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THE HONGKONG

WEDNESDAY, TELEGRAPH,

AUGUST 17, 1938.

WOULD YOU STRIKE A CHILD? THIS IS NEW!

The Problem of Every Parent Who Wants Either the Strap or the Law To

the Law To Check Wicked Juveniles

Keen parental Juvenile wickedness is in the news. controversy has arisen on the best methods to stop it- give the child the strap or let the law deal with him? Here, as a parent, H. W. Seaman shows what he would do about it.

1

By II. W. SEAMAN

"Take the boy home and give him the strap," says Magistrate No. 1 to a father who has let his son get into wrong ways.

"If you raise your hand to that child again I will send you to prison," says Magistrate No. 2 to a father who has not spared the rod.

Truly children are a problem. So are magistrates. This wave of juvenile delinquency that we hear about is a problem. So is the great increase in the number of prosecutions of parents for cruelty to children.

If Agures dlo

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liss there are

mare bad boys and girls about thous ever before. Last year the N.S.P.C.C.) dealt with nearly

af 50,000 enses cruelty, Involving 121,000 children.

A WALLOPING

for

So many youngsters were judgment at the Monmouth Assize, Justice The other day that Mr. Charles, who fa Sir Ernest Charles when he is off the Bench, took alarm.) When I did wrong was cor rected, not by brings sent to an approved school, but by that man- of correction which is so

ner

raluable to young people, and which prevents them from uquin doing wrong, without any loss of their self-respect, and withent loss of humanity in those toho administered that correction.

In short, he was walloped.

LAST

THE

OF

BACHELORS' TO WED

-Aged 57

[R. LOUIS KAUFMAN, sfty- MR.

seven-year-old O.B.E. pub- AVOIDING THE TRUTH

lisher, of Wilfred-street, West- twenty Ought these growing youngster to

S. W.. who, know? When they

wrong for minster, want of knowing, ought they to be years ago founded a Bachelors' handed over to the police and the Union in London with hundreds magistrates for correction?

of members, is getting married.

Is the magistrate, ordering the birel, a befter man than the boy's į father who by a sim

A simple clout over get

The last of The Bachelors," be a special licence recently at twenty- Hall, to marry

the car, might have prevented the Caxton boy from performing the act for seven-year-old Miss Kathleen Low-

which he is to be bircked? Twenty years ago these questions would have been absurd.

is only recently that nagia-

telf trates have begun to

parents that if they lay hands on their own children they will go to gaol.

ther-Morris of Richmond, Surrey.

He explained why he had aban- doned his ideals of twenty years ago. "MEN NEVER KNEW"

a fair deal, not get "Men did then," he said. "The girl always

Mr. Justice Charles dissents sharp-knew something about the man, but ly from the view of these magistrates. the man never knew whether his He looks at the long list of boys and bride could run a home, or cook, or girls who have run foul of the law, new. and he says:

"Now things are different, and 1

The wave of sentiment that is passing over the country is not for have altered my mind not only because I have grown older, but be- the good of young people.

will not be 1 submit that it is not for the good cause fortunately it anybody. Sentimentality does not necessary for my wife to low any.

gratitude, thing about cooking.

fuve

the

of

honour, mean patriotism; it means avoiding truth about these und all other honest emotion.

Children have more opportunities to commit offences nowadaya.

Thirly years ago the sirecis were playgrounds. If a boy put a tip-

charming qualities which

UFSI

Disturbing to movie fans is Indefiniteness of whether or not Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck are married, or even engaged. But here they are again, as they attended premiere of a new movie at Hollywood,

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12.0-12.20 p.n. Helny of Service from St. John's

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12.30 Vivian Ells at the Plano.

Medley: In- "Floodlight"---Plane tro-Don't turn the floodlight upon me; Dancing with the Daffodils; I will pray; A Little White Room (From "Floodlight"); "Shall We Dance" ---- Plano Selection: tro:-Shall we Beginner's luck; Slap that dance; Bass; They all laughed; They can't take that away from me; Let's call the whole thing off.

12.42 The Ballyhooligans,

Ching Boy-Quickstep; Choo-Choo --Quickstep; Favourite Favourites, No. 3.-Fox-Trot Medley: Intro:- September in the Rain: Carelessly! Broken-hearted Clown; They can' take that away from me: Where is the Sun: Tiger Ra-Fox-Trot; Bugle Call Rug-Fox-Trot.

