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NOTES OF THE DAY

THE TOURIST

ROAD SENSE

The Very Idea!

OLD AGE CREEPS ON By Eddle "Grandpa" Kelly

respected. WE feel old and lonely.

And not at all funny. You see, it's our birthday.

EXAMPLES OF ROAD SENSE.

What is road sense? Let me give a few examples.

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Not that we're old. Don't

By W. M. W. THOMAS It is, of course, oney, even in a cosmopolitan port like Hongkong,TXTHEN 1 was in Chiengo about users? Advice from a man in tho

ia usually to distinguists, the stranger from W five years ago an ontorptie: blue

they give talks the resident. There are certaining news sheet published a daily Couldn't characteristics about the tourist, death chart. The object of this schools? Bear in mind that the one the lively interest he takes in cheerful statistical offort was to majority of victims of road fatali- his surroundings, which always compare the number of fatal tice are under ten years of age. A man can only feel funny on road accidents that took place Let us start teaching road sense offect a contrast with the air of each day in Chicago with the to the youth of the nation right his birthday when he's

young, or when he's tight. suffering boredom the average number of casualties suffered by away. resident manages to wear. We the whole American Army In are not aroused by these fresh action on the Western Front on faces. We are too inured to such the corresponding day in 1918.

I well remember once being you girls get that idea into The comparison was distinctly

your heads, We're just periodical events as a wholesale uncomplimentary to the Great driven on a long journey by

driver of vory considerable experi- Incursion of tourists; there is. Peace.

Road accident figures are al-enee. He rather frightened me at thirtyish. indeed, a suspicion that to the

Still, when you get around Kindly Interest these people seem ways vory terrifying-especially brat because he blazed past a determined to take in us and in our when presented in a stark fashion council school with no warning

the thirties, life starte to Later in the morning he saw a purposes for existence, we renmine our own summary for 1933 from his horn.

an average of nineteen deaths

school sign at the roadside and become a mixture of past re- markedly indifferent, if we are not every day.

But we must not be stampeded.promptly slowed down to a meregrets and future fears.. a little contomptuous of their

Not that it palliates the serious crawl. I asked him why he had curioalty. If we have responsibili lies ng hosts, they are somehow news of the situation, but aimply behaved so differently on the two as a matter of plain fact, let us occasions. His explanation was

overlooked,

QUEER, TOO?

We don't remember much

first of all appreciate that Britain perfectly logical: That when we about the day we were born. is far from being unique in this first passed a school the hour was After all, thirty years is a

at which time matter of rond danger. Since the about 10a.m.

increase in the speed of universal there is no traffic of children in long time to look back, transportation that has come or out.

Our parents wero very proud

The second occasion was be

about in the past twenty-five years or so, the danger factor has tweon 12.30 and 1 o'clock, when, as of us, and decided, before we naturally increased all the world he explained, schools "come out"

going to become over. And it will not be reduced and there in a distinct risk of were many months old, that wo unless stops are taken to teach children rushing into the road-were the community how to use the way. Such is one simple example humourist.

of road conse. roads. This fact la vory clear.

KNOWLEDGE PLUS

IMAGINATION

On another occasion, during the anme run we were approaching The increase in road usage us what appeared to be quite an easy not been accompanied by a corres-corner at a fair speed when sud- denly my companion crammed on ponding increase in road sense.

We did, too. We started be- fore we were six weeks old, by howling every morning at 8 am.

Well might we speculate on what the tourist travelier thinks HONGKONG HOTEL

of us and our reception. "Back- GARAGE

ward people," although possibly not expressed in polito conversu- Show Room.

Stubbs Rd. tion, would probably sum up the firm opinton of most of them, when, after a few days of helter-skelter rush through the streets of the Colony, they are glad to shake

Until every member of the public all his brakes and slowed the ear our dust from their feet and leave as they come. For corroboration, that moves outside the confines of almost to a standstill leaving the fashion, and we graava

his or her own home-whether in ample time for us to come into Invariably clad in they probably look to their by now well filled cameras. "Queer, too," control of a mechanical vehicle or view of a flock of sheep that were garment somewhe

on the public fresh hoof marks on the road sur

Just about this time the Boer it is possible they add, in a mut-no-has a full appreciation of round the corner. He had noticed present-day, barber's towa

correct, behaviour

Road Benso is trained obser

War started, but we couldn't'enlist highway, the accident figures will face,

ivation plus imagination. not materially deerengo,

The driver with road sense as we were, having trouble' with Rood sense is nothing more or

our teeth. Coincident with the He less than a little knowledge plus signals first and alters the direc- a great deal of imagination. Lack ton of his car afterwards.

Mr. and Mrs. Allan Cameron

P.P.C.

the

Hongkong Telegraph.

tered-afterthought,

THE COLONY'S INTEREST

If

Thus it is that opinions are formed and carried away. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1934.

those are the only two that mat- ter, wo might breathe freely in PLAYGROUNDS FOR the knowledge that on the whole they can be rejected. It is not CHILDREN

within our capacity to make a fuss Communal service possessing of every batch of tourists that ar- a very real value is being per-rives, much less to appreciate be- formed by the Children's Playing placed in a position of close rare ground Association, which has scrutiny analogous to the been entrusted with the handl-animal at the Zoo. But there is ing of one of the Colony's big-yet a third, much more pointed criticism, namely, that the Colony's that adequate facilities for out- interest in tourists is measured door recreation are provided for entirely by the wealth they leave the younger generation. So far, behind them. It would not be far the Association has only begun wrong to suggest that our very to touch the fringe of the

strong commercial Instincta-do question, but, in the words of Sir Thomas Southorn, Its ulti-assume a deßulte ascendancy. mate objective is to see that every thickly-populated district

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It may be that this penchant for acquiring prifits at the expense of the other fellow la natural to the beat of us and that except in

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DUTY FOR PEDESTRIANS.

senso.

