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MOTOR DANGERS

Bot exemplary punishments has increased, only the really bad cases boing severely treated. The rcauit, it is stated, is that the toll of rond deaths and injuries has not been lowered; in fact, it has in- creased. Looking into the

£100

this clause,

ing, in which the penalties rather lighter.

22

DAY BY DAY

THE CHURCH LIVES IF IT IS AT HOME WITH THE FOOL-George Act. Meredith.

be

a

fine

common

Mr. D. Chon See has resigned his position ns Manager of the Sincere Company Limited, and Mr. Ma Man- fat, sub-manager, has taken over his work,

of $1.

The wedding took place privately in St. Andrew's Church yesterday of Miss Lucy

Toh-tsung Lico, B.A. (Columbia) third daughter of the Rev. Fan Ho Lico, Pastor Peter's Church, Hankow, to Mr. Bald- win Lee, M.A., Ph.D. (Columbia) Associate

Professor of Education, Lingnam University, Canton. The Rev. W. Walton Rogers, M.A., of

cinted at the ceremony.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Public Holidays.

an

To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.)

DOES POVERTY PREVENT HAPPINESS?

By DR. HARRY ROBERTS

Discoveries Not Appreciated.

but

you You

# few

in

called the characteristic signs of middle age, "the desire for money, for power, and, above all things, Some of our most valuable food for security." ingredients, required in quanti-

to and

HAT real poverty is stultify trivial affairs of banks and offices, TH

ing, both to health and to but that in the evenings "voyez- we find that the offence of "rock-

Mr. G.

S. Tranah, second-class happiness,' is a postulate we must vous, nous sommes serieux."

all accept.

We Are Slaves. less driving" is divorced from draughtsman at Hongkong, has been

A few exceptional individuals "Many might go to Heaven with sheer speed. A car may be driven appointed to Chatham dockyard,

...

may rise above the severest mahalf the labour they go to Hell, if tho right are they would vonture at a speed much slower than the

Latest Admiralty civil appointments terial limitations, but these maximum allowed for its type of includo Mr. F. Sellwood, first class so unusual, so abnormal, that no way," said Ben Jonson; and we vehicle; yet if this restricted speed, draughtsman, to the electrical depart-general conclusion can be drawn need not look a few yards from

from them...

our doorstep to see the aphorism ment, Hongkong dockyard.

In actual fact, however, pover-verified. or the manner in which the car is

For the convenience of visitora,

We are supposed to be a phlax- driven, is dangerous, considering Musare. Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co.. ty and ignorance are as frequent-

as are matic race; but, in truth, we are abstractions. We poverty and dirt; and it is doubt-the slaves of Why be influenced by the old the amount of traffic, or the nature Ltd, announce that their store willy found as companions

ful which of this and trinity is laugh at those whom wo call fana- or condition of the road, the driver be open to-morrow na usual.

the greatest contributor to tica, but fanaticism and taboos and argument: If so and so many

largely guide the activities people have bought a cranko car may be convicted of reckless driv

Ing. On summary conviction, for

disease and unhappiness.

In England, extreme pover dictate the lives of nearly all of they must be good. You will notice that this Fifty-a first offence, he may be Aned

ty--that which borders on famine us.

Is to-day rare; and it is a quer- "To know what you prefer, in- tu Million Frenchmen

to prison for four Be-Wrong kind of advertising has £50 or sent

Ng Fat, 35, attempted suicide tion if it is, Itself, a direct cause stead of humbly saying amen to keep shifting around from months. On accond and subse-

ought to prefer, is to have kept year to year to keep up with quent convictions, he may be fined yesterday by drinking an opium solu- of much ill-health at the present what the world tells

Indirectly, of course, it la res-your soul alive." Bay Road to or imprisoned for fourtion, and was removed from his home time.

at 43, Causeway

This slavery to catch-words is. changing facts.

both. The ordinary hospital in a semi-conscious condition. ponsible for a very great deal. months, or

Those who are relatively poor to-ovidenced not only in our politics, culpabilities, however, are not oven

A Morris car which was parked at day are actually richer in their but also, no less, in our private, matter every-day lives. We are all semi- but the top of Western Strest, suddenly control over things that charged under under the "careless driving" head-rolled down the slope and crashed than were the merchants and the hypnotised. Make

Into a lamp post at the function of nobility of a very few centuries passes before our eyes, and our are High Street. The owner, Mr. Moses

not personality slips from us, so that Long, living at the Chinese Y.M.C.A.0. Unfortunately, we do nt Bridges Street, found his car badly always know how best to exploit we are ready to accept as of uni- The law at Home appears to smashed up on his return. A slacken-our power and our material. Our versal validity the standards and most loudly operated on the principle that ited brake is thought to have been the control over the gifts of nature scales of value set up by the nar-

has outstripped our capacity to rowest-minded and origin of the mishap.

