameful practice of of London, whose chief interests are dumping the
As a first, dren, and no more despicable crime 16 years ago: strects.
When he escaped from gaol he He dren in the The stars, trees and people. Surely, then, the people who are knows most things about all three, though very inadequate, step to than cruelty in this Colony, and i always aware of such a condition of And if one 'mast generalise and this end, the Society has, as has am not sure that, generally speak went to Mason City, West Virginia, financial assis-East perhaps than in the West. It care of three aged persons, two of
diff whom were blind. mind must live and more fully than talk in classes. I would men- been mentioned in the annual reing, there is not less of it in the where he set up a home and took
most people whose hobby port, given some
The dim- So fine was the example be show- .those in whom it has become dead- Lion
majority of tance to the Chinese Sisters of the in obvious that the greatest ened or ignored. Thus the people is work;
Army workers, the Precious Blood towards fitting up culty here is poverty. who never stop expecting some-. Salvation
the and maintaining their hospital and culties of coping with it in a Colony ed to the citizens there for 16 years thing" are obviously more alive than rail girls of the North,
"White out-patients clinic for children at like this, which lies on the fringe that they are now petitioning for
the non-expectant.
The expectant, again, may be divided into two categories; those who live, to rule and those who live
SUMMONS DISPUTED
Only a Defect in Form.
MAGISTRATE'S SUGGESTION,
the
BABY'S THIRD WORD.
Jewish tallorcsecs of
But this hospital of a great country which contains his pardon.
cots which are hundreds of thousands of poor pes- chapel, Leeds and Manchester and Shumshuipo.
sadly insufficient to meet the ple, must be obvious to all, but such those of the racing fraternity who provides only 30 can claim to be good losers.
urgent needs of the Kowloon Pen- a Society as this can do a great deal
for those living in the Colony if only" Auto," Says Citroen, New York 'insula.
they have sufficient funde, and I therefore strongly appeal for more!
RETURNED BANISHEES SENTENCED.
'The Chief ́Alm.
money.
Government to Help.
Suggests" Gin."
A fear has been expressed in cer-
The three first words a baby tain quarters that the Society, in
should be taught to say, déclared M. undertaking certain responsibili
been made to Citroen, the French motor-cari ties, might fall into the indistin- Reference has
an ordinary hospitals, and there is no doubt that manufacturor, in a speech at Colum Three returned banishees, who guishable role of
charitable organisation. While the existence of accommodation for bia University., are: Mama, papa were arrested while walking down it must be admitted that part of children is inadequate. The Tung and auto.
But sarcastic New York.com the street together in Yaumati, car work is not dissimilar to that Wah and Kwong Wah Hospitals have yesterday, were this morning sen-now performed by several other in carried out certain additions in the mentators suggest that onbies in manner in which they New York under the influence of
When the new hos-
prohibition, are likely to make the tenced to various terms of impri-sillutions, our chief aims are, to generous
quote the Constitution of the So- are famous.
and pital wing of the Kowloon Govern-third word "gin." sonment at the Kowloon Magia-ciety, "to protect children tracy, for returning to the Colony young persons by preventing, rement Hospital is completed shortly, before the expiration of their moving or mitigating any Injustice Government proposes in the first done to them; to safeguard their instance to divert its use for women morale; to prevent any act which and children. As most of you Government proposes to banishment term.
Keung Klo, who has returned on causes or is likely to cause them know, three previous occasions since he unnecessary suffering or injury to establish an infant welfare centre just reached Britain after a tour The name on the
in their health; and generally to pro- on the island next year, and hoper on the Continent (writes a 'corres- wrong name..
was sent away for ten years
¡tect the interests of children," to establish on Kowloon in the fol-pondent of the Morning Post). In We are greatly in-Brussels his wife brought large Aummons was Sun Fat, and was described as the principal tenant 1925, was sentenced to 12 months' some of these aims are peculiar to lowing year, on Mr. Silva's house in Peace hurd labour. A similar term was our Society, and we have always debted to the St. John Ambulance quantities of lace, and they expect it on entering Britain. To their Avenue, Homurstin.
imposed, on Wong Chol, who was kept them before us, and have en-Association, and to the New Tered to have to pay heavy dutics on Mr. Silva and that he was the banished for 10 years in 1927, and deavoured to carry them into effect, ritories Medical Benevolent Associa only occupant of the house, and Wong Kang, who was also banish as the annual report has shown. tion, for the work they are doing, earprles they did not have to pay was the Principal tenant. No per-ed for ten years in 1927, was sent The Society has therefore, I trust, more especially on behalf of chil-uny duty. It happened that the
Mr. R. M. G. Silva, of Messrs. Jardino, Matheson & Co., Ltd., dis- puted his summons at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning for ‘al- lowing his dog to be abroad with out a muzzle, on the grounds that the summons was made out in a
son by the name of Sun Fat re- sided thore.
to jail for nine months.
DOG OWNERS FINED.
justified ita existence.
dren, in the Now Territories.
The Mul-Teal System. ・・ Sir Shou-son Chow has made re
This Society has also been use ferance to my chairmanship of the Executive Committee, I feel that ful in the matter-of-musi-taal and
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Mr. J. A. Fraser, the Magistrate, said that the wrong name was
I do not deserve: his kind remarks its work shows that there is much They still cannot understand it. and tho only a defect in form,
If the Society has been able to less hardship among this class then "Say, are all your political guys fact that Mr. Silva had answered
show some tangible results of its has been alleged. There is to crazy?" asked, my friend.
And I could only reply that, J the summons, was tantamount to a
Mr. LF Grimthe; of the Jabour, it is because the members doubt that the system has its de-] plea of guilty,
Continuing his Worship naid "I P.W.D., was this morning fined $5 of the Executive Committee, spots, but there is also no doubt some respects, they are, auggest to you that the better for allowing hla fox terrier to be pecially the two Honorary Secres that it has saved the lives of many course is to hold the summons abroad without a muzzle and not taries, have worked hard, and have children who would otherwise have dustrial School; and, thanked Missy
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Mrs. King of No. 2, Aimai imposed task. It has really beer on."
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After paying tribute to the work H.E. thanked the many donbra for Villas, was also fined $10 for al-a pleasure to presida" lowing her dog to wander in Nathan keen Land of workers who, In of Mr. Hazlerigg, Sir William ex their monetary assistance, and appealed for more Road without a licence badge on spite of the many other calls on pressed appreciation of the fine earnestly
their time, have been very regular work done by the St. Louis In- financial aiḍ.
If the Court upheld you, another summons would be taken out.”
Mr. Silva agreed to let the sum mons stand and pald a fine of $5.
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