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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1933

WILSON'S REPORT FOR

THE F. M. S.

"DEFINITE BUT RESTRICTED YEAR

PROGRAMME

CHANGES SHOULD BE CARRIED

OUT VERY GRADUALLY!!

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Singapore.Sir Samuel Wilson's ing the officer who is to replace report on H.E. the High Commis the preagnt Chief Secretary) in sioner's F.M.S. decentralisation | respect of those matters which are proposals was issued simultaneously to remain federal. in London and Malaya yesterday, The recommendations are as fol

lowe:

I am of opinion:- (a) That

a definite policy of decentralisation 'should be adopted forthwith.

(b) That the changes involved by the adoption of such policy should be carried out very gradu ally.

(e) That the first stage of such a policy should cover a period of about four years, corresponding with the time required for re arranging the financial relationship. of the Federal and State Govern- ments on a more satisfactory basis than it is to-day and for streng thening generally the financial posi- tion of the F.M.S.

During the First Stage.

(d) That during the first stage the decentralisation measures should be strictly limited to the follow ing:--

(e) That during the Arst stage of decentralisation effect should also be given to the following pro- posals, which are not, however, directly connected with decentralisa įtion:-

(i) The abolition of the volume of Estimates entitled Unreserved Services."

(ii) The setting up of a Malayan Establishment Office.

CORRESPONDENCE

[All letters intended for publi- vation must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, not for publication, len so desired. but as evidence of good faith.-ED.]

-EDUCATION AND HISTORY

(TO THE EDITOR DE THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,"]

98th April, 1933. Dear Sir,There is much food for

thought in Father Byrucs able address to the Hong Kong Peace: Group on the matter of modern. education methods. Nc subject is more clanded by prejudice and dis torted by illogical deductions than the subject of history on the 1000 And All That" method commonly adopted in, schools.

The processes of social evolution, the development of political idenła, the growth of every ten deney to ward what is fundamentally right and just all the useful lessons that might be learned from an intelle of gent study of history-are generally aiunored, or lightly touched upon as being subservient to what is re garded as the real purpose of his

of tury study, the deification sovereignty and nationaliain and the glorification of conquest by war, What hope is there of future pence while the teaching of history pro- ends on these lines

(iii) A change in the system Supplementary Estimates with view to reducing the number and amounts of auch Estimates.

Further Changes,

(f) That it would be unwise to try to lay down

precisely what further changes can be made in the direction of decentralisation subsequent to the first stage refer- red to above (since this must de pend on experience) but that they might include:-

(1) During the second stage the collection and appropriation by the States of certain of the revenues which are not required for federal purposes, with a view to making the State Governments increasing

(i) The transfer to State con- trol of the following Departments, namely Agricultural, Co-opera- tive, Educational, Electrical, ly independent. Forestry, Mining, Medical, Public Works, Veterinary, Prisons, and Drainage and Irrigation; with a block grant to each State to be voted by the Federal Council each year to meet the sum total of the cost of the Departments so trans ferred.

The Universities are past praying for, as even Bernard Shaw woul! admit. The Public School systeň has been damited so often and so. convincingly that it would he diff cult nowadays to find any thinking man hold enough to defend its absurdities. If therefore we are to expect the application of common sense to education in the direction| of peace we must look to the source of every reform, public opinion. The Hongkong Peace Group might well print and circulate Father Byrne's address more widely.

(ii) During the final stage the transfer to the States of other sources of revenue, and the right to impose taxation so na to put them in a position to meet all thest

There is another thought that expenditure without subvention cecurs to me Are the Churches from central resources, leaving the doing all that they should to pro

They central authority to collect and mote truth in deation 1 (ii) The Setting up of an "Ad-appropriate. such revenues as will have great influence in the schools visory Council" prosided over by be sufficient for the service of the in Hongkong. Are they lending the High Commissioner and in- debt; mesting the recurrent ex-public opinion in this matter, OT cluding representatives of the State penses of the central authority; and are they, as usual, lagging behind Governments, to deal from the building up an ample reserve fund point of view of a common policy with questions which as regards de- tailed administration can for con venience and economy be left to the State Governments, but as regards policy will have, to remain under & common control.

(ii). The transfer of the stata tory and administrative powers ex- ercised by the present Chief Secre- tary to the Rulers in Council in respect of those matters which are transferred to State control, and to the High Commissioner or ap propriate Federal Officers (includ-

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(iii) Ultimately the abolition of what remains of the existing federal machinery and of its executive head. This, however, depends on the setting up of some now central machinery for dealing with mattera of interest to Malaya as a whole and the absorption into it of what then remains of the existing federal machinary.

(x) That the question of the re- vision of the treaties and agree- ments with the Malay States is not urgent and should be regarded as a matter for the future.

'TRAFFIC DAY" AT

CENTRAL

SEVERAL OFFENDERS.

FINED

Convicted on a Charge of keep. ing a "sly" brothel in Jaffee Road, a woman named Wong Yin, WHA fined $400, or, in default Bix months' imprisonment. The case Yesterday was "traffic" day at was beard by Mr. Schofield

at Central Magistracy, and several Central Magistracy yesterday. owners and drivers were summoned.

