1939-01-28 — Page 8

THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25; 1999.

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Tribulation

If anything is wrong with Hongkong's children, don't blame them. If the child is not worth its salt in the generation

· ahead,

I blame

the

Ex

XCUBES WCTO made that in.

these days, children know much, and that it is no dificult to control them effectively, The sub- Ject led up to schools, and with oll the splomb in the world, the proud father gave a brief dissertation on the accessity and advisability for parcala asocntions in conjunction with schools.

It is to be assumed that educn- tionalls are specialists in their particular phere, and I shudder to

DON'T LET me

be misunder stood. The average child to sink of the consequencia should day, is in my opinion very much ever be possible for some parents to the same as we were when we bring any influence to bear upon the take it upon themselves to guide or were of the same age. It is all coucational specialista.

PARENTS

-says- JOHN BLUNT

I discovered this some weeks

very well to speak of children parents which as interesting biological studies, entails,

as is the rule, rather than the ex- ception that cinid

especially from the Far East, benefits immeasur ably as a result of separation from its Boursing School

but the fact remains that their This assertion is, of course, based destinies

on the assumption that the school are largely being is a good ane, enjoying a tradition shaped by their respective en- for the manner in which it performs vironments of to-day.

Such work.

school will have its Board of Take the child in the Far East

Gove

but members of that from birth. There are some Board

not be without very

itu

11

In the interest of the child, I am

routine, unless there is some very

cogent reason for to

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conditions making it necessary for the inest revolutionary changes in school routine and control, leaves

LL THIS TOSII about modern

me cold,

pre-developed along lines which we

.SUPPOSE it is

It is true that the parent liv- mothers who hund them over to specific qualifications. ex- ceedingly dangerous to ing in the East is handicapped the tender care of an amah (for-

by a difficult social atmosphere, give the adjective) and baby is of the opinion that no parent should criticise the present-day but after all, the atmosphere of occasionally brought into the sum 10 interfere will school | upbringing of children, the the home as far as the child is room as Exhibit A-when the definite and

more so, should the critic concerned, must be HOTEL

a matier to bridge is over. He or she, luck doing. GARAGE

dare to deal with the deli- parental care and concern. less little mite, will only be able Stubbs Rd.

to remember the dawn of intel cate subject in relation to

The school atmosphere is, of ligence, as being in the care and ********** | home-life in the Far East.

course, of vital importance.

company of a Chinese servant. * ☆ ☆

The more I delve into the sub- ago when listening to an en: EVEN IN this all important ject, the more difficult it be In the interest of the future genera- lightening discussion amongst Hongkong Telegraph. parents, as to exactly how a child is a tendency towards looseness, usefulness of the amah,

sphere in the Far East, there comes, I am not decrying the tons, a child's understanding of this

What world should be permitted to deve should be "brought

лу Jap I am endeavouring to convey is

nature intended. There up." My 1 huve listencù in utter amaze- contribution was,

should be no suggestion that just be- I am afraid, ment to some parents criticising mother who allows the amah to it naturally follows that minds which

my complaint against the

cause we moderns have become blase, some trite.

disciplinary measures udopted

have not reached maturity should be When I managed to get a at certain schools, as though take her place.

It is this type of parent who, ourselves regret. word in edgeways, the response their children were being un-

Inter.on amazed-and, to some extent, justly treated.

in life, has the im- Yes Along lines which we our- saddened me.

In one case it happened to re- pudence to criticise the efforts selves regret 1 fully realise that I fer to a spoilt girl of some four made in school to inculcate dis- leave myself open to some extremely THE JEWS look out over the

"Train up a child in the way teen summers who had been re- cipline.

caustic

rejoinders to this assertion, but be that as it may, I still here world. While Hitler takes he should go"-said "and primanded for disobeying a rule Naturally the child sulkily to my belief that the child of to-day £20,000,000 out of their pockets when he is old he will not depart which was certainly in her in- objects, for the simple and has nothing to gain by being denied in Germany, they scatter over from it." For the life of me, I terest morally. The

parents tragic reason that discipline is rightful period of innocence and the earth, seeking for a place could not have given chapter were indignant! Possibly they not known at home.

wonderment. where the persecuted of their and

Some children are still a delight verse of this hackneyed thought their child to be a para- race may settle. You will have quotation, but I doubt whether gon of virtue, but they could in the East caused my innermost wit at east look back on days when My first experience in a home to their elders, and even if in years hence they become disillusioned," they read this morning that another any of my listeners could have still cherish that opinion, at the being to revolt. Two children they were purposely led away from batch arrived by the Conte done so.

same time bearing in mind that precocious to a degree-were the harder side of life, and then. Verde, searching for that which What struck me so forcibly her teachers must have had allowed to interrupt their elders perhaps, they will understand that is so hard to find-work und was the argument which ensued some suspicion or reason for re- and remain until the "small the tratation of incir your will be

as to whether or not the adage primanding her.

worth while handing down to their chops" arrived. They should own children. applied to-day.

I am not suggesting that it is have been in bed,

If I have strayed from my original wise to adopt literally another old adage "Spare the rod and suddenly realised that the chat Teach it discipline and respect for its

It was only when somebody thesis, never mind.

