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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1929.

THE RELIGIOUS FACTOR IN CHINESE

EDUCATION.

A BIBLE IN ONE HAND, A GRAMMAR IN THE OTHER.

ROUND THE COURTS.

RESISTING ARREST.

**No doubt for n man of your type it is very funny to break a European Sergeant's finger in rẻ-

refreshed, appreciate the conditions PROFESSOR FORSTER'S ABLE ADDRESS sisting arrest, it is so funny that

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Professor L Forster, of Hong Modern Church Schools, Kong University, gave a most in-

In the 19th century there was an teresting lecture on "The Religious other outburet of action by the factor in Education" at an "At Church on behalf of education. Ia Home arranged by the Victoria 1811 the National Society/was form- Diocesan and Missionary Society in ed for the education of the poor the Helena May. Institute. The and in 1833 the Society had 600 English educational system was schools while the State did nothing traced from the earliest days when for education. By 1870 it had built St. Augustine. landed on our shores | 12,000 schools throughout the land with a bible in one hand and a and had undertaken, practically, to educate the whole poor population. grammar in the other, to the In 1977 the State, stem of free various experiments.the Montes-education was started, sari system, nursery schools, etc.- of the present day. Then, turning eastwards, the speaker touched upon the work of the teachers of "this Colony, and in China, and the difficulties of the teacher missionary in face of the attitude of the Re- pubiic of China.

Education. From a National Standpoint.

He would, he said, start with an allegory: If one wanted to brighten a fire there were three methods of using a poker-to smash the crust- ed cinders, to push the poker into the middle and stir up some life, or to clear the bottom bars, and Het fresh air into the fire. The first two were only temporary measures, but the last, although it neted more slowly, was lasting in effect. So it was with the body, politic. The erusted cinders might be compared to conversation, the rentre to vested interest.

The Finest Golf Course and Poor

·Schools.*

I think you had -better-have-UDO" month in prison to think it over! "

These remarks were addressed to a shop foki yesterday," when ho was charged before Mr. E. W. Hamilton with disorderly conduct and with resisting arrest..

Giving evidence.. Sergeant Pork- son stated that he saw several men engaged in a brawl in Centre Street on Tuesday. The accused was the eble! aggressor and witness was taking him inte custody, when he broke away and a long chase took them to Des Vœux Road.

Here the Sergeant caught his man, but a violent struggle followed, "He did not strike me," said the

Sentence was passed as stated.

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We had every reason to be proud witness, but he twisted my arm of our English educational systera, and broke one of my fingers." How- is had not broken down during or ever, Sergeant Pockson, finally got after the war as that of Germany the man taken to the station. had done, but we could not afford

Accused explained that he was to present it in China separated frightened and fell down. The Sery from its most important element-geant also fell and broke his religion. We believed our schools finger. in this Colony to be places in which our English tradition of education schools were suffering from lack of was taught, but the English funds. Extraordinarily good work was being done for the Colony by the comparatively obscure band of ill paid teachers. We had in the Colony the finest golf course in the Far East and we believed we were soon to have the finest race stand, but we had financially poor schools, churches and university.

Over the Border.

The lecturer then went on to des- cribe two trips that he had made over the border into China, one to in order to collect opinions on the Canton and the other to Kuliang

prospects of western education for

BANISHEE SENTENCED.

A banishee, who has been deport- ed from both the Straits Settlement before 1r. A. W. G. H. Grantham and from Hong Kong was charged

with the theft of a box.

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HONG KONG NIGHTS.

up a box and walked away with it, [T THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG,

It seems that the accused picked

just after a man had purchased it from a shop.

His Worship passed sentence of three months' hard labour.

GAMBLERS BAD DAY..

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DAILY PRESA."]

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MARRIED.

MR. C. W. E. BISHOP AND MISS M. HANSEN.

