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Salute To A
MODERN
CLIPPER
of the THE decision
British Air Ministry to
without any trouble or complica-invité Pan-American Air- tion to yourself. delivered
in Hongkong.
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to you at home and subsequently ways, at the urgent request of the Hongkong Govern- ment,
their to extend services to this Colony is
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The
most important local trans- portation developments of
Phone 27778/9. this century.
The first of the Pan- American planes, the Philippines Clipper, arrives
Hongkong Telegraph.in Hongkong to-day.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1936.
Her present visit is not on nor-
making event from the fact that
The linking of the Pan- American Airways System with Imperial Airways not only means that it will be soon possible to fly around the globe by an all British- American airway or simply
By
A.
Eddy
We
WELCOME TO THE CLIPPER
This time, however, the Hongkong will be happy to
Americans are greeted on the day to welcome the Philippines
coast of East Asia by the Bri- Clipper, giant plane of Pan-that technical arrangements
tish, not as competitors, but as The first of the "Clipper" NOW history is about to repeat collaborators, giving an example American Airways, on her have
been effected for
itself. Not in the way of of co-operation in matters of ships, the "Rainbow," after a arrival in this British Colony transferring mails and return trip to China, lasting huge profits which are getting international transport.
passengers from one airway eight months, earned two more and more difficult to make
are especially fortunate. mal schedule, but it is an epoca: to the other. The agree- considering all costs of build- of America into international here in Hongkong to witness
hundred per cent, on her voyage, every day, but in the re-entry
the historical moment uniting the Clipper is the first aircraftment between London and lng. while the first pepper ship transport on a large scale,
the two Anglo-Saxon nations in Giant "Clipper Ships" infinite- a commercial partnership which ever to have called here after New York to work together from the Dutch East Indies re- turned to America with a profit
ly faster and much
more is no doubt the forerunner of a That she in the matter of interna- of 700 per cent.
beautiful than the clippers of still closer political union des- has made the long trip with ational air services in reality That was the golden age of hundred years ago, are ready tined to have a stabilising in- large number of passengers signifies the beginning of a the "clippers," some of which, to invade again the Orient from fluence on world politics.
the "Sulem Frigate," the direction of America to join aboard is a tribute to the new era of co-operation like
"Architect," "Flying Cloud" and harids with the mighty British reliability of a service which has between the British Empire Witch of the Wave," were well air fleet connecting all parts of done immensely valuable pioneer and the United States of known to the shipping of the an
Empire on which the sun never sets. work in linking East with West. America. But the chief value and signifi- cance of the visit is that it payes
crossing the Pacific.
the way to the institution of a regular mail and passenger ser- vice between the United States
k
FOR a century and half
East Asia was the scene
of many exciting commer-
seven seas.
TESTS OF ABILITY
and Hongkong, vin Manifa. The cial engagements between Where the Exam. System Fails development is one of high im-British and American ship-
this
near
chance
no
Translated into a more con- crete language, regular air between the transportation United States and China means that we are soon to witness the formation of a new travel artery through which there will flow a' growing stream of wealth in the shape of"high" ̄ ̄quality- travel,
necessary.
It means that busy executives and wealthy Americans who have hitherto found it im- HAT the result of any examination The old classical education per- purtance, since it is the first steppers. It was here on the T is a yard stick by which we can
formed this function in a limited possible to visit the East simply measure the candidate's ability way. Latin composition and Latin because they could not spare in opening up Hongkong as an China Coast that American seems, from the report just issued by translation were definite tests of cuts the necessary time, will now.
But it was committee a special English airport for the use of foreign fast sailing vessels called "clip-
on centration and ability. examinations, highly
doubtful, only a certain type of ability that re-be able to do so within a month differences were relyed any nourishment from these
in less time if planes, 1: is a particularly pers" raced, in the beginning Extraordinary
of the nineteenth century, the shown in the marking of papers by tasks. Those with ability of another or later even
sort were simply left to starve. different examiners and different happy circumstance that
merchant fleet of the British, boards of examiners.
The marks The introduction of other subjects
the effort originated, first, to give
un- As pointed out again and facility should be first availed of carrying tea, timber, ginseng, awarded 21 to 10 out of 100, or classical something to do; and modern again, air communication is not
to one particular by an American concern. thus pond-ice, furs, fire-water, arms, the difference between success with education has been developed out of
a struggle between the stalwarts of so much a competitive as it is indicating wise and promising glass beads, etc., both, con-honour and fallure with Ignominy.
