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DAYIN

HOTES OF THE DAY NOT A PATCH ON The Very Idea!

JURY SERVICE

HIS FATHER!

By BERNARD FALK

The question of the right of an accused person to n peremptory challenge of members of the jury has been raised as the result of a cane heard in the Criminal Sessions

has started again. "The to myself the expression on the just concluded, while another case

young man of to-day is fabby, face of Miss 1004, with the same ins called, attention to the waste . He's not a patch on his suggestion made to her!

How often, of time and service which some-father, etc., etc." times resulta from the jury system. since I was a boy--and I am turn

ed fifty now-have I heard that A very strong case could un- Anid! doubtedly be made out for a

Somebody must believe the non- thorough overhaul. The system in senso, or it would never grow into basically sound, but its defecta are such a hardy annual. I used to painfully ovident and it has never think that the intent antagonism and the old operated to the complete satisfac between the now

generations explained the tion of Crown or pubile in this sistency of the charge, but now I

per:

ABOUT FIRES

By Edward Kelly

SPEAKING from the fire cscave in our asbestos underpants.

We have just escaped from Happily, this lack of seriousness the prevention of a fire, at does not extend to hin ambition. imminent risk to the fire. Definitely, the modern young man

Goaded on by this Ameri- wants to get on in the world, not to stick in a rut. To be a hustler can competition aboard the by temperament, and still remaFulton in Bias Bay, we sat a nobody, is an incongruity against which he fights with all his might. up all night thinking of a Yet, alded by post-war improve

ments, his struggle, If temporarily Way to start a'preventible more arduous, is, in the long ran, fire. Colony. Dimculties in the, way of am sure the reason les elsewhere leas exhausting than would have If the wife says to us,"You---

of beon the case the frequent tendency

thirty years ago. human nature to accept clamant Because, one way or another, he light the fire"-well, that's a assertion as proof, and to mistake contrives many more opportunities proventible fire. It only has an the part as, necessarily, typical of for leisure, and for the enjoyment outside chance of starting, and of the good time which is the car-

even then it will go out. It's rent creed of the new generation.

reform appear of course, ina mediately the issuca are examined, but a solution would probably be furnished as the result of an official

studs.

NO VERDICT CASES

the whole.

This, we reallso, when we ob serve odd phases of the present- My experience of the young man a habit. We hurl the wood at a day young man, readily flourished of the period is, that he is deficient certain spot, throw a match in as illustrative of his entire char-sadly deficient-in book-learn- the general direction of the actor. Not surprisingly, in the ing-hard pressed to define Homer, wood. Match goes out. We go

Shake-out. At least two cases in local courts process, he is made to look andly or express an opinion on

In order to have any hope of recently have terminated, after a deficient in stamina. But let him peare's greatest tragedy. On the

be taken in the round, in the other hand, he beats me hollow in preventing a fire there must be hearing lasting some days in all piece, and he emerges, not merely knowledge connected with wire-some possibility of a fire starting

(Euclid).. with the jury returning from their the equal of, but an improvement less, flying and motor transport.

If he has amal acquaintance Beat way to prevent a fire is to consulting room to announce that on, what has gone before.

I am far from saying that the with literatura and poetry-and fill a central room with shavings. they are unable to find the unhappy prisoner "guilty" or "not guilty." modern young man is altogether remember I am speaking of the pour methylated spirits or benzine praiseworthy. In my opinion he average, not the exceptional, young all over it, and then inform the In one case they took only half as a long way from boing porfect, man-he compensates for it by police. hour to decide that they could not and I have not scrupled to shout marvellous grasp of the actuall- A lot of unemployment has been agree. The result is loss of time, it aloud. But when I compare the ties of overyday life. Ha brain caused in Are brigades by the money and service. Sheer waste. fine, upstanding specimens that is stored with practical knowledge, premature prevention of firoo. It waa is a sad commentary...It is in- There are, of course, cases where Bee about me, and am constantly quite different from what

deed....anyhow, it's a bit tough. the ballot may draw unsuitable meeting, with their like in age, fashionable in my boyhood.

