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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1933,

knowledge of means of averting it than the world has ever known. Mr. Fenner Brockway is na fully aware of this as any other observer. His outbreak at Derby may be put down" to the need for the I.L.P. to appeal to mob-psychology.

Costly Bargains

THE JUVENILE COURT

IN HONGKONG

The Very Idea!

ON THE SPOT

By Edward "Whittingtoa" Kally?

NO

So the newspapers got hold

of the story!

You must have seen it, blazoned forth in streamer headlines and on all the posters.

Few people who have read in the that they conduced to the commis- newspapers lately of our Juvenile sion of the offence by neglect of Court and hayo kwown it as only due parental care or supervision, or of recent inception, will recollect oven by actual Instruction. Al- the circumstances by which it came ternatively, the punishment took into boing.

the form of a finé, which maybo Described as making provision hurts more, because eventually and for Proceedings in reference to necessarily it has to be paid by the Juvenile Offenders, Ordinanco No. parents or guardians.. A question worth an answer 1 of 1932 (the Juvenile Offenders But if the parents or guardians from every thoughtful buyer of Ordinance as it is otherwise term are not in a position, or what is Wo refer, of course, to the to-day is: Who pays for these od) takes an advanced view on the more of a reality, disinclined to fact that Mr. Edward Kelly has sensational bargains flaunting problem of juvenile crime, and accept this penalty Indirectly meted

been elected Mayor of Chicago, their attractions on every hand? stands out from a mass of legal out to them, the Court is unable 10

With becoming modesty, we Can a fairly well-made dress of legislation as a measure comprehen-enforce its decisions except by the

broad in outlook aivo and

and extreme form of detention or in- have tried to keep the matter good material bo produced at a treatment, and a tribute to its prisonment. And imprisonment is hushed up. Our public Imow sacrifice price without demand-sponsors.

unthinkablo in this enlightened

However, now that the nowa bas leaked out, we feel that wo owe it to you to tell you how it all cama about.

Immediately they. found that

ing yet another sacrifice-or a Not to mention the Police officers age, unthinkable to the broad- how we shrink from all this chain of sacrifices in the pro-inte whese daily round of duties minded Policeman and Magistrate, publicity. ducing? What of the story the problem has constantly in-who like it to be believed that be- back of the prices being offered truded, few foreigners penetrating nouth their garb of stern authority by some of the cut-rato dry into the nativo slum quarters have there beats a heart susceptiblo to como away and not been impressed the good influence of tho lesson eleaning establishments. This.

by the largo number of children in held out with tho birch. This is le not day of magic. Making the streets who, to their minds, where the New Ordinance with its a dress, cleaning a suit, fashion-would be better at school-books, and possibilities for combining the ther wanted a Mayor'in Chicago ing a hat cannot be done by further by the probability that utilarian with the humanitarian, they thought of us. Ini loss some sort of painless financial for every child selling vegetables has come into its own. hocus pocus. Work has to go or in other ways helping to supple THE CHILD A

ment the family income, there are

to have CONFIDANT. ten others who appear

do. The absolutely nothing to well-known adage alluding to Idle hands instantly suggests itself. THE LONGER. VIEW

For those who are not acquainted. it may be stated, briefly:-The Juvenile Offenders Ordinance es tablishes separate Courts for

of question

Hongkong Telegraph girls in actual distress, ommesh- now in course of construction, li of parents and guardians in the start to finish,"

WEDNESDAY APRIL 19, 1933.

1

MR. BROCKWAY

AND MOSCOW

British Government is strong History Can Be "Bunk"

*

than a week the printing presses were working over time, rushing

off

extra laques

of stamps to

IN DANKRUPTCY

In persuance of Section Buchan such of Part suchansuch of the Act, you are hereby called upori ta nhow cause, otc

.nced we say any

more.

ing:

"Dear Sir, May we bring to your attention the fact that holiday crulses to the United States are now available at the reduced rate of G$432 return. TRAVEL BY THE DOLLAR LINE."

