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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 195
Army launches
annual appeal för
The Salvation Army in Hong Kong last night launched lis annual appeal for $100,000.
Sir Arthur Morse, Chief Manager of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor poration, wished the appeal success in a special message broadcast over Radio Hong
Kong
Earlier in the day, thousandy of appeal letters were despateliců. to Hong Kong Individuals and orporations, expressing the hope that they will support the Army In this year's campaign for funds The letters explained that this worldwide charitable organisa- lion requires $350,000 to cany sut ile 1060 programme in Hong While I expects that Kong. $230,000 of this pmount will be subscribed by -the usual sources,
to the publie will súll,
give $100,000 in order to permit grand total to be coached. Lieutenant-Colonel F.T. head of the Army
my here, sub atantiated the appeal letters in an exclusive interview with the "China Mall" yesterday in which be explained the significance and The scope of the Army's work.
what is the Salvation Army?
Waller
funds a hundred years ago
Photo shows the King's Park Children's Home, which is main- tained by the Salvation Army in Hong Kong. It depicts a home, woodwork. circa busily at work. The Army's annual appeal Issigned to keep centres like this still operating during this year.
ཟྭ་
Tálas told in
"China Mail” Files." "The cause of the educhijon of the Chinese has been occupying the attention of Missionaries of All Sects but as yet. we fear, with little success. The Tenth Report of the Morrison Education Society refers to the doings of the dix young men who have left the school. Three are said to be dolitg well in the United States, and of the other three now in China
one is employed in the Police Court, another in the Registral's, Court and the third in the Shunghal Consulate. In these Bluations how are they to get on.
PERSONALITY PARADE
No. 1. His Excellency the Governor
Comin
As a little boy of four Sir In 1928-20 he was on leave in England, which his wife was visi-
men as propaganda country Alexander Grantham passed ting with him for the first time,
"We would propose to establish through Hong Kong en route although she,, hip, been there of their own who after having a school for the education of the to Tientsin to join his parents before her marrings. And, used heard is now wishes to pass it on. Children of the Principal Tura who were living there. His the occasion to pars all his exam- happens to the money given to this school would have attached Kong of those days is the Peak eating my dinners Sir Alex
Poople also want to know who pean inhabitants or this pinceonly,recollection of the Hone Inptions for a Barrister.
2 was unable to complete The Salvation Army. In
Hong to it n certain number of Morrison Kong Caly a small amount goes scholarships open to the com- Tram, which fascinated him ander said, "but I did this when for the na
maintenance of naits. petition of all Chinese boys in the as it climbed steeply up the was called to the Bar that year." I I was next on leave, in 1994, and I Salvation Army officers accept schools of all denominations. In
hill. On the Peak, the family Since then, however, he has Morrison scholars as continued to selves would be sent to certain
His statctually happens, is that, as soon all salaries in order, that more padition, such stinguish them surveyed the broad prospect; had nothing to do with either the
How does it operate? ment clarifies these points suc vinctly.
Browse The Salvation spends Its time among the poor Diet in prominent places many people are asking what it is and what it does, he inkl.
It
money may be made available for the metal work emong the people
no large buildings In.and then to lend a hand to others. In fact no, overseas worker re- | Colleges ju“Europe where endow below Little did the bayi law
Started in London
in 1865 by was started
preaching abdicated his life to
William Boutli, u Londoner, who plings and evangelical services have money. The total require" position as Western Scholius, they ("Herger 10 fall into a state of position in the world, but is never
the gospel wsong the poor of the elly of London. His organisation
with great rapidity sprend
and to send its offcers soon began abroad to expand this work. William Booth's Kreat jective was to preach the gospel to the poor, but he quickly found that there was so much sulfering and misery among them that he was campellest to do something to relieve their suffer- ings.
