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HE WHO PROROGUES THE. HONESTY Is strange that amongst institu- oF TO-DAY TILL TO-MORROW WILL tlong for which it is now taken for PROBABLY PROROGUE HIS TO-MORROWB granted that libraries are, OF TO ETERNITY,--Lavater.

should be, provided, hospitals are the only ones which as yet claim no public recognition. Prisons, schools, clubs, etc., fall within the favoured category, but those who aro enduring physical or mental suffering, often enhanced by worry and boredom, are largely outside this social recognition.

the

stands.

The N.Y.K. has issued an effec tive wall calendar, a copy of which has reached us.

From Mesars. Reisa, Massey and Co., Ltd., we have received a handy little pocket diary issued by Samuel Works, Sheffield.

THE TURNING POINT IN MY CAREER.

THOMAS BURKE.

The famous novelist tells how he discovered that Chief Clerks were not omnipotent.

Osborn and Co., Ltd., of Clyde Steel M Y life, like most other lives,In the City, and my still drearler

has had so many turning salary of 15s, a week. There were points, so many blind alleys, Sorensons, concerned' with cotaman During The Police Reserve orders have much barking back and restarting human duty, which forbade me to been rumended, and the monthly and inter-turning, that it is not throw up that job until I could parade of Chinese and fadian Com-eney to select any one as the mas-foresee Home equally regular in- panics will take place on Wednes-ter turn, But I think I can see come, anti for three years I cast day, December 17. instead of to one, that, if not the master, was, this way and that, trying to find a day, as previously notified.

at any rate, of great importance turning-point, or, failing that, to

re-

to me.

make one.

the past ton years, public opinion has been moving slowly in this matter, but it is felt that a little more imagination allied to u cognition of the facts will mean a

An excellent concert of musical

The general public may think I think every established writer big spread of the Iden for which ilema has been arranged by the that the turning-point in the life of that period must have been

Kowloon branch of the Helena of an auther must come when he pestered by letters from me, offer Hospital Library Service

Mny Institute for the children for has his frat work accepted in myself as literary secretary! Friday at 5.30 p.m. The pro-but when I was a 16-year-old remember that Mr. Morley Roberta Hougkong, unfortunately, is ramme includes coon songs and office boy I Was already got a little peevish about it, and dances, which have become writer (printed and paid for) told me that the correspondence poorly served in

with the children, and was aware of no turning must ganse but the ropites I re- dancing. songa and

ceived, though kind, afforded no In that. IL acemed THE HONGKONG HOTELbraries, excepting those which classical

point are maintained by such institucitation,

only to show that as I could, in the opening. GARAGE.

phrase of the training schools, tions as the Hongkong Club and The Committee of the Club write "well enough to get into Charlie Chaplin, Too. the Helena May Institute, and we Lusitano invites the members of print." I had better stick to that, Associacao and abandon my fond and appar- fear that very ittle thought in the Club de Recreio,

Portugucza de Socorros Mutuos, given to our hospitals in this con- Liga Portugueza and Club Lustitanentis desperate hope of being ache. At that time I was living.

musician.

The Hongkong Bbanahal Hotel, litch Incorporated in Hongkong. 2t, n' Road C. and Stubbe Bond

DEATH.

the

matter of favourite

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So I just went on living a life that was like a nagging tooth-

In South London within iwo For it was music that first. at-streets

of another young man

nexion. Whether anything can and their families, and other mem- be done along the lines of the era of the Portuguese Community

to a reception to be held at the Clubtracted me in my formenting and whom I did not then know, bul movement at Home la a matter Lusitano to-day, at 6.16 p.m. in green-sick desire for "expression." who is now my friend. Although

The idea honour of H. E The Minister for

our live differed slightly in ex- LICKLEY. -- Frederiek Charles deserving of altention.

Portugal at Peking, Dr. Armando,

I had heard Sarasate, and 1ernals 1.4, too, I have since learn- Lickley, D. Howbeck Terrage. is one which should command

Navarro,

went straightaway to the study of ed, was living under that tooth- West Hartlepool. (Shanghai

general aympathy, and maybe

[the

on violin. I practised ache, as lonely and as youthfully papers please copy).

conain's fiddle. but, without a fid- bittor as 1. something could be done by co-

dle of my own, progress was im- operative effort on the

possible. [ could not afford a existing organisations. rate, we throw out the suggestion

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 19, 1930.

