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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1937.
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Pedestrian Association, ask that the other people on the road be dealt with. They refuse even to think of foot bridges and sub- ̧
ways.
Their chief objection is that old people with weak hearts.or other folk who suffer from shortness of breath should not be expected to climb protective stairs.
On the other side, 600,000- membership Automobile A5-
that sociation complain
the walker escapes all weight of road legislation. The Royal Auto-. mobile Club say the same thing. Walkers are asked only to be good enough to behave. Other road users are ordered to do it under pain of breach of the law. Pedestrians who really prefer 1801 just ten million walkers under, and over seventy-five to use their feet to go places, or were counted. Walkers then More deaths occurred to each of do so by financial circumstance, were rent walkers. There were these dangerous periods than to answer with logic: "When we
N eighty-three road accidents out of a hun- dred in which pedestrians are concerned the pedes- trians were to blame.
Sir Philip Game, Comunist Hongkong Hotelsiner of rain on this is only a few horse-drawn vehicles, all the walkers between the ages run into you we don't knock you
issued a warning in annual
To-day we have 178,332 miles of eighteen and fifty. There down or dent your chassis." report published recently based
of road in the towns and coun- are about five million children The walker v. motorist or on these figures.
try. Then the figure was not under seven and eight hundred rider business is getting worse, The "suicidal wanderings of considerably smaller. But to- thousand men and women of not better. Tel. 27778/9 Stubbs Road walkers" will have to be checked day there are approximately two seventy-five and over.
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Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1937.
by law.
users.
WALKERS, ill protected
and provided for on
NE thing walkers have ONE
been promised, They
million private cars and half n million commercial vehicles walkers, are Ril WE
from the time we sharing the walkers' domain.
In thirty years we have only the road, cannot help looking at are to have adequate paths built leave the family front door until had 3,000 miles of road added other means of transport with along the 4,500 miles of main trunk roads now taken over by we have wheels beneath us.
and traffic has grown by 1,000 mixed feelings.
the State. One day, perhaps, Forty-five millions of us are per cent.
The other fellow, being better all ronds will be so equipped. walkers at some time of the day Pavements in those days were equipped, has the advantage,
And walkers in the embryo or night. Included are motorists, not thought necessary other says the walker. Therefore the are being taught at school to heavy vehicle drivers, motor than in thickly populated dis- other fellow should give way. look after themselves. They cyclists, cyclists, tricyclists, tricts. The length of pavements But the road
user who are taught that pedestrians' sins scooter fans, and other road added now represents not five employs mechanics feels that (as revealed in Whitehall blame
per cent. of the total of the the walker, having only his own sheets) are:- THE C.N.A.C. MISHAP
In the million years of walk- roads.
brakes to apply, should wait. 1. Crossing roads heedless of ing one law only has been made The first serious mishap to a to regulate pedestrians' conduct.
That ill feeling harasses the traffic; NOT surprising, there-
2. Using the road instead of plane lying out of Hongkong You can find it in the pedes-
fore, to read of the men who make our laws. The Eddy Duchin's Orchestra. has aroused feelings of sym-trian Crossing Places Regula- 100,000 rond accident analysis Government fear to inflict laws the pavement heedless of other 3. Walking or running out 29536-1 Can't Break The Habit Of You. F.T... "Fats" Waller's Orchestra.pathy not only with those who tions enforced only a year or two involving human injury recently on the man who goes by foot. types of road users;
collated by the Ministry of First he is most numerous, and Walkers must go over Belisha Transport.
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Then .Paul Whiteman's Orchestra. have been bereaved by the loss
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of Put it liberty
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Children at any rate are being Wallz......Xavier Cugal's Orchestra, also with the officials of the 23501-A Love Song Of Long Ago.
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port, whose first total road accidents. These keeping down the casualty list worry is the road and behaviour road smashes caused the death and preserving the life of the
were sometimes thoughtless walker. a disaster of this kind. The on it, confess that they have no of 2,560 people; half
powers over the pedestrian. walkera. mishap appears to have been
When the first official head.
champions The walker has two specially Xavier Cugat's Orchestra. due to combination of un-census was taken in Britain in dangerous ages-seven F.T.....Eddy Duchin's Orchestra. fortunate circumstances which F.T....."Fats" Waller's Orchestra. may never be encountered again. When the plane ran into rain squalls and dense fog, the pilot made an attempt to return to
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older universities.
Many of them have been to expen- preparation
for their projected sive public and preparatory schools. careers-at the Bar, for example, or From Arst to last their education has in medicine, or the works laboratory cost their fathers anything from-ore wasting their time and their £2,000 to £3,000. Not all, or near-parents' money.
asks
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himself a Cam-
bridge man, who discusses the prob- lem of the father who has to struggle to send his son to Oxford or .Cam- bridge.
