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FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1929.

COURT MARTIAL

MAJOR OGILVY FOUND GUILTY

OF NEGLIGENCE ·

SENTENCE RESERVED

CHILD'S MIND

DR. MONTESSORI ON SOME FALLACIES

FAIRIES AND TOYS

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The trial by a General Court Dr. Maria Montessori, was wel- "It is from the provinces that To-day Queen's Theatre; Martial of Major G. M. H. Ogilvy,comed at a public meeting in the national opinion is formed," said "Lady of the Pavements". for negligence of his duties as Great Hall of University College, Mr. N. B. Graham, one of the Today World President of the Regimental In London, oh May 6. Negotiations proprietors, of the "Express and "The Missing Link." stitute of the 2nd Battn. King's Own are in progress for the establish-Star," who presided at the annual To-day Star Scottish Borderers, was concluded ment of a training centre for the dinner of the Newspaper Society "Resurrection.”

He was found guilty, training of Montessori teachers in held yesterday.

the Hotel Victoria, London. To-day Majestie and wher asked if he wished to London, and it is expected that an London, Mr. Graham claimed, “Drums of Love." address the Court, Major. Ogilvy announcement on this subject will might be a clearing house for public To-day At Theatre Royal, asked the Court to take into can be made shortly.

opinion, but that opinion was Concert in aid of charity, under the A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. sideration the fact that he had been

It is more than twenty years formed on the anvil of thought inauspices of Mr. Ng Tal-ping of the

Hong Kong, 28th June, 1929, " under open arrest for 98 days and since Dr. Montessori began to deve- the provinces and arose from the Modern Literary Assen., 8.30 p.m. also to consider any extenuating lop her now famous method." A responsive and watchful civic con- circumstances.

before the war the sciousness which was such or two

a fine tame of it reached England, feature of every provincial centre. and since that time it has gradually, It was in response to the toast been revolutionising teaching of the Newspaper Society, prepos methods there. And in most other ed by Mr. John Buchan, M.P.. countries, from China to Peru, in soldier, scholar, politician, novelist, unexpected places like Morocco, and historian, that Mr. Graham Algiers, Palestine, there are to be expressed his sense of the value of

the provincial Press.

We

are

year

Sentence will duly be promulgated by Command Headquarters,

Major Miles' Speech

asked to state that Major Miles, in his speech for the defence yesterday, referred to the Company Quarter Master Sergeant] of the Machine Gun Company and found nursery schools, not the Company Sergeant Major of Headquarter Wings.

Dr. Montessori is more than the jexpounder of a method or a system;

a

talk

British Press Never Excelled Mr. Buchan had said he some-

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As Company Sergeant Major of she is the apostle what might times doubted whether the modern the Headquarter Wings, this be called "The Child Movement."newspaper had quite the same hold Warrant Officer would have no In

with a repre upon the affections of its readers dealings with the Company's sentative of "The Observer," in that a humbler print had upon the Edward-road and Mong Kok-tsui, finances, and we also understand which her eagerness and vivacity affections of our grandfathers.

Meeting that Cpl. Hendry had cashed no somehow o'erleaped the difficulties No doubt the modern newspaper Headquarter Wing's cheques at the of language and the intervention of was a marvellous niece of work the Hong Kong Tug & Lighter Co., July 6 Meeting of Creditors of interpreters, she proclaimed a but it was an impersonal thing. It children's charter.

was a conglomeration of every kind Ltd, at Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth of interest, but it scarcely spoke & Fleming's offices, noon,

Miscellaneous Its first point is one which all voice of the old-fashioned paper, pavilion of S.C.A.A. at Quarry Bay, and friendly June 29-Opening of bathing intelligent mothers and teachers and he doubted whether its opinion have known from the beginning, really carried quite though they have not always had weight.

"Nuffy."

ITALY'S FINANCES

NOT TO BE REGARDED AS DEBTOR NATION

"A Serious Person"

with the intimate

much

He did not believe that

Rome, June 19.

the courage of their convictions. " The provincial newspapers of The Minister of Finance, Signor it is that the young child is a funda- Britain were still really organs of Mosconi, delivered his speech on mentally serious person and should opinion. They could still influence the Budget during an all-night sit be treated seriously, and not-asenormously the opinions of their ting of the Chamber. He laid many nursery-rhymers will have it readers, stress on the fact that the rationa-a fundamentally frivolous persen British journalism had ever been lisation of industry, coupled with who should be treated playfully. excelled in any stage of its his- currency reform, had already re- It follows, for instance, that tory, and the British Press were sulted in an economic recovery, practically all traditional decora-producing admirable and clear Eng- which was shown by the improved tions are wrong. Dr. Montessori lisa prose, far better than could be

balance of trade.

invested abroad.

of

EAST GRINSTEAD

3.30 p.m.

June 30-At Roman Catholic C.C. Boy Scouts Troop Flag 13 Cathedral, Blessing of 15th H.K.G.

a.m.

MASSAGE

GOOD SUBSTITUTE FOR EXERCISE

The

A HINT TO CLUBS got in most books.