SIR-What is there to do in Hong Kong on a Saturday night We've had a good dinner, and have Seventeen men who appeared be- that "to-morrow is Sunday feel The only sure, the Chinese, from Missionary, tea- fare Mr. Grantham yesterday on aing. The pictures 1" Yes, we know. Department, only son of Mr. and

charge of gambling at 55. Hollywood but we hear it's a dud. What else 1] Road, were each fined $1 on plead-

method was to turn to the youth

At St. Andrew's Church, Kow. loon, the marriage was solemnised yesterday afternoon of Mr. C. W." E. Bishop, of the Public Works

Mrs H E. Bishop, of Newdigate,

jorie M. Hansen, of 16, Stanley Terrace, Quarry Bay, younger daughter of Mr. J. E. Hansen, of Taikoo Docks, and the late Mrs.

of the nation and inspire them with fine university and school buildings ing guilty. An eighteenth man, who Repulse Bay Hotel for a dance, Surrey, England, and Miss Mar

now ideals in order to bring about a regeneration of the body politic.

The necessity for re-adjustment at this period was obvious, and the number of new methods of educa- tion which were being tried was! proof of the belief, that it is only through the young that the re-

chers and from the Chinese them selves. He had seen what had been gutted by fire. It needed only one hathead with a tin' of petrol to destroy what it had taken a thop- sand men to build, But that dds traction was not without signi- ficance.

Registration.

educate a people. It gave the ten- It was a tremendous frivilege to

chers the power of guiding and con trolling the lives of their pupils in

A sum of $4.50 which the police seized from the table in the course of their raid, was put in the poor

box.

was not present in Court, lost hisYes, yes; but we cannot get a girl bail of $5.

at this short notice when we feel like doing something on the spur of the moment, In short, there's nothing to do of an evening in Hong Kong. It's dead; stone dead.

Apart from the pictures, we some- times get a touring theatrical com» pany, and some of them aren't bad

REBUKED FOR GRINNING. - A Chinese who found the proceed ings at the Central Magistrate so

Hansen.

Mr. Bishop is, a well-known local football player.

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generation of the world can be hrought about. All education 'ex- perts agreed that the path which after years. From the Chinese amusing that he sat smiling broad- and, we pay very nearly double the Ever." were played during the cere

The Rev. C. B. Shann officiated, and Mr. R. Baldwin, A.T.C.L., was at the organ. The hymns, O Perfect Love," and "Thine for inony, whilat Mr. R. M. McKeown

point of view it was indeed "aly was rebuked by Mr. Hamilton a child took through life was deter: tremendous privilege to allow to yesterday who asked the man if he pring asked in any of the provinces mined in its first years. We felt

foreigners. Their contention that had nothing to do, that the war was a grave reflection the foreign schools are centres of

· at home, where we see a No. 1 sang the solo "All Joy Be Thine." The offender replied that he work-touring company. We pay the same

The bride who was given away by -- en our educational methods and

ed in the Central Market. realising that we could, as a nation, alien influence was perfectly reason-

His Worship: All right then, go

price for the A.D.C., where we see her father was charmingly attired in a dress of ivory charmeuse with no longer afford the luxury of hareable. The Chinese now demanded

well-known local celebrities impress-pearl trimmings, and train of the we had seen that we could no longer that these schools should be regis back there. afford education from a national the headmaster and the board of tion.

tered: Registration meant that The man needed no second invita ing their characters on the author's same material lined with gold late standpoint.

guardians must be Chinese; that

conception of the parts. But apart and embroidered with pearls. Her ão religious teaching could be given

from these rare delights, there's veil was of 150 years old Limerick lace, lent by her relative, Mrs. T. in school hours and no feligious services held; that the three prin

nothing to do, absolutely nothing- Cooper, of Sydney, Australia, She

carried a bouquet of white roses. respectable. ciples of Dr. Sun Yat Sen rust

English Historically Minded, Religious education had always been a factor in England. The English were historically minded. When they returned from abroad they did not settle in one of the new garden cities but went back to the old villages where there were the old church and market cross which suggested to them the cle- ments of English life. From there they sometimes moved to the old

these Associations were

DEPARTMENT'S DIGNIFIED

day.

