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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, August 17, 1937.

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TUESDAY, August 17, 1937.

SHANGHAI'S HOUR OF TRIAL

drawn

The sympathy of all Hong- kong will go out to Shanghai in the terrible experiences which that centre is suffering as a consequence of being into the Sino-Japanese crisis of actual by the occurrence hostilities within its borders. ....Eddy_Duchin's Orchestra. Hopes that fighting would

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Should We

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Children?

asks E. Arnot

Robertson

HERE are dozens of good reasons for and against "for" side, among having children. On the

others, there is personal satisfaction-the per- petuation of what I secretly believe to be my in- valuable qualities, whatever you may think of them; and

vice versa.

There is the instinctive urge, too, of course-in effect, I want to be a parent and never mind the consequences to you, my child.

And having a child is an effort to secure the only kind of immortality in which most people can really belleve with all their heart..

On the other side, particularly at present, stand un- employment, ill-health, over- population, and the inpossi- bility, for many people, of giving the child a fair chance In life. Moreover, such slight know, of the

of laws heredity as we have to date Cues tend to spoll the proud parent's hope of duplicating his better nature.

It tells us that your child is anything but sure to take after delightful you and your equaliy enchanting nute. The odds are almost as great that it will re- semble your perfectly frightfot brother or your partner's prae- tically half-witted sister.

Or throw further back to your forbears, of whom none of your generation knows anything.

But more serious than any of these reasons was that which caused the tragic death of a young woman, the mother of a two-year-old daughter, with another child on the way, who was found drowned recently.

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ER husband sak of her at the inquest: "She not dread having this other child, but she has been reading every day about war.

"She did not like the idea of her baby coming into the world among all this."

We who are content to live in world overshadowed by the horror of war or if not content, at least less resolute in our hatred of the supreme human stupidity - in- we Inok for other stinctively reasons to explain an uct zo In- tolerable to our own peace of mind.

GIVE

These children are happy now. But will they have happy lives when they grow up?

We may say, wisely perhaps, that human reasons are always more complicated or more personal than this.

It may be true, but we are prob. ably saying it because we want to belleve it, rather than because we really do.

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ELF PRESERVATION, race preservation, the need of inding our- selves and our circumstances & Ittle better than they are in fact --all our unconscious desires are up in urins against the possible recognition that this woman was right.

Every bit of evidence in the case for against our will-to-belleve different explanation. in

one She was in good clreinstances, Joung, married only three years agu. and there was already one child in the family.

The case has been called tragic and strange. Tragte it certainly Is. But isn't the strange thing. rently--if for once, we think with: our not with our brains and Instincts-that so many of us can bear the iden?

That we continue to launch Into the world. irresponsibly in the fullest sense of the word, a next

who Generation

the will bear

weight of our political indifference of our lack of social consetenco at home and good will towards other men abroad-of the greed or pride of our statesmen, generally called "Patriotism "—of the - evitable stupidity of a half edu- cated, under-nourished populace. looking for satisfaction to national honour, because the majority of individuals can and too little per sonal satisfaction in a world of economic injustice?

To-day, fighting in Spain. Aght- ing in China.

To-morrow, where may there not be war, whether the people who wage it really want it or not?

Widespread International war Krows, not only more probable, year by year, but continually mora ghastly, physically and mentally. as the spiritual development of man fails so terribly to keep pace with the growth of his scientific knowledge.

And this, apparently, is what one woman grasped with unbearable clarity.

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OST of us have familles, Very few of us do any thing at all to try and make sure that the horror does not materialise ngah in their time. If we so much as go to a peace meeting, because a Friend asks us to, we feel snugly that we have done more than our neighbours.

And the sad thing is that have! Isn't that much more re- markable than what this expec- tant mother has dune?

Taken all round, the reasons for

YOUTH A CHANCE

CICENE-A city office. An employer SCEN

is interviewing* a young mon about eighteen or nineteen years of

Employer-Well, now, young man, have you had any experience of this type of work?

You Gee 1 left Youth-No, sic. school only a few months ago.

Employer-I am sorry, but we em- ploy only those who have had pre- vious experience.

BY ONE OF THEM

We

having children are more selfish than those for not having them again, especially at present.

I know this is the contradiction of popular sentiment, and natur- ally, as it is only a question of "taken all round" and there are plenty of exceptions.

Parents, once the children are there, usually behave with amaz- ing unselfishness; but the reason why the children are there at all is, nine times out of ten, nothing more Jaudable than joie de vivre. That and mankind's congenital in- difference towards the future, bath their own and their children's,

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LIND faith has always been the mainstay of population, and really, considering what the future is likely to hold, perhaps it is just as well that most of us are so curl- ously short-sighted,

It is when we find someone who is not fundamentally indifferent to the future that we stand aghast at such frightening logic.

Where will it lead?

To a pre- valence of the despairing. longer view? Or to an improvement In international conditions, among races shocked into sanity?

Only if such an improvement Is made will many women return to a more normal view, and have the children they would like to bring up in a better world.

OT everyone will agree

Nwith the dark view of

: things taken in the article above. This poem sent in by a reader shows that

There's Hone for The Worki

What is wrong with the world to-day? Nothing is wrong with the world, I say. We still have our Summer, var Winter..

und Spring.

