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"CASTLE" CRYSTAL
GENUINELY HAND CUT
Humanising Prison
Life
wharf and herself sastaining The sources for establishing
accident
not imme-
VARYING MOODS OF PUBLIC MEN
HOW STATESMEN MEET
DEFEAT
KIPLING'S “TWO IMPOSTORS” AND CELESTIAL MINDS
(By J. B. Firth)
..
Equanimity
the
is no use expecting some
VERYONE damage. The
old pronunciation are so exhaus-
EVP though perhaps the tious men to treat cting ambi foccurred about 3.10 pr.
tive that Shakespeare would cer
two "impos- The impact gave the passengers
tainly have understood very well choicest spirits would not look Success "those on board a bad shaking.
to see how public men accept tors," Kipling calls them-just The iron lamp standard at the passages which were
they are only impostors to corner of the wharf was twisted, diately comprehensible to last defeat. It is not mere curiosi- the same. In the first place,
The month's listeners.
Ity. the glass being smashed.
Each of us feels the stronger celestial minds; in the second, Hong Kong, Monday, May 25, 1936. upper deck of the ferry came in Oce source used in research is
pronouncing dictionaries, even to read of a head "bloody Ambition is with some the It braces us strongest human passion but contact with the standard and the old railings were slightly buckled. A some of which date back to the but unbowed."
longest life buoy grip was torn off and early 17th century. And there is for the blow that may be sus-one, and often endures the buoy fell into the harbour but very illuminating "Grammaire pended over our own
Outwardly Mr. Ramsay Mac- was retrieved.
Angloise" for French students of
Yet Equanimity even in the One of the lower deck stanch English in the century before. Donald took his crushing de A brilliant justification of the ions was beat and the vessel's bow
Spelling, before it became stan-feat at Seaham Harbour very life work of the late Sir Evelynas chipped.
He never public men as might be sup another guide-well. He has shown the equal severest trial is not so rare with Raggles-Brise and other devoted
About four vertical beams and dardised,
dislodged especially the spelling of leas cul-mind in adversity.
the careless cheerfulness with prison reformers of our time is
a diagonal beam were
tured writers. There is, for ex-stood higher with his cantern- Posed. Gibbon warmly praised which Lord North supported his found in the latest report of the and a fifth beam was loosened.
The private reactions to a It
eventually a London tradesman and
staggering shock should be fall and bore up against un- icontains, in addition to the usual
Star reversed
It is painful to merited obloquy and the on- kept private. statistical information for 1934. docked on the other side of the chant tailor in the 1550's.
When Queen Elizabeth's pri-read of men who have carried coming of age and blindness by a brief review of English prison tarf a few minutes later, resum- administration during the 25
found that the Queen had often face to the wall," in Biblical and the felicity of his incom- years of the late King's reign, ing her run to Kowloon at 3.15 vate letters came to light it was their heads high "turning the "the lively vigour of his. mind used the same phonetic spellings phrase, and collapsing. If they parable temper.” Equanimitas! as Machyn. Her own pronunciado, it should be in a darkened tion, therefore, did not always room and no tales told. correspond to the purest literary
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Commissioners for Frisons. After the collision, the Northern jample, the diary of one Machyn, poraries than now,
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Mirror Reflection Leads To Arrest
A mirror led to the arrest of al
Asked For Lighter
no fixed
A detective said that one after- Oxford- she went into an
style.
mer-
Lard Carzon's Crash
North and his contemporaries let me recall Charles Fox sit- ting up to read Herodotus through what little remained of Not long ago the public was It is possible to draw conclu-
his last guinea at faro-had sions, too, from Shakespeare's pained to learn from the late the night in which he had lost and rhymes-which Lord Curzon's biographers of imbibed this secret of the soul town puns
now sometimes appear to synchronisation.
A
lack his complete collapse on being
their beloved classics which told that he had lost the Fret from religion, but from miership. That so statuesque.they had by heart.
Besides.
re-
familiar
Your Daily Smile!
•
For An Apartment
was all their world so proud, so patrician, so served a figure should crumple with the still recent tradition of
so pitifully this was disturb Bolingbroke going off to the
26 local prisons now perform the services for which 56 were pre- viously required. Even if there
woman in black, wanted for the and has been no positive increase in
theft of valuable gold cigarette-! of virtue corresponding with the decrease of committals to pri-
In the Eskimo language. "I loveling to our faith. It seemed to exile which only ended with his son, it is certain that the de-cases from jewellers' shop is the
you is "Univfgasserntuinalfinajuan-
explains why let down all that he had stood life with the light phrase on his uarisiguejak." This crease is not due to dimination West End, it was stated at Marl
for-education, rank, philoso Millicent Hermione Brett, aged the arctic nights have to be so long. of vigilance on the part of the borough-street recently.
how doth Fortune banter us!" phy-though the blow was delips. "What a world it is and
circum- every police, or disinclination on thei
occupation and
Education
vastating and
Nevertheless, it was Boling- !part of juries to convict or of 21, 20
"Is your son's education at college stance combined to make it
broke who wrote: "It would rex judges and magistrates to sen-home, pleaded guilty to stealing
of any real value?"
more cruel. tence. It is attributable, three gold cigarette-cases of the
"Yes, indeed. It has entirely cured
Pain was easier to endure a man to learn with pain and rather, to the greater self-con- total value of 250. She was re-
with stoicism than the crash of trouble how to serve his coun- trol and self-respect of the manded in custody for inquiries. his mother of bragging about him."
