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SCOUTS OR

FOOLS?

[BY UT. GEN. SIR ROBERT BADEN FOWELL]

[Special to "Hong Kong Dally Fresa." All Rights Reserved]

I have beard it said "Most boys are fools." But in the Scouts we have an eleventh Scout Law--an unwritten one-to the effect that

A Scont is not a fool."

So here is a chance for Scouts to show that they are not fools, and to show some other boys how to be

Irss of fools.

A road fool runs along behind a cart or a tram and tries to get a free ride on it. When he gets off or gives it up he forgets to look round and see the motor-ear that is coming up behind. So he gets it in the back,

NAVAL & MILITARY SINGAPORE'S TRADE

NOTES.

Submarine Lis due to complete rrätting at Portsmouth. Hes and H 32 will be under refit at Sheer- nesa. Other submarinen in dock. yard handa now include M 2, the submarine monitor with which aeroplane trials were minde.

She is refitting at Portsmouth.

Four new cruisers are due to join the Fleet in commission during the next 12 months. The frat, in Sepenber, will be the Shropshire, the remaining cruiser of the four authorized in 1995; she will join the First Cruiser Squadron in place of the Frobisher. The other three vessels are those authorized in 1928. The York, completing on the Tyne, will be finished in March. She is the first of the "B" class or medium-sized cruisers of 8,400 tons. The Norfolk complet- ing at the Fairfield yard, Goran, is due to be completed in April: and the Dorsetshire, at Ports mouth Dockyard, in July, 1930. It is not yet settled to which sta- tions these three cruisers are to be allocated.

M.S. Curlew, which was com There are dozens of ways whereby

missioned for trials at Chatham a road fool can get himself injured. on June 19, after large repairs. It is in the matter of getting run A Scout who knows how to look and is to be ready for service over in the street. Do you know after himself rather enjoys gettinganded in reserve by Commander again next month, is to be com- how many people are run over in through difficult traffic; but he can

J. Graham Bower, D.S:O., late in de more than this. He can act as

command of emergency destroyers a year in London alone?

at Rosyth. Commander Graham Well, over a thousand people are guide to the ordinary road fool, on

Bower served in submarines dur- killed-to say nothing of thoseto timid people or little children, ing the War, and, under the thousands that are merely injured ad can help them across the road non-de-plume of "Klaxon" has written essays and sketches on the and have to go to Hospital and use just as the policemen do.”

work of these craft. Promoted to up the beds needed for really de-

cominander in June, 1918, he after- | serving sick people.

wards served in the Plans Divi sion Naval Staff. After command. ing the Pandora and Cyclops, sub- marine parent ships, be became in June, 1994, commander (8) of the Ambrose, in the Fourth Flotilla, China Station.

Look Before You Leap.

Most bi there accidents happen through people being Read Fools They don't look out. Drivers are careless; cyclists "chance it"; and worst of all are the people who go- stupidly about it when they want to cross the road.

Jast of these accidents happen through people being Road Fools.

A road fool steps off the kerb to eross the street with his back to the traffic that is, to the carts and 'buses coming along, and he goes straight across. A Scout faces round and looks to the right before stepping off the pavement and walks partly towards the traffic so that he can see what is coming. When he gets to the middle of the street he turns a bit the other way and looks to the left, and so sees what is coming that way.

A Scout therefore crosses the road by a V-shaped course first to the right and then to the el.

A road fool starts to run across the street and finds himself in front of a 'bus, thinks he can't quite do it, stops, and ruas back if he is aot knocked over before be does so.

A Scout walks quietly with his eyes open and his wits about him, and he doesn't cross in front of a 'bus; he lets it go by and crosses behind it.

TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Rules for Road Fools.

:

A Road Fool is the boy who doesn't look out when starting to cross the street.

A Road Fool is the boy who doesn't look round as he gets off a bus to see what is coming up behind him.

A Road Fool is a boy who crosses in front of a car or 'bus whether it is moving or standing still.

A Road Fool is the boy who doesn't trouble to cross a street at the place where there is a refuge in the middlę.

A Road Fool is the boy who

rushes out of school into the middle of the road without look ing to see what is coming along.

A Boad Fool is the boy who plays games in the middle of the

road.

A. Road Fool is the boy who tries to get a free ride on the back of a cart, jumping on and off while it is moving.

If a boy carries out all these rules, he is pretty sure to become one of the thousand people who in the course of a year get a free ride laside A Hearse through having Leen run over.

Lives Saved by Good Scouts.

Captain A. Ramsay Dewar, De- puty Director of Naval Ordnance, is to be succeeded, on completing by Captain Frank Elliott, O.B.E.. 2 years' duty in this department, at present in command of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet; on board the Wallace. Cap- tain Elliott, who will be 44 an October 10, apecinllized in gunnery in 1908-9 and just before the late War was on the staff of the Bri. tish naval mission to Turkey. Dur ing hostilities he was gunnery off cer of the battleships Agincourt and Benbow, in the Grand Fleet, until his promotion to commander

From

COMMISSIONER.

