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NOTES OF THE DAY A PARENT'S LETTER

NANKING REVENUE

To A Headmaster

Mr. H. 11. Kung, looking round DEAR Hd article the gist chemical formulae which he will

Headmaster,-I recent- He will recite also long

for means to supplement the income

reached has not been disclosed, but

The Very Idea!

TOUGH OLD. SALTS

By Eddle "Epsom" Kelly

Yo Hof Aspros. We

and a packet

of the Nanking Treasury Depart of which was that schooling "did have forgotten altogether in a ment, contemplates an increase in no harm." The idea struck mo year's time, and may even be Gustoms duties upon foreign im-as boing so funny that I chuckl-able to enlighten you on the ports. The schedule of articles ed for hours. I chuckled so mysteries of Einstein's Theory. [have been on one of those likely to be affected by the decision long, in fact, that I left Impelled All very nicel yet it must be winter cruises to the Far revelation is not necessary to assist to put my hand to paper to confessed that, as a rule, he East and have returned to the conviction that the policy will bring me to earth again.

cannot distinguish a beech from Hongkong full of health and serve to defeat its objectives. In- After spending millions on a birch, a grasshopper from a lies. creased revenue is not obtainable palatial buildings, salaries, ex-| caterpillar, a star from a planet, by the aimple process of increasing pensive equipment, and a wealth granite from limcatone, a lily

It was lling right from from a gladiolus, or wheat from the start. Just as the Can- customs duties. Thero must come a time when the limit of impost in

barley, reached and the surmounting of the

ton and Macao ferryboat tariff barrier is no longer profitable, The cost is ultimately thrown upon the consumer in China, whose pur chasing power is already severely curtailed. Further trade depres- sion rather than increasing revenue Is the most likely result of the Kung decision, and sympathise though we may with the Finance Minister in his difficulties, it is dimcult to believe the proffered solution has much chance of success.

MRS, HADLEY REPRIEVE

(being a letter written to himself)

By COLONEL

E. A. LOFTUS

He knows about as much of

Beethoven as of beetroot; of was about to sail, we couldn't Michael Angelo as of the Angel find our luggage. Raced all. Gabriel, and probably less of over the place looking for it. The captain and us, we

Rubens than of the Rubicon.

His ideas of Politics and Gov-hunted everywhere, and ernment are of the crudest, and some of the officers; sug- of books, the man-in-the-street his knowledge of our system of gested putting back into the har bour so that a thorough search has the audacity-isn't it auda-law is usually nil. city,

Mr. Schoolmaster?-to He will, in all probability, not could be made. subscribo the view that "no be abe to tell you the name of harm is done." "Oh! ye gods a single stateman, other than found it in our overcoat pocket. And after all that fuss, we and little fishes! The perpetra- Roosevelt, Hitler and Mussolini. We felt such a fool! (Mental tor of such a heresy thinks, ap- He doesn't know, the fune-note: He has no overcoat.) parently, that the chief function tions of his own organs, and the

sailed.

Sir Miles Lampson has reprieved of the school is to keep children only- liver or kidneys in which Anyway, at last they untied the Mrs. Katherine Hadley, condemned out of mischief and reduce them he is interested is that which string off the wharf and the boat for a sordid murder in Shanghai, to disciplined habits, but that, so may appear with bacon on his the sentence having been commuted far as knowledge is concerned, breakfast table. to imprisonment for life. The its value is of such a character British Minister's decision will be

Hating the Classics, he never Rex of the prisoner, and upon that But there is something in it if opens his Shakespeare again after leaving school, because he score only could remission of the you will but have the patience has had to "study" his plays for death sentence be justified-unless to dismount from your high one is of the school which condemns horse and consider the indict-examination purposes. capital punishment under any cir- cumstances. This was, the third occasion on which Mrs. Hadley had been connected with deaths by violence, and it is notable that the

interpreted as a concession to the as to do no harm.

Hongkong Telegraph. Shanghai Judge declined to support

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1933.

a plea for recommendation morcy. "I can find", he anid, "no

reason whatever why you should not pay the extreme penalty and no ground whatever for interfering with the due course of law."

M.C.C. AND TESTS

ment.

