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Thongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, OCT. 14 1930.

THE EDUCATION OF

THE WORKER.

alised, the less likelihood will thereof be of industrial troubles. It has well been said that the family man with a stake in the community is

DAY BY DAY

TRUE FRIENDS VISIT US IN PRO-

the surest bulwark against unrest and revolutionary activity. So,SPERITY ONLY WHEN INVITED, BUT IN small though the movement which ADVERSITY THEY COME WITHOUT IN- Mr. Dyer has set on foot may be, VITATION.-Theophrastus, It has in it the germ of greater things, with the promise of great good for the future.

.

SIR EDWARD PARRY criticises

"WITH THE OPTION."

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An amended notification stutes JT WAS SENECA who pointed inconvenient, unjust and wrong in that the P. and O. s.s. Karmala. out that the smallest cor-principal.

It may not be generally remem- from Singapore, is dye here at 6, poral punishment falls with more

weight upon the sufferer than the bored that fines are more ancient heaviest No opportunity should be lost in.m. on Friday.

pecuniary penalty.penalties than goods, In the time This idea seems to have prompted of Alfred the Great there were Hongkong to show the workers that

The forthcoming wedding is an- Mr. Frank Vosper to a generous few prisons, except those dungeons they have nothing to gain by asnounced of Lieutenant Commander and kindly action in paying a fine beneath the Castle Moat, and these

Fried- sociation with strike movements or William Howard Dennis

than anything of that nature. The berger, of H.M.S. Odin, to Miss of 550 to release from prison the were reserved for political oppon-

Eleanor Louise Renton, of Hol-wife of a porter who had been sen- ants and prophets rather

Crimes tenced to this heavy fine, with the criminals and debtors. peaceable settlement or adjustment lowell Manor, Northampton...

alternative sentence, in, default of were expiated solely by fines. af disputes is infinitely the better

payment, of three months' impris There was a regular tariff setting out the price to be paid for mur- way, In the past, thousands of the Colony's workers have been duped and misled by the paid professional Instances galore are on record in which Union officials have wrung contributions from the workers and, when the pay-chest was suffl- ciently full, have quietly disappear- ed with the receipts. Happily, the experiences of 1926 taught many of our workers a lesson which they forget. They have learned now that in this Colony, in British service, they can rely on good treatment and a square deal. The Hop, Ying Free School, which awes so much to the head of one of our biggest industrial concerns, is an outward and tangible token of that fact,

will

never

Inter-Empire Trade.

With the Imperial Conference thrashing out its problems behind- closed doors, the difficulties of

*

*

The Guild of Martha and Mary sonment. are giving an "At Home" in St. The crime in the case was giv-der, rape, maiming or theft. In John's Cathedral Hall on Thurs-ing false information about the later years tariff reformers intro- day, October 16 from 5 to 7 p.m. to birth of a child from a foolish but duced new tariffs and new crimes. members and friends of St. Peter's scarcely a wicked motive. The of. Arson and cattle maiming were Church to meet Miss Summerville fence of falisfying a public re-not included until more modern on her arrival in the Colony as cord is serious, but it is not a com- days, as these pursuits were the bride of the Rev. N. L. Watkins. mon one, nor is it likely to be constant use by the barons in their

come epidemic, like driving to the war games, • * Under the auspices of the common danger, or street betting.

The spread of civilisation and H.K.U. Engineering Society an The penalty inflicted is a statu- illustrated lecture on "Moderntory one and the magistrate can-higher moral ideals persuaded peo man to commit a murder and "get Turbo-Construction" will be te-not be fairly criticised for adopt ple that it was wrong to allow a away with it" on payment of a livered by Mr. Coutts, of the ing it. H.K. Electric Co. to-night at 8.45

Mr. Vosper desired by his char fine. Prisons were built, gallows in Room "K" of the main table act to call attention to the were erected, and whipping posts University. All are welcome and harsh and uneven nature of these act up. Real crimes were punish- tea will be served after the lecture alternative penalties, which ined corporeally, and such penalties this instance had Innded an un-could not be commuted for money One year's imprisonment and 24 fortunate woman in raol. Like payments.

