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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1923

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

The Indifference Of The East,

tion Conference was held in Peking. The Association helped the Saudeos Association to raise money for the expenses of some of the Hong kong delegates. Eighteen delegates from Hongkong attended. "The

Panegyrists abroad sometimes) Indian, Burms and other delegates enlarge upon the infinite mercy few facts and figures from the when passing through Burgkong inculcated by the Buddhist creed. Hocal Chinese Y.31.C.A. officials were entertained and helped in the In Japan Westerners

that present an illuminating re-way of receiving, eight-seeing, etc. frequently shocked by the com- jsume of the good work done for The Swatow Disaster.

the Chinese community by that Hongkong

Many plete callousness to suffering: generous mea and that excellent institutica. The report public organisations raised funds mangled by a

15 displayed. A dog roters the year 1922 23, ending in for relief.

tram-oar in B The YMCA. did popular spectacle elloiting roars of February (the Chinese year, and its hit by personal subscriptions laughter at the funny noises it bas paly just male its appearance. through its members and collections makes. Even those who have a It shows clearly the great use that in auditorium meetings, etc. The livelier sympathy

are

is made of the YM.C.A., and is in most couspicious way was to loe-distrass at witnessing distress, and feel itself an eloquent plea for support|ganise a bazaar, held in the Asso will do nothing to put it out of its from the Chinese community. ciation men and boy's buildings. pain.

The total membership of the The Association was greatly indeb Chinese Yis just now 4,717ted to many firms who gave the The creed of universal mercy made up of: Active members, goods and many men and women, forbids the

A

taking of life.

for the

men and 70 bors: Associate memors and girls, to totki Japanese ladies are the most bers 2.158 men and 1,300 boys. of over 300, who gave unselfishly tender barted in the world, but These figures show good progress, their time and thoughts for the they will put out superfluous and it is hoped to present even bot purpose, esperially Mr. Lai Man, Puppies and kittens to perish. ter results next year. The annual the chairuso of the Sales Depart and drop & sympathetic tear over utubership campaign is about toment, who was mainly responsible them, never questioning the pro- be launched. 500 men working in for securing the donation of the priety of the castam. Dogs and ten teams under Mr. Ho Shu lac. goods. A total of $0.880.47 was cats do not practice birth-control, The Olympic Games will help it raised.

L and their proprietors do noi considerably and

Summer Camp. This special accept responsibility othcials anticipate results with feature was run at Castle Peak by sufferings of the unwanted off cratidence.

the Junior Division. Over 40, inspring. This failure of a merciful Use of the ***."

cluding leaders, attended, and Greed to implant mercy is only The Y. M. C. A. appeals to the there were over 100 visitors. The one of many familiar illustra- majority on account of its facilities Association camp was host to the tions of how all creeds must fur physical training, and her we 130 students from the Canton fail to promote right conduct find some potable figures. Voe of Christian College who borrowed when they take the place of rea the most eunspiruous activities of the use of our tents and utensils. son. People take an ordinance the Physical Department during

the

the year was the swimming cam- paizo.

which, as they are told, is divine-

The Yaumati Branch. The report records that for of all responsibility, and they | ly sanctioned, as absolving them No fewer than 1.140 men the Association's proposed Yau-grow callous through not ex and boys were taught how to swim. mati branch, a Site while the total number of attend-offered

has been ercising their own imaginations by the Government There is no lack of cruelty in ance at swimming classes was at a reduced rate

It cover the 14,540, the total number of baths an area of over 31,000 sq. ft. The where dogma and regulation most religious countries, enjoyed, in the pool and otherwise. Association decided to. was 31,712, and there was aley $100,000 last year for the build-ent thought. Kindness to animals raise bave taken the place of independ- a sea bathing party, attracting 72ing and land, but was hindered by is, comparatively speaking, still Attendances,

the seamen's strike. Only $44, novelty in the West, but it 441. 20 of the total was raised. has prevailed long enough for The men serving as captains for Western people to feel groat this campaign were Messrs. La shock a; the sights they see in wei-chek, Jam Chua-wai, Sung Japan. It is many years now Chi-bing, Cheung Chuk U. Tam since the Kobe Society for the Woon tong and Dr. Lee Ying-yau, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals whose services in connection with was founded, for the purpose of the doing something to alleviate

The .M.C.A." promoted SIX organised leagues, for basket ball. etc. but easily the most popular of its facilities were the school boy's gymnasium classes, which bad ao fewer than 25,378 attendances, at 690 sebamus. The total attendance

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Often the most ardent sup porters of the Society have felt as though they were wanting both time and money,

They inspectors,

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at gymassine classes was 53973. the Yaumati branch There are classes for the secretaries, association for business men, for school boys, for boarders at the Y," for police. mea, and many more. In the) outdoor playground. 31,200 people were catered for, the grand total of attendances ia all the Physical

Better Than Cocaine. Department's activities being 146,582, not forgetting 29,017

The present position is that the Thirty-five different manufacturers in Central Europe spectators.