In those days, trousera wezen

Naturally, our family did not remain at a standstill, and by the

of it to-day among all classes of or she has a very clear idea that Relief of Mafcking was the Relief

down tooth, road users is the outcome of the cach highway consists of two of Father when we cut our last sudden "back to the roads" move soparato paths-up and

Then, a few months before or ment that has taken place during tracks as it were the centre of the twentieth century. The sud- which, whether it is marked by a den flux has all boon taken for white line or not, should not be after. (we forget which) came the granted. Ne national effort has encroached upon. All this and Jam-tin Raid, facetiously referred bean made to educate the public more fa contained in the Highway to by London newspapers as the to the importance of road welfare, Code, but stops have never been Jamieson Raid.

Road, senso can be obtained In taken so far to impress the edicta experience or, more rapidly, by this country. two ways. In the hard school of of that Code on to the public of education. To bring into force

legal restrictions harsh

And it is not only motorists who time we were six years old we had.

seven brothors and four sistera. are not You might think, upon hearing penalties will never clean up the require to cultivate read

Vehicles cannot and this, that Father was a fast roads. It is far better to prevent Car and lorry drivers an accident than to administer magicians.

when the punishment Bavere

on greasy roads when accident has occurred. Represnover will pull up "in their own worker, but It is easily explained sive legislation will only lead to children or others run into their away by the fact that five of our reduced benefits from a modern path. There must be understand. brothers were older than we were. ing on both sides-road sense and

Naturally, as we children began road courtesy. Pedestrians and It is particularly interesting to cyclists in fact, all road users being born one after another, it the traffic regarding action observe how ineffectively modern must be taught to realise their full become necessary to take-drastic education lines up with some responsibility.

Consider. carefully these follow-problem in our home. modern problems. Time and time.

Had our parents resided in. again one sees young gentlemen ing figures published by the who have had three or four Ministry of Transport in a recent thousand pounds spent on their report on fatal road accidents that Hongkong the whole thing could education and who could probably occurred during six months of have been settled' quito simply by produce a pretty pungent precis 1933. on road customs in Ancient Rome,

advantage.

- MODERN EDUCATION FAILS.

Overcome

has its own playgrounds, Al-LURES FOR THE UNWARY. ready, hundreds of children are able to participate in health- giving activities every day, the

Out of 4,340 causes of fatal running a "Safety First" cam- extent to which the existing

they part of a driver only accounted that.

whereas pedestrians playing-fields are 'patronised be- certain cases where it is known to become perfect pests to their accidents, excessive speed on the paign, but we never thought of

The, difficulty was ing ample evidence of the need have been unduly atretched, is to fellow countrymen when

exchange the lecture room for the for 265,

running into the roadway from a Whilst it is true that the move- the circumstances. Traditionally ment has been started rather the traveller is invested with more Is there not room here, for in- behind a vehicle without due care, into the dining room wall for eat- late in the day, with the result money than he knows properly stance, for Improvement?

And do we really make the best apparently Becoming confused or bound trafle only, but oven to the that it is by no means easy to what to do with and he is also find suitable spots for "lungssupposed to be never happier than possible use of our mobile police? hesitating in traffic, risking mov confusion and congcation was In the spending of it. Not sur-Instead of letting them operato ing traffic, and stepping from a it must be borne in mind that prising is it, therefore, to find the on a policy that seems wholly curb or refuge without looking, terrible, what with the fod 'batch the taking to outdoor hungry

(Continued on Page 10.) in port in the appearance of in- they become the guide and guard-1.243. Here is a clear call for hatch trying to get in. on the part of the Chinese is à relatively recent development. gentous and charming lures for ian of all road-and footpath-- Twenty years ago, football, ten- the unwary.

that exists for such amenities. be expected and in excusable in bucket seats of their sports care. cootpath, walking or running, from somewhat by cutting a new door

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What the tourist thinks later,

indulge in the pastime. The perhaps comparing notea with a same may be said also of other more experienced globe-trotter, le forms of sport. It is pleasing better left unsaid. But if addicted to road that in one of the play-to philosophy he would probably ing-grounds under the control decide that his companions have of the Association, men of the benefitted little from their visit to working-class are permitted to Hongkong If they do not carry make use of the facilities in the Away some little "mementoll of that aptitude for Business that late afternoons. Along these marks the local shop-keeper. It is lines there is undoubtedly much the "mug who goes away gifted scope for expansion, provided with the best understanding of us suitable areas and the requlalte and our ways

funds can be secured. Not only

on grounds of health, but also

as a means of taking the reason, to say nothing of the thoughts of young man from happiness and joy which are possibly anti-social activities, brought into the otherwise dull the provision of adequate play- lives of so many of the Colony's ing-fields is a fine form of com- children, the movement deserves munal insurance. For this the utmost suppor

LIVIDUA

whead I'm Estening."

our

Fortunately, the situation wIE

when cased somewhat four elder brothers suddenly left homo. Two went to Boretal, one to sen and the other to head,

We could tell you lots mora about our childhood, but we have fan mail and got to read our birthday greetings now.

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