SILENCE.

The three pretty bridesmaids. were the bride's cousin, Miss Dorothy Hutchings, who with Miss Sellic Liley came up from Aus

for the ceremony

and

be taught. The problem that the Shamashuipo, who was summoned for

The manager of a factory in Now, suppose we visit nay fir- Missionary teacher had to face was whether he could remain if he failing to abate a smoke nuisance sized town at home, and the spirit could only teach Christianity anr-

from the chimney, and who was moves us to a bit of amusement repetitiously. It was difficult to get given two weeks in which to consult on Saturday night and we have tralia

Miss Betty Laing. They a general opinion on the subject expert advise on the mintter, a flair for dancing. We can always dresses of tulle over

Wore satin in but something might be gathered peared before Mr. Schofield Fuster.

go to the local Palais de Dance and pastel shades of green, mauve and from the effect of registration on certain centres of learning. Holy told the Magistrate that the P.W.D.

Sanitary Inspector 4. C. Sinton have a really enjoyable evening lemon with frilled full skirts, and

tered and was empty Lingnam liniversity was registered and work vice, but they refused and said it for a small outlay. But can we in was progressing. Holy Trinity in was not desirable that they should Hong Kong? Na! There isn't a Foochow was registered and-on

They considered that the enus was

towns, Winchester, Oxford, where Trinity, in Canton, was not regis- were 'apprenched to give their ad. Rood band and excellent partnera picture hats to match. Their bou-

even

sirger. They wanted to attach themselves again to the old tradi- tion,

was

strike.

give expert advice on the matter.. Palais. Why? Because we're about

quets were

of coloured fowers which matched their dresses. In addition to the bridesmaids there were two flower girls, the Misses i Rhexic Stalker and Dorothy Wood on the defendant to abate the nuis fifty years behind the times, and ward, whose dresses were of tulle ance and that there were consult it would be not in the least respect-in bhie and pink, respectively engineers in the Colony to whom able to dance with a "sixpenny with full frilled skirts edged with vice.. the defendant could apply for ad- dip.". Although mark you, every silver ribbon, and they wore mob

caps.

Mrs. G. F. Hutchings, the bride's aunt, who had also came from Aus.

A Prayer Book and a Grammar. The elements of English education Teaching His Grandfather to Walk. bad always been Christianity and Some people hell the view that the Greek tradition and to these the informal teaching of Christianity now added modern science. was enough, that the teacher could Christianity whe the foundation, in his own life express what the that he understood the defendants places where lots of the lads of the Inspector Sinton also mentioned body knows-and winks at-the the Greek tradition the structure, Christian religion meant, and im- and science the superstructure. press it on his pupils. Definite ten-

were about to move their factory village go when they're feeling good

tralia for the wedding, was the When St. Augustine arrived in ching could also be given in the

to another site. They had been and hearty. England he had had, according to Hostels.

fined three times already for the

It's just the same in lots of other Matron of Honour. She wore & smoke nuisance. tradition, a prayer book in one hand

things. Take the motor-car ferry.black velvet hat; and carried a bou- and a grammar in the other, and felt that they did not need Chris-journ the case in die and re

The Chinese, or many of them, The Magistrate decided to ad- A growing place like Kowloon on quet of maroon chrysanthemums.

