1935-11-30 — Page 11

ROSE DAY APPEAL

Examination

Of Accounts

Revelations?

Before the 2nd of December there should be an examination of accounts in Hong Kong. There should be an examination, with oneself as the. auditor, of one's entries. What would they reveal? What sums under the headings food, drink, tobacco, bridge, petrol, magazines cinema Would there

be any entry" under Alms?

they come

in the

name of

The

HONG KONG DAILY

PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1935.

STOLEN MONEY VANISHED

TO LONDON BY K. L. M. PLANE

BROADCAST APPEAL TO PEDESTRIANS AND

MOTORISTS

POLICE OFFICER'S ELOQUENT

TALK

Last Day Of "Safety First" Campaign

the to

to

CA

A Dishonest Foki Outwitted

!

Lady Chetwode A Frequent Traveller

Before Mr. W. Schodeld at the

Lady Chetwode, wife of Field- Central Magistracy yesterday Fun Marshall Chetwode. Commander- fu, aged 18, appeared on a charge | in-Chief of the Indian Army. of having stolen $123, from Fook travelled from Calcutta to London Kim-sek, on November 19.

ou board the KLM-plane "Spar-

It was stated by Sergeant Whit-row-Hawk" which left Batavia on ley that the defendant had stolen November 8 under command of the money from the drawer of the Captain GJ.C. te Rober. cashier's desk about ☎ am, on No- This is not the first time Lady Chetwode avalled herself of the airline. On the 7th the Dutch May 1935, she left Marsellies for Jodhpur onboard the "Hawk,"

vember 19. He had opened the drawer with a chisel. Being afraid to be caught with the money in his possession, he had put the wad of notes behind a bookcase, but when he caine and recovered tha money in the afternoon, he found the wad had considerably dimin-. ished, and he only got $23. Fe subsequently spent all the money. He had been employed there for the past five months, and got a wage of $3 à month.:

is here that heads of firms and departments can be of great help for ir their offices, shops, and factories they are in close touch he had stolen only $23 but in az

In his statement, defendant said with a large part of the popula-swer to the charge before Mr. tion of the Colony, among whom they can distribute Safety First Schofield, he admitted the amount information and propaganda with might have been $123. great ease,

To-day is the last day of the until the bus stopped. and I cer- poor are calling. Their call should "Safety First" campaign launch-thinly would not like make us examine our attitude to-ed by the Police Department, and hear of another case. These are wards them during the past year. as a round-up of the push, a local only two of the many points which Force demand the attention of parents. Their call should make us examine officer attached

both The poor are call- made a stirring appeal to

But while the young generation , our accounts.

motorists. ina ing-but the heartbreaking 8.0.8. pedestrians and

Er. Ws up we must do something from heart broken mothers, from broadcast talk last night. He sald: with the adult population

and it distracted fathers, or from starv- "The safety of the people is the ing children may never be relay-first consideration". It is from ed to you. The call of the poor this phrase that the slogan "Safe is heard by the members of the ty First" has been taken, and it St. Vincent de Paul Society and a well that everyone should know the and bear in mind the origin of the two words "Safety First. By themselves they may possibly be misinterpreted as striking at that initiative and courage, which are so essential a part of everyday life. but read as a phrase from which they originally come, their real "meaning is clear. They urge each one of us in the words of Abraham, Lincoln "to protect himself and

asso clated with him

accidents which may result injury or death."

poor, to ask you to buy a rose on

Rose Day.

Many are hardened against all appeals for alms. The reason often is that they have given generously in the past and have found out to their disgust that they have giver to the un- deserving, to swindlers, to Hars. and that the money has been in gambling and for procuring opium etc. It is а bitter thing have been so fooled; and the re-

sult has been that many have closed their purse strings with the refrain "Never again" and they have closed their cheque..........book. against the poor and have adopt- od for their motto the misused proverb "Charity begins at home* -and it ends there.'

ų

part of the

from

those

SECOND CAMPAIGN

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The defendant was remanded for 24 hours in pollos custody, to raise the money.

