THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,* NOVEMBER 15, 1937.
GIVE CHILDREN FAIR START
Blacklisted
Schools Must Go:
Film
Shows
Way
Two films that will do nothing but good were shown at a Press view recently in London. They were made by John Grierson and the Realist Film Unit for the Gas Industry.
"Children at School" tells of our latest efforts to provide schools according to modern standards and of the very long way we have still to go before we can boast of giving Britain's 6 million children a fair start in life.
The opening shots show dictator- run countries bring up their children -drill-sergeants is instructors and marching for exercise. A demuernry can still allow its children to groN
EXILES TO VOTE
up as indykiuals--but given the IN RUSSIA
right surroundings. .
Next we see the progress that our LUXURY BOOTHS FOR few nursery schools are making, the
toys and playrooms provides), the rest hours, medical supervision, men-wİN classes and large-windowed behoo] - -
FODAIS,
ELIMINATING SHYNESS
Then come the infant schools for children between the ages of live and seven.
ELECTORS
ARMCHAIRS AND
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ASPIDISTRAS ·
decree.
Here they learn clar.
sprelat
those reading and talking. The teachers sentenced to exite, with or without encourage children not to be shy by compulsory labour, are required to allowing them to take the classes and | volé in fire first Soviet General tell stories of their own invention. Election, on Dec. 12. This franchier is not extended to those actually At playtime the children are en- Imprisoned or interned izs penal couraged to imitate-grown-ups; the ¦ labour camps, nur to those deprived girls do the woshing, the boys are of elvle rights by Court sentences. clerks or policemen.
Junior schools and senior schools follow the teaching based on freedom, self-reliance and the importance of the arts, with an emphasis on doing and making things.
THEORY-And practiCE
The theory is admirable, but the practice, as this film shows, is appal- ingly handicapped by surroundings,
¦
The haste with which provincin party authorities nominated finir foen) dectoral commissions is already reusing some ennfusion, According to the official party organ. Pravda. this led to a large number of "evil serpents" ex-Right Wingers and ro forth-being nominated.
For instance, the local parly bossex of Rostavi, a region of White Russia. japprrently playing for safety, chote A thousand schools in this coun- lent State Prosecutor in preside try are still on the black 1st. The over their cunsmission, but are now schools are condemned as insani-curtly informed by the central auth- tary and even dangerous. Cracks I
orities that this comende ingan enemy in walls are not mended. ceilings of the people."
are shored up."
Impressive arrangements have been made to make plectors hanby and.
These will go in time. but fter confortable while voting. Wälting-j
JAPAN IS LIKE A MONSTER
A COLD BLOODED MURDER
RADIO BROADCAST
Relay of the Hongkong Hotel Orchestra
LONDON RELAYS
- Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on Wavelength of 355 metres metres (0.02 (845 k.e.'s), 31.40 m.c.'s).
HI.K.T.
12.0-12.20 p.m. Relny of Special Service from St. John's Cathedral.
12.30 Songs by Ginger Rogers Ion't This A Lovely Day; The Piccolino; Cheek To Check (From)
Top Hat'),
12.40 Latest Dance Records.
Looking For Fox-TratsYou're Romance, In Cheery Blossom Lane. Eddie Carroll and The Casani Club Orchestra; Tangos Novia,! Tipicn Besconflate..... Orquesta Francisco Camaro; Quickstep-Don't You Care What Anyone Says; Słow
yone Fox-Trot-When Two Love Each Gerry Moore (Piano); Fox-Trot-I've Got My Love To Keep Me Waran (Film 'Un Avenue'). .... Roy Fox and Is Orchestra.
Other
10 Local Time Signal and Weather Report.
1.03 Compositions by Franz Leḥar. The Land Of Smited-Selection. .... London Theatre Orchestra cos- ducted by Ernest Irving: Loveliest Of Women; My Every Thought, My] One Desire (from 'Giuditta"). Richard Riber (Tenor); 'Gipsy Love Selection..... De Groot and
Gold
and Silver, Waltz
His Orchestra;
The Bohemia Orchestra; "Count of Luxembourg Waltz... Marek
Weber and His Orchestra.
