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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, JAN. 22, 1931.
DISREGARD OF THE
summonses
LAW.
DAY BY DAY
IT 18 IN THE FIELD OF FOREIGN AF- FAIRE, FAR MORE THAN IN THE NOISY AND EXAGGERATED STRIFE OF PARTIES OVER QUESTIONS OF INTERNAL POLI- TICS THAT HURTONY IS REALLY MADE. -Disracii,
The P. and O. 8.8. Khiva, from
the 26th Instant.
Charged with possesion of 28 was pots of prepared opium at Canton
Rond yesterday, Chan Fai fined $80, or one month's imprison- ment, by Mr. Buttern, at the Kow Toon Magistracy this morning.
TALKING ABOUT
By ROBERT LYND. WOMEN.
streets, obviously children who have not been registered. That fact alone, as Mr. Hazlerigg pointed out at the time, reflects a breakdown in the registration system, but if wo add to this number the thousanda of others who are never register- ed, the total would be truly ap- Singapore, is dus here at noon on TT in a very ancient practice to to get til some psychologist in-
mako generalisations about venta an instrument for the mea palling. Surely it is possible, even
women. Even the most primitive surement of spitefulness and ex- if it involved house-to-house visiin-
Mrs. A. T. Hamilton is to distri-navages have their proverbs about periments with it on millions of tion, to ensure the law being ob-bute the prizes at the Ellis Kadoorio women-most of them disparaging. men and women.
The majority of proverbs, I sus There may, of course, bo dif- served. Even this procedure School next Thursday morning.
pect, wero invented by men.
ferent forms of cruelty that at- would not be necessary for tho
As the world grows older the flow tract the cruel people of one ox immediate future, as a Census is
rather than declines and, so far as other. But there are so many men to be taken in March, and those
of remarks about women increases rather than the cruel people of the I can judge, they get no nearer the in the world, and so. many women, in charge of it should have no
truth Rmung highly clvilised and so many different varieties of difficulty in discovering who have
peoples than umong savage tribes, cruelty, that, whatever generalisa- seldom hear n generalisation tion we make about them, we may been registered and who have not.
about women without feeling bo fairly sure that its opposito is The great necessity, both in the Serious head injuries were
It almost equally true. trong desire to contradict it. matter of non-vaccination and non-suffered by Ng Mul (17), a married foes not matter whether the gen
Will They Catch Up? woman, when she attempted toeraliser anys that women are better registration, is persistent pro-
alight from a moving lorry, No. than men, or worse than men, or paganda. so that the requirements | 554, on which she was being given more or lean the same as men,
a lift at Lockhart Rond, yesterday. want to contradict him in any case, of the law may be widely known.
for 1 am fairly sure he is wrong We doubt whether any organised She was taken to hospital.
The Hend of Eton. effort along these lines is at pre- sent undertaken.
One point which arose in nexion with yesterday's prosecu- worth commenting tions upon. When the Magistrate was requested to make an order for the vacciuntior of child, he express-
I
The truth is, comparing the sexČA
in regard to such virtues and vices as belong to both of them is merely an intellectual gamo that has had ta deadly fascination for the human Twenty-five Chinese were charged)
race aince the beginning of history. before Mr. Butters, at the Kowloon This week I have felt a strong. On some points, however, com- con-Magistracy this morning, with desire to contradict the Headmasterparisons can be made quite serious- gambling in a house In Po Kong of Eton, who has been making ally. Thus, when Dr. Ålington says Street. The first defendant was kinds of general remarks about that men are the artistic sex, he also charged with running a gaming women in a speech at a girls' is saying something which appears of proof from the house, Mr. Butters imposed a fine school. I should like to contradict to be capablo of $50 or one month on the first him when he says that women are records of the past. Even here, defendunt and $3 each on the rest. physically more courageous than however, women can very easily
men, and I should also like to con-explain away the past, and can ap
General
women
what approximately is the average
if
Lane-Norcott's Song Album.
