POVERTY CAUSE OF CRIME.
LOCAL SOCIETY ISSUES REPORT.
· JUVENILE COURT NEED
OPIUM FIND ON STEAMER.
CABIN BOY HEAVILY
SENTENCED.
Some 1,440 taels of raw opium were discovered in two rattan baskets, no constructed us to leave a spnea containing the drug, in the surgeon's cabin in the s.8. Dali Maru which arrived from Canton Just night.
Evidenco of the good work being done by the Hongkong Society for the Protection of
Information мелан In. Children in provided the received by the police, with the Interim Report which has been result that when the steamer put prepared by the Joint Hon. Secre-afongside the 0.5.K. Wharf on the taries, Mr. T. N. Chay and Mr. central waterfront, she T. M. HazlerigK.
In the six months from 15th November, 1930, to 14th May, 1931, the Society investigated 80 cash. bringing the total number of ennen
Lo 107.
141 The welfare children was involved.
Forty
were
reported by
officials of hospitals and dispensaries or by members of the public, whic ttro rermining 67 were found by the Society's Inspector.
It is regarded na indientive of growing confidence In the Society's work that mut of the last 50 cases Ro fewer than 24 were reported by officials or members of the public,
Evil of Poverty.
THE
HONGKONG
CINEMA NOTES.
HAROLD. LLOYD IN
"FEET FIRST."
"Auļiances like to be surprised,
when the surprise takes them com- pletely unawares, Audiences like to come into a theatre with one set of thoughts, and depart with another. Audiences like to be thrilled, and, best at all, they like to feel them. selven part of what they see".
Such are Harold Lloyd's observa previouslytions of the human payschology which he has applied to comedy making with amazing success. There are no net rules on the psychology of audiences but their habits are pretty much the same", anys the smiling comedian, whose Intest торг riut, "Feet First", opens at the King's Theatre today.
was boarded by Sub-Inspector Carey and other officers from licnduar. ters. The search led them to the murgeon's cabin, where they found the baskets under a bunk.
Possession of the baskets was to-day admitted by the cabin hoy, Chinese, and he was asked by
(Mr. Schofield
Magistrate
what he intended to do with the
onium.
TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1931.
TURNING OUT THE GOVERNMENT.
F
THIS IS NOT THE TIME,
Viscount Grey of Fallodon, at the annual meeting in London of the Liberal Council said:
"Any met or alliance with the Labour Government would be dis- astrous to the Liberal Party.
"We must remain perfectly free But, on the and independent. other hand. 1 cannot myself see that at this particular ouchalan the Liberal Party should make it an object of their policy to turn the Government out of office (Hear, hear.)
"The moment when the Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer has put his font down on every in- Lloyd believen, that audiences like
crease of expenditure
does not things that pull on their sympathics.seem to me appropriate to choose
human heart- A gentle tug at the strings will ally any nudience with the hero and herolne in all their dif fruition, he says. The human touch is what he strives for in his pletures
bentine, he believes, the human touch is what people like, the thing that reflects their own experiences.
He replied that the baskets | belonged to a friend in Calou
"Pot First" according to curly who, in nakity him to take them critical reports, is amply provided to Hongkong, gave him the im-with the "human touch that has made Te deals with an ams pression that they contained elve- Lloyd famous, tric torches.
bitious and blundering shor elérk. whose pirations carry him to the height of comic thrills."
the seizure was $5,700,
Defendant wILM enuvieled and fined 850,000, or. in default, your's hard labour,
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I was stated that the baskets were secured in 11 laborate The most outstanding feature dis- closed by the investigation of enses manner being sewn across the in the fact that so many of those in-faps with strings The value of volved live on the border ine of starvation. In 95 cases the family uk Ascertained. In 7 income wan these cases the family Income amount- ed to $50 a month or upwards. In the remaining 88 cuses the aggregate
of monthly Inersines HX Tamilies, comprising in all 340 individuals,
In amounted to $1,301.10.
other words, there was an average income of slightly over $3.80 per head per month, out of which to provide food, lodging and clothing.
Where sheer poverty is so pr dominant it will be appreciated that 11 in a matter of great difficulty to classify, with any approach to ar curacy, gasses which gave rise to the reporting of cases. Particularly do poverty and disease march slete by Aide,
The cases may roughly be classified as follows-
Exposure Begging
Carrying of over-heavy loads
Alleged ill-trentment of mai trai
(not proved)
Advice sought
Improper feeding through ignor.
