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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd, 1928.

WHY ENGLAND'S FAMILY LIFE IS

VANISHING.

DEPUTY MOTHERHOOD AND PARENTAL

SELFISHNESS.

[BY DR. J. A. NAIRN, FORMERLY HEADMASTER

OF MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL]

BCO

There is to-day a strongly mark children of mine or ten years, boys ed tendency to shuffle off personal and girls, standing in crowds wait- and individual` responsibility. ing for the school specials. The Laws rigidly respected throughout girls in particular touch my heart; countless ages are at the present tiny creatures, the gaps left by Itime disregarded and set at nought their milk-teeth hardly yet filled in the light of recent social up, hugging the Teddy bears they sheories. Nowadays no man, or must relinquish in a minute or two, woman either, is to be held to ac-elinging wet-eyed to Nannie's or count for his own actions; and Mummie's hand. much of the wisdom of our legisla For 13 weeks and will be to19, our "pastors and sapers," freed from her responsibility, and to use the old phrase, is exeraised į able to live her own life." Dur in procuring that evasion of corse- ;ing nine or ten years, for 39 weeks queners which democratic sentimen of the 2 that make each year, tality demanda,

these children never

their Not least do we see this tendency pareats, and often the holidays are at work in the relations between

spent in allen surroundings. How We hear parents and children.

“ክ father, mother, and home constantly that children have no

mean anything real to them 7 respect and but little affection for

It all classes the child has been their parents Generally the too much" handed over to the ex plication appears to be that the pert. We may have gained much, children are wholly to blame, that I do not deny it: certainly we have there is something radically wrong lost much. The sense of parental in the present generation of chil-responsibility, the feeling that each dren, which manifests itself in this pair of human beings is absolutely responsible for the rearing and training of their offspring till such time as the young ones are ready to go out into the world and take upon themselves their own share of life's duties, has been terribly weakened in our time. As things are to-day, the boys and girls are apt to owe all their training to others than their parents.

way.

For myself, I do not subscribe to this theory, which argues a double Cose of original sin in our young people. I hold the old-fashioned view that for the defects of the young the elders are always ton high degree responsible. Respect, duty, obedience, affection are not debts due to parents merely because they are parents; they are qualities that demand incessant and careful

cumstances. are..unfavourable to their growth, then, in order to reap the reward of these ideal qualities in their children, parents must be prepared to practise as intensive

culture.

Motor-cars-And Babies."

Both Sides Lostra,

52

the time

with

PENALTY ON THE UNMARRIED.

SUGGESTION FOR MR.

CHURCHILL.

FRANCE, ITALY, SPAIN,

RUSSIA.

WORLD MOVE,

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

FRDHUARY GiSr, 1978.

AND. Bank...$1,355 bay, 1,185 sa

Da . London., 211 aom,

All the world is beginning to "tax bachelors. Will Great Britain fol. low suit?

Sassoon.

Chartered Bank...tel buy. Marcantile Bank, A. &#...432) nom.

0.14 m

Da

P. & O. Bank East Asia Back........ soit z die, bay.

#D9. 2. Od. . Carton Lururanes... 3697 bay. North China Ins. Union Insurance

1813 bay.

143 nosa. Fangtase Insurance ......

M. 1464 buy, China Underwriter- China tire lusursuze....$18 com Hong Kong Fire La.......$605 Douglass

H.K. Bresbosta

$49

27 bay

bay

The 18 sel. Tiz. 10 sol Tln, 2.85 sol Tla. 6.10 mol.

This interesting speculation is already being advanced in connee Budget, says the Daily Express. tion with Mr. Churchill's next There are 2,030,740 bachelors of full. Tage 322 buy, 2.90 wi. age in England and Wales alons, Indo-Chinas (Prof.).....338, bay. at they relate a host of famous Barl! Transports

Du.. (Def.)....$40 num. mex, from Lord Balfour to the waterbe Archbishop of York, and from Mr.

