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SHADOW of an old under the Bill, only to the hus- injustice lying over band or wife of the testator; children under 21; or, if over 21, the homes of innocent to unmarried daughters and dis-
English people is within abled sons. measurable distance of Except in the case of estates being swept away for ever. of less than £2,000 in value, the This is the scandal of unjust court can only make provision wills, by which loyal and blame- from the income, and not from less wives or families are left the capital of the estate. destitute through the whim or In cases where the testator left cruel spite of those from whom wife or husband and one or more they naturally expected help. dependents, the court might Member's Bill, order that reasonable provision passed un- be made, provided the amount of
A Private
Hongkong Telegraph. which has just beer Reading, such annual income did not ex-
has opened the gates of justice ceed two-thirds of the total in- for numerous possible victims of come of the estate.
Where wife or husband only, the future.
or dependents only, are left, the If this B-the Inheritance amount of annual income which (Family Provision) Bill, which the court might order to be pro- was so ably piloted by Mr. Stan- vided should not be more than ley Holmes, is equally successful one-half of the total income of in the Lords, it will be a further the estate. proof that the private member may still be the means of put- ting on the Statute Book really important reforms.
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"My land, you can't go to din ner that way your life pre- STUCT'S showing!"
HAMISH FRASER, tells how
HYPNOTISM
H
helps your doctor
Used Daily
on
re-
TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1938.
YPNOTISM is to be plain his motives for doing cer- tain acts he does so with R used to restore
wealth of detail he would shrink SUPPRESSION
normal balance to a from in a normal state. OF HAWKERS
a mental kink
Told that his fears of ridicule girl with whose
turns of are absurd he accepts the state- recurrent Yesterday a Hongkong magis
Full regard must be given to irresponsibility led her into ment in his trance without ques- trate expressed the opinion that
tion, and acts afterwards on the police of the Colony were
all relevant circumstances, in-
that principle in normal life What is this hypnotism? without being really aware of "working overtime to no good
cluding the conduct of the dis the dock of a police court. inherited person, and any just
disinheritance, Nothing new, because in the the artificial nature of the boost purpose" in arresting eighty-six
in the debate on the Third reason for the
middle of last century Mesmer, given him. hawkers in Wanchai and West Reading I described myself as before a decision is given.
Bill have calling it then "Animal Magne- Psycho-analysis thus seeks to Point during
Opponents of the the week-end.
the "great-grand-mother" of the
of fears, The magistrate is a busy man Bill, and my mind went back to often urged that there are few tism," was attracting throngs to uncover the causes and anyone can understand and the first measure dealing with hard cases under the existing public displays of the mysterious hypnotism to strengthen resis-
power.
tance to them. Either method the disinherited law. appreciate his
human the evil of very
I introduced in They would change their esti-
What is new is that we know is suitable in differing cases.
2 de- Being hypnotised is exasperation at having these family, which
mate of the degree of suffering pretty exactly now what it is, 1931.
aren't caused by the Englishman's cases put before him when im-
I have done it to right to cut off his family with what it can be used for, what lightful process if you Tyrannical Spite
We know it is no afraid of it. it can't do. portant matters are occupying his mind. And in spite of the
THIS was based on the the proverbial shilling if they weapon for the villain seeking others, to myself, and had. It
could read through the files of an innocent tool to commit a done to me. fact that the police appear to
principle of Scottish
comfortable You lie letters which I and other pro- crime; that stories of its power think it so, the rounding up of and Continental Law, also fol- moters of the Bill have received being used to convey people in couch in a half-dark room. You these unfortunate hawkers is lowed in certain States in Ame- from every part of the country.
physical obstacles must be trance over
very comfortably the surviving not important, relatively speak-rica, whereby
The most frequent cause of such as unbridged chasms are dressed, warm, and quite ing, to the welfare of Hongkong. spouse or child has a statutory the tragedy in the
fantasy; that it is not a certain laxed. The operator talks at Most of them appear to be in- right to a fixed proportion of the woman," to whom the husband cure for all types of nervous you, and goes on talking; the drone is incessant but comfort- transfers his affections when disorder. offensive enough, trying to earn
ing. You are very warm, very That Bill was referred to a his wife grows old. an honest living, which is more
comfortable, very lazy, sleepler Typical of these cases is that than can be said for a consider-Joint Select Committee of both
WE know the exercise of and sleepier, more and more re- luctant to quarrel with the non- able proportion of the lower Houses of Parliament, which of the widow of a medical prac reported that a reform was de- titloner in Lancashire of whom
the power' requires no when class element of this community.sirable, but that it preferred the I have heard. Married
supernatural gifts, but is within sense talked to you.
You find your limbs moving The scores of cases of snatching plan followed in many parts of her husband was only a student, the reach of anyone with a ready effortlessly at the operator's and other minor crimes which the Dominions whereby a dis- she even entered domestic ser tongue; that it can benefit thou- command; that a sharp pinch come before the magistrates are inherited wife, husband or child vice to enable him to have money hands of cases of minor trouble imparts no pain. You know he such as those of students ap is all right. What he says proof enough on that point.. Bo has the right of appeal to the to take his degree.