We strain our use that power to the greatest ad-voiced among us. would not be right to institute

energies and bend our willa vantage. system of terrorism, and to gend

In matters of food and clothing.! pursuit of ends that have only the for example, it is, indeed, depres-, tiniest bearing on. our happiness decent citizens to prison, or

sing to observe to how small anjor on the true desires of our souls. In an address to young people poor men £100 for the kind of blander or miscalculation

extent the discoveries of science typical road

the last fifty years have been given by Dean Inge, at St. Paul's which produces

introduced into general education Cathedral the other day, he warn crash and kills or injurès pne or

and thus made the property of the ed his hearers against what he It is apparently

whole people. more road usera, considered that the stigma of im- prisonment and the crippling effects of £100 lines ought to be

tien too small to be measured by More Realism Needed,

It cannot be claimed that this any vessel at our disposal, are reserved for genuinely scandalous

taken into serious account by few common attitude of mind; which offences, and not extended to the

housewives-and by few teachers is by no means confined to middle- which

age, leads other than rarely sort of miscalculation

of future housewives.

The discoveriea of Sir Leonard even temporary happiness There can be no doubt that, as ordinary motorist.may perpetrate

Hill and others, again, are but infcontent-to real health in the truc the week. The day of

small degree appreciated, and still meaning of that word.

Fine and healthy living needs stated in the Police Court yester

is less applied in our choice of dress Sir,-Almost

materials. Tradition but a relatively simple material day, cases in which motor-drivers authorities apparently hold that, in view of the congestion on the

seized upon in this Colony for and dress and meet with mishaps and full to re-

proclaiming 17 public holiday, and convention still count for far basis; and though even that may, than always be within the power of the port them to the police are becom-roads, the handicaps of fog

dazzle, the obsolete For example, 2nd of July, merely more than science and comfort; in our disordered civilisation, not ing increasingly common in

and because it is a Saturday follow-and, therefore, for more

ing a holiday which does not even health. Much the same might be individual to secure, those who said about our homes; indeed, possess it make but small use of Colony. Again and again in the character of so many roads

of the carelessness junctions,

exist at Home.

in this stand. Press we come across paragraphs

about all the essential activities the solid ground on which they Most of us are, without neces of motorists knocking people down pedestrians, and the inexperience

Approaching this question from sity, too regardless of the impulse the mo- and then making off post-haste. In of so many motorists, the majority

and amenities of man some of the instances, the victims of accidents impute a blame which

latitude.

our ment. "If you neglect the than criminal is leas

another angie, Professor J. B. S.and the opportunity of are fatally injured. It is nol, of

culprits. This also appears to be

Haldane recently said that

course, to be assumed that the

the view taken here in Hongkong fatilt in drivers are always at

All the same, it is only right and these mishaps; indeed, more often

Might I suggest to our Govern- think of machinery rather than of

I believe that the life of every one of us could, straight away, than not the accidents are due to proper that where there are glar-

kept, instead of one of the present health-and to plan or drift nc- which no cordingly. carelessness on the part of pedesing cases of recklessness, the full ment that in future May 24th be man, of wealth rather than

It is high time that our bankers, be made fuller, happier, healthier attached?

politi-and more worthy of us, if trians. But that does not absolve rigours of the law should be im- regular holidays to

special sentiment is What do your renders think?our economists, and our

a lot cians established a liaison with would but be more realistic the motorist from the duty,

Yours, etc.,

the physiologists and the prac-our attitude. We hear only of going to the aid of the

tical philosophers and began to about morbid introspection these as days, and we have come to take it victim, but also of making a report

contemplate social problems very

concerned first of all with human for granted that introspection is to the police. When these

life and with human health, and itself a morbid thing. But every necessary regulations are ignored.

only secondarily with machines truly successful man, every prac- tical philosopher, knows other- the offender deserves to be heavily

and abstract "institutions."

Robert Louis Stevenson, in that wise. If we look into our own punished. One of our magistrates

of his hearts and observe without pre- perhaps most charming yesterday suggested that Hong-

Voyage," judice our true inclinations, our Inland books. "An kong might well follow the Home

tells us of how he and his com-desires and our aspirations, we practice of giving the Court power

panion nearing, one evening, in can but realise the small use we solem-their canoes, the town. of Ant-make of our opportunities, the to suspend licences, instead of

a group of irrelevance of most of our obses- A pretty wedding was merely making recommendations to bore Sir Thomas so long a grudge

