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LIBRARY IDEALS.
·FR. BYRNE'S LECTURE ÅT.
KOWLOON:
A most interesting lecture on Libraries, their alms and ideals" was given by the Rev. Father Byrno, 8. J., at the Club de Recreio on Friday night.
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He said, inter alia : When asked by your energetio Secretary to give some lectures at the Club,, I | replied that it would be a pleasure to do so. It is a pleasure all the more gratifying ne the subject "Libraries; Aims and Ideals" makes an especial appeal to me. I am happy to see that the Club de Recreio, still in its infancy, is, like the baby in famads soap advertisement, strotching vUE te hand with the "he won't be happy till he gets it look, but stretching them out for books, I only hope that the books, when secured, will
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1929.
NEW TO THE PORT.
BRITISH VESSEL'S FIRST VISIT TO HONGKONG.
INDIAN PROBLEM.
NATIVE LEADERS SHOW
DISSATISFACTION..
PIRACY SCARE
Are You Looking Old Too Soon?
WARSHIP SENT TO BIAS BAY
·FROM HONGKONG,
Too many men and womon look Hombay, Nov. 16: Political leaders are indulging had been effected were entortala faces become wrinkled, pallid, Grave ears that another piracy old before they should, Their in second thoughts in consequence ed in Hongkong yesterday. after drawn, their eyes iese brightness, York on August 24, her last part be of the recen British ministerialnoom: when it became known that sometimes accompanied by head- ·
Viceroy's Water Police launch No. 4. which achos, digestive troubles, back-
|-With about 2,000 ton of kerosine for Hongkong, the 3. Tymeric arrived in port for the first time at 130 p.m. on Friday. She left New
fore arriving here being Takao.
She is under the command of Capt. E. 5. Raw; and carrie'a crew of 11 British officers and G8 Asiatics.
Owned by the Bank Line, the Tymeric in a steel, scrow steamer of 6,228 gross tonnago and 9,178 net lonnage. She was built in 1910 at Newcastle, by Hawthorn, Leslie & Co., Ltd. for the owners, het length being 400,1-feet, beam 59.3 feet and depth 28.8 feet.
Her engines were installed by Messrs.. Palmers, and Co. at New- castle, and are capable of developing 517 N.H.P.
have all the bountifying qualities NOTE REDEMPTION. promised by the venilor of the sOKU. And its fragrance,”
We are told that a libinrtun
of
AMPLE STOCKS OF SILVER TO CARE FOR ALL DEMANDS.
the Edinburgh University, anxious to find space for new books, asked the lecturer in Chemistry, Pro- fessor Simpson, to weed out the Since the redemption of the Cen- books no longer needed in his detral Bank notes war suspended partment and that the professor about two months ago, the Mint is simply replied, "Take overy test-reported to have been working at book that is more than ten years. full pressure for the last four weeks vid and tut it down in the cellar." in producing silver coins, in prepar- Many of our modern libraries woulilation for the resumption of redemp- have very enpty shelves if the tention, which will begin soon. yenra' test were applied to their contents, and they would be still omptier if the test of Meals wer employed. It is, therefore, of Grat importance to examine the aims and ideals which in live us to found n library
Function of a Library. You may have read the pee
Crabbe entitled The Library, following lines are happy-
of
Tho
"Here come the grieved a change
of mind to find;
The curious here to feed a craving
mind;
Here the devout their peaceful
temple choose:
And here the poet meets his favour-
ing Muse.
With awe around these silent walks
I tread
These are the lasting mansions of
the dead, "The dead! Methinks a thousand
tongues reply;
These are the tombs of such as
cannot die:
Crowned with sternal fame, they
sit sublime, And laugh at all the little strife
of time."
was
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As it is anticipated that the amount of coins that has been mint- ed is amply sufficient to cope with the requirements of the bank, the Department of Finance has given orders to the Mint to cease minting As soon as the present stock of bullion is exhausted.
Department, the Mint is said to Acting on the orders of the have ceased working extra shifts,
Canton Gazette.
mittee, representing the Chamber of Commerce, begging us to make the provision.”
