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THE HONG KONG-DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1929.

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THE WELFARE OF SEAMEN.

THE GOD OF EARTH.

IDOLS TO BE " EXECUTED,

[United 'Press. )

The barmaid is a highly coloured By turning, the barmaid out of the figure well known to literature.only job in which she is able to Dramatists rely upon her for the make a living without providing That all idols representing the provision of comic relief; novelists her with any alternative occupation God of Earth should be taken to find her a valuable source of humour the I.L.O. may induce her to swell the Garrison Headquarters and or of tragedy; social propagandists, the ranks of the professional pro-summarily executed ke human of all kinds use her as a convenient.stitute.

criminals is the latest proposal sub- ly flamboyant symbol of sin. Secondly, the semi-drunken sea-

man in search of female companion-mitted to the Chinese authorities. | Seldom, indeed, is she regarded as

ship is not likely to be deterred by in Hankow by the Committee for an economic unit, as a human being the non-existence of the barmaid, the Suppression of Superstition. with her lying to earn. The lurid If he cannot find such companion. light which beats upon her occupa-ship (rowdy enough, no doubt, but often quite innocuous) at the bar. tion blinda critics and would-be re- he will seek it far more perilously formers to the fact that she may be on the streets, and will thus ex a. warthy daughter conscientiously tend to an ever-widening district the noisy disorder characteristic of supporting her elderly parents, or a the public-house itself. widow or deserted wife providing for a needy young family.

It appears to be the literary, rather than the economic, view of the barmaid's work which is upper- most in the minds of the sub-com- mittee that has been studying the question of the health of seamen under the Joint Maritime Commis- sion of the International Labour Organisation. The welfare of sea- men has, very rightly, engaged the attention of the 1.LO. since 1920, and recently came up for discussion nt the thirteenth session of the International Labour Conference which opened at Geneva. At this conference it was proposed to issue to Governments a questionnaire on seaman's welfare with a view to the eventual adoption of a draft recom- imentation. The majority of the recommendations were admirable enough, and met with no opposition from reasonable' people. But the one numbered AB, which suggests Prohibition against the employ ment of female attendants in places where strong drinks are served," dennds rather more critical con- templation than the immediate enthusiastic neeeptance of a measure usually receives.

The God of Earth is probably the most popular god worshipped by the natives in the three Wuhan cities. For centuries hundreds of "Tu Ti" temples have stood in busy street- corners and market-places, drawing thousands of worshippers everyday, With war being waged by the Nationalist regime on superstition, Harking Back to Eden.

these temples have been ordered to be demolished, and the decree has Finally, the prohibition itself sug

come forth strictly forbidding the gests, to a society which is already only too willing to accept the sug-burning of incense and joss papers gestion, that in every ease of im-in open streets. moral association the female part- ner alone is to blame. "The woman tempted me and I did cat is an old accusation which has too long been responsible for withholding some of the normal rights of citizen- ship from an unhappy class of women. For the ILO. to per- petuate this notion w uld be un fortunate indeed. As long as the archaic idea persists that man can be kept moral only by the bodily removal of wicked woman, so long will be delayed in his education the inculcation of a higher standard of decency and self-control.

The removal of the temples has been recently completed in Hankow, Hanyang, and Wachang, but the worship still continues despite the official ban. The idols had been removed from the temples before the latter were destroyed, and are now put in new shrines erected at

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places. The official pro- clamation is being denied, and it is the opinion of the anti-Superstition workers that unless all the idols are, arrested" and "sho: " worship of the God of Earth will continue for probably another çen

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of the wedding. I think the word shortly describes it better than anything else. Anyway, it will be some time in the new year, because then D'Arcy has to go to Palestine. and I want to accompany him as his

bride."

I have known D'Arey a long time now," said Miss Dean. have been the best of friends over since I was thirteen, when I first came to Bexhill. Daddy had known D'Arcy before then, and he in

street. It was quite a ensual in- Miss Dean's father, the Rev. C. G. troduction, and after that I saw. Dean, died suddenly while start- D'Arcy quite often, and grew very jing up his motor-cycle outside his "So," said fond of him as the years passed. house early this year.

Miss Dean, we shall have a quiet Now we're engaged.

wedding, because siner daddy died we don't feel like making a big busi- ness of it,"

It is, indeed, bé no means proved that the barmaid always acts as an evil influence. We did not find it incongruous Inst spring when, at the Garrick Theatre, Miss Violet Loraine played the part of a yulgar young hotel-keeper, whose innate respectability was shocked beyond expression by the easy virtue of ic!

Misg Lorna Dean, whose, engage beau monde. We did not give vent to cries of scandalised astonishment ment to Flight-Lieutenant D'Arcy Greig was announced last month when, only the other day, the sild a London correspondent, the What May Happen.

published a photograph of Miss To a large, number of busy serial Cashmore, the barmaid at the Mari- story of her romance with the introduced me to him one day in the reformers this recommendation will borough Hotel, Banbury, who re-trepid airman.