APPOINTMENT MADE.

COMMERCIAL SECRETARY IN TOKYO,

Singapore. Mr. R. Boulter, C.G., Commercial Secretary in the British Embassy at Tokyo, han been appointed Trade Commis- sioner at Singapore to re-open a post which was closed in 1922.

Shortly after the Labour Gov- ernment came into power the un- nouncement was made that a Trade Commissioner would be stationed at Singapore and an additional Commissioner at Sydney, in ac

policy the cordance stimulating trade between Grent Britain and the rest of the Em- pire.

with

of

Little is known about the Trado Commissionership as it existed in | Singapore' from 1919 to 1992, The brief post-War boom in trade was

depression in Malaya, and the followed by a long period of severé

under almost impossible condit Trade Commissioner was working

tions. Little attention appears to have been paid by the commercial

since the lost was old and since the was abolished Mr. A. Roose, Registrar of Imports and Exports, has acted an honorary Imperial Trade Correspondent in Singapore.

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Local British mercantile opinion CONCERT ernment's decision to re-open the appears to favour the Labour Gov- office so long as the Trade Com- missioner confines himself to gener

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al investigation of trade condi- AN ENTIRELY NEW PROGRAMME tions, co-ordination of advertising of British goods, acting as a liai- BY ENTIRELY NEW ARTISTES sun offrer with Home manufac turers, and pushing British goods generally.

On the other hand, if he is to of work he personally obtains for be judged at Home by the amount

British factories-in other words, by the number of orders be ob- tains it is held locally that he will do more harm than good, as he will be obtaining business that has already been relected by local ly established firms having full knowledge of the risks involved, and he will be encouraging the

ers of which are well-known.

Mr. Boulter has held his present' British Consular Service in Japan position since 1923. He entered the

in 1007. Не WLA awarded the

in June, 1918, when he was appolicy of direct trading, the dang On pointed to the Excellent. Vice-Admiral W. H. D. Boyle in May, 1924, he served the staff of

the Resolution as gunnery ofcer and as staff officer (operations) and was promoted to his present rank at the end of 1925.

in

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KEEP THE DATE OPEN:

CO-PARTNERSHIP IN INDUSTRY.

PROFIT-SHARING A FRUITFUL SOIL.

of about

director Shoolbred & Co., presiding at the annual conference of the Industrial Co-Partnership- Association, at Oxford, said:—

Commander J. W. Rivett-Carnac,

whose D.8.C.,

appointment is After being refitted and recom- announced to the Kent, Bag-missioned at their home ports, ship

Chinc, last Barve most of the vessels of the First ed. in the Training and Staff Destroyer Flotilla, under Captain Duties Division at the Admiralty. J.H.K. Clegg, O.BE, in At the beginning of the War he Mackay, have left for Gibraltar.. was a watch-keeping lieutenant in

The Flotilla is ordered to JC- the Orion, flagship of the late Sir main there to work up, and Mr. Percy A. Best, managing: Robert Arbuthnot" in the Grand to 'arrive at Malta Fleet. In July 1918, he was ap. August 21, when the Mediter pointed to qualify in gunnery, and racan Fleet is due back from its During the past year alone a six months later joined the Fleet cruise in the Levant. The Vam hundred and fifteen Scouts have flagship Queen Elizabeh. In pire and Vivacions are' detained We are becoming a very specula- received awards from Scout Head-October, 1918, he became first and at Portsmouth, and the Wryneektive public and the Stock Ex quarters for gallantry in saving the

at Chatham, until their refits are completed. lives of other people, not only from being run over but from fire, drowning and other misadventures. In addition to road tools there are also a good many water fools, that is people who take risks when bathing when they are not able to

swira.

Every Scout ought to be able to swim, and no boy can be a first- class Scout until he can do so. This rule is made not only for his own pleasure and safety; but because fellow is not much good as a Scout if he has to look on at a person in danger of drowning and is unable

to go to the rescue,

So don't forget it, Scouts!

DRAWING EXAMINATION

nery officer of the cruiser Cleopatra, and won the D.S.C. for his service in her in the Baltic. In 120-21 he qualified at the RN. Staff College. In 1922 he took a course at the Military Staff College and in 1995 at the R.A.F. Staff College, being the only officer now on the active liat who has com- pleted staff studies at all three col- leger. His promotion to comman der was in June, 1928, while he was serving at Greenwich,

The official Navy List, now on

cerned in this wholesale removal have written to ask for reinstate- ment.

change is the Mecca of all hopes,

called the financier, and great in- dustries of the countries have be come the victims of his exploita tion.

My suggestion to you can only be that you should be aware of your opponents-namely, the pe culiar spirit of speculation in business. You must begin to ap. proach this danger of exploitation in business which is so evident to- day, and fight it tooth and nail. Industry will then return to its proper basis, and profit-sharing will then be nearer realization.