memorised through the various de- To be able to recite Portia's We ourself in person onco know jurors together rendering it fitting cades that I have lived, am dis-speech from "The Morchant of a fireman who filled in his spare- that another trial should be held, poeed to admire rather than to Venice" was in my day considered time (of which he had a number) but in the majority of cases a

condemn; to say, in uffect, that as finer accomplishment than put-polishing his helmet. He wore it decision should be reached-and they go forward the generations ting a bicycle together, and to de- down to a beret.

do progress.

bato Shelley, at the week-end

He was saved from being dis- would be If the jurymen were fully

literary society meeting, a hand-missed from the brigade by a acquainted with what is required of

somer performance than taking

fortunate accident. While in a them. There is room, perhaps, for

yacht round the coast.

passionato rage, he stamped his the provision of some education in

fout on the ground. He was wear- the dulles of jury service.

ing rubber boots.

The reat must be imagined to be believed. Ilis knee hit his chin: he fell back to the ground with a dull tinkle; cracked his skull. He was a tail fireman.

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WRONG CONCEPTIONS

POSTAL CHARGES A matter which is the subject of a deal of comment in business and other circles was touched upon by a correspondent who wrote yesterday urging a down-

The trouble is that too many ward revision of the Colony's jurors enter upon their public aer- postal charges. As will be re- vice with but a faint conception of their functions and in some cases,

are reversed.

As I see him, the 1934 young man l an infinitely more virile type than his Edwardian predeces- dor. Thore la nothing of the Now, the values simpleton about him. I cannot and I, for one, do not resent the imagine him being taken in by the change. Always I have sensed three-card trick, as, in my youth, something spurious in the claim happened to me. In every way he of the young man of leag ago to is emarter than the young man of be halled a hero, merely because 1900, and looks it, which is a tre- he could spout boetry by the yard. mendous asset. A fast worker, in Too often my debating society

called, rates were very material-with an entirely wrong conception. a quick-moving world, he makes friends were prigs of the worst

They burled him with his hase. In case he needed it. He was burled on a ladder with full honours.

ly increased some few years ago The judge invariably attempts to his fellow of thirty or forty years order. for preference the mohimself out and when he struck

revenue.

letters sent via Siberia as an im- position, whilst in regard to the WANT OF GUIDANCE air mail he cited figures showing that the local rate for a letter

not to

In between the time he knocked Give me ago appear, by contrast, almost n not аге when the sensational drop in the explain to them that they

egaping hobbledeboy.

dern young man, knowing as little sterling value of the dollar made there to usurp the duties of counsel

When I was

a boy we were about highbrow subjects ns I do the ground, his depositions were either for the defence or for the it necessary, in order to meet Crown; that they ar

always complaining that cyclists about the latest model Diesel taken by an age repertor. He "It is my opinion," said the the Government's sterling com- plunge into the confusing mael went much too fast for the roads engine, but able to converse in- was a very tall fireman.

to be safe. The young man who telligently on the material reali- mitments, to find additional strom of legal technicalities; or call rode a racing cycle was consider- ties of the Age. His should be freman; in passing, "that the pro-

into play latent powers of detection

10ed a tremendous "guy." In the meantime, the

The enor-interesting information for my sent heavy blue sorgo uniform is or deduction. But this brief ex- dollar has risen very consider hortation, delivered when the juror that has occurred, since then, has is boredom, he can be set down gentleman should attent helmets for mous speeding-up of movement older brain, and where the other not the correct thing in which a ably and at the moment shows has perhaps already primed himself left its impress upon the typical huge entertainment.

White drill, with tropical into the high state of public ad-

There is an appealing naivete in should" youth of the period. He has vim no signs of weakness. Yet the judicator of right and wrong is not und momentum; yet it might be our young friend's approach to the It was about this time thating increased rates continue to be a fitting time for him to reconsider better for all of us if his alertness Higher Thought which positively crashed to the ground. Provin imposed. The correspondent his position and descend to his pro did not involve some loss of eare- disarme hostile criticisms. He says: that any tall person likely to fali who wrote on the subject yester- Per duties as a reasonable and ful thought. The sportscar mind; 1-do-not want to be reckoned an over should always carry a

to be a hundred per cent. eficient, ignoramus. Teach me something parachute. day described the surcharge for intelligent spectator of the trial..

needs to be less casual,

about Literature, History, Philo- But, about fires. Perhaps a little This casual attitude,

A little which sophy, Music; only teach mo quick personal experience? often leaves me annoyed, applies ly. Give it me In concentrated privata pathos? to many departments of the mo- form, for see what little time for

The dirty cow HIM (the He does reading is left to me! When I No matter how admirable and dern young man's life.