Four Detective Sergeant Baker, who

summonses for driving prosecuted, said he followed defen vehicles without front lights hura- dant up the stairs, and she hiding, were heard by Mr. Schofield. bahind a chimney stack. He enter Mr. A. E. Simmons, of the Far ed the premises with a warrant, East Aviation Co., Ltd., and "Mr. He found three Europeans and F. Barretto, of 35, Sharp Street, three girls there. The girls gave being fined 88 and 85, respectively. him their names and said defen-Both were stopped in Garden Road dant was the principal tenant. De-on April 12. The first defendant "fendant said she did not hold the was also accused of not having his rent receipts.

rear number plate illuminated. Fines of 85 each were imposed on the Chinese drivers of a public vehicle and a private car, respec- tively, for a similar offence.

A woman called as a witness for defendant, said defendant received money from the girls. She further stated that defendant asked her not to give any guilty evidence against

Traffic-Inspector Alexander said her promising her a reward of 850. that the offence was becoming The defendant denied the charge, rather common lately. It was saying that she did not hold the necessary to have the right hand rent receipts. She had held residb light on though it was not ceipts on a previous occasion, and, unusual for a light to burn out. had been imprisoned for it.

Bergeant Baker pressed the

Speeding.

charge, saying it was quite evident: The driver of a motor van, be that defendant got another person longing to Sun and Company was to hold the rent receipts, while she fined $20 for speeding in Queen's carried on the business.

Road East.

CHINESE SOLDIER IN

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SEQUEL TO OPIUM DEN RAID

"He would never get permission to drive up Elgin Street. It is too dangerous," remarked Inspector Alexander when a lorry driver was fined 815 for driving in Elgin Street from Hollywood Road to Staunton Street, without a permit. On summonses for driving with- Said to be a member of the 19th out, an appropriate licence and Route Army, a Chinese was brought passing & motor car on the left before Mr. Butters at Kowloon band "side in Des Voeux Road Central near the Bank of Canton Magistracy: yesterday on a charge building, Mr. S. Kenny, of Hen of smoking opium in a divan.

Revenue Officer Humphreys who nessey Road, was fined $20. prosecuted, said defendant was one of six men who were found smok ing in a divan during a Feldee

only 40 cents on him, just enough

raid on Thursday night. The for his train fare back to Canton,

it!

Here is an extrast from Sir Nor an Angell's recent book. “The Unseen Assassins."

"Religion in the West is less accompanied by massacres and burnings than it used to be. We manage somehow to live with the heretic; to give him citizenship, the political and civil rights we claim for our selves. We have altered our That men feeling about it. "should fight is, if you will, part of our nature; but what we feht about is part of -out education, tradition, way, of Dot thought an intellectual,

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a physical, inheritance. There is a further fact which conŒÉTNB us in this connection: net only did the lay view on theological questions matter, a great deal to priesthood and to church (the layman's feeling was the basis of a church's power over its adherents), but when the change came it was largely im- posed on the church by the laity. It is true of course that reonomics entered very greatly into the old religious conflicts," that the church itself was i great rested interest, affording livelihood to hundreds of thou- sands of people who desired to defend the livelihood and their power as ¿ class. But the element which made the wary and massacres possible was a public attitude which has changed: the change is change of idea. Against that shauge was pitted specialist knowledge and erudition. If. so far as men sincerely sought guidance in the learning they found rather confusion. Wis dom сате from the great sunplicities, The *Immense , achievement represented by the emergence of the principle o toleration was the work mainly of the unfearned layman. He came to feel that a lifetime's study of this or that miracle WAR loss important as relevant evidence than an hour's die passionate consideration of the question whether God would condema a man to everlasting torment for hesitating to affirm belief in an alleged occurrence which intelligence and intellee tual conscience suggests was ex- tremely unlikely. It was the very leamed and very sincere inquisitor who saw most clearly the essential truth, bab the less learned Invan whom the inquisitor would have sup pressed. Reform same not from erudition but from simplific tion, the clearing up of con-

dearing ww of fusion.".

not

divan was in shazen of a box #ked His Worship Will be of ounce. I base outed Sir Nor

right for him if he gets back by Defendant told his Worship that to-night?

he was on leave, but had to be R. Humphreya-So he says, back in Canton to-night or else he would be shot as a desertar.

His Worship to 1.0. Hum- phreys) Has he got any money 1

R. O. Humphreys No He has (Ugntinued of foot of next Columa)

your Worship,

His Worship. I'll caution him. His Worship sentenced the boy to 19 strokes and fired five of the kmokers. 25 each.

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It would be unwise to invite con- troversy on religious beliefs in con- action with the voicing of lay opin ion on education in the direction

an Angell merely as expressing a view that the Churchies have lagged and that a more pronounced and behind the laity in this matter

energetic police by the Churches right conceivably effect, much good in the direction indicated by Father Byrne Yours, faithfully,

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