For lighter offences fines and strokes was imposed by Mr. But-Seneca, he challenges lawyers and ters at Kowloon this morning on a lawgivers to justify their methods amercements remained, but as long having and explain to mankind the juri- ago ns Henry II. it was decreed Chinese: charged with snatched two bangles off an in-dical rule of three by which the that "no man shall have a larger fant's hands in the Yaumati proportion of pecuniary to coramercement imposed upon market yesterday. Inspectorporal punishment is calculated. than his circumstances or per- Marks said that the child's mother Both Seneca and Mr. Vosper besonal estate will bear." Even at was carrying her infant on her lieve that sentences fines this early date some budding law back when she felt a tug and saw should not be mixed up with sen- reformer saw the inconvenience of Dives handing the magistrate a the defendant running away with tences of imprisonment.

p.nl.

the two bangles. A district watchman chased the defendant and arrested him. He had one of the bangles in his possession.

of

him

Their view has been shared by bag of gold and Lazarus going to Teat lawyers of our past, such as gaol because he had not the where- Romilly, Brougham, and Jessel. withall to pay his fine.

Our ancestors had clever ways It has also excited the interest of obscure lawyers of to-day. I my.of doing unpleasant necessary acts. I have often thought that to interest my for a pleasant self have striven Sincere wishes Home trip were expressed on the brother lawyers in Brougham's if fines are necessary to the well- for and main deck of H.M.S. Corn-gospel that debt should never be being of the nation they should be wall this morning, when, at the in-treated as a crime. But we live regulated on the ancient principle vitation of Captain A. N. Dowding in an age that knows not Ramily of tithes. The parson was no re-

officers,

remem- specter of persons. He took his friends--military, or Brougham, and only naval and civil-met for a fare-bers Jessel out of gratitude for tenth from rich and poor alike, and well reception prior to the departare his unaspirated criticisms of his no one could grumble.

But the Law does not remember

and

keeping in touch with progress are obvious. To-day we hear for the first time of the proposal with which the British Government has been toying for some monthe namely, the protection of the home market by means of imports of the cruiser for Home waters to brother judges.

A canopy of red and These three great English law- always to "temper the wind to the shorn lamb." (As a matter of boards, operating by means of bulk orrow. purchase and regulating retail white banting was suspended over

the deck, where the guests and onyers were at one with Mr. Vosper fact a farmer tells me they don't Warm and well-deserved tributes sales. The only reference to the

the sound idea that whilst to Mr. R.M. Dyer as a model em-subject at the plenary session last string orchestra of the Cornwall fraud might be punished by im country parson and knew better, I like the phrase.) "Forty. ployer of labour and as a generous-week came from Mr. Forbes, the played enjoyable musical selections. prisonment, debt, not induced by and anyhow

New Zealand delegate, in a rather Rear-Admiral R. A. S. Hill, C.B.E., fraud, should not be punished as a For when the Law says:

crime.

shillings and costs" to a citzen- party and was hearted citizen were paid on the oc-

Now a fine is a debt to the State. who has been drinking a glass of critical vein, expressing the view was amongst the

piped on board with the customary casion of the unveiling of his pur

If the person fined has the money ale on a cold winter night by that the least possible interference

procedure.

he draws a cheque, hands it to the "summertime," the effect of trait at the Hop Ying Free School,

of Government in the business!

the collector, and the debt is paid. penalty varies according to Hunghom, on Sunday morning. field was desirable. War - experi-

But if he has no money then the delinquent's overdraft. The function, small in its way, was

enre taught us that such supply

collector says to him in Lanca- For if he is a Cabinet Minister shire phrase: "If I canna Yave his secretary will send a letter for and the Important because it has disclosed boards are u danger rather than a

yer bruss, I'll tek yer body." Sum-regret, cheque enclosed, to the public a piece of sound and comfort to the taxpayer, and it