The importance of this question is the classical tradition and those who a complementary development.
more functional Anglo-American co-operation in tributing most powerfully to the far from being merely academic. It pressed for the sphere of commercial avia-commercial development of their means that the whim of an examiner approach; between those who would liberating travel forces which can alter the whole life of a boy or icach the future butcher the odes of have been hitherto immobilised Horace, and those who thought he girl. tion. This co-operation will be respective countries.
Many Industrialists insist on their ought to know something about ment. on account of the length of time further illustrated in the
China has especially been a funiors possessing the school certif- THE REAL TEST.
necessary to cover the desired. future when the trans-Atlantic momentous factor in the mak-cate. It is an essential for entering
*This struggle has been distinctly itinerary by surface transporta- which British anding of the United States, and the universities and the professions. service, in
But the
verdict of
solution has tion. Shorter travel hours and anhealthy, even if American interesta are. uniting, many of America's well-known examiner dictates the calling of the emerged; and the fact that it is the more leisure mean that people
hoy-or-girk Those who fail in that manner in which a new problem is will be instituted. When that families, like the Astor, Macy exam, are generally classed na dull, tackled that is the only real test of will have more time for sight- and others, owe their rise to and unless their parents have some ability has been gradually recognised. service is in operation, Hongkong. the immense returns of the powerful influences, may have all The essay occupies a far more Im-secing, shopping and enjoying thanks to the link which it will early China trade,
their ambitions nipped in the bud. portant place both in the school and the attractions available in the
The thought. at once occurs, exam. curricula than it ever did be-! places visited by them. enjoy as a result of the Clippers
whether there is anything wrong with fore.
There is thus in these extra- the examiners themselves. But they calling here, will figure in the
whole, sincere men are, ns
and ordinary discrepancies evidence, not round-the-world route. Already, the not distant future it
women, anxious to perform their of slackness or
n lowering of the SITUATED as it is at the very gate of China, Hongkong is, this Colony is within ten days' become the Croydon of the Far double duty to the individuals they standard, but of a distinct advance. are examining and to the standard There must be some individuality in Their only paper, that produces such widely range of London on the regular East. The Colony is fortunate they have to maintain. service maintained by Imperialin having as its chief executive a fault is that they are human beings, different opinions from different sets by hor sheer geographic loca- of examiners; there may even be tiop, destined to develop soon genius. And it la individuality that into the most important inter-
culti- Airways-a time which will be Governor who is thoroughly air- TEACHING TO THINK
our educational system must
national air centre of East Asia. considerably lessened in the minded, one who, on his arrival
And that, I think, brings us to the vale.
There The great danger of the exam. Is Just what material advantages near future and the Clipper here, was quick to realise the core of the whole problem.
is only one type of examination that standardisation; that the examiners service to this Colony will make wisdom of a policy of attracting can produce exact results-where the become not recording angels but Hongkong will dorive from be- There recording robota, So long as in- ing an international air centre it possible to do the trip either to as many air lines to Hongkong test is a purely factual one,
can be no different sets of markings dividuality is preserved and nourish- from the United States in as possible. It is in large inex- on the date of William the Conqueror: ed at school, we need not worry too depends entirely on the efforts
is not K Ackle due to His Excellency's But exams. of this kind are useless, much about the results. The world which will be made by us to
*the. They test only
candidate's In the long run
induce air travellers to stop over We also enjoy about a week.
examiner. the link with Australia, and soon foresight and practical outlook memory and application, and to know
That is not to say that the authori- in this port. a particular date is no criterion of
ties should not continue to strive there will be planes regularly fly-that the arrangements were con-ability of any sort.
The Hongkong Government As modern education advances, the after exams, that provide a fairer The results of this ing between Hongkong and cluded for ensuring the Colony whole tendency is to get more and test of ability.
But hns secured this all important China. Thus Hongkong is fast direct aerial contact with the more away from these kinds of tests. Inquiry prove that they must.
The object of education is not to what they also show quite clearly is air connection for the Colony, in on new juniors to paper results. difficulties, and it is up to us to which the Colony is entitled by the Philippines Clipper to-day tion of ill-sorted and mainly useless prefer his own judgment in taking face of almost unsurmountable facts that are forgotten as soon as The examiner may be quite as wrong make the best of a golden op- reason of its geographical post-marks the first step towards the school days are over, but to teach
child to "think," to apply the mind as any one else.
portunity. A. D: MACEWIN. tion, with the prospect that in realisation of that objective.
to a given problem..
or
sure
will
not recording machines.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.aining a place in civil aviation to United States. The coming of store child's brain with a collec- that the prospective employer thound
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