A corpse in an advanced state tradict him when he says that they peal from the past to the present, ed the view that he had no power
of decomposition was caught in afare more cruel.
arul, still more, to the future. to make auch an order: all that fahing net while the locally- I should not object to his saying the sexes may be regarded as run- physical ning a race in the arts, men cortain. he could do was fine the parent.registered junk No. 18131IL was that women have more This may be the strict literal rend-fishing off the Nine Pins Group courage than I have. Have I not seen ly took an early lead, but the lend ing of the law; if so, there would yesterday. The body, which was them taking riska with their cars has been reduced in modern times, that of a male Chinese, was that I would never dare to take? and who knows whether or not wo seem to be need for a revision of brought back to the Colony and But then I have seen other men men will one day catch up and even the terms of the Ordinance so that removed to the Mortuary at Kow-taking the same risks. I have seen get ahead? I don't; and I don't women climbing up a high church much care. But, if anybody dogma pawer may be conferred to order loon.
spire, the very thought of which tises on the subject on either side, compliance with the requirement
It is advertised that Messrs. Dud-made my head swing, but there were I will assuredly contradict him.. From the standpoint that the that "every child born or resident well and Co. Ltd., have taken over men as bold who climbed with them. the business of Messrs. Donelly and would have the dangerous places of
If all men were like me, excellent in the Colony shall be successfully Whyte, Wine, Spirit and represent
there is Merchants, Menara Dodwell and the world all to themselves. But health propaganda, we welcome the vaccinated." Otherwise,
applete you cannot generalise about men Sole Agents for Messrs. James from
the single instance of mo. action of the Sanitary Department no alternative but to keep on fin-Co, have also been
Buchanan and Co. Ltd., Whisky Dis-Nor has anyone ever known #1 in prosecuting a number of Chin-ing the offender. The principle we
tillers and Mears. Tanqueray Gordon sufficient number of the male in rse for falture to have their chil-urge is already recognised in other and Co. Ltd., London Gin Distillers habitants of the world to know (Being a collection of senti-
instance. the for Hongkong and South Chinn. ren vaccinated. The law is that Ordinancca. For within six months of birth in the erection of an illegal structure not
The following forthcoming wed amount of courage possessed by each of them. Hence, I Buspert Arc announced:Mr. Louis Colony, every child must be vaccina-only renders the person responsible diago
Smith. c/o The Asiatic Petroleum that to say "Women are more cour ted, and there is a further provi-liable to a fine for infringement Company (South China) Limited, to ageous than men" in to way sême- sion that all children brought inte of the low, but, in addition to met- May Devereaux Kurie, formerly May thing timt tells us scarcely any- Devereaux De Longueville De Bucy, thing about either men ar women.
the A.P.C. Mr. the Colony must undergo vaccina-ing out punishment, the Maxis- also of
Lazaro To say "Men are mare couri- Sanchez, of the s., Pre-geous than women" is to say tion within one month of their firsttrale can insist on the future ob- Carvajal
sident Madison, residing at No. 1,
that Something
tells arrival. These obligations, how servance of the law by ordering Wing Lok Buildings, top floor. Kow-little and that somehow sounds just
It is loon, to Miss Marina Pangandian de ever, like so many others in Hong the structure to be removed.
as true. I should certainly Jesus. kong, are more honoured in thean offence not to have a child vac-
justified in contradicting both.
Threach than
As for Dr. Alington's remarki in the observance.einated, but the mere fining of the We have received a copy of the
that women are "the stronger sex This fact is not to be wondered at. guardian does not secure compli-Christmas Number of the Rangoon |
Times, a most attractive publica in the sense of bearing pan and seeing that there is no serious ance with the law; that can only be
tion full of interesting illustra-the more cruel in their readiness to give it that; too, surely calls effort made to enforce the law in done by ordering the vaccination to tions and entertaining reading for contradiction. I have, I admit, matter. A feature of the inaue heard from doctors that in hospitals is to be found in a number of women as a rule are more patient beautiful coloured plates of Bur patients than men, and there may, man scenes, reproductions of noted therefore, be something in that half paintings, these alone being more of the generalisation. But i have than worth the two rupees which the publication sella,
regard to registration of births and be carried out. The Ordinance that there appears to be no ma- may not lay down this requirement chinery in existence for the check-in so many words, but we cannot ing of the number of children com- help thinking that this was the ing into the Colony, So long as intention of the law-makers.
titis is the case, we cannot hope that
the vaccination laws will be respec-
ted by any more than a small ma-
jority of parents or guardian.
liou for non-compliance with
sary.
An Absurd Charge.