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Local;
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New York's funted Chinatown held a colourful parade nok, wg day to gather fund for refugees in China and crowds thronged the narrow but Bag-decked streets, turing money to the marchers. These Boy Scouts, who took part in the parade, carried placards denouncing the Japanese.
CABINET MINISTERS AND
THEIR FINANCIAL RESOURCES
that there are still the thousands of rooms for voters in Mosrow have been Men Who Have To Be "Careful”
well-built but badly lighted, heated furnished
and kitunted
with octagonal tables. mineteenth-cenu covered with handsome cloth, schools to be replaced. This will take a long time unless the public is leetric lights with imitation bronze awakened by such useful propagdatings are suspended over the tables. as this film.
The lampshades are of silk, delicate. ly coloured.
In this field the News Chronicle na alrendy taken the lead by Schools Architectural organising Competition. After that no, local council will have the face to build again a dark, fil-planned school with small windows, cramped playgriamds. CHILD VALUE RISING
We must see no more schools built
Before well-padded divans chessboards on small Aspidistras and palms on
rice the corners of the rooms."
About Money
With the approval of the Prime Minister, the Conservative tables, Central Office are setting up a commission to encourage into political stands life people "without money," write a Dully Express reporter.
The polling booths are all Atted It is felt that, as Mr. Douglas Hacking, chairman of the party, with a chair and table, an inkstant, put it recently, "It would be disastrous if the House of Commons tableland-curtains in consisted entirely of rich men and women." shades, arranged along carpeted corridors. These we provided with
plants,
easy chairs and adorned with rubbery many members of the Cabinet Bexhill, likes "earning his bread."
Pravda writes: On Dec. 12 from can be called rich men? from the
Are we ruled by the rich now? He is in business, runs an hotel at
WORK FOR LIVING
Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Domi-
alongside railway lines, with shunt ling trucks drowning the teacher's words, Schools must have more washi Basins than three in ones between was, until midnight, 160 children and the Ink must not be Baltic to the Facile, from Batum io are "poor," although the "minimum nions Secretary, also has to work for
The answer is: Very few. Some allowed again to freeze in the class Rudo Island in the Arctic, more wage is now £5,000, room inkwells.
than a hundred million wil vote
Mr. Neville Chamberlain, for in-his living, in or out of office. When With fewer children being born Belly, each visiting the polling stance, has a small income of his not in office, he is a lecturer and ench year some statisticians suy trade union ticket and being checked silury as Premier, but in private life
lilee and presenting his passport of own, upart from his £10,000 a year journailst and works pretty hard that ten years there are
The Marquis of Zelland, India million fewer children-the value of off on the list as having aeltally re- has to go carefully in money Secretary, is described by his friends inch child rises. A nation decorded his or her vote.
matters. Out of office he runs a very as "fairly well of." He, loo, likes pends on its children. We cannot
modest car, confines his luxuries to the simple life, and does not throw afford to ignore them.
simple things like gardening, fishing, money about. reading.
That is the message of this, Alm that is shortly to be shown publicly and privately throughout the coun- try. All parents should-see, it 10 know what can be done for their children-und what is so often being done.
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1.40 Variety.
Voen Vienna Blood Selection
(Joh. Strauss)... Maria Hester
(Soprano), Herbert E. Groh (Tenor)
and Max Schipper (Tenor); Come-
BRHH !!
dian-You Can't Go Away Like That; IT'S CHILLY THINK
Weeping Willow..... Max Miller
Orchestral-Vicano In Springtime I'LL WEAR MY TWEED
(Pelost): Your Heart Called Mine (Edgar Lewinnek Hayon).
Campoli and is Marinba Tango Orchestra; Vocal-Cryin' y lleart Out For You (Johnson and Hopkins); Lullaby (Alm 'Let's Sing Again').
Kitty Masters: Orchestral Die Czurdosfurstin-Potpourri.
Edith
Lorand and Her Viennese Orchestra; Lovely To Kiss Waltz (Dicker).
