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B-6061 "You can't stop me from loving you"

TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1932.

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A TRIUMPH FOR HINDENBURG.

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Just failing to secure an absolute majority in tho first trial of Hinden- strength, President von burg is, however, assured of re- The

imbued with those patriotic in-

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TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1932.

discovered that their dreams of a restored monarchy were in vain. Hindenburg showed that he was as good a Republican as the country contained. Il did not even hesitate to call for a Socialist leader and make him Premier. Ho upheld the Repubilé at every turn, and fought to regain peace and prosperity for his beloved Father land.

The result, of course, has been a marked revulsion of fooling. The Monarchists have long since, lost their love for Hindenburg, but the Republicans have come to idolles him. So this veteran patriot, who

DAY BY DAY

NO MEN LIVING ARE MORE WORTHY

WRONG EDUCATION.

By VISCOUNT ULLSWATER, Läte Speaker of the House of Commons.

TO BE TRUSTED THAN THOSE WHO. We are apending a great don! how long they aro

kept at TOIL UPWARD FROM. POVERTY; NONE too much on education, and school. It

to mo that LESS INCLINED TO TAKE OR TOUCH doubt if we are getting fair re many of these unintelligent AUGHT WHICH THEY HAVE NOT turn for our money. The country children would do far bettor K HONESTLY EARNED-Abraham Ein- cannot afford, at this moment, to they were able to leave school at colh

overspend on things which are an earlier ago and it themselves, not Immediately productive. by practical experience, for the

Enormous sums are

Patrons of the Repulse Bay Hotel education, a great deal on jobs which they can do.

from taxes, and a lot from rates. money

** | Doubtful Return

are asked to note that no dinner dance will be held there to-morrow night.

Wa Girls' School takes in the The annual speech day of the Ying Thursday, March 17, at 7 p.m. in Hall of the Hop Yat Church. Bonham Road. Dr. Wang San Yin is to pre- sent the certinentes.

These sums have been increased A teacher should be able to since the war, owing to the rise discriminate without difficulty opinion far too highly for their educable child, the child on whom in teachers' salaries, and, in my after five years' observation bo- many of these teachers tween the educable and the non- are paid

money can usefully be spent, and the child whose mentality and general progress Indicate that fur- ther teaching is a waste of the country's time and money.

work..

has bad discipline and duty as his twin guiding stars. has been a tremendous factor in waving the Republic. His greatest victory

Children go to school when they came long after the Great War had

are five years of age. This, in ended. To-day, his stock still

itself, seems to me to be absurd. stande high. Neither the extreme o

• Phyɔ pro-anak-anak The amount of knowledge which

wem oya 'isuojevod nationalism of the Nazia nor the us to pita child can assimilate at this early Mr. Graham has said, with,

pride, that the Government is disruptive ideals of Communiem par de pe age is extremely small.

prvy zyzwow' aùo 16 ‘091ỷ 26 dɔuaquav

And when they go to school going to

£117,000,000 on have been able to oust him from a po o se nog they are taught a lot of absurd general

Boing

round expenditure. power. Under his guidance, Ger- |Þájjed jeans out im "monof ouud things. Teachers should concen- This is a time for retrenchment, many, with difficult days ahend, on a WAN Ntrate on giving children a sound not for expenditure. The State, will yet again 'emerge and resume

A op zoozjddo un Boo elementary education which will at the moment, is in a very pro- or rightful place amongst the

nt them to make a start in the curious financial position, and world. nations of the world. No mun has

But, in fact, one often cannot afford to spend anything finds that these children, when like this amount on projects which shouldered heavier responsibilities

they leave school, retain remark- will bring no quick raturn, which, thin Hindenburg; none has had

in fact, will bring no return at thornier paths to tread. But in 1.is steadfastness of purpose he has reflected the temper and the faith of the German people.

Ances.

