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FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1932.

CHILD LABOUR,

kind of child labour.

RETURN TO PURITANISM.

Strong Undercurrent Carrying Britain Back to Sanity.

EACH OTHER; BUTİS THERE are algna and portents the tangible. It is an appetite

The South Wales Borderers holding a boxing tournament Murray Barracks this evening, com mencing at 8 p.m. There will be a programme of 18 bouts altogether.

of the

on every hand that what a that will not be denied. good many thoughful people

To-day's Demand. lave for some time past regarded now definitely a inevitable is

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The man who want through the middle-aged

at

coming to pass. Britain is moving war and is now R with a momentum that is increa-pater-familias looks back over the sing daily towards what might be years and knows that youth has termed the "Twentieth Century had its wild jazzy Ding, and that Here in Hongkong, legislation

Consequent on a fall from the 4.23 Reformation."

experience and sanity are again has, until latterly, lagged consider-

pn., train from Shumehun, while it No religious significance of any coming into their own. Captains ably behind that of most Western was passing Lo Wu, a Chinese wonuin sort, I hasten to add, is attached of Industry, too, are finding that countries, a circumstance which is passenger was admitted to the Kwong to the use of the word "Reforma- out in the business world.. Youth not altogether surprising in view Wah Hospital on Wednesday with tien." Nor to the term "Puri- may be full of impetuous drive. of the peculiar ceonomic conditions rather serious injuries.

tanism" when used to describe the bright but very often hare-brained which prevall in most parts of tho

cra towards which a strong under-¡ ideas, and chock-full of ability to Hongkong current is now carrying the Bri-trample carelessly and contemp. Far East. There has, however, in Practical Psychology Club on Friday, Lish people."

tuously over each and overy recent years been a recognition of 18th inst. nt 6 p.m., the Rev. Mr.

To-day, as we look back over

What is now wanted, it is every the fact that this Colony must come / Tribbeck will speak on "Psychology dozen post-war years of hectic.procept carved out of wisdom.

and Religion." The meeting is being riotous, live-for-the-minute and day being made clearer, is the more into line with present-day held at Lane, Crawford's restaurant. idonls. Hours of labour for wo-

purely superficial existence, whe-sound experience and rock-like men and children have been regu- When Miss E. Sourn, of No. 3, ther in business, pleasure-seeking, simplicity which is worth all the lated, whilst no child is permitted Minden Avenue, Kowloon, was walk or the everyday things of life, cloverness" and "slimness" ever

The raw ing along Chatham Road near the mere mention of the word Puri-devised.

outlook of to be employed in dangerous trades, Kowloon Football Club, yesterday tanism is like a sweet cleaning youth and the bluff of the incom- from which also female workers evening, about a quarter past six, a breath of wind that rolls some potent are being pushed back to between the ages of 16 and 18 are

Chinese snatched her handbag, con- dank glooming fog from a clean, their proper place in the scheme Laining $30, and, made off with nature-simple garden. prohibited except with the permis

He won chased and caught by a sion of the Proiector of Labour.

European whose name is not given, In other ways, also, Hongkong has

who handed him over to Traffic Sør-

In every direction of life it has ture sense of responsibility. Wit been engaged in child protection

become clear that Great Britain less and noisy arrogance is giving netivity recently, so that by degrees Banished in 1920 and sentenced to at last has become hopelessly tired way to a thoughtful appreciation we are laying down conditions nine months recently for returning of the tawdry glitter of the coun-of things as they are; shadowy more closely resembling those now before the expiry of his term of 10 terfeit, and is enger to turn with talk of "rights" le being blown generally recognised as

years, a man named Chan Fat was all the enthusiasm of the convert away by the realisation that it is being again arrested on information by the towards the simple realities

the sub- of well to get n grip on necessary to prevent the exploita-police in Canton Hond yesterday life. Everyone is beginning to stance of usefulness. tion of child Inbour, Much re Charged before Mr. Fraser at the

There is perhaps the danger Kowloon Magistracy this morning, he see the gold, and, with twelve mains to be done, but progress is stated he had come back to fetch his years' experience, to value the always to be faced with any | being made along the right Ines. | wife. Sentence of 12 months hard dross for the worthless thing it violent swing of the pendulumi.

The Shipping Depression. Although the severity of the depression in the shipping indus try is reflected somewhat in the figures quoted by the chairman at yesterday's meeting of the Hong- kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, they also serve to show how light have been the effects on the

world

Keant Clark.

labour was imposed.