What The Boy Does Not Know

If he has any definite religious beliefs he did not gain them through his school where, again, he probably had to read the Gospels for examinations. Of comparative religion he knows nothing, and probably thinks

I assume, sir, that at present, you are beginning to put two and two together for next year's Moslems are heathens. work. Time-tables and such- In fact, what real education like are exercising your atten- he has is gained from his home tion and your capacity for solv-environment, or from the Scout ing jig-saw puzzles.

movement, if he belongs to a

A beautiful lady accosted us us we appeared on deck. We had expected something of this sort, but not quite so suddenly. deck sports are?" she enquired.

"Madam," we replied, "Need you look any further?"

"Could you tell me where the

said coldly,

"I'm speaking of games," she "Quolts and dock tennis and that sort of thing!"

Straight down those stairs," we said, pointing.

We had never been down those

stairs before, but he believe the lady finished up down the stokë hold

That was only one of the few slight errors we made during the voyage.

dining room.

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CREMATORIA, `NEEDS.

For instance, a gentlemen. told One of the crying needs of

While you aro about it, troop.

is that we didn't have to dress the Colony, and one which

couldn't you scrap the whole And so, Mr. Headmaster, if for dinner aboard the Sui An, and could be provided at no great

The passage of cablegrams be- curriculum and start afresh? the School has done him no we were glad to hear about this, expense, is the provision by the tween the K.C.C. and the Austra In doing so couldn't you make positive harm in making him because it was hot down in the Government of crematoria-ono lian Board of Control threatens to the Boy the chief piece in the follow its stupid curriculum, he However, it turned out that we in Hongkong and another revive ill-feeling rather than to game, and forget the demands leaves that establishment as an had been misled. When we enter

dispel it. The game of words that of the university? in

as "know-ed the dining saloon, all the wo Kowloon. The only

ignoramus so far *UX- certain members of the Board in

When a young person leaves ledge" in the proper sense is men screamed, some fainted, and isting crematorium available Australia insist on playing is carry-

the Chief Ocer rushed up to us for general use is the ing the issue on to highly danger-school at the age of sixteen or concerned.

and threw a tablecloth around us, Japanese institution at Sookun-ous ground, and the final message if he (or she) is to be re-

and then ran us back to our cabin. of the M.C.C. In regard to it in angarded as adequately educated,

We had no dinner, poo, which, while serving a use-

accurate reflex of public opinion, should not he know a little some- ful purpose, is far from what is If Australia intends to send team thing about his own bedy, about to England next year, there is no nature, about the common move- required. In the first place, more to be said. If there are any ments of mankind around him, there is no chapel suitable doubts about it, it would be wise with a leaven of ethics thrown for general use in connexion to call it off without more ndo.

in-and hang the universities if with Christian burial rites,

they object. with the result that the

Cinderellas of the Curriculum

humanising.

The school curriculum wants

Let physical training and its kindred sciences, physiology, anatomy, hygiene, dietetics, and first-aid, be given the places in

demands.

whole of the obsequies, have to AMERICA TIRED OF LEAGUE?of your own boys who has just the-school-curriculum that their

The trouble is we're not used to these new-fangled ships. Givo us a sailing ship every time, where a man can walk around the capatan singing chanteys and heaving up

anchors.

We didn't have any anchors on our trip, but that was only be cause wo hadn't_caten_one.

Chat, my dear Head, with one gained his school certificate and

importance see what his education has given youth will hen have learned we got trapped into a game of him in the way of knowledge.

Our

Just before we reached Macao,

don't

him until later on. Just before we reached Macao, he kicked up a frightful row, and said he'd been robbed.

We weren't going to give it back to him and then be suspected of atealing the thing, so, in order to save our character wo stuck to the wallet. What also could we do? Arriving at Macao we wont ashore and were immediately ac- costed by thousands of Chinese who wanted to pull us back to Hongkong In their rickahawa. We gave one of these men two conts for carrying us up to the Hotel Riveira and he WIE pleased that he executed a fan-tan dance, which we watched with great Intorost.

be held out-of-doors, a most in-

There are some enemies of the convenient arrangement during League of Nations who are always inclement weather. Secondly, ready to seize upon the most inno-

He, or the, will discuss Geo something of the art and science grab by some international shar- there is no suitable accommoda-cent or trivial circumstances to

pers, and lost $1.25 in cold blood. |of physical fitness.

