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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1930.

:

DAY BY DAY

DOUGLAS JERROLD saus

PUT THEM TO WORK YOUNG.

direct. Neither is there any evi- dence that the forcing down of our dollar to parity with silver has im- proved our position vis-a-vis Shang- hai so far an China's trade is con-

JUDGING A MAN BY HIS LOOKS IS' cerned. It was argued a year or

LIKE CHOOSING A BOOK BY ITH COVER. so ago that Shanghai was capturing|E. S. Champion. all the China trado, much of it at

There will be no lasug of the the expense of Hongkang, and that only by wiping out the currency dis-Telegraph to-morrow, but publica- tion will be resumed on Friday. parity between the two ports could We take this opportunity of wish this Colony hope to regain that lasting our renders a Happy and Pro-age to fifteen, aud soon we may were they to make both ends meet?

sperous New Year.

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ANGLAND is now faced with a conditions. They were humperait

that their

ondow- proposal to raise the school by the accident

monta wore running low. How expect to be asked to raise it still

The answer was found in por- further, perhaps to sixteen and a petuating for rich men between 18 and 22 the abbreviated and spas. The reason is perfectly simple. modic course of instruction plan- The plain man arguen from ned for poor boys between 15 and ample and not from precept, and 19.

In the vacation the righ, young

The P. & 0. 5.8. Karmula from half. Hongkong arrived at London on the; 29th December at noon.

as long as people who are less well, off see those who are better off men could play and the dony earn educating their children up to 17,

a little money: both parties were 18, or 21 they will find it hard to liston with patience to clever pleased, and in complacent op

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the pre-war ora came to a We have received from the Red B Rose Barber and Beauty Shop arguments from these samo people close."

It is of course true that at the date block in English and Chinese proving that education is of very

universities you meet all classes for the coming year.

Nor will anyone blame them and all races; that they are

trado. The fact is, however, that the disappearance of the premium has not been reflected in ahy boom of the kind predicted. So, from whatever standpoint we view the

Mr. J. F. V. Ribeiro has been maiter, Hongkong appears to have authorised to sign for Meners.

procuration. gained nothing, but, rather, loat Maxim & Co. Ther much from the slump in the dol. Jar. Circumstances have proved that trade is not helped, but is greatly hampered, by a currency subject to such marked vagaries as wo have experienced during the year in this Colony. The Govern- ment is at the moment exchanging views with the Home authoritica on

Property worth $100, reported as having been stolen from No: 4, Alverton Terrace, two days oxo, As been covered by police as

littlo uso.

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We are asked to state that the The people who are to be blamed world in miniature and that they P. and O. s.. Comorin, with the are those who keep their childron give a chance for the young man year at expensive to learn a little of life. But why schools or universities without keep him out of the real world to English mails vin Suez, is now due year after here at 6 am. on Friday.

oven troubling to think why. study the world in miniature? Why How man people know that ori-pay hundreds of pounds for bim this currency question, but in view

gin of the university eight week to learn about life when he could terms, or why parents to-day are be earning of the nature of the Commission's

expected to pay £300 per annum very good dont about itning for their sons to bo

spasmodical- It was Report, it is hardly to be expected pawnshop.

claires privileged ly educated during 24 weeks out when only the right and proper of

is that had the entry to the public ser that any revolutionary changes

The explanation Chan Man, described E will result from the deliberations. schoolboy, has been arrested on a universities are mediaeval institu- vices and the learned professions But if the dollar situation has charge of stealing two women's tions, which were most flourishing to invent a few hurdles for them con- to jump before they settled down sweaters from the Wing On Com in the 14th century. They

tinued to flourish for nearly four to their armchaira; it was very been so disastrous like to busi-pany, at Des Voeux Road Central centuries, but all the time on the excellent that the duke's son

and pervonal interests, wo

One of seven fishermen who left basis that their pupils had to earn should learn to compete with the iron-master's son for his post in can at any rate see on all handa Stanley yesterday was drowned their living in between terms. the outward signs of progress, while gathering seaweed at the

The long summer vacation, for the Civil Service or his commis- A standard had the agricultural year, and to this to be maintained. But to-day? day In Canada the "long vacation"

wor i For nine people out of ton Is still put to its proper use.

the last year at a public school As late as the days of Sir Wil-

ness

Longkong Telegraph. Bullding on a remarkably extensive northern end of Wagian. A search instance, covers, the busiest part of rion in the Army.

To ask the question is to ans-

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 31 1930.

THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW.

scale is going on almost everywhere, for the body has not proved suc-

cessful. so that the whole Colony ta rapidly undergoing

in

Because he interrupted a card transformation. We party that was being held on the liam Harcourt's boyhood, boys and the three or four years at the have only to take a glance at the No. When Lolos held on the went to the university at 10 and university are sheer waste. Thero

inst pride themselves

not brains but charay- amazing developments on the main-it is said, a watchman, named He left at 19. The fashion of stay. Chi, was Atabbed and was ing at school till 19 and remaining land, the big changes in the heart admitted into Hospital yesterday at the university, until 21 or 22 tor, A year's work in the world would produce more character suffering from a wound in the came in with the golden age of the than four years in the classroom the reason that work in the abdomen. Three Chinese coolies upper-middle classes. are in custody consequent

world does not out off the intelli- A Sham Fight.

gent boy or girl from study police investigations.

The iden was not to train boys sport. for the battle of life, but to give Whon agriculture was our staple

of the city, and the erection of block after block of new property on the Praya East reclamation to realise how the Colony is expanding and becoming modernised. Much

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for

or

Whatever the future may have in store for us, it seems more than probable that the year 1930, now 60 rapidly drawing to a close, will of the investment in property may of gloom, including the loss of the to the nons of rich cotton-spinners industry we rightly made our uni in days to can e he looked back on us be due to the huge sums of fluid R.101, shocking earthquakes in and Iron-masters; as well as to the versity terms seasonal and left Italy and Japan. great typhoon ions of the older landed aristo- long intervals when the needs of стису, first-class sham fight in the farm could be attended to. To- ere of the most d'зustrous ever ex-capital now available

as a con-havoc in Japan and Kores, and the which they could get on tap, so day, in an industrial civilisation, perienced by the Colony so far as sequence of the trade depression, Alsdorf mine explosion. On the to speak, the experience which work has to be done regularly if the instability of its currency is but, on the other hand, It also be other side of the picture may be their parents got in building their it is to be useful, and the book- ccucerned. Within the past twelve tokens a confidence in the future placed His Majesty the King's re-own future or in governing the work must be done in the evening, rays of privilege as it is by thousands every year

at evening classes. and "places." morths, silver has kept an almost of the Colony. That future, we sumption of public activities, the untry in the

wonderful solo, flight of Mlas Amy but coursc, confidently feel, is assured,

The need for the sham fight was uninterrupted downward

In Cotton Wool. Johnson to Australia, Kingsford of course, that their parents ex- until we have long since 20e to we are equally emphatic in our view Smith's memorable trip over the cellent good fortune had deprived And at this point let me answer recottirile Conver to new low that until our currency problem same distance, reducing the time these children of the two greatest the cry which will go up that the values in the dollar. The ines seriously faced, our progress must taken to 10 days, the conclusion of educational factors, the incentive poor rich will be too tired in the diate outlook promises no improve-of necessity be restricted. On the a tripartite naval treaty between to earn a living and the experience evening by saying that in my two which life given the adolescent in years at Oxford I never saw my ment in this respect, for general other hand, in a bold handling of Britain, America and Japan, the the process of doing so.

tutors by daylight, winter or sum- As a substitute, the prefect sys-mer. In two years I had exactly opinion in banking circles seems to that problem lles the hope of a departure of the last Allied soldier be that the dollar will still further much earller and more comprehen- from the Rhineland, and the signs tem, the imitation salf-government Afty-five hours tuition, the whole

of a termination of civil conflict and self-administered discipline, of it after 9 9 p.m. decline in the New Year. There is alve revival of the trade of the in China after the heaviest fighting and the physical rigours of com- I do not want to suggest for no need to stress the serious conac-Colony than is to be hoped for from for years past. In the sporting pulsory and competitive games moment that a really well-trained were excellent and Ingenious. In mind, given a good mind to start quences of the slump, both in regard merely resigning curselves to what Geld, Don Bradman and Bobby a school casier far than that of with, is not invaluable to the in-

Jonos have captured most of the life, but still not too gentle, char-

ar-dividual and I indispensable to the to the trade of the Colony and to ever fate han in store for us,

laurels, while America swept the cter was formal, rough edges State. Without such brains the the community's living expenses; we

Wimbledon tournament, thirteen of smoothed away, and steel temper complex problems of modern busi- all know from painful experience

The World in 1930.

few bones broken!! певва

government finance, and the sixteen finalists being from the ed, with only what the effects have been and are

