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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
8, 1938.
POPULATE OR PERISH From An Old Scotsman's Diary
blems that atli confront Britain?
by "An Old Stager"
Anither on the road tae keep mysel frue greetin' for the Here follows an extract from the pair body, 1d. Dog W and in which he made a careful od, record of his expenses in a certain direction.
d.
04%
0 7 Day.
his wife, fower gills, 44. Forgatherin's, sax gills, dd.
Wednesday-Market Dog whistlin', twa gills, 2d. Gills wi tolk I ha'e nae mind o' whatever, 4d. Gili wi' the song "Auld Lang man that Syne," Id........
Thursday.A gill to try to
1
ad.
0 5
0 10
Saturday.To keep the mist oot of ma plaid, the holes no' being mendit, a gill, Id, Consolin Jock Macdonald, fower gilla, 4d. Dog whistlin' an forgatherin's, three gills,
១ · ម Sawbail Sunday. The Day. A wee drap he clear ma throat for cryin' on ma dog, o gill. id.. Anither at Luckie's when the bells are ringin', Id. Some brandy so as no tae tak' the smell o whusky intae the Lord's Hoose, 2d. A deno to digest the sermon, two gills, 2d. .......... 0 0
4 B
What will alrike one here is the small cost of intoxicants in those days. But when we remember that the weekly wage of farm workers seldom then exceeded ten shillings- In many cases good bit less-t will be agreed that four shillings and fivepence halfpenny represented a fairly large slice of Jack's pay,
A Transplanted Fifer
THE eyes of the fool are in the
ed for renewed immigration from JOCK BLACK, shepherd and gen- Macdonald to a Hikely less to eral handyman, was well- mak' his second wife, wa
0 ends of the earth. That auc-
our overcrowded British Isles, Be clact Biblical aphorism occurn to
tween us the Dominions and Great known character in a rural district gills, 2d.. Sundry dog whist
in the uplands of Fife. Though lin's, twa gilla, 2d. mind in reviewing a Parliamentary Zealand, Canada, and South Africa, Britain must create the openings many years have passed since he was Friday-Among the sheep for Jock session of momentous futility dur- fulfilling their providential fate, for economic settlement by our surgathered to his fathers, his pawky fortifyin' masel ing which the House of Commons were each of them a nation appro- plus population overseas to the sayings and jovial exploits are not Macdonald's wife's funeral in staged fifteen full-dress debates on ximately as populous as the United mutual advantage of both of us. yet forgotten In the district where the afternoon, two gills, 20. foreign affairs. Those debates re- Kingdom, and standing shoulder to It can be done. It ought to be he lived and died. mind me of Robert Louis Steven shoulder with each other in naser- done. Unless we do it we must re- son'n description of Henry James's tlon of human liberty and world concile ourselves to Imperial decay. The destiny of the Anglo-Saxon novela. R.L. said the latter ar rated at exorbitant length how Mr. peace.
The white, population of the Bri- stock is at its incluctable crisis, A trod on the skirt of Miss B and
Only thus can be created the lure nothing came of it! Only in this tish Empira is approximately 70
Monday-A half gill to caso Mr. A, the belligerent pacifists, millions. Of these 50 millions in which will beckon our youth once
wash awa' the effects of a dry trod on the totalitarian coat-tails, habit the British Isles. In 1913 more to try ita braver fortunes in
over a quarter of a million men and the younger lands. It is no good sermon, 4d, Midday, a fill to and nothing whatever happened.
It may occur to some people that women of our nationality and race dumping emigrants in the Domin-wet ma lips fur dog whistin. the House of Commons, instead of left home for our oversea Dominions, ions for whom there is no real hope being oot after the sheep, id. affairs it Only $1,000 returned home again. of prospering. And we have to face Forgatherin' wi' the neebors,
was the fact that the opportunity over whistlin', a gill. 18.