tlón where the clergy

Scrap your advanced courses it made our blood boil. There argue that the League is in danger metrical Progression and may may of collapse. They now point to the even know something of the

in physics and chemistry, and $2.50, but, of course, you

was also a chit that we signed for change into their vestments, the return of Mr. Norman Davis, the Binomial Theorem ; he can

chief American delegate, to "solve triangles"; he will dis- give a general course in science count them... caretaker's quarters having to Washington as an Indication that cuss the humour of Aristo- based on the needs of the boy,

Needless to say, this left UB be utilised for this purpose. the United States are about tophanes or the Odes of Horace not on a tradition of the univer-exremely short of money. Lucki- Thirdly, the crematorium itself throw over the League and

ly, we found n wallot which the more or less glibly; he can speak sity. Disarmament Conference. No

Let him learn the elementary someone had lost in a cabin we is by no means modern in type. doubt, if they thought that the a little broken French (in a man- These factors, taken in facts of botany, geology, astro-entered by mistake, and as the man who might have lost it was tion with the growing tendency would say much the same thing the cheek of a French child of nomy, and. zoology, together asleep in the cabin, we thought. It in favour of cremation, illus with regard to Great Britain when four years of age); he will recite with the basic facts of chemistry best to mind it for a while for

ever Sir John Simon or trate the necessity of Govern- Anthony Eden went back from Treasury" (which excellent com-

Mr. a few verses from "The Golden and physics.

Give music, drawing and ment action. During the past Geneva to London to consult the pilation he has, alas! learned to painting, craftsmanship, drama forty or fifty years, cremation Cabinet. The only essential differ hate),

(Continued on Page 4.) has been rapidly growing in the journey to Washington takes ence between the two cases is that

favour in civilised countries as longer and therefore cannot be the most hygienic and sanitary undertaken so frequently. Mr. method of disposal of the dead. for some months, during which im- Norman Davis has been in Europe A further circumstance which portant changes have taken place has helped the movement in in the disarmament situation. congested areas is that it does Naturally he needs to discuss them away with the necessity of with the President and with tho alienating large areas of ground Genoral Commission of the Confer- for the purpose of cemeteries, ence marking time until January These cemeteries often stand in at least, he would naturally choose the way of development, so that the present juncture for hurrying land which would serve a useful

back to the United States. purpose for the living is mono- polised by the dead. In Hong- kong, on the island, this ceme NEW LINKS tery question has already bo- come a problem. On the Kow- Leaving aside the Disarmament loon side, despite the steady Conference, American co-operation growth of the population, there with the League of Nations has is as yet no European cemetery,deed, there are striking examples, continued quite unhampered. In a condition which makes the pro-which indicate that still more links vision of a cromatorium on that are being forged between Washing side of the harbour all the more ton and Geneva. It. Is significant necessary. Indeed, were such that Mr. James McDonald, chair- a facility provided, the need for man of the United States Foreign a Kowloon cemetery would not Policy Association, has been ap bo nearly so pressing and might pointed High Commissioner to as- eventually be met by setting. Germany. America, too, is one of xist the refugees from Nazi aside a much smaller area than the countries invited by the League would otherwise be necessary. to serve on the governing body, and Be that as it may, the time has sho has just accepted "in cordial como when the Government terms. At the last meeting of tho should take this matter up, but League's Oplum Committee, tho a point to be stressed is that most outspoken delegate was the when crematoria are establish- American representative, Mr. ed, stipulations, should be im Stuart Fuller. He has drawn at posed, as is the case in England, tention to the danger of dopo preventing their near, prescace smuggling by air and to the Japan to dwelling-houses or public smoking in thoir vaksal State of eso" policy of "encouraging" oplum highways,

Manchukuo.

"Read that line where she can't think of nothin' all day.

but mo."

The man became so attached to ua that he followed us about all next day, holding out the two- cents and yelling: something. In a foreign voice.',

At last, after going through a lot of signs, we discovered that he wanted us to take the two centa back. We did this, thanking him for his kindness, and shaking him warmly by, the hand. Ho then executed another dance of a- wild and savage character, tear" ing his hair out in handfuls. When we boarded the ship that afternoon, he was still there to Wave to us. We have never mot with such devotion before.

We shall always regard that evontful tour as being of a great educational value to us, and wò-. bavo returned to Hongkong with a fund of experience as well as enough spoons and 'serviette rings with "H.R." branded on them to inst our household for years to:

como.

We strongly advise anyone who Is in need of a change or is short- of cutlery to book their passages. immediately to Macao..