HOSPITAL LIBRARIES.

part of At any

OPIUM HIDDEN IN A POLE.

HIM IN COURT.

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was

elerking and writing. ddle, nor the incidental expenacs funny things now and then for of strings and music, and a no-living by falling out of stage- "Ally Stoper; he was earning his body showed any aptimism abou

I saw him often at the. thenper must

in those Fred Karno

tles-the Inst asp of the humours of the Eliza bethun Bartholomew Fair or

for what it is worth, feeling that COOLIES INGENUITY LANDS my musical promise i abandoned 20 the movement Is one which has eyerything to commend it to the community at large.

The Suviet Way.

The reward for a coolic's, in-f gennity in the concealment or 18-|

it in disgust.

The Drenmer.

But I know now that If only we

Then I heard Caruso, and I decourse, without any Idea that cit opium was the imposition of a sided that the loveliest career in was witnessing the antics of a fine of $2,000 and the confiscation iffe, was that of an opera singer. I

world-artist in embryo, without. of the drug by Mr. Lindsell at the tried to sing, but.

even noticing his me Central Magistracy this morning, We wonder whether people in In countermanding sentences of when the man was brought before However, the glamour of the had met in those dnya we should Hongkong give much thought to death passed at the so-called con- the Court on a charge of unlawful idea regained, and through hours have found a

kindred soul. We trial upoh Professor possession of 24 taels of prepared of wandering the matter of

provision of spiracy

about London at were both at that time suffering the

Kamzin and four of his companions jopium.

night I would indulge my heart. suitable

youth, both responsive to rending matter for

dreams of myself fine things that were out of roach, in the dock, the Soviet Government daced what appeared to be noth singing at Covent Garden."

Revenue Ofleer Grimmitt pro-with idiotic patients in hospitals? Most of

Executive has complied with rearing but an ordinary bamboo carry-

hoth surrounded by what we aTTO-

, at one time or another, have

related

rom

id expectation. The amazing ing pole but the officer explained Well, dreams do sometimes gantly thought were creatures of no doubt seat along "something confessions at the extraordinarily to his Worship that the pole had come true, if not always in the rar fibre, than ourselves; and to rend" to friends who happen to, well advertised trial. were top been avvered and the two pieces shape we give them. This one if I could have met him then, life have fallen sick and been sent to 'amazing. The stories of foreign telescoped into each other, with did. It may be that the mental would have lost half its aridity.

Not until 1921 did we moet, to have been the opium concealed in the middle. waves of my dreams were emitted hospital, and We presume that intrigues alleged

A length of rope was tied to the with such force that they had to when the young man had become

find some resting-place where they the world's "Charlie." in minute detail by the pole where the two ends mut could reproduce themselves in most of the local institutions have

conceal the joint, but

I don't know, I libraries of some kind. But there acensed, have failed to convince to

But about that turning-point. It because they have fitted far too angarious Revenue Officer dis-alpable form. Is in this Colony no organizeti

closely the Soviet's contant covered the man's secret and, had only know that I dreamed furious-concerns a foggy Monday morning

ly of being an opera

of in Eastcheap, a young man with singer, effert to enter to the needs of the desire-suggestive of inferiority

seeing my name on the Covent indigestion, and a sharp-tempered sick_in_this_paspect__ At Home complex fur exposures of capitalis offence before the stagistrate, Garden bills "Des Grieux" chiof clerk. however, a splendid work is being the plans for intervention. Conse sentence of six months hard in-Thomas Burke and at last

Thomas Burke Rodolfo" done in this direction by the Red quently, the impression all along bour was paused in default of ace it there. Cross and St. John Hospital has been that the trial lacked payment of the fine of $2,000. Library Service which was started genuineness, and that the accused And no serious conscience to during the war but, in response fear, even if the affair was not com

to

him arrested.

On the man's admission of the

FINE WEATHER.

The Royal Observatory reports

As I say, I had been casting about to find or to make a turning- point, but what I couldn't do, in- You may remember that in 1920|digestion, fog and Monday did for Thomas Burke sang those roles at me. Covent Corden.

me.

There was a peremptory order, But that had nothing to do with fand in somewhat slow compliance. This led to anappy reprimand, which I resented audibly. Com-

cral passed on

to argent requests for its completely frumped-up from first to tinuance, has been carried on ever last. One surprise attaches to the kinee, An appeal for additional Soviet Executive's announcement, that the anticyclone over S.. The obvious thing for me to de pliments pass when gentlefolk funds to keep the movement alive namely, the speed with which it Mongolia has dissipated. A feeble was to stop dreaming, and stick meet. When other folk meet, "re- has recently been made, and has followed the death sentence.

