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Are you
The 17/21 Club's Photo- graphic Competition has been open for a week now. Are going to enter?
you
You can if you are between the ages of 17 and 21
and a member of the club.
Three expensive Minolta
ONGKONG'S
SET
going to enter our big
PHOTOGRAPHIC
COMPETITION?
cameras are waiting for the week asking what they have the form with your entry or winners of the competition's to do to enter the competition. entries. three classes.
Flash-guns will be awarded to the three runners-up and the third place-getters will receive stocks of film and
paper.
Entry form
If you aren't a member and are between the ages of 17 and 21 fill in a membership form which you'll find in this section, and send it in to us. We will enter your name and address in Pr files and acknowledge membership in
If you are a member of the club all you have to do is fill in the entry form below Quite a few people have and which the China Mail will written in during the past be printing every day. Send in this section.
-THE CHINA MAIL'S
17/21 Club Photographic Competition
NAME (in block expitals)
AGE
ADDRESS (in block capital)
The judging will take place during the following week by four highly qualified photo- graphers, and we hope to an- nounce the winners in this section on the following Saturday.
The photographs must be mounted. We will take good care of them but we will accept no responsibility for
All you have to do after loss or damage. You can call that to join the competition for your entries after the is to send in your entry and competition is over. entry form.
Responsibility
The competition will close on Monday, October 2 and no entries will be received after
that date.
Don't try anything too tech- nical with your cameras. Keep to the techniques you know best and follow closely the instructions given in our pre- sent "THE THIRD EYE".
photographic serial,
Get to work, and good luck!
Class 1. Partraits
2. Pets
"
3. General
Size:
Sise!
Size.
(Desole class or classes gesintend to enter thith a tick.)
Minimum rue-1 X 10. manimum sit X 10
Entries will be received at the China Mail Office in the South China Morning
Post Building, Wyndham-street, up to Monday, October 2
RULES
• Only members of the 17 21 Club may enter the competition.
⚫ Photographa limited to Mack and white only. They swit be moznied.
The judges decision must be taken as fuell
• No responsibility will be accepted by the China Mail for tors or damage of photo-
repl.
The competition is not open to cry menter if the leg of the South China Herning Peat Lid, er to any member of ax reti jen's tomis.
The 17-21
Club's five rules
¡Signed
NEW MEMBERS
HARRY SADICK, 18, student, 171 King's-road, Hongkang.
7 Mosque Junction, Hong- kong.
Membership in the 17-NANCY FUNG, 18, student, 21 Club is open to all within that age group. Contributions and all ac- tivities of the Club will be limited to members only.
Stephen Chan writes on
Hongkong teenagers
Hongkong teenagers are becoming more and more sophisticated. This is largely due to schools which provide them with enough education, but lack of character training. Much has also to do with parents, for often they are satisfied with just providing their children with schooling.
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The worst things about these clubs are that they give excel- lent means of wasting time and parents hard-earned money.
The period between and 20 years is the time when a normal child may either follow guidance and go along the right path or give in to thrilling tempta- meant for foois. because only
tions.
Temptations usually win them over. for Hongkong teenagers are weak-willed characters.
The request
programmes over the air provide a typical example of today's teenagers. Once in a blue moon can one bear a request not dedicated to clubs.
PATRICIA WAN, 17, student, 9 Dragon-road, 3rd floor, Hongkong.
These BETTY CHEN, 19, stu-
clubs
Are numerous
→ Contributions may con- dent, 306 Prince Edward-that only the most stupid per-
sist of anything that is road, Kowloon. publishable articles,
letters, stories, photo-
graphs, drawings, verses.
But only the best will
be printed.
→ All contributions MUST
be original.
• Written contributions should not consist of more than 350 words, photographs and draw- ings will only be accept- ed in black-and-white.
-MEMBERSHIP
Fill this in and send it to the China Mail, 1-3 Wyndham Street, Hongkong.
Name
Ago
Occupation
Address
and bear fantastic names, names
sons could think up!
Credit Card to Majid Gafoor.
So it is not far wrong to say that these "exciting" clubs are
fools rush in where wise men fear to tread.
Co
Look around you. There is
difficulty
whatsoever for to discover you
an unusual creature appearing before your eyes.
First you think that maybe it is a creature from space then again. No, you are wrong! It and look you rub your eyes is just a hooligan loitering
about.
These are the teddy boys of Hongkong, and
are casily identified Lecause . they are miles different from any other normal human beings. Their hair is like a bush growing. wild. Their pants may make
their conscience cut who im- agine excitemes: and pleasure in these clubs. No sooner do they join than they are dragged into sins and ́temptations.
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As Shakespeare said, "There is good and bad in everyit..ng and nothing is really too bad or good, it is how your mind makes it that counts"
Hongkong teenagers are not incorrigible.
But prevention must be carried cut at once if this ruining of teenagers is to be stopped.
Parents should sacrifce more schools should take more trou time for their children, and
ble in forming the characters of their students.
Unless these precautions are taken, the beat generation will become even crazier in the future!
you marvel-not because they SUMMER
are splendid, but because you wonder how on earth they got them on!
that teddy COMPLAINTS
But if you think that teddy boys are the worst type of hooligan in this Colony then you are wrong again.
If you go to dance halls or other similar places,
you will notice that there are still worse types of teenagers. The teddy boys and girls may be a nuis- ance to society but these are the ones that ruin the goodness in a city.
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The sky was never bluer
(No runners-up) The sun was never brighter
(And to sum it up) The weather never finer.
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Yet here am L a poor sot
(In my Creator's debt) · Complaining of
my destined lot - (With no excuse, except)
They are usually found in localities where poverty is pre- valent. These youngsters flock together as do birds of a feather, and form themselves into gangs This weather's too dama hot! such as triad societies.
It is a pity! These innocent youngsters who are guided by
S. Romer