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THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1932.

THE LESSONS OF

DARTMOOR.

THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1932.

DAY BY DAY

deal-O

ROBERT LYND: ON

MEN AND DRESS.

A on the carelessly dressed like a hore il, at a party. I sud-

shillings in his pocket, only to turn up a few years later at one of the gnols at a cost to the State of hundreds of pounds, The most -effective way of ing with the Dartmoor · type THE War has swept away an of offender is to provent, 18 får AS ENTIRE GENERATION, AS IF TO CREATE TTACKS continue to be made; should certainly not feel at all! possible, his coming into existence, A BREAK IN THE MEMORY OF PEOPLES by wiser ponal methods. In fact, AND TO PREVENT THE NEW GENERA- man, though it is the rerest thing denly realised that my cuffs were what is needed scemas, to be a TION FROM NOTICING TOO CLOSELY in the world to meet a carelessly frayed, that there was a hole thorough review of the subject of

THAT IT IS ACTUALLY ENGAGED IN dressed man nowadays. Mr. Stan-visible in one of my socks, that

wore oil-stains on REPEATING WHAT HAS BEEN DONE ley Jackson, presiding at a ban- there

my the treatment of crime. It is com- BEFORE.-Trotsky.

quot of the Merchant Tailors' trousers, and that there was mon knowledge that prison au

Association, told the guests: button missing off my coat. thorities at Hómo are handicapped

The next issus of the Hong-"There is a falso notion that a Not for Worldly Success. by the Treasury from carrying out kong Telegraph will be

man te something of a hero if he on many constructive retorms, which,

Afr. Jackson may raply, how- refrains from visiting his tailor Saturday.

in old. if put into affect, might well save

until he is peremptorily sent by ever, that it is the man his wife"; and he went on to clothes, not the man in disgrace. the country not only from wasteful expenditure on antiquated prisons,

Bennett of the man in a too-old public makeo quote a denunciation by Arnold ful or torn clothes, of whom the a horo. I doubt, but also from serious uprisings of |

suit an à "scarecrow" and "an nowever, if. even this contention will boar oxamination. If Mr. the type under notice.

eyesore."

China's Struggle to Natlonhood,

China has come again la.a crisis in its struggle for unity and effec-

Crawford will have thole kiosk at During the holidays Meanra. Lane Repulse Bay open at 2 p.m. each day,

Mr. J. B. Ross, having returned from furlough, has taken over the management of the local branch of the

Mercantile Bank of India.

Hist night, ་་

pro-

А.

Wils

dressed. In the present world,. Indoed, nobody can afford to be really badly drossed unless he That is the tallors make their

I have never mot those people Jackson's contention were fruo, who look on a shabbily dreased every young man when applying man as a hero. Not in real life. for a job would fish out the oldent at leant. In nineteenth century and most frayed garments he fiction there used to be an occn- could find, fealing that this Mr. Wei Tat, B.A will speak on elonal Bohemiah character who by far the surest way of making The Phantom of Evi at the usual showed his contempt for the

an employer.. An impression on tive government. Even friends of weekly public lecture of the Hon spority of his fellowmen by do- Strange to psy, hoover who would Japan will not seriously contend kong Lodge, The Theophlenl thatthe present unheaval is due solo. Saclety, 17, Queen's Road. to-day ating all that one man could to re-never met an employer who would

duoc tailors and 0 p.m.

barbers to

be greatly impressed even if an star ly to the faults of the Nationalist

vation. But, in real life, na soon applicant called on him with a régime. Faults there have been,

Suffering from an overdone of oplam 8 the Bohemians began to make three days' growth of beard.

No, I think Mr. Jackson is un- many of them rooted in century-poisoning, stated to have been seit money they did their beat to look old Chinese traditions of göveru-administered, Shiu Fat-so, aged 35, as nearly as possible like the pre- necessarily perturbed. The world ruent. Charges of extravagance, married woman, of 560, Nathan Rident of the Merchant Tailors' lu still on the aldo of the well-

raft and nepotism are fairly well Road, was removed to the Kwong Association in their clothes.

Wah Hospital last night,

The Careless Author, sustained. Anti-Japanese Iseling has been fostered. Even admitting these shortcomings, however, the present Government constituted includea by far

greater part of the ad ministrative ability and construc Live atatesmanship in China. Observers are fairly well agreed that there is no other organised group in China who could be ex- pected to do nearly as well from the point of view either of the Chi- nese or of the foreign powern who New a have dealings with China. staud must be made, und in pre-

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Of all classes of society, authors han private means. present "Wurzle-Flummery," a two and artists are generally believed reason why act comedy by A. A. Milne, and two to be the most carelessly dressed. fortunes. short sketches by Ronald Jeans, in Yet I do not know a single author, St. Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon,

on Wednesday, April 6, 1932, at 8.15 artist who is really badly dress- fed and is looked on as a hero on

that account.

p.m.

