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pital, on Wednesday, April 27. 1932, to Hazel Marjorte, wife of Rev. L N. Watkins, a daughter.

DEATH,

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MONDAY, MAY 2, 1932.

singlo indus-

DAY BY DAY

elation, that concerns, or even whole trics, which had fallen into de- cay, have been saved by some stranger who, lacking expert, knowledge, has brought to bear on the conditions a properly trained thought. Such an educational ystem, however, though at its best yielding the highest possible results, is not suited to all types The P. and O. 8.8. Ranchi, from

EFFECT? INFLUENCE? UTILITY? LET A MAN DO I WORK; THE FRUIT OF IT IS THE CARE OF AN- OTHER THAN HE-Carlyle.

MOTHER & DAUGHTER- "LIKE SISTERS"

But is it Wise?

Asks

MARY BORDEN

The problem of mothers and moment, even nowadays, witlant

of ability. From both a commer-Singapore, is due here with the Eng-daughters is old, as old as the being ridiculous. elal and a cultural point of view ish minil on Wednesday at 10 a.m. family, and it will be a problem

so long as the family exists.

there is much to be and for the contention of Sir Charles Grant

Robertson that it profits only those students who are reasonably likely to attain frat. or second class honours in their degree examination,

that

on

The Empress of Japan (from) Manlia) is due here at 7 a.m. Wednesday and will berth at Kowloon Wharf.

Silly Bravado

But It changes; it grows ever I suspect that it is a nervous more difficult and more delicate, strain and a nuisance to the girl increasing in complexity as the to have a mother who is even the world becomes more civilised and most kind and devoted of sisters. men and women more expectant. I am certain that it must be very Perhaps in the Stone Age there Halling. to her to have a mother The Week-end return of notifiable was no auch problem.

who is a rival. diseasen shows four fresh cases of

do not wonder that ahe rebels, Daughters in a primitive world The question thus arises-and} meningitis, four

of diphtheria and had little three of small-pox.

to gain from disobe-breaks away, tries to put'n dik it is one which greatly concerns

dience to their mothers.

tance between them, and if pur They

· Hongkong-as to what kind of

were probably submissive to the clased, asserts her independence My W. J. Keswick has been ou-laws of the clan, since danger of by a show of silly bravado, ad education is to be given to those thorised to sign the name of Messrs, death by violence was the most tragic or sordid, with the young who either do not satisfy this re-Jardine, Matheson and Co., Ltd., and likely alternative. Youth did not men who are as spoiled by her often gets into scrapes, sometimes quirement or who do not wish to Mr. H. W. Moon to sign per pro.

in any case Inst long enough to enter a university. it in in deal-

allow girin to fret or get into mother's experienced friends. ing with this huge army of young

One hears a good dent about the The Health Bulletin of Eastern mischief at home; and this holds men and women of the latter type ports for the week ending thus 23rd true to-day in the conservative hameless depravity of the modern girl. Even the most careless mu- British

inst., shown the following cases of Ennt. education is 10-

Infectious diseases nad the deaths

dern mothers, the other type who cognized as being least effective, therefrom-Plague, Bassein 1 death, leaves

When a daughter is married are too busy to bother to be sİH-

her father's house, and At present ʼn secondary school | Bombay 5 enses 5 deaths, Rangoon hrcomes mother herself

tera, seem to be disturbed by it. case, Cholera, Calcutta 81 cakes 40 course, for those who do not con-

You find groups of these energetic, thirteen or fourteen, she has not deaths, Canton case. Small-pox, template a university degree, fends Sucz

se much chance to become bored withch-occupied women, snatching Bombay & enses 2 stars. as Lord since Percy deaths, Calcutta 40 euros 22 deaths, her parents. She is scarcely old and dinners to discuss the sub maments between charity matinees nowhere, observed some time ago.

Karachi 10 eases 2 denths, Madras 13 enough when she goes away to be

ject over cocktails, deaths. Pondicherry 6 enses 6 deaths,ing her leaves little inclination to about the ugly misbehaviour. PIKOR deaths,

cases 12 critical, and the experichee await Rangoon

I do not believe half I am told Saignon 32 cases 27 deaths, Canton rebel against the authority 12 enses 1 death, Shanghai 22 cases

deaths, sakn à enses. Cerebro soon to be exchanged for another.now a lot of good girls and some I think the relation of mother spoken, gallunt. nerveracked, and bad girls. I find them honest, cut- spinnt Meningitis: Mucno 16 cnups 12: and daughter is more difficult to denths,

day than it ever has been, or ever pathetic. Oh very pathetic. will be. The family still

some of them, pecially the bad Lois Moran and John Gilbert handio vives in a weakened form, Parental girls, and I am puzzled by the The steling rules in West of Broad-authority

folly of their pretence still exists, though

sif des way." and make a complete success of challenged by every sort of old

pravity. the tank, as the who have seen the and young rebel.

