1936-06-24 — Page 18

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY JUNE 24, 1986.

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THIS week commenced the monthly Criminal Ses- sions of this Colony.

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In the commonplace and rather dingy building the Supreme Court, justice and a Servico worthy of it is dispensed by impar- VERY month big shipments of tial men wearing the gowns E Bedford trucks leave Eng of legal authority, while land for every part of the world throngs of Chinese ignorant And the rising export figures and

procedure .but many hundreds of enthusiastic of court letters from Bedford owners all obedient to the law under over the world have shown that which they have come to live. the Bedford is popular wherever will whisper in the back benches.

it goes. Why this success ? Bare and plain as that building! For, in designing the Bedford is, it has witnessed remarkable range, Vauxhall experts studied scenes of emotion, retribution overseas conditions at first hand. and penitence. There

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BIRTH,

Mid-Summer

Calendar

of Crime

• Supreme Court sessions began again on Monday Somebody will be on trial

all through this week in the

"

dock where Cheng Kwok-

yau and the Haiching pirates

were sentenced.

never saw

questions and had their tales of shame or dishonesty brought in. to the light of day.

Through the door of the BBC bankruptcy court you can the raised seat of the Chief Justice, ennopied with earved. woodwork, set irrevocably apart from the body of the court, occu- pied by the litigants, their clients and witnesses.

Facing the chair the prisoner dock the high stands in which he enters by a subler- ranean stairway. Brass rails surmount the woodwork. They are polished frequently where anxious hands have held for sup port while waiting for jury's verdict and Judge's sentence.

M

* * WHILE waiting for the court

to begin, the curious have time to ponder on the wires which run overhead the length. and breadth of the court. They

re

there to aid the bad acoustics. Inevitably there is a clock and a calendar. Time is of no importance in the dispensa- tion of the law but Time is the great factor that weighs heavily on each guilty mind.

Counsel sit round the long table between judge and prison- er, police officers rattle their. an last minute details, the jury accoutrements as they look to scate and the the shuffle in their

"Cou-ou-ourt!" pup usher intones has Everybody rises as the judge and enters and bows briefly before settling himself in his throne, The Usher proclaims the open- ing of sessions, the cases

are

seen it? And yet, for A knife that slew a man, sent stepped the bounds of propriety,

another to the gailows, and Most horrible of ni is yetire that graceful symbolic maiden has balanced her scales began a life long clan feud exhibit which and gazed with blindfold eyes even now perhaps its unwitting court of law: a malformed across a City she will never see. crime has not been expialed. preserved. in alcohol. It ... two bodies, three forelegs Inside her walls, the curious A yellow scrap of paper can get a tingling of the spine not so important as those inter- four hind legs. from glancing over the relics of national scraps but in its smali old trials which are kept in, the sphere a witness to broken faith

labels or more sordidly, of fraud, theft ALONG the corridor we come called, the Chinese interpreter's over all. To the to the bankruptcy court voice eings. clerk's rooms. Musty

and perjury, written in the bold hand of a

A quill pen, once wielded by where piles on piles of musty prisoner in the dock between MOSS AL Aldershot, England, on

22nd June, 1936, to Barbara, nesnecession of satellites of Jus Franklin) wife of Captain G. 1.tice, bear brief but eloquent a Governor when taking the books bear Chinese characters stalwart warders the interpreter 11. Muss, R. E. a daughter. testimony of their "ong far, oath of office; beside it a chop. written by long dead fokis, seems the only link between him

per still duly glinting to the clerks and accountants. They, and a strange world.

To us too, it is a strange world fierce hour."

venturesome imaginative eye with blood clots, tell the cold facts of life in the

enter and at that we will leave it. We Of lesser crimes a pile of false City. A coins and forged notes still give prise that was beaten by com- go out into the bright sunshine are two long queues whose his- flonted by unscrupulous finan- well to the world presided over tory has been forgotten. They eiers; trusting partners who by that blind impartial figure of may have been ripped from were deceived by their fellows. Justice.

