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It is luminating also to nolo

the effects on family life in the

30, 1931.

DAY BY DAY

FAST LIFE BUT A HEALTHY

IT WOULU HE A TERRIBLE WOULD“ [F]

By A. P. GARLAND.

States of the unemployment crisis. | IT WAS NOT EMBELLISHED, BY LITTLE Investigations made by the Family | CHILDREN.---Binney,

1

ONE.

Welfare Association of America in

A Chinese 14the admitted into respect of a typical group of fifty

"Tía amusing to note that almost}fret and fury of modern life is Hospital yesterday suffering from stab families show that when a short-wounds received in an incident at 262, every Briton returning home that the human mind and the hu- are of funds compelled publiQueen's Road Central. A warrant in alter some twenty years' absence man body are marvellously adapt-

thinka it correct to announce that able to new conditions. relief agencies to cense alding out for the arrest of his assallant.

he is struck with the strained look Bernard Shaw, according to his these familles, many of them had

Four keepers of the game of ze in Londoners' faces as they hus-ndmission, used to think out his

tie through the streets,

plays on to subsist on bread, potatoes, coffee at 62, Stanton Street were brought by

a.bus amid the roar on top of n This is but a conventional saper- and rattle of Lention traffle. And and weak soup. A scattering of Detective Sergeant MacDonald before stition that has no

relation to the famous Spanish conquista. part-time jobs kept the fumiling Mr. Williams at, the Central Polfeet. Walk down the crowded i døren footslogged their way across

Court this morning and euch were from actual starvation, but their fined $75 for condueling a gaming Strand any day in the week and the swampy, tropical Isthmus, of

you will see absolutely nothing to Panama in armour, incomes over a period of months

warrant this generalisation.

Finally, we must always bear in Dut as it helps to bolster up the mind that it is worry more than averaged unly from $5 to $15 a

Arrested in Tai Yuen Street with theory that the rush and restless anything else that harasses th week per family. Thirty-two of

46 taris of raw oplum in his posses-ness of modern life is making unnerves and puts a strained look on front one the families were

sien, a Chinese buy appeared before a race of neuroties it is regular-the face. And, if exclude Mr. Schofield at the Central Palicely trotted out.

spiritual matters from considera- sixteen months in arrears of rent,

Court this morning, and when ques- What in this rush and restless-tion, the things that cause the despite the fact that it averaged tioned by his Worship, he stated thatness, by the way, and what causes most worry are problems of love,

health and material prosperity. only $15 per month. Nine families by had been given the opium to carry.

His Worship adjourned the case for it? |and been evicted. It may be add the slefendant to see him in Chambers,

ed that there were more native- born than foreign-born families in

to

Newn

has been received in

まぢい

AT OUR STUBBS ROAD GARAGE | this group, and some of the wage. Colony of the death, which took place petrol that does the work. Welthat ever scrubbed a step.

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We are carried hither and thith- As far as these are concerned, er. It is true, at terrific speeds the age brings NO change. As compared with what prevailed in they harassed Cleopatra so they the previous periods, but it is steam or harass the meanest, charwoman, Let us, titen, cut out all this pres Westgate-on-Sea yesterday, ourselves sit still. Which is the earners bad læen highly skilled Mr. J. F. Reece, a former solicitor of more restful, being enrried along once that we are martyrs to an

LAN Mens *moothly in Pullman at sixty age of over acceleration and un workers whose wages ranged in Bengkong, practising

Ewens and Reecn Older residents THE HONGKONG HOTEL | normal times from $60 to $75 a will remember Mr. Reece as having les an hour, or being bumped due complexity. For our own ex- about in a springless stage conel † perience must show us that it is GARAGE.

week. It is not surprising to read practised here game 35 years

hot true to any serious extent. and will bent of his death with much at twelve?

In metual Cact. compared with that the consequence has been “a

any previous generation, we are low disintegration of moral and

having a very rosy time indeed. general living condition" There

Pleading guilty to obtaining

A. P. Garland, facts will Muffin to show the from Ho Thu-ko by meats of false telephone where they had to write gravity of the problem. They may [periences, Yuen Rau was sentenced to letters or call, we've lifts, moving 41x weeks' imprisonment. Te My stair-cases, and a host of other inventions, all vi help na also to realize just what Hamilton, at Kowloom. The Tale mechanical the hackneyed phrase "usiness pretence alleged was that the defen which help to banish the dra LET US HAVE MORE

The Hongkong & Benches Sloten, 4 Incorporated in Bouchong, 26, Queen's Road C. and Stubbe Raad.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, APRI. 200 1901,

UNEMPLOYMENT. IN AMERICA.

to the people depression means who have to bear the brum of 16.