Orchestra Mascotte,
2.16 Close down.
6-8.05 European Programme. 8.05-1.1 p.m. Chinese Programme. 5.0 Relay of the Daner Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hong- Kong Hotel,
6.30
and
Children's Records. Children's Overture (Quilter). New Light Symphony Orches- tra; Ferdie Bear (Fyleman Dunhill): (a) Introducing Ferdle-- Mother Bear's Sleep Song', (b) Ferdle goes to Fairyland-What the Fairy Queen song.
Told by Rose Fyleman; Singer: Winifred Bury; Thomas Dunhill (Piano).
6.45 Songs by Herbert Groh (Tenor).
Waler Lilies (Dobrindi-Zander);; Sunshine In Spring; Let My Love: Fill Your Heart (im "The Voice of The Heart');
....
Alexandre Kot-
6.59 A Concert of Russian Music Prince Igor Ballet Dances (Bord- din)..... The B.B.C. Wireless Mill- tary Band: Gypsy Caravan; Russian Medley Of Folk Songs (Traditionnt- arr, Sorokin). Sorokin Russlan Cholr; Hopak, .Melodle Russe (Moussorgsky). .... Bitzky (Tenor).
Four Russian Folk Dances (Lladow), (u) Legend of the Birds; (b) Cradle Song; (c) A Round Dance; (d) Village Dance Song. Leopold Stokowsk and the Philadel pha Orchestra; The Ballad Of The 12 Brigands (Russian Folk Song); Russian Soldier's Song..... Michail Gilowsky (Bass).
1.33 Variety.
Mr. Ormsby Gore, Colonial Secre His predecessor, Earl Ballwin, had tary, is in the same category, and for years a privale income of only so are Sir Thomas Inskip, Defence 7.30 Closing local Stock Quotations £3,000 a year. The iron and steel Minister, und Mr. Duff Cooper, First and Hongkong Exchange Market boom hus improved this recently.
Report Lord of the Admiralty. The Chancellor of the Exchequer,
7.35 When somebody asked Mr. Leslie at Smoking On Mess Deck Sir John Simon, who handles thou-Hare-Bellaha, War Minister, if he
Orchestral Little Piccaninny Mine sands of millions for the nation, were a rich man, he replied in hurt
(Vernon): I'm All Alone. (Feiner The Admiralty, dealing with the made large income at the Bar, but tones: "I most certainly am not!" He and May). .... Les Allen and His
Canadian The other. Illm, which was shown test batch of requests from naval has not practised for years, and bus dresses well, runs a smart car and
Bachelors: Humorous first, is called "The Smoke Mence."ings, under the review Service to keep up appearances" on a fair-establishment on his £5,000, has a Sketch-Sandy The Delective..... It tells of the waste, inefficiency and conditions, rejects the request that ly lavish scale. His private Income small private income.
Sandy Powell & Company; Plano Il-health that come from not using beer should be carried in British runs into four figures--but not very
Heute Nacht Oder Nie!; I Wait For You (Spollansky)***
Mischa Spollusky: Organ-O Sole Mio (D) Camua); La Paloma (Yradier). .... Horst Schimmelpfennig.
naval vessels.
far.
Considerations Involved in reach
RICHEST MEMBER
ย
and burnlag coal in the proper way,
Lord Swinton, Air Minister, is pro- Soot swept into the atmosphere
INHERITED WEALTH represents a loss of nearly 10 per ing the decision, it is stated, included
bably easily the richest man in the space for stowage, weight and replen- the Council, is a rich man. He in- Lloyd
Lord Halifax. Lord President of Cabinet. He used to be Sir Philip cent, of the original value of the coal.shment.
Greame, lic changed his It means time and labour wasted in Inundering and window cleaning,
It is also announced that general herited wealth and vast estates from name to Cunille-Lister in 1824, as a
his father, a Yorkshire landowner.
of approval cannot be given to smoking
a bequest, said to be condition corrosion of stonework und bricks,
Lord Hailsham, Lord Chancellor several million pounds, from on mess decks, on hygienic grounds, loss of sunlight and so loss of the Commanders-in-Chie, are, hinwever, (£10,000), earned big money at the reintlive. He also has extensive in- Important vitamin D that protects | cinpowered to authorise relaxation of Bar, and is "comfortably of.". He terests in coal and other businesses young children from disease and this rule in special circumstances, or lives his private life in modest style!
in small ships when weather condi- in Suasex. tions prevent use of spaces normally Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary, Health Minister, Mr. Ernest Brown, set upart for smoking.
is rich. His money gives him a good Labour Minister, Mr. Lestle Burgin, income, in office or out-with or Transport Minister, and Mr. Walter without his £5,000 asa Minister. Ellot (Scottish Secretary), from the But I do not thinks he is a million- Cabinet's "necessitous pren." All nire.
have to work for their livings--and
rickets.