The

Hongkong Telegraph. NOTES OF THE DAY evidence. Intrigutus above all petition; a fraudulent company and with some relief say fare-

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1936.

THE BRITISH FILM

DEATH INQUIRIES

KILL

Can

G. W. G.

WORRY OR IT

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YOU

WILL

There are quacks who bring a seri- ous and important profession into dis- unce if they show no concern-as-to. pute, but they may be known at the body's wellbeing,

A few years ago the British flm their owners' heads in frenzied They all finished up before the Industry was struggling desperate-mutilation; they may merely same bewigged gentleman with From time to time, the ques-ly to survive and grow. During represent a prank which over the precise mind and searching tion has cropped up of the the War Hollywood built up an desirability of instituting in enormous industry and its produe Hongkong the English system of tions had become world famous. coroner's inquests so far as sud-It seemed as if no other country den deaths, or deaths under sus would be able to compete with the United States of America in the picious or unnatural circum-

world film market. Then came a

As a remedial step we are apt to The Ballyhooligans. Estances, are concerned,

overlook the necessity of setting our In the

change. The development of the

WORRY is the characteristic scourge As men's

bodies right before our mental and The Ballyhooligans. early days of the Colony that sound flm was

a handicap to of the modern world.

nervous troubles can be conquered. ・The Ballyhooligans.system was in force, but in 1888 American productions. Hollywood inventive skill begets new marvels of

But machinery, and is the pace of life twelve hours of drug-induced stupor We may ask advice, we may be per- of restless sent-consciousness. suaded to consult a psycho-analyst or The Ballyhooligans. the

essentials-voices. office of Coroner was lacked

our nerves is greater than ever before.

And we can learn to sleep if we try,reycho-therapist (mental healer), but the abolished; the powers hitherto another factor was introduced, grows faster and faster the strain on

we learn to withstand

When we go to bed we must remind we should never full to see a doctor ourselves that our purpose is in sleep. as well. Indeed, it is a mark of the exercised by that official being giving British producers a better

genius?

Yes. The power of the Not to think things over, not to work trustworthy psychological consultant delegated to Magistrates, who opportunity to compete in the strain? Is our strength equal to our will is imitable. Man's exercised have since

them, world market: that was the pass-human

but to close the mind's eye as well as mate of his patients before suggesting

any treatment. the body's. Under the Coroners Abolitioning of the Cinematograph Films story shows that there is no problems things nut, not to come to decisions. that he inquires about the physical

Each day we must take sufficient Let us see what are the causes of

dis exercise and walking is the rendiest Ordinance, it is provided that Act by Parliament in 1927. This which connal be surmounted."

medium-to fire without exhausting "whenever any person dies sud-Act came into operation on the depression and other nervous first of January, 1928, and it will orders brought-on-by-worry-

physically. Equally we should 1938, First, the cause or by expire denly,

in mental activity or by accident,

on September RO,

About the non-physical causes of violence, or

under suspicious Its main purpose was, to help the physical ailment or discase. Body use our brains

worry we often deceive ourselves, and connected and. Interactive. A alur pleasantly weary,

Diet is an important factor in prosa nggravate the trouble. Overwork circumstances, or whenever any film industry by ensuring that a and spirit ure inseparably inter- every day, enough to make the mind dead body is found within the certain percentage of films shownish liver makes the clouds seem very

in Great Britain should be British black; some business or emotional up- noting sleep. The rules of eating is rarely the root explanation. It is set often brings on digestive trouble. are obvious, but we constantly break astonishing how much work a hunan Colony, or is brought into the

made.

Hence the main essential is to make them. Don't eat heavy foods late at being can get through. Think of Don't have a Bernard Shaw, who can still do six- Colony, the Magistrate may, if

Statistics show that the quota ofsure that we are physically fit. As a night. Don't over-cal, he considers an inquiry to he British films shown rose from five preventive measure this is involuabic, top-sided incal of all meat and no teen hours a day at the age of 80- We need Lloyd George in another steiningly necessary, enquire into the cause per cent., in 1928 to twenty-five per and far from difficult. Sleep is our vegetables, ur all fat-making foods and is there a more cheerful person?

