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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, Saturday, SEPTEMBER 6, 1936.
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8810 Sandy the Farmer
8801
Lovely Lady-Waltz
Madame Ah ! La Marquise-Ah
8802
Lost-Fox Trot
8803
Dream Time-Fox Trot
Sandy Powell & Company.
Cusani Club Orchestra.
! Fox Trot
Casani Club Orchestra,
Jay Wilbur's Orchestra, Jay Wilbur's Orchestra,
Is it true what they say about Dixie ?—F,T.
Johnson's Orchestra.
Rhythm saved the World-Fox Trot. Johnson's Orchestra,
8804
Six "Hits" of the Day
8808
Piano Medley No. R.18
8812
8813
8816
Robins and Roses-Fox Trot
Primo Scala Accordeon-Band:
Charlie Kunz,
Casani Club Orchestra.
A Melody from the Sky-Fox Trot Casani Club Orchestra.
I nearly let Love go slipping through my fingers-Fox Trot, Got to dance my way to Heaven-Fox Trot."
8817 Six "Hits" of the Day (Series 5)
8822
Piano Medley No. R.19
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WHAT SHOULD THEY
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HIS week the Second- ary Schools start their new scholastic year. of new Many thousands
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ANNOUNCEMENT.
curse of Secondary Schools-will throw an ever-lengthening shadow over their lives.
The Secondary Schools aro | endeavouring to pump too much information into children in too short a time. They are turn- ing out highly disciplined and -industrious clerks, but they are Krinding the character and in- dividuality out of them.
It has been said many times The engagement in announced be- that the chief cause of the tween Alan Frank Walkden, present over-pressure is that younger son of Mrs. G. I. Walk- dea of The Laurels, Windsor the School Certificate Examina- Avenue, Cliftonville, Kent, and tion is being made to serve the Isabel Joan Mason, only daughter purpose of a Matriculation ex- of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Mason, amination for entrance to the Hongkong.
Universities to which 90 per cent. of the children have no in- tention of going.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
There
Bask
was
into
instil
which they are exposed.
how
much
We
ography
ience
can
homework, cluding measure the amount of over- pressure of which they are the victims. Twenty-five hours allows twenty-seven sessions of three-quarters of an hour each, plus one hour's homework, for five nights a week.
of a savage.
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and
By the Rt. Hon. H. B.. Lees-Smith,
Minister of Education in the last Labour Government
General education need not be literary education. The present Junior Technical Schools are the equal of any others in the country and all employers speak in praise of the boys that they produce. They only de- vole an hour a day to definite craft work and give the rest of the time to English, history, geography, mechanical drawing and manual work.
A PART from technical education most boys will wish to spend a good deal of time on handicrafts. Their intuition is sound. It will cor- rect the lopsidedness of our mechanised civilisation, where it is only in their leisure time that most men can enjoy the satisfaction of making anything
themselves.
the
or handwork.
A great proportion of the of boys will certainly wish to selected skill will rapidly ap- develop their mechanical in- pelar.
Children will then be left with terests. They should be en- couraged to do so. Technical enough leisure of mind to de- education and the Boy Scouts velop the adaptability and free are the only two new educa- initiative which the modern tional ideas that we have dis- world of high speed change covered since the Middle Ages. demands.
that school has no connection with life. This taboo is main urined because it is said that teachers could not avoid politi- cal bins. This fetish pays a very There is general agreement poor compliment to their profes that up to the age of 14 years sional capacities. If they re- children must give most of vealed political bins the first to their attention To English, discover it and discount it would
If these subjects are to be arithmetic, history, geography, be the children themselves.
covered and the hours of work every-day, science, handicraft
reduced by ten hours a week and some form of art. Every-
a drastic cut must come from day science is included in the It is now evident that this list, for it is impossible without
these somewhere. The most obvious IN addition incubus will be cast off before it to keep in touch with
subjects the children subject to squeeze out is the ought to be allowed a specified compulsory foreign language, SATURDAY, SEPT. 5, 1936.
long and the curriculum of the march of our mechanical age. time ench week in school hours which in most cases is French. Secondary Schools will be de
The most highly educated to make a serious study of How many children can read TRAFFIC DANGERS
termined mainly by the opinion
man that I know, who rends
or write a word of it two years of headmasters
whatever hobby or special in- and
head the classics for his pastime, terest they select. "Education is after they have left school? To illuminating mistresses. #
told me recently that he was that which remains after we learn a foreign language up to Jay Wilbur's Orchestra, paragraph in the weekly traffic report issued two days ago, to
baffled as to why his electric have forgotten all that we have the age of 16 and then drop it ☆
bell rang when he pressed a learnt at school," Judged by is a complete waste of time.. 8814 I'm a learner in lovo-Fox. Trot Jay Wilbur's Orchestra, the effect that of eighteen per- sons injured in motor mishaps, The Scene Changes-Fox Trot...Jay Wilbur's Orchestra.
