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SOCIAL WELFARE

Mental Deficiency

(By Rev. T. F. Ryan, S.J.)

It is only in recent years that the ed healing rather than with the various countries of the world have prevention of the ills, and now that come to realise that it is not pos- anything which is regarded as ex- sible to attend only to major soperimental is rejected on financial cial problems and neglect the grounds little progress is being

made.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY. JANUARY 24, 1935.

CARTER THE

GREAT

Remarkable Feats Of Magic

Entertaining from beginning to end, "Carter: The Great" provided an excellent show to a very large gathering at the King's Theatre last night. It is safe to say that Treatment of Youthful Delinquents as a magician Carter is in a class.

A clear example

of this is by himself and the many mystify- to serious ones, and that the quick-the treatment of the mentallying acts which he had to show

smaller ones. Those which have tried to do this have discovered that problems which they were fi clined to regard as small soon led

been known to those who were in terested in the subject that of those who are classed in every

est way to deal with the large pro-deficient. • It' has "long blems was to regard none as small, However, this fact was only be- ining to be fully understood when financial difficulties came to Jantry as criminals there is quite Overshadow, all others and the a large proportion who are men- cry for a reduced budget was the tally sub-normal. Further invest loudest in the land. When ex-igation has proved that amon penses have to be cut down, the juvenile delinquents the proportion most conservative principles, re- is even more marked, and it has assert themselves, and only those become a fully-ascertained fact items of expenditure which have that in the present state of things the sanction of long familiarity juvenile delinquents develop in are likely to be approved-there-large numbers into criminals. This fore any effort at a more rational i'matter is so clear that if it were a redistribution of expenditure on question of physical instead of Social Services has been put off indefinitely in most countries."

"Prevention Better Than Cure."

were as mysterious as they were novel. Wel has it been said of this magician that ""The closer you watch, the less you see"

cellany: Carter kept his audience Beginning with a series of mis-

tricks, the while he kept up a well supplied with a number of

ceaseless patter, some of which was extremely witty.

Carter The Great....

The first big act came at the

ATTACK ON HOTEL MANAGER

Three Men On Trial At

Criminal Sessions

Before the Chief Justten, His Honour Mr. A., D. A. MacGregor, yesterday," three Chinese, Ho Lam Sane, Pun Four and Kwan In were charged with assaulting Me Tau-nam, manager and part- nor of the Empress Hotel, with intent to rob and with malict- ously wounding him as his house, No. 40 High Streek, on Novem- ber 16,

Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant Attorney. General, instructed by Mr. T. P. K. Kemble, of Mesara Wilkinson and Grist, was for the Crown, and the prisoners were not legally represented..

The Jury wore Mesars. B. G. Butler (foreman), Wong Taż, D.. L. Allen, H. Heltmayer, A., A., Oldes, Young Hok Ming and O. W. 0. May.

INCIDENT IN HIGH STREET

Opening the case, Mr. Fraser said that on the date in question, complainant returned to his house as usual by car about 12.15 am. carrying a fairly large sum of money. He was ascending to the third floor where he lived, when. on the first landink. he was assaulted by Ho Lam-sang and then by his two companions. They slashed his wrist with one of the two knives they carried and tried 10 search his pockets, but com- plainant's shouts for help were heard by his wife who went to the verandah and blew a police whistle.

What is the alternative? Ob-end of the first part of the pro-a pad of cotton wool as he ran.

mental health no State would iguore it, but at present it is al- most universally ignored. Young boys, and some girls, commit small This does not mean that more delinquencies: they are brought tử money is not now being spent on, the Court, they are detatied for these services than formerly., for some time, they are found to be in actual fact a great deal more mentally deficient in some degree. is being spent, but it is being spent and with criminal habits being In the old way, in spite of some formed, and, through lack of pro- protests. An obvious example of per methods of treatment being this, is the expenditure on unem-available, they are sent out to the ployment relief in many countries_world_again," generally with the Experience shows that it is easter result that their criminal tenden- to get parliamentary and pubilecies grow, and they become a men approval for an additional grant, ace to society. however large, to extend the "dole" than for permission to spend a hundredth part of that amount on some scheme to relieve unemploy ment. This is due partly to the prevalling distrust of economic ex- perts who suggest these schemes, i for the average man blames the experts for the economic chaos that exists in the world to-day, bus it is also due to the fact that a scientific attitude towards social disorders - has not yet, been deve- loped, and we are as backward in our treatment of their causes as we were in preventive medicine a century ago. Just as for many centuries it was thought that the whole duty of medical science was to cure disease, and it is only in the present century that its power of preventing it has been fully realised, so in dealing with social

