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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY JUNE 24, 1986,TM

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HIRTH.

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.

and perjury.

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

Through the door of the bankruptcy court you can 800 the raised seat of the Chief Justice, canopied, with carved woodwork, set, irrevocably apart' from the body of the court, occu-. pled by the litigants, their clients and witnesses,

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

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

to are there

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 ait round the long. table between judgo and prison- er, police officers rattle their

are

the sanctity of this building by the erection of a figure of Jus- tice on its roof. How many

knife that slew a muri, sent stopped the bounds of propriety. accoutrements as they look to have seen it? And yet for

another to the gallows, and Most horrible of all is an last minute details, the jury years that graceful symbolic

never saw the shuffle in their seats and the maiden has balanced her scales began a life long dan feud exhibit which

"Cou-ou-ourt!" and gazed with blindfold eyes even now perhaps its unwitting court of law; a malformed pup usher intones

has Everybody rises as the judge across a City she will never see, crime has not been expiated. preserved in alcohol. It

Inside her walls, the curious A yellow scrap of paper: two bodies, three forelegs and enters and bows briefly before settling himself in his throne. can get a tingling of the spine net so important as those inter- four hind legs.

The Usher proclaims the open- from glancing over the relics of national scraps but in its small

ing of sessions, the cases old trials which are kept in the sphere a witness to broken faith clerk's rooms. Musty labels or more sordidly, of fraud; theft ALONG the corridor we come called, the Chinese interpreter's

the bankruptcy court voice rings over all. Ta

the the dock between 10ss. At Aldershot, England, on written in the bold hand of a A quill pen, orice wielded by where piles on piles of musty prisoner in

22nd June, 1946, to Barbara, (nee succession of satellites of Jus-

the books bear Chinese characters stalwart warders the interpreter Franklin) wife of Captain G. II. tice, bear brief but eloquent & Governor when taking B. Mons, R.E. a daughter.

testimony of their "one far, oath of office; beside it a chop. written by long dead fakis, seems the only link between him

per still dully glinting to the clerks and accountants. They and a strange world. imaginative eye with blood clots. tell the cold facts of life in the To us too, it is a strange world Of lesser crimes a pile of false City. A venturesome enter and at that we will leave it. We su paso put sujoo prise that was beaten by com- go out into the bright sunshine are two long queues whose his- floated by unscrupulous finan- well to the world presided over tory has been forgotten. They ciers; trusting partners who by that blind impartial figure of may have been ripped from were deceived by their fellows. Justice. their owners' heads in frenzied They all finished up before the mutilation; they may merely same bewigged gentleman with represent a prank which over the precise mind and searching

the

fierce hour:"

Hongkong Telegraph, NOTES OF THE DAY evidence, Intriguing above all petition: a fraudulent company and with some relief say fare-

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KILL

WORRY OR KILL YOU

of the modern world. As man's

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1

G. W. G.

IT

WILL

THE BRITISH FILM

DEATH INQUIRIES

A few years ago the British film industry was struggling desperate From time to time, the ques-ly to survive and grow. During Lion has cropped up of the the War Hollywood built up an desirability of instituting in enormous industry and its produc- Hongkong the English system of tions had become world, famous. coroner's inquests so far as aud-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 tha picious or unnatural circum- The Ballyhooligans.

world film market. Then came a stances, are, concerned. In the change. The develpment of the

As a remedial step we are apt to The Ballyhooligans. early days of the Colony that sound film was

overlook the necessity of setting our a handleap to WORRY is the characteristic scourge

bodies right before our mental and The Ballyhooligans. system was in force, but in 1888 American productions. Hollywood inventive skill begets, new marvels of

nervous troubles can be conquered. The Ballyhooligans. the office of Coroner was lacked essentials-voices. But machinery, and as the pace of life twelve hours of drug-induced stupor We may ask advice, we may be per-

grows faster and faster the strain on

or of restless semi-consciousness. suaded to consult a psycho-analyst or abolished, the powers hitherto another factor was introduced, our nervosas greater than ever before. And we can learn to sleep If we try, psycho-therapist (mental healer), but

Can we learn to withstand the exercised by that official being giving British producers a better

When we go to bed we must regnånd | we should never fall to see u doctor is our strength equal to our

the ourselves that our purpose is to steep as well. Indeed, it is a mark of the delegated to Magistrates, who opportunity to compete in the strain?

genius? Yes. The power

Not to think things over, not to work trustworthy psychological consultant since exercised them. world market: that was the pass human wil is illimitable. Man's things out, not to come to decisions, that he inquires about the physical Under the Coroners Abolitioning of the Cinematograph Films story shows that there is no problem but to close the mind's eye as well as state of his patients before suggesting.

the body's.

treatment, any Ordinance, it is provided that Act by Parliament in 1927. This wilch cannot be surmounted.