The other obvious saving of THE main question is button. But a truly educated this test the hours devoted to
school man ought not to have to take hobbies are likely to have the time is fourteen were pedestrians who
on advanced mathe- It's been so long-Fox Trot
-Johnson's Orchestra. were either walking or running work can be asked from a child the things of everyday life for most lasting results of all.. matics. A knowledge of arth- Every time t look at you--Fox Trot.. Johnson's Orchestra. across the road and were struck provided that he is left free to granted with the simple wonder The first two years at a metic as far, as stocks and.
by vehicles. This provides think for himself, to take part
Secondary School will reveal
shares is one of the tools of an History is the subject that striking indication of the-dan-in school societies and to de- needs the most drastic reform, aptitudes and, for the remain- yond that mathematics are an
child's special tastes
industrial community, but be- Primo Scala Accordeon Band. gers encountered in the crowded velop his own out of school in It deliberately stops, even in ing years of his school life, he abstract study which can be left
thoroughfares of the Colony from terests. Since the vast majority the most advanced syllabus, at Charlie Kunz.motor vehicles-dangers attribut-of Secondary School children go 1914.
can be given a choice between to children who show a special able in great measure both to the to day schools he must
Children are experts on different groups of subjects. inclination for it. be the Treaty of Utrecht, but know stupidity of pedestrians and to allowed time to get to and from nothing of the Treaty of Ver. Those who wish to go to the
In addition to these two large motorists who fail to take suffi-school.
University will follow the pre- cient precautions when driving
sailles. They know everything sent Secondary School course, savings the contents of each be carefully through
Twenty-five hours a week, about Henry the Eighth, but but the great majority will subject should congested areas. So far as pedestrians are apart from time for physical they must not be taught any show an inclination towards limited to the amount that the Chater Road. concerned,
child can take in his- our traffic police training and games, represents thing about President Wilson, science or languages or normal have an almost super-human as much mental concentration A. Briland. Lenin or Hinden-athematics or art or mechanics stride by the age of 16. Experi- ence shows that a multitude in thei refforts to as is good for a growing child. burg until they have been
text-books covering of Secondary dead for thirty years. mass and As the jay-walkers others a sense of the dangers to School children at present do This is simply unintelligent. This thirty-five hours a week, in- It justifies children in assuming arises largely from the constant influx into the urban areas of people from the country, who wander about our streets; with (wide open_mouths, taking all manner of risks, apparently oblivious of the dangers of fast- moving, traffic in trusy districts. If we add to these people others who do not hesitate to dash out into the streets from behind verandah pillars, and those who have become inured to the con- stant tooting of motor-horns and consequently take little notice of the warnings, some idea of the immensity of the task facing the traffic police may be gained. But, as we have indicated, it is not only the pedestrian who is to blame for many of our traffic mishaps-the motorist is not in- frequently the chief sinner: often the type of man who is not neces- sarily a speedster, but who, none the less, drives too quickly through crowded areas, forgetful of the point that he may be call- ed upon to pull up suddenly, or, in swerving to avoid one danger, may run into a hapless pedes.. trian. There is, without ques- tion, too great a tendency on the part af many motorists to hurry, merely to save couple of minutes which would not matter in any case.. When we weigh up all the factors contributing to danger on the roads, it becomes evident that there is need of con- stant propaganda. Praiseworthy and admirable as the yearly Safety First campaign is, it needs to be extended throughout the whole year, supplemented by pro-! paganda in the Chinese schools, where now generations are con- stantly arising, and in the verna- cular Press. Only by such means will something approaching traffic sense be instilled into the people who throng our busy thorough- fares.
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ROTTEN TO THE CORPS What is it that keeps so many young fellows from joining the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps?
IS IT THAT THEY FEEL FAINT
AT THE SIGHT OF A GUN ?
"THEN AGAIN IT MAY ONLY BE
THE THOUGHT THAT THEY HAVANT THE RIGHT FIGURE
OR PERHAPS IT'S THE POWDER THAT KEEPS THEM AWAY
SHUN
Mos
„BUT AFTER ALL, IT MAY ONL BE THAT THEY DON'T LIKE
BEING ORDERED ABOUT
BULLS AND INNERS
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From
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the Office Butts
Fortune-telling is now illegal in
Canton. But Hongkong still has its
Ice House Street.
口 口
The worst of these Hongkong
Hongkong's flat racing season The adjective, of opens shortly. course, refers to the courac.
☐ ย
After to-day's special motorinir offer, it is expected that it will be
"spring chicken" is that you can truer than ever to say that the Far
usually see the springs.
口 យ
A flongkong housewife forgot
to do her week's washing last
Saturday-she overlooked her hus
band's wrist-watch band.
ᄆᄆ
"Noted Cricket Dies Of Injuries" stated a newspaper poster. Prob ably got burnt on the hearth,
DD.
The week's mathematical pro- blem. If a Quad is an infant, how many infants does it take to des cribe a quadrant?
D
East Motors,
We understand that Peak Hotel
residents sang, hymns on the clos- ing night. Perhaps they felt they needed a revival.
Judging from the brighter Яinte of the local share market, there. should be a good crop of new bow- lers this winter.
The fishing season opened local- ly on Monday. So far, several anglers have lost the biggest fish Bowls and swimming by flood-over known in the history of the light is Hongkong's latest sports Colony every year.
novelty, Quite a lot of bowlera go off the deep end when it up.
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It is stated that numbers of blue-
The Walker Cup competition bottica have made their appearance on the Peak since the typhoon. seemed more like F runaway
Black and white bottles also came match.
out during the disturbance.
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"Guns Affect Exchange," says heading. The big ones used
to
Judging by some of the unfair
in Hongkong before the dollar criticism, it should be known as
was controlled,
the Hongkong Travail Association.