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DAY BY DAY
A SLAVE HAS BUT ONE MASTER; THE AMBITIOUS MAN HAS A MANY MASTERS, AS THERE ARE PERSONS WHOSE AID MAY CONTRIBUTE TO THE
·ADVANCEMENT OF HIS FUTURE,
THIS YOUTH BUSINESS.
No. 2-Life's
Apprenticeship,
By
BOYD CABLE.
children. Already overal children have been placed out with foster parents and an apprentices. Thore Is also to be a Child Welfare Home established in Nanking, to servo as a model for the rest of the country-
It is realised that as tho in dustrialisation of China proceeds, it will become Increasingly neces- La Bruyere,
a fmight be so much happier If It had Hary to guard against the exploita
large section of "Youth" to- an ideal to work to and for; and tion of children, already in evidence, {
The next fasue of the Hongkong THE MAIN TROUBLE with Telegraph will be on Boxing Day.dny is that it isn't Youth. This those who want to try to "hitch and which is bound to augment the We take this opportunity of wishing the section which has completely their wagon to satur," to find a evils that disease and malnutrition all our readers a Merry Christmas. outgrown Youth, is well into young useful and satisfying ideal might
manhood and womanhood, but con- try out the ideal of "Service." have already wrought. In this con-
Messrs. Watanmal Boolchand tinues to believe it is, to think and This is an ideal which hus the marit of being a well-tried and nexion it may be noted that China's have issued a very acceptable desk act as if it still were, Youth.
and of hav mortality rate is wastefully high, jotting paḍ.
This section usually belongs to well-proved one. Being estiranted at no less than
what one may call the "Pleasured ing a whole army of followers The dollar shoved an advance of Class." It can't be called a leisured who not only brighten their own fifty per cent. That there is ample 1/8th this morning, the quotation class because many in it are busy outlook, but add quite a bit to the scope for an organisation of the icing In. 144.
enough in their own way, even if brighteneas of the world.
Youth that has it is only in entertaining and, stili
no ambition- type now brought into being needs
a comfortablo, A Christmas Tree Party for more, in being entertained while except to be given no emphasising, and here in Hong-pupils and friends is to be held at passing the time until their friends well-paid job with prospects of kung, where child welfare is being the Mauricio Physical Training or relatives and them a job, or in rapid promotion for a minimum of | given more attention now than ever Institute on December 20, at 4.30 work at college, and Improving their hard work and no ideal, is missing golf and car driving on vacation a good deal of the savour of Hito, before in the history of the Colony, p.m.
for about a third of the year. and is too easily able and inclined The well-known marine and we cannot but wish well to those!
This cinks la extremely visible to slide into that irritated belief who have put their hands to this motor engineers, Mesara. John 1. and vocal. Their escapades, their that every ndait hand is against, Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., have freedom of latchkey, cocktall and them, that they are.being held back huge problem. Their work is based sued excellent wall calendars, cigarette, their talk and their and kept down, and not given a on high humanitarian instincts, for depicting their famous products. opinions published in the Press chance. there can surely be no better work than service for and on behalf of poor, helpless children.
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Weihniwel Feeling the Pinch. The Chinese residents of Weihni
about the "Rights" of Youth, all I fnney they have a much more. The forthcoming wedding is an- tend to spread a belief that they serious cause for complaint that the nounced of Mr. Sverre Damundare Youth, and thoroughly repre-adult hand has too often pushed Berg. "Bergslien," The Peak, to sentative of it. Miss Tul O'Kane, Park Lane Man-1 sions, Sydney, now residing nt No. 151, The Peak.
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them forward and up into a false position and prominence, especially
When I find that some of them in that "Pleasured Class." are anything up to twenty-five yenra i
If Youth wants to know exactly of age 1 consider them long past the age that entitles them to belong how much or how little they are being given a fair chance, they have to or speak for Youth.
own
given
Suffering from the effects of some wei have been quick to discover unknown pulsoning, Ho Chi-yuen, grounds of dissatisfaction with the printer of the Commercial Press
They are a Pleasured Class be-only to find out what their new administration. Official acti-nt Kennedy Town, was removed to vities have been largely concerned the Government Civil Hospital for cause all through their real youth parents had of "chances
they were given not only the care,them in their youth. treatment yesterday.
