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CREMATORIA NEEDS
NOTES OF THE DAY A PARENT'S LETTER
NANKING REVENUE
Mr. H. H. Kung, looking round for means to supplement the income of the Nanking Treasury Depart ment, contemplates an increase in Customs duties upon foreign im parts. The schedule of articles likely to be affected by the decision reached has not been discloned, but revelation is not necessary to assist. the conviction that the polley will serve to defeat its objectives. In- creased revenue la not obtainable by the simple process of increasing customs duties. There must come a time when the limit of impost is reached and the surmounting of the tariff barrier is no longer profitable. The cost is ultimately thrown upon the consumer in China, whose pur chasing power is already severely curtailed. Further trade depres- sion rather than increasing revenue In the most likely result of the Kung, decision, and sympathise though we may with the Finance Minister in his difficulties, it is difficult to bellove the proffered solution haa much chance of success.
MRS. HADLEY REPRIEVE
Sir Miles Lampson has reprieved Mrs. Katherine Hadley, condemned for a sordid murder in Shanghai, the sentence having been commuted to imprisonment for life. The British Minister's decision will bo Interpreted as concession to the sex of the prisoner, and upon that score only could remission of the death sentence bé justified-unless one is of the school which condemns capital punishment under any cir cumstances. This was the third occasion on which Mrs. Hadley had been connected with deaths by violence, and it is notable that the Shanghai Judge declined to support to a plea for recommendation mercy. "I can find", he said, "no reason whatever why you should not pay the extreme penalty and no ground whatever for interfering with the due course of law."
M.C.C. AND TESTS
AMERICA TIRED OF LEAGUE?
To A Headmaster
The Very Idea!
TOUGH OLD SALTS
By Eddle "Epsom” Kelly
Yo Hof Aspros. We
70 TO and a packet
EAR Headmaster,-I recent-). He will recite also long Dy read an article the gist chemical formulae which he will of which was that schooling "dld have forgotten altogether in a no harm." The iden struck.me year's time, and may even be as being so funny that I chuckl-able to enlighten you on the
so mysteries of Einstein's Theory. have been on one of those ed for hours. I chuckled long, in fact, that I left impelled All very nicel yet it must be winter cruises to the Far to put my hand to paper to confessed that, as a rule, he East and have returned to cannot distinguish a beech from Hongkong full of health and bring me to earth again.
"After spending millions on in birch, a grasshopper from lies. palatini. buildings, salaries, ex-caterpillar, a star from a planct, pensive equipment, and a wealth granite from limestone, a ly It was thrilling right from from a gladiolus, or wheat from the start. Just as the Can- barley.
ton and Macao ferryboat
(being a letter written
to himself)
By COLONEL
He knows about as much of Beethoven as of beetroot; of Was about to sail, we couldn't Michael Angelo us of the Angel find our luggage. Raced all Gabriel, and probably less of over the place looking for it. Rubens than of the Rubicon. The captain and us, we His ideas of Polities and Gov-hunted everywhere, and ernment are of the crudest, and some of the officers sug- of books, the man-in-the-street his knowledge of our system of gested putting back into the har has the audacity-isn't it nuda-law is usually nil.
bour so that a thorough search ·
E. A. LOFTUS
city, Mr. Schoolmaster?-to He will, in all probability, not could be made.* subscribe the view that "no be abe to tell you, the name of
And after all that fuss," we harm is done." "Oh! ye gods a single stateman, other than found it in our overcant pocket. and little fishes! The perpetra- Roosevelt, Hitler and Mussolini. We felt such a fool! (Menta) tor of such a heresy thinks, ap- He doesn't know, the funcnote: He has no overcont.) parently, that the chlof function tions of his own organs, and the
mailed,
of the school is to keep children only liver or kidneys in which Anyway, at Inst they untied the out of mischief and reduce them he is interested is that which string off the wharf and the boat to disciplined habits, but that, so may appear with bacon on his far as knowledge is concerned, breakfast table. its value is of such a character as to do no harm.
But there is something in it if you will but have the patience to dismount from your high horse and consider the indict- ment,
What The Boy Does
Not Know
Hating the Classics, he never opens his Shakespeare again after leaving school, because he has had to "study" his plays for examination purposes.
Cinderellas of the Curriculum
no
The school curriculum wants humanising.
