MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1933.
CHINESE
EDUCATION
REPORTS
Two Missions Survey Teaching System.
"AMERICANIZATION" HAS GONE TOO FAR.
experts anpointed by the Council of the League of Nations in response to a reanest from the Chinese) Government.
The American commission con-
S.W.B. PRIVATE
ACCUSED
Alleged Assault On Taxi Driver.
night.
RIDE AROUND ISLAND
er stated he would have to be ae- companied by an Inspector. On
spector Ho Trol.
THE CHINA MAIL
WHAT EVERY GIRL
To-Day's Short Story.
· SHOULD KNOW.
A GENTLEMAN
Mothers And Daughters REPAYS
Think Alike.
CO-EDS' COMMENTS
203 freshman
about life.
3.
A LOAN
New York.
Aned its studies largely to mission.reaching Pedder Street, he met In 6. How to develop "will power and "broke."
resistance."
one
By Keith West.
SIM SEK dropped the fifth leaned down to scratch his ankle, Private Roy Thomas, of the Nine points "every girl should lump of sugar into his coffee and when he straightened up the South Wales Borderers, stationed know" before entering college in at Mount Austin Barracks, appear U.S.A. were deduced from a survey with Oriental precision, stirred pebble was between his fingers.
Now nothing can be further from "co-eds" at it, and resumed his silent, ap- Two independent reports have ed before Mr. W. Schofield in the or
Central Police Court this morning, Syracuse University. They were:parently unsecting survey of the the mind of most Chinese than mere To look at him, petty pilfering, and. Teim Sek cer 'been made recently upon the Chin-j esc educational system, one by a lav charged with allegedly assaulting 1. That she will be disillusioned Garden Cafe.
dressed in quiet European tainly did not intend to steal the man's commission from the United Wong Siu-kwan, a taxi driver, inst
clothes, no
would have object now between finger and 2. Everything about sex. States sent to survey all phases of
Thomas, it was stated, engaged How to dance, amoke, drink and guessed that, owing to the non-thumb behind the cover of the card- the glass-topped missionary work, and another by n
"neck" (cuddle).
arrival of his credit cheque from board menu on
As a matter of fact, he was commission of European educationall the tax! outside the Central Thes
tre, Queen's Road Central at 94. The common principles of Hong Kong, the young Chinese table, p.m. and requested the driver to
hygiene.
possessed exactly the fourpence trying to recall what the thing was drive around the Island. The driv 5. Not to be "vulgar," not "to give needed to pay for the coffee inprobing in a childish memory for in his father's shop in away her favours promiscuous- front of him, and that so far as a scene ly."
ready cash was concerned he was Hong Kong, when he had seen this Of course, the hotel very kind of dull, translucent would let him have credit until pebble....
Suddenly he remembered that his The taxi proceeded along 7.
the arrival of the next mail from expert surveved only Chinese Queen's Road Central in the diree-
Chinn, but still, it was awkward. father had told him that these were He inserted the lic schools. But both groups agreed tion of Pokfulam and when near-
At the next orange-covered fable uncut diamonds. that "Americanization" of Chinese schools, missioners and public. hasing the Dairy Farm Company pre-
the only other occupants of the cafe sugar-tongs down the side of the were also drinking their morning sugar-basin, allowed them to spring As a result, schools isen, the driver alleged he was
in Jow bat open, and aropped the stone into. struck on the head with a cane by
and coffee and debating gradually separated the soldier.
At intervals one of the space thus rinde amongst the He also alleged the
urgent tones.
Then he picked up his from the Indigenous life of the defendant struck the Inspector.
The questionaire submitted to the them would produce a small, tissue-sugar. people. Reforms are urged which
Defendant pleaded guilty and was girls queried them on their private paper packet from one of his waist-coffee-cup and drank hurriedly, just! more fined $20, and oredered to pay $2 lives.
the as the nearest merchant discovered will
the schools connect
To the question "Have you coat pockets, and open it on
This loss in time to see the Chinese Then 30, the taxi fare, to the driver. A ever been in love?" 60 answered glass-topped table.
the closely with the needs of the Chin-
Tsim rapidly gulp the remainder of his previons conviction against Thomas "no," ese masaCS,
21 replied "once," 43 said debate would begin again. for tureeny in England, was ad-"twice," and 56 stated "many Sek, who had been in England only cup of coffee and, more his throat a week and had not visited Hatton convulsively as if swallowing some mitted.
times."
