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WEDNESDAY, FERNUARY 23, 1038.
PUBLIC HEALTH
PROTECTION
A woman who had spent a week in gaol, on remand, was released yesterday, a charge of¦ having deposited the body of her 15-year-old son in a lane having been dismissed. The boy died of smallpox. A second charge, that she had failed to notify the proper authorities that her two children had con- tracted smallpox, was also dis- missed, and the woman caution- ed. The reports of the police! court proceedings did not men-
DON'T GO WEST, YOUNG MAN!
Strube in the Daily Express
Four successful men tell the secret of-
How to earn
W
£1,000
E
a year
can't all earn £30,000 a year— the income, rough- Only
tion what became of the secondly, of a millionaire.
child, also a victim of the 800 people in this country
epidemic. Presumably it, too,
had died; or else it is being earn that.
cared for by the Government as
Yet we can take the ad-
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. both children would have been vice of successful men and
York Building
GALA. PREMIERE
FRIDAY @
Chater, Road.
QUEEN'S
HER DIARY TOLD IT ALL!
Sixty years
aqueen..and overy day a woman
madly
In fove!
·
ICTORIA The GREAT
Anna.
Anton
NEAGLE WALDBOOK E. B. WARNER SEA WALTER BILLA
Oneofthemost astonishing women who
ever wore a crown lives again In one
- the greatest pictures aver made With many wondrous scones. TECHNICOLOR
in the first place had their un-) fortunate mother only had the use it. presence of mind, or courage, to Henry Ford, they say, is
condition.. report their
Un-worth £100,000,000. This is fortunately some of the Chinese what he says: in the Colony have a deeply-
rooted disinclination to notifying "Start in a small way and watch
WHAT THEY
SAID
NUFFIELD: The only road to success is hard work.
̈ ̈STAMP:~~The man who~riscz
to £1,000 a year is the one who
In five years' time the full train- ing force of our one-hundred-mil- llon-pounds-a-year educational sya- tem will be turned on them.
For ten years after that they'll be Bling out their repertoire; learning to memorise signs to help them read, write and work out sums.
Those ten years over many of those 2,000 boys and girls will begin new training in the trades and pro- fessions. The clever ones in the class will stay on for a few more years..
But oven the dunces will have done well. They'll have a far greater knowledge and range of triclus in January 1850 than the yhad twenty years before.
That's the way to train human beings
Improves on his natural abilities. Do your Own Thinking
SELFRIDGE: The secret of success is the absence of complete satisfaction,
FORD: Build something better. and sell it cheaper than ever be- fore.
by eloser attention to his job and by the Medical Department when the work yourself. Let a man start looking ahead."
out in life to build something better
THERE is, however, one flaw
in our methods of training, We give our students to much to learn that they tend to use their brains to memorize instead of using them to think.
not
The reason most people are more successful than they are is that they nequired the habit, In their
their people contract diseases.and sell it cheaper than it has ever The Mind is a Sifter early years of learning. of letting
This prejudice may be the out-been cold before and the money will growth of fear or ignorance, or rall in so fast it will bury him if he both, but in any event it is a doesn't look out." condition which must be swiftly remedied. If the prosecution of this advice:- the mother mentioned above
other people think for them. Now, it is difficult to pay
At the beginning of their careers close attention to anything they have wide knowledge. But so when the mind has not been trained have all their competitors. Another great motor magnate gives to concentrate. We have so many thoughts and ideas that it needs a definite effort to keep them apart. Henry C. Link, the New York psy chologist, sald recently:-
Those are Lord Nufeld's wards.
The only road to success is hard has dono no more, it has work, and, of course, forcaight. It is given publicity to a deplor- not always the men who've had an able state of affairs which, expensive education who do things.”. as long as it exists, will make the fighting of epidemica a nightmare for authority, and undo much of the good work carried out in combatting dia!
Mr. Selfridge. passes on advice given him by his mother. He sayą:
Look Ahead TOW many people really HOW
look ahead? Those of us who are not so young to-day have "If we remembered everything seen great industries spring up in our minds would be a jumble of our own lifetime, Motor-car and undigested matter. The mind airplane manufacture, the telephone, serves as a sifter."
radio, electricity, uztificial slik-ali these and other Industries have given Sometimes we let our subconscious to men and women brand-new op- "Success? The secret of it is the thoughts interfere with our actions portunities for success, pe entire absence of any feeling of com- The result can be embarrassing.
Many of the unknowns. of to-day, plete siisfaction. My mother gave
A certain well-known hostess, those who are looking ahead, train- me a philosophy: To travel hopefully entertaining the millionaire banker lng themselves and learning now What must be brought home is better than to arrive, and true suc- J. P. Morgan to ten, was scared that tricks which will lift them out of the 'class of ordinary performers, are to the Chinese community is the ceas is labour."
her small daughter would remark on making themselves the famous men necessity for co-operation in
and women of to-morrow.. matters concerned with the pro- Stamp, railway chief and economist. But the child behaved well and
A fourth great man, Sir Josiah the size of his nose. tection of public health. For He said last year: instance, if a neighbour learns
onge.