Through a fall from a height of| The worst dressed author I about ten feet, Lai Yu, the No. 1 know is convinced that he is one fireman of the a.a. lydrangea, which of the best dressed man in Lon- In lying at Taikoo Docks, was removed dun, and if you congratulated him to the Government Civil Hospital on his shabby appearance hei yesterday suffering from abrasions would be grossly insulted. to his right hip.

Happier Marriages

of the Future.

BY IRENE STILES. [ARRIAGE has received more fair quota of

There was, I confess, a brief M than its

ported in my late teens when I

much- wrong

Dr. G. A. C. Įterklots, B. Se,, Ph.D. myself made something of a publicity lately. The sentimen- will deliver a lecture on Tuesday, principle of dressing hadly, Be- talists say that there is nothing April 6, to the Young People's Society, lleving that, of all days in the wrong with it. The extremists Senior Section at the Kowloon Union Church. The subject will be long week. Sunday should be freest vow that there is keng Flowers", and the lecture will from class distinctions, and that with it that there is even the be illustrated by lantern slides.

It was a day on which no one possibility of its eventual decline should drcAS better than his and decay. Somewhere between

advertise that

Meanta, A. S. Watson & co., Ltd., neighbours, I used sometimes to the nontimentailet and extremist

Friday, and Easter to church unshaven as a pro- view the truth doubtless lles,

The old system of marriage la: Monday, March 25 and 28, all de-test on behalf of human equality. partments will be closed. On these As all the other men in the changing and will change still days, the Hongkong Dispensary, Dia-church, except the bearded, the more. The only people who jib. pensing Department, will be open for whiskered and the moustached, at the change are for the most dispensing prescriptions from 10 am. wore beautifully shaved, it is part those who fear that the to i p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 7.16 p.m. Jicult to see what principle change will hurt them. They On Saturday, March 20, all depart. ments will be open as usual.

to

this,

"..

sent circumstances it must parently bo on a military buri But unifled national government in China to be permanent must be The evidence of continued un-

founded on a unified national con rest at Dartmoor Gaol cannat but sciousness, a loyalty to the whole raise misgivings in regard to the country, rather than to war lords. conditions under which the con-

A military leader, sympathetic to victs of this penal Institution

the more advanced political labour. There are many lessons to thought and the more powerful be learned from recent events at economic interests of China, may Princeton, not the least important compel their temporary submission

need not worry, for it is not like- hoped to establish. of which is the necessity for re-

to the national authority, but even-

ly that drastic change will occur: Impersonation That Failed,

In their lifetime. So far the only form in prison methods. lihaa tually the conquest must be one of

In the Arat flush of Socialism 1 people who order their married been disclosed, for instance, that education and of better communi- issue, the size of which has not also bought a corduroy cap, wore life differently from married life only 150 of the 410 prisoners at cations. Chiang Kai-shek may re- yet been determined

n neckcloth instead of a collar, of other years are those who have Dartmoor are seen by-prison visi-seive credit for a sincere attempt The recent merging of the old and smoked a clay pipe. It was the vision to see that our modern tors or attend clases, and that by to accomplish unification. The ac-established firm of Messrs. Davies my ambition to be as like a work-life does call for certain adjust-

enson of recent reductions in staff, cusation made against him by his Brooke, architects, with the ing man as possible without the ments.

Metropolitan Land & the prisoners have been spending rivals in that he has attempted to Co., Ltd., brings to Hongkong the that I never met a working-man lived by the majority puts too Building work. The strange thing was Present-day married life as longer periods shut up alone in torce the reduction of their armies experience and background of one who looked in the least like my much atrain on Its participants. their cells. Incidentally, the while increasing his own. This is, of Shanghal's oldest really con- Impersonation of a working-man. In many cases marriage has only January outbreak demonstrated the of course, a hostile interpretation cerns and the virility and pro- As a result, I abandoned my resolved itself into a system of fact that the murderer is not al of the very course which construc-gressivences of one of its younger sartorial idealism, and, if I have tying up which would be drastic

organisations. ways the worst kind of criminal, tive sta.esmanship demands in

ever been badly dressed since, it for a terrier. The chain is short On its stuff are prominent mem- has been in no spirit of arrog- and sometimes does not even ad- There was only one murderer at China. it WRA Chiang's com-

bers of the Shanghai Land Valuers nnce.