One co-ed comment was: "A Garden before, did not know that thing difficult to swallow. girl should be trained to have these were diamond merchants, and mind of her own so that she will be that the tissuepaper packets con-
ary schools while the
gone too far, have born
European
The "Americanization" of the has educational system Chinese
American nhout naturally. come missionaries nlaved a major part in
of modernized. the intraduction
Personal Pars.
8.
How to live with other people, mend clothes, dress and handle How to act with "it" (drunk)
money.
men.
9. That life is "just give
take."
Mr. Frederick W. Brierly andjable to solve such problems as how tained uncut stones; he noticed! to Mrs. Etta Yates Brierly arrived to behave with a man in a taxicab," only that these low-voiced men}
in the Colony this morning from President Coolidge.
education to China: being familiar, with their own educational methods, they endeavored to apply them China.
And thousands of students educated in the United States, convinced of the efficacy of American methods in this country. cover to craft returned to China
Chin these methods upon the old cse system.
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Another said:"A girl should seemed to attach considerable value? have "necked" before coming to and importance to the contents of college, but she should know how to the packets.
The movement of what appeared The annual dinner and dance of keep a man from kissing her If she
to: And she to be a translucent pebble rolling St. David's Society will be held at doesn't want him Messrs. Lane, Crawford's restau-should be able to make him kiss her across the floor of the cafe caught
if she wants him to."
the eye of Taim Sek, and he follow- #2122 on Wednesday next, COM-
Modern Mothers, the survey re-ed its course towards his own table. mencing at 7.45 p.m.
vealed, usually agree with their Neither of the disputants seemed to The resuant tendency, in the
Mr. J. C. Adams and Mr. F. daughters. The girls' replics to have noticed it, and Taim Sek, with opinion of the Learne Commission, i has been to "eate an enormous Balfour were among the passengers the questionaire indicated that the an almost imperceptible shift of his
Manila this viewpoints of mother and daughter foot, covered the pebble. the who arrived from abyss between De masses of Chinese poenle, plunged in illiteracy morning aboard the liner President generally were the same-Reuter. and not understanker the needs of Coolidge, which is their country, and the intelligentia Anterien via Shanghai and Japan educated in luxurious schools and parts. Indifferent 10 Uhr wants of the masses."
The system has become
en route
to
TO-MORROW'S STORY.
To-morrow's story will be "The Last Boat," by John Chancellor.
"My tiamont!" the merchant cried, advancing.
"My tiamont!" "I do not understand you," Taim Sek replied, rising with dignity.
"My tiamont I see you swallow feet!. I see ect pass down your haggling continued. The Chinese tront! I will call t'e police! Help!
The
my
LOCAL BENEVOLENT SPARY MAINTENANCE lessgure of Taim Sek. Waitresses
SOCIETY.
who passengers
liner from Manila this The liner is en route
President Annual Meeting To Be
Held To-day.
Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Selle and Stelle were also so alien that it highly injurious] Elizabeth to the masses and dangerous beamong the Rocin arrived the educated cause a carefully elite not closely connected with Coolidge become trans-morning. general needs may formed into an unproductive to America. clique inclosed within the narrow bounds of its own interests."
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Captain E. W. Young, F. the Maslin, J. P. Cooney, SJ. Seals, The American system. Lengue Commissioners pointed out of the U.S. Army, were among European the through passengers aboard has been adapted from
President Coolige, the special conditions the liner modela presulting in the United States which arrived from Manila this These conditions are totally differ morning, and ent from these in China, where the Kowloon Wharf. standard of living must necessarily
Lo
en for some time European educators
berthed at the
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Police!
stolen He hass tiamont!"
Uproar raged round the motion.
appeared; proprietresses emerged from doors marked "PRIVATE,” onlookers crowded through the constable street entrance, and a turned up from nowhere. Through it all no one touched Taim Sek, whe- ther because he seemed to have a sort of unusual dignity as he stood The case in which Mra. Ida there, or because they feared Spary in summonising Mr. Aknown Asia and subconsciously re- Spary, an overseer In the Public membered horrifying fiction, it is The good work done by this Works Department,, for alleged impossible to say. The slout mer- local charitable organisation hard-neglect, persistent cruelty, an
chant explained to the constable: ly requires emphasis, and it is failure to provide maintenance for "As I turn round, I see heem swal hoped to obtain considerably more herself and her child, was men- low cet-hees t'roat sleek out, so. support this year, as funds are low, tioned before Mr. W. Schofield in ven he swallow. He hat eat my and the drain on available re- the Central Police Court again this tamont; I geef him in charge.
