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"SOCIAL HYGIENE YEAR-BOOK”
"Empire Social Hygiene Year- Book, prepared by the British Social Hygiene Council Inc. Geo. Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 15/-
Between the corers, of the Social Hygiene Yeer-Book the reader will find, in summarised form, informa- tion regarding a number of subjects which may seem to have little con- nection with each other. In addi- tion to a wealth of data regarding the prevalence and treatment of the venereal diseases, questions of stitution, the marriage laws and traffic in women and children, the ions concerning the book includes sections welfare of the Mercantile Marine, the progress of biological education, and miscellaneous information regarding various other social services.
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THE CHINA-MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1936
The site of the Olympic Winter Games under deep snow, the final fall being so heavy that snow-ploughs had to be used to keep the roadways free, is shown in our picture.
Thus begins the Foreword to the "MUSIC IN WORDS"
"Empire. Social Hygiene Year
Book" for the year just closed;
and its publication prompts note and comments on a number of things.
First of all, the Foreword re
Interesting Talk By
Miss K. P. Curtin
minds us of the sad blow the ENGLISH ASSOCIATION MEETING
AT HELENA MAY
To-day's Short Story"
FIRST NEWS BULLETIN
By Donald Shoubridge
Joseph Higgins set he had heard the fading
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at the time of his untimely death was read by Miss Kathleen P. than the purchase of a wireless At exactly six-thirty a voice which was caused by a motor ac Curtin, B.A., to a large and ap-set. He loathed wireless just suddenly stated that this was the KNIGE HYDRO-THERAPEUTIC INST. HYDRO-THERAPEUTIC INSTALLATION. cicent in Germany, President of preciative audience at the Helena as he loathed the cinema and National programme, and patil the British Social Hygiene Cour- May Institute last night, her sub-jazz and modern youth, and seven o'clock somebody's quartette MARINA HOUSE. un-ject being "Music in Words." Her everything else that had ruin- would sing seventeenth century ail, to which post he was
selections. animously elected in 1929 on the address was punctuated with ed. England.
But for all that, he did buy one Joseph Hixin tore retirement of the Marquess of quotations from, many poets, Eng-
the head- ancient
from a travelling tinker in the phones off savagely, Linlithgow. Thus tragically ended lish and foreign,
market. One minute he was star-! the third and last phase of a modern.
He'd been done. The set would't) most valuable life spent in the Lady Southern, OBE, who fins at it, and the next he was function for the one thing he service of the Empire both in In- presided, regretted the inability carrying it away carrying it wanted from it.
of. her husband, Sir Thomas prominently and not
even wrap- At nine-thirty he secured a rea- Sir Basil's last publications will Southern and Sir William Hornell ped up. People who knew him sonably clear reception of the Sec- therefore be read with special to attend. Among those present gasped as he passed them. Even ond News Bulletin on National. care and there is one part which were the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo and Hain himelf couldn't understand should interest in Hong Kong Mrs. Lo, Lady Pollock, Professor it. He could remember nothing ing. both the Education Depart R. K. Simpson and Mrs. Q. A. Aljof the bargaining processes that ment and the University authori- MacFadyen, Secretary
dia and at home,
tium.
of the bar led to it-all he could remem-
ber was the peculiar intensity of
He says: "The British So- Association.. rial Hygiene Council insists on A hearty vote of thanks to the the tinker's eyes.
It was a queer business right the paramount importance of the speaker was proposed by Pro-) biological science in the educa- fessor R. R. Simpson and second- from the beginning. tional curricula throughout the ed by Mr. J. Russell.
And it was the same every even-
:
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "The Rocking Pony," by Howard Jones.
He took it home to the dreary British Empire. Not only the On a proposal by Lady house where he lived alone on less health and educational services, Southorn, Mrs. Barker. was ap-than half his income.
The set would simply go dead Mrs. Rush, the daily, stared at from six to six-thirty and Joseph but all who are engaged in gen-pointed acting honorary secretary eral administration are called up-and treasurer of the English Asso-him.
|Higgins had either to buy a paper during the on to realise the need of the bio-ciation
temporary "There." she said, "the tea or wait for the Second News Bul- absence from the Colony of Mrs. leaves said something extraordin-jletin. If it hadn't meant more logical cutlook."
Q. A. A. MacFadyen on leave. ary was about to "appen."
money being spent he'd have seat "Indeed," said Higgins coldly for Harry Cox again. So important is this theme con- While thanking Mrs. MacFadyen sidered, that three later chapters for her excellent work during heri
Three Chapters
"I wonder you didn't get an up- Quite a fortnight passed before of the book are devoted to it. The term of office, Lady Southorn also to-date loudspeaker one when you he made his amazing discovery. first by Authur Mayhew is entitled extended a welcome to Mrs. Bar-was about it, though. Reely I do. He had got up early to do some
"Advance in Biological Studies in ker, remarking she would be of Eadphones and a the British Dependencies and its Freat assistance and joy to
Relations to similar advance at Home." and-his-argument may be, adequately indicated by this ex-'
tract:
-The ultimate value of scientific in-
vestigation depends on the ability of
Association.
ROTARY TIFFIN
MEETING
crystal to-day gardening. It was either that of the Mr. Iggins! Now my sister Ada having a man in to do it; things
of
got behindhand as you got on in am not interested in the years... tastes of your sisterAda. No
During a cup of tea he put thei doubt the modern vulgarity of the headphones од.
The chance loadspeaker has a particular ap-hearing something not meant for peal for her. For myself I prefer the general public appealed to him
headphones."
the community to appreciate and ap- Mr. Cyril Champkin On, the old-fashioned intimacy oflike getting something for noth-
ply it in everyday life. This seems.
to summarise one of the main aims
of science teaching overseas.