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viously, the best way would be a considerable increase in the num- ber of Institutions available for training the mentally deficient. Falling a sufficiency of these to cope with the entire demand, there. should at least be enough to desi with all who showed a growing tendency to wrongdoing, so that they would be placed under some system of training, where they would have sufficient control and guidance to prevent them growing up as criminals. This would, it is true, cost the state some money for its upkeep, but there is every Indication that it would in the end be a saving, for it would result in a diminution of the number of criminals, who, when considered merely in terms of their detection, arrest, trial and imprisonment,

disorders it has been the tradition are one of the State's heaviest a

to deal only with things that need- | bilities.

WORLD BRIDGE OLYMPIC

Two Specimen Hands

In connection with the 1935 World Bridge Olympic which is being run under the auspices of the China Bridge Association at the premises of the Sports Club (by the courtesy of the Committee) on Friday, February 1, two hands are given below ito illustrate the lines along which the tournament "will be judged.

West

Spades: 6 5.4:3 Hearts: K & S Diamonds: A 7 Clubs: Q4 2

South

Spades: K. 10 3 Hearts: Q 9 Diamonds: J. 9 2 Clubs: A K J-8.8

Fast Spades: Q 8,7 Hearts: A J'74 Diamonds: 63. Clubs: 10853

North Spades: A9 Hearts: 10 6 5 Z

Diamonds: KQ 10 8 5 4. Clubs: 7

A

South dealer. East-West vulner-

North-South PAR Three no trumps bid with South 'as declarer either made or set one trick.

East-West PAR Opponents held

two no trumps.

West makes his natural opening cf a low spade South whs and

returns a diamond.

second round of alizes that if the

defeated if mu

four trick, Amt hope

West wins the

gramme where a woman was sewn into halves. This trick was so cleverly performed and so openly done, that no one can even supply a possible theory as to how the "Sawing". ・ was done. Several ladies from the audience were in- vited to go on to the stage and after the lady had been vivisected, each half was shown separately in the box at the same time. The two halves were drawn apart and the ladies were invited to walk between them. But in the flicker of a second the boxes containing the two halves were put together again and the lady brought out in one piece!

"Death Defled Another remarkable show was seen when Carter shot a marked bullet passed through the object bullet through $ woman. The

without harming her in the least

In yet another show, the hang man's noose proved ineffective in an execution carried out with great reality. A complete replica of the gallows is seen on the stage, but tributed in the way they actually when the trap door falls, the vic-

tim has escaped!

were.

It will be seen from the above that irrespective of whether or not North-South make their contract of three no trumps, they will score par as long as they have bid three no trampe and not gone down more than one trick on their contract= Another interesting hand was the following one:--

West

"Spadea" "K 5

Hearts: AQ J3-2 Diamonds: #5

· Clubs::8:7 5

South Spades: A Q793. Hearts: 10 5 Diamonds: Q-8 1 Clubs: 9 2

Fast

Apades:"100

Hearts: K9 87

Diamonds A K 10 9 3.

Chibe; K 6 4

North

Spades: 8 787-

Hearts: 84

Diamonds: 314

Clubs: 310 3

East dealer. Both sides vulner able

North-South PAR Op held to three, hearts.

