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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1931.

THE REPORTER

NEWSPAPER'S MOST IMPORTANT

MAN.

American's View of Modern Press.

CHRISTMAS PLAY.

THE CHINA MAIL.

RADIO

Production by St. John's Cathedral.

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

S.P.C.A.

Further List of Subscribers.

"The Next Door House," a Christ- The following programme will The Honorary Treasurer desires mas play by Margaret Cropper, is be broadcast to-day from the Rong to acknowledge with thanks the being prepared by St. John's Cathedral, and will be produced in Kong Broadcasting Station 2.B.W. receipt of the following dona-

tiona on a wavelength of 855 metres: |the Cathedral Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday, December 22 and 23, at 6 p.m.

..

5-5,30 p.m. European Pro Previously acknowledged $4,076.10

gramme of Victor Records,

6.30-9 p.m.-Chinese Studio Con- Religious. drama has a long and

cert. honourable history dating from the

9.03-9.15 p.m.-European Pro- Middle Ages, interrupted by 1

gramme of Victor llecords. temporary eclipse due to Puritan in-

5-5.30. p.m.-Children's

Pro Mr. Burges Jahnson, Director of addressed; and there is no value influence. The kind of play being

gramme. newspaper, however ably produced by St. John's Cathedral is Rhythms for Children-Waltzes Nos. handled, if no one renda it. So the now recognised at Home as a power-1, 2 & 3 (Brahms), reporter must reckon with this ful means of teaching, and is be- Run, Run. Run-Jumping-Running public desire for entertainment, ing increasingly used by the Game-Air de Ballet, and learn how he may most alluring- Anglican Church..

Public Relation, at Syracuse Univer-

sity, writes in the North American Review on "The Newspaper's Lost Leadership." He asserts that the important man on any newspaper is the reporter, and until he la sound the newspapers cannot be all that

Mr. they should be.

Johnson

"The primary functions of the newspaper are to collect, verify, and distribute the news. Entertainment features, editorial opinions, critic isms of art, drama, sports-these are all secondary to the newspapers'

chief business.

"If finding and verifying the new is a first duty, the reporter becomes the most important person

in the

any

ly arrange his facts, without depart- "The Next Door House," whose ing from them,

cast includes five adults and four

"am reminded of an episode in children, centres about the coming the day's news, happening many of the Christ Child, with the town of no Blessed Mother, into 我们 English years ago in a little

An elderly Cottage, from which goodness and special Importance. maiden lady founded a small for hope have fled. The true spirit of tune in money and securities hidden Christmas is depicted with simpli- away in the attic of her house. The city, but with great art and beauty. Both adults and children will do local paper sent out to the Asso. ciated Press an item which read,

well to keep one of the dates free Fortune found after a lapse of

se as to see this play.

There will be no charge for seats, thirty years; and it was not re-

but those who wish to make sure printed anywhere. A re-writer of

leanings from the news sent it out of their places should apply to the again, Fortune found in old hair Dean, St. John's Cathedral, on or trunk'; and this was reprinted all after December 1 for reservation. over the United States. Here there was not addition of any fiction, but an understanding of the value that lay in emphasising a quaint and homely fact.

THE "ANTIQUITY OF CHINA:-

Songs for Children---

The Fiddle Song Dancing Song, The Bee,

The Clock,

Victor Orchestra.

Who Har Seen the Wind? My Old Dan, Honk Honk! Cradle Song, Soldier Boys, Wing Foo,

Actual Song of the Canary Birds

The Zuo Alice Green (Soprano). Recorded from Ricch's Aviary Bremen.

Melodies for Children- Rock-A-Bye Baby, Sweet & Low, Lullaby (Brahms),

European Staff of the

Sanitary Department ... 59.00 His Honour Mr. Justice

Lindseli

5,00

$4,139.10

HOTEL GUESTS

AT HONG KONG HOTEL.

November 18. Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Anthony. Messrs. T. D, W. Bannister, H. Barton, Geo. E. Bird.

Mr. J. Cromers.

Mr. W. J. Dyment, Mrs. Dagaeff, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Donnelly.

Mr. F. J. Focken..

Messrs. P. Goetschel, W. Gerrard,

Mr. M. L. 8.

Mrs. P. A. Johnstone, Mr. J. E. Johnstone.

Messrs. Otto Kranen, Robert

Violinist Anonymous. Koch.

Songs for Children- Bow-Wow-Wow!

Song of the Cricket, Good Morning,

The True Story,

My Pony,

The Frog & the Mouse, The Tailor & the Moune,

Chinn is the oldest continuous na- "In contrast to this, I recall antion in the known world-In older She has episode of a midnight fire near a thun man has recorded.

and doors barred woman's college. The girls rushed held her gates from their dormitories in all stages against outside influences and peo- cert.

many cen-|

Marks of reigns prior to the au- thentic dynasties aro visible, but "When reproached with the fact recorded history does not claim Let us look through the that there were no knotted sheets, them ....

