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Socialism The Foe Of Co-Operation
HERE, THERE
EVERYWHERE
CRYSTAL PALACES ORIGIN
The first sketch of the design for the Crystal Palace was made' on '3| blotting pad in a railway board-
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Miss Violet Markham tells the the story in ber. "Paxton and Bachelor Duke,” which was publish- ed last month
TO-DAY'S YOUNGER
TH
GENERATION
SUPERIOR MATERIAL
AVAILABLE
ERADICATING FEAR FROM EDUCATION ·
(By Stephen Foot)
When the proposal to house the THIS is the time of year for tal-product of this generation. One- Great Exhibition of 1851 in a brick) ing stock What are we doing afternoon this boy playing Foot- building outraged "public" opinion with the growing generation? It ball, broke his right arm; rather a? Joseph Paxton undertook to produce provides the principal capital as-terrifying experience for a small. plans for a glass building in nine set of England; how is it being boy, and certainly extremely pain
iful I saw him in the matron's treated? days.
Other things prevented him from If the Afforestation Commission of room a short time afterwards; he setting to work for a day or two. Great Britain fails in its task, the was waiting for the doctor to come Then he had to attend a meeting at only result will be that, 30 years and set his arm. I wonder if any Derby of a Midland Railway com- hence, we shall have to import jone can guess what he was doing? ittee, of which he was chairman.more timber; but if the educa-He was practising writing with his
While, a pointsman
being tionists make a failure of their job left hand!
That is typical of this genera tried for some minor offence," Pax-there is no hope for the future of
tion. Nervous perhaps, sometimes - ton was seen to make frequent England. notes upon his blotting pad.
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It is essential, therefore, that we unnecessarily apprehensive of dan-- "As you seem to have noted down should sometimes sit back and view ger, sensitive in a marked degree: the whole of the evidence, we will the whole field, studying the ten-but once faced with the crisis their take the decision from you," said dencies, examining the directions reaction is magnificent.
Our material then is good; al- one of his colleagues.
in which they are leading us, sur- "I know all about the pointsman's veying our efforts, and estimating most certainly the best that case replied Paxton (the points-the extent to which they are ful-have ever had. How are we hand- man was let off with a fine of 53.); filling our hopes and ambitions for ling it in the schools?
Well, first- of all in most "this" holding up the paper. is a the youthful material entrusted to
schools. and by most school.. design for the Great Industrial Ex-jour charge. [hibition to be held in Hyde Park
masters, the fact has been grasped. that fear as a motive force in.
Smaller Families
An illustration shows the piece First let
committee.
Bobby: "Well, I'd have to get my bands wer, and they don't need it."
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examine this
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It has needed a lifetime of pay.
of blotting paper which Paxton then material Does it differ from the education is not only unsatisfac showed to his fellow-members of the material of 30 years ago? Theory, but evil, not only dangerous, answer is simple and incontestable but positively disastrous, and any system based on fear is funda-- -an emphatic affirmative. Your Daily Smile!
The boys of this generation differ mentally and completely wrong.
This realisation has meant under Socialism. In declaring |
profoundly from those who grew thorough overhauling of our whole-
of the for the socialisation of distribu- Mother: "Why do you want me to up in the opening years
educational system, both inside and. tion this document points out wash your face, when you usually do twentieth century. They differ in outside the classroom, for the sim-
it yourself?"
outlook, in temperament, in ability pie reason that until the end of the Hong Kong. Thursday, May 16, 1935. that the Co-operative organisa
and in their reactions to the last century fear was the under tion cannot as a separate move
moulding forces around them lying force in almost the whole of ment continue to function in
The main reason for this change socialised distribution, but must
school life.' subject itself to authority. In
He was on the point of being re-in the youth of the nation, now fused Dramatically, he exclaimed, Russia the Socialists destroyed you will marry me darling, I'll coming to school, can be expressed chological study, and a generation the Co-operative Movement.my fortune at your feet."
in two words: Small families.
of courageous experiment, to e Let any reader whose age is able us Never were there more uneasyThe overwhelming victory for Oh, but," she said, smilingly, "you!
to appreciate that fear- over 40 ask himself how many breeds suspicion, concealment and bed-fellows than the Co-operative British democracy" to which Mr.have only very little money."