protection and guidance to which It is a fair bet that they will find with the operation of the Customs Station, the Salt Gabelle and the Among the visitors to Hongkong Youth is fairly entitled, but were most of their parents had shed their indulged in every pleasure their youth completely well before they Harbour Office, and the sudden des- is Mr. G. I. Dunscomb, vico-pre- cent of burdensome taxation hassident of the First National Bank people could afford-und often a touched their twenties, and that When they reached the what chances they had they wept of Chicago. Mr. Dunscomb is bit over. aaturally aroused a storm of pro- combining business with pleasure latchkey and cigarette uge, which out and looked for and fought to
get. A delegation is now on its on a round trip through Japan, should properly have marked the
Java and conclusion of their youth, they were It is also probable that Youth way to Nanking charged with the China, Indo-China,
given the key and the pocket-money would find on inquiry that most of dimeuit task
the Australia. of persuading
for smokes, dropped the push-bike the older generation who most hap- Ching Kwong-kit, master of a for a motor-bike or baby sports car, pily pushed along the road of life
clothes. It may rome as news to many of Government to give the area pre-
ferential treatment. The prospects Ashing boat, has reported to the po blossomed our readers to learn that there of success, we fear, are, negligible. lice that another fishing boat collia, took up golf seriously, and were had an ideal of some gort-as well
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 24, 1930.
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CHILD WELFARE,
text,
with
out in smart
minent a feature.
cer- pro
now in existences a National Child On behalf of Weihaiwei it may be ed with his off Wagian during the quite content to hang
over their as an ambition-shining somewhere as late as itp the road, and got quite a lot of
help and contentment from it. Welfare Association of China, of argued that Britain handed over carly hours of Monday morning, period of "youth"
An ambition should not be con- which Dr. H. B. Kung. Minister af to China a self-supporting area not damage to the extent of $200 be- could run.
That their elders were equally fused with an ideal. It is possible for even more, to blame for permit to own both
as a good working Industry of the Nanking Govern-entirely devoid at a promising fu-ng caused. The other boat sailed
off after the mishap.
ting this than they were for accept team, but an ambition alone may ment, 1s President and who wasture, populated by inhabitants who
it, docs ing
not Five Chinese were charged besolve the mutton-dressed-as-lamb selfishness can hardly be an ideal. know what is good government-su
altogether
a purely selfish one, and easily be largely concerned in its creation.
auctinetly appreciated by that gift fore Mr. Butters, at the Kowloon youth. The "Rights" of Youth do not find Youth locking as a
this morning, The object of this social organiss-to Sir Reginald Johnston of pure Magistracy
have been stated frankly and freely rule in ambition, but Ideals on the ashave having slowed away tion is to advocate, protect and in spring water in a spotless while Tjiliwong from. Sandakan. They enough by these hangovers of sure the rights of the children of bowl-and dependent for its geon-leaded guilty and were fined $60 | Youth. They claim the right fortainly do not seem to be so
The difficulty for the older gen- China, ned to promote, in every pic success upon a maintenance of or one month's imprisonment each. Youth to be "given a hearing," to
cration who do actually want to way possible, their well-being. Ac-similar conditions, the alternative A police officer stated that one of be "given a chance," or "given a
ideal is not cording to Dr. Kung, the establish-being a valueless addition to Nan-them had $290 in his possession. fairer show" or "given a way."
It is always, you will note, to be give Youth all the helping hand king's many responsibilities. On ment of this body represents a pl~ the other side, it may be pointed advertise that all departments will seem to have occurred to them that something that can be handed on
Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd., "given" something, and it does not possible. is that an triotic attempt to serve the notion l that Weihaiwci's existence as a ba open to-day
until 7 p.m. On they might get somewhere a bit ready-made to Youth.
Youth must seek and find their by helping its coming generation of free
port enabled the trade to Christmaa Day and Friday, the quicker if they'd set out to enrn, citizens. "in whose hands rests the penetrate beyond the borders of the 20th inst., all departments will be or take, Homething for themselves, own, but at least the oldsters may closed. On these days, the Hong-and also to give a bit as well as make a useful suggestion that an in what practically
ideal in worth the seeking. future of the largest and youngest territory
kung Dispensary,
Dispensing Debe kiven. democracy in the ginbe." When we amounted to an unofficial, though|partment, will be open for dispens
quite apen, form of smuggling. Ing prescriptions from 10 am. to The result was that goods which 1 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. would otherwise have gone
consider the plight of so minny hundreds of thousands of China's
we learn, is following the guiding principle of prevention rather than amelioration, and it is developing
A constructive programme which
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ness as usual.
The big difference between this
EXPRESS.