produce each week, continuously with them quantities of cocaine, which go who are out and about all day

to all parts of the world, namins!. were

on bicycles or afoot. remonstra- ly for use in dentistry and other ting with carters. But three or pecialisms as a local anaesthetic, four man cannot be everywhere Social, Educational and

though ic fact only a very tiny at once, and the impression they Religious. But in other than physical fields proportion of the output could be make has often seemed to be in the Y.M.C.A. also rendered those bene dicent purposes, writes dropping a snowball into hell in needed, or is actually used, for Upton Sinclair's phrase, like appreciable service, In the senior W. Saleeby is the Daily the hope of lowering the tem division alone, in the religious Chronicle. All the rest is woefully department, belp was given in connection with the evangelistic misused, with ghastly conse- method is that like old fashioned campaign conducted by Dr. Sherence, whilst the police of all medical practice, it attacks wood Eddy. Meetings were held in Customs officers, medical officers, little or nothing to extirpate the Continents, the magistrates, only the symptons, and does the Y.M.C.A. "aiditorium, the. rescue workers and so forth try root of the evil. However, coo- Congregational Church, io the schools and in the World Theatre to solve a problem which, under verting a whole populace is a slow for the employees of the four big insoluble, and most ever remain suffering. The inspectors can at these conditions, is absolutely job. and meanwhile animals are department stores. During the year 4 bible classes were" bald,

least do something to alleviate

attendants.

were

168

50.

the

the the

perature. An objection to this

with 6,625 altendants. There were! A committee studied the this. They can also see that in 115 religious meetings, with 31,421 subject in this country during the summer heat many thirsty

and made various

bessta gət water which callous! recommendations for strengthen and stupid drivers would never lo educational work. the 1.M.C., das bool bad 141ng the law. I spent some time think of giving to them of in Montreal a few weeks 20. their own initiative. Unfortunate- afoot, in order to and found similar proposals ly the law does very little to help

theat tremendous difficulties of

in this part of the work. It is police in that city. The case is as prosecution effected, and if there,

practically impossible to get

that on all such lines, we are, in that any punishment would be bad in British Columbia. I repeat were a prosecution it is unlikely effect, impotent.

mated out. Often overloading is The real solution of a problem the fault of the owner or con- like this is evident: fcd some tractor rather

then of the biog that serves all the useful arter, and these people appear purposes of the cocaine, without to be immune from panishment the properties which lend cocaine So far from the law resisting, it there be no more cocains; stop the maximum legal load was in. odious purposes and then let seems rather to be retrograde, for its manufacture for sale at all, creased some time ago to and the thing is done.

students, with 341,425 attendances. It was recognised by the Educatius Department as first among the first grade schools. In the commercial aight school there students, their attendances num bering 9.482. Altogether there! were 301 different students in the schools. In addition 12,376 visits were made to the reading room. and there were 5 educational lectures with a total attendance of 18,380. The Y.M.C.A. ambulance; held 83 sessions of drill and practice work with an attendance of 7,003.

In social matters, there were 31 entertainments, 100 movie showa,

year.

the policeman)

and other functions, while 12,376) The substitute has been found mount which it would nearly kill the average' Japanese horse patronised the billiard tables and the United States, and now by

in Chicago, thoroughly tested in to pull up the hilly streets of Kobe. other indoor games. The total Dr. W. M. Beaumont, of pur attendance at all social gatherings Ministry of Pansions, who hus tinct

Among the police, as dis- was 48,321. A valuable section of

from thew, there the work was the excursions to lately published a convincing and has been some improvement. factories, eleven in all, attended comprehensive report on it. It It has often happened that when by 616 people. The Y.M.C.A. basis called butyn, and I commend foreigner has called the, atten- also a business men's, dormitory, all dentists and ocalists. It is gross cruelty,

it to the attention' especially of tion of ̃à policeman to a case of where,12 different men lived last superior to cocaine in all par has evidently failed to compre- The junior division duplicates ticulars, and has no dangerous bend in any way what the fus the figures. In all, 50.958 boys (Sea British Medical Journal," his box under the impression properties to offsetite virtues, was about; sud, has retired into made use of the building. There.

January 13)

that the interfering foreign. were juvenile prison meetings, Street boys' Sunday School, publie now take steps to carry into effect increasing number of cases where The League of Nations shoulder was mad. However, there is an prayer meeting, and a school con the proposal which I now maxe-police notice is taken and prompt ducted for poor boys during the that the manufacture of cocaine action is forthcoming, and there vacation (23,886 attendances). This for sale should be internationally are even cases where a policemar was prompted by the Association, prohibited. In effect, this concerns acts on his own initiative in pre- but run under the joint auspices' little more than a few fits inventing overloading or beating- of the Y.M.C.A. and 'student Germany, which is not a member Japan Chronicle.

Also the Y.M.C.A. has a camera that fact need not hold up a piece of the League of Nations; but club, holds singing meetings and of concerted action which is in debates.

the interests of all mankind. As Other Activities.

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