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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1931.

WORKLESS ARMY OF THE ADOLESCENT.

25,000,000.

Europe's Problem for

Winter.

Estimates that the world total uf unemployed will reach 25,000,000 during the coming Winter give great importance to a list of public relief works, national and inter- national, which has been compiled through the League of Nations and the Internationl Labour Offee..

Germany's workless are expect ed to total 7,000,000, the highest figure in Europe and the second in the world, first place being taken by the United States, where the estimate is 10,000,000.

Back to Nature for

Training.

Problems associated with the be- haviour of modern youth were dis- cussed at the Summer School of the British Social Hygiene Council at Oxford recently.

GIRLS TACKLE

BURGLAR.

Plucky Capture at Johnstone.

A remarkable story of how a young woman tackled a burglar, and with the aid of a servant girl and Dr. Isral Feldman, late senior her aged father, managed to over- lecturer in physiology to the Lon-power and tie him up was related don Hospital, said: "We are living at Fairley Sheriff Court when in an age of eigarette smoking and Archibald Guston, 18 Dimity Street, the kinema. Industralisation has Johnstone, was sent to prison for brought in its train both positive 60 days on charges of housebreak- and negative reactions upon the ing and assault. adolescent. The young town dweller

The accused broke into the house, has been deprived of the funds which is situated in Dimity Street. mental advantage of growing up in early in the morning, and entered an atmosphere where the realities the young woman's bedroom. of nature imperceptibly impress She got up and tackled him, and themselves upon his mind. At the he assaulted her. same time town youths are in their A young servant girl then rushed factories and workshops surround-into the room and went to her! ed by men and women of more mistress's assistance. mature age and experience whose very talk induces a crudity of out- look which is both artificial and

The programme of international public works prepared by the Inter- national Labour Office includes the creation of an international road system in Europe, with main arteries from Paris to Athens, Faris to Moscow, and cross roads from' demoralising. the Baltic to the Balkans and across; the Alpe

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Trussed Him Up.

The aged father, on entering, was also assaulted by Gaston, who threw ornaments at him.

The three of them, however, made! a combined rush at the intruder, overpowered, him, and trussed him, up

"The modern school boy and girl; will break out from the confine Plans Approved.

ment of so-called civilisation even Another plan is to co-ordinate if it be only in the form of the

Parcate ure The police were then summoned, the waterway systems of Europe language they use. into a general all-European sys-frequently ahocked by the crudity and Gaston was taken into custody. of the expressiona brought home from school by their young boys of seven and eight. 'Father, you are a liar and Mother, you are a fool' are no implications of rudeness or want of culture, and the expressions are not to be construed as an at

lem.

A third plan is to create On International distribution of hydro- electric power throughout Europe, asssuring the benefits of hydraulic power now possessed only by cer- talni countries to all in Europe.

The fourth project is the unl versal adoption of automatic coup- lings on railways. This would it is estimated, give employment to

600,000 workers for five years.

All these plans have been Rp- proved by the European Economic Union, which also proposes a sys- tem of transferring. unemployed workers to places where labour is scarce, or for seasonal work.

SCOTS BARONET.

Sir Adrian Baillie's Engagement Announced

tempt at. the aping of Billingsgate, but as an atavistic manifestation of the innocence and directness of the rustic whose outlook is the farm

yard and whose vision is nature.

"In guiding the adolescent we must firstly and unequivocally come back to nature. The child at all ages of te development is receptive even concerning the of the truth most intimate functions of its own body if that truth is conveyed frankly, openly, and without hesita- tion. It would pay us in making this approach to the growing boy and girl to relearn some of the rugged frankness of the Bible and the refreshing simplicity of the Garden of Eden.

On his own behalf, accused safd!' he had been in India, where he hadį had sunstroke, and being under the influence of drink at the time he did not know what he was doing.

SISTER'S HEROISM.

Dies in Attempt to Save Younger Girl.

How an

East-End girl dashed! into her blazing home to save her! younger sister, only to perish with!| her, was described at the inquest| the at the London Hospital on victims of the Stepney fire.

Edith Levy (17) and Daisy Levyi (15), both of, Dempsey Street, Stepney, were the victims.

Edith had left the blazing house when she realised that her younger, sister Daisy was still inside, and) without a thought for her own safety she dashed back into the building.

Influence of the Kinema. "The kinema, with its entice- ments and allurements, has been allowed in this country to grow unrestricted and unguided by those

She WOA Been по more until, whose duly it is to provide for the when the fire was subdued, fire- future of the réce. No parent men came across her body near with any sense of responsibility that of the sister she died in trying! dare allow his or her child perfect❘ to save. freedom to enter any kinema, yet |

A marriage has been arranged and will shortly take place, it is announced, between. Sir Adrian Baillie, Bt., of Polkemmet, and the Hon. Mrs. Wilson Filmer, elder daughter of Lord Queensborough.

Mrs. Wilson Filmer comes from In wealthy family. She was only 17 when she inherited through her mother, a daughter of William C. Whitney, the founder of the to children. Whitney millions, a fortune 28 timated at £50,000 a year. She is a cousin of Mr. Jack Whitney, the American millionaire sports

man.

She was first married at the age of 20 to the Hon. C. J. F. Winn,

December.

The mother and other members

we know that it is a physical im- of the family were saved, including possibility, situated as we are, to a small baby, who was caught by place the kinema out of bounds Constable Tabreham when dropped Pending the radical from an upper window by thei dealing with this menace, the least mother. we can do is to instruct our young The jury returned a verdict of in the duty they owe to their own accidental death, adding that Edith growing bodies and to make them died in attempting to save heri realise that sex is the greatest at- gister. tribute that they are inheriting, and that it must be, until they

the second son of the Into Lord reach an age of maturity, their in the L.C.C. Education Depart- Oswald, Six years later she ob-prime duty to safeguard this asset. ment, speaking on the contributions tained a divorce and in the same. The modern child, with Its modern of psychology to social hygiene and with juvenile delin- year married Mr. Wilson Filmer. education and free mixing on ap-dealing The marriage was dissolved last parent terms of equality with quency, said that every child had to adults, accepts the facts of repro- be educated and trained afresh to Sir Adrian Ballie, who was duction told clearly and truthfully suppress the crude innate reactions jeducated at Eton, is in the diplotas- without a blush, but with a sense inborn in man from the time of bar-

tle service. Ho unsuccessfully of satisfaction in the knowledge barism, contested Linlithgowshire AD that the truth le being purveyed to Unionist candidate at the last Gen- it." eral Election.

BAYWR

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