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DAY BY DAY

The Bos Line 8,8. Bonnlder, from Singapore, is dus here on the 16th instant.

The P. and 0. 8.6. Kashgar, from Singapore, is dus here at Ca.m. on Friday,

The P. and O. s.s, Rawalpindt, from Hongkong, arrived at London on 9th January at noon.

Capone and his fellow-gangsters now control liquer,instond of responsible officials doing It They point to President Hoover's recent statement that the local,

LET US ACCEPT OUR LIMITATIONS rather than the Federal Goverp-AND LEARN TO BE HAPPY-Richet. ment, should break up bootlegging gangs and enforce other criminal ława.

Under their plan, each State could be as dry or moist as it desired, and the State laws, be- cause they would reflect public sentiment, should be more easily enforceable. In the metropolitan centres, where there seems to be a demand for a modified dry low. such action, it is folt, would tend to break up the gangs, because, for example, if light wines and beers were obtainable legally, the demand for bootlegging products would cense. In short, the anti- Prohibitionists believe that it is impossible to make the country bone dry, and that it would be better to turn the problem of con- trolling liquor over to the Staten, in the hope that the gang menace and other corrupting influences of National Prohibition may be eliminated.

Nothing is to be gained by ques- tioning the sincerity of the lenders of either the one group

or the

The sentence of two months' hard labour passed on Li Tsan- pul, police interpreter, who was convicted on a charge of obtaining 330 by falea representations from a hawker, was confirmed by Mr. Williams at the Central Magis tracy this morning.

The Psychology of a Child.

By P. FENNELLY, LL.D.

A child, from earliest infancy, for it as the easiest and quickest is learning to adapt itself to the way out of trouble, the child is world through movements and ox denied the necessity for working pression that would soom purposo-things out for itself and its forms less to us, did we not know the tive period comes to be useless. It mature type it will eventually be shall then happen that when a child come. There is the same regular has reached an age, when it has to process in the child that is to be go into the world, it will be a mir- found in all other forms of life acle if it can think and act for it- and a tive years old baby knows self. The child will have been rob- At to-morrow's Rotary meeting more about the secrets of its own bed of freedom, self-relianco and at Lane, Crawford's restaurant, development than any adult can self-direction. In after life it will the speaker will be the Hon. Foo tell it. In the first years of iffe always seek to adjust its conduct to Ping-sheung, who will talk on there is hardly a waated movo- an outside standard. It will not ent, no matter how seemingly do nor say things because it thinks The New Chinese Civil Code.

capricious it may appear, that they are right, but because others Dr. George C. Butte, the new does not play some part in the think them right. It will always Vice-Governor of the Philippines, child's progress towards adjust be worried about what others may will sail for Maulla on January mont to the years that lie ahead. think and say, of what it says and

February 12, No external stimulus is required does,

Each child is a little cosmos 18, arriving on according to a cablogram received to induce a child to discover the by the Governor-General.

joy of overcoming the most varied knowing more about Itself than it diflcultits and the sacrot of educa-can tell and also knowing more about the relation of its own im- tion lles in respecting, not repress pulses to the laws of its own pro-

child.

it An infant of little more than gress than any outsider, be

or guardian can ing nor moulding

of a year is quite capable of mani father, teacher

the tell it. The secret of its monta festing signs of most

given the chance, the natural genius great primary emotions and very Browth is within the child and. early its emotional life begins to of a child is superior to all con- organise itself Into the simpler ventional calculations and the day sentiments. The atmosphere of is fast approaching when it will The many friends of. Mr. J. J. the home ls of the utmost signific-be recognised that the highest Long before a child can human function is the art of train- Hirst, of the Botanical and Fores-ance. other, and it must be presumed try Department, will regret to leara walk or talk the personality of ing the young through their own that citizens generally desire the he is lying seriously ill at Kow the mother or father is making activities.

There is nothing more difficult strictest possible control through loon Hospital. He was taken to an indelible mark on the young

than to induce mankind, accustom- hospital on Friday last and we un-mind.

Things that are never spoken ed all their lives to the idea that governmental agencies. However, derstand that his condition is such

of are reflected in the child. A children are to be seen, and not it would be absurd to suggest that as to give cause for anxiety.

child may merely imitate the heard", that to spare conditions at present are what the

Undor the command of Renr gesture of a parent and just as to spoil the child" etc., to believe drys hoped for before the days of Admiral Chen Huen-yeung, the the gesturo is the expression of that children can be brought up Prohibition, and it is difficult to Chinese cruisers Ying Swel and an emotional state in the parent, under any but repressive condi; been repressed see how, no matter what step is

yesterday. A salute fired produces in the child a similar and we know nothing else than re

as to pression, and it is almost im- could taken, they

worse. from them when the Commodore, feeling, as it feels Itself, be

possible for us to grasp the thought Quite apart from the direct con- Capt. A. H. Walker, paid a visit apeak, into the gesture.

cruisers are

all Unfortunately this morning. The

too often that for the child as for the adult, sequences of the evils which have expected to leave to-morrow. the mind of a child is a scaled expression is the first law of book to the parents, sealed by a nature. Watch, respect, love the grown up under Prohibition, there

Mina Eva Ho-Tung, M.B., Hong- lack of candour and sympathetic child and the child will do the rest. Although the conclusions rench is the bumiliating fact, of which kong, a daughter of Sir Robert Ho insight and this, very often on They who watch and respect a world takes nolice, that Tung, who has been studying at the part of well meaning parents. child cannot fail to love it and ed by the Wickersham Commission all the in regard to Prohibition have not the law of the land is openly and King's College, London, passed the The confidence of a child is not love is the very sunshine of life to

for the to be obtained by coercion or a child. in fact, to the child, loy been officially disclosed, indica-anbushingly outed. From this Primary Examination

Fellowship of the Royal College of prying. Confidence begets con-is life. tions are that it will not recom-standprint alone, a modification Surgeons of England, held from fidence just as four begets fear.

