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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1931.

AIMING AT BETTER CRAFTSMANSHIP.

It is clear front the voluminans

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1931.

trouble is not that the Chineso are) not good workers; they are. In- deed, given propar tuition nud in- struction, they are probably un- equalled. But there is too much that is slipahod in the way they acquire their knowledge. On the other hand, experience has shown, both here and in other parts of; the East, that, when the Chinese artisan is carefully trained under European supervision he develops into Aral-class mark.

* example of this, though small in a way. yet at the Ame illustrating the polut, we may eltej the results of foreign training in our own Procemt Department, the: work turned out by which in ad- mittedly infinitely superior to that from purely Chinese establish-

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IF YOU LIVED IN RUSSIA

THE TOPSY - TURVY LAND OF THE SOVIETS

AS. SEEN.BY, JULIA BLANSHARD .

If you were an expectant mother in Russin; it would pay you to bo a factory worker. You

would be entitled to four months off with pay when the baby was born.

If you were a lawyer, tencher or clerical worker, you would get three months' vacation from work-citlier two months before your baby was born and ung afterwards—or one month before and two afterwards,

You would have no worry over doctor's or nurse's bliks, You would be entitled to 10 days free in the hospital. In overcrowded Moscow, you might get only three days, to make room for some body else, but you would be sure of free care.

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The R.M.S. Empress of Russia, which left Shooghei at 8 n.m. lo-day, in due bore at 8 a.m. on Saturday, salling for Manila at 7 p.m. the sanie day,

DOES A MAN SPEAK FOOLISHLY? --BUFFER HIM GLADLY, FOR YOU ARE wise. DOES HE SPEAK ERRONEOUS- 117-STOP SUCH A MAN'S MOUTH WITH SOUND WORDS THAT CANNOT There are many other aspects | uz GAINSAID. DOEN NE SPEAK of the question which could be TRULY PREJOICE IN THE TRUTH... gune into, but we will content Oliver Cromwell, ourselves now with the hope that the future will witness some very real reforma in training the rising generation of this Colony from the technical point of view.

A conservancy Junk ̈yesterday went In particular, there is a great

Inground at the west end of Stone- nced, mentioned in the Committee's cutters

and became waterlogged. report. of supervisory workers The crew were all taken off by a

police launch. equipped with rent knowledge of their jobs. Particularly is this the care

in the building trade, As things are. there must be a tremendous amount of wasted effort caused by the necessity for, undoing K Indifferent work. Economics, of course, are involved in the general queation of adequate training of young artisans, but

We have received from Messrs. the scheme proposed by the Com-Dodwell and Co., Ltd., two effective mittee, of which the main fesdae wall calendars issued by Messrs. is the creation of a real Technical Huntley and Palmer, Ltd., the well!

known biscuit manufacturers, Selool, with evening classes, ap- And pears to us to be the first

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By taking turpentine Hniment, « Chinese living at No. 2 Bowrington? Canal, sought to take his life yesterday. He was in a serious way. when removed to hospital

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Health is stressed by the Soviets, and above you see workara recuperating at the summer palace of the former Czar at Lavadia, near Yalta, In Crimea. Below, a kolkhoz worker brings her child to the government nursery for medical Inspection at stated in- tervals, xa all mothers are required to do.

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lecture at the Hongkong Lodge, the

The Soviet government has soment and carrying caviar and Theosophical Society. 17. Quin's Cilized the whole medical profes- plenty of potutoes." Hand Central, to-day at 6 pain,

sion, All doctors are on the state payroll, all workers' doctor billa I arrived just in time to join The Secretary of the Hongkongjare paid by the state.

a tour of inspection that the hos- Horticultural Society states that One day I visited a Moscow gen-pital director was taking with six vestigated. In leed, the data By squeezing the last mite out of according to present arrangements, cral dispensary located in an out-young doctors, five girls and one which the Committee has gather-her people, reducing salaries all the Committee have decided to hold lying district, where there are two boy, who had just graduated from

the Annual show of flowers and huge textile factories and one the Moscow Medical ed together, and the detailed na round and holding off her creditors, vegetables on Thursday, March 3. metallurgical and one

College. chemical They were the first group to com- tore of the recommendations-made, Germany still strives to keep her 1932.

factory. This dispensary is re- pleta

their

five-year medical standard.

aponsible for the health of the 42,course in four. every possible effort arrency on the gold

Prof. English, of the Medical 000

1000 persons in this district. It The dispensary was an enorm- has been made to get at the bot. There is no longer any doubt, how-

uver, that the rumours in circula-College, Singapore, will give a lecture handles 1,000 cases a day. Every ous place with consultation rooms

in the Union Assembly Hall of tom of the many problems involved.tion early this week, suggesting Hongkong University under the nuthing from a pair of glasses to a for everything from a Red army The result ik 20 documentenrly abandonment-and immedi-pices of the Medical Society, to-day. major operation is free. All the medical examination to a clinic on

doctors, nurses, olbers

riietitians and fatal skin and eye troubles which which should prove of the utmostately denied--were based upon good at 5.20 p.m.

others workers are government workera suffered in the chemical It is to be hoped, however, reasoning and sound estimates of interested are welcome.

employees,

factory. There was a special wing Five lines of men, women and for children and a huge depart- that the time and labour spent on her internal financial position. Ur We regret to have to record the

be wasted. ging the need for relief from re-death of Mrs. Xavier, widow of the children waited in the hall, be-ment for women. the subject will not

"All women in Russia should All too often in the past have Com-Partions before the Young Plan former signalman at the Peak Look-fore the windows that registered

