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NOTES OF THE DAY
THE TOURIST
·MARCH 21, 1934.
ROAD SENSE
By W. M. W. THÒMAS
It is, of course, easy, oven in a cosmopolitan port like Honglous.THEN I was in Chicago about users? Advice from a man in the
Now 1934
to distinguish the stranger from "VAUXHALL LIGHT SIX"
the resident. There are certain Home Delivery At Hongkong characteristica about the tourist,
Landed Prices.
one the lively interent he takes in "STANDARD SALOON” £210 his surroundings, which always "DE LUXE SALQON" £230 effect a contrast with the air of To the motorist going on Home suffering boredom the average leave special arrangements are resident manages to wear. We
delivery extended.....for
are not aroused by these fresh London....for use at Homefaces. We are too inured to such whilst on furlough and for sub-
periodical ovents as a wholeanlo sequent shipment to Hongkong incursion of tourists; there is.
...at the above prices.
indeed, a suspicion that to the kindly interest these people seem determined to take in us and in our purposes for existence, we remain markedly indifferent, if we are not a little contemptuous of thoir curiosity. If we have responsibili ties as hosts, they are somehow overlooked.
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Well might we speculate on what the tourist traveller thinks of us and our reception. "Back ward people," although possibly not expressed in polite converan- Phone 27778-9 Stubbs Rd. tion, would probably sum up the irm opinion of most of them, when, after a few days of helter-skelter rush through the streets of the Colony, they are glad to shake our dust from their feet and leave
Mr. and Mrs. Allan Cameron
P.P.C.
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1934.
PLAYGROUNDS FOR CHILDREN
The Very Sole,
OLD AGE CREEP'S ON
Hy Eddle "Grandpa" Kelly, WWE feel old and lonely. 1s usually Ave years ago an enterpris. bluc
respected. they give talka in And not at all funny. Ing news sheet published a daily Couldn't death chart, The object of this schools? Bear in mind that the
You see, it's our birthday. cheerful statistical effort was to majority of victims of road fatali- compare the number of fatal ties are under ten years of age. A man can only feel funny on road accidents that took place Let us start teaching rand sense cach day in Chicago with the to the youth of the nation right his birthday number of casunities suffered by away. the whole American Army In action on the Western Front on the corresponding day in 1918.
The comparison was distinctly uncomplimentary to the Great Ponce.
"EXAMPLES OF ROAD SENSE.
What is road sense? Let me give a few examples,
when he's young, or when he's tight.
"Not that we're old. Don't I woll remember ence balog you girls get that idea into driven on a long journey, by your heads. We're just driver of very considerable experl- ence. He rathor frightoned mis at thirtyish.
rat because he blazed past "n council school with no warning
Road accident figures aro al- waya very terrifying-especially when presented in a stark fashion like our own summary for 1933-from his horn. an average of nineteen deaths Later in the morning he saw a overy day.
Still, when you get around the thirties, life starts to
school sign at the roadside and become a mixture of past re- But we must not be stampeded. promptly slowed down to moregrets and future fears.
Not that it palliates the serious-crawi, I asked him why he had
ness of the situation, but simply belived so differently on the twe as a matter of plain fact, let us occasions. His explanation was
We don't remember much
first of all appreciate that Britain, perfectly logical: That when we about the day we were born.. is far from being unique in this first passed a school the hour was After all, thirty years is a matter of rond danger. Since the about 10 a.m., nt which time
Increase in the speed of universal there in no traffic of children in long time to look back.. transportation that has come or out. About In the past twenty-five years The second occasion was be- Our parents were very proud or so, the danger factor has tween 12.30 and 1 o'clock, when, as of us, and decided, before we naturally increased all the world he explained, schools "come out" ever. And it will not be reduced and there is a distinct risk of were many months old, that we unless stepa are taken to teach children rushing into the road-were going the community how to use the way. Such is one simple example humourist.
of road sense. roads. This fact is very clear.
KNOWLEDGE PLUS
IMAGINATION
On another acension during the same run we were approaching The increase in road usage has what appeared to be quite an easy not been accompanied by a corres-corner at a fair speed when sud- ponding increase in road scuse. donly my companion crammed on Until every member of the public all his brakes and slowed the car that er own home--whether in ample time for us to come into moves outside the confines of almost to standstill-leaving
Новата в
to become
B
We did, too. We started be- fore we were six weeks old, by howling every morning at 3 am.
In those days,-trousers were not the fashion, and we crawled about, invariably clad in a napkin, a garment somewhat similar to the present day burber's towel,
as they come. For corroboration, they probably look to their by now well filed cameras. "Queer, too," control of a mechanical vehicle or view of a flock of sheep that were full appreciation of round the corner. He had noticed it is possible they add, in a mut-correct behaviour on the public fresh hoof marks on the road sur-
Just about this time the Boor tered afterthought.
highway, the accident figures will face. Road sense is trained obser not materially decrease.
War started, but we couldn't enlist vation plus imagination. Road sense is nothing more or The driver with road sense as we were having trouble with less than a little knowledge plus signals first and alters the direc-our teeth. Coincident with the
He a great deal of imagination. Lack tion of his car afterwards.
Then, a few months before or
of it to-day among all classes of or she has a very clear idea that Relief of Mafcking was the Relief of Father when we cut our last road users is the outcome of the each highway consists of two sudden "back to the roads" move- separate patha-up and down tooth. ment that has taken place during tracks as it were the centre of the twentieth century. The sud- which, whether it is marked by a den flux has all been taken for white line not, should not be after (we forget which) came the granted. No national effort has encroached upon. All this and Jam-tin Raid, facetiously referred been made to educate the public more la contained in the Highway to by London newspapers as the to the importance of road welfare, Code, but stapa have never beon Jamieson Kald.
