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Industry's Debt To
Science
HERE, THERE
EVERYWHERE
MORE GAB AT WESTMINSTER. {
In the House of Commons, this aumroer there were complaints
THE POLICE AND THE PUBLIC
CIVIL HANDYMAN'S NEW LINE OF DUTIES
about the smell of the cooking FORSAKING HIS RIGHT SPHERE
which haunted the corridora 'and warned
imeal. S
members against their
When they get back the small| may still be there but the food will
(By Sir John Moylan)
Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District
London. at. the instance of the Metropolitan
be cooked by gan; the renovatedTHERE is no body of "public police totalled approximately 105,000 kitchen will now be the brightest servants" who, on the whole, in 1927, as compared with about and cleanest place in the House, are more deserving of that name or 30,000 in 1913. Nearly the whole with the walls glazed white and red have gained so large a measure of of-this 250 per cent. increase was tiles laid down on the floor.
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DEFENDING THE EMPIRE
public trust and affection as the In respect of motor-car summonses. police in England. The credit for. But in 1989, out of a total of this amity between public and polico nearly 400,000 cases calling for "One of the most important pro-
belongs as much to the public as to police Intervention, 86 per cent. were dealt with by verbal warning blems to be discussed by Sir Maur-the police. ice Hankey on his Empire tour, There Is, fortunately, a general or written caution, and only 14 per will be that of Empire air defence. recognition in this country of the cent. by prosecution.
The figures
At sea the old idea was that our fact that a policeman is a citizen given in Lord Trenchard's report three strategical points were acting on behalf of his fellow citi-for 1932, as to how the 50,000,000 Gibraltar and Suez to guard onzens and, therefore, entitled to all man-hours of the Metropolitan trance and exit to the Mediter-the support they can give him. police were accounted for, showed that only about 1 per cent, of their ranean, and Singapore for our dis- This was by no means the case time was occupied by having to tant possessions.
before 1829. But the primary attend courts, to prosecute offenders Imperial air strategy is likely to object for which the police exist or give evidence and this figure be concerned a good deal with the remains what the Commissioners covers every kind of offence. Atlantic We hold the key to an proclaimed it to be in 1829—the Atlantic air service. It must come prevention of crime. "The absence by way of Newfoundland and Ire-of crime will be considered the best land for any summer route and by proof of the complete efficiency of way of Bermuda for any winter the police:" these are words taken deviation.
from the original instructions to These are all British territory. the Metropolitan Police, and they Egypt will continue to be a vital give expression - to what must link with Baghdad or Basra as a always be the test of success for accond string.
every police force. Singapore will in time be another
Your Daily Smile!
You
As regards traffic control. the number of men employed on this duty more than doubled after the war. They had to run new riska and be knocked down to the num- ber of 200 or 300 a year, in Lon don alone. They took this as all In the day's work, and It certainly led to no general hostility to motorists on the part of the police, although there might not unnaturally be a little "shortness" with those who overran signals, had inefficient brakes, or failed to distinguish between the brake and the accelerator,
Mrs. Gamp's Views of operations totally inadequate, great air base. Re-fuelling places and are prepared to provide more alike in peace and war.
on the route to Australia are vital
"Where's the pellsse?" cried Mrs. Gamp, meaning the constabulary. money; but any increase must be}
"If they greased their whiskers less conditional upon larger contribu• Hong Kong, Thursday, Sept. 27, 1934. tions from industry. The terms
paid so heavy for a little more, no and minded the duties which they're
are fair, and the funds will be
There is one humane duty in one needn't be drove mad by forthcoming. Whether it is th
Hubby: "You never tell me what you serouding, so.".