በካርቦ Poverty
Disense, inclurking neglect to pro
vide proper medical attention..
THEFT ON STATION PLATFORM.
PRISON SENTENCE FOR
STEALING BASKET.
for coming to a resolution that the pulley of the Liberal Party should be to turn the present Gov- ernment out of ofice.
"As regards certain other things, I think a change of Gov- ernment would be positively un- desirnbic. The country would have nothing to gut by changing the present Foreign Minister. The case is still stronger when we
ome to India.
I
"Before the next election comes would like to see the Liberal "Feet First" is a joyous ronance flied with convulsing Lloyd gags,Party make it clear to the country according to critics who have viewed what it stands for. It ought to first rushes of the picture. Lloyd, as stand for free trade.. It should an ambitious but hundering shoe stand, too, for economy. We will clerk, fails in love with Barbara be told that economy is unpopular. Kent, social secretary in his wealthy Wes Hive In times when we have got employer's wife, und, mistaking her in be unpopular and it seems to
fashionable heiress, he turns Cor
me that the Liberal Party has himself inside out to rench a social
to lose by risking no- has nothing plane which will permit him to make
popularity." Jove to her.
Grey was re-elegteil pre- itis arbitionen social climb carries.
If ther Connell on the him to the top of an unfinished sky-sident scrapor, projects him fremsky motion of Lord Cowdray. lofty window, makes him a ktowaway on an ocean-going liner, and, gener- fest, said that he was a member of ally, provides him with enough dare. the Liberal Council because devil comedy situations to keep young him it sted for the repudiation of the leadership of Mr. Lloyd
nad old laughing comtiumously dur ing the progress of the story.
“Mia nad Bill,”
The basket belonged to met 1 had lost the key," pleaded Cheung Chi-ngok when charged before Mr. Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magis tracy this morning, with having | stojen a ratten basket containing
cotton quilt, the property of Tsang of the Elon, from the platform Kowloon railway station yesterday, The complainant stated that he arrived with a companion on the amatic tale of the conflict between 5 express train from Canton yester-faster-mother and natural mather for day evening. While his baggage the control of a chill, Inid amid the
t
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No case of cruelty to any child hus been reported to this Society.
In
"Min and Bill", Metro-Goldwyn Mayer's adaptation of Lorna Moon's penetrating novel, "Dark Star", with Marie Dressler and Wallare Beery in the featured rules, will be the at traction at the Queen's Theatre start.
The story, on Saturday.
ing
5 wis being searched on the platsordid surroundings of fishing form, the defendant came up and village, was one of the "best sellers" picked up the baskel and ran away, of the meason and in its film form IN They gave chase and caught the hailed, as one of the most powerful defendant, who merted that the talking picture dramas of to-day, basket was his. Witness produced a key and opened the basket. The deferuiant had no key.
Sub-Inspector Elston said that when the parties came to the Police
Lack of Medical Attention,
to obtain proper medicalStation the complainant produced Failure attention for sick children has been a key with which he opened the brisket, but the defendant had no frequent couse of complaint. numerous cases this resulted from the key, parent or parents being employed throughout the day and having no time to take the children to hospital. In almost all enses the Inspector was Able to secure that the children re- ceived medical attention,
Mr. Hamilton sentenced the des fendant to Tour months imprison ment.
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NIGHTMARE GOLF AT WESTWARD HQ.
which, Continued from Page 13
Arrangements have Пнев made with the Chinese Public Dispensaries the whereunder children are sent Dispensaries and the doctors, in their turn, report those enses in owing to poverty of parents de other causes, the Society can be of assist can challenger, W. Horton Smith,
two Argentinians,
anice.
In 19 cases of extreme poverty milkenta. and Willie
Freccere and Hunter (who
has been supplied for young children was British amateur champion in suffering from minutrition. In 1921 all failed to get under the casca the supply is maintained
qualifying total of 150 for 36 long as nppers necessary and the holes. results have been markedly beneficial. In other eases of poverty, food has been supplied for older children..
Mr. Fred Maddison, who second-
Givory. Cheers.)
to
"The country is turning with disgust from him when they ree the historie party of Gladstone, of C. and of Asquith reduced to the low level of bucksters in the poli tical market place.”