The Frog He Would A-Wooing Go;

Alice Gruen (Soprano). 6.30-9 p.m.-Chinese Studio Con-

Mr. Olliver Lee.

Messrs. Geo. Millis, C. Mather, I. Ming Lob, M. Michel.

Mr. and Mrs. Pritchard. Messrs. D. Ross, W. R. Ricketts, N. R. Ramsay, Mrs. T. Carr Ramsay.

Mesare. Frank Strahan, C.

Starr.

PIANOS

FOR SALE OR HIRE.

PIANOS

ANDERSON

The Anderson Music Co., Ltd.

V.

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Mr. Harry Town, Mrs. V. M. Trump, Misses Trump.

Messrs. G. G. Worrall, R.

The Continental Symphony S. S. Wong.

Mr. F. Zappi.

Orchestra Directed by G. M. Doit.

The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Directed by

Alfred Hertz.

FIRING PRACTICE.

EXCHANGES.

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

whole human structure of the Press. If his standards break down the Press breaks down. If he goes through a process of training preliminary to employment, and an office experience during his first years of employment, that stiffen his moral backbone and develop his powers, first, to discover the truth, and then to write it down clearly he is more likely to develop into the type of editor that can resist com-

of attire to watch a burning barn. ple. She has conceived, developed, 9.03-9.15 p.m.-Orchestral. mercial pressures of every sort.

But it was not important that a and carried into practice, within Zampa Overture (L. J. F, Herold arrWilliams, K. K. Wong, T. W. Wu, “If he finds that employment as u

A. Winter), reporter wins

the respect of the barn burned, and there is no new herself, a thoroughly organised and community, it will menn his own valac in the fact that a lot of young almost unchangeable system of laws enhanced self-resport. But the pub women do not wait to put on all and customs that for He must came to look upon the re- their day-time clothes; so a local turies have made her self-sustaining Hungarian Dance No. 6 (Brahms), porter's badges implying a peculiar reporter had them descending from and independent. skill, a peculiar degree of trust-second storey windows on knotted worthiness, and a position.in the bed sheets. community of greater dignity and responsibility than that implied by the badge of an officer of the pence.

he retorted, "But the New York door that lands ajar. What a papers would not have taken the view! What a revelation! It lai He Distoris the Interview.

atory without them."

not all dark, as we had supposed.] "The young

and young The sun shines upon a vast territoryj

Firing will be carried out by the

On London-—— "To prove what I am saying, one

1/3 2 seed only imagine the contrary women who go out from newspaper that has the many climates of the R.A. from forts in the vicinity of Bank, wire

Hong Kong as under:

Bank, on demand 1/3 9/10 situation. A man of affairs in the flees to mingle with the folk in globe.

their community as vérifiers of gos- The soil is rich and yields a| November 19-From Stonecutters Bank, 4 months' sight 1/3 11/16 community is approached by slovenly youth who says that he re-sip-seeking authoritative sources, variety of agricultural products. at 7 p.m.-Area West of Stonecut-Credits, proving to readers that facts There are wooded lands of great ters and North of Green -island, **sight

1/4 % presents the Press, and secures an

have been checked-must ultimately value; we find the earth has its November 23-From Lyemun ́at Documentary, 4 interview, perhaps, because the man

determine the strength or weakness valuable treasures in mines of gold 10 à.m.-Area High Junk Bay and months' sight 1/4 % of affairs fears to refuge,

of their paper. The editor cannot and other precious metals. There Tathong Channel.

On Parle- "Later there appears in type a

follow them on their journeys, and ure great beds of coal and quarries. · November 24-From Lyemun at On demand

620 distorted and incompetent report. in which all that was of significance perhaps by the time he has dla of granite, marble, and jade; per-7 p.m.-Area as above.

or another lacks haps jewels unthought of are in November 26-From Stonecutters

690 in omitted, and a few phrases that covered that one

moral either

stamina or skill, China's domain. Although there are at 10 a.m.-Area West of Stonecut- will amuse, shock, or surprise a

empty riverbeds, China'sters and North of Green Island. On demand

Nom majority of renders are all that re irreparable harm may have been large

done to the cause of Truth. He water supply is not beggarly. As November 27-From Lyemun at main; and these, shorn of their con-

we look and reflect we detect the 7 p.m.-Area High Junk Bay, and text, do not represent the speaker's must depend upon their training,

working hand of a mighty nation Tathong Channel. thought. It is obvious that one lead.