Mr. Scullin's Problems,

Mr. Scullin's assurance That the Comnenwealth will meet all over

commitments a New seas debt

fall due South Wales as they

solution,Dominion itself.

When Mr. Lang.

the

Fegret.

lant

Banishing the Drudgery, Then, again, we modernis ride where our forbears walked, we

suhl complainant twa bottlery of life. supposed to contain brandy, but which | Also, our way of living is con- really contained a mixture of burnt ducive to better health than that [sught and watre.

COOLIE

ON JAW.

have on May 1, pursues his pulley of de- | RICKSHA hope of faulting, for the securt time in

a mouch, the State will we Federal Gavernment approximate- Were this merely ly £1,500 00

# matter for future adjustment little concern would be exhibited.

world appear,

which previous generations enjoy. |ed, and this alone is a strong fact-! for in keeping our nerves in good)

order. Mr.

FILIPINO STUDENT TO PAY COMPENSATION,

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him to

We

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|rest."

a part in a

A

ARGUMENTS.

By G. W. WEBB.

SELFISH desire for pence and quiet in the home is too

to

Con

cont-

A pickpocket WAS bestenerl threw months horel labour by

ent less than used to be the William at the Central Magistency yesterday, he in stolen a wallet custom, and the food is purer; we containing drafts from a compatrid. are fouler of baths and fresh air: aften made the excuse for stop- Hike Worship remarked to the com- we take more exercise we enjoying children from arguing. plafonat You are simply inviting more leisure and longer holidays; "Stop that arguing, children!" is trouble by carrying your money like and we have at our back a vastly easy to any; but the effect may be

You have $10,000 worth of better Informed medical science, far-reaching, averts the collapse of Australian this.

e-b And cherpes and you Increly

Why on earth, then, should the

Stopping a youngster from hav- The unemployed problete in the eredit abroad but does nothing 10 fearry it in a wallet in your pocket,"

Falleged rush of modern life upset og his say will be a great draw-

back United States ist proxing ex-alleviate financial chaus in the

to lim in later years. Hore I should like to ask, whoGradually he will find that even tremely difficult of

HIT was the humorist that invented among his friends he will be too Various make-fl uphemes

the legend of the "jaded business shy and reserved to offer even a tried otit, in the 220011

man"?

suggestion. There will be the I have gone into the City and ever-present fear of being snabb- saving the workless from starva-

made a lot of inquiries, but so fared, and eventually he will be tion and suffering: some have

I have been unable to discover thought of an consequence by his allers unwork-

what fades him.

fellows. proved beneficial.

There is, also, the "exhausted if behind the parental command able. In one instare, in Nebraska,

Abotnudo Castaneda, described as Society womann.' What exhausts thure in the excuse that the child several hundred workers have been ut the principal 'esens of the

a Filipino student, was charged be- her? The pummelling from her makes too much noise, then the pared on farms, where they get situation is to disprove the Eucli-fore Me, Hamilton, at the Kowkom maseuse, perhaps, but certainly fault is with the parent. The maxim that the whole is Magistracy this morning, with have not the so-called round of gaie-youngster should be taught in the their room and board in return for dean

One revaling assaulted Nyan Chu-ching, alties. And what does it matter if first place to speak quietly. their labour. with a promise of greater than the part.

ricksha coulit in Bankow Road. you furn night into day so long; The majority or falhers

Fatul mothers The compliant stated that the as you turn day into night? regular wages when the work is citrant State, it

Curious that these exhausted sider that Admirable as a wreek the country's normal defendant engaged bls rick,ha nearl

arguing likely to be heavier,

He Society women” can attain such mon and far from being refined. this plan is for those who are disfinancial machinery. Mr. 10 the Star Theatre for one hour.

has no intention as loag as he is took the defendant to Mongkok ander as are the delight of their it is not. Argument is the best poned in accept the terms, the feels in control of NSW. destinies returned to Tsim Sha Tsui Heinsurance companies and the de- thing possible for a child if he be taught 10 argue quietly and readings that it is impossible off repaying the Commonwealth. then told the defendant that the pair of their heirs and assigns!

Not long since a well-known thoughtfully. general adoption and can only touch It is known for a fact that his de- her was up, and asked for payment.

but defendant refused to pay him, actor, after playing

Even among grown-ups argu- Theatre a mere fringe of the millions who fault was not forced won him by and kicked him on the jaw, from West Enf

three

ment and debate loses its value if months, had to retire to the the contending parties resort to are unemployed. At the best, it is of fands, that he was for his seat in the vehicle.

The complainant said that when Riviera, it was announced, "for a shouting or personalities; so when is rarely a temporary expedient, and refused ample fanat ace

the childish argument turns to the Ret?

