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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1937.

LIVES RE-MADE ON A FARM Trapped

AT

Nature's Cure

For City's

"Social

Failures"

(By L. F. EASTERBROOK)

T Benson, near Wallingford, where the rolling fields of Oxfordshire and Berkshire meet, "problem" children from town in every part of England are having their characters smoothed out and moulded to fit more happily into the social fabric.

This is being done at the Wallingford Farm Training Colony, where kindly guidance and contact with the soil and all that it produces combine with health-giving sur- roundings to work miracles.

The colonists are drawn from orphanages, from unsuitable homes and from workhouses. In many cases stunted develop- ment manifests itself in mental dullness or aggressiveness or in crimes such as petty pilfering.

A

WARNING

ON JURY SERVICE

Judge's Censure

Of Evasion

!

HEAVY DEMAND

In short, the majority of Die volun- ists are those of whom many wouli jray: "You can't do anything with ! thera

Bid Un training colony doc

About 150 are being found alu- tions every year and only about five i per cent. at the outside fail to make

good.

Once the colony had to advertise for vacant jub for its boys; now It can only meet haff the demand.

Bodies, minds and characters seem

WARNING to those who try to evade jury service was uttered to develop in an amazing mater on by Mr. Justice Greaves Lord as 1,000-aere farm with its three Glamorgan Assizes in Swansea re-dairy herds, 200 pigs. 3,500 poultry cently.

and 100 neres of woodlands,

Two met and a woman, who had written to the Under-Sheriff asking. to be excused from jury service, were before him.

Medical certificates were put in, but the judge suggested, after rend ing the correspondence, that it look- ect more ken desire not to serve than disability.

CHANGE IN SIX MONTHS "Many are rather like fish out of water when they arrive here," the Warden, Lieut.-Colonel R. C. Grant. told me.

"Practically alt come from the towns, but after six months they start; tu settle down to training in every branch of farming."

To visit this place, which is carried

PREMIUM FOR JUSTICE Stressing the importance of jurors performing their public duty, then by the Christian Service Union, Judge added:

and feet its cheerful constructive. atmosphere, to see healthy minds

DEST DRESSED IN INDIA-Considered the best dressed lady in India is Miss Bapsy Pavry,' talented and beautiful daughter of a Parseo high priest. Member of a wealthy Parsee family of Bom- bay, she is a world traveler, has been presented at the English court and is active in many charity affairs, he was educated in America, with a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University,

Nurses Not

So Well Educated

LESS MENIAL WORK URGED

. Young women who offer themselves.

Russia's Amnesty For 55,000 Convicts

PUSSIA

Pilot In Tests

"THAWS" PLANE AFTER BLIND FLIGHT

(By An Aeronautical Correspondent) The Air Ministry has granted me permission to describe one

of the most remarkable nir experiments yet conducted and one which made exceptional de-. mands on the courage and skill of the air pilot.

I have been asked not to give the name, but I may say that the expert- ment was carried out at Farn- borough, and that its object was to accumulate data about fee accretion on aeroplanes and its effects on can- trol and stability.

fee has been regarded as the cause of some of the worst accidents of recent times. When it builds up on

the wings and alters their shape, it Is thought to destruy their lift, and It has certainly been responsible on more than one occasion for jamming the controls.

FROZEN OVER

The Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough undertook a series of experiments designed to elucidate the position. A great many nights were made in Jee forming conditions, which can be found both in summer and winter at heights from 10,000ft. und on two occasions the to 1,000rt, und pilot kept his machine in those con- ditions deliberately

until it was completely iced over

over and formed a box in which he was trapped. Had the machine lost all life in the way that might have been expected, he would have been unable

to

to escape

by parachute. Flying by instruments, the remained in these conditions to make the necessary observations, and then changed altitude, thawed out the machine, and landed it safely.

The story of these astonishing Alghts has gone the round of Royal Air Force messes, and is being dis- cussed among service pilots; but, hitherto the Air Ministry have with- held permission for it to be publish- ed.