"Yes," came the quick reply, but brothers and sisters he had when hatred, while it acts as a poison to- forward party and the Socialists who con-Alfred Barnes looks
the whole system. trol the Labour Movement. That would not, as he supposes, mean think what a lot it will look like bo he was a boy, and how many chil
side those tiny feet of Tours!"
now in his own The banns were read a third time dren they are
Many schoolmasters have been. fact would not be gathered from new hope for co-operators. The
family or in those of his friends.working for years, rather groping-- Co-operative State and the last Sunday.” the presidential address deliver-Socialists State must be mutual-
Where are the large families of 30ly, almost unconsciously, towards- The Methods:
years ago? Blotted out by a snow the elimination of fear as a fac- led recently at the annual con-lly antagonistic: Only a lack of
The facetions young man asked the storm of doctors" bills, motor-cartor in education; but the time has gress of the Co-operative party clear thinking can make them
organ grinder if the last piece that was
expenses, income-tax demands, played was by Beethoven.
now arrived when we can come out.. by Mr. Alfred Barnes. He talk otherwise.
No, sir." was the reply. "by Han-school bills, rent and rates notice into the open and attack fear cour Nowadays it is common to find ageously in all branches of educa families with one child, usual totional work. Here is the first one- find only two, and extremely rare-initiation ceremonies.
ed bravely of "replacing Capital The Father Of The Silk del isra with a co-operative system." and almost in the same breath
WOFIL
Stocking
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the
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New Boy's Trials
Mrs. Mainchance (sentimentally): of standing solidly with the
"I declare, darling, you hold the am to find more than three. What is Behind the announcement of brella over me just as carefully the result? Simply that the child Trade Unions and the Labour the death of Mr. Charles F. Cross you did in our courting days-mere arrives at school after
a period What did you have to do whea party. Judging by their politi-lies the magic of romance that carefully, if anything!"
which has been spent mainly in you first went to school? Sing * Mr. Mainchance (prosaically): cal programmes, these are seek sometimes creeps into the prosaic
of running the- and without the valuable years of Undergo the test ing ends which are destructive world of business. The ordinary didn't have to buy your millinery in the company of grown-up people, song? Climb round the dormitory? boisterous life that used to be the gauntlet in pitch dariness? I'm.. of the Co-operative Movement as world may have known little of those days, daring" we know it. When last Whitsun the discoverer of viscose..
normal experience in a large fami- sorry to have to interfere with tradition, buz such customs will London
ly. tide the Co-operative Congress from his work in a
But, make no mistake about it, have to go. a vastly more representative laboratory came a social revolu
It never did you any harm, you the new generation is not less pro- body than the Co-operative party tion. Other names are more con-
Yeung Shui Shan, a medicine mising material than to spicuous in the story of artificial
that of 30 Protest. You may even maintain -advised all co-operators
the contrary, the that it was good for you. Quite "resist any attempt to subvert silk, but it was the three part hawker, was this morning sentenced years ago; on their natural rights in the sphere ner Cross, Bevan and Beadle to one year's imprisonment and two modern boy is superior in almost possibly it was, though I have my
doubts about it; but it won't do for ́ of voluntary co-operation they working as research chemists years police supervision for
every direction
this generation. You were brought were not blind to the axistence who, almost by accident. evolved theft of a purse containing 96 cents
Courage Not Less
up with three or four brothers, life that from the person of Chan Kin, 1 of a party in the State aiming at the treacle-like substance
more sensitive, bit of rough and tumble, a succession the control of all means of pro rivalled the product of the silk coolie in Des Voeux Road yesterday. He may be
Cross and his colleagues
his courage is no less; he may of tests and of "daring” each other duction and distribution.
This generation is Mr. Barnes's Co-operative were more fortunate than many Pleading guilty to the theft of have to be nurtured with more care, to do things. party is a party within the Co-men of science in finding the six electric bulbs from street lamps but the result is a definite improve-different. It has not had the same
business 10:201 who at once in Mount Davis Road yesterday,ment physically; he may be slower experience. operative system. It was claim-
was fined in coming to maturity, but he is I say deliberately, after mature jed for it at the annual congress realised the possibilities of their Chui Yat, unemployed.
The cheap silk $30, in default six weeks' hard mentally more active, and at the reflection, and knowing that medi- that it speaks for affiliated socie discovery.
stocking has changed the aspect labour by Mr. W. Schofield at the end
of his school time he canjeal psychology will be in complete ties with a membership of
and the outlook of millions of Central Police Court this morning-tackle tasks which, at the same agreement, that with the modern age, would have left his father boy initiation ceremonies "such as bership of 2,366.000 outside its ranks
have been common to all schools in Within the affiliated have created new branches of the Charged with the theft of four gasping.