YOUNG RUNNER'S FEAT IN TURKEY.
to On Saturday, the 27th inst,, all de delayed action type of Youth, and CHASE AFTER ORIENT children, the immensity of the work Taingiao or Chefoo have been di-partments will be opened for busf-the genuine Youth, is that the first fs quite happy to protract the Youth which the Association has under-verted to Weibulwei which thereby!
period indefinitely, while the latter taken will be realised.
been serving an area con-1 On the appearance on remand of looks forward eagerly to being In its activities, the Association.siderably larger than it ordinarily the foki of the fruit market of Bon- eighteen or nineteen, and then be- would. Customs revenues at these ham Strand West, before Mr. Wiling finished with Youth and allowed liams at the Central Police Court to take a man's or woman's place
A young man named - Nunari, ports have suffered to a con this morning on a charge of mur. in the fighting line. siderable degree, and the changed dering another stall foki Mr. T
I wonder if an important cause employed in the tourist department circumstances merely have the efMurphy (Assistant Director of of the discontent and mutinous fool- of the principal hotel in Pera, has fect of restoring to them their Criminal Intelligence) intimated ing which affects a certain propor been the hero of a remarkable ox- | includes the safeguarding of the rightful volume of trade. Those who that the Crown would be ready to tion of the normal ripening Youth ploit by which he succeeded in press from Stambol after it had legal rights of children, the estab-lived upon this not altogether pro-proceed with the case almost im--and almost all those over-ripe overtaking the Simplon-Orient ox- Jishment of child welfare homes, per prosperity must necessarily mediately. Mr. Arthur Covey apones is not a lack of ideals.
peared for the defendant, who was Youth, to my mind, is a sort of travelled over sixteen miles on its the care of dependent children, the suffer. The official argument is remanded until Monday, when dates apprenticeship to the real business way to Paris.
of life. and the apprenticeship promotion of children's health, as-ne difficult to overcome and how for the hearing will be fixed.
eiver much Weihaiwel dislikes the sistance to parents and juvenile
new Customs Station, the residents philanthropists, and social eduen-will have to put up with it, con- tion aiming at the arousing of nasoling themselves, if they can, withi tional sentiment
children's the thought of their "splendid" con- rights. In this connexion, Dr. tribution to the success of China's Kung states that the establishment diplomacy.
of a Juvenile Court in Shanghai is not far distant, whilst drafts for child protective legislation and a declaration of the rights of the child have been under study by a legal committee and will be submitt- Jed to the National Government. Already a fine start has been made
VALUATION OF A FACTORY
KNITTING CO. ORDERED. TO PAY $550.
Messra, Carmichael and Clarke, in practical work. No fewer than No. 3, Queen's Building, were plain. four thousand famine children have tiffa in the Summary Court this been helped, fifteen children's in-morning, before Mr. Justice Jacks, when they claimed against the Mee stitutions have been given assist-Wah Knitting Company, of Tam ance, over fifty helpless orphang the cost of preparing an inven- Kung Rond, Kowloon, for $550, bo have been relieved in Shanghai, tory and valuation of defendants' fourteen thousand sick children Causeway Bay factory.
Mr. C. E. L. Grist was for plain- have been given medical aid in! welfare clinics, and fifteen hundred tiffa, while defendants were neither
present nor represented. home visitans have been made by
Mr. T. H. G. Brayfield, in evi- nurses in itheraries of health pro-Idence, stated that he was a partner paganda. Of especial intorest and in the plaintiff firm. He said that on September 7, 1928, defendant importance are the steps being firm instructed his firm to make a taken to arouse sentiment in con-valuation report of their premises. The matter was attended to, but, nexion with maltreated children. in spite of frequent applications, The Shanghini Child Welfare Its-nothing had been paid at all. colving Home is an experiment in Replying to his Lordship, Mr. child-placing whereby the Assecla- Brayneld sald that the foo was an tion hopes to serve as a go-between agreed one and was reasonable.
His Lordship gave judgment for for childless homos and homeless plaintiff with costs,
"add a dash of grenadine and shake well. You might profer just a little more gin.”
A party of Americans whom Nunarl had conducted to Stamboul Railway Station discovered a quar- ter of an hour before the departure of the express that the necessary Turkish viana had not been endorsed. The young man volun teared to obtain the necessary. ondorsements from the police head- quarters and be back before the train loft.
When Nunari returned he found that the express had already de- parted with the Americana. Tho first stop would be at San Stefano about 13
miles distant. Ha de- termined to risk the journey, and, jumping again into his taxi, he started on a wild rush to San Stefano. There is no speed limit on this road because the authorities. well know that high speeds are im- possible if the car is to survive.
When the taxi retched San: Stefano the train had just started off to Kuchuk Chokmoji,' the next stopping-placo, about three miles farther on: The road here was al- most impassable, and, after bump- ing along to the next village, the driver
refused to go any absolutely farther. Nunari could soothe tantalising train slowly climbing the Incline to Kuchuk Chekmajt where it would only stop for two minutes, Casting off his hat and overcoat he ran on to the railway line and sprinted along the sleepers. He reached the train, shouting with all his might and holding aloft the passports. Most of the pas sengers and train officials were at the windows watching the un- usuni apoctacie and tbeerlur kim on. Ho handed over the passports
to the Americans just as the train was moving off again.
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