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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1947.

The living conditions of Britain's 50,000 childron in institutions was recently investigated by Anno Coupar, who toured Britain for a month visiting homes both good and bad. She talked to hundreds of children

and officials.

BRITAIN'S UNWANTED

OR a month I have journeyed up and down and have seen thou- sands of children in orphan- ages, cottage homes, family homes-even in poor-houses. In most places I have been received cordially, and shown frankly the things that are bad as well as those which are good, Nowhere have I found any home to which could in honesty give the five-star "per- fect" marking, but I have found many four-star "very good" homes, and scores of others down to the few one-star or "pretty bad" homes, of which the only thing to be suid is that they are "places of safely" within the meaning of the Chil- dren and Young People's Acts 1933 and 1938,

I have myself From what seen and from what I have been told by children and stuffs in both good and bad homes there are six simple, paramount needs

of all the children:-

1. The right type of stuff. 2. Good food.

3.

4.

A place of one's own. Colour.

5.

Outside contacts.

6. Toys and hobbies.

WAIFS

cannot

And second, a workhouse, where have no joy in a new toy, knowing 10 children are living a nightmare that it will soon be torn apart by existence among feeble-minded and nonagenarian inmates. An inspired other children, or stored away in a imiculties to keep her charges clean, enjoy a book, because there are st matron has overcome heartbreaking communal cupboard. They

a few books that four or ve other well-fed and healthy, but she does

to "overlook," not bilde the fact that she believes renders will soon be justling for a

chance to the children, or at least the illegiti-

Only in a few instances did I Ant mute majority, will inevitably "come m

personal to a bad end." She doesn't mind any provision made for

At Dunavon House ench the children knowing she believes treasures.

child had a bedside locker of cream with a greenglass top, and at the fierts, the matron, not walling for Foundling Hospital at Berkhamsted, order," has allowed each child to keep play- things in n cardboard box under the bed. Would that be hard for every other home to follow?

but

s. In contrast. I found two "four- star" horses where young, pleasant, enthusiastic nurses romp with the children.

treat encl: child's ailments or peculiarities eMetently and unobtrusively. In both homes 1 was told, "Our matron is the best in the world. Perhaps that is the secret of the success of these istitu- tions. There are constant appeals for staff at children's homes. Anyone who really loves children should not

be

deterred by luck of training. That will be provided. The love of children is far more important,

2

Good food

IN THESE days when Govern- ment measures ought to ensure to every child a balanced and wholesome diet, it la disquieting to find that much good food is not being used to the best advantage.

In one place I found that the mid- day meal was brought in each day from a civic restaurant. Although it came in hot containers the scores, of orphan children said that the food was never' even warm runched them. In another

when it

breakfast place, at the foster-mother WIS ex-

10

breakfast prepare

for

M

jackers which are "on

not

I found one pathetic little book Worm who said he always read his comics in the toilet because it was the only place he could boit the ttage home I visited door. But in a cottage *** even that tiny

privacy was possible because the bathroom and fellet were combined.

At only one place did; I find a child who had doggedly, made

was a six- place for himself. He year-old boy, Duggie, who sat in n draughty corner of a dimly lit hall picking out hymn tunes on a piano, The other children played around and even over the plano, but Daggie was used to them," and" for my bonellt

THE CASE

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The Curtis Report gave the facts-this report provides the frank and simple answers to a national scandal. The report is

by

ANNE COUPAR

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played haltingly, but with on-... ́ ́I vote, umbeatitatingly, for the thusiasm, "There is a Green Hill Far Away,"

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retention of, outside contacts,

Here is a great chance for adopted uncies and aunts. It is onerally conceded, too, that children in homes ought to attend schools and churches common to the rest of the children

IT IS a shock to go from a normal

home or hotel into an institution. the neighbourhood. Some of is no fa Technicolor Alm the inore progressive, istitutions suddenly turned into a black and send their children outside to Guldes and Scouts, encourage them to go white,

out to len and oven invite their friends to tea at the home,

un-

Why should commlitees suppose that black-Japanned beds, adorned black-out curtains and drab walls are good for children?

Here is a chance for the young art students of any large borough In a short while they could trans- form drab walls into exciting fairy story picture-books, In some places, it is true, they would have to renew their work frequently, for the green paint is peeling off the walls because

of damp.

