1937-07-27 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY

GERMANY'S ROBOT

Drill-But No Thinking Exercise

A picture of the youth of Germany, re- gimented, trained, encouraged to undergo the most strenuous possible physical curri- culum, virtually ostracised if its tastes run in the direction of mind or spirit and op- pressed as no young generation ought to be with a sense of permanent responsibility, emerges from a pamphlet, "Physical Educa tion in Germany," just published by the Stationery Office for 18.

The picture gains in ominous power, ominous at once for the youth of Germany and for the world at large from the re- markable restraint of the "artists"-a delegation from the Bourd of Education and the Scottish Education Department, who, at the invitation of the German Government, visited Germany to investi- gate their methods of physical training.

AND ALL POLITICAL

Organisation after organis tion was seen-"Napoli" Schools, specialising in training the crack students of other organisations; the German National Physical Training League; the Hitler Youth; the Land Year; the La- bour Sorvice; the "Strength through Joy",

All specialise in the development of ane bodies; all relegate to second or third place the training of the mind; all aim at the production of Ideal specimens for the Army or the breeding of the Army,

And all are political.

The "Napoli" schools organised under the direct inspiration and per- sonal leadership of Hitler, avow their aim as: "The cultivation of healthy,

HE'S AFTER THAT CUF-Here Is an interesting camera study of T. O, M. Sopwith, that British sportsman who hopes to win the America's Cup yacht race off Newport, R. I., this summer and take the famed cup back to England. He is carrying on where the late Sir Thomas Lipton left off.

In

Whitehall

Search Of Personality

*27.

1937.

YOUTH RADIO

FIRST QUARTER'S REVENUE

A GOOD START

RECEIPTS UP BY

£13,412,000

Britala's Revenue Returns for the Birst quarter of the current fiscal year, issued last month, ure very an satisfactory, The total shows Inercase of £13,112,000, which com- pares with the Chancellor's estimated. increase for the year of just over

L38,000,000.

BROADCAST

Commentary on the Davis Cup Challenge Round ROTARY TIFFIN SPEECH

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on wavelengths of 355 metres metres (845 k.e's.), 31.40 metres (9.52 m.c's.)

1.K.T

Old

112,30 Ambrose and hla Orchestra. Fox-Trot She; Fox-Trot We're Tops on Saturday Night; Fox-Trot Just Say Aloha; Fox-Trot Miracles Fox-Trot Nun- Happen; Sometimes Yuft and Sun-Yu; Fox-Trol Saltor: Rumba Cuban Pete.

12.67. Sea Shanties. Part What Shall We do with the Drunken Salior?; Slicnandoah; Blow the Man Down: Bound for the Rio Grande; Part II-Whisky It may be well not to attach too

Below: Hulla- much significance to the first quarter Johnny; Fire down reaults.

The Chancellor estimated abaloo-Belay; Bully Boy.

1 Time and Weather. total increase in revenue for the year of £30,384,000, and the following table shows the increase or decline anticipated in the various depart ments of revenue, together with the actual increase or decrease for the Brst quarter of the year

Extimated Actual increase increase or

or decrease

for first decrease for

Усяг

Inc, Tax

Surtax

Estate Duties

Stamps

--Z

Other Infanel

Dustica

N.D.C.

Curtarr FAC se Motor V.

Duties P.O. Net Crown

Latis... Sundry

Loans ** kcellaneous .

30.913,000

4,400,000 1,010,000

1.03 Scottish Music, Auld Scola Songs-Medley. Part I:The Camp- bella Are Coming, Annie Laurie: Loch Lomond: Scots who hae; Part of

Bonnie Dundee; My Love is Like Red Red Rose; On the Banks Allan Water; Green Grow the Rashes, Ol; Auld Lang Syne; MacGregor's Gathering-Heddle Nanls and Male Quartette; There's Nae Luck Aboot the Noose. Boyd Steven; The Laird 3,250,000 O' Cockpen-Glasgow Orphens $30,000 Choir: Du'a Drums-Glasgow

Skye Boat Song-

quarter.

750,000

Orphena

Elder Cunningham; Will Ye No' Come 4,162,000 Back Again?-Elder Cunningham.

1.60,000

24

140,000

4

230,000 2,000,0XH) 1,560,000 3,050,000

1,273,000 730,000

500,000

No change

250,000 13,600,000

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; $3,000 Time, Weather and Announcements. 1.40 Relay of the Rotary Club Tiffin Speech from the Roof Garden of the Hongkong Hole!.