HONGKONG DOCTOR

BEREAVED.

DEATH OF MISS BETSY DE SOUZA.

of hia sister, Miss

11s.

Tired of Glitter,

of things.

One senses the growth of a Aner, more serious and more ma-

There is the danger of being borne That period of droas-worship or too.awiftly and too strongly. But, of mad licence was an inescapable that danger avoided, the era that sequel to the greatest

the Is dawning will be a golden one: world has ever seen. Our fore- an era of Reality exchanged for benrs saw the same thing happen tinsel; an era which, like the once when Waterloo had been fought sneered at Victorian cra; gave UR and won, and were themselves glants and real progress.

RICHARD SELWYN MAXWELL. only repeating the experience of carlier generations after other bly ware.

It is but human nature to relax.

NOTORIETY.

The many friends of Dr. E de Souza, of Hongkong, will hear with deep regret of the death in after a period of high-strung ten-NO END TO CRAZY economic Malacca

sion, to plunge, perhaps hysteric- blizzard in Hongkong. The tum-Elizabeth Betsy) de Souza, who ally, without over-much thought! ber of ships using the wharves was known throughout her life or care for the consequences, into new and effervescent experiences of the Company, were only thirty-for many works of charity alid which shall baalsh, unhappy. kindliness. Fifty-six years of

and to nerve-wrecked memories, age, she was the sister of Mr.

eight fewer than in 1930-which

ties the

face

By HELEN ROSE NANDLES have always attracted moths. Limelight always at- tracta mutts. Pioneers havo

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may be partly accounted for by. P. de Souza, the Deputy Collve-/Place faith in curt phrases and

plain and powerful truths. harbour buoys instead-while the also of Mr. II. M. de Souza, J.P,, That is what we have been do a lot to answer for. They blaze groga profit is down by less than of Mainces, and of Nurse Mary de 20 per cent. Far Eastern diflicut-Souza. ller nephews included but now the bubbles are seta trial for a lot of copy-cate,

To-day is the golden age of tling, the froth has almost van- boycott of Japanese and the Rev. Fr. Bertin Ashness. beginning to seek again the sim-something, anything,

two priests, Rev. Fr. L. D. Asliness ished, and with new eyes we are notoriety. People are crazy to do goods, general interference with whilst other nephews are Mr. Rene plicities of life-and in the peace what, so long as they are first. normal activities in all parts of M. Ashness, now studying for the and quietude of all things to find

something The ploneer does China--have contributed largely priesthood in Penang, and another real

real strength.

daring that keeps him or her in 10, any slackness that may be np. who is a Brother in the Christian The pendulum is daily swinging the newspapers for weeks. And Those who are interested in the parent in local trade and on the Brothers School in Burma. A faster in this direction. That is up crops a heat of copy-cats. question of child labour will find

whole, the Colony has cause to niece is a Sister in the French being made evident in nearly Someone flies to the North Pole, Interest in the fact that the Inter-congratulate itself. When Hong-

Convent at Taiping.

every habit of thought, word, and and someone else, not to be beaten,

Good It is worthy of mention that deed. national Labour Office of the kong's position is compared with the deceased lady came of a thought provoking and

reading matter.

Intellects on a pole in Peckham. The League of Nations has recently that of Great Britain, cause

heroes of the Olympic Games be for Portuguese family that settled in tually satisfying, is beginning to come the doped couples who totter janued a report dealing with the content with our lot becomes more Malacca about 100 years ago and replace a long-flowing spate of round in some dance marathon. problem of the age of admission apparent. At the end of

or Jan. that her grandfather was reputed emotional, meaningless trash, The old saint who sat for years of children to non-industrial oc- cupations. This problem was dis- 728 ships were laid up in to be one of the big property warae rubbish-bearing the seeds on the top of a pillar is stale owners when the administration of dangerous weeds. Hectic dance checae to the young fellow who various British ports, the aggre this Settlement was transferred to floor antics and caperings are sits for weeks on the top of gate tonnage being 1,966,417, the British a century ago. Her slowing down into dances that pole! while many of the ships remain-father, the late Mr. J. L. de Souza, seek to capture something of skill Sharing Gate-money. ing in commission have to be con-

of was a sort of protege of Lieut. and grace und beauty both tent with very meagre Cargoes. Governor Garling and was known rhythm and movement, while con-

cussed for the first time at the

International Labour Conference of dune last and comes up for the second and. It ir to be hoped, final discussion at this year's Confer- ence next month. In accordance

a

People do things to-day that

Still worse, though it is an obvious and respected as a scholar and a versation is becoming less flippant, would have put them in the stocks, For the county gaol, a century ago, gentleman. Her mother, whose less superficially clever. with its usital procedure, the office in the continuous decline revealed of

result of the general stagnation, maiden name was Cornelius, was

Political buffoonery and the in-or.found them under the village Dutch descent, whilst her ceasant claptrap, which is nought pump. Nowadays they share the

with no core of reality, has almost graphs taken, the problem, in preparation for under construction, which at De- ning War a century ago.