Mrs. Gamp's feel-connection with the regulation of new industries or the old, the buyDon't I get any voice in the buy-ings are shared by everyone who traffic which cannot be abandoned, case for generous support of re-
ing
Wifey: "Certainly,' darling! fails to find a policeman just when but which the police authorities search is overwhelming. In fifty get the invoice.
he wants one.
would be glad to see discharged by Those in authority over the police policeman as the kind man who sees some other agency. The role of the have the difficult task of reconciling what may be called Mrs. Gamp's (point of view with the general
be a waste of polica time, but it is principle, always heartily endorsed 4 saving of children's lives. by the public, that a policeman's
Drop In Arrests efficiency must not be judged by his Arrests have declined with almost activity in the matter of arrests or incredible rapidity, Since the war. summonses. It has long been the the Metropolitan police have done rule in all forces that promotion tales arresting than a hundred years
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It has been stated that the years the output of electrical future of our home industries de machinery has risen from zero pends on their use of science. to more than £20,000,000. That "Jones is always hankering for posts The advances in economy and great industry was born in the of danger." efficiency have recently been laboratory and nurtured in the "Yes, be just volunteered to judge made possible by scientific re-laboratory, Since it became, search in the industry of build-commercially prosperous Or- ing. A new code of practice for ganised research, conducted at Daddy, do you think mother knows the ercetion of steel structures an expenditure of £80.000, has much about raising children
"What makes you say that?"
baby show."
Well
children safely across the road may
has been devised which lowers made a saving in production COSTS Well, she makes me go to bed when in no way dependent on the number 880, although there are now more
Builders
of £1,000,000 a year, a saving.
costs by 20 per cent. now have at their command that has been continually In-I'm wide awake and she makes me get exact means for estimating the creasing. Take one of the old when I'm awfully sleepy!" adequacy of a room to the needs basic industries. It is stated
Considerate"
air?"
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
lika!
you,
of "cases" to a constable's credit. than six times as many policemen
A great deal is heard at times of and four times as many people as of the human body in such mat that the work of the Iron and Gent: "James, what's the idea, wear- have never escaped charges of The broad explanation is the
corruption in the police. The police there were then. ters as sunlight, temperature, Steel Industrial Research Coun- ing my raincoat?"
taking bribes or levying illicit tri- general improvement as regards ventilation, and all the struc-ell has made possible economy of Valet: "Well, you wouldn't
bute, but these arise mostly in con-crime and drunkennese, Since tural conditions of comfort. The fuel to the amount of nearly your new suit to get wet, would
nection with street betting, street 1929 there has been, on the whole, practical value of these new $1,750,000 a year. There is high
walkera and enforcement of the a continuous decrease in the methods is obvious. To the De-authority for the statement that
restrictions on gambling or the sale amount of serious crime and dis. partment of Scientific and In-no single product can be named
of intoxicating liquor.
order in proportion to population. dustrial Research, which will which by improved methods could not be put upon the mar shortly demonstrate them, they
Police And Night Clubs
The drop in arrests since the war, which has meant a are but one small section of the ket both cheaper and better. Riding a bicycle near No. 6 The facts with regard to police falling-off in work for the polfee, great recent developments of applied But science must have the means Railway Bridge, in Argyle Street. and night clubs which were exposed the running of "Black Marias" science, and an infinitely minute to work out a larger knowledge yesterday, Chau Kan, a Chinese in 1929 related to a very special half empty, and unoccupied cella part of what is possible in the and systematically apply the re-youth, lost control of his machine sphere of police duty, and one of
at police stations, is due to the future. It is not a coincidence Bults.
and collided with a wall. Shooting the features disclosed was the prac- change that has come over the over the handle-bars, he fell into a tical monopoly, so to speak, of cor- scene in the matter of drink nullah receiving severe body in ruption, in a singularly fruitful field One striking result of this juries, necessitating his removal to for it, by one man who secured for diminution of drunkenness is that the Kowloon Hospital.
himself a sum more than sufficient the number of Metropolitan police to bribe a whole division.
injured in effecting arrests is about Dismissal from the force with a quarter of what it was thirty loss of all pension rights is the years ago, certain penalty for any offence of The preventive functions of the this kind. If the police take police should be given the widest bribes it is nsually because they possible range, and they should be are offered them. Under the old closely associated with all those rates of pay the temptation to (Continued on Page 0.) take money may at times have been irresistible to the policeman
CANTON ROAD
that the vast expansion of the powers of civilisation has been GAMBLING RAID IN accompanied by an increase of selentific knowledge. Yet it was less than twenty years ago, In the stress of the war. that wa were roused to organise on a na- tional scale the application of science to our industries.