For they pretend to be much wilder and wickeder than they are, and it is this, I think, that mates them different from the bad girls of the days of our mothers and Krandmothers,.

To rom-

| opening performances yesterday at

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education.

sur-

plete the secondary school system on its commercia) as well as on its cultural side there would seem Lo be needed Eumber of pro- perly organized technical colleges f an academic status rouglily on to that of ordinary univers sities, In various countries there. are several colleges in riose Hos.touch with the needs of industry;

and vilucational policies of the the Queen's will agree. Briefly, the "Preposterously Young"

t "gold-digging" Broad

It is the next inevitable experi- future will probably pay attentio

way cabaret girl who, against her to the development of this idea, principles, "fell for an intended vie-meat, predestined result of slick,

tim and is reluctant to pursue the ab. precocious

and the Hongkong will soon have its project she originally hud in view. There stimulus of speed machines, wire

Too Intimate. School perly-organised Technical

are some interesting turns to theless, and telephones; but for the

"Can one be depraved at nine- and this will no doubt provide a story, designed more or less to suit moment young women, precocinua- body-needed link in our system of the type of characterization which pie-ly old, still live under the eyes of teen?" I ask myself. "Can one be education.

ture-goers have been accustomed to older

a lovely child, fresh n & TORE, women: preposterously! look for from Gilbert. The picture is young their mothers; and be and yet have vicious habits?" well worth seeing.

cause the mothers do not grow ald only pretend to be depraved, try No, not in the time. One can qulekly, while the daughters do, fabet Gaynor and Charles Farrell they are closer together than they depraved, imitate depravity. Then why the pretenco and why are featured in "Delicious," the ur- have ever been. rest attraction at the King's Theatre, !

Take a yoẞng modern mother of the effort? That is what puzzles which drew crowded houses yesterday-forty and a worldly wise daughter

sickly of eighteen. The

result is an There is a seal of rather sentimentalism in the picture,

that many people, this is more than offset by the ex-intimacy cellenes of the neting of Lis leads and Pecially mothers, consider ideal. andWe're like sisters," the mothers, by the finished character of the say, "We're the greatest friends. diaction,

which includes Sene very clever impressimist seers. El Brendel We do the same things, see the is also extraordinarily good in the role same people." of a valet, quite his best

it is true; but I under some for a long time, There is a clean

appeltinues what

the daughters feel wholesome atmosphere shut the film about it when their mothers do to try to get husbands. and this comics as a welcome relief to nut drop out or make room for

They the sex stuff of which we get all too them: go on playing tennis, go on couraged and don't believe in any- mars nowadnys,

dining and dancing in restaurants thing any more, and so don't care and night clubs, go on playing the what they do. most alluring and entertaining of

And this, the most candid: all games in the world with young "They admire their mothers and men. with the same young nien their mothers' friends and want who are, or should be, in love with to be like them." the lovely daughters.

And this, the most disturbing: Like sisters It sounds sorae-"You see, their mothers are too how rather fatuous. And sisters intimate to be stern, or too busy" (The speaker was "I remember

KWAN YICK CHOW. Mr. Kwan Virk Chow, cómpradore of 8.8. Sui Tai, father of Mr. (1. Y. Kwan, solicitor. passed away on the early morning of Sun-

In Defence of the K.R.A. day, May 1, The funeral takes

In his, letter supporting the phare this afternoon (Mon- day. May 2nd) leaving

claims of one of the candidates the Tung Wah Hospital Mortuary for the vacancy on the Sanitary at 6 pm, for the s.3, Sui Tai. Board. Mr. M. K. Lo has which will convey the re muing to Macsa the following morning. Only floral tributes will be acceptes,

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, MAY 22, 1982.

PRACTICAL EDUCATION

seen

it in a rather oblique way, to imply a lack of publie-spirited news no the part of the K.1.A Whilst we have not the least intention of taking sides, as he tween on!! candidate and the uther, we feel that in

fairness to the K.R.A. ant. its nominee, the issue raised by Mr. Lo should be put in its proper light. Mr. Lo bases his criticism on the Association's statement that "the expert technical **R meliekt knowledge at the com- mand of the Assarintion will also be at the disposal of dar can didate."

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I have asked these questions of a number of girls and I have fiad some answers. Here they are:

They think it fun to live dan- Kerously.

The men are so apathetic Howa days.