YOU CARRY ON! A special word must be address ed to those whom for want of a better title I shall address as Mr. cle in your path, while elders and Everyman, Mrs. Everywoman, and ancients threaten you with hawk- Miss Everywoman. You are allers stalls, slings of goods, or even fairly conscientious people and in their bodies as they squat on the answer to about two weeks' bom- pavement edge or the middle of bardment with Safety First pro- the road. To remove entirely doubt step these obstructions and hutsances paganda you will no out one fine day full, or nearly by legislation or forcé is out of the full, of good resolutions. What do question. Mobilising all the on- you find? Very likely that you dial and ungmicial J.Ps in the are the only one who is doing any Colony wou'd not cope with the of the things which the public evil, and, were it tried, our prison

This is the second campaign which has been launched in Hong Kong for the purpose of securing the safety of the public against are being urged to do. staff would soon have to tie up accidents. The terms First and The remainder of the populace their guests' in bundles of 10 at Second Campaigns are to a certain are tramping gally along the mid- had time and hang up others for extent Incorrect The Safety First I dle of the road, dodging under the night on the coat hooks

and

on the 10th of July' she boarded the "Bank-Martin” at Batavia for a journey to Calcutta.

SIGHTSEEING IN ROME

Since the winterservice on the KM Amsterdam-Batavia route has again been inaugurated, Roms

la once more the nrst night-stop on the Eastbound flight. In co- Operation with Messrs. Thos. Cook & Sons, the KLM. have arranged for a sght-seeing tour through the Holy City, in which all impor- tant buildings and sites are in- cluded.

The aeroplanes arrive in Rome at 15.43 local time, so that the best part of the afternoon cau be reserved for this rest interest- ing tour.

BUYING SILVER IN SHANGHAI

Japanese Arrested For A Chinese

Shanghai, Nov. 25. Mitsuyashi Dal, aged 18, em-

Campaign which opened in Hong the wheels of cars, and climbing in the Prison hallway. Not These ployed by the Shinko Yoko, wool dealers, Haining Road, at 9.30

BEGIN WITH THE CHILDREN

THE FIENDS

can ent

you

a.m. on Sunday, accompanied his

French Bund, to purchase $700 worth of silver the two were

1

Chinese. While leaving the ship, having complet-'l ed the deal, Doi was stopped by three men, who hurried him off to a sampan, according to local Japanese newspapers. Mr. Furuya promptly informed the Japanese Consular Police.

Two Japanese policemen were sent to the headquarters of the Pootung Water Police, where they found the youth, and took him back

to the Consular police

and that

station. Doi reported that he was handented in the sampan thoroughly searched, and $110 of the $350 in silver coins held by him was missing after the

arrest

Safety

The Chinese Public Bureau expressed regret over the Incident, explaining that Dol was mistaken for a Chinese.

THE MARRIAGE WILL TAKE PLACE

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, Nov 8. An 18-years-old girl who applied at the Nottingham Shire Hal for Magisterial permission

EXPERTS IN DISTRIBUTION People would be more generous if they knew that what they give Kong in January 1934 was not, an over the tops of tråms. The foot-obstructions and nuisances sie would be well used. Now by isolated and spasmodic effort last-paths are as bad as ever-curse the dangers of the streets which giving to the St. Vincent de Paul

ing for two weeks only. It was the Government anyhow-hawkers we hope by the general applica- employer, Mr. Hideo Furuya, to Society you are giving to those

the beginning of a continuous-diers beggars ***

the 3.8. Hsin Peking, lying of the gossipers tion of Safety First principies to who are experts in the matter of campaign to focus public atten- steps up, and steps down-no foot-direct into their proper channels,

coins from distribution. The members have

tion on the great necessity of pre-path at all in some places-What and away from the orbit of per- banded themselves together 10 venting accidents in the house, a life! Well. now is the time to sons and things where collision visit the homes of the poor and the street, the factory, the air-act Mr., Mrs. and Miss. Stick to and accident might result. ■ ' to find out the real deserving everywhere in fact-It is true that, your good resolutions to the end.