"

Industry is the Cinderella of the Stock Exchange, and the result is that we consider business as an sale to the public, shows the effect aggregate of units of capital of the shrinkage in the lists caused called shares rather than as a by the removal of some 350 names public service. We have encour of officers who have failed to re-aged a peculiar "type of wizard port. The heaviest reduction is in the Emergency List, which con tained 247 names in January, and has now 189. The total of lieuten- nots has come down from 280 to 223, and that of lieutenants pro- The appointment of a new Naval moted from the acting lieutenants", Secretary to the First Lord, is de sub-lieutenants, and mates lists casioned by the coming departure from 125 to 86. Names of several of Rear-Admiral Eric J. A. Fuller-well-known officers are among those ton to be Commander-in-Chief in which are removed. In most cases the East Indies. He was appoint failure to report is evidently the ed Navel Secretary in April, 1927, result of overlooking the rule that and his services have been invalu- officers should send in a notifica able during the period following tion annually to the Secretary of the recent change of Government. the Admiralty, It is understood He will be succeeded on October 1 that about en of the officers con- by Rear-Admiral G. K. Chetwode, C.B., C.B.E., who was promoted to flag rank in June, 1928, a few months after relinquishing the duties of Fing-Captain to Admir- al Sir Roger Keyes in the Medi- Lewis, Mr. Shinwell (Financial terranean. Rear Admiral Chet-Secretary to the War Office) refers wode, a brother of General Sir to the measures for finding soldiers Philip Chetwode, was born in 1977, civil employment од discharge and entered the Navy in 1891, and from the Army. He says that aaa lieutenant won the Royal apart from the arrangements for Towkay. Loke Yew has given

Humane Society's medal for gal- training over 2,500 men in antici- luntry in saving life. Early in pation of their return to civil life, 830,000 towards the foundation of At an examination held last term his career he obtained independent the War Department is in close a Technical College for the F.M., under the auspices of the Hoyal commands as a destroyer captain, touch with other Government de A committee has been formed, con-Drawing Society (London) eleven and was promoted to commander partments with a view to securing

in 1912, while in command of suitable posts in Government em sisting of the Resident, the Gener pupils of the Kowloon Junior II.M.8. Firedrake. He then be playment for ex-regular soldiers, al Manager, F.M.8. Railways, School were presected, all of whom came an executive officer in big and the possibility of extending Mr E. D. Stafford, chairman of the Director of Public Works, the posed, eight with Honoura

ships, and served from May, 1914, the opportunities in this direction Stafford, Ltd., of Brighton, which Federal Inspector of Schools, and successful candidates are:-

in the King Edward VII, and is under active consideration by has also adapted a co-partnership from January 1918, in the Royal the War Officer in co-operation scheme, said that co-partnership the Warden of Mines.

DIVISION

Oak. In the latter he was present with the Government departments and prost-sharing had no more. 1: Robert Cocks

at Jutland, for which he was men- concerned, Schemes are also being fruitful soil' than in the retail · · The Malay Mail understands (Honours), Peter Green (2nd tioned in dispatches. Promoted to considered for the co-ordination of | trade. that the site of the new College Will |

captain in June, 1917, be after the efforts of the organizations, re- Asked why customers changed be somewhere in the neighbourhood Class).

wards commanded destroyers in gimental or otherwise, which workshops, he said that a list of reasons. of the new railway workshops.

Salter the Mediterranean, and was pre- on behalf of ex-regular soldiers. had recently been made, and the Toukay Loke Yew is evidently the (Honours), John Kempton (Hon sent the bombardment of These include over 100 regimental list was headed by the indifferences local Andrew Carnegic, and in ours), Betty Crouch (Honours), Durazzo in 1918. For his War associations, the National Associa of the assistants "In my com- making this farther large dona-Margaret Bell (Honours), Mariel service he was made C.B. and tion for Employment of Regular pany,

where co-partnership tion to the community of these McCaw (Honours), Peggy Stringer C.B.E. and also received various Sailora, Soldiers, and Airmen, the scheme is in existence, you do not. States he is worthily upholding the (Honours) Phyllia Thomlinson foreign decorations. In 1922-25 he Incorporated Soldiers, and Bai- get this indifference towards custo- best traditions of Chinese generos (Honours), Hester Heath (2nd was Deputy Director of Naval In-lore Help Beciety, and the British mera, but pleasing interest in

Ulsax), Janet Fraser (2nd Claes). telligence.

Legion.

shown by the assistant.”

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than it has ever been before.

Sir Algernon Peyton, director of John Lewis Partnership, spoke on the co-partnership in operation at John Lewis & Co. Every member of that firm, he said, was consider- In a written reply to Mr. Oswalded as a partner, and the small boy who sat on a van was quite ax much a.partner as he was himself. "I consider aur scheme to be the longest stride yet taken in this country towards co-partnership. The scheme was thought out by Mr. J. Spendan Lewis twenty years. ago, and was based on his feeling that the investors required too large a share of the returns of the company, while the employees had to be content with a small share of

A the returns."

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