Reawakening After Wor..
table dislocation of trade, there During the war there was inevi-
ideat When, at last, peace came, was a shattering too of many an the nations affected began to take
stock.
They realised that brains
serve
use-
had been patrolling in the vil inity
to
elaborations of the manifesto.
The Bombay Provincial Con-of Bins Bay, had seen a strange aches, or the shooting pains of greas Committee passed a resolu- vessel heading for the pirate lair. Theumatism-unknown formerly tion that the ministerial speeches were tantamount to a non-accep-message, the police get in touch they should still be in the prima Immediately on receipt of the now make them feel that, although tance of the Delhi manifesto, with the Commodore's office, and of life and vigour, age, with its which leaves. no room for the R.M.S, Serapis, which was on duty infirmities, is getting a grip upor Congress to participate la a outside the harbour was ordered them. round table conference.-Reuter
move to Bias Bay with all. In most cases of this kind it is speed. Gandhi Non-Committal.
the blood that is to blame. From Throughout the journey the one cause or another the blood has. Allahabad, Nov. 16.Serapis was in constant touch with become thin and impure, with the The Congress Working Com No 4 Police, and with the Commo-reault that the organs and muscles mittee has discussed the matter dore's Office, and advised the far are no longer being fed and renew under the Chairmanship of mer to keep close to the suspected as they should be. It is most Motilal Nehru, who favoured reed vessel until the destroyer's ar important that the blood supply fusing the Government's offer of a frivals, conference. Gandhi and others. These injunctions were obeyed bodily health and vigour are to be should be regularly replenished if are at present non-committal, preby the Police launch, but no fur- ferring a re-statement of the ther word was received until later retained or restored, and for this Delhi, manifesto and emphasising in the afternoon, when a wireless purpose the most renowned the demand for a general amnesty, message received by the Commo-specific in the world is the great: The Liberal leader, Sir Tejsapru, dore and passed on to the Police blood and nerve toute, Dr opposed the modification of the announced that all was well, and Williams Pink Pills. These pille manifesto in order not to embarass that the suspected vessel was pro- actually make new blood and India's friends.
bably the a.s. Chip Shing, which restore the system shattered by The discussion was adjourned. had signalled all clear.
overwork, worry, excesses or sick- mess. They import the glow of health to pale faces, and make tired, worn-out men and women feel and look vigorous and happy..
Reuter.
SOLDIERS MUTINY.
ARGYLL AND SUTERLAND
HIGHLANDERS.
The destroyer added that she would look into Blas Bay and near- by inlets to ascertain beyond all doubt that no vessel had fallen Into the hands of the pirates.
FOREMAN FINED.
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY
EMPLOYEE CHARGED. "
London, Nov. 16. The whole barrack-room of the singing the "Red Flag," and an Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders officer failing to order the arrest of three malcontents, because the other men seemed to sympathise with them, were the incidents in the Jamaica garrison mutiny mention-quarters ed yesterday...
room at Newcastle. The Lance
Further details published in the newspapers show that the trouble started in the assault on a Lance
Corporal escaped and returned ac- Corporal in charge of the barrack,
companied by an officer, who order the barrack-room. ed the three men to march out of
language. Later, the officer, with
The men refused using obscene
Stated to be a foreman in charge of the employment of coal coolies for the Kowloon-Canton Railway, Chinese, residing at the Railway
in Chatham Ron-i, appeared, before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon Magistracy, on Saturday, on a charge of being in possession of 5.7 taels of prepared opium.
The defendant pleaded guilty. mentioned that two houses in Detective Sergeant Humphreya
Chatham Road were being raided but the defendant was · arrested when leaving one of them. When
searched, the opium was found
concealed on his person.
an escort, effected the arrest with some difficulty owing to obstruc- In reply to his Worship, Detec- who repeatedly turned tion on the part of sympathisers tive Sergeant Humphreys mention- out the ed that he was of the opinion that lights. Reuter..
the defendant was one of the mon who retrieved parcels of opium which were thrown out of the trains, although he could not pro duce proof of this...