20. Mair twa gills,
dog wasting its breath 411
migration neither understands nor controls, The net outward
Tuesday wet mornin'. might dedicate some of its misplaced 224,000. Last year 20,000 of our sens must be such as to outweigh
the any thought about the "dole." How A gill, 2d. (there bein' some British people went overseas from energy to discussing the
Common United Kingdom. And 34.000 came far that necessary social provision holes in ma plaid.) Dog Empire. That mighty wealth, it is true, extends to the back home. The stream has set the in this country has atrophied our whistlin' through the day, twa extremities of the earth, but it is wrong way to the extent of 8,000. proletarian sense of sturdy adven-gills, 2d. Consolin' wi Jock These tell-tale figures were offi- ture in new surroundings overseas Macdonald ower the loss o novertheless a topic that intimately concerns our hearths and homes. cially published within a day or two it would be difficult to say.
But given a reasonable chance Instead of attempting to give a lead of the Colonial Secretary's Manches- to European nations who refuse to ter speech, wherein he envisaged the overseas, in the only logical way it six first-class can be assured, who doubts that our take it, why not endeavour seriously British Empire as to grapple with the very urgent pro- Powers, fully populated, adequately young workers here would rise to Greater developed, and predominantly Bri- the prospect of life under less tish in sentiment and tradition. cramped and freer physical condi- Our aturdy forebears have given What a mighty world-force for tlons than our dull urban conges bring to mind whaur I peeled ua justice and fairplay tion
ting that a small percentage of our about time wo buckled to the task would not that situation presenti
How far are we or the great unemployed-small but inevitably of developing it efficiently? Why
grow exploits the not leave Hitler and Mussolini to Dominions earnestly attacking the tending to
men and paddle their own canoes for a while, Inviting but by no means simple pro- "dole," the majority of and set about square-rigging our blem of its realisation? It needs a women want work to do, and hate birth-rate of 19 per thousand to existing on the pitiful largesse of great Imperial three-master?
There are nations who are becom- maintain a stable population. Ours the Labour Exchange. ing more and more obsessed by land. In 1876 was 36 per thousand. To Real #turied Treasure hunger. How long are we going to day it in 16. The Dominions show
Here, then, is n task for our tered Dominions to remain vir- exception of South Africa, where statesmen to set their shoulders to. Puntry bank agent who rest of the morning chatting with tempt destiny by allowing our young a corresponding drop, with the one
DOSSIBLY know the story of desperale hurry, and I spend the tually unpeopled and partially un- the birth-rate stands at 24 per thou- The British Empire must people its exploited? Unless we people those und. This birth-famine charac- spare rooms with its own kinsmen. asked the boy to shut the door as my clients in my private room. I the clock struck three. On going take lunch between one and two, Imperial territories, which are free terises practically all the Western not with alien lodgers whose philo- out the boy found that it had never and the next hour is occupied In nations, with Anglo-Saxon stock, races to-day. But the Orientals are sophy of life may be entirely hostile been opened.
posting up the books, checking the extensively. Biologists to our most cherished traditions. imbued with the traditions and breeding
This banking chestnut is illustra- ledger, and generally squaring off In great Though incidentally it is amazing tive of our leisurely life, and many for the day. ideas of British heritage, a time tell us these thinga ko
envy the country must come, and may come quickly, cycles. But what may happen to how some of these alien emigrants people must
Three o'clock.comes, the door is when other races will step in, if not Western civilisation before the peu- ncquire the
psychology. banker is short hours
shut, I sign the letters, and am free One pure German settlement in opportunity for abundant fresh air, for the rest of the day. Before tea forcibly, by peaceful immigration, dulum swings back again?
tennis. and South Africa, when the bugles golf.
gardening. and an overaca Dominión population what Must Be Done
I might play golf with one of my Sometimes indeed (although the sounded in 1914, furnished soldiers will grow up that knowa not Joseph.