Hongkong, but in the meantime the weather had become equally bad behind, and as it was im- possible to proceed in any direc tion. Captain Smith was left with no option but to make a forced landing nt SCA. Un- happily, the machine was caught in a trough between huge waves,
SOME of the most thoughtful her nose broken and she over-
and disappointed people in turned. All but three members
|England at the moment are the of the crew managed to cling to parents of hundreds of young the wrecked plane until rescued.
men who, at an average cost of Captain Smith, though injured, nearly £1,000, have just com-
Not all made a gallant but fruitless at-pleted three years at one of the
stinting and scraping and real sacri- gives a young man in the process of products of the older universities tempt to save the Chinese radio
fice. So that their sons may spend, doing so. They have been shielded are free from social pretensions and operator, and was himself un-
sion towards the workaday. It is But
On the strength of this agreeable three years at Oxford or Cambridge, from reality too long; and now the manner of insufferable condescen-
not they have overworked, gone without impact of reality will hurt them. conscious when picked up.
surprising that a number of holidays, denied themselves small)
There may be a job awaiting them employers do not find this altitude for his skill in most untoward experience, a degree of sorts, and a
liberal education (tno often comforts, and practice in thelrin a family business or through ingratiating. circumstances, the whole of cuphemism for a total lack of voca- homies E rigid economy affecting family influence. But probably there
What have these young men, even training), these those on board might have been tional
relarded every member of the family-except is no job. Parents may be able to those of proved ability and capacity for hard work, learned in comparison afford a further outlay in order to with what the world could have lost. In the conditions prevail-adolescents expect the social system the favoured undergradunte.
to provide them with attractive and- Is it worth it? countless parents begin to train-at the age of 221-taught them in the same impression- What have they gained ing. he appears to have done
have asked themselves, and with a their sons to earn a living. It often able years? well-paid work,
new insistence in recent years. The happens that no more money can bo which any one of the younger uni- everything humanly possible to
versities could not have given them answer to that question is-yes and spent.
at infinitely less cast? How minimise the disaster. It is, un-
For a surprisingly' large number their parents' sacrifice be justified? happily, impossible for aviation British Navy was able to play
In the case of an exceptional boy, of parents when they decide, at a concerns to guarantee absolute a useful part in rescue opera- with a fine mind and, above all, a de- cost of £300, a year, to send their immunity from mishaps, but,tions, whilst the Chinese Mari-Anite bent, It is immeasurably worth sons to Oxford or Cambridge, look
any rate, for those who are not Customs when we bear in mind the ex-time
also while. Any suerifiee is well repaid no farther than the end of the uni- FOR most of these graduates-at patrol
which gives an Asquith, on F. E. versity course. They have tried to sons of rich men--the wiser and tent to which flying has de- | rendered valued aid of a similar Sml, or a Master of Balliol such as do their best for their sons; but they happler course would have been to cannot escape a heavy shore cf res-start at 18 or earlier equipping them- All praise is due to Jowett his chance of greatness. velop in recent years and the character.
selves for a useful and permanent ponsibility for the results. tremendous milcage covered the officers and men of these
Sham Competition Yet look at the handicap for the
It is idle to pretend that more undergraduate who has worked hard than a few, a very few, are capable every day by regular services, services, the percentage of serious ac- Chilang lighthouse-keeper for NOBODY questions the value of a with a view to entering one of the of pronting from the best that Oxford well-trained mind: but there learned professions. If his parents or Cambridge can give one in ten, cidents is amazingly low. The his ready assistance to those in must first be a mind to train. Eight are unable to and the money to perhaps, of those who go there. C.N.A.C. has held a fine record nced of help. Their timely ne-out of ten of the young men of the launch hun in a practice, he has to
But so long as innumerable Uncle older universlties are gaining in- in this respect, and the un- tion, as well as that of Chinese initely less in three years from their start three years late, lacking the Williams continue to talk of their fortunate occurrence which has fishermen in the vicinity, helped experience than they would gain in valuable experience he might obtain three years at the university as the
the fiction a single year in the world of real ed in his profession during that applest of their lives; so long or persists that academie now happened should in no way materially in preventing a major as opposed to sham competition, perlod.
education can profitably be con- lessen
For what have these graduates of tinued, except in the case of a tiny public confidence in disaster, the only sad feature
They are not scholars: they never 22 to offer a prospective employer? minority, until the age of 22; so long
By snobbish considerations prevail În · this capably-manned, efficiently of which is that three of the will be. They are incapable of They are too old and, in many cases, countl homes, so long will the equipped and well-run service. personnel of the operating com-academic distinction, ineligible for too intractable, to teach. They have older universities contain a large Once again, as in many another pany should have lost their the plum it bringe. Those and no specialised knowledge, no market-population of young men who, to al they are a majority-who are not able qualifications. They are com- intents and purposes are wasting
П the lives whilst at the post of duty. undergoing Junfortunate
practical course of plotely ignorant even of the rudf-three years out of their lives.
ly all, these fathers are well-to-do. They have missed two of the ments of administrative work and
Country parsons, doctors, Civil Ser-greatest vants, struggling business men could, necessity to earn a living at an early They are fortunate if that is the if they chose, tell pathetic stories of age and the experience which life extent of their handicap.
educational factors-the elementary industrial processes.
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