He often turned with comfort [By. Sir W. Arbuthnut Lane, Bt.] from the affected rigmarole that

freakish, stuttering, To the dwellers in our large cities between eloth covers to the clear amount of exercise, is a matter of

was, found the absence of a certain habitual) and efficient prose of a newspaper-constant anxiety. (laughter),

daily routine may entail only a short none of which affords any such ex walk, a train or motor-car journey, ercise to the abdominal muscles and organs as is essential to keep- ing them in health and the intes- tines in a state of activity.

ly the provincial Press, which mat He hoped the Press, and especial

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calls them "grotesques." The Minister declared that Italy!

She has been making experiments 'could not be regarded as a debtor with thousands of small children to country, because reparations due discover which kind of picture most to her covered War debts and pleased them. She found, among foreign loans did not amount to other things, that they preferred much more than Italian capital their pictures unrealistic; they dis

liked pictures in which the frame He stated that the greater part cut the figure (and, incidentally for

the Vatican compensation, that reason she has decided that a tered most, would be able when amounting to 750,000,000. lire. Raphael "Madonna and Child," would be paid during the current copy of which was displayed pro- speaking.

a occasion arose to indulge in plain year. Trans-Ocean.

minently in her first school and “Hard-Headed Provincials”

PUBLIC AUCTION. which has since, therefore, pear- AIRMAN DISMISSED ed in scores of schools all over the recalled that only two years ago products of digestion in the gastro-HE Undersigned have received

Mr. N. B. Graham, responding Upon the abnormal delay of the world, is a bad picture for children, the Foreign Secretary had said that intestinal canal depend all those instructions to sell by Public BREACH OF REGULATIONS AT for the frame cuts across the when he wanted to find what the diseases with which we are so Madonna's waist); in short, their people of Britain were really painfully familiar in civilisation, theoretical demands seemed to be thinking he read the columns, not) and none of which can develop in beautifully in accordance with of the London Press, but of the one whose digestive system works latter-day aesthetics! She found provincial Press. The explanation automatically and perfectly. that Fra Angelico, Giotto, and the lay in the fact that it was in the so many of our brain workers spend As primitives were most to their taste. provinces and amongst the hard- most of their office hours in a

A Ban on Toys

headed people of the broad acres sedentary occupation the disability, Similarly, toys are mostly bad. that opinion was formed.

mental and physical, which results ing his aircart, was to-day sentenced "It las well-known fact that

becomes more and more conspicuous to be dismissed from the Force, children break their toys or soon get

as the years pass by. and had £100 stopped from his pay. tired of them," she said. They, too,

The original sentence was that are unserious—"grotesques." he be cashiered, but this was com-;

"And Fairies?" muted to dismissal.

Dr. Montessori was ruthless. they, The incident which provoked the too, have to go. A child of twelve is courtmartial occurred when Monger, much more interested in fairies than while flying over East Grinstead, a child of seven or a child of five. crashed in a pond between two I am more interested in fairies houses, after hitting a tree. He than any' child." narrowly escaped injury.

London, June 11. Flying Officer A. L. Monger, of the R.AF. Reserve of Officers, whom a courtmartial found guilty of ing outside the three-mile limit and at a low altitude, thereby damag-

SHOOTING CHARGE

SIAMESE SENTENCED TO TEN

"We build a fine world for our selves and a fine world for dolls, but no world for the children," she

ON ! THURSDAY and FRIDAY the 4th and 5th July, 1929, with interval from 1.00 to 2.30 p.m. commencing each day at 11 am.

at Carlton Hotel, No. 20, Ice House Street A Large Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE

It would be an evil day should an endeavour be made to conduct news papers on the principle of the

During this time the worker Comprising multiple shop. He was convinced realises only too clearly that his

Teak Hatstand, Hall Mirrors, that newspapers SQ conducted, physical activities are steadily Chesterfield Couch, Chesterfield however brilliant they might be, deteriorating, while the interest Chairs, Armchairs, would bring down opprobrium on taken

Teak Book in his work, their luckless heads, and they would diminution of his capacity to form Teak Sideboards, Glass Cabinet and the Cases, Teak Dining Tables, Chairs, pass out of existence as suddenly important decisions are almost Curtains, Carpets, Crotkery, Glass as shooting stars.

unconsciously becoming more and Ware, Cutlery. Teak Ice Chests. We lived in an age of advertise more pronounced.

Ceiling and Table Fans, Ceiling She thought children needed ment, and who wanted to return to To meet this he endeavours, if Lights, etc., etc. serious, active lives.

the days when advertising was the weather permits, to take ex- Teak Bedsteads, Iron Beds, Teak small and newspapers in conercise on Sundays, and this he may Wardrobes with Bevelled Mirrors, sequence, gave little news for a supplement on Saturdays as well, Teak Dressing Tables, Tank and higher price and with restricted but in the days of the week which Marble Top Washstands. Toilet said: "The result is that they are circulation ?

intervene he is obliged, especially Sets, Blankets, Table Cloth, Linen.. reduced to living in their imagina-] Like everything else, the Fress during the winter months, to fall Mosquito Nets, etc., etc. Bangkok, June 20. tion.".