city man will hardly believe this) customers, have a game of bowls I with some. retired business man, or The days are far past now when
What the situation urgently de lo the Imperial cause who acquitted it is dificult to put in the time. take my family out for a run in the Little Englandiam was a tenable mands is obviously an ambitious and themselves as splendidly as any in myself have many hobbies and am car. At five o'clock I have put be creed. Even the most unimagina, well-thought-out plan of inter- the fighting ranks. Yet common-never bored. But I have known tive politicians, who used to regard Empire planning on a scale never sense dietates that we should strain bankmen who could not endure the hind me as much leisure as the city man can obtain in a day's holiday. not like "colonies" as an unrighteous white yet dreamed of by our dullvisioned every nerve to keep our British Com- monotony of country life, and who All days, of course, are not
transfer elephant, have been taught by the statesmen.. And Australia has just, monwealth as preponderantly Bri-naked the head office to
them to a place where time would that. We have our busy times, but
ven then I even
my can choose march of weltpolitik a more intelli- with typical resource and energy, tish as humanly possible.
not hang so heavily. Here is an lime to do a little extra work. gent outlook.
shown us how that Empire-building In the intervals of debating the cx of a typical day in
dictators
my country banker is always in great programme might and must be wickedness of European
demand A Mighty World Force
as an honorary secretary or launched.
and the ruthlessness of Japanese I rise at eight-thirty and break- treasurer, and in the winter time I Westminster M.Ps fast in comfort at nine. As I live have my hands full keeping or Anyone who looks
It implies a trade and economic airmon, world to-day and weighs up atten- collaboration between the Home and might endeavour to spur Ministers in a house above the bank. I have auditing the books of numerous tively those reactionary forces the Dominion Governments and into activity in welding up the Bri- no train to catch, and so the garden organisations. which ever more formidably menace peoples which would develop in our tish Empire against future catas- claims
around
the
our
British
argument, id. Introdusin' Jock
BEST JOB IN THE WORLD
life.
By A Country Banker
and the
attention until nine-
own
democracy'a progressive ideals, must overseas territorios a flourishing trophe. The Commons have doneved, we open the safe and the would be very sorry indeed to be
Saxon
My Junior clerk has now I have no complaints. In fnet_1 roline with something like panic chain of secondary industries- enough of what Mr. Kipling might
I attend dictatorships with
| morning mail..
to any transferred to a post in the city. how urgent it is that our Angio, which includes practically every call "killing
letters and read the morning paper Here, in a small community, the confederacy should stand thing except agriculture. Only their mouths." Why not
cease In my room. At ten o'clock we open banker is a personality, the man atrong and foursquare against the thus can the wide open spaces of the emulating the unjust steward, and the door for business.
everyone knows. In the town I moral vast Dominions by Picture
adequately have a serious shot at utilising our
would become just another business a man running for the 5.16. effect, ia safeguarding all demo- ulilised, and the opportunity creat- Imperial buried treasure? cracy holds best. if Australia, New
angressors.
the
MAD WITH
Give The
STOMACH PAIN GREAT
people,
A doctors, sanitary officers,
and their assistants, are em-
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the trouble remained.
Read his own words
I was made with pain; no one knows how awful f felt. I decided to get bfaclean Brand Stomach Powder. Well, I took a
What is more, those people have a very good record of success to show. So with that social disease crime. Prevention calls for understand- That
teaspoonful and a half and was absolutely ing of disease and its causes. surprised how the pain faded away. is obvious. Let it, then, be realised
per
It's wonderful."
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da! Just imagine the pleasure of being criminals.
able once again to eat what you like and The Law helps them when it says when you like! But make sure you see
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Having agreed that there is no such thing as a born criminal, we can go on to agree that
a child criminal is an extremely rare phe- nomenon, while young person criminal is not commonly met with. For a
a criminal is one who quite de- liberately sets out to break the Law for
specifically personal reasons. Children don't do that; young per- sons rarely.