They, the girls, think it mere decent to throw themselves away on men who don't really care than read a lot and get dis-

often rivals. There is often to be angry.** As we view the matter.

of the sugar market on Saturdayo love lost between them. But a girl of nineteen.) has been received by Messrs. Penthe rivalry, of two sisters is my mother being absolutely

no

Among the problems which Hongkong has to face is that of

there is no justification whatever for investing this statement of evolving a system of education which shall be of praction) use

fact with any ulterior meaning, ta young Inds when they

such as the implication that the so out

its inte life and sook to earn their Association might withhold living in the industrial

advice from any member of the sphere.

nominated Board not

by the Not only in this Colony, but in

K.R.A. Britain as well. it has long been

The issue is, after all, There are LWO realised that some substitute is quite simple. needed for the old-time appretice candidates for the seat, one with ship system. Accordingly. mans medient and public health quali-

fications; the other nying admirable educational sebemes have been drawn up and put into

claim to the possession of such To offset successful operation

technical knowledge, in Hog.

under and by several members firms of

any apparent handicap. the Association for Education in

which the latter may appear to be labouring. the Association Industry and Commerce, but these

om- efforts, worthy of praise as they quite properly stresses his undoubtedly are, touch merely the gial connexion with a body which fringe of the problem, which can be properly tackled only by a scheme on a larger scale than is possible to single

a group of firms.

Some time back, the Association named above, in discussing at its the fact that Mr. Mow Fung is annual conference the education layman is, in the circumstances, system of Great Britain, especial- more apparent than real--in other

Inc ly in relation to business needs, words, that what he may could pass no judgment upon the in expert knowledge is counter- tlant he commercial superss of university balanced by the fact graduates, though it noted as a can look to the Association's ex- significant fact that the appoint-perts for guidance. This is ments board of, for example, perfectly logical and legitimate Cambridge University, has no dif- plece of propaganda, based ficulty in placing its clients, Bri- fact. reflecting nothing unfair tish university education is, ex- or unreasonable in tactics, either cept in certain branches of ape the Association or its nominee. plied natural science, overwhol. The K.R.A.'s fine record of public mingly non-vocational. The de-service is a sufficient answer to fence of this from a business Mr. Lo's implied criticisms, but standpoint is the assumption that it is well that the point on which a man who has followed a course he rests his imputations should of academic roading will have be shown to have no substance thereby nequired a method of at-either in theory or in fact. tack and a system of study rendi-

bas

access to expert advice. There is no suggestion that the]

ex- Association's candidate has clusive contact with that body. but it is made clear thut ang

created Beeming disability

firm

ly applicable to any and every

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kind of business problem. That from a window at 45 Haiphong Road Injured seriously through a fall this theory is substantially sound yesterday, a man named Young Fook, ls indicated in a statement of Sir stated to be unemployed, was taken Max Bonn, president of the Asso-to the Kwong Wah Hospital.

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tural and fair.

furious with me once. It was such The older of two girls has the

a relief. I felt safe, you know." nilvantage of experience, the

I think these answers are in- younges the advantage of being teresting and worth attention. new, and they are roughly on an They are honest, and though they equal footing. The question of may explain nothing, they reflect authority does not enter, whereas something of importance, a posi in a rival who is a mother that ive idea, the innocent reactions of is a very different affute.

over-stimulated youth to the times For the mother who behaves like we live in, with its jazz, its movies, a sister remains a mother never-and all the rest; vulgar behaviour, theless, and can evoke the spectre an extraordinary collapse of good other ancient authority at any taste, combined with an ignorant.

"I simply hate baby talk, but's the only way I can make

him listen to reason."

pride, the incorrigible innocence of youth. It Is this that is in- teresting. The children who go in for the shocking public. di- play of their emotions do not think it indecent. They think it chic.

Air Heroes Who Gamble With Sleep

It would be difficult to reclaim too highly the feat of Mr. J. A. Mollison in Blying to Capetown in less than five days, beating Miss Salamun's record by 15 hours 18 minutes. Everybody is thankful that his accident on landing, due to extreme exhaustion, more serious.

was not

Yet regard for our heroic pilots should not blind us to the fact that our record Empire flights have de veloped into endurance tests in which the pilot's problem is "How long can I ily without crashing for want of sleep?"

The flights are magnificent per- sonal adventures. But flying is. no Job for a fatigde-drugged man. Onca I made four dawn lights aftor less than three hours' sleep In each case, On the fourth morn- ing the ear-spitting exhaust roar was as a soothing lullaby." For

an instant I closed my tired eyes. The 'plane flew straight and stendy ut two thousand feet.

/

Dazed Men.

Again I closed my oyes. Terrible vibration. The engine was scream- ing its heart out. I had fallen for- ward in my harness and was in

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