Read sense can be obtained In taken so far to impress the edicia two ways. In the hard school of of that Code on to the public of experience or, more rapidly, by this country. education. To bring into force
.
DUTY FOR PEDESTRIANS.
when
T
THE COLONY'S INTEREST
Thus it ls that opinions are formed and carried away. If those aro the only two that mat- ter, we might breathe freely in the knowledge that on the whole they can be rejected. It is not within our capacity to make a fuss Communal service possessing of every batch of tourists that ar-
Naturally, our family did not very real value is being per-rives, much less to appreciate be
remain at a standstill, and by the formed by the Children's Play- ing placed in a position of close
time wo were six years old we had. ground Association, which has scrutiny analogous to the rare harsh legal restrictions and And it is not only motorists who seven brothers and four sisters. been entrusted with the handl-animal at the Zoo. But there is penalties will never clean up the require to cultivate road sense. ing of one of the Colony's big-yet a third, much more pointed roads. It is far better to prevent Car and lorry drivers are not You might think, upon hearing- administer magicians. Vehicles cannot and this, that Father was a fast gest problems that of seeing criticism, namely, that the Colony's an accident than to
-gevere punishment when the that adequate facilities for out- interest in tourists in monaured accident has occurred. Repree-length" on greasy roads
never will pull up "in their own worker, but it is easily explained: door recreation are provided for entirely by the wealth they leave sive legislation will only lead to children or others run into their away by the fact that five of our the younger generation. So far, behind them. It would not be far reduced benefits from a modern path. There must be understand. brothers were older than wo wore. the Association has only begun
ing on both sides-road sense and Naturally, as we children begon to touch the fringe of the wrong to suggest that our very advantage.
MODERN EDUCATION FAILS,. road courtesy. Pedestrians and question, but, in the words of strong commercial Instincts do Sir Thomas Southorn, its ulti-
assume a definite ascendancy. It is particularly interesting to cycllats-In fact, all road users-being born one after another, it observe how ineffectively modern must be taught to realise their full became necessary to take drastic action regarding the-trafic mate objective is to see that
education lines up with some responsibility.*** every thickly-populated district
modern problems. Time and time) Consider carefully these follow-problem in our home. has its own playgrounds. Al-
again one sees young gentlemen ing figures published by the
four Ministry of Transport in a recent Had our parenta resided in ready, hundreds of children are
who have had three or able to participate in health- It may be that this penchant for thousand pounds spent on their report on fatal rand accidents that Hongkong the whole thing could expense education and who could probably occurred during six months of have been settled quite simply by. giving activities every day, the acquiring, prifits at the
1983. extent to which the existing the best of us and that except in on road customs in Ancient Rome, of the other fellow is natural to produce a pretty pungent preels
Out of 4,340 causes of fatal running a "Safety First" cam- playing-fields are patronised be- ing ample evidence of the need certain cases where it is known to become perfect pests to their accidents, excessive speed on the paign, but we never thought of
have been unduly stretched, is to fellow countrymen when they part of a driver only accounted that.
pedestrians
The difficulty WBX overcome that exists for such amenities.be expected and is excusable in exchange the lecture room for the for 265, whereas Whilst it is true that the move the circumstances. Traditionally bucket seats of their sports cars. running into the roadway from a ment has been started rather the traveller is invested with more Is there not room-here, for in- footpath, walking or running from somewhat by cutting a new door behind a vehicle without due caro, into the dining room wall for eat- late in the day; with the result money than he knows properly stance, for improvement!
And do we really make the best apparently becoming confused or bound trafle only, but oven so the that it is by no means easy to what to do with and he is also find suitable spots for "lunga," Supposed to be never happier than possible use of our mobile police? hesitating in traffic, risking mov-confusion and congestion It must be borne in mind that in the spending of it. Not sur instead of letting them operate ing traffic, and stopping from a terrible, what with the fed batch prising is it, therefore, to find the on a policy that seema wholly curb or refuge without looking, the taking to outdoor recreation chief evidence of a tourist ship framed on bandit-chasing, couldn't were the cause of no fewer than trying to get out and the hungry on the part of the Chinese is a in port in the appearance of In-they become the guide and guard- 1,243. Here is a clear call for batch trying to get in. relatively recent development, genious and charming. lures for fan of all road-and footpath-- Twenty years ago, football, ten-the unwary.
LURES FOR THE UNWARY
PERSPICACITY !
How far business perspicacity has met with its just reward. In the last few days, it is difficult to establish, but if a criterion may be taken from the case of a dealer
nis and other forms of outdoor sport were practically unknown to the Chinese community. The extent of the change from those conditions is little short of amazing. How marked it is was "APOLLO" SHAFTS partially indicated by facts and figures quoted at the recent opening of the South China who contrived to sell a camphor Athletic Association's new pavi-wood box of ordinary type for $36 Hon. The immense popularity in the tourist's own unrivalled if of football, to cite only one devaluated gold currency, there sport, has undoubtedly con- should be little to fret over except tributed to the need for child perhaps that such entertaining and ren's playgrounds, since street valuable customers could not be urching in Hongkong, as in Eng-induced to prolong their stay. land and other centres, are
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on grounds of health, but also
að means of taking the reason, to say nothing of the thoughts of young men from happiness and joy which are; possibly anti-social activities, brought into the otherwise dull the provision of adequate play lives of so many of the Colony's ing-fields is a fine form of com- children, the movement.deserves. munal Insurance. For this the utmost support.
11: THES
(Continued on Page 6.).
“Go ahead. I'm listening."
WOR
Fortunately, the situation wax somewhat cased
when our four elder brothers suddenly left home. Two went to Borstal, one to gen and the other to seed.
We could tell you lots more about our childhood, but we have got to rend our fan mail and birthday greetings now.
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