ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE
HONG KONG
* JOCKEY CLUB
ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1034,
ON
3RD MARCH, 1934.
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N Saturday 24th, Monday 26th, Tuesday 27th and Wednesday 28th February, the first" ball will be rung at 11 aui, and the first race will On Saturday. be run at 11.30 am.
the 3rd March, the first ball will be rung at 1.3 pm, and the first race will be run at 2.00 pm.
The in interval will be taken after the fifth race on the first four
days.
MEMBERS' BADGES, AND ENCLOSURE. Members are reminded that they and their Indies must wear their bad ges prominently displayed throughout The Meeting.
No one without a badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclosure.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1934.
"Road Accidents-Some
Psychological Factors
FINAL PART OF PROF.
FORSTER'S LECTURE
BERLIN BOURSE
[Special to the Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright.)]||
Berlin, Feb. 28. Sharemarket prices were again very firm, largely owing to the speech on Tuesday of State Se- cretary Reichardt of the Reich Ministry of Finance emphatically denying that the Government had any intention of nationalising the bank although for the protection of deposits and Investments cer- tain measures are being taken for the requisite supervision. Fixed Securities remained operation and a recognition of the Interest
There must be neglected. Call Money 5 to 8%. rights of others." a kind of entente as the French Young Loan improved to 93 778. call it, and all this in addition to Relchshank weakened to
Below "will be found the second and last part of Frofessor L Forster's lecture on "Road Accidents-some Psychological Fac- tors delivered at the Union Assembly Hall. University on Wednesday night. The first instalment was published in our Issue of yesterday:
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a keen appreciation of the func-Dretrusts rose to 1341 Salzdet- furth Potash jumped 32 to 156. tloning of the different parts of
German Steel Trasts advanced 5/8 the car.
Now a mind so equipped is not 0.431. German Mineral Oils + 112 Siemenshalske very easily nor very quickly deve- better to
Continentul rub- loped. Instruction and training down to 151. are both required. There is a vast ber Improved 1 to 137)-Trans- gulf between the pedestrian fully ocean Kuo Min. qualled to use the roads and the
Chinese peasant for example who
The unpredictable behaviour of the pedestrian in a given circums- tance is the problem which con- fronts every one who drives a car No one can be tülly aware of the state of mind of another and can- not therefore always urder his movements to avoid an accident. Fear is present to a certain degree primary in every individual; its function being to minister to self- preservation but no two persons Badges rating non-members to the Members Enclosure and Club possess this instinct to the same Rooms nt. $100 per day including degree of intensity and therefore
has had nelther education nor dents due to his inability q tax-or $40.00 inefnding tax for the we cannot calculate what sort of
and $20.00 action will follow when this in-practical experience in such mat- Meeting (ladies *15.00
road traffic. so likewise Is this respectively), are obtainable through stinet is aroused. Normally the ters and who in his innocence and adapt himself to the needs of the
Ignorance instinct of fear is a valuable asset.
BOCS into a railway found to be the case with the the Secretary apofi introduction by a
for in difficult and dangerous tunnel at Taipo, to avoid the blaz-chauffeur. Nearly 31 per cent of Member, such Member to be responsi
situations it clarifies the mind. lug midday sun, puts his head on ble for all chits, etc.
volved in fatal accidents Badges vlnitting to Members' En-rids. It of all distracting thoughts, the line and goes to sleep never the drivers of cars who were in- on the realising that he is probably doing America in 1932 were between the closure will NOT be on sale at the enables it to concentrate
solution of the vital problem at
this for the first and last timer Race Cour."
ages of 18 to 24. Pedestrians of of the
Europe has gone through an up-this age we have seen meet with hand, viz... the discovery
In such crises means of escape.
of the circumstances Prenticeship in this matter-in-fewest accidents in the streets. the whole stand out sharply and the mind adequate though it may be. It has such drivers are generally inex- had experience of horse-drawn perienced and are therefore not works rapidly, for I sees, clearly
vehicles, bicycles. tramcars and adapted to the requirements of the all irrelevant matter being reject!