In Hong Kong the first Army home, now called the Kwal Chung Girl's Home, was opened in 1930. The girls in Uds Hone come from. very poor families. There are a
from better few who come homes but all of them have either strayed or must be kept from straying. The atmosphere of the Home is bright and clean. Love is the main influence and
U.S. Pacific mission arrives in HK
Prize Money. "A Friend of the Navy" writes complaining of the "Chipu Mall's" criffeal comments on the expedi- tion against Shop-ng-sel's Ficat
"We all remember the damning with faint praise, or the condemnation by
of
•
lla religious torching. The only qusation maked in: "Are you in nood?' Neither does it encourage any one. to think that by becoming a member of The Salvation Army special benefits, will accrue. What
as a person prolasses conversion ho is made to feel that he must tenna to cland on the own fps
"Biringer is a distinguished" that years later he of Today it has rembers who give their spare This is provided by the Lundon, tion as Medical men, preachers of was to be the Governor there. Gervice. He talks with grace and Sir Alexander William George charm, end invariably achieves in time preaching the gospel and Headquarters.
to
the Gospel, etc., The Society from helping the less fortunate in every This year the General Social whose suhool the boys originally Herder Grantham, KCMG, je te attitude of sincerity, despite tib way possible. As an example of Fund needs building up. Money come would have the supervision of pomposity has occasioned of his work. Hus walk with o Governor's full name. A disre-Inevitably boring nature of soma this there are 34.902 bandsmen is needed for the school, and of them in Europe, and if any of who turn out. every
Sunday special relief work such as grants- them succeeded in taking a good the terms Willam. George, and hen step, in well aware of his their instruments in stree, in-ald. The Women's Sliciter must
disuso. Herder is his mother's aloof or disdainful Into engagements: might enter
could,
Great tradition in parochial halls. Those men are, ment to cover its institutional, whereby they
on their family name. He infant of it, not paid. They provide their own relief and evangelical work is return to Ching, be sent, Into the because it recalls a
are uniforms and
expected te over $350,000. The Salvation Interior as healers of the bodies Onite charm and gries, and org maintains a great tradition make weekly
some literary talhment: a, lady at Government House, where all is docorum and refinement. Lids contributions to Army.asks the public to subscribe and souls of their countrymen".
whose beauty and refinement Grantham, after it became hor wards the cost of hands and the $110,000 of this amount,
tended beyond her appearance" kresidence, proceeded to transförin fucul work of The Salvation Army.
and taste, so that everything she some of its unbecoming specks said or did possessed the quality and to enchant.
Governote it so that tops House i'. 'Javëlliér, Tradition and phrioglog com more homely and pro exqul bine, to mode the man in whogofitely subdued than it has over hands Britain has entrusted the been. (Sha, has succeeded in fate of Hong Kong, in' perhaps the making a palace into a home,
crucial Period in the Betoro returning hêre which appeared in this paper as Colony's history particularly lit Governor Ip 102 Sir Alexander the time. Now the Editor, with for the job. There is nothing was Colonial Secretały "în "Ber- A special United States State terrier-like tenacity has been trash, irrational or precipitate muda (1935-38), Colonial Sécre- He would reach a tory in Jamaica (1938-41), Chiar Department mission which is hunting on the trail of Cuplain about him. on its way to Saigon arrived Hay's throniclers, and has pounced decision slowly, but once made, Secretary in Nigeria (1941-45), and Governor of Fiji and High from Tokyo by a U.S. Army on something which he terms at would be irrevocable
Atoxin-Commissioner 'curious admission by one of
the
Western Alexan- Born 51 years ago, Sir. converted B-17.
them, namely: that, the ships of der has Hunded by Mr. Robert Allan the ficat were classified, in
Pacific (1945-47), a vigorous and alert per- senality. Journeyings from one atu! terms of service. In the four age when she was brought to inqula erant," the inission wor Hostels and Food Depots, Men's the home but...,shola.now one of met by Mr. Karl Ranidin, US admit such loose and i
evidence in substantiation of some, Roman head dhd darting, While he deplores his lack of Homes. Elevators, Workshops: the most promising girls there. Consul-Coneral in the Colony claims for many thousand pounds? piercing eyes proclaim that his knowledge of Cantonese, he says Wood Yards;Gate Homes, are looked after und are taught
Employment At King's Park,. 300 children and other consular officials. Will the Editor of the "China spirit of adventure is by no means ha was able to pass all his exam. Bureaux, Prison
*** Inations. In that dialect without Homes,
Childrens
Mall" point out a better metbed exhausted. incuriales
to hope for a better chance month tour of South East Aala of obtaining
either distinction or disgrace” of...
