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LIBRARIES

Their Aims And Ideals

THE CHINA MAIL,

INTERESTING LECTURE

The lecturer said:—

Parker, then Lord Mayor of Man. I believe that some Hong Konger chester, appealed in these words to wants to standardise the word his fellow citizens:-

| Kowloonatics. We believe Kowloon "In Manchester we are a little be- to be very much. alive and to be hind some other big cities, notably very sane In its activities. You Glasgow, in the formation of a Com. are certainly sane in wanting to mercial Library. I do not think have a good library attached to I need say to you how necessary in your Club, By force of circum. A interesting lecture on these times such library is. We stances, even if our public library "Libraries:" Its aims and Ideals," have learned that if we are to hold was the best equipped in the East, was delivered by Itev. Father our position in the world, both of many must depend on their Club Byrne, S.J., at the Club de Recreio commerce and of science, it will Library to supply their wants. on Friday night.

be necessary to lay a good founda. Their wants are surely to become tlon both in theory and in practice effective members of the district in Whether their When asked by your energetle... Only this year a very strong which they live. secretary to give some lectures at deputation came before the Library voice be heard in the deliberations the Club, I replied that it would be Committee, representing the Cham- of the Kowloon Residents' Associa

tion, or whether their influence be a pleasure to do so. It is a pleasure ber of Commerce, begging us to the influence of a allently flowing stream but a stream that does flow, it is clear that a good library will be one of the most important assets in fitting them for their task.

WIDOW ROBBED Accused Found Wearing | Stolen Jacket

HOUSEBREAKING CHARGE

all the more gratifying as the sub-make the provision."

came, the

ject "Libraries; Aims and Ideals" Re-Awakening After War makes an capecial appeal to me. 11 During the war there was inevit um happy to see that the Club de able dislocation of trade, there was Recreio, still in its infancy, is, like a shattering too of many an ideal. the baby in a famous soap adver- when, at last peace tisement, stretching out its hands nations affected began to take stock: with the he won't be happy till he They realised that brains are bet gets it" look, but strolching them ter than brawn. The position was well put by the Canadian Minister books, when secured, will have all for Education: "The new era calls the beautifying qualities promised for volunteers to serve in the making by the vendor of the soap, and its of the greater Canada. Education fragrance.

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We are tempted to add "should be the promoter, for often it is not."

•

Two Chinese men and a woman werk! We are told that a librarian of

at the Kowloon Magistracy on Saturday the Edinburgh University, anxious

before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith arraign- to find space for new books, asked

ed on charges of stealing and receiving the lecturer in Chemistry, Profes

a rattan basket, a puras containing sor Simpson, to weed out the books

$16, two gold fingor rings, three I need not linger over the use American gold coins, nine pieces of no longer needed in his department fulness of a library, it is evident; clothing, and a gramophone, all the and that the professor simply I should just like to add the In-property of a Chinese widow named Li plied "Take every textbook that teresting action of the newly-form- Fung, residing on the first floor of is more than ten years old and paid state of Czecho-Slovakia. At 830, Shanghai Street, Mongkok. it down in the cellar," Many of the very first National Council the The first defendant, a man, pleaded; our modern libraries would have Government passed a library law, guilty to the larceny of the whole lot

test were applied to their contents, pulsory. Every city, town and even very empty shelves if the ten years' The Act, dated July 22, 1920 is com- which was valued at $152. and they would be still emptler If village of 400 inhabitants had to the test of ideale were employed. It establish a library. The outside

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to examine the aims and ideals which induce us to found a library,

Function of a Library You may have read the poem of

Crabbe entitled The Library. Tha following lines are happyne

of mind to find;

"Here come the grieved a change The curious here to foed a craving

mind; Hore the devout temple choose;

And

their peaceful here the poet meets hts

favouring Muse.

the whole country should be covered with libraries. A tax of about 12 to 25 cents a head was to be levied, according to the population of the

district.

Plays an important Part That a library offers us, relaxation. is clear by the largo section-in some

disproportionally large libraries given over to works of fiction. any function of a library is in dan-

If

Very Clear Proof Evidence was given by a Chinese detective which showed that the woman

mitted on November 11, and the woman receiving, since the robbery was com was found wearing one of the stolen jackets on November 14.

An additional charge of house- breaking against the first defendant was admitted.

