1939-03-11 — Page 2

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 11, 1939.

WHY YOUTHS LOOK BUT DON'T LEAP

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WITH our present wage system the bachelor is the most favoured member of the community, declared Dr. E. R. Roper Power at a London conference on mar- riage loans recently.

If he could not save he should be able to, for he was in a better position than anybody else.

The incidence of poverty. In this. country was very definitely in the family man and the child.

The child dragged the working: chuss furnily down into poverty, said Dr.. Power. Il

was not that ther working class were more prolife. I was that fertility entailed poverty, and the only solution was a marriage Joan,

TWO PROBLEMS (

man had to face. He had to solve the problem of providing capital to ket up his new home, and his other task was, that of running .

To solve the rat, he must save, which was very difficult for the 2011 century young man, who had reacted again, the more nuustere doctrines of his grandfather.

'A GOOD THING7 Most people were agreed that curller marriage would be a good but were thing on many grounds, they agreed that there should be

According to the statistics of the more marriage, Registrar-General, the average

"I personally am not quite sure,”

which the young bachelor marriedaald Dr. Power. "For many of us Was 27% and 25% in the case of marriage is perhaps a necessary step hls bride.

It might be asked why prople were marrying so late. were two problems which the

In the development of our full per- young sonality. It it is necessary for all, There our claims for young justifled."

innrringe loans are

New Zealand Objects To 'Ill-Informed' B.B.C. Talk

"MISLEADING and ill-informed" criticism of the

New Zealand Government's policy in a B.B.C. talk was condemned, recently, by the High Commissioner in Lon- don, Mr. W. J. Jordan.

The talk, by Professor N, F. Hall. broadcast by a speaker who could director of the National Institute of not possibly have been informed of Economic Research, was broadenst the full Intentions of the policy of

the New Zealand Government. in the Regional programme.

Professor Hall gave in his brond- The High Commissioner's protest follows that of Mr. Els Smith, La cast a list of goods, imports of which, bour M.P. for Stoke, who complained he said, were to be restricted. This of the B.B.C. allowing prejudiced

Dr. Felix Frankfurter, Harvard Law School professor, humed by President Roosevelt to the Supreme Court, shown with his wife at their home in Cambridge, Mass. Mrs. Frankfurter is the former Marion A. Denman of Longincodow, Mass. They have no children.

'BUYING CONVERTS WITH FISH-HOOKS'

War is waging in Central Africa between rival mis- sionaries who are snatching one another's native converts and luring them into their "fold" with high-powered "sales talk" and presents of beads and fish-hooks, declares Mrs. Eileen Bigland, authoress.

She makes these charges in a book Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton recently published,

sintes.

She says that a Scottish missionary included hardware, motor cars, foot-complained to her in all seriousness

other goods. comments" to be broadenst. Mr. wear, porcelain and

says the High Commnis- that the Culiolics had stolen his con- Smith asked for a rodio debate on There is,

sioner's department, no official inverts with gifts of fish-hooks and the issue.

dhation that they are to be.

On the other hand, i White Father Informed her that ah English Church- Cutliolle mun had presented some children with safety pins and lured them into his fold.

Reference was made in the talki to the New Zealand Imports Controll Scheme,

"UNFAIR"

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REFORM CRITICISED Professor Hail also criticised the rapid pace at which the Government Mr. Jordan, in a statement Issued, had been introducing "expensive" based measures and social reform. He said said this

apparently was

from that as far as he could estimate in A press agency report

hurry" about £25,000,000, has left New Zanland. He considéred it ex- tremely unfair to the Dominion that New Zealand in the last three or four an ill-informed criticism of its po- years, and is now invested in Britain iltleaf polley should have been nior Australia,

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answer.

fowed such wide publicity in this pri- He added: "It does seem a great vileged way without any immediate pity that difference of opinion insid

New Zealand on the pace at which Mr. Jordan also stated that he had desirable social reforms should be received many letters condemning in introduced should have led to such severe terms what had taken place, far-reaching results which are going especially that an ex parte state- to upset the trade of other coun- ment should have been allowed to be tries."

In the

societies working In Central Africa described Mrs. Bigland's allegations as "far-fetched, but with some truth." Canon G. W. Broomfield, secretory of the Universities' Mission to Cen- tral Afrlea, said:

"The stories are exaggerated, but have heard about it."

"Sa long as the rival Churches A.R.P. Minister Told "City" Wants Shelter

were content to lavish these presents the Bemba (a native community with whom she stayed] were happy," Mrs. Bigland writes.

"Parrot-like they learnt to gabble ittle prayers and Bible storles, but rue Christianity except in extremely rare cases dict not enter into the matter at all,

"PETTY BARGAINING" "Why should it when the very men who told them stories of the Christ indulged in such petty bargaining?" missionary

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Lord Mayor Drops A Brick

The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Frank Bowater, "dropped á brick!!, at ́n Mansion House dinner attended recently by the Duke of Gloucester, and the Sovlet; Ambassador,

Making an announcement, he began: "Your Royal Illglness, Your Excellency, My Lord Mayer, Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen."

There was a roar of laughter as Sir Frank realised that he had addressed himself,

The dhuner faunched an up- peal for £625,000 for Sit. Bartholomew's Hospital and rained £58,000, a record for a Mansion first appeal at the House.

The Duke championed the cause of urnes, mying: "80 more remains to be done" to improve their-conditions.

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THE Central London Branch of the National Union of Clerks has written to Sir John Anderson, A.R.P. Chief, complaining that most City of London workers are unpro- These are the dogs which provided tected against air raids.

ja B.B.C. programme recently. The branch usks that responsibi-John Snagge, who arranged the per- lity should be vested in the City of formanec is at the microphone behind London Corporation and not in the while Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery of individual owners of property, as, at the New Pond Kennels, Worpleadon, present.

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