Several The anticyclone is central over the to writing; so I atuck to it. And marks" purpose is difficult to fathom for Lower Yangtsze Valley. The de-about twice a year I was reward-this occasion, until the clock dan met *ytJh moat encouraging

the effect on the average person is pression has passed to the N.E. of by an acceptance and a slender a reference that touched in

the Bonins. Moderato

a sore spot. Without thought of response.

to confirm a very natural suspicion will prevail along the S.E. coast of I then discovered that I really my obligations, I reached for The work which is being done rather than to allay it. And this China and over the North China wanted to do nothing else but black ruler, with the deliberate by the organisation named exists has to be borne in mind when we Sen. The local forcast is:-N.write, and I was chafed and gall- und hearty intent of murder. almost unnoticed except by a come to consider the Soviet reply, winds, moderate; fiue,

ed by my dreary nine-to-seven life

The Rebel. small minority. It is pointed out, to the protest against the serious

ap

however, that

on past and present to-day there is vellections creeping into the medical world British Governments contained in the "confessions" alleged to have much thought the curative

been made. Event, assuming for a value of reading, or, technically. moment that the trial was the therapeutic value of books, honest nue, that there has been no In simple language, this implies deliberate plot to embarrass the.

the best most seit the tem- British and French Governments, perament and the mental and the reply would still be inacceptable. physical

The Soviet Government has been to sinte of the patient; which again implies its selection almost extreme lengths to secure the widest publicity for the ailega- by someone who has knowledge of

ilons, not only throughout Rusala books mel understanding of with the clear object of stirring human nature. These qualifien-up anti-British and anti-French tions cut at the root of the long-feeling--but throughout the rest of established ten of a kind gift the world. The allegations are, of course, unfounded and unreasonable. of old books for the hospital.".

are totally unsupported. They In some countries, such as Den-Neverthloss, the Soviet has en- mark, hospital libraries are ordevoured through them te damage ganised in. co-operation with British political credit and little ! public libraries, and in mostoffort has been made to conceal cases with the help of voluntpry this object. As Slr Austen Hbrarians. In England, somo few Chamberlain said, matters cannot hospitals have voluntary libra- allowed to stand where they are,

British dignity denianda rians who do splendid work, but, planation, not an attempt at just!- whatever the principle put, Into,fication. practice, it needs to be remember-

ed that the citizen does not forfeit

лn ex-

his rights as a reading member of Charged with cuffing wild trees the public when he enters a hes Chinese women were each fine

on Fortress Hill, North Point, two

pital ward, that the interactions 16 by Mr. Lindsell at the Contral of mental and physical states aurong to Mr. J. Carr, Witle damage Magistracy this morning, Accord- now becoming recognised as was caused as the trees were eranil supreme factors in a patient's and the plantation In that parti

cular locality was denies. condition, and that the effect of

cheque.

monsoon

"But, Mother, how do you suppose I feel when you start that lins about us always being taken fór sisters ?!!

Just

For the first and only time in my life I knew the joy of having the world in my power, and, but for the indigestion, I might by now.. have

long completed sentence for man-slaughter. But my oye was out that morning. I was only four feet from the clerk, but I missed him, and killed ins- tead the window of the board room door.

I then put on my cap, and walk- ed out swelling with the dignity of five-feet of rebellion.

That, I think, was my turning- point, and very useful one, be- cause it put me out in the world, jobless,

and no

I stood thing that I had not.

with no "character""

"reference

alone. dared

or

to do-to throw up my job hofore

I had another had been

done for me. I had got my chance. I had escaped from servitude and the spirit of servitudo. The rost was for, mo,

Was. I down-hearted? I was. But I discovered that for the do

ing

of things, and for the hand- ling of troubloa, the best stato is that dogged, level state

which

comes when optimism has gone.

had escaped from Iguoble safety prospect of misery I

into a

had

to got out of it, Aud, of course. so responsive is the human-tom- por to all demanda put upon it, I got out. Simply because I had to.

I had learned that day that chief clerks were not gods they were terrified of black rulers. I was a useful lesson. Then, and ever since, I saw troubles as chief clarka mumbling