NO HIGHBROW POSTERS cases, They go to the slums. here in Hong Kong we are at pre- Even if the remaining 849,750 of

In conclusion bear with me tos climb up to the garrets, they meet sent dealing entirely with the the population are running around

the are long and pathetic wall. In a those who are starving, they see Traffic aspect of Safety First be wild you carry on following the sick who have no attendance.

Western part of cause that is our most pressing straight and

path and saloon in the narrow those who have been the victima need, but in the future we may don't be tempted to exclaim "Oh' America there used to be a notice

be pald of injustice and cruelty, those who expect attention to

to Heck. Whats the use." Just think "Don't shoot at the pianist. He is have known better times and other types of common accidents Your Example may land even one doing his best." Similarly we ask have been reduced to the utmost such as the lady who falls over sinning pedestrian off the broad the residents of Hong Kong to lay want. They examine each case, the verandah, white hanging out street, he another. and so on adside the brick, and chain up the bulldog, as far as the Safety First find out the truth" of the claim cothes to dry, the naked wire and infinitum, or at any rate up t

factory. the grand total of $49.751 which organisers and their campaign are and then give consolation and the unguarded wheel in the help which you and others have the cast away fruit peel, and of was the total population of Hons concerned. Safety First is in its sent. They charge no commission.course that dangerous combina- Kong at the last census. It would infancy in Hong Kong, and its or "They add to your contributions ticn, the small boy and the box look strange I admit if the who'e ganisers are fearning as they 50 of matches. These are only a few of our population (including the alts. They welcome useful ad- from their own pockets."

Put yourselves in the place of of the types of accidents which Boating population) was packed on vice and constructive criticism but abhor any attempt to throw a the poor whom they visit. How should be dealt with under Safety to the footpaths..

hammer into the machinery. would you like to be treated and First.

Come forward by all means and receive a visit from a helper 10 you were 1, if your children were

The foregoing refers to you when help. We need and welcome help. starving, if you and those dear to So when "future Safety First you are afoot. Now how about it Funds for this work are small and you were threatened with evic- Campaigns are organised it would when you are awheel. You don't in view of the times we live in, the last thing we want to do is to tion? The members of the St. be wel to remember that they are cycle, of course, so we

increase your rates, rents, or taxes Vincent de Paul Society bring really only a temporary intensif that out but when you travel t

by an expensive campaign. Give consolation and happiness to cation of a campaign, "which is town or around the island or ter- these. The only thing which constantly and which every ritory on the va, super 6 or Rolls us your ideas, your labour, and above all your good example "on limits their zeal is lack of funds. good citizen is required to be con-Royce as the case may be.

the street and road. afoot or Rose Day is to remind you of their tinuously doing his share.

maay and it even more difficult to

awheel Never mind if our posters need. Some can afford to give

Again. Other important points to bear keep your good resolutions. only 10 cents. Others can afford in mind are that safety from ac- we urge you to stick it and show are lowbrow and lack the finish to give 31. But dollars this year cidents can only be secured by those people whom I regretfully of Old Masters. The campaign' is are scarce, and so let those who persuasion and education and not call your fellow motorists-I mean being run by the Hong Kong Po the the cutters out, cutters in, speerce and not by the Artists Rifles. can afford it - write а cheque, by force, also that without

We wrap our crude and flimsy and co-operation of the public nothing ends, gate crashers. Some of you may not meet a rose seller. Duty or "business or can be done.

We ask then for types of criminal drivers that you efforts around the verandah pil- pleasure may not bring you to the your help, and this appeal is spec- can be the perfect little gentleman lars to keep the stonework from centre of the city. Do not forget tally addressed to the heads of or lady in the most trying cirenm- being splashed with the blood of

A canvas by Ho to send your subscription Let business firms, schools and Gov stances that you can drive strict road victima

that garth or Gainsborough would of the call of charity and the cer- ernment Departments Heads of ly according to Hoyle, and tainty that what you give will be schools should come first, I think. you know the Highway Code, the course be stronger and more ar- used for truly deserving cases for I feel that it is only by care Traffic Ordinance and its attend-tistic, but can we raid our local the A. Aart galleries and studios for these? prompt you to open that safe of fl education of children in the ant regulations and

forwards Certainly noti: The next yours, or to take pen in hand principles of Safety First that any Handbook backwards, to write a cheque. Give generous-real results can be obtained in and sideways, and what is more thing would be the artistic offer ly. Let not the alma entry in this Colony. This will take time, that you can carry out their pro-ings of our local artists but how your account books cause your course, for it is only when the visions to the last dot on an "Imany of these have come forward with offers of mappy fragments generous beart to wither with present generation grow to adult and the last cross on a “T

and artistic Safety First posters his. age that the results of their shame.

