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knowledge of means of averting it than the world has ever known. Mr. Fenner Brockway in as fully aware of this as any other observar. His outbreak at Derby may be put down to the need for the LLP. to appeal to mob-psychology.
Costly Bargains
THE JUVENILE COURT
sponsors.
IN HONGKONG
The Very Idea!
ON THE SPOT
By Edward "Whittington" Kelly NO the newspapers got hold
of the story!
So
You must have seen it, blazoned forth in streamer head!!pes and Ton all the posters,
Few people who have read in the (that they conduced to the commia- newspapers lately of our Juvenile slon of the offence by neglect of Court and have kwown it as only due parental care or supervision, or of recent incoption, will recollect | even by netual Instruction. Al- the circumstances by which it cume tornatively, the punishment took into being.
the form of fins, which maybe Described as making provision | hurts more, because eventually and for Proceedings in reference to necessarily it has to be paid by the Juvenile Offonders, Ordinance No. patents or guardians. A question worth an answer 1 of 1932 (the Juvenile Offenders But if the parents or guardiane from every thoughtful buyer of Ordinance as it is otherwise term-are not in a position, or what le We refer, of course, to the to-day is: Who pays for these (ed) takes an advanced view on the more of a reality, disinclined to
fact that Mr. Edward Kelly has sonsational bargains flaunting problem of juvenile crime, and accept this, penalty indirectly meted
been elected Mayor of Chicago. their attractions on every hand 7 stands out from a mass of legal out to them, the Court is unable to Can a fairly well-made dress of legislation as a measure comprehen- enforce its decisions except by the.
With becoming modesty, we good material be, produced at a treatment,
sive and broad in outlook and extreme form of detention or int have tried to keep the matter
and a tribute to its prisonment. sacrifice price without demand-
And Imprisonment is hushed up. Our public know unthinkablo in this enlightened ing yet another encrifice-or £
Not to mention the Police officers [age, unthinkable to the broad-how we shrink from all this chain of sacrifices in the pro-into whose daily round of duties minded Policeman and Magistrate, publicity. ducing? What of the story the problem has constantly in- who like it to be believed that bo
However, now that the news has back of the prices being offered truded, few foreigners penetrating neath their garb of stern authority leaked out, we feel that we owe:il by some of the cut-rate dry into the native slum quartors have there boats a heart susceptible to to you to tell you how it all came cleaning establishments This come away and not been impressed the good influence of the lesson about. is not a day of magic. Making a dress, cleaning a suit, fashion ing a hat cannot be done by some sort of painless financial hocus pocus. Work has to go into these things from start to finish. If the result can be sold for a starvation price and yet
For those who are not kequainted keep the retail store and factory
it may be stated, briefly:--The back of it in funds, it stands to
Juvenile Offenders Ordinance es- tablishes soparate Courts for reason that the production cost
Juvenile cases, and proceeding on to cope with the letters that kept has been kept down somewhere
the premise that you can bestpouring lu for us. close to starvation levels. Social It is with this, rather than petly reach a child by making it con- organizations having on their infringements of the law, with fidant in a scheme for its [hearts the welfare of working which the Government were con-welfare, abolishes much of the girls do not need to use subtle cerned when they brought the formality and rigidity of trial detective methods to learn this. Colony within the benefit of the procedure, as well as the terrify
enigmatism of Material for a survey has swept larger Home experience and repro-ing
From the Central Theatre, for instance, we received a touching in upon them throughout the duced, with provision for local formulate.
year, in terms of women and an industrial Home or Reformatory, active assistance and co-operation Mayor's Nesta scream from It requires the attendance and epistle which began: "See the
y the large number of children in held out with the birch. This in
Immediately they found that the streets who, to their minds, where the New Ordinance with its would be better at school-backs, and possibilities for combining the they wanted a Mayor in Chicago further by the probability that utilarian with the humanitarian, they thought ofˇua. In less
for every child selling vegotables has come into its own. or in other ways helping to supple- ment the family income, there are THE CHILD A ten others who appear to have CONFIDANT well-known adage alluding to Idle! absolutely nothing to do. The hands instantly suggests itself. THE LONGER VIEW
colour, the Juvenile Court, With
than a week the printing presses were working avlor time, rushing off axtra Issues of stampa to
We received all sorts of latters. own Imploring as to take on the job. Most of them were circulars from complete strangers.
question
Hongkong Telegraph.girls in actual distress, enmesh- now in course of construction, li of, parents and guardians in the stars to finish."
