THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY,
Anti-Cruelty Leaders To
Urge Cure Homes For Parents
CHILDREN OF THE RICH ARE OFTEN VICTIMS
Crurity to children has been much in the news recently. The New Chronicle asked the N.S.P.C.C. for the facts, An opletal 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 cach would have 350 cases; at the end of the year each had dealt with more than 700.
"Cruelty appears to be mysteriously on the increase. But thin is not the fact; the explanation is that more cases are coming to light," an N.S.P.C.C. official, explained,
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"We need badly to establish
a research bureau which would investigate the whole field scientifically.
"Even more badly Lis โฟ L! need special homes for parents who prac tise those cruelties. Most of them ure abnurinol, 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 Eme."
A recent inquiry by the Society showed that in most cases the cause
was quarrelling between the parents, In more than a quarter of the cases the father was unemployed, and in
one-sixth one of the parents was under the infuence of drink.
There are other points from the Inquiry:
concern
children
Gravely ill
have
Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, Inst Chancellor of Independent Aus- tria. reported gravely in Vienna He is said to suffered a nervous breakdown which may postpone his triul on a charge of treason.
RECEIVE MAIL ONCE A MONTH
Brisbane.
The newly tulit 50-tons motor vessel Leisha is aptly known as the "loneliest mailboat in the world."
The
leaves versel
Burketown, North Queensland, with mall and suppites for the crocodile hunters and slated settlements round the
south-west of Gulf of Carpentaria, once month.
The round visage covers nearly 1,100 miles, as invariably the little vessel travels alone.
At the mouths of many tropical rivers the Leism is met by solitary hunters who supture man eating crocodiles for their skins. Occasion-1 olly the bent takes on piles of these thick, senly pelts which are used in the manufacture of shoes and other articles.
Among her peris of call is the ob-
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original mission on Mornington Island, and a place 45 miles up the tew MacArthur River, where miners are engaged in working one of the loveliest copper mines in the world.
LONDON'S POMPEII HAS
£1,000,000 SECRET
Crystal Palace Mystery:
“No-One Cares
I asked him. "No one 1 paid sixpence to see London's Palace?' own Pompeil, and stood alone in knows." he said, "and no one seems vast sad desolation where thousands to care."
and once
laughter thronged for
merry-making.
By London's Pompeii, I mean the Crystal Palace, writes a Daily Herald reporter.
It has not yet been scheduled as on "ancient monument," but it is well on the way to becoming a relic of the past shattered ruin that guides will show to awestruck sightseers as a glory that once was.
It is to-day precisely as it was left frequently when fire razed to the ground nearly than two years ago the great ass palace which for half a century was a land-
Five-eighth under two.
Feeble-minded parents practical ly never maltreat their children, and average parents rarely mal- treat their feeble-minded children,
inore Fathers are responsible for mothers.
cruelty
Bad housing and overcrowding thark of England.
are not prominent causes.
FROM RICH FAMILIES
Orly
one-seventh of the Cases
That, precisely, is the truth about There are no the Crystal Palace. scems to have any idea what is to plans for its rebuliding and no one
become of it.
Six months ago there were reports that the Trustees had a "plan," great scheme which was "to preserve the traditions of the past." The kind of building contemplated was, it was stated, to cost £1000,000. The de- this were kept a strict secret.
The secret is being so well kept that no one has any idea of what to
£1,000,000
tly.
On its ashes was to rise another great national institution of pleasure! I asked Sir Henry Buckland, gen- and service. After two years all real manager to the trustees, about that has been achieved is a wire it.
fence, topped by barbed wire, 5124- "It is all a question of money," he came from slums or country havels, rounding the site of the old palace cat do nothing. We need £1.- me. "Unil we get the money
Home conditions in one-fourth of
Behind the fence is a
15 a noss
the cases were described as "quite ble, and stone, among which weeds [000,000 and the bulk of it must come
| good,” and in more than half "sitle.
factory.
are sprouting luxuriously. There is from the Government.
"The Government has been ap- "Cruelty to children is not
shattered wall running the whale;
will appreciate length of une side which would not proached, but you fined to any one class," declared the disgrace a ruined elly of Ancient that there are so many problems offletul. "Cares have come to usiGreece.
facing it that is not surprising it from very rich familles,"
4has not been able to give attention to
There is no standard that could be
NO PLANS
A notice reads, "Trespassers will the Crystal Palace. We have heard
fixed by the Society for the home in be prosecuted": another says, "Dead nothing and, until we do, we can do which children would
from ill treatment.
secure
Slow."
nothing."
The silence is grim sond over- asked Sir Henry if there was a A child could be utterly wretched whelming.
A workman's hammer in scheme as to how the money would
| surrounded by expensive toys, ser-the oscure distance clanged through be applied, if and when the trustees
factor is family harmony.
got it from the Government.
NEW TRANSPARENTnts and luxury. The most in the stillness.
The N.S.P.C.C. during July dealt slowly
I met alone attendant walking "I cannot tell you anything about through the desolation, that," he replied, "but there is no with 3,983 cases of neglect and what is going to happen to the detailed plan of rebuilding." cruelty, affecting the welfare f
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Turtle Carries 1844 Date
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Wealth Waits At South Pole
Mr. Harold June, American; "Whether we go or not," he said, op finance. Personnel jairman and explorer, is con- "depends
vinced that mineral wealth is presents no difficulty. waiting to be exploited at the "There are plenty of suitable men
A turtle found by Jerry Ensley in South Pole.
a pond here had
the date 1844" Mr. June was Admiral Dyrd's chief curved on the shell and residents of staff during the 1933-35 expedi- wonder whether 1 is that old ortion to the Antarctic and he took part whether someone did the carving in the earlier visit to the South Pole.
who would jump at the offer of join- ing out of a love of adventure or for the sake of helping selence.
"There is no doubt about the exist
for á joke, The turtle measures He hopes to Join Admiral Byrd on ence of vast mineral deposits in the 36 inches from tail to nose with aa third nerla expedition to the Antarctic which might be removed to Abell 15 inches across.
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