HONG KONG PEDESTRIANS

Guess the number. Na prize win Safety First education will really

be given to the correct answer. become apparent

Above all when driving do not forget the pedestrian-He will not Highbrow art posters would I am allow you to anyway-Like the sure look very nice on our wally to remind of His reference to the But in the education of children poor, he is always with us and and verandah pillars, but I am cup of cold water given in His parents must bear their share note the poor too, he pops up and also sure that they would leave name. You know that whatever only at home but outside the home out in the most unexpected places the Hong Kong bolle still cooler

cold in fact whereas when he

from them too. If you are all as, you have that is good has come also.. Does your son ride a bleycle? The Hong Kong pedestrian is in a from your Father who is in If so have you ever made a point class by himself and even if you views our lowbrow efforts

knows exactly what we mean and polite as I think you are, you wil heaven. It is your privilege to be of seeing whether he indulges in have driven in Tibet, Alaska, able to return Him something. the dangerous practice

of trick Feru, and Fimice, I am sure you after all he is the bird we are at least learn to control your By giving to the poor in His name cyclsis who have been killed and will have met nothing to compare chiefly "after-ngs the intellectual mirth. Crude though they appear, you are giving to Him by proxy, injured in the streets during the with him. If Shakespeare were people who know it all beforehand, there was hard work put into their It is the greatest and best of all past few years? I have and it is alive in Hong Kong to-day he and afterwards too if they could making and we are satisfied that investments. It brings to you the an unpleasant, local. Have you would write on, the seven uses of only be induced to do it this work was not wasted for they gratitude and the love of God. ever seen how your children tra- the HK, pedestrian instead of the Scott, Kipling, or Oppenheim reach the people we want to get To-morrow. Is the last active day Be generous to the poor and you ve: to and from school by bus or seven ages of man. The child could improve: "On will find that God will be generous tram? Do they insist that the sucks its finger on the road around sheets--perhaps but don't let that of this Safety First push--I think to you. He is never outdone in vehicle must be in motion before some converlert bend, the boy keep you from reading them and push is a better word than came them. paign here Will you keep Safety generosity, Donations may be they board or get off. This 1 springs from behind a verandah learning something from made to the Hon. Treasurer, Mr. know is a favourite game with pillar or out of a doorway, the Sir Walter will not mind, neither First in your mind and confieus A A. Alves, c/o Union Insurance Kowloon schoolboys. I saw one of young man meditates on love will ping or Oppenheim Society of Canton Limited Union them who came to a very messy congee, or some such subject right Our Safety First films were not Building, Hong Kong-(fiontri- end in Prince Edward Road a few under your car bonnet, or perhaps made at Hollywood or Elstree but buled).

years ago through falling to walthe swerves and wheels or his bicy eren so you can learn something

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THE BEST INVESTMENT, Those of you who are followers of Christ, it is hardly necessary

SCHOOLBOY PRANES

+

other

best

he

our printed

to marry,

left the Court with a smiling face. The Magistrates had given their. consent to the marriage.

The girl is Constance Mary Price, daughter of Mr and Mrs Horace Price of Burton Road,

On her behalf it was stated that

lew weeks ago she left home and went to live in Mabel Grove West Bridgford, on account of her fa ther's treatment.

The mother had now given her consent, but the father withheld

The applicant was engaged to Leslie William Danes, of Cavendish Road, Carlton, a cabinet maker, who was earning £3 65 a week, and was in a position to marry.

at.

to act on it until the next bush comes on and when that is n

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