As a sham fight the publie could never be solved. But are An In Hongkong, so throughout United States, Bill Tilden winning school of the mid-Victorian era these minds the mare easily train- likely to be unless some circum the world; 1930 will pass to-night the singles after an Interval of

kept in cotton- stance arises to enhance the value with few regrets. For the bulk of eight years. Among other notable same as near to the real thing as ed byly a third of man's

it decently could and prevented wool for of aliver. The only consolation to humanity the year cannot but ap-events of the year may be included the sons of the prosperous from allotted apan? be derived from the situation is pear sambre in retrospect; the the Lambeth Conference, the Im-growing up complacent or that the graver

the position be shadow of trade depression and un-perial Conference, the encouraging sponsible or soft, the more likelihood will employment hangs over all. The opening of the Indian Round Table The Spasmodic Course. comes,

in Carol coup main cause has been a continuous Conferece, the

Meanwhile, the there be of action of some kind fall in commodity prices in conjunc. Rumania and the collapse of the might have seized the chance of being taken to deal with the crisis. tion with a rapid rise in the value Tardieu Government.

adjusting themselves to the net Leading economists in Britain and of gold and a consequent restric- the United States have latterly tion of credit facilities. Unem- striven to show the disastrous et-ployment has risen from normal fects of the growing disparity be. figures of 5 per cent: to from 16 to tween silver and gold, strongly em- 20 per cent. in Britain, Germany, phasising the need for internation elsewhere, and in some of the great: al action. In particular, the silver Industrial districts of these coun- slump has had the effect of cutting tries the proportion of workless is off the great markets of the Orient as high na fifty per cent. So acute to a very large extent from and obstinate has been the slump Western manufacturers, a circum- that the end of the year reventa no stance which of itself should be sign of alleviation. On the con- trary it. is not at all certain that the sufficient to warrant serious efforts bottom has been reached. One ef- being made to grapple with the rest of the world crlais has been altution. Unhappily, however, in- instability in polities. Revolutions, ternational action of any kind in us have occurred in most of the South ually a slow and lengthy process, American countries; Hitlerism, has and we fear that immediate relief gained tremendously in Germany; from such a development is unlike-President Hoover has lost his Re-

ly

the United States, Scandinavia and

publican majority in Congress; Spain has several times been on the When we come to study the aftan verge of a bloody revolution; and tion, we find no support in exist- Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's govern- ing conditions for the contention ment has been losing prestige not which was being so freely made a steadily. The situation was year ago that Hongkong would have cased, to say the least, by the tariff Increases approved by the U. 3. everything to gain by a low-value Congress early in the year, creating dollar. The predicted revival in ex-n wall ensily the higheat in the port trado has not materialised,history of the country and raising which is, after all, scarcely to be the general ad valorem level from wondered at when we bear in mind 38.22 to 40.08. Another sharp break on the Stock Exchange oc- the fact that so much of our excurred paralleling in extent the port trade representa foreign goods debacle of November, 1929, when being sont into China, so that the the paper losses exceeded G$40,000| exchange factor is just an opera-millions.. Numerous terrible dis tivo as if the goods were imported asters occurred, adding to the tale

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Edward Gibbon left it on record that he could never have written "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" had he not been an Exciseman: how much universities should we get from Gibbon's his-

PONNA SECURING-

"Can't you put that one away and show it to my mother. when she comes in 1'!

more

tory ourselves had we read it with some small contemporary expert- ence of life as it la lived in the workaday world. And as with Gibbon, ao with Plato and Aria- totle and Thucydides. And this is oven more true of science: half the science that we learn in the class-room has to be unlearnt in the works laboratory.

Even as a training for public iffe, whether in Church or State, the present system stands con- demned; how much more so as a training for Industr or the busi- law, ness professions such as the accountancy, and Anance. How big businesses have many of our been founded by university men, and how many leading figures on tho.professional side of industry (bankers, accountants, and administratora) are university- trained?

Academic Dawdling,

As a matter of fact the univeral tles and public schools have tho monopoly only in thoas professions where they themselves dictate tho

conditions of entrance. What they

teach le admirable and necessary to the public services and the teaching profession, but the way they teach it and, above all, the time they tako to tench it, is not admirable and goca

far to

to nullify the benefita which they confer

How can even the most intellec tual

boy who has been subsidised through more than a score of years of academie dawdling, be expected to develop the realism, the sense of urgency, and the sense of competi tion which is what, we need in our business and in our public services (Continued on Page 7.)