The trees still praw, and the birds stil

The Sun. the Moon and the Stars att!!

sline,

We still have the clifs, and the hills

to climb.

The flowers are pretty, and prim as of

jore,

The Scas still rare and the winds still

TIMIT

of to-day is better The youth This scene is enacted daily all over

Mizers. Many firms refuse to equipped-both physically and men- the country. have anything whatsoever, to do with tally-than any of its predecessors. We often hear of the great advan- beginners.

in education Some lads leave school a few years fares which are ours earlier and become apprenticed to & und recreation. But are we not tak- their in the fullest advantage of these? only to find that once trade, "time" is up they are instantly dis- Have ever the Secondary schools had missed. Countless numbers. of our so many pupils on their rolls, and is young men are thus being thrown not a general aptitude being shown for the simmer forms of curricula now ruthlessly to the scrup-heap,

vacant in operation? Is there a It is indeed a

picture. a gnomy

sports field on a Saturday? lave consider this an may exaggeration I can get experience?

afraid 1 out. Ask any young man who has ed such popularly. Employer No. I am

been applying for a situation to relate A Renaissance can't. I suppose we are all too busy his experiences. Discover how many nowadays to bother about beginners.inds, on completion of their training, Good-day!

have been retained.

Youth-Can you tell me, sir, where Older people hey can easily find cycling and hiking even before enjoy-

What is wrong with the wigldi to-day?" Nothing is wrong with the world, I say.

disclosed, although there would: seem to be reason in the conten- tion that the bombs

in accidentally dropped International Settlement. tainly, those which caused such a heavy loss of life could not have been specifically aimed at the localities in which they fell. As to the status of the Inter- national Settlement, Chinese officials. whilst regretting the killing of so many civilians, claim that i1. is territorially part of China and that, as

has

aerial consequence, she rights over it. However that may be, there is no evidence tol show that China actually desires the Settlement to be brought into the war zone; it is only by

of Japan's use of the! reason Settlement as a base for hostile action that sh reserves the

At school we learn French and Ger-i right to take such measures as

But we do not stop there. We may be necessary to put an ent

Oper-Crowded Professions correspond with the young men and this state of affairs. The to

uf France and Germany. Some of us spend holidays with them. fact is that the whole situation

Many of my former classmates are ¦ And so we begin to appreciate their the has been most unsatisfactory

now at the University. The future, point of view, in since,

1932, the Japanese took after the first they say, is by no means rosy for If youth had Its say there would be Japanese began to use Hongkew incident near Peiping, nor for them. The teaching profession, for Instance, Is vastly over-crowded. as a military base and have the policy they have since pur-Seine of them cuter for Civil Service tions" between the nations of the Everything's terong in the world, i cây.

want to Aght. 1ot is the battle since looked upon it as their sued following the Hungjao in examinations, but the competition in world. There is one battle we do these is well known. One under against slums and disease and pre- own Concession. Had the other cident. The

graduate sald, to me the other day:-

Judice. decrepit There is nothing more beenming Powers then taken a stand, the which can be drawn is that they "There are far too many

doctors, worn-out professors, fired than for youth to seek counsel; present happenings might never have seized upon these happen business men and statesmen in the nothing more becoming to age, than

It is now evi- Ings for the express purpose of throes of senile dacay." have occurred.

to be able to give it," wrote Robert We have Louis Stevenson. Modern youth dors And I belleve he is right. dent that China is determined putting through their known

but to look around us to realise the not acorn ndvice, for advice is neces- to make a big effort to drive the plans for gaining control Japanese out of their privileged more of China's territory. The utterly hopeless position the world mary if we are to learn how to be use- finds herself in to-day. It seems ful citizens. A glorious heritage is ours. It in our desire to be worthy position; they take the stand plty of it is that, thus far, na- that our leaders are incapable of

Ideas, of it. Some of us even cherish the adapting themselves to new are conscious tions who

of that, whether they fail or suc-

and it is therefore to those who are hope that we will be able to bring This will take time; let's start right- rights have not been young, and wrose minds are still about China's

a renaissance-not only in ceed, they are loft with no op-

atay, - real literature and the arts, but in every And prove that we can put the world' tion in the matter. As the able to put a stop to Japan's fuld, that we must look for

lendership.

department of human nelivity. Give right, I say. us a chance. We need new blood.

C. H. PIPER.. whole position surveyed, i aggression.

ever

ia

there appears no justification for the action which

only

inference

of

mat.

women

fewer wars and less "strained rela-

What is wrong with the world to-day? Everything is wrong with the world. I

say

We're growing, too clever, ten bid for"

our shoes, We're strieling to gain what surely

we'll lose.

People are starting, with food in store. There's plenty of money, we spend it

on War.

Dictators and Rulers fight for mora

Whilst the peoples they rule are out of

Jaand.

What is terong with the world to-day?

Can we right what is wrong in the

world fo-dup? To right what is wrong frit easy. I cap. We must Arst learn to love, and then..

to Juraive,

To stop being preedy, to five and let

dive.

We must And prople work, and make

them content,

And share the food that from Heaven

is art,

Push War to the background, bring-

forward Peace,

Crush deadly fear, and set hearts at

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