must keep pace with the times, and back

some systematic

also The Appeal Court sentenced "And might that not have it the best thing to do was not to sigh exercises taken indoors on one or One Piano by S. Moutrie & Co. three Siamese to tea years im advantages ?"!

regretfully for past days, but to two occasions during the day,

A Quantity of Blackwood Ware prisonment each on a charge of "No, it is like sitting in a theatre devote themmselves to the beat way To such a man, massage, even for

and shooting at two Europeans, Mr. all the time instead of living your of dealing with problems created by a short period is of great value Ope Sufe by James Black, London." L. f. Riganti and Mr. Hans Geyer, own life. Dolla," she said, "are new conditions.

since it supplements to a great On View from Wednesday, the with intent to murder in the growing bigger and bigger; their The job of the newspaper pro extent the absence of a more na-syd July, 1929, Kunburi district. A fourth accus- furniture is growing bigger and prictor was to give the public as tural form of exercise in the open ed was discharged.

bigger. Why not take the next step much news as possible without air. There are now so many Den After the shooting the accused and let the child inherit the doll's distortion, and in the editorial and women who are minst expert at were tried by the local court and world?". discharged on the submission that there was insufficient evidence! The case was then taken to the Ap peal Court-Straits Times.

YEARS IMPRISONMENT

GREEK POLITICS

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columns they had to see there was massage, and from long experience honest expression of opinion witle are able to secure for their clients She hoped that there might spot out fear or favour, keeping alive a maximum of physical benefit in be built a house for children in und remaining ever sensitive to the quite a short while, that the time which they could live their own feeling that possession and power requisite for it can be readily lives in which everything would carried with them the feeling of a stolen from the rest of the day. be proportionate to the size of the public trust.

The advantage which such mass children; the doors, the

The Gramophone Press" age can afford to the busy worker themselves, the steps. She had It would be a bad day for the is almost incalculable, and well some photographs of some children country and the Empire if i repaya the small financial outlay in a Montessori school washing the expression of opinion in newspapers involved. While efficient massage dishes, their clothes, going through were merely gramophone records keep the digestive system func

Peking, Yesterday. The Chamber and the Senate re- a great part of the domestic routing from one headquarters. He did tioning normally, and the muscles It is reliably stated that the jected the appeal for release from which girls habitually go through not fear that the day of the gramo in a state of activity, it also prevents great north-west question is still prison put forward by the former with their dolls-only in this case it phone Press would dawn, because that accumulation of fat in the far from being settled. dictator Pangalos, who was happened to be the real thing. And would never be tolerated by the abdominal wall and in the intes Reliable reports from Taiyuan, sentenced for his part in a shooting there was no mistaking the delight public (analanse

APPEAL OF EX-DICTATOR PANGALOS REJECTED

Athens, June 20.

affray during the election. More of the young washerwoman. The over, Pangalos was indicted for real children's house, she thought

tines which is so disfiguring and state that Yen Hsi-shan, in addi particularly about the heart, getion to wiring to Chiang Kai- dangerous to life, also andicapping shek that He is too pre-occupied conspiracy against the State by has not been built yet, though there. A man at Landau, Palatinate, life more bright and enjoyable intention

activity. Such massage renders to go to Peking, reiterates his in

of accompanying Feng means of credit: manipulationsare in Germany and Holland some

whose furniture had been put into consequence.

Yu-halang abroad, and reminds Trans-Ocean.

houses designed for children which the street by order of the au-To the boy who has left his Chiang Kai-shek of his own in- are approaching her ideal.

thorities, calmly went to bed and school or univerzity the abrupt tention of going abroad which was "Children," she said, over and over again, "have their own lives to slept the night through in the open transition: from a very active expressed at the conclusion of hist

physical life to one of almost com campaign against the Kwangsi pad. They will be different from

itea of Wuhan--Reuter. plete physical lethargy is a serious factor and in our civilisation

GREEK DOCK STRIKE

STATE OF SIEGE: STRIKERS CLASH WITH MILITARY

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our lives. We are only beginning to find out what the true child life is Athens, June 19. It used to be said years ago that is

crowded as it is by business and At a blasting powder factory at of their own, a freedom un social engagements, his oppor: Sentin, near Paradubitz, a în The Government has proclaimed woman could not go out alone: that

tunities for exercise are very trait-Czecho-Slovakia, an explosion killed a state of store in the district of this prohibition was in the nature the port, which is completely of things, was inevitable and between children and their eldersIt is obvious that it would be & others.

She spoke of it as a battle fought ed and too often quite inaccessible. ice workers and injured thirty paralysed owing to the strike, eternal. It turns out to be wrong that the relations between the two great advantage to the members Clashes between strikers and the Woman has a life of her own difer parties should be completely re of every social club if they were military are of more frequent ent from man's life, but we are only adjusted. "But it is a battle which furnished with means of obtaining Minister of Defence, states that it Mr. Wilford, the New Zealand occurrence, and the latter have just beginning to discover exactly ought to have fortunate results, massage treatment, to which is proposed to establish another had to fire on a lumber of ocea what its nature is. Similarly since the two parties love each other access could be had at all times of seaplane base in addition to that at

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