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Tho prison-de-luxe has arrived. My ideal for Sunday is three- Having thus traced one of the Five hundred University students

It is at Chelmsford the big gaolally transformation of Chinn into a international congress organised by Secretary of the Methodist Rocin by the side of the Colchester road. Since the war, it has held no pri- modern country, it is interesting to the British Universities Lengue of Welfare Department, in the Daily

Express, the minimum of ordinarysonera and for years it has been note one of its effect. In a few Nations Society: at Glasgow. days' time, China will be celebrat They gave Professor, Gilbert Mur.labour, the maximum of wisely used used as the local hondquarters of ing another Now Year. This will ray a rousing welcome on the open-leisure, and a common opportunity the Territorial Force.

to join in the worship of the Lard be the start of another lunar year, ing day. of the kind reckoned by China for He warned them. that another and Giver of life. hundreds of years. Now, however, war might prevent many of them the Chinese Government has order-reaching his age of 63. ed the cancellation of all festivities Picturing himself as representing in competion with the lunar year the Past, he said: and has ordered the adoption of the Gregorian or solar calendar."

A Herculean Task. While the step is highly, desir able from every point of view, the change over is a Herculean task And no edict of the Government

can bring about a precipitous change in so deep-rooted à matter. The Nationalist Government, to their credit, have, made every, en- deavour to introduce the new calendar as quickly as possible so that China can fall in line with the rest of the world. Officially the New Year was on January and the more educated class has already celebrated New Year's Day. Hut traditions die hard in China and notwithstanding Government ediets, the whole population look upon the first day of the first moon as the real New Year:

The

They arrived at the prison-about Society, co of them all specially selected

for their good conduct.

"But the jingle of the warders" key chains echoes again through its: From this standpoira I assay, the corridors-a jingle that is pleasant! current proposals regarding the music in the cars of the inmates, Act of 1781, which, prohibits Sun-For they are not ordinary convicts day entertainments whore an ad- and the treatment they are to re

ceive is not ordinary prison trent. I think you ought to be grateful mission charge is made. The com- to me and my generation for having merciat interests of the entertainment. handed on to you an extraordin.ment world propose repeal.

We have Lord's Day Observance arily dangerous, world.

proposes enforcement, The policy increased our power of speed to such an extent that we use it partly advocate is replacement of the for frivolous objects, such as racing old Act by a workable measure in motor-cars, but mainly we do. which would take account of mo- vote it to the really serious business dern conditions as well as ancient of State, which is killing. We can. kill over so many more people now because we can move so much faster when we are doing it.

The Men Wo Honour.

He pointed out that an almost unified society had been produced throughout the world.

We read the same kind of novels; attended the same kind of cinemas; exploit one another by the sama methods and ruin ourselves by the

same vices.

We ought to be a band of bro-

standards.

Between four and five hundred cinemas were open on Sundays in England at the time of the recent legal decision. Entertainment pro- moters domand the repent of the 1781 Aot, so that all cinemas and theatres would be free to open.

Because I believe in a cominon weekly rest day, which thousands would lose if places of public en- tertainment were clamouring for

patrons on Sundays; and because I am profoundly convinced that national life would be poorer if

were' diminished, I am decisively against the interested claim of the cinema and theatre proprietors

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Their ages range from 20 to 30, and the authorities believe that LONDON SELLING AGENTS they can be turned aside from a life of crime.

A. Bunshine Ride.

They rode through, the sunshine from Maidstone, in Kent, in, a charahane, accompanied by ward- ers, and when the vehicle pulled up at the prison gaten, Commander D. N. Venables, R.N., the governor, was three to receive them together with one of the Prison Commission.

ors.

These men are really an advance party, and for some time they will be busy preparing the prison for other compulsory résidents, some of

In this connection it is interest-thers-hundreds of thousands of the religious observance of Sunday whom will come from county gaols ing to state that inquiries focally Caine and hundreds of thousands reveal the fact that the leading of Abels, the only difficulty being firms and hongs use both calendars to know who is Abel and who is but while the Gregorian calendar

Спів. is used for dating documents and letters, the old lunar calendar is.

used for the settlement of accounts,

Timus all accounts are cleared up be fore Chinese New Year (ie, the first day of the lunar year and not January 1). Other settling days

After dealing with racial pre- judices he exclaimed "Look at the

statues. You will find one thing common to the great mass of them is that they are of those who have used the deaths of a very large number of human beings, belong. ing, of course, to other nations."

