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MONDAY, MAY 2, 1932.
DAY BY DAY
EFFECT? INFLUENCE? UTILITY? WORK THE LET A MAN DO HIS
OF AN- FRUIT OF IT 18 THE CARE OTHER THAN HÉ-Carlyle,
MOTHER & DAUGHTER- "LIKE SISTERS"
But is it Wise?
Asks
MARY BORDEN
and momont, even nowadays, without
clation, that frequently single whole indus- concerns, or even tries, which had fallen into de cay, have been saved by some stranger who, incking expert knowledge, has brought to bear on the conditiona a properly trained thought. Such an educational system, however, though at its best ylalding the highest possible
The problem of mothers The P. and O. K.B. Ranchi, from results, is not suited to all types of ability. From both a commor Singapore, in due here with the Eng-daughtern is old, us old as the being ridiculous.
family, and it will be a problem so long na the family exists.
I suspect that it is a nervous cial and a cultural point of viewlish nail on Wednesday at 10 a.m.
But it changes; it grows ever there is much to be, sald for the
of Japa (from The press
more difficult and more delicate.strain and a nuisance to the giri contention of Sir Charles Grant
increasing in complexity as the to have a mother who is even the only Manila) in due here at 7 .m. Robertson that it profits
Wednesday and will berth at Kowloon world becomes more civilised and most kind and devoted of sisters. those students who are reasonably Wharf,
men and women more expectant. I am certain that it must be very Perhaps in the Stone Age there galling to her to have a mother
who is rival, likely to attain first or second class honours
degree in their
I do not wonder that she rebels, was no such problem.
Daughters in a primitive world breaks away, tries to put a dis- examination,
of diphtheria and had little to gain from disobe tance between them, and if pur
that
on
of
The week-end return of notifiable diseases shows four fresh casen meningitis, four three of small-pox.
Mr. W. J. Keswick has been
CARE.
Karachi 10 cases.
Cerebro-
Briefly, the
dience to their mothers.
They
much chance to become bored with
Hur-
though
.
Silly Bravado
The question thus arises-and it In one which greatly concerns
were probably submissive to the chased, asserts her independence kip of Hongkong as to what
au-laws of the clan, since danger of by a show of silly bravado, and tragic or sordid, with the young education is to be given to those
thorised to sign the name of Messrs, death by violence was the most often gets into scrapes, sometimes who either do not satisfy this reJardine, Matheson and Co., Ltd., and likely alternative. Youth did not men who are so spoiled by her
in any case last long enough to quirement or who do not wish to Mr. H. W. Moon to sign per pro.
allow girls to fret or get into mother's experienced friends:
One hears a good deal about the enter a university. It is in deal-
Eastern mlachief at home; and this holda The Health Bulletin of
Kirl. Even the most careless mo- ing with this huge army of young
dern mothers, the other type who men and women of the latter type) Ports for the week ending the 23rd true to-day in the conservative shameless depravity of the modern
inst, shows the following cases of East.
daughter is married, education is
When British
infectious diseases and the deaths
her father's house, and are too busy to bother to be sig
te, seem to be disturbed by it. cognized as being least effective. therefrom-Plague, Bassein 1 death, leaves
at nother herself You find groups of these energetic, BUILT FOR COMFORT
At present a secondary school Bombay 5 cases & deaths, Rangoon 1 beemer
Cholera, Calcutta H4 cases 40thirteen or fourteen, she has not much-uceupled women, snatching
1 сляс Small-pox, other and
course, for those who do not con-denths, Canton things many
Bombay 8 ennes which will interest you. template a university degree, leads Suez 2 cases,
nowhere, as Lord Eustace Percy deaths, Calcutta 40 cases 22 deaths, her parents. She is scarcely old moments between charity matinees deaths, Madras 13 enough when she goes away to be and dinners to discuss the sub- I do not believe half I am told To com-D THE HONGKONG HOTELbserved some time ago.
enses 2 deaths, Rangoon 32 enges 12 critical, and the experience await-Ject over cocktails. plete the secondary school system deaths, Pondicherry 6 cases & deaths, ing her leaves little inclination to about the ugly misbehaviour. I know a lot of good girls and some an its commercial as well as on Saigon 32 cases 27 deaths, Canton rebel against the authority
soon to be exchanged for another. bad girls. I find them honest, out- 92 cases. I death, Shanghai 22 enses 6 deaths, Donka 1 cases.