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1.03 Debray Somers Band, "What's

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minde me desert the Bachelors' {nity cases that Lord Merthyr is would be absurd, for already there Sweet As A Song (From

and swimmer.

"My

the

"My union didn't last long. The to regularise the position, says cat ihrough a window his father secretury deserted after live

must be the last member the Daily Mail, pald for the damage and took I think

"It is important to emphasise that Said Miss Lowther-Morris: out on the boy's hide. Ifonour was satisfied without pollee interven- fiance's ideas were only the stupid my Bill will not be aimed at uphoid ideas that every man hus before he ing the interest of men as against Mion.

women. Its purpose is entirely to There was less sentiment and more falls in love,"

ald and simplify justice," he told the Nobody would have asked such a ridiculous question as

Daily Mail, "Could you strike a child?"

I am assured by doctors that?

be almost from birth blood con QUCH anxiety is being express-groups.

ed at the dangerous pos-analysed into one of the groups con- sibilities in unrestricted and cerned, and, incidentally. I am not employment of proposing to limit the Bill to include unregulated

lour

groups of blood. That "She has. I know, lots of other blood tests in relation to pater-only

have

"Then there may be opposition on Ky Hotel Orp Union. She is a good horsewoman going to introduce a Bill in the are known to be twelve.

House of Lords in an attempt

the score that the woman should not Savoy, Humorous Gert And Daisy tion of having her blood taken by Bert's Darts Club Dinner (E. and the thumb. Finally D. Waters); Pals (E. and D. Waters) Elsie and Doris Waters (Come- that ....MIST

Orchestra will have to be arranged

Orchestra); it will a simple prick

(Zamecnik)....Alfred Nights doctors who made the original test dienes with

appear- should be allowed to send their In The Sudan (Sebek); Babylonian evidence to court instead of ang each occasion themselves, which Dam and His Gaumont Stute Orches- would frequently involve consider tra; Vocal-Daddy's Old Guitar (The Hill Billies): Cross-Eyed Sue (The able expense,

Hill Bullies)...The Hill Billies with "Doctors have told me that the

"This will mean altering slightly their own Novelty Accompaniment; percentage of error in such tests, i

been done in the caso of Slow Fox-Trot-Swing And Sway... it exists at all, is so small as to be the laws of evidence, but as it has Quick Step-You're An Education; the Food and The Six Swingers directed by George negligible. For many years now the already idea has been

out on the analysts' reports in Continent, especially in Germany Drugs Act, I see no reason why Scott Wood. and Denmark, Before 1928, in Ger- should not be done in this instance" many alone, 5,000 cases were in-

common sense,

SOFT, SENTIMENTAL But put that question now to the first six persons you meet and you will find they will dodge it. It is too blunt for them. They would rather be asked something easy, soft, and i sentimental

Deepest in the sentimental mire la he who replies: "Yes, for the child's own good When

my father walloped me used to bawl like a bull, and the louder I bawled the harder my father Inid it on.

Nowayays the bawling would bring in the neighbours, and the neighbours would bring in the N.S.P.C.C., and the boy would be

and the father martyr Scoundrel.

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A

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To Solve Mars

Mysteries

The World's Largest Telescope

The polishing of the rim of the giant steel horseshoe cons- tructed to swing the 200-inch "eye" of the world's largest tele- scope has been completed after months of arduous work.

vestigated.

vorried

FALSE ACCUSATIONS

The astounding figure has been arrived at from these investigations abroad that one out of every three falsely accused can be cleared. I see no reason why this should not apply in our country.

which is 10 be "People must reailse that thes The telescope,

of a child and assembled on Mount Palomar, Call- tests cannot definitely prove that the fornia, is expected to bring a thou-man is the father

They can In spite of the figures, I do not sand million stars within reach of convict him accordingly,

only indicate whether it is possible believe that parents are more cruel the human eye. than they used to be. But I am not

It will be powerful enough to en-frein the blood groups that he might be the father, or that he could not discussing crucity, for there are no able the watcher to see the light of

concerned-man, two sides to that. What Is challenged a candle

several thousand miles possibly be. It is a sort of negative 10-day is a parent's right to punish away, and the moon, 240,000 miles proof. All three his own child in a proper manner.

