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THORSBAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 19831.

THE PROBLEM OF THE CHILDREN.

no-one

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DAY BY DAY

TRUTH IS AS IMPOSSIBLE TO BE SOILED BY ANY OUTWARD TOUGH AS THE SUNBEAM-Milton.

members of the community, the Society Is making # practical effort to solve one of the Colony's biggest problems. The dimculties are many, especially in discriminat

The ruinfall recorded at the Royal ing between those who deserve Observatory for the 24 hours ended at help and those who do voi, aut in 10 nás. to-day was 1.20 Inch. This endeavouring to invest the assist-brings the year's total 69.42

finches, against an average of 60.04. ance given with some permanent value.

to

LEAVE YOURSELF By ANDREW SOUTAR. BEHIND.

FANY YEARS have passed] hoard my correspondence for a

MANY Flore the call

of the perfect holiday. You may the fullness of time. I lock up ask why, in pity's name; I haven't those almple trensures that a son- sought earlier to

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or that timentalist burdena himself with secret to my fellow beings-pussit graph of "Big Boy" when he was 48 2 photot One of the Society's main objects A standard length of 100 feet bas on with the magnanimity of the graph of "Big

been measured for local reference, ne-acientist to whom the common two, and a "snap" of that devil of is to see that children are removed carding to the annual report of the good is sufficient reward for la- dog who dwelt so close to my from Intolerable conditions of life. P. W. D. It is marked by two brass borious study? The answer is heart). I lock the back doors, the Here also the problem is not, EnBy Supreme Court.

holls under the north porties of the that in this lite wo feur a neigh-bed-room doors, and find myself.

bour's cynicism more than we apat last, standing at the open hall, of solution. Many times we have

preciate his commondation. We door. seen little children used as touts, to

have a lurking dread that our According to the 1. W. D. annual re- swans may be geese, professional beggars;

There is one more thing that. dragged

our brain port, the city of Victoria has appro- | waves no more than mental aber- must be locked up if I am to en- about the town from one end toximately 71 miles of rouds, and the ration. We wait till someone joy this holiday on which I have

Kow- another, obviously living under the "auburbs" a further 30 miles,

loon hox 35 miles of road, New Kow-more courageous declares a simi- set my benrt. most objectionable conditions. Welt Joon 83 miles and the New Territories nr discovery, then, a trifle mor- That one thing is Myself!

Yes, Myself! The fallow I've may be wonder where these little about 80 miles. The grand totni latified, we sigh that we thought of

that years ago.".

been working with all the other ones spend their nights, what food

weary months of the year. The This summer holiday business is fellow who has been with they get, and what prospects they

a much more serious business morning, noon, and night, talking to have for the future. The trouble PEAK LADY'S LOSS work." It takes up more of our me, eating with me, thinking with all too often is that these youngs-

time. We begin seriously to me, worrying me, telling me about OF JEWELLERY. ters are not the offspring of those

worry about it he soon as the daf- his woen and boasting about his in whose charge they are some of

fodils push up their yellow lends minor triumphs, Inciting me th In April and ask us, cheerily: rebel against my fellow creatures."

159 miles.

me

them, we have heard, are passed | FORMER HOUSEBOY IN "How have you spent the winter?" emphastaing, magnifying their de- from one ndalt to another, being

THE DOCK.

of

We roll up our sleeves and setflc festions, extolling my own great- lown to the daily task, but that ness of mind and importance, fool- | merely lonned for the purposes of

haidious whisper comes over ouring me with specious promises, A sequel to the recent loss touting for these professional men-

jewellery suffered by Mrs. J. Krogh Shoulder: "Where are you going uchiding me for not fillug the un- dicants. The Society tries its beste, of 18, Peak Mansions, was the spend your summer holiday--and forgiving minute with sixty seconds

how ?"

worth of distance run. to intervene in such cases, and, if appearance before Mr. Williams, at

riser) Market prices fall and

Must I take that bumbug with possible, remove the children from i the Central Police Court this more there's a little war here and are on my holiday?

ing.

of Tam Hop-kam, former such surroundings. In this and a

The rooms are locked-all save little revolution there; a few mur. hususeboy in the employ of Capt, and

The bag is packed. Inandred other Ways. it is +32- Mrs. Krogh-Moe, on a charge of ders of a grisly description; the study.

theft of various articles of jewel-silly little cataclysm:le earthquake There's song, in the heart. I deavouring to de a really humani-

eise: Bomewhere lery to the total value of $1,115.

