THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY,
Anti-Cruelty Leaders To
Urge Cure Homes For Parents
CHILDREN OF THE RICH ARE OFTEN VICTIMS
Cruelty to children has been much in the news recently. The News Chronicle naked the N:S.P.C.C. for the facts. An official said that:
Any Cruelty to Children inspector in practically any populous locality can be certain of finding more cases than he can handle.
An inspector in North London, with 700 eases a year, was given an assistant. The expectation was that each would have 350 cases; at the end of the year each had dealt with more than 700.
"Cruelty appears to be mysteriously on the incrense.
But thin
is not the fact; the explanation is that more eases are coming to light," an N.S.P.C.C. official explained.
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"We need badly to establish ja research bureau which would
investigate the whole fscientifically.
field
"Even more badly do we special homes for parents whe prac- nend tise these cruelles. Most of them} are abnormal, and need treatment.
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"Meantime, our job is to save the children and keep them from grow- Ing up into brutes like their parents. "There is often a hope of regene rating the family if we know in
time."
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A recent inquiry by the Society showed that in most cases the enuse was quarreling between the parents.
WAS
In more than a quarter of the cases the father was uncatployed, and in one-sixth one of the parents under the influence of drink.
These are other points from the Inquiry:
under two.
conern children
Gravely III
Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg. last Chancellor of independent Aus- tria, reported gravely in Vienna. He is said to have suffered a nervous breakdown which may postpone la trioł on a charge of treason,
RECEIVE MAIL ONCE Α ́ ΜΟΝΤΗ
Brisbane.
OCTOBER 12, 1938.
SHE said
"What is this I've found in your drawer ? »
HE said
** That? Ah! that was meant to be
The newly built 50-tons molor vessel Leisha is optly known as the "loneliest mailboat in the world."
The Vessel leaves
4 Burketown, North Queensland, with mal und
supplies for the crocodile hunters
and holated settlements round the
south-west of Gulf of Carpentaria, once a month.
The round voyage covers Bearly 1.100
miles, and invariably the vessel travels alone,
At the mouths of
many tropical? rivers the Leishm Is met by solitury hunters who copture mun eating! crocodiles for their skins. Occasion- ally the boat takes on piles of these thick, scaly pelts which are used in the ma
manufacture of shuts and other
articles,
Among her ports of call in the ab- original mission on Mornington Island, and a place 45 miles up the MacArthur River. where A few miners are engaged in working une) of the loneliest copper mines in the world,
LONDON'S POMPEII HAS
£1,000,000 SECRET
Crystal Palace Mystery:
66
No-One Cares
I paid sixpence to see London's | l'alace?" I asked him. "No one own Pumpeli, und stood alone in knows," he sold, "and no one seems vast and desolation where thousands to care," Once thronged for laughter and merry-making.
By London's Pompelt, I mean the Crystal Palace, writes a Daily flerald | reporter.
It is not yet been scheduled as Five-eighth
an ancient monument," but it is well on the way to becoming relle Feeble-minded parents practical of the pasta shattered ruin that
never maltreat their children, guides will
show to awe-struck and average parents rarely mal-sightseers as a glory that once was
It is to-day precisely as it was left
That, precisely, is the truth about There are no the Crystal Palace. plans for its rebuilding and no one seems to have any idea what is to become of it.
Six months ago there were reports that the Trustees had a "plan," a great scheme which was "to preserve the traditions of the past." The kind of building contemplated was, It was stated, to cost £1,000,000. The de-
treat their feeble-minded children. when Bre razed to the ground nearly fails were kept a strict secret.
Father are more frequently responsible for cruelty than
mothers.
two years ago the great glass palace
The secret is being so well kept which for half a century was a land-that no one has any idea of what to Bad housing and overcrowding mark of England.
are not prominent causes.
the
FROM RICH FAMILIES Only one-seventh of came from shims or country hovels
Bonte conditions in one-fourth of
£1.000.000
On its ashes was to rise another great national
institution of pleasure I asked Sir Henry Buckland, gen- and
After two years all rent manager to the trustees, about that
been achieved is a wire it. fence, topped by barbed wire, sur- "It is all a question of money," he ending the site of the sld palace.
told me.
"Until we get the money the eases were described as "quitele und stone, among which weeds 000,000 and the bulk of it must come Behind the fence is a mass of rub-we can do nothing. We need £1.- gond," and in more than half "sath- factory."
sprouting huxuriously. There is from the Government.
lined
are
"Cruelty to children is not con-
to any one class. declared the length of one side which would not disgraer a ruined city of Ancient
official. "Cases have come to vs Greece. from very rich familles."
There is no standard that could be fixed by the Society for the home in which children would be from ill treatment.
secure
a shattered wall running the whole "The Government has been ap- proached, but you will appreciate that there are so many problems facing it that it is not surprising It Eas not been able to give attention to the Crystal Palace. We have heard nothing and, until we do, we can do nothing
NO PLANS
4
A notice reads, "Trespassers will be prosecuted"; another says, "Dead Slow"
The silence is grim and over-
I asked Sir Henry if there was a
got it from the Government.
A child could be utterly wretched whelming. A workinan's hammer in scheme as to how the money would surrounded by expensive toys, ser- vants and luxury. The most. im-
the obsctive distance clanged through be applied, if and when the trustees portant factor is faintly harmony,
the stillness. The N.S.P.C.C. during July dealt with 3,983 cases of neglect and cruelty, affecting the welfare 9,598 children.
Turtle Carries 1844
Date
Blytheville, Ark.
of
walking
1 met a lone attendant
"I cannot tell you anything about What is going to happen to slowly through the desolation. that," he replied, "but there is no
the detailed plan of rebuilding."
Wealth Waits At South Pole
Mr. Harold June, American, "Whether we go or not," he said, airman and explorer, is con- "depends un finance. Personnel vinced that mineral wealth is presents no difficulty. waiting to be exploited at the
A turtle found by Jerry Easley in South Pole.
a pond here had the date 1814" warved on the
shell
wonder whether
whether someone
Mr. June was Admiral Byrd's chiet
"There are plenty of suitable men who would jump at the offer of join-
and residents of staff during the 1933-35 expcell-out of a love of adventure or for it is that old ortion to the Antarctic and he took part
the sake of helping science. did the carving in the earlier visit to the South Pole. fur Joke. The turtle measures 36 Inches from tait to nose with a third aerial expedition
He hopes to Join Admiral Byrd on ence of vast mineral deposits in the shell 15 Inches across.
to the Antaretle which might be removed to
the civilised zones."
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