It is ent.. in 1935. More British films chief need for good health. Not just and none that contain iron. of death of such person." have been acquired and shown by any kind of steep. It is the quality no elaborate table of vitamins to regu- tireless man. These are not exeep- further laid down that the in-the cinemas than the minimum that matters. Half-an-hour of real late our eating along commonsense tions to a rule, but only to the general quiry may be carried out with required by the Act, and the pro-relaxation does more good than ten or linen. or without the assistance of a duction of British "feature" films from about thirty in jury. Under

The discretion has risen

1927, the year before the Act came vested in the Magistrate, not a into effect, to 189 in 1935. The tithe of the cases which come good effects of the Act have not under one or other of the been confined to the home market. The producing companies have specified groups is the subject been able to proceed with of public inquiry in Hongkong. ambitious schemes, and the more The system at present operated important British films are now ndmired all over the world. What is the Scottish system of magis-is called the Documentary Film terial inquiries, and it is to con-has been developed since the pass. tinue. An important variation ing of the Cinematograph Films Act, and in the produc lon of such is, however, to be put into force films Great Britain is supreme, here, under which in every case As documentary Rima suffer cor- where a Magistrate deems an in-tain disadvantages under this Act. quity unnecessary the relevant an effort will be made in 1938 to introduce reforms in their favour. papers are to be, sunt to the Attorney General, who will have!

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the power to order and if it ap- tor in determining whether an pears to him advisable in the inquiry should or should not be public Interest. This is a step held, there is the. further point in the right direction, although that openly-conducted" investi- there will still be a considerable gations might well have a dis- section of the community who tinct value, by reason of the would prefer that the English publicity afforded, in clearing up system be revived in its entirety,doubtful points. In some cases, The investing of Crown officers even, such publicity might lead with discretion in the matter is to the detection of criminal acts! not altogether. satisfactory, where the deceased person has since, there is no guarantee of met his death in suspicious cir

Under existing consistency of decision. All cumstances.

cause

for differentiation of conditions, the operation of the treatment would be removed law leaves a good deal to be once and for all if the English desired. We can only hope system were brought into full that, with the change now an use. Apart from the possibility nounced, the position may be that the social status of de placed on a far more satisfac ceased persons' might be a factory footing.

SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark

"I only want to scare him. Is there some way I can just almost get a divorce?"

practice. We should look on them as

models to be emulated.

Work never killed anyone, says the old raw, fut worry kills many and spoils the lives of multitudes. What is the difference? Work is activity:: worry is marking time. When we are faced with a difficulty we must work at it, decide upon a course of action. When we worry we are not doing anything about the trouble, but let- ting the needle stay in the groove, so to speak, reiterating the same phrase over and over again. That wears must the record nut in time. We give the needle a push-the rest of the record may be well worth listen- Fing to.

To avoid worry-net! Often that incans doing something unpleasant, distasteful, difficult, and even danger. ous. But power and confidence grow with use, and the very first time we take bold step our outlook is magically changed.

Let us face the truth that our worries are frequently due to our re- fusa) tu do anything about them. We are timid, we do nothing, we build up a heap of grievances against the the world to Justify us-but worry.

persists.

Remember, fundamentally, that it is a blessig to be alive. The world Is not a featherbed; if it were it would be stuffy. But for us all the simple joys of existence are available.

-One need not be rich to laugh.. Love and sympathy do not belong only to the wealthy, or to physical glants, or to the intellectually bril- lant. Within us lles latent the limit- less power of the human will to face our destiny smilingly, This is the lesson of psychology as it is PI Christianity. It remains true.whot- ever the conditions of life, whatever political system rules us, whatever economic. troubles beset tis, however acfence may change the world

As wo realize the power of the human spirit, and increase it with use, worry will disappear, for it is n parasite that cannot grow resolute.

Psychologist

on the