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st have been impossible, but that is neither capable of demons. tration nor adequate argument. Only an attempt at rescue imme- diately after the arrival of the Brigade could have provided a satisfactory, proof.

DAY BY DAY'

EDUCATION BEGINS THE GENTLE- MAN, BUT READING, GOOD COMPANY, AND REFLECTION, MUST FINISH HIM-Lucke.

Abolish Rule of Thumb.

By GILBERT FRANKAU.

RECENT piece of good news, slaves to the outworn` traditions,

The Empress of Canada in to snit A that deserved the greatest fiet constructionists out: obstruc

publicity was that the London tloniats.

Another wide question was pened up by the Coroner when he embodied his aix explanations of for Banila at 8 p.m. to-day.. the loss of life in # general critlelam of the old-fashioned and faulty construction of the house, and advented, as the only remedy, a wholesale and properly planned policy of slum clearance and re. building, especially in the Central

School of Economics, in starting a Our imaginations are stultifed. The American Consulate General, special course for the training of by more knowledge, our minds Shanghai, would appreciate informa-selected students to fill high posi-csaify. Instead of original thin tion concerning Mr. Stewart Prico. tions in modern business, indikera, we turn dichards and the In that couras at the abolition of modern world, whether of bual- of politica, of finance or tho the "Rule of Thumb"

professions, has no use for die- hards. Rightly. Because the die hard cannot see the present for the Jiant.

The Ben Line 8., Benvannoch left Manila for this port this morning and in due to arrive on Sunday afternoon.

For that, I take it, meant that the students would be encouraged to use that most important of all their faculties, their imagination: The Royal Observatory reports that to become original thinkers, and Our education, hitherto, has oc- the anticyclone appeara Lo be not rere followers of sterest:ped central to the N.W. of Peking, nearly routine. stationary.

District. It is unfortunate that he did not go even more fully into this aspect of the disaster, though,

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as he pointed out, the danger from Wheels equipped with DeLuxe | fire in the sipm distriels iz neither White Sidewall Tires and the only nor the

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argument for this policy. The Chrome Tire Covers and Renr

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would submit, most emphatically, der Lamps. Pilot Ray Auto-

that it is the least cogent. We matic Road Light, Artistle Shatter

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FIRES AND SLUMS.

affairs

about, the type of district to be on. Locally, a cleured and so wholesale policy of slum clearance

No

te-

cupled itself far too much with the past. Our boys and girls have Hitherto, we in Great Britain been trained to look backwards have paid far too little attention rather than forwards. We have encouragement of the so crammed, and are still go cram The Manufacturers Life Insurance to the Co. are moving into new offices on lungination and original, creative ming, their memories that we have creative ing- the sound lane of Aglatte Building thinking. Our system of luca almost killed their

tion has confined itsolf nimost ex-| tincts An

And because we have 80 as from Monday.

clusively to the teaching of facts consistently rewarded the student with the fine memory at the ex- Discouraging Imagination, Miss Peggy Hornell, daughter of M. E. B. C. Hornell, Shanghai,

imagination, our One can say, indeed, though of Pene of the student with the fine beat scholars are. Empress of course there have been and still often the merest part

parrots, Japan. She is spending a holiday are laudable exceptions, that the Yet it is by original thought, with her uncle, Sir William Hornell. average schoolmaster and school and by original thought only, that mistress, often aided and abetted humanity progresses, whether that. Mr. Lee Yuk-tong, chairman of the by the average parent, have been prozrosa be in businees, in politics. Ponrd of Directors of the Bank of at considerable pains to discourage in the professions, or in finance. Canton, will celebrate his 1st birth- the imagination of the young.

Edutention's Limitations. day on December 5. Mr. Lee will Every success in every walk in

Education in a fine thing. Never- wever humble, can be however day. celebrate her birthday on the same life,

part attributed to the imaginativetheless it is a fact that many of to-day's most outstanding Agures faculty. Men and women must

by Mrs. Y. F. Ho at 3.30.

