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ed; yet we know that, in spite of all that has been dons to stran then the law, such establishments da exfat and solicitation is quite com. mon. Judged by effects, therefore, the British system has not entirely vindicated Itself. Nor in Hong- kony's latest reform likely to be any more effective. In solving one problem, we shall be creating an other. We shall be driving the evil underground, not causing it to dis- appear. We have heard it said by police officers that there are to-day more oplum divans in the Colony than there were before tho register- cd establishments were closed down. They are illicit houses, of course, but they do exist. It seems pro- bable that similar reactions will follow the carrying out of the Government's new polley in regard to prostitution. One thing is cer to mainely, that. there with need to be much more stringent searching out of sly brothels, whilst a strict eye will also have to be kept on street-walkors. With control abandoned in one respect, there will be a strong necessity of reinforcing it in other ways.

Whilst saying so much, it must be conceded that, on general prin- ¡ ciples, with motives taken fully into account, the Governmcht dock, well Intó to bring this Colony more line with general British policy on this vexed question. We all know how stories circulate, and get ex- aggerated at Home, of the "ovile" of the smaller Colonics, so much no that the average individual, with no direct knowledge of the facts, gains | 94 a very wrong impression of our social standards in the East. More... | over, there can be no questioning the point that the system of tolerat- ed houses, whatever

may be

IF YOU LIVED IN RUSSIA

THE TOPSY -TURVY LAND OF THE SOVIETS

AS SEEN BY JULIA BLANSHARD

DAY BY DAY

· * +

our

Both children and the old are being educated in Russia's ambitious plan to wipe out Ulterner among Russia's 176,000,000 souls by 1933. Left, typical peasant like those pouring into the villages to learn to read and write. Right, dinner in an open-air nursery and a Boviet schoolroom sceno, showing members of the "sanitary brigade" checking up on dirty hands and unwashed ears..

Youth is one of the first concerns rid the home of illes, roaches and of Soviet Russia.

bedbugs. You, as an elder, might live on tabbage soup, but your child, or In August It was the three children, would have meat stews organizations children can Join and even sweets. Russia looks to voluntarily, the Octobrisla (tots the future, not the past.

from babyhood to seven years); the From the moment little Ivan is onvern (corresponding to state bureau for vital statistica) Komsomoles (boys and girls from and registered at Zags (the Boy and Girl Scouta), and the

WE als health. It suggests his diet. day calebration.

nquires about his surroundings. They marched to the tune of caro and "cultural life, peers up their own bands for hours, carry- The E. and A, Company's B.s. Non-nie nose for adenoids and down his ing banners, "Let Us Greenify kin, with the Australian malls, le dus throat for tonalle. here on Monday,

Moscow and Make It the Most Enthusiastic Communist parents Beautiful City in the World!" give their children names that have They passed out pledges to every meaning in the new order. In the child they saw urging him to sign. apartment house where I lived in his vow to plant at least-10-trees Moscow, a girl baby had the name in the next five yearn.

WE SEE HOW MUCH A MAN WE BEE HOW LITTLE HE ENJOYS, SHOULD RATHER PITY.—Seed.

born

HAS,

THE HONGKONG HOTEL said in its favour, has brought AND THEREFORE WE ENVY HIM; DID the Soviet state concerns itself with 14 to 25) who organized an arbor

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The

Thongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1931.

JANY evils In

train Ana has produced many distressing tragedies. Further, it does flaunt an evil which it may not be possible altogether to suppress. All in all, provided some serious effort is made to cope with the altered conditions, we raust welcome the new policy, which accords with sentimenta of the highest order.

Many pages of the Gazette are de- voted to an Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to the taxation of tobacco.

ment recently as to set the obeer- p.m. It is hoped that the Hongkong Dinlectic to first-graders in apples."

Even

of Electrifitkatsa (meaning electri. Outside Moscow, on the road to fication, a part of the Five-Year Leningrad, the traditional cobble. The next Congregation of the Flun). Mal and Maya, from the stone country road is broken for University of Hongkong for the revolutionary month of May, and about 300 meters by a smooth mac- purpose of conferring degrees will be Kim, a contraction from the youth adam road which is a children's held on Monday, January 11, 1982,

organization, Komsomole inter- colony, built by themselves a year: War Debts Mystery,

at p..

national, abound. In a single or so ago, with no help from adults. The terms and implications of

grade of a school I found thres The Shanghai Rotary Club has Ninets, a name arrived at by spell-year-old, tow-headed, barefooted Down in the Ukraine, little 12- Britain's war debt settlements with organised & Club in Canton, the in- ing Leain backwards. Ja Souen Vanya escorted us with pride over France and Italy have been stated sugural meeting of which will take Russin the journalist, William a brand new orchard of tiny apple with such frequency in Parlia-Place at the Naam Yuen Restaurant,

The Bund, on the loth instant at Henry Chamberlain, saw a roly-poly trees that he and his schoolmates.

baby girl

named

Diamata, short for on the co-operative farm planted Rotary Club will send a deputation to

Materialism!