$1.35 For Poor Box
Suffering from a smashed thumb, austained while working on the 8.9. Another $1.35 went to the poor Chichibu Maru, lying at Taikóo box when Sub-Inspector Rozeakwy Dockyard, Sin Ting, a Chinese
In 1917 Parliament set up the ralded house No. 108 Canton Road workman, was admitted to the Department of Scientific and In-ground floor, and caught eleven men Government Civil Hospital yeater dustrial Research, and voted a engaged in an game of pau-kau day. capital sum of £1,000,000 to be with $1.35 on the floor. All were
expended under its direction, arrested and brought before Mr. Attempting to commit suicide by
This £1,000,000 was to be used E. I. Wynne Jones at the Kowloon taking yaol Leung Yuen, of No who found it impossible on his MANSLAUGHTER
Personal Pars
47 Peking Road, was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday.
Teof Chong was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday suffer ing from injuries received when he was knocked down by a motor lorry on the main road between Ping Shan and Yuen Joong-
CHARGE
Committal Case
to assist the formation of co-Magistracy this morning.. -
small wage to make both ends operative research associations Chan Yung, the keeper of the
meet. There can be no. such in each industry to investigate floor was fined $25, while six of
excuse now, and anyone who tipa its problems. Success has only the remaining ten had their $3 bail
policeman is doing a disservice been partial. To the million estreated, and the other four were
to the police as well as the public. from the Exchequer, industry fined $2 each..
In the years 1926-1028 It was Charged with the manslaughter has added £1,750,000. By the
found necessary to have several of Chan Sap-yee, at No. 207 Holly- latest statistics, there were es-
inquesta into Metropolitan police wood Road, on September 7, Lo Siv- tablished. nineteen research asso-
matters. An impression got abroad kwong, 23 years, was again brought ciations working for industries which together produce much the . Hector, which left here Among the passengers on board
that all these were in the nature of before Mr. Q: A. A. Macfadyen at Falling into the road, while at-investigations into police miscon- the Central Magistracy, this mory- less than 50 per cent of our yesterday, was Mr. C. Champkin, tempting to elight from a moving duch This was an entirely false ing, and on the application of Ins total output: Mr. Runciman has non-official. Justice of the Peace. motor-bus, Cheung Sau, of Wong view of the facts; they were mostly pector J. Murphy one week's formal pointed out that industries of an
Hang Village, Hear Aberdeen, was concerned with questions of policy remand was granted. annual output of about £1,000,- Commander E. A Drummond admitted to the Government Civil and procedure, and as to the deair- 000,000 are without any nexus left the Colony yesterday by the Hospital yesterday. with the Government's research
ability of altering the law It was alleged that accused stab- bed deceased to death at the cor If what appeared to be disturbing ner of Tung Street and Hollywood movement. Even the industries
Sufering from an overdose of the public mind could have been Road, after a brawl at an opium which have research associations. Lieut. R. Dewar-Dorie and Misa bella-donna, taken to alleviate a crystalllaed into a question, it would diyan at No. 207 Hollywood Road. are spending on them only about 78. 6d. per £1,000 of net qutput
D. J. Dawar-Durie were passengers pain. Ming Man-shi, was admitted probably have taken some such Financial conditions have been on board the sa. Hector which left to the Government Civil Hospital form as: "Are the police forsaking Inspector Murphy stated this
morning that the case will be here yesterday
their proper sphere, and is a new committal one and that the Crown spirit of arrogance and interfer Solicitor will prosecute, kept down to this scale only a
Mr. J. A. G. Anderson, of the Tail- An attempted suicide was frusence on their fraction of the potentialities or on Dockyard and Engineering Co., trated yesterday when Leo Shing goniam,
of extraordinary difficulty, but it
is clear that with expenditure
scientific research can fructify
8.8. Hector.
Ltd left, the Colony yesterday,
Last year the State contr the B. Hector
buted £85,000 to the scheme, and
industry $170.000. Mr. Baldwin P/Lieut. JH McGregor, han declared that the Govern, Hong Kong yesterday, by the ment consider the present scale
yesterday,
Members of the Chinese Government Commission, including; delegi the Ministry of Communicatio
of the
Minis
ed the hand offce