Arrested by the Singapore Pre- ventive Service on board the 3.3. Anhui, on which he was sergeant of the Rússian pirate guard, V. V. Tyr- jably little. to a charge of being in possession of chain of bookstalls informed sin, a young Russian, pleaded guilty A manager of one of a national | all, non-governntent oplum and has been that the standard

me I have received many letters, fined $5,000 or one year's rigorous im-

of education including Воте from actuai prisonment in default by Mr. G. C. amongst the boys employed by him teachers, who have expressed their Dodd, the Singapore Criminal District was very low, Mont of these boys, agreement with my objections to Judge.

who had just left school, were our present system, and who be unable to add up simple sums and lleve that the system of education Representing himself to

write out accounts which required | needs revising and simplifying. afoki from two different shops.

the most elementary knowledge To endeavour to crowd a mass a Chingan went to the Wing On Com of mathematica, or spell correctly of useless "education" into the center and O'Brien Roads and obtain- pany's store at the junction of Glon-the titles of the daily papers. head of the average elementary It would be far better if school schoolboy or girl is a waste of ed two fuse boxes and a switch on teachers would concentrate on time, more especially when theso two separate occasions. He was rub-giving children a good grounding | subjects aro taught at the ex- brought before Mr. Schollold at the sequently arrested and on being in casential subjects, and leave pense of the more useful ones, Central Police Court this

| some of the other things alone. - morning was wentenced to six weeks' hard in- Too Many Subjects

bour.

PATRIDGE,

be

"Advanced" education is all very well for those children who can readily absorb the fundamen- - Somo little time ago a corres- Įtal subjects which are taught, but pondent wrote me:-"I was much to. endeavour to teach these sub- Interested in the reports of your jects to the unintelligent girl or A speech at Carlisle, and can am-boy fa a vain and foolish thing.

phatically bear out what you say. (Tho views are those of Lord 1 take boys from elementary Ullswater not ours.-Ed. H.K.T.]* schoola into my office and have to teach them everything-from FORMER C. N. CO. how to address an anvelope; add

MASTER.

up a sheet of foolacap-réad, &c.

"Can you not organiso Shanghai and the China

Shipping circles in Hongkong, national movement to reduce ex- Coast penditure and get simpler and generally will learn with the ut-batter education! I was clark Men, if reported are returne most regret of the death of Cap to four school boards and knowing to the smoking-jacket. tain A. Partridge, for many years that the education was more prac- But that is not all.

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Long Runs-or Better Plays? Many opinions have been ex pressed about the theatre slump in London: the most interesting of these being, perhaps, that it does not exist. But, supposing that there is such a thing, the talkies, and high prices have both been cited to

account for it. Prof. Allardyce Nicholl, however. has found an entirely new explanation of the phenomenon. According to him, the reason that many plays do DEATH OF CAPT. badly in Lendon, and preauniably in New York, is that others do too well. The chief cause of the short run the long run. The long run is a quite modern development. Not until 1822 did

any play achieve 100 consecutive perform

But since then nearly 1500 are said to have accomplished this fent. In consequence theatrical managers judge every play sub- mitted to them from the point of Noel Coward, election in the second bullet.

result is at oneo a wonderful view of its prospects of achieving a tribute to the faith of the German aimllar success. This puts a pre-a telegram received in Hongkongation..

The sad news was contained in committees, took over the organi-brighten up the evenings."

3......but it is the teachers" Thoy certainly will. I should people in their veteran President mium upon frivolous plays of little to-day, fatimating that Capt. salarles which want revising. think the evenings would go and a welcome indication that the merit, serious pieces having had Partridge passed away at Yinkow "The fatal Burnham scales, with colour-blind. nation is far from disposed to hand exceedingly few long runs to their at the age of 67 years, it is be- the three grades, are ridiculous The function of a smoking-

now. Here, over control to any extremist fac- credit. Of the nine playa which lieved from heart failure.

as In Scotland, wo jacket-with the emphasis on tion. Hindenburg, at eighty-four have had more than 1000 coneccu-raturned to his duties after

Captain Partridge only recently have managed to work on the "racking" has always been au years of age, is still the old fighter, tive performances in London, two three months' holiday in Shang- and 2, and are supposed to get the her subtlest favours for a man lowest scale, but the majority of enigma to me. I cannot see why Councils have adopted scales My Lady Nicotine should reserve were musical comedies, two were hai and Hongkong. stincts which he has reflected all farces, and three were melodramas. left. here he seemed to be in his at all follow that the teacher who annuated matador any more than When he better teachers. But it does not who dresses himself like a super. his life. The fact that he is the Only two. "The Beggar's Opera," usual health, although he had in out for the biggest salary is for the man who, less meticulous. hand of a Republic, whereas onco

