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His Favourite Author During the three days which he spent in prison before be grant ball. Mr. Samuel Insull read Mr. Phillips Oppenheim's "The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent."
He reads all Oppeiheim's books,
a preference which was shared by the late Lord Balfour.
TRAGEDY OF THE UNWANTED CHILD
CRUELTY INCREASING IN GREAT BRITAIN
REASONS FOR NEGLECT
(By Mrs. Belloc Lowndes.).
London. the "latest rules" of hygiene and
eugenics.
· More Care For Babies
【TE may be called with varying degrees of emphasis and a nation of shop- When Balfour was in Washing-justification
I cannot help thinking that one sportsmen, or of ton for the Naval Conference, he keepers, of
reason why so unnatural a pheno- There CBN be Do made his drst discovery of 0.gardeners.
menon as the unwanted child has doubt at all that 3470 Henry,
are arisen in our midst is that young a nation of child-lovers married people are now constant-
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Bullitt Before Moscow
comes
His room contained a long line still of books by a writer who was unMany of the enormous social im-ly told of the tremendous thought effected within re-and care that ought to be taken known to him. He took one volume provements
cent memory have been for the over any and every infant born down at random.
world of trouble. Until Before he left Washington he benefit, directly or indirectly, of into a had read them all,
children. How
it, then comparatively «tely a baby was that no week passes without our supposed just grow, like Topsy, reading in our newspapers the in "Uncle Tom's Cabin,” and oven story of some dreadful act of the best of mothers did not worry The British Embassy will no cruelty to children, and that the over much how her child was fed longer be diplomacy's star building bead of the National Society for or clothed so long as the child in Moscow.
the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil-appeared happy and healthy. In- Mr. "Bill" Bullitt, who is nothing dren can testify that child cruelty deed, how could a mother of, say, if not ambitious, has completed his is increasing in Britain?
eight or more children spend the plans for the American Embassy.
It will be a vast building, and will!
1
It is evident that many, if not anxious thought, time, and money
ma
be capable of housing not only the most, of these pitiable little vic-put the three in what seems to be their proper order- Ambassador but his staff of nearly tims are in the category of "un-joe to
wanted" children-in itself a pro- which a young parent often her one for 100 persons.
blem that occasions the greatest spends to-day over The site is on the famous Spar concem among many people, of lern baby? row Hills,
In the last two or three days a whom 1 may claim to be one.
touched When he sits on the porch on a
We need not be sentimentalists little story, which hot summer evening Mr. Bullitt's chair will be on the exact spot from to stop and wonder how anything very much, was told me of a 1901 which Napoleon had his first view so intimately attaching as in the man who looks marvellously well and happy, although she is many. average
child to the average of Moscow.
times a grandmother. She W&N The building, which is in the Parent can be unwanted once it is of making that business unneces-classical colonial style, is modelled there, instinct with the wonder heard exclaim: "If I hadn't had sarily expensive would only tend
Doubt and miracle of life. Yet so it is. fourteen children, how lonely 1
should feel now!" ' to make us poorer and not richer.on Jefferson's Monticello.
What has brought about this dis- No doubt she was thinking, whet she made that remark, that Hong Kong, Saturday, June 30, 1934. It may be said also that. Bank-less, if Mr. Bullitt had his way, it
ing, in view of the extraordinary would also bear the Jeffersonian quieting phenomenon ?
"God forbid that we One illuminating reply to this the majority of her children are tricks often played with the inscription: The Trade Commission.mainland currencies, amounts to should ever be 20 years without a difficult question was given dur-grown up, married, and far away;
another "primary"; but the
The China Mail
rebellion."