evidence of the to study the kind of technical number of men destroyed or dis barrister in the British Cob-avoiding work." Homes, Creches, Industrial and life. They are taught trades, re-
His father was a practising Sir Alexander's hobby Boarding Schools, Women's In-ceive elementary education, and oselstorce the area needs underpersed? Probably, as the register cession at Tientsin and the parare fond of describing the indus
Biographers justrini Homes, Approved are encouraged to take an in- President Truman's projected and lists of the crows have been ental intention was that the son try of their horges, but no blogra-
Homes, Maternity terest in Schools and
useful pursuits. The
Point Four programinte,
destroyed as well as she crews should follow in his stops. Up to phor of Sir Alexander will over The Point Homes, Farms, Goodwill Centres latest move is the organisation
Four proposition themselves, the Editor may be a point this was realised when in be able to write truthfully that Slum Posts, Colanies (in- of a band, Here again great im. would authorise a total of $45, able to obtain the information 1934 Young Mr. Grantham, os hehe lights in his study burned and eluding Leprosarin elc.,) and pravement is now noticeable 000,0in for all to qualified areas from his friend Seu, wito was in was then, was called to the Barungi Dawn came, pouring la Eventide
Homes, are among its among the children
Mr. Grifin is accompanied by close correspondence with the But the wide world backened, through the window. He is far brought in.
his wife. Other members of the many agencies.
At Wanchal is-an-Army school mission are: Mr. William McAfee pirates...I vill undertake to pay a horded the call. It was too practical, All this work is undertaken in
500 boys and girls. of the to
work with a roll which is pursued on a large scale. One_of_the most remarkable the State Department's Bureau that neither Contala Hay nor any take him to Bermuda, to Jamaica, By Grant roaér
of the brave ellows under him to Nigeria, Fiji and the Far East. of Far Easter school there features of this
is the Samuel Hayes, Special want to pocket A-cent morò-thoni
ofthey are entitled to; meanwhil Secretary of good-deportment and cleanliness to the Assistant of the pupila, most of whom Far Eastern Affairs; Kr. E. r. we think it simply contemptible Dickinson of. ECA. Washington to endeavour to set that mouthing come from poor
Duff, Mr.
orator falsely called the Apostla Grifin's military adviser: Captain of Economy and Peace, on to our Warde, Captain Duir's Assistant; brave turs." and two woman (secretaries.
During the 85 years that have passed since that time, the work today the until spread Salvation Army is operating in
:nas
32 countries, with 42,000 umeurs some extraordinary results have and paid workers who are ated been achieved.
thousands
עני.
of
voluntary helpers.
The development of social work has been such that opportunities.
are
there
Lor almost
Trodos taught One girl found by the Army
for
wax focked in a cage on a root Griffin, fornier deputy chief of measure from information temporate climata to another krighted by the King.
For these services, he was
His bigh offee has done nothing
and in a half-crazed condition. She ECA in China and publisher off from the prisonment will cornera. of the world have loft toʻsuppress is sénse DI Humour every type of succour. Shelters, was extremely difficult to: man! the Monterey · (Califórnia) “Pcn- then asks if the GoveLoad-handtheir marks on him--but a hand-which he regards' as fibr
addition evangelical
The whole purpose of tasks is to help the poor despite their sordid existence to inore decent standards of living under improved conditions.
Religious crood
.
who were,
The mision
is on
A few are badly unusat Solonel Russel G.
a two
Assistant
The mission will leave for Sai- gon this morning by Air France.
#
is
British Council Kors that the sicknade and more lenny, where knowledge of which for instare), Fecently cam-
lecture series Professor Cheng Te Kune
Ha Ukes.reading, and walking. Formative years” [] bút hús, no time for modern Sandwiched between service innovals, because in most cases other parts of the world were the charactors of fiction meny years spent in Hong Kong, extremely uninteresting... He ed. They are given good meals
They were formative years, and profers histories and biographies, prepared him for the role he has like Mr. Churchill's great-work daily to strengthen them and
since assumed. He knows the on
the on Marlborough. He enjoys But the Salvation Army is very make them fit in the same con-
their
The bloodler and more definite on one point. It recognises tre is a tight shelter for women
A Tempast in a Teapot.es, Pelikes and strange, improbable the better the futility of preaching Lo and girls who are given a good
The Editor comments on admirable courtesies. In this Sur He is interested in art only wratched and starving people bowl of rice with vegetable and
controversy arising out of a charga i Alexander is following in the from the point of view of a lay unless they are also offered some flavouring, when they
come in
made, in a London paper by steps of another famous Governor man, and curas little or nothing hope in this life. However, at the end of each working day,
young Engineer officer in Hong of Hong Kong, Sir John Pope for the fundamental impulses insists that true rehabilitation Realising the importance of only in the long run successful youth in times like the present,
tality of the 95th Regiment, were China and things Chinese his be pelled Salvador Dali to renounco when the inner fe af men and the Salvation Army is giving
due to the insanitary state of the comto an invaluable contribution uralism. He finds Picasso Sh It is aware this problein wollen is changed.