which ran for 1463 performances, latterly suffered from blood pres the best tencher! There should smokes in his city subfuac. he was counted a Junker of the and "The Farmer's Wife," which Bure. He leaves 4 widow and be no scale; leave the open market Junkers, has, if possible, intensi- had 1329, were pieces of really Shanghai, as well as a son with the school that appeals to him or on that basis it might just as daughter, who are at present to provide the best teacher for is more comfortable to wear, but The amoking-jacket, admittedly, Red his love of country. He agreed serious worth. This means that, the Imperial Chemicals Industrica, her. to stand for re-election frota In their search for plays likely to Ltd., in Chungking and_ another

ensily be called an armchair- The attempt to teach too many jacket or a amoozing jacket, sense of patriotic duty, believing have record runs, producers put on in the service of the Hongkong subjects In our elementary that in so doing he would anve the chiefly light, unambitious and con- and Shanghat Bank at

can picture myself before the of schools, many of which are far dancing frelight in my

groat country from wrangling factions ventional pices. It is only fair their Malayan branches. The too mature in their scope, is prov panelled study at Carlton House and help to lend it along the road

to state that the costs of staging them in their bereavement.

utmost sympathy will be felt with ing a dianatrous failure. Now, the terrace, surrounded by Great of ordered prosperity and freedom. almost any production have mount-

raising of the school age will but Danes and decanters, with the Captain Partridge came out to Increnas the burden of the tax-night wind soughing gently round In his long career, whether in edo tremendously in recent years the East about 1890 and joined payer, and do no good. The coun- the private detectives outside the pence or war, he has had two guid- that, when the curtain risca on the Measts. Butterfield and Swire, try cannot long survive under front door.. ing lights-discipline" and duty.opening performance, the financial He achieved rapid promotion and these costly, and useless burdens. I can see myself press an em- His faith In the sanity and el-Butley has been so great that a long became master of the .s. Chin- It is obvious that certain child-bossed boll, the bronze doors open- headedness of his fellow-coun-run is a producer's only prospect klang, also holding several other ren are more clever than others, ing, and my man frotheringay men has never wavered. That the of reimbursing himself. But If commands during his service with and that there are many children padding softly down the 40-yards

who will learn nothing, no matter Bokhara rug to my chair. trust has been reciprocated is the theatre is to remain popular, shown by the choice of the people, telligence is surely the principal who have clearly demonstrated quality needed in it. Happily of that they prefer the

late years, the success of the re non-party- veteran to the clamorous Nazis atmetropolis and in the provinces, pertory movement, bath in the

has made it possible for many plays of merit to be produced which would not have much chance of re- which Hindenburg, having gone Nicholl is perhaps right in locking cord box-office success. Professor Into retirement after the Great War, entered the political In 1926, President Ebert died, and Germany was left on the edge of chaos. An election was held, COLDEST MARCH DAY but no candidate got a clear majority. A new election became

FOR 11 YEARS. necessary, with Monarchists, Democrats, Communists and half a

YESTERDAY'S COLD SNAP, dozen minor parties all submitting The temperature dropped con- candidates. The Monarchiat-Considerably in the Colony yesterday ; eorvativo faction urged Hindenburg and #for March, reached to be their nominee. Twice he almost 13 low degree, Mc- refused, but at last Admiral von teorological records at the Royal Observatory showed that It Tirpitz prevailed on him, and ho entered the lista. The Monarchiata were jublinnt, reasoning that, once elected, Hindenburg would be stopping-stone to the restoration of the monarchy. In the election, Hindenburg won, but when he went to Berlin to be inaugurated, only the Royalists flocked to thoor him been recorded. What is more, when he entered the Reichstag to take the oath of office, the Communists walked out in a body. Then it came to be realised that in swearing to uphold the Con- for March. Other years in which

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eleven years, and that only on four the coldon March day for occasions has a lower thermometer reading been recorded in March.

Up to 5 p.m., yesterday, the lowest recording for the day was 46.8 deg, registered at 1 p.m. no lower temperature has since Enquiry this morning shows that

The last year in which this read- Ing was lowered in March was in. 1021 when 46.4 was. rogistered. This is the lowest figure on record

yesterday's minimum was lowered wern 1802 (46.3), 1898 (45.9) and

stitution, Hindenburg meant exact- ly what ba said. The Monarchfats; 1908 (45.4),

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