THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 18, 1939
S.P.C. AND PROPOSED G.C.H. WELFARE CENTRE
AT THE MONTHLY MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COM- MITTEE OF THE HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTEC- TION OF CHILDREN, PRESIDED OVER BY SIR ATHOLL MAC-| GREGOR, THE QUESTION OF WHETHER THE SOCIETY SHOULD CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS THE ORGANISATION OF A GOVERNMENT WELFARE CENTRE WAS DISCUSSED.
WANTSAI BRANCH
The Honorary Director, Mr. G. general fund of the Society. Other P. de Martin outlined the proposal donations amounted to $974.00. which had reached him. In Febru- ary, 1988, the Society appealed to Mr. G. P. do Martin reminded Government to utilise a part of the the Committee that the Society's old Government Civil Hospital as Wantaai Branch was still inade- an infant welfare centre for the quately housed and could not be Western District, where auch work considered as working satisfactori- is urgently needed. At the moment, ly in view of its limitations and the there are only two such centres, fact that it had no kitchen. He ap- one in Wantsal, and the other in pealed to members to assist Mr. Kowloon. In response to the So-L. D. Skinner, the Honorary Branch ciety's plea, partial provision was Secretary, in securing suitable pre- made in the current estimates, but mises. the amount set aside is insufficient to enable the centre to be opened this year unless other financial aid is forthcoming.
arose,
The suggestion which the Direc- tor placed before the meeting was that the Society might vote a aum of eighty dollars per month for the purpose of defraying the salaries of two nurses. In this he was sec- onded by the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo.
NO MAJORITY Considerable discussion but the proposal failed to gain a majority vote, it being the opinion of the majority of members that the Society could not afford the grant which would inevitably post- pone the inauguration of urgently needed additional centres of its own. Furthermore, the principle involved was deemed to be wrong being tantamount to the subsidising of an under-taking which should be adequately financed from public funds.
Of the cases before the Commit- tee, that of a woman who had been charged with soliciting was con- sidered. The woman was the mother of four children, and it was agreed that one of them should be placed with the Salesian Institute. The father was in delicate health and unemployed.
Similar action was taken in the hud died leaving four young father had died leaving four young children and a widow for whom the
Society had procured a hawker's licence. In these two cases, the par- ents had lived in Hong Kong for 23 and 28 years respectively, and therefore, deserving recipients of the Society's help.
FLOWER DAY
The Committee was glad to learn from the Superior of the St. Louis Industrial School that a boy who had been trained there at the So- ciety's expense, was now' employed in the Police Printing Depar.men. at a salary of $40 per month.
The monthly case and finance re- ports revealed that the average in-| Sir Atholl Macgregor reminded come per head in family cases of the Committee that the Flower Day relief was $1.43, the lowest figure would be held on March 11, and the being $1.16 in Kowloon North, Annual Ball at the Peninsula Hotel where seven cases were dealt with on April 14. The Chairman also ex- no income at all: The Finance Re-pressed the Society's thanks to all port showed an excess of expendi- ture over income of $923.000. The sum of $600.000 was transferred from the Women's Auxilliary to the
those who assisted or contributed towards the success of the chil- dren's New Year Party held at the Majestic Theatre on January 26.
MARCH OF A DICTATOR
(Continued from Page 2) Verona, dismantled the few remaining The same year as youth called Gino Italian Government airplanes. Lucetti threw a bomb at Mussolini's He rushed first to Forli to attend the car which bounced back and wounded funeral of his fellow villager, Lieut. eight by-standers. After this the Dic-Ridolfi, who had been the pilot of the tator declared that attempted murder lost 'plane. Then he was off to Man- should also be punishable with death. tun to hire the next available machine In October another excited boy fired to fly himself and the rather less en- a bullet at Mussolini. It struck him in thusiastic staff of his newspaper, the chest, und flew off the bulletproof Popolo d'Italia, to prove that avia- vest he wore beneath his tunic. The tion was safe. To-day Mussolini is boy was lynched.
ranking high among Italian pilots. His. In 1931 Michele Schirru, ex-banana violent nature receives a serenity alone dealer of the Bronx, was found with a from the overwhelming sense of power, house full of bombs, it was alleged, in- and conquest, of untrammelled freedom tended for Mussolini. He was shot....
which the driving of a great airplane In 1932 his comrade, Angeli Shar- through the cloud and storm can yield. dellotto, who had come along to Rome to avenge him, was caught. He was ahot.
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Danger! Storm! Force! Power! These are the gods of Benito Mussolini, the blacksmith's son. These he has prais- Altogether sixteen attempts were ed as Socialist and Fascist, as agita- made against Mussolini's life. Con-tor, editor, soldier, dictator; worshipped, cerning these he said, with natural for- them faithfully and alone. titude, and equally authentic sense of His conduct as leader of a nation theatre: "IF I ADVANCE, FOLLOW MEI IF I RETREAT KILL ME! IF I 'FALL, AVENGE ME!”
has patterned that as leader of a fac- tion: He sent a fleet against the Greeks at Corfu, rofusing mediation or oven settlement until his guns had Mussolin! has lived dangerously. He pounded home his threats. He forced drives his car at breakneck speed. One a quarrel on the Abyssinians. He thrust day he crashed it at 70 m.p.h, into ahis aword into the side of Spain. level crossing at Faenza. The iron He taught Italy, in his own passion- gate broke to pieces and the car wasate phrase, "to stand upon her feet!" flung, a wreck against the second gate. To-day the country that at school we "Fortune assisted me," boasted Musso- classed with Spain and Portugal is one lini. "The hatred of our enemies had of the four Great Powers of Europe. been my good luck charm!”
But when this turbulent, brilliant, bru- The first time he flew an airplane it tal genius passes, the system that he crashed from a height of 40ft, on land-built with furious energy and no small ing, pitching on to a wing, Mussolini devotion will face its first real chal raged when the Liberal Government, lenge. following a terrible air disaster at
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