because the nation needed more. convoy good wishes.-

Rusaia have their self-governing There are "Junk The Now Territories Agricultural Restov, composed of shaved-headed rope weeks," during which the little Soviets. I visited a grade at weeks," "scrap-in weeks," "ashes Association will hold its monthly meeting to-day at 2.45 p.tn. at Lady little tads in home-made washable Pioneers gather certain quotas for

o Tung's Experimental Farm, "Tangsults and bobbed-haired little girls the Soviet factories. Ying Hok Po," at Sheungshui. The in dresses or calico aprons, and Committee are now bully occupied in found thoir Soviet checking up to his beliefs very seriously, Neigh- Your child in Russia would take preparations for the forthcoming ace which boys and girls had and bourhood groups often hard a new-

how to be held on January 9 and 10, which had not enforced in their comer. Sheungshui Raliway

at Shok Wu Hal, near the own homes the school's "sanitary

"Where is your forehead?" one Excellency the Governor ha con daily washing the face, neck and He indicates it. "Where is your

His minimum." d to open the Show and is prese ears, hands and teeth, changing all stomach? He points to it. "Where This consisted of of the group will ask the new child.

hibitors, the award to be determined his clothes for clean once when he A cup again to the successful ex-

your right shoulder?" He pats

ver seeking for motives. Twice in the short term of Mr. Snowden's sojourn at the Treasury as a Minia- ter of a National Government and three times since Mr. Neville Chamberlain's appointment to that THE SOCIAL EVIL. office, the same or a similar ques

tion has been put, and a similar Opinions will differ regarding the answer has been given. France wisdom of the adoption by the

and Italy each owed so much. On the basis of the cost of borrow- Hongkong Government of a definite, ing during the war, a remission of policy for the wholesale closing- 63 per cent. of the French debt down of tolerated houses. There and 86 per cent. of the Italian debt have always been two schools of was embodied In the funding thought on this subject-one repre- agreements, The British taxpayer sented by the Continental system, den of the charges on theso pro- has been left to shoulder the bur- which has had its counterpart in portions. We cannot seo the pos- Hongkong: the other, by the sibility of harm in occasional res method favoured in Britain of ra-minder of these generosities, as fusing to sanction by Inw any as- we like to think they are, but a pect of the vico involved. Which suspicion that there is a nigger in of the two systems is preferable or

the woodpile naturally arises when. they come with auch persistency, more beneficial is a matter for argument. It must, however, be world crisis when debt cancellation particularly so at this time in the admitted that the closing down of is

rapidly becoming practical tolerated houses cannot wipe out politics. The obvious Inference la immorality, any more than the that come clique in the House of shutting down of licensed oplum Commous is bent on mobilising divaus in Hongkong has caused the tion of the Balfour Note, which public opinion towards repudia- disappearance of opium-smoking, or commita Britain to a policy the adoption by the United States receiving no more from the Con of Prohibition has atopped drink- tinent than is sufficient to meet Ing.

commitments in the United States. The fact of the mattor, of course, It is charitable to assume that the is that prostitution is an almost group la a small one, something inevitable concomitant of city life, akin to Mr. Winston Churchill's and that all efforts to attempt a

India Die-hards. Yet the Treasury appears to be pandering to their Bolution of the problem which its spirit by goin into the detalle existence represents have only been with close exactitude each time the partially successful. On the Con- unnecessary question is asked. It tinent, there is a frank recognition is gloomy prospect if there is a of basic facts of life, and the chance of such a dangerous and avatem which operates in most foolish polley gaining farther ad- countries there has its roots in the horents. It is almost worse than hellef that it is better to control In the matter of war debts and re- short-sighted economic nationalism.

the evil than to attempt to suppressparations, Britain has given her

of

it. In England, houses of ill-fame word and, har bond. It la not

are not permitted by law to exist neither is solloitation legally allow.

merely-futile to permit "suaplaton that we are trying to draw back.

1032.

Station.

weeks," "old

is your

by the Committee. The handbook for had his bath, undressing when he his finger on it. "Where the forthcoming Show promises to be goes to bed and hanging up his left shoulder?" As he reaches over an exceedingly attractive one. It is clothes to air, and taking part, to identify this last, the taunter now being printed.

along with his mother, in trying to aloud, "Oh, lookey, he crosses him- will point his finger at him and cry

Exasperated Lady who has answered the phone continuously for the past half hour to be greeted

"Hallowhatdoyerwantishutup/.

self, he belleves in God!" The man- ner in which your child reacts to thie would have much to do with his immediate acceptance as one of the

group. One day

I visited the Moscow

public school whore Stalin's nine- year-old son attends the third grade. The principal, dignified despite his shaved head, patched shoes and worn grey sult, said they never pointed out the child. "Special at- tention is likely to develop self- consciousness or even self-impor- tance," was

his

explanation.

The children looked clean, well- nourished, neatly dressed, and alert. Most of the boys had shaved heads and had Russian blouses outside their trousers. The girls wore. washable dresses, or coloured! blouses over dark "akiria.

The sixth grade

teacher, but everyone without

was. bually

working. Each room had a project around which all

tred.

This room he subjects can-

project was

nearby rayon mill, an

Arith

tle tow-bead explainedger-faced metic was the cost of Geography centred In

place

The spell

the new materiais canle from and finished

products went."

grammar and reading all con cerned words connected with the

Every school is

some economically connected with productive unit Every child in Jussia in, turing some small part

“Five-Year.

Vozeiti

Plan, knows Jt and la: prysant to

• No-room vild much

us as we looked in on them. There Continued on Para, P.