Peace at Geneva. Referring to the work of the League of Nations, he said he had talked on many occasions to mem- bers of the Council and the impres sion he got was that they value so the atmosphere of peace and good will inside the Council room that they hate to raise questions which will disturb it. For the sake of peace innside the Council room they leave going on outside much more serious dis turbances to the peace of the world."

which have been fixed from time immemorial, and which are still in force to-day, in spite of the general. shedding of old customs are the Dragon Festival (fifth day of the fifth, moon), the Moon Festival (fifteenth day of the eighth moon) and in the eleventh moon when the winter festival is celebrated. These enormously clearing dates are 20 generally adopted in China that they form one of the biggest barriers to the transferring from one calendar, to another. These clearing dates, how- ever, make it difficult for business

On the question of disarmament houses (except for cash transache, said it was not much good tell: tions) to close their books ou anying people to love one another. It month they may wish of the Gro was better to say that they should gorian calendar, as is possible in all behave like reasonable beings. European business.

Sir Josiah Stamp, who spoke on theBusiness Man in Internation! Affairs," said the interdependence "Olo" Custom Prevails.

of business was greater than ever, In Hong Kong generally speak despite all attempts, racial and ing, no attempt was made by Chi-political, to make it otherwise. nese firms to close their books on December 31 last and to start a new set of books for the twentieth year of the Chinese Republie as from

It was Anid in it. January 1, 1931. that much as this would help the Government in establishing the Gregorian calendar as the official calendar, not only in name but in fact, the task involved ton much working out of detail!

Mr. K. K. Kirk, who represented four universities in Britain and | France, said when be could be shown that the League of Nations was willing to offend Great Britain or France he would begin to believe

that although the commemoration of festivals on the lunar calendar are being rigidly suppressed, the real obliteration of that calendar is not possible, and, for all practical pur- roses, is impossible-for the next few years at least.

Year's Business Bad.

What 1871 Act Aimed At. Recent discussions of the 1781

This

Ach induced me to study its text, and also the relevant debates in the Commone and Lords. quest led to a discovery, I find that Bishop Forteus, the sponer of the Act, was not concerned with pub- lie entertainments in general, but with "proventing certain abuses and profanations" which haul ari- sen in Loudon.

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The "abuse" which he sought to suppress centred in a promenade held at Carlisle Howe on Snday evenings to which, he says, "die- solute people of bath sexes" resort- ed, and made the promenade "place of assignation." The "pro- fanation" centred in certain Sun- day debating societics at which free discussion of passages of Scripture took place. Such re ligious disputations outside Church control shocked the good bishop.

The Act was ained against the moral corruption of the promenade and the supposed mental peril of hostile debate on religious doctri-

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Concerts.

It is stated that the townspeople are being invited to co-operato in this attempt to reclaim young con. victs, and that the Mayor of Chemlaford, Mr. Christy, will help by organising concerts and enter tainments for the men.

The experiment is being watched with much interest and the results- will be carefully noted, probably with a view to an extension of the treatment where possible.

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Concerned lest these practices

Four hundred listeners' groups should sprond beyond London, he gave his prohibitive Bill a nation have now been formed by the Cen ai range, and imposed huge pona!tral Council for Broadcast Adult Education, and the first national ties on these who violated it.

It is this Act; founded on seonference was held at the. Londou narrow and particular a basis, School of Economics to enable which constitutes the present all group leaders and others to meet round legal prohibition of public speakers who broadenst. Sunday ontertainments to which charges for admission are made.

Legally, the 1781 Act may still sustain all that its defenders call on it to bear. Morally, I am eer- tain that a far sounder statatory ground meal soon be found for the decision of twentieth-century issues. These are fundamentally different from those with which Bishop Por- tens sought, to deal.

