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THURSDAY, March 24, 1932.
THE LESSONS OF DARTMOOR.
shillings in his pocket, only to turn up a few years later at one of the gnoli, at a cost to the State of hundreds of pounds. The most effective way of deal- Ing with the' Dartmoor type of offender is to prevent, as far as possible, his coming into existence, by wiser penal methods. In fact, what s' needed scoma to be a thorough review of the subject of the treatment of crime, It Is com- mon knowledge that prison aus thorities at Home are handicapped by the Treasury from carrying out many constructive reforms, which, If put into effect, might well save the country not only from wasteful expenditure on antiquated prisons, but also from serioum uprisings of the type under notlee:
ap.
DAY BY DAY
THE WAR HAS BWEPT AWAY AN
During the holidays Messrs. Lane Crawford will have their kloak at Repulse Bay open at 2 pm, each day.
ROBERT LYND, ON
MEN AND DRESS.
A
how-
ENTIRE GENERATION, AB IP TO CREATE TTACKS continue to be mado ‡ should certainly not fool at mik A UREAK IN THE MEMORY OF PEOPLES
on the carelessly drosaod like a hero If, at a party, I aud- AND TO PREVENT THE NEW GENERA man, though it is the rarest thing denly realised that my suits wore TION FROM NOTICING TOO CLOSELY in the world to meat a caralessly frayed, that there was a hole THAT IT IS ACTUALLY ENGAGED IN dressed man nowadays. Mr. Stan-visible in one of my socks, that REPEATING WHAT HAS BEEN DONE ley Jackson, presiding at a ban- there wore oll-atains όπ my BEFORE-Trotsky.
quet of the Merchant Tailors' trousers, and that there was A Association, told the guests: button missing off my coat. The next issue of the Hong-"There is a false notion that a Not for Worldly Success, kong Telegraph will be on man is something of a hero if he refrains from visiting his tailor Saturday.
Mr. Jackson may reply, until he le poromptorily sent by ever, that it is the man in old his wife; and he went on to clothes, not the man in disgrace- quote a denunciation by Arnold ful or torn clothes, of whom the Bennett of the man in a toc-old public makes a hero. I doub Buit as a "carecrow" and "an however, if even this contention will bear examination. If Mr. eyesore."
Jackson's contention were true. I have never mot those people who look on a shabbily dreased every young man when applying man as a hero. Not In real life, for a job would fish out the oldest nt least. In nineteenth century and moat frayed garments he fiction thers uned to be an
could find, feeling that this Mr. Wei Tai, B.A. will speak onional Bohemian character who by far the surest way of making "The Phantom of Evil: at the usual showed his contempt for the pro-
zo- an impression on an employer. wrockly publie lecture of the Hong:sperity of his fellowmen by do- Strange to say, however, I have
Lodge, The Society, 17, Queen's Road, to-day at ing all that one man could to re- never met an employer who would duce tailors and barbers to star-bo greatly impressed even if an vation. But, In real life, as soon applicant called on him with a Suffering from on overdose of oplumns the Bohemians began to make three days' growth of beard.
No, I think Mr. Jackson is un- poisoning, stated to have been self- money they did their beat to look administered, Shiu Fat-so, aged 35, as nearly as possible like the pre-necessarily perturbed. The world a married woman, of 566, Nathan aident of the Merchant Tailors' is still on the side of the well- Road, was removed to the Kwong Association in their clothes. dressed. In the present world, Wah Hospital last night.
Indeed, nobody can afford to be The Careless Author.
really badly dressed unless he mcana. That is the
Mr. J. B. Ross, having returned from furlough, kas taken over the management of the local branch of the Mercantile Bank of India.
kong
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Theosophical
OCCA-
WEB
Members of St. Andrew's Club will ' Of all classes of society, authors has private present "Wurzle-Flummers," a two and artists are generally believed reason why tallors make their act cometly by A. A. Milne, and twe to be the most carelessly dressed. fortunes. short sketches by Ronald Jeans, Yet I do not know a single author| St. Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon,
on Wednesday, April 6, 1932, at 9.16 P.m.
ed and is looked on as a hero on Happier Marriages
of the Future.
or artist who is really badly dress-
that account.
The worst dressed Author 1 Through a fall from a height of about ten feet, Lai Yu, the No. 1 know is convinced that he le one fireman of the .a. Hydrangea, which of the best dressed men in Lon- is lying at Talkoo Docks, was removed don, and if you congratulated him his shabby appearance he to the Government Civil Hospital un
from abrasions would be grossly insulted. yesterday suffering to his right hip.