The Royal Observatory reports monses for debts, and rates and matter is ended by payment of useful work which aims at improv-involves such dangerous tampering

is a worker at forty shillings a ing the minds of the children of with the free operation of econo- that a strong anticyclone is cen-taxes, are called "body-warrants," 2/5,000 of his income; hut if he is relatively low in the extreme' Now this is a system which al! week he is called upon to pay 2/104 Drek workers and ut fitting them mic laws, being an extreme form of tral over S.E. Mongolia. Pressure in the north, to this day.

protection, we are surprised that South. The local forecast is:-law-reformers. from the days of of his income. Magistrates do their for the days ahead when they will the scheme which emanated from N.E. winds, fresh: fine.

Solon and Seneca have considered (Continued on Page ?) go out into the world and fend for themselves. Mr. Dyer is a thorough believer in education; he to the plan consists in its rigidity.

a professed free trader is being persisted in The main objection

is obviously one who entirely diOur commercial dictators could not socintes himself from the ideas of be guided by the state of the már- those and there are still far too ket as are private traders. A cer- Lain quantity of wheat would be many of the type--who think that

required to feed the country and the masses should have no place in

a purchase would be made in bulk the Colony's educational system: without reference to the factors He even looks to the day when all which would normally influence education here will be free. His operators on the grain markets of enthusiasm for education is well- Liverpool. If a heavy loss were based, for it only requiries a mo-suffered by large buying on a fall- the ing market, the dictators would ment's reflection to establish

have their answer pat: their duty point that the world of labour has consists in maintaining stocks at nothing to fear from the properly a certain level. The policy means educated worker: it is ignorance rationalisation at forced draught and unreasoned prejudice that pro-and it means dearer food without: duce the agitator.

new taxes. The prospect of ob- revenue might re- Sunday's little function was note-taining fiscal worthy also for some extremely concile many free traders to the sound advice by the Hon. Colonial idea of changing our fiscal systern in certain directions, whereas

Secretary, the gist of which we higher costs with no compensating should like to see freely circulated in reduction of the burden of direct this Colony. Particularly apt and taxation will, we imagine, find remarks few genuine friends. It is our well-expressed were his when he told his hearers that. new view that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald must find a more vigorous policy ideas are as dangerous as un- familiar tools, and, secondly, that than this for solving the unem nothing can ever take the place of ployment problem if he is to re- gain the serious loss of prestige good hard work. "You cannot eat suffered in the past eighteen and drink ideas," said Mr. Hallifax, months.. "and they are only useful by way. of teaching you to work more effi- ciently. Learning to read and to The League of Nations Health Bulletin of Eastern Ports for the write and to figure will all help in week ended October 4 shows the that way, but study of any kind is following diseases-Plague.- better left alone if you only use it Tamatave,, 1 case; Bombay, 1 death; Colombo, 1 case, 1 death; to tell everybody else that he is Prom-Penn, 1 death. Cholera.-- wrong." There is much concen-Bombay, 3 cases, 2 deaths; Calcutta, trated wisdom in those words. This 4 cases, 4 deaths; Manila, 1 case, i Colony, and, for that matter, any death; Shanghai, 5 cases. Small- pox-Baghdad, 2 cases; Calcutta, other centre, can have no better case, 1 death; Cochin, 2 cases; asset than contented workers, with Madras, 4 cases, 1 death; Negapa- tam, 2 cases; Penang. 1 case;

happy, settled family lives. The Palembang, 1 case; 1 death.

more such homes we have, and the Typhus-Port Said, 1 more the benefits of thrift are redeath.

case,

FINE WEATHER.

Mrs. Wouldn't it be wonderful, Jane, to get some sheep, do our own shearing, spin- ning, weaving, tailoring, and make our husbands each a suit?”

Mister That's all very well, but what's the chance of getting a port pants button sewed on

now ?"

the