The absurdity
|
.UK
AB
feel
at never seen anything in the facts of)
history or in the world around me to suggest that there is greater) cruelty in one sex than in the other. I have known very few cruel people, ed by the facts, Mr. Lambert but I have never noticed that in though a good many spiteful ones,
complaint than that
disclos
{|}2 1233141) 2691,
This is
as near the truth as we are likely
of Mr. Gearge should stick to naval and agricul-either cruelty or spite one sex had The unfortunate part of prosecu.Lambert's attack on the arrange-tural matters, on which, we be the advantage over the other. I thements for dealing with the British lieve, he is an authority. For our often think that there is no one Vaccination Ordinance is that, Boxer Indemnity Fund having been part, feeling regarding the Bill is more spiteful than a spiteful woman with conditions as they are, the exposed by Captain Eden, parti- limited to pleasure that the Gave except a splierul man, and I think only people who are brought becularly the suggestion that Bri ernment ure losing no time in get-equally often that there is no one more spiteful than a spiteful man fore the Court are those who have tain's fair name will be smirched ting it through the House of Com-except a spiteful woman. ulrendy shown nome regard for the if the Bill is approved, little re-mons. law by having the births of their mains to be said by way of de- fence. Nothing has been done children registered. In some cases, without the full approval of the it may be that failure to get a child Chinese. The suggestion that the vaccinated, or to send in a certi-largest part of the money should| ficate of successful vaccination to first be wholly employed in the re- the Sanitary Department, is due to habilitation of railways, to assist forgetfulness, or even to ignorance China to build up a better trans- that these requirements are necesport system, was China's. It was Where this is the case, the Dr. C. T. Wang, far more than Sir offender may quite naturally feel the delay of its employment for Miles Lampson. who encouraged
somewhat aggrieved at being sum-educational purposes; it was the moned when he reflects on the fact Nanking Foreign Minister, in col- that whereas he has voluntarily |laboration with Mr. Sun Fo, who: come forward and obeyed the regis.devised the scheme whereby educa- tration. law, thousands of others Jonal facilities would he contin- who have not done so, and have not gent upon the success of railway development; Britain's main part hnd their children vaccinated
was to persuade Dr. Wang, to either. get off Acot free in respect
agree (which he did cordially of both the dne omission and the enough) to allocations to tho ether. In this way, any undue Hongkong University and to 21 pressure, with the threat. of fines Committee for Chinese Studies In for non-vaccination, may result in British Universities. How in view even fewer birth reglatrations be-of theag facts, Mr. Lambert could ing made. Whilst saying so much, suggest that Britain, was acting hypocritically, wo cannot imagine, we quite appreciate the amount of except that he must have been ex- work thrown on to the authorities ceedingly Ill-informed or ignored by reason of people falling to com- all olae in the fact of the stipula- ply with the law, but we do sug- tion that the railway material gest that the root of the trouble should be purchased In Britain, lies in the utter disregard paid by dumped to the erroneous con- the bulk of the Chinese population clusion that Britain had thrown of perspective to the birth registration require and forced the agreement on Ching
aside every senso ments. It is from this angle that for the sake of trade. If he can- we should like to see the authori-not discover a greater cause for
"He's asking for a date. Do you think that broken finger
nall will be grown out by then?"
mental songs suitable for singing outside high-class public houses).
A SLUMBER SONG. VERSE 1.
A pour British fireman lay dying On "
doorstep one Saturday night:
He'd been struck a cruel blow That was most foully low
By a rough in a street corner
fight.
As he cursed the fast seramp
who had done it
In bad language decidedly red, A young Salvation lass Who just happened to pass Came up bravely to him and
--he said:
CHORUS.
"Never bring to the face of a
woman
The vivid red blush of shame: Remember, my lad, your poor
Mother and Dad.
Then swear on their dear sacred
name
That cursing and drinking and ́
fighting you'll shun,
With night clubs and flirting und drugs you'll have done, And, you'll read a good book when you're feeling like fun." The fireman said "Yes"-then ho
croaked.
VERSE 2.
One day in the Court of Divorces A young lawyer came over all
queer:
And he swooned to the ground Overcome with astound
At the things which he happen-
ed to hear.
As he lay on the floor quietly
moaning
At the horrible lives that folke
led,
His kind Lordship, the Judge Boldly gave him a nudge. And before the whole court
there he said:
CHORUS.
"Never bring to the face of a
woman
J
·The vivid red blush of shame: Remember, my lad, your poor
Mother and Dad,
Then swear on their dear sacred.
name
That a wicked home-wrecker'
you never will.bo,
From
young married women you always will flee,
And to clients who've sinned,
foo"
you'll send back your
The lawyer cried "Nol" and
walked out.
VERSE.
A publisher sat in his office
Abhorring his latest new book? For he thought it a crime
It was so full of alime:
You could tell he was shocked
by his look
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