WEDNESDAY APRIL 19, 1933.
MR. BROCKWAY AND MOSCOW
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moro
per-
ed in what seemed to them as to be the principal feature Indinposal of cases; also the services hopeless situation of low wages a new humanitarian scheme.
of a "probation oflleer" kvho is Other touching letters were re- and discouraging conditions Long experience of local Police given supervision over the child [cclved. We have chosen one at
Mr. Kelly. forced upon them by unscrupul- Courts lus made it somewhat un-whether in the industrial Home or random: "Dear ous employers. Among these of a Police Magistrate the other batten order; and in general to act $5 until the end of the month."
necessary to confirm the statement in the period of the bond pro wonder if you could advance me social organizations the Young day when he said that a Juvenile as its guardian, guide, or adviser, Other letters were Women's Christian Association Court with ample powers for deal- and if possible to find it suitable sonal. We take the ilberty of in America, which has kept close ing with juvenile offenders, is employment.
printing one from His Majesty's A one-eyed enthusiasm like to more than 350,000 young wo-reni necessity for Hongkong. This It makes the responsibility of Omeinl Representativo in Hong- that possessed by Mr.
men in business and industry necessity will be at once apparent parents and guardians more of a kongs Fenner
during the last year, reports during a single morning's proceed reality by making them directly Brockway is necessary before it that young girls to-day tend to ings at say, the Central Magistracy. amenable to Court orders, is possible to contemplate an take any job at any price, and come up in unending succession fine them if it is found that they Petty thefts, cases of hawking. Magistrate being empowered to Anglo-Soviet war over the Mos-often under deplorable sanitary from day to day. Throughout have conduced to the repetition of fournalist, in the Colony of Hong- Re Edward Kelly, impecunious cow Trial and its sequel. The conditions. It is common among there is a keynote of poverty verg- the offence.
kang.
class
~
the IN THE SUPREME COURT OF RONGKONG
the
IN BANKRUPTCY
,
In persuance of Section suchan- auch of Part Buchansuch of the Act, you are hereby called upon to show caure, etc........need wo say any more.
The Dollar Line, immediately the news leaked out that Chicago would choose us as its new Mayor, congratainted us with the follow- Ing:
"Dear Gir-May we bring to your attention the fact that holiday cruises to the United States are now available at the reduced rate of G$432 return,, TRAVEL BY THE DOLLAR LINE,”
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So they send for us. It's all | perfectly straight-forward; thore's no hanky-panky business about taking away the number you first thought of and adding your age next birthday, or the price of a case of bootleg.
Derby resolution of the LP. factory girls to report to working on the extreme. It underlies and the general strike threat each morning even if there is no the plea of the person who says he A HUMANE need not, therefore, be taken too work, and to remain on hand all is forced to steal to avert starva- OUTLOOK seriously. The economic weapon short time.
ation, of the young mother who in day in case of being needed
of children, producing an array
Juvenile Offenders are classed for placed in the hands of the
sometimes claiming all of them as the purposes of the Ordinance intu British Government is strong History Can Be "Bunk'
her own, says she has to send out "children" under the age of 14, and the elder ones to hawk because her "young persons" between the agen enough for all practical pur-
husband is dead, or has gone to a of 14 and 16. Punishment is res poses. No doubt it will be used
foreign country and neglects to send tricted in that the former class back money for the family's main-are exempt from imprisonment if anticipations of a commuta-
The gentleman who said his- tenance. Only Magistrates, Police when payment of fine, damage tion of gaol sentences are not tory as written was "bunk" may officers and newspaper reporters or costs, is defaulted; and in the
have been right after all. In-who sit through the round of chaca, case of "young persons" realised. In normal circumstan- elegant though his language can understand the ennui and Magistrate is enjoined not to re- ces there would be no justifica- may have been, and sweeping monotony of these
statements. Bort to severe punishment if the tion for the employment of the his statement, if his remark had Fines are imposed, if ever so light. offender can be suitably dealt with economic boycott, but it seems reference to a certain type of there is a ring of genuine poverty probation, fine, corporal punish- as a matter of routine. But often in some other way, whether by quite definite that the whole history, then it was justifled. behind these pitiful utterances, ment, commitini to a place of de- affair has been part of a cam-
How is history to be classified which appears to make the punish- tention, reformatory or Industrial paign against every
which exploits the
The method of electing a Mayor human mont harsh, and imprisonment in school, or otherwise." of emotions, which exalts victory extreme cases seems hardly the The brief recapitulation of the in Chicago is simplicity itself. specialist and engineer in order by the sword no matter how correct proceeding in a communal show the comprehensive scope of begin to shoot each other up, until principal features will suffice to The gangs are all called out, and to divert attention from the unjust the cause, or which problem that strikes deeper than calamitous breakdown of the caters unduly to national pride the individual cases brought into the new enactment, but it has not there is only one gang left,
are but Its yet come into full operation, one Soviet agricultural policy. In in the narration of a world publicity and which
different manifestations.