Teach the child to be OPINION SEEMED almost spoil the child."

equally divided as to whether punishment as a general remedy unsuitable for juvenile cars, that Corporal ter of the adults was becoming the sophisticated, precocious is wrong; but there are certain the offspring were persuaded to child is not really the proper type instances when a jolly good can- go to bed. of youngster in these so-called ing is both just and necessary. you!) advanced times. The influence the one side, and ridiculed on the of the home was championed on

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Yet and this applies, especially in the Far East where else is there for them to search?

The cities of Cathay are in- hospitable places for a man who

other.

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✰ ✰

Those who were inclined to

dismiss the question of home in-

(persuaded,

ntark

child.

thority, and the necessity that au- thority shall he obeyed, rather thurt

ciders. Temper kindness with au

take the easy and irresponsible course of hastening the day of sophistica- tion.

Prelude To A Chinese Fete

fluence, dubbed any sort of re- THE Chinese twelfth moon is striction as "Early Victorian,"

the prelude to the most glori- į

and consequently, entirely out of ous fete of the Oriental heart- date.

By

the Chinese New Year. It is the T. Paul Gregory

There was the usual empty season of preparation; for in a

the custom prevails in China. For although they are an excep- tionally acute race of business- men, the Chinese are handi- has nothing but brains to offer. chatter about the danger of "re-festival of such momentous im-HIS custom of settling all out capped by a degree of poverty A small percentage find employ-pression" whenever the topic port nothing can be done by

unknown in the more prosperous ment, but the majority, dis- turned towards discipline. One halves. From the fifteenth of the twelfth moon has attracted poor-far from it-but the vast standing obligations during West. Not that the country is consolately move on. Hongkong,little coterie even went so far as the moon Singapore and Shanghai, the to assert that juvenile intelli-New Year's Evo (February 18), Western peoples and has been ly distributed, and fow, regard- (February 3) until a great deal of attention among national wealth is very unequal- three great metropolises, have gence to-day is far more. little patience with poverty, as vanced than "when we

nd-every Chinese is engaged in a made the subject of much com- less of position in life, seem to witness, in this Colony,

were gallant endeavour to wind up all ment. The majority of Occi- have been the recipients of an the frequency with which unfor- absurd to attempt to curb a is well known all debts must that the general adoption of such

children" that it is positively business affairs of the year. As dentals are under the impression equitable share. tunate down-and-outs are

c- child. commodated at the House of

theoretically be paid in order an admirable practice would be without exaggeration

Consequently, it may be said that al- Detention.

"How can one hope to regulate that credit may be available in to the universal good. a child's outlook in these days of, the new year in this case the

most every one in China owes Yet administrators cannot be the cinema?" postulated one year of the hare.

Few, however, have taken into money to every one else, and the consideration the reasons why twelfth moon, as the last month blamed for the system that time parent. "By selecting the pic-| has evolved. No one wants to tures it is to see," I timidly pro- see a repetition of the abject tested. "It will see them sooner misery that overwheimed the or later," was the response, "and majority of the White Russians so why interfere now?" when they fled to Shanghai, Hankow, Harbin and other northern cities after the 1917 Revolution. The only alterna- tive, when persecution threatens a flood, is to discourage.

It is a heartrending problem. Neutrality

THE CONSENSUS of opinion

was, I gathered, that with the world in such a condition as it is to-day, even a

child must know that life is none too casy,) and that it did at least under- stand the difference between

on

WHAT is the American Neu-right and wrong.

trality Act, about which so It was that vague, non-com- much is said and written theac mittal sort of nothingness days?

the part of a few which has made me think ever since.. Hence this screed.

Simply this. When war breaks out the President must, before the Neutrality Act operates, de- clare that a "state of war" exleta.

The more I ponder the ques- tion, the more am I driven to the conclusion that there are far too

That being done, he must many sorry domestic atmos- then forbid shipments of armspheres to-day. Progression was and implements of war to the almost the righteous keynote belligerents and stop them sell which aminated the discussion. ing securities in the United On the one side, retrogression States.

would be a truer interpretation.

In cases where war begins If the child is to be worth its without a declaration the Pre-salt in the generation ahead, it sident may decide whether there is just as vitally necessary to in- Is "a state of war," The Act culcate all that stands for was applied to Italy and honour and tradition, as it was Ethiopia but in the case of the days of our own youth and China and Japan, the fiction those of the youth of our fore- both countries malútain that the | bears." "The "tradition" of the war is only an "Vineldent" Is ac- centuries should not be suddenly cepted.

fidiculed and-discarded,

GRIN AND BEAR IT

of the lunar year, has therefore been chosen from time im-

By Lichty memorial as the season in which

TORIC

t-U nvirvellous what they can make out of odds and endi!”

the redistribution of pecuniary wealth is carried out. As the Cantonese naively say:

"Faan-hau yin

Nin-maan to'in

"At the end of a repast, one

must have a smoke,

And at the end of the year --money."

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THE greater part of the Chi- nese people are agriculturists, and like their class everywhere, are often, if not generally in debt. Even although a Chinese farmstead may be practically self-sustaining, sced, fertiliser, etc. must be bought. This re- quires the outlay of considerable sums of ready money, which is one of the hardest things to get,. ns in the rural portion of the country, there is not much cash in circulation.

Hence, the needy farmer must. on occasion resort to the village money-lender, who will invari- ably advance the requisite sum, but on the most usurious rates--- three per cent,'per monsont or thirty-six për cent, per annum--- truly ruinous rates indood. 1

Every farmer, móreover, like?,

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