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A Chinese of Asia Boarding dream before they can accomplish. are men and women who have had based upon the Home standard the Kwong Wah Hospital last evening ing in the child, we kill the main there school-learnir has stopped House of Yaumuti was removed to And if we kill this gift for dream-u education at all. They have learned to read and write, but would involve the reconstruction suffering from the effects of opium aptitude

which

distinguishes for them. Their success cannot be of eighty per rent. of residential Poisoning believed to have been self-humanity from the beast.

attributed to any knowledge ac- administered.

Consider Home of the greatest premises in Hongkong and nearly

human careers. Newton, vatch quired at schools. It can only be attributed to forces within them- as large a proportion in Kowloon. The 7th annual athletic aports of ing the apples fall, and from that selves, and most notably to their Meanwhile Government contri-Yat Ming English School, Yaumati, first imagining, then proving, his

Imaginations. will be held on the Yaumutt School theory of gravity: James Watt butes to the perpetuation of slums, Football Ground, King's Park to-watching the kotile boil, and from

Such men and women, however, to the establishment of alums In morrow. Prizes will be distributed that Arst imagining giving us the tell you, are conscious throughout every single one of them will

newly developed

benefit of the steam engine. areas. Fire

life of their own dieadvantages. risks, and structural stability, of

Overcoming Obstacles.

They realise,

and

none better, the Accidentally slipping his hand on a

The career of our present Prime enormous benefits of education, course, provide the only observable circular saw which he was operating Minister, too, furnishes yel an-

the Island Cement Company,

provided only that it is conducted considerations in the passing of Wine Shrine, ined 18 of 10, Taluj other example of the dreamer along correct linea.

But education can never be con- plans for new hulidings. Stavet, was removed to the Kowloon whose dreams have carried him nitention appears to be directed to Hospital for treatment. His conds triumphant over all life's obstacles, ducted along correct lines so long

tion, however, is not serious.

Yet who can doubt that if the as it stultifies one mental faculty the provision of open spaces that

young Ramay MacDonald had

at the expense of another. cannot be eliminated by the oppor-

who said to his Scottish schoolmaster, faculties were all given us for use Amongst the passengers tunity to sell the land. The Praya arrived by the Empress of Canada "One day 1 am going to be Prime and the most usable, the most he profitable of them all, in this very Henry Minister of Great British," Past Reclamation development is today were Mr. and Mrs.

Humphreys, Mr. and Mrs. £. Dunbar, would have been rewarded with faculty of the imagination, the L lasting indictment

a mere capacity for dreaming which is of

the Mr. and Mrs. L.S. Grrenhill, Mr. and Fing sharper than

latent in every child. Covernment policy, or rather coin-

Mes, A. Hicks, Mrs. Grayburn, Mr. and Mrs. B.L. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs.

are all apt to rebuke. the plete lack of policy.

A.W. Grimmitt, Mr. F. Lobel and young for their dreams. And lor: Me. A.E. Silkstone.

this, no doubt, we have our justi- WALTER SALKIND on Kentions. Because the older The "Killing Time" Menace.

row the more we realise how fow In sentencing }] aged WOMAN Regarded, as a general rule, with mendicaat to seven days imprison of our dreams fructify, how many indifference, yet in reality cons-ment, Mr. Grantham at the Central of the castles built by our imagina

Police Court this morning remarked tion are toppled over by the earth- The inquiry into the Pattinger tituling « peril, is the wastage of that he would leave the woman her quake of

experience. Street fire disaster did little to their leisure hours by the people $5 which she had put up as ball. In "Therefore," we say to our chil

defendant's possession and in particular, the youth of the the elucidate the

when dren. "don't rely on your imagina-TO really contented man whis- series of minor

tion. Don't be dreamers. Reallse

ties in the way that hus- mysteries connected therewith.

world to-day. So natural has berrested were over $12.

that this is a hard matter-of-fact bands do. Errand boys and milk- cene this disregard of the possi- The origin of the outbreak basbilities in the useful employment wit has been in Shanghai attending man sense instead."