And yet the weak-try and yet not be able to do it." ambition. and in general community. equal measure probably to cer-
"What kind of dog are you look-ness only lasted a single day, if in our own day that was pre- so long, and he rose to face the cisely Milner's case after his re- ing for, ma'am?”.
was half-way tain radical changes in the law noon
"Ta like to see one of those ocean world's watching eyes with a turn from South Africa, until and to vastly improved concep- street shop and asked to see some
starched and ironed composure. the Great War tions of the theory and, purpose gold cases. Several were brought, greyhounds
Is there any fortifying word through. It was also Cromer's have and she then asked for a lighter.about." which of punishment
proof case after his brilliant Procon- counter,
can render us
And it had ihumanised the whole system of The salesman left the
mirror The singer had just finished his which
against the bludgeonings of sulate in Egypt.
OWT case for but Watched through a
None better, been Curzon's prison administration.
after his "Perfectly amazing!"' remarked a Chance or Fate?
I think, In 1895 the late Lord Oxford, and saw her take a case from the
than the dying seven long years listener. when Home Secretary, appoint-counter and slip it under her
"I thought his voice rather poor," Emperor' last password to the Viceroyalty. Both Milner and ed a Departmental Committee cloak.
She was put up for identifica-said his neighbour.
(Continued On Page 10) to enquire exhaustively into prison policy, and Etion for thefts under similar cir- "And so it is; but think of his officers of the night watch Cromer had Equanimitas. Ruggles-Brise was made Chair-lcumstances and was picked out. nerve." man of the Prison Commission instructed to carry its drastic! report into effect. The Prison! Act of 1898 was its first-fruits, with its classification of pri- soners and a new prison code:: the Children Act of 1908 raisedį the age for committal to prison to 16, since extended to 17: the Borstal Institutions were estab
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EXPLANATION
OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
The Wunderkind
ARL WITTE, the Wunderkind
embodied a new conception of of Lochan, Germany, was the the State's duty to the offender, son of a German pastor who met viz., that while it punished it the famous educator Pestalozzi în should also rehabilitate and Switzerland, and applied his the- of his This Report justly em-ories to the upbringing phasises the fact that the new son. humanitarianism has not injur-
cure.
At the age of 4, Karl learned to led discipline--"the necessary speak French, Latin and Italian basis of all penal treatment." within 9 months. He graduated
It is a very different disci-
pline, however, from the old, from high school at the age of 8, cold, impersonal and merciless and received his degree of Ph.D. repression which started with at the age of 13. At the age of 76, be received a degree as doctor the grim 2w
prison silence" that was subject to no of laws, and at 23 he was a pro-
Now
fessor at the University of Bres- recognised intermission.
of
there is an organised "privilegelau He died in 1883 at the age of Lalking" good conduct is re-jof 83, the foremost Dante scholar! warded; the broad arrow has in the world. disappeared with the
¡crop"
"close and other indignities heaped upon the helpless pri- soner: physical training has re-
NYASALAND MINERALS
Provision for exploiting the placed the walking round and mineral resources of the Nyasa- round in a ring for exercise: land I atectorate is made in an prisoners are kept informed as Order in Council published last to what is passing outside the month in the "London Gazette,” walls; evening classes have be giving the Governor come a regular part of the sys-make grants for development tem; selected. prisoners
are work allowed to work without super- vision. Even the most confirm-
power
to
ed and habitual offender is now tions" may be we need not!
The fact that the jadmitted to possess "rever-speculate. sionary rights of humanity," number of males admitted to while the young offender has an prison was reduced by nearly amount of care and attention 8.000 for 1934 compared with lavished upon him which, to- 1933, on the top of a continuous gether with the firm discipline fall during the quarter of a necessary to a corporate sys- century under review, shows tem, gives him a much better that while the heart of man physical and moral equipment may remain theologically for life than is possessed by "desperately wicked," it is still the matter of thousands who have not the capable-in advantage of a Borstal educa-jobedience to law-of substan- tion. What the limits of reduc- tial and progressive improve- tion in the number of "recep-ment.
solo.
...
I've beard 30
mech
+
+
Equanimitas.
"BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
"DICKEY-DO" THE
TALKING STARLING
Karl Witte
WUNDERKIND
AT THE AGE OF 4-
#f
LOCHAU,
GERMANY
Owned and Trained
by MRS.S.E.BOYD
Shady Rest,
"Ma
OF LOUIS. ACK BLACKBURN OHN ROXBOROUGH. ULIAN BLACK. incoBs.
THE LETTER
11
PLAYS AN
IMPORTANT
PART IN THE
CAREER OF
J. Lours
Drown by
PATIDRINGTON
-Chicago, Ill.
→ LEARNED FRENCH, LATIN AND ITALIAN IN 9 MONTHS! Dagan GRADUATED FROM THE LEIPZIG UNIVERSITY AS DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
AT THE AGE OF 13 — AND BECAME THE GREATEST DANTE SCHOLAR IN THE WORLD
He Lived to the Age of 83
•1714, Kees Byudvar, Inc. Gana Baven riches amarani.