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AIR MAIL LINER
PROGRESS OF IMPERIAL AIRWAYS MACHINE.
Batavin, May 20. The Herendes, a newly-purchased Mies Dressler, as the keeper of Imperial Airways De Havilland air disreputable waterfront dive, is seon liner. carrying the England-Aus in her first character role since "Antralia Mall, arrived at Kupang Christie", and Beery, as the fishing barge captain, likewise
from Port Darwin at 12.50 p.m.-- play Itha
Beuter, first straight role since his rerent successful portrayal of "The Big Ilous".
producer of "The Big House"
includes
on
Mr. G. W. May will speak "Reason" at the usual fortnightly
The story was adapted to the screen by Frances Marion and Murion Jack-publie lecture of the Theosphical son and was directed by George Hill, Society Hongkong Lodge, to-day, at
The 6 p.m. supporting cust
Dorothy Jorinn, who has been seen apposite Ramon Navarro in "Call of the Flesh" and ether productions: Marjorie Ram hem, the well-known stage actress: Donald Dillaway, Broadway juveniles DeWitt Fennings, Russell Hopton, Frank McGlynn and Gretta Gould.
Outstanding sequences of the pic-
It is advertised that the Exchange Banks will be closed to the transaction of public business on Whit Monday, May 25th.
screenings under the most pleasant and comfortable conditions. The re- marks made by those attending the King's Theatre yesterday were very favourable. It will, however, require a few days to adjust the temperatura to ault the majority of visitors. These ideal conditions of atmosphere will prevail from now onwards during the hottest day in the summer. こ
ture Include the crafty scheming by the hotel which Miss Threader proprietress attempts to prevent the truint officer from taking her ward out of her home: the drell domestic quarrels between Miss Dressler and Beery her ship-captain "friend"; the pathetic parting scene in which Dressler hides her misery at Joe Turnesa (America) headed Miss
dosing her ward by pretence of in- the list of qualifiers, with scares difference because she wants the kill or 69 and 49, an aggregate of 188. to gain a finer environment; and the Other notable qualifiers
were tragie and powertal climax in which Churie (Argentine) 70 and 72. the waterfront, crony resorts to mur- der us the only way out of a hopeless Charles Whitcombe, 73 and 71.
Daragon of South Lodge had the situation. Five members of the Executive unenviable record of hitting five Committee were invited to join the successive balls out of bounds at Committee appointed by His Excel-.e righth, where he took fourteen lency the Governor to report upon the strokes! menkurea necessary for the institu-
Juvenile Offenders.
The Society has continued to in terest itself in the subject of the treatment of Juvenile Offenders.
Lion of Juvenile Courts, and this Com
installed is
the York
The plant Shipley air cooling system, as is now being used in all the leading theatrea in America and Europe. It is the first of its kind to be installed in South China.
Young Man of Manhattan.” "Young Man of Manhattan" open- ed at the Central Theatre yesterday. The sordid background of the pro-
Audiences went for this one in a duction echoes the grimmer aspects great big way at the Central Theatre, of the story. Actual operations of and well they should have, for it' pos- the cannery workers, scenes aboard Besses all the ingredients of first-class famous whaling vessels and an un-heart-moving reality. usual setting built on a rocky hrenk- Taking Katharine Brush's great
novel as their theme, Robert Presell, mittee has prepared for consideration School or a Superintendent of Re. Water in the Pacific Ocean a further the adaptor, and Monta Bell, the direc
Interest to the production. by the Government draft Bills provid- Ing for the institution of Juvenile formatory Schools, these provisions as to boys are ineffectual-it is hoped courts and of Reformatory and that this state of affairs will be Industrial Schools,
Under the existing Inws there is a remedied by the adoption of the re- commendations of the Juvenile Courts total Inck of provision for placing Committee. youthful offenders on probation, for their segregation from adult criminals, for their custody elsewhere than in prisons, or even for removing chil from the custody of those who may
"The Desert Song."
women of the establishment forms one The parent of a child who has been of the colourful settings of "The found habitually begging, can, if the Desert Song" the tremendously begging has resulted wholly
or popular operetta which has fast rench- part from
the neglect of the ed the sercen as a Warner Brothers' parent, be fined up to $100 or im- Vitaphone production, and takes its have been convicted of having grossly frisoned for any term not exceeding place as the first musical play ever maltreated him.
a month.
presented as a complete taiklug and These and other matters are dealt
Out of ten cases of child begging singing picture. It will be the with in the Draft Bills.
cone of the parents was ascertained ginning to-day.
at-
It is hoped that these Bills will investigated by the Society the in-traction at the World Theatre, be girl, who makes a play for Toby. As
become law at an early date and that a new era will open for delinquent, destitute and maltreated children in this Colony.