Officer, arrest heem !" be sharply lower than that in Ameri- ture, from all that is truly indigen-sources has largely increased in morning.
Both parties were not present in
Taim Bek, silent and dignified, The ous, extract the materials for a new these days of severe economic de- to come.
pression, Hardly a week paascal Court but were represented by Mr.
was led away. hinted, aleivilization, that will be neither though they did not state, that a American nor European, but Chin- without a fresh British case com- D. Brittain Evans and Mr. M. K.
ing to the notice of the Society, Lo, respectively.
with cloth- Chinese student with an American cea,"
been requiring assistant have These two reports education possesses a luxury which
by Chinese edu-ing and cash. He a, carefully studied China cannot yet afford. therefore, not adequately prepared jenters who have realized for some time that the educational system for life in his own country.
is faulty, but have not been able
"Cerlain, I don't know who The League Commissionera sug-precisely to analyze its defects.
made the mistake, but this man gested that the Chinese are more The so-called "anti-foreign" move- schools
hasn't swallowed any diamond. likely to find models in Europe than ment against missionary
Chinese
You've searched his clothes?" in America upon which they may and the restlessness In
"Of course, doctor. Well, I don't | build an Indigenous system of public schools may be explained in
know what they'll do about it. education, "bernuse American large part, they believe, as a civilization has developed in spite of partially conscious protest against
A serious charge of alleged mak- Guggenheim, the diamond a total absence of local traditions, further "foreignization" of
February Criminal Sessions open- ing or dealing in adulterated liquor chant, it was. Told me he saw him) whereas European, like Chinese, Chinese educational system.
ed at the Supreme Court this morn at 7, Kwong Hon Terrace, second swallow it," said the inspector. civilization must always take count Chinese educators heartily agreeing. The first case on the calen-floor, were brought against Chan "He's waiting downstairs, of local traditions dating back, thou with the League. Commissioners dar, dealt with by the Paisne Judge, Mun-kiu, 29, unemployed, before you happened to be here, doctor,
The commission that "public education in China will Mr. Justice Wood, was that of Mr. Wynne-Jones in the Central otherwise we'd have kept him emphasized, however, that it does not attain the value of Western Leung Yau-chol, who was sentenced Police Court this morning.
custody. I don't see how Guggen-| not wish to see European models education until all signs of Euro- to three years' hard labour for re-
Defendant was also charged with helm can charge him now."
Down in the charge-room supplant American models, but to pean and American Influence have turning from banishment.
the possession of 18 liquor labels The case of Sul Yau-ebeung, which had been allegedly removed merchant rose to his feet. urge that "no form of civilization been eliminated, when there will be
was. charged with un- which has developed in another land, something really Chinese to com- whe
from bottles to which they were "You haf found my tlamont?"} possession of. and in different conditions, can be-pare with what is essentially Ameri- lawful
Imple originally affixed, and the posses- he cried. They realize ments for forgery, or European." come, the cultural tradition of the can China that is now entering upon an that the process must necessarily be journed until the March sessions, era of reform. New China must long, but it is with this conviction on the application of the Crown, mobilize its forces, and from its that present educational reforms who indicated that they wished to own history, from its own litera-are being shaped.
make further investigations.
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sands of years."
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the
STIFF SENTENCE FOR BANISHEE.
Forgery Case Set Back
To March Sessions.
Was Ad-
The police surgeon came out of His Woradip fixed the hearing i of the case for March 6, 7 and 8, the X-ray room,
"No trace of any diamond any-) at 2.30 p.m. on each day.
where inside him," he told the wait- ing inspector.
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"But I saw heem swallow eett!" Guggenheim protested.
A large number of parents and
Then the Chinese raised a band. friends of the pupils were present "Is it permitted to speak?" he at the concert and distribution
asked.
of prizes of St. Peter's College, of course you can speak Do Caine Bord, on Saturday evening,
when Mr. Ngan Shing-kwan pra-you know what happened to the Bented the awards to the successful diamond?" the Inspector demanded. scholars.
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Tsim Sek went over to the table where the police had collected the contenta of his pockets. They watched him eagerly and saw him take a cigarette, the last, from his East winds, moderate; cloudy cigarette-case, pick up a box of with fog or mist is the weather matches, and strike a light. A forecasted in to-day's report"You English are very courteous Issued from the Royal Observato prisoners," he said. “In Chida, I tory
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