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Tell me,

doctor.. What is a

mother to do! Why, the scratch was so small you could hardly see it: blood-poisoning never entered my mind. After all, children can't sk still all day-though I have asked Freddie not to play in that shed. But, I mean, it might happen to any of usa cut, a little scratch! Tell me what is one to do?”

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY,

TELLS OF COLONY

CHILDREN'S NEED

DECEMBER

222, 1937.

$1.80 per head in family-a slightly better gure than last year's, which was $1.73. This may possibly in- dicate a le increase in employ- ment.

Humon nature I believe to be in- trinsically good, but our good in- tentions are often frustrated by lack of Imagination; the imaginative powers, even of us who have seen the destitute cases at the centres must boggle at the idea of father,

MRS. D. G. McAVOY APPEALS mother and child existing on 55.40

TO ROTARIANS

The speaker for Ladies' Day at the Hongkong Rotary Club meciing yesterday Mrs. D. G. McAvoy, who gave an address on the needs of the Society for the Protection of Children.

In a reference to Dickens's Scrooge, the speaker reminded the large gathering that the true happlaess of Christmas was in making someone else happy.

The year's activities of the Society were a manifestation of practical citizenship to which all could contribute Inancially In an effort to defeat poverty, the breeder of so many other evils, she said. A collection of $190 was realised afterwards. The President,

Major R. D. are only spent where children are Walker, welcomed Rotarian W. J. Involved. Hawkings, a visiting member of the

Chinese Generosity Shanghal. Rotary Club; and intro-

Through the generosity of Mr. Li duced Mrs. McAvoy as the Honorary Secretary of the Society for the Pro-July of this year at Clarence Ter- Fo-chun, a creche was opened in tection of Children.

race. Here mothers who are in children cared for while they are at daily employment have their with were Me

The speaker said in part: Beyond all other sesiivals, Christmas is the one most closely associated children. I want to tell you some. thing about the children in this Colony who are living in less happy clrcumstances than those you will sec in your own homes.

A month.

Remembering that more eloquent speakers than myself have repre- sented to you the claims on all of us of these poor children. I will not expatiate up them, at much greater length but there is no need in the present company of me to stress the urgency of their claims upon our help. We should not be unmindful that it is very much to the interests of the community, as a whole, that the miserable conditions under which the children exist, should be at least mitigated.

Poverty's Children

and

Slum life breeds disease, Poverty breeds crime; the criminal disease is no respecter of persons.

may come from Youmati or Wanchal, but often carries on

his business operations elsewhere, as some of you are these children likely to be dis may know to your coat. Yet why seminators of disease Americans call

and why do some of them grow up to be what "public enemies"? Li Po-chun has month towards the upkeep

Because they are victims of their to provide $100 per

of the Exvironment and have no oppor.

tunity creche, and the Society has assumed ty liability for all additional expenses. has been operating, these amounted

the During half year that the creche to $700.

enough

The creche is run in connection by the Canadian Sisters of Our Lady with the Society's Western centre of the Angels

develop along normal

At Aberdeen Industrial School the ather day, His Excelleney reminded us that the juvenile offenders caught by the police were, when they were born, no more criminally Inclined unfortunate product than any others. They were the of their sur- roundings

Vice is an easier path than virtue.

One of our directors told me re-

There are mercifully no Scrooges in Hongkong and certainly no one with miserly tendencies ever attends a meeting of the Hongkong Rotary Club, where there is always a spod taneous response to any worthy op- Feat.

This year, as in other years, the

In June, the Hospital and Clinic subscriptions and donations of mem- at Shamshulpo run by the Chinese bers of the Society

Blood, was for the Pro- Sisters of the Precious

Institution provides cently of a quite young boy who Lection of Children have been opened. This generously supplemented by con- Increased and improved accommoda- smiled at the idea of a monthly wage

of $30, tributions from various athletic, re- don for children both as in-patients in a morning by picking pockets or ligious, artistic, and educational and as out-patients.

The Society has been in existence | 20 bodice

which since 1920, and in the present year Income from the "Peel most of you will remember was ins-some of our maintained children have (ituted as a

a farewell gift to a retiring passed out of our hands and, con- Governor of the Colony who had sequently, are no longer a charge displayed, not only natural sympathy upon our funds. with but also a personal concern for the

lot of the poorest children in the

We have derived a sull

head ally of which he was

the

We have also received a Govern- ment grant of $5,000,

From these different sources, the Society last year was entrusted with $25,267. The expenditure was $20,- 824, which means that we start the present year with fifteen hundred dollars less in the bank than we had last year.

The heads under which this money has been spent will be found in the statement of expenditure at the end of our report. I can solemnly assure you that the funds entrusted to the Society are very carefully spent, and, though poverty is our enemy, they

Welfare Centres

been

sum he said he could ranke

come other form of petty theft. It is not easy to tempt a boy to honest poverty, when he can do so much better for himself in other ways.

Yet, if something is not done by private or official endeavour to pro- vide alternative to crushing poverty, they will find it themselves.

I should I requite the hospitality

ап

to

theft the sale

We hope to see each year more of these once hapless children, whom the Society's supporters rescued from destitution, emerging from the ins- of the Rotary Club if I were

exaggerate, but,' frankly, what pre titutions where they have

the alternatives they can find for brought up, equipped to be useful

themselves?

petty es? Begging. members of society.

leading to serious crime, or abandonment of children-things The chief and certainly the most baleful for them and for the com- urgent part of the Society's work, is munity. Poverty there will always carried on at three welfare centres be and people can endure a great where mothers bring children for deal. But there is a limit advice and are given such necessities

The Undesirables as milk, cod-liver oil and

orange Before I conclude, may I refute Juice. Nursing mothers are given a one argument which I have heard special soup that helps to feed their against the work of the Society: that children and combat beri-beri. It encourages the undesirable poor to From the Inspectors case reports flock into the Colony. On the con- we learn that the average monthly |trary, in our work this year it haa income of those helped this year was (Continued on Page 7)

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