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ing a debate in the House of but she still has the good fortune
Towards to have at home a girl, now four Lords early this year The proposal to appoint a small Banks, as distinguished from
Football Is So Political the end of the discussion, which teen, who is the pride and joy of Commission to enquire into the the money-lenders-stand to gain
was closely affiliated to the mat-her heart- various suggestions that have re-by general prosperity, and their
The special issue of recent post-ter with which I am dealing, a The average human being who cently been made in favour of interests do not need to be separ-age stamps in honour of the world's noble lord observed: "When I wan has a 'sensitive and feeling heart protective duties to encourage lately considered, except in res football championship held in Italy Under-Secretary at the Ministry dreads loneliness in old age' more local industries is an excellent pect of the variations of the Cis only she example of the political of Transport two or three years than almost anything else. That move. There is nothing like change rate. Nothing paralyses!
able to give figures dread cannot touch the happy
Before their departure for Italy (come tax paying class there was average son; and daughter it may not lead to anything very partially alleviated by forward the Hungarian team were received a greater increase in the purchase doubtedly do bring a great deal of substantial. There is no getting contracts. These may reassure away from the fact that the last the wholesale seller, but still in audience by General Goenboen, of motor-cars than there was in loving companionship into the life
Minister. Stress was the production of bables. If I of elderly parents. two years have seen so many fin-leave the retailer wondering whethe Prime
of their may respectfully say so, the argu- The truth is that in this mat jancial disturbances, with such a ther he would not do better by laid on the importance steady downward trend of trade, buying from Japan and receiving mission to the political future of ment of not being able to abordter of fatherhood and mother-
their country.
It is the
excuse of people who hood no one can buy his or her ex- that there is a very widespread his goods several weeks sooner. The Jugoslav Government sent want to be relieved of the respon-perience. Some unfortunate cou- suspicion that the whole of the Our secondary industries part-
open discussion for removing a trade so completely as a jumpy importance which European Gov-ago, I was
ernments now attach to football. which showed that among the in-parent of good children, for the
sense of grievance; even though exchange. The effects are only
Title
old system has broken down and ly consist of a small number of an official telegram congratulating sibility of looking after children. ples find, when it is too late, that on There is no question about that I they have missed what has been. ought to be scrapped. Things big scale or factory enterprises, the Czechoslovak Government are not quite so bad as that; but-cement and beer, for instance. ita country's football victory over could give sees of cases where to unnumbered millions all over the world the happiest thing lu there can be no harm in discover-There is no use ignoring that the England and underlining the soli- that is literal 'rue."
life. But that y concerns ing exactly where the shoe pin-effect of any duty is to reise darity of the Slav peoples.
A Perhaps the British Government 1miled, though fear increasing, Fascination Of Children ches and keeping an open mind prices; that is the object. as to means of easing the stress. scarcity of imported goods is will now convey a delicate hlut to class of young parents, a class to
Practically every other com- created which compels the con- the Football Association that Con-whom the enjoyment of material East or West, in which the fasci munity has had a similar inquest, sumer to give a higher price for tinental tours should be undertaken pleasures is the most important nation of children and the radiant
thorough preparation and a great deal of very interest the local article. If the advant-with
Your Daily Smile!
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There is no civilized country,.
or if not the only real end in life. jjoys of parenthood have not been
the themes of great poetry. A
mother of our time, Katharins (Continued on Page 7)
EXCHANGE OF ZOO ANIMALS
Pretoria Consignment For D.E.I.
CARRIED FREE OF CHARGE
ing material has been collected; age is sufficient to enable the abandoned altogether.
An Ancient Reason though it must be admitted that factory to export, the community most of the experiments have may gain as a whole, but in any
Another reason, and one which is as ancient as the world itself. either been disappointing or have case the general consumer has to not yet had time to prove them-pay more for what he gets. Our
"Te's four years since I was in this is that in each generation the old selves. The usual conclusion is other industries, the small home town," remarked the stranger to the saying that "thinking makes it so" that "we are now in a position to industry that is carried on the waiter in a hotel, as he was walking becomes increasingly true. The
Ust fathers
and mothers of those take full advantage of any im- ground floor, of a house, flourish out after finishing his dinner.
tooks just the same.” provement in the industrial post-best, when shop goods, or con-
"I don't And much change, either, young couples who frankly do not tion." It is the improvement sumere goods, are cheap, and the feaid the waiter, as he picked up the want to be parents regarded mar«. that tarries.
cost of living low.
penny that the visitor had left on the riage as implying children. In- Sir Frederick Maze has been table.