MILLIONAIRE REMEMBERS
Queen Mary
HIS FAMILY Sister Ship:
(To Cut Them Ont)
in
1939 Launch
day.
Mr. W. 8. Morrison, Minister of Agriculture, SI Kingsley Wood.
Mr. Anthony Eden, Foreign Secre- "pretty strenuously at that," as one Lary, whose
Sir of them said to me, father-in-law, Gervase Beckett, the banker, has The richest man in. the Govern- just left a fortune of aver £1,000,000, ment, Cabinet or jurnior offices in has only moderate wealth, but his Sir Philip Sassoon, First Commis- wife has a handsome Income of her sioner of Works, ife lives in prince- own But the Edens do not live in ly style in Park-line, W., has great favish style; they prefer a "quietiah" estates in various parts of the coun- ille.
try, owns priceless art treasures, But he has never, so far, reached the front rank in polities,
Lord De La Warr, Lord Privy Seal, s no private income worth nothing,
Boston To Have Book Fair
New York, Oct. 18. "We are hoping to launch the New York, Oct. 14. Queen Mary's sister ship in the Edward Filene,
American autumn
of 1939," said Sir Percy millionaire, who died In Paris last Dates, chairman of the Cunard- month, maintained his dislike of White Stur Company, before sailing
Poison Gas Used On leaving fortunes to relatives and for England in the Queen Mary to- friends until his death.
Animals "Rather appropriately," he added, Sevenal years ago the bulk of his "she will probably make her maiden
Istanbul, Turkey. fortune, amounting to £1,000,000, voyage in. the company's centenary Plans for the first book fair ever 10] Istanbul police are using rifica The held in Boston are now under way, which are polson gas capsules in was turned over to a foundation, to year 1940."Heuter, which he gave his weekly salary.
Known as No. 552, the Queen I will be held the week of Nov. 8. their campaign to rid the clty of Mary's sister ship is being built at The Retail Board of Trade of the stray dogs and cats. The powerful To-day his will was filed, He Mesars. John Brown's shipyard at Boston Book Merchants is sponsoring gas anaesthetizes the strays, which Jeft £400,000. Relativer received Clydebank. She will be the biggest the fair in conjunction with the fire removed and painlessly dis- £15,000. The rest went to charity. ship in the world.
Boston Herald.
troyed:
**Boston+
8.0 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 Chinese Programme Relay from the Lee Theatre.
11.0 Close down.
8.05-11.0 European Programme from ZEK on Frequency of 640 Kilacycles.
8.05 Symphonio Espagnole For Violla and Orchestra (Lalo-Op. 21),
Bronislaw Hubermon (Violin) and| the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Georg Szell.
8.30 Songs by Gigli (Tenor). Mi Par D'Udir Ancora ('I ̧Pesca" |
La tor di Perle'-Bizet); Vesti Glubba
Pagliaccio. Mie Marito (1 Pugliacci Leoncavallo).
8.42 Light Orchestral. 'Der Freisebutz-Potpourri (Weber); An
Liszt Evening With (Urbach)..... Marck Weber and Ils Orchestra.
0.0 London Relay-'Empire Ex- change.
Points of view by travellers from the Dominions and Colonies.
0.15 London Relay Musical Variety.
9.80 London Relay-Tho News, 9.40 Debroy Somers Band. Overture. '1014-A War March Memory (arr. Debroy Somers); | Fonfere-Sélection; Archibald Joyce,
Waltzes. (arr, Debroy Somera).
· 10.10 Variety, VoenWhen I
French Learni (Thomson); The Laugh Was On Mo
(Continued on Pape 5.)
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