The nursery at Nazareth House Convent, Hammersmith, achieves pictures, ngures and shrines. There colourful result through religious are also guy and lovely frescreens, plastic curtains and occasional rugs. The children there are certainly not colour-starved,

the

care

Friends

6

Toys

TOYS in a children's home have

a very high necident

Tate, Therefore, it is better to provido three cheap urticles than one good one. This is partly due to every- thing being everybody's property, but much more to the fact that the chlidren are deprived of the ordinary child's chance to improvise.

At an adoption centre I saw # illness, had been kept in the centre ttle girl of three who, because of

much longer than the other bubles. She was made much of, und allowed the run of sister's sitting-room. I watched her lovingly put her doll to bed on a chair, with make-belleve sheets and covers--in reality a news- poper and a magazine with a bright cover. Small things, but what a difference they made to that ong child's life.

THERE is everywhere a violent cleavage of opinion on whether child, having been given into

un organisation or "They love dressing up," said the authority, should be allowed to re- nurse in charge, adding sadly; "But tain contact not only with the home. there is nothing here except their from which has come, but also own clothes and our uniforms. with the outside world,

unly we had a few old curtains!”

FOR THE WORKING WOMAN

Equal pay for equal work or else...

MORE than fifty years ago.

time, Legislation for children needs

pected to be simplified and co-ordinated, anything up to 24 on one very small

But and that will take time.

gns ring!

was At a girls' home purrilige this six-point charter can be

in a bowl, followed by cocoa served implemented now, and right away can

make the poured into the same bowl. A slow help to

cater very often found the cocoa in in Britain's the bowl before the porridge was 50,000 children homes, schools and boarded-out finished.

AL and

one place, the Lanarkshire houses happy, contented

County Council home, I found the

long before the youth of our feeding arrangementy useful junior citizens

unexception- misle. Here, the large, well-equipped movements of the present day .country.

with its glass-doined roof came into fashion, I started a has double doors opening on to the working girls' club in the neigh- dining hall. A hot

ensures plate

ures bourhood of Tottenham Court- that no loss of heat occurs between dishing up and serving. The chil-rond. dren sit at "tables for six," with checked tablecloths (colour, rule is that anyone again). The having finished one course can have a second helping by raising his hand. When I was there everybody raised a hand and unlike Oliver Twist, got

The right staff

TRAINING in child welfare is not enough. Here are my notes

found two where 1 "mother temperament" missing.

the

kitchen

more.

Privacy

First

a "four-star" nursery with a highly eficient middle-aged Slate Registered Nurse in charge. Babies are miracles of clinical well-being, In their "the-table" is 30 minutes "mathering daily, it is just too bad if baby No. 1 Isn't drowsy at the end

his half-hour. He is

BECAUSE of lack of space, few of

dumped

of the 50,000 children now in back into his heat-controlled cot to yell-his-hend-off-it-he-ilkes-because..... homes. orphanages, schools or No. 2 to be boarded-out quarters, ever exhibit is time for buby

sense of proprietorship. They "mothered."

it

3

any

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

on

YAN'T

up!

by Lady PETHICK-LAWENCE

Wife of the former Sacre- tary for India; leader (with her husband) of the Votes

for Women campaign.

men.

If

rebuilder of Turkey, that The political genius Ataturk, maud de complete equality of women in public lite his first objective and drew Turkish women, in disregard of all the past tradition of the land, out of the harem and divested them at the vell To-day the women of Turkey have complete equality with In those days at the end of the

of married women to industry. So last century the wages of factory

Women, who to-day form the. girls varied from 88, to 103. n week. far as this refers to childless women majority in Britain, should be made I have seen these same girls rise to or to women whose family a grown to feel their value to the national positions of responsibility and even up, this return to industry involves community to leadership in response to oppor- no special problem. But what about their equal status with men in the by the recognition of women tunity; and often I have been made those married

who are economie as well as in the poiltlest to realise that the "undeveloped responsible for a young family? wealth" of this country lies in the

During the war, Government day world.

could now If Britain

treat her unimagined value of its human nurseries

were provided,

WOMEN

citizens young children were fed and cared them full equality in every material.

as Turkey does, for and provided with medical at department of the community life,

Da now if the double ich energy,

such a team spirit is widely established wat

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tention. But

the

EX

where

TUMES ......have changed very much shift systems withdrawn into would be" released-that- the "power" The standard of life and education Industry, what is to happen to these at the British people for recuptra- hus risen enormously. But even to- children

lior during the early morning astonish the world. day British women have a way hours, or in the evening? startling those who. think they

of

know them, by suddenly outdoing all expectations. The

To put the question "in its very They surprised simplest form: who will dress them off to school in the Ernest Bevin when he was Minister and get them

of Labour during the war. He morning, or who will put them to imagined (so he fold the public) bed?