There was, I confess, a brief porlod in my late teens when 1
BY IRENE STILES, 【ARRIAGE has received more than its fair quota of
M
Dr. G. A. C. Herklots, H. Se, Ph.D. myself made something of publicity lately. The sentimen- will deliver a lecturo on Tuesday, principle of dressing badly, Be-talists any that there is nothing April 6, to the Young People's Society lieving that, of all days in the wrong with it. The extremista. Senior Section at the Kowloon Unlon
China's Struggle to Nationhood.
China has come again to a crisis in Ita struggle for unity and effec- tive government. Even friends of Japan will not seriously contend thatthepresent unheaval is due sole- ly to the faults of the Nationalist regime. Faults thors have been, many of them rooted in century uld Chinese traditions of govern
extravagance, THE HONGKONG HOTELment. Charges of
raft and nepotism are fairly well sustained. Anti-Japanese fueling GARAGE.
has been fostered. Even admitting these shortcomings, however, the Government 18 nt présent constituted includes by far the ad- the greater part of ministrative ability and construc- tive stateamanship in Chinn Observers are fairly well agreed that there is no other organised group in Chins who could be ex- pected to do nearly as well from the point of view either of the Chi-, Inese or of the foreign powers who have dealings with China. Now n stand must be made, and in pre- sent circumstances it must parently be on a military basis. But unified natidual government in China to be permanent must be founded on a unified national con- aciousness, a loyalty to the whole country, rather than war lords. A military leader, sympathetic to political advanced thought and the more powerful economic interests of China, may compel their temporary submission to the national authority, but even- tually the conquest must be one of beon disclosed, for Instance. that education and of better communi-issue, only 150 of the 440 prisoners atentions. Chiang Kal-shek may re- Dartmoor are seen by prison vial-ceive credit for a sincere attempt ́tors or attend classes, and that by to accomplish unification. The aс- enson of recent reductions in staff, cusation made against him by his the prisoners have been spending rivals is that he has attempted to longer periods shut up alone in force the reduction of their armies their cell. Incidentally, the while increasing his own. This is, January outbreak demonstrated the of course, a hostile interpretation fact that the murderer is not nl- of the very course which construc- ways the worst kind of criminal, tive statesmanship demands in There was only one murderer at China. It was Chang's.com Dartmoor on the day of the riot, mendaile efforts in this direction and he went to the assistance of that brought him to his resigna- the authorities.
tion A to the future-It is ob Without doubt, the most impor-vicus that military victory at tant question is what the author the real answer; that will come ties are endeavouring to do in the when the ident of true nationhood
It has been well painted gains the ascendancy in China. prisons. out in this connexion that it is insufficient just to feed prisoners'
The evidence of continued un- rest at Dartmoor Gael cannot but raise misgivings in regard to the conditions under which the con- penal institution viels of this labour. There are many lessons to be learned from recent events at Princeton, not the fast important of which is the necessity for ro form in prison methods.
It has
bres: they have minds as well as bodles. For a number of years, al other prisons, there has been a extensive educational system com- bined with the individual visita-
the mong
NEW ENTERPRISE IN HONGKONG.
The
&
tion of prisoners by social workers, METROPOLITAN LAND Such work has become, to quote a
& BLDG. CO. recent Prison Commissioners' re- port, "an essential feature of any
Metropolitan Land system which has for its object Building Co., Ltd. which now has the rehabilitation of social branch in Hongkong, was formed failure." Yet Dartmoor has had during the latter part of dio educational adviser, and, be-with a directorate composed of a cause of its isolation, never caa number of Shanghal's leading: have an adequate supply of volun-business mea, several of whom tury workers, whose contribution have been associated with cannot, by its very nature, be given estate
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real
Shanghai
which
business In by officinis. This to one of the for many years. Capitalised at reasons why it is being urged that. Taola 1,000,000, half of Dartmoor must be abolished. If was privately subscribed by the every convict there had been visit-Directors and their friends, the Company entered the field under ed regularly, or had been given the management of Mesare, Boyd facilities for attending.classes in Co., Ltd., a firm new to Shang- the eveninga, fratend of being shut haf but active over a long period up in his cell, to brood upon ways of years in South Chinn, - of getting out of it from four The Company is engaged in the o'clock in the afternoon until next purchasing and developing of morning, it is very much open to properties buying and selling for clients' account, the handling of question whether any serious
estates for private owners,
nr. trouble would have arisen,
ranging of mortgages, construc- tion of buildings — practically every phase of operations ap- pertaining to land and real pro- perty.