Child Beggars.
in 7 cases. It amounted to a monthly
Entertainment at
E RADIO BROADCAST
CHINESE CONCERT FROM
STUDIO TO-NIGHT.
The radio progranime' to be brond- cast by Z. B. W. on a wavelength of 356 metres to-day is:--
6.00-8.00 p.m. European Pro-
gramme of H.M. V. and Victor Re- corda kindly supplied by Messrs. S. Moutrie and Co,
6.00-6.20 p.m. Band Selections. The Bells of St. Malo (Rimmer); Semper Fidelis March (Sousa).
The Band of H. M. Coldstream Guards. B2017. Le Pere de La Victoire (Ganne). Sambre et Meuse (Planquette).. La Gardo Republicaine Band. D2008. Raymond-Overture Thomas
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The Band of 11. M. Coldstream Guards. C1440.
6.20-6.41 p.m. Organ Bolon. The Sacred Hour (Ketelbey). In a Japanese Garden (Higgs). Drink to me Only with Thine Eyes
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Salut D'Amour (Elgar).
Reginald Foort. B3408. Shepherd's Lullaby (Hewitt). At Dawning (Cadman),
F. Rowland-Tima, F. R. C. O. B3021.
7:00 pm. Stock Quotations. 6.41-7.07 pm, Musical Comedy, Chorus-Ol' Man River-"Show Boat."
The Revelers. 21241. Song-1f Love Were All-"Bitter
Sweet Ivy St. Helier (Soprano). B3144. Piano Sole-"Wake up and Dream"
Medley,
Carroll Gibberis, B3031. Voen! Bust Thinking of You-"Five
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Sung-A Room with a View-"This
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Noel Coward (Baritone). B£719. 7,07-7.40 p.m. Instrumental Music. Violin Sola-Sielunia (Wieniawski). Viola Sok-Poem (Fibich-Kubelík).
Ruth Posselt. 4184. Piano Solo-Polish Dance
(Scharwenku). Piano Sole-Humoreske (Dvorak).
Hana Barth. 20203. String Quartet-The "Emperor"
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Virtuoso String Quartet. C1470. Piano Solc-Scarf Dance (Chaminade). Piano Solo-Flatterer (Chaminade),
Hana Barth. 20310. Violin Sol-On Wings of Song
(Mendelssohn).
Violin Solo-Jota (de Falla)-Puck
. (Grieg-Achron).
Jascha Heifetz. 6848. 7.45-8.00 p.m. Humorous Songs. Sprend a Few Dark Shadows.
Ann Penn. B3240. Soused 'Errings,
Will Kings, B3161. Fonso (My Hot Spanish Knight).
Gracie Fields. B3505. Monnin' Low.
port.
Sophie Tucker, 20040. 8.00 p.m. Local time, weather re-
8.03-10,27 p.m. Concert.
Chinese Studio
10.27 p.m. Rugby mid-day press
news.
10.30 .. Close Down.
Daventry Programme. To-night's radia programme from Daventry is as follows:.
720p.m.-Edward O'Henry, The R.A.F. Band, conducted by Amers.
2.00 am-Talks: New Novels by Michael Sadleir; "The World and Ourselves; Poland."
3.00 am The B.B.C. Orchestra conducted by Hutchison; and Arthur Catterall.
-1.20 a.m.-The British Empire Ex- hibition speeches, at Dorchester. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales will speak. Recital for Two Pianos from the Studio,
6.00 a.m. Jack Payne and the B.B.C, Orchestra, and, if possible, the Nightingale,
ONE MAN'S DIET ANOTHER'S PUZZLE.
(Continued from Pago 8.)
ing or cat-burglary! Frankly, I should feel my position acutely, as they say in police reparts.
