HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
SIMPLE SYSTEM OF LEARNING CHINESE
Rotarians Told How 'Babies' May Be Proficient In Study
Dr. Erwin Reifler, of the Chiaotong University, Shanghai, was the speaker at the weekly meeting of the Rotary Club. "held in the Hong Kong Hotel yesterday, when the Chairman, Prof. W. I. Gerrard, Announced that the next meeting would be open to ladies and that "the speaker on that occasion would be His Honour the Chief Justice,
Sir Athol MacGregor,
"
Prof. Gerrard also announced alde and between the Japanese that in view of the fact that and Chinese on the other side Rolarian M F. Key would shortly continues long enough. be leaving the Colony the duties of Hon. Secretary would be taken over by Rotarian H. Hong. Sling.
Dr. Reider said:—e
FRACTICAL AIMS
As far as we are interested in the teaching of languages, our aims must be entirely practical. I am glad to speak again to such Everything valuable to attain this a sympathetic and Indulgent au- end must be available: aven dierice, and I welcome the oppor-science must become a servant to tunity to talk to you about, a this end and must be thrown aside, problem which not only is nearest as far as she cannot fulf) practi- to my heart, but is also of great cal requirements. importance to Hong Kong. name- ly, the education of the Hong Kong babies.
NEW TRÅDE SCHOOL
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at the end of his training not only a skilled workman but also with a realisation of. the relation be- tween tima and values.
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GENERAL
URBAN COUNCIL MEETING
Pasteurisation Law Needs Re-Drafting
References to pasteurisation of milk were again made at the Ur-) One admirable method of giving ban Council meeting yesterday effect to that fundamental prin- when the Chairman announced ciple which this Trade School em- that the Governor-in-Council had ploys is the insistence of its reamed the principle at whi- aathorities upon the importanceversal pasteurisation.
been under
of apprenticeship in the workshop "In May last year he said, "this and of the experience which can Council passed bye-laws providing only be acquired by working on an for compulsory pasteurisation as industrial or commercial footing. from July 1. 1938, but the Legiala- without that close adherence to tive Council falled to confirm this the realities of industry there is and the master has a great danger of a Trade School consideration ever since. giving merely an academic educa- tion which is of little use in this workaday world and serves only as a waste-pipe for the taxpayer's money. It is encouraging to note the absence of that danger here.
BUILDING DEPARTMENT
"The law needs a certain amount of re-drafting, and there are two points; one was, the date on which compulsory pasteurisation would come into force. A date now suk- gested is January 1, 1939, or even April or July, 1939. -
It has been very gratifying to The second point: it seems to be hear from Mr. White that in that rather futile to have compulsory My Key-Letter-System is based very important section, the Build-pasteurisation If there is a possi- on a recognition of this. It takes ing Department, the standard of bility of contamination between from science what is practical. and work is well up to that in similar pasteurisation and the milk reach- I hasten to emphasise that it is fills the gaps science has left with institutions in the United King-ing the consumer, and to that only a certain group of the Hong organic material which fits in dom and that the day and even-end two more points are needed in Kong bables whose education harmoniously.
ing courses given here have led the bye-laws: needs our attention, because o This system is bullt upon abou: so many young men to remunera- the tabelievable anarchy which 2,000 carefully selected characters. tive employment. A tree is known ried out in the same premises as (1) that bottling should be car- the knowledge of which enables by its fruft and those youths who where pasteurisation is done and For the Hong Kong babies may the student to read everything first passed out from here should (2) that bottles must be not only safely be divided into 3 groups, written in modern Chinese and to now be spreading the good name be sealed namely, (1) the native babies from | write everything spoken today. of the Trade School abroad in special cover seen last week and but covered with the the tenderest are to school age; } I want to say only so much here. | Chiná. (2) the foreign babies from the that the elements of the 2.000
securely fastened to the bottles Furthermore, I agree with his
when sealed. tenderest age to school age; and characters mentioned above, the wise advice that though the school (3) a very special group of foreign 80-called key letters occur in ap- should always aim at progress, its bables and children from the age proximately 200 also carefully advance and development should
prevails.
at about 20 mp to 70.
را
selected practical characters.. so proceed
along cautious lines.
"In the course of the next few
days the bye-laws will be drafted
Business dealt with at the meet-
and distributed.”