SAFEGUARDING LINERS One of the de-icers, which has been recommended for use in air liners,

was developed $ Forn- horough. It works by forcing an appropriate chemical anti-freeze mixture along tubes let into the From A Correspondent

wings, and from the tubes through poraus covering on the leading Moscow, July 20. edges. Ri has granted a wholesale

Other methods include mechanical devices, in which Amnesty to 55,000 prisoners blown along tubes let into the lead-

pulsating air ist

building the Moscow-Volga Canal-of special postes snicared on the engaged for the past five years in ing edges of the wings, and the use the greatest construction work of the wings before the aeroplane leaves

the ground, One

patent which has been taken out proposes the use Many new avenues for the employ- The amnesty, announced to-day on nf 11 perfectly smooth. ment of women had been created, the ocension of the formal opening chronium-plated surface.

polished The in- not uncommonly more lucrative and of the canal to passenger and freight ventor believes that ice would not more attractive to educated women truffle, is in line with the Soviet

adhere to such a surface. thun mursing.

policy which aims at the regenera

"I know perfectly well thot it being trained in healthy bodies, is a causes a certain amount of ineon- tonle to believe in the essential venience, but that is the premium soundness of human nature.

as probationers ut. hospitals to-day we have to pay for the proper ad- i

Five thousand ministration of justice."

lads have beenare, educationally, not so good as there found job since the colony began its of the per-war periods, according to Some cases might cause grievous work. How meay thousand failures Dr. James Fenton. hardship. but in these there was might have become equally success of Kensington, speaking at the health Medical Oficer no dimenlly in obtaining excusal. ful if we had brought ourselves more "I think the medical profession generally to envisage education in tunes of the Sanitary Institute at

Birmingham recently. must be very careful," added the judge, "that they will not lend them-i selves to what is, after all, a matter ! which can be characterised as eva- sion of jury service.

"Everybody should recognise that this duly is one which each citizen ower to his brethren; and if he tries to evade it he is not only failing in

his duty to his country, hut in his duty to his fellow men.”

The three persons cused.

were not ex-

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* CAN'T ALWAYS BE WATCHING THEM HOW,

HOW CAN A KEP THEM HEALTHY 7"

"You're very wise to ask

that, Mrs. Bartlett. And I'll tell you the way in which you can help them most.

"Make sure of internal cleanliness them a regular weekly dose of California Syrup of Figs. This is specially important with children at the critical nge, like yours, who are working hard for their exams. There's nothing pulls them down more than poison in the system—it affects their general health, making them liable to catch any infection that's going about.

"In my experience 'California Syrup of Figs does far more than simply cleanse the system. It acts quite naturally, and gently and keeps the digestion healthy and active.

"I find 'California Syrup of Figs' equally good for adults, especially for women. As a matter of fact, Mrs. Bartlett, I use it myself and recom- mend you to adopt it for the whole family"

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ABSURD HOSPITAL FEES

""

-Judge's Comment

"I would let the hospital sue me in the county court before I would part with anything like that amount," said Mr. Justice Swift at Birming- bam Assizes recently.

second Five-Year Plan.

These nuw avemies," he said. tion of criminals and political pri- hrī; attract many of the better soners through bard labour upon type of candidates who previously State projects, offered themselves as hospital proba-

All those amnestied to-day will be tioners, und with their disappearance

given bonuses and those of a poorer educational standard have found entry to hospitals less tickets to any part

which they choose to settle,

JOBS FOR ALL

difficult."

If the nursing curriculum were modified to remove from it many of

free railway of Russia

in

the menial duties and it were made The Soviet Government has order-

Children's Dangerous Age

One to five is the dangerous age

a more definitely useful training for ed trade unions to find employment for children, Mr. Geoffrey Shakes-

all forms of nursing work, he added, for the ex-convicts, and those who peare. Parliamentary Secretary to there would probably be a return to showed "exceptiomt zeal" during the

Ruyat

Admiralty, fold the

He was commenting on a bill for £173 for hospital and doctors fees the hospitals of the well-educated their work on the canal will have the Sanitary Institute's Congress at Bir- presented to an injured motor-cyclist type of young women, and the type records of their sentences destroyed, mingham recently. who was in Kidderminster and Dis-of candidate for health visiting ap- trict Hospital for 28 weeks,

pointments would be improved.

"I am not sure," went on the judge, how far honorary surgeons are en- derelict we would have dealt with titled to say, when they have picked him for nothing. up a man who is insured:

"There is no doubt that the hospi- Ah, well he is insured, so we tel is entitled to something," added will charge him as if he were a the judge, "but that these fees are millionaire. Hnd he been poor proper to my mind is absurd."

Children were then highly suscepti~ Each of the former convicia witble to lasting physical and mental cast his ballot beside other citizens damage from many external causes. in the autumn elections under the medical care available for them and The first need was to make proper new Constitution.

their mothers.

It is realled that 12,000 convicts were amnestled by decree in 1933, when the Battle-White Sea Canal was completed.

find that more than 18 per cent. of "We cannot be satisfied when we children entering school require treatment for some disease or defect," declared Mr. Shakespeare.

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