are eiter than brawn. The posi- tion was well put by the Canadian Minister for Education: "The new era calls for "volunteors to in the making of the greater Canada, Education must play the chief part. The public library is the promoter of popolar education.' We are tempted to add "should be the promoter, for often it is not' They are intended for pure relaxa I need not linger ever the tion, the hooks in your library fulness of a library, it is evident.should improve your minds, should I should just like to add the in- ennoble your conduct, even teresting action of the newly-formed they make you laugh.. state of Czecho-Slovakia. At the very first National Council the Government, passed a library la The Act, dated July 2, 1920 is compulsory. Every city, town and even village of 400 inhabitants had to establish a library. The out- side time limit was this year, 1029, when the "whole country should be
The poet, suggests four needs which a library might satisfy, and they surve substantially with the off-hand answer, one would make if asked the functions of a good library :—to supply useful informa tion, relaxation and education.
The utilitarian aspect of a library 'curiously educed by some writers in their examination of causes of 'failure and success in the great war. They pointed out that, in 1912, in eight large towns with a joint population of millions, Germany spent £26,000 on public libraries, roughly 3d por hend; in the name year, in thirteen large towns, the British expenditure was £156,000, or about 8fd per head. On the other hand the German covered with libraries. army expenditure was £43,000,000 while the British was only £27,000,- Whether these figures prove much or prove little, it would be futile to examine
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The officer mentioned that the100 With the Dance F. T. defendant's salary was $20 a month but that he kept four wives. The defendant was fined $450 !. Hongkong's Lack,
with the alternative" of two necessible to the public in Hong- It is understood that the fine was There is no really good library months' hard labour in default. kong. This is a misfortune; but paid. it is still more unfortunate that no to worry about it. If short, or tes were getting scarce our supply of sugar were running
A tax of >> billiard balls' were no longer and even anxiety would be aroused procurable, much public interest and the papers would be eagerly That a library offers us relaxa-canned for the daily record of the fall of the saccarese tion is clear by the large Rection-in barometer, but apart from a fow home libraries disproportionally old book-worm grumblers, no one large--given over to works of "fo- tion. If any function of a library worries about the supply of books! is in danger of being overlooked
I believe that some "Hongkonger" it is its most important function of Kowloonatics. We believe Kowloon wants to standardise the word education. There is something.
to be very much alive and to be tragic about this as, eron in the
He received during that time vory sane in its activities. You fiction section, we might continue
numerous Ministers and other dis- aro certainly sano in wanting to tinguished callers and dealt with a our education.
have a good library attached to considerable quantity of State your Club. By force of circum-businesses, He attended three tances, even if our public library theatres during his stay at Buck-
About 12 to 25 cents a head was to be levied, according to the popula- tion of the district.
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London, Nov. 16. Sandringham yesterday, is under- II. M. the King, who returned to stood to have felt absolutely no II- effects from the ten days spent tri
the normal routine of work. London, during which he followed
When Romania entered the war it was remarked: "Roumania does not count one way or another; only a small percentage of its population can read, guns are no use to the ignorant." At any rate the keen business man is at one with the statistician in his appreciation of libraries, as the Carnegie founda- tion shows. In 1918, Sir Alexander You are going to establish a Parker, then Lord Mayor of Manlibrary. You must have your chester, appealed in these words ideals. You must choose between to his fellow citizena: "In Man books which will be of permanent chester, we are a little behind anme value on your shelves, and books other big cition, notably Glasgow, of merely passing interest. You in the formation of a Commercial | are not thereby debarred from "ffective members of the district Library. I do not think I need getting the best seller is the world in which they live. Whether their Before coming, to London he did sny to you bow necessary in these of fiction, nor are you called upon vieo be heard in the deliberations drives, using light guns specially a little shooting during occasional times such a library is. We have to stock your library so that tipf the Kowloon Residents' Assoc constructed to lessen his fatigue, learned that if we are to hold our Van Winckle, awakening to con- lion, or whether their influente be, position in the world, both of cam-sciousness would find nothing new the influence of a silently flowing merce and of science, is will be! Your science section would be n
stream but n necessary to lay a good foundation strange world to him. But it does flow, it is clear that a good library stream that does huth in theory and in practice...... mean that in your club the library will be one of the most important Only this year a very strong deputa. plays a very different role from your assets in fitting them for
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