Let physical training and its kindred sciences, physiology, anatomy, hygiene, dietetics, and first-ald, be given the places in the school curriculum that their demands. Our importance
A beautiful lady accosted us an wo appeared on deck. Wo had expected something of this sort, but not quite so suddenly.
“Could you tell me where the deck sporta are?" she enquired.
"Madam," we replied, "Need you look any further?"
"I'm speaking of games," she said coldly, "Quoits and dock. tennis and that sort of thing.”
"Straight down those stairs," we said, pointing.
We had never been down those.
Indy finished up down the stoke- hold.
stairs before, but we believe the
That was only one of the few slight errors we made during the voyage.
For inmance, a gentlemen told us that we didn't have to dress for dinner aboard the Sul An, and wo were glad to hear about this,
dining room. because it was hot down in the
The trouble la we're not used to these new-fangled ships. Give un a sailing ship every time, where a man can walk around the capatan
singing chanteya, and heaving up
anchors,
We didn't have any anchors on our trip, but that was only be enuse we hadn't eaten one.
Just before we reached Macro,
Chat, my dear Head, with one of your own boys who has just gained his school certificate and see what his education has given youth will then have learned we got trapped into a game of him in the way. of knowledge.
grab by some international shar
If he has any definite religious bellefs he did not gain them through his school where, again, he probably had to read the Gospels for examinations. Of I assume, sir, that at present, comparative religion he knows you are beginning to put two and nothing, and probably thinks two together for next year's Moslems are heathens.
In fact, what real education work. Time-tables and such- like are exercising your atten- he has is gained from his home tion and your capacity for solv-environment or from the Scout ing jig-saw puzzles.
movement, if he belongs to n One of the crying needs of
While you
about it.troop. are the Colony, and one which
couldn't you scrap the whole And so, Mr. Headmaster, if |could be provided at no great
The passage of cablegrams be- curriculum and start afresh? the School has done him expense, is the provision by the tween the M.C.C. and the Austra- In doing so couldn't you make positive harm in making him
However, it turned out that we Government of crematoria-onelian Board of Control threatens to the Boy the chief piece in the follow its stupid curriculum, he
to game, and forget the demands leaves that establishment as an had been misled. When we enter- revive ill-feeling rather than in Hongkong and another
dispel it. The game of words that of the university?
ignoramus so far as "know-ed the dining saloon, all the wo in Kowloon. The only ex- certain members of the Board in When a young person leaves ledge" in the proper sense is men screamed, some fainted, and isting
the Chief Officer rushed up to us crematorium available Australia insist on playing fa carry-school at the age of sixteen or concerned.
and threw a tablecloth around us, for general usc
the ing the issue on to highly danger- is
and then ran us back to our cabin. Japanese institution at Sookun-ous ground, and the final message, if he (or she) is to be re of the M.C.C. in regard to it in an garded as adequately educated,
We had no dinner, poo, which, while serving a use- accurate reflox of public opinion. should not he know a little some- ful purpose; is far from what is If Australia intends to send a team thing about his own body, about to England next year, there is no nature, about the common move- required. In the first place, more to be said. If there are any ments of mankind. around him, there is TO chapel suitable doubts about it, it would be wise with a leaven of ethics thrown for general use in connexion to call it off without more ado.
in and hang the universities if with Christian burial rites,
they object. .with the result that the whole of the obsequies have to be held out-of-doors, a_most_in-
There are some enemies of the convenient arrangement during League of Nations who are always inclement weather. Secondly, ready to seize upon the most inno- He, or she, will discuss Geo-something of the art and science
of physical fitness. there is no suitable accommoda-cent or trivial circumstances
argue that the League is in danger metrical Progression and may
Scrap your advanced courses tion where the clergy may of collapse. They now point to the even know something of the
don't change into their vestments, the return of Mr. Norman. Davis, the Binomial Theorem; he can in physics and chemistry, and chief American delegate, to "aolve triangles"; he will dis give a general course in science caretaker's quarters having to washington as an indication that cuss the humour of Aristo- based on the needs of the boy, Needless to say, this left us be utilised for this purpose.the United States are about tophanes or the Odes of Horace not on a tradition of the univer-oxremely short of money, Lucki- ly, we found a wallet which Thirdly, the crematorium itself throw over the League and the more or less glibly; he can speak sity.