that the output of three women would be equal to the output of

offer

Give

and reconstruction Would

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1. diven by mo at a test no doubt. 5. Possesses, old style, (6) 7. Mater docan't look so wild” size

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U. Pinas man at the monastery 7 (6)

field for discussion, and it is IMPORTANT announcements, CNTs with you if in cuce that the ve found by experi. THESE questions open up a very

to say? Horthy, keep tail ence value was hidden away among news

one to one-one woman to one man. Impossible to enter on it more fully

here, you had it from "the horse's

Enough to realise "Ther

that items, are usually made with

Murder of an elephant (VI) | mouth

motherhood and all that it entails Suggestions are an air of certainty.

being put for- is a full-time job. as to what praclical steps But no inducement is "THE garden behind the buttery," word

Lecessary to my anxiety "THE

be taken Judge, then, of

to attract many ensure the effective co-operation of The words rang in Malpractice's must reading that a cat owned by a lady brain.

more women to productive indus women in productive industry other "Would you say," he asked

should special inducements be than the application of the Just try: In Rutland "muy be Rutland's oldest," Akra Fang, "that there dons were

offered_extra_clothing coupons, for principle of equal opportunity and may be. Holly toity, what kind of fend of your elephant? "No," said

example? What nonsence! Are we equal pay. timidity is this? The cat is 19 Fang bitterly, "I think they only pre-

It is my experience after a long tended to be," "But why should to have yet another department of

He of publle work, that you get. | years old and surely Rutland is a

cards? Another army of in- back from people all that you ren- small enough county for the statist!- anyone pretend to be fond of an Civil Servants to issue special ro-

elephant? asked Malpractice. "Totion

sonably expect from them. sald Fang.spectors to see that the practice confidence," olans to have completed their rewin my

not misused sold the

by being turned into them due respect, due responsibility South под- searches by now. The lazy devlis

black market?".

and

due recognition in economic terms, up there probably play billiards in- ever. Later on, Mal-

and you win amazing res- stead of taking a census of cats. But practice went to examine the buttery and was at once

pouse. stay! There is another point. This garden,

by

There is nothing struck

its

The

that repressen NE thing is absolutely essential. appearance. "may bo"

will probably business

flower-beds

trampled, werce

the

initiative and energy so effectively It is that the same opportunliy for encourage laziness among reputer bushes broken or uprooted, part technical or specialised training as a sense of Inferiority. We shall read, "Perhaps Mrs Fygrove

Speaking generally, British wo- shall be provided for girls and boys, is the talles: green-eyed woman in a wall was down. Human footmaries

suffer from

inferiority were all and that their work shall be valued men and elephant boofmarks Norfolk." Or "It is not beyond the

standard of complex which in circus and paid for by the

13. Nes 1 Down. very noticeable bounds of possibilty that Fido is the over the place, as though

How had passed. "Not n very peaceful their output-the same for girls and at International gatherings. fattest dog in Wiltshire."

"Equal reason is not for to seek. In com to boys, for women and men. old, Promenade," said the detective slovenly, compared with the

himaclf. wonder, now" "Was your

with other governments bold challenge flung down: "Lanes- elephant rowdy or quiet?" he asked i pay for equal work! Is the time- parison

honoured

demand of self-respecting engaged in the great adventure of women and has now become the mutional

British reconstruction, demand of the trade unions.

Governments have been and still It is the just and simple solution are unimaginative about the store of one-half of the problem. But of energy locked up in our com- what about the other half? The munally under-valued, and repressed Government are urging the return women.

shire's smallest horse is 23 today." I cannot resist it

Hungarian Army Plot' to Restore Horty.

*(Headline.)

Fan

sald Fong, "until roused."

said the sleuth again “it looks pa though there had been a bit of rousing in the buttery garden,, I will question the Master again."

NANCY Nancy's Glad New World'

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14. Into different shape. (4) 13. EL, (3)

14. Peels in covorio. (8).

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acte the pot, skilful anyway, thi 18. Initially where th

Use of the knife is taught.

20. This is dono by using a nievo. (6). 23. Infants are of course, 15)

Do this and become senior. (3)

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4. Hoop trips for a chanse, 19)

f. Tested. (8), 7. Playthings, (4)-

IL TO BIY You're right when you're on the left stems, to be adɑ, (7) 9. Enter (7)

10. Alono, 18. Buttons of a sort. (4)

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