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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1087.

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N eighty-three road accidents out of a hun-

dred in which pedestrians are concerned the pedes- trians were to blame.

Sir Philip Game, Commis-

1801 just ten million walkers under, and over seventy-five. were counted. Walkers then More deaths occurred to each of

Pedestrian Association, ask that the other people on the rond be dealt with. They refuse even to think of foot bridges and sub- ways.

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Their chief objection is that old people with weak hearts or other folk who suffer from shortness of breath should not be expected to climb protective stairs.

On the other side, 600,000- membership Automobilo that sociation complain

the walker escapes all weight of road legislation. The Royal Auto- mobilé Club say the same thing. Walkers are asked only to be good enough to behave. Other road users are ordered to do it under pain of breach of the law. Pedestrians who really prefer

to use their feet to go places, or do so by financial circumstance,

Hotelsioner of Metropolitan Pollen were real walkers. There were these dangerous periods than to answer with logic; "When we issued a warning in his annual only a few horse-drawn vehicles. all the walkera between the ages run into you we don't knock you

To-day we have 178,332 miles of eighteen and fifty. There down or dent your chassia." report published recently based

of road in the towns and coun- are about five million children

The walker v. motorist or on these figures.

try. Then the figure was not under seven and eight hundred rider business is getting worse, The "suicidal wanderings of considerably smaller. But to- thousand men and women of not better. Tel. 27778/9 Stubbs Road walkers" will have to be checked day there are approximately two seventy-five and over.

by law.

million private cars and half a

ONE thing walkers have million commercial vehicles WALKERS, ill protected

been promised. They WE

and provided for on are all walkers,

sharing the walkers' domain. from the time we

In thirty years we have only the road, cannot help looking at are to have adequate paths built along the 4,500 miles of main leave the family front door until had 5,000 miles of road added other means of transport with trunk roads now taken over by we have wheels beneath us.

the State. and traffic has grown by 1,000 mixed feelings.

One day, perhaps, Forty-five millions of us are per cent.

The other fellow, being better all roads will be so equipped. walkers at some time of the day Pavements in those days were equipped, has the advantage, And walkers in the embryo or night. Included are motorists, not thought necessary other says the walker. Therefore the are being taught at school to heavy vehicle drivers, motor- than in thickly populated dis- other fellow should give way. look after themselves. They cyclists, cyclists, tricyclists, tricts. The length of pavements

road But the

user who are taught that pedestrians' sing scooter fans, and other road added now represents not five employs mechanics feels that (as revealed in Whitehall blame

per cent. of the total of the the walker, having only his own sheets) are:-- users.

In the million years of walk- roads.

brakes to apply, should wait. 1. Crossing roads heedless of ing one law only has been made The first serious mishap to ato regulate pedestrians' conduct.

That ill feeling harasses the traffic; NOT surprising, there-

2. Using the road instead of plane flying out of Hongkong You can find it in the pedes-

fore, to read of the men who make our laws. The Eddy Duchin's Orchestra. has aroused feelings of sym-trian Crossing Places Regula- 100,000 rond accident analysis Government fear to inflict laws the pavement heedless of other 3. Walking or running out "Fats" Waller's Orchestra.pathy not only with those who tions enforced only a year or two involving human injury recently on the man who goes by foot. types of road users;

collated by the Ministry of First he is most numerous, and ago.

has greater potential voting from in front of or behind a Walkers must go over Belisha Transport.

Then there is the vehicle; It blames walkers to the power. crossing with reasonable des-

of the subject. His 4. Walking or running into patch. Penalty for not doing so extent of 28.6 per cent. Put it liberty five shillings.

another way: We are told, ac- rights cannot be abused in the road, and not crossing.

Children at any rate are being cording to the chief constables Britain.

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....Ray Noble's Orchestra.

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25553-Turn Off The Moon. F.T.

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Bunnie Berigan Orchestra. 25504-There's A Lall In My Life. F.T.......Kay Thompson's Orchestra,

'Cause My Baby Bays It's So. F.T.

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TUESDAY, August 10, 1937.

THE C.N.A.C. MISHAP

That is all.

of Britain, that 28,099 walkers But the Westminster public taught that it is silly to do these THE Ministry of Trans- were responsible in the 100,000 men still have the problem of port, whose first total road accidents. These keeping down the casualty list worry is the road and behaviour road smashes caused the death and preserving the life of the on it, confess that they have no of 2,560 people; half were sometimes thoughtless walker. powers over the pedestrian.

have been bereaved by the loss of three members of the crew of .......... Tonumy Dorsey's Orchestra. the flying-boat Chekiang, but 25501-A Love Song Of Long Ago. Waltz ......Xavier Cugal's Orchestra. I also with the officials of the

It's No Secret I Love You, F.T.

China National Aviation Cor- 25562-You Can't Run Away From Love To-night. FT.

portion, a concern which had hitherto enjoyed immunity from disaster of this kind. The mishap appears. to have been

When the first offcial headTM The walker has two specially Xavier Cugat's Orchestra. due to combination of un- census was taken in Britain in dangerous:

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ages-seven F.T...Eddy Duchin's Orchestra. fortunate circumstances which F.T....."Fats" Waller's Orchestra.may never be encountered again. When the plane ran into rain Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra.

squalls and dense fog, the pilot made an attempt to return to

25506 The Lady Who Couldn't Be Kissed. F.T...Guy Lombardo's Orchestra.

I Know Now. F.T.