Disarmament Conference. No is by no means modern in type. doubt, if they thought that the ner that would bring a blush to facts of botany, geology, astro- man who might have lost it was a little broken French (in a man- Let him learn the elementary someone had lost in a cabin we entered by mistake, and as the These factors, takon in conjunc-public would swallow the story, they the cheek of a French child of nomy, and zoology, together asleep in the cabin, we thought it tion with the growing tendency would say much the same thing in favour of cremation, illus with regard to Great Britain when-four years of age); he will recito with the basic facts of chemistry best to mind it for a while for trate the necessity of Govern- Anthony Eden
over Sir John Simon or Mr. a few verses from "The Golden and physica.
went back from Treasury" (which excellent com- Give music, drawing and ment action. During the past Geneva to London to consult the pilation he has, alas! learned to painting, craftsmanship, drama forty or fifty years, cremation Cabinet. The only essential differ- hate). has been rapidly growing in the journey, to Washington takes favour in civilised countries as longer and therefore cannot the most hygienic and sanitary Normann Davis has been in Europe
undertaken so frequently. method of disposal of the dead. for some months, during which im- A further circumstance which I portant changes have taken place has helped the movement in in the disarmament situation. congested areas is that it does Naturally ho needs to discuss them away with the necessity of with the President and with the alienating large areas of ground General Commission of the Confer for the purpose of cemeteries. ence marking time. until January These cemeteries often, stand in at least, he would naturally choosu the way of development, so that back to the United States.
the present juncture for hurrying land which would serve a useful purpose for the living is mono- polised by the dead. In Hong- kong, on the island, this ceme- tory question has already be- come a problem. On the Kow- loon side, despite the steady growth of the population, there is as yet no European cemetery,
to
ence between the two casca is that
NEW LINKS
be
Mr.
Leaving naide the Disarmament
Conference, American co-operation with the League of Nations has deed, there are striking examples, continued quite unhampered. In a condition which makes the pro which indicate that still more links vision of a crematorium on that are being forged between Washing- side of the harbour all the more ton and Genova. It is significant necessary. Indeed, were ́such that. Mr. James McDonald, chair- a facility provided, the need for man of the United States Foreign a Kowloon cemetery would not Policy Association, has been ap be nearly so pressing and might pointed High Commissioner to as- eventually be met by setting Germany. América, too, is one of aist the refugees from Nazi aside a much smaller area than the countries invited by the League would otherwise be necessary. to sorve on the governing body, and Be that as it may, the time has she has just accepted in cordial come when the Government terms. At the last meeting of the should take this matter up, but League's Oplum Committed, the a point to bo stressed is that most outspoken delegate was tho representativo, Mr. when crematoria dre establish- American ed, stipulations, should be - Stuart Fuller. He has drawn nt- posed, as is the case in England, tention to the danger of dope amuggling by air and to the Japan- preventing their near presence ese policy of encouraging upfum to dwelling-houses or public smoking in their vassal State of highways.
Manchukuos
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"Read that line whore she can't think of nothin' all day
but me."
pers, and lost $1.25 in cold blood. It made our blood boil. Thero was also a chit that we signed for $2.50, but, of course, you count them,
him until later on. Just before we reached Macao, he kicked up a frightful row, and said he'd been robbed.
We weren't going to give it back to him and then be suspected of stealing the thing, so, in order to Baye our character we stuck to the wallet. What else could we do? Arriving at Macao wo went ashore and were immediately' ac- costed by thousands of Chinese who wanted to pull us back to Hongkong in their rickshaws. We gave one of these men two cents for carrying us up to the Hotel Riveira" and he was pleased that he executed a fan-tan dance, which we watched with great interest..
The man became so attached to us that he followed us about all next day, holding out the two conts and yelling something in a foreign voice.
At last, after going through a lot of signs, we discovered that be wanted us to take the, two cents. back. We did this, thanking him for his kindness, and shaking him warmly by the hand. He then executed another dance of a wild and savago character, tear- ing his hair out in handfuls. When we boarded the ' ship that afternoon, he was still there to wave to us. We have never mot with such devotion before,
We shall always regard that eventful tour as being of a rent educational value to us, and wo have returned to Hongkong with a fund of experience as well as enough spoons and servietto rings with "H" branded on thom to last our household for yearn to come.
We strongly advise anyone who is in need of a change or is short of cutlery to book their passages immediately to Macao.