I think the relation of inother its cultural side there would seem
and daughter is more difficult to spoken, gallant, nerveracked, and pathelle. Oh! very pathetic, to he needed a number of pro spinal Meningitis: Maeno 16 engor 12
day than it ever has been, or ever some of them, especially the bad perly organized technical colleges deaths.
will, he. The family still of an academic status roughly
of de- folly of their pretence Lois Moran and fohn Gilbert handle vives in a weakened form. Parentul girls, and I am puzzled by the
pravity. equal to that of ordinary univer-
For they pretend to be much and make a complete success of challenged by every sort of old aitles. In various countries there the stellar roles in "West of Brand authority still exists.
way." 'colleges in
wilder and wickeder than they are, close the task, as those who have seen them young rebel. are several
"Preposterously Young" and is this, I think, that makes I touch with the needs of industry: opening performances yesterday at
of the the Queen's will agree.
It is the next inevitable experi- them different from the bad girla story tell of a "gold-digging" Broad- and educational policies future will probably pay attention way cabaret girl who, against her ment, predestined result of stick, of the days of our mothers and
for" fell
eluention, and the grandmothers, idea. principles,
an intended vie
Too Intimate. to the development of this
tim and is reluctant to pursue the ob-prcenginus Hongkong will soon have its pro-
jeet she originally had in view. There stimulus of speed machines, wire-
theless, and telephones; but for the "Can one be deprived at nine- School
are some interesting turns to perly-organised Technical
the type of characterization which pie-ly old still live under the eyes of lovely child, fresh as a se
women, preposterously
and yet have vielous Habits 2 of
ture-goers have been necustomed to older 2 look for from Gilbert. The picture is young--their mothers; and beNo, not in the time.
cause the mothers de not grow old KWAN YICK CHOW.--Mr. Kwan
well worth seeing.
quickly, while the daughters do,only pretend to be depraved, try Vick Chow, pampradore of 83.
Then why the pretence and why Sui Tai, father of Mr. C. Y.
Janet Gayner and Charles Farrell they are closer together than they depraved, imitate depravity. the effort? That is what puzzles Kwan, solicitor, passed away
are featured in "Delicious," the cur- have ever been. on the early morning of Sun-
Take a young modern mother of me. rent attraction at the King's Theatre,
have asked these questions of day, May 1. The funeral takes
In his letter supporting
rekult rather sickly of eighteen. The
is an a number of girls and I have had place this afternoon Moulalms of one of the candidatos which drew crowded houses yesterday. forty and a worldly wise daughter
There is a deal of
that many people, some answers. Here they are: day, May 2nd) leaving the
for the vacancy on the Sanitary sentimentalism in the picture, but intimacy
EX-
They think it fun to live dan- pecially mothers, consider ideal. Tang Wah Hospital Mortuary
seen this is more than offset by the
gerously. at 6 pm. for the as. Sui Tai, Board, Mr. M. K. Lo has
rather oblique way, to rellence of the seting of the leads and are like sisters," the mothers
The men are so apathetic nowa- which will Convey the re-fit, in a
lack of public-spirited by the finished character of the pro-say. We're the greatest friends.
includes Rothe very
days. mains to Macao the following imply a
duction, which
They, the girls, think it more morning. Only Boral tributes ness on the part of the K.R.A. elever impressionist scenes. El Brendel We do the same things, see the
the least also extraordinarily good in the role same people."
It is true: but I wonder some decent to throw themselves away Whilst we have not
of a valet,
"his" best 'uppeurance; quite
the daughters feel on men who don't really care than clean and times what intention of taking sides, as be-of
for a long time. There is an the wholesome atmosphere about the film about it when their mothers do to try to get husbands.
They read a lot, and get dis- one candidate tween
in common and this comes as a welcome relief to not drop out or make room for other, we feel that
its the sex stuff of which we get all to them: go on playing tennis, go encouraged and don't believe in any dining and dancing in restaurants thing any more, and so don't care fairness to the KRA and
much nowadays.
and night clubs, go on playing the what they do.
candid: this, the most most alluring and entertaining of And all games in the world with youngThey admire their mothers and men. with the same young men their mothers' friends and want who are, or should be, in love with to be like them."
And this, the most disturbing: the lovely daughters.
DEATH.
will be accepted.
The
*
and this will no doubt provide a { story, designed more or less to suit moment young women, precocious- \ teen?" I ask myself. "Cw one be
hady-needed link in our system education.
In Defence of the KR.A.
the
Hongkong Telegraph. nonince, the issue raised by Mr.
MONDAY, MAY 2, 1982.
PRACTICAL EDUCATION
Among the problems which
proper Lu should be put in its light. Mr. Lo bases his criticism statement on the Association's
and that "the expert technical
the rom- medical knowledge at mand of the Association will also be at the disposal of our didate,"
can-
As we view the matter
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Hongkong has to face is that ofthere is no justifieation whatever has been received by Messrs. Pen-tural and fair.
operation
in
its
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of for investing this statement of duration evolving a system
fact with any ulterior meaning, which shall be of practical use
such as the implication that the Ko nul le young latis when they
Association might withhold into life and seek to earn their advice from any member of the living in the industrial sphere.
