THE HONGKONG
TELEG
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1938.
POPULATE OR PERISH From An Old Scotsman's Diary
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But given a reasonable chance carMarket Day.
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Sunday. The Day. A wee drap ine clear ma throat for cryin' on ma dog, a gill, 1d. Anither at Luckie's when the bells are ringin'. 1d. Some brandy so as no tac tok the smell o'
intne the whusky
Lord's Hoose, 2d. A drap to digest the sermon, two gills, 2d, ............
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45% What will strike one here is the small cost of intoxicants In those days. But when we remember that the weeldy wage of farm workers seldom then exceeded ten shilings- In many cases a good bit less--it will be agreed that four shlilings and fivepence halfpenny represented fairly large slice of Jock's pay..
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ed for renowed Immigration from JOCK BLACK, shepherd and gen- Macdonald to a likely lass to
erni handyman, was * by"An Old Stager'
well- mak' his second wife, twa ends of the earth. That sue-.
our overcrowded British Isles. Be-known character in a rural district gills, 2d. Sundry dog whist- cinct Biblical aphorism occurs to
tween us the Dominions and Grent in the uplands of Fife. Though lin's, twa gills, 2d.
0 5 Friday.Among the sheep mind in reviewing a Parliamentary Zealand, Canada, and South Africa, Britain must create the openings many years have passed since he was
maset' for Jock session of momentous futility dur- fulfilling their providential fate, for economic settlement by our sur gathered to his fathers, his pawky fortifyin 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 ou xinutely as populous as the United mutual advantage of both of us, yet forgotten in the district where the afternoon, two gills, 2d. Anither on the road the keep foreign affairs. Those debates re: Kingdom, and standing shoulder to It can be done. It ought to be he lived and died.
mysel trae greetin' for the mind me of Robert Louis Steven shoulder with each other in assor done. Unless we do it we must re- Here follows an extract from the pulr body, 1d. Dog whistlin", son's description of Henry James's tion of human liberty and world concile ourselves to Imperial decay. diary which for some time he kept, id. The funeral, sax gills,
The destiny of the Anglo-Saxon and in, which he made a careful td. novols. R.LS. sald the latter nar-
record of his expenses in a certain Saturday-To keep the rated at exorbitant length how Mr. Peace..
The white population of the Bril. stock is at its ineluctable crisis.
direction.
mist oot of ma plaid, the holes A trod on the skirt of Miss B and
Only thus can be cronted the lure
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not being mendit, a gill, id. nothing came of it! Only in this tish Empire is approximately 70
Monday half gill to
Consolin, Jock Macdonald, caso Br. A, the belligerent pacifists, millions. Of these 50 millions in which will beckon our youth once
fower gills, 4d. Dog whistlin trod on the totalitarian coat-tails, habit the British Isles. In 1913 more to try its braver fortunes in wash awn the effects of a dry
over a quarter of a million men and the younger lands. It is no good sermon, d. Midday, a gill to an forgatherin's, three gills,
3d.. and nothing whatever' happened.
It may occur to some people that women of our nationality and race dumping emigrants in the Domin-wel ma lips for dog whistlin', the House of Commons, Instead of left home for our overaca Dominions, lons for whom there is no real hope being ool after the sheep, Id. affairs it Only 61,000 returned home again. of prospering. And we have to face Forgatherin' w the neelors. 2d. Mair dog wasting its breath
migration was the fact that the opportunity over-twa gills,
whistlin', a a gill, id, neither understands nor controls, The net outward
Tuesday.A wet mornin'. might dedicate some of its misplaced 224,000, Last year 20,000 of our seas must be puch as to outweigh
from the any thought about the "dole." How A gl
gill, id. (there bein' some energy to discussing the British people went
And 34.000 came far that necessary social provision holes in ma plaid.) Dog That mighty Common- United Kingdom. Empire. wealth, it la truc, 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-illo, 2d. Consolin' wi Jock
These tell-tale figures were off- ture in new surroundings overseas Macdonald ower the loss
his wife, novertheless a topic that intimately
gills, 4d. concerns our hearths and homes. cially published within a day or two it would be difficult to say.
Bax gills, Od. Instead of attempting to give a lead of the Colonial Secretary's Manches-
twa glits, 2d. to European nations who refuse to ter speech, wherein he envianged the overseas, in the only logical way it po
six Orst-class can be assured, who doubts that our Gills wi folk I ha'e nne mind take it, why not endeavour seriously British Empire as to grapple with the very urgent pro- Powera, fully populated, adequately young workers here would rise too whatever, 4d. Gill w the Greater developed, and predominantly Bri- the prospect of life under less man that sang "Auld Lang blems that still confront
tish in sentiment and tradition. cramped and freer physleni condi- Syne," Britain?
Thursday. A gill to try to world-force for tlons than our dull urban conges- Our sturdy forebears have given What a mighty
ma knuckles in a polcetical us a tremendous heritage. Is it not freedom and justice and fairplay tion can conceivably offer? Admit-bring to mind whaur I peeled ting that small percentage of our argument, Id. introducin' Jock about time we buckled to the task would not that situation, present!
How far are we or the great unemployed-small but inevitably of developing it efficiently? Why not leave Hitler and Mussolin! to Dominions earnestly attacking the tending to grow exploits the. men and paddle their own canoea 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 moro and more obsessed by land in 1876 was 36 per thousand. To- Real Buried Treasure
The Dominions show hunger. How long are we going to day it is 15.