There are people who think it The funeral was largely attend-exhausted itself. To whichever cember 31st stood at 400,505 tons, the unciating clergrunn being party they belong political adher- frightfully smart to be married in the Rev. Fr. L. D. Ashness, the ents are compelled by cold realla diving bell or other equally in- deceased's nephew.

circulated to Governments a ques in the tonnage of merchant vessels grandfather took part in the Nan- but a meaningless string of words/gate money and have their photo-

tionnaire on the main aspects of

the discussion of definite pro.

posals in the present report, with a general survey of the problem: and draft proposals for the final

Convention.

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the smallest recorded since Sep- ember. 1887! Moreover the figure includes about 151,000 tons which operations have been Buk- pended, the heavy increase of 89,000 tons on the previous month being largely due to the stoppage

The protection of child labour has been one of the principal ideals of social reformers ever ainee the Idea of social legislation of work on the new Cunarder. In was born. Its aspects range from the three months ended December,

37 to the work was begun on vessels the purely humanitarian purely economic. It is generally totalling 104,784 tone, a distinct agreed that the object to be attain- improvement compared with 25 ied must be the absolute prohibition vessels of 38,675 tone in the Sep- of child labour below a certain age,tember quarter, but the launching and the regulation of juvenile la-totalled only 70,707 tons bour. The main points at issue against 80,310 tons gross in the months. The are simply the degree of protec- preceding three tion to be afforded and the limit wide extent of the depression is indicated that even with such to be fixed between child and juvenile labour. Refore 1918 tutphenomenal low figures, Britain is minimum age of admission to instill the most important shipbuild- ing country in the world, though dustry was fixed by law in a cer- tain number of States and a few hor pre-eminonee is much less of them prohibited the admission marked than formerly.

to dangerous occupations. Child labour in agriculture and cornerce was almost entirely unregulated. The International Labour Organisa- tion included among the general principles governing ita constitu- tion "the abolition of child labour and the imposition of such limita- tion on the labour of young per- sons as shall permit the continua- tion of their education and assure their proper physical development." Since that dato International Con- ventions have already been adopted

gross,

PRISONERS MAY SMOKE.

A CONCESSION AT BRIXTON.

Sir Herbert Samuel, the Home Secretary, has informed the House of Commons that arrangements had been made at Brixton to allow prisoners on remand and awaiting trial to smoke at gertain times of

the day.

on the minimum age for admission The question of extending this

to Industry, to employment at sea, and to agriculturo: Another Con- vention prohibits night work for

facility to other prisons would be considered, later in the light of experience at Brixton.

ties to search for the sincere and appropriate place. Those people never realise that they are making themselves a hideous nuisance to those whose duty it is to guard the nation's fools.

“Come on up to my room and I'll show you when he was only a week,old."

we look

And when all's said and done, what have they really done except to mako colossal fools of them- selves, and everyone is butchered: to make their holiday.

A great many of these antics are performed where the crowd can come and gape. And It pays good money to come and gape. It is not healthy and natural curiosity on the part of these on- lookers to see and applaud deeds of daring. It is the sadistic streak that prompts them to watch for hours wretched creatures flogged round the dance floor.

by jazz and cocaine, in the last stages of exhaustion, or swaying above their heads on squatting poles.

For there is a pathetic side to all this. It is not only the love of limelight to some of the per formers: It is rather terrible to think that a 810 nota will some- times mean so much to them that. they will exhibit themselves to the stares of a ribald crowd for days on and to win a small prize. All for Publietty.

But there are heaps of people. who engineer foolish expeditions and ridiculous competitions Just for the publicity it brings.

Well, we're supposed to be 4 cleverer crowd than our, grand- parents. Perhaps. the grand- children of the "pole.cats": will boast of how grandma sat" "on" a pois for thirty-six hours, or grandpa danced lua marathon til he dropped

Anyhow, it is high time that the authorities,put a stoờ tô,lonia Moon (Continued on Po#1978)