There is another angle to the question. Experience has shown that men, even with the worst pos sible recordis, have gone straight
Despite the short term of its when they have been given an oexistence to date, the Metropolitan portunity of earning an honest IV Land & Building Co., Ltd., has ing.. Prison Industries are still during the past teen months notoriously antiquated, being increased its authorised capital equipped to teach mich trades,to. Taale 5,000,000 with Tools 2,- Moreover, the whole problem of 000,000 fully paid up and after-care seems to need overhaul Taels 800,000 placed to resorve. Ing. It is, as ong writer has pointed out, foolish economy which
over
It is probable that the coming
year will see the laste of further
sharos and it 15. further expected releases a man after his first dose, that the pubile will be invited, to of prison with no help but a few, participate in subscribing the new
Church. The subject will be "long week, Sunday should be freest vow that there is so much wrong kong Flowers", and the lecture wilt from class distinctions, and that with it that there is even the be illustrated by lantern slides.
one possibility of ite eventual docline it was a day on which no should dress better than his and decay. Bomewhere between Mears. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd., neighbours, I used sometimes to the sentimentalist and extremist Advertise that on Friday; and Easter go to church unshaven as a pro-view the truth doubtless lles. Monday, March 25 and 25, all de-test on behalf of human équality. The old system of marriage is partments will be closed. On these As all the other
men in
the changing and will change still days, the Hongkong Dispensary, Dis-church, except the bearded, the more. The only people who jib dispensing prescriptions from 10 am.were boautifully shaved, It la part those pensing Department, will be open for whiskered and the moustached, at the change are for the most who fear that the to 1 p.m. and from 6p.m..to 7.30 pm dificult to see what principle change will hurt, thom. They On Saturday, March 26, all depart- monta will be open as usual.
hoped to establish.
Impersonation That Failed.
need not worry, for it is not like- ly that drastic change will occur In their lifetime. So far the only the size of which has not also bought a corduroy cap, wore life differently from married life, In the first flush of Socialism people who order their married yet been determined
a neckcloth instead of a collur, of other years are those who have The recent merging of-the old-and smoked a clay pipe. It was the vision to see that our modern established firm of Messrs. Davies Metropolitan Land & Building work. The strange thing was & Brooke, architects, with the my ambition to be as like a work-life does call for certain adjust-
ing man as possible without the ments. Co., Ltd., brings to Hongkong the that I never met a working-man ved by the majority puts too Present-day married life as experience and background of one who looked in the least like of Shanghai's oldest realty con-impersonation of a working-man. In many cases marriage has only mymuch strain on its participants. cerns and the virility and pro- As a result, I abandoned my resolved itself into a system of Kressiveness of one of its younger sartorial idealiem, and, if I have tying up which would be drastic organisations,
ever bean, badly dressed since, It för a terrier. The chain is short bora of the Shanghal Land Valuera ance.
On its staff are prominent mem-has been in no spirit of arrog and sometimes does not even ad- Association-men who know real
mit of mental freedom. No estate values and the
By now I have reached a point wonder the "terriors" start snap- technical at which I should not have the ping at each other. points c8sential ta eflelently slightest objection to being the managed catates.
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best-dressed man in London. If Household cares. The officers of Messra. Davies I am something less than this, A good many married men and & Brooke join with those of the this is due not to any purpose of women do not appear to five at Metropolitan Land organisation in mino, but to my fato and my all. The man seems to be weigh- extending to the public the facili- sgure. It is true, I am opposed ed down with the worry of keeping. tles of the combined Companies to new fashions-new shapes of a wife and family; the woman in A newly-catablished branch collar, and so forth. But after a with household cares. There is office at 14, Queen's Road, Ilong-time I usually give way even to often no time or money for the kong, which is under the manage-the latest fashion jusi as a later outside interests which were once ment of Mr. D. S. Scott.
fashion is about to succeed it. an integral part of their lives.
Belfor
I didn't live
Change is more necessary after marriage than before because [after marriage one element of adventure at least is removed. Before marriage every party, every holiday, may mean. the meeting with the one person in. all the world. After marriage that is generally settled and there should be other, if minor, excito- ments, to take its placo!
But change, whether it means travel, entertaining, the indulging of a hobby or a talent, the pur suing of a particular pleasure or study, always means money, and that money lg not often forthcom- Ing for the very good reason that in most cases the head of the family is responsible for стогу thing.n
Just as trifles are often at the root of big troubles, 80 our romantic, or so-called romantic, difficulties sometimes, require a practical solution. As a nation on" our love we pride oursolves matches. We take a delight”... In anying that money does not enter into marriage: but the French, who believe frankly that it does. seem to make a far better thing of married life than we do. Any French wife appears happler than | the averago English wife. She is gayer and more sure of herself. And the French wife has her date In a French family there is
ly something to fall, back on if
things go wrong
Many Englishzien -atil
ko to
feel they can, bo responsible for
the financial side of m
even although modern
are making this 61
dificult for them and Inc wasy, for the wife to pull;