25567-I Jlum A Waltz. Wallz

Ifold Me Tieht, Wallz. 25569-Let's Call The Whole Thing Off.

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educational factors the elementary industrial processes.

for Many of them have been to expen-preparation

their projected SOME of the most thoughtful|

and disappointed people in sive public and preparatory schools. careers at the Bar, for example, or From first to last their education has in medicine, or the works laboratory turned. All but three members England at the moment are the cost their fathers anything from are wasting their time and their of the crew managed to cling to parents of hundreds of young 22,000 to £3,000. Not all, or near- parents' money, the wrecked plane until rescued.men who, at an average cost of

ly all, these fathers are well-to-do. They have missed twa of the ments of administrative work and Captain Smith, though injured, nearly £1,000, have just com-vants, struggling business men could, necessity to earn a living at an early They are fortunate if that is the Not all made a gallant but fruitless at-

ploted three years at one of the if they chose, tell pathetic stories of age and the experience which life extent of their handicap. tempt to save the Chinese radio

stinting and scraping and real sacri- gives a young man in the process of products of the older universiiles | older universities.

fee. So that their sons may spend, doing so. They have been shielded are free from social pretensions and operator, and was himself un-

alon towards the workaday. It is On the strength of this agreeable three years at Oxford or Cambridge, from reality too long; and now the manner of insufferable condescen- conscious when picked up. But

they have overworked, gone without impact of reality will hurt them.

not surprising that a number of holidays, denied themselves small; There may be a job awolting them employers do not find this attitude for his skill in most untoward experience, a degree of sorts, and a ̧

Jiberal education (100 often a comforts,

and practised in thelrin a family business or through ingratiating. circumstances, the whole of euphemism for a total lack of voca- homes a rigid économy affecting family influence. But probably thera What have these young men, even

(raining), these those on board might have been tional

retarded every member of the family-except is no job. Parents may be able to those of proved ability and capacity for hard work, learned in comparison afford a further outlay in order to with what the world could have lost.In the conditions prevail-adolescents expect the social system the favoured undergraduate..

Is it worth it? countless parents begin to train-at the age of 221-taught them in the same impression- ing, he appears to have done to provide them with attractive and

well-paid work.

have asked themselves, and with a their sons to earn a living. It often able years? What have they gained everything humanly possible to

new insistence in recent years. The happens that no more money can be which any one of the younger unt- versities could not have given them answer to that question is-yes and spent.

at infinitely less cost? How can. minimise the disaster. It is, un-

For a surprisingly large number their parents' sacrifice be justified? happily, impossible for aviation British Navy was able to play

In the case of an exceptional boy, of parents when they decide, at a concerns to guarantee absolute a useful part in rescue opera-with a fine mind and, above all, a de- cost of £300, a year, to send their immunity from mishaps, but; tions, whilst the Chinese Mari-Anita bent, it is immeasurably worth sona to Oxford, or Cambridge, look

For most of these graduates-at Customs when we bear in mind the ex-time

patrol also while. Any sacrifice is well repaid no farther than the end of the uni-

any rate, for those who are not. which gives an Asquith, an F. E. veralty course. They have tried to

sons of rich men--the wiser and tent to which flying has de-rendered valued aid of a similar Smith, or a Master of Balliot such as do their best for their sons; but they happler course would have been to cannot escape ́n heavy share of re-start at 10 or earlier equipping them- velop in recent years and the character. All praise is due to Jowott his chance of greatness.

selves for a useful and permanent ponsibility for the results. of these

carcer. tremendous mileage covered the officers and men

Sham Competition Yet look at the handicap for the the every day by regular services, services, as well as to

undergraduate who has worked hard than a few, very few, are capable the percentage of serious ac- Chilang lighthouse-keeper for NOBODY questions the value of with a view to entering one of the of profiting from the best hot Oxford well-trained mind: but there learned professions. If his parents or Cambridge can give one in ten, cidents is amazingly low. The his ready assistance to those in must first be a mind to train. Eight are unable to find the money to perhaps, of those who go there, C.N.A.C. has held a fine record need of help. Their timely ac-out of ten of the young men at the launch him in a practice, he has to But so long as innumerable Uncle in this respect, and the un- tion, as well as that of Chinese snitely leas in three years from their start three years late, lacking the Williams continue to talk of their fortunate occurrence which has fishermen in the vicinity, helped experience than they would gain in valuable experience he might obtain three years at the university as the the fletion persists that academic extucation con profitably be con- now happened should in no way materially in proventing a major single year in the world of real ed in his profession during that happiest of their lives; so long as

as opposed to shom competition. lessen public confidence in disaster, the only sad feature

For what have these graduates of tinued, except in the case of a tiny They are not scholars: they never a2 to offer a prospective employer? minority, until the age of 22; so long ne snobbish considerations provali în this capably-manned, efficiently of which is that three of the will be. They are incapable of They are too old and, in many cases, countless homes, so long will the equipped and well-run service. personnel of the operating com- academic distinction, ineligible for too intractable, to teach. They have older universities contain a large the plums it brings. Those--and no speciallied knowledge, no market-population of young men who, to all Once again, as in many another pany should have lost their they are a majority who are not able qualifications. They are com-intents and purposes, are warling:

the lives whilst at the post of duty. ·| undergoing; = practical course of pletely ignorant even of the rudi- three years out of their lives. unfortunate occurrence,

older universities are goining in-

period.

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