Governments reach for one more key. Then I tarkan work. The measure of Its sngress most naturally depend an the support it receives. For this reas, we would appeal to all who

Juvenile Labour,

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On the application of Detective Sergeant D. C. Mardonald both de- fendants Wor remanded until Saturday,

A FOLKESTONE MYSTERY,

ADMIRALTY AND WOMAN.

owner."

A Chinese married woman also stagger under a threat of being take Myself by the ear an go fall: strikes along the corridor to the study. appeared in the dock in connexion kicked out; wages

there. I plunk with the theft, a charge of receiv-take place; somelody foretells the put Myself in

of the world; somebody Myself on a chair at the desk. I Jug curtain articles of the stolen end property being brought against her sounds the terrible warning that say to Myself: "Stay there till i all the gold is in the hands of one return. Sleep! The telephone's feel their own helplessness in the i

The jewellery was reported by nation; somebody utters the heart out of order. Pay no heed to the matter to rally around the Society | Mrs, Krogh-Moo to have been stolen breaking ory: "What's the good of knock at the door. Remain dumb. and by financial aid do their bitsme time on June 29 fast.

anything

Close your eyes and forget all was taken from her bedroom at her to make the lot of the less fort-residence and, in making a report

about me, And by the time I re- We take all that in our stride. turn you shall be so refreshed unate happier than it is.

of the loss to the police, she inti- We are too preoccupied to be that you will be worth twice your mated that her houseboy who ab stampeded by ineldents, We are entary to me." sconded, was suspected of being the thinking about those holidays and Then I go out into the world! · 1 guilty party.

wondering how we might improve look at my fellows through new In the message which be sent

on those or the previous year. oyen. I watch them at their la- to the Telegraph on the occasion

And we mess up the whole bust-bour, join them in it, and joy in From the ordinary standpoint, it

neяs because we misunderstand the knowledge that I'm as good Bishop or jubilee,

Valtorta

must seem strange that Britain,

the meaning of a true holiday! as they are at the job. I can pitch remarked that there is lacking in with unemployment figures rising

When we go away for that won-ja fond of hay, or cut a swath of Hongkong that sense of responsi-remorselessly towards the three

derful forthright, or month we grass with the best of 'em! Ah! bility for the entumon ills that Is million mark, is beginning to get

take our business with us because, it's when you come down the so- foolishly, we fancy that we are in- ctal ladder and find that you're as so marked a feature of Europear, worried regarding a servily of

dispensable to the world of af- good as those above whom you'rq. and American cities and lands. He youthful workers. It seems very

fairs. Insanely, we take with us supposed to have risen that you probable that within the next two!

our personality! And compel it to reach the sublime ecstasy; you suggested that this might be due

or three years, the country will

work while we are away.

feel in your soul that you're worth to diffidence, selfishness of hore have the experience of being foerd

Can't you realise that nothing your place on the top! To be hoist- Major E. Cadogan, Conservative wears a fellow down with suched on the shoulders of influence is dom, but, whatever the cause, the with a shortage not of lobs, but of 1.1. for Finchley, is to ask the certainly as his own personality? no more than Privilege; to be a fact remained. His words naturai-workers, The low birth rates of First Lord of the Admiralty whe-It's mostly a pase, anyhow-fore- man among men, according to the ly recar to us after reading the the war years is now showing itself ther he is aware that "on Septem.ed on him by his friends or his reckoning of men, is glory that very admirable address which Med as a danger, but as one which of Grove-road. Folkestone,

in the labour market. It is regard- ber 17, 1928, Mysary. Thompson, enemies. The worst of a reputa-knows no greater!

com- tion is that you have to live up to Hazlerigg delivered at the Rotary has been foreseen and can, there- municated with his department it, whether or not it is irksome. My old Self siumbers in the Club on Tuesday, when he deait fore, he coped with. The London and, as a consequence, boxes is 11 is much easier to live one down, study where all is make-belief.

their charge belonging to a with the problem of Hongkong's Advisory Council for Juvenile Em-Werry containing personal" Mrs, ---Hero-is. my discovery! When I My new.Self-my.holiday.Selfis pro have decided to go away for a matching its simple knowledge slum children. He was able toployment, which has been examin-perty of value were opened and holiday I begin my preparations and physical strength against show that, in the absence of arying the position for report, ex searched without the authority or about two hours before I set out, those whose secret thoughts are the presses the opinion that the vast knowledge of the arther asks by the Customs people get a laugh|tion. organised relief of poverty.