Board not nominated Not only in this Colony, but in
There are two Britain as well, it has long been R.A. The issue is, after all, realised that some substitute is quite simple. needed for the old-time appretice candidates for the seat, one with medical and public health quali
laying ship system. Accordingly, many
fications; the other admirable educational schemes
To offset have been drawn up and put into claim to the possession of such
technical knowledge. Eng- successful
any apparent handicap under hand by several members firms of which the latter may appear to the Association the Association for Education in
be labouring. Industry and Commerce, but these
quite properly stresses his offi- efforts, worthy of praise as they is connexion with a body which advice. undoubtedly are, touch merely the
has aPress to Expert fringe of the problem, which cant
There is no suggestion that the only by a be properly tackled
Asanelation's candidate has
body. scheme on a larger scale than is
clusive contact with that single
that
any passible
but it is made lear
created Dy group of fires.
Some time linck, the Association seeining disability named achove, in disenssing at its the fact that Mr. Maw Fong is aamual conferener the education a layman is, in the circumstances,
to
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that he
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gestem of Great Britain, especial- more apparent than real-in other y in relation to business needs, words, that what he may Fould pass um judgment upon the in expert knowledge in counter- emmercial success of university balanced by the fact
it noted as lean look to the Association's ex- praduates, though
and legitimate significant fact that the appoint-perts for guidance. This is meuts bonrei uf, for example, perfectly logical Cambridge University, has no dif. piece of propaganda, based
nothing unfair Heulty in placing it clients. Bri- fact, reflecting
or unreasonable in taelies, either Itish university education is, ex-
on the Association or its nominee. of up- cept in certain branches
overwhel- The K.R.A.'s fine record of public |plied-natural science.
mingly non-vocational. The de-service is a sufficient answer to business Mr. Lo's implied criticisms, hut fence of this standpoint is the assumption that it is well that the point on which
from a
a man who has followed a course he rests his imputations should
of academic reading will have thereby acquired a method of al- tack and a system of sludy rendi- ly applicable to any and overy kind of business problem. That this theory is substantially sound
be shown to have no substance either in theory or in fact.
a fall
Injured seriously through from n. window at 45 Haiphong Road yesterday, a man named Yeung: Fook,
is indicated in a statement of Sir Alated to be unemployed, was taken Max Bonn, president of the Asso-to the Kwong Wah Hospital.
down
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One can
Like sisters? It sounds some-You see, their mothers are too how rather fatusus. And sisters intimate to be stern, or too busy are often rivals, There is often to be angry." (The speaker was no love, lost between them. But a girl of nineteen.) "I remember mother being absolutely the rivalry of two sisters is na-my
furious with me once. It was such
I felt safe, you know." The older of two girls has the relief,
the of experience,
I think these answers are in- advantage younger the advantage of being teresting and worth attention. new, and they are roughly on an They are honest, and though they equal footing. The question of may explain nothing, they reflect authority does not enter, whereas something of importance, a posl in a rival who is a mother that give idea, the innocent renctions of over-stimulated youth to the times is a very different affair.
For the mother who behaves like we live in, with its jazz, its movies, a sister remains a mother never-and all the rest; vulgar behaviour, theless, and can evoke the spectre an extraordinary collapse of good of her ancient authority at any taste, combined with an ignorant
"I simply hate baby talk, but'a the only way I can make
him listen to reason."
pride, the inenrrigible innocence of youth. It is this that is in- teresting. The children who go in for the shocking public dis- play of their emotions do not think iderent. They think it chic.
Air Heroes Who Gamble With Sleep
It would be difficult to acclaim- 100 highly the leat of Mr, J. A. Mollison in flying to Capetown in Jees than five days, beating Mias Salamon's record by 15 hours 18 minutes. Everybody is thankful it his nerident on landing, due to extreme exhaustion,
mare serious.
avas not
Yel regard for our herole pilots should not blind us to the fact that onrecord Crepire flights have de- veloped into endurance teste in which the pilot's problem is "How long can I by without crashing for want of sleep?"
The fights are wongnificent per- anal adventures. But flying is - no job for a fatigue-drugged man. Alights Once I made four dawn after less than three hours sleep in cach caSA. On the fourth morn- ing the ear-spitting exhaust roar was as a soothing lullaby, an instant I closed my tired eyes. The plane flew straight and stondy at iwo thousand feet.
Dazed Men.
For
Again I closed my eyes. Torrible vibration. The engine was scream- ing its heart out. I had fallen for- ward in my harness and was fn'n' (Continued on Page 9.)