Let me tell a story to illustrate the past serve
no useful purpose, societies there are probably hun-clothing trade, given fresh de-door mats from four different ad-
may have disastrous con- dreds of thousands of members corations to the home and shaken dresses in the Colony, Wong Kam, the point-it has been told before, and
the supremacy of cotton who are opponents of the Labour
and anemployed, was sentenced to eight oat will certainly bear telling sequences, if not at the time yet wool in the manufacture of weeks hard labour by Mr. W.[again, and 'it is true.
later on, in the lives of the boys who party, who have become
In the roll of those Schofield at the Central Police A few years ago I had in my undergo them.
Leting Sam,House a boy aged about 15, sensi- Not that there is any objection advantage it gives them, and who are now told that their vor Cross must hold a high place.
the life of their time the name of who was charged with receiving tive, rather fragile in appearance, to initiation ceremonies as such
stolen property, was sentenced to inclined to be nervous, a typical (Continued on Page 10) ing power is to be organised for the destruction of the National The man who made possible six weeks' imprisonment. ¡Government. Nothing was said, the artificial silk stocking, and in the presidential address, of enabled the working girl to rival
4.410,000, which leaves a mem women Artificial silk fabrics)
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joperators because of the trading who have profoundly influenced Court this morning.
materials.
At the Jacobean Room, Hong
St. John Brigade Fete At
Headquarters To-morrow
The St. John Ambulance Head-1 The Railway Division has provid-"
the troubles that have already the elegance of her richer sister, Kong Hotel, on Tuesday afternoon, developed with the Labour party, had a happier fate than that Ber Maine Gordon gave a successful which is willing enough to accept William Lee who, in the time of recital of Hong Kong and Austra the financial aid that Co-opera- Queen Elizabeth, invented the lian Songs and Piano Composition. tors can give, but intends that stocking frame and presented to The Hong Kong boat-song was re-quarters, at Tai Hang Road, Cause ed one of the most unique stalls- the Co-operative party shall re-the Sovereign the first silk stock-ceived with great favour by the way Bay, will be opened to friends a number of polished shells (adapt- the chorus tomorrow at 4 pm and on Satur-led for use and ornament) from the main under its control. Thelings woven mechanically. He appreciative audience,
Pelican Islande (near Hainan) and part arranged for the Co-opera-was driven to take his machine being sung by the junior music day at 3 pm.
Apart from all inspection of the native curios. tors is to provide the means and to France to establish a new in- lakers.
building it will be well worth a The "Baby Stall" is very attrac the votes for a Socialist victory, dustry in that country. Frerich enabling Labour to crush the Royal promises proved delusive. Mr. C. Van Leo, who is severing visit to see, if not to buy, some of tive, Mrs. Arthur Woo, has donat freedom of the movement in itsjand in 1610 Lee died a dis- his connection with the Hong Kong the exquisite dolls Chinese, in-ed a number of baby articles, and dian. Hungarian, French, Dutch there are smocked dresses worked ¡due time.
appointed man. Some of his Telegraph, after nearly 17 years and English-dressed by the Vic- by some of the nurses. The forecast of the position in workmen. returning to England service as a reporter on that jour toria Nursing Division.
There is no need to go to the which co-operation would be restored the manufacture to their nal and the South China Morning placed under the Socialist State cwn country. The fear of pre Post, was yesterday presented with The Beach Stall of Mrs. Duz- Races you can be your own joc- lop and Miss Steele provides First key-and the Central Nursing Divi is no invention of the enemy, judice to hand knitting, which s gold watch by the combined statis Aid outfits for the beach, and other sion will supply you with the It comes from its own friends. drove the inventive curate across of the two papers. The presenta beach accessories.
horses. The “Wishing Well": "may"
The National Executive of the the Channel happily had notion was made, on behalf of his The Florence Nightingale Divi- bring you hek All Nursing Divi- Shop Assistants Union has pre-counterpart in the story of arti-colleagues, by F. P. Franklin, Action has a display of beautifully sions have contributed a miniature- pared for its own conference a ficial alle, which has given to ing General Manager, South China worked cushious and silk pictures, Woolworths Still report on the distributive trades England a flourishing industry. Morning Post, Ltd.