30,000

7,400 419,064

+£38.384,000-4-413,422,667 BUMPER CUSTOMS FIGURE Customs have nelleved an increase equal to more than half of the estim- ated expansion for the year, while the advance in Excise Revenue of £1,000,000 compares with an pected gain of £3,050,000 for the whole year.

CX-

Even more striking is the rise of £3,250,000 in Estate Duties; the Chan- cellor expected 130 Inercase of £1,010,000 for the whole year. There is satisfactory increase of £550,000 in Stamp Revenue.

As the receipts from Income-tax In the

were rather disappointing.. last year were first quar

Chic

Mr. J. Smith,

Mechanical Engineer, of the Kowloon-Canton Railway on Is It Progress?

2.15

Down.

Close

p.m.

Chinese Programme. 7 Military Band Music. The Band of H. M. Welsh Guards playing:-Stars and Stripes for Ever; The Band of 11. M. Washington Post;

Liberty Bell; Coidstream Guards

the Hiawatha; Parade of

Puppets: The Changing of the Guard.

7.20 Charles Kullman-Tenor, SU As the Night; I Love Thee; The World Is Fine To-night.

7.30 Stock Quotations, and Hong- kong Exchange Market.

7.35 Variety.

Forty Second Street-Medley...

Brown: Part I Young and Healthy, You're Getting 體 Habit, Part il-Forty Second

hardy bodies the of

training in respons-WHITEHALL is trying to evolve a new type of Civil and having regard to the fact that the Derickson and

will power

and,

blity and leadership admittedly the feast important, ta grounding in Dendemic subjects generally,"

Sensitive, Imaginative boys rigidly excluded.

are

Seven-year-old children at the ordinary schools have one 45-minute physical-training period a day for the six days of the school week, and one for writing; ten-year-olds have alx P.T. periods, eight German periods, and

none for history or

geography.

PARSON

CUT WILL

INTO

14 PIECES

PROBLEM put to Sir

Servant for its highest administrative posts.

In addition to the many changes introduced in the written examination, which will take effect for the first time at the competition this year, the most significant innovation will be the revision of the personality test.

Seniority has hitherto been the dominant factor in filling high posts in the Civil Service, but Whitehall now says that it wants leaders, not blind followers of red tape and precedent.

It is a sign of the new times in which we live. Whitehall is throwing off its shackles, just as the Post Office did when it abolished the bottle-neck of the Secretariat.

to

Street, Shuffle off to Buffalo; Down the Old Road to Home Jimmy

usually covers arrears e quarter of taxes, the three months' Increase of £1,500,000 is not too good.

Increased revenue from Customs and Excise, together with cuntinued Rodgers, Yodler: Prairie Lullaby... trade activity, may well ensure Jimmy Rodgers, Yodler: Voulez-vous Sucre?-Josephine further substantiat contributions to de la Canne a

Baker and Adrienne

Dis-mo! Lamy; the revenue, while during the final quarter

the Chancellor

Josephine?--Josephine

Jingle Baker; of the chequer will benefit by the N.D.C. Gaumont; The Eyes of the World are of the Jungle-Lousis Levy and His impost.

present the total of Supply on You-British Symphony. Expenditure for the first quarter

an increase of only £8,000,000. ments. 8.00 The Budget estimate was for a total

Jazz Plano-played by Raic dar

Costa. increase (including Civil Service Supplementary estimates) of about Part 1-Mausle, Pardon Madam, Viktoria and her Hussar--Medley; £00,000,000.

World: No Time for anyone but You; Mama; Part 2-Only One Girl in the Following the Drum; True; A Thou- annd Goodnights,

At

shows

Making all allowances the nation's a good start,

It means the rejuvenation of our whole Civil Service and amandal year how undoubtedly rude reversal of every principle on which it is founded.

In addition to the previous qualities of alertness, intelligence,

and intellectual outlook, diagnosed in the personally test, White-Three

hall now states that "particular importance" will be attached to a

"I's"

candidate's "potential qualities of leadership," and to his vigour In Life of

and strength of character.

JUDGE ASKS "WHAT

IS

Boyd Merriman, the A RING?"

President, in the Probate.

Court recently.

of Paget-ztreet,

Sir Boyd decided that he did not.

fastened together at one corner with

.

claim

These later qualities did not pay Primate

in the Civil Service as hitherto con- stituted. They were not wanted.

"Incredible, indefensible and

8.00 Time, Weather, and Announce

8.16 The Second Cricket Tesl Match England v. New Zealand. A commentary on the third day's play by P. G. H. Fender, from Old Tafford, Manchester.