1 paek a bag so quickly that even subdued by fear of social distinc- differences between conditions in Major Cadogan Society for the Protection of

Give me again that thrill when rural and in industrial areas ren-

what right this search was made out of it. (They think I'm taking Childern is doing a really splendid dera it necessary to treat the pro-

and for what purpose.

my washing abroad.) I lock all I earned my pay with three other He states that Mrs. Werry has the drawers in the house, out of men and we seythed a four-ucre work. It has, of course, only just blem on a regional rather than on been presented with a bill for the force or habit. (There's nothing field of grass, drank (oach man? come into being and its nelivities

#1 national basis. It naturally costs of the search, altendance of of any consequence in them.) { two quarts of home-browedalo, are circumscribed by reason of foresees the possibility of older detective officers, and correspon ring up the telephone exchange and the other three anid: "Lad! lack of finances, but

can workers undertaking a certain pro-dence with the Admiralty, despite and tell them that it will be use- Thee's can handle a blade!" My Admiralty denials of knowledge of less to tr-rouble me until I get other Self, slumbering in the portion of the jobs which in normal that search which was conecated back to trouble them. I tell the study, has had many pats on the circumstances would be left to boys from Mrs. Werry for two years." postal officials that they may back but none that gave me great- just leaving school. There is, how- over, another aspect of the question which is not without its consola- tious. A prince social difficulty has urinen in the past from the fact that thousands of young boys and girls, entering upon practical life for the frat time, get into "blind-alley" jobs, are usually damissed round The plight of so many of the [about eighteen, and find themselves children - of the Colony is due to without work and without useful a variety of circumstances, inexperience on entering ndult life. which poverty plays the main part. This has contributeti nimterially to Apart from the fatherless, there the demoralising effects of the un- empolyment "dole" system. In the are thousands of little ones whose event, therefore, of a shortage of parents live a hand-to-mouth exis- juvenile labour, it is these blind tence in casual employment, and, alley jobs which employers will.

- Was intimated at Tuesday's have difficulty in Alling, Messen- meeting. the spectre of sickness gers, van boys, newspaper sellers and unemployment must always and errand boys, none of which have prospects of permanent em- loom largely on the horizon

ployment, will be scarce. Those there poor people. In the eireum-boys and girls with grit in their stances, and inking info account make-up will settle down to the also the alumi areas in which no steadier type of job and hold on to many children are reared, it in it when thủy reach maturity. For not surprising that infantile mor juveniles should be regarded as a a shell, at least, the shortage of tality is so high: in this Colony, or blessing rather than as a danger. that the general physique of those who do manngs to survive Is 80 low. It is gratifying to feel, how- over, that the Society, within the limits beyond which it cannot at the moment go, is working on sano lines in helping unfortunate child. ren whose claims to assistance would not otherwise be met. By grants of food, provision of medical

have read Mr. Hazlerigg's talk without realising that something really worth while is being done, The surface, as it were, has only been just scratched, but the field of operations is daily expanding and we can confidently look to a career of the utmost usefulness by this newly-created body.

of

After-béing severely bitten, itals alloged, by his elder brother, 'Chow Luf, aged 18, a schoolboy, living with kis parents at 180, Lockhart Road, want to the local Police Station and reported his Injuries. The police found these sufficiantly serious to send him to hospital. When questioned, the elder brother said he administered the chastisement because the boy would not listen to their mother."

op 8 er fl

DUY

הים

"Hey, Jimmie! Mummy says for you to watch the baby'

now, and let me have the bathing salt.

er joy or showed more convincing-

ly that labour is

good.

I have a friend a baronst who is also a millionaire. He has made a fortune by pitting his wits aginst the shrewdest men in tho business world. I love him, 'capl- | tallet though, he may be. Why? Because he knows in his heart that when he asks of life: "What Is the greatest joy that you can give mo" the answer is: "Bo true to yourself." And he and I labour all day, working, making, building hute naing our hands and our muscles, joying in the labour, glorying in the sweat on our faces, laughing at each other when the hammer hits the finger-nail.

There it is my secret! For one week, one month, or whatever holday you can afford, forget that you are something that doesn't matter. Go out lito the world an a man among men Sink your per- sonality. Leave it in the study or the office, and look at life from a different angle.

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Leave the Bright Young People Alone. By W. L LAMB.

THESE sun-bathing girls THESE

w rugret it one day," said:"* a middle-aged neighbour.on the beach. The remark is so typical of the general opinions of-our old..." ora about the very delightful: young things who have racaptur...! edzin a hard industrial ́age almost

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