The poor fellow had sual Tiu. then!" "Tian't, ant the mere fact that it is in codation meet all require they returned to Hankow Road, he

ents in New York and Lontasked the coolie to take

ofthen" and so on, then it is time operation

Ashley Road. The coulie refused en putting in an average

work for father or muther to put a foot Repudiation with Mr. Lang mean and put the ricksha down. Wit-teen hours strenuous veriousures of the problem. Some nothing else, and the constitution ness got out and spoke to the cult week on the stage for that period. down.

"I'm living on my nerve«,' he If a child is continually told by thing is gained when men will agree fails to provide any penalty for and then got into the ricksha again. said pathetically to a friend of his parents to "Stop that arguing

pive their fabour in return for his actions. Doubtless a judgment The coolic thereupon pushed him mitte.

what earthly use is he going to be when he grows up? He will al- thod and shelter but such plans against N.S.W. could be obtained from behind, causing his hat to fail

oir.

He struck the conlie with his

ways think that his opinions are vamust be regardedi as anything in the High Court, but the handing fist on the jaw. He did not kick

of no value. apprenching a reasonable handling down of such a judement would him.

not provide a solution of the pro- 31. Hamilton ordered defendant for the situation.

Federal to pay the coolie $5 compensation. blem of enforcing It. It is admitted in America that

taxation is out of the question an the problem of the memployed is naturally the other States will re the biggest problem facing thefuse to bear the burden of NSW. nation Losdag This present econotude dehts. Mr. Scullin, in spite of his system seems to involve recurring courageous attempts to find a way waves of unemployment. As one out, is, in fart, getting deeper intà the mire. The probabilities are American writer has expressed it, under the present dispensation that an attempt will be mude to approach the whole matter frent poverty and hunter descend OB

A jan entirely different angle, millions of people in the State every Sydney correspondent hints that eight or ten years. There is air. Seullin is likely to dissolve danger that because the country Parliament at the end of June, and has a few years of prosperity be will go to the country asking sap- tween these periods of depression. port for his financial programme. and because when the depressions and far more important, including in his platform a plank promising | come all manner of stunts Are a referendum on the abolition devised to ward off actual starva-State Parliaments. Leaders tion, the idea may gain ground that | Labour in Federal circles believe the matter is not one about' whichthis to be a popular lasuc, though anybody needs bather, as it will whether it will serve to save Mr. |

Scullin seems very doubtful. finally adjust itself by some means

KOPPOR

to

show

the

or other. But when we annlyse

what this Nebraska scheme implies,

of of

Amongst the passengers who left

Mr.

we see that the workers are getting by the Chichibu Maru yesterday wert merely the minimum. They are. H. H. Priestley, Mr. and Mr. R. E. Pearce, Mr. and Mrs. given a chance to work for a long Corte, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. IL Beavis and Miss Beavis, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. G. Grantham, Mr. C. B. Easterbrook, Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Perrin, Lady Toothill, Lord Grenfell and the Hon. Miss M. V. M. Grenfell.

pay,

with period without

the prospect of wages when extra de- mands are made upon their labour. It will surely not be contended that this is the ideal solution of the

Au Yee (49), a married woman problem. Something more than Iving at 136, Cheung shawan, yester keeping hungry men from dying is day attemplod suleido by taking needed. The defeels in the social She was removed to hospital in

nativo poisonous drug, tormed ma-tein i system which put the workers in critical condition.

"Not your nerves, actor," thought. "On your nerve,"

Adapted to New Conditions. What is generally ignored in

this clotted nonsense

mother or father silenced him He will always recall how his about the when he attempted to state his

"I'm glad if I impressed him, kind of. He's so intelligent

and all.

side of the case, and cannot help but feel awkward when invited to (give his opinion on any subject. Next time, then, when your child wants to prove that the moon is made of green cheese give him his

him. chance encourage

And when his little sister breaks in with her indignant "Tisn't, then!" quieten her gently but firmly un- til her brother has had his say. Then encourage her in her turn to show and to prove what she thinks about the moon.

come

Before long the children will me to regard it as a game, a fas- cinating game, and, what is more important, n n useful game. It will be fascinating to their sporting nse of wanting to win, and use- ful in adding to their store of gen- eral knowledge.

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Inngine, too, what amusement a paront could

comme gat, and what he could learn, by latening to chil- dish argument conducted on these lines. Very few of us could forward the case for our opistons on any subject without much thought and preparation. We are for, the most part unaccustomed 1 to doing so.

And we envy the

the

JORN

or woman who can clearly and lucidly explain his or her point of view. What you yourself fuck you. can give to your child if you soo to it that

hat "Stop arguing!" dods not find a place among the already too numerous commanda

In your household.

Argument. 8onsible prgument conducted on-quiet, thoughtful linos is the best, form of education So let the children arguo and, what is more, let us all to a little, |more arguing ourselves,

G. W. Webb,

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