Here, then, is a tnak for our tempt destiny by allowing our young a corresponding drop, with the one oversca Dominions to remain vir exception of South Africa, where statesmen to set their shoulders to. POSSIBLY you know the story of desperate hurry, and I spend the the country bank agent who rest of the morning chatting with tually unpeopled and partially un- the birth-rate stands at 24 per thou- The British Empire must people its exploited? Unless we people those sand. This
On going take. lunch between one and two, birth-famine charac- spare rooms with its own kinsmen, asked the boy to shut the door as my clients in my private room. Imperial territories, which are free terises practically all the Western not with allen lodgers whose philo-the clock struck three.
been opened.
posting up the books, checking the nations, with Anglo-Saxon stock, races to-day. But the Orientals are sophy of life may be entirely hostile out the boy found that I had never and the next hour is occupied in imbued with the traditions and breeding excessively. Biologists to our most cherished traditions. This banking chestnut is illustra- ledger, and generally squaring off ideas of British heritage, a time tell us these things go in great Though incidentally it is amazing tive of our leisurely life, and many for the day.
must envy the country must come, and may come quickly, cycles. But what may happen to how some of these alien emigrants people
Three o'clock comes, the door is psychology.banker his short hours and the when other races will step in, if not Western civilisation before the pen- acquire the British forcibly, by peaceful immigration, dulum swings back again?
One pure German settlement in opportunity for abundant fresh air, shut, I sign the letters, and am free for the rest of the day. Before ten South Africa, when the bugles golf, tennis, and gardening.
I might play golf with one of my and an oversca Dominion population
sounded in 1914, furnished soldiers Sometimes indeed (although the will grow up that knows not Joseph, What Must Be Done
The days are far past now when What the situation urgently de- in the Imperial cause who acquitted city man will hardly believe this) customers, have a game
myself have many hobbies and am Little Englandiam was a tenable mands is obviously an ambitious and themselves as splendidly as any in it is difficult to put in the time. I with some retired business man, or creed. Even the most unimagina well-thought-out plan ot 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 dictates that we should strain bankmen who could not endure the hind me as much leisure as the city "colonies" as an unrighteous white
All days, of course, are not like elephant, have been taught by the yet dreamed of by our dullvisioned every nerve to keep our British Com-monotony of country life, and who man can obtain in a day's holiday. them to a place where time would that. We have our busy times, but
even then I can choose march of weltpolitik a more intelli- tatesmen. And Australia has just, monwealth as preponderantly Bri- asked the head apice
my OWN with typical resource and energy, tish as humanly possible.
an time to do a little extra work. A gent outlook.
shown us how that Empire-building In the intervals of debating the not hang so heavily. Here is
my country banker, is always in great programme might and must be wickedness of European dictators example of a typical day
working life.
demand 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.P.s fast in comfort at nine. As I live have my hands full keeping or our It implies a trade and economie airmen, 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
reactionary tively those
forces the Dominion which ever more formidably menace peoples which would develop in our tish Empire against future catas claims my attention until
now I have no complaints. In fact I democracy's progressive ideala, must overseas territories a flourishing trophe. The Commons have done thirty. My junior clerk has realise with something like paula chain of secondary industries- enough of what Mr. Kipling might arrived, we open the safe and the would be very sorry indeed to be morning mail. I attend to any transferred to post in the city. for urgent it is that our Anglo- which includes practically every- call "killing dictatorships with letters and read the morning paper Here, in a small community, the Saxon confedomney should stand thing except agriculture. Only their mouths." Why not strong and foursquare against the thus can the wide open spaces of the emulating the unjust steward, and my room. At ten o'clock we open banker is a personality,
the moral vast Picture
adequately have a serious shot at utilising our Dominions aggressors. effect, in safeguarding all demo- utilised, and the opportunity creat- Imperial buried treasure? cracy holda best, if Australia, New
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What are the causes
of
delina
quency which, if neglected," inay lead to actual crime? many
“They are
A potent and is what the payetior logists call a senso of frustration. 1 It is better described as: discourage+: ment: The indiention" of a. child, is oflen a painful business. ; He, starts
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as a baby, the most helpless, and at probation officer is a man of unusuni 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 add shape and lesson that he must order his size, we notice perhaps the boss cyo behaviour with some regard to the or whatever it is,
cence.
peace and comfort of other people. But how many of us give to such If all goes well, he does. He phenomena their due signideance? develops from babyhood into child-
Another potent source of child dis- hood, from childhood into adoles couragement is presented by home conditions. We are told about them; but how many of us realise what 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 easy line, reverting to the selfish due to laxity on the part of parents baby state. The psychologists are who ought to be punished. I won- alive to that. They know that n 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 by some miracle, a back street fanciful ills, began to do so when, mother, with half a dozen children as children, something happened to all under ten years old. That discourage them.
mother, remember, has to look after Unfortunately, a 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 2 rule to the best of her ability; she must ́deliberately, anti-social.
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A JUVENILE COURT
want this or that they take it with serve the meals; she must look after little, if any, regard for the rights whichever of the household may
of others. They are in acuto danger. happen to be sick. And as likely as If unskilfully dealt with they, may, not, number seven is on the way, and not infrequently do, dovelop into and she is not feeling any too well. chronic 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, withal bored by the home condi common one is physical abnor- tions of a single living room, is not manlity. Children Jaro sensitive getting into mischief? What Biliy. creatures. A child who is outside Dectis, is some healthy outlet for his the normal is likely to become self- energy. What Billy's mother needs conscious, and consequently a donist of things lacking.
but that is an almost iliraitablo: ger to himself, and others. ̧---
What Billy does not need is un- Over and over again I have been struck by tho, fact that of the chil thinking severity. The same is true Aron charged with this or that The other day the big brother was
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