Boss) said, "You're fired1"

Rushed about the place seeking take Jane to the to England is four times that straightforward the Judge's sun- not save, certainly not, as I did finish work I must have a spin in

ming-up may be (and it would be when a boy: smiles at the old the car, or

too well lit charged in England for a pack-even more helpful if jurymen would advice, "put by for a rainy day:" Flleks, or play a round of golf to be put out. Nobody game age of the same weight sent to take a few notes occasionally) the lives for the particular hour, not with Jack. The week-end, you can enough. We were

hours guess, I am full up--what with the UP. Rang fire brigade. Down the Hongkong. Whilst it is possible clarity of vision which is brought caring what happens ten that good reasons exist why out perhaps by some sudden insight later: is not very punctual, often Old Boys Rugger match on Satur stairs and flinging the body into there cannot be absolute uni- or understanding remark, is distort-forgets appointments, and le usual day, the evening dance, and the the running gutter. Dramatic ar-

cd and clouded when, in the privacy ly behindhand in his correspond-Sunday spin down to the coast and rival of fire brigade.

Drenched victim pointing to back." formity of rate, the disparity in of their room, the jurors remember ence.

Not least, in his companionship Here, for a second, I digress to Bose, crying, "He fired me! Hoac this instance is so marked that other remarks, condicting and con- with the opposite sex he is a warn the up-to-date publisher that on the Boss, Boss drowned. it would appear to warrant the troversial, which they cannot assess charge that the Hongkong Gov- or assemble in their true propor-bright, but quite casual customer, there is a fortune waiting for ernment is guilty of profiteering. tions and the worth of which for who, when discussing a future somebody who can produce the The Post Office, of course, is want of guidance they may sadly meeting, will invite a pretty girl books of potted learning required

friend to ring him up. I picture) (Continued on Page 10.) looked upon as one of the Gov- ernment's best sources of profit, but the public can be forgiven for complaining at the existing charges when, as is the. case, the Department's yearly revenue is in the neighbourhood of three times its expenditure. At the "APOLLO" SHAFTS present time, when trade condi.

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In too many instances a no- verdlet case is one in which the jurors have not been equipped to tackle their job properly, and in their anxiety not to err on the wrong side they decline to take a tions are far from what they step in any direction. They are might be, this burden of exces not to blame. Many of them never sive postal charges bears heavily appear in a court before they are on commercial establishments, called to serve on the jury and it many of which has been forced in not surprising that, in the state by circumstances to institute of ignorance in which many of them rigid measures of economy in take the onth at present, results na the running of their businesses, disturbing for the prisoner as they are wasteful to the public, should It also constitutes a hardship to continue to emanate from our residents generally. In ordinary courts. business, a firm which insisted upon an unreasonably high per- centage of profit would 800n| WOMEN JURORS find its custom disappearing, but

.

a Post Office is a monopolistic Two things suggest themselves- Institution, fearing competition the working out of a new basis of from no quarter. This very cir-qualification for jury service and eumetance should weigh with the the extension of the "franchise"

by Government in fixing postal the initiation of wonen into the purpose charges and make it anxious to "mysteries," A double see there are no grounds for would possibly be served by the In latter stop. One would be that of complaints of profiteering. relloving business mon of a duty the case of public utility com that at certain periods of the year panies, the Government lays it is as irksome as damaging to bus!- down that profits beyond a cor-ness interests. The other is that of tain percentage should be devot-giving Hongkong women a sense of ed to reductions in charges, civic-responsibility and an opport

of Burely no institution is more of unity, for 2000, getting away It a public utility concern than the from the contract bridge table. Post Office. For which reason brought as much intelligence to women Jurors were introduced and we suggest that what is sauce bear on sifting evidence as they do for the goose should be sauce to analysing a hand of bridge, the for the gander as well. S

ends of Justice would hardly suffer.

"I can't say that I agree with you, bosa.".

Good time was had by all.

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