deed, one The experts who have been
may even go farther and say that the average, husband called in to advise always begin interviewing the Colonial Secre
and wife of thirty or forty, Toska by distinguishing between the tary and other Ministers in Lon-Another Lie About Scotland
A Scotsman once helped a friend ago felt uneasy, surprised, and "primary" and the "secondary" don, and there is no doubt that industries. Primary industries the best thing that could happen out with his income tax. He came often truly disappointed if their marriage brought them to family, are those that can hold their own would be a reduction of the Chin-to. live with his as a dependant, in the world market. Secondary ese Customs Tariff by about
In those days the coming of a But it is difficult to see industries are on a smaller scale, half.
child was regarded by every` new- Two consignments of animals and. and are dependant on the advan- what argument could be used by He was talking with great vigour ly married couple as so inevitse birds will leave the National Zoo..., *. tage they hold of being on the Hong Kong to secure such a con-against corporal punishment for boye, that there was no question spot, and being able to give per-¡cession. The strongest argu- which he declared never did any good. whether they would be able to posite ends of the earth.
"Take my own case," he exdaimed, sonal and immediate attention. ment of all, that the present rates was caned but once in my ile, and "afford" a baby, Under normal conditions the big lend to wholesale smuggling, that was for speaking the truth."
"Well retorted somebody in the industries do not require protec-which cannot be checked, is not tion. The Argentine, for in-one that would come with a very audience, it cured you." stance, does not need to protect good grace from this Colony. wheat; a duty would only mean
giving wheat-growers an unfair PERFORMING LION reward at the expense of the con-i. sumer. One of the most serious symptoms of our present malaise
Is that in most countries even the 2,000
big industries are at present pro- tected in most countries as a de fence against currency deprecia ition, which has the same effect
AT LARGE
Spectators Panic
In India
Bombay.
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Pretoria.
of logical Gardens, Pretoria, for ap
One consignment will, go-to the The pleasures which involve Fort de Kock Zoo in the Dutch East: constant absences from home, and, Indies. A shipment of animals. above all, the, diverting to other was recently received in Pretoris Good Training
things of the money which the from that Zoo, and it in Pretoria's Film Director-8o you think you can nurture and up-bringing of chil-payment fu kind which is now be stand the severe duties of a fim dres entail, was never for an in-ing shipped. the consign- jactor? You know, in this picture we stant considered. The modern atment whch came from the East,
may: And it necessary to throw you
potential parenthood this one from Pretoria is being car down fight of stairs into a barrel titude to of water!
world, indeed, have alled the Vic-fried free of charge by the Java ApplicantOk, I can stand that. Itorian world with astonishment, Mauritius Africa line.
The animals which are makiız: was collector for an instalment furn- as well as with diemay, i ture house for three years.
At Ter With-The Typlats
"I am going to have several prints made of ikis photograph.”
The parents of most of our the long journey are two llons, two 'unwanted" - children to-day are Chapman sebras, four charta: generally found in what are now baboons, four velvet monkeys, two usually known as highbrow South African porcupines, and two circles. Then circles consist of black-backed jackals. The majoritý men and women full of what their of those have been bred in Pretoria. more robust forebears would have The second consignment, which called "strange whimales.”
will be shipped to the Belfast Zoo; To my mind these are among Ireland, on the Llandovery Cealle, the few people in the world who will consist of seven Stanley cranes; imjustifed in their fear of one-lynx, obe-honeybadger, one parenthood, for when they do blesbox and one nabis antelope.
This "latter":"consignment) { popre--;" have children their children are
as sweating in enabling a pro-] A performing lion jumped ducer to sell at an unnaturally over the sides of the cage and low price; price, that is, which threw 2,000 spectators into a could not be permanently main-panic at a circus, says a reporti tained for him whole product from Amrell (Baroda State) to
Entered the Ministry without Insolvencycloped
a local paper.
An excellent chicken formed part of We do not need any Commis. A stampede ensued but the the fare at luncheon party attended alon::to-slincover for us that in lion escaped through an ixit by two parsons. After Junch ther
noticed a cook stretting on dis lawn Hong Kong our only, primary in- without hurting anyone. dustry is the distribution trade. An alarm was raised and the Ons of the parsons talde That bird
seems very pleased with himself?" Our godowns take the place of circus troupe themselves cap "No wonder," said the host, “con- farms and factories; and any tured the beast from a neighbours sidering one of his sons has just en- certainly to be pitied-even if sents a sals and not an exchange thing that would have the effecting compoundBeater.
**** Letod: the ministry!'
they are brought up according to Redter,