serious attention,
barracks owing to the pilgened to the sum total...af. Westernteresting, Rothenstein: Jafrigidnes that only one force is abid to do and with other charitable or
of the C.0. and officers of the unsessment of this country, In traditionalist, it is in the Old this, and this force is the power ganisations is working on plans
Alexander studied at Well- Masters that he datives most Sir men of God. Too many people imaging to promote a cornmunity spirit will continue his series of
are some public Somcone that the Salvation Army exist
has asked if "The lectures on Chinese civilisation who, when they call under the logtori, the famous English public pleasure
school; later leaned military The the world of music, he in only to dispense relief. The fact Salvation Army still has street today at the British Council rebuke of a newspaper, Imagine alfeléline at Sandhurst, and came lines to the clusales, Lunetta, bot is, the rallel and social work it meetings has in Hong Kong Library.
they take the most effectuat
symbolic of a undertakes is due to its religious and Kowloon. But these meet
bridge, where he emerged with which he regards as Ings pre-not to be seen on the
restless age. 2 With the superior" buthorities by honours in history,
After Cambridge he entered the He disclaims any iterary
bútes," and will never, yazite a the original charge endet. In 1922. He spent the b the scholar, the farmer, the crafts-ulation of *** mun and the merchant.
In this proceeding, they ovince
Digtinguished, gay, and witty, two years in Canton and next Macao, studying Chinese hard, ir Alexander, Grantham is a ma subicct & Professor Cheng a leg. of Chele oause, ar a doubles.
candour of the Journal, which, ture tonight.
In droe
Ho moans
10. The kindness and
of a fate which, has The mandarin, the intellectual the exercise of a stern and un-mitigate. aristocrat, has always been held pleasant duty, censured them in A second visit to Felting in 1925 more largess to In the highest esteem, not only in the first justanze e fat, as was impressed him with the great others has dana, nothing China, but throughout the world. are concerned, there is not an beauty of China as she was in the One It is significant that the merchant Officer living who can accuse us days of the Empers gnd Em- class has been put at the bottom of having denied him the justice, presses, and he spent mioy days: comprehension, and of the scale, a condition of off of a reply to any statement was the Forbidden City on the
affairs or refused him the opportunity, wandering in the court-yards of cension. which has been reversed in [the]
Ho
the Merchant."
For many centuries China has ying" to some rival pubfestist i colonial Service and came out a booke The Salvation Army doses not main throughfare, rather in the and speak on "The Scholar course to get thevisores, right plated his : education at Cari denounce the Americon, idiom, recognise the Intangible bar areas where the people divided society into four parts, with a counter-statement. I
ordinary
Tiere of race or creed; nor doen Each week many 'It Thalet in any way that per people hear the message of God sons sacking help must embrace, spoken in simple language by one
Lovers
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Tehudi Menuhin
of Good Chocolated
social order will be thai por, a distrust, of the internal grinding tank which a Cambridge who knows the world for what.
20th century.
Botnet for learning has phy Ideas This respect, straute
fundamental in Chinese
by the Coafuchun: doctring including a respect for nl pargons in authority, has tended to make) China a conservative nation and hos preserved its continued exi tehce for: thousands of years.
The break-up of the old order
bavo, made impighing his public specting the gilded thrones, the conduct.
faded draporlar, the massive marble works with which the CASES Oving dynasties of the nation surrounded themselves,
Personalia
Visit to Paking is par ticularly memorable because it, Was there that Fir Alexander mot the American lady who was lotor)
Dr. Wolle Cohen, President or to becoms his wife. They met at
the Warfier Brothers Pictures, a Legation, rocaptor, land, both
in the 20th century bus rerited intemalmal Corporation, arrived knew that it was love at first,
in intellectuni 'uncertainty and from Bingapore by British Over- sight Miss Maurine Samson, : asji chaos which is only now being seas Airways yesterdays
resolved into a new pattern of
REFORMATORY
INMATE TRIE
Lady Grantham was then, came from San Francio.
en who is on a global
"tour