Advisory Committee, Dr. Melchior Out Sintion. The deceased indy, who patients. A huge wall newspaper, know methods of birth control by

leaves two sons, Mr. Louis Xavier, of mittees been appointed

got up with Raudily to study admits the facts, disclosing that Messrs, Gibb, Livingston and Co...

coloured the end of the Five-Year Plan," local lasues and, after they have the Reichsbank's gold cover, after and Sir, Stephen Xavier, of Sydney, Crayon sketches and printing, cau- the director told me. "All hospi

|tioned patients to "talk only to the tals, the Zaga Marriage Burenu, presented their findings, their deduction of Hinhllities in foreign

well as several daughters, was doctor about your sickness." The the Red Army and all factories reports gut pigeon-holed and for-curreneles, has dropped to twelve Much sympathy will be felt for the aciously gave a cue to the handi birth control pamphlets

widely known and greally respected wall newspaper also quite uscon- give specific information." I saw words, gotten.

In other In view of the

in many the family in their bereavement. extreme per cent.

caps that this particular hospital | Moscow drug stores. importance to the Colony

country's ability to maintain a gold-

labours under by Hating the Abortions are legal in Russia. basis currency consists in emer- Miss Stella Hyndmann, of No. 33, "dreams" of staff members of Po-But the government insists that whole of the isues dealt with by geney deerees and not sound fin- Leighton Hill Road, was the victim land.

women go to the hospitale and the Technical Education

Relatively, Great Britain's of a bag-snatcher who operated vent

"Nurses dream of bringing the have scientifle care. Such women mittee, it will be most regrettable position in September Inst, when the St. Francis Hotel in Queen's Road, Moscow river to the hospitals so are entitled to three days' hospi- yesterday afternoon. Miss fyndnan. they would have plenty of water," talization and 10 days' vacation if the situation is left as it now the decision to go off gold was on feeling a lug at her handbag. stands,

made, was much stronger than is engaged in a tussle with the thier, one line read. Others said, "The from work with pay. Anyone not who, in fleeing, was tripped up by electrical machine, can handle 1,-pay; the charge is based on wakes director dreams that his new belonging to a labour union must Germany's to-day. In the face of Without at the moment attempt these facts, France is still trying The culprit was given nine months 000 cases a day." "The doctors and varien from four roubles to 60 European passer-by and arrested. ing to analyse the Committee's to restrict discussion at Ensle, is hard labour by Mr. Williams at the dream of huge stores, stocked to roubles.

the roof with supplies and equip- we should arguing that the payment of re- Central Poller Court this morning. like to welcome any well-consider-parations must come before the ed movement which aims at im-payment of private creditors, and proving craftsmanship in this is hoping to keep the problem of frozen in Colony,

It is unhappily the truth the short-term credits that local craftsmanship leaves a

Germany subordinate to repara- tions. The attitude is one which very great deal to be desired, in it fa difficult to understand, quite spite of some outward evidences apart from lending it support. to the contrary. This is so inThe trouble seems to be that French practically every sphere, from the economies are overlaid by politics. art of dressmunking, for example, Some of her statesmen have had to the construction of skyscrapera: the most admirable intentions, but Indeed, we need not contrast the the emphasis that has been put on work of Western countries with politics has not allowed them to perform their functions in the best that turned out here to establish interests of Europe, or rather, not this point: there are Far Eastern until it is too late. France has been centres which can put Hongkong among the countries which have to shame so far as really good from time to time taken generous craftsmanship is concerned. At initiatives. There has been pro

gress towards a settlement in ac- root, the reason is one of lack of cordanca with Germany's capacity. real training. If we except sonte of But these moves have always been the bigger catablishments, which behind the necessities of the mo- make some effort to start Inds on ment. If a quarter of what the proper basis, the apprenticeship countries of Europe were prepared system in Hongkong is often ruth-years ago, it would have been effec- to do, to-day had been done ton lessly exploited. Boys whose parents tive. To-day, full consciousness cannot afford to keep them at of real needs still seems to bo school put them into employment lacking, or is not Anding cloar ex- under conditions in which they pression in the quarters where It cannot hope to receive anything is likely to be of most value. The approaching modern training. By phrase "Too Late" is the most tragic in the history of internn- the "look-see" mothed they managotional relations. It will be heard to pick up the rudiments of their again in the very near futuro un-. trade, but they seldomi become loss a different spirit is soon ex- truly offolent workcmon, Tho Thibited.

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"All right, I'll take one, if you're sure they're out of season."-

Russia's medical care of its chil-" dren is one of its most successful health programmes. In the first years, after the revolution, the death rate was 47 children to every one thousand. Now 19 to every one thousand. The Ameri- can figure is 14 to 1,000.

The "Institute for Mother and Child" is largely responsible for this health improvement. I visit- ed the original Institute in MoS- cow. Its huke

Krey stone bulk- Ings flank

a spacious pork with flower gardens and trees. Here an open-air nursery is

maintained

In summer which accommodates 350 bableg. There is a museum

of rudimentary child health-kow to wash a baby, dress a baby, pre and pare the baby's formula sterilize its bottle.

A flaming poster of a militant little babios' Sovlet caught my eye. I read, "We demand protection from Bies. We want clean, dry diapors and milk from freshly washed bottles."

Other graphic posters an- nounce: “A closed window opens the door for the undertaker." And, "Pacifiers kill more bables thun cunnons kill grown-ups.

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No soldier the Red army can got through his compulsory ser- vice without. Having boon taken through this museum or some ex- hibits from it. Schools and ani- versities send their pupils to be instructed in the car of their younger sistors and brothers.. Evory factory has special program mes instructing both fathers and mothers. And the government (Continued on Page 7;)