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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 asked the NSPCC. 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 cases a year, was given an assistant. The expectation was that each would have 350 cases; at the end of the year cach had dealt with more than 700.
"Cruelty appears to be mysteriously on the increase. But this bs not the fact; the explanation is that more cases are coming to light," an N.S.P.C.C. offieful explained,
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Sole Disiributor:
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"We need badly to establish
a research bureau which would investigate the whole scientifically,
field
"Even more badly do we need special homes for parents who prac tise these cruelties. Most of them nre abnormal, and need treatment.
FIRST BIG TASK
"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."
Auw Pl Seng's Trading Co., Lid,
Hongkong.
A recent inquiry by the Society showed that in most cases the cause was quarrelling between the parents,
WAS
In more than a quarter of the cases the father was unemployed, and in one-sixth one of the parents under the influence of drink.
There are other points from the inquiry:
Gravely III
Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, lasi Chancellor of independent Aus- Irin, reported gravely 111 i Vienna. He la sald to have suffered EN nervous breakdown which may postpone his trial on a charge of treason,
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Brisbane,
The newly built 50-tons motor vessel Leisha is optly known as the
loneliest mallboat in the world."
The vessel leavea Burkclown, North Queensland, with mail and supplies for
for the crocodile hunters and Isolated settlements round the
south-west of Gulf of Carpentaria,
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The round voyage covers nearly mites, and Invariably the Title vessel travels alone.
At The mouths of many troplent rivers the Leisha is met by solitary hunters who capture man eating; crocodiles for their skins. Occasion- ally the bont takes on piles of these sculy pelts which are used in
thick, scu
the manufacture of shoes and other: articles.
Among her parts of call is the ab- original mission on Mornington Island, and a place 45 miles up the MacArthur River, where D few miners are engaged in working one of the loneliest copper mines in the world.
LONDON'S POMPEII HAS
£1,000,000 SECRET
Crystal Palace Mystery:
"No-One Cares "
"No one
I paid sixpence to see London's | Palace?' I asked him. own Pompeli, and stood alone in knows," he said, "and no one seems vast sad desolation where thousands to care," once thronged for laughter And merry-making.
By London's Pompeil, I mean the Crystal Palace, writes Daily Herald
reporter.
It has not yet been scheduled ns Five-eighth concern children
an "ancient monument," but it is under two.
well on the way to becoming a relic Feeble-minded parents practicnt of the past-n shattered ruin that ly never maltreat their children. Kuides will show to awe-struck and average parents rarely mal-sightseers as a glory that once was." treat their feeble-minded children.
It is to-day precisely as it was left Fathers are more frequently when fire razed to the ground nearly responsible
for cruelty that two years ago the great glasa palace mothers.
which for half a century was a land- Bad housing and overcrowding mark of England. are not prominent causes.
FROM RICH FAMILIES
Only one-seventh of the
col-
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
Six months ago there were reports that the Trustees had a "plan," th 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- tails were kept a strict secret.
that no one has any idea of what to The secret is being so well kept
do.
£3,000,000
On its ashes was to rise anolber great national institution of pleasure I asked Sir Henry Buckland, gen- and service. After two years all rent manager to the trustees, about that has been achieved is a wire it.
came from slums or country hovels.
caseyfence, topped by barbed wire, sur- "It is all a question of money," he Home conditions in one-fourth of rounding the site of the old palace,
told me.
"Until we get the money the cases were described as "quite
Behind the fence a mass of rub-we can do nothing. We need £1, good," and in more than half "sable and stone, among which weeds 000,000 and the bulk of it must come factory."
are sprouting Juxuriously. There is from the Government, "Cruelty to children is not
a shaltered wall running the whole "The Government has been ap- Aned to any one class," declared the surace a rained city of Ancient that there are so many problems length of one side which would not preached, but you will appreciate official. "Cases have come to US from very rich familles."
Greece.
facing it that It is not surprising it NO PLANS
4 has not been able to give attention to fixed by the Society for the home in be prosecuted"; another says, "Dead nothing and, until we do, we can do A notice reads, "Trespassers will the Crystal Palace. We have heard which children would be secure from ill treatment.
Slow."
There is no standard that could be
nothing.
A child could be utterly wretched whelminit. A workman's hammer in scherne as to how the money would The silence is grim and over-i I asked Sir Henry if there was a surrounded by expensive toys, ser- the obscure distance clanged through be applied, if and when the trustees
ants and luxury. The most Im-
got it from the Government.
portant factor is family harmony.
The N.S.P.C.C. during July dealt with 3,083
cases of neglect and cruelty, affecting the welfare 8,308 chlidren.
Turtle Carries 1844
Date
Blytheville, Ark.
the stillness.
I met a lone attendant walking "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 on Anance. 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 "1044"
carved on the
shell
wonder whether
"There are plenty of sultable men who would jump at the offer of join-
Mr. June was Admiral Byrd's chief and residents of staff during the 1933-35 expedi-ing out of a love of adventure or for it is that old ortion to the Antarctle and he took part
the sake of helping selence. whether someone did the carving in the carller visit to the South Pole.) for joke. The turtle measures
COUNT THE "TELEGRAPHS" EVERYWHERE
"There is no doubt about the exist
30 inches from tail to nose with a third aerial expedition to the Antarctic which might be removed to He hopes to Joln Admiral Byrd anence of vast mineral deposits in the shell 15 inches across.
At the
Antarctic in 1940.
the elvilised zones."
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