If there is a way of escape it railways, but the Chinese have not road. ed. will more likely be found in these graduated at all Motor cars are comparatively recent in Hongkong conditions than in any other.
and only a sort time ago it was Again fear sends the blood to the not an easy matter for a chair to limbs where it is wanted and
fight its way through Canton streets. The procees of adjustment
The Secretary's Office,. 3rd Floor, Gloucester Building, (Tel. 97794), WILL CLOSE AT 10 a.m. ON THE FIRST FOUR DAYS, AND AT
12.30 pan. ON THE FIFTH DAY.
A Himited number 8 Tiffins will be obtainable each day at the Club House, provided they are ordered in advance from the No. Boy, Telephone No. 21020.
On no pretext will children be per- anitted in either enclosure during the first four days of the Mecting.
PUBLIO ENCLOSURE.
The price of admission to the Public Enclosure is 84.00 per day including tax for all persons including ladies, and is payable at the Gate.
Soldiers and Sailors id uniform are. admitted to the Public Hnclosure at $1.00 per day including tax.
Bookmakers, Tie Tac roen etc. will not be permitted to operate within the prepincts of The Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Race Meeting.
Tiffins will be obtainable in the Restaurant in the Public Enclosure..
SERVANTS' PASSES, Passes for Servants will be issued on application to the Secretary, ard Floor, Gloucester Building.
Employers are requested to distri. bute them with discrimination and to endorse their names on the passes.
Servants are not permitted in the Members' Enclosure except for passing shrough on their duties but must remain in their employers' atands.
Any persons found loitering with Servants passes in their possession will forfeit the same and will be removed from the enclosure.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN, ·
Secretary, Hong Kong, 12th February, 1934.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
DRAFT
I remember i
They are not part of the
car as it were, and cannot control. it with that knowledge which only comes from long association with mechanism. Drivers at this age have not acquired that sense of
which social responsibility
the and adaptation has only just be community demands. They are
It might be supplemented in more gun.
submissive, assertive than schools where the gymnastic lesson they are allowing their way into instruction and solicitous for the welfare of others might be occasionally but regular-society, as it were, and are not too ly given over to practice in crossing a road suitably as they do so. They prefer & noisy 11 powerful sports model to the quiet possible with the moving objects smooth running saloon, and the and accident situations carefully ear splitting noise of the motor reproduced
cycle as it rushes madly through.
arranged in
the gymnasium
gives that extra physical power which makes the individual cap- able of performing feats injump- ing and quick movement that he did not believe were possible to him. Thus the apparatus of fear the pedestrian from extricates many a dangerous situation and so preserves his life. vividly very nearly coming to grief on a bicycle many many years ago "when riding down an incline and
finding at a bend in it a horse and So far we have considered ac- the street because they both enable cart drawn right across the road cidents chiefy from the point of them to win the attention of the On the left was a high wall the view of the pedestrian who even inpasang crowd Manufacturers pavement and a tall, tree growing the country with" the worst record find such noisy models sell better in the midst of it. To escape dis- is not officially credited with be- than the stient ones, in fact it is aster it was necessary to mount the ing the cause of more than 50 per because they are noisy that they accidents. A few are sold. This merely illustrates the cent. of the and get between pavement tree and the wall while going at drivers, relatively very few, it is the mentality of this, age and is considerable speed. It evidently said, are born into be class which not in itself the cause of accidents could be done for it was done but is prone to accidents. These are except when the assertive instinct in going at ex- Ands expression only under the stimulus of fear the highly excitable, temperamen-
cessive speeds and inpassing others would it ever have been attempted. tally unstable No reward of any sort. would have
on the road. induced me to repeat the action in normal conditions for I am quite sure I could not have done it.
men and women
who easily become Austered and
One of the commonest causes of do exactly the wrong thing in an
A person has to be motor accidents is cutting in, or emergency. very stupid to exclude himself trying to overtake another car with from the class of those who can a view to passing it and so get- learn to drive a car with safety, ting along more quickly. What are for even a high grade Moron can learn to do it provided he is emotionally stable.