•

Into these things from start to finish. If the result can be sold for a starvation price and yet keep the retail store and factory back of it in funds, it stands to reason that the production cost

Juvenile cases, and proceeding on to cope with the letters that kent. has been kept down somewhere

the premier that you can best pouring in for us. close to starvation levels. Social It is with this, rather than petty reach a child by making it a con

Wo roceived all 'aorta of lottaru, organizations having on their infringements of the law, with fidant In a schome for its Own hearts the welfare of working which the Government were con-welfare, abolishes much of the imploring us to take on the job. girls do not need to use subtle:cerned when they brought the formality and rigidity of trial Most of them were circulars from

complete strangers. detective methods to learn this.Colony within the benefit of the procedure, as well as the terrify

From the Central Theatre, for Material for a survey has swept larger Home experience and repro Ing. enigmatism

duced, with provision for local formulae."

instance, we received a touching in upon them throughout the colour, the Juvenile Court. With It requires the attendance and epistle which bogan: "Soe the last year, in terms of women and an industrial Home or Reformatory, active assistance and co-operation Mayor's Nesta scream from

ed in what seemed to them a is to be the principal- feature in disposal of cases; also the services hopeless situation of low wages a new humanitarian scheme. of a "probation officer" who is Other touching letters were re- and discouraging conditions Long experience of local Folice given supervision over the child colved. Ve have chosen one at Courts has made it somewhat un-whether in the industrial Home, or random: "Dear Mr. Kolly-1 forced upon them by unscrupul-necessary to confirm the statement in the period of the bond or pro wonder if you could advance me ous employers. Among these of a Police Magistrate the other bation order; and in general to act $5 until the end of the month.". social organizations the Young day when he said that a Juvenile as its guardian, guide, or adviser, Other letters were moro per- Women's Christian Association Court with ample powers for deal- and if possible to find it suitable sonal. We take the liberty of in America, which has kept close Ing with juvenile offenders, Is A employment.

printing one from His Majesty's A one-eyed enthusiasm like to more than 350,000 young wo-real necessity for Hongkong. This It makes the responsibility of Oficial Representative in Hong- that possessed by Mr.. Fenner men in business and Industry necessity will be at once apparent parents and guardians more of a

kong during the last year, reports during single morning's proceed-reality by making them directly Brockway is necessary before it that young girls to-day tend to ings at say, the Central Magistracy. amenable to Court orders, the IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG; is possible to contemplate an take any job at any price, and conio up in unending succession fine them if it is found that they Petty thefts, cases of hawking, Magistrate being empowered to Anglo-Soviet war over the Mos- often under deplorable sanitary from day to

Re Edward Kelly, impecunious day. Throughout have conduced to the repetition of journalist, in the Colony of Hong- cow Trial and its sequel. The conditions. It is common among there is a keynote of poverty verg- the offence.

kong. Derby resolution of the I.L.P. factory girls to report to work ing on the extreme. It underlies and the general strike threat each morning even if there is no the plea of the person who aaya ho A HUMANE

work, and to remain on hand all is forced to steal to avort starva OUTLOOK need not, therefore, be taken too day in case of being needed a tion, of the young mother who in

Juvenile Offenders are classed for seriously. The economic weapon short time.

producing an array of children,

the purposes of the Ordinance into placed in the hands of the

sometimes claiming all of them as her own, says she has to send out "children" under the age of 14, and the elder ones to hawk because her "young persons" between the ages

The Dollar Lino, Immediately enough for all practical pur-

husband is dead, or has gone to a of 14 and 10 Punishment is res-the news leaked out that Chiengo foreign country and neglects to send tricted in that the former class would choose us as its new Mayor, poses. No doubt it will be used

back money for the family's main-are exempt from imprisonment if anticipations of a commutatory as written was "bunk" may officers and newspaper reporters or costa, is defaulted; and in the

The gentleman who said his- tenance: Only Magistrates, Police when payment of a fine, damage congratulated us with the follow- tion-of gnol sentences are not have been right after all. In-who sit through the round of cases, Magistrato is enjoined not to re- case of "young persons" the realised. In normal circumstan-elegant though his language can understand the enn an sort to sovere punishment if the ces there would be no justifien-may have been, and sweeping Fincs are imposed, if ever so light. offender can be suitably dealt with

monotony of these statements. tion for the employment of the his statement, if his remark hadatter of routine. But often in some other way, whether by economic boycott, but it seems reference to a certain type of there is a ring of genuine poverty probation, fine, corporal punish-

history, then it quite definite that the whole How is history to be classified which appears to make the punish- tention, reformatory or industrial |

was justified behind theat pitiful utterances, ment, committal to a place of de affair has been part of a cam- which exploits the

The method of electing a Mayor paign against every class of emotions, which exalts victory extreme chees geems hardly the

human ment harsh, and imprisonment in school, or otherwise."