8.30 The Chorol ducted by Elisio Gualdi.

Group. Con-

Choral-Al lume delle stelle Marenzio-Madrigal: April is in_my Mistress' Face Mosley-Madrigal; Solo A leader with strength of charac-inevitable" was how the Primate Soft, Ye Winds Jacquest-Part Song; Visai d'Arte Tosca; Choral Breathe ter soon found

himself kicking described the life of an Arch- Wishing Rigan-Part Song: Duct against pin-pricks, and his whole outlook, if he had any regard for his bishop of Canterbury at the pre-Sylvia Choy (Soprano), and Gaston E il sol dell'anima (Rigoletto) Verdi; own advancement, quickly changed. sent time to the Canterbury Dio- d'Aquino (Tenor); Choral Easter

cesan Conference recently.

Incredible. Because no one could possibly understand it.

Indefensible. Because no one man ought to be called upon to bear such

burden, Inevitable. There was no use to about it because the

A

complain unfortunate man must only accept the office and do his best.

RECALL TO RELIGION The Primate said that he wished which the Recall to Religion issued to correct misapprehensions with six months ago was first received:

It was never intended that any- thing spectacular or sensational should be its result. “

Hymn (Cavallerie Rusticana) MOB cogni.

9.00 Dance Music.

Fox-Trot Cling to Me The B. B. C. Dance Orchestra; Slow Fox-Trot With All my Heart The B. B. C. Dance Orchestra; Fox-Trot There Won't Be Any Spring Eddie Carroll

and His Music; Waltz Marie Louise: Fox-Trot Ecny Meeny Miney Mo Joe Venuti and His Orchestra; Fox- Trot Alone Mark Allen and His of Old Wyomin' Jack Harris and Ilis Orchestra; Slow Fox-Trot The Hills

Orchestra,

9.20 London News and Announce- ments.

9.40 Variety.

SAFE MEDIOCRITY Mr. Justice Swift said in the

Mediocrity was safer and usually When the Rev. William Lockton, King's Bench Division recently:got to the top in a service ruled by

Loughborough, "I am terrified to ask the ques-red tape and precedent. Leicestershire, cut his will inte tion lest somebody accuse me of Leaders only gave trouble, and this fourteen pieces, did be mean to stupidity; but what is a ring?" was the worst of all characters to destroy it?

The answer, given by a retired get. They had to come down from Jeweller and defendant in the action, the heights to the humdrum level of was: "A ring is a mount with a stone their environment. The primary aim

of Whitehall hitherto was not to dis-. cover potential lenders but to reduce! everyone to a common denominaler

a smooth-running machine. in a

The same standards, borrowed from the Civil side, prevail in the military services. According to Mr. Lloyd

On the contrary he deprecated any

The Ballyhooligans Make Whoopee good

such notion; yet the evidence he had|--Fex Trot Medley: Port 1. Japanese average is safer gifted above your fellows.

received forbade him to question Sandman: Darktown Strutters Ball; As factor in Army promotion, that it had had a remarkable effect Alexander's Ragtime Band; Part 2

he reckoned, brains,

came a bad in

the stirring up

mind and Goodbye Bluca; Wabash

Blues; fourth.

The new Whitchall personality test conscience and, he hoped the will of Shine; Up Aroun' the Ole North Po

people throughout the country and Bertha Willmott: What Can you Give Nudist Bertha Wilmott: In a Village Mr. R. F. Levy, K.C., for Miss Fox, shows that in the Civil and military the Commonwealth.

in the country brains be admitted to probate, sald: "The said she bought the ring as "a fine services of

He was sure it had led them to

tended to destroy it."

tending in their

10.00 Relay from London. Bla modern life and Solomon

the style of is to end

The Davis Cup "Arthur und Company," New through" in the services of the State, whether they were not losing hold Ben. Lawn Tennis.

in To that Sir Hoyd said: "Am I to

foundations of their Challenge Round. A commentary by assume, if the testator cula it about Bond Street. She was told it was which has cost the country

Captain H. B. T. Wakelam ond and puts it together again, that he worth £70, but was second-hand.millions.

Colonel R. H. Brand from Wimble- intended to destroy It? His cigan-She wore it for many years, sending

don. ture is intact, but it is difficult to it back to the shop occasionally for

11.30 Close Down. understand what his idea was. I see cleaning.

and admitted the will to probale.

Mr. Lockton died last February. In it." His will was dated November 28,

The judge was hearing a 1936. It was duly executed and at- tested and had pencil lines drawn concerning a sapphire ring, the stone through certain paragraphs. The of which was described by counsel fourteen pieces had been neatly as "a bit of synthetic rubbish."