The nation differs from other ing citizen's respect for the Press is

"Just now, of course, we have a nations in general and in detail. lestroyed; and the power of the

vicious circle. The future of the It in claimed by some re- Press to be of service to the com

newspaper depends upon the train-cognised authorities that quite munity is equally weakened.

ing of the reporter yet whatever authentic eventa can be trnc. standards have been established in ed back to 3,000 years B.C.. A his mind during his schooling will nation of five thousand years' stand- be overcome by practice in a shop ing, or even of four thousand, is

IL

"If such a reporter as that goes, by a slow process of promotion, up to an editorial desk, he has no con- ception of the proper place of a newspaper in the community-50

men

Better Type of Editor.

where the editor has false stanno child ...

MR. H. G. WELLS AND THE DOCTOR'S MANDATE.

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that the direction of the whole dards. But one must cut the circle China has the cldest language

somewhere and it seems most rea- now spoken upon the globe. Records "I think the situation of the On Shanghal-

newscollecting organisation might far better be in the hands of the business manager!

"If the legal and medical profes, sions place importance upon the personal character of apprentices, and by some process of selection attempt to weed out the morally unft it is even more important to our communities that there should

be the same weeding-out process for

apprentices in journalism.

"Granting character fitness, what

sonable to urge

that a better atti-show that this language is

the

Mr.. H. G. Wells, who sailed from Southampton recently

On demand Aquitania for New York, said: world is very grave at the present On demand tude of mind must somehow begin mother-tongue of a far greater num- time, and everybody ought to do Dollar with those who are youngest. If ber of people than any other ian some hard thinking about it. The

I think we on demand it can begin with the reporter, not guage of the past or present. It patient is very ill. so many years need pass before a has undergone few changes; the ought to call in a doctor, but Sovereigne

I do not think we ought buying rate) generally better type of editor is in written characters of China are over

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doctor's mandate Silver (per oz.) They to give a the picture,

"The very fact that the reporter were originally cut upon atrips of to amateurs. It is a matter for Bar Silver in Hong is the keystone of the whole struc- bamboo; these strips were then tied people like Sir George Paish, Mr.

Kong

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ture makes an optimist of me, be-in bundles and each bundle was Maynard Keynes, and other etono- Copper Cash cause he is young and susceptible called a "book" These "books" are mists to work out what is wrong. Copper Cents to training. I am an optimist also carefully guarded. In the Ch'in Unless we consult such men wo Rate of Native In- because the Press is its own shrew Dynasty they were burned. Some shall no more find a solution by terest are the fundamentals of reportorial dest, and severest critic. Sooner or were hidden away as great trea- popular excitement or electioneer-Chinese Sub. Coln 25%% dia. training? First of all must come a mind receptive to ideas, and sym-Inter such self-analysts can lead to sures, but few were anved. Later, a ing than we can hope to cure a Hong Kong Sub. Coin Par.

one conclusion, reached by reproduction from memory but

was broken leg by the same means." pathies broadened, by well-directed studyblerallsing studies that either of two routes.

written, but much of the quality and The purpose of Mr. Wells's visit open long vitas into the crowded "Either newspaper workers are quantity of the former production to America is to ses his new book; " | "The work, wealth, and happiness affairs of our present civilisation. engaged in a business or a profer- was lost.... Then must come training in the sion. If in a business, performing

What can be learned of China's of mankind," through the printers' ability to see things objectively, and to interpret what has been seen without a distortion due to personal; prejudice.

hands.

a definite public service, they will early history portrays a civilisation unite to define their obligations to superior, at that date, to that of the community and demand certain most parts of the outer world. As- guarantees; if in a profession they tronomy seems to have quietly, but PARLIAMENTARY MAJORITIES. will unite to define and protect the positively, imparted an unfailing Three Differing Stories,

standards of the profession itself. light to mankind, civilised or un- The majorities of Governments "Tho criticism will be advanced "As a matter of individual self-elvilised, through all periods; and since 1847 have been:--- here that no one can report without preservation the newspaper must this unfailing light appears in the

Year distortion. Three men see a crime come to respect itself so much that first glimpse we have of China's 1847 committed and are put under oath it will require a high standard of existence. to tell all they saw, just as they saw moral and technical fitness · among

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1852 To-day, the world is seeking with 1857 It, and there will be three con- its apprentices; and not until then earnestness to learn about the 1805 tradictory stories. Yet I would can it fully merit the respect of the hitherto unknown Orient. It will plead that as those three observers community. Having regained that, progress through a period of train- It will by the very nature of It be compelled to work. patiently dill-1874 1885 ing in observation, and in the functions become again the leader gently, and with a good spirit, if 1880

we would learn much of China and elimination of bias and prejudice, of democracy.”

her people-Sarah Pike Conger 1880 (M.E. H. Conger), in "Letters 1802 from China,"

1900 The little 9-year-old Crown Prince 1910 (Jan.) Michael

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