The brief recapitulation of the in Chicago is simplicity itself. specialist and engineer in order by the sword no matter how correct procceding in a communal principal features will suffice to The gangs are all called out, and to divert attention from the unjust the cause,

or which problem that strikes deeper than show the comprehensive scope of begin to shoot each other up, until calamitous breakdown of the caters unduly to national pride the individual casca brought into the now enactment, but it has not there is only one gang left.

are but its yet come into full operation, one

Then the gang that's left looks Soviet agricultural policy. In in the narration of a world city and which

different nianifestations.

of the principal reasons for the delay being that the Belillos Ro-around for someone suitable to these circumstances, the form of event? Such a type of history

formatory now being built in ag-put on a pedestal so that they can pressure exerted cannot be too a thing that has gone out of EYE SEES!*

is not, as is sometimes imagined. "WHAT THE

sociation with the scheme, has not get some practico with their strong, Except for war. Great currency. Speaking before the

been completed. Until the In-machino guns until another rival Before the Juvenile Court came atitation has fully materialised gang is formed, and they say: Britain is sincerely committed to American Historical Association into being, children convicted of with the equipment designed for "What about that chap in Hong-- the maintenance of peace in in Toronto recently, Prof. Herminer offences were cautioned, or the employment of the Inmates on kong who writes for the Tele Europe and elsewhere. The bert E. Bolton of the University whipped, and every facility was practical trades, the full powers graphi It's about time bo British people, striving to attain of California pointed out the given to the parents to view the that have been given to Magistrates choked off, anyway."

(Continued on Pago 4.) recovery from the burdens im-distortion which history has corporal chastisement in the belief posed by the last, will not readily treat it solely from a national suffered from the tendency to be plunged into another, and this viewpoint. The American Re- time suicidal, conflagration. All volution, he said, was not a mat- the powder-magazines ofter of a few years, but of half Europe, the Balkans, the Polish a century, from 1776 to 1826, Corridor and so on, scem on the and the great liberating move- surface to be ready to blow up, ment covered not only North but the common-sense of peoples but South America also. He will probably provent their being stressed the necessity for a rushed into another storm of broader treatment of history, an rage and destruction. A fair emphasis which it is difficult to tost of the prospects of an Anglo- realize is necessary at a time Boviet war can be applied by an when nations are so interlocked examination of the feeling in in their relations that the slight Britain towards the Locarno est disturbance in one part of Treaty commitments. A well- the world is almost certain to be known political essayist, who felt in another. History needs hypothetically assumes that all broadoning. Not along the his- else fails and war returns to tory as presented in books. The Europe, emphasises Britain's record of contemporary events commitments and still gives contained in the press is no less "No" ns an answer to the ques-open to the charge, in many tion of whether Britain would cases, of a narrow nationalism. become involved. No govern History is put out of focus if the ment however anxious to honour press fails to measure up to its its pledges could take Britain duty to chronicle accurately into a European war. There are events "abroad," as well as "at things which Governments can home." The price of American not do and this is one of them.wheat may be determined in In polat of fact, neither, the Soviet Russia, that of Danish European situation generally bacon in some remote part of nor the Anglo-Russian dispute the British Dominions, An Justify pessimism. Wo may invisible thread links the trade not have a higher order of and welfare of one nation with diplomacy in existence to-day another. Hence, the necessity but we have a public sentiment in every nation more thoroughly of a wider treatment of contem- porary-history in the columns of eflucated in abhorrence of war the press, as well as in (jo pages and better equipped with the

of a book.

"And this is granduin's room. Isn't it sweet?"

was.

So they send for us. It's all perfectly atraight-forward; there's no hanky-panky business about taking away the number you first thought of and adding your age, next birthday, or the price of a case of bootleg.

It's a very sound system. Everybody knows who the Mayor 1s going to beo gambling on the result is discouraged.

Another thing. It gives us change to prepare. Supposing. for instance, someone decidos to translate our works into Amor- lena.

Before we leave for Chicago, we are thinking of floating a loan to tido the elty over its financial dimculties. Applications will be received by us any time between now and our departure. Bonds, which are issued at 97%, will mature when the next Mayor takes office.. APPLY NOW,

BIG WORD.

After Technocracy," which died a sudden death recently amid hoots of dorisive laughter, the big word with the thinking boys seems to be "Radiocracy," which means the tyranny of the wireless, Other good big words, if you'd like to jump in ahead of the pundits, aro Gymnasocracy, Panti- Bocracy, Bilchiomythocracy, and Rhizotomisocracy—this last mean- ing (we think) the odious tyranny of those who go about flicking- Imaginary chicken-feathers off the. coats of architects, wives,