Having got so far, we who serve in Juvenile Courts, whose job it is
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to deal with the offences of children (up to 14) and young persons (14 to 17), can concentrate on the task of prevention. We are the preventive
social progresa.
of
All people of good will can help us by realising the facts, and then by explaining them to others less en- lightened.
What are the causes of delin- quency which, it neglected, may lead to actual crime? They are many.
A potent are Is what the paycho- logists call a sense of frustration. It is better described as discourage- ment. The education of a child" is often a painful business. He starts
Lad
A customer who comes into country bank la not usually in
Another
a
Chance
as a baby, the most helpless, and ut probation ofcor is a man of unusual the same time the most completely canniness. We have to guess at the self-centred creature to be found underlying truth from the story put anywhere.
before us, coupled with the reports His education is directed towards from probation officer and repre- taking him out of babyhood into sentative of the Education Autho childhood: Instilling into him the rity. We see the odd shape and lesson that he must order his size, we notice perhaps the boss eye behaviour with some regard to the or whatever it is.
peace and comfort of other people. But how many of us give to such If all goes well, ho does. He phenomena their due significance? develops from babyhood into chlid- Another patent source of child dis- hood, from childhood into adolcs- couragement la presented by home conditions. We are told about them; but how many us realise what
cenec,
But only too often something they really may mean? happens to throw him off the track. A great many excellent people If so, discouraged, he may take the assure us that child delinquency is cosy line, reverting to the solish due to laxity on the part of parents baby state. The paychologists are who ought to be punished. I won- alive to that. They know that a der what any one of them would large proportion of their neuroties, say If he were to become suddenly, the people who develop all sorts of some miracle, a back street fanciful ills, began to do so when,
with half a dozen children
other,
as children, something happened to all under discourage thom,
Unfortunately,
ten years old, That
mother, remember, has to look after proportion of her husband as well as the children: such discouraged children become she has to lay out the weekly income definitely, though not as rule to the best of her ability; she must deliberately, anti-social. If they wash and scrub; she must cook and
BY THE CHAIRMAN OF A JUVENILE COURT
want this or that, they take it with serve the maple; she must look after little, if any, regard for the rights whichever of the household may of others. They are in acute danger. happen be sick. And as likely as
If unskilfully dealt with they. may, not, number seven is on the way, and not infrequently do, develop into and she is not feeling any too well. citronic criminals.
How can she be expected to see The sources of childish discour that Billy, ten years old, a lusty lad, agement are manifold. A not un- and withai bored by the home condi- common ond physical abnor- tions of a single living room, is not mality. Children Bre sensitive getting into mischief? What Billy creatures. 'A' child' who' is outside needs is some healthy outlet for his the normal is likely to become self- energy. What-Bily's mother needs conscious, and consequently a dori- but that is an almost illimitable ger to himself and others.
list of things lacking.
What Billy does not need is un- Over and over again I have been thinking severity. The same is true struck by the fact that of the chil of Billy's big brother. dren charged with this or that offence one has been oversized, two before us, and not in the Juvenile The other day the big brother was definitely.
Court
Hin offence appeared And quite often a young malefac- grievous, and it was not the first. for, put up before us, has had some Two of us were eager to send him quite obvious physical abnormality a Ind of 18 to prison. Two of us ➡a discaped øye, a warped hand, a very fervently refused to agree." For game leg. He has felt himself “dif- half an hour we argued In the
..
ferent", he has sensed the need to
to magistrates anteroom. -It WOR
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assert himself by an act which, while stiff Lawless, has been short of criminal wing but in the end we won. lod was given another chance. Els act has been one of, what the Were we right? I am quite cer- psychologists "compensation." tald we were. To send lad of 18 Po has done, what he could to get to prison, might, probably would. taktiken mean the making of a criminal: 20 But, unfortunately, that does not do that is not, very much not, our come out in Court except where the job.
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