away will be brouglit to within mother, and child-must submit to

the test. for 50 miles. Do. I now thank my father

LAW OF EVIDENCE chustising me? No; I am indifferent It is expected that the telescope, with a lens to it. Nor do I forgive him, for there which is being Lited

"I anticipate opposition to my Bil!! is nothing to forgive.

made by a London firm, will solve the question whether the "canals" from certain quarters. There may anything other than be those who say that a baby's blood disfigurements caused by natural cannut always give definite blood

Since then I have brought up

child of my own, and from. Ume to on Murs are

have had to take her to task.

time I

were not trying to avold sen- processes. timent and tell the honest truth I

should express sorrow for striking. my daughter. I should say

1 never struck her unless

that

I

GROUND FOR SIX MONTHS

The are of the horseshoe rim,

had to strike her for her own good.which is now ready, has been made That would be a sentimental e.to conform to within five-thousandths was of an inch to a perfect circle. The horseshoe, which weighs 150 tons, ungry.

Mr. Justice Charles is right. We is so high that it had to be shipped are so smeared over with rentiment to Pittsburgh in three sections, cach that we cannot open our eyes and filling a railway truck see the truth.

Installed in the polishing mill, it rotated past the grinding tools for six months, during which more than

Lunacy Experts Marked two tons of steel surface was ground

Down

San Francisco. Lunacy examinations aren't rated as high here as formerly. The city's lunacy, commission composed of four physicians have had their salaries slashed from $915 a month to $300.

away. During the process the heat of the sun striking through the roof warped the steel rim by as much as thirteen-thousandthe of an inch.

Various devices were tried to cor- rect the error, and finally engineers had to build an umbrella of heat resinting composition to counteract the effect of the rays.

Slow Motion In The

Army

Lia

Line, The Cavalry of now belag mechanized, with the exception of two regiments, has no special place of instruc tlon yet provided for its men to learn how to drive and malo. tain mechanised vechicles,

The War Office is only now planning to have a special ca- ca- valry depot where future

can learn their valry recruits molor dulles.

Meantime the newly mechan- aro ised cavalry regiments

do what they can baving to themselves,

With Paraguay and Bolivia re- ported arming in preparation for a possible renewal of their war over the Gran Chaco territory, here is General Jose Felix Enti- garribia icaving Miami, Fla., aboard the Argentine Clipper, for Asuncion. The Paraguayan Mi- nister to the United States may direct mobilization.

2.15 Close Down.

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6.8 BralimsSymphony No. 3 In

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Played by Willem Mengelberg and Hla Concertgebouw Orchestra.

8.36 Brahms Songs,

An Die Nachtigall, Op. 40, No. 4 (Holly); Verrat, Op. 105; No. 5 Kipnis (Lemeke) Alexander

(Bass) with Gerald Moore at the

Piano

6.46 Light Orchestral Selections. The Countess Maritza-Potpourri (Kalinan)....Edith Lorand and Her Viennese Orchestra: Die Fledermaus (The Bat)-Wultz (Johann Strauss); (Granados).... Danse Espagnole

Edith Lorand and Her Viennese Or- chestra.

tions.

7.88 B.D.C.

man's Knock."

7.06 Closing local Stock Quota- Itecording — "Post-

Musical origiant and A new Comedy written by Claude Hulbert, Paul England and John Walt; with music by Harry S. Pepper, played by Sydney Baynes and is Band; The play produced by John Walt in the London Studios of the British Broad- casting Corporation. Cast:-Claude Hulbert, Reginald Purdell, Percy Parsons, Anona Winn, Harry Long- hurst, Cyril Smith, Philip Wade, C. Denler Warren, Jane Carr.

8.0 Time Weather and Annbuncê- ments,

8.03 Russian Programme. Russian Folk Dances (Lindow)- Christmas 1 Religious Choot: Carol-Kolyada Maleda; 3, Plaintive Humorous Song-Tho Melody: Buzzing and Blting of the Gant...... Leopold Stokowski and the Philadel

(AL phla Orchestra, Minulotchka

The Lord's Fete (A). Wertinsky);

Wertinsky) Alexandre Wertinsky

On The

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