mit of mental freedom. No. Dartmoor on the day of the riot,mendai le efforts in this direction Association men who know real By now I have reached a point wonder the "terriers" start snap- and he went to the assistance of that brought him to his resigna- estate values and the technical at which I should not have the ping at each other. the authorities,

tion: As to the future it is ob- | points essential efficiently slightest objection to being the Household cares. Without doubt, the most impervious that military victory is not managed estates.

best-dressed man in London. If The oflcèra of Mesurs. Davies I am something less than tant question is what the author the real answer; that will come

A good many married men and. ties are endeavouring to do in the when the ideal of true nationhood & Brooke join with those of the this is due not to any purpose of women do not appear to live at

Metropolitan Land organisation in mine,

but to my fate and my all. The man seems to bo ̈ weigh- prisons. It has been well pointed gains the ascendancy in Chine.

extending to the public the facili- figure. It is true, I am opposed ed down with the worry of keeping: out in this connexion that it is

ties of the combined Companies to new fashions-new shapes of a wife and family; the woman insufficient just to feed prisonera'

in П newly-established branch collar, and so forth. But after with household cares. There is. belles: they have minds as well as

office at 14, Queen's Road, Hung-me. I usually give way even to ofton no time or money for the bodies. For a number of years,

kong, which is under the manage- the latest fashion just as a later outside interests which were once ment of Mr. D. S. Scott.

fashion is about to succeed it. I an integral part of their lives. at other prisons, there has been an extensive educational system com bined with the individual visita tion of prisoners by social workers, METROPOLITAN LAND Such work has become, to quote a

& BLDG, CO, recent Prison Commissioners' re-

The Metropolitan Land port, "an essential feature of any system which has for its object Building Co., Ltd. which now has the rehabilitation of a sociala branch in Hongkong, was formed failure." Yet Dartmoor has had during the latter part of do educational adviser, and, be- with a directorate composed of a cause of its isolation, never can number of Shanghal's leading have an adequate supply of volun- business men, several of whom tury workers, whose contribution have been associated with 'real business In Shanghai cannot, by its very nature, be given estate by officials. This is one of the for many years. Capitalised at reasons why it is being urged that Taols 1,000,000, half of which Dartmoor must be abolished. If was privately subscribed by the Directors and their friends, the every convict there had been visit-Company entered the field under ed regularly, or had been given the management of Messrs. Boyd facilities for attending classes in & Co., Ltd., a firm new to Shang- the evenings, instead of being shuthal but active over a long period. up in his cell, to brood upon ways of years in South China. of getting out of it from four o'clock in the afternoon until next morning, it is very much open to question whether any trouble would have arisen.

There is another angle to the question. Experience has shown chat men, even with the worst pos sible records, have gone straight

Despite the short term of its when they have been given an op existence to date, the Metropolitan portunity of carning an honest v Land & Building Co., Ltd., has ing. Prison industries are still during the past fifteen months notoriously antiquated, being. It increased its authorised capital equipped to teach men trades.to Taels 5,000,000 with Taels 2,- Moreover, the whole problem of 000,000 fully paid up and after-care seems to need overhaul- Taola 800,000 placed to reserve. Ing. It is, as one writer 'has' pointed out, foolish economy which releases a man after his first dose of prison with no help bút a few

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1930

ar:

The Company is engaged in the purchasing and developing, of properties buying and selling for clients' account, the handling of Berious estates for private owners,

ranging of mortgages, construc- tion of buildings — practically every phase of operations sp- portaining to land and real pro- porty.

over

It is probable that the coming year will see the issue of further shares and it is further expected that the public will be invited to participate in subscribing the new

don't believe I'd have had the baby, If I didn't live

'near 'a terkų.

Change is more necessary after marriage than before because after marriage. one element of adventure at least is removed., Before marriage overy party, every holiday, may moan the meeting with the one person in all the world. After marriage that is generally settled and there should be other, if minor, `exċite- menta, to take ita placo!

But change, whether it meana. travel, entertaining, the indulging of a hobby or a talent, the pur- suing of particular pleasure or study, always means maney, and |that money is not often forthcom

ing for the very good reason that in most ensos the head of the family is responsible for every- thing.

Just as triffos are often at the root of big, troubles,, no our romantic, or so-called romantic, difficulties sometimes requiro

nation practical solution. As a we pride ourselves on our love. matches. We take a delight in·· saying that money does not enter into marriage; but the French, who believe frankly that it does, seem to make a far better thing" of married life than we do. Any French wife appears happier than the average English wife. She la gayer and more sure of herself. And the French wife has her dot. In a French family there is usuni- ly something to fall "back on if things

go women still like to MDAY Englishmen

feel they can be responsible for: the financial side of marriage, even although modern conditions are making this increasingly dimcult for them and Indrekingly easy for the wife to pull her own. financial weight, 20% #ibyifContinued on Page

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