The
goal is certainly not attainable unless
Managed Currency
Mr. Champkin
Mrs. Rush sniffed. Old-fashion-
ing.
He was amazed to hear an an-j A crowded attendance was pre-imeanness she called it.-
led intimacy be blowed! Downright nouncer reading a News Bulletin. the science courses make adequate sent to hear Mr. Cyril Champkin,
He listened spellbound to details! provision for biological studies.
He got a nephew of Mrs. Rush of a Yorkshire coal mine disaster, This chapter ends with a brief the speaker at yesterday's Rotary to fix it up for him. A young man of a sensational speech by Mr. review of the teaching in both tiffin, his subject being "Managing called Harry Cox. He paid him Churchill, of a serious cinema ure schools and Universities in Eng. the Currency."
two shillings. The lad was unem-at Hackney, to city prices and the land and Scotland. In the latter gave a lucid explanation of exactly
what was meant by the term, his ployed. and Joseph Higgins fell names of race horses. country it is stated that "it ia
speech being enlivened with many
!proud of having helped
He looked at the clock. It was largely because in the past SO
alleviate distrses..
twenty past six. For quite ten, mary of H M Inspectors. have amusing flashes of humour.
The Hon, the Colonial Secretary, "Of course you can't expect minutes he sat there and worried been different that the teaching Sir Thomas Southern, was pre-much of a job with this. Now if over it. Then he made the dry of Biology is in such a deplorable (Continued at foot of next Col) it 'ad a valve-amplifier — noise in his throat that he called atate to-day."
"It is all I require," said Higgins-laughing. Of course, The B.B.C.
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The position in England is no perly equipped to assist their And, indeed, it was far more. were trying out a new announcer. better and far, behind Western future pupils to acquire a acienti. He had no wish to waste his time making him read some made-up Europe, American and the Do- minions, and for this backward. c outlook on problems of per-listening to music and light enter-bulletin.
tainment. As for talks, he shud- He went out into the garden Hongdered at the idea of them. It stood irritably. It was just like his set an in to season they must be directed at to pick up a fake bulletin when it
some lowest common multiple of couldn't get real ones. modern intelligence.
But tired and aching though he The last of these three chapters. No, it was just the news he was in the evening, he literally is by Percy F. Lee on "Some Lif-would listen to. It would save the jumped out of his chair when he fenities in teaching the Human cost of his evening paper.
read the evening paper.
sonal and public health.” ness the secondary authorities; blame the Universities and the Kong would fare in such Again we wonder how
Universities blame the schools for'
vestigation. the lack of suitable provision for Biology courses and for the ab- sence of students anxious and qualified to take such courses.
- Position In Hong Kong?
Teaching Difficulties
ran
Mina
CO-
Implications of Biology," in which So punctually on the first even- There, right across the front We wonder what the position is he stresses the point that Biology ing. he waited for the first news page the headline-Many in Hong Kong educational cireles, taught for its intrinsic cultural bulletin-and went on waiting! Feared Lost in Yorkshire for here, where the Government value must be the ultimate aim of He did everything Cox had told Explosion! And
across two virtually controls the University, our efforts if we are to achieve him, tried both National and Ee-lamas lower down ran another- the above excuse can hardly be anything of permanent worth gional moved the cat's whisker all Wington attacks Government seriously tendered.
Lest this review should give the over the crystal-but he could Policy! The next chapter is entitled idea that the teaching of Biology hear nothing. And yet just be- Feverishly he scanned the in-i "Biology in the Univerities and is all the Year-Book worries Training Colleges of the Empire," about, mention must be made of a
side pages. And sure enough on sent, and among the guests who the middle page he real that a by E. E. Oaten, and in it the long discussion
attended writer discusses details of courses directed to the problem of pro Dr. E. S. Tal (Canton), Mr. C. M. Hackney,
on legislation
were the following: serious fire had started early-that Lieut Col H.B. L. Dowbiggin, afternoon at the Elite Cinema and finally suggests "that it stitution and venereal disease, and Delgarno, (Aberdeen, Scotland), should be the policy of the Year- chapters on traffic in opium and Mr. C. P. S. Wong (Singapore), Book to include annually a survey dangerous drugs, on the interna
A Cofffsen, E. Stock, W. A. Mac- kialay 7. Pym, R. A Rodgers,
(Continued on Page 103
of the academic facilities in Gen- tional aspect of the film and on Mead (Shanghai), Messrs. HUNT FOR ESCAPED LUNATIC eral Biology available for and the social work of the League of utilised by teachers within the Nations, while over 400 pages are British Empire. The object of set apart for details concern Lewis, C. da Roza, G. E. Wetton, issued with the name and descrip E. S. Abraham, E.; Grossman, E Londen one night last month was Every police officer on duty in the investigation would be to the social hygiene of the Empire Stevenson, D. H. Blake, John show how far instruction in Gen- This book will undoubtedly de- Manners, W. J. Hansen, N. Etion of a lunatic who escaped eral Biology is being given at all mand the attention of both educa Neilson. H. Halle, G. S. Hugh- during the day from Colney Hatch and to what extent such instructional and health authorities Jones, Li Shu-fent P. Gockchin, Mental Hospital. It was believed tion as is given lays such a reason throughout the Empire, said part- A Martin, H. Murdock, E. W. that he might do himself con able degree of emphasis on Hurcularly in those places where bio Duggan, D. M. Ballantyne, C. siderable harm and might migre man Biology as will ensure that logical instruction is in the early stiger, P. de Roux and other people. those who receive it will be pro-embryonic stage.
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