Miss Elizabeth Loula Fox, of sucd Mr. Arthur Solomon, SI.

of "The oddest thing I have ever John's Wood Park, N.W., for damages, seen," commented Bir boyd after alleging fraudulent representation In examining it.

regard to the ring. This Mr. Solomon Mr. F. L. C. Hodson, for the axe- denied. cutors, who applied for the will to

green tape before it was taken Lauderdalo Mansions, Maida Vale. George, in the War Offee "to be a

court.

than to be

n

question is whether the testator in sapphire" from a shop then kept by future will get a chance. The object ask very seriously whither they w/Churchyard; Daybreak at u Surrey

na reason why it should not be given

effect to as a complete will."

Mr. S

under

THE "DIVORCE"

When Mr. Solomon sold the bust-

He accordingly admitted the willness to other jewellers the ring was

to probate.

sent to them in March, 1930, and

then she was informed that the stone was "not worth 34 pence."

Mr. Blanco

the system of "muddling

untold

the upon Christian faith.

"Sherlock Holmes"

Of

U.S.A. Is Gaoled

New York, July 2.

DIVERS TO SEEK £50,000 sol, Dance White, K.C. (for Mr. ELLIS PARKER, grey-haired "Sherlock Holmes" of America,

GOLD IN WRECK Laurentic Salvage Bid

dispute whether the stone in question was ever sold by Mr. Solomon.

Swilly, in January, 1017,"and of her $75 officers and men 354 were lost.

and his son, Ellis, were found guilty to-day" of kidnapping lawyer Paul Wendel and torturing him to confess that he kid- napped the Lindbergh baby.

The father trembled na Justice [ William Clark droned out their Bentences In Newark's small Federal In an attempt to recover bar gold

court. In that court he had seen to the value of £50,000 from the The wreck Hles in about twenty many of his emplures sentenced. wreck of the White Star liner Eau- rathomis. Before allowing private rentic, the salvage steamer Attendant firms to undertake the work of anl Said the Judge: "I sentence you, left Belfast recently for Lough Swilly, vage, the Admiralty recovered In Ellis Parker senior to six years in Co. Donegal...

seven- "seasonin some £4,000,000. Federal penitenlary." The detec The Laurentio, carrying gold volu. Captain Frankland, of the Attendent, tive's lips formed the word -ed at £0,000,000, Was tank by & mine stated that they had every hope of re- mechanically, then he strained for

ward to hear his son's sentence. three miles off Fanad Head, Laugh covering the remaining gold.

Heth

"Three years in a penitentiary," said the judge..

The elder Parker cried, "Oh, my -God," and fell in a heap. Wardern helped him to his feet, led them both away.

Tho:

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

The following wave-lengths and fre- quencies are used by Daventry:

Frequency Wavelength ПЯА 1,500 k.. 49.59 metres 2,410 k.e. 31.36 metres

CSC

G8D

9.5KL k.o,

11,750 k.c. GSC 11,063 ke. CST 15.140 ko.

31.30 metres 25.33 metres

223.28 metres

10.82 metres

GBC 17.750 k.c.

18,80 metres

GS1

1,470

13.97 metres

osť

15.200 x.c. 21,540 k..

10.68 metres

G80 GER

10.60 metrex

40,10 metres -17.74 metres 10.60 matrom

English Country

GALY сай 4,110 k.c. 15.110 k.. 18.310 k..

Tronantssion 1 (GAB. GRO., GBG.) 12.30 p.m. Den.

Dance Airs, of which they were

1pm. Impies Exchange." found guilty is punishable by death. **Dancing * Time," with Billy in New Jersey State.

Wendel's false confession delayed the execution of Drund. Hichard Hauptmann.

Thorburn_ariel_his Munia,

1.88 pm. 2he News and Announcemesis. 2.13 pasaport Lawn Tennis: the Davia-

„Greenwich Time Signal 89.2 DAT

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Transmission 2

(GS.D., G.A.0., G.B.J.) 645 pm. Big Ben, The

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7.10 p.m. A Light Orchestral Programme. 7.45 pm. Airs of Ulster.'

0.15 pm. The Second Cricket Test Match:

England v. New Zealand.

1.30 p.m. The Isidore Schwiller String

Bexlet,

Dp.m. Brass Band Concert.

0.20 p.m. The News and Announcemnenia.

Greenwich Time Signal at 1.30. p.m...

Transmision 3

(0.8.0., 0.50, 0.8.H, 0.8.7.)

20 pm. Big Ben, Lawn Tennis: the Davis

Cup Challenge Round

11.30 pm. To be announced.

12 am The Second Cricket Test Match:

England v. New Zealand.

12.15 am. The News and Announcements. Greenwich Time Signal at 12.30 am.

12.35 am. Viennese Waltzes. 12.45 am. 'World Affairs'

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