The duties of best män were car- one side and Hong Kong, on the until quite modern times. The first tianity. China has bad 25 centuries marked that it could be brought up other, and we have a contraptioned out by Mr. L. Goldman, whilst A., and schools had grown up with the of the moral teaching of Confucius again if there were any recurrence that would make Heath Rohingon Messrs. W. Kay, M. Cathedrals and by the 7th century and for the West to come and teach of the nuisance."

green with envy. Why, if the motor G. E. R. Divets were the grooms- car merebants were to finance a there were already a large number code of ethics was, as one Chinese

practical ferry, on which it did not of them. An indication of the im- expressed it, like a child teaching They portance of these schools in the his grandfather to walk."

take the best part of a morning to felt that after so many centuries

get your car across, they would double their sale of touring cars and couple of years. But that will come do blue ensemble of crepe de in time, after due consideration." Chiur, with ront trimmed with Our generation probably won't see white fur and hat to match.

the two had never been separated

ELECTRIC LIGHT BULBS

STOLEN..

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After the ceremony a reception' was held at the Penineula Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. Bishop will go to Baguio, P.I., for their honeymoon.

minds of the church was given by of national life governed by a moral Two boys were charged with quadruple the sale of lorries in a The bride's travelling dress was n

the fact that the headmaster, or chancellor, ranked third in the cade, they could have a holiday

THIEF AND LIAR.

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DAILY TREES."1

Cathedral body, after the Dean and from morals and turn to those per-stealing electric light bulbs from a precentor but before the arch-sons who could teach them mate- Intrine at the Mei Chiu Theatre, deacons. Leach says that these rial knowledge rather than to the Hanghom. The Magistrate ordered schools were centres of classical preacher of a foreign ethical code. them to be bound over in bands of it, though Leaching. The number of schools They enjoyed an easy consciousness, ench signed by their guardians. But let's have a Painis, a really with lots of room for increased rapidly and the attitude of superiority over the West with It was stated that one got on the nice one.

RADIO LICENCES. of the Church towards them was regard to morals, but they ardently shoulder of the other to reach the parking ears, a sliding roof, and again illustrated in the 14th century wished to improve their material had been stolen from the Theatre the hot weather. After all, there [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG

bulbs. Half a dozen of these bulbs sides that can be thrown open in when William of Wykeham, who conditions. became heir to six livings on zo- But the Western system of educa- recently.

must be about thirty men to every rount of the devastation of the tion hung together, the spiritual

girl, so what a hope the majority of us have of a night's dancing. Black Death, used his large re-side was necessary to balance the

Let's wake up and realise that it's SIR, My attention has been venues to found Winchester School material and scientific side, it was for 70 poor and needy scholars, impossible to separate these factors A Chinese who was arrested on a not iminoral or infra. dig to have drawn to a letter in your issue of Later he established what is now und still to give the Chinese the charge of stealing clothes from two a public dance-place where we can to-day over the signature of "Radio. New College, Oxford. The Church English system of education. If addresses in Canton Rond was pay to dance with someone whom Fan" on the subject of fees payable had always held as an ideal the the material education were not stated to have been wearing the we would never dream of asking to. for broadcast receiving licences, scholar priest; it had associated bound up with the religious the trousers of the suit he had stolen. our house to dinner to meet the Since October 1, when the new Re gulations came into force, the pro religion with education, and the whole would lock the drive and He said that he lived at 77, Re-Governor. whole curriculum of the Medieval idealism which had given the Eng-clamation Street, but on being taken Hong Kong's ʼn ievel of a place, portionate system has obtained, and University led up to divinity, as is lish educational system the place there, the tenants of the flat did an let's wake up and rid it of its the amount payable for a licence exemplified in the structure and it had in the estimation of the whole not know him!

present stigma, that for an even- during the current quarter is $1.25 decoration of the Bodicien ch O world. School was above all the His record showed a previous con- ing's enjorment its the last pince only Yours,

NL SMITH;"" ford-Before-the Renaissance there place for bringing people info conviction last August for stealing on God's earth.Yours, etc

DANCER A senterice of three months' hard

Postmaster General, were over 900 grammar, or second tact with the eternal verities and

ideals. ary schools in England.

Inbour was imposed.

Hong Kong, Nov. 20.

Hong Kong, November 20.

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