Let us see what are the causes of

Each day we must take suflelent There are quacks who bring a seri- other nervous cli "whenever any person dies sud-Act came into operation on the depression and

exercise-and walking is the readtestous and limportant profession into dis- first of January, 1923, and it will orders brought on by worry,

medium-to tire without exhausting identy;"""or by accident or by expire on September 30, 1938. First, the cause-may-be-com us physically-Equally we-shoukute, but they may be known at

once if they shiw no cowern ̃as"to" violence, or under suspicious Its main purpose was to help the physical ailment or

Body use our brains in mental nelivity the body's wellbeing. and spirit are

inseparably inter-every day, enough to make the mind About the non-physical causes of circumstances, or whenever any film industry by ensuring that a connected and interactive. A slug picosantly weary.

certain percentage of films shown gish liver makes the clouds seem very dead body is found within the in Great Britain should be British black; some business or emotional up- moling sleep. The rules of calinit so grivate the trouble. Overworkt Diet is an important factor in pro-worry we often deceive ourselves, and is purely the root explanation. It is Colony, or is brought into the

made.

set often brings on digestive trouble. are obvious, but we constantly break astonishing how much work a human Colony, the Magistrate may, if

Statistics show that the quota ofsure that we are physically it. As a night. Don't over-cat. Don't lave being can get through. Think of he considers an inquiry to be five who nècessary, enquire into the cause per cent.. in 1928 to twenty-five per and far from dimeult. Sleep is our vegetables, or all fat-making, foods teen hours a day at the nge of 80- and is there a more cheerful person? of death of such person." It is cent., in 1935. More British Sims chief need for good health. Not just and none that contala tron, We need Lloyd George is another seemingly have been acquired and shown by any kind of sleep. It is the quality no elaborate table of vitamins to re-tireless man. There are not excep- 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 thun ten or lines. or without the assistance of a duction of British "feature" films has risen from about thirty In jury. Under the discretion

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 Aet have not under one or other of the been confined to the home market. The producing companies hava 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

admired all overthe 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 Filma Act, and in the production of such is, however, to be put into force films Great Britain is supreme. here, under which in every ense Aa documentary films auffer cer- where a Magistrate deems nur in-tain disadvantages under this Act, quiry unnecessary the relevant efort will be made in 1938 to

introduce reforms in their favour. papers aro to be sent to the Attorney General, who will have

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Some skins may need a stronger astringent; for that type of skin SPECIAL. ASTRINGENT is excellent. It firms loose skin and flabby tissues. braces and lifts drooping muscles.

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the power to order one if it ap- tor in determining, whether an pears to him advisable in the inquiry should or should not be public intorest. 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- consistency

Under existing of decisión. 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 froin 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.

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Hence the main essential is

make them.

SIDE GLANCES

Don't eat heavy foods late at

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 5 inodels to be emulated.

Work never killed anyone, says the old saw. But worry klits many and spoils the lives of multitudes. What is the difference? Work Is activity; worry is naricing time. When we are faced with 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- fing the needle stay in the groove, so to speak, reiterating the same phrase over and over again. That wears the record out in time. We must give the needle a' push--the rest of the record may be well worth listen. ins to.

To avoid worry-ad!! Often that means doing something unpleasant, distasteful, diflcult, and even danger- ous. But power and confidence grow with use, And the very first time we take a bold step our outlook Is magically changed.

Let

us face the truth that worries are frequently' due to our re- fush to do anything about them. We are timid, we do nothing, we build up a heap of grievances against world to justify us-but the

the

| worry persists.

Our

Remember, fundamentally, that it is a blessing 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 Ilant. Within us los latent the ilmil- less power of the human will to face our destiny smilingly. This is the Icsson

of of psychology au it is Christianity. It remains true what- ever the conditions of Ufe, whatever political system rules us, whatever economie troubles beset us, however: science may change the world. As we realise the power

of the human spirit, and increase it with te, worry will disappear, for it ly a parasito that cannot grow on the resolute.

Psychologist