Waterbeats.....n 17 Justin McCardio to Sir Philip Kailan Mining Ad..........

Benguete *******4-********** Weight is it to the suggestion by the increasing adoption of the plan in other countries... Prvasia is the lates. State to take up the scheme. According to a B.U.P. message from Berlin, Herr Arnold Hirtsiefer, the Minister of Public Welfare, has advocated the introduction of the tax in order to meet the deficit Stax also comtemplates imposing

in the Budget.

the tax immediately. Paptests have been rande by British re- sidents, but are likely to be dop-

ped.

age pay

Langkats (combined). hai. Explorations

Do. (single)..... Shanghai Lop Bathe...******* Tronoh Mines H.E. & R. Wharle..

17/0 bar 10 bay. ..3133 nom. $19 bay.

K. & W. Dooks.... China Providente......36 buy, 6/5.90 Hongkowe.....

Tix, 183 hay. New Engineering... fis. 5 bay. Shanghai Dook

.......ls. 97 nom, Ewu Cottons

TL . bay. de may 7,60 sel. Orientals

Tix buy.

Bhanghai Cotton (old)... Il. 45 bay.. H.K. & S. Hotals $8.65 bay.

D5. (now).... buy.

1541 bay, 65 vel., 65,55, 3. 187 buy.

Shanghai Lands Humphreys Estat.141 bay. Hong Kong Beitio.......90 buy. ELK. Territorials K Thames ja

FRANCE has taxed bachelors since. Lands

1020. Those over thirty years of super income tax of per cent. The number who pay reached 200,000 last year. I began last year to tax bachelors between twenty-five and cixty-five years of age. Although the amount of the tax is small. Signor Mussolini expects to meure £300,000 a year from the

bachelors..

Great Britain does not tax bache lors, although a larger personal al couples in assessing income tax. lowance is granted to married America has a similar method of obtaining increased taxation from

unmarried men. ..In France even unmarried

Peak Trams (old)

$11003 $26 buy, 2011,

26.15/20 $14 zom

(new)......... nom. Star Ferries Chius Lights (comb.)..............316) #el.

Da (old)......

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Do. (new)....et nom. Macao Electrica $11 buy.

$74/73

Uhina Buses

ROM,

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B

$4.30 el. ..T. 64

310 boy. 1271 nom

$11.00 bay..

11.10/11.

Singapore Tractions.....11/9 China angara Malabon Bugarɛ Cautori Iess.

Du Lo

women over the age of thirty years Comenta (combin./4.bp. being single. But people cannot are charged 23 per cent. extra for altogether escape an increase by marrying. They must have chil. H.K. Bopas (old)........191 nom. Every couple who United Avrsto 10 buy

dren as well.

years and are still childless are have been married-more-than-two- and 10 per cent: above the normal

rate.

(old)......$10,0 DOEL (now).....$1 Nom. Do. (now)........34 bay,

доп

Dairy Farmsund boy, Watsons

$12.30 buy. Det A Wing........... Lane Crawfords....$3.10 Binceres.....................$9 bay. W. Powell....$5 nom. HK Amusements ......329 buy. HK. Odnstructions ....$13 nom. HK Gori Loan.........5% prem, bay. B'qas, Indus, G.8Bands...69% nom.

buy-bayers; sel-sellers'; — Sibday

BOM.—Sinai, -

murture, and if outside cir-j The friends who have helped then grow up, advised them in their their minds and characters, are nes childish problems, forged their natural guardians, but hirelings. The call of the blood," the bond of physical kinship, is not scent itself to create deep and What, then. is my indictment lasting affection; it must be sus against parents "To begin with, plensented all in increasing numbers to accept patience, sympathy, unselfishness, parenthood itself under protest. and hopefulness exeraised through Instead of being looked upon our the days of childhood and ef the crown and supreme blessing of youth. it it is to stand the attain triarriage, parenthood is looked smposed upon it by the headstrong upon all too often as a nuisance, wilfulness of adolescence. a burden, and a tie. Someone