East-West PAR: Your hearts bid and made or set one trick

The Bidding East One diamond. South: One Spade, West

Two

hearts, which closes the bidding. hearts, North: Pass, East: Four

North, on lead agal

of hearts contract he will probably neve lead during the course

is unlikely

spades, the

Then there is the torture cell two sharp spikes adjusted on the of spikes. A cell with sevents back of it is shown to the audience, The back is adjustable so that it could be brought right up against the front door and the spikes world push their way through. A woman is placed in this cell and then the back door is screwed for ward in such a way that the seventy-two : spikes through the front, but the woman in the cell is absolutely unharmed

Thought Header

The three assaltants scattered, the first accused throwing away

He was caught by Ma Tou-nam's chauffeur who handed him over to a policeman. A search of his pockets revealed a bottle which still, after two months, smelt strongly of ether.

A Chinese constable captured Fun Fons after a chase and he was found to have a toy pistol wrapped in a singlet. The third defendant was found at 482) Queen's Road West, on the in- formation of Ho Lam-sang. In his pocket was a paper bearing in Chinese the message: -- "Come and co-operate at 7,30 p.m. this even ing and co-operate to get rich out of him." plure

The first defendant made B statement: "I had the intention of assaulting him. I was not rob- bing him. He is a man who swind- les the public. Many people know

he is a swindler, He brought this charge against me to cover him- self against this charge of swind ling the public. For my sake and for the sake of society I-am not refuting this charge to protect the lives and property of the public.

The second accused had made no statement, but the third had said that Ho Lam-sang had asked him to join in the assault as his grandfather had been swindled by complaint

Mr. Fraser, concluding, said that although no money was taken, the only constructions the jury could place on the assault wan that of intended robbery, and if that failed, they should convict on the charge of malicious wound Ing. A broken nife and a whole knife were found near the scene of the assault,

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Complainant's Evidence

No one should miss Cartera Ms Tau Nam giving evidence magnificent entertainment if only said he began work in Hong Kong for the sake of viewing Miss Evelyn as an assistant in the Tat Fir Rice Maxwell's Kit Elindfolded she Company and had akce founded sits on the stage and tell, without the Hung Chong, Yik Fik Long, the attentest hesitation, the numYee Fat Lung and Nam Fung Lung, beas on a banknote, the time on a rice businesses.

contents of a letter or

He recognised the accused men

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it was too dark at the time of the assault to distinguish their races. He knew Kwan Yu as a boy at the Sai Lam Club. On that. particular day he had $120 in a breast pocket but usually carried larger sums.

Ho Lam-sang failed to question Ms Tau-nam as to the allegations made in his statement until: his Lordship pointed out that he could not rely on these allegations to justify the assault unless he st tempted to sustain them,"

Accused then said: Did you not swindle my grandfather? ba

Witness answer to that question was that he had never heard of the name and did not know how he was supposed to have swindled him.

Witness denied that only one man assaulted him and repeated that he recognised prisoners by their clothes and Agures.

Chung Kau chauffeur, who drove his employer home on the night" in question, told the Court that after Ma had gone up to the door, he heard cries of "Save life!" As Chung went up to investigate, a man in European attire, who was the first defendant, rushed downi the stars.

Witness related the several struggles he had with the fugitive | before capturing him Dear, the Salyingpun Market. On their way back to High Street, he picked up a waste pad be had previously seen dropped by the defendent during the fight.

First Accused In Box At the close of the case for the Crown, the first defendant elected to give evidence from the witness box. He said that on the day in question he had had a meat at an aunt's house and some wine. He me second defendant and set out together to drink some tes, and at the same time to look for the third defendant. They found the latter at West Paint and went to the Tak On Tea House where first defen- dant asked the third to assist him in a fight. The third defendant after ascertaining the fight was to be with Ma Tau Nam, refused to agree, at the same time, asking the first defendant not to seek revenge. The witness scolded the third defendant and they ultimate- ly left the tea house together and proceeded to Ice House Street, from which point they walked back to West Point When they reached High Street, the third defendant went away and the second excused himself from the scene. "I WAS alone, said witness, when I saw Ma Taiz Man's car coming. I en- tered his stairway and as he left his car and came on to the stair way I struck him' The case was adjourned at this stage until this

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