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Detective Sergeant Fowlie, who prosecuted, told the Magistrate that although it was the defendant's first offence, all three of them were " bad lot."

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His Worship held that house-breaks A new economical way to spend ger of being overlooked it is its ing for a first offence was very seriort summer holiday. Take a trip to most important function of educa-ous, and sentenced the first defendant Wuch w and back.

Only requires tion. There is something tragic to six months' hard labour.

four laya. Seu all the sights of the The two receivers

wore convicted Weat River. It costs you only $38.40 about this as, even in the Action

weeks' fail, and $50, with the alterna-

budget:- tive of one month's hard labour, re- spectively.

These are the lasting mansions of section, we might continue our edu-and fined $25 of, in default, thres and can be done in five days. Your

With aws around these silent walks

I tread;

the dead. "The dead?" Me thinks a thousand

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A JAR OF SOY

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to admit lack of character, though in The post suggests four needs our heart of hearts we may know which a library might satisfy, and of sad failures. Now to be a man they agree substantially with the of character requires that one's life off-hand answer one would make if be. dominated 5 principles, not asked the functions of a good ruled by each passing impulse. For

In Tsim Sha Tsui”

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library:to supply useful informa- this it is necessary that we have our O.K zauce." said Detective-Sor- Special Conditions Of

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boy

The police officer pointed out that the defendant was "the most detest ale man in Tsim Sha Tsui," and that probably his Worship conté remember the young criminal's face."

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After disbandiment they will assemble t Tungkuan for counting, previous to being paid off.

Enemy Retreat Da November 18 Hala Tai-yin's 18th Division received order to pro- ceed to Wushingknan and Sinying, on which the enemy retreated to Luokokow.

Recent Fighting

Chaegchow, Saturday, On November 12 Marshal Chiang Kai-shek at Hsuchang received General Sun Liang-cheng's repre- sentative Huang Wan-pen with re- ference to the disbandment of Sun's troops. The following arrange ments were made:-

The Kuominchun generals hav-aurrendering. ing determined to surrender, to first cease all forms of military activity.

1.

UNLAWFUL POSSESSION

"This Boy (Chinese oil) is similar to

ethical conceptions fixed in our geant W. G. Humphreys at the Kow- The Utilitarian Aspect

minds, and woven into ideals of con- loon Magistracy on Saturday in a The utilitarian aspect of a library duct. Our education was only com case in which he proscented a Chinese menced at school, if it is to be com-for unlawful possession of a jar of was curiously educed by some writers in their examination of pleted the task lies with ourselves, Chinese soy at Canton Road.

Defendant said that a little causes of, fallure and success in the The library can play an important great war. They pointed out that, part in this work; the choice of gave the jar to him, but he did not

know, nor could he find himl

The Magistrate, in holding that he in 1912, in eight large towns with books may help to make or unmake a joint population of over two milan ideal character.

was guilty of stealing, convicted the

Yinshih and Lotung was smashed The Ant line in the direction of lions, Germany spent £26,000 on

"Dispensary of Soul” · defendant.

by the Government troops and has public libraries, roughly 3d per The Egyptian monarch Osyman-

lost more than half his troops, so head; in the same year, in thirteen dyas, who has been identified with

that General Sun Liang-cheng is large towns, the British ex-Rameses 11, 1300-1288 B.C., placed penditure was £156,000, or over his library the inscription

The second line about 64d. per head.

under General On "The Dispensary of the Soul." Sergt. Humphreys added that the de-

Sung Chih-yuen has retreated to the other hand the German army Unfortunately poisonous drugs may fendant stole everyday, hat was never expenditure was £13,000 000 while find their way into a dispensary and, caught, and that in this case it stood 2

Tungkuan and is, now awaiting Soldiers to receive a month'e instructions for disbandment. the British was only £27,000,000. without due precautions, may to reason that the jar of soy was

wages, and rations,

The third line in Shens! under Whether these figures prove much be very injurious to the ignorant, involved in some big cargo, and it

Lower grade officers to return Generals Shik Chang-ting and or prove little, it would be futile to We should commend to library com- was a clear case of larceny.

to their homes and receive $50 Cheng Ta-chang is now Sentence of three months" hard la mittees a work of the distinguished

each besides a month's wages. American Librarian Mr. William bour was passed, and the jar of soy

centrating at Kingtzekuan in the was ordered to be detained at the

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