But the latest and most astound- ing claim in this connexion that of a German professor who claims with assurance that by dict he "enn alter the nationality.of u man""
is
baffles
This claim, I confess, me. Doer ho suggest, for exam- ple, that a prolonged diet of macaroni and chianti wine would convert a grim, whiskered Rus- sian into a gay Neapolitan?
tor, followed closely the master pat- tern and turned out a living, breath- The great mess hall of a Frenching reproduction of the joys and woes Moroccan military post, thronged of four genuine young madern char- with soldiers, their wives and other Shorty Ross and Pult Randolph.
actors Toby Mclean, Ann Vaughn,
who drinks gin rickeys equally well Toby is a zip-bang sporta writer, with his left or right hand. Ann is an ambitious "sobbie", who graduates from newspapers to magazino feature writing, thereby earning more money than Toby, whom she has married Pur Randolph, dizzy young society after a whirlwind courtship. Enter
Toby takes on more hooch, Ann takos total of $72.50 for the raulntenance military gathering is supplied by a
colourful on thia
more prestige 05 a writer. Jealousies arine. Then they are of 17 persons or an average of under group of Nautch dancing girls headed separated by the requirements of their $4.30 per head
Der month.
by the exotic Azuri, whose contortions jobs. Toby wants to make good as a are summarily halted by the unexpect fiction writer, but he never seems to It might fairly be said that in all ed entrance of General Birabeau, com- get around to it. While he is in As appears elsewhere in this Re- port the Society has investigated a bat one of the cases poverty, and not mandent of the post..
Florida "covering" the Yankes base- ball training camp, he gets a mesango of begging by intentional neglect on the part of the number of canes children.
parents, was the cause of the child's
from New York. Ann has been blind. ed by a drink from a bottle of liquor The child beggur presents a difcuit begging. In the remaining case the problem to those who wish to do child was begging without the know-
which Toby had left by accident in their apartment. He rushes to Ann, what is best in the interests of the edge of the parents.
Where the fundamental cause of
his sense of responsibility aroused at child.
last, The existing law provides that the begging is the poverty of the
Stimulated by his great love for his
Nor am I perturbed by the where a child in habitually found beg-parents It would seem words than lon to the dialogue of the characters,
statement made by British ging a magistrata may in the case useless to prosecute them and it has are the songs and choruses which sightloss wife, Toby starts to work warn have served to make The Deserton "that great American novel" he of boy under 14 years old order him been the Society's policy to
professor that a lot of to be sent to a reformatory school against permitting the children to bog, Song" perhaps the mont acnsationally had been going to do for years. The
necessary the history of ensuing events are momentous and
fues is made about Wero not successful operatta in or in the case of a boy under ten and, where the parents years old order him to be placed in earning anything, to provide them the stage. The big all-star cast of packed with stirring dramatle thrills, vitamins. the charge of the Superintendent of with hawker's loances and a small playere assombled for this magnificent The onding is a happy one. Reformatory Schools for the purpose stock in trade in order that they production includes John Boles, Louise Claudette Colbert, beautiful hereine
Fazenda, Carlotta King. Mryna Loy. of being boarded out, and in the case might earn some
New Cooling Plant.
of gul may order hor to be placed living.
Poverty Again.
semblance
It is in this setting, too, that the entire chorus of one hundred voices is heard in a spirited rendition of the beautiful French Marching Song, one of the meat inspiring ensemble num- bers ever written for a musical play. Throughout the production, in addi-
of "The Lady Lies" plays the role of Ann. The tempestuous Toby is played by Norman Foster, Ginger In charge of the Bocretary for Chinese When tho suggested alterations of
The King's Theatre management Rogers, a newcomer to films, turns in Affairs for the purpose of being the Law have been made the Society
special cooling a brilliant performance as Faff Ran- tho announce that "boarded out.
will be in a position in proper cases plant in the theatre is now working; dolph. The whimsical, amusing As the Colony has not, for many to obtain the admission of the children and they are confident that patzons Shorty Ross is capably handled by
into suitable institutions. years, had either a Reformatory
will and that they may view future · Charles Ruggies.
Dazzled though 1.am by its im- plications, the claim of this learn- ed German finds no sceptic in me. Much research work has yet to be done and the wildest talos may well be true.
ม
Un-
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