Seen through Chinese eyes, most that the mastery of these 200 That there should be development of those belonging to this group characters supplies the foreign will not, I feel sure be disputed. was an application for an cannot even talk. or. if they can students with the whole Chinese This Colony presents problems eating house licence. an application talk, can hardly talk much. You A B C.
some of which are peculiar to it for a food factory licence, and an will already have recognised that, The difference between this self, especially in the building line,application for a laundry licence. my address today will deal with nicthod and all others is that it and these need careful study: All were refused. the educational welfare of this takes from the lofty regions of other local problems" follow the
Those present were Mr. R. R. last group, and I hope you will be theory and selence au that is lines of those found elsewhere. Todd (Chairman), Hon. Mr. T. H. all the more interested, because useful and practical and is not though they are intensided by the King, Dr. R. A. de Castro Basto, most of you belong to the last afraid to lay aside for the time rapidly increasing need ter en- Mr F. C. Hall, Mr. L C. F. Bellamy, mentioned taby group. For as being all that means nothing but gineers and skilled craftsmen Mr. W. N. Thomas Tam, Mr. B long as you, gentlemen, are
the which the growing shipping tradeWong Tape. Mr. Tang Shui-kin, able to talk and read Chinese. you overworked brain of the foreign and manufacturing interests of Dr. 8. N. Chau, Mr. J. Watson (Sec- must accept the designation of student. and. finally, It avoids Hong Kong create. "Far Eastern bables."
not an
unnecessary burden to
dryness,
In
SIR 'WILLIAM „PEEL Already has scientific advance I think it right to recall at this IS IT DIFFICULT?
and specialisation lengthened opening ceremony that the exis- Everybody will admit that it many studies, considerably. Thus tence of this Trade School, Uke would be very desirable to have the teaching material to be put its subsidiary, the Junid Tech a larger number of foreigners abis before the student must be so well (nical School, must be put largely to speak and to read Chinese, inprepared that he may get what is to the credit of my predecessor, a Colony so Important and so most worthy to be known in the peculiarly circumstanced' as Hong smallest possible amount of time.
Kong. For this Colony is not only the main link between the far- fung Chinese world and the most Important and most powerful re-
presentative of the Western world the Anglo-Saxon.
PROF. FORSTER'S SPEECH Professor L. Furster said:--
It may be that as Dr. Reifler has shown in his instructive ad-
Sir William Peel. in whose day
as you know, the electrical and engineering workshop known as
retary) and Mr. Im Ping-tseung ¡(Assistant Secretary).
CHINESE LADY WAR WORKER PASSES
the Peel Laboratory was also built Mrs. Elizabeth Chen
at the Hong Kong University.
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MUSICAL NOTES
[The Editor, Hong Kong Daily
Press).. Cables received.in Hong Kong I very gladly endorse the grate-
from ful comments
Shangha! of the Principal
announce the Bir-Referring to the article, dress. the difficulties of the study upon the valuable help which he
death, which pccurred in the "Music of the Week" by Allegro This Colony distinguishes itself with a more intelligent presenta-Naturally he has been too modest Of Mrs. Elizabeth Chen, one of the day, morning. I would like to ex- 6. Chinese are exaggerated, and has received from many quarters, Paulun Hospital, on Sunday night Moderato.' in your paper of Mon-
to language fact that in this case a highly foreigner.
the to give credit where it is most due, first Chinese ladies to migrate to press my appreciation as one c cultured nation of the Far West such great qualms and
Cousc that is to say to himself and his Australia. For the past 15 years the 'Men In The Street! fear 0: did not come to touch with arallure.
staff, and it is my pleasant task she had been living in Shanghai.
I wonder, however, if my friend savage or half-savage race but
today to render to him and to Deceased, who was 69 years of Allegro' could not make an effort with the greatest and most cul- and taught in a logical manner so
Can the language te simplified them a tribute of thanks and age, was born near Shekki, Kwang-to produce something a trifie tured race of the Far East, which ls at the same time the oldest cultured race on earth...
from others very strikingly by the tion" of
119serts
the
.it might not
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congratulations. that the foreigner becomes in-
During the five and a half years terested and able to concentrate which Mr. White has spent in this jon his study?
or are we
more serious.
comicu.
tung, and left for Australia while still in her teens.
