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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

BANKING CORPORATION

Authorised Capital ......

Imued and Fully Paid-un

Ilmerto Fundes-

Sterling

$50,000,000 20,000,000

£6,000,000

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•Reserve Llablilty of Proprietors #20,000.000

HEAD OFFICE)-HONGKONG,

BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Chairman.

G, Miskin, F., Duty Chairman

Hon. Mr. W. II. Bell, J. I. Mason, E.,

K. H. Morrison. Enqu A. 11. Compton, Ilon. Mr. B. 1. Datwell, 7. F. Pearce, Eng.. Hon. Mr. N. T. Jihpron, A. 1 Shields, E

V. M. GRAYBURN 14. CHIP MANAGER.

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palton

ALBO up to date SAFE DEPOSIT DOXES In various sixes TO LET.

Kongkong, 16th April, 1986.

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1. KISHINAMI,

Manager.

THE

SCENE: The central hull of a

Large school.

TIME: Breaking-up day for the

Summer holidays,

-CHARACTERS: About 400 excited children standing in straight lines. auperataci by ssistant teachers.

(ter the Headmaster.)

HEAD MASTER: Weil, boys and

girls, the time has come to say quodbye to one another for a few weeks, I hope you heill all have a very happy holiday......

CHILDREN (sbyly); Ganie to you,

MEADMÃSPAN: Thank you, I hope the shall it have a very happy Budaun But there is one thing, Pa to tell you which will shock pon very much. Some of you

rener come buck: You are soing to be d Others are going to be badiy damage and will anon! the holidays in kaspital

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1936.

AN one imagine any long- kong headmaster addressing an assembled school, in thin way? Can we imagine the indignant protests which

would..

come from parents and from the general public?

In

Nevertheless 11 "message" not unlike this WH3

rend ploud schools in England few weeks ago. Not all schools, of course, for many teachers refused to deliver such a message," Many of you are going to die," wrote the well-known author, and having "shocked" the children. into listening he warned them about the prospect of war in the near future,

The odd thing was that the parents and teachers were more appalled by the brutality of the words than were the boys and girls to whom the warning was sent.

A

European

NOTHER war, thank heaven, is not in- evitable. It is still possible, if the peoples of the world will ne sanely and honourably, to pre- vent such a catastrophe. Our boys and girls are not douned to be slaughtered before they have a chance to grow up.

But the daily casualty list of children killed and injured in the streets is so familiar that we are apt to become callous. There is minssacre of the Innocents every week-end that out-Herods Herod, Yet we accept it as a matter of course.

Something must be done to, prevent this tragic waste of young life. The scaremongering method is one way—a bad way. There must be a better way of educating young people to take care of themselves.

One thing is certain; we can- not stop human progress. The -world-la-changing-with a speed that continually Recelerates.

To-day's Thought- MEMORY, of all the pwerk of the mind, is the most delicate and trail.

-BEN JONSON,

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Watchwords

of Safety..

and we must adjust our minds to the new conditions.

Traffic moves five times as fast as in the old days, and our habits must keep pace. We shall have to master the new rules, to learn the new watchwords of safety.

In normal Umes children are safe in schools during the morn- ings and afternoons for five days out of the seven, but when the schools break up toward the end of July they will be free to roam the streets and lanes all day long, and many thousands anxious mothers will be of

return

the their

in for evenings.

It would be inhuman

to keep the children indoors during holidays and impossible for adults tu shepherd them The every time they go out.

in their children's lives ure own hands, and they must be trained to take care of them- selves.

Children-learn-more-quickly than adults. Their minds are responsive to new ideas; their memories are retentive; they form new habits with extraordi- nary case. Older people are in the grip of past habits formed during childhood in a leisurely age, but the young boy

more

THE

by J. W.

Marriott

or girl has not this initial handicap.

We remember the old saying: Sow a thought, reap an act; Sow an act, reap a habit;

Sore a habit, reap a character:

This is how Safety First is taught in

some schools,

round several times be- fore lying down on the hearthrug. It is a use- less and meaningless Action, but the old wild dog had to tread down the long grass for com- all fort and "sniff " round for safety: and the ancient habit per- alsts through the generations.

The younger genera- Lion of human beings is being trained in a new traffic-con- sciousness, and future races will have the safety-instinct born in them.

BUT

how can children be taught to take care of themselves in the streets? The most obvious ninu is to "lecture them a dozen times a day, but children hate to be told the same thing over and over again..

Once they have grasped the gist of the daily warnings they merely pretend to Haten. The truth is

Sore a character, reap a destinu.they are easily bored, and every

It is a trifle melodramatic, but we agree that we must start 'with

Deliberate the mind. thoughts make consclous habits, and a habit once formed sinks into the background of uncon- sclousness. We soon begin to act automatically.

An old man pensioned off from work finds himself walk- ing to the old office or work- shop. I stepped out of doors," he says, "and my feet just brought me here." The habit of years retureto-be-broken:

Habits sink deep into the in- dividual subconsciousness, but they sink deeper and become We Inherit the race instinct. virtues and vices of Our ancestors.

Every one has seen a dog burn

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repetition makes less impression than the one before. Still, the lessons have to be hammered home.

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The second is the child who 19 full of vitality and ready for any mischief that comes along. If he were deleate or timid he would be safe, but his lgh animal spirits nake in careless of danger.

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OMEHOW or other we must compel these young children to realise the dangers that hurtle past like thunderbolts within a yard of them. They must learn the, watchwords of safely till liry know them by heart.

The idea of making children write out the principal slogans is excellent. We older people cau never forget those maxims of the copybook" Honesty is the bel policy." "A stitch in time saves nine," and "Punctuality is the sout

of business."

The man who chose these morais was trying to catch two fish with one hook. Ostensibly he was try ing to improve our handwriting. but he was not less concerned In making us into good clerks an decent citizens.

The old copybook with its cop- perplate bandwriting has disap- thic majority of peared from schools and the amount of "stendy grind "has diminished; but certain things have to be mastered thor- oughly because they have to last a nfetime.

The

most

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When a man of seventy or eighty is knocked down and killed in the street one is naturally sorry; but the best of his life was already over and it impossible to grleve for long.

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