Flight-Lieutenant D'Arcy Greig doubtless appear..on the surface.ently took the service and preach-

Was a member of the Schneider ed the sermon in the absence of the cinently praiseworthy. The bar local Unitarian, minister. The at-Trophy team and achieved an aver maid, they will declare, is at best tempt to prohibit employment to a

age speed of 289 11 miles an hour in a taunting, vulgar minx, and at large class of women is absolutely the race. He had, in earlier tests." worst an immoral woman ready to unjustified if it is based on nothing attained a speed of 310.57 miles an offer a temptation into which the more statistically exact than the

Hou British record. He is { "We would have announced our slightly intoxicated are only ton likely to fall at her go by allge idea that all barmaids are wet-ine years of age and a mem-engagement before the Schneider her of the Caterpillar Club, mem- race; in fact, lots of people thought hership of which is confined to dir- j we were engaged then, but there desirable for a woman to be a bar parachute dropping.

No one suggests that it is morean wha have saved their lives by would have been such an awful lot of publicity, and D'Arcy hates it maid' tika) to be a trained nurse or

So do I. We haven't fixed the date n skilled pook or a teacher or a

means, aid good riddancw to some

of the bad rubbish of the female

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immoral.

But what are likely to be some of the actual results if the prohibi-journalist or anything else for which tion of this particular type of paid costly qualifuations are require employment to women receives (as But it is. better to be a barmaid at present it seems likely to receive) than to be cold and hungry and the whole-hearted approval of the homeless-a. fact forgotten by the International Labour Conference ?

correspondent who replied to the In the Srst place barmaids, like recept press. protest of the Open the rest of us must eat in order Door Council against the projected to live. It is not probable, that dismissal of the barmaids. by sug miany of them are highly qualified gesting that the Council would be women, for are they necessarily better employed in providing an ailapted by naturé to domestic ser. enen door to a high standard of vier-that necupational scrap-heap | life." That indueil, is what they han which many administrative are seeking to do. for the first step bodies nec an ready to Aing the rag to a higher standard of life is the lag and bobtail of other callings.secure possession of a living wage.

HORROR OF THE

PADDED CELL.

on springs. It conlained nothing but a small, hard mattress, He continues:-

I was clothed in a kind of super- pyjama one-piece costume, of a

AUTHOR'S AGONY IN SANE strong woolly sort of canvas-tinn.

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The lugs (far exceeding my feet) The had no holes at the ends. arms were a foot or more too long for an

orang-outang, and knotted behind my hands. and

were

The horror of the padded, cell in when (not unnaturally, whether ! lunatic asylum is described by i was sane or not) I fought against one of its victions in "When-," autobiography, written by a man who is

now dead (Chap: an and Hall; 15s.).

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this restraint there was still enough surplus for the two ends to be tied together, and so hold all ny limbs incapable.

The author was the Inte John L. 1 That is what is known as a strait- Pole, described as "the shocking waistcoat,

Vincent Snargate, who wrote Dirt, darkness, sheer impotence, The Goats of Hell' and was also and something for worse than the author in his real name of mere insanity when for a moment- Substuff for Housomatte (ug he for two I Geonine physically sane, says) like The Strait Way and That is what the padded cell is.

Susun's Repentance." "

He explains that he has no coin- John L. Pole, or "Vincent Snar! gate," took to drink towards the plaint against the asylum officials end of his life, which ended in..who put him there, and adds:- middle age in an inebriates' home. They were decent chaps.

... But His aunt, in a prefatory note, may God (if He is) have mercy, says, My nephew, John L. Pole, mercy infinitely strained, upon the died in 1928, as even the general souls of those of our healing bro- public knows, of the effects of an thers who can, even now, see no overdose of methylated spirits." further into the human body and He was in an asylum earlier, bare walls when the mind walks brain than to cage them in four And here he developed delirium tre alone with the Devil-or is it with mens. He says:-

God, or with the undying Pan, who

Nothing?

I had it for a week, and for that time I was in a padded cell, usual, ly in what novelists call a strait

waistcoat.

By some. queer brain-trick. I re- member-vividly, too vividly, too terribly-much of what I did and thought: except the passage of the hours no hours could be counted within' those four walls. They held the uttermost torment of timeless solitude. If for a quarter of an hour I woke sana... to-morrow and to-morrow...

The Strait Waistcoat,

He describes the cell, about ten PICEL Aganic, padded with gentle

while the floor appeared to be hung

good as a lunatic: the attendants I was very nearly certified for

who knew far more about mental cases than the doctor, told me so; and it was only those rough, zane who prevented my perhaps permanent imprisonment.

men

Mr. Registrar Friend at Clerken- well: There are some shops in London that never have anything but sales from the moment they open their doors, Their owners have a shop on lease, and say, "Ex- pretty of lease," but goodrea knows when the lease expires.

(Continued on next Column.)

Wedding Shortly."

Miss Dean watched the Schneider race, which she described as terribly thrilling. "I was too thrilled over the race to worry about D'Arcy not winning. So long as Britain wou I don't care a bit," she said.

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