The French Government wish to Mackintos Again, the tendency nowadays is marked recently that motorent's to keep from the children all know. encourage, parentage. Large fami- and babies were indulged in in-edge of the difficulties their lies enjoy many privileges, and verse ratio, more curs meant fewer

every year a prize is offered for the babies. I am certain, more babies

largest family, This was won last would mean lewer divorces, fewer

year by the father of twenty-one shipwrecks of married happiness.

children. But when the child or the chil dren have arrived, what is the general attitude then From top to bottom of the social scale it would seem that the chief prevalent | idea is that someone else, other, that is, than the parents, should be responsible for the newsdiner. With the best and purest of motives, we go abrad establishing erecher and infant-schools to relieve the poorer rother, as far as possible, of the care of her offspring, while in the teher classes highly trained nurses are employed who are apt to reseat an unlooked-for entry on the part of mother or father into the nut hery as a piece of illred presump

tion.

|

parents have to face. By that policy both sides are the lesers, The parents lack the exquisite coni fort and strength they could get from the quick sympathy of their children; and the children, on the other hand, are kopt at a distance, and often through sheer ignoranen appear callous and jadifferent with | regard to the privations undergone and sacrifices made by their parents on their behalf.

So

an antagonism is created which exasperates both sides. The parents condemn the children heartless and selfish, and the chil dren feel keenly what seems to them aloofness and lack of confidence o the part of their parents,

A Christmas Story,

It is a great mistake toke everything from the children, never to confide in them. Of course, 1 do. not advocate a continual grum bling: especially about household and education expenses. That merely crushes the spirit of the child, whe naturally feels his im- potence to mend the matter, and so becomes at times morbidly can scious of the expense he occasions his parents. But the res angusta domi that is the lot of so many to day, if properly faced, provides a valuable example and edaention to

No Room For Children. Domestic arrangements to-day mostly leave children out of con sideration. They are inconvenient intruders into modern life. Walk ar drive through our countryside, and note the old houses, big foamy shabby houses with large untidy gardens or grounds that were once paradise peopled with cheerfal, laughing youngsters-the gardens are not so exquisitely kept that it mattered if the doggy companions the young. whom the children loved

ran through the flower-beds now and again; and the children's penies had not yet been banished from the paddocks because the grooms hád

HOW BACHELORS ESCAPE.

A grudging admission of the married 'man's right to a little financial freedom is already made by Whitehall. He receives an al- lowance from income tax payment which might in a full year pay for his cigarettes,

He is relieved of tax on £90 of his income in respect of his wife, a sum which may save on an average £10 a year. One child is rated at the equivalent of tax on £38, but the second and any other three bends do not need three times children on the principle that

as much expenditure as qualify for a rebate of only £27.

There is thus ad, indirect basis for the direct proposal which is now before Mr. Churchill When the value of a wife or a child can be assessed by statute it would sure

onem

be a simple matter to calculate the privilege of a mere (and single) man The bachelor at present pass £10 or 413 for his freedom from responsibilities. It seems cheap.

The Cabinet.

If legislators ever allowed their personal feelings to influence their legislative output badrelors would And the present, Cabinet cold and clergyman," there was unfriendly. They are a Cabinet

A distinguished man was talking to me about his mother. His parents, were gentlepeople; his father was

yielded place to drauffeura. Ho family of half-a-dozen and means of family men, among whom Lord

were very nEITOW. He told me Balfour holds his isolated head in that when things were tightest at the serene freedom alike of philoso home, and their mother was anxious that the Christmas festivi.phy and bachelorhood.

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EXCHANGE RATES.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}

Paris

Brussels

REOBY, February 20th

Vienna Helsingfors

124

35.02

Amsterdam

12.12

Milan.........