St. John's Cathedral werp, encountered

Mr. club of that city, with whom they the comparatively trifling part the police. We find ourselves in that when opportunity offered henised at

smiled grimly, dipped his quill this morning when Miss Nadia young men, members of a beating 'sions and consequent worries, and

of entered into conversation. These that material things, beyond agreement with the suggestion,

afresh, and caricatured him in the Basargin, the daughter of

and Mrs. L. N. Basargin, since not only do magistrates have creation of Justice Shallow. There Harbin, became the bride of Mr.youths explained that during the bare sufficiency, play in the win- the full facia of each case before has been no sufficient reason for be. W. M. Seraphina, son of the inte. day they were occupied with thening of happiness and health. them in the evidence given, but lieving the story. Poaching, for Mr. and Mrs. Seraphina, of Mon- the defendant's record can easily be one thing, was then punished not trase, Augus, Scotland. The Very The bride was given away by produced in Court. If it became by flogging but by three years' im-Rev. Dean Swann officiated. our prisonment, which would have left Mr. S. 1. Ambrose and was known that in serious cases

a record. But the tale has per-tired in a gown of heavy white magistrates would, in addition to the sentence, order the cancella-sisted. Now, however, Dr. Leslie georgette and crepe satin, the

Brussels net. Her bouquet tion of a licence, we might hope in Hotson, has further authenticated veil being of hand embroidered course of time to check the evils the scepticism with which serious white roses.

In attendance was Miss Sophie Shakespearean scholars have of reckless driving.

garded it. What now appeara like- Shirazee, of Shameen,

this

not

As matters now are, the public may or may not hear that a man's licence

has

been taken away.

It is interesting in

every

Krease and

posed.

the to

Legends of Shakespeare.

It will be pleasant news for ad- mirers of Shakespeare who have thought unwillingly and with re- Kret of his alleged poaching in Sir: Thomas Lucy'a park that latest scholarship holds the episode to be altogether fictitious. As the tale has gone Shakespeare was caught, punished by a sound whipping, and

re-

excuse any

We enjoy many holidays which, I believe I am right in saying, few which emphatically ought to be other Colonies keep. But one day a public holiday is not I refer to May 24th, Empire Day. True, it is a Government holiday, but politicians, through their ignor-ment, if you cut off your fibrous for the rest of the community itance of. or indifference to, bio-roots, what but a languishing life

logical truths, are accustomed to is to be expected," is merely another day of toil..

CITIZEN.

WEDDING AT THE CATHEDRAL

MISS N. BASARGIN & MR. W. SERAPHINA

at-

WAN

As brides-

Ske

ly is that Shakespeare, if inten-muid, her dress being of petunia a picture tionally caricaturing anybody, had chiffon and satin and in mind one William Gardiner, who, hat of colophane straw.

Mr. S. F. McGrath discharged connexion Dr. Hotson finde, was a good deal arried a bouquet of pink roses.

with local motoring offences

of a rascal. He invites no sym-the duties of best man. to

pathy. It is apparently arguable

A reception was subsequently

notice the effect of the new Rond

as an interested public may pre- hold on board the s.s. Haiyang, on honeymoon Traffic Act at Home. Behind that gently read in a book-that Gardi-which the couple later left for

Foochow, where the measure lay a desire common ner, a London justice of the peace, is being spent.

of up

to

all the conflicting interests and

was an enemy of Shakespeare, and opinions that the roads should be that he had a stepson, William

some peevishness in Master Wayte. made safer, and that the toll of Wayte, whom the dramatist may life and limb should be substantial have utilised as material for Shal- However, that may be, this now low's nephew Slender. William knowledge separates Shakespeare ly reduced. It was realised that the new law could only effect safety Wayte, it seems, had his own ren-from illegal pursuit of Sir Thomas'o sons to cross the street if he saw fallow deer, and also, in Dr. Hot- by, dint of what might be termed William Shakespeare coming, for son's opinion, helps separate the Intimidation. Finea

to the researcher discovered a Latin Shakespeare plays from the Bacon- £100 per offence, terme of six document of the year 1596 in which inn theory. Whatever goes to show months' imprisonment, and can- "William Wayté crayea sureties of that Shakespeare Incorporated-per- he wrote collation of drivers licences, were the ponce againat William Shake-sonat experience in his plays

show that speare, Francis Langley, Dorothy goes to the levers by which reckless or Soer, wife of Johu Soor, and Anno them himself. But one is still loft clumsy driving was to be restrain-Lee." This study also reta a new wondering what he was promising ed. For a time, the atmosphere date-April 28, 1697 for the pro- to do to William Wayte in con- with Francis of apprehension created by the duction of the "Merry Wives," so genial company

Act was maintained, but experience the dramatist may conceivably have Langley, Dorothy Soor, and Anno has shown that the incidence of had it in kin thought to Inspira Lee.

of Introspection Not Morbid.

"Now hush, Pa, you know very well I'd rather have everything done before they get here. Those girls would only be in the way.

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