The Archbishop of York (chair man of the Central Council) wrote that a danger in broadcast educa tion was the those who listen would suppose that all they had to do was to listen and believe what they were told. Mercifully the doctrines cnunciated were sufficiently various, to make this impossible.

The vital etage in education was not that of mere reception, but uns that of assimilation, and this in- volved critician,

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Policy of Raplacement. So deeply rooted is this desire

Consequently the group dio. Hence my dual proposal: (1) to celebrate New Year on the first

cussion was indispensable if listen. that Parliament should safeguarding, even to learned discourses, was day of the first moon and not on

A brief review of the year's busi. Sunday against the financial m not to be added to the maltitude January 1, that during the past few

ness-the lunar year that is-shows bitions of the entertainment world,

effoot of making, idler still days there has been a big influx that the Chinese community has and (2) that municipal councils of occupations which have the of the wealthier Cantonese into been very badly hit by the depre- should be entrusted, with power to

Sir John Reith said a state' of the Colony and this influx is likely cinting value of silver. In most dreide, directly or by plebiscite. mind already idle." to continue for some-days. Ob- lines no profit can be shewn while the Sunday opening or, closing of democracy should pre-suppose an

several big firms and many small places of entertainment.

As regards the municipal ele. educated Demos, Had they got it? Mr. G. H. Gater (Education viously they intend to celebrate ones have losses to make good. New Year, whatever the Govern- Competition moreover, is exceed.ment in my plan, the method has Cfficer of the L.C.C.) congratulated ingly keen, and the spending power been in vegie for years in Middle the B.B.C. and Sir John Theith on ment edict may be and in order notf the Chinese public, iran been sex and elsewhere. I have before the stand they had made to main to run foul of the law, all who can afford it, leave Canton so that they reduced. Luxuries are being cut me the printed Minutes of the tain educational talks in the pro- down and jewellers dealing in Middesex County Council for Oct

gramme. No country in the world, may keep the traditional New Year

had such a high level of broadcast- atones and ornaments report a dull 9, 1930.

Under the heading, "Applications unmolested.

Entertainment also seems to

Fing The Chinese in Hong Kong, have slackened and restaurants in for Sunday operring the Clerk of generally speaking, have. never West Point, are not carming the the Council submitted 79 applica aeriously considered the question of income they used le. The new tions for Sunday opening by cine- changing from one calendar to an- taxation in the Colony, introduced matograph exhibitors and other other, and so ju Hong Kong the during the year, while not making public Chinese population will be enjoynig n big hole in the pocket of the in- the coming festival without being individual is nevertheless sufficient to any way restricted-except by a few cracker regulations. The question se him further to watch hie oxpenses, and to effect economy of the Nationalist Government's wherever possible, edict and what Hong Kong should do has been raised more than once in the Colony, but the attitude has been in past that no change could be effective without the complete, co-operation of any part of the

yeyir.

But notwithstanding this, the Chinese community will neverthe less enjoy their New Year in full measure, and not even the trade de

ring the increasing taxation of The Colony with the edicts of the and no change can be made in Hong Nationalist Government can dampen Kong because such a change would the enthusiasm, with which they all throw the Colony out of gear with look forward to the forthcoming China! The general feeling is still (Continued at foot of next column.)

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succeeding applications without a entertainers. Letters of division: protest were submitted from social. organisation in Middlesex, and An Anglican Bishop introduced a from residents in the county. representative deputation to on. pose Sunday opening, and a Westo yan Methodist Minister was ste spokesman. The case for Sunday opening was presented. by legal representatives of the interests con- coracd.

I desire to universalise this pro- ecdure: for I am convinced that the decision on the Sunday enter tainmente question should rest broadly on, the assent of the pen. ple, expressed bither by referen- dum or through their chosen re- presentatives; and that appro should make impossible the com- priate Pri·liamentary safeguards

After a pubite herring or both where bunday opeding le sides, the Council decided by 62 upon votes to 5, to refuse the main group This is assuredly a wiser course of applications, and rofused the thin bare repeal or harsh enforce- (Continued at foot of next column.)' ment.

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