I have followed with interest Upon her return to China, she each and every article and I must And as it is so desirable. why
Colony he has devoted himself interested herself in church and say that my musical friends and Has the last word been sald or are so many among you unable to this matter of teaching Chinese.
wholeheartedly to the develop charitable work, being a devoted I think it would be more in keep- talk and to read Chinese? Is it
ment of Industrial education. first Christian anda member of the ing with a musical article if the because Chinese is too difficult? technique? There are two aspects and subsequently in this Trade
able to improve the in the Junior Technical School Baptist Church. Certainly not. I challenge any
After the outbreak of the war, one were kept less in the serio- foreign and Chinese expert who there are in this part of the world
of the Chinese language. in fact School.
she took a keen interest in work You that, and
Thanking you for your valuablé have only to hear his among the refugees in Shanghai, am ready to
two languages-the spoken and modest report and to produce for every difficulty they the written: the former depends eyes this afternoon to realise how time she was compelled to enter
use your and this she continued up to the pace and with all due deference
to my friend 'Allegro. night adduce an analogous dim-
on the sensitiveness of the ear. culty in our languages.
well his keenness, his energy and hospital last November.
Man In The Strèét. and the latter on that of the eye. his power of sympathy have
OPERATED ON
Hong Kong. April 12 SET OF SOUNDS
served this Colony. He and his able In the latter part of February, Gentlemen I studied Chinese Now then the ear has been at and hard-working staff may well Mrs. Chen underwent a major (spoken and written) at Vienna tuned to certain sounds and the be proud as they witness today
operation and wa's progressing University. In the centre of Europe jorgans of speech habituated to a the formal opening of the school favourably until some 10 days ag and not in China, and my teacher particular language, it is not at which has grown so well under when she had a relapse. was the former Austrian Ambas- all easy to adjust them to ar their hands. sador to China. Baron Arthur von entirely different set of sounds. I now have much pleasure in Rosthorn, and not R Chinese, unless one is endowed with a very declaring the Trade School open. although I must gratefully admit sensitive ear with a high capacity that -numerous Chinese friends of mimicry, and imitation, and ai. have altruistically, by advice and obedient group of throat muscles. action, contributed to the exten- Sul there are some Who do sion of my Chinese knowledge. achieve this object. Thus you may easily see that it is
LEARNED IN VIENNA
BIRTHDAY OF KHALSA
PRESENTATION TO REV. BAINES
[To the Editor, "The Hong Kong Daily Press"}
The late Mrs. Chen," who was pre-deceased by her husband, had seven sons, six of whom are - jing. Two ase in Australia, two, In-
Sir, The Rev. H. W. Baines, who cluding Mr. Stanley E. Chen of the has been chaplain at the Cathe- China Press, Shanghai, are in dral for the past four years, is Shanghai, and two, Mr. Bert leaving Hong Kong on April 29. Chen, manager of the Metropolitan The members of the Cathedral
their appreciation of the very valu-
to show in some practical way something of the affection in which
is held.
Even H one can never master The local Sikh community, us Motors, Ltd., and Mr. Walter Han-Council have arranged to mark not necessary to go into the the nine tones in Cantonese and well as those interested, are not-ming Chen, formerly or the North interior in order to learn Chinese enjoy the pleasure of conversing fled that the 240th birthday of China Daily News, are at presentable work he has done here and
GOOD TEACHERS NEEDED In that language, he is still faced Khalsa "Bisakhi" will be celebrat-in Hong Kong You will all agree with me that with the problem of the writtened at the Sikh Temple today. what is required are good teachers, language, which is even more im good methods and good textbooks. Portant seeing that it furnishe And here I cannot help blaming the unifying principle in Chinese also to a certain extent the aine- culture, and is not like the logues whose textbooks were most-language spoken here, merely of ly too scientific and ́ ́ voluminous. local value,
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study. number of the rest became sino- logues, and were thus lost to the
and his knowledge of philology he foreign community.
Dr. Reifier shows that each furnishes the pupil with expar Foreigners, therefore, who have Chinese character is a pictograph tions that enable him to see the decided to walt until the Chinese and not merely a phonetic symbol. blatory of Chinese thought in writing is simplified or replaced The study becomes fascinating and the written symbol.
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by some other kind of writing, though some of the interpretation Dr. Reffier, as I can testify per- 'will' have to wait some thousands may be somewhat imaginative. sonally, is vitalising the teaching of years; and then there will per they are nevertheless rationally of Chinese and so replacing the haps be one kind of pictograph satisfactory, and Are good fear of fallure with hope of suc writing in use all over the world. Demonics.
cess, and that is the only spirit
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