All that the child asks is fond, ment the repeal of the Eighteenth of the existing law would appest Dec. 2 to 13.

ander- housing. protection and the When

King re-constructed Amendment. We may therefore to be desirable. If, therefore, the

be standing. It wants to sp- Edward Building is re-opened short-preciated. It wants to be under- expect a continuation of the dry Wickersham Commission makes ne

ly, the ground floor, basements, law, although a much strieter enconerasions in this direction, it is

vaults and crypts will be occupied by stood. It wants to be free to be. that there

with be the Netherlands Indies Commercial a child and it is only free when forerment will be necessary if the to he feared

is the Bank, which is moring from its pre- it is allowed to think for itself to be onded.very littl improvement

sent premises opposite, on April and this is only possible when a existlag farce is

The American Chab will also be housed child is permitted to develop and ituation. During the recent political cam-

in King Edward Building a removal

Lau Tuen (38) nu amah employ paign, which accompanied the

being made from the Duddell Street Adjust its mind to life. in its

own way and at its own pace. fed at 366, The Peak, has reported. premises in a few months' line. No child can be free who is to the police that she was robbed Senatorial elections, candidates who opposed Prohibition

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MONDAY, JAN. 12, 1931.

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FOUND IN BUILDING BUT MINUS CONTENTS,

Hai Chow arrived in the Colony so in turn the gesture gradually tions. We have

Was

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A PEAK AMAH ROBBED.

EAR-RINGS STOLỄN BY FOOTPADS.

*** Functions at the "Checro" Club, labouring under any moulding by footpads yesterday wille on a City Hall, this week, include in-process whether that is the result visit to another amah employed at

or repression, 118, Peak Road. formal dances on Monday and Wed-1 of over-kindness,

At n point 150 yards above nesday, both commencing at 8 pm, for a child's emotional sensibility On Monday, Mr. G.W.E. True's is far greater than the range of House No. 22, she says, she felt understanding and it is her ear-rings being snatched, and, "Cheero" band will provide the jits

capable of being

profoundly on looking behind, saw a man runn- music for dancing, and on Wednes

Bame A handbag which had been day. the "Florida" band from moved by things of which it has ing away with them. At the stolen from a Chinese woman in H.M.S. Medway will play. The the vagunst intellectual conceptime, two other men, who appeared to be accomplices of the first, seized-

threw her to the ground, the city, and which had contained usual whist drive will be held en tion.

If from the earliest days of life and money and other property to the Tuesday evening at 8.30 p.m. All value of $140, was revered, with-Service men are heartily welcomed the curiosity and enterprise of a subsequently fleving in the same

contents, I curious to the Club and to join in ita ne- child are repressed and the child's direction. out its

The ear-rings' are valued at $20. tivities.

questions and diMculties are solved manner yesterday.

Mr. Russell, Works Overseer, at to Gloucester Building, wrote Inform the police that one of his foremen drew his attention to a handbag and bills which found on the fifth floor of the new structure.

in the minds of most people such candkates

classified weru desiring a revival of the liquor business. Actually, however, somewhat paradoxiend though it may seen, many of the outstand ing men who oppose Prohibition are striving for the same goal as ardent Prohibitionists. Both want real control of liquor. One group belleves it can be obtained by one method. the other by another. Those who are described as the "stand-pat drya," although will- ing to concede that present forcement.conditions are extreme. ly unantisfactory, still insist that control can be obtained through the Eighteenth Amendment-that the Volstead Act can be enforced and racketeering evils eliminated. The other side join issue on this point. and it commands a very considerable following, AA the bills behind. gains made in the recent election by opponents of Prohibition clear- ly indicate,

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When the bag was handed to the pollee, it was identified as being the one that was previously snatched from Lum Hingang, a married Chinese woman, in the city on the previous day.

Apparently, the thief took the hay into the building to examine

lelnure. and sort out the contents at his and retaining money articles of value, but leaving the

EX-REVENUE OFFICER AS SMUGGLER.

BECOMES VIOLENT ON BEING ARRESTED.

In prosecuting 'T Chinese, formerly a Revenue Omcor, on' n charge of being in possession of of prepared oplum, ten taels Revenue Officer Grimmitt, before Mr. Lindeell at the Central Polico Court this morning, said the do fondant, after being taken to the Revenue Office, became very vloj lent and tried to knock his brains but against an iron safe.

Looking closer into the attitude of the Prohibition opponents, we and that they are just as much against the old saioon, with its intolerable abuses, as are the drys. In the words of Dwight Morrow, they believe that "Prohibition has merely substituted for the saloon a lawless, unregulated quor traflo." This contention is sup ported by the existence all' over the country of great criminal gangs which have become im- mensely powerful because of the The defondant was arrested by huge wealth obtainable through Chinese Revenue Omeer yester day immediately after the Venozin bootlegging. In other words, arrived in Hongkong from Macao, whilst the old liquor trade cor-the optam being concealed in, two rupted politics and put festering small packets of biscuits.

Revenue Officer Grimmitt snið

soros in metropolitan noighbour- - the defendant had been a. Rovente hoods, in many places the modern Ofear and was one of four men one has done just the same. The who were before the Courts at the beginning of last your when they altornative urged by a big body ware nequifted by the Magistrate. of public opiniou, le a return of A Ging of $1,000, or nix months' liquer control to the States. Ad hard labour in. default, was Im-

phsoil; vocates of such a step say that A)

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