the principal reasons for the Then the gang that's left looks these circumstances, the form of event? Such a type of history
delay being that the Bellllos Re-around for someone suitable to pressure exerted cannot be too a thing that has gone out of EYE SEES"
is not, as is sometimes imagined, "WHAT THE
formatory now being built in as-put on a pedestal so that they can sociation with the scheme, has not get some practice with their strong, Except for war. Great currency. Speaking before the
been completed. Until the In-machine guns until another rival Britain is sincerely committed to American Historical Association into being, children convicted of with the equipment designed for
Before the Juvenile Court came atitution has fully materialised gang is formed, and they say: the maintenance of peace in in Toronto recently, Prof. Her-minor offences, were cautioned, or the employment of the inmates on kong who writes for the Tele- "What about that chấp in Hong- Europe and elsewhere, The bert E. Bolton of the University whipped, and every facility was practicnl trades, the full powers graph? It's about time he was British people, striving to attain of California pointed out the given to the parents to view the that have been given to Magistrates choked off, anyway."
(Continued on Page 4.). recovery from the burdens im- distortion which history has scrporal chastisement in the belief posed by the last, will not readily treat it solely from a national suffered from the tendency to be plunged into another, and this viewpoint. The American Re- time suicidal, conflagration. All volution, he said, was not a mat the powder-magazines
ofter of a few years, but of half Europe, the Balkans, the Polish a century, from 1776 to 1826, Corridor and so on, seem on the and the great liberating move- surface to be ready to blow up, ment, covered not only North but the common-sense of peoples but South America also. He will probably prevent their being stressed the necessity for a rushed into another storm of broader treatment of history, an rage and destruction. A fair emphasis which it is difficult to test of the prospects of an Anglo- realize is necessary at a time Soviet war can be applied by an when nations are so interlocked examination of the feeling in in their relations that the slight- Britain towards the Locarno est disturbance in one part of Treaty commitments. A well-the world is almost certain to be known political essayist, who felt in another.. History needs hypothetically assumes that all broadening. Not alone the his- else fails and war returns to tory as presented in books. The Europe, emphasises Britain's record of contemporary events commitments and still gives contained in the press is no less "No" as an answer to the ques open to the charge, in many tion of whether Britain would
cases, of a narrow nationalism. become involved. No govern- ment however anxious to honour History is put out of focus if the its pledges could take Britain press fails to measure up to its duty to chronicle accurately into a European war. There are events "abroad," as well as "at! things which Governments can home." The price of American not do and this is one of them.wheat may be determined in In point of fact, neither the Soviet Russia, that of Danish European altuation generally
bacon in some remote part of nor the Anglo-Russian dispute the British Dominions. An justify pessimism. We may not have a higher order of invisible thread links the trade and welfare of one nation with diplomacy in existence to-day, another. Hence the necesalty but we have a public sontiment of a wider treatment of contem- in every nation more thoroughlyporary history in the columns of educated in abhorrence of war the press, as well as in the pages and better equipped with the
of a book.
"And this is grandma's room. Isn't it awoet?"
It's
system. very sound Everybody knows who the Mayor is going to be-ao gambling on the result is discouraged.
change to
Another thing, it gives us a
prepare. Supposing," for instance, someone decides to translate our works Into' Amer-. lean.
Before we leave for Chicago, we are thinking of floating a loan to tide the city over its financial difficulties. Applications will be received by us any time between now and our departure.. Bonda, which are issued at 97%, will mature when the next Mayor takes office. APPLY NOW.
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BIG WORD.
Aftor *Technocracy," which dled a sudden death recently amid hoots of derisivo laughter, the big- word with the thinking boya keomis to bo "Radfocracy.". which means the tyranny of the wireless, Other good big words, if you'd like to jump in ahead of the pundits, are Gymnasocracy, Panti- and socracy, Blichomythocracy. Rhizotomisocracy-this last moan- Ing' (we think) the odious tyranny of those who go about flicking Imaginary chicken-feathers off the coats of architects' wives.--