$2.05

Copenhagen

18.00

31.603

103

2.10/04 191 47.99/39 4.87.21/32

29.34

20.42

18.17

18.32

104)

28.785

3671

Lisbon ... Bucharest Buenos Aires New York Сваста BerHa Stockholm Oslo Prague Madrid Athens

Rio

Bombay Yokohama Shanghai... Hong Kong Silver (spot) Silver (forwardi}

5/50/64

1/5.15/18

1/LI/32

9/02

2/01 20.3/18 201

days were holidays then, and home was home. It didn't matter if two

Lord Hugh Cecil and Captain or three extra children came to

Sidney Herbert are two proininent stay, there was always room. ties should be duly observed, be There are, on the other hand, bachelor members of Parliament.

Even in the towns life still took caure she could not afford a proper many prominent bachelors on the Captain Sidney Herbert is one of account of the children As I pase Cristmastree, she, took little firfringes of the Cabinet and in pub. the group of Ministers private the streets of Bloomsbury or like plant in its Bower-pot, tied lie life-prey ready to the hand secretaries-ho serves the Prime Remington I see the large, ugly wax Pestas on it for candles, trim of the slayer.

Minister-among whom, Mr. Chur- houses, gloomy and devoid of all med it with minute, shreds of lead An extremely eligible bachelor is chill could secure revenue. architectural beauty, but spacious paper from a cake of chocolate Sr Philip Sassoon, who is the Viscount Castlerosse, who is not and comfortable inside. Each was stead of tinsel, and set it lighted Under-Secretary for Air, the third in Westminster, but dy much in once a home now they are all split on the dinner table. This year

baronet of a wealthy house, and the Fleetstrect, is o bachelor wha up into fiats and masonriettes, and we are going to have the tiniest possessor of many beautiful homes vaunts of his freedoms The poor the laughter of children is never Christmas-tree that was ever seen,

without a bride to run them. age at a glance also affords Lord beard on the old, staircases where for a change." Brave mother,

Another is Sir Robert Horne, Hevelstoke, a director of the Bank bnto it echoed.

happy children.

who has courted his Hillhead of England, who lives in Carlton There is no room now, for the

Fifty years later her son told me (Glasgow) constituents. with great House-terrace; the affluent Eari children in their parents' dwel of the tree with tears in his eyes assiduity in the mass, but never of Feversham, who is quite young lings, so we build splendid pre-The best tree we ever had, he in the individual. He has the enough so the age of twenty-two to paratory schools, and pack "the

laurels of many political offices to change his minds Lord Valentin, thildren off at an incredibly early-

said,

How many mother's to-day would share with a wife, and the pro- the twelfth viscount, who is also age, an age when our grandparents take the trouble to do the same? ceeds of nearly a dozen director the premier baronet of Ireland; were stil

not even Nowadays, if money is not pleati ships for a wife (or failing her and the young Duke of Norfolk, schoolroom- 19 children. Itiful, the children are not allowed for Whitehall) to tax. mode who owns 50,000 acres. better for them,” we say, "to be to exist at all. We act too much Lord Haldane, who is ending a There are three bachelors among brought up with other children." store upon the education that brilliant legal and administrative senior judges. They are Lord It never occurs to us that the money can buy. Riches, luxury career by leading ten Socialiste in Blanesburgh and Mr. Justice Bad- "other children" should be chil- amusement have become the prime the House of Lords, is also a key, both in their sixties, and M. dren of the same family, brothers, necessities of life, and family joys bachelor, but as he has not changed Justice McCardie, who single as he alstera, cousins and so on. Yet are vanishing from among us his mind for seventy-one years, he is dilates with wisdom on breacha that is Nature's plan.

The Rabbinical saying has it that must be impenitent and unlikely of promise cases and women's dress. Go to Victoria Station at the be God could not be everywhere at to jump into the net of matrimony

One archbishop the Archbishop gimming of the school terms and once, so He created mothers-Ir in order to escape the mares of of York-and nine bishops, incid you will see one of the most He pleased to-day with His de a bachelors:tax..

ing the Bishop of London, are un- pathetic nights in the world-little puties, I wonder↑

(Continued on next Column.)

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