of his
On the other hand we find that in certain very dangerous tua- tions. where our radius of action
the psychological factors which pride and Insolence are variants is narrow, we tend to retire, as it
present themselves here? Conceit, were, upon our selves, we shrivel
of the instinct of self-assertion up, and offer as small a target as But a class of drivers prone to possible to what is advancing to accidents does exist in 1928, Mr. and and expression in this matter- ar cutting in. when prudence would assault us, and also to cover up Marbe, at the International Con- suggest not doing so. An inferior the vital parts of our bodies with ference of Psychologists, reported person in a highly powered car can our limbs in order to shield them that he had analysed the returns for a moment and on numerous That being so it would seem that of several German Insurance Com
occasions in the course (2252) a powerful brake on a car that panies over a period of five years journey enjoy a feeling of superior- acted by being drawn in by hand He divided the insured into three ity over the rival whom he passes would be more valuable than groups-those having no accidents, Practically, no one likes to be pass- brake that acted by being pushed those having one accident,
anded, he
acquiesces in it knowing having more tham out by the feet for it would be in those
one that this car is definitely inferior with our instinctive These were followed up accordance
during but as the car is part of himself second period of five years he feels inwardly"insulted, for He RAFT Programmee and Entry movements in such an emergency a
he established the fact for Forms
suffers loss of face because, his car There - are many, nowever in and Extra Race Meeting, to be held on whom the instinct of fear does not that the average number of ace is not large and powerful or
during the succeeding
not 80 well SATURDAY, 10ra MARCH, 1934
driven. wille the other per- (weather permitting), may be obtained work in such a healthy way. For dents at the Secretary's Office, Gloucester them the audden sharp sound of period was higher for the second because it is Bailding: The Club House, Happy the motor horn confuses the mind i and third groups than for the first son gains, face because his car is
that the demonstrably superior in
one is Valley: the Houg Koog Clah; the and paralyses it. Instead of great- Mr. Marbe considered
er mental control there is less, higher frequency of accidents 11 way. The defeat of the Sports Club; and the Stables, Shan
was related
of the Instead of clarity of thought there these groups"
to necessary for the elation B'wong Bond.
quality which he called
other. The persons in whom this is bewilderment, instead of quick-special
combative and self-assertive in- ened movement there is immobility accident proneness.
Mr. Slocombe arrived at the stinct is strong, so strong in fact or hesitation, and between these
varying be- same conclusion in Massachusetts that at times it inhibits the in- two extreme cases haviour follows according to the where a hundred cases involving stinct of self-preservation, are too 'accidenta were analysed often these young people between strength of the stimulus from the fatal Instinct. It is obvious, that some and another hundred taken at the ages of 18, arid 24..... individuals then are by nature random were dealt with In the more likely to suffer from accidents | same way. than others.
the Fizat
Entres close at 13 o'clock NOON on MONDAY, 5TH MARCH, 1934.
By Order.
O. B. BROWN, 2316)
Secretary.
THE HONG KONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
HE FORTY-SEVENTH ORDIN. THE
ARY ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Office of Meanra. Jardins, Matheson &Co., Ltd., on Friday, the 2nd March, 1924, NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1933.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be CLOSED from Wednesday, the fitt February, 1034, to Friday, the Ind Marab, 1934, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
F. H. CRAPNELL,
Secretary != HONG KONG, 13th February, 1934,
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What are the factors involved in crossing B road. A pedestrian leaves the pavement after glancing to the right, in order to cross to the opposite side. He sees a motor car in the distance which cause him to make a rapid
Its
judgment. His desire to go forward is strong er than his desire to retreat, but
without the latter, is not influence on his action. He then has to decide whether he should yield right of way and wait. Some persons require a very ample mar gin of time and space before, go- ing over, just as there are many people who like to be at the rail- way station or boat landing hal an hour before the train or boat starts, while others economise their time and arrive a good deal laser. In the mind of the motor
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· record .....
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first
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100
100
These findings have been con-
armed in Italy by Canuto who the vestigated the cause of accident among certain persons on the German Railways. The problem is car to find out what particular defect simliar cafculations, which of
every
Though drivers are not by na ture as we have said predisposed to accident it is among a certain small group that
accidents most.