For many years they were proaching an examination. who goes. You lose interest, and sides, it is considerably better to
their These, at
happily married. Then her hus-want to work but cannot con- wake up at last at his orders, disappointed it is have hawkers, even unlicenced hawkers, peddling their pitiful order suitable provision to be band met a younger woman, to centrate; that it is a short cut rather
whom he left all his money. Now daily employed in psychological finished. goods in the streets and making mude out of the estate.
As it has passed the House of his widow is almost penniless. clinics to obviate months Now not everyone can be put She just manages to exist on painful questioning which lead under easily 10 that. Easy enough money to buy themselves a bowl or two of rice and fish. Commons, the present Bill re- some public relief, and on slen-jittle farther towards the elucida- subjects are bluh fellows, ready than to have them begging in presents a comprom that some of der assistance from her father, tion of the source of trouble.
to listen to anyone's tale of mis- not give everything that some of who has an old-age pension. The magis- us would wish.
Essentially the technique is fortune, to laugh at their own I have before me a letter from
might think trate, commenting on the ques- But it does provide at last a woman living at a South Coast that of high-pressure salesman- mistakes. One
ship. There's not much differ- they would never have need of tion of licensing these people, what English law, alone among town, who says:
My father died in 1907 leaving ence in kind whether I set out treatment themselves. Yet, ac- observed that it appeared to be the codes of civilised countries,
£60,000. He left my mother anto convince you that I have a tually they are of a type that casier for young men and women has lacked for so long.
Husbands, wives, or children annuity of £250, and his four powder which, sprinkled on your tends to run through life in a to procure permission to sell
an annuity of £60. lawn, will make mowing unneces- series of peaks and depressions. What they need is temporary their little wares than for the old disinherited through no fault of daughters
until the pendulum
the Surely this is manifestly their own, by some tyrannical The remainder was left to a re-sury, or that you are far from
other way. junfair. Without any knowledge spite or senile whim, are given ligious body. We could not up-being a human mouse, but actu- control uct the will on grounds of in- ally a lion that has only got to swings
to normal. of the requirements of the some protection.
Right of appeal against an sanity, though he suffered from step out to secure your proper Hypnotism can help them back
share of good fortune.
Inaccessible, however, are the requirements of the authorities alleged "unjust will" is granted, intense religious mania.
Our old home near London
You would like to be able to quiet people who dwell pre- was left to my mother for her deal with your lawn so easily: dominantly in an inner life, ob- the evidence of the magistrate this body in action, from con-lifetime. She cannot afford to you would like to be a human serving the real world as it were live in it. At her death it goes lion. To achieve the latter is through a pane of glass which
At our much easier. to the religious body. himself it appears that some-stables
shields their sensitive natures death this gets the whole estate. The he-man properties are al- from ordinary contasts. In- thing is radically wrong with othicers,
We were good and obedient ready there, but dormant; kept stinctively they shrink from. the system. If old people are to being told.
the attempts of the hypnotist to be deprived of the opportunity they are cool, calm and highly children and did nothing to de- in check by fears.
But it does not require serve this harsh treatment.
take control, for ho is apt to be These fears may be due to of making a meagre living as efficient. hawkers, they have no recourse, any immense courage or ability Loft With 4 Children something simple, such as the
magic to distinguish him fact that they laughed at you from the crowd. the cases MANY of
at school because your face was brought to my notice always spotty, because old-
their full force.
ones.
which issue these licences, it is impossible to criticise. But on
courts.
discretion,
to the most senior knows that without In an emergency
in most instances, except to turn to round up 86 hawkers.
It
credible.
L
of
an ordinary sort of person with
no
to mendicacy. They are too would seem that Hongkong is so
So they listen acquiescently to slow, in all probability, to be well policed that officers are
all the time says, "What a dull One would able to concentrate on these un-reveal a degree of spite and vin- fashioned parents kept you in all he says, while an inner voice successful thieves. think that they would be given fortunate offenders against our dictiveness which is almost in-shorts long after contemporaries but find they don't respond
were arrayed in the dignity of in the slightest. A City of London solicitor tells trousers. They may be due to all the assistance possible by code. The thought that they authority to keep them out of have nothing more important to me of a woman cliont who was something farther back of which ing
It is a shame to do should really be gratifying. left a widow with four children you are unaware. mischief, punish them for trying to earn But to be candid, a good many by the sudden death of her hus enough to live on in the only way people feel, with the magistrate band, a business man working in that seems to be open to them. who first raised the criticism, India.
After living with her husband It is not too much to say that that the prosecution of hawkers
in India for 17 years she camo Hongkong possesses one of the particularly those who are not to England to educate the child-tive finest police forces in the Far permanent nuisances-is rather ren.
While she was using her own East. Anyone who has had an more than a waste of time. It opportunity to see the officers of is almost persecution,
(Continued on Page G.)
Fears HYPNOTISM puts
Now, you people who are feel- desperate About your norves, don't be afraid of going to a specialist about it; don't say, "I won't let you put me to the sleep; I'm afraid." If you are patient into a recep- the wrong type to get benefit. frame of mind so that his from it, you wouldn't go in the fears are revealed. The queries first place, and secondly the doc- and commands of the doctor are tor would not dream of, apply. those of a mastor. Told to ex- ing it