The Hon. Mr. W.EL Sheaton, kind of world; and use your commen when on duty whistle loudly been left undetermined, à feature of time spent outside the oflice or

but that is merely a safety valve the Conference of the Pacific In- Common sense, however, unless for surplus energy; or, if it is which is neither unusual in such the workship, that the phrase stitute of International Relations backed by vision and original carly morning, just for cussed-

returned to-day by the Empress of thinking, is not anough. One can nor unexpected. The "killing time" has grown into com

Camuuda. Ife has also been making be too matter-of-fact in this world.

But a husband's whistle heavy loss of life was, at the con men

usage. In Hongkong. the a trip into the Interior of China Just as one can be too cautious. Rolto voce affair, and generally

been antongst the elusion yesterday, aftributed by danger is no less obvious than else having

where; in fact, it is in many

British passengers to fly from Nan-And boys or girls who are taught runs to tunes which dwell on home the Coroner to six different causes,

nothing but facts are apt to for- or mummy. (This, by the way, is! king to Chungking.

get that man is master sperts heightened by the peculiari-

of the about the only incontestable proof/ actiny together, providing a com-

fnets, and not the facts master of ties of the life in the Far East. The

of existence of a subconscious Li Tri-koo, widow. Inte No. 248. the man. posite explanation which gous "make" spirit. is reflected in too tollywood Road, who died on July

The most dangerous helief in some way towards relieving doubts many of our "movements" in the 10, 1029. at Sha regarding the part played by the Colony, and in many cases it has

left Hongkeng estate to the value the world is the belief that we are about such husbands is that the of $31,300, all of which is directed ruled by some Immutable destiny are adepts at self-control. The Fire Brigade, The problem sol an effect similar to that el the to

used for the benefit of her But Its almost as dangerous to whistling is merely the ear the Brigade was a formidable one. Trade Union system, which to eldest grandson, whose mother, Ho believe that there is

in check For the w The topography of the Pattingermunds that a person work or so She widow, lemporarily residing at sacred in mere routine. The mo-maton of nervous irritation li

the Hollywood Road addrem, is apment we believe this last we being la always resorted to on Street district is auch that direct many hours, and as soon as the printed the anle executrix.

come slaves to the rule of thumb, pletous occasions, and never w time has expired, he or she must

perfectly content. access to the fire was impossible. down tools for the rest of the day.

they are burl whistles when There are steps both at top and at The trouble seems to be that num-

pottering with the wireless, bottom. The slope is treacherous-hers of young people cannot find

ging the garden, or readinge latest thriller. And conver?a ly steep at most points, even were interests to occupy their minds

which interests blm nevar prts i passible to

these after their allotted hours of work.

him to supply a musical

m-

obstacles.. Nevertheless, the

Hobbies are a thing scorned by the Brigade is not entirely absolved by many, and only books of a certain the Coroner's statement that no in-attention. Leisure hours are con type (invariably novels) hold their formation reached them that anyone Requently divided between cinemas was missing until the bodies on and dances and similar types of the second floor were found at 8.30 amusement. These may justly a.m. on the following morning. It seems to us that it should be the set daty of one man on the first appliance to arrive at the scene of justice to say that the any fire to make enquiries regard-youth is of less value to Nocioly ing the inmates of the threatened than his predecessors of twenty house. The difficulties. are five years ago. It would seem obvious; in ronio, cases, perhaps, that if the world is to maintain its insurmountable. A fire he always culture, and the high standart set altended by. confusion in its imme. by those who have gone before in diato vicinity. The presence of a

art, musle and literature, as well, as in social welfaro work, which fa crowd complicates the situation.

a tremendously important and al- Often enough, they are full of most-indlapensable part of Hfc. unfounded, rumours regarding | then some system of education will missing persons. It does seem, have to be introduced to counteract however, that if sufficient was the Increasing tendencies of young' known about the inmates of the people to ignore such matters. Our upper storeys to be able to any schools may have to include in their that one of the victima lost his life curriculums an advanced syllabus covering these subjects, by which, In an attempt to save property means the mind of the growing when there was not sufficient time child can be trained to appreciate to do so, the failure of others to his leisure hours and to utiliko emerge from the blazing building them later on for the benefit of the might also have been ascertained, community and the world AR R

whole. It fe conceivable that rescue would

overcome

claim to provide the public with diversion, but can be hardly put forward as possessing very much

educative value. It is not an in- modern

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