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frequently occur. Health is an im- these domestic troubles and his nature, in search of proneness to tion of the streets, high speeds are portant factor for where there is own physical condition he lost that sccidents and of ways of eradicat not possible to any great extent, indisposition there is loss of power power of concentration that being them. The statistical investi- but the chief reason is that thei of attention and also of rapidity of had before when driving and so sations into the causes of acct- Chinese driver has a minute co. response. Alcohol even in small began his series of accidents. dents to employees in factories by tesy which 18 in accordance with quantities lessens the power of After matters had been put right the British Industrial Health Re- the Golden Rule Inid down by Coa speed discrimination and also In-in his home by the employment of search Board prove quite denriitely fusius 'do not do nhto others wher creases the reaction time. Thus a another person, and after he had that accidents do not just happen. you would they should riot do unto motorist who had a series of acct received medical attention, he re- They are not distributed among you' and it is 'this injunction which dents was found on examination umed his driving and did not the workers according to the laws when followed out makes the roads to be unable to tell the difference again experience any difaculty in of chance. But in spite of all that 16. between 30 and 50 miles an hour his work
cientido research and practical The problema hera Board tại bện
5
in the speed of his car after he It has been found that drivers experience have learned too little to speed up the education of the had taken two small glasses of who are prone to accidents may is known to-day about accident pedestrian who is responsible for whiskey, nor was he able to apply be classified into three large proneness its cause and cure. But the greater number of accident his braked so rapidly as before groups, those suffering from since, as we have already said. There are over 70,000 pupils in the when required in an emergency some form of ill health those motor vehicles are among the schools of Hongkong and the mind free from the distraction showing a lack of aptitude as re mejor causes of death and disable through them that the community caused by pain is necessary if the vealed by tests applied in a lament, the accident problem would can best be reached through meaning of the movement in the poratory, and those who are deseem to require the attention of special lessons on safety st road is to be clearly grasped and fective from the point of view of the most skilled investigators who Open spaces might also to be uzk ought to have the opportunities vided for children or else cerfair driver there is likewise going on is responsible for this predis adjustments in speed and “direction character, lacking that is in power and facilities to go into it with roads should be shut up frond intelligently made it accordance of cooperating with, others, of
with which motor tráme at certain hours a course depend on the complicated position towards acddents, with it, case is quoted by W. realising mutual responsibility and the thoroughness
If the 5 per cent of the group of V Binghani of a lorry driver who of being unable to operate et physicians and pathologists are Employers of chauners will Koen vehicles which are round about drivers taken at random who had a after many stare with a clear recently because of some deep seat now studying cancer Univerally a careful eye on the squideme him. The possession of a good bad record the previous year could cord began to have a series of baded grievance. It is still therefore traffic sense is the ability to grasp beliminated tien fatalities accidents. His case was carefully
movements ot the persons and
and state should be setting, sort corde of their men and make ca
complexity of the problem. In the mdividuals concerned I p.m.Présentation of Cortf/ the meaning of the everchanging might be reduced by 35 per cent investigated and it was found that possible to deal with the problem fands for this purpose commen-ful investigations to find out whe
that the "vate owners thirdt devote fcates and Prizes by Bir patterzi of the road arid come to Accident prone drivers can only be his wife had died 5 months pre-except on an individual basis mste with the seriousness and ther there is any pronal Henry Pollook, K., K. C. terms with it. It requires alert- discovered in those areas where eviously and that his five children Distinguished paychologists in
distributed attention and good central system of records is being thus feft and neglected were Germany, Russia, France and Den-There is Httle dogb
4.00 p.m.-T. 4,80 p.m.-College Association
195r-Annual Meeting
All Old. Boys are cordially invited to attend.
[2335,
ness;
yet form of mental concen- maintained, and where the authors begun control and were a source garkitaly and other lands have traffic conditions in Hong Kong of their time before response, Ities require every accident and of great anglets to Lime Her had explored the mysteries of motive are not ach a menace to life reading over deny
distrags they are in England, and stu) more. PREDALS tration, rapidityof knowledge of one's fellow and traffic violations to be reported in tried to look after them, cook his andch
very badly he suffered in health s familiarity with their behaviour detail. Just as the failure to sure and their food and as he did this tone. under normal conditions. It vive in the case of the pedest
Lhroughz dípéstio requires a healthy spirit of co is in
tie, self- fact that owing to the configurs myself and to do unto others wh fhuman tion of the roads and the conges-I would they should do unto mal