It is possible to work and wait for In time went off to bed. Molher success. But for those who work virtually
"There must always be £300-a-smiled with relief and, turning to and train for it there is that a certain family is afflicted year men. But the man who is going the banker, asked brightly, "Would “no waiting."
year is the one you like sugar or ezcwm in your. with a dinonec which should be to rise to £1,000 notified, it is obviously that who improver on his natural abilities noso?" neighbour's duty, na n citizen, :
The man or woman who has not
Inability
think clearly line
coaching & £1,000-n-year Job,
Never Stop Training
to report the matter. It does bour, not directly affected by learned to think clearly cannot hope not mean trouble for the victim the misfortune of his fellow be a succoss of the discuse, but protection citizen, who falls to do his dúty and probably cure, if help ar- and report the presence of dis-ruined many a man's chances of ever riven in time. No magistrato enso, especially in times of will be apt to convict a mother epidemic, le much more to be or a father who, in the confusion blamed than a worried parent. IF we could keep up the and terror of the moment, for- If pudlahment is ever merited twenty yours of our lives, wo should pace that is set in the first grets or omits to report a netis- for failure to roport, it is in all be more successful, po
Think how thoroughly wo The law is not such Instances. Here again. able diacaso.
trained during that time, designed so much to punish ignorance may play a part, and offences as to prevent them. it is the responsibility of those in this country to-day (same num
About 2,000 Liables will be born The Chinese should know that who know the regulations, as ber ne are born every elber day in
oll as the authorities con- the yaar)..... they can expect sympathy in woll as the
amfletions; and that por-corned, to educate the ignorant, it won't be long before they will secution has no place in the ad-particularly the new-comer to have to start learning a few tricks
· Their parents will be tenching ministration of British justico, Hongkong, who may never have them to talk and walk and do all here or elsewhere. The neigh- heard of a public health service. the stomentary things.
ERY WILCOX
their
are
A
They began small
LONG: list can be made of famous people who started life in obscurity,
Hitler was a house painter;
·Mussolini a mason; Ramsay Mac- Donald 1008 a farm hand, so, too. was Henry Ford
Sir Harry Lauder worked in a pit, and Sir Harry McGowan, head of Imperial Chemical Industries, was once a clerk in a Glasgo
More than half the 140 prest dental and vice-presidents of America' rallionys began as tele- praph boys or workers on the line, All these are bien talo non- centrated on what the toned and" kept on working for Lon Ass
THE VERY IDEA"
WE DON'T WANT TO STIRRUP TROUBLE
BUT WE'RE DETERMINED.
TO WRITE ABOUT THE RACES AGAIN TO-DAY-
N
By Eddie “Whoa, Boy!" Kelly
HAVE you
joined the
Back to the Horse movements?
"In other words, how much did you lose out at Happy Valley yesterday?
You might be interested to hear that we are one of the very fow people in Hongkong who have had a really successful career on the turf.
When we say we have had a successful career on the turf, we 'don't want any of your nasty in-
alnuations. S
"
A lot of strange incidents are connected with our sporting career.
For histance, five years ago wo dreamt that a horse named Strike Mo Pink would win the Derby, To everyone's surprisa it didn't, there being no horse of that name in the
race..
Last year we found an infallible system for winning at the races. In a race with five ponies, wo aak five friends to put ten bucks each. on a pony for us. You can't loso that way, capecially If you can keep out of the way of the people who backed the losers for you. ***
The first races wero held at Happy Valley in 1845, and a lot of money was placed on the favourite, which came in in 1847 and was promptly disqualified for being over
nge.
Happy Valley is about 1 milen from the city going out by taxi, and about 5 miles walking home after the last race,
As the Chinese say: "Moko cum fic."
Which means, “Don't put your shirt on a cert or this Steam Laundry won't be 'paring any dividends this year.”“
We'll be seeing you near-the sweep barrel. Or near some barrel.
That'll be all about horз03.
There's Boon
in Stamps
HE stamp business is boom-
THE
Ing. Nearly 2,000 new. Issues aro ilkely to be made through. out the world this year, compared with 1,772 last year and 1,300 the yeur before.
The British Empire is busy chang ing over its stamps for the new reign, It takes many months following the Coronation for all the new issues to And their way into circulatum.
There were 202 Coronation stamps, and Canada won the race among the countries of the Empire to be first with her stomps for the new reign. She made philatelle history by show- the first time, an English ing,
in muft!..
king in
One of the most popular stamps of the past 12 months was the "Virginia Dare 3-cents stamp sokl by the "United States post offices. It com memorated the 300th anniversary, of the birth of the first white baby born on (lio American continent. Her life. was short. Indians overpowered the settlement and left no survivor to tell the tale.
The set which had the most adven-. that issued by turous career was
celebrata the
fourth Colombia to Olympiad. It was sold only by the skin of itu teeth.
The stamps arrived late. Then they could not be sold because the President had not authorised them. He was chased round the country by an acroplane which was always one hop too late.
When his authorisation was given. it was a
publle hoilday, no no post offices were open, and when they did open there were not enough clerks to cope with the demands of those who wanted to buy, the stamps..
Among the most striking sais of the past your is the Greek Insus of 13. stamps whose dosigns for a panorama of Greek history, from 2- 000 B.C.. to the present day. The first of the secies shown bull-voull- Ing, in which boys and girls used the animal's horns for grips, and the last is a painting of "Glory," by one of the country's modern artist N
Government unwittingly Our own Government played a part in an amusing stamp". mystery,
Complaints had been made about the stamp machines, so it was decid- ed to test them with stamp dummies. These were made with no design he
ກ yond blob of Inic, which gave them the nickname: of ##posehed est.
By accident some of these were left in the machines, and were 9c- tually used on leitura. All sorts of prices up to £♬ were asked for these until the bubble: was pricked, when they become more labotstrafeno Evalue whalever beyond what the
foolish would paym